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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you Beasy Boston's niche Radio. Thanks to Strati and Teddy for calling in. Just a little while ago we were talking about recreational marijuana legalization or the rollback of that. Now we move on just to find out about what happened with a Ryanair airplane where a man was partially sucked out the window, and also why it was decided that the Katari Air Force one wasn't used and they used the old one. We have as our guest Micah Engber of the Airplane Gigs podcast. He's kind of our aviation correspondent. So thanks for being.
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Speaker 3: With us, Bradley, It's always great to be with you. Thanks for asking me to join you tonight. It's always wonderful to talk to you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, what's the deal with this Ryan Air thing? Give us the extreme micro detail breakdown.
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Speaker 3: Well, it was Ryanair flight number eighteen seventy nine, leaving from Thessalonsky grease and on its way to mim Engine, Germany, and it had gotten to a cruising altitude or maintained an altitude of about fifteen thousand feet and at that level the pressure's gone down. You need to start pressurizing the cabin, and it was cruising at about four hundred miles an hour when there was what is known as an uncontained engine failure. Now what that means in this particular clase is a fan blade ruptured off the engine, and not only ruptured off the engine, because that can happen, and you got to shut the engine down, but it was uncontained. Those engines are designed with a shroud and they're designed to in case anything breaks off in the engine, that shroud protects anything from going flying into the fuselage. But there's seven point thirty seven eight hundred that this aircraft was on. They know that there has been some problems with that particular engine. It's a a a CFM Leap CFM fifty six to seven B, which is an engine that's made by a combination of General Electric and Saffuran, and there's been a problem with that that the FAA has given a deadline to fix by July thirty first, twenty twenty eight, and they're working on it. But not every engine has been updated yet and apparently this one was not, and so a passenger when the engine blade ruptured the window, it's a sudden decompression. We've talked about that before.
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Speaker 4: At various times, the fan blade went through the window, went through the window, or at least ruptured the window enough, cracked it enough so that the window was blown out and dislodged. And a passenger's head also got out the window. And fortunately he was wearing his seat belt, because if that wasn't the case, he could have been sucked out the window. But his head got sucked out. His wife grabbed him, held him in the plane turnaround, went right back to Selavsky Airport and landed and they were rushed taking to the hospital. From what I understand, he's alive, but he was definitely partially sucked out, which is pretty scary to begin with. And again, you're there in the air and the air is blowing over your head at four hundred miles an hour. That's pretty devastating as well. And it's not warm.
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Speaker 2: I wonder if he opened his eyes and look down, I.
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Speaker 3: Imagine he might have who knows, but you know, I would be afraid that. I don't know what temperature eyes freeze, especially with that kind of wind chill. I really don't know that.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he couldn't breathe during that time, right, there's.
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Speaker 3: No way not with the air rushing, you know, into your face. I'm assuming he was facing forward at four hundred miles an hour. I imagine that would be pretty difficult to exhale.
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Speaker 2: Man. I bet I bet he won't forget that. I bet he gets some PTSD from that. I wonderful.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure of it again, And I'm sure that there will be lawsuits involved with that. One of our regular guests on the Airplane Geeks podcast is a woman named Aaron Applebaum who handles vast majority of these lawsuits with her firm, and and you know, whether that's one of the topics we're going to talk about when when she comes on with us on Monday night. So we'll get in the more details with it and see what happens. But there are certain rules about this. The Montreal Convention goes into effect here because it's an international flight, and at a minimum they will get a certain amount of money. And I can't remember what that minimum amount is.
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Speaker 2: What's the Montreal Convention.
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Speaker 3: The Montreal Convention is the treaty that is a worldwide treaty as to what governs the rewards or the lawsuits and things like that. When an event happens on an aircraft, you are entitled to certain things, regardless of whether or not you win or lose in court. There's a minimum amount that you you are entitled to, and you can try to go over that. But the convention is uh, it's again a worldwide treaty that that all the most all countries align with.
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Speaker 2: Wow, I wonder how much that's worth. Maybe I should check it out during one of the breaks or somebody else google how much you get if you get sucked sucked out a window? Partially? All right, let's see I want to talk about the presidential airplane too. I guess we'll forge right ahead into that. Recently, well, in a trip was it Greece, No, was it Turkey? Uh, the president was advised not to use the gifted Katari Air Force one. Let's talk about the details behind that and why that is.
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Speaker 3: Well, as we know, our our president Trump likes to be surrounded by luxury. And I'm not speaking politically at all, it's just one of the things that he prefers. And the current air Force one they've known as VC twenty fives in Air Force terminology. While they're very beautiful and wonderful airplanes, and from my perspective, they're quite luxurious. It's not the same kind of luxury that President Trump has lived in, and he's wanted something better for the longest time since he was originally president. Now, the current VC twenty fives, they've been in service. They're based on Boeing seven forty seven two hundreds, one of the earlier Boeing aircraft. They've been in service since the first President Bush and they've been due for replacement, but it takes a long time to come up with a new air force one. There are planes that are being worked on and there's some concern about those too. We can go into later. But it's not just it's not just a jet. It's not just an airplane. These planes have to have incredible communication power so that you can be speaking with the military at any time and be speaking with them confidentially. They have to have incredible security so that if they're heaven forbid, be an atomic blast and there's an electromagnetic pulse, that everything won't be thrown out. The communications will continue, the engines will continue to run. It takes an incredible amount of shielding. They have anti missile defenses on them, they have chaff, they have other missiles built onto them, all sorts of things. It's a billion dollar project. And you can't just take one airplane, a jetliner and turn it into air Force one in order to meet these criteria unless the president says, this is what I want, and we'll get rid of we don't need to have all those other safety measures on it. Well, he flew the new the Qatar government and gifted President Trump with a brand new seven seven eight, the newest aircraft. That's beautiful, it's luxurious, it's it's known to have gold fixt years all through it. And they did a lot of communications upgrades to it and spent four hundred million dollars, But they certainly didn't spend a billion dollars on it in order to upgrade it to what it truly needs to be. And not only does that take much more money, it takes years and years and years. When President Trump was first in office, he was ready to replace them, heed they waited until the seven forty seven line at Boeing was closed down, unfortunately, and so he ordered some already purchase jets that weren't being taken by the airline to have reconfigured. They're still in the process of being reconfigured. Because it takes so long. You need people with high security clearances, you need people that understand it's just a very big, long, important process. He didn't want to wait that long, and so this aircraft was gifted to the United States government, possibly directly to him. We're not sure. People think it's a violation of the emolument's clause, meaning that it was a gift to him that shouldn't be his, and it was converted communication wise so that it could carry him overseas. But he got the anchora and found out that he's a target of the Iranians and the air Force, and the Secret Service said, I'm sorry, mister President, you can't fly back on this aircraft. It's not safe. And so they brought him back on the old air Force one or one of the two old air Force ones, brought him to England where he then they assumed he would be safe, and he got back on the new airplane.
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Speaker 2: By the way, do they always travel with a backup air Force one?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, there's always two. And not only that. The other thing to bear in mind is we're talking about the seven forty sevens right now, any plane that the President flies on is air Force one. It could be Assessna one seventy two. If it belongs to the US Air Force, the President's on it, that's air Force one.
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Speaker 2: See what they fly around with an extra fitted out out legit air Force one.
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Speaker 3: It's known as a no fail mission. If the President is flying on it, it is a no fail mission. There's a backup for everything, and it's going to happen, and it's going to happen perfectly. So there's wherever one goes, the other one goes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I got a couple more questions regarding this after the break and then we'll do some open lines. Okay, Micah, hanging there. I'll talk to you a little more in just a minute. On WBZ.
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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news Radio.
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Speaker 2: That's right, It's night Side with Dan Ray Bradley Jay for Dan. Love to hear from you. Do you I have a question for you. Do you think that it was a good idea for the President to accept the gift of the Katari Air Force one given its lack of such things as countermeasures, and it just it's not really up to snuff when it comes to what you need for a presidential airplane, and there's some definite downside to accepting it, and I want to get into those specifically with our aviation correspondent tonight, Micah Engber of Airplane Gigs podcast. So from where I tell me, if I'm accurate here, they put this plane together. Couldn't the Kataris have or whoever whatever actors want were involved planted problematic things on the airplane, like maybe some sort of sleeping spy virus on the software or listening devices, or even something to make it crash if they wanted to at a certain time. I know they would sweep for bug devices, but still the person's planting the devices would know that and might have a way to hide them better. Wouldn't you worry about security? Wouldn't you think this might be a trojan horse kind of a situation.
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Speaker 3: In a word, Yes, However, it was taken in by the company's l three Harris and four hundred million dollars who's spent on security upgrades and checks and all that. But the reason that four hundred million isn't enough, and the reason that even with the brand new jets that were never flown by anybody that Boeing is now working on now is taking so long is because in order to truly securely make sure that everything is safe and the security measures are in place, is you have to strip them down to the bare metal and rerun all the wiring and wiring that is going to be going to be not able to be affected by electromagnetic pulses. So this definitely was not the case here. Yeah, they spent four hundred million dollars and that's a lot of money to you and me. That's not a billion dollars, that's for sure. And that's what it takes.
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Speaker 2: I worry about the espion I security factor. It just seems like it's such a ridiculously easy opportunity to spy on the United States by saying here's a free plane, dude. That's like the say the Moscow and this embassy. The Moscow bills the US embassy and loads you with microphones, which they did.
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Speaker 3: That's exactly true. And this aircraft is actually I mean it is for presidential transport, but it's supposed to have battlefield command capabilities coupled with a really strong self protection system. And that's that's really a several billion dollar job, and it takes much more time than what they spent on it. And you know, and Bowie's working on all that right now with the seven forty sevens that they're preparing to take over. This is supposed to be an interim system, and this interim system was provided because our president wanted something more luxurious. As what my belief, I don't know that I can prove that there's there's no that's not to say that the current VC twenty five is the current air Force one aircraft. There. They're long in the tooth, they need to be replaced, but now you know that they're safe.
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Speaker 2: They could have put some gold faucets in the existing ones and I wouldn't have taken that long, cost that much. It seems they could have been easier to make a luxury luxury up the current ones. Then to do it then to be better than taking that Katari airplane. I cannot believe that. It seems like such a giant mistake to accept that thing.
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Speaker 3: Well, it came down to the President saying, hey, it's a new we're seven forty seven. It's what I want. And you know, the President has quite a you know, all the power that he needs to do that.
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Speaker 2: I actually I wish that the president didn't have that much power, because it's he goes beyond him. He's making the entire country vulnerable by doing that. He may not care about his life, but there's a lot more at stake than his life. There's the security of the United States, there's intelligence weakness, etc. I believe that we're vulnerable to because of this. Is it possible you happen to know this as an airplane geek. Could they have installed some sort of bug in the software of the plane?
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Speaker 3: You know? I can't say that anything's impossible. I doubted. I'm sure that it's okay. Part of the deal with this particular aircraft is that, in theory, after the new VC twenty fives, the new Air Force ones come in place, and President Trump is no longer in office, it's supposed to be a gift to his library, and so it's supposed to be on display in his library, which doesn't mean he can't use it, but it's supposed to be part of the presidential library. Now there's a lot of doubt about that as well.
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Speaker 2: Designed to get around the emolument clause.
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Speaker 3: Right exactly exactly that's what it is. But technically it's right now. It's a military aircraft, and the president doesn't decide what happens to it after he's out of office. The military does, and if there's still a need for it, the military can decide to keep it and not donate it to the library. They did donate an old seven oh seven one of the air Force one aircraft at Fleronald Reagan that's on display at the Reagan Library in California. And I believe that one of the aircraft that was a I can't remeboard aircraft it was, it was air Force one for President Eisenhower is on display. But there's no need for those anymore. This aircraft, as just a VIP transport, could certainly be in place for the longest time. But that was the reason to get that. They got around the Emolument's clause. And perhaps Bradley, we should explain to our audience what the emolument's clause is in case they're not aware of the monument's clause. The Emoluments CLA basically means that no official of the US government, especially the president, can take gifts from a foreign power. That's what it is.
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Speaker 2: Well, I guess that does it. I got all the information I need. That's we talked about the Ryanair situation where a man got stucked part way out an airplane. Out of an airplane, I mean, that is such a that's such a dramatic thing. Imagine just being a passenger on the airplane and seeing that. And then we talked about the presidential airplane, and recently there was a Secret Service said basically, hey, dude, we're not letting you fly. This is not that secure and it's important that the president stays alive. We're not letting you fly in this Katari gold bathtub airplane. We're going to actually put you in the real air Force one. And there you go. Interesting. I wonder what if the president said no, I don't want to Who would win that battle? How does that work? You don't know?
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Speaker 3: Right, I don't know, but I believe he would. He is the commander in chief, and he theory has authority over the air Force and the Secret Service. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I feel like the president not just as president. All presidents have too much power. But that's that's another story for another day. Micah Engber of Airplane Gieks podcast. Thank you very much, and the Airplane Giks podcast is super interesting. What was your most recent episode.
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Speaker 3: Our most recent episode was with I'm looking at the wrong one, Dan. It was with Dan, I'm gonna pronounce it wrong. I always pronounced it wrong. Dick Neapinsky, who is the communications director for EAA, that's the Experimental Aircraft Association. And happening in the next couple of weeks is air Venture. That's Oshkosh. That's the biggest event in aviation worldwide where for a week for about a week up in July, up in Oshkosh, it's the biggest busiest airport in the world. Airplanes fly in from all over.
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Speaker 2: It's airshow. It's a big air show.
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Speaker 3: It's a big air show and all sorts of announcements are made and it's the place to go if you're a geek. One day. I'm going to get there, all right.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Micah.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. Have a great night.
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Speaker 2: Bradley, okay, open lines for about a half an hour, half an hour, it sounds like I it's from Wisconsin. There for a second half an hour, and then at ten we have a guest who was getting the documentary made about him who says he's run fifty marathons in fifty days and fifty states consecutive days. That's pretty weird, you know, honestly, honestly, one of my questions will be, what's the point? Man? Why? What were you running away from? Do you have some sort of issues you want to take your mind off of? Why would you do this? You like running that much? I doubt it? What's going on upstairs? What was the thing? But of course I'm interested in things like how many pairs of shoes did you go through? What did you eat? Did you get any permanent damage? Did you run in the rain? Did you meet anybody interesting? I need help with this interview. You have a question for him a minute. When that happens, that'll be at ten and I say open lines for the next half hour. One thing I'm going to share with you during the open lines is my god, I lost my phone yesterday. What a nightmare? Oh my god. From three am to five am, I'm freaking out, tearing my house apart. Did I find it? If I did find it, where did I find it? Did I have to get a new phone? It's a nightmare. If you ever had a telephone related nightmare. Is I lose it? Did he go down there? The privy hole? Open lines? After this for a little while on WBZ, It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio. Okay, okay, Bradley j for Dan Rage to night on Night's Side, cruising along on the fifth night of the week, Friday Man, a week flew by. I must say, it is an honor and a pleasure to be able to do this show and to be able to communicate with you again. It's thrilling, actually thrilling, and it's very It's a good balance for my life.
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Speaker 3: It uh.
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Speaker 2: I like feeling connected with you. I'm gonna tell you that the story of losing my phone last night after work. But in the meantime we have Craig and Peaboty. Hello, Craig Man, what's going on?
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Speaker 1: How are you great? Thanks for Phil and for Dad he's away.
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Speaker 2: Course.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about like i'd like to talk to like the marathon guy, because I hike the Appalachian.
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Speaker 2: Trail, the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I walk two three hundred and seventy three miles.
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Speaker 2: That's brutal, brutal, brutal. I'm sure you read walk in the woods.
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Speaker 1: Right, Bill, I did read the book like a very good book.
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Speaker 2: Right. And he makes it seem he makes it, he makes it seem brutal. Isn't that brutal?
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Speaker 1: Bill Brightson is a great writer? Yeah, And like he writes, like if you read the Mother Tongue, like, it's a great book about the language, show the English like he is, he is a great writer. And yes it is. It's brutal, but it brings you to humanity. How do you make love? What?
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Speaker 2: How do you mean? Brings you through humanity?
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Speaker 1: It brings you back to you like like like you like believe in like like human nature, people helping people, like it's just a wonderful journey.
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Speaker 2: Wow. How long did it take?
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Speaker 1: I took my time. I took six and a half months.
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Speaker 2: Did you go into towns every once in a while stay in a hotel or did you always stay in your tent or did you even have a tent? How did that work?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Like you like I pretty much like stayed in the hotel once a week, okay, Like I walked from Georgia to me man like, like I stayed in the hotel probably like once a week, you know. Oh, like yeah, I had a you know, you carry fifty pounds on your back.
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Speaker 2: What did you take with you for food?
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Speaker 1: I ate lots of pop tarts from noodle.
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Speaker 2: Pot noodles. Of course, weight is a very important thing. Did you exactly did you carry stuff to make a fire with?
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're in the woods, you can if you have a lighter, you can make a fire lighter and you know you don't need.
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Speaker 2: You were able to cook? Did you to bring a pot to cook water?
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Speaker 1: In? Of course I had like a full like cook set up, like like I had a they call it a jet boil, which is just h like a system that will boil water and like a minute fire.
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Speaker 2: Wo. So what would you like me to ask the guy who says he ran fifty marathons fifty days and fifty states, what would you like me to ask him?
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Speaker 1: I'd like you to ask him, Mike, what do he like? How heavy his pack was?
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Speaker 2: Well, he's running a marathon. Probably no pack.
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Speaker 1: Well he's probably like unless he had like someone with him. That's kind of like shuttle work back and forth.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm sure he.
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Speaker 1: Did okay, But if he didn't, then he needed to carry like like like when you're hike in the trail. There are some like white laders that go with like like a thirty pound pack, and they that they have people that they can meet and help them to get them food when they needed.
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Speaker 2: I see, I think he, I mean, he's he must have you know, I am sure he didn't camp out and stuff. He must have had somebody. I mean, there's a there's a movie being made of it. So there was a guy who was taking video of him, so that he had to That guy must have had a car. And we'll find out, well, I'll ask him about that. We'll find out all about that.
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure there are some like there are some people that like hike that have no one like to provide them with anything like you right, yeah, I said, a hitchhike in the town.
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Speaker 2: One more question for you about the Appalachian Trail. What was the hardest part the last part in Maine? Right, that's what I understand.
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Speaker 1: One hundred miles. Well, the man, Yeah, and I've done it all over like three times. It's quite a journey. It's one hundred miles of the only thing you come to is the US Forest Service road man.
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Speaker 2: So is there a path you put bushwhacken the whole time.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, it's a total path, like the Applation Trail is total path, all right, but they one hundred miles weldness. Like the only thing you come to is like us worst service roads. So when you're hiking it like you're going to carry you like seventy pounds on your back when you start out, so you have enough food to get through the whole track.
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Speaker 2: Seventy pounds is a lot. I think most air conditioners are about seventy pounds. So think when you put your air conditioner in the window, imagine carrying that on your back through the bu of Maine. Craig and Peabody, thank you so much. I appreciate that call. Thank you, Craig. Almost time for a break. I guess I'll start my little nightmare of my open lines by the way. Then we'll talk to the at ten o'clock. The man who ran fifty marathons, fifty states, fifty marathon states, fifty days. See how that went? Like what, why, dude? Why did you do it to get famous? Did you do it or to raise money for somebody? Did you do it because you're running away from some psychological issue? We got to find that out. So last night after work, right I go home, I take the tea, I enjoy it. I have my earbuds in, I got my phone, listen to my Spotify playlist. Take the Orange line to the green line. Get off my stop. Almost missed my stop because I forgot to hit the button to stop, because late at night, you got to hit the button or they'll just blow through. Got off nice bomby temperatures. Put on my favorite songs. Ready for the walk home. Get home, and then I come in the door, and I'm careful ilways to put my earbuds away the minute I come in the door. Put them in the case so I don't lose them. And I go up stairs and I had a drink, which is but I didn't like the drink. I didn't even have a whole drink. By the way, recently, I got sick and since then I've had zero appetite and I don't even care about drinks. Isn't that weird. I have to actually remember to eat so I don't get waste, await or nothing. Yeah, I had some sort of gi bug or something a while ago, and still no no appetite, and I don't have. I think I probably lost ten pounds looking tight. Make sure to get some new clothes. So getting ready for bed, you know, you go to get my brush, my teeth, all ready for bed. Go get the phone because I need it for my alarm. I gotta charge it. You know how it goes. I can't find it. Where is it? Okay, gotta be around. I do a quick cursory search for the phone. Yeah, I'm not concerned yet, not concerned. Actually, what I'll do is break now and tell you how this all unfolds. After this break on WBZ, It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio, Open lines till ten. Then we talked to the marathon runner who did fifty marathons fifty days, fifty states. That's fifty consecutive days till then open lines, and I'm telling them, well, in the meantime, while you call six point seven two, five, four, ten thirty, my uh story of losing my phone last night. It's a catastrophic thing to lose your phone shouldn't be that catastrophic it is. And you you know, if you just put it in your back pocket, your nuts, it could easily you could lose it. And it's terrible. So I get ready for bed, can't find my phone. Looking for it, did a quick pass, couldn't find it, you know. Then I do a deeper look. Look at the couch cushions, Look behind the couch, look in the chair cushions. Look, you know, I turned the lights up brighter. Maybe I'm just missing it, go through everything. Nothing really, So this is mystifying me because I was listening to my Bluetooth Spotify on the phone all the way home to my door, which means I it within at least range of Bluetooth. I don't know how long bluetooth last. What is it one hundred feet, so it would have to be within one hundred feet of my door. So I looked outside within a hundred feet of my door, and just to be sure. I don't know why, because I don't know the range of Bluetooth, just in case Bluetooth range was a lot longer than I thought. I walked the few hundred yards of the tea station where I got off. Nothing. I'm just just floored. What's going to go back upstairs? Put on a headlamp, the kind if you're camping, a headlamp turned up all the lights and completely went through everything. We're talking, even drawers and stuff. I know I didn't open because maybe I forgot that I opened it. Nope. I looked in the fridge case. I spaced out. It has to be somewhere really weird, wasn't there. You know how in your bathroom closet you have all these metsons and stuff. Tore those all apart. Did I put it up there and it fell down behind one of the medicine containers or something? Did it fall down behind something? I look behind the bed, the bedstead thing, the headboard, behind the furniture, under the furniture. Nothing. They give up. I say, oh my god, What am I going to do? Well, I'll call Apple and have them disable the phone. Oh wait a minute, I can't call them because I can't find my phone. Ha ha. I thought, okay, I'll do use my laptop to have use to find my phone function. Well, you open that up. It says, what's your password? What's your Apple ID password? Oh? Gu you know I don't know that because my password or in a password app on my phone. I know you're saying that's pretty dumb, Bradley Jay, And you're right. I do keep most important passwords separate from the phone because I don't trust that password app truck totally, and because and just because, but in this case, that one was on the phone, so nothing. I say, Okay, what can I do? I just go to bed, which kills me because usually I listen to YouTube videos. I listened to the YouTube podcasts, you know, the videos, but I don't watch the videos. I just listen on the phone to go to sleep. So it's bumming me out. I can't sleep because I don't have that lullaby. So I get up and I say, all right, I'm gonna look one more time. This whole thing took two hours, two solid hours. I'm getting tired, physically tired from looking. I try to think, what is someplace I haven't looked. Let's use my head now. Oh and I did pray to Saint Anthony. I did three prayers to Saint Anthony. Why not, right, It's been effective in the past, It's surprisingly effective. So I do that other extremely detailed search probably takes twenty minutes. Again, I have a small apartment, so where do you suppose it was? I mean, I looked at everything in the pockets of clothing. I hadn't even worn everywhere the laundry basket, took the dirty laundry out, maybe a fell in there, went through the dirty laundry, nothing anywhere. Nothing. It's a complete weird mystery. So I give up. I gave up, said, okay, there's a two thousand dollars mistake and a big hassle. How much the phones cost now it's like two grand, right, fifteen hundred. I don't know whatever it is. And I said to myself, by the way, self, you're not just gonna I just keep my phone loose in a little I made a leather phone holster. Works better than your pocket. Still it doesn't. I used to have it set a number on it say if found call this number, not my number, another number, SID say yeah, we found your phone. I didn't have that on there. I said, I gotta get that on there. And I also could have a little landyard attached to me surround my shoulder. When I go out, just say it doesn't fall out on the tea or something. I mean, it means that much to me. I'm surprised people that just stick it in their pocket don't lose it. So I give up, completely give up, Go take a shower. I'd already taken a shower once, but I went out. I did so much looking I got all sweaty again, took another shower. I gave up in the shower, hot shower, really trying to relax, soaping down. We have a good shower, got a big, beautiful bar soap, trying to relax, and I'm, you know, just kind of my mind's wandering, and I think, Okay, I'm a showers almost done. I'm gonna dry off some of the towel, put on my bathrobe.
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Speaker 5: B that was it. I thought, oh my god, maybe that's it. I think maybe I remember putting.
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Speaker 2: It in the bathrobe pocket when I took my first shower. Maybe. So with my heart pounding, dripping wet from the shower, I tiptoe over to where the bathrobe is hung and I pick it up. Is it heavy? Doesn't feel a little heavy? Not really check the first pocket, nothing, and then thank God, there it is. It's in the bathrobe pocket, the only place I hadn't looked. And what's the lesson? The lesson is never puts your phone down in an unusual place, cause you'll forget. Have one place you put it always that's the only place if you What was I thinking, There's no way I'm gonna remember that I put it in my bathrobe pocket. I never do I've never done that in my life and I and I gotta remember never to do that kind of weird thing. Never put your phone in a new place. Oh my god, two hours out of my life. I'm so relieved. I love your phone. I love you. I'm never gonna let you go. Stay close to me, all right, We'll talk to that guy next who says he ran ten fifty marathons, fifty days, fifty states. WBZ
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you Beasy Boston's niche Radio. Thanks to Strati and Teddy for calling in. Just a little while ago we were talking about recreational marijuana legalization or the rollback of that. Now we move on just to find out about what happened with a Ryanair airplane where a man was partially sucked out the window, and also why it was decided that the Katari Air Force one wasn't used and they used the old one. We have as our guest Micah Engber of the Airplane Gigs podcast. He's kind of our aviation correspondent. So thanks for being.
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Speaker 3: With us, Bradley, It's always great to be with you. Thanks for asking me to join you tonight. It's always wonderful to talk to you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, what's the deal with this Ryan Air thing? Give us the extreme micro detail breakdown.
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Speaker 3: Well, it was Ryanair flight number eighteen seventy nine, leaving from Thessalonsky grease and on its way to mim Engine, Germany, and it had gotten to a cruising altitude or maintained an altitude of about fifteen thousand feet and at that level the pressure's gone down. You need to start pressurizing the cabin, and it was cruising at about four hundred miles an hour when there was what is known as an uncontained engine failure. Now what that means in this particular clase is a fan blade ruptured off the engine, and not only ruptured off the engine, because that can happen, and you got to shut the engine down, but it was uncontained. Those engines are designed with a shroud and they're designed to in case anything breaks off in the engine, that shroud protects anything from going flying into the fuselage. But there's seven point thirty seven eight hundred that this aircraft was on. They know that there has been some problems with that particular engine. It's a a a CFM Leap CFM fifty six to seven B, which is an engine that's made by a combination of General Electric and Saffuran, and there's been a problem with that that the FAA has given a deadline to fix by July thirty first, twenty twenty eight, and they're working on it. But not every engine has been updated yet and apparently this one was not, and so a passenger when the engine blade ruptured the window, it's a sudden decompression. We've talked about that before.
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Speaker 4: At various times, the fan blade went through the window, went through the window, or at least ruptured the window enough, cracked it enough so that the window was blown out and dislodged. And a passenger's head also got out the window. And fortunately he was wearing his seat belt, because if that wasn't the case, he could have been sucked out the window. But his head got sucked out. His wife grabbed him, held him in the plane turnaround, went right back to Selavsky Airport and landed and they were rushed taking to the hospital. From what I understand, he's alive, but he was definitely partially sucked out, which is pretty scary to begin with. And again, you're there in the air and the air is blowing over your head at four hundred miles an hour. That's pretty devastating as well. And it's not warm.
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Speaker 2: I wonder if he opened his eyes and look down, I.
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Speaker 3: Imagine he might have who knows, but you know, I would be afraid that. I don't know what temperature eyes freeze, especially with that kind of wind chill. I really don't know that.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he couldn't breathe during that time, right, there's.
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Speaker 3: No way not with the air rushing, you know, into your face. I'm assuming he was facing forward at four hundred miles an hour. I imagine that would be pretty difficult to exhale.
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Speaker 2: Man. I bet I bet he won't forget that. I bet he gets some PTSD from that. I wonderful.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure of it again, And I'm sure that there will be lawsuits involved with that. One of our regular guests on the Airplane Geeks podcast is a woman named Aaron Applebaum who handles vast majority of these lawsuits with her firm, and and you know, whether that's one of the topics we're going to talk about when when she comes on with us on Monday night. So we'll get in the more details with it and see what happens. But there are certain rules about this. The Montreal Convention goes into effect here because it's an international flight, and at a minimum they will get a certain amount of money. And I can't remember what that minimum amount is.
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Speaker 2: What's the Montreal Convention.
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Speaker 3: The Montreal Convention is the treaty that is a worldwide treaty as to what governs the rewards or the lawsuits and things like that. When an event happens on an aircraft, you are entitled to certain things, regardless of whether or not you win or lose in court. There's a minimum amount that you you are entitled to, and you can try to go over that. But the convention is uh, it's again a worldwide treaty that that all the most all countries align with.
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Speaker 2: Wow, I wonder how much that's worth. Maybe I should check it out during one of the breaks or somebody else google how much you get if you get sucked sucked out a window? Partially? All right, let's see I want to talk about the presidential airplane too. I guess we'll forge right ahead into that. Recently, well, in a trip was it Greece, No, was it Turkey? Uh, the president was advised not to use the gifted Katari Air Force one. Let's talk about the details behind that and why that is.
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Speaker 3: Well, as we know, our our president Trump likes to be surrounded by luxury. And I'm not speaking politically at all, it's just one of the things that he prefers. And the current air Force one they've known as VC twenty fives in Air Force terminology. While they're very beautiful and wonderful airplanes, and from my perspective, they're quite luxurious. It's not the same kind of luxury that President Trump has lived in, and he's wanted something better for the longest time since he was originally president. Now, the current VC twenty fives, they've been in service. They're based on Boeing seven forty seven two hundreds, one of the earlier Boeing aircraft. They've been in service since the first President Bush and they've been due for replacement, but it takes a long time to come up with a new air force one. There are planes that are being worked on and there's some concern about those too. We can go into later. But it's not just it's not just a jet. It's not just an airplane. These planes have to have incredible communication power so that you can be speaking with the military at any time and be speaking with them confidentially. They have to have incredible security so that if they're heaven forbid, be an atomic blast and there's an electromagnetic pulse, that everything won't be thrown out. The communications will continue, the engines will continue to run. It takes an incredible amount of shielding. They have anti missile defenses on them, they have chaff, they have other missiles built onto them, all sorts of things. It's a billion dollar project. And you can't just take one airplane, a jetliner and turn it into air Force one in order to meet these criteria unless the president says, this is what I want, and we'll get rid of we don't need to have all those other safety measures on it. Well, he flew the new the Qatar government and gifted President Trump with a brand new seven seven eight, the newest aircraft. That's beautiful, it's luxurious, it's it's known to have gold fixt years all through it. And they did a lot of communications upgrades to it and spent four hundred million dollars, But they certainly didn't spend a billion dollars on it in order to upgrade it to what it truly needs to be. And not only does that take much more money, it takes years and years and years. When President Trump was first in office, he was ready to replace them, heed they waited until the seven forty seven line at Boeing was closed down, unfortunately, and so he ordered some already purchase jets that weren't being taken by the airline to have reconfigured. They're still in the process of being reconfigured. Because it takes so long. You need people with high security clearances, you need people that understand it's just a very big, long, important process. He didn't want to wait that long, and so this aircraft was gifted to the United States government, possibly directly to him. We're not sure. People think it's a violation of the emolument's clause, meaning that it was a gift to him that shouldn't be his, and it was converted communication wise so that it could carry him overseas. But he got the anchora and found out that he's a target of the Iranians and the air Force, and the Secret Service said, I'm sorry, mister President, you can't fly back on this aircraft. It's not safe. And so they brought him back on the old air Force one or one of the two old air Force ones, brought him to England where he then they assumed he would be safe, and he got back on the new airplane.
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Speaker 2: By the way, do they always travel with a backup air Force one?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, there's always two. And not only that. The other thing to bear in mind is we're talking about the seven forty sevens right now, any plane that the President flies on is air Force one. It could be Assessna one seventy two. If it belongs to the US Air Force, the President's on it, that's air Force one.
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Speaker 2: See what they fly around with an extra fitted out out legit air Force one.
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Speaker 3: It's known as a no fail mission. If the President is flying on it, it is a no fail mission. There's a backup for everything, and it's going to happen, and it's going to happen perfectly. So there's wherever one goes, the other one goes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I got a couple more questions regarding this after the break and then we'll do some open lines. Okay, Micah, hanging there. I'll talk to you a little more in just a minute. On WBZ.
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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news Radio.
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Speaker 2: That's right, It's night Side with Dan Ray Bradley Jay for Dan. Love to hear from you. Do you I have a question for you. Do you think that it was a good idea for the President to accept the gift of the Katari Air Force one given its lack of such things as countermeasures, and it just it's not really up to snuff when it comes to what you need for a presidential airplane, and there's some definite downside to accepting it, and I want to get into those specifically with our aviation correspondent tonight, Micah Engber of Airplane Gigs podcast. So from where I tell me, if I'm accurate here, they put this plane together. Couldn't the Kataris have or whoever whatever actors want were involved planted problematic things on the airplane, like maybe some sort of sleeping spy virus on the software or listening devices, or even something to make it crash if they wanted to at a certain time. I know they would sweep for bug devices, but still the person's planting the devices would know that and might have a way to hide them better. Wouldn't you worry about security? Wouldn't you think this might be a trojan horse kind of a situation.
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Speaker 3: In a word, Yes, However, it was taken in by the company's l three Harris and four hundred million dollars who's spent on security upgrades and checks and all that. But the reason that four hundred million isn't enough, and the reason that even with the brand new jets that were never flown by anybody that Boeing is now working on now is taking so long is because in order to truly securely make sure that everything is safe and the security measures are in place, is you have to strip them down to the bare metal and rerun all the wiring and wiring that is going to be going to be not able to be affected by electromagnetic pulses. So this definitely was not the case here. Yeah, they spent four hundred million dollars and that's a lot of money to you and me. That's not a billion dollars, that's for sure. And that's what it takes.
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Speaker 2: I worry about the espion I security factor. It just seems like it's such a ridiculously easy opportunity to spy on the United States by saying here's a free plane, dude. That's like the say the Moscow and this embassy. The Moscow bills the US embassy and loads you with microphones, which they did.
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Speaker 3: That's exactly true. And this aircraft is actually I mean it is for presidential transport, but it's supposed to have battlefield command capabilities coupled with a really strong self protection system. And that's that's really a several billion dollar job, and it takes much more time than what they spent on it. And you know, and Bowie's working on all that right now with the seven forty sevens that they're preparing to take over. This is supposed to be an interim system, and this interim system was provided because our president wanted something more luxurious. As what my belief, I don't know that I can prove that there's there's no that's not to say that the current VC twenty five is the current air Force one aircraft. There. They're long in the tooth, they need to be replaced, but now you know that they're safe.
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Speaker 2: They could have put some gold faucets in the existing ones and I wouldn't have taken that long, cost that much. It seems they could have been easier to make a luxury luxury up the current ones. Then to do it then to be better than taking that Katari airplane. I cannot believe that. It seems like such a giant mistake to accept that thing.
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Speaker 3: Well, it came down to the President saying, hey, it's a new we're seven forty seven. It's what I want. And you know, the President has quite a you know, all the power that he needs to do that.
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Speaker 2: I actually I wish that the president didn't have that much power, because it's he goes beyond him. He's making the entire country vulnerable by doing that. He may not care about his life, but there's a lot more at stake than his life. There's the security of the United States, there's intelligence weakness, etc. I believe that we're vulnerable to because of this. Is it possible you happen to know this as an airplane geek. Could they have installed some sort of bug in the software of the plane?
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Speaker 3: You know? I can't say that anything's impossible. I doubted. I'm sure that it's okay. Part of the deal with this particular aircraft is that, in theory, after the new VC twenty fives, the new Air Force ones come in place, and President Trump is no longer in office, it's supposed to be a gift to his library, and so it's supposed to be on display in his library, which doesn't mean he can't use it, but it's supposed to be part of the presidential library. Now there's a lot of doubt about that as well.
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Speaker 2: Designed to get around the emolument clause.
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Speaker 3: Right exactly exactly that's what it is. But technically it's right now. It's a military aircraft, and the president doesn't decide what happens to it after he's out of office. The military does, and if there's still a need for it, the military can decide to keep it and not donate it to the library. They did donate an old seven oh seven one of the air Force one aircraft at Fleronald Reagan that's on display at the Reagan Library in California. And I believe that one of the aircraft that was a I can't remeboard aircraft it was, it was air Force one for President Eisenhower is on display. But there's no need for those anymore. This aircraft, as just a VIP transport, could certainly be in place for the longest time. But that was the reason to get that. They got around the Emolument's clause. And perhaps Bradley, we should explain to our audience what the emolument's clause is in case they're not aware of the monument's clause. The Emoluments CLA basically means that no official of the US government, especially the president, can take gifts from a foreign power. That's what it is.
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Speaker 2: Well, I guess that does it. I got all the information I need. That's we talked about the Ryanair situation where a man got stucked part way out an airplane. Out of an airplane, I mean, that is such a that's such a dramatic thing. Imagine just being a passenger on the airplane and seeing that. And then we talked about the presidential airplane, and recently there was a Secret Service said basically, hey, dude, we're not letting you fly. This is not that secure and it's important that the president stays alive. We're not letting you fly in this Katari gold bathtub airplane. We're going to actually put you in the real air Force one. And there you go. Interesting. I wonder what if the president said no, I don't want to Who would win that battle? How does that work? You don't know?
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Speaker 3: Right, I don't know, but I believe he would. He is the commander in chief, and he theory has authority over the air Force and the Secret Service. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I feel like the president not just as president. All presidents have too much power. But that's that's another story for another day. Micah Engber of Airplane Gieks podcast. Thank you very much, and the Airplane Giks podcast is super interesting. What was your most recent episode.
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Speaker 3: Our most recent episode was with I'm looking at the wrong one, Dan. It was with Dan, I'm gonna pronounce it wrong. I always pronounced it wrong. Dick Neapinsky, who is the communications director for EAA, that's the Experimental Aircraft Association. And happening in the next couple of weeks is air Venture. That's Oshkosh. That's the biggest event in aviation worldwide where for a week for about a week up in July, up in Oshkosh, it's the biggest busiest airport in the world. Airplanes fly in from all over.
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Speaker 2: It's airshow. It's a big air show.
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Speaker 3: It's a big air show and all sorts of announcements are made and it's the place to go if you're a geek. One day. I'm going to get there, all right.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Micah.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. Have a great night.
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Speaker 2: Bradley, okay, open lines for about a half an hour, half an hour, it sounds like I it's from Wisconsin. There for a second half an hour, and then at ten we have a guest who was getting the documentary made about him who says he's run fifty marathons in fifty days and fifty states consecutive days. That's pretty weird, you know, honestly, honestly, one of my questions will be, what's the point? Man? Why? What were you running away from? Do you have some sort of issues you want to take your mind off of? Why would you do this? You like running that much? I doubt it? What's going on upstairs? What was the thing? But of course I'm interested in things like how many pairs of shoes did you go through? What did you eat? Did you get any permanent damage? Did you run in the rain? Did you meet anybody interesting? I need help with this interview. You have a question for him a minute. When that happens, that'll be at ten and I say open lines for the next half hour. One thing I'm going to share with you during the open lines is my god, I lost my phone yesterday. What a nightmare? Oh my god. From three am to five am, I'm freaking out, tearing my house apart. Did I find it? If I did find it, where did I find it? Did I have to get a new phone? It's a nightmare. If you ever had a telephone related nightmare. Is I lose it? Did he go down there? The privy hole? Open lines? After this for a little while on WBZ, It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio. Okay, okay, Bradley j for Dan Rage to night on Night's Side, cruising along on the fifth night of the week, Friday Man, a week flew by. I must say, it is an honor and a pleasure to be able to do this show and to be able to communicate with you again. It's thrilling, actually thrilling, and it's very It's a good balance for my life.
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Speaker 3: It uh.
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Speaker 2: I like feeling connected with you. I'm gonna tell you that the story of losing my phone last night after work. But in the meantime we have Craig and Peaboty. Hello, Craig Man, what's going on?
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Speaker 1: How are you great? Thanks for Phil and for Dad he's away.
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Speaker 2: Course.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about like i'd like to talk to like the marathon guy, because I hike the Appalachian.
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Speaker 2: Trail, the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I walk two three hundred and seventy three miles.
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Speaker 2: That's brutal, brutal, brutal. I'm sure you read walk in the woods.
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Speaker 1: Right, Bill, I did read the book like a very good book.
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Speaker 2: Right. And he makes it seem he makes it, he makes it seem brutal. Isn't that brutal?
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Speaker 1: Bill Brightson is a great writer? Yeah, And like he writes, like if you read the Mother Tongue, like, it's a great book about the language, show the English like he is, he is a great writer. And yes it is. It's brutal, but it brings you to humanity. How do you make love? What?
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Speaker 2: How do you mean? Brings you through humanity?
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Speaker 1: It brings you back to you like like like you like believe in like like human nature, people helping people, like it's just a wonderful journey.
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Speaker 2: Wow. How long did it take?
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Speaker 1: I took my time. I took six and a half months.
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Speaker 2: Did you go into towns every once in a while stay in a hotel or did you always stay in your tent or did you even have a tent? How did that work?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Like you like I pretty much like stayed in the hotel once a week, okay, Like I walked from Georgia to me man like, like I stayed in the hotel probably like once a week, you know. Oh, like yeah, I had a you know, you carry fifty pounds on your back.
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Speaker 2: What did you take with you for food?
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Speaker 1: I ate lots of pop tarts from noodle.
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Speaker 2: Pot noodles. Of course, weight is a very important thing. Did you exactly did you carry stuff to make a fire with?
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're in the woods, you can if you have a lighter, you can make a fire lighter and you know you don't need.
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Speaker 2: You were able to cook? Did you to bring a pot to cook water?
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Speaker 1: In? Of course I had like a full like cook set up, like like I had a they call it a jet boil, which is just h like a system that will boil water and like a minute fire.
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Speaker 2: Wo. So what would you like me to ask the guy who says he ran fifty marathons fifty days and fifty states, what would you like me to ask him?
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Speaker 1: I'd like you to ask him, Mike, what do he like? How heavy his pack was?
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Speaker 2: Well, he's running a marathon. Probably no pack.
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Speaker 1: Well he's probably like unless he had like someone with him. That's kind of like shuttle work back and forth.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm sure he.
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Speaker 1: Did okay, But if he didn't, then he needed to carry like like like when you're hike in the trail. There are some like white laders that go with like like a thirty pound pack, and they that they have people that they can meet and help them to get them food when they needed.
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Speaker 2: I see, I think he, I mean, he's he must have you know, I am sure he didn't camp out and stuff. He must have had somebody. I mean, there's a there's a movie being made of it. So there was a guy who was taking video of him, so that he had to That guy must have had a car. And we'll find out, well, I'll ask him about that. We'll find out all about that.
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure there are some like there are some people that like hike that have no one like to provide them with anything like you right, yeah, I said, a hitchhike in the town.
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Speaker 2: One more question for you about the Appalachian Trail. What was the hardest part the last part in Maine? Right, that's what I understand.
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Speaker 1: One hundred miles. Well, the man, Yeah, and I've done it all over like three times. It's quite a journey. It's one hundred miles of the only thing you come to is the US Forest Service road man.
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Speaker 2: So is there a path you put bushwhacken the whole time.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, it's a total path, like the Applation Trail is total path, all right, but they one hundred miles weldness. Like the only thing you come to is like us worst service roads. So when you're hiking it like you're going to carry you like seventy pounds on your back when you start out, so you have enough food to get through the whole track.
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Speaker 2: Seventy pounds is a lot. I think most air conditioners are about seventy pounds. So think when you put your air conditioner in the window, imagine carrying that on your back through the bu of Maine. Craig and Peabody, thank you so much. I appreciate that call. Thank you, Craig. Almost time for a break. I guess I'll start my little nightmare of my open lines by the way. Then we'll talk to the at ten o'clock. The man who ran fifty marathons, fifty states, fifty marathon states, fifty days. See how that went? Like what, why, dude? Why did you do it to get famous? Did you do it or to raise money for somebody? Did you do it because you're running away from some psychological issue? We got to find that out. So last night after work, right I go home, I take the tea, I enjoy it. I have my earbuds in, I got my phone, listen to my Spotify playlist. Take the Orange line to the green line. Get off my stop. Almost missed my stop because I forgot to hit the button to stop, because late at night, you got to hit the button or they'll just blow through. Got off nice bomby temperatures. Put on my favorite songs. Ready for the walk home. Get home, and then I come in the door, and I'm careful ilways to put my earbuds away the minute I come in the door. Put them in the case so I don't lose them. And I go up stairs and I had a drink, which is but I didn't like the drink. I didn't even have a whole drink. By the way, recently, I got sick and since then I've had zero appetite and I don't even care about drinks. Isn't that weird. I have to actually remember to eat so I don't get waste, await or nothing. Yeah, I had some sort of gi bug or something a while ago, and still no no appetite, and I don't have. I think I probably lost ten pounds looking tight. Make sure to get some new clothes. So getting ready for bed, you know, you go to get my brush, my teeth, all ready for bed. Go get the phone because I need it for my alarm. I gotta charge it. You know how it goes. I can't find it. Where is it? Okay, gotta be around. I do a quick cursory search for the phone. Yeah, I'm not concerned yet, not concerned. Actually, what I'll do is break now and tell you how this all unfolds. After this break on WBZ, It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio, Open lines till ten. Then we talked to the marathon runner who did fifty marathons fifty days, fifty states. That's fifty consecutive days till then open lines, and I'm telling them, well, in the meantime, while you call six point seven two, five, four, ten thirty, my uh story of losing my phone last night. It's a catastrophic thing to lose your phone shouldn't be that catastrophic it is. And you you know, if you just put it in your back pocket, your nuts, it could easily you could lose it. And it's terrible. So I get ready for bed, can't find my phone. Looking for it, did a quick pass, couldn't find it, you know. Then I do a deeper look. Look at the couch cushions, Look behind the couch, look in the chair cushions. Look, you know, I turned the lights up brighter. Maybe I'm just missing it, go through everything. Nothing really, So this is mystifying me because I was listening to my Bluetooth Spotify on the phone all the way home to my door, which means I it within at least range of Bluetooth. I don't know how long bluetooth last. What is it one hundred feet, so it would have to be within one hundred feet of my door. So I looked outside within a hundred feet of my door, and just to be sure. I don't know why, because I don't know the range of Bluetooth, just in case Bluetooth range was a lot longer than I thought. I walked the few hundred yards of the tea station where I got off. Nothing. I'm just just floored. What's going to go back upstairs? Put on a headlamp, the kind if you're camping, a headlamp turned up all the lights and completely went through everything. We're talking, even drawers and stuff. I know I didn't open because maybe I forgot that I opened it. Nope. I looked in the fridge case. I spaced out. It has to be somewhere really weird, wasn't there. You know how in your bathroom closet you have all these metsons and stuff. Tore those all apart. Did I put it up there and it fell down behind one of the medicine containers or something? Did it fall down behind something? I look behind the bed, the bedstead thing, the headboard, behind the furniture, under the furniture. Nothing. They give up. I say, oh my god, What am I going to do? Well, I'll call Apple and have them disable the phone. Oh wait a minute, I can't call them because I can't find my phone. Ha ha. I thought, okay, I'll do use my laptop to have use to find my phone function. Well, you open that up. It says, what's your password? What's your Apple ID password? Oh? Gu you know I don't know that because my password or in a password app on my phone. I know you're saying that's pretty dumb, Bradley Jay, And you're right. I do keep most important passwords separate from the phone because I don't trust that password app truck totally, and because and just because, but in this case, that one was on the phone, so nothing. I say, Okay, what can I do? I just go to bed, which kills me because usually I listen to YouTube videos. I listened to the YouTube podcasts, you know, the videos, but I don't watch the videos. I just listen on the phone to go to sleep. So it's bumming me out. I can't sleep because I don't have that lullaby. So I get up and I say, all right, I'm gonna look one more time. This whole thing took two hours, two solid hours. I'm getting tired, physically tired from looking. I try to think, what is someplace I haven't looked. Let's use my head now. Oh and I did pray to Saint Anthony. I did three prayers to Saint Anthony. Why not, right, It's been effective in the past, It's surprisingly effective. So I do that other extremely detailed search probably takes twenty minutes. Again, I have a small apartment, so where do you suppose it was? I mean, I looked at everything in the pockets of clothing. I hadn't even worn everywhere the laundry basket, took the dirty laundry out, maybe a fell in there, went through the dirty laundry, nothing anywhere. Nothing. It's a complete weird mystery. So I give up. I gave up, said, okay, there's a two thousand dollars mistake and a big hassle. How much the phones cost now it's like two grand, right, fifteen hundred. I don't know whatever it is. And I said to myself, by the way, self, you're not just gonna I just keep my phone loose in a little I made a leather phone holster. Works better than your pocket. Still it doesn't. I used to have it set a number on it say if found call this number, not my number, another number, SID say yeah, we found your phone. I didn't have that on there. I said, I gotta get that on there. And I also could have a little landyard attached to me surround my shoulder. When I go out, just say it doesn't fall out on the tea or something. I mean, it means that much to me. I'm surprised people that just stick it in their pocket don't lose it. So I give up, completely give up, Go take a shower. I'd already taken a shower once, but I went out. I did so much looking I got all sweaty again, took another shower. I gave up in the shower, hot shower, really trying to relax, soaping down. We have a good shower, got a big, beautiful bar soap, trying to relax, and I'm, you know, just kind of my mind's wandering, and I think, Okay, I'm a showers almost done. I'm gonna dry off some of the towel, put on my bathrobe.
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Speaker 5: B that was it. I thought, oh my god, maybe that's it. I think maybe I remember putting.
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Speaker 2: It in the bathrobe pocket when I took my first shower. Maybe. So with my heart pounding, dripping wet from the shower, I tiptoe over to where the bathrobe is hung and I pick it up. Is it heavy? Doesn't feel a little heavy? Not really check the first pocket, nothing, and then thank God, there it is. It's in the bathrobe pocket, the only place I hadn't looked. And what's the lesson? The lesson is never puts your phone down in an unusual place, cause you'll forget. Have one place you put it always that's the only place if you What was I thinking, There's no way I'm gonna remember that I put it in my bathrobe pocket. I never do I've never done that in my life and I and I gotta remember never to do that kind of weird thing. Never put your phone in a new place. Oh my god, two hours out of my life. I'm so relieved. I love your phone. I love you. I'm never gonna let you go. Stay close to me, all right, We'll talk to that guy next who says he ran ten fifty marathons, fifty days, fifty states. WBZ
