1:53:02 So excuse me, I said pointed, but paint them as however you want to paint them. So I think there's a bit of, there's plenty of propaganda, but I think there's. there's also some trolling into this because it pulls you, you know, saying it pulls you into the conversation. So, let's finish the second clip from 14 years ago, and then we'll get into some more recent clips. Their history just happened to be during Black History Month. I was tingling about it. This is great. It's like spectacular. It still hasn't hit me now. So, I was just excited. I called my mom, my family, and I said, Guess what happened today? Rochelle is the lynchpin, one of only 10 black female airline captains in the country.
1:53:43 She used to be a customer service agent for Delta. Piloting was never on her radar until a friend suggested it. And it paid off. And this was my goal to be here where I am today. And I'm so happy on what I've accomplished. As little girls, they'd never seen anyone who looked like them piloting a plane. But now, for other little girls, they're proof. You really can be whatever you want to be. Fate may have a little bit to do with it, but for everyone that will look at us as role models or look to aspire to be what we are today, they need to know that it was hard work and dedication to get here. Young girls need to see that, yes, they can be flight attendants, and yes, they can be pilots.
1:54:27 And the sky is the limit, literally. Yay. Okay, so something I want to point out is the title says all the African-American female flight crew, but everything they said after that, girls, girls, girls. The race portion dropped off of it. So, this is that we opened the door. This has been a running theme for the life of the show. We open the door and end up holding it for everybody else to know it.
1:55:05 Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Proof. And what it's going to end up doing is going to discredit qualified male and female pilots that happen to be black. And see, this is where in a system of justice, you will have 13% of the population. You will have 13% of the pilots represent us that are qualified because it'll be just a normal distribution. Yeah. The fact that you actually have to nudge the numbers and manipulate the numbers, that's the real problem. And this doesn't help anybody at all. No, no, luckily, Boeing is doing a fine job of
1:55:50 screwing up aviation. So right now, all focuses on that. You know, because they got bolts missing and all kinds of stuff. Yeah, like a wheel fail. It's like something every week, right? It's like a wheel falls off here. Well, I think it was a plane fly was on fire in Miami. It could have been aliens. It could have been 10 feet tall black aliens. I mean, but who knows? It happened to be a Boeing plane that was a GE engine. But yeah, I mean, we literally have an airline today saying, we're going to start looking at Airbus. I'm already suspecting sabotage at this point. It's like we've been looking at that fight for a decade, you know, Airbus versus Boeing, because it's big money.
1:56:31 You know, it's big money. Well, I stated a long time ago when we had a brief conversation about aviation that I think they're trying to get rid of the riffraff off of commercial airlines because commercial airlines have basically just turned into greyhounds. Yeah. If you look at how history of flying was, you used to have swear suits and white gloves for the girls. White gloves. Yeah. Yeah. I had a tie on, sure. So I think they're, but I think they're losing the battle because the way the system is made built up, they had to have the volume of flights. Well, there's also, I mean, you just go on TikTok and see, you know, people like fighting and yelling at
1:57:13 cabin crew and all this stuff. It's, you know, the decorum has just gotten out of control. Have you ever been to a Greyhound station? I mean, like, that's literally. Yes, I have. It's been a while, but yes, I have. And then when you factor in also what they're doing with the migrants and airports, is commercial aviation in this iteration over? And it's actually, because I mean, traveling on Greyhound used to be a semi-pleasurable event or, you know, when it first acceptable. So I think that's where we're headed. And I'll continue on where I think it's going to go. But what you're seeing, Mo, is you're seeing airlines like Jax, JAX,
1:57:58 which so those guys, they bought regional jets. And so basically. it's 20 or 25 business class type chairs in one plane. And you don't go through the regular terminal. You go through the general aviation, so where the private jets are. So there's no TS. Goggles, Curry. Oh, brother. I'm sorry. Never fails. I was waiting for one of those. Okay, I got my goggles on. You in this future. There you go. Let's go ahead and get into the news, quote-unquote, news stories
1:58:38 that they're running about the first black fill in the blank. Whether it's inside a United Airlines flight simulator or flying the friendly skies, Mollis Ward has soared to new heights in aviation during her more than three-decade-long career. You know, I never started my career thinking I'm going to trailblaze. I always just felt like I was going to do my job. In 1998, she became the first black woman captain at United Airlines and the first in the U.S. to fly commercial airplanes. But even before flying with United, she was a pioneer, the only woman to graduate in her Air Force pilot training class and the first black woman instructor pilot in the Air Force.
1:59:17 People saw me in my flight suit and they were like, wait a minute, are you here for pilot training? I'm like, yes. They're like, we've never seen anyone like you. So that was the first time I had an awareness that this was something groundbreaking. She is now dedicated to bringing other women along for the ride. Yeah. Like they said, 1998? Yeah. What are we doing here? That's 10 years earlier than the clip of the all-black flight crew. Okay. Yeah. No, I'm just saying, I'm just showing you that we're celebrating that. This is what they call a nothing burger. Yeah. But it's used as propaganda and it's not used.
1:59:59 One group might use it to celebrate their accomplishments, but the other group takes it as, see, you know, and I think them taking it like that is part of the plan because then it puts you in the part of, oh, you don't like black pilots? Are you not think black people are competent? Yeah, which that's not the question at all. Basically, the airline industry has been taking competent people for a long time, regardless of what they look like. Correct, because you wouldn't have these stories. And believe me, I want an ex your Air Force pilot. I don't care if you're purple. You're from the you flew you flew Air Force. You're good with me. I don't think anybody thought about that, you know what I'm saying? Before now.
2:00:42 And that's the point is that they're causing, I want to call it faux outrage, but it's manipulated outrage. Let's go with that term. Well, and I'm noticing this. So there is outrage coming now. And so there was this incident that took place a couple months back. And I actually avoided the clip on No Agenda. And I just, people kept emailing me, it's DEI. Look at this. You might have seen this clip. So it's between an examiner with someone who's going for a commercial check ride. So two competent pilots. And he asks for a particular procedure, which is short final, which actually can mean different things in different situations, different types of aircraft.
2:01:28 What he should have said is, hey, I'm doing a check ride. We're going to do an engine out 180. We're going to land mid-runway. But he didn't say that. And then, so she's expecting him. And it's a busy airport. She's an air traffic controller. She's in the tower. And she's expecting, she says, hey, you should be turning. And then they both get into an argument on the radio, which is unprofessional in general. But then at a certain point, she says, look, I googled what this means. And it's a point of contention. And because she said that, people lost their minds. This is DEI. She's Googling. She doesn't know what she's doing. This lady was very competent at her job.
2:02:09 As an aviator, I could say that. So it's being the women in particular, but maybe black women are now being scapegoated just for DEI. Red meat. Yeah. It's all red meat for, and of course, DEI is crap. We don't want DEI in our lives. But now we're just taking anything. And then a very competent woman who got sucked into an argument on the radio, which she just neither one of us should have done, nor the examiner. And they're both FAA employees, basically. You know, it's being touted as DEI and people are freaking out about it.
2:02:48 So everything now is anti-DEI, which is good, but not everything qualifies as DEI. Right. And that's why I said DEI was stupid from the beginning. beginning. And it doesn't actually help. It actually hurts anybody. Because, yeah, it gives you the green light or the justification to disqualify whole swaths of people because of how, at the end of the day, corporations chose to run their business. Nobody went in there with a gun to these airlines' heads. You know, maybe they did the Jesse Jackson thing, like, we'll do, you know, make you seem like a racist if you don't. Maybe. But it's like, at the end of the day, do it. I'm going to run my business the way I'm going to run it.
2:03:32 And if you feel like that will work, that's fine. But then you're going to have to justify me hiring unqualified people. And what this is, is just a bigger symptom of weak leadership, is what this is. And the fact that the airlines in the United States are tied to the government. They always get bailed out. So, you know, there's semi-government organizations. Well, could the government have the now we just open another can of worms? Could this be government inspired? Yes. The same way vaccine mandates work. Yep. Yeah. Once again, it's not the people. Once again, it's not the people that's reaping the