On this episode of Av Talk, we discuss the rapidly devolving situation in Afghanistan.

And Ned Russell joins us to discuss his reporting on how airlines feel about the

737 max some eight months after its return to revenue service. Hello and welcome to episode 125 of Ab Talk I am Ian Petchnick here as always

with Jason Urbinoitz hello Ian how are you doing? Hello Jason, I'm doing well.

I'm counting down the days until my children are back in school. All of them were less than two weeks away from that, but we're in the period where they're

home all the time now. So they'll actually be co-hosting this episode of the podcast.

I have no equivalent to that story. Where's your cat?

Sleeping in a cardboard box. Well then my work here is done.

Fantastic. Indeed.

So...

Where to even begin with this?

Yeah, I don't...

There's no transition, there's no nothing, let's just get into it.

The situation in Afghanistan has devolved more quickly than, I don't want to say everyone,

because there have been a few people who are like well we said this was going to happen

but then most people had thought possible and so what was a fluid situation became explosive, I guess is a way to phrase it.

I don't know if it's a really.

Yeah, thank you not literally. But yeah, but we're recording on the 18th of August and this all kind of happened over the

began to happen over the weekend. As US forces continued their drawdown, the Taliban continued their

advanced and basically their march to Kabul and by Sunday it was very clear that the Taliban had basically

completed their takeover of Afghanistan.

Usually walk through the country it seems like, almost.

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