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Episode 339 - If It's Boeing I Ain't Going (w/ Bill McGee)

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4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Senior Fellow for Aviation and Travel at the American Economic Liberties Project and former Editor at Consumer Reports Bill McGee returns to Bad Faith to weigh in on the Alaska Airlines flight whose emergency door blew off mid-flight. Is it a labor issue, a corporate greed issue, an anti-trust issue, or all three? What role did Nikki Haley play in lowering safety and oversight standards? And how would Bill respond to libertarian claims that too much FAA regulation is the real problem?

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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0:00.0

Oh, So, I've heard it so many times from people saying like why do we need an FAA you know the marketplace will decide these

0:43.8

things well you put your loved ones in a tube and you decide if the marketplace is good enough

0:48.9

I would prefer not to thank you.

0:50.9

Perhaps we can get into a little bit of that again.

0:52.6

I don't want to just put words in Robbie's mouth, but maybe we'll insert a clip so the audience

0:56.7

can understand some context of what we're talking about.

1:00.6

There's no evidence that it's undermined any safety.

1:03.3

The last, um...

1:04.3

Did we not look at the same video of a plane with a hole in the side of it?

1:07.6

The last fatal plane, I just looked it up, I didn't know, the last plane fatality was in 2009.

1:15.0

I haven't had a plane crash in years.

1:17.0

So how about you go ahead book these 737 flights and the rest of us can...

1:22.0

It's the safest way to travel.

1:23.4

But that's not the issue, Robbie.

1:24.8

The issue isn't whether it's the safest way to travel.

1:27.3

I'm saying it hasn't gotten any less safe.

1:29.3

It's weather.

1:30.6

Robbie, if someone had been sitting on those seats unsecured they could have died so if your

1:35.3

position is that it's not a big deal until someone literally dies and that we shouldn't address

1:38.7

this problem until a plane is actually crashing into the ground and hundreds of lives are lost,

1:43.2

then that's a position to take.

1:44.3

I think most people who want to make sure that plane travel

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