Planes Will Crash and People Will Die (Special Podcast Highlight)
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Madrid discusses the controversy surrounding United Airlines' diversity initiatives and its potential impact on airline safety. He shares insights and commentary on the company's focus on diversity quotas, the implications for hiring pilots based on diversity rather than qualifications, and the risks associated with prioritizing diversity over safety. This thought-provoking episode also explores the potential consequences of prioritizing diversity over competence in crucial roles, and its overarching impact on public safety.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Patrick Madrid Show. |
| 0:03.6 | Here's the number sponsored by Catholic Order of Foresters. |
| 0:07.2 | 88-914-9-9-49. |
| 0:10.9 | 88-9-149-9-49. |
| 0:13.7 | In just a moment, we're going to hear some wisdom from the comedian Rob Schneider. |
| 0:18.3 | You may remember him from Steve, Steve Oroni, the Stevenator, making copies. |
| 0:24.0 | You can do it. Saturday Night Live. You can do it. He's that guy, funny guy. |
| 0:29.0 | And a Catholic, as of, what, a couple months ago? |
| 0:32.8 | He just converted to the Catholic Church. Yeah. Funny guy, he's a brother Catholic too. That's cool. |
| 0:39.5 | But the background to this that you'll hear from him in just a second has to do with United Airlines. |
| 0:44.9 | They're in the news. But now this is a story that's really getting a lot of attention. It has to do with this |
| 0:52.0 | diversity quotas, racial and gender quotas in these big companies |
| 0:58.2 | like United Airlines. So to give you just a bit of background here, and then we'll hear from |
| 1:03.1 | Rob Schneider, United Airlines, this is from the Washington Examiner. CEO Scott Kirby has come under fire |
| 1:09.5 | after a video surfaced of an interview he did, |
| 1:13.1 | touting his company's diversity initiatives, which limit white employees while emphasizing more women and minorities in its workforce. |
| 1:21.2 | Kirby responded to a question about his diversity targets at the company saying, quote, |
| 1:25.4 | we have committed that 50% of the classes will be women |
| 1:29.9 | or people of color. And by classes, I assume, he means like the incoming classes for pilots and |
| 1:37.5 | flight attendants, et cetera. Today, he says, only 19% of our pilots are women or people of color. |
| 1:44.1 | He wants this to be higher, much higher than that. |
| 1:48.0 | Axios interviewer Dan Premack said to Kirby in the interview from back in 2021. |
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