Special Episode: Best of 'Thing to Know Thursday' Interviews - Thursday, December 27th, 2018
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today we have a special episode for you on this Thursday, December 27th, 2018!
Instead of our typical roundup of the day's news in less than 10 minutes, we're using this holiday week to refresh our memories about some of the "Thing to Know Thursday" interviews from 2018!
Every Thursday (after the day's news), experts have shared their knowledge about a variety of topics - from self-driving cars and a possible Space Force to online dating and the royal wedding.
So today, you'll hear short clips from several of those interviews as we take a look back at the topics of the year. Enjoy!
Find links to the full interviews in today's show notes at https://www.theNewsWorthy.com (just click Episodes).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy, where you usually get all the days news in |
| 0:08.0 | less than 10 minutes, but today I have a special episode for you as we wave |
| 0:11.9 | goodbye to 2018. |
| 0:13.6 | Let's review some of the best thing to know Thursday |
| 0:16.2 | interviews and refresh our knowledge on a variety of topics. |
| 0:19.6 | You'll hear clips about everything from self-driving cars to the Royal Wedding and everything in between. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm Erica Mandy. Today is Thursday, December 27th. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:37.0 | How bad is this pilot shortage and why is it happening? Well it's going to be pretty bad you know a 2016 report by Boeing said that 42% of the pilots that are currently flying right now |
| 0:45.2 | are going to be reaching their mandatory retirement age of 65 in the next 10 |
| 0:50.2 | years. So there's going to be a need for about 117,000 pilots in North America and |
| 0:55.8 | 637,000 pilots worldwide in the next decade. And you know, there's a there's going to be an issue tracking down or new recruits to become |
| 1:05.5 | pilots because a lot of the pilots that are currently flying actually came from the |
| 1:09.4 | military and one of the issues that airlines are facing is that the military is not actually hiring that many more pilots because of new technology such as drones. |
| 1:19.0 | How many people are using dating apps in America and do they really work? What should people know about dating apps? |
| 1:27.6 | It seems like everyone is using dating apps right now, right? But according to the singles in America study by match, there's actually about 50% of |
| 1:36.2 | singles that have tried online dating sites or apps today. |
| 1:41.3 | And this is definitely increased from prior years before they used to say |
| 1:45.8 | one in five marriages began with the dating site now that number is increased to two |
| 1:51.3 | or three out of five marriages begin that way and it's actually |
| 1:55.2 | the number one place that most people have their last first date. |
| 2:00.3 | When it becomes more common will we actually get to sit back and enjoy the ride and read |
| 2:07.2 | and watch TV or is it going to be where you still kind of have to pay attention and |
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