Unthinkable tragedy: American Airlines plane, helicopter crash in DC; Adam Silver wants MAJOR change to NBA games (Episode 1209)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is there is none. We are going to start with the plane crash in DC last night. Horrible. Unimaginable. Disaster. Heartbreaking. (7:53) Is the NBA about to make some major changes? Adam Silver seems to think changing the length of games is key. What!? Shorter games? That’s your fix? (17:30) Caitlin Clark is not participating in NBA All-Star Weekend. There were rumors she may. (24:02) Should the Super Bowl trophy be named after Tom Brady? No more Lombardi? That’s what Bill Belichick thinks! (36:33) Review: Silkwood. (40:05) Utah Hockey Club. That’s the name. But not for long, maybe? Could have been the Yeti, but it was denied. How could this be? (47:50) NPPOD. (49:00) Apple and MLS are already making changes. Oh boy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:52.5	When you get the text alert that there's been a plane crash, it's obviously natural to wonder,
0:58.9	is everybody dead? How did it happen? Was it terrorism? And then you learn more about what happened in DC last night around 9 o'clock. And it may be as simple as an air traffic
1:04.5	control issue with a commercial plane landing and a government helicopter in the way. And for whatever reason, the collision
1:14.4	mechanisms in the plane did not work. And there was no way to pull up. And it was a crash. And two
1:22.4	modes of transportation crashed into each other and everyone died. And they one minute away from landing and one of the things that's happening right now and and while you're going to get news all day about a recovery operation and bodies being pulled from the river if you've been to reagan airport in washington dc you know that it's right next to the city of D.C.
1:46.3	It's extremely close just across the water. You can see the monuments as you're landing.
1:52.5	Team charters aren't allowed to land in Reagan. They have to land in Dulles. Private planes don't land
1:57.8	at Reagan. They have to land at Dulles, which is about 45 minutes out of D.C.
2:04.3	And the reason is that they reserve Reagan because it was an airport that was built so close to the city
2:11.5	and so close to where all diplomats are. And how about our government, our capital,
2:16.7	is that they want to limit the amount
2:19.4	of questionable aircraft or any aircraft. There are helicopters flying around all the time when you
2:26.6	land at Reagan. And it just doesn't occur to you when you're flying that you're going to become the
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