Dennis Prager Show - Ami Horowitz on Flying During the Pandemic, "It Really Was a Bizarre Experience"
Aired: 2020-05-20
Duration: 06:23


=== TSA Shortcut Mystery (03:47) ===

[00:00:00]  All right, everybody.
[00:00:01]  Back to Ami here.
[00:00:03]  Anyway, the video's up.
[00:00:04]  But I want to hear.
[00:00:05]  So you go to this desolate terminal at what, JFK? JFK. Let me just tell my audience.
[00:00:12]  He's explaining what it's like to fly now.
[00:00:14]  Go ahead.
[00:00:15]  So then you go through.
[00:00:16]  Obviously, everybody knows.
[00:00:18]  You go to the TSA, which is always a zoo.
[00:00:21]  There's always a line.
[00:00:22]  There's nobody there.
[00:00:23]  You know, the TSA guy is there.
[00:00:25]  They check you right through.
[00:00:26]  The whole process between getting to the terminal and getting to my gate was literally about five, six minutes.
[00:00:34]  And that was only because I had most of that time was walking to the actual gate.
[00:00:38]  Then there's a few more people kind of wandering around.
[00:00:41]  But again, just completely empty.
[00:00:43]  When you get to the gate and there's five of us on this entire 757 to go on a direct flight to Minneapolis.
[00:00:51]  But the craziest part was coming back from Minneapolis.
[00:00:55]  You know, again, same deal.
[00:00:57]  Totally empty airport.
[00:00:58]  There's nobody there.
[00:00:59]  I get to the gate, and I'm walking up to the gate, and the woman goes, are you Mr. Horowitz?
[00:01:04]  I go, yes.
[00:01:05]  I'm there about 30 minutes early, because there wasn't any time for me to wait.
[00:01:10]  And she goes, would you like to leave now?
[00:01:13]  We can leave, because I was the only person on the flight.
[00:01:15]  I don't know how much it costs to fly a 757. From Minneapolis to New York.
[00:01:21]  But I imagine it's the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
[00:01:23]  Not to mention the amount of jet fuel that's used on this.
[00:01:29]  But it really was just a bizarre experience.
[00:01:32]  Wow.
[00:01:34]  You were the only one on the plane.
[00:01:38]  Did they treat you well?
[00:01:41]  No, I won't tell you who I flew, but I got it.
[00:01:45]  The tickets were actually also bizarrely expensive.
[00:01:48]  You'd think they'd be really cheap right now, but at least mine wasn't.
[00:01:50]  And it was probably twice what I would normally pay for that flight.
[00:01:53]  And so I got, you know, I didn't get an upgraded seat.
[00:01:57]  I didn't pay for an emergency exit seat.
[00:02:01]  But look, I figured I can pretty much take the pick of where I'm sitting, you know, and so I sat in an exit row, emergency exit row.
[00:02:09]  And the woman walks up to me, and I kid you now, she looks at me, she goes, Mr. Horowitz, you're going to have to take your seat because of weight issues.
[00:02:17]  And I thought, first of all, what a stupid excuse to say we don't want you sitting there.
[00:02:21]  And second of all, if it really was a weight problem, people flying is unsafe.
[00:02:25]  If my 150 pounds soaking wet is a problem, sitting off one side of the plane versus the other, it's not a safe thing to fly.
[00:02:35]  I'm silent because I'm stunned.
[00:02:38]  I'm in stunned silence.
[00:02:40]  You could not sit in the exit row because you're the only one on the plane, but you hadn't paid for it?
[00:02:47]  Correct.
[00:02:48]  Correct.
[00:02:49]  It was a little bit disconcerting not fully understanding how customer service works in the middle of a global pandemic.
[00:02:55]  I know we're all learning how that works, but I think that would be pretty intuitive.
[00:02:59]  When you have one guy flying on a flight, you treat him nicely, if not royally.
[00:03:06]  That is not your seat will remain etched in my mind for the rest of my life.
[00:03:12]  A man is the only one on the plane and told that.
[00:03:16]  It's not like you went even to the first class cabin.
[00:03:19]  No, I'm not a pig.
[00:03:21]  I didn't pay for that.
[00:03:23]  I was going to take a slightly better seat.
[00:03:27]  Maybe you was wrong.
[00:03:29]  Now that I think about it, you're sneaking into an exit row seat.

=== Believe All Women? (02:50) ===

[00:03:34]  It's not the Ami Horowitz that I know.
[00:03:39]  Am I a rule follower?
[00:03:41]  Is that the perception you have of me?
[00:03:43]  I'm definitely not a rule follower.
[00:03:44]  You're definitely not a what?
[00:03:46]  I'm not a rule follower.
[00:03:50]  Shocking.
[00:03:52]  I'm stunned.
[00:03:54]  So you got a video up, you walk around Manhattan, and you're asking people if they believe women.
[00:04:00]  So you have to believe whenever they make a charge of harassment or assault, correct?
[00:04:07]  Right.
[00:04:08]  This has obviously been a mantra of the left since Kavanaugh, right?
[00:04:12]  It's become a meme, right?
[00:04:14]  Hashtag believe all women.
[00:04:16]  Not believe women or some women, or believe all women.
[00:04:21]  But obviously this is going to be put to the test because the person we have...
[00:04:26]  Who's out there, who's being accused by a woman, is a Democrat.
[00:04:30]  And the left is hilariously so self-unaware.
[00:04:34]  And I wonder if before they went into this full-throated defense of Joe Biden, remember for you guys, I'm sure everybody in your audience knows, but Joe Biden's been accused by Tara Reade for sexual assault.
[00:04:47]  And if the left even gives a passing thought.
[00:04:51]  To how hypocritical they are on this issue.
[00:04:53]  I mean, it's stunning how easy it is for the left in general, and the people I interviewed in specific, to fall right into this hypocrisy trap of their own making.
[00:05:04]  So it's a very simple premise.
[00:05:06]  I walk up to people, Biden supporters, which is not hard to find in Manhattan.
[00:05:10]  I ask them, is it important to believe all women?
[00:05:13]  And everyone looked at me like I had two heads.
[00:05:16]  Of course!
[00:05:17]  It's fundamental.
[00:05:19]  We all have to believe them.
[00:05:20]  And then the one moment came.
[00:05:22]  You know, you never script these things out when you do man the street and kind of whatever happens, happens.
[00:05:26]  And this woman says to me, older woman, she must be in her late 70s.
[00:05:30]  And she goes, I just got out of jail for 32 years after killing my abuser.
[00:05:36]  And nobody believed me that he was abusing me for years.
[00:05:40]  So I take it to my...
[00:05:40]  So this is a really important issue for me.
[00:05:43]  So I said, wow, that's pretty powerful.
[00:05:46]  And then in my next breath, I asked this woman, well, do you believe Tara Reade's accusations?
[00:05:51]  And she flipped out.
[00:05:53]  She's a terrible person.
[00:05:55]  She's employed by Trump.
[00:05:56]  That's right.
[00:05:57]  And they all went to tirades about Tara Reade and how they don't believe a word she said.
[00:06:04]  I mean, it's so...
[00:06:05]  It's so hard to understand how they can't understand.
[00:06:08]  Truth is not a left-wing value.
[00:06:10]  That's my motto.
[00:06:12]  All right, everybody.
[00:06:12]  His video is up at DennisPrager.com.
[00:06:16]  You can go to AmiHorowitz.com.
[00:06:18]  We're happy either way, but it's easy to go through our website.
[00:06:22]  It's a terrific video.