Feb. 7, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
03:47
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| Indiana and Jerry, hello. | |
| Hey, Dennis. | |
| Thank you for letting me in. | |
| I'm an unvaccinated, non-DEI hired commercial airline pilot. | |
| How did you get away with not getting vaccinated? | |
| Our company finally folded and allowed all the exemptions to go through. | |
| Would you be willing to say which company? | |
| I'm sorry, I can't. | |
| Is it a big company? | |
| Yes. | |
| So one of the biggest airlines in the United States folded and did not demand that its pilots be vaccinated at a certain point. | |
| Is that what you're telling me? | |
| At a certain point, that is correct, because the pilot group held out, held out, held out. | |
| All these threats coming in, and nobody would meet the deadlines to get your vax. | |
| Besides, it's not a vax, it's a shot. | |
| Why do they call it a flu shot and not a flu vaccine? | |
| Anyway, so then we put in the exemptions to satisfy the feds. | |
| They approved. | |
| 100%. | |
| They said, we don't care what you worship, just go ahead and send an exemption, and we got you covered. | |
| So, there you go. | |
| Alright, so you called, though, to tell me about the new affirmative action issue, correct? | |
| Yes. | |
| Yes. | |
| Okay, so I'm going to tell you right off. | |
| Okay, I got a couple of years left before I have to retire because of my age. | |
| So I've been around for about 35 years, and I was the primary flight instructor in the Air Force. | |
| I served 20 years there. | |
| Over the last six months to a year, there's been a huge surge of hiring at the airlines, and they're taking in whatever they can. | |
| And then coupled with this DEI business, they're trying to meet a certain metric. | |
| Okay, well, I will tell you, 95% of the new hires that I've been experiencing are doing pretty good. | |
| But you got the five percenters that you're like, how did this person get through the training? | |
| And I had one of those experiences, and I felt like I had to teach the guy how to fly basic airplane pills. | |
| And the company finally decided to spend more money to train this guy, but in the end, he could not cut it, and they let him go. | |
| But it took a lot of money and a lot of training, a lot of effort to get this person through because they wanted that DEI higher. | |
| And that was your company? | |
| Yes. | |
| Okay, well, that's what they're saying. | |
| Look, I'm happy it's 95%. | |
| The problem is 5% is not a small sum. | |
| I mean, obviously we don't have a scientific study on this, but if 5% of the future pilots, Are not competent. | |
| That's a very dangerous thing. | |
| You want 100% of your pilots competent. | |
| We haven't had a major airline crash, what, in how many years? | |
| I mean, it's really been remarkable. | |
| But United has announced that merit will not be its only criterion. | |
| Race and gender. |
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