Michael Shelton
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
Ladies and gentlemen, good morning and welcome back. Friday programming for today. I haven't yet decided as I'm recording this what we're going to call the episode, so I'm not really sure what it's going to be titled. If you've followed the show, you know that on Fridays I will often answer questions, questions received from the listeners or viewers. I call them Full Auto Friday, as in
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
So right here already, we have a distinction where helicopters are talking to somebody in the tower and airplanes are talking to somebody in the tower. If the aircraft itself, under the assumption that the aircrafts were functioning properly, What we are coming back to at this point then is human error, and that sucks.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
I think what was already released from a little bit of the audio is the controller reached out and asked the helicopter if they could see the aircraft on short final, and they told the helicopter to go behind it.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
My understanding, the knowledge I have now, or information I should say, not knowledge, is that they didn't receive a response on that, and what ended up happening is the helicopter flew in front.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
people like how can this happen how could this possibly occur the dc airspace is so ridiculously compressed because of the nature of the white house and so everything is just funneled in and aviation is an absolute you know you make a microscopic error and it can be absolutely catastrophic people are saying hey well the faa is understaffed it is true the faa has a shortage of controllers but let's talk about the airspace the delta towers
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
are considered to be, it's not a learning in a training tower, but you start your journey off in a control tower at a Delta airport like Missoula or Kalamazoo. Then there's class Charlie airports. The one that I flew around a lot with was John Wayne, just south of LAX. Then there's class Bravo airports. Every time you make that jump, it's based off your experience and your seniority.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
So people saying there was a hiring freeze, that means this is Trump's fault. No new controller is gonna be in the most controlled airspace that we have in the United States. That tower was full of people who were experienced. It has nothing to do with anything that Trump could have done in the first eight days of his presidency to cause this.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
And I wish people would just take a breath and let a family mourn instead of trying to weaponize this for their political left, right, center, whatever the fuck it may be. Is there a shortage of FAA controllers? Yes, there is. And we're actually feeling that here in Montana. Like the Kalispell Tower has fewer controllers than I think is required to keep it open for the hours that they want to.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
They have a problem paying people what it is for the cost of living, things like that. That's not the case at the DCA Tower.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
It's like 15 miles from the White House. You're not bringing your JV crew there. So then people will say, well, how can this happen? And the answer is because people are people and they make mistakes.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
And I have, let me just tell you, the number of times that I have been off by a fraction on a frequency, you're like one click too much and you're wondering why you can't hear anybody and nobody's saying things because you're on the goddamn wrong frequency.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
Or in this case, a controller might've been reaching out on what frequency they thought they were reaching out on, but they were attached to another one. How does it happen? By accident. Yeah. It sucks. It's such a catastrophe. And I wish that people would just take a little bit of a breath. Yeah. A little bit of a breath. And that's, I mean, that's all I have on the FAA issue. We can switch back.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
It is a complicated map. And for people who have no interest in aviation, I'm sorry. Please fast forward for, I don't know, however long that was. 15 minutes. I think it's important for people to realize, like, Just because something happens coincidentally, maybe sometimes it's just because it's a coincidence. Well, yeah. And that's the thing.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
It doesn't ever happen. And I don't want to beat a dead horse. I just wish that sometimes people would take a breath and let people who are in the midst and the throes of a tragedy that involves their family, give them a little bit of a break. Give them a little bit of a break. My computer is sassing me. I'm trying to pull up my goddamn computer.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
Questions that we're going to share on our Bolt Action Friday. Is that what you said? Bolt Action, I think so. Two different versions of this. Actually, you know what? I have a third question I remember I was going to ask you. You are of military age. You are actually a prime candidate that I think the U.S. military would be looking for from somebody that they would be targeting as a recruit.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
Yeah. I remember what the military meant to, or was at least pitched to my generation. I remember kind of the ads and the verbiage associated with that. As somebody in their early 20s, I'm curious, what do you think of the idea of military service? Like what would it mean to you? What would you find appealing about it or not?
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
And what do you feel like for your generation the messaging is around the military?
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
know the military is like are you talking in this time in your life so is this like early 2000s yes okay that was like peak military full speed ahead double you know warfare on two complex and developed theaters of war okay um and then as i kind of like started learning more about honestly american history
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
Granted, we have, you know, that was in the, I mean, people can argue about when it ended. Let's say it started in the 60s, ended in the 70s. We're coming up on almost 50 years on that. So yeah, time changes the optic a little bit. When you are with your friends of your age right now, what are, and I mean, you're going to have to, I guess, broadly generalize here.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
What is the consensus in your current age group and your social circle about military services? And just up here in Montana, because it probably changes where we are geographically too.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
Like it's not really thought of, I guess. would you say it's maybe considered to be neutral? It's not necessarily considered positive, but also not discussed in a negative manner as well? Yeah, I would say neutral.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
What are your thoughts about the current, I guess I want to say, advertisement of military service, the recruiting and the branding? Again, I guess you can summarize paint with a broom if you want to because I know you can't talk for anybody else, but the current narrative around military service from the military. Any thoughts on your generation's response to that?
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
For your friends that did serve, have they come back?
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
So I know there's a thing called rasp, which I think is the initial portion of selection. There is ranger school. I am not, I have a bunch of friends that are rangers, but I am not have a depth. I do not have a depth of knowledge on their particular pipeline. Yeah. He basically, well, he did like this, but whatever the special forces one was. Okay, so he was a Green Beret?
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
So special forces is a specific term that references Green Berets. Special operations is the umbrella term that encapsulates all special operations of each military unit or each military branch. Ranger is all I know, so I'm just going to say that. Okay. So that would be a special operations unit inside of the Army.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
And so I was like, I mean, cool. Let me ask you this. Um, and I'm not hoping that the situation plays itself out. Let's say that there becomes some type of existential threat against the U S and the messaging changes like, Hey, we need able-bodied young men and women to go and prepare to fight this.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
You know, if I was still, what would be your go, no go criteria? What do you think would help you make that decision or prevent you from making it?
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
Mother of God. I suspected that was your answer, and I have nothing but respect for the fact that that's what you want to do and don't know what it is. Because I thought I knew what it was going to be when I went down the Navy path line. And man, it was everything that I thought it was going to be and so many things that I had no idea that it could be. So I respect it. Yeah.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
This is what I'm going to do. Why? Not really sure. Not really sure. Sounds cool, I guess. Yeah. Hey, sometimes you do stuff that sounds cool. Yeah, exactly. All right. But it's an interesting one. I haven't, let me tell you, you don't really pay attention to the messaging of recruiting, or at least I didn't when you're in, right?
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
So I have like this huge, nearly two decade gap of not really paying attention because there wasn't really their target audience that kind of already had captured me. So I was there. They did their job. But it certainly seems like it's shifted over the years. And I haven't had the chance to talk about the, just the concept of serving in the military with people
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
in your particular generation much so yeah that's interesting yeah i'm just glad to hear that if uh if needed you'd still uh answer the call on that one i would hope that a lot of people would feel the same way well yeah i mean it's it's to me it'd be like it's that or
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
Some people would be. Let me clarify. I'm not saying that I think they'd be okay with the country being invaded.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
But I think some people at a very, very deep level, and this might be due to a level of conditioning and being told that this country never stood for what it was founded upon.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
That they're like, yeah, you know what? We probably should burn this motherfucker to the ground. Yeah. Some people definitely have that mindset. They do. And it's unfortunate. And man, I am not sure what to do about that other than continuing to just talk about openly the experiences that I've had with this country globally. But again, they're limited to myself. Okay.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
And one of these, actually both of these I've talked about quite a bit, but it's always been individually. So again, I'm curious your thoughts on this one. First one's about mental health, because I don't think you and I have ever talked about mental health.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
And again, I'm curious about the lens of your generation, what they think about even just the concept of mental health or going to somebody and talking about stuff. So here's the question. Andy, first off, thanks for being a champion of mental health. Your willingness to open up about this has made a dramatic impact on a friend who also listens to you.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
That being said, he recently went through a bit of a downward spiral, as happens to all of us. Those are my words, not the email. And I'm hoping you can help me pull him back out. He used to attend therapy often and has mentioned it had a huge improvement in him or he saw a huge improvement in him. Whew, that is rough. Again, my words not in the email.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
Yet here he is making the same mistakes his father did. I've talked to him about taking or about talking to someone professionally again and just get brushed off. I've got a feeling hearing something about the importance of mental health from you again may be what's needed to push him in the right direction.
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If you're able to somehow decipher my marimblings and encompass a bit of message into the next full autos or bolt action, if you will, I'd be grateful. Thank you from north of the border. We'll never be the 51st state, but we'll always be neighbors.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
Man, the Canadians have really had an allergic reaction to Trump considering them being the 51st state, which for clarity, I think I mentioned this the other day. I used to make that joke too. I was just kidding, fuckers. I don't know if Trump's serious or not.
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difference so i have an answer for this guy and i'll get to that in a minute what do your friends talk about mental health do they talk about therapy do they talk about counseling i'm fascinated to know somebody in their 20s what is your generation's thoughts on this um
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
So less of a stigma if you were to say, hey, I actually have a counselor. Yeah. I can't. Fuck. This is, you know, trying to through the lens of back to being your age. I'll be honest with you. It gets really hazy. Yeah. I'm trying to remember. So your age, I was already in the military. I'm not going to say that the community that I served in was anti-mental health at all.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
But I will say that the feelings, at least in my perception of that or the. The culture shifted as I was getting out and I feel like it probably continued to shift more on placing an emphasis on mental health. I don't remember it being really discussed openly when I was around my early 20s. There might have been a negative stigma associated with that which might have caused it.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
But the fact that you guys are talking about it, guys and gals, your generation, I think that's a very good first step. Yeah, it's a big step, I think.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
Because if you can't admit to your friends or people that you consider your close circle that, hey, I might be struggling, or even better, hey, I was struggling, and then this is what I did, and this is the help that it had, that's tremendous value. That's how I think how you start chipping away with a little ice pick at the stigma associated with stuff like that. Yeah, for sure.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
It's just like... What did you... And again, share whatever details you want to. I'm not trying to put you on the spot here. And for clarity, I know I've been on the Full Auto Friday ones. I'm sure you don't listen because you hear my voice enough. No, I don't. Well, I talk really openly about my own experiences with therapy.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
I needed it and I leaned on it heavily when I was going through my divorce. And it has been hugely impactful. And it's been shocking to me the number of people, not like this, but similar to this, that would say, thank you for speaking openly about that. I'm like, I don't feel like it's an embarrassing thing at all. It's a tool.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
I look at it like I'm not a carpenter, but I know that they wear belts sometimes and they got a hammer, tape measure and all, a bunch of other fancy shit that I'm sure that I would buy if I saw and never use just to say that I could have, which I don't know what that says about me, but I'm just being honest. Yeah, yeah. It's a tool. It's a tool and there's a time and place for it.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
And it's not something you have to do for the rest of your life. But that, I mean, I don't know in my early twenties, if I would have been able to talk to my peers and say, Hey, this is what's going on with me. And this is why, what did you think it was going to be? And what has it been for you? And please paint with a broom as broadly as you want to.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
And just out of curiosity, how, what mechanism of that do you think has helped you? Is it that you have somebody that you can talk to who is neutral, perhaps more objective, not directly involved in whatever it is that you are exactly dealing with? Yeah. That's a big part because. That's what it was for me too. Yeah.
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Having somebody who didn't have their nose smashed against the grindstone that was spinning.
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and saying, or being able to ask like, am I fucking crazy? Am I fucked up? Am I wrong? Well, actually wrong, I don't know. Maybe that's not a right term. Could I be doing better? Is there a better way to look at this? Yeah, it's amazing. I mean, I'm sure you had people ask you for advice or suggestions.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
When your nose isn't up against the grindstone, you can actually give some really objective guidance and feedback that the person oftentimes will say, Oh, I had no idea.
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You know, how long in talking to somebody was it before you started to notice the difference?
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
Okay. I was like, did you click with the person that you're talking to? Yeah, he's a pretty cool guy. And that I think is important as well. And again, I talked about this, my own journey through mental health. If you don't click with the person that you're talking to, I don't think you can expect to have the impact or outcome that you would want.
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So don't give up on therapy or counseling or whatever you want to call it. Maybe just find someone else.
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But it was just like- You're not testing the tension on the ceiling tiles with rope and shit, are you? No, no. I don't think this ceiling would- The drop ceiling might not, but there might be more.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
I'm not trying to give you any ideas here. I'm asking you, is this a cry for help, Michel?
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Do you know what that leads to also is that I do laundry and I refold it and I put it on top. It leads me to wearing like the same four things because I never get to the bottom of the pile. Yeah. I do laundry before the pile actually gets halfway down.
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Because anymore than anything, the person asking the questions is really just asking if we could retouch upon the value of mental health and perhaps therapy and counseling.
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Sometimes what you need is base level. Yeah. I tell you what, I read this email and the line that jumps out to me is he commented that all he had to do to be a good dad was to do the exact opposite of what his dad did. And as somebody who is the father of three children, you know all three of my children, which are very different in expression. They are, yeah.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
Same genetic soup, I guess, but I guess the recipe can be slightly different. It shows you my limits of my biology understanding. I know a lot of people now. I know a good amount. I'm not going to say a lot of people that have expressed similar thoughts to this, like, hey, my dad was horrible. I don't want to repeat those mistakes. Your dad, this is like dads in general, they're just people.
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And I think the vast majority of dads who do a really shitty job at being a father probably don't wake up in the morning and say, I want to be a shitty father. Yeah. They have their own baggage. Parents are just people. They're not perfect. They're going to fuck up just like everybody else. And I bet you unconsciously they were not the father that you wanted to be or that you needed.
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And so you can then overlay that to yourself. All I need to do is to be the dad that my dad wasn't. Well, okay, if your dad wasn't intentionally being that way, that means it probably was a slow slide over time.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
And if you don't create for yourself your own toolbox to, let's say, recognize poor communication, recognize poor thought process, recognize poor actions, conflict resolution, perhaps all of those things that your dad didn't do, you're gonna find yourself or could find yourself on that similar slippery slope. Parents aren't fucking perfect, they're just people.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
I have made more mistakes than I care to admit with my own kid and I never woke up the day that I made a mistake or mistakes, we can put plural on that, and said to myself, you know what? Yeah, today's the day. Here's the bar I have for myself. I'm going to fucking dive under that thing head first, not even attempting to clear it. No. And you feel like shit.
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You're like a cartoon character. I don't really have a justification or argument against that. I just truly don't give a shit what I look like. Yeah, it's just the truth. Here's my thought on this. First off, traditionally these are called Full Auto Friday, where it's just me talking to me. Answering questions, though. I think, given our generational difference, you're 23, I'm 47.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
And you want to do better, but fuck, if you don't have a tool belt, if you don't have a roadmap, if you don't have a structure or a foundation, it can get really, really hard. For mental health, I tell people there's two ways you can look at it. And I usually go with a vehicle analogy.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
You can wait to take your car to a service center when lights come on, or you can have a professional look under the hood before in a little bit of a proactive manner. You don't actually have to wait until the change oil light comes on to get your oil changed, especially Like if you're getting ready to do a 10,000-mile road trip, which would be tremendous.
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That's like East Coast, West Coast, East Coast, West Coast, East Coast. Yeah, that's a couple laps around the U.S. We're getting after it. Our road trip, Michael, is robust. Very. Very. Yeah, it's going to be crazy. We're going to see all of America. And you know that there's only 2,000 miles left on your oil change? Like, hey, man, maybe just go preemptively do that, so then you'll be good to go.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
I don't know if there is a downside to checking in with a professional whose job it is to understand how the brain works. And can provide for you maybe a framework, or maybe at a minimum can provide for you a different lens to view the challenges that you are facing in your life.
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
There might be a cost associated with it, there might be time associated with it, probably actually there's gonna be both of those things together. But how much, I mean, to the guy writing the email, and I guess it would be not to the guy writing the email, the guy that the email was written about, How much is it worth to you to be the father that your dad wasn't?
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If the answer to that is it means more to me than anything, then get off your ass and do something about it.
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Last topic for today, and I picked this one because I know it's your favorite. Oh, boy. Love and relationships.
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Okay. You and I are in different phases of our life on this one. This is why I picked it. Okay. Michael, what should a 30-year-old man do when the woman that he's fallen in love with rejects him, even though she has been flirty first beforehand and has since shown him signs of love and affection slash concern for his well-being after the rejection? The potential of the right one being lost.
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has happened to me in the past let's just say that you are in the trenches yeah of love warfare you are what war do you want are you like in the civil war are you in the un the deuce vietnam korea i would say if we're going trench warfare definitely world war one the un yeah fuck dude yeah it's bad oh yeah we're talking whistles and ladders and running into goddamn overlapping fields of machine yeah yeah all right um what are your thoughts man
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Semi Auto Friday - With Michael Shelton
On this guy. Yeah. And John, I mean, like, again, I wasn't trying to pigeonhole you into this situation, but what I said at the beginning was true. Like you and I are in very different phases of, I'll call it our love life.
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I was going to say that too. There's no way of knowing. And I feel like, you know me, I'm not a religious person or necessarily spiritual. I would describe myself as agnostic. I'm too stupid to know either way. I'm envious of people that have faith, but it's never landed with me. No judgment of anybody, whatever belief they may have.
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You'll be 23 for as long as I know you. So I know you're 25 now.
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But I feel like a lot of the times if it's meant to be, it does work itself out. So you telling yourself that this is the right one and this is the one, like it has to be this one. And if it's not this one, it'll never happen again. I think if it was the one, it would be the one. Yeah. It would be working right now. I think so. Right.
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I have a really hard time describing how I feel about that, but that's probably as close as I've ever going to get.
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So what you just said, you can't rationalize it when you're a month out. So is the key perhaps then just to recognize that you are in a place where your mind isn't working rationally, and so then you can just ride that wave a little bit? You realize, hey, rationally, this is how I feel, but this too shall pass because this is more emotional than objective?
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But yeah, we'll just say 23. A couple decade gap in between. I think it would be interesting to bring you in on your perspective on some topics from time to time. When it's just me, it's Full Auto Friday. Okay, oh boy. What do we call it when it's you? I thought you had one picked out. No, do we call it semi-auto Friday? Do we call it like barely functional weapon Friday?
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I don't know. I struggle with this one. Do you ever, I think I might've asked you this. Do you ever talk to yourself out loud? Yeah, in the car usually. Yeah. I got caught the other day leaving the studio. I was having a full-on conversation as I opened the door and walked out. And when I exited the room, there was somebody standing at the end of the hallway. Yeah.
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And I was clearly talking to somebody, but I didn't even stop. I like, I can't control the thoughts that my mind has. And so I actually stopped trying to, I found that if I have a thought or something that I am, I guess you could use this in a relationship situation. If there is something for some reason that is, it's sticky to my brain or my thoughts.
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And I try to tell myself to stop thinking about it. I think about it more. It just, yeah, it comes back. I feel like, and I am not an expert in how the brain works. I have, I would say, let go of the reins a little bit, and I just kind of naturally let it work its course.
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It's like telling me, tell yourself, don't think about this. And then you're confronted with something that directly reminds you about that. How powerful is that? Hey, don't think about this. I don't know. Again, I'm not an expert on the brain, but I have found a little bit more relief on some issues by just letting, I don't know why my brain's churning.
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I don't know why the thoughts that are sticky are sticky, but I have found that if I let it churn, and the key to that is this though, for me, while it's churning, Sometimes it spits out some shit that I don't like. The key is not to grab onto those things. The key is to let that go.
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Recognize, again, this too shall pass. This is maybe how I'm feeling right now. Just because it is my brain spitting out to me this information, I am going to choose to let that go as opposed to hook myself onto that. Because I have had some dips in mental health by self-talking my way into it. That shit is dangerous. Trust me, I've done that too.
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Grabbing onto your own negative thoughts that you are creating, which are then...
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being fed into because input is probably going to inform output you're feeding your own negative input which is driving a negative output which you take out of the machine then feed into a negative input yeah and then what i would suggest pair that with like some jack daniels oh yeah which is i'm joking everybody by the way even though that was the theory that i went with in my 20s yeah man you can find yourself in some in some deep deep oh yeah oh yeah yeah yeah um
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Yeah, man. Yeah, honestly, I did not write this. Looking at it now, after your reaction, I was like, I could have written this.
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I didn't. I can show you the actual email if you would like to go ahead and trail it backwards and email this person directly. Dude, it sucks that you're going through that. I got... I mean, Leah is without a shadow of a doubt my person. Oh, yeah. The road to finding her... I would not wish upon anybody else. So those people are out there for you.
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And I've known you for a couple years now, and I've kind of seen you going through this struggle, man. I don't know what advice to give you at this point other than to just... Persevere. I mean, I guess. It's, it's, I don't know. It's just weird. I never, I never existed in the online dating, meeting people over the internet. I don't know how well I would have done with that, man.
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No, we don't have to start off negative like that. We could call it just bolt action Friday. You're just a single shot. You know what I mean? You're not full auto, but maybe one day you're working your way towards it. Yeah. Fair enough.
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You're in a different ecosystem than I was ever exposed to.
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I feel like, what are your plans? What do you, what plans do you have to continue to navigate this?
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Do you feel pressure at your age, like your generation? What's the pressure like, if any, to be in a relationship and be moving towards marriage? Has that shifted at all?
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If you were to get married, would your brother emcee it like he did our mutual friend's wedding and absolutely crushed it? I would kind of want him to, honestly, because... Would you ignore him and be playing the gem crusher game that you were playing? Not at my own wedding, no. Okay. That would be tough because you'd probably be up at the front table. Yeah, yeah.
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Are we at a place yet where we can acknowledge that you were on your phone ignoring your brother's crushing?
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That's the lie part right there. It's not a lie. You would laugh or clap after. It was a three to five second pause. It was as if you were watching a TV show that had an audio delay. This is exactly what you were doing. No, no. So this is you at a wedding where your brother was up there crushing a stand-up comedy skit.
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You were behind, there was like a little vertical post. You're behind there, phones underneath. Yeah. And I watched you. You would hear people laughing and you'd be down here and be a little bit of laughter. You'd be like, ha ha ha.
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Sometimes. Any other closing advice for this guy other than stay the course, which is probably the roughest piece of advice, but also probably the most accurate?
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That's fair. Yeah. All right. Where do you think we should start today?
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What do guys your age, mid-20s, talk about if they haven't found a girlfriend and if they haven't really considered marriage? Is it something that you guys talk about? Mm-hmm. What are the, what are the general thoughts?
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Is there still a value in the concept and idea of marriage people your age? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
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That is a really, really sharp and self-imposed obstacle. Mm-hmm. I wonder what experiences led him to feeling that way. That's rough, man. That's tough.
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Yeah, it is a two-way street. That's an important point, too. Why would I get married the second that we get married? Then she'll just stop. There's probably plenty of women out there who are feeling exactly the same way. It doesn't have to be like that. I will say this. As somebody now who's been married twice, Lee and I have been married. It'll be our third wedding anniversary this August.
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There isn't a relationship out there that is perfect.
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I mean, clearly, I am perfect. You know me. Well, yeah. Everybody knows that. Yeah. I mean, what I bring to the relationship
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if i had to reduce it down to a singular word would be perfection of course it's a very good chance that leah would disagree with that because i'm clearly joking um it's perfect it's not out there it's work either way and i think that's probably the death of marriage if either party or both stops working and you just slide into this complacency spot yeah it should be work but
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Yes. The collision. Collision, yeah. Holy cow. Yeah. First off, let's start with could it possibly be more of a catastrophe, like horrendously catastrophic? And I wake up, and my fault for even looking on social media for anything, which I generally do just to kind of get a sense of what's going on, and I am shocked at the velocity that people politicized what happened. It is instantaneous.
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work doesn't have to be directly associated with the following term, which is discomfort. Yeah. You know, it should be like, it's actually pretty cool to put in work with work on communicating and sitting in there and scheduling time and our busy schedules to spend time with each other and reconnecting. Like that is work, but it's awesome.
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Yeah. I want to put in work with my favorite person walking planet earth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's not an easy path. What I will say, though, is somebody who, when I got divorced, thought I would be alone for the remainder of my life, is that if you find the right person, it'll change your mind. Yeah. And it is worth it. But that does not come for free.
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Got to put in work. Yeah. That's all I had, Michael. How long have we been going? 53 minutes. That's a good Friday episode, I feel like. Yeah, it was pretty good. For single shot Friday, whatever we decided, bolt action, whatever the fuck it is. Yeah. Here's a question. What do we use as the thumbnail? Because I have been finding some bangers for the Andy versus Michael. Yeah.
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Which this isn't really Andy versus Michael. This is like Andy collaborating with Michael. Yeah, trying to get the younger generation involved here.
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Although you and I would understand that. I feel like somebody looking at a thumbnail would be really confused by clicking on that thinking we were going to talk about a bolt action rifle. Which we kind of did. At a conceptual level. But not an actual bolt action rifle. More on the mechanics of semi-auto versus full-auto.
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I don't know. I'll figure it out. Yeah, you'll come up with something. You always do. And I mean, this is honestly was this from the suggestion of people who listen to the show. So if people enjoy this particular format, I can bounce back and forth between doing Fallout or Friday stuff or we'll think of a name for this. So let us know. That's all I have for today. Sounds good.
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I think it's a cool concept. I don't know how many times we're going to do it. Give me some feedback as to whether or not you liked it or not. I picked some issues that I have talked about not at length, but enough times that people might recognize them. And then I brought them over to the world of, hey, what do you think about this, Michael? What is your generation? What words do they use?
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And I can't even fathom, again, this goes back to probably nobody ever wants the media or the world to really know their name. I can't imagine that level of scrutiny. But for them to eventually, they'll end up knowing their name because of an absolute horrible catastrophe that happened. That doesn't help anybody heal. Politicizing this shit doesn't help anybody heal.
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People are saying, you know, Trump has blood on his hands. Seriously. The other side is saying Biden has blood on his hands. And it is grotesque to me to see people trying to politicize something that is such a tragedy. I wonder if even all of the families yet have been notified. I mean, there's probably a pretty good chance they've done some reverse engineering and backwards math on that.
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I'm sure, but still. Can you fathom having to deal with that? And then if you were to make the mistake to go onto social media and watch people weaponizing and politicizing it? Yeah. It's insane.
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So I made a tweet and it basically was like, hey, for all you that woke up, you newfound aviation experts with about 12 hours under your belt, you might want to take a deep breath and relax a little bit because this isn't political. There's nothing that Trump did that could have caused this. Yeah, that's the thing. It's like, how do you make that connection? I think...
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That is just how some people are viewing the world. I think people are frustrated. I think that they're angry. I think that they align very closely with a team or a party. And that's kind of how they view the world. And honestly, let's start by breaking down a little bit. Switch seats with me for a second because I'm actually going to hop over here and take over. Here's why. I'm going to pull up.
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some aviation software that explains actually the complexity of the airspace. Because I want to break down for people how this actually happens. Everything I'm about to say when I break this down, I am operating under an assumption that has yet to be proven true, but I suspect that it will be. And the assumption is that both aircraft were functioning as normal.
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There was not a malfunction with the aircraft. If that is the case, this is going to come down to human error. And it's an absolute catastrophe. But that human error, people go, well, how can that possibly happen? Let me take five minutes to unpack the DC airspace. Let's switch seats for a second. Oh, sweet. I'm in control. Hold on. I can hit these buttons? Yes. Okay.
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So bear with me, everybody, here as I log on. I'm logging on to a software called ForeFlight. For those of you who... are just now starting your aviation journey, you are so lucky. Oh man, when I first started, I was at the tail end of this, but you just have paper charts for everything.
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And if you had to do a cross country, there was a chance that you had to have multiple paper charts and you'd have to like fold them as you crossed over charts and then you could get lost on which chart you were on. Then the charts are only valid for a certain period of time. So you have to, it's wild. So this software is, Pretty amazing. I'm gonna log in here. Did you, okay, the TV is on.
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What vernacular do they use? How do they describe this? And I thought it was really cool. I enjoyed it. The time flew by. We did almost an hour, and I'm rambling at this point. So let's get ready to get into it. Now, before we get into it, how am I able to bring this podcast to you for free? I have sponsors and I have ads. So do me a favor. If you like the show, consider supporting the sponsors.
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Okay. Yeah. For people who are not watching this, I don't know if anything I'm going to say for the next few minutes is going to make sense. I don't think so. I don't think so either. So let's come over here. We're going to go to the search bar KDCA. That's going to be the airport designator for where this occurred. Oh my. So this is gonna probably depend on what settings I have open right now.
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That is air traffic currently in the air in the United States. Let me try to zoom this thing in. That's crazy. Okay. Now. $9.80 for Jet A? My God, people. What is wrong with you?
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Yeah, I think I have it. Again, this is going to be on my personal settings for what I have right now. Okay, I need to come in here, though, and I need to take off. So that red circle, what you're seeing is a presidential TFR, which is temporary flight restriction. Okay. So I'm going to turn this off. That follows him anywhere that he is.
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And this is how you end up getting escorted by F-18s because people don't check this from time to time, even though all of these tools exist. And it is very possible for people to look this up, especially the electronic area. They don't.
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They bust it all the time, not trying to like threaten the president, but they just don't, they don't take a look at it. It's in the NOTAM system, which used to be notice to airmen. And I think now it's notice to air missions because that's less, whatever.
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I guess. So let me turn that off because it's okay. Boom. So that goes away. That's a presidential TFR.
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No, because he travels. Okay. So he just was in Los Angeles checking out the fire. So that TFR will overlay. Then he went to Vegas and spent the night. That TFR will overlay. Oh shit. I have a VFR flyaway on here right now. Hold on. This is, I mean, and this is how wild this stuff can be. US IFR. I have helicopter. I'll turn that off. Okay. This is
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what our national airspace system looks like from a chart perspective. And I'll break this down a little bit and explain why D.C. is so complex. This is the Washington, D.C. area, okay? Let's go to Missoula, and you're gonna get a better idea.
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It's a little simpler because it's one airport. However, this is a tower-controlled airport, and at certain hours, this blue ring means that that's Class Delta airspace. Okay. Outside of that, there is Echo Airspace, which is still controlled golf, which is considered uncontrolled. This right here is a little corridor of Class E or Echo Airspace that can be used for instrument approaches.
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I think I have traffic on right now, so I bet you I can get what that is. That is Alaska Airlines.
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So they're going to Seattle. I don't know what the identifier FLL is.
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um no this is a little local uh could be private or local airport not tower control that's what those little symbols are these ones right here actually mean that they're going to have gas if it has four little tip marks okay this is parachute activity probably something i would guess from the smoke jumper facility i would say so but again if you look at it i don't even know what i just clicked right there that's amazing i was going to add a waypoint this is
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manageable yeah from a learning perspective yeah so not a lot going on no so let's go back to dc and we'll explain why dc is so complicated for a variety of reasons here
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There is overlap. Yeah. So you have three major airports. There was Class Delta Airport at Missoula, and Kalispell is the same. This is actually Class Bravo. This is the highest level of control of airspace. Alpha sits above that from 18,000 feet and above. So this is all 18,000 feet and below. So there's overlap. We have Baltimore. We have DCA. And I think, which is this? This is the other one.
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Is this Dulles, perhaps? Yeah, Washington Dulles. OK. OK.
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They're all over the place. So this is a military installation. I think this is a joint base Andrews. I think that's where the Marine Corps helicopters are at. All right. So the D.C. airspace is gnarly. Not only is there overlapping class Bravo.
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You have to do special training. It's SF or a special flight rules area. And it's been well over a decade since I've done the it's an online course or it was when I did it. But it's additional rules when you're flying in this area. And it should make sense, because for those of you looking, you can see that I'm moving the cursor around something that is right over here. Guess what that is?
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That's the Capitol building, the White House, the National Mall, and all of those things. This is not a fuck around and find out type of aviation area. The river that runs south to north is a waypoint that a lot of the aviation is required on. In this area, there are military bases with airports. There's civilian airports. It's all overlapping.
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And you see this right here that says 100 with a line underneath it to surface. So Class Bravo Air, that means from the surface to 10,000 feet, there are multiple rings in Class Bravo Airport. So the first one that you're looking at, and the best way to think about this is it's a wedding cake that's upside down. So from the surface to 10,000, that is controlled airspace.
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From 1,500 feet to 10,000, that is controlled airspace. So in that shelf, I guess if you wanted to fly at 1,000 feet, you would be outside of the controlled airspace of the towers. People are saying, how is this possible? How could this possibly happen? There is so much... Going on, there is, so the control tower, 119.1. ATIS is your weather, 132.65. What do we got here?
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We got altitude, we got the length of the runway. Notice up here, there's another frequency, 143.1. And I actually am going to turn helicopter back on because I think in this particular instance, there is a helicopter frequency in addition. I don't know if it's going to change the overlay. I don't want to add a waypoint to this.
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And I'm sorry for people who are like, this is the most boring shit ever. I don't see how this could happen. I've seen comments like, well, this is something that the government wanted to happen, this, that, or the other.
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A little bit, right? And they don't understand how it could happen. So again, from my understanding, both of them went into the water. And I don't know which direction they were landing. So it probably, okay, so this is the helicopter chart that's starting to overlay itself in and load. Oh, man. So think about this, too. This is an electronic version. A helicopter pilot might have this version up.
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I'm pretty sure that the American Airlines pilot probably had their version up. Right. We have control. Oh, here we go. 134.35 for heli. Control tower 119.1. So by design of this airport, look at this. We can see somebody taking off, too. Yeah. Who is that? Brooklyn Republican Republic Airlines, I don't even know what the fuck that is.
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Yeah. Time is kind of. you're thrown off because there's no day-night cycle.
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Well, that's the thing with the, especially flat earth, but a lot of cult-like belief systems is like, no matter what you show people. Are you saying flat earthers are cults? I mean, not technically.
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What do you actually feel? It has the markings of a cult. What are the criteria for something to be a cult? Blind belief is a big one.
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That's actually not one of the five criteria, but go ahead.
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Well, technically, no. Let's see. It's like uniform. Correct. A shared. Charismatic leader. Charismatic leader.
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I just say things. I don't even, you derailed me on that one. What were we talking about? I derailed you with knowledge.
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I mean, not technically, but they behave as if it's a cult. And I think any, like you could take them up in a... like a rocket or like up to the space station.
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But they, and they could see with their own eyes, the globe and they would still find a way they would say, Nope, the window was curved. And so.
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Yeah, exactly. And so there's no, you can't argue with these or debate with these people because they're not open to changing their stance. Yeah.
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I think for a little bit, you know, just to kind of prod and see how far you can push their beliefs. Um, but at a certain point when you realize that it's useless, you have to say, okay, this isn't worth my time because I'm getting nowhere here. And then at that point I usually just go, okay. And just give up trying to prove a point because it's, it's not worth it.
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I, okay. I do have one that I've tried to view from a different perspective and I cannot, I simply cannot accept that this is okay. Okay. The, um, um, like the argument that pedophilia is okay.
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I think it's a great deal. People can make use of that service.
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Yeah. That was, uh, that's okay. That's okay though. Yeah.
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Um, I mean, it does go back to, you just have to be comfortable with yourself and, um,
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Yeah. But if you're not comfortable with yourself, it's going to be very difficult to even go up and talk to somebody without thinking, oh, I'm going to look like an idiot. I'm going to say something stupid. All these things that go through your head when in reality, just go up and start talking. And if you find a commonality with that person, you can just go down that rabbit hole. It's like Yeah.
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I would say at the very least you have to start to be comfortable with who you are.
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I can tell you which one is more endearing. Which one? The guy who's not talking as much.
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And I think that applies to a lot of groups with a similar belief system.
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If you want to be prepared for even more ridicule from outside of that community.
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Yeah. Um, well, I think you need to, to me, it seems like it would be good to start at that attention to detail level because, um, If that's not set, then you're building everything else on a shoddy base.
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And if you have a shit foundation, then everything above that is going to be shit. Do you have a contractor's license? Have you ever built anything? I have actually poured a foundation, though. Was it a good one? It was really bad.
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Yeah. I mean, it's like, have you heard of the broken windows theory? Yeah. Refresh me. I might have. Do you know who Malcolm Gladwell is? Yes. So he wrote a book. He's written many books. His books are good. Really good books. I don't know if he came up with this theory, but basically there was a study that it was about graffiti in New York subways.
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And they instead of trying to crack down on the like actual people doing the graffiti, they went back like five steps and started repairing all of the like stalls that were out of use, boarding or undoing the boarded windows and putting a nice windows up and making everything look very nice.
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And from that, the graffiti and the crime and the stall jumping for not paying tickets went down drastically.
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Yes. And so it's like, OK, well, the environment is actually affecting the way people are behaving at that point. And so once you fix the environment, people's behavior starts to become better.
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And so this isn't obviously the exact same thing, but I think it goes for the same thing in the military or, I mean, I don't know, but I would assume once you start focusing on the smaller things, like your ribbons being in the right spot and your belt and all that stuff.
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The last time I was here or we were doing this and I wore headphones, you were like, why the fuck do you have headphones on? Did I? Yeah.
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I don't think that I did. I think it was the last Andy versus Michael, not the last Bolt Action Friday.
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Not at all. Like zero. Interesting. With one or two of my friends, we were very much on the same page of basically taking accountability for your actions, attention to detail, all this stuff. I was fortunate that my parents enforced that my whole life. I have a story. We were stacking wood because we had a wood-burning stove.
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Very Montana, yeah. We were wild horses running by. No, we did have donkeys in the yard though, or in the pasture.
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No, but we're stacking wood and me and my brothers, Of which there are far too many shell-tied. There are three. Yeah. And we are doing a shit job. We're just throwing it in there. How old are you guys? I was probably 10, so we're all younger than that. Fuck yeah. Just trying to get it done. Just trying to get it done. And it was cold outside. It was fucking cold. And so we're almost done.
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We're like to the last couple pieces of wood. And dad comes by. He goes... what's this? And we were like, well, we're just stacking it. And he goes, All right. He goes in there. He throws every piece out. He goes, all right, do it again. And we're just like, that's rough at that age. Yeah. At that age, I was like, I hate you. Why would you ever do that?
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But then looking back, it's like, wow, that actually, cause that sticks in my mind a lot and not in a bad way.
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Yeah. I was like, I put them on and you were like, why the fuck are you wearing headphones? And I was like, no reason. I just, it's just a habit, but I really don't need to, if it's just us two.
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Of having to do it over and over again. That was a constant saying on the Shelton Household. Do it right the first time.
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I know exactly what he's talking about, actually. So, yeah, when I I've actually moved like. Three times than the last year and a half. Yeah, but you also do like an extensive amount of house sitting So I don't even know if you can call that moving. Oh, no, I move my shit Do you move your shit into the other person's house?
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Yeah right now I have it in the house because it's it's like for four months Why don't you just use their stuff Well, cuz I need my clothes. I mean other than your clothes. Yeah, I don't move everything I just move my clothes and my guitar pretty much. Oh I didn't know you played guitar. Yeah. How long have you been playing? Quite a while, but it's been off and on. Are you any good?
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Sounds like a bad idea. Um, no, but yeah, I know exactly what you're going through my, so for the clutter, right. Cause I had that when I first moved out of my what's it called when it's basically just a room and a kitchen, studio apartment. I took a trash bag and I went through, I started at like one corner of the house, just went through everything and said, do I need this? Nope.
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And I was very generous with what I didn't need. I was like, nope, I can just buy another one.
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If I haven't touched this in six months, that's also a good one. What is the likelihood that I need to continue having this? Yep. And I threw away probably two or three trash bags worth of stuff. Cause I was like, I don't need this. And if I ever do need it, it's like $3 and I don't want to move it. Cause it's just another thing. Yeah. And even though it's small, like maybe it's, it was a,
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dish brush or something that an extra one I had. Nope. Don't need it. One is none. Two is one. Exactly. Well, I found that out when I moved into the next place and I needed the dish brush. What happened to the dish brush you had? You said that was the extra one. Yeah. I don't know. That is gone. So, but I still,
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was not i was like annoyed in the moment but i was like honestly it saved me hassle throwing all of that away so but yeah the local moves suck um but you just need to get down to it, put the podcast on, put some headphones in.
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And you literally just need to do the work. There's that weekend and do it.
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Well, I mean, I like both of them. I like the negligent discharge because it's, I don't know what is coming questions wise. And so I am able, I just have to like kind of think on my feet a little bit and give my opinion.
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It's not permanent, but right now the answer is no. Unbelievable. Why are we talking about this?
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Yeah, dude. Like you just, I mean, I have gotten better about that of just continuing. Like even when I'm getting smashed. Yeah. Just keep being defensive. Keep looking for those opportunities.
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Then you know, you've already given up at that point.
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Yeah, you're just chunking into smaller pieces. That's all it is. I've also found that if you start doing something, you will keep yourself busy. Like for like housework or something, or like if I have laundry and dishes and whatever else. The trifecta. The trifecta.
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And if I just start doing something at the end of one task, I'll automatically just switch to another task as opposed to if I keep putting off, I'll never do anything. So if you just start doing something. Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. So true. Yeah. But yeah, just get you. You honestly just do have to get after it for that moving Jocko of you. Yeah.
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I guess that is a Jocko quote, but yeah.
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Basically. I get 8 hours, though. And I know this when I don't get 8 hours. What happens? My energy level will drastically drop off around 3 o'clock. Yeah. If I don't get 8 hours. Like, I need to sleep. You'll auger in? Yeah. Yep. But if I get eight hours, I'm good up until six or seven. I can start winding down and go to bed at eight.
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No, no. I just read, read a little bit and go on my phone probably a little bit too much. Unbelievable. And then go to bed. It's not very Sigma of you. I'm not claiming to be a Sigma male. I forget. You were telling me that Sigma is better than Alpha. Sigma is the best.
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Yeah. All right. I would love to do a, a Gen Z terms tour with you and see what you know and don't know. Cause it's hilarious.
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Yeah. I feel like fad words come and go in terms and such. Yeah.
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I don't have anything. Send Valentines to the coffee shop. Address to Michael. If you're going to send them anywhere, that's where you would. Address to Michael, yes. Yeah, sure, whatever. Go for it.
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No. Honestly, we'll probably go in the trash. Piece of shit, dude.
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Well, yeah, I, I, you know, I was just afraid to come to you with it. And so I, but yet here we are. Yeah. I wrote a fake email.
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Uh, almost always. Yes. I mean, there are scenarios where like, it hasn't happened in a while actually, but I would say up until like two years ago, I was definitely, um, wouldn't say uncomfortable, but like as confident in who I am, you know, what changed it for you two years ago? Um, I mean, not a specific event, but like, it's just a gradual, um,
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And I think, you know, two years ago, we just reached the point where it was like, okay, yeah, I'm comfortable like who I am as a person.
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And that, at that kind of turning point, it actually, I noticed a big difference in just social interactions in general, because I wasn't, you know, like afraid to actually talk to somebody that I may not, didn't really know that well, you know, and just make conversation. That made a big difference. But I also will say that because this guy said he tries to be like nice and overly nice.
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I was going to hit on that. And some people are calling him stupid to his face.
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I will also say though, that if you are being overtly nice to a point where it's like you're playing it up. Like it's fake. Yes. That can come off as off putting.
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So I think maybe another, I don't know, I guess tip or whatever is like maybe play it down just a little bit. You have to kind of find a middle ground where you're not coming off as an introvert, but you also are not playing it up so much where it makes people uncomfortable.
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Yeah. No, I have done that as well. But to find that balance is honestly just trial and error. Controversial. Well, yeah. I mean, like, because the only way to get better at social interaction is to go out and interact socially. Like, you're not going to be able to get better at it by staying alone.
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It would take a lot because I just wouldn't say that to somebody, you know, unless they were. I'm trying to think they would have to like. What if they try to convince you the earth was flat? I don't know if I would call them stupid. I would I would argue with them. What would your argument be?
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Are you just sitting over there on a throne of lies? No, no. I mean, I've watched a lot of YouTube videos of people debunking flat earth.
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How much have you looked into the flat around earth? I mean, not a whole lot because I'm, um, I know that. I guess I shouldn't say I know. Do you know or do you believe? I know. Let's be careful with our language. Do you know or do you believe? I believe that the earth is round. And I know you're playing devil's advocate here. You don't know shit.
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As the paramedics and civil defense workers are answering a call to help the wounded near Rafa. Israel's military first said this convoy advanced suspiciously towards troops with the lights switched off. The shooting continues for more than five minutes. The paramedic who's filming says his last prayers. Refat Redwan was one of 15 killed.
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The footage only emerged when teams could safely reach this site seven days later. The bodies were buried along with the vehicles.