Nathan Fielder
Appearances
Fresh Air
America's Path To 'Competitive Authoritarianism'
So I've been going through thousands of pages of these documents, and I noticed that one of your recommendations in the aftermath of this crash was to teach first officers to assertively voice their concerns. You recommended role-playing exercises should be done and that they should be required by the FAA. Right. But the FAA... Said no.
Fresh Air
America's Path To 'Competitive Authoritarianism'
And this was 15 years ago. And since this point, nothing's been done.
Fresh Air
America's Path To 'Competitive Authoritarianism'
I do... I do have some experience with creating elaborate role playing scenarios.
Fresh Air
America's Path To 'Competitive Authoritarianism'
You said this is for HBO? HBO, yeah. And the focus of the project is aviation safety. So, you know, we're really trying to make a somewhat sincere effort to explore and develop new ways to improve pilot communication in the cockpit. So that's the main thrust of the project.
Fresh Air
America's Path To 'Competitive Authoritarianism'
Well, I only say somewhat because it's a television show, so we're also trying to make it entertaining. So there's dual goals, I guess.
Fresh Air
America's Path To 'Competitive Authoritarianism'
Yeah. I mean, I would use that term loosely, but yeah. Yeah.
Fresh Air
America's Path To 'Competitive Authoritarianism'
I think that's good. Yeah, I think I'm going to call them for real now. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, great.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Misogynist Bane Returns (feat. Jessica Smetana)
Let's rank them. Are you going to rank these things or what? Acceptance speech for every show.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Misogynist Bane Returns (feat. Jessica Smetana)
Stan, you know what Roland Garros is all about? It's about Lorenzo Mussetti. That's what it's all about. A guy who will never make a semifinal in any other major, but on the red clay at Roland Garros, boom, there he is, taking on Alcaraz.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Misogynist Bane Returns (feat. Jessica Smetana)
Mussetti was in the Wimbledon final last year.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Misogynist Bane Returns (feat. Jessica Smetana)
I won't ask him. Drew Barrymore, by the way, she began drinking at the age of nine, smoking marijuana at 10, used cocaine by the age of 12, wasn't addicted, though, until she was 13. Okay. Thank you. That's a fine. That's terrible.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Misogynist Bane Returns (feat. Jessica Smetana)
It's why I didn't do it. So, I mean, same. Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Misogynist Bane Returns (feat. Jessica Smetana)
Well, don't do that again.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Misogynist Bane Returns (feat. Jessica Smetana)
I think when you fire Tibbs and you fire him that quickly after taking a team to a place they haven't been to in 25 years, they already know who the replacement's going to be. I think World Wide West and Leon Rose, who's running that organization, they're trying to win now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Misogynist Bane Returns (feat. Jessica Smetana)
They traded five first-round picks away from Mikael Bridges last year, and so they're trying to win now, and they think Tibbs is not the guy, but I think they have a guy. I don't know who that guy is. My guess would be Danny Hurley, because if you're going to make a move like this and do it that quickly, you have to have the replacement in place already.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Misogynist Bane Returns (feat. Jessica Smetana)
They'll go through the motions, they'll do the interviews, but I think they know who the head coach is going to be.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Misogynist Bane Returns (feat. Jessica Smetana)
But he's flirted with the NBA, Hurley. He almost did a Lakers job. And I think he said on this show that New York, Northeast, that's where he loves to be. And the Knicks, I would assume, would be a dream job for him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Misogynist Bane Returns (feat. Jessica Smetana)
I mean, you have to factor that in, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Misogynist Bane Returns (feat. Jessica Smetana)
is is something that i see i i see a fire go off in my partner uh that that springs to life whenever it is roland garros it's not even the french open it's just roland garros does something to him uh it's perfect and we have such a great men's semi-final and women's semi-final like the matches the competitors left at the french open i gotta tell you something i mock the french open all the time because it seems like a different major in fact i have said that it shouldn't be a major
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Misogynist Bane Returns (feat. Jessica Smetana)
But when you have chalk get through to the semifinals at Roland Garros on the red clay, you have yourself a tournament, Dan. That's what we have. We have Alcaraz. We have Djokovic. We have Sinner. I mean, what a final we're going to have both on the men's side and the women's side. It's going to be fantastic. A great weekend of tennis. I love Roland Garros.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
Right, you spoke to a number of pilots, aviation experts about this show. What did they have to tell you about what Nathan was arguing and the real-world implications?
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
Wow. Girl stuff is not dying, but consider me a girl.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
Do you think Nathan Fielder, you know, shining a light on this issue on an HBO show that... you know, despite its serious themes, is ultimately entertainment, could move the needle in any significant way? In theory, it could.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
Regulations are written in blood. And Nathan Fielder's very funny, deeply absurd second season of the rehearsal, which is all about aviation safety, comes at a time, debuts in a year where we have seen one of the worst accidents in American aviation history, especially in recent American aviation history.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
Daryl Campbell recently wrote about the problems we've been seeing at Newark Liberty International Airport for The Verge. But his take was that this isn't just a Newark, New Jersey problem. This isn't even just a tri-state area problem. This is systemic.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
Nathan Fielder made this show last year, maybe the year before that. It seems like he started training to be a pilot at least two years ago. It comes out Mere months after the exact thing he's trying to fix in this show happens and kills dozens of people over DC airspace.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
Jeff Wise has been writing about the second season of the rehearsal for Vulture. You can read and subscribe at Vulture.com. Jeff's got a podcast all about the disappearance of that Malaysia Airlines flight back in 2014. It's called Finding MH370. You can listen where you listen. And you can, of course, watch the rehearsal on HBO or Max or HBO Max or whatever it's called this week. Thank you.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
Thank you, Andrew Tangle from The Wall Street Journal, for helping with this episode that Devin Schwartz produced, Amin Al-Sadi edited, Laura Bullard fact-checked, and Andrea Christensdottir and Patrick Boyd mixed. I'm Sean Ramos-Viram. This is Today Explained.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
The systems are really old. They should have been updated a long time ago. The newer.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
Yeah, I mean, we heard about some of these issues after the crash at DCA outside Washington. What exactly is going on with air traffic controllers?
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
And as you'll hear on Today Explained, it might get rougher before it gets better. But you're also going to hear about a Canadian comedian who's deadly serious about one particular solution. He thinks pilots would crash less if they were simply better at talking to each other.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
So this is bad at Newark, but you say it promises to get bad everywhere else, too.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
These sound like very fixable problems, Daryl. Are we trying to fix them? I know former reality TV star and Fox News correspondent and transportation secretary in this day and age, Sean Duffy, has been out to Newark.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
Which leaves people feeling unsafe, obviously. Yeah. People are canceling their flights into or out of Newark, but there are also all these smaller accidents we're seeing, most recently in San Diego.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
How should people be feeling about that? The last time we spoke, you said the only way to make sure there are no plane crashes is to ground all the planes.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
Daryl Campbell's flight out of Newark Liberty International Airport was delayed.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
The second season of the show, which just concluded this past Sunday, is all about aviation safety, but in ways you'd never expect. You'll see Nathan Fielder, the star and creator and director of the show, try to boost a pilot's confidence by having a group of actors follow him around and echo everything he says.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
That's a good question. I've got the fish tank over there if you want to learn about fish. I can be that nerd. You'll see Fielder himself transform into the hero pilot Sully Sullenberger to better understand how Sully performed the miracle on the Hudson.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
Okay, let's get the flaps out. Put the flaps out. Flaps out. You'll see an American Idol style singing competition judged exclusively by pilots.
Today, Explained
A comedian tries to fix aviation
Ilya, that was great. Unfortunately, you're not moving on. But this is also a show where you'll see Nathan Fielder become a fully licensed pilot in order to fly a bunch of people around on a Boeing 737 to understand what that's like. This isn't commitment to a bit. Pilot and aviation journalist Jeff Wise says... This isn't a bit at all.