Hello and welcome to episode 273 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenic here as always with Jason Erbitowitz.

Hello, Ian, how's it going?

It's going well, Jason.

How are you, sir?

I'm good. It's a couple hours later than we usually record, and I thought something, anything,

would come out in the news in the three hours that we usually miss but surprisingly nothing's happened.

Don't you you you had to say that didn't you?

I need something something new.

Oh man all right we'll see what happens we'll see what happens. Well, we're talking. But it is Wednesday, the 19th of June. It's in the evening, so we'll see what news breaks. Well, Jason and I are talking because he had to go and say something.

But we begin this week in Washington, D.C.

as Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun was in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee

permanent select subcommittee on investigations. That's a mouthful.

Yeah, that's how you know you're in bad shape.

This was a hearing in front of some of Boeing's most vocal Senate critics,

including Senator Blumenthal and Senator Holly in a hearing entitled

Boeing's Broken Safety Culture. We didn't really learn anything new out of

this particular hearing. there was a lot of senators berating

Calhoun there wasn't you know much in the way of new news about anything as far as what improvements specifically

Boeing is targeting for the long term or anything that we've learned in the past.

There was talk about new whistleblowers coming forward, though at this point, I mean...

Who isn't a whistleblower at this point? But these committees, these things, these hearings, the purpose of them is not to reveal

new information or to effect any changes, basically just for the senators to get their

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