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This Episode’s Topics:
- Email is this generation’s snail mail
- Adam’s “laptop spying” scoop: Bamboozle ’em with Skype!
- Inspector John and the summer jobs
- How those summer jobs tie in with the FAA / AA fiasco
- Adam rants on airline maintenance, John explains “out of spec”
- Adam’s SFO airport customs adventure
- Reader comments: we’re on to clocks, mikes and quality
- The history of tetraethyl lead and disintegrating cars
- Let’s go flying in a non-spec aircraft
- John and Adam’s weird restaurant adventure
- Tires, restaurants, competence – how many stars?
- Miss USA – the cookie cutters, is it rigged?
- Swamp Thing!
Running time: Approx. 95 mins.
Grit
Although I don’t really like the “Food Section” at No Agenda (looks like you only enjoy places where you drop what amounts of my months’s salary for a meal), I have a suggestion or two to replace the Star:
The Crank, or better still, The Cork Screw
Rest of the show: great.
(PS. in my country we’re more into honest-to-god plain ol’simple food. Except Big cities, where it’s Junk or Ethnic…sometimes both. )
John recommends the “Dinning Room” at the Ritz… the Chef there is Ron Siegel, famous from his Iron Chef appearance where he beat Chef Sakai
Not that anyone is going to read this. But I think the FAA was out to punish the general public for questioning their coziness with the carriers. So they had hundreds of American Airlines planes grounded for a totally trivial inspection item like “wire tie spacings”. Owwwwwww, real glad the caught that one in time. Shouldn’t that have been caught at, oh I don’t know, THE FACTORY! Essentially this was an “after the factory” double check. Just in case something got replaced with cables tied slightly farther apart then they’d like to see.
Some FAA shrub was either out to teach the suspicious public a lesson. Or it was a carefully organized play to pull AA’s stock down, while officials cleaned up on their competitors’ stock. If neither of these, then said shrub(s) were simply drunk with power. I heard that AA got a “bail out” from the gov, for this. So maybe they planned it that way.