PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈

Deli owner turned airline pilot. Hockey and animal lover. Survivor. Happy guy. Aspiring juggler and sax player. Paying it forward.

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@OnDisasters I believe to this day their government is still denying this.

[Lumen @lumenxbt]

Ten million people have watched a comedian accidentally destroy the entire TED talk industry.

He filmed the talk once at TEDxNewYork in 2014 and openly admitted he had nothing to say.

Speaking coaches charge $5,000 to teach the exact tricks he used in 6 minutes to say nothing at all.

His name is Will Stephen. He is a comedian from Late Night with Seth Meyers who was invited to give a real TED talk and used it to prove the format is a costume anyone can wear.

Every TED speaker opens with a question, tells a personal story, cites a scientist, and shows a chart. Stephen did all four in six minutes with zero content.

His entire formula fits on a napkin.

Gesture with both hands. Ask the audience a question anyone can answer. Tell a mildly embarrassing story so they say aww. Point to a stranger on a slide and call them important. Flash a chart of random numbers. Wear glasses with no lenses. The audience will think you are brilliant.

That last trick alone has probably cost the public speaking coaching industry a hundred million dollars in sessions clients should have skipped.

"If you watched me on YouTube with the sound off, you would think I was a genius."

That is Will Stephen on the TED stage, three minutes into the talk he was paid to give. He wasn't lying.

Executives pay $15,000 for a keynote coach and still open with a joke the room never laughs at. Founders rehearse their pitch for weeks and still sound like Stephen at minute four, saying "wagga wah, gabba gabba" with authority.

The talk is free on YouTube. The method is written across every TED speaker's playbook for ten years.

Stephen still writes for Seth Meyers. Almost none of the ten million viewers have stopped nodding at empty slides since.

The formula is free. The willingness to actually say something before your next keynote, pitch, or townhall is the entire edge.

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@ofarevolution @marcroberge Happy Birthday Marc! Enjoy your special day.

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@monicaonairtalk You bring those inside after going for a nice bike ride, so no one can steal it.

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@OnDisasters 😅

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@OnDisasters I always find it comical when they hop on the radio and ask who wants to be a “trailblazer.” I don’t fly through “holes” either as that can likely back you in to a corner. Well done by this crew, I’ve refused before myself and would happily do it again.

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@BuzzPatterson 45 LBS

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@elonmusk @grok what will the trajectory be?

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@swedepilot @united @Delta If a pilot has a credit card that allows access and is traveling on a paid ticket(deadheading for instance), why should they not be allowed in the lounge?

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@Combat_learjet My gosh 🤦‍♂️

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@MsMelChen https://t.co/5CI1Cml0n2

[Francisco Cunha - ✈️ Aviation et al @OnDisasters]

28 April 1988: Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a B-737 with 95 aboard, has a severe explosive decompression over Hawaii (US). Part of the passenger cabin rips open, killing one steward who is ejected from the aircraft. Despite significant damage, crew was able to land jet safely. More OTD occurrences on the Thread 🧵 1/5

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

I need you to know there's an INCREDIBLE HULK episode where David Banner tries acid, freaks out, turns into the Hulk, and then beats everyone up while tripping balls 😅👏

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@Super70sSports Quarter Water!

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@BuzzPatterson Learned how much I loved night flying during the GA days. Up there on a clear night on a solo flight in a piston, nothing like it.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Years of discomfort vanished in 30 seconds, leaving only RELIEF behind...

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@xAviation Amazing airmanship in my opinion would be choosing not to fly in to and land in a hurricane, but that’s just me. That aside, agree with one of the other comments that this does not look like hurricane conditions, seems more like a typical winter day landing in LGA.

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@madelynn_wx Cold front+Low Pressure+Jet Stream making for lousy rides today. Many flights North-South staying in the high 20’s and lower 30’s but still hard to find anything smooth.

[PilotJoey 🇺🇸 ✈ @Defyingravity73]

@TonyLaneNV You have to see what that’s like when it happens in an airplane!