[Rhodes22-list] Brad--Flight Time

[Hank]

Slim,

Where did you go to school that you only went 8 months?  Here in
Maryland it is almost 10 months that are kids are in school.

Hank

On 2/19/08, Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brad,
>
> The History Channel is playing "History of the Joke" hosted by Lewis Black
> and he's interviewing all these many comics on all the many aspects of
> comedy.  One of the segments referred to experience and they were talking to
> Penn and Teller.  Penn said that when you look at a pilot, the first thing
> you look at is his flight time hours.  He then equated his "flight time
> hours" as an important part of the success of a comedian.  Like anything
> else, experience is important.
>
> So just for the hell of it I've tried to calculate my "hours."  I'm starting
> with my first full-time band that I joined when I was 25 years old.  I'm a
> music major grad and I'm in my first full-time professional music job.  Like
> you, I started performing for money when I was still a teenager--I'm not
> counting that.  I'm not counting my college gigs, not counting commuting
> time, not counting rehearsal time (biggie), I'm not counting break time, not
> even counting the few years I was a public shool teacher--just flight
> time--when I'm in the air and have control of the airplane.  In other words,
> on stage.  I haven't gone through all my years with a fine toothed comb and
> made any exact totals but in very round numbers I think I have about 25,000+
> full-time, professional hours of actual "flight time."
>
> Now, for professionals like Elle, a teacher, her flight time hours will
> exceed that by many fold.  Give flight time hours a shot, Elle.  You
> probably teach 6 units a day, we're not including preps (sorry--I have more
> prep hours than anybody--I started "prepping" for my job at age 5.)  I know
> you put in more than 40 hours/ week but let's just start there.  40 X 4
> weeks is 160 hours a month times 8 months is 1280 times (guessing) 30 years
> is 38,400 actual flight time hours.  Am I close?  I don't know if I'll catch
> up to you before I'm retired--or dead.
>
> How many hours have you logged?
>
> Slim
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