Goglia, a 2025 inductee into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, also appears in The Rehearsal.
Fielder kicked off the interview by sparking discomfort, suggesting Brown can't freely speak around Blitzer due to his status at CNN:
FIELDER: Well, I'm guessing you have to do this. OK. Well, I think that's good. You know, I also think, Wolf, that like the issue that we talk about in the show is people not wanting to share their feelings with each other, copilots, because one might be of higher -- more experience than the other. So, they might know the thing that will save a plane from crashing, but they might not want to communicate it.
BLITZER: Nathan, you --
FIELDER: So, I assume between you two --
BLITZER: We like each other and we talk to each other.
FIELDER: But there's things you probably don't share too. So, that's a good way for the audience understanding the dynamic probably, right?
BLITZER: We are.
BROWN: Really, he should be the captain, is what you're saying. That's really what you're --
BLITZER: Let's talk a little --
Despite Blitzer and Brown's efforts to keep the interview serious, Fielder continuously brought it into the realm of the absurd:
BLITZER: What made you decide to investigate a very serious matter like this?
FIELDER: Well, the show is still comedy, but also this is a serious thing, but I've been just interested in commercial airline crashes just for a while, just as like a hobby. I sort of just read about them.
BLITZER: Oh, you fly a lot.
FIELDER: Like as a passenger?
BLITZER: Yes.
FIELDER: Yes. Well, I fly normal like planes, like everyone.
BLITZER: So, you're concerned about airline safety?
FIELDER: Well, I don't want to die as a -- yes. But --
BLITZER: We don't want to either.
The comedian's most eye-opening comment came when Brown shared the FAA's response to the second season of Fielder's HBO docuseries.
PAMELA BROWN: "We reached out to the FAA to see what it had to say about all of this, and it told us that it mandates all airline pilots and crew members to complete interpersonal communication training. And it says it isn't seeing the data that supports the show's central claim, that pilot communications is to blame for airline disaster. So, I want to get you to respond to that obviously."
NATHAN FIELDER: "That's dumb, they're dumb. And they're -- you know, they -- here's the issue is that they do -- like I trained to be a pilot, and I'm a 737 pilot. I went through the training. The training is, someone shows you a PowerPoint slide saying, if you are a copilot and the captain does something wrong, you need to speak up about it. That's all. That's the training. And they talk about some crashes that happened, but they don't do anything that makes it stick emotionally and makes you -- like, so, pilots think they'll act a certain way in an accident, but like the crash that just happened here, it seemed like they saw that was sort of the issue, right?"
Blitzer, appearing to grow increasingly frustrated with Fielder's antics, eventually snapped in another exchange:
BLITZER: So, what's been the reaction to the show?
FIELDER: I don't know. What do you think of it?
BLITZER: Well, I'm asking you!
FIELDER: Oh, I don't know.
GOGLIA: Ask me.
BLITZER: Ask you.
FIELDER: Oh, ask John.
The second season of The Rehearsal encompasses the role of cockpit communication in airline crashes and sees Fielder achieve his commercial pilot's license.