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e group already had its rst meeting, which Pierce said focused more on getting to know one another and did not involve talking about potential solutions yet.

“ e takeaway, for me, is the FAA was actually there,” Pierce said, to friends and family, he was met with several di erent comments like “Wow! at should be a movie!” or “Wow! You should write a book.”

He was hesitant at rst, but after some thinking, he set out to do just that. He and his sister began speaking about possibilities, as she had worked on movie scripts in the past. Together, they wrote a movie script entitled “ e Dude is Legit,” following his story from beginning to end.

He believes it could be the next great baseball movie, adding there hasn’t been one since “Moneyball” was released in 2011.

“A lot of the really good sports movies you think of, like ‘Hoosiers’ and ‘Rudy,’ and some of those, they’re not so much about the sports action,” Clemens said. “ ey’re really more about, what does the sport tell us about being human? How we can learn, grow, develop and understand ourselves a adding that there were four FAA representatives who attended the meeting in person.

Pierce said a lot of people had their hand in getting the FAA to participate.

Arapahoe County Commissioner

Leslie Summey, who is on the noise roundtable, said she and Commissioner Bill Holen spoke with the FAA while they were in Washington D.C.