{"id":860497,"date":"2026-09-25T19:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/860497\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T19:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:18:10","slug":"nathan-fielder-just-helped-a-pilots-mental-health-bill-become-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/860497\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Fielder Just Helped A Pilots\u2019 Mental Health Bill Become Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNathan Fielder<\/a> has had a wild year.<\/p>\n

\n\tFielder caused a media storm earlier this month at the Telluride Film Festival <\/a>after it was revealed that he and Lance Oppenheim had made a secret documentary with Elizabeth Holmes.<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore that, the comedian was campaigning to improve pilots\u2019 mental health in the second season of The Rehearsal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat campaign has now been successful after the Senate just passed the John A. Hauser Mental Health in Aviation Act and the Aviation Medication Transparency Act.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe second season of the HBO<\/a> series focused on airline safety, specifically related to communication between pilots and co-pilots with Fielder highlighting the issue in a series of rehearsed situations, including the comedian flying a Boeing 737 passenger jet in the finale.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the show, Fielder wanted to help raise awareness by speaking in front of Congress<\/a>, but it doesn\u2019t appear that the Nathan For You star made it to the legislature.<\/p>\n

\n\tRegardless, Fielder\u2019s calls have been heard.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe bipartisan bills were introduced by Republican Senator John Hoeven and Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth.<\/p>\n

\n\tJohn A. Hauser Mental Health in Aviation Act aims to redress longstanding stigmas surrounding mental health among aviators via increased funding for aeromedical examiners and mental health training. It was named after the student pilot who took his own life in 2021 while training and in a letter to his family made a plea to change the aeromedical system so pilots don\u2019t have to suffer in silence.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, the Aviation Medication Transparency Act seeks to provide aviators and their medical providers with clarity as to which medications can be taken and which cannot.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast August, in an interview with Deadline at the Writers Guild Foundation\u2019s Sublime Primetime event, Fielder addressed the topic.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAfter the show aired, John [Goglia, former National Transportation Safety Board member] texted me and said that a bill that\u2019s been stuck in the House for years about pilot mental health finally went through and was passed, and went to the Senate, and he was talking to the young staffers, and he said, \u2018I think the show pushed them to [do it]\u2019. I guess the young people make all the decisions. He\u2019s like, \u2018That\u2019s how it works\u2019. Anyway, I don\u2019t know if it did anything, but it was nice to hear,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tFielder is currently working on the third season of The Rehearsal. HBO chief Casey Bloys told Deadline earlier this month<\/a>, \u201c[HBO Head of Comedy] Amy Gravitt and Nathan have a very, very good working relationship. He\u2019s got an idea that he\u2019s working on for The Rehearsal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile it\u2019s not clear what the idea is yet, internet message boards are obsessed with the idea that Fielder is exploring the U.S. immigration system through the exploits of viral boy-band Boy Throb. Although knowing Fielder, that may well be a red herring.<\/p>\n

\n\t[UPDATE: We have confirmed that Fielder is not involved with Boy Throb, it is a project by Cole Hersch]<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Rehearsal is exec produced by Fielder, Eric Notarnicola, Dave Paige, and Christie Smith and Dan McManus with Carrie Kemper as co-exec producer alongside Kris Eber and Adam Locke-Norton is a producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Fielder has had a wild year. Fielder caused a media storm earlier this month at the Telluride…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,1035,43115,73480],"class_list":["post-860497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-hbo","tag-nathan-fielder","tag-the-rehearsal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}