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Seatbacks Making A Comeback, and The National Parks Goes Interactive · The Red Solo Traveler Podcast

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this week. I got two articles that I want to
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go through. One from Business Insider on seatback screens. The
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other one is really fascinating. It's about the National Park
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Service going digital with Google and you're saying to yourself,
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what do you mean going digital? Well, going digital in
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more of a twenty twenty six way. We'll get into
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that in just a second, but first this article from
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Business Insider, American Airlines is reversing its bet against seatback screens.
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This is by Ben Schimkiss from Business Insider, published on
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August eighteenth of twenty twenty six. For years, American Airlines
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bet that travelers would rather watch in flight movies on
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their phones or tablets no more. On Tuesday, the airline
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said it plans to install seatback entertainment screens on around
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eight hundred single aisle jets. New Airbus and Boeing jets
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with the screens will begin arriving in twenty twenty eight,
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with retrofits on existing planes starting the same year and
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continuing into the early twenty thirties. Americans said the screens
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will have built in movies, television shows, games, and music content.
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They will also include Bluetooth connectivity so passengers won't have
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to rely on their cheap wireless I'm sorry they're cheap
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wired headphones anymore handed before takeoff. The mover versus a
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strategy American embraced nearly a decade ago where it began
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moving away from seatback screens and instead offered entertainment that
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passed could stream on their own devices. The company told
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Business Insider it's adjusting its inflight entertainment after customer preferences
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evolved in the years since, in particularly following COVID, it
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has become increased and clear that customers, especially younger generations,
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value having access to multiple devices and larger screens throughout
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their journey, as spokesperson said. The company added that high
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tech satellites in low Earth orbit also have changed what
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is possible on board quote unquote. American already offers free
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Wi Fi to a advantage members sponsored by AT and T,
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and plans to install SpaceX's Starlink service on more than
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five hundred narrowbody aircraft in twenty twenty seven. The airline
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said combining faster connectivity with seatback screens and passengers personal
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devices could create new opportunities for both the customer experience
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and revenue. And the article gets into a little further
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with regard to the pivot to premium. You know, American
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Delta United really want to focus on premium experiences for
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their guests and for their for those who decide to
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fly with them, And what they're going into further here
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is that it's not just the seatback screens, it's more
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room for premium seats. And I don't know, I feel
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like you're going to see these airlines move to simply
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becoming just a premium carrier for business travelers and first
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class passengers, and those are where those that's where they
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make their money. If we're being honest, I mean that's
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where these airlines make their money. So they're making a
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room for premium passengers. About twenty five percent of seats
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on its narrow body departures are premium today and it
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will rise to forty in the coming years. And it's
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it's more of affluent travelers stretching their legs. They're ordering
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cheeseboards on the flights. I think it's pretty funny having
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a big thing of cheeseboard with you. But essentially, you know,
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the seatback screen is part of that experience. It is
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part of that whole premium experience. And I mean, look,
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if you're gonna pay for a flight, and pay an
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astronomical amount for a flight, you're better off just having
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a premium experience. I always say this, I'm if I'm
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going to pay for a high end steakhouse, I want
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a high end experience. You know, it's not every day
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I get to I get to go to Ruth Chris
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Steakhouse or some high end steakhouse. You know, for the
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most part, if you want steak, if you're a working
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man and you want steak, you're going to outback. You're
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going to Texas Roadhouse, maybe Long maybe Longhorn, But you're
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not going to Ruth Chris Steakhouse. You're not going to
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you know what's the big one in New York City.
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You've got another one too. I mean, there's a million
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of these high end steakhouses. And when you go to
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a high end steakhouse, you're getting dry age beef, You're
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getting the higher end experience versus going to an outback.
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Nothing wrong, going to Outback, nothing wrong, going to Longhorn,
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are going to Texas Roadhouse, nothing at all. In fact,
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I love Texas Roadhouse. I love the most of all
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of those three. However, the experience of those three versus
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the steakhouses of a higher end are completely different. Why
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am I talking about steakhouses because it's a great analogy
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to airlines. And airlines you're going to get that higher
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end experience because they have to charge you more to
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maintain that difference. You know, you've got a lot of
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these lower cost carriers that are springing up, and what American,
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Delta and United are figuring out is we can't really
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compete with them on price. What we can do is
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compete with them on the experience. And certain customers, affluent
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customers don't really care about how much they spend, you know,
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they if it's seven hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, whatever
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the case may be, they don't care about how much
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they spend. They care more about the experience they're getting
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on that flight. And if they can get that seatback
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entertainment where they just plug in there, they put their
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Bluetooth headset on, or they put their Bluetooth earbuds in,
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you know, Like I've got the air pods myself. I
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love them, love them. They're fantastic, the AirPods pro love them.
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But I'm pretty sure you can connect those to a
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seatback screen. I'm going to test out myself. I'm going
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to be doing a flight in a couple of months
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with a seatback screen that I'll have there. And there
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is a way where you can get their AirPods or
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even the Beats headphones, whatever it is, to pair with
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your device to pair with that seatback screen so that
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you can go and watch your favorite movie or TV
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show and they have all kinds of stuff on there.
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And also, what I think it does is part of
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the reason I think they're pivoting in this direction, is
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because if you go with a seatback screen versus a
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versus having the customer bring their tablet in. They're going
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to rely and Wi Fi. Not everybody downloads stuff, and
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especially these days with streaming services, you know, most people
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have the AD supported plan. The AD supported plan only
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allows you to download so much. In fact, I think
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some of them don't even allow you to download at all,
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depending on the streaming service. And you know, people want
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to watch their shows. They want to be able to
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watch their new episodes of whatever show they're watching, and
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I think this was putting a strain on the Wi
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Fi network if anything, because they're using satellite internet, and
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satellite internet only has so much bandwidth to go around
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for one hundred and somebody passengers on a plane, so
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not everybody's going to be streaming, but not everyone's and
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the people who are streaming, they're probably taking up a
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lot of the bandwidth. So I think this is a
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way of them getting that under control. Because obviously you
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use more bandwidth, it's going to be higher costs, So
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putting that seatback screen back in probably a way to
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defray the cost of doing it while but also giving
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that premium experience at the same time. So interesting article
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kind of concludes here it says that Delta's premium products.
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They were talking about Delta and how the premium products
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generated six point nine billion dollars in revenue for the
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second quarter, which is an amazing number when you think
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about it, but it's up seventeen percent from a year earlier.
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For the first time, Delta's premium revenue surpassed its main
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cabin revenue. United's revenue from premium seats was also up
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sixteen percent from the last quarter. American Airlines is no
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different the company, which has lagged Delta and United in
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profitability as industry. As the industry has chased higher spending travelers,
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has revamped its high end offerings, partnering or brands such
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as Champagne, Bollinger, and Levaza Coffee high end stuff. And
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it's also adding more cushy in airport lounges at Dallas
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Fort Worth and New York's JFK International Airports. And again,
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I go back to that premium experience thing. These are
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all coming from high from the big cities. So Dallas
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Fort Worth, you got a lot of wealthy people that
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live in Dallas Fort Worth, New York GfK Airport, a
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lot of wealthy people living in Jersey Long Island, Connecticut
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that go to that airport. They're not flying out of
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you know which it tak Kansas and nothing against which
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tak Kansas. This is not me downplaying that in any way.
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It's basically saying they're flying from the big cities, and
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the big cities tend to have more affluent travelers who
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are willing to get an uber or lift to the airport.
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They're willing to spend, you know, hundreds of dollars on parking.
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I got to tell you myself personally. I lived near
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LaGuardia Airport, and I told you the story a couple
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of weeks ago about my experience of flying to Arizona
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for work and I had to go to LaGuardia Airport.
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Go back in the archives, who want to check it out.
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It's a couple of shows back. But the experience of
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going to LaGuardia now, Loguardia is fine. It was getting
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there was a little tricky from where I live. But
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when I landed there, when I got there, I parked
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in the parking garag and walked into the terminal and
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again it's great. The garage is attached right to the terminal.
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You can just walk in, boom done. And then I
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get out to my car to go pay for the parking,
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and it's five hundred dollars for the week from Monday
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to Friday. Now that's twenty twenty six pricing. When you
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listen to this. Who knows it might go up even more.
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Five hundred dollars to park for the week. Now, my
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work paid for it, but I wouldn't be able to
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pay for that myself. I mean, that's a lot of
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money for me personally, you know, to pay for parking
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for a week. So these are things, you know, most
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people have to think about when they go to these
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bigger city airports. The average affluent person isn't thinking about that.
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They're saying, oh good, I've got an experience all to
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myself and nothing wrong with that. That's fine, that's perfectly fine.
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You know, they should have the people who are affluent
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should have their own airport. I mean, I'm perfectly fine
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with that. And the working glass people can have, you know,
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their own experience, and everyone has their own experience, and
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everyone does it their way, and it's not right or wrong,
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it's not you know, it's everyone does things their own
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way and whatever works for them perfectly, even if it
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means you got to spend the money. If you're a
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working class traveler, you know, if you had to spend
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money to go to an airport and go to a
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LaGuardia and go fly out of there, that's fine, and
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that that's your money. You do what you want with it.
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So that's something interesting about this whole seatback thing. I
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think the seatback thing I think is more or less,
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just to kind of summarize my thoughts, I think the
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seatback experience aspect is twofold. One is for the premium
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experience that these airlines are chasing after. But also it's
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not just that, it's for that, essentially the experience of
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reducing the bandwidth that comes with people streaming on their device.
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So you're not apt to stream Netflix or you know,
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Hulu or whatever it might be paramount plus on your device,
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you're not gonna be You're not apt to stream on
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there as much if you have the entertainment option right
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in front of you. So interesting stuff that American is
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doing right now. I'm we move on to the next
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piece from Travel Pulse US, and speaking of experiences, Google
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is launching a National Park Service launch. Read the title
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perfectly here because it's written in very poorly. Google National
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Park Service Launch new, Google New. All right, let me start,
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let me start over, and I'm gonna leave us in.
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I'm not taking this out. Google National Park Service Launch
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New Interactive Digital Hub. This is by Travel Pulse US
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written by Patrick Clark on Thursday, August twentieth to twenty
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twenty six. All right, let's sorry about that. I am
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one of those people that I will just keep doing
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it until I get it right. All right, So Google
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in the National Parks are rolling out a brand new
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digital hub just in time for the agency's one tenth
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birthday and the start of National Park Week. United Parks
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of America allows users to interact with the nation's protected
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lands like never before, with the help of more than
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one hundred and fifty curated stories, thirty virtual tours, and
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as many as three hundred and fifty panoram images from
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more than sixty national parks. During America's ongoing two hundred
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fiftieth anniversary, the hub will also dive deeper into the
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country's founding history, working with Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia.
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A team at Google Arts and culture digitized nineteen copies
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of the Decoration of Independence, one hundred and forty ninth
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eighteenth century portraits, and more than two thousand pages of
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historical documents. United Parks of America also includes Path to Independence,
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a new AI storytelling experiment featuring an immerse of three
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hundred and sixty degree experience set in Independence National Historic Park. Here,
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users can explore the very room where the famous document
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was signed and asked Gemini any follow up questions. Additionally,
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users can look forward to interactive three D models spinning
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and zooming into iconic landmarks from Mount Rushmore to the
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Statue of Liberty, for example. So this National Park Week
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runs from August twenty second until Sunday, August thirtieth, So
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if you have time, if you have a chance, if
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you're in Philadelphia in that area, definitely check it out.
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But anyway, this is really cool. This is really cool.
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I love this. You know, I'm a student of history.
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I don't teach history. I never really taught history, but
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I did go to school for it. You know. One
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of the things I did do when I was a
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college student. You know, I went from having a political
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science major to history and then history in secondary education,
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and I did six months of student teaching at a
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middle school in Bloomfield, Connecticut, and it was a very
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fun experience. Actually, it was interesting, and I believe, believe,
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and I tell you I think about this was almost
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twenty years ago that I did that experience. I think
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of all those kids a lot to this day. And yeah,
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I was a young guy myself. I was in my twenties,
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but you know, all those kids were thirteen, fourteen years
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old and now they're probably in their thirties themselves. So
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it was it's really interesting think about. You know, hopefully
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I was able to get through and connect with some
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of these people and maybe they remember me. You know,
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I certainly remember them. So I thought it was really cool,
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and it's something I think about a lot. And you know,
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my whole thing back then was history needs to be
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more interactive, it needs to be more three dimensional, and
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instead of worrying about what position the author is taking,
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let's look at it a way that connects with the
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reader and connects with the viewer. These days, kids are
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all about not kids necessarily. I think it's more more
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or less just most people in general. We all have phones,
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we all have TikTok, YouTube, whatever it might be, and
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you're you're paying attention more to interactive experiences. You're looking
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at ways to explore and grow and develop without you know,
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you're not just reading. You're focused solely on that interactive
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experience when you go to a museum. You know, one
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of my favorite things I love to do when I
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go to museums is I excuse me. I really enjoy
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when I go to museums seeing these interactive displays and
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interacting with the displays. And it might be a question
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that's asked, it might be something to ponder and think about,
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but it connects with you. You know, you go to
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the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I have a
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post up on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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I will have I will have a deep dive on
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at some point down the road. But the Rock and
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Roll Hall of Fame is a great place where you
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can explore and have that interactive moment with your favorite
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musician that you really love and that is in the
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Hall of Fame, and it's a great experience. And it's
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that sort of sensory experience that you get where your
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senses are not overwhelmed, but they're all achieved. I guess
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is the best word I can use for this. And
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I look at this National Park Service, I mean the
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website I still think is a little I think the
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website really needs to refresh, quite honestly, with the National
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Park Service. I think it needs to be a little
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more interactive with anyone who decides to visit it. You know,
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I think it does a good job of explaining what
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these sites are, but I think you need a more
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interactive experience. And I love the idea of having stories
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and virtual tours and panoramic images. I love that idea.
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I think it's a great idea. You need to have
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something that connects with the with the reader and the viewer.
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You need something that connects with them. You know, it's
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not just about go to this site because I said
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it it's great. No, you've got to show pictures. Like
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one of the things I do on the website is
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and I know I get criticized for this, but my
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articles are long because I want to detail my experience
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as explicitly as possible, and I want to tell a story.
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And telling the story requires time and requires a commitment
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to read that story. It also requires you to be
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entertained in a way, and you know, there is that
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sensor experience of seeing video and seeing images. I need
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to do a better job personally of having more video
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on there and having this audio component where it creates
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that audio version of the events that I'm telling, the
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story that I'm telling, and I'm trying to create different
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experiences so that everyone has the opportunity to explore and
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examine what my experience was, because not everybody's going to
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sit and read a ten minute article and everyone you know,
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I know me personally, my attention span is as great
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as it used to be, you know, So these are
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things you have to look at. And I think this
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idea with the National Park Service and having a digital hub,
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I think it's really cool and I hope it sticks around.
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And also too, this is also another great example of
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how AI is used in a good way to enhance
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the experience. I mean, how many times, you know, I know,
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we have movies, we have TV shows, we have these
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things where they have portrayals of Abraham Lincoln, we have
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portrayals of George Washington and Theodore Roosevelt. We have some
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idea of how they sounded, So have AI create a
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sound have it where they come to life. Now you're
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not talking to that person. But what's the difference between
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an AI recreation of somebody and a animatronic version of
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some you know of You know when you go to
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the Hall of Presidents at Epcot. I think it's still
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there at Epcot Center in Disney World. I mean, that
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was one of my favorite exhibits when I was growing up,
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the Hall of Presidents, because I thought it was so
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cool seeing animatronic versions of these presidents that with the
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speech that's built in, And that's the modern version of
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an animatronic device. It really is. Now you know, AI
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is going to Obviously it's through a screen, so it's
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a little bit different than animatronic robot that's doing it.
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But you could clearly combine the best of those two
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things and make it the best of both worlds. So
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I think it'd be pretty cool to see that. And
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you know, one thing I would love to do one
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of these days. Speaking of Theodore Roosevelt, the Theodore Roosevelt
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Presidential Library has opened in western North Dakota. I believe
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the town is Medora, and it's right near the Montana border,
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so that's pretty far out in North Dakota, and it's
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obviously not the easiest place to get to when flying
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to it, you gotta fly in it, like I think
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you gotta fly in either Dickinson or Bismarck, which is
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the central part of the state, or the western part
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of the state, and there's really nothing else close to it. So,
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but it's situated right near Theodore Roosevelt National Park, which
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I've seen pictures of it. I've not been to it,
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but I've seen pictures of it, and it looks beautiful.
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And the reason why I can say that is because
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I went on Google and I looked up the image
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of the National Park, and I saw other people's pictures
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and I saw other things going on with it. So
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this kind of adds another layer to it, where this
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is coming from the National Park Service themselves, and they're
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taking that authentic experience and showing it to you and
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saying this is something that you could experience yourself if
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you come here. And not everybody's going to go to
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every National park, like I'd love to go to Yellowstone.
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I don't know if I'm ever gonna go to Yellowstone.
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I don't know if I'm ever gonna go to Granteeton
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National Park. I don't know if I'm ever going to
23:57
go to some of these other national parks. I went
24:00
to the Grand Canyon Skywalk. That's only one piece of
24:02
the Grand Canyon. That's only one piece of the Grand Canyon.
24:06
Was the Grand Canyon Skywalk. I think it's on the
24:08
west it's the west rim of the Grand Canyon. Yeah,
24:11
the west rim. I mean, that's one that's one little
24:14
piece of it. If I go, I might be able
24:17
to go to Grand Canyon National Park someday. It's probably similar,
24:20
but it's probably a different experience than going to the
24:22
Grand Canyon Skywalk. So my point is that this is
24:27
one of those great things that allows you to explore
24:29
these national parks without really setting foot in them. But
24:33
at the same time, it also encourages people to visit
24:36
these parks. And the Path to Independence I think is
24:40
a really cool idea too. It just gives that modern version,
24:45
modern way of storytelling and gets people interested in history,
24:50
and I think that's so interesting. It's not only interesting,
24:53
I think it's so essential. We need to learn our history.
24:57
We don't know our history in this country, and it's
25:01
and it's something that I think you know and I
25:03
think both sides of the equation. This is not a
25:06
political thing. This is an American thing, as an American,
25:10
as an American citizen. Do we know our history and
25:13
do we really know our history in a way that's
25:15
that's good and bad. I'm saying good and bad. There's
25:18
good and bad elements to it. There's some things that
25:21
we've done that I'm ashamed of personally, and there's things
25:24
we've done that I'm like, Wow, that's pretty awesome. Nobody's perfect.
25:28
No country's perfect. No country's background is perfect. Not one.
25:32
I don't care where you go. I'd say there's probably
25:34
a whole lot worse around the world. But regardless of that,
25:38
and this is not to get into too much for rant,
25:41
but I think there's I think it's really important to
25:43
get that three hundred and sixty degree experience. And I hope,
25:47
I'm hoping that this is you get the good and
25:50
the bad of American history, you get both sides. I
25:53
think it's really important to get that because I think
25:56
for too long there's been a push to push the
26:00
bad side of American history and sort of downplay the
26:03
good side of it. And there's a lot of good
26:05
in American history. There's a lot of bad, but there's
26:08
a lot of good. So just my little ramp there
26:10
for that. But anyway, check it out. It's all of
26:13
the article. I'll have both articles posted in the notes,
26:17
So if you have notes on your podcast app, just
26:20
pull up the notes. You'll see the links to the
26:22
articles if you're interested in reading more on that, or
26:24
if you want to read along with me and critique
26:27
the way I talk and critique the way I say
26:29
things and just laugh and sit there and go look
26:31
at him he scrit up the title of that article. Yeah,
26:34
you try reading it out loud, and you tell me
26:36
if that's if you can't have that same problem. So anyway,
26:40
that's gonna do it for this show for this week.
26:43
I am taking next week off. You know, I'm just
26:46
started this whole podcast thing again. But I am gonna
26:48
take next week off. I am gonna work on some
26:50
other stuff. I just don't have time next week to
26:53
do a show. But and even this show is a
26:56
little shorter than usual, but I'm gonna do a I've
27:00
got a little nine to eleven show I'm kind of
27:01
working on, thinking about pondering in my head as to
27:04
what I'm going to talk about for that coming up
27:06
in two weeks. I can't believe we're almost twenty five
27:09
years from that day on September eleventh. I have some
27:12
ideas I'm kind of spitballing in my head right now
27:14
in terms of what show I'm gonna do next for
27:17
the next time I talk to you, and then and
27:20
then we're kind of back at it, you know. I mean,
27:22
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27:25
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27:26
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27:29
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27:42
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27:44
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27:53
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