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New Jersey Dronegate: DON’T LOOK UP! · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to AM eight hundred kl W. John Liddkey
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  Speaker 1: here hosting Live and Local, the last episode of the
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  Speaker 1: show for twenty twenty four. And we are keeping our
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  Speaker 1: eyes right now on where else would we keep our eyes? On?
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. There have been a number of drone sightings
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  Speaker 1: occurring since mid November. These have been unidentified drones, often
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  Speaker 1: flying at nighttime in clusters larger than typical hobbyist or
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  Speaker 1: consumer drone models. They've been spotted near sensitive locations, including
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  Speaker 1: military facilities and President Elect Trump's golf course in Bedminister.
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  Speaker 1: The FAA has since imposed temporary restrictions on drone flights
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  Speaker 1: over twenty two cities in New Jersey. The FBI and
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security are investigating the sightings but
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  Speaker 1: haven't found any evidence of national security threats. The public
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  Speaker 1: is conc earned. Some people have taken to shining laser
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  Speaker 1: beams up at suspected drones, to which pilots have been saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're flying airplanes. Quit shining lasers at us. That's very dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities are still investigating and we don't really know yet
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  Speaker 1: what this all is. I'm going to go to my
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  Speaker 1: resident drone expert who I bring on to the shows.
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  Speaker 1: Here on I am eight hundred Drew hit and Rod
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  Speaker 1: joins me right now, Hey Drew, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Hey John? How's it going?
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  Speaker 1: Doing really well? Thanks? So this is all really interesting.
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  Speaker 1: When you first started to hear about drone Gate, what
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  Speaker 1: was your first thought?
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  Speaker 2: My first thought was either this is a military exercise
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  Speaker 2: that's not being discussed, or it's aliens. But there's always
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  Speaker 2: a better explanation that's more grounded with reality.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I didn't jump straight to the alien thought process.
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  Speaker 1: When I looked at a lot of these videos, I
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  Speaker 1: noticed that the drones had red and green flashing lights
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  Speaker 1: on them. Drew, you fly, you fly drones? Do any
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  Speaker 1: of yours have red and green flashing lights?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. In most of these sightings, at least eighty to
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  Speaker 2: ninety percent of them, all the you know, drones or
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  Speaker 2: commercial aircraft craft that people were seeing were you know
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  Speaker 2: in they have nab lights on them. So you're seeing
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  Speaker 2: the standard you know, red lights in the front and
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  Speaker 2: green lights in the back like most typical claud copters have.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we were seeing in a lot of
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  Speaker 2: this footage. So it seems like a lot of them
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  Speaker 2: were vtall drones, which are vertical takeoff drones that take
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  Speaker 2: off vertically and then can pitch the motors and props
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  Speaker 2: forward and then fly like a normal airplane. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're still trying to figure out what the heck they are,
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  Speaker 2: and it's still a mystery.
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  Speaker 1: So you brought up that you thought that it might
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  Speaker 1: have been a military project or a test or training,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it may be. That's actually what I first thought
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  Speaker 1: as well, knowing that we are rapidly approaching the inauguration
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  Speaker 1: January twentieth, also the anniversary of January the sixth, and
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  Speaker 1: we knew that the Biden administration was gearing up for
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  Speaker 1: any possibility. It didn't surprise me to think, hey, maybe
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  Speaker 1: they just chose New Jersey to do some tests over
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  Speaker 1: who cares about Jersey exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of people are seeing, you know, strange
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  Speaker 2: things that they couldn't explain. But a lot more people
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  Speaker 2: are looking up now and looking at the sky and seeing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's near military basis, so you can see
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  Speaker 2: the military planes flying over in commercial planes as well.
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  Speaker 2: But there were some, you know that twenty to ten
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  Speaker 2: percent that were unexplained. So a mix of UAPs that
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  Speaker 2: are kind of being blended in with these these drone
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  Speaker 2: sightings all over and that are still happening that frequency
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  Speaker 2: kind of but right now it's still happening, and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I guess it's not surprising that people get
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  Speaker 1: a little bit concerned about it. It seems like the
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  Speaker 1: past month and a half has been a bit like
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  Speaker 1: war of the World's being broadcast on the radio. Quite frankly, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: people getting really concerned about it. Do you think that
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  Speaker 1: it makes sense that people might mistake what is a
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  Speaker 1: consumer drone or even a more professional drone with something
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  Speaker 1: that they can't recognize. Should the average person be able
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  Speaker 1: to spot what these look like.
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  Speaker 2: Generally? Yeah, I mean again, most most drones, especially when
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  Speaker 2: flying at nighttime, have the traditional nave lights, which are
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  Speaker 2: the you know, either the red or the green on
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  Speaker 2: the front or back, and most like characteristics are you know,
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  Speaker 2: similar to what a drone would have where you're hovering
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  Speaker 2: in place and then accelerating versus you know, seeing a
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  Speaker 2: helicopter flying, which would have sound and you would or
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  Speaker 2: you would typically hear these things. With the drones any
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  Speaker 2: anything past you know, one hundred feet or so, you
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  Speaker 2: can't hear them at all, So they are silent, so
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  Speaker 2: a lot of these, you know cases where they're seeing
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  Speaker 2: things in the sky that can't hear that are floating there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can easily miss identify that as a
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  Speaker 2: as a UFO or a UAP. But it's definitely strange.
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  Speaker 1: How fire can drones travel.
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  Speaker 2: It all depends on what you're flying. But a traditional
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  Speaker 2: all typical drone you can pick up at Best Buy
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  Speaker 2: or a Dji Mavic three Pro or a Mini FORB
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  Speaker 2: can go up to around ten kilometers with the Djio
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  Speaker 2: three transmission system. But the latest one that's coming out
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  Speaker 2: now is though four, and that you can fly up
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  Speaker 2: to I think it's something like twenty or thirty kilometers,
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  Speaker 2: which is unbelievable. But the one thing that was interesting
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  Speaker 2: about what a lot of residents in New Jersey we're
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  Speaker 2: seeing was we're drones that were hovering in the sky
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  Speaker 2: for longer than you know, typical flight times on a
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  Speaker 2: commercial or even you know, any any drone, Like most
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  Speaker 2: drones can only fly for around forty minutes or so max.
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  Speaker 2: But they were seeing UAPs drones that were in the
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  Speaker 2: sky for hours. So that's kind of spooky.
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  Speaker 1: That is really interesting. So when you talk about that,
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  Speaker 1: you're saying forty minutes. That's that's the length of time
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  Speaker 1: that you're able to use because you fly these drones professionally. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's that's wild. So what are some of the
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  Speaker 1: uses and applications that drones can be used for these
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  Speaker 1: days other than scaring New Jersey residents?
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  Speaker 2: Well beyond using them for aerial cinema and capturing you know,
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  Speaker 2: really nice aerial photos and videos that can be used
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  Speaker 2: for search and rescue. The police use DJI matrices, which
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  Speaker 2: are larger quad copters that have flear night vision cameras
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  Speaker 2: built onto them so you can see in the night
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  Speaker 2: and for search and rescues, or I recently have seen
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  Speaker 2: police even using smaller FPV drones to try to find
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  Speaker 2: like a say that there's a suspect inside of a
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  Speaker 2: bank or inside a comedian story. They can actually fly
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  Speaker 2: one of these you know tiny FPV eja and eos
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  Speaker 2: into into you know, a place that would be dangerous
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  Speaker 2: and and get a visual, live visuals of what they're
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  Speaker 2: heading into. So there's a lot of applications for aside
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  Speaker 2: from you know that, plus agricultural stuff or agricultural spraying
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  Speaker 2: and search and rescue. Yeah, like a lot a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different things that can be used for as well
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  Speaker 2: as military applications as well.
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  Speaker 1: I can imagine so FPV of course being first person video,
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  Speaker 1: so the drones in that case, they're able to be
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  Speaker 1: flown indoors, like the transmission works.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, these ones are just smaller FPV drones that can
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  Speaker 2: be flown indoors and you're either wearing video goggles or
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  Speaker 2: you can look at it on your controller. Those are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fun to fly.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's that's wild stuff. And where do you think
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  Speaker 1: the future of drones is going to be heading over
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  Speaker 1: the next decade? Are they going to be getting faster
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  Speaker 1: for their range? Like what do you see when you
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  Speaker 1: keep your ear to the ground.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I keep my ears on all the latest
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  Speaker 2: tech developments with with drone tech and battery tech. DJ
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  Speaker 2: is for releasing the new Dji Mabick four Pro, which
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  Speaker 2: is a newer drone coming out that has about fifty
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  Speaker 2: to sixty minute flight time, and now they even have
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  Speaker 2: hybrid drones that I was trying to get an explanation
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  Speaker 2: as to why these people are seeing drones in the
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  Speaker 2: sky for two to four hours and there are hybrid
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  Speaker 2: drones that use gas powered a small engine on them
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  Speaker 2: that's a generator that's powering the batteries, so you can
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  Speaker 2: get extended flight times and fly for up to twelve
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  Speaker 2: to twenty four hours. But the future of drones is
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  Speaker 2: pretty bright, and we're seeing a lot more affordable stuff
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  Speaker 2: that's coming out, and yeah, just a lot more cool
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  Speaker 2: things for search and rescue and for consumer drones, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's an exciting time to get into the hobby for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But we're also going to see a lot more drones
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  Speaker 2: in the sky. Same with like Amazon's already testing delivery
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  Speaker 2: drones in Arizona that are landing in people's backyards, which
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  Speaker 2: of those are also ve tall, So those take off
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  Speaker 2: vertically and pitch pitch forward and then can fly kind
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  Speaker 2: of like an airplane and they can carry like a
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  Speaker 2: five pound payload and drop that on your grass in
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  Speaker 2: the backyard. So we're going to see a lot more
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  Speaker 2: delivery drones in the near future.
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  Speaker 1: Amazon Prime deliveries within an hour, delivered right to your backyard.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, you know it's The drone industry
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  Speaker 1: has evolved a lot since I bought my Dji Mini
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  Speaker 1: two back in twenty twenty, and I'm not at all
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  Speaker 1: using it for commercial purposes, but you know, it's fun
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  Speaker 1: to just pop up there and fly around. I'd love
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  Speaker 1: to try out a first person video drone. Like you've
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  Speaker 1: been discussing, there are there any misconceptions about drones that
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  Speaker 1: people should know about that you'd like to clear up.
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  Speaker 2: I think the one that like that people say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this drones flying in my backyard and it's spying on me.
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  Speaker 2: That's typically a good one, Like, no, most of the
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  Speaker 2: drones aren't spying on you, and a lot of them
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  Speaker 2: don't have the zoom capabilities. Obviously newer ones do, but
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  Speaker 2: typically a lot of them don't. So when obviously you
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  Speaker 2: don't fly your drone over someone's backyard and respect people's privacy,
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  Speaker 2: but especially with FPV drones, like I can't zoom it
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  Speaker 2: at all. I'm looking at a super wide angle view
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  Speaker 2: and that's all I see. So when I'm flying over people,
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  Speaker 2: they're just tiny little specs. I can't see any details.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the big wide shot. So people get
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  Speaker 2: weird when they, you know, aren't necessarily educated enough on
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  Speaker 2: what they're seeing, and they just categorize every drone as
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  Speaker 2: the same kind of thing. And I even come across
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  Speaker 2: that too when I'm flying my FPV drones in a field.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm minding my own business. Just obviously, I'm ripping.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going about two hundred klometers an hour, avoiding people.
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  Speaker 2: But it can still, you know, it can still startle
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  Speaker 2: people and and keep them on edge and go like,
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  Speaker 2: what are you doing? Why you flying not drone there?
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  Speaker 2: So there's still kind of a bit of a stigma
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  Speaker 2: around FTV drone racing too, at least like people that
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  Speaker 2: just don't don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred kilometers an hour or one hundred and about
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five miles per hour, that is wild, Drew,
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  Speaker 1: you and I are going to have to get together.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to see one of these things, as you said,
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  Speaker 1: really rip it in the air sometime.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. We've got to do some FTV
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  Speaker 2: for you. We'll get you with the goggles and you
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  Speaker 2: can experience FPV flight. It'll be a blast.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I can't wait. I just hope that I don't
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  Speaker 1: crash it into a wall or something. We'll find out
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  Speaker 1: if we get together. Hey, Drew, thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for your time. I really appreciate it, and Merry Christmas
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  Speaker 1: and Happy.
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  Speaker 2: New Year to you you as well. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. That is Drew hitten Ra who
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  Speaker 1: is a professional drone flyer. He does a lot of
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  Speaker 1: incredible work with it. You saw some stuff that he
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  Speaker 1: did with the Sears Demolition and you can check out
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  Speaker 1: his work as well at his website. Drew, what's your website?
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  Speaker 2: My website is w www dot h y t T
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  Speaker 2: dot ca.
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  Speaker 1: A excellent Thanks so much, Drew. This is a M
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred CKLW John Lydkey here. We're going to take
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  Speaker 1: a quick break, but we will be back right after this.