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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Fifty five CARSD Talk station a time next hell enjoy
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  Speaker 1: sometimes some levity, but also interesting conversation with iHeartMedia aviation
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  Speaker 1: expert Jay Rattlift Jay, Welcome back to the fifty five
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  Speaker 1: Carce Morning Show. My friend is always great having you
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  Speaker 1: on the show.
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  Speaker 2: That's good to be here, brother.
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  Speaker 1: I got a kick out of it. This is no curveball.
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  Speaker 1: You got a great list of topics to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: But headline from the Wall Street Journal, Dan Siel reporting,
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  Speaker 1: dateline the fourteenth, the futile campaign to get people to
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  Speaker 1: dress better on planes. Sub Captain. US government thinks onboard
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  Speaker 1: behavior will improve if passengers ditch the pajamas. Good luck
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  Speaker 1: with that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, there is some there are studies that
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  Speaker 2: suggest for people that work at home, if they get
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  Speaker 2: up and go through the same regiment of getting themselves ready,
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  Speaker 2: getting shade cleaned up, ready to go, put on their
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  Speaker 2: professional tire, then go to their office that even though
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  Speaker 2: they're working at home, they've got that set, they're in
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  Speaker 2: that business mode. When you're working in your pajamas or shorts,
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  Speaker 2: whatever might happen to be. You know, some people think
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  Speaker 2: that that's kind of a relaxed setting, that kind of
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  Speaker 2: leads to some relaxed results. You know, you really don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But look, there's no way that we're ever going to
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  Speaker 2: legislate or change the behavior of people. And you know
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  Speaker 2: that so well, Brian, You've talked about it for only
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  Speaker 2: your entire life about you can have any rule law
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  Speaker 2: on the book. It's not going to dictate how people
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  Speaker 2: act and respond. And sadly that's the case. If if
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  Speaker 2: we could come up with a nice incentive, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like the best address gets a free ticket here there,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, maybe you could entice people to
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  Speaker 2: consider it, but unless you give them something in returns,
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  Speaker 2: we're just not going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've heard people lax cltiic. I remember the days
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  Speaker 1: when men wore suits and ties wherever they went. You
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  Speaker 1: look at a ball game, people wore suits and size
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  Speaker 1: well you know what, as like the only set of
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  Speaker 1: clothes they owned. Things were really tight back then. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't have five suits to choose from one every day.
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  Speaker 1: You were the same day of thing every day. So
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  Speaker 1: moving if you stay far enough away from them visually, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: look great, But the closer you got, the less of
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  Speaker 1: a good idea. That was anyway, Jay, in.
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  Speaker 2: The early days, Brian, American Airlines I'm talking about like
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  Speaker 2: the thirties would pick you up in a limousine, take
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  Speaker 2: you to the airport just because you had a reservation
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  Speaker 2: one of their flights. Wouldn't that be cool?
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  Speaker 1: You were among the holy POLOI back then if you
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  Speaker 1: could afford an airline ticket.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyhow, Delta with what a chance of something going wrong?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh god, yeah that's right. I forgot. Air safety
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  Speaker 1: was not up the snuff back then. Computer nowhere near
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  Speaker 1: no ils than those places, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: The flight attests back then had to be nurses.
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  Speaker 1: Did they really?
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  Speaker 2: Yep?
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  Speaker 1: I see that makes perfect sense.
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  Speaker 2: And when you see how those planes were put together,
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  Speaker 2: it makes an incredible sense.
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  Speaker 1: Three eyes, assuming the flight attendants survived. All right, I
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  Speaker 1: have to sign.
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  Speaker 2: A medical farm before I get on. Yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 2: medical or Leaves just engaged.
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  Speaker 1: That flavor of liability Delta. Delta Airlines CEO not happy
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  Speaker 1: with Donald Trump's credit card interest rate cap does sound
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  Speaker 1: like a rather Democrat kind of idea, capping what corporations
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  Speaker 1: are doing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like it either, But you know, Delta
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  Speaker 2: just reported record profits more than a billion dollars for
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  Speaker 2: a single quarter. And look, you and I both know
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  Speaker 2: that wasn't made by us lying back and forth at
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  Speaker 2: Grandma's house. Much of that revenue is driven by those
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  Speaker 2: credit card agreements that they have that for Delta's tied
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  Speaker 2: into their Skymiles frickin flyer program. And that's when the
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  Speaker 2: CEO of Delta at Bastian, we're reacting to President Trump's
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  Speaker 2: mentioning of capping interest rates and credit cards, saying oh, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: that would be bad for the economy, is what bed
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  Speaker 2: Bastian said. Brian. When you consider that not a single
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  Speaker 2: major airline would have been profitable in the year twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four without the income from those credit card partnerships,
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  Speaker 2: you recognize just how tied into the airlines profits those
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  Speaker 2: credit cards agreements are. And it's just amazing in fact
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  Speaker 2: that the Delta employees are so happy because you and
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  Speaker 2: I may talk about this before, but on Valentine's Day
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  Speaker 2: is the day every year that Delta, when they've got
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  Speaker 2: a profit, they share that with their employees through a
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  Speaker 2: profit sharing program. And I believe they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: getting four four and a half five weeks of pay
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  Speaker 2: as a bonus thank you on Valentine Iday. So that's
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  Speaker 2: because of the profits that were driven again back to
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  Speaker 2: these credit card arrangements.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's a pretty nice thank you, very nice thank you, Although.
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  Speaker 2: Nowhere billions of dollars in profit sharing.
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  Speaker 1: Show nowhere near the bonus levels that Joe Strecker gets
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  Speaker 1: every year. Because we'll bring back, we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: talking a little bit about Boeing gets some more bad news.
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  Speaker 1: They were aware of a possible defect that led to
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  Speaker 1: a crash. That sounds familiar. Plus, get the hell out
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  Speaker 1: of the cargo apartment compartment before the plane takes off.
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  Speaker 1: Got that in a hoole up more with Jay righttlift,
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  Speaker 1: don't go away and be right back fifty five KARC.
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  Speaker 2: Steve Perrins god KRC the talk station.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been in a cockpit before. Jay Ratliffe has,
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  Speaker 1: he's I heard. Media aviation expert joins this program every
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  Speaker 1: Thursday beginning at eight thirty for a few segments on
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  Speaker 1: of course, matters related to air and air travel and
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  Speaker 1: of course, potential legal liability. Boeing is always having problems.
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  Speaker 1: You bring that up all the time, and I guess
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  Speaker 1: they're well, are they implicated in this Louisville plane crash.
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  Speaker 1: I know, we have an update from the NTSB on
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  Speaker 1: this one, Jay Ratliffe, what's the story.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And within that update from the National Transportation Safety Board, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: they found a service letter that Boeing sent to airlines
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  Speaker 2: on February seventh, twenty eleven. Now, all those years ago,
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  Speaker 2: all those years ago, Boeing told airlines that the company
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  Speaker 2: was aware a four previous bearing race that's a part,
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  Speaker 2: but bearing race failures on three different airplanes. Now, Boeing
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  Speaker 2: had seen these fractures of the part and actually with
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  Speaker 2: this part, splitting it two and moving out of place.
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  Speaker 2: Now keep in mind that this specific piece helps to
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  Speaker 2: hold the engines in place on the wing. Boeing what. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Boeing went on to say to the airlines that their
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  Speaker 2: review of that bearing failure, in their words, would not
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  Speaker 2: quote would not result in a safety flight flight condition
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  Speaker 2: in the quote. So obviously, the deaths of fifteen people
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  Speaker 2: in Louisville in November certainly suggests otherwise. But look, let's
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind that the Federal Aviation Administration was completely
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  Speaker 2: aware of all this, and they could have called easily
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  Speaker 2: for airlines to replace or increase the inspection rate of
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  Speaker 2: those questions or those parts in question. So but they
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  Speaker 2: elected not to do so based in part on Boeing's position,
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  Speaker 2: and it could be also based on the fact that
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  Speaker 2: airlines were pushing back saying, look, it would take a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time and money to pull these airplanes out
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  Speaker 2: of service, dig into this part to find out and
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  Speaker 2: test it to see if these parts are still good.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, if it's true that safety is our
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  Speaker 2: number one priority, and every airline says that, and I
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  Speaker 2: laugh every time they do because it's not the truth,
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  Speaker 2: then there would have been no question. The same way,
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  Speaker 2: when the Boeing Max crashes were happening, the easiest thing
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  Speaker 2: to do for Southwest Delta or not Delta United American
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  Speaker 2: Southwest was to pull the few and all they had
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  Speaker 2: was a few of those Boeing Max airplanes out of
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  Speaker 2: service until they found out what was going on. It
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  Speaker 2: represented like less than five percent of their fleet, and
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  Speaker 2: the airlines opted not to do it, even when the
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  Speaker 2: FA at the time wasn't going to ground that airplane.
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  Speaker 2: But here again we've got a situation of Boeing be
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  Speaker 2: more aware of something, communicating that to the airlines and
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  Speaker 2: trying to downplay it and sadly, we had a loss
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  Speaker 2: of life, horrific loss of life in Louisville.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, it's been suggested, I think of Hollywood movies that
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  Speaker 1: you know, manufacturers will do a cost benefit analysis. Well,
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  Speaker 1: of the million widgets we've got in the world, we
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  Speaker 1: found that this defect may result in five people dying
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  Speaker 1: it to replace it or fix the widge. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to cost us X millions of dollars. If we just
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  Speaker 1: ignore it and pay off the individual claim, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be a lot better off financially. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: that type of analysis was actually done when they decided
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  Speaker 1: not to go down the road of inspecting these particular parts. Man,
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  Speaker 1: we may get one fall out of the sky, but
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  Speaker 1: in the final analysis, it'll cost us a hell of
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  Speaker 1: a lot more to stay up on top of this
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  Speaker 1: and ahead of time.
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  Speaker 2: I totally believe that, and I hate to say that,
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  Speaker 2: but when you look at the history of recommendations made
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  Speaker 2: by the National Transfertation Safety Board following every accident or
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  Speaker 2: near accident, they'll give the Federal Aviation Administration bright a
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  Speaker 2: list ten fifteen to twenty different items that they said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we identified these as either potential contributing causes or direct
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  Speaker 2: contributing causes to this accident which resulted in a loss
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  Speaker 2: of life, and here's our recommendations, topix it and if
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  Speaker 2: the airlines then many times we'll push back on some
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  Speaker 2: of those recommendations saying no, that would cost too much money,
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  Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah. And only a few, if any,
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  Speaker 2: of those recommendations are ever care right forward. And it's
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  Speaker 2: maddening when you think about it, because the NTSB's entire
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  Speaker 2: purpose is to investigate the accident or air accident, come
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  Speaker 2: up with the cause or contributing causes. Many times there's
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  Speaker 2: far more than just one direct cause. But then they
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  Speaker 2: list those recommendations on how we can make aviation safer.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason that we've enjoyed the safest air era
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  Speaker 2: of commercial jet travel leading up to this year or
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  Speaker 2: last year with the January plane crash in DC and
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  Speaker 2: then the Alaskan plane crash a month later, was because
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  Speaker 2: of the fact that we've made such great strides and safety,
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  Speaker 2: both in the type of equipment that's use on board
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  Speaker 2: an airplane to make sure it's not it's fire retardant,
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  Speaker 2: making sure certain seats and certain things are manufactured in
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  Speaker 2: such a way that could better withstand a crash and
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  Speaker 2: protect the people that are inside an airplane in the
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  Speaker 2: event something you know, horrific happens. And it's all because
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  Speaker 2: of those recommendations. I remember the Common Air crash, or
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  Speaker 2: the Cincinnati crash we had with Air Canada back in
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  Speaker 2: the early eighties that caught on fire and had land
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  Speaker 2: at Cincinnati. The National Transportation Safety Board, I think, came
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  Speaker 2: out with twenty some recommendations, and one of them was
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  Speaker 2: to have those lights along the floor that would lead
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  Speaker 2: you to an exit in the event that the cabin
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  Speaker 2: was filled with smoke, you got disoriented, didn't know which
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  Speaker 2: way to go. That was one of the many recommendations
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  Speaker 2: made by the NTSB as a direct result of that
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  Speaker 2: Air Canada crash that we had here in Cincinnati. So
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  Speaker 2: the entire thing is set up to try to make
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  Speaker 2: things safer, and that's one of the things that just
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  Speaker 2: bothers me to no end when there's pushback on some
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  Speaker 2: of these obvious safety related issues being put in and
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  Speaker 2: to your point exactly, and that's the reason I love
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  Speaker 2: talking to you, because you add that liability side to
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  Speaker 2: the discussion and they say the exact same thing. That's
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  Speaker 2: like airlines being told, Look, instead of having a black
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  Speaker 2: box on an airplane, we could put up a component
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  Speaker 2: on there that would be automatically transmitting all the black
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  Speaker 2: box data really from the airplane to a central spot,
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  Speaker 2: so that if an airplane crashed at see, we didn't
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  Speaker 2: have to go looking for the black boxes. We knew
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  Speaker 2: exactly what happened. The problem is the cost per aircraft
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  Speaker 2: is more than one hundred thousand dollars, and when you
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  Speaker 2: recognize most crashes happen on takeoff and landing over land
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  Speaker 2: near an airport, the thought is, why would we spend
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  Speaker 2: one hundred grand per airplane, tens of millions of dollars
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  Speaker 2: for something that would only be used in a small
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  Speaker 2: percentage of the of the accident. So it's an unfortunate discussion.
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  Speaker 2: But once again you're spot on.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Jay, We're going to come up. Don't
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  Speaker 1: get locked in the cargo compartment. I'm a little worried
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  Speaker 1: about this other topic. TSA has increased the number of
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  Speaker 1: airports with biometric pre check scanning that more with Jay
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  Speaker 1: iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Rat Jay got a few more
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  Speaker 1: topics here we can try to cram in there. I immediately,
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  Speaker 1: of course, thought of you. Any aviation topic I run
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  Speaker 1: across in my day to day preparation for the show,
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  Speaker 1: it's obviously you. I think about this one I thought
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  Speaker 1: was a kind of comical, although it would freak me
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  Speaker 1: out if I was the employee that got locked in
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  Speaker 1: the cargo compartment on a plane that was ready to
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  Speaker 1: take off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it happens. It's happened several times. But this
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  Speaker 2: was near Canada flight leaving Vancouver. They pushed back from
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  Speaker 2: the gate, they're taxing for takeoff, when all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: passengers start hearing this loud thump on the floor from underneath,
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  Speaker 2: and they notify the flight attendants, and flight attentions obviously conclude, look,
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  Speaker 2: we've got somebody in the cargo hold. Underneath this and
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  Speaker 2: we're taxing for takeoff. Now, worst case scenario, had the
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  Speaker 2: plane taken off that the forward of the forward cargo
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  Speaker 2: compartment is pressurized, the person would not have been in
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  Speaker 2: any immediate danger unless there was turbulence and bags are
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  Speaker 2: flying and something happens like that. We've had people that
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  Speaker 2: that's happened and they get to the next city and
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  Speaker 2: you know, out they pop. But in this case, you're
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  Speaker 2: still on the ground. So the crew decided to stop.
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  Speaker 2: They turned back to the gate, and it's a security
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  Speaker 2: issue as well, because you don't know if if it's
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  Speaker 2: a stoleway, and how they got on the plane, and
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  Speaker 2: so you've got security involved, and it's a process. So
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  Speaker 2: they get back and they pop it, and sure enough
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  Speaker 2: they find out that the person in there was an employee.
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  Speaker 2: And the delay was such that the crew actually timed
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  Speaker 2: out so they couldn't continue the flight. After that delay,
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  Speaker 2: they had of another crew come in and take care
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  Speaker 2: of them. So it really created a problem. The question
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  Speaker 2: I keep getting is, Jay, how in the world would
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  Speaker 2: that happen. Well, when you're on the ground working the ramp,
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  Speaker 2: it's a very loud environment. People are wearing the ear
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  Speaker 2: suppression headphones and things over there, so you don't hear
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  Speaker 2: a lot, and the cargo compartment many times twenty thirty
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  Speaker 2: feet deep, and you've got bags piled up all over
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  Speaker 2: the place, and occasionally a passenger side not to fly,
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  Speaker 2: and you grab somebody, say find this bag, because the
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  Speaker 2: bag can't fly without the person. So in they go,
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  Speaker 2: and it may be totally the other ramp agents may
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  Speaker 2: be totally unaware of it that you've got somebody in there,
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  Speaker 2: so before they close it, they might kind of give
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  Speaker 2: it a cursory glance. Okay, nobody's in there, turn the
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  Speaker 2: light out, drop the door, and off they go. And
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  Speaker 2: of course, if you're buried in the bags trying to
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  Speaker 2: find something, by the time you get back to the door,
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  Speaker 2: nobody's going to hear you. And then off it goes.
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  Speaker 2: There's no direct way for the agents to communicate with
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  Speaker 2: the cockpit that hey, I'm still in here. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was a it was a scary situation for the individual.
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  Speaker 2: We've had some agents get up there and they're waiting
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  Speaker 2: for additional bags to arrive, they fall asleep and they
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  Speaker 2: open another city. Oh yeah, yeah, you can google it.
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  Speaker 2: There's been eight or ten instances over the last ten years.
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  Speaker 2: I can think of where we've talked about it where
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  Speaker 2: agents have gotten up there and gotten in there and
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  Speaker 2: the door's been shut quickly and that plane goes it
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  Speaker 2: takes off.
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  Speaker 1: Unlike the idiots who get into the landing gear area
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  Speaker 1: where they're exposed with no pressurization in sub zero temperatures.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the case in.
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  Speaker 2: The United Space limited.
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  Speaker 1: Bagage compartment though, is it. I mean no, no, no, it's pressure.
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  Speaker 2: Keep in mind behind the wing on some of the aircraft,
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  Speaker 2: that particular cargo compartment many times is not pressurized and
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  Speaker 2: you could be dealing with UH temperatures that could approach
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  Speaker 2: hypothermia type level. So that's always a concern in the rear.
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  Speaker 2: But this was up in the forward compartment where you
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  Speaker 2: put the animals and in everything that are going to
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  Speaker 2: be traveling as cargo, UH and baggage. So yeah, there
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  Speaker 2: was Again wasn't any direct situation there, but as far
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  Speaker 2: as you know, somebody getting hurt, but yeah, imagine being
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  Speaker 2: on there and you hear this thumping coming from underneath
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  Speaker 2: your feet. You'd have no idea what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: All right, at the risk of not being able to
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  Speaker 1: get to a legion buying Sun Country you for one
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  Speaker 1: point five billion. What's this? TSA increasing biometric PreCheck scanning.
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  Speaker 2: It's a program that allows travelers in the pre check
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  Speaker 2: line to use biometric scans of our faces during the
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  Speaker 2: airport security check in. It would allow us to keep
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  Speaker 2: our driver's license or passports in our pocket. You can
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  Speaker 2: sign up for once you're a member of pre check,
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  Speaker 2: you can have this scan where you can have your
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  Speaker 2: facial scan done so that you can basically zip through
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  Speaker 2: the security checkpoints on a prim at all. The TSA
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  Speaker 2: has this at twenty airports already. They're increasing this to
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  Speaker 2: forty five including Cincinnati this spring. And again it's optional,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to do it, but it's a step
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  Speaker 2: in that same progression that you and I've talked about
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  Speaker 2: before where we've got a lot of individuals or achieving
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  Speaker 2: a lot of airlines that are looking at using facial
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  Speaker 2: recognition at the ticket counter where you can pop up,
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  Speaker 2: have your face scan three seconds, boom at you tag
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  Speaker 2: the bags, off you go. It speeds up the process.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to use it. The TSA more and more
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  Speaker 2: airlines that they are also going to use this as
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  Speaker 2: well as far as proving who we are before we
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  Speaker 2: board an airplane. It's also going to allow them to
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  Speaker 2: reduce the head count at a lot of these stations
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  Speaker 2: as well, which is the ultimate drive here, is to
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  Speaker 2: use artificial intelligence to reduce the operating expenses. They're going
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: to sell it to us as increase safety, more customer service,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: blah blah blah. None of that's the case, while some
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  Speaker 2: of it is, but the biggest thing is to help
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  Speaker 2: the airlines reduce their costs by relying more on that.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: And people that don't want to be involved in this
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: brant they don't have to. You can opt out of it.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: It's not a big issue. But for those that do,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: it's going to be a way to kind of speed
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  Speaker 2: you through the securining process. And I certainly think that's
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  Speaker 2: a good idea. Look, they've already got my face somewhere
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  Speaker 2: right Well, you walk into a casino, they've got your face.
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  Speaker 1: I was just going to say, you've got acknowledge that
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  Speaker 1: whether or not you like this idea, it's really happening
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  Speaker 1: around you all the time.
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  Speaker 2: You go to a sporting event, you go to an airport,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: you go again to a casine. It's there they use
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: this constantly as a threat assessment when they've got an
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: event going on. So the idea that you know we're
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: not going to be a part of it, well we
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: kind of already are if we live anywhere near these places.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: It's like people running into a casino or an airport saying, look,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: i'll get away from you know where nobody can see me. Well,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: you you're walking into a b' like going into a bank.
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  Speaker 2: You know nobody's gonna see me here.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, all right, Well let's go directly since we're
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: out of time. Hub delays. How's it looking out there
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  Speaker 1: for air travel?
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Jay, ratlift Minneapolis is going to be one at Boston
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: as well, let us know, but it's leaving most of
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: the hubs alone. So I think it's going to be
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: a day of minimal delays. So probably some de icing
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: quick delays as you depart today, but all in all,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: should be a pretty good day to fly.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Jay Ratliffe, always a distinct pleasure to have you on
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: the fifty five Cascene Morning show. Love the topics, love
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the conversation, and I'm looking forward to Thursday next week already,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: So we'll do it again next Thursday, beginning at eight
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  Speaker 1: thirty podcast This conversation fifty five care Sea dot Com
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  Speaker 1: as always best to health and love to you and
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: your better half, Jay.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Rattlift appreciate that, my friend.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks brother eight fifty sixty five Cares to
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  Speaker 1: Detox Station Congressman Warren Davidson