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Not a Plan, But a Designation · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: It's actually not a planet. It's a designation. It's one
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  Speaker 1: more thing that was.
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  Speaker 2: An affectation you've had there.
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  Speaker 1: You can't fly what I say, it was not a planet,
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  Speaker 1: it's a destination. You can't fly in a designation you
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  Speaker 1: in it. So any plane can be air Force one.
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  Speaker 1: It's just whatever plane the president is on is designated
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  Speaker 1: air Force one.
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  Speaker 2: Any flying object the president is on is air Force one.
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  Speaker 1: The helicopters are Marine one. Okay, so presumably if the
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  Speaker 1: President went up in a dirigible, that would be air
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  Speaker 1: Force one, a rigible one. Uh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Literally, President was headed to Switzerland today and they had
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  Speaker 2: to turn around because they had an electrical problem, or
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  Speaker 2: at least that's what they're saying. I don't know some
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  Speaker 2: people you find it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh is that right? Yeah? I hadn't seen anybody yet.
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  Speaker 2: I just heard skepticism, some experts saying they've got like
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  Speaker 2: so many redundant backups systems, those on the Air Force one,
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  Speaker 2: which I'm sure they do that although likely that you
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  Speaker 2: would just turn around for an electric problem. You just
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  Speaker 2: switch to the backup, to the backup, to the backup
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  Speaker 2: and keep going.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it depends on how many redundancies you have. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you're just going on a trip that could be
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  Speaker 1: delayed for three hours, will you trouble check the problem?
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  Speaker 1: I would go ahead and do what they did. Feel otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's the whole there's actually a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: joke about bad news here. Ladies and gentlemen. We've lost
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  Speaker 1: one of the engines, but don't worry. We have four
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  Speaker 1: engines and should be fine. And the tilt comes back
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  Speaker 1: on bad news. Folks, you've lost second of our four engines,
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  Speaker 1: but we can fly perfectly fine. I can't remember what
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  Speaker 1: the what the punchline of it is, but the point is,
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  Speaker 1: don't don't assume everything's going to go fine after the
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  Speaker 1: first screw up.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I also think that why would they tell us
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  Speaker 2: anything other than we had like a problem turned around,
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  Speaker 2: could be freaking anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, In fact, if something crazy covert happened, that's
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  Speaker 1: good policy. Sure claim it was. Yeah, we forgot to
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  Speaker 1: pack the dia coke and the president is pissed, so
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  Speaker 1: they forgot the McDonald's right exactly. Yeah. Anyway, Josh Rogan,
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  Speaker 1: who we've chatted with more than once on the Armstrong
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  Speaker 1: and Getty Show, knows something about the Air Force one
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  Speaker 1: fleet fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: This happens all the time. You know, it's a really
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  Speaker 3: old fleet and there's a constant state of disrepair. It's
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  Speaker 3: much more rare for Air Force one than it is
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  Speaker 3: for like the planes that the Vice President of the
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  Speaker 3: Security of Defense and Security State might fly on. And
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  Speaker 3: so I think that the fact that they caught it
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  Speaker 3: early and they turned back it shouldn't really be a
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  Speaker 3: big problem. But it is kind of shocking to people
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  Speaker 3: who don't know. But it's kind of an open secret
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  Speaker 3: amongst the reporters who travel with senior officials that the
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  Speaker 3: US plane is very old and the planes are not
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  Speaker 3: in good condition.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty five year old plane. So why in the world,
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  Speaker 2: with the amount of money we spend on everything in
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  Speaker 2: this country, would the president be flying around in a
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  Speaker 2: thirty five year old plane.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's harken back to was it last year or
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  Speaker 1: the year before where the cutteries were given the president
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  Speaker 1: to seven forty seven? That's right? And uh and and
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  Speaker 1: Trump was making a big deal out of how be
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  Speaker 1: fought behind schedule. Boeing was that they were supposed to
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  Speaker 1: have built a new set of Air Force ones or
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. Yeah, I don't know. That's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: not all of it's not a great look for American
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  Speaker 1: industry anyway. I've never been on the current Air Force one.
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  Speaker 1: I have a friend who has, who says it's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I've been on old ones, a couple of old ones.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe.
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  Speaker 2: I've never been to the Reagan National Library, and because
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  Speaker 2: they got his plane there so you can see what
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  Speaker 2: an air Force one looks like in the presidential suite
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  Speaker 2: and all that sort of stuff, I've never done that.
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  Speaker 1: How have I done that?
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  Speaker 2: I got to do that with my kids. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: do that in the next couple of weekends.
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  Speaker 1: I'm vowing right now. There is a wonderful airplane museum
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  Speaker 1: in the Seattle Tacoma area. I can't remember the name
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  Speaker 1: of it. I've been to that one they have. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's Nixon's Air Force one there, which is super fun. It's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously a little more old timing, not quite
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  Speaker 1: as amazing as the new ones. But I've been reading
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  Speaker 1: about air Force One. It's packed with secret tech functioning,
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  Speaker 1: is a flying command center with and the lists here include,
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  Speaker 1: as I'm sure you'll notice, some wow stuff and also
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  Speaker 1: some are you kidding me. Stuff. I'm not sure how
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  Speaker 1: up to date this list is, but anyway, flying command
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  Speaker 1: center with military grade secure communications, EMP, hardened electronics, an
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  Speaker 1: advanced missile defense like laser jamming and flares, plus in
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  Speaker 1: flight fueling for unlimited range, it could fly forever.
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  Speaker 2: Does it have the like elastic stretchy thing in the
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  Speaker 2: seat in front of you? See you? I can put
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  Speaker 2: your cup in there or something.
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  Speaker 1: I'll bet it does. I'll bet it does, yeah, or
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  Speaker 1: even cup holders. This list key features include secure encrypted
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  Speaker 1: lines Wi Fi. Oh wait a minute, you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Have Wi Fi. You just gotta let China take over.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, oh man, When I get on
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  Speaker 1: a flight that doesn't have the Wi Fi, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: what am I at Kitty Hawk with the Wright brothers?
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  Speaker 1: I know?
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  Speaker 2: I like going on and they'll make the announcement. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: we're not gonna have Wi Fi in this flight. Sorry
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  Speaker 2: for the fans, Sorry for the inconvenience.
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  Speaker 1: You just ruined my wife, right right, I can't believe you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see countermeasures against you said we were down a
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  Speaker 1: wing and we're gonna do our best. Then we got
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  Speaker 1: a white wife. Oh geez, let's see they have countermeasures
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  Speaker 1: against attacks like d I r CM lasers whatever those are,
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  Speaker 1: chaff and flares, and a hardened system to survive a
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  Speaker 1: nuclear blast. Wow. Wow. The current Air Force one features
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  Speaker 1: eighty five plus telephones fax machines.
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  Speaker 2: Many five telephone seems like a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, a fax machine? What
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  Speaker 1: am I doing? Am I in touch with the like
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  Speaker 1: the old timey pharmacy in my town or something? Wow?
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  Speaker 2: With floppy disks? Yeah, you get a blockbuster for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: Internet for secure encrypted calls top secret to non secure
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  Speaker 1: video conferencing. Uh, let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The president can broadcast speeches live from mid air satellite
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  Speaker 1: length down to you know the ground. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: obvious when you think about it, but yeah, he could
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  Speaker 1: do a complete, you know, national address. My fellow Americans,
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  Speaker 1: we are at war with Greenland from the air, which
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  Speaker 1: is kind of cool. Uh. Defense and security EMP hardening
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  Speaker 1: electronics and wiring are shielded to with stand electromagnetic pulses
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  Speaker 1: from nuclear blasts. It's a good thing too, because I've
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  Speaker 1: read articles about that how EMP weapons are going to
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  Speaker 1: be the holy f weapons of warfare. When it breaks out,
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, everything that's powered by electricity
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  Speaker 1: will not work. It might be what we used in Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: It could be something like that. Yeah, I wonder. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: let's see missile defense equipped with Oh there it is
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  Speaker 1: directional infrared countermeasures. That's DIRCM lasers to blind heat seeking
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  Speaker 1: missiles and chaff and flare dispensers to decoy them radar jamming.
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  Speaker 1: It's armored. The airframe and windows are armored to resist attacks.
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  Speaker 1: You can do in flight refueling. Self Sufficiency has a
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  Speaker 1: self contained baggage loader and large galleys to serve meals
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  Speaker 1: from up to one hundred people, with thousands of meals
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  Speaker 1: in storage.
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  Speaker 2: Thousands of meals in case they have to, like they
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  Speaker 2: thought they might have to with W after nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Just keep flying around for a really long time.
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  Speaker 1: Right, a self contained baggage loader.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's just a little guy in a cage they
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  Speaker 2: keep under the plane.
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  Speaker 1: I figured it was a bag bot, but no, it's
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  Speaker 1: actually a wow.
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  Speaker 2: That's suppose you suppose Trump's got a full sized bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: He's not squeezing into that little bathroom, my air bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yea to sit on that seat. Oh, he's
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  Speaker 1: got a gold toilet seat in there guaranteed. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean if you look at the oval office, which
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  Speaker 1: you've described as looking like a Chinese restaurant, to me,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like the throne room in uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Brunei or something like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Southwest flight recently there was a big old boy headed
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  Speaker 2: to the bathroom, and I thought, I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: see him go to the bathroom, but I would like
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  Speaker 2: to know the mechanics of how this is gonna work.
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  Speaker 1: I just write much as I'd like to mock you
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  Speaker 1: for that, that that vision, But no, I I've I've
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  Speaker 1: thought the same thing. There's no excuse me, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: flight attendant, can you explain to me how that is
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  Speaker 1: going to work? Oh? And or super tall guys, ladies
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  Speaker 1: you you might not know this, but you if you're
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  Speaker 1: standing to relieve yourself if you're over like five six, Jesus, wow,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta crane your neck or hunch or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It's terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you poor things.
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  Speaker 1: Childbirth Uh wow, the Trump card and then let's see. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The creature comforts include private quarters, conference rooms, office space,
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  Speaker 1: and a medical facility. Does not mention the size of
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  Speaker 1: the turlet facilities, uh connectivity blah blah blah. Air First
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  Speaker 1: one isn't just a plane. It's a secure flying fortress
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  Speaker 1: and command center built to keep the president in command
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  Speaker 1: during any crisis.
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  Speaker 2: So you think it went a really really big old
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  Speaker 2: boys going down the aisle, You could say to the
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  Speaker 2: UH air waitress, Yeah, there's gonna need to be somebody
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  Speaker 2: to mop with in there in about five minutes, because
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  Speaker 2: there's no possible that guy can do what he needs
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's a gotta be a miserable experience.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I would have to be first, raise your hand
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  Speaker 2: and make sure you go excuse me, air waitress.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and enjoy the hawker in your coffee. A sweetheart, sweetheart,
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  Speaker 1: you legs. Hey, I got a question like that? Yeah, wow,
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  Speaker 1: what would you know? What would it cost to I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking like toilet first class? Mm hmmm. Maybe you got
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  Speaker 1: the same size seats as coach or whatever, maybe the
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  Speaker 1: same experience, but like you have a reserved, really nice bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: What would that cost?
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  Speaker 2: That's an interesting idea. So you're in coach, but you
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  Speaker 2: get the first class bathroom kind of a.
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  Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean because first class bathrooms are just bathrooms, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well that's maybe eliminate the first class seats, but make
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom the first the first class experience is the bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: or that's just another tier of service. I mean you
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  Speaker 1: could get the first class seats and bathrooms, although again
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  Speaker 1: first class doesn't get first class bathrooms. There's bathrooms and
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  Speaker 1: then yeah wow, I mean I like leg room. I like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not having some big old boy pressed up
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  Speaker 1: against me, but like to have a really nice bathroom
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  Speaker 1: and maybe a reservation system. Mister Getty, mister Getty, party
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  Speaker 1: of one. Yes, yes, we're ready for you. Oh lovely,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. I'm going to go to lock up the aisle.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna need from ten to ten thirty.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna cost you. This is why I fast before
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  Speaker 1: I go on an airplane.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why my son does.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I just I don't even want to ever see that bathroom. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I guess that's it.