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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: If I'm KRZ the Talk station.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, twenty nine fifty have KRC the talk station. Very
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  Speaker 2: Happy Friday Eve. You made extra special every Friday or
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  Speaker 2: Friday Eve at this time anyway with iHeartMedia aviation expert
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  Speaker 2: Jay Ratliffe, Jay, welcome back, my friend. It's always great
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  Speaker 2: having you on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Oh the highlight of my day. Brother. Let's talk to you.
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  Speaker 2: So kind of you to say, and I've been giving
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  Speaker 2: thanks to everyone who's wished me well having the chemo treatments.
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  Speaker 2: And actually your post on Facebook, I know you didn't
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  Speaker 2: mention me specifically, but I knew darn well who you
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  Speaker 2: were talking about since we talked about that brought a
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  Speaker 2: tear to my eye. All the response. You have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people out in the prayer community answering the
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  Speaker 2: challenge man, that I'll give credit to you and all
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  Speaker 2: those others who you know prayed for me in my
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  Speaker 2: in my good health, because I'm I'm pretty much firing
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  Speaker 2: on all cylinders today after a few days of downtime.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a small price to pay.
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  Speaker 3: Was the six hour six hour treatment? Man, I tell
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  Speaker 3: you that that that's got to be rough, and you've
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  Speaker 3: been through stuff like this before, and it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: I mean just I mean, how arrogant is it of
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  Speaker 3: us every day wake up and just take the day
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  Speaker 3: we've been given like it's it's owed to us, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's deserved it. Yeah, I mean it's it's a daily gift.
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  Speaker 3: And you just never know what's going to happen. So
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  Speaker 3: many days, at the end of the day, I pray,
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  Speaker 3: thank God, today wasn't the worst day of my life.
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  Speaker 3: Thank God nothing happened where friends or family were suddenly
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  Speaker 3: removed out of my life. I mean, you just just
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  Speaker 3: when you look at life as just a daily gift
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  Speaker 3: that I think allows us to let the small stuff
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  Speaker 3: just kind of slide by without us getting too worked.
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  Speaker 1: Up over it.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful philosophy, man, beautiful all right, I tell you what
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna do. I'm not throwing a real curve ball
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  Speaker 2: at you, but I am going to change the order
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  Speaker 2: of things. Given we've got Snowmageddon coming in, and assuming
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  Speaker 2: that we do get Snowmageddon, I'm not asking you to
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  Speaker 2: predict exactly where the hub delays will be, but it
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  Speaker 2: sounds to me like we're going to have some travel
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  Speaker 2: challenges going over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Jay I can do pretty good with that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we know that this massive storm is set
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  Speaker 3: to create a weekend to havoc across the country, and
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  Speaker 3: we're already seeing airlines adjust their flights schedules accordingly. We're
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  Speaker 3: looking at twenty hours of freezing rain in Dallas and
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  Speaker 3: that's going to impact American Airlines hub that's there, so
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  Speaker 3: we're seeing some big issues there. The mess is expected
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  Speaker 3: in Houston and that's a United hub, so we're seeing
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  Speaker 3: both of these airlines cancel flights in advance. And as
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  Speaker 3: this storm spreads across the country, you know, through US
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  Speaker 3: from Memphis through US towards the northeast, we're looking at
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  Speaker 3: tens of thousands of flights that are going to be
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  Speaker 3: going to be impacted as well. Airlines have issued a
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  Speaker 3: weather waiver that's for any passenger that's traveling to or
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  Speaker 3: through any of these affected areas. If you want to
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  Speaker 3: change your itinerary to travel at a different time, you
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  Speaker 3: can do so absent a change fee. And I think
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be so bad that it's actually going
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  Speaker 3: to be something that's going to spill into Monday morning
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  Speaker 3: because it's going to be a weekend event, and that's
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  Speaker 3: going to prevent some aircraft from reaching their final destination
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday night. That makes up the Monday morning originators.
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  Speaker 3: So it is going to be again just wall to
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  Speaker 3: wall have with everything that's going to be going on.
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  Speaker 3: And if it's just snow, I mean, airlines can operate
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  Speaker 3: in snow, they just do it more slowly. But when
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  Speaker 3: you're talking about three, four or five inches of ice
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  Speaker 3: and those types of things, airlines are going to cancel
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  Speaker 3: the flight because you're not gonna put an aircraft that
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  Speaker 3: could a go off a runway, off of a taxiway,
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  Speaker 3: not be able to be under a complete control on
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  Speaker 3: the tarmac. Those kinds of things can really create a
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  Speaker 3: safety issue. Plus it venience for passengers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well plus lift the wings. Once does the ice,
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  Speaker 1: you're good to go.
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  Speaker 3: And but yeah, the whole point is that airlines see
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  Speaker 3: this storm coming and look, I'm just glad it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: a month ago. Can you imagine, you know, December twenty third,
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  Speaker 3: twenty fourth, we're talking about this kind of storm, So
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  Speaker 3: thankfully it was now. But airlines do a horrible job
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  Speaker 3: at customer service. But I always have to give them
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  Speaker 3: high marks when it comes to irregular operations. And weather
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  Speaker 3: related events. They're they're going to make sure that, look,
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  Speaker 3: if we need to cancel this flight, let's do it
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  Speaker 3: so we can notify people at home so that you know,
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  Speaker 3: they don't get to fight to get to the airport
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  Speaker 3: only to find out the flight's been canceled. And sometimes
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  Speaker 3: it's just a matter of an online reroute. You might
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  Speaker 3: be flying American Airlines through Dallas and it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a mess, and they may say, well, Chicago's going
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  Speaker 3: to be less of a mess. Let us route you
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  Speaker 3: through there because January is not known as a busy,
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  Speaker 3: heavy travel month, so as a result, they might have
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  Speaker 3: some options. So you know, American Airlines just rolled out
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  Speaker 3: this new app that if your itinerary is impacted by
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  Speaker 3: any sort of irregular operation, they send you a link.
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  Speaker 3: You click on it and they give you a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of options as far as what you want to do.
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  Speaker 3: Take this light, this light or that flight cancel or
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  Speaker 3: if you need to spend the night, here's something to
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  Speaker 3: click on to get your hotel voucher. Oh you need
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  Speaker 3: transportation vouchers here it is click on that. It's immediate,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just great use of their new It's kind
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  Speaker 3: of an AI type of thing. But it's great that
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  Speaker 3: Americans putting that power in the palm of people's hands,
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  Speaker 3: because in a storm like this, I'm telling you it's
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  Speaker 3: going to come in handy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're almost out of time. Let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: call it early this time because it sounds cool, but
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like a really really bad idea to me.
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  Speaker 2: Flying cars getting ready to launch, and apparently ozempic is
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  Speaker 2: saving the airlines millions or will be anyway more. With
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  Speaker 2: Iheartmediaviation Expert, Jay Ratlifts Stickgram fifty five, KRC dot com,
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  Speaker 2: you're one stop for advertising.
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  Speaker 1: But KRC Deep Talk station. Have you ever been in
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  Speaker 1: a cockpit before?
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  Speaker 2: Well, of course, j Ratlift has I Heart Mediaviation Expert.
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  Speaker 2: We get them every Thursday a few segments talk aviation
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  Speaker 2: realities and this now I Initially my reaction is oh cool.
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  Speaker 2: I've been reading about this my entire life. It looks
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  Speaker 2: like flying cars, especially at the low low price of
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  Speaker 2: forty thousand dollars, are getting ready to be delivered, maybe
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  Speaker 2: as early as the second quarter of this year by
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  Speaker 2: this new tech company. But you don't have to be
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  Speaker 2: a pilot to fly one. And we're bad enough out
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  Speaker 2: on the roads where we have speed limits and and
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  Speaker 2: lane signs and markers and stop signs. What in the
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  Speaker 2: hell is the world going to look like if every
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  Speaker 2: time Dick and Harry has a flying car in their driveway, Jay.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is the Richter X four.
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  Speaker 3: The Richter X four has a list price of thirty
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  Speaker 3: nine nine dollars. That's what they're saying is gonna be
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  Speaker 3: rolled out. It's a single passenger electric vertical takeoff and
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  Speaker 3: landing aircraft could used as a car. It's designed to
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  Speaker 3: make short range personal flights more accessible, and they're saying
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  Speaker 3: more affordable. And the essence is the top speed of
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  Speaker 3: this bad boy's fifty miles an hour, so you don't
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  Speaker 3: have to worry about any top gun maneuvers. Maximum flight
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  Speaker 3: time with your electric battery.
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  Speaker 1: Yeh.
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  Speaker 3: The payload capacity two hundred and twenty pounds, nothing more
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  Speaker 3: than that. And again, as you mentioned, experimental aircraft, meaning
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  Speaker 3: the FAA says no pilot license is required. And that's
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  Speaker 3: where the fun or tear begins, depending on how you
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  Speaker 3: want to look at it, because I mean, we see
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  Speaker 3: road grade every day. I can't imagine. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: just I don't see this happening for quite a while.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: What I do see happening is something that the technology
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  Speaker 3: is very very close, and that's these air taxis or
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  Speaker 3: air ubers, where you have a vehicle that lands in
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  Speaker 3: your driveway, you climb in, it's a pre programmed off off,
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  Speaker 3: it flies you to your destination and lands. It's a
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  Speaker 3: short range type of thing, but that way, it's pre
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  Speaker 3: programmed a specific flightpath. Nothing is going to be directing
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  Speaker 3: it into power lines, buildings, another vehicle or anything along
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  Speaker 3: those lines. And you know that's where things are I
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  Speaker 3: think headed.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm still waiting for Amazon to deliver my
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  Speaker 3: pizza to the driveway with a drone, So we're not
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  Speaker 3: there yet. So I suspect it's gonna be wild for
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  Speaker 3: these air taxis, but find there's several steps that we're
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  Speaker 3: moving into that direction, and eventually that's going to be
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  Speaker 3: the case. Airlines like Delta United American they have spent
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  Speaker 3: just a trum hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars
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  Speaker 3: investing in this technology for these air uber type things
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  Speaker 3: because they see those as things that will feed their
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  Speaker 3: hubs in places like New York and Dallas and Houston
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  Speaker 3: to bring people from areas around the airport straight to
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  Speaker 3: the airport where you don't have to mess with the
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  Speaker 3: hassle of parking and all the traffic.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I can only see this resulting in immediate legislation
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  Speaker 2: to the extent these things become readily available. There's no
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  Speaker 2: way they're going to let us just fly around without
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  Speaker 2: some kind of rules and regulations and licensing. We'll wait
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  Speaker 2: popcorns out.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine I'm plying to like a Bengals game, and then
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  Speaker 3: the state of people after the game when they're trying
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  Speaker 3: to fly those.
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  Speaker 2: No, thank you, especially after a tailgate party.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly my thought.
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  Speaker 2: All right, moving over, I thought this was comical. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't read the article. I just saw your headline. Weight
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  Speaker 2: loss drugs could actually save airlines five and eighty dollars
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  Speaker 2: a year, A little side benefit from the ozempic class drugs.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's exactly it.
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  Speaker 3: There was a study that was put out by Jeffries,
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  Speaker 3: They're a financial services firm, and said, look, the four
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  Speaker 3: largest airlines American, Delta, Southwest, United could save collectively that
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  Speaker 3: five hundred and eighty million or more on fuel thanks
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  Speaker 3: to those drug related things that are going going crazy
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  Speaker 3: right now. And they're saying less fuel means lighter passengers,
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  Speaker 3: which means the airlines can use less fuel to get
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  Speaker 3: the planes to their destination and they can make.
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  Speaker 1: Even more money.
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  Speaker 3: Now, the fun part would be if they were going
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  Speaker 3: to reward us for losing that weight by lowering our fares,
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  Speaker 3: but we both.
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  Speaker 1: Know that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: United and Delta just now, they recently both reported their
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  Speaker 3: quarterly profit of more than a billion dollars in a quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I mean, when.
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  Speaker 3: You think about the history of aviation, the idea of
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  Speaker 3: a making any money in a year was unbelievable. If
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  Speaker 3: you made a billion in a year, it was historic.
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  Speaker 3: And now they're rolling these things out quarterly because the
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  Speaker 3: credit card stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You and I've talked about before.
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  Speaker 3: But remember, no airline would have made any money in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four absent of their credit card agreement. So
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  Speaker 3: when you see the airlines are making that and now
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  Speaker 3: an extra five hundred and eighty million dollars collectively on
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  Speaker 3: top because we're losing weight, just doesn't seem fair.
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  Speaker 2: I guess the one benefit to the consumer the larger
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  Speaker 2: among us won't have to buy two seats anymore if
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  Speaker 2: they stick with the ozempeic and lose the weight, well.
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  Speaker 3: Yea, And airlines continue to kind of amend their plus
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  Speaker 3: size passenger policy, becoming a little bit more hard to
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  Speaker 3: work with. And you know, the airline seats keep getting smaller.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the other thing with weight and balance on
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  Speaker 3: an aircraft. As soon as somebody comes out with a
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  Speaker 3: seat as FAA approved crash resistant and all the things
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  Speaker 3: we have to have that's lighter than what's being used,
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  Speaker 3: airlines are going to use it. Oh yeah, it may
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  Speaker 3: be a whole lot less comfortable, but you know, if
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  Speaker 3: you're only on the plane two three four hours, what's
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  Speaker 3: the big deal.
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  Speaker 1: It's better than a.
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  Speaker 3: You know, perhaps a wooden pew at church or a
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  Speaker 3: bus seat, So why not let's throw them in there?
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  Speaker 3: So you know, waiting, balance is everything on this stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't know. We'll see where all of it goes.
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  Speaker 2: We will, And coming up the next segment, we'll learn
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  Speaker 2: if Loofkanza's new rules regarding lithium battery are good and
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  Speaker 2: if we will learn something from those those things freak
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  Speaker 2: me out, Jay Ratliff anymore, after all your stories on
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  Speaker 2: those lithium batteries, got more other I've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of other stories to talk about it. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get through all of them. We'll give
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  Speaker 2: it our best. One more with Jay Ratliffs stick around
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  Speaker 2: fifty five the talk station caresee the talk station Happy Friday,
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  Speaker 2: Eve Tomorrow Tech Friday with Dave hat Or Jack Windsor
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  Speaker 2: returns as well. And in the meantime, I heart me
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  Speaker 2: the aviation expert Jay Ratliffe BLUs to have them for
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  Speaker 2: a full three segments on a Thursday. And what's with
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  Speaker 2: looft Tonza? They are dealing with the whole concept of
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  Speaker 2: lithium battery powered devices, which you have brought to my
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  Speaker 2: attention more than one occasion, freaking me out. Those things
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  Speaker 2: catch on fire. We all know about that, but oh lo,
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  Speaker 2: and behold, what if someone stowed one away in a
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  Speaker 2: baggage compartment down below the plane? You got a problem
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  Speaker 2: on that when they're not supposed to go there. So
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  Speaker 2: how did luftons there is? How is Luftonso approaching this
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  Speaker 2: new rule?
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  Speaker 3: When you look at some of the YouTube videos and
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  Speaker 3: things that are out there that show how fast these
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  Speaker 3: electronic lithium power devices smolder, and ignite. I mean it's
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  Speaker 3: almost instantaneous. So Luthon's is saying, for those passengers that
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  Speaker 3: are bringing the power pack devices onto their plane that
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  Speaker 3: you use to charge your devices, One, you can't bring
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  Speaker 3: any more than two. The second thing is you cannot
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  Speaker 3: use them during the course of the flight. Three they
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  Speaker 3: are not to go into the overhead storage compartment. They're
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  Speaker 3: to be under your seat or in the seat pocket
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  Speaker 3: in front of you. The reason for that is they
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  Speaker 3: want them to be visually there so that if they
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  Speaker 3: start to smolder, the passenger will know about it immediately,
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  Speaker 3: they can notify the flight attendant. If it's in the
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  Speaker 3: overhead storage compartment, it could smolder for a period of
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  Speaker 3: time and it actually catch fire before anybody's aware of
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  Speaker 3: what's going on. So that's what sluthonza, which is copying
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  Speaker 3: a lot of what other airlines have been doing. And Brian,
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  Speaker 3: all you've got to do is is google the image
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  Speaker 3: of air Boossan that's b U S A M. And
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  Speaker 3: you can see what's left of an airplane that was
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  Speaker 3: at the gate when they were boarding when one of
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  Speaker 3: these electronic devices caught on fire. For the most part,
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  Speaker 3: the entire top of the aircraft knows the tail is gone.
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  Speaker 3: Oh jeez, now that's from a lithium battery fire at
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  Speaker 3: the gate. Thank god, it was at the gate and
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't an aircraft that was in the in the air.
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  Speaker 1: And oh, I'm looking at it right down.
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  Speaker 3: When you see when you see that picture and you
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  Speaker 3: know that we are knowingly being okay with bringing these
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  Speaker 3: devices on and then please pray to God none of
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  Speaker 3: these ever reached the cargo compartment. It just shows how
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  Speaker 3: dangerous these things are, and it were. It's a situation
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  Speaker 3: where we continue to say safety is are number one priority,
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  Speaker 3: but we're gonna lie you bring these things on board.
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  Speaker 1: And look, I.
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  Speaker 3: Understand their phones. I understand that they're tableists. I understand
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  Speaker 3: that they're things that people will not travel without. But
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  Speaker 3: when you recognize the danger of these things represent and
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  Speaker 3: how many times we talk about it, and there's almost
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  Speaker 3: one a week somewhere in the world where these things
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  Speaker 3: are happening, it's just it becomes more and more scary.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm just hoping that we can reach the point where, yes,
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  Speaker 3: we can have better onboard procedures for making sure that
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  Speaker 3: we've got fire suppression bags and flight attendants are trained
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  Speaker 3: now to be firefighters so that they can combat these
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  Speaker 3: things so that it doesn't kill everybody on board a flight.
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  Speaker 3: It's also the reason if one of these electronic devices
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  Speaker 3: get stuck in a seat where nobody can reach it,
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  Speaker 3: the crew will make an emergency land to get at
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  Speaker 3: the nearest airport in case it starts to smolder and
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  Speaker 3: catch fire. They can't reach it to put it out.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to spread. And even though you have fire
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  Speaker 3: resistant material throughout the cabin and it's designed that way,
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  Speaker 3: you still have the very real possibility that these things
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  Speaker 3: could be an issue. So it's one of those things
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  Speaker 3: that you just wonder, you know, how long it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be for somebody's going to get hurt with these things.
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  Speaker 3: And these continue being one of the topics that we
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  Speaker 3: are forced to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I've been in situations where you're not
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  Speaker 2: allowed to have a cell phone. You put it in
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  Speaker 2: one of those Faraday bags and you hold that with you,
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  Speaker 2: and that doesn't seem like much of an ask when
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about the massive loss of life that one
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  Speaker 2: of these batteries can cause. You got a device, put
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  Speaker 2: it in the Faraday bag or put it in the
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  Speaker 2: flameproof bag and maybe if you're using it, at least
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  Speaker 2: it'll be out and you'll be able to tell when
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  Speaker 2: it's smoldering. Throw it right back in the bag. But
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  Speaker 2: all things must be in a fire resistant bag unless
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  Speaker 2: it's being actively used.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that'd work well anything.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, when you tell people that they can't
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  Speaker 3: use their phone, it's like telling them they.
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  Speaker 1: Need to wear a mask.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be tough because you know, somebody puts their
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: phone down, the next person next to them, Hey, you
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: need to put your and that's just you gonna have
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: all all this on board stuff as people try to
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  Speaker 3: help police that type of situation.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it may.
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  Speaker 3: Be to your advance, to your comment, putting something in
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: the seatback pocket that we can put the phones into
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: in the event they start to overheat. But then who's
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: going to pay for those bags to be on the plane?
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: And airlines are going to do it? I mean, they're
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: incredibly cheap, They're absolutely not going to So I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It just seems like the airport preventative measures that might
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  Speaker 2: save massive loss of life and ended up landing them
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  Speaker 2: in a multi multi million dollar litigation. And it seems
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  Speaker 2: to me put that little money up front, don't pay
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  Speaker 2: it to the plane. If you who are dad put
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: on bags or something, that's.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Like putting it.
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  Speaker 3: It's like putting an EpiPen in the onboard medical kit,
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: which airlines do not do. So many times passengers have
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: had issues with allergies and they stop breathing, and thank god,
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: a passenger aboard a plane has an EpiPen that is
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: given to a medical professional that it's administered, because you know,
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: those EpiPens have a shelf life of what eighteen months
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: or something, I don't know, and airlines are not going to,
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: you know, spend that much money to put them.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: On an airplane.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, safety is are number one priority, right In't that
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: what they billion get written down here.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Somewhere billion dollars in one quarter, Jay Ratliff, billion dollars
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: in a quarter. All right, let's end on what I
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: think will be a more positive note than then the
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: wheels falling off airplanes in Orlando. What about this sleeper
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: row that's so hot again? Going back to Lufthansa, Yeah,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Lufana rolled something out.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: It was a couple of years ago, but it's really
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: starting to catch on. It's a sleeper road in essence,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: when you're on a flight. This is the German carrier Luthonsa.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: When you're in one of their flights it's eleven hours
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: or more and you're checking in, you can actually ask
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: the gate agent, look, I'd like to grab an entire
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: row to myself, so that you can pay for the
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: seats that maybe three or four across. You get them
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: at a discount, and you then have, you know, the
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: whole road to yourself. It comes with a thin mattress,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: a blanket, a pillow. You can lay down a sleep
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: the whole time if you want. Because remember, airline seats
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: are perishable. Once the door closes, the airlines lose their revenue.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: But look, the aircraft's only seventy five percent full. Let's
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: say fourth of those seats unsold. So airlines like, man,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: what can we do to raise more money? And they're
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: really good at this and they say, well, let's just
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: sell the whole road to people. And that's what they've doing,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: and it's really catching on now. I still laugh thinking
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: back of the days when the air you know, we
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: had fifty five percent load factors, and if you got
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: the whole road of yourself, you could lay down and
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: sleep without it costing you money. But now they found
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: a way to make even more and this is really
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: catching on. So for people that just want to work
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: and have extra room to put their stuff around, it's
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: working out well. And but for people that want to
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: lay down and sleep, they can do it. So that's
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: all Luthonsa. If you happen to be on a flight
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: of theirs, it's eleven hours.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Or more, eleven hours or more and probably comes at
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: a premium price.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Jay well, but not as much as it would cost
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: to sit in first class and have the lay down seats.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: You're going to get a discount here, So that's how
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: they sell it. And you know, it's just it's nice.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I mean when you don't everybody's sitting next to.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: You and you need work or you just want to rest,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: or you don't want to get up when they have
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: to go to the down to the laboratory.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: That works great too, but.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: You know, yeah, something Look when Elizabeth Taylor used to fly,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: she'd buy every seat in first class and just sit
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: up there by yourself.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: So I guess it depends on what you want to do.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's me makes Elizabeth Taylor sound like well,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna say it out loud.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: We do have the FCC. We've been a very very
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: nice person.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Maybe yeah whatever, Elite exclusive don't want to be bothered
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: with the common people. Jay Ratliffe, love having you. That's
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: right him, and best of luck with your trading week.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: My friend and I will look forward to having another
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: discussion with you next Thursday. Man. Best of health and
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: love to you and your better half.