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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: This time of the week. Get to talk to iHeart
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  Speaker 1: media aviation. Next for Jay Ratliff, Jay, Welcome back, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: and an early happy Father's Day to you, my brother.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, pleasant Thursday to you, and the same to you
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  Speaker 2: as as well, my friend. It's a time that we
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  Speaker 2: can celebrate our dads and how we were raised.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, and sort of trying to reflect on our
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  Speaker 1: own accomplishments. Although I like all things, I'm rather self deprecating,
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  Speaker 1: and my kids will probably say you, I'm a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good dad, you know. I just look back and think
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  Speaker 1: of all the opportunities. Maybe I could have stepped up
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  Speaker 1: and done a better job. But with my daughter getting
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  Speaker 1: bured next week, she picked a great guy. We love him,
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  Speaker 1: and that to me is a good enough accomplishment because
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  Speaker 1: I know so many people who can't say that about
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  Speaker 1: their sons or daughter's spouse or significant others.
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  Speaker 2: So a big, big time and congratulations. Beyond that, it's
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  Speaker 2: always nice to see him making good decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, brother. Moving over, maybe bad decision. Let's start with
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  Speaker 1: this B fifty two crash. I immediately thought of you,
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  Speaker 1: as I do with all major airline issues, and of
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  Speaker 1: course when you see this catastrophe. That is one man,
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  Speaker 1: massive plane. But this plane's been in service for so long,
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  Speaker 1: and I get an understanding from the sort of limited
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  Speaker 1: reporting I've read on it, Jay, they were undergoing an
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  Speaker 1: upgrade on the airplane to modernize it for future use.
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  Speaker 1: Does that have any connection to why crash? Are we
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  Speaker 1: still in the dark on that, sir?
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  Speaker 2: We're pretty much in the dark. And you know, those
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  Speaker 2: upgrades happen over a period of time because this aircraft
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  Speaker 2: has been in service, these types of planes for decades,
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  Speaker 2: going way back, and when you're talking about aircraft might
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  Speaker 2: be you know, forty to fifty sixty years old, water
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  Speaker 2: might have to be. They're constantly being modernized with upgrades
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  Speaker 2: to make them more efficient at what they do. And
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  Speaker 2: of course, when you've got this huge aircraft that's in
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  Speaker 2: the critical stage of take off, fully fueled, perhaps with
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  Speaker 2: munitions on board for the training that they were going
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  Speaker 2: to be doing, and that airplane goes down, you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously fully fueled that and anything that's on there is
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  Speaker 2: going to lead to just an absolute obliteration of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of that aircraft, and that, sadly is what took place.
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  Speaker 2: And of course we found out that they had eight
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  Speaker 2: people on board, two Boeing employees as well, and it
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  Speaker 2: was a training mission that they were on. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: the commercial investigations are handled by the National Transportation Safety
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  Speaker 2: Board out of DC, but in military side, they'll be
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  Speaker 2: sending over the Air Force Investigative Team, that's their version
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  Speaker 2: of the NTSB that'll be doing the report. Where the
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  Speaker 2: National Transportation Safety Board is good at trying to convey
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  Speaker 2: every piece of the information regarding the emergency in the situation,
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  Speaker 2: military is a lot more protective. We won't learn everything,
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  Speaker 2: but we will learn some of what happened. And obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you just anytime there's a problem with
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  Speaker 2: an aircraft, you just pray that the airplane is at
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  Speaker 2: altitude where the crew has the opportunity to work the problem.
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  Speaker 2: You can have the most experienced crew in the world,
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  Speaker 2: and if that airplane has just taken off and they
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  Speaker 2: encounter some sort of a catastrophic incident and they don't
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  Speaker 2: have the benefit of altitude to work the problem, it
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  Speaker 2: can quickly get out of hand. And sadly, that's what
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  Speaker 2: happened here. They'll look at the maintenance records, they'll look
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  Speaker 2: at the training. They're going to look at all the
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  Speaker 2: typical things they look at to try to see if
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  Speaker 2: they can determine what happened. This aircraft had some version
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  Speaker 2: of a black box with it that apparently they've been
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  Speaker 2: able to locate, so maybe they can glean some information
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  Speaker 2: from that as well. But it'll be ten or so
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  Speaker 2: months before we get a final report. But just you know,
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  Speaker 2: you just feel for the families because not only is
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  Speaker 2: it a loss, but it's a public loss that you're
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  Speaker 2: going to see everywhere and it's going to be on
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  Speaker 2: YouTube forever, and yeah, that just makes it even that
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  Speaker 2: much more worse.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I imagine you don't know, but you did
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  Speaker 1: bring up the idea of maybe munitions on the plane.
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  Speaker 1: That's the first thing that jumped into my mind. And
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  Speaker 1: then it said, well, it's a test flight, And I thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: how likely is that they would put like a nuclear
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  Speaker 1: weapon on a plane that's being doing a test flight.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe you can address that because that was a
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  Speaker 1: concern for me.
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  Speaker 2: It is, but you know, we're told a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times that those the way those things are developed and
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  Speaker 2: designed and created, that it's it would be difficult for
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  Speaker 2: them to go off apps into being triggered intentionally but
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  Speaker 2: you're always worried about any sort of hazardous material or
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  Speaker 2: anything else that might be have been included in that
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  Speaker 2: aircraft that could be now exposed. So you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: there wasn't a massive evacuation of the surrounding area, which
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  Speaker 2: immediately told me, okay, there's there's no concerns there. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, you just never know, and you always want
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  Speaker 2: to honor the lives of those that were lost by
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  Speaker 2: trying to determine what happened. And I suspect they're going
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  Speaker 2: to not rest until they know exactly what happened here,
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  Speaker 2: because one, you've got that aircraft, and if there's a
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  Speaker 2: problem where you had a part or piece of the
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  Speaker 2: aircraft that failed let's say prematurely, then we need to
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  Speaker 2: have that piece of the aircraft identified so that all
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  Speaker 2: the other airplanes that are in the fleet that are
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  Speaker 2: like that can also be inspected to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: whatever that critical component was doesn't fail.
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  Speaker 1: Again, let's pause, We'll bring Jay Raytliff back to talk
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  Speaker 1: about rats as well as something I'd never get on
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  Speaker 1: the Sydney London NonStop fly. Hold on, We'll bring Jay
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  Speaker 1: Ratliff back for more topics.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go away, fifty five krc, T.
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  Speaker 1: Pricy, you sound like I'm fifty five krc in the
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  Speaker 1: talk station. Have you ever been in a cockpit before?
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  Speaker 1: I heard me? The adah nextpert Jay Rattliffe most definitely has.
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  Speaker 1: If you get the benefit of his presence every Thursday
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  Speaker 1: for a few segments. Jay, it's always great. Heaven you on,
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  Speaker 1: And let's jump over to this flight that I don't
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  Speaker 1: think i'd ever get on. I want a NonStop fly, Jay,
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  Speaker 1: if I got to get on a plane, you know,
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  Speaker 1: point A to point B. But then again, I'm usually
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  Speaker 1: in most cases, I hardly ever have flown internationally in
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  Speaker 1: my life. But the worst case scenario is going to
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  Speaker 1: be maybe a five hour flight domestically. I went to
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  Speaker 1: Hawaii and I think we had a layover for that one.
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  Speaker 1: Not that bad, but twenty two hours. I think I'd
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  Speaker 1: want a layover in that particular case.
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  Speaker 2: Jay, Well, you and Aquanas is celebrating this. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're number one, they've always ever Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: everybody's trying to get to have the longest light. And
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  Speaker 2: we had a situation here where Aquanas announced this week
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  Speaker 2: that they are going to launch their Sydney to London service.
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  Speaker 2: It's not gonna be till October of next year, but
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  Speaker 2: believe me, they'll be talking about it tweeny now and
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  Speaker 2: then it's gonna be a twenty two hour non stop flight.
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  Speaker 2: They're able to do this because they added a twenty
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  Speaker 2: thousand liters center fuel tank that's basically designed for that
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  Speaker 2: extended range. And it was kind of funny because in
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  Speaker 2: the press release they said, you know, we started this
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  Speaker 2: route nineteen forty seven. We had to stop seven times
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  Speaker 2: on the way there.
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  Speaker 1: It's like watching that Indiana Jones, the Raiders of the
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  Speaker 1: Lost arup stopping at every little isle of along the
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  Speaker 1: wave to get on fueled.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Brian, you love it because they called it
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  Speaker 2: a kangaroo route for that very reason, up and down, up,
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  Speaker 2: and but you go from that all those years ago
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  Speaker 2: to now the twenty two hour NonStop flight and I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the longest Sherrion I've been on. I think it's probably
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  Speaker 2: thirteen hours out of Shanghai coming back to Detroit. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, we were we weren't stuck in the middle
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  Speaker 2: coach seat, which was good, but I just I mean
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  Speaker 2: twenty two hours now, look on Quantason coach it's still
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  Speaker 2: better than you know, some some other carriers here in
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  Speaker 2: the United States a very limited pitch or distance between rows.
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  Speaker 2: But look, I don't care what you want. Twenty two
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  Speaker 2: hours is just I mean, how much binge watching can
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  Speaker 2: you do? Well?
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  Speaker 1: I was just writing down how much xanax and laurazepam
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  Speaker 1: can you get your doctor to prescribe you before you
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  Speaker 1: get on the damn flight?
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  Speaker 2: Oh lord? Yeah, but you know the idea you can
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  Speaker 2: cover that distance and twenty two hours is really just
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  Speaker 2: a testament is to just how incredible the technology is
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  Speaker 2: that we have right now. And you know they're they're
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  Speaker 2: developing hypersonic supersonic type travel, so we could be looking
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  Speaker 2: at things that are going to be depending on if
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  Speaker 2: they can manufacture in a way that would be appealing
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  Speaker 2: to the being counters at the airlines. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: interesting because we had the Concord, but really the only
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  Speaker 2: reason it was around was because of the government subsidies,
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  Speaker 2: because it was an incredibly expensive aircraft to operate, and
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  Speaker 2: that's one of the reasons we never had a whole
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  Speaker 2: long line of manufacturers to build supersonic aircraft. It just
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a viable thing. But they're hoping that they can
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  Speaker 2: develop that kind of technology. So it's just amazing as
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  Speaker 2: you look at the history of aviation, the strides that
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  Speaker 2: had been made, and when we're talking about a twenty
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  Speaker 2: two hour flight, that's just unbelievable. And you know, there
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  Speaker 2: was a time when you wouldn't even consider going over
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  Speaker 2: the water unless you had three or four engines, And
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  Speaker 2: once we got to these super fuel efficient and very
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  Speaker 2: dependable aircraft, it was okay to go across the water
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  Speaker 2: with just two engines because you're always thinking, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I want to have a backup of something that fails,
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  Speaker 2: and you can fly in definitely on one engine. But
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  Speaker 2: they're so powerful now that yeah, two engines across the
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  Speaker 2: ocean not a problem at all.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you brought up a concord because when
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  Speaker 1: I was practicing Launchicago, one of the partners in the
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  Speaker 1: firm I was with, you know, the clients in London
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  Speaker 1: needed him there as quick as possible. They said, take
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  Speaker 1: the concord. I think back in let's say ninety four,
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  Speaker 1: if I had to pick a number out of the
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  Speaker 1: air when this was it was five thousand dollars a ticket.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's and Neil Young was actually on the
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  Speaker 1: play that he flew over on but very small, very compact.
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  Speaker 1: But you mentioned the problems with the I guess avionics. Whatever. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: we have modern software, modern technology. Is there any hope
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to get some very very much faster
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  Speaker 1: planes that curry they currently carried commercial customers or domestic
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  Speaker 1: flyers or you know, just the general population, that we
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  Speaker 1: could cut those hours down significantly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's a company who's I just love to say
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  Speaker 2: their name because it's super cool, but Boom Supersonic. They
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  Speaker 2: are developing supersonic hypersonic aircraft, and you have airlines like Delta,
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  Speaker 2: United and American and others that are investing in that technology.
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  Speaker 2: So they're a part of the ongoing product development. So
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  Speaker 2: the thought is it could be a viable situation, just
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  Speaker 2: like airlines are looking at, you know, electric vehicles. If
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  Speaker 2: there's ever going to be a market for that. It's
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  Speaker 2: a great idea. But the problem is if it can't
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  Speaker 2: be done where the airlines can make money, I don't
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  Speaker 2: care how great it is, how cool it is, how
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  Speaker 2: fast it is, they're not going to do it. But
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  Speaker 2: we're making strides in that area. And when you look
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  Speaker 2: at just the last ten years, it's incredible. And the
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  Speaker 2: further we go, the faster this knowledge is compiled with
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  Speaker 2: all of the artificial intelligence and all the different systems
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  Speaker 2: that we have. So we're getting I to use the
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  Speaker 2: term smarter because a lot of times I don't think
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  Speaker 2: we're We're getting smarter faster, and that only adds to
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  Speaker 2: the research and development of these incredible aircraft engines. And
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be fascinating over the next decade to
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  Speaker 2: see where things go.
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  Speaker 1: We'll say the two more comical stories for the next segment,
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  Speaker 1: along with Hubblays. But what's with the West Palm Airport
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  Speaker 1: changing its name in the moments we have here in
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  Speaker 1: this segment, Jack, It's.
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  Speaker 2: Now the Donald J. Trump International Airport. Now what was
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  Speaker 2: interesting here? Oh, they had tons of lawsuits leading up
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  Speaker 2: to this from people that are not necessarily the biggest
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump fan. But the interesting thing here was West
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  Speaker 2: Palm's airport code PBI has been that way forever. They
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  Speaker 2: changed the code from that to DJT to match the
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  Speaker 2: president's initials. Now I had to go back to like that.
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  Speaker 2: When they renamed the Kennedy Airports JFK, they changed that
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  Speaker 2: three letter code. But look, we have airports being named
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  Speaker 2: Vegas and all these different airports across the country where
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  Speaker 2: they changed the name to reflect many times a political person,
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  Speaker 2: but it doesn't change the three letter code. In this case,
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  Speaker 2: they did, and the FA said, yeah, that's what we were doing.
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  Speaker 2: And the lawsuits were pretty much dismissed from people that
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  Speaker 2: said it was going to cause too much confusion and
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  Speaker 2: too much problems and safety issues. Plane is going to
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  Speaker 2: fall out of the sky, blah blah blah. And obviously
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  Speaker 2: none of that stuff happened. But I wonder how many
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  Speaker 2: people will refuse to fly out of there. I know,
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  Speaker 2: go somewhere else. Show him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm waiting for that.
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  Speaker 2: I'll drive.
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  Speaker 1: Evil Orange man. I'm not flying an air for in
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  Speaker 1: West far All right, Well, we got a couple of
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  Speaker 1: funny ones including rats and comedic air traffic controllers. More
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  Speaker 1: with Jay ratlif don'k.
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  Speaker 2: Away fifty five KRC.
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  Speaker 1: World Cup is the talk station. Hey forty nine to
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  Speaker 1: fifty one KRCD talk station. Happy Friday E Brian Thomas
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff wrapping out another very
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  Speaker 1: interesting aviation discussion with Jay and let us pivot over
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  Speaker 1: to rats. Jay Ratliffe lived in Chicago for eight years
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  Speaker 1: and you'd occasionally see some rats down on the track
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  Speaker 1: and the tracks area, but you never saw him on
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  Speaker 1: the train itself, even though the proximity for a rat
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  Speaker 1: to get from the tracks with loading area into the
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  Speaker 1: train pretty close not a difficult challenge. How in the
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  Speaker 1: hell does a rat get aboard a Jet Blue flight?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it happens. Well, you know, and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times when you've got aircraft that are in maintenance hangers
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  Speaker 2: that are being more on, you have all the doors
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  Speaker 2: open for ventilation, and you have exposed panels and things
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  Speaker 2: of this nature. As an aircraft may be worked on
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  Speaker 2: for a period of days. A lot of times, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I have somebody with that aircraft twenty four to seven,
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  Speaker 2: So you know, you shut the hangar and everything like that,
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  Speaker 2: but it may not prevent a nice little rodent from
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  Speaker 2: making its way in and getting into the aircraft. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we had I think it was an American Airlines flight
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  Speaker 2: ran it was leaving Hawaii, and the crew heard a
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  Speaker 2: scratching in the overhead an apartment above them, and they
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  Speaker 2: thought we got something up there. It might chew through wires,
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  Speaker 2: let's land this airplane. So they turned right back around
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  Speaker 2: as fast as they could landed, and they had a
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  Speaker 2: squirrel that was up there. So apparently that panel was
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  Speaker 2: off for a while, somebody put it back on and
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  Speaker 2: not knowing something was up there, and it wasn't until
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  Speaker 2: the plane was airborne that they had heard that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: in this case, you had a Jet Blue flight that
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  Speaker 2: was flying and passengers looked up at the light and
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  Speaker 2: they noticed over the light the image of the shadowy
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  Speaker 2: image of a rat that was walking. Now imagine if
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  Speaker 2: you're somebody on that flight with let's say just two
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  Speaker 2: phobias in your life, Flying and rats not a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously the passengers quickly noticed it, notified the flight
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  Speaker 2: attendant and Brian the curious thing here on this Jet
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  Speaker 2: Blue flight. And Jet Blue came back later apologizing like crazy,
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  Speaker 2: they did not divert the flight and land. They continued
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  Speaker 2: onto their destination. And that really surprises me because when
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  Speaker 2: you've got anything, I mean, let's say, you know, my
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  Speaker 2: first thought, I waskay, there may be more than one
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  Speaker 2: up there? Yeah, and what are they chewing on and through?
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  Speaker 2: And could that affect the pilot's ability to maintain control
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  Speaker 2: of this aircraft. I was very, very surprised, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if we'll hear anything post incident on this
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  Speaker 2: or not, but I would have to think that from
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  Speaker 2: the FAA standpoint, that there were half to be some
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  Speaker 2: sort of mention on you know, this aircraft should have
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  Speaker 2: been put on the ground immediately because you simply don't know,
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  Speaker 2: and when it comes to unknowns, you don't. Safety is
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  Speaker 2: supposed to come first, so I don't get this, but
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  Speaker 2: they continued on, it landed, everybody was okay. And look,
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  Speaker 2: we've had times when you people have seen a snake
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  Speaker 2: in the over over the light or a scorpion or
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  Speaker 2: something along those lines. So we frequently will get you know,
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  Speaker 2: critters on here. And probably the interesting thing is, given
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  Speaker 2: the number of flights we have in the course of
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  Speaker 2: a day, that it doesn't happen more.
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  Speaker 1: Often, I suppose. So I just hope they did a
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  Speaker 1: thorough disinfecting job of whatever area that rat had to access.
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  Speaker 2: To feel for everybody on there that heads uh, let's
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  Speaker 2: say that don't care for rats.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they don't bother me at all. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a freaked out by them. But if I looked
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  Speaker 1: up and saw one crawling around through the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the sort of the opaque light area. Anyway, that's disturbing.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine the six year old, but that's traveling behind somebody
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  Speaker 2: that he can see that she's really worked up. And
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  Speaker 2: then all he starts to do is start playing with
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  Speaker 2: her hair like somes crawling through it. I mean she'll
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  Speaker 2: scream and have art attack.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go to uh Phoenix and the comedic air
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  Speaker 1: traffic controller if I got them my understanding correct on
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  Speaker 1: where this is going from the little the few snippets
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  Speaker 1: of information.
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  Speaker 2: I've got Jay, Yeah, airplanes come in for landing, air
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: traffic controls talking with the captain, and the air traffic
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: controller says, hey, you guys came from this city such
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: and such and they said yes, remember they're on their
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: way on final approach into Phoenix. So the air traffic
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: controller says, okay, that's that's good. You're cleared for landing,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: but would you prefer to go to Anchorage instead? And
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: the captain laughed and said why And he said, well,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: my mother in law's on that flight, but if you
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: don't want to come to Phoenix, you can go to
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: And they're like, no, not today. But it was nice
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: because there was just a little work time funny and
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: it was just it was just it was fun to
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: listen to. It's nice hearing people at work having a
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: good time. And I have some people saying, now, look, Jay,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: that's a critical moment of flight under ten thousand feet.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: They shouldn't be doing. Yeah, blah blah blah. Who cares.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: They were having fun. But it was fun to listen
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: to as someone who routinely makes fun because I love
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: her so much, my mother in law. Yeah, I really
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: like that, because that was I'd had the same fun.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Well, you get along with her, she'd appreciate the humor
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: and what you said, wouldn't take it personally like so
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: many people do. Geez. Anyway, good.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: First time I met her ask her what her favorite
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: movie was, she told me, and I didn't care. I
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: wanted her to ask me, and I said, my favorite movie,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Throw Mama from the Train. She laughed. So I knew
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: we were going to be okay. And from that day forward,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: in my cell phone, when she calls us his train,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: I'll send her Thomas the Train cards.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: And yeah, that's great.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Hey, I love her very very much, but we will
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: have fun believe me.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Good, that's the way it should be. And finally, as
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: we typically end hub delays, how's it looking for flight
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: out there? Since the weather's at least through this area,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: although it continues eastward.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Jay Well finally got out of Houston. We've had nothing
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: but rain and Houston for days. That's good. But we're
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: having that weather headed forwards Atlanta and Charlotte. And then
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: of course what we were dealing with is in the northeast.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Boston's getting hit right now, Philadelphia soon to be New
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: York and Washington, d C. Philadelphia. So yeah, if you're
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: headed towards the northeast or through Atlanta or Charlotte, some
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: issues going through Chicago out west, you're going to be
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: in good shape. The others, Yeah, pack some patients. It's
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: going to be a slogo.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Thanks for your time every week day. I really enjoy it.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I'll look forward to next Thursday and doing it again
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: between now and then, best