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<v Speaker 1>Jenn I first one to one to forecast. We're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>Traffic time because the wreck that has he's been Reagan

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<v Speaker 2>see the talk station.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, twenty nine fifty five Krcity talk station. Happy Friday,

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<v Speaker 1>Eve always made extra special because we get to talk

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<v Speaker 1>with iheartby aviation expert Jay rat Left. Jay, welcome back

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<v Speaker 1>to the show, my dear friend. It's always a pleasure

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<v Speaker 1>to have you on Hey.

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<v Speaker 3>The the honors mind. I always have fun. We have time

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<v Speaker 3>to dive into things here and I love that. Sometimes

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<v Speaker 3>it's I get three minutes here, two minutes there, whatever,

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<v Speaker 3>and it's just but here we get to dive into

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<v Speaker 3>some some fun topics and that always makes it enjoyable.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel the same way. That's why, you know, much

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<v Speaker 1>of the sugarn maybe of my lords and masters here

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<v Speaker 1>at work, if I had them, if they if they're

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<v Speaker 1>out there, I don't know who they are. But the clock,

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<v Speaker 1>I just you know, if I'm on a roll talking

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<v Speaker 1>about something, I hate to interrupt important topics with you know,

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<v Speaker 1>a specific cutoff time, like you got to cut off

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<v Speaker 1>at eight point fifteen, And even though that's recommended, I

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<v Speaker 1>just can go over. But I must really briefly cut

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<v Speaker 1>into our time. I must address Sue, my Indiana listener

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<v Speaker 1>who lives in Lawrenceburg, a faithful listener, and she says

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<v Speaker 1>to me, Indiana isn't a four letter word. Lol, says

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<v Speaker 1>I listen to Lawrenceburg, not far from you. I keep

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<v Speaker 1>hearing your disdain in your voice when you say Indiana.

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<v Speaker 1>What I was talking about was the nuclear power plant

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<v Speaker 1>that Indiana is building now. And I said, come on, Indiana,

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<v Speaker 1>and I had it did sound like disdain. No, that

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<v Speaker 1>was jealousy, Sue, jealousy. I love Indiana.

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<v Speaker 4>Revenue going out the window.

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<v Speaker 1>I totally get it, amen, brother. All right, back to aviation.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's start with well, seats that recline without reducing the

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<v Speaker 1>space with a person behind them. What a novel concept.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, it's a great concept, but you know, I cautioned

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<v Speaker 3>everyone not to get too excited because it's not gonna

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<v Speaker 3>be something we're gonna see quite a bit. But this

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<v Speaker 3>is This is Luthonza, the German carrier, and they rolled

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<v Speaker 3>out a seat. It's kind of a pod that allows

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<v Speaker 3>us to recline without invading the space of the person

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<v Speaker 3>behind us. Now, these are again self contained seat pods,

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<v Speaker 3>and they're being placed in their premium class for the airline.

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<v Speaker 3>And look, while I love the idea, I'm not getting

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<v Speaker 3>excited because I know that these will never replace the

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<v Speaker 3>sardine canned seating that we endure and coach these days,

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<v Speaker 3>because these specific seats require a little bit more.

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<v Speaker 4>Room than a typical seat.

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<v Speaker 3>And if an airline were to decide to hey, customer service,

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<v Speaker 3>let's use these everywhere, they would see a decrease in

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<v Speaker 3>the nunnumber of seats on a plane.

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<v Speaker 4>That means less revenue. Now maybe not.

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<v Speaker 3>I ain't happening, and you and I both know that.

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<v Speaker 3>But look, if you're in premium class, you know you

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<v Speaker 3>can do that. And it's nice because in coach, what

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<v Speaker 3>we're going to be seeing in the coming years is

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<v Speaker 3>a lot like we see on some of the low

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<v Speaker 3>cost carriers, where the seats do not reclimb. They are

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<v Speaker 3>set at a predetermined, slightly inclined spot and that's it.

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<v Speaker 3>You can't bring them up, you can't bring them back

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<v Speaker 3>any And they're saying that this will prevent people from

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<v Speaker 3>getting into altercations on a plane by having these already done.

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<v Speaker 3>It sounds so convincing, and it's a bunch of crap

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<v Speaker 3>because the thought is, if you have these seats, you

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<v Speaker 3>can put an extra row or two in the back.

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<v Speaker 3>So what they're really doing is shoving an extra two

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<v Speaker 3>rows in the back of an aircraft, giving.

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<v Speaker 4>Themselves, you know, six eight additional seats.

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<v Speaker 3>Per segment, per per flight, and my goodness, the revenue

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<v Speaker 3>they generate on that is considerable, and that's why they

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<v Speaker 3>do it because of customer service, but because of the

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<v Speaker 3>fact they can cram more seats into that silver revenue tube.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, IM going to miss the put your seat back

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<v Speaker 1>on the upright, position your trade table in the lock.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, reclined. Why you can enjoy it is my

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<v Speaker 3>is my message.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I suppose that's probably the best solution because

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<v Speaker 1>you know a lot of people that it causes. The

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<v Speaker 1>flight attendants have to walk back, sir, can you put

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<v Speaker 1>your seat up? We're getting ready to take off or

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<v Speaker 1>we're getting ready to land, and as well as the

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<v Speaker 1>uncomfortable reality of the seat in front of you taking

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<v Speaker 1>up your leg space, if everybody suffers equally, then that,

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<v Speaker 1>I suppose is a healthy change for the better.

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<v Speaker 3>But when they go to the meal service and you're

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<v Speaker 3>ready to eat in the person in front of you

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<v Speaker 3>lace all the way back. Your tree table is now

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<v Speaker 3>shoved into your stomach right, and it makes it impossible

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<v Speaker 3>to use it. And the reason that that is is

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<v Speaker 3>because the pitch or the distance between rows has decreased

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<v Speaker 3>steadily over the years as airlines have crammed more and

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<v Speaker 3>more seats into an airplane. And now that we are

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<v Speaker 3>used an option they gave us as far as the

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<v Speaker 3>ability to reclimb. Now it's a problem and now somehow

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<v Speaker 3>that's our.

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<v Speaker 4>Fault because of what the airlines did.

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<v Speaker 3>No, it's a problem with what the airlines created when

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<v Speaker 3>they made the decision to cram extra seats onto the aircraft.

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<v Speaker 1>Fair enough, we can get one more topic in before

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<v Speaker 1>we take a break. Here, Jay, I see that Trump

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<v Speaker 1>has decided to replace the head of the TSA.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, which is a guy he appointed in his first term.

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<v Speaker 3>The guy has been around for about seven years in

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<v Speaker 3>me because I thought, you know, he's doing a decent

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<v Speaker 3>job and I really.

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<v Speaker 4>Don't know of any serious issues that we have ongoing.

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<v Speaker 3>And believe me, if it's the FAA or whoever it is,

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<v Speaker 3>normally the people that are at the top of some

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<v Speaker 3>of these aviation entities don't stick around for but like

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<v Speaker 3>nine or ten or fifteen months and they're gone. This

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<v Speaker 3>individual was a seven year tenure. He had a US

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<v Speaker 3>Coast Guard background. I mean, he was very well qualified.

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<v Speaker 3>And again, the TSA has over too million chances a

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<v Speaker 3>day to mess up, and most of the front line

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<v Speaker 3>people do an incredible job. So yeah, I was a

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<v Speaker 3>little bit. I guess the thought is, Okay, if.

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<v Speaker 4>Biden liked you, I don't, you're out of here. I

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<v Speaker 4>don't know what the reason was, but he.

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<v Speaker 3>Has made the move to replace the head of the TSA.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, we've seen a lot of that stuff coming on

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<v Speaker 1>in the upcoming days. It's already happening all across the administration.

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<v Speaker 3>I think his team is having a hard time keeping

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<v Speaker 3>up with President Trump with all he's done in just

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<v Speaker 3>like a number of hours he's been our president.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, come on, he answered more questions from the

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<v Speaker 1>press and in one day than Biden did in the

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<v Speaker 1>last four years. Guy's got more energet.

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<v Speaker 3>Was like those NFL players on the sideline getting oxygen

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<v Speaker 3>just to try to keep up with.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah, he's too old to be president. No,

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<v Speaker 1>I think he's doing all right. Hell I can't keep

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<v Speaker 1>up with me right, Indeed, I couldn't handle his work day.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll pause, will bring Jay right left back. Apparently it's

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<v Speaker 1>a good thing to be in the Alaska Airline employee

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<v Speaker 1>and more information United and Delta and Boeing and suspension

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<v Speaker 1>of a crew. A bunch of fun stories with Jay Ratliff.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll be right back. Fifty five KRC the Talk station

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<v Speaker 1>this month NBC eight thirty eight, Come on eight thirty nine.

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<v Speaker 1>If you bought KARCD Talk station Brian Thomas A J. Ratliff.

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<v Speaker 1>I heard the Dadash nextpert and all round great guy.

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<v Speaker 1>Is it good to be an Alaska Airline employee?

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<v Speaker 4>Jay? It is? It is.

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<v Speaker 3>In fact, a year ago you and I were talking

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<v Speaker 3>about how Alaska Airlines was forced to ground a third

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<v Speaker 3>of their fleet after that Boeing door plug incident. Even

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<v Speaker 3>Saturday Night Live was having fun at their expense, and

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<v Speaker 3>it remains a very funny video to watch. I'm not

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<v Speaker 3>an SNL fan, but buddy, they nailed it on Alaska Airlines.

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<v Speaker 3>But you know, then, the airline really turned things around

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<v Speaker 3>last year in a very big way.

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<v Speaker 4>They ended the year with.

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<v Speaker 3>Making some significant amount of profit, and they decided to

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<v Speaker 3>give their employees a bonus check that's equal to six

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<v Speaker 3>weeks of their pay as a thank you. So if

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<v Speaker 3>you told the Alaska Airline employees last year at this time,

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<v Speaker 3>this is what you're going to enjoying a year from now,

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<v Speaker 3>they might have had a difficult time believing it. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>last Airlines continues to do a lot of things very

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<v Speaker 3>very well.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, And somebody else did pretty well. I'd be

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump hauling in big corporate donor inaugural fund bucks

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<v Speaker 1>and I guess the airlines were in on that too.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, Delta, you had the United putting up a million

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<v Speaker 3>dollars a pop for the inaugural fund, and I don't

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<v Speaker 3>know that I like that, Brian.

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<v Speaker 4>The reason I don't like.

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<v Speaker 3>It is because the airlines with Trump round one, it

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<v Speaker 3>was a very cozy relationship. And you know, of late

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<v Speaker 3>under the Biden administration, airlines were being held accountable for

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<v Speaker 3>a lot more than they've ever, ever, ever been held

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<v Speaker 3>accountable for. And my fear is that we might be

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<v Speaker 3>taking our foot off the accelerator a little bit. And

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not suggesting that the million dollar inaugural fund.

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<v Speaker 4>Is, you know, to buy some favor.

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<v Speaker 3>But then I see the next person in line with

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<v Speaker 3>their million dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>Is Boeing better get on board?

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<v Speaker 4>Please?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, please don't.

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<v Speaker 4>If there's one.

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<v Speaker 3>If there's one company, I want to make sure that

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<v Speaker 3>we do not let up anything on it's certainly Boeing.

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<v Speaker 3>So we'll just have to We'll just have to wait

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<v Speaker 3>and see. But look again, you and I you know,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not a fan at all of the Biden administration

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<v Speaker 3>at all whatsoever, but I did appreciate how they held

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<v Speaker 3>airlines accountable In fact, they did more from the Department

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<v Speaker 3>of Transportation against airlines, finding them holding their feet to

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<v Speaker 3>the fire, making them accountable more than any other administration

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<v Speaker 3>I've ever.

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<v Speaker 4>Seen in decades.

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<v Speaker 3>And I really wish that kind of heat can continue.

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<v Speaker 3>But sadly, I just I don't think it's going to

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<v Speaker 3>and I really want.

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<v Speaker 1>To be wrong there, politics and money. Just wonder if

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<v Speaker 1>there's any corruptive forces.

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<v Speaker 4>That get along tend to go together.

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<v Speaker 1>You're right easy sitting and felt. I don't know why

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<v Speaker 1>it came to mind. Why did I just say that? Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>so crew got suspended and for sounds like pretty good reason.

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<v Speaker 3>Landing on the wrong runway. Uh oh, it takes and

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<v Speaker 3>the runway lights were off. It takes a lot to

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<v Speaker 3>mess up that bad. But the real story is which

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<v Speaker 3>airline it was. It was Pakistan International Airlines. Now this

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<v Speaker 3>is the airline and I were talking about last week

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<v Speaker 3>that had the we're coming back to France ad and

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<v Speaker 3>they put this ad up with, you know, celebrating the

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<v Speaker 3>fact that the airline was coming back in and it

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<v Speaker 3>was one of their planes flying directly towards the Eiffel Tower.

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<v Speaker 3>It looked like a snapshot of nine to eleven people

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<v Speaker 3>around the world freaked out saying what what is this

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<v Speaker 3>and a very tone deaf ad if you will. But

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<v Speaker 3>this is also the airline that number of years ago

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<v Speaker 3>they found out a third of their pilots had a

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<v Speaker 3>fake pilot license.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh ma als oh, it gets better.

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<v Speaker 3>Also the airline that a number of years ago was

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<v Speaker 3>getting in trouble because part of their maintenance procedure was

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<v Speaker 3>to sacrifice a goat on the tarmac, so needless. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>and I know people they are having breakfast apologies or

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<v Speaker 3>be you think I'm making this up and I'm not.

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<v Speaker 3>It's on the internet, so it's got to be true.

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<v Speaker 3>But yeah, Pakistan International Airlines surprisingly is not allowed to

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<v Speaker 3>fly into the United States because they've had some past

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<v Speaker 3>issues and they were in Lahore landing and the crew

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<v Speaker 3>landed on the wrong run line. They fortunately, thank god,

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<v Speaker 3>nobody got hurt, nobody was occupying the wrong runway at

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<v Speaker 3>the time, and.

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<v Speaker 4>The crew was immediately suspended.

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<v Speaker 3>But for an airline that is desperately trying to rebuild

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<v Speaker 3>their image in the in the world of aviation around

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<v Speaker 3>the world, ran they can't catch a break and it

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<v Speaker 3>just continues.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow, when you said the Pakistani Airline. And apologies to

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<v Speaker 1>my Pakistani listeners out there, and this is not an

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<v Speaker 1>indictment of all things Pakistani, but the vision that immediately

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<v Speaker 3>Oh well, we've got some of those in South America.

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<v Speaker 3>But yeah, Pakistan International Airlines, they've just had one thing

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<v Speaker 3>and it's all self inflicted stuff that has really caused

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<v Speaker 3>them to have the problems they do. And when you

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<v Speaker 3>look at the track record of the incidents that they've had, you.

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<v Speaker 4>Just shake your head.

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<v Speaker 3>But it also allows me to have a greater appreciation

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<v Speaker 3>for the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration

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<v Speaker 3>where they say that carriers, look, you're simply not safe

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<v Speaker 3>enough to fly into any US airports and you are

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<v Speaker 3>not going to do so. And the Pakistan International Airlines

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<v Speaker 3>for a number of years has not been allowed to

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<v Speaker 3>fly into any of our large gateway airports in the country.

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<v Speaker 3>And thank god for that.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and you know, you got to put an exclamation

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<v Speaker 1>point on because of concerns over safety. This isn't some

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<v Speaker 1>political thing where you know, we have poor relations with

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<v Speaker 1>the country politically and there go we're not going to

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<v Speaker 1>allow them to enter our airspace. This is because we're

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<v Speaker 1>afraid to let them into our airspace. Now, if you're

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<v Speaker 1>you're sitting in Pakistan, you hear something like that, you

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<v Speaker 1>get ready to board a plane, I thought you'd be

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<v Speaker 1>very comfortable about that.

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<v Speaker 3>You couldn't pay me to get on a Russian airline

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<v Speaker 3>because of their part issues or certainly Pakistan International airlines.

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<v Speaker 3>And you know this is there's also a country that's

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<v Speaker 3>been very friendly to terrorist organizations like al Qaeda and others.

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<v Speaker 3>So it's there's always been issues there. But from a

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<v Speaker 3>commercial aviation standpoint, look, there are reasons why we are

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<v Speaker 3>enjoying here in the United States the safest air ever

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<v Speaker 3>of commercial jet travel. It's because a lot of people

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<v Speaker 3>are doing a lot of things right and very well.

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<v Speaker 3>And you know, the FAA, even though I'll get on

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<v Speaker 3>them all the time for some of the crazy things

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<v Speaker 3>that we do when we manage the perception of safety

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<v Speaker 3>or security versus actually changing things, I'm always going to

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<v Speaker 3>point out the fact that there's a lot of things

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<v Speaker 3>that they do right.

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<v Speaker 4>Those men and women.

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<v Speaker 3>That are in various roles in that agency. The one

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<v Speaker 3>thing they're looking at is look if there's issues was

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<v Speaker 3>how you train your pilots, how you hire your pilots,

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<v Speaker 3>how your maintenance is done, if it is not being done.

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<v Speaker 3>All of these things are looked at to determine whether

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<v Speaker 3>or not it's okay for an airline to fly in

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<v Speaker 3>the United States. And some people will say, gay, I'm

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<v Speaker 3>flying out of Chicago. I've never heard of this airline

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<v Speaker 4>I'm scared to death.

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<v Speaker 3>And you know it's because the only reason that they're

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<v Speaker 3>allowed to fly here is because they have achieved that

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<v Speaker 3>safety standard that we have to have. But you can

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<v Speaker 3>always go to the State Department website. As we've talked

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<v Speaker 3>about before, they have a list of airlines you should

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<v Speaker 3>be concerned with or destinations you should be concerned with,

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<v Speaker 3>and if the airline that you're flying happens to appear

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<v Speaker 3>on that list, you might want to consider an alternative.

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<v Speaker 1>Sound advice from Jay Rodlift. All right, let's talk about

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<v Speaker 1>hublays and couple that with the disaster that was the

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<v Speaker 1>weather in the Southern States. Over that thousands of flights canceled.

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<v Speaker 1>It was rather dist We had.

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<v Speaker 3>Tens of thousands of flights impacted and affected, and things

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<v Speaker 3>are back to I don't want to say normal because

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<v Speaker 3>I'm looking at New Orleans where forty three percent of

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<v Speaker 3>their flights are canceled, Charleston sixty seven percent of the

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<v Speaker 3>flights canceled. Savannah they're losing their minds with snow sixty

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<v Speaker 3>five percent of their flights canceled. So obviously, in some

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<v Speaker 3>of these areas we're having issues, but when you look

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<v Speaker 3>at the big picture, Southwest is canceled two percent of

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<v Speaker 3>their flights, Delta one percent, American one percent, United one percent.

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<v Speaker 3>So we're starting to see things today get back to normal.

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<v Speaker 3>Today will be as close to normal as we've seen

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<v Speaker 3>in the last several days, very few issues other than Detroit.

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<v Speaker 3>Tomorrow is going to be the day of the week

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<v Speaker 3>where everything is okay, back to normal as usual, because sadly,

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<v Speaker 3>we had planes last night that couldn't reach their destination

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<v Speaker 3>because of delays that affected the originating flights.

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<v Speaker 4>Out this morning.

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<v Speaker 3>But overall it's gotten better as the weakest progress, but

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<v Speaker 3>what an absolute nightmare of a mess with that historic

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<v Speaker 3>storm that stormed across the South from Houston through so

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<v Speaker 3>many of those airports that again they lost snow.

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<v Speaker 1>Removal as I'm just going to ask you, because I

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<v Speaker 1>know the municipalities do not. In the houstonari they were

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<v Speaker 1>talking about they had to bring some down from Dallas

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<v Speaker 1>or something, but they had.

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<v Speaker 3>Because it's like you and I getting a snowblower that

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<v Speaker 3>we put in our garage that we might use every

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<v Speaker 3>fifteen years, You're just not going to do it. And

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<v Speaker 3>it's the same sort of situation with these airports because

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<v Speaker 3>look when I was in Monroe, Louisiana my first post,

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<v Speaker 3>and it's snow two inches. I mean it was three

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<v Speaker 3>days of nothing happening, and you'd have these flyers from

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<v Speaker 3>would just go crazy on us because it's like, what.

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<v Speaker 4>Do you mean it's like a dust that.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we get it, but we don't have any snow

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<v Speaker 3>removal equipment because it doesn't happen that often. And look,

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<v Speaker 3>when you see a snowball fights on Bourbon Street on

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<v Speaker 3>the front page of Street Journal, pretty good indication that

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<v Speaker 3>that well two one global warming has yet to said.

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<v Speaker 3>Is the other thing is this is a very very

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<v Speaker 3>historic storm that you just got to shrug your shoulders

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<v Speaker 3>and pray everybody's going to be okay, and you're sorry

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<v Speaker 3>for everybody got hurt or killed, but from an aviation standpoint,

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<v Speaker 3>there's just very little that can be done about it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Well, and I suppose you were a bit surprised

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<v Speaker 4>Oh my god, oh no, in Savannah.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we actually came back to Ohio to escape the

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<v Speaker 3>Savannah snowstorm because I think the record was like three

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<v Speaker 3>inches from eighteen something, and they got four inches.

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<v Speaker 4>That was on top of snow. And yeah, they're.

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<v Speaker 3>Losing their minds down there, but it's just yeah, we

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<v Speaker 3>had to come to Ohio to escape the Savanah snowstorm.

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<v Speaker 4>That shows you how crazy these days are.

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<v Speaker 1>Jay rat Love. Always enjoy our conversations, my friend. We'll

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<v Speaker 1>do it again next Thursday. Between now and then, best

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<v Speaker 1>of health and love to both you and your better half.

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<v Speaker 4>Same to you, my friends. Thank you, take care.

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