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<v Speaker 2>It's aake thirty one. It's Thursday. It's time.

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<v Speaker 1>Always look for this particular time of the week and

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<v Speaker 1>day because we get to talk to iHeart me the

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<v Speaker 1>eighty AH extpert Jay or left Jay, Welcome back to

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<v Speaker 1>the program, our friends.

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<v Speaker 2>Always a pleasure having you on.

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<v Speaker 4>It is a pleasure to be here. And a belated

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<v Speaker 4>happy birthday to Honor Flight. Yesterday was the twentieth anniversary.

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<v Speaker 4>They've taken three hundred thousand veterans to Washington, d C.

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<v Speaker 4>At no expense to see their memorials. It was started

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<v Speaker 4>by a team here in Ohio.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>Now they've got Honor Flight one hundred and twenty five

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<v Speaker 4>cities across the country and they are doing an incredible job.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my god.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, we had one yesterday that went up to d C.

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<v Speaker 4>Took I think eighty eighty some veterans. Yeah, eight that

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<v Speaker 4>was it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and most all of them Vietnam veterans. I think

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<v Speaker 1>they are eighty of them that were Vietnam veterans. The

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<v Speaker 1>rest from North Korea. And you know, God bless the

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<v Speaker 1>folks that showed up at CVG last night. I was

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<v Speaker 1>kind of bummed I didn't get a call in a

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<v Speaker 1>sort of a recap of the welcome home celebration, which

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<v Speaker 1>is always an emotional thing. It's such such a great,

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<v Speaker 1>great opportunity to see some patriotism, which we don't get

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<v Speaker 1>enough of it these.

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<v Speaker 4>Days, and from kids, you know, and in older adults

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<v Speaker 4>as well, and it's great to see the kids out there.

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<v Speaker 4>And most of the time they have cards and notes

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<v Speaker 4>and letters that were put together by kids, colors, coloring

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<v Speaker 4>and different types of things that'll be putting the welcome

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<v Speaker 4>home packs for these veterans. But yeah, just a phenomenal

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<v Speaker 4>organization is Look, if anybody is interested, it's on or flight.

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<v Speaker 4>Tristate dot org is the site to go to if

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<v Speaker 4>you want to throw a couple bucks at them or

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<v Speaker 4>just kind of follow the great work that they're doing

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<v Speaker 4>because it's it's incredible and happy birthday to an incredible

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<v Speaker 4>organization that turned twenty as of yesterday.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm glad you brought it up. And if you want

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<v Speaker 1>to be a guard I was actually had the blessing

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<v Speaker 1>and benefit of being a guardian on two separate honor

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<v Speaker 1>flights and just just an amazing opportunity. There's a wait

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<v Speaker 1>list for that though, I'm always pleased to see, so

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<v Speaker 1>get on it and wait around maybe a few years

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<v Speaker 1>before you can be there as a guardian, but it

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<v Speaker 1>is well worth the effort real quick. Here, we've been

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<v Speaker 1>in we've been down this river before, and I know

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<v Speaker 1>you don't mind a curveball or two thrown at you.

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<v Speaker 5>But absolutely what thursday of that? A curveball?

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<v Speaker 2>I know.

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<v Speaker 1>But I saw the headline this morning and I got

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<v Speaker 1>another chuckle out of it because you and I have

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<v Speaker 1>talked about this before, and sadly it was a Navy technician.

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<v Speaker 1>US Navy technician been charged with making a false bomb threat.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean he made an outright false bomb threat on

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<v Speaker 1>this flight that was getting ready to take off to

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<v Speaker 1>Hawaii from San Diego.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, you know when you're joke king and you say, hey,

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<v Speaker 4>the guy next to me, he's got a bomb.

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<v Speaker 5>You know, flight attends don't go ha ha and go no.

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<v Speaker 5>We've got a protocol that's followed.

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<v Speaker 4>So what ends up taking place is, yeah, the airplane

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<v Speaker 4>goes back to the It doesn't go back to the airport.

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<v Speaker 4>We take it to a remote location in case there

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<v Speaker 4>is a possible bomb threat. And they've got their protocol

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<v Speaker 4>where passengers are removed, the rescreened, they're questioned, the airplane

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<v Speaker 4>is searched, and it's just an absolute debacle when it

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<v Speaker 4>comes to what happens to people on the on the

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<v Speaker 4>airplane because somebody's joke.

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<v Speaker 5>It's like when somebody wants to.

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<v Speaker 4>Be funny by renaming their hot spot on their phone,

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<v Speaker 4>like Jehad terrorist or something. So when somebody's on a

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<v Speaker 4>plane and they're looking at some of the hot spots

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<v Speaker 4>around them, they see that.

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<v Speaker 5>It's like uh.

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<v Speaker 4>And of course once they bring it up to the

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<v Speaker 4>flight attendant, who notifies the captain, right, it's very clear

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<v Speaker 4>what's going to happen at that point in time.

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<v Speaker 5>And it's not like we have a choice.

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<v Speaker 4>We have to follow that protocol and it will be

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<v Speaker 4>done every single time. And that's why when I had

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<v Speaker 4>people that would fly it and they would show up

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<v Speaker 4>in a group and they'd be like, hey, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>when you screen my bag and see these bombs, don't worry.

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<v Speaker 5>It's like, what okay, time out. Now, you and your

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<v Speaker 5>entire group stand off to.

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<v Speaker 4>The side until the police get here and they're like, well,

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<v Speaker 4>what did I do?

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<v Speaker 5>It's like, well, you're an idiot.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, because.

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<v Speaker 5>You just don't do stuff like that.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, Brian, I understand a lot of people that are

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<v Speaker 4>nervous to fly the way they try to to, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>compensate is just humor. They want something funny to take

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<v Speaker 4>their mind off of how scared they are. But there's

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<v Speaker 4>different ways.

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<v Speaker 5>To do it.

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<v Speaker 1>Nothing funny about that. But then the reaction, and you

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<v Speaker 1>know this is required, That required the Police Maritime Tactical

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<v Speaker 1>Team K nineteen, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, along with

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<v Speaker 1>the San Diego Fire Department, and multiple federal agencies showing

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<v Speaker 1>up of the scene to sert the aircraft. Think of

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<v Speaker 1>them being taken away from their valuable law enforcement obligations

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<v Speaker 1>and going after something that doesn't exist. I mean, the

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<v Speaker 1>chaos that you create by doing this. It just really

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<v Speaker 1>angers me, especially that a US Navy technician would be

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<v Speaker 1>the one of the idiot who should know better that

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<v Speaker 1>it would cause all this.

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<v Speaker 4>And you're pulling those resources from other places that can

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<v Speaker 4>be and now they can't immediately respond for a real threat.

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<v Speaker 4>So you're putting other lives potentially at risk as well

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<v Speaker 4>by something that you're just exactly it's stupid. It's absolutely stupid,

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<v Speaker 4>and it happens far too often.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't be that per eight thirty six will continue with

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<v Speaker 1>Jay Ratliff straphangers on airplanes. That's one of the subjects

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<v Speaker 1>we're talking about coming up next. Stick around you right back.

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<v Speaker 5>Keep your stupid mouth shut.

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<v Speaker 2>Fifty five KRC.

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<v Speaker 1>Jay Ratliff has He's our heart, media aviation expert and

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<v Speaker 1>a pilot. Jay forty right now, if you've got a

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<v Speaker 1>tiercecy talk station, I can't believe this story. You've got

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<v Speaker 1>here standing airline seats. I suppose if you're standing, they're

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<v Speaker 1>not really a seat. But this is like the concept

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<v Speaker 1>of a straphanger on a subway.

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<v Speaker 2>Jay. People are gonna like his no kidding, I don't

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<v Speaker 2>like the sound of it.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, it actually came out in twenty eighteen.

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<v Speaker 4>It was at a some sort of conference in Hamburg, Germany,

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<v Speaker 4>where this skyrider seat was unveiled. It was considered a

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<v Speaker 4>lightweight alternative to the typical airline seat by having it

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<v Speaker 4>elevated slightly to a nearly standing position for people that

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<v Speaker 4>were flying now. To me, when I first saw it,

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<v Speaker 4>I thought, okay, this is a joke. But the seat

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<v Speaker 4>look cramped, They looked uncomfortable, and I really questioned how

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<v Speaker 4>fast you could exit an airplane if you had everybody

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<v Speaker 4>in one of these things. But you know, apparently these

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<v Speaker 4>seats have gained approval in Europe and a few low

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<v Speaker 4>cost carriers are going to be using them by next year.

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<v Speaker 4>Now airlines love them because the seats are lighter, so

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<v Speaker 4>less fuel and surprise, they can crab more seats onto

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<v Speaker 4>those airplanes, more people, more revenue. Who cares if you're comfortable.

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<v Speaker 4>Apparently it's going to be targeted for flights two hours

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<v Speaker 4>and less. And I'm telling you, anybody, a person of

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<v Speaker 4>any kind of size, Brant, I don't see how. And

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<v Speaker 4>the other thing is, I've got to see the aircraft,

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<v Speaker 4>see the schematics as far as the seating configuration.

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<v Speaker 5>But you know, now, if somebody.

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<v Speaker 4>In the window seat needs to use the laboratory, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>you're just moving knees in.

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<v Speaker 5>They kind of screwed out. That's not happening here.

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<v Speaker 4>Everybody's going to the aisle if the person on the

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<v Speaker 4>on the window seat has to get out and use

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<v Speaker 4>the laboratory.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's that much that it's that narrow between the

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<v Speaker 1>standing sea and appears Okay, look.

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<v Speaker 5>I've well said.

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<v Speaker 4>All I've done is I've looked at maybe twenty or

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<v Speaker 4>thirty different variations of how these could be used in

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<v Speaker 4>an airplane, and you know, and in a lot of

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<v Speaker 4>places around the world comforts up secondary. I mean, we're

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<v Speaker 4>spoiled as Americans because we know what we like and

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<v Speaker 4>we've got our personal space, which you know, you go

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<v Speaker 4>to a Disney in Tokyo or something, you're not going

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<v Speaker 4>to enjoy your personal space because it's just that's how

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<v Speaker 4>it is. You got to some third world countries and

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<v Speaker 4>I mean people just cram it and they don't think

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<v Speaker 4>anything rude of it.

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<v Speaker 5>It's just that that culture.

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<v Speaker 4>So the idea of being crammed into an airplane like

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<v Speaker 4>this is something that for a lot of people. You know,

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<v Speaker 4>this is how we travel in some other ways. It's

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<v Speaker 4>not a big deal for us here in the States.

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<v Speaker 4>We look at it like, oh, there's absolutely no way.

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<v Speaker 4>But I tell you what if airlines can find a

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<v Speaker 4>way to put more people onto those silver revenue, I

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<v Speaker 4>mean and I both know they're going to do it, Yes, absolutely,

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<v Speaker 4>And they're going to be forced to you because they're

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<v Speaker 5>The cause of fuels going up, and we have to

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<v Speaker 5>do this. It's not our fault.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, yeah, right, Well I'm flying blind on how they look.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you actually supporting your own weight on your legs?

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<v Speaker 1>Because I'm thinking about folks, maybe if a knee pain

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<v Speaker 1>or folks that aren't capable of standing for two hours?

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<v Speaker 2>Does it take any weight off of you?

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<v Speaker 5>It does? It? Does it?

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<v Speaker 4>It kind of looks like, you know, one of the

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<v Speaker 4>things I first saw was the King Cobra. I thought,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, when that stand up roller coaster where you

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<v Speaker 4>had kind of the thing that came.

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<v Speaker 5>Between the legs where you get rest a little bit.

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<v Speaker 4>This is a kind of a slight variation of that,

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<v Speaker 4>but a little bit more where both your feet could.

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<v Speaker 5>Be off the floor if you want it.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, But Brian, they're just I mean, they're just really

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<v Speaker 5>Know, all these kinds of things. Blah blah blah.

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<v Speaker 1>sixty eight fifty six right now final traffic.

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<v Speaker 1>Forty nine if you have KERCD talk station, Happy Friday

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<v Speaker 1>Eve for you. Back to Jay Ratliffe breaking news. You

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<v Speaker 1>heard it here first yesterday from Congressman Warren Davidson's mouth.

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<v Speaker 1>do so. Spends too much, increases the debt too much,

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<v Speaker 1>pivoting over the contagion has spread Austin Airport. We had

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<v Speaker 4>In fact, it was a yesterday the Federal ABA's administration

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<v Speaker 4>just reduced the flight activity. And Brian, we're going to

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<v Speaker 4>the idea that this antiquated technology is failing them. A

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<v Speaker 4>further excited about President Trump trying to make sure that

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<v Speaker 4>because I'm telling you, weave these men and women some

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<v Speaker 4>the job satisfaction everything else will be a lot higher.

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<v Speaker 5>So.

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<v Speaker 4>But yeah, Austin was the latest we've had Austin, We've

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<v Speaker 5>But we've until.

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<v Speaker 1>And something that's taking a number of years off. You

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<v Speaker 1>and I've been talking about this and it's been all

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<v Speaker 1>the failing U systems. I Sell, the CEOs of ten

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<v Speaker 1>with corroded copper wiring, floppy disks, and physical strips of

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<v Speaker 2>Uh yeah, that's the problem, Jay.

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<v Speaker 5>I mean, here we are.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, we can find a drug dealer on the

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<v Speaker 4>But we've got to subject our air traffic controllers of

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<v Speaker 4>this kind of an issue. And it's you know, when

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<v Speaker 4>when Seann Duffy said some of their parts you have

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<v Speaker 4>was a joke, and no it's not. That's what they

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<v Speaker 4>types of this type of equipment moving. And it's really unfortunate,

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<v Speaker 4>work some of the time but not all the time. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>and that are so outdated that they were created before

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<v Speaker 1>And the other component of this, I thought, with the

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<v Speaker 1>They're using nineteen eighties technology. Nobody's ever any administration has

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<v Speaker 1>get upgrade to the systems, the CEOs now come out

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<v Speaker 1>and send a letter to Congress saying they need to

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<v Speaker 1>take bold action. I mean, you know, hey, wake up, guys,

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<v Speaker 1>where are you in.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, they've been asking for it, bro Oh okay, but

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<v Speaker 4>cared because it worked, and you know it's but look,

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<v Speaker 4>airlines are just as guilty. Southwest Airlines had a Christmas

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<v Speaker 4>melt down a couple of years ago when their computer

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<v Speaker 4>nineteen nineties technology that they're still using when an airline

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<v Speaker 4>So airlines are also guilty of not upgrading their own

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<v Speaker 4>personal stuff as well as they should. But you know,

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<v Speaker 4>we're talking about something that's twenty years outdated versus something

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<v Speaker 4>that's forty to fifty sixty seventy years outdated. So it's

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<v Speaker 4>just ridiculous. It's just beyond that, and the fact that

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<v Speaker 1>As we part company, we always went on hub delays.

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<v Speaker 1>So how's it looking out there for air travel this

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<v Speaker 4>For all of us hoping we never have a standing

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<v Speaker 4>seat to have, it looks like, Yeah, the Northeast, Brian's

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<v Speaker 4>going to be a mess. We've been talking about Newark,

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<v Speaker 4>the biggest storm system in the country. Whereas it that

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<v Speaker 4>smacdab right over in Newark, Newark, Boston, d C, Philadelphia. Basically,

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<v Speaker 4>if you're headed towards the northeast, make sure the airlines

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<v Speaker 4>have a way to get a hold of you. Show

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<v Speaker 4>up at the airport early because it's going to be

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<v Speaker 1>Always a pleasure having none of my program there, Jay.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll look forward to next Thursday another edition of the segment,

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<v Speaker 1>and between now and then, best of health to both you.

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<v Speaker 2>And your better have Thank you much, Take care brother.

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<v Speaker 1>with Dave Hatter. Thank you, as always Joe Strekker for

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