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Speaker 1: who lines up this man every Thursday? And I dearly
Speaker 1: love Jay Ratlif. I heard media aviation expert good Man
Speaker 1: he is, and I love our conversations. Welcome back, my
Speaker 1: dear friend. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas to you and.
Speaker 2: The same to you. Yeah, Joe can track me down
Speaker 2: any part of this planet that I happen to be on,
Speaker 2: he finds it.
Speaker 1: I know he's good at that, is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Anyhow real quick here, fed announced the raid cut and
Speaker 1: it sounds to me like it's going to be one
Speaker 1: of few. It looks like what they they're suggesting. Maybe
Speaker 1: possibly two next year, but maybe not. And somebody apparently
Speaker 1: I get the impression they're ignoring the ongoing inflationary reality
Speaker 1: we're dealing with. I mean this, all this stuff is
Speaker 1: like the peace of God, specifically the Federal Reserve itself.
Speaker 1: But I know you are a stock trader extraordinaire daytrade
Speaker 1: fun dot com find out what he's all about. What's
Speaker 1: your take on this?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, everyone expected pretty much a quarter point
Speaker 2: interest rate cut. We got that. The problem was some
Speaker 2: of the inflationary data for the last two months has
Speaker 2: been trending up. Yeah, and as a result, the Fed
Speaker 2: chair said, look, next year, we would love to have
Speaker 2: seen three interest rate cuts. It's probably going to be two,
Speaker 2: and it may not be that, depending on where the
Speaker 2: data takes us. In other words, there's really not much
Speaker 2: different than what he's been saying. But then, of course
Speaker 2: the market drops eleven hundred twenty three points yesterday. People
Speaker 2: freak out and they're calling me saying, Jay, is the
Speaker 2: sky falling? What's going? I said, Look, it was not
Speaker 2: even a three percent drop. It's okay. It's one thing
Speaker 2: if you have an eleven hundred and twenty three point
Speaker 2: drop when the Dow is at fifteen thousand, when it's
Speaker 2: at forty three thousand. It's okay because it's like a
Speaker 2: not even three percent drop, And I remind him you've
Speaker 2: got to be over seven percent to hit the historic
Speaker 2: list of the top twenty worst days on the Dow.
Speaker 2: So I said, the pre market this morning's up about
Speaker 2: three hundred points on the Dow. That's good. Comm seems
Speaker 2: to be restored. But it's all about the FED and
Speaker 2: all about the optimism. And of course the challenge for
Speaker 2: Jerome Pound the FED is going to be when Trump
Speaker 2: lights the fuse to this economy next year, how are
Speaker 2: they going to have to respond to try to stay
Speaker 2: ahead of things then, Because I think once energy and
Speaker 2: a lot of other things are really unleashed, we're going
Speaker 2: to see a lot of job creations and a lot
Speaker 2: of really good things happen to the economy. And if
Speaker 2: that's the case, it can be very interesting to see
Speaker 2: where things go. And as long as they can not
Speaker 2: let the national debt continue to go up, I'll be
Speaker 2: rather happy with it.
Speaker 1: Well, I'd like to think that you like me, are
Speaker 1: excited about the entire idea of the doge concept, and
Speaker 1: that Vive Graham is swimming and Elon Musk might actually
Speaker 1: get something accomplished along those lines.
Speaker 2: Well, Donald Trump showed us what a businessman and the
Speaker 2: White House can do round one and it was a
Speaker 2: good thing. And I think the more of that mindset
Speaker 2: we have is good. And you know, the Democrats won't
Speaker 2: won't necessarily agree with this, but it's the Donald Trumps
Speaker 2: and these kind of individuals that should encourage a lot
Speaker 2: of the non political kind of people to have hope
Speaker 2: that we can have people step off the sidelines that
Speaker 2: have that business mentality that can lead our country and
Speaker 2: get away from this career politician mindset. And I think
Speaker 2: the more of that we have, the better off will
Speaker 2: be as a country, because you know, it's a matter of, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm here for you know, four years. I've got to
Speaker 2: fix this this and this limited time, let me get
Speaker 2: it done and move on instead of trying to figure
Speaker 2: out how'm gonna win the next election. That kind of
Speaker 2: stuff never has served us well. And we've see that,
Speaker 2: you know, year after year, decade after decade. All I
Speaker 2: got to do is look at the presidential you know,
Speaker 2: talking points that they have about in for the last
Speaker 2: twenty years, they talk about the same thing. Brian drives
Speaker 2: us crazy because they've not solved a single problem. So
Speaker 2: let's get people off the sidelines.
Speaker 1: You can amen to that. Let's pause. We'll bring back
Speaker 1: iHeartMedia av Action expert Jay ratt Love to talk about
Speaker 1: the aviation eight thirty nine fifty five care CD talk station.
Speaker 1: Right Time was with iHeartMedia av Action Expert jay Or
Speaker 1: Ratlie enjoying a little bit of Vince Garldi on the pianos.
Speaker 1: We hadded a segment to talk about airlines and now
Speaker 1: they've got to provide protections for passengers traveling with disabilities.
Speaker 1: What's the backstory and the current reality now, Jay Rattliffe.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad to see it's being done, long overdue.
Speaker 2: Again we have the Biden administration Pete Buddhacheg going after airlines.
Speaker 2: I'm glad saying, look, a lot of passengers traveling with
Speaker 2: disabilities have really had issues over the last several years
Speaker 2: and it has to stop. And they're putting forth through
Speaker 2: the Department of Transportation some very specific guidelines and training
Speaker 2: requirements telling people you're going to do a better job
Speaker 2: at this or you're going to considerable fines. Brank. A
Speaker 2: lot of people that can't walk, that are in a wheelchair,
Speaker 2: they can't make it back to their seat, say they're
Speaker 2: seat in row twelve, So we use an aisle chair
Speaker 2: that's a very narrow chair. We put them on with
Speaker 2: wheels that we can wheel them back, help them get
Speaker 2: in their seat, and then wheel them back up to
Speaker 2: the front of the aircraft where their wheelchair is standing by.
Speaker 2: Many times, even though airlines have hours of notification, don't
Speaker 2: want to passenger traveling with this type of situation is
Speaker 2: going to arrive. There's times the airlines don't have those
Speaker 2: aisle chairs standing by at the gate, so that means
Speaker 2: that the flight's landed, everybody gets off the plane, you
Speaker 2: have this person that's left with the flight attendants who
Speaker 2: are anxious to get to their next flight, and they're
Speaker 2: trying to figure out how to get this individual off.
Speaker 2: There have been times that these people have gotten in
Speaker 2: the floor and crawled to the front of the airplane
Speaker 2: to get to their wheelchair so they can get to
Speaker 2: their next flight. And when you're talking about that kind
Speaker 2: of a situation, I'm sorry. That's wrong on so many levels,
Speaker 2: and it's happened too many times. Plus, one out of
Speaker 2: every four wheelchairs is either damaged, loss or destroyed and
Speaker 2: airlines need to be doing a better job on that. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's long past time for the airlines to be held
Speaker 2: accountable on this, and I'm glad to see it's taking
Speaker 2: place now.
Speaker 1: In terms of the mandates and edicts on this, I'm
Speaker 1: obviously they need to have these wheelchairs readily available, but
Speaker 1: in so far as I guess, like seating assignments, I mean,
Speaker 1: are they obligated to put the disabled person maybe closer
Speaker 1: to the front of the plane, or I mean, how
Speaker 1: does all that work? Because I mean my mind is
Speaker 1: racing through a multitude of disabilities that exists in the
Speaker 1: world and trying to figure out how in God's name
Speaker 1: an airline can even manage the number of people with disabilities,
Speaker 1: regardless of whether or not they're treating them properly or not.
Speaker 2: Well, most of it just having their equipment standing by
Speaker 2: when it's needed. That's the biggest issue, because a lot
Speaker 2: of times they don't have the wheelchairs standing by, or
Speaker 2: someone gets to their destination and they're supposed to have
Speaker 2: a cific wheelchair that is designed just for them, and
Speaker 2: instead they bring up this wheelchair that's in the airport
Speaker 2: that's too small, uncomfortable to sit in. And sometimes on
Speaker 2: a delayed flight, these individuals are forced to sit in
Speaker 2: this chair that causes them physical pain for two or
Speaker 2: three or four hours on a delayed flight, when in essence,
Speaker 2: they should have access to their own wheelchair if at
Speaker 2: all possible. And a lot of these are not really
Speaker 2: requirements that are you know, out of the realm of
Speaker 2: you know, should be unreasonable for the airlines. They should
Speaker 2: be doing this as a priority, but sadly the wheelchairs
Speaker 2: never seem to get the priority, which is really the problem.
Speaker 2: Now I can tell you from a seating standpoint, we
Speaker 2: would always try to keep anyone with this type of
Speaker 2: a situation is close to the front of the aircraft
Speaker 2: as we could, just to make it easier for them
Speaker 2: to get to and then get away from as well.
Speaker 2: And it's difficult many times when airlines are faced with
Speaker 2: you know, fewer agents at the gate, so you're understaffed
Speaker 2: already the airplane. Many times you've got a lot of
Speaker 2: pressure to get that bad boy out on time. You
Speaker 2: have all of these additional challenges for this overworked gate
Speaker 2: agent where they all with the flight attendants have got
Speaker 2: to try to make some things happen. And you know, Sadly,
Speaker 2: we've seen flights delayed considerably because airlines haven't done many
Speaker 2: times the pre planning they need. Sometimes it's an equipment
Speaker 2: issue where they've got to have more of these aisle
Speaker 2: chairs and other things at the airport to make things
Speaker 2: easier for the airlines to do their job. But the
Speaker 2: Dots made it clear that the wheelchair passengers have not
Speaker 2: been the priority over the years, and that has to change,
Speaker 2: and it has to change immediately.
Speaker 1: Well, you know me, my litigation will start spinning. I'm
Speaker 1: just wondering, Okay, somebody's got their own wheelchair, obviously far
Speaker 1: more comfortable, at least presumably because I've seen those aisle
Speaker 1: wheelchairs as things very I mean, the aisle is not
Speaker 1: even very big for a regular person who's able bodied,
Speaker 1: moving them from their chair into the other chair. It
Speaker 1: sounds to me like there's an opportunity there to do
Speaker 1: some damage or harm them or otherwise, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: exacerbate one of the reasons they're disabled in the first place.
Speaker 1: I would I mean, I wouldn't want to touch it
Speaker 1: with a ten foot poll moving someone into one of
Speaker 1: those tiny chairs. Are they do they have any liability
Speaker 1: issues in connection with that?
Speaker 2: Mostly no, and most of the time the passenger is
Speaker 2: okay with it. They've used them before, because many times
Speaker 2: you're only taking them ten or twelve feet to get
Speaker 2: them from their seat up to the front to where
Speaker 2: their wheelchairs standing bike. They were never designed for any
Speaker 2: long term being seated in those types of things. And
Speaker 2: what happens is they're put in a wheelchair and you know,
Speaker 2: take into their next next departure and hopefully that flight's
Speaker 2: on time, and the eye chair is again used to
Speaker 2: get them on the plane and go from there. So
Speaker 2: the issue has been Look, there were years that those
Speaker 2: aisle chairs we used to have to carry people up
Speaker 2: and down the steps to get them onto an airplane.
Speaker 2: You talk about, yeah, you talked about times when you
Speaker 2: were depending on you know which end of the you know,
Speaker 2: you were carrying them at the.
Speaker 1: Top or bottom.
Speaker 2: And those things are not designed for that, so they
Speaker 2: teeter back and forth. And you talk about prayer life,
Speaker 2: you better have it carrying people up and down the
Speaker 2: steps with on one of those bad boys.
Speaker 1: Amen. I'm man, my mind is racing on that one
Speaker 1: as well. We'll pause right at eight forty five. Got
Speaker 1: a couple more things talk about with Jay Ratleff. We'll
Speaker 1: do that after these brief words fifty five KRC I'm
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Speaker 1: And in the meantime, we're enjoying one more segment here
Speaker 1: with I heard media aviation expert Jay Rattle. At least
Speaker 1: I am. I don't care if anybody else doesn't enjoy it, Jay,
Speaker 1: although I know they do. I love talking with my
Speaker 1: dear friend, and so let us move over to the
Speaker 1: danger of lithium batteries. Had a story yesterday, and the
Speaker 1: stack is Stupid was kind of funny. The story was, well,
Speaker 1: it was funny in part. He had these lithium battery
Speaker 1: shoe warmers, all right, So he's out, he's out putting
Speaker 1: his his ice fishing hut up on the lake, and
Speaker 1: the lithium batteries basically blew up, and he got second
Speaker 1: and third degree burns. And I set it out loud.
Speaker 1: I go, oh, geez, I got my wife these little
Speaker 1: battery operated handwarmers because she goes out and runs out
Speaker 1: with a dog and she gets called really really easily,
Speaker 1: all right, So she'll she'll use these things even when
Speaker 1: it's like forty degrees out, and they work great. They
Speaker 1: get nice and toasty warm, and I figure, you know,
Speaker 1: probably a lot safer than the old zippo version of
Speaker 1: the you know, they put the lighter fluid in and
Speaker 1: the old school handwarmer, and I've got one of those too,
Speaker 1: But would you rather have a flame in your pocket
Speaker 1: or you know, a battery? And so I got her
Speaker 1: a couple of those, and she's been using them. So
Speaker 1: she heard me tell this story, and now she won't
Speaker 1: use them Anymokus. He's afraid they're gonna blow up in
Speaker 1: her pocket. But that's the.
Speaker 2: Problems battery and a fire in one thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so, but that that's those listing.
Speaker 2: Batteries are a problem, Brian. And it's something that you
Speaker 2: hear all the time at the airports, and passengers are
Speaker 2: told at the gates, especially if they're going to be
Speaker 2: checking a carry on bag. If we're going to take
Speaker 2: your bag, please make sure that you do not have
Speaker 2: a laptop in your check bag or tablet, electronic device,
Speaker 2: anything with the lithium battery, which, as you mentioned, could
Speaker 2: be I mean, it can be electric toothbrush. The problem
Speaker 2: is some of these things are igniting. And the alarming
Speaker 2: thing is we're seeing lithium batteries on flights right now
Speaker 2: in the United States twice a week now.
Speaker 1: In the cabin when the cabin.
Speaker 2: Now, the problem is if any of these fires erupt
Speaker 2: in the cargo compartment that we cannot access during a flight.
Speaker 2: Lithium batteries burn at such a high temperature that many
Speaker 2: times the fire suppression systems that we have inside commercial
Speaker 2: cargo jets a cargo I'm sorry, the cargo compartment of
Speaker 2: commercial jets can burn so hot that it makes it
Speaker 2: difficult for the fire suppression systems to put them out,
Speaker 2: which is why it is incredibly dangerous for us to
Speaker 2: have any lithium battery device in a piece of check luggage.
Speaker 2: And the FAA did a survey and they had passengers
Speaker 2: that were quickly admitting, yeah, one out of every four
Speaker 2: passengers admits to packing these lithium batteries in their check
Speaker 2: bags and think nothing of it. And the thought is
Speaker 2: that could kill you and everybody on the plane, So
Speaker 2: don't do it. And I don't understand the thought process
Speaker 2: of why. I understand people forget because if they forget,
Speaker 2: they have a firearm in their carry on bags. So
Speaker 2: I understand sometimes when they don't associate a lithium battery
Speaker 2: type of thing, but it's something that has gotten to
Speaker 2: the point where it's so bad. It's like, do we
Speaker 2: ban all lithium batteries from airlines? And obviously we can't
Speaker 2: do that because it's a part of so many things
Speaker 2: in our life. But we've got to do a better
Speaker 2: job because we're having too many of these situations happen.
Speaker 2: And all you've got to do is go to YouTube
Speaker 2: and check out these lithium fires where backpacks burst into flames,
Speaker 2: and you have different things happen where they suddenly overheat
Speaker 2: and boom. It's an immediate problem. Imagine if you're at
Speaker 2: a flight at thirty five thousand feet in something like
Speaker 2: this happens in the cabin area, which flight attendants are
Speaker 2: trained to put out, or more dangerously, if it happens
Speaker 2: in a piece of check luggage that you can't access.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I mean, go ahead, give us one
Speaker 1: more reason not to want to fly.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, yeah, I was about to say enjoy
Speaker 2: your holiday plights everybody. But no, it's it's just something
Speaker 2: that you know, we're used to people not reading signs
Speaker 2: at airports. They don't listen to announcements. I mean, people's
Speaker 2: brains are elsewhere. And I totally get it, and I understand,
Speaker 2: But when it comes to a matter of safety like this,
Speaker 2: I wonder, you know, do we need to do a
Speaker 2: better job in the you know, the TSA line. You know,
Speaker 2: we've got people there for five, ten, fifteen, twenty thirty minutes,
Speaker 2: and I mean putting up videos that show these lithium
Speaker 2: battery things catching on fire, just to remind people, Hey,
Speaker 2: make sure you don't have one of these in your
Speaker 2: you know, piece of check luggage. If you do, notify
Speaker 2: the airlines so that they can take care of it.
Speaker 2: But Brian, it's something that we're seeing happen more and
Speaker 2: more often, and as a result, it becomes more and
Speaker 2: more of a problem, and it represents a huge safety issue.
Speaker 2: And you know, we're enjoying the safest ere ever of
Speaker 2: commercial travel. We don't want something to happen from a
Speaker 2: strategy standpoint that's preventable, and it certainly is now obviously
Speaker 2: when the bags are screened. If something's caught, the airlines
Speaker 2: can can you know, can work with TSA and they
Speaker 2: can get that uh you know, the threat removed. But
Speaker 2: a lot of times it's not caught. They go through
Speaker 2: and represent a danger to the to the flight.
Speaker 1: Jeez, Louise, I'm just thinking this is probably I mean,
Speaker 1: you said one in four people will admit to it.
Speaker 1: I bet it's a lot higher than that. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: vape thing. I mean there's a multitude of lithium battery
Speaker 1: charged items or battery items out there, and.
Speaker 2: Some people don't know that that device is powered by
Speaker 2: litium battery. They think it's something else, you know. And
Speaker 2: I get that too, because we're all not lithium battery
Speaker 2: experts as far as you know power plants on these
Speaker 2: different devices we have. But you know, we've got to
Speaker 2: do a better job because the numbers are escalating, and
Speaker 2: it's just it's it's getting more. I mean, we had
Speaker 2: a flight, I believe in say Francisco, where we had
Speaker 2: passengers injured when a lyssian battery device overheated and they
Speaker 2: had to have an emergency evacuation of a plane that
Speaker 2: was at the gate as it caught on fire and
Speaker 2: smoke filled the cabin. So you know, these things happen,
Speaker 2: and it's right now, we're just talking about them as
Speaker 2: things that happen during the normal course of whatever, and
Speaker 2: it's just, you know, a needed reminder for anybody that's lying,
Speaker 2: please make sure you take an extra moment to make sure.
Speaker 2: If you've got a Lessian battery device and you can
Speaker 2: carry it on board with you, please do so. Just
Speaker 2: please keep it out of your check luggage, no doubt
Speaker 2: about it. Real quick hub delays. How's it looking out
Speaker 2: there for air travel today, Jay, Minneapolis, A lot of snow,
Speaker 2: a lot of wind, a lot of delays other than
Speaker 2: that rest of the country, and very good shape today.
Speaker 1: Wonderful news. I hope you and your better half have
Speaker 1: a very merry Christmas and happy New Year. Tomorrow my
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Speaker 1: to hitting the ground running after the first of the
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