Speaker 1: Aye, Yes, rocking out with Cypress Hill. This is the
Speaker 1: world famous Ben and Skin show man. There's something that
Speaker 1: has gone viral in the last twenty four hours and
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going the way that our friends
Speaker 1: at Southwest Airlines had hoped. Southwest Airlines going through some changes.
Speaker 1: They announced that they would implement a signed seating in
Speaker 1: the second half of twenty twenty five, and then on
Speaker 1: Wednesday they had the announcement yesterday that they are going
Speaker 1: to end it's two bags fly free policy and that
Speaker 1: has led.
Speaker 2: To a bunch of people voicing their concern.
Speaker 1: They're upset about that.
Speaker 2: I'm upset about this.
Speaker 1: People are like, man, how can you do this? Like,
Speaker 1: you know, you guys were different from all the other
Speaker 1: airlines because of the bags fly free and because of
Speaker 1: you know, we just grab a seat where ever we want.
Speaker 1: Now you're just turned into a regular airline.
Speaker 3: And they had the really badass commercial that ended with
Speaker 3: the dying and the you are now free to roam
Speaker 3: around the country.
Speaker 2: That was a great deal.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yesterday, in the face of all the public
Speaker 1: backlash for Southwest Airlines over them changing these policies, somebody
Speaker 1: on their social media team decided to put out a
Speaker 1: post that said, it's not like we traded Luca with
Speaker 1: eyeballs looking at it. In other words, I get while
Speaker 1: you're upset with us, but let's not overreact. It's not
Speaker 1: like we traded Luca. And I think they thought that
Speaker 1: it'd be like, look, we're all in this together. Now,
Speaker 1: let's point over there and laugh at that thing over there,
Speaker 1: and that's the real thing that sucks. And everyone's like whoa, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: way too soon, Like I'll there's people like the backlash
Speaker 1: for this has been beyond the backlash for.
Speaker 2: The other stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think whoever did this probably thought, man, that
Speaker 3: didn't that work out well at the Golden Globes, like
Speaker 3: you know, but it's totally different community. And the other
Speaker 3: thing is Southwest Airlines is so tied to love Field,
Speaker 3: which is so tied to the Mavericks. Like I was
Speaker 3: just in love Field three days ago and they still
Speaker 3: have you know, giant mav player banners wrapped around those
Speaker 3: pillars that support So you're walking down the hall and
Speaker 3: there's giant Klay Thompson and there's giant PJ. Washington. So
Speaker 3: they're very much aligned in terms of being fused together, right,
Speaker 3: Like there's the Mavericks are all over love Field Airport
Speaker 3: and love Field Airport is Southwest Airlines. Yeah, so aren't
Speaker 3: they kind of you know, eating where they poop?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You know it maybe, but does it even go that far?
Speaker 5: I mean, how much thought is putsed? I pull up
Speaker 5: a Twitter account. They haven't tweeted any things. It's January
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four, so they're not doing anything on Twitter X.
Speaker 5: Now Iver, you're on Instagram though, pretty active, but fewer followers.
Speaker 5: Somebody they're trying to build that up.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It just makes you wonder was it
Speaker 2: a manager?
Speaker 5: Was it a social media person that they've hired and
Speaker 5: probably paying a good wage.
Speaker 2: Mean's a degree getting job now, I.
Speaker 3: Bet it was a young person. To Ben's point, I mean.
Speaker 1: I think that's what all these companies do, is they
Speaker 1: look to save as much money as they can. And yes,
Speaker 1: you could go get some super qualified marketing person who
Speaker 1: understands the full scope of branding and how people are
Speaker 1: going to react to certain things, or you could go
Speaker 1: cheap and get a twenty two year old who just graduated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think there's also a mentality of like
Speaker 3: man you don't even need a marketing degree to understand
Speaker 3: social media. Come on, man, look at all these influencers.
Speaker 3: They didn't get marketing degrees. Just get someone that understands that.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: The Other part of this, though, is this is a
Speaker 5: four part post. Like the first part was you at
Speaker 5: least didn't trade Luca, But then it goes into we've
Speaker 5: made updates to our bag policy and you're still gonna
Speaker 5: love flying with us, and here's why, and you slide
Speaker 5: across to the third one of the four. If you're
Speaker 5: an A List Preferred Rewards member, you get two bags free.
Speaker 5: If you're an A List Origins number one bag free.
Speaker 5: So it's like, okay, if you just sign up and
Speaker 5: spend a little more time and money with us, then
Speaker 5: you get more.
Speaker 2: See, it's not bad we didn't trade Luca.
Speaker 5: And then like, man, the Atlanta Falcons are dunking on them,
Speaker 5: like just putting Delta Airlines on there, and I'm like, Falcons,
Speaker 5: not the time for Delta. They had a plane backwards
Speaker 5: the other day. It's not They've had like two big
Speaker 5: incidents in the last couple weeks.
Speaker 3: Why are the Atlanta Falcons that war with Southwest Airlines?
Speaker 5: Because they're just promoting Delta, who's probably their partner. So
Speaker 5: it's like, can we just we got to separate sports
Speaker 5: from business.
Speaker 3: Okay, but then Southwest Airlines should be like, at least
Speaker 3: we didn't give Kirk Cousins too much money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're gonna keep him as the backup man.
Speaker 1: This thing is a powder cake. Still, it's way too
Speaker 1: hyper sensitive. If you want to reach people in Dallas
Speaker 1: for worth and you care about them as consumers, you
Speaker 1: don't kick them in the coconuts while they're crying about Luca.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, it's too early.
Speaker 1: It's too soon, and just the way that it's gone
Speaker 1: since the trade and whatever the Mavericks had in mind,
Speaker 1: all that has changed due to inj you know. And
Speaker 1: so it's a worst case scenario. Whatever the Mavericks were
Speaker 1: trading Luca for has not been able to exist. Therefore
Speaker 1: it couldn't be worse, right, Therefore, it's a developing situation
Speaker 1: that is still happening. It was absolutely worst case scenario
Speaker 1: for the MAVs. Like, there's two different things here. One
Speaker 1: there's the trade of Luca, which everyone has to feel
Speaker 1: a certain way about, and then number two, there's what
Speaker 1: happened to all these players getting injured, which that is
Speaker 1: out of their control. Now, I think like to some point,
Speaker 1: you know, you can make the debate though about well,
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis was a guy with an injury history, so
Speaker 1: you should know, right, you can make that argument if
Speaker 1: you want to make that argument. The Kyrie acl has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with trading Luca. The Derek Lively injury
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with trading Luca. The Daniel Gafford
Speaker 1: injury has nothing to do I mean, I can go
Speaker 1: on and on with this. Right, They're unrelated.
Speaker 3: So from the Mavericks point of view, you make a
Speaker 3: controversial emote, not emotional on their part, emotional for the
Speaker 3: fan base trade, and then every possible horrible thing that
Speaker 3: can happen happens. So now you have to deal with
Speaker 3: the idea of see karma, which is like one of
Speaker 3: those things like really, man, I don't even like we
Speaker 3: can deal in the reality of the horribleness of all
Speaker 3: this without blaming it on karma.
Speaker 2: Is it true?
Speaker 5: And I don't know the full details on this, but
Speaker 5: is it true that they were trying to get a
Speaker 5: bullet train in the late eighties early nineties to Houston
Speaker 5: and that was put on hold in large part because
Speaker 5: Southwest Airlines was making a power play explaining you don't
Speaker 5: need this, We'll get you everywhere you need to be
Speaker 5: and bags will fly free.
Speaker 1: I don't know the entry.
Speaker 5: I saw a post about that, but it was one
Speaker 5: of those things that you just see online and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 5: this is gonna need a little more due diligence, and
Speaker 5: I just it made me think, that's interesting that we're
Speaker 5: still talking about the bullet train a little bit and
Speaker 5: not really but okay comes up every now and then.
Speaker 5: It's like, if they really did stop that from happening
Speaker 5: thirty five years ago, only to flick this which in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Well, that pisses me off a little bit. I I mean,
Speaker 3: there could be something there. In other words, there's always that,
Speaker 3: like the beer companies are trying to influence legislators to
Speaker 3: not have THHC and weed right, Like, there's always business
Speaker 3: interest going on. My understanding is that the reason the
Speaker 3: bullet train hadn't happened is because of all this farm
Speaker 3: land you got to deal with and all these you know,
Speaker 3: there's like all these infrastructure issues that comes with creating it.
Speaker 3: But what the hell do I know.
Speaker 2: I'm a jackass on the eas.
Speaker 5: I just found a big article about it, and I
Speaker 5: will read more about that and report on that coming.
Speaker 2: Up in August.
Speaker 1: Very nice, and that reminds me of your due diligence
Speaker 1: you were talking about. Reminds me of the intro.
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