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Speaker 2: All right, by the way, I'm assuming that we will

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Speaker 2: You want to do it that way, Well, I'm telling you,

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Speaker 2: I think Abbot's abbit's taking some time, is he not? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Here's the problem for the Wolves, or there's a million

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Speaker 4: They've earned it with the work they've done this year

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Speaker 3: But first and now it's time for Ode to a

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Speaker 2: Burns displayed a deft ability to capture the sweep of

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Speaker 3: And he did all of those things.

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Speaker 3: Not everybody has that. A lot of people talk about it.

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Speaker 3: I hope that never goes out of fashion.

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Speaker 2: Sadly they probably won't gone, but not forgotten. A very successful,

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Speaker 2: chat travel with our old buddy Kyle Potter.

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Speaker 3: That's next right here in the fact.

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Speaker 2: Questions for Kyle Potter, thrifty traveler MN dot com guy

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Speaker 2: are already coming in. Actually, but you have some hit

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Speaker 2: the branch on Bryan Cafe in text line at six

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Speaker 2: four six eight six. By the way, Guardie, did you

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Speaker 2: see the text just came in? I know the guy

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Speaker 2: who owned the paticug and who's in Saint Louis Park,

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Speaker 2: who was listening to the show, and last I heard

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Speaker 2: he was opening a new one in Plymouth.

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Speaker 3: Did we know that? Yes, okay, I couldn't remember. I

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Speaker 3: don't know. I didn't know it was the same guy.

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Speaker 4: But it's it's not necessarily Panicoock and who's the brand, right,

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Speaker 4: Pizza's right, Yeah, we talked about it at the time.

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Speaker 4: They are bringing in a Panicoock and Hoo's type breakfast

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Speaker 4: to the pizza place.

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Speaker 3: I think, okay, that's what the story wants. You're right

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Speaker 3: about that.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if Kyle Potter, have you ever considered branching out?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you've created an empire in the travel industry,

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Speaker 2: so the way it's supposed to work is well, I

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Speaker 2: got what's my next?

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Speaker 3: You know, mountain to climb?

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Speaker 2: Is it possible you could do create the same sort

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Speaker 2: of empire, perhaps on the restaurant industry side, service industry

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Speaker 2: side as well?

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Speaker 3: Have you thought about that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'm all about evil skiverers. Forget about panic cook.

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Speaker 5: You gotta go, you got to go with the little

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Speaker 5: dough ball, Okay.

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Speaker 3: All right, all right, Well that that you would know

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Speaker 3: it better than me.

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Speaker 2: I I've talked a good game on the who's panicoock

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Speaker 2: and who's more than I've actually ever went there to

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Speaker 2: the one in Saint Louis Park, which for many many

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Speaker 2: years was about five minutes from where I lived. I

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Speaker 2: think think I just like saying paniccoog and hohosh. I

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Speaker 2: think that's firm.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no question about that.

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Speaker 5: It really does roll off the time it does.

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Speaker 2: It definitely does. Been a very busy stretch for you, obviously,

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Speaker 2: between weather and you know, homeland security issues and security

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Speaker 2: inspectors availability. Why don't we start with the weather side

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Speaker 2: of this thing. Are we close at Minneapoli Saint Paul?

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Speaker 2: Are we close to getting back to normalcy or is

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Speaker 2: the system still catching up?

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Speaker 3: Where are we?

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Speaker 5: I think we're pretty much back to normal here in

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Speaker 5: Minneapolis after a pretty rough Sunday, which just goes to show,

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Speaker 5: you know, canceling three hundred plus outbound flight, it's another

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Speaker 5: three hundred plus arrivals. It's painful for people, especially for

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Speaker 5: people who are scrambling to get back home now and

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Speaker 5: in some cases aren't going to be able to get

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Speaker 5: on some flights back to Minneapolis for another couple of

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Speaker 5: days maybe. But the reason why an airlines do this

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Speaker 5: is so that they can hit the reset button, basically,

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Speaker 5: like these airlines go into hibernation mode, knowing that trying

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Speaker 5: to trying and likely failing to fly yesterday would have

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Speaker 5: just made today even more painful and would have done

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Speaker 5: what we have seen again and again over the last

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Speaker 5: five six years, which is that these things just tend

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Speaker 5: to drag on for days once once things get out

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Speaker 5: of control. So fortunately, things are looking really good for tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: I got a question in anticipation your visit that came

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Speaker 2: in right before the start of the show from a tweeter.

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Speaker 2: Why did Delta wait so long to issue a weather waiver?

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Speaker 2: Did they take advantage of folks wanting to change dates

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Speaker 2: by charging them early on and then eventually did it

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Speaker 2: for free starting Friday, only two days prior to the storm.

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Speaker 3: Can you speak to any of that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So these waivers are a chance for passengers who

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Speaker 5: are flying on a day when there's going to be

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Speaker 5: bad weather or some kind of major disruption to change

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Speaker 5: their flights by a couple of days in some cases

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Speaker 5: up to a week in this case, without paying fees

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Speaker 5: or fair differences. And honestly, the timing on this one

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Speaker 5: didn't strike me as unusual. I think in part because

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Speaker 5: airlines are just doing these things a little bit later now,

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Speaker 5: because they think it takes people time to really accept

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Speaker 5: and start to trust a forecast that things are going

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Speaker 5: to get ugly, and they really do need to rethink things.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I think it's more of an art than a science.

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Speaker 5: I don't see any reason myself to really kind of

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Speaker 5: question that Delta way to too long to do this.

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Speaker 5: You know, they published their waiver, you know, maybe mid

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Speaker 5: morning on Friday, So I don't know that they really

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Speaker 5: could have done it a lot sooner.

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Speaker 2: So what you're so, how bad at its worst did

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Speaker 2: it get? And as you said, is that you make

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Speaker 2: it a little less painful, as painful as for people

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Speaker 2: who have their their flights canceled on them, that when

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Speaker 2: you eliminate some to give yourself a better chance to

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Speaker 2: at the time the weather improves as dramatically as it

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Speaker 2: now has to get yourself up to speed as quickly

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Speaker 2: as possible as an airport.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it. That's that's the name of the game.

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Speaker 5: And it's a decision that you know, primarily the airlines

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Speaker 5: operating you know here in Minneapolis, of course, Delta being

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Speaker 5: the biggest, but Sun Country and then you know all

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Speaker 5: of the other Southwest and United and American, you know,

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Speaker 5: a lot of those, especially those smaller carriers without such

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Speaker 5: a big presence here, say you know what, we're just

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Speaker 5: not flying into Minneapolis because they start their day in Chicago,

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Speaker 5: or in Dallas or in Newark, and their first flight

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Speaker 5: of the day comes from that city into Minneapolis. And

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Speaker 5: they just basically said, you know what, we're just not

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Speaker 5: going to go until at least later in the day.

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Speaker 5: So by the by the end of things on Sunday,

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Speaker 5: there were seven almost seventy five percent of departures canceled

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Speaker 5: in Minneapolis. I can't remember the last time I saw that. Never,

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Speaker 5: it's been it's been years. And you know, a similar

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Speaker 5: amount of arrivals as well. I think it was in

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Speaker 5: the name out of sixty five, sixty six percent of

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Speaker 5: arrivals canceled into Minneapolis yesterday, and there's still some cancelations today,

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Speaker 5: but a lot of that was things that airlines did

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Speaker 5: days ago in preparation for exactly what you're talking about,

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Speaker 5: trying to give the airline time in space to reset

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Speaker 5: the airline so that they have all of their crews

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Speaker 5: and all of their planes in place when everything is

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Speaker 5: back to clear skies and good to go.

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Speaker 2: All right, So give us a sense of where we

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Speaker 2: are on.

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Speaker 3: The fact.

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Speaker 2: What is it I think upwards of is it fifty

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Speaker 2: thousand TSA officers and staff missing their paychecks due to

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Speaker 2: the partial shutdown, which is having an impact on wait

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Speaker 2: times through the security lines, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: Let's speak, Let's start directly.

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Speaker 2: With what you know about what's going on in that

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Speaker 2: regard at our airport.

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Speaker 5: You know here in Minneapolis. It just doesn't really seem

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Speaker 5: like these same this same script had started to play

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Speaker 5: out just yet so last not this past weekend, but

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Speaker 5: the weekend prior. Things started to get really ugly at

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Speaker 5: airports like Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans, and you know, then

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Speaker 5: it turns out that there were just massive amounts of

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Speaker 5: TSA agents who at this point, you know, now we're

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Speaker 5: going on a full month without full pay, we're calling

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Speaker 5: out sick, and so far we haven't seen that happen

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Speaker 5: here in Minneapolis. I'm sure they are dealing with some

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Speaker 5: elevated levels of employees calling out, but not more than

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Speaker 5: they can handle, and not to the level of seeing

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Speaker 5: you know, thirty minutes, forty five minutes, two hours, maybe

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Speaker 5: even more delays at TSA. We just fortunately haven't seen

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Speaker 5: that yet.

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Speaker 3: And do we know why that is? You know, I

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Speaker 3: have to.

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Speaker 5: Think it's just the regionality of the workforce, right, You

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Speaker 5: know that the workforce here is is committed until they

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Speaker 5: won't be. And this is the fear, right is that

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Speaker 5: the longer this goes on, this is going to become

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Speaker 5: not just a regional pocket but Houston yesterday, in Atlanta today,

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Speaker 5: and Austin tomorrow, but truly becomes a widespread thing, and unfortunately,

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Speaker 5: I think what the last few showdowns have shown the

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Speaker 5: people in Congress and in Washington, DC is that they

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Speaker 5: can and will wait until that happens. So it's really

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Speaker 5: only a matter of time before this isn't just happening,

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Speaker 5: and also in Minneapolis, it's happening truly nationwide, and.

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Speaker 3: We don't have so far.

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Speaker 2: I know, you don't necessarily cover Washington directly, but this

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Speaker 2: is all sort of connected. We don't have any indication

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Speaker 2: of that part of this getting resolved, you know, regarding

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Speaker 2: the sort of the impasse in Washington to to you know,

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Speaker 2: to I guess, get the funding here restarted.

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Speaker 5: If there is, I'm not aware of it. I know

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Speaker 5: that Democrats have tried to put up a standalone built

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Speaker 5: fund just the TSA right and just the Coast Guard

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Speaker 5: and maybe a handful of other agencies. But you know,

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Speaker 5: part of the problem here is that one, this is

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Speaker 5: a very limited shutdown. This is not a full scale

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Speaker 5: forty five day shutdown of the federal government like we

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Speaker 5: saw earlier this year or late last year. We're talking

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Speaker 5: about just DHS and two and maybe more importantly, all

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Speaker 5: eyes are on around now and there is just not

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Speaker 5: the kind of public awareness or care about PSA workers

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Speaker 5: about long lines at airports that there would have been

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Speaker 5: just a month or so ago. So this is my

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Speaker 5: fear is and I really hope I'm wrong. I hope

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Speaker 5: that this that these people come to their senses and

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Speaker 5: figure something out to get these woefully underpaid to begin

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Speaker 5: with TSA agents. Who are you know, in the middle

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Speaker 5: of the second stretch significant stretch without pay in the

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Speaker 5: last four months. It's absurd is because of these things,

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Speaker 5: because the shutdown, it's so limited in scale, because we're

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Speaker 5: talking about, you know, war in the Middle East again,

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Speaker 5: that there just isn't going to be the attention to

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Speaker 5: this or the impetus to get this done.

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Speaker 2: Is there I mean, based on the reporting you guys

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Speaker 2: have done, I mean, is there a tipping point here?

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Speaker 2: Is it a date or are there other things that

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Speaker 2: might govern that, because as you say here, it sounds

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Speaker 2: like it hasn't been as bad at some regions and

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Speaker 2: some airports across the country. But is that likely to

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Speaker 2: change if is this goes on?

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Speaker 5: I mean, if there is a tipping point, I would

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Speaker 5: imagine that was last Friday, when you know, this entire

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Speaker 5: workforce got their first full zero page.

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Speaker 3: That's true.

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Speaker 5: So it's very possible that in the coming days we're

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Speaker 5: going to see this and again, I just need to repeat,

635
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Speaker 5: this is the second long plung shutdown with no pace

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Speaker 5: for these workers. This is going to have an exacerbating

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Speaker 5: effect on that workforce. These people, I mean, who in

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Speaker 5: their right mind, no matter how committed they are to

639
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Speaker 5: the job, is going to go back to that job

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Speaker 5: right after what's happened in November and again right now,

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Speaker 5: I just I can't imagine and who is going to

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Speaker 5: join and train to join that workforce knowing that this

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Speaker 5: is what happens, that they are constantly a political football

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Speaker 5: and used for leverage to try to force whatever deal

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Speaker 5: people are looking for in DC.

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Speaker 2: Let me get to We've got a lot of texts

647
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Speaker 2: have come in for Kyle Potter, including this one for MSP.

648
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Speaker 2: This is from six to one to two guy for

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Speaker 2: MSP spring Break Travelers. Is there any meaningful difference between

650
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Speaker 2: security weight lines of terminals one and two? If I'm

651
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Speaker 2: flying Sun Country out of two? Can I be less

652
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Speaker 2: panicked about needing to be there five hours early?

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Speaker 3: So far?

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Speaker 5: And I'm surprised by that so far. I would say

655
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 5: that Terminal two has on the whole been better than

656
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 5: Terminal one, and I think things are Terminal one, you know,

657
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 5: the primary terminal for Delta and American and United right,

658
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 5: things have been moving quite smoothly, especially compared to the

659
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 5: flare ups that we've seen in other major airports across

660
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 5: the country. But every time I've checked and the data

661
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,320
Speaker 5: that I've looked at, Terminal two has been doing better.

662
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 5: But again, this could all change tomorrow, let alone a

663
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 5: couple of weeks from now, depending on when you're heading

664
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 5: out for spring break, and the final wrinkle there is

665
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 5: depending on which day you're flying out, if it's a

666
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 5: peak day, if it's a Saturday morning or a Sunday

667
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 5: morning for Sun Country, flying down to you know, anywhere

668
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 5: warm south of here, that is about as busy as

669
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 5: that terminal ever gets. And I don't know that PSA

670
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 5: ever has enough people to really keep things moving, let

671
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 5: alone when they're in the middle of a shutdown. So

672
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 5: my fear would be, you know, especially as we get

673
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 5: into this coming weekend, things could get really gnarly, so

674
00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 5: I would I know it sucks, but the best thing

675
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,919
Speaker 5: that you can do is just give yourself more time.

676
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,320
Speaker 5: If you don't give yourself enough time, You're going to

677
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 5: be kicking yourself when it's your flight.

678
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 2: So when you say more time, are you saying more

679
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 2: like three to four hours instead of the usually I

680
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,240
Speaker 2: think people say two right to be to be safe?

681
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 3: Is it more like three or four or even more?

682
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,720
Speaker 5: I mean personally, if if I were checking a bag,

683
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 5: and I would encourage everybody skip a line if you can,

684
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 5: if you don't need to join that check line bag,

685
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 5: which you know, those terminal two lines per sun Country

686
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 5: this weekend are going to be pretty atrocious to checking

687
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 5: a bag. If you can skip a line, you can

688
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 5: maybe cut it closer if you have to check a bag.

689
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 5: You know, personally, I'm probably thinking about three hours. Yeah,

690
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 5: thats than sorry.

691
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 3: That makes some sense.

692
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 2: Another six one two texter says he's going to or

693
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,399
Speaker 2: she going to the Big Island Friday for spring break.

694
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 2: Lots of storms in Hawaii recently. Curious to know what

695
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,280
Speaker 2: Kyle knows about Big Island being open and airport issues

696
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 2: at is time, he says he's flying Delta.

697
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 5: You know, the biggest issues that I've seen over in

698
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:09,359
Speaker 5: Hawaii so far, I've been in Maui. I haven't seen

699
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 5: anything in particular about the big island. That's not to

700
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 5: say that there aren't issues there. I just may not

701
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 5: be aware of them. You know, Hawai can handle a

702
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 5: lot of weather until it can't. Yeah, So you know,

703
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 5: I think you just got to keep a real close

704
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 5: eye on local news throughout Hawaii because they're going to

705
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 5: be the first ones that know when things really start

706
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,399
Speaker 5: to hit the fan. And maybe you got to think

707
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 5: about how to pivot and and maybe go to a

708
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 5: different neighboring island. If if you're able to Hawai is

709
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 5: why is climate is wild? I mean, you know, I've

710
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,800
Speaker 5: been on on Maui's when it's been torrential down for

711
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 5: every single day, and I look at the radar and

712
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 5: hawhy it hasn't been touched. So if you have some

713
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:55,399
Speaker 5: freedom think think to start thinking about that. But for now,

714
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,320
Speaker 5: I think just pay real, real close attention to the news.

715
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 2: Lawyer Tom writes that he out of MSP the morning

716
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 2: of Saturday, March sixth, of San Diego worst best I

717
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 2: have ever seen. Their clueless spring breakers and TS agents

718
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 2: calling in sick by droves over an hour to get

719
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 2: bags checked and another half hour to get through security.

720
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 2: Thank God for TSA pre check, barely made the flight

721
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,919
Speaker 2: three minus before the door was closed. On the way back,

722
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 2: went to San Diego Airport three and a half hours

723
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 2: for flight, We're through security in under ten minutes. Crapshoot.

724
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 2: And that's the moral of the story, right you. You

725
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 2: got to play it cautiously, I think if you're for

726
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 2: peace of mind, but it's not going to be the

727
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 2: same every place, whether it's the scheduling of the you know,

728
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 2: the time that you're coming or going, or any number

729
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 2: of other factors as well. That's just part of the

730
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:41,919
Speaker 2: deal at this point.

731
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 3: Correct. Yeah, It's just.

732
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 5: It's so unpredictable. And this just goes to show you.

733
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 5: As much as I would love to tell everybody flying

734
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 5: is great and travel is great and everybody should love it,

735
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,919
Speaker 5: I understand that it's not in large part because it's

736
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 5: so unpredictable, and you can just go to you know,

737
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 5: on different ends of your trip, flying out to San

738
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 5: Diego and on the way back, and have drastically different

739
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 5: experiences getting through security. You can go to the airport

740
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 5: on the same day, you know, on a Saturday, and

741
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 5: then the following Saturday at the same time, and it

742
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 5: can be a completely different situation. You know, you can

743
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 5: control what you can control, and the two things that

744
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 5: you can really take in your hands in these cases

745
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 5: are when you show up knowing that earlier is always better,

746
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 5: as painful as it may be, yep. And having something

747
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 5: like PSA pre check, which you know if you're traveling

748
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 5: I would say twice or more a year, paying seventy

749
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,800
Speaker 5: eight dollars for a five year membership, which I'm not

750
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 5: going to embarrass myself trying to do the math on

751
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 5: the annual pop, but it's not much having that to

752
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 5: be able to get through quicker in some cases significantly quicker,

753
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 5: and they've since added in I believe it's that MSP

754
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 5: as well. Most major airport's probably the fifty biggest in

755
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 5: the country touchless ID for pre check users, which makes

756
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 5: it so much faster, kind of remove some of the

757
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 5: bottleneck and the lines to actually get through to you know,

758
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,919
Speaker 5: those security scanners. Anything that you can do to try

759
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 5: to use your path I think at a time when

760
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 5: tensions are high and there's a lot of confusion and

761
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,479
Speaker 5: things are changing paths, this is the time to start

762
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:20,439
Speaker 5: thinking about those things.

763
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 2: What's the other one besides TSA pre check what's the

764
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 2: what's the other big one?

765
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 3: Clear? Clear?

766
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, the go ahead clear is clear has been I

767
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 5: have I have ragged on Clear a lot. It has

768
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 5: been a total coin clip points that we're talking about

769
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 5: it being unpredictable and something that they've done just within

770
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 5: the past six to nine months at many airports across

771
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 5: the country where they have service, which is not all

772
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 5: of them, it's something like fifty, but including MSP, they've

773
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:54,320
Speaker 5: introduced these new called clear eGates where instead of walking

774
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 5: into the line and talking with an agent and taking

775
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 5: a photo and then getting escorted to TSA, you skip

776
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 5: most of that until you get to the TSA checkpoint

777
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 5: where there's just now an electronic gate where you snap

778
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 5: a selfie, it verifies that you're flying that day, and

779
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 5: then the TSA agent just waves you through. You know,

780
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 5: the last few times I've gone through Minneapolis, granted this

781
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 5: was before the shutdowns, it's got really bad. I basically

782
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 5: never broke stride, So worst case scenario, it's probably going

783
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 5: to save you a significant amount of time. Is it

784
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 5: worth the money? I mean clear it is two hundred

785
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 5: and nine dollars a year a full rap rate compared

786
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,439
Speaker 5: to seventy eight dollars for five years of TSA pre check.

787
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 5: I know which one I'm choosing if I have to choose,

788
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:41,280
Speaker 5: So for you.

789
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 2: It's not always been the latter hasn't been always reliable.

790
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 3: You're saying, if.

791
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 2: When it goes good, it's great, But does it always

792
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 2: go good?

793
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 3: Is that what you're saying exactly?

794
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 5: You know, it's been a coin flip or worse at

795
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 5: Minneapolis for most of the last few years. It's it's

796
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 5: even worse than that at some other major airport the country.

797
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 5: It really just depends. But things, to me clear, is

798
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 5: now really worth considering for the very frequent traveler. I

799
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 5: don't even know if I would have said that, you know,

800
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 5: six months ago.

801
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 2: Does Kyle know of a place to check online for

802
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 2: the length of the TSA lines at MSP at a

803
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 2: given point in the day. Is there a place folks

804
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,359
Speaker 2: can check what the current wait time might be to

805
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 2: maybe help them figure out how quickly they need to

806
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 2: get to the airport.

807
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just it's the Minneapolis Airport's websites. If you

808
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 5: just search Minneapolis TSA waytime, so they have a dedicated

809
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 5: page with this, and then my experience is very accurate.

810
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,359
Speaker 5: Not maybe not to the minute, but you know, within

811
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 5: a five minute rounding error, let's call it. And a

812
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 5: lot of major airports have some version of that's, most

813
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 5: of which are pretty accurate. For a long time, people

814
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 5: would talk about TSA has its own app where you

815
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 5: can look at this and it shows airport's nationwide. But

816
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 5: based on what I know about how they're collecting and

817
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 5: calculating those estimates, that data is not reliable, so I

818
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,720
Speaker 5: would go straight to the airport source, including here in Minneapolis.

819
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 2: I assume you weren't born by in nineteen seventy, or

820
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 2: if I talk to you about a motion picture made

821
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy, it wouldn't mean a lot to you.

822
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 3: You're not that. You're certainly not. You're still a youngster,

823
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 3: are you not?

824
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 5: Yeah? It s bought me nineteen years and we're good.

825
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 3: Okay.

826
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 2: I had a hunch of that. I bring it up

827
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 2: because I don't think we talked about this before, although

828
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,240
Speaker 2: I have talked about it occasionally over the years. Nineteen

829
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,439
Speaker 2: seventy there was a motion picture one of those all

830
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 2: star movie casts, films including Jackie Bissett, Dean Martin, Bert Lancaster.

831
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 2: It goes on and on and on and it was

832
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 2: a film called Airport Okay. And it was basically a

833
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 2: drama about what goes on at a major metropolitan airport.

834
00:44:55,800 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 2: And there's you know, personal stories, and there's airline stories,

835
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,879
Speaker 2: there's a hijacker sub story, and there's a whole bunch

836
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,359
Speaker 2: of them. And I bring it up because I've I've

837
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 2: mentioned before on the show, and I don't know if

838
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 2: you knew this. A lot of the interiors for that

839
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:15,879
Speaker 2: film were in in the Minneapol Saint Paul Airport, done

840
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 2: inside there.

841
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,879
Speaker 3: They they presented in the movie as this.

842
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 2: Was Chicago and airport in Chicago, but a lot of

843
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 2: the interiors was actually done at Twin Cities International or

844
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 2: whatever we call it at this point.

845
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 3: I don't know what we called it then Minneapo Saint Paul.

846
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 5: Wow, No, I had no idea. I'm going to have

847
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 5: to watch that.

848
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 2: It's it's I bet you it's probably it's it's it's

849
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 2: cheesy in a lot of places. I probably, I would

850
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 2: say it probably hasn't held up all that well over

851
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 2: the years. But I just like the local angle of it,

852
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,320
Speaker 2: even though, as I said, it's presented as it's a

853
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 2: it's a Chicago kind of story. George Kennet Helen Hayes

854
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 2: is in it more than stable than a lot of

855
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,439
Speaker 2: old names that the old timers in the audience will

856
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 2: will know. And it's basically an old fashion disaster movie

857
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,360
Speaker 2: back before they became particularly popular.

858
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 3: And then there were some sequels.

859
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 2: I think there were a bunch of sequels, but Airport

860
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 2: one was in part, well, they needed the snow. I mean,

861
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to have the snow right for one thing.

862
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 2: They didn't know how to manufacture it back in those days.

863
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 2: And then like if you get up on that second

864
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 2: floor when you're heading to the to the to the

865
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 2: parking ramps and you can look back towards the airport,

866
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 2: in other words, above the main level terminal where there's

867
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 2: some offices there, it still looks this in part, it

868
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 2: still looks similar to what you see in the movie.

869
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm guessing if you could find it, you

870
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:42,919
Speaker 2: might have have some fun looking at it at some point.

871
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I'm adding it to the list. Sounds fantastic.

872
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 3: V is fine.

873
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 5: I can do cheesy.

874
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 3: Every once in a while. It doesn't hurt. I appreciate

875
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 3: the update. Hope you're doing well and we'll talk soon.

876
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 3: Thank you. Yeah, thanks Burro, appreciate you.

877
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 2: Kyle Potter Thrifty Traveler MN dot com And of course

878
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 2: we've talked about this before. If you are someone well

879
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 2: you don't even have to travel a lot, if you

880
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 2: travel just a little, but you will look you want deals,

881
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 2: you want to look for deals. They've got some great

882
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 2: offers there, and they've got some great subscriptions there that

883
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 2: give you access to all kinds. Because there's some people

884
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 2: really good about bargain shopping, and then there's a lot

885
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 2: of people who want the bargains. They want to be

886
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 2: alerted to special situate deals, but they don't know who

887
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 2: to go to and where to find them.

888
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 3: And they're really good. They are on top of that stuff.

889
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:40,839
Speaker 2: And so I think whatever the nominal subscription fee is,

890
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 2: if you travel a decent even if you don't travel

891
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 2: a lot, but you want the deals, I highly recommend them.

892
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 3: They've been they've been great to work with and great

893
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 3: for us as well.

894
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:53,359
Speaker 2: Let's do this, Let's pause for the top of the hour,

895
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:57,280
Speaker 2: break a couple interesting texts coming in, a couple stories

896
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 2: to follow up on as well, as we prepared to

897
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 2: wrap things up at six point thirty on a Monday

898
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 2: edition of The Afternoon Hour or what was your favorite

899
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:25,800
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards moment. He's out of that officially for tomorrow's

900
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 2: must win home game against the Phoenix Suns. Edwards has

901
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 2: been dealing with In this case, it's knee soreness. This

902
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 2: isn't the chronic foot issue. This is knee soreness. You

903
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 2: could tell you yesterday he collided with I want to

904
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 2: say it was NOAs I don't remember who it was.

905
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:45,919
Speaker 3: Got up rather gingerly, and I know.

906
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 2: He always does get up that way, but I think

907
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 2: that might have aggravated things a bit. Bottom line is

908
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 2: he will not be available for the Wolves against the Suns.

909
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 2: We are, I think a game and a half ahead

910
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 2: of the Suns. Yes, we have the tiebreaker on us

911
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 2: right now. So it's the old deal if you want

912
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,280
Speaker 2: to stay in front of them, just like with Denver,

913
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:04,840
Speaker 2: you want to stay in front of them because I

914
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 2: don't think we have the tiebreaker on anybody basically, probably

915
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 2: not among many of the teams that we're competing with

916
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 2: for some of the spots in the West. So Wolves

917
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 2: are gonna have to get it done without Edwards. And

918
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 2: as we said, Nas is favoring a shoulder, and as

919
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:23,720
Speaker 2: you mentioned earlier, we have been incredibly injury free, healthy

920
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 2: compared to lots of teams, and now further reducing the

921
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 2: margin for error is the possibility that it's going to

922
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 2: start catching up with us and we're going to start

923
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 2: having some injuries. So no Anthony Edwards for tomorrow night

924
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 2: at home game against the Phoenix Suns. A couple people

925
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 2: listening to our conversation with Kyle Potter mentioned that one

926
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:50,839
Speaker 2: of them asked, have I ever heard of the motion

927
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 2: picture Airplane? Of course I have that film spoofed the

928
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 2: Airport series that I was just talking to are talking

929
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 2: with Kyle Potter about the original part of it filmed

930
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 2: some of the interiors of the airport filmed at our airport, Minneapolis,

931
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:11,479
Speaker 2: Saint Paul.

932
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:12,359
Speaker 3: Where else you film?

933
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 2: So that was airport, a drama and an airplane obviously

934
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 2: spoofed it. I mean, I mean there's a couple of

935
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 2: scenes in airport. Has it been out long enough to

936
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 2: where I can give it away? Or do you think

937
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 2: there might be somebody who's going to rent it tonight? Well,

938
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 2: Kyle Potter is, but I don't know if he's a

939
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 2: way I don't even know if you can find it

940
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 2: via a rental.

941
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 3: There's movies that go back that like to that period

942
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 3: of time that.

943
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 2: I just assumed everything's available now, but I'm not even

944
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:41,880
Speaker 2: sure if if it is.

945
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 3: But suffice to say there.

946
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 2: Is a a subplot of Airplane is that a very

947
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 2: forlorn man down on his luck, feels bad about his

948
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 2: inability to provide for his wife, and so he decides

949
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:05,880
Speaker 2: to do what.

950
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 3: I'm going to go to the airport.

951
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,840
Speaker 2: I'm going to file for insurance on a flight that

952
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:20,440
Speaker 2: I'm going to take, and I'm going to bring on

953
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 2: board the airplane a briefcase that has a.

954
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 3: Bomb in it. Geez, that's dark, extremely dark.

955
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 2: And the idea was, well, I'm willing to sacrifice my

956
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 2: life and sadly the lives of a number of other

957
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 2: people have nothing to.

958
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 3: Do with it.

959
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 2: But then the assumption was, well, my wife played I

960
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 2: want to say, by Maureen Stapleton, another accomplished actor.

961
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 3: If you're old enough to know the name.

962
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 2: She's going to get the money from the insurance, him

963
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 2: not understanding that's not really how it works anyway. And

964
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,320
Speaker 2: so there's a moment in the film on the plane

965
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 2: where it they come to understand Dean Martin's the pilot,

966
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:10,400
Speaker 2: by the way, Wow, yeah, yeah, George Kennedy is the

967
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 2: big time mechanic because they got it naturally. All this

968
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 2: is happening during a snowstorm, right, so planes are getting

969
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 2: stuck on the tarmac. All kind of is George Kennedy

970
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:23,280
Speaker 2: with a big old stogy. He's biting on a stogey

971
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 2: off the back of the side of his his his

972
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 2: mouth basically all. But in this case, I think the

973
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:34,320
Speaker 2: plane had already been you know, the passagers were gone.

974
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:36,240
Speaker 2: He's trying to get it out of a snow drift

975
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 2: and they're telling him, you can't keep accelerating that way. Man,

976
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 2: you're gonna it's no good, and he's bleeping. I don't care.

977
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,439
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it. I'm PATRONI I know what I'm doing.

978
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,879
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get this this plane out of there, which

979
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:53,280
Speaker 2: he eventually does. But in the movie, they eventually find

980
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 2: out through security they put two and two together that

981
00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 2: there's a guy on board with a bomb, which is

982
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:03,399
Speaker 2: always an interesting thing to hear if you're a pilot.

983
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:04,360
Speaker 3: They're getting a report.

984
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 2: I think Burt Lancaster gives them the news who's the

985
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 2: manager who runs the airport, the airport authority.

986
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 3: Whatever the case may be.

987
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 2: And so then it's like, well, we got to try

988
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 2: to get the bomb away from him, right, and they

989
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 2: have a plan where they're going to try to distract him.

990
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 2: It's an elaborate plan, and they just about have pulled

991
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:32,319
Speaker 2: it off because he didn't. He's keeping the briefcase on

992
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 2: his lap the whole time.

993
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 3: He did not want to let go of it.

994
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 2: When somebody else on the plane who's figured this thing out,

995
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 2: as they're about to grab the briefcase, yells out he's got.

996
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 3: A bomb, you know, like.

997
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 2: The worst panicky thing you could have from another passenger,

998
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 2: and naturally he then holds tighter out of the briefcase,

999
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 2: sprints back to the bathroom, locks the door of the bathroom,

1000
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 2: detonates the bomb, at which point the plane survives it,

1001
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 2: but there's major injury decompression the whole bit.

1002
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 3: That's that's just one subplot. Goodness, you'd think.

1003
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 2: That'd be enough on its own. That's one of about

1004
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 2: five subplots to the motion picture. So yeah, maybe you

1005
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 2: can find it airport. It's a lot of fun that

1006
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:25,240
Speaker 2: those of you who spent some time at the airport

1007
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:27,719
Speaker 2: like you have. I think we'll be able to what

1008
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 2: I recognize were Like I said, the the there's like

1009
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 2: a bank of offices like on the mezzanine above the

1010
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 2: main level mature, and I think those are still there.

1011
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:41,880
Speaker 2: They are amazing. A lot of other things. Obviously, it's

1012
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 2: the greatest airport. Ever, a lot of other things have changed.

1013
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 2: It really is not so much.

1014
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 3: Airport.

1015
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 2: Dan was a great flick with the Hall of Fame

1016
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 2: cast members George Kennedy's we were talking about as the

1017
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 2: chief mechanic worth the present of mission. The only thing

1018
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 2: the movie lacked were cameos from Sid Hartman and Louis,

1019
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 2: which is true.

1020
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 3: I didn't even thought of that.

1021
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 4: That's we sure Louis wasn't there, so I might have

1022
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 4: been there, That's true, just even as an extra in

1023
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 4: the background.

1024
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 2: You travel, obviously, I wish I had the options that

1025
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 2: now exist regarding getting through airports fast back in the

1026
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 2: days when I traveled a lot. You travel certainly more

1027
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 2: than I do at this point. So are you tsa

1028
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:23,880
Speaker 2: guy and clear for you it's worth doing both? Yes, Okay,

1029
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 2: yes it is.

1030
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 4: I'm yes totally because I'm usually coming in hot as

1031
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 4: I talked about on my commercials. Yes, because I'm usually

1032
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 4: coming in after a show. But I'm also I'm not

1033
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:38,879
Speaker 4: the greatest test case because a lot of my flight

1034
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:41,319
Speaker 4: times are the last ones out of town, Like on

1035
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 4: a Wednesday night, if i need to go to Cedar Rapids,

1036
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 4: I'm taking the basically the positioning flight to get to

1037
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 4: the smaller city, so I don't have to deal with

1038
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:51,479
Speaker 4: lines too much.

1039
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 3: But it does still save a ton of time.

1040
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:57,360
Speaker 4: I mean, and Kyle nailed it on the new clear

1041
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:00,919
Speaker 4: thing that they have you walk up there, iffy though

1042
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 4: on its consistency depending on the airports. Okay, Indianapolis, it's great,

1043
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 4: you said, Indianapolis doesn't even have it. Indianapolis doesn't have

1044
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 4: any of the new test because it's run so well.

1045
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 2: You can just go through regular security and get out

1046
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:15,439
Speaker 2: of there in five minutes.

1047
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,279
Speaker 4: I still can't believe how bought off the national media is,

1048
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 4: given how cranky they are about everything. As You've taught

1049
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:25,840
Speaker 4: me over the years that the TSA pre thing, I

1050
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:29,240
Speaker 4: can't even believe that they they just still swallow this stuff.

1051
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:32,799
Speaker 4: But as Kyle said, there's times where I have not

1052
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 4: broken stride, like getting dropped off of the airport, or

1053
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,720
Speaker 4: walking from the ramp, walking over the skyway coming down,

1054
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 4: usually not checking a bag.

1055
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 3: Sometimes I do just so I don't want to deal

1056
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 3: with it.

1057
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 4: But it's I'll walk in, they'll scan my boarding pass,

1058
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 4: I'll stand in front of this thing. They'll say the

1059
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 4: doors are open, and I'm gone.

1060
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 3: You're gone. It's crazy. That's pretty good. It's really good

1061
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:53,399
Speaker 3: if you.

1062
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 4: Travel a lot, especially, and honestly, it's going to be

1063
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 4: worth the money. The thing about both tsa pre and

1064
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:02,800
Speaker 4: clear in my opinion, Like with my kids for example,

1065
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 4: like when we've gone on spring break or we've gone

1066
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:08,359
Speaker 4: on trips, whatever, it was the fact that they can

1067
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 4: just jump in with me, especially unclear, they can just

1068
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:12,839
Speaker 4: come with me if.

1069
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 3: They're under a certain age.

1070
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just saves so much time and hassle with them.

1071
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 3: For families.

1072
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's where I really For me, it's just the

1073
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 4: first world. This is awesome when I'm traveling by myself,

1074
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 4: when it's with a fan, like I could sit in

1075
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 4: a regular line when it's just me, no big deal.

1076
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 4: But when I'm bringing the kids, all of that right,

1077
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 4: it's a huge time saver and just stress reliever in

1078
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 4: my opinion, I don't remember if.

1079
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 2: My dad happened to be at the airport and someone said, hey,

1080
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 2: you want to make twenty bucks, but he appeared as

1081
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 2: an extra in a crowd scene of that film that

1082
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 2: was filmed, or you know, he's saying at a crowd

1083
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 2: scene of a movie at MSP, and I don't know

1084
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 2: if he means the same movie or a different movie.

1085
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 2: Have you ever been to the Indianapolis airport? Dan, It

1086
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Speaker 2: would be hard to say it's not better than MSP.

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Speaker 2: So that sounds like he's saying it is as good

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Speaker 2: as ms that's justice.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that's psc? Yes? I do, I absolutely do. Interesting.

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Speaker 3: I slept in the Indianapolis airport one night.

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Speaker 2: Oh was at the time where you we were traveling

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00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 2: together and missed a flight. That's where I had to

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00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:18,080
Speaker 2: rent a car from the Indianapolis Airport to drive to

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Speaker 2: Midway because there were no flights. It was the day

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Speaker 2: after the Final four. Everything was full and I had

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00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 2: to get back and you overslept. I did, right. I

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Speaker 2: met you at the airport, and I was going to

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Speaker 2: meet you at the airport again because we were going

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Speaker 2: separately and.

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Speaker 4: Then we're at different hotels. Yeah, yeah, I don't sleep

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Speaker 4: in my chair. That was a bad feeling. That's not

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Speaker 4: a good That was a long day. That can't be

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Speaker 4: a good feeling at all.

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Speaker 2: By the way, the film Airport, a couple of people

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Speaker 2: are saying, is available at Amazon Prime.

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00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 3: There you going to rent it?

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00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 2: And I bet you it's a good price too, because

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00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 2: those old movies, I think, I think they might be

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00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 2: a little bit cheaper. It might be kind of fun.

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Speaker 2: It's something different. I haven't watched it in decades. I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't say, let's come back. Wrap up the program. I

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Speaker 2: got a quick a section nugget to discuss, and then

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Speaker 2: we will give you some details on what we have

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Speaker 2: coming up the rest of the week.

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Speaker 4: Show rap presented by American Pressure Commercial Great Pressure washers

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Speaker 4: since nineteen seventy five.

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Speaker 3: It's the bumper to bumper show wrap.

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Speaker 2: My only disappointment from what I recall of the motion

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Speaker 2: picture Airport that came out some fifty six years ago,

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy is that Dean Martin, who was a key character,

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Speaker 2: I should say key actor in the film as the

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00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 2: head pilot, didn't sing. I wish they would have found

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Speaker 2: a way to do some kind of singing interlude of

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Speaker 2: some sort, you know, given his voice, but they didn't

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Speaker 2: do that there. It was very dramatic. They were trying

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Speaker 2: to play it. Play it as a serious suspense thriller.

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Speaker 3: For sure.

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Speaker 2: You know what life is like at a major metropolitan

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00:59:57,240 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 2: airport in the middle of a bomb threat during a blizzard.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot going on, gotta have.

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Speaker 2: But I mean that because that's the old We don't

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01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 2: trust the audience enough, so we got to put we

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01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 2: got to pile crisis on top of crisis on top

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01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:11,919
Speaker 2: of crisis, and I didn't even get to a couple

1135
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Speaker 2: of the other ones. I mean, there's more, there's there's

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Speaker 2: I want to leave some to the imagination for people

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Speaker 2: because I don't want to ruin it totally for people

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Speaker 2: who are going to rent it tonight. Crisis upon crisis

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Speaker 2: is how you open the show, Wasn't it also true?

1140
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Speaker 2: That's a good callback to the fact that suddenly your

1141
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 2: wild Club have lost what is it, four out of

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01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:33,320
Speaker 2: five yep, three in a row at home to non

1143
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:38,960
Speaker 2: playoff teams, the general manager not pleased, and your Minnesota

1144
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 2: Timberwolves have dropped four out of five by an average

1145
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:46,880
Speaker 2: of twenty points a loss. And now we come to

1146
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 2: find out that Anthony Edwards will not be available for

1147
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 2: our showdown game against the Suns. The team breathing down

1148
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 2: our necks, right, they're right behind us. Now there, who's

1149
01:00:57,640 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 2: their villain player we were talking about with Johnny Atlantic,

1150
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 2: Dylan the villain is not available, But my guess is

1151
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 2: he'll still be there to stir it up from the bench.

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Speaker 2: Don't you think he can't help himself? Of course, yes,

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Speaker 2: I will tell you. Johnny described him as a very

1154
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:15,960
Speaker 2: dirty player, am I allowed to confess?

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Speaker 3: I'd love to have him on my team.

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Speaker 4: He's one of those guys, one of those guys, one

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Speaker 4: of those guys.

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Speaker 2: He's he can guard, he can do things. He can't

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Speaker 2: help a team now, he can't be your best player, obviously,

1160
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Speaker 2: but he can be very good.

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Speaker 3: And how is Phoenix not.

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Speaker 2: A testament to the fact that it's not always just

1163
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 2: about putting together names, Because they got rid of all

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01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 2: but one of their names, and they've improved so dramatically

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01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 2: from the team they were, which would indicate they're on

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01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:49,240
Speaker 2: a better course at least. Right, they're not going for

1167
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Speaker 2: a title this year, but they got rid of everybody

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01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 2: who mattered except the guard, right, And yet they played

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Speaker 2: better together. I haven't checked him out late. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if they're if they're on any kind of a role,

1171
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Speaker 2: but they have they're overachieving one from the start of

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Speaker 2: the season. They've overachieved.

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Speaker 4: Their records are it's kind of similar to what they've

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Speaker 4: been the last few years. But that's kind of the

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Speaker 4: point exactly of how badly they had been underachieved.

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Speaker 3: Very true.

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Speaker 4: Like you know how it's like when it's fifty degrees

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Speaker 4: here on Friday, it's going to feel a lot different

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Speaker 4: than when it's fifty in October. Their record right now

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Speaker 4: feels a lot different than their record which is pretty

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Speaker 4: similar the last couple of years. Because they don't have Durant,

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Speaker 4: they don't have Beal, They just have who they have

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Speaker 4: and they're competing every night.

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Speaker 3: It's way different.

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Speaker 2: Johnny joined at three thirty. That'll be podcastable downloadable later.

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Speaker 2: In addition, Kyle Potter, thrifty traveler MN Guy, joined us

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Speaker 2: at five point thirty to talk the obvious travel nightmares

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Speaker 2: related first to the weather here now seemingly stabilizing back

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Speaker 2: at the airport, and also the security concerns at some

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Speaker 2: airports where people are workers are calling in sick because

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Speaker 2: they're not getting their paychecks, et cetera. So on that

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Speaker 2: and then he also we ended up getting into you know,

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Speaker 2: tsa pre check stuff, the clear system, et cetera. So

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Speaker 2: kind of a combo platter, as it often is with

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Speaker 2: Kyle Potter.

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Speaker 3: He joined between five point thirty and six. We did

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Speaker 3: to do ode to a dead guy.

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Speaker 2: Today, one of the great international inkstain wretches, covering stuff

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Speaker 2: in pretty much every crisis zone in the world for

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Speaker 2: the better part of forty five years, John Burns The

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Speaker 2: New York Times has died at the age of eighty

1202
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Speaker 2: one years old. I am strongly urging the wolves start

1203
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Speaker 2: io desumu and guess what they might now because Anthony

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Speaker 2: Edwards is not available. So that's true, I would saying,

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Speaker 2: just do it even when you have full strength, and

1206
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:53,880
Speaker 2: put the Dante DiVincenzo back on the bench. But logically

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Speaker 2: I would think he'd be the guy, unless you just

1208
01:03:57,200 --> 01:03:59,040
Speaker 2: want to make sure you keep him off the bench

1209
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Speaker 2: and you go, who's our other guard, Bones Bones, maybe

1210
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Speaker 2: Bones Highland, I'm not exactly sure. So tomorrow is a

1211
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Speaker 2: Louis Day, so he will join. We'll see what his

1212
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Speaker 2: prescription is to fix the suddenly slumping Minnesota whild and

1213
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 2: if he has any nagging concerns that this might last

1214
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 2: a bit, and we'll work on a couple of other

1215
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Speaker 2: things as well. I want to get back to the

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Speaker 2: Kyler Murray story with you a couple of developments there too.

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Speaker 2: That'll be all week.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you tomorrow three o'clock right here in

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Speaker 3: the fan