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But you can picture someone, you know, handsome with a sporting a shirt and showing their colors for the big event. The spring break of aviation coming up now. - Be your of the mind, right, Greg? - Right, and I know Dennis is excited where we're gonna be there doing a lot more this year. And we got the man behind the madness right now with us, Gene Conrad from Sun and Fun to give us the latest and greatest on this event that happens in two weeks. Are you excited, Gene, as a final, you know, chaos, begun or what, what do you think? - Oh yeah, we're well into it. We've been into it since, you know, all year, actually since the show ended last year. But, you know, we're two weeks out and we're rare to go and we're excited. And, you know, we're actually ahead this year because, you know, the last two years we made a lot of different moves, moving different areas around and all that in this year, where you saw stuff last year is gonna be in the same place. So we're in a much better spot. The team and all our volunteers are working hard and we're getting ready to light this thing up on April 1st, so we're excited. - Yeah, no fooling. And that is the first day of Sun and Fun this year. And it's a well-oiled machine. It went pretty well last year. So, I mean, I say that to him, and I see his video and he's like, "Oh God." I don't know about well, a well-oiled machine, but what I would say is, you know, you know, just like AirVenture, it is a logistical ballet 'cause you think about obviously air traffic is one piece, you know, getting everybody in here and out safely, but then all the cars, all the RVs, the 10 campers, you know, all of our exhibitors in and out. And then, you know, the tram system that we have internal to the event. And, you know, there's a lot of moving pieces, but again, we're very fortunate 'cause I get a great team here and a lot of volunteers that put in a lot of blood, sweat and tears and passion and dedication to get this thing done each and every year, but, you know, we're gonna be raring to go and it's gonna be a great year. It's our 51st and the theme this year is turn up the fun at 51. We are going to do it because, you know, we got opening night concert on Tuesday. Every day, the air show is one to five, so Tuesday through Sunday. First night though, opening night concert on the Warbird Ramp, we got Uncle Cracker and Tyler Hubbard, Tyler Hubbard of Florida, Georgia Line. And then on Wednesday, you know, all the programming. Again, we're a record number exhibitors this year, so again, over 550, so we're excited about that. So we encourage everybody to come see our exhibitors, but daytime air show on Wednesday and then our night air show Wednesday. - And you told us last time we spoke that, you know, last year for the 50th, I mean, you guys blew it out on the fireworks and the drones and I mean, it was insane on the nighttime air show and you told us last time we spoke that you think you're gonna eclipse it. You feel it? - Oh, yeah. - Oh, wow, that's so exciting. - Well, there's something about the night show 'cause the sun's going down. So we've got four, we got four demo teams coming this year. Obviously, we have the blues coming, but then we have the F 35A, we have the F 16 Viper demo, we have the Growlers, which is a two ship, F 18 act. And we also have the F 35C's coming for the first time. So that's a Navy variant of the F 35. And so, you know, they're gonna jockey back and forth. So two will fly Wednesday, two different ones will fly on Saturday night, but there's something about when the sun goes down and the doing air show and then get into the grand finale at the end with our fireworks, our ground based pyro, our lasers, our drones, you know, airplanes flying it. We got three acts flying it this year. We got Nathan Hammond and his chipmunk. We got Redline and the RV. And then we've got Bob Carlton and his Foxtrot. So it's a sail plane with a jet on it and then bolo's a pyro. So it's 25 minutes of excitement and new elements. We're adding this year as well. So if you can't be here with us Saturday, you can definitely see it Wednesday. It'll be the same exact show. But then the rest of the week, I mean, we've just, you know, as far as the island, you know, so on the far east side for all of our aircraft campers that are coming in, programming every night out there, concerts, we got Thomas Mack, if you're a country fan, he's a younger country, up and come an artist. He's gonna perform Thursday night at the island. And even Tuesday night after the concert at the island, we got a special guest who's gonna put up, she's gonna bring out her guitar and perform for everybody there as well. So there is something for everyone from 9 a.m. to 9 30, 10 o'clock every single night, except Sunday 'cause when the air shows over at five o'clock and the blues are done, we're all going home. - Well, I don't like it. - So because it's been a long, it's been a long week. But, you know, on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday too, even Tuesday during the concert, if you're not into the concert thing, we're gonna have the sunset aerial circus down at Paradise City at the grass strip. So we have the Stole, Stole Invitational down there. We're gonna have Arithmia with the paramoders down there. Evita, pivotal, it used to be Blackfly with their Evita is gonna perform down there. And then we're gonna have drones performing down at the sunset aerial circus on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday too as well. So lots of stuff wrapped up this year, lots of cool areas. And, you know, and I encourage people, probably in the next week or two, the app is gonna come out. So as soon as the app comes out, look for that, download that and get your forms and workshops loaded up and plan your days out and get ready for a great summer fun. - Yeah, it's a massive event for sure. And well, flysoninfund.org, by the way, is the website. You can fly S&F. - FlyS&F. - FlyS&F. - Dot org, yep. - And, you know, the thing about it is, you know, we've been doing this for several years. We're picking up our presence at Sun and Fun this year, doing a few extra things that we've already been talking about the last few weeks. But I will tell you, whether you're into aviation or not, this is a, just one of the coolest events in the entire country, if not the world. I mean, you know, obviously it's targeted at aviation enthusiasts like us and pilots and things like that. But man, bring a friend. I mean, you're gonna see some of the biggest fireworks in the entire world. And I'm kind of an aficionado with those. I've just been into that my whole life. And I am always blown away. I mean, last year at the fireworks show on the nighttime air show, I couldn't believe what I was witnessing. And I live in Orlando, where we specialize in that stuff at the theme parks. You guys just blow them out of the water, literally. - Well, yeah, what we do and what we're able to produce, it is world-class stuff. And they can't do what we can do 'cause we're on an airport, right? We can do it over the runway. But Disney is amateur hour compared to what we do on our Wednesday and Saturday night shows at the end. So it's good stuff. - And he's not boasting. I mean, you know, Disney does a pretty good job. I mean, you know, give the theme parks our credit. But my God, it's like another level. And then the concerts too. I mean, I'll go cracker and the artists you're bringing in. I mean, you guys are definitely kicking this thing up a notch. I mean, last year was pretty impressive too. But man, the talent is up. I mean, all the way, you're just expanding and blowing it out on all levels. - You know, it's about the camaraderie too. You know, Paul Poberezny, EA, you know, founder always said, you know, the airplanes bring us together, but the people keep us coming back. It's about the camaraderie and our friends and like-minded folks getting together and families and having a good time. And, you know, even if you're older and you need to get out of the sun, we have plenty of venues that are air conditioned, you know, so you can get out of the sun, go to and visit our exhibit buildings. They're not air conditioned, but obviously provide shade, you know, for young families, we have our family oasis in the feature and flight plaza. So, you know, if you're a young family and you need to take a break and the kid needs to take a nap, it's air conditioned, you can go in there. There's games they can play just to get refreshed for the rest of the day and get out there and enjoy the show and, you know, they're long days, but you know, there's from 9 a.m. to almost 10, there's something for everybody every single day, except Sunday at five, 'cause we're going home. - That's right. He's already looking at that. No, I can't. - Yeah, we'll stop it. Here we come. - Yeah. - But you'll find Jean at the coconut fliers drinking whatever's left in the trailer at 5 p.m. - Well, that may be. - There you go. - That may be. - That's right. - Now, of course, if you're a pilot and you wanna fly in, that's a whole, that's just one of those kind of bucket list aviation things that you need to do. You gotta get the notums right and get the process right. That's all there at the website and they can get the latest and greatest. - Not much change in that regard from last year or what do you think, Jean? - It's the same approach, you know, that we had last year, but again, I encourage everybody get that note. I'm studying it, be prepared, you know, listen to the ADIS on the way in. The field opens for aircraft to start parking and camping on Saturday, March 29th at noon. So at the island, for example, we'll have food available ready to go. All our shower facilities will be open. So if you can get here early, at the island, there's Uber pickup and drop off. So even if you wanna go out and explore Polk County or Central Florida, you can do that. You can rent a car, get out of here. It's part of the weekend if you wanna go do some other things and come back and get ready for the show on Tuesday. So have a good time. - Yeah, they got plenty of space to accommodate everybody, whether you're flying, driving or whatever you're doing to get to sun and fun 2025. Once again, flysnf.org. - Jean, always a pleasure. Thanks guys, can't wait to see you in two weeks. Let's go. - You got it, and we got more coming up on Just Plain Radio. - Just Plain Radio, the show devoted exclusively to flying in the aviation lifestyle. Do you have a message or product you need to share with the aviation world? Well, look no further than Just Plain Radio. Just like you, thousands of aviation enthusiasts are hearing this message, and we could be talking about you and your product or service as early as next Saturday. Remember, a terrible thing happens when you don't advertise. Nothing. Go to JustPlainRadio.com, send us an email and let us get to work to make your marketing message matter. 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Dennis is bringing the Just Plain Radio RV, and we're going to be set up there doing a bunch of things. But he could have flown in, but we needed more space in AC. So we've set up-- we got a plan to clamp during sun and fun. That's probably more for me than it is for Dennis. By the way-- Oh, I have my standards, too, and I've ruined them. Yes, that is true. Last year, you had Florida stone crabs. You bringing those again? Probably not, but maybe I should because they are trying to close down the Everglades City Air Park in Florida here. So we've got to keep the numbers up on that airfield and prove to the community that it's valuable that that airport's there. And hey, fly in, critique your little bike out of the backseat, run into town of the seafood market. That's kind of a unique way to go about it. You know, I don't really care what excuse you use, but that sounded like a good one. But if that means we're going to have Florida stone crab. It's under fun. I'm in. All right, so moving on, though, Dennis was looking at his plane and all of a sudden he realized he was missing something or did something break, Dennis? What happened? And none of the above, actually, ever since Avidine and pushed out the new software update, I've been able to get the ADSB weather and traffic on my airplane. But to do that, I actually have to use a Stratus 3 transponder or a receiver, because it supports what they call open ADSB. Well, that means that any time I need to go fly in somebody else's airplane, I'm having to go pull my stratus out of my plane and then take it with me and then go put it back, it's back and forth, back and forth. So I've been looking around trying to pick up a Stratus 3i, which is the factory-installed one that pairs up with my Stratus transponder. Well, happened to find one used, which is substantially less expensive at BAS air parts. There you go. And it just got me to thinking, I want to talk to these guys at BAS because I get their email letters every week and they're always featuring what's new in the disassembly hanger. And I never want to have my airplane featured in their newsletter of that simple fact that if I need parts, I know where I can get them. OK, you don't want to be that guy, but you want to take their parts. And exactly, their airplane's going to live on by helping mine. Kind of an organ donor if we want to call it that. OK. But when you fly in vintage airplanes like ours, I've got a Mooney that's from 1982. They don't exactly make new parts for the J models. And so if you want a trim wheel, you need to call BAS and they have one in stock and it was shipped to me. Now I needed a transponder part. Guess what? They had it, too. So there you go to a place for use parts for your Mooney 201. And Clinton is the guy behind the madness there at BASpartsales.com. And we got him on just playing radio right now. Clinton, welcome. How are you? Hi, guys. How are you doing? Good. So are you stocking stuff just for Dennis? Just for Dennis, yep. I got his wish list and we're out hunting airplanes right now. Yeah. I mean, is it pretty simple? Like if someone calls you up and say, I need this ADSB unit like Dennis did and you just pop it in your computer. Oh, yeah, we got one of them. Or do you kind of have it at the top of your mind? Like, oh, I know we have this other plane ahead, one of those. How's it going? Our website is currently 116,000 SKUs, unique items. We sell hundreds a day. We had thousands a week to the website. There's no way I can keep up with what goes there. We just can't. But it's very searchable, right? So in Dennis's case, you know, we can, well, part number driven is very part number driven. So we can find a part number, search website, find exactly what you need if we have it. And if it shows up on the website, it's on a shelf, it's ready to show up. Okay. And how do you avoid being one of those parted out airplanes or are you always looking for those too? You know, there's, there's really a, there's a running theme in the things that we end up buying, you know, not enough fuel. That's a big one. Yeah. Okay. Bad landing gear maintenance. All right. All right. So it's your typical, you know, things that would contribute to having a part out of your airplane. Okay. So I was going to say, if you're a listener to just plane radio, we think you're 97% less likely to contribute to BAS apart sales. Okay. We're going to go with that too, but, but one man's trash is another man's treasure. And you kind of take advantage of that. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Oh, that's exactly what it is. All right. And you have a ton of stuff and I mean, you get a lot of unique requests for things sometimes or people just go to the website, look it up, see if you have it and then they say, okay, I'll buy it. You know, it's a lot of both. Some things like in Dennis's case, it's easy to put it in a box and ship it, right? It doesn't require a pallet or a freight truck or anything, you know, anything special. Right. We do try to put a lot of information. So a lot of items have traceability, you know, so you know what aircraft it came from and all the times and things that are relevant. We try to make it easy to make a good purchasing decision just based on the information we have available. Right. But it doesn't always, it's not always easy. So our salespeople answer the phone all the time with digging in a parts book or measuring something or could it be a situation where maybe you don't have it at the moment, but hey, could you put us on a list if you happen to come across one of these kind of things that happens as well with you guys? We do a lot of that. We'll even tell you where it is. If we can see it out in the world somewhere, we'll tell you, you know, I'll give you a competitor's name and phone number if they have what gets you back in the air. Yeah. And BS. You don't have your guys out on the ramp siphoning gas out of it. You leave that to the pilot looking for the part. I'm just out of it. Honestly, we don't have time to do such thing when we were so busy, we wouldn't even get that far. Right. But BAS, part sales.com, you guys are located where and can ship all across the country, let alone the world, I assume. We're in Greeley, Greeley, Colorado, which is about an hour north of Denver University, northern Colorado is here in Greeley. Last year we shipped over 80 countries, 97% of the time we shipped the same business day. Even if we have to build a pilot, a lot of times we can get it out fast. So, most everything sit on a shelf. I talk about this all the time, but people hear aircraft salvage and they think junkyard. We couldn't be further from a junkyard. When we pull a unit into the shop and disassemble it, that process is surgical and then we take a strip fuselage, it's aluminum and paint, and that goes out to the yard and everything else goes on a shelf, things that we can't keep or reuse, go to recycling, not much goes in a landfill, but we don't park it out in the yard sitting on gear with interiors and whatnot that'll get hit by the weather. I mean, we completely stripped that fuselage down to sheet metal and everything else goes on a shelf. Yeah, so you've got a massive warehouse of all these parts, everything's searchable online. Once again, BASpartsales.com, and you've got sales staff, you can call them, talk to them, tell them what you're looking for, or just look it up on the web and maybe you'll find it and you can order it. Exactly right. Order straight from the website, if you see it, buy it, we'll ship it anywhere in the world, straight from the website. You can always call us, you can always email us, we also have a live chat on our website and that rings to a sales rep. So if you open the live chat and say, here's my airplane, I'm looking for this piece, do you know what the part number is, they can answer that question for you. Be like Dennis and you'll be a happy camper as well, BASpartsales.com. Thank you, Clinton. Thanks for having me. Alright, we got more coming up on Just Plain Radio. Just plain radio, the show devoted exclusively to flying in the aviation lifestyle. Whether you're a flight student, an experienced pilot, or simply an aviation enthusiast, there is a place for you as a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Join AOPA to get the latest general aviation news, safety resources, and technical support you need to sharpen your skills and become a central part of the nation's vibrant general aviation community. Learn more about becoming a member at aopa.org, that's aopa.org. Be an explorer in the other two thirds of your world. Be the buddy who takes the kids in the aquarium, instead of just to it. Be adventurous, be amazed, be a diver. You are now cleared for takeoff with Just Plain Radio, the show devoted exclusively to flying in the aviation lifestyle. How is that going with a plane? We managed to help someone with it, but instead of doing, the engines were a damaged beyond repair. It won't fly. I wish to have better news, but we'll find a way to bring you home. [Music] This is Just Plain Radio, director of co-pilot, that's me, along with Captain Dennis. By next week's show, Dennis should have his new ADSB unit installed in his Mooney 201 and he won't have to be hauling crap back and forth from one airplane to the other. It'll just be way more convenient once you have that from your friends there at BASpartsales.com. Right, Dennis? Absolutely. It's not that it's hard to remove it and swap it, but I just don't want to keep doing it every single time. It's a lot of wear and tear and... Lazy. Well, let's be honest. Yes, you're right. You got to fly smarter. No, you're right. It's lazy. No, it's not lazy. It's flying smarter. You want to be more efficient with your time. It's more hassle. Take the hassle away, and it was an easy fix, and they had the part. Were you kind of surprised that you found that part, by the way, on their website or? Yeah, when I was googling for the Stratus III eyes, they were one of the first hits that come up, and when I went into their website, they had two on the shelf. Ah, okay. So you just googled the part, and then it took you to BAS. They were the first hit, sorry. What's that tell you? Yeah, they got their website optimized, obviously, for that kind of stuff too. So once again, BASpartsales.com, check them out. All right, so there's been a lot of things going on the last couple of weeks down there around Mar-a-Lago, and there's a particular president that likes to go there quite a bit. And general aviation's been getting a couple black eyes with some as many of our pilots. Yeah, I mean, it's like what is, you know, it's a kind of a shame because when this happens, it appears at least so far from what we've seen. They've all been just, you know, mishaps, or, you know, the pilots aren't checking the notums properly and end up violating the airspace because they didn't expect it. But that's kind of like flying 101. You should at least be checking the notums before every flight, especially if, you know, if you're in down in South Florida, and you know, the current president likes to head down there quite a bit. Every week. Yeah, at least so far. And you know, it's home away from home, or what do they call it? The second White House? I don't know. I'd take it for what it's worth. But if you're flying around that area and you're not paying attention to the notums, you might get an interesting little air show, a private air show, yes, with a heavily armed F-16. Right. The shooting flares at you. That was the report I saw when they said that's, that's what I saw as well. March 1st, they had three airplanes that all violated the TFR three, and it was within a two hour period. The first one was a Cessna 172 at 1105, then at 1210, a PA28 Cherokee came in, and to wrap it all up at 1250 of the NANSA A36, and yes, I did check with my neighbor. It wasn't him. Right. Yeah. I mean, those are pretty, you know, common aircraft. And yeah, that is kind of like the first thing you think of, like, I hope that wasn't anyone I knew, you know, but, but then the following weekend, we had one on Saturday and Sunday. So I don't know the, I don't know, I'm not sure the words getting out amongst the community enough to kind of keep us from getting this bad publicity because it does reflect poorly on general aviation and a much broader sense. Wouldn't you agree? What do you mean? I do. I mean, at a core level, I disagree with the whole TFR process for the VIPs in the first place. I mean, 30 mile area around the president. Is it really necessary? I mean, GA has never been the threat, but yet we are, you know, being portrayed as one and we still have to follow the rules, which, you know, people are clearly not doing. I mean, if you look at it, NW craft is the mnemonic of what you need to do for preflight actions. The first thing is check notums. Right. Then check weather. So, I mean, come on, folks. Yeah. It shouldn't be that hard to abide by. I mean, especially when we know this is going to be a hot spot, you know, for the next four years, if you're flying through this area and you're not aware whether or not the president's in the area or not, you know, I think in that, in Mar-a-Lago, in that under a TFR 100, you know, all the time. Well, I think there's if the president's not in ref in residence, there's a very small like a mile radius, but the minute he's here, it extends to a 10 and 30 mile in or an outer ring. Exactly. I mean, think about it. That extends all the way down to Fort Lauderdale. They actually have a little cutout for Fort Lauderdale executive that's out of the TFR, but Pompano Beach is fully in it. That's how close, you know, it's so 30 miles is covering a lot of airspace and cutting into a lot of people's activities. Yeah. But there is no excuse for not knowing it's going on. Right. AOPA, if you go on their website, you can sign up for TFR alerts for free and they will send it out to you. And I get notified at least a week in advance when they're when he's coming down. You have foreflight or other electronic flight bags that can display the TFRs effectively in real time. So have it on your phone, have it on your iPad, watch your emails. You'll know that something's coming or just be safe and assume it's going to be hot because most likely it will be, especially if it's the weekend. Well, and if you see, what is it, an F-14? F-16. F-16. And it shoots flares at you. I mean, they had to put out a report after this happened, by the way, to let the public know like, hey, we didn't shoot at the airplane, we shot flares and it's not going to come to the ground. I mean, I saw the, I saw the report on that. I'm like, oh my gosh, can you imagine being the guy in a 172 and you're flying around and you're like, oh crap, I totally screwed up. And you know, and next thing you know, you see some kind of bright light flashing at you were like, oh my gosh, they're going to shoot me down. Oh, look, it's the night air show. It's so funny. I don't think I'd be thinking of that. If I saw that, I think, oh my God, I'm going to have to change my shorts as soon as I land. Yeah, the first call I need to make is the AOPA pilot services, because I think I'm going to need an attorney and some, and some new shorts. Yeah. Because in all of these cases, those pilots were escorted out of the TFR by the military aircraft and they were either blown into Boca Raton or Palm Beach. And I'm sure they were greeted by Secret Service and other three letter, you know, you're asking for it. I think. But, you know, at least you can save money on colonoscopies. Yeah, okay. Yeah, look at it that way if you're so inclined or slightly demented. But yeah, I don't know. That would be a crazy situation. I saw one of the F16 pilots, I think it was one of those guys that were being asked about the incidents and they said, well, you know, the pilots weren't monitoring the proper frequencies and stuff. How can that happen? I mean, you would always have the radio on, at least in here. Like if you violated a TFR, I would imagine they'd light up the radio immediately. Don't they? Well, they're going to light up 121.5, the emergency frequency. And most pilots, although you should monitor guard if you're capable of doing it. Yeah. But, you know, if you're flying in Palm Beach's airspace or, you know, anywhere on that east side, you probably got both radios going with stuff already. You probably got one pulling up the aid us. You got the other one listening to a tower, you know, as you're trying to get around. So if the emergency frequency at the same time is probably not going to happen. Well, couldn't the military pop in on a tower or something or alert tower immediately and that would they reach out to the aircraft? I don't know. I haven't tested it. I don't think I want to. Yeah. But, you know, the pilot would just say the fault of 121.5 if I'm going to talk to the fighter jet that's hanging off my well, of course. But I mean, even before you see them, you would think that they would be alerted via radio that, hey, you've just a pure state TFR. And you know, the report I saw that they just said the pilots weren't monitoring the proper frequencies or tower and didn't realize anything when they were under no obligation to, if you think about it. Well, until they start shitting flares at them, sure, but if you're outside the charted class delta or Charlie airspace, there's no need to be listening to any of the frequencies. So, yeah. Well, I want to wait for the fireworks. I'm hoping that's what they are. It ain't whiz. Hopefully that will never be you or me. All right. More coming up on Just Plain Radio. Just plain radio to show devoted exclusively to flying in the aviation lifestyle. You are now cleared for takeoff with Just Plain Radio, the show devoted exclusively to flying in the aviation lifestyle. Are you nervous? Never flown before. Nothing to it. You sit back. Be a bird. You bring up sometimes I cry sometimes I fly like a bird. Yes, it is. Just plain radio. Gregor Copilot. That's me long. Captain Dennis. All right. By the way, I had a nice little chat with a couple listeners this past week. Just kind of ran into summit in an airport, actually, and it's always nice to hear from our. Did you have to apologize to them? Why? That's how I always start the conversation like, oh, I listen to you guys on Just Plain Radio. Sorry. I so apologize. Okay. So anyway, we continued the conversation and they were just asking about what's the best way to reach out during the show. And I said, well, email's always good. There's a little tab at Just Plain Radio dot com. Get on the air, tap on it on your computer and you can leave us a little voicemail there as well. You know, dial up 82888 to fly or whatever it is. I don't know. What is the number again? It's one of those 800 numbers. You know, we got a bunch. If I called it, you brought me on as a guest and I haven't left. Yes. Well, see, that could happen. So call it your, your own risk, but we got a bunch of ways for you to reach out and participate in the show. You know, they were saying, you know, should we email? I said, it doesn't matter. Take your pick. Probably the most effective is email and that little tab at Just Plain Radio dot com that says, get on the air and you tap. If you have complaints, it's Greg at Just Plain Radio. If you want to send kudos, it's Dennis at Just Plain Radio. All blame goes to Dennis and I take all credit. So there you go. Now another little antidote, we started talking and had a great little conversation. They brought up the fact that they've used our show to stay up with the latest lingo. To stay hip with today's youth, which is, I mean, you look at Dennis. I'm ironic considering where anything but you. Exactly. But I, you know, I do try to stay up with the latest lingo, whether it's skip lagging in all these new terms, you know, buying seats to, you know, get a better seat on one of the cheap air carriers and, and these little things people are doing. You got to stay up with the lingo, right? Keep lagging that, that thing where you book a round trip ticket and then you skip one of the legs because it's cheaper to buy that ticket. Airlines hate it and we don't endorse it, but hey, you're going to save a buck. You got to do it, but do it at your own risk because the airlines might come after you. We've talked about that a bunch, but you got to know the lingo. So if they accuse you of it, at least you'll know what they're accusing you of, right? Here's another one. I don't know if this term is going to, going to stick or not, but those folks that are on the plane when you're flying commercial and that for some reason, they can't seem to turn the volume off of their cell phone and you hear that like the little Twitter sound tweet, tweet, tweet, you know, a ding, ding or worse yet. They're playing music or a YouTube video or something and they got it on the speaker and it's like, you know, what am I invisible? I mean, dude, you know, it's so annoying, but they got a term for those people now, Dennis. And the term I've heard is speaker scum. I support this term. I mean, I was in the sky club in Atlanta and the woman sitting next to me was literally having a full on speaker phone conversation and you have no choice but to listen to the whole thing. Right. So that oblivious, are you that entitled that you can just have your speaker phone conversation and share it with everybody in the lounge? They make things called AirPods, you know, they're not expensive and they're a height of fashion. You see every woman walking through, you know, with their little AirPod and it seems like nowadays. Yeah. The young kids, especially, so get a set and keep your conversation to yourself. Well, I guess United, I saw a press release about this and they've started adding that to their announcements, you know, when they welcome everybody on the plane and please, you know, put your phones, if you use them, you know, use earbuds, don't have your speaker phone up, have the volume off so you don't annoy your fellow passengers and become speaker scum. They ought to add that like, don't be speaker scum. Turn your speaker off. But you know, I don't know, and this applies everywhere, not just down airplanes. Extra annoying on an airplane, but, you know, you could be at a restaurant, you could be at a, you know, anywhere out in public. I don't understand how this happened where people think it's, it's okay to just have their speaker on. It's like, it's a telephone. Use it like a phone. If you don't have earbuds, that's fine. Use it like a phone. Stick it up to your ear. They're using their phone as their personal entertainment device to watch the latest TikTok video and, you know, you can't hold it to your ear and watch the video at the same time, duh. That, but yeah, you never used to do that. So why are you doing it now? Speaker scum. You know, so if we, I don't know, you think that we just need to belittle them all and call them out on it. That's what I'm saying. Which may wind up causing a fight at the Atlanta airport, but that's a whole nother story for another day. Right. Yeah. You got to figure out a way to do it without causing a conference confrontation. But, you know, peer pressure, shaming them, you know, like, what do you speaker scum and they're like, huh? What's that? Ooh. Turn your speaker off. Mo Ron. And then, of course, it devolves into fisticuffs and someone's arrested. But you got to figure out a way to avoid that. But maybe if we put the term out there and it catches on, I don't know. I was a new one. I hadn't seen speaker scum and it was just something that I think the writer threw out there that maybe it'll, it'll latch on like skip lagging, you know, whoever came up with that term. But I thought, well, okay, that's fairly descriptive. I probably don't want to be known as, is that, you know, so maybe peer pressure, a little bit of shaming. Maybe that'll help. You think Dennis? Yeah. I'm all for it. Let's do it. Yeah. I mean, there ought to be a law. And I hope more airlines do this. It's sad you have to even say it, but I don't know. It is, it's very odd how there just seems to be people that think that's okay. You know, you know, let you got loud talkers, you're always going to have that kind of stuff. But the speaker thing, I've never understood that. And you know, and it's one thing too, with the toddlers and the kids, you know, like the parents on an airplane will sit there and put it, put the iPad on, you hear this stupid little kid music, you know, buying for the, for the next half hour or at some game they're playing like, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. And I mean, it's enough to drive your baddie, you know, but, but united to their credit. And they, they said, please, you know, silence your cell phones, don't have the speaker on. This goes for the little ones to don't, don't give them the items to kids. Yeah. Well, silence their games and stuff. So they're not annoying everybody else. I mean, I got to give them credit for at least, you know, addressing the problem in some way. And I don't know if the other airlines are doing that yet, but I just said that United taking some proactive steps, but, you know, a couple of years ago, they were in the news for, for the ones having the most incidents when it seemed to be, I seem to recall the term Chinese takeout has a different meaning now when you refer to United. Yeah. Well, exactly. And some folks got a little too, it was not good, but I don't know what is it spirit that's trying to give them a run for their money? Well, I think so, because it's just a few weeks ago, the Atlanta airport had it. They were saying that spirit must have kick ass pricing because they had the largest fight going on in one of their gates in Atlanta. And of course, by the time the police got there, it was all broke up. But never mind that the Atlanta airport probably has the most amount of cameras and monitoring and stuff there. But yet by the time the police got there to break it up, it was already gone. But I guess the video was all over on social media. These, it was fists everywhere, fists feet, the whole bit. What was the problem? What started it? Do we know? No, no. But it was that spirit. So who knows? It could have been fighting over a position in line. Maybe somebody called out somebody for being a screen scum. I don't know. Our speaker scum. Speaker scum. Yeah. Turn that phone off, you idiot. If I hear one more dang or like you got a tweet, I'm going to take that phone and stick it up here. You know, okay. Yeah, but, but yeah, I mean, it can set people off. I mean, you're already in that 10 situation when you have to fly a commercial like this. We don't have it. And G.A. If the flight was delayed at all, that, you know, only puts your blood pressure up just that much higher, it probably just took, you know, that little extra just to put someone over the edge. Right. It doesn't take much to trigger someone at an airport when, you know, flights are late and everything else. 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