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I'd say the airlines must really hate social media. Well, because anything, it's always
a complaint. It's just a list of complaints. And by the way, musicians posting on about airlines, you never want to get tourists to complain about an airline, because there's
“been posts like, you know, this is what happened. I forget who was it, Frank Sappas, guitar, I think”
it was, and Dweasel plays it now. They put it back together. But apparently it was a according to Dweasel, an airline misshap or something, and it broke and they pieced it back together. And Dweasel still has it. But, you know, that's one example. Not the airline. No, no, no, no, no. It was Frank Sappas, I'm sure his text, but he didn't mention the airline,
Dweasel I think told the story. But that has to be a nightmare, because it's always, you
know, even, you know, I can't believe I'm delayed 15 minutes. And so it starts with that and then goes to the extreme, of course. You know, it was funny because there was a woman making a commotion one time. This was back about two months ago when I was lying. And I was in Charlotte. She clearly had too many cocktails. Yeah. And, you know, there was a delay or whatever, she didn't belong there. And finally, you know, they were able to very nicely score it
her out. But I was talking, everybody was talking to our people that fly all the time. You know, you know, we started talking. And they're just like, yeah, you know, whatever, we fly all the
“times. So we, we know nothing gets us to up. Nothing gets us to down. And I think you see that a lot.”
You're going to see that during the summer, especially when people fly most people don't fly a lot. When you fly a lot, I've flown a ton of just in the last couple of decades with American because they went everywhere I wanted to go. I think this flight or next flight will be hitting
a million. Yeah. You know, actual air miles. Right. Wow. And so I, but I've been flying all sorts of
airlines for half century. Nothing's really changed. You disagree. Nothing's changed about which aspect. Nothing has changed from what I experienced flying. Oh, you're saying it's been consistent. It's been consistent. Yeah. No. I would say, you know, outside, of course, post 911. This isn't the airline thing. But just the, you know, the process of of going through security. But that's
“really yet. Yeah. But that's not part of. But I remember flying before they had the fancy machines.”
They would open up your, I remember my luggage getting opened up and they would go through my entire, they'd be going through my clothes and everything. Yeah. And now, you know, with the facial recognition, last, I, my flu was like, I walked in, showed on my face, go Gary. Yeah. It's like, all right. So, and, and the, you know, the machines are getting better. But it really, to me, flying all the time over the last half century on every airline, you said the last 20 years.
Yeah. You know, especially since I've lived here, it's been, you know, on American. But and it's people say, yeah, but, you know, the, the seats. I go, yeah. But, you know, back when I was flying, even back then, I was about 110 pounds. Yeah. And only a foot wide. So the seats were bigger anyway. Yeah. But, but it really, for me, when people complain like crazy, well, for example, I learned what not to do. I don't check luggage anymore. Yeah.
I don't care who it is.
American would, you know, send them on the flight before. So I'd sit and wait 45 minutes and it
“would never come out. I go looking for the go, you know, you have to go to another terminal to get”
your, and I'm outside already. I'm outside of security. Right. So I had to take the stupid bus. Yeah. Well, that kind of stuff was like, ah, sorry. You got to go to another terminal to get your because it came into it. And so I just decided not to check it anymore. And I got golf clubs at my dad's house. And if I'm going to go anywhere else, I'll call the golf club beforehand and, and and say, hey, I want to rent a set of golf clubs. Yeah. You know, it's not as important. I'm
older so I don't care what the clubs are anymore. Well, I've only had, and I check luggage
every time. And I only had one incident where my luggage didn't show. And because I have to carry equipment, most of my flights are, or business related. And if it's not business related, my wife and I put everything in one piece of luggage instead of two carryons, and it's just easier for us. But I've only had one incident. Again, I only fly a few times a year. But I've only had one incident where my luggage was lost. And it was on the day I was coming home,
it was still here in Dallas. And they said, well, we're going to bring it to your destination.
“I said, well, no, I'm leaving my destination and coming home to sleep there. And that's what”
what happened. So I just, I, well, you know, had to buy supplies, but that's it. The one thing that would make me check if I was going to more frequently now is almost everything is not stopped. Direct. But I take. Because really, the places like if you want to, if you look over the last 10 years, the places I've gone, Buffalo, Tampa, Portland, all have to write. Yeah. And, and so I don't have to worry about that as much anymore. It's when they change planes. That's when your luggage
is gets there early, different terminal gets there later, whatever. But they'll drop it off at your house. And that's fine. But yeah, it's still, you know, that's a little bit of a pain. But I just took that, just said, I'm not going to deal with anymore. I, wherever I go, any hotel I stay in. If I, you know, well, I can, even if I'm staying in a hotel, I can, you know, wash any clothes. If I stay a little longer at my dad's house. Yeah. Jack, Richard, a t-shirt right there in the sink.
Yeah. Exactly. Jack, I, I jacked, Richard. Yeah. All right. Now, look, he travels a little bit too light. Yeah. All right. Yeah. That t-shirt, you know, after 24 or 36 hours. Right. Then again,
they do have can't always find a thrift store to get close to you. No. I was in the store the other
day. They have the 72 hour deal to rent. I have not yet tested it. I haven't tested it. I have.
“And you know what? They should call it the 145 hour deal to rent. You have to shower for a week.”
Why, why are we turning into this? You know, you know what it started with, Bernie Sanders was right. The dry shampoo thing. Oh, it's, take a shower. Use some water, would you? Don't bathe. And then it was the, uh, the entire body deodorant. Yes. Yeah. We've had that for a long time. It's called soap and it works best with water. Go take a bath. I like when they say Americans bathed too frequently. Well, not if you live in Texas or Florida, no man or some Phoenix in the summer. I'm a
two shower a day minimum. Seriously. I get nervous and start sweating. I'm going to stop. Sorry. That game was a little too close. Hey, I'm Chris fanfleet. Go behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the biggest names in pro wrestling and beyond you could pop up in WWE tomorrow. Would Saraje be there or would page be there? Hey, 1 100% so when you're setting up Logan Paul to Frog Splash you through the announced table, it's going through your mind. This should make
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They bring the full size pillow.
right, which is fine. That's great. You want to be comfortable. I get it. Then it was the small pillow, right, and now it's the full size pillow. They're, and you know, where the pajamas and they're slippery. No, no, get dressed. But you're in public. Other people can see you. The other thing I thought about the whole airline thing. Yeah. You know, one of the reasons, again, living in Dallas, I moved your twenty six years ago. So we're dominated by American. Yes. If I was in Chicago, I don't know.
Maybe if I lived in Chicago, it would be United or Atlanta, Delta. I don't know. Yeah. Okay. But since I've been here, the only ones with consistent, because I think Southwest did it for a period of time. They had, they had a couple of direct, but not every day. But having the direct flight to see my dad, sorry that it's, oh, that's everything. That's everything. You know, it's not have to connect. And I do once in a while, I do have to connect different times of the year. If I go in the morning,
“because they have fewer flights in the winter, direct, nonstop to Buffalo. But, you know, that's what”
that's what made me do it. And I built up over the last 26 years. Again, really, the last probably 15
years, you know, a million miles. And I guess I can, I now get permanent gold. You know,
so it means I don't have to pay for any of the, you know, I can get whatever seat, you know, if I want to get an exit row seat, whatever. I don't have to pay. Yeah. And that's great not to have that. I did see somebody put a thing of spirit airlines with the original price cost. And then, you know, all the different prices for this, the seats, that's pretty amazed. I was like, well, if you're going to be a low fair airline, have one price. But if you have a low price,
and then you make it, well, oh, you know, a place you can sit is a center aisle. Yeah. If you only fly once in a while, maybe that's it. But the other thing when I looked at it, the reason that, you know, when you fly one airline, you get it, you know, there's a ton of miles you can build up and you get the credit card and you can build up. I, I really probably get each and every year. I've saved up so many points for when I retire. So I can fly for free,
whenever I retire. And it keeps moving it back and moving it back and moving it back. Right.
“And if you book one flight, it was back in a couple more years. Right. But that's what I'm doing right now.”
But I probably get, if, if each coach flight was, you know, it was coach, you know, 40,000, I'm getting, you know, five free round trip flights a year, put back for the future. Yeah. Yeah. And so you put that into the price. If you just fly once, you don't get that kind of bonus. But when I look at JetBlue, JetBlue doesn't go anywhere wherever I go. Right.
Spirit Airlines never went anywhere that I go. Right. Now my cousin who lives in Buffalo, she would
take it the Spirit Airlines. I guess they were flying from now Buffalo, but Niagara Falls International airport. And they're, you just walk right through because there's just, it's basically an Air Force space. Yeah. And I think they're the, they're maybe one other small airlines there. You get on there. She said they knew, they knew her. It was the same people flying back and forth, be Niagara Falls. And wherever she goes in, in Florida, where she lives down there, she's got a second house down there.
And she loved it. Yeah. And so it fit for her. Right. So what people do is, especially if you fly a lot, it's what fits my route. Yeah. Right. And a lot of the smaller airlines can't compete or do that. Right. And like I said, even, you know, United is not going to get me anywhere any United that's here. Are there any United gates here? Probably. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks, though. You had it to go through Chicago. Yeah. They don't have direct. Right. Buffalo. So
I mean, there's Delta. Yeah. Nobody does. So you pick the airline that serves you best, but as for overall quality of airlines. Like I said, I'm flying over 50 years for me, nothing's changed. It's still the same service. Well, and I'm still amazed. I don't care if I'm in the middle row
or I'm in first class. I've been in both the last year. United is at Terminal E. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. So, yeah, that, you know, at DFW airport. But yeah, but it gets, you know, it gets me where I want to be.
“And all I think about is what it was like traveling 150 years ago.”
But where we are humans are. And then I get into plane and I can be somewhere in two or three hours.
It doesn't mean anything.
It's like just getting into my car, which I love. It's just something else that I do.
“Next thing I know, I'm with my dad. And that's how it is to me. Right. And I don't get upset at all”
on airplanes anymore 20 minutes delay. Whatever. Right. I looked before. I'll cancel flights all the time. It gets to be Wednesday, Thursday. It's like bad weather, bad weather. I'm like, "No, I'm not going to do it. It's going to be too much snow up there on cancel." And you get, I don't care getting the refund. Just give me the credit because I fly all the time. Right. Yeah. I'll fly all the time. And that's it. You know, for me, it's not a, I don't have a lack of trust.
I don't distrust the airlines. It's always, especially here in North Texas, the concern is
the weather. Yeah. You know, I, I, I generally, if I book a flight, I generally trust that. All right. There might be a delay or whatever. But if there's a delay, it's often going to be
“weather related. We went through that last September. You know, when locally they were calling for”
just light rain in the morning on Saturday. And we got the 40-year flood. And so there were delays. But I don't, you know, I, I don't have this, again, I don't distrust the airlines generally speaking. Things can happen. It's a lot of moving parts. Yeah. And when you have
and it was social media, when you have literally hundreds of thousands of flights, thousands of
what we have 15,000 a day. When you look at the satellites on flight, flight radar to 24, it's mind boggling. It's almost scary. Yeah. We're just missing. When I look at that map, I'm, sometimes I go right through another plane. Yeah. Exactly. But it's crazy. How, how busy the planes are in the air and you, and you figure, you know, what? Yeah. I mean, it's a horrendous business when something goes wrong. I forget which comedian said it and said,
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on the bottom of the hour, I just loved this tweet. The American left went from Panchanazi in 2017 to Electonazi in 2016. I'm talking about Graham Platner in the main. It's funny because even Abby Phillips was like, she can't defend it. She's trying to defend it and it's like, everybody who was the senator, the Democratic senator. Well, yeah, he got the Nazi tattoo, but you know, he had his problems in the past, PTSD, and it's like, everyone, even Democrats are saying,
if this was a Republican, you couldn't make any excuse for a Nazi tattoo, you've had for 18 years. Trump's sides with Israel, but he's a Nazi. He's Hitler. I know, it's just yeah. Oh, wow, all that coming up here.
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So I want to play this this audio. We want to play this from Abby Phillips on CNN. All right, just listen. The way that she's well, and, but this is really, really good. This is good, though. This is actually really good. All right, listen to this on the, the the Nazi tattoo guy who's running for Senate in Maine. Yeah, Graham Platner, here we go. Now, if this were a Republican candidate, who had had a Nazi tattoo, covered up when he was running for something and had said all the
things that he had said about black people, about women, about rape, et cetera, do you really think
there's a world in which Democrats would be like, let's just let bygons be bygons. That's the
“past today's the present. I think we're entering a new era and we'll see what the base wants. We'll”
see who wins when the actual election happens. But for the past decade, Democrats have been unified by our opposition to Donald Trump. And now, Graham Platner has a forward-looking message. So if Donald Trump or if another Republican had a Nazi tattoo, I don't know, Donald Trump has dinner with Nazis. It's not that far from, you know, it's happening. But there's also plausible deniability regarding Graham Platner's tattoo. We don't know if he knew, we don't know what he knew. But it's not
just that it's not just the tattoo. It's not just the tattoo. Listen, that sounds so fragmented.
If Republicans want to closely root this Lee, you want to win. Well, listen, you're willing to
“overlook his Nazi tattoo. If Republicans want to crush that. Yeah, or rolled over there.”
I love this, uh, this is a, uh, this is a quote from, uh, slate back in October, a liberal publication. Yeah, ready? Okay, here we go. All right. Even with the most charitable reading of the sequence of events, an idiot accidentally signs up for a Nazi tattoo. Yeah. And celebrates its edginess for years before having a change of heart is tough to swallow. It's a kind of baggage that poisons every aspect of one's political project. Are you going to reprimand Trump's
fascist leanings with a Nazi tattoo on your chest? Do you really think you're the one to advocate for more humane treatment of Palestinians? There is an attitude among Democrats that we must be more amiable to voices that don't fit neatly within the confines of the platform that we need to be less preachy and administer fewer purity tests. Where do we draw the line of who gets invited
“into the big tent? Yeah. I've got an idea. How about we draw the line at Nazi tattoos? I think we can all”
agree on that. No, you can't. No, you cannot. You know, that's it. It's they'll go out of their way to make things up for the so-called Nazis as they call them on the right. You just heard it, in fact, during that conversation. The guy who sides with Israel is Hitler. Their guy with the Nazi tattoo, well, we're not even sure that he knew what it meant at the time. Well, by the way, okay, if that's your excuse, you shouldn't be a senator. Yeah. And you're
and we can just, for the moment, for the sake of the discussion, assume that that were true, he's an idiot and is not qualified to run, but I don't believe it for a minute. He knew exactly what it meant. You know, here's my question, kind of a sidebar thing. The tattoo artist. I mean, the tattoo artist knows what it means. Now, I have no idea what the tattoo artist believes. Maybe he's an anti-Semite and Nazi lover. I don't know. I mean, where do you go? Where do you
go for a Nazi for a Nazi tattoo? Well, here's the Jim Garry, because this is what you just sort of said. The notion that any Republican pro Israel advocate for limited government is hard to distinguish from history's greatest anti-Semitic, totalitarian authoritarian monster is if not quite mainstream thought in the Democratic Party, not all that rare either. No, it is. No, Trump is pro Israel.
Yeah.
you're more likely, and you're a Republican, you're more likely to be called a Hitler than somebody
who is anti-Semitic. Yeah. And then he writes, "But along comes Platner and suddenly Democrats will line up to go on record and insist there is no reason to believe that a guy with an SS tattoo could ever have passed or current sympathies to the Nazis." And for a while there, the okay and gesture was listed as a symbol of hate. Yes. And something that could put you under suspicion
“of being a closeted white nationalist. And then we all remember Elon Musk, right?”
Right. Yeah. Yeah. But getting a tattoo of a symbol of the Nazi SS on your chest is now allegedly no reason for suspicion. It eliminates, it eliminates, excuse me, the degree to which many players in our political scene use a term Nazi as a synonym for somebody I disagree with
at the moment. Wow, it's just amazing. So there we, you know, there we are with with with Platner now.
It's again, go out of, go, go, go out of their way. Wow, we're not sure. You knew what it meant. What's next? What's on its chest? We're looking at this here. He's wearing it. He's wearing a shirt. Look at my shirt. Yeah. Right. I have a lapel American flag on my shirt here. Right. Which means you're clearly anti-American. Or exactly that I'm wearing this shirt because I'm anti-American. Right. You wear the shirts of things you hate. Yes. Right. The Buffalo bills.
And if I was getting favors, well, that would end. And you're country. Right. So if you're going around with your favorite sports team on your shirt, it means you hate them. That's right. And you reject them. Right. Like I'm wearing my American flag shirt, I reject. Yeah. My loyalty to the United States. And you can tell because I'm wearing an American flag shirt. Right. Which of course, that's what it communicates to everybody. Right. You know, I, but I might the problem was, I wasn't sure
what the American flag stood for Eric. Uh, false sense of patriotism. I go mama said.
Pretend. I, he didn't know he didn't know what his Nazi tattoo meant at the time. And finally,
with the whole affordability thing going on here in electricity and all this and Democrats now screaming about electricity prices. Yeah. And we told you, this is what you voted for. Right. Don't complain. It's what you voted for. People holling in New York. Oh, yeah. Because of of where electricity prices are going to go. And editorial board, Wall Street Journal from late last week. And as says this, New York demands a climate sacrifice. Albany Democrats
“admit that imposing financial pain is what they intended with the mandates. That's what they”
argue in a new friend of the court brief that backs a lawsuit that seeks to compel the governor to enforce the state's 2019 climate law. Quote. The legislature knowingly enacted a statute that would require large-scale economic transformation, including substantial and uncertain cost. That's a quote from the Democrats. Yeah. The law quote directly acknowledges that the transition to clean energy economy may impose costs and affect certain sectors more than others.
Democrat legislators say they knew the policies would squeeze the average New Yorker when they passed the law. Their legal briefs, site statements by legislature legislators
“in 2019, of both parties acknowledging the law's burdens. Republicans are saying that's why we shouldn't”
do it. All right. One Democratic Senator had acknowledged the bill would ask people to make
Sacrifices.
and increase energy cost and further hamper New York's economy. Democrats said that's why we're
“doing it. Right. So as we said, when Obama way back in February of 2008 told the San Francisco”
Chronicle, the goal is to skyrocket electricity prices. He meant it and the Democrats meant it. And now Democrats are screaming about high electricity prices. It's what you voted for. When they're saying it out loud, believe them and it's their legal argument in the briefs against vocal. It's, you know, it was, it's the same thing. We'll all come energy prices are so high
because that was the plan from Democrats. No, it wasn't. Yeah, it is. Right. There it is right there.
We'll go back and play Obama's audio cut when this really all started and went to the forefront
“in 2008 when he was elected. He said that was his, his goal was to skyrocket skyrocket electricity”
prices. Yeah. It's what we're getting, especially in Democrat states. They wanted to continue and now when they filed their brief because one Democrat governor said, we can't do this. We're killing ourselves. They said that was the goal. Right. Just like the border Biden again did not fail
on the border. He did not fail. He fulfilled a campaign promise. He did exactly what he wanted to
do. The Democrats did not fail on the border. They succeeded. Their goal was to open up the border as much as possible and to allow illegal immigrants to flood into the nation. Yeah. It wasn't that, oh, Biden couldn't handle it. No, he decided in a calculated way with other Democrats to open the border. It's what the Democrat party wanted. Democrats want skyrocketing electricity prices. How do we know that? They just told us again in a legal brief in New York.
Right. We don't have to guess. Oh, no. Is that okay, sign a Nazi symbol or is that a hate symbol? Right. I have to guess. No. They tell us. They tell us that's a Nazi symbol. Well, it's a Nazi symbol, but let's give the guy a break. And we want electricity prices to be skyrocketed. They tell us. Is, is, is Nazi tattoo is just a false sense of Naziism. But this, they're saying it out loud. This is something they have promoted for years.
And in the legal briefs, right there in New York, it's laid out for you. It's crystal clear as you could possibly make it. Democrats want high gasoline prices. Yes. In California, gasoline prices are way over the national average,
“because that's what Democrats want. Yep. In New York. The governor's scared to death of what”
might happen. And the Democrats made it clear. We want skyrocketing electricity prices. We want gas prices that are way higher. They tell us what they want. Number one, by doing it. And number two, by talking about, yep. That's what they wanted to do. They're promoting it. We are Red Eye Radio. We'll be right back with more Red Eye Radio with every currently and Gary McNamara. We're going to radio. He's our opponent. I'm Gary McNamara. I just came upon the story and
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