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May 15, 2024 10 mins
Elvis' husband Alex birthday is next month and he wants a dual-mode electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle, which can drive on land like a car and detach a flying module for air travel. Will he get one?

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not too long ago, Alex and I bought this piece
of property way out in the middle of nowhere, right,
and Alex.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Says, you know what should do.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Let's buy some ATVs and go out there and just
drive like crazy. Mainama, No, no, because it sounds fun.
But he'll I know it's gonna get crazy. He's gonna
roll it over and he's gonna break his legs. And
I know, is Alex on the phone, Yes, there is, so, Alex.
So I got through that at V thing you had,

(00:32):
right that that moment in your life where you had
to have one. We got alive through that and we
didn't have to get one.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I'm excited. Yeah, So can I tell them what you
sent me today?

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yeah? So my birthday's coming up next month, so I'm ready.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's the first affordable ev t o L on the market,
which is a it's a single person flight car basically
is what it is. Okay, it's called it's called the
Jetson one. And I love this and Alex is like,
my birthday's coming up, and look, no pilot's license is required.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
All the good things, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Okay, So I look.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
It go go ahead, It goes fifteen hundred feet up,
it goes sixty three miles per hour, and I think
it's awesome.

Speaker 6 (01:20):
I just looked at the price. Are you out of
your fricking mind?

Speaker 7 (01:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Okay, well affordable, okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Can we not dwell on that, because first of all,
we're not we're not buying one, okay, okay, And it's
not going to be out for a couple of years.
I'm sure the price is if it's successful, they will
come down, all right, that's just the.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Way it works.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Well, well, they only they only, they only produced a
certain amount. Last year was sold out, this year it's
sold out, next year it's sold out. But but I
could get on the wedding list with twenty twenty six.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
Oh right, how come.

Speaker 6 (01:49):
We haven't seen any of them flying around if it's selling.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Out, because they're all they're all crashed.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Say here that the maximum pilot weight is two hundred
and ten pounds. You you fit under that? Correct?

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh yeah, I'm one eighty.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
There you go. See, you got room to spare. Okay,
So let's say we could afford it. Who in our
in our circle of friends or family really should be
flying around in one of these things.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
I just not one person, not one, not one.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
They train you, it says they train you before you
buy it.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Still, no, I'm sure what's that name.

Speaker 7 (02:33):
I'm Team Alex because you know what, this world needs pioneers.
One hundred and twenty five years ago, nobody'd driven a
car before, and then you know, you had people that
were like, Okay, I'll take a chance on this motorized
machine with wheels and a thing, and you know I
use a wheel to steer.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Okay, Well it's a pioneer.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
No no, no, no, no, Irine hold on the Model T
was a lot slower and didn't fly, but.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
You got to start somewhere.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yes, it's a weird.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
My concern isn't the price. My concern isn't actually even
him flying and crashing. My concern is him landing it
on a human or landing it on an animal and
killing them.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
That is Daniel.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
They train you prior to do you mean anything.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
They think everyone to drive froggy, It doesn't mean everyone should.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
They did a test to get all kinds of licenses.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
So so, Alex, even if this thing was let's say
twenty five hundred dollars versus byfing one hundred and some thousands,
talking about do you really think do you really think
I would? I would totally totally support you, and flying
with these things around it would scare me to death.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Oh come on. It has an emergency parachute just in case.
If something goes wrong, you push a button and it
lands with a parachute, So you know that's just in case.
But I think I'll be fine.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
What gandhi, How high up does this thing go?

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Nineteen hundred feet fifteen hundred feet?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Okay, I'm just I cannot imagine seeing one of those
flying through Times Square. I feel like the people on
the ground will try to do something bad to you.
If you're going to do it, at least just you know,
stay stay in the areas where there's no one.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, I assume that. I'm sure there are some rules
somewhere saying you can't fly that thing through Times Square.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
To be like, there are rules about drones where you
can take drones, so I'm sure that there are rules
about where you can take these cars.

Speaker 6 (04:22):
I would think that airline airlines are not happy about this.
I mean, they have enough problems up there any problems.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
How far up is fifteen hundred feet?

Speaker 7 (04:31):
I means as high as the Empire State building to
the very top, Oh, dear God.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
And that's a lot higher than I. And you see
planes flying over there.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
That low, they're not that low. There's obviously a difference.
And I'm sure that around an airfield you would not
be able to fly. You would have to you know,
I'm sure there are areas you can't fly it up
to fifteen hundred feet, but you don't have to go
as high as fifteen hundred feet. It says it's safe
hovering at as little as fifty feet.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
But you're trusting people who are buying this to be reasonable.
I feel like all the first wave are going to
be the people that are like, screw these rules. I'm
going up the Empire State.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Built like Alex.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
I don't have to pay for ticket up there.

Speaker 7 (05:07):
Let's go.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
Yeah, come on, all.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
Right, you know what I'm hearing here, I'm hearing you
should have bought Alex in ATV. Maybe he would have
done the ATV. But see now that you didn't. Now
he wants this. If you don't buy him this, what's next?

Speaker 4 (05:17):
Look?

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Look, look he went through the ATV phase, he went
to the motorcycle phase.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
He wants he.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Always wants one of these things, but we're not going
to get these things because we.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Don't need him. Let let's it's it's.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
A little too early, in my opinion, pioneering. No, we're
not the pioneers. Let's let someone else pioneer these things.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Please. Yeah, scary what.

Speaker 8 (05:36):
I think that if you put this conversation in the
time capsule, come back to it ten years later, we're
going to be like, oh my god, I can't believe
that we didn't even consider this, and then it was
it was so farign to us.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Then.

Speaker 8 (05:46):
I do think that these will be perfected by the
year twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven, the time that
Alex wants one, and I honestly feel that it's going
to be a mode of transportation that's going to be viable.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Foreverybody.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
Can you imagine if in the future going to like
motor vehicle to get our license, then you have to
decide between, well, would you do you want to drive
your car or fly your car? Like which license are
you here for? Like it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Hey, Hey, I'm not saying I'm against that day coming
I'm just saying, I'm not ready for me or my
family to be flying around and experimenting with these things
until they're perfected.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
And that's just that's that's it, it's all.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
I mean. You know what.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Look, you know we all were like amazed when drones
came out, right, like, whoa, we can fly this drone
and you know, we can fly over here. So basically,
this is a flying this is a drone that you
can fly on. It's basically what it is. It's it's all.
It's all battery, it's all electric. It only can I
think this currently can only fly for like twenty minutes

(06:46):
without running out of the power. I mean, okay, so
it's of an experimental thing in and of itself. Let's
wait till we get like a turbo charged when they
can fly family. But it'll be affected by then, and
it can fly a family of four. You can go,
you can fly for six hours and see Grandma and Indiana.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know what I'm saying. It's a different thing.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
And then can people just drive up to your windows
with those things or fly up to your window and
just look inside your window from the sky?

Speaker 6 (07:13):
Oh my god, sure?

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Why not?

Speaker 6 (07:15):
Hell honor.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's it's a manned drone if you want to call
it something.

Speaker 6 (07:21):
And where do you park it? Can you just park
it anywhere there's going to be drone parking?

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Danielle up on the roof.

Speaker 5 (07:28):
You guys ask too many questions?

Speaker 3 (07:30):
All right?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
So okay, so closing this conversation out, Yes, any more thoughts?

Speaker 6 (07:34):
We all vote no, let's see, let's see.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Not yet, Alex.

Speaker 5 (07:41):
I should have married Alex. We both have one, but
he's all your you're no fun.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Hey, So, Alex, would you have gone down in that
submersive vehicle that went down to the Titanic?

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Would you have done that?

Speaker 4 (07:55):
No? I wouldn't have done that.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Okay, Okay, just asking because it seems like it's on
the same level of like.

Speaker 7 (08:01):
No, no, no.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Falling a thousand feet in the air isn't dangerous. You
don't think it could be a problem.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
I wouldn't go that high. I would just go over
the farm, you know.

Speaker 6 (08:16):
Yeah, right, I don't believe the first week you're going
over the farm. Then you're like, oh, let's try and
see how this kid.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Is The steering done by a PS five controller. Yeah,
it's a joystick. Absolutely, it's a joystick.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
Three access joystick, throttle lever.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yes, but look at Froggy's into it.

Speaker 6 (08:32):
This was an Apple product. Froggy would have already.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Had it correct.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
And if you would allow me, if you want to
go out to the field and fly this thing up,
then I have to be allowed to shoot you down.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
You fly over a crowd, someone shooting it down like
it's just gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
People are time for dinner.

Speaker 6 (08:53):
But I feel like, honestly, not enough people know about
this thing because I don't see them flying anywhere and allays,
so people might.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
The people who own them are the people who read
Forbes magazine. I'm sure they're wealthy old guys that have
a large amount of property, and they're not flying him
into center city city centers. At this point, I don't
think it's like just you know, you fly it out
in the backyard if you have like a massive backyard.
But even then, So Alex, this year, what do you
want for your birthday other than this?

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Think? Think about it and get back to me.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, okay, let me go.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Look, I do like this Texter. If you get one
for two people, instead of RoadHead, you'd have airhead. Okay,
all right, we'll reconsider, all right, Alex, love.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
You, love you, have a great day. Come up with
another gift. Okaybye, Oh god, I can't imagine. Yeah what
what Nate see?

Speaker 7 (09:50):
I thought maybe this was just a ploy where like
Gandhi mentioned, now he gets a four wheeler. Right, You
always ask for something that you know is a definite no,
and then you kind of back it down.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Like okay, well just get me a four wheeler, and
then you are all right, get that. Let's just move
on away from all of this.

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