May 4, 2026 • 32 mins
Lou on the end of Spirit Airlines and the crazy idea of the public buying the airline.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Three oh four.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Blue Penrose on news radio six hundred COGO.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We are live in San Diego. Thank you tuning again.
Good to have you along with us. Happy Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Spirit Airlines left San Diego a while back, but they
still operate out of southern California and people still take
them up until now Spirit Airlines is dead. I was
surprised to see it just disintegrate.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
There was some talk the President was looking at offering.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's fourteen thousand jobs, and it is a national airline,
and it's just one more airline to.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Compete, but they could not make a deal.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Democrats in the Senate were opposed to a merger with
Jet Blue, and fingerpointing is everywhere. So the Trump administration
is blaming the Biden administration that blocked the Jet Blue
merger for three.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Point eight billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
That feels like that would have made sense to merge
with Jet Blue. They're also a discount of airligne and
people that fly Jet Blue are used to Jet Blue
level service, so it would have been a good fit,
but the Biden administration won't let that happen. Spirits blaming
the war in Iran, saying that the jet fuel prices
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jacked up the fuel cost and they just can't compete.
Both legitimate arguments, But I have a hard time understanding
how you can't make that airline work. They charge you
for everything. I mean, they charge you if you wanted
to if you want a printed boarding pass, they'll charge
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you for that. You gotta pay for your seats, you
gotta pay for water. And I'm not opposed to that.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Like I like.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Flying where you just pay and you go and everything's
given to you. But if you are looking to save
money and it's a short leg and when you're flying
with children, you know, sometimes it's just a lot easier
to strip it down, especially if it's a short trip.
Why pay and they got to have the beverage cart
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and they have to have the peanuts, And why.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
There ought to be different levels of everything.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
There's fast food restaurants, there's white tablecloth restaurants. Right, there's
the Motel six, and there is the Waldorf Astoria.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Why can't there be discount airlines?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And since the Spirit filled that lane, how could they
not make that work? So I don't buy the jet
fuel price spike thing, because all the other airlines are
in the sky and the Biden administration merger. I mean,
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that's a risky thing when you got a bunch of
Democrats and you're in business. They say there were other
contributing factors. Spirit didn't sufficiently hedge its jet fuel cost.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That speaks to poor management.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, honestly, I haven't hedged my car cost either. I
didn't factor that into my Trump budget because I honestly
thought that President Trump was going to keep us out
of international conflicts.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So, to be.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Fair, you can't blame Spirit Airlines for not expecting jet
fuel prices to go up when none of us expected
to be paying six dollars a gallon in San Diego
under the Trump administration. It was drill, baby, drill. We
were gonna drill here. We were gonna stay out or
forever wars. So I'm not happy with this Persian Gulf
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episode of the Trump administration, as you well know.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
But who knew.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I didn't expect this to happen. I didn't expect to
be paying six dollars a gallon. I expected in America
to be energy and dependent, the Keystone Pipeline to be flowing,
and Alaska to be opened up, and for a federal
land to be opened up and fracking and all that
I wanted it, all I thought it was going to happen,
and guess what, I wake up four hundred and sixty
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eight days into this Trump presidency and the President of
the United States is talking about the straits of horror
moves like it's nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So it's not really fair to be the blame Spirit
for that.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Who knew.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The other thing that they're saying is that they had
poor management and the bottom line, it's impossible to know
if the Jet Blue Spirit merger would.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Have saved Spirit.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
But we're talking about ninety eight seven forty sevens a
significant presence in the budget airline market and they couldn't
make it work. So there's a guy on TikTok his
name is Hunter Peterson, who has proposed a crazy idea,
but maybe not so crazy. He said, thousands of Americans
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like Spirit Airlines. Thousands of Americans fly on Spirit Airlines,
and it's a great way to go. Why don't we
do a go fundme, pool our money and buy the airline?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Sounds crazy, right, but guess what.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
He's already raised pledges of eighty eight million dollars on TikTok.
Four point six million views. Here is Hunter Peterson.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
There's more than two hundred and fifteen million individuals over
the age of eighteen in the United States. Now, if
we took only twenty percent of them and paid basically
the average fare of a Spirit Airlines flight, which is
somewhere around thirty to forty dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Thirty to forty dollars is the average fare of a
Spirit Airlines. How do you I mean, how do you
not make that work? Everybody's hopping on planes. You gotta
pay for the luggage, so you've got to go in
there with your own water, and you have to wait
four hours before you have a meal, and that's it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But you get to land where the ticket.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Says, and you got a lot of people that So
this is all the people.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
There's two hundred and fifteen million individuals over the age
of eighteen in the United States.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Now, okay, so you got two hundred and fifty adults
in the United States.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
If we took only twenty percent of them and paid
basically the average fare of a Spirit Airlines flight, which
is somewhere around thirty to forty dollars, we could buy
Spirit Airlines.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So twenty percent of all adults, like one out of
every five adults offers up pledges a single ticket price
on Spirit Airlines.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
We could all co own the airline together.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
This is a genius idea owe other people airlines going.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
We make a new airpink, we make a new airline.
And I thought about this this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It was this front page story on USA today, and
I thought, you know, if I own that airline, it
would be easy to make significant changes and really increase
passenger comfort.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Can't do anything.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
About the jet fuel cost about unless you know, the
president gets out of the Persian Gulf. But you could
do something like we all don't like flying, like flying
has become something to endure rather than pleasant. And we
all have the same ideas, right, Why isn't there enough
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luggage space for every carry on? Why can't that be?
Why can't that be? There's got to be a way
to make that happen. Take out two seats if you
have to. But number one, load the plane back of
the plane first. There is no first class on a
Spirit airline. Load the last seats first. That's number one idea.
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Number two, make sure there's enough overhead space for everyone's
allowed one carry on.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Make sure there's a place for every carry on. Simple
to do.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
If you have to reduce the size of the carry on,
then measure it out, man, it's basic physics.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Number three.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Instead of having two rows of three, nobody travels in threes.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Three is a crowd.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
You either travel in pairs or you travel in larger numbers,
in which case people are on different aisles or different rows.
But most people fly individually or in pairs. Instead of
having one row which is always occupied by the beverage cart,
why not and three on each sides you're always with
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a stranger to your wife and a stranger.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Why not have three rows of two.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
So that everybody either has a window or an aisle
seat or two aisle seats, and have two rows so
while they're handing out peanuts and soda, which they shouldn't
be handing out, you can use the other row.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Or the other aisle to go to the restroom.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Like really simple things like that would make the whole
kit and caboodle.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Work a lot better. Blue Penrose on.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
News radio six hundred co Goo Spirit Airlines is dead.
All Spirit flights were canceled. Services no longer available. Let's
see as in May fourth about one hundred and twenty
four thousand individuals expressed interest in this buy back plan
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led by this TikToker on you featured USA Today Today
Hunter Peterson.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
He said, let's buy Spirit Airlines, and we're going to
try and I guess, buy Spirit Airlines.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
That started out as a joke, but now people are interested.
Average pledge six hundred and sixty seven dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
They have raised.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Eighty eight million dollars in pledged money to buy Spirit Airlines.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
I've always heard don't fly on Spirit Airlines because you
might become a Spirit.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Oh that's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Airlines is taking over a Spirit Airline over at Chicago.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Hair.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I just thought that was interesting.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I appreciate the call. I saw that.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It was Southwest here in California that they reached out.
If you are, if you have a ticket and you've
got to go somewhere, come talk to us. I don't
know what that really means. I mean, they're not going
to give you, They're not going to honor your Spirit
Airline ticket. They maybe they'll give you fifty dollars off
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the ticket.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You know these airlines hand out fifty dollars in credit
all the time. All you have to do is complain
and they tell you how terrible they feel about your experience,
not meaning up to your expectations. Please accept this voucher
for fifty dollars off your next domestic flight within the
next six months. I'm not going anywhere. Well, the best
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we can do, screaming baby, here's fifty dollars. No more vodka,
fifty dollars. Wouldn't sit me next to my wife.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Here's fifty dollars. That's all they do.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
So I don't think Southwest or United is going to
be able to do anything but offer you a flight
to the city you want.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
To go to.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
People want to cheat tickets. That's why they have to
pass people in. You understand why the airports are in
the airplights.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
How can there be too many airplanes? There are not
too many airplanes. In fact, I don't think there are
enough flights like Spirit Fill Devoid. There are not enough
flights two places that people want to go out of discount.
You know, my own buddy Mike Slater pointed that out once.
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Why are we even offering a beverage cart and beverage
service to flights under four hours since when can't adults
wait four hours without a cookie? He's right, it really
is true. But we are so like that's the whole thing.
It's like, wow, you know, the snacks and beddge.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's not what it used to be.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So what like the whole meals were one thing. If
they're offering you a meal because it's dinner it's a
dinner flight, or breakfast because it's a breakfast flight, that's reasonable.
And I think that is pleasant and kind of nice
short of a meal for these flights that are four
hours and under? Why even have a beverage cart like
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you are to go to the back of the plane
and treat it like a bar.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That would be much easier.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
You go back there and you go get yourself a
jack and coke and then walk back to your seat.
And why are we crowding the aisle with the lady
constantly to hand out pretzels.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I can get through four hours without pretzels. We do
it every day.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
It's called work, right, You get to work at eight o'clock,
it's you know, not lunchtime.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Four hours go by and you don't eat peanuts. How
are you able to do that?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
But somehow on a plane people lose their mind when
some of these airlines cut back on beverage. And you
know the service card, so we could easily cut that out.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You can bring your own food on a plane.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
If we did buy Spirit Airlines together, it would be
a couple of things. Under the Lou Penrose rule, you
would not be allowed to bring disgusting, smelly food on
the plane. It would be cold sandwiches only. If you're
bringing it on the plane. We wouldn't offer any food.
You're gonna have to make it on You're gonna have
to survive.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
We're not offering water.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Everybody is running around San Diego with a Stanley Thermis
with a great big handle, mister finnerty. I saw it
at the beach this weekend. Everybody travels with their own
container of water. Costco does nothing else but sell containers
of water. I've never seen so many containers of water.
What what's going on? Everybody's got a bottle of water
in their hand all the time.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Well, you know, it's very important to stay hydrated, Lou,
That's what they said.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I was never hydrated like for most of my life. Apparently,
you get thirsty, you go to the water fountain. Remember
when teachers wouldn't let you go get a drink of
water in class?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, Can I go get a drink of water at
the water fountain? No?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
No, Now that would be a hate crime at San
Diego Unified School District. But yeah, it is very important
to stay hydrated. I'm a big fan of hydration. And
by the way, at St. Fat Loss, they really really
drill that down. You need to stay hydrated, you need
to drink like eighty ounces of water a day.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And so that's good.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
But I think you can do it on your own time.
I think you'll be okay if you don't get a
sip of water for a four hour flight. But you
can bring your own water on the plane, right, Let's
get rid of that stupid TSA rule that you can't
you can only bring three ounces water. That is saving
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nobody's life. Osama bin Laden is dead. Scrap all that
crap and let people bring their own water on a plane.
If if you've got a bottle of water, SOL should
have thought that's pretty easy.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
How hard is it to make yourself a sandwich? You
make your kids. I make my kids sandwiches. They go
to school.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You know what a sandwiches? Two slices of bread. The
youngest now is really into pastrami. But turkey's always in
the house. Two pieces of turkey. Don't put mayonnaise on
it because you don't know if it's going to be
temperature controlled. Put a slice of cheese on it. Put
it in a ziplock bag, stick it in your carry on.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
You're good to go. You're not gonna starve to death.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And the last thing you need on an airplane in
a cabin is a salty snack. It's dehydrating. You were
just complaining about being dehydrated. How you want a bunch
of pentels like? Cut all that out. In fact, cut
out the flight attendants altogether. On the Spirit two point zero,
managed by lou Penrose, there will be no flight attendants.
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I only need a pilot. The seats are enumerated. You
can't count to thirty eight. It's abcdef find your seat.
You find your seat in the theater, find your seat
on an airplane. Why do we need airline attendance at all?
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There's three salaries we can save. I mean, it can
be done.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
I know a lot of people like to bag on Spirit,
but they were complete godsend when we had twins at
Michigan State. They had a direct flight from Detroit to
Orange County. My favorite line though, was someone asked for
where can I charge my phone? The lady looked at
him and said, sir, this is spirit.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Well I disagree with that.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
There ought to be charging, Like, I don't want a
TV in the seat in front of me. Everybody has
a phone. If you don't have a phone, then you
have no entertainment. Bring a book, but pretty much everybody
has a phone.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
But they ought you ought to.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Be able to charge your phone, Like that should be
built into the seat and it will be How hard
can that be? Simple electrical work going on there?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
But yeah, that would you get? You get a seat,
you get a charger, and you get a smile. That's it.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
No nuts, no pretzels, no cookie, no water, no airline attended,
just the flight. Hey do when my son goes to college?
Do I have to fly him back and forth the
Michigan Yes. I never thought about that. So we he's
out of the house and I don't have to feed him.
But for the next four years, I gotta fly him
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back and forth for every holiday.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yes, he's looking at Michigan. Oh that's a boo boo.
Penrose on news radio six hundred Cogo.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Spirit Airlines was the waffle house of the skies.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Right, and you know what's busy the waffle house.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Hey, Lou, have you heard about Jet zero out of
Long Beach. My son works for them. They have the
blended wing concept. Instead of the airplane being a long tube,
it is more like a triangle and there's multiple entrances
and because it's multiple aisles, the configuration is so cool.
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I've been in a test model and it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I had not, but I do know that out of
Ocean Side they're going to start flying planes, charter planes
up to Mammoth, up the Bishop, so that should be good.
I just think that, like so many other things, the
airline experience is antiquated, like back in the day, and
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everybody romance is back in the day, right, people wore
a suit and tie. You got on an airplane and
it with a gourmet cart, came with a pretty airline
attendant and they served your.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Food and you landed and it was lovely.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Those days are gone, Like people don't want that experience
anymore because it would just be unbelievably expensive. So but
they slowly pared it down to a sandwich and a cookie,
and then the sandwiches went away. Now you get a
can of soda and pretzels. And I'm just saying, as
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it turns out, I don't need to eat a meal
at least for flights under four hours, which is almost
everything here in the United States. I mean, you can
get from San Diego to Washington, d C. In four
four and a half hours, go to Atlanta, go to Miami.
I mean pretty much we're a five hour country excluding
Alaska Hawaii. So you know, we can survive without any
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food at all. Right, what we need is more flights,
more planes, And I don't know, I don't know why
we need airlina attendants at all. We no longer need
TVs in the seat in front back. Before even there
was thin flat screen TVs, there were a cathode raid
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tube TVs in the.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Aisle, remember that, mister Finnity.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
There was like a you know, a fifteen inch TV
screen in the aisle that like came down out of
the out of the ceiling.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Oh yeah, and you had the choice of watching it
or basically sleeping, or you trying to read and trying
a little light on and was always a movie that
was like about six months two year old.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
One movie, one movie, and it was like every ten rows.
So if you were you had to break your neck
to watch this movie. If you want to watch the movie.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
With the ear like, that's gone.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Then they said, well, look, you know, flat screen TV
entertainment is here. Let's put a TV in every in
the back of every seat.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
That's gone.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Why everybody has a laptop, everybody has an iPad, everybody
has a phone. You don't even need to hand out
ear plugs anymore. They don't hand your blankets anymore. So
why are we Why are we paying for airline attendance?
I just need a pilot. I don't know why I
need a co pilot. Eventually planes will be AI.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Don't you think. I mean, if.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You know the AI taxi is on the way and
the AI truck driver is on the way, why isn't
they are an AI pilot?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
They never get drunk.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Brilliant, just brilliance. I mean, it doesn't know anything they're
talking about. Thinks I've got all the answers. Just listen
to your first segment and lets me know. You know
nothing about how airlines work, how they would make money,
why spirit airlines and airlines like that don't work.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Okay, you want to call and take shots at me.
I didn't hear any useful solutions out of you.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
What do you mean.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I don't know how airlines work. I know how the
consumer facing option works. I pay money and I get peanuts,
and I don't even get peanuts anymore because of the
peanut people, the peanut allergy people ruin the peanuts. But
why were we handing out peanuts? What do we ad
a circus? There's no elephants on the plane. Why do
I need peanuts? It's not a bar, and they don't
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want you drinking too much anyway. The reason they hand
out peanuts at a bar is to make you thirsty.
I don't want to be thirsty. I just want to
land like we can entertain ourselves. The model has changed.
We back in the day, privileged people of means traveled
by plane, or people that budgeted or otherwise made life
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choices that afforded them the opportunity to travel by plane.
That's not the case anymore. Now flight is essential. Got
a meeting in Chicago, Gotta go book the ticket on
your phone at uber to the airport. Throw an overnight
back together.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Right.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
If you need mouthwash and contact lend solution, you get
it at the Sunduryes counter at the Mariotte Like.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
People are on the go, and that's the way.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
We should live, and that's the way we should expect
to live. I'm trying to raise the standards of quality
of life in this first world country. I noticed that
democrats are constantly trying to lower the standards of quality
life in my country. I'm trying to go in the
opposite direction. I don't want to be Mogadishu. I want
to be a much better place, and I want people
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to be able to just hop on a plane and
go like the way you hop in a cab and
go now you hop in an uber and go.
Speaker 9 (23:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
We're very productive people. We are self sufficient. We can
carry our own water. Nobody is going to blow us up.
Osama bin Laden is dead. We don't need TSA, we
don't need to have our water measured by three ounces.
It's not gonna happen. There is no threat out there.
We're good. Keep the evildoers out of the country. Deport
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everybody in the country that's in the country illegally, a
background checked. Anybody that wants to visit to make sure
they're not from some American hating country, and that students, visitors, employees, anybody,
anybody that hates America or ever said anything critical of
America on their Facebook or any social media, No visa
for you. That's how you make flight safe. Keep the
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bad guys out, get rid of tsa, grab yourself a
bottle of water from the house, go to the airport,
Hop on a plane like you hop down a bus.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I am looking forward to the day where.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
There isn't a locked door between me and my fellow American.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Who is a pilot. There's no locked door.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Between me and my fellow American who is the shuttle
bus driver.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Think about it. Bus drivers are vulnerable. They're right there.
Nobody's worried about the bus driver.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
You know, al Qaida could have driven a bus filled
with explosives into the first floor of the World Trade Center.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
They didn't. They used the plane. So now everything in
air travel has got to be locked up, tight, locked up, tight,
locked up tight. And yet buses are wide open. But
you got a bus driver. I can talk to the
bus driver. I'm not allowed to talk to the pilot.
Let's get beyond that and think a little bit differently.
Let's be first world I think that way.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Don't think about how we have to protect ourselves from
our enemies, keep the enemies away, and live a fun
life as Americans.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Here, let's see here more on.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I mean, it doesn't look like this TikToker is going
to be able to buy Spirit Airlines, although it is
fascinating that one hundred and twenty seven thousand Americans all
pledged an average of six hundred and sixty seven.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Dollars to buy Spirit Airlines. See see like people are
thinking outside the box.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, let's just buy the airline collectively, basically nationalize the airline,
make it good and fly. It'd be the most popular
airline out there. No no, no points, no miles. You
don't when you go to a restaurant, you don't double
your miles. You can't fly with miles. Pay money, all right,
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no credit card tricks, none of that. Don't be asking
because we're not given. Just pay for a seat, you
sit in it, and then you land and it's over.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
That's the new airline. That airline would work. Somebody's gonna
do it. Somebody's gonna do Luigi airlines, and it's gonna
be basic and no complaints. You get what you get,
and we don't want to hear it. There'd be no
airline attendance. And it's gonna be great, and it's gonna
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be very colorful. Everybody brings their own entertainment. You can
get your water bottle, too bad, wait till you land
and go get yourself some water. Blue Penrose on news
radio six hundred Cogo coming up following the news at four,
they got the Lego thieves. The Lego thieves were people
going to Lego stores and department stores like Target and Walmart,
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buying very expensive boxes of Legos Lego sets, and they
would open them carefully, take the Legos, refill the boxes
with pasta noodles like macaroni because that sounds like Legos,
and seal it back up with the glue gun and
go get a full refund because they had a receipt
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and they were doing this all over town. It was
going on all over southern California. They also there are
people that there's certain Lego characters that are very valuable
in certain markets. There are people that would go and
open the box just take like Han Solo or whatever, Batman,
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whatever the theme was, take that character and then seal
the box and then sell that on the black market.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
And they caught them. They caught them an air vine.
Way do you hear their story? Hey, lou on the
airplane thing.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
You might disagree with me, but just hear me out.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I feel like this is just.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
One more domino in the whole.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Nothing is special anymore. Everything is It's just normal.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
You go to them all in your.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Pajamas, Now drag your dog in there.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
I feel like nothing special anymore. Having those snacks and
those little things on the airplane made it a little
bit more special. And maybe I'm just nostalgic, but I
just feel like I want to keep some of those things.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Okay, I agree with you totally.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I don't like people walking around in their pajamas in public.
I think people should be embarrassed to be walking around
in their pajamas in public. Please understand, we're talking about
a discount airline.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
This is a lane. What you're saying is I.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Want the limousine to have a stocked bar, and I
want it to be comfy.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I want the limousine to be everything I expect when
I'm not getting a limousine.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I want the.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Toyota Prius that the Uber driver is driving to be fast.
I don't want the free bottle of water. I'm just
I want them to be where I want them to be,
and I want to go straight home.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It's the same thing with airlines.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
If you want a delightful experience, and this forget about
what was I told you flying air travel was for
the well to do and Americans that budgeted for a
well to do experience. We used that first class train travel,
and you had third class train travel.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Right now we don't. Now the train is the train,
and you're just de sartine in that can.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
So I'm talking about bifurcating or trifurcating air travel, and
their spirit doesn't need to.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Catch up with Delta first class.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I'm a Delta one person and it's lovely, questionably worth it,
but lovely. But if I don't, if I'm not flying
with my wife on an anniversary trip, or I'm not
using miles and I just got to get the Salt
Lake City, then I don't need water. I don't need pretzels.
I don't need an airline attendant. I don't need a blanket,
I don't need any I just want to go up
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and go down. So Spirit did own that lane, and
I think that lane should stay there. So it's not
so much that I want things to slowly go away.
I want things to.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Buy for Kate.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Right, you want to go up to a hot dog
cart and order a hot dog on the.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Campus of SDSU. You can dress like a slob.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
You want to get an eighty dollars ribbi at Ruth's.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Chris steak owse gotta put on shoes, Hey.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Lud, don't knock the snacks when you're on a long flight.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
It's nice to have it broken up with somebody coming
down the aisle with drinks and a snack. In fact,
I've been complaining because of people's peanut allergies. Now I
can't even get nuts anymore. It has to be pretzels,
which I personally don't care for.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Those peanut people kill us man.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
Hey lou, there's a couple of things that the airline
attendants do. You Granted, they serve food, drinks and other
stuff like that, but who's going to keep the bathrooms
clean and refresh with toilet paper? Who's going to handle
irreverent passengers when there's a confrontation or anything like that.
Passengers have Missling's concerns and issues like I need a
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blanket or whatever the case may be. So those are
the things they do besides food. Just curious what you
think and how to solve that problem.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Thanks appreciate the call.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Would it be okay if I answered your question with
a question? Who hands you a blanket on the bus?
Who breaks up passenger disputes on a bus? When you
go take a bus and some nuts starts yelling at you,
don't you have to fend for yourself. I mean think
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of it that way, right, Who who? Who's who's defending you?
When you're on a train?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Two two pats you.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
You sit down on a train on the surf liner
and some crazy liberal white woman sits down next to
you and says, I don't like your Make America Great
Again hat. You need to take that off, and she's
up screaming at you. There's no airline attendant coming and
breaking it up. There's no security guard that says, ma'am,
you need to get off the plane.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
All these viral.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Videos we see of people on airplanes going nuts because
people have a Trump shirt on. How is that handled
on all other forms of mass transportation?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
You do it yourself. You say, shut up, lady, get
lost right, or you change your seat. You don't have
a blanket. You're cold on the bus, then you're cold.
Should have thought right.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Run out of water. You're gonna be thirsty. And that's it,
that's all. It's really simple.
Three oh four.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Blue Penrose on news radio six hundred COGO.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We are live in San Diego. Thank you tuning again.
Good to have you along with us. Happy Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Spirit Airlines left San Diego a while back, but they
still operate out of southern California and people still take
them up until now Spirit Airlines is dead. I was
surprised to see it just disintegrate.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
There was some talk the President was looking at offering.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's fourteen thousand jobs, and it is a national airline,
and it's just one more airline to.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Compete, but they could not make a deal.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Democrats in the Senate were opposed to a merger with
Jet Blue, and fingerpointing is everywhere. So the Trump administration
is blaming the Biden administration that blocked the Jet Blue
merger for three.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Point eight billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
That feels like that would have made sense to merge
with Jet Blue. They're also a discount of airligne and
people that fly Jet Blue are used to Jet Blue
level service, so it would have been a good fit,
but the Biden administration won't let that happen. Spirits blaming
the war in Iran, saying that the jet fuel prices
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jacked up the fuel cost and they just can't compete.
Both legitimate arguments, But I have a hard time understanding
how you can't make that airline work. They charge you
for everything. I mean, they charge you if you wanted
to if you want a printed boarding pass, they'll charge
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you for that. You gotta pay for your seats, you
gotta pay for water. And I'm not opposed to that.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Like I like.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Flying where you just pay and you go and everything's
given to you. But if you are looking to save
money and it's a short leg and when you're flying
with children, you know, sometimes it's just a lot easier
to strip it down, especially if it's a short trip.
Why pay and they got to have the beverage cart
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and they have to have the peanuts, And why.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
There ought to be different levels of everything.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
There's fast food restaurants, there's white tablecloth restaurants. Right, there's
the Motel six, and there is the Waldorf Astoria.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Why can't there be discount airlines?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And since the Spirit filled that lane, how could they
not make that work? So I don't buy the jet
fuel price spike thing, because all the other airlines are
in the sky and the Biden administration merger. I mean,
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that's a risky thing when you got a bunch of
Democrats and you're in business. They say there were other
contributing factors. Spirit didn't sufficiently hedge its jet fuel cost.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That speaks to poor management.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, honestly, I haven't hedged my car cost either. I
didn't factor that into my Trump budget because I honestly
thought that President Trump was going to keep us out
of international conflicts.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So, to be.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Fair, you can't blame Spirit Airlines for not expecting jet
fuel prices to go up when none of us expected
to be paying six dollars a gallon in San Diego
under the Trump administration. It was drill, baby, drill. We
were gonna drill here. We were gonna stay out or
forever wars. So I'm not happy with this Persian Gulf
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episode of the Trump administration, as you well know.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
But who knew.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I didn't expect this to happen. I didn't expect to
be paying six dollars a gallon. I expected in America
to be energy and dependent, the Keystone Pipeline to be flowing,
and Alaska to be opened up, and for a federal
land to be opened up and fracking and all that
I wanted it, all I thought it was going to happen,
and guess what, I wake up four hundred and sixty
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eight days into this Trump presidency and the President of
the United States is talking about the straits of horror
moves like it's nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So it's not really fair to be the blame Spirit
for that.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Who knew.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The other thing that they're saying is that they had
poor management and the bottom line, it's impossible to know
if the Jet Blue Spirit merger would.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Have saved Spirit.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
But we're talking about ninety eight seven forty sevens a
significant presence in the budget airline market and they couldn't
make it work. So there's a guy on TikTok his
name is Hunter Peterson, who has proposed a crazy idea,
but maybe not so crazy. He said, thousands of Americans
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like Spirit Airlines. Thousands of Americans fly on Spirit Airlines,
and it's a great way to go. Why don't we
do a go fundme, pool our money and buy the airline?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Sounds crazy, right, but guess what.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
He's already raised pledges of eighty eight million dollars on TikTok.
Four point six million views. Here is Hunter Peterson.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
There's more than two hundred and fifteen million individuals over
the age of eighteen in the United States. Now, if
we took only twenty percent of them and paid basically
the average fare of a Spirit Airlines flight, which is
somewhere around thirty to forty dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Thirty to forty dollars is the average fare of a
Spirit Airlines. How do you I mean, how do you
not make that work? Everybody's hopping on planes. You gotta
pay for the luggage, so you've got to go in
there with your own water, and you have to wait
four hours before you have a meal, and that's it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But you get to land where the ticket.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Says, and you got a lot of people that So
this is all the people.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
There's two hundred and fifteen million individuals over the age
of eighteen in the United States.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Now, okay, so you got two hundred and fifty adults
in the United States.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
If we took only twenty percent of them and paid
basically the average fare of a Spirit Airlines flight, which
is somewhere around thirty to forty dollars, we could buy
Spirit Airlines.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So twenty percent of all adults, like one out of
every five adults offers up pledges a single ticket price
on Spirit Airlines.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
We could all co own the airline together.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
This is a genius idea owe other people airlines going.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
We make a new airpink, we make a new airline.
And I thought about this this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It was this front page story on USA today, and
I thought, you know, if I own that airline, it
would be easy to make significant changes and really increase
passenger comfort.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Can't do anything.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
About the jet fuel cost about unless you know, the
president gets out of the Persian Gulf. But you could
do something like we all don't like flying, like flying
has become something to endure rather than pleasant. And we
all have the same ideas, right, Why isn't there enough
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luggage space for every carry on? Why can't that be?
Why can't that be? There's got to be a way
to make that happen. Take out two seats if you
have to. But number one, load the plane back of
the plane first. There is no first class on a
Spirit airline. Load the last seats first. That's number one idea.
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Number two, make sure there's enough overhead space for everyone's
allowed one carry on.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Make sure there's a place for every carry on. Simple
to do.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
If you have to reduce the size of the carry on,
then measure it out, man, it's basic physics.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Number three.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Instead of having two rows of three, nobody travels in threes.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Three is a crowd.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
You either travel in pairs or you travel in larger numbers,
in which case people are on different aisles or different rows.
But most people fly individually or in pairs. Instead of
having one row which is always occupied by the beverage cart,
why not and three on each sides you're always with
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a stranger to your wife and a stranger.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Why not have three rows of two.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
So that everybody either has a window or an aisle
seat or two aisle seats, and have two rows so
while they're handing out peanuts and soda, which they shouldn't
be handing out, you can use the other row.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Or the other aisle to go to the restroom.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Like really simple things like that would make the whole
kit and caboodle.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Work a lot better. Blue Penrose on.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
News radio six hundred co Goo Spirit Airlines is dead.
All Spirit flights were canceled. Services no longer available. Let's
see as in May fourth about one hundred and twenty
four thousand individuals expressed interest in this buy back plan
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led by this TikToker on you featured USA Today Today
Hunter Peterson.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
He said, let's buy Spirit Airlines, and we're going to
try and I guess, buy Spirit Airlines.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
That started out as a joke, but now people are interested.
Average pledge six hundred and sixty seven dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
They have raised.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Eighty eight million dollars in pledged money to buy Spirit Airlines.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
I've always heard don't fly on Spirit Airlines because you
might become a Spirit.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Oh that's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Airlines is taking over a Spirit Airline over at Chicago.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Hair.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I just thought that was interesting.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I appreciate the call. I saw that.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It was Southwest here in California that they reached out.
If you are, if you have a ticket and you've
got to go somewhere, come talk to us. I don't
know what that really means. I mean, they're not going
to give you, They're not going to honor your Spirit
Airline ticket. They maybe they'll give you fifty dollars off
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the ticket.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You know these airlines hand out fifty dollars in credit
all the time. All you have to do is complain
and they tell you how terrible they feel about your experience,
not meaning up to your expectations. Please accept this voucher
for fifty dollars off your next domestic flight within the
next six months. I'm not going anywhere. Well, the best
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we can do, screaming baby, here's fifty dollars. No more vodka,
fifty dollars. Wouldn't sit me next to my wife.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Here's fifty dollars. That's all they do.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
So I don't think Southwest or United is going to
be able to do anything but offer you a flight
to the city you want.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
To go to.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
People want to cheat tickets. That's why they have to
pass people in. You understand why the airports are in
the airplights.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
How can there be too many airplanes? There are not
too many airplanes. In fact, I don't think there are
enough flights like Spirit Fill Devoid. There are not enough
flights two places that people want to go out of discount.
You know, my own buddy Mike Slater pointed that out once.
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Why are we even offering a beverage cart and beverage
service to flights under four hours since when can't adults
wait four hours without a cookie? He's right, it really
is true. But we are so like that's the whole thing.
It's like, wow, you know, the snacks and beddge.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's not what it used to be.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So what like the whole meals were one thing. If
they're offering you a meal because it's dinner it's a
dinner flight, or breakfast because it's a breakfast flight, that's reasonable.
And I think that is pleasant and kind of nice
short of a meal for these flights that are four
hours and under? Why even have a beverage cart like
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you are to go to the back of the plane
and treat it like a bar.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That would be much easier.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
You go back there and you go get yourself a
jack and coke and then walk back to your seat.
And why are we crowding the aisle with the lady
constantly to hand out pretzels.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I can get through four hours without pretzels. We do
it every day.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
It's called work, right, You get to work at eight o'clock,
it's you know, not lunchtime.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Four hours go by and you don't eat peanuts. How
are you able to do that?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
But somehow on a plane people lose their mind when
some of these airlines cut back on beverage. And you
know the service card, so we could easily cut that out.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You can bring your own food on a plane.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
If we did buy Spirit Airlines together, it would be
a couple of things. Under the Lou Penrose rule, you
would not be allowed to bring disgusting, smelly food on
the plane. It would be cold sandwiches only. If you're
bringing it on the plane. We wouldn't offer any food.
You're gonna have to make it on You're gonna have
to survive.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
We're not offering water.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Everybody is running around San Diego with a Stanley Thermis
with a great big handle, mister finnerty. I saw it
at the beach this weekend. Everybody travels with their own
container of water. Costco does nothing else but sell containers
of water. I've never seen so many containers of water.
What what's going on? Everybody's got a bottle of water
in their hand all the time.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Well, you know, it's very important to stay hydrated, Lou,
That's what they said.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I was never hydrated like for most of my life. Apparently,
you get thirsty, you go to the water fountain. Remember
when teachers wouldn't let you go get a drink of
water in class?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, Can I go get a drink of water at
the water fountain? No?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
No, Now that would be a hate crime at San
Diego Unified School District. But yeah, it is very important
to stay hydrated. I'm a big fan of hydration. And
by the way, at St. Fat Loss, they really really
drill that down. You need to stay hydrated, you need
to drink like eighty ounces of water a day.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And so that's good.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
But I think you can do it on your own time.
I think you'll be okay if you don't get a
sip of water for a four hour flight. But you
can bring your own water on the plane, right, Let's
get rid of that stupid TSA rule that you can't
you can only bring three ounces water. That is saving
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nobody's life. Osama bin Laden is dead. Scrap all that
crap and let people bring their own water on a plane.
If if you've got a bottle of water, SOL should
have thought that's pretty easy.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
How hard is it to make yourself a sandwich? You
make your kids. I make my kids sandwiches. They go
to school.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You know what a sandwiches? Two slices of bread. The
youngest now is really into pastrami. But turkey's always in
the house. Two pieces of turkey. Don't put mayonnaise on
it because you don't know if it's going to be
temperature controlled. Put a slice of cheese on it. Put
it in a ziplock bag, stick it in your carry on.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
You're good to go. You're not gonna starve to death.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And the last thing you need on an airplane in
a cabin is a salty snack. It's dehydrating. You were
just complaining about being dehydrated. How you want a bunch
of pentels like? Cut all that out. In fact, cut
out the flight attendants altogether. On the Spirit two point zero,
managed by lou Penrose, there will be no flight attendants.
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I only need a pilot. The seats are enumerated. You
can't count to thirty eight. It's abcdef find your seat.
You find your seat in the theater, find your seat
on an airplane. Why do we need airline attendance at all?
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There's three salaries we can save. I mean, it can
be done.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
I know a lot of people like to bag on Spirit,
but they were complete godsend when we had twins at
Michigan State. They had a direct flight from Detroit to
Orange County. My favorite line though, was someone asked for
where can I charge my phone? The lady looked at
him and said, sir, this is spirit.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Well I disagree with that.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
There ought to be charging, Like, I don't want a
TV in the seat in front of me. Everybody has
a phone. If you don't have a phone, then you
have no entertainment. Bring a book, but pretty much everybody
has a phone.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
But they ought you ought to.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Be able to charge your phone, Like that should be
built into the seat and it will be How hard
can that be? Simple electrical work going on there?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
But yeah, that would you get? You get a seat,
you get a charger, and you get a smile. That's it.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
No nuts, no pretzels, no cookie, no water, no airline attended,
just the flight. Hey do when my son goes to college?
Do I have to fly him back and forth the
Michigan Yes. I never thought about that. So we he's
out of the house and I don't have to feed him.
But for the next four years, I gotta fly him
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back and forth for every holiday.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yes, he's looking at Michigan. Oh that's a boo boo.
Penrose on news radio six hundred Cogo.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Spirit Airlines was the waffle house of the skies.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Right, and you know what's busy the waffle house.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Hey, Lou, have you heard about Jet zero out of
Long Beach. My son works for them. They have the
blended wing concept. Instead of the airplane being a long tube,
it is more like a triangle and there's multiple entrances
and because it's multiple aisles, the configuration is so cool.
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I've been in a test model and it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I had not, but I do know that out of
Ocean Side they're going to start flying planes, charter planes
up to Mammoth, up the Bishop, so that should be good.
I just think that, like so many other things, the
airline experience is antiquated, like back in the day, and
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everybody romance is back in the day, right, people wore
a suit and tie. You got on an airplane and
it with a gourmet cart, came with a pretty airline
attendant and they served your.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Food and you landed and it was lovely.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Those days are gone, Like people don't want that experience
anymore because it would just be unbelievably expensive. So but
they slowly pared it down to a sandwich and a cookie,
and then the sandwiches went away. Now you get a
can of soda and pretzels. And I'm just saying, as
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it turns out, I don't need to eat a meal
at least for flights under four hours, which is almost
everything here in the United States. I mean, you can
get from San Diego to Washington, d C. In four
four and a half hours, go to Atlanta, go to Miami.
I mean pretty much we're a five hour country excluding
Alaska Hawaii. So you know, we can survive without any
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food at all. Right, what we need is more flights,
more planes, And I don't know, I don't know why
we need airlina attendants at all. We no longer need
TVs in the seat in front back. Before even there
was thin flat screen TVs, there were a cathode raid
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tube TVs in the.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Aisle, remember that, mister Finnity.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
There was like a you know, a fifteen inch TV
screen in the aisle that like came down out of
the out of the ceiling.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Oh yeah, and you had the choice of watching it
or basically sleeping, or you trying to read and trying
a little light on and was always a movie that
was like about six months two year old.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
One movie, one movie, and it was like every ten rows.
So if you were you had to break your neck
to watch this movie. If you want to watch the movie.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
With the ear like, that's gone.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Then they said, well, look, you know, flat screen TV
entertainment is here. Let's put a TV in every in
the back of every seat.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
That's gone.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Why everybody has a laptop, everybody has an iPad, everybody
has a phone. You don't even need to hand out
ear plugs anymore. They don't hand your blankets anymore. So
why are we Why are we paying for airline attendance?
I just need a pilot. I don't know why I
need a co pilot. Eventually planes will be AI.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Don't you think. I mean, if.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You know the AI taxi is on the way and
the AI truck driver is on the way, why isn't
they are an AI pilot?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
They never get drunk.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Brilliant, just brilliance. I mean, it doesn't know anything they're
talking about. Thinks I've got all the answers. Just listen
to your first segment and lets me know. You know
nothing about how airlines work, how they would make money,
why spirit airlines and airlines like that don't work.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Okay, you want to call and take shots at me.
I didn't hear any useful solutions out of you.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
What do you mean.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I don't know how airlines work. I know how the
consumer facing option works. I pay money and I get peanuts,
and I don't even get peanuts anymore because of the
peanut people, the peanut allergy people ruin the peanuts. But
why were we handing out peanuts? What do we ad
a circus? There's no elephants on the plane. Why do
I need peanuts? It's not a bar, and they don't
(21:51):
want you drinking too much anyway. The reason they hand
out peanuts at a bar is to make you thirsty.
I don't want to be thirsty. I just want to
land like we can entertain ourselves. The model has changed.
We back in the day, privileged people of means traveled
by plane, or people that budgeted or otherwise made life
(22:14):
choices that afforded them the opportunity to travel by plane.
That's not the case anymore. Now flight is essential. Got
a meeting in Chicago, Gotta go book the ticket on
your phone at uber to the airport. Throw an overnight
back together.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Right.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
If you need mouthwash and contact lend solution, you get
it at the Sunduryes counter at the Mariotte Like.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
People are on the go, and that's the way.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
We should live, and that's the way we should expect
to live. I'm trying to raise the standards of quality
of life in this first world country. I noticed that
democrats are constantly trying to lower the standards of quality
life in my country. I'm trying to go in the
opposite direction. I don't want to be Mogadishu. I want
to be a much better place, and I want people
(23:06):
to be able to just hop on a plane and
go like the way you hop in a cab and
go now you hop in an uber and go.
Speaker 9 (23:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
We're very productive people. We are self sufficient. We can
carry our own water. Nobody is going to blow us up.
Osama bin Laden is dead. We don't need TSA, we
don't need to have our water measured by three ounces.
It's not gonna happen. There is no threat out there.
We're good. Keep the evildoers out of the country. Deport
(23:35):
everybody in the country that's in the country illegally, a
background checked. Anybody that wants to visit to make sure
they're not from some American hating country, and that students, visitors, employees, anybody,
anybody that hates America or ever said anything critical of
America on their Facebook or any social media, No visa
for you. That's how you make flight safe. Keep the
(23:59):
bad guys out, get rid of tsa, grab yourself a
bottle of water from the house, go to the airport,
Hop on a plane like you hop down a bus.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I am looking forward to the day where.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
There isn't a locked door between me and my fellow American.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Who is a pilot. There's no locked door.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Between me and my fellow American who is the shuttle
bus driver.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Think about it. Bus drivers are vulnerable. They're right there.
Nobody's worried about the bus driver.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
You know, al Qaida could have driven a bus filled
with explosives into the first floor of the World Trade Center.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
They didn't. They used the plane. So now everything in
air travel has got to be locked up, tight, locked up, tight,
locked up tight. And yet buses are wide open. But
you got a bus driver. I can talk to the
bus driver. I'm not allowed to talk to the pilot.
Let's get beyond that and think a little bit differently.
Let's be first world I think that way.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Don't think about how we have to protect ourselves from
our enemies, keep the enemies away, and live a fun
life as Americans.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Here, let's see here more on.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I mean, it doesn't look like this TikToker is going
to be able to buy Spirit Airlines, although it is
fascinating that one hundred and twenty seven thousand Americans all
pledged an average of six hundred and sixty seven.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Dollars to buy Spirit Airlines. See see like people are
thinking outside the box.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, let's just buy the airline collectively, basically nationalize the airline,
make it good and fly. It'd be the most popular
airline out there. No no, no points, no miles. You
don't when you go to a restaurant, you don't double
your miles. You can't fly with miles. Pay money, all right,
(26:01):
no credit card tricks, none of that. Don't be asking
because we're not given. Just pay for a seat, you
sit in it, and then you land and it's over.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
That's the new airline. That airline would work. Somebody's gonna
do it. Somebody's gonna do Luigi airlines, and it's gonna
be basic and no complaints. You get what you get,
and we don't want to hear it. There'd be no
airline attendance. And it's gonna be great, and it's gonna
(26:30):
be very colorful. Everybody brings their own entertainment. You can
get your water bottle, too bad, wait till you land
and go get yourself some water. Blue Penrose on news
radio six hundred Cogo coming up following the news at four,
they got the Lego thieves. The Lego thieves were people
going to Lego stores and department stores like Target and Walmart,
(26:54):
buying very expensive boxes of Legos Lego sets, and they
would open them carefully, take the Legos, refill the boxes
with pasta noodles like macaroni because that sounds like Legos,
and seal it back up with the glue gun and
go get a full refund because they had a receipt
(27:15):
and they were doing this all over town. It was
going on all over southern California. They also there are
people that there's certain Lego characters that are very valuable
in certain markets. There are people that would go and
open the box just take like Han Solo or whatever, Batman,
(27:37):
whatever the theme was, take that character and then seal
the box and then sell that on the black market.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
And they caught them. They caught them an air vine.
Way do you hear their story? Hey, lou on the
airplane thing.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
You might disagree with me, but just hear me out.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I feel like this is just.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
One more domino in the whole.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Nothing is special anymore. Everything is It's just normal.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
You go to them all in your.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Pajamas, Now drag your dog in there.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
I feel like nothing special anymore. Having those snacks and
those little things on the airplane made it a little
bit more special. And maybe I'm just nostalgic, but I
just feel like I want to keep some of those things.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Okay, I agree with you totally.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I don't like people walking around in their pajamas in public.
I think people should be embarrassed to be walking around
in their pajamas in public. Please understand, we're talking about
a discount airline.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
This is a lane. What you're saying is I.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Want the limousine to have a stocked bar, and I
want it to be comfy.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I want the limousine to be everything I expect when
I'm not getting a limousine.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I want the.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Toyota Prius that the Uber driver is driving to be fast.
I don't want the free bottle of water. I'm just
I want them to be where I want them to be,
and I want to go straight home.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It's the same thing with airlines.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
If you want a delightful experience, and this forget about
what was I told you flying air travel was for
the well to do and Americans that budgeted for a
well to do experience. We used that first class train travel,
and you had third class train travel.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Right now we don't. Now the train is the train,
and you're just de sartine in that can.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
So I'm talking about bifurcating or trifurcating air travel, and
their spirit doesn't need to.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Catch up with Delta first class.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I'm a Delta one person and it's lovely, questionably worth it,
but lovely. But if I don't, if I'm not flying
with my wife on an anniversary trip, or I'm not
using miles and I just got to get the Salt
Lake City, then I don't need water. I don't need pretzels.
I don't need an airline attendant. I don't need a blanket,
I don't need any I just want to go up
(30:01):
and go down. So Spirit did own that lane, and
I think that lane should stay there. So it's not
so much that I want things to slowly go away.
I want things to.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Buy for Kate.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Right, you want to go up to a hot dog
cart and order a hot dog on the.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Campus of SDSU. You can dress like a slob.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
You want to get an eighty dollars ribbi at Ruth's.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Chris steak owse gotta put on shoes, Hey.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Lud, don't knock the snacks when you're on a long flight.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
It's nice to have it broken up with somebody coming
down the aisle with drinks and a snack. In fact,
I've been complaining because of people's peanut allergies. Now I
can't even get nuts anymore. It has to be pretzels,
which I personally don't care for.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Those peanut people kill us man.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
Hey lou, there's a couple of things that the airline
attendants do. You Granted, they serve food, drinks and other
stuff like that, but who's going to keep the bathrooms
clean and refresh with toilet paper? Who's going to handle
irreverent passengers when there's a confrontation or anything like that.
Passengers have Missling's concerns and issues like I need a
(31:08):
blanket or whatever the case may be. So those are
the things they do besides food. Just curious what you
think and how to solve that problem.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Thanks appreciate the call.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Would it be okay if I answered your question with
a question? Who hands you a blanket on the bus?
Who breaks up passenger disputes on a bus? When you
go take a bus and some nuts starts yelling at you,
don't you have to fend for yourself. I mean think
(31:38):
of it that way, right, Who who? Who's who's defending you?
When you're on a train?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Two two pats you.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
You sit down on a train on the surf liner
and some crazy liberal white woman sits down next to
you and says, I don't like your Make America Great
Again hat. You need to take that off, and she's
up screaming at you. There's no airline attendant coming and
breaking it up. There's no security guard that says, ma'am,
you need to get off the plane.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
All these viral.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Videos we see of people on airplanes going nuts because
people have a Trump shirt on. How is that handled
on all other forms of mass transportation?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
You do it yourself. You say, shut up, lady, get
lost right, or you change your seat. You don't have
a blanket. You're cold on the bus, then you're cold.
Should have thought right.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Run out of water. You're gonna be thirsty. And that's it,
that's all. It's really simple.
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