April 9, 2025 • 5 mins
"Could a drone really deliver your groceries faster than you can drive to the store?" The Ben and Skin Show explores the cutting-edge world of autonomous drone deliveries in Mesquite, Texas. In this episode, Ben and Skin delve into the fascinating story of Zipline's innovative drone delivery service, which promises to revolutionize how we receive groceries and other essentials. The hosts discuss the practicalities and potential pitfalls of this technology, sharing insights from local residents who have already experienced the convenience of drone deliveries. Listeners will be intrigued by the detailed explanation of how these drones operate, including the high-tech cooler system that gently lowers packages from 300 feet above.
Notable quotes from the episode:
Notable quotes from the episode:
- "There's not a chance in hell that this is gonna be flawless." - KT
- "I could see myself doing it… if I needed immediate emergency bacon and biscuits." - Ben
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Transcript
Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is the Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one.
The Eagle. It is Luca Day. Don't forget. We'll have
the game right here on the Homa Dallas Mavericks Basketball
nine some point won the Eagle. Pregame starts at six.
Game starts about six forty three if you want to
be super exact. But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And now it's time for Basis week Day Up Day,
featuring veteran news anchor kt Fontweets. Here are the important
stories he's currently tracking from around the world.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
All right, the story involves the city of Mesquite and
surrounding areas. Here in DFW, let's go to Fox four
Steve Eager and Heather Hayes.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
My crew you a new company that will soon be
able to deliver up to eight pounds of groceries is
now over Mesquite.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Fox for Lori Brown has.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
The story Autonomous drones are providing a new way to
get instant deliveries and Mesquite.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
Because there's nobody flying the aircraft yet, the system does itself.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Instead of lowering the drone and dangling a box, zip
Line has engineered a secondary device, a high tech cooler
equipped with a propeller.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
An air comes very gently down to your backyard and
it releases the package and it's back up before you
even know it.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
The zipline drones remain at around three hundred feet at
all times during the delivery, high enough that it can
barely be heard when it is above your home.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Okay, I get a little more of I want to
stop it right there. So it's a drone, it's got
cooler in it. And then when it knows that it's
above your house, it's three hundred feet up, so a
football field, right then a zipline lowers the package down
onto your front or.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
What is this? Okay? So when I think of a zipline,
I think of something that's connected to two points. This
is just a drop rope.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
It's a rope that's strong enough to hold the up
to eight pound package.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
It's like Navy seals drop it out of a helicopter.
Yeah okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And it looks cool, but there's not a chance in
hell that this is going to be flawless bright.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
No, no way. Just crowding the airspace alone is complicated.
Where it lands, is it easy for someone to steal it?
At the end of March, I saw they were testing
a drone that was delivering a car battery, and they
dropped it and it fell through a windshield after a
lady had just put her toddler in the back seat.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
They crushed the windshield.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
Luckily everybody was okay, But I'm like, this is by
no means a figured out situation. I would also say
that this is not a practical situation. What is eight
pounds of groceries get you?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Like that is gonna be someone that's just kind of
ordering something daily. I'm glad you.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Said that this actually ends up making a little bit
of sense to me. Okay, and again keep in mind
though the three hundred feet thing, yeah, football, like, how
high are we have now? We're three floors.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Up, so it's about ten feet of about thirty thirty.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Feet, so yeah, and that means it doesn't make noise,
so you won't even hear it. So you're gonna hear
a lady in a second come in talking about how
she has used this.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Your app would have told you that if you're inside
cooking right now, that your package is on your back
door and the Zipple depart you for you have even
realized it.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
The deliveries for missing ingredients or last minute birthday party
gifts can arrive in minutes, and the zip can still
deliver during rain and certain levels of wind.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
I've done several orders. I was cooking breakfast the other
day and I needed bacon. I had ran out and
some biscuits I can order. I can just go online,
and I did it within twenty minutes. I had my bacon,
my biscuits and finish my breakfast. It was It was wonderful.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Right now, if you live with it, Okay, Now, here's
what I do when I need something. I drive my
ass to the store.
Speaker 9 (03:31):
See, yeah, I know that's what I thought. It was, like,
how long does it take for her to go to
the store pick it up? But this is just like
us uber eating when we could go out and get
it ourself.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
But this is also this is a test market, like
they're prepared for her to order this in the middle
of her breakfast. You're mean to tell me that if
every one of the Metroplex suburb skits that Walmart, whoever's
right on the case, they're gonna have to have a
lot of drones. They have to have a lot of
drones and a lot of people. They're loading up the drones.
I understand what they're promoting. I don't, no, man, I
(04:01):
don't think so.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
So here is what Walmart is doing right now. This
is in Mesquite. Now this is going to be a
moving to other stores. But hear this part.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Hey, Now, if you live within it two miles in
the Mesquite Walmart and you order through the zipline app,
the delivery service is free. And soon it's going to
be expanded to within ten miles of not only the
Mesquite Walmart, but several other North Texas Walmart locations, but
Walmart has not yet said just how long the service
will remain free. In Sunny Bill Lori Brown, Foxpoorn News.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Charge your ass.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Well, there's about five dollars delivery fee on that if
you want your bacon and biscuits.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Yeah, but if you're already cooking and you need immediate
emergency bacon and biscuits, I could do it.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I could see myself doing it.
Speaker 9 (04:43):
I just said two miles within the Walmart. Though you
live two miles from the Walmart and you can't just drive.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
You've got other things cooking, or you can't leave. What
if you've got like a toddler or something, it's just
taking a nap.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, I want to know more about an emergency biscuit situation. Dude,
Sometimes you gotta get them, you gotta get them immediately. Yeah,
you guys. Oh my god, best guts. Sorry, where's the
best guts we've ever planned?
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Damn it.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I'll say this happens every once in a while when
there's some homemade guacam all we made or something, Oh,
we don't need chips, and then I get in the
car and I go to the store and I'm back
in five minutes with the chips. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I kind of like it. I like the idea of
KT racing the drones. You know what I'm saying. We
can really check for efficiency.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
All right, Uh, good stuff there, Yes, thanks everyone, All
right now, you're doing a wonderful job.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
KT.
It is the Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one.
The Eagle. It is Luca Day. Don't forget. We'll have
the game right here on the Homa Dallas Mavericks Basketball
nine some point won the Eagle. Pregame starts at six.
Game starts about six forty three if you want to
be super exact. But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And now it's time for Basis week Day Up Day,
featuring veteran news anchor kt Fontweets. Here are the important
stories he's currently tracking from around the world.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
All right, the story involves the city of Mesquite and
surrounding areas. Here in DFW, let's go to Fox four
Steve Eager and Heather Hayes.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
My crew you a new company that will soon be
able to deliver up to eight pounds of groceries is
now over Mesquite.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Fox for Lori Brown has.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
The story Autonomous drones are providing a new way to
get instant deliveries and Mesquite.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
Because there's nobody flying the aircraft yet, the system does itself.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Instead of lowering the drone and dangling a box, zip
Line has engineered a secondary device, a high tech cooler
equipped with a propeller.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
An air comes very gently down to your backyard and
it releases the package and it's back up before you
even know it.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
The zipline drones remain at around three hundred feet at
all times during the delivery, high enough that it can
barely be heard when it is above your home.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Okay, I get a little more of I want to
stop it right there. So it's a drone, it's got
cooler in it. And then when it knows that it's
above your house, it's three hundred feet up, so a
football field, right then a zipline lowers the package down
onto your front or.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
What is this? Okay? So when I think of a zipline,
I think of something that's connected to two points. This
is just a drop rope.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
It's a rope that's strong enough to hold the up
to eight pound package.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
It's like Navy seals drop it out of a helicopter.
Yeah okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And it looks cool, but there's not a chance in
hell that this is going to be flawless bright.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
No, no way. Just crowding the airspace alone is complicated.
Where it lands, is it easy for someone to steal it?
At the end of March, I saw they were testing
a drone that was delivering a car battery, and they
dropped it and it fell through a windshield after a
lady had just put her toddler in the back seat.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
They crushed the windshield.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
Luckily everybody was okay, But I'm like, this is by
no means a figured out situation. I would also say
that this is not a practical situation. What is eight
pounds of groceries get you?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Like that is gonna be someone that's just kind of
ordering something daily. I'm glad you.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Said that this actually ends up making a little bit
of sense to me. Okay, and again keep in mind
though the three hundred feet thing, yeah, football, like, how
high are we have now? We're three floors.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Up, so it's about ten feet of about thirty thirty.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Feet, so yeah, and that means it doesn't make noise,
so you won't even hear it. So you're gonna hear
a lady in a second come in talking about how
she has used this.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Your app would have told you that if you're inside
cooking right now, that your package is on your back
door and the Zipple depart you for you have even
realized it.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
The deliveries for missing ingredients or last minute birthday party
gifts can arrive in minutes, and the zip can still
deliver during rain and certain levels of wind.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
I've done several orders. I was cooking breakfast the other
day and I needed bacon. I had ran out and
some biscuits I can order. I can just go online,
and I did it within twenty minutes. I had my bacon,
my biscuits and finish my breakfast. It was It was wonderful.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Right now, if you live with it, Okay, Now, here's
what I do when I need something. I drive my
ass to the store.
Speaker 9 (03:31):
See, yeah, I know that's what I thought. It was, like,
how long does it take for her to go to
the store pick it up? But this is just like
us uber eating when we could go out and get
it ourself.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
But this is also this is a test market, like
they're prepared for her to order this in the middle
of her breakfast. You're mean to tell me that if
every one of the Metroplex suburb skits that Walmart, whoever's
right on the case, they're gonna have to have a
lot of drones. They have to have a lot of
drones and a lot of people. They're loading up the drones.
I understand what they're promoting. I don't, no, man, I
(04:01):
don't think so.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
So here is what Walmart is doing right now. This
is in Mesquite. Now this is going to be a
moving to other stores. But hear this part.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Hey, Now, if you live within it two miles in
the Mesquite Walmart and you order through the zipline app,
the delivery service is free. And soon it's going to
be expanded to within ten miles of not only the
Mesquite Walmart, but several other North Texas Walmart locations, but
Walmart has not yet said just how long the service
will remain free. In Sunny Bill Lori Brown, Foxpoorn News.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Charge your ass.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Well, there's about five dollars delivery fee on that if
you want your bacon and biscuits.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Yeah, but if you're already cooking and you need immediate
emergency bacon and biscuits, I could do it.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I could see myself doing it.
Speaker 9 (04:43):
I just said two miles within the Walmart. Though you
live two miles from the Walmart and you can't just drive.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
You've got other things cooking, or you can't leave. What
if you've got like a toddler or something, it's just
taking a nap.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, I want to know more about an emergency biscuit situation. Dude,
Sometimes you gotta get them, you gotta get them immediately. Yeah,
you guys. Oh my god, best guts. Sorry, where's the
best guts we've ever planned?
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Damn it.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I'll say this happens every once in a while when
there's some homemade guacam all we made or something, Oh,
we don't need chips, and then I get in the
car and I go to the store and I'm back
in five minutes with the chips. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I kind of like it. I like the idea of
KT racing the drones. You know what I'm saying. We
can really check for efficiency.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
All right, Uh, good stuff there, Yes, thanks everyone, All
right now, you're doing a wonderful job.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
KT.
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