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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don Ross, the retirement boss from Ross Wealth Advisors, is
with us. Don you you do a decent amount of flying.
You you know throughout the year, you all types of
different stuff, going down to Florida and you know, you
go out. We actually you do, uh, you do some
traveling with uh like your you call him.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Your best friend rhet Reikert.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I mean, you guys are pretty good buddies, and you
guys do a lot of traveling. The reason I bring
all this up, first of all, it's fantastic we're seeing
not really a lot of delays as far as uh
it being Thanksgiving and then predicting this is going to
be as far as the amount of people traveling and
taking to the friendly skies and so on, it's we're
talking pre pandemic levels, breaking some of those records and
(00:44):
so on.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
The prediction for that. But they there was.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Something that I was reading as far as what's inside
America's lost luggage and this was from last year. This
list some of this stuff, which is actually kind of funny.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How did they lose luggage this day and age, with
all the technology. Yeah that it blows my mind.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, I don't understand it would It feels almost like
you did that on purpose.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
How did you lose because and some people.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Will air tag their stuff and that way you're going, No, No,
I know where it is. It's in Milliewaukee, it's in Milwaukee.
Why is it in Milwaukee? What it got on the
wrong jet?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
That kind of thing, Tommy boy, exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So some of last year's fascinating and unexpected finds in
this lost luggage. There was a freeze dried chicken foot
that they found in some of the luggage. There was
a movie script remember the movie The Goonies.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Sometimes, yeah, there was a movie script from that in
one of In one of the pieces of luggage, there
was a toilet seat. Now, why are you traveling with
a toilet seat? How did that end up in your baggage?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You got to get a bag big enough, But sometimes
it's necessary.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I don't want to let everybody in all that.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But some people, I guess, do that toilet seat thing.
Maybe they're extra what's the word it's a.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Little one for the like my two year old he's
putty training.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, it doesn't say small, it says toilet seat.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
There's a also glass eye is on this list. There
is a I know that, Zach, you ask for this
for Christmas this year, and it's not. I haven't ruled
it out. I still may get it for you. The
teeth be dazzling kit. Yeah, I know, you were you
like the you want the grill, like you want you're
after that.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I'm looking for the brightness when I smile.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Okay, and like silver or gold.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yes, And it's almost like you know the cartoons when
they'll smile after that, and it's like it's like that
little Yeah. So the teeth, the dazzling kit. Just keep
the faith, Zach. Maybe I will still you know.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Run that down for you.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Okay, Ago, I know, but I'm still in the process
of trying to locate any about weapons.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
How many weapons they ever find?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Full sheet of uncut two dollar bills was in some
of them.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
That'd be fun. Again.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
These are some of the things that were found, some
of the most interesting things and lost luggage from last year.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
There was a get this.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
There was a letter signed by Eleanor Roosevelt from nineteen
forty four.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So what did they do with this stuff?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
They don't They actually don't say, you know, you know
what exactly they do.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
There was a cuckoo clock.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Some of the most valuable treasures found in bags last
year a thirty nine thousand dollars diamond ring, A ten
thousand dollars Louis Viaton suitcase, which I guess, boy, how
do you You've got to be real sad if you
lost a Louis suitcase, Yeah, you got to be extra sad.
And then if it was ten grand, think about the
(03:54):
type of stuff that's in it.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I mean, that's going to be a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
A fourteen thousand, fourteen thousand dollars eleven range finder camera,
a twenty thousand dollars eighteen carrot gold.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Rolex watch in there.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The most frequent fire items found last year underwear, pants, books, shoes.
Men's size eleven Nikes are the most common shoe, which
is the size I wear. Interesting, so if I was
that guy, I'd be like, well, I'm not putting on
any used shoes though, although I do it when I
go bowling, but that's a whole different thing.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And then of.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Course you know iPhones and all kinds of different stuff.
But I thought I was like a freeze dried chicken foot, Like,
what are you doing with that in your back But no,
they didn't say anything about any weapons in the checked luggage.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You're allowed if.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
You have wear it. Yeah, and they have to be
locked and delayed, very very strict.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You can't obviously can't be loaded and all those No.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
It's got to be separate cartoons. As a matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Can you travel with a gun and then the actual
bullets in the same suitcase?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Are you able to do that? Do you know? To
be separate?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Separate containers, literally separate, Like soon, if I'm wrong, maybe
someone will call in and correct me.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know, if you can bet your bottom dollar if
you're wrong, someone will correct you.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Like a gate agent or something. Not a gate agent,
but who like some of that. Yeah, oh I had
a clip in my backpack once.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well did you?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Oh yeah bullets?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh yeah, Oh you're lucky they just kind of let
you go if they did, because I think they can my.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Black oge o bag and you know, I talked about
my military background. I was shooting last weekend and the
lady's like, you're good, but we can't let you take this,
so they kept that. Yeah, I'm like, yeah, it was cool.
They said, you can't imagine how many police officers carry
loaded guns.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
They just forget about it, right, and they get it.
They get it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, I think they probably depending on your situation, your story,
they would they would give you a break there.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, I got a break.
Don Ross, the retirement boss from Ross Wealth Advisors, is
with us. Don you you do a decent amount of flying.
You you know throughout the year, you all types of
different stuff, going down to Florida and you know, you
go out. We actually you do, uh, you do some
traveling with uh like your you call him.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Your best friend rhet Reikert.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I mean, you guys are pretty good buddies, and you
guys do a lot of traveling. The reason I bring
all this up, first of all, it's fantastic we're seeing
not really a lot of delays as far as uh
it being Thanksgiving and then predicting this is going to
be as far as the amount of people traveling and
taking to the friendly skies and so on, it's we're
talking pre pandemic levels, breaking some of those records and
(00:44):
so on.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
The prediction for that. But they there was.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Something that I was reading as far as what's inside
America's lost luggage and this was from last year. This
list some of this stuff, which is actually kind of funny.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How did they lose luggage this day and age, with
all the technology. Yeah that it blows my mind.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, I don't understand it would It feels almost like
you did that on purpose.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
How did you lose because and some people.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Will air tag their stuff and that way you're going, No, No,
I know where it is. It's in Milliewaukee, it's in Milwaukee.
Why is it in Milwaukee? What it got on the
wrong jet?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
That kind of thing, Tommy boy, exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So some of last year's fascinating and unexpected finds in
this lost luggage. There was a freeze dried chicken foot
that they found in some of the luggage. There was
a movie script remember the movie The Goonies.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Sometimes, yeah, there was a movie script from that in
one of In one of the pieces of luggage, there
was a toilet seat. Now, why are you traveling with
a toilet seat? How did that end up in your baggage?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You got to get a bag big enough, But sometimes
it's necessary.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I don't want to let everybody in all that.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But some people, I guess, do that toilet seat thing.
Maybe they're extra what's the word it's a.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Little one for the like my two year old he's
putty training.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, it doesn't say small, it says toilet seat.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
There's a also glass eye is on this list. There
is a I know that, Zach, you ask for this
for Christmas this year, and it's not. I haven't ruled
it out. I still may get it for you. The
teeth be dazzling kit. Yeah, I know, you were you
like the you want the grill, like you want you're
after that.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I'm looking for the brightness when I smile.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Okay, and like silver or gold.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yes, And it's almost like you know the cartoons when
they'll smile after that, and it's like it's like that
little Yeah. So the teeth, the dazzling kit. Just keep
the faith, Zach. Maybe I will still you know.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Run that down for you.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Okay, Ago, I know, but I'm still in the process
of trying to locate any about weapons.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
How many weapons they ever find?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Full sheet of uncut two dollar bills was in some
of them.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
That'd be fun. Again.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
These are some of the things that were found, some
of the most interesting things and lost luggage from last year.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
There was a get this.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
There was a letter signed by Eleanor Roosevelt from nineteen
forty four.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So what did they do with this stuff?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
They don't They actually don't say, you know, you know
what exactly they do.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
There was a cuckoo clock.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Some of the most valuable treasures found in bags last
year a thirty nine thousand dollars diamond ring, A ten
thousand dollars Louis Viaton suitcase, which I guess, boy, how
do you You've got to be real sad if you
lost a Louis suitcase, Yeah, you got to be extra sad.
And then if it was ten grand, think about the
(03:54):
type of stuff that's in it.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I mean, that's going to be a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
A fourteen thousand, fourteen thousand dollars eleven range finder camera,
a twenty thousand dollars eighteen carrot gold.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Rolex watch in there.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The most frequent fire items found last year underwear, pants, books, shoes.
Men's size eleven Nikes are the most common shoe, which
is the size I wear. Interesting, so if I was
that guy, I'd be like, well, I'm not putting on
any used shoes though, although I do it when I
go bowling, but that's a whole different thing.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And then of.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Course you know iPhones and all kinds of different stuff.
But I thought I was like a freeze dried chicken foot, Like,
what are you doing with that in your back But no,
they didn't say anything about any weapons in the checked luggage.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You're allowed if.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
You have wear it. Yeah, and they have to be
locked and delayed, very very strict.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You can't obviously can't be loaded and all those No.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
It's got to be separate cartoons. As a matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Can you travel with a gun and then the actual
bullets in the same suitcase?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Are you able to do that? Do you know? To
be separate?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Separate containers, literally separate, Like soon, if I'm wrong, maybe
someone will call in and correct me.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know, if you can bet your bottom dollar if
you're wrong, someone will correct you.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Like a gate agent or something. Not a gate agent,
but who like some of that. Yeah, oh I had
a clip in my backpack once.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well did you?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Oh yeah bullets?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh yeah, Oh you're lucky they just kind of let
you go if they did, because I think they can my.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Black oge o bag and you know, I talked about
my military background. I was shooting last weekend and the
lady's like, you're good, but we can't let you take this,
so they kept that. Yeah, I'm like, yeah, it was cool.
They said, you can't imagine how many police officers carry
loaded guns.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
They just forget about it, right, and they get it.
They get it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, I think they probably depending on your situation, your story,
they would they would give you a break there.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, I got a break.
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