Transcript
A (0:00)
Hey, it's Tony. I know we're supposed to have a podcast today. It's Monday, and we normally do podcasts Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but this is going to be one of our vacation weeks. Now. We don't take many, maybe two a year, because I always like to do 150 podcasts. But something came up just a little while ago. I don't know, two, three, four weeks ago, my friend Alan, the socialite said, why don't you come to Florida and play golf? And I said, sure. I always say sure, but I don't actually then go to play golf in Florida. But I said, sure. And I talked it over with Michael, and Michael said he would join me for a couple of days if I wanted to do this. And I talked it over with the people at pti, particularly Matt Kelleher, and he said, it's not like we just started the show an hour ago. You know, if you want to take some time off, if you want to go play in Florida, you know, do it. So I thought about it and I made reservations to do it without actually thinking I was going to do it. And now you're all thinking, oh, you know, he's not doing the podcast this week because of all the snow in Washington and there's no power in Washington and he's standing outside in 3 degree weather and he's dying. No, none of that is true, right, Nigel? None of that is actually true.
B (1:12)
Yeah, that's right, Tony.
A (1:13)
Yeah. So what happened was that I. It's a very complicated thing about buying tickets and airline tickets and changing airline tickets and wondering about the storm and this, that and the other thing. And as people know, I'm not a good flyer. I'm not. I'm not going to make it any worse than that, but I'm not real good at this. And yesterday I had tickets. Yesterday. Well, not yesterday. If you're listening to this, on Monday, I. Ticket to go. Friday, I was going to get out before the storm, and I asked Nigel to do me a favor and come with me to the airport and then drive my car back. Am I telling the truth? So far, I haven't. I haven't wandered from the truth.
C (1:51)
One question. Did you buy your tickets from Elizabeth and Philip Jennings?
A (1:56)
No, I did not do that. I wanted to so badly, but you know that the show went off the air a little too quickly for me to do that, or I would have done it for certain. So I have these tickets. I don't really want to go, but I'm going to go. I'M going to force myself to go. And I say, nigel, do me a favor, drive me to the airport. And he says, sure, drive you to the airport. So what I'm going to say now is 100% true. The plane is leaving from Dulles and I'm about five miles from Dulles, when on my car phone, without me knowing how this happened, a message comes out loud and clear from United. We are United Airlines. We're just trying to tell you now that your flight has been delayed. Now, my flight was supposed to leave at 5:45. My flight was delayed till middle 9:30. It's about 3 o' clock now. How did I take that news, Nigel? Was that. Was I calm with that? Was I calm?