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Have you noticed that everything's broken? That's because we're going to have to destroy everything to rebuild into the golden age. But have you noticed that nothing has ever been worse than airline travel? Why is airline travel — I say this all the time but I'm continuously amazed it's so consistent — that airline travel is the only thing that gets worse all the time? It started pretty good in the 60s and then just got worse every day. And now some 19,000 flights were canceled or delayed since Thursday. Since Thursday. How do you cancel 19,000 flights and not have the entire airline industry completely useless?
Would you even book a flight if you knew that 19,000 flights would be canceled? If you knew that was going to happen, would you have booked a flight in the first place? I don't know what percentage that is. Do you? Is that a lot? You know, without knowing the percentage, if I just heard the raw number I'd say, well hell with that, there's no way I'm going to get into that. But maybe it's a small percentage. I don't know. I've got a feeling everybody felt it.
So there were 4,200 U.S. fl
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ights that were delayed and 900 canceled on Sunday. Nine hundred flights. Nine hundred flights is a lot of flights, isn't it? It feels like everybody would feel that. It doesn't feel like that would just be something that a few people were inconvenienced by. Well anyway, I wonder about the United States and its ability to fix things. And this will be sort of a meta theme for today's live stream.…
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