Hello and welcome to episode 280 of Avtoc. I am E.m. Petchenic here as always with

Jason Ebenowitz. Hello Ian, how's it going?

Hello, Jason. It's who knows? Honestly, who knows how it's going.

If you don't, then nobody will, but we're recording about an hour later than usual and no news is broken.

Don't see things like that.

8 minutes.

So if it hasn't happened yet, it's not going to have.

We're 28 seconds into the podcast and you've already completely jinxed us.

Got to make it fun.

I suppose.

Yeah, it's been a busy week. I keep waiting for the week where it's not a busy week. Like there's like a lull.

It's obvious. It's not supposed to be anything happening.

And yet. There's not supposed to be anything happening.

And yet. Yeah, I guess, I mean, so many things have happened today.

We've reconfigured our lineup.

I don't even know how many times, three, four maybe.

But there's a few major stories that are still developing.

So talking about them today, Wednesday,

and then having the podcast come on on Friday will probably either be wrong or at least a little behind the times but we'll start with kind of developments in the Middle East and talk about what happened to really get everyone going this morning,

which was Egypt of all countries, putting out a notum that said, if you're an Egyptian airline, don't fly through Iran between

0100 and 0400 on the 8th of August.

So Thursday, yesterday if you're listening when the podcast

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