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podcast today. Hi everyone welcome to shift a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigow, your host and reporter at the Automotive News.

And I'm Leslie Allen, editor of Shift magazine.

If you've been following us this week, you know we are at CES in Las Vegas bringing you daily coverage.

Today is the last day of our journey here

and today's focus is a little bit on non-traditional transportation.

You see an awful lot of that here on the show floor and perhaps outside.

Leslie, what do you got for today?

Well, I had a wonderful interview with Ryan Kelly.

He's the head of marketing and communication for Virgin Hyperloop 1.

And if you don't know what the hyperloop is, this is something that Elon Musk once described

as a cross between the Concorde, a rail gun, and an air hockey table.

Basically, these are pods that will shoot through a tube

at about 670 miles per hour.

And there are cities and regions that are competing to build a prototype of this transportation system.

And we're bringing that interview with Ryan in just a few minutes, but Pete, you got to tell people what you did today.

Today was a ride on the Goodyear Blimp.

And if you followed the podcast at all over the past year, you know that I am an aviation geek and this was a

personal thrill but it does have some interesting implications for

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