Hello America. It is Eric Erickson here nationwide. The phone number of the program, should you wish to be on at 8779-7-3-7-4-25.

I want to note a milestone real quick before we get into the bigger news, but this one kind of makes me sad.

Makes me feel old, if I'm honest about it.

The last 747 has been delivered by Boeing, which is kind of a milestone.

When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to go to the top of a 747.

It was the very first two-story plane. Of course, Airbus introduced the A380.

But the 747 was something very unique when it was built.

I don't want to bore you guys with players.

You know, whether it was Borts or Limbaugh, one of the things that all the research of radio says,

stop talking about planes.

Nobody cares about plays.

I care about it's always the host who cares about the plane and the audience like,

although I have a lot of Delta pilots who listen to this program in Southwest

pilots now.

I just, I just want to say when the thing came out, it was such a revolutionary plane

and had so much thrust.

The very first one took off from JFK in New York, it was a Pan Am plane.

And when they throttled the engines to go down the runway, the blast was so strong that it

blew the turf and sod behind the runway off.

There had been grass there. and it blew it all away.

That's how strong the engines were. And it just, it was the queen of the skies, they called it as a

gorgeous plane, extremely distinct. And when I was 11 years old, I've told the story before,

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