Welcome back to the Mail End podcast. Happy Friday, everybody. I'm her host, Brett Merriman. And to my right, we have the lovely back-to-back weeks. No, are you impressed? Want a streak. It is the Birkenstocked up. Sally DeFries. I won't be here next week. Oh. The streak ends at two. The streak ends at two. We're going to New York on Sunday.

That'll be fun, though. I'm very stressed about it. Why? Because of the air traffic control situation.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. We got to stop, well, many things. There's a lot of stuff wrong with the country, but I feel like the... I was like, we gotta stop that. And then I was like, well, that means we gotta stop the shutdown, which means we... That was, I was like staring over the abyss right there. There's... This is not a political podcast, so we can't fix these problems. No, we're supposed to fly out this weekend. I'm less concerned about getting there than I am about getting home.

Yeah, they said Austin wasn't on the list.

But it doesn't matter that Austin's on the list.

Or if your flight is coming from an airport that's on the list.

What airline are you flying?

Delta.

Okay.

That's the best case scenario where to be because they're not budget and.

So what I'm really, I'm more concerned about getting home because we're going upstate and then we're flying out of all.

Hell yes.

And I'm like, it's this like, I feel like being at a small airport is not beneficial because all the flights are coming

for you know they're not canceling the like the packed Austin and JFK flight no no no no

they're canceling the tiny JFK you know the regional the regional Albany to Detroit that we're going through.

So do you think it's a better idea?

I'm just talking this out with you.

We were going to fly out of Albany because it was closer,

so we wouldn't have to train back to New York City.

Should we just train back to New York City and fly out of New York City?

I mean, where are you going to be upstate? Hudson. Yeah. It's super close to Albany, but the train is also very easy just to get back to New York and do that. What do you find? Are you, so do you have- It's Delta the whole way? Oh, then I think you're fine. If it's Delta, you're good. If it was like something else, I'd be concerned. Yeah, I... And there's worse things to be stuck in Albany. You go to Saratoga? 30 minutes. Yeah, we'll see. I mean, yeah, I'm a little anxious about it, be honest That's fair I mean that's fair but

The one upside and like sorry to all of you who are flying home for Thanksgiving

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