00:00 Speaker A

Okay, well, let’s say what we’re talking about first. Electric air taxis. I guess we have the banner there. Electric air taxis um are flying around New York City now. Joby aviation is one of the ones. Um, I just like the acronym for these, EVTOL.

00:07 Speaker A

Electric vehicle takeoff and landing.

00:09 Speaker B

Lower case E, by the way.

00:11 Speaker A

Yes, it is a lower case. Yes, exactly. So they like go up and they don’t operate like a normal helicopter. They’re sort of a helicopter plane hybrid, I guess.

00:20 Speaker B

It’s like a big drone.

00:21 Speaker A

Yeah, it’s like a giant drone. Would I get one of these? Um eventually,

00:27 Speaker A

I would get in one of these. I think I would get in one of these. Have they have have any crashed that we know of with I don’t think so.

00:31 Speaker B

I don’t care. Yeah. No chance.

00:33 Speaker A

I think I would feel a little sick, but it’s true. I don’t do well in prop planes, so I probably wouldn’t do well in one of these either. But I think this I mean, I do think these things are going to become a lot more common. Um, you know, this does feel like just the beginning for that kind of of travel, right? That we are going to see a lot more. And there’s a lot of companies vying for um future market share in the space. There’s some publicly traded companies that are doing this.

00:52 Speaker B

Yeah.

00:52 Speaker A

And so, is this the future of aviation? I mean, it’s not the future of long haul aviation.

00:56 Speaker B

No, I mean it’s cool. I mean it’s it’s really cool and it is um, you know, maybe we can finally get past the Jetsos haul, you know, we were, you know, where are my flying cars? This is a version of it. Uh, this could be the flying car. Um, with all these like really cool novel futuristic innovations. This is why maybe I’m just too cynical. I’m just like, how big’s the Ta? Is this Ta big enough? Like, am I going to have one of these in my backyard and I’m going to take it somewhere? Um, but it actually doesn’t really matter. I think it’s just really freaking cool if you could have an electric helicopter that takes you from Westside Highway to JFK in 7 minutes.

01:21 Speaker A

Yeah.

01:22 Speaker B

Not for me.

01:25 Speaker B

Probably forget about my price range or whatever. Just not going to be something that I’m going to be indulging in. But uh, you know, I think I try to put on the hat of like my you know, of Arthur and like, okay, he probably thinks that’s amazing. So if a four-year old thinks it’s cool then I’ll think it’s cool.

01:38 Speaker A

I mean it is cool. I mean the other thing is in a world where we have autonomous vehicles. Um that beca like, yes it’s for speed, but I think of it also as um circumventing traffic and things like that. But if you’re sitting in a car and you can do other stuff while the car operates, that also maybe reduces the Ta of something like an electric car.

01:54 Speaker B

You’ve been in a Waymo?

01:56 Speaker A

I have not been in a Waymo.

01:57 Speaker B

I’m just curious what the car sickness deal is like in those things to your point about other stuff because, you know, it seems like a great idea, but anyway.

02:04 Speaker A

I mean, presumably eventually you could sit in the front seat.

02:07 Speaker B

That’s even worse.