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Anthony Thurston Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: but next to as the principal chairman the CEO of
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Speaker 1: dream Flights International. Dream Flights is a private jet service
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Speaker 1: that utilizes a network of four thousand pre qualified aircraft
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Speaker 1: adhering to safety standards higher than those of the f
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Speaker 1: a A requirements and charter aircraft is out the thirty
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Speaker 1: thousand airports worldwide. Please work with the money making conversations.
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Speaker 1: Anthony Thurston, good morning. Are you doing Anthony? I'm blessed,
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Speaker 1: thanks for asking, good man. Happy to have you on
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Speaker 1: my show. Mighty making conversations. You know, So tell me, Anthony,
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Speaker 1: where are you based out of We're based out of
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Speaker 1: my hometown. Come on, and I've never used your service.
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Speaker 1: Come on now, we got to change that. Ye have
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Speaker 1: something about that, because look, look, before we get started
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Speaker 1: explaining everybody what exactly your company does. Well, we're in
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Speaker 1: the Stove Aviation Company. Again, as you stayed in the opening,
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Speaker 1: we charter aircraft out of thirty thousand airports worldwide using
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Speaker 1: a network of four thousand airport aircraft. Excuse me that
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Speaker 1: here the safety inquirements they have to expandard. We offer
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Speaker 1: grand transportation in seventy countries as well as executive protection
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Speaker 1: upon the quest. There are two sides of the business.
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Speaker 1: One is on demand charter any other as our plus
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Speaker 1: card where you buy uh bull hours of flight time
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Speaker 1: ground transportation into it included. Now, okay, there's a couple
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Speaker 1: of things you do out there. Now, you had four
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Speaker 1: thousand pre qualified aircraft. How are your aircraft qualified? What?
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Speaker 1: What's what's the what's what are the standards because you
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Speaker 1: said they're higher than the f A. Yeah, they are
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Speaker 1: wide and approved, so they have different res regulations if
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Speaker 1: you will, and certifications that they found them they are
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Speaker 1: safe aircraft. To put that in context, they're about about
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Speaker 1: twenty tho aircraft out there available for charter are out
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Speaker 1: there period. There's probably the fourteen thousand and twelve thousand
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Speaker 1: of those that are available to charter to the public
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Speaker 1: and the four thousand that we use or even more exclusive.
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Speaker 1: And they're the same aircraft that the big box operators use,
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Speaker 1: such as that depth buch testh etcetera. That they use.
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Speaker 1: This supplement a lift. Now is your business for the
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Speaker 1: lifestyle of the rich and famous, not necessarially, it's more
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Speaker 1: of it's kind of a revolution, if you will, you know,
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Speaker 1: social innovating some program that we have our initiative. You know,
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Speaker 1: we believe in in donating ten percent of on that
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Speaker 1: profit back into charities, foundations and community programs of the
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Speaker 1: purchaser's choice. So it truly is a lifestyle or looking
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Speaker 1: to life life minded individuals that are looking to make
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Speaker 1: a difference. Now, the thing I liked about I enjoy
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Speaker 1: about private air travel is that security just walk right
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Speaker 1: on that planet to do the pat down, to get
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Speaker 1: get the airport to hour before, and when you get
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Speaker 1: that two hours before, you still frustrated. That line that's
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Speaker 1: standing in front of you. Those are some of the
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Speaker 1: what are some of the perps? Because I want to
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Speaker 1: get people to understand the basics, because I got you
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Speaker 1: for two breaks. I want to take my time. I
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Speaker 1: really want to we really expose people to your business
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Speaker 1: and the different lanes of opportunity because when people That's
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Speaker 1: why I opened up and say that line about lifestyle
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Speaker 1: and Richard famous, because I know it's really not about
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Speaker 1: that nowadays, you know, it's really the pricing is really
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Speaker 1: coming down to just everyday travel depends on how you
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Speaker 1: want to travel. So when I when I when I
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Speaker 1: look at when I look at a business like yours
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Speaker 1: and watching and grow. How long have you been in business?
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Speaker 1: Been in business for nineteen years. We started as Dream
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Speaker 1: Flights Luxury Travel. We were that helicopter company with basically
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Speaker 1: so perfectly just getting paid, but at a but guide moment,
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Speaker 1: if you will, and he changed the direction and transforming
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Speaker 1: the company into a private aviation company. What's social innovation
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Speaker 1: at its core? So with that being said, what is
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Speaker 1: what is? What are you selling to your customers? What
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Speaker 1: are you saying? You know? Because some people are in
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Speaker 1: the property basis taking advantage of corporate trip there they
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Speaker 1: were because you have WiFi on these planes nowadays a
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Speaker 1: lot of times you can put four or five lawyers
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Speaker 1: or four or five executives on the plane. They can
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Speaker 1: do a business meeting all the way till they touched down,
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Speaker 1: and it's totally private because unlike when you pire a commercial,
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Speaker 1: when you're talking to everybody can hear your conversation. So
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Speaker 1: what do you see the growing trend in your business
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Speaker 1: right now? Well, our value proposition and of course you're
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Speaker 1: saving time and time and saving money. You know a
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Speaker 1: lot of most people say, how you know how important
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Speaker 1: their time is, But I don't think we as as
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Speaker 1: a whole really realize how important that is. Let's save
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Speaker 1: Let's say you have a whatever you're your revenue goal
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Speaker 1: is for the year. You know, if you divide that
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Speaker 1: by two thousand and eight, that'll give you your hourly rate.
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Speaker 1: So to speak of the value of your time. You know,
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Speaker 1: most people I'm thinking and that context and do that
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Speaker 1: cost benefit analysis if you will. So, yes, you you
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Speaker 1: are truly saving time and you're being more efficient and
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Speaker 1: uh and therefore more productive. So what I'm talking, I'm
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Speaker 1: on the phone. We're on the phone. Here's the principal chairman,
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Speaker 1: the CEO of dream Flights International. I'm ru Sean McDonald.
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Speaker 1: I want to use your services. How does that happen
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Speaker 1: in the private atract in the private actor We're gonna
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Speaker 1: because you have different lengths, because I want to get
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Speaker 1: to the security, which I think is really interesting, and
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Speaker 1: I want to get to the show for the private
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Speaker 1: cost service, let's talk about the private at aircraft aircraft traffic. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so on the on demand where you can either call
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Speaker 1: into our toll free line or go through our website
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Speaker 1: portfolio or porthole excuse me. And and that's when you
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Speaker 1: just get the air side of it. And then all
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Speaker 1: of your ground transportation and your premuentatoring and whatnot is
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Speaker 1: all ale cart now with our plus cards, our check
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Speaker 1: card if you will, that's where you're buying both hours
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Speaker 1: of flight time, bull hours and ground train insportation. All
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Speaker 1: your taxes and fees and still search charges are included
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Speaker 1: premium catering and ground transportation. So it's kind of like
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Speaker 1: when you go to cost go only buying bolt and
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Speaker 1: you're saving money. Situation to know what about catering. Is
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Speaker 1: catering included? To absolutely and not just get regulator most
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Speaker 1: most of the competitors say that they are for catering
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Speaker 1: and that's just the chips and solders and nuts and
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Speaker 1: candy that's on the plane. Catering is the real deal.
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Speaker 1: So on our last trip, so we had the fall
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Speaker 1: Grass on that you come see that everybody's all guys,
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Speaker 1: not all of the country. That's a steakhouse. Because it
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Speaker 1: displayed to my listeners. You know he's from Houston, so
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Speaker 1: you know, I know south Grass. South Grass is like
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Speaker 1: it's a steak company. You know, it's like a middle
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Speaker 1: ground states really good. The roles are fantastic, and so
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Speaker 1: if you cad and salt grass on these planes, I'm
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Speaker 1: about to look into you a little bit closer, my freak,
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Speaker 1: because that show. Don't get that old delta, that's that's
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Speaker 1: really cool. So so so basically everybody knows the expenses
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Speaker 1: on that format, and so you can go there and
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Speaker 1: you can pick different type of lanes that what is
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Speaker 1: your most popular plane that gets uh get used, I get,
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Speaker 1: I guess say rented, I guess service in your in
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Speaker 1: your last two detailed to ask and no, no, that's
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Speaker 1: a great question. But actually we're not an aircraft specific company.
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Speaker 1: Where are a class specific company. And by saying that,
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Speaker 1: let's say if you if you want to fly on
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Speaker 1: a Falcon fifty, you know, I'm Superman class aircraft. You're
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Speaker 1: in Houston. With our competitors, they're gonna find one that's
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Speaker 1: in Houston. If there's not one safety nearest ones in Dallas,
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Speaker 1: you have to reposition that aircraft to you, and you're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to pay for the reposition costs. Where with
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Speaker 1: us being a class specific aircraft aircraft company, excuse me
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Speaker 1: that we'll find another Superman. It's in the air. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: save you that listening costs and past that save you.
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Speaker 1: I'm to it. That's where our price points or even lower.
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Speaker 1: So we can offer a greater value at a lower
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Speaker 1: price point because of just that one fact. That's true,
9:11
Speaker 1: because a lot of like I gotta tell everybody, but
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Speaker 1: I want to I want to bring you on my
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Speaker 1: show because a lot of people they start talking about
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Speaker 1: private and they started talking about you know, custom suits,
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Speaker 1: they think that's how to their price line. They start
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Speaker 1: talking about things, you know, private costs or they think
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Speaker 1: that's how their price line. Now now you know aircraft,
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Speaker 1: you know private aircraft, they really think that's how their
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Speaker 1: price line. And I just want to let people know
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Speaker 1: if you do your research, it really isn't like you said,
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Speaker 1: time is money. And if you if you're trying to
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Speaker 1: get someplace and you can do a family outing and
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Speaker 1: a group of friends, y'all can just pull the money
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Speaker 1: together and uh and you can rent out this and
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Speaker 1: they'll come get you to drop you off, and it
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Speaker 1: will pick you up and can be a round trip
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Speaker 1: and it can be a really fun experience. If that's
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Speaker 1: if you know, if that's if you want to do
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Speaker 1: a bucket list a bucket list trip type thing. So
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Speaker 1: I just want let everybody know, and you need that,
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Speaker 1: you know, stop thinking that you can't afford something. Just
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Speaker 1: just do your research and come to a company like yours,
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Speaker 1: because you guys willing to work with people to educate
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Speaker 1: them so they can use your services. Correct. Absolutely, and
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Speaker 1: that's a great point. You know, if you were flying
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Speaker 1: a party of set, flying let's say five miles, you
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Speaker 1: would save money flying privally versus purchasing first class tickets. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: And that's why I want to tell people about that.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's that. But I'm just the key to
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Speaker 1: me and I'll just let you guys know. I'm just
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Speaker 1: cleared as a Rashan McDonald does not fly private. All
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Speaker 1: of that onright looking at me, like, but when I do.
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Speaker 1: But like I said, when I do, when I'm on
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Speaker 1: a tight schedule and I need to get someplace, the
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Speaker 1: beauty of it is checking in getting off that plane
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Speaker 1: and getting on that plane. I'm telling you, just walking there,
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Speaker 1: they ask you your name, then you meet the pilots,
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Speaker 1: they ask you for your I D. And they just
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Speaker 1: walk you right on that plane nine times out telling
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Speaker 1: me a vehicle and pull up right next to the
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Speaker 1: aircraft as well in ten minutes. I don't wanna say
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Speaker 1: that is that sounds like I'm a celebrity. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying? You know you can? You can you
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Speaker 1: get off the plane? You know that, and the and
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Speaker 1: the you know suv right there. It's two steps. So
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Speaker 1: it's an interesting question to say that your corporate DNA
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Speaker 1: is social innovation. How does that actually work? Well, we
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Speaker 1: we donate tempts iner our next product that are you
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Speaker 1: that needs to transactions to charity foundations and community programs.
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Speaker 1: You know, we we firmly believe that those of us
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Speaker 1: that are are blessed to fly privately every responsibility to
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Speaker 1: create miracles for other people. Really believe in doing business
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Speaker 1: differently and to make a difference. So you you you
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Speaker 1: that nobody's asked you to do that, So use out
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Speaker 1: of your thought process. I'm gonna make a difference. I'm
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Speaker 1: a guilt so asbody's my company grows, I'm willing to
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Speaker 1: give back to the community. A lot of people don't
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Speaker 1: do that. So so when you say, are there can ganization,
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Speaker 1: because I've seen some organizations where they like have this
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Speaker 1: little list of saying, like, for instance, me myself, when
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Speaker 1: people come to me for donation, I said, hey, I
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Speaker 1: have my scholarship program for the University Houston. That's all
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Speaker 1: I donate to. Now, are you specifically geared to certain
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Speaker 1: foundations or certain charities where your money, your temper cent
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Speaker 1: is divving up into Now, we used to do that,
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Speaker 1: but we found it to your point that most people
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Speaker 1: have an affinity to a certain organization. So therefore we
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Speaker 1: change that that giving portion of them from profit portion
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Speaker 1: of our business model and flipped around to the purchasers
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Speaker 1: so they can direct that they don't get the tax credit,
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Speaker 1: take that out of the profit. But you tell us what,
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Speaker 1: you know, what program it is that you want to succeed,
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Speaker 1: and that's what we'll do. You know, as long as
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Speaker 1: it's advancing civil society, we're all for it. I like that.
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Speaker 1: So in other words, if I use your use your
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Speaker 1: company and say, hey, I know the tempera cent of
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Speaker 1: my my my airline purchase, I want what is that?
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Speaker 1: What I want to say purchase rental? What we're words?
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Speaker 1: Should they charter? What? What's the proper terminology if he's
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Speaker 1: saying it's a charter charter recol release and of the automatically,
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Speaker 1: it would already make it go to my scholarship fund
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Speaker 1: if I wanted it to. That's what you're saying. That's correct,
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Speaker 1: That's awesome. UH. When I come back, we're gonna come
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Speaker 1: back on talking to Anthony Thurston. He's the principal UH
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Speaker 1: chairman and CEO of dream Flights International. Now we're gonna
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Speaker 1: talk about that security service and that cost service. See
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Speaker 1: now he just told me he gonna fly me in.
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Speaker 1: Then you're gonna protect me and you're gonna drive me around. Well,
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Speaker 1: when you're making conversations, he winning my guests on the phone.
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Speaker 1: Is the principal chairman and CEO of dream Flights International. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He's based out of Houston, Texas. UH. He has over
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Speaker 1: four thousand h aircraft that he gets pre qualified that
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Speaker 1: as a superior safety standards to the f a A
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Speaker 1: and UM thirty thousand airports worldwide. Didn't you say seventy
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Speaker 1: countries there? Did you say seventy countries? Ground transportation is
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Speaker 1: offering severny countries areas in every country. So you're telling
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Speaker 1: me I can go to I can go to France
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Speaker 1: and you won't know me. That's what you're saying there, Anthony.
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Speaker 1: Actually we're about to open the office and France. See,
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Speaker 1: I was just hitting him. You know, he's just gonna
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Speaker 1: throw me. He's just gonna just go hit me in
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Speaker 1: the gut. I just threw our France. You know, how
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Speaker 1: how about how about if I go to I know
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Speaker 1: you're in London, right, I know you get see this.
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Speaker 1: London has automatic that was two weeks. That's two Let
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Speaker 1: me go, Let me go, Let me go to uh,
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Speaker 1: let me go to uh Johannesburg, South Africa. That yes,
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Speaker 1: we are some packages for for South Africa and Nigeria,
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Speaker 1: Morocco on Etopia over the weekend. So you so you're
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Speaker 1: just gonna kill others. So I can't even go there
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Speaker 1: and just throw other so I can shut his little
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Speaker 1: storyteller down. So so it's really great. So how do
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Speaker 1: you get started in the business like this? Sir? This
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Speaker 1: is not something. This is not opening the barbecue stand.
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Speaker 1: It's not opening up you know a restaurant or car
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Speaker 1: wash are uh? This is this is this is uh,
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Speaker 1: this is a big time. This is well, how do
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Speaker 1: you how do you get started? Well, again, it's much
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Speaker 1: bigger than I am. I can't claim any claim to it.
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Speaker 1: It was truly a God moment. I was in one
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Speaker 1: direction with dream Flights luxury travel, and over the course
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Speaker 1: of time he changed that. He showed me that reminded
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Speaker 1: me of my passion and showed me my purpose. So
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Speaker 1: that's why I'm there by now it's about getting back
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Speaker 1: we just after we're using luxury products to do. So,
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Speaker 1: now let's let's talk about that. With dream Flights, he
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Speaker 1: was awarded Who's Who Are Black Houston as Houston, Texas
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Speaker 1: and received proclamation from the City of Baltimore, Maryland, recognizing
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Speaker 1: Dream Flight support of veterans at risk and the homeless.
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Speaker 1: I gotta go back, and also that when I would resume,
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Speaker 1: you are administrator for the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Hospital.
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Speaker 1: So this is your DNA. You know, let's talk about
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Speaker 1: your your entrepreneur, your corporate sponsoring guy, but this is
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Speaker 1: your DNA. You know, a degree in psychology. So you
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Speaker 1: were hitting it like you you really were hitting in
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Speaker 1: one direction and then God pushed you in this direction.
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Speaker 1: And then you realize your opportunity and you you just
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Speaker 1: got on top of that horse and said we're gonna
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Speaker 1: ride this one. But you didn't forget your values. That's
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Speaker 1: what you're telling me right now. Correct, Yes, that's that's
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Speaker 1: that's it preciseful. You know I can make it greater.
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Speaker 1: Input tacks on humanity as a whole by doing what
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Speaker 1: we're doing, like partnering with different individuals and businesses and
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Speaker 1: into advance agenda, social intervetivation, veterans, veterans at risk and
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Speaker 1: the homeless. Explain that to us, sir. You know you're
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Speaker 1: you know you're engaged because I really want to get
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Speaker 1: into your personality. I really want to get because you know,
16:48
Speaker 1: here's a deal. I always talk about a balanced life.
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Speaker 1: Your balanced life seems to be to you know, how
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Speaker 1: you care about the community, how you get back, like
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Speaker 1: you said, ten percent of your earnings from into charitable causes.
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Speaker 1: And I keep drilling back to that because I don't
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Speaker 1: want it to sound casual, because you do it naturally
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Speaker 1: and then most people don't do it at all. But
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Speaker 1: you sometimes become natural to you. But I look at
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Speaker 1: your background. You know, your your degree, you know, being
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Speaker 1: an administrator or suff at a hospital for substant abuse.
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Speaker 1: You know, getting these awards. You know, you live in Houston,
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Speaker 1: living remind people in Houston Texas. This award in Baltimore, Maryland, Okay,
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Speaker 1: for for support of Veterans at Risk and Homeless. So
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Speaker 1: that's a that's a lot of miles from Houston, Texas.
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Speaker 1: So that means that you're impacting not just the Houston community,
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Speaker 1: but nationwide. Well, when I look at it, you know,
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Speaker 1: God gives us talents and those things that he does,
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Speaker 1: and once he shows you or you realize what your
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Speaker 1: passion and purposes, it's really your ministry. Whether it's your business,
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Speaker 1: the business of aviation, or what I mean. You know
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Speaker 1: you've been built businesses for others, your passion for for cooking,
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Speaker 1: all of those things are are talents that God gave
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Speaker 1: you so your glory. And he might say, tells me
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Speaker 1: that you know that He created everything for his glory.
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Speaker 1: So it really it's the ministry. It said it shouldn't
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Speaker 1: be anything local. Hopefully it's not anything local, but if
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Speaker 1: it is, that's fine. But you know, our talents and
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Speaker 1: treasures are for the world and we have to do
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Speaker 1: whatever we can to further that. So where is dream
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Speaker 1: Flights International? Teen years from now, ten years from now,
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Speaker 1: that's a decade, that's decade. Yeah, Yeah, that's a good question.
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Speaker 1: Actually the detailed court should have to tell you off
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Speaker 1: the air. But you know, Dream Flights would be one
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Speaker 1: of portfolio companies for its parents, you know. And if
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Speaker 1: you will be celebrating multiple years of contributing thirty million
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Speaker 1: plus towards the advancing the civil society through social innovation,
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Speaker 1: you know that could be you know, through through education
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Speaker 1: or entrepreneurial Saint tanks Um trunding the aspirations of our
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Speaker 1: This isn't just a fly by night thing. It's my
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Speaker 1: corporate responsibility that their passion and all of us that
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Speaker 1: are associated with the company of the weeps saying cool,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about this um because we talked about the
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Speaker 1: private aircraft travel and we talked a little bit about
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Speaker 1: the car service, but then you talk about executive protection services.
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Speaker 1: Tell me about that. So what exactly is that? Okay? Now,
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Speaker 1: on our Plus card program, there are two product lines,
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Speaker 1: and one is the time management, which is just air
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Speaker 1: and ground, that's what we spoke about earlier. The other
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Speaker 1: is lifestyle management, which is air, ground and executive protection
19:49
Speaker 1: our executive protection agents. You know there's some of them
19:51
Speaker 1: ever been trained and worked with Homeland Security and h
19:55
Speaker 1: t F. Secret Service, you know, but when when you
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Speaker 1: enter in that side of the business, you know there'll
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Speaker 1: be a threat assess that made for everyone, you know,
20:04
Speaker 1: because it's not just executive protection. Isn't just for entertainers
20:07
Speaker 1: and personal athletes, you know, you know, high net words
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Speaker 1: individuals are just anyone is that danger in today's society
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Speaker 1: and fortunate you know, there's always that throwing out there
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Speaker 1: trying to take advantage. So you know this is something
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Speaker 1: that's needed. And um, so like you're saying, this is
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Speaker 1: not about celebrity, because I know that for a fact,
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Speaker 1: like some corporate executive when they travel out of the country,
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Speaker 1: they have to have and they have to have they
20:33
Speaker 1: can become you know, kidnapped type of victims are just
20:36
Speaker 1: victims of just basic robbery. Just have to be aware
20:40
Speaker 1: of because when you land, you know, you really need
20:42
Speaker 1: to know where you're going, how fast you gotta get
20:45
Speaker 1: there and how fast you gotta get back. Because I
20:46
Speaker 1: would tell people when I travel, my my goal is
20:48
Speaker 1: just to get back home. I just want to get
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Speaker 1: back home. I want to get back home safe and
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Speaker 1: happy and and said I had a good trip and
20:55
Speaker 1: things like that. So so that's really important when you
20:58
Speaker 1: think about all this. So so you just to create
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Speaker 1: this these three these three these three needs. And you've
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Speaker 1: been mentioning something about a card. You said, rend you
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Speaker 1: can you can get this V I P type card?
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Speaker 1: Is there is there a price range to get into
21:12
Speaker 1: that car? And I know it's you know, you can
21:14
Speaker 1: put it. It's kind of like a kind of like
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Speaker 1: a debit card. I'm assuming that you could put money
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Speaker 1: in it, and then that money is what's drawing to
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Speaker 1: cover your needs, whether it's car service, security service, or
21:25
Speaker 1: air travel. Right, that's correct. Now, what we will taylor
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Speaker 1: a card if you will, or create a provate private
21:32
Speaker 1: jet solution for any budget. However they do start at
21:35
Speaker 1: fifty thou will give you nine hours of life clash
21:38
Speaker 1: jet time with nine hours of transportation insitud included. Okay,
21:42
Speaker 1: And people need to understand it because I had a
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Speaker 1: Netflix card. You know. I just want to bring up
21:46
Speaker 1: my past experience and so just say what he's saying
21:49
Speaker 1: is credible. Is that when you said nine hours, they
21:52
Speaker 1: it's based on like, first of if you're going from
21:54
Speaker 1: from if you Houston to Dallas, that's what like a
21:57
Speaker 1: like an hour flight that if am I all, we're
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Speaker 1: on the same page, it means that's an hour will
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Speaker 1: be taken away, correct, that's correct now and fIF wheels up,
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Speaker 1: wheels down. They have some competitors out there that are
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Speaker 1: I like to see see. I ain't gonna say who
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Speaker 1: else do me like that? But they'd be like that.
22:17
Speaker 1: You know that you come out, you know they they
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Speaker 1: wheels up, wheels down. It's where that's how you save money, man,
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Speaker 1: That's how that's that's that's a true flight because see
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Speaker 1: that way what he's saying is that you know, basically
22:28
Speaker 1: whatever after the flight wheels up and landing in Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: that's about the hours it's gonna be taken away from
22:34
Speaker 1: your from your car. But it's also based on the
22:38
Speaker 1: But let me ask you this is that also based
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Speaker 1: on if you say you're gonna put down fifty thou dollars,
22:42
Speaker 1: But that's fifty on a certain type of plane right now,
22:47
Speaker 1: that would be on on a class of aircraft right again,
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Speaker 1: So for the fifty thousand, you could get nine hours
22:53
Speaker 1: of round transportation nine hours of flight time with already
22:56
Speaker 1: Getti concluded, now you know you should go up to
22:59
Speaker 1: twenty five hours if you will. That's a hundred forty
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Speaker 1: nine thousand, five hundred and that would get you with
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23:28
Speaker 1: that time to translate into twenty hours of mid Superman
23:32
Speaker 1: class time. Again, that's kind of hard to explain over
23:35
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23:37
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