Airline travel amid the pandemic and the pandemics impact on the aviation industry. Sharp talksn about issues affecting native americans and the role they played in the election. Good morning. It is wednesday, november 25, the day before thanksgiving, traditionally one of the busiest travel days in the year. This is a Union Station in washington, d. C. , popular hub. Health and state Public Officials have urged people not to travel or spend the holiday outside their household, yet millions of americans packed airports this week in more are expected to hit the road today and tomorrow. We want to hear about your travel plans or lack thereof. If you are traveling this thanksgiving, what precautions are you taking . Give us a call if youre traveling. The number, [video clip] 202 7488000. If you are not traveling, 202 7488001. You can send us a text this morning. That number 202 7488003. If you do, include your name and where you are from. Catch up with us on social media. On twitter, cspan
The dow did go down. The nasdaq went down 4 or 5 . I spent the better part of this year studying the pandemic i was right. You know what we just cover . The professionals are not the only covid that matters. We have a Massive Group of investors who become professionals. They dont care about the same thing as the experts theyre the ones who were the marginal buyers and sellers. The investors have changed the entire character of the market what made you not be able to sleep at night it was very little belief in stocks for the past 20 years, the convention says stocks could no longer be trusted. They continue to lose their values way too quickly when something goes wrong on top of that, the convention only a fool to try to pick individual stocks. You may as well stop trying to beat the mark and put some of your money in an index fund and invest safely in bonds the last eight months, that convention has been stood on its head by a new generation of investors after the rise of Commission Fr
His column. He has been on the airline and aviation beat for nearly two decades. He joins us on zoom this day before thanksgiving. Despite all the Public Health warnings and efforts to get people to stay home, air travel has hit an eightmonth high this thanksgiving. Has the amount of people willing to travel surprised you . Guest not really. I think for a lot of people, there have been mixed signals about travel. You have an Airline Industry that is pushing hard on the notion that travel is safe. There are dangers to it. And, you know, in some ways the , a more definitive warning about thanksgiving travel came late. We have seen a bit of a falloff in the number of people screened by tsa yesterday, down to 37 of what it was for a comparable day last year. Over the weekend, it was about 45 of last years totals, so, you know, there are a lot of people traveling. Look, people really want to go. They want to be with their families or take a break. And i think, you know, they have not gotten
The Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum in beautiful new orleans, louisiana. We have a really superb guest with us tonight, a friend of the museum, my friend and a wonderful writer and ahor, ian toll. Ian, welcome. Thank you, rob. Ian probably is one of those people who with, you know, doesnt really need an introduction, as we like to say. You all know what that means, the introduction should be really long. Ians an extremely accomplished scholar and writer. Hes the author of six [inaudible] the founding of the u. S. Navy as well as a trilogy called the pacific war, the third volume of which has just been released called twilight of the gods. Hes won the Samuel Elliot morrisonward from the naval orr of the United States, hes won the william e. Colby militaryriters award, hes won the other morrison award given by the uss constitutio museum. If theres any more morrison awards out there, i fully expect to see you winning one in the not too distant future. But thanks so mu
Volume series on the pacific during world war ii. In our the doolittle raid of 1942 that were carried out in response to japans bombing of pearl harbor. Welcome to the National World war ii museums evening presentation webinar. My neighbors Jeremy Collins and for those of you watching on zoom, some brief housekeeping remarks. You are an attendee of our zoom event tonight. That means you do not have video or audio privileges but you can interact with our moderator and guest i writing your question in the q a box. The moderator would be reviewing those during the question and answer session which will conclude tonight program. Now to introduce the moderator its my pleasure to pass this program over to dr. Rob citino. Thanks, jeremy. Dr. Rob citino here, seeing history of the National World war ii museum, beautiful new orleans, louisiana. We have a special guest with us tonight, a friend of the museum, my friend and a wonderful writer and author, ian toll. Welcome. Iq, rob. Ian toll is on