01:14:29 · John Collison, Scott Kirby, Ben Thompson
[01:14:29] S1: But it's not just that? [01:14:30] S0: It's not just that. Like, the American rationale is I would like to create an airline that Americans broadly are proud of. That they think of as the flight carrier of The United States. If you go to Dubai, people are proud of Emirates. They may complain about stuff but they're proud of Emirates and they recognize that Dubai, the wealthy city state exists because of Emirates. Like, they're hand in hand. Singapore, same thing. Singapore is not Yeah. Without Singapore Airlines. And I would like to create the same thing. We also have a massive trade deficit with international airlines. It's two thirds of the long haul seats into The US are from our competitors even though only 40% of the customers are coming from overseas. Because they're all state subsidized, you know, a bunch of reasons for it and I'm not complaining about those. But I would like to create an airline that can compete head to head with those airlines. And by the way, doesn't create as many good jobs in The US, like a whole bunch of reasons. I would create a great airline in The US that can really compete head to head with state subsidized entities around the globe on every, not just in totality, on every factor. [01:15:36] S1: Anything we haven't covered? [01:15:38] S2: Well, he does have seven kids. He goes to soccer games, reads a lot of books and apparently runs the global airline. Yeah. How do you pull that off? [01:15:45] S0: I'm very efficient with time management. [01:15:48] S2: Were you, was this a post kid thing?
01:15:48 · Ben Thompson, Scott Kirby, John Collison
[01:15:48] S2: Were you, was this a post kid thing? [01:15:50] S0: No, I've always been. [01:15:51] S2: Oh, you've always been. [01:15:52] S0: I've got a bunch of weird quirks if you want to ask, but my wife can tell you that are time efficiency. [01:15:57] S1: Please, tell us the weird quirks. You can't set that up and then Okay, not [01:16:00] S0: okay. So, the one that people find the most amusing I think is 90% of the time you use a fork, I use a spoon. And by the way, I use a serving spoon. [01:16:11] S2: Completely agree. So So much more more [01:16:13] S0: A salad. Like, eating a salad [01:16:15] S1: The lettuce will fall off, no? [01:16:17] S0: No, I cut it up and then you can mix it all up too. [01:16:20] S2: It's tastier because you get all the little [01:16:21] S0: bits I and pieces on the can't eat like, I watch my wife eat, she's mad at me. She stabs a tomato and eats a tomato, then she stabs a piece of lettuce and eats a piece of lettuce. Mine's all mixed up. Does taste good and it's faster. And like a salad which has little nuts and cheese crumbles and stuff, you eat it with a fork and all that's left, all those good stuff falls off and is left on the tray. And [01:16:43] S1: I presume your wife loves you salad splaining her like this and telling her.
01:16:43 · John Collison, Scott Kirby
[01:16:43] S1: I presume your wife loves you salad splaining her like this and telling her. [01:16:46] S0: No, she gets super annoyed with me. But the bigger things are I only have two to three hours of meetings a day. I limit myself to two to three hours. And I don't waste time. And in particular, I'm not on social media. I do write my own stuff for LinkedIn and Instagram, but I don't even know how to That's log true. I like, I watch other people on TikTok or YouTube and like, Oh my God, what are you doing? It's such a time waste. And I don't watch TV really. I just don't waste time. That's a huge one. Yeah, yeah. And if you don't waste time, you got time for a whole bunch And of other [01:17:22] S1: you have the sleep one, right? And I sleep eight and [01:17:24] S0: a half hours a night. Last night I slept over nine. [01:17:26] S1: Yeah, yeah, I do find the short sleeping contest in American business a very funny one because it's like very proven, deleterious cognitive effects.
01:17:26 · John Collison, Scott Kirby, Ben Thompson
[01:17:26] S1: Yeah, yeah, I do find the short sleeping contest in American business a very funny one because it's like very proven, deleterious cognitive effects. [01:17:37] S0: Yeah. And you can watch people in meetings that don't get enough sleep and they're not technically asleep, but their brains are turned off. You can just see they're like, they're zoned out. Like, I've always slept a lot, but one of the other things I used to do is count cards. And I particularly realized it. When I go to Vegas to count cards, I would only sleep like three hours a night because I just wanted to maximize time at the table. And I realized that when I got tired, like- You lost count? Well, I was having to go back and check. I was like, I could just glance at a table. I'd done it so much, I'd see it. And I was having to like, and realized this is, I'm probably making [01:18:14] S2: I'm maximizing time and [01:18:15] S0: losing I'm max, you know, when I get tired, I need to, and I stop doing that. [01:18:19] S1: I started [01:18:20] S0: just going to bed and getting back to my eight and a half hour sleep. [01:18:22] S2: Are you still allowed back to Vegas or are you blocked?
01:18:22 · Ben Thompson, Scott Kirby, John Collison
[01:18:22] S2: Are you still allowed back to Vegas or are you blocked? [01:18:25] S0: I mean, I'm allowed to go, but I'm not allowed to play blackjack. I still, like, I went back for the Super Bowl when it was in Vegas and I'd gotten a credit line set up to play poker. And so I sat down at the poker tables, had to give them my ID. And so they came back out and a manager came over. And like, it was like fifteen years ago that I got barred at the Bellagio last time. And the manager comes over and he's like, Mr. Kirby, you're welcome to play any game in the casino, but just so you know, still no butt check. I wanna play it, dude. Okay. [01:18:53] S2: That is like... It's like when you get a little bit older and you buy some booze and they check your ID. They your ID. That's like the platinum version [01:19:01] S0: of it. [01:19:02] S1: Yeah. True. True. [01:19:03] S0: That's true. Yeah. [01:19:03] S1: And with card counting these days in Vegas, are they [01:19:06] S0: It's impossible today. [01:19:07] S1: Yeah. So are they blocking this with multiple decks and shuffling frequently? [01:19:11] S0: Well, they also changed the rules. That's Rules, all things, it's like 65 blackjack. Like, the math isn't... [01:19:18] S1: They just subtly changed the [01:19:19] S0: odds, so yeah. They've changed the odds and... [01:19:20] S2: I don't think it's very subtle. [01:19:23] S0: Apparently, people still do [01:19:24] S1: it. Alrighty. [01:19:25] S0: All right. It's been fun. It was awesome. I enjoyed it. [01:19:28] S1: Thank you. [01:19:28] S0: Yeah. Thanks, John.
01:19:28 · Scott Kirby, John Collison
[01:19:28] S0: Yeah. Thanks, John. [01:19:29] S1: Go deep into a lot of stuff.