Hello and welcome to episode 263 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchnick here as always with

Pestner Benowitz. How's it going, Ian? How are you? It's going well, Jason. It's going well. It's a week. Things have happened and we've cobbled enough together to get another episode of the podcast.

How are you, sir?

I'm good. I'm in DC for work this week, but I'm happy to be able to have this weekly therapy session with you.

Absolutely, absolutely. Let's dive in because I know you are in between meetings for your real job.

So yes, I am somewhere between lunch, a meeting and a meeting,

but this means a lot to me.

So here I am hold up in my hotel room with some Wi-Fi

to try to knock this out before anyone notices I've snuck away.

We'll make it work. We begin with... Let's start with the eclipse. Did you see it?

I was on an Amtrak a cella train headed south, which is the wrong direction, from New York to DC at the moment, so not most optimal way to see the eclipse for sure.

I did see it by, you know, kind of sticking my phone at the window, cranking the exposure all the way to the bottom and you can make out the

moon. I think it was like an 85% eclipse which was pretty cool. It got kind of dark but it was also pretty, so it didn't really put on much of a show for me,

but I'll check back in like, what is it, 2076 or something? I'll plan ahead a little better.

Well, I mean, we can make plans now for, I think, 20 2026 we can head to Iceland or Spain.

That sounds great.

Better than being on a long past its expected lifespan Amtrak Acella train 45 minutes late heading to DC.

So let's go to Iceland please.

That sounds good.

Sure, let's do that.

But there were lots of people who saw the eclipse from the air or from on the ground at an airport

because they flew to an airport that was in the path of totality.

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