Kal Penn

But he was the transportation secretary, so he was able to outline certain things.

But I was like, you know what?

This is my podcast and I just have my grievance.

Actually, you might like this.

So my grievance was like...

You're probably the only person in America who can answer this question for me.

When your flight lands early somewhere, and you might even be like 30 minutes early, why does the captain get on and say something like, ladies and gentlemen, we're 30 minutes early and there's no gate ready for us because they didn't know that we were coming.

What do you mean they didn't know we were coming?

Literally, the technology- How is that possible?

the technology is such that they knew we were coming that's how you were able to land right so i was like pete what'd he say so he said i was hoping for like some conspiracy answer but he was like well yes they shouldn't lie to you about that the real reason is that um certain types of planes have to occupy certain types of gates so even if you see that there are like 10 gates open the gate may not have been assigned to that type of plane and then also airline

Right.

And then the ramp operators also, they may not have enough ramp operators at that airport for all of the flights going in and out.

So if you're early outside of whatever that slot that you were allocated, you just have to wait.

I was like, Oh,

Well, all right.

Thanks for the real answer, Pete.

But he was great.

He was such a great guest.

Absolutely.

Thank you both.