Mark Halperin

And what struck me in particular was Joe Kernan's focus, almost an obsession, on travel agents.

Here's from earlier in the week.

Here's a clip from Squawk Box.

It depends.

I love Joe Kernan.

I'm just a huge fan of his.

And part of what I like is he's old fashioned.

He's old school.

I don't know if you all use travel agents.

Probably some of the younger audience members here may not know what a travel agent does.

But back in the day when Joe was starting out, there was these massive travel agencies.

If you had a work trip or you had a personal trip, just hundreds of people, thousands, tens of thousands of people in the travel agent business.

And I believe the internet mostly put them out of business because anybody can be a travel agent now for themselves, go on kayak or whatever.

And Joe is speculating here that AI is going to put out travel agents out of business.

Yes, to the extent there's still travel agents, it will put them out of business.

But I say with respect to Joe because, again, I'm just a huge fan of his.

It's a lot bigger than that.

It's not just about some industries that have hung on through the Internet age and adapted now going out of business.

That's a 20-year-ago thing.

This is a now thing.