Ford F150 Taylor Swift edition

[Ed P]

This could turn out to be a big seller

[micky]

Ford F150 Taylor Swift edition

I hear it's really good in the snow.

[hubops]

Here's a half hour radio program about the remarkable young businesswoman :

John T.

[rbowman]

One of these days I'll have to dig up one of her songs on youtube. The radio station I usually listen to calls its format adult alternative. They have a diverse playlist but I don't believe it ever included her. Maybe she's not adult or alternative enough.

The other station I listen to announces itself as 'boomer radio' so that's out.

[hubops]

I've never listened to a Taylor Swift song and have no interest in her music. I had very little interest in her at all, but this radio show is a long-time fav and didn't disappoint with this episode about her amazing business and marketing acumen. John T.

[Skid Marks]

It's tricky to live a capitalist lifestyle when you claim to be a socialist.

[Ralph Mowery]

She did downsize from 2 planes to only 1. They 'only' cost about 45 million each.

I have not listened to any modern music. I am still stuck in the

1960's.

I can understand people like her preaching how she needs the private plane because to her time is money. It would cost probably millions if she got hung up on a commercial flight each time she went to another city.

[micky]

So does that mean I could get one of her planes at the used-plane price?

Me too. Although for me it's the 50's and pre-beatlles 60's. I also like the 40's and probablyh the 30's but the services I have, like iHeart, with "decades" radio don't include those decades.

Plus some of them, all of them with successfully booked tours, have stops only a day or two apart. Traveling is tiring, even if you can sleep on the plane, even if you have a real bed probably. Especially this time. I think her flight from Tokyo was 12 hours and she could only leave 16 or 18 hours before the game. Something like that.

But I still think most of them don't need private planes. There were

800 and something private planes that landed in Las Vegas for the game.

[Ralph Mowery]

I saw on TV where the cheapest tickets wewe $ 7000. Not sure if those were the scalpers or what the original tickets were.For those paying those and up prices I can see why they took private planes.

[micky]

BTW, did I ever tell you about the time I visited McCarran Airport? That was its name for a long time, before Harry Reid died.

In college a friend from San Diego used to drive back and forth, for Xmas break and for the summer. He also told me how he would play Blackjack in Las Vegas and win a bit. He used _Beat the Dealer_, a book about how to count cards, specifically picture cards, in order to win.

He offered to take me with him and I set to work reading the book and memorizing the 3 tables in the book. We drove all day and all night and arrived early in the morning, to a nice hotel. He and another friend stayed one night and then I looked for a cheap hotel. I found the only hotel in Las Vegas that did not have AC. I thought that didn't matter because everyone knows the desert is cold at night.

But Las Vegas is no longer the desert. It was July 4th weekend. I went to the local fireworks, nothing very big.

I paid for a week in the hotel and my week ended the night of July 4, iirc, so the next day I planned to leave.

(Story about being picked up by gay guy omitted for space, but because of that, I woke up late on the 5th.)

I didn't get out to the airport until noon, an dby then most of the private planes had left. I wen to the private terminal, on the other side of the airport from the public terminal, because a friend of a friend had hitchhiked to Europe by going to an airport in Newfoundland or thereabouts. So I thought I'd go back to Chicago that way. I asked people nicely and no one was rude or hostile in return, but most had left in the morning (to get to work, for one thing), others were going to California, and one or two told me that their insurance wouldn't permit it. I'm sure that was true.

After trying for 3 hours or so, I decided to walk to the public airport. It was 4 miles (with my suitcase) if I walked on the road. 3 miles if I walked around the edge of the airport, and a mile and a quarter if I walked straight across the airport (You can still see this on google maps,) In a classic example of how a 20-something can convince himself that something stupid is really okay, I chose the last choice. At one point a plane was taking off or landing and I patiently waited in the grass strip beside the runway. I thought I was being responsible. But a few minutes later a jeep pulled up and he had me get in.

He drove me to the terminal, no more walking needed, and I waited a while while he threatened me and met with others. Finally, after a couple hours or more, he told me because this airport was one of the few that was not fenced**, they couldn't charge me with trespassing (or something like that) and he let me go. I walked to the ticket counter and bought a ticket home.

**The story always struck me as strange, since I started at the private airport, which opened onto a taxiway, and if there were a fence, it would not have been in my way. I don't even know if there was a fence. But that's what he said. Maybe they just wanted to scare me and didn't want the trouble of arresting or charging me. **(and then calculate in your head the ratio of 10's to non-tens, then look up the dealers' showing cards in a 10x10 table that you have to keep in your head, then compare the number in the table with then ratio you calculated and then use that to decide whether to take another card. I could do all that in my head except the last step, and I never knew if I was to take a card or not. I lost $40 in 6 days.

[rbowman]

If a bus is good enough for Willie...

[Ben Verified - ✅]

And then there are ramp and landing fees.

"Speaking to the Henderson and North Las Vegas airports, Hayes told BI there are about 1,100 slots across the two. She said the airport slot doesn't come at a cost, but both charge a special event landing fee ranging between $750 and $3,000, depending on the size of the plane."

[Xeno]

Swift carts around with her an entourage of a *minimum* of 125 people. Try booking seats on commercial airlines for that many people and fly whenever you want. Sure, she could charter a plane but, if you have the spare cash, buy a plane and go whenever and wherever you want. It would be a tax deduction after all is said and done. In fact, given the Dassault is a rather small plane, and the entourage rather large, Swift probably does charter a larger aircraft on an "as needed" basis for her tour entourage.