70. When Convenience Starts Flying Over Your House: The Walmart And Amazon Drone Delivery Battle, And More

We go from a weird snake encounter in the yard to a very real question about what we’re inviting into our neighborhoods with delivery drones. We break down Walmart and Amazon’s drone plans, then argue about speed, broken packages, privacy, and whether convenience is costing us jobs. 
• A snake photo that looks fake but isn’t 
• Cold-weather banter and what we call headwear 
• Crock pot recipes that taste better than they look 
• Why video beats photos for “proof” 
• Walmart drone delivery scale and what Wing is 
• Amazon Prime Air goals plus limits like payload and radius 
• Weather, noise, and public support for drones near homes 
• Grocery fulfillment experiences and why trust matters 
• Reports of drones dropping packages and damaging items 
• Privacy worries, flight paths, and how conspiracy theories spread 
• Costs per delivery, who pays, and what automation replaces 
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Transcript

Snake Tease And Quick Catch-Up

SPEAKER_02 0:00

On this episode, another snake encounter, and it has to be me. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_00 0:06

By yourself. I wasn't included in this one.

SPEAKER_02 0:08

No, you wouldn't.

Fan Mail And Cold Weather Banter

SPEAKER_00 0:09

I'm glad. We also talk about drones. Walmart and Amazon are getting after it. They are battling it out. They want your business. Drone business, that is. Or it might say send us fan mail. Just above the description, wherever you're listening to us from. And we will read them, not out loud, just to ourselves.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

Why you got your helmet on over there?

SPEAKER_00 0:53

It is plum cold in the house.

SPEAKER_02 0:55

You look like you got a helmet on.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

I know I just put a uh what do you call them? Toboggan. What's a skull cap?

SPEAKER_02 1:02

It's tighter than that, I think.

SPEAKER_00 1:03

Is it does a skit? It's a slit. Is a skull cap made of a certain material? I think so. And then uh like a toboggan is just whatever you put on your head. Yeah. I used to think a toboggan had the ball on the top. Well, the ball. The poof. I don't know what that is, but they're the ball.

SPEAKER_02 1:21

It's cold today.

SPEAKER_00 1:23

I don't know. That's what I was saying. It it's dropped. It's dropped down and it was like 43 this morning.

SPEAKER_02 1:30

Yesterday it felt so good. I was outside almost all day.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

And then today it's windy. Today it's windy.

The Upright Snake Photo Story

SPEAKER_02 1:38

So let me tell you what happened to me yesterday. If you've been around for a while, you'll know that I do not like snakes. Most people don't. Well, I've been bit by one. Okay. So I've been. It was the first episode. It was the first episode.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

So if you haven't heard Amanda's story about getting bit by a copper head and her whole story about going to the hospital during COVID and all that stuff, go back to episode one and listen. I think that was our most popular episode.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

I think so. And I said I wasn't even going to talk about it, and I don't even know how we got started on episode one.

SPEAKER_00 2:15

Episode one, we had a plan on what we was going to talk about, and then it went to for some reason your snake bite.

SPEAKER_02 2:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:21

So yeah, you saw a snake yesterday. Is that what you said?

SPEAKER_02 2:24

I was outside doing my Bible study, minding my own business. I look to my left and I see something sticking up over there. And I thought it was Jody's all the time putting stuff in the ground to mark stuff or something, you know.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

I am not.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

Yes, you are. And so I just thought it was a piece of metal stuck in the ground for some reason. And, you know, getting a little older there, so I couldn't really tell. So when I got the phone out, I zoomed in on my camera and I'm like, what the crap is that? It's a flipping snake. And he stuck up about 10 inches. He's just like I said he was standing there.

SPEAKER_00 3:11

So I wasn't home. You sent me this picture, and I didn't blind reply.

SPEAKER_02 3:15

No, because I wasn't even called I was he didn't know it was at home. That's what somebody else said. I sent them the picture and they're like, why you send me a fake picture? I'm like, it's not fake.

unknown 3:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

This is our yard.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

It looks like a fake picture.

SPEAKER_02 3:28

Because it looks like he's smiling or something.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

Well, it looks like you don't even see his body. You just see where he's poked straight up. Right. Kind of at an angle, but yeah, 10 or 12 inches is straight up.

SPEAKER_02 3:38

And he stayed that way for a hot minute.

SPEAKER_00 3:40

Well, another thing I thought you were lying because it looked she didn't send me a video. She sent a picture. So it's just a picture, a random picture she found somewhere or came across. I never do video.

SPEAKER_02 3:49

Jody does video all the time. But my point was I was trying to just get my um it wasn't like I was that far away from it, but I just couldn't tell.

SPEAKER_00 4:01

People make the mistake they want to take a picture, go to your video and start videoing it and take a screenshot off the video.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

That's all you gotta do. I don't do that.

SPEAKER_00 4:13

People all the time trying to capture something, and I see them like just taking photos, just photo and another photo. I'm like, just go to your video and do a video.

SPEAKER_02 4:23

Yeah, so I had another encounter with a snake yesterday. I'm proud of myself though. That's a strange picture.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

You need to put that out there.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

I didn't freak out. I did put it out there. If you watch my stories, it was on my stories. Stories on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

Couldn't tell you last time. Uh I would do like a poll and say who thinks that's real. And I'd say 90% say it's fake. But you know what you do now is you always everything, like if you do X, it used to be Twitter, if you see something on there, everybody, the first comment you'll see on there, they're asking Grok, Grok, is this picture real? Or Grok is blocking.

SPEAKER_02 5:04

Ask Grok if that picture's real.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

I'm not gonna do it right now. I don't have it. Mine's limited, so it's like when you use it two or three times it blocks you, and then you've got like a certain You gotta wait 24 hours. Yeah, that's how they get you.

SPEAKER_02 5:16

So you already been using Grok today?

SPEAKER_00 5:18

Right. I did. I was researching some stuff for the uh program that we try and offer to people right here.

SPEAKER_02 5:26

Him and his researching.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

Yeah, you gotta use sources.

SPEAKER_02 5:31

So it's so that's my story from Saturday because we're recording on a Sunday that I don't like to do.

SPEAKER_00 5:39

Well, you were Bible studying, watching snakes, you were outside all day, and I wasn't gonna bother you with having to come in here and do an episode. So I thought, you know, we'll do it Sunday. And you'd probably chew me down anyway, you'd be like, nah, I'm good.

SPEAKER_02 5:53

I like to come home, get lunch done, by the way, which is done, and I've already eaten, but has Jody?

SPEAKER_00 6:00

Nope. Good things to do. I was trying to get caught up. Now after I'll eat when this is over with.

SPEAKER_01 6:06

No. You eat when it's warm.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

I will eat while I'm editing this and preparing it.

SPEAKER_02 6:12

So Why do you not like to eat when it's warm?

SPEAKER_00 6:14

No, listen, all you just have to come in here and get behind the mic and talk. And I have to do everything else. It's your podcast. Unnecessarily.

SPEAKER_02 6:25

Why?

SPEAKER_00 6:25

If it's my podcast, you'd just hear me and it'd be my voice, and it's not.

SPEAKER_02 6:29

I've tried and you're like, no, you gotta do it with me. You need to do it.

SPEAKER_00 6:34

Well then quit. If you don't want to do this, quit. Episode 70 can be the separation.

Crock Pot Wins And Leftovers Drama

SPEAKER_02 6:40

Exit of Amanda. Yeah. See ya. Speaking of eating, I tried two new recipes last week. Crock pot recipes. I'm in my crock pot era. I like I like to use the crock pot, so I don't gotta do nothing but stick it in there when I'm at lunch. I would say the one when I was. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

If you can get by the look of it, I mean if you can get past that.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

That was your favorite. It was good. I mean, it was fine. That was broccoli and chicken. What was and rice. Kind of like a chicken casserole but in the crock pot.

SPEAKER_00 7:21

Well, there was some kind of cheese too, right? Or something.

SPEAKER_02 7:24

Well, it was only cheese because she put the wrong um soup in it and she said it was good, so I thought, well, I'll try it this time. Yeah, it was cream of chicken soup and then um broccoli cheese rice. I mean soup. Broccoli cheese soup.

SPEAKER_00 7:41

Looked pretty gnarly, but it tasted good.

SPEAKER_02 7:44

The chicken was so good.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

You know, I had backup. I had my Heinz 57 on standby just in case.

SPEAKER_02 7:50

So you didn't like the steak and potatoes?

SPEAKER_00 7:52

I did like the steak and potatoes. I had the steak and potatoes. You're just mad because I didn't eat leftovers the next day. Yeah. I can't help that. I'm sorry, but uh steak was really good.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

That's the whole point. Is to have leftovers because I don't want to cook every day.

SPEAKER_00 8:05

Heinz 57 was good on potatoes. Now I'm I'm talking about like red potatoes, that type, not like mashed potatoes. Yeah. But that are like chicken. Certain types of chicken. If you just put it on just a little dab, it's good.

SPEAKER_02 8:17

But I put A1 on mine. It was good too. So that's my stories.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

That's all you got?

SPEAKER_02 8:23

That's all I got. I want to talk about We're not gonna do any new recipes this week. We're going simple.

SPEAKER_00 8:29

I skipped over the Chuck Norris memes.

SPEAKER_02 8:32

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 8:33

Simply because uh you were done with it after I think four episodes. Yeah. And we thought about doing it for the rest of the time we're doing the podcast.

SPEAKER_02 8:42

Just throw one in every once in a while.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 8:44

Every once in a while.

Walmart Vs Amazon Drone Delivery

SPEAKER_00 8:46

I might go to every other episode and then every fourth episode and then like every tenth and tell you nobody even notices. But it'll get to the point where people will start asking, where'd that come from? Why did he do that? You know, new listeners. Still don't quite understand how these new listeners from other places, other countries. It's crazy. It's weird. I want to talk about drones. Reason being is I watched a video earlier from Walmart doing a flyby at somebody's house.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

A flyby.

SPEAKER_00 9:16

Yeah, and this was uh this looked like a little small airplane. You know? Almost like a like a slingshot type thing. And it just uh threw out a package that had a little small parachute on it, and it floated down and hit a lot harder on the concrete driver.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

Or did it just fall down? It didn't float. That sucker came out. It slowed it down.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

It slowed it down from hitting the ground as hard as it normally would. Gravity did have an effect on it, and it hit the ground really hard. But they had sp uh, I was gonna say spitachios.

SPEAKER_02 9:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

They had spita. They had pistachios and some other peanut in there, and uh so it survived.

SPEAKER_02 10:02

It was all wrapped up pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 10:04

Yeah, to the point of like, how how does this was a Walmart delivery system, so I'm like, how do they make it?

SPEAKER_02 10:11

So is it coming from the warehouse? It's not coming from the store, right?

SPEAKER_00 10:14

I'm gonna explain all that. No. Because I did a little bit of research.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

Well, come on, spit her out.

SPEAKER_00 10:19

It's that and Amazon. That's your two main companies, of course, because you're talking Walmart being the largest retailer. I don't know what you'd call Amazon. Are they a retailer, I guess? I guess. A supplier? Yeah. I don't I don't know what you'd call They have the robots, don't they? At their factories. And at their warehouses. Oh, robots that deliver. Mm-hmm. You're talking about like the small little things that wheel around? Yep. Yeah. It has gotten crazy. I don't even know everything that happened because you got automated. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So here's the breakdown of of the ongoing delivery drone battle between major US retailers, Amazon and Walmart. As of mid-2026, both companies are scaling operations aggressively, but Walmart currently leads an operational scale. While Amazon is investing heavily in its own technology and long-term ambitions for ultra fast, under 30 minutes, e-commerce for fulfillment. Walmart and Wing, do you know what Wing is?

SPEAKER_02 11:26

No.

SPEAKER_00 11:27

They're owned by Google. Well, Google is uh the I guess it's alphabet is the name of the parent company. Oh, it's a drone company. Walmart has completed more than 150,000 successful drone deliveries since launching in 2021.

SPEAKER_02 11:44

Launching.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

Launching. What do you mean say launching? Mm-hmm. Okay. If you're gonna make fun of me, I'm not gonna stop. The program operates in multiple states. I'm country, by the way, so I mean I can't change. I can't talk proper English.

SPEAKER_02 12:01

Well, they make fun of how I say all on my videos.

SPEAKER_00 12:04

Words are words are hard, as Amanda says. The program operates in multiple states Texas, Arkansas, Georgia, Arizona, Virginia, and delivers thousands of orders weekly in key areas like Dallas, Fort Worth, with average delivery times under 19 minutes. How about that?

SPEAKER_02 12:22

So are we so bad and we need something so fast?

SPEAKER_00 12:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 12:27

Really?

SPEAKER_00 12:28

Yes. Yes. Yes, I mean we have to. In January 2026, Walmart and Wing announced expansion to 150 additional stores in 2026, targeting major metros, including Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Miami, building on prior rollouts in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa. Uh there go over 270 Walmart locations with drone service by 2027, potentially reaching more than 40 million Americans. That's about 10 to 12% of the U.S. population. This would make it one of the largest residential drone delivery networks. Wings drones for Walmart typically carries up to say two and a half to five pounds. That's groceries, uh, over-the-counter meds, small essentials, within a six-mile radius of stores launching from, excuse me, launching from drone nests in parking lots. So you're it's a six mile radius.

SPEAKER_02 13:31

Six miles.

SPEAKER_00 13:32

Think about this. If you've got two Walmart, I think we've got a Walmart. We've got our nearest one from us that's probably what, 12 to 15 miles. Yeah. The next one is about 20 miles from that Walmart. If you're doing six miles, you're talking there's six or eight miles in between the stores it's not going to be able to reach. So it's still reaching a lot of people. You understand what I'm saying? Yes. If you're drawing a big old six-mile circle around it. So it's still getting so that six mile radius doesn't sound like much, but just think of the population within that six mile radius on each store. And the whole uh launching, is that better? Launching?

SPEAKER_02 14:11

That's better.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

Uh from drone nests in parking lots. I need to check that out. All right, Amazon Prime Air. As of February 2026, Prime Air had completed roughly 60 or excuse me, 16,000 deliveries across limited operations in states like Texas, Michigan, Arizona, Florida, and Kansas. The service faced pauses, software updates in early 2025 and incidents in Arizona, and exited exited College Station, Texas in 2025 due to noise complaints. It now primarily operates in the uh The drone noisy? Yes, Phoenix area. CEO Andy JC announced in April 2026 plans to significantly scale in 2026, aiming to serve communities with 30 million customers by year end with a wider catalog of goods. Amazon's long-term range, 500 million packages annually via drone by the end of the decade. Uh, with under 30 minute delivery. Uh, they use a MK 30 is what the drone. I looked that up. That's a big old Hoss drone. But the MK30 drone carries up to five pounds. And if you'll notice this too, everything's limited to five pounds. And I think that's a FFA.

SPEAKER_02 15:33

So what are you getting that's five pounds? I know I think five pounds. Well, I think it Oh, it could bring me my gummy bears.

SPEAKER_00 15:40

Yeah, you're it's regulated. I think that's why you're not seeing eight pounds, ten pounds that time. I think the uh FFA, or is it FAA? What if I say FFA's Future Farmers of America? Yeah. All right, FAA. The MK 30 drone carries up to five pounds, cruises at 73 miles per hour, and can handle light precipitation. Amazon integrates drones with its fulfillment centers, each new site starting with 12 to 20 drones. Walmart store dense network, thousands of locations, which is actually 4,600 to be exact, gives it an edge in rapid suburban grocery delivery via partnership, while Amazon leverages its massive e-commerce volume and vertical integration for broader catalog ambitions. So Amazon's got a wider variety that they can throw at you to order from, but Walmart's got the capability to reach more people as of now.

SPEAKER_02 16:41

Five pounds, what is that?

SPEAKER_00 16:43

So both cap their payloads at five pounds and focus on small lightweight items such as groceries, household essentials, or select Amazon products. Radius is typically six to seven and a half miles, delivery times often under 30 minutes. Uh Walmart wing operation is 19 minutes average in active areas. Target, excuse me, Amazon targets 60 minutes or less now, and they want to scale it towards 30 minutes or less. So Walmart, you're gonna get it quicker also.

SPEAKER_02 17:18

If I'm doing 60 minutes, I'm uh doing grocery delivery.

SPEAKER_00 17:23

Yeah, well, they're just saying that typically Amazon is within that hour range and under. And Walmart is the 30 minutes and under. Yeah. Operations are weather limited, no heavy rain, high winds, extreme heat uh for most fleets, and daylight only in many cases. Public acceptance remains low. Only 11% of Americans support drones flying near homes. I would be one of those that don't like it.

SPEAKER_01 17:50

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 17:51

The global delivery drone market is growing rapidly. Estimates for 2026 range for one to five billion dollars with projections to six to twenty plus billion by 2030, 2034.

SPEAKER_02 18:06

So I think I still like my grocery delivery better. I'm a little spoiled now. I really can get it in less time than the drone thing.

SPEAKER_00 18:17

So I was at Walmart this morning and me and Nicholas were working. Lady comes up behind us, she's looking. I move out of her way. She says, that's fine. I'm just trying to see if they've got this one cracker. I'm doing a uh is it a fulfillment? Is that what they call it? A customer fulfillment. She's pulling an order. Yeah. And let me I don't want to talk bad about people, but this was a nasty human being. I'll just put it that way. Stank, just I I don't know. I don't I don't understand why you was you're you're half naked anyway in there, but you definitely have not taken a bath in several days. Greasy hair, just nasty, nasty, nasty. So she's looking for it's a Ritz cracker, a cheese cracker they didn't have, and she said, at this point right now, I don't care anyway. So I'm like, so you're telling me that, and we just went through this process yesterday of getting groceries from someone that does this.

SPEAKER_02 19:14

He was nice and he had his little boy with him.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

Really?

SPEAKER_02 19:16

Yeah. Yeah, and I'm just two nice people when I just started doing it from the house to the house because I hadn't had a car in a month. So I I have to get stuff when I can get stuff when there's a vegan.

SPEAKER_00 19:31

What happens when you get grounded?

SPEAKER_02 19:33

I wish I was only grounded. Um I've I used to just get it delivered to the church to where I work. And the last two weeks, I'm like, let's just try to bring it home. They've been they've been good up the ones at home. But I don't know if the ones what sometimes the people pick it, sometimes Walmart picks it. What's I don't know what's what.

SPEAKER_00 20:00

No, I thought Walmart just picks the ones when you're going to Walmart to pick it up.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

I don't think so because I've had uh drivers say something about just putting one one item in the bags.

SPEAKER_00 20:13

So they're going there and the it's already pulled.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

They're just picking up your order.

SPEAKER_00 20:18

My my point being about this lady that was uh just her attitude and her hygiene was she just gave a bad rap. You know, I really want to say, well, you know what, we just used that service yesterday. And so by you saying that makes me think completely different about this service because that tells me right now you're for sure don't care whether they've got thatem or not. And I'm sure in the back of everybody's mind when I'm pulling somebody's order, if I'm doing this job, you know, if they don't have it, they don't have it. That's fine. I'm just not gonna say like I don't I could care either way. You know, just do your job and that's what you're you decided to do. But yeah, you just really, you know, that was just a bad example.

SPEAKER_02 20:57

Maybe she's having a bad day.

SPEAKER_00 21:00

I don't know. Well, well, you start off your day a lot better if you take a bathroom. There's no excuse.

SPEAKER_01 21:07

Yeah Well, I mean maybe she don't have water. We don't know, but anyway.

SPEAKER_00 21:15

Maybe so. All right, so my other thing is Amazon customers furious as delivery drones drop boxes from ten feet in the air, damaging orders. So this is as of a couple of days ago. This is a news article from the New York Post that I just found.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

What were they delivering?

SPEAKER_00 21:33

See, parcels are arriving in pieces from Amazon's artificial intelligence powered delivery drones. The automated mailmen are dropping off packages from ten feet in the air, rendering the contents of each box susceptible to crashing and smashing. And it's enough to make even the most AI obsessed human crash out in fury.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

What they're saying, and there's two videos here. Uh one is showing that they're, you know, they got rules. I even watched a video earlier of these companies like Wing that Walmart is using. They'll have like a it looks like a backyard. You know, they've got artificial grass, they've got a swing set, they'll have a pot with some plants in it, they'll have a car park there, a uh clothesline. So they're basically trying to anything that possibly could be in the backyard of someone's house, uh, they're trying to simulate that. So when the drone comes and drops it, see the drone, every time the drone is alert, it's it's the AI part of the.

SPEAKER_02 22:40

Where would the drone drop ours? In the water.

SPEAKER_00 22:43

Well, you have options when you go on the site. First you go on there to see if you're eligible, which of course there's nothing like that around here, so we're not.

SPEAKER_02 22:50

Well, I know that. I'm just saying if we're not.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

Well, I'm just going through the steps like it is. Then after that, you know, whatever whatever question it is, it asks you if you want front yard, backyard, driveway, that kind of thing. But my understanding is they're not supposed to drop it on the driveway. It's like the the side yard, the front yard, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 23:07

Because it's softer than a driveway.

SPEAKER_00 23:09

Because of the chance of it getting broke. And so this video right here.

SPEAKER_02 23:12

Don't order something if it's gonna get broke.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

Well, it's just a chance you're taking.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Well, if I I wasn't gonna read this, but if you if the I'm not ordering something that has the possibility of getting broke if um if it's dropped. If I need medicine fast, if I need I need some gummy bears, I keep forgetting. I'm on this gummy bear kick and I forgot 'em. I I order me some gummy bears and have them delivered dropped by the drone. But I'm not ordering a thing of pickles. It's taking that chance that they're gonna drop and bust.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

Yeah. They're outfitted with industrial leading sense and avoid technology. Um, features such as the obstacle detection cameras, aid the drones in detecting and dodging people, pets, and property while lowering orders onto the front lawns or backyards of suburban homes. The high tech, however, apparently does not ensure gentle landings, collisions, including a recent crash and burn into a Texas building, as well as several as well as m several mid-flight malfunctions and rainy weather. I don't know. I you know, it didn't go any further, so I don't really know.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

Crash and burn, I'm saying that means on fire, right?

SPEAKER_00 24:33

Yeah. So this right here, you know, you're talking about why would you order something glass or not? This uh lady right here, a former high school English teacher and current college professor, placed an order for a container of blue raspberry terraine syrup syrup. Why? Unsure if the liquid sweetener would come in either a plastic or glass bottle. Tragically, upon its speedy midair arrival, the married mom witnessed her purchase being hurled to the ground by the uh bot, causing it to explode on impact. It's everywhere, said a hysterical her name's Hancock, while opening the damaged package for a combined 1.1 million viewers across her social media accounts.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

So anyway, she Oh, she did that to see, and then she was gonna get views for when she opened it.

SPEAKER_00 25:29

So it busted the lid and all that, so it uh but she didn't know if it was gonna be plastic or glass. I think that is actually plastic if I'm like wine. Yeah, I think that's a plastic container, but it it broke the plastic lid. Lid. Yeah. Uh the other one I was gonna talk about is let me see where it's at. It's not showing it on here. But what happened, it maybe isn't I think it was the other source I was looking at. So it showed the video of it was a neighbor. She's uh videoing across the street, her neighbor's getting a delivery. The drone is coming down. It already had a previous delivery, right?

SPEAKER_02 26:06

More than one at a time?

Noise Privacy And Conspiracy Spirals

SPEAKER_00 26:07

It had already had one. It's a small box, uh, say half the size of a shoebox. That, first of all, it was in the driveway, which they said was supposed to be in the yard. And as the the drone came to drop it, it's 10 feet. And that's the thing. The only thing about Amazon, apparently, the only option they have is they drop it 10 feet. So the drone is coming down, say 11 or 12 feet, it drops it, but as it's coming down, the thrust or whatever from its propellers caused the box that's already in the driveway to go flying off. So now it's in the street, and then it drops the other one. And so, see, they just don't have this downtime. I mean, there's too many factors. I I get it, but I'm telling you, I do not want, I don't want to be the travel path for a Walmart or an Amazon drone system. No. You know, they're not just gonna go here and there. There's gonna be a certain path that they're kind of like a highway, and then they're gonna get off the beaten path. I would hate to think every ten minutes you hear going by just because you're on that path. And eventually it's gonna be that way because you're gonna have everybody's gonna Walgreens is gonna be in a CVS pharmacy, you know, Dollar General. I I could see all these companies get in there, and then you're gonna have all these flight paths and you're just gonna have drone after drone after drone.

SPEAKER_02 27:34

So And as they're going by they're recording your house.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

Oh yeah. That's how they get you. That's how they get you. And they talk about, you know, the chemtrails that these you know jets leave. Oh yeah I'm talking about? Yeah. Supposedly. You know, it's poison or whatever like that. So on your social media you've said something bad about the government. Well now you got drones. I think these drones, I think the maximum height is three hundred feet. So that's basically a football field that's a hundred yards up. So that's not high. So you can't say these things can be a thousand feet above ground and you'll never hear 'em. That would be great. But now they're gonna be so so low that you're gonna hear 'em and see 'em. So you've made that political thing, you know, on your social media, and so now the government is sending drones over your house and spraying poison and taking you out.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

Yeah, because how would you know if it was a Walmart delivery or a government?

SPEAKER_00 28:32

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

Because then they the government's like, mm, here's our chance. Nobody would know because the Walmart delivery's going by.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

Hey, have you noticed how many Walmart delivery drones have been flying over the house lately? It's crazy. And some of them stopped over the house. Is that not weird? And then next thing you they couldn't figure out where they were going. And then next thing you know, it's CIA special ops coordinated FBI type stuff that's dropping spy equipment on the roof of your house. Now they're listening.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

Dropping bugs.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

Look, you could take the conspiracy theories could go anywhere now with this. And I just dropped my glasses.

SPEAKER_02 29:07

Throw your glasses.

SPEAKER_00 29:08

I threw my glasses and I scared the dog. So now I can't read nothing because I don't have my glasses. So I guess it's a good thing I was done. Yeah. So I wasn't gonna get into all that, but it's got the the numbers, what they're expecting in the next, say, you know, three, four, five years, say just say twenty, thirty. Uh, you know, you're talking doubling and tripling on what they're gonna be making off of uh these drone deliveries, you know, estimated Are they cameras on these drones and somebody's watching them or the drone just goes and comes back? Yeah, sensors and all that. That I don't think there's any type of camera. Well, it might have a camera for well, I don't know. I don't know. No, there's nobody controlling it. It's it's got a destination, it's in its computer system. They also said uh I know with Amazon they did I can't remember how many test flights with the FA FAA. And uh they've got a backup system in every one of their drones to where if the initial system goes out, the backup system can take over. It's got all these sensors, it's monitoring things, and like I said, it's learning it's the AI, it's learning every time. Every time a new thing happens to it or something it wasn't expecting, it's learning from it.

SPEAKER_02 30:27

So are you paying extra to get it flown in by the drone?

Costs Jobs And Who Benefits

SPEAKER_00 30:32

I did not research all of it, but I think it costs on average sixty-three dollars per delivery with Amazon. No, no, no, no, no. For my ten dollar gummer. Amazon, I'm talking about eating the cost. My understanding is Amazon, it's costing them around roughly sixty-three dollars a delivery. And Walmart's is like twelve to fourteen dollars, something like that. So so Walmart is more in line, and the only way for you to get the, you know, to offset that cost is when you you're doing more and more and more. But uh it's something to do with if you're on the I think a delivery is like it's$19.99 charge. Unless you're on the Walmart Plus program. Mm-hmm. And then it's down to like seven dollars. Something like that. Um don't take any of that I just said for factual information because I did read on this and I might be putting a few more dollars in there here and there. Right. But it's close to that. Yeah, that would have been something good for you to have looked up to the what the cost would have been on the You didn't tell me what we were talking about. Well, that was a secret.

SPEAKER_02 31:47

See? So don't tell me I should have done something when you don't even tell me what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 31:52

But I don't like the idea. It's got it's gone too far.

SPEAKER_02 31:55

Um I think we're just taking people out of things too much.

SPEAKER_00 31:59

We're taking jobs away.

SPEAKER_02 32:00

Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 32:01

Between the look, you the AI system.

SPEAKER_02 32:03

That's why I like to support people delivering my groceries, because it gives somebody a job.

unknown 32:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

I guess. I think it's all laziness. We're all lazy and we're just looking for the easy way out. What's the easiest way to do whatever we are doing?

SPEAKER_02 32:19

I don't think it's lazy for old people. I think it's good for your older people. You remember back in the day, oh, this is a wonderful one we have store.

SPEAKER_00 32:27

Listen, the only thing about with uh your your older, say the elderly, they're not gonna be able to know how to maneuver through a system to be able to get this type of delivery. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 32:40

The Amazon, not the drone. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 32:41

Well, you know, Walmart. I'm I'm talking about oh, I'm talking about getting it delivered to the to the elderly.

SPEAKER_02 32:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

So they don't have to get out and about.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

But if I'm just saying if their kid shows them how to do it.

SPEAKER_00 32:53

Say, well, here we go, gotta throw somebody else in the mix. Well, that's okay.

SPEAKER_02 32:58

I would totally have groceries delivered to my dad or my mom. Yeah. I could do it. Say hey. Turn your porch light on because you're about to have a delivery.

SPEAKER_00 33:10

Hey, they say they're within a mile of your house. Walk outside.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

You don't have to go to the door. Just let 'em.

SPEAKER_00 33:17

I think it'd be cool if they did it at nighttime. If you just see flashing lights over your house.

SPEAKER_02 33:23

Oh, you're going back to the drone. I was not at the drone. I well, I thought we were on the Walmart delivery. That's enough. People are gone now.

SPEAKER_00 33:36

That's what a drone sounds like when it's over your house. Is it? Yeah, flashing lights and all. I can't do the flashing lights. The light sound too? No.

SPEAKER_02 33:46

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm done.

SPEAKER_00 33:50

I'm too. I've got a headache.

SPEAKER_02 33:52

Be nice if you'd eat something I cooked.

Closing Thoughts And Sunday Naps

SPEAKER_00 33:54

I'm about to go eat. I would say I'd go take a nap, but I don't take a nap, so I'm going to take a nap.

SPEAKER_02 33:59

Sunday naps are the best.

SPEAKER_00 34:01

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SPEAKER_02 34:04

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unknown 34:19

Bye bye.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

Peace.