Episode 91

June 23, 2026

00:24:18

91 | The Fast & The Freightiest: Hollywood's Craziest Supply Chains

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Jesse Juett Teddylee Knox
91 | The Fast & The Freightiest: Hollywood's Craziest Supply Chains
The TRUCK YEAH! Podcast
91 | The Fast & The Freightiest: Hollywood's Craziest Supply Chains

Jun 23 2026 | 00:24:18

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In this special movie-themed episode of TRUCK YEAH!, Teddy and Jesse break down some of Hollywood's most memorable trucking, shipping, and transportation scenes while explaining why the real world of logistics can be just as intense. From high-speed truck chases and port heists to impossible delivery deadlines and last-minute route changes, they compare blockbuster action sequences to the everyday reality of moving freight across the country.

Grab your popcorn, buckle up, and prepare for a freight-fueled trip through Hollywood's version of logistics...and the surprisingly chaotic reality behind it.

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Chapters

  • (00:00:00) - Welcome Back to the Truck...
  • (00:00:47) - Zipline Logistics Podcast
  • (00:01:28) - Multiple Semi Trucks In The Franchise
  • (00:04:53) - Steve King on Joyride
  • (00:05:10) - Containers in the World of Logistics
  • (00:10:11) - In the Elevator With Jeremy Piven
  • (00:12:28) - Transits In The Streets Of San Francisco
  • (00:13:16) - Tom Hanks In 2 Action Movies
  • (00:14:25) - John Wick vs The Matrix
  • (00:15:42) - Top 3 logistics scenes of all time
  • (00:18:28) - Thanksgiving Movie Review
  • (00:19:33) - Containers and logistics in the world
  • (00:23:29) - MVM Success Is Ethan Hunt's Knock List
  • (00:23:52) - Zipline Logistics Podcast
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[00:00:00] Speaker A: The stakes are high. [00:00:00] Speaker B: It's an issue of national security. [00:00:02] Speaker A: Stakes are high. [00:00:03] Speaker B: You get this one shipping label wrong and you are cut out of Walmart forever. But it is exciting. [00:00:08] Speaker A: Ding, ding, ding, ding. [00:00:10] Speaker B: I do wish sometimes I could hack into like DOT headquarters and just change all the lights to green. [00:00:14] Speaker A: They're available from 3 to 5pm how [00:00:17] Speaker B: will he make it work? [00:00:17] Speaker A: We gotta figure it out. [00:00:18] Speaker B: Any Mission Impossible plot scene is most likely one of our days here. Especially right now with fuel the market changing. You know, like fuel's up again. [00:00:27] Speaker C: Calling all CPG shippers, truckers and logistics pros. Welcome to the truck. Yeah Podcast. Your ultimate cheat code for smarter shipping, smoother logistics, and dominating the shelf where it matters most. Buckle up. It's time to learn, laugh and get your freight on. [00:00:47] Speaker A: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another edition of the Zipline Logistics podcast. My name is Jesse Jewett. Joined with me as always, Teddy Denox. Hello, Teddy. [00:00:57] Speaker B: Hello. How are you? [00:00:58] Speaker A: Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. We got a hot topic today. We are chatting. [00:01:03] Speaker B: I'm so excited for this. [00:01:04] Speaker A: About primarily action movies. [00:01:06] Speaker B: Yes. [00:01:07] Speaker A: That contain the world of logistics. [00:01:09] Speaker B: Yes. And I need all of our, our truckeers. Truckee heads. What do we call them? [00:01:13] Speaker A: Truckeeasters. [00:01:14] Speaker B: Truckee asters. I really need all of you to love this a lot. [00:01:18] Speaker A: Yeah. And get in, get involved, folks. [00:01:20] Speaker B: We need you to like listen to it a lot. Make it our like highest listened to rated episodes so we can do more like this because it's fun. [00:01:27] Speaker A: Absolutely. Teddy, you want, you want to lead us off with some of your thoughts on. [00:01:31] Speaker B: Yes. [00:01:32] Speaker A: Movies that contain trucks. [00:01:34] Speaker B: Yes. [00:01:35] Speaker A: Logistics. I want to. I'm going to throw. Go ahead because no, I've got like the first one that comes to mind. You know, if you're 21st century, that's 2000 and greater. You know, Transformers, Optimus prime is a semi truck. [00:01:50] Speaker B: Yep. [00:01:51] Speaker A: Right. So we all remember when that came back with Michael bay and Shia LaBeouf. That was hot for a long time. And then, you know, Mark Wahlberg took over. Some other stuff happened. I don't know. Josh Du's in there. That's a solid franchise. I'm. Is there six or seven? Five. I don't know. [00:02:10] Speaker B: I think there's gotta be. There's gotta be six or more. [00:02:13] Speaker A: Really? [00:02:14] Speaker B: I have no clue. [00:02:15] Speaker A: There's at least five. [00:02:17] Speaker B: Yes. Shia LaBeouf is in three. Three. And then Mark Wahlberg is in at least two. [00:02:22] Speaker A: Yeah, that's right. I'm saying at least five. [00:02:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:24] Speaker A: We can. It's also a math podcast. We're there pre 2000, growing up, one of the movies that makes me think of truck drivers is Big Trouble in Little China. [00:02:38] Speaker B: It's all in the region. [00:02:39] Speaker A: 1986. Kurt Russell, a young Kim Cattrall, Jack Burton driving the truck into Chinatown. I don't even know where. Was it in San Francisco, I think so San Francisco. Chinatown gets involved with some real odd cats that are shooting lightning and phases are exploding. [00:03:04] Speaker B: And so basically a normal day in trucking. [00:03:06] Speaker A: Sure. What are your thoughts, Teddi? [00:03:09] Speaker B: I agree. I always immediately also think of Fast and Furious. They are robbing trucks. I think they do that in a couple of the movies. And then it gets to them. You know, just like, basically using semi trucks to, like, bounce their cars off of and win races and things like that. So a couple variations of that. The Terminator always comes to mind as well. Even though I don't think there's a ton of semi trucks in the terminator. [00:03:32] Speaker A: There's some one scene T2, Judgment Day, 1991 or two, where the bad cop, the. The T1000 has morphed into a truck driver. He's driving the truck jumps on the truck, and then he's driving. And then they're chasing Edward Furlong. [00:03:52] Speaker B: Yep. [00:03:53] Speaker A: John. Why can't I remember? Connor. [00:03:57] Speaker B: There we go. I was gonna say Carter, which is a different action movie. [00:04:01] Speaker A: Correct. John Connor. He's on his dirt bike, and then they're going through, like, the waterways, and then the truck jumps over the bridge. [00:04:09] Speaker B: Y. [00:04:10] Speaker A: Very detailed. [00:04:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:11] Speaker A: How about that? [00:04:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:13] Speaker A: I don't even know this one. I don't know if you're familiar with it in your family, but Smokey and the Bandit. [00:04:17] Speaker B: No, not familiar with that. [00:04:19] Speaker A: Reynolds. A Sally Field. I believe that might be a different one. But either way, Smokey and the Bandit was this. This is the movie that may have launched many a trucking career and helped make CB radios popular. Is a note that I have. Yeah, it's just like. I think it's a race. [00:04:40] Speaker B: Okay. [00:04:40] Speaker A: And it's just Burt Reynolds doing Burt Reynolds stuff. 1977. How about that? Yeah, there is one. I believe we've talked about it. It's a horror movie. [00:04:53] Speaker B: Joyride. [00:04:54] Speaker A: It's called Joyride. And you knew that where I was going, that was another 1980s classic. It's based on a Stephen King novel or short story. That's where the trucks get possessed, I believe. [00:05:07] Speaker B: I think so. [00:05:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:08] Speaker B: That's a little scary. [00:05:10] Speaker A: Let's just focus on trucks. [00:05:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:12] Speaker A: The world of logistics. But any other thing that comes to mind when you think of logistics and movies. I'm going to expand it to all movies, not just action movies. You can focus on action movies. [00:05:24] Speaker B: Fair. I like that. I feel like back in the day when I was focused on training and development, whenever people were confused about anything in logistics, like, let's talk about the port, you know, containers in coming in ocean or rail, people tend to get really, really confused about. And the easiest way to explain that is, okay, pick any action movie. And there's usually a container somewhere in that, within that action movie, whether it is the crane, you know, going into someone or people running across the containers or something, you know, like, coming to mind automatically because of that is like, you know, the Jason statham transporter movies. Irobot, you know, gone in 60 seconds. There's so many container ships. Yeah, yeah. Iron Man. [00:06:11] Speaker A: I think Pacific Rim. [00:06:14] Speaker B: Yes. I think they use containers to beat some monster up at some point. [00:06:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:19] Speaker B: Godzilla. Like, I feel like everything. A port scene is like a really epic. An ocean port scene is a really epic place to have Lethal Weapon. Yes. To have some sort of a fight scene. You know, it's big, it is exciting, and there's a lot of space and a lot of things to hide behind. So I feel like that's where a lot of it, like, comes in. And then where the idea for this podcast came up is just because I feel like I would always go and go back to those things to explain logistics. The difference between a chassis and a drive van and, you know, different things [00:06:50] Speaker A: like that of Optimist prime can, you know, put his trailer on a chassis. [00:06:54] Speaker B: Exactly. Well, technically, he cannot. He cannot fit his. To a chassis. [00:06:58] Speaker A: Okay. [00:06:58] Speaker B: That's the difference. [00:06:59] Speaker A: There you go. The powers in the details, Teddy. [00:07:02] Speaker B: But it's also like, I feel like sometimes when you're in it in the day here, it feels like it's like a action movie. Like any Mission Impossible plot scene is most likely one of our days here. Especially right now with Fuel with, you know, the market changing, blitz weeks, holidays coming up, it's just, you know, like, fuel's up again. Like, it's just one of those things. [00:07:27] Speaker A: It's been a wild ride. [00:07:28] Speaker B: Deal with. [00:07:29] Speaker A: You're absolutely. Pun intended. It's been a wild ride. That's for sure. It does feel. Here's another movie certainly falls into that action category is Mad Max Fury Road. [00:07:39] Speaker B: Yep. [00:07:40] Speaker A: Certainly all sorts of trucks and things like that. Nature that are driving around in the desert. [00:07:47] Speaker B: But yeah, parts to finish the race so you can get to the water. [00:07:50] Speaker A: Another thing that came to mind was it's an action movie. It's not quite trucking, more of logistics. I was thinking of like Jason Bourne. Like, yeah, when I think of. Or. Or you. You said Mission Impossible too. It certainly makes that. Sometimes it does feel like when you get, say you get tendered over 25 orders or we have multi drop pickups and deliveries, you know, I'm actually dealing with one right now. And sometimes it does feel like you are a spy on a mission and you're like, listen, here's what's gonna happen. They're only available from 6pm to 8pm they're available from 3 to 5pm how [00:08:31] Speaker B: will he make it work? [00:08:31] Speaker A: We gotta figure it out. They're 120 miles apart. I gotta convince. Not only do I have to convince a driver to take this, I have to convince the customer to approve a layover. I have to arrange the pick. Like normally we pick up at 10am but we actually want to pick up at 4pm due to the transit because we want to get offloaded late at night the next day. It does feel a little bit like Jason Bourne going into his locker at the airport or bus station or whatever and pulling out all of his fake passports and his money and just like, all right, I gotta figure out how to do this. I know there's like, there's a. I'm sure you listen to another fellow podcaster, Tim Ferriss, every once in a while and he's got that scene from Jason Bourne. He's like, at this speed I can. At this altitude, if I run flat out, I can make it for the next 25 seconds or whatever. Like that's what it feels like in logistics sometimes. Like if I just focus in right now, I can schedule these 15 deliveries for next week. Put it on a schedule. Make sure that the pickup appointments align with the appropriate parties. If I run into a blip and then I'm going to pivot quickly to this stop over here. Like it. Sometimes you just get narrowly focused in the zone and it's exciting. [00:09:44] Speaker B: I do wish sometimes I could hack into like some local DOT headquarters and just change all the lights to green. [00:09:49] Speaker A: Holy. [00:09:50] Speaker B: Just be like, you know what? We're gonna make it. He's not gonna have any red lights and we're gonna shut down these ramps and that's how we're gonna get there. [00:09:56] Speaker A: It's like Enemy of the State type stuff. [00:09:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Or I know Italian Job. So also, basically any Jason Statham or Mark Wahlberg movie may have some sort of logistics in it. So if either of you want to come on our podcast. Let us know. [00:10:09] Speaker A: Yeah, that sounds like a. Did you ever see the movie PCU Teddy? Talking about that one? It was 1994. Jeremy Piven, David Spade College P.C. port Chester University and Politically Correct University. Anyways, yeah, they discuss, like, weird thesis theses. Like, you had to write your senior thesis. And one of the guys who watches TV all day says that at any time of the day you could find a Gene Hackman or, oh, boy, Michael Caine movie. And then he was watching TV and Gene Hackman and Michael Caine are in a movie together. It's like, this is my sneeze as conclusion. Which doesn't really make sense, but it was a funny joke. But it's in 1994, especially for those two actors. I don't think you can find a Gene Hackman Michael Caine movie on 247 in 2026. But I digress. Maybe it is Jason Statham and Mark Wahlberg. [00:11:07] Speaker B: I don't know. Well, we'll. We'll do our research and we'll come back for the next. The next one. [00:11:11] Speaker A: Mark Wahlberg's pretty heavy hitter in terms of production and movies. [00:11:15] Speaker B: Yes. He's in a lot. He's literally everything. [00:11:17] Speaker A: Yeah, he's done it all in the streaming world. I mean, people don't even watch TV anymore. [00:11:23] Speaker B: No, they're watching streaming, but then there's other things. Like, like the Die Hard movies. Like, yeah, he's like, in Washington, D.C. and then all of a sudden he's in Pennsylvania. And I'm like, it is still light out. That's not possible. Like, what time did he leave? Like, I understand it's not a semi truck. He could go over 55 miles an hour. But, like, what? [00:11:42] Speaker A: And sometimes those don't make a ton [00:11:43] Speaker B: of sense, but I still love them. [00:11:45] Speaker A: Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Someone did that calculation and it's, like, virtually impossible. [00:11:49] Speaker B: Yep. [00:11:50] Speaker A: In terms of transit. [00:11:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:53] Speaker A: Yeah. You definitely still love them. [00:11:54] Speaker B: Yeah, they're. They're great. But it's also like, sometimes I feel like people like, oh, it's not that bad. It's like. No, it is. It's really bad. This is tough. Like, you try to get something to Costco before they close at noon, or none of this is getting to the stores, and then the launch is over, [00:12:10] Speaker A: and then it's like, the MVM is ruined. [00:12:13] Speaker B: Yes. And then I feel like there's, you know, so many things that you can relate to. Like, you get this one shipping label wrong and you are cut out of Walmart forever. [00:12:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:22] Speaker B: Like, you just, like, this is. [00:12:23] Speaker A: The stakes are high. [00:12:24] Speaker B: It's an issue of national security. [00:12:26] Speaker A: Stakes are high. It's. Speaking of transits and they don't make sense. And the stakes being high. The Rock with Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery. Those stakes are high. The. The VA V. Bx. Gas. Beam one. Gas. Yes, Something like that. [00:12:44] Speaker B: The green stuff. [00:12:45] Speaker A: The green stuff in the ball. Green balls. And then there's a scene in that movie where they talk where they're, like, going in a car chase through the streets of San Francisco. And they basically go down the hills of San Francisco for, like, seven minutes. And that doesn't work. [00:13:00] Speaker B: No, it doesn't. That road isn't even a real road. It's not even open, like. Yeah, but people can't do that. [00:13:09] Speaker A: It's fun to watch. [00:13:10] Speaker B: It is. It is fun to watch. [00:13:12] Speaker A: And I'm gonna throw one out there. [00:13:15] Speaker B: Okay. [00:13:16] Speaker A: So there we have an actor who happens to be in two. We're gonna. I wouldn't call them action movies. We were talking about on the floor before we started this. They're thrillers or one's more of an examination documentary of the human self. But Tom. We're talking Tom Hanks. And the two movies are Captain Phillips, which I believe he's the captain of a ocean container ship. [00:13:42] Speaker B: Yep. [00:13:43] Speaker A: That gets hijacked by Somali pirates. Based on a true story. And the other one is Castaway. He's riding on a FedEx plane. [00:13:54] Speaker B: Yep. [00:13:55] Speaker A: How about that? [00:13:56] Speaker B: And he uses those packages to save his life. [00:13:58] Speaker A: Correct. Survive in advance on an abandoned island, I think, for seven years. [00:14:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:06] Speaker A: Chuck something or other. And he meets Helton Hunt. She's remarried, has a kid. Kind of a sad ending, but hopefully [00:14:12] Speaker B: you've seen it already. If you're listening to this. [00:14:13] Speaker A: Yes. Spoiler alert. 1998's Castaway revealed on the truck. Yeah. Podcast. Okay. What. What other ones do you have a. What comes to mind? We've listed a ton of off. Do you have any other movies that are, like, your top three? I know you're a big action movie fan. [00:14:42] Speaker B: I am. I feel like the Matrix has a lot of transportation in it, actually. [00:14:47] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:14:48] Speaker B: There's a lot of car chases. [00:14:49] Speaker A: They're going in and out of the Matrix. [00:14:51] Speaker B: Yes. But, like, I feel like there's always some sort of a car chase or something in there too. [00:14:56] Speaker A: There's like, spaceships and robot aliens chasing spaceships. [00:15:00] Speaker B: Yeah. A little bit of everything. [00:15:01] Speaker A: Yep. Helicopters. [00:15:04] Speaker B: Yep. [00:15:04] Speaker A: Do you like the Matrix? [00:15:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:06] Speaker A: I mean, all of them or just the first one? First one was pretty revolutionary. [00:15:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:11] Speaker A: The first one, 1999. Keanu's big break. Bold move. People are talking about John Wick on the floor, too. [00:15:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:20] Speaker A: I don't know enough about. I've seen them, but I feel like they all kind of blend together. Is there logistics there? [00:15:28] Speaker B: Trucks, cars, car chases, cars? Not as much. Trucks. [00:15:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:35] Speaker B: Maybe a truck scene in one of them. If any series goes on long enough, you will get logistics in it at some point. [00:15:42] Speaker A: All right. But we're gonna rephrase the question. Here we go. Sadie. [00:15:46] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:46] Speaker B: This is hard. Yes, I know. [00:15:48] Speaker A: You don't have to give me a top three. Just give me one or two truck scenes. Any movie. Just what comes to your mind? You want me to. [00:16:00] Speaker B: Finding Nemo. [00:16:02] Speaker A: Finding Nemo. From the chief seat. [00:16:05] Speaker B: I'm sorry. [00:16:05] Speaker A: Okay. [00:16:05] Speaker B: Finding Dory. [00:16:06] Speaker A: Okay. That's a mom of three. Let's go. Describe it to me. [00:16:10] Speaker B: Finding Dory. They are getting transported to another area, and it's on a, like, basically pup truck. And they have to stop the pup truck to get Dory off so she can get back with her family. [00:16:23] Speaker A: She. In a bowl? [00:16:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:24] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:16:25] Speaker B: Yeah. And, like, I'm like. It's like a logistics van. So for those of you can't see my arm movements I'm making where, like, the things are. The racket truck, she's strapped in. She looks like that's how she gets out. The octopus goes in and saves her. [00:16:40] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:16:41] Speaker B: And seals get involved. It's a whole lot happening. So, like, that's one that's unexpected. You don't expect to have logistics and Finding Dory considering it's in the ocean. [00:16:51] Speaker A: Right. [00:16:51] Speaker B: But it's still there. [00:16:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:53] Speaker B: And then Iron Man. I feel like there's a lot of trucks in Ironman. He gets hit by a couple trucks. I think the final scene, Iron Man 3, is at a port. [00:17:03] Speaker A: Yeah. They're blowing up all the different. [00:17:06] Speaker B: They use containers to kind of, like, help it. Yeah. And then, I don't know, Fast and Furious. So I don't remember which one it is, but it's the one where they're, like, going down the hill with the guy with the iguana who jumps out and they're, like, stealing fuel. That's three or four or five. [00:17:25] Speaker A: Tokyo Drift. [00:17:26] Speaker B: No, not Tokyo Drift. So four. Must be four. [00:17:29] Speaker A: They actually take a container and drag the container. Or is that a bank vault? It's a bank. [00:17:34] Speaker B: It's a bank vault. [00:17:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:36] Speaker B: But I think it might still be in that. Maybe it's that same one. [00:17:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:40] Speaker B: Or it's the one After. And that's the one with the rock. This is the one where they are like actually like stealing fuel while the truck is moving. And they're like putting it into like hooking it up. Hooking up the actual trailer to their car. [00:17:56] Speaker A: Like gas. [00:17:57] Speaker B: Yeah, there's the steel. Yeah. There's a steal in the fuel. They're like using the fifth wheel to get it off of the tractor and then just steal the fuel. Because this driver obviously. [00:18:08] Speaker A: Well, they got to keep up because they're excited about it. Yeah, that's awesome. I'm going to give you mine. And it's a scene. It's very. It's probably the most. The title is the most logistics related movie title of all time. Planes, Trains and Automobiles. [00:18:26] Speaker B: There you go. [00:18:26] Speaker A: Great Thanksgiving movie. There's a scene where John Candy playing Del Griffith, shower curtain ring salesman, is driving the car while Steve Martin playing Neil Page is sleeping and he doesn't want to wake him up and then he spins around because he's trying to get his code on coat off. And then they end up going the wrong way on the highway. And then there's two trucks coming their way and they go in between the trucks and light up the truck or light up the car that they're driving. And John Candy becomes the devil for a second. Steve Martin's terrified. And there they are. [00:19:12] Speaker B: There they are. [00:19:14] Speaker A: It's a fantastic movie. [00:19:15] Speaker B: That's a good one. [00:19:15] Speaker A: It's a good one to watch at Thanksgiving. Another logistics related holiday. What else? What did we miss? Well, what do we want to touch on before we shut down the movie related logistics podcast? So it's gonna be our best episode ever, obviously. [00:19:33] Speaker B: So kind of again, going back to like, I guess how it relates to logistics again. There is so much logistics in the world in general in a lot of movies, but it is probably the most noticeable when it comes to action movies. [00:19:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:46] Speaker B: Because usually someone's getting like hit with a truck or container or something. Like kind of hard to forget those things. And. Oh, sorry, you're saying it's right on [00:19:55] Speaker A: the tip of my tongue, but you're right, it's so certainly in the last probably 15 years, the destruction genre of movies. [00:20:08] Speaker C: Right. [00:20:08] Speaker A: When you, when you introduce 40 foot high robots, Transformers or Dinosaurs or Pacific Rim, which I think is like a even taller robot. They're like skyscraper size. [00:20:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:23] Speaker A: Right. You have to have big things that get destroyed. Right. People kind of complained about that with the DC Universe. It was all just like destruction. [00:20:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:34] Speaker A: But like it's much cooler to watch a 40 foot metal shipping container full of stuff blow up or get thrown around by these giant things, then. Yeah, I don't even know what, like, even like a regular or like a manhole. Like, no one cares about a manhole getting thrown around. It's got to be big, it's got to be powerful, heavy, and like. Oh, my gosh, did you see that? He lifted up a. Only a crane can do that. [00:20:57] Speaker B: Exactly. Yes, That's a good point. [00:20:59] Speaker A: Yeah. That's a very specific type of. Everything's supposed to be bigger and better, but certainly bigger. I don't know if it's better. [00:21:08] Speaker B: Well, I also think it's kind of like untouchable. Yeah. Like, logistics is one of those things that everybody needs and everybody uses, but like, still no one really understands it. Like, the amount of times we have to explain, like the terms that we deal with every single day to everyone is kind of a lot, but I feel like a lot of it is, you know, like you have in the movies, someone sprinting across the containers, someone fighting on top of the semis as they're driving, you know, tricks trucks drifting through terminals. Like they are shifting the semi truck and it's. They're winning a race and doesn't look like it's choppy at all. [00:21:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:40] Speaker B: You know, or helicopters overhead. Helicopters lifting up containers or trucks or something. Which I've actually been asked a couple times in my career here at Zipline, and someone asked me, can you just airlift this container and get it to Costco? The answer is no. That is not really an option or something that I have the access to yet. We will figure it out. [00:22:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:04] Speaker B: But then I feel like it's kind of funny because those things, like, we actually are dealing with that in real life, like in the day to day. Like, you go there to get the container, it says it's available. Oops. They just stack something else on top of it. Sorry, can't do anything. Container's here. It's stuck. And you're now getting demurrage for the next however many days until someone picks up this container. Customs hold just held. You don't know what's going on. You can't see your product. You don't know where it's going. It skip the port. It's still in the truck. We don't know where it's going. Still on the vessel change, interchange point. Driver's waiting six hours for pickup. Forever falling asleep. No yard breakdowns. Trying to find equipment. Like, there's so. I feel like there's so many things that it's like you can't do anything other than provide updates and watch it on your map. Just blink, move slowly, or not move at all. But I do feel like a lot of it. It does seem like it's some Mission Impossible theme sometimes. Our day. [00:23:05] Speaker A: Cue the music. No, I'm kidding. We don't. We don't have it. I don't have it. No, I'm with you. So in those times when you are cruising in that zone that I talked about before. [00:23:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:15] Speaker A: It does feel like you're. It's going in your. In your brain, but it is exciting. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah. [00:23:22] Speaker B: Well done. But I do feel like you get the same endorphins. You know, like something goes really, really well. Like, you did just make this work and it's awesome and it's great. And you go to the store and then you see it on the shelf and you're like, that's because of me. [00:23:34] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. [00:23:35] Speaker B: Like, it's awesome and it's exciting. So you. He kind of are action heroes, basically. [00:23:38] Speaker A: So MVM success is our. Is the equivalent to Ethan Hunt's knock list. [00:23:47] Speaker B: How about that? [00:23:48] Speaker A: That's a great way to. [00:23:49] Speaker B: That is the best. Best one. [00:23:52] Speaker A: On that note, folks, thank you for joining us. Hope you enjoy. Had a good time listening to us in our ramblings. Leave some comments, let us know what other movies you know about that have logistics in them. What do we. Where what was a glaring omission. Teddy, thank you. [00:24:08] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:24:08] Speaker A: Thanks all to our truck gasters listening on today's episode of the Zipline logistics podcast. We will see you next time.

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