{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Drone Network","title":"The Most Unexpected Places Drones Are Flying","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/869bc9bb\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":601,"description":"What do a thousand-year-old French vineyard, the death zone on Mount Everest, and the 2024 Paris Olympics have in common? A drone showed up and changed everything.Bryce Bladon explores three of the most surprising real-world drone deployments — not the flashy delivery robots or military hardware, but the quiet, unglamorous, genuinely revolutionary use cases that are reshaping entire industries.We cover how multi-spectral imaging is catching vineyard disease weeks before the human eye can see it, how heavy-lift drones are removing trash from sections of Everest that cleanup crews couldn't safely reach, and how a drone hovering over a women's soccer training session turned into one of the biggest Olympic scandals of 2024.The pattern across all three? Drones aren't replacing people. They're going where people can't — or shouldn't have to.Opening theme: Lately - KicktracksHosted by Bryce Bladon | Edited by AJ FillariSponsored by: Spexi.com | LayerDrone.org","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/yObPLmrJmSHAC2QJy1QXNq9_9BXFoMkZPA7mO_HapKE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wYThj/MGQ4ZGU1NDgwZWJm/Y2YyZTllNmNiNjli/NjdkYS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}