This is an idea for a fictional TV show.
This takes place in Denver, Colorado, and Atlanta, Georgia.
Plotline: Logistics consultant pulls a Zuckerberg (steals patents and ideas) to lead a company that will change global supply transportation as we know it.
There is a saying that goes “All the crazy in the world starts in Colorado and ends in Georgia.”
Denver is the capital of the Western United States. Atlanta is the capital of the Eastern United States. Washington DC is irrelevant.
Denver is where chaos begins. 2012 you had James Holmes define the rest of the 2010s by shooting up a movie theatre. In 2021 the chaos came to an abrupt end when Robert Aaron Long shot up some massage parlors in Georgia. Obviously, mass shootings have happened since, but they haven’t gotten the same attention and public hysteria as the theatre shooting and the massage parlor shootings.
Why were mass shootings and mass shooters the defining point of the 2010s? It comes down to the fact that it’s easy to highlight the mental health crisis going on in the world by using mass shooters. You think mass shooter and you immediately think mental health.
So why are Denver and Atlanta the two capitals of America? It comes down to location. Denver is in the center of the United States and all the traffic of the world goes through there. Even international flights go directly to Denver these days. Atlanta is also the capital because the people there are culturally malleable. Some of the most important cultural trends start in Atlanta. This is due to the fact that African-American culture in Atlanta is more respected than anywhere else in the United States. And African-Americans basically start every cool trend in America. Basically, Denver handles the logistics side, while Atlanta operates on the cultural side.
Javarious Jackson is a student from Atlanta who moved to Denver to get his Ph.D. and MBA at the University of Denver (DU). He chose DU as it has educated some of the best CEOs in the USA with their MBA program. His bachelor’s and master’s degrees he got at the University of Georgia were in logistics.
Now in Denver. The first Javarious notices are the number of warehouses everywhere. He’s never seen anything like it before. In Georgia and the rest of the south for that matter, the warehouses are sparse and look like abandoned communities. Javarious is stunned to see how clean these warehouses look.
Since his education is in logistics he works as a logistics consultant for Logi-Mill, an independent firm that advises companies on logistics routes to maximize efficiency and bring down costs. Javarious is to go to the warehouses assigned by his employer and analyze where supplies come from, the time it takes to get to the warehouse, and how much volume each warehouse receives.
Javarious works during the afternoon. He has his classes in-person on Monday and Tuesday mornings and remotely on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Friday he has no school.
One day during his fundamentals of business class his MBA professor lectures on innovations in transportation and how they change, destroy, or improve certain industries.
—[For context, this is set in the year 2022 when we are still reeling from the supply chain crisis of 2020-2021. Also, the trucker strikes nationwide and ships being stuck at sea is paramount ]—.
This lecture by his professor sets the stage for the entire series. During the class, the professor talks about how airplanes destroyed the national railing industry. Then the professor asks the class what they think will be the new mode of transport that will cause disruption. Thomas raises his hand and says that hypersonic planes will make a comeback and will replace ships as a means of transporting goods. Thomas outlines how supersonic flight is more efficient for transporting goods than it is for people and how the technology of today will better equip us to find more energy-efficient ways to make supersonic transport a reality again.
When the company Concorde was doing supersonic flights they were doing it with passengers. Thomas argues they should be used to carry goods. He hypothesizes that we can make supersonic planes as big as freigh ships.
After class Javarious introduces himself to Thomas who is an aerospace engineer getting his MBA at DU. The two men have a brief exchange, share numbers, and go about their ways. It’s Friday night and Javarious still being new to town does not have many friends. He calls Thomas and asks if he wants to meet.
The two meet at DiCicco’s Italian Restaurant near Denver International Airport (DIA) with Thomas’ friends as he made plans already. DIA is a focal point for this entire show. Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) are important too, but not as important at DIA.
After eating Italian the group goes bar-hopping on Colfax Avenue. A major road in Denver. Colfax is also very important. The intersection of Colfax and Tower Rd is where the show really begins to translate.
At the bar, Javarious asks Thomas about how he came up with the hypothesis of supersonic flight in place of freight ships. And Thomas tells him that his work as an aerospace engineer made him come up with the hypothesis. Thomas argues that the aerospace industry has evolved enough to make supersonic freight carrying both possible, energy-efficient, and technologically feasible.
Javarious is clearly interested now. He proceeds to ask Thomas if there are places where this has already been tested or is being in the process of being tried. Thomas tells him in Germany they are trying it, but due to America’s dominance in Aerospace, it won’t gain traction until a big company in the United States gets on board with it.
Then Javarious asks why the United States isn’t picking up on this if it’s supposed to dominate the aerospace realm. Thomas tells him that it’s already being tried here, but not publically. Thomas as a scientist and as someone with government clearance knows that anything that’s not public can only be taken as speculation and hearsay, so he can only tell people what’s out in the public ether.
Javarious asks Thomas how he got governmental clearance. Thomas tells him he was a specialized airman in the Airforce and combine that with his bachelor and master degrees in aerospace engineering it made it easy for him to get governmental clearance.
Javarious jokingly asks if Thomas would ever go into business for himself and use what he knows to make supersonic freight planes a reality. Thomas intrigued by Javarious’ idea starts thinking about it, but shuts it out of his mind when thinking about the consequences of taking government technology and using it as his own.