My American Airlines First Class Flight Experience on 787 Dreamliner - Philadelphia To Orlando
American Airlines First Class on 787
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today's adventure begins as a recording
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of this Sunday February 19th 2023
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looking out at downtown Philadelphia off
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in the distance I'm checking out of this
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hotel today
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going to the airport
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and heading home
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I have been away from Central Florida
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for a month exactly four weeks
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I have been gone bouncing around the
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countryside
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Southern California
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Seattle Tacoma area
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Philadelphia region
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time to get home for a bit not for a
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long time but going home
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for now welcome everyone out of the woo
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here cool and crisp
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here in Cherry Hill Cherry Hill New
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Jersey just across the river
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from Philadelphia this is my hotel my
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accommodations the last series of days I
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was on the other side of the building
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14th floor facing the Philadelphia
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skyline
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I feel like it's going to be a lot
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warmer in Central Florida when I get
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back there than it is here this is my
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rental car I had this Blazer
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gonna return that you got to fill it up
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it is frowned upon if you return a
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rental without a full tank of gas I'm
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going to do that
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preferably out of Jersey
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because I like to pump my own gas in
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here in New Jersey you cannot take a
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left turn and you cannot pump your own
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gas it is legal to pump your own gas
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which is kind of weird
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also gonna go piping out caffeinated
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beverage
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and I have a flight on American Airlines
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front row window seat
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and I believe there's no one sitting
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next to me it's one of those type of
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planes where there's two seats in the
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middle and then one seat on either side
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flying first class should be interesting
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I'm inviting you to join me
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I'm going home yes
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Charlie currently 46 degrees here
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I arrive in Central Florida
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it will be
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75 degrees at my home
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a little bit of a difference
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fueling up at Wawa self pumping gas
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nozzle price of gas 359 a gallon here as
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I was fueling up there was a line of
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cars behind me
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waiting to fuel up as well it was a busy
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gas station
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okay rental dropped off now I'm gonna
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board this bus
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this van
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you dropped off now here at American a
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bus pulling by and there goes my vehicle
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doesn't it
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man when it comes to airports I
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certainly get my fill of escalators
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par for the course okay there was no one
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in line
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let's take my belt off take my jacket
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off take my hat off take my computer out
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put it in its own bin and then not in a
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bin was my backpack shoes well the shoes
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had to go in the bed and this didn't
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have to go any bad sometimes this and
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this had to go into bed but this and
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this no bin today everything else in a
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band but there was no one in line one
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minute wait
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love it look at this airports relatively
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empty
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I'm not complaining I think I'm just
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going to put my hoodie back in my my bag
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I don't think I need it anymore I'm not
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going to need it on the plane I'm
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certainly not going to need it when I
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get to Florida so back in the bag you
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got a man according to this my flight is
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right on time
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shows it right up there okay 825
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depart's at 139 flight 2502 to Orlando
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I always like to look at the gift shops
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because you can always get a little
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souvenir if you decide to head that says
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touch me it is super soft
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so like a super soft touch me
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Philadelphia with the Liberty Bell there
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city of brother brother and application
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no one in this gift shop over here
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such a quick experience going through
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here
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in fact on the way in I couldn't
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obviously can't film on the way when
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you're going through the checkpoints but
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they were just like blaring music and
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having like it was like a full-on like
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let's say it's like a party but it's the
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most laid-back experience I've seen
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going through an airport before
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all right gate a
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this direction okay I still think I've
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ever been to an airport where they had
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music playing at a pretty decently
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decent volume when you're going through
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I'll say I'll say maybe like the queue
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itself
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but uh there was no one else in the line
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but me
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this is like a big city so maybe I just
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got lucky with this this time frame
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because usually Big City airports are a
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lot busier than this this gate is check
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out this little area over here it's like
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a book exchange got like one of those
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old libraries give a book take a book
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type things they got some palettes this
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little art decor
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ated
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area over there this store is closed
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it's duty free store
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in this airport other than when I
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arrived I don't think I've ever departed
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out of this airport before
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at least this section
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if you look at over here where these
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escalators are you can faintly see a
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little mural there of a space shuttle
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and a space man
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kind of right there above the escalators
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down I mean you're looking through the
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glass there's a little bit of a
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reflection but yeah check it out that
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astronaut is holding on
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to that section that's probably
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connected up top does not want to flow
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out into space because in space
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no one can hear you scream
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especially if you got that big
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hovering over your flashlight though
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these are my favorite the moving
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walkways just you can feels like you're
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walking at an extreme speed
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because you're walking twice as fast
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even though you know I'm walking at a
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normal Pace there's no one in front of
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me so I could just like walk straight
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it's like I'm walking at like a running
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speed which is kind of nice
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and then you get the little area down
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there that's the either the drop off or
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the pickup area down there
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I think I'm going all the way to the end
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of this section to a25
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I'm just an a17 there's one pulling away
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over there I got to go to a25 so this is
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a pretty lengthy walk going over there
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with doing the pushback on that one so
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that is not my particular plane they are
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doing the pushback on that plane right
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now for American I always like getting
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this little kind of behind the scenes
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Through the Windows when you're seeing
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other planes plus very fascinating The
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Art of Flight and flying and the
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capability that these things exist where
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you can go from point A to point B in a
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very rapid speed it's very it's very
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fascinating to me I really enjoy flying
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there was a time in my life that I
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didn't but I really I really enjoy it
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now I've kind of I've kind of really got
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into the groove of the flying travel
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travel wise and I like it I like I like
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doing different airlines different seats
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trying to get different perspectives and
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just going to different places and
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checking different things out I'm gonna
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hold off in any food or beverages for a
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while I mean they do have some places
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over here you can eat and whatnot but
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I'm gonna wait and you know grab strip
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some food on there no cheese no cheese
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steaks today too I mean I have my fill
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of cheesesteaks in Philly I thought
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about maybe doing one in the airport but
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I think I've just had enough whatever
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they whatever they give me on the
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on the flight I will I'll eat that meal
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or choose something from there unless
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there's cheese steaks on a flight now
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this is not the plane that I will be
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boarding this is actually over on a22
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I just wanted to show the magnitude and
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the size of this Transportation device
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this thing is huge
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this is a massive airplane
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as well same one I'm gonna be flying off
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I will be sitting in the front seat I
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don't know if my flat plane is going to
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be this size but I'll be sitting in the
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front seat I believe on this side
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from what I was seeing will not have
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anyone sitting go join next to me in the
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seat next to me which I don't think I've
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ever had that before
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so that'll be good
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right
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it's not a huge piece of flying machine
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right there all right it looks as if my
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plane is now pulling into a25 it looks
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to be like a big plane too also
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Hitchcock would be proud up there that
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Crow that's on the very top that bird
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I'm pretty sure this is probably going
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to be the one that's pulling into day 25
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there's like a little buzzing sound
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going on too unless you know what I am
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completely incorrect this is not my plan
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I don't know where that thing's going or
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maybe it is maybe it is going to turn uh
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maybe not nope I think I was completely
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incorrect we're supposed to board in
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like 15 minutes and the plane's not up
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at the gate which is kind of interesting
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maybe it's going to be Delight
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possibility
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this definitely was not my plan okay it
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looks like the flight is going to be
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delayed so I have gone over here to
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Dunkin Donuts to get a piping hot Cafe
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beverage all right the flight is delayed
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but it has arrived it's only gonna be
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like a half hour delay so that's
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actually not too terribly bad in the
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grand scheme
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making an announcement now about the
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cleaning and servicing
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so originally it was going to depart at
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139 announcement apart at 2 p.m so it's
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only going to be 15 minutes late not too
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bad
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and I normally never get coffee before I
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get on a plane but this time it was an
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exception because I had a little a
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little bit of time to waste beforehand
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I've also heard that you really
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shouldn't drink coffee on a plane that
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the water they use is like not the best
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water but I don't know if that's true or
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not I've drank coffee on planes before
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but I probably would prefer Duncan
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to be honest
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going to wait patiently and then going
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to board soon that's kind of neat a24
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you can see the reflection of itself in
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this and now finally I can show the
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planes I'm going to be getting on over
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at 8 25 it looks like it looks like all
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the planes at these gates are the
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oversized big planes everyone I've
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showed is about the same size as
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gargantuan American Airline
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planes
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all right gotta be boarding
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as soon as those guests get off and they
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clean the plane we're rewarding well
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I'll be boarding I mean we as in
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everybody that's
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waiting besides me oh yes delayed at
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least that's not a new gate well I guess
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a new gate would be bad either but now
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it's 2 p.m as stated as I showed when I
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kind of did a quick little internet
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search it has been confirmed delayed
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not long 20 minute delay I can handle
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that I can completely handle 20 minutes
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better than completely it not happening
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at all which has happened to me in the
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past and I've had to buy and then
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completely reroute plans and rental cars
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and all that so I could handle a short
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delay 20 minutes is nothing now that I'm
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kind of looking at the time though I
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don't know if it's going to get off at
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two because we haven't boarded yet it's
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just about two so it's probably going to
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be a little more than a 20 minute delay
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I'm gonna guess probably by time it
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takes off it'll be a 40 minute delay
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still not too still not too bad they're
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kind of in a everyone that was getting
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off was kind of in a hurry to rush to
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either catch their other flight
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sometimes when you have a an overlay of
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really you know having a delay really
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causes like an issue I'm just flying One
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Way direct I'm not doing an overlay
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today but I can imagine and I've been in
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the stressful situation when the plane
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is a little bit delayed when I finally
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Alliance having to get over to your
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other gate
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like exited off the of the bottom of it
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not just like typical luggage with these
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huge boxes got another plane pulling in
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it is kind of amazing how quickly they
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get the plane cleaned off after the last
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guests
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you know except the plane they have to
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get it all cleaned up and ready to roll
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ready to rock again
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just I don't know it's just fascinating
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flights Airlines airports any kind of
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I'm always fascinated with
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Transportation devices but really the
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fastest way to get anywhere is on a
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plane with the exception of
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you know all the rigmarole getting into
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in and out of the airport and going
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through the checkpoints and all that but
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once you're in the air
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you move pretty quick
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not going cross-country actually I'm not
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I'm not even going to be leaving the
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same time zone second went from time
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zone to the same time zone I'm just
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going straight South all right I'm going
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in I am in seat one L one l oh it's cold
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in here this little platform the gangway
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is like really there's fully air
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conditioner or you know what it is it's
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because it's the outside air it's the
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Philly air there's no AC in there I
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don't know what I'm thinking
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it's cooler in here of course I'll talk
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about my hoodie and I don't have I don't
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have any checked luggage everything I
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have is carry on today that's usually
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how I always do I rarely have checked
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luggage I usually just have my backpack
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and then my my rolling ones
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I can already see this plane is
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noticeably bigger
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I'm walking in here look at the size of
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this door all right this is pretty cool
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I've never sat in a seat quite like this
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look at this this is like a little it's
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a little cubby hole right here this is
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like awesome
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wow
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it's quite like this before
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all right this is without a doubt the
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mushroom I've ever had on an airplane
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whatever I was thinking since I was
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going to be toward the front because if
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this was going to go across this way but
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like it goes in you got like a little
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foot rest if you soak shoes right here
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again there is no one directly next to
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me I got this little armrest thing over
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this area right here which flips up
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which is going to be the tray table this
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right there this little area over here
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that you can plug stuff into and lower
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the volume and whatnot there's even a TV
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which I think when after takeoff maybe
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this was kind of pull out and be done
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directly
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this is wow the little cubby hole over
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here that you can put stuff in just
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this is going to be like this is
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ever
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I will say the seat was a little dirty
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with like some food remnants but it
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wasn't too bad nothing to get enough to
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get a little testy over one thing I do
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like about American Airlines unlike some
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of the other airlines they actually have
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Dr Pepper although Airlines they do not
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have Dr Pepper but American has Dr
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Pepper even though maybe this is because
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of pre-takeoff it served in just a
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regular plastic cup sometimes they'll
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give you glass Cuts maybe when they
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bring in a meal but this is the this is
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pretty wild too I've never seen this so
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if you look out the window here take a
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look at this little item down here you
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can adjust you know there's no window
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screen that pulls down you have to
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basically utilize this so right now that
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is the brightness all the way up but I
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could take the brightness all the way
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down and it gives it like a little
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little Hue on the window where it's not
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quite as bright so that's like normal
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processing and this is the Huey
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a while so I'm going to kind of put it
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all the way up for takeoff yeah a little
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pre-flight Dr Pepper I finished my
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coffee a while back
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first time ever flying on 787 I believe
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as well
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that reason we're a little late the
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Grill
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now for some people sitting in the
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benefit of being in a first class seat
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it could be like alcohol if you're a
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drinker you can get you know kind of
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unlimited but not a limited but a decent
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amount of booze I have a non-drinker so
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it doesn't really
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that's not really a part of my decision
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making really this is what it's all
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about legroom having space you know I am
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a non-sin guy I'm tall I have a an
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awkward shaped body
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to ham into a regular seat I've done it
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many times but I much prefer having root
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for me with the extra cost
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okay the pushback is now happening it is
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2
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48. so that would make it
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still not too bad there you go
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pretty happy with this
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situation Man City
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awesome
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I sat in some some first class before
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but never nothing this nice
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there's also plenty of plugins you got
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two regular wall unit plugins there
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I also figured out how to open the TV
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I'm going to show that after it can take
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off
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this has been a fun month of travel
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are in Philadelphia momentarily once it
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starts to take off
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in Florida four weeks
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evidently you can lay this completely
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down
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almost like a bed
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you have to go all the way back but
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angle pretty far back
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activate the TV press this
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one just like that it says pretty wild
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it's like a TV like right I mean it
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flips out it's showing the flight path
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time to destination at this moment one
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hour 41 minutes it's been 15 minutes of
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it in the air local time okay just
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switched estimated time of arrival at 5
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pm
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and I have opened up the tray here in my
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lap and just as I suspected plastic cup
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before takeoff while you're in the air
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they bring the glass cup and they
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brought the whole can
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yes
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so sometimes I just bring it in another
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refill it for you but this time they
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brought the can and a little glass here
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now I didn't pay attention if there's
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going to be a meal on this because they
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brought these snacks I really like sea
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salt and I love kettle cooked chips so I
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got those and I got some cheddies loving
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the cheese
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both are sea salt it must be a must be a
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flying thing to have sea salt flavor
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what appears is that because this is a
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little bit of a shorter fight there is
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no meal so I ended up getting another
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bag of these chips take a look at their
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slogan
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let me give a chip
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you know some chip companies don't give
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a chip this one gives a chip
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and then I got some love corn and a
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double chocolate brownie
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yeah nice
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again it's all about the room more than
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because the space is the number one for
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me when it comes to these seats
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not necessarily the the food
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the window the clouds look really
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awesome it almost looks like Craters of
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land but in fact it's all Cloud clouds
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as far as you can see up there across
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the Horizon well there's a couple breaks
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in it okay I stand corrected there are
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breaks in the clouds you can see the
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crown below it but it almost looks like
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craters
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you know all day out
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this window you can't see much of the
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city skyline because probably from the
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the other window on the other side of
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the plane you can get a little more
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scenic view
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downtown and all the attractions and
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whatnot
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the stacks were over there
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so whether you're a state or in Orlando
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or just passing through we'd like to
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thank you for selecting American
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Airlines to be a part of your journey
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because you are Lobby so much of it all
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right I've landed just waiting to
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the board but there was my seat right
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there that is a little room that I have
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right down in there
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as I get off the plane it is one minute
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to 5 30 so it's 5 29 PM Florida time and
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gonna hop on a monorail get back over
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to the main area
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from the gates to the main airport you
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gotta take this monorail system
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I think it really is a monorail too I
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think it's just on one one beam which
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makes it mono
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so it's a mono right pulling into
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the station
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there's two of them there's one on this
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side and there's one on this side so
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it's pretty
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pretty uh pretty good as far as
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Transportation goes and you know you get
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good especially dizzy info yeah thank
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you
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you know we're on a monorail right now
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this is actually technically a monorail
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oh yeah it's just one beam yeah yeah
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yeah sometimes I call it sometimes I'll
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call something a monorail that's not
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because it's on double beams this really
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is interesting
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they probably maintain them yes I miss
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this place too a lot good to be back
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that was a fantastic flight the only
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thing that made it made it maybe a
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little better would have been if it was
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a little bit longer of a flight and it
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had a meal
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but other than that that was without a
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doubt
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the best most comfortable flight I've
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ever been on I have done first class in
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the past done it a few times
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but never sat in a seat quite like that
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it was almost I would say it's quite
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like a bet it definitely wasn't a bad
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but it definitely didn't recline enough
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to where you could put your feet up
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from that kind of angle
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so the meal would have been pretty
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awesome to have the meal also you kind
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of had to lean really forward to look
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out the seat so if you're getting those
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seats for The View
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you don't really get the best view as if
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you'd have it kind of wedged on a on a
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seat against a window
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I would be the only
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only kindness sort of not
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I mean that seat was just awesome
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especially having plenty of Elbow Room
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and no one sitting directly right beside
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you just stretch out
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that your heart to your heart's content
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and that TV that I didn't watch TV
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episodes of the podcast but yeah it was
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only isn't like a two hour flight but I
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can't imagine something like that for
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international would be a game changer
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anyway I'm talking too much I'm home
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it's good to be back in Central Florida
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I'm now heading back to Celebration
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one month
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I was on there I wasn't I was gone for
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four weeks thanks for watching I'll see
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you next video the Vlog is
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oh perfect with a honk over and since I
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just went full on with one of the best
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flights I've ever had
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I'm gonna get in I'm gonna get in my
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vehicle my ride has arrived my vehicle
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has arrived here just waiting for the
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I'm just waiting for the guy to get out
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and I think he's supposed to get out and
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like open the door oh wait that's not oh
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wait that's not my ouch this time
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must be Burt Reynolds or something