My Last Minute Change Of Plans- Spirit Airlines To Los Angeles Flight Experience & Punk Rock Reunion
Spirit Airlines To LAX
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Saturday
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August 3rd 2024 I'm in downtown Houston
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Texas for a short while waiting on an
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Uber to go over to the Houston
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International Airport someone's blowing
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a whistle over there where I will be
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flying originally I was going to be
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flying on Delta the airline I've been
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flying on recently to Salt Lake City
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with a connecting flight down to Santa
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Ana John Wayne Orange County airport
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however seems there may be some
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inclement weather across the
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US didn't really do anything research on
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that but I am assuming that is the case
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because the connecting flight in Salt
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Lake City down to Santa Ana Orange
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County John Wayne was delayed by about
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an hour or two and I have somewhere to
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be at 700 p.m. doors open for a punk
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rock show for a band dare I say in my
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top five favorite band ever top 10 at
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least top five favorite punk bands is
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doing a reunion their first show in
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SoCal in three decades a band I grew up
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on saw many times in Florida band by the
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name of Rhythm Collision they are the
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second act on a three act build show
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donuts and Glory another band which has
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not played a show in like 28 years who I
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really like love Rhythm Collision almost
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the equation of seeing Green Day on the
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klunk tour or seeing Green Day now
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playing klunk in a small bar with like a
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100 people very small venue called chain
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reaction in Anaheim and I don't know if
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I'm gonna make it I honestly do not know
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if I'm going to make it if I did not
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have to come to the game here and try to
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knock off the baseball challenge of the
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30 stadiums I did Stadium number 27 I
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probably would have stayed in SoCal not
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risking Miss Missing the
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show but I'm going to see what happens I
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am flying Spirit Airlines now I have
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canceled the flight on Delta because I
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don't think I would make it I'm flying
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direct one way to California there for 2
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days and then I leave again for 3 or 4
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days and then I go back
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ah I think I bite off a little more than
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I can chew but it's part of the
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excitement join me it's a long intro
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shall you all right confirming the ride
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now this is the hotel I stayed at right
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here wasn't a bad stay wasn't the best
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place definitely wasn't the worst I
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would say just kind of ride average
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holiday and express right on the freeway
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they had some hurricane damage also I
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believe there's a bad storm going to
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Florida I'm not going back to Florida
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for a little while got a lot of to do
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before I get back to Florida and then
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I'm only in Florida a short while middle
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of the month for like 5 or 6 days and
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then I leave again so the ubering is
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going to be there is not going to be
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hard to the airport here in Houston but
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getting from LAX down to Orange County I
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thought it I think it'd be easier going
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from Santa Ana to Orange County but now
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I got to do LAX I'd rather do a direct
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flight not mess with a layover and then
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deal with the traffic to get down there
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in time for the 700 p.m. doors oh what a
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time all right here's the flyer donuts
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and Glory reunion they actually played
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last night for their first show
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tonight's their second I'm going I like
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donuts of Glory a lot really love that
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album when pregosaurus ruled the world I
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believe is the name of the album just
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great SoCal pop punk kind of runchy
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snotty pop punk but I'm going for rhythm
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Collision doors at 7 which means the
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shows at 8 which means skip Jack the
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opening band will'll probably play right
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at 8 probably play a half hour me Rhythm
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CER probably go on by 8:45 again this is
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going to be close hopefully there's no
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more delays when I think of bands that
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introduced me to punk rock C what punk
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rock was about Rhythm Collision is
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definitely top tier in that again I
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mentioned how I'd be like seeing Green
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Day playing a reunion now in a small bar
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doing kplan if be like seeing Blink 182
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play one of my favorite albums which
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would be chess higher cat which I saw
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many them play many many times them do
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that again or maybe Offspring doing the
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ignition tour pre- smash it'd be like
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seeing all of
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that and Rhythm Collision has not
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released an album in a long time so
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they're going to be playing all the
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classic songs that I know with a stage
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just like 2 feet tall in a little
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bar I got I have to make I have to make
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it I have to make it yeah the punk rock
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punk rock that I kind of bit my teeth on
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what's the what's the word chewed my
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teeth on grinded my teeth on the punk
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rock I was into back in the 90s was
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Doctor Strange records had a lot of
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great bands zoinks Rhythm Collision
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first gutter mouth was on that first
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face to face was on that then fat
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records fat mik from no effect's record
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label all that early fat record stuff
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was just amazing in the early '90s and
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then also Epitaph records so anything
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that was on those three label labels in
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the early to mid '90s I had all those
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albums so but Doctor Strange hold a
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special place in my heart for the doctor
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strange bands Mandingo zoinks bad move
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space cadet great album all right Uber
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driver just left perfect Uber driver not
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a lot of small talk asked him how he was
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doing he goes yeah I'm all right and he
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put his headphones on made the drive we
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meet again Freddy we meet
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again and the reason I was showing my
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shoes so I got these
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socks pretty good little punk rock skate
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design called word
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zine they're based out of toron met the
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guy that runs it got a pair of socks
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from
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also I stand corrective this is not an
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International Airport it is the George
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Bush
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Intercontinental Airport this is my
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original Delta flight this to be
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arriving in Salt Lake at 159 and then
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leaving Salt Lake at
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320 shown
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there
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but it ended up being postponed to 440
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arriving in Santa an at
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5:30 and once there's one delay I start
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to worry that maybe it will not get out
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of Salt Lake and it's like a half hour
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drive Uber Wise from Santa Ana to
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Anaheim at 20 30 minutes versus an hour
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so I'll take that extra half hour and
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fly direct current trip details now with
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a guess you call it a value Airline you
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got Frontier you got Spirit they're kind
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of on the same wavelength a lot of
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delays this has already been delayed to
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140 but because there's no layover it's
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still putting me even with an hour delay
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leaving here at 140 versus the 1240 when
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I originally booked it an hour or two
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ago still shows it arriving at
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307 so I think this is the better option
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and also uh they just had the regular
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seats I have a window seat I'm going to
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be wedged in with two other people in
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the row but I have the window seat
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unless they have the big seats but it
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look like they were all sold out a17 to
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a30 right
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there la
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them there's one at
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140 and there's one at 210 both of them
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delayed so there are two going out a
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half hour from each
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other and also my Delta flight that I
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ended up cancelling they put it back
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into like a little pot that I can
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utilize the money that I spent on those
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tickets are those that ticket I should
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say well tickets because there was a
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layover or a connecting flight it gu put
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back in the account and I could use it
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another time but today's a spirit day
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it's a spirit day not too bad of a TSA
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line maybe 10 minutes 15 minutes all
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right I underestimated it wasn't 15
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minutes it was probably more like
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probably 25 or 30 minutes took the belt
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off took the shoes off walked on the
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dirty floor with my socks oh there's a
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big green tree growing here right in the
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middle of this Atrium right here look at
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this it's like a big old green tree
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looks like there's a 1940 Air Terminal
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Museum I went with a small coffee over
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here from Starbucks highly doubtful that
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Spirit has a lounge and so went ahead
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and purchased the coffee and didn't want
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to get a large because I don't want to
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have to get up a million times while I'm
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on the plane hopefully about to say
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goodbye to Texas I don't want to mess
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with Texas and the in its delays but I
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want to get to Anaheim today ah yes
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Spirit Airlines we meet again Spirit
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Airlines A8
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is that my flight out there at the plane
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oh yeah there's the plane right there in
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fact it's not that one's getting ready
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to push back that's not my play M must
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be the one after it or the one after
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that this is the gate though a18
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according to the
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app Spirit L up next
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a18 looks like it's going to be a really
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full flight everyone that's waiting here
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is going on the next flight that one's
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already bored and taken
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seat being tall has this advantages with
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getting things out of the
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goodness gracious this is a mess in here
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look at this a beehive of activity at
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the a
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Gates ah spirit so these I can listen to
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even on airplan mode every song in
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clobber is a is a Humdinger definitely a
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good one I spoken like a true old man
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saying Humdinger also Collision Course
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wedge in between pin head gun powder
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which is Billy Joe's other band up in
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Northern California if you never heard
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them of course ramp said I love screw 32
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now there is nothing here on the digital
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board there wasn't at the previous one
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too which I guess also was going to
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Orlando so the only reason I know that
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this is the appropriate gate even though
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it does say it on the on the other
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screens but this screen here doesn't
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show it is the pilot just asked the
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front desk up here hey is this going to
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LAX is this the one I'm flying to LAX I
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go yeah this is LAX I said well I'm glad
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you asked because now I know this all
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works out out it's going to
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be one heck of a
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day I think I enjoy the challenge I like
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the I like I think I kind of like the
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fear of something might not work out and
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then when it does work out it's extra
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rewarding doesn't always work out but
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when it does work out something like
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this it's extra
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rewarding seat
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3F that's my seat seat 3
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F should be a window seat I I always
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like to grab a window seat when I'm on a
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more but at least at least I'm on the
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plane everybody's in and we ready to go
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got all paperwork uh looking at 2 hours
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50 minutes Angeles about
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3:15 the gate
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in the cabin or labatory at this time
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you may use approved electronic devices
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if you are going to enjoy a movie or
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music please make sure you're using
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headphones for everyone's Comfort on
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today's flight Beverages and snacks are
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available for purchase our menu can be
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found and
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we do have a family I'm here that's
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probably going to miss it so if we could
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just if you if you don't have a flight
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that's real soon could you just stay
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seated so all those people can get off
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and maybe catch their
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play getting closer now I think that's
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the Inland Empire down there
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got to get over to Anaheim
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also have to the Ubers you got to take a
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a bus over to the Uber area off
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site Ubers are not allowed to pick you
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up at LAX so you got to go off site
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yeah these seats were no joke kind of
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tiny the ones up there are like the
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double
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seats so I had someone sitting next to
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me and someone sitting there and I was
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kind of just wedged over here in the
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corner but I made it I made it and I'm
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following the pilots out that's them
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leaving right there too that was one of
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the first ones off but they were just
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they're in a rush to get out of
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here you going down the escal they're
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promoting watt Towers right
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there oh dang it feels good
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here way better than the heat in Houston
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taxi and ride at look at this
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updated I wanted to order an Uber wait
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for an Uber or I just want to go ahead
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and just jump in a taxi I might just
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jump in a
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taxi I cannot believe I've never been to
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a show here Justin's here this is home
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turf for me Tyler's here and Tyler sort
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of yeah home turf home turf I played a
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lot of shows here dude I spent a lot of
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time hanging out in this parking lot
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have we ever been to a punk punk show
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together I mean we played them we played
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a lot of punk shows together so we must
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have
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been really want to thank all you guys
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for coming out especially all you guys
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that travel from out of state
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there's a lot of Florida people here I
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love
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it it's the Florida California
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Connection stage dive Lance stage dive
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you got
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this all right that was awesome that's
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going to do it for today see you in the
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