My First Class Flight Experience On American Airlines From Iowa To Dallas To Orlando (Window Seat)
American Airlines Iowa To Orlando
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of This TGIF it is Friday
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April 19th
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2024 I am departing debuk Iowa heading
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over to Cedar Rapids about a 70 M
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commute need to fill up the rental car
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drop the rental car off at the airport
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there my mom and I spent some family
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time here in the tri state area
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Wisconsin Iowa Illinois State Line
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Mississippi River right over there we
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are flying American Airlines back to
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Orlando but not before a layover will
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happen in the Dallas Fort Worth area I
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have my sweatshirt on I am wearing
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shorts which probably should have pants
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on however want to have a comfortable
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flight so just going to bear with it for
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now because when I get to Florida
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I think it's highs of late
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80s 90s today let's say mid to late 80s
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and then once I'm back I'm only going to
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be back for a few
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days '90s are the
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high so I'm kind of dressed for Florida
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weather and I'll take this off probably
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on the plane when I when I finally
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arrive it's going to be a long day of
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travel I'm inviting you to join me a lot
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of traveling the rest of this year in
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fact been here for about a week I was
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here for 6 days back toward Orlando for
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three maybe 4 days give or take a day
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and then I'm off
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again join me shall you got to miss this
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little town to be honest I didn't even
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know there's also my reflection in the
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window didn't even really know much
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about this place before arriving and now
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I feel like
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I'm kind of sort of familiar with
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debuk now I need to watch the movie Fist
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cuz that was filmed here
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Soo lot of travels planed the rest of
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the year lot of travels around the
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US and also one of the things I want to
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do when I get back even though I'm going
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to be leaving immediately for about
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another week but then when I get back
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from there got a little time back at
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home in the middle of May going to get
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my
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passport and next year some
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international
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travels
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and maybe later this year too but
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definitely next year I don't want to
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start up talking about 2025 in any way
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shape or form but I feel like me not
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having my passport the last few years I
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let it expire not long so basically when
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you renew your
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passport as long as you it hasn't been
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expired for a multitude of years you can
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renew it pretty easily just got to mail
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it in got you get your new passport
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photo taken all that I'll do all that at
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some point here in the next few weeks
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but I know once I get that
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back in my in my possession and will be
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able to to travel a little bit more I
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know I'll probably get a little taste of
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that a little sample of international
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and who knows it could open up a lot
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more doors all
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right at my mom and head out all right
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fueling up here self- pumping gas nozzle
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at a
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Casey's also be returning this rental
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car dropping it off at the
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airport they always request it it's
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frowned upon to not fill it not turn it
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in with an tanks so
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394 per
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gallon here in Montello drove a little
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ways drove about 30 45 minutes about
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halfway there all right drove about
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another 45 minutes use about an eighth
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of a tank and topping it
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all right we made it to the airport I
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had to fuel up twice cuz I would want to
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make sure I topped it off now heading
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over
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towards the rental car area this dire
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this a smaller airport so it shouldn't
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be too difficult getting through the
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checkpoints and
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everything much smaller than MCO Orlando
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and Dallas unlike a lot of other rental
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car places when you pull up there's an
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employ employee that will take your keys
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and your paperwork here you just park in
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the spot that's allotted and then you go
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in and hand your keys
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in but before you get in the airport you
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don't see a rental car employee you
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don't hand him the keys right when you
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pull up it's a little
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different just remember how cold it is
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here because when we get to
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Orlando it won't be like this well I'm
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glad cuz I don't like this cold
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weather be getting there at 8:00 tonight
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so it doesn't make any difference it'll
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be it'll be nice in front of the
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terminal is for loading and unloading
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got the heat on in
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here definitely not a beehive of
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activity CID is the name of this airport
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so MCO is Orlando International this is
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CID Eastern Iowa Airport I don't know if
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I'll ever fly into this airport again to
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be honest so kind of neat to to do it I
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like different flight
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experiences there's the old Cedar s a
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piece of the brick from
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the
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original airport
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hanger all right let's get through the
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look at
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this Cedar Rapids Airway airplane rides
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a dollar not bad I also love airports
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that have the rental car facility on the
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airport proper site a lot of them you
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have to get on a shuttle and go to
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different ones this one Orange County
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California John Wayne and MCO Orlando
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all have rent of cars in the airport
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Building without taking a shuttle which
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is nice and the this one too got a
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mascot of some sort kind of lurking in
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the shadows here the big eye for
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Iowa right on this
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chest look like
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this airport opened in November of 1986
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Cedar Rapids municipal airport must have
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been the original
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name wait a second no dedication of
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Cedar Rapids municipal airport was held
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in April of
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47 must have been a different wing of
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some
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sort okay these are not permitted
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scissors over 4 in little bats also we
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how many people are in front of us
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online right now
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two two
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people got you got to have your patience
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patience when you're here got to have
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your patience a whole two people in
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front of us lot of difference from
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MCO and looks like we are on time so we
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have that one right there American
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Airlines 1905 we're going to Dallas Fort
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Worth where we have a 50-minute
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layover all right quick and easy take
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the laptop out of the bag put it in the
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bin take the belt off eat the the back
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there good to
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go quick and easy put the shoes back on
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and head to the gate just one little
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escalator here only one
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escalator up and
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down it's all this airport has one
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escalator well two there's another one
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going downward but yeah you know what I
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mean oh here's another uh there's
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another mascot here right there
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all right according to this flight 1905
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to Dallas Fort Worth where our layover
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is is on
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time which is always good to see and
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there's a
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little coffee stand over here which
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there was absolutely no line for no one
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in that line so I got myself a piping
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hot caffeinated
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beverage from Iowa City so it is a state
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a local local to the state
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Java House local coffee established
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1994 cheers look at this that cups
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looking at me it's got a big eye and I
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have put my hoodie
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into my backpack cuz I don't need it
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anymore look at this you can get a
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hawkey napkin holder
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here just perusing around the little
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gift
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shops your chargers right here look at
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this you can get a little corn little
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Cedar Rapids corn stalk right there cow
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a
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pig get a little toothpick holders
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that's what they call these now at least
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in the theme parks probably Iowa they
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probably still call them shot
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glasses a little brush with Iowa on
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it license plate camouflage license
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plate all right this is clever Iowa is
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the four-letter word you can use in
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front of your
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mama true very
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true I've been using a lot in front of
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my mom this
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week Iowa I mean the word Iowa got
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corn oh here's the uh the one that was
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showing a moment
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ago Iowa rocks 20 million Hogs can't be
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wrong it's going to be us soon right
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there taking off above the
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birds fly over country into bourbon
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country oo yeah it is definitely very
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very mellow in here mellowest airport of
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the day award goes
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to see the Rapids aisle there it is
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pulling in get a little view here of the
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docking
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procedures gate three this will be a
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short flight straight South down to
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Dallas Fort Worth and then from
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there pick up the layover and then
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eastwardly Dallas for Worth to Orlando
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International and it looks like the fuel
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truck the gas truck is putting a little
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fuel into the side of the vehicle there
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signature renew sustainable aviation
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fuel
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it says on the side and there people are
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just getting off board the luggage rack
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is or the
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luggage conveyor belt is
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Airlines all day all right we are
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sitting in
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2f and 2D
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not 3D that'd be cool if it was a 3D
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flight but it's a 2d flight C
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2D the compartment small lightweight
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items may be placed in the seat
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foret if you are sitting in an exit seat
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please review the safety card in the
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seat bucket you may need to open the
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exit in an emergency let the fighter
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doesn't know if you're uploading unable
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or do not meet the exit seat
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requirements thank you another flight
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day another flight day packs and purses
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underneath the seat in front of you the
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exceptions if you in row one or row
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eight every item does need to taxi take
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off and Landing this is a Federal
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Aviation vamin cick here with some OJ
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finished my
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Cofe AR able to operate that exit let
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know and we will rece you okay good
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afternoon wel to Dallas from the gate
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once we every we got an hour and 40
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minutes down to Dallas so should be a
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fairly decent ride as we make our way
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down toward Texas this afternoon current
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weather in DFW is uh winds out of the
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north at 12 mph the temperature of 63°
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and partly cloudy skies 40 minutes
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thanks for coming with us relax and uh
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we'll be on our
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way got my G my chew on upon departure
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and arrival take off and land to keep my
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ears from popping
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I don't know I feel like it
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helps always chew G on
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FS try to
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Runway we're only speeding up there for
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like 10 seconds usually it's like a 30
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second 45 seconds before you launch off
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quite a bit of turbulence this on this
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takeoff
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now there's no meal on this flight
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because it's only an hour and 45 minutes
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they got some snacky stuff here
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high flying snacks I really like the
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skinny popcorn here been getting a lot
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of these lately the skinny pop
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popcorn pure pop to Perfection I also
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got some
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Ruffles and some Smokehouse
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almonds nice
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yet please do SE pass about you
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currently
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478 mil from uh Dallas Fort Worth the
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international airport that puts us
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landing in an hour and 20 minutes uh
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she'll be pretty close to an on top of
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our gate C20 so plan right now
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temperatures warming up just a little
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bit at 68° at uh still partly cloudy
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skies just around 10 mph winds out of
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North back
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in 17 minutes got a couple shortcuts uh
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no change so temper right around 70°
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thanks you come with us enjoy your stay
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here what your travels taking today come
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back and see us
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electronic devic pull out you can CH a
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small handeld devices in airplane mode
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only our flight has speed to the cabin
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just one file time to collect anything
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you would like to discard we will be
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landing in Dallas forward shortly
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back
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I'm going get hard yep
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and the Pilot's going to park us at the
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C gates for a connecting flight we have
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to make it over to the a Gates
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no they not in Iowa
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anymore state of Texas
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Skylink loed out the flight it was ended
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up being 17 minutes early CU we only had
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about 50 minute 45 minute connect time
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with the layover so we ended up having a
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little extra which is going to be
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nice this is a big Airport takes a
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little while to get
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around all right arriving we are at C we
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got to go to a only one stop won't be
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too
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bad she'll be over there in a matter of
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moments please hold on this train isart
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the train also notice as High
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there's the
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A's we're right over there just got to
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go around the horseshoe
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please approaching a22
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A3 we had to go the next stop we're
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looking for A1 that's
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A5 that's
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a16 that's
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A14 probably right around the
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corner all right this time we're sitting
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in 5 a and 5 C
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stop service to Orlando we're so excited
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to have you on board this is an
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extremely full flight so we need to
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maximize the space in the overhead bin
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in order for us to do that we ask that
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you place your larger items in whe first
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turn them on their side as a taco or a
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onook the transportation device we were
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just showing if you're sitting in an
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exit row please review the safety card
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in the seatback pocket that AI attend to
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know if you're unwilling unable or you
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do not need those always stressful when
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you have a lay over less than an hour we
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got on it
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check out the American Airlines Astro
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Jet right here how do I get on
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that it's pretty cool looking kind of
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retro looking got the lightning bolt red
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lightning bolt down the
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side the Astro
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jet looks noticeably different than all
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the other airlines F company and all the
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other
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airplanes that's that's not can't
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build all
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right taking off from Dallas Fort
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Worth last section of the trip heading
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home for a few
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days Orlando bound Central Florida bound
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off for the time
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being as always while you're in your
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seat it's a good idea to keep seat down
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fast and Loosely about you just in case
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we encounter that
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make if it does start to get a little
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bit bumpy on down the line here you can
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expect to see that seat Bel sign come
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back on first time we ask that if you
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happen to be out the cab return your
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seat buck up back with the to new
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Orlando area with update on the weather
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and I am going with a vegetarian plate
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this is what we're dealing with a
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little cauliflower over here you got
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some uh other items can't remember what
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they called this got some ches in there
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here you go my Dar you want to refill on
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your tea got some
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rustic rustic
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B rustic Bakery South let me just finish
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kind what is that I don't know some kind
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of bean it's a bean looks like lentil
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maybe what's this I have no
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idea your guess is good as my I don't
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know what any this stuff is oh this is
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cauliflower that's
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cauliflower oh yeah but this that's like
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a butt cake that's a cake a carrot or a
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Pake yeah probably
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yeah all
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right we also had a chicken and bean
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option moved with the
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vegetarian 3 minutes it's a beautiful
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day in Orlando 8 88° Sunny going to be
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arrive at Gate
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54 we should have you up the CR here
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just about 30 minutes you could expect
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that seat belt sign to be coming on here
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in the next several
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minutes once again we appreciate you
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flying with us this afternoon hope we
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see you next time
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I think that might be Tampa down
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there I got to take a look at that
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Sunset over there on the
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horizon
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just passed over
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SeaWorld there's the Orlando I icon
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Park and there's Universal
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Studios
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Florida or Universal orl that they call
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it
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now I believe we're going to have to do
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a U-turn to go back to land
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all right no I was incorrect we're not
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going to do a U-turn well maybe we are
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there a second we are turning
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around I knew there was some sort of
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Shifting that needed to
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happen based on what I was seeing from
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the air okay R turning just a little
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bit uh Central Florida I'm back for for
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a very very brief amount of time very
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brief
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yeah usually when I'm in here these are
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open this is where all the little gummy
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candy
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is but right now it is
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past
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8:00 good to be back it's gone a week
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now I'm back there is the iconic
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Fountain over there I think we're parked
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over this way Mama you're a wizard
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Harry you're a wizard
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deer how I knew where we parked you said
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there's the flat
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deer don't need to yeah don't need this
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jacket you can take the jacket off now
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all right we're right over
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here War Florida back in
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Florida a vast difference in the weather
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than it was when we left when we left
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earlier from
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Iowa Good Times a good trip thanks for
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watching I'll see you in the next video
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