My Not So Good Flight Experience on Spirit Airlines Orlando To Cleveland - Long Delays & Up Charges
Spirit Airlines To Cleveland Oct 2022
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today's adventure begins with me
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checking out of my hotel here on Seven
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Seas Lagoon
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got a very full day a travel day a
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little later
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starting off the morning with the
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beautiful sunrise
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across seven seas
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very peaceful
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very mellow
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very beautiful
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that's an interesting lawnmower it's
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like a power mower but it's also kind of
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like the old timey
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type of mower as well
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mowers follow me everywhere
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watching the splash pad here the Mad
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Hatter Tea Party cap up there is filling
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up with water
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once it reaches completely full there it
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goes It's Gonna tip
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till next time
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Grand Floridian
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whatever the heck that is
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you did it I didn't even prompt you to
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do that you did that on your own put
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your Fame away from you and just drop my
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mom off now heading home to unpack and
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repack do some personal stuff and head
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out a little later
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welcome everyone out of the woo here as
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a recording of this Thursday October 6th
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2022 there's a beam of light going
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across my eye partly in the shade partly
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in the sun it is now 4 P.M the day has
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progressed I have decided
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to fly to Cleveland Ohio tonight in fact
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I am heading to the airport now flying
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Spirit Airlines one that I have never
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taken before
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should be interesting kind of impulsive
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I'm on my way I'm inviting you
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to join me it's 4 P.M now flight departs
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around 8 40 p.m picking up a friend he's
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going with me or am I going with him
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nonetheless
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we are heading to Cleveland together
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join me oh I'm excited shall you and
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when I go on extended trips I usually
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will not take my car to the airport I'll
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just get dropped off this time since
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I've only got to go on a series of days
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take us to the airport leaving it there
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I have made it to the Orlando
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International Airport MCO or it's call
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letters
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that is downtown Orlando off in the
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distance
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as I zoom out just a little bit they're
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going to show just how far it is way
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over there is downtown and way over here
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on the outskirts
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is the airport and I'm even farther back
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I'm in the new parking structure
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Terminal C that has just recently opened
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and it was the only place to find
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parking because A and B were so busy
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we are going to have to take a monorail
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from here over there and I say we
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because the one and only splore and Ryan
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there goes the monorail
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here you go
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hopefully there is a monorail there's
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actually not one on the track right now
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one just came up over here okay
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two-car monorail but I don't know if
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there's more than one of them on the
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amount it's like a mile you see what
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yeah there's a monorail coming down
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right underneath
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so Ryan and I
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Explorer and Ryan you see it oh there we
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go look at that
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they're going fast
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all right let's get over there we got a
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flight to catch it's kind of an unusual
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Vibe through here because it's very very
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very very empty because it's so far away
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from the main area over there so this is
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kind of a nice experience there's a wet
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floor here too
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but this whole area is brand new picture
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if you will I'm just imagining
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Twilight Zone narration going through
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here this is look at this there's no one
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anywhere there's like a few people in
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here the first and probably not the last
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escalator of the day
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going in I'm packing kind of light I
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just have my rolling backpack and well
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that rolling backpack or my rolling
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suitcase and my DVC backpack what does
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it feel like to me it feels kind of like
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San Diego's airport oh okay I've never
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flown into San Diego have you uh you
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have a few times
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Blast Off
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go go go
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that's the mayor buddy Dyer giving a
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little Spiel as we take off
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this one turns
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[\h__\h] this is fun
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oh slide it let's go go go go watch out
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catch it yeah this thing
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this thing very rapidly see the control
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tower over there
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oh and another one passing by trying to
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show the control to there it is using
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the control tower over there
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now Roundup that way it kind of feels
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like I'm at Walt Disney World about to
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go in the Contemporary right up here
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yeah
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all right what the heck is this I think
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it's a lighthouse light it is it's a
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lighthouse light
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yeah it's a lighthouse light
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okay it's called a retired airport
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Beacon serviced up until 2008 so it's
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kind of like a lighthouse light from 85
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to 2008 it's a lighthouse Beacon which
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is basically like a lighthouse sport 36
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mile throw range that's amazing that is
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something Mickey Rooney lampy would be
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very proud of each Dragon that's a deep
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cutter now but it almost feels like we
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just walked out of an arriving flight
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that's that's where the the sea Gates
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and all that dump out at but now we got
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to get back in this line over here which
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looks a little lengthy
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so we got to see if our flight is on
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time and see exactly what gate it is
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going to be at we should go look at the
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board just to check right up here on
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this board are all the departures and
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arrivals
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out of the section we're in so obviously
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not arrivals we are looking over for the
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departures that was an itemized it's
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itemized by city so we are looking for
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Cleveland
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where's Cleveland I don't see it up
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there
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oh yeah it's just one flight there's
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only one flight going to Cleveland let
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me zoom in which shows it there second
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from the bottom
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wedged between Cincinnati and Colorado
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Springs Spirit Airlines flight 707 846
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departure gate 20.
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it's on time so we go through the sea
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gate
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is it C or B
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I just it just says gate 20. we should
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find out okay these Gates over here are
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70 through 129 so we got to go to the
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other end of the airport to get to the
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20s but I love this fountain
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look at this thing and one day one day I
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will stay in this hotel here I'd have to
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have an extreme layover though this is
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always so great right here look at this
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this isn't even a real person just a
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little sculpture it looks like a person
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over here at the information stand look
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at this board for arrivals and
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departures we have arrived over here at
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the aquarium area Gates one through 59
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is where we got to go and there are a
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few people it's just uh yeah we got time
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all right it says right there on the
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aquarium LCD screen estimated wait time
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24 minutes I kind of believe it because
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there is there's a lot of people over
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here why this is 24 minute Waits 24
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minute wait there I think my favorite
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thing of going through the checkpoints
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is having to take my shoes off and walk
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on the dirty floor with my sock to my
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bell talk to the laptop out of the bag
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not too bad though it's like it ended up
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being like a half hour with the with the
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the wait time and all right now case 1
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through 29 looking at the departures up
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here looks as if our flight's still on
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time gate 20. but if they're kind of bad
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in the middle and even with all that
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still made it
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over to our gate by 7 15. well close to
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over to our gate you know we've probably
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got another couple hundred yards or so
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we get over there but plenty of time and
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we do have a little bit of time before
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boarding begins to look at some of the
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merchandise here get a little souvenir
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here a little established 1885 Orlando
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over here of course we got Mickey and
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whatnot as well I mean definitely the
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Sun is going down but it's definitely
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really dark in here because this up here
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is a window to the sky and because it is
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dusk outside it's even it's kind of dark
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inside as well you can see the
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illuminated little portals over there
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with the monorail what'd you find a
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pelican poop oh look at that you can get
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a little a little bird a little foul
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dung right there now it's not to be
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confused with either turtle poop all
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right you love Turtle
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dolphin droppings dropping droppings
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there how do dolphins
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I don't know that's why it costs so much
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it's really it's rare it's very rare now
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since it's going to be so late by the
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time we get to Cleveland decide to go
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over here to this little food court
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there is a BK but there's also a pizza
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place right over here and I have pizza
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down here so maybe get a slice of pie
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do they serve food on a Spirit Airlines
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flight you can buy you can buy food or
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chips and things and this is what we're
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dealing with tin foil
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and a plastic plate now or uh
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what do they call that plastic not paper
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styrofoam plate down there I also put a
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little crushed red pepper on there I got
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some Mrs Vicki's sea salt and vinegar
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with a Coca-Cola you went with some
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Fritos and what did you get got a
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stromboli going here you went with the
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Stromboli Stromboli nice Shake It Up Mix
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things up a little bit
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are you just stopping it up there okay
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now you're stopping up there look at
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this look I was gonna get two pieces and
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I realized this is a very
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yeah look at this look at that
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what is behind it the back side of it is
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transparent oh there you go just
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tripping
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that's good though that's healthy that's
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not gonna affect me getting on the
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flight in any way I should not have to
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leave my seat I'm sure no one will say a
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word about it I think I'll be out it's
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only two and a half hour flight I could
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probably I could be perfectly fine once
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I get to the next airport this is not
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only a sound and mobile accessories
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vending machine but also you got some
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dinosaur Legos in here Harry Potter up
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top got Aladdin over here and if I
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didn't have if I had not brought Star
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Wars down there tonight oh there we go
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yeah it is Tim bird in Batman very nice
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if I had not if I needed to get some
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extra headphones or a charger or
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anything they have all this in here as
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well I think it's about 20 minutes or 15
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minutes for our plane boys okay does
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that fit in there so how does it work so
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this is the free take on the personal
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item that is the free one and then this
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one you have to pay for so this one's
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definitely not good mine's like I might
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have to pay extra for my bag
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so my if it goes under the seat
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you gotta get that in there trying to
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squeeze it on there
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that's gotta be tough oh there you go
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look at you
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are you gonna be able to get that out of
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there it does suck there forever
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all right there you go
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so if I so mine will not fit in there so
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I'm about to pay extra for this
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that's how it works with Spirit Airlines
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so I think all the other airlines like
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usually it's just you're taking a photo
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of
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so my backpack does this would be
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considered a personal item right that
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would be considered first one but this
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or this so this would go in there like
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this this just goes in really easy so
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that's in there all right now it still
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says on time except it's 30 minutes
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until boarding and I don't see anyone
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over here at the gate at this point the
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pilots are sitting over there no one at
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the gate as far as we're trying to see
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if I could maybe upgrade to a window
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seat so I could film a
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okay it's now flashing boarding
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Cleveland weather forecast once we land
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it's going to be 69 degrees
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and overcast cloud of course you're not
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gonna be able to see because it's really
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dark outside but it's now 8 17 P.M
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just plane is scheduled to take off at 8
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46 and I should also add
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oh
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wow
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okay it's about 8
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30. it was 30 additional dollars each to
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get legroom and I do have a window not a
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bad deal that was better than I thought
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how much was my bag to get my bag that
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would be a cool Hyundai I had to pay a
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hundred dollars to take your bag is
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gonna fit where's your bag this is your
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bag that bag will fit my bag will not
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fit
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of the flight
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yeah it's an experience I've never find
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this flown this Airline before so this
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is a new new experience for me I have to
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do everything once just do it once just
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try once but to look at the positive
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there is no layover it's a direct point
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no that's a really good thing it is but
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if I would have bought it if I'd have
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done it online it would have been half
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the price or done it at the front of the
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airport it would have been 79 I would
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say twenty dollars
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I didn't I didn't pre-clamp you could
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have bought some shoulder room for 20
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bucks well I got the leg room we got the
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exit Row in the legroom so I'll try to
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look at the positive here oh we didn't
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get our seat belts yet hold on now it
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says here that doors closed 15 minutes
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before takeoff before departing but
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notice over here so Gate 20 it moved
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from 25 over to 20. boarding time says
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801 what time is it right now Ryan I'm
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showing 8 36. 8 36 we're in 12 e and 12f
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as the seats we're sitting in but this
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is interesting because it says door
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closes 15 minutes before departure which
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would have already passed okay now it
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says closed look this says close right
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what does that mean the door is closed
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or the hook
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the plane took off you can see there's a
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lot of people still waiting over here to
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haven't checked in yet it's happening
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yeah unless there's no plane there which
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no I think there will be
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but we're in row 12 e and 12 out okay
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this is kind of interesting every flight
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I've done you know 30 40 50 60 100
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flights over the course of my life and I
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always when I'm filming them we'll look
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out a little window that's over here
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there's nothing there's nothing to look
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through
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that is interesting easy you can look
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right through there I can kind of see it
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through there there I am there it is
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okay that's interesting
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all right I gotta honestly say there are
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some kind of first class seats I'm going
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to call them first class but there are
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some seats up there these things look
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actually not that bad no I haven't sat
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in them yet but they look pretty good
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this actually is a lot more spacious
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than I thought it was going to be
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okay we're in 12.
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okay this is us right here all right
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we got E and F so this is this actually
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is a lot of room
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actually I gotta put this up top here
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larger than average so your leg room is
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good it's an elbow here
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three sodas that's ten bucks yes not
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gonna drink it no I appreciate that
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that's what they have
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stash green tea stash green tea Juan
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Valdez when he wakes up in the morning
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with his donkey okay and he goes out to
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the field
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and he harvests the commercial yes and
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he carves us one of the two Columbia
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experts and assortment of little combos
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here a hot coffee and a hot chocolate
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and one bite
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and then they take it away you want a
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second bite what are we saying about
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this one at the bottom so look at the
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party pack right here for 34 right While
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most airlines are trying to keep things
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as calm as possible they are having the
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party pack which is three bottles of
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liquor I am not going to stop praising
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how much leg room we have though this is
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awesome because we have the extra room
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I've also stored my bag right underneath
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here I'm not sure it's supposed to store
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it over there or under here probably
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under here
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oh yeah legroom is the most positive
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thing is
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and I'm also noticing there is a tray
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down here that there's nowhere to like
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put your phone and put your phone up
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here or slide through yeah it's a mini
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tray walk the board and if we don't make
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we have pretty seat belt sign or off at
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all we're not going to make
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announcements Pilots so make sure every
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single passive at all times okay it'll
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kind of help keep the noise down for you
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in case you guys wanted to sleep but the
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flight attendants do have required
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things that they have to say when we do
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that so but for the most part all right
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it works out no one else
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sat in a row so Ryan moved over we got
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this little even more leg room here
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and also because we're in an exit drop
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that came through the aisles and said
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would we have the ability to open this
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door if need be and here's the
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instruction that I
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think I said yeah so just in case
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something happens I'm kind of noticing
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no one checked any receipt or anything
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when I broke my bag on it
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put theirs up top so I think I probably
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didn't even need
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I probably could have just put my back
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on
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and put them checked
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I think I probably could have just won
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her back on
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it right up above
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so right up over in one of these I
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apologize it's gonna take a little bit
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longer we have a five fuel tanks on the
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airplane one of them we don't need on
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this flight it's the one under the belly
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it's empty we don't need that uh then we
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have two in each Wing an outer tank and
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an inner tank the outer tank transfer
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valves
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um as you go on later in the flight they
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automatically open but they're supposed
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to be closed for the flight and that
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helps with turbulence actually because
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it weights puts weight on the outside of
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the wing one of the transfer valves
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isn't working correctly so maintenance
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is trying to work that right now of
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course hopefully it should be too much
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longer we've got one or two more things
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they're going to try to do and then they
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get it fixed we'll be on the way so what
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they do take care of it though it will
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be safe I promise if it wasn't safe we
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get you a new cabinet okay
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all right so let's be sure
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interesting current time 9 24. what time
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are we supposed to take off
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so we've been sitting here for like 40
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ounce
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but I didn't let you know that we're not
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going to have Wi-Fi on this flight so if
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you needed to watch a movie or anything
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I would download it now
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sorry about that thank
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what did they just say uh no Wi-fi so if
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you want to watch a movie uh download it
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right now
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all right they've brought the baggage
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cards back around we might not be taking
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off I said there's a fuel issue baggage
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cars have been brought back around it is
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now 9 46 one hour it is now 10 o'clock
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1001 current time it is 10 11 pm
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it's like an hour and 25 minutes past
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when the plane was supposed to take off
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they haven't even closed the cabin door
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yet and pilot door some of the
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maintenance workers are there talking I
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would not be surprised if we get any
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backed off this plane and it doesn't
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take flight tonight just say it's now 10
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26. about the takeoff now I think I
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think
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all right it's happening
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an hour and four
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about an hour and 40 minutes give or
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take a few activated
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it's a pretty lengthy tax day to get to
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the front of the runway
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11 I'm sorry 10 46 exactly two hours
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after the plan was supposed to take off
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but we're just about ready to depart
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okay I think it's actually happening you
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just turn the lights on on the wien
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though the lights were not on the wind
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chill just now but now the lights have
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been turned on all right nope we're
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still taxing
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I thought we were about to take off I
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thought it was going to be able to take
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off
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is making the turn
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it's go time
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I wonder if Matt Penfield ever had 120
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men to delay possible
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see you later Orlando at least the
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tarmac
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until I get airborne first
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and been flying for a little while
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probably 30. 40 minutes
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approaching some City over here I think
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this might be Atlanta
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I'm not sure exactly the direction we're
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going
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could be Atlanta could be Tallahassee
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Jacksonville
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probably not Jacksonville probably
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Tallahassee Atlanta
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just a guess
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I have real no way of knowing
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okay now I'm kind of rethinking it that
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might have been Charlotte and then a
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little up past that little north of that
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Winston-Salem perhaps is from Orlando to
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really a straight shot is not really
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going over Atlanta I'm thinking maybe
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that was Charlotte and this is
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Winston-Salem we're about halfway to
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Cleveland that's just my best educated
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guests from up here at night
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ordered coffee Juan Valdez coffee
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I got one cream that's for one cream one
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sugar they were two they bought two
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creamers I got an extra creamer
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here as well the creamer comes in a
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little package here oh but it's
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strawberry sugar
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creamer says made from cow's milk
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so it's just milk
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Airlines would like to be the first to
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welcome you to Cleveland
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12
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12 5.
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plugin to the station
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made it would have been like a two and a
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half hour flight but with the delay it
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was like
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four hours and 45 minutes
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we have arrived Cleveland Ohio
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it was a little bit of a sudden stop all
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right did we hit the moment this is also
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a very unique little pickup area out
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here with this Tower up top there a
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little bridge that little Scenic walkway
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across and whatnot
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supposed to represent the uh the bridges
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downtown oh okay all right so it
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represents the bridge is that oh it's
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like a miniaturized version of the
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bigger Bridges downtown and that's gonna
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do it for today from downtown Cleveland
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I have made it
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see you in the next video vlog
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I'm also wondering why is this Tower
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green the Vlog is over