A Long Labor Day Traveling Atlanta To Los Angeles - American Airlines Flight Experience On Holiday
American Airlines Atlanta To LAX
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today's adventure begins as the
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recording of this Monday September 4th
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2023 I am departing Atlanta just checked
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out of my hotel I have both my bags my
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suitcase rolling suitcase here and my
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backpack checkout was 11 A.M over here
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at the hotel next to the ferris wheel so
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I'm gonna make my way through downtown
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to the MARTA station
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to the airport and then off to LAX it's
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going to be a long
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travel day got a quite a few hours until
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my flight takes off but I had to leave
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the hotel welcome everyone Adam duh woo
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here
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off to Southern California September
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in California dare I say one of my
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favorite times of the year all the
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events that are transpiring that I am
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really looking forward to that are going
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to be happening
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in the very very near future and after
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California I will be going to another
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destination and then after that another
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one be gone from home for a little while
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I'm inviting you
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to join me
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before I head to the MARTA station I'm
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just kind of kind of wander around this
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park here then
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shall you pretty good view of the park
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there from the rooftop pool
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a College Football Hall of Fame is right
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over there
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quite a few sculptures in this area see
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who this gentleman is here he's got his
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hat off he's got the stash
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Baron Pierre Deco Burton the most
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important thing in the Olympic Games is
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not to win but to take part
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that's some good advice right there
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he's looking out across you got the five
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Olympic rings and he's looking over at
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the Atlanta City skyline
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off in the distance
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a part of the skyline lots of signs to
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stay out of the fountains and off of the
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Rocks do not be waiting in the fountains
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awarding the trade here at 241 peach
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tree
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also known as the tallest escalator
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known to man well not really
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also DragonCon is still happening today
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my yogicon goes through Monday
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but I went over the weekend for a series
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of days
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I think of downtown Atlanta and the
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MARTA station
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I think of this escalator icon all right
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I ended up getting my Breeze card here I
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should have got a great ticket I ended
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up getting a breeze cars I think I paid
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another dollar or two more than I should
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have but you know what kind of one way
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trip here on breeze on the way in I
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ended up having a race card or a breeze
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ticket not a brace card
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either one it was only a few dollars
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one way trip to the airport
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right here
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there it is to Five Points all trains
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someone left a bag full of empty Pizza
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crumbs down there
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metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit
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Authority Marta
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you're welcome pretty convenient you
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know there was a guy on there that was
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yeah
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looking a little loopy with people and
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saying he needed to get off soon or he
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was going to hurt someone so that was
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interesting
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all these open area up here doing some
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construction on the roof
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I got a long time before my flight
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boards
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a day in the Atlanta airport and then
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four and a half hour flight after that
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from Atlanta
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to LAX not flying into John Wayne did I
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fly it into LAX proper you got a lot of
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these miniature planes an old coloring
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book there called smiling Jack true
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Aviation stories but take a look at this
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this is a layout of the land
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of the airport itself in fact this is
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the MARTA station I just came in on and
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here's the
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departures and a rival pickup area and
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the gates and all that so it's like a
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miniature version
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if you will of the airport a scale model
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scale model of the entire Mall
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I hope it's not a militant airport I'm
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doing a Peewee try to do a Peewee quote
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there but I think I screwed it up
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all right now I'm curious is this an
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active mailbox it's all stickered up
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can I drop a letter in there and will a
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postman pick it up and mail it to
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somewhere
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I don't think I've ever seen that in an
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airport like that before
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it's a possibility
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this I know I mentioned Mall when I was
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looking at that scale model doing the
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Kiwi quote but this almost looks like an
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80s Mall through here with the neon it's
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got a clock in the middle something out
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of Romero's Dawn
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the little area up top there it's about
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five minutes to noon my flight takes off
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I believe at five
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airport day and then flight day yeah
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look at this little Atrium area right up
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and this is the main checkpoint so I
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should probably go ahead and get through
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the get through there that way I'm not
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stressing about getting a little exhibit
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set up here dedicated to John Lewis
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get in trouble good trouble necessary
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trouble
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John Lewis
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someone left their b cup
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K-Cup down there I always like to look
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at different merchandise here so you got
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the big Peach Atlanta you got some hats
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obviously I'll show Los Angeles first
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when I finally get there we love
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Trinkets and trap
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and take a look right there that is a
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miniature American Airlines
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airport set I am flying American today
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all right it made it through the
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checkpoints pretty smoothly took a
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little while but not too long no no
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headaches of any sort watching this one
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getting pushed back here also I stopped
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at one of the gift shops and I'm happy
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to report that they do in fact sell gum
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in the Atlanta airport I think Orlando
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does not sell them certain airports do
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certain airports don't like to have some
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gum to chew on Upon take off and Landing
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it helps payers from Poppin live fast
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eat well
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women cry for it I'm not going to be
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getting a hamburger but I do need to get
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some coffee but I do like this this
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burger place right here it's kind of
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unique right here in the at the gates
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do not make them I'm looking for two 15.
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there is a coffee bean tea leaf they
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have a croissant special with bacon egg
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and cheese but all I need
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coffee here a little caffeine is all I
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need in the morning well there's
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actually afternoon at this point but
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yeah it's already it's my first cup of
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coffee of the day I wanted to make sure
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I got through the checkpoints and all
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ready ready to rock before I started
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getting the caffeine on yeah I have a
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lot of time before my plane boards but
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look at all these little variety puzzle
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books you can get like all different
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kind of
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you know activities for the play if you
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so she was using chocolate bars and this
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gift shop has a lot of the kind of
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iconic stuff right here like the Fox
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Theater World of Coke be on Stone
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Mountain up top up there you got all the
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different different areas of Atlanta up
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on the above a snack oh take a look
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that's the place I went When I Was Here
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the varsity and then there's also the
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Georgia Aquarium and the hotel the hotel
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was pretty close to the Georgia Aquarium
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I'm not not close too close but across
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from across from the park some of these
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self-help books are pretty good energy
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and promotional intelligent energy and
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motivation Focus
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power and impact self-awareness and
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dealing with difficult people over in
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the magazine section they have a Disney
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celebrates 100 because the company is
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100 years old has some of the new school
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stuff the old-timey stuff got frozen on
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there you got Walton Mickey
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first at the anniversary festivities it
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could already happen now there's an area
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over here called the Admirals Club which
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I believe is open now I checked one of
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the other airlines a while back because
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when you asked us I have heard a rumor
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that when you have a first class ticket
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sometimes you can get inside the
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different clubs like this but whatever
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Airline it was that I checked they said
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there was an additional fee which I
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wasn't interested in doing that because
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I like to just wander around before I
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get on the plane kind of stretch the
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legs and just be comfortable on the
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plane but I'll go here and ask them to
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see if it's included with my ticket if
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not I'll just walk back out all right I
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went in and asked it actually was kind
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of crowded in there it almost was about
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the same as just being out in the at the
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areas with the regular Gates the same
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like seats looked a little more
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comfortable in there but they did have
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food so if you wanted snacks and free
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soda and things like that and then free
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drinks but I don't drink so it doesn't
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really make any sense kind of like the
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reason as far as first class whenever I
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do first class is mostly about the leg
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room it's all about just the flight
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experience of having like some Elbow
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Room and leg room being a 6 three
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non-thin guy I mean I am losing a little
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bit of weight but definitely it's a lot
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more comfortable to spread out a little
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bit and that is the appeal I don't
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really see myself doing any of the of
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the lounges like at the Admiral Lounge
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with American that is 79 if I wanted to
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do a one-time thing or if I signed up
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for their credit card which had like a
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400 a year fee which I don't really want
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the American credit card and I don't
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really choose one particular Airline I
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kind of pick and choose on whatever is
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convenient as far as where I'm flying at
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any different tonight and I like to
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experience different airlines so I don't
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really stick with with one particular
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line but who knows maybe one day I'll
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just use point I'll get get a get a
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point system for one particular Airline
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only fly in what airline but I haven't
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really found one airline that I like
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above the other ones at this point so
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just wait with everybody else I don't
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need to be in that Admiral slash and I
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probably should look into some of the
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other airlines whenever I fly on some of
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the other airlines maybe theirs are
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different maybe theirs are included with
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the chicken as far as the one I'm flying
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today it's an additional fee now if I
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hadn't already purchased a coffee I
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could have got one over here at this
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coffee machine Coastal coffee freshly
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brewed real beans real milk you can get
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all kind of stuff in these vending
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machines you can even get like you know
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Tylenol you can get like little earbuds
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and things like that you can get a
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little plugins for your phone and you
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can get snacks all right it's still a
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long time before our board so grabbed a
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seat over here but I am going to be
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exiting out of or boarding at gate
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T15 over there you can see there's only
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like one or two people right now waiting
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it's like one o'clock right now my
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flight takes off at 5
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10.00
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items on the overhead then
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I should also mention that it was
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delayed 14 minutes
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taking off at 5 22 PM Atlanta time when
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it was going to be 508.
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okay my last time so it was delayed 14
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minutes I've spent some time in the
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airport today all right I am sitting in
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seat 5f
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the half overhead Bend State small items
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backpack and suit and purses can't go
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under the city in front of you again
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please keep and maintain the aisle clear
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as we do want to try to depart on time
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relax enjoy your 3 hour 58 minute flight
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to Los Angeles
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while I'm here
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also corn the small Delta planes going
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faster than the big American Airlines
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plan on
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it's a very green painted area almost
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looks like Hub grass
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about 10-15 minutes we'll be on the
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other side of the weather and I'll be
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able to turn the seat outside I think
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I think it's like we're going to be
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going through some semi bad weather the
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captain came over and said he's gonna be
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some turbulence
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I always like this opportunity to film
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The Clouds though always makes for a
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really good cloud formations
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ladies and gentlemen and me Kevin what's
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this turbulence exercise we will come
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through and pick up your rubbish okay
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this is like a chicken and a potato
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X reporting scattered clouds goodness
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ability to touch your 72 degrees hope
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everybody's enjoying the fight this
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afternoon we enjoyed having all really
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hope to see you again soon
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service items you don't know what to
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take with you will be landing soon
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6 51 PM we do understand that you have a
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choice in airline travel and if you have
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a very Los angeles-based Peru American
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Airlines I don't want the alliance
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Partners we thank you for choosing
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Americans have a wonderful stay here
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remember your final destinations may
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take you and we hope to see you again
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soon on another minute now I swear
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officially landed
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California
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L.A
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made it just before
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nightfall you see the Sun is setting you
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can kind of see it the Hue of the sunset
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over there should be dark soon let's
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have a problem let's happen again a
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rather lengthy day of travel probably
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because you know the four and a half
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five hour flight but also waiting at the
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airport five hours beforehand plus a
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hour ride from downtown on the MARTA
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it's been a long day when I got off the
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plane in the airport it was a Duncan
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grab us up a little more coffee
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getting the rental car heading to my
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hotel
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stand by they're getting an upgrade
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elevated Airport
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experience next year 24.
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I've been out of those metal grates are
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pretty noisy
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all right here's the bus to go to the
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rental car area
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gotta get on there for a minute I
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thought they were gonna liberate my
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coffee on but they didn't say nothing
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about it I put my bags up there on the
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rack and then
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it's like second nature to me now go to
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an airport get on the bus
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get caffeinated go to a rental car place
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off site where they had to switch seats
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it is really cold in here
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I feel like a lot of the cool air is
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being emitted out of that vent
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maybe I was sitting right there
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flexion in there and cheers
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oh dang Randy's Donuts
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it's about 8 15 p.m right now got the
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rental car
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headed over to Hollywood to my hotel
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8 15 California time
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nine o'clock well 8 57. let's call it
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nine o'clock
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which basically means East Coast time
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it is midnight it has been
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a long day
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can get a much better view with the
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lights off in the room
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looking out here at The View
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towards the valley
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that's gonna do it for today
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long travel day lengthy hour wise travel
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day
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I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
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is over