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Appalling, Shameful, and Frightening | EPISODE 100 · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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It is time to leave your where he's outside and come laugh with us inside
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the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with Tree Trendholm and Raj Sharma. This
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is episode one hundred of the Treehouse Podcast. Yes, yes, I feel
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like we should have some fireworks or some kind of fanfare. You should well,
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maybe some applause. Now, all right, I didn't plan this,
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but if you ask for it, I will give it. Yeah, thank
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you, Thank you everyone and burn in. Yeah, the Emperor wave is
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very convincing from me. I don't know why that ended with that part the
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buttons right next to it. It just seemed fitting. Actually, let's say
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somehow fitting. Uh so episode one hundred Inside the Treehouse and it look,
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we've done way more than a hundred of these as it is, technically we'd
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already done more. I mean, we had released podcasts when we were on
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the radio still, but all that was was whatever one clip from the day
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we felt like turning into the podcast for the day because we had to.
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That doesn't count, no, but it counts on the list of our hosting
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platform. It counts all of them. But so as far as this these
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episodes are concerned, for this show, this podcast. This is episode one
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hundred, but we've done way more than that because we've done what like forty
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something Friday episodes. We've done thirty something Treehouse Plus episodes, which if you
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did not hear Treehouse Plus number thirty two, you can do that right now.
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Go to patreon dot com slash Treehouse on Air. Five bucks a month
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will get you that bonus episode usually one per week of a Deeper Inside the
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Treehouse for the Treehouse Plus program. That's Patreon dot com slash Treehouse on Air
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Plus. You have the football episodes that we've done about sixteen of during the
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football season, so I mean we've done a lot more than one hundred.
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You're right right. It still looks cool seeing the one zero and the zero,
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so yeah for us. Yeah, and again somehow fitting that actually this
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this should have been you know how in one of the greatest movies of all
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time, the hero that young Keenan Ivory Wayans looks up to in the film
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I'm Gonna Get You Suck teaches him what it's like to be a neighborhood hero.
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What's one of the things he tells? You got to have theme music.
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Yes, the last twenty four hours the band following me around the Fort
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Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport. Was this just over and over and over again,
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And then hundreds of other people joined in, and it was a chorus of
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sad trombone theme music people because all of our flights got canceled. Now,
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where was the You said it was because of weather. No, okay,
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I said, Spirit Airlines said it was because of weather. Ah, they
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lied. Ultimately, we don't know. Here's what happened. I was supposed
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to take all right, Hang up, let me throw out a quick disclaimer
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here before someone throws out the very obviously you get for flowing Spirard airbloods.
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I know that, no shit. I've flown Spirit Airlines enough to know where
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I where, where they're okay, and where they're terrible. They're okay getting
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from Dallas to the islands. They're actually in our experience, which we've had
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a lot of over the years of traveling to and from the islands. Spirit
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has the best track record with our experience. So that's who we typically fly
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when getting off the island. Anywhere else in the country, we will happily
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choose a different airline because we know better. I've flown with them a few
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times. They're always on time and got me there early. I will just
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say that. And when they're on their game, they're among the better ones.
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And I remember one time Steve Noviella from Fox Moore tried from Fox four,
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tried giving me a hard time, calling me cheap. And this is
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this is the consumer reporter for Fox four calling mee cheap for flying Spirit Airlines
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and I and I said, Steve, I get more value on Spirit.
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And in some cases I can get a better seat on Spirit, like the
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big front seat will cost less than the economy seat on American. Plus in
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my recent experience with American, that hasn't been good at all. Because there
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was one time trying to get to the island, we had to stop in
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Miami. They lost two planes. Yes, and that was our last straw
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with them. That's where like, you know what, you've been so bad,
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you're gonna make us fly Spirit. And they did pretty good until yesterday.
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Because yesterday get to Fort What is it I was gonna ask you.
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You said it's not because of weather, but I thought there was like a
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tropical system moving through. Yes, Yes, So I'm glad you brought that
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up. We were watching the weather, and there has been let me back
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up for it. Okay. I get on a plane in Saint Thomas and
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that Spirit Airline flight gets me to UH Fort Lauderdale for my connecting flight that's
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supposed to go to Dallas and arrive see Thursday night. Supposed to fly in
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Thursday night. And during my three and a half hour layover that I have,
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I was watching the news about all the flooding that South Florida has been
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experiencing, and I saw a graphic on there that showed rainfall in inches various
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spots of South Florida, Miami Dade. You know, Broward County, which
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is where Fort Lauderdale is, North Miami, which I learned for one of
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my Uber drivers is in a bit of a basin got the worst of it
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at over twenty inches of rain since Tuesday. From Tuesday to Thursday, over
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twenty inches of rain. Other parts of South Florida saw more than thirteen inches,
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with another four to eight expected through the weekend or something. I think
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that's changed now, but whatever. So parts of South Florida almost two feet
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of rain in two days, so it was bad. The day before on
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Wednesday, apparently they canceled a ton of flights. Then on Thursday we fly
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in, have no problem landing at the airport to fly in. Then when
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it comes time to start boarding from my connecting flight to Doubt, I see
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the pilots. That's always a good sign. The pilots are there. They
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show up, they go down the jetway down to the plane. They're hanging
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out, they're waiting. And then it's like fifteen minutes after we're supposed to
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start boarding, and people are starting to get antsy because well it's a it's
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air travel. And about thirty minutes goes by, and then they say,
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sorry for the delay, folks, we're just waiting on the flight attendants.
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When the rest of the crew gets here, we will get you on board
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and we'll get you to Dallas. Yay, okay. After about twenty more
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minutes, we're all getting really restless now, and we start hearing flights getting
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canceled to other cities. Raleigh, Durham had a flight canceled, Baltimore had
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a flight canceled, and another one somewhere on the East coast. So I'm
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thinking, maybe there's weather north of us on the East coast that's blocking those
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flights. And then they pick up the think attention spiritu onlines passengers flying to
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Dallas Fort Worth on flight thirty one twenty six, we're canceling that now due
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to weather. Oh whoa, whoa, what do you mean? Like thirty
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minutes ago you said it was a flight attendant issue. Now you're saying it's
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because of weather. Something seems afoot. So that now the scramble is on.
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People are trying to figure out what to do. They tell people go
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to go to the customer service, go to the ticket agents, go to
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the rebooking station downstairs. So I was like, okay, well I looked
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up on my phone saw another flight to Dallas like leaving like two hours later.
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So I ran down to that gate to see if they had any room.
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Like, now, we don't have anything. We're over sold. Well
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of course you are, because there's one thing airlines love to do. It's
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to overseell flights. So I go downstairs and get in the gargantuan line that
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is known as rebooking. And when I say gargantuan, I mean it.
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I mean we're talking John Holmes plus all the dudes on black dot com size.
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It snakes out the door into the south Florida Weather where they still got
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marauding monk. He's flying around by the way, and in this time,
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we're all trying to figureut what's going on. We're in this rebooking line.
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This line's going to take hours. And then this lady starts handing around these
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little Spirit business cards with a QR code. Here you can text and talk
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to the to the the people and they can help you with the rebooking your
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flights and stuff. Okay, cool. And then this one of the airport
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information people hands us this card, so I start texting with Spirit Customer Service
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texting, which at first was really helpful, it seemed. So then I
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while I'm waiting for their response, and to that, I'm standing in line
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and it's moving I don't know, an inch every thirty minutes, and so
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I decide I'm gonna call. I'm gonna see what happens. So I call,
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and then very nice lady I speak to says, yeah, I think
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we can get this figured out for you. And then she says, I'm
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sorry, they're not letting me rebook your flight. Let me kick this up
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to my supervisor. Don't give you a call back. I was like,
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okay, here. Yeah, you got to call me back on this number.
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I am still waiting to hear from that woman, by the way,
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so I never heard back from Cindy. So then the the spirit person says,
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Okay, you can go upstairs and talk to the ticket agents up there
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and they can help you with rebooking. All right, fine, so I'll
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go up the stairs. I'll leave the line, the rebooking line, of
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which there's like two of them or three of them, we're not even sure
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at this point. There's one on the first floor, there's one on the
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second floor. And then she's saying, go talk to the ticketing agent.
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So I'm gonna go talk to the ticketing agents. I go to the agent
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assist section of Spirit and it's a madhouse up there too, because at this
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point they've canceled like five or six flights and people are just you know,
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they're pissed. And this lady tells I asked this lady to say, okay,
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lady downstairs to me to come up here and talk to one of these
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people. Is that gonna be helpful? Or do I need to go back
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downstairs? And she's like she was, and then I said, or she
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handed me this QR code thing and she's like that right there, that's all
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you need. Like, are you sure I can get rebooked? All I
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gotta do is just is this doctor's money on the phone. She's like yes,
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and she was very adamant about it. And I said, when's the
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next flight to DFW. She said it not until the sixteenth. I said
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that's not going to work for me because that's the day I have to be
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doing stuff for work. And so she's like, well, that's all I
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can tell you right now, call them, call the number, do the
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texting things like fine. So now I'm worried about not having a hotel room
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for the night because she just said there's no flights until the sixteenth. It's
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the fourteenth, way hang on, it was the thirteenth. It was the
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thirteenth. There weren't going to be flights until the sixteenth, which is Sunday,
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the day after Vermfest. That's no good. So I was like,
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let me at least get a hotel room before all these other people buy them
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all. So I book a hotel room and I go to the hotel and
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I check in, and I call the number. I go across the street.
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I'm on hold with the number. I'm having a drink sitting at the
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bar. I'm about to order dinner because it's seven o'clock in Fort Lauderdale and
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I'm at a place called the Fish Grill and it sounds really good. So
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then I finally talked to a lady on the phone and she says, we
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can't do that on the phone. You need to be at the airport.
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I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. Wow. I was after
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I'd already waited in line for over an hour, and now I've lost that
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spot. So now I go back to the airport. This is uber number
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two. Back to the airport and in line for an additional three plus hours.
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And then right as I get to the front of the line, there
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are three people in front of me. Three people in front of me at
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a new, fresh, rested Spirit Airlines agent approaches the front of the line
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and she says, this kiosk is closed. Wow, but everyone remain in
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the line you are currently in, maintain your positions and follow me upstairs.
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Now we're going back up to where I was sent before, and they didn't
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help me at all. So now there's an army of ticket agents as opposed
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to two. Really, look, everyone was really tired that day. The
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only people more tired than me and my fellow canceled passengers for these two rebooking
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ages. Of me, they looked haggard. Yeah, so they send us,
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So they send us upstairs. I talked to a very nice lady.
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At this point, I'm so beyond anything. I just want something to eat,
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I want something to drink, and I want to fall asleep. And
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it's eleven o'clock and I talked to this lady and she says, I'm be
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honest with you. You're not gonna like your options. I was like,
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laying on me. I've had three hours plus to think about this. Let's
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see we can figure out. She says, I can get you on a
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flight on Saturday morning. I was like, that's not what I wanted,
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but that's better than the sixteenth. She says. It'll take you through New
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York and get you into Dallas late afternoon on Saturday. Well that's not any
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good, she says, And I said, what's the next option after that?
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The next direct flight is Sunday. It's like, okay, well that's
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not doing me any good either. I said, how about this because I've
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been on my phone looking at available flights too anywhere. Can you just send
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me home? Mm? And he said yes, and see like, I'm
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very sorry, and and she said, and I quote, you should be
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able to get a refund on this because you didn't get to your destination and
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all this stuff happened. I was like, okay, but you use the
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most dangerous word in the English language. Should did you take any pictures any
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of this? Uh? Huh? Okay. I'm now going to show you
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a photo of my exchange where I put that of my text exchange with Spirit
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Airlines yesterday. Okay. So it starts out with this is the very end
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of my text chain over hours yesterday, okay. At the top of it,
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it says, and again this is after hours. You've been placed in
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line to chat with the representative. We are experiencing higher than normal volume at
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the moment. This was four hours later that they say this. Because I
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got I got requeued my response. I've noticed they respond back, we have
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received your message. You are currently in Q and your message will be answered
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in the order it was received. So I sent back that which is a
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human skeleton holding a cell phone. That's me I'm dead, right, And
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again the message that preceded it was, we have received your message. You
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are currently in Q and your message will be answered in the order it was
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received. Then I then replied to that message a picture of a skeleton.
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I e. Me dead, holding my phone waiting, RAJ. Can you
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read their response? We have received your message and you are currently in Q
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and the message will be answered in the order it was received. A lot
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of good, my lot of good, Dead, Dan, did did you
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have any pictures of at the airport or the line or anything? Yes,
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hang on, I didn't. Even if he was an injury attorney, it
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would be Trey mister evidence training. You know. I'm just I mean,
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that's waiting. That's that's actually halfway through the line. So where I'm trying
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to get is you see that man in the teal hat standing in front of
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the silver pole. In between that pole and that spirit sign are the two
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very haggard ladies trying to rebook people. Oh I took that photo after probably
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two hours. Yeah, you're a better man than so. You weren't even
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in the airport. So like, because I was having this thought, like
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I thought you were kind of like at the gate because at that point this
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is where I, you know, think back to drunk me, because drunk
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me. If I'm sitting at an airport all day, drunk me is gonna
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be really drunk. No. See this actually was this. They actually said,
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you people, your flight's been canceled. You need to leave the secure
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area and go downstairs where the ticketing stuff is. And it's like this area
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right here is next to baggage claim. Yeah, there's no bar. No,
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And even if there was, I'm flying solo. I can't leave my
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spot in line to go do anything like get a drink or pee. Yeah,
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so I would like to dedicate my next Uti Di Spard Airlines. And
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people always wonder like, what's the benefit the benefit of being verified on social
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media platforms. I was flying from Jacksonville to Dallas, gone with the with
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the Brad Williams to go watch AW pay per view in Jacksonville. Our buddy
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was wrestling that night. He lives in Cedar Hill. He left and his
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fight was two hours before mine. He texted me He's like, hey,
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man, just got home. Hit me when you get when you land and
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come by the house for a drink. Okay, So I get you know,
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get get through security and all that good stuff. Get to it's American
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Airlines, which is ranked number fourteenth amongst airlines in the United States. I
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didn't even know there were that many airlines left, that is correct. I
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think it's like Suncoast Charter beats them. They're actually pretty good. So I
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get to the gate that I'm at and it just says delayed, and it's
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delayed like an hour and a half, two hours whatever. So I was
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about to go to the bar, grab a drink and let me see,
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let me just ask why it's being delayed because my buddy just left, and
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she goes, oh, there's weather in DFW. I send a Twitter message
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or x now but Twitter back then to DFW Airport and I say to their
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official account, I said, is there any weather in the area and they
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said spotty rain around the Metroplex, but no ground stop. I take a
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screenshot of that and I send it to American Airlines their official account, and
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here's what I wrote. I said, you're telling everybody at the Jacksonville Airport
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that there's a ground stoppage at DFW. Here's their official response. You need
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to get these planes moving or I'm going to show every single passenger in every
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single delayed flight this message that there is no ground stoppage. And I went
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up to the counter and I said how long until we board? And she
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goes, well, again there's ground stoppage. I said, okay, and
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then our flight is ready to go within thirty minutes. They didn't even check
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my boarding pass. She goes, have a good flight, mister Sharma,
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and the snarl on her face. She was so angry. And our flight
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left before the flight that was supposed to leave before us. Jesus. Yeah,
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so that helps. I might actually take that route on this yes situation.
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Yes, a lot of times, because they've got all the rules about
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time and you know, you can spend x amount of the flight crewis you
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know, only be in the air a certain amount of time, and so
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like that may be the case. Like they actually pulled a flight crew from
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another plane put it on yours and then that plane. You said, yeah,
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I was in the elevator with the I took a picture. You said,
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the two American airlines as well, because they have their pants have a
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certain like this is the red and blue stripe, so you know it's American
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Airlines. And I took a picture of his pants and the shoes, and
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I go, what's going on with your airline? He goes, imagine flying
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for them? Yeah, that was his response. I'm like, I don't
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want to be on that guy's flight. He sounds mad. Yeah, you
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don't want to be on the disgruntled pilot's flight. No, the So here's
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here's another wrinkle on this. So they tell us originally the delay was because
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no flight attendants. Then out of nowhere, poof, it's because of weather.
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So when you're standing in line, you get to look up lots of
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things because he's trying, I'm just trying to kill time I'm on board,
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but I'm also trying not to kill whatever juice I've got left in my phone
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because I needed to talk toustomer service or whatever. That's not doing a good
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job texting me back, clearly because they killed me. But I did manage
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to look up you know, the you know, patient or not patient passenger
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Bill of Rights for airline cancelation type of stuff, and our dear friends at
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AARP had an article. So I was reading this yesterday talking about, you
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know, the things you can do if your flight gets canceled and things to
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be aware of. For one, they tell you be polite to airline customer
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service reps. I agree with that for the most part, because I know
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it's not their fault. The gay agents that are they're just relaying information what
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they're being told. I know it's not their fault. It's people above them
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that don't have to stand in front of the public and take the barrage.
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No your rights. Number two, the US Department of Transportation requires airlines to
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give a full refund to passengers if a flight gets canceled for any reason.
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Many airlines will try to offer travel valuchuers for future trips, but if you
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do not have to, but you do not have to accept credit in lieu
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of cash. If you choose to be rebooked, airlines quote have to accommodate
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on the next available flight, even with a competitor airline. But sometimes these
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options are only available in person at the airport with a customer service center or
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with a gate agent. Okay, here's my other favorite part. Airlines will
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typically offer meal and hotel vouchers if a flight is delayed, canceled due to
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staffing or mechanical issues, but they often will not do so if they claimed
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the delay is due to weather, even if the weather is on the other
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side of the country, and even the expert in the story says, but
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it doesn't hurt to ask. I asked, and I didn't receive. And
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I'm going to show you a photo of the weather that was happening as my
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flight was being canceled yesterday. Are you ready? You can check the news
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on this. This is verifiable. This was the dangerous weather in the sky
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over South Florida yesterday as my flight was getting canceled. A double rainbow.
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It's a double rainbow. You can't it's too pretty, right, No,
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I mean you're gonna You're gonna mess up the whole pot of gold situation.
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Well, I mean the cool thing was as my uber is driving me from
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my pick who picked me up from the hotel, took me back to the
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airport because I have to get back to the airport to get rebooked, because
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you can only do it in person. Apparently, even though the one person
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at the airport said they can do it on the phone. The person at
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the airport said, yeah, they could rebook you on the phone. So
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I go and take them on the phone. Took a place you on the
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phone. They said, no, you have to be in person. So
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I go on person. The uber is worried about pulling up in this zone
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to drop me off because there's all these Broward County Sheriff's deputy vehicles, And
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I said, dude, I don't think they carries. Like, why do
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you Why do you think that? I said, because that deputy right there
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is hanging out his driver's side window doing a landscape photo of the double effing
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rainbow in the sky. I think you're fine. And then and then the
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flight that was scheduled to leave for Dallas that was over sold by two spots
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that I couldn't get on left on time. Interesting. Wow. And then
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and then there's the next morning. I'll tell you about that in a second.
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of people though, because maybe the light in their house, they can't see
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it. Maybe because their ceilings are so tall in their house they can't see
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them. So unfortunately, you know, you've got to really put some effort
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into seeing some of these items. And if you see any signs of leaks
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or damage, give Daniel Cook a called. They'll come out and fix it
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com. Before I tell you about what happened the next morning at the Fort
26:51
Lauderdale, Hollywood, Florida International Airport, something will make me feel better about
26:59
all this as much as humanly possible. Two things. One is wrong answers
27:03
only that's coming up. It's a good one and also something else that will
27:10
make me feel better. It's going to sound related to airline travel, but
27:12
it's not, and that is cell you light in puba care Okay, So
27:17
we have those things to look forward to to make us feel better about me
27:21
not being able to be at Vermafest because of Spirit Airlines slash South Florida weather.
27:26
Now, my one quick question, going back to the last segment,
27:30
you didn't you didn't go. I feel like I haven't taught you well,
27:36
you did not go your inner Indian. I would have gone and said,
27:40
how did that fight just go? On? Time to Dallas and we're delayed?
27:45
So I would like an explanation because you're saying it's weather and they just
27:48
left, So can you tell me how that's possible. I never had that
27:53
chance, I see, because by the because when I got back to the
27:59
airport, it was around then that I noticed that that flight. As I'm
28:06
waiting in line to talk to the rebooking people, that's when I noticed that
28:10
that flight left. Because I got back to the airport about fifteen twenty minutes
28:15
after that flight left. See, and they would not put you on standby
28:18
for that flight. There wasn't a stand by to Beyond. It was already
28:22
oversold by Tooth and they just canceled this one, so they weren't They already
28:26
had their own issues right, and those gate agents couldn't do it, and
28:29
I believe I'm screwed. At that point, I have to go down and
28:33
talk to rebooking. So that's what I did. Once I'm back in line
28:36
at the rebooking thing, Raj, I never got a chance to talk to
28:37
anybody until it was time for me to actually talk to the other agent backupstairs
28:42
to figure out what my actual options were. At that point, all I
28:47
cared about was what are my options? Right now, It's eleven pm.
28:51
I've been standing in line for over three hours this go round. I'm tired,
28:56
I'm hungry. I lost my buzz, I lost my layover buzz hours
29:03
hours prior, and and a smellbad because I need a shower. Been standing
29:10
around in my own filth along with everybody else's filth up the airport. So
29:15
then then the morning comes, I go, so I get another uber back
29:22
to my hotel and I instead of going straight to the hotel, there's a
29:27
beautiful, seedy, diviest of dive bars right across the street from the Hilton.
29:33
Yeah, it seems kind of fitting, and so I said, drop
29:37
me here. So I go in there, have a couple of drinks,
29:38
met a lovely gentleman who's a paralegal by the name of Zeke, and I
29:41
managed to find one of the few bars left in the United States you can
29:45
smoke inside, and I still have the proof on my clothes. And despite
29:52
all my history of smoking, I was not at all ever tempted to,
29:56
like, hete me get one of those, even though it was a highly
29:56
stressful situation, I have now reached the point where it's absolutely disgusting. I'm
30:00
like, that's how like I normal wouldn't even want to go into a bar
30:03
that's smoking anymore. But I didn't care. I could stumble back to my
30:06
hotel, so anyway. Then I get about three and a half hours of
30:10
low quality sleep because I'm by myself. I'm worried about am I going to
30:12
wake up in time to make my seven am flight. After bat the airport
30:15
by five, So I get to the airport, I'm sitting. I have
30:22
a cup of coffee and at least a twenty four hour old turkey sandwich that
30:27
I bought, but that was in the same kiosk with the coffee, and
30:30
as I'm chewing on this cold, moist turkey sandwich, I hear over the
30:38
public address, attention Spirit Airlines customers flying flight thirty one, twenty six service
30:45
to Dallas Fort Worth. We were boarding and flight well is scheduled to be
30:49
leaving on time at six am. Again, we were boarding now Zone two.
30:55
Why it sounds familiar because I'm like, hey, that's the flight number
30:57
I had yesterday when it got canceled. So I go to that gate,
31:00
like, hey, what about me? So apparently what happened was they had
31:07
looked and rescheduled a whole new flight for the very next morning and managed to
31:11
leave a handful of us off of it. Wow, I guess, because
31:15
it was over sold and some of us who were just hosed. So the
31:19
only actual option I had the night before was the flights to like New York
31:23
and stuff, even though there ended up being a flight the very next morning
31:30
that I couldn't get on. Wow, they didn't tell you about it,
31:33
and they didn't tell other passengers about it. I'm guessing, so it's people
31:37
were the next one. So I guess somehow in all of that flux of
31:44
the afternoon. That flight filled up and I didn't even though it was my
31:48
original flight, and I even paid for a seat, So the whole whole
31:53
trip got hosed. Makes you wonder, though, It's like somebody you know,
31:59
going through this, watching just the incompetence and and and frustration that that
32:05
goes on, and you know, and eventually they just go up there and
32:07
you know, go Hi, my name is Bob Pittman. You belong in
32:10
radio. I believe there's an afternoon slot with your name on it. They're
32:24
just they're just incompetent enough, aren't you Yes, And then it is it's
32:36
like, look, I mean, uh, cable providers, cell phone service
32:42
providers, utility companies, whether it's what I deal with with Wappa here Er
32:46
Cotton, Texas, airline industry, those are all industries where they're all full
32:53
of bad guys, and typically everyone has a bad thing to say about every
32:59
single company that operates in those spaces. Right, people are saying, what's
33:02
what you get for? You know, flying Spirit Airlines? Dam Well yeah
33:06
I get that, but I've also had major issues on other airlines. That's
33:08
why I relegated myself to even try Spirit in the first place, but all
33:12
the bad stuff I had the other ones. All it is airline travel is
33:15
a wheel of disappointment that you just keep spinning over and over again, and
33:20
you just land on one and you hope it doesn't disappoint you on that given
33:23
day. But it's going to eventually it's going to catch up with you.
33:25
It's not always going to land on the thing you want. A lot of
33:30
times you're gonna hit a WHAMBI Yeah, I mean I was going to Reno
33:32
and I was flying Delta because I won't fly American. Spirit didn't have any
33:37
flights into like directly into Reno, so you had to like again, same
33:40
thing, like either you fly to Fort Lauderdale and then Reno, which is
33:45
a cross country so no and Delta I've never had an issue with. I
33:49
had like one a long time ago where I was going to Amsterdam and then
33:52
from Amsterdam to India and it was because we're flying my ex her mom works
33:58
for Delta. We were on the you know list of you know, all
34:01
we have to do is pay the taxes and then we can fly business class.
34:06
And it was just a day and a half, like we just kept
34:08
getting bumped off the standby and then the next day we were back on and
34:12
that was the only hiccup I ever had with Delta. So this time I
34:15
get there and it is weather like, I can see the weather coming in,
34:19
and they're like, the flight just kept getting delayed. So I volunteered.
34:22
So this is the Thursday and I'm like, it's only one show Thursday
34:24
night. I can miss that, but I'll be there for the two shows
34:28
Friday, two show Saturday, one show Sunday. I volunteered. I was
34:31
like, can you take me off this flight. He's like, I'll put
34:34
you on the six am to LA and then you'll be in Reno at eleven
34:36
twenty five am. Deal get home. I start looking at the flight.
34:40
That six am flight is now nine ten. Yeah. I'm like, okay,
34:45
I have a two and a half hour layover in LA. I'll still
34:46
make my connecting flight. Yep. Then it's ten ten and it's ten forty.
34:53
Then it's ten forty six. I'm like what does that mean. Then
34:57
it's ten fifty and I'm like, okay, I look at it. It
35:00
says getting to La at eleven o six to lax my connecting flight. No,
35:06
sorry, I was supposed to land at eleven twenty five in Reno.
35:09
So if I'm in LA at eleven oh six, can't be in Reno to
35:13
eleven twenty five. And I go, okay, they have to have multiple
35:15
flights out. That's just logical, right. No, we'll have you in
35:21
in Reno by eleven thirty if not Saturday. So now I'm going to miss
35:24
the two shows Friday, and now I'm gonna miss possibly shows Sat. And
35:30
I go and same thing with the vouchers. I was like, okay,
35:32
so you know this is your fault. It's been delayed over three hours.
35:36
It says one hundred and twenty minutes, but it's been delayed over that.
35:38
So where am I going to stay when I get to La? She goes,
35:40
h, that's up to you. No, No, you're supposed to
35:45
you're supposed to take care of that. No weather. Yeah, oh you
35:50
pulled the weather card, the weather card, even though it was not Los
35:54
Angeles. Yeah, it's the ultimate. It's the ultimate airline middle finger.
35:59
We think the thing if you ever had flown. If they're no longer in
36:02
business, thank god, Northwest Airlines. Yeah, it was simply the worst
36:08
airline ever. I flew them three times should have taken you know, all
36:15
same day travel starting Dallas, go to different places whatever that was three days
36:22
it took. It ended up being nine travel days. Oh wow, And
36:27
that was par for the course for them. So where did you go?
36:31
Nowhere? One was going to Montreal and supposed to be it hit Detroit and
36:45
then Detroit to Montreal. Yeah, ended up the flight was a day late
36:50
going from Dallas to Detroit. Got to Detroit, stuck there for a night.
36:55
Oh I'm there, and then and then uh, we're actually were supposed
37:04
to fly into Quebec city. I didn't had to fly into Montreal. Lost
37:08
luggage. Oh and that was just one leg. Yeah, jesus. Yeah,
37:16
they lost my luggage from DC to so I went on my So I
37:21
was performing d C, went d C to Raleigh, Raley to here,
37:24
and they lost my luggage from Raleigh to here, and they're like, it's
37:28
gonna take us three days. We've located it in They called me the next
37:30
day, it's gonna take us three days to get it to you located it
37:35
in Raleigh. We found your back and then they proceeded tell me what was
37:37
in my back, and I was like, you're not supposed to open my
37:40
bag. No, no X ray machine. I'm like, you know how
37:43
many shirts I have in that bag? Machine. That's a fantastical X ray
37:46
machine. It really is. Technology is fantastic. A week and a half
37:51
later, I gotta knock at the door and there's my back. I was
37:53
like, yeah, Delta good. At this point, I was like,
37:57
you know what, just keep it like I've lived without it for you've you've
38:00
moved on. I broke up with my back. I left my bag in
38:08
Raleigh. That just sounds like a bad drug deal. So this, this,
38:14
this will make you feel a little bit better. Nothing like explicit videos
38:16
of a school teacher shot inside of an elementary school to really just you know,
38:22
uh, just get you right back in a happy place. Right,
38:25
Yeah, let's do it. So here's here's the backstory. This happened at
38:30
the end of May. We've got a former a former Lamar Consolidated Independent School
38:37
District teacher Richmond, Texas, under investigation for allegedly shooting sexually explicit videos over
38:44
self inside in elementary school classroom. Lamar CID said the woman already resigned in
38:50
February for unspecified reason. The district said it was not aware of the videos
38:53
until the end of May, and it was on May twenty ninth that Community
38:59
Active held a press conference in front of the school and gave their thoughts on
39:06
this teacher and her actions taking pornographic videos inside the classroom and posting them on
39:10
OnlyFans. We expect for you to go to the Texas Education Agency. We
39:15
expect for you to put a block on this teacher so this teacher cannot go
39:19
to another school and do this type of foolishes. This can be the same
39:22
type of teacher that can touch a child. If you taking your clothes off,
39:27
you're smacking your behind, You're flapping your breasts out and gyrating yourself in
39:31
a classroom where students are during the school day, and you're doing this in
39:37
the bathroom. That is unacceptable. Real quick, do you notice her nails?
39:43
So this is Community Activist kend just something or another. So her nails
39:49
are of the claw variety. They're super long. Funny story at the ferry
39:53
this morning, coming back over to Saint John, there were two ladies that
39:57
had fingernails very similar to this, and they're debit card got stuck in the
40:00
atm because they couldn't grab the card to get it out hilarious. I love
40:06
watching them type at the Dallas County Clerk's office. That's all I can't.
40:09
I can't stand it. I hate hearing it. The tapping drives me nuts.
40:13
But anyway, uh, just just when, just when Candice wraps up,
40:17
big time community activist kwanel X has turned to jump in here. So
40:22
basically, what I just I'm gonna let brother Quanell state his piece and then
40:25
I'll close it out. You really can't make this stuff up. It is
40:34
absolutely appalling, shameful, and frightening that these are the type of educators that
40:40
are in an elementary school preaching our children. When parents send their children to
40:46
school, they believe their teachers are people of the utmost highest character. But
40:52
now we write a teacher in the classroom on school hours, stripping down,
40:59
butt naked, bending over, and showing everything on the video and all you
41:02
could see what's cell your light hanging in pubic al. That's the only fans
41:09
content that really just drives people wild. Notice Cannas's face in the background,
41:14
Yes, stripping down, butt naked, bending over and showing everything on the
41:22
video and all you could see, what's cell your light hanging in Pubic cab.
41:25
This is a disgrace and a shame that this is the type of educator
41:30
and teacher that is in the classroom. And she because she needs to be.
41:35
Because if you're gonna be a teacher showing all that in the classroom,
41:38
you need to be clean shaven and no bumps. That's what I was gonna
41:42
say. It's like, you need to be a little more fit. You
41:45
need to be doing lunges and squats and the little hip thingies and make sure
41:50
you're clean shaving. Yeah so great, made multiple videos. Yes, the
41:59
district was unaware until we brought this to their attention. But what we're asking
42:05
you do now, that's always the question at these press conferences that never gets
42:10
asked. Where did you find it? He's subscribing? He was disappointed and
42:16
what he paid for he did not pay for Pubic and like the sons of
42:23
bitches, I have a VIP membership plus words the goddamn feet. Where is
42:36
her name on the talkboard? How about we start paying teachers more so they
42:44
don't have to do only that's why he goes by X. You know the
42:51
subscription list, not me. It's a good idea to be a community activist
42:55
and go by a pseudonym is in that way just when your credit card runs
43:01
through on the older fans Brimium, no one knows No, that guy's quem
43:07
l ten. You're listening to the tree House visitors online, that Treehouse on
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air dot com. Let's get Jacqueline from Brooks Plumbing into the tree House now.
43:30
For any and all of your plumbing ONTs and needs, give her a
43:32
call to one eight thirty eight the website brook Plumbing Texas dot com. With
43:37
all the rain, all the storms, I'm sure that creates problems for people,
43:43
and they might be problems that they might otherwise have missed. Are you
43:46
guys seeing a lot of surprise homeowners right now? Yes? Actually that's a
43:50
really good question. I got called to a house the other day Peer Andbeam
43:54
and they said the crawl space was basically full to the subfloor with water.
43:59
It turned out that the bulk of it was actually rain water, and their
44:01
insurance company would not pay for a remediation team. And it just happened to
44:06
be Oliver's truck. And Oliver keeps a sump pump on his truck. So
44:08
we said, hey, we're going to lend this to you, but we
44:10
need it back. We're going to leave it here overnight and we'll come back
44:14
and investigate. We were able to roll out the possibility of like a freshwater
44:17
leak being the cause of all the water and the cross space, but we
44:20
were able to identify a very small leak on the kitchen sewer line. And
44:25
when you've got a leak on the sewer system, it doesn't leak all the
44:28
time, it just leaks when you're using it. So and the leak was
44:31
small, and he's like, oh, well, I have had problems with
44:34
the kitchen. I have to get it snaked on a semi regular basis.
44:37
I'm like, well, you've got a defect there. But we've been seeing
44:39
a lot of people who are just finding defects that they thought were plumbing,
44:44
especially in peer and beam houses. I had a secondary one where they were
44:47
like, I'm sure it's a leak, and it was actually my insurance adjuster's
44:50
personal home one of them, and we got there and said, no,
44:52
you have no plumbing leaks, but you've got a massive hole on the back
44:55
side of your house and that's skirting around the the crawl space. And he
45:00
never goes in his backyard I guess and had no idea it was there.
45:04
And so it's just been interesting stumbling over. Sometimes plumbing sometimes just happenstance issues.
45:09
But I'm over the rain at this point in time, and I'm very
45:13
glad. I think we're done for a little while. I think, well,
45:16
if your house is not done with water and you're not sure where the
45:20
hell it's coming from, called Jacqueline and her very very fine team at Brooks
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Plumbing. They'll be happy to come out and give you a hand. Two
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Plumbing Texas dot com and Brooks Plumbing sponsoring this segment is actually pretty fitting because
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we're going to play wrong Answers Only, and it'll all makes sense when when
46:21
I give you the clue. So, Trey, Raj, we're now going
46:24
to play for the fourth or fifth time, Wrong Answers Only, which I
46:28
will ask you or pose to you a question or a statement in which you
46:36
have to provide the wrong answer. Are you ready? I'm ready ready.
46:43
It is time once again for Wrong Answers Only inside the Treehouse. I'm is
46:45
your host, Daniel Mallen. Today's contestants are Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma.
46:51
Hello Trey, Hello, Trey, tell us a little something about yourself.
46:54
Oh I'm old and tired. Thanks a lot, Trey, I appreciate that.
47:01
And Raj, how about you tell us a little something about yourself.
47:05
I have two dogs. I like walks in the evening and spaghetti. Who
47:13
doesn't love those things? Thank you for being completely unoriginal and somehow making it
47:16
on this very memorable game show. Happy to be answers, Glad to have
47:20
you. Okay, here we go. It is time, gentlemen. I'm
47:22
going to give you a statement with a blank, and I need you to
47:25
fill that blank with the wrong answer. All right, I need the wrong
47:30
answer to this blank in the statement here where you go? A woman had
47:37
a surprise baby inside of a blank. A woman had a surprise baby inside
47:44
of a blank. Let's start with you, mister Trey Trenholm. A woman
47:52
had a surprise baby inside of a blank. I need your wrong ana.
48:00
That's her only waffle house that is correct because it is the wrong answer.
48:07
Excellent job, mister Turnholm. One point for you, in which we're only
48:10
having one question this game, so we'll just no one wins anyway. Now
48:16
to raj Okay, a woman had a surprise baby inside of a blank.
48:22
I need your wrong answer only greyhound bus bathroom an excellent choice because that is
48:30
the wrong answer. Oh. In fact, this woman had a surprise baby.
48:38
You know I'm gonna let her tell you. M mmmmmmm, No one
48:45
moment. That's where to God, it's going to work this time? There
48:52
were such was the case. Back on April thirty. My patient asks if
48:57
I would go and run and get get her something to eat. She wanted
49:00
Taco bell. Right after she placed the order for Yanni was overcome by stomach
49:04
cramps. So there you have it. A woman had a surprise baby inside
49:10
of a Taco Bell. A few minutes later, she came out, but
49:15
then almost immediately, it's like the pain hit me once again. I went
49:20
back in the bathroom, and this time when I sat down, there was
49:23
no standing back up. That's when things got scared. That's usually what people
49:27
say when they go to the bathroom of Taco bell. I looked down and
49:31
I was like, that's when I realized I was still bleeding even more.
49:35
In a panic, she called her husband, who works to VCU Medical Center,
49:38
crying. She's breathing heavy. So immediately I'm like, babe, was
49:43
wrong, And she's like, how fast can you get to me? So
49:46
I'm like, oh god. Jamars Jackson put his phone on speaker and began
49:52
racing out of the hospital when something stopped him dead in his tracks. I'm
49:57
running past the Panera bread and then I I hear her let out this good
50:01
wrenching scream. Then a terrifying moment of silence. I'm still painting. I'm
50:07
like, Babe, say something, and there she was like, oh my
50:09
god, Oh my god. I'm like, what's wrong. What happened?
50:13
She was like, I just had a baby. Oh that's not the that's
50:20
not on the value menu. All of this leading up to this is just
50:24
you know, things you would find every day. The Taco Bell, stomach
50:30
cramps, crying, screaming, and surprise babies. That's what you get for
50:37
ordering the baby belgronde, and we named the child Chilupa. The family said
50:47
the doctors told them she may have experienced what is known as a cryptic pregnancy.
50:57
That's a rare condition where expectant mothers do not feel or notice any signs
51:01
or symptoms until late in the pregnancy, or like in this case, when
51:06
they suddenly have a baby at Taco Bell. Did they wrap her up in
51:12
tortillas? Poor jannit is going there, God damn it. I can't believe
51:22
we bought back the Mexican pizza. Should lift that off the minuor it's just
51:38
too dangerous. You are right though, and it's like you are right though.
51:45
The janitor is like, you know what. He goes in the bathroom
51:46
to clean up after the surprise baby incident inside the bathroom with the Taco Bell,
51:51
saying, you know what, what happened to the good old days when
51:52
it was good old fashioned diarrhea? Damn diablo sauce there it is Episode one
52:04
hundred inside the tree House. Thanks for hanging out with us this whole time,
52:08
and more on the way, more episodes to come, and even more
52:14
and more and more inside the Treehouse. Thanks for making me feel better,
52:21
guys, I appreciate it. And as I said in the Treehouse Plus episode,
52:27
I'm pretty tired. I'm gonna go lie down now. I see you
52:31
guys later. Yeah,