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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Friday, November the seventh, and

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Speaker 1: thousands of flights were canceled or delayed before you even

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Speaker 1: woke up this morning, and it's only going to get worse.

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Speaker 1: Today is the day mass cancelations across the board begin.

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Speaker 1: And you know where Robot and I decided to spend

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Speaker 1: our morning, Newark International Airport. And with that, welcome to

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Speaker 1: this episode of Amy and TJ. Rope. They said this

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Speaker 1: is going to happen. I'm not sure what I was expecting,

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Speaker 1: but this is kind of chaos that has ensued at

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Speaker 1: airports across the country today.

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Speaker 2: And this is just day one. It's supposed to get worse.

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Speaker 2: Day by day.

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Speaker 3: The percentage of cancelations is going to increase by one

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Speaker 3: percentage point.

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Speaker 2: So yes, today was four percent.

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Speaker 3: And we had a flight where we were boarding at

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Speaker 3: four forty am. So I think this is the earliest

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Speaker 3: flight I've ever taken in my life, and I've digging

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Speaker 3: six am flights plenty. But we got to the airport

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Speaker 3: around four twenty and it was chaos.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, We're used to a certain level of chaos at

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Speaker 1: airports in New York, and but at that hour we're

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Speaker 1: not necessarily used to this kind of chaos, and the

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Speaker 1: chaos we were talking about I think what we were

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Speaker 1: referring to, and we talked about it being a weird morning.

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Speaker 1: Things felt different, So the moods felt different. Certainly the

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Speaker 1: TSA workers felt different. We'll talk about that. But it

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Speaker 1: was like nothing was being done. Were it's not just

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Speaker 1: a long line, it's a line that's doing nothing. That

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Speaker 1: were like long lines of standing around, confusion, where do

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Speaker 1: we go? It just bottlenecks, And there were some weird

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Speaker 1: stuff this morning.

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Speaker 3: Look, we're all used to and I know there are

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Speaker 3: amazing and thank God for you TSA workers out there

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Speaker 3: by the way, who are working without paychecks, but in

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Speaker 3: the New York area, there tends to be a certain

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Speaker 3: level of apathy among TSA workers. Sometimes they just seem

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Speaker 3: like they're, you know, checking the boxes, which okay, fine,

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Speaker 3: but this was extra life. I don't give a whatever,

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Speaker 3: And I get it, I mean, I understand it emotionally

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Speaker 3: to a certain extent. But it created a very different

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Speaker 3: flying experience at an airport that already has a storied

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Speaker 3: and very notorious history, at least as of late.

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Speaker 1: So the at least for the country for the day,

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Speaker 1: you name the airport they had delays Chicago, Dallas, and Atlanta, Miami. Newark,

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Speaker 1: of course we're talking about Laguardier JFK. Just about every

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Speaker 1: airport across the country reporting significant delays. Newark delay because

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Speaker 1: of staffing. They're supposed to what you say, until noon,

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Speaker 1: they're supposed to be short staff.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we'll see if noon suddenly they won't be short staff.

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Speaker 3: But yes, they specifically said until noon they are short staff.

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Speaker 1: Delay specifically at LGA because of staffing, you have forty

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Speaker 1: seven minute on average delays at the Austin Airport. They're

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Speaker 1: about a half hour at Reagan. And this was an

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Speaker 1: interesting thing how it's impacting even Hurts is getting a yes.

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Speaker 3: So HERTZ is reporting that they are seeing a twenty

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Speaker 3: percent uptick in reservations from today through the weekend compared

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Speaker 3: to this exact weekend last year. And they say it's

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Speaker 3: already becoming a day for today. Just one way car

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Speaker 3: rentals today is now starting to spike as well. Obviously

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Speaker 3: they don't have the full numbers yet because it's happening

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Speaker 3: as we speak, but we're talking about numbers that are

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Speaker 3: being reported around nine am ten am East Coast time.

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Speaker 3: The West Coast hasn't even really woken up yet, So imagine.

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Speaker 3: I remember I looked at you at the airport and

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Speaker 3: I said, if this is what's happening at four thirty

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Speaker 3: in the morning, I can't imagine what's happening at ten thirty, one,

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Speaker 3: thirty five thirty PM on a Friday.

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Speaker 2: It's you know, it's snowballs.

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Speaker 3: It If it starts out bad, it usually does not.

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Speaker 1: Clear up later the day. So this was not by

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Speaker 1: design necessarily. If we could have avoided traveling right now,

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Speaker 1: we would have. But this has been on the books

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Speaker 1: for months for US. We the American Airlines flight eleven

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Speaker 1: ninety six this morning that left at five twenty am

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Speaker 1: coming to Miami landing and around eight twenty five. Now

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Speaker 1: we you certainly don't like early morning flights, certainly not

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Speaker 1: this crazy early. I'm not sure why this was booked

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Speaker 1: this way for US here for a charity event, blah

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Speaker 2: Airport and the time love an early morning flight.

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Speaker 3: I'm still suspicious you didn't tell him, Hey, just book

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Speaker 3: the earliest flight you can.

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Speaker 1: No with you doing no, no, no, no, I've done this

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Speaker 1: enough with you, but I know you have your Even

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Speaker 1: if I say seven am, you may whoa, whoa, WHOA?

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Speaker 1: Is there?

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Speaker 3: A seventh eight thirty am is the perfect morning flight.

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Speaker 1: I would not have done a five twenty to you

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Speaker 1: behind your back, I assure you. But this caused us.

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Speaker 1: We had a very early morning run that we posted

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Speaker 1: this morning because we had to get to the airport.

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Speaker 1: We didn't know what to expect. So our plan flights

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Speaker 1: at five twenty. We're gonna leave our house at three

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Speaker 1: forty five am. And we got off to a good.

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Speaker 2: Start, we certainly did.

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Speaker 3: And then our uber driver somehow couldn't find Terminal A

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Speaker 3: and missed the entire terminal. And when you're at Newark

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Speaker 1: Yes, so we mentioned this, and I didn't think about

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Speaker 1: it this way until now. Yes, things happen on the

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Speaker 1: but we started to panic. We started to freak out

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Speaker 1: a little bit because of the situation with the shutdown,

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Speaker 1: with what's happening at airports. We didn't know what we

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Speaker 1: were going to greet inside. I'll tell you, so my

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Speaker 1: adrenaline got going when he started missing.

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Speaker 3: You were leaned forward and you were very attentive. Let's

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Speaker 3: just say, but look, and this is these are two travelers.

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Speaker 3: We obviously travel a lot. We have for our jobs

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Speaker 3: for many many years. Were tsa pre check. We're already

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Speaker 3: checked in, we already have our boarding passes. So it's

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Speaker 3: like we do everything we can to just walk on

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Speaker 3: the plane as much as possible. But even with all

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Speaker 3: don't have that in their arsenal, we were still petrified

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Speaker 3: at that point that we were somehow going to and honestly,

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Speaker 3: with everything we went through, we walked to the gate.

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Speaker 2: As it was boarding, which is highly unusual for us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're usually there hanging out way ahead of time.

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Speaker 1: So we get it. We finally the guy for whatever

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Speaker 2: It didn't seem yeah, and chaos.

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Speaker 1: We started making our way to the security line, the

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Speaker 1: we were good. I acted, I said, Oh, this is

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Speaker 2: Nope, didn't did no.

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Speaker 3: But then even if the line that doesn't look that

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Speaker 3: I mean, and all the folks are the now bottlenecked

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Speaker 1: So this is where I had my first I had

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Speaker 1: interaction with three TSA workers today, and two were a

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Speaker 1: couple of the worst I've ever had in my life.

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Speaker 1: One of them wasn't directed to me, but it was

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Speaker 1: at me. But it was still ugly. The first lady,

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Speaker 1: and it was my fault. Where you step up and

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Speaker 1: they take your picture, they write, and you're supposed to

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Speaker 1: take your pictures, some want your ID, some just want

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Speaker 1: the boarding pass, right. I didn't know which one it was,

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Speaker 1: She starts going off on me about, uh, how do

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Speaker 1: you know you don't see the sign? I kept saying

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Speaker 1: the same thing. Only words I said to her, I apologize,

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Speaker 1: I apologize. Every time I said I apologized, she doubled

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Speaker 1: which I still don't know where it is. But she

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Speaker 1: actually scolded me there. Now, fine, that was on me.

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Speaker 1: I didn't have it out and I apologized, But I've

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Speaker 2: She needed.

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Speaker 3: You know what, I think, You've got a bunch of

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Speaker 3: workers who are worried about paying their bills. They're annoyed

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Speaker 1: Oh, I just saw it is frustration. I wasn't mad

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Speaker 1: completely That was nothing else to be said. I did

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Speaker 1: But I was taken aback just by Wow. That really

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Speaker 1: set her off. Yeah, in a way that she didn't

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Speaker 1: So I get to the conveyor. We you and I

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Speaker 1: got separated. Yes, we're right next to each other, and

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Speaker 3: Right because my conveyor belt just stopped moving. You know,

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Speaker 3: you picked the wrong wane. I always do, and so yes,

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Speaker 3: it just everything was slower. Everything was It almost felt

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Speaker 3: look we again, we get it. Things back up, they

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Speaker 3: see things. There are certain workers that are quicker or

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Speaker 1: This wasn't directed at me, but I'm standing you all

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Speaker 1: seen this before. You have to get your bin, you

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Speaker 1: put your stuff in it, but you have to push

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Speaker 1: it forward. Right. You're not supposed to move into your stuff.

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Speaker 1: Right goes up. It is confusing. Who knows absolutely I

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Speaker 1: push or should I push?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 1: It doesn't do automatically. So sure enough, the guy next

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Speaker 1: She is yelling at him from afar. Didn't I tell

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Speaker 1: you not to do that? You can't do this, you're

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Speaker 1: supposed to She's chastising him right there. I know he

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Speaker 1: messed up. But those are two experiences. We fly a lot,

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Speaker 1: and I'm telling you've never seen that in all the fly. No,

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Speaker 1: that was we've never experienced.

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of anger and a lot of

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Speaker 3: just it didn't take much to set someone off, that's it.

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Speaker 1: Well, everybody's going through it today. That was our experience.

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Speaker 2: That makes sense.

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Speaker 1: We need to.

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Speaker 3: Remember that you have to be able to pay the

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Speaker 1: Well, it's good too that he was. He's driving that

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Speaker 3: Yes, the head, the CEO of Frontier Airlines, I believe, said, Look,

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Speaker 1: That's a pretty good tip. That's actually really good to

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving, we got a kid coming home here in a

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Speaker 1: So I guess so we should update that. The Senate,

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Speaker 1: We've been looking at that image out of Louisville all week.

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Speaker 1: We've been listening to Sean Duffy talk about how dire

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Speaker 1: to think now I'm going through TSA with people who

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Speaker 2: I don't know if that was it.

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Speaker 1: It was happening with Sabine, and I messaged Sabine. I

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Speaker 1: that was the last message?

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Speaker 3: Always I always send the girls a note before we

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Speaker 2: That might be morbid, but I always do.

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Speaker 1: But I freaked out. And I know people have to

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Speaker 1: be uncomfortable when they fly, and it's all because the

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Speaker 1: folks we send to Congress won't do the most. I

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Speaker 1: think this is the most basic of their jobs, is it.

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Speaker 3: It would be to fund the government to make sure

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Speaker 3: people who are in charge of all of the unbelievably

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Speaker 3: important service industries in this country are compensated for their work, what.

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Speaker 2: To get re elected and leverage.

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Speaker 1: And yes, now it's too far. Now it's going too far.

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Speaker 1: Not just because I got scared, That's not what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: but it is.

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Speaker 2: It's too far.

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Speaker 1: It's up. Sorry, So folks, good luck to you out there.

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Speaker 1: We will keep you posted about our travels, how things

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Speaker 1: go moving forward, But just for now, we want to

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Speaker 1: share our our experience this morning at Newark International Airports

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Speaker 1: robes but now I'm t J. Holmes behalf of my

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Speaker 1: dear traveling partner Amy Robot. We will see y'all soo