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We once again made contact with our leader, Mike. Love that.

Hello, American Mark Levin here our number 877-3813811-877381-3811.

I want to thank Richie V. Mr. Calls Greener for standing in yesterday. I had every intention of being here behind the microphone.

But United Airlines had a different view. I needed to go down the floor. I family member had taken ill.

I set my flight quickly to go on JetBlue. About 90 minutes after I locked in the flight, JetBlue cancelled and then put me on another flight the following day.

But I didn't want to go on another flight the following day. So it took some time to undo that.

I went online and I locked in a flight from American Airlines. A couple hours later they cancelled their flight. But they put me on another flight two days away.

Well, that wasn't going to work. So my poor wife had to spend God knows how much time to put it into that.

Meanwhile, I went ahead and booked a flight from another airport with United. That worked. Then I got down to Florida.

Stayed a little longer. I think you may have seen a life liberty in Levin where I interviewed the great governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.

So it was time to come back yesterday. And the only one of two flights, because my car was at a particular airport, one was six in the morning.

And I couldn't get an Uber at four in the morning to get me to the airport at six in the morning.

So it was I believe it was the one thirty year to a clock flight that would get me to the airport near my home at about four twenty or four thirty.

But they delayed it at least five times for two and a half hours. And so I had a call and make the point that I wouldn't be on the air.

The entire industry is in a state of disaster with the cancellations with the enormous amount of work it takes to get refunds or to or to change the flights around and so forth.

And so on. And of course, there's a number of reasons for it. One is this mandate where people are invaccinated. They're fired or they're suspended.

Two is some people are actually getting sick. And three is of course just typical incompetence.

But whatever it is, that's the state of play I'm here tonight and I'm fired up my teeth are sharp and I'm ready to roll.

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