The Michael Knowles Show - May 09, 2026


Michael Knowles REACTS To The Worst Spirit Airlines Videos


Episode Stats


Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

120.76

Word count

1,057

Sentence count

98

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

10

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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Spirit Airlines, the budget airline, has run out of fuel and is in danger of going under. Will Marco Rubio be able to save the airline? Or will the government have to step in and take it over?

Transcript

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00:00:46.000 We just need another $50 before we can land this airplane.
00:00:50.000 Final flights into LAX for Spirit.
00:00:55.000 Just the good months.
00:00:57.000 Hey Spirit, from us guys at American, good luck to y'all.
00:00:59.000 It'd be better if you took $500 million, put it in a pile on the floor, poured gasoline on it, lit it on fire. 0.59
00:01:08.920 Pour one out, folks.
00:01:11.160 One of the great, terrible budget airlines.
00:01:14.020 I actually don't want to pour it on my desk.
00:01:15.680 Spirit Airlines.
00:01:16.680 R.I.P.
00:01:17.380 It is no more.
00:01:18.460 When you wanted a cheap flight, they get you the cheapest flight possible.
00:01:21.220 They would charge you for oxygen.
00:01:23.340 They would make you pay if you wanted a seatbelt or if you wanted to undo your seatbelt.
00:01:27.560 And it was truly an unpleasant experience.
00:01:31.660 But when you were broke, it was great. 0.99
00:01:35.360 Bullshit bourgeois ideology. 0.99
00:01:37.260 And I'm going to miss it. 0.99
00:01:38.680 So in memoriam, we have the best spirit airline memes.
00:01:57.560 And I don't want to go home right now.
00:02:02.680 Guys, never fly with spirit, okay? 0.96
00:02:06.440 You're a duke.
00:02:06.940 And all I can do is you. 1.00
00:02:11.560 And shoot her later, it's a real world. 1.00
00:02:15.740 I just don't want to. 0.99
00:02:17.300 Is that a monkey?
00:02:19.680 Oh, no, it's a raccoon.
00:02:21.000 yeah no that song killer song for spirit the other one that comes to mind is uh it's something
00:02:31.780 unpredictable in the end as the stewardess is punching people in the face people are just
00:02:39.220 gasping for air when we fly spirit you have this sense that like as you were circling the airport
00:02:45.500 All right, everybody, so we just need another $50 before we can land this airplane.
00:02:52.180 Someone's going to have to pony up.
00:02:53.600 We're running out of jet fuel.
00:02:55.320 So just if anyone wants to land.
00:02:58.920 Flying Spirit was just playing a big game of chicken.
00:03:01.460 Next one.
00:03:01.940 Looks like you're going to have to take over Spirit too, Marco.
00:03:15.500 Oh!
00:03:21.440 No!
00:03:51.440 Wow, I could watch it all day.
00:03:57.120 I like the subtlety, too, of the filmmaker 0.93
00:03:59.060 that every single person other than Marco Rubio is black,
00:04:02.460 of the auteur's understanding of spirit. 0.99
00:04:07.360 I think I'm getting the black lung, Bob.
00:04:09.520 Which is not totally realistic,
00:04:11.500 but it is realistic that Marco Rubio
00:04:13.920 will be tasked with taking over spirit.
00:04:16.080 Wow.
00:04:16.960 Who thinks the federal government knows
00:04:18.300 how to get a suitcase from Pittsburgh to Cleveland?
00:04:21.440 I mean, just the mechanics of running an airline, there is no expertise in the federal government.
00:04:27.240 I want to watch that feature film.
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00:05:44.060 happiest spirit airlines employee that is that's going to be his epitaph on his tombstone that was
00:05:52.360 the happiest spirit airlines employee it was it was rough on there because it wasn't you know
00:05:58.960 the big airlines delta it's really nice united did this thing for a while where they would like
00:06:04.720 kill your puppy but they it's pretty nice on the big ones you know american whatever and then
00:06:09.640 Southwest was supposedly a budget airline, but it wasn't really. 0.69
00:06:13.740 The prices started to creep up, and they still made it feel like kind of budget
00:06:18.360 because the stewardesses would be wacky. 1.00
00:06:21.140 You know, they're eccentric. 1.00
00:06:22.700 One of them came over and sat on my lap one time.
00:06:24.700 It was interesting.
00:06:26.300 But on Spirit, the Spirit version of budget airline wasn't the wacky, eccentric,
00:06:32.520 we have fun here.
00:06:33.760 It was like, just got out of my halfway house, you know,
00:06:37.600 still going through a little bit of withdrawal, existential ennui, slash homicidal rage.
00:06:46.220 Those poor suitcases. Okay, next one.
00:06:52.380 There we go. That's the song I wanted.
00:06:57.960 So take the photographs and still friends in your mind.
00:07:03.420 Hanging on a shelf in good health and good time.
00:07:07.600 Tattoos and memories and dead skin on trial
00:07:12.540 For what it's worth, it was worth all the while
00:07:17.520 It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right
00:07:22.380 I hope you had the time of your life
00:07:26.560 The reason the song actually doesn't work
00:07:31.600 is that that was always predictable on Spirit Airlines.
00:07:36.140 That was always predictable.
00:07:37.600 you had a statistical certainty
00:07:40.340 of experiencing something like that.
00:07:45.080 And now we're certain that we won't experience it again
00:07:47.400 unless we fly on Frontier.
00:07:50.000 See you next time.
00:07:55.520 Look out the window.
00:07:58.180 Spirit.
00:07:59.000 Didn't see that coming, did you?
00:08:07.600 We'll be right back.
00:08:37.600 unpredictable but in the end is right i hope you at the time of your life