The Michael Knowles Show - Michael Knowles REACTS To The Worst Spirit Airlines Videos
Aired: 2026-05-09
Duration: 08:59


=== Time You'll Never Get Back (08:58) ===

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[00:01:00]  Just need another $50 before we can land this airplane.
[00:01:03]  Closing.
[00:01:04]  Final flights into LAX for six months.
[00:01:09]  Spirit.
[00:01:09]  Just a couple months.
[00:01:10]  Hey, Spirit, from us guys in America, good luck to y'all.
[00:01:13]  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.
[00:01:23]  Pour one out, folks.
[00:01:25]  One of the great, terrible budget airlines.
[00:01:28]  I actually don't want to pour it on my desk.
[00:01:29]  Spirit Airlines.
[00:01:30]  RIP, it is no more.
[00:01:32]  When you wanted a cheap flight, they get you the cheapest flight possible.
[00:01:35]  They would charge you for oxygen.
[00:01:37]  They would make you pay if you wanted a seatbelt or if you wanted to undo your seatbelt.
[00:01:42]  And it was truly an unpleasant experience.
[00:01:45]  But when you were broke, it was great.
[00:01:49]  Bullshit bourgeois ideology.
[00:01:51]  And I'm going to miss it.
[00:01:52]  So in Memoriam, we have the best Spirit Airline memes.
[00:01:56]  Guys, never fly with Spirit, okay?
[00:02:20]  Is that a monkey?
[00:02:34]  Oh no, it's a raccoon.
[00:02:39]  Yeah, no, that song, killer song for spirit.
[00:02:42]  The other one that comes to mind is, it's something unpredictable.
[00:02:47]  And in the end, it's the stewardess is just punching people in the face.
[00:02:52]  People are just gasping for air.
[00:02:55]  When we fly Spirit, you had this sense that, like, as you were circling the airport, like, all right, everybody, so we just need another $50 before we can land this airplane.
[00:03:06]  Someone's gonna have to pony up.
[00:03:07]  We're running out of jet fuel.
[00:03:09]  So just if anyone wants to land.
[00:03:12]  Flying Spirit was just playing a big game of chicken.
[00:03:15]  Next one.
[00:03:16]  Looks like you're going to have to take over spirit too, Marco.
[00:03:18]  I could
[00:04:09]  watch it all day.
[00:04:11]  I like the subtlety, too, of the filmmaker that every single person other than Marco Rubio is black, of the auteur's understanding of spirit.
[00:04:21]  I think I'm getting the black lung bob.
[00:04:23]  Which is not totally realistic, but it is realistic that Marco Rubio will be tasked with taking over spirit.
[00:04:30]  Wow.
[00:04:30]  Who thinks the federal government knows how to get a suitcase from Pittsburgh to Cleveland?
[00:04:35]  I mean, just the mechanics of running an airline, there is no expertise in the federal government.
[00:04:41]  I want to watch that feature film.
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[00:05:49]  I'm here.
[00:05:59]  Happiest Spirit Airlines employee.
[00:06:02]  That is, that's going to be his epitaph on his tombstone.
[00:06:05]  That was the happiest Spirit Airlines employee.
[00:06:08]  It was, it was rough on there.
[00:06:11]  Cause it wasn't, you know, the big airlines, Delta, it's really nice.
[00:06:16]  United did this thing for a while where they would like kill your puppy, but they, it's pretty nice on the big ones, you know, American, whatever.
[00:06:23]  And then Southwest was supposedly a budget airline, but it wasn't really.
[00:06:27]  The prices started to creep up and they still made it feel.
[00:06:30]  It made it feel like kind of budget because the stewardesses would be wacky.
[00:06:35]  You know, they're eccentric.
[00:06:36]  One of them came over and like sat in my lap one time.
[00:06:38]  It was interesting.
[00:06:40]  But on Spirit, the Spirit version of Budget Airline wasn't the wacky, eccentric, we have fun here.
[00:06:47]  It was like just got out of my halfway house, you know, still going through a little bit of withdrawal, existential ennui, slash homicidal rage.
[00:07:00]  Those poor suitcases.
[00:07:01]  Okay, next one.
[00:07:03]  There we go, that's the song I wanted.
[00:07:12]  So take the photographs and still frames in your mind.
[00:07:17]  Hanging on a shelf in good health and good time.
[00:07:22]  Tattoos and memories and dead skin on trial.
[00:07:27]  For what it's worth, it was worth all the while.
[00:07:33]  It's something unpredictable.
[00:07:34]  But in the end is right, I hope you had the time of your life.
[00:07:43]  The reason the song actually doesn't work is that that was always predictable on Spirit Airlines.
[00:07:50]  That was always predictable.
[00:07:52]  You had a statistical certainty of experiencing something like that.
[00:07:59]  And now we're certain that we won't experience it again unless we fly on Frontier.
[00:08:03]  See you next time.
[00:08:09]  Look out the window.
[00:08:12]  Spirit.
[00:08:12]  Didn't see that coming, did you?
[00:08:28]  Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.
[00:08:33]  Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.
[00:08:38]  So make the best of this past and don't ask why.
[00:08:43]  It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time.
[00:08:48]  It's something unpredictable.
[00:08:50]  It's something unpredictable.
[00:08:52]  And in the end, that's right.
[00:08:54]  I hope you had the time of your life.