For those of you that seem fascinated by such things.
Here’s the bit from the maintenance reposition taxi. You can hear my initial call to ground at 18:15, then I get chewed out around 19:40, then my captain sweet talks them at about 20:45.
And here’s a normal call to ground trying to get out of JFK to BNA earlier that day. My initial call is at about 25:40, then he tells me to standby. Annoyingly, Comair 345 is next to me, calls up after me, and gets to taxi in front of me. That wasn’t fair. It takes a few minutes for him to get back to me, but eventually he does. You can tell he’s done with me a little later when he tells me to monitor tower around 29:00.