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Speaker 2: Latest Paul from Berkeley shows Californians support the billionaire tax.

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Speaker 2: Oh great, I'm telling you right now it's because of

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Speaker 1: So every last business is going to end up in Florida.

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Speaker 1: The President announced that he is going to send ice

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Speaker 4: Pleasure. I managed to get back through Miami Airport from

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Speaker 1: True story when they first tried to sell me unclear,

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Speaker 4: Well, look, foreigners cannot understand how the United States is

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Speaker 1: Our airports in this country are so bad, just in general,

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Speaker 4: Well, look, we have a problem with public infrastructure in

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Speaker 4: You said it. I have to tell you, the Lax

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Speaker 1: We don't have world class airports here because our hospitals

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Speaker 4: Well, I have to say there are a few airports

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Speaker 4: The Trump arrangement syndrome is so virulent in California that

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Speaker 4: that photo ID is the only thing that can restore

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you something else they should do. They should

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Speaker 3: For sure, Shirley Weber is the absolute worst.

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Speaker 1: She was the one that screwed everything up for Claudia

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Speaker 4: Then why do we have licenses if it's not our

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Speaker 1: It makes no sense, But this is how they see

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Speaker 4: With they are fraud facilitators. Rather than protect the public,

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Speaker 2: Have you seen a secretary of state in this country

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Speaker 4: There have been some in the past. In fact, one

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Speaker 1: Can you explain to the people, because not everyone's familiar

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Speaker 4: Well, the Republican candidate was ahead when all the votes

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Speaker 4: They called the biggest Joe cappen in King County, which

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Speaker 4: But in the Peter Principal tradition, he managed to get

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Speaker 4: and you can't stop us.

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Speaker 1: Last question before you go, Let's go back for a

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Speaker 4: Well, I think the key is this, if there's no

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Speaker 4: And that's what we've seen in the thirty four state,

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Speaker 1: John Fund, the National Affairs from order for National Review

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Speaker 4: Always a pleasure, John.

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Speaker 1: All right, Coming up next, we'll tell you what happens

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Speaker 1: if you have a reservation at a hotel and they say,

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Speaker 1: who the hell are you? Eight hundred two two two

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Speaker 1: eight hundred two to two two five two two two. Well, Randy,

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Speaker 1: the globe. We both happen to be Hilton partisans. We've

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Speaker 2: Sometimes the hotel over books and then you don't have

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Speaker 2: night booked and a Courtyard Marriott, and Courtyard Marriott says,

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Speaker 3: Were fall not a good look for Marriott.

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Speaker 2: For more on this vacation nightmare, here's NBC in the Bay.

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Speaker 5: We've got a travel warning for you. A South Bay

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Speaker 5: family says a big brand name hotel chain turned them

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Speaker 2: They called consumer investigator Chris Kamura for help. Chris, this

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Speaker 2: news for one hundred percent. Chris found a lesson for everyone,

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Speaker 5: Sand Surf and Sun.

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Speaker 2: The Dwarkin found there's some alliteration for you, not at

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Speaker 5: Sand Surf and Son. The Dwarf family's goal for a

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Speaker 7: The plan was to spend eight delightful days in the Bahamas.

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, the rooms are all sold out. We don't

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Speaker 3: Do they even have a casino floor?

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Speaker 5: Do you have my reservation?

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Speaker 5: Do you have my reservation? Yes we do. Unfortunately we

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Speaker 5: ran out of cars. Christine's talking about this much quoted

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Speaker 5: nineteen ninety one episode that unfolded out a rental car counter,

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Speaker 5: but the reservation keeps the car hered percent.

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Speaker 3: Larry David wrote this, Oh, yes.

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Speaker 5: That's why you have the reservations. I know why we

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Speaker 5: have reservations. I don't think you do.

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Speaker 3: Still timeless.

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Speaker 5: The Dwargan were living the hotel version of that joke,

446
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Speaker 5: but they were not laughing after overbooking the hotel and

447
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Speaker 5: giving away their prepaid room. Here's what the dwark in

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Speaker 5: Saint Marriott did for them nothing.

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Speaker 3: I'm nothing again.

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Speaker 2: Not a good look for Marriott. You are now in

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Speaker 2: a foreign country. You thought you at a hotel, room booked.

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Speaker 2: You're sleeping on the street unless you can find some

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Speaker 2: last minute lodgings.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank god, the climate's good.

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Speaker 8: I'm quite surprising.

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Speaker 5: That's Professor Michael Terry, a hospitality industry veteran who teaches

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Speaker 5: hotel managers at the University of Central Florida. Terry said

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Speaker 5: hotels routinely have no shows guests who hold reservations but

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Speaker 5: don't check in or cancel.

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Speaker 8: Usually it's maybe two three percent something I got.

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Speaker 5: But when everyone shows up and there are more guests

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Speaker 5: than rooms, Terry said, what customarily happens next is the

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Speaker 5: overbooked hotel finds you an alternative place to stay.

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Speaker 2: Any reputable hotel in the world, Marriot's not reputable.

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Speaker 1: Well, they don't like to do that because let's say

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Speaker 1: you have a down market Marriott. You're at the courtyard

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Speaker 1: and they don't have any rooms available. Whatever the high

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Speaker 1: end version of the Marriott product is does have a

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Speaker 1: suite available that could cost several thousand dollars a night

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Speaker 1: in a location like the Bahamas.

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Speaker 3: They're not going to want to pay for you to

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Speaker 3: go to that suite.

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Speaker 1: If you're only paying one hundred and seventy five dollars

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Speaker 1: for your room at the Courtyard.

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Speaker 8: Well, transport you to that hotel, pay for that hotel

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Speaker 8: for the first night, transportation back the next morning, and

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Speaker 8: of course not charge.

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Speaker 3: You for that room.

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Speaker 5: That was nothing.

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Speaker 2: So I guess the lesson here is that when you

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Speaker 2: book a reservation, even though it's months in advance, and

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Speaker 2: it says, hey, this is your room, that's not true.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is why you need status with a hotel.

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Speaker 1: You need status with a cruise line, you need status

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Speaker 1: with an airline. You need to have a to get

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Speaker 1: back at them if they screw you over. I don't

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Speaker 1: think they would do this to someone who had status

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Speaker 1: with them. I think they'll do it to people who

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Speaker 1: buy it off a hot wire or one of those

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Speaker 1: online orbits, one of those websites. But if you're a

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Speaker 1: regular customer with that particular company, usually they'll target someone else.

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Speaker 2: Well, and it's pretty easy to get even the most

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Speaker 2: basic levels of status with the hotel chains, because if

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Speaker 2: you just check your travel cards, you probably already have

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Speaker 2: it that.

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Speaker 5: That was not the case for the Dwarkins. They say

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Speaker 5: the Courtyard Marriott simply turned them away.

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Speaker 7: They were pretty rude about it.

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Speaker 5: So that night, at midnight they started walking the streets

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Speaker 5: of Nasau.

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Speaker 3: This is becoming the saddest vacation ever.

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Speaker 1: And NASA is a pit by the way. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: when the cruise ships go there, no one gets off.

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Speaker 1: That's why the cruise ship companies are now buying their

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Speaker 1: own beach clubs there because it's so undesirable.

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Speaker 7: Now from the distance, we see Margaritaville and I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 7: come on, Jimmy.

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Speaker 2: Buffett, Well, I'm sorry to tell you he is no

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Speaker 2: longer with us.

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Speaker 4: Come on.

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Speaker 5: They changed their latitude and found a change in attitude.

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Speaker 3: Decent reference.

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Speaker 5: The Margaritaville resort found the dwark and family a room,

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Speaker 5: the hotel's last available room, a suite for fourteen hundred dollars.

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Speaker 3: Holy cow.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you see that is why the Marriott didn't want

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Speaker 1: to make this good because they would be out of

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Speaker 1: pocket for that amount of money. Now they're going to

519
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Speaker 1: have to pay it because I'm sure they violated all

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Speaker 1: kinds of rules, but that was the hesitation.

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Speaker 2: What are the amenities at the Margaritaville suite and Nassau.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but I want it.

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Speaker 5: For one night.

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Speaker 7: That's a lot of money. Yeah, I mean, that's certainly

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Speaker 7: not money we budgeted for this trip.

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Speaker 5: The Dwarkins expected Marriott to pay them back. They started

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Speaker 5: emailing with help from folks on social media. They also

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Speaker 5: contacted us.

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Speaker 3: That was the smartest thing to do, go straight to them.

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Speaker 5: We reached out to Marriott headquart.

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Speaker 2: The news is your place to snitch, and the local

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Speaker 2: news does this better than anybody else, because the one

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Speaker 2: thing Marriott doesn't want is a story that goes out

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Speaker 2: on the entire airwaves to the Bay Area of how

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Speaker 2: they didn't make this right.

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Speaker 5: We reached out to Marriott headquarters as well as the

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Speaker 5: London company that actually owned the NASA hotel. Neither replied

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Speaker 5: to us, but Marriott did respond to the Dwarkin family

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Speaker 5: and agreed to pay back the extra fourteen hundred bucks

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Speaker 5: they spent, plus the original cost of their stay.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if they rated the mini bar. I would

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Speaker 3: hope so, wouldn't you? If you were to Margaretaville property.

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Speaker 2: Well, and you assumed that, hey, Marriott screwed me over.

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Speaker 2: At some point they got to pay for this. I

545
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Speaker 2: am opening in that bottle.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine any room at a Margaritteville hotel where

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Speaker 1: there's not a blender going off.

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Speaker 3: They must have blenders in the rooms.

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Speaker 5: Plus the original cost of their stay.

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Speaker 7: We travel a lot, and we've been traveling for years,

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Speaker 7: and this is the first time we've ever encountered this.

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Speaker 5: We reviewed Marriott's website and found only one reference to overbooking,

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Speaker 5: a commitment to reaccommodate overbooked Elite guests.

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Speaker 3: There you go, Johnny, you gotta hell status.

555
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Speaker 2: If you have status, they will treat you very differently.

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Speaker 2: Quick tip for Marriott specifically, if you have an AMEX Platinum,

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Speaker 2: it comes with automatic Elite Golden status with Marriott.

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Speaker 5: Besides just becoming a hotel VIP, there are a couple

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Speaker 5: ways you can try to avoid becoming a victim of

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Speaker 5: an overbooked hotel. Grab your phone, try to check in online.

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Speaker 2: Some hotels, you guys got to update your sound effects.

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Speaker 2: That's from like a nineteen nineties mac tosh.

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Speaker 5: Grab your phone, Try to check in online. Some hotels

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Speaker 5: let you check in up to twenty four hours in

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Speaker 5: advance on their app. You might get your room assignment

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Speaker 5: and digital key early hopefully.

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Speaker 3: If you check it online. They don't. They can't give

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Speaker 3: you the free water bottles. Well, they also can't upgrade you.

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Speaker 3: Oh I love the upgrade.

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Speaker 5: You might get your room assignment and digital key early,

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Speaker 5: hopefully guaranteeing your accommodation. When you're making plans, Professor Terry said,

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Speaker 5: be careful booking business hotels. He explained that corporate travelers

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Speaker 5: frequently no show, so business hotels frequently overbook.

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Speaker 8: Now, if it's a business hotel, it's much more common

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Speaker 8: then yeah.

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Speaker 2: But the Courtyard Marriott in NASA is not a business hotel.

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Speaker 3: No, what businessman is going down there?

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Speaker 5: Then, if you're ever going to check into a hotel

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Speaker 5: late at night, Professor Terry says, over communicate your arrival time,

580
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Speaker 5: call him on the phone, direct message on social media,

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Speaker 5: chat in the app up. That didn't work for the Dwarkins,

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Speaker 5: but Professor Terry says, you gotta try anyway. If a

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Speaker 5: hotel turns out.

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Speaker 3: Well, can you do that?

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00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 2: If you're on a delayed flight, you got to pay

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Speaker 2: for the Wi Fi. Well, the Wi Fi.

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Speaker 1: Has to be working, which is not always the case,

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Speaker 1: especially if you're flying on a commuter jet to a

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Speaker 1: place like Nassau.

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Speaker 5: Anyway, if a hotel turns you away anyway, let us know,

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Speaker 5: scan the QR code on screen right now to fill

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Speaker 5: out our consumer complain for him online.

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Speaker 2: The moral of the story is, if you get screwed

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Speaker 2: over by a hotel on your vacation, call NBC in

595
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Speaker 2: the Bay and they'll make sure that they shame them

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Speaker 2: into making you haul. You know, I briefly thought about

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Speaker 2: doing a travel podcast where I talk about all my

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Speaker 2: little tricks on how to avoid problems like this, and

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Speaker 2: then I realized there's no way I can do that

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Speaker 2: because not all of them are legal. Eight hundred two

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Speaker 2: two two five two two two. Who is telephone number?

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Speaker 4: What?

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two. If

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Speaker 1: you'd like to email the show, you can do so

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Speaker 1: at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's

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Speaker 1: Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. And right

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Speaker 1: now it's time to open up the California crime blodder.

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Speaker 5: It's happened yet again.

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Speaker 3: This wow, Wow, what's up you dun Dun Dun Dun, Dundun,

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Speaker 3: Dun Dun.

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Speaker 5: Dun Beach, the Califonia crime blodder.

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Speaker 4: With John.

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Speaker 2: And this time we're getting a city that doesn't normally

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Speaker 2: make the blotterer. In Newport Beach, there was some road

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Speaker 2: raging going on where some irate driver was trying to

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Speaker 2: run down a couple of bicyclists that were in their

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Speaker 2: bike lane.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure that led to an awkward encounter outside

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Speaker 1: of the crab Cooker.

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Speaker 3: For more, here's Katla.

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Speaker 6: A scary case of road rage along pc H and

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Speaker 6: Orange County caught on camera. Two bicyclists nearly run off

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Speaker 6: the road. The cyclists say two drivers were so aggressive

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Speaker 6: they feared for their lives.

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Speaker 1: Kjalvibes Carlos Ossetto is Live with more on what happened, Hi, Carlos.

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Speaker 9: Hey michah Encort. This door ride quickly turns south for

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Speaker 9: two cyclists out here in Orange County. Part of the

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Speaker 9: road range incident was caught on camera, and tonight those

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Speaker 9: two cyclists they're speaking out saying things could have ended

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Speaker 9: so much worse. A Saturday bike ride turned dangerously ugly

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Speaker 9: along PCH and BA Short Drive in Newport beach. Dramatic

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Speaker 9: video shows two cyclists being run off the designated bike

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Speaker 9: lane by the driver of a blue BMW. One of

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Speaker 9: the cyclists, fearing for his life, buddy hops the curb

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Speaker 9: onto the sidewalk to get out of the way.

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Speaker 1: Just whoa, I bet you that's one cyclist who wishes

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Speaker 1: that he was jewiced, like Lance Armstrong.

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Speaker 10: Zooms by us, gets the red light and then as

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Speaker 10: far as I know, like thirty seconds later, he's like

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Speaker 10: inches away from my rear wheel.

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Speaker 9: Ben Byra and Luke Fetzer are competitive riders and we're

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Speaker 9: out training for a race happening the following day. They

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Speaker 9: say the drivers in the BMW any black.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's one way to make you pedal fast, you know.

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Speaker 1: Randy, I always contend that when people say exercise never

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Speaker 1: killed anyone, they're liars.

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Speaker 9: They say the drivers in the BMW any black and

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Speaker 9: red Corvette got aggressive with them, yelling homophobic slurs for

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Speaker 9: no reason.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think there was a reason they were pissed.

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Speaker 1: They have awful impulse control.

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Speaker 11: We're just riding single file. Ben is behind me, I'm

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Speaker 11: in front of him, and.

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Speaker 2: They're in a designated bike lane, So it's not like

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Speaker 2: they're in front of the car and slowing them down.

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Speaker 3: No, these just seem like people who are a holes.

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Speaker 11: He comes up to us and starts laying on the horn.

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Speaker 11: His buddy yells out the side window.

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Speaker 9: To get the drivers to back off. Luke says he

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Speaker 9: squirted some water from his bottle towards the cars and

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Speaker 9: that's when things escalated.

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Speaker 2: Uh oh, yeah, you probably shouldn't have done that. Don't

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Speaker 2: pulk the bear.

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Speaker 11: Call us slurs and me spraying some water on his

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Speaker 11: car was in retaliation to that.

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Speaker 9: In the video, which has more than eight million views

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Speaker 9: on Instagram, we see items being thrown out.

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Speaker 2: I don't care how offended you are. Don't escalate any

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Speaker 2: situation that you do not have to. You never know

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Speaker 2: if the person who's in the lane next to you

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Speaker 2: has a screw loose or is packing heat.

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Speaker 9: In the video, which has more than eight million views

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Speaker 9: on Instagram, we see items being thrown out the window

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Speaker 9: of the BMW towards the riders, including a plastic water bottle.

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Speaker 9: As the car flies past them, things get even more sheated.

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Speaker 10: Next a couple lights down, they've like all got out

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Speaker 10: of their cars trying to like, I don't know, tackle

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Speaker 10: us or hit us?

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Speaker 3: On what point do you start going the other direction?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'd pedal right to the police station.

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Speaker 10: I don't know tackle us or hit us. I don't

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Speaker 10: know what their plan was. We're going like thirty forty

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Speaker 10: miles an hour downhill, so if they did touch us,

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Speaker 10: it wouldn't have been good for anyone.

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Speaker 9: An incident report was taken by Newport Beach Police, but

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Speaker 9: so far no active investigation is underway. Luke's attorney, who

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Speaker 9: is a cyclist himself, says this is one example of

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Speaker 9: the dangerous roads for riders.

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Speaker 12: What's scary to us is we've seen a real rise

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Speaker 12: in intentional aggression towards cyclists. The unfortunate thing here is

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Speaker 12: these cyclists were actually where they were supposed to be.

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Speaker 10: We were in the bike lanes, so like, I really

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Speaker 10: don't see what we were doing wrong.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes drivers be angry.

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Speaker 9: Thankfully nobody was injured in this road rage incident, but

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Speaker 9: the riders want the drivers to be held accountable for

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Speaker 9: their actions. We're putting live in when a park Carlos

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Speaker 9: Elsevio kat Telly five years.

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Speaker 3: So there you go. That's what happened in Newport Beach.

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Speaker 2: A couple of bicyclists almost got run off the road

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Speaker 2: in any situation where they probably not that they were

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Speaker 2: the aggressors here to begin with, but when they got

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Speaker 2: yelled at and they got honked at, not a great

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Speaker 2: idea to start squirting your water bottle at them.

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Speaker 1: No, imagine, wake it up on a Saturday, the weather

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Speaker 1: is beautiful, You decide you're going to go out and

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Speaker 1: get some exercise, ride your bike, and you almost get

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Speaker 1: killed and people in a car shouting homophobic slurs at you.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that guy got home and said, if I'm

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Speaker 1: going to wake up and go out in the sunshine

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Speaker 1: and have a bunch of people scream homophobic slurs at me,

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Speaker 1: I might as well well play left field for the

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Speaker 1: opposing team in Finway Parky