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Speaker 2: John, this is a very creative, yet very weird audience.

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Speaker 2: But sometimes when you hear a drop over and over

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Speaker 1: Request fulfilled, don't forget On tomorrow's show, I guess we

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Speaker 1: now have a time nailed down. Spencer Pratt is going

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Speaker 1: Which means Spencer Pratt could be the next mayor of

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Speaker 2: Which means you're going to be in the studio. That's right,

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Speaker 1: Well, I think tomorrow's the big anniversary over at El Coyote.

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Speaker 2: You never know, turning ninety five this week, but they

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Speaker 1: Pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program, who

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Speaker 1: is the host of the Evil Thoughts podcast. You can

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Speaker 1: get him online at joekrummy dot com and follow him

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Speaker 1: on x at Joe Crummy Joe Crummy, How are you, sir?

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Speaker 3: I am shocked. Are you telling me that Nithra Raman

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Speaker 1: It's a shock to the system, isn't it that she's

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Speaker 3: I'm looking at the numbers on her. The numbers that

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine if he makes that November ballot with

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Speaker 3: I look this up today too. How many permits issued

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Speaker 1: What would you do if you're if you lived in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're exactly right. And he's good. He's a

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Speaker 3: You know, the year that we had the bond issue

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Speaker 3: I get. If you can spin that, you're pretty good.

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Speaker 3: If you can spin the homeless thing, you're pretty good.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's everywhere where I am in District four

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Speaker 3: That's just the whole state's turned into that. So if

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Speaker 3: And you know, the same thing with the governor's race.

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Speaker 1: Why do you think so many people who live here

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, the one thing we haven't talked

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Speaker 3: And so you know, we've got to talk about that too.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not putting down the cops. You and I

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Speaker 3: You don't seem you know, they used to see too

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is

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Speaker 1: two two two. Spencer Pratt on the program tomorrow at

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Speaker 1: twelve thirty. I saw a tweet earlier today from Rick

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Speaker 1: Caruso who was referencing the increase in fees for right

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Speaker 2: You know what, Sometimes that's true if you're flying Spirit.

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Speaker 2: At least when I fly to and from when I

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Speaker 2: That Uber ride from my house in the valley to Lax,

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Speaker 1: That's insane. Yep, And the price just went up for more.

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Speaker 2: On Lax, authorizing a fee increase not just for ride

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Speaker 2: share but for taxis and limos and everything else. Here

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Speaker 3: Nowadays ride share riders get ready to pay.

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Speaker 4: A lot more to get to the airport.

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Speaker 6: Big changes are coming to drop off and pick up

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Speaker 2: This is way too much hype music. Guys, you got

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Speaker 2: to tone it down. It's got to be sweeps.

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Speaker 6: Drop off and pick up fees for Uber and Lyft.

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Speaker 6: LA Live News tonight. I'm Marlon Teas, thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 6: I'm Christine Devine. Today the Board of Airport Commission has

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Speaker 6: approved new fees for Uber and Lyft rides. They apply

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Speaker 7: So what's behind this price hike?

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Speaker 1: Let's go to greed. Well, when you're a corrupt city.

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Speaker 1: You need more money to pay off all the graft. Well,

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Speaker 1: and let's not forget the Lax line. Sure they're going

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Speaker 1: to tell you that this is all about wanting you

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no. This is what they've been

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Speaker 2: going after ride share since it was invented, because they

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Speaker 2: leg to park at that airport. Yes, and they.

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Speaker 1: Also want you on their murder trains, but.

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Speaker 2: The murder trains don't even go to the airport.

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Speaker 1: No, they want you to take the murder train to

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Speaker 6: Fox limbs at Lasko, SA at LAX with.

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Speaker 5: It's really all about controlling the traffic congestion, easing that

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Speaker 5: congestion as it moves around the horseshoe, the upper level,

436
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Speaker 5: the lower level of LAX and all the terminals. And

437
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Speaker 5: we're talking about new fee increases here right across the

438
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Speaker 5: line for ride share services, whether it's Uber lift taxis limbos,

439
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Speaker 5: all affected paying more, which means you'll be paying more.

440
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Speaker 5: The cost always passed on to the traveler, the passenger Joe,

441
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Speaker 5: take us right into the story, will you. This is

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Speaker 5: the main ride sharing lot here, right off the terminals themselves,

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Speaker 5: real busy.

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Speaker 2: Eddie's at the LA Exit lot, which is one of

445
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Speaker 2: the dumbest ideas of all time.

446
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Speaker 1: They find ways to make traveling more uncomfortable, and they

447
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 1: just have an endless supply of bad ideas, and they

448
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,160
Speaker 1: don't actually believe in that it's supposed to solve congestion.

449
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Speaker 2: Because here's what happens. They decided to make an exception

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Speaker 2: for black. So most people say, scrut to the lax

451
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 2: A lot and pay through the nose for black pickup.

452
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Speaker 1: Because that's what you have to do to make your flights,

453
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Speaker 1: especially with TSA melting down.

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Speaker 4: On this Tuesday night.

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Speaker 5: And as way it goes, with these new fees, you'll

456
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Speaker 5: be paying two dollars more to get picked up here

457
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Speaker 5: dropped off here by a ride share of service. All

458
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Speaker 5: of that starts in thirty days, so it'll go from

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Speaker 5: the four dollar fee now up to a six dollar fee.

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Speaker 2: That's right. The fees are being enacted, and again they're

461
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Speaker 2: saying they need to do this to encourage people to

462
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Speaker 2: ride the people mover. People Mover doesn't exist.

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Speaker 1: Yet nope, and given what the state of California did

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Speaker 1: with the bullet train, who knows, maybe it'll never exist.

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Speaker 5: Again starting in thirty days, so you have a little

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Speaker 5: time to prepare for that and even the more expensive

467
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Speaker 5: fee increase coming. If you go curbside to the video

468
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Speaker 5: we go, we'll get the other side of the story there.

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Speaker 5: It is the Lax terminals and that fame traffic the

470
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Speaker 5: main congestion moving through and it really hasn't even hit

471
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Speaker 5: like a busy Friday night with all the red eyes

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Speaker 5: getting through here, so you can you know, for all.

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Speaker 2: The international visitors coming here, from the beginning to the

474
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Speaker 2: end of their experience, it's going to be what the

475
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 2: hell is wrong with Los Angeles, Because you go to

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Speaker 2: any other major airport, including you know, as awful as

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Speaker 2: Hartsfield Jackson is in Atlanta, no airport is as badly

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Speaker 2: managed and badly run and filthy as Lax.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they know what's coming. When the world

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Speaker 1: comes here for the Olympics, people are going to be

481
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Speaker 1: shocked at the condition of this city, and the articles

482
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Speaker 1: that are going to be written in newspapers all over

483
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Speaker 1: the globe are going to be brutal.

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Speaker 5: Friday night with all the red eyes getting through here,

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Speaker 5: so you can just imagine the traffic going through in

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Speaker 5: any event, though we're talking about these new fees. If

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Speaker 5: it goes curbside, you want to get picked up dropped

488
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Speaker 5: off there by your ride sharing service. You're talking about

489
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Speaker 5: an increase from five dollars now up to twelve dollars

490
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Speaker 5: that is coming.

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Speaker 2: That is criminal. In any other context, that would be

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Speaker 2: regarded as price gouging. And this is the same government

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Speaker 2: that says they like to go after price gouging unless

494
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Speaker 2: they're the ones that are doing it. And sure the

495
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Speaker 2: mayor and the city council will say, well, this is

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Speaker 2: just the Los Angeles World Airport border commissioners. Yeah, but

497
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Speaker 2: who appoints them?

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Speaker 1: This is what they always do. They always have some

499
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Speaker 1: appointed border commission do their dirty work, and then when

500
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: you go nuts, they go, well, that wasn't me, that

501
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 1: was an independent border commission, So don't blame me, even

502
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 1: though they're the ones responsible for appointing them, and they

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Speaker 1: give them the direction to take.

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Speaker 5: That is coming soon, probably sometime later this summer when

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Speaker 5: that goes into effect. Talking to the travelers, the passengers tonight,

506
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 5: oh they don't like it because they know they're the

507
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 5: ones who are gonna have to be putting the bill

508
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 5: with this higher fee. And then you talk to the

509
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 5: ride chair drivers themselves uber lyft drivers. They are frustrated,

510
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,360
Speaker 5: telling me they're barely hanging on the way it is now,

511
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 5: worried that these new fees will even cut into their service,

512
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Speaker 5: cut into their bottom line even more.

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Speaker 4: And wow, they're just downright frustrated.

514
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Speaker 8: Listen, I can tell you one hundred thousands of people

515
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 8: driving for uber Leaf and people like me are sacrificing

516
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 8: losing my house. I can't make it.

517
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Speaker 2: And then this new in oh boy, well, and you

518
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 2: know that the passengers are going to be nasty when

519
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 2: they get in the back of the car because they're

520
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 2: gonna look at this fee and they're gonna be furious,

521
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 2: but they can't take it out on Karen Bath, so

522
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 2: they're gonna take it out on the driver.

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Speaker 4: And then this new increase really hurts more.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it is, it is, it is, and it's

525
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Speaker 8: very sad. But we don't charge them. They charge. We

526
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Speaker 8: are not access to charge passengers. They charge uber if

527
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 8: they charge the charge them.

528
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Speaker 2: So this could it's gonna be really hard if you're

529
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 2: making your living as a rideshare driver because your earnings

530
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 2: just have gone down every single year. Do you remember

531
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Speaker 2: when these services first came out, The whole attractive thing

532
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,199
Speaker 2: about it over a taxi was, Hey, we're paying our

533
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 2: guys directly, so you don't have to tip them. And

534
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 2: now as soon as you get in the car, the

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00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 2: first thing it says, before the ride has even started

536
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 2: is hey, are you tipping them twenty percent or twenty

537
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 2: five percent?

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Speaker 4: So this could be the end of you're driving. Maybe huh.

539
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 8: Well, I'm looking for different jobs, but I can't find them.

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Speaker 2: This is very sad. Hey, man, everything then squeeze squeeze

541
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 2: like lemon squeeze, you drive, you throw you away. Yeah,

542
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 2: I am feeling pretty squeezed, you know.

543
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 4: But he doesn't apply to the drivers, right, They do

544
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 4: whatever they want. They just take the money.

545
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:54,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't apply to us anyway.

546
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Speaker 7: The whole time we were like just walking over here

547
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,879
Speaker 7: from the terminal, we were watching the process go like

548
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 7: already and forty dollars just before we even booked our uber.

549
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Speaker 2: And then now again, there is a real when when

550
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 2: people from other parts of the country come to Los Angeles,

551
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 2: there is such a massive sticker shock for everything.

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00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 1: Again, this is where the regional airports are so much

553
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: better than LAX. You can get an uber from one

554
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Speaker 1: of those regional airports. It's probably closer to your house

555
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: than LAX, unless you live in the Westchester area or

556
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: I guess the South Bay and they don't kill you

557
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: with the fees like they do with LAX.

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Speaker 2: I'm probably even though there's more traffic, it's about the

559
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 2: same distance from my house to get to LAX as

560
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Speaker 2: opposed to getting to Burbank Airport. There's just a mountain

561
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Speaker 2: range in the way, but it is a one hundred

562
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Speaker 2: and fifty to two hundred dollars uber ride compared to

563
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Speaker 2: a seventy dollars uber ride.

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Speaker 1: I was about the same distance when I lived in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles from Burbank Airport as I was to LAX.

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Speaker 1: And whenever I was given the option, I took Burbank

567
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Speaker 1: ten times out of ten and I didn't even care

568
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: if I had to change flights because flying out of

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Speaker 1: Burbank was so much easier.

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Speaker 4: And then now again, thirty days is.

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Speaker 2: How many times was that flight delayed? Well, I fly

572
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:25,239
Speaker 2: American so pretty often. Yeah, as bad as LAX is

573
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Speaker 2: I if I can get a direct, I take a direct.

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Speaker 2: I don't mess around with having to change planes.

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00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: Oh I change planes. I don't even care. I have

576
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: a membership to the Admirals Club, So if it's delayed

577
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Speaker 1: for a long time, I just get drunker.

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Speaker 4: And then now again, thirty days is going to be

579
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Speaker 4: two bucks more just to come.

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Speaker 7: Here to the long that's outrageous. They shouldn't do that

581
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Speaker 7: to people.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you got to pay it, I know, I know.

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Speaker 7: I mean it would really help their tourism if they

584
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Speaker 7: wouldn't do that.

585
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 2: You know, she's going to go back to South Carolina

586
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 2: or wherever the hell she's from and tell all of

587
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 2: her friends what a rip off LA was. And that's

588
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 2: just getting get into the airport, I know. Now.

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Speaker 5: Uber out tonight criticizing the fair increases check it, saying, quote,

590
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Speaker 5: raising the LAX ride share fees would punish travelers, working families,

591
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Speaker 5: and seniors who depend on affordable and reliable transportation.

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Speaker 2: Well, Uber and Lyft haven't been affordable in many years,

593
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Speaker 2: so let's just stop it right there.

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Speaker 1: Well, and you're essentially forced to use Uber lyft if

595
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: you're flying in and out of LAX because the parking

596
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: is so insanely expensive, and because no one wants to

597
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 1: drop you off because it's such a nightmare going through

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Speaker 1: that horseshoe.

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Speaker 2: Well, and part of the reason that horseshoe is such

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Speaker 2: a nightmare. As much as they want to blame it

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Speaker 2: on ride share, let's all remember that that traffic has

602
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Speaker 2: been bad before ride share even existed. It is because

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Speaker 2: of all of the shuttle buses from the different rental

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Speaker 2: car companies, because we still don't have a single rental

605
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 2: car facility like every other airport, from all the hotels,

606
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Speaker 2: from all of the other parking lot companies, from the

607
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 2: other LAX parking lots, and LAX there are so many

608
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 2: buses all honking at each other at all times. It's

609
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 2: impossible to get in and out of there, to get

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00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 2: your bags out and move into the terminal.

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Speaker 1: And just being there hearing the honking and seeing the

612
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Speaker 1: driver screaming at one another and cutting each other off.

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00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: I have so much anxiety. My blood pressure goes through

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Speaker 1: the roof.

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00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 5: Uber supports improving LAX, but not on the backs of

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Speaker 5: the people who keep it running.

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Speaker 4: Stop quote.

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Speaker 5: Now we're back out live and you are looking live

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Speaker 5: at another part of this story. That's the main entrance there,

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00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 5: the upper level of the Skyling trains that people Mover

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Speaker 5: as it's called.

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Speaker 2: And that doesn't exist the theoretical people Mover and broke

623
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Speaker 2: ground in twenty nineteen. It was supposed to be completed

624
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, John, what year is it. It's

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 5: And that new increase if you're dropped off curbside from

627
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Speaker 5: five to twelve dollars, that goes into effect once that

628
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 5: people Mover is up and running. Your guess is as

629
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 5: good is mine. You know, it's already been delayed a

630
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 5: couple of times. They're saying maybe sometime later this year,

631
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Speaker 5: sometime this summer, the people Mover might be up and running.

632
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 5: So when that is going, then that new fee increased

633
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 5: to be dropped off curb side goes into effect as well.

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Speaker 2: So, and apparently one of the reasons, outside of like

635
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Speaker 2: actual construction, one of the things that's holding up the

636
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 2: finishing of the People Mover is all of the contracts

637
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 2: that LAX has with all of these bus unions. Well,

638
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 2: if they can't increase the fees until the People Mover

639
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Speaker 2: is operational, then maybe we'll never have to pay that tax.

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00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 5: So when that is going then that new fee increased

641
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 5: to be dropped off curbside goes into effect as well.

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00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 4: So in any event, all of this is playing off.

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00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 5: But again it's really late a way of, as the

644
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 5: airport commissioners say, controlling all of the traffic going in here.

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00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 4: Quick question for you, ladies, I learned this today.

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Speaker 5: What do you think on an average day, just one

647
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 5: day alone, how many vehicles do you think go through here?

648
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 4: Lax? One day alone? Take a guess, wild guess ooh

649
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 4: seventy five thousand?

650
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 5: Yes, nah, now up higher higher, one more higher, a

651
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 5: little higher, one hundred and twenty.

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00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 2: Hey, it's a little game show here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Ed could host the prices right, Nah, a little lower.

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Speaker 4: I feel like Bob Barker here in the press.

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Speaker 2: Ed should be a game show host, and honestly, he

656
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 2: could do anything. He is a utility man because he

657
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 2: does his crime stories. He could definitely do play by

658
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 2: play and he could also do game shows.

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Speaker 4: Nah, a little lower. I feel like Bob Barker here

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Speaker 4: in the press.

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Speaker 6: Right on hundred, No.

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Speaker 5: No, a hundred you got it. Yes, yes, that's exactly

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00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 5: what the airport commissioners were saying. On any given day,

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Speaker 5: one hundred thousand vehicles moving through here and they say

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Speaker 5: it's just too much. The airport, this infrastructure here can

666
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Speaker 5: handle it.

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Speaker 2: So it's all because it is and from the beginning

668
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 2: a terrible idea for an airport to be in a

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Speaker 2: place where you cannot expand it. DFW is practically in

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00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 2: its own city. It's such a massive airport, and even

671
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 2: though it serves about as many people as LAX, it's

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00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 2: pretty simple to get in and out of there, and

673
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 2: from terminal to terminal. LAX was poorly designed from the beginning,

674
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 2: like everything else here, So it's all.

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Speaker 5: A way of moving people more into the transportation, that

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00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 5: skyling train once it's up and going, and of course

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00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,439
Speaker 5: they're trying to get ready for the big World Cup

678
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Speaker 5: and all the travelers it'll be coming here this summer,

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00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,280
Speaker 5: so a lot playing out here at LAX tonight.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and let's focus on that part for just a

681
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 6: second because obviously the higher fees, that's definitely an ouch

682
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 6: for everybody. But the whole idea is to ease that

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Speaker 6: congestion that we know is a part of LAX.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's not going to ease the congestion because

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00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 2: people are not going to be taking Metro, even if

686
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 2: the people mover is completed. The vast majority of the

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00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 2: residents of California, if southern California, in the city of

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00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,760
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, live in the valley, and there's no real

689
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 2: way to get from the valley to that airport. Did

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00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 2: I ever tell about the time my dad was supposed

691
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Speaker 2: to go to a business meeting in Puerto Rico and

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00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 2: he was being dropped off at lax and his wife

693
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 2: was pulling into the horseshoe and it was just backed

694
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 2: up till Kingdom come and he told her to just

695
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 2: turn the car around and go right back to Orange County.

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00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 2: He wasn't going to fool around with that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that is a very very big concern because we

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Speaker 5: see it on those busy nights, holidays, but even summertime

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Speaker 5: when you're coming up and as somebody was saying tonight,

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Speaker 5: you know, spring break is coming up too.

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Speaker 4: In a couple of weeks, it's going to get very busy.

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00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 5: But you as sometimes as you're trying to move through here,

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00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 5: just trying to get into let's say the upper level

704
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 5: or even the lower level, you might wait sometimes forty

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Speaker 5: five minutes for an hour. I know that sounds crazy,

706
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Speaker 5: but that's how heavy that traffic is with the three

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Speaker 5: four lanes, just jam bumper to bumper, and then everybody

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00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 5: trying to move closer to the pickups on the curb side.

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Speaker 2: And let's not forget one of the reasons that there's

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00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 2: so much congestion at LAX is because LAX has been

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00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 2: perpetually under construction for my entire life.

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00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,359
Speaker 1: I always say it it's like the set of Murphy Brown.

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00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 5: And then you add all the ride share you know,

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00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 5: folks that are coming in. So yes, it's a tremendous congestion.

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Speaker 5: They really want to ease that. They're really banking a lot,

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00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 5: as we've been reporting on over and over again, that

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00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 5: people move her once it's up and going, but there's

718
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 5: been a lot of frustration with that, delays with that,

719
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 5: so they're hoping this summer it'll be going and that's

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Speaker 5: when new fees increase and all of this. Though, it's

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00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 5: got that tight deadline, ladies, because think about it, what's

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Speaker 5: like three months away and we're into the World Cup

723
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Speaker 5: coming here, so boy, it is a tight deadline.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean we're eighty something days away now, I think,

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00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 6: or ninety something yeah, days away until the World Cup,

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00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 6: and we need to get you.

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Speaker 2: How great would it be? By the way, and this

728
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 2: is a long shot, but Karen Bass, who won't stop

729
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 2: talking about the world coming for the World Cup? How

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00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 2: great would it be if she gets knocked out in

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Speaker 2: the primary before that happens. It could happen, and.

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Speaker 7: We need to get you one of those little skinny microphones.

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Speaker 5: Call you, Ed Barker, Nah, Yes, like the great, the

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Speaker 5: legendary Bob Barker.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, rest his soul? All right, good, thank you, Ed.

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Speaker 2: So that's the latest of what's going on at lax.

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00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 2: The fees are getting hiked immediately if you in thirty

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00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 2: days have you used the laxit lot, if you get

739
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 2: dropped off curbside. Those fee increases don't take effect until

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00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 2: the people mover is officially open, which is supposed to happen.

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Speaker 1: Who knows John's advice? Fly Out Ontario eight hundred two

742
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Speaker 1: two two five two two two is telephone number. What

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00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: eight hundred two two two five two two two. If

744
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: you'd like to email the show, you can do so

745
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: at Johnny Don't like show at gmail dot com. That's

746
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 1: Johnny Don't like show at gmail dot com. And Randy

747
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: you're monitoring the mail bag.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is really cool, Allison writes in at Johnny

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00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 2: don't like show at gmail dot com. I heard the

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Speaker 2: Saturday show while I was in Ventura County. Hey, John

751
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 2: and Randy, you're right that five eighty am signal is strong.

752
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 2: I was in Westlake Village at noon and continue to

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00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 2: see me Valley listening all the way. While the reception

754
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 2: wasn't as great as seven ninety, I could hear it

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00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 2: well enough to know that you had that Daily Show

756
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 2: spoof on Gavin Newsom. I went home and watched it

757
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 2: again on YouTube. That's great. So that five eighty signal

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Speaker 2: Saturday at noon goes all the way down to Ventura County.

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Speaker 2: That is a flamethrower for sure. All Right,