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Speaker 1: Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: So much to talk about today, I don't even know.

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Speaker 3: Hey, wait, where were you Gandhi when you were basically

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Speaker 3: kidnapped by a cab driver A taxi driver.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. It was when I landed here at

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Speaker 1: the Columbus Airport. So on Friday, because the Memorial Day

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Speaker 1: weekend holiday was huge and everyone wants to travel. I

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Speaker 1: have never seen the airport as crowded as it was

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Speaker 1: on Friday. So the line to catch the shuttle bus

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Speaker 1: to the rental car facility was hours long. I mean,

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Speaker 1: people were falling asleep. It was chaos.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Across from that was a taxi stand. So I was like, hmm,

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Speaker 1: I wonder if I ask one of the cab drivers

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Speaker 1: if he will give me a ride to the rental

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Speaker 1: car place and I'll pay him, you know, like twenty

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Speaker 1: five bucks because it's half a mile. Will that work?

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Speaker 1: So they have people who kind of dispatch the taxis.

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Speaker 1: I asked that person. That person said, yeah, no problem,

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Speaker 1: they do it all the time. Hop on in. I

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Speaker 1: hop in. As soon as I'm in and the door

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Speaker 1: is shut and we start moving, the cab driver shuts off.

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Speaker 1: The meter and says forty five dollars. I was like,

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Speaker 1: what what absolutely not. I said, oh, no, you can

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Speaker 1: just let me out. That's okay. Because I didn't want

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Speaker 1: to haggle with him. I didn't want to argue. I said,

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Speaker 1: that's fine, just let me out. He wouldn't let me out.

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Speaker 1: There were three different places where I could have gotten

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Speaker 1: out safely. He would not stop. He passed the rental

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Speaker 1: car company and goes to the highway. So now I'm

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Speaker 1: getting very nervous. I started recording it on my phone

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Speaker 1: and I was like, oh.

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Speaker 3: My god, Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So he pulls over on the side of the highway

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Speaker 1: and goes get out. I said, what you want me

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Speaker 1: to get out on the side of the highway, He said,

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Speaker 1: I told you forty five dollars. If you're not going

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Speaker 1: to pay me forty five dollars, get out of my car.

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Speaker 1: So you're not getting anything at this point. But what

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Speaker 1: you are doing is very unsafe. I'm going to call

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Speaker 1: the police because I'm not sure what else to do.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to stand on the side of the

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Speaker 1: freaking highway. This is crazy. It's dangerous for you, it's

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Speaker 1: dangerous for me. This is a bad idea. This is

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Speaker 1: not good. He finally turns around and goes back to

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Speaker 1: the rental car place. And as I'm getting out of

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Speaker 1: the car. Now, once we got there, I got a

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Speaker 1: little more bold because I was really angry at that point.

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Speaker 1: So now we're yelling at it. We were yelling at

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Speaker 1: each other. He was telling me I'm a bad person.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to hell, I'm the worst. But that's crazy, right,

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Speaker 1: that is kidnap. He took me away from the place,

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Speaker 1: and I was trying to doubt, okay, without doubt. So

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Speaker 1: what do you do in that situation? Like what it was?

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Speaker 3: What did you do? You got out safely, then this

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Speaker 3: is the good news. But what did you do to

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Speaker 3: follow up on this thing?

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Speaker 1: So? I got his phone number, I got his license plate,

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Speaker 1: I got his name and the name of the company.

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Speaker 1: The company doesn't seem to care or want to do

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Speaker 1: anything about it. It's like a family owned type of

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Speaker 1: thing where you call, you get the voicemail, nobody calls

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Speaker 1: you back. I left a Google review about it. A

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Speaker 1: couple of people were saying I should tell the police

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Speaker 1: what happened because that's super dangerous. But I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to escalate it to

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Speaker 1: that level. I'm not sure what to do. But it

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Speaker 1: was definitely scary and crazy, and I'm pretty sure that's illegal.

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Speaker 1: You can't just shut off your meter and then tell

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Speaker 1: somebody a different price than the initial quote right when

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Speaker 1: they're in your car.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, look there's a disagreement over the price, obviously

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Speaker 3: I get that. Yeah, but you don't just drive and

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Speaker 3: not let someone out dump them on the highway.

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Speaker 1: Yes, there were three places, like if you know this airport,

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Speaker 1: there's a hotel, there's a McDonald's, and then there's a

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Speaker 1: rental lot or a car like a shuttle lot, whatever

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Speaker 1: it is, on the way over there. He could have

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Speaker 1: stopped any of those places, and he didn't, and then

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Speaker 1: he passed the other place where I actually wanted to

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Speaker 1: go and was trying to extort me for the forty

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Speaker 1: five dollars. Now, my sister says, I'm an idiot and

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Speaker 1: I should have just paid the forty five dollars and

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Speaker 1: gotten out, but I was so mad. I maybe I

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Speaker 1: should have in retrospect, but it was just so crazy

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Speaker 1: to me, and I did record it, so I have

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Speaker 1: his face. I have all of it. I just don't

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Speaker 3: Wow, all right, Well, I'm glad you're safe. But I

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Speaker 3: would say if any of us or anyone listening was

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Speaker 3: in that same situation, I can see how it would

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Speaker 3: be like, this is not happening. It's not real, right,

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Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, is there a camera on me? I mean,

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Speaker 3: this is not real right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, why aren't you stopping? Let me out here? Let

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Speaker 1: me out here. It was nuts and the fact that

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Speaker 1: he was screaming at me and being a nut about it,

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Speaker 1: then it made me, you know, very defensive too. And

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Speaker 1: it was it was just not a good situation. It

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Speaker 1: was terrible.

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Speaker 2: What what's the name of the taxi company? Do you

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Speaker 2: want to get it?

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Speaker 1: I would love to hold on one second. Let me

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Speaker 1: make sure that I don't get this wrong. It is

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Speaker 1: hold on, I have to look for she is in Columbus,

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Speaker 1: by the way, this is in Columbus. It is Oh my.

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Speaker 3: God, there's all these taxi company owners are going Please

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Speaker 3: don't say my name.

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Speaker 1: Columbus. Hold on, Yeah, yeah, sorry, I want to make

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Speaker 1: sure that I get the right one.

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Speaker 2: If you've sort of kidnapped our entire show, right.

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Speaker 1: It's just called airport Columbus, Ohio taxi. So if you

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Speaker 1: go there, you're gonna see my horrible review and then

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Speaker 1: the two numbers that you get to call them. It

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Speaker 1: was going immediately to voicemail both of them. So I

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Speaker 1: left messages at both and nobody has called me back.

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Speaker 1: And I do have all of this guy's information.

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Speaker 2: Good wow, I'm glad you called him out. Text message

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Speaker 2: is coming in.

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Speaker 3: You should absolutely call the police, someone else says, and

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Speaker 3: this is kind of an interesting way of looking at it. Uh,

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Speaker 3: maybe you should get the police involved, because what if

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Speaker 3: this had happened to like a young girl who really

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Speaker 3: couldn't figure out how to maneuver through it as smartly

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Speaker 3: as you did. It could happen to anyone And maybe,

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Speaker 3: I mean you may have said the right things or

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Speaker 3: did the right whatever, the right thing to be safe

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Speaker 3: and get out of there. Maybe someone in that same

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Speaker 3: position would not have maneuvered the same way, and it

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Speaker 3: could be a dangerous situation.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know.

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Speaker 1: They tell you, well, I just don't. I definitely don't

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Speaker 1: want it to happen to anyone else. I think it

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Speaker 1: was ridiculous, the entire thing. And you know, I was

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Speaker 1: really torn when he pulled over on the side of

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Speaker 1: the highway? Do I get out and stand here on

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Speaker 1: the side of the highway? What do I do? That's

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Speaker 1: I see a review though, you see it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, did you use foul language?

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Speaker 1: I did not. But I gave his name, I gave

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Speaker 1: the phone number, I gave the license plate, all of it.

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Speaker 3: Yep, good, good, you know, and not everyone has a

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Speaker 3: radio show where they can talk about this kind of

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Speaker 3: stuff and call people out.

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, that's right there.

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Speaker 2: You have