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page. The following is a pre-recorded program. Junk fees are part of life. And I hate them. You

hate junk fees.

And they have now become ubiquitous.

I mean, in some cases, completely insane.

You buy a ticket to a concert.

And let's say, it cost you $100.

Well, you're really paying $140 because all the junk fees involved.

You go and travel on an airline. You've got the junk fees.

You want to sit. For example, you want to reserve your seat. There's a fee. You have a bag or two.

There's a fee. You want to pre-board. There's a fee. You want an exit row. There's a fee. So when you

see these fees, what does that mean? It means this is the base price and then you get to pay extra.

How about going to a hotel? Hotels now charge more junk fees and you can imagine never used to resort fees now during

COVID I actually had to go to a hotel for business and man it was weird they didn't clean the

room everything was sanitized the restaurant wasn't open Certainly the swimming pool was closed down. They had a sauna. They had the resort part of it. Everything shut down. So I walk in and I'm booking, paying for my room. And there it is resort fee. I'm going, what are you talking about?

It's all shut down.

No, that's our price.

And when you look at a hotel, you get the base price.

And all the fees and taxes and all the extra costs are tacked on top of that.

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