EADLINE: Vegas Innovation vs. Hollywood Decline: The Boring Company and The Sphere GUEST NAME: Jeff Bliss SUMMARY: Jeff Bliss reports on The Boring Company improving Las Vegas tourism access, while hotels struggle with high costs (MGM, Sphere). He contras
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🗓️ 20 September 2025
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HEADLINE: Vegas Innovation vs. Hollywood Decline: The Boring Company and The Sphere
GUEST NAME: Jeff Bliss
SUMMARY: Jeff Bliss reports on The Boring Company improving Las Vegas tourism access, while hotels struggle with high costs (MGM, Sphere). He contrasts this with the worsening crisis of homelessness on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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| 0:28.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:30.1 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:34.0 | This is CBSI on the world. Jeff Bliss' Pacific Watch, |
| 0:35.9 | Vegas Report. |
| 0:36.8 | We go immediately to the boring company at the Harry Reid Airport. Jeff Bliss, his Pacific Watch, Vegas report. We go immediately to the boring company at the |
| 0:39.4 | Harry Reid Airport. Jeff, it's good to have you from San Diego, but what is the boring company? |
| 0:45.2 | I've forgotten the details. Good evening to you. Good evening, John. The boring company isn't boring as in |
| 0:50.9 | ho-hum boring. It's boring as in boring tunnels through the ground through |
| 0:55.9 | earth, and it's owned by Elon Musk and his companies. And they've been using this giant drill |
| 1:03.5 | to create tunneling around Vegas, actually under Vegas. And so what they do is they tunnel in |
| 1:10.1 | various places that can get you around Vegas very quickly. And so what they do is they tunnel in various places that can get you around |
| 1:12.7 | Vegas very quickly. And in these tunnels run, you know, automated cars, you know, their cars |
| 1:20.7 | from Tesla. And they can get you across town in a matter of minutes as opposed to sometimes a half |
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