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#PACIFICWATCH: RICK CARUSO WALL TO WALL WELL; LA HOMELESS WORSENS; PACIFIC PALISADES AND EATON WITHOUT A PLAN. OLYMPIC TRAIN WRECK. #VEGASREPORT: @JCBLISS

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#PACIFICWATCH: RICK CARUSO WALL TO WALL WELL; LA HOMELESS WORSENS; PACIFIC PALISADES AND EATON WITHOUT A PLAN. OLYMPIC TRAIN WRECK. #VEGASREPORT: @JCBLISS
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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.8

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

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0:25.6

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0:28.7

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0:32.0

This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

0:34.9

I'm John Batson, Jeff Bliss, his Pacific watch.

0:38.4

There's good news on Las Vegas, and we always like to do good news,

0:46.9

but suddenly we had a group of stories piling up that can't be ignored because visitors are very sensitive to this. I note that convention traffic is up while the traffic for ordinary people arriving is down

0:56.1

and a colleague of mine has a metric where

0:58.7

he always judges how Vegas is doing on the basis of how long

1:03.0

it takes for a cab to come and fetch him when he hits the

1:05.6

curb at the airport

1:06.7

and the last time he was there cab was within within moments. So he goes, this isn't good. And then the

1:14.8

next one is how long it takes to check in because everything is my robot now. You don't actually

1:20.0

have to stand in line for a human being. Yeah, my wife just had a big business conference there,

1:26.2

big annual convention, international convention, and everything was done keyless.

1:32.5

You know, she could just register online, get her key on her phone.

1:38.0

You know, if she's going to order something, she can do it via the phone, check out via the phone.

1:41.7

And, yeah, you're seeing fewer and fewer people. But to get back to,

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