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The John Batchelor Show

#PACIFICWATCH: #VEGASREPORT: BRAD PITT AND STEVE MCQUEEN IN VEGAS. @JCBLISS

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#PACIFICWATCH: #VEGASREPORT:  BRAD PITT AND STEVE MCQUEEN IN VEGAS. @JCBLISS
1910 CLARK COUNTY NEVADA

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0:00.0

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

0:06.9

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you

0:13.8

to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon.

0:21.2

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0:23.5

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0:26.3

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0:34.7

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:38.3

Here's John Batchelor.

0:41.9

This is CBSI on the world.

0:44.3

I'm John Batchel.

0:45.4

Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch.

0:47.5

Much to attend.

0:48.6

Las Vegas report.

0:49.9

Jeff, for months now, you've been identifying something that is called collectively nickel and

0:55.9

diming. Something in Vegas made a decision to raise prices on everything, including glasses of water.

1:03.9

We don't know why, and you picked up on it early, because it wasn't uniform. It was also downtown.

1:09.9

Recover for me, Jeff. What we know about nickel and dimming? What is it?

1:14.0

And what's happened to Vegas's foot traffic because of it. Good evening to you.

1:18.9

Good evening, John. The idea of nickel and diming is to just kind of squeeze every penny

1:24.1

they can out of every opportunity. So for people staying at the hotels that are connected to these casinos, that means

1:30.8

getting to pay for parking or exorbitant valet fees, getting them to pay for resort

1:36.0

fees, which cover a host of things.

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