From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

The Armstrong and Gettyshow.

I could summarize this rental car story with if you're thinking of renting a car in August, book now, no, or just take public transit or over or borrow a car or buy a car or something, it's trending over $100 a day rental car fees for August.

And that's not for, you know, I'm renting a land rover or something like that.

That's just for your average kind of semi-dumpy mid-sized rental car.

Well, a lot of people are going to be shocked, I know I would be because you don't really factor that into like the major expense of your trip, usually I don't anyway.

Oh, yeah, they give plenty of examples here of people who are spending more for their rental car for two days than the flight that got wow, which is shocking.

And maybe maybe take mass transit, you know, maybe just you decide, okay, I'm going to take an Uber and then jump on the local rate light rail thing.

Yeah, I'm doing a little vacation travel and I've just I've done the math and I'm just going to Uber everywhere I go.

It'll be a lot less expensive than a rental car.

Heck yeah, yeah, but then you're not parking or anything.

If you didn't follow this during the pandemic, the rental car companies, many of them sold off their fleets.

That was the only revenue they had.

So they figured, well, we got to keep the doors open.

We got to keep the motor running.

So to speak, so we're going to sell off a bunch of our cars because we don't need them.

Little did they know that when the economy and traveled bounce back, it would be nearly impossible to find vehicles for reasonable amounts of money for the reasons of the chip shortage and supply interruptions and the rest of it.

So it's kind of a double triple whammy that's led us to this point, but rental cars brutal.

Keep it in mind.

So the world's strongest man competition is going on in Sacramento, California.

It ends on the 20th Father's Day.

I wish I had tickets and could go, but it's a limited crowd because of COVID.

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