Hello and welcome to another episode of the AdLots podcast, I'm Jill Weisenthal.

And I'm Tracy Alloway.

Tracy by this point I think any AdLots listener, really anyone in the world, is totally familiar

with the supply chain disruptions in the bottlenecks, particularly at the ports and particularly

at the port of Los Angeles?

Wait, there's supply chain disruptions.

Have you not heard about that?

I haven't.

I haven't spent hours of my life this year talking about supply chain disruptions.

Um, no, you're absolutely correct.

There are all sorts of superlatives that you could throw around, but we know that there

are dozens and dozens of ships, for instance, waiting off the coast of the port of LA trying

to dock.

But this has become a big, big issue for the Biden administration as well.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, obviously bottlenecks perhaps contribute to inflation.

It creates anxiety around the holidays because people worry about gifts getting shipped.

And of course, you know, it's not great for the economy overall.

So we have a very special guest today and I want to jump right into our episode to discuss

it.

Thank you to John Percari.

He's a former deputy secretary of transportation during the Obama administration and he has

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