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Okay, BBshot.

You know, we hear that name.

All right.

It's a great name.

It's great.

It's a great name.

And and two, I was thinking like, now that's Charlie's boy that was, you know, who handled his assault on the legal system.

Just kidding.

But anyway, um he's part of a a uh suit to stop funding of the Royals Chiefs and in a backward way the Cardinals here.

Uh any chance this one finds some success?

>> The lawyers I've talked to actually think this could succeed.

This is a legal challenge that uh Beas and Eric Ve have filed on behalf of some legislators who say that the way that SB3, which would give all this money to the Kansas City sports teams and the Cardinals would also qualify for down the line.

Um that this violates the Missouri Constitution.

And there's of course the big sexy uh alleged violation which is that you can't give state money to private citizens.

I appreciate that they've raised this issue.

Let's face it, that ship has sailed.

Every state across the union loves to give away our money to billionaires.

But where they may have them is on this technical aspect of the law that a bill can only have a single subject.

Seems crazy.

Why do we care about that?

Well, it's in state law that we do care about it.

And this bill, in addition to funding stadiums, also did some stuff that had to do with property tax relief.

Those are clearly two different subjects.

Some people I'm talking to are saying this could be enough to topple this entire funding package.

And there was a third there was a third >> also it's supposed to have a very clear title and the title was just like something to do with taxes or something >> right but very vague idea >> I'm not getting that precisely right >> and and the fact the fact that it's sort of that you know we should call it the nener you know SB3 because yeah no Blues no city you're not entitled it's just the big you know just the the quarterback of the football team and the cheer you know it That I think makes it even worse.

>> They picked winners and they picked only the biggest.

>> Only the biggest.

Only the biggest.

>> Well, now no stadium bill, no tornado money possibly.

>> Well, no, those are separate parts.

>> All right.

Okay.

I It was all part >> they signed off on that tornado money like no back seats.

>> I I went, you know, you go through this.

I'm glad they found reasons.

But in the article that you had uh it to me it say be a shock a libertarian which I'm all for that basically is opposed to all these bills and anybody who's seen me on this show I am also opposed to all these bills.

So whatever reason any attorney can find to stop public financing public tax dollars going to private owners of sports teams I'm all for it.

>> Okay.

You said uh you know this stadium where every state's giving away money to billionaires.

Seems like every state or at least their airport has got Turo service.

Now, I I I didn't know what a Turo was because I said this Uber thing, ain't nobody going to do that.

So, yeah, you know, that's why I'm here and not in a skyscraper in San Francisco someplace.

So, um you know, I guess you can this is people can rent their cars.

Uh would you rent a car from a stranger in a parking lot and then drive it around?

I mean, is this a good idea?

You're young, Sarah.

And this this is also the the home city of enterprise >> and you know they are not going to look kindly on any effort to take business >> well and they have not that's kind of how we're here.

You know this has been going on subtrifugenously since 2018.

So I guess the question is not would we let other people drive our car but more would other people let us drive their cars?

And apparently lots of people are doing this and they're doing it out of the St. Louis airport.

So they now have this agreement that has just passed the airport commission and it was because people like Enterprise were saying, "Hey, these guys have they're using this prime turf.

They're not paying any of these fees that we pay."

So I think it's great to see this agreement.

It's nice to see new tech prosper even if I myself would not be willing to drive someone else's stinky car.

But it's like we'd better get some fees out of this.

>> And and Rhonda Ham Nebuggi says that it's just for a year, right?

This kind of like trial.

Yeah, just a a trial.

I don't know.

There's a Silence of the Lambs serial killer van kind of, you know, up here that I would not I would not jump in.

I'd probably find the car with all the Cheetos and chicken nuggets like under the seat.

No, thank you.

Enterprise all the way.

>> As soon as they mentioned the legacy companies, you know, that which are the old the Hertz and Enterprise, right?

>> I thought I like legacy companies.

I legacy media.

Yeah.

>> Well, I mean you but you have a you know you had a company to complain to.

Now if there's a problem with the car, I got to call Gary and go, "Hey, Gary.

It's a little shaky here when I try to start it, you know, and there doesn't seem to be any juice in the uh windshield wiper thing."

And and yeah, I I think it's I would question, you know, taking some stranger's car.

I also would have a problem renting me a car.

I mean, it's like you don't know.

But I am glad that if this is still going on that the airport's at least getting some money out of it because we can always, you know, kind of uh look uh look with uh disdain at the large companies, but they're paying the freight to be there.

>> And so the idea that some other company is out there not paying the freight, that's just not fair either.

So hope it works out.

Hope it works out.

>> Okay.

And then the city gets 10% of whatever the hall is, right?

Yeah.

>> Okay.

Now, where Enterprise and the other legacy, I guess, rental car companies is, it sounds to me like Turo is like out in the pasture someplace and but you could still catch a shuttle.

>> Well, yeah, >> but how does how does that work?

>> They're allowed to be in any of the parking garages other than that one that you can just trot over from the terminal.

They're no longer going to be allowed to be in A, but they can be in like B, C, and D. And under this agreement, they can just use the plane airport shuttles.

They don't have to have their own like the rental car companies have.

So there are some things where they're getting some decent treatment out of this, but it also kind of makes sense.

They don't need their own terminal.

It's not like Enterprise where they've had to build this whole elaborate structure.

It is more of a niche thing at this point, but you know, look what happened to Airbnb >> and and and also the the start making deals on the side.

It's sort of like Berlet's language.

You know, you start take a language course and you realize that you're paying $18 an hour and the teacher's making six.

And so producer said, "Why don't we just cut Broulets out?"

>> You know, and and and that's what these companies are going to do.

You know, you're going to talk to Gary.

>> Yeah.

>> And he's going to say, "Hey, I'll just meet you in the garage, right?

>> Yeah.

What could go wrong?

>> What could possibly go wrong?"

>> In ter since you are our youth correspondent at the youth desk, um is this going to this improve our >> image?

You know, I think if we had stopped it, which the board of alderman was trying to do at one point, I think this would have hurt our image.

It's kind of like what happened with Uber and Lyft when St. Louis was like, we are going to throw down.

We are going to stop this.

We're going to protect you.

>> And meanwhile, transplants like me who moving to the city are like, why is the taxi service here so terrible?

Like, we needed to let this technology in.

And so, it's good they found a framework where we can get our cut.

>> Okay.

And I think, you know, at the end of the day, the thing that that government keeps ignoring, but always stays true.

If the business is wellrun, it'll be fine.

If it's not, people won't use it.

They'll go back.

They'll go back to Enterprise and Herz and a you know, they'll go back and do it.

So, it's it's up to Turo to make it work and city will get some money out of it.

>> Okay.

Well, let's stay with planes, trains, and automobiles.

Bill, somebody told me a story said the hardest they had laughed at um while watching Donny Brook, this is a few years ago was when you said um how are we going to run a super speed train from here to Kansas City?

We can't run a trolley from the loop to history >> and I have forgotten about that.

I I just heard that the other day.

>> I forgotten about that.

>> That's right.

>> So anyway, the state wants to increase bus travel.

Okay.

uh throughout our state and I guess you know from here you can just go anywhere in the world or at least in the continental United States on a bus.

So uh shout out to Greyhound.

I don't think Continental Trailways is around anymore but I I had to figure it out.

I think the last time I was actually on a Greyhound bus was when I was an intern in Cincinnati and actually had gone to Washington DC and I caught the bus from Washington DC to back to Lawrence Kansas and I swore that was the last time I was ever getting on a bus and I've held to that promise.

No, bus travel around the state, should it be increased or is that a dinosaur and we should be doing something else?

>> Well, may maybe uh vans or something like in in Arizona, you can you can always catch something from Phoenix to Tucson.

>> You know, and and here you you it's either the bus or the the train I prefer to the bus.

I I I I I think buses are a great equalizer and I think we've been on here and I believe Sarah and I have agreed when it comes to the city everybody talks about Metroink there should just be more buses.

The idea of where you can just hop on a bus it's only in St. Louis a lot of other places there's a lot of people who use buses in St. Louis it's like ah I don't go on the bus cuz I own a car.

I mean it's just kind of a arrogance to it.

I think we should have more bus routes and the idea that someone in St. Louis who can't afford to fly to Kansas City can get on a bus at a at a nice rate, take the bus to Kansas City, kick around for a day or two at a reasonable rate.

Let's give it a try.

I mean, I think buses are just one of those things that sort of the every man can use.

And you know, I hope they do it well and I hope it's successful because I think then it opens up traveling to a whole lot of people now who are going, I can't afford the transportation or my car won't make it.

>> I I think this is a great idea, especially with the way airlines are just pulling out of the middle of the country.

It's almost impossible to get from one Midwest city to the other.

They're down to like one route if that.

You know, you I don't think you can get a flight to Cincinnati at this point.

It's crazy.

And so I think to have these uh bus routes connecting these sort of smaller cities, mid-tier cities, we need this, you know, for the the people who live in these smaller towns, they need a bus that comes through.

>> Yeah.

And the mega bus, I know that was I don't think that's running anymore.

>> I think it is.

>> I mean, that made a huge difference for people, you know, for seniors on a on a fixed income and for college students who don't have enough money to do anything.

So I I I agree.

I think bus travel is something that we all need to get behind.

>> I I would I would say my daughter who went to uh school in Chicago, I think she caught the mega bus one time.

She said, "Dad, >> I'll take the train or you'll take me or I'll walk before."

>> Trains are so nice.

Trains are nice.

I agree.

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