If you're looking for a season finale where I nearly spit out my Diet Coke several times, this episode is for you. I'll be honest: I wrote a pretty solid script involving Hertz's century-long history with highlights including consistent overcharging, under-delivering on vehicles, becoming a meme stock, and commiting insurance fraud. However. Meg Harris is the funniest person alive and I forgot to say like half the things in my script. Is this the most research-ey the podcast has ever been? No. But I'm an entertainer, not a journalist, so this is a bangin' episode.
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SOURCES:
-https://abcnews.go.com/Business/rental-car-place-doesnt-hold-reservation/story?id=40626341
-CASETEXT: Moretti V Hertz: https://casetext.com/case/moretti-v-hertz-corp
-https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-02/hertz-mistakenly-took-kate-klonick-for-a-ride
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Frissora
-https://www.sec.gov/enforce/33-10601-s
-https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/12/car-rental-shortage-covid/621068/
-https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/17/hertz-car-rental-accused-customers-auto-theft
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