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BONUS RADIO: A British Invasion; Iconic Tall Ships & Missing Maps in the Heart of NYC · That KEVIN Show

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Speaker 2: Mouse in my pocket, It's Calvin McCullough and Christine Nicholas.
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Speaker 2: Your your candid co hosts who are here on Fridays.
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Speaker 2: And when I say candid, maybe not as candid as
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Speaker 2: Calvin McCall and Linda Perillo earlier in the week. But
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Speaker 2: pretty candid. We're pretty candid, I would say, Christine, pretty
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Speaker 2: we're pretty real.
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Speaker 3: We don't hold back, and I.
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Speaker 2: Think in this day and age, it's kind of incumbent
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Speaker 2: upon us to do that too, because you know, we
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Speaker 2: just had this beautiful sale force thing happen. And on
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Speaker 2: the day that they were coming in to the Harbor,
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Speaker 2: I had this great opportunity to go down and with
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Speaker 2: Robert and Mary Carey do their travel show from the
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Speaker 2: deck of the Intrepid, and we parked right across the
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Speaker 2: street from the Intrepid. But in order to get from
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Speaker 2: where our car was to the Intrepid itself, just across
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Speaker 2: the West Side Highway, just across what is that ninth
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Speaker 2: that there are, twelfth Avenue, whatever that is, we had
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Speaker 2: to literally and we figured out a different way to
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Speaker 2: get back. But on the way over to the intreple
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Speaker 2: we had to go through one of these long sections
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Speaker 2: of like grocery carts, park next to umbrellas with just
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Speaker 2: heinous stuff all over the sidewalk, and it was like
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Speaker 2: I felt like I was in the Third World. I've
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Speaker 2: been to the Third World I've been to Haiti, I've
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Speaker 2: been to portions of Africa that have been very underdeveloped
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Speaker 2: and deeply impoverished. That was the level of grossness and poverty,
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Speaker 2: well not even poverty, just kind of sickness and unhealthiness
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Speaker 2: that I saw in these people that were there. And
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Speaker 2: they were literally across the street from the Intrepid, which
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Speaker 2: is one of the biggest attractions that we have as
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Speaker 2: a city. People come here from all over the world
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Speaker 2: to see the Intrepid and to do it. And then
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Speaker 2: for that day in particular, it was packed because everybody
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Speaker 2: wanted to see the tall ships coming in. And I
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Speaker 2: just thought, what is happening to our city?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not good. It is definitely not good for tourism, which,
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Speaker 3: as you know, I have this background in tourism, a
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Speaker 3: little soft spot for it a little bit. Yeah, And
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Speaker 3: I have said so much in the New York Post
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Speaker 3: and also with Betsy McCoy that this has a negative impact.
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Speaker 3: But you know, it's also not good for those that
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Speaker 3: are in need. Right, So you know, if you are
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Speaker 3: compassionate and you feel bad, as I'm sure you do,
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Speaker 3: and your children and my children whenever we pass a
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Speaker 3: homeless person, how The thought is, how can we help them?
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Speaker 3: Why are they on the street, Why are they now
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Speaker 3: that this is a very hot weekend. Why is the
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Speaker 3: city allowing them to sleep in their own squalor to
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Speaker 3: sit in their own filth, to spread diseases not only
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Speaker 3: amongst those that are in the encampment, but to others
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Speaker 3: that may be passing by. Why does it make sense
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Speaker 3: to allow this so that the businesses that have worked
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Speaker 3: so hard to have a brick and mortar business, which
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Speaker 3: as we know, is not an easy thing to accomplish
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Speaker 3: in New York City. Just opening a business is a success.
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Speaker 3: Why are we allowing these encampments to close down these
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Speaker 3: businesses so that? You know, why are we allowing tourists
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Speaker 3: that may want to go to the Intrepid to say,
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Speaker 3: you know what, I saw the encampment, I read about it,
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Speaker 3: I heard about it on you know, I'm not going
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Speaker 3: to go, and the Intrepid welcomes millions of visitors. Not
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Speaker 3: only is it important from a tourist important point of view,
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Speaker 3: it's important from a historic point of view for people
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Speaker 3: to be able to learn about what happened on the Intrepid.
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Speaker 3: Why is that important to our American history? The convention
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Speaker 3: center is right there, the Jacob Javits Convention Center, one
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Speaker 3: of the most important convention centers in the entire world.
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Speaker 3: They are getting set to welcome some big public shows.
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Speaker 3: Not all the shows there are are public, but Comic
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Speaker 3: Con and fan Fest is this weekend. FanFest is taking
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Speaker 3: place at Javits, which is you know, all of the
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Speaker 3: sports fans from all over. They're going to have athletes
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Speaker 3: from yeah, you know, MLB, from NBA, from soccer, They're
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Speaker 3: all going to be showing up for the fans. And
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Speaker 3: now you've got kids, families that have to basically walk
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Speaker 3: around this stench, you know, rat infested, disease prone encampment.
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Speaker 3: I mean, this is what the city needs to clean
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Speaker 3: this up. That's your job, Okay, that is the job
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Speaker 3: of the city. Well and serious may differ philosophically, but
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Speaker 3: at the end of the day, you are you are
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Speaker 3: hired for the self and welfare safety of our city.
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Speaker 3: This is a safety issue now well.
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Speaker 2: And really good mayors have done this in the past
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Speaker 2: and had it under control. I think one of the
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Speaker 2: things that your old boss did that was really distinctive
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Speaker 2: of his time in city hall was that Mayor Giuliani
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Speaker 2: just never he just never believed it was the right
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Speaker 2: thing to do to leave someone on the street in
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Speaker 2: that type of situation. And so Bernie Carrott told me,
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Speaker 2: on more than one occasion, he'd be, you know, coming
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Speaker 2: off shift two am in the morning, he'd get a
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Speaker 2: phone call from the mayor, who was, you know, coming
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Speaker 2: back from wherever and say, hey, I just saw somebody
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Speaker 2: at you know, fifty seventh and whatever, and he'd have
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Speaker 2: to go sign somebody to go deal with them and
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Speaker 2: to help them that night. But it was important. The
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Speaker 2: mayor made it important for the city to be in
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Speaker 2: good shape, and that meant helping take care of those people,
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Speaker 2: make sure that they were in the right place. But
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Speaker 2: that also then helped protect the stewardship of the streets
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Speaker 2: and everything.
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Speaker 3: Else from and it also resulted when you look at
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Speaker 3: the bottom line, it resulted in fewer homeless people. Yeah
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Speaker 3: you were homeless, You had lower regions.
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Speaker 2: And tourism, huge positives in like the reduction of crime
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Speaker 2: and other things too. I mean, if you want to,
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Speaker 2: if you want to look at the benefits that grew
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Speaker 2: out of that, I don't even know that you can
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Speaker 2: trace all of them. And attribute them fairly because there
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Speaker 2: were so many that came from it. But yeah, and
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Speaker 2: and I don't I've never understood the argument from the
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Speaker 2: build of Blasios and the Mamdanis of the world that
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Speaker 2: have said, oh, it's better for them to just live
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Speaker 2: in their filth, Like how what sociological study do they
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Speaker 2: cite when coming up with that policy.
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Speaker 3: Idea, Because I don't like, you know what, if you
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Speaker 3: believe that, then you've got a huge lawn in your
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Speaker 3: backyard at Gracy Manson. Let them go there, you know what,
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Speaker 3: Open that yard, which is in a park, which is
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Speaker 3: funded by taxpayers. Let them have an encampment there at
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Speaker 3: Gracie Mansion, and then you can see for yourself and
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Speaker 3: live among them, you know, because I'm sure there's probably
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Speaker 3: some kind of socialist guilt living in Gracy Mansion. It
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Speaker 3: kind of cut. It's got to go with the territory, right,
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Speaker 3: So then you can be amongst your your you know,
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Speaker 3: those that have said and professed how great the mayor is,
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Speaker 3: these encampment dwellers have said that they really support the
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Speaker 3: mayor for letting them sleep on the street. So those
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Speaker 3: are the people that you want. You can live among them.
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Speaker 3: I mean, just a suggestion.
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Speaker 2: What was the Occupy Wall you remember when occupied?
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Speaker 3: I remember Occupy Wall Street.
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Speaker 2: They were right next door to our station here and
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Speaker 2: it was and I had to walk through there to
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Speaker 2: get to the train every day. I was just like,
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Speaker 2: is there any other option?
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Speaker 3: Well, it wasn't until somebody was raped, even though there
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Speaker 3: was there was complaints of sexual miss bad behavior, but
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Speaker 3: they didn't And then until this woman came out raped, crying, screaming,
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Speaker 3: and they caught the guy that they said, enough is enough,
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Speaker 3: and then the police commissioner at the time brought in sanitation.
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Speaker 3: They got out the hoses, and they didn't give them
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Speaker 3: seven days. They didn't have you know, let's have a
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Speaker 3: chit chat, let's have a meeting, let's talk about this.
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Speaker 3: They're like, the hoses are opened, the water came out,
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Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, they picked up their probably
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Speaker 3: George Soros funded ten and ran for back to Greenwich,
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Speaker 3: Connecticut or wherever these kids lived. Okay, and by the way,
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Speaker 3: it was over. It was over, game over. That's all
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Speaker 3: it took.
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Speaker 2: And we could do it again if Mom Donnie had
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Speaker 2: the will to. But I don't think you guys, Okay,
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Speaker 2: coming up We've got a great show. We're going to
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Speaker 2: talk about some really fun stuff that you can do
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Speaker 2: on the water. We're going to talk about some fun
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Speaker 2: stuff that you can see in a brand new grand
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Speaker 2: opening coming soon to the Times Square area. And we
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Speaker 2: might just knock on Peter Madonia's door. We're going to
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Speaker 2: go see him in a couple of weeks to do
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Speaker 2: a broadcast from Arthur Avenue. But I think he has
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Speaker 2: some thoughts on the ethnic map that the Mayor's office
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Speaker 2: put out and what supposedly you can go see all
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Speaker 2: the ethnic highlights of New York.
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Speaker 3: City, thecla, thelay.
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Speaker 2: The odd thing about it is there's no Arthur Avenue listing.
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Speaker 3: On it, and there's no Italian enclave. Stotton Island wasn't included.
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Speaker 3: That's an Italian enclave.
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Speaker 2: That's to them. It's a Republican on cleave. That's the problem.
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Speaker 2: All right. When we come back, We've got a lot
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Speaker 2: of fun stuff stick around.
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Speaker 3: From New York.
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Speaker 1: It's Radio night Life with Kevin McCullough.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back. It is Radio night Live, the Fun Friday Edition,
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Speaker 2: that's what we call it. Christine Nicholas, Kevin mccullaugh. Glad
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Speaker 2: to have you with us and Christine. You started talking
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Speaker 2: about our next guest and all of the fun that
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Speaker 2: can be discovered at his location a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: In fact, it was right after we were on the
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Speaker 2: boat looking at the tall ships. In fact, I think
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Speaker 2: you were kind of like rage baiting my kids, like
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Speaker 2: come on, kids, I got the best place for you
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Speaker 2: to go to now, And they weren't even open yet
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Speaker 2: at the time.
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Speaker 3: So well, I think I was telling him because we
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Speaker 3: run we were taking a cruise about the tall ships.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, well this is really great.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Two hundred and fifty years you know about the British invasion,
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Speaker 3: but guess what, we got a new British invasion coming
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Speaker 3: soon to Times Square and it is called House of Spells.
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Speaker 3: And with us to night first time on Radio Night
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Speaker 3: Live is Heimi Videll. Jimi is the CEO of US
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Speaker 3: operations of House of Spells. What you say is House
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Speaker 3: of Spells, Heimi. It is a newcomer to Times Square.
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Speaker 3: It's going to be opening on July twenty ninth, but
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Speaker 3: it comes from Great Britain. So tell us, himI Vidal, welcome.
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Speaker 3: First of all, thank you about House of Spells.
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Speaker 5: Well.
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Speaker 6: House of Spells is a brand that's been out there
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Speaker 6: for about ten years. It started organically as another concept store,
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Speaker 6: and as it developed over the years, they realized there
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Speaker 6: was a huge, huge demand FORATOM licensed merchandise, and little
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Speaker 6: by little we organically went into being of one hundred
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Speaker 6: percent OFTOM licensed merchandise store and created and design a
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Speaker 6: store that's more based on giving the consumers an experience
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Speaker 6: and hence our first store in Europe and UK actually,
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Speaker 6: and we've had so much success in London and Strafford
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Speaker 6: and a couple of other places. We're growing globally as well.
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Speaker 6: So it's just been a great journey for the team,
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Speaker 6: the two founders that started the company, and this is
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Speaker 6: our first US introduction. House of Spells is a place
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Speaker 6: where fans come together have a phenomenal experience shopping for
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Speaker 6: their favorite license merge could be Lord of the Rings,
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Speaker 6: Hunger Games. If you come into our store, you'll understand
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Speaker 6: when I mean experienced. You get the wow factor the
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Speaker 6: moment you walk in. We have these forty foot ceilings
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Speaker 6: with chandeliers, The walls are decorated to look very medieval Gothic.
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Speaker 6: The lighting is phenomenal and the energy and Times Square.
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Speaker 6: We have about eighty thousand people walking in front of.
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Speaker 5: Our store every day. It's just yeah, a lot.
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Speaker 6: Of billboards and so it's so it's different than what
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Speaker 6: we did in UK, but in a good different And
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Speaker 6: it's twenty thousand square feet, it's a bigger store yet,
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Speaker 6: so the wow factors all over the store, from the beginning.
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Speaker 5: First floor into the second floor. So it's very, very exciting.
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Speaker 3: Well, let's touch on a little bit about Times Square him,
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Speaker 3: because House of Spells, being such a well known brand
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Speaker 3: in the UK, probably could have opened up anywhere in
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Speaker 3: the United States. So tell us why the ownership decided
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Speaker 3: on Times Square and why now?
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Speaker 6: Sure, Well, obviously Times Square is a brand known globally
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Speaker 6: over one hundred years old, so it's definitely very New York,
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Speaker 6: very United.
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Speaker 5: States, and we just felt that.
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Speaker 6: Being in Times Square to get into the rest of
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Speaker 6: the country would be the.
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Speaker 5: Best place to invade. Give a little bit of that
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Speaker 5: British invasion.
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Speaker 6: We did it in the seventeen hundreds when we came
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Speaker 6: here right down the Hudson River.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, luckily it wasn't this far up. So now this
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Speaker 3: is a This British invasion is a pleasant invasion.
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Speaker 5: That's exciting.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, for some reason, HEIMI, I don't sense the
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Speaker 3: British accent with you, So tell us a little bit
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Speaker 3: about you, what you've been up to. I know you've
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Speaker 3: traveled all over the globe, correct, but your accent sounds
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Speaker 3: a bit maybe is it Jersey.
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Speaker 6: Yes, I'm basically been in the space of consulting beauty
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Speaker 6: technology and I was hired to help them launch this
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Speaker 6: beautiful brand into the United States. I'm basically from the
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Speaker 6: United States, but bringing in the British, helping them introduce
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Speaker 6: them their brand into the US.
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Speaker 2: You do have a hired a loyalists trying to I'm
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Speaker 2: trying to place it. Is it? Is it Spanish?
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Speaker 6: Yes, I'm born in South America. Came here when I
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Speaker 6: was very young, when I was Ecuador.
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Speaker 2: Okay, yes, I'm getting a little emerald legasi like I
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Speaker 2: expect you to go bam here in a second, and
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Speaker 2: that would be consistent with House of Spells, right, because
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Speaker 2: I'm going to put an.
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Speaker 7: X on you.
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Speaker 2: Bam there, you go take them care of exactly.
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Speaker 6: We're excited just being here in Times Square. It's it's vibrant,
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Speaker 6: the economy is coming back. We feel very confident about
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Speaker 6: investing in the United States. That was the major reason.
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Speaker 6: It's very no matter what everybody says that we feel the.
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Speaker 5: Market has a long term future.
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Speaker 6: You know, things happen between now and then, but long
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Speaker 6: term it's going to be very big, strong, and it's
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Speaker 6: going to have a huge comeback, and we want to
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Speaker 6: be a part of that.
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Speaker 2: There's there's obviously some like really deep fascination with some
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Speaker 2: of these things, but what goes into selecting a brand
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Speaker 2: for inclusion, you.
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Speaker 6: Know, quality being exclusive on some items as well, And basically.
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Speaker 2: I think you don't have like a Luisa may Alcott
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Speaker 2: Little Women Corner Like I'm guessing like those types of
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Speaker 2: things probably aren't there. So there is some flash and
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Speaker 2: bizazz to it, Yes.
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Speaker 5: Correct, there is.
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Speaker 6: We have one of the best best sourcing director that
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Speaker 6: goes all over the world to look for the best products,
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Speaker 6: and that's what's that's our strength. If you come to
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Speaker 6: our story, you're gonna you're going to be like, wow,
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Speaker 6: I never saw this at this place. At the other place,
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Speaker 6: I didn't even know this exists. So if you're a
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Speaker 6: fan of that particular license, you're going to find categories
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Speaker 6: that you didn't even know existing because we.
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Speaker 5: Source it all over the world. So that's that's one
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Speaker 5: of our strength is the products that we bring in.
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Speaker 2: And the narrative behind those brands has to have some
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Speaker 2: weight to it.
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Speaker 5: Correct.
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Speaker 6: Oh, yes, yes, yes, we we We stick to the
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Speaker 6: brands that have a huge following and the just iconic.
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Speaker 6: You know, some are We have Spider Man, we have
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Speaker 6: everything and anything you want in Spider Man, we have Batman,
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Speaker 6: we have and I can go on the list and
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Speaker 6: we have.
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Speaker 3: All And I think what's important to note, Kevin is
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Speaker 3: that it's all officially licensed brand material.
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Speaker 7: It's nice.
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Speaker 3: You're getting the real deal here. You're not getting some
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Speaker 3: you know, crappy knockoff things that you know, unfortunately the
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Speaker 3: city is becoming kind of known for. But this is
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Speaker 3: the real deal. And it's a ten year lease that
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Speaker 3: they sign. Twenty thousand square feet and the address is
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Speaker 3: two thirty four West forty second between seventh and eighth
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Speaker 3: sort of closer to eighth Avenue. And the hour amazing hours,
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Speaker 3: HAIMI you're I think you're open until midnight? Is that correct?
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Speaker 5: From ten in the morning to midnight? Correct? Wow?
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Speaker 3: And officially you open on Wednesday, the twenty ninth, but
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Speaker 3: if you're in the neighborhood you can get a sneak peek.
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Speaker 3: They are open for training and you know, teaching everybody
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Speaker 3: the ropes of how it works. I guess putting that
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Speaker 3: British polish on the hospitality. If you will, there you go.
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Speaker 5: It's a soft opening, correct lease stop by. That'll be
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Speaker 5: nice for them to get a preview before the grand opening.
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Speaker 2: Well, and what perfect timing because you're going to slide
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Speaker 2: right into the Halloween season and I bet you're just
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Speaker 2: going to go nuts those first two months.
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Speaker 5: We have a lot of stuff plans everybody's going to follow.
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Speaker 2: Everybody's gonna want the authentic you know, Harry Potter or
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Speaker 2: whatever it is.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we have some great, great merch that it would
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Speaker 6: be grateful Halloween. We're doing some major, major collaboration for
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Speaker 6: other license brands as well.
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Speaker 5: We'll be promoting all that once it's official.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're grateful to have you with us. Best wishes.
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Speaker 2: House of Spells soft.
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Speaker 3: Opening now you can actually walk in now. But the
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Speaker 3: grand opening is July twenty rand opening twenty and we're
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Speaker 3: about to announce a big surprise for the grand opening
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Speaker 3: at ten am on the twenty ninth. We've got a
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Speaker 3: big person coming. We can't say. We can't say, but folks,
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Speaker 3: if you're in the vicinity, I suggest you show up.
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Speaker 2: I don't know the gain would be the right person,
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Speaker 2: by the way, because he's most famous for saying you
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Speaker 2: shall not pass and you want everybody to come in.
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Speaker 3: I tire Kevin McCollough and Kevin mccallough to be there.
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Speaker 2: Well, as long as I can hide in the corner
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Speaker 2: some we and just do the voice actors. That's fun anyway.
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Speaker 2: I'my Congratulations, Thank.
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Speaker 5: You, Kevin. I look forward seeing you and your kids.
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Speaker 5: Please all right, stop.
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Speaker 2: She's Christine, I'm Kevin. We're coming right back. It's Fun Friday.
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Speaker 7: Now.
19:16
Speaker 1: I'm from New York, back to radio night life. You're
19:20
Speaker 1: Kevin mccollor.
19:22
Speaker 2: Welcome back. It's Fun Friday. And Christina, as we were
19:25
Speaker 2: saying in the top of the show, like and we
19:28
Speaker 2: talked about it last week too. We touched on it.
19:30
Speaker 2: This mayor has had trouble figuring out where I don't know,
19:33
Speaker 2: different immigrant groups live and where you know, what he's
19:37
Speaker 2: missing by having this kind of weird view of what
19:40
Speaker 2: he does is great parts of the city, like where
19:43
Speaker 2: do you go to get the best Italian food Arthur Avenue?
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Speaker 3: Of course, right, And our listeners know that because we've
19:49
Speaker 3: had our next guest on many time.
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Speaker 2: This guy's on our version of the map.
19:54
Speaker 3: Sure, he's put Arthur Avenue on the map. His great
19:57
Speaker 3: grandfather has put it our his grandfather's put it on
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Speaker 3: the map. So have I think seven other shops in
20:04
Speaker 3: on the at the Belmont bid along Arthur Avenue. They
20:06
Speaker 3: are all over one hundred years old and they are
20:09
Speaker 3: still thriving and with the fourth or third generation working there.
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Speaker 3: Peter Madonia, Welcome to Radio Night Live. And what do
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Speaker 3: you think of this this map that somehow excludes little
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Speaker 3: Italy in the Bronx and Mulberry Street. Oh and it
20:25
Speaker 3: excludes Astoria, Okay, a nod to my husband's people, the Greeks.
20:31
Speaker 3: It kind of excludes them too, right, that excludes.
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Speaker 8: Boro Park and the Jewish community. And you know, yeah, look,
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Speaker 8: I have three thoughts about this that I've really thought through.
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Speaker 8: They either made a conscious decision to put that map
20:48
Speaker 8: out the way it was put out, excluding the Irish
20:53
Speaker 8: and Woodlawn, Italian enclaves and Little Lily Manhattan and the
20:58
Speaker 8: Bronx story of Queens the Greek. Either it was intentional
21:04
Speaker 8: or it was incredibly thoughtless. Now, as you have in
21:08
Speaker 8: Christine and I have, we worked in city hall. City
21:11
Speaker 8: hall's the office of last resort, because your job is
21:14
Speaker 8: to make sure that stuff doesn't happen. So I'm sure
21:18
Speaker 8: multiple people in city Hall saw this map and were
21:20
Speaker 8: either okay with it or thought it was better to
21:24
Speaker 8: put it out the way they put it out. But
21:26
Speaker 8: the one thing that bothered me more was that they
21:28
Speaker 8: tried to blame it on Eric Adams. And so I
21:32
Speaker 8: went in a little bit of research on why did
21:34
Speaker 8: the Adams administration put this map together? And by the way,
21:38
Speaker 8: I've had dinner with Eric Adams on argur revenue before
21:42
Speaker 8: and he got elected, and after he got elected, you
21:44
Speaker 8: know where it was. This map was intended to be
21:48
Speaker 8: a map that showed where the two hundred thousand migrants
21:51
Speaker 8: who were sent to New York City during his administration,
21:55
Speaker 8: where by the way, we never had encampments or things
21:58
Speaker 8: like that to address it. They this is where people
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Speaker 8: went that came up here, you know, when two hundred
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Speaker 8: thousand migrants in a year and a half percent in
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Speaker 8: New York City. So that was the intent of their administration.
22:11
Speaker 8: It was not intent to show all the ethnicity in
22:15
Speaker 8: New York City. It was it was where did people
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Speaker 8: go who came here that that administration, I think pretty
22:22
Speaker 8: pretty effectively managed to as painful as it was for
22:28
Speaker 8: both them, the city residents, city visitors and then migrants
22:33
Speaker 8: managed to get through, you know, that was foisted upon them.
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Speaker 8: So this administration is using the Adams administration is as
22:42
Speaker 8: excuse for how that map came out just doesn't fly
22:45
Speaker 8: with me. Well, so that's why the other.
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Speaker 2: Two part of the part of the problem that I
22:50
Speaker 2: have with them even trying to pull that card out
22:54
Speaker 2: of the deck, is to say that the Adams administration
22:58
Speaker 2: did it. But I don't remember the Adams administration going
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Speaker 2: public with it and saying, you know, here's here's where
23:04
Speaker 2: all the ethnicity, the ethnic communities are that you can
23:07
Speaker 2: learn about New York City. Like the whole purpose of
23:09
Speaker 2: maybe why the Adams administration had it and how the
23:13
Speaker 2: Mamdanian administration is using it are completely are two completely
23:16
Speaker 2: different things.
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Speaker 8: Yes, I mean, just look, it's very possible the Outams
23:20
Speaker 8: administration was hoping for a second term and then they
23:24
Speaker 8: would use that map as a let me show you
23:27
Speaker 8: what happened. We all lived through the migrants coming here.
23:32
Speaker 9: Yeah, but here's what's happened since then. So but no,
23:36
Speaker 9: they didn't get a second term. But for the this
23:39
Speaker 9: administration to blame that map on them, I'm sure there
23:44
Speaker 9: were plenty of people in city Hall, and if there.
23:47
Speaker 8: Weren't, that's a that's a whole different mistake that vetted
23:50
Speaker 8: that map. And we're either okay with it or actually
23:54
Speaker 8: liked it, but they or they.
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Speaker 9: Were completely thoughtless and didn't reckon nice.
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Speaker 8: Wait a minute, Yeah, there's a lot more ethnicities here
24:02
Speaker 8: that aren't included.
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Speaker 7: May well think about that.
24:06
Speaker 2: It's good to get your perspective on that. We've only
24:08
Speaker 2: got a minute left, and I want to preview September first.
24:11
Speaker 2: You've invited us up. We're going to be in on
24:14
Speaker 2: Arthur Avenue. Linda Perillo is going to sign books. Christina
24:17
Speaker 2: and I are going to tape an hour. Linda and
24:18
Speaker 2: I are going to tape an hour. We're gonna do
24:20
Speaker 2: some really fun stuff that day. What's it all about?
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Speaker 8: I mean, I'm so excited about it, both for showcasing,
24:28
Speaker 8: but my my mom and dad the first time they
24:30
Speaker 8: went back to Italy, was on a Perillo tour. It
24:34
Speaker 8: was not an accident, Yeah, absolute fact.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well Perrillo's coming Belcos. I mean this is where
24:41
Speaker 3: they started. They started in the Belmont area.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, this is this is yeah, full circle coming around
24:50
Speaker 8: and you know, maybe that'll be on the map some day.
24:53
Speaker 2: We'll see. We can only hope. All right, Peter Mandonia,
24:56
Speaker 2: keep doing a great job up in the Belmont bid
24:58
Speaker 2: thank you for being with.
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Speaker 8: Us, and thank you both. We appreciate it, and I've
25:02
Speaker 8: got it.
25:03
Speaker 2: I'm never going to forget where our gravenue is. I
25:05
Speaker 2: don't know if the mayor will, but I'm never going
25:07
Speaker 2: to We're coming right back. It's Radio Night Live.
25:14
Speaker 7: What a little moonline can do.
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Speaker 1: It's Radio night Life, yours Kevin McCullough, A little more
25:22
Speaker 1: come back.
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Speaker 2: It's the Friday edition of Fun Friday Here, Radio Night Live.
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Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough, Christine Nicholas, glad to have you with us,
25:29
Speaker 2: and Christine just I mean, I've been kind of like
25:32
Speaker 2: fun and on it. In all seriousness, it was a
25:34
Speaker 2: great time. You invited us to go cruise the port
25:39
Speaker 2: and we were able to see the tall ships kind
25:41
Speaker 2: of up close and kind of see them all you know,
25:44
Speaker 2: docked in different places around and the people that put
25:47
Speaker 2: that on we are very honored to welcome to the show,
25:49
Speaker 2: give you the honors.
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Speaker 3: Well, thank you and thank you Travis Noyes and Morgan
25:56
Speaker 3: from New York City Water Cruises. That's the operation that
25:59
Speaker 3: took us out on the Grand Mariner that beautiful evening
26:02
Speaker 3: to be able to get up close to see those
26:04
Speaker 3: saleforth tall ships from all over the world. But you
26:08
Speaker 3: don't need sail force, which of course we know those
26:11
Speaker 3: tall ships are now heading back to their home countries
26:15
Speaker 3: to get out on the water. So Travis, we're happy
26:17
Speaker 3: that you're with us. Welcome to Radio Night Live and
26:19
Speaker 3: tell us what we can expect if we go on
26:23
Speaker 3: a NYC Water Cruises vessel.
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Speaker 7: Awesome.
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Speaker 4: Well, Nick, thank you both for having me and it
26:28
Speaker 4: was a pleasure to have you out on the New
26:31
Speaker 4: York Carver to see all the tall ships, which we're
26:34
Speaker 4: you know, I think once in a lifetime experience or
26:36
Speaker 4: at Lisa, once in fifty year experience.
26:40
Speaker 7: History holds.
26:41
Speaker 4: And so yeah, you know, New York City Water Cruises,
26:43
Speaker 4: you know we're three year old company and we have
26:46
Speaker 4: three vessels on New York Harver we have the Luis
26:50
Speaker 4: of the Seas, the Eternity, and then the Grand Mariner,
26:53
Speaker 4: and so we really have three distinct product lines that
26:57
Speaker 4: you know, we offer, you know, to our customers. We
26:59
Speaker 4: have a high end dinner cruise, you know, which is
27:02
Speaker 4: you know, one of the only plated dinner cruises you know, around,
27:06
Speaker 4: so you can get a five or six course you know,
27:07
Speaker 4: including drinks, and we run that six nights a week.
27:11
Speaker 4: And then we have the Grand Mariner, which is the
27:14
Speaker 4: vessel that you all went on, and it's converted overnight vessel.
27:17
Speaker 4: We can carry out to seven hundred people and we've
27:19
Speaker 4: installed you know, one of the city's best sound systems
27:23
Speaker 4: and light systems, and so, you know, we we do
27:25
Speaker 4: sunset music cruises, we do live music cruises, we do
27:29
Speaker 4: large charters and events you know on that vessel.
27:32
Speaker 7: And then we have the Eternity, which is our.
27:33
Speaker 4: High end charter vessel, which we use for you know,
27:36
Speaker 4: corporate events and then big events like the Fourth of
27:39
Speaker 4: July and.
27:40
Speaker 3: New Year's You mentioned a couple of names there of
27:43
Speaker 3: these vessels, so Kevin had a question about how these
27:46
Speaker 3: names come to be.
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Speaker 2: I look, I've just I've been around some boats. Most
27:51
Speaker 2: of my life, and there's they're always named interesting things,
27:54
Speaker 2: and I always want to know kind of the story
27:57
Speaker 2: behind how the names come along. But you were telling
27:59
Speaker 2: me you kind of inherited the names on these boats,
28:03
Speaker 2: and you said that it's bad luck to rename a
28:05
Speaker 2: boat once you change owners.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so it's uh, you know, it's I know,
28:11
Speaker 4: it's Maritimes superstition. But you know, when you're in a
28:14
Speaker 4: business like ours, sometimes those are well founded. So yeah,
28:18
Speaker 4: generally it's customed to keep the name of the vessel,
28:22
Speaker 4: you know when you take it, with the exception of
28:24
Speaker 4: actually lightships which change names according to whatever port they
28:28
Speaker 4: go to next.
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Speaker 3: What what does that mean exactly?
28:31
Speaker 2: That work?
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Speaker 4: Well, you know, so let's say, you know, if a
28:35
Speaker 4: lightship moves from New York carbon to Nantucket, right, it
28:37
Speaker 4: would change its name to the Nantucket you know, when
28:40
Speaker 4: it gets when it moves there.
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Speaker 7: But that's a kind of a unique situation.
28:45
Speaker 3: Well, so was the Titanic called something else? Goodness, wasn't it.
28:52
Speaker 2: I just think that I think that was just they
28:54
Speaker 2: didn't even have a chance to change the name. That
28:55
Speaker 2: was the maiden voyage there was.
28:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, well, Travis Noys, we love what you did
29:03
Speaker 3: before us. It was a beautiful ship. And you mentioned
29:05
Speaker 3: that the Grand Mariner was an overnight ship at one
29:09
Speaker 3: point it was a cruise line. How difficult is it
29:13
Speaker 3: to refurbish a large vessel such as the Grand Mariner.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's it's a lot, you know, you know,
29:20
Speaker 4: fortunately we have a really capable team in house. But
29:24
Speaker 4: you know, for us, you know, we really got renovated
29:26
Speaker 4: the boats. We took out all the cabins, you know,
29:28
Speaker 4: but we didn't keep you know, things on board like
29:30
Speaker 4: a full kitchen, you know, some of the kind of
29:32
Speaker 4: sitting in VIP areas you know on board. But you know,
29:35
Speaker 4: converting this vessel which used to I believe I have
29:37
Speaker 4: about fifty two overnight cabins on it, you know, and
29:41
Speaker 4: it's something that we can you know, operate on in
29:44
Speaker 4: New York Harbor. And you know right now has the
29:46
Speaker 4: you know, the largest open you know, upper deck you
29:48
Speaker 4: know on New York Harbor.
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Speaker 3: Oh and and that's it explains why you were able
29:53
Speaker 3: to have a DJ on there and also a narrator
29:57
Speaker 3: to talk about the tall ships is that the is
29:59
Speaker 3: the Grand Mariner the boat that is going to have
30:03
Speaker 3: the sunset cruises it is.
30:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's really our kind of the one we
30:08
Speaker 4: do all of our music events on, you know, because
30:11
Speaker 4: we have the ability to put you know, for six
30:13
Speaker 4: hundred people on the top deck, you know, with you know,
30:16
Speaker 4: you know, drink some music and great skyline views.
30:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get any better than that.
30:20
Speaker 2: See some future music videos being shot on the deck
30:23
Speaker 2: of the Grand Mariner. I want to say thank you
30:25
Speaker 2: for keeping that kitchen a board because you guys did
30:29
Speaker 2: dinner and Christine, I don't know about you, but my
30:32
Speaker 2: whole crew came home full of steak and other yummy
30:36
Speaker 2: stuff that they were just so like that. That was
30:37
Speaker 2: so much fun. We have to go back and do
30:39
Speaker 2: it again.
30:40
Speaker 3: Yes. In fact, Josh was given the choice of steak
30:43
Speaker 3: or a burger and he said both, and I believe
30:46
Speaker 3: he had both and he enjoyed both. But that's Josh.
30:49
Speaker 3: He likes to eat. Can I tell you.
30:52
Speaker 4: I don't know where it all goes, but you know,
30:54
Speaker 4: I'm proud of you, Josh.
30:56
Speaker 3: The skinniest eater ever.
30:59
Speaker 2: So the the Sunset Cruises, Now, do you have acts
31:03
Speaker 2: booked currently for the fall?
31:04
Speaker 7: Like?
31:04
Speaker 2: Are there special things flag that people can say? I
31:07
Speaker 2: want to make sure I do that be there.
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Speaker 4: What's yes, Generally, the way it works is that we
31:12
Speaker 4: have you know, our own kind of in house DJ,
31:16
Speaker 4: and we supplement it with live musicians, you know, for
31:19
Speaker 4: you know the majority of our cruises. And then you
31:21
Speaker 4: know what we'll do is, you know, two or three
31:23
Speaker 4: times a month we'll bring on a special act which
31:25
Speaker 4: will be like you know, a band or you know,
31:27
Speaker 4: something kind of more traditionally kind of live. So that's
31:30
Speaker 4: you can check our website in NYC Watercruises dot com
31:33
Speaker 4: for any of that information.
31:35
Speaker 2: So some of that's already up there. So talk about
31:37
Speaker 2: the corporate boat because the difference between like if someone's thinking, well,
31:42
Speaker 2: I want to do a nice evening or I want
31:44
Speaker 2: to do a nice event, what's what should the rule
31:46
Speaker 2: of thumb be in terms of like which service you're offering?
31:49
Speaker 7: You know, like it kind of really good.
31:51
Speaker 4: The great thing about the company is that we have
31:54
Speaker 4: we can really hit all needs and price points. Right
31:57
Speaker 4: so even like on the Grand Mariner itself, you know,
31:59
Speaker 4: we could do a private them there, you know, which
32:01
Speaker 4: is more you know kind of cocktails, you know, and
32:03
Speaker 4: you know, join the music and they know we have
32:05
Speaker 4: kind of semi private thing you know, and that can
32:06
Speaker 4: be a.
32:06
Speaker 7: Little bit of a lower budget, you know.
32:08
Speaker 4: And then we have you know, like the Dinner Crews
32:11
Speaker 4: where you could either lease out the boat or you
32:13
Speaker 4: know a deck of the boat, you know, for a
32:15
Speaker 4: more high end experience, you know, and that can range
32:17
Speaker 4: for either you know, call it fifteen people up to
32:20
Speaker 4: one hundred and ten people. And then for our large events,
32:22
Speaker 4: we have the Eternity, which is three hundred passenger, which
32:24
Speaker 4: is you know, Florida ceiling glass windows. We have you know,
32:28
Speaker 4: you know, bridal and corporate suites, you know kind of
32:30
Speaker 4: you know, we're changing rooms and things like that, you
32:32
Speaker 4: know as part of that, you know, full entertainment and DJ.
32:35
Speaker 4: So that's really kind of more for our product launches,
32:38
Speaker 4: you know, our large corporate groups you know coming in,
32:41
Speaker 4: you know, and some of the higher budget incentive groups.
32:44
Speaker 2: And I'm guessing you're not turning down a wedding or
32:46
Speaker 2: two if they say, hey, we want to do that
32:48
Speaker 2: with that one as well.
32:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, we love weddings, We love way you know,
32:52
Speaker 4: being part of that and getting married out for the
32:54
Speaker 4: Statue of Liberty is you know, pretty awesome.
32:56
Speaker 2: So it's pretty cool witness to have signed your marriage
32:59
Speaker 2: to it. All right, that's Travis. Thank you for all
33:03
Speaker 2: that you did for us and helping us see the
33:06
Speaker 2: harbor with the tall ships. That was really really fun.
33:08
Speaker 2: Give the website one more time by Nycwatercruises dot Com.
33:12
Speaker 2: All right, coming right back, Christine's got tips for your
33:15
Speaker 2: weekend nook away.
33:21
Speaker 1: Once again from New York. Here's Radio Night Live and
33:25
Speaker 1: Kevin McCullough.
33:27
Speaker 2: Welcome back. Final few minutes. It's time to get our
33:30
Speaker 2: weekend tips on. And I'm going to guess Christine that
33:34
Speaker 2: in the couple of weeks around September first, Arthur Avenue
33:37
Speaker 2: is going to make the tips list. But what's on
33:38
Speaker 2: the list for.
33:39
Speaker 3: This week, Well, I think it can make the tips
33:40
Speaker 3: list now, I think. Don't wait for a map from
33:43
Speaker 3: this from city Hall to tell you how to go
33:44
Speaker 3: Old Okay, I'll do that.
33:47
Speaker 2: You'll never get there.
33:48
Speaker 3: It's right near Fordham University, the Botanical Garden and the
33:53
Speaker 3: Bronx Zoo. You'll find the best Italian food ever, still
33:57
Speaker 3: operated by the authentic Italians, and also great Albanian cafes.
34:02
Speaker 3: Let's give a shout out to the Albanians because we
34:04
Speaker 3: are living harmoniously with unafacha una rachez. They say so,
34:09
Speaker 3: thank you Peter Madonia for joining us. Thank you Travis
34:12
Speaker 3: Noyes of NYC Water Cruises. You can get on the water.
34:17
Speaker 3: This weekend would be a great time to do that
34:19
Speaker 3: because it is hot, hot, hot, And then if you
34:20
Speaker 3: want to cool off and you're in Times Square, pop
34:23
Speaker 3: into House of Spells. Although it opens July twenty ninth,
34:27
Speaker 3: it is doing a soft opening, so you can catch
34:29
Speaker 3: that out two thirty four West forty second Street, House
34:32
Speaker 3: of Spells. This is also one of your favorite times
34:35
Speaker 3: of year, Kevin. New York Restaurant Week just open their
34:38
Speaker 3: reservations on Thursday, so check it out. It goes from
34:43
Speaker 3: July twentieth to the sixteenth. They're open. It's all over
34:46
Speaker 3: all five boroughs. They have a great map on NYC
34:50
Speaker 3: Tourism of all the restaurants and you can get your
34:53
Speaker 3: ethnic on with the great map that they have at
34:55
Speaker 3: NYC Tourists.
34:57
Speaker 2: The restaurant map is way more important than that.
35:00
Speaker 3: It is. Hey, if you still want to keep your
35:04
Speaker 3: two fifty historical hat on, they've got the New York
35:07
Speaker 3: Historical and newly opened tang Wing for American Dynasty. Sounds
35:11
Speaker 3: kind of interesting. It's about revolutionary women focused on how
35:15
Speaker 3: living through the experience of war impact New York City women.
35:18
Speaker 3: As you know, we were in an occupied state. You
35:20
Speaker 3: can then go across the park and go to the
35:23
Speaker 3: Museum of the City of New York and see their
35:25
Speaker 3: ongoing exhibit, the largest in the history of the Museum
35:28
Speaker 3: of the City of New York called Occupied City. And
35:31
Speaker 3: then if you want to get your American more modern
35:33
Speaker 3: history on it is National hot Dog Week. I know
35:36
Speaker 3: that's important to you, Kevin. So guess what's coming to.
35:39
Speaker 2: Time American history. I don't oh no, tell me Tom.
35:43
Speaker 3: You back to the Giant, The Giant Waiener is coming
35:47
Speaker 3: back to time.
35:48
Speaker 2: Giant Wiener is coming back to Times Square. What's actually
35:52
Speaker 2: Oscar Myers Giant Wiener, That's who's I don't know.
35:55
Speaker 3: No, it's it's actually Jen Katron and Paul Outlaw. Those
35:58
Speaker 3: are the artists that made the Giant American Spectacle, the
36:03
Speaker 3: ticking Pains in National Mythology, it's the hot Dog.
36:08
Speaker 2: The second it's the Vener Snitzel.
36:11
Speaker 3: Come on, all right, well enjoy, I mean it is.
36:15
Speaker 3: It is great. And if you're into Yankees, we want
36:18
Speaker 3: to give a shout out and a congratulations to Cody
36:21
Speaker 3: Bellinger for being chosen the MVP of the All Star
36:23
Speaker 3: Game this week. And you can go check out Cody
36:26
Speaker 3: and his teammates at Yankee Stadium this Saturday and Sunday.
36:30
Speaker 3: So go Yankees, go beat those Dodgers. And if you
36:33
Speaker 3: want to watch the Mets, good luck, they're on TV.
36:37
Speaker 2: Said by a true Yankee fan. I just want to
36:40
Speaker 2: make something really clear, those of you that have no
36:42
Speaker 2: sense of humor and you're sitting at home going.
36:43
Speaker 3: Oh, I was Kevin Eshe, Please don't.
36:46
Speaker 2: Send email to anybody that the Giant hot Dogs a
36:49
Speaker 2: giant hot dog and that's and that's what it is.
36:51
Speaker 2: And if you send the email, I'm not going to respond.
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Speaker 2: So just you know, just don't send this. I don't
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Speaker 2: want I don't want any mail on that it was.
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Speaker 2: If you don't have a sense of humor, that's not
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Speaker 2: my fault.
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Speaker 3: All right, We'll take a bite out of life and
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Speaker 3: enjoy it. Come to Times Square, spicy, please diy in Hondle.
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Speaker 2: And this weekend we are going to go see the
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Speaker 2: Amazed Show. And I'm looking forward to that because I
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Speaker 2: haven't seen it yet. I know you've seen it, and
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Speaker 2: then next weekend City. So I'm doing I'm doing like Broadway,
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Speaker 2: Broadway all the time now.
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Speaker 3: So it's good for you.
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Speaker 2: Have a great weekend, friends, We'll talk to you soon