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Fun Friday! Takeover w/Cristyne Nicholas · That KEVIN Show

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Speaker 1: From the birthplace of radio's greatest era. Now from New
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Speaker 2: Hears Kevin McCullough.
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Speaker 3: Welcome folks to Radio Night Live, Hoping that you had
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Speaker 3: a wonderful week and you are getting ready for a
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Speaker 3: great weekend ahead. It looks like the weather's going to
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Speaker 3: be terrific this weekend. Finally, I think the rain will
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Speaker 3: take a break. Let the rain take a little vacation.
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Speaker 3: I'm Christine Nicholas, usually I am joining Kevin McCullough, the
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Speaker 3: host of Radio Night Live, and Kevin is on vacation.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of vacations, we're sending Kevin on a vacation, so
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Speaker 3: but he will be back on Monday, and we hope
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Speaker 3: Kevin has a great time with his beautiful family. But
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Speaker 3: I am joined in the studio by Alexandra Byrne, the
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Speaker 3: wonderful ab who helps produce our show. Hey, b how's
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Speaker 3: how'd your estine? Oh my gosh, you know what? This
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Speaker 3: week was jam act but so much fun. We did
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Speaker 3: so much stuff. To speak Christine, we did. Yeah. I mean,
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Speaker 3: it's not every day that you open up a twenty
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Speaker 3: thousand square foot mega retail store dedicated to fandoms from everywhere.
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Speaker 3: I think Harry Potter, Vikings, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things,
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Speaker 3: Miss Kelle, Superman, Yeah, hell okay, yeah, but that's House
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Speaker 3: of Spells. House of Spells opened up this week. Officially,
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Speaker 3: they are known in the UK. They have three House
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Speaker 3: of Spells in England and this is their very first,
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Speaker 3: their very first store. Their planting the flag right here
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Speaker 3: in Times Square on forty second Street in the United States,
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Speaker 3: and they picked this location thanks to Tom Harris and
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Speaker 3: the Times Square Alliance because of the vibrancy, and not
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Speaker 3: to mention to the visitors that have come by, but
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Speaker 3: also the New Yorkers that every day are walking on
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Speaker 3: forty second Street, you know, because they're coming from the
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Speaker 3: Port Authority bus terminal, or they're coming from Grand Central
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Speaker 3: on the other end of forty second Street. So it
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Speaker 3: was it's really hopping. They're doing quite well. They did
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Speaker 3: a soft opening for three weeks and I got to
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Speaker 3: tell you, Abe, they are having the only problem, and
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Speaker 3: it's a good problem to have. They're having trouble keeping
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Speaker 3: inventory flowing because it's flying. I mean, and it's not
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Speaker 3: saying it's flying out the door. People are buying. They
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Speaker 3: are buying and flying out the door. And you know
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Speaker 3: what we did for the opening, which was really special,
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Speaker 3: and we've had Jamie Allen from Amaze come on show.
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Speaker 3: Jamie Allen is a UK tech magician, illusionist. He has
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Speaker 3: an award winning show on right off of Broadway. It's
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Speaker 3: at the New World Stages. It is just if you
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Speaker 3: haven't seen it yet, folks, you know, book your tickets now.
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Speaker 3: It does sell out. You want to make sure that
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Speaker 3: you book when Jamie Allen is performing. But it is
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Speaker 3: a wonderful story about his life growing up in England.
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Speaker 3: That was the connection with House of Spells. He knew
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Speaker 3: of House of Spells from living and growing up in England,
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Speaker 3: and he grew up at Stratford upon Avon, right where
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Speaker 3: there is a House of Spells. But he grew up
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Speaker 3: on the second floor of a pub that his parents
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Speaker 3: own and he would perform. They were both musicians. This
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Speaker 3: was a pub and the parents would perform and then
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Speaker 3: at the breaks he would perform magic. Go see a
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Speaker 3: mays Enjoy Jamie Allen. He was the official spell breaker
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Speaker 3: at House of Spells. And then we cut the ribbon.
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Speaker 3: I want to give special thanks also to our borough
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Speaker 3: President Brad Hoyle, Nan Siegel, the Best News, City Council
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Speaker 3: member Carl Wilson. He was there for the festivities, and
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Speaker 3: so was Tom Harris and NYC Tourism and New forty
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Speaker 3: two was there. It was really a fantastic showing. I
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Speaker 3: think they had like two hundred people there was That
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Speaker 3: was Bob.
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Speaker 4: Fun exactly and also fun fact Happy birthday to Harry
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Speaker 4: Potter himself. Yes, so very exciting and also what I noticed, Christine,
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Speaker 4: it was my first time heading over to House of Spells.
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Speaker 4: And while I was walking over, which is a beautiful
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Speaker 4: walk from our office which is right near Times Square,
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Speaker 4: I noticed that the Curse Child is directly across from
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Speaker 4: House of Spells. So what fun thing for people to
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Speaker 4: go see you know, the Chris Child of course on
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Speaker 4: Broadway and then head over to House to Spells and
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Speaker 4: experience not only Harry Potter but also so many different fandoms.
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Speaker 4: So congratulations to hire me to Kaja enter a feek
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Speaker 4: as well.
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Speaker 3: Job well done. Yeah, it was really terrific. That was
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Speaker 3: a great day. I finished my day by going downtown.
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Speaker 3: Actually no, it was just a far west side with
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Speaker 3: Zachary Stewart from Theomaniac. Yeah, but we went to go
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Speaker 3: check out an off Broadway show that Linda Perillo, who
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Speaker 3: you all know from from Tuesday Travel Tuesday. Linda Perillo
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Speaker 3: gave me the sort of the tip that her daughter,
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Speaker 3: Valentina Zazzali, she's the star of a show called My Way,
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Speaker 3: which it's fantastic, Ava her sister is the stage manager.
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Speaker 3: I was with Linda with Zach we were with a
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Speaker 3: number of the Perilo kids family, and I don't really
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Speaker 3: Linda never saw the show before. Oh wow, and now
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Speaker 3: Valentina wrote it, and it really it's a story about
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Speaker 3: Frank Sinatra's ghost and he comes to visit her while
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Speaker 3: she's trying to write a eulogy of her grandfather. Now
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Speaker 3: she's not Linda Pirillo or Mario Perrillo's grand daughter in
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Speaker 3: the play, she's just she's just a character. But as
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Speaker 3: the play progresses, we realize she's talking about Mario Pirillo
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Speaker 3: and I got chills and in her throat because it
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Speaker 3: was really a beautiful tribute and music plays such a
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Speaker 3: strong role in memory and core memories. It was the
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Speaker 3: Frank Sinatra, you know, those songs that was playing throughout it,
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Speaker 3: and it was just so I want to thank Linda
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Speaker 3: Pirillo for including us and that that was really terrific.
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Speaker 3: And Linda Pillo also remember she has this wonderful book
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Speaker 3: that's out you guys can pick it up. It's called
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Speaker 3: Your Payment. Method has been more about Linda's growing up,
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Speaker 3: not only as the daughter of Maria Parolo, but what
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Speaker 3: happened after Marioparolo passed, and it's not pretty. She really
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Speaker 3: tells it out. We're also going to join Linda and Kevin,
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Speaker 3: and we're going to join Peter Madonia our good friend.
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Speaker 3: We're all going up to Arthur Avenue on September first.
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Speaker 3: If people want to come, there are tickets and we
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Speaker 3: will all be there at Marios with Regina who is
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Speaker 3: the host of Marios. It's going to be a lot
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Speaker 3: of fun and we hope to see you because we
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Speaker 3: talk a lot about Arthur Avenue. But it's about time
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Speaker 3: that we feast on Arthur Avenue and it's right before
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Speaker 3: Far Augusta. So what better way to prepare for Far
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Speaker 3: Augusta than head up to Arthur Avenue September first, Tuesday,
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Speaker 3: September first. We'll be there at Marios for broadcast and dinner.
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Speaker 3: You can get more information by looking up. Just go
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Speaker 3: to ab at Nicholas Lenz dot com and you can
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Speaker 3: percase in tickets. We also talk about finding our way
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Speaker 3: around the city. Josh Noler and Jasmine Curtis, they represented
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Speaker 3: us at Harlem today one twenty fifth Street for a
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Speaker 3: way finding unveiling with Barbara Askins who has led the
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Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty fifth Street Champion three years and
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Speaker 3: Sea Virginia Fields. Remember our borough President. She was there
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Speaker 3: absolutely unveil the new bus stop and the beautiful wayfinding
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Speaker 3: and mural, and then Aby you sent me in a
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Speaker 3: very interesting article in Cranes by our good friend Aaron
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Speaker 3: Elstein about the Empire State Building the Observation Tower, which
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Speaker 3: is one of my favorites. I absolutely love it. It's
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Speaker 3: a classic. But they have been down in I.
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Speaker 4: Know, Christine, you know, it's so it's so unfortunate because
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Speaker 4: the Empire State Building is ninety five years old and
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Speaker 4: it is just iconic. It is so amazing, and we
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Speaker 4: have so many observation decks now, one Times Square, Summit,
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Speaker 4: one Vandwild I know will be actually welcoming Nostasia Welter
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Speaker 4: next week to the show The End.
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Speaker 3: She's a new kid on the block, I know.
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Speaker 4: But you know what, I think one of the things
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Speaker 4: that I'll say, and I know we're going to be
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Speaker 4: wrapping up soon, but one of the things that I'll
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Speaker 4: say is New York is resilient and there's a reason
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Speaker 4: why the Empire State Building has continued to prosper. And
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Speaker 4: sometimes we dwell on negative things, but guess what, I'm
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Speaker 4: sure everything is going to be going up soon.
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Speaker 3: Last House, well for sure, and I think it's just
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Speaker 3: because a lot of there are a lot of other
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Speaker 3: observation Decks, so a bit of it is competition. But
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Speaker 3: Natasia Welter will be our guest next Friday evening. She
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Speaker 3: is the executive director for Tourism at Summit one Vanderbilt.
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Speaker 3: So tune in, but folks, don't go away, because we
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Speaker 3: have two very special guests coming your way. What we
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Speaker 3: have we have Tom Harris from the Times Square Alliance
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Speaker 3: is going to be talking about all fun things T Square.
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Speaker 3: And then of course we're going to bring back our
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Speaker 3: baseball boys, our baseball buddies tracing your print and Marty
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Speaker 3: Appell to talk about the Mets and the Yankees the
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Speaker 3: second half of the season. So don't go away. Radio
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Speaker 3: Night Live Christine Nicholas wishing the best for Kevin McCullough.
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Speaker 3: See you soon from New York.
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Speaker 2: It's Radio Night Live with Kevin McCulloch.
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Speaker 3: All right, folks, we are back. This is Christine Nicholas
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Speaker 3: Radio Night Live. Thanks for joining us on Fun Friday.
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Speaker 3: AB Alexandra Byrne my right, Albrey, amazing, Thanks so much.
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Speaker 3: AB always who needs Kevin when you have AB? I
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Speaker 3: think we can handle this right. We should just tell
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Speaker 3: Kevin to take an extended break, just enjoy your time, keV.
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Speaker 3: We miss you, but do we? Oh well, you know
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Speaker 3: what we do, and Kevin deserves a vacation. He works
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Speaker 3: very hard. But coming up in the studio right now,
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Speaker 3: let's welcome our good friend from Times Square and a
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Speaker 3: good friend of Kevin McCall's as well, Tom T Square Harris.
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Speaker 3: How you doing, Tom Harris?
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Speaker 5: I'm doing great.
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Speaker 6: Thanks so much for having me on then, and both
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Speaker 6: of you could be actresses on Broadway with the way
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Speaker 6: you pretended to miss Kevin.
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Speaker 3: Oh well, we do, we do, we do?
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Speaker 5: Sure, I'm sure yep.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 3: Time Square has been so busy this summer unbelievable. And
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Speaker 3: by the way, Tom Harris, what you've been able to
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Speaker 3: do by making Times Square sort of this mecca for
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Speaker 3: the World Cup folks, because we haven't had you on
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Speaker 3: since June when World Cup wasn't even really in full gear.
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Speaker 3: Was before the Norwegians came, the Vikings, the Scottish, oh
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Speaker 3: my goodness, well, the Canadians they were very short lived,
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Speaker 3: but they came. But tell us, you know what was
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Speaker 3: that experience for the Times Square Alliance and the good
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Speaker 3: folks that work with you to basically have these takeovers
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Speaker 3: of nationalities come in and really celebrate their nationalities.
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Speaker 6: It was really amazing, and we worked with the city
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Speaker 6: very close beforehand, and we never thought that we needed
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Speaker 6: any watch parties in Times Square.
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Speaker 5: There's plenty to watch in Times Square.
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Speaker 6: And we sort of just opened up Time Square to
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Speaker 6: the world and the world came out and from the
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Speaker 6: amazing Viking row on the Red Steps to the Mexicans
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Speaker 6: to every nationality, every team was in Times Square celebrating
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Speaker 6: and it was really a fantastic moment in time And
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Speaker 6: just to quantify it, we were down because of the weather,
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Speaker 6: and we were down slightly in our pedestrian accounts going
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Speaker 6: into June tenth, and from June tenth through July nineteenth
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Speaker 6: we were up twelve percent. So now we are positive
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Speaker 6: for the year in Times Square with the pedestrian counts.
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Speaker 5: So it really was a huge bump for us.
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Speaker 6: Created a lot of energy and excitement and we're keeping
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Speaker 6: up the momentum with a lot of fun things going on.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's fantastic. It really was beautiful to see. And
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Speaker 3: you know, yesterday I was with Tom Harris when you
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Speaker 3: introduced the new chief of NYPD over in Times Square.
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Speaker 3: Tell us a little bit about that.
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Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 6: Chief Eager came to us from Staten Islands, twenty eight
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Speaker 6: years of experience. She met the folks from Midtown yesterday,
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Speaker 6: and she really didn't get a break. I think June
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Speaker 6: twenty fourth, I think she came. She dealt with the Knicks,
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Speaker 6: she dealt with the World Cup. She hit the ground running,
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Speaker 6: didn't skip a beat. The Police Commissioner Tish and Chief
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Speaker 6: Lapetrie really focused on Times Square during these times, and
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Speaker 6: we had extra police offices.
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Speaker 5: Crime has never been lower.
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Speaker 6: They made sure that everyone who came had a safe experience.
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Speaker 6: So we welcomed Chief Eager to the borough. We fully
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Speaker 6: support Horror and the men and women of the New
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Speaker 6: York City Police Department, and we were looking forward to
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Speaker 6: a long relationship with her.
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Speaker 3: Well, Aby, who works with me on the Broadway Association,
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Speaker 3: agreed to be our speaker in September. It's going to
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Speaker 3: be wonderful for you to get to meet her. A. B.
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Speaker 3: I maybe I don't know. Do you watch Do you
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Speaker 3: watch Elizabeth or Elsbeth?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 3: I don't see. Oh, it's a CBS show. It's after
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Speaker 3: Matt Locke. Tom and I are both fans. But I mean, Chief,
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Speaker 3: this is what happens when you get into your fifties.
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Speaker 6: Ab you you just watch DVR.
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Speaker 3: Your dv TV radio too, you watch the network.
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Speaker 6: You listen to radio, you get up at four am.
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Speaker 5: But Elsbeth is a great show.
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Speaker 6: And Christine thought that Chief Eager could could have a
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Speaker 6: walk on her at least a recurring part. She she
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Speaker 6: really is phenomenal and represents the police department.
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Speaker 3: Well, she's tough as nails. Tough as nails. I can't
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Speaker 3: wait to get to work with her. So thank you
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Speaker 3: for making the introduction. Also at the Times Square Alliance
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Speaker 3: meeting yesterday, for the introduction, I was able to thank
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Speaker 3: another chief who.
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Speaker 5: Is it Boudette, Oh, to Jimmy Bodette.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Jimmy Bodette, who is also Central casting. But
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Speaker 3: what he did during the Taylor Swift wedding was classic.
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Speaker 3: He held a bullhorn out of right outside of Penn
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Speaker 3: Station and he would just quote little Taylor Swift songs
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Speaker 3: like lyrics, but they were with like pedestrians. And you know,
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Speaker 3: you've got to look this up. It's on TikTok it is.
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Speaker 3: I think it has really given the NYPD a softer image,
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Speaker 3: but you know, it's really a beautiful thing. Before we
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Speaker 3: wrap up, how is it going with a brand new
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Speaker 3: opening two days ago? House of Spells. You were there,
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Speaker 3: you serving as MC.
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Speaker 5: We're all together, we were all together.
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Speaker 6: Yes, such a great addition to Times Square, to forty
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Speaker 6: second Street.
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Speaker 5: It's really going to make the block come alive.
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Speaker 6: We expected to drive a lot of new folks, a
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Speaker 6: lot of these people who have these cult followings for
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Speaker 6: for Harry Potter and all of the other shows that
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Speaker 6: they feature. It really was so so, so well done,
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Speaker 6: and I wish them a lot of success, and we're.
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Speaker 5: There to support them.
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Speaker 6: So well done to you on all the publicity that
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Speaker 6: that that the place got, and I wish him all
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Speaker 6: the best of luck.
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Speaker 3: I think we prefer to say fandom instead of cult cults.
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Speaker 3: Although there were a lot of.
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Speaker 5: You say tomato, I say tomato.
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Speaker 3: How do you say hot dog?
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Speaker 5: Hot dogs?
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Speaker 6: You say service Frankfurter dog, hot dog, the second serving.
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Speaker 5: Yes, great segue, Christine.
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Speaker 6: So the giant sixty five foot hot Dog is back
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Speaker 6: in Times Square. It will be there through August eighth.
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Speaker 6: Every day at noon, the hot dog rises and we
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Speaker 6: have a confetti burst from the hot dog.
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Speaker 5: It is absolutely amazing.
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Speaker 6: Jen Katron and Paul Outlaw, the two artists who brought
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Speaker 6: this to us for the second time, certainly didn't disappoint,
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Speaker 6: and it really is a visitor favorite in Times Square.
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Speaker 6: It's created those instagrammable moments and people say, why bring
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Speaker 6: a sixty five foot hot dog to Times Square? And
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Speaker 6: I say why not? In Times Square? You got to
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Speaker 6: go big or go home. And if you put something small,
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Speaker 6: something something benign in Times Square, it's just going to
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Speaker 6: go unnoticed.
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Speaker 5: Everyone notices the sixty five foot hot dog.
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Speaker 3: They have to relish the moment. Speaking of big, We're
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Speaker 3: on a roll, Christine, I'm on a hot dog role.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of big, you also have one Time Square which
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Speaker 3: is the home of the iconic New Year's Eve ball.
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Speaker 3: It's been getting a lot of press, a lot of
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Speaker 3: great stuff. I haven't been up there yet, Tom Harris,
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Speaker 3: but you have been.
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Speaker 5: Really how did that happen?
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Speaker 6: So anyway, resonation, it's an amazing must have been lost
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Speaker 6: than the mail. It's an amazing, amazing way to look
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Speaker 6: at Times Square from the observation deck.
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Speaker 5: And what I love most is.
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Speaker 6: Is like a portion of the observation deck that has
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Speaker 6: a glass floor that you can look down onto the
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Speaker 6: ground and then on the forty second street side you
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Speaker 6: can see river to river on forty second Street and
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Speaker 6: it really is just an amazing, amazing vantage point. They're
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Speaker 6: going to open up another exhibit with the history. I
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Speaker 6: think it's the Time Time Traveler. I think you know,
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Speaker 6: don't get me Time times travel and you're going to
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Speaker 6: be able to experience New Year's Eve three hundred and
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Speaker 6: sixty five days, so amazing things happening in Times Square.
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Speaker 5: Come out and make your New Time Square memories.
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Speaker 3: Well, folks, we got to wrap this up, but Tom Harris,
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Speaker 3: thank you so much. Thank you Time Harris from the
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Speaker 3: Time Square Alliance. We thank you for spending some time
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Speaker 3: with us today. And folks, don't go away, because we're
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Speaker 3: going to be talking baseball with our two baseball aficionados,
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Speaker 3: Tracy me Parent and Martya Pell. Don't go away. Thanks Tom.
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Speaker 1: And now from New York back to Radio Night Live
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Speaker 1: here Kevin mccolla All.
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Speaker 3: Right, well, welcome back, folks. Here we are Radio Night Live,
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Speaker 3: Fun Friday, Missing Kevin McCullough tonight. But I'm joined not
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Speaker 3: only by Aby Byrne, but also my in house residence
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Speaker 3: sports reporter Nick Nicholas welcome Nick Yay. Nick Well, Nick,
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Speaker 3: who's been following and been writing and covering sports for
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Speaker 3: his entire career, helped me with my notes tonight because
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Speaker 3: I have two very special guests, but more importantly, they
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Speaker 3: are very special friends to me. Martia Pell, the historian
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Speaker 3: for the New York Yankees, and Tracy the four Knee Print.
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Speaker 3: So we have Tracy being the Mets fan of course,
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Speaker 3: and Marty, we you're just synonymous with the Yankees, having
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Speaker 3: covered the Yankees and having worked with the Yankees from
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Speaker 3: the Mickey Mantle days.
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Speaker 7: Actually I was a Highlanders pr guy going back to
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Speaker 7: nineteen three.
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Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, I don't think you're that old, Marty,
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Speaker 3: and we're just gonna call you not old but wise. So, gents,
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Speaker 3: the All Star Game is behind us. You had also
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Speaker 3: Cooper's Town behind us. And the big next benchmark for
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Speaker 3: Major League Baseball is going to be the cutoff the
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Speaker 3: trade deadline. So we were talking in the studio before
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Speaker 3: the ab put the recording on. The trade deadline is
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Speaker 3: August third, and we got to figure out I'm going
20:55
Speaker 3: to start with you, Tracy, because the Mets, of course,
20:59
Speaker 3: for years, did not have as deep pockets as the Yankees,
21:04
Speaker 3: but now they do. And I think everybody had such
21:06
Speaker 3: an exciting moment or thinking that the Mets were going
21:10
Speaker 3: to become this major league team, if you will, But
21:13
Speaker 3: it seems like the Mets are still the Mutts. Oops.
21:16
Speaker 3: Did I say that out loud?
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's harsh. That's great.
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Speaker 3: Going on, listen.
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Speaker 8: As we sit here today, the Mets have won four
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Speaker 8: of their last five games, so I'm happy about that.
21:26
Speaker 8: And when I'm in at City Field where nine wins,
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Speaker 8: five losses, so I've seen a very good season so far.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what older subb is about.
21:33
Speaker 8: I'm not in five, but their record is forty seven
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Speaker 8: wins and sixty three losses, so that puts them sixteen
21:41
Speaker 8: games under five hundred. They've played one hundred and ten games.
21:44
Speaker 8: They have a fifty two games left in the season.
21:46
Speaker 8: To reach five hundred for the season, they have to
21:48
Speaker 8: go thirty four in eighteen. It's not likely, but it's
21:52
Speaker 8: not impossible. So I'm cautiously optimistic that they can maybe
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Speaker 8: reach the five hundred mark and that will bring up
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Speaker 8: least some measure for space ability to a very disappointing season.
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Speaker 3: Well, what do you see with the with the trade deadline,
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Speaker 3: you see that they're going to find a catcher or
22:07
Speaker 3: what's the you know, what's the most important piece of
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Speaker 3: the puzzle here to make the Mets, you know, peas
22:13
Speaker 3: get better.
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Speaker 8: I don't think they're going to get anybody really earth
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Speaker 8: shattering because it's probably going to be prospects or maybe
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Speaker 8: a mid level major league player, because the players that
22:24
Speaker 8: are available right now are not going to necessarily get
22:27
Speaker 8: a ton in return, although Clay Holmes has had a
22:32
Speaker 8: very good season and he might get a decent return.
22:35
Speaker 8: Everybody wants Luke Weaver because he's having a brilliant season.
22:38
Speaker 8: He's an ERA at that one point eight eight or something,
22:42
Speaker 8: and he's an excellent player, and he's having a terrific season,
22:45
Speaker 8: and he's got he's got a contract for next year,
22:48
Speaker 8: so they're not just getting a rental with him.
22:51
Speaker 2: But I hope the Mets hold on to him.
22:53
Speaker 8: Look, David Stearns is he's a capable baseball guy, but
22:56
Speaker 8: he made some key mistakes. He gave away or he
22:59
Speaker 8: let the Pete Alonzo, the hard and soul of the
23:02
Speaker 8: team walk away at the end of last season. And
23:05
Speaker 8: that was unforgivable because none of the replacements, whether it's
23:09
Speaker 8: Polanco or Luis Roberts or even Boba Schett, nobody's really
23:15
Speaker 8: filled the void. So that's the problem. But we have
23:19
Speaker 8: a core of very good players with the Mets, young
23:21
Speaker 8: players who have a future. Nolan McLain and Christian Scott,
23:24
Speaker 8: Zach Thornton. These are good pitchers. Carson Bench and aj
23:28
Speaker 8: Ewing are good position players, so that's not a terrible foundation.
23:32
Speaker 8: And of course Juan Soto, you know it, was a
23:34
Speaker 8: brilliant player, but he's been hurt a lot. Unfortunately, he'll
23:36
Speaker 8: play the fewest number of games in his career this year.
23:39
Speaker 8: And also Lindor has been hurt a lot. So when
23:42
Speaker 8: you lose those kind of guys, it's hard to be
23:46
Speaker 8: as good as you could have been.
23:48
Speaker 3: All Right, well, let's give Marty a chance here to
23:50
Speaker 3: talk about the Yankees. How are we doing? Go ahead, Marty,
23:53
Speaker 3: what do you think?
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Speaker 7: Well, when we did a preseason forecast, was said at
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Speaker 7: the time, you know what, the starting rotation, these starting
24:03
Speaker 7: pitchers on the Yankees are enough to sweep them into
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Speaker 7: the postseason. Now, the team has gotten worse as the
24:12
Speaker 7: season's gone along because of injuries, and half the lineup
24:16
Speaker 7: should be in Triple A right now, but that starting
24:20
Speaker 7: pitching is still amazing. I used to say the best
24:25
Speaker 7: two man rotation they ever had was roughing In Gomez.
24:29
Speaker 7: The best three man was Reynolds, Rashi and Lopat the
24:34
Speaker 7: best one man was Whitey Ford. And this is like
24:38
Speaker 7: seven starters when they're all healthy, all of whom are
24:42
Speaker 7: capable of taking you deep in the game.
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Speaker 3: So I'm actually hold on to that thought. We got
24:48
Speaker 3: to pay a bill or two with some advertising. Kevin
24:50
Speaker 3: has taught me, well, don't go away, folks. We've got
24:53
Speaker 3: Marty A Pell who's going to continue on the Yankees
24:55
Speaker 3: when we come right back tracing you print Radio Night Live,
24:58
Speaker 3: Christine Nicholas, don't go away.
25:06
Speaker 2: What a little moonline can do.
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Speaker 1: It's Radio Night Live, yours Kevin McCullough.
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Speaker 3: All right, everybody, welcome back to Radio Night Live. I
25:16
Speaker 3: am Christine Nicholas. My partner Kevin McCall is enjoying a
25:20
Speaker 3: very nice vacation, hopefully with his beautiful family. Aby Byrne
25:24
Speaker 3: is in the studio keeping me all together, and my
25:27
Speaker 3: in house resident sports writer Nick Nicholas. Thank you Nick
25:31
Speaker 3: for your help with my notes here, and of course
25:33
Speaker 3: we have Tracy knipprint major met fan, and we have
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Speaker 3: Marty Appell, Yankee historian. Marty. Before we took a break,
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Speaker 3: you were talking about how the pitching has been keeping
25:44
Speaker 3: the Yankees, really pulling them together. I mean, they are
25:48
Speaker 3: sixty one forty eight. If you just look at by
25:50
Speaker 3: the numbers, you think, wow, this is a pretty good team.
25:53
Speaker 3: But for some reason, as Yankee fans, we're always worried.
25:56
Speaker 3: We have that pit in our stomach that they're not
25:58
Speaker 3: good enough. And then of course we're worried about Aaron
26:00
Speaker 3: Judge and Cody Bellinger. Do you think that they're going
26:04
Speaker 3: to be coming off the injury list anytime soon?
26:07
Speaker 2: No, I don't.
26:08
Speaker 7: I think, you know, we may get the last three
26:10
Speaker 7: or four weeks of the season from them. Apparently John
26:14
Speaker 7: Carlos Stanton has matriculated enough now that he's on the
26:18
Speaker 7: faculty of a medical school.
26:20
Speaker 5: So I don't know if we'll see him again.
26:24
Speaker 7: But you know, except for the Dodgers, there are no
26:27
Speaker 7: super teams out there this year, and I think the
26:30
Speaker 7: Yankees have held their own just fine, even if some
26:33
Speaker 7: of the games are hard to watch and Jez throwing
26:37
Speaker 7: the third base the other night, But the pitching can
26:41
Speaker 7: carry them deep into the season and into the postseason.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
26:45
Speaker 3: I mean they had that run against the Phillies, and
26:48
Speaker 3: you know, of course they won the series, but that
26:51
Speaker 3: last game was so lopsided that it's just like a
26:54
Speaker 3: head scratcher, like, how can you lose, you know, by
26:57
Speaker 3: that big of a stretch yet be still you know,
27:00
Speaker 3: doing so well. We also have some significant milestones or
27:06
Speaker 3: remembrances here for Yankee fans this weekend. Marty, I know
27:11
Speaker 3: when you were part of the team, when Thurman Munson
27:14
Speaker 3: unfortunately left us way too soon. Can you touch on
27:19
Speaker 3: that please and memory.
27:20
Speaker 7: Of well, this Sunday will be forty seven years since
27:23
Speaker 7: his awful plane crash that took the life of probably
27:28
Speaker 7: a future Hall of Famer and the team captain and
27:31
Speaker 7: in many ways the spirit of those Billy Martin clubs.
27:36
Speaker 7: It was my privilege to be the pr guy throughout
27:39
Speaker 7: his career and then do an autobiography with him, and
27:45
Speaker 7: thirty years later a biography of him. So I can't
27:50
Speaker 7: let the weekend go by without remembering my pal Thurman Munson.
27:55
Speaker 7: I also want to get in and.
27:56
Speaker 3: Thank you well, but just on Thurman Munson, thank you
27:59
Speaker 3: for writing that book. It was a book that was
28:02
Speaker 3: a page turner for me. You know so many from
28:05
Speaker 3: a PR point of view, being a PR person myself.
28:07
Speaker 3: I mean, you had to deal with that in his
28:09
Speaker 3: relationship with Reggie Jackson and like the swizzle stick, right,
28:12
Speaker 3: wasn't that that whole same year or so? Or am
28:14
Speaker 3: I mixing things up?
28:16
Speaker 7: Well, you're correct, And those were the Bronx Zoo years
28:21
Speaker 7: and Thurman was part of that mixture of controversy day
28:24
Speaker 7: by day. But he never sought controversy. He just wanted
28:28
Speaker 7: to do his job and go out there and win,
28:32
Speaker 7: which was the right attitude for any player to have.
28:35
Speaker 7: Go out there and win and do your job and
28:37
Speaker 7: keep your head down.
28:38
Speaker 3: Tell us about Cooperstown.
28:40
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I was in Cooperstown last weekend, and the
28:43
Speaker 7: reason I went is because Bill White has been a
28:46
Speaker 7: friend of mine for over a half a century. Bill was,
28:50
Speaker 7: for people who don't quite remember, he was an All
28:53
Speaker 7: Star Gold Glove player for the Cardinals, the Phillies, and
28:57
Speaker 7: even the New York Giants at the start of his career.
29:00
Speaker 7: Then he became a Yankee broadcaster, working with Phil Rizzuto
29:04
Speaker 7: and Frank Messer for eighteen seasons and I was the
29:08
Speaker 7: executive producer of those telecasts. And then he became the
29:13
Speaker 7: National League president, which was the highest position in administrative
29:19
Speaker 7: sports that any African American had held. So he received
29:24
Speaker 7: what's called the Buck O'Neill Award, after a legendary Negro
29:28
Speaker 7: League's figure for the body of his work for all
29:33
Speaker 7: of it. And Bill is ninety two now, but he
29:35
Speaker 7: made it up to Cooperstown and it was so good
29:39
Speaker 7: to see him. He still gets around with a walker,
29:43
Speaker 7: but he stands straight and tall, and he's got a presence.
29:47
Speaker 7: And even though he delivered his speech pre recorded while
29:51
Speaker 7: he was sitting on the stage, it was rolling on tape.
29:55
Speaker 7: He owns the room when he's in the room, even
29:57
Speaker 7: if he's seated.
30:00
Speaker 3: Know him what presence? Yes, you were blessed to work
30:04
Speaker 3: with him. Switching back over to the Mets, going off
30:07
Speaker 3: to Queens, you know, Tracy, let's talk about how things
30:13
Speaker 3: have fared for the Mets since they fired Carlos Mendoza.
30:18
Speaker 3: Of course, not to be confused, and there are just
30:20
Speaker 3: no relations to the Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza, which
30:24
Speaker 3: I had to give a plug too, because my daughter
30:26
Speaker 3: goes to IU. Our daughter goes to you. What a
30:28
Speaker 3: year to go to IU, right, Indiana. I mean, just crazy.
30:32
Speaker 8: It's funny because Indiana was always a basketball school and
30:34
Speaker 8: now they're known for football.
30:36
Speaker 2: It's crazy. Listen, Mendoza was a very good manager in
30:39
Speaker 2: my opinion.
30:40
Speaker 8: He checked all the boxes and it just was a
30:43
Speaker 8: storm of unfortunate things that happened. And when a team
30:46
Speaker 8: starts to flounder like that, usually it's the manager.
30:49
Speaker 2: Takes the hit.
30:50
Speaker 8: Now, the guy that they brought in, Andy Green, I
30:52
Speaker 8: think he's stabilized things because he was in charge of
30:55
Speaker 8: the farm system, so he's very familiar with the younger
30:58
Speaker 8: players in their system, some of whom are actually up
31:01
Speaker 8: now playing for the Mets. And he says he wants
31:04
Speaker 8: to go back and be at the head of the
31:05
Speaker 8: farm system again next year. He's just doing this as
31:08
Speaker 8: a caretaker, so we'll see if that's the case. But
31:10
Speaker 8: I think he's been pretty good. I mean, I was
31:12
Speaker 8: sorry to see Carlos go, but I think that Andy
31:15
Speaker 8: Green has got them playing pretty inspired ball despite the
31:18
Speaker 8: fact that they're not.
31:20
Speaker 2: Really in the race.
31:21
Speaker 8: And you know, there's a lot of speculation about who
31:23
Speaker 8: the next manager will be.
31:25
Speaker 2: Some people think it's going to.
31:27
Speaker 8: Be Cora, who was the manager of Boston and then
31:30
Speaker 8: was unceremoniously let go earlier in the year, or possibly
31:35
Speaker 8: even the guy just made it into the Hall of Fame,
31:39
Speaker 8: Carlos Beltran, who was supposed to be the Mets manager,
31:43
Speaker 8: and then because of the scandal with the the Houston Astros,
31:48
Speaker 8: he was jettison before he ever actually managed the game.
31:52
Speaker 3: They're both no, they should be looking at our zoom.
31:55
Speaker 3: We got somebody available right here, the fourth Tracy new Print.
31:58
Speaker 3: I mean, why don't you put your.
32:00
Speaker 8: Well, you know what, I'll be like Bobby Valentine in
32:03
Speaker 8: the shadows with the disguise on, whispering things to them.
32:07
Speaker 8: I don't want the full responsibility, but I'll tell you
32:10
Speaker 8: it would be an honor to advise them from afar
32:13
Speaker 8: because I think, yeah, you know, and just mentioning Bill
32:16
Speaker 8: White for a second, you know, he was a nationalague
32:18
Speaker 8: player for almost the entire career, I think, for his
32:20
Speaker 8: entire career, and as a Met fan, I always thought
32:23
Speaker 8: I had a lot of respect for him as a player.
32:25
Speaker 8: You know, he was always a formidable player playing against us.
32:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we're running out of time, But I did
32:31
Speaker 3: want to bring to our audience's attention that on September eleventh,
32:35
Speaker 3: the twenty fifth year of the attacks on America, the
32:37
Speaker 3: Mets will be playing the Yankees at Yankee Stadium for
32:41
Speaker 3: a seven pm game. There's so much history there with
32:45
Speaker 3: the Yankees and the Mets post nine to eleven and
32:49
Speaker 3: what they did to bring New York City back. So
32:52
Speaker 3: I'd love to have the both of you guys to
32:54
Speaker 3: come back so we can talk about that at a
32:56
Speaker 3: future show. But thank you tracing me, thank you Martia Pell,
33:00
Speaker 3: and don't go away, folks. We will be right back.
33:08
Speaker 1: Once again from New York. Here's Radio night Life and
33:12
Speaker 1: Kevin mccolor.
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Speaker 3: Well, abe, we did. We did it without Kevin. He's
33:19
Speaker 3: got some big shoes to fill. I miss him. I
33:21
Speaker 3: do it too, Christine, But you know what, I'm proud
33:23
Speaker 3: of us. We're a great team. Well, we had great guests.
33:27
Speaker 3: I want to thank Tom Harris, and of course our
33:29
Speaker 3: buds are baseball buds. Maritya Pell and Tracy me a
33:33
Speaker 3: print and think and talking about baseball. You can catch
33:36
Speaker 3: the Mets this weekend. They are home playing the Marlins.
33:40
Speaker 3: And if you want to catch the Yankees, you're going
33:42
Speaker 3: to have to tune in somewhere or just listen to
33:44
Speaker 3: it on radio, Good Old Radio. Also speaking about baseball,
33:48
Speaker 3: don't forget Old Timer's Day at Yankee Stadium is going
33:51
Speaker 3: to be on August eighth. They play Atlanta, and then
33:55
Speaker 3: please put on your calendars and try to join us
33:58
Speaker 3: up at Yankee Stadium on septem eleventh, when the Yankees
34:01
Speaker 3: host the New York Mets. It'll be the twenty fifth
34:05
Speaker 3: anniversary of the attacks on America for you know, on
34:08
Speaker 3: September eleventh. Cannot believe that it is twenty five years.
34:12
Speaker 3: But I think this gives people a chance to reflect,
34:14
Speaker 3: be together and also be with the community that did
34:18
Speaker 3: so much to bring New York back to its feet,
34:20
Speaker 3: which was baseball. The Yankee US. They have a strong
34:25
Speaker 3: history and what they did on the following days before
34:29
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball even started again, the Yankees, thanks to
34:35
Speaker 3: Randy Levigne at the time, they hosted a orial service
34:38
Speaker 3: at Yankee Stadium that was unbelievable that it's twenty five years.
34:43
Speaker 3: So let's come back together on September eleventh at Yankee Stadium.
34:48
Speaker 3: Do want to congratulate House of Spells on their opening
34:51
Speaker 3: location is two thirty four West forty second Street between
34:54
Speaker 3: seventh and eighth Avenues. You know, check it out. And
34:57
Speaker 3: also Happy Birthday to Harry Potter, which today, but of
35:01
Speaker 3: course you can always celebrate Harry Potter at the House
35:03
Speaker 3: of Spells anytime. Also, if you do like the Bronx
35:07
Speaker 3: Zoo and we love the Bronx siou aby, we do
35:09
Speaker 3: got special nighttime hours. It's Summer Nights Wild Encounters. It's
35:15
Speaker 3: just Saturday night, Tomorrow night and Thursday August sixth They're
35:18
Speaker 3: going to be open late until ten pm and you
35:20
Speaker 3: can watch the external animals. It's going to be a
35:23
Speaker 3: lot of fun. Love it. Summer Streets that's always fun.
35:26
Speaker 3: That's going to be starting this coming Saturday, and then
35:29
Speaker 3: also the next two Saturdays, August eighth and August fifteenth,
35:32
Speaker 3: that's when the New York City and the dot they
35:35
Speaker 3: basically open up. It's a lot of the streets all
35:38
Speaker 3: over the over of the city to bikers and to
35:41
Speaker 3: dancers and to they put playgrounds in there. It's a
35:45
Speaker 3: lot of fun. So check that out at NYC dot
35:47
Speaker 3: gov Summer Streets. And I love Movie Nights at Bryan Park.
35:50
Speaker 3: That is a free event as well. In this coming Monday,
35:53
Speaker 3: August third, Go grab a blanket, grab some friends, go
35:56
Speaker 3: to Bryant Park, which is sixth Avenue between fortieth and
35:59
Speaker 3: forty second Street, and you will watch Bridget Jones's Diary,
36:03
Speaker 3: one of my favorite films from two thousand and one.
36:06
Speaker 3: Always a lot of fun. Also want to give a
36:08
Speaker 3: shout out to Monica Blom. She is the long time
36:11
Speaker 3: serving president of Lincoln Square Bid. She served with distinction
36:15
Speaker 3: and she just has done an amazing job. But all
36:18
Speaker 3: good things come to an end at some point when
36:20
Speaker 3: they decide to retire, and that's what Monica is doing.
36:23
Speaker 3: But the Lincoln Square Bid will be in very good
36:25
Speaker 3: hands with Ralph Emily, who has been by her side
36:28
Speaker 3: for twenty five years. So learning on the job for Ralph,
36:33
Speaker 3: He's going to hit the ground running. So congratulations to
36:35
Speaker 3: Monica and Ralph, and thank you from so many of
36:38
Speaker 3: us in New York City for all the wonderful public
36:40
Speaker 3: service that you have done. Folks, there's so much going
36:43
Speaker 3: on in the city. Just check out NYC Tourism Aby
36:47
Speaker 3: hope you have a wonderful weekend. Thank you to our
36:49
Speaker 3: guests Martya Pell, Tracy the Print, Tom Harris, and also
36:53
Speaker 3: to my sidekick over here Nick Nicholas for my tips.
36:57
Speaker 3: So Kevin will be back next week, I promise you.
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Speaker 3: This is Christine Nicholas saying good night from Radio Night
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