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Mark's Weekend Bonus Segment — NOT HEARD ON THE RADIO! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is the bonus segment for all you podcast
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  Speaker 1: listeners out there, for you people that actually know how
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  Speaker 1: to listen to a podcast, you know, you still get
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  Speaker 1: some people that does can't quite figure it out. And then,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, this is a professional podcast. This is
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  Speaker 1: not one of those amateur podcasts with somebody. Everybody has.
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  Speaker 1: Every real estate agent, your accountant has a podcast, the
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  Speaker 1: dentist has a podcast, everybody has a podcat. But this
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  Speaker 1: is a real one, an actual professional podcast. So, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about tipping this week. You remember there's a
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  Speaker 1: controversy of it. There's a shake shack, a lot of them,
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  Speaker 1: but there's one where you know, you don't talk to anybody.
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  Speaker 1: You just go to a kiosk and you type in
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  Speaker 1: what your order is and then you go pick it
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  Speaker 1: up without ever talking to somebody. Yet the kiosk would
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  Speaker 1: still ask for a tip. Who you're tipping this hunk
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  Speaker 1: a metal? So Shakeshack said it was a software glitch
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  Speaker 1: or this and that. But it's happening more and more
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  Speaker 1: where you're supposed to tip at a kiosk, and even
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  Speaker 1: when you go into a store. I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 1: a restaurant where you sit down and eat and somebody's
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  Speaker 1: waiting on you for an hour and a half. Not
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  Speaker 1: tell about it, just story you walk in, Can I
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  Speaker 1: have that? Yes? Put it in a bag handed to you.
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  Speaker 1: You owe them a tip. That's basically the whole job.
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  Speaker 1: To hand people whatever they ask for. That's the job.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like you went out of your way. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you really, really really went out of your ways.
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  Speaker 1: But this has got to stop. And apparently studies now
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  Speaker 1: show people are getting angrier and anger and angrier about
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  Speaker 1: this tipping. Again. It's one thing if it's the waiter
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  Speaker 1: in the restaurant, but just every time you go to
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  Speaker 1: a counter and ask for something, you're there three seconds
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to. It doesn't make any sense. So big
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  Speaker 1: article about this, the controversy, and people are starting to
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  Speaker 1: get upset about it. Actually thirty two people. Now this
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  Speaker 1: is ten years ago, thirty two percent of people said
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  Speaker 1: they wanted tipping abolished. Now it's fifty two percent. Fifty
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  Speaker 1: two the majority one tipping. A A guy on the
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  Speaker 1: called us on the show this week and he said
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  Speaker 1: the rules should be if you don't sit down, you
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  Speaker 1: don't tip. If you're standing up the whole time in
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  Speaker 1: other words, you go to a counter, you go to
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  Speaker 1: a kioski, you go to a fast food. If you're
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  Speaker 1: standing up and you never sit, there's no tipping. There's
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  Speaker 1: tipping only if you're sitting there for a while. But
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  Speaker 1: for this article they went to they said they're going
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  Speaker 1: to ask some experts. So they asked William Michael Lynn,
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  Speaker 1: Professor Emeritus of Consumer Behavior at Cornell University. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to get a wrong answer about anything, go
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  Speaker 1: ask a professor. If you want somebody who doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: what the hell they're talking about, get a professor. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you want somebody really stupid, get a professor from
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  Speaker 1: an Ivy League college. So, I don't know they trust
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  Speaker 1: this guy, And what the hell kind of professor is
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  Speaker 1: that he's a professor of consumer behavior? Who the hell
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  Speaker 1: would what? They got to stop with these classes. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta teach real stuff. But he said, the country's anti
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  Speaker 1: tipping sentiment is growing. Okay, great, we see again. We
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  Speaker 1: knew that. Then they asked etiquette expert Jacqueline Whitmore. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who she is, but if your name is
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  Speaker 1: Jacqueline Whitmore, you must might as well be an etiquette expert.
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  Speaker 1: It's perfect name for them. Said people should feel no
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  Speaker 1: obligation to tip at unmasked, unmanned kiosks, and discourages the practice.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so I'm sorry I quoted these two, but
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  Speaker 1: I like the callers rule. If you don't sit down,
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  Speaker 1: you don't tip. Only if you sit down. Hey, remember
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hockel with that sleazy, dirty stadium deal where the
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  Speaker 1: state taxpayer money was used to finance the new Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: Bills Stadium. It's a two point two billion dollars stadium.
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  Speaker 1: I think we taxpayers kicked in a billion of that.
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  Speaker 1: But it doesn't happen anymore. No taxpayer money has been
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  Speaker 1: used for an NFL stadium in something like thirty years.
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  Speaker 1: It's the NFL. It's NFL teams. They got so much
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  Speaker 1: money they can easily pay for their stadium, no reason
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  Speaker 1: to pay for it. But like a lot of these sleazy,
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  Speaker 1: dirty Kathy Hochel deals, there was a catch to this.
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  Speaker 1: She put a taxpayer money in to pay for half
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  Speaker 1: the stadium, and her husband gets the contract for the concessions.
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  Speaker 1: It couldn't look any sleazier. This is like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of her deals. You remember the one where big big
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  Speaker 1: donor got the contract to do the virus testing, got
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  Speaker 1: it away from a good company. This guy, all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden gets the contract and he has no experience
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  Speaker 1: in testing, so he had to go out and hire
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  Speaker 1: a professional company to do it for him, which meant
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  Speaker 1: you had to pay twice as much for the test.
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  Speaker 1: So why would you give him the contract because he
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  Speaker 1: was a major donor to Hochel. So this stadium that
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  Speaker 1: we paid for finally opened first game August eighth. Fans
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  Speaker 1: were upset. There were so many seats where you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: see anything. There were pillars and things that obstructed their view.
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  Speaker 1: As the worst to stadium ever, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: seats have obstructed views. Now there are other seats where
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  Speaker 1: they put up this plexi glass where you head of view,
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  Speaker 1: but plexiglasses there. Well, it turns out if it's a
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  Speaker 1: day game, the sunlight hits the plexiglass, and if you're
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  Speaker 1: one of those many seats behind the plexiglass, you can't
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  Speaker 1: see a damn thing. It's all sunlight reflection. So people
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  Speaker 1: very very upset. I don't know how they're going to
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  Speaker 1: fix all this. You could take down the plexiglass, but
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  Speaker 1: the obstructions, the pillars, I don't think you can take
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  Speaker 1: them down. You know the flat Iron Building, you know
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  Speaker 1: the flat Iron District, Park Avenue and Madison Avenue around
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  Speaker 1: the nineteenth Street. Twenty this became like the hottest area
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  Speaker 1: in New York, the Flatiron District. So there was always
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  Speaker 1: that flat Iron building. That's the triangle shape building that
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  Speaker 1: was there for us, very famous building, it's in a
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  Speaker 1: million pictures. Well, they finally turned it into a condos,
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  Speaker 1: no longer an office building. Condos. They converted it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: sell them like crazy. They've already sold four apartments in there.
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  Speaker 1: Now that doesn't sound like much, but the four apartments
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  Speaker 1: came to like three hundred and eighty million. Buyers are
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  Speaker 1: racing in there to buy up everything in the building. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hockle speaking to Kathy Hochel. You know she never
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  Speaker 1: mentions the running mate. It's Adrian Adams, this left wing,
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  Speaker 1: far left, extremist city councilwoman. So not exactly, well not
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  Speaker 1: exactly the friend friendly to Israel, like a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these left wing democrats anti Israel. And so she was
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  Speaker 1: speaking at an event and she it was actually the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Forum, the NYC Democratic Forum booed by Israel supporters
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  Speaker 1: there and nobody deserves it more than her. But don't
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  Speaker 1: forget that's Hulkel's running mate. You're not just voting for Hokel.
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  Speaker 1: You're voting for this Adrian Adams as well. And you're saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a lieutenant governor. Very often lieutenant governors become governors.
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  Speaker 1: That's how we got stuck with Kathy Vocal. Now Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman has not picked a running mate yet, but I
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  Speaker 1: can guarantee you'll pick somebody good. Probably when you're when
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  Speaker 1: you're the guy from you know, New York, Long Island,
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  Speaker 1: you pick an upstate guy. So it'll probably be an
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  Speaker 1: upstate guy, probably a strong law enforcement sort of guy.
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  Speaker 1: So he'll have a much better running mate than Hokeel.
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  Speaker 1: It'll become an issue, uh in the race. He remember
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  Speaker 1: telling you about that Ferrari, the first electric Ferrari. It's
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  Speaker 1: a stupid thing, but for everybody's got to make an
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  Speaker 1: electric car. So Ferrari came out with this electric car.
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  Speaker 1: Looked hideous and it didn't look great. It looked like
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  Speaker 1: it looked like a Toyota or something, or with that career,
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  Speaker 1: it looked like a Hyundai. So it people just complained
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  Speaker 1: about the design. Even the former chairman of Ferrari joined in,
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  Speaker 1: saying he hoped they would remove the Ferrari logo from it.
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  Speaker 1: It was hideous. And it turned out it was designed
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  Speaker 1: by Johnny ives the guy. Yeah, he was the great
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  Speaker 1: designer of Apple products. He designed the iPhone, all the
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  Speaker 1: great Apple stuff, Johnny Iveso. But again he was great
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  Speaker 1: with you know, tech gadgets. That doesn't mean you know
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  Speaker 1: how to design a car. It's a whole different business.
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  Speaker 1: So they decided to auction off the first one of
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  Speaker 1: these electric cars. Heavily criticized. But believe it or not,
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  Speaker 1: at the auction, the bidding was to begin at one
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. People went crazy bidding for it. It finally
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  Speaker 1: sold for forty million. Now it's a charity auction. Money
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  Speaker 1: goes to charity. Now. It could be because it got
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  Speaker 1: so much criticism that somebody figured, well, this is going
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  Speaker 1: to get discontinued because it's so ugly, and then this
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  Speaker 1: will become rare. You know, anytime Ferrari makes anything and
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  Speaker 1: discontinues it, it becomes the most expensive thing in the world,
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  Speaker 1: becomes very very rare. So that's probably what they were thinking. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Judge Judy is not doing the TV show anymore, so
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  Speaker 1: they got the replacement. Judge Judy's son talk about a
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  Speaker 1: NEPO baby. He's a former District Attorney of Putnam County
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  Speaker 1: and he tried a solo daytime courtroom show called Adam's Law.
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  Speaker 1: But apparently, Yeah, his name is Adam. I guess his
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  Speaker 1: name is Adam. He's going to replace Judge Judy. Guess
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  Speaker 1: who the producer is Judge Judy. But you're not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to say NEPO baby here. But Judge Judy celebrates its
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  Speaker 1: thirtieth anniversary September sixteenth. I guess they're still doing that show,
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  Speaker 1: but they're going to launch this one, Adam's Law, September fourteenth.
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  Speaker 1: So in the era of baller NEPO babies, why not?
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  Speaker 1: Why not? She'll she'll produce the show. She's passing the
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  Speaker 1: torch to her son. Now, you're going to be like
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  Speaker 1: Judge Juice. It works much better with an old woman.
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  Speaker 1: When it's a guy yelling at you, that's one thing.
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  Speaker 1: But when it's the old grandmother type woman who's cranky
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  Speaker 1: and yelling at you, that's what makes the show. That's
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  Speaker 1: what it's like. The Golden Girls, kind of like the
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  Speaker 1: mother on there screeching at you. That's basically what Judge
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  Speaker 1: Judy was. So I don't know if it works with
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  Speaker 1: the guy. Hey, Oreos coming out with a new lineup Oreos.
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  Speaker 1: I was never a big Oreo fan, still not. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the ingredients, this is not something
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  Speaker 1: you should ever be eating. It's like nothing but junken chemicals.
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  Speaker 1: But Oreo, the whole new lineup is first of its kind.
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  Speaker 1: Flavors I don't some of these make no sense at all.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be a meat flavored Oreo, deep fried
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  Speaker 1: Oreo fried dough flavored cookies with layers of dark chocolate.
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  Speaker 1: This sounds horrible. There's gonna be a chicken and waffles Oreo.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds even worse. Why the hell would you want
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  Speaker 1: a meat taste in a cookie? I don't know. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a waffle texture filled with a dual layer
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  Speaker 1: cream that has notes of fried chicken and maple syrup.
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  Speaker 1: This sounds absolutely hideous. Let me just predict right now,
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  Speaker 1: just mark this down. I want credit for this prediction,
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  Speaker 1: Chairman of Oreo. It's going to be fired in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of months when this totally bombs. The other one
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  Speaker 1: is the new banana pudding Oreo. It's layers of banana
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  Speaker 1: and vanilla pudding between two vanilla wayfed cookies. All right,
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  Speaker 1: that one maybe maybe, but just call it a banana
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  Speaker 1: flavored Oreo again. Just remember I predicted that chairman of
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  Speaker 1: Oreo will be fired pretty soon for tampering with all
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. Hey, you know what companies happened a really
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  Speaker 1: hard time is Nike. The stock has crashed, absolutely crashed.
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  Speaker 1: Ted Cruz piling on slamming Nike for embracing all this
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  Speaker 1: woke nonsense built on America hate, he said, the Senator
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  Speaker 1: Ted Cruz really went after Oreo. There's several reasons Nike
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  Speaker 1: is tanked. They really did go way too woke, making
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  Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernack the face of a marketing campaign partnering with
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  Speaker 1: that trans influencer Dylan Mulvaaney. Also, there was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be a Betty Ross, a Betsy Ross flag twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to do a Betsy Ross flag American flag. Nike.
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  Speaker 1: They canceled it. They wouldn't do it, they just canceled it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's another reason again good for the public turning
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  Speaker 1: on Nike. The stock sales have gone crazy, just slipping.
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  Speaker 1: Sales are so low that Nike stock has plunged, and
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  Speaker 1: it's good to see. So again, remember go woke, go broke,
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  Speaker 1: as Charlie Gasprino said, go woke, go broke. Hey, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, this is nothing to do with woke. But
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  Speaker 1: gen Z doesn't drink wine. Younger people are not drinking
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  Speaker 1: as much, a lot less drinking, and they will not
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  Speaker 1: drink wine. They find wine too complicated, too strange for them.
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  Speaker 1: So the wine business is way way down. Some California
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  Speaker 1: wineries are now burning their vineyards. They have to cut cost,
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  Speaker 1: cut production, a lot of just burning the vineyards. It's
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  Speaker 1: cheaper to let the grapes just rot than to try
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  Speaker 1: to harvest them. And drinking way down. And again this
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  Speaker 1: is Generation Z and they keep on coming. Wine sales
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  Speaker 1: lowest level in more than two decades. Sales have suffered.
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  Speaker 1: Younger drinkers don't drink wine. They find it stuffy, stodgy.
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  Speaker 1: They prefer canned cocktails, selter and most of them not
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  Speaker 1: drinking at all. So I don't think this is not
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  Speaker 1: going to change for a long time. So that's why
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  Speaker 1: they're burning the Vineyards. Hey, this has been the bonus
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  Speaker 1: segment of the podcast. Thanks for listening. If you listen live,
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  Speaker 1: don't forget the shows now three hours, nine to noon
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  Speaker 1: every weekday. Or of course you can get the podcast
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  Speaker 1: right here. Thanks for listening. Mark Simone here, take care.
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  Speaker 1: I'll talk to you on Monday.