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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now 9 till noon weekdays.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 3: More Mark.
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  Speaker 2: On 710WOR. Hey, we'll take some calls.
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  Speaker 1: 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 3: 800-321-0710. It's fall.
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  Speaker 2: Just go outside. It's cold. It's fall.
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  Speaker 1: It's autumn. This was like the big pumpkin picking weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why anybody does this. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: drive way out, a couple hours out into Long Island,
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  Speaker 1: to the North Fork, to someplace to pick pumpkins. You
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  Speaker 1: don't need to do this. You're driving past Uncle Giuseppe's.
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  Speaker 1: There are three of them. They've got pumpkins all over
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  Speaker 1: the place. King's Supermarket. There's pumpkins in front. Christina's Supermarket.
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  Speaker 1: There's pumpkins everywhere you go. Balducci's. They've got pumpkins right
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  Speaker 1: out in front. All the pumpkins you'll want. You can
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  Speaker 1: go to Costco, they got a million pumpkins. But people
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  Speaker 1: want to drive. It's the fun of picking them. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you're not really picking them because it's basically a big
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  Speaker 1: field where these people put a bunch of pumpkins for
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  Speaker 1: you to drive three, four hours to pick. Long Island
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  Speaker 1: pumpkin farmers say that sales are way down. They're seeing
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  Speaker 1: fewer customers. They say it's competition from big box retailers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think people started to realize, You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: drive two and a half hours to get a pumpkin.
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  Speaker 1: It's like if you wanted a quart of milk, I
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  Speaker 1: can go to six places without leaving this block and
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  Speaker 1: get a quart of milk. I don't have to drive
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  Speaker 1: two hours to get my own milk from a farm. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: farmers are paying more for diesel used to operate the
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  Speaker 1: farm machinery to transport the pumpkins. They say heavy rain
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  Speaker 1: has also hurt some pumpkin crops, kept customers away. Or
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  Speaker 1: maybe they just figured out you don't have to drive
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  Speaker 1: two hours to get a pumpkin. Anyway, 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 1: Give us a call. Especially new callers, 800-321-0710. It's 15
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  Speaker 1: days until the election. But not really. It's early voting everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think early voting is on as of
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  Speaker 1: today in Connecticut. New York people are early voting. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of early voting going. Let's take some calls. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Mike.
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  Speaker 4: Early voting today in Florida starts.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they do everything way too early in Florida.
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  Speaker 4: Everything.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Everything. Everything. You know, I think the Katie Zachariah story
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  Speaker 4: and the No Kings protest, they're all kind of related.
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  Speaker 4: Each one of these things, like little wins for the left,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they take any win, no matter what, big, small,
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  Speaker 4: or in between. And they aren't. They're not magnanimous when
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  Speaker 4: it comes to, like, Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but wait, wait, wait. It's not a win because,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, nobody, when they do these No Kings protests,
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  Speaker 1: nobody knows what the hell they're talking about. Nobody knows
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  Speaker 1: who they're talking about. You've got to remember, most of
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  Speaker 1: America has nothing to do with this. Even Katie's Zachariah,
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  Speaker 1: most of America couldn't care less about this. It's not
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  Speaker 1: an issue.
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  Speaker 4: You're right. You're right. But they do have, but it's
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  Speaker 4: like an attention, you know, getter. And, you know, that's
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  Speaker 4: what I'm afraid of. And as far as the pumpkin pickers,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, is there any single male that goes pumpkin
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  Speaker 4: picking or apple picking? Remember the apple pickers were calling
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  Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago, extolling the virtues of apple picking.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, no guy goes under their own free will
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  Speaker 4: to go pumpkin picking or apple picking.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's always the wife. I love to go to
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  Speaker 1: department stores, clothing stores on a Saturday and watch. There's
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  Speaker 1: always the poor husband who's sitting in the chair. looking
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  Speaker 1: so disgusted, waiting for the wife to get done shopping.
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  Speaker 1: He's forced to come along and sit there, and every
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  Speaker 1: so often she'll put something on and walk over to him,
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  Speaker 1: and he's gotta go, oh, it looks great, looks great.
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  Speaker 4: You see it down here in the supermarkets, the old people.
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  Speaker 4: The wife is pushing the carpet, and the old guy
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  Speaker 4: is about five feet behind her with this look of saying,
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  Speaker 4: when is she going to die? This can't go on forever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they should just tie a leash around the husband
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  Speaker 1: and she should lead him around.
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  Speaker 3: It's awful.
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  Speaker 4: The poor guy is so beleaguered. He goes, I didn't
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  Speaker 4: realize this was going to be 30 years after I retired.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Good call, Mike. Thanks for calling. Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: pumpkin picking. There's apple picking. How did it become just
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  Speaker 1: those two? Why is it just those two? Why isn't
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  Speaker 1: there pear picking, peach picking? It's just for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you go to any supermarket, they have 27
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  Speaker 1: different varieties of apples right there. And unlike the ones
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  Speaker 1: in the field, these are all polished and waxed and
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  Speaker 1: shined up, and they look great. Let's go to Ralph
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  Speaker 1: in New Jersey. Ralph, how you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, we're doing well.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 1: Say it again.
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  Speaker 4: I'm here. Can you hear me? All right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what you're saying is, hello, hello, hello.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Ralph.
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  Speaker 4: What I'm saying? What I'm saying is someone needs to
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  Speaker 4: have a reality check in regards to how farmers actually
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  Speaker 4: try to make a living. And you're promoting supermarkets to
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  Speaker 4: sell pumpkins over farmers. It seems kind of like hypocritical.
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  Speaker 1: No, the farmers actually.
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  Speaker 3: Make more money from the supermarkets.
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  Speaker 1: Than that two weeks a year pumpkin field out in
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  Speaker 1: long island the pumpkin producers the farmers 98 of their
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  Speaker 1: money is coming from the supermarkets where in costco and
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  Speaker 1: all that where they sell a much much much bigger
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  Speaker 1: volume of pumpkins than if they were depending on the
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  Speaker 1: two weeks two weekends a year and a pumpkin field
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  Speaker 1: they'd all be out of work now it's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: the supermarkets where they make all their money let's go
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  Speaker 1: to jeff in forest hills jeff how you.
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  Speaker 4: Doing Yes, hi, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice to speak with you.
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  Speaker 1: What's the matter, Jeff? You sound a little down. What's
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  Speaker 1: going on?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to get into that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: after all, you use your voice for your living. And
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  Speaker 2: unfortunately for me, it's a similar situation. But I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to speak with you about the E train and the
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  Speaker 2: M train.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You belie your ignorance.
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  Speaker 1: Well, on that note, let's get rid of you. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to be polite if you call. Let's go to,
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  Speaker 1: let's see. Do we go to this guy? Oh, let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Gregory. Gregory, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Hi, I wanted to talk to Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on. I'll get him.
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  Speaker 4: Hang on.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get him.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Mark. If he has room.
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  Speaker 1: Mark, there's a phone call for you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. Oh, hello.
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  Speaker 4: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: I thought I was going to go through somebody. Mark,
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to reiterate the wisdom and value of pumpkin picking.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, there's also strawberry picking.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 4: Strawberry picking. In the spring, it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: But the value of it is this. I agree with
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  Speaker 3: the previous caller that a single guy may not be.
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  Speaker 4: Interested in it.
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  Speaker 3: But it's a family thing. We should encourage family things.
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  Speaker 3: And you don't just go.
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  Speaker 4: Out to get the pumpkins.
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  Speaker 3: And you don't just go out to get the strawberries
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  Speaker 3: or the apples. You also want to take in the
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  Speaker 3: ambiance of the magnificent North Fork of eastern Long Island.
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  Speaker 3: That's the key.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's a very good point. You're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 3: But... We have fantastic restaurants out here to go to,
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  Speaker 3: like Jedediah Hopkins House, historic places like that. Hey, the
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  Speaker 3: North Fork is— You can learn about farming. The North
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  Speaker 3: Fork is— You can learn how do these things grow.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's a good point. That's a very good point.
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  Speaker 1: North Fork is beautiful. It's just a long way away.
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  Speaker 1: If you live near there, it's great. But if you're.
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  Speaker 2: Taking your kids— Yeah, but it's like a staycation.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a staycation. It's a family thing. You go
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  Speaker 3: out here. Take Greenport, for instance, which is a short
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  Speaker 3: distance away from on the end of the North with
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  Speaker 3: the fishing boats coming in and the short ferry ride
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  Speaker 3: to Shelter Island. It's an unsung hero of the East Coast.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's a good point. That ferry to Shelter Island
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  Speaker 1: and Shelter Island itself is so breathtaking and beautiful. But
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  Speaker 1: it's like four hours away. It's too far away. It's true.
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  Speaker 1: If you leave in the city.
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  Speaker 3: What about people who want to go from Long Island
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  Speaker 3: into the city or people who want to travel to
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  Speaker 3: those magnificent four colors in the upstate shorts.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of hours, but you stop on the way.
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  Speaker 4: But when you get there. All right.
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  Speaker 1: You're not wrong. You're not wrong. You're absolutely right. These
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  Speaker 1: are very good points. Excellent call. The only thing is
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  Speaker 1: you got to take into consideration lazy people like me.
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  Speaker 1: We live in the city. We don't like to drive
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  Speaker 1: for three hours. We like to drive for like half
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  Speaker 1: an hour, 40 minutes. You know, if you're leaving the
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  Speaker 1: city to go out to Long Island, go stop at
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  Speaker 1: the planting fields. It's near Oyster Bay. It's the most unbelievable, beautiful, scenic.
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  Speaker 1: You can walk around there for hours. Let's see, an
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  Speaker 1: old Westbury Gardens is beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: It's closer.
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  Speaker 1: You want to see water and all that. Go to
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  Speaker 1: Oyster Bay. A lot of beautiful areas. But I understand.
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  Speaker 1: I'm probably wrong on this. You've got to have little
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  Speaker 1: kids and a family and taking them pumpkin picking. All right.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great thing. See, I'm from the Midwest. We
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  Speaker 1: did all that stuff, but it wasn't two and a
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  Speaker 1: half hours away. It was closer. Anyway, we'll take some
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  Speaker 1: more calls later. We've got a lot coming up. I'm
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  Speaker 1: here three hours every day, nine to noon every day.
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  Speaker 1: So don't forget. And then coming up at noon, Buck
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