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Today’s Popcorn Moment:    Trump reacts to New York socialist sweep · Tony Katz | Popcorn Moment

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  Speaker 1: Tony Kats The Morning News ninety three WIBC. My name
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  Speaker 1: is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. Let's
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  Speaker 1: do a popcorn moment, brought to you by Boo or
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  Speaker 1: Homer modeling. Alrighty, Today's pompcorn moment is a question that deduced.
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  Speaker 1: Peter Doucey asked President Trump yesterday about Democratic Socialists and
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  Speaker 1: how well they did in the recent election in primaries
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  Speaker 1: in New York.
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  Speaker 2: It's terrifying. Here's a little bit of that audio.
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  Speaker 1: Great night for Democratic Socialist candidates last night and the
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  Speaker 1: New York primaries they swept and knocked out two.
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  Speaker 3: Incumbents here from New York.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you think it is that now the endorsement
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  Speaker 4: of Zorn Mamdani means.
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  Speaker 3: More than the endorsement of hackem Jefferies.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the going radical left to going and really, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you talk about the Democrats, socialists you took, Really it's
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  Speaker 5: really a communists, these peop Well, I watched that woman
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  Speaker 5: last night. That's not a socialist, I know socialist, that's
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  Speaker 5: a that woman is a communist. And you know what
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  Speaker 5: they don't say is that I was sixteen and oh
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  Speaker 5: last night, but mine was a little more boring, a
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  Speaker 5: little more mainstream. They were Republican conservatives, but we were
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  Speaker 5: sixteen and oh, and if you look over the last
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  Speaker 5: two and a half years, we're about three hundred and
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  Speaker 5: forty seven.
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  Speaker 3: And just about.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they are just about.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump has been doing well with his endorsements. I
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  Speaker 1: open that can in front of my microphone and purpose,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's just an energy drink, because after I
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  Speaker 1: hear the question about socialism in New York City, I
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  Speaker 1: just want to open and drink something very very badly,
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  Speaker 1: because yes, it's absolutely happening. People on the far far
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  Speaker 1: left are convincing more and more. And here's a belief.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you think this is true. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure if I really do. I get the logic
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  Speaker 1: of it, but I don't know if it's the reality
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  Speaker 1: young people, young people who moved to difficult cities to live,
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  Speaker 1: like in New York City, and then are convinced that
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  Speaker 1: the best possible way for them to succeed, because of course,
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  Speaker 1: nothing is their fault. They chose where to live, they
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  Speaker 1: might be struggling to make ends meet, and the place
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  Speaker 1: they're in, they just want to take a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: of money from other people and give it to themselves.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a good thing. It's bad communism, socialism. It
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  Speaker 2: never works. It fails everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: But there is a belief that in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these cities where you have a younger population that is
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  Speaker 1: more likely to be swayed by an argument about socialism,
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  Speaker 1: that they're leaning into that because hey, I want some
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  Speaker 1: free stuff. And as I said again, it always goes poorly.
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  Speaker 1: It's always a bad thing. It has never worked, that's
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  Speaker 1: the easiest way to argue this. But it's happening more
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  Speaker 1: and more, and yes, it's basically communism, if not just
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  Speaker 1: full on, unapologetically communism.
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  Speaker 2: And some of the people that surround Mamdani are absolutely
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  Speaker 2: those people.
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  Speaker 1: People who've said things like individuals that have houses are
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  Speaker 1: racist because they're too many people that have happened like
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  Speaker 1: these are real things that people in these positions of
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  Speaker 1: power are saying now, and it's just it's tower fine to.
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  Speaker 2: Say the very least.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to transition from that though, because darn it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm already upset in I don't want to get more upset.
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  Speaker 1: I would rather talk about more fun things. And I
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  Speaker 1: thought this was pretty funny. I don't know why. To me,
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  Speaker 1: this is amusing and the lady went viral and there's
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  Speaker 1: a video. This is radio, so I can't really do
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  Speaker 1: anything with that. There's not a whole lot of audio
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  Speaker 1: to it. But an older woman was captured on TikTok
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  Speaker 1: taking towels away from pool chairs at a local pool
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  Speaker 1: because people were trying to reserve their chair without being
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  Speaker 1: in it, and she was just taking the towels away
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  Speaker 1: because she doesn't want this to be a thing. Man,
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  Speaker 1: you got to be in your chair, or you don't
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  Speaker 1: get to reserve your pool chair while you're.
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  Speaker 2: Jumping around in the water and doing something else.
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  Speaker 1: Some people were celebrating her and saying that she's wonderful
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  Speaker 1: for fighting the reserve system, and it did seem like
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  Speaker 1: every single chair had a towel on it that someone.
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  Speaker 2: Was reserving, just throwing them all on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: But then other people said that she was she's gone
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  Speaker 1: a little too far involving herself and stuff you should
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  Speaker 1: involve herself in. I just find it amusing that there's
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  Speaker 1: video of a woman ripping towel after towel off.
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  Speaker 2: A chair at a local pool.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, she's stealing towels. You have to arrest us.
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  Speaker 3: She is this elderly.
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  Speaker 4: Womanly and give her a life sentence.
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  Speaker 3: I'm with her. Go get the towels.
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  Speaker 4: And now if somebody's just getting up to use the
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  Speaker 4: restroom or to jump in the pool for five minutes, whatever,
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  Speaker 4: you know, leave them alone, let them do their thing.
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  Speaker 4: They're enjoying the pool, that's part of it. But you
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  Speaker 4: don't get to reserve things like that. It's kind of
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  Speaker 4: like going to a movie theater and you put a
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  Speaker 4: reservation on the entire road to your left, and you
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  Speaker 4: get the aisle seat and four others. No, that's not
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  Speaker 4: how it works. I run into this at the gym
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  Speaker 4: I go to. You know, people will kind of reserve
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  Speaker 4: a very exclusive machine. We only have one of those,
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  Speaker 4: and then they'll go to the bathroom and go over
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  Speaker 4: and stretch a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, dude, this place is packed right now. You know,
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  Speaker 3: just common courtesy. That's all she's asking for.
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  Speaker 1: Leave me alone, let me let me use it. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: I get it completely. I hate the people at the
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  Speaker 1: gym who do three machines at once. I hate the
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  Speaker 1: person who's doing the you know, the little thing whatever
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  Speaker 1: that's called.
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  Speaker 4: They're going from one to the other and they're sniffling
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  Speaker 4: in wiping the snot off their nose and they're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, I just got to do the circuit right now. Man,
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  Speaker 2: just stay stay in the corner.
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  Speaker 3: Please, all these machines.
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  Speaker 1: I want to pretend that this is my own personal gym,
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  Speaker 1: And how dare anybody else try to work out here?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: I get it too with the lady removing the towels,
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  Speaker 1: and it does seem like they're all just sitting there
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  Speaker 1: and everybody's probably abusing the system at the same time, though, like,
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  Speaker 1: I've never been that person that actually gets involved in
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  Speaker 1: this way and this sort of stuff, Like I want
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  Speaker 1: to fight the good fight, not the little fight, and
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  Speaker 1: this feels to me like a little fight that might
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  Speaker 1: not be worth going into. And the lady did go
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  Speaker 1: viral on social media because I think someone, maybe someone
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  Speaker 1: who was reserving one of the seats, just decided to
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  Speaker 1: start taping her, which is also kind of a dumb
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  Speaker 1: thing that exists in our society now where we all
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  Speaker 1: record each other and pretend as though the video we're
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  Speaker 1: making is about to go viral. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you've ever interacted with anybody, but where you're disagreeing publicly
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  Speaker 1: and they pull their phone out like, oh, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: get you for this thing. I have seen this happen
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  Speaker 1: multiple times. It actually has not happened to me, but
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  Speaker 1: I have watched it occur where people are video recording
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  Speaker 1: each other and yelling at each other.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they're not doing it for a greater good, No
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  Speaker 4: they're not. They're doing it for their own self gratification.
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  Speaker 4: That's the reason they're doing is so they can get
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  Speaker 4: on social and people will be like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 4: this other person's horrible. That's why we do it. And
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  Speaker 4: I think it is intrusive and I don't like it.
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  Speaker 4: And just because something bothers you or offends you, doesn't
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  Speaker 4: mean the other person has to go on tape because
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  Speaker 4: there's always more context to it. There's always more to
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  Speaker 4: the story. But nobody gives a damn about that. And
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  Speaker 4: that's just where we live. This isn't to complain so much,
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  Speaker 4: but when somebody pulls out their phone and starts taping you,
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  Speaker 4: it's not to make anybody a better person or make
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  Speaker 4: the world better. It's just so they can get their
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  Speaker 4: likes and retweets. That's what it's about now. And I
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  Speaker 4: hate to be so cynical, but no, that's what the
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  Speaker 4: content is.
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  Speaker 2: You're right about it.
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  Speaker 1: And actually it's just amusing to me sometimes to see
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  Speaker 1: people arguing with their cameras holding at each other and like,
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  Speaker 1: no one's ever going to see any of this. I
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  Speaker 1: can't imagine the amount of videos that don't go viral
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  Speaker 1: where people argue and fight and they have everything on
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  Speaker 1: recording and they put it up on social media and
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  Speaker 1: then they don't get the likes, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what they do. Then another story I saw that I
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  Speaker 1: thought was interesting, and I wonder, Matt, you might want
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  Speaker 1: to react to this one. For sure, Indianapolis ranks lowest
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  Speaker 1: or very low on a list of best places to
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  Speaker 1: have a bike. Apparently it's terrible compared to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of other major cities in the country. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: that that's true? First and foremost, that Indy's terrible for
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  Speaker 1: a biker?
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  Speaker 3: The bikers will say, yeah, that's very true.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And the people that drive I do both, and
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  Speaker 4: I haven't biked as much lately, But it is tough
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  Speaker 4: to get from one place to another on a bike,
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  Speaker 4: and especially if you're like me who doesn't use the
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  Speaker 4: sidewalks because the sidewalk song there for bikes. You're supposed
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  Speaker 4: to be using bike lanes or the street or whatever else.
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  Speaker 4: But nothing, nothing will send me into a fit just
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  Speaker 4: of anxiety when I'm in the same lane as a
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  Speaker 4: bike and I'm right behind them, because I'm just thinking,
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  Speaker 4: do not hit this guy.
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  Speaker 3: You will murder him. And I don't want to do
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  Speaker 3: that or be that guy.
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  Speaker 4: I feel safer on the bike than following somebody on
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  Speaker 4: a bike in my car.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, they.
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  Speaker 4: Don't always follow the rules. We don't do that. We
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  Speaker 4: run redlins and everything else. But Indianapolis started putting these
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  Speaker 4: bike lanes in these trails, and later than a lot
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  Speaker 4: of cities, especially international cities.
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  Speaker 3: And now we have real growing pains.
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  Speaker 4: You have the biking community that says it's not safe
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  Speaker 4: and the car community that says we don't give a damn,
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  Speaker 4: and both have pretty good points. And I'm not trying
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  Speaker 4: to come down the middle just to do it, but
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  Speaker 4: I do believe there's room for both. But there's not
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  Speaker 4: a lot of leadership on that. I mean, are we
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  Speaker 4: gonna build the trails? Are we going to stick with
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  Speaker 4: the cars? Right now it looks like we're building trails,
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  Speaker 4: especially here downtown, So that might improve over time, but
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  Speaker 4: right now, I totally yeah. It's just not the safest
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  Speaker 4: thing to do. But riding bike to work is great.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's easy, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, it's great for your health.
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  Speaker 1: I've never wanted to be in an argument where the
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  Speaker 1: other side of the argument was a car, though, and
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  Speaker 1: I was just on a bicycle. Like, to be honest, man,
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  Speaker 1: I've never wanted to be in that version of like, well,
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  Speaker 1: but you're the jerk, because I'm screwed in a situation
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  Speaker 1: where we get in the conflict and we hit each other.
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  Speaker 2: I've never been much of a biker.
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  Speaker 1: I biked for a little bit in Chicago when I
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  Speaker 1: was living there, and it was terrifying, not just because
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  Speaker 1: of the amount of you know, roads that didn't have
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  Speaker 1: bike lanes and things, but also the amount of people
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  Speaker 1: that seem like they wanted to drive right next to
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  Speaker 1: your bike if you know you were annoying them at
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  Speaker 1: all in the roadway. They seem to want to intimidate
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  Speaker 1: you right off the road. I didn't really love that,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that happens a lot when people get mad,
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  Speaker 1: they get a little aggressive, and the bike will lose
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  Speaker 1: one hundred fights out of one hundred versus a car.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, we have.
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  Speaker 4: These green bike boxes around the city and they're supposed
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  Speaker 4: to be like where the bikes pull up in front
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  Speaker 4: of the traffic so they can first before the cars.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody in my lifetime this has been there for like
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  Speaker 4: the last five or six years, has ever used these
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  Speaker 4: bike boxes.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm like, why the hell are they there? Why
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  Speaker 3: aren't even putting them there if nobody's going to use them?
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  Speaker 4: Because the education isn't there. It's just new. It feels
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  Speaker 4: like it's very new to the city. And when I
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  Speaker 4: say new, I'm still talking about decades here, but it
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  Speaker 4: still feels like a relatively new concept.
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  Speaker 1: Indianaskers, Yeah, it's just there so that we can all
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  Speaker 1: feel better about it and then no one gets to
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  Speaker 1: use it.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. There's a bunch of things like that.