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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, welcome to the bonus segment for all you podcast
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  Speaker 1: listeners out there. We love you, so we give you
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  Speaker 1: an extra show just for you every week. Now, look
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  Speaker 1: at this. Nearly half of the U.S. adults under 30, half, 50%,
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  Speaker 1: half of people under 30 still live at home. This
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  Speaker 1: has never happened before. Never, ever, ever. You got people
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  Speaker 1: 20 to 30, half of them living at home. People
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  Speaker 1: are buying fewer houses. This has a big effect on
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of things in the economy. But also, you've
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  Speaker 1: got a bunch of adults living at home, so they're
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  Speaker 1: like big children. These trends, it says, will likely have
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  Speaker 1: impacts that shape the U.S. future for decades to come. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is another reason you get these– Guys like Mamdani
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  Speaker 1: elected these crazies. You know, they go to a left-wing college.
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  Speaker 1: They come out of Columbia or Harvard, all indoctrinated into socialism, communism,
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  Speaker 1: left-wing stuff. They move in with the parents so they're
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  Speaker 1: not really out there in the world. They're not really
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  Speaker 1: making a full living. They're not really paying rent. They're
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  Speaker 1: still living with their parents. So they're very childish even
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  Speaker 1: in their voting. You know, they're just idealistic people. unrealistic,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how Imam Dhani gets elected. There's enough of
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  Speaker 1: those people out there, half the population under 30, and
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  Speaker 1: that's how you get a crazy Al-Sayyad nominated, that sort
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. Speaking of Imam Dhani, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 1: he's still working on his grocery stores, his city-owned grocery stores,
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  Speaker 1: which I still predict you will never live to see.
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  Speaker 1: You will never live to see one of these open.
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  Speaker 1: normally when a big supermarket opens up, I just saw
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  Speaker 1: an Uncle Giuseppe's was being built in Long Island. Those
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  Speaker 1: are massive stores. They started working about five months later,
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  Speaker 1: it was open. And this massive, unbelievable state of the
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  Speaker 1: art supermarket cost about $ 2 million to build. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie with these grocery stores, he said it'll take two,
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  Speaker 1: three years and it'll cost $ 70 million. This is absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: There's a Wegmans going up on the west side here.
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  Speaker 1: Taking about six months, seven months to build. Again, it's
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  Speaker 1: a Wegmans. Huge. About $ 2 million to open it. Mamdani
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  Speaker 1: says it takes years and it'll cost $ 70 million. And
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  Speaker 1: he's not opening big Wegmans. He's opening these broken down,
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  Speaker 1: crappy little tiny bodegas. $ 70 million? Absolutely ridiculous. But apparently
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  Speaker 1: he's having fun picking things. They've decided on the olive oil.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be Graza olive oil in the squeeze bottle. They
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  Speaker 1: just handed them a million dollar contract to supply the
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  Speaker 1: grocery stores. There's a boutique brand called Librairie, which will
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  Speaker 1: help with messaging. I mean, all this ridiculous stuff. They've
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  Speaker 1: hired Seven Roots, a worker-owned Wisconsin grocery consulting firm to
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  Speaker 1: advise on operations. This library will help with messaging. The
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  Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nobel Science Company will design the overall look of
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  Speaker 1: the shop. You know, you don't need to hire 27
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  Speaker 1: companies to help out every little thing. They're conducting focus
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  Speaker 1: groups with New Yorkers, which will be conducted in order
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  Speaker 1: to shape the brand. Now, this is why it's $ 70 million.
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  Speaker 1: You know how much money? It costs a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money to do these focus groups. You don't need to
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  Speaker 1: do the focus groups. Just go into a supermarket. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you got some of the biggest, best supermarket operators in
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  Speaker 1: the world right here in New York City. You got
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  Speaker 1: John Katsimatidis. He owns Gristiti's. He owns D'Agostino. You got
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  Speaker 1: Stu Leonard. These are two geniuses in the grocery business.
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  Speaker 1: You call them up. They'll be happy to come meet
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  Speaker 1: with you. I guarantee I know these guys. They'll come
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  Speaker 1: and meet with you. They'll say, will you help us
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  Speaker 1: design the group? Yeah. Yeah. In fact, they would say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'll bring you two or three of my top guys
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  Speaker 1: and they'll do everything for you for free. But this
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  Speaker 1: is a Democrat. This is government. They're going to spend
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  Speaker 1: a fortune. Another plush contract was awarded to Gander on
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  Speaker 1: September 28th. Gander will help design something. So anyway, he's
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  Speaker 1: saying the one in the Bronx in Hunts Point will
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  Speaker 1: open in 2027. I don't know. I still think you'll
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  Speaker 1: never see one. The one Manhattan location in Harlem isn't
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  Speaker 1: slated to open until 2029. So again, you got the
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  Speaker 1: top grocery guys in the world. They could get this
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  Speaker 1: done for you in three months for one one-hundredth the cost.
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  Speaker 1: Or on the other hand, you could go to whatever
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood you want and say, we'd like you to lower
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  Speaker 1: the prices on certain things about 25%, which would solve
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  Speaker 1: the problem. Now, you could get this done quickly. If
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  Speaker 1: you just went to any of these grocery stores and said,
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  Speaker 1: we'll suspend your property tax, we'll drop all your city
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  Speaker 1: taxes and fees, just lower the price 25%, they'd be
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  Speaker 1: happy to do it. Not every store. You just do
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  Speaker 1: it where you need it in certain neighborhoods. Problem could
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  Speaker 1: be solved in one week. But this is Mamdani who's
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  Speaker 1: never had a job, never worked anywhere, doesn't know how
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  Speaker 1: anything works. Hey, when it comes to Iran, these Iranian leaders... Now,
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  Speaker 1: look at this. An Iranian couple was jailed for protesting
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  Speaker 1: against the regime. They were both thrown in jail. Now,
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  Speaker 1: listen to this. The Iranians let them, they decided to
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  Speaker 1: allow them to get married in a prison ceremony. And
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  Speaker 1: you say, well, they have a heart. Yeah. They were
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  Speaker 1: then shot. This is Iran. Oh, excuse me. They weren't shot.
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  Speaker 1: They were hanged by the regime. So they were allowed
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  Speaker 1: to get married, and then they hanged both of them.
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  Speaker 1: This is Iran. This is who we're fighting. This is
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  Speaker 1: who we're up against. President Trump giving out a special
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  Speaker 1: medal for the Institute for Peace. Trump gave the highest U.S.
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  Speaker 1: honors for leaders in science and engineering. Elon Musk got one.
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  Speaker 1: NVIDIA's Jensen Wang. Dell CEO Michael Dell. Google founders Sergey Brin.
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  Speaker 1: Microsoft CEO got one. Now, if you're giving out this
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  Speaker 1: award for science and technology, wouldn't these be the most
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  Speaker 1: logical choices in the world? Of course they would. Now,
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  Speaker 1: of course, you can see in the fake news everywhere
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  Speaker 1: when he gives these out that they're all people that
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  Speaker 1: seem to have business with the federal government. They're all
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  Speaker 1: people regulated by the federal government because they're obvious choices.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Elon Musk, the fact that we live in
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  Speaker 1: the world, we're lucky enough to live in the same
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  Speaker 1: world as Elon Musk. Can you imagine if you got
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  Speaker 1: to watch Ben Franklin at work? Can you imagine if
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  Speaker 1: you got to watch Thomas Edison at work? If you
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  Speaker 1: were around during those days, watch Edison invent radio, movies, electricity,
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  Speaker 1: the light bulb. We're watching that now. Here's a guy,
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk, perfecting the electric car, getting us back into space,
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  Speaker 1: rocket ships, Starlink. Unbelievable what this guy's doing. Celine Dion
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  Speaker 1: fell on stage. She tumbled, took a bad fall on
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  Speaker 1: stage during her. Paris residency. She's doing a residency in Paris. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why am I talking about this? Because this is when
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  Speaker 1: you know you're a big star. Did you ever fall?
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever trip? You ever fall? You ever take
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  Speaker 1: a tumble? Of course you have. We all have. But maybe,
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  Speaker 1: maybe somebody comes over and says, okay, can I help you?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's all that happens. If you take a tumble
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  Speaker 1: and it's on every news site in the world, all
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  Speaker 1: over the world, that's when you know you're a big star.
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  Speaker 1: when just falling down, makes news headlines all over the
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  Speaker 1: world in every country. Gavin Newsom is now talking about
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  Speaker 1: releasing 563 inmates. Oh, not releasing. He's going to take
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  Speaker 1: them off death row. 563 inmates on death row. He's
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  Speaker 1: taken them all off death row because of the Krista
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  Speaker 1: Pike execution failed. So there's not going to be any
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  Speaker 1: more death row in California. See, that's the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: a knee-jerk guy like Gavin Newsom thinks. Now, the problem
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  Speaker 1: with the executions is, like with Krista Pike, that happens
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  Speaker 1: something like 1% of the time or half of 1%
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  Speaker 1: of the time. But to Gavin Newsom, you get rid
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  Speaker 1: of all the death row as a result. Did you
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  Speaker 1: know that Starbucks was going to buy Chipotle and take
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  Speaker 1: it over? This was real close to happening. Starbucks was
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  Speaker 1: going to buy Chipotle, take it over, Now, apparently the
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  Speaker 1: deal's been called off at the last minute, but the
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  Speaker 1: coffee chain was working on it for months. Chipotle is
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  Speaker 1: about $ 39 billion to buy, and the shares went up.
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  Speaker 1: Starbucks is worth about $ 110 billion. Now, I didn't know this,
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  Speaker 1: but Chipotle's been having a little trouble, softer traffic, consumers
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  Speaker 1: pulling back on certain spending, labor costs have squeezed their
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  Speaker 1: margins a little. At the end of last year, Chipotle
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  Speaker 1: had 4,000 restaurants. That's a lot of Chipotles, 4,000 in
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  Speaker 1: the United States, 100 outside the United States. However, Starbucks
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  Speaker 1: has 40,000 restaurants, 40,000. You know, I like Chipotle. It's
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  Speaker 1: very good. Not the best run as far as, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you got to wait too long. Sometimes there's, but
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  Speaker 1: that's what you get. You get a bunch of, a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of goofy kids working the line there, but Chipotle
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  Speaker 1: is great. I love it. The last thing I want
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  Speaker 1: is Starbucks taking it over. I really, really don't need that. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: in Manhattan, you know, there's a, there's only one. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know there was one, but there's one whiskey
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  Speaker 1: distillery actually in Manhattan, but they're closing down. Manhattan's only
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  Speaker 1: whiskey distillery, the Great Jones Distilling Company, is closing. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: and we've been telling you about this, people are drinking
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  Speaker 1: less and less. Alcohol consumption is way down, especially among
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  Speaker 1: younger people, Gen Z and all that. They don't drink
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  Speaker 1: as much. So they're closing. A new Gallup poll showed
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  Speaker 1: that Americans are drinking at the lowest level since 1939.
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  Speaker 1: The alcohol industry going through a major reset. Wine is
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  Speaker 1: way down. People don't drink it as much anymore, especially
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  Speaker 1: younger people. Vineyards are closing all over the place. Business
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  Speaker 1: is imploding, an analyst says. He says you're going to
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  Speaker 1: start to see liquor stores close as well because fewer
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  Speaker 1: people are drinking. Last year, Jack Daniels had to lay
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  Speaker 1: off 12% of its workforce. Several Kentucky bourbon makers who've
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  Speaker 1: been hit hard say it's all because of the Gen Z.
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  Speaker 1: They just don't drink. Now, here's a trend you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to like. This is it's starting in L.A., but
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  Speaker 1: often things start in these trendy L.A. restaurants and then
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  Speaker 1: spread everywhere. And a lot of people are getting very
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  Speaker 1: upset about this. You know, when it comes to tipping
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  Speaker 1: used to be you left a tip. Now, sometimes a
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  Speaker 1: lot of restaurants, the tip is on there. You got
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  Speaker 1: to decide like you'll get the thing and it's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: usually pay on like a little pad. And you pick
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  Speaker 1: a tip. You got to pick 20%, 25%, 30%, 15%.
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  Speaker 1: So they're trying to force the tips out of you,
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  Speaker 1: make sure they're higher than they used to be. But
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  Speaker 1: here's the new trend. A couple of people, they're in
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  Speaker 1: this very trendy top LA restaurant. And they look at
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  Speaker 1: the bill. And besides the tip, it has a little
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  Speaker 1: thing there called the administrative fee on the bill. There's
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  Speaker 1: the 20% tip. There's the LA sales tax of 10%.
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  Speaker 1: And then administrative fee. Like in this restaurant, the guy's
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  Speaker 1: check was $ 175. But with this stuff added on, it
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  Speaker 1: was another 50. It was $ 225. Administrative fee? What the
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  Speaker 1: hell is that? So he started complaining about it. And
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  Speaker 1: the restaurant said it's retained by the restaurant to help
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  Speaker 1: defray the cost of increased wages and benefits. To help processing.
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  Speaker 1: They keep trying to explain this, but it's absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Here's another restaurant in Tampa. Controversial. They got a 3%
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  Speaker 1: surcharge dubbed a venue fee. So you're going to start
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  Speaker 1: to see more and more of this. Administrative fee, venue fee.
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  Speaker 1: Look carefully. Check for that administrative fee because it's spreading
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  Speaker 1: all over the place. Hey, this has been the bonus segment.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for listening. Of course, you know about
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  Speaker 1: for listening. See you soon.