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Hour 2: NYC’s entertainment scene update. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Mark Simone Show. W Well, as
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Speaker 1: I mentioned, FBI has arrested four terrorists, a radical pro
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Speaker 1: Palestinian terrorists. They're accused of plotting New Year's Eve bombings.
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Speaker 1: Now it's La it's not New York. Identified as members
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Speaker 1: of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, whatever the hell that is.
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Speaker 1: But they're Muslim terrorists. They're radical pro Palestinian extremist group
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Speaker 1: plotting New Year's Eve bombings for Los Angeles. The FBI
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Speaker 1: has caught them. You know, Paris is not really Paris anymore.
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Speaker 1: They same problem, open borders, illegals flooding in and these
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Speaker 1: migrants have a created terror all over Paris. And every
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Speaker 1: year in Paris they have an incredible New Year's Eve
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Speaker 1: celebration on the Chanz Oflyse. It's like our Times Square
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Speaker 1: kind of celebration where like literally a million people will
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Speaker 1: show up. They've canceled this year's celebration. Usually a million
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Speaker 1: people show up. They have concerts and all this stuff.
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Speaker 1: They've canceled because of the migrant crisis in Paris. There's
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Speaker 1: too much crime, too much terrorism. And instead they're going
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Speaker 1: to have a pre recorded video that people can watch
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Speaker 1: from home. They don't want people showing up, so they've
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Speaker 1: had to cancel their New Year's Eve traditions in Paris.
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Speaker 1: They'll still have the fireworks over the Arcta Triumph when
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Speaker 1: it's midnight, but they don't want anybody there in person
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Speaker 1: enough to watch that on television as well, so it's
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Speaker 1: just not the same. The Chans of Lyse, the most
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Speaker 1: beautiful boulevard in the world, because of all the illegals,
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Speaker 1: all the illegal migrants, has been a center of violence lately.
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Speaker 1: Throngs of young Muslim migrants streaming in at night looking
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Speaker 1: for trouble, looting stores, brawling with Parisians and police. This
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Speaker 1: is Paris, it's not the parish you once knew. Again
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Speaker 1: illegal migrants have destroyed Paris. It's just awful. So nothing
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Speaker 1: new on Rob Reiner since the last hour. At some
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Speaker 1: point there'll be a press conference with the LA Police
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Speaker 1: and they'll announce things. But remember it's three hours earlier there,
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Speaker 1: so I imagine that press conference won't happen for another
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Speaker 1: hour or two. What we do know is it looks
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Speaker 1: like his son stabbed him and his wife slit their throats.
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Speaker 1: The son, who's just a very, very very troubled kid
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Speaker 1: years of drugs, alcohol, mental craziness, homeless, has been taken
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Speaker 1: into Custody's thirty two. Reiner has three kids with the wife,
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Speaker 1: but with his previous wife, his first wife, Penny Marshall,
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Speaker 1: he had a daughter and the daughter lived on the
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Speaker 1: property in the guest house. Well heard incredible arguing, screaming,
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Speaker 1: and at some point went over to check and found
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Speaker 1: them both dead. Called police and she said, you got
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Speaker 1: to look at him. She said she believed it was him.
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Speaker 1: The sun. So they've taken him into custody. We'll see
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Speaker 1: what happens there. Brown University. They did have a shooter
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Speaker 1: in custody, but they've since let him go. It's the
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Speaker 1: Providence police department. We love Providence, but it's not the
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Speaker 1: sharpest police department in the world. And we'll see. And
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Speaker 1: now again it may not be anti semitism. If this
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Speaker 1: could be an anti Republican shooting, it looks like this
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Speaker 1: small group of people all they were also the conservative
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Speaker 1: group on campus. One of the people shot, the student
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Speaker 1: was the head of the Republican club there. So we'll
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Speaker 1: see what it turns out to be. But the Rob
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Speaker 1: Reiner situation, that's Brentwood, and Brentwood is actually part of
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, but they try to act like they're a suburb.
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Speaker 1: They don't really want to be part of Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: They form their own town council, they have their own
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Speaker 1: little police department, but Brentwood is a part of Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: so it's really Lapd in charge of that Brentwood. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: where Oj stabbed the wife and Ron Goldman. So it's
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Speaker 1: only a mile and a half from Rob Reiner's house
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Speaker 1: if you live in the middle there. Twice you've had
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Speaker 1: these awful stabbings where people's throats were slit on either
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Speaker 1: side of you. It's a terrible situation. What else Frank
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Speaker 1: Sinatra number one on the Billboard charts. How about that
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Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra. It's actually nineteen sixty one. He recorded I've
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Speaker 1: Got My Love to Keep Me Warm. It's a great song.
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Speaker 1: It's sort of become a Christmas song and it gets
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Speaker 1: played at Christmas time. So Pentatonics got the master tapes
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Speaker 1: where you can isolate just Sinatra's voice. His recording as
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Speaker 1: a beautiful big band, you know, Johnny Mandel arrangement, but
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Speaker 1: they isolated just his voice, took just his voice and
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Speaker 1: they did a whole new arrangement, a whole new single,
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Speaker 1: and it's It was number one last week on the
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Speaker 1: Adult Contemporary chart. They still have that Adult Contemporary chart.
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Speaker 1: So it's the first number one hit single for Frank
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Speaker 1: Sinatra since nineteen sixty seven. No, it wasn't something stupid.
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Speaker 1: That was nineteen sixty six. Sinatra's last number one was
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Speaker 1: The World We Knew. It was a hit single Forgotten
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Speaker 1: About Go back and listen. It's pretty good Sinatra single,
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Speaker 1: The World We Knew, And that was a number one
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Speaker 1: hit single for him September of sixty seven, so that
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Speaker 1: was his last hit single. That's I think, let me think. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's the all time record fifty eight years in between
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Speaker 1: number one hits. The previous this record had been Elton
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Speaker 1: John who went twenty three years between hit singles. Now
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Speaker 1: one was one of his own hits and then the
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Speaker 1: other one was one of those duet kind of deals
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Speaker 1: with Ed Sheeran and again a Christmas song. So Sinatra,
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Speaker 1: it's a new record fifty eight years between number one hits.
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Speaker 1: And also this has got to be the all time record.
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Speaker 1: Sinatra's first number one hit single was nineteen forty with
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Speaker 1: Tommy Dorsey I'll Never Smile Again. He was his first
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Speaker 1: hit single. It's kind of the song that really put
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Speaker 1: him on the map. So nineteen forty to now is
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Speaker 1: eighty five years. So that's an all time record. A
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Speaker 1: guy has a hit single number one on the chart,
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Speaker 1: and he's number one in the chart eighty five years later.
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Speaker 1: This first time that's ever happened. Sinatra, I remember, had
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Speaker 1: the longest career of anybody. When he started singing. Herbert
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Speaker 1: Hoover was president when he stopped singing, Bill Clinton was president.
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Speaker 1: That's a long long career. He also made let me
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Speaker 1: think about one hundred albums. That's not the record, Ella
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Speaker 1: Fitzgerald one hundred and sixty six albums, Bing Crosby two
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Speaker 1: hundred albums, or the equivalent of two hundred albums. Crosby
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Speaker 1: holds the record for the largest output recording wise. So
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Speaker 1: you got to hey, I forgot to mention this. You
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Speaker 1: got the Epstein photos that came out. Remember on Friday,
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Speaker 1: they tried to you know, they're always trying to get Trump,
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Speaker 1: so they put out a photo of him with six girls,
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Speaker 1: young girls, you know, with the face was blacked out. Well,
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Speaker 1: it turned out this is the Democrats on the House Committee.
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Speaker 1: Look at this, not only with young girls, there's six
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Speaker 1: of them surrounding him. Well, it turns out the whole
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Speaker 1: thing was fake. You can always count on Democrats MSNBC, CNN,
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Speaker 1: New York Times to fake everything because somebody came up
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Speaker 1: with the original picture without the faces blacked out. And
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Speaker 1: they're clearly not young girls. They're adults, all adults. And
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Speaker 1: it turns out it was a beauty pageant being held
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Speaker 1: at mar A Lago. They were all professional adult models.
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Speaker 1: It was a big promotion for Hawaiian Tropic Sun Tan lotion.
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Speaker 1: The party and the beauty pageant held at mar Alago.
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Speaker 1: Trump shows up, takes a picture with all the models
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Speaker 1: in the beauty pageant, the fashion show, and that's what
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Speaker 1: it was. It wasn't young girls. The picture totally fake,
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Speaker 1: ridiculous And that tells you all you need to know
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Speaker 1: about Democrats and Epstein and all this stuff. So, oh,
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Speaker 1: Saturday had the Army Navy game. President Trump tradition now
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Speaker 1: comes to the Army Navy game, walks on the field,
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Speaker 1: standing ovation the crowd, cheering USA USA. You never hear
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Speaker 1: that with a Democratic president. They don't like to cheer that,
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Speaker 1: but it was very upsetting. The Democrats watching this very upsetting.
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Speaker 1: They don't like any of this. They don't like football,
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Speaker 1: they don't like cheering and chanting USA, they don't like
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Speaker 1: any of this stuff. So it really really upset them.
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Speaker 1: Harry to trum of this last hour. Tourists are all
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Speaker 1: over in New York. If you don't think New York's
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Speaker 1: doing well, try to get a hotel room right now
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Speaker 1: in New York City. It is impossible. It's impossible. There's
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Speaker 1: no hotel rooms left in New York City. Everybody wants
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Speaker 1: to come here, even with Mom Donnie elected. Tourists are
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Speaker 1: coming in unbelievable numbers. Also, real estate sales are very,
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Speaker 1: very very strong. Don't listen to this. Everybody's leaving New York.
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Speaker 1: Nine hundred and seventy six closings real estate closings in
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Speaker 1: the last month. Now, if you go to the super
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Speaker 1: high end departments, there were nine closings last week, contracts closings.
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Speaker 1: That's a big number. That's a lot for one week.
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Speaker 1: So sales are really strong, and the rental market is
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Speaker 1: going crazy. You're gonna have a lot of trouble renting
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Speaker 1: apartment right now in New York people are moving in
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Speaker 1: like crazy. Rentals indicator to study rentals are the people
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Speaker 1: first coming to New York, first coming here, and many
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Speaker 1: rentals next year turn into buyers. They'll come here, rent
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Speaker 1: for a year or two and then they'll start buying.
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Speaker 1: But rentals are through the roof. It's almost impossible to
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Speaker 1: rent anything right now. So New York doing very very
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Speaker 1: well the Christmas season. Tourists are everywhere. It's Christmas, and
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Speaker 1: I remember you may be gift shopping, but for yourself.
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Speaker 1: Don't buy anything right now. Don't buy anything. Don't buy
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Speaker 1: any clothes right now. Don't buy anything right now, because
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Speaker 1: right after Christmas, everything's going to be half price. So
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Speaker 1: I become like Robert de Niro and Goodfellows yelling anyway,
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Speaker 1: don't buy anything. What I say, don't what I tell you.
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Speaker 1: Don't buy anything? Did I tell you? Don't buy anything
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Speaker 1: right now? It's all going to be half pricing. If
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Speaker 1: you wait till after New Year's it's going to be
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Speaker 1: seventy five percent off. So don't buy anything right now. Hey,
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Speaker 1: you know all the great supermarkets, Wegmans, they're all over
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Speaker 1: the place. Whole Foods. Whole Food's not so much anymore.
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Speaker 1: Quality went down there once Bezos took it over, I
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Speaker 1: think deliberately. Uh, but remember Whole Foods. All of a
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Speaker 1: sudden it went back to I guess it was the nineties.
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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, Whole Foods opened everywhere. It is
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Speaker 1: an unbelievable supermarket, beyond anything you'd ever seen. Now, they
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Speaker 1: were from Texas. It was a Texas supermarket. They opened
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Speaker 1: a couple, then they went national. They became huge. And Wegmans.
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Speaker 1: I forget where they're from. They're from someplace Wegmans Colorado
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Speaker 1: or something. I don't know, but Wegmans. They were very good.
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Speaker 1: Then they opened a couple. Next thing you know, they
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Speaker 1: went national. Now when you get a Wegman's, it's exciting.
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Speaker 1: There's one in New Jersey's had them for a while,
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Speaker 1: but you just got one couple of years ago in Westchester.
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Speaker 1: You just got one in Connecticut. So they've exploded. They're
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Speaker 1: all over America. Now. The next one to watch out
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Speaker 1: for is Uncle Giuseppees. Uncle Giuseppes is gonna just remember
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Speaker 1: you heard it here first. This is gonna be the
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Speaker 1: big national phenomenon. If you live in Long Island, you
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Speaker 1: don't even me to tell you about Uncle Giuseppes. There's
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Speaker 1: a bunch of them all over Long Island. There's spectacular.
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Speaker 1: It's like the Italian Wegmans. Lots of Italian stuff, but
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Speaker 1: the prepared foods everything. So there's a big article in
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Speaker 1: the paper today about Uncle Giuseppe's going all out for Christmas.
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Speaker 1: Not just decorations like crazy all over their stores. But
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Speaker 1: they got carolers, they got singers singing Christmas songs right
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Speaker 1: in the store. They're all over Long Island. The best
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Speaker 1: one's Melville. I think that's where the family lives. Great,
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Speaker 1: great family, very smart people that run this. So there's
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Speaker 1: one in not a big one, but there's a smaller
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Speaker 1: one in Yorktown Heights. There's a bunch of them. I
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Speaker 1: think they're all over Long I think there's one in
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Speaker 1: New Jersey. But watch this will be the next big
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Speaker 1: national chain. They got twelve of them already. I see
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Speaker 1: them looking for other locations. But they're phenomenal, So keep
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Speaker 1: an eye on them. They'll be the next big national
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Speaker 1: chain that explodes everywhere. So when hey, once again, I
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Speaker 1: went to a million Christmas parties yesterday, people everybody will
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Speaker 1: say to you, what's gonna happen to the midterms. Who's
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Speaker 1: going to win the midterms? How are we going to
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Speaker 1: do in the midterms, what's going to happen that. Don't
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Speaker 1: listen to anybody right now. This is impossible to predict.
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Speaker 1: If you said, who's going to be in the super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: maybe a good sports expert could give you a good guess.
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Speaker 1: But if you said to the greatest sports expert, who's
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Speaker 1: going to win the super Bowl in twenty twenty seven,
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Speaker 1: they can't tell you. There's no way to know that now.
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Speaker 1: Same thing with the midterms. Don't listen to anybody's prediction
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Speaker 1: right now. It means absolutely nothing. Everything is going to
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Speaker 1: change six months from now. You'll be in a whole
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Speaker 1: different world landscape. These predictions mean absolutely nothing. Same thing is,
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Speaker 1: when they tell you who's going to win in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty eight, who's going to run? You can't tell now.
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Speaker 1: It's impossible. Now if you're watching fake news, you'll see
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Speaker 1: all these polls, all these studies that the Democrats are
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Speaker 1: definitely going to win the mid terms. Look at this
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Speaker 1: poll that pole, look at this day now. The reason
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Speaker 1: they do this on fake news show you that Democrats
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Speaker 1: are on track to win and mid The reason they
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Speaker 1: do that, it's for fundraising. That's the only important thing
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Speaker 1: right now, lots of fundraising. If you put out all
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Speaker 1: this nonsense showing you're going to win, you have a
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Speaker 1: much better shot at fundraising. Donors will give like crazy
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Speaker 1: if they think you're going to win. So don't fall
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Speaker 1: for all. That's just propaganda right now for fundraising purposes.
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Speaker 1: Don't take it. Don't take it too seriously. And Gavin
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Speaker 1: Newsom twenty twenty, Well, he's clearly way out in the front.
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Speaker 1: And you remember he's a big, big star right now
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Speaker 1: on the scene with all of his tweeting and instagram
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Speaker 1: and posting and podcasting, all that's uff. He's quite a
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Speaker 1: flamboyant guy. He's attacking Trump like crazy. He's the the
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Speaker 1: star right now. But there's an old rule in politics,
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Speaker 1: especially democratic politics, there's candidates you want to date, and
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Speaker 1: there's candidates you want to marry. So sometimes the flashy
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Speaker 1: guy with the outrageous comments, it's like a that's like
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Speaker 1: a woman you date, but you wouldn't marry her. So
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Speaker 1: it's the same thing with voters right now. They'll date
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Speaker 1: him because he's funny and flashy and outrageous. Doesn't mean
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Speaker 1: they want to marry. It doesn't mean they'll vote for him.
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Speaker 1: So just remember, hey, we'll take some calls. Next. Eight
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Speaker 1: hundred three to two one zero seven ten is the number,
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Speaker 1: eight hundred three to two, one zero seven ten, mister
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Speaker 1: New York. Here's more. Mark Simone on sevent ten wor
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Speaker 1: all right, we're learning more about the Rob Reiners situation.
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Speaker 1: The police have not yet held their press comp so
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Speaker 1: they not absolutely confirm. But remember we told you last
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Speaker 1: hour they have arrested the sun they did take the
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Speaker 1: son into custody. Well, now they've charged him. They've officially
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Speaker 1: charged him. Hasn't really been announce ship, but they've charged
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Speaker 1: him and there's a four million dollar bail on him. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is Sunday, yesterday, this terrible stabbing. The night before
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Speaker 1: Saturday night, there was a big Conan O'Brien Christmas party.
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Speaker 1: Rob Reiner and his wife were there, and somehow the son,
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Speaker 1: Nick was there, and apparently they got into a loud, loud,
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Speaker 1: vicious argument at the party that got very loud and
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Speaker 1: out of control, so much so that Rob Reiner and
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Speaker 1: his wife left the party. So that's Saturday night, and
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Speaker 1: it looks like the Sun came to the house Sunday
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Speaker 1: and again a loud, loud argument. And Reiner's daughter was
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Speaker 1: living in the guest house. Apparently she heard the argument
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Speaker 1: and then at some point later went over to check
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Speaker 1: on them, found them dead, called police, told police about
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Speaker 1: the Sun. So but here's the latest though. He is.
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Speaker 1: He has been charged apparently, and there's a four million
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Speaker 1: dollar bail. Let's take some calls. Let's go to Brian, Granwich, Connecticut. Brian,
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Speaker 1: how you doing.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Hey Mark, good morning, First first time I ever
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Speaker 2: called in here, and I love you. We've met a
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Speaker 2: few times.
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Speaker 3: Over the years.
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Speaker 1: Wait, yeah, we meet.
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Speaker 2: We met it withal the.
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Speaker 1: Scal very fine restaurant in Granwich, Connecticut, right there on
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Speaker 1: the water. Oh yeah, David Fletcher the manager.
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Speaker 2: Excellent guy, great guy, super nice guy. I actually took
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Speaker 2: my girlfriend for for her birthday party there. But real quick.
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Speaker 2: So Wegman's is actually from Rochester, New York. Mark, Okay, yep,
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Speaker 2: Danny Danny Wegman. When I left the Waldorf in the
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Speaker 2: Tavern on the Green in twenty one club, I met
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Speaker 2: Danny Wegman through through a relative and we started off
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Speaker 2: premise catering business with you. You remember David Bulet, Oh god, David,
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, got the best we did.
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Speaker 1: Would the best parties.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: He was a great guy, but the great guys.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what.
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Speaker 1: He You'll admit a little nuts big time.
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Speaker 2: I was with him for three or four years.
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Speaker 1: Very hard to have the number one highest rated New
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Speaker 1: York restaurant in New York and then be closed in
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Speaker 1: six months unless you're a little nutty.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god. But I'll leave it with this. Jim
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Speaker 2: from New Jersey is one of my best friends, and
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Speaker 2: he calls in all the time. And when I heard
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Speaker 2: you mentioned Wegman's, I said, oh god, I got a
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Speaker 2: call Mark.
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Speaker 1: And all right from Rochester. Hey, you said you worked
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Speaker 1: at the Waldorf.
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Speaker 2: I was director catering at the Waldorf.
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Speaker 1: Well have you seen the new Waldorf.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm a member of the Distinguished Alumni and.
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Speaker 1: I like the old war Dog walderf a little better.
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Speaker 1: What do you think?
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Speaker 2: So they had their open party in the ballroom the
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Speaker 2: night before our dinner. So it was a little bit
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Speaker 2: of a mess. And the lobby I think's really nice, Mark,
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Speaker 2: it's beautiful.
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Speaker 1: It's they took away a lot of stuff that I.
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Speaker 2: Didn't think they did. You know, they took away it
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Speaker 2: went from I think it went from like fifteen hundred
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Speaker 2: keys to that to like three hundred believe it or not.
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Speaker 2: So they're all private, you know, beautiful million, multimillion dollar
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Speaker 2: a year co ops and condos or whatever. But but
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Speaker 2: the ballroom is still the ballroom.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not that same. It was white and gold.
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Speaker 1: Now it's silver silver. It looks like a big tin
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Speaker 1: can when you're in it. The beautiful lighting's gone. They
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Speaker 1: got those led Haligen whatever they are. They're not the same.
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Speaker 2: They took the they took the chandelier at which is ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: I mean, how can you how can you do that?
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Speaker 2: But uh yeah, back in the days, forget about it.
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Speaker 2: I mean we had so many parties there, oh my god.
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Speaker 2: But but anyway, Danny's I think Danny's daughters are now
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Speaker 2: in charge of the company and they're great, great people
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Speaker 2: as well. And uh yeah, so's father.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well it's a great Wegmans, great store. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for calling. Let's go to uh Stuart in South Carolina. Stuart,
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Speaker 1: how you doing?
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Speaker 3: Hey, Mark car are.
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Speaker 4: You two points one? You know I've been in plays
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Speaker 4: Off almost fifty years in the South in very gun
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Speaker 4: friendly states. I have never worked a home invasion, not
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Speaker 4: one ever. I've never worked at carjacking ever, because people
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Speaker 4: here know is they open up your door to your house,
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Speaker 4: they're probably going to die. If they open up the
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Speaker 4: you're a car door, they're probably.
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Speaker 3: Going to die.
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Speaker 4: So guns, guns prevalent among people, are a real crime
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Speaker 4: to turn. And you know that criminals do not obey
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Speaker 4: gun laws. Australia and New Zealand have taken guns away
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Speaker 4: from everybody nobody.
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Speaker 1: Okay, but you live in the South South Carolina. People
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Speaker 1: know how to handle a gun. This is New York City.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine a woman in a great neck handling
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Speaker 1: a gun?
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Speaker 4: Well, maybe this is true, but if they may, he's
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Speaker 4: going to purse.
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Speaker 1: You can't even find the coach check every thing. You know,
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Speaker 1: you're going to look for a gun.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And the other point I want to make is you're
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Speaker 4: absolutely right. New York City is wonderful. South Carolina is horrible.
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Speaker 4: We have crocodiles everywhere. The humidity and the summer is
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Speaker 4: just horrible. The people are unfriendly. Please New Yorkers stay
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Speaker 4: in wonderful New York City, and please don't come to
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Speaker 4: South Carolina. It's a horrible place to live.
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Speaker 1: Nah, you've been sarcastic.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, I'd.
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Speaker 1: Rather be in New York right now.
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Speaker 4: It's what gas is two thirteen right now.
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Speaker 1: Hey, no, but you got nowhere to go there.
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Speaker 4: We got the beach, the mountains, got everywhere here. I
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Speaker 4: mean I've been I grew up in Levittown, but what
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Speaker 4: I've been down South over fifty years, I would never leave.
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Speaker 1: Now it's a great place. I'll stay here. But it's
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Speaker 1: a great place. Thanks for calling, Stuart. I'll actually we
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Speaker 1: have time. We'll take some more calls tomorrow because I
21:30
Speaker 1: want to get to a Steve Cuzo. He's the expert
21:33
Speaker 1: on New York, on real estate, on restaurants, on what's
21:37
Speaker 1: going on, how is New York doing? How is business?
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Speaker 1: We'll get to all of that. What's going to happen
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Speaker 1: under mom Donnie. We'll get to all of that. Coming
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Speaker 1: up next on seven to ten. W ind Mark on
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Speaker 1: demand by setting up preseat for his podcast on the
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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Now back to Mark Simon on wor Well.
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Speaker 1: Steve Cuzo is the great columnist for the New York Post,
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Speaker 1: nobody better on real estate, on restaurants on New York
22:06
Speaker 1: on what's going on? And all his columns are up
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Speaker 1: on the New York Post website. Steve Cuzo, how you doing?
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Speaker 3: He Good morning, Mark. I always hope I can live
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Speaker 3: up to your great billing, and.
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Speaker 1: You always do. Now when it comes to apartments, rentals, sales,
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Speaker 1: offices moving, how is New York doing? It's not true
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Speaker 1: that everybody's leaving New York.
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Speaker 3: Is it? No, sure isn't. The office market has strongest
22:37
Speaker 3: it's been in about ten years. And you think about
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Speaker 3: what that means. Recovered from the pandemic. People are back offices.
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Speaker 3: It's hardly any space available, that's how strong the market is.
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Speaker 3: And housing a very interesting story, you know, right. I
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Speaker 3: wrote a piece yesterday in the Post. It's up on
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Speaker 3: our website about the whole myth, the fallacies around so
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Speaker 3: called affordable apartments. So you know, you've got the incoming mayor,
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Speaker 3: Zona Madani and many others complaining about we've got to
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Speaker 3: build affordable housing, you know, get people off the streets
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Speaker 3: into affordable housing. There's a number of issues here. Number one,
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Speaker 3: most of the people, many of them at least, do
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Speaker 3: not they'd rather be on the street because they are not.
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Speaker 3: They're not normal people. They're psychos, they are drug addicts,
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Speaker 3: they are dangerous homeless people. They're not people by and large,
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Speaker 3: living on the street simply because they can't afford to
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Speaker 3: make ends meet despite working three jobs. Okay, so let's
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Speaker 3: get that straight. Number two. There's a myth that the
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Speaker 3: city doesn't have or doesn't create affordable apartments. It's you
23:49
Speaker 3: can look it up. This is not a matter of opinion,
23:51
Speaker 3: but of objective truth. The City of New York, through
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Speaker 3: various meetings, rezonings, et cetera, has generated the creation of
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Speaker 3: over three hundred thousand new rental apartments in the last
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Speaker 3: roughly ten years. That's an extraordinary number. And of those
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Speaker 3: a significant percentage, a minority percentage, but still a meaningful percentage.
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Speaker 3: Twenty percent typically are ear marked for people with incomes
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Speaker 3: below average. They are intended for people who make a
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Speaker 3: certain percentage of the median area income. That is to say,
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Speaker 3: by and large, people who are working class, not middle
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Speaker 3: not up, not affluent. They have families, some of them
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Speaker 3: were of two to three jobs, and these are apartments
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Speaker 3: that are set aside for people with those lower incomes
24:54
Speaker 3: and not set aside for people with no incomes, which
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Speaker 3: is of course what Mamdani and his fellow travelers in
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Speaker 3: what I call socialists the sophistry want. They're intended for
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Speaker 3: people who earn a living. They're tax paying citizens of
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Speaker 3: the city, and they deserve a place to live that
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Speaker 3: they can afford. And the city has delivered. Okay, let's
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Speaker 3: say three hundred thirty thousand new units altogether, and rentals
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Speaker 3: were talking about not condos, twenty percent of that, so
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Speaker 3: sixty thousand, roughly, very roughly are affordable in a meaningful sense.
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Speaker 3: So you read all this propaganda in Bologne. It's propagated
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Speaker 3: by the activist organizations, the New York Times and other
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Speaker 3: left leaning media that the city has failed its homeless
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Speaker 3: populations by not building or not creating affordable home to them.
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Speaker 3: It's malarkey, just not toru.
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Speaker 1: Well, sometimes you don't have affordable housing because the places booming.
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Speaker 1: You know, if you went to a garden city, Long Island,
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Speaker 1: it's very expensive, there's no affordable housing. But the next
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Speaker 1: town over, Hempstead, not so good. A lot of affordable housing.
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Speaker 1: But so is every place have to have affordable housing,
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Speaker 1: you just go to the next town.
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Speaker 3: No. The truth is I don't Mark, I don't really
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Speaker 3: know the Garden City situation. But more to the point
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Speaker 3: is that I mean, you can't have uniform you can't
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Speaker 3: have affordable housing by any definition, distributed uniformly. Of course,
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Speaker 3: the five boroughs hundreds of different neighborhoods. Obviously some areas,
26:36
Speaker 3: some neighborhoods lend themselves more to higher income residents than others.
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Speaker 3: But what's remarkable is that you look at the city now.
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Speaker 3: The city has generated entire new skylines of mostly rental
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Speaker 3: apartment buildings in the last fifteen years, and places like
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Speaker 3: Gowanas in Brooklyn on the Canal, in the parts of
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Speaker 3: downtown Manhattan in the South Bronx, Long Island City, and
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Speaker 3: Hunter's Point in Queens. These are success stories. These stories
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Speaker 3: help explain why we're not seeing a massive exodus of
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Speaker 3: people from the city. Obviously, there will always be some
27:22
Speaker 3: people who want to go. Let them go, and they'll
27:26
Speaker 3: quickly find The New York Times actually had a terrific
27:29
Speaker 3: story about a week ago about how people who think
27:31
Speaker 3: they're going to leave the city suddenly discovered that it's
27:34
Speaker 3: not as easy as they thought. They thought they could
27:36
Speaker 3: get the tax benefits of living in Texas or Florida,
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Speaker 3: just by filling out a change for transform or something,
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Speaker 3: and it turns out this is far from the case.
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Speaker 3: So nine out of ten people who say they're leaving
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Speaker 3: the city for good don't. Hey.
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Speaker 1: So these big, big, big real estate guys, they know
27:54
Speaker 1: their stuff. These guys are brilliant. Now I noticed they're
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Speaker 1: building a ninety story skyscraper Madison in fifty eighth Park Avenue.
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Speaker 1: Fifty second they get one hundred story skyscraper going. They
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Speaker 1: got all these skyscrapers going, one on fifty seventh coming.
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Speaker 1: They wouldn't be doing this if they didn't believe in
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Speaker 1: the future of New York, would they.
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Speaker 3: They? Of course, they believe. They're not infallible. They often
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Speaker 3: make a lot of them make big mistakes and go,
28:19
Speaker 3: you know, if not broke when a minimum they lose
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Speaker 3: their umpires. They'll look back to case of William Zeckendorf,
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Speaker 3: one of the famous developers of all time. He ended
28:30
Speaker 3: up living in a I think I'm like a furnished
28:33
Speaker 3: room or something in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A lot
28:37
Speaker 3: of these characters that too much. You know, they're intoxicated
28:41
Speaker 3: by easy money. The banks are too willing to lend
28:45
Speaker 3: sometimes interest rates are very low. Interest rates obviously fluctuate,
28:50
Speaker 3: but when they're very low, everybody sees they don't see
28:52
Speaker 3: any possible downside. And yet there are buildings, rental apartment
28:57
Speaker 3: buildings and condo buildings that did not do well and
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Speaker 3: had to be taken over by someone else. By and large,
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Speaker 3: I agree with you that generally speaking, real estate developers
29:08
Speaker 3: have a greater you know, they're more attached to the
29:12
Speaker 3: reality the pulse of the city's economy than journalists are,
29:17
Speaker 3: and they wouldn't be making taking the kinds of gambles
29:20
Speaker 3: that they take if they weren't confident. So the buildings
29:24
Speaker 3: you mentioned Madison Avenue, there are two of them. One
29:26
Speaker 3: is being developed by related companies at fifty eighth Street
29:30
Speaker 3: and Extel I think, two blocks north. They're both putting
29:33
Speaker 3: up giant you know, the buildings. Not even certain exactly
29:37
Speaker 3: what the mix will be of apartments or offices, perhaps
29:41
Speaker 3: a hotel. But yeah, of course they have confidence and
29:44
Speaker 3: they those buildings are going to do fun.
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Speaker 1: Also, the big new restaurants opening all over the place, right,
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Speaker 1: and you covered a lot of big restaurants that opened recently.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the one I wrote about last week. Is
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Speaker 3: called Palladinos and it's in Grand Central Terminal. It's on
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Speaker 3: the you know.
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Speaker 1: The the.
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Speaker 3: The mezzanie. The balcony is overlooking the main concourse. I
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Speaker 3: never heard of this guy, Joe Palladino. He's from New York,
30:12
Speaker 3: but he made a career in Texas, Uh, opening steakhouses.
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Speaker 3: Now he's come to New York. And it's magnificent. It's
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Speaker 3: absolutely beautiful. It's a great place to sit, even if
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Speaker 3: you didn't eat or drink anything. Not that, not that
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Speaker 3: they're promoting asking people to come and not spend any
30:28
Speaker 3: money because the setting is so magnificent over the you know,
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Speaker 3: the main floor of the terminal, and the food's great.
30:38
Speaker 3: And I had a story in my real estate column
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Speaker 3: today that there's another steakhouse coming and it's called something
30:44
Speaker 3: like Jay. I'm sorry, I just can't remember the Jack
30:47
Speaker 3: Jack D's Jack D's it going to Yeah, and it's
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Speaker 3: going to be on in the building known as seventy
30:53
Speaker 3: five Rockefeller Plaza. Now it's really the restaurant will actually
30:57
Speaker 3: be on the West fifty second Street side.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 3: The space is currently vacant. That's another big one. So
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Speaker 3: over two hundred seats, and the two guys doing it
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Speaker 3: are professionals. One of them is the son of Jack Dorian,
31:12
Speaker 3: who is creative Dorian's Red Hand on the East Side.
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Speaker 3: And uh, it's there's New York City has an unlimited appetite,
31:23
Speaker 3: it seems for steakhouses. I often think there are too
31:27
Speaker 3: damn many of them, But there you go, that's what
31:30
Speaker 3: that's what the public wants. They don't want, you know,
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Speaker 3: eight seat counters where you just need you know, vegan
31:37
Speaker 3: weird stuff.
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Speaker 1: All right, So bottom line, New York is booming, right,
31:42
Speaker 1: it's doing very well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there's nothing is permanent. And in terms
31:50
Speaker 3: of the real estate aspect of it, people forget that
31:52
Speaker 3: it's a cyclical industry. It goes up, it goes down.
31:57
Speaker 3: Everybody nobody knows what's really coming. Everybody is old saying
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Speaker 3: fighting the last war. Yeah, and so god knows where
32:05
Speaker 3: we're had it. But a couple of weeks ago, you know,
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Speaker 3: I sat down with Mark Holliday, who's the CEO of
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Speaker 3: sl Green, the city's largest commercial landlord, and he's very optimistic.
32:19
Speaker 3: I said to him, Mark, this, you know, vacancy rates
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Speaker 3: are down, prints are up, and blah blah, blah, you know,
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Speaker 3: am I missing something? Is there is there a weak
32:27
Speaker 3: link here in this picture? And he said, well basically
32:30
Speaker 3: not all right, good good news now for now.
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Speaker 1: Excellent news everybody. If you want to read Steve Cuzo's columns,
32:37
Speaker 1: they're all up on the New York Post website. You
32:39
Speaker 1: can find all his columns there and make sure you
32:41
Speaker 1: read them regularly in The New York Post. Steve Cuzo,
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Speaker 1: thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 3: Thanks Mark, always fun.
32:47
Speaker 1: All right, take care, hey, don't forget. Buck and Clay
32:49
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32:51
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 1: A lot's going to happen today. They'll be press conferences today.
33:16
Speaker 1: As far as the Rob Reiner murder, I never thought
33:20
Speaker 1: he'd be saying that. Police. Remember it's three hours earlier
33:24
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, so it's only nine o'clock there. But
33:26
Speaker 1: at some point pretty soon they'll hold a press conference,
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Speaker 1: they'll announce things. They've not officially announced anything yet, but
33:32
Speaker 1: what we know unofficially the son Nick has been charged.
33:36
Speaker 1: They arrested him. He was taken into custody. Apparently they've
33:40
Speaker 1: got enough evidence or whatever they need, they've actually charged him.
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Speaker 1: He's being held on four million dollars bail right now
33:47
Speaker 1: and apparently had vicious fights all weekend with the Sun.
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Speaker 1: It looks like he stabbed both of them. But Joe,
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Speaker 1: you'll hear more today. So we'll be back tomorrow and
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