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Hour 3: New Diner menu items. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Mister New York mar Simon on wre.
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Speaker 2: Well, this is our number three, Yes, our number three.
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Speaker 2: That's right. If you didn't hear, the show is now
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Speaker 2: three hours. We're starting at nine am every day, so
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Speaker 2: don't forget tomorrow nine am. We'll be on nine to
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Speaker 2: noon every day, three hours a day, nine to noon
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Speaker 2: every day. So you know, President Trump called off the
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Speaker 2: big attack. There was to be a massive attack on
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Speaker 2: Iran last night. But peace talks have resumed and looks good.
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Speaker 2: But it always looks good. None goes bad. But you'll
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Speaker 2: notice that last week it was it Thursday, the President
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Speaker 2: held a cabinet meeting. That's unusually he has them all
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Speaker 2: the time, unlike Biden. But he held it at Camp David. Now,
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Speaker 2: why would all of a sudden the cabinet mean you
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Speaker 2: have to be at Camp David's paying the neck of
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Speaker 2: Itody has to go all the way out to Camp David,
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Speaker 2: which is out in Maryland. That's usually when they're about
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Speaker 2: to do some major, major, major military operation. Now the
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Speaker 2: reason is you want to discuss it with your entire cabinet.
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Speaker 2: So this military attack that he talked about being big
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Speaker 2: was apparently going to be huge, huge, it's kind of
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Speaker 2: thing you need to go over with your whole cabinet. Now,
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Speaker 2: why would you have to go to Camp David for that,
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Speaker 2: because you don't want anything to leak out. And what
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Speaker 2: happens is when you have a cabinet meeting, it's all
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Speaker 2: the cabinet secretaries and then they all have staffs and assistance,
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Speaker 2: and then when the meeting's over, you know, you can
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Speaker 2: throw the cameras out of the room. You don't have
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Speaker 2: to have the cameras there. But once the meeting's over,
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Speaker 2: they all leave through the White House. They walk through
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Speaker 2: the White House hallways and corridors and different places, and
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Speaker 2: it's surrounded by press and the reporters. The press access
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Speaker 2: to the cabinet members, to their staff, to everybody all
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Speaker 2: through those hallways. So when you do it at Camp David,
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Speaker 2: there's no press within fifty miles literally, So everybody leaves
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Speaker 2: Camp David, gets back in their car, gets back in
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Speaker 2: their helicopter, and goes home without ever running into any press.
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Speaker 2: So the fact that he did that cabinet meeting at
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Speaker 2: Camp David means it was major stuff that was being discussed. Now, Iran,
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Speaker 2: well we'll see, here's the president on that.
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Speaker 3: We just made a great settlement of the war with
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Speaker 3: the Ran and we're going to be subject to finalization
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Speaker 3: of documents. We should get done over the next few days.
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Speaker 3: Probably have a signing.
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Speaker 2: Maybe in Europe. Yeah, so they're talking right now as
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Speaker 2: we speak. Talks will go on all day and that's it.
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Speaker 2: Peace talks, treaty settlement done. This should last about two
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Speaker 2: days and then they'll start firing at our ships again.
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Speaker 2: But it buys you a couple of days. Spain, the
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Speaker 2: invasion of Spain by all those migrants. President asked about that.
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Speaker 3: I watched the catastrophe that took place. It was a
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Speaker 3: It looks like an invasion of a country by hundreds
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Speaker 3: of thousands of people, And that same thing's gonna happen
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Speaker 3: to us if the Republicans sell get elected, except worse.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we saw it under Biden. Sixty thousand
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Speaker 2: people entered Spain. We used to have that every day,
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Speaker 2: every couple of days. We get sixty thousand million people
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Speaker 2: a year coming in. It was ridiculous. So we have
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Speaker 2: a boarder. Now. We got Tom Holman one by one
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Speaker 2: throwing all those criminal, illegal aliens out of here. That's
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Speaker 2: good news. Now, President again, I took about this last hour.
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Speaker 2: The economy is fine. I know they keep trying to
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Speaker 2: convince you it's in shambles, it's a disaster. Absolutely not true.
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Speaker 2: He's doing a tour several states this week to talk
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Speaker 2: about that. And if you watch the fake news, even
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Speaker 2: the network news, you're convinced that the president's approval ratings
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Speaker 2: are so low it's disaster. That they're fine. They're fine.
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Speaker 2: They're where every president's approval ratings are at this point.
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Speaker 2: What they never tell you in those reports is that
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Speaker 2: Democrat approval rating is one hundred times lower. Again, here's
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Speaker 2: the CNN pollster.
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Speaker 4: Okay, the Democratic Party net favorability back in twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 4: Back in twenty eighteen, when Democrats were able to take
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Speaker 4: control the House, they were actually on the plus side
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Speaker 4: of the Lleger. They were actually in positive territory at
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Speaker 4: plus one point. Look now in twenty twenty six, we're
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Speaker 4: not just talking down there underneath the Potomac. We're talking
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Speaker 4: down there with the Titanic. We're talking twenty four points underwater.
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Speaker 4: And this is just the party overall. This isn't the
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Speaker 4: congression leadership. This is the party.
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Speaker 2: That's the CNN pollster. So the media forgets to tell
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Speaker 2: you that part that Democrats have approval ratings below Donald Trump.
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Speaker 2: Now c Span supposed to be neutral. Sea Span is
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Speaker 2: a kind of a left wing kind of a thing.
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Speaker 2: But sea Span does these little polls of their own
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Speaker 2: where they talk to Democrats. They now listen to here
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Speaker 2: se Span talking to a Democratic voter.
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Speaker 1: Jim and Georgia, which party do you plan to vote
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Speaker 1: for in November?
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Speaker 5: Well, I'm a little bit confused on that right now,
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Speaker 5: because the Democrats.
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Speaker 6: Have lost their mind.
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Speaker 5: This is insanity. What is going on? You're sitting here
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Speaker 5: and telling me that the United States of America is
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Speaker 5: going to have a socialist party that is going to
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Speaker 5: be running the country.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the idea socialists communists. That means no more democracy.
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Speaker 2: So if you're actually a socialist is a communist. Same thing.
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Speaker 2: So if you say I'm a socialist democratic socialist, means
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Speaker 2: you're an anti democracy, anti America as we know it. No kings.
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Speaker 2: You want to see a king elect some socialists and
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Speaker 2: you'll see some king there. Unbelievable. Hey twenty twenty eight. Now,
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Speaker 2: now let me just point out anytime anywhere anybody is
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Speaker 2: talking about who the nominee is gonna be at twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty eight, you should probably not listen, pay no attention.
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Speaker 2: It means absolutely nothing two years earlier. Trying to predict anything.
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Speaker 2: Whatever it looks like now is not what it's not
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Speaker 2: going to look like that in twenty twenty eight. It's
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Speaker 2: like trying to tell It's like me trying to tell
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Speaker 2: you who's going to win the twenty twenty eight Super Bowl.
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Speaker 2: Who the hell knows what's going to be happening in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight. So anything you say about twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: eight now means absolutely nothing two years from now, because
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Speaker 2: everything will change five times before then. So I mean, look,
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Speaker 2: if you went back six months, ooh, it's Gavin Newsom.
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Speaker 2: He's way out in the lead. Now he's completely out
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Speaker 2: of it. So but if you just try to look
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Speaker 2: at it now, it's Kamala Harris. She's back on top.
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Speaker 2: Total disaster again for the Democrats. Now Kamala Harris. Last time,
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Speaker 2: remember she pretended to be a little more moderate stack
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Speaker 2: the Supreme Court. Well, I don't know. I wouldn't want
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Speaker 2: to do that open border, no, no, no, I'm not
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Speaker 2: for that. Well, now she's going in the opposite direction.
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Speaker 2: She's talking about stacking the Supreme Court, adding two more
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Speaker 2: congressional seats Washington.
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Speaker 6: D C.
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Speaker 2: And Puerto Rico. They would do that because those are
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Speaker 2: guaranteed Democrats. So if you made them states, you would
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Speaker 2: get two more Democratic senators from each. So all the radical,
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Speaker 2: crazy stuff she's now for because she realizes right now
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Speaker 2: that's the way the wind is blowing. You got to
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Speaker 2: be a left wing cook, crazy radical if it's Kamala Harris.
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Speaker 2: Could you imagine that Kamala Harris running against her? He's
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Speaker 2: so simple for anybody. Mid terms again. Trump approval ratings
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Speaker 2: are fine, They're not great, but they're fine, and Democrat
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Speaker 2: approval ratings are so low. Hey. By the way, sometimes
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Speaker 2: you'll see people that have turned on Trump and they'll
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Speaker 2: yell and scream, promise no more wars. He promised no.
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Speaker 2: He never ever, ever, ever said anything of the kind.
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Speaker 2: There was never any promise like that. And if to
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Speaker 2: check the record, President Trump, even as private citizen, Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump has been doing interviews for fifty years, and you
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Speaker 2: will find a million interviews every year of his life
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Speaker 2: where he talked about going after Iran. He always talked
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Speaker 2: about going after Iran. Always and he never said no
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Speaker 2: new wars. He promised no unnecessary wars. No, you know,
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Speaker 2: crazy going to Iraq wars because they weren't really a threat.
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Speaker 2: In this case, Iran was two weeks away from nuclear
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Speaker 2: a nuclear bombs, so that was considered a real threat.
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Speaker 7: Hey.
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Speaker 2: By the way, the other thing in the midterm elections,
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk is now stepping up. He's already pledged one
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Speaker 2: hundred million dollars that he will spend in the mid terms. Now,
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Speaker 2: a lot of that will be what they call ground game,
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Speaker 2: getting the vote out for Republicans. Must is already on
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Speaker 2: board for one hundred million. Expect that to expand to
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Speaker 2: probably two hundred and fifty million by the time he's done. Hey, now,
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Speaker 2: this is interesting. Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Green, remember
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Speaker 2: her and Thomas Massey. They want to plot a new
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Speaker 2: political party. They're dissatisfied with Trump and the Republicans. So
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Speaker 2: Marjorie Taylor Green, Tucker Carlson, I'm talking about starting their
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Speaker 2: own party now for Republicans that hate Trump or all that.
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Speaker 2: So they're going to have their own. Now, this is
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Speaker 2: actually great for Republicans. This will be the best thing
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Speaker 2: that ever happened, because Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson
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Speaker 2: will take all the wackos out of the Republican Party.
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Speaker 2: They'll remove the wackos and get him in their party.
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Speaker 2: I think they're going to call it America First for
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Speaker 2: all Americans, catchy name, huh. So they'll be like the
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Speaker 2: Alex Jones. They'll be the new Alex Jones wing of
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Speaker 2: the party. They'll get all the wackos over the now.
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Speaker 2: You know, diners have been disappearing. It's a very important thing,
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Speaker 2: a diner, especially. You know, Long Island had great diners.
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Speaker 2: New Jersey's got them, the greatest diners everywhere you go, Westchester, Connecticut,
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Speaker 2: the city. I mean you haven't, but it was really
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Speaker 2: outside the city. And you know, the great thing was
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Speaker 2: that those suburban diners, there were so many great ones,
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Speaker 2: and they started to vanish, one by one by one
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Speaker 2: by one. People don't eat that stuff anymore, you know,
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Speaker 2: the people that own the diners, the kids don't want
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Speaker 2: to be in the diner business. They'd rather open a
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Speaker 2: chic cafe or something. So but there's still some great
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Speaker 2: diners in New Jersey, and there's still a couple in
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Speaker 2: Long Island. But I don't like this story at all.
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Speaker 2: So a lot of these diners now they think to
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Speaker 2: hang on, they're going to have to get very trendy.
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Speaker 2: They've been studying social media and they want very trendy food.
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Speaker 2: Like instead of soda, dirty sodas, you know what that is.
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Speaker 2: That means it's a soda. Put all kinds of stuff
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Speaker 2: in there, alcohol flavored syrups, things in it. Son, I
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Speaker 2: don't like that Cajun shrimp alfredo bread bowl at the seaport. Now,
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Speaker 2: we don't need this. Don't stick to what you do.
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Speaker 2: It's what it's what makes you better. Here's another diner,
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Speaker 2: the Noki out Taco. Yeah, no, no, no no, don't
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Speaker 2: stick to diner food. It's the smartest thing to do.
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Speaker 2: It's an amazing place a diner because if you went
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Speaker 2: to the finest restaurant, you went to Laburna Dan. If
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Speaker 2: you went to Danielle, the finest restaurant, the menu is
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Speaker 2: like one page, they got like twenty things. You go
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Speaker 2: to a diner, the menu is forty seven pages. They
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Speaker 2: have four hundred and eighty different things. Now if you
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Speaker 2: go to Danielle in the kitchen, there's two hundred French
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Speaker 2: chefs working in there. The kitchen is the size of
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Speaker 2: a football field. If you go to a diner, it's
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Speaker 2: a little griddle with one guy and somehow he can
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Speaker 2: turn out four hundred and twenty five things. It's absolutely amazing.
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Speaker 2: So you got to give him credit for that. None
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Speaker 2: of this bad things about the diner. You know, you
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Speaker 2: walk in and there's that case with all the pies
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Speaker 2: that are two feet high, and it's spent, the cases
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Speaker 2: spinning around. And then they always have that sign, all
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Speaker 2: pies baked, all baking done on premises. You know, I
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Speaker 2: don't know about that. You look at this diner, looks
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Speaker 2: like a gas station. I don't want anything baked in here.
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Speaker 2: I'd rather have it come from a really, really fine bakery.
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Speaker 2: And then it always it's always that sign, please wait
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Speaker 2: for a hostess to seat you. They haven't had a
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Speaker 2: hostess in twenty years in these diners. But well, anyway,
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Speaker 2: there's still a couple of Long Island and you know
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Speaker 2: it used to be twenty four hours. You know, you
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Speaker 2: go three in the morning the diner. There's nobody in
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Speaker 2: there anymore. Hey, speaking a Long Island, there's a magazine
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Speaker 2: Business of Fashion it's like the big trade magazine of
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Speaker 2: the fashion industry. So they picked the top fashion stores
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Speaker 2: all over the world and for the New York area.
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Speaker 2: Guess who won? Hirschlifers, that's the great store at the
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Speaker 2: Americana and Long Island. It really isn't an incredible store.
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Speaker 2: Lorie Hirschlifer, Shelley Hirschlifer, Marcy Hirschliffe. A great family been there,
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Speaker 2: they've been store has been in business one hundred years.
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Speaker 2: But Long Island wins top fashion store in America. Great, great,
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Speaker 2: great honor. Hey, Howard Stern, congratulations won his legal battle.
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Speaker 2: Remember that assistant was suing Howard Stern for a fortune.
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Speaker 2: She was hired as an assistant. She was hired as
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Speaker 2: an assistant on the show, and then somehow she moved
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Speaker 2: to be the assistant at his Southampton home where what
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Speaker 2: was the job here? Managing staff of the mansion, setting
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Speaker 2: staffing schedules, completing staff payroll, managing general household operations. And
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Speaker 2: guess how much the assistant two hundred and sixty five
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Speaker 2: thousand a year. Two hundred and sixty five thousand a
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Speaker 2: year for that and an eighty thousand dollars bonus. Pretty good,
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Speaker 2: But she got fired. She's been suing Howard Stern and
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Speaker 2: the wife. I guess claiming a hostile work environment. I
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Speaker 2: nobody can picture that hostile work environment. Immense pressure created
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Speaker 2: by irresponsible and untenable animal rescue and fostering operations occurring on.
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Speaker 2: So whatever the hell she was claiming, A judge tossed
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Speaker 2: it out, judged throughout the whole thing. So a victory
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Speaker 2: for Howard Stern. Hey, movies, this was a huge you
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Speaker 2: know actually I think this was the biggest box office
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Speaker 2: weekend in history, all because of two films. Odyssey continues
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Speaker 2: to be huge, but Spider Man did three hundred million
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Speaker 2: this week. So between Spider Man and Odyssey, biggest box
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Speaker 2: office weekend ever. Pretty amazing. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next.
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Speaker 2: Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten is
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Speaker 2: the number? Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 1: What's better than two hours of Mark Someone three? The
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Speaker 1: Mark some own show now nine till noon weekdays.
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Speaker 2: Seven to TENO. You know it's even better one hour
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Speaker 2: one hour? Remember Ed cotch Oh, he was like the
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Speaker 2: number one talk show host years ago on the old WABC.
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Speaker 2: Remember head Coach was the eleventh to twelve every day
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Speaker 2: number one show and talk beat Everybody, Bob Grant eleven
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Speaker 2: to twelve. Let me go propose that later today. Let's
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Speaker 2: take some calls. Hey, we want new callers too. If
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Speaker 2: you're haven't called ever before, try it. Eight hundred three
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Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten is the number. Let's go
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Speaker 2: to Linda in Long Island. Linda, how you doing II?
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Speaker 8: Hi, I'm sorry, I'm not doing that today.
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Speaker 2: You shouldn't call him hello, you're right.
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Speaker 8: Okay, quickly, quickly? Did you ever go to the Hilltop?
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Speaker 8: It was on Potson's Boulevard years ago. My boyfriend's family
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Speaker 8: owned it, and he the reason I called because I
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Speaker 8: don't know if you ever had it. He used to
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Speaker 8: make me the most delicious brandy Alexander with ice cream.
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Speaker 8: I don't know if you ever he did it for you.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't sound good, but.
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Speaker 8: It was so good. Did you go there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're not going to ask for a brandy Alexander.
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Speaker 8: I don't ask for it. He used to make it
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Speaker 8: for me.
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Speaker 2: Where do you live now?
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Speaker 8: Excuse me?
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Speaker 2: Where do you live in Long Island?
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Speaker 8: Well, it's actually it's a borderline.
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Speaker 2: Something fish here Laurel No Laurel Park Floral Park. Okay,
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Speaker 2: that's you're Oh you're in the Queen's part.
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Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, it's not.
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Speaker 2: See there's people that claim they live so they're in
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Speaker 2: Floral Park, Queens, but they claim it's Long Island.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well spoiling.
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Speaker 2: What's your area code? Is your area code five? One six? No,
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Speaker 2: you're in.
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Speaker 8: Queens Are you doing that again?
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Speaker 2: No, I'm just it's not just you.
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Speaker 8: If you can't make me a Brandy Alexander with ice greens.
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Speaker 2: It's not just you. There's people who live in the Bronx.
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Speaker 2: They claim it's Westchester because it's like right on the border.
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Speaker 8: That's true. And yeah, she claims she came from the
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Speaker 8: Bronx and she was really from the good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it works the other way. Sometimes they're from Westchester
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Speaker 2: and they want to sound like they're right off the
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Speaker 2: street and they claim they're from the Bronx.
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Speaker 8: That's right, Clay, she's the opposite of the poor thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Linda, thanks for calling people like, Hey,
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Speaker 2: there's people of the northern part of Newershell, right in
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Speaker 2: the northern always claim where do you live, Scarsdale? Well
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Speaker 2: you live in newership Well it's actually scar it's the
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Speaker 2: Scarsdale Post office. They always give you that excuse, same
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Speaker 2: thing in the floral Well it's really long island. Well,
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Speaker 2: if your area code's not five one six, it's not
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Speaker 2: really long island. Let's go to U Joe in Elmwood Park. Joe,
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Speaker 2: how you doing?
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Speaker 9: Good morning? Mark three hours now, our dear sweet governor
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Speaker 9: claims there's only four hundred illegals, which is a lie. Voted.
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Speaker 9: Now they're going to go after them because now they
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Speaker 9: broke two laws. They are coming here illegally and voting illegally.
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Speaker 9: They took my vote away, they canceled my vote.
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Speaker 2: Well somebody should, Uh no, I actually they You know,
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Speaker 2: those illegals have a pretty good case. They'll say I
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Speaker 2: didn't really want to vote. They had a motor vehicle.
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Speaker 2: That also they put me on the voter roles they
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Speaker 2: sent me about. No, you're absolutely right. They got to
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Speaker 2: stop this. It's I said this before in a football game.
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Speaker 2: If there's any question, they stopped the game. They bring
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Speaker 2: out the chains, they measure down to the I grow
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Speaker 2: inj They go over the instant replay twenty seven times
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Speaker 2: from fifteen angles. If we can do that for football,
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Speaker 2: why can't you do that for an election? Why can't
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Speaker 2: you go back and examine the ballots, examine everything. It
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Speaker 2: only makes sense to just keep looking at everything over
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Speaker 2: and over again. Let's go to Jimmy in New York City. Jimmy,
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Speaker 2: how you doing.
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Speaker 5: All right?
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Speaker 7: Three hours marked? And let's not forget that China sent
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Speaker 7: that virus SOB to America and the Chinese communist leaders
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Speaker 7: they had to be laughing their heads off when they
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Speaker 7: saw the Kivarellas take the fifth when the Chinese commerce
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Speaker 7: leaders are the ones who did it. He took up
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Speaker 7: fifth to them.
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Speaker 2: They talking about that's all that counts. Let's go to
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Speaker 2: Lou in Union, Lou, how you doing?
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Speaker 6: Good morning? Mark? Three hours?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, in case anybody doesn't know, the show's now three hours.
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Speaker 2: We start at nine am, nine to noon every day
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Speaker 2: three hours. Did you hear the first hour?
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Speaker 6: No? I didn't, Mark, Oh my god.
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Speaker 2: No, Maybe we'll have to go back to ten to
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Speaker 2: noon if everybody's missing the first hour.
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Speaker 6: Okay, Now I noticed that Steve Rizzotti does the show
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Speaker 6: on Friday when you're off. He also does the news
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Speaker 6: who Steve Risotti?
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Speaker 2: No, No, you mean Ken Risotto, Kens newsman, Yes.
20:20
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, Ken Rosatto. He also does the news on
20:23
Speaker 6: a competing network. Uh, and he uses a different name.
20:26
Speaker 2: I don't know what are you the CIA?
20:27
Speaker 7: What do you?
20:28
Speaker 2: What are you? Detective agency? Following people around? But what's
20:31
Speaker 2: your name?
20:31
Speaker 5: Lou?
20:31
Speaker 2: From you? You know? I found out you call other
20:33
Speaker 2: stations and you'd use a different name. I do not
20:37
Speaker 2: do that, Mark, Yes, you do. I think you've got
20:39
Speaker 2: You're up to something. I can tell. Let's go to
20:43
Speaker 2: uh Tom in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Tom. How you doing?
20:47
Speaker 10: I'm doing all right, Mark, Mark. Movie revenues are at
20:50
Speaker 10: record breaking areas, Uh, primarily because of how much they
20:55
Speaker 10: charge to get into the movies. You know. That's a
20:57
Speaker 10: good yes, so much.
20:59
Speaker 2: That's a good point. Yeah. You know, when you look
21:01
Speaker 2: at Gone with the Wind, with the biggest movie ever,
21:03
Speaker 2: it only made like ten million dollars. But you're just
21:06
Speaker 2: for inflation, it's like a billion dollars.
21:08
Speaker 10: But fuk do they include the money at concession stands
21:11
Speaker 10: with these revenues?
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Speaker 5: No?
21:13
Speaker 2: No, okay, But thanks for it's a good point. He
21:17
Speaker 2: makes a very good point. H Yeah, well you know
21:20
Speaker 2: what it used to be five dollars to go to
21:21
Speaker 2: the movies. Now it's twenty five dollars. By the time
21:24
Speaker 2: you get popcorn and a big candy bar, it's like
21:26
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty bucks. It's like ridiculous, But I'll
21:30
Speaker 2: give them credit, as the theater business is dying. You've
21:36
Speaker 2: been to an AMC theater, it's amazing. These big, huge,
21:39
Speaker 2: comfortable recliner chairs, got a tray on either side of
21:43
Speaker 2: you for drinks, for food, they got like a full menu.
21:46
Speaker 2: I mean it's pretty good. Court. On the other hand,
21:49
Speaker 2: I got that at home. You gotta have your own
21:51
Speaker 2: recliner chair. You can have an enormous screen, and you
21:55
Speaker 2: can order food from anywhere you want. So who the
21:56
Speaker 2: hell needs to go to the movies? But of course
22:00
Speaker 2: the only thing you can't get at home. I don't
22:02
Speaker 2: know where the hell you'd get one of those one
22:05
Speaker 2: foot by two foot candy bars, those big candy bars.
22:08
Speaker 2: I don't know where you get those. So he's a
22:09
Speaker 2: brand you never heard of too. But he's right, and
22:13
Speaker 2: it's it's affected the price. So when they say the
22:16
Speaker 2: Spider Man made three hundred million, under a normal price ticket,
22:20
Speaker 2: it would have only been one hundred million. Let's go
22:22
Speaker 2: to Hall in Freeport. Hell, how you doing.
22:25
Speaker 11: I'm doing wonderful talking about diners. Back in the seventies,
22:29
Speaker 11: we grew up in Queens and streaking was in. We
22:33
Speaker 11: used to streak Queens Boulevard.
22:34
Speaker 2: Oh God, who the hell wants to see that you streaking?
22:38
Speaker 2: I don't want to see that.
22:39
Speaker 11: We were streaking, and we streaked the Flagship diner and
22:43
Speaker 11: then put on our clothes and go in and have cheeseburgers.
22:47
Speaker 11: And it was great. And then ten years later, I'm
22:50
Speaker 11: in Manhattan. The guy goes you. You you're a streaker.
22:52
Speaker 11: He owned his own restaurant and he ordered a sign
22:55
Speaker 11: from me.
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Speaker 6: You like it?
22:58
Speaker 2: No, that's a hell of a story. But this was
23:00
Speaker 2: back you were like John Travolta in the Saturday Night.
23:02
Speaker 11: Fever, were going to the nightclubs. And this goes and
23:06
Speaker 11: so even more interesting. They put me on TV when
23:09
Speaker 11: the diner closed. Copshiky, No Hickey, Channel Hicky. Yeah, they
23:17
Speaker 11: auctioned off the diner. And I go to diner auctions.
23:20
Speaker 11: I'm not there to buy equipment. I'm there to meet
23:23
Speaker 11: business people that might need a sign for their business.
23:27
Speaker 2: So anyway, well, this is exciting. It's a hell of
23:29
Speaker 2: a story. You might want to write a book. Don't
23:31
Speaker 2: show it to anybody, but I gotta go, but anyway,
23:34
Speaker 2: we hey when we come back, Steve Cuzo, the great
23:37
Speaker 2: New York Post columnist, will be with us next exactly
23:40
Speaker 2: how well is New York doing. He'll give us all
23:42
Speaker 2: the latest diner news, restaurant news too.
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Speaker 11: Uh.
23:45
Speaker 2: We'll get to that coming up next on seven to
23:47
Speaker 2: ten WR.
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Speaker 1: Live from the WR Life Back Studios. Mark them.
23:55
Speaker 2: Well. Steve Cuzo, the great columnist New York Post, nobody
23:59
Speaker 2: better on restaurants, on real estate, on what's going on
24:02
Speaker 2: in New York. You can read his column at the
24:04
Speaker 2: New York Post and all his columns are up on
24:06
Speaker 2: the New York Post website. Steve Cuzo, how you doing?
24:11
Speaker 2: I'm great?
24:11
Speaker 12: Mark, thanks better?
24:13
Speaker 2: Question how's New York doing? If you watch or touch
24:16
Speaker 2: people in Florida? That everybody's leaving, everybody's leaving it well.
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Speaker 12: First of all, let me preface my remarks by saying
24:22
Speaker 12: that I want to know a lot more about this
24:24
Speaker 12: guy who jumped off the top of the tower of
24:27
Speaker 12: the Brooklyn Bridge and is alive. Okay, his name is
24:32
Speaker 12: guy on our front page today a bomblie or something
24:35
Speaker 12: like that, and he's being jumped almost three hundred feet
24:40
Speaker 12: into the East River and he survived, So maybe that's
24:43
Speaker 12: a metaphor for the city's result.
24:45
Speaker 2: Oh good point. But you know, the guy was such
24:49
Speaker 2: a failure. He decided to commit suicide and then he
24:51
Speaker 2: failed at that too.
24:52
Speaker 12: So flopped at that. So I'm reading here he was
24:55
Speaker 12: charged with reckless endangerment, making graffiti public loudn this, criminal trespass,
25:02
Speaker 12: and disorderly conduct. And I'm thinking the guy should be
25:05
Speaker 12: giving us. The guy a miracle guy, he's like, visit
25:09
Speaker 12: from the day. They should put him in Saint Patrick's Cathedral.
25:12
Speaker 12: You cannot two hundred and seventy eight feet when you
25:17
Speaker 12: jump from that height. The water is steel. So I
25:21
Speaker 12: don't know how this guy survived, or frankly, what how
25:25
Speaker 12: he's surviving. Is he like a human being with arms
25:27
Speaker 12: and legs and everything, or is he like just a
25:29
Speaker 12: piece of youeral buddy.
25:31
Speaker 2: But you're right, he's a real metaphor for New York.
25:33
Speaker 2: You're right.
25:34
Speaker 12: I saw who did this guy credit? And you know, Mom,
25:37
Speaker 12: Donnie should point him as a deputy mayor or something.
25:41
Speaker 2: Haha. So but New York's doing well, right, I mean,
25:44
Speaker 2: every you walk along Park Avenue, Mess Avenue, I see
25:48
Speaker 2: skyscrapers going up everywhere, new ones.
25:51
Speaker 12: Yeah, and it's amazing. And then the rejuvenation, a lot
25:54
Speaker 12: of it of course started before this current mayor took office.
25:58
Speaker 12: But I remember last week you and I happened to
26:02
Speaker 12: bump into each other Friday about five o'clock Fifth Avenue,
26:07
Speaker 12: and I walked past Grand Army Plaza. This is right
26:11
Speaker 12: in front of the Plaza hotel, and it was closed
26:14
Speaker 12: for two years, three years because it needed you know,
26:18
Speaker 12: the usual environmental issues. It was crumbling underneath, and I
26:21
Speaker 12: thought it would never reopen. It reopened. It's magnificent. It's
26:25
Speaker 12: absolutely beautiful. It was full of people sunning themselves, sitting
26:30
Speaker 12: on benches taking pictures of the statue and all that stuff.
26:34
Speaker 12: And you know, that's a great thing. It shows that,
26:38
Speaker 12: you know, believe it or not, despite all the you know,
26:41
Speaker 12: whatever the mayor would wish on us in terms of
26:44
Speaker 12: failure and you know, bankruptcy and crime and everything, that
26:49
Speaker 12: the city still has an energy and a life for
26:51
Speaker 12: us that survives just about everything. We'll see if that continues.
26:56
Speaker 2: Well, you got these skyscrapers, as I say, going up everywhere,
26:59
Speaker 2: and Ken Griffin he's continuing with that big Park Avenue building,
27:02
Speaker 2: isn't he.
27:03
Speaker 12: Well, it's funny you should bring that up, because in fact,
27:06
Speaker 12: this is a crucial day that built three point fifty
27:10
Speaker 12: Park Avenue, which will be developed by Ken Griffin himself
27:16
Speaker 12: and by Bornado Realty Trust, which is one of the
27:18
Speaker 12: largest commercial landlords and the Broon family. Bornado is a
27:24
Speaker 12: publicly traded company and so they have to make quarterly
27:28
Speaker 12: earnings reports as required by the SEC. This happens to
27:32
Speaker 12: be that day after the market's closed this afternoon, Bornado
27:38
Speaker 12: will release its second quarter earnings report, and then there
27:42
Speaker 12: will be a conference call tomorrow morning for investors about
27:45
Speaker 12: nine ten am at which the heads of the company
27:49
Speaker 12: will speak. Now, guaranteed, people are not that interested in
27:54
Speaker 12: you know, how many square feet did Bornado lease the
27:57
Speaker 12: last quarter. They want to hear about three fifty Park Avenue,
28:01
Speaker 12: and so we all expect that that will be the
28:04
Speaker 12: definitive final word in all likelihood. I'm right, I hope
28:10
Speaker 12: I'm right about this. Ken Griffin is still in the project,
28:14
Speaker 12: despite the disgusting way he was treated by Mayor Mamdani,
28:19
Speaker 12: and everything will go forward and it will be fine. Obviously,
28:24
Speaker 12: if there's been a change of mind or heart. That's
28:27
Speaker 12: another kind of story altogether, but we'll get we'll finally
28:30
Speaker 12: get the answer. Right now, they're demolishing. They've begun demolishing
28:36
Speaker 12: three different buildings on Park Avenue in East fifty second
28:40
Speaker 12: Street to start making way for this new skyscraper where
28:44
Speaker 12: two of Ken Griffin's companies, both Citadel companies for which
28:50
Speaker 12: he's known, will be the anchor tenant. Without them, this
28:54
Speaker 12: project can't go forward. You don't put up a million
28:57
Speaker 12: and a half square foot skyscraper without an anchor tenant.
29:02
Speaker 12: So Bornado has been proceeding with demolition in the apparently
29:06
Speaker 12: in the expectation that, uh, it's going to happen. And
29:10
Speaker 12: although Ken Griffin has made some pointed remarks about expanding
29:15
Speaker 12: his operations in South Florida, Uh, he was very cagy.
29:20
Speaker 12: He never said that he's changed his mind about this project.
29:24
Speaker 12: But we'll just have to see.
29:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, stick keus of that office building they were
29:29
Speaker 2: converting it to apartments residential started to collapse, and now
29:33
Speaker 2: there was another one. They have to hold it.
29:35
Speaker 12: There's a couple of them now.
29:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what does that mean? Is this going to
29:39
Speaker 2: stop this trend?
29:40
Speaker 12: I don't think. I don't think it's going to have
29:41
Speaker 12: the least effect on the conversion phenomenon. Generally, if somebody
29:46
Speaker 12: owns an office building and they want to or a
29:48
Speaker 12: hotel or whatever, and they want to turn into turn
29:50
Speaker 12: it into apartments, they're going to go ahead and do
29:53
Speaker 12: that and not be deterred by this. What it should
29:57
Speaker 12: mean is better inspectioned by the building departments. You know,
30:01
Speaker 12: the DLB, which can absolutely give fits to small business people,
30:08
Speaker 12: you know your door is like too many inches above
30:12
Speaker 12: the whatever.
30:14
Speaker 6: Is.
30:15
Speaker 12: Remarkably lax when it comes to major projects. And so
30:23
Speaker 12: one reason is that they tend to rely on I'm
30:26
Speaker 12: not an expert on this, I shouldn't really be talking
30:28
Speaker 12: about it, but in some sense they allow building owners
30:33
Speaker 12: to use outside inspectors to you know, say that everything
30:39
Speaker 12: here is fine, and then the buildings department will rely
30:43
Speaker 12: on that. That seems to be what happened in the
30:44
Speaker 12: case of the former pfisor buildings on East forty second Street,
30:50
Speaker 12: and it's unfortunate, bad news for the obviously for the
30:54
Speaker 12: owners of these properties. Thank goodness, no one seems to
30:59
Speaker 12: have been hurt, and it'll slow those particular projects down
31:05
Speaker 12: a little bit. But it's not going to make a
31:08
Speaker 12: change in the overall phenomena, the momentum to convert mostly antiquated,
31:16
Speaker 12: crummy old office buildings and a few other kinds of
31:20
Speaker 12: buildings as well, hotels, two apartments. Nobody's slowing that down.
31:25
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, hey, steep, because every time I read these
31:29
Speaker 2: lists the highest ranked restaurants, it's all Japanese and now
31:33
Speaker 2: all a lot of Indian restaurants. What's that all about.
31:36
Speaker 12: Well, you know, the Indian restaurants which I wrote about
31:39
Speaker 12: last week week before. They're an amazing phenomenon because New
31:44
Speaker 12: York has always had Indian food. We've had some very
31:47
Speaker 12: good Indian food. The perception was that the Indian food
31:50
Speaker 12: in New York was not as good as the Indian
31:52
Speaker 12: food in London, for example, mainly because London has a
31:56
Speaker 12: much larger Indian born population than New York City does.
32:01
Speaker 12: But this has changed. In the last six seven years.
32:05
Speaker 12: There are not merely one or two, but probably eight
32:09
Speaker 12: or nine or ten new Indian restaurants that are worthy of,
32:14
Speaker 12: you know, micheline stars Micheline consideration, and they have become
32:18
Speaker 12: remarkably some of the hottest places in town. The way
32:23
Speaker 12: it used to be impossible to get into some of
32:25
Speaker 12: the Japanese on Makasi restaurants. Now that's two of the
32:30
Speaker 12: Indian restaurants, and they're very large places like Ambassador's Clubhouse exciting,
32:38
Speaker 12: which is sort of an odd name for an Indian restaurant.
32:41
Speaker 12: That's a big place, over two hundred seats and luxurious
32:43
Speaker 12: and beautiful. Try getting in there, it's very difficult. It's
32:46
Speaker 12: like getting a reservation at you know, the eighty six
32:50
Speaker 12: or one of those real small, sort of bold face
32:53
Speaker 12: oriented restaurants. And New York we've always had, for my money,
32:58
Speaker 12: Tameron in Tribeca has long been New York City's best
33:02
Speaker 12: Indian restaurant overall my wide margin. Sorry, what's it called?
33:07
Speaker 12: Tamaran Tamar camraon Tamaron Tamaron Tribeca. It's on the Hudson Street.
33:13
Speaker 12: It's a great restaurant. It's been there fifteen years or more,
33:16
Speaker 12: and now it has company. The interesting thing about the
33:20
Speaker 12: Indian restaurants who were seeing now is that some of
33:24
Speaker 12: them reflect Northern Indian styles, which is what New Yorkers
33:27
Speaker 12: are more familiar with. Involves a lot of Candori grilling.
33:32
Speaker 12: But now we're getting restaurants that are based on the
33:35
Speaker 12: cuisine of South and Southern India and the coast, and
33:38
Speaker 12: they include Semma and Ada. These are great restaurants. They're
33:45
Speaker 12: they're not as luxurious as some of the old ones,
33:49
Speaker 12: but they are a whole new set of flavors. Food
33:52
Speaker 12: tends to be very spicy and uh, you know this
33:57
Speaker 12: reflects the extent to us. The New York restaurant scene,
34:01
Speaker 12: like the city itself, regenerates. Just when you never expect,
34:06
Speaker 12: you know, something new to come, it comes.
34:09
Speaker 2: Hey, well only only a minute left. But we're talking
34:11
Speaker 2: about diners before, good old fashioned diners. They're disappearing from
34:14
Speaker 2: New Jersey, Long Island everywhere. Yeah, what will they ever
34:18
Speaker 2: make a comeback to that good old fashioned diner?
34:21
Speaker 12: I think some of them have a lot of favorite
34:25
Speaker 12: old diners have disappeared. I lost the bunch.
34:28
Speaker 9: You know.
34:28
Speaker 12: There was the Amite on Madison Avenue. I think it
34:31
Speaker 12: was called Neptune in Jackson Hights. You see it from
34:36
Speaker 12: the number seven trailer and train. I can't remember trying.
34:39
Speaker 12: I used to eat there a lot. So some of
34:41
Speaker 12: the favorites have gone. There was one on First Avenue
34:44
Speaker 12: called Tramway, like Sixtieth Street has been closed for two years.
34:49
Speaker 12: I don't know why. But there are also a lot
34:51
Speaker 12: of new ones which somehow don't get quite as much attention. So,
34:55
Speaker 12: for example, there's a new Carnegie diner right across from
34:59
Speaker 12: mile yeah, the Avenue on forty seven.
35:01
Speaker 2: It's great, it's great, but it looks more like a
35:03
Speaker 2: it looks like a restaurant, doesn't look like a diner.
35:05
Speaker 12: Well yeah, I mean, you know, the economics have changed,
35:10
Speaker 12: so I think a new diner needs more room of
35:14
Speaker 12: the kind that you get with, you know, with a
35:17
Speaker 12: more of a restaurant kind of layout than an old diner.
35:20
Speaker 12: I love. Nothing makes me happier than old fashioned diners
35:24
Speaker 12: that have boots and you walk in and you know
35:27
Speaker 12: it's a diner. So the one nearest to me that
35:31
Speaker 12: I go, where I go all the time, it's called
35:33
Speaker 12: Red Flame, and it's on West forty fourth, I think.
35:37
Speaker 12: And you go in there, you got the boots. There's
35:40
Speaker 12: something about boots, boots, sorry, that make people happy and comfortable,
35:45
Speaker 12: and I love them and I wish there are more
35:47
Speaker 12: of them. And I don't mean the big round fancy
35:52
Speaker 12: you get in trendy restaurants. Boots. You and me face
35:55
Speaker 12: each other.
35:56
Speaker 2: The boots with the little jukebox in them.
35:57
Speaker 12: They perfect, Yeah, a lot jukeboxes.
36:02
Speaker 2: We're out of time. But if you want to read more,
36:04
Speaker 2: just go read Steve Cuzo's great columns. They're all up
36:06
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36:09
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36:12
Speaker 2: All his columns in there. You can read them there.
36:14
Speaker 2: Steve Cuzo, thanks for being with us.
36:16
Speaker 6: Thank you.
36:17
Speaker 12: Mark always fun.
36:18
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36:56
Speaker 2: one hour. Now listen. We might be romanticizing these diners
37:01
Speaker 2: a little too much. I mean it was perfect at
37:04
Speaker 2: the time. We didn't know any better. We didn't have
37:06
Speaker 2: anything better back then. You know, back in the eighties, whatever,
37:09
Speaker 2: the nineties, you're out all night and after that you
37:13
Speaker 2: go to the diner and they were wonderful, and you
37:16
Speaker 2: just smile when you think of those diners. But we
37:21
Speaker 2: might be romanticizing a little too much. I mean, it
37:23
Speaker 2: was kind of I mean, it was a cheeseburger. It
37:25
Speaker 2: was okay, But you know, we got much better stuff now,
37:28
Speaker 2: shake shack. It's one hundred times better cheeseburger all over
37:32
Speaker 2: New York. You got the best burgers in the world now.
37:36
Speaker 2: Diner French fries, okay, it's much better French fries all
37:39
Speaker 2: over the place. Whatever it is in the diner, it
37:42
Speaker 2: was fine at the time. You know, we didn't know
37:45
Speaker 2: much about anything back then. You go way back then,
37:47
Speaker 2: you didn't know anything. Coffee. All you had was like
37:49
Speaker 2: dunkin Donuts. That was it. There was no Starbucks everywhere,
37:53
Speaker 2: There was no million different coffee places that weren't a
37:56
Speaker 2: million cafes and were in a thousand different bakeries and
38:00
Speaker 2: have dot cake back that. We didn't have any of
38:02
Speaker 2: this stuff back then. So I think that's the problem
38:05
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