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Hour 3: Dolly Parton has been laid to rest. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, more Mark Simone on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's Monday already, the final week heading into Labor
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  Speaker 2: Day weekend, so a lot to get to. Hey, Friday
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  Speaker 2: was the funeral, Dolly Parton's funeral. Very, very emotional. Just
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  Speaker 2: a small, small, small family funeral. Loved ones gathered at
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  Speaker 2: the Nashville burial site just three days after her death.
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  Speaker 2: And very, very emotional. touching of a funeral. And they
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  Speaker 2: were all dressed up beautiful suits and ties. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: the grave site was a crawling with cops. Uh, apparently
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  Speaker 2: they wanted absolute privacy. So before anybody got there, police
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  Speaker 2: all over the place, sealing off the area, it was
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  Speaker 2: a very small, very private service, just the immediate family.
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  Speaker 2: She was buried next to her husband of 58 years, Carl,
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  Speaker 2: who died in March. She was 82. Uh, Parton's name
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  Speaker 2: was already on the tombstone. It was all there. It's
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  Speaker 2: in a beautiful, beautiful area of Tennessee, Woodland Memorial Park
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  Speaker 2: and Mausoleum, which will be her final resting place. Her
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  Speaker 2: parents are buried there, as I say, her husband, and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great country musicians are buried there, including
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  Speaker 2: Porter Wagner, who helped launch her career, and her friend
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  Speaker 2: Tammy Wynette. She was buried in a cotton dress. She
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  Speaker 2: requested that because of years of wearing those rhinestones. They
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  Speaker 2: were very uncomfortable. She wanted to be buried in a
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  Speaker 2: soft cotton dress, but she was buried with her stilettos on.
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  Speaker 2: She wants a beautiful bed of plush cotton because after
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  Speaker 2: all the rhinestones, she deserves to be comfortable, she told
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  Speaker 2: her nephew, who arranged everything. Hey, by the way, Tennessee...
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  Speaker 2: will rename the Nashville airport Dolly Parton Airport. The governor
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  Speaker 2: has said they'll do it. He put out a joint statement.
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  Speaker 2: The governor and the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, they will
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  Speaker 2: rename the airport. That's great news. Hey, Scott Bessant doing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great work. You talk about somebody for 2028.
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  Speaker 2: Keep an eye on Scott Bessant. But the Treasury is
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  Speaker 2: finally going to crack down on these bad charities, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Soros-type stuff. They went after the Southern Poverty Law Center,
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  Speaker 2: which for years, liberals, CNN, MSNBC held that up high
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  Speaker 2: as the gold standard of, well, they went after the
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  Speaker 2: Southern Poverty Law Center. They find out it was all sleazy,
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  Speaker 2: dirty scheme, funding white supremacists, deliberately starting riots. So they've
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  Speaker 2: gone after them. But now they're looking at open society.
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  Speaker 2: These are all these George Soros things. CARE, C-A-I-R, you
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  Speaker 2: know that group? That's the group that blamed 9-11 on
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  Speaker 2: the U.S. supporting Israel. This is the group that recommended
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  Speaker 2: bin Laden's writings be taught in school. Horrible, horrible people.
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  Speaker 2: They spent a lot of their time and money slamming Israel.
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  Speaker 2: That's not politics. It's not political. So it's just political. It's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, But Besson is right to go after them.
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  Speaker 2: They're not really charities. Carr has also been accused of
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  Speaker 2: having terrible ties to Cutter and other stuff. So go
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  Speaker 2: after them. Go after Open Society, all those George Soros things.
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  Speaker 2: They're not charities. They're political activist groups. Shut them down
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  Speaker 2: one by one. It's a great thing to do. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: speaking of sleazy charities, the Clinton Foundation is looking for
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  Speaker 2: an intern But in this case, it's Hillary Clinton you'll
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  Speaker 2: be working for. It's Hillary Clinton that will be hiring.
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  Speaker 2: The intern needs, it says, a high level of discretion.
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  Speaker 2: I would think so at that Clinton Foundation. Not just
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  Speaker 2: for the shenanigans, but for where the hell the money
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  Speaker 2: actually goes. But apparently Bill is not allowed to have
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  Speaker 2: an intern and he's not allowed to be involved in
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  Speaker 2: the intern hiring. You can imagine why. So it'll be
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  Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton. Now, she has an office on Madison Avenue
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  Speaker 2: in New York City. For what? Nobody knows. It's an office.
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  Speaker 2: They got a desk. They got computers. They got secretaries.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody knows what the hell they do in there all day.
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  Speaker 2: But that's where the internal work. Now, Bill Clinton's team
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  Speaker 2: at the foundation is looking for a special projects associate
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  Speaker 2: to help with similar tasks that includes drafting meeting agendas,
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  Speaker 2: editing briefs, helping to coordinate activities between his office and
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  Speaker 2: the foundation. You might say, well, what are these activities? Well,
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  Speaker 2: raising money, getting them donors to write some checks. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what is this coordinating between him and the foundation? Well,
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  Speaker 2: get them to pay for everything. Pay for my travel,
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  Speaker 2: pay for everything. That's basically all they do in this
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  Speaker 2: Clinton Foundation. They fund themselves with it. You know, they'll
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  Speaker 2: take these incredible trips And Clinton's still got some wealthy
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  Speaker 2: donors out there, big business guys that think he can, well,
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  Speaker 2: he can help. You know, he's very popular with world
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  Speaker 2: leaders all over the world. And if you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: do business in India or someplace, you bring Bill Clinton
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  Speaker 2: with you and he can walk you right into the
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  Speaker 2: prime minister's office and get things done. Now, apparently Hillary
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  Speaker 2: makes sure that it's all males working with Clinton. Remember
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  Speaker 2: Leona Helmsley? Remember that awful Leona Helmsley? She went to prison.
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  Speaker 2: And her husband, Harry Helmsley, was so sick he had
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  Speaker 2: to have nurses around the clock. She made sure that
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  Speaker 2: there were only male nurses. No female nurses were allowed
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  Speaker 2: in the house. Only male nurses with Harry Helmsley, which
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  Speaker 2: shows you that Harry wasn't completely dead there. Now, this
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  Speaker 2: crazy Mom Donnie, everybody's upset about Mom Donnie. Oh, they
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  Speaker 2: can't stand Mom Donnie. Everybody's afraid of Mom. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't worry about it that much. As nuts as
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  Speaker 2: he is, he gets absolutely nothing done. You'll never see
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  Speaker 2: these grocery stores. I don't think you'll ever see this
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  Speaker 2: pied-à-terre tax. I don't think you'll ever actually get it
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  Speaker 2: to happen. You know, he talked about his free child care.
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  Speaker 2: We have it to a certain extent, but he's expanding it. Very,
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  Speaker 2: very expanded free child care for everybody. Sounds good. All right.
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  Speaker 2: But the providers... say it's time for the childcare, school started,
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  Speaker 2: and they never got the money. Nothing ever happened. Some
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  Speaker 2: of them went into their own pockets and spent their
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  Speaker 2: own money on it. But this 2K pilot program, apparently
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  Speaker 2: nothing's been done. Nothing happened. The Department of Education blamed
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  Speaker 2: the bean counters and the Comptroller's Office for whatever.
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  Speaker 2: For not registering the contracts, but whatever the reason, it
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  Speaker 2: never happened. The money's not there. Nothing will ever happen.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing, the free buses. You'll never see any free buses.
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  Speaker 2: As long as you live, you'll never see any free buses.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, the mayor doesn't even have anything to
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  Speaker 2: say about buses. They're controlled by the state, by the MTA.
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  Speaker 2: Grocery store, you'll never see one. It'll never actually happen.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the other thing with the tenants, with, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's squeezing the landlords. with his rent freezes, with this. Apparently,
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  Speaker 2: as he's done this to the landlords, they've had to
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  Speaker 2: cut services. If you start screwing around with the landlord's money,
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  Speaker 2: they'll cut services. And that's caused a big surge, 25%
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  Speaker 2: surge in complaints to 311. Big problems with the property.
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  Speaker 2: So they're all complaining like crazy. And some people think, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's the real plot. You get the landlords to be
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  Speaker 2: so bad deliberately that the government can come over and
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  Speaker 2: take over the housing. Well, when the government takes over,
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  Speaker 2: you get the worst housing ever. You get really horrifying
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  Speaker 2: conditions like the NYCHA, New York City Housing Authority. NYCHA housings,
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  Speaker 2: they're the worst, absolute worst. So you might not like
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  Speaker 2: these landlords, but they're a thousand times better than NYCHA housing. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you heard the story on the news, the Met Gala
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  Speaker 2: for 2027. It's not till next year. But the stupid,
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous Met Gala was to honor John Galliano, the famous designer.
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  Speaker 2: And he's just announced today he's out. Intense backlash over
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  Speaker 2: his anti-Semitism. Now, this guy is a total, complete, vicious,
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  Speaker 2: ugly anti-Semite. There was this famous incident in Paris where
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  Speaker 2: in the bar he got, I don't know, something happened.
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  Speaker 2: He started screaming anti-Semitic things. at Jewish patrons yelling at
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  Speaker 2: them that Hitler was right. I mean, it's on video.
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  Speaker 2: Really ugly anti-Semitic things. In fact, that incident got him
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  Speaker 2: convicted of hate crime. He's actually been convicted in France
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  Speaker 2: of hate crime. And he's got a history of anti-Semitic stuff.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a history of saying racist stuff, anti-Asian stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So they've decided not to honor him. Now, The big
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  Speaker 2: question is, well, why the hell were you honoring? All
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  Speaker 2: this stuff was known. Everything was known about. Why were
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  Speaker 2: you honoring him in the first place? Now, they finally
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  Speaker 2: decided to drop him.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Intense pressure from sponsors, advertisers, and apparently city council speaker
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  Speaker 2: Julie Menon got involved. She's Jewish. She's the city council speaker.
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  Speaker 2: That's as powerful as the mayor. She got all over them.
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  Speaker 2: So the pressure got too intense and they dropped them.
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  Speaker 2: and they're acting like they're doing the right thing, but
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  Speaker 2: they're not. They did the wrong thing by picking them
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  Speaker 2: in the first place. They knew all this stuff and
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  Speaker 2: he was the honoree for months, months. They heard all
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  Speaker 2: about the anti-Semitic stuff and they decided to keep them.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't until serious political pressure hit them That they
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  Speaker 2: decided to get rid of him. But it's a disgusting
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  Speaker 2: thing that they would even think of making this guy
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  Speaker 2: the honoree, let alone made him the honoree. Hey, we
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  Speaker 2: played this before. Kitey Tong retiring after all these years.
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  Speaker 2: But it's time to move on. You know, I'm 80
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  Speaker 2: years old now.
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  Speaker 4: Nearly.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, Shirley. 80 years young.
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  Speaker 3: I'm feeling it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm tired.
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  Speaker 2: And it's time to make room for the young bloods, right?
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  Speaker 2: She looks good. She sounds good. I don't know why she's,
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  Speaker 2: the young bloods at Channel 11 are in their 70s.
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  Speaker 2: But hey, we're talking about Mr. G before I found
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  Speaker 2: this cut. Mr. G, great guy on Kitey Tongue. I
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  Speaker 2: always loved her.
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  Speaker 6: And ever since I saw her, I thought she was,
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  Speaker 6: she just captured me.
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  Speaker 2: But then I realized she captured everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, gosh, more, more.
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  Speaker 4: Who's next?
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  Speaker 2: We love you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I love you all back.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: This has been amazing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm overwhelmed. I'm trying not to cry.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 2: It's getting a little too mushy here. Oh, hey, another reason.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot about this. Another reason you want to love
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  Speaker 2: Scott Besant. Boy, did he tell off Elizabeth Warren. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Elizabeth Warren pretends she's smart, pretends she's an expert on stuff. So,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. She was battling with Besant about foreign
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  Speaker 2: exchange rates and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Besant.
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  Speaker 2: And he put this in writing. He wrote it out
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  Speaker 2: in a letter and sent it to her and said,
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  Speaker 2: your attacks unfortunately reveal that you know even less about
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  Speaker 2: foreign exchange markets than you do about banking. You remember
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  Speaker 2: she was pretending to be some sort of banking expert,
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  Speaker 2: which she has absolutely no expertise, no knowledge of. And
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  Speaker 2: then Besson writes, what is equally shocking, but not surprising,
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  Speaker 2: is not a single member of your media mob has
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  Speaker 2: a rudimentary enough level of financial market literacy to spot
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  Speaker 2: your immediate error. And then Besson offered to give her
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  Speaker 2: a foreign exchange for dummies tutorial. Now, nobody deserves this
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  Speaker 2: more than Elizabeth Warren. You know, she's got the little
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  Speaker 2: granny glasses and the short hair and she looks professorial
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  Speaker 2: and looks smart and sounds smart, but is an idiot.
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  Speaker 2: So she was pretending to be a banking expert. pretending
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  Speaker 2: to be an economics expert and doesn't know a damn
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  Speaker 2: thing about it. Hey, this U.S. Open, am I supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be interested in this? Is it just me? I
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  Speaker 2: have no interest in this. It looks like fun. If
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  Speaker 2: you go into any of the major hotels in New York,
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  Speaker 2: I was in the Plaza last night, this hotel, that hotel,
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  Speaker 2: they got incredible displays for the U.S. Open because a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the players are staying there. But you're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be interested. But every time I put on the news,
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  Speaker 2: this guy got eliminated and Crankovic and Jokovic and Hockovic
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  Speaker 2: and whatever Vic got eliminated. I don't know who they are.
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  Speaker 2: And then they show you the food. Oh, they have
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  Speaker 2: incredible food there. They show you this chicken nuggets with
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  Speaker 2: caviar or something. It's like $ 200 for each. I'm in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of Manhattan. We got the greatest food in
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  Speaker 2: the world. Do I need to go out to Flushing,
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  Speaker 2: Queens to get some?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there is good food in Queens. You've got
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  Speaker 2: Utopia Bagels, one of the best in the world. But
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  Speaker 2: speaking of bagels, you've seen these pop-up bagels all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. These were two guys in Connecticut that loved bagels.
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  Speaker 2: They're Jewish. They grew up with bagels. They loved bagels.
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  Speaker 2: So they started making their own at home, just in
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  Speaker 2: their kitchen. They learned how to make bagels. And the
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  Speaker 2: more they practiced making their bagels, the better they got.
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  Speaker 2: And their friends, it was kind of like a Paul
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  Speaker 2: Newman thing, where all their friends loved it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: his salad dressing was given to friends. These guys are
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  Speaker 2: giving the bagels that they loved it so much that
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  Speaker 2: word spread. Everybody wanted them. So they started to sell
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  Speaker 2: them from home. Next thing you know, they called it.
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  Speaker 2: They created a little pop-up, a little pop-up bagels. They
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  Speaker 2: put them in bags. And then they grew this thing
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  Speaker 2: into they're the hottest bagel in the world right now.
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  Speaker 2: They're all over Manhattan. They're all over, you know, major places.
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  Speaker 2: But hedge funds saw what a great business this is.
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  Speaker 2: Hedge funds to pumped in hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: They're opening these pop-up bagels all over America. They started
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  Speaker 2: in Connecticut. They're all over Manhattan. If you're in the suburbs,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you got one in Roslyn, Long Island. There's
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  Speaker 2: one about to open, Walt Whitman Mall, Huntington. They're going
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  Speaker 2: to be all over the place. The business, these two
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  Speaker 2: guys started in their kitchen. It's now worth $ 300 million.
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  Speaker 2: Just a couple of years later, hedge funds are pouring
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  Speaker 2: in more money. You know, you used to have the
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  Speaker 2: great bagels, H & H and Essa Bagels. Forget it.
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  Speaker 2: These pop-up bagels left them in the dust.
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  Speaker 3: It's different.
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  Speaker 2: You can't slice them. There's no slicing them in half.
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  Speaker 2: They're fluffier than regular bagels. They're delicious. You rip them
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  Speaker 2: open and you dip them. They call them schmears, but
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  Speaker 2: they're all different flavors. They've got great flavors, dozens of flavors.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a smart business. You have to buy three bagels.
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  Speaker 2: That's the smallest order, a bag of three. You got
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  Speaker 2: no choice. And they're so delicious, you'll do it. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 5: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, we always love new callers.
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  Speaker 7: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: New York.
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  Speaker 2: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: let's take some calls. Let's go to Dave in Rockland County. Dave,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Good, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I was just asking about the poops in Germany.
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  Speaker 4: Trump's pulling them out.
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  Speaker 7: What's going on with that?
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  Speaker 3: You hear anything?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big thing. I didn't hear one thing
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  Speaker 2: he said. Your phone is breaking up. You got that
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  Speaker 2: Rockland County cell service. Just say it again.
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  Speaker 7: Would Trump and the troops from Germany bring in troops
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  Speaker 7: for the EU issues?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, we're bringing some troops back from Germany. We
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  Speaker 2: don't need all the troops there in the EU. Let
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: them put up their own troops. You know, this EU,
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  Speaker 2: all these things we're involved in, you know, we pay
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  Speaker 2: all the money. They don't put in a penny. Let
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  Speaker 2: them kick in some of that. Let's go to Frank
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  Speaker 2: in Manhattan. Frank, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing fine. Greetings from flyover country.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: That's not flyover country.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're not thinking of the right Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're in Manhattan, Kansas?
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  Speaker 3: I'm in Manhattan, Kansas.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: All right. I'm a native New Yorker, and you go
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  Speaker 3: by Mr.
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  Speaker 7: New York.
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  Speaker 2: And why'd you move to Kansas?
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  Speaker 3: I went to school here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Back in 1970.
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  Speaker 2: So what happened? You saw a cornfield, and you said,
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  Speaker 2: this is great. I got to move here.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's the wheat state, okay? Get it straight. It's
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  Speaker 3: the wheat state.
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  Speaker 2: That's better? I'd rather have corn. What are you going
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  Speaker 2: to do with all that wheat?
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  Speaker 3: Make bread.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So what do you do in Manhattan, Kansas?
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  Speaker 3: I'm retired.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no wonder you're in your pajamas at 1130.
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  Speaker 3: No, I've actually been out watering the garden and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I have a question. I've got a question for you.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead. You go by Mr. New York, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I just want to see if you're really Mr.
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  Speaker 3: New York.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: So I've got a New York question for you.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: What is a two-sewer hit?
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  Speaker 2: Say it again. What is a what?
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  Speaker 3: A two-sewer hit.
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  Speaker 2: A two-sewer hit was in stickball if you hit the
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  Speaker 2: ball far enough that it went two sewers.
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  Speaker 3: All right. That's good. That's good. Can you name two
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: ingredients that are not in an egg cream?
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Well, there's hundreds of ingredients that aren't in an egg cream.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: It's chocolate syrup. Two major ones. What do you mean?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Eggs or cream. Oh, yeah. Eggs or no cream.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Well, that's true. That's true.
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: You thought I wouldn't know the stickball question? I'm friends
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: with Curtis. You can't hang around Curtis and not know
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: anything about stickball. He was like a stickball champion.
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Good call, Frank.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. Let's go to Stephen. Now, there's a
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: debate whether it's Mayo Pack or Mahopic. Which is it, Steve?
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Mahopic.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Well, it depends if you're a liberal or you're an American.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they actually fight up there about what their town's called.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: They got nothing better to do. I always call it
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Mayo Pack.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: I protest for a little bit. I'm going after Mike Lauer.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: I'm not going after him physically.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: You're talking about Mike Lawler?
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm working my way up. I'm different.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: I'm not like anybody else.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: You're definitely different. Not in a good way, but you're
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: definitely different.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: I had four strokes. I'm a bereaved parent. I was
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: three years old. My brother got killed in the car there. So, uh,
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: but I'm doing okay.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Well, you sound good.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: You sound like you had a good outlook on life.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Good personality.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Well, give me, give me a question, please. So I
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: can figure you out.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: What's the capital of Kentucky?
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Oh, gosh.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Come on. Give me something different.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: That's a good question to ask people because nobody ever
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: gets it. It's Frankfurt. It's the one capital you'll never get.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Give me something else. Give me something else that's different.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: All right. What's the capital of Guatemala?
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: Guatemala.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Oh, gosh.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Stop asking me these questions.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: It's Guatemala City. It's an easy one to remember. Use
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: that one, too, on people. Anyway, Frank.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: In your whole life, when you were with Grandma, what
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: did she do to make you so happy?
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: What?
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: When we were kids, when you were with Grandma, what
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: did she do to make you so happy?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, she was wonderful. She'd say, turn that TV down. Anyway,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: thanks for calling, Steve. Let's go to... Mike in Manhattan. Mike,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: how you doing?
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Mark, how are you? Good.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: Mark, let me tell you something.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: It's been a weird summer.
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah. I could never get the date straight. I can't
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: believe tomorrow's September 1st.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: I forgot.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I forgot that.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: It's unbelievable. And the Jewish holidays are next week. Usually
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: the last few years have been later than the years.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: But I got to tell you something. Yeah. For the
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: last 10, 15 years, after July 4th, the summer's over.
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: You go two days in the store, like you're going
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: to Target, and two days after, you're like, well, every
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: shelf is all back to school, back to school this.
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: And a week later, two weeks later, Halloween stuff.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Is popping up.
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: They don't give you a break. It's crazy. Before you
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: know it, you know what they've been doing the last
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: few years? They've been skipping Thanksgiving and going right into Christmas.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: So come mid-September, you'll be looking, you'll go to Lowe's,
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: Best Buy, you'll go to Lowe's, Home Depot, you see
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: Christmas trees in the window already.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. Absolutely. Good point, Mike. Yeah, it's terrible.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: What's that story? There's these stores that just sell Christmas stuff.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I actually saw one of them already open. One of
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: them is already open. Got time for one more? Michael
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: on the east side. Michael, how you doing?
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: Hey, I tried.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Sorry.
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: We used to make our own bagels. I do breakfast
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: and lunchtime catering. And I stopped by one of these
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: pop-up places. There was some young college kids there. And
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: they said, oh, do you want to try one? That pop-up,
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: everything bagel. is incredible.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: It is. Pop-up bagels are amazingly good. Now, why would
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: you make your own bagels? You live on the east
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: side of Manhattan. There's a bagel store every two feet.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Why would you make your own bagels?
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah, a lot of them are crap.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Well, they're not good enough for the great Michael of
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: the Upper East Side, but you got H & H.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: You got all the best bagels. Hey, that one in Queens,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: they've been considered the best in Manhattan, the best in
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: New York City for years. Utopia Bagels. They finally opened
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: in Manhattan. There's one like 3rd Avenue, 52nd. There's one
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: on 34th Street. But that pop-up is everywhere. They're really
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: stealing their thunder. Pop-up bagels, pretty amazing. Hey, when we
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: come back, speak of the devil, the best food writer
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: and real estate writer, Steve Cuso. We'll talk to him
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: next about restaurants, food, Manhattan, how's New York City doing,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: and rent and all that. We'll get to all that
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: coming up on 710WOR.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR Life Facts Studios, the Mark Simone.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Hey, Steve Cuso, the great New York Post columnist. Nobody
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: better on Manhattan, New York City, restaurants, real estate. We'll
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: get to all of that with him. And he's with
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: us now. Steve Cuso, how are you doing?
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Hey, good morning. How are you doing?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Good. There's a rumor that you've got a new book
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: coming out, that you've actually written a novel.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: Well, thanks for mentioning. Not just a rumor, Mark, but
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: a fact. And I've written my first novel. It won't
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: be out until December 8th. from a company called Post
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Hill Press, distributed by Simon & Schuster, and it's called
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: Consuela's Thrill. And it's a thriller. It's an erotic, romantic thriller.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: And I've said a lot of it, the whole last
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: third of the book, in Coney Island, which happens to
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: be one of my favorite subjects for my real estate column.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: And there's so much going on there right now in
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: terms of development, new housing, etc.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: It's really fascinating.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: And amazingly, Mayor Mamdani, one of the few sensible things
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: he's done is to establish a Coney Island Business Improvement District.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: And I don't know if he knows what that really means,
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: but it's a great thing for the middle class. It
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: means economic growth development aimed at sparring new retail businesses.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: new apartments that are not just, you know, cheapest kinds
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: of apartments, but middle class, middle income places to live.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: And one of the things I've done in this book
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: is to, I've imagined something that doesn't yet exist, but
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: might soon exist, which is a luxury condo tower on
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: the Coney Island boardwalk overlooking the ocean. So as you know,
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: Our friend John Katsimatidis has two beautiful rental apartment buildings
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: at the western end of Coney Island.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: And I've imagined that he would, well.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: Not him, of course, but someone would put up a
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: luxury condo tower next to them. And he actually has
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: the land there and has always wanted to build. I
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: think he needs a zoning change. And so it's a
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: setting that I think makes sense for people who care
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: about New York City and anybody who loves Coney Island
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: the way I do.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but is this a good thing? You know, like
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: when you drove to Queens, it was Queens. Now when
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: you drive through Queens, it's high-rises, big glass, black glass
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: skyscrapers all over the place. It looks like a financial district.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: It looks like Cleveland over there.
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: Is this good?
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: No, I love those big glass high-rises.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: You see them in places like Long Island City, Hunter's Point, Flushing.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Other parts of Queens that.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: Have been resentful over the years precisely to promote new development. No,
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: the buildings are not equally good. Yeah, some of them
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: can seem monotonous. If you take this number seven train
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: or the N train out of Manhattan toward either a
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: funeral or a story or respectively, you're suddenly, hey, what's
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: going on? You come out of the tunnel. and you see,
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: what's going on here? What are all these new buildings? Well,
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: people have made homes there, and these buildings typically, you know,
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: they bring stores, they bring fitness centers, restaurants, so their
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: whole community.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Now, in Coney Island, it's another story entirely. There's no
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: risk of, or.
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: Promise, depending on how you look at it, of Coney
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: Island becoming anything like Flushing or Astoria or or places
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: like that, Long Island City. Developments are different there, and
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: they tend to be grouped along Surf Avenue, which is
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: one block in from Boardwalk, and.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: They're good buildings. People are moving there.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: It's an exciting thing to see that middle-class people, for
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: the first time, have embraced Coney Island as a place
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: to live. And, of course, you have the advantages of
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: the amusement park, et cetera, the ocean, beach. You have
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: the disadvantages that there's very little shopping around there. It
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: isn't easy to get to or from from other parts.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: Of the city. But it's all moving in what I
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: think is a good trajectory. And, you know, we'll see
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: where it goes.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Now, Steve Kuzo, when I talk to people all over
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: the country, you probably get the same thing. They'll say, oh,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: New York, it's so dangerous. Is anybody still there? Did
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: everybody leave? Tell us the truth. People are actually coming
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: in like crazy, aren't they?
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Completely ridiculous.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Mark, there are people out there who hate New York City.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: I don't know why.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: They've moved away years ago. They have racist views of Manhattan.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: And I know this because I get all these emails
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: every time I write about anything new.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: In the city.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: You know, I get these horrible emails. People post things online.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: Why would anybody want to live in this raffle and
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: all this kind of thing? But the truth is that
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: it's the hottest place in the world now. And, you know,
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: prices of everything keep going up. That's a good and
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: also a bad thing. But it indicates the extent to
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: which there's great demand for food. to live here, to
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: be here. And yeah, we know the schools, the public
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: schools stink. There are parts of town that seem resistant
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: to even the best efforts of the NYPD to sort
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: of tame certain corners of Brooklyn and the Bronx that
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: are made difficult. But Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has done
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: a phenomenal job And she hasn't even been in the
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: job that long, about a year, reducing the number.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: Of murders, crime. We have the lowest crime, the lowest
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: serious crime rates in history. It's amazing.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: Yes, there are problems with lower level crime, which I
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: grant you, it's not low level if you're a victim
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: of a mugging. Even so, those numbers are still coming down,
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: not as rapidly as for capital crimes, but they're coming down.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: People compare them to the numbers prior to 2020. I
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: don't really see the relevance of that. Obviously, conditions were
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: different before the pandemic, but all I see is Wonderful
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: things happening all over town. And anybody who thinks that
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: this is a hellhole, they're just idiots.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: But when you say that, you can actually back that up. Like,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: for instance, we know apartment rental is way up there.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: But what about leasing, leasing businesses, commercial space?
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: Right now, Manhattan office.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: Leasing, offices are mainly concentrated in Manhattan, of course. And
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: it has never been harder for companies to find space
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: or to expand than it is now because demand is
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: so great. All the new office buildings fill up immediately.
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: The greatest companies here continue to expand. I write about
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: this all the funds. Wall Street companies, media, tech, AI,
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: you know, Anthropic, which is one of the most in
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: the news AI-focused companies, recently leased an entire building of
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: 350,000 square feet on, I think, Hudson Street in the
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: Hudson Square area.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: It's an amazing thing.
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: And this reality runs contrary to the narratives that some
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: people are still putting out about how, I don't know,
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: New York has seen better days.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: I don't know what they're talking about.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and obviously, just walk around. Restaurants are mobbed. They're packed.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: You can't get a reservation in a lot of places.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: There's lines out the door for things.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah. It's a good and a bad thing.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Now, am I wrong? Are French restaurants making a little
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: bit of a comeback?
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Totally.
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: We've never been without French restaurants, but In the recent
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: year or so, there have been a whole bunch of
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: new openings. And my colleague, Jennifer Gould, wrote about this
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: a few weeks ago. And there are new restaurants coming
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: that have opened recently downtown. Danielle Balloude is opening his
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: giant brasserie, Balloude. across from Lincoln Center in a few weeks.
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: And there were all sorts of smaller restaurants as well
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: that are opening. Claudette is a wonderful restaurant down on
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: Lower Fifth Avenue. It closed for a few years and
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: recently reopened. It's a banner time if you love French
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: cuisine in all its forms. But it's also a banner
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: time for people who love Korean food and, and, um, uh, steakhouses.
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: Um, it's a phenomenal thing that we've seen recently.
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: And the only time I've resented is when I have
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: trouble getting a reservation somewhere, which happens more often than
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: you might think.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Hey, uh, before we run out of time, I loved, uh,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Shelly Fireman, the great restaurant tour, try to read a
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Del Arte red eye grill, a bond 45, uh, Fiorello. Oh,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: it was great. Did, Did you report that that company
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: was filing bankruptcy?
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they're in Chapter 11, and this happened a few
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: weeks ago. And they actually filed about a month ago,
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: but nobody noticed. And, you know, Shelley Fireman, founder of
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: that great company, passed away almost a year ago. And
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: I think that even before Shelley died, it wasn't quite right.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: They had opened a few restaurants. It flopped.
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: But they have these great long-lived restaurants like Trattoria dell'Arte
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: and Fiorello and Bon 45. Some of these restaurants have
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: been with us for 30 years. This is almost unprecedented
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: in New York City. Nobody has restaurants that are that,
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: as many restaurants that are that venerable.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: And I think that they've had trouble because.
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: Their main restaurants are all very, very close to or
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: across the street from major entertainment venues. And those have
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: sort of during the pandemic, there was no entertainment. So
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: Bond 45 is on a block with three Broadway theaters. Well,
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: you know, there were no Broadway theaters for nearly two years.
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: So naturally, they suffered a staggering loss of business, and
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: they have yet to recoup that.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: Same with Trattoria dell'Arte across.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: From Carnegie Hall. I was there last night. We hope
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: they recover. That's a great restaurant chain. Hey, we're out
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: of time.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: They're in business. They're all still going strong.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Steve Cuso. What's the name of the book again?
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's called Consuela's Thrill. And they're actually pre-marketing it
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: on Amazon, on Simon & Schuster website, Barnes & Noble.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: So order now.
• 34:44
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• 34:47
  Speaker 5: As well as thrilled.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, type in Steve Cuso. It'll come up on Amazon.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Pre-order it. Thanks for being with us. We'll do it
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: again soon.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: Thanks a lot, Mark. Take care.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Take care. Hey, don't forget, it's a three-hour show now.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I'm here 9 to noon, 9 a.m. till noon every day.
• 35:01
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• 35:04
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• 35:10
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• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Well, hey, we're just about out of time. Best story
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: of the day is Comics Unleashed, Byron Allen. That's the
• 35:26
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• 35:30
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• 35:33
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• 35:37
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• 35:40
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• 35:43
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• 35:48
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• 35:51
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• 35:54
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• 35:57
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• 36:03
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• 36:06
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• 36:12
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• 36:17
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• 36:20
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• 36:22
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• 36:25
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