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Mark's Weekend Bonus Segment — NOT HEARD ON THE RADIO! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's Mark Simone here. Welcome to the bonus segment
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  Speaker 1: of the podcast for all you podcast listeners. Hey, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, don't forget starting Monday, if you listen live,
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  Speaker 1: the show's going to start an hour earlier. So starting Monday,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be nine am to noon, every day nine am
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  Speaker 1: to noon. But if you're just a podcast listener, you
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  Speaker 1: can hear the show anytime. Also remember if you're a
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  Speaker 1: podcast listener, means you'll get an extra hour every day
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  Speaker 1: to listen to. So, hey, the new iPhone is coming
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  Speaker 1: out in September. It's like a month and a half
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  Speaker 1: from now, they'll unveil the new iPhone. It'll be the
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  Speaker 1: iPhone eighteen. There'll be an eighteen Pro, there'll be an
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  Speaker 1: eighteen Pro Max. And word is they will have, for
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  Speaker 1: the first time ever, a foldable phone. Samsung and other
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  Speaker 1: Android phones already have that, where it's the size of
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  Speaker 1: an iPhone, but then it folds open and the screen
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  Speaker 1: is double the size of the iPhone. So it looks
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  Speaker 1: like Apple has come up with a full phone that'll
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  Speaker 1: be called the iPhone Ultra. Expect that in the first
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  Speaker 1: half of September, and whether they're gonna have this different. Well,
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  Speaker 1: word is there'll be some kind of five G satellite
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  Speaker 1: five G which is high quality audio vers via satellite.
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  Speaker 1: Now what that means if you can use the satellite,
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  Speaker 1: you could make a call or have full reception even
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  Speaker 1: if there's no Wi Fi or cell service. You know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you're in an area where you know you're out
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  Speaker 1: somewhere no Wi Fi obviously, and then some parts of
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  Speaker 1: the Tristate area there's just no cell service. If you
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  Speaker 1: live in Long Island, you got the Hampton's you got
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  Speaker 1: no cell service, big parts East Norwich, Oyster Bay around,
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  Speaker 1: there's parts of that with no cell signal. There's parts
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  Speaker 1: of Westchester with no cells. So this phone would work.
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  Speaker 1: It would use satellites. Satellite phone in it the special color.
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  Speaker 1: Every year they have one special color. This time it'll
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  Speaker 1: be dark cherry. All right, that sounds good. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be slightly thicker. Now the reason is going to
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  Speaker 1: put in a ten percent larger battery once you give
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  Speaker 1: a lot more battery power. Hey, now this is interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Apple is introducing a leasing program where you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to buy the phone, you can just lease it for
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  Speaker 1: a monthly fee. I don't know why that is. I
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  Speaker 1: mean maybe because the price is going up or sales
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  Speaker 1: are going down. They're trying to make it easier to
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  Speaker 1: buy an iPhone. Now. You know, PBS Public Television they
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  Speaker 1: got defunded. They weren't really depending that much on the
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  Speaker 1: government funding. It was like ten percent of their funding,
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  Speaker 1: but they got defunded. And the main reason to defund
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  Speaker 1: them it was so slanted left wing. It was not
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  Speaker 1: the objective news and PBS Public Television, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be a sesame Street and special on Frank
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  Speaker 1: Sinatra or travel. You know, it's not supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: pop politics. But they got into politics and they got
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  Speaker 1: into doing news, and it was the most slanted left
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  Speaker 1: wing news. So they was a good excuse to cut
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  Speaker 1: the funding, and they did. But you know, now people
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  Speaker 1: have been studying PBS ever since then, and it looks
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  Speaker 1: like it went even further to the left. It went
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  Speaker 1: even more fake news. Since they didn't have to worry
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  Speaker 1: about any government funding, they could just do whatever they want. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But people studying content on PBS on their news shows
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  Speaker 1: now see that they're putting on the most left wing kooks.
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  Speaker 1: There's this Eddie Glauda who is like a real crazy
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  Speaker 1: who he yells and screams that Maga is the klu
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  Speaker 1: Klux Klan. It's from ms now and they put on
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  Speaker 1: that crazy joy read who have yelled and screamed the
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  Speaker 1: doors of hell are opening up for the late Senator
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  Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham. So apparently they're taking advantage of the no
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  Speaker 1: government funding to go even more or fake news at PBS. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you remember everybody always referred to Eisenhower. He warned about
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  Speaker 1: the military industrial complex and what he was saying was
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  Speaker 1: be careful because the military and the industrial complex that
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  Speaker 1: builds the weapons, they'll get into cahoots, they'll conspire. Well,
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  Speaker 1: now talk about the Pentagon. I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like this at all. This is like taking this to
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  Speaker 1: the extreme. The Pentagon is now talking about actually taking
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  Speaker 1: ownership of some of the defense companies, the whole, not
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  Speaker 1: the whole ownership, but they'll they'll be partners in defense companies,
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  Speaker 1: they'll take an equity stake. The Pentagon is already increasing
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  Speaker 1: direct investments in private defense companies. Now this raises all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of political concerns, ethical concerns, legal concerns that Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration has done this. They've invested in over twenty private firms.
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  Speaker 1: So far, it doesn't sound right. You know, President Trump will, i'll,
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  Speaker 1: you know, push the envelope a lot, but this one
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  Speaker 1: doesn't sound right now. I guess the reason he's thinking
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  Speaker 1: to do it is as an equity partner, they'll get
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  Speaker 1: the stuff cheaper, they'll have better access to it, they
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  Speaker 1: can make sure the US gets it, not other countries.
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  Speaker 1: There's a kind of arguments for it, but it just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't sound right. And if Eisenhower came back today, this
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  Speaker 1: is a literal military industrial complex. The two of them
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  Speaker 1: literally combined in ownership. So we'll see where that goes.
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  Speaker 1: There's a new food hall coming to New York. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be big. It's called the Shaver Shaver Hall food Hall.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the old Lord and Taylor Fifth Avenue and what
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  Speaker 1: is it, thirty eighth, thirty ninth, the big flagship Lord
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  Speaker 1: and Taylor. Well, Lord and Taylor went out of business,
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  Speaker 1: so somebody bought the whole thing. It's a big, huge building,
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  Speaker 1: big huge store that was there, and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: create a food hall. It's going to be like the
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  Speaker 1: highest quality food hall in New York. They've already signed
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  Speaker 1: up eleven companies there's all sorts of high end stuff,
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  Speaker 1: a high end stake place, a high end this that
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  Speaker 1: Chloe Kardashian's cloud protein popcorn is going to be one
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  Speaker 1: of these things. Now, why they call it Shaver Hall.
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  Speaker 1: It turns out that was Dorothy Shaver. They named it
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  Speaker 1: after her. She was the former president of Lord and
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  Speaker 1: Taylor and she was considered the first woman ever to
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  Speaker 1: lead a multimillion dollar company in the United States. So
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  Speaker 1: take a look at the old Lord and Taylor Fifth Avenue,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere around thirty nine thirty eighth Street. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Hey, Governor hokel crazy Kathy Hockel, who banned
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  Speaker 1: and tried to stop all the data centers. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people stunned at this scheme she's come up with.
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  Speaker 1: She wants to put in massive solar energy farms. These
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  Speaker 1: would be like enormous bigger than the data centers were,
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  Speaker 1: these solar energy farms. So to do this, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to take over farmland, lots of farmland. Upstate. USDA is
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  Speaker 1: trying to stop her. Brooke Rollins, the EPA chief Lee Zelden,
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  Speaker 1: is trying to stop her, stop her. They're all signing
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  Speaker 1: letters trying to stop her speaking of that. Maybe I
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  Speaker 1: should shut off my phone when I do the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: It might help, but we could use a little interruption
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  Speaker 1: now and then the problem is it's not just taking
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  Speaker 1: over the farmland putting solar panels. They're going to pave
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  Speaker 1: over it. They'll take over miles and miles. Now, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: a data center, those are big. A data center can
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  Speaker 1: take up thirty acres, but these solar farms she's talking
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  Speaker 1: about would be eleven thousand acres. Eleven thousand acres of
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  Speaker 1: destroying farmland. So the USDA is pointing out it's insulting
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  Speaker 1: to a hardworking New Yorkers. Politicians thinking they know it
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  Speaker 1: all destroying miles and miles of farms that people need,
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  Speaker 1: that produces the food, that's local food that would be begetting.
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  Speaker 1: So they're trying to stop her and to add insult
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  Speaker 1: to injury to build these solar panel farms. She's talking
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  Speaker 1: to foreign companies, once from Canada, once from France, once
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  Speaker 1: from South Korea. And it's Kathy Hockel who has a
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  Speaker 1: long history of giving out contracts to friends or supporters
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  Speaker 1: or donors. So why these foreign companies will just follow
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  Speaker 1: the money now? A lot of people pointing out the
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  Speaker 1: solar things don't provide very much energy. They provide a
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  Speaker 1: little drop of energy. Maybe you'd be better off having
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  Speaker 1: a nuclear plant. You'd be better off having another electrical plant.
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  Speaker 1: You could produce much much more energy. Just drill the
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  Speaker 1: natural gases underneath, you'd have more energy. So this solar
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  Speaker 1: panel produces a tiny, ridiculously tiny amount of energy. Not
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  Speaker 1: worth destroying all that farmland for. Hey, there's a new
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  Speaker 1: apartment building going on the Upper Eastide. It'll be just rentals,
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  Speaker 1: no condo co op. It's gonna be called the Langton.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be on East eighty sixth Street. Now, the reason
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  Speaker 1: I bring it up apparently it's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: most expensive rental in New York. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: forty five thousand a month to rent an apartment there.
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  Speaker 1: Forty five thousand a month. The Carlisle Group one of
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  Speaker 1: the investors. It opened for leasing earlier this month, and
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  Speaker 1: already half the building has been rented. So when they
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  Speaker 1: talk about everybody's leaving New York, nobody wants to live here.
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  Speaker 1: The rental market is going crazy. There's very little available
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  Speaker 1: in the rental market, and this thing, whether it's forty
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  Speaker 1: five thousand dollars a month. Penthouses, they have some five
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  Speaker 1: bedroom penthouses selling fast. Now they do have little one bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: two bedroom apartments, but those start at thirteen thousand a month.
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  Speaker 1: But again it's selling fast, so people obviously want to
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  Speaker 1: move here. Hey, there's a baker, very upscale bakery that
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  Speaker 1: has is a great croissants and they're twelve dollars that.
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  Speaker 1: They have a pistachio croissant. Everybody loves. It's delicious. People
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  Speaker 1: love it twelve dollars in this fancy bakery. Well, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of whistleblowers say they're actually from Costco and if
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  Speaker 1: you go to Costco you can get a box of
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  Speaker 1: twelve for just six dollars, which would make them fifty
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  Speaker 1: cents each. The bakery is denying that. They say that
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  Speaker 1: one of their companies that delivers stuff uses Costco boxes
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  Speaker 1: and they when they make the croissants, they use the
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  Speaker 1: leftover Costco boxes. Do we believe any of this? I
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  Speaker 1: don't think. So. You know, when you go to Costco,
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  Speaker 1: they got some great food. A lot of people, like
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  Speaker 1: even me, have Costco cards just for the food. It's
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  Speaker 1: the best hot dog anywhere in the world. They also
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  Speaker 1: make their version of a dairy queen blizzard that's phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: And these croissants obviously are pretty good. Six bucks for
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  Speaker 1: a box at twelve sounds pretty good. Now there's some cities,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we all want tourism. Everybody has a bureau
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  Speaker 1: of tourism, a chamber of commerce, you know, some organization.
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  Speaker 1: We have a couple of New York the ideas they're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to go out and get tourists to come here
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  Speaker 1: and advertise all over the place, create incentives. In Barcelona, Spain,
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  Speaker 1: it's the opposite. They got too many tourists. They get
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  Speaker 1: sixteen million visitors a year. Did you know that Barcelona,
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  Speaker 1: Spain was such a big tourist destination. It is so popular.
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  Speaker 1: Barcelona has now put together an organization to stop tourism,
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  Speaker 1: to get tourists not to come there anymore. Apparently it's
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  Speaker 1: the Commission for Sustainable Tourism. They're trying to cut down
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  Speaker 1: on tourism because they got so much. It's clogging up
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  Speaker 1: the city, causing a nightmare. It's an absolute mess for them.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a nice problem to have. Hey, does your
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  Speaker 1: building have a thirteenth floor? You know? Most buildings, there's
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  Speaker 1: no thirteenth floor. You know, it's floor twelve or fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: There's no thirteenth floor. Now it's a crazy superstition, but
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  Speaker 1: ninety one percent of buildings do not have a thirteenth floor. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how did this start? Where the number thirteen was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be bad luck? Well, I believe it or not,
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  Speaker 1: it goes all the way back to the Last Supper.
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  Speaker 1: Judas Iscariot was the thirteenth guest at the Last Supper,
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  Speaker 1: and he was guest number thirteen, and that all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden they decided thirteen is a very, very unlucky number,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody believes that. So it got so crazy with
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  Speaker 1: thirteen being unlucky. Ninety one percent of buildings don't have
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  Speaker 1: a thirteenth floor. And you might say, well that's silly,
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  Speaker 1: Just why don't you have a thirteenth floor? Because real
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  Speaker 1: estate people say that to thirteenth floor will not rent
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  Speaker 1: as much. A lot of people are superstitious, will not
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  Speaker 1: rent or buy on the thirteenth floor. Some businesses that
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  Speaker 1: have had a thirteenth floor say they've lost eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: million of potential income, and believe it or not, they
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  Speaker 1: also lose money on Friday the thirteenth. Airlines report there's
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  Speaker 1: less travel on a Friday the thirteenth. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are too superstitious. They will not take a flight
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  Speaker 1: on the thirteenth. Business drops dramatically on airlines. They also
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  Speaker 1: say that people will not sit in a thirteenth row
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  Speaker 1: on a flight. They're too superstitious, so they have to
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  Speaker 1: have to get rid of that. Hey, we're out of time,
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  Speaker 1: but thanks for listening now, don't forget if you listen live,
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  Speaker 1: the show starting Monday will be nine am to noon,
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  Speaker 1: nine am to noon every day, and if you're a
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  Speaker 1: podcast listener, that means you'll have an extra hour on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast starting every day starting Monday. This is Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. Thanks for listening.