Hour 3: Starbucks protest

Starbucks protest.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Meteorologists.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Race Stage I said, keep looking out the window, you
might see snowflakes.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
I haven't seen it yet.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
The initial reports was that the winter storm, which is
not really going to be a winter storm for most
of it. It's going to be up up north, maybe
in North Jersey, up into upstate New York, certainly as
you go up ninety five into Connecticut. But for most
of the people, it's just going to be heavy rain today,
although it's going to start as flurries, especially if it's
cold enough, like early in the morning. But I haven't

(00:28):
seen anything yet. We're going to be talking to race
Stage A coming up in about fifteen minutes, so that
leads off the Big Three. Also, the Trump administration admits
there was a second strike on a Venezuelan boat disabled
in the water.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have made it clear that
presidentially designated narco terrorist groups are subject to lethal targeting
in accordance with the laws of war.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's a war crime, I tell you.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
If that's what the Democrats are saying, And just like
everything else they've tried to stick on Donald Trump, this
will just fade away. After the shooting of two National
Guards members in the nation's capital by an Afghan nationals.
There is new focus on who was allowed into the
country after the debacle of a withdrawal from Afghanistan, and

(01:19):
how were they vetted? Were they vetted at all?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
They knowingly violated law.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
There's a process for this to happen, and it's on
an individualized basis. You don't get to just wave a
wand and say anybody from these countries can come in
here without any vetting.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
And yet that's what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Ramula Lachanal is accused of murdering twenty year old Sarah Beckstrom.
Twenty four year old Andrew Wolf, the other National Guards member,
has been upgraded now from critical to serious condition.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Andrew remains in serious condition. We did have some positive
news that we were told that Andrew was asked if
he could hear the nurse who asked the question to
give a thumbs up, and he did respond.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Right and even since then he has now become even
more alert, So thank god. Lawyers for Luigi Mangioni argued
in court that key evidence linking Mangione to the killing
of Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson should not be used because
they were obtained without a warrant or miranda rights being read.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
It's always an uphill battle anytime that you're trying to
get important evidence suppressed out of any given case.

Speaker 6 (02:32):
The judges understand that for the.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Most part, especially when we're talking about the consentts that
were found in his book bag.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
That's going to make or break this case.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
A hero that was on the scene on the day
of nine to eleven has died. Deputy Fire Chief James
Riches served thirty years in the FDNY.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Jimmy is one of our advocates.

Speaker 7 (02:52):
Jimmy went to wash them many times for us here.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Fourth for benefits, for the families of the people mill
were killed, and for us that are still living.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Stark in mind that we're going to continue to do this.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
James Riches was seventy four years old. Well, I also
want to play one last thing for you, and that
is the Starbucks baristas were on strike and joining them
on the picket line some high powered Democrats Mayor elect
Zorin Mamdani and Senator Bernie Sanders.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
The struggle those workers have is that not enough people
know about their fight, not enough people know what they
are being forced to accept. So the more that you
can bring that awareness, the more that you can bring
that attention, the easier it is for workers to demand
the bare minimum. And that is what I will continue
to do as the next mayor of the city.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
That's what I will continue to do. People took that
as he's going to start walking the picket line throughout
the next four years, and let's find out what Joe
Burrelli thinks about that. Joe Burrelli, Managing director of Chartwell
Strategy Group and former Minority leader of the New York
City Council with us every Tuesday at this time. Have

(03:59):
we had a mayor in the past that's walked every
picket line?

Speaker 8 (04:04):
Not every but they certainly have. You know. The interesting
thing though, for this situation is that Zoren and Bernie Sanders,
they like to spend other people's money, namely the consumers,
namely us. Right, we're the ones who are gonna pay
for the increased minimum wage or whatever it is that
that that these Starbucks workers were protesting specifically for. It's

(04:24):
gonna be a different ballgame when Mamdani has to pay
his own city workers. There's two hundred and thirty thousand
city workers, all of them will have a contract or
a union contract come up at some point during his mayoralty.
And let's see what he does when he has to
figure out actually how to pay people with the with
the revenues he's given. I don't think he's ever balanced

(04:46):
a checkbook. I don't think he's ever balanced a piggy bank.
I think he probably didn't even do well on sim
city when he was twelve years old. And you know
how to manage his city resources.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well, I know how he's gonna pay for it. He's
gonna do a kitchy video and he's gonna beg money
from other New Yorkers. That's the way he gets money
all the time.

Speaker 8 (05:04):
That's it. That's it. Pay the teachers more, and then
here's my.

Speaker 7 (05:07):
Video on how to do it.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I just when I see him on the picket line,
and I see him saying he's going to continue on
with other picket lines throughout the next four years, which
is what everybody's reading into that.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Whether that's true, maybe not.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Maybe that's not exactly what he was saying, but it
sure did seem like it because he said it more
than once. What do business owners feel about that? What
do companies feel about that? There's two sides in these
labor disputes, and he's taking one side. It seems like every.

Speaker 8 (05:36):
Time, every single time. I mean, and that's the problem, right,
It is almost impossible to start to buy, to operate
any sort of business in New York just because of
the labor laws, just because of the cost of entry
into any industry. Look, look, Barelli LLC. You know my company,
for what it's worth, We are thinking about moving to

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New Jersey just because I would take so much money
on taxes and I get almost nothing for the premium.
And this is what gets squeezed. Whether you're a Starbucks
you know owner, whether you're a Dunkin Donuts franchise owner,
you get squeezed. Not just by the minimum wage laws.
You get squeezed by the federal health care laws. You
get squeezed by the laws that require you to pay

(06:23):
vacation days for part time jobs. I mean, these are
all things that never get calculated by the members of
the city council and state legislator who just passed these things.
Willy Nilly, I think it was on the show I
compared Mamdanni to robes Pierre. I think it was last week.
And it's such a good comparison because robes Pierre led

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the French Revolution and eventually got guillotined himself because eventually
it turned on him. This is gonna happen to Mam
Donnie because he in no way will have the resources
to live up to all the promises, all the socialist
vision that that he pretends to be able to deliver on.
He's not going to. And as sure as I'm you know,

(07:04):
talking to you over the air right now, is as
sure I will be in two years from now, saying, see,
I told yourself, what.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Did you think of Robert Tucker stepping down as the
head of the FDNY, saying in an interview it was
because of Mom Donnie, because he didn't like some of
the things he said, And a lot of people have
said that know him, it was because of the anti
Semitic comments he made.

Speaker 8 (07:28):
Look, I give him credit for saying that. This is
the truth is Mam Donnie was firing every political appointee
by Mayor Adams anyway, Right, The interesting thing I am following,
who's going to replace Robert Tucker? I mean, certainly the
first Deputy Commissioner of GARA, who's a great man, smart guy,
he's going to take over for a period of time.

(07:48):
You know, it's not one of these agencies. You can't
not have a commissioner. So I think Chief Gara will
continue in the role. But I'm actually interested to see
who he places in these roles of jobs that really
cannot be run by socialist ideologues. Right, you cannot be
a socialist ideologue and run the fire department. You have
to be someone concerned about the city safety, that response

(08:10):
times the real brass tacks of government. Same thing with
the sanitation department. Right, there is no Republican or democratic
way to shovel the snow. And he's going to have
to find competent people that do share some of his vision, Right,
that's part of it. But he's going to have a
hard time finding really competent bureaucrats and business leaders to
run some of these critical agencies.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, I think everybody looks and that's why it was
so smart of him. I think everybody looks at Titian says, oh,
thank god, he's gonna keep normal people. He's going to
put in normal people. It's everybody else that we have
to watch. And so has there been some of the
other people you would know this better than I do.
That you're concerned of that he's made he's put in

(08:52):
the administration so far.

Speaker 8 (08:55):
Look, look I'm not you know, people are making I
think too much of the transition team. When you have
four hundred people on a transition team, it's just about
putting your names on a piece of paper, right, It's
they're not doing any work. They're not really doing a
lot of work. You know, the transition really is being
run out of a law firm down on Wall Street,
and they're vetting people and they're trying to pick people
who are there. So like, I really do think the

(09:16):
overreaction has been to the transition team in a sense
that he's just putting every name of everyone whoever supported
him on a piece of paper so they feel good
about themselves. That's just the truth. It's we're going to
start seeing the names of the deputy mayors get rolled out.
I would imagine this week that's when we'll see really

(09:36):
the vision he has for the city.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Joe BURRELLI, managing director chart Well Strategy Group and former
City Council Minority leader, with us every Tuesday at this time.
Joe good to talk to us always.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Thanks, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Depending on where you're listening today, you could see rain,
you could see slush, even snow accumulating snow. We're going
to check in with Ray Stagic from the Weather Channel
for an extended forecast to find out what's headed our way,
plus tickets to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra. At eight
twenty five.

Speaker 9 (10:09):
Lee defiantly, relentlessly, they're fighting hate.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Hey, guess what.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
We've been looking at the window ever since we talked
to Ray Stagic, waiting for those flurries and nothing, nothing
at all, But it is snowing somewhere.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
At seven point thirty started snowing up here in the Catskills,
Sullivan County, just to let you know.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Thank you for letting us know, and thank you so much,
especially from Ray Stagic, who said if we started looking
at the window, would see flurries in Manhattan and we
got nothing. However, it is snowing pretty good somewhere, so Ray,
you weren't completely wrong. Let's go to Ray Stagic, Waho
R and Weather Channel meteorologists. Uh so, Ray, it hasn't

(10:56):
started here in Manhattan yet.

Speaker 10 (10:58):
Yeah, I mean around the city you might get a
wet snowflake or two mixed in with the rain, and
if it's not raining yet, it's gonna be. Temperatures that
come up in the past couple of hours were in
the upper thirty so this likely looks like all rain.
New York City, off to the east on Long Island
coastal Connecticut, even white plains up to Terrytown, and even
if you're in the advisory in south southeastern Rockland County,

(11:19):
especially New City and even maybe Stony Points most likely
rained with some wet snow now as the precipts starting
to fall. And by the way, Catskill is just over
one hundred miles north of the city, and that's near
my own stopping grounds in Glasgow, New York with my
sister an Ulster County reported it started snowing, So Larry,
I'm not asking to take a trip that far north

(11:40):
because that snows started to come down now maybe a
passaic of Morris Counties too. So in the city, if
there's a wet snowflake, I wouldn't be completely shocked, but
you cann have to go west and especially further northwest
and north they see any accumulating snow.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Now we last talked to you a couple of hours ago.
Has anything changed since then? Are you amending anything since that? Not?

Speaker 10 (12:02):
Really? I think everybody in the city is looking for snowflakes,
and you know, I kind of hedged it with on
the onset. There might be some wet snow, big gloppy flakes,
but you know that's not gonna stick and probably not
gonna happen for most But you know, you get up
near Yonkers, maybe White Plains, and over the other side
of the river into Bergen County around Patterson and even

(12:23):
Essex County through a Livingston, there may be some wet
snow before we see that change over the rain, and
then obviously further northwest snow and as you get into
the heart of Orange County and then further north of
that and into the Catskills, that's where the bigger accumulations
will be. So it's early if you want snow. Lariot's
early in the winter, let's say season, since it's not

(12:44):
officially winter. So there's gonna be plenty more opportunities for you,
I think as we go through the next couple of months.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
No, I understand that.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
So I've worked, as you know, in TV for a
long time, and every meteorologist does their winter forecast. That's
a big deal and it always gets big ratings. So
have you come up with a winter forecast what we're
expecting this winter?

Speaker 10 (13:08):
If I'm had you my bets, I don't. I'm not
a particular fan of seasonal forecasting.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
So let's set that out of thought.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
You were very diplomatic just then, that was extremely diplomatic.

Speaker 10 (13:20):
Well give you example. This hurricane season was forecast to
be above average and we ended up well below average.
So I'm not big on seasonal forecasting. I don't like
to buck the trends, and the trend would be near
slightly above normal temperatures with maybe above normal precipitation. That
doesn't necessarily mean rain and or snow. I'm not gonna

(13:41):
go out and put you know, some people put out
snowfall snowfall predictions for the for the winter. Not gonna
do that. I do think we will have opportunities for
bigger East Coast storms this winter than we did last winter,
just based upon the pattern that may be setting up.
And we're seeing our first shot here. There might be
another shot coming in with weaker low pressure toward the weekend.

(14:03):
Looks like that's going to go south. But as we
go through the next couple of weeks, there may be
a few more opportunities for an East coast of them.
I won't say rain or snow to try to clip
us here.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Thanks so much, meteorologist Raise Stagic, appreciate it. Thanks a
lot for checking again with us. Let's real quickly talk
about this field goal kicker yang Hu Coup, who made
a serious mistake last night, something I've never seen happen before.
He went to kick a field goal on the Giants
game and his toe hit the turf forty seven yard

(14:37):
trying now by young way Conny stumble Killen gets swallowed
up Patriots ball.

Speaker 7 (14:46):
I don't think I've ever seen that.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Look like he just stuffed his clip right into the turf.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, he kicked the turf. He didn't kick the ball
at all. It just sums up the Giant season. Now
let's get to Jacqueline Carl with the eight thirty News.

Speaker 11 (15:01):
Jacquelin Larry, the second National Guard member shot near the
White House last week, is making progress. Staff Sargeant Andrew
Wolfe is now out of a medically induced coma. The
suspect in the shooting is an Afghan national who worked
with US forces in Afghanistan. He was injured in the
incident and remains hospitalized facing first degree murder and other

(15:22):
related charges for the death of Wolfe's colleague, Army specialist
Sarah Beckstrom. And Manhattan prosecutors are preparing to retry Pedro
Hernandez in the murder case of Aton Pates.

Speaker 12 (15:34):
There's now a hearing set for Friday as prosecuors and
defense attorneys start preparing for a retrial. Pedro Hernandez was
found guilty in twenty seventeen and sentenced to twenty five
years to life for abducting and murdering six year old
Eton Pates in one of the most famous missing person
cases in America. However, a judge overturned that conviction due
to a trial error by a judge related to Hernandez's

(15:56):
alleged confession. Defense attorneys argue the confessions under liable. I'm
scappringle wrdws, So.

Speaker 11 (16:03):
This guy was living the dream for a long time.
According to Odity Central, a civil servant in Kuwait was
sentenced to five years in prison in order to pay
a fine of over one million dollars for collecting his
salary for ten years without going to work. The man
worked at the Citizens Service Department. I guess they weren't

(16:25):
getting much service. But he did not show up or
do any work for a decade, even though his paycheck
kept getting deposited into his bank account every month.

Speaker 6 (16:34):
I always wonder how this kind of thing starts.

Speaker 11 (16:36):
Did you just say like I quit but didn't tell
anybody and the paychecks kept coming. It's always interesting to
figure out how that started. Along with prison time, though,
he has to pay back three hundred and thirty nine
thousand dollars and his salary he collected, plus double that
amount as a penalty, bringing the total amount to just
over a million.

Speaker 6 (16:56):
How he'll do that from prison is beyond me. But
if you could get paid for a decade without showing
up for work and we're guaranteed not to get caught,
would you nope?

Speaker 2 (17:07):
How insignificant must you be that you don't show up
to work and nobody notices for ten years.

Speaker 13 (17:14):
I hope he had the best ten years ever, because.

Speaker 6 (17:18):
Yeah, it's not gonna get any better. I just and
how did he get caught?

Speaker 11 (17:23):
Like a new accountant come to the thing, like what
they don't tell you all this stuff? And I really
want to know because it was really like a great story,
like imagine ten years you just live in your best
life and then suddenly wam.

Speaker 6 (17:37):
And I know someone had to have known a family member.

Speaker 13 (17:43):
I mean the fact that nobody at the company realized
that that's just that that whole company needs a major audit.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
I love that. Though.

Speaker 11 (17:51):
There was another country where I did a story like this,
where someone did that for like a few years and
then got caught or something like that. But yeah, people,
and it always seems to be in other countries. Here
the irs is two on top of things, and companies are.
But in other countries I've been hearing about these stories.
Would people just stop working and a paycheck? Probably the pandemic? No, no,

(18:13):
that wasn't ten years ago.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
No, No, I mean I I but how about the
guy that caught him?

Speaker 6 (18:18):
How about or the gal?

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Anybody know Benny Fritz?

Speaker 6 (18:25):
Is there a Benny here?

Speaker 11 (18:26):
It's oh boy, it's it's ice cream Wednesdays. Where the
heck is Benny? And that's how it happened.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Oh thanks a lot, Jacqueline. Congratulations Sir Raymond Meyer from Millington,
New Jersey. You just want a pair of tickets to
see the trans Siberian Orchestra's annual holiday show, performing at
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(18:53):
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Tomorrow morning at a twenty five well, the White House
launches a fake news website. It'll be interesting to see
how Jimmy Fayla feels about that. The wo R and
Fox News host is next.

Speaker 8 (19:11):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
I always look forward to this time of the day
when we have WR host from nine to midnight Fox
Across America with Jimmy Fayla. Jimmy Fayla, a host of
Fox News Saturday Night with Jimmy fall on the Fox
News Channel, joins us every Tuesday at this time. And Jimmy,
I don't know why I thought of you when I

(19:31):
saw this, but I thought it'd be something fun for
you to talk about. When I saw the Starbucks line
and the pickets, the barista's picketing, and theirs zorin Mom
Dannie and Bernie Sanders almost said Barry Sanders and Bernie Sanders,
and I thought to myself, Man, is this going to
be the next four years? And what must the corporations

(19:54):
and the businesses in the city thinking when they hear
their mayor Alex saying I'm gonna keep doing this. I'm
gonna walk picket lines for the next four years.

Speaker 7 (20:05):
Yeah, I mean, it's funny that My first thought was
there's a historic nature to that Starbucks protest. That was
the largest collection of art history majors in the history
of our college system. They don't really have like convention
for that sort of thing when you get one of
those degrees, but between the Art History department and the
Gender Studies department, they've never gotten together under such a

(20:28):
big testing. It was excited to see. But yes, you
got an anti business guy coming in there. And what's
so funny about Starbucks is they're getting eaten by their
own ideology. Okay, they championed all of this stuff and
it's coming back to bite them, and they're learning a lesson.
A lot of corporations were smart to head off about

(20:49):
a year and a half ago when they started to
separate themselves from all this DEI stuff and unconscious bias
and everything else, because you were essentially just giving your
employees a blueprint to either sue you or protest every
day and it's been fascinating. But yes, we'm Donnie and
Bernie have to be there because there's a tip cup
and they want us to listit fun from anybody buying

(21:11):
a coffee.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
You know how this works.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
But I thought some of this was going to stop
now now he's the mayor. Now he's gonna have actual responsibility.
But there he is in a picket line. I've never
quite seen that before for somebody that's just coming into
office to take a side like that, and not only
take a side like that, but to say I'm gonna
keep doing this for the next four years. But I

(21:35):
guess it goes to his brand in that he because
we will end up paying more. We are going to
end up paying more Starbucks if they get more money.
And that's that's the whole that's his whole thing. Everybody's
gonna pay more so that other people can have your money.

Speaker 7 (21:51):
That that's the whole hook. And just so everybody understands, like,
let's not act like Starbucks is cheap. Now I'm still
paying interest on a scone that I bought Memorial Day weekend.
It's not pretty, but can we give him up? Dottie
Credit for one thing. Okay, he's fighting to get somebody
an else's raise after the city Council voted to give
him one before they even set foot in office. So

(22:13):
maybe he just feels bad on some level. Maybe this
is his humanity on display, because that was my favorite
thing in the world, is that they vote to give
themselves a raise. And to be clear, when they said
they were gonna make New York City more affordable, they
never said for who. Okay, made it more affordable for them,
I guess.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
No, I agree with you. And everything he does, he
begs for more money. You thought it was over after
his campaign was over. No, he's begging for his transition
right now. And I don't think it's gonna end. I
think we're still gonna be given this guy money even
when he is mayor.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
For every event.

Speaker 7 (22:48):
Yeah, that's that's one hundred percent. We essentially we elected
a sidewalk Santa who's out there in July. You know,
when you see a sidewalk Sana in December, you go, yeah,
I'm gonna give one. It's a salvation army. This is
a legitimately good organization. But if somebody's out there in July,
you're like Hey, wait a minute, this might be a
bit of a racket, and that's what we did. We

(23:09):
have a July sidewalk Santa in the mega's office, so
there's always gonna be some sketchy fundraising.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Do you go to Starbucks?

Speaker 7 (23:18):
Uh, listen for one reason? Okay, okay, I used to.
I used to go there to write because they used
to encourage people to come in and sit there before.
That was before they tried to distance themselves from that
model because the bathroom had turned into a homeless shelter,
and you know, it became a little too cumbersome for
them to regulate humanity in this city. So as a cabby,

(23:40):
I liked Starbucks because I could park my cab and
go write in a notebook for a little bit.

Speaker 8 (23:44):
But I don't.

Speaker 7 (23:45):
I don't do that anymore.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
And you get free Wi Fi too, then I am
a radio. You get free Wi Fi too. That's why
I go there. When my WiFi is out, I go
to Starbucks.

Speaker 7 (23:55):
That's funny. Well, I always tell people I like Dunkin
Donuts better because of the conversation. Okay, when you go
to Starbucks, you know you're listening to the guy next
to you argue with a professor over a term paper
or something weird. When you go to Dunkin Donuts, the
guy next to you is arguing with himself, you know,
the spaceships out of gas again. And I enjoy that,

(24:18):
you know, I don't. I don't care about your nine
dollars latte. There's a time traveler at Duncan Donuts and
it's cheaper coffee.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
When you went to Starbucks, what was your order?

Speaker 1 (24:29):
How long was it?

Speaker 8 (24:31):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (24:31):
No, you want to know what? I was a simple, one,
one ingredient guy. I drink black iced coffee. That's where
I go when I write. And that it's weird, but
that bitterness, because it is bitter, it actually helps my
brain write positive, fun things. I know that sounds weird,
but that is actually my process. And I used to
go there and you know, shell out the seven twenty

(24:52):
five for a large black iced coffee and uh you
know that was that, you know? And now now I'm
back into the back into the Unkin lane, right belong?

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Will you passed the Dennis Miller test? Remember when he
said that you can tell how big of a jerk
somebody is by how long their Starbucks order is.

Speaker 6 (25:10):
That was his line right.

Speaker 13 (25:14):
What my vintage strawberry I refresher with light ice and
no strawberries is annoying?

Speaker 1 (25:19):
You failed?

Speaker 7 (25:20):
Now you are long gone. I want to know something
that is. I used to sit there and listen to
people like you place an order and hate them in
my note.

Speaker 13 (25:31):
You know what, I don't place the order anymore. I
just do it on the app and I go pick
it up.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
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Are the boxes stacked up at your door yet? Holiday
shopping is breaking records? And Natalie Migliori ask New Yorkers
if they have joined in yet.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Her Beat on the Street is next.

Speaker 6 (26:20):
Now it's sevent woors.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliore.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Well, Black Friday set the all time record Cyber Monday
set an all time record. The five day period from
Thanksgiving set an all time record. So everybody must have
got get that, got their shopping done right. Let's find
out if that's true. From Natalie Migleorre and her Beat
on the Street.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
Good morning Natalie, Good morning Larry.

Speaker 9 (26:48):
Well, Thanksgiving has coming gone, and so has the unofficial
start to the holiday shopping season. Retailers apparently managed to
wrap up on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with MasterCard
reporting a more than four percent increase in US retail
sales on Black Friday alone. However, the increased spending was

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probably due to the overall rise in what everything costs
these days, which may be why it's so hard to
find someone who went out of their way to get
a deal.

Speaker 14 (27:18):
The Black Friday used to be really fifty percent, we
were sixty percent. Now you only see thirty forties and
the check it's not enough, sometimes ridiculous.

Speaker 6 (27:30):
It's not worth it anymore. It's not what it used
to be years ago. Those were sales, not now.

Speaker 15 (27:35):
For a long time, we've had this whole idea of
experiences over the holidays and finding ways to do stuff
without buying more stuff. I think that's still very alive
and well, but at this point travel is so expensive,
I might as well buy my dad a new screwdriver.

Speaker 9 (27:52):
Well, Lee might want to pass on the screwdriver this
year if she finds a travel deal today. Since the
Tuesday after Thanksgiving has become dubbed travel Tuesday, this is
really when travelers have a chance to see if they
can score an offer on upcoming trips. Larry, So maybe
not a screwdriver in the cards for dad. Maybe she'll

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get an experience. How However, some people did hit the stores.
But was that because of the deals or the day
off a.

Speaker 15 (28:23):
Little bit of both. I was with my parents so
were Thanksgiving holiday, and we started talking about things they
wanted for Christmas, and so then I went in and
looked because it was a day off. I got dreams
from Old Navy because I need work dreams. That's it.

Speaker 11 (28:36):
So I pay like fifty So that's not bad.

Speaker 6 (28:39):
You feel lucky you'll get them on a deal. If not, Hey,
you heard White anyways, right.

Speaker 15 (28:43):
Yeah, people are looking for deals.

Speaker 14 (28:44):
Someone like myself who's looking for deals as well.

Speaker 8 (28:47):
I'm not finding any, so I'm not really spending money.

Speaker 9 (28:49):
We'll see maybe close with the Christmas, but Adobe Analytics
shows online purchases total nearly twelve billion dollars on Black
Friday and Cyber Monday is set to racket nearly fourteen
billion dollars itself. I can't even conceptualize the money there, Larry.
But not everyone played into it, and not everyone is

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feeling the crush of holiday shopping.

Speaker 14 (29:13):
Mike is a grown adults.

Speaker 6 (29:15):
I'm gone, I don't need.

Speaker 9 (29:16):
To Michael, maybe two weeks before Christmas.

Speaker 8 (29:19):
So next week.

Speaker 14 (29:21):
I'm try to organize and try everything done before the
twenty four So for me, I had to get everything
done by December ten.

Speaker 6 (29:30):
My family and I just give each other money, So
that's real, really chopped.

Speaker 9 (29:35):
Hey, Larry, I want to be prought of that giving
each other the money. Yeah, but at the end of
the day, you know, it's just thought that counts. And
Roseanne says she's keeping an eye on her paycheck this
holiday season to make sure she can meet her needs
while also spreading holiday joy.

Speaker 14 (29:51):
Everything's getting more expensive because you know, we have to
pay rent, all the bills and everything. Everything's going getting
more expensive. Friends, friend is going on. So we had
to finish pain all that first and then see, Okay,
I have this little bit leftovers, I can try to
get a little something and see what I can get.
Right now, I'm just saving as much as I can

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so I can.

Speaker 8 (30:14):
Do the guest.

Speaker 14 (30:15):
I don't have kids on my home. I have only niece,
nissus and nephew, so that helps.

Speaker 9 (30:19):
To Yeah, a good aunt spending up whatever left for
the holiday season on her nieces and nephews. Really so,
I mean, the figures speak for themselves when you hear
billions of dollars are really being spent. But is that
because the cost of things have actually gone up and
not more people are shopping?

Speaker 10 (30:40):
You know?

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:41):
I love the accent you did, the voice you did
when you were doing the side talking, when you said, Hey, Larry,
you should really get in on this. You sounded a
little bit like Edgar ge Robinson. You're probably too young
to remember. I'm too young to remember Edgar ge Robinson.
You know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 9 (30:58):
No, I'm gonna have to go google it now and
google he didn't he must he didn't exist or Google
didn't exist when he did. But now I'll go google him.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was you know, he was one
of those guys that always said, you know, he's he's
ratting on me. See he's ratting on me. That's that
kind of guy. Uh, you'll enjoy him. I haven't met
anybody yet, and that's why it was interesting what you
went out and did. I haven't met anybody yet that
has shopped on Cyber Monday or on Black Friday. Yeah,

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and my family nobody did. Nobody did, which means I'm
probably not getting anything.

Speaker 9 (31:34):
That Maybe the deals come closer to Christmas, Lowry and
the holidays.

Speaker 13 (31:38):
Maybe, Yeah, like last minute shoppers in your family.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Oh yes, yeah, I'll bet I go out Christmas Eve something.
Oh yeah, there's places open. You'd be surprised. Only I
would know that having something all the other ship last
minute shoppers. Thanks a lot, Natalie. She'll be back with
her Beat on the Street tomorrow at eight fifty after
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