10-15-25 - 6am - Trip to NYC With The Granddaughter

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
How did everything go while you're gone? Well, we really
enjoyed these infomercials on Saturday. On Monday, Caldera and unnamed
producer we're twelve year old boys and took your show
off the tracks as expected. On Tuesday, y'allmost didn't have

(00:21):
a show, but we got to listen to pieces from
twenty twenty two.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yay, summer.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
I know what happened Monday and Tuesday because I was here.
What's she talking about for Saturday?

Speaker 4 (00:39):
We I really don't know what happened Saturday except I
did a live show for two hours and then skiddled
out in the third hour. Was something Michael had put together?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Gotcha? Okay?

Speaker 4 (00:53):
You know some sort of I don't think think it
was a best of I think what he did he
took a like you were doing when when Ryan was
still asleep. He took just some random show and plugged
it in for a while. I have no idea what
it was.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
And really really there there, Alexa, you really think on
Monday that Michael and I would not have goofed around
like Caldera.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
And I did.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Michael and I have the same maturity level about that
topic that Caldera and I did. So the same thing
would have happened.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
What was the topic?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
It was National no broad Day on Monday. Oh so yeah, yeah, you.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Can only expect as to what, you know, a couple
of teenagers would do well.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
So Monday, I get up and I had warned my
granddaughter that Monday was Clumbus Day in New York. That's
a big, bigfing deal. And they had already started on Sunday,
you know, putting all of the crowd control, you know,
all the barriers up and everything. Yeah, so Fifth Avenue
was completely blocked off, so we were able to for

(01:58):
at some period when I fu all done, and you know,
then the cops had taken all their positions. We're able
to actually, in the evening just walk up and down
the middle of Fifth Avenue, which is something you rarely
get to do. And that was fine, But I said,
you know, so what we're because on Tuesday we had
some other stuff planned. And I said, but I know,

(02:19):
you want to get back up. She went, we hadn't
seen Tiffany's yet. She wanted to go into Tiffany's. So
were they expect a crowd of a million people at
that parade? So we're gonna have to work our way,
like back over to Third Avenue, come up, you know,
and come across fifty seventh or something to get back in.
And even then, depending on whether the parade's still going
on or even worse than the parade has finished and

(02:42):
people are starting to disperse, we're going to be swimming upstream.
But what a trooper she was, Holy cow, So I
really had. I mean, obviously we've traveled as a family together,
but that's usually been to the undisposed location or whatever.
And you know, and she's she's a typical teenage girl.
She turned into a New Yorker the second we landed.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Beautiful it was.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
It was because I wasn't quite sure. So we get in,
we get checked in. It's late on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
You know.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
The first thing she knows was, gee, grandpoo. This that
taxi ride from Lagarty was kind of expensive. Like, well,
welcome to New York. Well, welcome to New York. This
is why this is why you're real that's right, this
is why your grandfather's is gonna be working for the
next twenty years. It's because I got to pay for
the trip. But we get we get checked into the
hotel and it's and I picked right in the middle

(03:39):
of Times Square because I wanted her to be like,
not over on the east side or you know, not
even in Greenwich Village or so, but I wanted to
be like in the midst of the most busy tourist everything.
And then we have spread out from there, so it
was centrally located and everything. We we get checked in
and we're supposed to have rooms next to each other,

(04:02):
you know, Marriott had promised me we'd have rooms next
to each other. Well we didn't. We were on separate floors.
And of course I kind of argue a little bit.
Then I think she's seventeen years old, she's she's been
to Africa, she's been played. So you know why am
I worried about this? No need to worry about So
let's do this. Let's let's go in, clean up, you

(04:24):
know whatever, don't change clothes, you know, but wash up,
rest a little bit, give me thirty minutes. Grand We
needs to rest a little bit, and then let's go out.
Saturday night, we were out till one thirty in the morning. Yes, yes,
I waited this morning because I was curious because I

(04:47):
haven't estimated yet. But my guess is based on let
me pick one random day, because we took cabs when necessary,
like if I if we were Battery Park and I
wanted to get to say Chelsea, I didn't want to
walk those two miles. I didn't, you know, And it

(05:10):
was right. It's somewhat rainy a couple of days. Yesterday
was gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. So occasionally we take calves, but
most of the time we were walking and on let's see,
we'll take Monday, ten point ninety three miles beautiful, Yeah, awesome,

(05:30):
that that was. That was probably that's actually probably the
low end. I would say twelve miles was probably average
every day. So Saturday we get there and I said,
now we get most places walking. That's what we're going
to do. You know in New York, nobody pays attention
to the traffic lights. Of course, now nobody pay In fact,

(05:54):
the you can tell the visitors from the locals because
the visitors stirring around and they're stopping in the middle
of the sidewalk and you're having to you know, swerve
around them or you're bumping into them because you got
your head down. You're one one hundred miles an hour.
She immediately picked up on. Oh, it may say do

(06:17):
not walk, but if you're crossing a one way street
traffic's all backed up, you can look. You can look
to your left. Depending on the direction of the traffic,
you can look to your left and see, oh, yeah,
the cars are a block away and they're stuck.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Go I can just cross.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
Yeah. And she just boom, didn't have to explain it
to her anything. She just started doing it. Here's the
best part.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
You must get those kind of smarts from her grandmother.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Absolutely she does. Although she does have something that every
would have crapped out by noon every day, because by
noon we'd put in a day and a half by noon.
So I'm not sure t would would have survived she
would have survived this either the first the first night,
but we would some really nice places and we went
to some dive. Of course at the very first night.

(07:05):
We are what I said, do you want to look
at the like like at the shop windows on Fifth
Avenue to see them at night? I mean, it's probably
not it's too early for Christmas, but they'll be lit
up at night and you can see what it looks
like on Fifth Avenue at night. Because I think that's
a good way to see a lot of things. Like
I always tell people when they go to d C,
don't go to the Lincoln Memorial during the middle of

(07:27):
the day. Go at midnight because then it's lit, it's quiet.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
It's empty. And yeah, yeah, it's amazing.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Well, so we're walking over to Fifth Avenue and we passed,
you know, a couple of the food trucks, the food carts.
She goes, I want a corn dog? Are you serious? Really? Yes,
I want a corn dog? Okay, because I'm want a
hot dog. So we had corn dog and hot you know,
we got corn dogs and hot dogs.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
York Street cart hot dog. Come on.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Oh yeah. So so and then what do we do.
We go over and we into place kind of over
you know, I guess one of the office buildings where
there's kind of a little ledge and we sit with
our feet dangling, eating hot dogs at you know, ten
thirty at night in midtown Manhattan. And I thought this
is going to be a good trip because she's already

(08:17):
adapted to the city.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Now.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
Of course that family is. They're very acting, you know,
they like the last trip she took was a hiking
trip through Scotland, so she's got the stamina and the
energy and all of that. But to see her adapt
to the city like that was fascinating to me. Then

(08:40):
this was interesting. So yesterday we did the nine to
eleven memorial. I called a friend of mine that is
the VP for government affairs there. He was a Juliani guy,
and I said, Jay, so I'm bringing my seventeen year
old daughter, granddaughter. I have asked about what you've learned
about nine Mille eleven. In high school, they take one

(09:03):
history class, they take one American history class. And so
I said, I don't know what she knows, but and
I don't know what you guys do for people like me,
But is there anything you know? Trust me, We'll give
you a private tour. Well, I have somebody really good.
We'll take care of you. So we get there, but

(09:27):
on the way there, she goes, you know, I'm not
I've asked mom and dad, like, I understand you were somehow,
you were somehow involved in this. That a little bit, yeah,
it it didn't hurt. It made me Instead of being hurt,

(09:47):
I was thinking to my son and daughter in law, like,
have you not talked about me at all?

Speaker 3 (09:55):
It's not I guess it's not their story to tell.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
Maybe, well, it's not their stories telling then, And then
I thought, too, how does it come up? Like, how
would you have that conversation?

Speaker 2 (10:08):
You know what your granddad did?

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Right?

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, you know, maybe if I was dead they were
talking to like some person who had never known me.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
That.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yes, But then I realized, Okay, she's seventeen years old.
She was born like almost seven years after Yea, this
is yeah, well after her, So you know, it wasn't.
It wasn't on the way down, it was.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
I.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
I was talking to Jay like the day before and
she said, yeah, mom and dad had said that you
were kind of involved in this, And I says, what
did you What did you learn in history? Well that
some people that I'm not really sure who they were,
wanted to kill us, and so they flew these planes
into some buildings and that was kind of the summation

(10:58):
of them.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
And she's a smart girl that pays attention in class.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
Yeah, Oh she's excellent. So I said, okay, and she
goes and they and mom and dad said, you were
like really involved in that stuff. So I'm thinking, how
do I, Like, there's no way I can get hurt?
I'm not sure how to prompt her for questions because

(11:23):
I don't know what's in her head. I don't know
what she knows or doesn't know. So I thought, well,
here's what I'm gonna do. So I'm going to I'm
going to take I'm going to text you the bio
that I use for my speaking business so you can
read that. I'll text it to you and then you
can ask questions from it. So I did that, and

(11:43):
of course the next morning, on the way down to that,
trying to think, we did other stuff before we went
to the museum, because that wasn't until ten o'clock. We
you know, most New Yorkers are still going to work
at ten o'clock. No, we were up, you know, and going.
We were out the door by six or seven every morning,

(12:05):
having you know, typical New York diner breakfast, bagel breakfast.
Went to a French cafe for breakfast one morning, and
I did that in Grand Central Station because Grand Central
Station for a seventeen year old girl is really important.

(12:26):
Do you know why?

Speaker 2 (12:27):
No, I'm not a seventeen year old girl.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
I had. I was like when she was like all
excited about going to see Grand Central station.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
I'm like some teenage drama.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yes, something called Comedy Girls or something.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Never heard of it.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
I've never heard of it either, but something that and
I think it's old. So I think it's kind of
retro and it's something that all these teenage girls watch.
And a lot of the filming was done in Grand
Central Station. Sure, so we walk into Grand Central Station.
It's like, wow, all this and then she's pointing out
roll you she's seen it, but now she's actually there, right.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
We sit at breakfast on one of the terroces, having
a little French. Oh my god. You know, I think
about breakfast. We think about going to McDonald's spinning what
you know, four ninety five, good creep. I look at
the bill because I'm looking at the spread too, you know. Anyways,

(13:20):
it was it was wonder it's great breakfast. But I
started getting the questions about, you know, what did you
do and all of that, and so then I started
telling stories and everything. Long story short, we get to
ground zero and h where they're early before Jay's people
are ready. So we're walking the fountains. Now, the fountains

(13:43):
had been finished at the museum and everything hadn't in
for meished the last time I was there. So I'm
walking around and it's it's so well it's so well designed.
It is it's like the Vietnam Memorial. It's of those
places where just the vastness of the names and we're

(14:06):
just walking along and I miss it. But you know,
the people put roses, you know, where they for family
members or people they knew. But she's walking along and
she finds a name that is and I apologize, I
don't remember the name, but let's say it's Mary Smith.
But it's longer than that. It's Mary Smith and her

(14:28):
unborn child. It just stops, It just stops.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
You.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
We had been to Wall Street before because she wouldn't
see Battery Park, and I'm trying to so from there
you can see down into some of the canyon lands
toward Wall Street and along VC and some of those
streets of the narrow canyon streets. And so I want
you to imagine that. You know you've seen the wildfire,

(14:59):
you seeing the boobs in an Phoenix, Now imagine that,
except it's debris. It's trash and asbestos and cement and
everything you can possibly imagine in the air, and it's
just flowing down those canyons and people are trying to escape,
and everybody's leaving and they're going across the Brooklyn Bridge

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on feet, on foot, and blah blah blah. And she's
just meserized by all of this. And then we get
into and Jay's people pick us up, take us inside,
and he's a young Jewish guy, and he starts explaining everything,
and she goes, so, were these people that did this

(15:42):
a part of a country, a government or did they
do this on their own? One, that's an excellent question,
But two, they did explain.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
To you who this was.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, this is a very smart girl who gets very
good grades in school.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Yeah. So it's a great question since that, but that's
a question that should have been asking answered in the
history class.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
So the tour, I mean tour really hadn't even started yet,
but it comes to a complete halt right there. And
now we're both alec is the guy, the young Jewish
guy with us, and I point out that he's Jewish
because we also had a lot of conversation about what
had taken place in the Middle East. We probably spend

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a good thirty minutes explaining al Qaeda, the affiliates with
I mean where Osama bin Laden came from the nineteen
ninety three World Trade Center bombing, which is a part
of the museum as you get through it. But it
was a lot of history being given by the two
of us to someone who is, as you say, incredibly smart,

(17:05):
gifts very good grades, has had one history class and
this is probably like a paragraph or two in the
history textbook. I was astonished, absolutely astonished at the When
we're on the plane coming back, I'm like, so start
naming off some of your like, what what'd you like

(17:26):
the most? You know, blah blah blah blah. And number
one was the nine eleven memorial that was number one.
Number two was a Chinese place in Chinatown we had
gone to because you know, you go to a Chinese
restaurant here and it's just typical, you know, americanized Chinese food. Yeah, exactly.

(17:49):
But we went into one of the places, you know,
where the chicken chickens are hanging in the windows, you're
doing all that. We also went to a really nice
Chinese restaurant in Chinatown. But it was the mission was accomplished.
Mission was accomplished, and that we got memories that she's
got memories that she can tell her kids about that

(18:11):
are crazy grandfather from the crazy time that we had
in New York City. Of course, I got home last
night really late, got like five hours sleep, and I've
got a text message that says, thank you so much,
I love you. Where are we going next?

Speaker 1 (18:26):
I certainly hope you took my suggestion when you were
at Tiffany's to buy your granddaughter a lovely but simple
piece of jewelry from Tiffany's. She would share ship forever.
Did just take my advice or ignore it?

Speaker 4 (18:45):
Well, the piece I looked at was ninety three and
forty dollars, so we passed on it.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
That sounds about right. Yeah, we gets a pass on it.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
We did not do that. We did something I was
not going to talk about this but actually brings up.
So now you got to do it right. She has
a thing for persons, and I think she gets that
from my daughter, and actually she gets it from Tamar too,

(19:15):
because Tamar inherited really nice purses from her mother jewelry too.
But she has jewelry she's going to inherit from her
other side of the family, from my grand from my
daughter in law's side. She wanted to get something from

(19:36):
Louis Vauton from the flagship store on Fifth Avenue.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
So.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
It was interesting. She was nervous about going in the store.
We did to go to Tiftany's because we were trying
to have tip. We were trying to have breakfast at Tiffany's,
but the Blue Box Cafe was packed, so we got
on the wait list for noon, and we finally gave
up because they told us, you know, we got you
down for one at one o'clock for lunch, that's the

(20:08):
start time for an hour. We finally gave up after
an hour and a half and left. We walked around
and done it all sort of stuff. Well again, let
me tell you about Louis Vauton. We go in. Before
we go in, she was nervous about going in the store,
same with Tiffany's. Tiffany's was the second, Louis Vauton was first.

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She was nervous about going in the store because it's
it's on you know, it's like a fifty second and
fifth Avenue that's up in that part of town, and
it's very intimidating. I mean it's truly intimidating because there
are incredibly expensive persons in there, and she had saved
some money. I was trying to nose around to find

(20:52):
out how much money she had, and I realized when
when I found out how much money she had, she
was not gonna be she was not going to be
able to buy a purse. That was not going to happen.
So she because she already had a she had another
I forget whether it was Louis Vaitton or Gucci, and anyway,
she's got another one. She wanted to get a little

(21:15):
pocket change purse, key chain and change, and so she's
overlooking at those, but she keeps looking over the purses,
and I realized she really does want to get a purse.
I'd finally figured out how much money she had saved,
and I knew she couldn't afford the purse. So what
I thought was, if it's a reasonably price purse, which

(21:39):
is I know, an oxymoron for Louis Vauton, that I'll
make up the difference. But I don't want her to
know that yet. I want her. I want her to
experience the store, experience what it's like to walk in
a place like that where they're selling, you know, a
twenty five thousand dollars. You know, Well, they wanted to
be burking or whatever, but whatever they're selling in there.

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So I find someone to help us. But I pull
him aside while she's looking at the little keychain things.
And his name was Mustafa. He's a graduate of Rutgers.
He's happened to be their watch ambassador. He had just
spent a week in Aspen with all the muckety MUCKs

(22:23):
planning out their marketing and everything. He has his MBA.
He wants to eventually work his way up in Louis Vuitton,
and then he wants to open his own design store
somewhere and what I don't know, but I said Mustafa, So,
my granddaughter's never been in a store like this. She's
very uncomfortable. She doesn't know what to do. Here's the deal.

(22:44):
If you find something that's under a certain price, or
she finds something that's under a certain price, I'm going
to make up the difference. But I want you just
to know she's very nervous. And I knew i'd have
to explain what I want him to do. He knew
what I wanted him to do.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Say no more.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
That's say no more. I've got this. I got it
because you know, people will people walk into Louis Vautam
because they've never been in a store like that, and
and their tourists, they just want to walk in and
see the store. Well, she wanted to see the store,
but she also wanted to get something. Mustapha is excellent.
My god, the guy was good. He you know, introduces himself,

(23:27):
asks her her name. You know, uh, he noticed that,
you know, the person she was carrying, and you know,
that's a that's a very nice person. She's looking around
and there's one she keeps looking at. Now, my daughter,
who is a person holic and knows all of these,
I snap a picture. I send it to my daughter.
Quickly tell me what this person is and how much

(23:48):
do you think it is? Blah blah blah, so that
they can keep act interacting, but I can get the
details while they're talking about stuff. Well, it is. It's
a retro purse from the nineteen thirties. It's one of
their original designs and it's a smaller purse. And I'm
not gonna take the price, but it was X number
of dollars and I know how much she has. I'm

(24:12):
but I want her to have this experience. I want
her to have it. So, you know, he's showing her
the purse, and I'm waiting for her because I want
her to have to ask how much is the purse?
Because you know, there are people that walk in that
don't care how much the purse is. They're gonna buy

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it regardless. Those are the wealthy. We're not the wealthy.
And so she needs to learn to understand that it's
okay to ask how much is the purse in Louis
Vauton because they know that the guy. The people that
work there know it too. They know that people can,
so I can and cannot. May have to make a decision,

(24:54):
am I gonna spend the money or not spend the money?
Although Mustapha already knows that want my upper limited is
and then it's in within this limit. And he gives
her the price, and you can tell she's looking down
because she knows exactly how much she's saved up for
this purse. And he goes, that is a lot, isn't it,

(25:16):
And she goes, yeah, I don't you know, and she's
very She's now getting into understanding that he's a human being.
She's a human being. Yes, this is a This is
a hoity toity place, but they know that and they
know what they're dealing with. He finally says, bunch, ask

(25:38):
your grandfather because he knows I'm going to do it.
And she looks at me and goes and I said, yes,
I'll do it. Oh my god, eyes liight up. She's
just ecstatic.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Let's add a great big squeal.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Well almost not kno quiet, I mean, it's a little
more subdued than that. But of course the first thing
she does is she wants to make a picture of it. Now,
my daughter's already gotten the picture, right, she already knows.
My daughter told me the name of the purse. Why
why it's important? This is a great would be great
for her collection because it's retro and it's blah blah
blah blah, and so I already know the dang history

(26:15):
this stupid purse, and but the mustapha uts to explain
it all to her and she walks out. It was
so funny yesterday watching her at the airport. She was
just so proud to have that damn orange bag, you know,
the shopping bag to put it on the plane. It's
just like, because her dad's too cheap to do that,

(26:38):
but that's what grandfather's for, right, So I need to
do a couple more American financing spots, a couple more
dan Caplis spots so.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
That I can you know, kind of pay make up
for it, to.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
Make up for the purse. So that's what that's what
we're gonna do.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
So quick question right now, we got to get a
break here very shortly. Maybe you can answer on the
other side of the break, Texter, her came in and
as your granddaughter took to New York like a duck
to water. There's a good question here from three five
one four. Mike, do you feel safer in New York
City or downtown Denver?

Speaker 4 (27:09):
Have I got an amazing answer for you about that? Oh, keez, Michael,
tell me you're part of the elite without telling me
you're part of the elite, and give me a whole
story about Louis Baton and twenty five thousand dollars purses. Geez, man,
elite much?

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Do you think he only spent twenty five thousand dollars
on a purse?

Speaker 2 (27:28):
That's all you think?

Speaker 4 (27:29):
He's? Really? Yeah? Really good grief. No, let me tell
you something. This is this is because this is you know,
it's interesting that you have that response because I was
taught by a high school my high school biology teacher
who is our student council advisor. And when you go
on trips, people don't want to hear about your trips,

(27:52):
and so it's I've always been uncomfortable talking about what
I do when I go on trips. But this is
my granddaughter, and this is making memories with my granddaughter,
and that's that's the important thing to me is doing that.
And if I can do something and you might be surprised,

(28:15):
you might be surprised about things that I spend money
on that are really not that expensive. And I know
that expensive is a relative term for whomever it. You know,
everybody has everybody has different levels. But it doesn't mean

(28:36):
that we can't enjoy the memories of doing something like
what I did. The question was do you feel safe
for in New York City or downtown Denver. My granddaughter
made a comment that because of her her cheerleading and
palm squad from Cherry Creek often has to go to

(29:01):
downtown Denver. They'll have tryouts and they'll have competitions and
stuff like that, and she made the comment that now
on Sunday, because of the weather, there really weren't many
people out on the streets, mostly tourists, and the homeless
people had kind of disappeared and gone away. And interestingly,

(29:21):
most of the crazy people that you have homeless and
you have crazy, and you have the crazy homeless, we
got a costed two or three times. But the way
you deal well, the way you deal with them anywhere
is you just ignore them and keep you You don't
make eye contact, you just keep moving. And that's what

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we would do do. But she specifically made the comment
that she felt safer there than she did in downtown Denver,
and so that led to an entire conversation about the difference.
One is, there's the crowds. You've got crowds and crowds
of people no matter where you are, even if you're

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in Chelsea or somewhere in Manhattan, they're still those that
live in that neighborhood that are out walking around and
they're they're you know, going to their offices or going
to whatever they do. Or if you're down on Wall Street,
it's packed and jam packed. You're in Times Square, you're
on the Upper East Side, wherever you happen to be.
There are crowds. It's just you know, eight million people

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on the island, so there's a lot of people there.
The difference that we both the conclusion we came to
is the difference is the the homeless people here tend
to be crazy, but also on drugs. They've got they're

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they're they're smoking weed, they're using fentanyl, they're they're coke,
whatever is they're using. So they're homeless and they're crazy,
and they're much more aggressive. Now, part of that might
be because there are fewer people, so it's easier to
be aggressive with somebody than it is in the crowd,
because you're it's kind of hard to be aggressive in
the crowd. We were coming up out of Central Park

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yesterday and there was a guy who was truly crazy.
I mean, there was obviously something mentally ill with him,
and he kept banging on the side of the ice
cream truck at the corner of on Central Park East,
and the guy in the truck just finally gave him
an ice cream cone just get him to go away,
just gave it to it. He was wearing a robe

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and black boots and I'm not sure if there's I
don't know. I didn't look. I wasn't sure if there's
anything under the robe or not. Probably a harmless guy,
but crazy here. I think that same guy would be
smoking weed and on fentnyel and something else and would
be much more aggressive. All the guy wented there was
this nice wanted a nice cream cone. The other thing

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that was interesting, at least in terms of my granddaughter
seeing aside of me, she never saw whenever I'm in
a city like that where you know here, if I
have a nice meal and there's leftovers, we take them
home and we eat them the next day. It's hard
to do in New York City. So what I've always
done in New York City for the thirty years or
so I've been going to New York City is if

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I have food left over, I'll have them pack it up,
put some utensils in, and as I'm walking back to
my hotel, I'll find the homeless person and give it
to the homeless person. I'll tell them what it is.
And I just came to the restaurant, would you like
to have dinner or breakfast or whatever it is? And
so my granddaughter and I would do that. And we
had one woman who We came out of Grand Center

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after breakfast. I found her and I said, would you
like breakfast? She said, I have to ask God first
God should I take this food from this man? Yes.
God answers pretty quickly, and they took the food. Here's
a great trip. I hope she has lots of good
memories from it. I certainly do