June 7, 2024 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast,
Fine Elvis fifteen Morning show. It is the fifteen minute
morning show podcast. Here we go and as we do
this podcast, we're preparing for our staff lunch.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You guys pre good. I don't look at the menu.
You guys looking at this room. Everybody does the same thing.
I don't do it. I feel weird not looking at
the menu. I like to go into a restaurant and go,
all right, niky, here's what I am I'm having.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You guys already know what you're having down to dessert.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I already know who's sharing what.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
A strategy, game plan to go into that. In just
a second, we'll get into that. We're going to get
into that. But let me introduce the world. And there's Danielle,
who doesn't like mayonnaise. We're gonna find out how to
get around that at lunch today. It also Gandhi, who
eats everything except for cinnamon. There's Scottie B who's somewhat
particular about many things in life. There's straight Nate, who
(01:03):
is so excited for lunch. He's already ready to order
three entrees.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
He's gonna take a leftovers.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I don't have the cook later.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, there's exactly, there's no like like you've never done that. Hello.
And there's Scary who's negotiating with Nate about how they're
gonna split dishes. And there's Garrett, who I sort of
agree with. I'd rather not go online and look at
a menu from a restaurant. I want to get there
and open the menu and then also ask what the
specials are, because that could throw everything off.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Right, And don't you feel rush too, Like as soon
as you know what you want, then the waiter's like, oh,
you don't need to look at the menu, what would
you like? And then you're you're already halfway out the door.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
At that point you could reevaluate. Yeah I know that,
but yeah, I'm the same way. There are a lot
of people, especially people who are dieting. They want to
look ahead and see, okay, let me order this and
then ask them not to put that on it. And
I get that, But what about you, Gandhi? Do you
want to surprise when you get there or do you
want to check out the menu before you I always.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Look at the menu. I get excited to look at
the menu. I feel like it's like real book before
the movie, because when you get there, things could change.
They could have a different venue than what you read online.
And like you said, to specials. But I'm somewhat prepared.
I know what I'm expecting.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Okay, Danielle's looking at that menu.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, because I am so particular with mayonnaise and fish.
So when people invite me to dinner, I always have
to just go because I know I'll find something. I
just have to go. I just want to go on
there head so that I'm not the pain in the
ass when I get there, going well, I don't want
to eat that. I just already know this is what
I'm going to have because I already looked and I
know that's what I can handle.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So see, you know what you can do. You can
Chef dan is a good friend of ours. Yeah, you
can say, hey, I'm the pain in the ass. Here's
what I don't like, but what do you think I
should have it? He will immediately come up with something.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I think he already knows I'm a pain in the
ass from last time, so I think he's used to be.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
See.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I like to look ahead only because I need to
whittle things down because.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Then you want of the whole menu.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I like food, I.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Like I like a variety of food. In my older age,
i've to try things and like things that I didn't
think I liked when I was a kid. So now
I'm just going I got to go ahead and like,
will you split these Let's do these two items, split
this for the table, and then maybe we'll cut an
entree in half. That's where Nate and I were, So
you got to do that ahead of time. Otherwise you
get them angry on the spot because they're waiting for you.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
It's Scary's point, and credit to you, Elvis, but this
is a really nice restaurant. So there's a lot of
good things on this menu. It's not like just going
to I don't know, insert place you've been to one
hundred times. Here, right, this is a really good opportunity
a bunch of different things.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Okay, And I encourage that. But typically if you're not
hosting the lunch, you probably shouldn't start planning on buying
things for the table because you're not buying.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Oh that's right, that's rights to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
But Scary is gonna go ahead and run against that one. Well,
I encourage you. You order whatever you want today. I
want you.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
To spend your money like that.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's your day.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
I'm going to try and maybe like Jedi mind trick
you to ordering something for the table, because it's got
to come from you, not scary.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, you can't Jedi mind trick me because you're already
setting me up for it now. So there's that.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
I will have too fewer cocktails. If I can get
that steak and eggs four.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
You can have as many cocks Have I allowed to
put ketchup on stuff?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You can put ketchup on whatever you want.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Thank you plate.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
He turns into a bird when we go out to Ethough,
and they're just like shrapnel. They're shrapnel all around where
he eats, whether it's cherry stems or like ice cubes
that he's picked out of his glass. It is fruit whatever.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
True.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, we need to put them in a parakeet cage.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
I need one of those things that they put on
the table for the toddlers that sticks down to the table,
so I could just kind of.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Roll it up and we're gonna put a little mirror
in there. Yeah, a little water feeder.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Yeah. It this bothers me and this is nobody here
has ever done it. But my group of friends, they've
done it before. When you order something for the table,
like something like a calamari or like a clams of reganata.
The idiot who goes and takes the lemon and starts
squeezing it over the whole plate.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Just no, they should ask no, don't do that. Don't
make that decision for me. I don't want lemon on
Min's okay, it's okay, you're right, you're right. Calm down,
Calm down, Mary, I know it. Clams Casino, that's so selfish.
Flams Casino and Clams are on. Reganata has like oregano
and bread crumbs casino and casino and Casino usually has
maybe a bacon on it, I.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Believe, yes, sorry, yes, bacon, Yeah, the bread crumbs of
the oregonata. But my point is, don't go taking something
that's for the table and adding an ingredient.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Point, mate, do we all agree when you hear his point? Damn,
Jimmy Clams Clams Casino.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Sounds like one of Scary's friends that he.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Clams because you know, doesn't he own the jet ski company.
That's Jean. But no, I agree with Scary, Like if
you love lemon on your clams, then you should not
spray the whole platter with lemon. You gotta ask around.
I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Scotty.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Hey, Nate, fix your camera here eyes. You look like
the neighbor on.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Home Improvement studio, like recording something.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Hold on, hold on, hold on now, I can't see
your head now you're cutting your head off. I'm sorry,
what's that day?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Whenever I'm in Scottie studio recording something, Nate's cameras always
messed up and all you see is like it's always
on his ball ball.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
I don't know why you always pointed giant giant.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Well, they're so giant you can't miss knuckle his pants.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
He's said so low in that chair. I don't know
why he looks like like the little kid at the table.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I gotta put my feet on the floor.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You're like a resident lowrider.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I wonder if that would make a difference for me,
like skoop one down.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, I'm excited because you know our friend Abby, who's
the newest member of our family. She's going to be
joining us today, and uh, I like her a lot.
I know she's not here listening to us. I think
she's great, she's fun, she's smart, she's a she's a
smart person. It's good to have her own step. It's
nice to have a smart person.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
What are you done, Ghandi?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Well? I just wanted to see because okay, so my life,
we're looking at your I'm a short person, so my
leg's dangle if I am up too high. And Nate
just said he put his feet on the floor. I
always use this speaker over here to my right, so
I was just seeing if I put it down, but
they still kind of dangle.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
There's one problem though, what you're playing to the zoom camera.
But the people that are watching.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Are getting very different.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Just get your barely your head of making it above
the laptop.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I forgot. We have way too many cameras.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
This is my stand. I'm taking a stand.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Hey's kind of exciting. Uh. Scottie B who is gosh?
You know what? He is opening his mind more and
more of these days. He actually went to an Indian
grocery store yesterday. Of course he sent you a text, Gandhi.
How was that interaction?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You know, Scotty likes to needle me and just be
an idiot, and he's like Hey, I'm going to the
Indian grocery store. You need me to fletch you any groceries?
And I was like, you know what's not? In fact,
I do, and now I have snacks stup. A little
joke turned into me having smokes us nice, but Scotty
trying to find thosemosas was like, I couldn't even tell.
He sent me probably five texts and then called me,
(08:06):
where are they? How do I make them?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Do? I? Wait, hold on, I didn't know what they were,
not you, I didn't. I didn't know what they were.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
I didn't know what they were, so I didn't know
what department to go.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Okay, all right, I said, just ask someone. I'm sure
they'll tell you. And he said, are you sure it's
not something dirty you're sending me to get?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I was like, that was tricky me.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
It was like some kind of lube or something you
never heard of never never sounds like a drained lube,
Indian lube.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You look like ziggy peeking over the fence. That's what
you look like.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Where's Waldo?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I think we've just found a solution to me not
wanting to be on camera. Well, well, all we'll.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Find a way to get that camera.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
He's something big going on here in New York City.
If you commute into the city or ever coming to
the city for whatever reason. The congestive congestive heart failure,
congested heart failure, right, you got this, Come on, we're
having a little trouble. Congested just stupid chu congestion. Genitalia
(09:15):
price pricing for driving through the city. They decided not
to do it. At least it's they say, indefinitely. But
I'm sure there's gonna be debate on this.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Right I feel like it's going to pop up in
like November December. It's like, hey, by the way, remember
what we said, Uh, we're pulling back on that. So
it just told everything calms down, I believe, right.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Well, what from five am through whenever, entering Manhattan was
going to be fifteen dollars a day extra per vehicle,
and I that was going to be a burden of
seventy five dollars extra on me.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Over the course of the year three to three, three
thousand and thirty.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Five mins right now. So that's that plus the tolls
that you pay to come into the city and the
gas and parking for a lot of people that that's.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
A way, like eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
It's a lot.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Yeah, So this was a big decision and I'm shocked
that they made it, but thank god, a major there
you go. I know this may be selfish to me
to say, but I don't know. I'm a commuter and
and and that's what I really feel. Strong.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
A lot of people agree with you. Congestion pricing was
supposed to get rid of congestion, and they're saying that
on the list of things that it would help are, well,
there are many other's congestion. There's also air quality, there's
I mean, parking, I mean, there's a million different things
that are awful about New York City that are caused
(10:34):
by so many people driving through. And they're thinking this
will whittle it down and now only people who have
a billion dollars can drive in the city.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But of course the list of reasons why they shouldn't
do it is very, very long.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
And I think what would have happened was is that
the time we went in every morning, we would add
more people driving in because they were still going to
try to beat the system and drive in before the pricing,
you know.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
And the crazy thing is, you know, I mean, all
these people say, oh, you know.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
You, the MTA needs the money.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I have no problem and named Scottie and I agree
on this. I'm not sure about everybody in the room,
but I have no problem taking public transportation.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, I wish I'll take the train. I will happily
do that.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
The problem is the time we come.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
In there is no option exactly, there's no option.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
For us, so we have totally don't want to take
the train. We're all just talking about this all the
girls like being on that train by yourself is sketchy
at best, Like it is uncomfortable. Weird things have been
happening all the time. People who used to take the
trains all the time don't even want to take the
trains anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, you don't need that, you don't need that extra stress.
So you know, there are so many reasons why congestion
pricing makes sense in some cities. I know London is
doing it and they have said it's been a huge
success there. It was met with a lot of controversy,
a lot a lot of people whatever negativity when they
first did it. But here in New York City, I
don't take our cities quite ready for that. Plus we
(11:54):
have so many people in the city who are just
scratching to make a living and to survive, and.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
The city got back post COVID, you know, and then
it just to be like, hey, get out of here again.
You know, it's almost they're shoeing us away. I think
I think it was mayor the mayor of New York City,
Mayor Dinkins, back in the day, he didn't allow New
York City garbage trucks to be on the road during
rush hour. I think the same thing needs to apply
for those eighteen wheelers. Like there's some streets where it's
(12:20):
like it gets four lanes get cut down to at
least one because targets dropping off and you know the
other side. So I think the eighteen wheelers should only
be between twelve to six. I'm running from Mayor by
the way.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
By the way, you got to balls.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
If you drive a big eighteen wheeler in the city.
I envy those guys. I don't know how they do it.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Well, they do it and they're great drivers. But here's
what happened during the last mayor's administration. They took away
lanes and made them bike lanes or just bus only lanes.
So you take those lanes away, then you're down to
two lanes or maybe in some situations one. And then
you have these delivery people who are doing their jobs. Man,
they need to be able to deliver things, and we
(12:58):
can't take that away from them. There's nowhere no way
to get the round around them. And New York City
is just a mess. It really is. Congestion pricing would
make it worse.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
I think they didn't think it through years ago.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Huh, not to mention we're drinking water out of a
pipe that's been down there for two hundred and eighty
five years.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I just think it's ballsy.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Though.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
They put up those cameras like, oh, we're doing it anyway,
no matter, we're not going to ask anybody, We're just
going to push this through. So they set all those
cameras up there, and it drove everybody like, what the
hell is about to happen? And until the governor just
realized we're all crying about it, that you know, we're
about to be screwed up.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Until yesterday, Well, what are they using the cameras for?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Waste the money?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Oh, to know, to find the to find people who
are murdering people and people who are stilling things? Great
big brothers watching you. We gotta get out of here,
so have a beautiful day. I'll see you at lunch.
I'm sorry. Yeah, let's see the fifteen minute Morning Show
What would you talk about on your on your podcast,
Fine Elvis fifteen Morning show. It is the fifteen minute
morning show podcast. Here we go and as we do
this podcast, we're preparing for our staff lunch.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You guys pre good. I don't look at the menu.
You guys looking at this room. Everybody does the same thing.
I don't do it. I feel weird not looking at
the menu. I like to go into a restaurant and go,
all right, niky, here's what I am I'm having.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You guys already know what you're having down to dessert.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I already know who's sharing what.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
A strategy, game plan to go into that. In just
a second, we'll get into that. We're going to get
into that. But let me introduce the world. And there's Danielle,
who doesn't like mayonnaise. We're gonna find out how to
get around that at lunch today. It also Gandhi, who
eats everything except for cinnamon. There's Scottie B who's somewhat
particular about many things in life. There's straight Nate, who
(01:03):
is so excited for lunch. He's already ready to order
three entrees.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
He's gonna take a leftovers.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I don't have the cook later.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, there's exactly, there's no like like you've never done that. Hello.
And there's Scary who's negotiating with Nate about how they're
gonna split dishes. And there's Garrett, who I sort of
agree with. I'd rather not go online and look at
a menu from a restaurant. I want to get there
and open the menu and then also ask what the
specials are, because that could throw everything off.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Right, And don't you feel rush too, Like as soon
as you know what you want, then the waiter's like, oh,
you don't need to look at the menu, what would
you like? And then you're you're already halfway out the door.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
At that point you could reevaluate. Yeah I know that,
but yeah, I'm the same way. There are a lot
of people, especially people who are dieting. They want to
look ahead and see, okay, let me order this and
then ask them not to put that on it. And
I get that, But what about you, Gandhi? Do you
want to surprise when you get there or do you
want to check out the menu before you I always.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Look at the menu. I get excited to look at
the menu. I feel like it's like real book before
the movie, because when you get there, things could change.
They could have a different venue than what you read online.
And like you said, to specials. But I'm somewhat prepared.
I know what I'm expecting.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Okay, Danielle's looking at that menu.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, because I am so particular with mayonnaise and fish.
So when people invite me to dinner, I always have
to just go because I know I'll find something. I
just have to go. I just want to go on
there head so that I'm not the pain in the
ass when I get there, going well, I don't want
to eat that. I just already know this is what
I'm going to have because I already looked and I
know that's what I can handle.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So see, you know what you can do. You can
Chef dan is a good friend of ours. Yeah, you
can say, hey, I'm the pain in the ass. Here's
what I don't like, but what do you think I
should have it? He will immediately come up with something.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I think he already knows I'm a pain in the
ass from last time, so I think he's used to be.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
See.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I like to look ahead only because I need to
whittle things down because.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Then you want of the whole menu.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I like food, I.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Like I like a variety of food. In my older age,
i've to try things and like things that I didn't
think I liked when I was a kid. So now
I'm just going I got to go ahead and like,
will you split these Let's do these two items, split
this for the table, and then maybe we'll cut an
entree in half. That's where Nate and I were, So
you got to do that ahead of time. Otherwise you
get them angry on the spot because they're waiting for you.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
It's Scary's point, and credit to you, Elvis, but this
is a really nice restaurant. So there's a lot of
good things on this menu. It's not like just going
to I don't know, insert place you've been to one
hundred times. Here, right, this is a really good opportunity
a bunch of different things.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Okay, And I encourage that. But typically if you're not
hosting the lunch, you probably shouldn't start planning on buying
things for the table because you're not buying.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Oh that's right, that's rights to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
But Scary is gonna go ahead and run against that one. Well,
I encourage you. You order whatever you want today. I
want you.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
To spend your money like that.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's your day.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
I'm going to try and maybe like Jedi mind trick
you to ordering something for the table, because it's got
to come from you, not scary.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, you can't Jedi mind trick me because you're already
setting me up for it now. So there's that.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
I will have too fewer cocktails. If I can get
that steak and eggs four.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
You can have as many cocks Have I allowed to
put ketchup on stuff?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You can put ketchup on whatever you want.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Thank you plate.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
He turns into a bird when we go out to Ethough,
and they're just like shrapnel. They're shrapnel all around where
he eats, whether it's cherry stems or like ice cubes
that he's picked out of his glass. It is fruit whatever.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
True.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, we need to put them in a parakeet cage.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
I need one of those things that they put on
the table for the toddlers that sticks down to the table,
so I could just kind of.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Roll it up and we're gonna put a little mirror
in there. Yeah, a little water feeder.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Yeah. It this bothers me and this is nobody here
has ever done it. But my group of friends, they've
done it before. When you order something for the table,
like something like a calamari or like a clams of reganata.
The idiot who goes and takes the lemon and starts
squeezing it over the whole plate.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Just no, they should ask no, don't do that. Don't
make that decision for me. I don't want lemon on
Min's okay, it's okay, you're right, you're right. Calm down,
Calm down, Mary, I know it. Clams Casino, that's so selfish.
Flams Casino and Clams are on. Reganata has like oregano
and bread crumbs casino and casino and Casino usually has
maybe a bacon on it, I.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Believe, yes, sorry, yes, bacon, Yeah, the bread crumbs of
the oregonata. But my point is, don't go taking something
that's for the table and adding an ingredient.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Point, mate, do we all agree when you hear his point? Damn,
Jimmy Clams Clams Casino.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Sounds like one of Scary's friends that he.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Clams because you know, doesn't he own the jet ski company.
That's Jean. But no, I agree with Scary, Like if
you love lemon on your clams, then you should not
spray the whole platter with lemon. You gotta ask around.
I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Scotty.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Hey, Nate, fix your camera here eyes. You look like
the neighbor on.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Home Improvement studio, like recording something.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Hold on, hold on, hold on now, I can't see
your head now you're cutting your head off. I'm sorry,
what's that day?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Whenever I'm in Scottie studio recording something, Nate's cameras always
messed up and all you see is like it's always
on his ball ball.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
I don't know why you always pointed giant giant.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Well, they're so giant you can't miss knuckle his pants.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
He's said so low in that chair. I don't know
why he looks like like the little kid at the table.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I gotta put my feet on the floor.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You're like a resident lowrider.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I wonder if that would make a difference for me,
like skoop one down.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, I'm excited because you know our friend Abby, who's
the newest member of our family. She's going to be
joining us today, and uh, I like her a lot.
I know she's not here listening to us. I think
she's great, she's fun, she's smart, she's a she's a
smart person. It's good to have her own step. It's
nice to have a smart person.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
What are you done, Ghandi?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Well? I just wanted to see because okay, so my life,
we're looking at your I'm a short person, so my
leg's dangle if I am up too high. And Nate
just said he put his feet on the floor. I
always use this speaker over here to my right, so
I was just seeing if I put it down, but
they still kind of dangle.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
There's one problem though, what you're playing to the zoom camera.
But the people that are watching.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Are getting very different.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Just get your barely your head of making it above
the laptop.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I forgot. We have way too many cameras.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
This is my stand. I'm taking a stand.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Hey's kind of exciting. Uh. Scottie B who is gosh?
You know what? He is opening his mind more and
more of these days. He actually went to an Indian
grocery store yesterday. Of course he sent you a text, Gandhi.
How was that interaction?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You know, Scotty likes to needle me and just be
an idiot, and he's like Hey, I'm going to the
Indian grocery store. You need me to fletch you any groceries?
And I was like, you know what's not? In fact,
I do, and now I have snacks stup. A little
joke turned into me having smokes us nice, but Scotty
trying to find thosemosas was like, I couldn't even tell.
He sent me probably five texts and then called me,
(08:06):
where are they? How do I make them?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Do? I? Wait, hold on, I didn't know what they were,
not you, I didn't. I didn't know what they were.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
I didn't know what they were, so I didn't know
what department to go.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Okay, all right, I said, just ask someone. I'm sure
they'll tell you. And he said, are you sure it's
not something dirty you're sending me to get?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I was like, that was tricky me.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
It was like some kind of lube or something you
never heard of never never sounds like a drained lube,
Indian lube.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You look like ziggy peeking over the fence. That's what
you look like.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Where's Waldo?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I think we've just found a solution to me not
wanting to be on camera. Well, well, all we'll.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Find a way to get that camera.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
He's something big going on here in New York City.
If you commute into the city or ever coming to
the city for whatever reason. The congestive congestive heart failure,
congested heart failure, right, you got this, Come on, we're
having a little trouble. Congested just stupid chu congestion. Genitalia
(09:15):
price pricing for driving through the city. They decided not
to do it. At least it's they say, indefinitely. But
I'm sure there's gonna be debate on this.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Right I feel like it's going to pop up in
like November December. It's like, hey, by the way, remember
what we said, Uh, we're pulling back on that. So
it just told everything calms down, I believe, right.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Well, what from five am through whenever, entering Manhattan was
going to be fifteen dollars a day extra per vehicle,
and I that was going to be a burden of
seventy five dollars extra on me.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Over the course of the year three to three, three
thousand and thirty.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Five mins right now. So that's that plus the tolls
that you pay to come into the city and the
gas and parking for a lot of people that that's.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
A way, like eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
It's a lot.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Yeah, So this was a big decision and I'm shocked
that they made it, but thank god, a major there
you go. I know this may be selfish to me
to say, but I don't know. I'm a commuter and
and and that's what I really feel. Strong.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
A lot of people agree with you. Congestion pricing was
supposed to get rid of congestion, and they're saying that
on the list of things that it would help are, well,
there are many other's congestion. There's also air quality, there's
I mean, parking, I mean, there's a million different things
that are awful about New York City that are caused
(10:34):
by so many people driving through. And they're thinking this
will whittle it down and now only people who have
a billion dollars can drive in the city.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But of course the list of reasons why they shouldn't
do it is very, very long.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
And I think what would have happened was is that
the time we went in every morning, we would add
more people driving in because they were still going to
try to beat the system and drive in before the pricing,
you know.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
And the crazy thing is, you know, I mean, all
these people say, oh, you know.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
You, the MTA needs the money.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I have no problem and named Scottie and I agree
on this. I'm not sure about everybody in the room,
but I have no problem taking public transportation.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, I wish I'll take the train. I will happily
do that.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
The problem is the time we come.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
In there is no option exactly, there's no option.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
For us, so we have totally don't want to take
the train. We're all just talking about this all the
girls like being on that train by yourself is sketchy
at best, Like it is uncomfortable. Weird things have been
happening all the time. People who used to take the
trains all the time don't even want to take the
trains anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, you don't need that, you don't need that extra stress.
So you know, there are so many reasons why congestion
pricing makes sense in some cities. I know London is
doing it and they have said it's been a huge
success there. It was met with a lot of controversy,
a lot a lot of people whatever negativity when they
first did it. But here in New York City, I
don't take our cities quite ready for that. Plus we
(11:54):
have so many people in the city who are just
scratching to make a living and to survive, and.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
The city got back post COVID, you know, and then
it just to be like, hey, get out of here again.
You know, it's almost they're shoeing us away. I think
I think it was mayor the mayor of New York City,
Mayor Dinkins, back in the day, he didn't allow New
York City garbage trucks to be on the road during
rush hour. I think the same thing needs to apply
for those eighteen wheelers. Like there's some streets where it's
(12:20):
like it gets four lanes get cut down to at
least one because targets dropping off and you know the
other side. So I think the eighteen wheelers should only
be between twelve to six. I'm running from Mayor by
the way.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
By the way, you got to balls.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
If you drive a big eighteen wheeler in the city.
I envy those guys. I don't know how they do it.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Well, they do it and they're great drivers. But here's
what happened during the last mayor's administration. They took away
lanes and made them bike lanes or just bus only lanes.
So you take those lanes away, then you're down to
two lanes or maybe in some situations one. And then
you have these delivery people who are doing their jobs. Man,
they need to be able to deliver things, and we
(12:58):
can't take that away from them. There's nowhere no way
to get the round around them. And New York City
is just a mess. It really is. Congestion pricing would
make it worse.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
I think they didn't think it through years ago.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Huh, not to mention we're drinking water out of a
pipe that's been down there for two hundred and eighty
five years.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I just think it's ballsy.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Though.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
They put up those cameras like, oh, we're doing it anyway,
no matter, we're not going to ask anybody, We're just
going to push this through. So they set all those
cameras up there, and it drove everybody like, what the
hell is about to happen? And until the governor just
realized we're all crying about it, that you know, we're
about to be screwed up.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Until yesterday, Well, what are they using the cameras for?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Waste the money?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Oh, to know, to find the to find people who
are murdering people and people who are stilling things? Great
big brothers watching you. We gotta get out of here,
so have a beautiful day. I'll see you at lunch.
I'm sorry. Yeah, let's see the fifteen minute Morning Show
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