WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.280 George Burrello, our state senator from Chautaqua, Chautauqua, where I 2 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:07.599 spent a summer as a seven year old and lost 3 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:09.519 almost all my clothes. 4 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:12.880 Time in Chautauqua too, did What haven't you been? 5 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:15.800 My parents rented a house near the big amphitheater there, 6 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:18.760 beautiful spot. Unbeknownst to them, there was a big organ 7 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:21.559 in that amphitheater and someone was practicing it, usually very 8 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:25.039 late at night. But you know, actually I really enjoyed 9 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:28.320 my time there, Senator, but I did lose a number 10 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:30.280 of my items from the day camp, and my mother 11 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:32.479 is still very upset about this. If you find a 12 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:35.159 blue windbreaker from nineteen seventy seven, please call me. 13 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:36.920 Is a Star Wars wind breaker? 14 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:39.640 Perhaps it was, No, I wish it were. But it's 15 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:43.320 a beautiful area there. Forty nine years ago, yeah, about. 16 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:45.280 Forty almost forty nine years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, would 17 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:48.200 have been forty nine years ago. But a fun fact 18 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:51.079 also from the Jamestown area, Lucille Ball, Correct's correct. 19 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:54.000 Yes, In fact, we have the National Comedy Center in 20 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:56.719 downtown Jamestown. It is an amazing place. If you have 21 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.399 not been to Western New York, go to Jamestown go 22 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:01.880 to the National Comedy Center and every year in early 23 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:04.840 August we had the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival with a 24 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:10.120 list comedians. We had Jerry Seinfeld, actually this year Jerry Seinfeld, 25 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:13.519 you know, Sebastian Mescalco. A list comedians in the little 26 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:15.719 community of Jamestown, New York. It's an amazing place. 27 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:15.959 Now. 28 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.239 One of my freedom two fifty the decisions that made 29 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:21.319 America features was on Lucille Ball because she was an 30 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:22.799 incredibly smart businesswoman. 31 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:23.120 Yes. 32 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:25.760 So, first, when she was still married to Desi Arnez, 33 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:29.120 they decided to create a production company to create I 34 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:30.799 Love Lucy, and then that was kind of sold to 35 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:32.480 see so, in other words, she took control of it. 36 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:34.400 And then when they got divorced, she became the first 37 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:37.319 woman to run a real studio in Hollywood, and that 38 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:39.640 studio was responsible for, oh, a couple of little things 39 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:42.359 like Star Trek Mission Impossible that no one else would 40 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:43.159 have produced. 41 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:46.120 She remaned the name of the company, does he loop right? 42 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:49.480 Well she is dead, yeah, nineteen eighty nine. 43 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:52.480 You're not going to murder anyone today, right? You murdered 44 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:53.359 Linda yesterday? 45 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:53.680 I did. 46 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:56.159 I'm very proud of the fact that we immediately corrected it. 47 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:57.439 We didn't even go to commercial break. 48 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:00.560 I accidentally clashed my head and I said, she dead. 49 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:03.719 No, No, he's a murderer. I'm telling you sadly. 50 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:06.719 She is suffering from an incredibly rare disease that is incurable. 51 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:10.400 We certainly are praying for her. But yes, I apologize 52 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:12.520 once again. She's one of my favorite singers and for 53 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:14.680 some reason, I guess I thought she had passed away. 54 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:16.319 But Linda Rossid is still with us and makes she 55 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:16.680 get better. 56 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:20.280 Well, listen, today's our last day here Earth Wind and Fire, 57 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:22.879 and I just want to say good morning to everyone. 58 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:25.719 It's been an incredible week filling in for SIT and 59 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:29.639 friends said, thank you for trusting us with your audience. 60 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:33.919 Anytime you need to take off, we're ready to take 61 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:34.639 over again. 62 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:38.159 Well you know, there you go. Listen. 63 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:39.960 One of the big things that people are talking about 64 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:42.039 here in New York City this morning is this decision 65 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:48.879 by the city to freeze the rent which look obviously 66 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:50.919 rents are very high in the city. We're not being 67 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.759 I do believe there's time for compassion. But if you 68 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:59.000 think this is compassionate to the tenants, anything longer than 69 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:02.000 this one year. You're being very foolish. Their rent wal echeck. 70 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:03.159 You know what would be fair? 71 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:06.520 And I'm telling this that every business person out there, 72 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:11.080 and you know, I understand you know, uh, the socialists 73 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:13.960 want to play the violin that. Oh say you were 74 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:17.599 doing something for you? All right, you want to reduce 75 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:22.039 the rents, you want to reduce price increases. Well, why 76 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:27.159 don't you reduce the real estate taxes to compensate for 77 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:28.680 not being able to raise the. 78 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:30.800 Rents and the water charges are going up? 79 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:33.960 John, hit the nail on the head. 80 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:34.599 Yeah, you know what. 81 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:38.439 Don't increase the expenses and lower the rent It makes 82 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:39.039 no sense. 83 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:39.639 Low. 84 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:42.560 If you want to lower the rents, will lower the rents, 85 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:43.960 lower the real estate taxes. 86 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.840 Well, I mean it makes sense, right, of course, this 87 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:50.319 is common sense. George Burrello. 88 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:53.400 You you're a state senator, but you're a businessman too. 89 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:54.319 What do you think? 90 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:56.400 Well, first of all, you know, New York City's unique, right, 91 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:58.639 You've got this huge amount of people in a very 92 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:02.599 small space essentially, and rents are high. It's it's it's 93 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:04.800 a supply and demand thing. But what you're doing is 94 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:08.000 you're you're basically saying we're gonna limit your ability to 95 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:11.360 care for these properties, to do the upkeep that you need. 96 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:13.639 And also as you as you said, John, there's a 97 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:16.120 lot of other expenses here, uh, and a lot of 98 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:19.519 them are burden burdens on the property owners. And uh, 99 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:20.800 you know, look at you want to know who the 100 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:25.959 worst landlord in New York City is nitscha, Yeah, exactly. 101 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:28.279 The New York City Housing Authority is the worst. It's 102 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:30.439 a slum lord, the biggest slum lord in the city. 103 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:32.959 So what's being done about that? And you're gonna drive 104 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:36.079 more people out of the private property business, And that's 105 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:38.360 what they want. They want to confiscate property. This is 106 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:41.879 the socialist agenda. And you do that by death, by 107 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:43.959 a thousand cuts. We're not gonna let you make money. 108 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:45.839 We're not gonna, you know, do let you do the 109 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:47.800 things you need to do. We're gonna convert your buildings, 110 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:51.399 uh to all electric at huge expenses. So you want 111 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:53.600 to save you want to make a rent more affordable, 112 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:57.160 let's not. Let's not make everybody convert their buildings to 113 00:04:57.160 --> 00:04:58.920 all electric, which is gonna be a huge cost. 114 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:02.360 Us apply and demand if you want the price of 115 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:05.759 something that where demand isn't isn't elastic. I mean, people 116 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:08.120 are gonna want to live in a house, right or 117 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:10.959 an apartment. That's not gonna change. You have to increase 118 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:14.439 supply that period. And you're not going to increase supply 119 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:17.839 by raising the costs and all the regulatory barriers, et cetera, 120 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:18.319 et cetera. 121 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:18.959 Uh. 122 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.040 And by the way, the only people who really have 123 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:23.360 the money in the capital to build more are the 124 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:25.399 higher end builders. So what you do is let them 125 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:27.759 build more, because then the higher end now will become 126 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:30.720 a little less expensive and although and it will trickle down. 127 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:33.839 That's the way that works. If you tell everyone, hey, 128 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:35.160 we'll let you build in New York City, but it's 129 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:36.600 got to be two hundred dollars a month round, I 130 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:37.959 know it's gonna build. 131 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:40.240 I have a different take on this whole thing here. 132 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:43.759 I think that the socialists are playing the cards right. 133 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:49.319 I believe that wealthy people should play their cards now right. 134 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:52.399 The pr card, the public relations, the public not only 135 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:56.079 the public relations card, the human the human side of 136 00:05:56.399 --> 00:05:59.079 a billionaire, of a multi millionaire. 137 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:01.480 You know, if you want few buildings. 138 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:04.839 Lower the rents a little bit and write it off, 139 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:08.560 write it off. Because it's legal to do that. You know, 140 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:12.040 I bought a truck cost me around ninety thousand dollars. 141 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:16.000 I was gonna sell it. Instead, I'm gonna donate it 142 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:20.360 to one of WABC's advertisers who does a lot of 143 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:21.199 good things there. 144 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:23.439 What's the name cars for Kids? 145 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:26.639 Right, I'm gonna call cars for Kids, and I'm gonna 146 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:27.519 donate the truck. 147 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:28.399 And I'm gonna write it off. 148 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:29.600 That's it. 149 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:33.800 It's simple. So let's hit them back harder than they 150 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:34.199 hit us. 151 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:36.160 You make a good point, but not everyone has the 152 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:37.600 income to write off, you know that. 153 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:38.160 That's the thing. 154 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:40.959 No, I'm talking about them, talking about the big guys, 155 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:41.480 the guys. 156 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:41.800 Listen. 157 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:44.199 You got a Mott Haven in the Bronx. You know 158 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:48.480 they built that up tremendously. You have like seventy eight 159 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:52.079 thousand apartments and they're all empty. Why because the rents 160 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:55.079 are too high. People in that area can't afford it, 161 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:59.000 and the gentrifiers haven't gotten there yet. The socialists have 162 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:02.839 not gotten to my right. So those landlords should lower 163 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:05.959 the rents, make them affordable, rather than four thousand, charge 164 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.120 two thousand and write the rest off. 165 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:11.839 I have an even more capitalist idea Fernando and Senator 166 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:14.920 Barella and John. I think you know, one of the 167 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:17.519 things that's incredibly valuable about a city like New York City, 168 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:19.680 and there's very few other places like this anywhere in 169 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:23.240 this country, is you have massive potential foot traffic by 170 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:25.519 your retail property. And I know Amazon is taking over 171 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:27.279 a lot of things, but foot traffic is even more 172 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:30.000 valuable because of that. If I had that kind of 173 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.160 money to invest in new buildings and things like that, 174 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:35.720 one of my great public relations move would be to 175 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:39.160 have lower rents but for the tenants, for the people 176 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.800 living there, but for retailers. I can say, listen, I'm 177 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:44.279 guaranteeing you a large building where there's going to be 178 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:47.079 a lot of foot traffic to your store, and make 179 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:49.600 my money back with the commercial rep You know what. 180 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:50.959 Just write the whole thing off. 181 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:54.079 Give them, give them businesses that give them boldegas, give 182 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:56.680 them supermarkets that they can come in and shop to, 183 00:07:56.720 --> 00:07:57.839 give them restaurants. 184 00:07:58.279 --> 00:07:59.360 You know what are you going to do? 185 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:02.720 You donate to causes where people steal eighty percent of 186 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:06.759 your donation. You know there are organizations not for profits. 187 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:10.600 You donate one thousand dollars, they use eighty eighty eight 188 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:15.279 hundred dollars for their expenses, and they spend twenty thousand 189 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:16.920 on what their mission is. 190 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:19.360 Well, let's talk about a free market thing that's happening 191 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:23.319 without any socialism, that is also helping our consumers this morning, 192 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:25.319 and that is the price of oil, where we just 193 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:28.639 briefly dip to the sixty eight dollars a barrel level. 194 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:30.879 All the way. I mean, almost half of what it was. 195 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:32.519 Just a couple of months ago, a month and a 196 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:34.399 half ago, whatever it was when we were at one twenty. 197 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:37.639 And the national average for one gallon of gas now 198 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.039 at three dollars and ninety cents. That's thirty five out 199 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:42.399 of the last thirty six days it's gone down. You know, 200 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:44.720 you don't like these speculators when they drive the price up, 201 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:47.120 but they've been driving it down fast. And July fourth, 202 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:49.360 next weekend, I think we're going to see a handle 203 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:51.519 much lower than three ninety by fast enough. 204 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:54.960 They're not lowering fast enough, and the President is right 205 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:57.559 in saying that they're not lowering. 206 00:08:57.159 --> 00:08:57.960 It fast enough. 207 00:08:58.000 --> 00:08:59.720 But it is lower. We can at least we have 208 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:01.440 good on that. And you know, this is not free. 209 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:02.879 You know a lot of people say freeze the prices. 210 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:06.000 If frozen the price at four, we'd be stealing money 211 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:07.000 from our own people right now. 212 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:08.279 So let it keep going down. 213 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:10.559 Whether you think it's going down fast enough is a 214 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:13.519 different argument, but definitely we're talking about But still, look 215 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:15.600 where at sixty you know, we're probably gonna get back 216 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:16.919 down to sixty eight in a few minutes. 217 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:18.639 This is a good development. 218 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:22.279 And even though Iran attacked once again, what did we 219 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.080 all say when the when the agreement was made, not 220 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:27.080 if Iran will break it, it's just when they'll break it. 221 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:29.000 And they attacked a commercial ship in the Strait of 222 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:32.440 horn Moves yesterday afternoon. Going into the evening, oil shot 223 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:33.559 up briefly, but then they. 224 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:36.080 Thought that let's get distrained. We straightened it that last 225 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:36.919 night at five o'clock. 226 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:37.639 You did good. 227 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:43.840 The truth is that it's not day probably a single 228 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:46.320 you know, and we had Katie mcfallin on last night. 229 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.519 It's probably a single individual that had an extra drone. 230 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:55.559 You can't eliminate. It wasn't a massive attack. It was 231 00:09:55.720 --> 00:10:01.000 one drone, one cargo ship. There's always gonna be how 232 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:01.600 do you say. 233 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:04.559 It in the Brooklyn Show? You a schmuck or schmuck. 234 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:07.679 Yeah, there's always gonna be a schmuck somewhere that has 235 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:08.720 one drone left. 236 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:10.799 And what's the start of coms? 237 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:12.879 Does this all the time, by the way, one person 238 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:15.559 fires a rocket sometimes and that's it. 239 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:19.960 Yeah, and you're never gonna you can never get one 240 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:21.120 hundred percent. 241 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:23.200 I agree, you know, one hundred percent. 242 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:24.440 But you know what happens. 243 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:25.759 The markets agree with you too. 244 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:28.679 They forged the price of will the dollars up two 245 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.279 dollars right back down. You know how much money that is? 246 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:31.919 Two dollars. 247 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:33.360 They messed up your prediction. 248 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.639 They messed up from time nothing to my going back. 249 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:40.759 Okay, but but this is what it is. So I 250 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:45.159 tell all people that kneeling in the markets, don't panic 251 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:45.960 over nonsense. 252 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:49.960 Guys. You know, stuff happens, and stuff is always gonna happen. 253 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:54.039 Well, the markets are always worried about something. But you know, again, 254 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:55.679 if you go to the gas, if you go to 255 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:58.960 the gas pump in most of the I mean down 256 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:00.679 to three seventy by me. And I told you if 257 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:02.840 you asked me about a mid grade yesterday for an now, 258 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:04.080 because I don't do mid grade, I do. 259 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:06.000 Thee Yeah, yeah, I don't know you cheese. 260 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:07.919 I texted you yesterday and I think I said it 261 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:10.840 was only four oh six for mid grade at my stations. 262 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:13.519 Now, you shop around for gas, you drive a mile 263 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:14.519 to save a gallon. 264 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:16.440 You know, I don't understand. 265 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.840 I know those people that drive two miles spend twenty 266 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:24.799 cents in in extra fuel, but they saved twelve cents. 267 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:25.919 Yeah, well that's Jake. 268 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:28.080 No, No, I got I have principle where I live. 269 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:28.679 I actually had. 270 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.440 Yeah, right, you know, Jake, I've gotta confess I do 271 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:32.799 the same thing I should have gotten. 272 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:34.120 I gotta I know where the. 273 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:36.960 Cheapest gas stations are, and if it's three four miles 274 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:38.240 away from me, I still go. 275 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:41.159 Now, I don't do the psychologically ten. 276 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:45.240 Cents that you spend on let's say twenty gallons, it's 277 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:45.919 two dollars. 278 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:48.159 Yeah, yeah, no, No, what I what I do is 279 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:50.399 something similar to that, which is, I know the cheapest 280 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:52.720 gas station in my neighborhood, and I make sure that 281 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:55.440 when I'm near that area anyway. For another thing, that's 282 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:57.080 when I fill up, no matter how much. So even 283 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:58.919 if I have only a quarter of a tank left 284 00:11:58.919 --> 00:11:59.600 to fill up, I'll go. 285 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:01.679 Then you don't drive that much you know what, I 286 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:04.799 follow the lead from the cab drivers. The cab drivers 287 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:07.000 know exactly where to go and when to go and 288 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:09.759 when to go, and they do their thing the right way. 289 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:10.759 So listen. 290 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:15.120 Cab drivers should be listening to WABC every morning so 291 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:18.320 that they get the latest on gas prices, on oil prices, 292 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:21.000 so that they get the latest on who's here. 293 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:21.759 In the studios. 294 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:24.600 You know they I guarantee you that they are so 295 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:28.480 happy that thunder, I mean, earth, wind and fire are 296 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:29.279 here this week. 297 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:30.600 But you know what, we're. 298 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.879 Turning over the studio to sit again. 299 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:33.720 Stay. 300 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:36.200 Senator George Morella is with us as well in studio, 301 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:39.200 and Senator, you know, we had you on the phone 302 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:40.960 a couple of days ago to talk about the Republican 303 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:43.200 Party in the state where you're one of the spokesmen for. 304 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:47.879 So you know, Fernando and I talked about something just 305 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:50.159 off the year before the show started, which with some 306 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:54.279 of these socialist candidates winning these congressional primaries, which I 307 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:57.720 think is very frightening, especially this Daria V. Chevalier, who 308 00:12:57.759 --> 00:12:59.960 says she wants to wipe her hands with the American flag. 309 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:02.519 She's viciously anti Semitic and I'll say that Sid would 310 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:04.360 say the same. I know he would say the same. 311 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:09.480 Could somebody like Andreano Spai who lost this primary, would 312 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:12.279 you know, just as a political expert like yourself, Senator Burrello, 313 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:14.799 should he run as an independent in the general election? 314 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:15.639 Do what doing? 315 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:16.399 Andrew Cuomo? 316 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.519 Yeah, and as a Republican I love to see him 317 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:21.440 do that because that'll split the vote and put it 318 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:23.120 in the hands of the Republicans. So, okay, give them 319 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:25.240 a chance for Republican strategy. But look, it was not 320 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:28.360 just congressional candidates. Yeah, we had candidates in the Senate, 321 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:29.000 in the Assembly. 322 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:29.320 Yeah. 323 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:32.639 Look, I know people, everybody focuses on DC and and 324 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:35.720 and Congress, and certainly it's very important, but your everyday life, 325 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:38.360 it's far more impacted by by what happens in Albany 326 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:41.639 than what happens in Washington. And the people that were 327 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:44.440 that won these primaries in a very low turnout, by 328 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:46.840 the way, very low, you know, ten percent of the 329 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:50.360 registered Democrats in some cases. So and by the way, 330 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:53.399 this is from the party of you know, voter suppression 331 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:55.919 and you know so, but yet they're they're they're making 332 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.919 decisions on one in tent of their of their voters. 333 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:01.320 You know, making a which this day afternoon in the 334 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:03.679 middle of the summer is a form of voter suppression 335 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:05.440 by Democrats. 336 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:07.200 And that and by the way, that was when when 337 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:09.879 Democrats took control, that was one of the things they changed. 338 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:13.399 They moved the primaries from September to June, and and 339 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:17.240 then also having to collect signatures on petitions. Uh in 340 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:19.720 you know in February and March, which where I live, 341 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:21.519 you know, it's it's pretty darren cold. 342 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:23.960 September eleventh, the day of the attack, was a primary 343 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:25.960 day here in New York. People forget that they had 344 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.720 to redo it, but yes, it used to be in September, 345 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:30.720 and it was a little bit more in people's minds 346 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:32.720 and conscious people were art it's school, kids were at school. 347 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:35.960 I mean, the regular day, day to day stuff. Where 348 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:37.840 you represent. Let's get a little bit more local, because 349 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:40.000 all politics is local. You represent said we you know, 350 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:41.759 we made our jokes about to talk on my Missy 351 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:43.759 clothing and Jamestown. 352 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:44.879 All what I mean. 353 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:45.879 You know, beautiful country. 354 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.600 It's a beautiful country. You have a lot of celebrities 355 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:51.240 who own property around there and things like that. But 356 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:54.879 and that's great maybe for some some things, but what 357 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:58.799 are the major economic issues there that that that might 358 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:01.000 resonate for for everyone us around the country. I mean, 359 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:02.720 this is our chance to kind of tap into a 360 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:05.200 non city type of politics and economics. 361 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:06.840 You know, most of New York State is rural. The 362 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:09.320 number one industry in New York State, believe or not, 363 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:13.840 is agriculture. People think it's financed, but it's actually agricultures. Yes, yeah, well, 364 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:17.480 you know, grapes. So, you know, our concerns are like 365 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:20.200 everyone else, the loss of population, the fact that our 366 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:22.759 children are leaving. You know, I speak a lot at 367 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:25.519 schools and I speak to you know, your government that 368 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:26.759 Buffalo area. 369 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:27.399 Yeah, that's right. 370 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:29.159 So I mean, I mean how many people were in 371 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:32.200 Buffalo forty years ago and how many are now? 372 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:32.960 Well, there's a lot less. 373 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:33.879 Yeah. 374 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:35.559 Well, and I'll tell you this. You know, the the 375 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:39.759 the population loss state in general, but it's been particularly 376 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:42.320 hard in upstate New York. You know, and people still 377 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:45.559 there's no jobs there. That's really not true. We have jobs, 378 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:47.600 we don't have we don't have people have the skills 379 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:50.159 to fill the jobs that are open. We need more 380 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.799 people that are in the trades, you know, people that 381 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:55.840 are there welders and plumbers and carpenters. There's a severe 382 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:59.240 shortage of these, and we're trying to push back in 383 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:00.960 the sense of trying to get kids into the stem 384 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:03.000 and steam. Look, I come from a family of plumbers, 385 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:05.120 my father and my grandfather. You know, I didn't want 386 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:07.559 to go into the plumbing business. My grandfather, my father, 387 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:09.559 they wanted me to go to college. We've been telling 388 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:11.879 kids that from now for forty years. And look what 389 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:14.159 we have now. We have a shortage of people in 390 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:17.120 the skilled trades. And you know, Microw talks about this 391 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:20.519 all the time, you know, and we don't have so 392 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:23.320 we have jobs, but we're telling people is don't go 393 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:25.080 to work. Don't go to work. It's okay, you can 394 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:27.759 live off the tax payers. The biggest expense I spent 395 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:29.919 ten years in county government. I was also a county 396 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:32.519 executive of Chautauqua County before I was a senator. The 397 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:37.200 biggest expense by far for county government, which is property 398 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:42.919 property tax payers, is welfare. It's Medicare. Excuse me, it's Medicaid. 399 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:44.600 It's the fact that we have the safety net in 400 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:47.240 New York State. People doesn't what they understand what that means, 401 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:50.240