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Counterfeit On Canal St.

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Boomer started the hour talking about ‘ghost plates’ on cars as he saw a sign saying they will no longer be tolerated. Boomer said all the counterfeit crap has been back on Canal Street.

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Counterfeit On Canal St.

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3:11you're all sorts of crap going on. Man. That was interesting. I did not expect that at all. You know, you're talking about how Stephen Waldron gets caught off guard by me. Yeah. You go and ghost plates right here at nine o'clock. Yeah. Well, there was nine o'clock. Breakfast, preface by I got some good news for everybody. Yeah. When I was going across the Throxneck Bridge and I saw that sign, I was like, man, all right. That's good. I saw Suffolk County police got a bunch of those catalytic converter dudes out there. Yeah. It's shut down like the big, big ring of the catalytic converter rip off people there out there and Suffolk and they got them. So a big, big bus going around here. Big bus there. Yep. Can't hang onto those catalytic converters. Yeah. I saw a very unique interaction down on Canal Street. Actually, Lispinard leaving the other day. Some guy pulled out what looked to be like a Chanel bag out of like some butt, out of some pouch and was trying to sell it to a couple of like tourists, probably from, I don't know, Nebraska. Okay. And I could not believe the amount of counterfeit crap that was

4:17on the street. So it's all back now, huh? It's as bad as I've ever seen. Oh, you have to go out Canal Street, go to Manhattan Bridge. Yeah. I don't go that way. I don't like that way. Makes me nervous. It is like a bizarre over there. Yeah. It makes me nervous. A lot of people running across the streets and stuff. I don't need that. If I have to, if I have to do it, I'll do it. But I'm usually a Williamsburg guy. But yeah. So Lispinard goes parallel to Canal. It's just South of Canal. Yeah. I couldn't believe what Lispinard looked like. Also, now they've moved over. Well, I think, I think it's not that they moved over. I think there's no more room on Canal Street that they've got. Oh, okay. They're probably just going to keep moving. Now, just keep growing and growing and growing. And it's, you know, it's all knock off stuff. And I know, I just obviously, you know, it's being allowed. So yeah. So it wasn't Julie. How do you crack down on the mountain? He did. So he also got rid of the hookers too. He got rid of a lot of things. And then Bloomberg was able to keep it suppressed there for a while. Well, Bloomberg was so effective as a mayor that he was in office for 12 years. And then that Big Bird guy came in here.

5:18After the whole thing up, huh? Yeah. Well, yeah. He did it now. All those people are back into your back. Yeah, it's tough. Yeah. It's tough. You know, like they they want this. They want this kind of crap. Who's they? The people in power, the people they get elected. And then the people will get appointed. They want to benefit banks being sold. I guess they do. They don't want to do anything about it. And the police aren't doing anything about it. Yeah. Well, that stinks. Yeah. You know, it does. It's unfortunate because it really does. You know, it's it's kind of like the every day of life challenges that you have to face. And there you go. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, it's just unbelievable. What you see. You know, I'm saying it's unbelievable. Yeah. No, I know. I know. Let's go to Scott Naminyeville. What's going on, Scott? So you got to be kidding with the with the counterfeit bags, man. It's not just canal streets.

6:19So, you know, whenever we take our daughter, like we go, my daughter's 12, right? It's 12 going on 17. Anytime we go into the city to see like a show or we go out, like we have to do the whole run and time square and we stop at all the difference and we try to find the most bougie counterfeit bag that looks like the super expensive. I mean, it's everywhere. It is like back and full force. And I don't I don't think the brands care because it's just advertising. Like my wife and I are amazed. You can you can order stuff on Amazon. You can order fakes on Amazon. She's now. It is, uh, it's ran every time we go here. I mean, I guess, I guess the argument against it would be like, okay, if you're buying the knockoff, then you're not going to spend the money on the real one. But I'm, I would imagine the brands would care. Piss me off. I was CEO with something or other. Springtime is almost here. And if you've been itching to redo every room in your home, Bob's discount furniture can help. When you shop at Bob's, you get while we're the everyday low prices on fabulous furniture for every room, everything from stylish mid-century dining sets and top-rated babbo-pedic mattresses with the best warranties

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9:31today to explore Rosetta Stone and choose the language that's right for you. Go to RosettaStone.com-rs10-now and begin your language learning journey. I think so, but I think it actually, I think it's just the boon for their business. My thing is, too, is who the hell knows if the big brands aren't just making those knockoffs to take the money anyway? Well, a lot of different. One percent of the people could afford the brand itself if you go into their stores and addison avenue. The rest of the people can't afford it, so you might as well let it go on and let kids have it and promote it. Exactly. You're promoted. It's just a constant promotion. The kids in it, and I think it was been hilarious. You loved it. You've got a whole closet full of fake coaching. You know, it's crazy, but by the way, the reason I say this about Lisbon Art is because when you go down Lisbon Art and you run into, I think it's West Broadway, the city bike's got one of their bike things there. So there's probably about 30 bikes lined up. There's a parking lot to the right, and then on the

10:39left side, on the sidewalk, right next to the city bike bank there, there's got to be 30 people selling all of this crap. And the people that I saw up close and personal buying this bag, they were standing in the street. I had to beat the horn to get the mail out of the street. You know, and there's like, I'm like, I could not believe what I saw. I had never seen it this bad. Yeah. I mean, well, wow. We're in and out of the city pretty much all the time. No, it's true. I have never seen it this blatant and this open and this just nobody doing anything about it. But this, we're not talking like 80s New York crack empathetic bad, right? We're not talking then. Again, I don't, you know, I don't know about the drug sales and all that. Oh, I can tell you is that the streets are crowded with knockoff vendors. Rory, Monmouth County. What's going on, Rory? Hey, what's going on, boy? How you doing?

11:40I'm doing good. Good. I'm working here at one of the golf courses in Monmouth County. And I happened to bump into your boy, Jerry Reco. Was he with his son, Joseph? He was with both of his sons. Nice. Matthew and Joseph. Awesome. Yeah. I know Joseph is actually playing high school golf. That's why I brought him up. But yeah, both of them were very good golfers. Yeah. So I saw he was playing with one of my buddies. I've noticed the name on the T-shirts, so I cannot say hi to him. And then I saw Jerry. Did you get a picture in an autograph? That picture in autograph. No, I'm not a celebrity guy, but I just wanted to comment that his pants fit very appropriately. Yeah, well, we've been down so much over the years. Did he tell you to do that? Did he tell you to call in today and say, tell those guys, my pants aren't baggy? No, I listed every morning. I know all this. I know all the Jerry Jews. All right. All right. Very good. Was he nicer than you expected? He was as nice as I expected. He was on par. All right. On par.

12:44Good. And my buddy Chris, who they played with, said that it was great playing with him. He's just like playing with one of his buddies. Nice. Good. I'm glad you, you know, you shine a little positive light on Jerry there this morning. That's great. Jerry sees it be very happy with his own golf course. Who he is? That's when he's happiest. Yeah. I think I think, and he's with his boys. I think it doesn't get much better than that. I've never seen him like throw a club or get very angry or anything like that. You know, curse nothing. No. He loves it. It loves it. How many rounds of golf do you think he'll play this year? 200? Yeah, probably. At least 200. Probably. He'll have me beat just because he's got his son and they're playing all the time. Yes. All that stuff. So he'll have me beat. I'm done carrying around bulky drinks. And I'm definitely done cleaning melted candy out of my pockets. So yeah, I traded them both in for fruity rainbow five hour energy shots. These little guys are as pocket sized as any candy. But instead of a sugar crash, you get a zero sugar caffeine boost. Candy can't even compare at

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