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Anthony, I took a ferry today.

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I feel like a graduate that

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wants to be a nomad.

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I’m Anthony.

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Welcome to No Vacancy Live.

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That’s my friend Glenn.

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You’re watching the number

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one show in hospitality.

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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to No Vacancy Live.

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I’m Glenn Hausman.

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That’s Anthony Melchiorri,

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and hopefully you are you out there.

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It is so great seeing everybody today.

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Thanks for spending some time with us.

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Anthony,

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I like today’s show because we

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don’t have a guest,

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and we just get to kind of

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mess around with each other a little bit.

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Oh, no guest?

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Well,

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we could bring on Dr. Producer Suzanne,

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or we could not.

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Okay.

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Hey, look, we got a graphic.

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Let’s start the show.

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Suzanne, you got a question for us?

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What are you most excited

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about for the upcoming

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conference that you all are

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going to be moderating?

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All right, go back in your office.

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I’m excited to stay in a

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hotel because I never get to do that.

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I’m excited to meet a bunch

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of people talking about

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tech because I’ve never

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really been interested in tech,

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but now if you’re not interested in tech,

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you should.

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That’s not true.

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I’ve always been interested in,

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but I haven’t been a student of it.

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I’ve become a student of it

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because the next couple of

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years in our business are

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going to be mind boggling.

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Yeah,

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it really does seem like all things

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are leading in that direction.

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And right now, Anthony,

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I feel like we’re in that

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phase where everybody’s a

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whole lot of talk,

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but nobody really knows what’s going on.

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The first time they realize

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that something works

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efficiently and they can

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save a lot of money,

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it’s going to change really,

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really quickly.

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Because, listen,

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every business is driven by

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saving money or making money.

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And, you know, people can talk about, oh,

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we’re going to save bodies

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and we’re not going to do

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away with bodies and all that.

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That’s fine.

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And that could be a talking point.

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But whether it does or doesn’t,

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that’s not going to prevent

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people from implementing technology.

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Yeah, that’s right.

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But we all, you know,

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as we talked about this week,

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and I feel like this week

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has just been underscoring the point,

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Anthony, that technology is essential,

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but without people driving everything,

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both front of house and in

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the back of house,

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then you’re really not

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going to get anywhere.

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Who’s going to need people?

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But what I’m talking about

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is there’s going to be some

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job elimination and people

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are going to say, not really, but yeah,

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listen,

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it’s inevitable and people just

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get skills to do another position.

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Everybody said when, you know,

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streaming came on,

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movie theaters were out of business.

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Yeah.

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You know,

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and on and on and on and on.

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That being said,

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I think AMC stock’s worth about a nickel.

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That’s right.

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I know a lot of people go into movies.

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Hey, listen,

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I just went to the movies a few weeks ago,

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and there’s nothing that

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beats going to see

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something like that Kong

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and Godzilla movie,

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killing other monsters in the theaters.

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I haven’t seen it yet,

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but that would be totally

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what I would see.

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I went to go see Dune in the theater.

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I did do that.

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What’s that?

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What was it?

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People say it’s one of the

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best movies of the last 10 years.

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I thought it was a little long,

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looked beautiful,

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and I enjoyed my popcorn.

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So there was that.

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I don’t know anything about it.

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What’s the movie about?

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Dune is a successful series

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of novels from 50 plus years ago.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah.

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My wife wants to see that.

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But the last movie I saw was Oppenheimer.

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Yeah.

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That’s the one I think I saw before that.

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In fact,

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that’s why you cliff notes and

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understand what the hell was going on.

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Cause it went, it went fast and,

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I was in a position where I couldn’t hear,

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and you know I have hearing problems.

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Right.

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But it looked like it was a great movie.

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Yeah.

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Now, Anthony,

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you were talking about

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technology eliminating jobs.

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I’m going to put on my PR

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hat for a second.

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I kind of flipped the coin

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on that one and say it’s

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not eliminating jobs.

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It’s helping existing

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hoteliers be more

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productive with their time

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because we’re not filling

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jobs that we used to have

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in the hotel business.

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Right.

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We no longer have people to

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fill those roles and we

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need to utilize technology

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in order to make the

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resources we do have stretch further.

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I can’t agree more.

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Yeah.

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My point being in business,

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if somebody finds a

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technology that eliminates

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position to make money, I’ve,

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found very few people that would say, no,

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I’d rather spend the money

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on the salary and throw the

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technology in the garbage

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because I don’t want to take a job away.

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Some people do that.

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But yes, in general terms,

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I believe there’s so many

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jobs available that

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technology will basically

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be able to do those jobs

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without losing more people.

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Listen,

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we need 25% more people in our industry.

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We’re the only industry that

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hasn’t come back to full employment.

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So there’s plenty of

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opportunity to get a job in the industry.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And to underscore your point,

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I know we’re going to talk

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about it when we do the keynote at Hitech,

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but certain technologies that didn’t work,

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like the dinosaur check-in

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robots at that hotel in Japan.

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Turns out people actually

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wanted to deal with people

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a lot of times in those hotels.

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There was a technology that

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was on our show where you

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talk into a computer and

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there’s somebody on the other side.

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Mm-hmm.

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Now, again, that might work,

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and it may be working as we speak,

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but I haven’t really seen it.

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Like I said, we’re in hotels every week.

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We’re going to be in a hotel next week,

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right?

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What’s going on by you?

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Is that me?

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I think so.

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I don’t know.

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My first instinct is to cast

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blame on someone else and

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not accept responsibility.

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I don’t know.

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We’re going to be in a hotel next week.

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I don’t really see that much

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technology in hotels.

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Well,

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we’re going to be in a hotel next week,

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and if I believe the

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technology in the hotels is

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more just additive in terms

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of helping simplify the experience,

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such as I think they have

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the Amazon Alexa in the rooms,

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and that helps you turn on

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and off the lights and do stuff like that,

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right?

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I don’t want Alexa in my room.

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Pardon?

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I don’t want Alexa in my room.

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I don’t have it in my house,

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and I don’t want it in my room.

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Well, we have it downstairs in the kitchen,

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and we use it for two things.

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Alexa, what’s the weather?

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And can you set the timer

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for four minutes?

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Because that’s how long it

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takes my friend to press to

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steep the coffee.

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Yeah, it’s too much work to do that,

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right?

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The technology that does

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work at the hotel we’re

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going to works beautifully

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because they have the technology,

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the lights and the drapes

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and all that stuff, and the smart TV.

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And so I guess that that’s

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the technology that works that finally,

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after years and years and years,

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some hotels have figured it out.

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A lot of hotels haven’t.

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There’s a brand that I went

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to look at their PMS system

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at one of the hotels that I consult for.

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And I swear to God,

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I think I’ve told you this.

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It was a DAS based PMS system.

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And it’s one of the biggest

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brands in the world.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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I was like, no, this is not real.

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This is not real.

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Was it hard for you to get

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up to the screen between

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all of the archaeologists

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and stuff studying it?

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I’ll be honest with you.

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I was too angry to climb.

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I was just like, this is not right.

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This is not right for the –

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especially because the kids

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that are using the

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computers today at the

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front – kids that are in

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college or just graduated,

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they don’t know what that is.

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Then you push the button and

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27,000 things happen.

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Anyway, what were we talking about?

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We were talking about technology.

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Before we move on,

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I just want to say the

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reason why the hotel we’re

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staying at next week is

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you’re not automatically

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thinking about that

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technology is because the

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technology just is.

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When we’re talking about it

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and thinking about it and

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ruminating about it,

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then that’s really too far

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forward technology.

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The technology that we’ve

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built into our day-to-day

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experience that we just

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utilize without thinking about,

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that’s the type of

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technology that we need to

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focus on a little bit more

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in hotels and getting us to that point.

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Suzanne is talking about

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holodecks behind the scenes.

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Don’t encourage Suzanne, okay?

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Yeah.

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So we are going to Vegas next week,

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Anthony, and there’s some good news,

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but there’s also some very

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sad news out there.

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Hilton made another big deal

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while I was down at the AHOA conference.

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They got the right to Nomad,

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and they’re doing a whole deal with them.

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Coming after the Graduate

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Hotel’s announcement recently,

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wow,

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is Hilton really focusing on this

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upscale lifestyle space?

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But the bad news, Anthony,

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is my understanding is that

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the Nomad at Park MGM is

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going to be going away.

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Oh, really?

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That’s the first time I hear it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah,

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apparently it has to do with

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contracts and something like that.

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I don’t know all the specifics,

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but I’ve read a couple of

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articles about that from Vegas writers.

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Nomad somewhere in the city,

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that’s even better,

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which is hard to believe, but…

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Um, hold on, hold on.

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All right.

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While we, Suzanne and I were at a, a Hoa,

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she’s trying to correct me

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backstage and you’re not chopped liver.

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And if you were chopped liver status.

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That’s like the greatest

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thing my grandmother made me.

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Oh, I guess as long as it had onions in it,

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right?

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Suzanne, you’re very needy today.

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It’s not becoming.

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Apparently I am.

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I’m sorry.

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I’ll go back to my box now.

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No, but the Nomad, it’s my favorite.

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But yeah, that’s a shame.

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I’m going to use,

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you said some sad news and

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I was hoping you wouldn’t say that,

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which has happened with sad news.

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It’s referenced to,

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I’ll just say this without

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using the name.

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Yeah.

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Birch running through an

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airport died today.

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No.

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Yeah.

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You didn’t know?

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No.

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Yeah.

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I had no idea.

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Did you have any juice this morning?

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Listen, I had no idea, man.

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This is the first I’m hearing about it.

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Wow.

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I’m looking at the headline now.

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Well,

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we don’t need to talk about him too much.

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But anyway, it’s so funny.

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In my daughter’s office,

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they didn’t even know who he was,

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half the kids.

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But anyway.

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Well, too bad.

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I remember going to see the movie Speed,

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and then right after I left the theater,

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we followed that car chase.

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Okay, so moving on.

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All right, moving on.

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One of the great things about hospitality,

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Anthony,

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is everyone is so just gosh darn

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hospitable.

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And congratulations to Hilton.

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They’ve done it again.

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They have been named the

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number one of the 100 best

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companies to work for in the USA list.

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While…

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Also making the top 100,

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number 28 spot is IHG

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making the fortune list.

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So two of the big majors

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doing really well by their people.

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Coming up in this world.

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And those two companies back

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in the day were not people

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that I knew did not want to work there.

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30 years ago.

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So they’ve made some tremendous switches.

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I mean, all you hear about is Hilton.

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Hilton’s doing big things, man.

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It’s amazing what they did in Vegas.

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It’s amazing what they’re

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doing with the independent brands.

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Listen, if I was consulting,

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which I’m not for Hilton,

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I would say Graduate and

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Nomad are insanely perfect.

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Yeah.

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And listen, their competition,

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I’m glad they didn’t get it

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simply because they got too

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many brands as it is.

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Yeah.

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Well, also, you know,

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a couple of other great

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companies out there just

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behind those that probably

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could have leveraged those

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acquisitions as well.

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But it’s a great portfolio.

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Any other company would have leveraged it.

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I don’t think any other

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company needs it as bad as

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Hilton needs it because

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Hilton really has changed a lot,

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but those two brands really

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changed their age.

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I mean, those are two young brands.

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Yeah.

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Combining the hospitality

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industry with tech in a

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different kind of way,

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just like the tech industry,

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I’m seeing a lot of brands

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being started now,

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just like tech companies

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with the hopes of building

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a few units and then have

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one of the big guys come in

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and just swoop up and buy them, right?

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Yeah.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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And I don’t think the Nomad,

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that was their intention.

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Graduate, that was 100% their intention.

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I think Nomad was more of, you know,

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and Andrew Zobler is still

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going to be in charge.

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And Andrew Zobler is one of the people.

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That’s why it’s more of like

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a partnership rights thing

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as opposed to like Graduate,

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which is like more of a

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purchase of the branding itself,

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not the real estate.

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What’s that?

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The majority of Nomads.

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Right.

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OK.

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And then I forgot what I was going to say.

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That’s too bad.

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It’s going to be Andrew Zobler.

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I think I told you off.

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I’ll tell you.

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I was interviewed for the

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number for the first no man

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ever in New York.

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Right.

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And it was still

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port-a-potties outside and

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construction was still going on.

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And Andrew Zobler couldn’t

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have been nicer to me.

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in a construction zone

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worried about do I have

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water do I have dust on my

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shoes he was I’ll never

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forget that he was so kind

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to me um and I took another

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job but um I remember

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seeing the the diagram of

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it or the the design of it

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and I remember saying oh my

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God this is changing

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everything and then it

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became my office in New

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York City I would have

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breakfast there three times a week

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Wow.

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I probably spent,

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I could have bought a small

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house for what I spent in

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breakfast there.

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That’s really funny.

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I was comfortable.

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Yeah, no, I totally get it.

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And real creature habits.

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Speaking of comfortable, you know,

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I had to run up to Boston

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last night and I came back this morning.

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I was driving down I-95 and

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you know what a pain in the

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ass that could be, right?

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So right around Bridgeport going south,

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usually traffic starts.

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You went, I know where you went.

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Yeah, so two minutes,

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two miles before the traffic started,

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I pivoted, got myself a ticket,

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my car ticket for the

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Bridgeport ferry that goes to Port Jeff,

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which is 20 minutes from my house.

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Oh,

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you were going to say you went to New

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Haven.

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No,

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I was thinking of maybe going to one of

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the casinos and then doing

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our show from there.

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And we have a couple of

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meetings later from there.

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But I just want to get home.

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But it’s so nice taking the ferry ride.

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It’s such like a civilized

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way of doing things.

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And it’s so relaxed.

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And it didn’t add time to your travel.

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It took time off.

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Honestly,

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the only time it added was

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because my timing was a

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little bit off leaving the

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hotel this morning.

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So I had to wait a little

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bit longer for the ferry

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time than normal.

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But with that extra 45

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minutes that I sat at the

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ferry and the load time and

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the travel time and the

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offload time and the getting home time,

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I was still home right

00:15:02.085 –> 00:15:03.505
about what the GPS would

00:15:03.525 –> 00:15:04.765
have said anyway without

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having to sit in all of

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that horrific traffic.

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So you drove this morning?

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Yeah, I left this morning at like six.

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Okay, Suzanne,

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we’re shutting off the comments, Suzanne.

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All right?

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Suzanne says, I’m a wimp.

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I can’t handle six plus

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hours of a commute in a day.

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Suzanne, will you take and stop taking it?

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I will say, Suzanne,

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when we do shows in Manhattan,

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because I’m 47 miles from

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Times Square from the Moxie.

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I timed this.

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It’s about a three-hour car

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ride each way to go 47

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miles in order for us to go

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live at noon from New York City.

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I’m actually going to Google

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right now how far I am to

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the Moxie Times Square.

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I’m like 14 miles and it

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takes me two hours.

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Damn it.

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yeah what’s the miles how

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far 15 with with a little

00:16:03.115 –> 00:16:04.115
bit of traffic will take me

00:16:04.235 –> 00:16:05.176
one hour and two minutes

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and that’s great because

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it’s not rush hour now so

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that’s really uh terrific

00:16:09.596 –> 00:16:11.057
timing traffic but I can

00:16:11.076 –> 00:16:12.096
get there in the morning

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like if I leave at four

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o’clock in the morning and

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if I like there’s no

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traffic and I just do the

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speed limit I can get there

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in 45 minutes so you get

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there in what 20 minutes

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No, because listen,

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between here and Manhattan,

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there’s 600,000 speed cameras.

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Yeah, dude.

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Not only speed cameras,

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but a thousand stop signs

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and traffic lights.

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You really can’t.

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In my neighborhood,

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you’re not getting a ticket a week.

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I get a ticket a week for

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going 36 in the 25 because

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they changed it to 25.

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And where I live,

00:16:42.989 –> 00:16:44.289
they’re like highways on

00:16:44.309 –> 00:16:45.510
the bay and on the-

00:16:46.030 –> 00:16:46.551
on the ocean.

00:16:47.091 –> 00:16:48.932
So they’re like highways, right?

00:16:49.272 –> 00:16:50.712
You’re doing 25 miles an hour.

00:16:50.732 –> 00:16:52.033
And even if you don’t pay

00:16:52.053 –> 00:16:53.714
attention for a second, you’re up to 36.

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I’ve not gotten one speeding

00:16:55.294 –> 00:16:56.455
ticket over 36 miles an hour.

00:16:56.774 –> 00:16:58.755
So I, I, I drive slow.

00:16:58.956 –> 00:16:59.636
Matter of fact,

00:16:59.937 –> 00:17:02.457
I’m slow and you’re still

00:17:02.477 –> 00:17:02.998
getting tickets.

00:17:03.057 –> 00:17:03.597
It’s ridiculous.

00:17:03.638 –> 00:17:04.719
It’s really, really pissed me off.

00:17:04.979 –> 00:17:05.979
And what it also pissed me

00:17:06.019 –> 00:17:07.160
off this morning with all the problems.

00:17:07.460 –> 00:17:07.799
And you know,

00:17:07.819 –> 00:17:08.599
I love New York more than

00:17:08.619 –> 00:17:09.901
anybody with all the challenges we have.

00:17:10.500 –> 00:17:11.662
There’s an article that now

00:17:11.682 –> 00:17:13.303
they’re going to not let

00:17:13.343 –> 00:17:15.265
cops wear cargo pants and shorts.

00:17:16.005 –> 00:17:16.384
What?

00:17:16.826 –> 00:17:17.205
It’s 105 degrees.

00:17:17.226 –> 00:17:19.227
Is that what they’re worried about?

00:17:21.128 –> 00:17:21.368
No,

00:17:21.429 –> 00:17:23.411
they’re also worried about fleecing

00:17:23.451 –> 00:17:24.651
commuters by doing this

00:17:24.892 –> 00:17:27.073
below 60th Street tax now

00:17:27.093 –> 00:17:27.894
when you drive a car in.

00:17:28.499 –> 00:17:29.539
Listen, I love New York,

00:17:29.599 –> 00:17:30.361
and I was in New York

00:17:30.500 –> 00:17:32.982
yesterday or the other day, and, man,

00:17:33.022 –> 00:17:33.383
I love it.

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And it’s – but, like,

00:17:37.365 –> 00:17:39.106
they’re doing stupid things

00:17:39.166 –> 00:17:40.327
that really piss me off.

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Yeah.

00:17:41.509 –> 00:17:42.170
That’s too bad.

00:17:43.190 –> 00:17:45.071
What else is on your mind today, Anthony?

00:17:45.992 –> 00:17:48.273
What’s on my mind is we are

00:17:48.334 –> 00:17:50.435
going to drop our new show,

00:17:50.556 –> 00:17:51.416
Hotel All-Stars.

00:17:51.777 –> 00:17:52.438
Yeah.

00:17:52.617 –> 00:17:52.778
Yeah.

00:17:54.308 –> 00:17:55.210
The Breaker Show,

00:17:55.829 –> 00:17:57.451
which we all know is in

00:17:57.471 –> 00:17:58.471
Florida and one of the best

00:17:58.510 –> 00:17:59.251
hotels in the world.

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And really excited about that.

00:18:01.653 –> 00:18:02.772
And I just did some.

00:18:02.792 –> 00:18:03.673
That’s why I was in the city.

00:18:03.693 –> 00:18:04.634
I was doing some social media.

00:18:04.794 –> 00:18:05.654
So you’ll see some more

00:18:05.694 –> 00:18:06.775
social media for the show.

00:18:07.615 –> 00:18:08.776
But I’m really, really excited.

00:18:08.855 –> 00:18:09.997
And I’m going to be out in

00:18:10.037 –> 00:18:10.977
Vegas next week.

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And maybe some of my friends

00:18:11.957 –> 00:18:13.377
in Vegas would want to do

00:18:13.417 –> 00:18:14.159
some shows out there.

00:18:14.219 –> 00:18:14.659
So we’ll see.

00:18:15.740 –> 00:18:15.920
Yeah,

00:18:16.099 –> 00:18:17.882
that should be a whole lot of fun for

00:18:17.902 –> 00:18:17.961
you.

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And what I really like about

00:18:19.383 –> 00:18:20.824
the show at the Breakers is,

00:18:21.744 –> 00:18:22.185
like you said,

00:18:22.246 –> 00:18:24.548
one of the best hotels in the country.

00:18:24.748 –> 00:18:25.909
And in the first episode,

00:18:25.929 –> 00:18:26.609
you’re at one of the most

00:18:26.869 –> 00:18:28.652
fun hotels in the country.

00:18:28.731 –> 00:18:29.833
So it’s really showing

00:18:30.453 –> 00:18:31.535
different styles of

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hospitality that your

00:18:33.896 –> 00:18:35.439
potential all-stars can deliver.

00:18:35.939 –> 00:18:36.779
And it’s true because

00:18:37.519 –> 00:18:38.240
actually the name of my

00:18:38.280 –> 00:18:39.301
book was going to be From

00:18:39.382 –> 00:18:41.603
Noel Coward to SpongeBob

00:18:41.643 –> 00:18:43.164
because I was at the

00:18:43.244 –> 00:18:44.885
Algonquin Hotel dedicating

00:18:44.925 –> 00:18:46.027
a suite to Noel Coward.

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And I had the ambassador of

00:18:47.407 –> 00:18:49.788
England in the room and I

00:18:49.808 –> 00:18:50.730
was in a tuxedo.

00:18:51.270 –> 00:18:52.991
And literally by noon the next day,

00:18:53.011 –> 00:18:54.873
I was in a polo shirt at

00:18:54.932 –> 00:18:56.815
Nickelodeon hanging out with SpongeBob.

00:18:57.335 –> 00:18:59.155
Because I took over that hotel.

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So literally,

00:19:00.736 –> 00:19:03.596
in your career in this industry,

00:19:04.076 –> 00:19:05.077
you can learn who Noel

00:19:05.097 –> 00:19:06.337
Coward was because I didn’t know.

00:19:07.057 –> 00:19:09.019
And then I didn’t really

00:19:09.058 –> 00:19:09.898
know much about SpongeBob

00:19:09.919 –> 00:19:10.559
because I’m not a big

00:19:11.119 –> 00:19:12.160
Nickelodeon guy at the time.

00:19:12.880 –> 00:19:14.240
And you literally are sitting…

00:19:14.901 –> 00:19:17.362
you know, in a tuxedo and in a polo shirt.

00:19:18.142 –> 00:19:18.702
It’s amazing.

00:19:18.742 –> 00:19:19.883
This is an amazing industry.

00:19:20.262 –> 00:19:22.124
So same thing with Margaritaville.

00:19:22.144 –> 00:19:22.844
We’re hanging out with

00:19:22.864 –> 00:19:23.865
Tamara and her folks and

00:19:23.884 –> 00:19:24.865
with the guy with the hat

00:19:24.924 –> 00:19:27.306
on backwards and everybody’s having fun.

00:19:27.405 –> 00:19:27.986
And then we go to the

00:19:28.026 –> 00:19:29.146
breakers where it’s a

00:19:29.186 –> 00:19:31.287
little bit more of people who bought it,

00:19:31.326 –> 00:19:32.248
sold it, invented it.

00:19:33.088 –> 00:19:33.308
Nice.

00:19:34.150 –> 00:19:34.490
I love it.

00:19:34.809 –> 00:19:35.830
I can’t wait to see this show.

00:19:35.851 –> 00:19:37.791
I think you’ve been a little

00:19:37.852 –> 00:19:40.212
coy on when it’s dropping specifically.

00:19:40.232 –> 00:19:41.634
I’ve been a little coy

00:19:41.673 –> 00:19:43.275
because there’s been some

00:19:43.734 –> 00:19:47.156
wonderful opportunities in

00:19:47.198 –> 00:19:50.779
the background that we have to overcome.

00:19:50.980 –> 00:19:52.601
I would say there were challenges,

00:19:52.621 –> 00:19:54.142
but I would just say that

00:19:57.381 –> 00:19:59.182
we will drop it at the right time.

00:19:59.682 –> 00:19:59.923
All right.

00:20:00.282 –> 00:20:00.782
I love it.

00:20:00.883 –> 00:20:02.523
I can’t wait to see this episode.

00:20:03.484 –> 00:20:04.885
I’m very excited for you.

00:20:04.905 –> 00:20:07.146
Hopefully we’ll get to see a lot more of,

00:20:07.386 –> 00:20:08.887
of, of them coming forward.

00:20:09.367 –> 00:20:11.249
And I don’t got much else to say.

00:20:11.308 –> 00:20:13.050
I’m kind of like been just working,

00:20:13.070 –> 00:20:14.892
working, traveling, working.

00:20:15.112 –> 00:20:16.472
So if you’re cool,

00:20:16.792 –> 00:20:18.913
where are you going next?

00:20:18.993 –> 00:20:21.055
Next week, I’ll be in Las Vegas with you.

00:20:21.316 –> 00:20:21.675
I believe.

00:20:22.607 –> 00:20:24.848
What’s that?

00:20:24.868 –> 00:20:25.069
I’m sorry.

00:20:25.089 –> 00:20:26.329
Where are you going after that?

00:20:28.171 –> 00:20:29.952
After that, I’m home for a week,

00:20:30.012 –> 00:20:31.252
and then I’m doing a

00:20:31.733 –> 00:20:33.755
keynote speech for PM Hospitality.

00:20:34.095 –> 00:20:35.635
Then I’ll be in Las Vegas

00:20:35.675 –> 00:20:37.136
for Choice Hotels Conference,

00:20:37.156 –> 00:20:37.977
and then I’m going straight

00:20:37.997 –> 00:20:39.959
from there to do some work

00:20:40.038 –> 00:20:42.460
for TPG for their annual conference.

00:20:42.500 –> 00:20:43.401
Then I’m going straight from

00:20:43.461 –> 00:20:47.682
there to Memphis to do a

00:20:47.722 –> 00:20:50.224
little tour and eat some meals,

00:20:50.265 –> 00:20:51.625
hopefully with some fun, Hilton.

00:20:52.086 –> 00:20:52.326
Wow.

00:20:52.686 –> 00:20:53.970
You’re rocking and rolling, buddy.

00:20:53.990 –> 00:20:54.069
Yeah.

00:20:54.770 –> 00:20:56.795
And then it’s going to be what?

00:20:57.395 –> 00:20:58.116
Mid-May?

00:20:59.755 –> 00:21:00.055
Yeah,

00:21:00.455 –> 00:21:02.938
and then got the extended stay hotel

00:21:02.998 –> 00:21:05.099
form coming up on May 21st,

00:21:05.160 –> 00:21:06.140
so I’m excited for that.

00:21:06.461 –> 00:21:08.001
Maybe you’ll be able to join on that one,

00:21:08.041 –> 00:21:08.281
Anthony.

00:21:08.321 –> 00:21:08.982
I got you a pass.

00:21:09.022 –> 00:21:09.823
It’s in New York City if

00:21:09.843 –> 00:21:11.285
you’re interested in doing that.

00:21:11.325 –> 00:21:13.246
New York City, I may be able to go.

00:21:13.266 –> 00:21:16.729
I know I’m doing something on the 23rd,

00:21:16.949 –> 00:21:18.891
and my birthday’s on the 24th.

00:21:19.070 –> 00:21:21.313
I’m going to be 74 years old.

00:21:21.874 –> 00:21:22.574
And I’m telling you,

00:21:22.594 –> 00:21:23.875
you don’t look a day over 72,

00:21:23.875 –> 00:21:25.296
so congrats.

00:21:25.797 –> 00:21:28.159
I’m going to be 59 years old, my friend.

00:21:30.179 –> 00:21:31.002
That’s crazy, man.

00:21:31.566 –> 00:21:32.490
But look how good I look.

00:21:33.540 –> 00:21:34.441
It’s really crazy.

00:21:34.461 –> 00:21:35.060
Uh-oh.

00:21:35.320 –> 00:21:35.902
Kim says,

00:21:36.162 –> 00:21:37.402
I was the Peabody in Demon’s Mansion.

00:21:37.422 –> 00:21:39.201
But Kim, I meant to say Nashville.

00:21:39.241 –> 00:21:40.383
I’m not going to be in Memphis.

00:21:40.542 –> 00:21:41.722
I’m going to be in Nashville.

00:21:41.762 –> 00:21:42.583
I am so sorry.

00:21:42.623 –> 00:21:44.344
But yes, next time I am in Memphis,

00:21:44.983 –> 00:21:46.183
I will definitely reach out to you.

00:21:46.743 –> 00:21:47.444
And right now,

00:21:47.525 –> 00:21:48.785
I think that’s going to be in August.

00:21:49.285 –> 00:21:50.484
So we’ll see about that.

00:21:50.924 –> 00:21:51.865
Because I hear August is a

00:21:51.885 –> 00:21:56.047
great time to be in Memphis.

00:21:56.727 –> 00:21:56.946
I said,

00:21:56.987 –> 00:21:58.346
you’re not really a son of a bitch.

00:21:58.527 –> 00:21:59.788
She called you a son of a bitch.

00:21:59.807 –> 00:22:00.327
Did you see that?

00:22:01.108 –> 00:22:03.732
Well, you know, my mom was a female dog,

00:22:03.772 –> 00:22:05.737
so she’s not 100% incorrect.

00:22:06.258 –> 00:22:06.818
No,

00:22:06.878 –> 00:22:08.561
let’s talk about the most important

00:22:08.582 –> 00:22:09.262
thing that’s happening on

00:22:09.303 –> 00:22:09.844
Earth right now.

00:22:09.963 –> 00:22:11.366
Mrs. Peaches and Dave Portnoy.

00:22:12.901 –> 00:22:13.101
What?

00:22:13.781 –> 00:22:16.123
Okay, Mrs. Peaches is Dave Portnoy’s dog.

00:22:16.903 –> 00:22:18.865
And she has a million followers.

00:22:19.465 –> 00:22:21.707
And he now has a major

00:22:21.866 –> 00:22:23.387
female base because every

00:22:23.508 –> 00:22:24.868
female in the world is

00:22:24.929 –> 00:22:26.009
flipping over Mrs. Peaches.

00:22:26.430 –> 00:22:26.589
Now,

00:22:26.750 –> 00:22:27.911
I don’t want to be on the wrong side

00:22:27.951 –> 00:22:28.991
of history here because I

00:22:29.031 –> 00:22:30.153
think Dave Portnoy is a

00:22:30.192 –> 00:22:31.354
marketing frigging genius.

00:22:31.953 –> 00:22:33.634
But if I have to see a grown

00:22:33.654 –> 00:22:35.836
man basically kissing and

00:22:35.876 –> 00:22:36.857
licking on his dog,

00:22:38.298 –> 00:22:40.681
I had to block it because I

00:22:40.701 –> 00:22:41.882
just can’t see that feed anymore.

00:22:42.142 –> 00:22:44.324
But Mrs. Peaches yesterday

00:22:44.364 –> 00:22:46.665
had her first pizza review,

00:22:46.806 –> 00:22:49.008
and Mrs. Peaches liked the pizza.

00:22:49.367 –> 00:22:52.230
So if you don’t know about Mrs. Peaches.

00:22:52.871 –> 00:22:53.131
Well,

00:22:53.531 –> 00:22:54.932
I’m still not over the passing of

00:22:55.032 –> 00:22:55.712
Grumpy Cat,

00:22:55.854 –> 00:22:56.993
so I haven’t been able to do

00:22:57.054 –> 00:22:58.695
any more animal social media since then.

00:22:59.161 –> 00:22:59.760
Well, yeah.

00:22:59.780 –> 00:23:01.942
So just go on just to see

00:23:02.323 –> 00:23:03.223
how pathetic it is.

00:23:03.284 –> 00:23:05.065
But it’s working because he

00:23:05.085 –> 00:23:06.886
has more female followers now than ever.

00:23:07.067 –> 00:23:08.548
And somebody called Mrs.

00:23:08.587 –> 00:23:09.669
Peaches ugly pretty.

00:23:09.808 –> 00:23:10.808
And then he went online and

00:23:10.828 –> 00:23:11.950
just started screaming at

00:23:11.970 –> 00:23:14.491
Carson at this point.

00:23:15.212 –> 00:23:15.692
And listen,

00:23:17.513 –> 00:23:19.015
there are beauties in the eye

00:23:19.055 –> 00:23:19.635
of the beholder.

00:23:20.375 –> 00:23:22.577
Yeah, for sure.

00:23:22.817 –> 00:23:23.298
Oh, God.

00:23:24.459 –> 00:23:25.180
Let’s get out of here.

00:23:25.700 –> 00:23:26.160
All right.

00:23:26.200 –> 00:23:26.480
You know,

00:23:26.520 –> 00:23:27.601
we’re talking about Mrs. Peaches.

00:23:27.642 –> 00:23:28.102
We’re screwed.

00:23:29.814 –> 00:23:31.835
That’s so messed up.

00:23:32.255 –> 00:23:33.215
All right.

00:23:33.476 –> 00:23:34.496
I’m going to be controversial.

00:23:34.955 –> 00:23:36.457
I’ve got about 10 of Dave

00:23:36.497 –> 00:23:37.517
Portnoy’s pizza guys.

00:23:37.557 –> 00:23:38.557
Now, I’m Italian from Brooklyn.

00:23:38.577 –> 00:23:39.637
I think I know something about pizza.

00:23:40.157 –> 00:23:41.459
And I would say the majority

00:23:41.479 –> 00:23:43.980
of pizzas that he ranked, I did not like.

00:23:44.160 –> 00:23:44.779
Matter of fact,

00:23:45.000 –> 00:23:46.941
one pizza place I recently went to,

00:23:46.961 –> 00:23:48.442
I threw the pizza in the garbage.

00:23:48.761 –> 00:23:49.862
And he highly ranked it.

00:23:50.682 –> 00:23:50.843
Wow.

00:23:51.448 –> 00:23:51.728
Yeah,

00:23:51.768 –> 00:23:52.969
sorry to hear that because I like them,

00:23:53.009 –> 00:23:54.851
but listen, I got to call it what it is.

00:23:55.351 –> 00:23:56.291
Hey, it happens.

00:23:56.872 –> 00:23:57.313
By the way,

00:23:57.653 –> 00:24:00.035
Buddy’s Pizza Cake in Vegas is

00:24:00.134 –> 00:24:01.895
pretty decent, by the way.

00:24:02.116 –> 00:24:02.576
Pizza Cake?

00:24:02.616 –> 00:24:03.297
Where’s that?

00:24:03.637 –> 00:24:07.461
It’s Harris or Flamingo or

00:24:07.480 –> 00:24:09.461
something like that.

00:24:09.481 –> 00:24:10.143
I like it.

00:24:10.663 –> 00:24:11.324
I’ll try his pizza.

00:24:11.715 –> 00:24:12.777
A lot of time when I’m in Vegas,

00:24:12.817 –> 00:24:14.357
I eat pizza because I’m on the move.

00:24:14.377 –> 00:24:15.438
I don’t want to sit down and

00:24:15.458 –> 00:24:19.319
have a $400 meal, that kind of a thing.

00:24:19.839 –> 00:24:20.701
You may have the munchies,

00:24:20.721 –> 00:24:21.361
so that happens.

00:24:21.862 –> 00:24:22.142
Maybe.

00:24:22.987 –> 00:24:23.326
I don’t know.

00:24:23.606 –> 00:24:26.107
But anyway, next week, Las Vegas,

00:24:26.188 –> 00:24:27.327
Anthony and I are going to

00:24:27.347 –> 00:24:27.907
be interviewing the

00:24:27.928 –> 00:24:30.189
incredible Todd Avery Lenahan.

00:24:30.229 –> 00:24:32.388
He’s the president and head

00:24:32.409 –> 00:24:34.930
of development and design with Wynn.

00:24:34.990 –> 00:24:35.670
So we’re going to talk about

00:24:35.690 –> 00:24:36.829
some really cool projects.

00:24:36.869 –> 00:24:37.310
That’s going to be a

00:24:37.330 –> 00:24:38.131
recorded show because we’re

00:24:38.151 –> 00:24:39.411
doing it in their studio.

00:24:39.730 –> 00:24:41.152
We also have a show set for

00:24:41.192 –> 00:24:43.132
you next week with –

00:24:43.132 –> 00:24:45.972
with LWH advisors and Dan

00:24:46.012 –> 00:24:47.074
Lesser talking about a lot

00:24:47.094 –> 00:24:48.453
of stuff that people don’t

00:24:48.634 –> 00:24:50.335
typically talk about in the

00:24:50.434 –> 00:24:51.214
hotel business.

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And while I was in Orlando,

00:24:52.576 –> 00:24:53.756
I grabbed a video with the

00:24:54.057 –> 00:24:56.978
guy who runs Caribe Royale.

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They just did $140 million

00:24:58.857 –> 00:24:59.759
renovation on that.

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And I talked to him a little

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bit about bumping up the

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hotel from three stars to

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four stars and what that

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process was like.

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Plus,

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if you’re going to be down at the

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Sphere for the Fish shows,

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Drop me a line.

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Let’s do a happy hour.

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Let’s have some fun because

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I’m going to be going to

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all four of those concerts next week.

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What day is the first show?

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Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

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Thursday.

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Am I going to be there Thursday?

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I don’t know.

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It’s going to be insane.

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I can’t wait.

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I can’t wait.

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All right, everybody.

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00:25:44.209 –> 00:25:45.190
my saga about whether I’m

00:25:45.210 –> 00:25:45.930
going to be able to make it

00:25:45.950 –> 00:25:48.311
through all four shows in Las Vegas.

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So thanks, everyone, for being here.

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We’ll see you next week.

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And remember, you’ve got one life,

00:25:51.734 –> 00:25:52.415
so blaze on.

00:25:52.496 –> 00:25:53.696
And be kind to yourself.

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Bye, everybody.

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Remember, be kind to yourself with us.