All right, he hello, everyone. Welcome to it. It is the Derek Hunter Podcast, the 24th of June, 2022. Yes,

24th of June. I don't know why this is difficult for me. I'm Derek Hunter. It's Friday. I know it's Friday. It's all it really matters. It's Friday. I know it's a pre-record. It's pissed off. Everybody about guns. Oh, no. Oh, no people. You have to have a better reason than you don't want people to carry guns to deny people. These states to deny people the right to keep and bear arms. What a crazy idea. What kind of monsters are you people? Freaking.

Freaks of nature. Anyway, we'll talk more about that in the future. I just want to get this started. I've, you know, let's just get going. I don't forget about the curse show. I'll talk about that in the curse show on tonight at patreon.com slash Derek Hunter Podcast or at Derek Hunter.locals.com.

Because why not? These, God, I just want to swear so much, but I'm not going to. So I'm going to wait. Check it out there at midnight. Otherwise, let's get on with the program. I was, I took a day. I had to go to New York. I had to go to New York for a thing with the wife. She won an award for being the best producer in the country and she deserves it. But God, I hate New York.

It just, you know, at a certain point, you grow out of New York and your teens, your 20s go, God, I'd love to move to New York. I'd love to live in New York. And then you go, but I'm not a millionaire. So I'd have to live in a refrigerator box with roommates. So I'm not going to move to New York. Or you go, I, I'm going to move way to the outskirts of New York or suffer through whatever you. I looked into it back when I was in high school. My friend John and I thought about moving to New York. I don't really even know why.

It was the adventure of it. You get the village voice and you'd look at the ads for apartments and you go, this is, this is per month. It's more money than I've ever seen in my life. I'm like, nah, not going to do it. But at a certain point, you go to New York and it's like, oh, it's exciting. And you look at the tall buildings. And then you go, all right, I've seen the tall buildings. Just like, would I go back to the Louvre? I'd probably go back to the Louvre. I found myself in Paris. Do I have a burning desire to go back to the Louvre? No, no, I've been there.

I think I've been there twice. That's enough. I'm not one of those people who just needs to be there and see it again and again and again and again and again. And like, okay, I don't, I don't need to see it again and again and again and again and again.

It's a pit. It stinks. It used to always smell like urine. Now it smells like weed. I don't know if you've been Manhattan for a while. But there's a lot of people smoking weed on the streets.

No matter what time of day I got up, I don't know, six, 37 o'clock and went for a walk. I try to get a good walk in every day.

So I went for my walk, got my headphones in and it's like 7.30 in the morning. There's a smell of weed around like, what are you?

I'm not unfamiliar with the concept of a wake and bake. But it's been a while and it wasn't a weekday. It was a school day. It was a college day where you did that, not a random Wednesday on your way to work.

I got to operate having a machine. Actually, I did that, but that's beside the point. It just stinks. It stinks to high heaven and traffic is a nightmare.

And I just don't have the patience or the desire for New York anymore. So we got the hell out of there as quickly as possible. But I do want to come in on one thing in particular.

I know my wife is probably sitting there going, don't I'm not talking about the event. I'm not talking about the radio industry. I won't you don't want me to talk about that.

But we went into a Dwayne Reed, which is I think Walgreens owns Dwayne Reed now. It's a drugstore. It's a chain drugstore. It's all over Menhan. It's all over New York.

Go in there and one it's a weird looking in New York. You got to find it kind of fit your store into whatever the logistics of the space will allow.

So you walk in the front door and you go to the left and it's all the food and the stuff like that. It's kind of the grocery store half.

And then you go to the right and it is all the medicines and personal care products and detergent and whatever.

So you go to the left and you think you're in just a normal store. There's food everywhere. Can food bags of food mostly junk food, but it's the food that you get in all the drinks. It's the food that you get at a drugstore.

Then you go to the other side and it is the inside of a drinks truck. I don't know what the hell's going on there.

You can't get anything or very few things without ringing a bell for an attendant. Everything is behind plastic. Everything is locked in cases.

And it's not like obnoxiously. It's just in your way. And if you really worked your way at it, you could pull out a bag of whatever shampoo thing or anything with potential resale value on the black market apparently.

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