Hot Take: Amazon HQ2 breaks up with NYC

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🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Kara and Scott pop back into the studio to give their hot takes on Amazon pulling out of their HQ2 deal with New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Cara Swisher here with a special bonus hot take mini episode.
0:07.5	And as soon as we got out of recording Pivot News Drop that Amazon is taking HQ 2 out
0:12.2	of New York City, Long Island City, specifically in Queens.
0:15.7	I'm going to give you my take on what it means for Amazon in a second, but first Scott
0:19.3	apparently had other things to do today and wasn't in the studio, but he did send in
0:23.3	his hot take.
0:24.7	Let's play a message I got from Scott late last night in the middle of the night on my
0:29.4	phone.
0:30.4	No, he sent it in talking about HQ 2 and Amazon's pull out of New York City HQ know the
0:37.0	shit show con not contest that is HQ 2 appears to be in its seventh inning with Amazon taking
0:43.6	its three billion balls and going home.
0:46.6	What a shocker representative of Costa Cortez and unions are difficult to deal with.
0:52.0	Wow.
0:53.0	That took a lot.
0:54.0	Anyways, the winners and losers and maybe some predictions and hopefully some deeper takeaways
0:59.2	here.
1:00.2	Big winners from New York City Councilman Jimmy Van Braemer and state senator Michael Gianaris.
1:06.1	Also someone who I thought outlined the argument most particularly was assembly on Ron Kim.
1:13.4	Assemblyman Kim.
1:14.7	I am going to keep my eyes on you boss.
1:17.2	I thought you were fantastic and really spelled out some of the better issues or some of
1:22.5	the more compelling issues against Amazon here.
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