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CHARLES: SO USING THE EXCUSE,
CANADIAN WILDFIRES, BY PEOPLE
THAT LEAVE DISCARDED CIGARETTES,
OR CAMPFIRES UNAT THAT TIME
ENDED THE LEFT MOVED TO GET RID
OF THIS, COAL AND WOOD BURNING
OVENS IN NEW YORK PIZZERIAS.
NEW YORK MAYOR ERIC ADAMS
TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF HIS
MOUTH.
EQUATING 437 WILDFIRES TO 100
NEW YORK CITY PIZZA RESTAURANTS.
THESE ARE PLACES THAT EMPLOY
PEOPLE, MOSTLY FAMILY AND THEY
BRING HAPPINESS AND JOY TO THE
CITY N A TWEET ELON MUSK CALLED
THE MOVE UTTER BS BUT THESE ARE
NEW YORKERS AND THEY ARE
FIGHTING BACK.
I HAVE TWO OF THEM WITH ME RIGHT
NOW.
JUSTIN NAPOLITANO OWNER EVER
ARTURO’S, AND DARO IS WITH ME AS
WELL.
THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN.
LET ME START WITH YOU, DARIO.
YOU’RE TAKING THIS PERSONALLY?
>> YES.
THE SITUATION IS REALLY OUT OF
CONTROL ALSO BECAUSE I DON’T
KNOW IF PEOPLE KNOW TO HAVE AN
EXHAUST PIPE FOR A WOOD FIRED
OVEN-LIKE IN MY RESTAURANT YOU
NEED TO CLEAN THEM MONTHLY WITH
A CRAZY EXPENSES.
PLUS, YOU HAVE A WATER FILTER,
THEY TAKE DOWN ANY EMISSION.
THREE TIMES VISIT FROM THE
ENVIRONMENTAL DEPARTMENT OF THE
CITY CENTER AND THEY SAID IT WAS
TOTALLY FINE.
NO SMOKE, NO EMISSION AT ALL.
SO I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE, THIS
NEWS ABOUT THE POLLUTION BECAUSE
OF MY RESTAURANT.
CHARLES: RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, JOSEPH, I MEAN THE
NOTION THAT SOMEHOW 100 NEW YORK
CITY PIZZA RESTAURANTS ARE A
THREAT TO HUMANITY IT JUST SEEMS
FARFETCHED ON ITS FACE.
BY THE WAY THESE ARE RESTAURANTS
THAT EXISTED FOR SO LONG.
THEY’RE PART OF OUR CULTURE IN
NEW YORK CITY.
HOW ARE YOU TAKING THIS?
>> THIS IS RIDICULOUS, CHARLES.
A PLEASURE TO BE ON YOUR SHOW,
BY THE WAY.
WHAT ABOUT ALL THE STREET
VENDORS?
WHAT ARE THEY DOING ABOUT THOSE
GUYS THAT USE COAL EVERY NIGHT?
JUST TO ADD ONTO THE OTHER
GENTLEMAN’S POINT, IF HE HAS TO
RUN A NEW EXHAUST SYSTEM HE HAS
TO RUN IT UP TO THE TOP OF THE
BUILDING.
THAT IS ANOTHER EASE 20,
$25,000.
THEY THINK WE HAVE MONEY STORED
AWAY SOMEWHERE IN A SECRET
ACCOUNT.
WE CAN’T JUST PULL OUT $25,000
FROM THE BUSINESS AND CONTINUE
GOING ON.
SINCE THE EPIDEMIC NOTHING HAS
GONE RIGHT IN THIS CITY AS FAR
AS I’M CONCERNED TOWARDS SMALL
BUSINESSES, I MEAN MOM-AND-POP
STORES.
CHARLES: DARIO, WHAT ARE YOU
GOING TO DO?
ARE YOU FIGHTING BACK?
HAVE YOU CALLED SOMEBODY, YOUR
CONGRESSMAN, ANYONE?
YESTERDAY, TWO DAYS AGO YOU WERE
PILLAR OF SOCIETY.
YOU WERE A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER
HELPING YOUR COMMUNITY, SERVING
PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY AND
THEN TWO DAYS LATER YOU’RE A
VILLAIN, YOU’RE A MENACE TO THE
ENVIRONMENT.
>> THE POINT IS THAT I ALREADY
FEEL TO BE VICTIM OF A CITY
EXPERIMENTS BECAUSE THEY PUSH
EVERY FEW MONTHS TO DO SOMETHING
MORE, TO SPEND EXTRA MONEY TO
CLEAN THE EXHAUST PIPE, A NEW
FILTER, NEW BIG COMPANY TO SIGN
THE CLEANING FILTER.
CHARLES: RIGHT.
>> YOU SPEND SO MANY THOUSAND OF
DOLLARS.
NOW WHAT, THESE NEW REGULATION
THAT WOULD PASS, I DON’T KNOW
WHAT WE CAN DO.
I HAVE 35 EMPLOYEES.
CHARLES: WOW.
WE’LL STICK WITH IT, GENTLEMEN.
WISH WE HAD MORE TIME.
RUNNING A LITTLE HEAVY ON THE
SHOW.
DARIO, JOSEPH, GUYS, WE GOT YOUR
BACK, WE REALLY DO.
THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH.
FIGHT, FIGHT AGAINST THIS.
THIS IS UNFAIR.
>> THANK YOU.
>> CHARLES, BIG SHOUT OUT TO
ASSEMBLY WOMAN SEA WRITE.