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canada did, i'm sure not deliberately. it is an issue for the 100 million americans that have breath in this stuff. we're told it was better than yesterday. although when i first took air yesterday on this fine program. it was kind of like this, all of sudden it became the surface of mars. it looks pretty good as we circle around the area here. we have new york city, baltimore, annapolis, maryland, philadelphia international airport. west redding, pennsylvania, conditions conditionses are dangerous. don't breathe the air if you can avoid it. affecting air travel. , thousands of flights were canceled last 24 hourses with we get to drips with this. madison alworth. >> reporter: neil, very nice being in the airport right now, we're inside, we're safe. once you get through security that is a different story. we're seeing flights delayed or

canceled across the northeast. latest from. faa all flights headed to newark have been delayed because of air visibility issues. we have had earlier this morning flights headed into philadelphia national airport. they have all been ground halted. that has been lifted. newark, seeing delays for flights coming in. the faa warned for a variety of airports you should expect some disruption today. we're looking at airports in the new york city area, d.c., philadelphia and charlotte. you can see why this is happening. take a look at some of the footage we shot this morning with planes taking off, flight towers, all enveloped in smoke. doing better than yesterday you about still very smokey conditions outside today. that is why here at newark over 113 flights delayed coming in out of this airport just today alone. throughout yesterday, over 4,000 flights delayed in u.s.

airports. we spoke to one passenger who was supposed to fly into the new york area last night. he chose to avoid that, avoid the bad weather and change his plans. take a listen. >> i had a flight coming in last night. but i checked the weather the air quality was so terrible last night i had to switch to this morning. >> reporter: very good traveler there, listening to all the warnings people are putting out. taking a look at the air quality, yes, we're slightly better than yesterday but most of the northeast is in a dangerous position. right now new york has a reading of 188, the worst air quality in the northeast right now in harrisburg, pennsylvania at 353. that is kind of tracking with what fox weather has been predicting. they have said that pennsylvania will have the worst conditions today. widespread warnings there. philadelphia airport, already had issues today. that area plus d.c., you will see a lot of disruptions, neil. when it comes to what airlines are doing, we heard from united they're offering waivers to

passengers that had impacts on flights going in and out of specific airports here in the northeast. the passengers we have spoken to are crossing their fingers hoping for the best. the board behind me, a couple delays. overall pretty good considering how many flights come in and out of this area. people are happy to be inside or driving or walking anywhere today, because that smoke outside still very strong, neil. neil: indeed, madison madison alworth in new jersey. we're talking to a guy from a alaska that knows it very well hundreds firefighters making their way to the north to help our friends in the firefight. director, good to have you. how bad do you think this gets? talking close to 400 fires still going on now? the fact is fires beget more fires and conditions are ripe for a lot more of that so what are we in for?

>> yeah. it's, they had a early start to their season and luckily for alaska we're having a late start to ours. we're able to help out with sending resources to canada and to help them. yeah, you're right the concern is when we have season like they're having, on top of a busy season in the lower 48 in alaska, that shortage of resources we're stretched thin already. so fire seasons overlapping like that is our concern. neil: you know, director, i was curious, a lot of the trouble seems to be centered now around quebec where 150 fires are still active and spreading. how do you stop the spread when there is no rain in the forecast and you've got serious you know, wind issues for at least much of the eastern part of canada? how do you deal with that? >> yeah that is the challenge, neil, no matter where you are conditions like that as dry as they are and with winds those

are very difficult fires to contain and control. a lot of times you fall back to getting people out of the way. as you get a lull in the weather, change in conditions, take advantage of that, you know, increase your operations. been a lot in canada, a lot what we do in the united states and in alaska is that planning with fuels mitigation and fuels work and fuels breaks. so when you do have a season like this you have a place where you can have firefighters work from to protect those communities. neil: brave bunch. that is the story and dna what you oversee. norm mcdonald, thank you very much, good catching up with you on this. >> okay, thank you. neil: some companies are being extra flexible when it comes to workers from uber telling its drivers if you don't want to go into these problem areas you don't have to google saying right now look, if you feel uncomfortable going in some areas where smoke is bad you don't have to bother. some of these are the same companies are saying we would appreciate you getting back to

the office, the sooner, the better. lou bassa niece public ventures president, chief market strategist, michelle schneider as well, market gauge dot-com chief strategist. michelle, these are aberrant events hope brief events when you get something like this, i am wondering the economic impact of this, especially, excuse me, if it drags on and goes to other areas of the country as it is likely to? >> neil, first of all i live in new mexico. so it is the land of enchantment and the land of fires so we're pretty well used to the impact, impact what it can have on the economy so things locally have to shut down. unfortunately in the heart of new mexico we had great rain goes out to the people on the east coast but as far as the economic impact to me if we step back it really just is another

thorn in the side of how vulnerable people have felt for years now starting with covid and how this can impact supply chain, inflation, and all of these reminders are going to be very, very prevalent in peoples minds as far as going forward and being reluctant to go out. all of these have not only impact on everything we just mentioned in terms of supply and supply chain, but even, you know, rising crime. it is just another reason for people to be fearful. it is unfortunate, because it will pass eventually. obviously it has destruction along the way. neil: quite a bit of it too. lou, i was mentioning some of these companies telling their workers if you feel uncomfortable going in don't go in but some of them the exact same companies in the case of google increasingly saying we think it's good idea if you do come in. you're hearing it from a lot of companies like sales force. even martha stewart weighing in. might love being home, cooking doing that stuff, when comes to

getting the job done, show up at work. what do you make of all of this, and the impact? >> look, what about the great generation that used to walk uphill to school every day in the snow both ways, right? now there is fires. we're not going to work. this is one of those policies makes you go hmmm, google is trying to get people back in the office. the real estate market, the dynamics there necessitate everyone returning to work because we need the occupancy rates. i was talking it to a google friend and worker last night and he was making the point because of covid a lot of the office spaces for google up graded their hvac filtration system. probably safer to be in the office then at home. so that is a unique dynamic but i worry about the knock-on effects. what happens to the middle of the summer and heat index is over 105 or 110 will people be expected to stay home then? what about other inclement weather? it's slippery slope as people try to get back to normal sy and

necessity in the office space which is necessity in as we see the commercial market space crumble in san francisco and new york. that is more to come here. not a policy i would be support tiff of right now. neil: if you think about it, michelle, i think we're in manhattan where about half of those who have returned to work right now, in other words half the capacity we were looking at in a lot of office buildings than what we had prior to covid. it has been stuck at that level i hear roughly in a lot of cities. say it stays there despite the push by employers to do what lou is saying kind of entice people back then what? then you do have to wonder about commercial property. you have to wonder about those exposed to that on their balance sheets and the spillover. what do you see happening? >> well, definitely that's an impact. we've already seen commercial space being impacted with online and e-commerce in terms of malls

and all of the areas that have dealt with brick-and-mortar have declined sharply over the loose few years. so add this to the mix now with covid. so it's really going to be, yes, some impact economic of course in in the commercial real estate market. we have to innovate as well and a lot of spaces i talked about in terms of commercial have repurposed and maybe that's what is going to happen too but it will be very interesting and to lou's point, yes, if you really look at the whole job market right now, we can see all this reflected with labor participation going up, even though jobless claims were higher today. the labor market itself is so complex. certainly this will not help. neil: if i get your guys final thoughts on the big fed meeting next week, the thinking used to be little more than a few weeks ago, this is the one they paused at. they sort of got lay of the land what is going to happen.

now with some strong economic news we've got now, claims report today, notwithstanding, highest i should say, maybe not, but, lou, to you, what do you think happens next week and what the signal from the fed will be? >> i'm not going to deviate. i've been a contrarian on this. i think the fed definitely has another 25 basis-point hike in store whether this month or next month. i think inflation is proving really stick ski, yes it has peaked, it is coming down. it is really sticky. the core pce last reading was hotter than we wanted. cpi next week that may give the fed where cpi comes in, june or july we're definitely getting a hike which is funny three weeks ago as you mentioned the markets were expecting a cult in july which just seems insane. i think we have another hike or two ahead of us before they pause. neil: michelle, quoting some popular, popular if you don't like inflation, inflation measurements are holding pretty stubborn right now.

not as if it is disappearing. it is again hiccupping. what do you see happening and the fed doing? >> well i actually think they may pause but then hike later on because they have already proven to be extremely reactive and not proactive and it would probably behoove them to pause right here because they can kind of take a victory lap, oh, we averted recession. inflation i'm definitely in the camp of much higher inflation is coming for myriad of reasons. this fire is a small example of how mother nature has been the x-factor through all of this on top of striking and wage requirements and still you know, russia threatening black sea, all of this stuff comes to me in my mind as a reason why inflation goes up and the fed is so data driven right now, if cpi isn't too horrible their policy probably already set i go for pause. i think they will have to play

catch-up later on. neil: guys, thank you both very, very much as they were wrapping up here i want to pass along a item that has just come in from the "miami herald," worrisome development to watch, in a move undercoring maybe some of china's geopolitical ambitions, china is going to establish what the herald calls a espionage base in cuba just 90 miles from the state of florida. this had been rumored for some time and the two sides have been talking back and forth but the chinese government is reportedly ready to pay billions of dollars to the cash-strapped caribbean nation, that would be cuba to make this possible. i will talk to robert f. kennedy, jr. on my 4:00 p.m. show on fox news. remember his uncle famously had to deal with something like this, talking about the late president john f. kennedy when cuba and then soviet union combined to build weaponry and military bases and missiles that were within striking distance or could strike the united states. that was then.

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♪. neil: all right, getting more details on this supposed base building that is going on right now in cuba, or the chinese plan to go on. this is coming from the "miami herald" which of course is kind of in the neighborhood that would be affected but a lot of this reporting first came out of "the wall street journal" but what is at issue here china establishing or eager to establish an espionage base in cuba. now they cite as does "the wall street journal" these intelligence agencies want to monitor ship traffic, electronic communications throughout the united states and this would be the means by which you would do that. china already believed, quoting the miami herald to have a military presence in cuba in a listening station in a town just south of havana where there were reports way back from 2018 of a new radar surveillance station that the chinese might have been among the builders. no way to prove that one way or the other.

unclear about the other details or timing of this. what we do know, the herald has fleshed this out with reporting first out of "the wall street journal" that the chinese have been busy dolling out a lot of cash, billions of dollars worth to cuba to help them get back on their feet but obviously to help them facilitate for china this operation. so again the timing of this is obviously right in the throes of this growing presidential campaign. dan ebber hard canary ceo is with us right now. dan is backing speaking of all things florida, florida governor ron desantis running for president as you know. dan, good to see you. >> good to see you. neil: i just don't want to throw the breaking news at you, i apologize if it looks like i'm sandbagging here but a lot is made of candidates and their views on this type of stuff. ron desantis has been criticized, with the ukraine war that was a border dispute. he reversed himself, it was a serious matter, look at serious nature of that but you do wonder

a little bit what this could mean and what, let's say if your candidate becomes president how he or any of the others might respond to this? we could have a, sort of a modern-day cuban missile crisis if this gets out of hand, what do you think? >> well, first of all i think just as we need joe biden out of the white house, joe biden brought us the withdrawal from afghanistan. ancillary attacks from that. we gave up bagram, the closest airbase to china. governor desantis was experience dealing dealing with gaun trump mow when he was in the navy i think he would be well to push back on china. the republicans need, whoever the republican nominee definitely needs to push back on china. i think this is a very alarming development, neil. neil: i wonder the tone you're hearing out of the candidates and as a big donor your self whether that influences your

view of which candidates to support if they're tough on international issues, tough on china? vivek ramaswamy is open to punishing china tit-for-tat with trade and like, that would be the extent of it. donald trump said not china is the problem. we made them a pariah, that is on us. that is paraphrasing, complimentary of vladmir putin, the guy is a genius. among some of those presidential candidates you have a standoffish approach to threats like these. is that likely to mean that foreign policy becomes a very big issue now, more than we thought? >> i think foreign policy will become increasingly important issue in this campaign. look, what the republican party what i think the republican party wants and needs is somebody that will be able to

stand up to the democrats in d.c., somebody also going to stand up for america. i think that what you see happen with the withdrawal in afghanistan and some of biden's foreign policy moves. the country is looking for stronger foreign policy sort of like what trump did, maybe more consistent. i think ron desantis has ingredients to do that. has shown the track record, has the veteran background and executive experience to do that neil. neil: dan, thank you for engaging these breaking developments. i would be remiss if i didn't raise them with you. >> yeah. neil: by the way the herald is also going on to quote some of florida's premier politicians. senator marco rubio said this represents a threat to america from cuba. it isn't just real, it is far worse than this. he went on to say to date the biden white house don't care, they have people that want to appease that regime. we're waiting word from the white house, whether they want to pick this apart get into that. meantime other washington developments, it could be a the case of official washington not

around to respond to this. a move on the part of some conservatives who are still angry at the speaker kevin mccarthy, that they're not going to do his bidding. in fact they might be eyeing his seat. chad pergram following all of those developments now. it is over a separate issue it's one lingering i guess, chad. >> reporter: neil, good afternoon. it is a revolt how house speaker kevin mccarthy handled the debt ceiling. conservatives are seething. they don't like the deal mccarthy negotiated with president biden. a group of 11 arch conservatives are blocking the house from considering any legislation until they get commitments from mccarthy. mccarthy suggested that the divide will eventually strengthen house republicans. >> i'm not afraid. if i want to continue to change washington for the better i'm going to disrupt the thinking of how people have done things in the past. i know this job is not an easy job. i don't seek it because it is easy. i like the challenge.

>> reporter: it's about the math. republicans are in the majority but can only lose four votes on their side and still pass something on the floor. otherwise, they need democratic help. >> the majority has a responsibility in managing the floor in terms of the legislation that is brought before the body for votes to take place and it's not clear right now that the majority has the capacity to be able to manage the house floor because the extremists have taken it over. >> reporter: democrats helped the gop overcome republican nos last week on the debt ceiling bill. conservatives also don't like mccarthy relying on the minority. the house remains frozen. >> thank you all. >> can you reach a resolution with the right? >> what is the key to solving this? >> will there be any votes next

week? [inaudible]. >> reporter: mccart think recessed the house until monday. conservatives are blocking the house even debating a bill important to the gop. the bill would bar the regulation of gas stoves. neil? neil: real quickly, chad, how serious is this, vacate the seat push on part of at least a couple of these, i guess freedom caucus members more to the point, not all of them but how real is that as a threat? >> reporter: that's right. we keep talking to members. no one is willing to go there yet. it only takes one to force a vote. but that vote would lose on the floor or it would be tabled. so that might actually strengthen mccarthy because most republicans would stand with him. we've even told some democrats might do that depends how it is worded. you don't come at the king unless you can win. neil: thank you, chad, very much. king of all things capitol hill chad pergram.

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really a smoke tracker trying to follow the winds where they might go next and where all the smoke and damaging material goes is anyone's next. amy freeze, fox meteorologist has been following it very, very closely. what can you tell us? >> neil, you're right, wildfire up in canada is natural disaster seems like the whole country is on fire from west to east. fires of quebec reached by the upper levels of atmosphere and dispersed down to the surface. yesterday was terrible for new york city. here are the places with the worst quality. harrisburg, 353, that is the hazardous. washington, d.c., up to 273. they postponed the nationals game. same with philadelphia with the fillies and yankees getting

postponed as well. we're getting into push pell and maroon that is you will unhealthy to hazardous. that is eastern portions of pennsylvania, new jersey, del mar vax back through d.c. heads up for these areas. it will be complicated, next couple days, neil. the weather will blow smoke in next couple directions. wildfires will not be blown out. couple hundred wildfires in key beck are out of control. we have to watch the winds and the low pressure system filtering smoke makes a move. as it comes west, areas western pennsylvania, areas south and west of new york city will be impacted. we'll watch d.c. very carefully. don't believe until next week we see a pattern shift. neil, you probably felt the folks coming in and out of new york. a lot of people not only see the problem, but they're also having burning in their chest or eyes sting a little bit because the levels have been exceptionally

high. neil: they have been. great job, amy freeze following all of this on the fox weather meteorologist. this is really, it is focused in the east coast of america. it is going as far as west as chicago. could go as far as south as south caroline. i don't think it made its way to florida yet. daniel kodsi, real estate concern, very big all over the place, but particularly down there. daniel, good to have you. >> thank you, neil. neil: you're quite aways away from the smoke. i'm sure you hope it stays that way? >> yes, no sign of smoke in miami now. neil: i'm sorry about the heat last night, you're down 2-1. it's big generator of activity and interest. >> yeah. neil: the nba finals, certainly raise a lot of dough and interest not only in florida which now has a team in the stanley cup finals as well but what has that meant for you? and you know obviously packed

restaurants, packed you know, stadiums and the like, i wonder where you see this going? >> look, miami now big sports right as you mentioned. the panthers are in the stanley cup. the heat, eight seed, both panthers and heat eight seed were not expected to get this far. neil: right. >> all these games attract lot of people coming to, coming to miami. as you mentioned hospitality. this is a huge hospitality market. we have $126 billion a year in hospitality. it is great and a driver. even recent news, lionel messi joining miami and play soccer, rest of world knows as football here in miami. so all of this sports really creates, you know, creates a lot of demand. people want to be down here. every time i run into people or even visiting i got to get down here, i got to get to miami.

the city is still doing very well. granted real estate market has shifted but we still see a lot of demand especially on the luxury side. we still doubled our sales in the past 12 months than 2019 in the same period. you're still seeing a lot of demand for real estate here in miami. neil: that doesn't surprise me. a little hotter this time of the year. people can put up with that. there is always air-conditioning when in miami world center i think you particularly must love led lights. you have this, full eye basketball thing going on to celebrate the heat and that's, drawn international interest. tell me about that. >> yeah. this is, paramount miami world center, is the signature tower. miami world center which is adjacent to the heat arena is 27-acres. this is the second largest urban

development in the country actually. we have five blocks of retail, hospitality, residential, commercial and this is where transportation interacts with every part of south florida. so you have the bright line station, trains connect to rest of florida, eventually to orlando and this is really, it will be the center of miami. so you know, being adjacent to, we built, we built this paramount building, 700-foot tower, right? we have this lighting system, 13,000 lights. neil: amazing. >> we can do a lot of different animations on it. we do it for a lot of things. different events. supporting the heat, whether it is holidays, we just did something for memorial day, a big american flag and so it's become a beacon for the city of miami and kind of wherever you come from even the airport -- neil: are you exception, daniel for commercial real estate and success you're having? of course you know attraction draws more attraction and that is obviously what you're experiencing.

you're pretty good ad building off of that, and leveraging off of that, but janet yellen, i'm sure aware of the treasury secretary is worried about the national state of corporate real estate, commercial real estate particularly and those others who are exposed to it or have it on the books. a good deal if it is yours on the books, a bad deal if it is not, what do you think. >> look commercial market, multifamily is performing well, retail, even industrial is doing well. right know everyone is worried about the office market. neil: it is not doing well in new york. it is not doing well in new jersey. >> no it's not, it's not. neil: what do you make of that? >> yeah, look, if you look at it from a, if you look from the standpoint, just manhattan alone has 540 million square feet of office. there is a lot of office. this is a huge office market. compartively if you look at miami our downtown core has only

14 million square feet. if you add submarkets, suburban markets, 42 million area feet. not even 10% of what manhattan has. you will feel it in markets like that. another thing that hatched in new york that's different than florida, we opened immediately three months after covid. when the rest of the country, mostly blue states were shut down eight or 10 months after places like miami. neil: yeah. >> we, july 2020 we were going back to the office. we didn't have a lot of remote working. in other words, people didn't get comfortable working remotely. they had to start coming back. when you couple all these things, it's big difference. we had 57 companies move to miami. we absorbed in essence over a million square feet of office space. so in a little market like miami that is significant. so our office market is doing really well. our luxury class a buildings pushing rates over $100. no one thought they would see

100-dollar rates in miami. it is significantly different. now i think, i hear new york they're talking about converting buildings. i'm not a new york developer. neil: right. >> i'm not up there, but you know, it's, i think it's coupled with all the issues that they have had we just don't have down here. neil: yeah. not just converting them. mixed use, residential, commercial, that has gotten to be a very popular theme up here in the northeast. >> yes. neil: daniel, follow your success well. best of luck to the heat. we'll see what happens. you need four to win this thing. you're team has that -- >> friday is next game. neil: not that you're counting down the days. daniel, thank you very much. >> all right. neil: corner of wall and broad we have a big pickup in activity right now particularly among technology stocks. they have been really the super-duper performers, haven't they here? in the case of nasdaq raising along, dow raising along, in the case of the s&p, i believe in and out of, going back into a bull market. we're on that after this.

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♪ >> all right. my floor director and i were commiserating about technology stocks. you could include tesla as one of those. right now it is on fire. this is the 10th consecutive advance of the a lot has been on this run, this notion it is selling a lot of vehicles and all but it's backdrop for technology stocks in general that are jumping like nobody's business. lou basanese is back with us. technology specialist. lou, technology led the last bull market. will it lead this one? >> i would say we're in a bull market. wee need a couple percentage points we'll be in it. tech has infiltrated every aspect of life but there is a lot of bad press that tech is getting hey, if it wasn't for seven or eight stocks that includes tesla, apple, nvidia

the s&p would be flat for the year. the truth is there is a lot of strength underlying the s&p 500. 25% of the stocks in the s&p 500 have hit 52 weeks highs or about to hit 52 week highs. it is not just industrials but big tech has always beened leader pulling out of the gutter from the 2022 lows. you will see less resistance. you will see the market picking up. i say that because of small caps, i said that a month ago, i put that on peoples radar. gap between small caps and big caps have gotten too wide. small caps, microcaps have come from negative for the year to positive 8%. you're seeing risk come into the with the tech led rally. neil: this is not that limited the way the media has been treating it but worry they're getting too frothy again and

they're in for a hit? >> we can't forget history. 1999 the dot-com bubble when valuations got out of whack. neil: are we near that? >> i look at a stock like nvidia. it's situation by situation basis. nvidia is the one of the top performers from last year, trading 150 times earnings, 780 times forward earnings. that is priced for perfection of growth. you have to be more opportunistic, find undervalued names on it tech up-and-coming trends. you're a little late on nvidia. i admit i missed it. you can't catch them all. valuations in the small and mid-cap space are more compelling that the these names. neil: apple headset not available until next year. what do you make of that. >> fan boy of apple. a lot of people will jeer this before it gets too expensive think, is lunch money for you. for a lot of people it is serious dough. >> i think this is a huge

breakthrough in artificial intelligence and computing this is something you have got to keep a watch on. this is really a big development in the space. i would be cautious if i'm mark zuckerberg right now. i got relegated to blackberry nokia status with vr glasses this is really big jump forward for apple. neil: that is an interesting take on that. lou, thank you very much, my friend. always good seeing you. >> thanks, neil. neil: ashley webster on story we've been following in the florida press as well, not surprising that china and cuba are getting very, very cozy right now but what they're doing seems to echo back to something we saw, oh, a little less than, little more than 60 years ago. ashley what is happening here? >> reporter: bay of pigs, cuban missile crisis, 1962. now listen according to "the wall street journal" china and cuba have reached a secret agreement for china to establish a basically electronic eavesdropping facility on the island. it's brash new geopolitical

challenge by bay screening to the u.s. according to u.s. officials familiar with the highly classified intelligence the eavesdropping facility on the island will be about 100 miles from florida is very close by, could allow chinese intelligence services to quote, scoop up electronic communications throughout the southeastern u.s. that is of course where many military bases are located t would also enable them to monitor u.s. ship traffic. we have not had any comments from the white house next, kneel, but security experts call this a game-changer. when you think of cuba, you generally as you mentioned the bay of pigs think of russia but beijing has been working very hard to work on its economic an diplomatic ties with havana and of course all of this coming on the back of increased tensions. we've had all these, you know, fly-bys by chinese fighter jets and out in the taiwan strait when which have had chinese warships coming towards our destroyers. now we learn that the chinese

are 100 miles away right there on the island of cuba and let me just say this, you know, certainly the russians are going to be listening and have been listening but china's technology is that much better. so yeah, definitely a certain concern for the u.s. but what can the administration do? probably not a whole lot, neil. neil: thank you, ashley. i want to go to brian brenberg what is coming up on their fine show in ten minutes. brian: neil, something rare happening next hour, we'll hear from the president and on a.i. no less, we're on it. first more "coast to coast" after this. like a smart coffee - that orders fresh beans for you. oh, genius! for more breakthroughs like that... ...i need a breakthrough card... like ours! with 2.5% cash back on purchases of $5,000 or more... plus unlimited 2% cash back on all other purchases! and with greater spending potential, sam can keep making smart ideas... ...a brilliant reality! the ink business premier card from

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i'm so pumped. neil: you didn't note have couple good rounds but off the charts. there is pressure of guys come out of nowhere. you've been out there a while. you're a very good golfer. that is a lot of pressure? >> well you know, like i mean, pressure is good, right? it's excited pressure, that is what you want. the nervous pressure you want to get away. i'm excited to go. i'm prepared. my team is ready. we built 43 years of my career to be ready for this point. neil: wow. >> i got nothing to lose. i got nothing to lose. let's go do it. neil: you're exactly right. what do the your friends tell you, maybe some other uber drivers you know? >> yeah, they're like, yeah, they're amazed. i do uber part time. i'm not a full-time driver. i do it when i come back home to kill my time. that is my kind of uber experience there. neil: maybe that is where you're getting driving experience. see what i did there? barry, congratulations. wish we had more time but this is a great story. love to have you back. we'll have to see how you do.

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