Speaker 1: Here's Barry Diller audio SoundBite number fifty Fox Business channels.
Speaker 1: There were Maria Bartcher Romo, You've got Expedia and Digital
Speaker 1: Media Group chairman, Barry Diller. What are you seeing in
Speaker 1: New York? Barry? What's your take on recovery post pandemic,
Speaker 1: the protesting, the looting that we saw earlier this year
Speaker 1: in New York City. We opened our offices actually in
Speaker 1: Labor Day. We said please come if you can, and truthfully,
Speaker 1: no one comes. There's so much of the city idol.
Speaker 1: It is not faiable drive anywhere, walk anywhere, and you
Speaker 1: see local destruction. We've got to get used to the risks,
Speaker 1: and we've got to take some risks, particularly people who
Speaker 1: are not vulnerable, and get back to full light. Work
Speaker 1: from home is not productive. The concept of work from
Speaker 1: home does not work full stop. Oh wow, is not.
Speaker 1: They're not very many people saying this. He's a he's
Speaker 1: a lone voice. A lot of people, particularly running corporations
Speaker 1: that are like Tim Cook says he's ecstatic with the
Speaker 1: work Apple employees are doing from home, for example, But
Speaker 1: here he is. Working from home is not productive, full stop,
Speaker 1: It doesn't work. They opened their offices on Labor Day
Speaker 1: and nobody showed up. New York ain't coming back, Trump
Speaker 1: said past couple of weeks. New York's not coming back,
Speaker 1: not as currently being run combination of the Blasio and Cuomo.
Speaker 1: But it was I. L. Rushbow who offered that opinion
Speaker 1: months ago. You just handwritings on the wall. You can't
Speaker 1: can't shut down a city like this m and you
Speaker 1: can't you can't teach people that, hey, you know, you
Speaker 1: don't have to live in New York anymore. You don't
Speaker 1: have to go into the city to work anymore. And
Speaker 1: you can't teach people that and then expect them to
Speaker 1: just ignore it. If people don't have to spend twelve
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month on a closet that they live
Speaker 1: in for rent, they're not going to do it. And
Speaker 1: they have learned that they don't have to do that.