All Episodes

September 22, 2025 14 mins

Start your day with the news only the New York Post can deliver, with their brand-new daily podcast, NYPOSTcast. From the iconic newspaper that pulls no punches, you’ll get the headlines you need and the stories you want. Every episode includes a deep dive into a headline impacting your world plus, the Post’s signature mix of politics, business, pop culture, true crime, and everything in between. In today's episode, host Caitlyn Becker looks at the Charlie Kirk memorial service, a shooting at a wedding in New Hampshire, and an Oregon Senator who's children are being blamed for the suicide of a family assistant.


Subscribe and find the NY POSTcast in your feeds every morning!


Applehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ny-postcast/id1820479072

Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/1tpSTdOoWDvDfnjX0YsQSF

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark as Played
Transcript

Episode Transcript

Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi Zone seven listeners, I want you to take a
listen to the brand new morning news podcast. It's a
mix of the headlines covering the biggest stories people are
talking about, from national news to politics to true crime,
hosted by Caitlin Becker. It's called the ny Postcast and

(00:20):
it's from the New York Post. Take a listen. I
think you'll enjoy this episode.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Our greatest evangelist for liberty became a mortal. That's all.
President Trump paid tribute to Charlie Kirk at a memorial
attended by tens of thousands. I have all the details
from the emotional service, plus the latest on a horrific
mouse shooting at a New Hampshire wedding. What the shooter
yelled during the attack could offer clues to a possible motive.
And the kids aren't all right. Senator Ron Whitin's children

(00:48):
have been blamed for driving his wife's assistant to commit suicide,
according to a bombshell lawsuit. Those stories and more Today, Monday,
September twenty second. I'm Kaitlin Becker and this is the
New York Postcast. He's a martyr. Now, that's just part
of how President Trump helped lay Charlie kirk arrest in
front of a football stadium filled with mourners in Arizona.

(01:10):
The president described the shock he felt when he learned
of Kirk's death and said he believed that Kirk was
killed because he was winning on what he called progressive
college campuses. Trump also shared the last words Charlie said
to him, quote, please, sir, save Chicago. The President promised
to do just that, as he has for several weeks now,
to send the National Guard in federal agents to the

(01:30):
city to kirk crime. The most emotional moments, though, as
you'd expect, they came from Kirk's widow, Erica, my husband Charlie.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
He wanted to save.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Young men.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Just like the one who took his life.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
That man, that young man, I forgive him.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Speakers who took the stage included Donald Trump, Junior Secretary
of State Marco Rubio, and Vice President Jade Vance, who
ended his speech by speaking right to Charlie, saying, quote,
I love you, my friend. We've got it from here
now to New Hampshire, where one couple's fairy tale day
turned into an absolute nightmare when a gunman stormed into
the sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua and opened fire

(02:20):
during their wedding, leaving one dead and several others injured.
Twenty three year old Hunter Nadou was later idd as
the alleged shooter armed with a handgun. One wedding guest
who was killed is being hailed hero. Witnesses say Robert
de Caesar went after the gunman as soon as he
kicked through the door of the dining room in an
attempt to protect his family. The father of two was
shot and killed, while two others were injured by the shooter.

(02:42):
Other injuries were sustained as roughly one hundred wedding guests
ran for cover. One witness said it appeared as if
the shooter was specifically going after to Caesar, but police
haven't indicated whether or not he was actually targeted. Another
witnesses reported Nadou shouted free Palestine during the shoot. The
alleged shooter was promptly taken into custody. He's been charged

(03:03):
with second degree murder and is set to be arranged
later today, and while Nadau's motive is unclear at this point,
his apparent shouting of free Palestine suggests this might be
the latest instance of the polarizing topic turning violent here
in the US, but globally the tide is taking a
different term. This week marks the beginning of the high
profile meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York.

(03:23):
The UK, Canada, and Australia all took the opportunity to
officially recognize a Palestinian state, and while the move was
largely expected, it was still met with outrage from Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Late night host Jimmy Kimmel's representatives
are reportedly in discussions with Disney over how his situation
post Charlie Kirk comments and subsequent indefinite suspension can be resolved.

(03:46):
Their goal is for Kimmel to be able to resume
taping and get back on the air. The Sideline star
is said to be concerned for his crew, according to
sources who talked to Vanity Fair and what a permanent
cancelation would mean for their livelihoods, and Insider notes that
a lot of them are still trying to recover from
the twenty twenty three actors strike that took the show
off the air, which stopped paychecks. Meanwhile, Kimmel got some

(04:07):
surprising support. I guess we'll call it from Republican Senator
Ted Cruz. While the Texas lawmaker was careful to note
that he was not a fan of Kimmel's, he also
criticized FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr's threats to revoke ABC's broadcast
license as something out of a quote mafioso playbook. Here's
some of what he said on his podcast on Friday.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said. I am thrilled that
he was fired. But let me tell you, if the
government gets in the business of saying we say what
you the media have said, we're going to ban you
from the airwaves if you don't say what we like,

(04:46):
that will end up bad for conservatives.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
President Trump spent part of his weekend calling for former
FBI Director James con Senator Adam Schiff, and New York
Attorney General Letitia James to be prosecuted by the Justice Department,
swiftly saying all three are quote guilty as hell, but
nothing is going to be done. Guilty as hell of
what he didn't say, but the President also claimed to
have reviewed thirty statements and posts, saying Attorney General Pam

(05:17):
Bondi's team at the DOJ is quote all talk, no action.
The President has sung the praises of Bondi several times
since taking office for a second term, but now he's
pressuring her to do more to prosecute people perceived as
his enemies. The President complained that Bondi's Justice Department nominated
a quote Democrats supported US attorney in Virginia. That man,

(05:37):
Eric Sebert, had his nomination withdrawn over the weekend and
was replaced by Trump's former attorney Lindsay Halligan. So is
Bondi really in the hot seat? And should the people
Trump name checked be worried too? The Post's political reporter
Ryan King has been following all of this, and he
joins me. Now, So Ryan, let's start with Pam Bondi.
The President previously was a Bondie stand praising her work

(05:59):
for the DC crime crackdown and his plans for the
kind of sequel that he wanted to see in Memphis.
Now he's taking jobs that are at truth social and
then an hour later praising her again. He's hot and
he's cold. So what exactly is Pam Bondi's status in
Trump World?

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah? Well, I think President Trump clearly put her on notice.
He made clear later on that he is supporting her
and still believes that she's doing a great job, but
he made sure to list out a few complaints that
he had with her, particularly over the DOJ's handling of
investigations into three of his rivals. In particular, he was
also unhappy with how she handled the federal Attorney in

(06:40):
the Eastern District of Virginia, Eric Sebert, who of course
is in charge of or had been in charge of,
overseeing investigation into Letitia James. Trump recently over the weekend
moved to oust him, and it was pretty dramatic for
the President to go on truth social and to criticize
for not being more aggressive in investigating his rivals now.

(07:05):
He did again walk it back in a subsequent truth
Social post, but then to reporters when he was questioned
about this, he said that he just wants to get
these issues resolved, and he said that he thinks it's
just taking too long, regardless of whether or not there's
evidence to ultimately prosecute them. He just wants this issue
to be settled now. As for Bondie standing in magaworld, generally,

(07:27):
I'd say it's pretty fair to say that she's underwater
right now. She might be okay with President Trump, but
you know, on somewhat then nice with him. But like
with magastars such as Steve Bannon, Megan Kelly, Laura Luma,
et cetera, it's very clear that they're not happy with
her because of a number of things that she's done,
particularly her handling of the Epstein drama and in more
recently her suggestion that the government can go after hate speech.

(07:52):
She said that last week, and I kicked up a
bit of a firestorm, and there are multiple Conservice stars
that called for her to be fired.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, there's really two late is to view her through
right now, her relationship with the President and the Trump
administration and with the President's base and the MAGA following,
so that there is a bit of a differentiation there. Now,
you mentioned Letitia James there, and I want to dig
a little deeper into the president's beef with the New
York ag. The issue here is also connected to the

(08:19):
Virginia US Attorney drama, as you said, So can you
just explain a little bit of what the heck is
going on here? Where does the real issue where's it rooted?

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, and this really seemed to be the issue that
Kado was big undercurrent in the President's criticism of Bondie.
So Letitia James had of course overseen a big investigation
into the Trump organization and ultimately brought forward a civil
case against his business empire, and that resulted in a
half a billion dollar fine that was recently overturned by

(08:51):
an appeals court. But that of course angered President Trump
and the federal prosecutor that had been in charge of Scayness,
Eric Seburn, who the President recently ousted. Trump was complaining
that he was basically dragging his feet in this investigation.
It wasn't being more aggressive. And his investigation into Lichisia

(09:13):
James really revolved around accusations that surfaced in April of
mortgage fraud and it's really technical stuff. But the President
felt that the dj just has not been making enough
progress quickly enough on that case. And he was particularly
concerned that that federal prosecutor that he ousted had the
support of two Democrats, So he was ripping him as

(09:35):
a rhino, and he was kind of blaming pamp Bondi
for him being in that acting role, and he recently
of course replaced him over the weekend. And again this
is just really I think the big undercurrent between the
President's lashing out at Pam Boondi.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
I want to just turn your attention to the other
names that the President rattled off in that truth Social
kind of tirade that he had, Shiff and Comy. So
what is President Trump asking of Bondi in those cases?

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, he was a little bit less specific, but I
think his general complaint was that those cases are still
being too slow, that the dj isn't making enough progress
fast enough on those fronts. So this includes accusations of
mortgage fraud by Adam Schiff. Now Schiff, like Latista James Says,
of course, denied this. It also includes Russia Gate concerns

(10:22):
about James Coney. All three of these people have been really,
really prominent adversaries of President Trump, particularly during his last
administration and in the time in between his two terms
in the White House. So it is pretty significant. And
I should know also that President Trump really had beefed
with his prior to attorney generals during its first administration.

(10:44):
He really had big beef with Jeff Sessions and then
later with Bill Barr, So he does have a history
of kind of clashing with the head of the DOJ.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
He definitely does seem to not only have a history
of the clashes, but that kind of rollercoaster of up
and down, up and down and down, support not supporting,
support not supporting. So I guess we are seeing a
bit of rinse and repeat as we have seen previously.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
For joining us, Ryan, Yes, thank you.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
A new lawsuit is making disturbing claims that the children
of Oregon Senator Ron Wyden bullied a personal assistant working
for the family to the point of suicide. Brandon O'Brien
worked for the Democratic senator's wife, Nancy, owner of the
famous Strand bookstore in New York, and according to court dox,
he was often tasked with taking care of the couple's children. Now,
when I said the claims in this case were disturbing,

(11:34):
I not only meant the suicide itself, but also the
twisted things the family is accused of doing. Skip ahead
sixty seconds if you don't want to hear it. The suit,
which was filed by Brandon's husband, claims the widens, then
ten year old daughter, allegedly exposed herself to O'Brien, making
quote sexually explicit comments and asked about his quote intimate
life during school drop offs. The senator's teenaged son is

(11:57):
accused in the suit of taunting O'Brien with homophobic slur
and threatening him physically, and in one alleged violent encounter,
Nancy Widen reportedly tried to mace her son in an
effort to restrain him, but hit O'Brien instead. Now Widen's
lawyers are seeking to get this lawsuit tossed, calling it
quote baseless and deeply misguided, riddled with false accusations. Now

(12:18):
O'Brien quit in frustration in September of twenty twenty four,
and at the time, Nancy Widen accused him of stealing
six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He then took his
own life this past May, and finally today. A dating
app love story Maybe a woman on Hinge is ready
to playball with one suitor For a very interesting reason.
This single lady posted a picture of herself at a

(12:40):
baseball game on the app, and she asked prospective dates
if they could tell where she was. One guy replied
not just with the location, but the date of the
game and even the inning during which the photo was snapped,
his bizarrely specific guess was right. The location arguably pretty
easy to guess any Yankee fan, and many Yankee haters
could easily see it was taken at Yankee Stadium. The

(13:02):
rest of it was some CIA level work. The guy
deduced the rest based on the fact that the Baltimore
Orioles in the field include their catcher and pitcher, and
the time of the year on the clothing being worn
in the stands. Yeah, it's a lot. The online reactions
were split between a for effort and s for scare
the girl away. Now the post was not able to

(13:24):
confirm whether or not that you actually ever went on
a date, but my fingers are crossed, both for their
potential love match and for her head not ending up
in his freezer. Maybe he just likes puzzles, Maybe he's
really smart. Maybe he'd be ace at trivia or an
escape room. Maybe she'll need to escape from shackles and
his basement. Love is a gamble, my friends, but there

(13:44):
is no gamble with this podcast, though. I'm here for
you five days a week, So like and follow the
New York Postcast wherever you get your podcasts and on
YouTube and For everything else you need to know on
this fine Monday morning, head to The New York Post
in print or online. I'll see you tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Thank you for listening to this episode of the NY Postcast.
If you enjoyed it, like and subscribe today wherever you
get your podcast
Advertise With Us

Host

Sheryl McCollum

Sheryl McCollum

Popular Podcasts

Stuff You Should Know

Stuff You Should Know

If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.

Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.