Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including the NJ Transit rail strike being over, the Mexican Navy boat that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge, and Joe Biden being diagnosed with prostate cancer. Ari Hoffman talks to Larry about the latest evidence of Joe Bidens mental decline and the coverup that took place; Warner Wolf talks about the modern age of sports and the change he wants to see in the NBA.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, everybody, brand new week.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We started off with great news in the Big three
New Jersey transit commuters will have trains this week.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
New Jersey's first rail strike in decades has officially come
to an end.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
YEP, that's the good news. The bad news is you
still have to find another way into work today because
the trains won't start running again until tomorrow. I don't
get that. I know, I've heard all the reasons. I've
heard them all. I don't get that. I just don't
think they wanted to pay. I don't think they wanted
to pay to check the trains and check the rails yesterday,
(00:39):
which they could have done anyway, just done it overnight.
But that's okay, that's okay. They'll inconvenience you for one day.
It's better than a month. How about the the top
of one hundred and sixty foot tall ship owned by
the Mexican Navy and use for training crashes into the
(00:59):
brook Bridge. We've all seen the video is It is stunning,
killing two injuring at least twenty two and eleven are
in critical condition.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
It hit the bridge around the walkway side and just collapsed.
All the lights went off and it seemed like people
went into the water. We were hoping that these sailors
had enough time to unharness themselves because in the photos
of videos you can see that they're harnessed to the mast,
and then unfortunately, it seems they weren't able to and
they were thrown into the water.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, they weren't thrown into the water. They hit the deck,
and that's part of how they died. But they fell
from the mast and hit the deck. High winds, rough water,
and most importantly, a mechanical failure all contributed to the crash.
Eighty two year old former President Biden is diagnosed with
an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Being that prostate cancer in general is a treatable form
of cancer, right.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
He knew this last week and it came out just
yesterday on the same day for at least that the
news was all over the place on this. On the
same day, the news website Axios obtains a copy of
the audio recording of an interview with the former president
as part of the federal prosecutor Robert Hurre's investigation into
(02:19):
classified documents. Remember that was when he called him a
sympathetic elderly man with a poor memory. Yeah, they were
classified documents that were found in Biden's home.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
He was tragic on these tapes.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
This is what twenty seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Then here.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Remember in this timeframe, my son is either about.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Deployed or is dying.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Been deployed or is dying. There's a separation of about
eight years between those two events, and neither of them
matched up to the time when he was in the
White House. And save those tapes.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It was.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It is sad, but it does make you angry about
all the people that hid that. We'll talk about that
coming up. Remember Robert Hurr was vilified by the Democrats
for saying he couldn't charge Biden because he would be
too sympathetic and he doesn't remember anything in front of
a jury. But he was fine to be president. Ah,
that was fine. On Alexander the American hostage recently released
(03:29):
by him as got to say thank you on a
phone call with Donald Trump. Just really honored and you're
an American and we love you and we're going to
take good.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Care of you.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And your parents are incredible.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
I see your mother.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
She was pushing me around a little bit. She was
putting a lot of pressure on me, like a good
mom like a Jewish. It was a wonderful phone call.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
And on.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Alexander has been invited to the Oval Off. But sixty
hostages are still being held. Twenty of them are believed
to be alive. Let's end with some good news. How
about those Knicks.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You have to do it. It's out time next.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Let's go next, Go next.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Euphoria outside the Garden Friday night, after the Knicks blew
out the Boston Celtics to move one step closer to
the team's first NBA championship since nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Go next.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
They play the Pacers this week, so that's going to
be the Eastern Conference Finals and then after that the
NBA Championship. It's gonna be the series is gonna be great.
Indiana Pacers are very good, and the Knicks and the
Pacers have a long history, a long history in NBA playoffs.
(04:55):
Let's start talking about the story of the day though,
the fact that Jersey Transit Riders got some excellent news
to offer.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
The understatement of the year. This is a very good outcome.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
All of a sudden, Governor Murphy was everywhere.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You couldn't get, you couldn't turn on the TV without
seeing Governor Murphy, the guy that was gone for all
the negotiations, was out of the country for much of
the negotiations when everything was happening, when he really could
have helped, when he could have saved us from this embarrassment,
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when nobody had to try to find another way into
work on Friday and now Monday. He could have been there,
But oh, when he thought he could be the hero
and save the day, he was way out in front.
And he's the one that delivered the bad news about
Tuesday too.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Starting Tuesday, May twentieth, NJ Transit will once again provide
rail service to the more than one hundred thousand writers
who depend on it every single day.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So here's supposedly, supposedly the reason it's not going to
start until Tuesday. We are now going to work from
tonight till Tuesday morning to get the rails operational so
we can get everybody back to a sense of normalcy.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
They were on strike for three days.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It's going to take them over twenty four hours to
get the rails up the snuff. It doesn't take the engineers,
does it. There's no trains to go. They could then
take them to fix the rails and check the trains.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
I don't know about that either. It seems a little
crazy from what I've heard in the past. You know,
they have to go inspect every rail because they've been
you know, not looked at in three days and maybe
somebody tampered with something.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Okay, if there's anybody who works in this industry, let
me know, because it sounds crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It does sound crazy. And pay the people overtime.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Let him work overnight, get the trains ready, you know,
be the governor. Just say no, no, no, this is unacceptable.
I want everybody on the trains Monday. Bring everybody back.
Do what you need to do. We got to get
trains running tomorrow. That's what he needs to do. No, no, no,
he's going to shoot back to Germany. Now he's going
to go to his mansion or one of his mansions.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
This guy.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I couldn't be more disappointed to Governor Murphy. I just
can't wait till he till he leaves. That was one
piece of great news. We did have the horrible news
about the about the Mexican tall ship that hit the
Brooklyn Bridge, and to watch it, you just I know
everybody on the ship. Felt helpless those poor soldiers or
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the soldiers in training that were up in the air,
sailors i should say that were up on the masts.
I felt for them. They see it coming. They they
saw it coming. You know, there's oh my god.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
And from what you said that, you know, they really
can't get down quickly.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Oh no, they're they're all strepped in.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
They're just standing there bracing.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Them right, hoping and praying. And it was a mechanical failure.
They said the winds were high. They said the sea
was rough, even in the river. And this is the
this is maybe the best eye witness.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
There were sailors strapped to the masts as kind of
a good will show. There was a giant Mexican flag
off the back, and there was a tugboat that seemed
to be moving the ship. We thought it was maybe
going to go under the Brooklyn Bridge at like the
highest point so it avoids striking the mast. But then
we noticed it was going backwards and we were a
little concerned, and we thought maybe the mast will collapse
because it was very close to the Brooklyn side, which
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is not very high. And then as the as it
came up to the bridge. It hit the bridge around
the walkway side and just collapsed. All the lights went
off and it seemed like people went into the water.
We were hoping that these sailors had enough time to
unharness themselves because in the photos of videos you can
see that they're harnessed to the mast, and then unfortunately
a seems they weren't able to and they were thrown
(09:10):
into the water.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, they didn't hit the water, but still they hit
the deck, which might be worse, but I have a
feeling that they still they suffered some traumatic injuries just
by hitting that bridge at the time. But no, they
fell and they hit the deck and they were the
two that died. How about that eyewitnessed though? Is that
(09:32):
the best eyewitnesses? He should be a reporter. Anyway, It's
all being investigated right now. There are elevens still in
critical condition. I just don't think this was preventable because
they had no control at whatsoever over the ship and
that's what caused this. I'd love to get your talkbacks,
especially about the well any of the stories for today.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You've heard the.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
List of stories in the Big Three, but especially about
Jersey Transit and what you're going to do today to
get into work and the toll ship. Just go to
the iHeartRadio app. You look for seven to ten woor
and if you're the best talk back of the day,
you could win a T shirt. What does that s
What does SNL have against Newark? They took another cheap
(10:16):
shot last night. We'll talk about it next. Let's get
right to Ariy Hoffman, Associate editor of The New York Sun,
and Ay, there's a lot of things I want to
talk to you about, but just if you could give
me your reaction to the tape of Biden that was
released where he's being interviewed by Prosecutor Robert Hurr.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Sure, good morning, malar, It's good to be with you.
You know, this was a big issue at the time,
right before we even had the audio. Remember, this was
an investigation into retention of classified documents and was going
on even as Donald Trump was being prosecuted for the
retention of classified documents at Mara Lago. And it's sort
(11:01):
of a path not taken. But I think most folks
maybe don't remember that Special Counsel hur came very close
to charging President Biden with unlawful retention of classified documents
and who knows, you know, how history would have been different.
You know, Special Her chose not to tread where Special
(11:23):
Council Jack Smith did in the bringing of an indictment
and and and of criminal charges. But you know, part
of hers rationale was that Biden could not on if
that if it came to a trial, a jury would
not convict Biden, right, because I'm paraphrasing that he was
sort of a confused, you know, old man, and and certainly,
(11:48):
you know, this audio seems seems to bear that out. Now,
whether that should have factored in, you know, kind of
the letter of the law, and whether those charges should
have been brought, that's another question. But certain the summary
that we got from Special Counsel Her seems like it
was right on the money.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
But the bigger story is that he seemed mentally unfit
for office, and that was being hidden, and it was
being hidden for years. And I do believe I think
it's that important. I think it's that big of a
scandal that there should be a bigger investigation. I don't
know if it's from the Justice Department or it's by
the House of Representatives, but there should be an investigation.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
And one of the facts that have come out now,
I'd say almost indispautiful. Indisputil facts, Larry, is that it
might be that Biden was not even capably in president
all the way back from before his first run, right,
So what is the timeline here? Right? And it seems
(12:50):
clear that this was not an issue that just emerged
in the last six months year of his presidency, but
in fact dates even farther back. And it's absolutely a
major scandal and absolutely a cover up. Remember, you know
all kinds of officials, whether they're secretaries or high administration officials,
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they've taken oath not to the president, they'd take an
oath to the constitution, right and to the Republic. And
if loyalty to a person was put above loyalty to
a country, that is a huge scandal and it should
be right.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And then all of a sudden, when he has that
debate performance, it's like they all realized which was a lie.
They all knew, they all were in the White House,
they all saw it. They tried to hide him for years,
and then all of a sudden they acted like, oh, well,
I guess he's not competent anymore. We need somebody else.
It is something that It might be the biggest scandal
(13:46):
since Watergate, may be bigger than Watergate, and the fact
that it's not being investigated infuriates me, and I think
it infuriates a lot of people. Unless you have something
else to say about it, I'll move on.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Well I do, and I just will say that I
think a lot of Democrats are deluding themselves, Larry, if
they don't think that this is an ongoing drag on
their own credibility with the American people. Right It's not
just that what happened two three, four years ago. It's
that Americans don't trust Democrats, and that problem, I think
(14:19):
is intimately tied to how they handled the cover up
of the health and capacity of a city president of
the United States.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
That's a great point. I think it really affected them
in the last presidential election. I think they just lost
the trust of the American public. And why would they
put these people back in office when they obviously lied
to me? That's what a voter is thinking, when they
lied to me so much, And it's so painfully obvious
right now, there's much more to it than just what happened.
(14:54):
There is this erosion of trust with the Americans and
the Democrats are having the the damnedest time trying to
get that back, and they're failing time and time again.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Arry. It also exposes the Democratic rhetoric in the election,
Larry was, you know, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.
Donald Trump is kind of, you know, in an coit fascist,
all this stuff. And yet if Democrats really believe that,
they wouldn't have ran a candidate who was incapable of
being president. And I think a lot of the max
can say, well, you know, you were saying it's a
(15:27):
four alarm fire, and yet you were, you know, lounging
on the sofa, not leaving the house, right, and and
so you know, if Democrats were really serious about the
stakes of the election, as they profess to be, by
didn't should have step aside. You have a primary, and
you know, and you select the best candidate, you don't,
you know, the way it was handled was just a
total disaster.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
As disappointed as I am in the Democrats for hiding
this and for lying to the American public, I'm also
disappointed with the Republicans for not doing enough once they
got into office to investigate that, investigate this, and I
hope that happens soon aary, we're.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Out of time. It was great talking to you.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I can't I look forward to talking to you next
week because there are so many things I wanted to
get to you, but I think this is so important.
I'm glad we talked about it. Ariy Hoffman, Associate editor
of the New York Sun. Have a good week. I'll
see you next week.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
A lot going on in.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Sports, so let's get right to Warner Wolf, legendary sportscaster.
Warner Yeah, hello, Hey, you're on it.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
I thought you're going to ask me a question.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
No no, no, no, no, I youre too Warner.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
You're well prepared. I get right to you.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Olk. Well, you gotta ask, you know. Aaron Boone keeps
taking out Max Freed. The guy is six and oh
he should be ten and oh. Desaron run average is
one point twenty nine. Man, if they had to vote
for the cy Young, he would win it right now.
So last night he takes him out of a two
to two game, which the one eight to two. Two
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other games he took him out and he allowed only
one run in each game, and then the opener he
took him out after four and to two thirds. One
more out and he gets a win. Let him pitch man.
He may be the best pitcher in baseball. Change the rule.
The three point shot has made a joke of the game.
In the k Next Celtics six game series, the Celtics
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took two hundred seventy seven three pointers, they made only
ninety seven. The Knicks. Yeah, and the Knicks took two
hundred and two three pointers, they made only seventy one.
That means the Celtics and the Knicks missed three hundred
(17:46):
eleven three pointers combined. I'm saying, change.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
The rule absolutely. Just imagine what would Michael Jordan do
in the game right now? The excitement about was, Yeah,
it was flying through the air to dunk the ball.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Yeah, well, I would look at the Jerry West and
Oscar Robertson. I mean all those long shots were only
two points.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, You're right, Pete. They always talk
about how how many more points Pete Maravich would have
had because he he could shoot way out there.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
So I'm saying, instead of the current twenty three feet
nine inches and twenty two feet from the corner, change
it to thirty feet around the arc. The twenty two
foot shot would have become a two point shot like
it used to be. So I'm saying, put the basketball
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back in the basketball, move the ball around, bring back
the emphasis on the midrage jumper. Wow, stop the game
from just being three pointers and dunks. I think it's
hurt the game.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well said, give yourself a beat. Yeah, Bill, there you go.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Now.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
The NFL schedule released last week. What a difference a
year makes. After showcasing Aaron Rodgers and the Jets last year,
the Jets have only two primetime games out of seventeen,
and apparently nobody wants to see the Giants and Russell
Wilson except for Giants fans. They only have three primetime
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games out of seventeen. But don't feel too bad that Titans, Browns,
and Saints have no time. No primetime games wow, and
the Jags and Panthers have only one. And the schedule makers, man,
it didn't do the Giants any favored. The Giants played
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the Chiefs, the forty nine Ers, the Packers, the Lions,
the Vikings Chargers, and get this, they play the Eagles
twice within three weeks. That's a terrible stitule, all right,
So who should the Hall of Fame committee, now vote
into the Hall of Fame. Now that Baseball reinstated sixteen players. Well,
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of course Pete Rose, and especially now with even baseball
telecasts including ads for betting and bookies and casinos, that
should be a no brainer first ballot.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Guy won a first ballot for Pete Rose.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
It should be. I don't see why not. He didn't
cheat the game like Bonds and a Rod and Clemmens
and others, they cheated the game. Rose didn't cheat the game.
He just bent on the Reds to win. And now
with all his betting, I mean, it's kind of hypocritical
(20:55):
if he doesn't. And those eight White Sox players nineteen
nineteen banned from the series. Joe Jackson hit three seventy
five in the series with no eras he should get in.
And the third baseman, Buck Weaver, almost a three hundred hitter.
(21:17):
He didn't take part in the fix, but he was
banned because he refused to report the bribe. So I
think those two from the White Sox situation, the other
six are not going to get in the first basement,
Chick Gandle, he's the one that took in the gamblers.
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That's who the gamblers got to Then you had this
reserve third baseman, Fred McMullen. He told his teammates, cut
me in on the deal or I'll squeal. He's not
getting in. And then the shortstop Swede Risberg, here's a
pretty good hitter. You know what he hit in the
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World Series point zero eighty Wow. And the last guy's
not going to get in. Lefty Williams was a twenty
three game winner. He suddenly went oh to three with
an an run average of six point sixty one. So
they ain't getting in man. No, all right, time now
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for the three stooges. All right, we've got two lying
stooges and a dumb ass stooge. The first lying stooge,
The first lying stooge Iran UN speaker Ali Reza miro Seffi,
who says Iran's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. Peaceful purposes,
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then why keep out the nuclear inspectors if you have
nothing to hide, Man, don't do what the rest of
the world did in the nineteen thirties, just sat back
and watched as Hitler built up the military for Germany
despite the Versailles Treaty, which banned the military for Germany.
Stooge number two at liar number one former FBI Director
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James Comy, who was questioned and testified questioned by the
Secret Service last Friday and said he just happened to
find a bunch of seashells in the sand while he
was walking along the beach of his vacation home in
May and that spelled out the numbers. Eighty six and
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you know eighty we used to see a eighty six
the guys you get rid of them. And forty seven,
which happens to be President Trump, the forty seven president
of the United States. Comy took a photo of eighty
six forty seven and put it on Instagram. You know,
Comy was the head of the FBI, and he didn't
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know what forty seven stood for. Man. And the third
stooge of the week any Semitic Zoram Mandani, who was
running for mayor of New York City. First he wouldn't
sign Israel's right to exist on the seventy seventh anniversary
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becoming a state, and then he refused to recognize the Holocaust.
A dumbass, Mandanni. You ever heard of the Nuremberg Trials?
If there was no Holocaust, murdering six million Jews and
five million non Jews. Where did the eleven million people go?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Excellent, very good Warner Warner Wolf, legendary sportscaster with his
commentary at the end, which was perfect
Good morning, everybody, brand new week.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We started off with great news in the Big three
New Jersey transit commuters will have trains this week.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
New Jersey's first rail strike in decades has officially come
to an end.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
YEP, that's the good news. The bad news is you
still have to find another way into work today because
the trains won't start running again until tomorrow. I don't
get that. I know, I've heard all the reasons. I've
heard them all. I don't get that. I just don't
think they wanted to pay. I don't think they wanted
to pay to check the trains and check the rails yesterday,
(00:39):
which they could have done anyway, just done it overnight.
But that's okay, that's okay. They'll inconvenience you for one day.
It's better than a month. How about the the top
of one hundred and sixty foot tall ship owned by
the Mexican Navy and use for training crashes into the
(00:59):
brook Bridge. We've all seen the video is It is stunning,
killing two injuring at least twenty two and eleven are
in critical condition.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
It hit the bridge around the walkway side and just collapsed.
All the lights went off and it seemed like people
went into the water. We were hoping that these sailors
had enough time to unharness themselves because in the photos
of videos you can see that they're harnessed to the mast,
and then unfortunately, it seems they weren't able to and
they were thrown into the water.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, they weren't thrown into the water. They hit the deck,
and that's part of how they died. But they fell
from the mast and hit the deck. High winds, rough water,
and most importantly, a mechanical failure all contributed to the crash.
Eighty two year old former President Biden is diagnosed with
an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Being that prostate cancer in general is a treatable form
of cancer, right.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
He knew this last week and it came out just
yesterday on the same day for at least that the
news was all over the place on this. On the
same day, the news website Axios obtains a copy of
the audio recording of an interview with the former president
as part of the federal prosecutor Robert Hurre's investigation into
(02:19):
classified documents. Remember that was when he called him a
sympathetic elderly man with a poor memory. Yeah, they were
classified documents that were found in Biden's home.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
He was tragic on these tapes.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
This is what twenty seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Then here.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Remember in this timeframe, my son is either about.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Deployed or is dying.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Been deployed or is dying. There's a separation of about
eight years between those two events, and neither of them
matched up to the time when he was in the
White House. And save those tapes.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It was.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It is sad, but it does make you angry about
all the people that hid that. We'll talk about that
coming up. Remember Robert Hurr was vilified by the Democrats
for saying he couldn't charge Biden because he would be
too sympathetic and he doesn't remember anything in front of
a jury. But he was fine to be president. Ah,
that was fine. On Alexander the American hostage recently released
(03:29):
by him as got to say thank you on a
phone call with Donald Trump. Just really honored and you're
an American and we love you and we're going to
take good.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Care of you.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And your parents are incredible.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
I see your mother.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
She was pushing me around a little bit. She was
putting a lot of pressure on me, like a good
mom like a Jewish. It was a wonderful phone call.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
And on.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Alexander has been invited to the Oval Off. But sixty
hostages are still being held. Twenty of them are believed
to be alive. Let's end with some good news. How
about those Knicks.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You have to do it. It's out time next.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Let's go next, Go next.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Euphoria outside the Garden Friday night, after the Knicks blew
out the Boston Celtics to move one step closer to
the team's first NBA championship since nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Go next.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
They play the Pacers this week, so that's going to
be the Eastern Conference Finals and then after that the
NBA Championship. It's gonna be the series is gonna be great.
Indiana Pacers are very good, and the Knicks and the
Pacers have a long history, a long history in NBA playoffs.
(04:55):
Let's start talking about the story of the day though,
the fact that Jersey Transit Riders got some excellent news
to offer.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
The understatement of the year. This is a very good outcome.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
All of a sudden, Governor Murphy was everywhere.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You couldn't get, you couldn't turn on the TV without
seeing Governor Murphy, the guy that was gone for all
the negotiations, was out of the country for much of
the negotiations when everything was happening, when he really could
have helped, when he could have saved us from this embarrassment,
(05:33):
when nobody had to try to find another way into
work on Friday and now Monday. He could have been there,
But oh, when he thought he could be the hero
and save the day, he was way out in front.
And he's the one that delivered the bad news about
Tuesday too.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Starting Tuesday, May twentieth, NJ Transit will once again provide
rail service to the more than one hundred thousand writers
who depend on it every single day.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So here's supposedly, supposedly the reason it's not going to
start until Tuesday. We are now going to work from
tonight till Tuesday morning to get the rails operational so
we can get everybody back to a sense of normalcy.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
They were on strike for three days.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It's going to take them over twenty four hours to
get the rails up the snuff. It doesn't take the engineers,
does it. There's no trains to go. They could then
take them to fix the rails and check the trains.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
I don't know about that either. It seems a little
crazy from what I've heard in the past. You know,
they have to go inspect every rail because they've been
you know, not looked at in three days and maybe
somebody tampered with something.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Okay, if there's anybody who works in this industry, let
me know, because it sounds crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It does sound crazy. And pay the people overtime.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Let him work overnight, get the trains ready, you know,
be the governor. Just say no, no, no, this is unacceptable.
I want everybody on the trains Monday. Bring everybody back.
Do what you need to do. We got to get
trains running tomorrow. That's what he needs to do. No, no, no,
he's going to shoot back to Germany. Now he's going
to go to his mansion or one of his mansions.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
This guy.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I couldn't be more disappointed to Governor Murphy. I just
can't wait till he till he leaves. That was one
piece of great news. We did have the horrible news
about the about the Mexican tall ship that hit the
Brooklyn Bridge, and to watch it, you just I know
everybody on the ship. Felt helpless those poor soldiers or
(07:52):
the soldiers in training that were up in the air,
sailors i should say that were up on the masts.
I felt for them. They see it coming. They they
saw it coming. You know, there's oh my god.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
And from what you said that, you know, they really
can't get down quickly.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Oh no, they're they're all strepped in.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
They're just standing there bracing.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Them right, hoping and praying. And it was a mechanical failure.
They said the winds were high. They said the sea
was rough, even in the river. And this is the
this is maybe the best eye witness.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
There were sailors strapped to the masts as kind of
a good will show. There was a giant Mexican flag
off the back, and there was a tugboat that seemed
to be moving the ship. We thought it was maybe
going to go under the Brooklyn Bridge at like the
highest point so it avoids striking the mast. But then
we noticed it was going backwards and we were a
little concerned, and we thought maybe the mast will collapse
because it was very close to the Brooklyn side, which
(08:48):
is not very high. And then as the as it
came up to the bridge. It hit the bridge around
the walkway side and just collapsed. All the lights went
off and it seemed like people went into the water.
We were hoping that these sailors had enough time to
unharness themselves because in the photos of videos you can
see that they're harnessed to the mast, and then unfortunately
a seems they weren't able to and they were thrown
(09:10):
into the water.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, they didn't hit the water, but still they hit
the deck, which might be worse, but I have a
feeling that they still they suffered some traumatic injuries just
by hitting that bridge at the time. But no, they
fell and they hit the deck and they were the
two that died. How about that eyewitnessed though? Is that
(09:32):
the best eyewitnesses? He should be a reporter. Anyway, It's
all being investigated right now. There are elevens still in
critical condition. I just don't think this was preventable because
they had no control at whatsoever over the ship and
that's what caused this. I'd love to get your talkbacks,
especially about the well any of the stories for today.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You've heard the.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
List of stories in the Big Three, but especially about
Jersey Transit and what you're going to do today to
get into work and the toll ship. Just go to
the iHeartRadio app. You look for seven to ten woor
and if you're the best talk back of the day,
you could win a T shirt. What does that s
What does SNL have against Newark? They took another cheap
(10:16):
shot last night. We'll talk about it next. Let's get
right to Ariy Hoffman, Associate editor of The New York Sun,
and Ay, there's a lot of things I want to
talk to you about, but just if you could give
me your reaction to the tape of Biden that was
released where he's being interviewed by Prosecutor Robert Hurr.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Sure, good morning, malar, It's good to be with you.
You know, this was a big issue at the time,
right before we even had the audio. Remember, this was
an investigation into retention of classified documents and was going
on even as Donald Trump was being prosecuted for the
retention of classified documents at Mara Lago. And it's sort
(11:01):
of a path not taken. But I think most folks
maybe don't remember that Special Counsel hur came very close
to charging President Biden with unlawful retention of classified documents
and who knows, you know, how history would have been different.
You know, Special Her chose not to tread where Special
(11:23):
Council Jack Smith did in the bringing of an indictment
and and and of criminal charges. But you know, part
of hers rationale was that Biden could not on if
that if it came to a trial, a jury would
not convict Biden, right, because I'm paraphrasing that he was
sort of a confused, you know, old man, and and certainly,
(11:48):
you know, this audio seems seems to bear that out. Now,
whether that should have factored in, you know, kind of
the letter of the law, and whether those charges should
have been brought, that's another question. But certain the summary
that we got from Special Counsel Her seems like it
was right on the money.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
But the bigger story is that he seemed mentally unfit
for office, and that was being hidden, and it was
being hidden for years. And I do believe I think
it's that important. I think it's that big of a
scandal that there should be a bigger investigation. I don't
know if it's from the Justice Department or it's by
the House of Representatives, but there should be an investigation.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
And one of the facts that have come out now,
I'd say almost indispautiful. Indisputil facts, Larry, is that it
might be that Biden was not even capably in president
all the way back from before his first run, right,
So what is the timeline here? Right? And it seems
(12:50):
clear that this was not an issue that just emerged
in the last six months year of his presidency, but
in fact dates even farther back. And it's absolutely a
major scandal and absolutely a cover up. Remember, you know
all kinds of officials, whether they're secretaries or high administration officials,
(13:11):
they've taken oath not to the president, they'd take an
oath to the constitution, right and to the Republic. And
if loyalty to a person was put above loyalty to
a country, that is a huge scandal and it should
be right.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And then all of a sudden, when he has that
debate performance, it's like they all realized which was a lie.
They all knew, they all were in the White House,
they all saw it. They tried to hide him for years,
and then all of a sudden they acted like, oh, well,
I guess he's not competent anymore. We need somebody else.
It is something that It might be the biggest scandal
(13:46):
since Watergate, may be bigger than Watergate, and the fact
that it's not being investigated infuriates me, and I think
it infuriates a lot of people. Unless you have something
else to say about it, I'll move on.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Well I do, and I just will say that I
think a lot of Democrats are deluding themselves, Larry, if
they don't think that this is an ongoing drag on
their own credibility with the American people. Right It's not
just that what happened two three, four years ago. It's
that Americans don't trust Democrats, and that problem, I think
(14:19):
is intimately tied to how they handled the cover up
of the health and capacity of a city president of
the United States.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
That's a great point. I think it really affected them
in the last presidential election. I think they just lost
the trust of the American public. And why would they
put these people back in office when they obviously lied
to me? That's what a voter is thinking, when they
lied to me so much, And it's so painfully obvious
right now, there's much more to it than just what happened.
(14:54):
There is this erosion of trust with the Americans and
the Democrats are having the the damnedest time trying to
get that back, and they're failing time and time again.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Arry. It also exposes the Democratic rhetoric in the election,
Larry was, you know, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.
Donald Trump is kind of, you know, in an coit fascist,
all this stuff. And yet if Democrats really believe that,
they wouldn't have ran a candidate who was incapable of
being president. And I think a lot of the max
can say, well, you know, you were saying it's a
(15:27):
four alarm fire, and yet you were, you know, lounging
on the sofa, not leaving the house, right, and and
so you know, if Democrats were really serious about the
stakes of the election, as they profess to be, by
didn't should have step aside. You have a primary, and
you know, and you select the best candidate, you don't,
you know, the way it was handled was just a
total disaster.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
As disappointed as I am in the Democrats for hiding
this and for lying to the American public, I'm also
disappointed with the Republicans for not doing enough once they
got into office to investigate that, investigate this, and I
hope that happens soon aary, we're.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Out of time. It was great talking to you.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I can't I look forward to talking to you next
week because there are so many things I wanted to
get to you, but I think this is so important.
I'm glad we talked about it. Ariy Hoffman, Associate editor
of the New York Sun. Have a good week. I'll
see you next week.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
A lot going on in.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Sports, so let's get right to Warner Wolf, legendary sportscaster.
Warner Yeah, hello, Hey, you're on it.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
I thought you're going to ask me a question.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
No no, no, no, no, I youre too Warner.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
You're well prepared. I get right to you.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Olk. Well, you gotta ask, you know. Aaron Boone keeps
taking out Max Freed. The guy is six and oh
he should be ten and oh. Desaron run average is
one point twenty nine. Man, if they had to vote
for the cy Young, he would win it right now.
So last night he takes him out of a two
to two game, which the one eight to two. Two
(17:02):
other games he took him out and he allowed only
one run in each game, and then the opener he
took him out after four and to two thirds. One
more out and he gets a win. Let him pitch man.
He may be the best pitcher in baseball. Change the rule.
The three point shot has made a joke of the game.
In the k Next Celtics six game series, the Celtics
(17:25):
took two hundred seventy seven three pointers, they made only
ninety seven. The Knicks. Yeah, and the Knicks took two
hundred and two three pointers, they made only seventy one.
That means the Celtics and the Knicks missed three hundred
(17:46):
eleven three pointers combined. I'm saying, change.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
The rule absolutely. Just imagine what would Michael Jordan do
in the game right now? The excitement about was, Yeah,
it was flying through the air to dunk the ball.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Yeah, well, I would look at the Jerry West and
Oscar Robertson. I mean all those long shots were only
two points.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, You're right, Pete. They always talk
about how how many more points Pete Maravich would have
had because he he could shoot way out there.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
So I'm saying, instead of the current twenty three feet
nine inches and twenty two feet from the corner, change
it to thirty feet around the arc. The twenty two
foot shot would have become a two point shot like
it used to be. So I'm saying, put the basketball
(18:44):
back in the basketball, move the ball around, bring back
the emphasis on the midrage jumper. Wow, stop the game
from just being three pointers and dunks. I think it's
hurt the game.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well said, give yourself a beat. Yeah, Bill, there you go.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Now.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
The NFL schedule released last week. What a difference a
year makes. After showcasing Aaron Rodgers and the Jets last year,
the Jets have only two primetime games out of seventeen,
and apparently nobody wants to see the Giants and Russell
Wilson except for Giants fans. They only have three primetime
(19:31):
games out of seventeen. But don't feel too bad that Titans, Browns,
and Saints have no time. No primetime games wow, and
the Jags and Panthers have only one. And the schedule makers, man,
it didn't do the Giants any favored. The Giants played
(19:51):
the Chiefs, the forty nine Ers, the Packers, the Lions,
the Vikings Chargers, and get this, they play the Eagles
twice within three weeks. That's a terrible stitule, all right,
So who should the Hall of Fame committee, now vote
into the Hall of Fame. Now that Baseball reinstated sixteen players. Well,
(20:15):
of course Pete Rose, and especially now with even baseball
telecasts including ads for betting and bookies and casinos, that
should be a no brainer first ballot.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Guy won a first ballot for Pete Rose.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
It should be. I don't see why not. He didn't
cheat the game like Bonds and a Rod and Clemmens
and others, they cheated the game. Rose didn't cheat the game.
He just bent on the Reds to win. And now
with all his betting, I mean, it's kind of hypocritical
(20:55):
if he doesn't. And those eight White Sox players nineteen
nineteen banned from the series. Joe Jackson hit three seventy
five in the series with no eras he should get in.
And the third baseman, Buck Weaver, almost a three hundred hitter.
(21:17):
He didn't take part in the fix, but he was
banned because he refused to report the bribe. So I
think those two from the White Sox situation, the other
six are not going to get in the first basement,
Chick Gandle, he's the one that took in the gamblers.
(21:39):
That's who the gamblers got to Then you had this
reserve third baseman, Fred McMullen. He told his teammates, cut
me in on the deal or I'll squeal. He's not
getting in. And then the shortstop Swede Risberg, here's a
pretty good hitter. You know what he hit in the
(22:00):
World Series point zero eighty Wow. And the last guy's
not going to get in. Lefty Williams was a twenty
three game winner. He suddenly went oh to three with
an an run average of six point sixty one. So
they ain't getting in man. No, all right, time now
(22:22):
for the three stooges. All right, we've got two lying
stooges and a dumb ass stooge. The first lying stooge,
The first lying stooge Iran UN speaker Ali Reza miro Seffi,
who says Iran's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. Peaceful purposes,
(22:46):
then why keep out the nuclear inspectors if you have
nothing to hide, Man, don't do what the rest of
the world did in the nineteen thirties, just sat back
and watched as Hitler built up the military for Germany
despite the Versailles Treaty, which banned the military for Germany.
Stooge number two at liar number one former FBI Director
(23:11):
James Comy, who was questioned and testified questioned by the
Secret Service last Friday and said he just happened to
find a bunch of seashells in the sand while he
was walking along the beach of his vacation home in
May and that spelled out the numbers. Eighty six and
(23:36):
you know eighty we used to see a eighty six
the guys you get rid of them. And forty seven,
which happens to be President Trump, the forty seven president
of the United States. Comy took a photo of eighty
six forty seven and put it on Instagram. You know,
Comy was the head of the FBI, and he didn't
(23:58):
know what forty seven stood for. Man. And the third
stooge of the week any Semitic Zoram Mandani, who was
running for mayor of New York City. First he wouldn't
sign Israel's right to exist on the seventy seventh anniversary
(24:21):
becoming a state, and then he refused to recognize the Holocaust.
A dumbass, Mandanni. You ever heard of the Nuremberg Trials?
If there was no Holocaust, murdering six million Jews and
five million non Jews. Where did the eleven million people go?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Excellent, very good Warner Warner Wolf, legendary sportscaster with his
commentary at the end, which was perfect
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