Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including the death toll continuing to rise following the Texas floods and the new date announced as a deadline for tariff deals to be made. J.C. Polanco talks with Larry about the NYC Mayoral race as the candidates are calling for each other to drop out amidst low polling numbers against Zohran Mamdani. Johnny Oleksinski joins Larry to talk about the latest movie coming in the Mattel universe as well as his review of the newest Jurassic Park movie.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Ray Stage is one of the best meteorolities in the country.
He's great, he's always good, he's trying. But one thing
he does that drives me crazy is he always leaves
out the good news every single time. He went through
the whole week. Right, he just went through the whole week.
You just heard him talking about, you know, scattered showers.
There's going to be storms, a heat end Dix of
(00:21):
over one hundred. Humidity is going to be unbearable, shower
shower showers every single day. What is the pot of
gold at the end of that rainbow? What is the
best news in the forecast? Well, I'll tell you Saturday
and Sunday right now are going to be You have
(00:42):
to say this, it's good to give people hope, keep
hope alive. Saturday and Sunday are going to beat right
now in the forecast, mostly sunny and beautiful temperatures and
low humidity.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Because that can change.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
There's so much going on right now.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Maybe we should talk.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
To this kind of power that if I say it,
it's gonna change.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
No, you're getting too much credit.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't want to give anyone false hope. We're hoping that's.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
What It's not false hope, it's what it says in
the forecast. Granted, forecast change, but right now the forecast
is for a beautiful weekend and it's I know it's
already it's Tuesday. Things could change, but but as of
right now, that's something.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
To hope for.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So why it helps people get through this as they're driving.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
None of the poores all weekend after they make plans
based on what you said.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You know, people catch parts of what you say sometimes just.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
As bad as race stage to the two of you,
too far out, gotta be awful.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
No, we hope it's nice. But then no, don't you
tell me to shush it.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I'm just passing it along.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
We're keeping hope alive. Okay, Wow, I'm trying. I'm trying
to give some hope. I'm trying to give something nice
to the people that are now depressed because of that forecast.
And what did the two of you do? You gang
up on me like every other woman in my life.
(02:16):
You gang up on me and say no, no, no, no,
don't you can't say that because it could be awful.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I'm nervous. I have an outside party that I'm hosting
on Saturday, So I'm really hoping.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
No, I mean a lot of people have plans for
the weekend. That's why it's so exciting. That's why it's
so exciting.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
In the Big Three, the death toll from the Texas
floods continues to rise. We now have over one hundred fatalities.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
It is amazing.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
That that more girls that it can't mist it did
not die that that morning, give it given the horrors.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, And there was an absolute hero at Camp Mystic
from New Jersey, and we're going to talk about him
coming up in just a couple of minutes. We'll talk
with ABC correspond to Jim Ryan as well, who is
covering the floods in Texas. The pressure continues in the
New York City's mayor's race for one of the candidates
(03:12):
not named Mondami to drop out. Mayor Adams says Andrew
Cuomo had the nerve to call him and ask the
mayor to be the one to move aside.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Andrew, are you that level of arrogance? I'm the city mayor, I'm.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
The city mayor of the City of New York, and
you expect for me to set aside when you just
lost to Zohan by twelve points.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Political analyst J. C. Polanco will be with US at
seven point thirty five to talk about what might and
what should happen. April first is the new date countries
will be hit with high tariffs on United States deals
if a deal can't be reached, and Treasury Secretary Scott
Besson says, we are close.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Close to several deals.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
As as always, there's a lot of foot dragging on
the other side, and you know, so I would expect
to see several big announcements over the next couple of days.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And Benjamin net Yahoo was at the White House and
a reporter asked him if he was concerned that Zorin
Mamdani says, if he became mayor of New York, he
would have the Israeli Prime minister arrested if he ever
came to the city.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
No, no, I'm not concerned about that. Look, there's a
there's enough craziness in the world. But I guess it
never ends. I mean, you have this isn't falling, and
it's you know, it's it's silly.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And in the meantime in Israel, talks continue to try
and reach a cease fire Jordana Miller will be here
at eight oh five with the very latest on that. Wow,
just horrible. What is happen in Texas as they continue
to find the bodies, mostly of children at this point
(05:05):
and the and Camp Mystic is the one that everybody's
been talking about right now. What you found out about
this area is that it's one of the most beautiful
areas in all of Texas. In central Texas around Kerrville,
and there are over one hundred camps near the river
and into the forest and going up the hills, and
Camp Mystic is one of the ones that everybody wants
(05:27):
to get it get into. Camp Mystic is one of
the best of the camps. It's because it's right on
the river. But on this case it's it was horrible
to be there because of the floods that came on quickly,
and they had ceremonies, they had a vigil there last night.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Skies tell me.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
These are kids from Camp Mystic either that were there
or or or have been there in the past. Ted
Cruz was there. I'll tell you what you know. Ted Cruz,
I'm not always the biggest fan of just because he's
so hard and he goes after people so hard all
the time, and you know, he's he sometimes he's easy
(06:17):
to dislike. Not in this case. He has been amazing.
He's been there the entire time. He's you know, he's given,
he's this is vacation time for him. He's been there
the entire time. He's been helping, he's been counseling people,
he's been trying to get aid. He has been absolutely amazing.
And what we found out, like many people, many people
(06:41):
they sent their kids the cruise has sent their kids
not to Camp Mystic, to one of the camps in
the area, because everybody, apparently in Texas sends their kids
to camp somewhere in this area, so everyone across the
state can relate. And Natalie was telling me a story
just a moment ago that Laura Bush went to Camp Mystic.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
She well, I heard that she was a counselor, which
I guess would make it seem that she was there
at some point, but I heard that she had been
a counselor there her daughter Laura No, I'm sorry, Yeah, Laura,
she was talking about it yesterday on NBC.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Is that okay, yeah, wow, that's that's just but it
seems like everybody in the state. Everybody in the state
has some connection to these camps, so it makes sense.
But here's Senator Ted Cruz. The president said, Ted, anything
Texas needs, the answer is yes, whatever assets you need,
whatever resources you need, yes, let us know and we
(07:43):
will provide everything. That's what he told to the people
at Camp Mystic that please, you know your morning, I
get that, but all the other stuff, you know, don't
worry about him. And by the way, the daughter was
Jenna Bush that told her mom Laura that it is
just one of the most emotional things that these parents
(08:05):
and neighbors can go through. And and most of them
even when they show up, even if they didn't have
a daughter there, and they just want to be part
of this because everybody, everybody is connected by this.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It gets a little emotional.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
My heart breaks for the family's.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Sorry.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
And I was like, work luck great.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I mean, I think it was my grandkids.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
That's what I think about. I don't know I would
make it.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
No, I think the whole world feels like that. There's
there is a hero in all this and he is
from New Jersey. He is Petty Officer Scott Ruskin, who
was in charge of triage at Camp Mystic, So we
treated the girls until hellic and made them feel safe
(08:57):
and made them feel better until helicopters could come.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Had about two hundred kids, mostly all scared, terrified, cold.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, that's what he got there, and then he ended
up saving one hundred and sixty five children.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
The real heroes I think were too the kids on
the ground, Like those guys are heroic, and you know,
they were dealing with some of the worst times of
their lives and they were staying strong and that helped
inspire me to kind of get in there and help
them out.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And listen to this.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
That was his first mission, first mission ever, first mission,
and he's already being hailed as a national hero. And
he's the proud of Oxford, New Jersey, which is right
on the Pennsylvania border, as almost as northwest as you
can get in Jerseys. So we're really proud of him
and thank goodness he was there for these kids. I'm
(09:44):
gonna keep talking about this in the next segment because
in the search for missing children after the Texas sloods,
there was a miracle.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
We'll have that story next.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Plus tickets to see the Steve Miller Band at Age
twenty five and your talkbacks go to the arch Heart
Radio app. Your time to leave one. You're up next.
So much is going on in the mayor's race and
to help straighten this all out and talk about what
could happen. JC Polonko is a political analyst and University
of Mount Saint Vincent Assistant of Professor, and he's also
(10:15):
an attorney. We've had him on several times. You see
him on TV almost all the time. You can it's
Polonko twenty four to seven. You can keep switching channels
and you see him somewhere. But Jac, thanks for taking
some time to talk with us today. I appreciate it.
So much going on in the mayor's race right now,
and everybody seems to be pushing the other one to
(10:36):
get out.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Let me start with this.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Is it possible for one of the other candidates to
beat zorin mom Danni without at least one of the
major candidates dropping out?
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Good morning, Thanks for having me. Larry love your show,
so listen. I think it's impossible. I think come. He
asked a great question, h And I keeps thinking about
the mask. The mass ain't massing, Larry, It's just not
it's just not if you think about it. The last
time we had an independent win the minoralty was Mike Bloomberg.
(11:12):
Mike Bloomberg ran at the Republican but left the Republican
party and was an independent, and he had three hundred
million dollars, and he knew as an incumbent that he
had no shot of winning the minorality without a major
party line. So he went to the mate, He went
to the Republican chairs and said, listen, I need your support.
This is what I'm going to do. And the Republican
chair supported him. That he ran with the Republican line
(11:34):
and three hundred million dollars and was able to win. Currently,
you don't have that. You have an incumbent mayor without
three hundred million dollars and without any major party line,
and you have a couple of independent candidates running out there.
You know it thinks will change quickly. What we're seeing
is Mamdani is gaining momentum Sudan. Mamdani is gaining strengths.
(11:54):
He's having a lot of endorsements. People are now lining
up behind him. The Democrats are lighting up behind him.
There are three point five million Democrats in New York City.
Do you know how many Democrats came out to vote
just two weeks ago? One point one million, Larry, do
you know how many people came out to vote in
total November of twenty twenty one, one point one million.
(12:15):
These Democrats are energized. They're like their candidate, believe it
or not, they're lighting up. He's gaining momentum, he's getting
more money, he's getting more powerful, and he's getting more
likable with people. And what we're seeing is a perfect
storm for there to be a socialist mayor in New
York City. Why because you have so many independent candidates running,
you have a Republican candidate running on his own as well,
(12:37):
and that opposition that can stop on assembly minimum Donnie
is completely divided. So going into November, if the states
like this, I just think a semi minimum Dannie should
be measuring the drapes to be carving out his staff.
You're going to have a socialist chancellor, socialist commissioner, socialist everything.
You could imagine that many of your viewers are concerned
(12:58):
about this reality, and the reason for that is that
this strategy of divided opposition is just a complete disaster.
It's never gonna work and and and I think we're
running out of time.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Let's make you, for a moment, the omnipotent god of elections,
and you get to choose one candidate and everybody else
has to drop out to run against Mom Donnie.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Who is it.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
It's a tough one. It's a really it's a really
tough one for me, Larry. I mean honestly, I'm a capitalist,
and I'm a centrist and I'm an independent. So the
thirty dollars an hour, rent freeze, decriminalization and all of
that stuff that that some of your Mumdonty's pushing, it
doesn't exactly appeal to me at all, including the government
run grocery stores. So you're looking at these guys. Maybe
(13:46):
Adams is very very has very high unfavorables. He's the
incumbent and that makes him very powerful. And if you
take a look at crime dropping, there's some good issues
that the that the mayor can run on, but the
unceaving are just so high. And a lot of the
stems from the indictments that he had to deal with
the fact that he made it a well, it appeared
(14:07):
he made an agreement with the White House regarding immigration,
and that didn't bode well for this less leaning central
left city. It just didn't look good at all. So
he has very high unfavorables. And then you take a
look at former governor Andrew Como, who was doing so
well all this time. He has no indictments. There's some
allegations of sexual harassment, there's no indictments there. And if
you take a look at the polls, he has the
(14:29):
highest numbers leading into this election. So you would think,
as mathematically, you would say, okay, so the independence of
monteris should line behind the former governor. But then they'll say, listen,
he lost already, so he's going in beat up. But
in independence that it get a chance to vote. And
then let's not forget. You have Curtis Leewell, who is
(14:49):
on the Republican line, a major party line. He walks
in there with at least twenty percent of the vote,
let's say eighteen to twenty percent of the vote. Very popular.
We've known him since we were kids. He's someone that
we all know. He's in a household name. Can he
compete in this environment? And the reality is he's going nowhere.
He's not gonna drop out unless the President nominates him
(15:11):
to something, unless he moves out of New York, there's
no way that he can leave the line. That's another
legality that your viewers should be aware of. So without
a major party line, Larry's impossible. I see it as
an impossibility. Without a major party line, without Andrew Cuomo
having courtesy with supporting him and mayor Adams supporting him,
it's never going to happen. This is just a faith
complete I don't feel that there's any chance of withithstanding
(15:33):
the juggernaut that's about to happen to us, and nothing
is rocking assembling minimum Donnie, no allegation about SAT It
just emboldens him the SAT grades. I don't know who
thinks this is going to help the moderate. I don't
know who thinks whether he's black, African American, that's not working.
Any support that he has right now, you got to
focus on the issues, the fact that he's a socialist.
(15:56):
Thirty dollars an hour minimum wage with decriminalization French freezer
is gonna hurt mom and pop landlords. You gotta focus
on the issues, not on the fact that he's Muslim
or the fact that he's Ugandan or the fact that
who cares about that.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Right, that gets a more support, Jac, that gets some
more support, he becomes a martyr. You're attacking him, You're
you're absolutely correct, you are absolutely correct.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Stick to the issues.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
They're your friend in this race, because what he's talking
about is never gonna work.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Jac.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
We're at a time. You're always great. I hope you
have to have you back several times during this election.
Thanks again at date. Well, he's always here early before
his regular segment, but now it is time for his
regular segment. Johnny Oleazinski, New York Post entertainment critic. I
can't tell you how excited I am to hear that
they're finally, finally gonna make a movie out of Hot Wheels.
(16:47):
My kids will be excited, my grandkids will be excited.
I'm sure you're excited, Johnny, how.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Sincere you just sounded? Yeah, Yeah, I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled
to bits what they're gonna do. They just announced this yesterday.
There's going to be a Hot Wheels movie, and they're
probably gonna make the trademark sign as big as the title.
It's gonna, you know, just soess soulss nonsense. But it's
from the people who did Barbie. It's Mattel, right, and
they're trying to turn a toy universe. They're gonna do
(17:14):
Polly Pocket and Barney Smart and Masters of the Universe Smart.
They're just toy movie after toy movie.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And you're gonna have to go to every one of them. Right.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
That's the thing, you know, when you guys see a
movie announcement and you see it on wherever you read,
on the New York Post whatever, you just scroll by. Okay,
I look at it like a fortune teller, you know,
giving me the tarot cards, and I just got the
death one. I'm seeing into my future. What I'm going
to have to do. And I'm gonna have to really
(17:46):
seriously consider this movie and come up with an opinion
about Hot Wheels and write six hundred words about it.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I'm sure you can be objective. I can.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Hey, maybe Hot Wheels. Maybe maybe Hot Wheels will surprise me.
Maybe best picture Hot Wheels.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Were you surprised by Barbie? Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I hated Barbie?
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Oh I hated Barbie, And I know, Hey, it made
a money talks Johnny Walks, it made over a billion dollars.
It went on to the Oscars, which was shameful, by
the way, absolutely shameful. I thought it was sort of
bad Elf, like, oh so Barbie's.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Oh come on, I loved Elf by the way, I
love Elf, And so you didn't like Elfie.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
No, I love Elf.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Elf is great, but I was just what annoyed me
about Barbie was it was so high minded and kind
of a mess. But it was so high minded for
a movie that is about a children's toy, and they're to,
oh no, no, it's high art. It is absolutely high art.
And we'll have Tony Kushner who talks about it. It's
it's the height of sophistication. When it was just a
(18:52):
silly little toy movie, maybe I would have liked it
more if it acted that way.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It was a height of sophistication because they were trying
to attract audience as well. But it was able to
do that. It was able to get an adult audience
and to still get children. That's just smart, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Yeah, it was able to get an adult audience that
all got together and dressed in pink, just the kind
of people you know you want to hang out with,
had no offense. Natalie he was wearing a lovely shade
of pink today, Barbie, that it is.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
But you know what, you also hated Jurassic Park, right, Yes, Well,
let's be clear.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
I love the original Jurassic Park. That is a groundbreaking, tremendous,
terrific movie. Jurassic World Rebirth. I gave it a bunch
of titles in my review. I said, Jurassic World regurgitation,
Jurassic World revolting, Jurassic World revile. If you can kind
of get the sense for how I felt about it, Why,
(19:55):
Larry tell me this, why do people after seven movies on,
why do people keep schlepping to this deadly island? We
know that at this point they know every time people
go a lot of people die, and they keep going.
And this was maybe the laziest ever Scarlett Johansson and
Jonathan Bailey A big Pharma. Big Pharma just tells them
(20:17):
you have to go get blood samples from these big
dinosaurs that will probably kill you, because those blood samples
can help.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Us cure heart disease. That's the plot, that is the plot.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Of the sense.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
And you know, cover your ears, cover your ears.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
This is a slight spoiler, which you know that in
the end they get them.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
They cure heart disease. So it's so stupid.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
So if you make a sequel to that movie, I
guess the leading cause of death in the world is
now cured.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So we're good.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Oh, it is just imbecilic, moronic stuff, and they keep
making them, and it's making so much money. And I'm
sure people are yelling at their radio about this buzzkill
joyless man who hated Jurassic World. Well, I'll send some
talkback because I can take them.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
You know, it's funny you usually disagree with Neumeyer, but
in this case it sounds like you two are are together.
Except that he did say, just to see that they
did a really nice job with the dinosaurs, even better
than the original. I mean, that was very nicely done
because Cg's gotten better. Look at the face you're making,
because Cg's gotten a lot better. So he like that,
(21:24):
he said. But it was soulless. It had no was
not character driven, and that was the best part about
the original Jurassic Park. You actually cared about the humans.
In this one, you could care less about the humans involved.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
I disagree a bit with Joe on the CGI. The
reason that for that being, I miss tactile effects. So
when you ever look at a making of of Spielberg's
Jurassic Park, you can see they built a t rex
right and they're getting right up to this face and
the scales look real, and that's a really frightening thing.
Remember that t Rex actually smashed that SUV. That wasn't
an animated thing. And viewers can perceive when they're looking
(22:00):
at something real versus something not. And I haven't been
afraid of these stupid dinosaurs since, you know, Tayloni ran
through the forest screaming. Really, these aren't horror movies, they
aren't fantasy movies. They're just kind of nothing.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
It's so much more fun when you hate a movie.
So you've hated You're gonna hate Hot Wheels. You've already
decided that you hated Jurassic Park. What about Superman? The
New Superman's coming out? Are you gonna hate that?
Speaker 7 (22:26):
So reviews for that are coming out today, but some
first reactions have hit, and I would guess that reviews
for this will be all over the map. It's very light,
it's kind of going back to the Christopher Eve style,
but even lighter than that. It's not like those awful
sooty Zack Snyder movies we had, you know, Man of Steel.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
That were just so brute.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Because Superman, I think is supposed to be. It's he's
not Batman. It's it's not you know, solving petty crimes.
And he's an inspiring, fun, silly guy and that is
what you're getting with this. It might be slightly too silly,
but I enjoyed it, and.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Oh you saw it. I didn't know you saw it.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
I have seen it, and I just slightly broken bar
Oh that's all right. But it's also you know, what
I really liked about it is there's no other than
the marvelous Rachel Brazahan, the marvelous missus masl There's not
really big stars in it, and so it's much better
than seeing Scarlett Johansson or Robert Downey Junior and you
kind of go, oh, hi, you know, here's this Oscar winner.
(23:28):
It allows you to get into it a little more.
David cornsweat is a great Superman.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
When is your review coming out? So we can make
sure we can all get online and read it to
make up for this moment three pm.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
And what I would like is get everyone in the
house or everyone at work and all click it ten
times at the same time in coordination.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
It'll be fun. It'll be fun for everybody.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Quickly, let's talk about Bernadette Peters.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
What does you have coming up?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
So, Bernadette for twenty seven years has had a great
charity called Broadway Barks. And you go into Schubert Alley
and you'll see a bunch of your favorite Broadway stars
putting up pets for adoption. Not theirs, but they help
get beautiful, cute, cuddly pets adopted. And it's I know,
it's Bernadette's big passion outside of performing, and thousands of
(24:14):
pets over the years have gone into the homes of
wonderful families thanks to Broadway Barks. And you can go
for free in schuber Dalley. It's Saturday at three pm.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Thank you, Johnny Olezinski, New York Posts entertainment critic. Thanks
a lot, Johnny. See you again next week.
So I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Ray Stage is one of the best meteorolities in the country.
He's great, he's always good, he's trying. But one thing
he does that drives me crazy is he always leaves
out the good news every single time. He went through
the whole week. Right, he just went through the whole week.
You just heard him talking about, you know, scattered showers.
There's going to be storms, a heat end Dix of
(00:21):
over one hundred. Humidity is going to be unbearable, shower
shower showers every single day. What is the pot of
gold at the end of that rainbow? What is the
best news in the forecast? Well, I'll tell you Saturday
and Sunday right now are going to be You have
(00:42):
to say this, it's good to give people hope, keep
hope alive. Saturday and Sunday are going to beat right
now in the forecast, mostly sunny and beautiful temperatures and
low humidity.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Because that can change.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
There's so much going on right now.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Maybe we should talk.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
To this kind of power that if I say it,
it's gonna change.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
No, you're getting too much credit.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't want to give anyone false hope. We're hoping that's.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
What It's not false hope, it's what it says in
the forecast. Granted, forecast change, but right now the forecast
is for a beautiful weekend and it's I know it's
already it's Tuesday. Things could change, but but as of
right now, that's something.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
To hope for.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So why it helps people get through this as they're driving.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
None of the poores all weekend after they make plans
based on what you said.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You know, people catch parts of what you say sometimes just.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
As bad as race stage to the two of you,
too far out, gotta be awful.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
No, we hope it's nice. But then no, don't you
tell me to shush it.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I'm just passing it along.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
We're keeping hope alive. Okay, Wow, I'm trying. I'm trying
to give some hope. I'm trying to give something nice
to the people that are now depressed because of that forecast.
And what did the two of you do? You gang
up on me like every other woman in my life.
(02:16):
You gang up on me and say no, no, no, no,
don't you can't say that because it could be awful.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I'm nervous. I have an outside party that I'm hosting
on Saturday, So I'm really hoping.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
No, I mean a lot of people have plans for
the weekend. That's why it's so exciting. That's why it's
so exciting.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
In the Big Three, the death toll from the Texas
floods continues to rise. We now have over one hundred fatalities.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
It is amazing.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
That that more girls that it can't mist it did
not die that that morning, give it given the horrors.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, And there was an absolute hero at Camp Mystic
from New Jersey, and we're going to talk about him
coming up in just a couple of minutes. We'll talk
with ABC correspond to Jim Ryan as well, who is
covering the floods in Texas. The pressure continues in the
New York City's mayor's race for one of the candidates
(03:12):
not named Mondami to drop out. Mayor Adams says Andrew
Cuomo had the nerve to call him and ask the
mayor to be the one to move aside.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Andrew, are you that level of arrogance? I'm the city mayor, I'm.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
The city mayor of the City of New York, and
you expect for me to set aside when you just
lost to Zohan by twelve points.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Political analyst J. C. Polanco will be with US at
seven point thirty five to talk about what might and
what should happen. April first is the new date countries
will be hit with high tariffs on United States deals
if a deal can't be reached, and Treasury Secretary Scott
Besson says, we are close.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Close to several deals.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
As as always, there's a lot of foot dragging on
the other side, and you know, so I would expect
to see several big announcements over the next couple of days.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And Benjamin net Yahoo was at the White House and
a reporter asked him if he was concerned that Zorin
Mamdani says, if he became mayor of New York, he
would have the Israeli Prime minister arrested if he ever
came to the city.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
No, no, I'm not concerned about that. Look, there's a
there's enough craziness in the world. But I guess it
never ends. I mean, you have this isn't falling, and
it's you know, it's it's silly.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And in the meantime in Israel, talks continue to try
and reach a cease fire Jordana Miller will be here
at eight oh five with the very latest on that. Wow,
just horrible. What is happen in Texas as they continue
to find the bodies, mostly of children at this point
(05:05):
and the and Camp Mystic is the one that everybody's
been talking about right now. What you found out about
this area is that it's one of the most beautiful
areas in all of Texas. In central Texas around Kerrville,
and there are over one hundred camps near the river
and into the forest and going up the hills, and
Camp Mystic is one of the ones that everybody wants
(05:27):
to get it get into. Camp Mystic is one of
the best of the camps. It's because it's right on
the river. But on this case it's it was horrible
to be there because of the floods that came on quickly,
and they had ceremonies, they had a vigil there last night.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Skies tell me.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
These are kids from Camp Mystic either that were there
or or or have been there in the past. Ted
Cruz was there. I'll tell you what you know. Ted Cruz,
I'm not always the biggest fan of just because he's
so hard and he goes after people so hard all
the time, and you know, he's he sometimes he's easy
(06:17):
to dislike. Not in this case. He has been amazing.
He's been there the entire time. He's you know, he's given,
he's this is vacation time for him. He's been there
the entire time. He's been helping, he's been counseling people,
he's been trying to get aid. He has been absolutely amazing.
And what we found out, like many people, many people
(06:41):
they sent their kids the cruise has sent their kids
not to Camp Mystic, to one of the camps in
the area, because everybody, apparently in Texas sends their kids
to camp somewhere in this area, so everyone across the
state can relate. And Natalie was telling me a story
just a moment ago that Laura Bush went to Camp Mystic.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
She well, I heard that she was a counselor, which
I guess would make it seem that she was there
at some point, but I heard that she had been
a counselor there her daughter Laura No, I'm sorry, Yeah, Laura,
she was talking about it yesterday on NBC.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Is that okay, yeah, wow, that's that's just but it
seems like everybody in the state. Everybody in the state
has some connection to these camps, so it makes sense.
But here's Senator Ted Cruz. The president said, Ted, anything
Texas needs, the answer is yes, whatever assets you need,
whatever resources you need, yes, let us know and we
(07:43):
will provide everything. That's what he told to the people
at Camp Mystic that please, you know your morning, I
get that, but all the other stuff, you know, don't
worry about him. And by the way, the daughter was
Jenna Bush that told her mom Laura that it is
just one of the most emotional things that these parents
(08:05):
and neighbors can go through. And and most of them
even when they show up, even if they didn't have
a daughter there, and they just want to be part
of this because everybody, everybody is connected by this.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It gets a little emotional.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
My heart breaks for the family's.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Sorry.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
And I was like, work luck great.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I mean, I think it was my grandkids.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
That's what I think about. I don't know I would
make it.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
No, I think the whole world feels like that. There's
there is a hero in all this and he is
from New Jersey. He is Petty Officer Scott Ruskin, who
was in charge of triage at Camp Mystic, So we
treated the girls until hellic and made them feel safe
(08:57):
and made them feel better until helicopters could come.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Had about two hundred kids, mostly all scared, terrified, cold.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, that's what he got there, and then he ended
up saving one hundred and sixty five children.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
The real heroes I think were too the kids on
the ground, Like those guys are heroic, and you know,
they were dealing with some of the worst times of
their lives and they were staying strong and that helped
inspire me to kind of get in there and help
them out.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And listen to this.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
That was his first mission, first mission ever, first mission,
and he's already being hailed as a national hero. And
he's the proud of Oxford, New Jersey, which is right
on the Pennsylvania border, as almost as northwest as you
can get in Jerseys. So we're really proud of him
and thank goodness he was there for these kids. I'm
(09:44):
gonna keep talking about this in the next segment because
in the search for missing children after the Texas sloods,
there was a miracle.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
We'll have that story next.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Plus tickets to see the Steve Miller Band at Age
twenty five and your talkbacks go to the arch Heart
Radio app. Your time to leave one. You're up next.
So much is going on in the mayor's race and
to help straighten this all out and talk about what
could happen. JC Polonko is a political analyst and University
of Mount Saint Vincent Assistant of Professor, and he's also
(10:15):
an attorney. We've had him on several times. You see
him on TV almost all the time. You can it's
Polonko twenty four to seven. You can keep switching channels
and you see him somewhere. But Jac, thanks for taking
some time to talk with us today. I appreciate it.
So much going on in the mayor's race right now,
and everybody seems to be pushing the other one to
(10:36):
get out.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Let me start with this.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Is it possible for one of the other candidates to
beat zorin mom Danni without at least one of the
major candidates dropping out?
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Good morning, Thanks for having me. Larry love your show,
so listen. I think it's impossible. I think come. He
asked a great question, h And I keeps thinking about
the mask. The mass ain't massing, Larry, It's just not
it's just not if you think about it. The last
time we had an independent win the minoralty was Mike Bloomberg.
(11:12):
Mike Bloomberg ran at the Republican but left the Republican
party and was an independent, and he had three hundred
million dollars, and he knew as an incumbent that he
had no shot of winning the minorality without a major
party line. So he went to the mate, He went
to the Republican chairs and said, listen, I need your support.
This is what I'm going to do. And the Republican
chair supported him. That he ran with the Republican line
(11:34):
and three hundred million dollars and was able to win. Currently,
you don't have that. You have an incumbent mayor without
three hundred million dollars and without any major party line,
and you have a couple of independent candidates running out there.
You know it thinks will change quickly. What we're seeing
is Mamdani is gaining momentum Sudan. Mamdani is gaining strengths.
(11:54):
He's having a lot of endorsements. People are now lining
up behind him. The Democrats are lighting up behind him.
There are three point five million Democrats in New York City.
Do you know how many Democrats came out to vote
just two weeks ago? One point one million, Larry, do
you know how many people came out to vote in
total November of twenty twenty one, one point one million.
(12:15):
These Democrats are energized. They're like their candidate, believe it
or not, they're lighting up. He's gaining momentum, he's getting
more money, he's getting more powerful, and he's getting more
likable with people. And what we're seeing is a perfect
storm for there to be a socialist mayor in New
York City. Why because you have so many independent candidates running,
you have a Republican candidate running on his own as well,
(12:37):
and that opposition that can stop on assembly minimum Donnie
is completely divided. So going into November, if the states
like this, I just think a semi minimum Dannie should
be measuring the drapes to be carving out his staff.
You're going to have a socialist chancellor, socialist commissioner, socialist everything.
You could imagine that many of your viewers are concerned
(12:58):
about this reality, and the reason for that is that
this strategy of divided opposition is just a complete disaster.
It's never gonna work and and and I think we're
running out of time.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Let's make you, for a moment, the omnipotent god of elections,
and you get to choose one candidate and everybody else
has to drop out to run against Mom Donnie.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Who is it.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
It's a tough one. It's a really it's a really
tough one for me, Larry. I mean honestly, I'm a capitalist,
and I'm a centrist and I'm an independent. So the
thirty dollars an hour, rent freeze, decriminalization and all of
that stuff that that some of your Mumdonty's pushing, it
doesn't exactly appeal to me at all, including the government
run grocery stores. So you're looking at these guys. Maybe
(13:46):
Adams is very very has very high unfavorables. He's the
incumbent and that makes him very powerful. And if you
take a look at crime dropping, there's some good issues
that the that the mayor can run on, but the
unceaving are just so high. And a lot of the
stems from the indictments that he had to deal with
the fact that he made it a well, it appeared
(14:07):
he made an agreement with the White House regarding immigration,
and that didn't bode well for this less leaning central
left city. It just didn't look good at all. So
he has very high unfavorables. And then you take a
look at former governor Andrew Como, who was doing so
well all this time. He has no indictments. There's some
allegations of sexual harassment, there's no indictments there. And if
you take a look at the polls, he has the
(14:29):
highest numbers leading into this election. So you would think,
as mathematically, you would say, okay, so the independence of
monteris should line behind the former governor. But then they'll say, listen,
he lost already, so he's going in beat up. But
in independence that it get a chance to vote. And
then let's not forget. You have Curtis Leewell, who is
(14:49):
on the Republican line, a major party line. He walks
in there with at least twenty percent of the vote,
let's say eighteen to twenty percent of the vote. Very popular.
We've known him since we were kids. He's someone that
we all know. He's in a household name. Can he
compete in this environment? And the reality is he's going nowhere.
He's not gonna drop out unless the President nominates him
(15:11):
to something, unless he moves out of New York, there's
no way that he can leave the line. That's another
legality that your viewers should be aware of. So without
a major party line, Larry's impossible. I see it as
an impossibility. Without a major party line, without Andrew Cuomo
having courtesy with supporting him and mayor Adams supporting him,
it's never going to happen. This is just a faith
complete I don't feel that there's any chance of withithstanding
(15:33):
the juggernaut that's about to happen to us, and nothing
is rocking assembling minimum Donnie, no allegation about SAT It
just emboldens him the SAT grades. I don't know who
thinks this is going to help the moderate. I don't
know who thinks whether he's black, African American, that's not working.
Any support that he has right now, you got to
focus on the issues, the fact that he's a socialist.
(15:56):
Thirty dollars an hour minimum wage with decriminalization French freezer
is gonna hurt mom and pop landlords. You gotta focus
on the issues, not on the fact that he's Muslim
or the fact that he's Ugandan or the fact that
who cares about that.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Right, that gets a more support, Jac, that gets some
more support, he becomes a martyr. You're attacking him, You're
you're absolutely correct, you are absolutely correct.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Stick to the issues.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
They're your friend in this race, because what he's talking
about is never gonna work.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Jac.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
We're at a time. You're always great. I hope you
have to have you back several times during this election.
Thanks again at date. Well, he's always here early before
his regular segment, but now it is time for his
regular segment. Johnny Oleazinski, New York Post entertainment critic. I
can't tell you how excited I am to hear that
they're finally, finally gonna make a movie out of Hot Wheels.
(16:47):
My kids will be excited, my grandkids will be excited.
I'm sure you're excited, Johnny, how.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Sincere you just sounded? Yeah, Yeah, I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled
to bits what they're gonna do. They just announced this yesterday.
There's going to be a Hot Wheels movie, and they're
probably gonna make the trademark sign as big as the title.
It's gonna, you know, just soess soulss nonsense. But it's
from the people who did Barbie. It's Mattel, right, and
they're trying to turn a toy universe. They're gonna do
(17:14):
Polly Pocket and Barney Smart and Masters of the Universe Smart.
They're just toy movie after toy movie.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And you're gonna have to go to every one of them. Right.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
That's the thing, you know, when you guys see a
movie announcement and you see it on wherever you read,
on the New York Post whatever, you just scroll by. Okay,
I look at it like a fortune teller, you know,
giving me the tarot cards, and I just got the
death one. I'm seeing into my future. What I'm going
to have to do. And I'm gonna have to really
(17:46):
seriously consider this movie and come up with an opinion
about Hot Wheels and write six hundred words about it.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I'm sure you can be objective. I can.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Hey, maybe Hot Wheels. Maybe maybe Hot Wheels will surprise me.
Maybe best picture Hot Wheels.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Were you surprised by Barbie? Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I hated Barbie?
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Oh I hated Barbie, And I know, Hey, it made
a money talks Johnny Walks, it made over a billion dollars.
It went on to the Oscars, which was shameful, by
the way, absolutely shameful. I thought it was sort of
bad Elf, like, oh so Barbie's.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Oh come on, I loved Elf by the way, I
love Elf, And so you didn't like Elfie.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
No, I love Elf.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Elf is great, but I was just what annoyed me
about Barbie was it was so high minded and kind
of a mess. But it was so high minded for
a movie that is about a children's toy, and they're to,
oh no, no, it's high art. It is absolutely high art.
And we'll have Tony Kushner who talks about it. It's
it's the height of sophistication. When it was just a
(18:52):
silly little toy movie, maybe I would have liked it
more if it acted that way.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It was a height of sophistication because they were trying
to attract audience as well. But it was able to
do that. It was able to get an adult audience
and to still get children. That's just smart, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Yeah, it was able to get an adult audience that
all got together and dressed in pink, just the kind
of people you know you want to hang out with,
had no offense. Natalie he was wearing a lovely shade
of pink today, Barbie, that it is.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
But you know what, you also hated Jurassic Park, right, Yes, Well,
let's be clear.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
I love the original Jurassic Park. That is a groundbreaking, tremendous,
terrific movie. Jurassic World Rebirth. I gave it a bunch
of titles in my review. I said, Jurassic World regurgitation,
Jurassic World revolting, Jurassic World revile. If you can kind
of get the sense for how I felt about it, Why,
(19:55):
Larry tell me this, why do people after seven movies on,
why do people keep schlepping to this deadly island? We
know that at this point they know every time people
go a lot of people die, and they keep going.
And this was maybe the laziest ever Scarlett Johansson and
Jonathan Bailey A big Pharma. Big Pharma just tells them
(20:17):
you have to go get blood samples from these big
dinosaurs that will probably kill you, because those blood samples
can help.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Us cure heart disease. That's the plot, that is the plot.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Of the sense.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
And you know, cover your ears, cover your ears.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
This is a slight spoiler, which you know that in
the end they get them.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
They cure heart disease. So it's so stupid.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
So if you make a sequel to that movie, I
guess the leading cause of death in the world is
now cured.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So we're good.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Oh, it is just imbecilic, moronic stuff, and they keep
making them, and it's making so much money. And I'm
sure people are yelling at their radio about this buzzkill
joyless man who hated Jurassic World. Well, I'll send some
talkback because I can take them.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
You know, it's funny you usually disagree with Neumeyer, but
in this case it sounds like you two are are together.
Except that he did say, just to see that they
did a really nice job with the dinosaurs, even better
than the original. I mean, that was very nicely done
because Cg's gotten better. Look at the face you're making,
because Cg's gotten a lot better. So he like that,
(21:24):
he said. But it was soulless. It had no was
not character driven, and that was the best part about
the original Jurassic Park. You actually cared about the humans.
In this one, you could care less about the humans involved.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
I disagree a bit with Joe on the CGI. The
reason that for that being, I miss tactile effects. So
when you ever look at a making of of Spielberg's
Jurassic Park, you can see they built a t rex
right and they're getting right up to this face and
the scales look real, and that's a really frightening thing.
Remember that t Rex actually smashed that SUV. That wasn't
an animated thing. And viewers can perceive when they're looking
(22:00):
at something real versus something not. And I haven't been
afraid of these stupid dinosaurs since, you know, Tayloni ran
through the forest screaming. Really, these aren't horror movies, they
aren't fantasy movies. They're just kind of nothing.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
It's so much more fun when you hate a movie.
So you've hated You're gonna hate Hot Wheels. You've already
decided that you hated Jurassic Park. What about Superman? The
New Superman's coming out? Are you gonna hate that?
Speaker 7 (22:26):
So reviews for that are coming out today, but some
first reactions have hit, and I would guess that reviews
for this will be all over the map. It's very light,
it's kind of going back to the Christopher Eve style,
but even lighter than that. It's not like those awful
sooty Zack Snyder movies we had, you know, Man of Steel.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
That were just so brute.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Because Superman, I think is supposed to be. It's he's
not Batman. It's it's not you know, solving petty crimes.
And he's an inspiring, fun, silly guy and that is
what you're getting with this. It might be slightly too silly,
but I enjoyed it, and.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Oh you saw it. I didn't know you saw it.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
I have seen it, and I just slightly broken bar
Oh that's all right. But it's also you know, what
I really liked about it is there's no other than
the marvelous Rachel Brazahan, the marvelous missus masl There's not
really big stars in it, and so it's much better
than seeing Scarlett Johansson or Robert Downey Junior and you
kind of go, oh, hi, you know, here's this Oscar winner.
(23:28):
It allows you to get into it a little more.
David cornsweat is a great Superman.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
When is your review coming out? So we can make
sure we can all get online and read it to
make up for this moment three pm.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
And what I would like is get everyone in the
house or everyone at work and all click it ten
times at the same time in coordination.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
It'll be fun. It'll be fun for everybody.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Quickly, let's talk about Bernadette Peters.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
What does you have coming up?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
So, Bernadette for twenty seven years has had a great
charity called Broadway Barks. And you go into Schubert Alley
and you'll see a bunch of your favorite Broadway stars
putting up pets for adoption. Not theirs, but they help
get beautiful, cute, cuddly pets adopted. And it's I know,
it's Bernadette's big passion outside of performing, and thousands of
(24:14):
pets over the years have gone into the homes of
wonderful families thanks to Broadway Barks. And you can go
for free in schuber Dalley. It's Saturday at three pm.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Thank you, Johnny Olezinski, New York Posts entertainment critic. Thanks
a lot, Johnny. See you again next week.
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