July 31, 2025 • 24 mins
Former Governor Andrew Cuomo blasted Zohran Mamdani for not being in New York City, when the tragedy happened Monday evening on Park Avenue in Manhattan. The first of four funerals for the victims of the shooting is underway. The Federal Reserve is holding interest rates steady. Dr. Caplan dives into Monday's Suspect's Mental Health Issues that may have caused him to have a psychotic break. Dr. Caplan also explains what CT is. Rich Demuro asks if your next hamburger be ordered from a robot? A.I. might make that happen. Dropbox is dropping password manager.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
So I guess it makes sense. We've been all hot
and sweating over the last couple of days, and today
we're going to get a shower, lots of showers, possibly
thunder showers. If you live in a flood area, there's
a flood watch out for today. One to three inches
of rain in some spots. But listen to this. Some
areas could get five inches of rain. So it's either
(00:21):
feast or famine. Right in the Big Three, Mam Donnie
returns the filthy rich Ugandan Socialist mayoral candidates or in
Mamdanni comes home in the wake of tragedy, and he
blasts Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo for daring to criticize him
(00:41):
for not being in New York when the mass shooting occurred.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
For the former governor to have spent an entire day
speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New
Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very
politics New Yorkers want to leave in the penest.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, we'll see about that. The first of the funerals
for the four are killed in the Park Avenue mass shooting,
twenty seven year old Julie Hymen from Rudent management. She
was the youngest of the victims. She graduated summa cum
laude from Cornell. Cornell, you know that love.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Is a choice, and it's a choice you make obvious
to those you love every day during.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
The hardest times of my life.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
You've given this gift to me without question or hesitation,
and I love.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You for that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
That was her sister talking. The funeral for thirty six
year old police officer Dita Rule Islam will be held
at a mosque in Park Chester section of the Bronx
this morning. After hitting commuters with congestion pricing, the MTA
wants more money, a raid hike across the board. This
is going to affect everybody, train, subways, buses and yes,
(01:52):
even tolls and bridges. Unbelievable. Well, the Feds, they do
exactly what they are always do nothing. It refused to
budge on interest rates even though the economy is doing well,
because the Fed chair Jerome Pal says inflation is still
too high. Really, they didn't feel that way a few
(02:12):
months ago.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
When they had the Jumbo ray cut fifty basis points.
Just before the election in September of twenty twenty four,
the inflation rate was three plus yep. Now it's in
the twos.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
The tsunami came and went hit the island of Hawaii
with no major damage and no loss of life.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So far, we have not seen a wave of consequence,
which is a great relief to us.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
It's kind of a blessing to not be reporting any damage.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But then nine hours later, you figure California now has
a sense of release, and yet all of the sudden,
a rogue wave pushed by the tsunami hits a beach
in Ventura County, oh No. Nine people had to be
(03:04):
taken to the hospital when that wave hit Pierpoint Beach
and washed away his cars and damaged buildings. And luckily
nobody was killed because it just swarmed over a lot
of people who had gathered at the beach. I guess
to watch the wave. They got a first hand look
at it. Let's talk about the return of mom Dannie.
(03:26):
So he came home yesterday and went right to the
home of Dietaro Islam. He hugged his grandfather. He talked
about that a lot, but the media was pretty good yesterday.
I've been really disappointed with the New York media. You know,
he went and he had this whole act and how
(03:50):
upset he was and how he wanted to get right back,
but he wasn't able to catch another flight, and so
he took the one that he was scheduled on, and
that his team. He always talks about his team. I
wonder where he gets his team from, probably from mommy.
But his team set it up so he could go
right to the Bronx to see the family of Didero
(04:10):
Islam and so he got all that out of the way,
and then the media did their job. They went after him,
and especially about what Andrew Cuomo has been saying while
he's away that he wants to defund the police, and
he's tweeted that several times.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
I am not defunding the police. I am not running
to defund the police. Andrew Cuomo is far more comfortable
living his life in the past and then attacking tweets
of twenty twenty than in running against the campaign that
we have been leading for the last eight months.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Right. He says he did tweet it a lot, but
way back after George Floyd died because he was affected
by that and he got caught up in the movement.
But since then, he says, his policies have grown. However,
he's still wants to get get rid of the exact
task force, the terrorist task Force, the mass event task
(05:09):
force that responded on Park Avenue to the shooting.
Speaker 8 (05:13):
The Assemblyman called to the dismantling of the Strategic Response Group,
that is the group that responds to terrorist attacks, that
is the group that responded to the shooting on Monday.
So he just doesn't understand government, and he doesn't understand
public safety, and he is dangerous in that regard.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You know who does understand public safety, Mayor Adams. If
you remember, he was the first, one of the first
people on the scene and he was wearing a vest
at the time because he's a former cop. So he
was with the Strategic Response Group, and he agrees, he says,
Mundani just doesn't know what he's talking about.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
When you start dismantling the pieces of the law enforcement
apparatus that are specifically designed to carry out functions, that
is extremely dangerous and a lack of knowledge and understanding
of these roles really could harm law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, now I have to give mom Donnie credit, and
I've given him credit for this all along. Is even
though I believe his whole campaign is a lie. He's
not who he says he is. He's a rich kid
from Uganda who claims he's from the streets and he's
going to help the little man and he's going to
take on the rich. But he is the rich, and
(06:36):
he lives very, very wealthy. He's worth his mom's worth
hundreds of millions of hours. But he does tell you
what he wants to do. He is pretty open. That's
the reason he's been attacked over and over again, you know,
the going after the rich, raising the corporate tax rate,
(06:58):
raising the tax rate on those making over a million dollars,
not hiring any more police officers. He's really honest about that.
And when he was hit with the Strategic Response Group,
and if he's going to get rid of them, he
didn't deny it.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
When it was first formed, there was an intention for
its use to be more akin to the manner in
which it was deployed earlier this week. What we have found, however,
is the city has come to rely upon the Strategic
Response Group as its primary means of response to acts
of protests across the city.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So that's what he's upset about. What he's upset about,
even though the Strategic Response Group is the group that's
supposed to respond to terrorism, to mass shooting events. They're
extremely important to have in this city, and they are
the best of the best. You saw how quickly they
got there and how quickly they secured the entire area.
(07:58):
That's what they're supposed to do. What he's upset about
why Mom Donnie wants to get rid of them is
because they've gone after his people, Because they've gone after
the pro Hamas anti Israel forces that showed up on
Columbia and at NYU and on the streets of New York.
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He can't believe that these people that took over a campus,
that hurt security guards, that threatened Jewish students, that made
them stay in their rooms, that took over a library,
he can't believe that the Strategic Response Group was sent
for them. They're just kindly humas people. Why would you
(08:49):
bug them? Look at there's so much wrong with this guy.
But I want to get back to what Cuomo said
in a second ago. He's not ready for prime time.
He's been an assemblyman for a few years and now
he's running for a mayor and he's never run anything
except a staff of about ten and somebody else seems
(09:09):
to be running his campaign. I don't know whoere that is,
but it's somebody that is. Mommy paid.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
No.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I believe what Ina Wernikov says, the Republican council person
who fled Russia. She knows all too well zorin Mam
Donnie's type.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
I'm an immigrant from the former Soviet Union and families
like wine escaped. Exactly what Mam Donnie's about to bring
to New York City should he become mayor. Anti Semitism, communism, socialism,
government overreach and empty shelves.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Right, government overreach. But he's told us all that, he said,
this is exactly what I'm going to do. I'm gonna
do what they've done in every other socialist and communist country.
That's what I'm gonna do. That's what you can expect
from me. And those who have no sense of history,
unlike Nivernikoff, who has a deep sense of history, a
(10:06):
personal sense of what this is like, they go, oh boy,
this sounds great. That's what exactly what happened in the
Soviet Union and other communist countries. It sounds great, it's
horrible in reality. We'll talk more about that coming up.
I want to talk now about the bombastic coach and
former player Dion Sanders. He's been humbled by a close
(10:29):
health call. We'll talk about that next. Now let's get
to doctor Arthur Kaplan, professor of bioethics at New York
University Lengn Medical Center. He's with us every Tuesday at
this time, doctor Kaplan, hope you're having a good morning.
Let's talk about this mass shooting and the fact that
a suicide note was written claiming the shooter claiming that
(10:54):
he had CTE from concussions and playing football. Let's talk
about what exactly it is and could it cause this
kind of behavior.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, it's and good morning. Like It's a condition caused
by repetitive injury to the brain, usually through if you will,
banging your head. It is associated with sports like rugby, football,
(11:26):
maybe hockey, where head injuries happen. And you also see it,
by the way, in soldiers who are around things like artillery,
where they're getting a lot of concussions from the use
of that ammunition blowing up around them all the time.
One thing that seems to be true, though, is it's
(11:48):
not the big injury in sports. Sometimes they say the
big hit that makes somebody pull you out and sit
you down. Your bell got rung. Seems to be something
that occurs over to time with multiple hits small injuries.
In other words, build up causes the brain to have
a kind of protein or gunk in it. Let's call
(12:10):
it gunk that does seem to interfere with impost control.
It does seem to make cognitive changes where people don't
think clearly. So that's what chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE is.
I don't know that this guy knew whether or not
(12:31):
he had it or not. I mean, he certainly left
a note. He was certainly apparently headed to NFL headquarters
saying you know, NFL is covering up this problem and
not really admitting to it. I guess that's where he
was going and wound up in the wrong place and
(12:52):
killed other people had nothing to do with this, But
I don't learn. I don't trust that he's the diagnostic
guy on he did get an injury, but I have
a feeling we're dealing here with mental illness more than
we or brain confirmed diagnosis of CTE.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Right. His name is Shane Shane Devin Tomora, and he
was put away a couple of times against his will
for mental illness. So it does explain a lot. I mean,
he must have known there was something wrong with him
and blamed it on him playing football and then blame
(13:32):
the NFL. And so I guess we're gonna be running
around in circles if we try to figure out what
someone who had mental health problems was thinking when they
acted erratically. But most of the time, I think people
that have mental health problems don't turn to violence, do they.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
That's true, they do not. It's very rare. Did they do?
And let me come back to this, mister. You know,
you can be a violent person and have mental illness.
You can have a background where aggression was encouraged or uh,
you know, you were just abused as a kid. Violent
(14:14):
people act violently, some of them are probably gonna have CTE,
some of them are going to have mental illness. But
mental illnesses in general do not cause you to harm others.
You know what they do, Larry, They cause suicides.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Right, which is what he did.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, I mean in a very public and horrific manner.
But yeah, you know, there are football players for sure
who suffered terribly. I'm thinking here, remember Aaron Hernandez, the
Patriots player. Oh yeah, he was in prison, he got murdered,
he was convicted of murders and he was found to
have head injury. You can only really diagnose this on
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autopsy after the fact. Remember there was another Pittsburgh Steelers guy,
Terry Long, who him who was found at CTE. I'm
not saying it doesn't exist, but again, and I'm not
saying in fact that we shouldn't look more carefully, but
if you look at the studies that are out there
on CTE, they don't really show a super higher rate
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of violence or aggression and people have it. What they
tend to show as people get incoherent, they lose their memory,
lose their impost control, but not that they're running around
buying guns and engaged in murder.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
If he was put away twice for mental evaluation and
let go, shouldn't that be made well, not public, but
shouldn't they be able to look at that if they're
going to give them a gun license?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You know here, I mean, I know we're in controversial
territory about restricting gun sales, but if you are, let's say,
diagnosed institutionalized for mental illness, you should not be able
to buy a gun. It's that simple. I'm sorry. I
know people say it's still an intrusion to your basic
(16:09):
civil rights, but we don't need these incidents where people,
if you will, their competency really is in doubt. So
I would say two things, Well, when you shouldn't be
able to buy it, and two you should be able
to buy a gun unless you can follow a simple
program about how to keep your gun safe, gun storage,
that sort of thing. If you can't get through that
(16:30):
and answer questions, I think we're just being We're just
too accepting of this overwhelming right to own a weapon
when it leads to I would say, you know, many
problems of suicide, mainly, but sometimes violence against others.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I agree with you, and I
don't think a lot of people would push back on that.
I think that even gun owners, responsible gun owners, wouldn't
want him to have a gun, especially I do. I
think you're okay on that. Doctor Arthur Kaplan, professor of
bioethics at New York University, lend going medical Center with
us every Thursday at nine oh five. Thanks so much,
(17:11):
doctor Kaplin. Now let's go to the Great Rich DeMuro
rich on Tech knows everything about tech. It's heard Sunday
nights from eight to eleven on woor. Rich is with
us every Thursday at this time. You can also follow
him at at rich on tech on Instagram. You can
also ask him questions there, Rich, good morning to you.
I want to jump right to your experience at an
(17:34):
AI drive through. Tell us how it works and how
your experience went.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Hey, good morning to Larry. Yeah, I mean we knew
this was going to happen. AI has been impacting just
about every aspect of our lives. And companies, of course,
are really interested in this technology for the efficiency that
it brings to their jobs. And I visited a drive
through that when you pull up, you hear a voice
and it is not a human, it is an AI voice,
(18:03):
and it actually took my order really well. You can
hear it. It was clear, it was polite. It even
upsold me. And that's really what these companies like about
this AI drive through is that it upsells people like
wild So when you go to the drive through, they
may say, do you want fries with that? This one
knows the entire menu inside and out, including all the combos,
(18:25):
all of the coupon's promotions and so it will try
to upsell you at every turn. The only thing I
didn't like about it it wasn't as playful as I
would have imagined. You know, you would think AI would
be fun. It wasn't. It was all business, which I thought.
You know, it did the job, but I would like
a little bit more playful nature.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And they can do that. You know, you just kind
of tell them and they can make the AI be
whatever you want. And so that's that's really interesting. So
now if that happens, I'm going to give you the credit.
Rich Bitchat. This is really fascinating. So it's it's sort
of like social media but talking to people nearby.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Yeah, I think this is fascinating. I think this could
be one of the biggest stories of the next year
if it takes off. Jack Dorsey, one of the co
founders of Twitter, came up with this new app called Bitchat.
It's available now on iPhone. You can get it on Android,
but you have to do what's called side loading, so
it's a little tough to do for the average person.
If you're not familiar with that process, just wait. But
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it uses Bluetooth only so there's no servers, there's no account,
there's no log in, no data collection. Everything is relayed
peer to peer via nearby phone. So it creates a
mesh network with Bluetooth, so you can have your phone
in airplane mode and still chat with people around you.
So the way I see this is that it creates
(19:45):
a chat room anywhere you are in the world. So
if you're in a restaurant you want to chat about
the service with other people sitting there, you can do that.
If you're on an airplane you want to chat with
the other passengers, you can do that. You're at a ballgame,
you want to chat about the ballgame, you can do that.
This is really powerful and it's different than using Wi
Fi or cellular because it can also be used in
(20:06):
disaster situations where those guys don't work. I have a feeling, Larry,
kids in the classroom are going to use this to
get around all of the blocks on the network with
chatting apps. So again, it's called Bitchat. It's available now
on the iPhone and coming soon to Android.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, I'm going to try to get that immediately. That's wonderful.
I'll tell you what. I'm a huge air tag fan.
I have air tags just about on everything because I
lose stuff so much. But this new idea by Sketchers
is wonderful and they're going to sell a lot of
shoes because of this.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Yeah, and I think people have been doing this on
their own using little tags and you know, adapters and
things they get off of Amazon. But now Sketchers has
kids' shoes that have a hidden compartment in the soul
where you can place an Apple air tag. And I
think you even need a screwdriver to unscrew it so
that no one can just pop this thing out easily.
(21:02):
But you put the air tag in there. Obviously, you
know how the air tags work. You can find the
location of the shoes. And keep in mind some people
are still a little bit confused about the way air
tags work. They are not GPS. They don't have a
GPS or cellular connection built in. They use Bluetooth and
they basically ping the iPhones or the Apple devices in
the area that are connected to the Internet to sort
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of relay their location. And so basically this is not exact.
You know, if your kid went missing, you might not
be able to find them per se. But I think
there's so many iPhones out there that you'd be able
to locate them. This is not a collaboration with Apple.
This is just sketchers sort of thinking outside the box.
Prices start at fifty two dollars for these sneakers and
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the alternative if you don't want to, you know, if
you want to just add this to the sneakers you
already have. There's a device from what is it called.
It's called tagamoles, and this is from another company that
just makes those. You can search them on Amazon, but
you can attach those to any shoes basically.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
So is it just for children now or do they
have them for adults?
Speaker 6 (22:09):
This is just for children, but I have a feeling
I already got a couple of emails from people saying
they should make these for everyone, and it makes sense.
But I think if you go on Amazon and you
search sort of like air tag holder for sneakers or shoes,
you can find them. It's not gonna be as slick
because it's not built in and obviously you could take
those off versus this is sort of like in the
sole of the shoe, which makes a lot more sense.
(22:31):
But look, people love to use air tags. Like you said, Larry,
I've got one on just about just about everything I own.
There's even a Nintendo switch case that came out recently
that's got a little slip in area for an air tag.
So people love these things because they're just inexpensive and
they keep track of your stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Actually, my son has a case for his air pods
that have you know a place for the air tag.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
So yeah, would you love that technology for your kids
built in on them?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Well, I don't know if I'm going to get anything
on my twenty and twenty three year olds right now,
but when they were little it would have been pretty nice.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I have eighteen and twenty one, and I'd rather I'd
love to give it to them and have them not
know it's there so I can track where they are
at all times real quick. Because this is important, there's
an iPhone in computer virus scam people need to know about.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
I mean these are not new, They've been going around forever,
but I keep getting emails from people about them. So basically,
if your iPhone gets one of those pop ups that
says viruses detected, install this software. Do not install the software.
It is completely fake on the iPhone. Just force closed
Safari and then go into your settings app Safari and
clear your history from today and yesterday. If you're on
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Windows and you get one of these big screens that
says you have a virus on your computer, we are
shutting down your Facebook account. We're making your computer you
can't use it until you take action. Remember this combination
of keyboard strokes. Hold down all to F four on Windows.
All F four will close out your browser instantly and
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that will go away. If you can't do that, just
press and hold the power button on your computer until
your screen goes dark. They want you to call the
number on your screen. That's when the scammers get access
to you.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Do not do that.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Great advice Rich Demiro Rich on Tech has heard Sunday
nights from eight to eleven pm on wr Rich is
with us every Thursday at eight thirty five. Thanks a lot, Rich,
Good to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
When a great weekend
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
So I guess it makes sense. We've been all hot
and sweating over the last couple of days, and today
we're going to get a shower, lots of showers, possibly
thunder showers. If you live in a flood area, there's
a flood watch out for today. One to three inches
of rain in some spots. But listen to this. Some
areas could get five inches of rain. So it's either
(00:21):
feast or famine. Right in the Big Three, Mam Donnie
returns the filthy rich Ugandan Socialist mayoral candidates or in
Mamdanni comes home in the wake of tragedy, and he
blasts Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo for daring to criticize him
(00:41):
for not being in New York when the mass shooting occurred.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
For the former governor to have spent an entire day
speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New
Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very
politics New Yorkers want to leave in the penest.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, we'll see about that. The first of the funerals
for the four are killed in the Park Avenue mass shooting,
twenty seven year old Julie Hymen from Rudent management. She
was the youngest of the victims. She graduated summa cum
laude from Cornell. Cornell, you know that love.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Is a choice, and it's a choice you make obvious
to those you love every day during.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
The hardest times of my life.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
You've given this gift to me without question or hesitation,
and I love.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You for that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
That was her sister talking. The funeral for thirty six
year old police officer Dita Rule Islam will be held
at a mosque in Park Chester section of the Bronx
this morning. After hitting commuters with congestion pricing, the MTA
wants more money, a raid hike across the board. This
is going to affect everybody, train, subways, buses and yes,
(01:52):
even tolls and bridges. Unbelievable. Well, the Feds, they do
exactly what they are always do nothing. It refused to
budge on interest rates even though the economy is doing well,
because the Fed chair Jerome Pal says inflation is still
too high. Really, they didn't feel that way a few
(02:12):
months ago.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
When they had the Jumbo ray cut fifty basis points.
Just before the election in September of twenty twenty four,
the inflation rate was three plus yep. Now it's in
the twos.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
The tsunami came and went hit the island of Hawaii
with no major damage and no loss of life.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So far, we have not seen a wave of consequence,
which is a great relief to us.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
It's kind of a blessing to not be reporting any damage.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But then nine hours later, you figure California now has
a sense of release, and yet all of the sudden,
a rogue wave pushed by the tsunami hits a beach
in Ventura County, oh No. Nine people had to be
(03:04):
taken to the hospital when that wave hit Pierpoint Beach
and washed away his cars and damaged buildings. And luckily
nobody was killed because it just swarmed over a lot
of people who had gathered at the beach. I guess
to watch the wave. They got a first hand look
at it. Let's talk about the return of mom Dannie.
(03:26):
So he came home yesterday and went right to the
home of Dietaro Islam. He hugged his grandfather. He talked
about that a lot, but the media was pretty good yesterday.
I've been really disappointed with the New York media. You know,
he went and he had this whole act and how
(03:50):
upset he was and how he wanted to get right back,
but he wasn't able to catch another flight, and so
he took the one that he was scheduled on, and
that his team. He always talks about his team. I
wonder where he gets his team from, probably from mommy.
But his team set it up so he could go
right to the Bronx to see the family of Didero
(04:10):
Islam and so he got all that out of the way,
and then the media did their job. They went after him,
and especially about what Andrew Cuomo has been saying while
he's away that he wants to defund the police, and
he's tweeted that several times.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
I am not defunding the police. I am not running
to defund the police. Andrew Cuomo is far more comfortable
living his life in the past and then attacking tweets
of twenty twenty than in running against the campaign that
we have been leading for the last eight months.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Right. He says he did tweet it a lot, but
way back after George Floyd died because he was affected
by that and he got caught up in the movement.
But since then, he says, his policies have grown. However,
he's still wants to get get rid of the exact
task force, the terrorist task Force, the mass event task
(05:09):
force that responded on Park Avenue to the shooting.
Speaker 8 (05:13):
The Assemblyman called to the dismantling of the Strategic Response Group,
that is the group that responds to terrorist attacks, that
is the group that responded to the shooting on Monday.
So he just doesn't understand government, and he doesn't understand
public safety, and he is dangerous in that regard.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You know who does understand public safety, Mayor Adams. If
you remember, he was the first, one of the first
people on the scene and he was wearing a vest
at the time because he's a former cop. So he
was with the Strategic Response Group, and he agrees, he says,
Mundani just doesn't know what he's talking about.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
When you start dismantling the pieces of the law enforcement
apparatus that are specifically designed to carry out functions, that
is extremely dangerous and a lack of knowledge and understanding
of these roles really could harm law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, now I have to give mom Donnie credit, and
I've given him credit for this all along. Is even
though I believe his whole campaign is a lie. He's
not who he says he is. He's a rich kid
from Uganda who claims he's from the streets and he's
going to help the little man and he's going to
take on the rich. But he is the rich, and
(06:36):
he lives very, very wealthy. He's worth his mom's worth
hundreds of millions of hours. But he does tell you
what he wants to do. He is pretty open. That's
the reason he's been attacked over and over again, you know,
the going after the rich, raising the corporate tax rate,
(06:58):
raising the tax rate on those making over a million dollars,
not hiring any more police officers. He's really honest about that.
And when he was hit with the Strategic Response Group,
and if he's going to get rid of them, he
didn't deny it.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
When it was first formed, there was an intention for
its use to be more akin to the manner in
which it was deployed earlier this week. What we have found, however,
is the city has come to rely upon the Strategic
Response Group as its primary means of response to acts
of protests across the city.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So that's what he's upset about. What he's upset about,
even though the Strategic Response Group is the group that's
supposed to respond to terrorism, to mass shooting events. They're
extremely important to have in this city, and they are
the best of the best. You saw how quickly they
got there and how quickly they secured the entire area.
(07:58):
That's what they're supposed to do. What he's upset about
why Mom Donnie wants to get rid of them is
because they've gone after his people, Because they've gone after
the pro Hamas anti Israel forces that showed up on
Columbia and at NYU and on the streets of New York.
(08:22):
He can't believe that these people that took over a campus,
that hurt security guards, that threatened Jewish students, that made
them stay in their rooms, that took over a library,
he can't believe that the Strategic Response Group was sent
for them. They're just kindly humas people. Why would you
(08:49):
bug them? Look at there's so much wrong with this guy.
But I want to get back to what Cuomo said
in a second ago. He's not ready for prime time.
He's been an assemblyman for a few years and now
he's running for a mayor and he's never run anything
except a staff of about ten and somebody else seems
(09:09):
to be running his campaign. I don't know whoere that is,
but it's somebody that is. Mommy paid.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
No.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I believe what Ina Wernikov says, the Republican council person
who fled Russia. She knows all too well zorin Mam
Donnie's type.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
I'm an immigrant from the former Soviet Union and families
like wine escaped. Exactly what Mam Donnie's about to bring
to New York City should he become mayor. Anti Semitism, communism, socialism,
government overreach and empty shelves.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Right, government overreach. But he's told us all that, he said,
this is exactly what I'm going to do. I'm gonna
do what they've done in every other socialist and communist country.
That's what I'm gonna do. That's what you can expect
from me. And those who have no sense of history,
unlike Nivernikoff, who has a deep sense of history, a
(10:06):
personal sense of what this is like, they go, oh boy,
this sounds great. That's what exactly what happened in the
Soviet Union and other communist countries. It sounds great, it's
horrible in reality. We'll talk more about that coming up.
I want to talk now about the bombastic coach and
former player Dion Sanders. He's been humbled by a close
(10:29):
health call. We'll talk about that next. Now let's get
to doctor Arthur Kaplan, professor of bioethics at New York
University Lengn Medical Center. He's with us every Tuesday at
this time, doctor Kaplan, hope you're having a good morning.
Let's talk about this mass shooting and the fact that
a suicide note was written claiming the shooter claiming that
(10:54):
he had CTE from concussions and playing football. Let's talk
about what exactly it is and could it cause this
kind of behavior.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, it's and good morning. Like It's a condition caused
by repetitive injury to the brain, usually through if you will,
banging your head. It is associated with sports like rugby, football,
(11:26):
maybe hockey, where head injuries happen. And you also see it,
by the way, in soldiers who are around things like artillery,
where they're getting a lot of concussions from the use
of that ammunition blowing up around them all the time.
One thing that seems to be true, though, is it's
(11:48):
not the big injury in sports. Sometimes they say the
big hit that makes somebody pull you out and sit
you down. Your bell got rung. Seems to be something
that occurs over to time with multiple hits small injuries.
In other words, build up causes the brain to have
a kind of protein or gunk in it. Let's call
(12:10):
it gunk that does seem to interfere with impost control.
It does seem to make cognitive changes where people don't
think clearly. So that's what chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE is.
I don't know that this guy knew whether or not
(12:31):
he had it or not. I mean, he certainly left
a note. He was certainly apparently headed to NFL headquarters
saying you know, NFL is covering up this problem and
not really admitting to it. I guess that's where he
was going and wound up in the wrong place and
(12:52):
killed other people had nothing to do with this, But
I don't learn. I don't trust that he's the diagnostic
guy on he did get an injury, but I have
a feeling we're dealing here with mental illness more than
we or brain confirmed diagnosis of CTE.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Right. His name is Shane Shane Devin Tomora, and he
was put away a couple of times against his will
for mental illness. So it does explain a lot. I mean,
he must have known there was something wrong with him
and blamed it on him playing football and then blame
(13:32):
the NFL. And so I guess we're gonna be running
around in circles if we try to figure out what
someone who had mental health problems was thinking when they
acted erratically. But most of the time, I think people
that have mental health problems don't turn to violence, do they.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
That's true, they do not. It's very rare. Did they do?
And let me come back to this, mister. You know,
you can be a violent person and have mental illness.
You can have a background where aggression was encouraged or uh,
you know, you were just abused as a kid. Violent
(14:14):
people act violently, some of them are probably gonna have CTE,
some of them are going to have mental illness. But
mental illnesses in general do not cause you to harm others.
You know what they do, Larry, They cause suicides.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Right, which is what he did.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, I mean in a very public and horrific manner.
But yeah, you know, there are football players for sure
who suffered terribly. I'm thinking here, remember Aaron Hernandez, the
Patriots player. Oh yeah, he was in prison, he got murdered,
he was convicted of murders and he was found to
have head injury. You can only really diagnose this on
(14:54):
autopsy after the fact. Remember there was another Pittsburgh Steelers guy,
Terry Long, who him who was found at CTE. I'm
not saying it doesn't exist, but again, and I'm not
saying in fact that we shouldn't look more carefully, but
if you look at the studies that are out there
on CTE, they don't really show a super higher rate
(15:17):
of violence or aggression and people have it. What they
tend to show as people get incoherent, they lose their memory,
lose their impost control, but not that they're running around
buying guns and engaged in murder.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
If he was put away twice for mental evaluation and
let go, shouldn't that be made well, not public, but
shouldn't they be able to look at that if they're
going to give them a gun license?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You know here, I mean, I know we're in controversial
territory about restricting gun sales, but if you are, let's say,
diagnosed institutionalized for mental illness, you should not be able
to buy a gun. It's that simple. I'm sorry. I
know people say it's still an intrusion to your basic
(16:09):
civil rights, but we don't need these incidents where people,
if you will, their competency really is in doubt. So
I would say two things, Well, when you shouldn't be
able to buy it, and two you should be able
to buy a gun unless you can follow a simple
program about how to keep your gun safe, gun storage,
that sort of thing. If you can't get through that
(16:30):
and answer questions, I think we're just being We're just
too accepting of this overwhelming right to own a weapon
when it leads to I would say, you know, many
problems of suicide, mainly, but sometimes violence against others.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I agree with you, and I
don't think a lot of people would push back on that.
I think that even gun owners, responsible gun owners, wouldn't
want him to have a gun, especially I do. I
think you're okay on that. Doctor Arthur Kaplan, professor of
bioethics at New York University, lend going medical Center with
us every Thursday at nine oh five. Thanks so much,
(17:11):
doctor Kaplin. Now let's go to the Great Rich DeMuro
rich on Tech knows everything about tech. It's heard Sunday
nights from eight to eleven on woor. Rich is with
us every Thursday at this time. You can also follow
him at at rich on tech on Instagram. You can
also ask him questions there, Rich, good morning to you.
I want to jump right to your experience at an
(17:34):
AI drive through. Tell us how it works and how
your experience went.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Hey, good morning to Larry. Yeah, I mean we knew
this was going to happen. AI has been impacting just
about every aspect of our lives. And companies, of course,
are really interested in this technology for the efficiency that
it brings to their jobs. And I visited a drive
through that when you pull up, you hear a voice
and it is not a human, it is an AI voice,
(18:03):
and it actually took my order really well. You can
hear it. It was clear, it was polite. It even
upsold me. And that's really what these companies like about
this AI drive through is that it upsells people like
wild So when you go to the drive through, they
may say, do you want fries with that? This one
knows the entire menu inside and out, including all the combos,
(18:25):
all of the coupon's promotions and so it will try
to upsell you at every turn. The only thing I
didn't like about it it wasn't as playful as I
would have imagined. You know, you would think AI would
be fun. It wasn't. It was all business, which I thought.
You know, it did the job, but I would like
a little bit more playful nature.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And they can do that. You know, you just kind
of tell them and they can make the AI be
whatever you want. And so that's that's really interesting. So
now if that happens, I'm going to give you the credit.
Rich Bitchat. This is really fascinating. So it's it's sort
of like social media but talking to people nearby.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Yeah, I think this is fascinating. I think this could
be one of the biggest stories of the next year
if it takes off. Jack Dorsey, one of the co
founders of Twitter, came up with this new app called Bitchat.
It's available now on iPhone. You can get it on Android,
but you have to do what's called side loading, so
it's a little tough to do for the average person.
If you're not familiar with that process, just wait. But
(19:25):
it uses Bluetooth only so there's no servers, there's no account,
there's no log in, no data collection. Everything is relayed
peer to peer via nearby phone. So it creates a
mesh network with Bluetooth, so you can have your phone
in airplane mode and still chat with people around you.
So the way I see this is that it creates
(19:45):
a chat room anywhere you are in the world. So
if you're in a restaurant you want to chat about
the service with other people sitting there, you can do that.
If you're on an airplane you want to chat with
the other passengers, you can do that. You're at a ballgame,
you want to chat about the ballgame, you can do that.
This is really powerful and it's different than using Wi
Fi or cellular because it can also be used in
(20:06):
disaster situations where those guys don't work. I have a feeling, Larry,
kids in the classroom are going to use this to
get around all of the blocks on the network with
chatting apps. So again, it's called Bitchat. It's available now
on the iPhone and coming soon to Android.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, I'm going to try to get that immediately. That's wonderful.
I'll tell you what. I'm a huge air tag fan.
I have air tags just about on everything because I
lose stuff so much. But this new idea by Sketchers
is wonderful and they're going to sell a lot of
shoes because of this.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Yeah, and I think people have been doing this on
their own using little tags and you know, adapters and
things they get off of Amazon. But now Sketchers has
kids' shoes that have a hidden compartment in the soul
where you can place an Apple air tag. And I
think you even need a screwdriver to unscrew it so
that no one can just pop this thing out easily.
(21:02):
But you put the air tag in there. Obviously, you
know how the air tags work. You can find the
location of the shoes. And keep in mind some people
are still a little bit confused about the way air
tags work. They are not GPS. They don't have a
GPS or cellular connection built in. They use Bluetooth and
they basically ping the iPhones or the Apple devices in
the area that are connected to the Internet to sort
(21:24):
of relay their location. And so basically this is not exact.
You know, if your kid went missing, you might not
be able to find them per se. But I think
there's so many iPhones out there that you'd be able
to locate them. This is not a collaboration with Apple.
This is just sketchers sort of thinking outside the box.
Prices start at fifty two dollars for these sneakers and
(21:46):
the alternative if you don't want to, you know, if
you want to just add this to the sneakers you
already have. There's a device from what is it called.
It's called tagamoles, and this is from another company that
just makes those. You can search them on Amazon, but
you can attach those to any shoes basically.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
So is it just for children now or do they
have them for adults?
Speaker 6 (22:09):
This is just for children, but I have a feeling
I already got a couple of emails from people saying
they should make these for everyone, and it makes sense.
But I think if you go on Amazon and you
search sort of like air tag holder for sneakers or shoes,
you can find them. It's not gonna be as slick
because it's not built in and obviously you could take
those off versus this is sort of like in the
sole of the shoe, which makes a lot more sense.
(22:31):
But look, people love to use air tags. Like you said, Larry,
I've got one on just about just about everything I own.
There's even a Nintendo switch case that came out recently
that's got a little slip in area for an air tag.
So people love these things because they're just inexpensive and
they keep track of your stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Actually, my son has a case for his air pods
that have you know a place for the air tag.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
So yeah, would you love that technology for your kids
built in on them?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Well, I don't know if I'm going to get anything
on my twenty and twenty three year olds right now,
but when they were little it would have been pretty nice.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I have eighteen and twenty one, and I'd rather I'd
love to give it to them and have them not
know it's there so I can track where they are
at all times real quick. Because this is important, there's
an iPhone in computer virus scam people need to know about.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
I mean these are not new, They've been going around forever,
but I keep getting emails from people about them. So basically,
if your iPhone gets one of those pop ups that
says viruses detected, install this software. Do not install the software.
It is completely fake on the iPhone. Just force closed
Safari and then go into your settings app Safari and
clear your history from today and yesterday. If you're on
(23:52):
Windows and you get one of these big screens that
says you have a virus on your computer, we are
shutting down your Facebook account. We're making your computer you
can't use it until you take action. Remember this combination
of keyboard strokes. Hold down all to F four on Windows.
All F four will close out your browser instantly and
(24:12):
that will go away. If you can't do that, just
press and hold the power button on your computer until
your screen goes dark. They want you to call the
number on your screen. That's when the scammers get access
to you.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Do not do that.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Great advice Rich Demiro Rich on Tech has heard Sunday
nights from eight to eleven pm on wr Rich is
with us every Thursday at eight thirty five. Thanks a lot, Rich,
Good to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
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