In Harlem, New York, 81 people have been diagnosed with the Legionnaires Disease. 23 are in the hospital and 3 are dead. Benjamin Netanyahu said he is continuing his plan to take over Gaza. The New York Times Story that came out about President Trump allegedly calling Cuomo and Eric Adams about stopping Mamdani, could change the landscape of the election come November. JC Polanco thinks that Trump coming in could be a positive addition to stopping Mamdani, but how does Trump view NYC'S future? A new film business is happening in New Jersey! Lots of revenue has been produced from big movies being filmed in New Jersey, that is benefiting local businesses such as restaurants, hotels, and more! Jon Crowley explains how you could get involved. Netflix is building stages throughout the Garden State.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the weekend, and welcome to some beautiful weather.
You heard the weather report just a second ago. But
let me tell you. What I have here in front
of me is a long range forecast, and it says
a long run of dry and milder to warmer weather.
(00:20):
So we're going to have a streak of several days
in a row right through the weekend. So it's going
to be a gorgeous weekend. So no matter what else
is going on today, just remember the weekend is going
to be beautiful and that is something to celebrate it
as a matter of fact, that should lead off for Big Three,
But nope. In the Big Three. The New York Times
(00:41):
story claiming Donald Trump is working behind the scenes and
talking with independent candidate former Governor Andrew Cuomo to defeat
Socialist Democratic candidates or in mom Donnie, that is still
dominating the news and still dominating the mayor's race.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I don't recall the last time I spoke with him.
I left the message after the attempted assassination. I don't
believe I spoke with him. I believe I left the
message for him.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, that just doesn't ring true. We'll get into that
in the second, but political analyst JC Polanco will be
with us at eight o five to talk about this
new twist in the race. Nobody saw this one coming.
In Harlem, there are now eighty one diagnosed with Legionnaire's disease,
twenty three are in the hospital and three are dead.
(01:33):
And you can catch it just by walking past certain
buildings in Harlem.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
The most commonplace for the bacteria to grow is in
cooling towers, which are on top of buildings. These cooling
towers spray missed or droplets, and that miss is outdoors
and can carry bacteria. Right now, the risk to central
Harlem community at large is not limited to any specifics.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So listen to that. That was the health secretary. I
will tell you that the Secretary of Health. I'll tell
you what. It's a myss that falls from the buildings
that you can breathe in and get Legionella disease. But
the important thing here is also if someone has it
and you're around them, you can't get it from them.
The disease cannot spread person to person. A mystery in
(02:23):
Montalk after a thirty three year old Manhattan fashion designer
Martha was found unconscious. Martha Hawk was found unconscious on
a boat in the exclusive Mantaw Yacht Club. Efforts to
revive her have failed.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
You have someone who's in a private life at thirty
three years old, a successful business woman at that young age,
and now she's in the middle of Montauk Yacht Club,
which is a highly risy area to be at on
a boat, expensive boat. These things just don't happen in
these neighborhoods.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Police are investigating, but they're not calling it's suspicious at
this point. Israeli President Benjamin Netanyah, who says he is
pushing forward with plans to take control of all of Gaza.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
We intend to in order to assure our security, remove
Tramas there, enable the population to be free of Gaza,
and to pass it to civilian governance that is not
Tramas and not anyone advocating the destruction to visual.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
President Trump is going to meet with Russian President Vladimir
Putin to end the war in Ukraine next week. At
least he hopes that's what it's about. But Trump says,
and he insisted on this at first. Trump says, Vladimir
Zelensky does not need to be there. No, he doesn't, No, no,
they would like to meet with me, and I'll do
(03:47):
whatever I can to stop the killing. Senator John Cordin
says he has assurances now from the FBI that agents
will help get Texas legislators back to Texas to vote
on re districting, but reporters, they haven't been able to
verify that.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
We've repeatedly asked the FBI what this means. We've asked
for details about what this assistance looks like, and the
FBI has declined to comment repeatedly, so it's it's unclear
what they can do.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
ABC's Jim Ryan will be with us at seven p
thirty five with the latest from Texas economists and frequent
guest on Woor. Stephen Moore was in the Oval Office
to go through some great economic news.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
In his first five months in office, starting in January
through the end of June. The average median household income
adjusted for inflation for the average family in America is
already up and seventy four dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's an very incredible number. The CEO of Investipedia, Caleb Silver,
will be with us at nine oh five to go
over all of the current economic figures and what they
exactly mean. And transportation. I love this story. Transportation advocates
athered did thirty fourth and First in Manhattan to prove
(05:04):
that the thirty fourth Street bus is too slow. So
they raced the bus, but by walking, they just walked
at a regular pace all the way to eighth Street.
So from First to eighth it took him fifteen minutes.
It took the bus twenty two minutes.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
That bus should be going, should do that distance in
five to six minutes max.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
And we're hoping that a busway will bring that. Yeah,
that's what it was all about, getting a bus laid
on the thirty fourth Street bus route, and this stunt
may just do that. Now, let's talk a little bit
more about the mayoral race, because it's changed. It's changed.
Andrew Cuomo has a Trump problem. And ever since The
(05:48):
New York Times came out and said that Donald Trump,
well we knew he was concerned about the race, but
he's been more involved in that behind the scenes, making
several phone calls talking about who was the best chance
of winning. If he can clear the field and get
some other candidates out of the race, who would have
the best chance, And it turned out the answer kept
coming up. It's Andrew Cuomo, former Governor.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
Cuomo has been conspiring with President Trump about the fate
of this city, about the future of this city.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, so, Zorimamdani has been running on this. Isn't it amazing?
In New York City? Not many other places in the country,
but in New York City, when the President of the
United States of America's name is mentioned, it's a bad thing.
It's a bad thing because we are so far to
(06:39):
the left lunatic. Not you, I know you're not, but
like eighty percent of the people in the city are.
If you take away Staten Island, it's probably ninety percent.
And so the President of the United States. Now, you
would think having a mayor coming into office and having
an affiliation with the President of the United States would
(07:01):
be a good thing for the city. They don't care.
It is massive Trump derangement syndrome. It's in the air
in New York. Everybody has it. Almost everyone has it.
It afflicts eight out of ten people in this city.
So they don't care. They don't care that it makes
no sense that it would hurt the city to have
(07:24):
a mayor that's fighting with the president. They want it
because they don't like Trump. So if you're aligned with Trump,
then you're not going to win. It killed Mayor Adams.
The scandal wasn't that bad. If you remember, his poll
numbers were still pretty good. When President Biden was coming
after him because he opposed the migrants coming to New York,
(07:46):
he had the nerve to speak out against that, and
then he sick. The FBI owt and nobody cared about that.
Oh but as soon as Donald Trump helped them, that
was the death. K No, that was the problem. It
is bizarre. It is just bizarre. It's irrational. It's irrational
across the country, but it is absolutely real, and it's
(08:08):
causing Andrew Cuomo to say, I don't even know the guy.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't recall the last time I spoke with him.
I left the message after the attempted assassination. I don't
believe I spoke with him. I believe I left the
message for him.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Okay, I completely call BS on that. That's just not true.
And here's why I know it's not true. And let's
just take everybody that's listening right now, you and you,
and you, and you take everybody. If you called the
president or somebody running for president, the former president after
(08:46):
an assassination attempt. Wouldn't you remember if you talked to him?
He said, I can't remember if I left the message.
I can't remember if I talked to him. That sure
sounds like a guy who is lying.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
We know that Andrew Cuomo will sell working people out
for his interests, for the interests of the billionaires that
supported him, for the interests of Donald Trump, because all
of those interests are lining up as one and the same.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Maybe Donald Trump did this on purpose so that the
Democrats would eat their own because they're after each other.
They're all attacking each other right now. Eric Adams is
in the background saying me too, Me too, me too.
He's in third place and fourth place in some polls.
But let me ask you something, if they keep going
(09:38):
after each other, doesn't that give Curtis Leewa a little
bit more of a chance. I mean, he's being left
out of this entire story. He's the only one that
can absolutely distance himself from Donald Trump and said that
Donald Trump should stay out of it, and he rings true,
and he comes into it with about twenty percent of
the vote because of the Republicans, they're going to vote,
(10:00):
So it's going to be interesting. I mean, you know,
Republicans vote, and so I think it makes the Courtius
leewacoundidacy even that more viable. We'll find out, but this
story's not going away anytime soon. Apparently a bear fell
in love with a sports mascot, which led to a
(10:23):
dangerous chase during a promotional video shoot. We'll tell you
what this is all about and how it turned out next.
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Let's get to my favorite political analyst, jac Polanco, who
takes time out of his busy media schedule to be
(11:31):
with us and we really appreciate it. He is also
an assistant professor at the University of Mount Saint Vincent JC.
Thanks so much for being here with us today.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Always love coming on. Thank you for the invitation.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Well, listen, it's a great day to have you too.
Because this New York Times story I think changed, at
least for the time being, the trajectory of this race.
I think it was all about law and order for
a second after the Park Avenue shooting, and that wasn't
good for Zora and Mom Donnie in a way. This
(12:05):
story about Donald Trump allegedly calling Andrew Cuomo and Derek
Adams and talking about how they can stop Zora and
Mom Donnie, I think it's the best thing that could
happen to the Mom Donnie campaign right now, don't you.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
Well, that's interesting. It's interesting because remember that there are
pockets in the city Larry where Donald Trump is very popular.
We know that from the twenty twenty four results and
his you know, coming in in any way whatsoever on
this mayoral race would have great benefits in some pockets,
but for the majority of the city. If I were
(12:42):
to take a poll, I think COVID nineteen is more
popular than President Trump.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
You know this.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
You know this, So you know it's interesting because President Trump,
he knows that he knows what I just said. And
if you were to get involved in this race, it'll
be the kiss of death for whoever he endorses. So
how does President Trump look at the city that he
identifies with that he grew up in, not get involved
in any way whatsoever, and then see the reality of
(13:10):
how difficult it would be to beat Mamdani with four
people running against him, just mathematically. And lastly, I remember
what we talked about a couple of weeks ago. The
Republicans need a mayor Mumdani in the midterm elections. If
Mayor Mumdani wins, this would be a treasure trove of
(13:31):
the commercials for Republicans in purple districts to associate the
Democrats with a socialist who has some Marxists and communist positions.
So you know, you're in a rough spot of your
President Trump because you need Mayor mum Donni as the
pinata in order to keep your Republican majority. But you
don't want to see New York City become a socialist city.
(13:52):
So it's very tough. So you're right, him getting involved
here is could be good news for Mumdani. At the
end of the day.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Let's take everything you said and figure out what Donald
Trump was thinking, because what we've found out. I found
out from the New York Times documentary that Maggie Haberman,
who did the story, is very close with Donald Trump
and sometimes he leakes stuff to her on his own
and this so this story comes out that now he's
(14:21):
trying to stop zorin Mom Donnie, and he knows what
you just said. He knows how that would be taken
in this city. He knows that what helps or In
Mom Donnie. So the question is because that would help
the Republicans in the midterms, and a lot of people
say that Zora mom Donnie winning would win Mike Lawler's
seat for Mike Lawler in Rockland and Westchester County. So
(14:44):
so did he do it on purpose?
Speaker 9 (14:48):
Oh, that's that's interesting. I've been I've been grappling with
that for the last couple of days. I have been,
because you know, I don't. I don't know if he
if he, if the President really wanted to do this
on purpose, he would just say it. He would say
we need Governor Cuomo. He would just say, we need
to make sure that we defeat, and that alone would
would almost guarantee him Donny victory.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
But I just wanted to jump in. He has some
deniability this way.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
He does have some deniability. But when was the last
time that we saw President Trump one deniability? It was
a good strategy for him.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Recently. It's happened a few times recently. When he doesn't
want to be connected to his story, he'll let like
Epstein he was, he was way he was steering away
from in the beginning. Pat's all Bam Bondi's thing. That's
not my thing. So he will do that every once
in a while. You're right. Usually he doesn't. Usually he's
out in front and everything. I think he's learning. I'm
just wondering if he's playing chess with this while everybody
(15:47):
else is playing checkers.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
He may be playing chess. He played chess twenty four
to seven. I'll tell you this, Larry, it's you know
I have I have Curtis Leewa on my podcast this
Morning centered with J. C. Palanco for your viewers, and
I'm gonna ask him. I'm gonna ask him straight up.
You know, can you see yourself winning in this situation
where you have four people running when the President hasn't
made an endorsement yet, and you know, what are your
(16:10):
thoughts about beating mom? DONI considering the numbers. I'll ask
him and see, you know, what his position.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Is on the President.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
I think that'd be interesting. That's telling up of your question.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, that would be really interesting because from what I remember,
and you probably know this better than I, he doesn't
have the best relationship with Donald Trump, does he, Curtis
leew No, Well.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
You know he respects him. I've seen his interviews in
the past. He was never a MAGA guy, you know.
You know, he doesn't have the conservative line. He's more
of a Republican along what we normally consider to be
a New York Republican, right, someone who is down the
middle on a lot of issues. And he doesn't have
that maga relationship with the President, but I know it's
a respectful one from what I've seen.
Speaker 10 (16:55):
Now.
Speaker 9 (16:55):
I don't know whether or not quite. Frankly, you know,
the President Trump getting involved in any way even supporting
the Republican candidate would make any sense at all to
try to defeat Mamdani. See, this is a very tough
situation with so many candidates running. And another thing, there
are other ways that the President could be supportive in
bringing people together to defeat a socialist, and that may
(17:17):
be asking donors to support one of the candidates that
has the best shot, because as you can see, money's
going to be tight going into November. So there's a
lot of other ways other than an endorsement where the
President can be helpful.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I know there's a lot of people that listen to
this show that are rooting for Curtis Leewood. Does he
have a shot?
Speaker 9 (17:37):
You know, he's raised the most money, he's going up
in the polls. You know, I'm going to ask him
about all of that this morning, Larry, So I could
be honestly, I want to get that they want to
get his answers from him. Mathematically, I think when you
take a look at four people running hard, beating up
on each other, I mean you got to hear the
campaigning against each other. When when you know Curtis Lee.
(17:59):
What goes in on former Governor Cuomo. He pulls no punches.
I just wonder how helpful is that in November. I'm
sitting here off and thinking about it. I'm gonna ask
him this. I mean, when you're beating up on all
the other independence, does it make it more difficult for
there to be a unified voice in November. I think
it's difficult right now for me to tell you that
going into November, as of today, that he's going to win.
(18:20):
The way that he can win is if in the
next couple of months and I know your viewers are
curious about this, in the next couple of months, do
the other independent candidates fall off? Right? Do they no
longer campaign actively? If that happens and Curtis continues campaigning
and raising money like he has, then the hope would
be for Curtis is that the people that drop off
are telling are coming over to his camp.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
He let me quickly because we're running out of time.
I want to ask you the most important question. How
do people hear your podcasts?
Speaker 9 (18:49):
Oh, they could go to centered with JC dot com
and I'm on all the platforms, YouTube everywhere, Instagram everywhere,
that you can imagine. But centered with JC is where
we post them and it'll be up tonight. So we're
recording in about an hour and it's gonna be a
great interview.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Wonderful j C. Polanco, political analyst and University of Mount
Saint Vincent assistant professor. Thanks a lot, JAYC. Have a
good weekend. He may not realize it, but New Jersey
is skyrocketing up the list of states to go to
for movie productions, internet productions, TV productions. It has become
(19:26):
the hot state for putting making anything making. Some of
the biggest films of the last few years were made
in New Jersey. And to talk about that, and the
guy that can be credited with helping that happen is
John Crowley, Executive director of the New Jersey Motion Picture
and Television Commission. Now, to set this up, I just
(19:46):
want to let you know that I have worked with
John before. We've won Emmys together for some work that
we did. And now he's got this huge role. He's
got this big role. Do I hear from him? No?
I'm thinking to myself, well, you know what, I could
play some small role in a movie. I could be
a radio broadcaster in a movie. I could be a
TV anchor and movie. So I sit there by my
(20:08):
phone and just waiting for John to call me, and
I never get a phone call. But now now that
he wants to glow about how New Jersey is doing
so well with movies, now I get to talk to him.
Good morning, John.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
Larry, how are you my friend?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I'm doing well. It's been a long time. The last
time I talked to you it was about possibly doing
a commercial. So I can't say yes that you never
called me. As a matter of fact, you called me
right You called me yesterday. I was taking a nap,
but I thought to myself, why is John Crowley calling me?
And you know, I want to call you right back
because it might be some huge movie role. But but no,
(20:48):
it was just that you were coming on with us today.
How have you been. How's everything going?
Speaker 10 (20:52):
I'm out all great. I mean, we're going like gangbusters
in New Jersey. But look, I got to drop the
dime on you. Tis to your list because we did
the show together, and I had said to Larry, you know,
I've never won an Emmy, and that's sort of a
bucket list thing. We finished taping that night, I don't
know if you remember this. And you walked up the
aisle to me and you said, you just won your
(21:13):
first Emmy and I have you to thank Larry. You
were a fantastic hoast for that event. And you know
you went out of your way to make make the
Emmy folks aware of our program. And I owe that
that piece of hardware to you, my friend. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, and you were wonderful even at the time. You
got some Hollywood guests to come all the way to
New Jersey to appear in that. So, yeah, no, it
was a wonderful.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
It was.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
It was just let the people, let people know that
it was a town hall about the opioid crisis and so,
and we had some people on the stage that had
some heartbreaking stories. We had the Attorney General.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
It was.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It was a wonderful TV moment that I'm really proud of.
And John, I'm sure you are too.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I am.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
And And you just said, we got some Hollywood people
to come to that. Well, we're getting even more of
them these days with the with film and TV production.
Let me, I'll do you want do you want me
to give you just some some good numbers?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Go ahead, go ahead, all right.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
So twenty so, historically New Jersey has been like number seven,
number eight in terms of you know, production hubs to
come to in the United States.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
LA.
Speaker 10 (22:22):
Even though the numbers have been down, LA is still
number one. New York's number two. Georgia has been number three,
and then we're down around seven or eight. Well, our
goal on the film commission is to get us into
that number three spot. And it's happening because in twenty
twenty three, we had five hundred and ninety two million
dollars in what is called qualified spend. That's the money
(22:46):
that productions are spending when they're here in New Jersey.
They don't come here with groceries and hardware and fuel
and cars things like that. They're getting them here, they're
renting them when they're here. So that was five hundred
and ninety two million dollars in New Jersey on qualified
spent twenty twenty four. Do you want to take a guest, Larry,
what the qualified spend was?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I have it in front of me, So it's not
a guess. I'm not going to chieve go ahead and
tell me, GENI.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
Eight hundred and ten million dollars qualified spend. Wow, it's
thirty seven percent that were up and La down, New
York stagnant, recovering, Georgia down, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico down,
down down. Those are all of our major competitors. Chicago down,
even Toronto is down.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Hey, you're just talking about the money. What about the jobs.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
Oh so the jobs even more millary. They we twenty
twenty two sixteen thousand crew hires. Twenty twenty three was
like seventeen thousand crew hires. In twenty twenty four we
hit a new high, which was thirty thousand crew hires.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
But absolutely some of the biggest some of the biggest
movies in some of the biggest shows of the last
couple of years. I don't think people were realized we're
done in New Jersey. Go through a few of them.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
Well, you know, and that's the thing, right is like,
why is that happening? Well, New Jersey, you know, geographically
compact state, but this huge variety of locations. And that's
one of the biggest draws for production is they say, well,
we've got all these different things we need in our script.
You know, we need to Washington, DC look alike, or
we need to play like Times Square in New York,
(24:30):
but we don't want to deal with the traffic of
going to New York. And we've got all that huge
amount of variety locations, little towns, big cities, mountains with snow, oceans.
So severances shooting, you know, has been shooting in Holmdale
at the Bell Labs building.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
No bigger show, no bigger show on TV right now?
Speaker 10 (24:49):
That's right, yeah, right, Larry, are you in any air
and outy We we'll figure that out later.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yes.
Speaker 10 (24:54):
So that's for your Severance fans, that's for your seventh fans.
That's nothing to do with your belly button, but Severance
a complete unknown. That was the Bob Dylan biopic that
was here, The new Bruce Springsteen biopick that's coming out,
Delivered Me from Nowhere filmed here Steven Spielberg, he's got
(25:15):
a new film that's coming out. That was down in
Kate may I got to tell you about that too.
That was that was crazy in terms of that money
that we talk about. They had three hundred and fifty
crew members that were down there in Kate may Well.
They were all coming from else you know, from Northern Jersey,
Central Jersey, wherever. So they put them up in hotels.
(25:36):
They the three hundred and fifty crew were in eight
different hotels and an average of two hundred and eighty
five dollars per night. So you do the math. And
that's in the off season. That was like February March,
so the hotel owners were ecstatic. And then when everybody
wrapped filming for the end of the day, they went
and they took their per diem and they were buying
dinner at restaurants all around Kate May area. So again
(25:59):
between the job in the qualified spend the money that
they're spending, that's that's why we do that. But we've
all happy Gilmore Happy. Gilmore just released what about a
week week and a half ago on Netflix. Shot here
for like sixty some odd days, and they spent one
hundred and fifty two million dollars while they were here
in state. Eighteen million. That was just in location fees
(26:21):
at golf courses and stores and you know, restaurants everywhere
that you've seen in the movie. They were paying location fees.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And you have so much being built in New Jersey
and John, we're running out of time, but you know what,
we got to have you back, So let let's talk
again soon and come back on you know you have.
It's an open door policy. Apparently I've been shut out
to any production in New Jersey, but for you, sir,
it's an open door policy to come on the show
to talk about what's happening there.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
Don Larry, I'm sure. I'm sure we'll get jumped down.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I beg you chance.
Speaker 10 (26:51):
I got to talk to you, my friend.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
With you grat all right, So we'll definitely do that. John,
Congratulations on the gig and congratulations on your success.
Speaker 10 (26:58):
Thanks a lot, Thank you, sir, Thank you
Welcome to the weekend, and welcome to some beautiful weather.
You heard the weather report just a second ago. But
let me tell you. What I have here in front
of me is a long range forecast, and it says
a long run of dry and milder to warmer weather.
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So we're going to have a streak of several days
in a row right through the weekend. So it's going
to be a gorgeous weekend. So no matter what else
is going on today, just remember the weekend is going
to be beautiful and that is something to celebrate it
as a matter of fact, that should lead off for Big Three,
But nope. In the Big Three. The New York Times
(00:41):
story claiming Donald Trump is working behind the scenes and
talking with independent candidate former Governor Andrew Cuomo to defeat
Socialist Democratic candidates or in mom Donnie, that is still
dominating the news and still dominating the mayor's race.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I don't recall the last time I spoke with him.
I left the message after the attempted assassination. I don't
believe I spoke with him. I believe I left the
message for him.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, that just doesn't ring true. We'll get into that
in the second, but political analyst JC Polanco will be
with us at eight o five to talk about this
new twist in the race. Nobody saw this one coming.
In Harlem, there are now eighty one diagnosed with Legionnaire's disease,
twenty three are in the hospital and three are dead.
(01:33):
And you can catch it just by walking past certain
buildings in Harlem.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
The most commonplace for the bacteria to grow is in
cooling towers, which are on top of buildings. These cooling
towers spray missed or droplets, and that miss is outdoors
and can carry bacteria. Right now, the risk to central
Harlem community at large is not limited to any specifics.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So listen to that. That was the health secretary. I
will tell you that the Secretary of Health. I'll tell
you what. It's a myss that falls from the buildings
that you can breathe in and get Legionella disease. But
the important thing here is also if someone has it
and you're around them, you can't get it from them.
The disease cannot spread person to person. A mystery in
(02:23):
Montalk after a thirty three year old Manhattan fashion designer
Martha was found unconscious. Martha Hawk was found unconscious on
a boat in the exclusive Mantaw Yacht Club. Efforts to
revive her have failed.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
You have someone who's in a private life at thirty
three years old, a successful business woman at that young age,
and now she's in the middle of Montauk Yacht Club,
which is a highly risy area to be at on
a boat, expensive boat. These things just don't happen in
these neighborhoods.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Police are investigating, but they're not calling it's suspicious at
this point. Israeli President Benjamin Netanyah, who says he is
pushing forward with plans to take control of all of Gaza.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
We intend to in order to assure our security, remove
Tramas there, enable the population to be free of Gaza,
and to pass it to civilian governance that is not
Tramas and not anyone advocating the destruction to visual.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
President Trump is going to meet with Russian President Vladimir
Putin to end the war in Ukraine next week. At
least he hopes that's what it's about. But Trump says,
and he insisted on this at first. Trump says, Vladimir
Zelensky does not need to be there. No, he doesn't, No, no,
they would like to meet with me, and I'll do
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whatever I can to stop the killing. Senator John Cordin
says he has assurances now from the FBI that agents
will help get Texas legislators back to Texas to vote
on re districting, but reporters, they haven't been able to
verify that.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
We've repeatedly asked the FBI what this means. We've asked
for details about what this assistance looks like, and the
FBI has declined to comment repeatedly, so it's it's unclear
what they can do.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
ABC's Jim Ryan will be with us at seven p
thirty five with the latest from Texas economists and frequent
guest on Woor. Stephen Moore was in the Oval Office
to go through some great economic news.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
In his first five months in office, starting in January
through the end of June. The average median household income
adjusted for inflation for the average family in America is
already up and seventy four dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's an very incredible number. The CEO of Investipedia, Caleb Silver,
will be with us at nine oh five to go
over all of the current economic figures and what they
exactly mean. And transportation. I love this story. Transportation advocates
athered did thirty fourth and First in Manhattan to prove
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that the thirty fourth Street bus is too slow. So
they raced the bus, but by walking, they just walked
at a regular pace all the way to eighth Street.
So from First to eighth it took him fifteen minutes.
It took the bus twenty two minutes.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
That bus should be going, should do that distance in
five to six minutes max.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
And we're hoping that a busway will bring that. Yeah,
that's what it was all about, getting a bus laid
on the thirty fourth Street bus route, and this stunt
may just do that. Now, let's talk a little bit
more about the mayoral race, because it's changed. It's changed.
Andrew Cuomo has a Trump problem. And ever since The
(05:48):
New York Times came out and said that Donald Trump,
well we knew he was concerned about the race, but
he's been more involved in that behind the scenes, making
several phone calls talking about who was the best chance
of winning. If he can clear the field and get
some other candidates out of the race, who would have
the best chance, And it turned out the answer kept
coming up. It's Andrew Cuomo, former Governor.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
Cuomo has been conspiring with President Trump about the fate
of this city, about the future of this city.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, so, Zorimamdani has been running on this. Isn't it amazing?
In New York City? Not many other places in the country,
but in New York City, when the President of the
United States of America's name is mentioned, it's a bad thing.
It's a bad thing because we are so far to
(06:39):
the left lunatic. Not you, I know you're not, but
like eighty percent of the people in the city are.
If you take away Staten Island, it's probably ninety percent.
And so the President of the United States. Now, you
would think having a mayor coming into office and having
an affiliation with the President of the United States would
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be a good thing for the city. They don't care.
It is massive Trump derangement syndrome. It's in the air
in New York. Everybody has it. Almost everyone has it.
It afflicts eight out of ten people in this city.
So they don't care. They don't care that it makes
no sense that it would hurt the city to have
(07:24):
a mayor that's fighting with the president. They want it
because they don't like Trump. So if you're aligned with Trump,
then you're not going to win. It killed Mayor Adams.
The scandal wasn't that bad. If you remember, his poll
numbers were still pretty good. When President Biden was coming
after him because he opposed the migrants coming to New York,
(07:46):
he had the nerve to speak out against that, and
then he sick. The FBI owt and nobody cared about that.
Oh but as soon as Donald Trump helped them, that
was the death. K No, that was the problem. It
is bizarre. It is just bizarre. It's irrational. It's irrational
across the country, but it is absolutely real, and it's
(08:08):
causing Andrew Cuomo to say, I don't even know the guy.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't recall the last time I spoke with him.
I left the message after the attempted assassination. I don't
believe I spoke with him. I believe I left the
message for him.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Okay, I completely call BS on that. That's just not true.
And here's why I know it's not true. And let's
just take everybody that's listening right now, you and you,
and you, and you take everybody. If you called the
president or somebody running for president, the former president after
(08:46):
an assassination attempt. Wouldn't you remember if you talked to him?
He said, I can't remember if I left the message.
I can't remember if I talked to him. That sure
sounds like a guy who is lying.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
We know that Andrew Cuomo will sell working people out
for his interests, for the interests of the billionaires that
supported him, for the interests of Donald Trump, because all
of those interests are lining up as one and the same.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Maybe Donald Trump did this on purpose so that the
Democrats would eat their own because they're after each other.
They're all attacking each other right now. Eric Adams is
in the background saying me too, Me too, me too.
He's in third place and fourth place in some polls.
But let me ask you something, if they keep going
(09:38):
after each other, doesn't that give Curtis Leewa a little
bit more of a chance. I mean, he's being left
out of this entire story. He's the only one that
can absolutely distance himself from Donald Trump and said that
Donald Trump should stay out of it, and he rings true,
and he comes into it with about twenty percent of
the vote because of the Republicans, they're going to vote,
(10:00):
So it's going to be interesting. I mean, you know,
Republicans vote, and so I think it makes the Courtius
leewacoundidacy even that more viable. We'll find out, but this
story's not going away anytime soon. Apparently a bear fell
in love with a sports mascot, which led to a
(10:23):
dangerous chase during a promotional video shoot. We'll tell you
what this is all about and how it turned out next.
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Let's get to my favorite political analyst, jac Polanco, who
takes time out of his busy media schedule to be
(11:31):
with us and we really appreciate it. He is also
an assistant professor at the University of Mount Saint Vincent JC.
Thanks so much for being here with us today.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Always love coming on. Thank you for the invitation.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Well, listen, it's a great day to have you too.
Because this New York Times story I think changed, at
least for the time being, the trajectory of this race.
I think it was all about law and order for
a second after the Park Avenue shooting, and that wasn't
good for Zora and Mom Donnie in a way. This
(12:05):
story about Donald Trump allegedly calling Andrew Cuomo and Derek
Adams and talking about how they can stop Zora and
Mom Donnie, I think it's the best thing that could
happen to the Mom Donnie campaign right now, don't you.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
Well, that's interesting. It's interesting because remember that there are
pockets in the city Larry where Donald Trump is very popular.
We know that from the twenty twenty four results and
his you know, coming in in any way whatsoever on
this mayoral race would have great benefits in some pockets,
but for the majority of the city. If I were
(12:42):
to take a poll, I think COVID nineteen is more
popular than President Trump.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
You know this.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
You know this, So you know it's interesting because President Trump,
he knows that he knows what I just said. And
if you were to get involved in this race, it'll
be the kiss of death for whoever he endorses. So
how does President Trump look at the city that he
identifies with that he grew up in, not get involved
in any way whatsoever, and then see the reality of
(13:10):
how difficult it would be to beat Mamdani with four
people running against him, just mathematically. And lastly, I remember
what we talked about a couple of weeks ago. The
Republicans need a mayor Mumdani in the midterm elections. If
Mayor Mumdani wins, this would be a treasure trove of
(13:31):
the commercials for Republicans in purple districts to associate the
Democrats with a socialist who has some Marxists and communist positions.
So you know, you're in a rough spot of your
President Trump because you need Mayor mum Donni as the
pinata in order to keep your Republican majority. But you
don't want to see New York City become a socialist city.
(13:52):
So it's very tough. So you're right, him getting involved
here is could be good news for Mumdani. At the
end of the day.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Let's take everything you said and figure out what Donald
Trump was thinking, because what we've found out. I found
out from the New York Times documentary that Maggie Haberman,
who did the story, is very close with Donald Trump
and sometimes he leakes stuff to her on his own
and this so this story comes out that now he's
(14:21):
trying to stop zorin Mom Donnie, and he knows what
you just said. He knows how that would be taken
in this city. He knows that what helps or In
Mom Donnie. So the question is because that would help
the Republicans in the midterms, and a lot of people
say that Zora mom Donnie winning would win Mike Lawler's
seat for Mike Lawler in Rockland and Westchester County. So
(14:44):
so did he do it on purpose?
Speaker 9 (14:48):
Oh, that's that's interesting. I've been I've been grappling with
that for the last couple of days. I have been,
because you know, I don't. I don't know if he
if he, if the President really wanted to do this
on purpose, he would just say it. He would say
we need Governor Cuomo. He would just say, we need
to make sure that we defeat, and that alone would
would almost guarantee him Donny victory.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
But I just wanted to jump in. He has some
deniability this way.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
He does have some deniability. But when was the last
time that we saw President Trump one deniability? It was
a good strategy for him.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Recently. It's happened a few times recently. When he doesn't
want to be connected to his story, he'll let like
Epstein he was, he was way he was steering away
from in the beginning. Pat's all Bam Bondi's thing. That's
not my thing. So he will do that every once
in a while. You're right. Usually he doesn't. Usually he's
out in front and everything. I think he's learning. I'm
just wondering if he's playing chess with this while everybody
(15:47):
else is playing checkers.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
He may be playing chess. He played chess twenty four
to seven. I'll tell you this, Larry, it's you know
I have I have Curtis Leewa on my podcast this
Morning centered with J. C. Palanco for your viewers, and
I'm gonna ask him. I'm gonna ask him straight up.
You know, can you see yourself winning in this situation
where you have four people running when the President hasn't
made an endorsement yet, and you know, what are your
(16:10):
thoughts about beating mom? DONI considering the numbers. I'll ask
him and see, you know, what his position.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Is on the President.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
I think that'd be interesting. That's telling up of your question.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, that would be really interesting because from what I remember,
and you probably know this better than I, he doesn't
have the best relationship with Donald Trump, does he, Curtis
leew No, Well.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
You know he respects him. I've seen his interviews in
the past. He was never a MAGA guy, you know.
You know, he doesn't have the conservative line. He's more
of a Republican along what we normally consider to be
a New York Republican, right, someone who is down the
middle on a lot of issues. And he doesn't have
that maga relationship with the President, but I know it's
a respectful one from what I've seen.
Speaker 10 (16:55):
Now.
Speaker 9 (16:55):
I don't know whether or not quite. Frankly, you know,
the President Trump getting involved in any way even supporting
the Republican candidate would make any sense at all to
try to defeat Mamdani. See, this is a very tough
situation with so many candidates running. And another thing, there
are other ways that the President could be supportive in
bringing people together to defeat a socialist, and that may
(17:17):
be asking donors to support one of the candidates that
has the best shot, because as you can see, money's
going to be tight going into November. So there's a
lot of other ways other than an endorsement where the
President can be helpful.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I know there's a lot of people that listen to
this show that are rooting for Curtis Leewood. Does he
have a shot?
Speaker 9 (17:37):
You know, he's raised the most money, he's going up
in the polls. You know, I'm going to ask him
about all of that this morning, Larry, So I could
be honestly, I want to get that they want to
get his answers from him. Mathematically, I think when you
take a look at four people running hard, beating up
on each other, I mean you got to hear the
campaigning against each other. When when you know Curtis Lee.
(17:59):
What goes in on former Governor Cuomo. He pulls no punches.
I just wonder how helpful is that in November. I'm
sitting here off and thinking about it. I'm gonna ask
him this. I mean, when you're beating up on all
the other independence, does it make it more difficult for
there to be a unified voice in November. I think
it's difficult right now for me to tell you that
going into November, as of today, that he's going to win.
(18:20):
The way that he can win is if in the
next couple of months and I know your viewers are
curious about this, in the next couple of months, do
the other independent candidates fall off? Right? Do they no
longer campaign actively? If that happens and Curtis continues campaigning
and raising money like he has, then the hope would
be for Curtis is that the people that drop off
are telling are coming over to his camp.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
He let me quickly because we're running out of time.
I want to ask you the most important question. How
do people hear your podcasts?
Speaker 9 (18:49):
Oh, they could go to centered with JC dot com
and I'm on all the platforms, YouTube everywhere, Instagram everywhere,
that you can imagine. But centered with JC is where
we post them and it'll be up tonight. So we're
recording in about an hour and it's gonna be a
great interview.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Wonderful j C. Polanco, political analyst and University of Mount
Saint Vincent assistant professor. Thanks a lot, JAYC. Have a
good weekend. He may not realize it, but New Jersey
is skyrocketing up the list of states to go to
for movie productions, internet productions, TV productions. It has become
(19:26):
the hot state for putting making anything making. Some of
the biggest films of the last few years were made
in New Jersey. And to talk about that, and the
guy that can be credited with helping that happen is
John Crowley, Executive director of the New Jersey Motion Picture
and Television Commission. Now, to set this up, I just
(19:46):
want to let you know that I have worked with
John before. We've won Emmys together for some work that
we did. And now he's got this huge role. He's
got this big role. Do I hear from him? No?
I'm thinking to myself, well, you know what, I could
play some small role in a movie. I could be
a radio broadcaster in a movie. I could be a
TV anchor and movie. So I sit there by my
(20:08):
phone and just waiting for John to call me, and
I never get a phone call. But now now that
he wants to glow about how New Jersey is doing
so well with movies, now I get to talk to him.
Good morning, John.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
Larry, how are you my friend?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I'm doing well. It's been a long time. The last
time I talked to you it was about possibly doing
a commercial. So I can't say yes that you never
called me. As a matter of fact, you called me
right You called me yesterday. I was taking a nap,
but I thought to myself, why is John Crowley calling me?
And you know, I want to call you right back
because it might be some huge movie role. But but no,
(20:48):
it was just that you were coming on with us today.
How have you been. How's everything going?
Speaker 10 (20:52):
I'm out all great. I mean, we're going like gangbusters
in New Jersey. But look, I got to drop the
dime on you. Tis to your list because we did
the show together, and I had said to Larry, you know,
I've never won an Emmy, and that's sort of a
bucket list thing. We finished taping that night, I don't
know if you remember this. And you walked up the
aisle to me and you said, you just won your
(21:13):
first Emmy and I have you to thank Larry. You
were a fantastic hoast for that event. And you know
you went out of your way to make make the
Emmy folks aware of our program. And I owe that
that piece of hardware to you, my friend. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, and you were wonderful even at the time. You
got some Hollywood guests to come all the way to
New Jersey to appear in that. So, yeah, no, it
was a wonderful.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
It was.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
It was just let the people, let people know that
it was a town hall about the opioid crisis and so,
and we had some people on the stage that had
some heartbreaking stories. We had the Attorney General.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
It was.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It was a wonderful TV moment that I'm really proud of.
And John, I'm sure you are too.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I am.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
And And you just said, we got some Hollywood people
to come to that. Well, we're getting even more of
them these days with the with film and TV production.
Let me, I'll do you want do you want me
to give you just some some good numbers?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Go ahead, go ahead, all right.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
So twenty so, historically New Jersey has been like number seven,
number eight in terms of you know, production hubs to
come to in the United States.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
LA.
Speaker 10 (22:22):
Even though the numbers have been down, LA is still
number one. New York's number two. Georgia has been number three,
and then we're down around seven or eight. Well, our
goal on the film commission is to get us into
that number three spot. And it's happening because in twenty
twenty three, we had five hundred and ninety two million
dollars in what is called qualified spend. That's the money
(22:46):
that productions are spending when they're here in New Jersey.
They don't come here with groceries and hardware and fuel
and cars things like that. They're getting them here, they're
renting them when they're here. So that was five hundred
and ninety two million dollars in New Jersey on qualified
spent twenty twenty four. Do you want to take a guest, Larry,
what the qualified spend was?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I have it in front of me, So it's not
a guess. I'm not going to chieve go ahead and
tell me, GENI.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
Eight hundred and ten million dollars qualified spend. Wow, it's
thirty seven percent that were up and La down, New
York stagnant, recovering, Georgia down, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico down,
down down. Those are all of our major competitors. Chicago down,
even Toronto is down.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Hey, you're just talking about the money. What about the jobs.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
Oh so the jobs even more millary. They we twenty
twenty two sixteen thousand crew hires. Twenty twenty three was
like seventeen thousand crew hires. In twenty twenty four we
hit a new high, which was thirty thousand crew hires.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
But absolutely some of the biggest some of the biggest
movies in some of the biggest shows of the last
couple of years. I don't think people were realized we're
done in New Jersey. Go through a few of them.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
Well, you know, and that's the thing, right is like,
why is that happening? Well, New Jersey, you know, geographically
compact state, but this huge variety of locations. And that's
one of the biggest draws for production is they say, well,
we've got all these different things we need in our script.
You know, we need to Washington, DC look alike, or
we need to play like Times Square in New York,
(24:30):
but we don't want to deal with the traffic of
going to New York. And we've got all that huge
amount of variety locations, little towns, big cities, mountains with snow, oceans.
So severances shooting, you know, has been shooting in Holmdale
at the Bell Labs building.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
No bigger show, no bigger show on TV right now?
Speaker 10 (24:49):
That's right, yeah, right, Larry, are you in any air
and outy We we'll figure that out later.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yes.
Speaker 10 (24:54):
So that's for your Severance fans, that's for your seventh fans.
That's nothing to do with your belly button, but Severance
a complete unknown. That was the Bob Dylan biopic that
was here, The new Bruce Springsteen biopick that's coming out,
Delivered Me from Nowhere filmed here Steven Spielberg, he's got
(25:15):
a new film that's coming out. That was down in
Kate may I got to tell you about that too.
That was that was crazy in terms of that money
that we talk about. They had three hundred and fifty
crew members that were down there in Kate may Well.
They were all coming from else you know, from Northern Jersey,
Central Jersey, wherever. So they put them up in hotels.
(25:36):
They the three hundred and fifty crew were in eight
different hotels and an average of two hundred and eighty
five dollars per night. So you do the math. And
that's in the off season. That was like February March,
so the hotel owners were ecstatic. And then when everybody
wrapped filming for the end of the day, they went
and they took their per diem and they were buying
dinner at restaurants all around Kate May area. So again
(25:59):
between the job in the qualified spend the money that
they're spending, that's that's why we do that. But we've
all happy Gilmore Happy. Gilmore just released what about a
week week and a half ago on Netflix. Shot here
for like sixty some odd days, and they spent one
hundred and fifty two million dollars while they were here
in state. Eighteen million. That was just in location fees
(26:21):
at golf courses and stores and you know, restaurants everywhere
that you've seen in the movie. They were paying location fees.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And you have so much being built in New Jersey
and John, we're running out of time, but you know what,
we got to have you back, So let let's talk
again soon and come back on you know you have.
It's an open door policy. Apparently I've been shut out
to any production in New Jersey, but for you, sir,
it's an open door policy to come on the show
to talk about what's happening there.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
Don Larry, I'm sure. I'm sure we'll get jumped down.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I beg you chance.
Speaker 10 (26:51):
I got to talk to you, my friend.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
With you grat all right, So we'll definitely do that. John,
Congratulations on the gig and congratulations on your success.
Speaker 10 (26:58):
Thanks a lot, Thank you, sir, Thank you
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!