Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including the first winter storm of the season happening today, the latest on the strikes against Venezuelan boats, and the shift in focus on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan following the shooting last week. Joe Borelli speaks with Mendte in the Morning about Mamdani protesting Starbucks with workers that are on strike and the challenges he’ll face once he is actually in charge. Johnny Oleksinski joins Larry to talk about Christmas time in NYC, how much he hates the city this time of year, and the readers responses to his article about his gripes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well in the Big Three. Are you ready for this?
It's gonna start today. Our first winter storm of the
season hits midday today. Will it be rain, will it
be snow? That depends on where you live.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We're tracking a significant winter storm from the Ohio Valley
to Appalachia all the way up into parts of New England.
We can get over six inches of snow from the
Catskills of New York into interior New England. There are
heavy rain and thunderstorms on the East Coast up to
the mid Atlantic interior snows. This is peaking along the
I ninety five quarter with heavy rain in New York
around midday.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
But in the Boonies where Natalie Vuka lives, they are
gonna get some snow. In northern New Jersey, they're gonna
get some significant snow, especially in the higher elevated areas.
We have race stage. You're coming up in fifteen minutes
for specifics about where the storm will hit hardest in
our area. It's gonna be tough driving though on your
(00:58):
ride home, so really be careful. You might want to
leave a little bit early if you can. The Trump
administration admits there was a second strike on a Venezuelan
boat disabled in the water.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have made it clear that
presidentially designated narco terrorist groups are subject to lethal targeting
in accordance with the laws of war.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, that's true, but the Democrats still want an investigation
because you know it's Trump. After the shooting of two
National Guard members in the nation's capital by an Afghan national,
there is new focus on who was allowed into the
country after that debacle of a withdrawal from Afghanistan and
how they were vetted. They knowingly violated law.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
There's a process for this to happen, and it's on
an individualized basis.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You don't get to just wave a wand and say
anybody from these countries can come in here without any vetting.
Romanila Lochinwall is accused of murdering twenty year old Sarah
Beckstrom and a twenty four year old Andrew Wolf has
been upgraded. Now this is great news. Upgraded from critical
to serious condition.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Andrew remains in serious condition. We did have some positive
news that we were told that Andrew was asked if
he could hear the nurse who asked the question to
give a thumbs up. And he did respond, well, that's great.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Lawyers for Luigi Mangioni argued in court that key evidence
linking Mangione to the killing of Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson
should not be used because they were obtained without a
warrant or miranda rights being read.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
It's always an uphill battle anytime that you're trying to
get important evidence suppressed out of any given case. The
judges understand that for the most part, especially when we're
talking about the conserts that were found in his book bag.
That's going to make or break this case.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
By the way, Elena Habbe is out again as New
Jersey's acting US Attorney and Appellate Court, upholding a lower
court decision that she didn't go through proper procedure to
get the job. Starbucks baristas are on strike in Manhattan,
and they got big name support from Mayor Alexora and
Mamdani and Senator Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
The struggle those workers have is that not enough people
know about their fight, not enough people know what they
are being forced to accept. So the more that you
can bring that awareness, the more that you can bring
that attention, the easier it is for workers to demand
the bare minimum, and that is what I will continue
to do as the next mayor of the city.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
He's going to continue to walk picket lines while he's
mayor of New York City. This guy is a nut.
It's election day, by the way, both in Jersey City
and in Tennessee. In Jersey City, it's a runoff and
the race for mayor between former governor Jim McGreevy making
a big comeback and Councilman James Solomon. The race is
(03:50):
seen as a toss up. Another surprisingly tough race in
Tennessee a congressional race between Republican Matt Van Ebbs and
the Democrat at Afton Ben. The race is really surprisingly
close in a Republican district, especially after Ben said this
about Nashville, the biggest city in the district that she
(04:13):
wants to represent.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Ben heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race because I
hate the city. I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the
penal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of
the things that make Nashville apparently in hate city to
the rest of the country. But I hate it.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And I want to be your congresswoman. A hero that
was on the scene on nine to eleven has died.
Deputy Fire Chief James Riches served thirty years in the FDNY.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Jimmy is one of our advocates.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
Jimmy went to wash them many times for us, Hey fourth,
for benefits, for the families of the people that who.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Are killed, and for us that are still living.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And it's a starking mind that we're going to continue
to do this.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Jimmy Riches was seventy four years old. Are you ready
to gamble some more than? New York Gaming Board voted
to approve three new casinos for New York City.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
The board selects Dolly's Bronx, hard Rock, Metropolitan Park and
Resorts World New York City.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, as you can hear. As you can hear, there's
some people that did not want them. Final approval of
the projects by the State Gaming Commission now seems assured.
So we have three new casinos coming to New York City.
Did anybody here shop yesterday on Cyber Monday, because it's
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set a record now that the final numbers aren't in,
but the projections by Adobe Analytics is anywhere between fourteen
to fourteen point two billion dollars and seventeen point three
billion dollars, and that is even after an hour long
(05:56):
outage yesterday on Spotify. Adobe Analytics said online shopping on
Monday was up four point five percent from last year
nine point one billion dollars up until six thirty, and
they think it went way higher than that. Listen to this.
For the five days, for the five days starting on
(06:19):
Thanksgiving till yesterday, forty three point seven billion dollars was
spent on goods, forty three point seven billion dollars. And
so you have to sit back and smile because we
were told again, we were lied to over and over
(06:41):
again by how tough it's gonna be this Christmas, how
we're struggling with this economy. The Democrat said, there will
be Oh that's goilla gonna be down. It's gonna hurt everybody.
The tariffs, oh, the tariffs. The toys are gonna go
through the roof. Nobody's gonna be able to afford anything.
And every single time we get this doom and gloom
(07:05):
the sky is falling, it ends up being a lie.
And once again we were lied to because we just
have to look at the real numbers, not the made
up numbers, not what they say, not what they claim,
not what they say they tell us. Suppose how we're
supposed to feel, how we're feeling. You can look at
(07:27):
the real numbers. Unemployment is down, that popped up a
little bit this last quarter, but it's still way down
from what it was. Inflation is still way down from
what it was. Again, it popped up a little bit
for a quarter. But all this stuff about how bad
the economy is and nobody wants to shut and people
(07:51):
are being laid off, and that was true under Joe Biden.
That happened under Joe Biden. I didn't hear the same.
All I heard was the defense of what was going on. Remember,
it's not a recession, even though it was technically by
(08:11):
the definition of a recession, with two quarters of negative GDP,
that's a recession. And over and over again, we were
told by the media and by the Democrats, well, it's
not really a recession. We have to wait for a
few months to find out, if you know, when the
new data comes in, if it's a recession. Well they
(08:32):
didn't say that in the past. They didn't say that,
certainly when Republicans were in office. But then again, did
we have a recession, and probably Hoover was the last
one for a Republican. No, it seems to be it
seems to be a democratic thing. But this is great news.
(08:52):
You should celebrate it. I know that a lot of
people in the Democratic Party are feeling bad right now
because they really wanted you to suffer so that they
could in the midterm election. But that's not happening. It's
not happening. People feel good about the economy. People were
smart enough to see through it all, and they went
out and they spent money because there's more income coming in.
(09:19):
Income is up significantly. It was down three thousand dollars
of family under Biden. It's now made that up and
popped on another two thousand dollars per family. So not
only is inflation down, but you have more money, and
so all this stuff you hear about the economy, it's
just not true. How many times do we have to
(09:39):
go through something like this to believe the economy is
doing well. I'd love to hear, by the way, if
you did some shopping on Black Friday, what it was
like or on Cyber Monday, what it was like and
the deals that you got, because I missed both of them.
I was too busy both times and I didn't hit
any the sales, So tell me what I missed. And
(10:02):
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we told you about the winter storm warning. Let's get
an extended forecast from Meteorologist Ray Stagic. That's right after
(10:24):
a break. Oh, I also want to play one last
thing for you, and that is the Starbucks baristas were
on strike and joining them on the picket line some
high powered Democrats Mayor elects Zorin Mom Donnie and Senator
Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
The struggle those workers have is that not enough people
know about their fight, not enough people know what they
are being forced to accept. So the more that you
can bring that awareness, the more that you can bring
that attention, the easier it is for workers to demand
the bare minimum. And that is what I will continue
to do as the next mayor of the city.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's what I will continue to do. People took that
as he's going to start walking the picket line throughout
the next four years. And let's find out what Joe
Burrelli thinks about that. Joe Burrelli, Managing director of Chartwell
Strategy Group and former Minority Leader of the New York
City Council with us every Tuesday at this time. Have
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we had a mayor in the past that's walked every
picket line?
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Not every but they certainly have. You know. The interesting
thing though for this situation is that Zora and Bernie Sanders,
they like to spend other people's money, namely the consumers,
namely us. Right, we're the ones who are going to
pay for the increased minimum wage or whatever it is
that these Starbucks workers were protesting specifically for. It's going
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to be a different ballgame when Mamdani has to pay
his own city workers. There's two hundred and thirty thousand
city workers, all of them will have a contract or
a union contract come up at some point during his mayoralty.
And let's see what he does when he has to
figure out actually how to hey people with the revenues
he's given. I don't think he's ever balanced a checkbook.
(12:05):
I don't think he's ever balanced a piggybank. I think
he probably didn't even do well on sim city when
he was twelve years old and know how to manage
his city resources.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Well, I know how he's gonna pay for it. He's
gonna do a kitchy video and he's going to beg
money from other New Yorkers. That's the way he gets
money all the time.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
That's it. That's it. Pay the teachers more and then
here's my video on how.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I just when I see him on the picket line
and I see him saying he's going to continue on
with other picket lines throughout the next four years, which
is what everybody's reading into that. Whether that's true, maybe not.
Maybe that's not exactly what he was saying, but it
sure did seem like it because he said it more
than once. What do business owners feel about that? What
do companies feel about that? There's two sides in these
(12:50):
labor disputes and he's taking one side. It seems like
every time.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
Every single time, I mean, and that's the problem. Right.
It is almost impossible to start to buy, to operate
any sort of business in New York just because of
the labor laws, just because of the cost of entry
into any industry. Look, look, Barelli LLC. You know my
company for when it's worth We are thinking about moving
(13:16):
to New Jersey, just because I would think so much
money on taxes for and I get almost nothing for
the premium. And this is what gets squeezed. Whether you're
a Starbucks you know owner, whether you're a Dunkin Donuts
franchise owner, you get squeezed. Not just by the minimum
wage laws, you get squeezed by the federal healthcare laws.
You get squeezed by squeezed by the laws that require
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you to pay vacation days for part time jobs. I mean,
these are all things that never get calculated by the
members of the city council and state legislator who just
passed these things. Willy Nilly, I think it was on
this show I compared Momdanni to robes Pierre. I think
it was last week. And it's such a good comparison
(14:00):
because robes Pierre led the French Revolution and eventually got
guillotined himself because eventually it turned on him. This is
gonna happen to Mom Donnie because he in no way
will have the resources to live up to all the promises,
all the socialist vision that he pretends to be able
to deliver on. He's not going to. And as sure
(14:21):
as I'm talking to you over the air right now,
is as sure I will be in two years from now, saying, see,
I told yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
What did you think of Robert Tucker stepping down as
the head of the FDNY, saying in an interview it
was because of Mom Donnie, because he didn't like some
of the things he said, And a lot of people
have said that know him, it was because of the
anti Semitic comments he made.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Look, and I give him credit for saying that. This
is the truth is Mam Donnie was firing every political
appointee by Mayor Adams anyway, Right, The interesting thing I
am following who's going to replace Robert Tucker? I mean,
certainly the first Deputy commission Gara, who's a great man,
smart guy. He's going to take over for a period
of time. You know, it's not one of these agencies
(15:07):
you can't not have a commissioner. So I think Chief
Gara will continue in the role. But I'm actually interested
to see who he places in these roles of jobs
that really cannot be run by socialist ideologues. Right, you
cannot be a socialist ideologue and run the fire department.
You have to be someone concerned about the city safety.
(15:27):
That response times the real brass tacks of governing. Same
thing with the sanitation department. Right, there is no Republican
or democratic way to shovel the snow. And he's going
to have to find competent people that do share some
of his vision. Right, that's part of it. But he's
going to have a hard time finding really competent bureaucrats
and business leaders to run some of these critical agencies.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, I think everybody looks and that's why it was
so smart of him. I think everybody looks at Titian says,
oh thank god, he's gonna keep normal people. He's going
to put in no people. It's everybody else that we
have to watch. And so has there been some of
the other people. You would know this better than I do.
That you're concerned of that he's made he's put in
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the administration so far.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Look, Look I'm not you know, people are making I
think too much of the transition team. When you have
four hundred people on a transition team, it's just about
putting your names on a piece of paper, right. They're
not doing any work. They're not really doing a lot
of work. You know. The transition really is being run
out of a law firm down on Wall Street, and
they're vetting people and they're trying to pick people who
are there. So like, I really do think the overreaction
(16:34):
has been to the transition team in a sense that
he's just putting every name of everyone whoever supported them
on a piece of paper so they feel good about themselves.
That's just the truth. It's we're going to start seeing
the names of the deputy mayors get rolled out. I
would imagine this week that's when we'll see really the
vision he has for the city.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Joe Burrelli, Managing director chart Well Strategy Group and former
City Council Minority leader, with us every Tuesday at this time. Joe,
good to talk to you as always, Thanks.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I love hearing that commercial about iHeartRadio and all the
Christmas music, the country Christmas music, It is just happier everywhere.
It's the happiest time on earth is Christmas time, and
nowhere is better to celebrate Christmas. Than in New York.
Let's talk to a New Yorker about that. Johnny Olegzinski,
(17:28):
New York Post entertainment critic with us every Tuesday at
this time. There is no better time in New York
people come to New York to celebrate Christmas.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
I'm very surprised at you, Larry, for spouting all this
fake news, fake news. Everything you just said does. Depression
goes up at Christmas time, stress goes up their study
after study. But I happen to have strong feelings about this.
I wrote a column in Sunday's New York Post about
why Christmas in New York is hell on Earth. It's
the worst place to be anywhere on the planet. Uh
(18:01):
you got that. That ice rink is often ranked as
the most crowded and stressful tourist attraction on the planet.
We have a big, big planet. The Rockefeller Christmas Tree.
You wait all day, you shove you elbow, only to
get there for you know, like just a fine piece
of pine.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
You take your Instagram and you go home. And I said,
all these Christmas movies are lies that make it seem magical.
Home alone to just a bunch of lies. And this
turned out to be a controversial take. I couldn't believe.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Oh, get out of here. You knew what you were doing.
Were you trolling a little bit?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I read you truly believe all this.
Speaker 9 (18:41):
One of the greatest things about living in the greatest
city in the world is we can say it's a great,
big pain in the butt. We New Yorker's complain about
New York all the time. It's our right to do.
You know, once you change your your address or you're
born here, you can complain about New York all you want.
But you know, so today in the New York Post
on the editorial pages there's the letters to the Editor
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and the and the headline is Christmas in the Apple
jollier than Johnny says. Okay, okay, but look at all
the respect the readers and listeners have for me. One
Alice said, it looks like Johnny Oleksinski swallowed some grinch
pills before he wrote his ba humbug article in the
(19:23):
New York Post. Okay, thank you, Alice. Another one said
Oleksinsky needs a visit from the ghost of Christmas past.
What is the purpose of dragging down the city that
gives you a living? Because I'm an honest writer who
just likes to air his grievances for readers. Another one said,
Johnny Johnny Johnny, I'm their kid brother. Never a good star,
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Johnny Johnny. If you can't find and if you can't
find joy in New York City at Christmas time, it's
time for you to take up golf and move to Florida.
Oh that and that's from Carol, who rightly assumed I
do not play golf.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
See, there's worse things. You're gonna be in Florida playing golf.
That would be hell. This is the best time in
New York. Absolutely. Have you been outside and walk around
people are smiling that you don't see that all the time.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
But we have to. So Keith from Huntington agreed with me.
We love Keith, he said. Olaksinski's review of Midtown at
Christmas couldn't be more spot on, and he said since
moving to Long Island, I have yet to visit the city.
I have no reason to. It has become an ugly
place at Christmas or any other time of the year.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well that he's not exactly agreeing with you. He's saying
it's always a hell hole. That's what he's saying. Are
you agreeing with him?
Speaker 9 (20:45):
Uh? Sure? Have you been outside? Are you kidding me?
It's just gonna get worse under mom, Donnie, you can move.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
You don't have to live here.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
Look, find me another city that's great for a movie
critic to live in. I can't very well move to de.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah, Jersey City. You can move across over to Jersey.
You seem like a Jersey person.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Do I? I'm not sure. I'm not sure what's meant
by that.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
No, you'd fit right in your Jersey City would be
perfect for you. You hate the city so much you
should move out.
Speaker 9 (21:17):
I still, I still stand by my point. The part
of living, part of loving something is complaining about it.
And I always say I can complain about my sister.
You can't, but I can. So I feel like I
have every right to complain about New York and it's problems.
How else do we fix them? I say this all
the time. I don't want to be raw raw when
there's problems that need to be addressed.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, I'm taking this too far. There's some things you
love about New York, right you don't find yeah, exact things.
Speaker 9 (21:44):
Yes, it's culturally the greatest city on the planet.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
There you go. That's all you have to say.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
But to get to that culture, you need to walk outside.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
No stop, you were doing so well, you.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Were people once you're indoors. New York's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Let's talk about something else. Sal about Timothy Shallo May
in Marty Supreme?
Speaker 9 (22:05):
Is it any good? Oh my god? It's my favorite
movie of the year, really favorite movie of the year.
Four stars from me, four out of four. And I
really liked him vi shall It's been really great watching
him grow as an actor. But he's in this new
movie he's I've done himself. It's called Marty Supreme. And
in Marty Supreme, he plays a nineteen fifties ping pong
champion who's you know when ping pong is totally unpopular
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as it still is, and he's trying to become the
greatest ping pong player in the world. So then it
becomes a kind of catch me if you can movie
where he's kind of lying and sneaking and coursing to
get money to help his dream of being a ping
pong champ come through. So it's a bit of a
sports movie, but really kind of a hilarious, very stressful romp.
(22:49):
It's a great, great movie. I was kind of glued
to it for the whole two and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
He's a great actor, He's a wonderful actor. I love
him in everything he's in. Will this get in the Oscar?
Speaker 9 (22:59):
I think so it's right now. It's a three way race,
and this stuff can all change. There's Timothy who's now
lost twice, but he'd still be the just about the
youngest to win if you wanted. He'd be tied with
Adrian Brody. That'll win bag. And then there's a Leonardo
DiCaprio in one battle after another. I don't think that
role is media enough for him to win, and you
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can't just give it to him because you know all
we like you. And then the third is Ethan Hawk
and Blue Moon. It was absolutely excellent. So I think
it could come down more to Ethan versus Timothy. If
Ethan's nominated.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And that's nobody else, there's not only a movie coming
out that might be able to compete.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
No, I don't think Jack Black's gonna get it for Anaconda,
but if he's good, if he's good, then.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Sure, I think he's damn good in Anaconda. Next time
you hear we'll talk about Matt Lower and his supposed
had comeback. Can you give me like a three word
answer on how he's doing.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Apparently that guy thinks he can come right back to
the media after eight years away, like nothing ever happened.
That's like according to People Magazine.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Oh well, okay, yeah, I definitely want to talk about
that next time. Johnny Olazinski, New York Post entertainment critic,
with us every Tuesday at nine thirty five. Thanks a lot, Johnny,
Well in the Big Three. Are you ready for this?
It's gonna start today. Our first winter storm of the
season hits midday today. Will it be rain, will it
be snow? That depends on where you live.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We're tracking a significant winter storm from the Ohio Valley
to Appalachia all the way up into parts of New England.
We can get over six inches of snow from the
Catskills of New York into interior New England. There are
heavy rain and thunderstorms on the East Coast up to
the mid Atlantic interior snows. This is peaking along the
I ninety five quarter with heavy rain in New York
around midday.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
But in the Boonies where Natalie Vuka lives, they are
gonna get some snow. In northern New Jersey, they're gonna
get some significant snow, especially in the higher elevated areas.
We have race stage. You're coming up in fifteen minutes
for specifics about where the storm will hit hardest in
our area. It's gonna be tough driving though on your
(00:58):
ride home, so really be careful. You might want to
leave a little bit early if you can. The Trump
administration admits there was a second strike on a Venezuelan
boat disabled in the water.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have made it clear that
presidentially designated narco terrorist groups are subject to lethal targeting
in accordance with the laws of war.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, that's true, but the Democrats still want an investigation
because you know it's Trump. After the shooting of two
National Guard members in the nation's capital by an Afghan national,
there is new focus on who was allowed into the
country after that debacle of a withdrawal from Afghanistan and
how they were vetted. They knowingly violated law.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
There's a process for this to happen, and it's on
an individualized basis.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You don't get to just wave a wand and say
anybody from these countries can come in here without any vetting.
Romanila Lochinwall is accused of murdering twenty year old Sarah
Beckstrom and a twenty four year old Andrew Wolf has
been upgraded. Now this is great news. Upgraded from critical
to serious condition.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Andrew remains in serious condition. We did have some positive
news that we were told that Andrew was asked if
he could hear the nurse who asked the question to
give a thumbs up. And he did respond, well, that's great.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Lawyers for Luigi Mangioni argued in court that key evidence
linking Mangione to the killing of Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson
should not be used because they were obtained without a
warrant or miranda rights being read.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
It's always an uphill battle anytime that you're trying to
get important evidence suppressed out of any given case. The
judges understand that for the most part, especially when we're
talking about the conserts that were found in his book bag.
That's going to make or break this case.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
By the way, Elena Habbe is out again as New
Jersey's acting US Attorney and Appellate Court, upholding a lower
court decision that she didn't go through proper procedure to
get the job. Starbucks baristas are on strike in Manhattan,
and they got big name support from Mayor Alexora and
Mamdani and Senator Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
The struggle those workers have is that not enough people
know about their fight, not enough people know what they
are being forced to accept. So the more that you
can bring that awareness, the more that you can bring
that attention, the easier it is for workers to demand
the bare minimum, and that is what I will continue
to do as the next mayor of the city.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
He's going to continue to walk picket lines while he's
mayor of New York City. This guy is a nut.
It's election day, by the way, both in Jersey City
and in Tennessee. In Jersey City, it's a runoff and
the race for mayor between former governor Jim McGreevy making
a big comeback and Councilman James Solomon. The race is
(03:50):
seen as a toss up. Another surprisingly tough race in
Tennessee a congressional race between Republican Matt Van Ebbs and
the Democrat at Afton Ben. The race is really surprisingly
close in a Republican district, especially after Ben said this
about Nashville, the biggest city in the district that she
(04:13):
wants to represent.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Ben heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race because I
hate the city. I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the
penal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of
the things that make Nashville apparently in hate city to
the rest of the country. But I hate it.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And I want to be your congresswoman. A hero that
was on the scene on nine to eleven has died.
Deputy Fire Chief James Riches served thirty years in the FDNY.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Jimmy is one of our advocates.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
Jimmy went to wash them many times for us, Hey fourth,
for benefits, for the families of the people that who.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Are killed, and for us that are still living.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And it's a starking mind that we're going to continue
to do this.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Jimmy Riches was seventy four years old. Are you ready
to gamble some more than? New York Gaming Board voted
to approve three new casinos for New York City.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
The board selects Dolly's Bronx, hard Rock, Metropolitan Park and
Resorts World New York City.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, as you can hear. As you can hear, there's
some people that did not want them. Final approval of
the projects by the State Gaming Commission now seems assured.
So we have three new casinos coming to New York City.
Did anybody here shop yesterday on Cyber Monday, because it's
(05:35):
set a record now that the final numbers aren't in,
but the projections by Adobe Analytics is anywhere between fourteen
to fourteen point two billion dollars and seventeen point three
billion dollars, and that is even after an hour long
(05:56):
outage yesterday on Spotify. Adobe Analytics said online shopping on
Monday was up four point five percent from last year
nine point one billion dollars up until six thirty, and
they think it went way higher than that. Listen to this.
For the five days, for the five days starting on
(06:19):
Thanksgiving till yesterday, forty three point seven billion dollars was
spent on goods, forty three point seven billion dollars. And
so you have to sit back and smile because we
were told again, we were lied to over and over
(06:41):
again by how tough it's gonna be this Christmas, how
we're struggling with this economy. The Democrat said, there will
be Oh that's goilla gonna be down. It's gonna hurt everybody.
The tariffs, oh, the tariffs. The toys are gonna go
through the roof. Nobody's gonna be able to afford anything.
And every single time we get this doom and gloom
(07:05):
the sky is falling, it ends up being a lie.
And once again we were lied to because we just
have to look at the real numbers, not the made
up numbers, not what they say, not what they claim,
not what they say they tell us. Suppose how we're
supposed to feel, how we're feeling. You can look at
(07:27):
the real numbers. Unemployment is down, that popped up a
little bit this last quarter, but it's still way down
from what it was. Inflation is still way down from
what it was. Again, it popped up a little bit
for a quarter. But all this stuff about how bad
the economy is and nobody wants to shut and people
(07:51):
are being laid off, and that was true under Joe Biden.
That happened under Joe Biden. I didn't hear the same.
All I heard was the defense of what was going on. Remember,
it's not a recession, even though it was technically by
(08:11):
the definition of a recession, with two quarters of negative GDP,
that's a recession. And over and over again, we were
told by the media and by the Democrats, well, it's
not really a recession. We have to wait for a
few months to find out, if you know, when the
new data comes in, if it's a recession. Well they
(08:32):
didn't say that in the past. They didn't say that,
certainly when Republicans were in office. But then again, did
we have a recession, and probably Hoover was the last
one for a Republican. No, it seems to be it
seems to be a democratic thing. But this is great news.
(08:52):
You should celebrate it. I know that a lot of
people in the Democratic Party are feeling bad right now
because they really wanted you to suffer so that they
could in the midterm election. But that's not happening. It's
not happening. People feel good about the economy. People were
smart enough to see through it all, and they went
out and they spent money because there's more income coming in.
(09:19):
Income is up significantly. It was down three thousand dollars
of family under Biden. It's now made that up and
popped on another two thousand dollars per family. So not
only is inflation down, but you have more money, and
so all this stuff you hear about the economy, it's
just not true. How many times do we have to
(09:39):
go through something like this to believe the economy is
doing well. I'd love to hear, by the way, if
you did some shopping on Black Friday, what it was
like or on Cyber Monday, what it was like and
the deals that you got, because I missed both of them.
I was too busy both times and I didn't hit
any the sales, So tell me what I missed. And
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(10:24):
a break. Oh, I also want to play one last
thing for you, and that is the Starbucks baristas were
on strike and joining them on the picket line some
high powered Democrats Mayor elects Zorin Mom Donnie and Senator
Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
The struggle those workers have is that not enough people
know about their fight, not enough people know what they
are being forced to accept. So the more that you
can bring that awareness, the more that you can bring
that attention, the easier it is for workers to demand
the bare minimum. And that is what I will continue
to do as the next mayor of the city.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's what I will continue to do. People took that
as he's going to start walking the picket line throughout
the next four years. And let's find out what Joe
Burrelli thinks about that. Joe Burrelli, Managing director of Chartwell
Strategy Group and former Minority Leader of the New York
City Council with us every Tuesday at this time. Have
(11:16):
we had a mayor in the past that's walked every
picket line?
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Not every but they certainly have. You know. The interesting
thing though for this situation is that Zora and Bernie Sanders,
they like to spend other people's money, namely the consumers,
namely us. Right, we're the ones who are going to
pay for the increased minimum wage or whatever it is
that these Starbucks workers were protesting specifically for. It's going
(11:42):
to be a different ballgame when Mamdani has to pay
his own city workers. There's two hundred and thirty thousand
city workers, all of them will have a contract or
a union contract come up at some point during his mayoralty.
And let's see what he does when he has to
figure out actually how to hey people with the revenues
he's given. I don't think he's ever balanced a checkbook.
(12:05):
I don't think he's ever balanced a piggybank. I think
he probably didn't even do well on sim city when
he was twelve years old and know how to manage
his city resources.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Well, I know how he's gonna pay for it. He's
gonna do a kitchy video and he's going to beg
money from other New Yorkers. That's the way he gets
money all the time.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
That's it. That's it. Pay the teachers more and then
here's my video on how.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I just when I see him on the picket line
and I see him saying he's going to continue on
with other picket lines throughout the next four years, which
is what everybody's reading into that. Whether that's true, maybe not.
Maybe that's not exactly what he was saying, but it
sure did seem like it because he said it more
than once. What do business owners feel about that? What
do companies feel about that? There's two sides in these
(12:50):
labor disputes and he's taking one side. It seems like
every time.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
Every single time, I mean, and that's the problem. Right.
It is almost impossible to start to buy, to operate
any sort of business in New York just because of
the labor laws, just because of the cost of entry
into any industry. Look, look, Barelli LLC. You know my
company for when it's worth We are thinking about moving
(13:16):
to New Jersey, just because I would think so much
money on taxes for and I get almost nothing for
the premium. And this is what gets squeezed. Whether you're
a Starbucks you know owner, whether you're a Dunkin Donuts
franchise owner, you get squeezed. Not just by the minimum
wage laws, you get squeezed by the federal healthcare laws.
You get squeezed by squeezed by the laws that require
(13:39):
you to pay vacation days for part time jobs. I mean,
these are all things that never get calculated by the
members of the city council and state legislator who just
passed these things. Willy Nilly, I think it was on
this show I compared Momdanni to robes Pierre. I think
it was last week. And it's such a good comparison
(14:00):
because robes Pierre led the French Revolution and eventually got
guillotined himself because eventually it turned on him. This is
gonna happen to Mom Donnie because he in no way
will have the resources to live up to all the promises,
all the socialist vision that he pretends to be able
to deliver on. He's not going to. And as sure
(14:21):
as I'm talking to you over the air right now,
is as sure I will be in two years from now, saying, see,
I told yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
What did you think of Robert Tucker stepping down as
the head of the FDNY, saying in an interview it
was because of Mom Donnie, because he didn't like some
of the things he said, And a lot of people
have said that know him, it was because of the
anti Semitic comments he made.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Look, and I give him credit for saying that. This
is the truth is Mam Donnie was firing every political
appointee by Mayor Adams anyway, Right, The interesting thing I
am following who's going to replace Robert Tucker? I mean,
certainly the first Deputy commission Gara, who's a great man,
smart guy. He's going to take over for a period
of time. You know, it's not one of these agencies
(15:07):
you can't not have a commissioner. So I think Chief
Gara will continue in the role. But I'm actually interested
to see who he places in these roles of jobs
that really cannot be run by socialist ideologues. Right, you
cannot be a socialist ideologue and run the fire department.
You have to be someone concerned about the city safety.
(15:27):
That response times the real brass tacks of governing. Same
thing with the sanitation department. Right, there is no Republican
or democratic way to shovel the snow. And he's going
to have to find competent people that do share some
of his vision. Right, that's part of it. But he's
going to have a hard time finding really competent bureaucrats
and business leaders to run some of these critical agencies.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, I think everybody looks and that's why it was
so smart of him. I think everybody looks at Titian says,
oh thank god, he's gonna keep normal people. He's going
to put in no people. It's everybody else that we
have to watch. And so has there been some of
the other people. You would know this better than I do.
That you're concerned of that he's made he's put in
(16:10):
the administration so far.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Look, Look I'm not you know, people are making I
think too much of the transition team. When you have
four hundred people on a transition team, it's just about
putting your names on a piece of paper, right. They're
not doing any work. They're not really doing a lot
of work. You know. The transition really is being run
out of a law firm down on Wall Street, and
they're vetting people and they're trying to pick people who
are there. So like, I really do think the overreaction
(16:34):
has been to the transition team in a sense that
he's just putting every name of everyone whoever supported them
on a piece of paper so they feel good about themselves.
That's just the truth. It's we're going to start seeing
the names of the deputy mayors get rolled out. I
would imagine this week that's when we'll see really the
vision he has for the city.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Joe Burrelli, Managing director chart Well Strategy Group and former
City Council Minority leader, with us every Tuesday at this time. Joe,
good to talk to you as always, Thanks.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I love hearing that commercial about iHeartRadio and all the
Christmas music, the country Christmas music, It is just happier everywhere.
It's the happiest time on earth is Christmas time, and
nowhere is better to celebrate Christmas. Than in New York.
Let's talk to a New Yorker about that. Johnny Olegzinski,
(17:28):
New York Post entertainment critic with us every Tuesday at
this time. There is no better time in New York
people come to New York to celebrate Christmas.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
I'm very surprised at you, Larry, for spouting all this
fake news, fake news. Everything you just said does. Depression
goes up at Christmas time, stress goes up their study
after study. But I happen to have strong feelings about this.
I wrote a column in Sunday's New York Post about
why Christmas in New York is hell on Earth. It's
the worst place to be anywhere on the planet. Uh
(18:01):
you got that. That ice rink is often ranked as
the most crowded and stressful tourist attraction on the planet.
We have a big, big planet. The Rockefeller Christmas Tree.
You wait all day, you shove you elbow, only to
get there for you know, like just a fine piece
of pine.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
You take your Instagram and you go home. And I said,
all these Christmas movies are lies that make it seem magical.
Home alone to just a bunch of lies. And this
turned out to be a controversial take. I couldn't believe.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Oh, get out of here. You knew what you were doing.
Were you trolling a little bit?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I read you truly believe all this.
Speaker 9 (18:41):
One of the greatest things about living in the greatest
city in the world is we can say it's a great,
big pain in the butt. We New Yorker's complain about
New York all the time. It's our right to do.
You know, once you change your your address or you're
born here, you can complain about New York all you want.
But you know, so today in the New York Post
on the editorial pages there's the letters to the Editor
(19:03):
and the and the headline is Christmas in the Apple
jollier than Johnny says. Okay, okay, but look at all
the respect the readers and listeners have for me. One
Alice said, it looks like Johnny Oleksinski swallowed some grinch
pills before he wrote his ba humbug article in the
(19:23):
New York Post. Okay, thank you, Alice. Another one said
Oleksinsky needs a visit from the ghost of Christmas past.
What is the purpose of dragging down the city that
gives you a living? Because I'm an honest writer who
just likes to air his grievances for readers. Another one said,
Johnny Johnny Johnny, I'm their kid brother. Never a good star,
(19:48):
Johnny Johnny. If you can't find and if you can't
find joy in New York City at Christmas time, it's
time for you to take up golf and move to Florida.
Oh that and that's from Carol, who rightly assumed I
do not play golf.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
See, there's worse things. You're gonna be in Florida playing golf.
That would be hell. This is the best time in
New York. Absolutely. Have you been outside and walk around
people are smiling that you don't see that all the time.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
But we have to. So Keith from Huntington agreed with me.
We love Keith, he said. Olaksinski's review of Midtown at
Christmas couldn't be more spot on, and he said since
moving to Long Island, I have yet to visit the city.
I have no reason to. It has become an ugly
place at Christmas or any other time of the year.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well that he's not exactly agreeing with you. He's saying
it's always a hell hole. That's what he's saying. Are
you agreeing with him?
Speaker 9 (20:45):
Uh? Sure? Have you been outside? Are you kidding me?
It's just gonna get worse under mom, Donnie, you can move.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
You don't have to live here.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
Look, find me another city that's great for a movie
critic to live in. I can't very well move to de.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah, Jersey City. You can move across over to Jersey.
You seem like a Jersey person.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Do I? I'm not sure. I'm not sure what's meant
by that.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
No, you'd fit right in your Jersey City would be
perfect for you. You hate the city so much you
should move out.
Speaker 9 (21:17):
I still, I still stand by my point. The part
of living, part of loving something is complaining about it.
And I always say I can complain about my sister.
You can't, but I can. So I feel like I
have every right to complain about New York and it's problems.
How else do we fix them? I say this all
the time. I don't want to be raw raw when
there's problems that need to be addressed.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, I'm taking this too far. There's some things you
love about New York, right you don't find yeah, exact things.
Speaker 9 (21:44):
Yes, it's culturally the greatest city on the planet.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
There you go. That's all you have to say.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
But to get to that culture, you need to walk outside.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
No stop, you were doing so well, you.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Were people once you're indoors. New York's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Let's talk about something else. Sal about Timothy Shallo May
in Marty Supreme?
Speaker 9 (22:05):
Is it any good? Oh my god? It's my favorite
movie of the year, really favorite movie of the year.
Four stars from me, four out of four. And I
really liked him vi shall It's been really great watching
him grow as an actor. But he's in this new
movie he's I've done himself. It's called Marty Supreme. And
in Marty Supreme, he plays a nineteen fifties ping pong
champion who's you know when ping pong is totally unpopular
(22:27):
as it still is, and he's trying to become the
greatest ping pong player in the world. So then it
becomes a kind of catch me if you can movie
where he's kind of lying and sneaking and coursing to
get money to help his dream of being a ping
pong champ come through. So it's a bit of a
sports movie, but really kind of a hilarious, very stressful romp.
(22:49):
It's a great, great movie. I was kind of glued
to it for the whole two and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
He's a great actor, He's a wonderful actor. I love
him in everything he's in. Will this get in the Oscar?
Speaker 9 (22:59):
I think so it's right now. It's a three way race,
and this stuff can all change. There's Timothy who's now
lost twice, but he'd still be the just about the
youngest to win if you wanted. He'd be tied with
Adrian Brody. That'll win bag. And then there's a Leonardo
DiCaprio in one battle after another. I don't think that
role is media enough for him to win, and you
(23:20):
can't just give it to him because you know all
we like you. And then the third is Ethan Hawk
and Blue Moon. It was absolutely excellent. So I think
it could come down more to Ethan versus Timothy. If
Ethan's nominated.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And that's nobody else, there's not only a movie coming
out that might be able to compete.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
No, I don't think Jack Black's gonna get it for Anaconda,
but if he's good, if he's good, then.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Sure, I think he's damn good in Anaconda. Next time
you hear we'll talk about Matt Lower and his supposed
had comeback. Can you give me like a three word
answer on how he's doing.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Apparently that guy thinks he can come right back to
the media after eight years away, like nothing ever happened.
That's like according to People Magazine.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Oh well, okay, yeah, I definitely want to talk about
that next time. Johnny Olazinski, New York Post entertainment critic,
with us every Tuesday at nine thirty five. Thanks a lot, Johnny,
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