Hour 2: NCAA tournament championship

NCAA tournament championship.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
That's very good to be with you today. On this rainy, cloudy, damp,
chilly Monday. Somebody please pick up the phone and call
Mother Nature and remind her that this is springtime. It
feels so wintery, doesn't it? A cold, damp, bone chilling April.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
You have to you have to give it till, I say,
at least after tax Day to start feeling a little
spring like. But the four cynthias in my yard finally bloom.
I'm up in northern New Jersey, so take a little
bit time. I know, down here in the city they
were blooming about a week or so ago.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
See, she has four cynthias. She's fancy.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
I thought there was like for Cynthia sitting in her like,
why are you keeping me Cynthia's hostage?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
But I mean, whenever I see all that yellow blooming,
I know it's time.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Like we're here, We've made it, you know. When I
worked at Channel seven, Bill Evans used to say it
was Billiffins's voice. Billuffins used to say all the time,
he haunts me because we're friends of this day. He
used to say, never do your planting until after Easter.
And I say, but wait a minute, Easter falls at
a different point every year, and he said, just God
will provide, and sure enough, Literally, you could go back

(01:04):
twenty years and look at planting times and it always
works out wherever Easter falls right after. And you're gonna
say he's a Greek Orthodox or I see where that's going.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
No, no, no, because I've always heard you're safe after
Mother's Day. Right, so Mother's Day you could put things
in the ground, because you can't right now because you're
gonna have a frost night here and there. But I
also somebody had told me what's actually For a longtime
w WA listeners, you'll remember this name, Ralph Snodsmith. Oh,
she used to do the garden hotline here, and he

(01:34):
had told me, as soon as you hear as soon
as you see the for Cynthia's bloom, that's when you
put your pre emergent.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Weed seeds down.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
So we went out there threw that on the grass.
So that was his tip to me, and I always
follow and I think about him every year.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
I feel very a subordinate here. I don't know talking
about pre weeding and for Cynthia's I don't know. I
don't know either.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Oh my god, I live in an apartment. I'm looking alive,
home owner. Come on, we don't think I would put
plans unless I like put them on my dog's back
and let they're run around the apartment in it.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
You can grow things inside.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
I love it all right. Seven to ten wore The
Voice of New York. You're listening to MENI in the morning,
Ken Rosatto in for Larry MENTI, who I was a
well deserved day off and our big three stories. And
we got a lot to talk about today. First off,
the terraffs. Of course, the tariffs, something that have has
a lot of people very very nervous. The before market

(02:35):
trading right now, the futures we were looking at about
eleven hundred points down. Now that is a large number,
of course, but last night we were looking at fifteen
to sixteen hundred points down. So I think it's you
have some people who are saying, all right, maybe this
may not be as bad as we thought. Why because
you have some fifty nations now asking to talk about

(02:58):
tariffs with the White House. If it turns out that
they do come forward and they renegotiate the tariff's stance
even a little bit, if we end up just a
little bit better than we were. The President looked like
a hero. If, however, we end up in a trade
war and a recession, you could kiss the midterm elections goodbye.
So that's really where this comes down to talk about

(03:19):
a big roll of the dice. And that's what the
president has done. But if you recall as recently as
maybe twenty five years ago, and I know for some
people can say it's recently, but in my life, when
you're pushing sixty twenty five years as recently you had
the likes of Nancy Pelosi saying tariff's were a good thing.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
In terms of tariffs, it's think it's interesting to note
that the average US MFN tariff on Chinese goods coming
into the United States is two percent, whereas the average
Chinese MFM tariff on US goods going into China is
thirty five percent. Is that reciprocal?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
And President Barack Obama at the time this is going
back to twenty twelve, well, he was four tariffs.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
We had a tire case in which they were flooding
US with cheap domestic tires or cheap Chinese tires, and
we put a stop to it. And as a consequence,
saved jobs throughout America.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Now, of course, the argument could be made that you're
talking about targeted tariffs in these cases, one is talking
about China, etc. As opposed to blanketing ninety nations like
the President did with a ten percent tariff across the board.
So that there is a difference here, and there's a
valid argument is it too much too soon? Of course,
we also had the big protests all weekend long, thousands

(04:36):
of protesters gathering around the nation Saturday to object to
the Trump administration policies, including Doge. And finally, the folks
in Albany, I call them the nuts getting nuttier. Now
there is a bill in Albany that would basically not
allow police during a traffic stop to do any further investigating.

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If they see something suspicious in your car right now,
they could have you come out, they could search your vehicle.
If they find something a contraband, etc. You could be arrested.
But under the new bill they would not be able
to do that. Finally, of course, we had this very
serious story in Brooklyn over the weekend. An uncle who
was with his nieces apparently went a little mentally unstable,

(05:19):
had a cleaver and started hacking at his nieces. Fortunately,
an eleven year old one of them called nine to
one one. They were able to use technology to find
out where the address was. Police got there, shot them
in some seven times. He's still alive. They did what
they had to do to save the girls. But fortunately
those girls are alive today because the police got there

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so quickly. We do have someone on the phone with
us right now to talk to us about it. We
have Mike Kelly, who's an award winning columnist for North
Jersey dot Com and The Record. That's where I'm from,
North Jersey, so it's good to have Mike Kelly on.
Good morning to you, Mike, Good morning kid. So we
have so much going on in the news right now.
What's I know? Yes, what is your take on the

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tariffs and where the economy is going?

Speaker 6 (06:05):
Well? I think Trump has this week to get it right.
If the markets tumble a thousand points every day this week,
and keep in mind we lost six trillion dollars in
investments in just two days last week. If it goes
on for five more days, roughly three trillion a day,
I think people are going to be really, really upset.

(06:31):
So this is the gamble and I think, as you said,
if he doesn't turn this around, and I don't think
he has a lot of time to do this, I
think I give him a week and if he doesn't
turn it around, you can kiss the mid terms goodbye.
You can kiss a lot of things goodbye. Not to
mention your four oh one K plans. You know what's
really hurting people. I think you know, these guys who

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have twenty million dollar, fifty million dollar portfolios, they're not
going to hurt. It's the ordinary families that are trying
to scratch to get enough money to send their kid
to college, right, and they invested it in the stock
market to try to get a little bit of extra
coin to send their kid to Rutgers or god knows where.
And now it's been really really a lot of those

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savings have really been wiped out, and I don't know
if they're going to come around real quick. So this
is a real and even.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
People who have I don't mean to step any mean,
even people have retirement funds, you know, annuities, People who
have annuities, they rely on this money. You're absolutely right,
and I think you're right in terms of there is
a very finite amount of time that he has to
turn this thing around. Now, you know the Lutnik who
is in charge of the Treasury there, Lutnik is saying that,

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you know that he has fifty countries who've reached out.
That's his word. We're taking his word. We don't know
that it's not confirmed, but he's saying that the fifty
countries have approached. That That doesn't mean that they're all
willing to, you know, reduce the terrorists, but at least
they've reached out to talk. If if a large number
of them, or even a small number of larger countries

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come forward and even reduce the tariffs a little bit,
and you see the economy start to pick up, that
could be a whole different story.

Speaker 6 (08:11):
Well, I agree with you, and I also agree with
Trump on the tariff issue and Pelosi and all these
people who have talked about it for years. We our
country has been really put in a bind over the
kinds of terriffts that have been imposed on us by China,
Germany some of the other countries that would likely be
good trading partners for US. And as a result, I think,

(08:32):
you know, it's it's hampered our economy. But let's be honest, here,
our economy was cooking. It was really cruising along just fine.
I'm not an economist, and I don't know exactly why,
and it just seems to me that this is a
self inflicted wound and I'm trying to figure out, you know,
how long it's going to take to patch up this wound.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, that's you know, if it's a huge gamble. It's
like it's like you just want a thousand dollars in
Atlanta City and you put it all on thirteen Black
and you hope it'll win. And now we're all wondering
as we see the roulette whel going so waiting to
see if we just lost the thousand we won. And
that really is where we are right now. But of

(09:15):
course Wall Street does not like uncertainty, which is why
the market is tanking. And every time it tanks and
people sell off, and a lot of it is ai right.
You have a lot of the investments automatically selling off,
like people have these trigger points. If the market falls
at a certain point, sell and so that's why it
is cascading because a lot of it is an automated thing.

(09:35):
So I think we're going.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
To see a lot of it highlighting the problems with
our stock market that technology has cost. Yeah. Sure, but
the bottom line, this begins, this all begins with the
White House, and I think Trump is facing a very
critical week this week.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
I think you're right. I think you're right. And of
course we had the protests over the weekend. They were
huge all over the country. What did you think about
the pests and how were they in Jersey?

Speaker 6 (10:03):
Oh, there were some here in New Jersey. You know,
I don't I take a very dim view of some
of the protesting because I just think it's a lot
of people getting out and of course expressing themselves, and
that's fine. But the real job here that people, you know,
in Democrats in particular have to do is I got

(10:23):
to figure out how to win elections. I mean, we've
talked about this before on this show. Democrats don't know
how to win an election. And they're great at protests
and created activism and that sort of thing, but actually
putting together the votes and learning how to win an
elections is going to take some time for Democrats. They're
facing a serious crisis.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
And I think, honestly, Mike, I think a lot of
it is focused. I think you have the Democrats are
a hobble together group of a bunch of different factions,
and I think they need to be focused and have
one unifying message if they want to win. And we
got to cut it there on leaders, We're out of time.
Mike Kelly, Award winning columnists for North Jersey and The Record.
I'm a North Jersey guy. So it's nice to have
you on this morning. Thanks so much for being with us.

(11:06):
You bet, my friend, have a good one, all right.
It is now seven sixteen. You just found out you
don't have much time to live. What do you want
to do with the days that you have left? You'd
be surprised what one woman did find out next And
so good to be with you on a Monday morning. Cloudy,
rainy this morning, kind of chilly and damp. It's gonna
be cloudy for much of the day. Rain continues even

(11:27):
through the afternoon, but that's going to be more toward
the east on Long Island, but it will be damp
contemption only in the mid forties, So just dress accordingly
as they head out the door. Seven twenty four is
our time right now? Hey, remember all the big story
the hubbub A couple of weeks ago when you had
Jeffrey Goldberg getting added to the White House Signal Group Chat.
Of course they thought that would that would end everybody

(11:49):
who's on the military leadership team for Trump, that would
end their careers with it.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
You know, fat film. You know, somebody tried to put
somebody's name that was close to it, and.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
I had to wonder, if we're all wondering what the
hell happened? Well, this is according to the Guardian, the
Guardian who seems to get does how does a British
publication seem to get the scoop on us all the time?
You gotta wonder. But the according to the Guardian, they're
saying that Donald Trump's National security advisor, Mike Walls, included
the journalist who of coursed Goldberg, Jeffrey Goldberg. Apparently what

(12:24):
it happened was some weeks before, he thought he was
saving somebody else's name and number in his list of contacts,
but he saved Goldberg's number as the other person's name.
So he was trying to include this other individual who
should have been on the group chat. But because he

(12:46):
saved Goldberg's number as the other person's name, that's how
he got ed it. So the question is was that
the first time he sent something to Goldberg? Or where
the whole bunch of things in Goldberg's only telling us
about one, right, that's the question. But you got to
be a little more careful about that, mister Wallas, just
a little bit more careful whom you send government secrets
out to. Anyway, Thankfully it wasn't worse than than that,

(13:09):
And thankfully it was a journalist who is an American,
because it could have been a hell of a lot
worse if it went to somebody it shouldn't have. Well
it did, but somebody even worse. As I'm saying, uh
seven to ten w o R the Voice of New
York seven twenty six right now, and we want to
where it said I want to go. I'm even losing
my track. This is what happens when you have the fillin. Boy, No,

(13:32):
that's not true. Yeah, you know, I got a whole pilot.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
We're going to talk about this story of a person
with terminal cancer.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
That's it. So this woman with terminal cancer, this is
a she was a true this is a true story.
Woman finds out she has terminal cancer and she's getting
treated with hormone therapy for her terminal cancer, which makes
sure libido shoot through the roof. She decides that she
only has a certain amount of time left, so she

(14:03):
was unhappy in her marriage. She decides to leave her
husband and have sex with as many people as possible,
as many men as possible, and that's what she did.
She actually got a friend and they decided to make
a podcast about it and talk about and chronicle all
her adventures. And now this is becoming an FX show

(14:24):
that's going to be on. The podcast was from back
in twenty twenty, and so now this is going to
be an FX show. Fascinating. The question is what would
you do if you found out that you only had
a certain amount of time left? Would you go live
it up, commit crimes, you know, hurt people, or just
continue living life the way you live? Have you ever

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given that thought? Heaven forbid, hopefully when it comes to pass.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
I would think I would spend my time with my family,
you know, trying to make sure that I passed down
any thoughts or feelings or advice to my kids to
you know, gather any more information I want to. I
would never think of abandoning my family or my husband

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and just say, okay, I'm going.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
To do some In fairness, she and her husband were
kind of on the rocks to begin with it, and
I guess she felt, if I'm going to go out,
I might as well go out and experience whatever I
can experience. What is the name of the FX show.
It's called Dying for Sex.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Oh, I've heard now I'm going to watch it.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah, see that and this is and that's the same
name of the podcast. It was called Dying for Sex.
Her friend Nicki Boyer decided to push it push forward
and make sure that people knew about the story. The
woman's name was Molly Cochin and she was diagnosed with
stage four breast cancer at the age of forty two.

(15:50):
But it's just fascinating. It was because apparently of the
hormone injections that led to the increase in the libido.
The hormone injections supposedly were the help counter whatever tumor
growth she had, but this was the result.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
It's interesting if that drug is going to ever be
used for other reasons now, because never heard of such.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Who knows. Maybe it could be like the Little Blue
pill for women.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Right, maybe it works for men too.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
I don't know, you know what they have enough. I can't.
I'm never going to say that.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
If someone's you know, at the end stage your life,
they do what you want to do.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
I mean it's your life exactly probably now what I
would do?

Speaker 7 (16:29):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Everybody has their own all right. Our time is seven
twenty nine in time now for the news. Here is
Jacqueline Carl. Good morning.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
US stock futures are dropping as investors continue to react
to President trump.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Sweeping global tariffs the down.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
The S and P fell roughly four percent Sunday, while
Nasdaq futures are down more than five percent. The Dow
saw back to back losses of over fifteen hundred points
for the first time ever last week, and the trial
of former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez his wife resumes
today in lowerman Hatton following motions and delays.

Speaker 8 (17:02):
Jury selection and opening arguments in Nadine Menendez's trial were
completed last month, but the prosecution and defense faced challenges
assembling the witness lists, leading to delays. Menendez was originally
supposed to stand trial for her part in a bribery
scheme with her husband and three businessmen, but her trial
was put on hold after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

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Former Senator Menendez has repeatedly appealed his eleven year prison sentence,
which has been delayed until June so he could attend
his wife's trial. Natalie Migliori wore.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
News, Hey, did you guys know that there's actually a
guy in this world legally named Speedy Gonzales?

Speaker 9 (17:40):
No?

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yes, but this is what he decides to do. He
didn't decide to break any records, running or anything. According
to Fox five Atlanta, forty year old Gonzales has been
arrested and accused of shoplifting spree using the self checkout
stations in North Georgia Walmart stars.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
So what this guy would do.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
He's going and he'd buy like a garbage can or
a bucket's something. I put a bunch of smaller stuff in,
like nicotine products, diabetic strips, gum, all those, step into
the containers and just do a quick scan at the
checkout of just the bucket or whatever it was. So
Darties estimated that he got away with maybe like twenty
k in merchandise doing this. But now if you're thinking

(18:19):
maybe I'll try this, Walmart is now onto the scam.
So I wouldn't do it if I were you. I mean,
it sounds like it could work. But this guy and
have all the names Speedy Gonzales.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
I love it, but you know, can you even I
don't think you could even find Speedy Gonzalez cartoons like online.
They dropped all that because it's sort of politically incorrect.
The whole depiction of Oh I see, I see, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (18:45):
You know.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
So it's a lot of the characters from Bugs Bundy.
I noticed. Boy, you never see this, You never see that,
You never and then you find out they were all
yanked off the air because people were very sensitive to
the way certain characters were depicted.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Well forty years ago, it must have been okay because
somebody decided name their kidna and then he decides to
go on a shoplifting.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Spray and no one will ever name their kid that
again is a right now, all right, thank you very
much for that. That is fascinating against Alice. I love that,
by the way, as seven thirty two. Right now, and
for those who are curious, we have my one of
my favorite sports people ever growing up. He's going to
be coming on Warner Wolf. We're gonna be talking the

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Torpedo bat NCAA Finals, and the legend himself will be here,
Warner Wolf with his three stooges of the week. All
that and more when we come back and at seven
thirty nine on your Monday morning. Cloudy, little rainy this morning,
damp all day long and only in the mid forties.
Really feels kind of chilly. Doesn't feel like spring at all.
But I'll tell you what to put a smile on
your face and make it feel like spring. The legendary

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sportscaster Warner Wolf joins us on the phone. Good morning
to you, Warner.

Speaker 7 (19:52):
Oh, thank you very much, Ken, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Always always a pleasure being on with you. And so
now listen. Let me just let you know I have
always adored you, and I always loved you when you
were on TV.

Speaker 7 (20:04):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
In fact, you were one of the people watching you
on TV. I always wanted to be you. Although I
won't tell you this, no no, no joke. I literally
always stopped and Washington always said, I want to do
that someday. The only thing is I know nothing about sports.
I just thought you were such a great TV presenter.

Speaker 7 (20:22):
Oh well, that's very nice of you. I thought when
you said you wanted to be me, What do you
want to be shorter?

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Now, listen, you're perfect the way you are. Let's talk
about let's talk about tonight. We got the NCAA against
Basketball Championship. You got Houston and uh and who else?
Houston and Florida.

Speaker 7 (20:43):
Yeah. Well, the thing is, you know, two and a
half billion dollars has been bet on these games, and
we've got one game left. So far, as far as
the betters go, the favorite has been and has spread
thirty eight times, the underdog twenty six times, which is

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a pretty good percentage for the underdog. And tonight Florida
is a point a half favorite over Houston after poor
Duke just collapsed, including that bad call on Cooper flag.
I don't know if you saw that.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Or not, but I know that Natalie did.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, I had Duke going all the way and I
was second in the office pool until until Saturday.

Speaker 7 (21:34):
Well, that was a terrible call, which everybody knows, you know,
how would have affected the end? Nobody really knows. But
it didn't help Duke.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
It did not.

Speaker 7 (21:50):
I see oh this just then, No, No, it's not sorry,
this is not just then. This is old. I'm just
in no wonder, we may never You know, you're not

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going to see another twenty game winner in baseball. Just
the first week of the season, already eight starting pitchers
were taken out after allowing only one hit and no
runs after six innings and one pitcher. The Nationals left
hander Mackenzie Gore had a no hitter and struck out

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thirteen and his manager Dave Martinez took him out of
the game because of the overrated pitch count and they
lost their game. Now, years ago, I think, I don't
know if you're old enough or not, Ken, but you
remember the great Bob Gibson. Oh sure, yeah, Oh okay,

(22:56):
Well you said you were going on sixty. Yeah, that's
that's a kid as far as I'm concerned. Well, you know,
he was what a Hall of Fame pitcher in his
heyday in the fifties and sixties and seventies, and he
talked about that pitch count.

Speaker 10 (23:17):
They never really cared about a pitch count. I would
average one hundred and thirty pitches a game. All they
wanted to know is how you were doing, and if
you're doing okay, then that's all it mattered.

Speaker 7 (23:29):
That's the way it should be. I think it was
a better game than pitching wise, but they just going
with this pitch count. Goodness gracious, and oh this just
then here it is. In an effort to combat the
home run torpedo bats, Baseball has legalized the spitball, the

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slippery elm and scuffing up the ball legal.

Speaker 11 (23:56):
A belated April folds and right the Baseball Commissioner Rob
Manfred He now says the torpedo bat is absolutely good
for baseball, not if you're a pitcher.

Speaker 7 (24:16):
Yeah, it's talk about yeah, you know, who knows. I mean,
as long as it's legal, it's legal. Talk about Shakespeare's
much ado about nothing. The Jersey Senator Corey Booker, who

(24:36):
spoke for twenty five hours and four minutes, breaking the
filibuster record, upon which Chuck Schumer, who never met a
microphone he didn't like, told that was a joke.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
We got it, We got it.

Speaker 7 (24:54):
Oh okay, he told Booker, America is proud of you.
Except for his friends and family. Nobody cares. Oh my goodness,
all right, time now full. The Three Stooges hit it
can okay Stage number one. New York Times writer Masha Gessen,

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whose headline read America's police state has arrived. Police state. Hey, Masha,
if you lived in a police state, you wouldn't be
allowed to write what you just wrote. You'd have to
write what they told you to write, or you would
be sent to parts unknown. Stuge number two New York

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Times writer and former Harvard president Lawrence Summers, whose headline read,
Harvard must not yield to intimidation. No, Lawrence, keep Harvard
permitted and demonstrating against minorities like the Jewish students, some
of whom were attacked, kept from going to class. Anti

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Semitism had its best at Harvard. And they only get
in line when you're threaten to lose four hundred million dollars.
And Stude number three, the senior partner of a California
law firm whose New York Times headline read our law
firm is speaking out against Trump. Who will join us?

(26:32):
I'll tell you who will join you. The same sorry
losers who voted for and watched eleven million illegal immigrants
into the country, and the same people who voted for
men who were too chicken and weak to compete against
other men and let them compete against women. That's who

(26:53):
will join you. Hit it.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
My fingers right on the button, right on the button.

Speaker 7 (27:06):
Oh, right on the button.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Oh, your button, yes, pressing the buttons. I'm trying to
figure out where the bathroom is in this place, Warner.
I walk in around? Where am I? It's a nice
t wiley hen Yes.

Speaker 7 (27:19):
This day in sports fifty two years ago April seventh,
nineteen seventy three, Yankee Firch baseman Ron Blumberg, who hit
three twenty two as a rookie and then two years
later hit three twenty nine, suddenly became the first designated
hitter in American League history after seventy two years of

(27:41):
no DH, and he walked, and the National League didn't
put in a DH until twenty four years later nineteen
ninety five, nineteen ninety seven, although they allowed it once
in the nineteen seventy six World Series. So there had
been no DH showing you TWI you wouldn't see him,

(28:05):
No DH, Aaron Judge, no dhs. You know, it's it's unbelievable.
I'm sure the youngsters thought, oh, well, we always had
a DH.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
No.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, so it's relatively new innovation then.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
Yeah, nineteen seventy do I have thirty seconds? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Go ahead, go ahead, Warner.

Speaker 7 (28:29):
Okay, now, your first name is Ken. Yes, sir, my
first job was Pikeville, Kentucky. The general manager said, Warner,
Nobody down here is going to be able to remember
or pronounce the Warner. They never heard of a Warner.
I said, if you were Warner Brothers, No, go ahead,
go home and change your name. Come back tomorrow. And

(28:50):
came back. I said, okay, how about J. J. Wolf? No,
he's They won't they won't know if it's a letter
or not. How about Robin, like the famous pitcher Robin Robert. No,
sounds like a girl's name. I came back and said,
how about Ken? That was it? I was Ken Wolf.

(29:11):
Look at a year.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Oh my goodness, I love that Ken Wolf.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Awesome. That's a good things.

Speaker 7 (29:16):
I've walked down the street people say Ken. I never
turned around. I don't know who we're talking to.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
I love it. You are fabulous. You are an icon
and truly one of my broadcast heroes. Forever, Warner Wolf.
Always a pleasure to have you on my friend. Good
holidays to you too.

Speaker 7 (29:34):
Oh thank you all right, I have a great.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Day, Warner. It is now seven forty nine. Where are
the markets headed this week? After the big tariff selloff?
Can Congress intervene? Wr National correspondent Rory O'Neill is good
to talk about it when we come back, and good
to be here. Happy Monday to you at seven fifty six.
Where are the markets headed this week after the big
tariff selloff? Can Congress intervene? Well? Here the good news

(29:59):
is last night before I went to bed, I checked
and it showed the futures at about fifteen to sixteen
hundred points down. Then when we got in this morning
at about four thirty five o'clock, the futures who are
about eleven hundred points down. Now the futures are eight
hundred points down. Now, not that that's a great thing.
Eight hundred points is a terrible thing, but eight hundred

(30:19):
points is a heck of a lot better than sixteen
hundred points, and it seems to be headed in that direction.
There is a part of me that says people are
going to be looking to buy some bargains and hopefully
we'll get some better news. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Someone who could tell us about it is Rory O'Neil,
wor's National correspondent. Good morning to Rory, Hey there Ken,
Good morning, So what do you think about this? You know,

(30:42):
over the weekend a lot of people were talking doom
and gloom. Trillions of dollars lost in markets around the
world last week. Do you think that these fifty countries
talking tariffs with the White House may change things?

Speaker 9 (30:55):
Well, you know, that's what's so difficult for corporations and
governments to try to think. President Trump has said these
tariffs are permanent, He's sort of done with it. But
then if you looked at the Sunday talk shows, you
had the secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Treasury all on the
different shows saying that all the countries are approaching US,
they want to negotiate, they want to do a deal.

(31:15):
So which is it? Are these here to stay? And
if you get a deal, do you still have the
result of trying to bring back manufacturing jobs to the
US trying to bring back wealth into the US? Can
you do both? And that's sort of the open question
and why they were seeing so much turmoil out there.
We did see the Asian markets have a huge sell
off overnight. Think in Hong Kong things were down thirteen percent.

(31:40):
We're also seeing big drops in bitcoin this morning as well,
European stocks are down five six percent somewhere in there.
They're still training right now, but maybe they're opening. As
you suggested that this is the time that the bargain
hunters sweep in and say things. Here in the US, it.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Could be that time. We'll see what happens. The fact
that the futures have shipped sold dramatically in the last
fifteen hours says a lot. So let's keep our fingers crossed.
Mega Millions raising its ticket price to five bucks as
it overhauls the National Lottery. So what is this? Why
are they doing this? Because I thought things were well?
Why not leave well enough alone? I always played my

(32:17):
Mega Millions and was quite happy with it.

Speaker 9 (32:19):
Well, they raised the prices from one to two dollars
back in twenty seventeen, so now it's five dollars per
ticket for Mega Millions. But the jackpots are going to
be much much higher, they say. The average big jackpot
these days is about four hundred and fifty million dollars,
but with ticket prices is going up to five bucks
a pop. Now they think that those big jackpots will

(32:40):
be closer to eight hundred million dollars on average. Even
the minimum grand prize was twenty million dollars. Now it's
the lowest prize is fifty million dollars for the big jackpot.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Interesting. You know, if you if you take the lump
sum and then pay your taxes, you're left with about
a dollar fifty so you need a hundred minions.

Speaker 9 (33:02):
My rule thumb has always been, if you see the
big sign on the billboard on the highway telling you
what the jack put is, you're likely to get take
home about a third.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Now in New York, it's a good one.

Speaker 9 (33:11):
It's probably exactly go about a quarter if you're in
New York, if you're lucky.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Rory, we're out of time, but thank you so much.
W R National correspondent Rory O'Neill, have a great day, sir.
All right, and we sit down with Republican mayoral candidate
Curtis Sliwa. Here's vision for New York City and what
sets him apart in this heated race. Coming up after
the eight o'clock News