Hour 2: Newark airport struggles continue

Newark airport struggles continue.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, and a good Monday morning to you.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Larry had a little car trouble. Well, let's just say
that I hope he didn't notice. I put the I
put the tax strip in front of his tires as
he was driving away.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
I knew he had run.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Flat, so they probably made it about forty miles and
then he pulled off on the side of the road. Larry,
it's my fault. I'll buy you a new tires. I'm kidding.
Larry's doing just fine. He had a little fur real
had just a minor card trouble and happy to pinch
hit to him.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
I love you, Larry.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Normally I would be at home listening to this show,
having my second cup of coffee right now. So my
throat's still a little funny because I'm not fully awake myself,
but it's good.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
To be in this morning anyway.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
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Speaker 1 (00:58):
Be happy to talk to you, all right, love to
hear what you have to say. So we have a
lot of issues.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
The biggest issue I think that's hitting us right now,
and we're going to talk to somebody about it too
in just a moment.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Here is Newark Airport.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Newark Airport this weekend has been just yet another disaster
happening where we had flights coming in and out that well,
let's just say there was a bit of a burp.
So the FAA said there was a telecommunications outage. It
impacted communications and radar at Philadelphia Traycon and that manages,
of course, air traffic control for all of Newark's airspace.

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The FA advisories show the ground stop lasted forty five minutes.
The report came after a ninety second long radar and
radio adage on Friday, and then back on April twenty eighth.
It was another So this thing happening once in twenty
years would be horrible. Happening three times in less than
two weeks unacceptable, unacceptable, Not when we have the trillions

(01:56):
in our budget that we're spending the amount of taxes
that you're spending and I'm spending. If you can afford
as a government to fund cockroach races in Lithuania, then
you can afford to make sure our air traffic control
system is running and not running on floppy disks and
computers from nineteen eighty nine. This is unacceptable. And by

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the way, multiple administrations from multiple parties are responsible here
and drop the ball over and over again. I remember
a certain former New York governor whose name shall.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Remain nameless, but he talked a lot like this.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
I'll give you a hint, Natalie, do you have any
ideas who I'm talking about?

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Anyway?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
That particular governor and I met up once at a
dinner and I remember asking him directly about the New
York City subway system and what it needs most, and
he said, well, it needs new switches and new rail.
But he said, the problem is if we spend a
billion dollars on that, nobody sees that. But if I
spend a million on a couple of new cars, everybody

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sees that. So I would rather put a band in
and a had a lipstick on a pig and make
people see that than spend a billion of taxpayer money
and then not have that in the budget to buy
things that people will know that we did, which was
so political to me, and I thought, really so. In
other words, somebody's having a heart attack, You're not going
to repair the heart. Instead, you're gonna put lipstick and
makeup on them so they look good in the coffin
at the wake. Not acceptable anyway. That seems to be

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the issue with the FAA and Traycon. Rather than fixing
a decades old problem, just kick the can down the line.
So I know somebody who could talk more about this
with us right now. Mike Kelly is an award winning
columnist for North Jersey dot Com and The Record, and
he is with us this morning.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Good morning to you, My good to have you on.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Good morning, Ken. Yes, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, you know both we both do New Jersey stuff
and I read your column all the time. You're brilliant
and I'm not just kissing up. You are brilliant, and
as I'm a New Jersey guy and I usually fly
to newer.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
No, that's the truth I do.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
And when you see this happening, I'll let you lett
take off the journalistic at and just be a Jersey guy.
How incense to you, because when I saw this happening once,
I was shocked, twice I was really upset, and three
times unacceptable.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
You know, Ken. What's also sad about this, or tragic,
or or or outrageous is the fact that Newark Airport
is located in a very crowded spot on the planet.
You've got very dense housing in towns all around it.
If a plane crashes, it's the people on that plane

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are not going to be the only ones who die.
There's going to be a lot of people on the
ground who are going to be in danger, but on
a lot in a greater sense, You're this is really
outrageous because it really goes to the heart of what
we're all about as people, and that is accountability. You know,

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when you when you when you go through life, there
are various ways that you have to be accountable. You
have to stop up your car at stop lights, you
have to abide by the speed limit, you got to
pay your taxes, you got to you know, and on
and on. I'm sure your listeners could come up with
all kinds of you know, ways where you have to
be accountable. This is basic accountability and for the people

(05:15):
who run our airports and they're not holding up their
end of the bargain cure.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
You know that there's the saying you have but one job, right,
you know this would this would be like you You're like, Okay,
I know I got a column to write, but I'll
tell you what. I got to get to Jamaica and
Turks and Caicos today. Maybe I'll get to it in
a couple of weeks. No, you got a deadline. If
you didn't do your job, you wouldn't have a job.
If I didn't show up on time and do my job,
I wouldn't have a job.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
This is what we do. And the FAA you got
but one job. Your job is to keep the air
the air safe and to make it work.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
And when this cannot be the first time that they're
thinking floppy disks on computers is not a good idea.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, And you know the problem here is that I'm
surprised they haven't shut the airport down. I really am
surprised at this. I mean, think about you know, military
bases and things like that when they have major crashes
and accidents, and that's really they shut the place down
until they get it fixed. What is going on down
there where there's kind of driving the car down the

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road hoping it doesn't break down, that kind of thing,
And it's just it. Really, they're playing with people's lives.
And I'm telling you, if there is a crash, people
are going to be really, really outraged. And I don't
blame them. I don't and.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Should be and this should not happen in twenty twenty five,
nothing even close to it. Just shifting gears really fast, Mike.
Department of Homeland Security now just released bodycam video from
several angles Saturday nights showing that there was a scuffle
during the rest of Newark Mayor Ross Baraka. Now, let's
just face facts, no matter what, no matter where you
are politically, the fact is I've covered New Jersey news

(06:50):
for decades.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
You have for decades. Ross Baraka stays kind of quiet.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Until he's running for something. Then all of a sudden,
Ross Baraka is at the opening of an envelope.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
You know, he's everywhere.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
So lest anyone think this is just an organic thing
that happened, you know, in the last few weeks, I
know he's been very vociferous about this. This privately held
detention facility. But yet methinks something tells me that if
he wasn't running for the Democratic primary for governor, he
wouldn't have been quite vociferous when he got arrested.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
What thinks thee.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Well said, Well said, you're right on the mark. But here,
even more importantly, to win the Democratic primary in New Jersey,
you have to run very much to the left. In
other words, you have to appeal to progressives. What appeals
to progressives now right now anything dealing with immigration. And
this is why I think the Democrats are going to

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lose in fall election, because they've embraced issues, namely sanctuary
cities and some of the more progressive viewpoints on immigration
that just don't sit well with what I call Purple
New voters. These are voters that can go Republican. They
can vote for Christy, Chris Christy in one election, they

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could vote for a Democrat in another. And it's that simple,
or you know. And I think those who are running
for in the Democratic primary for governor are in a
bit of a pickle because they have to appeal to
the progressives in order to win that primary. But once
they win that primary, they've got to run in a

(08:29):
far more general and appeal to a far more general
electric and that is the problem. So you see Baraka
trying and others out there too, They're trying to draw
attention to this whole sanctuary and immigration issues. And I'm
telling you it's going over like a lead balloon with
New Jersey voters.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Well listen, we have it is now seven fourteen, by
the way, seven to ten w R. Mike Kelly, the
award winning columnists from North Jersey dot Com on the
record on right now, and I got to ask you
this awesome story. It's a sad story, but an amazing
one about your grandmother and her death back in nineteen
twenty six and the whole outcome tell us this story.
I heard about this from Natalie and I was I

(09:12):
got goosebumps.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah. One of the great secrets in my family was
that my grandmother, my father's mother, had died in childbirth
with what would have been my father's brother in nineteen
twenty six. You know, poor working class Irish family in
Jersey City. She tried to give birth in a tenement.
You know, that was the custom back then. You didn

(09:36):
go to the hospital necessarily, you know, medical care for
a lot of women in childbirth was not all that great.
And she died, and so I went to visit her
grave purely by accident. About five years ago. I was
in Jersey City covering a terrorism issue, and so I
happen to have some time for you. I stopped by
the cemetery and I noticed that her name was on

(09:57):
the grave, but the name of her son, the boy.
She had a stillborn baby that I was told was
buried with her, and so I started researching and decided
to make sure that the tombstone was updated. But then
I found that there were three other people who had
all died tragically from my family in that grave. So

(10:18):
I ended up updating the entire tombstone.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
I had.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Also out of time, I want people people can check
this out because we're out of time right now.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
People can check this out on on on.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Your column right sure, uh, North Jersey dot com. But
just one more thing. The baby, the baby who was
born stillborn, had no name, so I ended up naming it.
So I named my uncle who died in nineteen and.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Unbelievable, goosebumps. That's a beautiful story.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
What a happy ending to a a an otherwise magic story.
Mike Kelly, you are just amazing award winning columnists for
North Jersey dot Com. On the record, we love when
you are on. Always a pleasure. Have a wonderful day.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Thank you, Bet say Well, thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Okay, care you too, you too, seven sixteen Right now,
if you watch SNL Saturday night, and why would you,
but if you did, you may have heard a cheap
shot about Newark, New Jersey. We're going to play that
for you coming up next. Oh so good to be
with you on a Monday, and a beautiful Monday. It is,
in fact, we're going to have sunshine today HIGs near
eighty degrees. Depending on where you are on the tri
State down by the shore, it'll be a little bit cooler,

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but still so beautiful. Then we'll sure the Jersey Shore
around in the Hamptons. This time is so so lovely.
Seven twenty four is our time and we would love
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your comment or ask a question if any of you
had nothing better to do than to put on I mean,
if any of you were watching Saturday.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Night Live Saturday Night.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
In the last episode, dot Com Media and Colin jost
Uh used the Weekend Update segment a segment to poke
fun at the ongoing US airport crisis, and he especially
decided to target Newark Liberty International. He joked about multiple
incidents where air traffic controllers lost contact with incoming planes.
Take a listen to this.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
A new report shows that there have been at least
nine incidents at Newark Airport where air traffic controllers have
lost contact with planes that were about to land. But
luckily it's Newark, so planes can just follow the smell.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Now, the question is, yeah, yeah, exactly, thank you. And
you know what's said.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
We both went to Regis High School, and I've reached
out to him over the years because I graduated waybia.
I was the quote unquote celeb from reach before he
was so yet I did nothing I got. I got snubbed.
Now Regis like, yeah, who Ken Rosotto, who Yeah, okay,
all right, we got your spot spot. I stopped getting
I stopped getting invitations to do celebrity.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Fundraisers and it's all about him, all right? Fine?

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Him?

Speaker 2 (13:00):
And and by the way, the other one is Jim
shootout from CNN. Those two are there much more. They
trunk the guy who was on WAB. You know, I
was on Channel seven, so they don't they.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Don't want to hear that it's a Channel seven. Let's
let's let's stick with this guy anyway.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
But the bottom line is what do you think? How
appropriate or inappropriate was that? And as a like, I
live in New Jersey and I'm not that far from Newark.
Newark actually is.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
A lovely people, a lovely place with beautiful people.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
It's a big urban city. Every urban city has its
pluses and minuses. And the idea, especially at this time
when we're having an issue that could lead to a tragedy,
was that an appropriate thing? And I know, Ken lighting up,
it's comedy, relax, But is this the time comedy? The
old rule for comedy is comedy is tragedy plus time.
And was there enough time when this just occurred, especially

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in light of the fact that we just had the
Washington crash a couple of months ago, and we just
had the helicopter go down, And is this an appropriate
comment or a bit of a joke on set Saturday
Night Live. Give us a call again, eight hundred and
three to two one zero seven ten. Tell you something
that party I did find kind of humorous.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Did you see this over the weekend? Did you read
about this guy from Sweden?

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (14:11):
No, do tell because this sounds interesting.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
You know, I'm resisting. It's just inappropriate to go into accents.
I'm very good at accents, and it's it's sort of
non PC to do an accent. But every time I
love my my Swedish friends, I have lots of Swedish friends,
I just so want to go into Swedish accent, even
though it's not good, but I.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Just want to. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
But Sweden's new national security advisor. His name is Tobias.
We would pronounce it fiberg thhyberg, but apparently in Swedish
it's been to boog, so tobs to boog. He resigned
less than twenty four hours. In fact, many are reporting
it was twelve hours after he was appointed on Thursday
to be the National Security.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Advisor of Sweden.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Big job, yep, big job, one of the most important
jobs in national government.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Did he have to resign?

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Twelve hours after the appointment, because it turns out he
had naked pictures of himself, not just of the parts,
but like all full on selfie top to bottom if
you will, with all the essentials unblurred, put out there.
I know, you know what when you tell us to
what women always I'm saying now I'm generalizing here every
woman who hears this about guys. As a woman, you

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don't want to see this stuff, right, Women don't want
to see junk.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
They don't want to see.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
Say anybody need to see this? And why take a picture?
Where was this? And how did they find it? And
why didn't they find it beforehand?

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Well they found.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
The thing is he knew that it was there, of course,
because he put it there. It was on Grinder, which
is an app that a lot of men in the
LGBTQ community used to meet other men for clandestine meetings.
It's not usually to have cocktails or lunch. And apparently
he posted these pictures not once, but multiple times. And
then get this, the previous National Security Advisor was forced

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to resign because of multiple security breaches of his own.
So you would think that once the Prime Minister comes
here and says listen event Tobias evant to put you
in charge of the national security, Do you have anything
you want to tend me? And you would think he
would say it miss the Prime Minister. I was on
the Grinda app and I put some bad pictures up there.
You think he might want to bring that up because
that does pose a security issue, because someone can say, listen,

(16:18):
I got these naked pictures of you, and if you
don't launch the missiles, I'm gonna put these pictures out.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
That kind of stuff can happen.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
And he chose not to say anything, and he says,
now his combat is maybe it wasn't a good idea
that I didn't share that information with the Prime Minister.
You think maybe you could have shared that anyway. Just
thought that was interesting. That is the first and last
you will hear of Tubias Teburg. It is seven twenty
nine and it is time for Larry Kowski in for
Jacqueline Karl with the seven thirty News.

Speaker 7 (16:47):
And good morning Ken. We have fifty nine degrees under
sunny skies. At seven point thirty, iadon Alexander, the Tenified
Native who is the last living American hostage being held
by Hamas and Gaza is being released issue to statement
on Sunday saying it would release Alexander to help reach
a cease fire agreement. Alexander was captured at his Israeli

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Army base when Hamas attacked Southern Israel back on October seventh,
twenty twenty three. President Trump will be in the Middle
East this week. The White House says he's going to
reaffirm his commitment for a free and prosperous region. He's
due to visit Saudi Arabia, Cutter and the United Arab Emirates,
representatives of NJ Transit and the union representing its locomotive engineers,

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or in Washington today, a federal mediator will be trying
to help negotiate an end to a contract dispute ahead
of a Friday strike deadline. Jury selection expected to wrap
up today in the sex trafficking trial of rapper Sean Dinny.
Comb's opening statements are expected later. And a new study
finds that New York at about two dozen other US

(17:48):
cities are slowly sinking. Groundwater extraction is to blame. According
to the Virginia Tech study published in the journal Nature.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Cities.

Speaker 7 (17:56):
Researchers say the sinking at a rate of between two
and ten millimeters a year could result in severe and
even catastrophic infrastructure damage. Other seeking cities Houston, Dallas, Seattle, Chicago,
and Denver, ken So.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Stop drinking, Just stop drinking. Keep the damn falset off.
You want to have a problem, that's a solution. That's
my answer.

Speaker 7 (18:17):
What do you think or get out the diving gear?

Speaker 1 (18:19):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
I mean literally, at a couple of millimeters a year,
you're talking it, we take about one hundred thousand years
before we'd even notice anything bad. I know, you got
the big buildings that could rock back and forth. We
probably don't want that. All right, all right, Larry, thank
you very much. It is now seven thirty one. Hey,
how about the Knicks leading the series against the mighty
Celtics two games to one, game four US tonight and

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the legendary Warner Wolf's coming.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Up next to talk about it.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
It's good to be with you here on a Monday morning.
Our dear Larry had some car trouble today. He's perfectly fine.
I want to make sure everybody knows that he's doing
GRAZI just upset and naturally so, Larry. I just want
to tell you I didn't mean to pour that watery
looking device, that watery looking substance, rather into your gas tank.
I thought it would help boost the mileage, so I

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didn't realize this is what happened.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
But nonetheless, Larry will be on tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
But nonetheless, our buddy, I'm sure was a little stressed
out today, but it's good to be pinch hitting today.
Ken Risotto in we want to hear you. Give us
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We want to hear from Larry. All right, second he
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You could do, very easy to do, actually done it myself.
They are seven to ten w o R at seven
thirty nine beautiful sunshine. Today heis near eighty degrees. And
guess who is on the phone right now, legendary sportscaster
Warner Wolf, live from a place that's even warmer than here.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Good morning to you, Warner.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
It is. You're right, so you got yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Was gonna say, so, the Knicks, Celtics, who can't shoot straight?

Speaker 1 (20:26):
What's going on? Tell us all of it?

Speaker 2 (20:27):
You know, I know nothing about sports, but I do
know a lot about my Warner Wolf.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Well, you know, of course, the really the big story
is the Celtics blew two twenty point leaves in games
one and two. Otherwise it's three games then when the
Celtics went leading. But you talk about the gang that
couldn't shoot straight. The Knicks after hitting only five out

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of twenty five to three pointers in Game three, they
are now just thirty one for ninety three three pointers
for the series, and the Celtics are no better, only
forty five out of one hundred and forty three pointers.
That means they've missed almost one hundred three pointers. I mean,

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these guys, they can't and then they keep throwing them up.
So Game four is here tonight. So that's the deal
I want. They're gonna keep shooting the three pointers. Hey,
how about those Colorado Rockies? They fire manager Bud Black
yesterday with a record of seven and thirty three. But

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after he beats the Padres yesterday nine to three, that'll
teach him. All right, timing and Natalie and Crash can
join on this one. As of today, is there a.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
Feedback by the way, Oh you sound great?

Speaker 4 (22:01):
Oh? Oh good? Okays, sorry, I am.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
All right.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Here we go. As of today, we've had over twelve
hundred games played by the thirty teams, with two starting
pitchers of course for each game. So that's over twenty
four hundred starting pitchers. Of the twenty four hundred starting pitchers,
how many complete nine inning games have been thrown?

Speaker 6 (22:31):
One?

Speaker 4 (22:31):
All of you take a guess one.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
I'll say one.

Speaker 6 (22:36):
Crash is going with two. Natalie I said one, Oh yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
I'm with Natalie. I say one. I say one as well.

Speaker 6 (22:44):
And Crash is going with two. How close are with Warner?

Speaker 4 (22:48):
Well, it was four until Friday night when Eric Fady
pitched the complete game. So it's five.

Speaker 6 (22:56):
That's shocking. Actually, shockingly lowd.

Speaker 8 (22:58):
I was just going crazy because I figured why not
right because of the question why.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
It's a sad commentary? Well, i'll tell you. I'll get
right to it in just a second. In one of
my stooges. Oh, here's one for you. The new owners
of the Utah Hockey Club the National Hockey League, they
bought the team from Phoenix, moved to Salt Lake. They

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had this big contest involving eight hundred and fifty thousand
fans to name the new name for the team. Oh okay,
so they they had their name Outlaws, which by the way,
came in first, the Hockey Club, which came in second.

Speaker 8 (23:46):
And wait a minute, the hockey Club. That was as
creative as they could get.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
The hockey Club, well that's what they were known as.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Not even the good hockey Club, just they I thought
the Outlaws sounded bad, but that that's worse.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
The third name is Mammoth, like the hairy mammoth. It
came in third, and that's who they picked.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Oh, I was feel weird about like a plural singular
thing like the mammoth, and you're talking about a group
of people.

Speaker 4 (24:22):
It's no, it's that's it's the extinct twelve foot tall,
twelve thousand pound animal that resembled a hairy elephant. Yes
it wrong.

Speaker 6 (24:34):
Well an interesting mascot.

Speaker 8 (24:36):
So there you go, a mammoth running around the hockey rinky.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
You look like a hairy elephant, a skating mammoth.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
They were afraid of naming it outlaws, you know the connotation.

Speaker 6 (24:53):
Yeah that that that wasn't good. I can't even believe
that was number one.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Okay, yeah, yeah, unreal.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
So you got three stooges, okay, stage number one, And
this is what we were talking about. Yankee manager Aaron Boone,
who took out his starter Carlos Rodin last week with
two outs in the seventh, allowing only three hits and
a three nothing lead over the Rays. The Rays got
four and the eighth off his bullpen and beat the

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Yanks four to three. Win. Will Boone realize that Marianna
Ravera is not coming out of his bullpen? Forget the
overrated pitch count and analytics. Instead ask how's he doing
and what's the score. If the Yanks missed the playoffs
by one game, they can look back to this game

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and blame it on Aaron Boone. All right, stage number two,
A stage number two that take the stage. It's Red
Sox DH Raphael Devers. He refused to play first base. Devers,
former All Star third baseman, reluctantly. He became the Sox
DH this year and now says he doesn't want to

(26:07):
move again. Here's a guy making twenty seven million dollars
a year.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Part of a.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
Ten year, three hundred and thirteen million dollar deal.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
You know.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
The Reds had Pete Rose play second base, third base,
left field, and right field. Never complained. The Yankees even
had Yogi Vera playing left field so Elston Howard could catch.
Nobody complained. Man Devers, what a team player? And THU
number three a pretty serious one. The daughter of actress

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Maggie Gillenhall, who was Jewish, was charged with criminal trespassing
after taking part in an anti Israel protest at Columbia University.
Her mother should explain to a daughter that as a Jew,
if she went to Palestine, hermas would either execute her

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on the spot or at best hold her hostage, and
who knows what they would do. I thought the best
line of the day came from New York postwriter Douglas Murray,
who wrote Free the Palestinian signs should read free the

(27:25):
Palestinians from Hermus. That's what it should be, all right.
Do I have time for tribute to Mother's Day?

Speaker 2 (27:36):
We got about fifteen seconds, you got it?

Speaker 4 (27:40):
Here is It's time now for the Mother's Day song.

Speaker 6 (27:43):
I love this.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
And as for the many smiles you gave me, oh,
it's for the other things you did. T is for
the times you forgave me. H is for the happiness
we see. Put them all together. That spells morph.

Speaker 6 (28:06):
A warner every year against me.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
I love you, Warner Wolf, you are just the best.
God bless you, my friend.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
All right, the legendary water Wolf always always a treat
to have one. Eight right now, the Government of Guitar
wants to give the President a luxurious jet as a
present on his trip this week?

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Is that even legal.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
National correspondent Rory O'Neill has all of that coming up next?

Speaker 1 (28:31):
This is seven to ten. Wr Ken Rozotto in.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
For Larry Kovski of Larry Kovsky, excuse me and for
Larry Minty. Larry Kovsky's in here today here on your
Monday morning, and it's going to be with you on
a beautiful Monday morning. Larry had a little car trouble,
so he's gonna be out today.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
I'll be back tomorrow. Everything's good, and we have sunshine today.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Highs around eighty is just a gorgeous day to eat alfresco,
go outside and enjoy. And you know what, while you're
out there, you're probably gonna hear the planes flying by.
You look above and you see those beautiful planes in
the sky. And I bring that up because there are
reports that the government of Qatar, or as you know,
all the journalists a few years ago, decided to start
calling it gutter or cutter or I was always raised

(29:11):
with Qatar either way, I think because there's no emphasis
in that language of where you put the emphasis on Katar,
Qatar whatever. Okay, getting back to it, the government of
Qatar will be gifting President Trump a seven forty seven
so called palace in the sky when he visits the
Middle East in just a few days. Should the president

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accept such a lavish gift from a foreign country?

Speaker 1 (29:34):
And is it even legal to talk about that? And more?

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Is Rory O'Neil wor's national correspondent, Rory, good morning, Good
to have you on today.

Speaker 9 (29:42):
Hey Ken, good morning.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
So you know what it was my birthday last week
and I got a gift card and somebody offered me
a dinner out, et cetera. And the president is being
offered one hundred eight hundred million dollars jumbo jet and
just who has an extra jumbo jet lying around?

Speaker 1 (29:58):
That's my question? What about this? Right?

Speaker 9 (30:02):
This is a four hundred million dollars seven forty seven
to eight series that President Trump actually did a walk
through of a few months back when it was parked
down at Palm Beach International Airport near his club there
at mar A Lago. So apparently Cutter is in talks
with our US Defense Department and their Defense Ministry to
try to gift this plane to the US as a

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temporary air force one. Then at the end of President
Trump's term, the plane would be transferred to the Trump
Library Foundation, essentially gifting the plane to President Trump for
his personal use in perpetuity.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
So you got to wonder, is there a quid pro quo?
You know that the Left is going to be asking that, sure.

Speaker 9 (30:48):
And then and by the way, is this a violation
of the laws?

Speaker 1 (30:53):
The other question.

Speaker 9 (30:53):
You know, the Constitution has the Emolument's Clause, which specifically
prohibits gifts from foreign government to US presidents unless Congress
approves of the gift. Then there's also the question of
why you know this plane is about thirteen years old,
the one we're talking about. Donald Trump is eager to

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replace the two Air Force one jets that are now
about thirty five years old each. The two replacements are
being made as we speak, but they are well behind schedule.
The first one probably won't be ready until the last
year that Donald Trump is in office. So if we
are gifted this plane of about four hundred million dollars,
what do we have to do to it to make

(31:35):
it air Force one worthy? You know, yeah, because communications
with the defense capabilities, all that stuff, and then there's
all that part of the gift. Then that goes to
Donald Trump when he takes the plane, essentially with the
library at the end of his term.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Because I took a look and you could see online
what this plane looks like. It's opulent gold fixtures, which
is very Trump besque, I mean, obviously, but it doesn't
look set up like it's set up for an Air
Force one circumstance, because you have to have places for
members of the media.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Maybe he doesn't want members of the media at air Force.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
One, but you have to have an area for members
of the media to sit, you have to have the
for members of the cabinet, et cetera. So there's a
lot that has to go in there. Plus they have
to be emergency like chaff and things like that in
the event that God forbid it was under attack. And
you said there were two, right, because there always have
to be two air Force ones. Flying one is a
backup and also as a decoy in case somebody comes

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after it.

Speaker 9 (32:28):
Right, So you have two operational Now I understand the
two we have are also capable of mid air refueling.
The next two that we've ordered are not, by the way,
but this one we assume would not be capable of
mid air refueling. So it's there are a lot of
different questions as to and then what about good money
after bad Like would you what about the two were

(32:48):
already under contract for with both Yeah, you know, really
the scope of that two and a half billion dollar
contract really is all about the maintenance for the next
twenty years, not just to coutonto the plane.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
All right.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Rory O'Neil, WRSNA correspondent, Thank you so much for joining us.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
As always, great insights here, have a great day, Thanks Ken.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
You bet huge new out of the Middle East. Hama
says it will release the last living American hostage. We'll
get the latest from correspond at Jordana Miller live from
Jerusalem next coming up after the eight o'clock news. Ken
Rosatto in for Larry Menti on your Monday morning. We're
coming right back