Hour 2: NJ residents unhappy

NJ residents unhappy.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm the Big Three today. Just a horrifying story. A
Border patrol officer is shot in New York City, just
trying to enjoy a Saturday night with his girl, shot
by someone who never should have been in the country.
Was allowed in by Joe Biden. He was stopped and interviewed.
They knew he was a criminal and still let him in.

(00:21):
And he's got a long rap sheet.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Less than one year he has inflicted violence in our city.
And once he's charged for last night's crimes, we will
be able to add attempted murder to his rap sheet.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
The officer who was shot in the face is expected
to be in Okay. He was shot in the arm.
Also by the way. Secretary of Homeland Security Christy know
him and the borders are. Tom Homan will be here
today to visit him in the Harlem Hospital. New York
Democratic Congressman Jerry Nadler goes after the Transportation Secretary sewn

(01:00):
during a house hearing. It was really testy, he claimed,
Duffy isn't telling the truth about subway crime stats.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Why do you continue to ignore this and lie about
this in your public comments?

Speaker 4 (01:12):
My question, why do you continue to lie about people
being lit on.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
Fire and subways or pushed in front of trains.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
I went on like that for several minutes. By the way,
Congressman Nedler. Over the weekend, a man was stabbed to
death in the fourteenth Street subway station in Manhattan. Public Broadcasting,
which might as well be called Democratic Party Broadcasting, is
still whining about getting its federal funding cut. La Fontaine

(01:37):
Oliver is the CEO of NPR in New York.

Speaker 6 (01:41):
For our organization, it represents about four percent of our
annual budget.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
So we're talking roughly three.

Speaker 6 (01:50):
Million dollars in f y twenty six, our current fiscal year,
and then another three million dollars in.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
F y twenty seven four percent. Four percent. That's all.
That's the president and CEO of NPR in New York,
so he knows what he's talking about. All that whining
about four percent, you'd think the whole thing was going
to close down. Get over it. Trump arranged, by the way,
the release of ten more Americans wrongfully being held in

(02:20):
other countries. That's forty seven total since he's been in office.
This time is from Venezuela. The deal was worked out
with the help of ol Salvador, President Bukhali.

Speaker 7 (02:30):
President bu Kelly has been a good friend, friend enough
to know what's important to the United States, and so
we appreciate the fact that he cleared a deal with
Venezuela to release these Americans that came home.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
And you can't get away from the Coldplay kiss cam video.
It's everywhere and everybody's re enacting it. They're doing it
at stadiums all across the country. And the woman who
took that video, the woman who had her cell phone
out for it, is shocked that it's being viewed over
and over again, and at the same time, she actually

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feels bad for some of the people involved.

Speaker 8 (03:09):
I could have never guessed that it would be such
high profile individuals in the video. I do feel sorry
for their partners and spouses that they had to find
out this way.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Right as you know, by now, as the whole world knows,
the co workers caught in the video we're having an affair.
The man in the video, Pete de Joy, is the
co founder and CEO of the company Astronomer. He had
to step down. Now there's a pretty fascinating Eagleton pull
out a new poll out at Rutgers that has and

(03:42):
I guess we shouldn't be surprised at this. New Jersey
ins are really ticked off about just about everything. Mike
Kelly is an award winning columnist for North Jersey dot
Com and The Record, and he thinks this poll is significant.
Good morning, Mike. Tell us why it's significant.

Speaker 9 (04:00):
Larry yep, I greet you this morning from the very
ticked off republic of New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
It defines New Jersey, doesn't it. New Jersey's get ticked
off a lot.

Speaker 9 (04:12):
I think it does. Of course New Yorkers never get
angry over anything, right, Nope, never note at all.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
They take everything, well, Joseph, right off their shoulders, a.

Speaker 9 (04:23):
Very easy going bunch.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yes.

Speaker 9 (04:25):
Absolutely. Now what I thought was interesting about this poll
is Rutgers, which is a pretty respected polling outfit, decided
to ask people how they felt about the way government
is controlling various aspects of their lives. And of course,
taxes always has a has a large or very high dissatisfaction. Uh,

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you know, figure on it. But things like affordability and
schools and transit. We're looking at double digit increases in
dissatisfaction over the last ten years. Schools in particular, that
New Jersey has always been proud of its public schools,
and you know, and and a majority of New Jersey,

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it's forty seven percent still you know, are still satisfied
with their schools, but forty one percent are not. And
that's a double digit increase over just twenty eighteen. Affordability
same way, you know, we knew it was expensive to
live in this part of the world, but people, you know,
put up with it, and they and they and they
endured it and and and now what we're looking at

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is is an increase, you know, an increase of over
you know, double digits, over ten percent in just the
last few years. So what does this mean politically? Hard
to say. I mean, I looked at this, uh in
reference to another poll that you and I talked about
a few weeks ago by Rutgers that put Mikey Cheryl
h at over fifty percent and with a twenty percent

(05:56):
lead over Jack Chitderelli. And so I think these two
polls are going to figure very prominently in the fall.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, But why if they're dissatisfied and the Democrats and
the Democratic governor has been in control for the last
eight years, you would think that kind of dissatisfaction would
help the other party, But if you look at the
two polls together, that's not the case. Why well not.

Speaker 9 (06:25):
Right, Larry, You asked a great question, because what I
also did was I tried to look at how history
has played out, and in particular, I wanted to take
a look at the twenty sixteen election and use that
as a sort of starting point. Twenty sixteen national presidential election,
a very angry electorate, a very dissatisfied electorate, and who

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coming out of a progressive Democratic president in Barack Obama?
And who did the voters turn to? Donald Trump? And
the rest is history? Of course, Trump, you know, in turn,
you know, messed up in his first term, and the
voters turned to Joe Biden. Biden messed up badly and
gave us Kamala Harris. And who do the voters turn to?

(07:10):
They resurrected Donald Trump. We've been seeing this back and
forth nationally, I would argue, since the nineteen seventies. But
in Jersey we're seeing that as well. When there's a
conservative twist in the country, New Jersey goes not so
much conservative but republican. What does that mean for the fall?

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You would think there would be so many voters ticked
off at Phil Murphy and they are. His approval ratings
are dawn. I described it as, you know, kind of
like one of those sinkholes and rude eighty. But Chatterrelly
hasn't Jack Chatterrelly, the Republican candidate and a guy who
supports Donald Trump hasn't really found the kind of traction yet.

(07:54):
That's significant. It's early in the season, but that I
think his campaign should take heart with these polls, because
when voters are dissatisfied, they tend to flip parties.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Is this just New Jersey? I mean, I know this
poll has been in New Jersey, But is this a
reflection to the rest of the country.

Speaker 9 (08:14):
Well, yeah, in some respects, the country has been the
country has been in an uproar. You know this just
by being a radio talk show host that you know,
people are really dissatisfied with how things are going. The
national polls are telling us that, you know, a majority
of Americans don't like the direction of the country. That
is a fairly serious, uh, you know finding. I think so,

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you know, I think I think New Jersey is kind
of a mirror of what's going on in the rest
of the country and vice versa. And that's why I
think this is something to keep an eye on in
the fall, because is it This New Jersey governor's race
in the fall is going to be closely watched by
both parties, and I think it's going to be reflection

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perhaps of where we're going. But what I think is
particularly significant about New Jersey is that we've got a
very progressive governor right now who doesn't have a high
approval rating. And what we have in Jack Chittarelli is
a Republican who wants to shift things to the right
and really do away with a lot of his policies.

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And with that, he's got an electorate that is extremely
dissatisfied with the way things are being run in the government.
I mean, just the poll figures on transit public transit
are just basically blow water right now, and so Chattarelli
has the playbook sitting right in front of him. The

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fact that he hasn't gained much traction yet I find
very interesting.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
He did release his own poll as you probably heard,
and I guess the Globe got a hold of that,
but that was done by Kelly and Conway, so you
wouldn't call that an independent poll, but he was only
down one perc He's only down three percent in that one.
Thanks so much. That was really fascinating. We'll talk more
about it. Mike Kelly is an award winning columnist for

(10:08):
North Jersey dot Com and The Record. Thanks a lot, Mike.

Speaker 9 (10:12):
Thanks Larry Ticke see you later.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's happened again. Another music star almost takes a fall
at a concert when a prop goes haywire. We'll tell
you what happened and who it was next. Plus take
us to see Kat Stevens. No props there at the
Beacon Theater at h twenty five. Stay with us. A
lot to talk about this morning, and you have been talking.
Thanks so much for leaving your talkbacks. You make the

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show a whole lot better. And of course many of
you want to talk about the incidents Saturday night when
somebody that was here illegally with a long ramp sheet attacked,
attacked a border didn't know at the time, but it
was a Custom and Borders officer who was just out
with his girl for the night.

Speaker 7 (10:56):
Where are you?

Speaker 10 (10:57):
Letitia HOCl Schumer Alan Brad to explain this attack of
this ice officer at Fort Washington and it is all
on account of your sanctuary city policies.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Oh, you're not going to hear one Democrat talk about this.
Isn't that amazing? Isn't it amazing? An officer is shot
in the face and is going to be okay by
somebody that has a long rap sheet. But because they
are squarely on the side of those who are here illegally,
even the criminals, they're squarely on that side. There have
been way out in front in this. They went down

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and visited Kilmar Abrego, Garcia. They are way out in
front in this. And that's the reason you're never going
to even hear from them, because this is their fault.

Speaker 11 (11:50):
Words of passion, anger, frustration. I share them, I agree.
And this is not just isolated. It's not an isolated incident.
It's consistent and relax, take it easy, Go go to
the next topic.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
No, you know, it's hard for me to go to
the next topic.

Speaker 12 (12:11):
It cares.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
It really is hard for me to go to the
next topic because this is the topic. And as long
as we keep just ignoring that this happens and say
now it's par for the corries, let's move on. No,
it's wrong, and it's policy. It's policy of letting people
into the country, then it's policy of not convicting them
of crimes. It is a witch's brew that's killing people

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and causing people to get shot in the face and raped.
It is insanity, and so how can I not talk
about it? Although we could tell a joke about the
mayor's race.

Speaker 13 (12:51):
A socialist trust fund, anti Semite, a handsy governor, and
a dirty cop walking to a bar. The bartender says, hey,
at least you're not a Republican. The joke is the
New York City voter.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, Curtis Lee will love that joke. I'm gonna save that.
I'm gonna say that for Curtis say that was good though,
that was really good. Uh, what is going on at
pop concerts? It is It is just plain weird. There's
just this growing number of prop malfunctions at big concerts

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and it's a matter of time but for somebody, maybe
a few people get seriously injured. You can remember R
and B artist Chris Brown. They were left hanging mid
air during a performance. This was at Newark's Prudential Center.
Then you had Beyonce. Just recently it has sold out.
Cowboy Carter tour stop in Houston when her flying red

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car prop tilted and was suspended in the air, and
everybody was concerned about her. And now it has happened
to Katy Perry dyet butterfly prop and it actually dropped yep.
You know, it looked like there was going to be
a major problem, and the people below and in the

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crowd thought it was going to hit them.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
She came over right in front of us and all
of a sudden just dropped. And when that happened, my
heart literally sunk because that was not the expectation at all.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
You know, I guess it's to be expected. They take
this stuff, yeah from a really yeah, and they have
to set it up fast and break it down fast,
and so of course there's going to be a problem
somewhere along the way. I guess the question becomes, are
they going too far on this kind of stuff? I mean, people,
do people go to see the giant butterfly?

Speaker 12 (14:47):
That's a good question. But I have to say, Taylor
Swift's concerts and the effects are so great, but I
never hear any mistakes with that.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Does she go up in the air? That's there seems
to be the problem when they go up in the air.

Speaker 12 (14:58):
Just stay on the ground.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Right, You stay on the ground. You're gonna be fine. Now,
let's get the news at seven thirty with Jacqueline Carl Jacquelin.

Speaker 12 (15:05):
Good Morning. A warning from Jeffrey Epstein's former attorney, Alan
Dershowitz says the grand jury transcripts the White House wants
unsealed likely won't reveal much about Epstein's connections to the
rich and powerful. Dershowitz old Fox News Sunday that key
information is probably in saled New York court records. Epstein
died in jail in twenty nineteen while awaiting trial on

(15:25):
sex trafficking charges, and President Trump recently ordered Attorney General
Pambondi to unseal the grand jury testimony after facing pressure
from some of his supporters. In New York, City's largest
animal shelter network is no longer accepting pets at any
of its locations because shelters are out of room.

Speaker 14 (15:45):
This is the first time that shelters have turned away
pets in the thirty year history of the Animal Care
Centers of NYC Kate Hansen, but the shelter says they're
trying to work with pet owners to keep their animals.

Speaker 12 (15:56):
We have a food pantry, we have medical help that
we can give their There are ways that we can
help you keep your pet, and that's why we want
people to call us.

Speaker 14 (16:03):
Care center says it's still doing adoptions and emergency care,
but will no longer accept animal drop offs. I'm scamppringle
wr news.

Speaker 12 (16:12):
And apparently there were some monks in Thailand who could
be led astray. According to Yahoo News, a Buddhist monk
blackmail sex scandal has rock Thailand. At least nine monks
have been disrobed after it was learned they'd slept with
a seductress who then extorted them for millions. How do
they even have millions? Thirty five year old Wilawan Mswatt

(16:33):
stands accused of luring monks into breaking their celibacy valves
and then pressuring them to give up significant cash to
keep it a secret. She was arrested last week in
charge with extortion money laundering. A bunch of stuff. Five
phones allegedly belonging to her reportedly contained pictures and videos
of her inaction with the monks, some of them who
were reported to be wearing their religious robes whilst with her.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
You asked a great question. Apparently it's lucrative to be
a bootie.

Speaker 12 (17:00):
Monk, lucrative and sometimes sexy. I how when I heard
the story, I'm like, I know people target people and
they do really, you know, whatever they can to get money,
easy money. But who would think monks? I would like,
be like, now monks have no money. They take about selvice, poverty,
blah blah blah. Nope, she figured out they have money

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and they.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
May not be so celimate. I'm not.

Speaker 12 (17:27):
My hat has to be off to her.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
I'm not going to attack the Buddhist monks. I'm worried
about my karma.

Speaker 12 (17:32):
I was like, career change, they worried about their kara.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Apparently not, thanks so much. Jacqueline Carl up next to
the legendary sportscaster war Wolf, joins us he's got the
boo of the week, a classic. When will they learn?
And the three Stooges? So stay with us? And how
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slash teachers. We're getting into an exciting part of the
baseball season when everybody's thinking about Penance. Let's check in
with Warner Wolf, legendary sportscaster to find out about the
Yankees and the Mets. It's time to get excited. Warner.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
I'm very excited.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
I can tell I can tell all right, Larier.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
First of all, we wake up in the morning and
find out it says Aaron Judge his three hundred and
fifty first career home run as a Yankee yesterday, tying
him with a rod. Come on, first of all, Judges
three hundred and fifty home runs are all clean at
least half of a Rod's three hundred and fifty one

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home runs were steroid home runs. Fake home runs, come on,
get real? And how do you get a blown save
and a win in the same game. Yesterday, Mets reliever
Edwin Diaz came on in the eighth inning Mets leading
to to one. He gave up a walk, a single,

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and hit a batter with the bases loaded to tie
the game. But the Mets scored one in the bottom
of the eighth and he gets the win. Something strong
with that rule. A slow golfers Beware week on the
Alberta Springs golf course in Alberta, Canada, former National Hiking

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League center Nick Tarnowski got into a verbal argument over
the slow play of the guy who was ahead of him. Well,
they started yelling at each other, then pushing, shoving, and
finally Tarnowsky got fed up, picked the guy up and

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threw him in into a pond. And afterwards the guy apologized,
said he had been drinking. And the boy of the
Week goes to Major League Baseball, who, instead of continuing
the All Star Game after nine innings with the score

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six to six, staged a watered down version of the
home run Derby with three guys from each league getting
three swings. Oh man, the real fan sat through the
nineteen sixty seven fifteen inning All Star Game in Anaheim,
won by the National League two to one. Mickey Mandel,

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who struck out as a pinch hitter earlier in the game.
He told me that after his bat, he took a
plane back to New York and the game was still on.
That's what he said. Hey, speaking of All Star games,
when will these guys finally learn? This time, it was

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Diamondbacks All Star second baseman Ketl Marte who had his
Arizona home burglarized while he was playing second base eighteen
hundred miles away in Atlanta. All the burglars had to
do was turn on the TV and watch him play.
He's not home. Here's a guy makes fourteen million dollars

(22:01):
a year. Go out and get a security guard, bozo,
and watch your home to let the guy watch your
home when you were away, especially when you're on TV
all right time. Now for the three stage. Number one
is former President Barack Husein Obama, who says fathers need

(22:24):
gay figures to be role models other than their real
fathers to raise their children. Oh man, I don't know
about you, but we didn't need an outsider. The greatest
influence in my life was my father. He taught me humility, discipline,

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sense of humor, importance of education. It was my father
who got me interested in sports, becoming a sportscaster. What
was better than your father taking you a taking you
to a ballgame and sitting in the bleachers for seventy
five cents? Outsiders need not apply, Hussain Obama. Stage Number two.

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President Biden's personal physician, doctor Kevin O'Connor, who pleaded the
Fifth Amendment when asked about the failing health and cognitive
state of mind on the grounds that could incriminate them. Hey, doc,
what do you think pleading the fifth does for your credibility?

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I can see it now. A patient walks into O'Connor's
practice and says, hey, doc, I came in here two
weeks ago and I'm still in pain. What's wrong? And
O'Connor says, I don't know. I plead the Fifth because
my advice could incriminate me. That was a joke.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
I got it. I got it.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
I figured I have to wake you guys up. Number
three Former NFL Players Union boss Lloyd Howell who was
fired last week for hitting strip clubs and charging the
expenses to the players Union. The first one was Tutsi's

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cabaret in Miami, where he had his driver stay seven
hours while he was inside, charging the union seven hundred
and thirty eight dollars for the driver's speech. And the
second incident, he took two fellow players of the Union

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to the Magic City Strip Club in Atlanta and rang
up a bill of almost twenty five hundred dollars. What
did Howell say? The money was used for on the
expense sheet, a player's engagement event to support and our
players union.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Um, here they grew.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
This was three stooges, all right? This day in sports.
July twenty first, nineteen forty five, eighty years ago, the
Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia A's played there with twenty four
inning twenty four inning, one to one tie called Darkness.
The Tiger rookie pitcher Les Mueller went nineteen and two

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thirds innings. In the eighteenth inning, the Tiger manager went
out and asked Mueller, how you doing it and how
do you feel? He said okay and stayed in the game.
What was this pitch count? Three hundred and finally you

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were taught. We were talking about alligator Alcatraz, well, which
is I seventy five. My wife and I had a
drive from Naples to Fort Lauderdale, where it's eighty miles long.
It's not un to see alligators and giant snakes on
the road. So if I'm a prisoner and I try

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to escape, there's nowhere to go, surrounded by long stretches
of the Florida Evergrade Everglades on both sides. I mean,
have you ever driven that, man?

Speaker 1 (26:22):
No, I haven't. I've seen alligators outside in Florida, but
I've never driven down that alley.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
Man.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
That'll scare you to stay inside. Huh.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
And I should have asked you how about your father?
To influence your father had on you?

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Oh? Absolutely. You know the fact that they want to
win pose DEI on the family is just kind of sickening.
But they're not going to give up. Hey, whateer, we
gotta go. Warner Wolf, legendary sportscaster. That was great, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Warner, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Everybody's still talking about the Coldplay kiss cam, and that
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c c R A n E dot com. Old play
kisscam video. It's everywhere. It's everywhere you look. Even if
you went to a baseball game, they have got it there.
If you went to a concert, anybody's concert right now,
they do it there. Wow. I feel so bad for
these two people and for their significant others too. Let's

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get the latest on this because it is a international
phenomena right now. From Rory O'Neil, wr National correspondent, Rory,
this is a this is a pretty good gig. This
is the story of the week.

Speaker 5 (29:00):
But it really is, and it really gives new definition
to going viral, right. I mean, I don't think, as
you said, I haven't seen anything go viral like this
in years, and in a very different way, probably because
of AI picking things up and making it so much
easier to manipulate photos and animate things in ways that
we haven't seen. I mean, sure, the Philly fanatics did

(29:21):
a fantastic job, but the memes that are generated out there,
either showing the couple as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
My personal favorite is as Fozzy Bear and Miss Piggy
or Kermit.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Left out in the cold on that one.

Speaker 5 (29:38):
I've even seen pizza with Pineapple trying to not admit
that their relationship exists.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
It is amazing. You really can't get away from it.
And now I saw I don't know what it was.
I think it might have been a baseball game where
they're actually labeling it as the cold Play kiss cam.
It comes up on the screen cold Play kiss cam.

Speaker 5 (30:00):
Yeah. I mean, that's how much and how quickly it's
all spread, which is just the remarkable part. Although I
think there should be more shame on the rest of
the people in that suite who all knew that this
affair was happening and they all decided to still go
to a cold Play show together. I mean, that's pretty creepy.
These enablers are out there.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
And are there so there's memes? Are there jokes out there?

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Now?

Speaker 5 (30:22):
Oh, it's been everywhere. I mean a lot of it is.
You know, some of his joke. I saw one a
bit inappropriate, but it was, you know, as I said,
it was Fozzy Bear holding this Piggy. Apparently I haven't
seen it. I've only heard there's jd Vance holding a
couch that's also out there. Yeah, so the lists seemed
to be endless. Yeah, Trump Clinton, I was expecting Bill

(30:46):
and Monica. I haven't seen that one yet.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
What it would get you the most about it? I
guess it's a natural reaction from those two to hide
their face and to sit down immediately to get out
of the camera. But as the person that shot the
video said, had they just had they not done anything,
if they would have just acted like this was normal,
we wouldn't be talking about them today.

Speaker 5 (31:11):
No. I mean even Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay,
as they were being shown on the kiss camera, said oh,
they're shy or they're having an affair. Well, it turns
out he was right on the second count. And look,
I know it's it's so sad for the spouses here,
for the children of these couples. I mean, that's the
real tragedy in all this, And I know we're trying

(31:31):
to have fun with it, but there are some real
family tragedies still unfolding now.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
No, and their careers might be over as well. It's
very you know, you're always going to be the Cold
Clay Coldplay couple, the Coldplay Kisscan couple.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
So I'm saying, apparently he got a severance package when
he got shown the door. She is now on leave
as the head of HR for Astronomer. Let's see if
they decide to fire her. But that would seem that
she was violating their own policies. I do laugh that
he gets a severance package all this. You're like, Oh,
that's the corporate world for you. You would have thought
there was a morals clause in there, but maybe not.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, I'm sure he had that in any kind of
contractor some legal work because he also founded the company.
It is amazing. It is a story that I guess
right now, all across the country there are HR departments
that are talking about this and deciding, Man, what would
we do in a case like this. It does seem obvious,

(32:29):
but it's not.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
Well, Love Island is over for the season, so what
else were we going to talk about? Is what's happening?

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yes, all right, thanks so much. Rory O'Neill, w o
R National correspondent, Good to talk to you. Talk to
you again tomorrow. Well I don't know if you read this,
but Fox Business is Charlie Gasparino had a whole column
about this. He weighs in on Curtis lee was bold
decision to stay in the New York City mayoral race.

(32:57):
It's a four way showdown. Could Slee, with street cred
and outside her edge give him the upper hand in
this race. That's a fascinating perspective. Charlie Gasprino is coming
up after the eight o'clock News