Hour 2: NYC Mayoral debate

 NYC Mayoral debate.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's our guy Menty in the Morning, minus Menti. It
is Jimmy Fala in the Morning for one day only,
a limited engagement on seven to ten wo or the
Voice of New York. But I'm having so much fun
in my new slot in ther lineup, which of course
is weeknights from nine pm to midnight. That tonight, I
am ditching the format of my national show and I

(00:22):
am doing a full three hours of call ins from
local New York, New Jersey, Connecticut people, which could catch
up to me because I owe a lot of people
money from my cab driving days. And if you're one
of them, you are welcome the way in on the
iHeartRadio app. Leave us a talkback. We've had some phenomenal
ones so far. But it is the top of the hour,
so let's get to the Big Three. The of course
story of the evening, which is still of course unfolding

(00:44):
this morning, is top. Iranian military leaders were killed in
preemptive strikes from Israel, and we got some sound from
Benjamin Nett and Yahoo after the strikes giving us some
insight into what is being called Operation Rising Lion.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion. I targeted military
operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival.
This operation will continue for as many days as it
takes to remove this threat.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Okay, so you wipe out Iron's top military leaders. A
lot of people consider that addition by subtraction. I happen
to be one of them. But now there's no time
for my political pontificating. Story Number two in the Big
Three also a heated exchange between Andrew Cuomo and mom Donnie,
who I poof? I gotta tell you that one. If

(01:38):
you didn't watch that one last night, it was bum Fights.
Have you've seen the old YouTube series bum Fights, where
when I was a cab driver, you'd be, you know,
driving down Seventh Avenue at three thirty in the morning.
One guy's arguing with a parking meter, the other guy's
proposing marriage to a shopping cart, and the next thing
you know, they're walking towards each other and you're like, wow,
this is going to be a very unorthodox exchange. Well,

(01:59):
welcome to the political equivalent of bum Fights.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I have never had to resign in disgrace. I have
never cut medicaid, I have never stolen hundreds of millions
of dollars from the MTA. I have never hounded the
thirteen women who credibly accused me of sexual harassment. I
have never sued for their gynecological records, and I have
never done those things because I am not you.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Wow. So that's mom. Donnie taken the fight to Cuomo, who, listen,
is bringing a lot of baggage to this race, but
is currently in the lead. And we're going to talk
about that shortly here with our guest. The third story
in the Big three a judge now allowing Trump temporarily
anyway to maintain control of the National Guard out in California,

(02:44):
where say what you want about Gavin Newsom. Okay, but
this guy wants to be a president so bad he's
now running for the Mexican job. I don't know how
else to explain his actions. They're not pro American, and
I hope my next guest agrees with me, but if
he doesn't, we'll make it work. He is a superstar
here in the w O R lineup himself and he
joins us. Now on the line, Rob Astarno is here

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and the crowd goes wild. Hey Rob, who wrote that?
Say superstar?

Speaker 4 (03:11):
My wife.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Listen, I gotta butter off the guests. No one, this
is the deal, Okay, no one comes on the radio
with me twice. I can get anybody once, anybody. I
could get the Pope on the phone right now, but
he ain't coming back. I'm just telling you because I care.
But good morning to you.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Sir, Hey, good morning.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
It's great to have you on the lineup.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
By the way, I love this show.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
It really do.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
Even though I'm at what they not say, Tell tell
everybody he's from news Max, because I'm from news Max.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
No, no, I say this.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Huh, I will say this.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
I watch the show on Fox.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I think stop it well Fox New Saturday. No, No,
I'll ven mo you the money right after this. No,
we are we play really nice in the sandbox. You
know what's funny, Like when I was at the I
was doing my show Fox this Saturday night at the
White House Course on its dinner. And this might shock
local listeners, but I had on the show. I'm not kidding.

(04:05):
Lester Holt, Al Roker, and Savannah Guthrie were all on
my show, and they came on and we talked and
because the thing for me is okay, I'm very non threatening,
Like if you if you hung out with me for
five minutes, you realize I only pose a threat to myself.
You know, I've got some you know issues, But I
played nice in the sandbox. So will you get the
social services people who come? But no, And here's the thing.

(04:30):
Let's say we weren't nice in the sandbox. Let's say
you was. This was like old school Manhattan where the
gangs wore their colors like the warriors, and you had
your Newsmax colors. I had my Fox News colors. There's
still nothing we can say that's gonna be as fiery
as mom. Donnie Cuomo, No, oh, that was great.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
That was great.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
Look, I've known Andrew Cmo forever because I ran against
him in fourteen.

Speaker 7 (04:51):
And the guy is a thug to the core. I mean, honestly,
it's like he failed Mobs school. So he's been trying
his whole life to prove he belongs and he's just
that way and it's killing him. It's killing him that
this guy Mamdami may very well catch him.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
And I said this months ago.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
Watch this guy he presents well, he's the male version
of the AOC. He's going to light a fire with
the far left, and there's nothing about Cuomo that anyone
really likes.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Ye, he's just like I guess I gotta vote for
Cuomo because the rest are crazy.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
But the problem for Cuomo is he's probably.

Speaker 7 (05:29):
Has a cap and I'd rather be in Mamdami's position
right now than I would Cuomo.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Believe it or not, because he's got the big mo
right now at the end when it counts, and his
people will run to the polls.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
No, of course people, I'm.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Not to do that.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, well that's the thing. And one thing Mondami has
going for him is school is out, so his supporters
don't have to be at any anti Semitic protest. Right now,
they've got plenty of time to vote. If this was
a month ago, these kids would be, you know, taking
Janitor's hot and barricading themselves into buildings. But now they've
got enough free time to go vote. Rob. We're talking

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to Rob Astarino on the line about the mayorial race.
One other question I wanted to ask you, is someone
who knows Cuomo to be the way he is, there
has to be and I don't know him. There has
to be a sociopathic quality to anyone who gets back
out there. We're not very far removed from a resignation
that came in disgrace testimony from a top aid that

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he falsified death records to pad a book deal. And
mind you, he wrote a self congratulatory book about how
he handled COVID in the middle of COVID, which is
like a football coach dumping the gatorade on themselves at
halftime of a game they're not even winning. So don't
you have to almost have a sociopathic quality to just
show up like it's cool?

Speaker 8 (06:51):
Now?

Speaker 5 (06:53):
Yeah, not almost, you have to have And he is. Look, look,
he has never done anything other than the peacock.

Speaker 9 (07:01):
Right.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
His dad was governor when he was growing up. So
he's walking around the executive mansion. He's, you know, telling,
telling everybody you know who I am, you know who
I am. And that's the way it's been his whole life.
He's he's always been driven around by cops, always lived
in public housing on our dime, not not not the
hut housing, but a really nice housing. And so he

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doesn't know what else to do. And he's like a scorpion.
He is not happy unless he's singing somebody. And this
is this is his life, so I'm not surprised. And
this look, if I'm looking objectively at at his career,
this is the only race that could possibly get you
back in the game. Right, He's looking around the New
York City is a mess, which he created.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
But New York City is a mess.

Speaker 5 (07:44):
Adams is weak and all the crazy's are coming. And
he looks like the adult in the rooms. I mean,
he's the adult that will fondle you, but he's the
adult that.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Was you know, we're talking to rob Astorno. The thing
that really got me is when he was getting in trouble,
you know, for all the handsy andsy stuff, he tried
blaming it on his Italian heritage.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
Do you remember that.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
At the end, He's like, you don't understand our Italian riage.
I'm like, dude, nobody is making that Olive Garden commercial.
You know, come to the Olive garden. Well we'll ask
you to play strip poker with Nana, just like the
old country that wasn't going on.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
I don't know about his easters, but I tell you,
when my snuncles came over, I would never grab him
at the crotch.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Well, I know, call me old fashioned Cuomo. Yeah, the
one nice thing. If you think the Olive Garden shares
its bread stick a lot, you should see the CMO Garden.
I don't know what to tell you here, but it's
gonna it's gonna be it's gonna be a hell of
a ride. But that's the one thing that breaks my
heart about one party rule in a city is that

(08:45):
CMO was the governor, and under the combination of CMO
ind Blasio, New York's most popular restaurant chain became a
place called this Space for rent. Okay, why are we
forgetting so fast?

Speaker 5 (09:00):
It's amazing it really, you know why? Because there's no
other legitimate candidate right now that a normal person can
look at.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
I mean, at least with Clomo.

Speaker 5 (09:08):
You're like, oh my god, I hate everything about this guy.
And then there's a butt. But the rest are freaking nuts.
And so the money pouring in on Cuomo from the
business community, which should know better, but again they feel
like there's nowhere else to go.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, that's what it is. Well, I can't promise you
he's going to get the nursing home vote, but hey,
well listen, don't sell the Democrats short. They're pretty good
to turn it out that dead vote. You are, rob Astreno,
you still got it. We got to do this again sometime. No,
I'm never coming back on with you again.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
I know it.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
I know it.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
You did me dirty talk Soon, my man, have a
great week out the great rob ass Arena. Love it
so much, and he makes all the good points that
need to be made on this issue. New York and
a lot of voters in the Democratic primaries feel like
this is the only choice they have. I mean, Adams
went independent on them, and it'd be sad to leave
the Mayor's office and know there was no more Eric

(10:08):
Adams because he is single handedly propped up the nightclub
industry in New York City. Do you know what happens
to bottle service if Adams leaves New York. It's not good, folks.
So let me give you this. Two in three hiring
managers are more likely to hire gen zers with soft
skills over actual college degrees. Plus, you're gonna get tickets

(10:28):
to see James Taylor. I'm gonna play more of your talkbacks.
It's menty in the morning with Fala in the chair.
Don't go anywhere. We're back after this New York City
you find thing you're listening to MENTI in the Morning
with Jimmy Fala in the chair. Larry is off today,
but seven to ten WOA, the Voice of New York
is rockin thanks to my homegirl Natalie crashing the booth.
Jacqueline's gonna give us some news in a little while,

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but right now, so me and you time on the talkbacks.
The iHeartRadio app is where you leave them, and I
got to tell you, the barot has been pretty high.
They've been pretty supportive. One guy promote my shows with
Sean Hannity. It actually sounded like Hannity with like he
was kind of using a voice changer. I'm not sure
we're trying to move some product over here, folks capitalism.
But here's another talkback with my name in it specifically,

(11:11):
so I'm going to start with this one. Hey, Jimmy,
I grew up in an Italian neighborhood.

Speaker 6 (11:15):
Shouldn't your last name be pronounced fay Ela?

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Now you're right to have the word fail in there.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
It keeps expectations low.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
I'm just kidding. You're doing great Lyri's job is safe.
I love that well. I will tell you this everyone.
When I started at Fox would mispronounce my name obviously
because they tried to get ethnic fai Ya file that.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
You know.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
I've heard my name mispronounced it a family reunion though,
so there's no expectation.

Speaker 10 (11:38):
Do you have a kind of last name where everybody
in your family has their own way of saying it?

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah? Or does actually say Fala? We say Fala the
Fala family because I married into an Italian family. I'm Greek, but.

Speaker 10 (11:53):
When I married my husband, it was Vaca, okay, And
all of a sudden, my kids now are saying vodka.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Was that true?

Speaker 10 (12:00):
Yeah, so they've they've switched the name after I don't
know how many generations. Uh huh they decided they want
to be vodka.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Is that?

Speaker 6 (12:06):
That?

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Is that? That actually happened in my family? They now
just pronounce it a whole A lot of tough love,
a lot of tough love in the Sicilian family. Here's
a quick take on the Israeli attack.

Speaker 9 (12:19):
Good morning, Jimmy, Hey, listen, I'm loving every minute of
this uh Israeli attack on Iran. Right, you know what,
they deserve every bird, every every single tang, and if
anybody complains about it, because I know that dams are
going to go nuts, and I know that. You know,
people are going to start waving I stand with Iran flags.
Whether driving me nuts. It's Biden's fault. You know what

(12:42):
I'm talking about. Do you know what he did? You
know how much money he gave them back? It's his fault.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Well, it is true. He makes a really good point.
He makes two good points. One is, yes, they economically
empowered Iran by releasing them from the sanctions after Trump
left office. But the second point he made that really
jumps out at me. As a longtime cab driver, shout
out to whoever's in TWOG thirty four right now, if
it's cruising in the mean streets in New York twog
thirty four, the medallion I drove is still in action.

(13:09):
So if you're listening in two G thirty four, you
can cut the line, call in, talk back, whatever you
want to do. But the minute he said the whole
I know the Democrats are going to start doing the
ice stand with a Ran thing. It's the first thing
that crossed my mind last night as I go into
cab driver mode, I'm like, Israel struck Iran? Where's there
going to be a protest in midtown tomorrow and you're
going to avoid it. Yeah, that's how you as a

(13:30):
cab driver. We follow the news on it for an
entirely different reason. It's like, who is the President coming
to town or the Yankees home? Is it a day game?
Is it a night game? What are I protesting? I
never thought about that.

Speaker 10 (13:41):
So if you know there's going to be a protest,
like I am not going downtown.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Not today. In a perfect world, but the most lucrative
thing also happens due to traffic disruption in New York City.
It's called un Week, which you guys might not know this.
It might be a little bit early in the morning
for this sort of thing. But there was a Julia
Roberts movie called Pretty Woman where she had a very
specific job, and women who have chosen that vocation in
life make cab drivers a lot of money during un

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Week because we know how to get them around the
street closures and get them to the embassies. Oh my gosh.
So yes, in real life, Pretty Woman has a happy ending.
Good night, everybody, Come on, what are we doing here?

Speaker 4 (14:19):
All right?

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Somebody had some type of reaction to something we said.

Speaker 11 (14:23):
Jimmy Fayla I am very very upset with you, and
it's your fault. Uh Oh, you made me laugh so
hard that it ended up peeing my pants in the car.
This never would have happened with Larry. I'm demanding compensation,
so you can either send me your gynecological records or
send me a Minty in the Morning T shirt.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Oh I feel like he he does. He might deserve
that MENTI in the Morning T shirt, but he's just
gonna pee on it. So I don't know what to do.
Stop it. Send us more talkbacks. It's the iHeartRadio app.
We're dying to hear them. As you can see, I'm
obviously going to play them and react to them. Great stuff.
So far, you guys are on fire. So before we
went to break, I was talking about a new report

(15:04):
that's and I found this very interesting. A lot of
employers are talking about gen Z and soft skills, and
according to the survey, sixty five percent of reporters or employers.
Let me say that in plain English, sixty five percent
of employers would rather hire a gen Z candidate with
strong soft skills and no degree than one with a
degree but weak soft skills, meaning they'd rather you be

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able to do the fundamental things around the office, like talk, communicate,
look people in the eye, show up on time, maybe
wear pants. They'd rather have that than the kids who
went to Columbia and got a degree in camping on
the quad and chanting from the refuse. You have a
kid who hasn't entered college. It's so maybe you should
think twice.

Speaker 10 (15:46):
Unfortunately, I've already gone through it wasted a lot of money,
I guess.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Can I tell you something I used to bag on
myself because I went to Nasau Community College and I
thing ever, ever, ever, if you're listening. Number one, it's
a lot cheaper. You get transferable credits. If you're going
towards a four year degree.

Speaker 6 (16:04):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
But you don't start out in life half a million
dollars in the hole.

Speaker 10 (16:08):
It is the smartest thing to do. In a lot
of high schools now have programs where you can do
your associates while you're in high school.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Smartest thing ever. Amen. We have one son, Lincoln, as
you know, and we may very well be pointing them
in that direction, but right now I am pointing you
in the direction of the great Jacqueline Carl who has
the news. Thanks Jimmy.

Speaker 12 (16:28):
As a precaution, the NYPD is stepping up security at
Jewish Israeli and other sites throughout New York City after
Israel's military strike against Iran. In a statement, the NYPD
wrote they're coordinating with federal partners and will continue to
track the situation in the Middle East for any potential
impact to the city. This afternoon, Mayor Eric Adams and

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NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish will hold a security briefing. Immigration
activists in New York are expressing frustration and outrage over
what they say is a Trump administration tactic to speak
up deportations.

Speaker 13 (17:01):
NBC News is reporting the administration is telling judges to
dismiss pending immigration cases, making asylum seekers subject to immediate
removal proceedings. City controller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander says
mass agents are arresting people who appear for routine hearings.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
The immigration courts are very chaotic right now.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
There are masked FBI and ICE agents in the elevator
banks waiting for people.

Speaker 13 (17:26):
One immigration attorney calls it ridiculous that the Justice Department
is sending directives to judges on how they should rule.
Larry kofski wor News.

Speaker 12 (17:36):
So in honor of Father's Day, there's a new survey
that recognizes, and I love this, the most loved dads
on TV. According to your Roku survey, the overall favorite
dad is can anyone guess?

Speaker 1 (17:48):
Oh, I was going to say me obviously, I kid,
they don't know me. But continue as the favorite favorite
dad on TV?

Speaker 4 (17:54):
Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
It used to be Cosby. Yeah, well, and that's probably
no longer. Yeah, he's fallen into dad's status and the
bartending rankings as well.

Speaker 12 (18:04):
Pudding cups have been thrown out. Now it's Tim Taylor
from Home Improvement. Oh, Tim, right, how about you guys?
What I have a list of them, but what I
want to see if you guys have some of the
guys on the list.

Speaker 10 (18:16):
I love mister Brady that is on the list.

Speaker 12 (18:20):
It's he's on the list of vintage TV dads.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
How about some other dads well? As crash opined, I
think Homer Simpson needs to be in there somewhere.

Speaker 7 (18:29):
He is.

Speaker 12 (18:30):
It's but it's sort of like a like down sort
of on the list, but he's there.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
The top five. Yeah, give us the top five. Top five.

Speaker 12 (18:39):
Tim Taylor, Home Improvement number two, Gomez Adams, the Adams Family.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Number three is that I know, but Wednesday Adams.

Speaker 12 (18:46):
It's a coming that the show has come back, so
it's and now it's a new Al Bundy married with Children,
Red Foreman from that seventy show, Phil Dumphy, which is
my favorite for Monern family. But I say, who didn't
make the list? What about Tony Soprano?

Speaker 7 (19:02):
Wow?

Speaker 12 (19:03):
Right, he was a really good dad, I think.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
So I agree, And I'm not just saying that because
I picked up Crash at the Botto bing And Okay,
I do have an affinity for Satin Doll's. You know
who you are if you got that reference. Well, Happy
Father's Day, everybody, thank you for that. And it is
the honor of a lifetime to be a father. I
still remember the moment Maury Povich told me it was
my kid. It is you are the dad, life changing

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moment for me. The great Jacqueline Carl everybody. Craig McCarthy,
City Hall bureau chief at the New York Post is
going to go over the debate with us when we
come back, So buckle up, Buttercup. Send us a couple
of talkbacks on the I Heart Radio app We've been
playing them on the air. They've been phenomenal, So don't
blow it now. Back after this Fala in for Larry Menty. Jimmy,

(19:50):
there's our guy Menty in the Morning, Jimmy Fayala in
the Menty chair here on seven to ten, woh are
the voice of New York One heads up tonight, my
national show Across America is doing a local addition. We're
abandoning the format. As a wise man once said, we'll.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
Do it live.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
We'll do it live nine to twelve. I am doing
a local call inversion of Fox Across America. I'll be
sitting here in the WR studios, a safe distance from
my Fox News studio down the block, so you'll actually
hear me on radio as you've never heard me before,
which is sober and I kid you stop it right now.
It's a spicy show. So far, we've gotten a lot

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of great talkbacks. You can go to the iHeartRadio app,
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Is there a Fila T shirt that you could throw
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(20:49):
Fox across America they do sell T shirts and truck
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Thank you. So let's talk about this real quick because
we do have the great Greg McCarthy coming up. Craig
McCarthy is, of course, the City Hall bureau chief at
the New York Post. He is going to go over
last night's debate with us. It was a bit of
a food fight. Is he on the line now? Yes,

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he is, Craig McCarthy in the house, and the crowd
goes wild.

Speaker 6 (21:16):
Hey Craig, Hey, thanks for having me this morning.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Of course, that was a wild one last night. Reminded
me of an old school prize fight in the garden.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
Yeah, it was definitely a spicy final debate, still a
little bit crowded. With seven people on stage there, they
really couldn't whittle it down much more from the nine
of last week.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
It was a mess, but it seemed to get pretty
personal pretty early. Courtesy of Mondani he seemed to be
going all in on the character thing.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
Ye know, he kept attacking Andrew Cuomo's character. You know
he was he's the second second place consistent polling. He's
got to go after the front runner here, and Andrew Cuomo.
But you know who really stood out to me and
us a lot of people I spoke with is is
Brad Lander. He got this strange endorsement from the New
York Times, this panel of fifteen people they created instead

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of endorsing as a paper. And he seemed pretty unleashed
last night. I mean, he landed kind of the harshest
attacks on Cuomo and it really little. It looks like
it had Cuomo rattled for a bit.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
I don't doubt We're talking to Craig mccarthney, who was,
of course City Hall bureau chief of the New York Post.
The thing about Lander is he's had the cleanest ride
so far because he's managed to say outside of the scrum,
I believe Mondanni and Cuomo have eaten up most of
the negative headlines and that might be the off ramp
that voters are looking for. I mean, if we were
handicapping this like a horse raced, who do you think

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has the momentum right now.

Speaker 6 (22:47):
Well, at this point, I feel like we don't really
know whether Adrian Adams or Lander, who've constantly been in
the third and fourth place in the polls here, will
pick up any steam. It's really been Mandanni having all
the more momentum since over the last few months. I mean,
I've always kind of thought that Lander was sort of
the dark horse here, right He wasn't. He could probably

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grab a bunch of votes from the m donnie camp
because that, you know, as a second and third choice,
but a lot of people might go for him because
he's not a socialist and not giving everything away for free.
He has citywide experience. He's the controller right now. But
you know, it hasn't seemed to happen. It seems like
Manzanni kind of outflanked him on the left and kind

(23:29):
of stole all the oxygen of what he's seemingly looking
to do over the last year and gearing up this run.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, no question about that. But it is fascinating that
we find ourselves in a moment where something like not
a socialist could actually be a bumper sticker.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
Now, yeah, I mean that, Listen, the slate of candidates
are or definitely something to discuss, you know, for classes
in the future here, because I mean it's you know
what we it's a massively crowded field. I mean we
have Andrew Colemo on his comeback tour. I mean people

(24:03):
have reported this that sources close to his campaign, you know,
basically knew that they weren't going to come in and
win the thing. They knew they just had to kind
of survive it and coast on this name recognition yea,
and kind of you know, just kind of lead with
that managerial skill. And then you have man Donnie comes
from a you know, his mother being a famous director,

(24:23):
with these you know, fresh videos and kind of pitching
these of loads of freebies and giving all these things away.
I mean, I think the one thing too that you know,
when it took the pundits last night and we published
a story end of this morning like who kind of
won hears? You know, I think the biggest knock obviously,
aside from all of the freebies that man Donnie wants

(24:44):
to give away, it's just like, how would you pay
for this? And you know, there's he didn't take the
time to even really explain how he would do that
because there's massive hurdles to get these things done. I mean,
everything has to go through all money. So I mean
he just kind of stuck took to those instead of
really trying to talk to voters. And some of the
pundits I talked to. You didn't know if that was

(25:05):
the best thing for him, since he is the warmth
of momentum.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, what I what I think he's doing. We're talking
to Craig McCarthy. Is he seems to be running for
class president. It's Instagram, it's free stuff. You know, we're
gonna have free pizza on Tuesdays or something. It's been
funny to watch. But that's the thing I always tell
people to be weary of is deliverables. And he's not
really talking to you to things that are deliverable. I

(25:28):
mean here in New York, when you talk about costs,
I mean, I don't even believe they have a poem
on the Statue of Liberty anymore. I think it says
this space for rent. So I think we're gonna run
into us. I think we're gonna have a fiscal challenge,
is what I would say. But if I was, if
I was a betting man, it's gonna be real close. Actually,
I am not going to be a betting man. I
will defer to the experts.

Speaker 6 (25:47):
That being you, Craig, Yeah, I think it's gonna be
I think it's gonna be close. I you know, listen
to Mayris Pol's coming out next week. That's the one
that had Eric Adams winning in twenty twenty one. That's
the one we're all looking for. That is basically the
roadmap of what's gonna happen. I think it's gonna be close.
I have not seen anything in which it's close where

(26:10):
they have Mandonny really in the margin of error, and
I think that's you know, listen to the Cuomo camp
is definitely sweating. They're they're in the final stretch here,
eleven days now until the primary. But you know, you know,
we talked about the fiscal you know, the fiscal close
that the city is about to face. I mean, experts
I talked to are have been saying for the last

(26:31):
year that the city is really facing a budget deficit
in the next few years and they don't know how
they're going to rectify it. So I think anybody that
gets in is gonna have a large challenge I think
if Mandonni gets in, he's in for a world of
surprise that a lot of the things he's pushing we
will not be able to afford.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
So y reality, listen, I've love watching it. It's been
a great show and this was epic. We'll always have this.
Craig McCarthy, thank you for a few minutes this morning.
Thanks for having the best. There he goes, the great
Craig McCarthy. So listen to this. Rory O'Neil wr National Correspondent.
It's going to talk about Father's Day and President Trump's
seventy ninth birthday, which of course is going to include

(27:10):
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a couple of talkbacks and I'm out of here. Police
officer husband's secret infidelity and abusive His badge works. But
there it is MENTI in the Morning with Jimmy Fayla

(28:15):
in the chair. Some of you might recognize me as
the nine PM to midnight host here on WOOR. It is,
of course week one when I'm not out doing radio.
My side hustle is of course hosting a TV show
called Fox News Saturday Night every weekend at ten pm
on the Fox News Channel. And I thought that my
fill in role was going pretty well today, but Apparently
it isn't because they're sending in some heavy duty backup. Okay,

(28:37):
it's you know, it's one thing of it, like taking
calls or doing talkbacks. But when they're sending in Roy O'Neil,
our WR national correspondent, they're sending the wolf. Okay, this
is pulp fiction. Apparently, I got myself in a pickle,
mister O'Neill. What do I need to do? Good morning
to you, sir. Yeah, you know you're the one that
has to pay me today, right whoever's stilling it. That's
how this works. Well, listen, listen, what's a It's a

(29:00):
six pack of meisterer brow gonna set me back these days.
I'm happy to pay you for an O'Neill.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
They'll take it.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Listen. That's it really segues well into what we're doing
because there's two things going on. We've got California, We've
got Father's Day, and Gavin Newsom has managed to combine
them because all the electronics are free in downtown Los
Angeles right now if you get to the right Apple store.

Speaker 8 (29:24):
But if you do want to spend it and do
it legitimately twenty four twenty four billion dollars in spending
for Father's Day. That's a record high. By the way,
for comparison, it's thirty four billion that we spend on
Mother's Day.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
There you go, is that true? I mean, listen, I
treat my mom like a queen and take it to
White Castle. And then you think about your dad. You're like,
when am I going to get him? Well, the racket
is yeah, dade gohed, Yeah, we don't do this anymore.

Speaker 8 (29:51):
But back in the day, it used to be that
it was the number one day for collect calls in
the country.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
Was Father's Day?

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Do you remember the old school like ten, ten, three,
two one. They were the you dialed them and it
led you, you know, bang in. I remember those commercials
back in the day. So obviously the discrepancy in spending is,
you know, the fact we go a little bit bigger
for mom than we do for Dad. And I think
one of the reasons the dad spending is down in
houses like mine is dad is buying the gift for mom,
and dad is buying the gift for dad. Anyway, so

(30:21):
you usually tell people not to spend too much because
it's your money. Is that what they attribute that to?

Speaker 8 (30:26):
Well, I think it's also all right, Dad, I'll mow
the lawn for you this week instead, or you know,
i'll pressure wash the driveway. So we sort of do
a lot of in kind services. But her Dad, it's
actually pretty significant. It's just under two hundred dollars one
hundred and ninety nine dollars and thirty eight cents according
to the NRAT so it's still a hefty amount of money.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
Let us.

Speaker 8 (30:47):
At fifty three percent planned to buy clothes for dad.
Half said they would get a gift card. But many
are planning some sort of a special outing to honor Dad.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Well, listen, one thing I want to add to that.
Then we got you on the line, roy O'Neil is
anyone planning a Dad outing needs to make it time friendly.
Here's a quick two second story. My first year of
driving a cab was the year my son was born.
I'm sorry, you're the worst, So the year my son
was born. I'm driving a New York City taxi, you know,
five am to five pm, doing comedy at night. It's,

(31:18):
you know, an eighty four hour work week. Saturday night,
I get home for what I think is going to
be my first five hour stretch of sleep since nineteen
ninety two. And two hours into that sleep, I got
woken up by my wife with a happy Father's day.
Hands me the baby, she says, I know you love
horse racing. Let's take Lincoln to see the animals. We'll
go on to Belmont Raceway to watch the morning Job.

(31:38):
So what I thought might have been five hours of
sleep turned into a hostage situation at the Belmont Racetrack.
So if you're planning something for Dad that is an event,
you gotta be mindful of time. That's all this. Dad
is asking.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
A pause, think of something else quick. And no gift cards.
Can we agreet?

Speaker 1 (31:59):
No gift You gets a gift card for their dad?
It is it's so terrible. It is bad.

Speaker 8 (32:07):
Just yeah, it's all about subscription services these everyone's getting
a beer of the month, whiskey of the month.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
Yeah, fausage of the month. That's the new thing for dad.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yes, that's what I was going to ask you. It's
the steak subscriptions I've gotten. Uh, you know, I've gotten
a stake subscription. Someone gifted me a stake subscription. Dads
do love that because they want to cook, They want
to take it easy, be around the house. I got
the Basically, my wife, I'm not kidding, over the years,
has gotten me the cigar, the steak and the whiskey.
She's basically trying to kill me and get some life
insurance out of this, is she not?

Speaker 4 (32:36):
I think we've all chipped in for that.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, all right, that's enough out of you, Rory O'Neill.
You know what, I knew this was going to be
a scrum. I had no idea how low it was
going to go. I kid, you still got it.

Speaker 4 (32:48):
All right.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
We're heading down to the seven eleven. Now we'll pick
up those meister brows. Have a great day, my man.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
Thanks Jimmy, Happy Father's Day you too.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
The great Rory O'Neil who tells you that get down,
get down a subscription. Dad likes a subscription. Okay, he
doesn't want your gift card. He doesn't want a gift
that he knows you bought along with something for yourself.
It's meanty in the morning, fail and the chairback.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
After this