Hour 2: The Democrats Strategy

The Democrats Strategy.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome. Hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend. I
hope you took time to remember those who gave the
ultimate sacrifice so we could all be free. I went
to a flag raising ceremony and we saw a memorial,
the laying of a wreath at a memorial nearby her home.
So it's a wonderful moment, and it means so much

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to those that serve to know that they that the
people they serve with are being remembered, the ones that
died in the Big Three. Donald Trump is growing tired
of Vladimir Putin, who is talking peace and is willing
to take phone calls, but his actions, well, they speak louder.
And I'm not happy with what Putin's doing.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know
what the hell happened to Putin.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I've known him a long time, always.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Gotten along with him, but he's sending rockets into cities
and killing people, and I don't like it at all.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Okay, and Trump's big, beautiful bill that has almost his
entire agenda on it is running into some resistance by
Republicans already in the Senate who don't like the price tag.
Senators like Rand Paul, I support spending cuts. I think
the cuts current and the bill are whimpy and anemak,

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but I.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Still would support the bill even with whimpy and anema
cuts if they weren't going to explode the debt.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
The Lion of Lenox, once powerful New York City Congressman
Charlie Wrangel, is dead at the age of ninety four.
He was brilliant, bold, funny, fearless all at once. The
list of his accomplishments could fill pages. At the Jersey Sure,
up and down the Shore, all the way down the Wildwood,

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up the Seaside Heights, a wild weekend, seventy arrest in
Seaside Heights, and three stabbings, with police and politicians searching
now for a solution.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't know if there's a solution. When you have
that amount of people, how is there a solution, you know?
I mean, you can only have so many policemen. You
oh so much safety that you can try and have.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
And Billy Joel cancels his tour and announces that he
has to undergo treatment for a brain disorder called normal
pressure hydrocephalus.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
This is a form of dimension. It can be treatable,
potentially reversible, but national organizations suspects about eighty percent of
people with this condition go undiagnosed because it can't mimic
other conditions such as Alzheimer's or Parkas's.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Some of that. Sometimes when you hear about a rocker
getting sick or ill, it stops you in your tracks.
This one did for me because you always picture Billy
Joel as the piano man, and you know, it is
a reminder that we all get older. Now, let's go
to Mike Kelly, an award winning columnists for North Jersey

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dot Com and The Record. Mike, good morning, Good morning Larry.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
First, I have a question for you. Yep, you are
watching the View.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Well, I see the clips of the view. I see
the clips of the view because I kind of have
to to make fun of them, you know what I mean.
So I have to. I watched the clips and I go, oh,
they look stupid there, and then I can play it
the next morning. That's why I watch this.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
Is this is job related suffering that you are experiencing. Europe.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Absolutely absolutely no, I'd go crazy if I had to
watch that, If I had to watch the entire hour,
I don't know. I don't think I've ever watched the
entire hour of the View, to tell you the truth,
speaking of which.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
It's unwatchable. It's just it's just I'm not even quite
sure how to describe it. But yes, I was listening
to your commentary earlier. That's why I brought it up. Anyway, Yeah,
it used to be.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Fun when they had real conservatives on there. It used
to be fun when they'd get into it, like with
Megan McCain, and that was that was kind of interesting
because it at least you had both sides. Now it's just,
you know, a Trump rose. So it's nothing. Let's talk
about the governor's race. Let's talk about the governor's race.
I love your I love your column. By the way,
New Jersey's twenty twenty five governor's race is a test

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for Democrats. Can they pass it? If you want to
read it, go to North Jersey dot com. The polls
are all over the place. It was interesting. I thought,
I thought the most recent poll out of Emerson showed
Mikey Cheryl pulling away a little bit. But you're saying that,
you're saying that soft.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
I think so. First of all, that poll focused on
older voters older. I fit that bill people in their
fifties and up. But I think what we need to
keep an eye on here, Larry, are two things. First
of all, it's a primary, and turnout is traditionally very
low in a primary. Only the most committed party members

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often vote in a primary, so I think this race
could be decided by a few thousand votes here or there.
Which even though Mikey Cheryl is leading in the polls,
not by a lot, but leading enough, I think we
need to keep an eye on full Of and ros Baraka.

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Why because they represent each represents voter rich and democratic
heavy cities. Full Of is obviously in Jersey City, ros
Baraka is in Newark, and I think if those two
guys can get a large turnout in their communities, they

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might have a chance. I'd call the race right now
a kind of a toss up because I just don't
think anybody's really pulling away. And also, and you and
I have talked about this before, nobody's really captured the
imagination of the voters with either proposals they have or
personality or.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Anything like that. I'm glad you clarify the Emerson the
Emerson poll because I didn't. I didn't see that that
it was only older voters. But they're the ones that vote.
The older voters, you can get them out of the polls.
It's tougher to get everybody.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
Well, that's true. I don't think, yeah, that's true. I
don't think this is going to be a gen Z
election here. I think you're going to get a lot
of uh. As I said in my column, what the
Democrats are missing is what I think is the heart
of the conversation with New Jersey voters today, be they
Republicans or Democrats. It's all about kitchen table issues. And

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it's not just about taxes. It's about the roads we
drive on. They're horrible. It's about the transit system that
continues to break down and looks like a rustbucket. I'm
sorry they can't even fix the windows in the trains
on New Jersey Transit. They're all fogged up, so when
you're riding on the train, you don't know what station

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you're pulling into because it's like, you know, it's like
those foggy windows and bathrooms or so people can't in
or out. You know, it's just just a joke, and
the government doesn't seem to be functioning in a way
that it should, and I think voters are starting to
notice that.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well, they took their eyes off of that. The entire
Democratic Party took their eyes off the things that are
important to voters and started focusing on you know, transgender
issues and parental rights and woke issues. And they're still
suffering from that. When I watch these the Democratic politicians,
and I like many of them, I know many of them.
When I see them running, I'm thinking, my god, they

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still don't have a message. And so I think you're
right in this column that it portends a disaster for
them in New Jersey.

Speaker 5 (07:44):
Oh, I agree. I think you know, a lot of
people look to New Jersey and these off year elections
as where the direction of American politics is going, because
you know, here we've elected Donald Trump last year, so
now we're coming into this what, you know, what is
allegedly very democratic state. I would argue that it's much
more purple than people think, and that we're going to

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have some kind of message out of this election. I
think the message is going to be for Democrats that
you guys need to really look in the mirror and
focus on yourself, you know, I've been very critical of
Phil Murphy as a governor, and I think he is
just an egghead. He's just out of touch with where
this state is going visa visa voters. And as I said,

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it gets back to basic issues in our society. What
can government do? Can they make our roads better? Can
they fix the transit system? That sort of thing, and
that extends over into schools as well. I mean, New
Jersey has some of the best schools in the country,
but it also has some of the oldest school buildings,

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and I think we need to start addressing how do
we educate our kids in buildings that sometimes are fifty sixty,
seventy eighty, one hundred years old.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, you know, I never thought about this before, but
he is sort of. Phil Murphy's like the antithesis of
Donald Trump. Donald Trump's billionaire who somehow connects with them
the everyday man. Phil Murphy has hundreds of millions of
dollars as a mansion in Europe. He never was able
to connect ever.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
No, he's kind of a he's kind of a he's
an awkward guy. You know. I think to be a
politician you need to be able to get out there
and talk to folks and shake their hands and that
sort of thing. And one of the things that I've
noticed about Phil Murphy's daily schedule is that he does
these appearances, you know, ribbon cuttings, that sort of thing.
He probably covered a thousand of these things, so of

(09:39):
I but at the very end of the announcement it
says no availability, meaning he's not going to come over
and just answer a question or two from the reporters.
And and this is I think this is how high
ranking politicians like that should stay in touch. I mean,
you know, whether it was Andy Cuomo or George Pataki

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here in uh, I mean over there in New York,
or you got Chris Christi here in New Jersey, or
even you know, some of the others, even Corson, who
was you know, in many ways an awkward politician. These
guys would at least answer a question or two here
and there. Murphy is just in his own little bubble,
kind of floating through.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
The world, and he's acting like, you know, Mike, he's
acting like he knows it's over right now, Like I
think he wanted to run for president at one point,
but I think it's over.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
We got to get going on I know, Yeah, yeah,
I know.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Mike Kelly's an award winning columnist for North Jersey dot
Com and The Record. You can read his stuff at
North Jersey dot com. Thanks a lot, Mike, Thanks Laik
Ticket In West Virginia, they have come up with a
unique way of keeping our airplanes safe. They call it
the Pall Patrol. We have the details next and well film.
I should point out that Natalie is off again. They celebrated.

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Shouldn't say again. She rarely takes off, but you know,
we all head off yesterday and she took an extra day.
She's got, you know, kids in college, she has graduation,
so she's got a lot going on. So she'll be
back tomorrow. Chris Schweitzer is in today. Thank you, Chris.
Chris doesn't have a lot to say.

Speaker 6 (11:14):
No, no, I'm not a not as a talkative, I
guess yep.

Speaker 7 (11:19):
I'm still getting used to this.

Speaker 6 (11:20):
I'm still still pretty new here.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
I've only been here a few months. Oh, you're doing
a great job except for the talking part. Yeah, how
work on that wort For the talking part. You're doing
a great job. But he's been pulling the talkbacks today
and he's going to be in on the voting at
the end. So you might want to kiss up the
Chris when you call with your talkbacks, because he's gonna
he's gonna have to be played big in the decision
who of who wins talkback of the morning. This one

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is a little bit cryptic. I know he's making a point.
I know. See if you can figure this out.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Good morning guys. Just an observation. When my cat goes
into the litter box, the first thing that he does
is to cover it up, just saying.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
So, what do you think he's talking about?

Speaker 6 (12:06):
What other news story, what other thing we talked about
with covering up Charlie Wrangle?

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Is that I would why would he do that? Now,
that's years ago that that happened. And by the way,
you know, even though he was censured for that by Congress,
he won two more elections. So the people in the
people in Ireland, they didn't care. They loved Charlie Wrangle.
They wanted him back. Who else Biden? That would be
my guess. That's Biden he's talking about. I would think, So, yeah,

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can you call back with an explainer? He's pretty tough,
witting in the knicks. That's funny. Here's another one about
and this is a great idea, and I'm all for this.
Here's a small clue. There's no solutions. How about we
just keep the criminals locked up instead of loving them
out all the time. Maybe the police would have an
easier job if we left them in jail where they belong,

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or put them in jail in the first place. We
have a city now where people get arrested for horrible crimes.
People get arrested for horrible crimes, go in front of
a judge, and they're free, and they never show up
to their court dates. We have and it's all blue states,
by the way, it's all blue states. It's insane. The

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criminal policies and the police and criminal justice policies and
the policing policies in this city and in California and
in Chicago and Illinois. I don't know where this started,
but this is the reason that nationally and statewide and
in congressional districts that people are losing elections. Democrats are

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losing elections for stupidity like this. Bail reform. Bail reform
was never it was just idiotic sanctuary cities. There was
no reason for it. It was just anti Trump well,
like keep their talkbacks coming in and Jacqueline, you're going
to be interested in this story.

Speaker 8 (14:00):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
In West Virginia, I didn't you know we've heard about
this before about how birds are are such a hazard
to planes and have caused car crashes in the past. Well,
in West Virginia at the big airport there, they've figured
it out. They've brought in help.

Speaker 9 (14:16):
Wey, Yeah, they brought in a colleague and who now
they's been so successful they have now brought in.

Speaker 10 (14:28):
Two maybe throughout the day been at one bird. Keeping
people safe from hitting that aircraft can make a difference
for someone's life.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
It's West Virginia International Airport. It's a West Virginia Jaeger
International Airport. And the people that are there that go
to the airport get to see these border collies and
they love them.

Speaker 10 (14:51):
We've got some geese, We've got a lot of starlings
kill deer and of course deer itself, and and then
we have a lot of swallows.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
That's Chris Kaiser, by the way, you can tell he's
from West Virginia. He was just describing all the birds
they have out there, and the pilots are constantly complaining
because they get in the flight path. But now here's
a person that just loves the border collies at the airport.

Speaker 7 (15:20):
For people who may have a fear of flying, which
I do, or somebody who just lost their cat, which
I did.

Speaker 10 (15:28):
He just.

Speaker 7 (15:31):
I don't know what it is. He just makes you
feel really good.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
So they have them. I see you. Jacqueline just put
her hands up through her face. She thought that was
so cute. Yeah, I mean it's a huge hit for
people that are afraid of flying. They bring the collies in.
They're going to get more, by the way, and they
bring them into the airport and let them greet some
of the passengers, not just scare away the birds.

Speaker 7 (15:55):
That's great. Dogs should be allowed everywhere.

Speaker 11 (15:57):
They save lives, they do everything, and then we don't
let them in places.

Speaker 7 (16:02):
It's stupid.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, it's pretty sweet. I think a lot of airports
are gonna follow up. And by the way, the guy
who was playing is Chris Kaiser. The airport has so
much wildlife around it, they have an airport wildlife specialist
and that is Chris Kaiser. He's the one that came
up with the idea.

Speaker 10 (16:18):
He puts a smile on every by space and they
all want to just give him love and kisses, and
he grasing with a handshake.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
What do you think we should do it here? Right?

Speaker 12 (16:27):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, I'll bring my dog in.

Speaker 8 (16:30):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Absolutely, we have seagulls. We have all kinds of problems
here and that we do. We have Newark Airport, they
have birds all the time. That's a problem.

Speaker 7 (16:38):
Well, I'm in here at work.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Oh you We're gonna keep us safe. We'll get a rottweiler.
Now the News at seven thirty with Jacqueline Carl Jacqueline,
good morning you.

Speaker 11 (16:51):
Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff. Steve Whitcoff Clayn's mass needs to
accept a ceasefire deal with Israel. In comments made to
see n Woodcoff said the deal would see the release
of half of living hostages and half of those who
died in exchange for a ceasefire that would lead to
talks and the war in Gaza and the Knicks look

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to even out their two to one series with the
Pacers tonight.

Speaker 12 (17:15):
With the Knicks still on the road in Indiana, several
watch parties across New York City are being held for
Game four. Fans can catch the game on big screens
inside Madison Square Garden for ten dollars a ticket, with
officials saying there will be no watch party outside the
garden this game. They'll also be holding free outdoor watch
parties at Summer Stage in Central Park and the World

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Trade Center Oculus. The Knicks made a much needed comeback
in Game three, pulling ahead of the Pacers from a
twenty point deficit. Natalie Migliori wour News.

Speaker 11 (17:47):
According to CNBC, happiness researcher Jessica Weis says money can
actually buy happiness if you spend it on the right purchases.

Speaker 7 (17:55):
Finally someone admits it.

Speaker 11 (17:57):
So live music could be one activities that boost your relationships,
novel experiences. Our brains love new experiences which trigger the
release of dopamine. Time saving purchases. I like this treating
yourself to a meal delivery service or a house cleaner.
And small joys. Our brain's pleasure system like several small
hits more than just one big one. So buying a

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four dollars cup of coffee twice a week brings more
total joy than one four hundred dollars splurge, I say,
depending on the splurge. So what would you buy to
make yourself happy, Larry.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
Boy new home down the shore right, a.

Speaker 7 (18:35):
Beach house and one foot yacht. Yes, that's what I'd get.
How about you, Chris?

Speaker 6 (18:40):
Anything you see something small like food?

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Maybe like maybe like Fechris, Wait a second, now I
feel bad.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
No, No, I have I have enough for food, you know,
the meal plan, not even that. Sometimes you know, you
just want to eat a little and healthy. You want
some French fries from a fast food place, you know, Oh,
because it's only a guilty pleasure, like I'm trying to be.
You know, it's I gotta get my summer body ready.
But they shouldn't be eating that, but you know it's
a rough day. Yeah, whatever, milkshake, you know whatever, I

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like it.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
We should have a fundraiser for Chris.

Speaker 7 (19:16):
No, he's just he's going with the small joys.

Speaker 11 (19:20):
One Larry and I are like getting beach houses and yachts.

Speaker 7 (19:24):
We're not quite getting the gist of the story that he.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Can't afford the small joys.

Speaker 11 (19:30):
He can Ken is just allowing himself the small joys.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
I just I just spent a bunch of money on
a trip to Ireland later in the summer. So now
now I'm focusing on the smaller.

Speaker 7 (19:41):
That's a big one.

Speaker 11 (19:42):
They can plans in advance, having something to look forward
to the In fact, they call it a happiness triple play,
anticipated joy, experienced joy, and memory joy. So you go, Chris,
you and your fries head to Ireland?

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Why you can't afford the fries? You're going to Ireland?
It all makes sense now, I know if we can digging.
Thanks a lot, Jacqueline. It was a bad week for
MLB managers and legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf will be joining
us today to talk about it. Next and you can
check out the latest episode of On Purpose with Jay

(20:14):
Shetty as Jay sits down with behavioral researcher and best
selling author Vanessa van Edwards for a powerful conversation that
blends science, honesty, and so many surprising moments. Vanessa shows
us how confidence isn't always something you're born with, but
something you can build with intention and awareness. Open the

(20:38):
free iHeartRadio app and search for On Purpose with Jay
Shetty to listen. Now a big weekend in sports, nixt
one Mets look good, Yankees look good. Let's let's find
out what Warner Wolf, the legendary sportscaster wants to talk
about Warner.

Speaker 8 (20:56):
All right, Larry, Well, first of all, on the Knicks,
you realize that in Game three, the last nine minutes
of the game and Knicks are trailing by five, they
made their last fourteen foul shots fourteen out of fourteen. Man, man,
I mean that's it. I Meanwhile, the same time, the

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Pacers missed twelve of the last sixteen shots from the field.
So that was your ballgame tonight is of course Game four.
But man, of foul shooting, it's always overlooked. I think
remember Rick Barry used to shoot underhand, and he could.
He was a ninety percent foul shooter, and he couldn't

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understand why guys like Shaq wouldn't, you know, shoot underhand.
It wasn't manly enough.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
That's exactly the reason. You know who used to shoot underhand,
and he was a pretty good foul shooter underhand was Wilt.

Speaker 8 (21:53):
Well. Actually that's not true. Oh he holds the record
for foul shots. He made twenty eight out of thirty
two in that when he scored one hundred points.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
But no, no, I mean before he changed, he was
shooting underhand, and then he changed, he shot much better
underhand than he did. Oh yeah, that's what I was
talking about.

Speaker 8 (22:17):
Hey, how about this Oklahoma City thunder Jalen Williams the
Guy's Find twenty five thousand by the NBA. He wore
a T shirt in the postgame. It spelled out the
word f He spelled it out, followed by art Let's dance.
He was referring to the British band Madness. But here's

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the question. How much did the makers and sponsors of
the T shirt that he wore pay him to wear it?
I bet it was more than the twenty five thousand
dollars five bows. Over the week, Baseball oriole new manager
Tony man Selino. He takes out his starter kde Povid

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no relation to Maury by the way. After five innings
with a two to one lead over the Red Sox
because of the overrated pitch count, he puts in his bullpen.
The bullpen gives up sixteen hits and eighteen runs and
the Orioles lose nine. Keep that up, Tony, you'll go

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back to coaching third base. And what about man, you
gotta stop this water down save rule. Sunday, Yankees right
hander Luke Weaver he came into a five to three
ball game ninth inning against Colorado, gave up a home
run and two singles, and the Yanks win five to four.
He gets a save for a lousy job. He gave

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up a run. Put the tying run at second and
the winning run at first. Change the rule no save
when you put the tying in winning runs on base,
period and the bull. The week goes to the Chicago
Sun Times newspaper, who printed a list of fake books

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with fake titles that don't exist, generated by a freelance
writer using artificial intelligence. Can you imagine going into that
a Chicago bookstore? What do you mean the book doesn't
I read the list of Chicago sometimes all right. Time

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Now for the three stooges, hit it all right. Stage
Number one New York Attorney General Latita James, who claims
she just made a mistake when for better tax reasons,
said that Virginia and not New York was her primary residence. Mistake,
Come on, Latita, you don't know where you live. And

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then Latita, who's being investigated for tax fraud and mortgage fraud,
said she made him a stake, putting her father's name
as her husband. So she should get a favorable mortgage.
Come on, Latita, get a map and get some glasses.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
I'll tell you what. Letitia James, she's in trouble. She's
in some big trouble here, you know. And she's changed
her tone too. You know this woman might be going
to jail.

Speaker 8 (25:22):
Well, that's possibility. She got to know where she lives only,
and it's mandatory if you if you're attorney, you have
to live reside in New York. Well stuege number three,
number two, Rather Harvard psychology professor Stephen Pinker, whose New
York Times headline said what we lose if we lose Harvard? Stephen,

(25:47):
I'll tell you what you lose. A school that lets
andy Semitism run rapid and didn't try to do anything
about it until your president dummied up, before congresson resigned,
and until you lost two and a half billion dollars
in grants, and until big time donors stopped donating to

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an anti Semitic university. That's what we lose. Who you kidding?

Speaker 1 (26:14):
I didn't know until recently. What are that thirty percent
of their students come from other countries?

Speaker 8 (26:20):
No, I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
It's incredible to me.

Speaker 8 (26:24):
It is stuge number three. All the jealous NFL teams
who voted against the tush push envious of the Eagles
and Bills Jalen Hurts sixty one two twenty five and
Josh Allen sixty five two thirty five combined to make
eighty seven percent of the tush pushes. For all you

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other twenty two teams who voted against it, go out
and get some big ass quarterbacks in linement. Just for
the record, it was illegal for you to push or
pull a teammate until two two thousand and five. It
was simple. They just called it a quarterback sneak and
finally say so long that Kansas City Chiefs longtime super

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fan Xavier Babador known as Chiefs Alcoholic, who showed up
at Chief schemes wearing a complete wolf outfit, including a
wolf mask, wolf clause, wolf ears sticking out of the costume.
The thirty year old Wolfman, and I'm certain Larry would

(27:34):
call him Wolf.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
I was waiting for it.

Speaker 8 (27:39):
The thirty year old Wolfman was indicted by a federal
grand jury after he admitted the stealing almost a million
dollars from eleven different banks in seven different states. So
poor guy. Wow.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, now I'm so glad I didn't have to read
that story.

Speaker 8 (28:00):
All right, you want to quick quiz? Go ahead, okay, Larry,
this is this is for you.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (28:06):
So far there have been over fifteen hundred games played
in the major leagues up until yesterday, and two starting
pitchers per each game, so that's three thousand starts. How
many complete games had there been this year? In the
three thousand starts?

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Oh, what a great question. I'm gonna say, really low.
How about twelve?

Speaker 8 (28:33):
That's a pretty good guess. Eight eight man. The latest
was the Tiger's Tarik Schooble, who went all the way
over the weekend against Cleveland on a two hitter.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh the great Tyreek schoobl Hey, Water, thanks a lot, Waterwolf,
legendary sportscaster, Thanks so much. Water.

Speaker 8 (28:55):
All right, thank you, Larry.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
The news never stops, not even for a long week weekend.
In WR National correspondent Rory O'Neil is up next to
talk about some of the stories you may have missed.
You know, mere mortals may not pay attention to the
news over a long Memorial Day weekend, but Rory O'Neil does.
Rory O'Neil has got his head buried in the newspapers,

(29:18):
watching TV news, listening to the radio, just so he
can report what the rest of us may have missed.
Now we go to Rory O'Neil, wor National correspondent. So, Rory,
what may we have missed this weekend?

Speaker 13 (29:34):
Well, you didn't miss a beat either, Larry, catching everyone
up this weekend. But look a lot happening when it
comes to Ukraine and Russia. Over the weekend, Russia launched
some unprecedented drone and ballistic missile strikes and it seems
to be getting worse by the day. And then two
issues one, it looks like Russia is getting ready for
an even larger offensive to happen on Ukraine later this summer.

(29:58):
And we've also got word from some European allies of
Ukraine that those long range missiles they've been giving to Ukraine,
the limits are off. A lot of times, countries like
France or Germany or England, even the US would say, okay,
look here are some of our missiles, but don't go
more than fifty miles into Russia or so because we
don't want to be victim of their backlash. But now

(30:20):
some of the countries are saying, you know what, sky's
the limit if this missile, If you want to launch
this missile into Moscow, go for it.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Now. We have not done that, you say, some of
the countries have. The United States has not done that,
right with the wink of the nods.

Speaker 13 (30:34):
So we've got the attackers that are there that are
launching some strikes into Ukraine. But the fact that some
of these other countries, like France, like Germany are saying,
unleash the hounds is significant.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
It was interesting to hear Donald Trump's reaction because everybody's
been talking about this carrot and the stick. It sounds
like it's time for the stick. It sounds like he's
getting finally gotten fed up with Putin.

Speaker 13 (30:59):
Well, you know, this was a campaign promise that the
President had put out there. A deal on this would
be so easy it would take twenty four hours. I mean,
obviously we knew he was speaking in hyperbole there, but
it's clear that President Trump is getting frustrated by this.
He did say in recent weeks that really the only
thing that's going to bring about a deal is to
have a face to face with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

(31:20):
To finally get the needle to move here. But on
truth social he said that President Putin is absolutely crazy
for launching these unprecedented attacks into Ukraine. The Kremlin responded
by saying that Donald Trump is becoming too emotional over
all this and not thinking clearly. So a lot of

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back and forth going on there. But President Trump isn't
happy with Ukraine's President Zelensky either, not happy with some
of the language that Zelensky has been using. But Ukraine's
still willing to come to the table for a ceasefire,
something that Putin doesn't seem ready to do.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
We do have some good news or at least a
sign of hope on European tariff that happened over the weekend.

Speaker 13 (32:01):
Too, right, you know, the President wanted tariffs on EU
products to be fifty percent five oho percent starting June first,
but there were some calls. It looks like that deadline
is being kicked down to July, so hopefully there can
be some sort of negotiation to reach a broader tariff deal.
That delay is one big reason that we're seeing the

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futures on the markets all up today.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah, that would be enormous. That's twenty seven countries we're
talking about, So that would be that would be very
big if we can come up with a deal with them.
Severe weather across the country. I know there is really
some huge travel problems.

Speaker 13 (32:38):
Yeah, it really has been a complicator in the South,
in particular in Texas and Afton.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Texas hailed the size.

Speaker 13 (32:45):
Of grapefruits raining down.

Speaker 5 (32:48):
Great.

Speaker 13 (32:48):
Imagine a great group helting the front of you know,
the hood of your car. Yes, a lot of damage
in aft in Texas, and that stationary front really has
just been battering the area for a couple of days.
Now starting to finally move on, but a lot of
heat in the South already, and it's not even June.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, a lot's going on. But I hope, I know
I did, and I know many of our listeners did.
Took time to remember those who had fallen over the weekend,
you know, the meeting of the day. When it gets
when it's on a Monday, starts to lose its meaning. Rory,
but we went out and saw a parade and saw
a tribute, so I hope everybody had the opportunity. Excellent.

Speaker 13 (33:29):
Yeah, I keep the focus of the of the holiday
and mind absolutely.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Rory o'nil thanks so much. Thanks Larry, talk to you tomorrow.
As we near primary day in New York, the polls
show a big split between the white and minority voters
and the race for mayor. We'll talk about that with
former city council member Joe Borelli after the eight o'clock
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