Hour 3: Can Mamdani be stopped?

Can Mamdani be stopped?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the weekend.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yeah, there's going to be some rain, but it's not
going to be the heat wave and that I mentioned.
It's the weekend in the Big three its official mayor.
Adams is running for reelection as an independent, and he
came out swinging yesterday. He was doing a lot of media.
He was on several TV shows both locally and nationally.

(00:24):
He was out campaigning. He had a campaign event at
a church last night, and he was on several podcasts
including Don Lemons.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Do you think he's an anti semi Yes, I do.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I think some of the comments of you know, you
look at some of his rap lyrics where he's talked about,
you know, his embracing of Hamas, that says a lot.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
We have Scott Jennings from CNN, one of my favorite people,
coming up at nine oh five. He's going to talk
about the race and the fact that zorin Mam Donnie
is now overnight a national figure, which is a little
bit scary. Well, it looks like Congress will be in session,
possibly right through the fourth of July, as President Trump

(01:06):
has set that as a deadline to get the Big
Beautiful Bill on his desk on the birthday of our Nation.
Speaker Johnson is still waiting for the bill to come
out of the Senate. They have not decided yet. They're
still fighting about it. They will right through the weekend,
but he says, look it, it better not be too different
when it comes back from the Senate, because then we're

(01:28):
going to have to debate on it.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
They should keep as close as possible to the House
product because it took us, as you all know, a
long time to negotiate the very specific provisions of that.
So the more they deviate from it, the more difficult
the job becomes to get the bill to the President's desk,
and we're trying to do that quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Members of Congress got a briefing today from the White House,
actually yesterday from the White House on the bombing attack
on the Iran nuclear program, and it showed, as Donald
Trump said, an obliteration. At least that's the way Republicans
saw it.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
Obliterated is a good word for me to use.

Speaker 6 (02:03):
I can deal people in South Carolina.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Nobody is going to work in these three sites anytime soon.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
They're not going to get into them anytime soon. Their
operational capability was obliterated.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Right except Democrats now saw that it was obliterated, and
they came out and they changed their tunes completely. They said, yeah,
it looks like it's obliterated, but you know, we still
need more information and what's the plan going forward. They
always have to find some way. They won't support the president.
They're not going to support America on the world stage.

(02:37):
They got to find the way to say something negative.
In the p Did trial, the jury will finally get
the case as closing arguments are wrapping up.

Speaker 7 (02:47):
The question will be that even if the jurors have
some uncertainty about whether the prosecution has proved racketeering, that
the juras will find comes to be Repuggis and they're
going to want to hold him accountable.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Great news about a lifeguard named Alex who was impaled
by a beach umbrella when she fell off the stand
and the umbrella went through her armpit and out the back.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
I was very lucky where it hit me because it
missed every major blood vessel and nerve.

Speaker 8 (03:23):
It just went through my muscles.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Alex is eighteen years old and she wants to get
back to the job, and she says she's bummed that
they told her it's going to take six weeks and
a legendary journalist has died.

Speaker 9 (03:36):
At any given moment, life does not seem to have
a purpose. But when you look back, it says if
there were was a wind at your back all the time,
or there were hands on your back pushing you forward.
And that happened to me. One door open and I
went through it, and another door opened.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
You can tell that he used to be a Baptist
minister before he got into politics. Bill Moyers was Lyndon
Johnson's press secretary, and he worked at CBS NBC, and
of course he had his own show and is best
remembered for his show on PBS. He died at the
age of ninety one. Now let's talk about the race

(04:13):
for mayor. And there is a machine in this town,
a mom Donnie machine. We've been talking about it for
a long time. We've been talking about first of all,
that he could win. I said that just weeks into
the election, because he was running it like five percent.
And I thought to myself, nobody knows this guy. He

(04:34):
has no name recognition and he's running at five percent.
How could that possibly happen? And then I thought, man,
this guy is connecting with people, and as he's out
there campaigning more, he's going to rise up. And he did,
and he did to the point where he won. And
we discounted some of the polls that showed him winning,

(04:54):
especially that last Emerson poll. We discounted that because we
thought it was an outline. It wasn't. It wasn't at all.
He has an energized base, So we have to take
him seriously. You got to get out there to vote.
I do hope that to Cuomo runs. I mean, look
at me now, I'd like Cuomo, I'd like Adams, I

(05:16):
would love Curtis Leewa, I'd like anybody but zorin Mom Donnie.
But as I said, the people that follow him are
energized and they are out there in Mass for Mom Donnie.
And I've felt it personally now that he's out there

(05:38):
in mass because at the station, they're now asking me
to do a video every week about something, just some
video every single week, and so I posted a video
about the scare of Mom Donnie becoming mayor and how
it's up to us now we have to get out
there to vote. We have to get out the vote

(05:59):
in the general election. Because in the past, the general
election has been pulling like thirty percent twenty percent, because
there wasn't really a competition. Once the Democratic primary was over,
that guy was assumed to win, so there wasn't the
excitement that there is in this race now. But Man
and Natalie has been following this. We didn't expect what

(06:23):
happened next. Not only has it gotten thousands of views
at WR sevent ten on Twitter and WOA instagram seven
ten on.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Instagram posts right which and Instagram?

Speaker 10 (06:37):
No, it's actually on Instagram and Facebook, but it's Instagram
where you're getting the most where people are going wild.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
When you say going wild, what's happening?

Speaker 10 (06:47):
Well, the Mandami supporters found it, and they are they
are reacting and you know, you could see the analytics
of a post. Right percent of the people who are
interacting and viewing it are not.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
WR followers, So it's.

Speaker 10 (07:05):
Spreading to their people and they are on there and
they are commenting and you know, being right the.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Ones you can say on the air, what type of
things are they saying?

Speaker 10 (07:20):
Shut up, dude, shut up, dude. He's the kind of
change I actually want to see. I voted for him,
weep old man, sorry about that.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
That's Okay, the boomer. I know that I saw a
couple of them where they called me a boomer.

Speaker 10 (07:37):
He'll make a great mayor. I voted for him too.
You know, then there's a lot of rude comments about you.

Speaker 11 (07:44):
I do.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Back up, back up the rude comments about me. Can
you read any of them now?

Speaker 10 (07:55):
Now, Grandpa, go back to bed. I hope when Dommy went,
great job New York. So their base, as you mentioned,
is out there is young too, very young young.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, it's not you know what it's everybody was saying
it's very young.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
It's not eighteen to twenty five. They didn't come out
to vote at all. It is twenty five to thirty five.
It's people that really don't know any better. They're the
young and the dumb. I'm glad that they're excited. I'm
glad they're part of the political process. But they don't
follow through. They hear free, free, free, free, free, free, free, affordability,
and then they don't ask the second question, how do

(08:33):
you pay for this?

Speaker 1 (08:35):
And there is no way.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
He's Harold Hills, he's selling us a false bill of goods.

Speaker 10 (08:41):
Well, what's interesting what you're saying is that that's the debate, right,
you know, you're debating what their points are. Nobody's going
back at them. All these people on our social media
platform right now on Instagram, the Mandami people have free
reign to say whatever they want and people on your
side are not coming back to So it's interesting they

(09:02):
have a force, now, will it try?

Speaker 1 (09:05):
I don't have anybody on my side. Maybe that's the problem.

Speaker 10 (09:09):
You think everybody that's listening to you right now here
on seven ten WR doesn't support you, but they are
doing it differently. How will this translate in the election?

Speaker 1 (09:17):
I have no idea, But what do you get the money? Well,
they've already said they're not going to pay for this.
The state has already said no, we're not gonna pay
for this.

Speaker 10 (09:25):
We should go on and start fighting with them.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
No, I'm going to wait for my next video.

Speaker 10 (09:30):
Well, our listeners go on to Instagram right now seven
ten WR and start fighting.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, and leave us a talk back, to leave us
a talk back. Isn't it amazing though? Because you heard Grandpa,
you heard Boomer and all that kind of stuff. Yeah,
that is the only kind of prejudice that's acceptable in
our country is agism. And these are people that are DEI,
people that would push back against any other form of prejudice.
But agism is fine. That's that's fine, that's acceptable in

(09:59):
their way. As I said, young and dumb, uh.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
When I can't wait for your.

Speaker 10 (10:04):
Next video, everybody follow us you, I'm gonna want to miss.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
It when we come back.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Some Jeopardy fans are crying foul at the final Jeopardy clue.
We'll play it for you and you can decide next.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Well.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
In the last segment, we talked about a video I
did for social media talking about the danger of the
zorin Mamdanni and telling people that they got to get
out and vote in the general election to beat him.
And wow, thousands of people, ninety percent of them, people
that don't follow w O R got on there. The
mom Donnie Army was after me and I talked about it,

(10:43):
how they the agism, how they went after me because
I was much older than them, and you know, saying
things like shut up, Boomer, and you responded to that.

Speaker 12 (10:53):
Don't panic. Nobody's replying back because it's one of those
things where you let the idiots talk. It makes the
best case. Let the idiots talk, exactly who's gonna pay
for it.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, that's exactly the problem. And they don't seem to
get it. They don't seem to understand, or maybe they
just don't care. Maybe they want this fantasy he's gonna
get in office and nothing's gonna happen. Nobody's gonna want
to support the projects that he has, and then the
city will fail more like the Blasio.

Speaker 8 (11:27):
Think about what you're saying here. You're making videos about
how dangerous Mondami would be, so you're still talking about him.
You're still talking about him, which means we're on the defense.
And if you're on the defense, he's already winning.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Please stop with that.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
I understand that you think that's correct, But it doesn't
matter if I talk about him. His name is out there.
He was gaining power long before I talked about him.
So if your belief is that those that oppose mom done,
if they all stop talking, somehow he's going to be stopped,

(12:06):
it's not going to happen that way.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
It won't happen that way.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
People have to know what a thread he is, and
people have to get out and vote. He can be stopped.
There's no question. The only way he can win is
with low voter turnout and low information voters. That's his supporters,
low information voters who get out to the polls. I

(12:30):
give them credit for that. I give him credit was out.
He was able to motivate a large army of voters
and people that go on to social media apparently to
support him and be excited about him. We have to
be equal and opposite in our opposition to him, or

(12:51):
he is going to be mayor of New York and
it's going to be awful. And as a matter of fact,
that infection is going to spread. It's not just going
to be here, to be across the country. Thanks so
much for your talk back. Please keep them coming in.
They've been excellent and so and as you see right there,
it inspires conversation. Now, let's get the jeopardy really quick.

(13:11):
This was the final clue in Jeopardy.

Speaker 13 (13:15):
In eighteen ninety six. The Vasser educated wife of this
man wrote, thousands of dollars may be paid for a
copy of Shakespeare.

Speaker 12 (13:24):
No clue.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
You are not going to believe the answer. Only one
person got it. But listen to the answer. It is shocking.

Speaker 13 (13:32):
Say that again, Emily, that my great aunt Emily, Emily Folger.
The one we mentioned in the clue is the person
you Emily Croker named off?

Speaker 14 (13:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Wow, what are the chances of that they had a
different last name and everything. You can't really blame Jeopardy.
It's not their fault. I mean you would really have
to start digging and how do you say, hey, in
this question right here, are you related to this person?

Speaker 15 (13:59):
Right?

Speaker 2 (14:00):
I can't do that. There's no way they could have
avoided that. And Jeopardy's getting slammed for making the question,
giving a question that was so easily. It's not her fault.
She admitted it. That was pretty honest. Yeah, she said,
that's my great, great answer because she was shocked.

Speaker 10 (14:16):
She's like, this can't be happening.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
But she ended up winning a whole lot of money,
and good for her. Luck was on her side on
that day. I mean, the chances of that happening again
are nil. The chances of it happening in the first
place is probably a couple million to one. Now, Larry
Kofsky is in for jacq Lin Carl with the eight
to thirty News.

Speaker 6 (14:40):
Good morning, Larry, we have sixty six degrees under cloudy skies.
State Assemblyman Zohan Mandami of Brooklyn maybe the Democratic nominee
for mayor, but he may not have the November elections
sewn up. A new poll shows that the former governor
of New York, Andrew Cuomo, if he enters the race
as a Democrat and mam Dami, would be in a

(15:01):
statistical dead heat, and if Mayor Eric Adams were to
drop his independent bid for reelection, Cuomo would beat Mamdani
by four points. The Supreme Court expected to weigh in
today on President Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship, just
one of a number of cases on the docket today
as the Court wraps up this year's term. Police in

(15:22):
Brooklyn searching for a gunman who shot and killed one
man and wounded another late last night. Authority say it
happened in front of ninety three twenty three Avenue l
where cops found a twenty one year old shot in
the head. The second victim, a twenty five year old man,
was shot in the leg. And the saying goes, happy wife,
happy life. But scientists say, if you really want to

(15:43):
boost your relationship, well give your partner a kiss or
acuddle in public, even if it makes people nearby cringe.
Another secret to a happy marriage, they say, A joint
bank account. Who knew?

Speaker 15 (15:57):
Hold on?

Speaker 10 (15:58):
So I have to a little affection in public.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
PDA's are a good thing, they say, even if they're
kind of cringeworthy.

Speaker 8 (16:07):
Yeah they are. Do you have to see those couples.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
I'm not one of those couples.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
No, but I know what he's saying. You don't have
to do it, and the ones that do it all
the time are ridiculous. And I'm sorry if you're one
of those people, but I mean, you make all of
the rest of us uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
So that's the whole reason.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
I know. It shows you have a nice and healthy relationship.
But every once in a while it goes. It does
go a long way. That it does. It does trash
gout in my ear, I says, it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
It does.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Oh, I know why he's saying that because now his
wife might expect it from him.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
That's why he's saying it.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
So yeah, look he's turned red embarrassed. All right, thanks
so much, Larry Kovsky. It does work. How do you know,
did you do it?

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Nope? Nope. No.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Congratulations to Keith Hope from Newburgh, New York who just
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I'm gonna call in tickets to see Jackson Brown at
the Beacon at eight twenty five. Well, former New York

(17:19):
Assemblyman Dove Hikend has been blasting Zoramandani on cable TV everywhere,
so of course we had to invite him in the
Blast Door and Mom, Donnie right here on WR former
New York Assemblyman Dove Hikend is here next. I'm very
excited to have our next guest on Dove Hikend. As
a former member of the New York Assembly, he was

(17:41):
there for over three decades. He is founder of Americans
Against Anti Semitism. And I saw him the other day
on Fox News. I believe it was Fox News. May
he can correct me if I'm wrong, and he was
great in talking about Zorin Mamdanni. So I'm so glad
Dove that you said yes when we asked you to
come on.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Thank you, thank you, sir.

Speaker 11 (18:01):
It's my pleasure to be with you. This is an
important moment, not just for New York but as you
pointed out, the country, the nation is watching what happens
in New York and one thing we must defeat Momdanti.
There is no question about it. We need to take
him very seriously. He's smart. In fact, he's more than smart.

(18:24):
You know, just yesterday he talked about additional funds to
fight anti Semitism. Well, the best way to fight anti
Semitism is to have him disappear.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
That's true. I want to play something for you. Eric
Adams announced yesterday that he was officially running, and then
he was everywhere, including the Don Lemon podcast.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
And here's what I wanted to play for you. Do
you think he's an anti semi? Yes?

Speaker 10 (18:47):
I do.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
I think some of the comments. You know, you look
at some of his rap lyrics where he's talked about,
you know, his embracing of Hamas.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
That says a lot.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
So if his rap lyrics in brace Tomas and he's
been an anti Semite, they were talking about being an
anti Semite now for over a decade. That goes way back.
But can Eric Adams beat him? Who is who can
take him on right now?

Speaker 11 (19:15):
Well? I, first of all, I would urge everyone to
take a step back and I know this is very serious,
but we need to all watch carefully what happens. I
would say by September first, you know, just about Labor Day.
I'm you know, I am supporting Curtis Sliwa, but I
think all of us need to look and say, okay,

(19:36):
what on Labor Day, what's the story? Look Cuomo's running.
I wish there was only one single candidate of the
three that are running right now. I know there are
a bunch of others, but the three main candidates, we
need one. But that's not happening. Cloma is running, Adams
is running, and of course Curtis. So wait, let's wait

(19:57):
till Labor Day. Labor Day, we see what the situation is.
Everybody has a chance to work for two months. Let's
see what you can do. We'll look at the polls.
We'll watch the polls. At the end of the day,
everyone has to get off their high horse and say
we need to do what's best for the people of
the City of New York, old people in the City

(20:20):
of New York and support one single person. So I'm
hoping that will happen. I'm not a great fan former governor.
I'm not crazy about Adams. Okay, you know the last
four years as mayor, I'm not quite sure what he did. Okay,
he established a task force to fight anti Semitism.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
You know when when was that?

Speaker 11 (20:45):
That's the last four years? Two freaking weeks ago. Where
have you been? Like, why didn't you do it a
year ago? Three years ago? The numbers were sky rocketing, right, Okay,
So I'm ready to support him. Cuomo, you name, It'll
be on the same page. Let's give everyone a chance.
You are absolutely correct, Larry, He Mamdani can be beaten.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Oh, I think he can too. I think he can too.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'm more worried about the vote being split between everyone else.
But I also think the more that comes out about him,
the more he's going to start to slide a little
bit in the polls. I do think he's an absolute
danger to the society. But I'll tell you something, and
I found this out personally because you may have heard
I posted something on social media and I was attacked

(21:36):
by the mam Donni people. I mean, they are legion
on social media and they are energized and they're excited.
We need that same energy, even if it's anti mom Donni.
We need that same energy on the other side, and
I'm not sure it's there right now.

Speaker 11 (21:53):
You're absolutely correct, it's not there. So that's what I'm saying.
Let's give credit to the other side. We talking so much,
and we need to support this one or that one.
First of all, let's make sure that your neighbor, your friends,
your family, that every single person is registered to vote

(22:16):
in November. If you own a home in New York,
if Mamdannie gets elected, the day after, your house is
going to be worth twenty percent less. You won't even
be able to sell your your house if you want
to get out of New York. He Mamdannie is a
catastrophe for New York, no question about it.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Let's talk about everyone out there.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Let's talk about something really important right here, because I
think we at this point can't be be labored enough.
He's promising all these things for free, and he says
he's going to raise the income tax on the ridge
and raise the corporate tax that has to come out
of the state, and then they have to agree to
send money to New York City. You've been in the Assembly,

(22:58):
You're the best person to ask on this. You've been
in the Assembly for thirty six years. Can that happen?

Speaker 11 (23:07):
I would hope not. But the Assembly and State Senate
that exists in twenty twenty five, it's quite different from
the one I left a couple of years ago. It
is very much to the left, a lot of radicals there.
You know, nothing is impossible. It's a different world up
in Albany. When I left Albany, the Republicans controlled the

(23:28):
State Senate and they made sure that all the crazy
stuff that the Assembly was doing and passing never got
anywhere because they stopped it. So let's not the best
thing we can do is to make sure Mamdani is
not the mayor of New York. And we can do
it if we're smart, If every single person, instead of

(23:51):
just talking and getting excited, do something concrete, like make
sure everybody's registered book, make sure let's work continues. We
have to make sure people come out to vote in November.
I mean that the numbers will be dramatic. We need
seventy eight percent of the people coming out to vote.
The people come out to vote, the people well people

(24:14):
in New York. Mamdani will lose and it will not
be close. So there's a lot of work to be done.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Yeah, that's really hoping. That's really well said.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
It is really well said because because he has an
energized base and the other people have to be just
as energized. And you're right, it is not out there
right now. I think it's really fascinating. And you were
great to talk to right now because you switch parties,
so you saw this coming a while ago. Tell people
why you switch parties.

Speaker 11 (24:46):
Well, I switched parties because I saw the Democratic Party
not being the party of my parents, of every one
of my family in the past. It is a radicalized party.
I mean, look right now, you look people like Jerry,
a Jew, a guy who went to Yeshiva by the way,
parochial school, who endorsed ma'm donnie for God's sake us,

(25:10):
people like Schumer, the protector of the Jewish people. That's
what he says all of his life. He protected the
Jewish people, an absolute fraud. He sending beautiful messages to
Mamdanie congratulating him. So the enemy is also within. But
you know what, Larry, It's okay, We're gonna do fine.
We're going to win if we're united on some level

(25:33):
and create that enthusiasm. You know what, I you know,
what I think the best example I can give Dencin's Juliani.
In the nineteen nineties, when New York was in trouble.
People were afraid of, you know, whether there was a
future in New York, and people came out to vote.
I remember I sub I was a you know, a Democrat.

(25:53):
I supported Juliani and the people were coming out. The
post closed at nine o'clock, there were still lines around.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, that's what we need right now.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Dove, You've been great and that's all great advice, and
I hope we can do that. Come back, let's talk
about it again. Dove Hiken, former member of the New
York Assembly, founder of Americans Against Anti Sanmatism. Should Times
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eight proposals taking taking a gamble for these licenses, but
only three will make the final cut. I guess that
didn't land Larry the gamble.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
And I get it now.

Speaker 15 (27:34):
I get it.

Speaker 16 (27:35):
Yeah, And today's the day of the bidding deadline. One
proposal is garnering much attention, and maybe that's because of
its location Times Square.

Speaker 17 (27:46):
I think there should only because it's the center of
the world, and people go to Vegas and people go
all over the place, and New York has the most
diverse population, and I think it'd be fun.

Speaker 18 (28:00):
It's Toime Square, you know, it's so already like a
big casino. But I'm not opposed to I don't see
what it would hurt. Before I was born in the seventies,
Top Square used to be a casino, would only bring
more money.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
To the city.

Speaker 18 (28:10):
So I mean, and if it's the kids that we're
worried about, I don't feel like prime time of casino life.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Kids shouldn't be out here anyway.

Speaker 17 (28:17):
So what's it really hurting?

Speaker 1 (28:18):
People gonna have vices regardless.

Speaker 16 (28:21):
Yeah, the caveat to those two answers, Larry, one of
those guys is a tourist and the other just works.

Speaker 11 (28:27):
In the area.

Speaker 16 (28:28):
Right, So what do locals today? Do locals want the casino.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Nose live, not at all.

Speaker 15 (28:36):
Too many people, so much going on that one more drama,
get more drama.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
It's horrible.

Speaker 15 (28:40):
It's a horrible idea. All the things going on and
run over here. It's not a good thing. Not see
from nobody.

Speaker 8 (28:44):
Oh, I just tell the story about that. I don't
really have an opinion about.

Speaker 18 (28:47):
It, No, because I think, of course, so much cap
the gamble and not in control, and it's just the
casino is gonna make the money, not the people.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
No, because it's.

Speaker 11 (28:57):
Gonna bring the wrong crowd.

Speaker 15 (28:58):
You're going they're drinking, hanging out now, it's not a
good thing.

Speaker 16 (29:03):
So the Times Square project specifically is proposed by Jay
Z's company Rock Nation and developer sl Green, which is
vowing to use union labor during the construction process. So
unions are really on board with this. There was a
rally in Times Square yesterday kind of opposing. One was
for the project, the other was against it. Now there's

(29:23):
this idea floating around that putting a Caesar's palace specifically
in Times Square will help, quote bring the area back,
But our New Yorker is convinced that it really needs
to come back. Does that need to happen?

Speaker 17 (29:35):
It's a crossware about the world.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Is already popular already.

Speaker 14 (29:38):
I think there are enough people that come here anyway.
It's pretty crowded. If you hang out over the weekend,
it's a zoo.

Speaker 15 (29:43):
Not at all. It's not going Nowayre, It's gonna be
the same way it is. The generation generation is gonna
be the same way.

Speaker 11 (29:49):
No.

Speaker 5 (29:49):
I think it's already thriving and on and pop and
it's always busy. A lot of people are always here
visiting from others, you know, country city states. So I
think it's pretty it's doing pretty well.

Speaker 18 (30:00):
I don't know what more we expect from Times Square honestly,
like tourists come here and they look excited so curious.

Speaker 16 (30:06):
Yeah, who cares as long as a tourists love it, right, Larry,
But people have some tips. If Times Square wants to
make a so called come back, get all the.

Speaker 15 (30:15):
Homeless people out and you'll be all right. The way
everything is is too many homeless people around. It isn't
really looking dingy and grimy. Still there's like the seventies.
Still I used to come here.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
I don't come here no more with thee the road
because they hanging out the corner.

Speaker 15 (30:28):
So they should do something about them hanging out at
the corner.

Speaker 14 (30:30):
That's the first thing they should do.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
And figure it out from here.

Speaker 5 (30:32):
They got enough people here, we're Broadway and all the
other things going on that they don't need anything else.

Speaker 14 (30:37):
You know, I hate to say it, if you don't
ever bring times Quay back in a different way, make
it more affordable for people.

Speaker 16 (30:42):
To live, and there you have it, Larry. Some projects
include building a casino near city Field on the Coney
Island boardwalk walk and riding huts and yards. We've done
stories about the casino and nuts and yards, and there's
another proposal for a development in kid Spay. But we'll
find out what the state decides by this December, so
we'll really see what happens.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
You know, I've been.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
I've been against casinos coming into areas for the longest time,
and I found out I was wrong. Every time they
come in, there's employment, it increases the tax space, it
increases people coming to the area. So I don't think
it's a bad idea, to tell you the truth. Actually,
a lot of it makes sense, and a lot of
people get hired to work in a casino. It means
jobs as well, So we'll see. I mean, I'm sure

(31:28):
this is a topic you'll be covering a lot. Natalie's
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