Hour 3: Pets over children?

Pets over children?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I got a happy Monday to you. We're going to

(00:01):
have an interesting little day. It's going to finally be
a little milder. So yeah, I'm celebrating by wearing short sleeves. Finally.
It's crazy that here we've had springtime for the weeks
we've had and I spent like you, I'm sure all
last week in long sleeves, T shirt underneath the jacket.
Everywhere I went, I still got to wear a jacket.
I mean, it's still a little chilly, but nice to
be able to wear some short sleeves if you want,

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because it'll get a little bit milder later today. It
is Monday, the fourteenth of April. Minty in the morning
is what you're listening to. Larry's off today. Larry returns tomorrow.
By the way, we've had a lot of people saying,
when is Larry coming back? You're a nice guy, Ken,
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and we have the Holy Week of course for Christians
around the world. Everything kind of falling at the same time,
overwhelmingly huge numbers of people from all over the world,
all celebrating the holidays at the same time. Let's hope
that this leads to peace for everybody around the world.

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now or Big three stories. Of course, this morning we
had the helicopter crash that happened on Thursday. Now, the
company that runs that helicopter around that helicopter, New York
Helicopter Tours, is shutting down its operations immediately in the
wake of that deadly insidant. The FAA says they have
launch a review of the tour operator's license and safety

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record as well. There was a big fire at the
Governor's mansion in Pennsylvania that happened over the weekend on Saturday.
As Governor Shapiro I had finished celebrating a passover Satar
in the Governor's mansion Saturday night, Eda's family had finished eating,
they had gone to bed, and in the middle of
the night, apparently according to state troopers, somebody jumped the

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fence of the governor's mansion property and set fire, in fact,
causing quite a lot of damage. The state troopers were
able to wake up the governor and his family get
them all out safely. And they did arrest a man.
According to investigators at his thirty eight year old Cody Balmer,
and he is expected to face charges of attempted murder, terrorism,
aggravated arson, and aggravated assault. The question is, how did

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this guy jump over a fence with state troopers there
take enough time to light the place on fire and
then he was able to jump the fence and get out.
They arrested him in downtown Harrisburg, where he is from.
I did a little investigating myself last night. The man
is not affiliated with any political party, left or right,
but you have to wonder what the motive was. According

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to state police, they believe the attack was targeted, but
they won't say anything more. And remember eight years ago
President Trump. Everywhere he went he had a lot of
younger people, especially athletes, kind of turning their backs on him.
They didn't want anything to do with him. He would
go into sporting events and sometimes get booed. He would
invite winning teams to the White House and get declined. Well,

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that's not the case anymore. President Trump, over the weekend
went into a UFC tournament in Florida. He was greeted
by tens of thousands of cheers, people on their feet
screaming USA, USA, people running up to get a picture
with the president. Shaq Shaquille O'Neil was there. He came

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and gave him a hug. I mean, this is something
that would have been unheard of eight years ago. But
it seems that everything is turned around basically one hundred
and eighty degrees. So it's just interesting to see. You
know what the reality is. He is the president. He's
going to be the president for the next three and
three quarter years. If you disagree with him, that is
perfectly fine. You are totally entitled to disagree with him.

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Just accept the fact that he is the president for
the next three and three quarter years and take a
deep breath and then know that you know, we have
politically a pendulum in the United States, goes back and forth,
back and forth. So if things don't work out, you
get a chance to vote somebody else. And that's the
way it works. But stop going crazy. If you don't
like Trump, don't worry. Just wait a few years. You

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could vote for somebody else. Eight ten is there time? Seven?
Wo r Ken Risotto and for Larry on Your Monday.
Doctor Gale Saltz is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry
at the New York Presbyterian Hospital and host of the
iHeartRadio podcast How Can I Help, where she takes mental
health or relationship questions. Good morning to doctor Saltz. Good morning,

(05:20):
So it's good to have you on. I've listened to
your podcast, by the way, I'm a fan of yours,
and yes, and now I just read this article about
the treatment of ADHD by one of the people who
initially came up with the treatment of ADHD using adderall, saying,
initially it seemed to be super successful, but he said

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that over the years. He then noted that if you
take a large group of people and analyze them after
one year, two year, three years, I should say not
year years, that by the third year, that adderall doesn't
necessarily work as well with a number of people. But
yet many patients have been given the drug year after year.

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What is the latest we're finding out about this?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
So actually, what you're saying is something if you saw
a psychiatrist who really specializes in this area, this is
not something new in the sense that it has long
been understood that a we don't really understand the origins,

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the etiology, the brain differences and how much is environmental
and how much is a difference in terms of attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder. We keep moving trying to find causes,
trying to find what the differences are. We do know,

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and psychiatrists have known for many years as you're bringing
up that stimulant medications in the moment can be helpful
for specific behavioral piece of ADHD, but they're sort of
like a band aid, if you will right. They're not
treating the underlying problem. They're trying to help with the

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behavioral symptoms caused by that problem. That a kid can
function in a classroom if they're unable to, or, as
I would say as a psychiatrist, particularly in adolescent years,
if impulsivity is a big symptom, then medication to keep
them from doing something that's risk taking and potentially harmful.

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That might be a period of time where you're more
interested in prescribing a stimulant, But overall, in terms of
learning skills to manage the problem of organization, of following
directions of social skills and other areas that are impacted
by ADHD. There are actually behavioral treatments, psychotherapy, sorts of

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treatments that really can help with that and may even
be better in some ways. And stimulates.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
So this is it's a mixed bag. We don't have
a blood test, we don't have an X ray. We're
sort of doing the best we can. But a lot
of people get stimulants, as you said, from maybe their
general interness, maybe a pediatrician, maybe you know someone who
just kind of keeps prescribing it, and that isn't always

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the best answer.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, I mean I know from friends of mine anecdotally,
friends of mine who have children who've been put on
an at our all for instance, over the years, many
years ago, that it has helped in many cases, has
helped dramatically. They were able to focus and really it
helped the problem. But at the same time, you don't
want to just throw a band aid on something that
might be deeper than that, right, or.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Maybe that's not the only thing you want to do.
In other words, there may be really important times where
you do need to do that to sort of save
a kid, if you will, But at the same time,
you want to be employing these other things that are
learned skills what I would call learned workarounds that last,
and so you're not marrying them to a stimulant for life.

(09:06):
And as you said, the affect they wear off somewhat
over time, because in fact these are ultimately they can
be addictive drugs. You can develop tolerance to them, they
may not work as well over time. There are a
lot of issues, So I you know, in general, right,
I'm always believer we should do psychotherapeutically what we can

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do because that's learned, and you keep it at the
same even if at times someone needs medications. And look,
sometimes these medications for someone who really has a lot
of impulsivity and is getting in trouble and falling away
from the classroom, this can be kind of life saving temporarily.
So it just should be evaluated as you're saying, like

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every year, you know, do we need this? What else
do we need? Do we want to stay with this?
And so I would just advise to any parents out
there or adults for that matter, that are using these medications,
find someone who really understands ADHD and can reevaluate with
you periodically if this is really what you should be doing,

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or this alone is what you should be doing.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
There is a reason why you are a psychiatrist. That
is your specialty. You studied years for it, and there's
a reason why you go to a psychiatrist for someone
like this, something like this, rather as opposed to just
your general practitioner who could help you in great amount
of things. But that's why you're a specialist. Doctor. Gail Saltz,
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital

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and host of the iHeart Radio podcast how Can I Help,
which she takes mental health or relationship questions. Thank you
so much for explaining and coming on today. We appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Have a great day us well, doctor, thank you. It
is eight sixteen right now, more people are choosing pets
over children. Yeah, you know. You see them all over
New York pushing there. They're doggies in the baby carriages.
Find out why this is taking off us. We have
tickets to see the Doobie Brothers. We're touring again this
year with Michael McDonald, So stay with us, Ken Risotto

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and for Larry on your Monday. Good to be with you,
eight twenty three on a Monday morning, sun and clouds today,
tempts in the mid sixties, Ken Risotto sport and his
T shirt is or a short sleeve shirt and hues
are shirt.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
And you know what, really, besides the weather, which is
going to be a great addition to the day, the
traffic is a lot lighter today. So if you had
to go to work this week because it is a
big holiday week, you're gonna have a little extra you know,
time on your hands because you're gonna get to work fast.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah. And plus, in general, Mondays and Fridays have been low.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
To begin with, no's have congestion pricing, then you have Passover,
and you have Holy weeks, so all of that together. Basically,
I was just laying down on sixth Avenue and nobody here.
I'm won day.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
If anybody's listening this morning, are you all sleeping?

Speaker 1 (11:53):
But it is good to be in today. Larry, by
the way, is coming back tomorrow, So that's good news.
He will be back and I get to sleep in
an extra hour or two and I get to listen
to you guys. I may call in tomorrow. I'm gonna
can't bust your chops. I'll do that tomorrow. Us a
talk back, Larry will say, who the hell is this,
I'll say it's it's Ketra's out who anyway, it's it's

(12:15):
definitely definitely good to be in today. Hey, I'm sure
you've noticed all over the city you see people pushing
dogs occasionally casts, but usually dogs in baby carriages, and
they have special carriages just for dogs to that a
little smaller pet strollers, pet strollers exactly. And this is
a trend. It's not just once in a while. You

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see it a lot, especially now that a lot of
younger people, especially gen Z and millennials, they're choosing not
to have kids instead they have pets. It's for career,
it's because of you know, expensive living in New York City,
all sorts of reasons. But this is now becoming such
a big deal that we have declining birth rates. New

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York posted a whole story about this, about the declining
birth rates and the fact that there are now people everywhere,
not just New York, but cities all over the world.
In fact, there was a study that was done at
the let's see if I could pronounce this aotvos Laurent
University sounded Russian, but it was in Hungary and they say.
The link isn't just because of the the well, they

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say the rough gig children present that Apparently, some studies
suggest dog owners have more negative views of motherhood and
mothers who own dogs find parenting more burdensome, which could
reduce their willingness to have more children, whereas it's just
the opposite when they have dogs. Now, I you know, listen,
I'm a pet lover. I've had I've had Pomeranians, that's

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my breed of choice. I love my doggies right now.
Unfortunately they left me if you will, in the last year,
but we're looking down the line at getting more. So
I'm a big fan of dogs. But at the same time,
when you or go children all together, that's not doesn't
bode well for the future of humanity.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
It kind of does, because I think dogs are kinder,
smarterpes a thousand years from I will come back and
there be dogs at that's steering wheels and things like it.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
You know, as a parent of two children no pets,
I you know, it's obviously an amazing thing. I love
my children and I couldn't imagine my life without them.
But they're expensive, very expensive. But we were just having
a conversation off air about the cost of dogs.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, and I thought to myself, maybe my.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
Kids are so expensive after all, because there's two kinds
of pet strollers. There's a little pet stroller that's just
perfect to do if you're going to be out for
a long time or your dog is getting older or whatever.
And then there's those crazy giant carriages that look like
you think you have a child in them, but you
really have a pet. I used to have a pet stroller,
and my little dog had a like a burbery coat

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and everything else. Did you have a barbary coat or
do now?

Speaker 1 (15:06):
No, just I couldn't afford a barbary That's.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Exactly like a parent of a child.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
The big Apple bus tours and stuff would always stop
and take pictures of my dog, and people would stop
me saying can I take a picture of your dog?

Speaker 1 (15:17):
And I'd be like, sure, see And you know what,
even like like I didn't like New Yorkers, I had
the two dogs. I didn't have pet insurance, and in
their ladders each dog costs about fifteen thousand dollars towards
the end. People don't believe it, but it's true.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Well, I can imagine I mean, I've heard of people
having to make the you know, horrific decision of what
to do with their pet when they're ill, especially later
in their life.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Should I spend the money? I don't have pet insurance.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
Oh my gosh, No, you have to have pet insurance now,
Jacqueline carl has the eight thirty News Good Morning. The
tour company that operated the fatal flight that crashed into
New York' Hudson River is shutting down. The announcement came
just hours after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on
the FAA to suspend the company, named New York Helicopter
Tours Operating License and Mayor Eric Adams is in the

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Dominican Republic to mourn with the community following the deadly
nightclub roof collapse.

Speaker 6 (16:10):
The mayor is getting a first hand look at the
jet Set nightclub tragedy site while meeting with Dominican government
officials and also first responders who are part of the
search and recovery efforts. Adams is also meeting with family
members of retired NYPD detective Emanuel Gomez, he died during
the roof collapse. Meanwhile, Governor Kathy Hochle she's delivering remarks
tonight at a vigil in the Bronx for the victims.

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I'm scaf Pringle WRDWS.

Speaker 5 (16:35):
So I have a story about a man who did
not get a job interview and decide to handle it
in a crazy way. This happened in St.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
Petersburg, Florida.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
John Connaughton apparently didn't take too kindly to being denied
this job interview with doors molding and more so, the
fifty one year old allegedly did the only reasonable thing
he could think of.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
What's it?

Speaker 5 (16:59):
I don't know how did this, but he filled multiple
bottles with urine, went to the front door and splashed
it into the contents. The contents into the building. Idea
cord is the police APPI David's. The bare legs of
an employee were splashed, as well as merchandise said to
have valued at over one thousand dollars cottage and has
since been hit with felony battery, criminal mischief, and aggravated assault.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
But they said they'll keep his application on fund Now.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
I'm just to make sure he never gets a job there.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
I bet you those employees were really pissed off.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
I'm sorry much he did it all day.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
I was why didn't I think of that one? That
was good? Because you're smart?

Speaker 5 (17:43):
But I mean, like, I just don't get like how
this guy ever thinks he's ever going to get hired anywhere.
If this is for his reaction to not getting a.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Job interview, I think you should check with some previous employers.
I think we need doctor Gail Saltz bad right, get
her back. Thank you so much for that thing. I
can't unsee. All right. We appreciate you, Jack Carl, thank you,
and congratulations to Barry Glazier from Comac Long Island, New York.

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Just want a pair of tickets to see the Doobie Brothers.
They're touring again this year with Michael McDonald August seventh
at the PNC Bank Art Center. You can purchase tickets
a ticketmaster dot com. There's another chance to win tomorrow
at eight twenty five. It is now eight thirty one.
The Trump administration strips benefits from thousands of aliens on
the terror watch list. Find out what this means with

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Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese. That's coming up
next at seven ten WR Reagan Reese is the White
House correspondent for The Daily Caller, an independent women's forum
visiting fellow, she joins us this morning, Good morning to you, Reagan.

Speaker 7 (18:47):
Good morning. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's good to have you on. You know, the Trump
administration I'm reading here is revoking the parole of thousands
of immigrants who found been found to have criminal records
or be on the FBI's Terror Screening Center watch lists. Like, duh,
why is this a problem. So what's the latest on that.

Speaker 7 (19:07):
Yeah, so we learned that the Trunk administration was provoking
parole of six thousand, three hundred. You know, immigrants, both
illegal and legal immigrants get parole. That's why we can't
just say that they're straight up illegal immigrants. And these
were all people who were either on the terrorist watch list,

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the FBI's terrorist watch list, or had a criminal record,
and they were all let in in twenty twenty three
under the bad administration. And they were also receiving benefits.
They were receiving Medicaid, student loan compensation, you know, they
were collecting unemployment insurance and you know, two hundred and

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seventy six thousand dollars was paid out of Medicaid. Forty
two thousand, forty two thousand dollars was paid out in
benefits of unemployment insurance. Two hundred and eighty thousand was
paid out in federal student loans, et cetera, et cetera.
And these are all to people who are on the
FBI terrorist watch list or have a criminal record and

(20:14):
came into our country under the Body administration.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Well, it's nice that we could be taking good care
of them. You know, at least they'll leave the United
States with a smile on their faces and lots of
money in their pockets. It's crazy considering the amount of
money and taxes that we pay people who were struggling
to put their own kids through college. And then you
have somebody who was this is not just you know,
a struggling migrant coming to the country to try to
make a better life. These people committed crimes in most cases.

Speaker 7 (20:41):
Yeah, and you know, a lot of the feedback we
got from the story was that, you know, our audience
at the Daily Caller is you know, millions of Americans
across the country who you know, most likely voted for
Donald Trump, and they, you know, were saying, this is
exactly what I voted for. I did not want you know,
these people to be receiving the benefit.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
They didn't want my.

Speaker 7 (21:02):
Tax per dollars to be benefiting these people. And my understanding,
so this was a doge thing that was dug up
Department of Government Efficiency run by Elon Musk. My understanding is,
you know, as they can continue to comb through benefits
and various other lists and stuff, they might find some
more And so I think that they're working on that

(21:24):
right now. Wow.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Well, and I also read here in your columns that
several longtime Trump loyalists are firing up a new all
around consulting firm to help propel GOP candidates to political
victory in the upcoming twenty twenty six election cycle. Because
it's one thing to win it all right now, But
traditionally a lot of times somebody who comes into power
as president loses in the midterms, people get a little

(21:49):
upset because things aren't changing the way they wanted right away.
So what's this all about.

Speaker 7 (21:55):
Yeah, So we'll have some more reporting coming on this
and this idea that you know, how is the GOP
going to secure the twenty twenty six midterms, because I
think that is not as far off as people think
it is. And it's definitely a concern. And just in
some of the conversations I've had, you know, the White
House itself is going to be kind of giving directives

(22:18):
to you know, the RNC, the nrc C, the NRSC,
et cetera, on where to focus their time and efforts
come to twenty twenty six mid terms. But right now,
the White House is focused on getting those wins, those
policy wins that they can you know, package up and
sell to the American people. And also they're very aware
of how the economy. If the economy is not roaring

(22:41):
by the time the twenty twenty six mid terms come,
that could be a problem for conservatives.

Speaker 8 (22:46):
And so.

Speaker 7 (22:48):
In this there are some Trump loyalists that you named
who are firing up like a one stop shop, you know,
consulting firm that's going to do male campaigns, digital campaigns,
TV campaigns. You know, does consulting work, polling data, et cetera.
The list goes on and on, and so they're looking

(23:10):
to take some GOP candidates, some MAGA candidates and propel
them to success in twenty twenty six. And this is
the first you know, one stop shop from magworld of
its time.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
You know, Reagan. I read a study recently that showed
that if we were to take all ten to twenty million,
depending on the statistic you look at illegal migrants in
the United States, if ten to twenty million were to leave,
that that would impact congressional districts, mostly Democrat congressional districts,
to the tune of up to twenty congress members. So,

(23:44):
in other words, if we deported all the illegal migrants,
that would mean about twenty fewer Democrats in Congress, which
would make a big gap in the House, as opposed
to right now we just say it's a difference of
a few a few heads. So of course it's going
to be rather difficult to deport twenty million people between
now and the next few years. But it's just fascinating

(24:07):
that that's how much of an impact that many illegal
migrants can have. And for those say, well, they can't vote,
it's not a matter of them voting. Their mere presence
when we take these census every ten years is what
impacts the number of elected officials congress members that we
have in certain districts.

Speaker 7 (24:25):
Yeah, I have not heard that statistic before, so that
is very interesting and also just news to me. I
think when it comes to making sure things like this
don't affect the where a country runs. That is something
that you can count on the Republican National Committee to
really be diving into the next two years. They have,

(24:48):
for the first time, have an election integrity department that
is set up, that is ready to go.

Speaker 8 (24:53):
They were under a.

Speaker 7 (24:54):
Consent decree since nineteen eighty until about twenty eighteen, and
this past election cycle was the first time that the RNC,
you know, finally really dove into election integrity efforts in
a serious manner. And that's you know, looking at all
these laws and rules across the country that have any

(25:16):
effect on the election. And so I've been talking to them.
They're staffing up, they're growing, They're putting people and boots
on the ground, whether it's lawyers, poll watchers, pull workers,
et cetera. And so for things like this, I think
that's something you can expect the RNC to try to address.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
And of course President Trump just had his physical and
it looks like he's doing really well for men in
his upper seventies. He lost twenty pounds in the last
or since he was last president. He only has slightly
elevated blood pressure and don't we all these days? Otherwise
he's in great shape. And he did a cognitive study too,
to kind of shut up everybody who said, well, they

(25:55):
wanted Biden to take a cognitive study, why doesn't he,
Well he did and he answered every question.

Speaker 7 (26:02):
Yeah, he said that he took a cognitive study and
that he got all the questions right. You know, I
don't know if I myself have seen I'm not sure
if the results of that were in the medical the
medical summary that they released, but you know, they did
the report that he is doing healthy. He's doing just fine.

(26:22):
And it's just so different than what it was under
President Biden because the last physical that Biden got was
right at the time that his interview with Robert with
special Counsel Robert Hurt was coming out, and we learned
that Biden forgot when he was vice president. He forgot
the date of his late son's birth. You know, he

(26:43):
was making weird car noises during the interview, seemed very scattered,
and you know, took the physical to try to calm
people down, to go to you know, Walter Reid. And
so it's just a very different, very different time than
it was this time last.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Year than our Reagan Reese white House corresponded for The
Daily Caller and Independent Women's Forum, visiting fellow as always,
thank you so much for joining us this morning on War.

Speaker 7 (27:10):
Yeah, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
You bet. It is eight forty seven. New York City
Council wants to make it easier to find a public bathroom.
Oh God, help us find out how this new bill
could change your daily routine. Wars. Natalie Migliori gets the
Beat on the Street next.

Speaker 7 (27:27):
Now it's sevent ten Wars Beat on the Street with
Natalie Migliori.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
All Right, one of the perennial problems in New York
City is there is never a place to go to
the bathroom. It used to be you could always sneak
into a Starbucks. I remember a couple of months ago,
because I haven't been in the city from for a
year and a half since I left Channel seven, I
came into the city. I went to four Starbucks. Everyone, Oh,
it's out of service. It's out of service. Belgoney. Now

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we may have an answer, Natalie Migleori, what is it?

Speaker 8 (27:58):
Well, good morning, Ken. Bathroom business is serious business. Right now.
The city has about eleven hundred public bathrooms for its
eight point six million residents, and only two of them
are twenty four to seven. And don't forget the commuters
and the visitors who need to go to the bathroom
here too. Ask any New Yorker if they think there

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are enough public bathrooms across the five boroughs.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
No.

Speaker 9 (28:23):
You know why I say no. I have to come
to the city every Tuesday. This is actually outside of
when I normally come to the city, and I have
to plan my route around where there are Starbucks so
that I can go buy a drink and then use
the bathroom.

Speaker 7 (28:34):
Well, I kind of go to the bathroom in my apartment.

Speaker 5 (28:36):
You know, I don't really care.

Speaker 10 (28:38):
I'm so tired of being drunk and not having a
place to ye.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (28:45):
If the god's on his shruth there. The City Council
has apparently heard New Yorkers loud and clear, just days ago,
passing legislation that would allow the city to open up
one thousand new bathrooms, calling for at least half of
the os to be publicly owned. The plan is to
open them all by twenty thirty five, ten years. So

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do people think that's gonna happen? I don't know.

Speaker 7 (29:09):
I feel like things never really get done here.

Speaker 10 (29:12):
But I would love uh for everyone just about. Yeah,
it's about ten years. Yeah, it sounds it sounds good.
It's probably gonna take twenty but that's great. I love
that idea.

Speaker 11 (29:23):
They should keep.

Speaker 10 (29:23):
They should continue doing that because you know, New York
City is starting to get very packed. We need some restrooms.
That'd be smart.

Speaker 9 (29:30):
That's interesting, okay, and where will those bathrooms be? It
sounds great in theory, but I would love to say
how that's actually gonna work in practice. Respectfully, I'm not
sure if that plan's gonna serve Harlem as well as
it does the financial district.

Speaker 11 (29:41):
There's probably better things to spend our money on.

Speaker 10 (29:44):
Well.

Speaker 8 (29:45):
Sponsors say the legislation will help the elderly and the homeless,
along with essential workers. But the real question is how
they're going to keep the bathrooms clean.

Speaker 9 (29:55):
Probably won't, would be my guess.

Speaker 11 (29:57):
That's gonna be a problem.

Speaker 10 (29:58):
Yeah, and it's gonna be very football, but it's done
to the people. If they feel like being hygienic.

Speaker 11 (30:05):
That sounds like more jobs, right, Definitely go ahead and
start hiring people to go ahead and clean those bathrooming.
Sure they maintain for the city that I've never seen.

Speaker 10 (30:13):
That's another thing, because I know, if it becomes like
a real public, public thing, then I know, like the
homeless people with you know, I don't want to shame them,
but it's like they're gonna take over the bathrooms like
they do with the trains, and we have to pay
to get on these trains, and y'all are sleeping on
there now.

Speaker 8 (30:30):
A decade may seem like a long time, but there
would be a plan of action in place to make
it happen. That includes a five year benchmark with the
number of bathrooms that open in that amount of time.
In the meantime, ken people will keep having to do
what they do when they just can't hold it any longer.

Speaker 10 (30:49):
You gotta buy something. You gotta buy a drink from
a bar, you gotta buy a clothes, or you gotta
buy food, and I just feel like, can I just
use the bathroom, that's all.

Speaker 11 (30:58):
You gotta hope a restaurant would let you use it,
Or they go to the subway and they use the
downstairs or in the middle of the street between cars.
So more bathrooms would be great for them.

Speaker 9 (31:07):
I love in Harlem and my boyfriend and I were
walking in the street and a woman just like stopped
and defecated in a plastic bag in the middle of
the street, like it's sure to go.

Speaker 6 (31:17):
What else was she supposed to do.

Speaker 8 (31:19):
A lovely image on this Monday morning? Ken, But honestly,
I can't tell you how many times I've watched someone
urinate to the side of the subway platform or on
the sidewalk just because they can't find a bathroom. So
we'll see if this legislation actually changes anything, and if
lawmakers make, you know, make progress over the next maybe

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even year to keep moving forward with opening these bathrooms.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Oh I thought we had more sound. I'm sorry, Listen.
I passed the guy two years ago when I when
I was working in TV. He literally looked like a
middle aged gentleman. He dropped round between cars and I
won't even get into the and I literally was just
dumbfounded that a human did this in the street. I'd
be like, what, okay. But here's what a town in
Florida does. They did a public private partnership with the city.

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The city reimbursed businesses to put up a sign in
the window saying we have a public restroom, and so
the city basically gave them a credit or some money
to open their bathroom, and that way they could afford
to pay somebody to clean the bathroom. But it was
thus open to anyone who wanted to come in and
it worked. But again, that's a small town. But it's good. Right,

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You got tons of businesses who probably don't want the
problem of homeless or whatever. But if you have the
extra money, there's incentive to bring someone into clean your bathrooms.
All right, we got to solve the problem because you
gotta go, and right now we gotta go. It is
a fifty nine. Thank you, Natalie, you're awesome. Coming up,
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