Hour 4: Dwayne Johnson Oscar buzz?

Dwayne Johnson Oscar buzz?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Thanks for joining us this morning. Have you
seen the forecast is going to be a beautiful week?
Apparently summers not over yet. Make sure you get out
and enjoy it. In the Big three will the President
still wants to send the National Guard and federal assets
to fight crime in Chicago, and man, could they use it?

(00:21):
Did you hear the crime numbers over the weekend and
this is not including Monday. We don't have those numbers yet,
but fifty four shot, seven dead and they don't want help.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
We are being targeted because of what and who we represent.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Mister President, do not come to Chicago. I'm willing to
go to Chicago, which is a big trouble, but we
have a governor that refuses to admit he has problems.
We really love the line. We're being targeted for who
we are and what we represent. Yeah, you represent high crime,
you represent people being murdered on a nightly basis, and

(00:59):
you're refusing help, which makes you exactly the opposite of
a law and order mayor. What a fool that guy is.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani suffers several injuries
in a car accident in New Hampshire. The most serious
injury was a broken back.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
They didn't give specifics about if you had multiple vertebrae
that were fractured or just one, but typically when we
see a trauma induced spinal fracture broken back, it takes
people several months, especially if they're being treated with the
traditional methods, which are physical therapy, a back brace, rest,
and pain relief.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Some of the survivors who were sold like a commodity
by Jeffrey Epstein to the rich and powerful are going
to be speaking out today to push Congress for the
release of all the Epstein files, and they're going to
be meeting with an investigative committee also behind closed doors.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
They're there stories uh, and no one should politicize them.
Let the American people hear from the victims and let
them tell their truth.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
And Natalie Migliore was just talking about this and everybody
was hoping.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
It's time to play America's favorite jackpot game.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
This is power Ball, and nobody won, so tomorrow night's
drawing one point three billion dollars. I'm sure you were
disappointed after you saw that, but two people in New
Jersey won a million, so you check your tickets and
yesterday Labor Day, as we've all heard, was the unofficial

(02:37):
end of summer.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's an awesome summer. I had an amazing summer with all
my friends, and I just love going down to the
Jersey Shore.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Asbury Park is the place to be. But wait a minute,
did you hear the forecast? Summer's not dead yet, Get
out there and enjoy it. If you took off this week, man,
you were smart. Now let's talk to Rich Lowry, editor
in chief of the National Review. He's with us every
Tuesday at this time. Rich, I know you've written about this.

(03:04):
I completely understand why Donald Trump won stricter laws, stricter
voting laws in state after state after state. You seem
to have a problem with just the male in voting.
Part of that right.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
I'm not a fan of mail in voting. My preference
would be that everyone the way it used to be,
goes same day, invosts in person. It's more fool proof,
it's better for the voter, and it's more secure. But
we're just far beyond that world. Unfortunately passed it maybe
you know, left it behind maybe three decades ago, and
the federal government doesn't have the power to end mail

(03:43):
in balloting. Certainly president can't do it by executive order.
So the only alternative here unless you want to give
Democrats a huge tactical advantage, you need Republicans to vote
by mail as well. So I'd be shocked if Republican
consultants aren't working the President and won't get some endorsement
of mail voting before the November mid terms, the same
way he endorsed it before the November twenty twenty four election.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
That is really fascinating that you said Republicans have to
vote by mail as well. Does it really matter how
you vote? As long as you vote.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
It does matter because if you're running a turnout operation
and so they're high propensity voters and low propensity voters,
high promensity voters vote no matter what. So what you
want to do when you're running your turnout operation, you
want all those people to go and vote, so you
can take them off your list and you don't have
to contact them anymore, you don't have to see where
they can help them get to the polls. Then you
can focus on the real low propensity voters. Republicans didn't

(04:39):
do this in twenty twenty hurt them at the margins.
They did do it in twenty twenty four help them
at the margins.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
So if you.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
Don't have your voters voting early and the other side
does have their voters voting early, it's a huge disadvantage.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
The other part of this the changes he wants to
make to voting laws, which you're right, he can't do it.
State by state has to do this. But you know,
by having an executive order at least gets attention to
the issue our voter IDs. And you have to be
for voter IDs, right, I mean, there's really no reason
not to have them.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
No, it's the opposition to this is totally absurd. And
going back to nail and voting, the states that do
it best, I don't. I don't like these states. Some
just will send you're regil your voter, They send you
a ballot. They don't know where you're, whether you're still there,
you haven't requested it. So the states that do it well,
like Georgia and Florida, they have a lot of security,
including in Georgia, you got to provide the proof the

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identity you know you're a driver's license number or a
photocopy of some other ID to even request a ballot
So in our day and age, where you got to
show a driver's license to do anything, you know, to
get into an office building in New York in a
lot of cases, of course, you should have to do
it to vote.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, you know, I've just played a little while ago
an old clip from a podcast of zorin Mam Donnie
and Zora Mom. Donnie said there that he's not that
he's a socialist. He says, I'm a full on socialist.
But not only that, he sees himself as the forefront
of a movement to bring socialism across the country. So

(06:11):
this is a bigger play than he's ever admitted during
this campaign. He seems to play it back a little bit,
but he was full on socialist and says the country
would be better off if we were all socialists. So
it's this is getting a little more frightening than just
the thought of a socialist taking over in New York City.

(06:34):
He wants to spread this across the country.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah, I mean, it's just sincere and passionate socialist or
communist or whatever you want to call him. And hopefully
now that we're past Labor Day, people will focus on
this New York City a little bit more. But the
problem is his two main adversaries. You know, well, I
don't know whether I should call include Eric Adams in
that category, but I will Clomo and Adams they have
higher unfavorable ratings in this socialist slash COMMUNIYT, so they

(07:00):
need to focus all their fire on him, get his
unfavorables up, try to make him unacceptable to a crucial
failings of Democratic voters, and then maybe something breaks breaks loose. Otherwise,
the guy is heading straight to Gracie Manchin and.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
He seems to get favorable coverage, and he doesn't get questions,
tough questions asked by the media. I know he hides
a lot, so I can't blame the media completely, but
when they do get a chance to go after him,
they don't go after him. They seem like they're playing
into this.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
Yeah, not the way he should, you know. And it's
because he's new and he's exciting and he's good on
social media, so none of that matters if he's going
to destroy the city, which I think there's a high
risk of. But you're right, his coverage is much too favorable.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, you know, it's interesting that last poll was fascinating
to me. In the show that Andrew Cuomo would beat
even if Slee was still in the race, that Cuomo
would beat Mom Donnie head to head if Eric Adams
gets out of the race. Now, the math doesn't seem
to add up on that, But if that is the case,

(08:06):
I think Eric Adams could be a hero right now
if he were to jump out of this race.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
Yeah, I mean, he's a dead man walking at the
Democrats atum, Republicans don't like him, and Independence think he's
corrupted and in effectual, which he is. So there's just no
case for it except for taking whatever it might be
at the end of the day, eight percent of the
vote or something that might be determinative in a real
close race.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
So as hard as they tried, as hard as the
Republicans and Donald Trump tried, the Epstein files and the
controversy over it is not going away. It's been reignited today.
There's going to be hearings today, ten of the victims
are going to be on Capitol Hill. Where do you
see this going?

Speaker 5 (08:48):
Well, the Trump administration kind of very quickly buckled and
turned around and said they wanted to get the grand
jury materials were released by the judge and the judge
said no because he don't usually do this. So I
think they'll end up either they'll be a congressional vote
or that they'll release more to try to take off
the pressure. But this is a highly irregular process, that

(09:11):
this is not how this is supposed to work. So
we'll see how it plays out.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, I think it's going to be a disaster no
matter how they play this out. And I can't believe
that it has legs again, but we shall see. It
does have legs again, and something's going to happen because
the Democrats have enough Republican votes to go along with it.
Rich Lowry, editor in chief of the National Review, with
us every Tuesday at this time at nine oh five.
Look forward to talking to you again next week.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
Rich, Thanks thanks for having me Tuxing.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Well. Yeah, the Epstein files, I just don't understand it.
I don't get it. I don't understand it. But I
am willing to listen to these victims. And if the
victims want it released, then who am I to argue
then it should be released. So let's see what they say. Today,
three brothers from Scotland set a world record by rowing

(10:00):
across the Pacific, but one of the brothers almost died.
We'll tell you how next. All right, Johnny Allezinski is
here early, as he always is, so we've got his
mic open. But you know what, now I have to
rethink what we put in this segment when you're here,
because I'm not sure you're gonna be as interested in

(10:22):
this story that three young Scottish brothers broke a record
by rowing across the Pacific Ocean.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
I mean, good for them, it must be all that hagis.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
I knew that's what you'd say. I kind of knew
that's what you'd say. They went from Peru to Australia,
and in Australia the bagpipes were ready for Lachlin. You
have you just spit on me, Ewan and Jamie. They
are the three Scottish brothers. Now here's how they did it.
They took turns, they went nine thousand miles, nine thousand

(10:56):
miles they wrote, and here's how they did it for
about sixteen hours, non not.

Speaker 7 (11:00):
You know, we normally do two on, one off, so
you get a little bit of respite and then you're
back on the oars for an hour half an hour.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
You know the way you said Lachlan is the way
you just talked there, so you you had it down
kind of perfect. He was spitting too. I just don't know, Like,
I get that it's a cool thing to talk about,
and I get it. But after you do this, what
do you do? Like you just roiled nine thousand miles right.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
You sit at the pub year after year and then
the person next to you who doesn't want to talk
to you, you were galed him about the time you
went from Peru to Australia in the canoe or whatever
you did.

Speaker 8 (11:33):
You reminisce about the good old days of rowing and.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
The time that one of them almost died.

Speaker 8 (11:39):
Oh, what an arrogant piece of crap like that is.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Whoops, that's not what an arrogant piece of crap these
guys are.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
That's not That was someone from Newsmax reacting with the
guy that grabbed the hat. This is what I meant
to play.

Speaker 7 (11:56):
It was just a side on wave came in out
of now. I had like a couple of seconds to
react and it just hit me.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
It hit hit me and.

Speaker 7 (12:05):
Took me up, took me right off my feet.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, the arrogant piece of crap was more interesting.

Speaker 8 (12:11):
Piece of crap like that is.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
It's outrageous that this man would do that, just grab
the hat out of the kid's hands.

Speaker 8 (12:18):
You know, I feel bad for the kid, but you know, he.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Just way better than this.

Speaker 7 (12:23):
Yeah, just a side on wave came in.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
I was gonna say that that's gonna lend to something
Johnny's gonna talk about later. I think in a part
of a way about the rudeness at the open.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
The rudeness, the rowdiness, the borderline criminal activity.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Oh you're talking about that next segment.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
By my Polish countryman, that CEO.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, what I'm really impressed by is the Internet. How
they quickly found out who that was. Let's let me
just talk about how Lachlan was saved.

Speaker 7 (12:52):
Ewan unfortunately was a wake and saw it happening and
just reacted r really fast. Managed to kind of scramble
to the start of the boat, sent over kind of
gave me a hand and then we kind of he
holed me back in into the boat.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
All right, Well, they broke the record, now you're right.
Now that's it. They're going to go to pubs and
just talk about the rest of their lives and really
do nothing else except they have the coolest accent.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Speaking of Guinness, can I tell you about the record that's.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Right, over and over and over again. You're right, though,
this was much more interesting.

Speaker 8 (13:31):
I like their.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Accent, and the accent took great but I measure if
something happened to one of the brothers, Yeah, how would
they have all felt like that?

Speaker 8 (13:39):
Just like they couldn't you know, help them or save them?
And then you're like, why did we do this?

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Right? Right?

Speaker 8 (13:44):
Instead of like the point of this?

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Well, what was the point of it? Anyway?

Speaker 8 (13:48):
That would keep me away from it right there?

Speaker 1 (13:51):
No, I don't think anybody's sane is going to be
doing that.

Speaker 8 (13:55):
Well, you know, what is the point?

Speaker 4 (13:56):
I mean, there are people who have this need to conquer,
to conquer a mountain or an ocean or I do
not have.

Speaker 8 (14:05):
That in me at all.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
I don't really, Thank goodness, no one of my family
seems to have that need, because then I'd be worried
all the time.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
But the Scottish are different that. The Scottish are a
different breed of people though. I mean, do you ever
see the events that they have where they like throw
huge rocks and things like that. That's what they consider
to be fun. Yeah, God bless them. But man, it's
a completely different breed. I was at a wedding full
of Scottish people. If you ever been around Scottish people

(14:34):
when they've really talked the way they're supposed to talk,
I bet you can't understand a word, not a single
word that they say. You can understand. Yeah, that's it.
Was really good laddie who ever said that. But you
can't understand, then they americanize it just so they could
talk to you.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
So they translated. They use like a Google translate for
the Scottish rogue.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
That's it. Oh, man, keep going Scottish.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
I think if I kept going with that, we need
to get out the Clorox wife.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
So we'll just be everywhere. Oh trust me, Natalie's going
over to that microphone with the Clorox wife right after
this show is over. She goes around and she starts
to clean up everything. There you go. So anyway, let's
get the news now at nine point thirty with Jacqueline
Carl Jacqueline.

Speaker 8 (15:21):
Larry, Good Morning.

Speaker 9 (15:22):
Chicago is shaping up to be the next city targeted
in President Trump's immigration crackdown. Homeland Chief Christy Nome confirmed
ices planning expanded operations in the coming days, much like
the ones recently carried out in Los Angeles. The FAA
is blaming staffing issues for the latest ground stop issued
yesterday at Newark Airport as people traveled for the Labor

(15:44):
Day weekend.

Speaker 10 (15:45):
Officials had to order a ground stop early Monday afternoon
and then another one late in the afternoon that caused
delays on arriving flights on a very busy travel day.
Staffing issues to blame. Newark also had disruptions last Thursday
when a groundstop was issue. Over recent months, the airport
has been plagued by staffing and equipment issues, leading to
many disruptions. Meanwhile, JFK and LaGuardia Airports they had dozens

(16:08):
of delays on Labor Day. I'm scapped fringle wrdws.

Speaker 9 (16:12):
So no matter how many times I hear this, I
still think of it as an urban myth. But here
we go again. According to KUTV, while attending Burning Man,
Lacey Paxman was shocked to learn she was an instant aunt.
Paxman attended the festival with her brother Casey and his
wife Kayla. While Kayla learned the hard way she was
pregnant On Wednesday morning, Lacey says, Kayla told everyone that

(16:36):
I just don't know why I'm laughing. I've got the
church giggles. That she wasn't feeling great with that. Kayla
excused herself to the RV's restroom and came out with
a baby girl. That doesn't happen every day. Fortunately, there
was a get this. There was a registered nurse in
obgyn and a pediatrician, all staying in the same campground,
and all willing to lend their expertise to the surprise

(16:58):
baby delivery. I wondered today hang around for the rest
of the It was a surprise because Kayla had no
clue she was even pregnant. Oh, come on, I know
there is now a surprise GoFundMe that's been established to
help with the surprise expenses that come with a surprise baby.
But every person I ever knew who was pregnant, there
is no way. I mean I heard about every every cramp,

(17:21):
every bloating, everything. There's just no way that anyone I
ever met that was pregnant wouldn't have known they were pregnant. Natalie,
can you believe that this could actually happen?

Speaker 4 (17:33):
From my experience of the two children. I had absolutely
not how is this possible?

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Guests like these insufferable burning man people are out of
their minds. Of course it would be one of them
that don't know that they're pregnant.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Well, she knew, There's no way she didn't.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Know that happens. Remember that reality show sixteen and Pregnant
where the girl had the baby at the McDonald's bathroom.
She had no idea at sixteen.

Speaker 8 (17:55):
Maybe it's still kind of clueless.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
But when you actually feel this alien and like being
moving in your stomach, you kind of think like, hmm,
there's a lot of symptoms and you feel like an
elbow pop out of your side.

Speaker 8 (18:10):
I mean, because you can feel it.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Extensive drug use makes you feel different things.

Speaker 9 (18:16):
You look pregnant.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Please keep lecturing a woman that's had two children on
what it feels like to be pregnant. Go ahead, Oh,
I think you're gonna win this argument.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
If I can rail against dirty hippies, I'll tell to anybody.

Speaker 9 (18:28):
It's just it's every time I hear a story like this,
I'm like, but how there are so many symptoms, there
are so many signs not to mention, don't you get
like a bit of a of a lunch baby belly
something or something.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
You get more than a lunch baby belly. By the way,
I think the GoFundMe page is the answer to this mystery.
Then she's gonna make some money on all of this.

Speaker 9 (18:50):
It's so crazy and she had everything but a butcher,
a baker, and a candlestick. Make around anyway, Let's uh.
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Speaker 2 (19:08):
There we go the opening bell.

Speaker 9 (19:11):
The Dow opened down five hundred and twenty six points,
The S and P opened down eighty nine points in
the Nasdaq opened down three hundred and ninety nine points.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Thank you, Jack Win Carl. How about this? Could the
Rock actually win an oscar? Johnny Olegzinski weighs in and
he's thrilled. Thrilled. The US Open crowd is loud and rude.
We gotta know why that's coming up next? Plus Broadways
fall lineup is stacked with celebs. Johnny's got a lot

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York Post entertainment critic, is with us every Tuesday at
this time, and this is pretty fascinating.

Speaker 11 (20:25):
Johnny.

Speaker 12 (20:26):
I know that.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
You'll be able to explain this. But the Rock got
a standing ovation and there's talk of him winning an oscar.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
The first thing I'm going to say is at the
Venice Film Festival, standing ovations are a dime a dozen.
Those Italians will leap to their feet for anything. They'll
leap to their feet for a sock on the floor.
They'll applaud ito chow chow.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
You know.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
But yesterday in Venice, he got a fifteen minute standing ovation.
The Rock was sobbing. I didn't know he was an
emotional man, Dwayne Johnson, but he was sobbing for this
movie called The Smashing Machine, where he plays. It's a
big leap for him. He plays an MMA fighter, Mark Kurr.
It's the real guy, Mark Kurr. So it's a tender biopic.

(21:13):
But the reviews, it's it's not just the standing ovation.
The reviews are really good, Like the Independence said, Johnson
gives a performance of immense pathos, intensity and depth, one
that looks bound to win him awards recognition. And I
was like, Dwayne, Dwayne Johnson, the Rock is it? Is it?
Dwayne Johnson? Of Ontario, of which which.

Speaker 8 (21:35):
Dwayne Johnson in a fun comedy.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
I've actually once written that he lacks the ability to act,
and that we all need to own up to that
fact that The Rock is just not a good actor.
He has a personality and occasionally engaging one. But here
it's another time when I might have to put my
tail between my legs and admit to being wrong. I'm
seeing it next week.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
But how long has he been out this now?

Speaker 11 (22:00):
Well?

Speaker 1 (22:00):
You know what I mean, he has he has acting
coaches constantly, He's been on movie sets. He's had a
lot of parts. I think after a while, you get
good at it, right.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Some people, but then some people were forced to endure
for years and years and years and they learned absolutely
nothing at all jobs. You know, sometimes you have a
coworker and just go, haven't you learned how to do this?

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Maybe people just never thought he could do that, so
those roles never came by him, and.

Speaker 8 (22:23):
You always got the you know, the dopey kind of roles.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Okay, on that point, he gave an interview with Variety
where he said he's been pigeonholed and he didn't know
what he could do because he's been pigeonholed. Who produces
all of the Rocks movies, The Rock.

Speaker 8 (22:37):
He didn't have confidence in himself.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
He pigeonholed himself.

Speaker 8 (22:41):
By the way, did you see him? He's like, he's
like a waif.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, he's lost a lot of weight.

Speaker 11 (22:45):
I saw it.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Maybe it was People magazine. I saw some headline the
Rocks stuns with new slim down bodies. I don't think
can the Rocks stun? Maybe if he takes a folding.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
Chair and no, I mean I haven't seen the pictures
of him, but it is that.

Speaker 8 (23:00):
Yeah, Oh, it's noticeable. His bulk is gone.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
He looks very trim, you know, in good shape, but
just you look at him like wow, like there's a lot.

Speaker 8 (23:09):
Of his wi is gone.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Well, keeping that much muscle because he has to be pushed, right,
It's tough to be that beefy that long.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
And you know what you have to do to keep
up that kind of muscle, you know how the hours
and hours you need to be in the gym and
what you need to eat the pharmacists muscle. Yeah, come on,
although you are you going to tell me that pro
wrestling does something illegal something?

Speaker 2 (23:35):
I think pretty much everything?

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Right, Well, you haven't seen it yet, right, No.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
So I'm going to the Toronto Film Festival on Thursday
and it's going to have its Canadian premiere there, so
I'll be there, I think next week.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
All right, And you're open to the fact that he
might actually be a great actor, and you've been wrong
all these years.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Every time I go to a movie, I just sit
down and want to enjoy it because those are two
to three hours of my life that I would like
to enjoy.

Speaker 8 (24:02):
All right, all Right, I can't.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, you stare at me in stunn disbelief.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, I'm not believing a word you say, but I
can't wait to be proven wrong. I can't wait till
you come back and tell us how marvelous the Rock
was in this movie.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
And maybe he'll be terrible. You know, why.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Are you even saying that? Everybody say, you just told
me you went through a litany of why he was
so good in this movie.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
I'm not everybody. I'm always open to the possibility, and
one extreme or the other. You never know.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
You don't sound like you're open. You sound like you're hoping.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
So you go in giving it a ten, and then
it has to work down. Or do you go in
giving it a zero and it has to work its
way up.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
I'm completely neutral going in.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
That's nut true.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
And then and then you you go up or you
go down.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, no, he's not neutral. He's hoping so much it's
gonna be horrible. So he can be the outlier, and
then his column will be read by everybody across the country,
even those that don't like it. They're gonna read it anyway.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Putting words in my mouth, I.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Trust you Okay, here's something else. You know what he
does love. He loves rudeness at the US Open. Boy,
what a shocker that is.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
So I am a big tennis fan, as people who
listen regularly will know. That's sort of my other thing
besides movies and theater. And I've been to every Grand Slam,
and I love the US Open because I think it
exemplifies everything that's great about New York. The fans, they're horrible.
They walk right in front of you during points. They

(25:34):
take those Honeyduice, those vod lemonades that cost twenty five dollars.
They stack the cups like into a staff. You see
four hundred dollars worth of these vodklemonades. They talk the
whole time, so they think they're at baseball, not tennis,
so they just talk the whole time. But and the
players and the umpires get so frustrated by it. And
I just love it because when you go to Wimbledon,

(25:56):
it's like someone is holding a gun to your head
the entire time, saying behave, you must behave, you must
wear a shirt with buttons. You cannot speak at all.
It's deathly quiet, and everyone goes, we're just so lucky
to be here. Where's the US Open goes? You know,
I paid two hundred dollars. I'm gonna do what I'm
gonna do, and I admire it. Wow, And it brings

(26:18):
out the best in players because all we want here
in New York is to be entertained.

Speaker 11 (26:22):
Right.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
We're not saying, oh, it's so great to be in
your presence. We want a good match, we want solid skills.
And then the players because we're so crazy. Like Jimmy
Connors back in nineteen ninety one, remember when he had
that run at thirty nine years old and he was
like asking fans for advice and stuff. The players here
get extra crazy because the fans are extra crazy. So

(26:43):
it's like Daniel Medvedev when he used to flick off
the crowd and he said that you're booing helped me win. Like,
that's what we bring out in people.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
There's a new attitude. You get to see who they
really are.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah, they become their inner New Yorkers released. When he
said that you're booing helped me win. I think I
said that today at the bagel.

Speaker 8 (27:02):
Shop, right exactly.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
I say that every day everyone you know, to get
through life, in New York. You have to love the boot.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Oh you turn me around on this, that's a great argument.
I love it now too. I think it exemplifies who
this city is and what this city is, and why shouldn't.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
It And for tennis to survive because a lot of
people think it's a bougie country club thing. For tennis
to survive, we have to be screaming and hollering at
two am in Flushing Meadows. It feels like you're at
the super Bowl or something. And that's it's that energy,
that modernity that's going to keep it going.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
So it's a new fall on Broadway right now? What
are we to expect?

Speaker 2 (27:42):
So you won't believe it? Have you ever heard of
Waiting for Good Doo?

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (27:47):
So Waiting for Goodo? Old Samuel Beckett play this time
it's starring Bill and Ted, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winters
of various excellent adventures are playing the leads in Waiting
for Goodo on Broadway.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
That's wonderful. That is so great.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
So that the question is, because it's two friends on
stage the whole time, is it going to be like, hey,
hey man, are they are they going to do?

Speaker 8 (28:15):
Are they going to do Bill and Ted that would
be even more amazing, which.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
We're all waiting to see, and it's one of those
shows commanding a very hot, hot ticket price. I didn't
I guess people would want to see Keanu Reeves up close.
Lox Winter's less so, but when it's a packaged deal,
that's kind of exciting.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
I'm hoping for because I would love to see a
play where they play They're way out of character for
what the play calls for, and yet for them to
do Bill and Ted would be fantastic.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
I'm hoping that it is an extraordinarily funny version of
that show. It's a dark show, but there is a
lot of humor there and that pairing could bring out
a lot of humor. So we'll see. But we're getting it.
We're getting lots of stars. We're also getting James Corden,
Neil Patrick Harre, and Bobby Cannavali in the play Art
that's opening next month.

Speaker 8 (29:03):
Oh wasn't that the Alan Alta?

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. So a guy buys a blank
canvas and then they debate whether it's art for the
whole play, which is kind of funny.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Wow, a lot coming to Broadway Thank you so much.
Johnny Olazinski, New York Post entertainment critic with us every
Tuesday at this time at nine to thirty five. Can't
wait until you see the Rocks movie. So we can
talk again when we come back. My final thoughts, a
recap of today's show and the talk back of the morning.
Here's Larry Minti with some final thoughts. So on most

(29:34):
days I see social media as some type of odd
social experiment that exposes how desperate people are for attention.
Young girls recording every moment of their lives, hoping to
be an influencer in young men, risking their lives in
ridiculous stunts and taking equally ridiculous political positions just to

(29:56):
get hits attention seems to have become the most valuable
commodity of the young. But every once in a while,
social media does something magical to prove it's not the
cesspool we might believe it is. It sounds like a
bad thing at first, but social media loves to shame people.

(30:17):
The thing is, many of the times they deserve to
be shamed, like the Polish billionaire who snatched a hat
from the hands of a young boy at the US
Open the great Polish tennis player Kamal Marschak was obviously
trying to give it to the young boy, and this
big oaf grabbed it from him and put it into
his wife's bag. She was just as bad as he was.

(30:40):
The video was shared tens of thousands of times on
social media, and within an hour, internet sleuths were able
to track down the name and occupation of the scum
who snatched the hat from the little boy. Forget CSI.
These internet sleuths were able to solve this mystery in
an hour. Piazzeric owns a cobblestone company in Poland and

(31:04):
he's now the most hated man in the world. And
Kamal Marshak is loved for meeting the little boy after
he lost the match, posed for pictures with him and
gave him more US open passes. Kudos to the social
media Sherlock Holmes. Now we have to find the scum

(31:25):
who walked down two rows to rip a foul ball
out of the hands of a man during a Mets game.
He had caught the ball and he was so excited
that he was here to give it to his grandson.
So now you have your mission. I hope to be
able to rip the man who ruined a grandfather's dreams

(31:45):
Tomorrow on MENTI in the Morning. Coming up next, Mark
Simone welcomes streaming host Bill O'Reilly and Boston radio host
Howie Carr, and now a recap of today's show, legendary
sportscaster Warner Wolf's it's these very different seasons for the
two New York football teams this year.

Speaker 13 (32:05):
I like the jet I think I like Justin Fields.
I saw him play a lot last year. He was
four and two with the Steelers. As far as the
Giants go, I don't see an improvement. I mean, at best,
at best they would be seven and ten.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
WLR White House correspondent John Decker thinks, despite the hurdles,
the tariffs put in place by Donald Trump will be
permitted by the Supreme Court.

Speaker 11 (32:32):
If you look up just the Dictionary definition of tariffs,
it will describe the tariff as a text. And our
constitution gives the taxing power to the legislative branch of government.
But this law seems to allow a carve out for
the President to impose these tariffs. And that carve out
maybe why I think the Supreme Court ultimately allows these

(32:53):
tariffs to go through.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
WLR. Weeknight host of Fox Across America, Jimmy Fayla doesn't
see an an to the Epstein story until people get
the info they are looking for.

Speaker 6 (33:05):
I still believe, you know, I caught that testimony from
Justlaine Maxwell, and she seemed to give everybody a little
bit of what they were looking for. But even she
said herself she doesn't believe he hung himself. I don't
believe he hung himself. But I think until we get
some type of larger transparency than we were promised, this
story is not gonna go away.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Former New York City Council minority leader Joe BURRELLI cannot
understand the democrats reluctance to accept anything Donald Trump does.

Speaker 12 (33:34):
It's so disappointing to see people not just tolerate it,
but do everything they can to insulate themselves from people
who are offering help. In this case of Donald Trump
and the federal cups. It's so bizarre, even when it's
an eighty twenty issue and eighty percent of the people
are saying, yeah, bring in the National Guard, bring in
federal law enforcement, do a crackdown on people who are committing.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Crimes and the talk back of the Morning and winner
of the Mentee in the Morning, T Shirt had something
to say about former Mayor Rudy Giuliani being injured in
a car accident.

Speaker 14 (34:07):
I was dying to leave a talk back about Rudy
Giuliani and the story about him helping the domestic violence victim.
I just want to say, it's going to be rude,
but this is the best thing that ever happened to him,
the best story because it will revitalize his reputation.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
I hope you're right. He comes out like a hero,
he gets sympathy at the same time, and now President
Trump is going to give him the American Freedom Medal.
So it's win win win for Rudy Giuliani. And man,
you're right, he could use some wins. Don't forget to
check out our podcast and catch up on things you missed.

(34:44):
All four hours of the show are there. Just go
to seven to ten wor and click the podcast tab.
It is that easy. Coming up tomorrow and Menti in
the Morning, Criminal defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtmann, doctor Gregory Pohl
and from the Mayo Clinic. New York City Councilwoman Vicki Palladino.

(35:04):
I'll tell you what, anytime you have a show with
both Jeffrey Licktman and Vicki Palladino, it's a good show.

Speaker 8 (35:12):
And you won't need coffee.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
No, No, they're certainly not gonna need coffee. The matter fact,
they should drink a little bit less coffee. It's going
to be explosive and career advice expert Greg gian Grande. Plus,
we do have tickets to see Hugh Jackman at A
twenty five. I hope you're going to be able to
join us tomorrow. We've got a whole lot going on tomorrow.

(35:36):
Remember today is a big day on Capitol Hill especially,
and I know a lot of you are interested in this.
The Epstein Files, ten of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein
are going to be testifying behind closed doors and then
they're going to come out and speak. And my feeling
is about this, as you've heard me say before, whatever

(35:58):
they want I want. If they want it released, I
want it released. If they want their names kept private,
I want it kept private. I hope you're going to
be with us tomorrow. We'll talk more about it than
now the news. It's ten o'clock