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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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you feel our big three stories. Of course, James Comey
indicted on two counts. Also Chitarelli Cheryl polls showing they
are neck and neck right now, what does that mean
for the next six weeks in the campaign in New
(01:26):
Jersey and Zoron Mamdani wants to all but scrap the
gang database. But thirteen year old, a thirteen year old
was just fatally shot by a gang on Monday, So
how will this impact the campaign? Let's talk about James
Comy first indicted on two counts. He's now the first
former FBI director to be brought up on charges and
(01:47):
Jonathan Turley, the professor of law, had this to say
about that.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And now, of course we have what appears to be
an indictment. It is a seismic event. I mean, you're
talking about a former director of the FBI and there
have been long allegations that that call me was a leaker.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well, this all comes down to some testimony that he gave.
He called me, he gave before the Senate.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Director comy, have you ever been an anonymous source in
news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or
the Clinton investigation? Never question two one, relatively related.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to
be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump
investigation or the Clinton investigation? Now, has any classified information
relating to President Trump or his association associates been declassified
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and shared with the media.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Not to my knowledge?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And that is where the challenge comes because the deputy
director of the FBI, Andrew of course, I'm forgetting his name.
Uh mec mcmcmuck. Okay, it'll come to me. I'm forgetting
his name. I didn't write it down. But the deputy
director of the FBI testified previously that he had been
given authorization to leak. And now one is saying that, no,
(03:20):
I didn't give authorization to leak. So one is telling
the truth, one isn't. It's going to come down to
what a jury says. So we'll find out more about
that as time goes on. Joining us on the phone
right now, though, to talk about the New York City
mayor's race, is longtime political consultant Hank Shankoff. Hank, good morning,
thanks for coming on.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Thank you for having me on this morning.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So we had a lot in the news. Of course
you heard about that. I don't know if you want
to take a moment to comment on that. That indictment,
I mean, that is that is huge in the world
of Washington.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
It's huge in the world of criminal justice. I mean,
and that former FBI director being indicted. His daughter was
fired last week, a week before I think US attorney
career prosecutor. I mean, these things don't usually happen, and
they will have the long term impact on our criminal
justice system. On questions, so whether it's fair or not, and.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That is definitely the case a jury will decide, of course,
and being that it's in the Eastern District of Virginia,
which is sort of suburban Washington, d C. That'll of
course have an influence on who the jury is. But
certainly is a major case that will be following back
here at home, the race for New York City mayor,
the polls pretty much unchanged with just six weeks left
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until election day. Do you think anything could be done
by either the left or the right to change the
numbers with Mundani.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Absolutely the issue here and there's still time. If you
are on the other side of Mandanmi, the issue is
a simple one. Knock his numbers down the more people
know about who he really is, what he really stands for,
which means effectively getting rid of a close to two
thousand cops, stripping out school state, the agents. Let's see,
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there's more to it and on getting you know, it's
just not good for New York and people locally figured
out or they won't. The confusion has to do with
the number of candidates. If there are one candidate, you
could tell the song to sing, the song would be fined.
If they were an independent committee there was out telling
people this very simply and had the money to do it,
that would be fine. But that's not happening. Therefore, you've
got to make Mondamine the favorite. And you know, and
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wonder what the future will be like.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Well, you know, Zoron Mamdani says that he wants to
make it more difficult for cops to curb gang violence
by eliminating the city's gang database. And you scratch your
head and say, why would you do that? That's antithetical
to having a civilized society. What isn't it for New
York City residents For the rank and file to eliminate
a gang database that the police department probably spent a
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decade putting together. It just makes you scratch your head,
especially in light of the fact that a thirteen year
old Sanjay Samuel was just shot in the head by
allegedly by a gang member on Monday.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Well, it doesn't make any sense. Getting we're at the
record lows right now. I think for the police department's numbers,
cutting more cops doesn't make sense. Legalizing prostitution, which means
drugs generally these neighbors on the street, doesn't make sense.
All the things he stands for when it comes closing
jails doesn't make sense. All the things he stands where
it don't make sense. But younger people in New York
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believe somehow that they make sense. These are people who
are voting for him, under thirty five, who have never
paid a price, never born a burden, never had a
tough day, have no idea what they're doing. I think
they know, and they're going to put us in a
very serious set of circumstances.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And the idea that money is going to come from heaven.
It makes you scratch your head. Where do these people
learn this? I mean, have we gotten such indoctrination in
our schools that these kids don't understand basic economics?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Well, but not only basic economics, they don't understand the
civic culture. I will guarantee you that the people voting
for Mundomi Overwall have never spent time volunteering for anything.
I've never been candy stripers and hospitals, have never volunteered
hostels with people, have never belonged to service organizations like
the Masons Androitarians Alliance. The quantits, the things they make
of the civic culture in this country do not contribute,
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are not guaranteed none that the bulk of them are
absolutely not people who contribute to charity under any circumstances.
This is about them and the end result will be
if they have their way in New York, run by
a group of people who have no clue about what
fiscal problems look like, because they're going to face them,
and they're going to be very significant and in some
cases insurmountable, and we have a governor and others who
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are supporting this madness. It will be in many ways,
the redefinition of the City of New York, it's economics
and its culture, and frankly the beginning of the end
of cities around the country because the Democratic socialists and
these are not democrats, these are socialist. They are creating
a movement they're not interested in governing. Anybody who thinks
it's not coordinated needs to ask why we haven't had
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any more violent demonstrations in the last two weeks on
the streets because it's coordinated to ensure that there's no
disruption in the path of Mandani, a thirty three year
old man who has no experience running anything and has
led a charmed life as living in effectively a taxpayer
subsidized housing, going to the best schools, never had a
tough day, deludes people, and he says he does that
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that's going to run. That kind of operation is going
to run the city of New York. It's going to
be very interesting to watch for those of us who
remain and for those who are going to leave. What
you're going to be a lot of us. I don't
know where he's going to have the tax base to
pay for the things he says is going to pay for.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Hank Leting.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Just remind people you're listening to seven to ten wo
R the Voice of New York Meanty in the morning,
Ken Rosotto and Flarry Menti on your Friday Morning with
Hank Shinkapp, longtime political consultant. I mean, one of the
the key gurus in politics who knows where the bodies
are buried. I don't mean that literally for people who
are going to write about that, Hank. It's amazing that
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there are more people in the economic industry, if you will,
in investments and whatnot, more people in that industry in Dallas,
Texas now than in New York City. It doesn't take
a brain to think that maybe somebody like a Zoron
Mamdani coming in as mayor will literally put the nail
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on the coffin to Wall Street.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Well, New York, the financial industry has been exiting New
York for a long time. How So back office jobs
that have been whatever's left of them have gone to
Dallas a long time ago. And there was a very
good piece in the Wall Street Journal a couple weeks
back by Josh Chef who wrote about this. I've talked
about it in public a long time. Having worked in Texas,
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extensively and throughout to the south. I mean, the future
for the industry is not here. It's just not because
the cost of doing business here is too high. The
ability to find housing for people here is too high
for your employees. New cities are being developed effectively out
within the Dallasport Worth corridor on a daily basis, almost daily.
It's fascinating to watch, but it's not happening here. New
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York is in New York needs a redefinition badly. And
when the people who fund all these things leave, who's
going to pay for the cultural institutions and the rest
that makes the city special to tourists throughout the world.
And if we don't have cops, what's going to happen
to our streets. That's a different question. And those are
things that the that the people holding from Adami have
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not yet figured out. They somehow believe there's a magic
wand yeah, they solve that, you know, we'll do. Difference
to atoms, crime is down, jobs are recently up there.
There's thousands of units of affordable housing being built, but
and no one's paying attention to That's that.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Therein lies the problem. Hanks Shining Copp longtime political consultant.
We always appreciate you coming on. Thank you so.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Much, Thank you all the best, you too, and every.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Good morning to you. It is nine twenty four and
your Friday morning. Good to be with you. And we
have our talk back feature if you go to the
iHeartRadio app, go to wo R radio the little microphone
at the top, click on that and you could give
us your opinion. Earlier, of course, we talked about the
New Jersey gubernatorial campaign between Mikey Cheryl and Jack Chittarelli
and how one of the big scandals that broke yesterday
(11:03):
was a Foyer release government government the legal case where
somebody demanded to have Mikey Cheryl's military record be made public,
and it was based on the fact that when she
was in the Naval Academy there was a cheating scandal
that went on. She is not accused of cheating, but
the allegation is she did not turn in her fellow cadets.
(11:27):
So this gentleman says that he went to the Naval Academy.
Listen to what he has to say.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Ken, I'm a graduate of the United States Naval Academy.
The honor concept allows for a person to counsel the
violator of the concept and not turn them in. They
can also counsel them and turned them in, and they
can turn them in without counseling them. But she was
not obligated to turn the persons in after counseling them.
That's on her concept at the Naval Academy. And I
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am a graduate from the academy. God bless number one.
Thank you for going to the academy. I'm assuming you
were in the military after that. Thank you for your service,
and thank you for setting as straight on that. I
appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I did not know that. But the question is did
she try one of those things? And that's something that
Mikey Cheryl's going to have to come forward and talk about.
Here's what she had to say this morning on MSNBC.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
I think what this shows too, is that my opponent
and the Trump administration administration will stop at nothing. They
will completely weaponize the federal government to achieve what they want.
We've seen it with Comy and what's going on there,
and now we're seeing it here releasing all of my records.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
All right, So this from the party that did nothing
but attempt to put the president of the United States
behind bars for years. Really, I mean, that's really rich
that you're saying that. Speaking of rich, somebody else talked
about the rich justice behind the indictment of mister Komymy
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getting indicted.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
This is such rich justice for us, and for what
he did to General Flynn, which was so immoral and
underhanded and cruel and apparently illegal a crime. So put
it another way, it's really good justice. But in another
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cross way, the chickens have really come home to roost.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I love the buck buck buck Bart nine twenty seven
seven w R the Voice of New York Hen Rosotto
in Fort Larry on a Friday, and this big story
in New Jersey, where I live and I do my
show over there on New Jersey. In New Jersey, there
was big news that the PBS for New Jersey, which
is called NJPBS appropriately, which is now here's confusion. It
(13:52):
is managed by w NET, which is licensed to Newark,
but WNT is its own entity. New Jersey PBA is
an association of four full power stations and three low
power stations that dot New Jersey top to bottom. And
apparently that in that case they had spent they were
(14:13):
spending a lot of money maintaining this year, and they
didn't need to. So we're going to talk a bit
more about that later. And then this other big story
that I wanted to share with you. A two point
two billion dollar solar plant in California schedule to be
turned off after years of wasted money. Two point two
billion dollars. It's only been in operation about a decade
and literally it's got to be shut down right now.
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But two point two billion dollars. This came up under
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the Obama administration, and this is why when you hear
President Trump talking about boondoggles and wastes of money, this
is what he's talking about. It apparently costs so much
money to try to keep this thing running that it
was not cost effective. And now in New Jersey, tying
it back to local, we had six power plants shut
down ostensibly for solar and it never got built. It
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is now nine to twenty nine. Time for the News
with Jaqueline carl Hey.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
Ken James Coby says his heart is broken for the
Justice Department following his recent indictment. The former FBI director
was indicted Thursday for allegedly giving false testimony to Congress.
In the video posted yesterday, Callby said he's innocent and
he and his family will not live on their knees.
House Democrats are calling for an investigation in to the
release of military and personal records of Congresswoman Mikey Cheryl,
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who is running for New Jersey governor.
Speaker 11 (15:54):
Records to Cheryl's opponent, Republican Jack Chitarelli, and it included
personal addresses and Cheryl's socials security number, House Minority Leader
Hakeem Jeffries.
Speaker 12 (16:03):
And it's outrageous that Donald Trump and his administration and
political hacks connected to them continue to violate the law.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
Chitarelli was looking for information related to Cheryl being banned
from her Naval Academy graduation for failing to report her
classmates in a large cheating scandal. Cheryl responded saying Chitdarelli
will stop at nothing to illegally obtain records. I'm Scott
Pringle WRDWS.
Speaker 10 (16:27):
So here's what happens when a competitive eater crashes Olive
Gardens All you Could Eat Pasta party. No, yep, Cameron
Meat is a competitive eater recently put Olive Gardens All
you Could Eat Pasta to the test. On TikTok. He
issued a challenge to see if anyone could beat his
downing of twenty two bowls of pasta in just one hour.
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Oh it makes me want pasta. Theom Mead's pasta experience
included a change up of spaghetti with meat sauce, Rigatoni
with meat sauce, spaghetti with marinara, and to Alfredo. Commenting
on the TikTok video, Olive Garden said, this is us gasping.
I wonder how many bowls of pasta I could eat
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an hour. I would say like probably one or two.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
One or two. Yeah, but you know what, you take
your time. If you eat it over a three hour period,
you squeeze in a third bowl.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
Did you ever have any kind of an eating contest
where you have did that you participated in.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I had a gastric bypass twenty years ago. I can
only eat like an egg. And that's it. I'm not kidding.
That's why people say you lost so much weight. Yeah.
I can't eat anything. I just swallow and that's about it.
Speaker 10 (17:34):
And you have to have protein when you have just
that little bit that you can have. All right, we're
gonna head to Wall Street for the opening bell. The
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The DOW opened up two hundred and nine points, the
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S ANDP opened up eighteen points, and the NASDAC opened
up fifty three points.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Love that. Let's hope it keeps going up. Yeah, yeah,
all right, Jacquelin, and thank you so much. Nine thirty
one seven t w O R. Leonardo DiCaprio is back
in this time he is a paranoid ex revolutionary dad
in one battle after another. Wr Movie Minute host Joe
Newmyer joins us to unpack DiCaprio's wildest role yet very
(18:22):
good to be with you on a Friday and every
Friday at this time. We speak with Joe Newmeyer, film
journalist in w o R Movie Minute host Good morning
to Joe.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Good morning, Ken, how you doing today? We got a
couple of good movies going on, but the one that
at the top of everybody's listen is this one called
One Battle Laughter Another. Have you heard of this same?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yes, that's it. This's got a lot of buzz.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Got a lot of buzz. So here's the thing. I'm
giving it three stars. Ken. It's a it's it's an
action drama comedy. There's a lot going on in it.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
It is starred Leonardo DiCaprio, and he plays sort of
this kind of shagy revolutionary who fifteen years earlier was
sort of, you know, do anti government stuff. Fifteen years later,
his daughter is kidnapped by an army sergeant at army
colonel that he had run a fouol with, you know,
from fifteen years earlier. That really doesn't even do this
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movie justice. A lot of people are giving it really
great reviews. I'm giving it a solid three stars, not
higher than three stars. So I'm just giving it three stars.
But really the biggest thing about it for me is
that it is another great Leonardo DiCaprio movie. You know,
in a lot of ways, this is he's kind of
walking he almost reminds me a little bit of Jeff
Bridges and The Big Labowski. He's walking around with like
a house coat, going through sort of action shenanigans. He's
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getting arrested, he's breaking out, he's on the run. And
so the movie has a little bit it's almost like
a No Country for Old Men mixed with The Big Lebowski.
But the cap right, yeah, right, it's a good funcused
on in combo so with the movies. The movie's got
a lot going on in it. But I gotta say again,
like Dicaprios has consistently over the years proven to be
like the big you know, he's obviously a big celebrity.
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People call him Leonardo. It's sort of like, you know,
how many people do you call it? You know, starts
on their first name, right, you don't call Brad Pitt Brad,
you know, calling Brad Pitt or whatever. But he's just
consistently interesting. And I just think it's just another amazing
performance by somebody who's like who's almost consistently like not underappreciated,
but always takes us by surprise and great performances.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, and speaking of the great performances. US Weekly just
published the top seven Leonardo movies. We'll just say first
name only Leonardo movies, and let's see how many we
all agree on. Because it's funny. We just started shouting
out different Leonardo DiCaprio movies. I was gonna say Leonardo
da Vinci movies. Here here in the w Wire studio,
we all had different movies because he's had so many,
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it's crazy. We want to I'll go over and you
want me to mention somewhere. Do you have the list
in front of you?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
What don't you go? And I'll say whether it's on
my list or not, because I've got my own list
of seven kind of bristly off the start, So I'm
gonna start.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I'm gonna start from seven. And by the way, some
of the ones that were not on this top seven
list include The Titanic, How was it not on the list?
Gilbert Grape? I mean, also Wolf of Wall Street. None
of them were on the list.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Oh that's on my list of seven.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Bet me too, that's a phenomenal film. But here are
the seven. Number seven Gangs of New York. Number six
was Catch Me You Can, great film. The number five
Natalie's favorite, The Aviator number four. My favorite on this
list the Revenant number three, the Inception. Number two was
The Departed, and the number one which shocked me was
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
My favorite as well. I totally agree with us Weekly
on that. Yeah, I totally agree. My list would be
kind of going chronologically. This boy's life, which was it?
He did it when he was a kid. He was like,
you know, maybe nineteen or twenty years old. Great performance
and a great drama with Robert de Niro. I agree
on the Aviator that thought. You know, you know, he
did so many with Scorsese, but I would put the
three great ones from Scorsese or The Departed, Wolf of
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Wall Street, and The Aviator. Those three are on my
list as well. I think he's the Aviator, especially Natalie's right,
That is a really rich and kind of kooky and
spooky performance that he gives as Howard Hughes. And anytime
it's on cable, and you know, if I'm going through
the cable guide or to run the schedule thing on TV,
I see it, I'll put it on Revolutionary Road. Is
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this movie that that he did with the Kate Winslet
they reunited after Titanic back in like twenty ten, and
I remember saying at the time I was at the
Daily News. I remember saying at the time, they're both
great in there, but Kate Winsley is kind of always
a little over appreciated and the chapter is underestimated under
it because he's really sort of the spine of that
movie in a lot of ways. They're both really good
in it, though, Catch me if you can.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
If I can, I just jump in really fast. Is
didn't didn't she? She won in Titanic and he didn't.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Right, that's right. He wasn't even nominated for a Titanic
that was what you know, out of its eleven nominations
or something like that. He didn't even get nominated. But
he is a class act. I've met him. I've done
Q and a's with him on stage. He's a smart
guy in a class act. You would never hear him
ever complain about that, either back then or or now.
Really sort of keeps his eye on the ball and
he's always a good team player. Catch me if you can, though,
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that's the other one. I hope people know it because
if they don't, it's a phenomenal movie. Tom Hanks is
in it, directed by Steven Spielberg. It's about a con
man in the sixties, a young con artist who kind
of adapts different identities as he kind of goes through,
like trying to be an airline pilot or a doctor.
It's a true story and a terrific story. But Once
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upon a Time in Hollywood is the other one. Yeah, No,
that's that's the That for me is my favorite DiCaprio performance.
Brad pitt got the Oscar for that for Best Supporting Actor,
but DiCaprio, who's nominated Pitt one, DiCaprio was nominated, does
so many interesting things there in terms of playing an
aging Hollywood star trying to find his way back kind
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of not sure if he kind of belongs in Hollywood anymore.
He used to be a TV show actor in westerns
and now he's making this, you know, he's kind of
making a comeback, as it were. It's a phenomenal performance
and one that it was my favorite film of that
You're Small as my favorite Quentin Tarantino film.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
But it's just so much about how how versatile he
is because he literally becomes those characters, does it so
well and not a lot of actors could you could
say that of that they just totally the fact that
we all have our favorites and we really dig in
the trenches and say, no, this one is the greatest.
That says a lot about.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Him, right, it really does. And he's only fifty years old,
so I mean, I mean he's probably you know, he
got another, like, you know, twenty five thirty years of
great performances in him. But right, I mean the ones
that I didn't even list at we haven't time talked about,
things like gangs in New York. He's really great, and
I think he's really good in The Beach, you know,
which is sort of an interesting movie. Things like Shutter Island,
which is also a thriller from Scorsese, where he plays
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a police detective and it's a film noir. He's kind
of going through, you know, I thinks going on in
his mind are not really great performances. He's playing Teddy.
He's gonna be playing Teddy Roosevelt pretty soon for Scorsese.
That's the next time is I guess he's got a
lot of things going on at I mean, he can
do it. I mean, look what he did with Howard Hughes.
He played Jay Edgar Hoover, he played Howard Hughes. He
could do Teddy Roosevelt. It's amazing, right because he's he's
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not like a chameleon actor. You don't, don't really, you know,
you're always aware of it's him, but it's but it's
so much going on. And he got the oscar for
The Revenant, which is a great action felt a share.
I think the Revenants terrific. Yeah, so much going on there.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
We could talk about this forever and ever and ever.
Unfortunately the time is wrapping up. But yeah, so we
got to check out the new film, right, So the
new film is out. One battle after another, worth a check.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
That's it.
Speaker 13 (25:23):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Yeah, after one great performance after another for him, exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And speaking of great performances, you, sir, Joe Numeier, film
journalist w R Movie Minute host on right here with
Us every Friday nine thirty, and I thank you was
always for being here.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Thanks ken have everyone you too.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
And when we come back, my final thoughts, a recap
of today's show, talk Back of the morning and the
CEA Crane talk Back of the Week right here on
w o R. Had a good morning to you, so listen.
I live in New Jersey, and there's a big story
that's been out about New Jersey's PBS not not getting
funded anymore because Donald Trump's a meany you have, of
(26:00):
course all the left wing senators and congress members screaming
that will deprive New Jersey of having a voice.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We don't have a voice.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Okay, everybody, stop clutching your pearls. The way it works
is this. You know, there's only New York is the
northern half of New Jersey, if you will, for the
television market, and Philadelphia is the southern half. So if
you live from Trenton South, you watch Philly TV stations.
If you live from Trenton North, you watch New York
TV stations. That's the way it's always been. In New
(26:28):
York we have channel thirteen WNET, which is actually licensed
to Newark, not even New York. And then in Philly
you have WHYY Channel twelve. Those are the two giant
PBS stations. Well guess what, they're not going anywhere. What
will be impacted is this cluster of low power, poor
frequency poor signal seven UHF are formerly UAHF PBS stations
(26:52):
that are just duplicitous. They all broadcast the same programming,
all of which, by the way, or at least the
one New Jersey focused newscast is going to still be
on Channel thirteen. But these seven TV stations that nobody will.
I guarantee you've never watched Channel fifty in Montclair. Have
you no Channel fifty two in Trenton? No offense, but
(27:15):
I promise you couldn't even find it Channel twenty three
in Camden. Promise you've never been watched. Okay, in fact, I,
with all due respect to the people who do this,
there's a nightly newscast called New Jersey Spotlight News that
I promise you not more than three of you have
ever seen. Yet we're spending millions of our taxpayer dollars
for this. President Trump came in, you know, in the
(27:37):
last nine months and said, got to cut wherever we can.
That's a waste of government money. If it was in
such high demand, they would make money from donations. They're not.
The fact that they're closing potentially it just tells you
that there's nobody watching. That's the direction the television's going
in general, specifically PBS. You will still have Channel thirteen
though for PBS, so it's not like you're going to
(27:59):
lose PBS overall. And for those in the southern part
of the state, you'll still have Channel twelve. Oh and
by the way, if New Jersey were to sell those stations,
because the state owns them, you'd probably make about a
quarter of a billion dollars and that would help dephrase
some of our taxes. Those are my final thoughts. It
is now nine point fifty seven. Coming up next, Mark
Simone welcomes writer and producer Alan swy Bell always great
(28:22):
to hear him on, and Fox Business analyst Charlie Gasparino.
Now a recap of today's show. We spoke to Republican
candidate for New Jersey Governor, Jack Chitarelli, who reacted to
the release of Mikey Cheryl's military records.
Speaker 13 (28:36):
They are trying to obfuscate what she did and she
needs to come clean on it. A citizen at large
put in an Open Public Records Act request and the
Archives provide the information. The Archives has already apologized for
screwing up as for what I've read that they should
have redacted some information, but nobody else did anything wrong.
They're trying to obfuscate this. They're trying to circle the wagons.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
And war and newsmax's host Rob Astarino has expressed doubts
about the effectiveness of the James Comy trials, citing concerns
about the jurisdiction in which he's been charged.
Speaker 14 (29:07):
The one problem that will come out of this, though,
is of course where it is. It's in northern Virginia,
which is just bleeding over from DC, so your jury
pool will be probably fired government employees, Donald Trump haters.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
And longtime political consultant Hank Shinkopp can't understand why young
people are believing Zorn Mumdani.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
It doesn't make any sense. We're at a record lows
right now. I think for the police department's numbers, cutting
more cops doesn't make sense. Legalizing prostitution, which means drugs
generally these neighbors on the street doesn't make sense. All
the things he stands for when it comes closing jails
doesn't make sense. But younger people in New York believe
somehow that they make sense. These are people who are
voting for him.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
And the talk back of the Morning and winner of
the Minty in the Morning T shirt gave his thoughts
on the gang database that Mumdanni wants to acts.
Speaker 15 (30:01):
Good morning. My name is Pastor John are On a
street ministry in Penn Station in the surrounding area. Regarding
the gangs database or not, they're here, They're entrenched, they're growing,
they will never leave. Why they make money. Everybody makes
money off the gangs and the crimes they commit. No
one cares, believe me.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Sad and so without further ado, let's get to our
talk back of the week. This listener was fired up
over the fact that UN diplomats don't have to pay
the congestion pricing and the rest of us do. The
talk back of the week just one yeah.
Speaker 12 (30:38):
What a big pilot thinking horse Menora, is this congestion pricing.
I'm a semi retired small business owner. I pay one
hundred and eighty dollars a month just to drive a
little bit on the FDR and the and these foreigners
come in here and get a buy on this. I'm
really fed up with this stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I'm with you one hundred percent. So that back of
the week you just there, just want to see Crane
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Speaker 5 (31:26):
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follow the instructions and leave a message tell us how
you feel our big three stories. Of course, James Comey
indicted on two counts. Also Chitarelli Cheryl polls showing they
are neck and neck right now, what does that mean
for the next six weeks in the campaign in New
(01:26):
Jersey and Zoron Mamdani wants to all but scrap the
gang database. But thirteen year old, a thirteen year old
was just fatally shot by a gang on Monday, So
how will this impact the campaign? Let's talk about James
Comy first indicted on two counts. He's now the first
former FBI director to be brought up on charges and
(01:47):
Jonathan Turley, the professor of law, had this to say
about that.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And now, of course we have what appears to be
an indictment. It is a seismic event. I mean, you're
talking about a former director of the FBI and there
have been long allegations that that call me was a leaker.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well, this all comes down to some testimony that he gave.
He called me, he gave before the Senate.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Director comy, have you ever been an anonymous source in
news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or
the Clinton investigation? Never question two one, relatively related.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to
be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump
investigation or the Clinton investigation? Now, has any classified information
relating to President Trump or his association associates been declassified
(02:54):
and shared with the media.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Not to my knowledge?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And that is where the challenge comes because the deputy
director of the FBI, Andrew of course, I'm forgetting his name.
Uh mec mcmcmuck. Okay, it'll come to me. I'm forgetting
his name. I didn't write it down. But the deputy
director of the FBI testified previously that he had been
given authorization to leak. And now one is saying that, no,
(03:20):
I didn't give authorization to leak. So one is telling
the truth, one isn't. It's going to come down to
what a jury says. So we'll find out more about
that as time goes on. Joining us on the phone
right now, though, to talk about the New York City
mayor's race, is longtime political consultant Hank Shankoff. Hank, good morning,
thanks for coming on.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Thank you for having me on this morning.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So we had a lot in the news. Of course
you heard about that. I don't know if you want
to take a moment to comment on that. That indictment,
I mean, that is that is huge in the world
of Washington.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
It's huge in the world of criminal justice. I mean,
and that former FBI director being indicted. His daughter was
fired last week, a week before I think US attorney
career prosecutor. I mean, these things don't usually happen, and
they will have the long term impact on our criminal
justice system. On questions, so whether it's fair or not, and.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That is definitely the case a jury will decide, of course,
and being that it's in the Eastern District of Virginia,
which is sort of suburban Washington, d C. That'll of
course have an influence on who the jury is. But
certainly is a major case that will be following back
here at home, the race for New York City mayor,
the polls pretty much unchanged with just six weeks left
(04:32):
until election day. Do you think anything could be done
by either the left or the right to change the
numbers with Mundani.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Absolutely the issue here and there's still time. If you
are on the other side of Mandanmi, the issue is
a simple one. Knock his numbers down the more people
know about who he really is, what he really stands for,
which means effectively getting rid of a close to two
thousand cops, stripping out school state, the agents. Let's see,
(05:02):
there's more to it and on getting you know, it's
just not good for New York and people locally figured
out or they won't. The confusion has to do with
the number of candidates. If there are one candidate, you
could tell the song to sing, the song would be fined.
If they were an independent committee there was out telling
people this very simply and had the money to do it,
that would be fine. But that's not happening. Therefore, you've
got to make Mondamine the favorite. And you know, and
(05:24):
wonder what the future will be like.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Well, you know, Zoron Mamdani says that he wants to
make it more difficult for cops to curb gang violence
by eliminating the city's gang database. And you scratch your
head and say, why would you do that? That's antithetical
to having a civilized society. What isn't it for New
York City residents For the rank and file to eliminate
a gang database that the police department probably spent a
(05:46):
decade putting together. It just makes you scratch your head,
especially in light of the fact that a thirteen year
old Sanjay Samuel was just shot in the head by
allegedly by a gang member on Monday.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Well, it doesn't make any sense. Getting we're at the
record lows right now. I think for the police department's numbers,
cutting more cops doesn't make sense. Legalizing prostitution, which means
drugs generally these neighbors on the street, doesn't make sense.
All the things he stands for when it comes closing
jails doesn't make sense. All the things he stands where
it don't make sense. But younger people in New York
(06:21):
believe somehow that they make sense. These are people who
are voting for him, under thirty five, who have never
paid a price, never born a burden, never had a
tough day, have no idea what they're doing. I think
they know, and they're going to put us in a
very serious set of circumstances.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And the idea that money is going to come from heaven.
It makes you scratch your head. Where do these people
learn this? I mean, have we gotten such indoctrination in
our schools that these kids don't understand basic economics?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Well, but not only basic economics, they don't understand the
civic culture. I will guarantee you that the people voting
for Mundomi Overwall have never spent time volunteering for anything.
I've never been candy stripers and hospitals, have never volunteered
hostels with people, have never belonged to service organizations like
the Masons Androitarians Alliance. The quantits, the things they make
of the civic culture in this country do not contribute,
(07:09):
are not guaranteed none that the bulk of them are
absolutely not people who contribute to charity under any circumstances.
This is about them and the end result will be
if they have their way in New York, run by
a group of people who have no clue about what
fiscal problems look like, because they're going to face them,
and they're going to be very significant and in some
cases insurmountable, and we have a governor and others who
(07:30):
are supporting this madness. It will be in many ways,
the redefinition of the City of New York, it's economics
and its culture, and frankly the beginning of the end
of cities around the country because the Democratic socialists and
these are not democrats, these are socialist. They are creating
a movement they're not interested in governing. Anybody who thinks
it's not coordinated needs to ask why we haven't had
(07:51):
any more violent demonstrations in the last two weeks on
the streets because it's coordinated to ensure that there's no
disruption in the path of Mandani, a thirty three year
old man who has no experience running anything and has
led a charmed life as living in effectively a taxpayer
subsidized housing, going to the best schools, never had a
tough day, deludes people, and he says he does that
(08:14):
that's going to run. That kind of operation is going
to run the city of New York. It's going to
be very interesting to watch for those of us who
remain and for those who are going to leave. What
you're going to be a lot of us. I don't
know where he's going to have the tax base to
pay for the things he says is going to pay for.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Hank Leting.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Just remind people you're listening to seven to ten wo
R the Voice of New York Meanty in the morning,
Ken Rosotto and Flarry Menti on your Friday Morning with
Hank Shinkapp, longtime political consultant. I mean, one of the
the key gurus in politics who knows where the bodies
are buried. I don't mean that literally for people who
are going to write about that, Hank. It's amazing that
(08:48):
there are more people in the economic industry, if you will,
in investments and whatnot, more people in that industry in Dallas,
Texas now than in New York City. It doesn't take
a brain to think that maybe somebody like a Zoron
Mamdani coming in as mayor will literally put the nail
(09:08):
on the coffin to Wall Street.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Well, New York, the financial industry has been exiting New
York for a long time. How So back office jobs
that have been whatever's left of them have gone to
Dallas a long time ago. And there was a very
good piece in the Wall Street Journal a couple weeks
back by Josh Chef who wrote about this. I've talked
about it in public a long time. Having worked in Texas,
(09:31):
extensively and throughout to the south. I mean, the future
for the industry is not here. It's just not because
the cost of doing business here is too high. The
ability to find housing for people here is too high
for your employees. New cities are being developed effectively out
within the Dallasport Worth corridor on a daily basis, almost daily.
It's fascinating to watch, but it's not happening here. New
(09:53):
York is in New York needs a redefinition badly. And
when the people who fund all these things leave, who's
going to pay for the cultural institutions and the rest
that makes the city special to tourists throughout the world.
And if we don't have cops, what's going to happen
to our streets. That's a different question. And those are
things that the that the people holding from Adami have
(10:14):
not yet figured out. They somehow believe there's a magic
wand yeah, they solve that, you know, we'll do. Difference
to atoms, crime is down, jobs are recently up there.
There's thousands of units of affordable housing being built, but
and no one's paying attention to That's that.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Therein lies the problem. Hanks Shining Copp longtime political consultant.
We always appreciate you coming on. Thank you so.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Much, Thank you all the best, you too, and every.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Good morning to you. It is nine twenty four and
your Friday morning. Good to be with you. And we
have our talk back feature if you go to the
iHeartRadio app, go to wo R radio the little microphone
at the top, click on that and you could give
us your opinion. Earlier, of course, we talked about the
New Jersey gubernatorial campaign between Mikey Cheryl and Jack Chittarelli
and how one of the big scandals that broke yesterday
(11:03):
was a Foyer release government government the legal case where
somebody demanded to have Mikey Cheryl's military record be made public,
and it was based on the fact that when she
was in the Naval Academy there was a cheating scandal
that went on. She is not accused of cheating, but
the allegation is she did not turn in her fellow cadets.
(11:27):
So this gentleman says that he went to the Naval Academy.
Listen to what he has to say.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Ken, I'm a graduate of the United States Naval Academy.
The honor concept allows for a person to counsel the
violator of the concept and not turn them in. They
can also counsel them and turned them in, and they
can turn them in without counseling them. But she was
not obligated to turn the persons in after counseling them.
That's on her concept at the Naval Academy. And I
(11:54):
am a graduate from the academy. God bless number one.
Thank you for going to the academy. I'm assuming you
were in the military after that. Thank you for your service,
and thank you for setting as straight on that. I
appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I did not know that. But the question is did
she try one of those things? And that's something that
Mikey Cheryl's going to have to come forward and talk about.
Here's what she had to say this morning on MSNBC.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
I think what this shows too, is that my opponent
and the Trump administration administration will stop at nothing. They
will completely weaponize the federal government to achieve what they want.
We've seen it with Comy and what's going on there,
and now we're seeing it here releasing all of my records.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
All right, So this from the party that did nothing
but attempt to put the president of the United States
behind bars for years. Really, I mean, that's really rich
that you're saying that. Speaking of rich, somebody else talked
about the rich justice behind the indictment of mister Komymy
(13:00):
getting indicted.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
This is such rich justice for us, and for what
he did to General Flynn, which was so immoral and
underhanded and cruel and apparently illegal a crime. So put
it another way, it's really good justice. But in another
(13:23):
cross way, the chickens have really come home to roost.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I love the buck buck buck Bart nine twenty seven
seven w R the Voice of New York Hen Rosotto
in Fort Larry on a Friday, and this big story
in New Jersey, where I live and I do my
show over there on New Jersey. In New Jersey, there
was big news that the PBS for New Jersey, which
is called NJPBS appropriately, which is now here's confusion. It
(13:52):
is managed by w NET, which is licensed to Newark,
but WNT is its own entity. New Jersey PBA is
an association of four full power stations and three low
power stations that dot New Jersey top to bottom. And
apparently that in that case they had spent they were
(14:13):
spending a lot of money maintaining this year, and they
didn't need to. So we're going to talk a bit
more about that later. And then this other big story
that I wanted to share with you. A two point
two billion dollar solar plant in California schedule to be
turned off after years of wasted money. Two point two
billion dollars. It's only been in operation about a decade
and literally it's got to be shut down right now.
(14:34):
So what do you think about that? You can call
us up at eight hundred three two one zero seven ten,
or you can use the iHeartRadio talkback feature and just
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Let us know what you have to say about that.
But two point two billion dollars. This came up under
(14:57):
the Obama administration, and this is why when you hear
President Trump talking about boondoggles and wastes of money, this
is what he's talking about. It apparently costs so much
money to try to keep this thing running that it
was not cost effective. And now in New Jersey, tying
it back to local, we had six power plants shut
down ostensibly for solar and it never got built. It
(15:21):
is now nine to twenty nine. Time for the News
with Jaqueline carl Hey.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
Ken James Coby says his heart is broken for the
Justice Department following his recent indictment. The former FBI director
was indicted Thursday for allegedly giving false testimony to Congress.
In the video posted yesterday, Callby said he's innocent and
he and his family will not live on their knees.
House Democrats are calling for an investigation in to the
release of military and personal records of Congresswoman Mikey Cheryl,
(15:49):
who is running for New Jersey governor.
Speaker 11 (15:54):
Records to Cheryl's opponent, Republican Jack Chitarelli, and it included
personal addresses and Cheryl's socials security number, House Minority Leader
Hakeem Jeffries.
Speaker 12 (16:03):
And it's outrageous that Donald Trump and his administration and
political hacks connected to them continue to violate the law.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
Chitarelli was looking for information related to Cheryl being banned
from her Naval Academy graduation for failing to report her
classmates in a large cheating scandal. Cheryl responded saying Chitdarelli
will stop at nothing to illegally obtain records. I'm Scott
Pringle WRDWS.
Speaker 10 (16:27):
So here's what happens when a competitive eater crashes Olive
Gardens All you Could Eat Pasta party. No, yep, Cameron
Meat is a competitive eater recently put Olive Gardens All
you Could Eat Pasta to the test. On TikTok. He
issued a challenge to see if anyone could beat his
downing of twenty two bowls of pasta in just one hour.
(16:50):
Oh it makes me want pasta. Theom Mead's pasta experience
included a change up of spaghetti with meat sauce, Rigatoni
with meat sauce, spaghetti with marinara, and to Alfredo. Commenting
on the TikTok video, Olive Garden said, this is us gasping.
I wonder how many bowls of pasta I could eat
(17:10):
an hour. I would say like probably one or two.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
One or two. Yeah, but you know what, you take
your time. If you eat it over a three hour period,
you squeeze in a third bowl.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
Did you ever have any kind of an eating contest
where you have did that you participated in.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I had a gastric bypass twenty years ago. I can
only eat like an egg. And that's it. I'm not kidding.
That's why people say you lost so much weight. Yeah.
I can't eat anything. I just swallow and that's about it.
Speaker 10 (17:34):
And you have to have protein when you have just
that little bit that you can have. All right, we're
gonna head to Wall Street for the opening bell. The
opening bell is sponsored by Dime Community Bank. We've got
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The DOW opened up two hundred and nine points, the
(17:56):
S ANDP opened up eighteen points, and the NASDAC opened
up fifty three points.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Love that. Let's hope it keeps going up. Yeah, yeah,
all right, Jacquelin, and thank you so much. Nine thirty
one seven t w O R. Leonardo DiCaprio is back
in this time he is a paranoid ex revolutionary dad
in one battle after another. Wr Movie Minute host Joe
Newmyer joins us to unpack DiCaprio's wildest role yet very
(18:22):
good to be with you on a Friday and every
Friday at this time. We speak with Joe Newmeyer, film
journalist in w o R Movie Minute host Good morning
to Joe.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Good morning, Ken, how you doing today? We got a
couple of good movies going on, but the one that
at the top of everybody's listen is this one called
One Battle Laughter Another. Have you heard of this same?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yes, that's it. This's got a lot of buzz.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Got a lot of buzz. So here's the thing. I'm
giving it three stars. Ken. It's a it's it's an
action drama comedy. There's a lot going on in it.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
It is starred Leonardo DiCaprio, and he plays sort of
this kind of shagy revolutionary who fifteen years earlier was
sort of, you know, do anti government stuff. Fifteen years later,
his daughter is kidnapped by an army sergeant at army
colonel that he had run a fouol with, you know,
from fifteen years earlier. That really doesn't even do this
(19:14):
movie justice. A lot of people are giving it really
great reviews. I'm giving it a solid three stars, not
higher than three stars. So I'm just giving it three stars.
But really the biggest thing about it for me is
that it is another great Leonardo DiCaprio movie. You know,
in a lot of ways, this is he's kind of
walking he almost reminds me a little bit of Jeff
Bridges and The Big Labowski. He's walking around with like
a house coat, going through sort of action shenanigans. He's
(19:36):
getting arrested, he's breaking out, he's on the run. And
so the movie has a little bit it's almost like
a No Country for Old Men mixed with The Big Lebowski.
But the cap right, yeah, right, it's a good funcused
on in combo so with the movies. The movie's got
a lot going on in it. But I gotta say again,
like Dicaprios has consistently over the years proven to be
like the big you know, he's obviously a big celebrity.
(20:00):
People call him Leonardo. It's sort of like, you know,
how many people do you call it? You know, starts
on their first name, right, you don't call Brad Pitt Brad,
you know, calling Brad Pitt or whatever. But he's just
consistently interesting. And I just think it's just another amazing
performance by somebody who's like who's almost consistently like not underappreciated,
but always takes us by surprise and great performances.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, and speaking of the great performances. US Weekly just
published the top seven Leonardo movies. We'll just say first
name only Leonardo movies, and let's see how many we
all agree on. Because it's funny. We just started shouting
out different Leonardo DiCaprio movies. I was gonna say Leonardo
da Vinci movies. Here here in the w Wire studio,
we all had different movies because he's had so many,
(20:43):
it's crazy. We want to I'll go over and you
want me to mention somewhere. Do you have the list
in front of you?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
What don't you go? And I'll say whether it's on
my list or not, because I've got my own list
of seven kind of bristly off the start, So I'm
gonna start.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I'm gonna start from seven. And by the way, some
of the ones that were not on this top seven
list include The Titanic, How was it not on the list?
Gilbert Grape? I mean, also Wolf of Wall Street. None
of them were on the list.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Oh that's on my list of seven.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Bet me too, that's a phenomenal film. But here are
the seven. Number seven Gangs of New York. Number six
was Catch Me You Can, great film. The number five
Natalie's favorite, The Aviator number four. My favorite on this
list the Revenant number three, the Inception. Number two was
The Departed, and the number one which shocked me was
(21:30):
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
My favorite as well. I totally agree with us Weekly
on that. Yeah, I totally agree. My list would be
kind of going chronologically. This boy's life, which was it?
He did it when he was a kid. He was like,
you know, maybe nineteen or twenty years old. Great performance
and a great drama with Robert de Niro. I agree
on the Aviator that thought. You know, you know, he
did so many with Scorsese, but I would put the
three great ones from Scorsese or The Departed, Wolf of
(21:55):
Wall Street, and The Aviator. Those three are on my
list as well. I think he's the Aviator, especially Natalie's right,
That is a really rich and kind of kooky and
spooky performance that he gives as Howard Hughes. And anytime
it's on cable, and you know, if I'm going through
the cable guide or to run the schedule thing on TV,
I see it, I'll put it on Revolutionary Road. Is
(22:16):
this movie that that he did with the Kate Winslet
they reunited after Titanic back in like twenty ten, and
I remember saying at the time I was at the
Daily News. I remember saying at the time, they're both
great in there, but Kate Winsley is kind of always
a little over appreciated and the chapter is underestimated under
it because he's really sort of the spine of that
movie in a lot of ways. They're both really good
in it, though, Catch me if you can.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
If I can, I just jump in really fast. Is
didn't didn't she? She won in Titanic and he didn't.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Right, that's right. He wasn't even nominated for a Titanic
that was what you know, out of its eleven nominations
or something like that. He didn't even get nominated. But
he is a class act. I've met him. I've done
Q and a's with him on stage. He's a smart
guy in a class act. You would never hear him
ever complain about that, either back then or or now.
Really sort of keeps his eye on the ball and
he's always a good team player. Catch me if you can, though,
(23:04):
that's the other one. I hope people know it because
if they don't, it's a phenomenal movie. Tom Hanks is
in it, directed by Steven Spielberg. It's about a con
man in the sixties, a young con artist who kind
of adapts different identities as he kind of goes through,
like trying to be an airline pilot or a doctor.
It's a true story and a terrific story. But Once
(23:25):
upon a Time in Hollywood is the other one. Yeah, No,
that's that's the That for me is my favorite DiCaprio performance.
Brad pitt got the Oscar for that for Best Supporting Actor,
but DiCaprio, who's nominated Pitt one, DiCaprio was nominated, does
so many interesting things there in terms of playing an
aging Hollywood star trying to find his way back kind
(23:46):
of not sure if he kind of belongs in Hollywood anymore.
He used to be a TV show actor in westerns
and now he's making this, you know, he's kind of
making a comeback, as it were. It's a phenomenal performance
and one that it was my favorite film of that
You're Small as my favorite Quentin Tarantino film.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
But it's just so much about how how versatile he
is because he literally becomes those characters, does it so
well and not a lot of actors could you could
say that of that they just totally the fact that
we all have our favorites and we really dig in
the trenches and say, no, this one is the greatest.
That says a lot about.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Him, right, it really does. And he's only fifty years old,
so I mean, I mean he's probably you know, he
got another, like, you know, twenty five thirty years of
great performances in him. But right, I mean the ones
that I didn't even list at we haven't time talked about,
things like gangs in New York. He's really great, and
I think he's really good in The Beach, you know,
which is sort of an interesting movie. Things like Shutter Island,
which is also a thriller from Scorsese, where he plays
(24:39):
a police detective and it's a film noir. He's kind
of going through, you know, I thinks going on in
his mind are not really great performances. He's playing Teddy.
He's gonna be playing Teddy Roosevelt pretty soon for Scorsese.
That's the next time is I guess he's got a
lot of things going on at I mean, he can
do it. I mean, look what he did with Howard Hughes.
He played Jay Edgar Hoover, he played Howard Hughes. He
could do Teddy Roosevelt. It's amazing, right because he's he's
(25:00):
not like a chameleon actor. You don't, don't really, you know,
you're always aware of it's him, but it's but it's
so much going on. And he got the oscar for
The Revenant, which is a great action felt a share.
I think the Revenants terrific. Yeah, so much going on there.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
We could talk about this forever and ever and ever.
Unfortunately the time is wrapping up. But yeah, so we
got to check out the new film, right, So the
new film is out. One battle after another, worth a check.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
That's it.
Speaker 13 (25:23):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Yeah, after one great performance after another for him, exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And speaking of great performances, you, sir, Joe Numeier, film
journalist w R Movie Minute host on right here with
Us every Friday nine thirty, and I thank you was
always for being here.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Thanks ken have everyone you too.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
And when we come back, my final thoughts, a recap
of today's show, talk Back of the morning and the
CEA Crane talk Back of the Week right here on
w o R. Had a good morning to you, so listen.
I live in New Jersey, and there's a big story
that's been out about New Jersey's PBS not not getting
funded anymore because Donald Trump's a meany you have, of
(26:00):
course all the left wing senators and congress members screaming
that will deprive New Jersey of having a voice.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We don't have a voice.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Okay, everybody, stop clutching your pearls. The way it works
is this. You know, there's only New York is the
northern half of New Jersey, if you will, for the
television market, and Philadelphia is the southern half. So if
you live from Trenton South, you watch Philly TV stations.
If you live from Trenton North, you watch New York
TV stations. That's the way it's always been. In New
(26:28):
York we have channel thirteen WNET, which is actually licensed
to Newark, not even New York. And then in Philly
you have WHYY Channel twelve. Those are the two giant
PBS stations. Well guess what, they're not going anywhere. What
will be impacted is this cluster of low power, poor
frequency poor signal seven UHF are formerly UAHF PBS stations
(26:52):
that are just duplicitous. They all broadcast the same programming,
all of which, by the way, or at least the
one New Jersey focused newscast is going to still be
on Channel thirteen. But these seven TV stations that nobody will.
I guarantee you've never watched Channel fifty in Montclair. Have
you no Channel fifty two in Trenton? No offense, but
(27:15):
I promise you couldn't even find it Channel twenty three
in Camden. Promise you've never been watched. Okay, in fact, I,
with all due respect to the people who do this,
there's a nightly newscast called New Jersey Spotlight News that
I promise you not more than three of you have
ever seen. Yet we're spending millions of our taxpayer dollars
for this. President Trump came in, you know, in the
(27:37):
last nine months and said, got to cut wherever we can.
That's a waste of government money. If it was in
such high demand, they would make money from donations. They're not.
The fact that they're closing potentially it just tells you
that there's nobody watching. That's the direction the television's going
in general, specifically PBS. You will still have Channel thirteen
though for PBS, so it's not like you're going to
(27:59):
lose PBS overall. And for those in the southern part
of the state, you'll still have Channel twelve. Oh and
by the way, if New Jersey were to sell those stations,
because the state owns them, you'd probably make about a
quarter of a billion dollars and that would help dephrase
some of our taxes. Those are my final thoughts. It
is now nine point fifty seven. Coming up next, Mark
Simone welcomes writer and producer Alan swy Bell always great
(28:22):
to hear him on, and Fox Business analyst Charlie Gasparino.
Now a recap of today's show. We spoke to Republican
candidate for New Jersey Governor, Jack Chitarelli, who reacted to
the release of Mikey Cheryl's military records.
Speaker 13 (28:36):
They are trying to obfuscate what she did and she
needs to come clean on it. A citizen at large
put in an Open Public Records Act request and the
Archives provide the information. The Archives has already apologized for
screwing up as for what I've read that they should
have redacted some information, but nobody else did anything wrong.
They're trying to obfuscate this. They're trying to circle the wagons.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
And war and newsmax's host Rob Astarino has expressed doubts
about the effectiveness of the James Comy trials, citing concerns
about the jurisdiction in which he's been charged.
Speaker 14 (29:07):
The one problem that will come out of this, though,
is of course where it is. It's in northern Virginia,
which is just bleeding over from DC, so your jury
pool will be probably fired government employees, Donald Trump haters.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
And longtime political consultant Hank Shinkopp can't understand why young
people are believing Zorn Mumdani.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
It doesn't make any sense. We're at a record lows
right now. I think for the police department's numbers, cutting
more cops doesn't make sense. Legalizing prostitution, which means drugs
generally these neighbors on the street doesn't make sense. All
the things he stands for when it comes closing jails
doesn't make sense. But younger people in New York believe
somehow that they make sense. These are people who are
voting for him.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
And the talk back of the Morning and winner of
the Minty in the Morning T shirt gave his thoughts
on the gang database that Mumdanni wants to acts.
Speaker 15 (30:01):
Good morning. My name is Pastor John are On a
street ministry in Penn Station in the surrounding area. Regarding
the gangs database or not, they're here, They're entrenched, they're growing,
they will never leave. Why they make money. Everybody makes
money off the gangs and the crimes they commit. No
one cares, believe me.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Sad and so without further ado, let's get to our
talk back of the week. This listener was fired up
over the fact that UN diplomats don't have to pay
the congestion pricing and the rest of us do. The
talk back of the week just one yeah.
Speaker 12 (30:38):
What a big pilot thinking horse Menora, is this congestion pricing.
I'm a semi retired small business owner. I pay one
hundred and eighty dollars a month just to drive a
little bit on the FDR and the and these foreigners
come in here and get a buy on this. I'm
really fed up with this stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I'm with you one hundred percent. So that back of
the week you just there, just want to see Crane
Radio Sea Crane Radios delivered the reception and clarity you deserve.
Coming up on Mondays Menty in the morning, we are
glad the un is gone. They're no longer in session.
We're diving back in the wild races for Mayor and Governor,
legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf. And don't miss your chance to
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