August 5, 2025 • 9 mins
The New York Post is coming out with their version of a California Post. "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” has been extended through 2028. Late Night Shows may have a chance.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, we might lose Johnny Oleaczinski to the other coast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Say it ain't so.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
New York Post entertainment critic with us every Tuesday at
this time.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So let's start with the.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Headline, and then we're going to find out what your
plans are. The headline is the New York Post is going.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
By coastal we are, and not only the New York Post.
We have a new family member called the California Post,
and that's going to be based obviously in Los Angeles, California,
covering that mess of a state, that dumpster fire of
a state, and they need it, you know, they don't
have right now. They have a dearth of newspapers and
certainly not trusted ones. And we're going to come there
(00:42):
and fill the void in politics, business, tech, entertainment, everything.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You're right, it's going to be in LA.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Is going to be based in LA, but covering the
whole state. Right now, you actually can buy physical copies
of The New York Post around California, but we don't
have a team there that can devote the time and
effort to cover all those big.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Huge stories.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And you got a lot of stuff to cover.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Oh my god, I mean one block in San Francisco
can fill a year of papers, you know, and in
La and.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
My god, the place is a mess right now. So
it's right for this. What went behind that decision? Is
there anything political behind this?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I can't speak to why my great and powerful bosses
made that decision.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I think they made the right decision.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I just you see that open lane right in the
marketplace for a struggling state looking for a tremendous newspaper.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
No, I think it's brilliant. And what I think is,
how good would Johnny Oleigzinsky, entertainment critic be in Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I would.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I would be a disruptor, I'd be just. They'd fear
me and cower. I think I'm a New Yorker at heart.
I like writing for the New York Post. I hope
people will get to read me in the California Post
because if I moved to California, then I could no
longer make fun of it, and that would be no fun.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh more fun to be there and make fun of it.
I'm serious about this. You would be great in Hollywood.
I've spent a short amount of time there when I
was at Access Hollywood, but that was completely different.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Type of show. What you would do there is exactly
what they need.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Perhaps, But here's a bombshell revelation. I don't know how
to drive, and people are now screaming at They're all
listening in their cars, and I just can't so I
would have to spend tons of money on ubers.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That is a revelation. How did that happen?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
A fear?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You know, I'm not a coward behind the keyboard, but
everywhere else.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I have a friend that has the same thing, exactly
the same thing. Just never wanted to drive. He always thought,
And honest to god, I don't know what drives your fear.
He always thought he would kill somebody.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That is what drives my fear too, wouldn't you know?
I mean, it's not a fear of leather seats.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
All right, let's talk about Jimmy Fallon. This comes after
Stephen Colbert just lost his job while he's still working,
but he's going to lose his job, and everybody was
wondering who might be next. Well, we know it's not
gonna be Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No, NBC has extended the Tonight Show through twenty twenty eight,
and that's not terribly surprising to me. The Tonight Show
really was the first game in town and continues to be,
if not in ratings, the biggest in reputation. They're not
going to take away one of their flagship gems like that.
It's still very expensive. They're making them cut costs. They're
down to four days a week of work there instead
(03:31):
of five. You know, when Johnny Carson was on, he
worked four days a week, but they begged him to
work five.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
So they know.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
But now they just can't afford it. But it will
run through twenty twenty eight. I can't imagine it runs
much longer than that.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You think the whole format's going to die. All of
late night TV talk shows are going to die.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I think it is dead.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And someone is with a defibrillator right now, just pumping
it in, pumping it in, and soon it'll flat line.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, it's a shame, I you know, but we have
podcasts and you have a lot of other sources of entertainment.
You have funny people online, You have people on X
right now that are a lot funnier than anybody on
late night TV. So everybody, everybody has changed their habits.
And you felt this too at the New York Post.
Everybody reads the New York Post online.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, and well and the way.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I don't know about you, but I look at Instagram
and I flip through the funny stories, all user generated stories.
They're all very genuine, hilarious people, and they don't have
that choreographed aspect that late night shows do. So even
when late night shows go to YouTube and social media,
it's all been painstakingly rehearsed, and everyone is at their
facused at those five minutes celeb interviews. They're just such
(04:41):
a thing of the past. To me. I'd rather listen
to them talk for an hour on a podcast and
be open and interesting, not just like let me show
my movie.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That's a great point. That's a wonderful point. But I
will tell you this about Jimmy Fallon. He's the one
I can stomach. He's not as political. He's just silly.
He's fun and and so I hope he survives. Maybe
not in that format, but I hope his career survives
because he's been a breath of fresh air in a
sewage of late night TV politics.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I believe two things can exist at once. It is
a good thing that he is not extremely political. He's
also one of the most annoying men in these United States.
I hate his brand of humor. I find him goofy
to the point of smug. I can't stomach him at
all at all.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
All right, let's move on to Pamela Anderson. I think
it's wonderful that we found out that Pamela Anderson is
really a good actress.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
She is a good actress, and you know, she's definitely
diving into what she knows how to do. But she's
had this amazing career renaissance that no one saw coming.
I never would have thought I would be hearing Pamela
Anderson's name at the Golden Globes being nominated for an
indie film. But right now she's in The Naked Gun.
Everything she's doing is getting rave, rave reviews, and I'm
(05:59):
just loving this second coming. She just did a play
at Williamstown Theater Festival. She was in a Tennessee Williams
play and this is you know, the centerfold bab Watch Babe.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And she's having a romance with Liam Neeson.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
As far as we know. I did a spread in
the Post last week about Foxmancer Showmans and it all is.
It is adding up. But they're also doing press for
a hilarious comedy, so you do wonder if it's being
a little bit massaged and created. Okay, I'm rooting for them.
If they're dating, that's a funny couple. I'd like to
(06:33):
have them at a dinner party.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, they are.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I've seen the I've seen a lot of the interviews
with the two of them, and they seem like they
really like each other. If they're not having a relationship,
they're really good at acting it out because they giggle
at each other, they talk about well. I think Liam
Neeson was asked something about what was your favorite part
about doing Naked Gun and he said being around Pamela.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, and he that is. That's what makes me think
it's real. I can't see him faking it because since
Natasha Richardson died in two thousand and nine, he really
hasn't had a truly serious romance. So for him to
be out there and flirting with Abandon, you have to
think there's a spark. But hey, he's also been promoting
Taken films, which haven't allowed you to flirt with anybody.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Fantastic four is not so fantastic and it's second week.
Because my son, as I told you before, has a podcast,
a comic book podcast, and he loved it.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He thought it was tremendous.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
But then when I saw it fall, I thought, well, gay,
all the comic book people saw it, and now it's
not It does no life after.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'm ashamed in myself for not sticking to my guns
last week because I was. Oh, I was totally wrong.
I hated the movie, but it had a huge first
week at the box office. Well then I read Variety
and oh did it plummet? It plummeted sixty six percent,
one of the biggest drops in Marvel history. It might
not clear, you know, five hundred million dollars worldwide. I
know I sound like I'm smiling because I know I am.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I am. It's a dud. It's such a dud.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It's so sad that you're find you find happiness in failure.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh, I guess that's your job.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
But I find and I also I find euphoria in success.
But yes, I find happiness.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I see that. I see it. You're still smiling. This
is great, a horror movie you liked?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Oh, it's great, and it's coming out Friday. It's called
Weapons with Julia Garner from Ozark and Josh Brolin, and
it's let me just tell you the premise.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Sure, one morning, the town.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Wakes up to see that one classroom of eighteen kids,
seventeen of them have disappeared, with one kid left. And
they look at all their cell phone or rather their
doorbell cameras, and they see the kids at two seventeen am.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
They all left.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
They all ran out of the house, making like airplane
arms and no one can find them. And that's the
setup of it. And we see that the event from
different perspectives and it's very spooky, funny, h totally engaging,
kept me guessing the whole time. I really really liked
it three and a half stars in the New York
pert It.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Sounds more like a mystery than a horror movie.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It's both. It's and it's funny. It's freaky. Uh, it's mysterious.
It's like a great TV show.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Oh well, that's great because I love horror movies. But
it's all the same. Every single one of them just
seems to be the same. It sounds like this one isn't.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
This one is not the same. I can say that
not the same at all.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Not just an empty slasher flick, not just a cookie
cutter mystery.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's very, very good, original Johnny Oleziinski.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
If he learns to drive, we're going to be getting
him on the phone when he's out in Hollywood. New
York Post Entertainment critic. He is with us every Tuesday
at nine thirty five. Johnny, thanks so much, thanks for
being here.
Hey, we might lose Johnny Oleaczinski to the other coast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Say it ain't so.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
New York Post entertainment critic with us every Tuesday at
this time.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So let's start with the.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Headline, and then we're going to find out what your
plans are. The headline is the New York Post is going.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
By coastal we are, and not only the New York Post.
We have a new family member called the California Post,
and that's going to be based obviously in Los Angeles, California,
covering that mess of a state, that dumpster fire of
a state, and they need it, you know, they don't
have right now. They have a dearth of newspapers and
certainly not trusted ones. And we're going to come there
(00:42):
and fill the void in politics, business, tech, entertainment, everything.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You're right, it's going to be in LA.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Is going to be based in LA, but covering the
whole state. Right now, you actually can buy physical copies
of The New York Post around California, but we don't
have a team there that can devote the time and
effort to cover all those big.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Huge stories.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And you got a lot of stuff to cover.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Oh my god, I mean one block in San Francisco
can fill a year of papers, you know, and in
La and.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
My god, the place is a mess right now. So
it's right for this. What went behind that decision? Is
there anything political behind this?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I can't speak to why my great and powerful bosses
made that decision.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I think they made the right decision.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I just you see that open lane right in the
marketplace for a struggling state looking for a tremendous newspaper.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
No, I think it's brilliant. And what I think is,
how good would Johnny Oleigzinsky, entertainment critic be in Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I would.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I would be a disruptor, I'd be just. They'd fear
me and cower. I think I'm a New Yorker at heart.
I like writing for the New York Post. I hope
people will get to read me in the California Post
because if I moved to California, then I could no
longer make fun of it, and that would be no fun.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh more fun to be there and make fun of it.
I'm serious about this. You would be great in Hollywood.
I've spent a short amount of time there when I
was at Access Hollywood, but that was completely different.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Type of show. What you would do there is exactly
what they need.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Perhaps, But here's a bombshell revelation. I don't know how
to drive, and people are now screaming at They're all
listening in their cars, and I just can't so I
would have to spend tons of money on ubers.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That is a revelation. How did that happen?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
A fear?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You know, I'm not a coward behind the keyboard, but
everywhere else.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I have a friend that has the same thing, exactly
the same thing. Just never wanted to drive. He always thought,
And honest to god, I don't know what drives your fear.
He always thought he would kill somebody.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That is what drives my fear too, wouldn't you know?
I mean, it's not a fear of leather seats.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
All right, let's talk about Jimmy Fallon. This comes after
Stephen Colbert just lost his job while he's still working,
but he's going to lose his job, and everybody was
wondering who might be next. Well, we know it's not
gonna be Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No, NBC has extended the Tonight Show through twenty twenty eight,
and that's not terribly surprising to me. The Tonight Show
really was the first game in town and continues to be,
if not in ratings, the biggest in reputation. They're not
going to take away one of their flagship gems like that.
It's still very expensive. They're making them cut costs. They're
down to four days a week of work there instead
(03:31):
of five. You know, when Johnny Carson was on, he
worked four days a week, but they begged him to
work five.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
So they know.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
But now they just can't afford it. But it will
run through twenty twenty eight. I can't imagine it runs
much longer than that.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You think the whole format's going to die. All of
late night TV talk shows are going to die.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I think it is dead.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And someone is with a defibrillator right now, just pumping
it in, pumping it in, and soon it'll flat line.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, it's a shame, I you know, but we have
podcasts and you have a lot of other sources of entertainment.
You have funny people online, You have people on X
right now that are a lot funnier than anybody on
late night TV. So everybody, everybody has changed their habits.
And you felt this too at the New York Post.
Everybody reads the New York Post online.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, and well and the way.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I don't know about you, but I look at Instagram
and I flip through the funny stories, all user generated stories.
They're all very genuine, hilarious people, and they don't have
that choreographed aspect that late night shows do. So even
when late night shows go to YouTube and social media,
it's all been painstakingly rehearsed, and everyone is at their
facused at those five minutes celeb interviews. They're just such
(04:41):
a thing of the past. To me. I'd rather listen
to them talk for an hour on a podcast and
be open and interesting, not just like let me show
my movie.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That's a great point. That's a wonderful point. But I
will tell you this about Jimmy Fallon. He's the one
I can stomach. He's not as political. He's just silly.
He's fun and and so I hope he survives. Maybe
not in that format, but I hope his career survives
because he's been a breath of fresh air in a
sewage of late night TV politics.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I believe two things can exist at once. It is
a good thing that he is not extremely political. He's
also one of the most annoying men in these United States.
I hate his brand of humor. I find him goofy
to the point of smug. I can't stomach him at
all at all.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
All right, let's move on to Pamela Anderson. I think
it's wonderful that we found out that Pamela Anderson is
really a good actress.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
She is a good actress, and you know, she's definitely
diving into what she knows how to do. But she's
had this amazing career renaissance that no one saw coming.
I never would have thought I would be hearing Pamela
Anderson's name at the Golden Globes being nominated for an
indie film. But right now she's in The Naked Gun.
Everything she's doing is getting rave, rave reviews, and I'm
(05:59):
just loving this second coming. She just did a play
at Williamstown Theater Festival. She was in a Tennessee Williams
play and this is you know, the centerfold bab Watch Babe.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And she's having a romance with Liam Neeson.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
As far as we know. I did a spread in
the Post last week about Foxmancer Showmans and it all is.
It is adding up. But they're also doing press for
a hilarious comedy, so you do wonder if it's being
a little bit massaged and created. Okay, I'm rooting for them.
If they're dating, that's a funny couple. I'd like to
(06:33):
have them at a dinner party.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, they are.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I've seen the I've seen a lot of the interviews
with the two of them, and they seem like they
really like each other. If they're not having a relationship,
they're really good at acting it out because they giggle
at each other, they talk about well. I think Liam
Neeson was asked something about what was your favorite part
about doing Naked Gun and he said being around Pamela.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, and he that is. That's what makes me think
it's real. I can't see him faking it because since
Natasha Richardson died in two thousand and nine, he really
hasn't had a truly serious romance. So for him to
be out there and flirting with Abandon, you have to
think there's a spark. But hey, he's also been promoting
Taken films, which haven't allowed you to flirt with anybody.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Fantastic four is not so fantastic and it's second week.
Because my son, as I told you before, has a podcast,
a comic book podcast, and he loved it.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He thought it was tremendous.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
But then when I saw it fall, I thought, well, gay,
all the comic book people saw it, and now it's
not It does no life after.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'm ashamed in myself for not sticking to my guns
last week because I was. Oh, I was totally wrong.
I hated the movie, but it had a huge first
week at the box office. Well then I read Variety
and oh did it plummet? It plummeted sixty six percent,
one of the biggest drops in Marvel history. It might
not clear, you know, five hundred million dollars worldwide. I
know I sound like I'm smiling because I know I am.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I am. It's a dud. It's such a dud.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It's so sad that you're find you find happiness in failure.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh, I guess that's your job.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
But I find and I also I find euphoria in success.
But yes, I find happiness.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I see that. I see it. You're still smiling. This
is great, a horror movie you liked?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Oh, it's great, and it's coming out Friday. It's called
Weapons with Julia Garner from Ozark and Josh Brolin, and
it's let me just tell you the premise.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Sure, one morning, the town.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Wakes up to see that one classroom of eighteen kids,
seventeen of them have disappeared, with one kid left. And
they look at all their cell phone or rather their
doorbell cameras, and they see the kids at two seventeen am.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
They all left.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
They all ran out of the house, making like airplane
arms and no one can find them. And that's the
setup of it. And we see that the event from
different perspectives and it's very spooky, funny, h totally engaging,
kept me guessing the whole time. I really really liked
it three and a half stars in the New York
pert It.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Sounds more like a mystery than a horror movie.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It's both. It's and it's funny. It's freaky. Uh, it's mysterious.
It's like a great TV show.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Oh well, that's great because I love horror movies. But
it's all the same. Every single one of them just
seems to be the same. It sounds like this one isn't.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
This one is not the same. I can say that
not the same at all.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Not just an empty slasher flick, not just a cookie
cutter mystery.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's very, very good, original Johnny Oleziinski.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
If he learns to drive, we're going to be getting
him on the phone when he's out in Hollywood. New
York Post Entertainment critic. He is with us every Tuesday
at nine thirty five. Johnny, thanks so much, thanks for
being here.
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