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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from wor Now the wr Saturday
Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Larry Minty, Hello and.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Welcome to Saturday Morning. On today's show, Curtis Leewa tells
us his plan to win the mayoral election as a
Republican in a very democratic city. The co author of
a book based on the last interview with Johnny Carson
before he died, we'll talk with him about Carson the
Magnificent and the car Doctor. Ron A Nanian is here
(00:31):
to tell you what is important to look for when
you're looking to buy a used car. But let's start
with Republican candidate from AYR Curtis Leewa. So good to
see you again. Thank you for coming in.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
That was great lair.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You know, generally it's your colleague Mark Simone who touts
me as the next mayor all the time. He did it,
though last time, even more so than most of the
folks at the station that I used to work at.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, I didn't even know he said that. I didn't
even know he said that. But we're on the same
line and on the same wavelength. Because I'd love to
see you. I think you'd be wonderful for the city
to become mayor. But you know what you're up against.
You know about the Democratic registration in this city, you
know about funding and the funds the Democrats get. How
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do you plan on doing this?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, no, no one.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
If it was just one on one a Democrat versus
a Republican, you're right, that would be an arduous situation.
But it's gonna turn out. You're gonna have four in
the general. Maybe more so, let's assume that Cuomo wins
the Democratic primary. Body's gonna get battered and Bruce because
there's ranked choice voting. Most voters have no idea how
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that Bingo card works. And the far left, the liberals,
the progressives, they're working very hard to remain discipline this time.
Don't put Adams on your Bengo card, don't put Cuomo
on your Bengo card. So it'll probably end up being
very tight. I believe that the new golden child of
the Democratic Party, Zoran, will become the Working Families Party
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candidate because they hate Como, who tried to destroy them
and yet they were able to survive that. I think
Eric Adams is going to run as an independent. It's
going to do what John Lindsay did in nineteen sixty
nine is a sitting mayor who lost the Republican nomination
and yet one anyway against three when he ran on
the liberal party line. And then I'm the lone Republican.
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Now I got thirty percent of the vote last time.
Start doing your mathematics. So all of a sudden, when
you got four involved in the general race, and you
know the three Democrats are going to be going at
one another. If I hold the thirty ad a few
percentage points, I'm the mayor. I mean, just do the analytics.
Nobody wants to do that. But when you tell them
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there's going to be four in the general, so well,
now that's conceivable, that's plausible.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, and not only four, but four that can get votes.
I mean four that could get over ten percent at least,
maybe even twenty percent. And with that, you're right. The
math works in your favor. There's another mathematical equation to
take in in this, and that is very few people
show up for these elections. It was twenty one percent
the last election. So if Republicans get out to vote,
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or if some common sense Democrats get out to vote
and vote for you, you got a shot.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And Larry it's really the independents who have this way.
They double the number of independence registered and Republicans. And
I used to be the chairman of the State Reform
Party until Andrew CMO decided in his war against the
Working Families Party, how dare they nominate Cynthia Nixon. He
destroyed all the independent parties, so you had the Green Party,
the Libertarian Party, the Reform Party, the Independence Party wiped out.
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All he succeeded in doing was strengthening the Working Families Party.
You only have two now independent parties, Conservatives, Working Family Party.
They want revenge against CMO, so they got to be
going at them hard. Eric Adams is sitting on three
million dollars people always not raising any money. He's got
three million dollars untouched that if this federal judge drops
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the case against them, which he's going to based on
the recommendation of the council that he appointed, then he's
going to go to the campaign finance Board and said
you wouldn't give me matching funds on the three million
because you said I was indicted for a shadow for
store donors, which is a serious crime. Now I've been
relieved of that, where's my matching funds. So you're talking
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about three Democrats who are going to be going at
one another, and I'm opposed to almost everything that they're
in favor of. You almost have to look at me.
Can you mention congestion pricing? They're all four congestion pricing.
I'm the only one opposed to it. Andrew Cuomo is
the author, the godfather of no cash bail.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
He doubled down on it a week ago. Let's zero
it on congestion pricing for a second. How can you
stop it?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well, you work in tandem with the Trump administration and
you try to apply the pressure, and you work with
Lee Zelden, the former congressman who's head of the EPA,
and you state to him, hey, there were not effective
ep A studies done. Murphy has brought that up in
New Jersey as as a Fasella, the borough president, along
with molgru the chairman of the UFT an unlikely Unity
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team there against congestion price.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And there was no public comment either. Yes, there should
have been.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And this nonsense that they're saying business is up. Where
do you walk around Midtown? It's like a ghasttown.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm coming up to your studios here, it's nobody around.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
No, they're talking about the big the big item stores
like saxonyth Avenue. They're talking about those stores because now
there's no congestion. The peons aren't on the roads anymore,
so the rich people can make it to shop where
they want to shop. I'll tell you what if crime
is the biggest issue, and it seems like it is
over and over again, I can't think of anyone who's
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going to do more to fight crime in this city
than you. What do you think of all these statistics
that are thrown out that crime is down, crime is down,
crime is down. You have the Trump administration saying, what
are you talking about. We're looking at this stats. It's
up fifty eight percent from four years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh. In fact, they've demanded a complete accounting of all
the crimes that have been committed in the subways and
on the buses in order to continue federal funding for
mass transportation.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And they're right to do that. They've cooked the books.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There is not a man or a woman or a
child in New York City who thinks it's safer in
their neighborhood or safer in the subways. So you can
stop making arrests, and it can make your figures look
good in the books, and you can.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Tout the fact that crime is at an all time
low level. Nobody believes that.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And the only one who's ever fought crime, the only
one who knows how to bring crime down, is Courteously
with forty six years Guardian Angels leader. I've been doing
this on a regular basis with no governmental support. Eric
Adams was supposed to be missed the law and order.
He's failed in that test. And Andrew Cuomo is the
author of every rule in regulation that has allowed the
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criminals to run free, and he has not apologized or
amended any of them. He says he wants to high
more cops. He says it's recidivism. Well, recidivism is the
result of the fact that there's no cash bail and
you put them right out into the streets. He's also
the author of the bill that said sixteen to eighteen
year olds could no longer be considered adults. And they
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run the streets and they commit most of the violent crimes.
So every way you look is a Cuomo statute or
Cuomo law that has encouraged anarchy, that has encouraged chaos
and has led to this unprecedented crime rise.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Nobody feels safe in New York City. Nobody.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
The Republican candidate for mayor and founder of The Guardian Angels,
Curtis Leeworth. Let's talk about Donald Trump, because Donald Trump
is hated in this city because it's so heavily democratic. Yeah,
Donald Trump could be a big supporter. What are you
gonna do? Do you distance yourself, do you embrace him?
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Uh? You do what Donald Trump wants the president of
the United States. And right now their guy is Eric Adams.
It's not Curtis Sleeland. They got Eric Adams in their pocket.
If they tell Eric Adams to jump, he says, how high, whatever, whatever,
President Donald Trump and Tom Holman, Juan or anyone else
in the administration, and they direct it right at Eric Adams.
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He will not condemn him, he will not criticize him.
He will do whatever they tell him. So that's their
guy for right now. Let's see how Eric Adams survives.
I think he runs an independent campaign, but having the
support of Donald Trump's help, but it can also hurt.
He got thirty percent of the vote citywide, the best
he's ever done. In the prior to election runs. As
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Eldon got thirty percent, I got thirty percent. You got
to get over thirty percent with four people in the race.
If I get thirty three to thirty five percent, I'm
the next mayor of the City of New York.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Would you accept his support? Would you accept Republican money
from the RNC.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I don't know if i'd so much accept the money
from the RNC. I don't take money with strings attached.
You're not going to see any heavy high rollers funding.
Curtis Slee wads Nobody from Park Avenue, is nobody from
the Fortune five hundred confab. I'm the Outer Borough guide
now if they want to come to the outer boroughs
and help homeowners save their homes from the city of
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Yes that is meant to destroy residential neighborhoods. All the
migrant shelters they put in the devastated neighborhoods now regular shelters.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And now they have this Larry, these lithium ion.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Battery warehouses they're putting all over the outer boroughs, not
putting them on Park Avenue, not putting them on Billionaires Row.
And this is so dangerous because in fires that have
taken place in California. It's taken five to six days
for the fire to burn itself out. They have no
way to put the fire out, and they're putting it
in residential neighborhoods, and I'm leading the effort to stop
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it in the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
So, if I can put all this together, what you've
told us this morning, you are not going to be
the Trump candidate. Mayor Adams is the true candidate, which,
by the way, is so smart, because if he's dislike,
it's gonna all that's gonna go to Mayor Adams and
not to the Republican candidate. But you're also saying that
you and by the way you are this, you are
a man of the neighborhoods. You've worked in the neighborhoods.
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You've been to all the neighborhoods. And because of that, however,
you're not gonna get the big money, and you need
some money. You do need some money where you gonna
get it.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Well, last time around, I was able to collect eighteen
thousand contributions, more than anybody else but small level seventy
two dollars average. I was able to get six and
a half million dollars in matching funds. We expect to
double that amount this time, so we'll be competitive. If
people want to find out what I stand for, what
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my platform is, and how to contribute or how to
get involved, they go to sliwa for NYC dot com.
That's Sliwa for NYC dot com. I've never been the
big money guy. Look they're fighting. Well, you got Cuomo,
he's in the back pocket all of a sudden of
the corporate developers and real estate interests.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Eric Adams is right behind them.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Why would I go knocking on their door when they
want to destroy the residential neighborhoods said are the heart
and soul of the blue collar working class of New
York City, which is the real new Republican Party. It's
not the elite, it's not the wealthy, it's not the rich,
it's not the country club Republicans. It's the blue collar
working class that really is at the heart and soul
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of the Republican Party in the United States today.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
You're right, it is switched. It absolutely has switched. And
Donald Trump did that. It's a shame that you can't
side up to Donald Trump. I understand the political climate.
But the nice thing about this is nobody's gonna own you.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
No, no, And even my worst critics have said, you
can't buy, you can't rent, you can't lease. Sliwa And
right now, President Donald Trump has enormous problems that he
has to deal with internationally Nationally. Figuring out who should
be the next mayor of the New York City cycle
should be the least of his considerations, to be honest
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with you, the least of his considerations.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Although it is important to him. He seems to focus
on New York a lot. So it is important to
Wall looked.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You're going to have to cooperate with the President of
the United States and the White House because so much
of what we get and we provide is right from
the federal government. You look at NISCHE, ninety five percent
of the money for all public housing projects comes from
the federal government. So if you don't cooperate with the
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Trump administration and they start cutting funds, there's not enough
people left in New York City to tax to fund
all the social service programs because they're already on their
way to Florida real quick.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
We're running out of time. But how would you have
handled Columbia University when those riots started.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Uh, the mayor was going to see the pope. He
should have canceled that trip. He should have been right
there on the campus. He should have had the NYPD inn.
He should have made arrests, and he should have named
in shamed Alvin Bragg who released them after they took
over Hamilton Hall. Because cuomo'sno cash bail. You see, it
always comes back to Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
He's tough. Oh, he knows how to govern.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, he did a really great job that he had
to flee all but because he feed impeachment and indictment,
give him another chance. What to destroy New York City
like he destroyed New York State. No go to sliwa
NYC dot com.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
And with that, I'm gonna say goodbye, but with a
promise that you're gonna come back. It's an open door policy.
Anytime you want to come back, please, do.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You offer me a microphone?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You know him there the Great Courtislee. I have to
come up with something different than the next Mayor of
New York. But the next Mayor of New York much
more to come. On Saturday morning, the author of a
book that includes the never before published of the last
interview with TV legend Johnny Carson.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Here's Larry Minti with more of the woor Saturday Morning show.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
No one owned late night TV like Johnny Carson. He
was an extremely talented and extremely private TV star, but
he did grant one last interview before he died, and
that is the subject of a new book called Carson
the Magnificent. Here is the co author, Mike Thomas. Mike,
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thank you so much for being on the show. I
think it's a wonderful topic. I can't wait to read
the book. But your journey to being a part of
the book and being the co author is fascinating as well.
Can you tell us about the interview with Johnny Carson,
how that came about and who was your co author?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Well, first of all, Hi Larry, and thanks for having
me on the show. I appreciate it. Yeah, I now
Bill's Amy's the main author of this book, and Bill
was a mentor of mine. Three decades ago, when I
was in my twenties, I had moved to Chicago, you know,
and I had found out that Bill, whom I had
been reading since high school, had moved back to Chicago.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
From LA.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
So I'd dropped him some of my terrible freelance clips
and asked if I could just meet up with him
to pick his brain, and he said sure. I was delighted,
you know, And so we were just talking about his
work and celebrity journalism stuff like that, and it turned
out he needed some help doing a book he was
writing with Jay Leno, just basic transcript stuff. From there,
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it just kept snowballing, and eventually I became his full
time assistant. We worked on a Andy Kaufman book together,
on a Frank Sinatra book, on a Regis Philbin book,
and then I left for a long stint at the
Chicago Sun Times as a features writer. Bill and I
stayed close friends that whole time. When Bill died in
twenty twenty three, his editor now publisher CEO of Simon
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and Schuster called me up and said, I'd love to
find a way to keep this Carson book alive. Would
you consider finishing it? And so that's how I ended
up coming to the Johnny Carson book. And you know,
Bill had been writing it for about twelve years until
he got cancer in twenty thirteen. He just had to
stop everything, but his work all started with a Carson
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interview in twenty oh two for Esquire magazine, and that
opened all the doors for everything, and he interviewed hundreds
of people who were close to Carson.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Were there notes, were their tape recordings? How did you
What did you have to go through? I had to
go through everything. Bill had a huge storage locker on
the North side of Chicago. His daughter gave me access
to it, and she also gave me access to his
whole laptop which had all these digitized Carson files on it. Yeah,
you know, like transcripts, everything else. And so I took
about a month before I said yes to the book
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because I had first not read Bill's manuscript, and I
had also I didn't know what he had collected so far,
and so I went through all of that before I
came back and said, yeah, I have plenty here. But
he had everything, I mean, binders and binders filled with
transcripts and all kinds of artifacts. He had an ugly
tie from the Johnny Carson collection. He had pictures galore, magazine,
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original magazines like Old Life magazines. There was nothing Johnny related,
and it seemed to me that Bill did not have.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
So I had more than enough in his collection.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
That is just so wonderful. Mike Thomas is the co
author of Carson the Magnificent. In a way, this would
be the same journey that the reader is going to
go through as you're going through the manuscript, as you're
going through all the interviews, all the memorabilia, what stood
out for you because and that the readers are going
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to find out about themselves well, I mean mostly Bill's
original interviews. He talked with scores and scores of people
who were close to Johnny, and Bill himself was a
terrific interviewer. I mean people would tell him things that
they wouldn't tell other people because you know, he was
a trustworthy guy. It wasn't any sort of trickery.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
It was just Bill had this way of connecting with people,
as Johnny did on the show. That's what Johnny's interviews
were so good. There was nothing was forced with Bill.
You felt like he was your best friend, you know,
five minutes after meeting him. And so I think there's
a lot of that from people who knew Johnny, people
who had never talked before are in the book who
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were close to him, including his second and third wives,
who talked extensively to Bill. Joanna the third wife is
still alive. She's I believe ninety three now. Joanne the
second wife died in twenty fifteen. But they were so
generous and sharing, you know, not only their memories of Johnny,
but Joanne gave him all kinds of artifacts from their lives,
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including things from their divorce and everything else. So you know,
he had a wealth of material to deal with, and
yet Bill never felt he had enough. There was always
something he knew he was missing, and it ate at him.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Yeah, that's every great researcher and every great writer did
Johnny Carson and from what you saw reading through the
manuscripts and the interviews, realize the impact he was having
on American culture.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yeah, I don't think. I don't think he could have
failed to realize it. He didn't tout it a lot.
Johnny was not a touder and you know people called
him a king maker too. He didn't he downplayed that
as well. In terms of making people famous, especially comedians,
he knew his place in the firmament. I mean, how
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can you not know you're the king when you're getting
that kind of His ratings were I don't know at
his height seventeen eighteen million people. The last show has
got way more than that. And he had a huge
influence and he knew it on the culture. But as
far as considering himself a king or an emperor, maybe inside,
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but he would never say that, you know, overtly share with.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Us history from the book that stood after you.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Oh God, there are so many you know, I always
go back because I didn't know Johnny more than being
an entertainer or you know, sometimes a hothead or guy
drank him much, or guy could be cold, or wasn't
the greatest father. But I like the more emotional moments
in the book as they relate to you know, family
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or friends, or especially his son Rick, who died in
nineteen ninety one. You could tell Johnny was just he
was never the same.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
And Doc s.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Everson said this after Rick died till the end of
his life and Johnny lived another fourteen years after that.
It just crushed him, not only because Rick was the
most like him in terms of sensibility and humor, but
I think Johnny also wished he could have been a
better father as well as a husband. But he was
always you know, the Tonight Show was always his most
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significant other, and so all those other things fell by
the wayside, and I get the sense that it hit
him extra hard when Rick died. He did do a
beautiful eulogy for him on the Tonight Show, and he
brought his photos back for the last Tonight Show. But
it was those glimpses into the more emotional Johnny that
I really found interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I love the quote that you shared of when he asked,
what is the secret to success? Could you tell us
what that was?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Yeah, you're gonna have to remind me here the secret
to success? I oh, al be yourself and tell the truth. Oh,
be yourself and tell the truth. Sure, Sure, that was
his mantra. I mean that went to Johnny's genuineness. And
I don't know if he got that from Jack Benny.
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He may have, or he may have just picked on
that up and it picked that up on that and
encapsulated it in a quote. But that was Johnny just
you know, be yourself. Of course, he was always the
part of himself that he wanted us to see on
the air. He was never his full self because his
full self was very kind, implicated, like all of us were.
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Johnny was both impossibly cool, and this, you know, extrovert
on the air, drawing these great things.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Out of his interview subjects.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
But in life he was perfectly capable of spending a
lot of time by himself, and he could be introverted,
and he liked to read a lot or play with
his fancy telescopes.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
He was like all of us. He was a complicated
human being. But I cannot wait to read the book,
and I'm going to. Mike Thomas is the co author
of Carson the Magnificent, featuring the last interview with Johnny Carson,
the Great One Still to Come. The car Doctor Ron Ananian.
If you are in the market for a used car,
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he has some tips.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Next here again is Larry Minty with the WOOR Saturday
Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
In the market for a used car, We've got you covered.
The car doctor ron Ananian has you covered. Ron is
always thanks for being.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Here, Good morning, Larry, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
It is really nerve racking when you go to buy
a car, is it true? Then when you buy a
new car it devalues by thousands as soon as you
leave the lot.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
It sure does. And it makes the argument for used
cars in a lot of cases. A better option. You know,
the quality of cars has gotten so much better over
the years. That used car, that two to three year
old used car that in a lot of cases from
certain manufacturers will be a CPO, a certified pre owned car,
makes a great used car. And as I always say,
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the best used cars are usually the best new cars.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
There's a fear in that though as well. There's a
fear on how is this car treated? Does there have
any problems? What are they hiding from me? How do
you fix that problem?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yep, well there is. So you know, you decide what
you want to buy, and we're not going to spend
time this morning talking about budget because that's a whole
nother separate conversation. But you figure out what you want
to buy, and this is the car for me, and
you find that at your local dealer. Is a used car. Now,
if you're buying a Honda and hopeful, you're buying it
from a Honda dealer. If you're buying a Toyota, you're
buying it from a Toyota dealer, and so on. Because
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when they sell you that two to three or four
year old used vehicle and they say, well, it's got
a warranty on it. We're going to honor the warranty.
You know, nothing against Toyota dealers, but Toyota dealers have
a hard time fixing Hondas and vice versa and so on.
It just it just doesn't work out. They're not trained
in that. You know, maybe they've got a relationship with
the other dealer that they they'll do exchange on used
cars things like that, But you always have to consider that.
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But of course you're going to either find something that's
certified pre owned as I said, which is pre checked
out and it's guaranteed, it's certified, you get a you
get almost as good as warranty as you do with
a new vehicle on a CPO car.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
So you're saying that they should buy a used car
from a dealer and not from the owner.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Uh, well, you know, are those cars out there anymore?
Do they exist? I think? I think buying that used
car from the owner direct you can save a couple
of bucks. But you got to know what you're buying
and you've got to be able to have it checked
out by a mechanic because ultimately that's what it comes
down to, and you know how much money are you
actually saving and there's a lot of different ways to
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look at that. You know, we see quite a few
used cars on a regular basis, and we put them
through our own checklist and you know, safety check and
come up with ye okay, it's got this, it's got that.
Here's what's going on. I think a lot of what
people are buying today, they're empowered. They can do it themselves.
For example, they can go out to NHTSA dot gov
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National Highway Traffic Safety Authority dot gov with the vehicle's
serial number, the VIN, the seventeen digit viin which will
be on the title or on the dashboard of the
vehicle before they purchase it, and they can run that
VIN see if there's any open recalls on it for example.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Oh that's fascinating. Now. How about when you want to
sell your used car? Should should you sell it yourself?
Should you trade it in?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Well, I think when you go to when you to
make that decision, you've got awigh the numbers. You know,
if you trade in a used car and it's worth
ten thousand dollars and you're buying a forty thousand dollars
new car, you're going to pay sales tax on thirty
not forty, So you know, you've got to look at
the cost savings there, and then you know, at what
level of aggravation do you want to put yourself through.
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How much money are you actually saving. You have to
remember a dealer when they take in a used car,
they're responsible for that car. They're presenting it, they have
to meet certain requirements by state law. They've got to
guarantee it if they're going to guarantee it, or they
have to tell you there's no guarantee, so you're buying
it as is. So you know, listen, it's a project
buying a used car, and you've got to take some
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time and some research. As I said to someone this morning,
you don't want to be backed into a corner trying
to do this. You want to take the time to
go through the steps to make sure you get a
good one.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yeah, it's always tough when you have a problem with
your car and it's an older car, whether you sell
it or whether you.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Repair it right, it's it's you don't want to do
anything last minute. You know, here's a case where whether
it's the dealership that you've got the relationship with that
are working on the car, or your trusted mechanic that
you know, there's one cook in the kitchen, there's that
one voice that stands clear in the forest that when
you go to them, they have good advice and you
know they realize, hey, they're not necessarily helping you buy
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the car, but they are helping you buy the car
because they're guiding you. And that's part of being a
mechanic today. You're guiding people as well as fixing the cars.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Ron and Adian, host of The Car Doctor, which is
available weekly on the iHeartRadio app full of information just
like you heard right now. He is also owner if
you want to go see I'm an our Automotive in Waldwick,
New Jersey. Ron, thanks for your time.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Thank you, Larry, We'll see you.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Thanks so much for spending part of your Saturday morning
with me, and thanks to producers Peter Airolano and Natalie Vaka.
I'll be back Monday for Mente in the morning from
six to ten. Have a great rest of your weekend.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
This has been a podcast from WR
This is a podcast from wor Now the wr Saturday
Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Larry Minty, Hello and.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Welcome to Saturday Morning. On today's show, Curtis Leewa tells
us his plan to win the mayoral election as a
Republican in a very democratic city. The co author of
a book based on the last interview with Johnny Carson
before he died, we'll talk with him about Carson the
Magnificent and the car Doctor. Ron A Nanian is here
(00:31):
to tell you what is important to look for when
you're looking to buy a used car. But let's start
with Republican candidate from AYR Curtis Leewa. So good to
see you again. Thank you for coming in.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
That was great lair.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You know, generally it's your colleague Mark Simone who touts
me as the next mayor all the time. He did it,
though last time, even more so than most of the
folks at the station that I used to work at.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, I didn't even know he said that. I didn't
even know he said that. But we're on the same
line and on the same wavelength. Because I'd love to
see you. I think you'd be wonderful for the city
to become mayor. But you know what you're up against.
You know about the Democratic registration in this city, you
know about funding and the funds the Democrats get. How
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do you plan on doing this?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, no, no one.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
If it was just one on one a Democrat versus
a Republican, you're right, that would be an arduous situation.
But it's gonna turn out. You're gonna have four in
the general. Maybe more so, let's assume that Cuomo wins
the Democratic primary. Body's gonna get battered and Bruce because
there's ranked choice voting. Most voters have no idea how
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that Bingo card works. And the far left, the liberals,
the progressives, they're working very hard to remain discipline this time.
Don't put Adams on your Bengo card, don't put Cuomo
on your Bengo card. So it'll probably end up being
very tight. I believe that the new golden child of
the Democratic Party, Zoran, will become the Working Families Party
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candidate because they hate Como, who tried to destroy them
and yet they were able to survive that. I think
Eric Adams is going to run as an independent. It's
going to do what John Lindsay did in nineteen sixty
nine is a sitting mayor who lost the Republican nomination
and yet one anyway against three when he ran on
the liberal party line. And then I'm the lone Republican.
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Now I got thirty percent of the vote last time.
Start doing your mathematics. So all of a sudden, when
you got four involved in the general race, and you
know the three Democrats are going to be going at
one another. If I hold the thirty ad a few
percentage points, I'm the mayor. I mean, just do the analytics.
Nobody wants to do that. But when you tell them
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there's going to be four in the general, so well,
now that's conceivable, that's plausible.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, and not only four, but four that can get votes.
I mean four that could get over ten percent at least,
maybe even twenty percent. And with that, you're right. The
math works in your favor. There's another mathematical equation to
take in in this, and that is very few people
show up for these elections. It was twenty one percent
the last election. So if Republicans get out to vote,
(03:10):
or if some common sense Democrats get out to vote
and vote for you, you got a shot.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And Larry it's really the independents who have this way.
They double the number of independence registered and Republicans. And
I used to be the chairman of the State Reform
Party until Andrew CMO decided in his war against the
Working Families Party, how dare they nominate Cynthia Nixon. He
destroyed all the independent parties, so you had the Green Party,
the Libertarian Party, the Reform Party, the Independence Party wiped out.
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All he succeeded in doing was strengthening the Working Families Party.
You only have two now independent parties, Conservatives, Working Family Party.
They want revenge against CMO, so they got to be
going at them hard. Eric Adams is sitting on three
million dollars people always not raising any money. He's got
three million dollars untouched that if this federal judge drops
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the case against them, which he's going to based on
the recommendation of the council that he appointed, then he's
going to go to the campaign finance Board and said
you wouldn't give me matching funds on the three million
because you said I was indicted for a shadow for
store donors, which is a serious crime. Now I've been
relieved of that, where's my matching funds. So you're talking
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about three Democrats who are going to be going at
one another, and I'm opposed to almost everything that they're
in favor of. You almost have to look at me.
Can you mention congestion pricing? They're all four congestion pricing.
I'm the only one opposed to it. Andrew Cuomo is
the author, the godfather of no cash bail.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
He doubled down on it a week ago. Let's zero
it on congestion pricing for a second. How can you
stop it?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well, you work in tandem with the Trump administration and
you try to apply the pressure, and you work with
Lee Zelden, the former congressman who's head of the EPA,
and you state to him, hey, there were not effective
ep A studies done. Murphy has brought that up in
New Jersey as as a Fasella, the borough president, along
with molgru the chairman of the UFT an unlikely Unity
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team there against congestion price.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And there was no public comment either. Yes, there should
have been.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And this nonsense that they're saying business is up. Where
do you walk around Midtown? It's like a ghasttown.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm coming up to your studios here, it's nobody around.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
No, they're talking about the big the big item stores
like saxonyth Avenue. They're talking about those stores because now
there's no congestion. The peons aren't on the roads anymore,
so the rich people can make it to shop where
they want to shop. I'll tell you what if crime
is the biggest issue, and it seems like it is
over and over again, I can't think of anyone who's
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going to do more to fight crime in this city
than you. What do you think of all these statistics
that are thrown out that crime is down, crime is down,
crime is down. You have the Trump administration saying, what
are you talking about. We're looking at this stats. It's
up fifty eight percent from four years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh. In fact, they've demanded a complete accounting of all
the crimes that have been committed in the subways and
on the buses in order to continue federal funding for
mass transportation.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And they're right to do that. They've cooked the books.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There is not a man or a woman or a
child in New York City who thinks it's safer in
their neighborhood or safer in the subways. So you can
stop making arrests, and it can make your figures look
good in the books, and you can.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Tout the fact that crime is at an all time
low level. Nobody believes that.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And the only one who's ever fought crime, the only
one who knows how to bring crime down, is Courteously
with forty six years Guardian Angels leader. I've been doing
this on a regular basis with no governmental support. Eric
Adams was supposed to be missed the law and order.
He's failed in that test. And Andrew Cuomo is the
author of every rule in regulation that has allowed the
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criminals to run free, and he has not apologized or
amended any of them. He says he wants to high
more cops. He says it's recidivism. Well, recidivism is the
result of the fact that there's no cash bail and
you put them right out into the streets. He's also
the author of the bill that said sixteen to eighteen
year olds could no longer be considered adults. And they
(07:15):
run the streets and they commit most of the violent crimes.
So every way you look is a Cuomo statute or
Cuomo law that has encouraged anarchy, that has encouraged chaos
and has led to this unprecedented crime rise.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Nobody feels safe in New York City. Nobody.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
The Republican candidate for mayor and founder of The Guardian Angels,
Curtis Leeworth. Let's talk about Donald Trump, because Donald Trump
is hated in this city because it's so heavily democratic. Yeah,
Donald Trump could be a big supporter. What are you
gonna do? Do you distance yourself, do you embrace him?
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Uh? You do what Donald Trump wants the president of
the United States. And right now their guy is Eric Adams.
It's not Curtis Sleeland. They got Eric Adams in their pocket.
If they tell Eric Adams to jump, he says, how high, whatever, whatever,
President Donald Trump and Tom Holman, Juan or anyone else
in the administration, and they direct it right at Eric Adams.
(08:15):
He will not condemn him, he will not criticize him.
He will do whatever they tell him. So that's their
guy for right now. Let's see how Eric Adams survives.
I think he runs an independent campaign, but having the
support of Donald Trump's help, but it can also hurt.
He got thirty percent of the vote citywide, the best
he's ever done. In the prior to election runs. As
(08:37):
Eldon got thirty percent, I got thirty percent. You got
to get over thirty percent with four people in the race.
If I get thirty three to thirty five percent, I'm
the next mayor of the City of New York.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Would you accept his support? Would you accept Republican money
from the RNC.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I don't know if i'd so much accept the money
from the RNC. I don't take money with strings attached.
You're not going to see any heavy high rollers funding.
Curtis Slee wads Nobody from Park Avenue, is nobody from
the Fortune five hundred confab. I'm the Outer Borough guide
now if they want to come to the outer boroughs
and help homeowners save their homes from the city of
(09:14):
Yes that is meant to destroy residential neighborhoods. All the
migrant shelters they put in the devastated neighborhoods now regular shelters.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And now they have this Larry, these lithium ion.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Battery warehouses they're putting all over the outer boroughs, not
putting them on Park Avenue, not putting them on Billionaires Row.
And this is so dangerous because in fires that have
taken place in California. It's taken five to six days
for the fire to burn itself out. They have no
way to put the fire out, and they're putting it
in residential neighborhoods, and I'm leading the effort to stop
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it in the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
So, if I can put all this together, what you've
told us this morning, you are not going to be
the Trump candidate. Mayor Adams is the true candidate, which,
by the way, is so smart, because if he's dislike,
it's gonna all that's gonna go to Mayor Adams and
not to the Republican candidate. But you're also saying that
you and by the way you are this, you are
a man of the neighborhoods. You've worked in the neighborhoods.
(10:14):
You've been to all the neighborhoods. And because of that, however,
you're not gonna get the big money, and you need
some money. You do need some money where you gonna
get it.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Well, last time around, I was able to collect eighteen
thousand contributions, more than anybody else but small level seventy
two dollars average. I was able to get six and
a half million dollars in matching funds. We expect to
double that amount this time, so we'll be competitive. If
people want to find out what I stand for, what
(10:44):
my platform is, and how to contribute or how to
get involved, they go to sliwa for NYC dot com.
That's Sliwa for NYC dot com. I've never been the
big money guy. Look they're fighting. Well, you got Cuomo,
he's in the back pocket all of a sudden of
the corporate developers and real estate interests.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Eric Adams is right behind them.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Why would I go knocking on their door when they
want to destroy the residential neighborhoods said are the heart
and soul of the blue collar working class of New
York City, which is the real new Republican Party. It's
not the elite, it's not the wealthy, it's not the rich,
it's not the country club Republicans. It's the blue collar
working class that really is at the heart and soul
(11:24):
of the Republican Party in the United States today.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
You're right, it is switched. It absolutely has switched. And
Donald Trump did that. It's a shame that you can't
side up to Donald Trump. I understand the political climate.
But the nice thing about this is nobody's gonna own you.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
No, no, And even my worst critics have said, you
can't buy, you can't rent, you can't lease. Sliwa And
right now, President Donald Trump has enormous problems that he
has to deal with internationally Nationally. Figuring out who should
be the next mayor of the New York City cycle
should be the least of his considerations, to be honest
(12:02):
with you, the least of his considerations.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Although it is important to him. He seems to focus
on New York a lot. So it is important to
Wall looked.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You're going to have to cooperate with the President of
the United States and the White House because so much
of what we get and we provide is right from
the federal government. You look at NISCHE, ninety five percent
of the money for all public housing projects comes from
the federal government. So if you don't cooperate with the
(12:30):
Trump administration and they start cutting funds, there's not enough
people left in New York City to tax to fund
all the social service programs because they're already on their
way to Florida real quick.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
We're running out of time. But how would you have
handled Columbia University when those riots started.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Uh, the mayor was going to see the pope. He
should have canceled that trip. He should have been right
there on the campus. He should have had the NYPD inn.
He should have made arrests, and he should have named
in shamed Alvin Bragg who released them after they took
over Hamilton Hall. Because cuomo'sno cash bail. You see, it
always comes back to Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
He's tough. Oh, he knows how to govern.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, he did a really great job that he had
to flee all but because he feed impeachment and indictment,
give him another chance. What to destroy New York City
like he destroyed New York State. No go to sliwa
NYC dot com.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
And with that, I'm gonna say goodbye, but with a
promise that you're gonna come back. It's an open door policy.
Anytime you want to come back, please, do.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You offer me a microphone?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You know him there the Great Courtislee. I have to
come up with something different than the next Mayor of
New York. But the next Mayor of New York much
more to come. On Saturday morning, the author of a
book that includes the never before published of the last
interview with TV legend Johnny Carson.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Here's Larry Minti with more of the woor Saturday Morning show.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
No one owned late night TV like Johnny Carson. He
was an extremely talented and extremely private TV star, but
he did grant one last interview before he died, and
that is the subject of a new book called Carson
the Magnificent. Here is the co author, Mike Thomas. Mike,
(14:15):
thank you so much for being on the show. I
think it's a wonderful topic. I can't wait to read
the book. But your journey to being a part of
the book and being the co author is fascinating as well.
Can you tell us about the interview with Johnny Carson,
how that came about and who was your co author?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Well, first of all, Hi Larry, and thanks for having
me on the show. I appreciate it. Yeah, I now
Bill's Amy's the main author of this book, and Bill
was a mentor of mine. Three decades ago, when I
was in my twenties, I had moved to Chicago, you know,
and I had found out that Bill, whom I had
been reading since high school, had moved back to Chicago.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
From LA.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
So I'd dropped him some of my terrible freelance clips
and asked if I could just meet up with him
to pick his brain, and he said sure. I was delighted,
you know, And so we were just talking about his
work and celebrity journalism stuff like that, and it turned
out he needed some help doing a book he was
writing with Jay Leno, just basic transcript stuff. From there,
(15:20):
it just kept snowballing, and eventually I became his full
time assistant. We worked on a Andy Kaufman book together,
on a Frank Sinatra book, on a Regis Philbin book,
and then I left for a long stint at the
Chicago Sun Times as a features writer. Bill and I
stayed close friends that whole time. When Bill died in
twenty twenty three, his editor now publisher CEO of Simon
(15:45):
and Schuster called me up and said, I'd love to
find a way to keep this Carson book alive. Would
you consider finishing it? And so that's how I ended
up coming to the Johnny Carson book. And you know,
Bill had been writing it for about twelve years until
he got cancer in twenty thirteen. He just had to
stop everything, but his work all started with a Carson
(16:07):
interview in twenty oh two for Esquire magazine, and that
opened all the doors for everything, and he interviewed hundreds
of people who were close to Carson.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Were there notes, were their tape recordings? How did you
What did you have to go through? I had to
go through everything. Bill had a huge storage locker on
the North side of Chicago. His daughter gave me access
to it, and she also gave me access to his
whole laptop which had all these digitized Carson files on it. Yeah,
you know, like transcripts, everything else. And so I took
about a month before I said yes to the book
(16:39):
because I had first not read Bill's manuscript, and I
had also I didn't know what he had collected so far,
and so I went through all of that before I
came back and said, yeah, I have plenty here. But
he had everything, I mean, binders and binders filled with
transcripts and all kinds of artifacts. He had an ugly
tie from the Johnny Carson collection. He had pictures galore, magazine,
(17:00):
original magazines like Old Life magazines. There was nothing Johnny related,
and it seemed to me that Bill did not have.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
So I had more than enough in his collection.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
That is just so wonderful. Mike Thomas is the co
author of Carson the Magnificent. In a way, this would
be the same journey that the reader is going to
go through as you're going through the manuscript, as you're
going through all the interviews, all the memorabilia, what stood
out for you because and that the readers are going
(17:31):
to find out about themselves well, I mean mostly Bill's
original interviews. He talked with scores and scores of people
who were close to Johnny, and Bill himself was a
terrific interviewer. I mean people would tell him things that
they wouldn't tell other people because you know, he was
a trustworthy guy. It wasn't any sort of trickery.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
It was just Bill had this way of connecting with people,
as Johnny did on the show. That's what Johnny's interviews
were so good. There was nothing was forced with Bill.
You felt like he was your best friend, you know,
five minutes after meeting him. And so I think there's
a lot of that from people who knew Johnny, people
who had never talked before are in the book who
(18:17):
were close to him, including his second and third wives,
who talked extensively to Bill. Joanna the third wife is
still alive. She's I believe ninety three now. Joanne the
second wife died in twenty fifteen. But they were so
generous and sharing, you know, not only their memories of Johnny,
but Joanne gave him all kinds of artifacts from their lives,
(18:39):
including things from their divorce and everything else. So you know,
he had a wealth of material to deal with, and
yet Bill never felt he had enough. There was always
something he knew he was missing, and it ate at him.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Yeah, that's every great researcher and every great writer did
Johnny Carson and from what you saw reading through the
manuscripts and the interviews, realize the impact he was having
on American culture.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yeah, I don't think. I don't think he could have
failed to realize it. He didn't tout it a lot.
Johnny was not a touder and you know people called
him a king maker too. He didn't he downplayed that
as well. In terms of making people famous, especially comedians,
he knew his place in the firmament. I mean, how
(19:28):
can you not know you're the king when you're getting
that kind of His ratings were I don't know at
his height seventeen eighteen million people. The last show has
got way more than that. And he had a huge
influence and he knew it on the culture. But as
far as considering himself a king or an emperor, maybe inside,
(19:49):
but he would never say that, you know, overtly share with.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Us history from the book that stood after you.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Oh God, there are so many you know, I always
go back because I didn't know Johnny more than being
an entertainer or you know, sometimes a hothead or guy
drank him much, or guy could be cold, or wasn't
the greatest father. But I like the more emotional moments
in the book as they relate to you know, family
(20:20):
or friends, or especially his son Rick, who died in
nineteen ninety one. You could tell Johnny was just he
was never the same.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
And Doc s.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Everson said this after Rick died till the end of
his life and Johnny lived another fourteen years after that.
It just crushed him, not only because Rick was the
most like him in terms of sensibility and humor, but
I think Johnny also wished he could have been a
better father as well as a husband. But he was
always you know, the Tonight Show was always his most
(20:51):
significant other, and so all those other things fell by
the wayside, and I get the sense that it hit
him extra hard when Rick died. He did do a
beautiful eulogy for him on the Tonight Show, and he
brought his photos back for the last Tonight Show. But
it was those glimpses into the more emotional Johnny that
I really found interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I love the quote that you shared of when he asked,
what is the secret to success? Could you tell us
what that was?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Yeah, you're gonna have to remind me here the secret
to success? I oh, al be yourself and tell the truth. Oh,
be yourself and tell the truth. Sure, Sure, that was
his mantra. I mean that went to Johnny's genuineness. And
I don't know if he got that from Jack Benny.
(21:40):
He may have, or he may have just picked on
that up and it picked that up on that and
encapsulated it in a quote. But that was Johnny just
you know, be yourself. Of course, he was always the
part of himself that he wanted us to see on
the air. He was never his full self because his
full self was very kind, implicated, like all of us were.
(22:01):
Johnny was both impossibly cool, and this, you know, extrovert
on the air, drawing these great things.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Out of his interview subjects.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
But in life he was perfectly capable of spending a
lot of time by himself, and he could be introverted,
and he liked to read a lot or play with
his fancy telescopes.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
He was like all of us. He was a complicated
human being. But I cannot wait to read the book,
and I'm going to. Mike Thomas is the co author
of Carson the Magnificent, featuring the last interview with Johnny Carson,
the Great One Still to Come. The car Doctor Ron Ananian.
If you are in the market for a used car,
(22:39):
he has some tips.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Next here again is Larry Minty with the WOOR Saturday
Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
In the market for a used car, We've got you covered.
The car doctor ron Ananian has you covered. Ron is
always thanks for being.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Here, Good morning, Larry, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
It is really nerve racking when you go to buy
a car, is it true? Then when you buy a
new car it devalues by thousands as soon as you
leave the lot.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
It sure does. And it makes the argument for used
cars in a lot of cases. A better option. You know,
the quality of cars has gotten so much better over
the years. That used car, that two to three year
old used car that in a lot of cases from
certain manufacturers will be a CPO, a certified pre owned car,
makes a great used car. And as I always say,
(23:31):
the best used cars are usually the best new cars.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
There's a fear in that though as well. There's a
fear on how is this car treated? Does there have
any problems? What are they hiding from me? How do
you fix that problem?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yep, well there is. So you know, you decide what
you want to buy, and we're not going to spend
time this morning talking about budget because that's a whole
nother separate conversation. But you figure out what you want
to buy, and this is the car for me, and
you find that at your local dealer. Is a used car. Now,
if you're buying a Honda and hopeful, you're buying it
from a Honda dealer. If you're buying a Toyota, you're
buying it from a Toyota dealer, and so on. Because
(24:04):
when they sell you that two to three or four
year old used vehicle and they say, well, it's got
a warranty on it. We're going to honor the warranty.
You know, nothing against Toyota dealers, but Toyota dealers have
a hard time fixing Hondas and vice versa and so on.
It just it just doesn't work out. They're not trained
in that. You know, maybe they've got a relationship with
the other dealer that they they'll do exchange on used
cars things like that, But you always have to consider that.
(24:28):
But of course you're going to either find something that's
certified pre owned as I said, which is pre checked
out and it's guaranteed, it's certified, you get a you
get almost as good as warranty as you do with
a new vehicle on a CPO car.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
So you're saying that they should buy a used car
from a dealer and not from the owner.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Uh, well, you know, are those cars out there anymore?
Do they exist? I think? I think buying that used
car from the owner direct you can save a couple
of bucks. But you got to know what you're buying
and you've got to be able to have it checked
out by a mechanic because ultimately that's what it comes
down to, and you know how much money are you
actually saving and there's a lot of different ways to
(25:08):
look at that. You know, we see quite a few
used cars on a regular basis, and we put them
through our own checklist and you know, safety check and
come up with ye okay, it's got this, it's got that.
Here's what's going on. I think a lot of what
people are buying today, they're empowered. They can do it themselves.
For example, they can go out to NHTSA dot gov
(25:28):
National Highway Traffic Safety Authority dot gov with the vehicle's
serial number, the VIN, the seventeen digit viin which will
be on the title or on the dashboard of the
vehicle before they purchase it, and they can run that
VIN see if there's any open recalls on it for example.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Oh that's fascinating. Now. How about when you want to
sell your used car? Should should you sell it yourself?
Should you trade it in?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Well, I think when you go to when you to
make that decision, you've got awigh the numbers. You know,
if you trade in a used car and it's worth
ten thousand dollars and you're buying a forty thousand dollars
new car, you're going to pay sales tax on thirty
not forty, So you know, you've got to look at
the cost savings there, and then you know, at what
level of aggravation do you want to put yourself through.
(26:13):
How much money are you actually saving. You have to
remember a dealer when they take in a used car,
they're responsible for that car. They're presenting it, they have
to meet certain requirements by state law. They've got to
guarantee it if they're going to guarantee it, or they
have to tell you there's no guarantee, so you're buying
it as is. So you know, listen, it's a project
buying a used car, and you've got to take some
(26:34):
time and some research. As I said to someone this morning,
you don't want to be backed into a corner trying
to do this. You want to take the time to
go through the steps to make sure you get a
good one.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yeah, it's always tough when you have a problem with
your car and it's an older car, whether you sell
it or whether you.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Repair it right, it's it's you don't want to do
anything last minute. You know, here's a case where whether
it's the dealership that you've got the relationship with that
are working on the car, or your trusted mechanic that
you know, there's one cook in the kitchen, there's that
one voice that stands clear in the forest that when
you go to them, they have good advice and you
know they realize, hey, they're not necessarily helping you buy
(27:12):
the car, but they are helping you buy the car
because they're guiding you. And that's part of being a
mechanic today. You're guiding people as well as fixing the cars.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Ron and Adian, host of The Car Doctor, which is
available weekly on the iHeartRadio app full of information just
like you heard right now. He is also owner if
you want to go see I'm an our Automotive in Waldwick,
New Jersey. Ron, thanks for your time.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Thank you, Larry, We'll see you.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Thanks so much for spending part of your Saturday morning
with me, and thanks to producers Peter Airolano and Natalie Vaka.
I'll be back Monday for Mente in the morning from
six to ten. Have a great rest of your weekend.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
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