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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from dou wor Now the WR
Saturday Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Larry Minty, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Coming up on today's show, Craig McCarthy, City Hall bureau
chief for the New York Post talks about the first
mayoral debate on Wednesday night. New York City Councilwoman Vicky
Palladino has been the center of a controversy after posting
on x that Democratic mayoral candidates or Hanmam Donnie should
be deported. Actor Steve Gutenberg talks about a new Lifetime
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movie where he portrays a real life serial killer. And
we'll talk with Sister Irene O'Neil, who founded the incredible
charity Sisters Rising worldwide. The good sister and the CEO
of Sisters Rising will be here coming up. But first
let's get right to New York Post City Hall Bureau
(00:55):
chief Craig McCarthy to talk about Wednesday's mayoral debate. But
looking forward to this, Craig, I wanted to get your thoughts,
just give me some general thoughts at first, what did
you think?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Thanks for having me on. I mean, I think listen,
we all walked into this knowing that it was going
to be a pile on and Andrew Cuomo. You know, listen,
only one other candidate really in the field has gained
any momentum, and that's the DSA Socialist candidate, does Zoramandani.
I mean, all of these candidates were really looking to
make a name for themselves, right, trying to land a
good one liner, a good singer, but also at the
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same time get some policy in there, get some information
out there about them, because most of these people aren't
even pulling into double digits. So it's sort of exactly
what I expected to happen last night. But you know,
it's still I would say, entertaining CV to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
So pick some winners and losers for us.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I mean, I think, listen, the bar was set pretty
low for Cuomo at this point. I mean, I think
it's safe to say that we walk away and saying
he's he is one of the winners here, right. I mean,
he pretty much didn't have to trip walking up to
the podium, and he would have kind of come out
the winner here. But you know, listen, he successfully went
back and forth with some people, countered a bunch of
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things and a bunch of accusations, and you know, I
think he was a little bit strange taking him taking
some shots at people that was kind of like kicking
some of the candidates while they were down. I mean
Landa's specifically kind of going after his wife. I mean
it was for a front runner, kind of a little
bit strange in that situation. But you know, listen, I
think two of the kind of lower polling Dems that
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are trying to get some sort of you catch fire
at this last minute. I mean, people I talked to
you thought Adrian Adams did very well, you know, was
her interruptions were you know, concise, and she actually hit
some good policy things. And then Michael Blake I think.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Was just the wild card of the night and I
think stood out. But he's not gonna be there next
week because he has no money and didn't get matching funds.
Next week we're down to seven candidates.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well, the other person to talk about is the is
the candidate that that's rising in zorinmm Donnie, how did
he do do you think?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I mean, I think he held his own I think
this he landed a bunch of attacks, a little subtle
jabs on Cuomo. Cuomo went back and forth with him.
I think it kind of showed that Cuomo in his
camp do fear him as a true challenger to him,
because they had a bunch of attacks ready for him,
and they were ready to go at him with that.
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He listened. You know, these debates, I don't think it
hurts I think it I don't think it helps him
as much or hurts him. I think it kind of
keeps the momentum going. I actually think what's happening right
now as we're talking, we're writing the article and doctor
post at the Times broke this morning that you know,
AOC just endorsedment Donni has her number one rank choice.
I think that probably will have more effect on his
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campaign than the debate last night.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, who didn't see that one coming? Though?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Of course AOC was going to endorse mom Donnie. Don't
you think I mean that's that was kind of a
given from the beginning.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yeah, I mean there was Listen, there was a little
bit of a back and forth about whether go to
somebody like Lander who's not as far left as as Mendanni.
And then also why would she weigh in in something
when it seemingly you don't want to endorse the person
who then loses it. Kind of like takes away the
steam of your endorsement power. But yeah, I mean it
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was widely expected it would either have been hammered lander
in the last few weeks.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I know that there was a few people that went
after mom Donnie a couple of times, but it did
seem like he was almost leading a group of people
that there's a lot of people that are that are
far left candidates that have decided to team up together
to try to take out Andrew Cuomo. And we've seen
that at news conferences too. After a while, I know
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you were saying that he did a real nice job
and you don't think there's gonna be that much of
a fact. But after a while, I mean, I'm getting
a little bit nervous because I think Zui Mamdani would
be horrible for the city.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
And I'm getting a little.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Bit nervous because it does seem like the AOC endorsement
now all of these people working together to take out
Andrew Cuomo and mam Donni.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Seemed to be skating through.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I know Cuomo took a couple of shots, but the
media really hasn't been after him like I think they should, like,
how is he going to pay for everything. Did you
see that last night that it was almost a posse
of Mam Donni people going after Cuomo.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Well, I think you know, listen, the media has really
pointed out all of these, highlighted all of the things
that men Donni wants to do since the beginning, since
he sat down with us. In the follow up articles
and pointing out political had a great piece as well
at pointing out how most of these things that even
if he could get done, doesn't guarantee the money for
New York City, such as reasoning they're capital attacks, and
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most of the stuff he needs Albany to do, the
vast majority of it he needs Albany to do to
even do it, to get these these policies funded. I mean,
I mean working together and doing this. This is this
is putting in part of their strategy, part of their
their dream act. And and I think we you know, listen,
people inside the Cuomo camp that I've spoken with, and
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or sources I know that spoken with the Quoma camp.
We reported this the other day that they expected Andrew
Cuomo was never gonna galvanize a movement behind him, that
he's already well known, he has name recognition, people already
made up their opinion on him. They just they knew
inside the camp when they started this campaign. And this
is why he launched it so late, was that they
just needed to essentially survive to the to the primary day.
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But they were there was always gonna be the fear
of somebody catching fire, whoever it was, and now it
is Mandani.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Does he have a shot at winning this? I mean
he went from one percent to the point and then
in one last poet he was down nine points and
among likely voters almost tie on like the fifth ballot.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Does he have a real shot.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
At I think he has a At the current moment,
he definitely is a strong shot. I'm not sure. I
still think he has a ceiling here from everybody I
speak with, he is too far left for a lot
of people. I think the Israel issue is a sticking
point for a large voter block. And I think if
you look at the ranks choice voting in the last poll,
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which is where you're talking about, goes to the tenth
round and he loses nine points, Andrew Cuomo comes out
with fifty four percent and he has something in the
mid forties, And I think the words telling and where
I've been explaining this to people, is that if you
look at when you when you eliminate a stringer and
uninate lander, they're whoever those voters are, they're number two
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or their number three picks or the number four picks
are Andrew Cuomo. Because a large majority of those votes
when they are eliminated from the ballots go to Andrew Cuomo.
So I think there is and you know, listen, I
mean two form a controller and a former control. I
think they're kind of pictured as this more get stuff
done on more like very let's just kind of run
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the city effectively. So I think there is a striving
for that for the voter base, and I think that
kind of shows that. I think somebody like Mandonie, I
think the fear with some of the voters and why
he's capped is that is these really really far left
socialist moves.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
New York Post City Hall Bureau Chief Craig McCarthy up next.
You know him as a comedy actor, but tonight on Lifetime,
Steve Gutenberg plays a real life serial killer. We'll talk
with the actor when Saturday Morning continues.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Here again is Larry Minty with the wr Saturday Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Steve Guttenberg is best known for the hugely successful Police
Academy and Three Men in a Baby movies. Now he
is taking a dramatic turn. Steve plays real life serial
killer John Robinson in the Lifetime movie Kidnapped by a Killer.
The Heather Robinson Story, premieres tonight at eight o'clock. Steve,
(09:00):
thank you so much for being here today. This is
a wow. I've been watching clips of this. You are
too good in this as a serial killer. You were
really good.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Thanks you so much. It's a great opportunity, and first
of all, I'm glad to be on your show. Thanks.
And Lifetime is a terrific networks, a great platform, and
they give me the opportunity to play this serial killer,
which an actor only really gets to play once in
his career. There aren't that many parts for serial killers.
(09:30):
But I really enjoyed playing the part. It was a great,
great challenge and I think I succeeded. And the research
was difficult because this is a guy who led a
heinous life. But it's a true story. But the real
is going to be with Heather. Heather Robinson, who was
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adopted by her parents not knowing that she was actually
stolen from her mother by her uncle, supposed uncle who
actually murdered her biological mother and gave her as an
infant to his brother and sister in law. It's a
fascinating story.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
You couldn't make things up like this. I always find
that absolutely true. Life is weirder than fiction, but in
this case, it really, it really just broke the ceiling.
So I hope everybody gets to see at eight o'clock
on Lifetime. And I'm really proud of my performance.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, well you were great at the clubs I've seen
that you were great. Is it difficult to become this
person a serial killer?
Speaker 7 (10:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I always look at work as bum and I'm grateful
to work. I love to work, So no, difficult. There's life.
There's occurrences in life that are difficult. Work is not difficult.
It's a great opportunity to prove yourself, to use my
skills and my craft and create an illusion and that
(11:00):
I am a certain character, like all actors do. Every
actor in every play or movie or television program is
creating an illusion. So I got the opportunity to do
that again. Usually actors are cast for what they can play.
Their players. You know Gary Cooper or you know anybody
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who you'll see. I've just pointed out Gary Cooper is
not funny. Gary Grant will always play Carry Grant, and
that's who you want to see. But when you're able
to disappear into a role like I did with John Robinson,
was it's a great opportunity. And when we actors love that,
we love to do an hour and a half of makeup,
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which I did, c Ate a different walk, a different positioning,
a different posture, different voice. So it was really a
great opportunity. And now you know what works not difficult.
Not working is difficult.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Although there are there some actors that get so involved
in a role it almost haunts them, and it's good
to hear that that doesn't happen with you. You can
walk away from a role of playing a serial killer
and it doesn't affect you afterwards.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
Right, everybody's different, you know, all human beings have different tolerances,
and there are some actors that need to be method
and need to be in the character all day and
they need maybe to bring that character home. I don't
think it's fair for my coworkers to have to deal
with somebody who's who's putting sort of a burden on
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them that you have to act like they're that character
unless I really need it, But then I'll keep my
circle small. But when I come home, I absolutely don't
think it's fair to everybody in my life to sort
of create this illusion that I'm so important, that my
work is so important that it takes me a few
hours to come down from it at the end of
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the day. That's not fair. The truth is we're not
that important, are not that important. We're doing a job,
just like bumbers and politicians and accountants and teachers and
nurses and doctors. We're all doing a job. Some people
are more important than others. I would say, maybe doctors
(13:15):
and emergency service Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, but
absolutely that my job is that important.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
The last time we talked to you was during the
wildfires out in Los Angeles, and you were out helping
your neighbors fight, get back and survive and help them
to get their stuff out of the houses. How are
you doing, how's your house doing, and how are your
neighbors doing well?
Speaker 6 (13:39):
The Palisades and Altadena are full of resilient, hopeful people
and strong people, smart people. We've got a terrific One
of our leaders is Rick Caruso, who's a great builder
and developer, and he's going to do a lot of
great work in the Palisades. Everybody is doing the best
they can. Can't really hide the fact that it was
(14:02):
an insane natural disaster. Six thousand homes were burned to
the ground total loss, and that means let's say four
people a home, you got twenty five thousand people without
their homes. It's a lot of people double that with
the Altadena fire. So it's a very difficult time. Everybody
puts a smile on their face, gets up in the morning,
(14:22):
does their best, and that's what we do as human beings.
We want to be our best. But it's not without
it being a very very difficult time, and it's going
to take many years for both Altadena and the Palisades
to come back. The hills are getting green again, which
shows that Mother Nature is so resilient, and it'll take
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a long time to rebuild all these homes and take
a long time to get everything back to normal.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Well, we all remember you out there helping people, and
we're going to probably remember you for a long time
after people watch Kidnap by a Killer. They had the
Robinson's story because it's a different Steve gutenb than you're
used to. But you did a wonderful job. Thank you
so much, Steve for spending some time with us.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Thanks having me on the show. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Kidnapped by a Killer, The Heather Robinson Story premieres tonight
at eight o'clock. New York City Councilwoman Vicki Palladino made
headlines this week after a social media posting saying mayoral
candidate Zorhan Mamdanni should be deported. The councilwoman is coming up.
The charity is called Sisters Rising Worldwide. It's made up
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of over six thousand nuns across the globe who are
changing the world. That's still ahead on Saturday Morning.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Back now to the WOOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Minti.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
New York City council Woman Vicki Palladino made national headlines
this week when she suggested that New York assemblymen and
candidate for Mayor of New York, Zorin Mam Donnie, should
be deported. Mom Donnie is from Uganda and became a
US citizen over seven years ago. Well, VICKI, congratulations, you
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made the New York Times.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Thank you, Latry, good morning.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Good morning. How are you? You know what the controversy is?
Go ahead and respond the ball.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Let me be clear, the tweet was as simple as
could be. It was simply about him himself. Let's talk
about how insane it is to elect someone to any
major office who hasn't been a US citizen for less
than five years. It's only been New York citizens a
citizen for less than ten years. It says much less
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a radical leftist who actually hates everything about this country
and is here specifically to undermine everything we've ever been about. Now,
after that, I simply put duport period. We know that
he is now an American citizen, we cannot depoort him
to Port was sarcasm. It was a but what I
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do believe in. And if he had been in college
at universities at this particular juncture, whereas his anti American,
anti Semitic rhetoric would have come under fire, yes he
would be on the deportation list. Let's remember something here.
This is a guy running for mayor. He's been in
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this country since he's seven years old. He only became
an American citizen in twenty twenty. Why is that? Why
did he wait so long? This is a guy who's
got a radical agenda. It's laced with anti Semitism, Marxism,
and anti Americanism. He gained traction with the very same
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segment of the city that's been responsible for years of
chaos and violence against the Jewish community, students, and our police. Now,
particularly since October seventh and the massacre in Israel, his
candidacy as an incident to underscore the need for the
deportation efforts currently being undertaken by the Trump administration, particularly
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on of college campuses where these ideas metastasize, so that
we can prevent future Zorans from taking roots here in America. Now,
when I talk about Zoran, I'm talking about not just Zooren.
I'm talking about the people that he stands with, the
leaders of Hebbelah, the leaders of Hamath. He's calling for
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groceries to be government run. He's talking about free rent,
he's talking about free buses. This guy is up and
out at thirty two years old, only as citizens in
twenty twenty, and he's running for mayor in the largest
city and the greatest city in this country. He condones
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everything that is wrong by the radical left, and if
they get insulted with honesty or their feelings get hurt
because I use the word deport, Well that's just too
damn bad, all right, because now it's time to shine
a light on what's actually running for the mayor of
the City of New York.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Well, I'll tell you what we had. Let me let
me just interrupt for one second.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
We had Jeffrey Lichtmann on who is you know, he's
been combating anti Semitism his entire career. Is a high
powered defense attorney in New York City. You probably know
his name. And he agreed with almost everything you said
about zorin Mam Donnie. He thought you made a mistake
by allowing zorin Mam Donnie to be a victim now
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and saying that this was Islamic filmmaking, that you were
going after immigrants.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, how do you respond to that.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Well, I'm not going after immigrants. So it's interpretation of
the tweet, and I appreciate what he said.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I truly do what.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
I say is this. You know, it's interesting that one
single tweet from a councilwoman should become such a tremendous
outrage to so many. I don't mean to make that
this guy is by no means in any way, shape
or form a victim. Okay, this is a guy who's
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got an agenda. He hangs around with the worst of
the worst. And you know what to me at this
point in time, if we do not do what needs
to be done here, How did Cuomo lose a forty
point lead? Why did Mandabi? Why did this guy's all
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ran contribute seventy thousand dollars to Adrian Adams mayorial race
because they are What they are doing is legally rigging
the system in the rank choice voting. This is a
very bad thing. Bomo to his mistake. He everybody knows
who Cuomo is, all right. He didn't need to run
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the last two months on name recognition. What he needed
to do was take apart this unknown unknown but is
now naturally known, and take him apart limb by limb
as to what he stands for and how he can
and will burn this city to the ground. We're almost
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there already, But to put somebody in light like him
into the office of mayor of the of dar city.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Is only going to make this were we're dead in
the water.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
I'm going to tell you that right now. And uh,
you know this only underscores you know, Trump's deportation and
uh why these people need to be removed. He stands
with these students. Okay, everything about him is absolutely absolutely
out of control, and he says it. He's been an
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open book, he has not been hiding anything. But yet nobody,
but nobody has come out who's running for the mayor
of the City of New York to actually condemn what
he stands for.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Yeah, that's been surprising. And lack of media interest too,
I mean, it's really a shocking to me. I agree
with the dangers of what you're saying, with the dangers
of this candidate, but even he has not received the
scrutiny he should be receiving. And so if your tweet's
going to bring that type of scrutiny, then God bless
you for doing it. Vicky Palladino, New York City Council
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represents District nineteen of Northeast Queens.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Talk to you again next week. Thanks for coming on today, Vicky.
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Oh, of course, of course, Larry, thank you so very much.
Have a great day.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Still to come. We're going to speak with two women
who are doing God's work on Earth. Sister Irene O'Neil,
the founder and president of Sisters Rising Worldwide, and the
charity COO Kelly Mallin Young.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Now more of the w Saturday Morning Show, and Larry Mante.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Sisters Rising Worldwide is a global charity made up of
over six thousand nuns who fight poverty and human trafficking.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
We spoke with Sister Irene.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
O'Neil, the charity's founder and president, and it's COO Kelly
Mellon Young. Sister Irene, Kelly, thank you so much. I
really appreciate your time, especially I appreciate your organization. Kelly,
let me start with you because I want to get
to how it all started. A little bit later a
set with Sister Irene. But tell us give us an
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overview of Sisters Rising Worldwide and what you do around
the world.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Well, essentially, what Sisters Wrising Worldwide does is it collaborates
with the largest global movement of women for good the
world has ever seen. So we're collaborating with six hundred
and fifty thousand sisters and these women are you know,
leaders and experts in their community and they're responding to poverty,
you know, say, with deep compassion.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
That's you know, the whole of.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
Who they are, and they come up with lasting solutions.
So whether it's through education, job training, women empowerment, they
tap into those unique strengths of the people that they
live there. And what steps them their part is that
they understand by living there what those deep rooted processes are,
and they live among people, understand the local history and culture,
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and that's how they are able to invest in long
term changes. So it's really exciting because it's from the
grassroots that they're coming up with these solutions, and you know,
they make lasting impact and they can stretch a dollar,
you know, further than anybody. They make every resource count.
So when when people are investing in the Sisters, they
can see remarkable changes in those communities. And that's really
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what they're doing, is they're dressing root causes of the
poverty and social injustices around the.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
World, all around the world. And started with sister Irene,
how did you what inspired you? How did you come
up with this?
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (24:59):
My god, Well, I actually know when I think about it,
I know the heart of the Sisters I know that
there's this group that Kelly was just talking about, six
hundred and fifty thousand who want to help, and not
for their own benefit. They want to help. It is
their whole motivation for existing. And I saw it happening
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here in my little community of Sisters of Saint Joseph
in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where where they really have helped
transform from what the early settlement of this area into
the flourishing metropolitan area it is now. And it occurred
to me that if we had that, if the nuns
around the world who know the root causes of the
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poverty and are living in this community, if they had
access to the resources to solve the problems, which they
know they could name what the root causes are of
the poverty around them. If we could solve that, we
could see communities of distant franchised people and everybody around
the worlds flourishing and all at the same time. Because
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when you think when we're sleeping, they're awake and they're working,
and when they're sleeping, we're awake and we're working, right,
I mean, it's a phenomenal movement. And the Sisters were
not connected, you know, our orders were connected. We know,
like I know what the sisters of Saint Joseph to
but and where we are, but I don't know where
necessarily all the other sisters are. So what we realized
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is if we could connect those sisters to each other,
they can share best practices, expertise, we could get resources
flowing more easily. I mean, it was it's really it
is a grand vision. And the weird thing is is
that it is flourishing. We are growing like crazy.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That is wonderful.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Are helping us.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
And you know the thing is that there's an automatic
trust when it's a sister. All they walk in with
a trust that maybe somebody else has to build, but
it seems with the sister it's automatic.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
What accoltly is it poverty?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I know that's the basis of all of this, but
other issues must spring from that. What what are some
other urgent issues you're dealing with?
Speaker 9 (27:10):
Eighty percent of what the sisters do is really to
prevent the vulnerable people from being trafficked. So when I
talk about education, it's to help them, you know, be educated,
you know, be able to get jobs. And say it's
protect them keeping them in school so they're not you
know out there working and vulnerable to traffickers. So it
is a big movement, and trafficking is happening. It everywhere,
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It's in every zip code in the United States. It's
a ginormous industry. When I first started with Sisters Rising worldwide,
it was it was like one hundred and fifty billion
dollar industry for profit. It's now two hundred and thirty
six billion dollars. I mean, it's a huge issue, and
the Sisters are doing their part at the ground level
to protect them because it's so much easier to prevent
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somebody from being trafficked than to, you know, work with
a survivor of somebody being trafficked. That's a lot longer process.
So they're at the they're at the crossroots of protecting
the people.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
You know, sister, I'm sure you have thousands of success stories,
but can you share one with us, one that can
let people know that they're listening right now what you
do and the impact you have.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Well, here's a here's a simple one. Let me take
you to Kenya, the western part and where there was
water was a problem. There's no water available and that
of course, and you can everybody can picture this. The
young girls are walking to the wells in the morning,
or not the wells, but the ponds or whatever source
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of water. There is a couple of miles away and
carrying back buckets of water either on their head or
on their head and carrying them in their hands. And
because of that, they're not in school and that is
a that's a huge problem. Well what we've discovered, but
you know, in this part of Kenya, they have a
rainy season, and so the real quick and inexpensive solution
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were water catchment systems. And a water catchment system class
eight hundred dollars, it changes the lights of a little
community with a water catchment system. And when they had
water and didn't have to go back and forth carrying it,
they could go to school. And when they're in school,
suddenly you see who are these little girls, what do
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they become? I mean one of them. There's a woman
named Antonette who was just carrying water for years and
she is now a lawyer. And there's a woman this
is all in the same community. There's a woman named Leah.
She's working on her PhD now, but she's head of
a county's human resources. And then a third girl in
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the same community is Beatrice who she's now head of
a private school. So you start seeing who these people
can become and how they can contribute to their own community.
And all they needed was water catchment systems and the
sister knew that. Yeah, it's incredible. I can give you
a couple other examples.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
Well, I was going to say it too, those water
catchment systems. It's eight hundred dollars for one of them
to be installed in Kenya. Now in other areas is attit,
you know, more expensive, but Keny have eight hundred dollars,
and you know you're able to really change their life
with somebody.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Well, how can let's stay with you, Kelly. How can
local listeners get involved and how can they support your organization?
Speaker 9 (30:23):
That's a great question. It's really about, you know, sharing
the organization, going online, sharing some of our stories. And
then we have a program called the Sister Champion, right
be It's Sister Champion, And what that means is you're
like a monthly donor. And you know some people feel like, well,
I don't have any money. It's five dollars a month
can make such impact around the world. And if they
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gay five dollars a month and then they had five
friends at gay five dollars a month, right, and start
sharing us on Instagram and spreading the word. You think
it's a movement that really everybody can get behind because
it's really all about humanity and you know, helping those
in need.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And where do they go online?
Speaker 9 (31:00):
So we are at We simplified it. It's www dot
SRW dot org.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
SRW dot org. We will put that up on our
website as well. Sister Irene O'Neill and President and CEOO
Kelly Mallanyong, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I appreciate your time.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
We appreciate thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
That wraps up Saturday morning for this week. Thank you
for listening, and thanks to producer Peter Arolano and Natalie Vodka.
I'll be back Monday morning from six to ten for
MENTI in the morning. Hope you join us.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
This has been a podcast from WR
This is a podcast from dou wor Now the WR
Saturday Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Larry Minty, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Coming up on today's show, Craig McCarthy, City Hall bureau
chief for the New York Post talks about the first
mayoral debate on Wednesday night. New York City Councilwoman Vicky
Palladino has been the center of a controversy after posting
on x that Democratic mayoral candidates or Hanmam Donnie should
be deported. Actor Steve Gutenberg talks about a new Lifetime
(00:33):
movie where he portrays a real life serial killer. And
we'll talk with Sister Irene O'Neil, who founded the incredible
charity Sisters Rising worldwide. The good sister and the CEO
of Sisters Rising will be here coming up. But first
let's get right to New York Post City Hall Bureau
(00:55):
chief Craig McCarthy to talk about Wednesday's mayoral debate. But
looking forward to this, Craig, I wanted to get your thoughts,
just give me some general thoughts at first, what did
you think?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Thanks for having me on. I mean, I think listen,
we all walked into this knowing that it was going
to be a pile on and Andrew Cuomo. You know, listen,
only one other candidate really in the field has gained
any momentum, and that's the DSA Socialist candidate, does Zoramandani.
I mean, all of these candidates were really looking to
make a name for themselves, right, trying to land a
good one liner, a good singer, but also at the
(01:26):
same time get some policy in there, get some information
out there about them, because most of these people aren't
even pulling into double digits. So it's sort of exactly
what I expected to happen last night. But you know,
it's still I would say, entertaining CV to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
So pick some winners and losers for us.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I mean, I think, listen, the bar was set pretty
low for Cuomo at this point. I mean, I think
it's safe to say that we walk away and saying
he's he is one of the winners here, right. I mean,
he pretty much didn't have to trip walking up to
the podium, and he would have kind of come out
the winner here. But you know, listen, he successfully went
back and forth with some people, countered a bunch of
(02:09):
things and a bunch of accusations, and you know, I
think he was a little bit strange taking him taking
some shots at people that was kind of like kicking
some of the candidates while they were down. I mean
Landa's specifically kind of going after his wife. I mean
it was for a front runner, kind of a little
bit strange in that situation. But you know, listen, I
think two of the kind of lower polling Dems that
(02:33):
are trying to get some sort of you catch fire
at this last minute. I mean, people I talked to
you thought Adrian Adams did very well, you know, was
her interruptions were you know, concise, and she actually hit
some good policy things. And then Michael Blake I think.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Was just the wild card of the night and I
think stood out. But he's not gonna be there next
week because he has no money and didn't get matching funds.
Next week we're down to seven candidates.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well, the other person to talk about is the is
the candidate that that's rising in zorinmm Donnie, how did
he do do you think?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I mean, I think he held his own I think
this he landed a bunch of attacks, a little subtle
jabs on Cuomo. Cuomo went back and forth with him.
I think it kind of showed that Cuomo in his
camp do fear him as a true challenger to him,
because they had a bunch of attacks ready for him,
and they were ready to go at him with that.
(03:32):
He listened. You know, these debates, I don't think it
hurts I think it I don't think it helps him
as much or hurts him. I think it kind of
keeps the momentum going. I actually think what's happening right
now as we're talking, we're writing the article and doctor
post at the Times broke this morning that you know,
AOC just endorsedment Donni has her number one rank choice.
I think that probably will have more effect on his
(03:54):
campaign than the debate last night.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, who didn't see that one coming? Though?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Of course AOC was going to endorse mom Donnie. Don't
you think I mean that's that was kind of a
given from the beginning.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yeah, I mean there was Listen, there was a little
bit of a back and forth about whether go to
somebody like Lander who's not as far left as as Mendanni.
And then also why would she weigh in in something
when it seemingly you don't want to endorse the person
who then loses it. Kind of like takes away the
steam of your endorsement power. But yeah, I mean it
(04:29):
was widely expected it would either have been hammered lander
in the last few weeks.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I know that there was a few people that went
after mom Donnie a couple of times, but it did
seem like he was almost leading a group of people
that there's a lot of people that are that are
far left candidates that have decided to team up together
to try to take out Andrew Cuomo. And we've seen
that at news conferences too. After a while, I know
(04:56):
you were saying that he did a real nice job
and you don't think there's gonna be that much of
a fact. But after a while, I mean, I'm getting
a little bit nervous because I think Zui Mamdani would
be horrible for the city.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
And I'm getting a little.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Bit nervous because it does seem like the AOC endorsement
now all of these people working together to take out
Andrew Cuomo and mam Donni.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Seemed to be skating through.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I know Cuomo took a couple of shots, but the
media really hasn't been after him like I think they should, like,
how is he going to pay for everything. Did you
see that last night that it was almost a posse
of Mam Donni people going after Cuomo.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Well, I think you know, listen, the media has really
pointed out all of these, highlighted all of the things
that men Donni wants to do since the beginning, since
he sat down with us. In the follow up articles
and pointing out political had a great piece as well
at pointing out how most of these things that even
if he could get done, doesn't guarantee the money for
New York City, such as reasoning they're capital attacks, and
(05:55):
most of the stuff he needs Albany to do, the
vast majority of it he needs Albany to do to
even do it, to get these these policies funded. I mean,
I mean working together and doing this. This is this
is putting in part of their strategy, part of their
their dream act. And and I think we you know, listen,
people inside the Cuomo camp that I've spoken with, and
(06:16):
or sources I know that spoken with the Quoma camp.
We reported this the other day that they expected Andrew
Cuomo was never gonna galvanize a movement behind him, that
he's already well known, he has name recognition, people already
made up their opinion on him. They just they knew
inside the camp when they started this campaign. And this
is why he launched it so late, was that they
just needed to essentially survive to the to the primary day.
(06:40):
But they were there was always gonna be the fear
of somebody catching fire, whoever it was, and now it
is Mandani.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Does he have a shot at winning this? I mean
he went from one percent to the point and then
in one last poet he was down nine points and
among likely voters almost tie on like the fifth ballot.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Does he have a real shot.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
At I think he has a At the current moment,
he definitely is a strong shot. I'm not sure. I
still think he has a ceiling here from everybody I
speak with, he is too far left for a lot
of people. I think the Israel issue is a sticking
point for a large voter block. And I think if
you look at the ranks choice voting in the last poll,
(07:20):
which is where you're talking about, goes to the tenth
round and he loses nine points, Andrew Cuomo comes out
with fifty four percent and he has something in the
mid forties, And I think the words telling and where
I've been explaining this to people, is that if you
look at when you when you eliminate a stringer and
uninate lander, they're whoever those voters are, they're number two
(07:41):
or their number three picks or the number four picks
are Andrew Cuomo. Because a large majority of those votes
when they are eliminated from the ballots go to Andrew Cuomo.
So I think there is and you know, listen, I
mean two form a controller and a former control. I
think they're kind of pictured as this more get stuff
done on more like very let's just kind of run
(08:02):
the city effectively. So I think there is a striving
for that for the voter base, and I think that
kind of shows that. I think somebody like Mandonie, I
think the fear with some of the voters and why
he's capped is that is these really really far left
socialist moves.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
New York Post City Hall Bureau Chief Craig McCarthy up next.
You know him as a comedy actor, but tonight on Lifetime,
Steve Gutenberg plays a real life serial killer. We'll talk
with the actor when Saturday Morning continues.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Here again is Larry Minty with the wr Saturday Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Steve Guttenberg is best known for the hugely successful Police
Academy and Three Men in a Baby movies. Now he
is taking a dramatic turn. Steve plays real life serial
killer John Robinson in the Lifetime movie Kidnapped by a Killer.
The Heather Robinson Story, premieres tonight at eight o'clock. Steve,
(09:00):
thank you so much for being here today. This is
a wow. I've been watching clips of this. You are
too good in this as a serial killer. You were
really good.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Thanks you so much. It's a great opportunity, and first
of all, I'm glad to be on your show. Thanks.
And Lifetime is a terrific networks, a great platform, and
they give me the opportunity to play this serial killer,
which an actor only really gets to play once in
his career. There aren't that many parts for serial killers.
(09:30):
But I really enjoyed playing the part. It was a great,
great challenge and I think I succeeded. And the research
was difficult because this is a guy who led a
heinous life. But it's a true story. But the real
is going to be with Heather. Heather Robinson, who was
(09:52):
adopted by her parents not knowing that she was actually
stolen from her mother by her uncle, supposed uncle who
actually murdered her biological mother and gave her as an
infant to his brother and sister in law. It's a
fascinating story.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
You couldn't make things up like this. I always find
that absolutely true. Life is weirder than fiction, but in
this case, it really, it really just broke the ceiling.
So I hope everybody gets to see at eight o'clock
on Lifetime. And I'm really proud of my performance.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, well you were great at the clubs I've seen
that you were great. Is it difficult to become this
person a serial killer?
Speaker 7 (10:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I always look at work as bum and I'm grateful
to work. I love to work, So no, difficult. There's life.
There's occurrences in life that are difficult. Work is not difficult.
It's a great opportunity to prove yourself, to use my
skills and my craft and create an illusion and that
(11:00):
I am a certain character, like all actors do. Every
actor in every play or movie or television program is
creating an illusion. So I got the opportunity to do
that again. Usually actors are cast for what they can play.
Their players. You know Gary Cooper or you know anybody
(11:22):
who you'll see. I've just pointed out Gary Cooper is
not funny. Gary Grant will always play Carry Grant, and
that's who you want to see. But when you're able
to disappear into a role like I did with John Robinson,
was it's a great opportunity. And when we actors love that,
we love to do an hour and a half of makeup,
(11:42):
which I did, c Ate a different walk, a different positioning,
a different posture, different voice. So it was really a
great opportunity. And now you know what works not difficult.
Not working is difficult.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Although there are there some actors that get so involved
in a role it almost haunts them, and it's good
to hear that that doesn't happen with you. You can
walk away from a role of playing a serial killer
and it doesn't affect you afterwards.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
Right, everybody's different, you know, all human beings have different tolerances,
and there are some actors that need to be method
and need to be in the character all day and
they need maybe to bring that character home. I don't
think it's fair for my coworkers to have to deal
with somebody who's who's putting sort of a burden on
(12:34):
them that you have to act like they're that character
unless I really need it, But then I'll keep my
circle small. But when I come home, I absolutely don't
think it's fair to everybody in my life to sort
of create this illusion that I'm so important, that my
work is so important that it takes me a few
hours to come down from it at the end of
(12:55):
the day. That's not fair. The truth is we're not
that important, are not that important. We're doing a job,
just like bumbers and politicians and accountants and teachers and
nurses and doctors. We're all doing a job. Some people
are more important than others. I would say, maybe doctors
(13:15):
and emergency service Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, but
absolutely that my job is that important.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
The last time we talked to you was during the
wildfires out in Los Angeles, and you were out helping
your neighbors fight, get back and survive and help them
to get their stuff out of the houses. How are
you doing, how's your house doing, and how are your
neighbors doing well?
Speaker 6 (13:39):
The Palisades and Altadena are full of resilient, hopeful people
and strong people, smart people. We've got a terrific One
of our leaders is Rick Caruso, who's a great builder
and developer, and he's going to do a lot of
great work in the Palisades. Everybody is doing the best
they can. Can't really hide the fact that it was
(14:02):
an insane natural disaster. Six thousand homes were burned to
the ground total loss, and that means let's say four
people a home, you got twenty five thousand people without
their homes. It's a lot of people double that with
the Altadena fire. So it's a very difficult time. Everybody
puts a smile on their face, gets up in the morning,
(14:22):
does their best, and that's what we do as human beings.
We want to be our best. But it's not without
it being a very very difficult time, and it's going
to take many years for both Altadena and the Palisades
to come back. The hills are getting green again, which
shows that Mother Nature is so resilient, and it'll take
(14:43):
a long time to rebuild all these homes and take
a long time to get everything back to normal.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Well, we all remember you out there helping people, and
we're going to probably remember you for a long time
after people watch Kidnap by a Killer. They had the
Robinson's story because it's a different Steve gutenb than you're
used to. But you did a wonderful job. Thank you
so much, Steve for spending some time with us.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Thanks having me on the show. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Kidnapped by a Killer, The Heather Robinson Story premieres tonight
at eight o'clock. New York City Councilwoman Vicki Palladino made
headlines this week after a social media posting saying mayoral
candidate Zorhan Mamdanni should be deported. The councilwoman is coming up.
The charity is called Sisters Rising Worldwide. It's made up
(15:31):
of over six thousand nuns across the globe who are
changing the world. That's still ahead on Saturday Morning.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Back now to the WOOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Minti.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
New York City council Woman Vicki Palladino made national headlines
this week when she suggested that New York assemblymen and
candidate for Mayor of New York, Zorin Mam Donnie, should
be deported. Mom Donnie is from Uganda and became a
US citizen over seven years ago. Well, VICKI, congratulations, you
(16:06):
made the New York Times.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Thank you, Latry, good morning.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Good morning. How are you? You know what the controversy is?
Go ahead and respond the ball.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Let me be clear, the tweet was as simple as
could be. It was simply about him himself. Let's talk
about how insane it is to elect someone to any
major office who hasn't been a US citizen for less
than five years. It's only been New York citizens a
citizen for less than ten years. It says much less
(16:38):
a radical leftist who actually hates everything about this country
and is here specifically to undermine everything we've ever been about. Now,
after that, I simply put duport period. We know that
he is now an American citizen, we cannot depoort him
to Port was sarcasm. It was a but what I
(17:01):
do believe in. And if he had been in college
at universities at this particular juncture, whereas his anti American,
anti Semitic rhetoric would have come under fire, yes he
would be on the deportation list. Let's remember something here.
This is a guy running for mayor. He's been in
(17:24):
this country since he's seven years old. He only became
an American citizen in twenty twenty. Why is that? Why
did he wait so long? This is a guy who's
got a radical agenda. It's laced with anti Semitism, Marxism,
and anti Americanism. He gained traction with the very same
(17:46):
segment of the city that's been responsible for years of
chaos and violence against the Jewish community, students, and our police. Now,
particularly since October seventh and the massacre in Israel, his
candidacy as an incident to underscore the need for the
deportation efforts currently being undertaken by the Trump administration, particularly
(18:09):
on of college campuses where these ideas metastasize, so that
we can prevent future Zorans from taking roots here in America. Now,
when I talk about Zoran, I'm talking about not just Zooren.
I'm talking about the people that he stands with, the
leaders of Hebbelah, the leaders of Hamath. He's calling for
(18:33):
groceries to be government run. He's talking about free rent,
he's talking about free buses. This guy is up and
out at thirty two years old, only as citizens in
twenty twenty, and he's running for mayor in the largest
city and the greatest city in this country. He condones
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everything that is wrong by the radical left, and if
they get insulted with honesty or their feelings get hurt
because I use the word deport, Well that's just too
damn bad, all right, because now it's time to shine
a light on what's actually running for the mayor of
the City of New York.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Well, I'll tell you what we had. Let me let
me just interrupt for one second.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
We had Jeffrey Lichtmann on who is you know, he's
been combating anti Semitism his entire career. Is a high
powered defense attorney in New York City. You probably know
his name. And he agreed with almost everything you said
about zorin Mam Donnie. He thought you made a mistake
by allowing zorin Mam Donnie to be a victim now
(19:40):
and saying that this was Islamic filmmaking, that you were
going after immigrants.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, how do you respond to that.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Well, I'm not going after immigrants. So it's interpretation of
the tweet, and I appreciate what he said.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I truly do what.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
I say is this. You know, it's interesting that one
single tweet from a councilwoman should become such a tremendous
outrage to so many. I don't mean to make that
this guy is by no means in any way, shape
or form a victim. Okay, this is a guy who's
(20:17):
got an agenda. He hangs around with the worst of
the worst. And you know what to me at this
point in time, if we do not do what needs
to be done here, How did Cuomo lose a forty
point lead? Why did Mandabi? Why did this guy's all
(20:39):
ran contribute seventy thousand dollars to Adrian Adams mayorial race
because they are What they are doing is legally rigging
the system in the rank choice voting. This is a
very bad thing. Bomo to his mistake. He everybody knows
who Cuomo is, all right. He didn't need to run
(21:00):
the last two months on name recognition. What he needed
to do was take apart this unknown unknown but is
now naturally known, and take him apart limb by limb
as to what he stands for and how he can
and will burn this city to the ground. We're almost
(21:22):
there already, But to put somebody in light like him
into the office of mayor of the of dar city.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Is only going to make this were we're dead in
the water.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
I'm going to tell you that right now. And uh,
you know this only underscores you know, Trump's deportation and
uh why these people need to be removed. He stands
with these students. Okay, everything about him is absolutely absolutely
out of control, and he says it. He's been an
(21:55):
open book, he has not been hiding anything. But yet nobody,
but nobody has come out who's running for the mayor
of the City of New York to actually condemn what
he stands for.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Yeah, that's been surprising. And lack of media interest too,
I mean, it's really a shocking to me. I agree
with the dangers of what you're saying, with the dangers
of this candidate, but even he has not received the
scrutiny he should be receiving. And so if your tweet's
going to bring that type of scrutiny, then God bless
you for doing it. Vicky Palladino, New York City Council
(22:33):
represents District nineteen of Northeast Queens.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Talk to you again next week. Thanks for coming on today, Vicky.
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Oh, of course, of course, Larry, thank you so very much.
Have a great day.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Still to come. We're going to speak with two women
who are doing God's work on Earth. Sister Irene O'Neil,
the founder and president of Sisters Rising Worldwide, and the
charity COO Kelly Mallin Young.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Now more of the w Saturday Morning Show, and Larry Mante.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Sisters Rising Worldwide is a global charity made up of
over six thousand nuns who fight poverty and human trafficking.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
We spoke with Sister Irene.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
O'Neil, the charity's founder and president, and it's COO Kelly
Mellon Young. Sister Irene, Kelly, thank you so much. I
really appreciate your time, especially I appreciate your organization. Kelly,
let me start with you because I want to get
to how it all started. A little bit later a
set with Sister Irene. But tell us give us an
(23:35):
overview of Sisters Rising Worldwide and what you do around
the world.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Well, essentially, what Sisters Wrising Worldwide does is it collaborates
with the largest global movement of women for good the
world has ever seen. So we're collaborating with six hundred
and fifty thousand sisters and these women are you know,
leaders and experts in their community and they're responding to poverty,
you know, say, with deep compassion.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
That's you know, the whole of.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
Who they are, and they come up with lasting solutions.
So whether it's through education, job training, women empowerment, they
tap into those unique strengths of the people that they
live there. And what steps them their part is that
they understand by living there what those deep rooted processes are,
and they live among people, understand the local history and culture,
(24:23):
and that's how they are able to invest in long
term changes. So it's really exciting because it's from the
grassroots that they're coming up with these solutions, and you know,
they make lasting impact and they can stretch a dollar,
you know, further than anybody. They make every resource count.
So when when people are investing in the Sisters, they
can see remarkable changes in those communities. And that's really
(24:47):
what they're doing, is they're dressing root causes of the
poverty and social injustices around the.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
World, all around the world. And started with sister Irene,
how did you what inspired you? How did you come
up with this?
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (24:59):
My god, Well, I actually know when I think about it,
I know the heart of the Sisters I know that
there's this group that Kelly was just talking about, six
hundred and fifty thousand who want to help, and not
for their own benefit. They want to help. It is
their whole motivation for existing. And I saw it happening
(25:19):
here in my little community of Sisters of Saint Joseph
in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where where they really have helped
transform from what the early settlement of this area into
the flourishing metropolitan area it is now. And it occurred
to me that if we had that, if the nuns
around the world who know the root causes of the
(25:41):
poverty and are living in this community, if they had
access to the resources to solve the problems, which they
know they could name what the root causes are of
the poverty around them. If we could solve that, we
could see communities of distant franchised people and everybody around
the worlds flourishing and all at the same time. Because
(26:04):
when you think when we're sleeping, they're awake and they're working,
and when they're sleeping, we're awake and we're working, right,
I mean, it's a phenomenal movement. And the Sisters were
not connected, you know, our orders were connected. We know,
like I know what the sisters of Saint Joseph to
but and where we are, but I don't know where
necessarily all the other sisters are. So what we realized
(26:27):
is if we could connect those sisters to each other,
they can share best practices, expertise, we could get resources
flowing more easily. I mean, it was it's really it
is a grand vision. And the weird thing is is
that it is flourishing. We are growing like crazy.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That is wonderful.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Are helping us.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
And you know the thing is that there's an automatic
trust when it's a sister. All they walk in with
a trust that maybe somebody else has to build, but
it seems with the sister it's automatic.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
What accoltly is it poverty?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I know that's the basis of all of this, but
other issues must spring from that. What what are some
other urgent issues you're dealing with?
Speaker 9 (27:10):
Eighty percent of what the sisters do is really to
prevent the vulnerable people from being trafficked. So when I
talk about education, it's to help them, you know, be educated,
you know, be able to get jobs. And say it's
protect them keeping them in school so they're not you
know out there working and vulnerable to traffickers. So it
is a big movement, and trafficking is happening. It everywhere,
(27:31):
It's in every zip code in the United States. It's
a ginormous industry. When I first started with Sisters Rising worldwide,
it was it was like one hundred and fifty billion
dollar industry for profit. It's now two hundred and thirty
six billion dollars. I mean, it's a huge issue, and
the Sisters are doing their part at the ground level
to protect them because it's so much easier to prevent
(27:54):
somebody from being trafficked than to, you know, work with
a survivor of somebody being trafficked. That's a lot longer process.
So they're at the they're at the crossroots of protecting
the people.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
You know, sister, I'm sure you have thousands of success stories,
but can you share one with us, one that can
let people know that they're listening right now what you
do and the impact you have.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Well, here's a here's a simple one. Let me take
you to Kenya, the western part and where there was
water was a problem. There's no water available and that
of course, and you can everybody can picture this. The
young girls are walking to the wells in the morning,
or not the wells, but the ponds or whatever source
(28:37):
of water. There is a couple of miles away and
carrying back buckets of water either on their head or
on their head and carrying them in their hands. And
because of that, they're not in school and that is
a that's a huge problem. Well what we've discovered, but
you know, in this part of Kenya, they have a
rainy season, and so the real quick and inexpensive solution
(29:00):
were water catchment systems. And a water catchment system class
eight hundred dollars, it changes the lights of a little
community with a water catchment system. And when they had
water and didn't have to go back and forth carrying it,
they could go to school. And when they're in school,
suddenly you see who are these little girls, what do
(29:20):
they become? I mean one of them. There's a woman
named Antonette who was just carrying water for years and
she is now a lawyer. And there's a woman this
is all in the same community. There's a woman named Leah.
She's working on her PhD now, but she's head of
a county's human resources. And then a third girl in
(29:40):
the same community is Beatrice who she's now head of
a private school. So you start seeing who these people
can become and how they can contribute to their own community.
And all they needed was water catchment systems and the
sister knew that. Yeah, it's incredible. I can give you
a couple other examples.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
Well, I was going to say it too, those water
catchment systems. It's eight hundred dollars for one of them
to be installed in Kenya. Now in other areas is attit,
you know, more expensive, but Keny have eight hundred dollars,
and you know you're able to really change their life
with somebody.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Well, how can let's stay with you, Kelly. How can
local listeners get involved and how can they support your organization?
Speaker 9 (30:23):
That's a great question. It's really about, you know, sharing
the organization, going online, sharing some of our stories. And
then we have a program called the Sister Champion, right
be It's Sister Champion, And what that means is you're
like a monthly donor. And you know some people feel like, well,
I don't have any money. It's five dollars a month
can make such impact around the world. And if they
(30:44):
gay five dollars a month and then they had five
friends at gay five dollars a month, right, and start
sharing us on Instagram and spreading the word. You think
it's a movement that really everybody can get behind because
it's really all about humanity and you know, helping those
in need.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And where do they go online?
Speaker 9 (31:00):
So we are at We simplified it. It's www dot
SRW dot org.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
SRW dot org. We will put that up on our
website as well. Sister Irene O'Neill and President and CEOO
Kelly Mallanyong, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I appreciate your time.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
We appreciate thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
That wraps up Saturday morning for this week. Thank you
for listening, and thanks to producer Peter Arolano and Natalie Vodka.
I'll be back Monday morning from six to ten for
MENTI in the morning. Hope you join us.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
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