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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. Welcome to Saturday Morning. On this week's show,
the Republican candidate in the New York City election, Curtis
Leewa joins us to talk about the results, and Zurin Mamdani.
New York councilwoman Ina Wernikoff, invited Benjamin Netanyahoo to the
city to see if Zorin Mamdanni would dare to try
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and arrest him as he promised. Rich DeMuro from rich
On Tech says Apple is now in the sock business
and Johnny Olegzinski is the best when Broadway plays are
at their worst, and he has what he is calling
a Broadway bomb coming up. But let's start with Curtis Leiwa,
fresh off a tough election night. Thank you so much
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for joining us. Hope you're holding your head up.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
High, oh absolutely, And thanks for all the airtime you
provided me during the campaign. So flesh out the issues
other than just talk about the daily conversation, which is
you should drop out and Larry, even if you took
every vote that I'd got in this election and you
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had transferred it to Andrew Cuomo, he still would have lost.
So how did that work out? How did that work
out that I should drop out and all the votes
would put him over the top do the mass It
never worked out.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, even when you had the highest poll numbers, if
you took that amount, And first of all, we should
point out not all of those votes were going to transfer.
They were Republican votes. Who would half of them never
would have voted for Andrew Cuomo. So even if you
took all of the votes, let's just say, in some
kind of magic world, you could take all the votes
that you had with your highest numbers and give them
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to Andrew Cuomo, it still wouldn't have been enough.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yep. And remember the masters of the universe weighed in
trump Elon Musk now a trullion ass soon to be
a trillion and other fact, there's other billionaires. And still
it wasn't going to turn into Coomo into the mayor.
He had too much baggage, he was too low, too hated.
But it is what it is. And now the people
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must suffer because they didn't take the other alternative, which
was me, and now they must live with Jarmandami. So
I noticed the fear fight in hysteria. In the beginning
of the flight, I'm leaving. Well, all of you can
leave if that's what you want to do, But I stay.
I fight for what I know is right. I improve, I
don't move, And like the scene from They Miss at Abbels,
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I say to those who were willing to join me
to the barricades, to the barricades.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
That's really well said. Look, I know during this campaign
you you suffered a lot of backstabbing, and some of
it was vicious. Some of the people that you considered
your friends stabbed you in the back. Others others, like myself,
I did a commentary saying you should drop out, but
I did it at least with love. There were others
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that I think that you counted on that really turned
on you. That must have hurt.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Oh. Absolutely. From the station that I broadcast from thirty
five years, it stood for always broadcasting Curtis WABC, it
became always fashion Curtis, from sitting in the morning, to
Greg Kelly to Dominic Carty. It wasn't just being in
opposition to me staying in the race. As you appointed out, Larry,
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There's two ways to do it, but to get vicious
and personal and attack family members and then also be
responsible for the title wave of hate and craziness that
permeated the race so much so for the first time
in my life, I had to go out and get
armed guards for my wife. They were threatening my wife.
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And I'm not saying people in particular, but people who
were off off there, off the edge to begin with
were just pushed in that direction. So I had to
have armed guards. My wife had to have armed guards.
I've had to make sure that my staff was protected
and volunteers, and it was really a stain on what
I had done in New York. I should be able
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to just go on continue to serve the people of
New York in different capacities, but instead I have people
who walk around acting Likedami as a creation of Curtis Leland. No,
it's the Democratic Party. It's the failure of Eric Adams
to not be able to do his fiduciary duty. He
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was corrupt. He paid the way for Joan Mondami, and
then they revived what is a zombie politician, Andrew Formos
to come and basically do battle in the Democratic primary.
He failed, then he failed in the general, and we
know he's going to go back to the Hamptons and
hang out with his billionaire friends. Well, I continue to
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try to improve New York City and lead the loyal
opposition to show on Mandami.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I'll tell you what, you got a national name. Two
weeks in a row, SNL has talked about you. What
did you think of their skits and what they did
last night on the Weekend Update.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, I love the parodies and satire. I've done that
my whole life. So anytime that people provide a good
way for people to get a good laugh and try
to understand what's going on, I support it. Hey, it's flattering.
Anytime they would sort of point out who you are
and what you are, it's not going to be in
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the most flattering way. But that's what comedy, satire and
parodies are and they love it. I can't get enough
of it my whole life. I've been doing parodies and
satire on TV and on the radio. So I give
them thumbs up for that.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. It's great to be impersonated
by Shane Gillis, maybe the top comic in the country
right now. How do you think he did in the
debate impersonating you?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh, you'd be great. I just want Shane to wear
that red beret and come with me on the number
four train the Muggers Express and see if he's got
what it takes there.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Larry, Yeah, you know what My guess is if you
reach out to him, he would do it.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Oh, you're right. There's a lot of people I have
to reach out to. I've been reaching out to obviously
all the people who supported me from day one, who
put their lives aside to give me an opportunity to
save the city. But that's one of the many people
I'll be reaching out to. As you know, there's another
chapter in my life. I shouldn't have been alive all
the times that I've been in the er or the
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ICU for a number of physical reasons. So I have
a lot to be grateful to, and most importantly to you, Larry,
to your staff, to the people at WOR who are
always fair and square to me during a very tough campaign.
I just can't say that about the place that I
thought was family WABC. I will never return there. You
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will never hear my voice. Sare I am old testament.
Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. I will
never forgive. I will never forget.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well, listen, you are a hero to New York City.
You ran your campaign with nothing with but class. You
should hold your head up and I can hear from
your voice you are You gave an exceptionable concession speech,
which is the way all concession speeches should be, and
they aren't always so Curtis, I'm proud to know you
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hold your head up high and I can't wait to
hear and see the next chapter in your life.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Shit d Larry, and again, we got to save this city.
We know what Zoran is going to do. We got
to stand and hit the barricades and fight for what
we know is right.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Leewa up next, Rich DeMuro from
rich on Tech talks about a new Amazon app that
makes certain you get the product you want at the
price you're willing to pay.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Rich is next with more of the WOOR Saturday Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Welcome back, richd Murro from the WOR Show. Rich on
Tech is here now with details about a way to
always have your passport with you and you can use
it at the airport too. Good morning to you're rich
thanks for being here as morning to Larry as always.
What is this that Apple is now going to make socks?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, this is one of the odder products that Apple
has come out with. Although there is some history many
years ago they used to make socks, this one is designer.
It's a iPhone pocket and it's basically a knitted sleeve
that stretches to fit your phone or other small items.
You can wear it like an extra pocket. You can
tie it to your bag, you can carry it by hand.
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Just think sock with a couple of straps. And it
comes in eight colors. It's long or short. The short
one is one hundred and fifty dollars. The long one
is two hundred and twenty nine dollars. It's tough to
like kind of visualize this without seeing the picture of it,
So you got to look up iPhone pocket, and it's
just it's a very expensive way to hold your iPhone.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I was going to say two hundred and thirty dollars
to put my iPhone in my sock. That seems ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
The funny thing is, you know, I test a lot
of smartphones. The way I carry them around in my
bag so that they don't scratch each other is in
a sock. Now, Larry, I'll tell you these socks are
nowhere near one hundred and fifty to two.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Hundred and thirty dollars.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
They're basically the giveaways I get when I go to
like a trade show and they give you out a
sock that's printed with the logo of the company, and
I just use that. So I think any sock will work.
This is much more fashionable though from Uh, I'm gonna
say it wrong, but it's Issy Miyaki.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Issy Niyaki, that's a that's a sock.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
That's a Japanese designer, So a designer. Yes, it is designer.
That's why it's fancy and expensive.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Issy sounds itchy. I don't know if i'd ever i'd
ever get those socks. One thing that Apple is pointing
out and putting out that I'm extremely interested is the
new digital ID.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah. This is actually quite smart, especially if you've been
lagging on getting that real ID. You know, if you
don't have a real ID, you can still travel domestically
with your US passport, but it's kind of a pain
to carry that around. Now you can take your passport,
tap it with your iPhone, take a couple of selfies,
and in a couple of minutes, you can have a
digital ID that works at TSA checkpoints two hundred and
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fifty of them across America. So this is again a
good option if you don't have a real ID. Does
not replace your physical passport for international travel, and I'd
still probably bring it anyway, even for domestic if you're
using this, but hey, it's one new option. And Apple
says this same digital ID is going to be used
in more places, like businesses can start accepting it for
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age checks, and they say it's much more private than
showing your ID because the information is transferred via your
phone and not visually to the clerk.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You specifically said two hundred and fifty location. Does that
mean is that all of them? Does it mean some
places are not going to accept this?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
I mean it sounds like a lot, But it's one
of those things where since since they're putting a number
on it, I'm assuming there are some places that don't
accept it. So in general, I would check to see
if the airport that you're using takes this new digital ID.
Apple's got a website set up for it, But two
hundred and fifty sounds like a pretty good number. To me,
I'd have to do some research to see if there's
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some small airport out there that's just doesn't have the
equipment to accept this digital ID.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Tell us about Amazon's new auto buy.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
This is a wild new feature. So basically, if you've
ever been familiar with the concept of priceline dot com,
that's pretty much what Amazon has rolled out. So you
can set a price that you want to pay for
a product, and Amazon's AI will automatically make that purchase
for you when it hits that price. So, for instance,
I set one of these for a search protector that
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I want. It typically sells for twenty five dollars. I said,
you know what, I'll buy this if it's twenty dollars.
So I went on rufus, which is on their Amazon app.
You just say, hey, buy this. When the price drops
below twenty dollars, it will watch the price twenty four
to seven and as soon as it drops below twenty dollars,
it will automatically buy it on my credit card, ship
it to my house, and you do have twenty four
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hours to cancel. And you can have up to two
hundred of these price watches going at any given time.
So this gives new meaning to just, you know, spending
with reckless abandon on Amazon. I guess, although it's kind
of a smart way to shop.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
No, I love this. You know what else, Holidays are
coming up and it is alway. I always feel like
I get ripped off. Every single time, I feel like
I get ripped off. But now there's an app to
make me feel better.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, there's a couple. There's two apps I want to
tell you about. So, you know these credit cards that
people have. I know people love their points, they love
their credit cards. But if you look at your credit card,
a lot of them, like City Bank and Chase and Amex,
they have these things called offers, and they are basically,
if you use that card at a particular merchant, Amazon,
AMX or Chase will give you money back as a
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statement credit. And so you have to activate these to
use them.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Number one.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
And so these two apps, save Wise and card Pointers,
not only can they automatically activate all of those offers
on your credit card at the same time. Then you
can go into their app and before you shop at
a store, you can look it up and it will
tell you if there's an active offer on your card.
And so it kind of just helps you maximize some
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of these benefits you get by having a credit card.
And I just think I've used them both in the past,
and it's just a nice way to say, Oh, okay, cool,
I'm shopping at Macy's. Let me use this card because
it's going to give me ten dollars back on my purchase.
So it's just a way to, you know, maximize your
savings if you're using these offers.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Look, I know way Moo is coming to New York City.
I know it's coming across the country. There's a lot
of people that are still nervous about getting in a
driverless car. I'm sure you've been in one. Tell us
why we should get in them? Is it? Is it
you feel safe inside one?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
You know.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I've been to the Weimo a couple of times, and
both times, the second time was actually a little bit
more nerve wracking than the first for some reason. But
I will tell you Weimo, out of all the driverless cars,
does a really good job. And clearly they are very
confident in what they call their Weimo driver because now
they're gonna start using them on freeways. This is happening
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in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix. They're the first
robo taxi service in the US to do this with
no safety driver. So you may say, oh, you got
this this you know, driverless car in this city, but
they use safety drivers. This is just you are in
the back seat by yourself. The steering wheel is turning
by itself. So and I know they're testing them in
New York City. This is probably inevitable where you're gonna
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be able to take them on the highways over there
as well. So we'll see what happens. But right now
WEIMO is kind of in the lead with this driverless car,
and it is a comfortable ride for the most part.
I think they're doing a pretty good job.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Rich DeMuro rich on Tech has heard Sunday nights from
eight to eleven on WOOR. You can also follow him
at rich on Tech on Instagram. Up next on Saturday morning,
New York City Councilwoman Ena Vernikoff is making a bold
challenge to zorin Mam Donnie, and she's making that challenge
right after he has sworn in. We'll talk with her
(15:25):
about it. Still to come. New York Post entertainment critic
Johnny Oleczinski says, Michael Jackson has broken a Billboard record
again that's still to come on Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Here again is Larry Menti with the wor Saturday Morning Show,
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Zorin Mamdanni made the bold threat on the debate stage
that he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo if
he dared step foot in New York City. A New
York City councilwoman, Ena Vernikoff is testing that threat by
inviting the prime minister to come to town. Here's the
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councilwoman in It's great to talk to you. This is
the first time we've had you on the show. I'm
I'm glad to finally meet you over the air.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Good morning, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, tell us about your idea when it comes to Netanyahu.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Look, this is radical Marxist Zora mamdanison to be mayor
of New York City. He's very soon going to realize
that money for free buses doesn't grow on trees and
that he can't just arrest foreign diplomats. And I decided
to invite Bib Natanyahu. He is the sitting prime minister
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of Israel. No matter whether people like him or not
or like his policies. He is elected, democratically elected to
be the prime minister, and the Mayor of New York
City has no authority or jurisdiction to arrest a sitting
prime minister. And so I wanted to give Zora Mamdani
a little gift and invite Bib on his first day
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in office and to show him that, you know, he
can't just do anything he feels like. And I think
that you know, when bb does come, we will see
that a lot of the things that Mamdanie wants to
do he just can't. And we thought of with his
free buses idea. Now we're going to see it with
Bibbie Nataniajo and we're going to see it with a
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lot of things. Yeah, I'm very excited.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I didn't expect him to be exposed this early, but
he was with the free busses when Kathy Hochel said,
uh no, we can't do that. I wish he would
have said that during the campaign, so we could have
been warned and it would have shown all the false promises.
Let's talk about that in a second, though. I want
to get back to your invitation. Have you sent it
and if you haven't sent it yet, how do you
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plan on sending it.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
I absolutely sent it. It was sent, and it was received,
and I'm not going to comment on whether or not
it was responded to. But I can tell you that
I am very optimistic that in the very near future
we will see be in New York City. He will
be welcomed here with open arms. The Jewish community is
very excited to have him here. It's going to be
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a very great showing of support for the Jewish community.
And you know, symbolically the Jewish community and Israel and
America stands with Israel, New York City stands with Israel,
and no radicals is going to no radical is going.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
To change that.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
You know. I respect you saying you didn't want to
share if you've gotten a response yet, but I don't
understand the reasoning. Why would you do that?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Well, I think, look, I think we're going to see
the Prime Minister here in New York. I can't tell
you one, but I think it's gonna happen. It's going
to be great.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That's great. So I'm going to drop it from there.
But I'm going to assume that that means you've got
some kind of response, and that's that is wonderful. How
do you see this if it were to happen play out.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Oh, I think he's gonna come to New York. We're
gonna welcome him. He's gonna meet with the Jewish community,
He's going to meet with other leaders. Mayor Eric Adams
is actually planning to go to Israel this weekend, so
he's going to be there. He's still the sitting mayor.
And I think that this radical minority is not going
to matter, and we're gonna it's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
This is brilliant on your part. And let me tell
you why. I think you already know this, But let
me tell everybody that's listening as well. This is brilliant
on your part because it's going to expose him. It
will absolutely expose him. I think people forget about the
anti Semitic comments. Obviously did because they voted him into office.
People forget how dangerous he is when it comes to
the Jewish community. You're putting this right in his face.
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He has to react somehow, and his.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Reaction he I think he already was exposed. He already reacted.
A reporter asked him, I think it was yesterday. We
actually posted it last night. They asked him about, you know,
a council member inviting him inviting the Prime Minister to
his inauguration, and his response was, any foreign leader is
free to try. So what happened to his campaign promise?
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He has done this right, This is one of his
campaign promises. And don't think that it wasn't important to
his constituents who voted for him, because right as soon
as he got elected, he got a memo from the
DSA listing all the demands from the DSi And guess
what majority of those demands have to do with Israel.
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What is the city mayor of New York City has
to do with Israel? You know this is he's going
to be the mayor of New York City. He has
to govern the city. He has to think about policing,
he has to think about local issues. But he is
so hyper focused on Israel. And I think I think
it's going to really you know, we're going to see
how that's going to turn out for him, But I
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think it's going to be embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I think he's embarrassed already in one by one, everything
that he was promised is being knocked away. I didn't
think it was going to be this early. But free
buses he can't do. He can't arrest Benjamin Nyahu. All
these things he said to get votes, he can't do them.
We're going to find out more of them as we
go along. Free childcare, all the free things he said
he was going to do, he's not going to be
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able to do. And I think that I actually think
that's great for the city that he's not.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Able to do it in Yeah, And I mean that's
also why, you know, besides the fact that of course
we want to welcome the Prime Minister here, but that's
also why I did this, just to show that he
you know, kind of to calm the tensions. People have
a lot of anxiety about this guy becoming mayor of
New York City, especially the Jewish community. But I think
a lot of people who didn't vote for him and
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ran to the polls to vote the other way. And
I think this is going to be a great testament
to the fact that he cannot accomplish at least half
of the things that he's promised. You know, he can't
disproportionally tax white neighborhoods, he can't completely defund and dismantle
the police. He can't completely control grocery stores. You know,
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we don't want this government overreach here. We don't want
socialism here, and there's going to be a lot of pushback,
and so I'm actually very excited that he's not going
to be able to fulfill his agenda. And I'm excited
to be part of that pushback. And I am not
going to stop.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Good for you, You've already exposed him as a liar.
You've already been successful. The fact that he had to
admit that he can't arrest him. That's that's two things
that have come up. The free buses and arresting Benjamin Netanyahu.
We're already learning he can't do them. I can't wait
for a long list because I think everything he said
he was going to do will be horrible for the city.
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So wonderful job. You're a hero. Thanks so much, counsel
woman for talking to us. Would love to have you back.
New York City council Woman Inna Wverernikoff Up next, Sydney
Sweeeney is the new it girl, but that didn't help
her new movie at the box office. New York Post
Entertainment critic Johnny Olegzinski has the details. Next.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Back now to the WR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Minti.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Welcome back. Uh oh. New York Post enter tament critic
Johnny Olazinski hates a new play even though it has
a big star. Let's talk about Christine Chenoweth, who now
is in a new Broadway play. Everybody loves her from Wicked.
She's been a huge star on Broadway, so this has
gotta be great.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Oh you bet it isn't. Oh my god, oh what
a big fat one star from me. It's called the
Queen of Versailles. And some people might know this story
it's about. It's from a documentary about this woman named
Jackie Siegel. She was married to David Siegel, who was
in charge of a Westgate time shares right, and she
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marries him. She comes from Upstate New York, very kind
of low class, upbringing, marries this rich billionaire and then
they start to build a ninety thousand square foot house
modeled after Versailles in France, in Florida, in Orlando. And
then the house comes in they you know, the financial
crisis happens, and there's all these setbacks that if anyone
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just heard me say that and went, I would like
to see a music hall.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
About that.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
There's something wrong with you. And it turns out there's
so many many things wrong with the show. One of
the crazier things about it is beyond Christian Chnow, with
who I've always liked before I'll get into her in
a second Stephen Schwartz, who wrote Wicked, Rolling in Money
Define Gravity popular that he wrote Wicked, Pippin god Spell,
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Rolling in Money Terrible scorch, the worst of his career.
I wish these legendary composers would just pack it up
sometimes and just enjoy their legacies, as opposed to sullying
them with subpar new stuff. But then there's Christian Chenow
with a's this kind of real housewife character. There's just
no humanity to it. I said, she kind of peacocks
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around singing Bland songs. It really really was quite bad.
So that's the verdict from the New York Post. If
you read the New York Times, which I'm sure so
many wo A listeners are clamoring to do, you'll hear
a very different take, objectively wrong one that this show
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is good. They are wrong. They are the only people
that said it's good. They are wrong. Do not waste
your money seeing the Queen of Versailles.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Okay, how does that happen when you think something is
that bad that you can't believe anyone else would like it?
And I trust you on this, Are there other factors
in play with some of the critics that they would
give it a good a better review than it deserves?
Speaker 5 (25:33):
You know, you think you're implying some sort of corruption.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I will say that there's.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
None of that is going on to the New York Times.
It's just that old phrase, there's no accounting for taste.
Some people have really weird taste, you know that. You say,
I love this movie, and you go, how could you possibly?
And I think it's up to us critics to have
a broad ranging taste for a large readership.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, I'm not saying it has to be corrupt. I'm
just saying that there might be other reasons because of
a personal relationship with liking a certain actress, liking a
certain producer, you know, liking that person that much that
it kind of colors their the colors their review.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Oh, that is absolutely true. And this used to happen,
and he was a great critic. Ben Brantley, but he
would review. He would sort of write these love letters
to Starlits, so he would he loved Christian Channaw with
and he would do the whole beginning of the review
like behold the Goddess of the Stage, Christian Channawi, and
then towards the bottom he might say, well, the songs
weren't that good and the staging wasn't that good. So
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that absolutely does happen.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
You're impacted by that.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
That's so funny because whenever I used to read his reviews,
I'd go to the last paragraph and that was spistically what.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I got everything I needed right there.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
That's so funny that you said that, because I always
did that.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
That's what that's kind of. That's sort of a critic
secret if you if you like it, you kind of
bury the criticisms at the bottom, if you right.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Let's talk about Sidney Sweety. We were just talking about
her a second ago, because she's getting hit with questions
as he tries to promote this movie. She's getting hit
with questions about the jeens Ad, which seems to be
so unfair. How is Christy.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Doing, by the way, the jeans ad that no one
cares about except the media. Nobody cares. It's an ad.
I don't know why my cohorts in the media are
so obsessed with talking about this ad and hammering home
this ad.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
The movie I like, so.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
I saw the movie at the Toronto Film Festival. I
thought it was really great. I think it's a big
step for her as an actress. Unfortunately, so people are
talking and I'm going, so it's one of the lowest
wide release opening weekends ever. It was like one point
three million across more than two thousand screens, which is very,
very bad. It's not her fault. It's not the movie's fault.
(27:41):
If you go on Rotten Tomatoes it has with the
audience score, it's like a ninety six percent. So the
people that are going really really like it. It's just
this is a bad time for adult skewing movies. There's
that thing in people's head. Larry, I'm sure you say
it all the time, like I'll wait till it's on streaming.
It's the death knell for these kind of gems with
(28:02):
good acting. But now we expect to see movies like Christy,
which is a biopic of Christy Martin the Boxer. We
expect to see that on TV, not on the big screen.
So they wait and then the movie's tank.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah it might do really well streaming, but people go
to the theaters now to see big events, something that
plays do a big screen. If not, why go you're
gonna see it.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Anyway, then I can't blame them. In New York anyway,
you're spending sometimes thirty dollars to see a movie and
that's just the ticket. Then you know, if you take
a date or your kids and you get popcorn and
drinks like somehow, you're down at one hundred and fifty
bucks just to watch a movie on a screen that
might not be as good as the one at home.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
So Michael Jackson is the first artist to have a
top ten hit in all six decades, the last six decades.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Yeah, this is gosh. He's working so hard, he's been
dead sixteen years and yet just this week, this week,
he became the first artist to have a top ten
hit across six decks exsecutively. The previous was five and
it was someone I couldn't name. It wasn't a big person.
So uh and the reason this happened, So the song
is thriller. Thriller is now in the Billboard Top ten again,
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and that's because the trailer for the new biopick Michael,
which is coming out next spring, that came out and
it was all set to thriller. So now there's all
these new fans watching this and wanting to hear that song,
which is pretty cool to me. I still think that
movie's kind of a pathetic and awful thing that's not
going to confront pedophilia. Not that I want a movie
(29:33):
about pedophilia, but I mean, he was if.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You're gonna do a biopick on somebody, yes, I.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Would say he was demonstrably a pedophile, and now we're
gonna have it. But hey, his song is back in
the top ten, which is kind of neat.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Larry Minty. Welcome to Saturday Morning. On this week's show,
the Republican candidate in the New York City election, Curtis
Leewa joins us to talk about the results, and Zurin Mamdani.
New York councilwoman Ina Wernikoff, invited Benjamin Netanyahoo to the
city to see if Zorin Mamdanni would dare to try
(00:27):
and arrest him as he promised. Rich DeMuro from rich
On Tech says Apple is now in the sock business
and Johnny Olegzinski is the best when Broadway plays are
at their worst, and he has what he is calling
a Broadway bomb coming up. But let's start with Curtis Leiwa,
fresh off a tough election night. Thank you so much
(00:50):
for joining us. Hope you're holding your head up.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
High, oh absolutely, And thanks for all the airtime you
provided me during the campaign. So flesh out the issues
other than just talk about the daily conversation, which is
you should drop out and Larry, even if you took
every vote that I'd got in this election and you
(01:12):
had transferred it to Andrew Cuomo, he still would have lost.
So how did that work out? How did that work
out that I should drop out and all the votes
would put him over the top do the mass It
never worked out.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, even when you had the highest poll numbers, if
you took that amount, And first of all, we should
point out not all of those votes were going to transfer.
They were Republican votes. Who would half of them never
would have voted for Andrew Cuomo. So even if you
took all of the votes, let's just say, in some
kind of magic world, you could take all the votes
that you had with your highest numbers and give them
(01:49):
to Andrew Cuomo, it still wouldn't have been enough.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yep. And remember the masters of the universe weighed in
trump Elon Musk now a trullion ass soon to be
a trillion and other fact, there's other billionaires. And still
it wasn't going to turn into Coomo into the mayor.
He had too much baggage, he was too low, too hated.
But it is what it is. And now the people
(02:15):
must suffer because they didn't take the other alternative, which
was me, and now they must live with Jarmandami. So
I noticed the fear fight in hysteria. In the beginning
of the flight, I'm leaving. Well, all of you can
leave if that's what you want to do, But I stay.
I fight for what I know is right. I improve, I
don't move, And like the scene from They Miss at Abbels,
(02:38):
I say to those who were willing to join me
to the barricades, to the barricades.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
That's really well said. Look, I know during this campaign
you you suffered a lot of backstabbing, and some of
it was vicious. Some of the people that you considered
your friends stabbed you in the back. Others others, like myself,
I did a commentary saying you should drop out, but
I did it at least with love. There were others
(03:06):
that I think that you counted on that really turned
on you. That must have hurt.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Oh. Absolutely. From the station that I broadcast from thirty
five years, it stood for always broadcasting Curtis WABC, it
became always fashion Curtis, from sitting in the morning, to
Greg Kelly to Dominic Carty. It wasn't just being in
opposition to me staying in the race. As you appointed out, Larry,
(03:33):
There's two ways to do it, but to get vicious
and personal and attack family members and then also be
responsible for the title wave of hate and craziness that
permeated the race so much so for the first time
in my life, I had to go out and get
armed guards for my wife. They were threatening my wife.
(03:54):
And I'm not saying people in particular, but people who
were off off there, off the edge to begin with
were just pushed in that direction. So I had to
have armed guards. My wife had to have armed guards.
I've had to make sure that my staff was protected
and volunteers, and it was really a stain on what
I had done in New York. I should be able
(04:17):
to just go on continue to serve the people of
New York in different capacities, but instead I have people
who walk around acting Likedami as a creation of Curtis Leland. No,
it's the Democratic Party. It's the failure of Eric Adams
to not be able to do his fiduciary duty. He
(04:38):
was corrupt. He paid the way for Joan Mondami, and
then they revived what is a zombie politician, Andrew Formos
to come and basically do battle in the Democratic primary.
He failed, then he failed in the general, and we
know he's going to go back to the Hamptons and
hang out with his billionaire friends. Well, I continue to
(05:01):
try to improve New York City and lead the loyal
opposition to show on Mandami.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I'll tell you what, you got a national name. Two
weeks in a row, SNL has talked about you. What
did you think of their skits and what they did
last night on the Weekend Update.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, I love the parodies and satire. I've done that
my whole life. So anytime that people provide a good
way for people to get a good laugh and try
to understand what's going on, I support it. Hey, it's flattering.
Anytime they would sort of point out who you are
and what you are, it's not going to be in
(05:37):
the most flattering way. But that's what comedy, satire and
parodies are and they love it. I can't get enough
of it my whole life. I've been doing parodies and
satire on TV and on the radio. So I give
them thumbs up for that.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. It's great to be impersonated
by Shane Gillis, maybe the top comic in the country
right now. How do you think he did in the
debate impersonating you?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh, you'd be great. I just want Shane to wear
that red beret and come with me on the number
four train the Muggers Express and see if he's got
what it takes there.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Larry, Yeah, you know what My guess is if you
reach out to him, he would do it.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Oh, you're right. There's a lot of people I have
to reach out to. I've been reaching out to obviously
all the people who supported me from day one, who
put their lives aside to give me an opportunity to
save the city. But that's one of the many people
I'll be reaching out to. As you know, there's another
chapter in my life. I shouldn't have been alive all
the times that I've been in the er or the
(06:37):
ICU for a number of physical reasons. So I have
a lot to be grateful to, and most importantly to you, Larry,
to your staff, to the people at WOR who are
always fair and square to me during a very tough campaign.
I just can't say that about the place that I
thought was family WABC. I will never return there. You
(06:59):
will never hear my voice. Sare I am old testament.
Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. I will
never forgive. I will never forget.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well, listen, you are a hero to New York City.
You ran your campaign with nothing with but class. You
should hold your head up and I can hear from
your voice you are You gave an exceptionable concession speech,
which is the way all concession speeches should be, and
they aren't always so Curtis, I'm proud to know you
(07:28):
hold your head up high and I can't wait to
hear and see the next chapter in your life.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Shit d Larry, and again, we got to save this city.
We know what Zoran is going to do. We got
to stand and hit the barricades and fight for what
we know is right.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Leewa up next, Rich DeMuro from
rich on Tech talks about a new Amazon app that
makes certain you get the product you want at the
price you're willing to pay.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Rich is next with more of the WOOR Saturday Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Welcome back, richd Murro from the WOR Show. Rich on
Tech is here now with details about a way to
always have your passport with you and you can use
it at the airport too. Good morning to you're rich
thanks for being here as morning to Larry as always.
What is this that Apple is now going to make socks?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, this is one of the odder products that Apple
has come out with. Although there is some history many
years ago they used to make socks, this one is designer.
It's a iPhone pocket and it's basically a knitted sleeve
that stretches to fit your phone or other small items.
You can wear it like an extra pocket. You can
tie it to your bag, you can carry it by hand.
(08:45):
Just think sock with a couple of straps. And it
comes in eight colors. It's long or short. The short
one is one hundred and fifty dollars. The long one
is two hundred and twenty nine dollars. It's tough to
like kind of visualize this without seeing the picture of it,
So you got to look up iPhone pocket, and it's
just it's a very expensive way to hold your iPhone.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I was going to say two hundred and thirty dollars
to put my iPhone in my sock. That seems ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
The funny thing is, you know, I test a lot
of smartphones. The way I carry them around in my
bag so that they don't scratch each other is in
a sock. Now, Larry, I'll tell you these socks are
nowhere near one hundred and fifty to two.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Hundred and thirty dollars.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
They're basically the giveaways I get when I go to
like a trade show and they give you out a
sock that's printed with the logo of the company, and
I just use that. So I think any sock will work.
This is much more fashionable though from Uh, I'm gonna
say it wrong, but it's Issy Miyaki.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Issy Niyaki, that's a that's a sock.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
That's a Japanese designer, So a designer. Yes, it is designer.
That's why it's fancy and expensive.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Issy sounds itchy. I don't know if i'd ever i'd
ever get those socks. One thing that Apple is pointing
out and putting out that I'm extremely interested is the
new digital ID.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah. This is actually quite smart, especially if you've been
lagging on getting that real ID. You know, if you
don't have a real ID, you can still travel domestically
with your US passport, but it's kind of a pain
to carry that around. Now you can take your passport,
tap it with your iPhone, take a couple of selfies,
and in a couple of minutes, you can have a
digital ID that works at TSA checkpoints two hundred and
(10:26):
fifty of them across America. So this is again a
good option if you don't have a real ID. Does
not replace your physical passport for international travel, and I'd
still probably bring it anyway, even for domestic if you're
using this, but hey, it's one new option. And Apple
says this same digital ID is going to be used
in more places, like businesses can start accepting it for
(10:47):
age checks, and they say it's much more private than
showing your ID because the information is transferred via your
phone and not visually to the clerk.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You specifically said two hundred and fifty location. Does that
mean is that all of them? Does it mean some
places are not going to accept this?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
I mean it sounds like a lot, But it's one
of those things where since since they're putting a number
on it, I'm assuming there are some places that don't
accept it. So in general, I would check to see
if the airport that you're using takes this new digital ID.
Apple's got a website set up for it, But two
hundred and fifty sounds like a pretty good number. To me,
I'd have to do some research to see if there's
(11:26):
some small airport out there that's just doesn't have the
equipment to accept this digital ID.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Tell us about Amazon's new auto buy.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
This is a wild new feature. So basically, if you've
ever been familiar with the concept of priceline dot com,
that's pretty much what Amazon has rolled out. So you
can set a price that you want to pay for
a product, and Amazon's AI will automatically make that purchase
for you when it hits that price. So, for instance,
I set one of these for a search protector that
(11:56):
I want. It typically sells for twenty five dollars. I said,
you know what, I'll buy this if it's twenty dollars.
So I went on rufus, which is on their Amazon app.
You just say, hey, buy this. When the price drops
below twenty dollars, it will watch the price twenty four
to seven and as soon as it drops below twenty dollars,
it will automatically buy it on my credit card, ship
it to my house, and you do have twenty four
(12:18):
hours to cancel. And you can have up to two
hundred of these price watches going at any given time.
So this gives new meaning to just, you know, spending
with reckless abandon on Amazon. I guess, although it's kind
of a smart way to shop.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
No, I love this. You know what else, Holidays are
coming up and it is alway. I always feel like
I get ripped off. Every single time, I feel like
I get ripped off. But now there's an app to
make me feel better.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, there's a couple. There's two apps I want to
tell you about. So, you know these credit cards that
people have. I know people love their points, they love
their credit cards. But if you look at your credit card,
a lot of them, like City Bank and Chase and Amex,
they have these things called offers, and they are basically,
if you use that card at a particular merchant, Amazon,
AMX or Chase will give you money back as a
(13:06):
statement credit. And so you have to activate these to
use them.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Number one.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
And so these two apps, save Wise and card Pointers,
not only can they automatically activate all of those offers
on your credit card at the same time. Then you
can go into their app and before you shop at
a store, you can look it up and it will
tell you if there's an active offer on your card.
And so it kind of just helps you maximize some
(13:32):
of these benefits you get by having a credit card.
And I just think I've used them both in the past,
and it's just a nice way to say, Oh, okay, cool,
I'm shopping at Macy's. Let me use this card because
it's going to give me ten dollars back on my purchase.
So it's just a way to, you know, maximize your
savings if you're using these offers.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Look, I know way Moo is coming to New York City.
I know it's coming across the country. There's a lot
of people that are still nervous about getting in a
driverless car. I'm sure you've been in one. Tell us
why we should get in them? Is it? Is it
you feel safe inside one?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
You know.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I've been to the Weimo a couple of times, and
both times, the second time was actually a little bit
more nerve wracking than the first for some reason. But
I will tell you Weimo, out of all the driverless cars,
does a really good job. And clearly they are very
confident in what they call their Weimo driver because now
they're gonna start using them on freeways. This is happening
(14:27):
in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix. They're the first
robo taxi service in the US to do this with
no safety driver. So you may say, oh, you got
this this you know, driverless car in this city, but
they use safety drivers. This is just you are in
the back seat by yourself. The steering wheel is turning
by itself. So and I know they're testing them in
New York City. This is probably inevitable where you're gonna
(14:51):
be able to take them on the highways over there
as well. So we'll see what happens. But right now
WEIMO is kind of in the lead with this driverless car,
and it is a comfortable ride for the most part.
I think they're doing a pretty good job.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Rich DeMuro rich on Tech has heard Sunday nights from
eight to eleven on WOOR. You can also follow him
at rich on Tech on Instagram. Up next on Saturday morning,
New York City Councilwoman Ena Vernikoff is making a bold
challenge to zorin Mam Donnie, and she's making that challenge
right after he has sworn in. We'll talk with her
(15:25):
about it. Still to come. New York Post entertainment critic
Johnny Oleczinski says, Michael Jackson has broken a Billboard record
again that's still to come on Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Here again is Larry Menti with the wor Saturday Morning Show,
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Zorin Mamdanni made the bold threat on the debate stage
that he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo if
he dared step foot in New York City. A New
York City councilwoman, Ena Vernikoff is testing that threat by
inviting the prime minister to come to town. Here's the
(16:05):
councilwoman in It's great to talk to you. This is
the first time we've had you on the show. I'm
I'm glad to finally meet you over the air.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Good morning, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, tell us about your idea when it comes to Netanyahu.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Look, this is radical Marxist Zora mamdanison to be mayor
of New York City. He's very soon going to realize
that money for free buses doesn't grow on trees and
that he can't just arrest foreign diplomats. And I decided
to invite Bib Natanyahu. He is the sitting prime minister
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of Israel. No matter whether people like him or not
or like his policies. He is elected, democratically elected to
be the prime minister, and the Mayor of New York
City has no authority or jurisdiction to arrest a sitting
prime minister. And so I wanted to give Zora Mamdani
a little gift and invite Bib on his first day
(16:59):
in office and to show him that, you know, he
can't just do anything he feels like. And I think
that you know, when bb does come, we will see
that a lot of the things that Mamdanie wants to
do he just can't. And we thought of with his
free buses idea. Now we're going to see it with
Bibbie Nataniajo and we're going to see it with a
(17:19):
lot of things. Yeah, I'm very excited.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I didn't expect him to be exposed this early, but
he was with the free busses when Kathy Hochel said,
uh no, we can't do that. I wish he would
have said that during the campaign, so we could have
been warned and it would have shown all the false promises.
Let's talk about that in a second, though. I want
to get back to your invitation. Have you sent it
and if you haven't sent it yet, how do you
(17:45):
plan on sending it.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
I absolutely sent it. It was sent, and it was received,
and I'm not going to comment on whether or not
it was responded to. But I can tell you that
I am very optimistic that in the very near future
we will see be in New York City. He will
be welcomed here with open arms. The Jewish community is
very excited to have him here. It's going to be
(18:07):
a very great showing of support for the Jewish community.
And you know, symbolically the Jewish community and Israel and
America stands with Israel, New York City stands with Israel,
and no radicals is going to no radical is going.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
To change that.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
You know. I respect you saying you didn't want to
share if you've gotten a response yet, but I don't
understand the reasoning. Why would you do that?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Well, I think, look, I think we're going to see
the Prime Minister here in New York. I can't tell
you one, but I think it's gonna happen. It's going
to be great.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That's great. So I'm going to drop it from there.
But I'm going to assume that that means you've got
some kind of response, and that's that is wonderful. How
do you see this if it were to happen play out.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Oh, I think he's gonna come to New York. We're
gonna welcome him. He's gonna meet with the Jewish community,
He's going to meet with other leaders. Mayor Eric Adams
is actually planning to go to Israel this weekend, so
he's going to be there. He's still the sitting mayor.
And I think that this radical minority is not going
to matter, and we're gonna it's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
This is brilliant on your part. And let me tell
you why. I think you already know this, But let
me tell everybody that's listening as well. This is brilliant
on your part because it's going to expose him. It
will absolutely expose him. I think people forget about the
anti Semitic comments. Obviously did because they voted him into office.
People forget how dangerous he is when it comes to
the Jewish community. You're putting this right in his face.
(19:37):
He has to react somehow, and his.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Reaction he I think he already was exposed. He already reacted.
A reporter asked him, I think it was yesterday. We
actually posted it last night. They asked him about, you know,
a council member inviting him inviting the Prime Minister to
his inauguration, and his response was, any foreign leader is
free to try. So what happened to his campaign promise?
(20:03):
He has done this right, This is one of his
campaign promises. And don't think that it wasn't important to
his constituents who voted for him, because right as soon
as he got elected, he got a memo from the
DSA listing all the demands from the DSi And guess
what majority of those demands have to do with Israel.
(20:24):
What is the city mayor of New York City has
to do with Israel? You know this is he's going
to be the mayor of New York City. He has
to govern the city. He has to think about policing,
he has to think about local issues. But he is
so hyper focused on Israel. And I think I think
it's going to really you know, we're going to see
how that's going to turn out for him, But I
(20:45):
think it's going to be embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I think he's embarrassed already in one by one, everything
that he was promised is being knocked away. I didn't
think it was going to be this early. But free
buses he can't do. He can't arrest Benjamin Nyahu. All
these things he said to get votes, he can't do them.
We're going to find out more of them as we
go along. Free childcare, all the free things he said
he was going to do, he's not going to be
(21:08):
able to do. And I think that I actually think
that's great for the city that he's not.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Able to do it in Yeah, And I mean that's
also why, you know, besides the fact that of course
we want to welcome the Prime Minister here, but that's
also why I did this, just to show that he
you know, kind of to calm the tensions. People have
a lot of anxiety about this guy becoming mayor of
New York City, especially the Jewish community. But I think
a lot of people who didn't vote for him and
(21:34):
ran to the polls to vote the other way. And
I think this is going to be a great testament
to the fact that he cannot accomplish at least half
of the things that he's promised. You know, he can't
disproportionally tax white neighborhoods, he can't completely defund and dismantle
the police. He can't completely control grocery stores. You know,
(21:55):
we don't want this government overreach here. We don't want
socialism here, and there's going to be a lot of pushback,
and so I'm actually very excited that he's not going
to be able to fulfill his agenda. And I'm excited
to be part of that pushback. And I am not
going to stop.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Good for you, You've already exposed him as a liar.
You've already been successful. The fact that he had to
admit that he can't arrest him. That's that's two things
that have come up. The free buses and arresting Benjamin Netanyahu.
We're already learning he can't do them. I can't wait
for a long list because I think everything he said
he was going to do will be horrible for the city.
(22:32):
So wonderful job. You're a hero. Thanks so much, counsel
woman for talking to us. Would love to have you back.
New York City council Woman Inna Wverernikoff Up next, Sydney
Sweeeney is the new it girl, but that didn't help
her new movie at the box office. New York Post
Entertainment critic Johnny Olegzinski has the details. Next.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Back now to the WR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Minti.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Welcome back. Uh oh. New York Post enter tament critic
Johnny Olazinski hates a new play even though it has
a big star. Let's talk about Christine Chenoweth, who now
is in a new Broadway play. Everybody loves her from Wicked.
She's been a huge star on Broadway, so this has
gotta be great.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Oh you bet it isn't. Oh my god, oh what
a big fat one star from me. It's called the
Queen of Versailles. And some people might know this story
it's about. It's from a documentary about this woman named
Jackie Siegel. She was married to David Siegel, who was
in charge of a Westgate time shares right, and she
(23:38):
marries him. She comes from Upstate New York, very kind
of low class, upbringing, marries this rich billionaire and then
they start to build a ninety thousand square foot house
modeled after Versailles in France, in Florida, in Orlando. And
then the house comes in they you know, the financial
crisis happens, and there's all these setbacks that if anyone
(24:00):
just heard me say that and went, I would like
to see a music hall.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
About that.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
There's something wrong with you. And it turns out there's
so many many things wrong with the show. One of
the crazier things about it is beyond Christian Chnow, with
who I've always liked before I'll get into her in
a second Stephen Schwartz, who wrote Wicked, Rolling in Money
Define Gravity popular that he wrote Wicked, Pippin god Spell,
(24:26):
Rolling in Money Terrible scorch, the worst of his career.
I wish these legendary composers would just pack it up
sometimes and just enjoy their legacies, as opposed to sullying
them with subpar new stuff. But then there's Christian Chenow
with a's this kind of real housewife character. There's just
no humanity to it. I said, she kind of peacocks
(24:48):
around singing Bland songs. It really really was quite bad.
So that's the verdict from the New York Post. If
you read the New York Times, which I'm sure so
many wo A listeners are clamoring to do, you'll hear
a very different take, objectively wrong one that this show
(25:09):
is good. They are wrong. They are the only people
that said it's good. They are wrong. Do not waste
your money seeing the Queen of Versailles.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Okay, how does that happen when you think something is
that bad that you can't believe anyone else would like it?
And I trust you on this, Are there other factors
in play with some of the critics that they would
give it a good a better review than it deserves?
Speaker 5 (25:33):
You know, you think you're implying some sort of corruption.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I will say that there's.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
None of that is going on to the New York Times.
It's just that old phrase, there's no accounting for taste.
Some people have really weird taste, you know that. You say,
I love this movie, and you go, how could you possibly?
And I think it's up to us critics to have
a broad ranging taste for a large readership.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, I'm not saying it has to be corrupt. I'm
just saying that there might be other reasons because of
a personal relationship with liking a certain actress, liking a
certain producer, you know, liking that person that much that
it kind of colors their the colors their review.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Oh, that is absolutely true. And this used to happen,
and he was a great critic. Ben Brantley, but he
would review. He would sort of write these love letters
to Starlits, so he would he loved Christian Channaw with
and he would do the whole beginning of the review
like behold the Goddess of the Stage, Christian Channawi, and
then towards the bottom he might say, well, the songs
weren't that good and the staging wasn't that good. So
(26:33):
that absolutely does happen.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
You're impacted by that.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
That's so funny because whenever I used to read his reviews,
I'd go to the last paragraph and that was spistically what.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I got everything I needed right there.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
That's so funny that you said that, because I always
did that.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
That's what that's kind of. That's sort of a critic
secret if you if you like it, you kind of
bury the criticisms at the bottom, if you right.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Let's talk about Sidney Sweety. We were just talking about
her a second ago, because she's getting hit with questions
as he tries to promote this movie. She's getting hit
with questions about the jeens Ad, which seems to be
so unfair. How is Christy.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Doing, by the way, the jeans ad that no one
cares about except the media. Nobody cares. It's an ad.
I don't know why my cohorts in the media are
so obsessed with talking about this ad and hammering home
this ad.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
The movie I like, so.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
I saw the movie at the Toronto Film Festival. I
thought it was really great. I think it's a big
step for her as an actress. Unfortunately, so people are
talking and I'm going, so it's one of the lowest
wide release opening weekends ever. It was like one point
three million across more than two thousand screens, which is very,
very bad. It's not her fault. It's not the movie's fault.
(27:41):
If you go on Rotten Tomatoes it has with the
audience score, it's like a ninety six percent. So the
people that are going really really like it. It's just
this is a bad time for adult skewing movies. There's
that thing in people's head. Larry, I'm sure you say
it all the time, like I'll wait till it's on streaming.
It's the death knell for these kind of gems with
(28:02):
good acting. But now we expect to see movies like Christy,
which is a biopic of Christy Martin the Boxer. We
expect to see that on TV, not on the big screen.
So they wait and then the movie's tank.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah it might do really well streaming, but people go
to the theaters now to see big events, something that
plays do a big screen. If not, why go you're
gonna see it.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Anyway, then I can't blame them. In New York anyway,
you're spending sometimes thirty dollars to see a movie and
that's just the ticket. Then you know, if you take
a date or your kids and you get popcorn and
drinks like somehow, you're down at one hundred and fifty
bucks just to watch a movie on a screen that
might not be as good as the one at home.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
So Michael Jackson is the first artist to have a
top ten hit in all six decades, the last six decades.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Yeah, this is gosh. He's working so hard, he's been
dead sixteen years and yet just this week, this week,
he became the first artist to have a top ten
hit across six decks exsecutively. The previous was five and
it was someone I couldn't name. It wasn't a big person.
So uh and the reason this happened, So the song
is thriller. Thriller is now in the Billboard Top ten again,
(29:11):
and that's because the trailer for the new biopick Michael,
which is coming out next spring, that came out and
it was all set to thriller. So now there's all
these new fans watching this and wanting to hear that song,
which is pretty cool to me. I still think that
movie's kind of a pathetic and awful thing that's not
going to confront pedophilia. Not that I want a movie
(29:33):
about pedophilia, but I mean, he was if.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You're gonna do a biopick on somebody, yes, I.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Would say he was demonstrably a pedophile, and now we're
gonna have it. But hey, his song is back in
the top ten, which is kind of neat.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
New York Post entertainment critic Johnny Olegzinski. If you have
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Saturday Morning for this week. Thanks for listening, and thanks
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putting the show together every week. Have a great rest
of your weekend.
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