Latest / Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning / Hour 1: Staten Island Ferry comedy show
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wow larry natalie our audience i am wired up i
- 0:04Speaker 1: don't think i've had maybe an hour maybe two hours
- 0:08Speaker 1: of sleep uh yeah i had to be at bellevue
- 0:11Speaker 1: uh to be with my nephew you may have remembered
- 0:14Speaker 1: that story that our news department was talking about the
- 0:17Speaker 1: other day pretty much almost at the same time as
- 0:20Speaker 1: that horrible killing stabbing that was taking place by that
- 0:25Speaker 1: emotionally disturbed woman in time square we'll give you more
- 0:28Speaker 1: updates on that apparently uh, boy, she was doing a
- 0:31Speaker 1: lot of Facebook entries about, uh, how she was being
- 0:36Speaker 1: commanded to do certain things.
- 0:38Speaker 2: So that'll be interesting later on.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Well, it turned out this occurred right across the street
- 0:43Speaker 1: from Saks Fifth Avenue, right?
- 0:45Speaker 3: St.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Patrick's Cathedral. Uh, apparently there's a guy who jumped out
- 0:48Speaker 1: of a car and slashed a 21 year old guy.
- 0:52Speaker 1: I happen to be my nephew. Uh, so, uh, That's
- 0:56Speaker 1: an unfolding case that is taking place. The police commissioner
- 1:01Speaker 1: gave me a call yesterday. Apparently, they made an arrest
- 1:04Speaker 1: of the individual. Upstate New York may have been because
- 1:08Speaker 1: of license plate reading technology, which would go back to
- 1:12Speaker 1: the flock cameras that you've been telling us about, Larry,
- 1:15Speaker 1: for months. But my nephew is stabilized. He was seriously injured.
- 1:21Speaker 2: But.
- 1:23Speaker 1: Boy, this is what you call another case in the
- 1:26Speaker 1: naked city of New York that made no sense whatsoever.
- 1:29Speaker 1: And so as it unfolds, I'll be able to share
- 1:32Speaker 1: with our audience some of those details.
- 1:34Speaker 4: I know you can't say a lot, but how's your
- 1:37Speaker 4: nephew doing?
- 1:38Speaker 2: Oh, much better.
- 1:39Speaker 4: Good.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Much better. He's recovering well. He was with his extended
- 1:44Speaker 1: family of friends, my older sister, obviously his girlfriend. You know,
- 1:50Speaker 1: he was all wired up as they were monitoring him.
- 1:53Speaker 1: He had a punctured lung, some slash wounds.
- 1:57Speaker 5: Oh, my gosh.
- 1:58Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
- 1:59Speaker 4: That is horrible.
- 1:59Speaker 2: Well, you know, this happens. We don't know why.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Obviously, I'm not going to tie it to the series
- 2:06Speaker 1: of cases that involved emotionally disturbed persons. But it is
- 2:10Speaker 1: a case that brought me to Bellevue, a place, as
- 2:12Speaker 1: you know, where I was lucky to survive the time
- 2:16Speaker 1: that I was shot with the five hollow point bullets
- 2:19Speaker 1: by the Gottis and Gambinos. I got great care there.
- 2:22Speaker 1: But while I was there, I was able to, because
- 2:25Speaker 1: it's right where the emergency room entrance and exit is
- 2:29Speaker 1: on 29th Street and 1st Avenue. Next to it is
- 2:31Speaker 1: an old building, one of the original buildings of Bellevue
- 2:34Speaker 1: that goes back to the 1700s. That's where they had
- 2:37Speaker 1: the 300s. homeless men housed for many years, Kips Bay.
- 2:42Speaker 1: We've been talking about Kips Bay because that's where they're
- 2:44Speaker 1: closing the AMC theater chain. All the politicians, the local people,
- 2:48Speaker 1: our own Joe Neumeier is out there with his sign up,
- 2:52Speaker 1: protesting that. But they've had a problem because these homeless
- 2:56Speaker 1: men go out throughout the neighborhood, some of them very
- 2:59Speaker 1: emotionally disturbed, And have attacked people at random.
- 3:04Speaker 4: My God.
- 3:05Speaker 1: They had to close that homeless shelter because it was
- 3:08Speaker 1: falling apart.
- 3:09Speaker 2: What a difference. I got to tell you, I haven't
- 3:12Speaker 2: been there since they closed it. What a difference.
- 3:15Speaker 1: You don't see the men walking about like zombies in
- 3:19Speaker 1: Dawn of the Dead. Didn't see much of that. But
- 3:22Speaker 1: when I came here to get ready to join you,
- 3:24Speaker 1: Larry and Natalie, this morning in our audience, I was
- 3:27Speaker 1: on the subway. clearly saw a guy who was schizophrenic,
- 3:31Speaker 1: who was talking to himself.
- 3:32Speaker 2: Not at all unusual.
- 3:33Speaker 1: These were workers ready to go to work, you know,
- 3:36Speaker 1: probably had a five o'clock shift, you know, start.
- 3:39Speaker 2: They were oblivious to it. They're so used to it
- 3:42Speaker 2: on the subway.
- 3:43Speaker 1: And let's face it, that person on that subway, as
- 3:45Speaker 1: he was talking to himself, having a full-scale conversation, something
- 3:49Speaker 1: that he was privy to, we would not be privy to,
- 3:53Speaker 1: might have snapped at a moment's notice. But everybody in
- 3:57Speaker 1: a subway car, it's just this is the norm now.
- 3:59Speaker 1: This is the norm.
- 4:00Speaker 2: Oh, I know.
- 4:01Speaker 1: And then, as you notice, I had to get an
- 4:03Speaker 1: extra cup of coffee this morning as I'm at the
- 4:06Speaker 1: coffee wagon down the block. Here's a woman walking down
- 4:10Speaker 1: the street, well-dressed in, like, construction garb. She's a large woman.
- 4:15Speaker 1: She's got a stick in her hand. She's screaming at
- 4:17Speaker 1: the top of her lungs.
- 4:18Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 4:19Speaker 2: There are people waiting online for the cool fee with me, right?
- 4:22Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 4:23Speaker 1: And I'm saying, do I need to do a physical intervention?
- 4:26Speaker 1: She's not really threatening anybody. She's screaming at like inanimate objects,
- 4:30Speaker 1: waving the stick at them. And I'm saying, welcome to
- 4:33Speaker 1: New York City, circa 2026.
- 4:36Speaker 2: And everybody else online for.
- 4:39Speaker 1: The cool fee, oblivious to it, as if they had
- 4:42Speaker 1: window shades on their eyes and were just not going
- 4:46Speaker 1: to focus on that.
- 4:47Speaker 2: They weren't going to let that disturb their morning.
- 4:49Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a huge problem. And we used to be
- 4:51Speaker 4: able to take these people off the streets to give
- 4:54Speaker 4: care to them. But we had a Supreme Court ruling
- 4:56Speaker 4: in 1975 that put an end to that. We have
- 4:58Speaker 4: to get another ruling. We have to get some kind
- 5:00Speaker 4: of case to go to the Supreme Court. It's interesting
- 5:03Speaker 4: you bring this up because yesterday I'm leaving the station
- 5:05Speaker 4: and I texted Natalie. There's a homeless guy sitting here
- 5:09Speaker 4: yelling F you at everybody. Every single person that went by. Well, no,
- 5:14Speaker 4: he skipped me. Apparently, he liked me.
- 5:16Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's a listener.
- 5:17Speaker 1: You'd be surprised at how many homeless men and women
- 5:21Speaker 1: listen to the show. I wouldn't say they have a
- 5:23Speaker 1: seat crane radio, but they have one of these old-fashioned
- 5:26Speaker 1: small radios.
- 5:27Speaker 4: Oh, that makes me feel so much better because I
- 5:29Speaker 4: actually felt left out. I was thinking, what's wrong with me?
- 5:33Speaker 4: How come I didn't get it?
- 5:35Speaker 7: And it's interesting because even this morning, I was coming in.
- 5:38Speaker 7: I was walking on 6th Avenue. You know, pretty busy.
- 5:42Speaker 7: busy even at four something in the morning. I came
- 5:46Speaker 7: across at least two or three people walking towards me
- 5:49Speaker 7: where I was like, okay, I really got to keep
- 5:52Speaker 7: my eyes open here.
- 5:53Speaker 5: Oh, I know.
- 5:54Speaker 2: You know, it didn't look right.
- 5:55Speaker 7: I was like, okay, I might just walk right in
- 5:57Speaker 7: the middle of the street because I think it's safer
- 6:00Speaker 7: right now.
- 6:00Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 6:01Speaker 4: Isn't it amazing that you are afraid more of crazy
- 6:04Speaker 4: people than you are of like real criminals? Because when
- 6:07Speaker 4: I walk in, I'm not looking for somebody that might,
- 6:10Speaker 4: you know, jack me up. I'm looking for a crazy
- 6:13Speaker 4: person that might come up and do something every single time.
- 6:16Speaker 4: If I see somebody like talking to themselves across the street,
- 6:19Speaker 4: I'll go another way. I don't want to get near them.
- 6:21Speaker 1: And remember they're, they're like in the middle of this
- 6:24Speaker 1: schizophrenic attack. They're having a conversation with a person that
- 6:29Speaker 1: they actually see. It can almost reach out, feel them
- 6:33Speaker 1: and touch them. You know, they're looking at an angle.
- 6:35Speaker 1: You could be right in front of them having a conversation.
- 6:37Speaker 1: They were oblivious to you, Larry. even though they love
- 6:39Speaker 1: you on the radio. You're the choice of the emotionally
- 6:42Speaker 1: disturbed and the homeless roaming the streets.
- 6:45Speaker 4: Makes so much sense.
- 6:46Speaker 1: We could use all the listeners that we could possibly get.
- 6:49Speaker 1: I welcome them. But it just shows.
- 6:51Speaker 2: You this is a continuation.
- 6:53Speaker 1: The old school way was if a cop was on
- 6:55Speaker 1: the beat and they saw what they call an EDP,
- 6:59Speaker 1: he and her and their partner would take them in
- 7:02Speaker 1: for psychiatric observation.
- 7:03Speaker 2: We're at Bellevue.
- 7:04Speaker 1: That's where the psychiatric ward is. And they'd be remanded
- 7:09Speaker 1: there for 21 days. They wouldn't become a ward of
- 7:11Speaker 1: the state yet, so they're not committed to the state.
- 7:14Speaker 1: But after 21 days, two different shrinks have to come
- 7:18Speaker 1: up with an analysis of the person. But in the meantime,
- 7:21Speaker 1: it gave them a chance to clean up, get some
- 7:23Speaker 1: clothes on, you know, get away from the streets and
- 7:26Speaker 1: the subways or the parks, wherever they were living. 21
- 7:30Speaker 1: days is a good amount of time. it allows you
- 7:33Speaker 1: to do an examination of maybe what's mentally ailing the person.
- 7:37Speaker 1: And then if they need further treatment, that's when they
- 7:39Speaker 1: have to get committed to the state. But once you
- 7:42Speaker 1: get committed, it ain't easy to get uncommitted.
- 7:44Speaker 2: See, that's part of the problem.
- 7:46Speaker 4: Yeah, that's very few people across the country, not just
- 7:50Speaker 4: in New York, get committed nowadays because there's a Supreme
- 7:53Speaker 4: Court ruling. I mean, I would love to see a
- 7:56Speaker 4: state challenge that. And what you should do, what we
- 7:59Speaker 4: should do, is every time there's somebody that gets attacked,
- 8:03Speaker 4: they should sue. They should sue and try to get
- 8:06Speaker 4: it to go up to the Supreme Court. Because I
- 8:08Speaker 4: think the current Supreme Court and the problems and the
- 8:10Speaker 4: crime in the country might be there for that. All right,
- 8:13Speaker 4: let's take a real neck-breaking switch on the topic.
- 8:16Speaker 2: For a second.
- 8:17Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, because a lot of people, based on my
- 8:19Speaker 1: analysis of our Turley paper, you know, the Canadian blend
- 8:23Speaker 1: and the American blend, thought that I had lost. Actually,
- 8:27Speaker 1: they thought I had all the furniture upstairs and rearranged
- 8:30Speaker 1: in the wrong rooms.
- 8:30Speaker 4: Yeah, that was true, because you and Natalie together have
- 8:35Speaker 4: these tender tushies, apparently, where you require... this deluxe toilet
- 8:41Speaker 4: paper to touch your behind. Me, I have a behind
- 8:45Speaker 4: of steel. I don't even know, I can't even figure
- 8:49Speaker 4: out the argument about toilet paper. But it got a
- 8:52Speaker 4: lot of talkbacks.
- 8:53Speaker 8: You have never lived until you went to an outhouse,
- 8:56Speaker 8: as when I did when I was a kid, sat
- 8:58Speaker 8: on an outhouse. We either had a corn cob, but
- 9:02Speaker 8: we had Sears catalogs and JCPenney catalogs. And guess what?
- 9:06Speaker 8: If America would go back to that, There'll be better
- 9:09Speaker 8: readers in America today. Reading all the ads.
- 9:14Speaker 4: And that's the end of the story.
- 9:15Speaker 1: Remember how in your bathroom you'd have a basket, you know,
- 9:18Speaker 1: the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest.
- 9:22Speaker 2: Well, I guess people would sit there.
- 9:24Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 9:24Speaker 2: Me, for me, it was In-N-Out. But she's right. And
- 9:27Speaker 2: The Outer House was similar to that.
- 9:29Speaker 4: Listen to him bragging. Before you wipe your tush.
- 9:30Speaker 1: Before you wipe your tush. American needs soft turlet paper.
- 9:37Speaker 6: So you should... Start using bamboo paper because it's really
- 9:42Speaker 6: not bad and it doesn't destroy the forest. And I'm
- 9:46Speaker 6: sure Nancy would appreciate that, Curtis.
- 9:49Speaker 4: It sounds horrible. Bamboo toilet paper sounds horrible. I'm looking
- 9:54Speaker 4: it up, actually. It's not that expensive.
- 9:55Speaker 2: That's not bad. what my initial reaction was. I thought
- 10:01Speaker 2: you meant the rolling paper, bamboo. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 10:05Speaker 4: No, only a pothead would think that. Here you go.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Oh, no, Larry.
- 10:11Speaker 4: Don't squeeze the shaman. I mean, I go to Costco,
- 10:14Speaker 4: I get the ultra soft shaman, and I don't go
- 10:17Speaker 4: anywhere else but home. I don't know if you heard
- 10:19Speaker 4: at the beginning, that's attacking me, saying I don't care
- 10:22Speaker 4: what kind of... Listen, you don't know my butt, and
- 10:25Speaker 4: so I can use any toilet paper I want. Back off, buddy.
- 10:30Speaker 2: Now, the reason this came up is because of the tariff.
- 10:35Speaker 1: We have enough of our own paper fiber to make
- 10:38Speaker 1: 8 million tons of American toilet paper to meet our needs.
- 10:43Speaker 1: But the soft fiber comes across the border from Canada.
- 10:46Speaker 1: It's called a blend, just like gasoline. They have blends.
- 10:48Speaker 1: You know, they change seasonally. We're going to talk about
- 10:51Speaker 1: that later on. The president talking to the big oil producers,
- 10:55Speaker 1: and they say, we need more refineries. He's saying, you
- 10:57Speaker 1: need to drop the price. You guys are Hazara, you're pigs.
- 11:00Speaker 1: You're making so much profit. We're going to get into that.
- 11:03Speaker 1: But it's the same thing. That's why we need to
- 11:05Speaker 1: get rid of these tariffs, or we're never going to
- 11:07Speaker 1: have soft toilet paper again in our lifetime larry it's amazing.
- 11:12Speaker 7: That he doesn't care curtis.
- 11:14Speaker 1: Dr spock don't you remember his book he said all
- 11:17Speaker 1: male problems evolve from the use of the porcelain palace
- 11:21Speaker 1: at a young.
- 11:22Speaker 4: Age oh he's been debunked a million times.
- 11:27Speaker 1: No that's not spot from star trek let's get that straight.
- 11:30Speaker 4: It is it is exactly star spot from star trek
- 11:33Speaker 4: All right. When we come back, remember when Pete Davidson
- 11:38Speaker 4: and Colin Yost bought the Staten Island Ferry and were ridiculed? Well,
- 11:42Speaker 4: they haven't even ridiculed themselves. Now they finally figured out
- 11:47Speaker 4: what to do with it. We'll tell you about it
- 11:49Speaker 4: coming up next. Plus, a chance to see air supply
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- 12:26Speaker 4: of minutes, we're going to start playing your talkbacks that
- 12:29Speaker 4: came in today. So far, they have been great. Well,
- 12:32Speaker 4: it's in January of this year. It'll be four years
- 12:36Speaker 4: since Colin Yost and Pete Davidson from Saturday Night Live
- 12:41Speaker 4: bought the Staten Island Ferry. And they've regretted it ever since.
- 12:46Speaker 4: They've hated it. Remember their plan was to make this
- 12:49Speaker 4: huge entertainment center. Like a nightclub or something. Nightclub and
- 12:52Speaker 4: they're going to have a restaurant, possibly a movie theater.
- 12:55Speaker 2: Sounded awesome actually.
- 12:56Speaker 4: Oh, it was a great idea. Nobody else thought it
- 12:59Speaker 4: was a great idea.
- 13:00Speaker 1: No.
- 13:00Speaker 4: When they went after investors, investors are like, are you
- 13:03Speaker 4: kidding me? So they, they paid $ 280, 000 for the John F.
- 13:06Speaker 4: Kennedy ship, which is 77 feet long. I mean, it's,
- 13:14Speaker 4: It's 70,000 square feet. It's amazing. It's huge. But insurance
- 13:20Speaker 4: on that, upkeep on that, docking on that has cost
- 13:25Speaker 4: them millions of dollars. Now, finally, finally, they're figured out
- 13:32Speaker 4: to do with it. But first of all, let me
- 13:34Speaker 4: play for you Colin Yost talking about the idiocy of
- 13:37Speaker 4: his idea.
- 13:38Speaker 5: This is why idiots should not be allowed to do things.
- 13:40Speaker 5: Pete and I bought this boat, and then there's so
- 13:43Speaker 5: many immediate decisions you have to make. And one of
- 13:45Speaker 5: them is like, well, you have to create a financial
- 13:48Speaker 5: entity to deal with this boat. And so we're on
- 13:50Speaker 5: a call, and I'm just like, all right, well, how
- 13:52Speaker 5: about Titanic 2?
- 13:55Speaker 1: Now, remember, these are Staten Island boys. They were born
- 13:57Speaker 1: and raised on Staten Island. So they knew this was
- 14:01Speaker 1: going to the scrapyard. The JFK was on his way
- 14:04Speaker 1: to the scrapyard. It had more cockroaches embedded into this
- 14:09Speaker 1: old Staten Island ferry than anything else. And for whatever reason,
- 14:13Speaker 1: they thought they could create this extravaganza. Now they want
- 14:17Speaker 1: it to be a comedy club.
- 14:19Speaker 2: Maybe right on time.
- 14:20Speaker 1: I was listening to Mark Simone yesterday talk about that
- 14:22Speaker 1: new show at night. They replaced Stephen Colbert, Byron Allen,
- 14:26Speaker 1: who has just comedians, a clean, no political humor. You know,
- 14:30Speaker 1: he bought the time from CBS. Apparently it's doing a
- 14:32Speaker 1: hell of a lot better than Stephen Colbert ever did.
- 14:36Speaker 1: They may be onto something. You know, we may be
- 14:38Speaker 1: going through a cycle where, remember in the 80s, there
- 14:40Speaker 1: was a comedy club on every block. Right.
- 14:43Speaker 2: Now you got to go on a search and hunt.
- 14:45Speaker 4: Well, you jumped ahead. We wanted to say that, yeah,
- 14:48Speaker 4: that's what they're going to do right now. They're going
- 14:49Speaker 4: to make it a comedy club. They finally figured out
- 14:52Speaker 4: a reason for, by the way, to end his story
- 14:55Speaker 4: about calling it Titanic 2.
- 14:56Speaker 1: Yes.
- 14:57Speaker 4: They did actually call it that. And then they tried
- 14:59Speaker 4: to get insurance and the insurance company said, you're calling
- 15:03Speaker 4: it Titanic 2. Why would we ever insure you? So
- 15:08Speaker 4: they've made mistake after mistake, but now they're trying to
- 15:11Speaker 4: make up with it on January 19th. No, that's not
- 15:15Speaker 4: the date. That's the date that they bought it. Hold
- 15:18Speaker 4: on for a second. I think it's Thursday, September. You're
- 15:22Speaker 4: like the know-it-all in school. I just want to specialize.
- 15:26Speaker 2: She's Miss Staten Island, remember?
- 15:27Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'm sure she knows everything about the boat. Thursday,
- 15:31Speaker 4: September 17th of 2026, Pete Davidson and Colin Yost are
- 15:36Speaker 4: hosting a free, free, one-night-only comedy show aboard their decommissioned
- 15:43Speaker 4: Staten Island ferry. And guess what? It's going to be
- 15:46Speaker 4: on TV. It's one hour, which means it's being taped
- 15:50Speaker 4: for television. Snapple is giving out free Snapples during it,
- 15:55Speaker 4: so they are now behind this. And they have other
- 15:59Speaker 4: investors as well.
- 16:00Speaker 1: They could have done it on a regular Staten Island
- 16:02Speaker 1: ferry because that's free. The comedians could have just done
- 16:06Speaker 1: their act. It's in better shape. I'm telling you, the
- 16:08Speaker 1: Staten Island ferries have runs. That's how all the tourists
- 16:11Speaker 1: get to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
- 16:13Speaker 1: for free.
- 16:15Speaker 2: Boy, these guys are real schmucks. They're real punches.
- 16:17Speaker 7: Nobody told them that the second best day in your
- 16:19Speaker 7: life is when you buy a boat. The first best
- 16:21Speaker 7: day in your life is when you sell it.
- 16:22Speaker 2: That's true.
- 16:24Speaker 4: That's true. At least they constantly make fun of themselves
- 16:27Speaker 4: for doing it. All right, let's get to some talkbacks.
- 16:30Speaker 4: You know, Kathy Hochul wore a scarf over her head,
- 16:34Speaker 4: not a hijab, but she wore a scarf over her
- 16:36Speaker 4: head at a Muslim mosque, and she was criticized for it.
- 16:41Speaker 4: Curtis and I, I showed some restraint and thought that
- 16:43Speaker 4: was minor compared to everything else. But I'll tell you what,
- 16:46Speaker 4: I got a lot of emails saying that we were wrong.
- 16:50Speaker 4: And here you go.
- 16:51Speaker 9: And this Kathy Hochul, what a freaking disappointment.
- 16:55Speaker 2: You know, she's so busy trying to pander to these
- 16:58Speaker 2: people just to show that, look, I could be like
- 17:01Speaker 2: one of them. Do us all a favor.
- 17:04Speaker 4: Start passing policies that actually help people and get those
- 17:08Speaker 4: teethier sticks.
- 17:09Speaker 2: It looks like somebody shoved a bunch of chiclets in
- 17:11Speaker 2: your mouth.
- 17:14Speaker 1: First off, you go to a mosque, you have to
- 17:16Speaker 1: do this. Her predecessor admitted he never went to a mosque.
- 17:20Speaker 1: That caused him a lot of problems. You've got to
- 17:23Speaker 1: wear the covering. Republican women have done it. Democratic women
- 17:28Speaker 1: have done it. Absolutely.
- 17:29Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a no-brainer. You're absolutely correct. Let's get to
- 17:34Speaker 4: Daria Albinger now with the 6.30 news, Daria.
- 17:36Speaker 1: Morning, guys.
- 17:37Speaker 10: The city's storm emergency alert will continue through tomorrow with
- 17:40Speaker 10: more heavy rain in the forecast, mainly tonight and into Thursday,
- 17:44Speaker 10: which could lead to flash flooding. With the school year
- 17:47Speaker 10: about to start, Mayor Mamdani will make an announcement today
- 17:49Speaker 10: about artificial intelligence in the classroom. there have been efforts
- 17:53Speaker 10: by some, including some parents groups, to limit or in
- 17:56Speaker 10: some cases eliminate AI completely from the curriculum. The start
- 18:00Speaker 10: of classes also usually means the start of high school football,
- 18:03Speaker 10: but one Long Island community has canceled its varsity schedule.
- 18:07Speaker 11: Emityville School District said in a statement they made the
- 18:09Speaker 11: decision due to injuries. However, some players are calling foul.
- 18:13Speaker 4: They're lying, saying injuries, no one's injured.
- 18:16Speaker 2: No, nobody's injured, actually.
- 18:17Speaker 4: Right now, nobody's injured. I think we had something good going.
- 18:20Speaker 4: We had a great team, and I think we had
- 18:21Speaker 4: a bright future.
- 18:22Speaker 11: Emityville says there will be a junior varsity team where
- 18:25Speaker 11: cheerleaders and marching band will still participate in games. This
- 18:29Speaker 11: is the third high school on Long Island canceling their
- 18:32Speaker 11: football season following Port Jefferson and Holy Trinity. I'm Lizzie Radabali,
- 18:37Speaker 11: WOR News.
- 18:38Speaker 10: President Trump today will nominate Hong Kao to be Navy Secretary.
- 18:41Speaker 10: He's been serving in an acting capacity since April. He'll
- 18:45Speaker 10: also be looking for a new Army Secretary, with Dan
- 18:48Speaker 10: Driscoll stepping down after a tense tenure with Defense Secretary
- 18:51Speaker 10: Pete Hegseth.
- 18:51Speaker 9: The Army is trying to change how it was doing.
- 18:54Speaker 9: Battle training by incorporating drone technology, the lessons learned from Ukraine,
- 18:59Speaker 9: if you will. And apparently those are things that Hexeth
- 19:03Speaker 9: did not like. And so there were tensions that have
- 19:05Speaker 9: been building with him for quite some time. And some
- 19:08Speaker 9: of the new reporting that we have is that Driscoll
- 19:10Speaker 9: actually warned the White House that Hexeth's actions were actually
- 19:14Speaker 9: not helpful and were creating problems within the force for
- 19:17Speaker 9: the army in terms of its readiness and in terms
- 19:19Speaker 9: of its transformation. And he wanted to raise awareness to
- 19:22Speaker 9: the White House, and he did so.
- 19:24Speaker 10: ABC's Louie Martinez at the Pentagon. Apple Maps is now
- 19:27Speaker 10: showing Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the U.S.
- 19:31Speaker 10: It follows the president's executive order renaming the lake. Canadians
- 19:35Speaker 10: will continue to see Lake Ontario. Users elsewhere will see
- 19:39Speaker 10: both names. Yankees win, Mets lose. Next news, 7 o'clock
- 19:42Speaker 10: bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
- 19:46Speaker 1: Ripped right from the headlines. We've been talking about flock cameras. Well,
- 19:51Speaker 1: there's a police officer outside of Louisville, Kentucky. Prosecutors say
- 19:55Speaker 1: he ran his ex-girlfriend through the flock license plate camera
- 19:59Speaker 1: network over 2,000 times. Yeah, 2,000 times. Where she was,
- 20:05Speaker 1: where she was going, where she slept. He's been charged
- 20:08Speaker 1: with official misconduct and unlawful access to this computer. And
- 20:13Speaker 1: that guy had a badge and a camera network.
- 20:15Speaker 2: To do it.
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- 21:42Speaker 4: Governor Kathy Hochul recently got the attention of Donald Trump
- 21:47Speaker 4: in a bad way. The last news conference, the last
- 21:51Speaker 4: availability he had. Kathy Hochul was one of the people
- 21:56Speaker 4: he was going after.
- 21:57Speaker 3: The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, just announced that
- 22:00Speaker 3: she's letting 7,000 people go into criminals, go right back
- 22:06Speaker 3: onto the streets of New York. What's wrong with her?
- 22:09Speaker 3: What's wrong with her? How can she do that? So
- 22:11Speaker 3: we're able to get people easier, and they're bad people.
- 22:15Speaker 3: We want to get bad ones out of here and
- 22:16Speaker 3: get them out of here fast, and that's what we're
- 22:18Speaker 3: doing in record numbers.
- 22:20Speaker 4: In record numbers, absolutely, 2,100. criminals, and you can go
- 22:26Speaker 4: online to the DHS and look at the list, were
- 22:30Speaker 4: taken off the streets by ICE. Mark Wayne Mullen held
- 22:33Speaker 4: a press conference yesterday talking only about New York. 2,100
- 22:38Speaker 4: in a month. They called it Operation Rotten Apple, and
- 22:43Speaker 4: specifically was going after New York State and New York City.
- 22:47Speaker 12: Operation Rotten Apple. was an operation we decided to take
- 22:52Speaker 12: on because you have a very liberal slash socialist mayor
- 22:59Speaker 12: here in New York City that instead of working with
- 23:05Speaker 12: law enforcement, tries to cut NYPD's budget by $ 22 million
- 23:10Speaker 12: and refuses to work with federal law enforcement. You have
- 23:15Speaker 12: a governor that refuses to work with us.
- 23:19Speaker 4: So they held a press conference yesterday. When I say they,
- 23:21Speaker 4: I'm talking about Kathy Hochul and Zoran Mamdani. They were
- 23:26Speaker 4: standing together to react to this. Now, I want you
- 23:29Speaker 4: to go online and look at this list of people
- 23:31Speaker 4: that were taken off the streets and are being sent
- 23:33Speaker 4: back to their countries. It is alarming. We're talking about murder.
- 23:39Speaker 4: We're talking about child abuse. We're talking about child rape.
- 23:43Speaker 4: We're talking several, several rapes among them. It is going
- 23:47Speaker 4: to stun you and By the way, the media talked
- 23:50Speaker 4: very little about this, but it got the attention of
- 23:53Speaker 4: Kathy Hochul and Zoran Mamdani. And you know what they're
- 23:56Speaker 4: worried about? Well, what are Democrats always worried about? They're
- 24:00Speaker 4: worried about money. They're saying that the Department of Homeland
- 24:03Speaker 4: Security has withheld money from them. Well, geez, I wonder why.
- 24:08Speaker 13: The Department of Homeland Security, the agency created in response
- 24:13Speaker 13: to 9-11, is withholding 40% of New York State's counterterrorism funding.
- 24:19Speaker 14: We are talking about the money needed to fully fund
- 24:22Speaker 14: 12 bomb squads across New York. We are talking about
- 24:26Speaker 14: the money needed to ensure that in the event of
- 24:29Speaker 14: a catastrophic attack, the FDNY can communicate internally and respond effectively.
- 24:35Speaker 4: Well, Trump says he is going to release the rest
- 24:37Speaker 4: of the money. In the meantime, there was a great reporter,
- 24:40Speaker 4: by the way, from WCBS. I'll get her name, but man,
- 24:44Speaker 4: She was after Kathy Hochul, and she said, did you
- 24:48Speaker 4: look at the list? Did you look at the list
- 24:49Speaker 4: of the people that have been taken off the streets?
- 24:52Speaker 4: Is there anything bad about that? And she said, well,
- 24:55Speaker 4: some of them were minor offenses. And she went after
- 24:57Speaker 4: her and said, do you consider DUI where you have
- 25:01Speaker 4: to be put in jail for that DUI a minor offense?
- 25:05Speaker 13: Or if there's a traffic infraction, that's not the same
- 25:07Speaker 13: as someone who is committing assaults, murders, rapes, burglaries. DWI conviction,
- 25:13Speaker 13: should Fabio Lox's stay or not? Let me look at
- 25:15Speaker 13: the circumstances of an individual case.
- 25:17Speaker 1: Well, this is what happens in these back and forth debates.
- 25:21Speaker 1: Mullins is right. These are criminal cases. And then Kathy
- 25:26Speaker 1: Hochul and Zoran and the others will hide behind the
- 25:29Speaker 1: civil cases.
- 25:30Speaker 2: Like we saw with this guy.
- 25:33Speaker 1: who was sent back to the UK, Milo Yiannopoulos. Remember,
- 25:38Speaker 1: most of the people they detain have overstate visas, you know,
- 25:43Speaker 1: whether it was education, work visas, whatever it is. And
- 25:47Speaker 1: so they snatch him up and it's a civil case.
- 25:49Speaker 1: And obviously you overstay. You got to go right back.
- 25:52Speaker 1: So they conflate the two, which can get very confusing because.
- 25:56Speaker 2: You know, here's this guy. He's been here 10 years.
- 25:58Speaker 2: He's married.
- 25:59Speaker 1: He has children. He overstayed a visa or something like that. Oh,
- 26:03Speaker 1: now you're breaking up the family. So it goes back
- 26:05Speaker 1: and forth. So Mullins scores points. But then later on
- 26:09Speaker 1: in this press conference unrelated to New York State, he
- 26:13Speaker 1: says that the DHS may send ICE agents to polling
- 26:18Speaker 1: sites for the midterm elections. Now, guy, man, Americans don't
- 26:24Speaker 1: want to see that. That takes away. It's sort of like,
- 26:27Speaker 1: why did you mix in that? You were on a roll.
- 26:31Speaker 1: You had all the guys' photos up. We saw the
- 26:35Speaker 1: horrible crimes they had committed.
- 26:36Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not him.
- 26:37Speaker 5: It's Trump.
- 26:40Speaker 1: Because they're going to have now the midterm convention in Dallas.
- 26:45Speaker 1: And obviously the president wants to remind America, hey, I
- 26:47Speaker 1: sealed the border. Look, we're arresting 50,000 illegals a month.
- 26:51Speaker 1: You know, that's the latest.
- 26:53Speaker 4: Let me jump in because I think that most people
- 26:56Speaker 4: that are listening right now think it's a great idea.
- 26:59Speaker 4: To have ICE agents at the polling places.
- 27:01Speaker 2: No way.
- 27:01Speaker 4: It's a great idea. No way. We'll see. We'll get talkbacks.
- 27:03Speaker 2: You're out of your mind, Larry.
- 27:04Speaker 4: We'll get talkbacks. To have ICE agents at the polling places.
- 27:07Speaker 2: For what purpose?
- 27:08Speaker 4: We'll keep illegals from voting.
- 27:10Speaker 2: Oh, you've got to be kidding. So how are you
- 27:12Speaker 2: going to do that?
- 27:13Speaker 4: The Democrats don't.
- 27:14Speaker 2: How are you going to do that?
- 27:14Speaker 4: You just have a president. You don't have to go
- 27:16Speaker 4: after anybody. You just have to have a presence. I
- 27:18Speaker 4: think it's a brilliant idea.
- 27:20Speaker 1: Larry, you will turn every independent against you. You could
- 27:23Speaker 1: kiss those midterm elections goodbye. I don't think that's true.
- 27:26Speaker 1: I think you're completely wrong on the issue.
- 27:28Speaker 4: I think that if you have ICE officers there, it'll
- 27:31Speaker 4: infuriate Democrats. I will say that.
- 27:33Speaker 2: And independents.
- 27:33Speaker 4: No, independents are very much for.
- 27:37Speaker 2: You couldn't be more hopelessly wrong on this.
- 27:39Speaker 4: Except if you look at a poll, give me a
- 27:40Speaker 4: poll number. Because you know the polls. Why would you
- 27:43Speaker 4: assign ICE agents to polls?
- 27:46Speaker 2: That is the dumbest thing that I've ever heard.
- 27:48Speaker 4: What's going to happen?
- 27:49Speaker 2: Gary, let's see how many Republicans support that.
- 27:52Speaker 1: Let's see how many Republicans running in neck and neck
- 27:55Speaker 1: races suddenly say.
- 27:56Speaker 2: I'm for that.
- 27:56Speaker 4: Do you want illegals to vote? Do you want that?
- 27:59Speaker 2: How are they going to check?
- 27:59Speaker 4: Do you want illegals to vote? No. But how are
- 28:01Speaker 4: they going to check them? Well, I don't know, but
- 28:04Speaker 4: I could keep them away.
- 28:05Speaker 2: You don't know.
- 28:05Speaker 4: It doesn't matter.
- 28:06Speaker 2: They're just going to stand there.
- 28:07Speaker 4: They're not going to show up. That's the only way
- 28:09Speaker 4: you can keep them from voting. Why don't we have
- 28:11Speaker 4: National Guard? If they won't pass the SAVE Act, if
- 28:14Speaker 4: the states won't deal with this. Let me just finish.
- 28:16Speaker 4: If the states won't deal with this, then the only
- 28:19Speaker 4: way to do it is to put ICE officers there.
- 28:21Speaker 1: You're guaranteeing a majority of Democrats in the Senate and
- 28:26Speaker 1: the House.
- 28:26Speaker 4: That's a no-brainer. You're absolutely wrong on this.
- 28:30Speaker 2: Nobody wants that.
- 28:30Speaker 4: You're absolutely wrong. Yes, let's see that. If the talkbacks
- 28:34Speaker 4: come in and everybody.
- 28:35Speaker 2: Says it's a great idea. Oh, excuse me, talkbacks are
- 28:37Speaker 2: a reflection of the United States?
- 28:38Speaker 4: You know. They don't know.
- 28:40Speaker 1: Larry, there was no reason for him to say that
- 28:44Speaker 1: at the end of the press conference.
- 28:45Speaker 2: And you know.
- 28:46Speaker 4: Because Donald Trump has said it already.
- 28:47Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
- 28:48Speaker 4: Donald Trump has said the exact same thing.
- 28:50Speaker 1: Okay.
- 28:50Speaker 4: So he's just saying what the president has said.
- 28:53Speaker 2: ICE agents at polling locations.
- 28:54Speaker 6: Yep. Yep.
- 28:56Speaker 4: It's a tremendous idea. And I bet you that any
- 28:59Speaker 4: Republican in line is going to thank them for being there.
- 29:02Speaker 2: We'll see.
- 29:03Speaker 1: Let's see if Susan Collins says that. Let's see if
- 29:07Speaker 1: Mike Rogers says that in Michigan in all these neck
- 29:10Speaker 1: and neck battles.
- 29:10Speaker 4: Did I say that the politicians were going to say that?
- 29:13Speaker 4: I said the people in line that are going up there.
- 29:15Speaker 2: We will see.
- 29:16Speaker 4: Yeah. It's a brilliant idea. If the Democrats aren't going
- 29:19Speaker 4: to enforce federal law, then let the president go ahead
- 29:23Speaker 4: and enforce it. When we come back, a kid's football
- 29:28Speaker 4: game ends with chaos as coaches trade blows in a
- 29:33Speaker 4: wild brawl. This happens. This isn't an isolated incident. Unfortunately,
- 29:39Speaker 4: I saw it happen at an elementary school game. We'll
- 29:44Speaker 4: talk about that when we come back. In the meantime,
- 29:47Speaker 4: I do want to talk to you about C crane radio.
- 29:50Speaker 4: And I want to tell you a story that happened
- 29:52Speaker 4: out in California when parents were driving home from a
- 29:58Speaker 4: birthday party and they looked in the backseat and their
- 30:00Speaker 4: three-year-old was choking and they were panicked. There was nothing
- 30:05Speaker 4: they could do. They couldn't get whatever was lodged in
- 30:08Speaker 4: this young boy's throat out. And so they called police, panicked.
- 30:13Speaker 4: Thank God the patrolman had a life vac. They got
- 30:19Speaker 4: to the scene and they saved that three-year-old's life. That
- 30:25Speaker 4: person's going to go on and live a long life
- 30:27Speaker 4: because of life vac. And this happens all of the time.
- 30:31Speaker 4: 6,000 people have been saved worldwide because of life vac.
- 30:39Speaker 4: Every house should have one and every restaurant should have one.
- 30:45Speaker 4: Every school cafeteria definitely should have one. And there's always
- 30:49Speaker 4: state legislation so support it. But in the meantime, what
- 30:52Speaker 4: you need to do is find out more about it.
- 30:55Speaker 4: And if it's right for you, go to LifeFact.net. Again,
- 30:59Speaker 4: that is LifeFact.net. If you visit LifeFact.net, you'll see how
- 31:04Speaker 4: you can be ready when it counts.
- 31:07Speaker 2: But you don't have the time to.
- 31:08Speaker 1: So, Larry, our news department had a story about Amityville
- 31:12Speaker 1: High School canceling football this year for Jefferson and Holy
- 31:15Speaker 1: Trinity because of injuries. And then in my feed yesterday,
- 31:19Speaker 1: I'm getting video. And I thought maybe it was coming
- 31:22Speaker 1: from these Long Island schools. Two coaches in the middle
- 31:25Speaker 1: of the field. I mean, throwing haymakers. They're on top
- 31:29Speaker 1: of one another. They're pounding one another as if they're
- 31:32Speaker 1: in the ring of the WWE. Assisting coaches, students, family members.
- 31:39Speaker 1: Almost like a total riot. But we can't blame parents
- 31:44Speaker 1: and the student athletes for this. This was the coaches
- 31:48Speaker 1: who decided to leave the sidelines and start pounding one
- 31:51Speaker 1: another right near the 50-yard marker, and they couldn't do
- 31:55Speaker 1: anything to stop them for a while. And this is
- 31:59Speaker 1: becoming more and more common, peewee football, junior high school,
- 32:05Speaker 1: high school football, where you actually see not necessarily the
- 32:09Speaker 1: student athletes themselves or the family members who are intensively involved,
- 32:13Speaker 1: But coaches and assistant coaches who are either attacking players,
- 32:17Speaker 1: attacking other coaches, and you say, man, if you don't
- 32:20Speaker 1: control it from the sidelines, if you're going to be
- 32:22Speaker 1: a Woody Hayes and hit every coach and hit every
- 32:26Speaker 1: player out there like he did at Ohio State, you're
- 32:29Speaker 1: sowing the seeds of chaos. I never saw this before.
- 32:34Speaker 4: Well, I go ahead and just go ahead and Google
- 32:36Speaker 4: kids or parents fighting at a kid's game or coaches
- 32:41Speaker 4: fighting at a kid's game. This is not an aberration.
- 32:44Speaker 4: I mean, this happens a lot. And you just asked
- 32:48Speaker 4: the question. I've never seen this before. Why is it happening?
- 32:51Speaker 4: I've gone to a lot of middle school football games
- 32:55Speaker 4: and high school football games. And every coach you talk
- 32:59Speaker 4: to will say the biggest problem are the parents. So
- 33:04Speaker 4: it's unusual when you have coaches start fighting. And that,
- 33:08Speaker 4: I can see them getting heated and get into it.
- 33:10Speaker 4: But parents... I mean, parents storm the field and fight
- 33:14Speaker 4: all the time. Parents are in the coaches' faces because
- 33:19Speaker 4: they think their kid's going to be a superstar someday.
- 33:22Speaker 4: And they're not treating them well. I was at a
- 33:26Speaker 4: middle school football game where my son was playing. And
- 33:30Speaker 4: on his team, there was one kid that was incredible.
- 33:34Speaker 4: He was bigger than everybody else, fast, and he would
- 33:38Speaker 4: tackle the quarterback all the time. He laid out this
- 33:41Speaker 4: quarterback one time really hard. I mean, it was tough
- 33:46Speaker 4: to watch. All the parents on the other side stormed
- 33:51Speaker 4: onto the field and wanted to fight. They wanted to
- 33:56Speaker 4: take on the parents on the other side of the field,
- 33:58Speaker 4: including me, who had nothing to do with this. Luckily,
- 34:02Speaker 4: the coaches were able to calm them down. And just
- 34:07Speaker 4: because there was negotiations going on at this point, they
- 34:13Speaker 4: pulled the kid from the game. They calmed everybody down.
- 34:16Speaker 4: But my God, it's all the time.
- 34:19Speaker 1: It's probably because the parents on the other side said,
- 34:22Speaker 1: This guy was just released from state prison. What are
- 34:25Speaker 1: you talking about? How did he make the team? You know, nowadays,
- 34:28Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. You could be playing professional football. Then
- 34:30Speaker 1: you're back playing college football, maybe back playing high school football.
- 34:35Speaker 1: But I've never seen the coaches started. You see, this
- 34:38Speaker 1: is the difference. We remember that famous case of Woody Hayes.
- 34:41Speaker 1: I mean, the all-time NCAA coach, Ohio State.
- 34:45Speaker 2: And then he attacked his player on the sideline. And
- 34:48Speaker 2: that was it. His entire career.
- 34:50Speaker 1: His record, all that he had achieved as the Buckeye coach,
- 34:54Speaker 1: down the drain.
- 34:55Speaker 2: He was relieved of his responsibilities. Now, he might be
- 34:59Speaker 2: given a medal.
- 35:00Speaker 1: I mean, I see coaches and assistant coaches setting off brawls.
- 35:05Speaker 1: And the coaches and assistant coaches have to be the one,
- 35:08Speaker 1: whether it's basketball, football, or any other games, to keep order.
- 35:12Speaker 1: And especially when everybody jumps the referees, either the referees
- 35:16Speaker 1: or the umpires, which oftentimes happens.
- 35:18Speaker 4: And in every organization, and I'm going to say that
- 35:21Speaker 4: with some degree of confidence, every organization, if coaches fight,
- 35:25Speaker 4: they lose their job. That's it. They're done. And it's
- 35:27Speaker 4: going to be interesting to see. We'll do a follow-up
- 35:29Speaker 4: on this story because my feeling is, They ended up
- 35:32Speaker 4: losing their job. Well, I'll tell you what. What is
- 35:36Speaker 4: wrong with this jury in Massachusetts? They still have not
- 35:41Speaker 4: reached a verdict in the Lindsay Clancy trial, and they
- 35:45Speaker 4: sent a note to the judge saying, we can't make
- 35:48Speaker 4: a decision. He sent them back. We'll tell you what
- 35:51Speaker 4: happened next after the 7 o'clock news.