Latest / Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning / Hour 3: Patrick Stewart

Transcript

Hour 3: Patrick Stewart · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Hey, Curtis, have you ever met Tim McClune or ever
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: been to one of his restaurants?
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's a great guy. You're going to have a
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: blast with this. Tim McClune is here with us right now.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Tim McClune is my partner for the 710 WOR broadcast
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: of the TCS New York City Marathon. Listen to this.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: He is a New Jersey legend. He's a New Jersey
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Let me just finish this. He's a restaurateur.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: He's a former Harvard All-American and participant in the very
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: first first, the very first five-barrel marathon in 1976. So
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: why aren't you running this year?
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: Which is pretty amazing since I'm only 24 years old.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing you still say you're 24 years old.
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: Curtis, what do you mean? I don't want to run
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: my restaurants.
• 0:56
  Speaker 4: What the hell?
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: We're going to have to get him.
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: To New Jersey. Yeah, I don't think I have been. But,
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: you know, once I'm there, I'll be more than happy
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: to bring my sponges and wash the dishes in the
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: kitchen afterwards.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: So, Tim, talk about the very first marathon and how
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: it's grown to what it is now.
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah. In a sense, looking back on it, it's not
• 1:24
  Speaker 3: that big a deal. You know, Fred Lebo, who was
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: the meat director at the time, this really iconoclastic figure
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: he decided because he'd been in, I don't know which
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: one he went to. He was in Europe and he
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: saw one that ran through the streets instead of being,
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: you know, locked into a course like central park where
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: you would do five laps or whatever it was. And
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: he thought this would be a great thing to do
• 1:47
  Speaker 3: in New York. And I don't know how he convinced
• 1:49
  Speaker 3: the town mothers and fathers to let him do it. Um,
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: but he called me, he called any number of people.
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: He was actually recruiting for the race and, you know,
• 1:58
  Speaker 3: I was a pretty good runner and stuff. So, um,
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: He asked if I'd be willing to do it. And
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: I'd run one marathon, and it did not go well.
• 2:10
  Speaker 3: I'd run Boston totally arrogant and unprepared. I was a
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: pretty good collegiate runner. I wasn't a great runner, but
• 2:17
  Speaker 3: I was all right. And I went in there never
• 2:20
  Speaker 3: having run more than 10 miles before. And then this
• 2:24
  Speaker 3: thing is so slow. They're going so slowly. I should
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: pick it up here. At any rate, so Fred says,
• 2:31
  Speaker 3: do you want to come and do this new one?
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: And it was remarkable in that I don't remember how
• 2:37
  Speaker 3: many people I should know. It was like 1,700 or
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: something like that. And we thought, wow, look at this
• 2:43
  Speaker 3: humongous field of people where it's now, you know, 50,000.
• 2:47
  Speaker 3: And there were so many interesting things about it. One
• 2:51
  Speaker 3: is that he wanted to get all five boroughs, and
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: they couldn't figure out a way to get the broncs.
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: And so we actually, at some point in the race,
• 2:59
  Speaker 3: I don't remember where it was. We had to get
• 3:01
  Speaker 3: off the course and run for like a very, very
• 3:05
  Speaker 3: short period of time, like almost like yards, touch the
• 3:09
  Speaker 3: Bronx and then come right back on. I don't remember, but,
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: and the other thing was there were very few people
• 3:19
  Speaker 3: out watching it. We went, ran along the river and, um, they,
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: on the East side, And there was nobody there. It
• 3:28
  Speaker 3: just was like another road race. Back in those days,
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: I would go into races that had 38 competitors in them.
• 3:35
  Speaker 3: And it was just a different world. So now it's
• 3:38
  Speaker 3: getting kind of lonely over there on the east side.
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: There's nobody around. And my family was following me in
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: a car. They could do that, too, because there just
• 3:50
  Speaker 3: wasn't that crowd. And I'd see them a whole bunch
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: of times.
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
• 3:54
  Speaker 5: None of that's happening now with 60,000 runners on the course.
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And if you get a, if you bought
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: a car, you'd get arrested.
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: The worst part of the whole thing is that I
• 4:07
  Speaker 3: got kind of excited and I was, I was running
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: really well. I'd been in Philadelphia the night before with
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: my band. Cause that's, I was a full-time musician then.
• 4:17
  Speaker 3: So it was kind of not great prep. To be
• 4:20
  Speaker 3: out playing with the band and then get in my
• 4:22
  Speaker 3: car in the morning and then go to the Veritano.
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: Tim, what was the name of your band?
• 4:29
  Speaker 3: At that time, it was the Atlantic Coast Band.
• 4:32
  Speaker 5: Atlantic Coast Band.
• 4:33
  Speaker 3: I'm sure you remember it. Oh, sure.
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: I bought your album.
• 4:37
  Speaker 5: And now you're going to be sitting in the broadcast
• 4:39
  Speaker 5: booth with Larry from 8 to noon on Sunday.
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: A little different perspective, huh?
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: I forget what place I was in, but I was
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: moving up. And I was in really good shape at
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: the time. And so I'm running with this guy and
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: he says to me, you know, I can tell I'm
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: holding you back. You should go ahead. And that's all
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: I needed to hear. So now I kind of take off.
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: I could have sworn I was shot by someone at
• 5:05
  Speaker 3: around the 21 mile mark. We just, we just, we
• 5:12
  Speaker 3: just never found the exit wound. And I began the, um,
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: the walking and running program. I'd walk a little and
• 5:24
  Speaker 3: then I'd run a little and then, Oh, it was
• 5:26
  Speaker 3: just the worst. And, um, I will tell you the truth.
• 5:31
  Speaker 3: A friend of mine, Mike Rodano, lived down in the village.
• 5:34
  Speaker 3: And he picked me up at the finish. And by
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: this point, I am totally debilitated. And I find myself
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: in a tub in his apartment on Charles Street in
• 5:44
  Speaker 3: the village, listening to the Giants quarterback getting sacked. And
• 5:49
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking, well, at least he got paid for it. Oh,
• 5:52
  Speaker 3: my God. And I had to walk down the steps
• 5:58
  Speaker 3: backwards for a few days after that. I couldn't go
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: straight down. Oh, man. Wow.
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: Well, Tim, you were asking about.
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: And it was just, and it was athletic arrogance. I thought...
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: When I was in college, when I was in college,
• 6:13
  Speaker 3: my rival was a guy named Frank Shorter. He ran
• 6:17
  Speaker 3: for Yale, and he ended up winning the Olympic Games
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: in 1972. And when we were in college together, he
• 6:23
  Speaker 3: would freely admit this. He was pretty beatable because he
• 6:26
  Speaker 3: wasn't training hard. And we were, you know, doing whatever
• 6:30
  Speaker 3: we could. And Frank Shorter was pretty beatable. And then
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: when he wins the Olympic gold, then we're all kind
• 6:35
  Speaker 3: of like, well, how hard can it be if Frank
• 6:37
  Speaker 3: Shorter won the gold? You know. A lot of arrogance
• 6:44
  Speaker 3: in there.
• 6:44
  Speaker 2: Tim, my only involvement in the marathon, New York City Marathon,
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: was helping the Achilles track club with the Guardian Angels.
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: It was a woman named Zoe Kaplowitz who was actually
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: from the Lower East Side. She had MS. So she
• 6:59
  Speaker 2: would start at the start with everyone else, but she
• 7:02
  Speaker 2: wouldn't finish until the next day, 12 noon. And she
• 7:07
  Speaker 2: went on to participate in London and Tokyo where I
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: have guardian angels. And man, she was a total gamer
• 7:14
  Speaker 2: cause it was tough on her, but she, always pushed,
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: and they allowed her and others who had some disabilities
• 7:23
  Speaker 2: to participate in the race.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: And they still do, and it's a big part of
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: the race now, including the wheelchair race. But there's other
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: people with other disabilities that beat them and then are
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: able to run. They're some of the most inspirational stories
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: in all of it. So now you look at the
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: marathon now, and we've now been together since the last marathon.
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: What do you think of how this has grown? It's
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: the biggest marathon in the world now.
• 7:51
  Speaker 3: Well, my son, who's 29, one of my boys, Jack,
• 7:55
  Speaker 3: lives in the city. And he says it's his favorite
• 7:58
  Speaker 3: day of the year. And he means it. He means it.
• 8:02
  Speaker 3: And there are just literally millions of people who feel
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: that way about the marathon. When I was in college
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: up in Boston... We used to, on Marathon Monday, we
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: would go out to watch the marathons. And you would
• 8:17
  Speaker 3: be sitting there and say, hey, here comes one. And
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: you'd see somebody tootling over. The first time I ran Boston,
• 8:24
  Speaker 3: there were 500 people on the race. And it was
• 8:27
  Speaker 3: just nothing like this. And Curtis, you're so right about
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: the Achilles group. I spent, I think, about 10 years
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: covering the marathon. I did the TV broadcasting. And I
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: would run in the race and interview people. And some
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: of the things I saw were just hard to believe.
• 8:44
  Speaker 3: There was one man who, believe it or not, his
• 8:48
  Speaker 3: wheelchair was turned around. He went backwards, and his only
• 8:53
  Speaker 3: power was pushing forward with a foot.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 8:56
  Speaker 3: That was the only thing he had. He couldn't use
• 8:59
  Speaker 3: his arms on the wheels. He would turn around and
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: just push with his foot. I don't know how long
• 9:06
  Speaker 3: it took him, but I... I ran along with his guide.
• 9:10
  Speaker 3: And then one year I ran with a blind runner.
• 9:14
  Speaker 3: And I thought that was amazing. How do you do that?
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: And they had a guide. It was a woman. She
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: had a guide. And she would occasionally say, hi, Stephan. Hi, Stephan.
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: Tell her, lift your legs up. There's some bumpy whatever
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: coming up here. It's amazing to me, the number of amputees,
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: the number of people that take this on. They're embarrassing
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: almost in a way because you realize how much harder
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: it is for them All that stuff I said to
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: you about my experience was true, but I don't know
• 9:43
  Speaker 3: how they do it. I don't. It's so moving. When
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: the Achilles race starts in the morning on the bridge,
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: it starts with tears from everybody. You know, they have
• 9:56
  Speaker 3: a separate start and a little bit before everybody else.
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: And when that gun goes off and they go, and
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: then you see, in some cases, there's very little movement.
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: They're not running across that bridge. They're doing whatever they
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: can to get across the bridge. And we talk about
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: this all the time, but the Verrazano Bridge is uphill.
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: The first mile is uphill. And then it just brings
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: tears to your eyes to watch what humans are capable
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: of when thrown the biggest obstacles we could all ever
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: possibly imagine. And I couldn't imagine it. I couldn't imagine
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: being that tough and that resilient that I could do
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: what these people do. It's unbelievable.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: That is amazing. Yeah, it's inspirational too, isn't it?
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: It is. I do tell people sometimes, though, that When
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: people say they watch the marathon as they go and
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: they get inspired to do it themselves, I advise them,
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: don't be right at the finish line. Because it's not pretty.
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the finish line can get a little hairy sometimes
• 10:56
  Speaker 5: because people push themselves to the point where they almost
• 11:00
  Speaker 5: collapse and do sometimes and other things.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: Well, there's some– I know. And there's some people who
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: have injured themselves somewhere on the race and they still finish. Oh,
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: It's incredible.
• 11:12
  Speaker 5: And I really encourage everybody to take a listen on
• 11:14
  Speaker 5: Sunday with Tim and Larry and the rest of our
• 11:17
  Speaker 5: crew from 8 to 12 because– It's a story.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: It's a four-hour story that.
• 11:22
  Speaker 5: Just keeps evolving and changing, and it gets more exciting,
• 11:25
  Speaker 5: and it's really something to listen to.
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: Tim, have you ever considered talk radio? I think we
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: asked you two questions.
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: I know that Curtis isn't going to be listening to
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: the race because he's going to be in one of
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: my restaurants having brunch.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: He passed me a note. Will it be for free?
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: No, but if he pays cash, 5% off. There you go. Oh, wow.
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: That's an enticement there.
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Tim. I'm looking forward to it. Thank
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: you so much. I can't wait.
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: Larry, you're great. I love working with you.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: Well, feelings mutual. And so the two of us will
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: be doing that starting at 8 in the morning.
• 12:10
  Speaker 3: Excellent. Natalie will be telling us what to do. I know.
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: I know. Thank God for Natalie. We'd be lost, huh?
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: That's the truth.
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Dolan, who I hate, the owner of the Knicks,
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: doesn't pay his property taxes, but that's not the issue.
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: He had lobbied, if you remember, Larry and Natalie. right
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: at the parade itself, the victory parade for the New
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: York Knicks, and especially with Captain Jalen Brunson. Like, man,
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: we're on our way, not to Disney World, but to
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: the White House. The president wants to receive us and
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: honor us because he was a true Knicks fan, still is.
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: Used to sit courtside. You know when a politician... knows
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: the game, like Barack Obama knew basketball, you would think,
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: why wouldn't you go to the White House? The president
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: actually came and watched your victory, one of the preceding
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: games that led to your world championship. And remember, Jalen
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: Brunson pretty much said, well, we'll make the decision as
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: a team. You know, I can't make that decision as
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: a captain. And it was put off. It was put off.
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: And then pregame camp took place, you know, where they're practicing.
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: And he was asked again and again, put it off,
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: put it off. And now Jimmy Dolan is saying, I
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: don't get this. I pay all these millions of dollars
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: for these guys. I asked him to do one thing.
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: What are the 17 Knicks? You know, the starters, the
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: second team in the scrubs. And you see, if you
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: show up a baseball team or a football team and
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: a few of the guys are not there, it's not
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: as noticeable, Larry. Cause you know, you're carrying football, like
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: 50 guys, baseball, you're carrying like, you know, 32 guys,
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: but basketball, you're only carrying 17 guys and it would
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: be very noticeable. And apparently, uh, Without saying publicly, Jalen
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: Brunson and the Knicks refused to go to the White
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: House to be honored by Donald Trump.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: But it seems like the only guy that's saying this
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: is Stephen A.
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: Smith.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: And Stephen A. Smith has his own negative relationship, much
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: like you, with James Dolan. Here's what he says. I
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: don't know whether it's true or not, but I believe
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: anything when it comes to James Dolan because he is
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: a walking embodiment of petulance. The man is as petty
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: as they come. So my feeling is he's not allowed
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: in the Madison Square Garden either.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: I'm amazed Stephen A. Smith knows the word petulance.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, come on.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: That's a new one for him.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: He's a smart guy.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: But we share that one thing in common. I think, look,
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: by now you kind of get the drift that they
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: can't get enough of the Knicks to lobby one another
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: to make the trip to the White House. So my
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: suggestion is If you're not going to do it as
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: a team, don't allow this to be another point of
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: derision in a clubhouse in which, let's face it, you've
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: got to be better than you've ever been before because
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: now everybody's going to be gunning for the champions.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Well, let's find out if it's absolutely true because Stephen
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: A has his own problems with Dolan, and right now
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: he's the only one reporting it. Let's get some talkbacks.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Larry, that one hit home for me. My kids, they
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: both go to the University of Kentucky, and I have
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: a trucking business, right?
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: So I gave them a company card. Huge mistake, brother.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Huge.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: The amounts of money spent on DoorDash and Uber was.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Unbelievable. I feel your pain, Larry.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Amen.
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: Amen.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: We should join a recovery group.
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: College student mentality is totally different than the realistic world
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: of the parents. My son called me from college a
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: number of years ago to say how wonderful it is.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: Everything there is free. And I sat him down and
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: explained to him, no, nothing is free. I'm paying $ 50, 000
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: a year for that. So ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my kids, unfortunately, are the same way, and I
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: am the fairy princess.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Princess?
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I grant all their wishes.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: I agree with that. You are a princess. Now, let's
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: give away some tickets.
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: It's tough to know what to do with your money
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: these days. What was it, just a few days ago?
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: The Dow Jones dropped another 240 points, and I can't
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: tell you how frustrating it is to not know what
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: that means.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Now's your chance to win a pair of tickets to
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: see comedian John Mulaney's final stop on his nine-night, nine-venue
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Mulaney Takes Manhattan tour, January 15th at Madison Square Garden.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Just be calling number 14 at 800-321-0710. That's 800-321-0710. And
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: you're the winner. Tickets on sale at Ticketmaster.com. But right now,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: let's get the 8.30 news from Darius.
• 16:59
  Speaker 8: Morning, guys. Today, it's going to be dry, mild, and
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: breezy with a high of 68 degrees. A weather channel
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: forecast is coming up. Cornell University is making some changes
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: after allegations of a sexual assault on campus pushed the
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: Ivy League school into the national spotlight.
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: Governor Kathy Hochul says there's now an agreement between state
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: police and Cornell requiring sexual offense complaints to be sent
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: to the state police for their own investigation. This comes
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: after the Ithaca Police Department revealed it was never notified
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: of an alleged 2024 gang rape. Meanwhile, faculty members at
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: Cornell are starting a process of a no-confidence vote connected
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: to how sex assault allegations by a former student were
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: handled by Cornell's administration. I'm Scott Pringle, WOR News.
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: There are just a few days until the midterms, but
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: a lot of people aren't waiting to vote.
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: Nearly 45 million Americans have already cast their ballot in
• 17:49
  Speaker 10: this midterm election. That number already ahead of the 33
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: million that voted in the 2022 midterm election just four
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: years ago.
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: That's ABC's Rachel Scott. President Trump has shortened his blitz
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: to the midterms. He's campaigning today in Florida, but he
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: scrapped the rest of his appearances.
• 18:05
  Speaker 11: It's the final stretch, but President Trump has canceled rallies
• 18:08
  Speaker 11: planned for this weekend in Kansas and Iowa.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: You know what the reason is? I don't feel I
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: have to go.
• 18:14
  Speaker 11: Instead, the White House says Trump will be in Florida,
• 18:17
  Speaker 11: where he has one final in-person rally, and will then
• 18:20
  Speaker 11: address supporters by calling into campaign events and speaking remotely.
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: ABC's Jonathan Karl. Kids in New York City will not
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: go to school on Election Day, but they will be
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: in class. The district will pivot that day to remote learning.
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: And we are a little less than an hour to
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: the opening bell on Wall Street, and Alphabet is only
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: hoping things go a little better today than they did yesterday.
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: because the company had its biggest stock drop in history.
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: Google's parent company fell nearly 13% after reporting its third
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: quarter profits. That is about $ 482 billion in losses. The
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: Islanders beat Minnesota 4-3 in overtime. Next news, 9 o'clock
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: bulletins at once.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR. Thank you, Daria. Have a
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: good weekend. You know what? Joe Neumeier has a movie
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: out that I don't think many of us heard about
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: that he says is a powerful five-star movie that's going
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: to hit theaters this weekend. Plus, he's going to remember
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the great Patrick Stewart, who we had a lengthy interview with.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: All of that coming up with Joe Neumeier after the break.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: And congratulations to Jerry Fry from East Williston, New York,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: who just won a pair of tickets to see comedian
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: John Mulaney's final stop on his nine-night, nine-venue Mulaney Takes
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Manhattan tour. January 15th at Madison Square Garden. Next week
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: at 825, tickets to a great double bill. Listen to this.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Def Leppard and the Goo Goo Dolls. Joe Neumeier coming up.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Let's bring in Joe Neumeier, film journalist, of course, WOR
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: movie minted host. And I'll tell you what, Joe, be
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: still my heart. I'm looking here. You have a movie
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: that you're calling a really powerful five star war film.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: You know what? Is that going to make the poster?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Have you made a poster.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: For a movie?
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: I actually have.
• 20:17
  Speaker 12: I made the ad for the fourth Indiana Jones movie,
• 20:21
  Speaker 12: and I think something else I did. But yeah, no,
• 20:23
  Speaker 12: this is incredible. This movie is called The Mosquito Bowl, Larry,
• 20:26
  Speaker 12: and I know how you love Saving Private Ryan, so
• 20:29
  Speaker 12: I'm going to lead off with this and say that
• 20:30
  Speaker 12: it's sort of... It matches Saving Private Ryan.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: In terms of intensity.
• 20:35
  Speaker 12: It's in theaters now. It's going to be on Netflix
• 20:37
  Speaker 12: in a month. And it's directed by Peter Berg, who
• 20:40
  Speaker 12: made Friday Night Lights and Lone Survivor. And it's based
• 20:42
  Speaker 12: on a true story. It's about these four college guys
• 20:45
  Speaker 12: in World War II who, during their experience— and we see
• 20:50
  Speaker 12: them a little bit before the war— during their experience
• 20:52
  Speaker 12: in the Pacific Theater in World War II.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: It is intense.
• 20:56
  Speaker 12: The actual Mosquito Bowl is a minor part of it,
• 20:59
  Speaker 12: which was a little kind of football game that was
• 21:01
  Speaker 12: put together on Okinawa because somebody had recognized, some higher-up
• 21:06
  Speaker 12: had recognized these four college football guys and said, let's
• 21:09
  Speaker 12: get this game together. But it's really about their experiences
• 21:12
  Speaker 12: and about really retelling. It's got respect for the men
• 21:16
  Speaker 12: and women, for the men who fought in World War II,
• 21:19
  Speaker 12: But it is for the men and women who serve.
• 21:20
  Speaker 12: But it also is about really the intensity of what
• 21:24
  Speaker 12: war is. And it really is. It's an intense experience.
• 21:27
  Speaker 12: The sound in the theaters is incredible. But this movie
• 21:31
  Speaker 12: really is powerful. It's terrifying. It's moving. It reminds me
• 21:35
  Speaker 12: a little of Gallipoli, this great movie from the early
• 21:37
  Speaker 12: 80s about... Australians, it is one of the best war
• 21:41
  Speaker 12: films I've ever seen, one of the most moving war
• 21:42
  Speaker 12: films I've ever seen. Performances are great. Jack Nicholson's son,
• 21:46
  Speaker 12: Ray Nicholson, is in there. He's terrific. You just have
• 21:50
  Speaker 12: to go in and be prepared, though, because it starts
• 21:52
  Speaker 12: off a little slow, but once it gets into the
• 21:54
  Speaker 12: war scenes, it's like nothing I've ever seen. And we've
• 21:58
  Speaker 12: got a couple of good movies coming up over the
• 22:00
  Speaker 12: next few weeks.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: What's Oscar time, right?
• 22:02
  Speaker 12: Too much coffee. It's Oscar time, yeah. But you're going
• 22:04
  Speaker 12: to say, what's up with Neumeier? He had too much coffee,
• 22:06
  Speaker 12: all these five-star movies.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Well, I have no homework for you this week, Joe Neumeier.
• 22:14
  Speaker 12: But I've got homework for you, which will involve Patrick Stewart, though, Curtis.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: But I want to hear what you had to say.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: So no homework, but.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly what I wanted to ask you, because
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: what an iconic thespian. You know, we've seen him in
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: so many different forms. And I know you've interviewed him.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: You knew him personally, so if you could share some
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: of that with us upon his passing.
• 22:40
  Speaker 12: Patrick Stewart, I was lucky enough to talk to him
• 22:43
  Speaker 12: a couple of times once in the late 90s for
• 22:46
  Speaker 12: a Star Trek movie, but I had this great 90-minute
• 22:48
  Speaker 12: career over that. It was like two hours career conversation
• 22:52
  Speaker 12: with him on stage in 2017 when Logan was out
• 22:56
  Speaker 12: and we were talking. It was for SAG, the Screen
• 22:59
  Speaker 12: Actors Guild, and we spent time before that just chatting.
• 23:04
  Speaker 12: he was an extraordinary person. And I really just want
• 23:07
  Speaker 12: to say like anybody who sort of thinks like, Oh,
• 23:09
  Speaker 12: Star Trek, it's science fiction.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
• 23:11
  Speaker 12: Like what he brought to that character of captain Picard.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: That's, we can start with that.
• 23:18
  Speaker 12: And then there's so many other things he did, but
• 23:20
  Speaker 12: we can start with that where it was, he brought
• 23:22
  Speaker 12: to that, to that character and that, and that franchise
• 23:26
  Speaker 12: and really to all of sort of pop culture, this
• 23:28
  Speaker 12: notion of a, of a, of a smart level, humane
• 23:33
  Speaker 12: leader who, who was uh who was also flawed and
• 23:37
  Speaker 12: complicated and you know people think of star trek and
• 23:40
  Speaker 12: they think of william shatner and shatner was great of
• 23:42
  Speaker 12: course and is great but but stewart brought something else
• 23:46
  Speaker 12: and he brought this level of humanity to to that
• 23:50
  Speaker 12: character and to that to that franchise and um you
• 23:53
  Speaker 12: know a lot of it is sort of you know
• 23:54
  Speaker 12: people think like oh it's it's uh you know, space
• 23:58
  Speaker 12: guns and, and beaming up and, and the starship enterprise,
• 24:02
  Speaker 12: but like the American Western, like science, Star Trek is
• 24:05
  Speaker 12: just a genre. It's just human stories in set in a,
• 24:08
  Speaker 12: in a certain genre. And, and there are episodes of
• 24:11
  Speaker 12: that show that I think rank with some of the best,
• 24:14
  Speaker 12: the best, you know, genre writing of, of any type.
• 24:17
  Speaker 12: And then you add things like Nat and I were
• 24:19
  Speaker 12: just talking before I came on.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: His theater work was extraordinary.
• 24:23
  Speaker 12: He did that one man Christmas Carol that, um, that
• 24:28
  Speaker 12: when I saw it in 1994, I had never experienced
• 24:31
  Speaker 12: that story before. He did 30 characters all on stage.
• 24:35
  Speaker 12: You would have believed that he was the size of
• 24:37
  Speaker 12: the giant Ghost of Christmas Present because he was just
• 24:40
  Speaker 12: sitting on a couple of boxes. And when he kind
• 24:44
  Speaker 12: of comes towards the audience with his arms outstretched to say,
• 24:49
  Speaker 12: God bless us all, everyone, you felt like enfolded into
• 24:52
  Speaker 12: his personality.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: He was funny. He was puckish. He loved doing comedy.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: He was the voice of the poop emoji.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: You know, I, I got to talk, I got to
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: talk to him one time and I love what you
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: said about him. So I didn't know him like you did.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I just got to talk to him at the one time,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: but I was a little nervous because you know, it's
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Patrick Stewart, a Shakespearean actor. And I got to talk
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to him, man, he was incredibly down to earth. He
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: was funny. He was nice. I went away from that
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: interview as a Patrick Stewart fan of him, the person,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: not just the actor.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: That's right. He was a really down to earth guy.
• 25:32
  Speaker 12: You know, he was a, he came from a tough
• 25:34
  Speaker 12: working class background, uh, in, in rural England. And, uh,
• 25:37
  Speaker 12: and you kind of felt that. And yet you also
• 25:40
  Speaker 12: felt this sense of, of somebody who loved people. Like
• 25:43
  Speaker 12: he loved stories. He loved people. And, and when he
• 25:46
  Speaker 12: did many of the X-Men movies and professor Xavier, he's
• 25:49
  Speaker 12: going to be seen this December in the Avengers movie doomsday. Uh,
• 25:53
  Speaker 12: that's going to be his, his final performance. He did a,
• 25:56
  Speaker 12: a small bit as, as professor Xavier, like that, like
• 25:59
  Speaker 12: his performance in Logan is terrific. You really felt like
• 26:02
  Speaker 12: he was somebody who was in touch with what people
• 26:05
  Speaker 12: were about and, and he loved doing what he did. And, uh,
• 26:09
  Speaker 12: and yeah, you just, every experience and, and he did
• 26:11
  Speaker 12: Moby Dick on TV, a Christmas Carol on TV. Those
• 26:14
  Speaker 12: are great ones to watch, dig them up, uh, on,
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: on Amazon prime.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: They're there.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Hey, real quick, such a great human real quick. We're
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: just running out of time, but real quick, what is
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: your homework for Curtis?
• 26:25
  Speaker 12: Oh, my homework for Curtis is actually, if he's going
• 26:27
  Speaker 12: to be watching anything for Halloween this weekend, to watch
• 26:29
  Speaker 12: the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers from 1978,
• 26:33
  Speaker 12: which I put up there as one of my great
• 26:34
  Speaker 12: horror films, one of my favorite movies to watch at Halloween.
• 26:37
  Speaker 12: So I don't know what Curtis has got scheduled for
• 26:40
  Speaker 12: Halloween weekend.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. My wife loves all kinds of horror movies. She'll
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: binge watch all week. This is her favorite holiday, Halloween.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: So you leave in good standing with me here, Joe.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, great.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: A lot of times you have to give your verbal
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: beat down. But anyway.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: At this time, all right. In honor of Patrick Stewart. Yes.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Make it so. Exactly.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, he was so good. And that was a great tribute.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: That was a great tribute. And you also, Larry. But anyway,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: up next, we'll have results from the world's largest Halloween
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: parade in Greenwich Village, which I participate in every year
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: with the Guardian Angels. And, of course... The results of
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Marathon Day that 710WOR with Larry, Natalie, Natalie Migliore, and
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: the whole staff is involved in up next. Saturday night,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I and the Guardian Angels will be in the annual
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Greenwich Village Halloween Day Parade, which is now the largest
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: in the world, and I've been with it for many,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: many years, and I've seen it grown, just like the
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: New York City Marathon. And I've been at Carnival one time,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Carnival in Rio de Janeiro with the Guardian Angels there.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: It's not quite yet at that Carnival level, but there
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: are so many people who practice all year their routines,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: spend an incredible amount of their own resource on coming
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: up with costumes and uniforms. And it was the only
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: contest I won last year. Obviously, I lost being mayor,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: but there were more people dressed like Curtis Sliwa than
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Zoran Mandami. Obviously, Andrew evilized Cuomo. That was a little
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: too dystopian. Even Donald Trump, who's like a fixture, you know,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: of people wanting to dress up like him. So we'll
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: see if that trend continues this year. Look, our own
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: general sales department, they had their Halloween parade and everybody
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: was dressed up like Curtis Lee with the guardian angel.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: So I think I'm going to win this contest again. Oh, wow.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't know you won it before.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, last year. Because you're the best Curtis Lewa. Yeah,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: and by the way, I'll have lots of reports of
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: any of the politicking that's going on there. Because remember,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: there's not much time left until November 3rd.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Do you think that they're going to show up?
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: No.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Okay. No.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I show up every year, but for some reason the
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: politicians stay away, to be honest with you. But, hey,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: the politicians sometimes do come out to the New York
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: City Marathon. They have, at least in the past, to
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: meet and greet those that make it through the track. You, Natalie,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Natalie Migliore, the whole staff here at 710WOR will be
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: there Sunday, starting from the beginning, 6 a.m.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: To 12 noon.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: 8 to noon, 8 to noon. I'm sorry, 8 to noon.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: And it's all live coverage.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is. And Natalie has been working around the clock.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, Sunday, when Sunday comes, that's... that's the end
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: for you. You've done all this work for weeks and
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: weeks and weeks. When it comes to Sunday, you get
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: to take a breath and go, okay, this is the end.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I'm finally at the finish line.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: Well, you would think, but I actually go and start
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: watching it because I stand on the street after.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Because it's incredible. Oh, that's right. Because you have some
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: loved ones that are running as well.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Well, I've had.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: But I just like to– I don't know anyone running.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Nope.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I just actually love the energy. It's so exciting.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: You are real– that's great that you're into it so much.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: It explains some of the writing that you have when
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: you're talking about it. That's wonderful. Anyway, hope you join us.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: And again– Natalie is the mastermind behind all of this.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: No, outstanding, outstanding. The talkback, though, of the morning and
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: winner of the Curtis Lee and Larry Menti in the
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: morning T-shirt had a personal experience of hitting the wall
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: when he ran the marathons.
• 30:40
  Speaker 10: When I ran my first New York City Marathon, that
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: last 300.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Yards, you're in the park, people screaming.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: I started sprinting, and I wasn't breaking any records.
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: I start sprinting, then 200 yards, they're all yelling, and
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: I start getting slower.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: At 100 yards, I broke down crying, saying, I'm not
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: going to finish this. I crawled across, basically, and someone said, yeah,
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: don't ever do that again.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, they didn't tell him that?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Come on. And for his pain and suffering and perseverance,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: we are awarding him the Talkback of the Week. And
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: you can now listen to TCS New York City Marathon
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: on a C-Crane radio instead of running. And if you
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: missed Rob Astorino, who was giving his observations, having crisscrossed
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: the country, covering Republican primaries and now the general election,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: you can catch up later. Just head to 710WOR. com. Click
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: on the podcast tab and listen anytime. Yeah, his analysis
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: was fascinating. It's worth another listen. Monday, we have tickets
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: to see a great double bill. Def Leppard and the
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Goo Goo Dolls will be giving that away at 825
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: all week. You can follow 710WOR on Instagram and Facebook
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: to keep up with the TCS New York City Marathon
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: all weekend long. And I do hope to see you
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: out there. 160 countries take place in this.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: And so it's going to be a great day, and
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: we'll be there all morning. Coming up on the Mark
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Simone Show at 9, showbiz411. com writer Roger Friedman. You can
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: also listen for the keyword after the 9 o'clock news,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: then head to 710WOR for your chance at $ 1, 000. And
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: don't forget to set your clock back this weekend and
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: listen from 8 to noon on 710WOR' s coverage of the
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: New York City Marathon.