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- 0:00Speaker 1: Okay, still Mark's among show on seven to tenor.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Well, hey, two weeks so Christmas two weeks is Christmas Eve?
- 0:17Speaker 2: Two weeks from tonight. I'm not sure. I think Christmas Day,
- 0:23Speaker 2: so yeah, Christmas Eve is a Wednesday. Yeah, so this
- 0:28Speaker 2: is Thursday. It's two weeks from Christmas Day already, and
- 0:32Speaker 2: then three weeks from New Year's Day. Now, the problem
- 0:35Speaker 2: is New Year's Day, you get a new mayor. It's
- 0:38Speaker 2: inauguration Day. You're gonna get a new mayor on January first.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Guess who it is. Yeah, it's Mom Donnie with his
- 0:47Speaker 2: homeless camps everywhere.
- 0:48Speaker 3: Mayor Mom Donnie ensures that we connect those New Yorkers
- 0:52Speaker 3: with actual housing. We have to look at the efficacy
- 0:56Speaker 3: of the Adams administration's policy on this. It is a
- 0:59Speaker 3: policy that did not connect a single New Yorker to
- 1:03Speaker 3: permanent housing in an entire year. That cannot be a
- 1:07Speaker 3: policy we continue.
- 1:08Speaker 2: Now. He's very much like a brilliant college professor. He
- 1:11Speaker 2: speaks beautifully and he uses words like efficacy. We have
- 1:15Speaker 2: to look at the efficacy of what we're doing. I
- 1:18Speaker 2: don't know what the hell efficacy is, but we're going
- 1:19Speaker 2: to look at it and it sounds great and like
- 1:23Speaker 2: any good college professor, sounds brilliant, but in reality cannot
- 1:27Speaker 2: execute a damn thing, can't get anything done, has no
- 1:30Speaker 2: experience actually doing anything, just talks about it. He's looking
- 1:34Speaker 2: at the efficacy and meantime, can't actually do anything, doesn't
- 1:39Speaker 2: know anything, has no practical experience of any kind. The
- 1:42Speaker 2: other thing we find is that when Democrats get on
- 1:46Speaker 2: this homeless thing, they come up with programs to do
- 1:51Speaker 2: something about it. Deblasio had that Thrive NYC to help
- 1:56Speaker 2: the homeless. A billion dollars is poured into it. Not
- 2:00Speaker 2: one homeless person ever got helped, and they can't find
- 2:03Speaker 2: the billion dollars. They still don't know what happened to
- 2:06Speaker 2: that billion dollars. Remember he put his wife in charge
- 2:09Speaker 2: of the program. And of course you can always count
- 2:12Speaker 2: on fake news in the media to never ever ask
- 2:16Speaker 2: anything about the billion dollars and went missing. Can you
- 2:20Speaker 2: imagine going to Channel two, Channel four, Channel five, Channel seven,
- 2:24Speaker 2: go to the New York Times and saying, the mayor
- 2:28Speaker 2: set up a program for a billion dollars and it
- 2:30Speaker 2: went missing. Nobody can find the billion dollars, and all
- 2:33Speaker 2: of them say to you, what's for lunch today. They
- 2:36Speaker 2: don't even care that anyon want to know about it.
- 2:37Speaker 2: If Donald Trump lost a quarter, they'd send a thousand
- 2:40Speaker 2: reporters to go cover this story. They don't want to
- 2:44Speaker 2: know a damn thing about it. Look at Somalia community,
- 2:47Speaker 2: Samalian community Minnesota. Same thing that elon Omar, that wacko well,
- 2:54Speaker 2: actually might not be as stupid as you think. Because
- 2:57Speaker 2: eight billion went missing. They think it's up to eight billion.
- 2:59Speaker 2: It was first a billion, and it was two billion,
- 3:01Speaker 2: other saying up to eight billion might have gone missing.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Same thing. They set up a program supposedly was taking
- 3:07Speaker 2: care of the homeless. Meantime, nobody can find any homeless
- 3:10Speaker 2: that got taken care of. Nobody can find any hint
- 3:13Speaker 2: of the money ever going to where it was supposed
- 3:15Speaker 2: to be. Billions, literally billions missing. New York Times, ABC, NBCCBS,
- 3:24Speaker 2: no interesting, They don't even mention it's not a story
- 3:26Speaker 2: eight billion missing. We've got other things to talk about.
- 3:30Speaker 2: The Trump affordability. So, of course, when you lose eight
- 3:34Speaker 2: billion in tax pair of money, or in Manhattan or
- 3:37Speaker 2: in New York City, when you lose a billion in
- 3:38Speaker 2: tax pair of money, taxes go up. So that's the problem.
- 3:43Speaker 2: So you got Mom Donnie talking about the homeless and
- 3:45Speaker 2: he wants to set up a program to help them. Well,
- 3:48Speaker 2: you're going to see another billion go missing. It's it's
- 3:51Speaker 2: not that these people well I don't know, but it
- 3:54Speaker 2: might not be that they're putting the money in their pocket,
- 3:56Speaker 2: Doublazi or Mom Donnie. But it's contracts to hand out.
- 4:00Speaker 2: It's like that green scheme, the climate change, the reason
- 4:02Speaker 2: they push that so hard. It's billions and billions and
- 4:06Speaker 2: billions and contracts you can hand out. Now, if you're
- 4:09Speaker 2: not so honest, some of the money ends up in
- 4:11Speaker 2: your pocket. But if you're honest. You know, a guy
- 4:14Speaker 2: like Chuck Schumer or somebody like that, I don't think
- 4:16Speaker 2: he's personally crooked. He's a dirty, sleazy politician, but I
- 4:21Speaker 2: don't think he's, you know, personally crooked. But what you
- 4:23Speaker 2: do is you hand out contracts to donors, billions in contracts.
- 4:29Speaker 2: And every time you hand out one of those contracts
- 4:30Speaker 2: that donor owes you, you can call them every few weeks.
- 4:33Speaker 2: I need fifty thousand, I need one hundred thousand, I
- 4:36Speaker 2: need two hundred and fifty thousand. These guys get these
- 4:38Speaker 2: calls all the time, and when they say they need
- 4:41Speaker 2: the money, it's for the campaign for the senator's pack.
- 4:47Speaker 2: So the billionaire, you know, you can pick up the
- 4:50Speaker 2: phone and these type of politicians. The billionaire can call
- 4:53Speaker 2: this guy. He's got his cell number. You can call
- 4:54Speaker 2: him at midnight. I need a favor, I need you
- 4:57Speaker 2: to change of regulation. I need a permit, I need this.
- 5:00Speaker 2: You can call them anytime. It'll get done just like that.
- 5:04Speaker 2: But they'll have a guy call you every couple of weeks.
- 5:07Speaker 2: Can you do fifty? Can you do one hundred? Yeah,
- 5:09Speaker 2: I can do it all right. We'll call you back,
- 5:11Speaker 2: tell you who to write the check to, and they'll
- 5:12Speaker 2: call you back. Write the check to the super pack
- 5:14Speaker 2: this or this, and you keep writing these checks and
- 5:19Speaker 2: those packs pay for anything the senator needs as far
- 5:22Speaker 2: as campaign expenses or staff or consultants or anything like that, advertising,
- 5:27Speaker 2: whatever they need. So that's the racket, that's the green scheme.
- 5:31Speaker 2: They handed at billions in contracts and ten to twenty
- 5:35Speaker 2: percent of it came back to these politicians. Same thing
- 5:38Speaker 2: with these homeless programs. They'll hand out these contracts and
- 5:42Speaker 2: the money will come back to them in various ways.
- 5:44Speaker 2: The Mamdani transition team, for instance, has already raised like
- 5:48Speaker 2: five million bucks a transition team. All they do is
- 5:52Speaker 2: they need a conference room. You know, if you really
- 5:56Speaker 2: have your transition team needs a few offices in a
- 5:59Speaker 2: conference room. They got the big business guys who are
- 6:02Speaker 2: don't you know, charities do that all the time. They
- 6:05Speaker 2: call the big business guy, the CEO. Hey, we need
- 6:07Speaker 2: the conference room, Sure, come over, use it for six hours.
- 6:11Speaker 2: We'll lend it to you. We do that here at iHeart.
- 6:13Speaker 2: We got beautiful conference rooms. If there's a big charity
- 6:16Speaker 2: we're trying to help, you need to use our conference room,
- 6:18Speaker 2: Come use it. We got one that holds like two
- 6:20Speaker 2: hundred people. You can use that one. They do it
- 6:22Speaker 2: all every company, every major corporation does that. It's free.
- 6:27Speaker 2: You don't need to raise four million for your transition
- 6:30Speaker 2: team five million. But mom Donnie just did that in
- 6:33Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks. So this is good news.
- 6:35Speaker 2: By the way, that he turns out to be just
- 6:39Speaker 2: as slippery and greedy and as money making as everybody else,
- 6:43Speaker 2: so that it means the big business guys may be
- 6:46Speaker 2: able to keep him in line in various ways. Hey,
- 6:50Speaker 2: the inauguration, as they say, is New Year's Day. Eric
- 6:53Speaker 2: Adams is the current mayor, obviously, and he's saying now
- 6:55Speaker 2: he might not go to the inauguration. That would be
- 6:58Speaker 2: quite a slap in the face to mom, Donnie. He
- 7:02Speaker 2: didn't say he wouldn't go, He just said he hasn't decided. Well,
- 7:05Speaker 2: you're supposed to go, obviously, you go. Says he hasn't
- 7:07Speaker 2: decided if he'll go. You know that idiot. Brad Lander
- 7:12Speaker 2: left wing, very left wing. He was the controller. You
- 7:16Speaker 2: can get away with being a controller because nobody knows
- 7:18Speaker 2: what the hell of controller does controller controller controller, You
- 7:22Speaker 2: can say either one controller is perfectly acceptable. And generally
- 7:28Speaker 2: they're guys who have no personality. Remember Scott Stringer, very
- 7:32Speaker 2: nice guy, Scott string he wasn't a koup, just a
- 7:34Speaker 2: nice guy, but cute, a cute guy, but not a
- 7:37Speaker 2: lot of personality. Brad Landed the same way. He's more
- 7:40Speaker 2: he's not so cute. He's more of a silly guy
- 7:41Speaker 2: with no personality. Even in his campaign, it just sounds
- 7:45Speaker 2: like people kept saying, he sounds like mister Rogers.
- 7:47Speaker 4: I love the people who make this city what it is,
- 7:51Speaker 4: So I'm running for Congress because the challenges we face
- 7:56Speaker 4: can't be solved with strongly worded letters or high dollar
- 7:59Speaker 4: fund risk.
- 8:01Speaker 2: Well, it's certainly forceful. Hey, I'm running for Congress. You
- 8:04Speaker 2: know why. I'll tell you why. Everybody kept telling him
- 8:08Speaker 2: just sound exactly like mister Rogers, and I guess he
- 8:12Speaker 2: had to answer that.
- 8:13Speaker 5: But a mister Rogers that stands up and fights Ice
- 8:17Speaker 5: and fightes Trump and fights Muss and try plumb to
- 8:21Speaker 5: crops and fights a bad and said this was our neighborhood.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Okay, that's even worse. Hey, But I stand there, I
- 8:29Speaker 2: fight Trump. I find I find sounds terrible.
- 8:33Speaker 5: But a mister Rogers that stands up and fights Ice
- 8:36Speaker 5: and fights Trump and fights Muss and try clump the
- 8:40Speaker 5: crops and fights a bad and said this.
- 8:43Speaker 1: Was our.
- 8:46Speaker 2: Okay. But on the other hand, you know, Mike Tyson
- 8:51Speaker 2: has got to be the toughest guy ever. Mike Tyson.
- 8:54Speaker 2: You ever hear him on the radio? Hi, Mike Tyson?
- 8:56Speaker 1: Right?
- 8:58Speaker 2: Can you imagine if you got a fight with a
- 8:59Speaker 2: guy on the phone and he said, you can't talk
- 9:01Speaker 2: to me like that, and you didn't know it was
- 9:03Speaker 2: Mike Tyson. You just heard this voice. What are you
- 9:05Speaker 2: gonna do about it? I'm coming down, Yeah, you come
- 9:07Speaker 2: down here that it's Mike Tyson. But he's got to
- 9:12Speaker 2: run against Dan Goldman, Who's Now, this is a race
- 9:15Speaker 2: that doesn't matter either way because Lander is a very
- 9:18Speaker 2: far left wing kook, but so is Goldman, so it
- 9:21Speaker 2: doesn't matter who wins that thing. But Lander's going after Goldman.
- 9:24Speaker 4: I mean Democrats choosing not to support the Democratic nominee
- 9:28Speaker 4: for mayor.
- 9:29Speaker 5: Of New York City in a general election.
- 9:31Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that was a failure that showed that
- 9:34Speaker 4: we need something different.
- 9:36Speaker 2: He does sound like it sounds like Charles Nelson Riley
- 9:40Speaker 2: without without the charm. So Goldman going after him.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Now, I welcome Brad to the race. I'm not really
- 9:46Speaker 1: thinking about this right now. I'm in Washington, really focused
- 9:50Speaker 1: on making sure that healthcare can will not be taken
- 9:54Speaker 1: away from millions of people. We are focused on the
- 9:59Speaker 1: immigration ragnet that Donald Trump is sweeping the country with.
- 10:04Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the problem. Goldman is a much better looking
- 10:07Speaker 2: guy than Lander, and he's got a much better voice.
- 10:10Speaker 2: So he looks good, he sounds good. You getting a
- 10:12Speaker 2: debate and Goldman's talking to Mile a minute, we're gonna
- 10:14Speaker 2: do this in this and then we at Lander talks
- 10:17Speaker 2: like this, it's not going to work out too well.
- 10:19Speaker 4: I love the people who make this city what it is.
- 10:23Speaker 4: So I'm running for Congress.
- 10:24Speaker 2: I'm running for Congress. And then Goldman talks like this.
- 10:27Speaker 2: I think Goldman wins that debate easily. Uh does sound
- 10:32Speaker 2: like mister Rogers, Well here it is again. Let me no,
- 10:37Speaker 2: that's the same one. Uh yeah, it's going to be
- 10:40Speaker 2: a problem for him. He's not gonna do well, Brad Lander,
- 10:44Speaker 2: but he's gonna be like the next Scott Stringer. These controllers,
- 10:48Speaker 2: that's the problem of that job. You end up running
- 10:50Speaker 2: every four years, every two years for anything and everything,
- 10:53Speaker 2: and it goes nowhere. You always lose every time. Hey,
- 10:58Speaker 2: that Luigi Mangione got caught in Pennsylvania, goes to McDonald's
- 11:05Speaker 2: and they're starting to release all the material. You know,
- 11:07Speaker 2: he's in McDonald's. This is kind of crazy. He's in McDonald's.
- 11:12Speaker 2: You know, a chain, a fast food, big chain like
- 11:14Speaker 2: that McDonald's. You got to figure they got security cameras everywhere,
- 11:18Speaker 2: they probably got video over every inch of the place.
- 11:21Speaker 2: And he's just sitting there eating. He's not wearing sunglasses,
- 11:26Speaker 2: he's not wearing a hat, he's not trying to disguise himself.
- 11:30Speaker 2: So if you listen to the nine to one one
- 11:33Speaker 2: calls from the manager, she says, a lot of people
- 11:37Speaker 2: eating here, many of our customers think he looks like
- 11:39Speaker 2: the CEO assassin from New York. So they recognized him
- 11:44Speaker 2: even in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania. And if
- 11:48Speaker 2: you look at the interviews with these people, it was
- 11:51Speaker 2: the eyebrows. You know, he has these unusually thick, big, bushy,
- 11:54Speaker 2: weird eyebrows. So they said that was the first thing
- 11:59Speaker 2: he said he look like. And they saw the same
- 12:00Speaker 2: exact eyebrows, which were very unusual, and that's why they
- 12:03Speaker 2: knew it was him. So the guy's not that bright.
- 12:05Speaker 2: First of all, you got those big eyebrows, put on
- 12:07Speaker 2: some sunglasses so people can't see him, or you know,
- 12:12Speaker 2: dye your hair a different color and shave off the eyebrows,
- 12:16Speaker 2: or cut him down, you know, get rid of the
- 12:17Speaker 2: eyebrows and your dye your hair looked at you know,
- 12:20Speaker 2: even David Jansen in The Fugitive new to do that
- 12:23Speaker 2: so or you know, were a hat and sunglasses when
- 12:27Speaker 2: you're going to be sitting in a McDonald's with a
- 12:28Speaker 2: lot of people around, so he got himself caught. But again,
- 12:34Speaker 2: you know he wasn't I guess the brightest assassin in
- 12:37Speaker 2: the world. You know, it's right across the street from
- 12:39Speaker 2: where we are. Now we can go over that window
- 12:41Speaker 2: and see the spot where he did the shooting. And
- 12:43Speaker 2: it's sixth Avenue and fifty fifth Street, and it's got
- 12:48Speaker 2: surveillance cameras over every inch of it. So when you
- 12:51Speaker 2: do anything there, there's gonna be video of you doing it.
- 12:54Speaker 2: So I don't know how any chance of beating the case.
- 12:58Speaker 2: It's all on video. So, hey, Time Magazine. You remember
- 13:02Speaker 2: Time Magazine? Anybody remember that they still do this thing
- 13:06Speaker 2: called Time Magazine. I don't know who sees it or why,
- 13:08Speaker 2: but they still do the Man of the Year, the
- 13:10Speaker 2: Woman of the Year. Well now you got to call
- 13:11Speaker 2: it the person of the Year, Person of the year.
- 13:14Speaker 2: This year the architects of AI. And then there's a
- 13:19Speaker 2: picture of eleven guys who you never heard of. You
- 13:22Speaker 2: don't know. Apparently they created AI. But it's Time Magazine.
- 13:28Speaker 2: Twelve people see it, eleven of whom work there at
- 13:31Speaker 2: Time Magazine. Hey Rosanna Scato, Good day New York. We
- 13:35Speaker 2: love Rosanna Scatto. Her family owns a wonderful restaurant called Fresco.
- 13:40Speaker 2: It's on fifty second Street. It's one of the great
- 13:42Speaker 2: Italian restaurants in New York. It's a lot of famous faces.
- 13:45Speaker 2: I was there yesterday. It's a great restaurant, Fresco, you
- 13:49Speaker 2: know it. It's been there for I think thirty years now.
- 13:52Speaker 2: Well no, well actually more than I remember going to
- 13:53Speaker 2: the thirtieth anniversary party, and that was a couple of
- 13:55Speaker 2: years ago. So they're in the news today because they
- 13:58Speaker 2: had a woman who I guess is the accountant, the bookkeeper,
- 14:03Speaker 2: And it looks like this bookkeeper was stealing money. You know,
- 14:06Speaker 2: when you're the bookkeeper for a big thing like that,
- 14:08Speaker 2: you can make you can embezzle, you can. And it
- 14:12Speaker 2: looked like she took some money that was meant for tips.
- 14:15Speaker 2: It looked like she wrote checks to herself. It looks
- 14:18Speaker 2: like she siphoned cash out of thing. Well, how much
- 14:23Speaker 2: did she get? How much could you embezzle? Look at
- 14:25Speaker 2: this two point five million dollars was embezzled. Now this
- 14:30Speaker 2: is over a seven year period, but still that would
- 14:33Speaker 2: be about three hundred and fifty thousand a year that
- 14:36Speaker 2: she was embezzling pretty good. Well, they must make a
- 14:39Speaker 2: lot of money at this restaurant if they didn't notice
- 14:41Speaker 2: a two point five million missing. But they caught her. Finally,
- 14:45Speaker 2: she's been turned over to the DA. Alvin Bragg will
- 14:48Speaker 2: prosecute her. Looks pretty bad for her. The embezzled funds,
- 14:54Speaker 2: it says, paid for her lifestyle away from work, including
- 14:58Speaker 2: one hundred thousand she used to buy a house in
- 15:00Speaker 2: Pennsylvania with her husband. So a prosecutor's got all this.
- 15:03Speaker 2: They caught her. She here's the picture. They don't recognize her.
- 15:07Speaker 2: She didn't look familiar, very heavy. She might have been
- 15:12Speaker 2: rating that refrigerator there too. Some food might be missing.
- 15:14Speaker 2: I would take a look at that, But they got her.
- 15:16Speaker 2: I don't see how she gets out of this. This
- 15:18Speaker 2: is pretty bad. Hey, we'll text some Jimmy Faylor will
- 15:20Speaker 2: be with us in a few minutes. We'll take some calls. Next.
- 15:23Speaker 2: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
- 15:27Speaker 2: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten