Latest / Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning / Hour 1: Columbus Day
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Well, glory, hallelujah, I need to give a shout out
- 0:04Speaker 1: to Dr. Gil Lederman.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Larry, Natalie, I had no voice on Saturday and Sunday,
- 0:11Speaker 2: so there was peace in the Sliwa household. Nancy loved
- 0:13Speaker 2: it that way, and the cats loved it. But I
- 0:17Speaker 2: had to get that voice back to be here, same time,
- 0:20Speaker 2: same place as we are every Monday through Friday. You
- 0:23Speaker 2: wake up with Curtis and Larry, till it's time to
- 0:26Speaker 2: hand off the microphone to Mark Simone and I.
- 0:30Speaker 1: So I had to get my special medication.
- 0:33Speaker 3: Dr.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Lederman came through. So props, great synergy. Try doing that
- 0:39Speaker 2: on a Sunday. And we're going to try to get
- 0:40Speaker 2: him on.
- 0:41Speaker 4: Is he coming up?
- 0:43Speaker 3: Natalie?
- 0:44Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to try to get him coming up
- 0:46Speaker 2: because the Pope, they've determined he has a nodule on
- 0:50Speaker 2: his lung, the American Pope. And he's going to be
- 0:53Speaker 2: going under the knife. And nobody knows more about those
- 0:56Speaker 2: kind of situations than Dr.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Gil Lederman. Yeah, we're going to have him on at 6.50,
- 0:59Speaker 1: so not far away.
- 1:02Speaker 2: So he came to my aid, and he'll give us
- 1:04Speaker 2: all the information we need to know. But today is
- 1:07Speaker 2: the big Columbus Day Parade up Fifth Avenue. Now, there
- 1:10Speaker 2: are the many, many parades in the tri-state area that
- 1:13Speaker 2: took place over this weekend. Almost everywhere where there's an
- 1:17Speaker 2: Italian-American community, they had a Christopher Columbus Parade. But the
- 1:23Speaker 2: mayor decided he wasn't going to attend any of the parades.
- 1:26Speaker 2: The one that took place in the neighborhood he lived
- 1:28Speaker 2: in for a while, Astoria.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Small parade.
- 1:31Speaker 2: But there's a statue there right before you hit the...
- 1:34Speaker 2: Triborough Bridge off the Grand Central Parkway. Back in 2020,
- 1:38Speaker 2: he took a photo in front of when he was
- 1:40Speaker 2: living there with his finger. He was giving the finger
- 1:42Speaker 2: to Christopher Columbus. I saw it, and he wanted to
- 1:44Speaker 2: get rid of that day. So he's not a real
- 1:48Speaker 2: fan of Christopher Columbus, and apparently he's not a fan
- 1:50Speaker 2: of the Italian-American community in New York. No, they didn't
- 1:53Speaker 2: vote for him. You know how he wagers things. You
- 1:55Speaker 2: voted for me, or there's some support for me, I
- 1:57Speaker 2: go to your parade. You didn't vote for me, I'm
- 2:00Speaker 2: not going to your parade.
- 2:01Speaker 1: But this one.
- 2:02Speaker 2: in particular is he was in favor of pulling that
- 2:05Speaker 2: statue down. Remember the summer of George Floyd, they were
- 2:08Speaker 2: pulling Christopher Columbus statues down everywhere. They beheaded the one
- 2:12Speaker 2: in Camden. They took down the one in Trent. They
- 2:15Speaker 2: put it in a box. Remember in South Philadelphia, you know,
- 2:18Speaker 2: they headed it like a box where you couldn't even
- 2:21Speaker 2: get into it. Yeah.
- 2:22Speaker 4: It's back.
- 2:23Speaker 1: Good.
- 2:23Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:24Speaker 2: And there were other statues that were being taken down
- 2:26Speaker 2: and put into storage, but New York city, In addition
- 2:30Speaker 2: to the big one in Columbus, Serco has one in
- 2:32Speaker 2: Brooklyn outside the state Supreme Court building, the one in Astoria. Imagine,
- 2:37Speaker 2: Staten Italy, right? The most Italian of worlds. They don't
- 2:39Speaker 2: even have a statue that Christopher Columbus never had.
- 2:42Speaker 4: Didn't he get rid of Little Italy, too? I mean,
- 2:44Speaker 4: he really has something against Italian-Americans. Yeah, he said, oh,
- 2:48Speaker 4: we forgot to put it on our ethnic map. Little Italy.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Look, he just.
- 2:56Speaker 2: He don't get along with Italians, and Italians don't get
- 2:59Speaker 2: along with him.
- 2:59Speaker 4: Didn't he promise he was going to be the mayor
- 3:01Speaker 4: for all people at his big speech? He was going
- 3:04Speaker 4: to be the mayor for everybody. It didn't matter if
- 3:06Speaker 4: you voted for me or not. It doesn't seem like
- 3:08Speaker 4: he's been ruling that way.
- 3:10Speaker 2: No, but if you remember that first debate, the NBC
- 3:13Speaker 2: debate with Cuomo, me, and Mondami towards the end, Me
- 3:17Speaker 2: and Mondami got into it because I said all parades matter.
- 3:20Speaker 2: In fact, that's the lead column in today's New York
- 3:23Speaker 2: Times describing how he's not going to any of the parades,
- 3:26Speaker 2: nor festivities, is that all parades matter. When you're the mayor,
- 3:31Speaker 2: you go even if you're going to get booed. Perfect example,
- 3:34Speaker 2: Bill de Blasio, who could not hide in a parade.
- 3:37Speaker 2: He was Big Bird. Guy was too tall. When he
- 3:39Speaker 2: first went to the Italian-American parades in his first four years,
- 3:42Speaker 2: they loved him. He spoke Italian, his mother. He visited Italy.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Second four years, he got booed unmercifully in Right Felicia.
- 3:50Speaker 1: So all he would do is speedwalk.
- 3:52Speaker 2: He'd speedwalk right through the parade and wave as if,
- 3:55Speaker 2: you know, they were cheering instead of booing.
- 3:57Speaker 1: This is what you do.
- 3:57Speaker 2: As a mayor.
- 3:58Speaker 4: That's a lot of mayors across the country. A lot
- 3:59Speaker 4: of mayors do exactly that, but they don't not go.
- 4:03Speaker 4: What a little wuss.
- 4:05Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 4:05Speaker 1: No, he doesn't want to go.
- 4:06Speaker 2: Instead, he did a video praising Fiorello LaGuardia, Vito Marcantonio.
- 4:11Speaker 2: He was a socialist congressman from East Harlem for many years.
- 4:17Speaker 2: But that doesn't fit the bill. You should go to
- 4:19Speaker 2: every parade. You should go to every festival you can
- 4:21Speaker 2: because that's what New York City is all about. Whether
- 4:24Speaker 2: the people like you or they don't like you, you're
- 4:26Speaker 2: the mayor.
- 4:26Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. Frank Rizzo, by the way, in Philadelphia was
- 4:30Speaker 4: loved at the Columbus Day Parade, as you can imagine.
- 4:32Speaker 4: But he was loved at all the parades because the
- 4:34Speaker 4: same people that went to Columbus Day Parade showed up
- 4:37Speaker 4: at the other parades to make sure that everybody was
- 4:39Speaker 4: cheering him. They were in the crowd actually putting the
- 4:44Speaker 4: arm on people that would dare to boo the mayor.
- 4:46Speaker 2: The only time the mayor did not march in the
- 4:50Speaker 2: parade is he wanted some members of the Sopranos with him, especially,
- 4:54Speaker 2: what was that, Melfi? You know, the female shrink.
- 4:58Speaker 3: Dr. Melfi.
- 4:59Speaker 1: He was hot to trot on her. You know, this guy.
- 5:02Speaker 1: He was always perving on women, Bloomberg, even though he
- 5:05Speaker 1: had a girlfriend, right?
- 5:07Speaker 2: I mean, he insisted that he march with members of
- 5:10Speaker 2: the Sopranos. The Italian-American coalition that sponsors Bray said, no, no, no,
- 5:15Speaker 2: because they represent organized crime. So I think he decided
- 5:18Speaker 2: to take a powder, but he was prepared to march.
- 5:20Speaker 4: He didn't march with them because he thought they were
- 5:23Speaker 4: an organized crime? That was the whole reason?
- 5:25Speaker 1: No, no.
- 5:26Speaker 2: The committee didn't want members of the Sopranos. He wanted
- 5:29Speaker 2: to be holding Melfi. He was so hot to trot,
- 5:33Speaker 2: as a lot of our listeners were when they would
- 5:34Speaker 2: watch the Sopranos. Remember the female shrink to Tony? That's
- 5:38Speaker 2: the only time I think that happened. Did every other
- 5:41Speaker 2: mayor march? I believe so, unless there was something that
- 5:45Speaker 2: they were out of town or out of the country.
- 5:47Speaker 2: I will give credit to a person I never give
- 5:49Speaker 2: credit to. Hold on to your hat. Andrew Ivelisse Cuomo.
- 5:55Speaker 2: He not only preserved the parades, he preserved the statues.
- 5:59Speaker 2: Remember the summer of 2020, George Floyd. If they weren't
- 6:02Speaker 2: attacking and desecrating the statues, they were taking the statues
- 6:06Speaker 2: down and putting them into storage. He protected all the
- 6:09Speaker 2: statues with state troopers. He said, look, this is to
- 6:12Speaker 2: preserve Italian-American traditions. And when his fellow Supreme Cuisine, de Blasio,
- 6:20Speaker 2: wouldn't allow a statue to be put up to Mother
- 6:22Speaker 2: Cabrini because she was pro-life, he took it over for
- 6:27Speaker 2: the state, put up the Mother Cabrini statue. It's right
- 6:30Speaker 2: down there, the Holocaust Museum, which is in the lower
- 6:34Speaker 2: end of Manhattan before you catch the Staten Island Ferry.
- 6:37Speaker 1: So I give props to Cuomo.
- 6:39Speaker 2: Because he said that statue represents the work of the
- 6:43Speaker 2: Italian-American peoples. And he did not vacillate. He did not hesitate.
- 6:49Speaker 2: He did not blink. He did not buck. He did
- 6:51Speaker 2: not bow.
- 6:51Speaker 1: He defended the tradition of the parade and, most importantly,
- 6:54Speaker 1: the many statues.
- 6:55Speaker 4: Yeah, the whole thing about going back in history and
- 7:00Speaker 4: rating people or deciding on the character of people by
- 7:04Speaker 4: today's standards is ridiculous. is absolutely ridiculous. There's nobody that's pure.
- 7:10Speaker 4: When you go back just a couple hundred years, there's
- 7:13Speaker 4: nobody that's pure. None of our founding fathers are pure.
- 7:15Speaker 4: Not one of them is pure. And certainly the people
- 7:19Speaker 4: that came from Europe back in the 1600s, not one
- 7:23Speaker 4: of them is pure either. So you just can't do it.
- 7:26Speaker 4: If you want to, if you want to really besmirch somebody,
- 7:30Speaker 4: then go ahead and hold them to our standards, because
- 7:33Speaker 4: our standards are completely new, and some of them are
- 7:35Speaker 4: kind of outlandish. But That's what's happening, and it's silly.
- 7:40Speaker 4: You just can't do it. You cannot do it.
- 7:41Speaker 2: Larry, I will not besmirch Columbus. I will tell you
- 7:45Speaker 2: some of the things that I've said that has gotten
- 7:47Speaker 2: me into tremendous controversy with not only our listeners but
- 7:52Speaker 2: people in general. I said there were four ships, the Nina,
- 7:55Speaker 2: the Pinta, the Santa, and the Maria. The Maria was
- 7:58Speaker 2: sort of like when you have a train, you know,
- 8:00Speaker 2: you have a caboose at the end, and people have said,
- 8:03Speaker 2: you don't know what you're talking about. The other thing
- 8:06Speaker 2: that I've discussed is how there is this theory that
- 8:10Speaker 2: this young man, Columbus, when he was born in Genoa,
- 8:13Speaker 2: before he went sailing up to England and Ireland, because
- 8:17Speaker 2: a lot of young men started to sail at an
- 8:19Speaker 2: early age, was actually born Jewish. Oh my, oh, that
- 8:23Speaker 2: starts such a controversy. But the biggest controversy is people
- 8:30Speaker 2: don't know how the day came about. You know, if
- 8:33Speaker 2: you just say to them, How did the Columbus Day
- 8:36Speaker 2: event come about? What in history precipitated that? It was
- 8:40Speaker 2: a very dark day for Italians. In fact, those who
- 8:44Speaker 2: are knowledgeable talk about the largest mass lynching in the
- 8:48Speaker 2: history of America. Now, obviously, more African-Americans were lynched than
- 8:53Speaker 2: all others combined. But on this one day, 11 Italians
- 8:58Speaker 2: were taken out of jail after most had been acquitted.
- 9:02Speaker 2: They were accused of crime. killing the police chief in
- 9:05Speaker 2: New Orleans. And the crowd, which was made of some
- 9:09Speaker 2: very esteemed people, dragged them out, shot them, and then
- 9:13Speaker 2: hung them right in the square where the cathedral is
- 9:18Speaker 2: now before you hit the levee. It was a horrid day.
- 9:22Speaker 2: And yet a lot of people justified it. To give
- 9:24Speaker 2: you an idea, at that time, Teddy Roosevelt was representing
- 9:27Speaker 2: the United States with foreign consulates. He was having dinner
- 9:30Speaker 2: with the Italian consulate. They said, hey, what is America
- 9:34Speaker 2: going to do about this? And Teddy Roosevelt said, the
- 9:37Speaker 2: only problem I have with this gentleman, I'm going to
- 9:39Speaker 2: be very direct with you, is they didn't hang more.
- 9:42Speaker 2: And then Italy wanted to go to war. People don't
- 9:45Speaker 2: realize that. They pulled their ambassadors. They closed their consulates
- 9:49Speaker 2: over that. They were threatening war. And it was President
- 9:53Speaker 2: Benjamin Harrison who decided to cast a day for Christopher
- 9:58Speaker 2: Columbus to try to assuage everybody and say it is
- 10:02Speaker 2: to honor the work of the Italian-American people. But these
- 10:04Speaker 2: were the headlines when the 11 Italians, most were Sicilian,
- 10:09Speaker 2: were hung. The Dagos did it. Teach these people a
- 10:13Speaker 2: lesson they will not forget. We need to get rid
- 10:17Speaker 2: of all these Italians.
- 10:18Speaker 1: They're vicious. They're idle, worthless, filthy. They spread disease.
- 10:23Speaker 2: I'll give you an idea that Italians were not welcome
- 10:25Speaker 2: in a lot of parts of the United States. I
- 10:28Speaker 2: say they were the equivalent Southern Italians and Sicilians of
- 10:32Speaker 2: the way Mexicans are now. They'll do any work. A
- 10:35Speaker 2: lot of them had, they couldn't read, they couldn't write
- 10:38Speaker 2: like my grandfather, Fidelio Bianchino. But you give them a shovel,
- 10:42Speaker 2: ditch digger. Like I said, today is the anniversary of
- 10:44Speaker 2: when the Holland Tunnel was first being dug, it took
- 10:47Speaker 2: them about 10 years, a lot of people died. Most
- 10:50Speaker 2: of the workers were Italian-Americans like in a lot of
- 10:53Speaker 2: those construction sites. And even Joe DiMaggio, to give you
- 10:57Speaker 2: an idea, Joe DiMaggio, 1942, you couldn't get more popular
- 11:01Speaker 2: than Joe DiMaggio. His dad, who had been here 40 years,
- 11:06Speaker 2: was considered an enemy alien.
- 11:09Speaker 1: They took his fishing.
- 11:10Speaker 2: Boat away from him in San Francisco and he had
- 11:13Speaker 2: to report Because remember, we were at war with Benito
- 11:16Speaker 2: Mussolini in addition to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.
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- 11:44Speaker 4: What holiday should we have? What are we missing? And
- 11:47Speaker 4: don't forget, the best talk back of the week takes
- 11:50Speaker 4: home a C-Crane radio. Well, one of the most volatile
- 11:55Speaker 4: and popular figures of NFL football in the past several
- 12:00Speaker 4: decades has passed away. We'll talk about Mike Ditka from
- 12:04Speaker 4: the Chicago Bears. The Bears... when we come back. Plus,
- 12:07Speaker 4: a chance to see Journey at 825. Well, the NFL
- 12:13Speaker 4: has lost a true legend, an incredible player, incredible tight end,
- 12:19Speaker 4: Super Bowl winning coach, and a great commentator, Mike Ditka,
- 12:24Speaker 4: who was coach of the Chicago Bears, took them to
- 12:27Speaker 4: the World Series, won the World Series. in 1985, but
- 12:33Speaker 4: more than anything else, he was known for his personality.
- 12:36Speaker 4: And the way he dealt with the press was incredible.
- 12:43Speaker 4: He was so dismissive of them, and they loved him.
- 12:47Speaker 3: There's three quarterbacks on this football team. Whichever one starts, starts.
- 12:50Speaker 3: Whichever ones don't will back him up. Period. Cut and dry.
- 12:54Speaker 3: It's nobody's concern but ours. Nobody's. Next. injuries from the game.
- 13:00Speaker 3: Talk to the trainer. Next. Mike, why are you in
- 13:04Speaker 3: such a bad mood? What do you care?
- 13:06Speaker 1: Okay.
- 13:09Speaker 3: If you were 2-7, you'd be in a bad mood too.
- 13:12Speaker 4: He was legendary. He was so good at that. And
- 13:16Speaker 4: the funny thing is, the people that he was making
- 13:18Speaker 4: fun of just ate it up. People forget what a
- 13:22Speaker 4: great player he was too. He was the first tight end.
- 13:25Speaker 4: He was picked fourth in the NFL draft. And in 1961.
- 13:31Speaker 4: And he was the first rookie of the year. And
- 13:35Speaker 4: he also became the first tight end to surpass 1,000
- 13:39Speaker 4: receiving yards. Remaining the only person ever to play in
- 13:44Speaker 4: Chicago that did that. So he was just, he was
- 13:47Speaker 4: a great player. He was a great commentator. He was
- 13:48Speaker 4: a great guy. And he always brought something.
- 13:51Speaker 2: Oh, and they loved him in Chicago. Part Polish, part Ukrainian.
- 13:56Speaker 2: came out of the greater Pittsburgh area, Aliquippa, Aliquippa High School.
- 14:00Speaker 1: You know who his coach was? Pete Maravich's father.
- 14:03Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
- 14:04Speaker 2: And then he had a choice, go to Notre Dame. No,
- 14:07Speaker 2: I'm going to University of Pitt. He was loyal to Pittsburgh,
- 14:11Speaker 2: and Pittsburgh loved him. They just wished that they would
- 14:15Speaker 2: have had him playing with the Steelers instead of the
- 14:17Speaker 2: way he was playing with the Chicago Bears and then coaching.
- 14:20Speaker 2: And then he had the problem of Ryan, his defensive coach.
- 14:23Speaker 1: You remember?
- 14:24Speaker 4: Oh, they fought all the time.
- 14:25Speaker 3: All the time.
- 14:25Speaker 4: Buddy Ryan, they fought constantly. They're the same person. That's why.
- 14:29Speaker 4: You never should be around somebody that's exactly like you are.
- 14:33Speaker 4: Buddy Ryan went on to coach the Eagles. He had
- 14:36Speaker 4: fights with a couple of his assistant coaches that were legendary.
- 14:41Speaker 4: I think a lot of people really got to know
- 14:43Speaker 4: him from Saturday Night Live. Because you remember Da Bears,
- 14:47Speaker 4: they all dressed like him. They all wore the same mustache.
- 14:50Speaker 4: So Da Bears, you know, of all the characters that
- 14:54Speaker 4: have played now in the NFL or have coached in
- 14:57Speaker 4: the NFL, I don't know anybody that is such a character,
- 15:03Speaker 4: had such a personality, and was able to handle the media,
- 15:08Speaker 4: as you heard him a second ago, better than Mike Ditka.
- 15:11Speaker 4: I was at BBM when they did the Mike Ditka show.
- 15:13Speaker 4: They used to bring him in every weekend. I was
- 15:15Speaker 4: scared to talk to him. I never even said hi.
- 15:20Speaker 3: Wow.
- 15:21Speaker 1: You don't want to get shut down?
- 15:23Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's like this. Hey, coach, who are you?
- 15:29Speaker 1: Why are you talking to me?
- 15:32Speaker 4: But, yeah, he used to come in every week. By
- 15:34Speaker 4: the way, when I was there, too, Michael Jordan came
- 15:36Speaker 4: in every week. Completely different thing.
- 15:38Speaker 3: He's Mr. Personnel.
- 15:39Speaker 1: Totally different.
- 15:40Speaker 4: So nice to everybody. Just talk to everybody. So, yeah,
- 15:44Speaker 4: it was a great time in Chicago. But Ditka, man,
- 15:47Speaker 4: they love him. He had a bar for a long
- 15:50Speaker 4: time that was extremely popular called Ditka's. And so, yeah,
- 15:55Speaker 4: the NFL is going to miss him. I don't think
- 15:57Speaker 4: there's any– is there anybody like him now? The new
- 15:59Speaker 4: coaches are not like– Oh, my God. The coaches had
- 16:02Speaker 4: a horrible weekend. Your Philly coach.
- 16:06Speaker 3: Oh, God.
- 16:07Speaker 2: The coach for the Washington Commanders. They should have beaten
- 16:10Speaker 2: the Giants.
- 16:11Speaker 1: We'll talk about that with Warner at 738.
- 16:14Speaker 2: And then a number of other coaches who just made
- 16:18Speaker 2: decisions that cost their teams games.
- 16:20Speaker 4: Well, they were the two big ones. You mentioned the
- 16:22Speaker 4: two most ridiculous ones. Coach Sirianni got up. It was
- 16:26Speaker 4: the first time I've ever heard a coach do this, really, ever.
- 16:28Speaker 4: And he looked like he was going to cry. And
- 16:30Speaker 4: he said, well, that was my fault. I just apologized
- 16:33Speaker 4: to the team. And I want to apologize to Philadelphia.
- 16:36Speaker 4: You know what that means to me? He's gone.
- 16:38Speaker 3: Yep.
- 16:39Speaker 4: That's going to be the end of him. Now let's
- 16:42Speaker 4: get to Daria Albinger with the 630 News. Good morning, Daria.
- 16:45Speaker 1: Good morning, guys.
- 16:45Speaker 5: You know, Mike Ditka's wife was my high school secretary
- 16:49Speaker 5: because he was an assistant in Dallas at the time.
- 16:51Speaker 4: You had a secretary in high school?
- 16:53Speaker 5: Not my personal secretary.
- 16:55Speaker 4: She knew your homework?
- 16:57Speaker 1: I could have used one, though.
- 16:58Speaker 5: Definitely in the math and science. She was our high
- 17:01Speaker 5: school secretary. Just a little trivia for you. Do you
- 17:03Speaker 5: remember the Chunky Soup commercial where Ditka and his wife
- 17:07Speaker 5: were arguing over the soup?
- 17:09Speaker 6: Yes!
- 17:09Speaker 5: That wasn't her.
- 17:11Speaker 1: That wasn't his wife.
- 17:12Speaker 5: His wife, Sherry Ditka, was the most beautiful, nicest, sweetest
- 17:16Speaker 5: woman you'll ever meet.
- 17:17Speaker 4: A little trivia for you there.
- 17:19Speaker 5: All right, showers ending, becoming mostly sunny later today in
- 17:22Speaker 5: a high of 71 degrees. It is Columbus Day, and
- 17:25Speaker 5: it's Indigenous Peoples Day. The big parade steps off along
- 17:29Speaker 5: Fifth Avenue this morning. Mayor Mom Donnie will not attend.
- 17:32Speaker 5: Governor Hochul will take part, and we understand Curtis will
- 17:35Speaker 5: take part as well. Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations, meanwhile, continuing
- 17:39Speaker 5: on Randall's Island. The kids are off from school. The
- 17:41Speaker 5: banks are closed. There's no mail delivery today. Most financial
- 17:44Speaker 5: markets are open, but the bond markets are closed. President
- 17:47Speaker 5: Trump says a deal that he's made with Russian President
- 17:50Speaker 5: Putin will ease a global fuel shortage.
- 17:53Speaker 1: The U.S.
- 17:53Speaker 5: Will buy diesel from Russia to help lower rising fuel
- 17:56Speaker 5: costs as the war with Iran continues. But some say
- 17:59Speaker 5: this is a bad move.
- 18:00Speaker 6: This announcement from President Trump really blindsided both Ukraine and
- 18:05Speaker 6: European allies. This immediately became highly controversial among congressional figures
- 18:10Speaker 6: because President Trump has said throughout this war as well
- 18:13Speaker 6: is that he's accused, rightly, European allies of continuing to
- 18:16Speaker 6: buy Russian oil and funding the Russian war machine. And now,
- 18:19Speaker 6: of course, the U.S. is potentially poised to do exactly
- 18:22Speaker 6: the same thing.
- 18:24Speaker 5: That's ABC's Patrick Riewoldt. A search continues for suspects connected
- 18:28Speaker 5: to a home invasion in Queens.
- 18:30Speaker 7: Police were called to a home in Flushing around 2.32 a.m.
- 18:33Speaker 7: on Sunday morning. A 45-year-old man reported that several people
- 18:37Speaker 7: forced their way into his home, held him at gunpoint
- 18:40Speaker 7: and struck him with a crowbar. The suspects also made
- 18:43Speaker 7: off with a Rolex and chain worth about $ 65, 000 before
- 18:47Speaker 7: fleeing the scene on foot. No arrests have been made
- 18:50Speaker 7: as authorities say they are looking for three male suspects
- 18:53Speaker 7: who were dressed in all black. I'm Lizzie Radabali, WOR News.
- 18:57Speaker 5: The CDC says there have been more than 4,000 cases
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- 19:15Speaker 2: Up next, we're going to discuss President Donald Trump announced
- 19:19Speaker 2: a detente. Putin would not attack energy sites in the Ukraine.
- 19:24Speaker 2: Ukraine would not attack, especially those areas that were making
- 19:29Speaker 2: the raw oil into diesel.
- 19:33Speaker 4: Guess what?
- 19:33Speaker 2: Zelensky said, I had no idea, but hey, if he
- 19:36Speaker 2: can get the Russians to stop attacking our energy grid,
- 19:40Speaker 2: I'm into it.
- 19:41Speaker 1: We'll deal with that up next.
- 19:42Speaker 4: Well, it sounds like we might have at least a
- 19:45Speaker 4: ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. At least that's what Donald
- 19:52Speaker 4: Trump says. Donald Trump says that they're going to have
- 19:57Speaker 4: this ceasefire. He had talked a little bit about it
- 20:00Speaker 4: yesterday during one of his rallies. And then all of
- 20:04Speaker 4: a sudden, surprise, surprise, surprise, he makes an announcement. The
- 20:08Speaker 4: problem is it was an announcement to– it was a
- 20:12Speaker 4: surprise to everyone, including Volodymyr Zelensky. Now, he likes the idea.
- 20:17Speaker 4: He said that would be fine. But he's not really
- 20:22Speaker 4: sure it's in existence because he didn't get a phone
- 20:28Speaker 4: call directly from the president. The president apparently went to
- 20:31Speaker 4: the press first. So this is in this long back
- 20:34Speaker 4: and forth yesterday about– about oil, about getting buying oil
- 20:41Speaker 4: from Russia, and then saying Zelensky's got to stop attacking
- 20:45Speaker 4: the refineries in Russia so we can get this oil, which,
- 20:49Speaker 4: by the way, is all about the midterms to bring
- 20:51Speaker 4: prices down before the midterms. So let me give you
- 20:54Speaker 4: a little bit about what he said yesterday.
- 20:56Speaker 8: He'd like to see a settlement. President Putin would like
- 21:00Speaker 8: to see a settlement strongly. And look, he's freeing up
- 21:04Speaker 8: a lot of oil for the world, okay?
- 21:05Speaker 3: That's a good thing.
- 21:07Speaker 1: And by the way, at a very low price.
- 21:10Speaker 4: Yeah, again, he'd like to see a settlement. That's what
- 21:13Speaker 4: he said during the speech. Shortly after the speech, he said,
- 21:16Speaker 4: there is a settlement. There is an agreement. There is
- 21:19Speaker 4: a ceasefire. And then Zelensky said, We are open for this.
- 21:23Speaker 1: Don't attack us.
- 21:24Speaker 9: Don't kill our children. We will stop attack your diesel.
- 21:28Speaker 9: And I think it's fair, fair deal.
- 21:31Speaker 4: So if Donald Trump is correct, if Putin has said
- 21:34Speaker 4: he would like a ceasefire, if Donald Trump says there's
- 21:37Speaker 4: a ceasefire, and if Zelensky says, that's fine, I'll do it,
- 21:43Speaker 4: then I guess there's going to be a ceasefire. But Curtis,
- 21:45Speaker 4: the big problem here is no details at all have
- 21:50Speaker 4: been ironed out. Like, they both have their wish lists
- 21:54Speaker 4: of what they don't want to be attacked. But right now,
- 21:58Speaker 4: there is no reality to that.
- 22:00Speaker 2: Yeah, and Zelensky said, I had no idea that this
- 22:03Speaker 2: was taking place. So clearly, as you said, it was
- 22:06Speaker 2: for the midterm. But even that diesel fuel, if it
- 22:10Speaker 2: were to get to market, wouldn't affect anyone's price until November, December.
- 22:16Speaker 2: So it sounds good. But then again, we've been telling
- 22:19Speaker 2: our allies, don't you dare buy a drop of Russian
- 22:23Speaker 2: petroleum products. In fact, we went after countries who were
- 22:27Speaker 2: trying to buy it in the black market. So it's
- 22:31Speaker 2: another contradiction. It's four years of war. The Russians, they
- 22:36Speaker 2: attack the grid going into winter. Obviously, that impacts the
- 22:40Speaker 2: Ukrainians a lot because it takes away from their ability
- 22:43Speaker 2: to stay warm, the electricity. And the very successful program
- 22:48Speaker 2: that Zelensky has had with the drones attacking, as you
- 22:51Speaker 2: had mentioned, the refineries that produce the diesel. Russians themselves
- 22:57Speaker 2: don't have enough diesel now because of the success of
- 22:59Speaker 2: those attacks.
- 23:00Speaker 1: So let's see how it plays out. But this just.
- 23:03Speaker 2: Seems like, at this rate, it's going to be an
- 23:06Speaker 2: endless war until both sides just get tired and they
- 23:09Speaker 2: decide to sit down and negotiate a peace.
- 23:12Speaker 4: If it is true, though, let's play this out over
- 23:15Speaker 4: the next couple of days and go positive with it.
- 23:17Speaker 4: If it is true that whatever Donald Trump did when
- 23:20Speaker 4: he talked to Putin... And then Zelensky responded and said,
- 23:25Speaker 4: I'm open to that if this were to happen. And
- 23:27Speaker 4: now there's a 60-day ceasefire in the war between Russia
- 23:31Speaker 4: and Ukraine, which nobody's been able to ever accomplish. If
- 23:35Speaker 4: that were to happen, and then the prices come down,
- 23:39Speaker 4: the gas prices come down, and we get diesel fuel
- 23:42Speaker 4: coming in from Russia... that's a win-win-win for America.
- 23:47Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, I'll nominate him for a Nobel
- 23:49Speaker 2: Peace Prize because in Syracuse he was saying he should.
- 23:51Speaker 1: Have gotten eight of them.
- 23:53Speaker 4: That's right. He's done a pretty good job. He's done
- 23:57Speaker 4: a great job forgetting, you know, just forget for a
- 24:00Speaker 4: second making fun of him because of what he said.
- 24:03Speaker 4: He's actually been able to negotiate peace around the world
- 24:07Speaker 4: pretty darn well. It is funny that he turned around
- 24:10Speaker 4: completely later in the day because for a while there,
- 24:14Speaker 4: because Zelensky wasn't budging on anything, he wanted him out.
- 24:19Speaker 8: I suggest they get a new leader who can make
- 24:22Speaker 8: a deal, because he could have made many deals, and
- 24:25Speaker 8: for some reason he never does.
- 24:27Speaker 2: Well, you know, Ukraine has not had a national election
- 24:31Speaker 2: since the war started four years ago, and they are clamoring.
- 24:35Speaker 2: And Zelensky is saying, well, it's wartime. We can't have
- 24:37Speaker 2: an election. We had an election with Abraham Lincoln during
- 24:40Speaker 2: the Civil War. That's ridiculous. Now, Putin had an election. Obviously,
- 24:45Speaker 2: it was in the back.
- 24:46Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
- 24:47Speaker 2: But there should be an election in the Ukraine. There
- 24:51Speaker 2: are other people who think this could be handled differently.
- 24:53Speaker 2: They have had elections in the past, but Zelensky is
- 24:56Speaker 2: hiding something.
- 24:58Speaker 4: Behind the fact that you can't do it during war.
- 25:00Speaker 4: But the big thing with Zelensky is he's not a
- 25:02Speaker 4: saint in this whole thing. He was dictatorial. He fired
- 25:06Speaker 4: people he didn't like. He got rid of people he
- 25:08Speaker 4: didn't like. He took over state media. I mean, it
- 25:11Speaker 4: sounds like a communist country. And then he suspended all elections.
- 25:15Speaker 4: But now he's saying, listen, Donald Trump has no say
- 25:18Speaker 4: on this. If we're going to have elections, it's going
- 25:20Speaker 4: to be up to the people of Ukraine, which, by
- 25:22Speaker 4: the way, it has never been up to. It's only
- 25:24Speaker 4: been up to him.
- 25:25Speaker 9: With all respect to President Trump, it's up to our society,
- 25:33Speaker 9: up to our people to choose one or another leader.
- 25:38Speaker 2: I wish they would choose one who's not corrupt. Whenever
- 25:41Speaker 2: you look at the Ukraine, you look at corruption, one
- 25:43Speaker 2: of the most corrupt countries in the world. Not to
- 25:46Speaker 2: suggest that the Russians aren't corrupt, but I think every
- 25:50Speaker 2: time we send a dollar over there or the European
- 25:54Speaker 2: Union sends money over there, Everybody's getting their cut of
- 25:57Speaker 2: the action before it actually goes for the defense of
- 26:01Speaker 2: the country.
- 26:01Speaker 4: Yeah, but how disingenuous was that? It's up to the people. No,
- 26:05Speaker 4: the people had no say in any of this. No
- 26:07Speaker 4: say in any of it. Why don't you go ahead
- 26:09Speaker 4: and announce there's going to be elections? Then give the
- 26:12Speaker 4: people their say. That was the worst thing in the world.
- 26:14Speaker 4: I know you really wanted to get to the rally
- 26:18Speaker 4: in Syracuse, so I think we have a couple of
- 26:20Speaker 4: minutes left so we can play the one thing you
- 26:24Speaker 4: were talking about when you came in today.
- 26:27Speaker 3: I mean, it's amazing.
- 26:30Speaker 4: When you stand up here, it's just like the love.
- 26:33Speaker 8: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap, you know,
- 26:35Speaker 8: I love you so.
- 26:36Speaker 3: I'm sure.
- 26:38Speaker 8: But we don't say the stupidest things. We say things
- 26:41Speaker 8: of common sense.
- 26:42Speaker 4: Yeah, that was cute.
- 26:43Speaker 2: That was funny. But naturally, his critics immediately took the
- 26:47Speaker 2: first part of that statement. All is fair in politics
- 26:51Speaker 2: and war, correct?
- 26:52Speaker 4: That's absolutely true. Pope Leo will undergo surgery to remove
- 26:56Speaker 4: a nodule from his lung. We're going to talk with
- 26:59Speaker 4: the great Dr. Gil Lederman about what that means coming
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- 28:24Speaker 1: Ah, the news. The Pope is going to go under
- 28:26Speaker 1: the knife for surgery.
- 28:27Speaker 2: He's got a nodule, I guess, on his lung, but.
- 28:30Speaker 1: To discuss that, it's Dr.
- 28:31Speaker 2: Gil Lederman, host of Radio Surgery New York on WOR
- 28:35Speaker 2: at midnight and on the weekends, and who wrote me
- 28:38Speaker 2: a prescription on Sunday that got my voice back or
- 28:42Speaker 2: I wouldn't be here this morning.
- 28:44Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you, Doc.
- 28:46Speaker 10: Thank you so much.
- 28:47Speaker 1: All right, so what do.
- 28:48Speaker 2: You know about the Pope's condition that has caused him
- 28:51Speaker 2: to go under the knife?
- 28:54Speaker 10: Okay, so I know what you know, what you denounce,
- 28:56Speaker 10: but I'm trying to get behind the headlines and say
- 28:59Speaker 10: why the heck Are they saying this and why the
- 29:02Speaker 10: heck would they put a man, the Pope or anybody
- 29:05Speaker 10: through surgery for a nodule in the lung? There are
- 29:08Speaker 10: certainly options and many, many people, hundreds of thousands of
- 29:12Speaker 10: people have lung cancers and lung nodules. And in this
- 29:16Speaker 10: day and age, people that come to me generally don't
- 29:18Speaker 10: want to go through surgery. They don't want to have
- 29:20Speaker 10: their lung opened up. They don't want to have part
- 29:22Speaker 10: of their lung removed. And that's what they're talking about
- 29:25Speaker 10: for Pope Leo. So there are options for someone who's
- 29:29Speaker 10: got lung cancer or lung nodule. They didn't talk about that,
- 29:33Speaker 10: and obviously it's beyond the scope of their announcement, but
- 29:36Speaker 10: usually when a person comes here with a lung nodule,
- 29:39Speaker 10: planning to have surgery. the first thing a surgeon wants
- 29:41Speaker 10: to do most commonly, not always, but most commonly is
- 29:44Speaker 10: to go in and cut out part of the lung
- 29:47Speaker 10: and put it in a box and check it pathologically.
- 29:51Speaker 10: But there's ways to see if it's cancer, first of all,
- 29:54Speaker 10: with a little needle. So most people I see would
- 29:56Speaker 10: rather have a little needle put in their lung and
- 29:59Speaker 10: know whether it's cancer or not before they have surgery.
- 30:03Speaker 10: We don't know if he had that. So he may
- 30:05Speaker 10: have already had a biopsy.
- 30:07Speaker 3: Who knows?
- 30:07Speaker 10: There's two ways to get a biopsy. One is put
- 30:09Speaker 10: the needle through the skin. Another way is bronchoscopy through
- 30:13Speaker 10: the airway. There's another way for people who don't want
- 30:16Speaker 10: to even do biopsies. And there's many, many people who
- 30:18Speaker 10: don't want to do biopsies. Because if you do a biopsy,
- 30:21Speaker 10: like for the Pope to do surgery, he's going to
- 30:23Speaker 10: end up in the ICU for a week. His lung
- 30:25Speaker 10: will be totally collapsed. He'll have a chest tube. It
- 30:28Speaker 10: will be painful. And he has to reinflate the lung
- 30:31Speaker 10: and get the lung back and then see what this
- 30:34Speaker 10: is unless there's been a biopsy, unless he already knows.
- 30:37Speaker 3: So there are options.
- 30:39Speaker 10: For him, and we certainly hope that he would have
- 30:42Speaker 10: chosen surgery and not known about other things like radiosurgery
- 30:47Speaker 10: where you don't need cutting, you don't need bleeding, you
- 30:50Speaker 10: don't need hospitals, you don't need anesthesia. And you'd think
- 30:52Speaker 10: that someone like him would want to have an equally
- 30:55Speaker 10: effective treatment that's non-invasive, that doesn't remove part of his lung.
- 31:00Speaker 4: Yeah, that's really fascinating. That's great information. While you were talking,
- 31:04Speaker 4: I looked it up, too, and they said that over
- 31:07Speaker 4: half of all adults who get a chest CT scan
- 31:11Speaker 4: or x-ray, they find nodules in but most of them
- 31:14Speaker 4: don't need any operations. So from what you just said
- 31:18Speaker 4: a moment ago and that fact there, do you believe
- 31:24Speaker 4: there must be something else going on for them to
- 31:27Speaker 4: go in?
- 31:29Speaker 10: Well, look, you never know. I see so many patients,
- 31:32Speaker 10: and if a surgeon gets their hands on a patient,
- 31:34Speaker 10: and surgeons would probably love to have a high-profile patient
- 31:38Speaker 10: like the Pope on their resume, So it can elevate them.
- 31:42Speaker 10: On the other hand, it can go bad. He can
- 31:45Speaker 10: end up with a complication or shortness of breath or
- 31:48Speaker 10: not be able to breathe well for the rest of
- 31:49Speaker 10: his life or even worse. So sometimes cowboys are surgeons
- 31:54Speaker 10: and surgeons are cowboys and they want to get a
- 31:57Speaker 10: high-profile case. If the Pope Leo or anybody, a listener,
- 32:01Speaker 10: came here, we would get tested. We'd get cancer marker,
- 32:04Speaker 10: blood test. We'd get a PET scan. A PET scan
- 32:07Speaker 10: is a non-invasive way to see if a nodule is
- 32:09Speaker 10: suspicious for cancer. So in this day and age, there's many,
- 32:12Speaker 10: many non-invasive testing that can be done to evaluate whether
- 32:16Speaker 10: it's a cancer or not. And you're right, there's many
- 32:19Speaker 10: nodules in the lung, but most of them are not cancers.
- 32:22Speaker 10: He may have had a CT scan, let's say, six
- 32:24Speaker 10: months ago or a year ago, and it wasn't there.
- 32:27Speaker 10: So if it's a new nodule, that's different than if
- 32:29Speaker 10: it's a nodule that's been there for a long period
- 32:31Speaker 10: of time.
- 32:32Speaker 3: Dr.
- 32:32Speaker 2: Lederman, if any of our listeners are interested in coming
- 32:36Speaker 2: to see you for a consultation, How can they get
- 32:38Speaker 2: in touch with you? Because obviously they can hear your
- 32:42Speaker 2: radio surgery program at nights here at WOR 710 at
- 32:47Speaker 2: midnight and on the weekends. But if they'd like to
- 32:49Speaker 2: come in, how do they reach out to you?
- 32:53Speaker 10: Well, number one, they can do what you did, which
- 32:55Speaker 10: is send me an email. You can send me an
- 32:56Speaker 10: email at gil, G-I-L, at rsny.org. You did it yesterday.
- 33:01Speaker 10: As you said, I wouldn't have said anything, but you
- 33:03Speaker 10: kind of preempted me. So, Patients and listeners can do
- 33:06Speaker 10: the same thing Curtis Lewa does, gil at rsny.org. If
- 33:12Speaker 10: they don't want to do that, they can call us
- 33:13Speaker 10: at 212-CHOICES, 212-CHOICES.
- 33:18Speaker 4: All right, Dr. Lederman, host of the Radio Surgery New
- 33:21Speaker 4: York at midnight and on the weekends and the best
- 33:25Speaker 4: in the country at it. Thank you so much, Dr. Lederman.
- 33:28Speaker 4: Good to talk to you.
- 33:30Speaker 10: Thank you. We wish the Pope a speedy recovery and
- 33:32Speaker 10: all your listeners much good health.
- 33:35Speaker 4: That's wonderful. When we come back, well, the Cornell University
- 33:40Speaker 4: case seems to change by the hour. And every time
- 33:45Speaker 4: it looks like, oh, maybe she's not telling the truth or, oh,
- 33:50Speaker 4: they did it. Every single day it changes. We'll give
- 33:54Speaker 4: you the latest right after the 7 o'clock news.