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- 0:00Speaker 1: Well, it's good to be John Decker. John Decker got
- 0:02Speaker 1: to go to Alaska with the president for his rally there.
- 0:07Speaker 1: Then he had a one-on-one interview with him. So let's
- 0:11Speaker 1: bring him in and find out how that went. John Decker,
- 0:14Speaker 1: WOL White House and Washington correspondent. He's host of the podcast,
- 0:18Speaker 1: The White House Briefing Room with John Decker. That you
- 0:21Speaker 1: can find on the iHeartRadio app. So it seemed like
- 0:26Speaker 1: it was a pretty successful rally. I'd love to hear
- 0:29Speaker 1: about your interview with the president, but tell me why
- 0:32Speaker 1: this pipeline that he said is going to go through
- 0:35Speaker 1: now is so important to Alaska.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Well, it's important because energy prices are higher there than
- 0:42Speaker 2: pretty much anywhere in the entire country, Larry. It is
- 0:45Speaker 2: so remote that anything that can bring down energy prices
- 0:50Speaker 2: is welcome news.
- 0:51Speaker 3: Now, the pipeline.
- 0:52Speaker 2: It's not like you snap your fingers and the pipeline
- 0:55Speaker 2: is built. We're talking about, in a best-case scenario, it
- 0:59Speaker 2: being completed by 2030. That's a ways off four years away.
- 1:04Speaker 2: That's a best-case scenario. So it's welcome news, but it's
- 1:08Speaker 2: interesting that the news is coming, you know, with 21
- 1:11Speaker 2: days or so to go until the midterms. You know,
- 1:15Speaker 2: I think that for certain individuals, constituents in Alaska, They
- 1:20Speaker 2: may be skeptical about certain promises that are made by
- 1:24Speaker 2: any politician being made in the final weeks of a campaign.
- 1:27Speaker 1: This happens all the time, though, during midterm elections. The
- 1:31Speaker 1: presidents come and they know what the local issues are
- 1:34Speaker 1: and they do something as a gift. to try to
- 1:37Speaker 1: help get votes, right? This happens years.
- 1:39Speaker 3: Absolutely.
- 1:40Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been happening probably since the dawn of our country.
- 1:44Speaker 2: You know, you make promises, you know, in the weeks
- 1:47Speaker 2: leading up to an election. And President Trump is no
- 1:50Speaker 2: different than anybody else. You know, he's made some promises
- 1:53Speaker 2: as it relates to Iowa. There's a very close Senate
- 1:56Speaker 2: race in Iowa. You know, he's made promises in other
- 1:59Speaker 2: states as well. And of course, the big promise is
- 2:02Speaker 2: that if Republicans retain control of the House and the Senate,
- 2:06Speaker 2: the president says that will mean a $ 5, 000 check to
- 2:10Speaker 2: every American adult. So that's quite a promise to put
- 2:12Speaker 2: out there weeks ahead of the midterm as well.
- 2:15Speaker 4: John Decker, while you were away in Alaska or on
- 2:20Speaker 4: your way to Alaska, we were introduced to the new
- 2:24Speaker 4: press secretary, Katie Zachariah. Seemed to me and a lot
- 2:31Speaker 4: of other people that she had a Rough ride on
- 2:34Speaker 4: her first day. You've dealt with so many press secretaries.
- 2:39Speaker 4: What would you advise as she moves forward?
- 2:43Speaker 3: Well, you're right.
- 2:45Speaker 2: Katie, who I got a chance to know and meet
- 2:48Speaker 2: on this two-day trip, she was on the trip, chatted
- 2:52Speaker 2: with her for a little bit. She's the 18th White
- 2:55Speaker 2: House press secretary that I'm dealing with now. And I
- 2:59Speaker 2: watched her press conference while I was out at Andrews
- 3:02Speaker 2: Air Force Base awaiting to board Air Force One. She
- 3:06Speaker 2: only took three questions, had a 14-minute long briefing, and
- 3:11Speaker 2: that's not going to cut it. You have to take
- 3:13Speaker 2: a lot more questions than that. You have to get
- 3:16Speaker 2: away from reading everything out of what you've brought to
- 3:21Speaker 2: the lectern. and you have to be comfortable with speaking
- 3:25Speaker 2: about domestic policy and foreign policy. It means working really hard.
- 3:30Speaker 2: Someone who appears on Fox News and does a five-minute
- 3:33Speaker 2: hit cannot jump in and be the White House press secretary.
- 3:37Speaker 2: It's not an easy job, and so I think that
- 3:40Speaker 2: anyone that takes that job, including Katie, needs to recognize
- 3:43Speaker 2: that you need to put in some hard work if
- 3:46Speaker 2: you want to be good at that job, and I
- 3:48Speaker 2: must tell you that Caroline Leavitt, I think, set the
- 3:52Speaker 2: bar really high. So I think she's being judged by
- 3:54Speaker 2: the standard that Caroline set. I said that when she
- 3:57Speaker 2: left in August, you may recall this, I said, she
- 4:00Speaker 2: will have some big shoes to fill, whoever is the
- 4:04Speaker 2: person that the president names to replace her. And Katie
- 4:07Speaker 2: has some big shoes to fill now that she has
- 4:09Speaker 2: that job.
- 4:10Speaker 1: When you said that 14 minutes is not going to
- 4:13Speaker 1: cut it, I've heard that a lot. I've heard that
- 4:17Speaker 1: on CNN. I've heard criticism of her for that. So
- 4:20Speaker 1: I take it you're not buying the excuse that the
- 4:24Speaker 1: president said, no, I want to get you out there today,
- 4:27Speaker 1: but they did have this flight that you had to
- 4:29Speaker 1: get on?
- 4:31Speaker 2: Because there was a significant amount of time between the
- 4:33Speaker 2: conclusion of that press briefing and the time that the
- 4:36Speaker 2: president actually left the White House to board Marine One
- 4:40Speaker 2: out to Andrews. So she could have, you know, even
- 4:43Speaker 2: a half hour briefing, you know, 15 minutes longer. I
- 4:48Speaker 2: think she certainly could have done time-wise, and I think
- 4:51Speaker 2: it would have been more satisfactory for her. You know,
- 4:56Speaker 2: you get better like anything, you know, whatever sport you're
- 4:59Speaker 2: talking about with practice, and you're just not going to
- 5:02Speaker 2: get better if you just do 14 minutes. You got
- 5:04Speaker 2: to take all those questions and get good in terms
- 5:07Speaker 2: of how you deal with the White House press corps. And,
- 5:11Speaker 2: you know, I think that that is one of those
- 5:12Speaker 2: areas where I would recommend for her to have lengthier
- 5:16Speaker 2: briefings than just 15 minutes at length if she wants
- 5:20Speaker 2: to get better at the job.
- 5:22Speaker 4: John, I noticed the president is barnstorming. He loves to
- 5:26Speaker 4: do this. This is the part of the job he
- 5:28Speaker 4: really loves, informing the audience, entertaining the audience, and engaging them.
- 5:34Speaker 4: But I look at every race he goes to, Republicans,
- 5:37Speaker 4: if they aren't ahead, they're like at 46, 47, 48,
- 5:40Speaker 4: tight races. His numbers are at 36, maybe 38. I'm
- 5:47Speaker 4: saying to myself, hey.
- 5:49Speaker 3: Wait a second. How is he a help to the Republicans?
- 5:52Speaker 4: Because the Democrats, they just jump all over the fact
- 5:55Speaker 4: that he's coming in and hit him with his negatives.
- 5:59Speaker 2: Well, as the president has pointed out, you know, I
- 6:01Speaker 2: went to let's see, I went to one, two, three.
- 6:05Speaker 2: Three campaign rallies in two days, one in Alaska, one
- 6:09Speaker 2: in Arizona, and one last night in Montana. I just
- 6:13Speaker 2: got back a few hours ago, by the way. I
- 6:15Speaker 2: landed literally three hours ago at Andrews. And I think
- 6:19Speaker 2: what the president points out is that he's really popular
- 6:23Speaker 2: within the Republican base.
- 6:24Speaker 3: And he is.
- 6:25Speaker 2: He's maintained that popularity. It's true. So the president believes
- 6:28Speaker 2: that if he can energize that base to get them
- 6:31Speaker 2: out in the kind of numbers that that they typically
- 6:34Speaker 2: come out in a presidential election year, Republicans will do
- 6:38Speaker 2: well enough to maintain control of the House and the Senate.
- 6:41Speaker 2: And so that's the reason behind these various campaign rallies,
- 6:45Speaker 2: even in red states like Montana and like Alaska. That's,
- 6:51Speaker 2: I think, behind the president's thinking. I asked the president,
- 6:55Speaker 2: you know, yesterday before we departed from Arizona to Montana,
- 6:59Speaker 2: why are we even going to Montana? It's a red state, Mr.
- 7:02Speaker 3: President.
- 7:03Speaker 2: Why aren't you going to Michigan? You know, it seems
- 7:05Speaker 2: like I said to the president, it seems like you're
- 7:06Speaker 2: playing defense. And he gave me a lengthy answer. He said, no,
- 7:10Speaker 2: it's important that I energize the base. It's important that
- 7:13Speaker 2: I energize the MAGA base. And so he that I
- 7:17Speaker 2: think is entering the president's thinking in this campaign schedule.
- 7:21Speaker 1: Yeah, and the MAGA base, like my wife, watches every
- 7:24Speaker 1: single one of these rallies because they're in that Fox
- 7:28Speaker 1: sub-channel that we get in streaming. So she's watching it.
- 7:32Speaker 1: It doesn't matter that he's in Montana. He might as
- 7:34Speaker 1: well have been in New Jersey because she's going to
- 7:37Speaker 1: watch it anyway. So I think, I believe he understands that.
- 7:41Speaker 1: And John, and correct me if I'm wrong on this,
- 7:43Speaker 1: but I thought always the traditional theory with midterms is
- 7:49Speaker 1: you've got to get your base out. You have to
- 7:51Speaker 1: get the people energized and out. And if he can
- 7:54Speaker 1: do that, he's going to win a couple races.
- 7:58Speaker 2: Well, that is the case. And I think that that
- 8:00Speaker 2: is correct. It's also correct to say that independent voters
- 8:04Speaker 2: typically decide elections. And that's the reason why the president
- 8:08Speaker 2: won in the manner that he won in 2024. It's
- 8:12Speaker 2: because independent voters... overwhelmingly broke for Trump over Kamala Harris.
- 8:18Speaker 2: The problem now is that if you look at poll
- 8:20Speaker 2: after poll after poll, his public approval rating with independents
- 8:25Speaker 2: has declined precipitously. And that's the reason why you see
- 8:29Speaker 2: his poll numbers now in the mid-30s, even lower in
- 8:33Speaker 2: some polls. But they're not in a good place right now.
- 8:36Speaker 2: And it's those independent voters that I believe Larry and
- 8:39Speaker 2: Curtis will decide who controls both the House and the Senate,
- 8:43Speaker 2: for the next two years.
- 8:44Speaker 4: Now, one thing we're not hearing much about is what
- 8:48Speaker 4: we're going to do about the Iranian escalation of hitting
- 8:53Speaker 4: tankers in the Straits of Hormuz with rockets and how
- 8:57Speaker 4: their surrogates, the Houthis, are in an almost full-scale war
- 9:00Speaker 4: with the Saudis. It would almost seem to me, John Decker,
- 9:03Speaker 4: they're daring the president to re-engage before the midterm elections,
- 9:07Speaker 4: do they have any plans at all to deal with
- 9:10Speaker 4: this growing problem?
- 9:12Speaker 2: Yeah, the president says he's evaluating that, you know, and
- 9:16Speaker 2: I don't think he has much time because, you know,
- 9:17Speaker 2: we speak so often, Curtis, about the Strait of Hormuz,
- 9:20Speaker 2: that impact of shutting it down and, you know, the
- 9:23Speaker 2: threat that Iran poses in the Strait is having on
- 9:27Speaker 2: oil prices. Well, the Houthis, they're threatening to essentially shut
- 9:31Speaker 2: down the Red Sea, and that also could impact in
- 9:34Speaker 2: a very real way oil prices as well. And the
- 9:37Speaker 2: president does not want to see that at all, especially
- 9:40Speaker 2: with the midterms, you know, now 20 days away. So, yeah,
- 9:44Speaker 2: that could force the president's hand in terms of reengaging
- 9:48Speaker 2: with the Houthis, helping out the Saudis and their fight
- 9:53Speaker 2: against the Houthis. The president just simply hasn't made a
- 9:56Speaker 2: decision on that front just yet.
- 9:58Speaker 1: All right, John Decker, White House and Washington correspondent, host
- 10:02Speaker 1: of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker.
- 10:05Speaker 1: You can find that on the iHeartRadio app. John, thanks
- 10:08Speaker 1: as always. Get some rest.
- 10:10Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 10:12Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 10:12Speaker 1: Will do.
- 10:13Speaker 3: Have a good one.
- 10:13Speaker 5: Bye-bye.
- 10:14Speaker 1: See you later when we come back. The Plaza Hotel
- 10:19Speaker 1: is going to shut down, Curtis, for four years.
- 10:22Speaker 5: Yep.
- 10:23Speaker 1: A lot of people had weddings. A lot of people
- 10:26Speaker 1: had vacations planned. This kind of came out of nowhere,
- 10:29Speaker 1: plus a chance to see Journey at age 25. The
- 10:34Speaker 1: Plaza Hotel is going to temporarily close down, but for
- 10:38Speaker 1: four years. Starting in January of 2027, there is restoration
- 10:44Speaker 1: being made to the historic facade that It is one
- 10:48Speaker 1: of the most iconic hotels, maybe the most iconic hotel
- 10:53Speaker 1: in New York. You've seen it in lots and lots
- 10:55Speaker 1: of movies, most notably Home Alone, where he actually stayed
- 11:00Speaker 1: there at the hotel. But there's a lot of people
- 11:03Speaker 1: upset about this, Curtis, because they had many, several weddings planned.
- 11:08Speaker 1: I've been to two weddings there. I mean, I know
- 11:10Speaker 1: it's the place in New York to go and have
- 11:12Speaker 1: a wedding. So there's people that had weddings planned that
- 11:16Speaker 1: now have to make other plans. And there's people that
- 11:19Speaker 1: had vacations and they've had rooms. And I want to
- 11:23Speaker 1: know how long they knew this was going to happen.
- 11:25Speaker 4: I guarantee you the president of the United States, Donald Trump,
- 11:29Speaker 4: will comment on this today because he owned the plaza
- 11:32Speaker 4: in 1988. Remember, he's the one that let them come
- 11:35Speaker 4: in and do Home Alone. He's in one of the
- 11:37Speaker 4: scenes there. Remember, that was part of the quid pro quo.
- 11:40Speaker 4: I let you use it because it's so iconic. You see,
- 11:43Speaker 4: it's landmarked. So there's a Qatari firm that owns it now,
- 11:47Speaker 4: but it's managed by Americans. A lot of people don't
- 11:50Speaker 4: realize in the back there are condos that have already
- 11:53Speaker 4: been purchased. So you're going to be able to continue
- 11:55Speaker 4: to live in your condos. It's really the front part
- 11:58Speaker 4: where a lot of the rooms are. And I got
- 12:00Speaker 4: to tell you, one of my greatest memories as a
- 12:03Speaker 4: little kid. I'm with our family that came in from
- 12:06Speaker 4: Chicago to see my dad, who was from Chicago. You know,
- 12:09Speaker 4: our extended, we're taking them through Central Park. We're taking
- 12:12Speaker 4: them to all the sites. And my dad says, let's
- 12:15Speaker 4: stop at Trader Vic's, which used to be that ticky
- 12:19Speaker 4: tacky bar in the basement. Very famous in the plaza.
- 12:23Speaker 4: I think they closed in the late 90s. And they're
- 12:25Speaker 4: sitting down and they're all having, you know, they're all imbibing.
- 12:30Speaker 4: And they look at me and they said, well, what
- 12:31Speaker 4: can we order for Curtis? They ordered me my first
- 12:34Speaker 4: Shirley Temple. A Shirley Temple. And I thought I was
- 12:38Speaker 4: like an adult until later on. Guys would say to me,
- 12:42Speaker 4: you drank a Shirley Temple? Boy, between going to Texas
- 12:46Speaker 4: and being compared to a steer and a queer earlier
- 12:50Speaker 4: in the show, and now having to admit I thought
- 12:53Speaker 4: I was drinking an adult beverage, a Shirley Temple, and
- 12:57Speaker 4: guys would be making fun of me when I would
- 12:58Speaker 4: tell that story.
- 12:59Speaker 3: But that's one of my fondest memories.
- 13:01Speaker 4: The other thing, Larry, on the top, a billionaire had
- 13:05Speaker 4: the penthouse, the penthouse, the whole roof. And this guy
- 13:09Speaker 4: was from China, CCP guy, direct from President Xi. He
- 13:14Speaker 4: would host fundraisers for Republicans and Democrats. I remember going
- 13:18Speaker 4: up there for a Republican fundraiser, all the big shots,
- 13:21Speaker 4: I'm not going to mention their names.
- 13:23Speaker 3: And I look at the guy and I say, I
- 13:25Speaker 3: know you. He goes, yeah, I know you too.
- 13:29Speaker 4: And I looked at Nancy, and I said, we're getting
- 13:30Speaker 4: the hell out of here. This place is probably wired
- 13:33Speaker 4: up like a Christmas tree by the FBI. Eventually, he
- 13:36Speaker 4: was found guilty of laundering money. They shipped him back
- 13:39Speaker 4: to Red China. But he owned that whole penthouse uptown.
- 13:43Speaker 4: A lot of people get married there, and I feel
- 13:45Speaker 4: so bad for them. The last time I was at
- 13:47Speaker 4: a wedding there, it was Jody Applegate and Michael Kay. Oh,
- 13:51Speaker 4: the best Jody Applegate.
- 13:52Speaker 1: Oh, she's, I love her. I just love her. And
- 13:55Speaker 1: you know who oversaw it? You know who, you know,
- 13:57Speaker 1: did the vowels and everything? Rudy Giuliani.
- 14:01Speaker 4: Oh, he used to love doing that as mayor. See,
- 14:03Speaker 4: that's one of the perks. We haven't seen Zoran do that.
- 14:07Speaker 4: Eric Adams, I don't think he did that. Comrade Bill
- 14:10Speaker 4: de Blasio, by the way, was late to his own
- 14:12Speaker 4: wedding by a half hour from smoking the Maui Waui
- 14:14Speaker 4: and Hindu Kush. Yeah, Rudy used to love doing that.
- 14:18Speaker 1: Yeah, it was amazing. It was an amazing wedding, and
- 14:21Speaker 1: they're still together, and they're doing well.
- 14:23Speaker 3: By the way, Michael K.
- 14:25Speaker 4: nephew of the great Danny Aiello from the Bronx. They
- 14:28Speaker 4: were both from the Bronx. Graduate of WFUV, broadcasting in Fordham.
- 14:33Speaker 1: All right, let's get some talkbacks.
- 14:36Speaker 3: I think it's silly not to put the horse carriages
- 14:39Speaker 3: in Central Park. Why not? It's quaint. People celebrate their anniversaries.
- 14:44Speaker 1: They make proposals, birthdays, tourists come and Why not take
- 14:48Speaker 1: a nice ride in a horse carriage in Central Park?
- 14:52Speaker 4: Well, pal, you're a dollar short and a day late.
- 14:55Speaker 4: We've been lobbying this ever since WOR broadcasted Barry Gray
- 14:59Speaker 4: in the late 60s and 70s. He was the main adversary.
- 15:03Speaker 4: And it's coming to an end, 2028. I actually had
- 15:06Speaker 4: conversations with horses.
- 15:08Speaker 3: You can see some of the posts.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Did they talk back?
- 15:11Speaker 3: Well, we have a way of talking to one another.
- 15:13Speaker 3: I heard... It's called Huzz. You know what that means, Chris?
- 15:20Speaker 3: Of course not. Go on.
- 15:24Speaker 1: Just in case you wanted to say anything, we know
- 15:26Speaker 1: you know nothing. That's what he was saying.
- 15:27Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 15:29Speaker 3: I understand.
- 15:31Speaker 5: Okay.
- 15:32Speaker 1: Let's get a talk back.
- 15:33Speaker 6: I heard Justin Murphy the other day for the first time.
- 15:39Speaker 6: I was absolutely blown away by his passion and his command.
- 15:46Speaker 6: And this guy is really going places. I'm going to
- 15:50Speaker 6: be watching him, and I certainly will be voting for
- 15:54Speaker 6: anything he's running for.
- 15:56Speaker 3: And by the way, yeah, I love his hair.
- 15:59Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got great hair. I agree with you a
- 16:02Speaker 1: thousand percent. This isn't the last time we've seen him.
- 16:05Speaker 1: He made a name for himself in that debate.
- 16:08Speaker 7: In my opinion, Tallarico took two weeks off because he
- 16:14Speaker 7: needed a rest for his brain. He would have taken
- 16:17Speaker 7: longer off if he wasn't called out on it. The
- 16:20Speaker 7: other thing is, Trump runs circles around these Democrats. He's
- 16:26Speaker 7: 80 years old, and he is on fire.
- 16:29Speaker 1: That's right.
- 16:29Speaker 3: You're right.
- 16:30Speaker 1: I never put those two together. That's really good. Tallarico
- 16:33Speaker 1: had to take a rest for some reason, allegedly the flu.
- 16:36Speaker 1: which nobody's buying. I mean, I don't think he had
- 16:39Speaker 1: a sex operation or anything, but it's not the flow.
- 16:42Speaker 4: Wait, some Republicans are claiming he had to undo his
- 16:45Speaker 4: transgender status.
- 16:47Speaker 1: I get that.
- 16:47Speaker 3: He had to have reverse surgery.
- 16:49Speaker 1: But, I mean, he definitely had a mental health vacation, which,
- 16:54Speaker 1: by the way, in the middle of a campaign, really?
- 16:58Speaker 1: Now let's get the news at 7.30 with Daria Albinger. Daria. Morning, guys.
- 17:02Speaker 8: Sunny and much cooler today with a high of 62
- 17:04Speaker 8: degrees and showers likely late tonight. So drink to this
- 17:08Speaker 8: or maybe don't. Bodega owners want to sell beer, wine.
- 17:12Speaker 8: They already sell beer. They want to sell wine and
- 17:13Speaker 8: liquor at their stores, but not if liquor store owners
- 17:16Speaker 8: have their way.
- 17:16Speaker 9: Assemblywoman Amanda Septino says the move would help small business
- 17:20Speaker 9: owners make more money.
- 17:22Speaker 10: No one is looking to kill liquor stores. We are
- 17:25Speaker 10: simply looking to make sure our.
- 17:27Speaker 9: Community has an opportunity to share in the prosperity.
- 17:31Speaker 3: That exists in the market today.
- 17:32Speaker 9: The bodega owners who support the change say they're in
- 17:35Speaker 9: favor of it due to the rising cost of doing business.
- 17:38Speaker 11: Natalie Migliore, WOR News. Police are looking into the death
- 17:42Speaker 11: of a five-year-old girl in Queens. Officers found the child
- 17:45Speaker 11: unresponsive at a home that they'd been called to where
- 17:48Speaker 11: they say an assault had taken place. There are no
- 17:51Speaker 11: arrests yet. A new report claims the Trump administration is
- 17:54Speaker 11: trying to build a case against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, which
- 17:58Speaker 11: could get her deported.
- 17:59Speaker 12: The Minnesota Democrats' Washington, D.C. area home was searched by
- 18:03Speaker 12: federal agents on Monday. who were reportedly seeking evidence of
- 18:07Speaker 12: fraud and false statements in immigration paperwork, among other things.
- 18:12Speaker 12: On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal cited U.S. officials as
- 18:15Speaker 12: saying the probe was aimed at building a case to
- 18:18Speaker 12: strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her.
- 18:23Speaker 12: Omar was born in Somalia in 1982 and came to
- 18:26Speaker 12: the U.S. with her family in 1995. I'm Michael Kastner.
- 18:31Speaker 8: Pope Leo's canceled public appearances through the 20th of this
- 18:34Speaker 8: month as he recovers from lung cancer surgery. The Vatican
- 18:37Speaker 8: says he's doing well and that he's eating and he's
- 18:39Speaker 8: up walking. Tesla will unveil its new Roadster electric sports
- 18:44Speaker 8: car tonight. The long-awaited vehicle is said to feature cold
- 18:47Speaker 8: gas thrusters that were developed with SpaceX. So when you
- 18:50Speaker 8: turn it on, Got that big engine sound that we
- 18:53Speaker 8: associate with sports cars. Devils host the Rangers tonight. The
- 18:56Speaker 8: Islanders skate in Ottawa. Next news, 8 o'clock. Bulletins at once.
- 18:59Speaker 8: I'm Dariel Albinger on 710WOR.
- 19:01Speaker 3: Oh, I beg you.
- 19:03Speaker 4: I beseech you, Larry. You know the comedian Shane Gillis.
- 19:08Speaker 4: He played me Saturday Night Live. You remember Chris, the
- 19:11Speaker 4: debate last November 1st.
- 19:13Speaker 3: He was Curtis. It was Cuomo.
- 19:15Speaker 4: There was Johan Mondami. I'm getting all these calls. People
- 19:19Speaker 4: thinking that I know Shane Gillis about what he had
- 19:22Speaker 4: to say the opening monologue Saturday night for Saturday Night
- 19:25Speaker 4: Live in lieu of what's happening in Cornell. Larry's going
- 19:29Speaker 4: to have to take this. I'm not taking the weight
- 19:31Speaker 4: for this.
- 19:32Speaker 3: No way. Stay tuned for this. Larry, I need you
- 19:36Speaker 3: to throw me a lifeline.
- 19:37Speaker 4: I'm getting all these calls from reporters about Shane Gillis,
- 19:41Speaker 4: the comedian, his opening remarks for Saturday Night Live Saturday
- 19:46Speaker 4: as their messages that they leave on the phone say,
- 19:49Speaker 4: You know, in lieu of... of what has happened at Cornell,
- 19:51Speaker 4: the rape case. You know, Shane Gillis played you in
- 19:56Speaker 4: that debate on November 1st of 2025 on SNL where
- 20:00Speaker 4: you had Cuomo, the Cuomo character, you had the Zoran character,
- 20:04Speaker 4: and Shane Gillis was you in the red beret. You
- 20:07Speaker 4: have any comments, Mr.
- 20:08Speaker 3: Sliwa?
- 20:10Speaker 4: And very uncharacteristically, a few of them called back and said,
- 20:15Speaker 4: are you okay, Curtis?
- 20:16Speaker 3: You're always available.
- 20:18Speaker 4: Sometimes you actually volunteer comments when we haven't even called you.
- 20:24Speaker 1: Well, let's delve into this a little bit. You know
- 20:26Speaker 1: Shane Gillis, right? He's a funny guy. You like his comedy,
- 20:29Speaker 1: don't you?
- 20:31Speaker 3: Go ahead, Larry. Man, I'm walking a tightrope here.
- 20:35Speaker 4: All I know him, to be honest with you, and
- 20:37Speaker 4: we've had these discussions before, is when I found out
- 20:40Speaker 4: that he played me in Saturday Night Live in the
- 20:42Speaker 4: debate with the Red Beret, and I thought he did
- 20:44Speaker 4: an outstanding job.
- 20:45Speaker 1: Here he is.
- 20:46Speaker 13: I'm thrilled to be here and not getting shot in
- 20:49Speaker 13: the back of a yellow cab five times by the
- 20:52Speaker 13: Gottis and Gambinos as I was famously in 1992, 1993,
- 20:56Speaker 13: and 94. But I'm the right choice to be your
- 21:01Speaker 13: next mayor. No offense to my opponents, Mr. Cuomo, and
- 21:05Speaker 13: I believe I'm saying this right, Zoltar Rob Zombie.
- 21:11Speaker 3: Oh, he was great. Even Chris laughed at the quiet storm.
- 21:15Speaker 4: So that's pretty much all I know about the guy,
- 21:18Speaker 4: other than they consider him controversial.
- 21:20Speaker 1: Well, yes, he's always been controversial. He's always been edgy.
- 21:25Speaker 1: And you know what he's like? He's like the funniest
- 21:27Speaker 1: guy in the bar. That's who he is. It's like
- 21:30Speaker 1: bar humor. And that's what made him what he is. But,
- 21:34Speaker 1: you know, SNL, he was supposed to be a cast member.
- 21:38Speaker 1: He was the biggest rising star in the country. He
- 21:40Speaker 1: won the biggest comedy festival in the country, the Just
- 21:43Speaker 1: for Laughs Comedy Festival. And after that, it launched him
- 21:47Speaker 1: and everybody wanted him. He had HBO specials. He got
- 21:50Speaker 1: Showtime specials. He got a Netflix special. And then SNL
- 21:55Speaker 1: wanted to have him. And then they looked back at
- 21:57Speaker 1: his podcast that he did, which, by the way, was
- 21:59Speaker 1: a subscription podcast that broke records. He made a lot
- 22:03Speaker 1: of money on that podcast. And then they listened to
- 22:06Speaker 1: some of the things he said, and they called him
- 22:08Speaker 1: into legal, and they said, did you say this? And
- 22:11Speaker 1: he said, oh, yeah, I said that. And they said, well,
- 22:14Speaker 1: I'm not sure we can have you on the show
- 22:16Speaker 1: if you said that. He goes, oh, there's a lot
- 22:17Speaker 1: more than that.
- 22:20Speaker 3: So he was very forthcoming. You don't even have to
- 22:23Speaker 3: listen to any more of the old tapes. There's a
- 22:26Speaker 3: lot more than that.
- 22:28Speaker 1: But now he's hosted the show three times, and this
- 22:32Speaker 1: is what he's in trouble for.
- 22:34Speaker 13: Also, I haven't been to the gym in so long,
- 22:36Speaker 13: I didn't know women just dress like whores now. Look,
- 22:40Speaker 13: I'm sorry, there's no other way to describe. Have you
- 22:43Speaker 13: seen it?
- 22:44Speaker 3: I've seen it. The shorts? Have you seen the shorts?
- 22:47Speaker 1: Those neon, they're like the only- You know what, I'm
- 22:49Speaker 1: going to cut it off here. I'm going to have
- 22:52Speaker 1: better judgment. I was going to let it go to
- 22:54Speaker 1: a certain word, and I've been asking everybody at the
- 22:57Speaker 1: radio station, can I play this?
- 22:58Speaker 3: And I gave you a thumbs up.
- 22:59Speaker 1: Yeah, because I think you're trying to set me up.
- 23:01Speaker 1: So I'm not going to play it. I'm not going
- 23:05Speaker 1: to play it there. It's another word for, well, I'm
- 23:08Speaker 1: not even.
- 23:09Speaker 5: Going to say that.
- 23:10Speaker 4: But I think the controversy is not so much what
- 23:14Speaker 4: he said, But the timing of it, in the middle
- 23:18Speaker 4: of the Cornell 7 case, he's been labeled a misogynist,
- 23:23Speaker 4: a sexist.
- 23:24Speaker 3: There's an outrage out there.
- 23:26Speaker 4: I think, in fact, it was a male who called
- 23:28Speaker 4: him out first, not even the whole host of females
- 23:30Speaker 4: who were coming after him. So this is what you
- 23:34Speaker 4: get with comedy. That's why I've never before ever come
- 23:37Speaker 4: out and tried to defend comedians because they can change
- 23:40Speaker 4: on a dime.
- 23:41Speaker 3: It's not like politicians or anyone else.
- 23:43Speaker 1: This is this guy's act. This is his act. He's
- 23:46Speaker 1: the everyman guy in the bar that says some outlandish
- 23:49Speaker 1: things and is the funniest person in your group, in
- 23:52Speaker 1: the people you hang out with. He's the funniest person
- 23:55Speaker 1: in that group. And that's what he is. He's never
- 23:58Speaker 1: tried to be more than that. And SNL knew that.
- 24:01Speaker 1: And I'm sure SNL knew what he was going to
- 24:04Speaker 1: say and okayed it. So you can blow back all
- 24:09Speaker 1: you want. You can criticize him all you want. You're
- 24:12Speaker 1: just going to make him bigger. He's going to be
- 24:14Speaker 1: more popular. Do you know that he has the record?
- 24:17Speaker 1: He has the record for a comedy show. He had
- 24:20Speaker 1: over 73,000 people show up for him at Lincoln Financial Field.
- 24:26Speaker 1: No comedian has come close to getting that kind of number.
- 24:29Speaker 4: Excuse me, reporters, you want to comment about Shane Gillis,
- 24:32Speaker 4: you can call Larry. Larry, I think you somehow identify
- 24:36Speaker 4: with him, not because this is your style of talking.
- 24:39Speaker 4: But your roots, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, I think you have
- 24:45Speaker 4: a lot in common with this guy.
- 24:47Speaker 1: I wish I had his talent. I mean, I wish
- 24:49Speaker 1: I was as funny as him. But no, I mean,
- 24:52Speaker 1: he's very funny. He might be the top comedian in
- 24:56Speaker 1: the country right now.
- 24:56Speaker 3: Well, I did see him.
- 24:57Speaker 1: Let me just finish. He might be the top comedian
- 24:59Speaker 1: in the country right now, and there's no taking that
- 25:02Speaker 1: away from him. So all the people on social media
- 25:04Speaker 1: who are getting upset at him, go look at his
- 25:07Speaker 1: other stuff. This is what he does. If you're going
- 25:10Speaker 1: to be mad at somebody, be mad at SNL. Well,
- 25:14Speaker 1: I saw him host the roast of Kevin Hart. I
- 25:17Speaker 1: thought that was great. And then he hosted the ESPY Awards.
- 25:21Speaker 1: I thought that was great. So you're a big fan.
- 25:24Speaker 3: Not going to say that, Larry.
- 25:25Speaker 1: No, you are. You're a big fan. You've always liked him.
- 25:27Speaker 1: You love the impression he did.
- 25:29Speaker 3: Oh, yes. Of me, of course. If it's about me, yes.
- 25:32Speaker 4: But I'm not answering questions about what he said.
- 25:37Speaker 1: So what did you think about what he said?
- 25:39Speaker 3: You didn't play the whole thing.
- 25:40Speaker 4: So, Larry, because you decided to actually take out the
- 25:45Speaker 4: straight edge razor and eliminate some of the more controversial
- 25:49Speaker 4: elements of what he said, I recuse myself.
- 25:52Speaker 1: Well, would you like me? I'll do it, but this
- 25:54Speaker 1: is only because you're telling me to.
- 25:57Speaker 3: I'm forcing you. I'm forcing you.
- 25:59Speaker 1: You would like to hear the whole thing.
- 26:00Speaker 13: Also, I haven't been to the gym in so long,
- 26:02Speaker 13: I didn't know women just dress like whores now. Look,
- 26:06Speaker 13: I'm sorry. There's no other way to describe it. I said,
- 26:09Speaker 13: have you seen it? I've seen the shorts. Have you
- 26:12Speaker 13: seen the shorts? Those neon, they're like the only, they're
- 26:15Speaker 13: like artificial bait colored.
- 26:20Speaker 3: The wrinkles go like.
- 26:20Speaker 13: Around the cheeks and all combine at the butthole.
- 26:24Speaker 4: Is there any time for Natalie Migliore to come in?
- 26:30Speaker 4: We're talking about Kelly Clarkson and a battle with that
- 26:33Speaker 4: little shop on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.
- 26:36Speaker 1: I just, just for the record, I didn't want to
- 26:39Speaker 1: play that. I played it because Curtis forced me to
- 26:41Speaker 1: play that. And he's a huge fan. And if you
- 26:45Speaker 1: want to comment from Curtis, how do they get hold
- 26:47Speaker 1: of you? How do they get hold of you? Do
- 26:52Speaker 1: you have the number?
- 26:53Speaker 3: I do not know. Don't worry about it, Larry. Call
- 26:59Speaker 3: Larry Menti.
- 27:00Speaker 4: Get a comment from Larry Menti, Shane Gillis' number one fan.
- 27:06Speaker 1: Well, we already talked about Natalie Migliore. She's coming up
- 27:09Speaker 1: next with her Beat on the Street.
- 27:11Speaker 12: Fruits and vegetables ground into capsules so you can get
- 27:14Speaker 12: the most out of each.
- 27:16Speaker 13: Now, it's 710WOR' s Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
- 27:23Speaker 4: Well, Natalie, from the streets to the suites, this reminds
- 27:28Speaker 4: me of what's going on with the Hollywood trendoid Kelly
- 27:32Speaker 4: Clarkson and these guys and gals who own this little shop,
- 27:37Speaker 4: mom and pop shop on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. She
- 27:41Speaker 4: is relentless in terms of her pounding them on her
- 27:45Speaker 4: social media.
- 27:46Speaker 3: What gives?
- 27:47Speaker 9: Okay, well, if you haven't heard about Kelly Clarkson fighting
- 27:51Speaker 9: with a Brooklyn.
- 27:51Speaker 10: Store over a singing bird, let me fill you in
- 27:55Speaker 10: since you've been gone. Okay, we're going to be rolling.
- 27:58Speaker 10: Do you know since you've been gone the songs?
- 28:00Speaker 6: No?
- 28:00Speaker 1: Okay, that's one of her songs.
- 28:01Speaker 3: I got it.
- 28:02Speaker 9: Thank you.
- 28:03Speaker 3: Good, Chris. Good contribution there.
- 28:06Speaker 9: Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this
- 28:10Speaker 9: to buy a $ 15, 000 automated bird from From a store
- 28:14Speaker 9: in Brooklyn, apparently Kelly Clarkson's been waiting too. Are people
- 28:18Speaker 9: seeing this story?
- 28:20Speaker 1: I've heard about it and I like Kelly Clarkson, so
- 28:24Speaker 1: I tend to trust her.
- 28:25Speaker 14: I'm surprised that she would take that tactic. And it
- 28:29Speaker 14: was a back and forth. No one was giving up.
- 28:32Speaker 14: So hopefully they'll resolve it.
- 28:33Speaker 15: Probably going to go down a whole rabbit hole now
- 28:35Speaker 15: because I saw people talking about Kelly Clarkson for a little,
- 28:38Speaker 15: but I was like, oh, I kind of didn't think
- 28:40Speaker 15: anything of it.
- 28:41Speaker 9: It's been days and the sparring on social media has
- 28:46Speaker 9: not stopped. The singer alleges she walked into the store
- 28:50Speaker 9: and one of the employee's offered or allegedly insinuated she
- 28:56Speaker 9: couldn't afford the piece of art and then offered her
- 29:00Speaker 9: a cheaper option.
- 29:01Speaker 4: Okay?
- 29:02Speaker 9: It was a bird that was affixed to the wall
- 29:07Speaker 9: that we've seen pictures of it now that.
- 29:11Speaker 10: Stuff comes out of its mouth.
- 29:14Speaker 1: I guess.
- 29:14Speaker 3: Its beak. Its beak.
- 29:16Speaker 5: Okay?
- 29:17Speaker 9: After taking to social media, the store said the bird.
- 29:22Speaker 10: I don't know how to explain it.
- 29:23Speaker 1: The description is so good. I can almost see it.
- 29:26Speaker 9: Well, you know, it's like I actually sat on a
- 29:29Speaker 9: bench the other day in New York City and looked
- 29:31Speaker 9: over and it looked like one of the birds that landed.
- 29:35Speaker 3: Across... It looks like a real bird.
- 29:37Speaker 10: It looks like a bird, but it's just sitting on
- 29:39Speaker 10: a wall. And so.
- 29:43Speaker 9: The store said the bird is literally built into the wall,
- 29:47Speaker 9: and they wouldn't be able to sell it. But Kelly
- 29:50Speaker 9: Clarkson's like, no, because of you, I can't have this
- 29:54Speaker 9: singing bird. And what do people think about how social media...
- 29:58Speaker 9: comes into this.
- 30:00Speaker 14: I'm just surprised that she didn't go directly to the
- 30:04Speaker 14: owner and say, look, this is what happened. And instead
- 30:09Speaker 14: of going on social media, it doesn't seem like that's
- 30:12Speaker 14: something Kelly would do.
- 30:13Speaker 15: I think it's interesting just like fighting over social media.
- 30:16Speaker 15: Like for me, I'm just like, that's I feel like
- 30:18Speaker 15: something we shouldn't do.
- 30:19Speaker 3: Like, Is that serious?
- 30:20Speaker 10: Let's take it out in person.
- 30:21Speaker 15: You know, because I feel like it just makes everyone
- 30:23Speaker 15: look bad in the end, fighting it out over social media.
- 30:26Speaker 5: I think they wanted it handled on social media to
- 30:28Speaker 5: get their name out there so more people would come
- 30:30Speaker 5: to them.
- 30:31Speaker 1: I love that you acted out Kelly Clarkson. We're going
- 30:35Speaker 1: to get cameras in here pretty soon. And people have
- 30:38Speaker 1: to watch just for your segment.
- 30:39Speaker 3: I know.
- 30:40Speaker 1: Because you were extremely animated.
- 30:42Speaker 3: Oh, you would have won American Idol with that.
- 30:44Speaker 1: Thank you. It was really good.
- 30:46Speaker 10: American Idol. Thank you. So did she.
- 30:48Speaker 9: Okay, well, the store has said they're receiving a ton
- 30:52Speaker 9: of backlash. But what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
- 30:55Speaker 13: Okay?
- 30:56Speaker 10: They've now bumped the price up.
- 30:58Speaker 9: From $ 15, 000, that's what this bird had cost, to $ 15 million.
- 31:04Speaker 8: She could afford it.
- 31:04Speaker 1: It could go to so many other things that would
- 31:07Speaker 1: be better for society.
- 31:09Speaker 10: That's insane.
- 31:11Speaker 3: There's just no words for that.
- 31:13Speaker 14: Oh my gosh.
- 31:15Speaker 13: Well, if somebody wants a $ 15 million bird, then I
- 31:18Speaker 13: guess they can have a $ 15 million bird.
- 31:20Speaker 9: The consensus is that The store is sort of proving
- 31:23Speaker 9: its point that the bird is not for sale. In
- 31:25Speaker 9: a sense, that's what people were kind of saying on
- 31:27Speaker 9: the street. But a video of the whole encounter was released.
- 31:32Speaker 9: And behind these hazel eyes, I see Miss Independent walking
- 31:36Speaker 9: in the store by herself. Wearing a pretty baggy outfit,
- 31:41Speaker 9: she was in a bright yellow shirt, much like the
- 31:43Speaker 9: other people in the crowded store.
- 31:44Speaker 10: She's not dressed much differently than the people in the store.
- 31:48Speaker 9: It only lasts a few minutes, and by the time
- 31:50Speaker 9: Clarkson makes her way through the store, she's by the door, she.
- 31:54Speaker 10: Has her piece, and then she's already gone.
- 31:57Speaker 1: Right now, it's really difficult to be a happy customer.
- 32:01Speaker 1: in a lot of places. But at the same time,
- 32:04Speaker 1: the staff are trained to do what the staff are
- 32:06Speaker 1: trained to do, so it's hard to know.
- 32:07Speaker 14: I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with Kelly Clarkson
- 32:09Speaker 14: because you just get the impression when you walk into
- 32:12Speaker 14: certain places that they judge you by what you're wearing.
- 32:15Speaker 8: You don't know what my tax return looks like. You
- 32:17Speaker 8: have no idea how much money I make.
- 32:18Speaker 5: So I'm going with Kelly Clarkson. Depends on where you go.
- 32:21Speaker 5: I think you see it. You hope you don't see it,
- 32:23Speaker 5: but yeah, if you don't look a certain way or
- 32:25Speaker 5: dress a certain way, people are going to look at
- 32:27Speaker 5: you down and that you're not worthy or something.
- 32:31Speaker 9: It speaks to the reputation she's built with the public.
- 32:34Speaker 9: It speaks to this reputation that people trust her. She's
- 32:38Speaker 9: this Southern charm. You could see it.
- 32:41Speaker 1: And people in Hollywood are standing up for her, too,
- 32:43Speaker 1: saying she's the nicest person in the world. She would
- 32:45Speaker 1: never act like that. They want to come on her show.
- 32:47Speaker 4: You know, every time they want to promote a.
- 32:49Speaker 1: Song or promote a movie. I'm not sure they're dying
- 32:51Speaker 1: to get on the Kelly Clarkson show.
- 32:53Speaker 10: She's supposed to be leaving the show.
- 32:54Speaker 3: Right, but... Yeah.
- 32:56Speaker 4: They, the owners and operators who are like geeks, these
- 33:00Speaker 4: guys and gals, you know, it's a very niche thing.
- 33:03Speaker 3: They've said the woman makes these things in Seattle.
- 33:07Speaker 4: Yeah. They would put her in touch with the woman
- 33:09Speaker 4: and she could customize it. But they weren't going to
- 33:12Speaker 4: sell the one they had. Hey, Kelly, doesn't matter who
- 33:15Speaker 4: the hell you are. It ain't for sale.
- 33:17Speaker 5: Diva.
- 33:18Speaker 1: Here's how it's going to end. Kelly Clarkson's going to
- 33:21Speaker 1: go back there. They're going to take pictures together. Everything
- 33:24Speaker 1: is nice. She's going to give money to charity and
- 33:26Speaker 1: it'll all go away. It'll have a nice, happy ending.
- 33:29Speaker 1: I'm sure her publicist is telling her that right now.
- 33:32Speaker 1: She's going to support a bird sanctuary. Maybe something like that.
- 33:35Speaker 9: You know, no matter how this ends, I made seven
- 33:38Speaker 9: Kelly Clarkson song references.
- 33:40Speaker 3: I heard them.
- 33:41Speaker 1: I don't know if I caught all seven, but yeah,
- 33:43Speaker 1: that was really good.
- 33:44Speaker 12: Yes.
- 33:45Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 33:45Speaker 1: Leave us a talk back. If you caught all seven
- 33:47Speaker 1: of the references.
- 33:49Speaker 4: Natalie Migliore will join us tomorrow, same time, same place.
- 33:53Speaker 4: Up next, Cornell and now Chicago University. But first, the
- 33:58Speaker 4: news at 8.