Latest / Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning / Hour 1: Future of Horse-Drawn Carriages
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Well, Natalie away. She has fatigue.
- 0:04Speaker 2: No, actually, she's doing marathon preparation because November 1st, you
- 0:09Speaker 2: and Natalie will be there like all day for the
- 0:12Speaker 2: New York City Marathon, which is a great event. So naturally,
- 0:17Speaker 2: when Natalie is not available, who is ready and able...
- 0:23Speaker 2: But the quiet storm and rarely says anything. Chris, on
- 0:27Speaker 2: loan from the Mark Simone Show.
- 0:28Speaker 1: This is amazing. You're with us again. I'm with you again.
- 0:31Speaker 1: Good morning. Good morning. Yeah. What's on your mind today?
- 0:36Speaker 1: Nothing but it's Friday, so there's not much coasting.
- 0:39Speaker 2: I'm always going, oh, man, this guy is like, you're
- 0:42Speaker 2: so bland. If we had to depend on you, we'd
- 0:46Speaker 2: all have to go out and get jobs hanging wallpaper.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Wow.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Do you realize you're devoid of any personality?
- 0:54Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm aware. It's been like that my whole life.
- 0:57Speaker 3: I'm aware.
- 0:58Speaker 1: You're okay with it, right?
- 0:59Speaker 4: Eh.
- 1:00Speaker 1: I mean, you know, what am I going to do?
- 1:02Speaker 5: I'm 29.
- 1:02Speaker 1: I can't really change it. Oh, yes, you can. Grab
- 1:06Speaker 1: hold of your life. Make some major changes. Come on,
- 1:10Speaker 1: let's start right now. Okay. So go ahead.
- 1:12Speaker 6: Tell us what you think is the biggest issue in
- 1:15Speaker 6: the country right now.
- 1:17Speaker 1: Throw me on the spot. I think I'll pass on
- 1:19Speaker 1: that one. Look at that, see?
- 1:21Speaker 2: And you're involved in talk radio. Did you ever hear that?
- 1:24Speaker 2: I'll take a pass on that. Boy, you're like Dr.
- 1:28Speaker 1: Fauci.
- 1:28Speaker 2: You take the Fifth Amendment on everything.
- 1:32Speaker 1: But anyway, Larry, you know what took place yesterday.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Oh, man, the lead story of almost every local newscast
- 1:40Speaker 2: was the passage of the bill that eliminates the horse
- 1:45Speaker 2: carriage industry in 2028.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Now, the opposition, John Samuelson of.
- 1:50Speaker 2: TWU, local 100, you know, we're still going to federal court.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, windbag. But it's pretty much a
- 1:59Speaker 1: fait accompli.
- 2:01Speaker 2: And I know there was a lot of interest in
- 2:03Speaker 2: terms of how I would be treated.
- 2:07Speaker 1: But I'm not telling you right now. Okay.
- 2:09Speaker 2: I'm going to keep you all wondering.
- 2:12Speaker 6: Well, I was watching the local newscast just to see you.
- 2:16Speaker 6: Because you said yesterday, if they don't treat me well,
- 2:20Speaker 6: I'm going to make a ruckus.
- 2:21Speaker 1: Yes. Like if they don't acknowledge you and if they
- 2:24Speaker 1: don't let you inside, you're going to make a ruckus.
- 2:26Speaker 1: I love that word, by the way, ruckus. And so
- 2:29Speaker 1: I was looking on television for the ruckus.
- 2:32Speaker 6: I'm thinking to myself, oh, my God, this is going
- 2:33Speaker 6: to be great.
- 2:34Speaker 2: And, you know, I always deliver on those kind of promises.
- 2:36Speaker 6: I know, and I don't want to give away too much,
- 2:39Speaker 6: but apparently you didn't have to.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Well, let's just tell you that my wife was with me, Nancy,
- 2:43Speaker 2: because obviously she's involved in animal welfare and protecting the horses,
- 2:48Speaker 2: free the horses. And she said to me at the start,
- 2:52Speaker 2: you know, Curtis, I've been with you at a lot
- 2:54Speaker 2: of events. I've never seen you more mistreated. And that's
- 2:58Speaker 2: saying a lot in 10 years of our relationship.
- 3:01Speaker 1: Wow. It was not a good start.
- 3:05Speaker 2: But, you know, right now, I'm not going to talk
- 3:07Speaker 2: about it because there is something that is more of
- 3:12Speaker 2: a disgracia and a shanda than even this. In my household,
- 3:16Speaker 2: in so many households, Friday was pizza day. You know,
- 3:20Speaker 2: whether your mom or dad got a frozen pizza or
- 3:23Speaker 2: you went to a local mom and pop pizzeria, now
- 3:25Speaker 2: they have all these cardboard cutouts You know, franchise pizzas, which, well,
- 3:30Speaker 2: I guess if you're going to do it, you're going
- 3:32Speaker 2: to do it. But it always was a tradition. Friday
- 3:35Speaker 2: was the big pizza day. And one thing I felt,
- 3:39Speaker 2: there was a recent poll, and normally when they do
- 3:41Speaker 2: polls about pizzerias and even like Portnoy has one of his–
- 3:47Speaker 2: attributes as he goes around testing pizzas at pizzerias.
- 3:51Speaker 1: People love it. Yeah, he can make or break a place.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Yeah, it's my favorite food. So I'm looking at this
- 3:57Speaker 2: recent list. Okay, they have New York City first.
- 4:00Speaker 1: All right. Jersey second.
- 4:02Speaker 2: All right.
- 4:03Speaker 1: And then I said, well, where's Connecticut?
- 4:05Speaker 7: 16th.
- 4:09Speaker 2: And I'm saying to myself, what? And I'm looking, Texas, Missouri, Oregon,
- 4:14Speaker 2: you don't go there for pizza. We're rated ahead of them. 16th. Now,
- 4:19Speaker 2: for many of our listeners, they know when you cross
- 4:22Speaker 2: over from the New York State border, as I have
- 4:24Speaker 2: many times going in in Connecticut, right along I-95.
- 4:28Speaker 1: Entering Greenwich, you know, very trendy Greenwich from New York.
- 4:31Speaker 2: There's a big sign that says, welcome to Connecticut, home
- 4:36Speaker 2: of the pizza capital of the USA. And likewise on
- 4:40Speaker 2: I-84 when you're entering Danbury from New York.
- 4:43Speaker 1: They've earned that. Yeah, they have that. They have that
- 4:46Speaker 1: ultra thin coal or brick. oven pizza. Yes.
- 4:51Speaker 6: That, what do they call it? There's a name for it.
- 4:53Speaker 1: A pizza. Napolitano. A beets. A beets, yeah. Thank you.
- 4:58Speaker 1: Thank you for the, here's a German-Irish guy correcting me.
- 5:03Speaker 1: That is the correct pronunciation. Thank you for that.
- 5:06Speaker 2: But if you've ever been to Little Italy in New Haven,
- 5:10Speaker 2: it's right before you hit the interstate, there is a place,
- 5:13Speaker 2: Worcester Street, in Worcester Square, They got like the three
- 5:17Speaker 2: pillars of some of the best pizza in the world.
- 5:19Speaker 2: And I've had it all over the world, especially in
- 5:21Speaker 2: Italy itself. And I mean, they're not even rated Connecticut.
- 5:25Speaker 2: There's Frank Pepe's Pizzeria Napolitano.
- 5:28Speaker 1: There's Sally's. What is that? You say a pizza? What
- 5:31Speaker 1: is it? A beets. A beets. And modern.
- 5:33Speaker 2: A beets. Those are just three of the many. Connecticut
- 5:38Speaker 2: is rated 16th. So I said, who did this survey? Because,
- 5:42Speaker 2: you know, these are like polls. There were these instant
- 5:45Speaker 2: pop-up surveys. A survey by Maine Lobster. Now, I understand
- 5:53Speaker 2: that maybe Platner needs new work. You know, the oyster
- 5:56Speaker 2: guy who got washed out in the Senate race.
- 5:58Speaker 1: You know, lobsters.
- 6:00Speaker 2: What the hell would you have a site called Maine
- 6:02Speaker 2: Lobster rating pizzerias and All throughout the country, from California
- 6:07Speaker 2: to New York, from Texas, right on up to Maine.
- 6:10Speaker 1: Where was New Jersey on the list?
- 6:12Speaker 2: Two.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Number two. Which I accept, too. Absolutely. New York City.
- 6:15Speaker 2: But always, and look, I'm the New York guy. You know,
- 6:19Speaker 2: my favorite, I just did a barstool thing just on
- 6:22Speaker 2: food in the tri-state area. Stromboli's on First Avenue in St. Mark's,
- 6:27Speaker 2: owned by the Albanians. Albanians, Montenegrins own most of the
- 6:31Speaker 2: pizzerias now. I lived on that for a year in
- 6:34Speaker 2: the 80s. And then there's, you got to be careful
- 6:37Speaker 2: here because it's, the pizzeria has competition. They all have competitions.
- 6:43Speaker 2: There's like battles all the time. The original pizza on
- 6:46Speaker 2: Avenue L. This is another original pizza on Ralph Avenue.
- 6:50Speaker 2: Not the same. And today, my number three, New Park Pizzeria,
- 6:55Speaker 2: which was the victim of pizza war, a van went
- 6:59Speaker 2: right through this side on Cross Bay Boulevard. They're reopening today.
- 7:03Speaker 2: That's part of the pizza wars. They go to war
- 7:05Speaker 2: against one another.
- 7:06Speaker 1: I love New Jersey pizza. There's a place in Edgewater
- 7:10Speaker 1: called Al's Sourdough Pizza. Oh, my God.
- 7:15Speaker 6: It was the best pizza I ever had. I love
- 7:17Speaker 6: sourdough bread, and I love sourdough. So, man, was that good.
- 7:21Speaker 6: But I have been to about four or five pizza
- 7:24Speaker 6: places in New Jersey that I would put in the
- 7:28Speaker 6: top ten of any list in the country.
- 7:31Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, especially along the shore. You find out
- 7:33Speaker 2: a lot of those pizzerias originally were in Newark. You know,
- 7:37Speaker 2: North Ward, Newark, Bloomfield Avenue, St. Lucie's, the Italian section,
- 7:43Speaker 2: and actually as their client's. move to the Jersey Shore.
- 7:46Speaker 2: They move their business to the Jersey Shore. The one
- 7:49Speaker 2: that's famous is Raza. Yeah.
- 7:51Speaker 6: Raza in Jersey City. That's the one they talk about nationally. Look,
- 7:55Speaker 6: I love the pizza in New Jersey. I've never had
- 7:58Speaker 6: a bad slice there.
- 7:59Speaker 1: In New Jersey.
- 8:00Speaker 2: But not to have I mean, Connecticut and especially the
- 8:05Speaker 2: little Italy there on Worcester Square, Worcester Street.
- 8:09Speaker 1: I mean, that's incredible, the pizza there. I agree. I've
- 8:12Speaker 1: never had pizza in Connecticut.
- 8:14Speaker 6: I've been to Connecticut several times. I've just never had
- 8:16Speaker 6: pizza there. But I've heard people rave about it. And
- 8:20Speaker 6: by the way, on some lists, it was number one.
- 8:23Speaker 6: So to be number 16 is kind of ridiculous.
- 8:26Speaker 1: Oh, come on.
- 8:27Speaker 2: Behind Wyoming, Idaho, you know, places that don't even know
- 8:31Speaker 2: what pizza is. But. How can people weigh in on
- 8:34Speaker 2: this fact of life here, which for many of us
- 8:37Speaker 2: is very important, Pizza Day on Friday?
- 8:39Speaker 6: I would imagine everybody has a favorite pizza. And there's
- 8:44Speaker 6: probably some places that are incredible that we don't know about.
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- 9:18Speaker 2: Now let me teach you a trick. You're paying attention, Chris.
- 9:21Speaker 2: You're taking notes. You can do this at any local
- 9:24Speaker 2: mom and pop pizzeria. Friday is your busiest day. They
- 9:28Speaker 2: usually have some young Italian stallion, or they even have
- 9:31Speaker 2: Mexicans now. It took me a while to get used
- 9:33Speaker 2: to Mexicans making pizza, but they're not too bad. So
- 9:36Speaker 2: they're twirling it up, and all the girls are looking.
- 9:40Speaker 2: So I walk in Friday about 5, 6 o'clock. You know,
- 9:43Speaker 2: that's when they're busiest. And I said, hey, Salvin Jens,
- 9:47Speaker 2: do me a favor. I got no time here. Just
- 9:51Speaker 2: take that sliced pizza. You know, they keep it in
- 9:53Speaker 2: trays underneath because they just use it. I don't want
- 9:56Speaker 2: you to warm it up in the oven. Here's 20
- 9:59Speaker 2: for the pie, and I'll give you another 10 because
- 10:01Speaker 2: you're going out of your way for me.
- 10:03Speaker 1: Just put it in the box. I got to go. Sorry, Mr. Sliwa,
- 10:06Speaker 1: I can't do that. What do you mean? I'm a
- 10:09Speaker 1: good customer. You see me from time to time. I know, Mr.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Sliwa, but I can't do that. What do you mean
- 10:14Speaker 2: you can't do it? Just take the sliced pie. You
- 10:18Speaker 2: don't even have to heat it up. Here's 20 for
- 10:20Speaker 2: the pie, 10 for you.
- 10:22Speaker 1: Put it in the box. I got to go.
- 10:23Speaker 2: Can't do that. And you know why, Chris and Larry?
- 10:27Speaker 2: Because for years they used technology. They told us you
- 10:31Speaker 2: get more value with a box pie. You know, they'll
- 10:34Speaker 2: make a whole pie for you, put it in the box. Hey,
- 10:36Speaker 2: you get more value than the slice. Turns out the
- 10:39Speaker 2: slice pie is bigger. So if they were to take
- 10:43Speaker 2: the slice pie and put it in the box, they
- 10:45Speaker 2: can't close the box because it's flapping over on the sides. Mm-hmm.
- 10:49Speaker 2: So I got to tell you, whether they're Montenegrins, they're Albanians,
- 10:53Speaker 2: or they're crazed Italians, you know, like Mr. Bacigalup from
- 10:57Speaker 2: the old Abbott and Costello show, they go nuts on me.
- 11:01Speaker 2: They say, why are you giving away our trade secrets?
- 11:04Speaker 1: Now they have those boxes that are fit for slices.
- 11:07Speaker 1: Have you seen them? They had little boxes that are triangles.
- 11:10Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 11:12Speaker 1: Thanks for agreeing, Chris. That was very good. I've never
- 11:14Speaker 1: seen them before. That was excellent. Thank you. Appreciate it.
- 11:16Speaker 1: That's amazing, Chris. I'm actually waiting on that. He said, uh-huh,
- 11:22Speaker 1: which was wonderful.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, my wife, Nancy, all Polish, right,
- 11:27Speaker 2: to get through Stony Brook because she didn't come from
- 11:29Speaker 2: a family of wealth. She had to make 400 pizzas
- 11:34Speaker 2: a day for the kids. Oh, that's wonderful. But remember,
- 11:38Speaker 2: starting out overnight, you got to put the yeast in,
- 11:42Speaker 2: the dough's got to raise, you got to pound it,
- 11:44Speaker 2: you got to throw it in the air. Naturally, you
- 11:46Speaker 2: got all kinds of baking paraphernalia all over you. 400
- 11:52Speaker 2: a day and you're all Polish and you know how
- 11:55Speaker 2: to make pizza.
- 11:56Speaker 6: I'll tell you what, when we come back, you know
- 11:59Speaker 6: how there's some actors that never get the starring roles,
- 12:02Speaker 6: but you know them and you love them. And every
- 12:04Speaker 6: time you see them, you go, he's good. Well, one
- 12:08Speaker 6: of them died. Tom Skerritt, an incredible actor. If the
- 12:13Speaker 6: name doesn't jump out to you, we'll go through some
- 12:16Speaker 6: of his roles and you're going to know who he is.
- 12:19Speaker 6: We'll talk about that. Plus, You got a chance to
- 12:21Speaker 6: see Journey at age 25. Ah, we lost a great actor.
- 12:26Speaker 6: Actor Tom Skerritt has died at the age of 93. Now,
- 12:31Speaker 6: if you're saying who, well, you're going to know him.
- 12:34Speaker 6: From Alien, remember he was the commander in Alien, on
- 12:37Speaker 6: Top Gun, Picket Fences. The Picket Fences was when, I
- 12:42Speaker 6: think that was one of his few lead roles in
- 12:46Speaker 6: the series Picket Fences. But I think he's best known
- 12:50Speaker 6: as Commander Mike Viper Metcalf. Remember Viper in Top Gun?
- 12:56Speaker 6: He was the guy that was overseeing all the Top
- 12:58Speaker 6: Gun candidates, and he saw something special in Maverick, Tom
- 13:02Speaker 6: Cruise's character.
- 13:04Speaker 1: Now, this is the scene I'm.
- 13:05Speaker 6: Going to play for you at the end of the movie,
- 13:08Speaker 6: near the end of the movie. This is after Goose dies,
- 13:12Speaker 6: and Maverick, Tom Cruise's character takes responsibility for that. He
- 13:17Speaker 6: thinks it was his fault. And he's talking about either
- 13:21Speaker 6: moving on or quitting. And he's, he really believes he's
- 13:25Speaker 6: going to quit. And he talks to Tom Skerritt about it.
- 13:27Speaker 7: So you think I should quit?
- 13:29Speaker 1: I didn't say that.
- 13:32Speaker 3: The simple fact is you feel responsible for Goose.
- 13:35Speaker 5: And you have a confidence problem.
- 13:39Speaker 3: Now I'm not going to sit here and blow sunshine
- 13:41Speaker 3: up your ass for 10 A good pilot is compelled
- 13:44Speaker 3: to always evaluate what's happened so he can apply what he's.
- 13:50Speaker 4: Learned.
- 13:51Speaker 1: Up there, we gotta push.
- 13:54Speaker 6: It.
- 13:54Speaker 1: That's our job.
- 13:58Speaker 2: It's your option, Lieutenant.
- 14:00Speaker 5: All yours.
- 14:02Speaker 1: It was a great scene.
- 14:04Speaker 6: It was one of the pinnacle scenes in the movie
- 14:06Speaker 6: when he had to decide what he was going to do.
- 14:09Speaker 6: Tom Skerritt went on to talk about a time when
- 14:11Speaker 6: he had a similar situation in his career and how
- 14:14Speaker 6: he moved on. But Tom Skerritt, when you look at him,
- 14:20Speaker 6: you think of an authoritative figure. That's almost all the
- 14:23Speaker 6: roles he played was as an authoritative figure anyway. Tom
- 14:27Speaker 6: Skerritt now dead at the age of 93.
- 14:29Speaker 2: So when we talk to our movie reviewer, Joe Neumeier,
- 14:34Speaker 2: In the 8 o'clock hour, was he going to sit
- 14:36Speaker 2: shiver for his passing? Let me see this. Viper and
- 14:39Speaker 2: Top Gun. Okay, I remember that. Captain and the Alien. M.A.S.H.,
- 14:44Speaker 2: Steel Magnolias. The guy was in some of the biggest
- 14:47Speaker 2: box office matches of all time.
- 14:49Speaker 6: And never the lead. That's what's amazing. Picket Fences he
- 14:52Speaker 6: was the lead in.
- 14:52Speaker 1: But a very handsome man.
- 14:54Speaker 6: He was a very handsome man, and he was an
- 14:56Speaker 6: authoritative figure, and you could rely on him. All the
- 15:00Speaker 6: things you read about. He came to the set prepared.
- 15:03Speaker 6: He knew what the character was. The directors didn't have
- 15:05Speaker 6: to pay. Which is what directors love. Actors that you
- 15:08Speaker 6: don't have to spend a lot of time with, especially
- 15:11Speaker 6: when they're not the leads.
- 15:12Speaker 2: Yep.
- 15:13Speaker 1: Now let's get some talk back. You want to talk
- 15:15Speaker 1: about what else? Pizza.
- 15:17Speaker 7: Good morning, Larry and Curtis. Thank you, Curtis, because Worcester
- 15:19Speaker 7: Street is the home of a coal-fired pizza. And Sal
- 15:24Speaker 7: and Flo, the original owners of Sally's, is the best
- 15:27Speaker 7: pizza in the world. And Frank Pepe down the street,
- 15:30Speaker 7: which his family is known for the clam pie. Great
- 15:33Speaker 7: to hear that.
- 15:33Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, everybody. Yeah, see, I haven't been
- 15:37Speaker 1: to Sally's in Worcester Square, Worcester Street. He's right. I
- 15:40Speaker 1: got it.
- 15:40Speaker 2: Next time I'm there. It's the one I haven't been to.
- 15:43Speaker 2: But notice how he's a cognoscente right away. Yeah. How
- 15:47Speaker 2: do you leave off Connecticut of the list of having
- 15:50Speaker 2: the best pizzerias in the country and then rate them 16th?
- 15:56Speaker 5: Maine's got a sandy crotch about Connecticut because Connecticut eats
- 15:59Speaker 5: their lobster hot with butter. Now, Maine, you know, they're
- 16:04Speaker 5: salad people. They put the mayonnaise and all that.
- 16:07Speaker 1: Crap on it. So that's the problem. That's why we're
- 16:11Speaker 1: 16th in their heart. Now, hold on a second. I've
- 16:14Speaker 1: never heard that term. They've got a Sandy crush. That
- 16:18Speaker 1: is so perfect. That's a perfect term.
- 16:22Speaker 2: But speaking of mayonnaise, there was a time you went
- 16:26Speaker 2: into a deli, am I correct there, Mr.
- 16:28Speaker 1: Irish German, when you wanted what? Was it mayonnaise on
- 16:32Speaker 1: a pastrami sandwich?
- 16:34Speaker 6: We wanted mayonnaise on everything. Mayonnaise is the best thing
- 16:37Speaker 6: ever invented. I used to eat mayonnaise sandwiches, just mayonnaise.
- 16:41Speaker 6: Mayonnaise sandwich.
- 16:42Speaker 1: Oh, I loved it. I loved it. I can take
- 16:44Speaker 1: a scoop of mayonnaise tomorrow. Really? Yeah.
- 16:47Speaker 2: Wow.
- 16:48Speaker 1: But that's so German. You know, mayonnaise.
- 16:50Speaker 2: German.
- 16:51Speaker 1: You've stuck to your roots. I didn't even know it.
- 16:55Speaker 1: I just liked it. You didn't have mayonnaise on pizza,
- 16:59Speaker 1: I hope.
- 16:59Speaker 5: No.
- 16:59Speaker 2: Like some have guacamole and they have pineapple.
- 17:04Speaker 1: My God, that's West Coast stuff. That pizza is the worst.
- 17:07Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, I've had pineapple on pizza and actually liked it.
- 17:11Speaker 6: So I don't mean to add to your list. One
- 17:14Speaker 6: more on pizza.
- 17:15Speaker 3: I am distraught because the best margarita pizza or any
- 17:20Speaker 3: other pizza I.
- 17:21Speaker 2: Ever have eaten was Mamalina's. And they just closed.
- 17:26Speaker 4: Everyone that came to visit me, I ordered a giant pizza, margherita,
- 17:30Speaker 4: and any other kind, mushroom, pepperoni, the works.
- 17:34Speaker 2: Mama Lina's, where did you go? Where did you go?
- 17:37Speaker 6: They were originally from Naples, Italiano.
- 17:41Speaker 1: Ah, Napolitano.
- 17:42Speaker 2: That's where basically the pizza we're used to came from,
- 17:46Speaker 2: the Naples area of Italy.
- 17:48Speaker 1: It's hard now.
- 17:50Speaker 2: With everything going up, the cost of labor, everything up,
- 17:53Speaker 2: it's very difficult. Notice how a slice keeps going.
- 17:56Speaker 1: Up, up, and up.
- 17:57Speaker 2: You say, well, from dough, cheese, and sauce, and I'm
- 18:02Speaker 2: paying like eight bucks here for a slice? The expenses
- 18:05Speaker 2: of running a small mom-and-pop pizzeria have skyrocketed.
- 18:09Speaker 1: She's right, though.
- 18:10Speaker 6: Margarita pizzas are the best pizza. I love margarita pizzas.
- 18:14Speaker 6: Now let's get to Daria Albinger with the 630 News.
- 18:16Speaker 1: Good morning, Daria. Good morning, guys.
- 18:17Speaker 4: You ever got to New Haven to get a slice
- 18:19Speaker 4: of margarita pizza at Frank's a Pizza?
- 18:22Speaker 1: It's good. In Connecticut. In Connecticut, yeah.
- 18:25Speaker 2: So you agree with me that, you know, they kept
- 18:27Speaker 2: Connecticut off the list of the best pizzerias. And I said,
- 18:29Speaker 2: all you got to do is go on Worcester Street,
- 18:31Speaker 2: Worcester Square, you get the.
- 18:32Speaker 1: Best pizza in the world. You know what? It's a
- 18:34Speaker 1: little bit– it's different.
- 18:35Speaker 4: I always said, you know, my husband and I fight
- 18:37Speaker 4: about this all the time because he's from Brooklyn. New
- 18:40Speaker 4: Haven pizza is different than New York pizza. Pizza is
- 18:43Speaker 4: good wherever, you know, well, not wherever it's from, but this.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Is really good. It's worth the trip.
- 18:47Speaker 2: Absolutely. You tell your husband he's from Brooklyn. I'm from Brooklyn.
- 18:50Speaker 2: I prefer the New Haven pizza. I grew up on
- 18:53Speaker 2: pizza in Brooklyn.
- 18:54Speaker 4: I will tell him that, Curtis. If it comes from you,
- 18:56Speaker 4: it's got to have some creds behind it. Sunny and
- 18:58Speaker 4: cooler today with a high of 58 degrees. Reduced charges
- 19:01Speaker 4: for a retired NYPD detective accused in the deadly drive-by
- 19:06Speaker 4: shooting on the GWB. He now faces manslaughter, not murder charges.
- 19:10Speaker 3: Zariah Irvin, the sister of the victim Karan Irvin, spoke
- 19:14Speaker 3: after the arraignment of Victor Romero.
- 19:16Speaker 2: Recklessness and ego of the road ranger to take my
- 19:19Speaker 2: brother's life. And not only take my brother's life, he
- 19:22Speaker 2: could have had major fatalities after my brother with that crash.
- 19:26Speaker 3: Bail was set at $ 1 million. Keith White, an attorney
- 19:29Speaker 3: for the Irvin family, claims the retired cop is receiving
- 19:32Speaker 3: preferential treatment as court officers ushered him into the courthouse
- 19:36Speaker 3: through the back to avoid TV cameras. Lisa Salvati, WOR News.
- 19:41Speaker 4: A 17-year-old is charged with murder in a fatal shooting
- 19:44Speaker 4: on an E-train platform last weekend. Police believe the incident
- 19:47Speaker 4: began with a fight over smoking marijuana.
- 19:50Speaker 1: On a train.
- 19:51Speaker 4: City councils voted to phase out horse carriage rides in
- 19:54Speaker 4: New York over the next few years. Members passing Romance's Law.
- 19:58Speaker 4: It's named in memory of a teenage tourist who died
- 20:00Speaker 4: in a carriage accident earlier this year in Central Park.
- 20:03Speaker 4: But not everyone is happy about this. It's a tragedy
- 20:06Speaker 4: for everybody in this business.
- 20:08Speaker 1: It's a tragedy for the horses. It's a tragedy for
- 20:10Speaker 1: the city of New York. But that being said, we
- 20:13Speaker 1: are not done yet.
- 20:14Speaker 4: Christina Hansen is with the Drivers Union. She says they're
- 20:16Speaker 4: going to fight it. President Trump says Elon Musk has
- 20:19Speaker 4: restored Starlink satellite service to Ukraine. The nation's military uses
- 20:23Speaker 4: a version called Star Shield to communicate to and to
- 20:26Speaker 4: use drones in their war against Russia and reported a
- 20:28Speaker 4: slowdown in service last week, which affected their air defense.
- 20:32Speaker 4: And some sad news for Rangers fan Ron Duguay has
- 20:35Speaker 4: died after he battled colon cancer. He was 69 years old.
- 20:39Speaker 4: The Rangers lost last night. The Devils and the Islanders won.
- 20:42Speaker 4: The Knicks are in Boston tonight. Next news, 7 o'clock.
- 20:44Speaker 1: Bulletins at once.
- 20:45Speaker 4: I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
- 20:48Speaker 2: So now I'm going to reveal to you and Chris
- 20:54Speaker 2: up next, Natalie's away today, exactly what transpired in that
- 20:58Speaker 2: historic vote tonight. To do away with the horse carriage industry, Larry,
- 21:03Speaker 2: it started very bad. But wait till you hear what
- 21:07Speaker 2: transpired afterwards. So, Larry, Chris, when I went to City
- 21:14Speaker 2: Hall yesterday with Nancy at my side for the public
- 21:17Speaker 2: rally in advance of this historic vote, it was in
- 21:20Speaker 2: City Hall Park, so anybody could get in. Although I
- 21:24Speaker 2: knew right away I could feel that I was not
- 21:26Speaker 2: welcomed by the political leaders at all. The sergeant of arms,
- 21:31Speaker 2: who was the security for city council, was out in force.
- 21:34Speaker 2: And wherever I went, they went. And they're mad dogging me.
- 21:38Speaker 2: They're eye fornicating me. So you can feel the tension.
- 21:41Speaker 2: And Nancy goes, I've been at a lot of events
- 21:44Speaker 2: with you. I've never seen you so mistreated. Because they're
- 21:47Speaker 2: all giving these pompous speeches. You know, I, I, me, me,
- 21:51Speaker 2: I did this. They were crediting this to the speaker,
- 21:55Speaker 2: Julie Manning, which he deserves credit.
- 21:57Speaker 1: But it was too much idolatry.
- 21:59Speaker 2: And although they all saw me there, people that I've
- 22:01Speaker 2: worked with on this issue back in 2021, when I
- 22:04Speaker 2: was being made fun of, lampooned, said I'm not a
- 22:09Speaker 2: serious candidate. And then as you saw in the last campaign,
- 22:12Speaker 2: in the waning days, all the mayoral candidates came on
- 22:16Speaker 2: board because they saw public attitudes were changing. So nobody
- 22:20Speaker 2: acknowledged me at all. But a lot of veterans of
- 22:23Speaker 2: the campaigns, the animal welfare campaigns, came up, thanked me
- 22:26Speaker 2: for For crediting Barry Gray, the guy at WOR, he
- 22:31Speaker 2: who invented talk radio, who made that like two of
- 22:34Speaker 2: his pillars of broadcasting. One, he was a Second Amendment guy.
- 22:37Speaker 2: Believed you should carry a weapon. Number two, that there
- 22:40Speaker 2: should be no horse carriage industry with this barbaric in
- 22:43Speaker 2: the late 60s, 70s. So you could tell they were
- 22:46Speaker 2: true believers. A lot of the young ones, Gen Z's
- 22:48Speaker 2: coming up, wanting to take pictures.
- 22:50Speaker 1: Okay.
- 22:51Speaker 2: All right.
- 22:51Speaker 1: You dissed me, dismissed me. Now it was time.
- 22:55Speaker 2: To line up to go into the chambers of the
- 22:57Speaker 2: city council to hear the debate and to actually see
- 23:02Speaker 2: what the vote tally was. Now, as I'm standing on line,
- 23:05Speaker 2: I'm in the rear of the line because people are
- 23:08Speaker 2: wanting to interview me, talk to me, take photos, and
- 23:11Speaker 2: it's disrespectful to do it up there.
- 23:13Speaker 1: So I'm in the back of the line. Then all
- 23:15Speaker 1: of a sudden, what had.
- 23:17Speaker 2: Become a very strong local issue, became a national and
- 23:21Speaker 2: international issue within hours because Donald Trump himself, on the
- 23:25Speaker 2: campaign trail, you know, he's dealing with them, we're going
- 23:27Speaker 2: to talk about it later, a million and one issues,
- 23:30Speaker 2: decides to put out a truth social on this issue
- 23:33Speaker 2: and he goes, this is the president, Donald Trump, so
- 23:36Speaker 2: sad to see the beloved Central Park horse-drawn carriage industry
- 23:40Speaker 2: ending after over a century based legally on one tragic
- 23:44Speaker 2: accident when there's a car accident in the area of
- 23:48Speaker 2: which there are many. They don't stop cars from entering
- 23:51Speaker 2: the park. So why would they stop the carriage? So
- 23:55Speaker 2: that reverberated through the crowd, except this is not a
- 23:58Speaker 2: Donald Trump crowd, as you know. But still, it just
- 24:01Speaker 2: showed you went from a local issue to a huge
- 24:04Speaker 2: national issue, eventually an international issue. So I'm standing in
- 24:07Speaker 2: the back, and Nancy goes, they're not going to let
- 24:10Speaker 2: you in, Curtis. They're not going to let you in.
- 24:12Speaker 2: And remember how I said yesterday there were a lot
- 24:15Speaker 2: of people who, who you could say I'm responsible for
- 24:18Speaker 2: their political careers. You know, I went out there, I
- 24:20Speaker 2: campaigned for them. Finally, in the waning moments, you know,
- 24:25Speaker 2: they're ready to say that's it. Full capacity up in
- 24:28Speaker 2: the peanut gallery. That's where the spectators can watch. But
- 24:31Speaker 2: you're not permitted to applaud or boo. Oh, my God.
- 24:37Speaker 1: So who comes out of nowhere?
- 24:40Speaker 2: City Councilman from the South Shore, Frank Morano, Republican, conservative.
- 24:46Speaker 2: He had been my producer in talk radio for many
- 24:48Speaker 2: years over at WABC and a place I'd rather not
- 24:51Speaker 2: have spent time. The answer, oh, my God, what a
- 24:55Speaker 2: waste of my years. But he was there with me.
- 24:58Speaker 2: And he said, Curtis, I'm going to bring you in.
- 25:01Speaker 2: And he brought me to the front of the line.
- 25:03Speaker 2: And the sergeant of arms said, you're going to defy
- 25:07Speaker 2: everybody and bring them in?
- 25:08Speaker 1: He goes, I'm bringing them in.
- 25:10Speaker 2: I walk in, I go upstairs, oh man, the politicians,
- 25:13Speaker 2: you know, eyeballing me. And yet I got to watch
- 25:17Speaker 2: the debate. I got to watch the historic vote from
- 25:21Speaker 2: the balcony area, 40 to end the industry, seven to
- 25:26Speaker 2: continue it, and two abstentions. And then the celebration that
- 25:30Speaker 2: took place yesterday out in the courtyard there, right in
- 25:33Speaker 2: front of City Hall, both sides, because, you know, the
- 25:36Speaker 2: other side, They're a dammit. The horse carriage owners and
- 25:39Speaker 2: their union, TW Local 100, they're going to go to
- 25:42Speaker 2: federal court. But this is the difference, Larry. When I
- 25:46Speaker 2: was battling to end this industry years ago, the opposition
- 25:50Speaker 2: would have these old Irish guys, you know.
- 25:52Speaker 1: I'm from County Cork. I'm from Dublin, Kulak.
- 25:56Speaker 2: And they would regale you in tails and they were
- 25:58Speaker 2: likable even though you disagreed. Now the majority of the
- 26:02Speaker 2: drivers are from Turkey. And they're very gruff. You know,
- 26:05Speaker 2: they're angry. They don't understand. Everybody's watching you. So they
- 26:09Speaker 2: come up to me for the guys.
- 26:11Speaker 1: We'll see you in federal court. I said, you're not
- 26:13Speaker 1: going to see me in federal court. What are you
- 26:15Speaker 1: going to do? We're suing all of you. Go ahead.
- 26:19Speaker 2: Get online, because there are a lot of people ahead
- 26:21Speaker 2: of you. You see, that's the tone has changed. In fact,
- 26:26Speaker 2: remember the great actor Liam Neeson? Am I pronouncing his
- 26:29Speaker 2: name right?
- 26:29Speaker 1: Liam Neeson, yeah. Right, the great Irish actor.
- 26:31Speaker 2: He came to their aid at a time it looked
- 26:33Speaker 2: like we had the votes to close it.
- 26:35Speaker 1: Remember, he went to the stables. He said, these are
- 26:38Speaker 1: my people from Ireland.
- 26:40Speaker 2: He had public opinion on his side, but they've lost that.
- 26:44Speaker 1: But they're sore losers. They don't want to give it up.
- 26:47Speaker 2: And my idea, right, transitioning them to chitty-bang-bang electric vehicles,
- 26:53Speaker 2: neither side wants it.
- 26:55Speaker 6: No, and congratulations, by the way, in that happening yesterday.
- 26:59Speaker 6: I know you've been fighting for this for a long
- 27:01Speaker 6: time on the radio. And let's just give some more
- 27:04Speaker 6: praise to Frank Morano. What a good guy he is.
- 27:07Speaker 6: Always has been a good guy.
- 27:09Speaker 1: It's his turn to give this speech. you know, he's
- 27:11Speaker 1: hitting everyone's feet.
- 27:13Speaker 2: He goes, and you all made a mistake by not
- 27:15Speaker 2: electing Curtis Sliwa, the mayor, because if you did it
- 27:18Speaker 2: in 2021, this would not have existed. And his colleagues
- 27:22Speaker 2: looked at him like, are you, is this a suicide
- 27:26Speaker 2: wish of yours?
- 27:29Speaker 6: No, he deserves massive props. Such a good guy, such
- 27:31Speaker 6: a really good guy. He has a, He has a
- 27:34Speaker 6: party every year that I get invited to and I've
- 27:36Speaker 6: never been to.
- 27:37Speaker 1: Oh, in Atlantic City? Yeah, because of what happened to you,
- 27:40Speaker 1: I'm going to go this year. Oh, fromage and vino.
- 27:43Speaker 1: Have you gone? No, but I always get invited to. Yeah, well,
- 27:46Speaker 1: come down. You'll go this year. Can I be with
- 27:50Speaker 1: the crooked mayors who are always there from Atlantic City? No,
- 27:53Speaker 1: you can't be with them. As a matter of fact,
- 27:55Speaker 1: you may not want to go now. When we come back,
- 28:00Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen, Man, isn't it amazing?
- 28:04Speaker 6: A mayor in New Jersey loses it at a city
- 28:09Speaker 6: council meeting and goes to attack somebody in the crowd
- 28:15Speaker 6: and has to be held back by security.
- 28:18Speaker 1: But he wasn't done.
- 28:20Speaker 6: We'll talk about it when we come back. Before I
- 28:23Speaker 6: get to the story from New Jersey about a mayor
- 28:26Speaker 6: who went bonkers at a city council meeting and had
- 28:29Speaker 6: to be restrained as he was charging after somebody in
- 28:33Speaker 6: the audience, let me just give a shout out really
- 28:35Speaker 6: quick to local media. Because national media, as you know,
- 28:40Speaker 6: has lost its way. But local media, the people that
- 28:45Speaker 6: go to these city council meetings, the people that tell
- 28:47Speaker 6: you what's going on in your community are so important.
- 28:51Speaker 6: And I hope they never go away. So this video
- 28:54Speaker 6: that went national was recorded by Pine Barren's Tribune reporter,
- 29:00Speaker 6: Ryan Elmore. Well, Ryan, guess what? You made national and
- 29:04Speaker 6: international news. So congratulations to you. So it is the
- 29:08Speaker 6: mayor of Pemberton Township, which is down in South Jersey.
- 29:12Speaker 6: It doesn't matter at this point. This is going national.
- 29:15Speaker 1: And the mayor, Matthew Bianchini, was getting upset at someone,
- 29:22Speaker 1: I guess, that was in the audience and was always
- 29:25Speaker 1: getting under his skin. Michael Salka.
- 29:30Speaker 6: Michael Salka was there and goes to these meetings and
- 29:34Speaker 6: just goes after the mayor, and the mayor had had enough.
- 29:38Speaker 1: Now, what you're going to hear is.
- 29:40Speaker 6: the mayor going after Salka and having to be restrained
- 29:45Speaker 6: by security and even some of the city council members.
- 29:49Speaker 1: Matt!
- 29:51Speaker 2: Matt!
- 29:52Speaker 6: Matt!
- 29:53Speaker 2: Matt! Stop! Stop!
- 29:55Speaker 1: Stop it, man.
- 29:57Speaker 2: Come on. Stop.
- 29:58Speaker 1: Let him go. Let him go. He should resign. That
- 30:03Speaker 1: was Salka. That was Salka saying that.
- 30:05Speaker 6: And even as they were trying to take the mayor
- 30:09Speaker 6: out of there because they could not restrain him, even
- 30:11Speaker 6: as he was doing that, he turned and said to him,
- 30:14Speaker 6: I'm going to get you and then cursed. So he
- 30:19Speaker 6: threatened them.
- 30:19Speaker 1: I want the police to arrest him now. I'm charging
- 30:24Speaker 1: him with assault.
- 30:26Speaker 7: He came here to threaten me physically, and he just
- 30:29Speaker 7: said he's going to get me.
- 30:30Speaker 1: That's a threat.
- 30:32Speaker 2: Mr.
- 30:32Speaker 1: Solicitor, you saw it too. You heard it.
- 30:36Speaker 6: Man, that was pretty good. And I'll tell you what. Afterwards,
- 30:40Speaker 6: the mayor said, was it wrong?
- 30:44Speaker 1: Absolutely. Was it justified? Absolutely.
- 30:48Speaker 6: And I would do it again if I had to.
- 30:52Speaker 6: Then he said, which is something that's really interesting and
- 30:54Speaker 6: may be at the root of all of this, don't
- 30:57Speaker 6: attack my family. I think any good husband, any good
- 31:01Speaker 6: father would have done just the same thing. Now, apparently
- 31:05Speaker 6: his family was there. And Sokka was insulting his family
- 31:10Speaker 6: and going after his family and even threatened his family.
- 31:14Speaker 6: And so he just has had enough. Now, this is
- 31:16Speaker 6: according to the family, I'm going to say, alleged. I
- 31:19Speaker 6: think this is what happened. I eyeballed that video a
- 31:22Speaker 6: little closer. So Sark is what typically happens at county,
- 31:26Speaker 6: excuse me, township, village, and small municipal meetings, required meetings.
- 31:32Speaker 2: He's a gadfly. He's always there, and he's always prepared.
- 31:35Speaker 2: But sitting next to him apparently was a woman wearing
- 31:39Speaker 2: a T-shirt, of the GOP challenger to Bianchini, who is
- 31:45Speaker 2: GOP himself, meaning Bianchini is going to be primary advisor.
- 31:49Speaker 2: I think that's what flipped the script, because normally they
- 31:52Speaker 2: don't want you coming into any kind of government meetings,
- 31:56Speaker 2: you know, promoting one candidacy or another. I think that's
- 31:59Speaker 2: what caused Bianchini to have that anger management meltdown.
- 32:04Speaker 6: Yeah, I think he just had enough. I mean, it
- 32:09Speaker 6: sounds like, and you've probably been through this more than
- 32:13Speaker 6: I ever have in my life, where somebody has come
- 32:15Speaker 6: after you or you got upset with them.
- 32:17Speaker 2: The famous one, Philadelphia. I'm bringing the Guardian Angels' dads
- 32:21Speaker 2: before the Aldermanic Council. One of the street brothers jumped
- 32:25Speaker 2: over the railing, came right up to me, put his
- 32:29Speaker 2: finger in my chest. You're not coming to Philadelphia. And
- 32:32Speaker 2: they had to restrain him. This is when Rizzo was
- 32:35Speaker 2: a police commissioner. You know, there were two street guys, right?
- 32:38Speaker 2: The two brothers.
- 32:40Speaker 1: Milton and John. Yeah.
- 32:42Speaker 2: And they said, well, he has anger management issues, Curtis.
- 32:45Speaker 2: Don't take it personally. Don't take it personally. He jumped
- 32:48Speaker 2: right over the railing and came up like he was
- 32:51Speaker 2: going to assault me if I didn't go back to
- 32:52Speaker 2: New York City.
- 32:53Speaker 1: John Street became mayor of Philadelphia. You know that.
- 32:59Speaker 6: Philadelphia is a different kind of politics. At least it
- 33:01Speaker 6: used to be. But so Bianchi is out today, by
- 33:05Speaker 6: the way, early this morning saying he's been harassing my
- 33:08Speaker 6: family for years and in person. And, you know, Bianchi
- 33:12Speaker 6: just got into that seat. He was put in there
- 33:15Speaker 6: to fill in for a mayor who retired. Now I
- 33:17Speaker 6: can see why you retire. Just put Salka in there.
- 33:21Speaker 6: Just put him in there. Let him have the job. Because,
- 33:24Speaker 6: my God.
- 33:24Speaker 2: But we got to find out, his last name is
- 33:27Speaker 2: similar to my mom's maiden name, Bianchino. Just at the end,
- 33:31Speaker 2: he has an I. My mother, Francesca, has an O.
- 33:35Speaker 2: You know, when you came through Ellis Island, sometimes they
- 33:37Speaker 2: change some of that. He sounds like the kind of
- 33:40Speaker 2: guy I've been at times with anger management issues.
- 33:43Speaker 1: It may be in the DNA. It could be.
- 33:46Speaker 6: When we come back, well, Donald Trump won't stop talking
- 33:50Speaker 6: about that ad in Ohio.
- 33:52Speaker 1: That's after the 7 o'clock news.