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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from wo R. Here's Larry Minty

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Speaker 1: with more of the wr Saturday Morning Show Welcome Back.

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Speaker 2: A major snowstorm is expected and political analyst J C.

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Speaker 2: Polanco says it's going to be a major first test

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Speaker 2: for the new mayor zorin Mam Donnie.

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Speaker 1: Jace.

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Speaker 2: Normally, I asked you a pretty appointed direct question. I

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Speaker 2: want to open this up for you for a second,

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Speaker 2: just to talk about in general or maybe specific, it's

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Speaker 2: up to you. What have you thought of the first

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Speaker 2: two weeks of zorin Mam Donnie. Has anything surprised you yet? No?

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Speaker 1: Good morning body way, thanks for having me larature. You know,

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Speaker 1: the big surprises shouldn't be surprises. He you know, he

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Speaker 1: campaigned as someone that was radical and campaigned on a

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Speaker 1: message that was clearly socialist, and he said that he

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Speaker 1: would rule as such and govern as such. It was

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Speaker 1: very interesting to see some of these appointments be so

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Speaker 1: constray it says, if was anyone doing any background checks

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Speaker 1: on social media posts, on prior statements, on things that

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Speaker 1: they have said on video, but it was shocking to

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Speaker 1: see some of the positions on for example, property ownership

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Speaker 1: being a symbol of white supremacy. It was tough to

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Speaker 1: see that. It was tough to see folks that have

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Speaker 1: such horrible positions with Israel and Jews get appointments. It

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Speaker 1: was very difficult to see the kind of racism that

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Speaker 1: we've seen behind some of these appointments. But it shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be surprising. This is someone who had a record of

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Speaker 1: wanting to seize the means of production and decommodify housing

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Speaker 1: and has taken positions on you know, white supremacy being

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Speaker 1: all around us, and has taken some real extreme positions

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Speaker 1: in his role as an assembly member. So the fact

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Speaker 1: that I haven't seen someone appointed now that wants to

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Speaker 1: be in charge of the Department of Health by decriminalizing

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Speaker 1: and legalizing prostitution, that's was shocking. I mean I thought

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Speaker 1: that that was coming sooner rather than later. Hasn't happened yet,

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Speaker 1: So I think that's a positive. Yeah, But his first

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Speaker 1: big test is going to be the snowstorm. That's what

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Speaker 1: we're waiting on. I mean, it does the city go

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Speaker 1: through this with the streets plowed? Are we going to

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Speaker 1: say are there are going to be backups? How he

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Speaker 1: handles this logistically with his team is what a lot

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Speaker 1: of new Yorkers are going to watch the Stean.

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Speaker 3: Island get plowed, right, that's the question. Our neighborhoods that

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Speaker 3: didn't support him going to get plowed, because if you

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Speaker 3: remember with the Blasio, there were places that didn't support

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Speaker 3: him that all of a sudden didn't he shovels for.

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Speaker 1: Days after snowstorms. So I hope that that's not the

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Speaker 1: case with this mayor.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think it's going to be. I think

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Speaker 2: actually he's going to do a nice job because he's

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Speaker 2: going to get out of the way. I think he's

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Speaker 2: going to let the people that have been there and

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Speaker 2: handle this for a long long time handle it. I'm

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Speaker 2: not even sure he wants to be involved in these

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Speaker 2: kinds of things. Have you noticed that here's a guy

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Speaker 2: that loves the media. It just loves the media. He's

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Speaker 2: on TV all the time. He's on some national or

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Speaker 2: local TV show constantly. He's going to be on this

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Speaker 2: week with ABC. I just found out a moment ago

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Speaker 2: from Rick Kline he's going to be on with them.

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Speaker 2: He loves the media. He loves doing videos, he loves

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Speaker 2: holding news conferences. That seems to be all he's done

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Speaker 2: since he's been in office. He does it constantly because

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Speaker 2: he's good at it.

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Speaker 1: He's very good at it. And one of the things

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Speaker 1: that's interesting is that we're not going to see what

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Speaker 1: used to be boring policy discussions about regulations and taxes

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Speaker 1: and zoning. Things that happen in committees are going to

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Speaker 1: find themselves a TikTok video style debates with the mayor

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Speaker 1: making this interesting and he looks like flow from progressive

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Speaker 1: For those of you that watch commercials, you know, everything

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Speaker 1: is a very funny, cute you know, let's do TikTok videos.

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Speaker 1: But you know, although it annoys me because I think

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Speaker 1: these issues are important, you know, it does resonate with

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Speaker 1: a group of people out there that find it cute

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Speaker 1: and find it interesting until they don't. And I think

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Speaker 1: it's all fun and dandee now because it's still early,

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Speaker 1: so he still has that honeymoon period. But there's going

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Speaker 1: to come a time when bills have to be paid.

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Speaker 1: They will be budget shortfalls. He can't blame atoms anymore.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be a time that's going to come

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Speaker 1: in where crime is going to go up in the summertime,

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Speaker 1: during during the heat of June and July, there's going

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Speaker 1: to be incapments of homeless people in our communities. There's

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Speaker 1: going to be housing being created in communities where there

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Speaker 1: are single family homes like the ones where my kids

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Speaker 1: are raised in the Bronx that right behind Jacobe Hospital,

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Speaker 1: where you have single family homes in Indian Village and

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Speaker 1: Morris Park, are now going to have to deal with

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Speaker 1: ex cons coming in people with mental health issues. Not

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Speaker 1: to mention, but just two blocks away there's a mental

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Speaker 1: hospital for the state. If you were to take a

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Speaker 1: look at some of these places he's putting these houses

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Speaker 1: in for people that are getting out of prison, you

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Speaker 1: already have an incredible amount of sex offenders that are registered.

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Speaker 1: So these are some of the things that people are

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Speaker 1: going to be noticing when there's start looking that their

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Speaker 1: neighborhoods are changing, the fabric of the communities are changing

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Speaker 1: because of some of these radical positions that he's taken.

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Speaker 1: And I believe that although the city council voted for

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Speaker 1: some of these things, you no Mayor Adams, to his credit,

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Speaker 1: stopped it from happening. We just saw it happen in

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Speaker 1: the Bronx. These are some of the things that we're

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Speaker 1: going to be annoyed about it. No amount of cute

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Speaker 1: videos is going to change our perspective, especially those of

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Speaker 1: us in the Bronx who are tired of seeing these

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Speaker 1: types of housing be built in our communities.

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Speaker 2: Well that's real, that's really was said, and thanks for

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Speaker 2: focusing our attention on that. I will tell you this,

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Speaker 2: that's only going to happen, and I hope you're correct.

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Speaker 2: That's only going to happen if the media does a

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Speaker 2: better job in this town. I'm so disappointed with them.

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Speaker 2: They are so enamored by this guy. They don't ask

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Speaker 2: any follow ups. Don't you think that yesterday with this mayor,

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Speaker 2: they should have brought up in the news conference and

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Speaker 2: he's available all the time. The fact that there was

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Speaker 2: a playground in Brooklyn that had forty eight swastikas on it,

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Speaker 2: Don't you think somebody should have brought that up? Nobody

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Speaker 2: asked them about it. That would have been one of

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Speaker 2: my first questions.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know a lot of the media is enamored.

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Speaker 1: The questions are softball. He gets out of these things,

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Speaker 1: like he just wiggles out of them. I never before

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Speaker 1: has the media allowed for someone to get out of it.

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Speaker 1: You know, whether it's the issue with the playground should

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Speaker 1: have been mentioned, for sure. But he will say something

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Speaker 1: along the lines it is my job to keep every

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Speaker 1: New York who close this city home safe, including our

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Speaker 1: Jewish Americans. Will he will say something along those lines,

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Speaker 1: very poetic, and people just, I guess, get mesmerized and

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Speaker 1: brainwashed and hypnotized to the fact that it's now a

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Speaker 1: month into his administration almost and he still hasn't condemned globalizing,

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Speaker 1: being defada, I mean, I mean, this is where we are.

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Speaker 1: So he's gotten away with a lot, and I think

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Speaker 1: he's got away with things that other candidates were not.

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Speaker 1: I think the New York City media is changing. More

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Speaker 1: and more of the media is depending on donations, more

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Speaker 1: and more of the media is depending on likes and retweets.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think that if you're a journalist and

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Speaker 1: you're depending on the specific base of people to read

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Speaker 1: your articles and to follow your media, that you're going

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Speaker 1: to to offend your readers by pushing back on this

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Speaker 1: mayor who they adore.

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Speaker 2: That's your job, that's the job. That's exactly what they

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Speaker 2: should be doing. And I agree with you, there's no

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Speaker 2: follow ups. That's that's what I'm screaming for a follow

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Speaker 2: up to his answers, Hey, let's talk again real soon, Jc.

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Speaker 2: I always like talking to you.

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Speaker 1: J C. Polanco, can't wait.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Adalyston, University of Mount Saint Vincent, Assistant professor and attorney.

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