1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: This is a podcast from wo R. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 2: Here's Larry Minting with more of the WR Saturday Morning show. 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:08,960 Speaker 1: Welcome Back. 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 3: So what happened when Curtis Leewa and New York Post 5 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 3: entertainment critic Johnny Oleczinsky met a lot of fun? He is, 6 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 3: I'm Curtis. I was concerned about this. 7 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 2: I didn't know how you two were gonna get along 8 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 2: Johnny Oleazinsky and Curtis leeway And don't look at me surprised, 9 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 2: because I wasn't sure that, you know, an entertainment critic 10 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 2: and a guy that's been on the streets going to 11 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 2: the subways all his life, if they would mesh. But 12 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 2: you guys are like old of alum from the same 13 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 2: high school. The conversation you've had has been wonderful. 14 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 4: Well, maybe we're gonna get along against you, because now 15 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 4: I don't know what you're implying about my demeanor, that 16 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 4: I'm going to come in here and not get along 17 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 4: with my new friends. 18 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 1: Well, well you know, ready to do it? What you 19 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: wat he excuse me? There aren't that many poll Ox broadcasting. 20 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 5: No or newspapers. 21 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 4: You read these byelines and it's all is like, uh, 22 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 4: Peter Marks it's never. It's never Johnny Oleaksinski, which one 23 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 4: day Curtis will learn how to pronounce one. 24 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 1: We'll get there. Try it again by. 25 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 6: Name your polock, or you're a yambo as my father 26 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 6: Chesa taught me a yambo's way out there. 27 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: It was a great You may remember the name Tom Poster. 28 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: You got that name right. He was the gospel guy 29 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: for the Daily News, so beget Yeah, he was Polish. 30 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 1: They made him change his last name. 31 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 3: Could you try his name one more time. 32 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: Owen Zinsky. 33 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 5: You know, it's pretty good, pretty good, and because it's 34 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 5: your birthday perfect. 35 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 6: I like Johnny Oh, though it sounds like you're a 36 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 6: hit man for the mob. 37 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: Hey, Johnny Oh, Johnny Oh is great. 38 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 2: Hey, let's talk about Stephen Colbert because I can't. When 39 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 2: I saw this story, I could not believe it. So 40 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 2: he's leaving the Late Show and he's doing. 41 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 4: What well, remember David Letterman leaves, he grows a beard, 42 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 4: goes into hiding. Johnny Carson. You never see him again 43 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 4: except that one time on Letterman's show. Conan did a 44 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 4: new show. David let or rather Stephen Colbert, is writing 45 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 4: the new Lord of the Rings movie for Warner brothers 46 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 4: with his son. It's very very bizarre. Uh, but you 47 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 4: know what it tells me. So I've never really liked 48 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 4: Stephen Colbert. Very very boring, very dull, very nice, except 49 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 4: excepted Trump. It's nice to everybody excepted Trump. 50 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:21,399 Speaker 1: Uh. 51 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 4: The best late night hosts are outsiders, right, David Letterman, 52 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 4: a weatherman from Indiana, Conan O'Brien, and nobody. And then 53 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,519 Speaker 4: you have Stephen Colbert, who's just kind of huggy, kissy 54 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,959 Speaker 4: friendly with everybody, and that is why his show's so boring. 55 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 4: So meanwhile he's you know, calling up people looking for 56 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 4: jobs in Hollywood. It's just so bizarre to me that 57 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 4: this guy is going to be writing what Frodo and 58 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 4: Gandalf have to say. 59 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 5: Now you a big uh, Stephen. 60 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,239 Speaker 6: Colbert fan Wayne was running for president and he tried 61 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 6: to do that schmother's brother's routine, you know, like he 62 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 6: was gonna run for president when he was young what 63 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 6: Comedy Central. 64 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, when he was the cold, when he was 65 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 5: pretending to be a conservative Punda. 66 00:02:59,280 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. 67 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 6: No, I like him there because he pulled it off 68 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 6: on the Daily Show, right, But he disparaged me when 69 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 6: I went to vote in twenty twenty one. The other election, 70 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 6: I lost again Terry Adams, and I led my little 71 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 6: cat Gizmo that went viral because he put it on 72 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 6: it and he disparaged me and Gizmo was traumatized after that. 73 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 2: He does not forget anybody that disparaged him. So don't 74 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 2: you disparage him because they there's going to be trouble. 75 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 4: Well, what I'm hoping for is every time I bring 76 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,119 Speaker 4: up a star or a director or anything, that there'll 77 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 4: be a Curtis story about why they're horrible. 78 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 5: That would be my dream of dreams. 79 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: I gotta be careful because he's New York Post, you know, 80 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: and editorial. 81 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 7: They told me to hang up my red ray. Look, 82 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 7: I write about movies and musicals. I've never editorially told 83 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 7: you to do anything. All I've done, all I've we 84 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 7: were friends just a moment ago. 85 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 4: All I've done is say Happy birthday, Curtis, Happy birthday. 86 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 5: All I've done. 87 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: Did you see it one more time? 88 00:03:58,360 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 5: Happy birthday, curt It perfect? 89 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 2: So HBO dropped the trailer for the new Harry Potter Show. 90 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: Is it any good? Okay? 91 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 5: If you know what they're saying on Twitter? 92 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 4: Actually, it looks like someone went into chat GPT and said, 93 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 4: make take the Harry Potter movies and may make a 94 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 4: version of it for twenty twenty six, this, you know, 95 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 4: cheaper and on HBO. 96 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 5: So they're making this new show. 97 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 4: It's gonna cost as much as Game of Thrown, something 98 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 4: like twenty million an episode to do something. 99 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 5: That remakes something where people are all still watching. You know, 100 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 5: those movies. 101 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 4: Ended in twenty eleven, it's not that long ago. And 102 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 4: so this is gonna premiere at the end of the year. 103 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 4: And guess how long this is gonna run? This show 104 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:43,039 Speaker 4: fourteen years? Oh my, it's going to be. It's going 105 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 4: to be every other year. They'll do a season one 106 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 4: season for the seven books. So you may not know 107 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 4: from the rage and sadness in my voice, but I'm 108 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 4: thirty six. So when this thing ends, I'll be fifty one. 109 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 4: And you know what, I'm not gonna be doing it 110 00:04:55,480 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 4: fifty one. Watch them freaking Harry Potter Australi. It's just unbelievable. 111 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:01,799 Speaker 4: How are they going to get to the end? And 112 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 4: and I'm gonna say this in a very very nice way, 113 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 4: very nice. So John Lithgow is playing Albus Dumbledore, the 114 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 4: headmaster in it lift goes eighty, and so he's he's 115 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 4: signed on to do this show until he's ninety ninety four. 116 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 2: If you right away where it is, I you accuse 117 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 2: you of ageism? 118 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: You young hup, Huckleberry, you knew Ennio. 119 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 4: I it is. It is not ageism because he's a 120 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 4: great he'll always be a great and capable actor. 121 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 5: But it is practical now we're. 122 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: Talking about us. That's right. You were tome seventy two. 123 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: Soon I'll be lucky to make ninety two. 124 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 6: And here it is, you're questioning if this guy is 125 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 6: still gonna be able to be performing in nineties. 126 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 2: What are you saying about Curtis? 127 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 4: I'm subliminally you are well. We all know that Curtis 128 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 4: will be able to be performing into his nineties. You 129 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 4: have a you have a volcanic energy that that'll keep 130 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 4: on going. 131 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 1: Wait, wait, we get this because it's like a show. 132 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: Me right, he's calling a show. Wow, there is no 133 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: this is a This would be great if you did 134 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: this as a review for this news show. 135 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 2: That's it's actually like the talk of radio because it's 136 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 2: two people who disagree agree. 137 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: Without being an e code chamber for the Foxing Show. 138 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 2: Will we make the poster, we'll do the quote from 139 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 2: Johnny OLDI again s, what was it? 140 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: Volcanic? Yeah. 141 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 5: Unfortunately, the way it works with critics is once I 142 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 5: say it, you can quote it. I've already said it. 143 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 5: So if you make a poster, you can you can 144 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 5: put a quote and say, Johnny Alexinski North. 145 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: We have to attribute it to Johnny Oh, Johnny Oh. 146 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: That's much more hip happening. It's sort of it's a 147 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 1: little Chaz pumentary ishue. 148 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 2: And he can pronounce, and he can pronounce it. 149 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 5: And if you ever meet me, the first person you 150 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 5: think of his chest pmmentary. 151 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 1: And let me tell you something, now that you're in 152 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: this studio, you ain't going nowhere, Johnny Oh. 153 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 2: New York Post entertainment critic Johnny Oleczinsky. 154 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: This has been a podcast from wo R