Speaker 1: COSI. This is the seventy seven WABC Mini cast.
Speaker 2: Right now, ladies and gentlemen, listen to this, and now
Speaker 2: it's time for the cat corner.
Speaker 3: I have tears in my eyes. America is crumbling. We
Speaker 3: have outdated highways. Great highways like we built in the
Speaker 3: past are not happening. High speed rail, my daughter called
Speaker 3: me from China. She was going two hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: miles an hour. What do we have in America? High
Speaker 3: speed rail hasn't happened. Airports we have second rate airports
Speaker 3: compared to other countries. Promises promises from politicians that we're
Speaker 3: going to fix the roads, fix the airports, et cetera,
Speaker 3: et cetera. Then we also need to balance. When we
Speaker 3: have a budget in one of those Blue states for
Speaker 3: one hundred billion, we don't want it to cost a
Speaker 3: two hundred billion. We need to stop debating and we
Speaker 3: have to start building. President Trump has said nineteen trillion
Speaker 3: dollars in new factories and businesses are coming to America
Speaker 3: over the next few years. Well, they need roads, they
Speaker 3: need airports. It should not be a controversial issue. It
Speaker 3: should be an American issue. Let's make America great again.
Speaker 3: This is John Katsmatitis with the cat's corner.
Speaker 2: And the cat's corner is right here, right now, John,
Speaker 2: kats Matiti's is with us. Good morning, John, how are
Speaker 2: you well?
Speaker 1: Good morning, and the sun is shining, which is great
Speaker 1: for Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: I love it. John. I heard your Cat's corner. It
Speaker 2: blew my mind. I said, I've got to play this,
Speaker 2: and so now even better we have you on with us. John.
Speaker 2: Let's start with some of the things you said, the airport,
Speaker 2: the roads, and a high speed rail. I happen to be,
Speaker 2: despite being a conservatant here a proponent of high speed rail.
Speaker 2: We have been talking about high speed rail for decades. Obama.
Speaker 2: I remember when President Obama went to China came back
Speaker 2: gushing about how they were making advances with high speed
Speaker 2: rail and we were lagging behind. The distance is even further, John,
Speaker 2: Why can't we have And then look what California did,
Speaker 2: all this billions and billions and billions spent not one
Speaker 2: high speed train and not one, not one completed line.
Speaker 2: Why can't we have high speed rail in America? Why
Speaker 2: don't we have it?
Speaker 1: Well, the truth is, I don't think anybody really knows,
Speaker 1: the fact is that it's good to talk to people
Speaker 1: about it as similar to what they're doing now, free
Speaker 1: buses and free trains and free food and free this
Speaker 1: and free that. The pology. You know, the American people
Speaker 1: are listeners. Should realize that half the stuff is just talk.
Speaker 1: And it's very very sad. Uh. You know. I love
Speaker 1: to take the when I go from New York to Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. I love to check the train because they
Speaker 1: go from downtown to downtown instead of wait going to
Speaker 1: the airport, have to go to the airport, wait, wait
Speaker 1: for the airplane, do this through that, and it takes
Speaker 1: just about the same amount of time to go to
Speaker 1: Washington by train, and then it does the by plane.
Speaker 1: And I did get a phone call for my daughter.
Speaker 1: She was in China visiting, and she was going two
Speaker 1: undred says Dad, I'm going two hundred fifty miles an hour.
Speaker 1: Why can't could they do it? And why can't we
Speaker 1: do it? And why can't they do it in three years?
Speaker 1: And it takes us forever? There's something you know, in
Speaker 1: the ninety year I grew up, I'm maybe older than you.
Speaker 1: I grew up in the fifties, in the sixties, and
Speaker 1: right after World War Two, we were dedicated. We were dedicated,
Speaker 1: and we were out there building building building, Remember all
Speaker 1: the highways of Eisenhower built. Oh, we were so proud
Speaker 1: of them. We even wrote songs about Root sixty six.
Speaker 1: We made a television show about Route sixty six, and
Speaker 1: somehow it all came to a stop. Yeah.
Speaker 2: John. One of the things Rush talked about was the
Speaker 2: speed with what the Empire State Building came up, which
Speaker 2: was that, for many, many, many decades, the tallest building
Speaker 2: in the world. Of course that's been eclipsed time and
Speaker 2: time over, but that building only took a few years
Speaker 2: from breaking the ground to the completing completion of the building.
Speaker 2: It's still standing and it was a building that was
Speaker 2: well built, and it was done in such a short
Speaker 2: period of time. Now you're a building yourself, John, what
Speaker 2: do you face when you when you're building projects? Well?
Speaker 1: Uh, I first of all, I love to build projects
Speaker 1: that wow wow projects. What's a wild project? You look
Speaker 1: at it and you say, wow, I want to live
Speaker 1: there in something that we're proud of. Uh. And that's
Speaker 1: what I always tell my real estate guys, and I
Speaker 1: have to argue with them because they're saying, oh bosh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna question A that a million dollars, I said,
Speaker 1: so what, I'll make a million dollars less. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I want a wild project. Uh. And we we want
Speaker 1: to build things in America that we're all proud of.
Speaker 1: And there it's highways. I mean, they were making fun
Speaker 1: of us around the world that we had the crappiest Uh.
Speaker 1: The airport's around. I mean, we're starting to make some improvements,
Speaker 1: but it looks like it takes forever. And you know,
Speaker 1: and then the other problem is in some of our
Speaker 1: Blue states, they come up with a budget of one
Speaker 1: hundred million and the ends up coursing two hundred million
Speaker 1: and the extra three years. The one thing that I remember.
Speaker 2: The Big dig You remember the Big Diggan Massachusetts. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you remember the Big Diggan Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: How that went on forever and ever, and the cost
Speaker 2: over ones were just insane.
Speaker 1: They just kept paying and pay and pain. And but
Speaker 1: I was gonna say to you, I gotta give Cromo
Speaker 1: some accolades on a couple of projects. He rebuilt part
Speaker 1: of LaGuardia. He rebuilt the bridge.
Speaker 2: The old bridge that it happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Captain Seat bridge, And he built it in
Speaker 1: no time. At all. So, you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: people didn't like him because he was a real tough guy.
Speaker 1: But I guess he was tough enough to build the bridge,
Speaker 1: and he's tough enough to fix LaGuardia. He was tough
Speaker 1: enough to do a few other things. And sof I
Speaker 1: gotta get him some accolades. With his accolades to be given,
Speaker 1: I'll give some accolades. The other thing that bothers me
Speaker 1: taking the Amtrak from New York to Washington. There's no seatbelts.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. You're going one hundred and forty miles
Speaker 1: an hour. You're going one hundred and fifty miles an hour.
Speaker 1: How come there's no seatbelts.
Speaker 2: On thesella you're talking on your cellar line. Yeah, here's
Speaker 2: what I don't understand, John, since you want to bring
Speaker 2: you up, and since I brought a look, if you
Speaker 2: if you take that route, and I've taken that train
Speaker 2: many times, all you see on the sides of as
Speaker 2: you go through the outskirts of Philadelphia, as you go
Speaker 2: through some of the ou skirts, you just see blight.
Speaker 2: You see the blight.
Speaker 1: And I got tears in my eyes because you go
Speaker 1: through Baltimore, you go through Philadelphia, you go through Baltimore,
Speaker 1: you go through some of those suburbs, and it looks
Speaker 1: like it looks like Germany after World War Two.
Speaker 2: Right these are I don't know what the answer is,
Speaker 2: but you talk about a high speed rail line, there
Speaker 2: is the real estate is there to do it. If
Speaker 2: they had to even go above ground like they do
Speaker 2: in Japan, where you have the high speed rail above
Speaker 2: ground in certain places so that they can make sure
Speaker 2: that it's as speedy as possible, the real estate is
Speaker 2: there to do it. What is lacking, it seems to me,
Speaker 2: is the political will to do it and to do
Speaker 2: it cost effectively, without grift, and without what has happened
Speaker 2: in California. It's a disgrace. You spend a billion, go ahead, and.
Speaker 1: He wants to do. Gavin Bloson whats to do to
Speaker 1: the rest of the country when he did to California.
Speaker 1: I mean, I got changed in my eyes. You know,
Speaker 1: I had Vice President Pence, the former Vice president, on
Speaker 1: my show last week, and you know what he says.
Speaker 1: I disagreed with a lot of Republicans. I disagreed with
Speaker 1: President Trump. But so Republicans disagree amongst themselves on a
Speaker 1: lot of things, but Democrats have lost their minds, right.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about that when John. I want
Speaker 2: to take a quick break here. Hey, John, you want
Speaker 2: to take a few chhone calls with me? Can you
Speaker 2: do that?
Speaker 1: Not a problem?
Speaker 2: Okay, here's what we're gonna do. I want to talk
Speaker 2: to you about when we get back. I want to
Speaker 2: talk to you about James Talarico Dowland, Texas, who is
Speaker 2: still blaming Ronald Reagan for trickle down economics. And then
Speaker 2: I want to take a few calls with you. Let's
Speaker 2: see what we have. One of the phone lines, James
Speaker 2: Golden both nerly, John Katzimatini's is with us ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: John Katzimatini's is here, John, let me play this for you.
Speaker 2: It'll just take a minute and change. This is the
Speaker 2: guy that's running for the Senate down there in tejas In, Texas,
Speaker 2: James tallerco. Listen to what his take is on why
Speaker 2: we are in the economic situations we are today.
Speaker 4: Republicans and some Democrats sold the false gospel of trickle
Speaker 4: down economics, that that idea that the best way to
Speaker 4: grow the economy is to let the rich get richer
Speaker 4: and forget about everybody else. That the best way to
Speaker 4: motivate wealthy people is to give them money, and the
Speaker 4: best way to motivate the rest of us is to
Speaker 4: take it away. Someday, somehow, they told us the gains
Speaker 4: would trickle down to the rest of us. Trickle down
Speaker 4: economics is not a theory. It is theft for fifty years.
Speaker 2: That's fifty years. Listen, John, This to me is just
Speaker 2: it's so bogus. Supply side economic John Kennedy was in
Speaker 2: favor and wanted as policy, he said, and he said
Speaker 2: it in a way that everyone could understand. A rising tide,
Speaker 2: lift all boat. This guy says, we let the rich
Speaker 2: get richer and forget about everybody else. The United States
Speaker 2: of America spends more on welfare than any other developed
Speaker 2: nation on the face of the earth, and it's a
Speaker 2: never ending spend. And then he says, we give the
Speaker 2: rich money and take the money away from the poor.
Speaker 2: Wealthy people, the people in the top one percent, and
Speaker 2: you know this pay the majority of all taxes period.
Speaker 2: What do you make of this argument? That democrat? And
Speaker 2: this kid was born the year that Ronald Reagan finished
Speaker 2: his last time. He was born in nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 2: when Reagan's first term was over. And yet he's talking
Speaker 2: as if he's some kind of expert on so called
Speaker 2: trickle down economics.
Speaker 1: What do you think, John, I think he has no
Speaker 1: clue at all. It's like the same thing happens with
Speaker 1: AOC in New York City. When Amazon was going to
Speaker 1: spend thirty billion dollars in New York City, in Queens
Speaker 1: County where they needed more jobs, thirty billion dollars. One company,
Speaker 1: Amazon has the ability to do that. Well, you know
Speaker 1: what happened, she said, And we're gonna give the Amazon
Speaker 1: back four billion dollars as a rebate. Later on, she says, well,
Speaker 1: we're going to spend the four billion dollars someplace else.
Speaker 1: There was no four billion dollars. This is how stupid
Speaker 1: she was. After Amazon spends the thirty billion, after we
Speaker 1: create twenty five thousand jobs, Afterwards, after the twenty five
Speaker 1: thousand people are paying their taxes to New York City,
Speaker 1: New York State, and the federal government. After all that,
Speaker 1: we give them Amazon back in twenty thirty five or
Speaker 1: twenty thirty three four billion dollar rebate. Afterwards, it's we're
Speaker 1: giving them back part of their own money because they
Speaker 1: could weated the jobs, and those people, those thirty thousand
Speaker 1: jobs that created are paying taxes. The problem is, you know,
Speaker 1: and I heard some people the Democratic Socialist Party they
Speaker 1: want to lower the voting age down to sixteen sixteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, we voted it down to eighteen.
Speaker 1: But you need some common sense sometimes, and we're losing it.
Speaker 1: Whether whether it's Texas or whether it's Illinois, or whether
Speaker 1: it's New York, we're losing it. And President Trump said,
Speaker 1: I remember with Illinois, we've lost two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: thousand black and brown people kids in Chicago since the
Speaker 1: Iranian War. And the Democrats are saying, oh, thirteen soldiers died.
Speaker 1: Things happen. I don't want thirty soldiers to die. But
Speaker 1: the lord two hundred and eighty black and brown kids
Speaker 1: that had a that never got a chance to grow up,
Speaker 1: and he's offered help to send people in to help
Speaker 1: make a difference in that Governor of Illinois says, no,
Speaker 1: we don't want your help.
Speaker 2: Ritz Yep and Brandon Johnson won't won't take the help either.
Speaker 1: Don't understand it. I don't understand it.
Speaker 2: Both well, well, I do understand it, John. Their hatred
Speaker 2: of Donald Trump supersedes everything else. They hate him, so
Speaker 2: it is pure hate that they can't see beyond their
Speaker 2: hate toward what is best for the people that they
Speaker 2: claim to represent.
Speaker 5: It's astounding for the Police Athletic League in New York
Speaker 5: City for forty years, maybe forty five years, and now
Speaker 5: I'm chairman and we take care of twenty five thousand kids,
Speaker 5: black and brown kids, and then in the inner cities,
Speaker 5: and I worry about every single one of them.
Speaker 1: In Chicago, they don't worry. I mean, how can this
Speaker 1: happen to our country? How can that be acceptable? Man?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, John, I'm looking at the clock.
Speaker 2: We promised to take calls. Can we do this? Can
Speaker 2: we just ask you to hang out with us a
Speaker 2: little while longer after the top of the hour break,
Speaker 2: so you and I can take some calls together. And
Speaker 2: I want to play something else for you. I actually
Speaker 2: want to play this candidate, something from this candidate that's
Speaker 2: running in to be the governor of Wisconsin and of
Speaker 2: all things, John, The Washington Post has an editor today
Speaker 2: about why she shouldn't be the governor. They're afraid that
Speaker 2: people will start fleeing Wisconsin if she becomes governor, like
Speaker 2: they're fleeing everyone else. I don't know what your time
Speaker 2: frame is like. If you have other stuff to do with.
Speaker 1: Want I tell you I have to go. You know,
Speaker 1: we're hosting I'm hosting a breakfast. You know, we in Southampton.
Speaker 1: We're host of breakfast every Saturday morning for all those
Speaker 1: people that have nothing to do on Saturday mornings. And
Speaker 1: we usually have about one hundred people. Last week we
Speaker 1: had Bill O'Reilly. The week before we had Katie McFarland.
Speaker 1: The week before that, we're Andrew Cuomo. The week before that,
Speaker 1: we had Bruce Blakeman. Today we have Governor Hope and
Speaker 1: she's consisting up being there at nine o'clock. And I
Speaker 1: told everybody that's coming, I said, you listen, she is
Speaker 1: the governor. You have to be civilized. And I'll be
Speaker 1: in the car and I'll call you back from the
Speaker 1: far about eight o five or eight oh seven.
Speaker 2: That sounds great, John, We'll talk to you five eight
Speaker 2: oh seven while John is on his way to breakfast. John,
Speaker 2: thanks so much. We look at we'll look for you
Speaker 2: on the other side. Okay, yep, great, Okay, folks, here
Speaker 2: we are, our number you know, coming to a close,
Speaker 2: Our number duo coming straight up. We're gonna just grab
Speaker 2: a few calls with John and he's gonna r on
Speaker 2: his way to breakfast. If you're on hold, stay armhold
Speaker 2: eight hundred and eight for eight nine two two two.
Speaker 2: You know there is I want to play this Rokahanna
Speaker 2: cut for John two that we have and then we're
Speaker 2: gonna take some calls when we get back because it's
Speaker 2: Roe Kahanna cut and I'm saving this cut rod Nikono
Speaker 2: to save this cut for Princess Diana when she returns
Speaker 2: from her hiatus, the visiting the subjects throughout the country,
Speaker 2: our number one indicator, our number duo coming up on
Speaker 2: a Saturday morning, extravagance. Whatever you do, keep it right
Speaker 2: here with us, folks, please and do not go. John
Speaker 2: Kats is back with us. John in the car, head
Speaker 2: it to the breakfast.
Speaker 1: So what's going on? I mean, the sun is shining.
Speaker 1: I hope it's shining down in where you are, and
Speaker 1: I hope it's shining for people on a Saturday.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: John.
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you about one thing too, while
Speaker 2: you're on the road here Rokahanna. You know. And the
Speaker 2: curious thing about ro Coahanna is, sometimes to me, John,
Speaker 2: even though this guy is a total liberal Democrat, refuses
Speaker 2: to denounce this this piker character. Once in a while,
Speaker 2: Kahanna says things that makes sense to me. I want
Speaker 2: to play something for you and get his reaction. They
Speaker 2: cut for Rokahanna. Here it is, John, listen to this
Speaker 2: and tell me what you think about this.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you why they're winning. People are upset at
Speaker 6: a unfair political and economic system. They can't afford gas,
Speaker 6: they can't afford food. Young people can't afford to buy
Speaker 6: a home or get a job. But what I've said,
Speaker 6: I've called an economic patriotism, that we need a future
Speaker 6: economy delivering prosperity for every American and every community, not
Speaker 6: just enriching billionaires in a few places. And America's next
Speaker 6: new deal. And that's I call myself an FDR Democrat,
Speaker 6: and I think that's a big tent that can actually
Speaker 6: bring change in this country.
Speaker 2: So when you hear stuff like that, what do you think.
Speaker 1: I think it sounds great. It sounds great, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't work. And that's with the hosting. You have to say,
Speaker 1: and you have to consider you need. It doesn't work
Speaker 1: in any Socialism has not worked in any country. And
Speaker 1: what happens is the people that preach socialism are the
Speaker 1: ones that end up like being in charge later on
Speaker 1: and what they end up becoming dictators? You know of
Speaker 1: any I want to ask all those people talking like that,
Speaker 1: do you know of any socialist country that's a democracy
Speaker 1: that that and that the socialist characters ended up becoming
Speaker 1: dictators and they ended up being the billionaires and controlling
Speaker 1: the money. Don't forget that. They what they say about
Speaker 1: putin he controls zidiots. Look, Gletski, I never trusted one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. I think there's zidions going somewhere else. You know, uh,
Speaker 1: if you know, it's very very sad that people believe
Speaker 1: these characters and their characters. If you were a businessman
Speaker 1: and believed all those characters coming into your business, you
Speaker 1: go broken no time.
Speaker 2: And this is but John, okay, so I number one,
Speaker 2: I agree with you. I think part of these guys
Speaker 2: never talk about what caused the problems that they're complaining
Speaker 2: about the economic woes, and most of the economic woes
Speaker 2: are caused by liberal policies that do not have market
Speaker 2: based solutions for anything, or that basically are trying to
Speaker 2: redistribute wealth and that. So you look at New York's
Speaker 2: housing problems caused by regulation, you look at liberal regulation,
Speaker 2: You look at what they're trying to do, and you
Speaker 2: know this all too well. Look at what they're trying
Speaker 2: to do in the grocery markets, and you see another
Speaker 2: problem getting ready to happen that everyone that knows how
Speaker 2: business work is saying, don't do this, you're gonna make
Speaker 2: matters worse. But they're going full steam ahead and trying
Speaker 2: to do it anyway. You look at what they're trying
Speaker 2: to do, giving away childcare to a limited group people
Speaker 2: at taxpayer expense. This is not going to be it's
Speaker 2: not going to be sustainable. You're not going to ever
Speaker 2: be able to afford to do this without discriminating against
Speaker 2: certain tax payers who won't, who are paying for their
Speaker 2: own kids and they're paying for other people's kids. Everything
Speaker 2: these people try has been tried before. It doesn't work.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, But John, the point that I
Speaker 2: want to see and get your reaction, we got to
Speaker 2: take a break. When we come back from the break,
Speaker 2: when they talk about young people and the way that
Speaker 2: young people are suffering because they can't get ahead. I
Speaker 2: want to ask you what the solution to that is
Speaker 2: when we get back, because that is real. This younger generation,
Speaker 2: they are not having the same kind of economic opportunities
Speaker 2: that existed in America before James Goldland. The spinners are
Speaker 2: taking us in here. I'll tell you why when we
Speaker 2: get back. John Katsumuteneus is with us. Lationis and gentlemen, John,
Speaker 2: let me just ask you this one question. I know
Speaker 2: you're headed to breakfast before we go for the half hour, John,
Speaker 2: what would you tell young people who feel that the
Speaker 2: American dream has passed them by? What advice would you
Speaker 2: give to the younger generation who feel no matter how
Speaker 2: hard they try. And I'm not talking about the lazy.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about the people that don't want to work.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the ones that want to work, that
Speaker 2: want to succeed, but they just think that the deck
Speaker 2: is stacked against them. What would you say to those kids?
Speaker 1: The deck is not stacked against you. The only place
Speaker 1: in the world you can go from poverty to success
Speaker 1: is America. Work hard, and the fact is be the
Speaker 1: best at what you do. If you're the best plumber around,
Speaker 1: you're going to become a millionaire. If you're the best
Speaker 1: electrician around, you're going to become a millionaire because you're
Speaker 1: going to establish a business and you're gonna have other
Speaker 1: people work for you. And America is still the American
Speaker 1: dream is still alive. And Bow if they go into
Speaker 1: the WABC website the bookstore, anybody wants a book. If
Speaker 1: they mentioned the word both Schnartley, I will give it
Speaker 1: to them complimentary, and I will sign it and I
Speaker 1: will sign it and I will sign it. And my
Speaker 1: book the UH says how do you make a billion dollars?
Speaker 1: Guess what all they have to do is read it
Speaker 1: and UH And on page two fifty five, it's my
Speaker 1: instructions on the things that you shouldn't do and should do. UH.
Speaker 1: And success is alive in America. Work hard and you
Speaker 1: could do it and you can make it no matter
Speaker 1: how poor you are.
Speaker 2: Now, John, So if you go to the WABC bookstore
Speaker 2: and you titen boy there, John is going to sign
Speaker 2: you the book. He's giving you the book your roadmap
Speaker 2: to how you can become a bit John. Let me
Speaker 2: just ask you did this this is not coming from Theory.
Speaker 2: You came to America literally with almost nothing.
Speaker 1: My father, you bestboy, not even a waiter because he
Speaker 1: couldn't speak English well. So he was a bus boy.
Speaker 1: He was making forty eight dollars a week pay and
Speaker 1: I worked hard. He sent me to good schools. He
Speaker 1: sent me to Brooklyn Tech High School, which is a
Speaker 1: brook a public high school. And I went to a
Speaker 1: public high school. I was. I got. I had the
Speaker 1: congressional nomination for west Point, but I ended up going
Speaker 1: up to New York University NYU in the Uptown campus
Speaker 1: which is now Bronx Community. Work hard, study hard, and
Speaker 1: used common sense in life, and you can make it
Speaker 1: in America.
Speaker 2: Wow, John Katz and Matiti's ladies and gentlemen. John, you
Speaker 2: know we don't talk often enough. You have to come
Speaker 2: back once in a while. I love this so inspirational.
Speaker 2: So John, thank you so much for spending your time
Speaker 2: with us this morning.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me and I hope if we
Speaker 1: saved two, three, four or five kids this morning, then
Speaker 1: we earned our pay for the morning.
Speaker 2: Boom. I love that. Remember, folks, that great offer that
Speaker 2: John just made you. You want to know how to
Speaker 2: do it. You want to know how to do it.
Speaker 2: He's going to give you a roadmap on how to
Speaker 2: do it. James Goldlin is nerdly. John Katsimentinius, thank you
Speaker 2: so much