WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:09.759 COSI. This is the seventy seven WABC Mini cast. 2 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:14.359 Right now, ladies and gentlemen, listen to this, and now 3 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:16.039 it's time for the cat corner. 4 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:19.160 I have tears in my eyes. America is crumbling. We 5 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:22.120 have outdated highways. Great highways like we built in the 6 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:25.519 past are not happening. High speed rail, my daughter called 7 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:27.719 me from China. She was going two hundred and fifty 8 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:30.480 miles an hour. What do we have in America? High 9 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:34.560 speed rail hasn't happened. Airports we have second rate airports 10 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:38.880 compared to other countries. Promises promises from politicians that we're 11 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:41.640 going to fix the roads, fix the airports, et cetera, 12 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:44.799 et cetera. Then we also need to balance. When we 13 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:47.159 have a budget in one of those Blue states for 14 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:49.640 one hundred billion, we don't want it to cost a 15 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:52.799 two hundred billion. We need to stop debating and we 16 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.799 have to start building. President Trump has said nineteen trillion 17 00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:00.759 dollars in new factories and businesses are coming to America 18 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:04.159 over the next few years. Well, they need roads, they 19 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:07.680 need airports. It should not be a controversial issue. It 20 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:11.359 should be an American issue. Let's make America great again. 21 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:13.920 This is John Katsmatitis with the cat's corner. 22 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.239 And the cat's corner is right here, right now, John, 23 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:21.359 kats Matiti's is with us. Good morning, John, how are 24 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:22.439 you well? 25 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.640 Good morning, and the sun is shining, which is great 26 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:26.640 for Saturday morning. 27 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:30.920 I love it. John. I heard your Cat's corner. It 28 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:33.560 blew my mind. I said, I've got to play this, 29 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:38.959 and so now even better we have you on with us. John. 30 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:43.560 Let's start with some of the things you said, the airport, 31 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:48.879 the roads, and a high speed rail. I happen to be, 32 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:54.239 despite being a conservatant here a proponent of high speed rail. 33 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:59.760 We have been talking about high speed rail for decades. Obama. 34 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:02.640 I remember when President Obama went to China came back 35 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:08.479 gushing about how they were making advances with high speed 36 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:14.639 rail and we were lagging behind. The distance is even further, John, 37 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:17.960 Why can't we have And then look what California did, 38 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:22.960 all this billions and billions and billions spent not one 39 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:28.199 high speed train and not one, not one completed line. 40 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:33.439 Why can't we have high speed rail in America? Why 41 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:34.319 don't we have it? 42 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:39.159 Well, the truth is, I don't think anybody really knows, 43 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:43.879 the fact is that it's good to talk to people 44 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:48.199 about it as similar to what they're doing now, free 45 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:53.599 buses and free trains and free food and free this 46 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:58.719 and free that. The pology. You know, the American people 47 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:03.319 are listeners. Should realize that half the stuff is just talk. 48 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:09.319 And it's very very sad. Uh. You know. I love 49 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:12.240 to take the when I go from New York to Washington, 50 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:15.680 d C. I love to check the train because they 51 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:19.800 go from downtown to downtown instead of wait going to 52 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:23.199 the airport, have to go to the airport, wait, wait 53 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:29.719 for the airplane, do this through that, and it takes 54 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:32.400 just about the same amount of time to go to 55 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.199 Washington by train, and then it does the by plane. 56 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:43.199 And I did get a phone call for my daughter. 57 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:46.840 She was in China visiting, and she was going two 58 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:50.080 undred says Dad, I'm going two hundred fifty miles an hour. 59 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:54.759 Why can't could they do it? And why can't we 60 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:59.719 do it? And why can't they do it in three years? 61 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:04.879 And it takes us forever? There's something you know, in 62 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:07.479 the ninety year I grew up, I'm maybe older than you. 63 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:11.599 I grew up in the fifties, in the sixties, and 64 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:16.959 right after World War Two, we were dedicated. We were dedicated, 65 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:21.680 and we were out there building building building, Remember all 66 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:26.759 the highways of Eisenhower built. Oh, we were so proud 67 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:30.000 of them. We even wrote songs about Root sixty six. 68 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:36.079 We made a television show about Route sixty six, and 69 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:42.560 somehow it all came to a stop. Yeah. 70 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:46.199 John. One of the things Rush talked about was the 71 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:50.920 speed with what the Empire State Building came up, which 72 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:55.000 was that, for many, many, many decades, the tallest building 73 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:57.519 in the world. Of course that's been eclipsed time and 74 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:01.480 time over, but that building only took a few years 75 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:05.360 from breaking the ground to the completing completion of the building. 76 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:08.600 It's still standing and it was a building that was 77 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:12.879 well built, and it was done in such a short 78 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:16.439 period of time. Now you're a building yourself, John, what 79 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:21.000 do you face when you when you're building projects? Well? 80 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:25.920 Uh, I first of all, I love to build projects 81 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:30.600 that wow wow projects. What's a wild project? You look 82 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:32.480 at it and you say, wow, I want to live 83 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:38.480 there in something that we're proud of. Uh. And that's 84 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:40.759 what I always tell my real estate guys, and I 85 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:44.680 have to argue with them because they're saying, oh bosh, 86 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:47.240 it's gonna question A that a million dollars, I said, 87 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:49.879 so what, I'll make a million dollars less. I don't care. 88 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:55.680 I want a wild project. Uh. And we we want 89 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:58.560 to build things in America that we're all proud of. 90 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:03.319 And there it's highways. I mean, they were making fun 91 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:07.759 of us around the world that we had the crappiest Uh. 92 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:15.160 The airport's around. I mean, we're starting to make some improvements, 93 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:19.639 but it looks like it takes forever. And you know, 94 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:22.839 and then the other problem is in some of our 95 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:25.560 Blue states, they come up with a budget of one 96 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:29.199 hundred million and the ends up coursing two hundred million 97 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:35.480 and the extra three years. The one thing that I remember. 98 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:41.439 The Big dig You remember the Big Diggan Massachusetts. Yeah, 99 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:43.480 you remember the Big Diggan Massachusetts. 100 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:43.759 Right. 101 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:46.879 How that went on forever and ever, and the cost 102 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:48.720 over ones were just insane. 103 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:55.519 They just kept paying and pay and pain. And but 104 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:58.879 I was gonna say to you, I gotta give Cromo 105 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:03.639 some accolades on a couple of projects. He rebuilt part 106 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:06.879 of LaGuardia. He rebuilt the bridge. 107 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:10.920 The old bridge that it happens. 108 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:15.120 Yeah, the Captain Seat bridge, And he built it in 109 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:18.720 no time. At all. So, you know, a lot of 110 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:21.040 people didn't like him because he was a real tough guy. 111 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:24.759 But I guess he was tough enough to build the bridge, 112 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:28.199 and he's tough enough to fix LaGuardia. He was tough 113 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:32.800 enough to do a few other things. And sof I 114 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:36.399 gotta get him some accolades. With his accolades to be given, 115 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:39.360 I'll give some accolades. The other thing that bothers me 116 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:48.839 taking the Amtrak from New York to Washington. There's no seatbelts. 117 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:51.680 I don't understand. You're going one hundred and forty miles 118 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:53.480 an hour. You're going one hundred and fifty miles an hour. 119 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:56.720 How come there's no seatbelts. 120 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:03.759 On thesella you're talking on your cellar line. Yeah, here's 121 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:06.439 what I don't understand, John, since you want to bring 122 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:08.639 you up, and since I brought a look, if you 123 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.800 if you take that route, and I've taken that train 124 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:17.639 many times, all you see on the sides of as 125 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:22.079 you go through the outskirts of Philadelphia, as you go 126 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:24.399 through some of the ou skirts, you just see blight. 127 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:26.600 You see the blight. 128 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:31.720 And I got tears in my eyes because you go 129 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:35.080 through Baltimore, you go through Philadelphia, you go through Baltimore, 130 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:38.759 you go through some of those suburbs, and it looks 131 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:42.519 like it looks like Germany after World War Two. 132 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:48.120 Right these are I don't know what the answer is, 133 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:52.159 but you talk about a high speed rail line, there 134 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:57.559 is the real estate is there to do it. If 135 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:01.879 they had to even go above ground like they do 136 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:06.480 in Japan, where you have the high speed rail above 137 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:10.519 ground in certain places so that they can make sure 138 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:13.399 that it's as speedy as possible, the real estate is 139 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.679 there to do it. What is lacking, it seems to me, 140 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:19.399 is the political will to do it and to do 141 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:23.399 it cost effectively, without grift, and without what has happened 142 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:30.399 in California. It's a disgrace. You spend a billion, go ahead, and. 143 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:33.399 He wants to do. Gavin Bloson whats to do to 144 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:35.679 the rest of the country when he did to California. 145 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:38.240 I mean, I got changed in my eyes. You know, 146 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:42.360 I had Vice President Pence, the former Vice president, on 147 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:46.399 my show last week, and you know what he says. 148 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:49.879 I disagreed with a lot of Republicans. I disagreed with 149 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:55.960 President Trump. But so Republicans disagree amongst themselves on a 150 00:09:55.960 --> 00:10:01.120 lot of things, but Democrats have lost their minds, right. 151 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:04.440 I want to talk about that when John. I want 152 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:06.279 to take a quick break here. Hey, John, you want 153 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:07.879 to take a few chhone calls with me? Can you 154 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:08.159 do that? 155 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:10.000 Not a problem? 156 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:12.279 Okay, here's what we're gonna do. I want to talk 157 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:14.360 to you about when we get back. I want to 158 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:18.720 talk to you about James Talarico Dowland, Texas, who is 159 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:23.240 still blaming Ronald Reagan for trickle down economics. And then 160 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:24.799 I want to take a few calls with you. Let's 161 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:26.720 see what we have. One of the phone lines, James 162 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:30.759 Golden both nerly, John Katzimatini's is with us ladies and gentlemen. 163 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:35.720 John Katzimatini's is here, John, let me play this for you. 164 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:38.399 It'll just take a minute and change. This is the 165 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:42.919 guy that's running for the Senate down there in tejas In, Texas, 166 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:47.759 James tallerco. Listen to what his take is on why 167 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:51.039 we are in the economic situations we are today. 168 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:57.360 Republicans and some Democrats sold the false gospel of trickle 169 00:10:57.399 --> 00:11:04.480 down economics, that that idea that the best way to 170 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:07.879 grow the economy is to let the rich get richer 171 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:11.799 and forget about everybody else. That the best way to 172 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:15.840 motivate wealthy people is to give them money, and the 173 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:18.399 best way to motivate the rest of us is to 174 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:23.320 take it away. Someday, somehow, they told us the gains 175 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:26.960 would trickle down to the rest of us. Trickle down 176 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:33.159 economics is not a theory. It is theft for fifty years. 177 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:41.320 That's fifty years. Listen, John, This to me is just 178 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:47.279 it's so bogus. Supply side economic John Kennedy was in 179 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:49.960 favor and wanted as policy, he said, and he said 180 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:53.360 it in a way that everyone could understand. A rising tide, 181 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:57.360 lift all boat. This guy says, we let the rich 182 00:11:57.519 --> 00:12:01.279 get richer and forget about everybody else. The United States 183 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:06.840 of America spends more on welfare than any other developed 184 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:09.080 nation on the face of the earth, and it's a 185 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:12.679 never ending spend. And then he says, we give the 186 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:15.840 rich money and take the money away from the poor. 187 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:19.879 Wealthy people, the people in the top one percent, and 188 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:26.200 you know this pay the majority of all taxes period. 189 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:30.320 What do you make of this argument? That democrat? And 190 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:35.600 this kid was born the year that Ronald Reagan finished 191 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:37.960 his last time. He was born in nineteen eighty nine, 192 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:42.039 when Reagan's first term was over. And yet he's talking 193 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:44.960 as if he's some kind of expert on so called 194 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:46.279 trickle down economics. 195 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:48.879 What do you think, John, I think he has no 196 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:52.919 clue at all. It's like the same thing happens with 197 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:56.919 AOC in New York City. When Amazon was going to 198 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:02.279 spend thirty billion dollars in New York City, in Queens 199 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:08.039 County where they needed more jobs, thirty billion dollars. One company, 200 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:11.600 Amazon has the ability to do that. Well, you know 201 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:14.440 what happened, she said, And we're gonna give the Amazon 202 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:21.480 back four billion dollars as a rebate. Later on, she says, well, 203 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:23.960 we're going to spend the four billion dollars someplace else. 204 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:27.519 There was no four billion dollars. This is how stupid 205 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:33.120 she was. After Amazon spends the thirty billion, after we 206 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:38.600 create twenty five thousand jobs, Afterwards, after the twenty five 207 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:42.840 thousand people are paying their taxes to New York City, 208 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:46.919 New York State, and the federal government. After all that, 209 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:51.559 we give them Amazon back in twenty thirty five or 210 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:56.480 twenty thirty three four billion dollar rebate. Afterwards, it's we're 211 00:13:56.519 --> 00:13:59.720 giving them back part of their own money because they 212 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:03.080 could weated the jobs, and those people, those thirty thousand 213 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:09.879 jobs that created are paying taxes. The problem is, you know, 214 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:16.799 and I heard some people the Democratic Socialist Party they 215 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:21.679 want to lower the voting age down to sixteen sixteen. Yeah, 216 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:23.919 I mean, I know, we voted it down to eighteen. 217 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:30.320 But you need some common sense sometimes, and we're losing it. 218 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:35.159 Whether whether it's Texas or whether it's Illinois, or whether 219 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:40.679 it's New York, we're losing it. And President Trump said, 220 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:46.399 I remember with Illinois, we've lost two hundred and eighty 221 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:52.159 thousand black and brown people kids in Chicago since the 222 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:58.960 Iranian War. And the Democrats are saying, oh, thirteen soldiers died. 223 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:03.759 Things happen. I don't want thirty soldiers to die. But 224 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:07.960 the lord two hundred and eighty black and brown kids 225 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:11.240 that had a that never got a chance to grow up, 226 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:17.679 and he's offered help to send people in to help 227 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:26.120 make a difference in that Governor of Illinois says, no, 228 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:27.039 we don't want your help. 229 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:30.720 Ritz Yep and Brandon Johnson won't won't take the help either. 230 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:35.120 Don't understand it. I don't understand it. 231 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:41.960 Both well, well, I do understand it, John. Their hatred 232 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:47.759 of Donald Trump supersedes everything else. They hate him, so 233 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:52.639 it is pure hate that they can't see beyond their 234 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:55.879 hate toward what is best for the people that they 235 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:57.000 claim to represent. 236 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:02.399 It's astounding for the Police Athletic League in New York 237 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:06.320 City for forty years, maybe forty five years, and now 238 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:10.320 I'm chairman and we take care of twenty five thousand kids, 239 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:13.360 black and brown kids, and then in the inner cities, 240 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:16.440 and I worry about every single one of them. 241 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:22.679 In Chicago, they don't worry. I mean, how can this 242 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:29.000 happen to our country? How can that be acceptable? Man? 243 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:32.320 Well, I'll tell you what, John, I'm looking at the clock. 244 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:35.519 We promised to take calls. Can we do this? Can 245 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:37.279 we just ask you to hang out with us a 246 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:39.279 little while longer after the top of the hour break, 247 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:41.480 so you and I can take some calls together. And 248 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:46.320 I want to play something else for you. I actually 249 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:49.480 want to play this candidate, something from this candidate that's 250 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:55.679 running in to be the governor of Wisconsin and of 251 00:16:55.799 --> 00:17:00.559 all things, John, The Washington Post has an editor today 252 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:03.960 about why she shouldn't be the governor. They're afraid that 253 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:07.079 people will start fleeing Wisconsin if she becomes governor, like 254 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:09.359 they're fleeing everyone else. I don't know what your time 255 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:11.000 frame is like. If you have other stuff to do with. 256 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:12.839 Want I tell you I have to go. You know, 257 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:17.359 we're hosting I'm hosting a breakfast. You know, we in Southampton. 258 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:20.599 We're host of breakfast every Saturday morning for all those 259 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:23.319 people that have nothing to do on Saturday mornings. And 260 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:26.559 we usually have about one hundred people. Last week we 261 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.279 had Bill O'Reilly. The week before we had Katie McFarland. 262 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:33.519 The week before that, we're Andrew Cuomo. The week before that, 263 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:37.960 we had Bruce Blakeman. Today we have Governor Hope and 264 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:40.880 she's consisting up being there at nine o'clock. And I 265 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:44.319 told everybody that's coming, I said, you listen, she is 266 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:48.839 the governor. You have to be civilized. And I'll be 267 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:50.680 in the car and I'll call you back from the 268 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:52.519 far about eight o five or eight oh seven. 269 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:55.599 That sounds great, John, We'll talk to you five eight 270 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:59.319 oh seven while John is on his way to breakfast. John, 271 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:00.880 thanks so much. We look at we'll look for you 272 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:05.200 on the other side. Okay, yep, great, Okay, folks, here 273 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:07.880 we are, our number you know, coming to a close, 274 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:11.240 Our number duo coming straight up. We're gonna just grab 275 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:13.000 a few calls with John and he's gonna r on 276 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:15.400 his way to breakfast. If you're on hold, stay armhold 277 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:18.680 eight hundred and eight for eight nine two two two. 278 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:23.640 You know there is I want to play this Rokahanna 279 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:28.200 cut for John two that we have and then we're 280 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:30.039 gonna take some calls when we get back because it's 281 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:33.000 Roe Kahanna cut and I'm saving this cut rod Nikono 282 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:36.119 to save this cut for Princess Diana when she returns 283 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:44.119 from her hiatus, the visiting the subjects throughout the country, 284 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:47.880 our number one indicator, our number duo coming up on 285 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.440 a Saturday morning, extravagance. Whatever you do, keep it right 286 00:18:50.440 --> 00:19:01.799 here with us, folks, please and do not go. John 287 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:06.400 Kats is back with us. John in the car, head 288 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:08.359 it to the breakfast. 289 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:13.519 So what's going on? I mean, the sun is shining. 290 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:17.160 I hope it's shining down in where you are, and 291 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:19.839 I hope it's shining for people on a Saturday. 292 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:21.119 It is. 293 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:21.839 John. 294 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:25.079 I wanted to ask you about one thing too, while 295 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:29.839 you're on the road here Rokahanna. You know. And the 296 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:33.240 curious thing about ro Coahanna is, sometimes to me, John, 297 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:37.440 even though this guy is a total liberal Democrat, refuses 298 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:43.720 to denounce this this piker character. Once in a while, 299 00:19:43.920 --> 00:19:47.680 Kahanna says things that makes sense to me. I want 300 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:51.000 to play something for you and get his reaction. They 301 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:55.160 cut for Rokahanna. Here it is, John, listen to this 302 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:56.440 and tell me what you think about this. 303 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:00.240 I'll tell you why they're winning. People are upset at 304 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:04.599 a unfair political and economic system. They can't afford gas, 305 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:07.759 they can't afford food. Young people can't afford to buy 306 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:10.200 a home or get a job. But what I've said, 307 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:12.920 I've called an economic patriotism, that we need a future 308 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:17.880 economy delivering prosperity for every American and every community, not 309 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:21.759 just enriching billionaires in a few places. And America's next 310 00:20:21.799 --> 00:20:24.720 new deal. And that's I call myself an FDR Democrat, 311 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:27.400 and I think that's a big tent that can actually 312 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:28.759 bring change in this country. 313 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:33.759 So when you hear stuff like that, what do you think. 314 00:20:35.079 --> 00:20:38.559 I think it sounds great. It sounds great, but it 315 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:42.240 doesn't work. And that's with the hosting. You have to say, 316 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:46.920 and you have to consider you need. It doesn't work 317 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:52.279 in any Socialism has not worked in any country. And 318 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:56.920 what happens is the people that preach socialism are the 319 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:00.559 ones that end up like being in charge later on 320 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:05.440 and what they end up becoming dictators? You know of 321 00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:09.279 any I want to ask all those people talking like that, 322 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:14.279 do you know of any socialist country that's a democracy 323 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:19.839 that that and that the socialist characters ended up becoming 324 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:24.839 dictators and they ended up being the billionaires and controlling 325 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:27.960 the money. Don't forget that. They what they say about 326 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:33.839 putin he controls zidiots. Look, Gletski, I never trusted one 327 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:39.119 hundred percent. I think there's zidions going somewhere else. You know, uh, 328 00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:45.799 if you know, it's very very sad that people believe 329 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:50.480 these characters and their characters. If you were a businessman 330 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:54.480 and believed all those characters coming into your business, you 331 00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:55.720 go broken no time. 332 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:01.640 And this is but John, okay, so I number one, 333 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:05.160 I agree with you. I think part of these guys 334 00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:09.680 never talk about what caused the problems that they're complaining 335 00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:13.440 about the economic woes, and most of the economic woes 336 00:22:13.559 --> 00:22:19.960 are caused by liberal policies that do not have market 337 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:26.039 based solutions for anything, or that basically are trying to 338 00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:29.880 redistribute wealth and that. So you look at New York's 339 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:36.799 housing problems caused by regulation, you look at liberal regulation, 340 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:39.039 You look at what they're trying to do, and you 341 00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:41.200 know this all too well. Look at what they're trying 342 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:44.519 to do in the grocery markets, and you see another 343 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:48.039 problem getting ready to happen that everyone that knows how 344 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:50.839 business work is saying, don't do this, you're gonna make 345 00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:54.160 matters worse. But they're going full steam ahead and trying 346 00:22:54.160 --> 00:22:56.920 to do it anyway. You look at what they're trying 347 00:22:56.920 --> 00:23:00.440 to do, giving away childcare to a limited group people 348 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:05.880 at taxpayer expense. This is not going to be it's 349 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:08.519 not going to be sustainable. You're not going to ever 350 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:12.519 be able to afford to do this without discriminating against 351 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:15.720 certain tax payers who won't, who are paying for their 352 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:19.039 own kids and they're paying for other people's kids. Everything 353 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:22.079 these people try has been tried before. It doesn't work. 354 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:24.559 I agree with you, But John, the point that I 355 00:23:24.680 --> 00:23:26.519 want to see and get your reaction, we got to 356 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:28.160 take a break. When we come back from the break, 357 00:23:28.680 --> 00:23:31.039 when they talk about young people and the way that 358 00:23:31.240 --> 00:23:35.240 young people are suffering because they can't get ahead. I 359 00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:37.480 want to ask you what the solution to that is 360 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:41.960 when we get back, because that is real. This younger generation, 361 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:46.680 they are not having the same kind of economic opportunities 362 00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:52.640 that existed in America before James Goldland. The spinners are 363 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:57.039 taking us in here. I'll tell you why when we 364 00:23:57.079 --> 00:24:00.200 get back. John Katsumuteneus is with us. Lationis and gentlemen, John, 365 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:01.720 let me just ask you this one question. I know 366 00:24:01.720 --> 00:24:06.000 you're headed to breakfast before we go for the half hour, John, 367 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:08.759 what would you tell young people who feel that the 368 00:24:08.799 --> 00:24:12.000 American dream has passed them by? What advice would you 369 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:17.440 give to the younger generation who feel no matter how 370 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:20.079 hard they try. And I'm not talking about the lazy. 371 00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:22.279 I'm not talking about the people that don't want to work. 372 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:25.119 I'm talking about the ones that want to work, that 373 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:28.079 want to succeed, but they just think that the deck 374 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:31.160 is stacked against them. What would you say to those kids? 375 00:24:31.799 --> 00:24:35.960 The deck is not stacked against you. The only place 376 00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:40.759 in the world you can go from poverty to success 377 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:46.200 is America. Work hard, and the fact is be the 378 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:50.039 best at what you do. If you're the best plumber around, 379 00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:52.920 you're going to become a millionaire. If you're the best 380 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:56.680 electrician around, you're going to become a millionaire because you're 381 00:24:56.720 --> 00:24:59.279 going to establish a business and you're gonna have other 382 00:24:59.319 --> 00:25:03.839 people work for you. And America is still the American 383 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:08.799 dream is still alive. And Bow if they go into 384 00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:13.480 the WABC website the bookstore, anybody wants a book. If 385 00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:16.680 they mentioned the word both Schnartley, I will give it 386 00:25:16.720 --> 00:25:20.119 to them complimentary, and I will sign it and I 387 00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:23.079 will sign it and I will sign it. And my 388 00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:27.519 book the UH says how do you make a billion dollars? 389 00:25:28.200 --> 00:25:31.519 Guess what all they have to do is read it 390 00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:36.319 and UH And on page two fifty five, it's my 391 00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:41.920 instructions on the things that you shouldn't do and should do. UH. 392 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:46.839 And success is alive in America. Work hard and you 393 00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:49.119 could do it and you can make it no matter 394 00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:50.000 how poor you are. 395 00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:57.039 Now, John, So if you go to the WABC bookstore 396 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:01.759 and you titen boy there, John is going to sign 397 00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:05.960 you the book. He's giving you the book your roadmap 398 00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:08.759 to how you can become a bit John. Let me 399 00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:12.720 just ask you did this this is not coming from Theory. 400 00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:18.039 You came to America literally with almost nothing. 401 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:22.720