A City in Turmoil: New York's Latest Challenges

Brace yourself for the latest jaw-dropping spectacle from New York City—the city where scandals are as common as yellow cabs. Picture this: a high-profile Hispanic Heritage event at Gracie Mansion spirals into chaos as two officials from the City Department of Corrections engage in a full-on, reality TV-worthy brawl. With Mayor Eric Adams already under the spotlight due to a hefty 57-page indictment, the chaos only adds fuel to the fire. And yet, amid the pandemonium, the mayor staunchly maintains his innocence, declaring he "didn't do a damn thing wrong." Can the city weather this storm of scandal and adversity, or is there more drama waiting in the wings?

But that's not all—New York City is also grappling with a humanitarian crisis, as it scrambles to find 14,000 hotel rooms to shelter migrants through 2025. We unravel the complexity of this massive undertaking and the strain it places on the city’s infrastructure and resources. From scuffles in Gracie Mansion to the pressing need for migrant accommodation, this episode peels back the layers on the multifaceted challenges confronting the city that never sleeps. Join us for a candid discussion on the events and decisions shaping New York's ever-turbulent political landscape.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:19

Hello, good morning, happy Thursday, welcome one and all. Okay, we have four topics to get through. I was I'm going to try my best to get through them quickly because I'm already over my allotted time via my podcast hosting. So I'm already over my time, which means I had to pay extra money, which is fine. It's only like $3 an hour extra that I have to pay, so that's not too terrible. All right, we are getting on with it. Ready, ready, ready. I have four topics. The first one man. We got the ghetto people up in the New York City Gracie Mansion.

Speaker 1: 0:56

High-ranking New York City officials caught fighting, wrestling over phone at Gracie Mansion, forcing corrections officer to step in. This is from the New York Post. You know Eric Adams is all up in a scandal right now. It's ridiculous, all right. And now we have a fight at a party at the Gracie Mansion. Forget about all the scandals and everything that's happening. We're going to have a party. Okay, and it turned ghetto. Here's a cat fight worthy of the Real Housewives of City Hall.

Speaker 1: 1:27

Two high-ranking New York officials have been caught on camera wrestling with each other over a phone at an official event at Gracie Mansion on Tuesday night. They have pictures of it. There are people packed up in this room, packed up in this room. City Department of Corrections Press Secretary Anais Morales and DOC Compliance Officer Miriam Singh struggled with each other in a diva Donnybrook. That was finally stopped by two uniformed corrections officers.

Speaker 1: 1:59

A video posted on X revealed okay, so let's see what else. Oh gosh, oh, I lost my place. Hold on y'all, I'm sorry. Okay, here we go. City department uh of correction press secretary. I already said that. I already said that. Okay, sorry, I had to stop the video for a second. I mean the video, the, the audio. Okay, y'all, I'm sorry, let me stop, take it back. I'm not going to start this over, we're just going to continue. Thank you for sticking with me through all of this. City Hall blasted. The pair of their reality show behavior. We expect all city employees to act with the highest level of integrity. This matter is under investigation by the Department of Correction. Deputy Mayor of Communications. Fabian Levi told the Post. Mayor of communications. Fabian levi told the post.

Speaker 1: 2:51

The doc official started their cell block level scuffle after getting into a verbal argument near a fern on the side of a packed room, as dancers could be seen in the background of the hispanic heritage event. So that gives there has some kind of a hispanic heritage event at the greasy mansion, with some dancers, and these two ladies decided to get into it like a couple of ghetto skanks. At one point, sing takes out her phone to film the confrontation and morales can be seen lunging for sing's device as two uniformed corrections officers step in to diffuse the situation. We don't know what they were arguing about. I don't believe the argument says the argument took place at a hispanic should be at a hispanic or at an hispanic? I don't at a hispanic heritage event being hosted by mayor eric adams, who has been continuing business as usual. I guess parties at the mansion are business as usual, despite being slapped with several bombshell I'm sorry, being slapped with a bombshell 57-page indictment. So he's indicted 57 pages, 57 pages of indictment and he's going to party at the mansion. Okay, during his speech to attendees, adams took a moment to again underscore his innocence, claiming he didn't do a damn thing wrong, referring to the turmoil that's ensnared his administration. And that may be true. I don't know, I haven't not read the 57 page indictment. Uh, but a lot of people are saying, because he spoke out against the administration during this migrant crisis, that, of course, they're going to dig up some dirt on him. I don't know what these ladies were arguing about, but they have really shown their true colors here.

Speaker 1: 4:42

All right, we're going to move on to the next story, again New York City related. They are seeking 14, 000 hotel rooms to shelter migrants through 2025. What's going to happen after 2025? You're still going to need to shelter them as housing costs set to surpass 2.3 billion dollars. All right, continuing on with this story. Let's see what it says in detail, because it's ridiculous.

Speaker 1: 5:11

New York City's use of hotels as emergency shelters to house migrants will continue for the foreseeable future. The Post has learned, as the Department of Homeless Services is seeking a contract with hotels to provide a total of 14,000 rooms to shelter migrants, at least through the next year. The city projects I mean, sorry, the city projects that spending on housing for migrants over the past two years and this physical year surpasses staggering 2.3 billion. Oh, there's oh, it gets worse because there's going to be more About 150 hotels 150 hotels currently sheltering migrants, and total spending on migrant services over three years will hit $5.7 billion.

Speaker 1: 6:00

Now, is this federal money? If so, let's think about the hurricane victims, the American citizens of the hurricane victims. Where's their money? The taxpayers can't pay for this indefinitely, said Nicole Jelenas, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute think-tank. With Mayor Eric Adams under criminal indictment and his administration in disarray, jelenelena said Governor Kathy Hochul should take control of managing the migrant crisis in this city. She said it's totally unacceptable that so many hotels in Manhattan's Midtown and downtown tourist districts have been converted to migrant shelters instead of serving the tourism industry. Really you think so? Huh, how about that?

Speaker 1: 6:48

You can go finish reading that story if you're like we're gonna move on this next story again. It's another New York City story. Of course I'm getting these stories all from the New York Post. Here's the problem I have with the story it's the headline. If you have children in the room, remove them or pause this. Come back later when you don't have children present and listening. All right, here we go. This headline is ridiculous.

Speaker 1: 7:15

Woman 20, could face criminal charges after miscarrying in New York City restroom bathroom, leaving fetus in toilet. Okay, why did they phrase it that way? Why did they phrase it that way? They're phrasing it like this poor, innocent woman had a miscarriage all of a sudden right there in the bathroom and now she might be charged with criminal behavior because she miscarried. I guess I don't know what the abortion laws are there in in, uh, new York, but it sounds to me like they're trying to portray it as some innocent little thing happening, like she was too scared to do anything or go see what you know, I don't know. Let's read on, because this is horrible. This is horrible and this woman, I think, should be charged with murder.

Speaker 1: 8:13

All right, a 20 year old maybe not murder, maybe something else, maybe a little bit manslaughter, I don't know. But you know, look, I've never had a miscarriage. Thankfully I've not had one. I don't know what, but I, from what I understand, it's very painful, you know. You're having it when it's happening. It's not something that just, oh, you know, oh, okay, well, I passed that. No, that's a 20 year old woman could face criminal charges after she apparently miscarried at a manhattan restaurant last week, leaving the fetus behind and clogging the toilet.

Speaker 1: 8:49

Officials officials said this week All right, you ready the male child. They know what sex. It is believed to be 22 to 23 weeks. I think they can survive at that age. Gestation and weighing just over a pound was discovered just before 10 am September 30th inside the restroom at Sophie's Cuban Cuisine on Fulton Street near Gold Street downtown. Oh, there's more. There's more. As of right now, the medical examiner's office states that it's possible that the fetus had taken one or two breaths, but not enough to sustain life. Nypd Chief of Detective Joseph Kinney. Well, that's because she's in the bathroom, having the child in the bathroom and leaving it in the toilet to die. That's why it only took one or two breaths. Asshole, oh, these people Investigators believe the woman, a customer at the eatery the day before, went to the bathroom where she likely miscarried.

Speaker 1: 9:49

She leaves the bathroom and employees are alerted that the bathroom is dirty. The next day they come in and find that it is clogged. Bless, oh, my gosh, this woman. I think she does need to be charged. I think she does because she knew what was happening. She had to have known what was happening. Oh, whatever, I know, not whatever. That poor child. She had to have known what was happening, do you not think so? I think so. All right, this next we're going to leave, since we're coming up on a halloween.

Speaker 1: 10:21

It's a little bit lighter, more entertaining, but also from the new york post texas chainsaw massacre turns 50 years old, acres of pot injuries and real human skeletons that cursed the set. I'm not going to read the whole thing, we're going to read just some of it, just a teaser, so you can go read it if you'd like. Almost everybody dies violently in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Now, I have not seen this movie so, but I understand it is a cult classic. But against all odds, the chase horror movie is the classic horror movie is still alive and kicking, cutting, slicing and bashing 50 years later.

Speaker 1: 11:02

The 1974 film, directed by Tobey Hooper, was made on a shoestring budget of $140,000. Wow, think of that in today's term, $140,000. Wow, think of that in today's term, $140,000. And critics were not so taken with the cannibalistic nightmare when it hit cinemas on October 1st 1974. The post-Archer Winston hacked at the sick flick with his own chainsaw. If there is any justice at all, he wrote in his newspaper, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre now at showcase theaters will win a swift kick as the worst picture of 1974, quite possibly the worst of the entire 1970s.

Speaker 1: 11:46

But let's see. Even more remarkable is that the Texas Chainsaw was created by a group of young, inexperienced filmmakers and actors who were frequently high on pot and generally laissez-faire about personal safety. Now, pot back then was a lot different in the 1970s than it is right now. I had no idea how dangerous the chainsaw really was, wrote Leatherface actor Gunnar Hansen in his 2013 memoir Chainsaw Confidential how we Made the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie. I had never used one before, he says. Hansen's Leatherface was, of course, part of the family of murderous psychopaths who terrorize a group of five teenagers in a remote part of Lone Star State. The creepy character wears masks made out of fake human skin. Ed Gein, the 1950s Wisconsin serial killer who inspired Psycho and the Silence of the Lambs, was, to a lesser extent, the basis for him, but Leatherface has no lines or obvious playable traits.

Speaker 1: 12:55

All right, so it goes on and on and on and on. It's a pretty long article if you'd like to go read it. If you, yeah, it's pretty long. I think it's a good read for October, mid-october type thing. So that leads me to the question of the day Do you like it's a two-parter? Do you like horror films? Do you like scary movies? I do not, and if you do, what is your favorite one? What scary movie would you recommend for me to watch? I'm not going to watch it because I don't like scary movies. I just don't. Okay, that's the podcast. That's the episode today. Thank you for listening. My name is Carol and these are my remarks on glamour, pop culture and front.