"The mayoral race has just begun".

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well, what do other people feel about what’s going on in New York with us this morning? Is Tony Corbernetti, former chief of staff to Rudy Giuliani while he was mayor of the City of New York. Tony, you’ve been around the city forever. Give us your reading about what the heck is going on in our city.

0:24 Speaker 2 Well, I think right now, don’t panic. Everyone has this knee jerk reaction to saying that because we had a primary, the race is over, John, The race is just beginning. It’s going to be a long summer, and there’s gonna be a lot of horses and a lot.

0:42 Speaker 3 Of lead changes. So I think we should all just take a.

0:46 Speaker 2 Step back, reassess where we are, and let the race begin.

0:53 Speaker 1 I think you’re more right than wrong, because nobody really I talked to Eric Adam Says the day before and we interviewed him, and Eric says, I mean, in his own words, he says he’s a snake oil salesman. Nobody knows him. He’s preaching to people saying I’m gonna get you free rent, I’m gonna get you free free food,

1:19 et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And people want to believe. I mean, if people want to give me something to grow more hair, I want to believe that too.

1:31 Speaker 3 If someone wanted to give me a face to television, I take that too.

1:34 Speaker 1 John, Well, that’s why I’m on radio.

1:37 Speaker 3 That’s why you and I are on radio. Here’s what I keep saying.

1:40 Speaker 2 At some point he has to convince people he can actually do the job, which is a harder thing than saying what you just said, which is I’m gonna give everybody everything they asked for. Okay, it sounds wonderful. You get, by the way, if you really think about it. The most the place that progresses to talk about, okay, where

2:03 you get free healthcare, everyone gets treated the same, and you have free rent.

2:10 Speaker 3 That’s prison. Prison’s had all those things. Okay. Who wants to be in prison? Nobody.

2:16 Speaker 2 It’s a community. This is the socialist it’s a step towards communism. And that doesn’t work.

2:23 Speaker 3 You know that.

2:25 Speaker 1 It never works. Remember I went to Harmana thirty years ago with David Dinkins and Charlie Rangel and guess what the Fidel Castro had promised everything to the people, say put me in charge, and the rich are going to be poor and you’re gonna have all the money, You’re gonna have food. Guess what. The people were starving, Tony Carbnetti.

2:54 The people were starving. I was talking to them. There was some kids there I remember from Brooklyn Tech High School, from the school the high school I went to. I said, can I do anything to help you? Because they were doing medical school in Havana. They said to me, send.

3:13 Speaker 3 Food, Send food. It’s terrible.

3:15 Speaker 1 I mean, this is what you talk about socialism and communism, and the naive kids in our country right now are tip toeing through the tulips and they don’t believe it.

3:31 Speaker 2 It sounds good, John, Everyone’s going to be equal, everyone said, everyone gets the same amount of this.

3:37 Speaker 3 You know what. The guy that.

3:38 Speaker 2 Works hard is then going to say why am I working so hard? So you’re going to get this the guy that doesn’t work, that’s.

3:43 Speaker 3 What I get. Why am I working?

3:45 Speaker 2 And then no one works? Okay, that’s why there’s never been a successful socialist country.

3:52 Speaker 1 They never. I mean Russia was not successful, Venezuela was not successful, Cuba’s not successful.

4:01 Speaker 2 Successful If this guy wins because you cannot the free busses. Okay, you know what, it costs seven hundred million dollars this year. Does he not realize the bus drivers get a raise, you got to put money towards their pension Next year, it’s not seven hundred million, it’s seven hundred and thirty.

4:18 You after that it’s seven hundred and eighty, and it’s eight hundred and twenty.

4:22 Speaker 3 That’s it goes up there. Where’s this money coming from?

4:26 Speaker 1 You have to night, can’t do it well, Tony.

4:29 Speaker 3 Cop has an eighteen billion dollar budget job. We should be afraid.

4:34 Speaker 1 Tony Cobernetti, thank you for coming on and we’ll talk again real soon.

4:37 Speaker 3 Thanks for having me, John,