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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Jonathan Kanarek | Father of Lauren Kanarek, Subject of Netflix Documentary "Untold: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill" | 04-30-26

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2826 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Kanarek, the father of Lauren Kanarek - the girl who was shot in the chest by her Olympic equestrian trainer and is now the subject of a new Netflix documentary exploring her story, joins Sid to talk about his daughter's nightmare story and why the 73-minute documentary is biased against her and harmful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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offer dash terms. I'm not happy with Netflix. Now I don't know Lauren. I don't know her.

0:34.4

Lauren Canorak or her father Jonathan. But reading the piece that she wrote,

0:40.3

The Systems Failed Me, but I will not let them silence me.

0:45.1

Her piece is great and very courageous.

0:48.0

And knowing the story, it does seem like Netflix fumbled the ball here in a big way.

0:55.2

I don't know why, because the story is pretty easy to figure out.

1:00.9

You got a guy, this guy, Michael Barrison, who's an equestrian trainer, I guess a coach,

1:05.6

whatever, and you got an attractive young lady, and he's sending her all these

1:10.4

lewd and gross tax messages like men do all the time, especially in sports.

1:17.5

And eventually he tries to kill her. He shoots her.

1:20.0

It doesn't seem like there's a lot to confuse here.

1:24.1

But from what I'm reading from Lauren, and the dad is about to tell us, I guess Netflix found a way. So with that said, here is Jonathan. Jonathan, good morning, pal. How are you? Good morning. How you doing? Thank you of having me on. Of course. Where are you today? What are you in this country? Livingston, New Jersey. Oh, beautiful place. Livingston, New Jersey.

1:44.8

Very nice.

1:45.8

But of course, by way of Brooklyn, long ago. Oh, okay. Me too. Where did you live in Brooklyn? I just lived there for a short time. I went out to Long Island at the time the Levitowners were going out there in the late 50s. Funny you say that. And my last guest was Bill O'Reilly, who grew up in Levitown.

2:02.1

He's a Levitown guy.

2:03.2

Yeah.

2:03.4

How about that?

2:04.5

Y'all. 50s. Funny you saying that. My last guest was Bill O'Reilly, who grew up in Lovetown.

2:02.1

He's a Lovetown guy.

2:03.2

Yeah, how about that? Yeah, I heard Bill O'Reilly on the show on Monday anyway when I was driving. Oh, good. So you listen to the show. That's good. I'm glad to hear that. Not as much as when I was working and driving, but whenever I can. Oh, did you drive a truck or something?

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