Larry Mendte talks about the funeral of Pope Francis oN Saturday, George Santos getting the maximum of 7 years in prison; the arrest of multiple judges over the weekend; Jon Decker speaks with Larry about Donald Trumps first 100 days in office and what they will likely look to highlight in an upcoming press conference to go over the beginning of the Presidency; Jack Ciattarelli talks about his run for Governor and how he thinks he will perform considering how Donald Trump performed in New Jersey in November.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And good morning to you. Happy Monday morning, if there
is such a thing. I hope you had a great
weekend in the Big Three. Today. Pope Francis has been
laid to rest after a funeral on Saturday, attended by
the President, the First Lady, just about every world leader,
dozens of world leaders. Cardinal dolm was there and right
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after the funeral he had a message for New York Catholics,
and I just want you to know that I bring
your sentiments and your attentions and your heart swiftly at
the funeral. This morning, Dolan will now take part in
the conclave of cardinals to choose the next pope that
should start in a week or so, usually ten to
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fifteen days. Former Congressman George Santos, well, he didn't expect this.
He got the maximum of over seven years in prison,
and now he's looking for a pardon, commutation, pardon, whatever, clemency.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I don't know how this works, but yes, in premature terms, yes.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
No, he's got to make up his mind before he
makes the request. Santos must report to prison on July
twenty fifth. Luigi Mangioni is now officially charged with a
federal charge of murder in which carries with it the
possibility of death.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The President's directive was very clear, we are to seek
the death penalty when possible.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
If there was ever a death case. This is one,
and this is just a wild story and explains so much.
Judges are now being arrested for harboring and abetting illegals.
One in New Mexico kept one is in his home
who was here illegally to live with his family. And
(01:48):
a judge in Wisconsin helped a criminal illegal evade ice
by escorting him to a private exit at the courthouse.
For any judge that's going to obstruct ice in there
for horsemen operations or knowingly harboring issulant alien, there's going
to be prosecuted. This shouldn't be a surprise. I've been
saying this since January twenty right. Both judges were arrested
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with a threat as you heard from the borders are
Tom Holm and against anybody else who is considering doing
the same thing. And the annual Washington Corresponds In's Dinner
was missing a comedian and it was missing a president,
but it did come with a tongue lashing from a
colleague for ignoring President Biden's mental decline.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But being true tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves.
We myself included, missed a lot of this story and
some people trust us less.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Because of it.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
We bear some responsibility for faith in the media being
at such lows.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Ah, they all applauded, they all alauda, Yeah, that was then,
We're gonna do better now, but they haven't. There was
this self reflection. If you remember after President Biden, if
Jake Tapper, who was a leader at CNN in covering
up for the president, in attacking Republicans that would bring
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it up, is now writing a book criticizing the rest
of the media because you know, it wasn't him. It
wasn't him that did it. Everybody knows it was a mistake.
Everybody knows media is suffering because of what they did.
Everybody knows the Democratic Party suffered for covering up for
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President Biden. And now they think if they just come
out and admit it, if they're a little self reflective,
everything's going to be okay and everything's going to go away.
Our bad sorry, that's it. As if it's going to stop.
The thing that was made in all of the speeches
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at the Correspondence dinner, and there were a couple talking
about how the media has failed us. Everything was in
the past, everything was, Oh, we're going to do better,
We're going to fix this. They have not. For all
the fury, for all the sound and fury about how
things were going to change in CNN, how things were
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going to change the network, how we're clearing house of
everybody that had a bias, it's exactly the same. And
that's why the poll numbers are so bad. And let
me give you one example of that. First of all,
this ABC poll that came out that everybody has been
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leading with and raving about. Lots of poles have come out.
This is the one they're grabbing onto because it is
the lowest rating for a president in eighty years after
one hundred days. Uh huh, that's a headline. There you go.
We got them. They were so proud of that poll.
(05:06):
Even the other networks we're talking about it, they were
so proud. Finally we got them. Finally we made a
dent in what he's been doing to America. Oh and
by the way, and to democracy. That's the greatest joker
of all, as if democracy is somehow being threatened by anybody,
by the way. So the poll, I'll go through a
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lot of it because the questioning in the poll is infuriating.
The way you can make a poll biased is with
the questions, questions that are not objective but preclude an answer,
and so you ask things a certain way and you
get the results you want. This has been This is
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really horrible when it comes to that. But the thing
that got me the most is his numbers on the economy.
So fifty three percent, fifty three percent believe the economy
is worse since Donald Trump took office. Really, twenty five
(06:17):
percent say it's exactly the same. Only twenty one percent
say it's better. Now, I want to give you some
figures on the economy. We have strong real GDP numbers,
We have numbers showing robust consumer spending. We have a
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resilient labor market with continued low unemployment. So what is
the fear. The fear is in the reporting by the
media about what might happen, what's going to happen. This
is all surrounding the tariffs and the over coverage of
the tariffs that nobody cared about before nobody cared about
(07:04):
the tariffs and the tariff were before. Unless Donald Trump
gets into office. If you remember the first time he
was in office, they said everything was gonna be horrible
because he imposed greater tariffs on China. Remember that, Oh,
farms were gonna close. That was the big thing. Farms
were gonna close. All those poor farmers, you know, the
farmers that nobody cares about, accepted a story like this,
(07:25):
all of a sudden, you have to worry about farms closing.
We'll get more into that because Corey Booker's gotta wonder
an amazing line about that in a second. But real
GDP growth increased, consumer spending is way up. The labor
market had a significant increase. It is robust, it is strong.
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There's been an increase in manufacturing jobs and in construction jobs,
and inflation keeps going down and is approaching the two
percent target. Now. The stock market, all because of media
reporting about the tariffs, has been up and down and
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up and down and up and down. It's been going crazy.
And I'm sorry if you've got money that you're thinking
about taking back, taking out anytime soon, because I know
that can be worrisome. But every economic indicator is strong.
So why on earth would people think the economy is bad.
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It's absolutely and only because of the Democrats they finally
got something that worked. Now Corey Booker, New Jersey Senator
Corey Booker and Hakeem Jeffries from New York and the
minority leader in the House, they decided to have a
protest and they had like a couple dozen people with
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them sitting on the steps at the Capitol. And here's
what Corey Booker said about this time. After looking at
the inflation numbers, soon as the poll came out, whoop,
we got to have a protest. Especially Corey Booker. I'm
surprised he didn't give another speech. Here's what he had
to say.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
My office, we have tears and circle up and talk
about it because my office starts broken hearted but then
gets shattered by the end of the week because coming
into our office are people with their American stories, people
who are losing their farm.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That's a lie flease. If anybody out there knows of
a farm in New Jersey where they're worried about closing
up because of the economy right now, call me one
eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. One
eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten there
are lots of farms in southern New Jersey. They I
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know for a fact, are doing quite well, but they
feel like they have something. Now you're gonna hear a
lot of this with these polls. You're gonna hear a
lot of lies about the economy, but understand, the numbers
don't add up to a bad economy. I'll get into
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it a little bit later about the questions that were asked,
but everything in that ABC poll was a leading question
and it was horrible. We'll talk about that coming up.
But what I really want to talk about is finally
one of the great music sins has been cured. The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations are out, and
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finally the organization has a tone for the original sin,
plus tickets to see Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
and Creden's Clear What a Revival Founder and lead singer
John Fogerty at the Beacon Theater at a twenty five well.
A White House press conference has just ended and White
House correspondent John Decker was there for it and was
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kind enough to call in what happened?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
John Well out today when I arrived at the White House.
Believe it or not, I got here about six thirty
in the morning toasters, I guess you can call them
yard signs on the north lawn of the White House
showing photographs of individuals that ICE has detained, individuals in
the country illegally committing accused of committing very serious crimes.
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And Tom Homan, who is described as the Borders Are
he came out to the briefing room to take questions
regarding the actions of ICE during the president's first one
hundred days in office.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Now, Tom Holman can get a little bit feisty, did he.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I don't think there was much pushback, you know, with
anything that he said. You know, I think he has
maybe he's from Philadelphia's a little bit of an edge.
And surprisingly the Eagles are actually at the White House
later this afternoon to celebrate their Super Bowl victory. But
you know, Tom Homan is someone that the President trusts
on this particular issue, and he has some great numbers
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that he wanted to tell in terms of the deportations
that have taken place in record number over the course
of the past one hundred days.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Why did they feel like they had to have this
news conference this morning because did you know about this
yesterday that it was going to happen at eight thirty.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I knew about it at about nine pm last night,
so yeah, it wasn't a surprise. That was one of
the reasons why I got here so early. There's going
to be another early morning, so to speak, of press
conference briefing that will take place tomorrow with the Secretary
of the Treasury. It's all associated with what this week's
all about, Larry. It's the president's a one hundredth day
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in office tomorrow, and what the administration wants to do
is to tout what they view as the successes that they've
had during the president's first one hundred days of the
second term.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
What are we going to hear on the news today?
Was there any news made and if so, what was.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
It well news as it relates to this press briefing. Yes, no,
you know, there's nothing that I heard really at the
briefing that I haven't heard before. The issue of border
security is an issue that if it's not the President,
someone else on his behalf is talking about it every
single day. This was, I think, so to speak, Larry,
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a victory lap by the administration concerning their efforts and
contrasting their efforts with that of the prior administration, the
Biden administration on the issue of border security.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Did questions and other topics come up?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Oh yeah, sure, I got a question myself and I
actually took that opportunity to ask Tom Holm and a
question about how many individuals are in the country illegally
from you know, the perspective of his position and how
many individuals are really bad people like the ones that
the administration is talting that have been arrested during the
course of the past one hundred days. But Caroline Levitt
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also taking some questions in regards to the latest concerning
the war in Ukraine. The president, as you know, over
the weekend, Larry met with President Zelenski while he was
in Rome, Italy for the funeral of Pope Francis. Also
met with other European leaders and the president expressed some
real frustration continued frustration with President Vladimir Putin because there's
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no movement on his side in terms of getting to
the point of moving towards peace ending the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, no, I know that frustration. I know when he
got off the helicopter yesterday, and that's what I was hoping.
This was about today. He said, we're very close and
we're going to have an announcement soon on a nuclear
deal with Iran. Did that come up at all?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
No, during the briefing, No, it didn't come up. You know,
I think that those types of big issues we'll hear
likely from the President first before we hear that, you know,
coming into the White House Press brief maybe details would
come from the White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt. But yeah,
nothing too new to be announced beyond what the President
said just over the weekend concerning Iran.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
By the way, thanks a lot for that photo that
you said of all the yard signs with the faces, yeah,
the legals. That's gotten a lot of reaction, a lot
of reaction, had said, I are.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yeah, Well, it got a lot of reaction for me
when I walked in this morning. You know, I saw
as I was walking in the gates of the White House,
and it's something that certainly grabs your attention. You do
not see I mean, I cover the White House, you know,
going all the way back to Bill Clinton, I never
seen anything like that. And so that's another example, Larry,
you know, an example that you can see for yourself
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of the administration taking that victory lap on this particular
issue and an issue that the President does have strong
poll numbers on.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
John Decker, w R. White House Correspondent, Thanks so much,
John for thinking of us and for calling in. I
appreciate that time.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Absolutely sure, happy to do it. Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Now let's get the news at nine to thirty with
Jacqueline Carl Jacqueline, Good Morning.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
The Vatican announced today that the Conclave, the closed door
process to select a new pope, will start May seventh.
Members of the College of Cardinals under age eighty are
allowed to vote, and the winner must be selected by
a two thirds majority. New Jersey Senator Corey Booker and
House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries are protesting planned Republican budget cuts.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
The two Democrats sat on the Capitol steps for hours
Sunday as part of a sit in protest. They want
to draw attention to what they say, our Republican efforts
to advance a reckless budget scheme seeking to gut Medicaid,
food assistants, and other basic needs programs. New York Congressman
Hakim Jeffries.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Hundreds has showed up on behalf of the American people
representing millions of the American people.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Billow said, enough, this is not America.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
We are better than this.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
A number of other Democrats and union leaders joined the
lawmakers throughout the sit in protest. I'm Scottpringle WRDWS, So.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
How would you like to be on this flight? According
to the New York Posts, passengers on an Indigo flight
from Lucknow to Delhi had an unexpected ordeal when a
swarm of mosquitoes invaded the cabin, leaving travelers swatting and
scratching throughout the ninety minute flight. The cab and crew
attempted to mitigate the situation by offering lemongrass remedies, which
(17:02):
I find both unimpressive and impressive. It's impressive that they
even had those, but don't come at me with those
when mosquitos are attacking me. Many passengers criticize the airline
and airport for inadequate pest control measures. Indigo respond and
get this response. They pointed out that their aircraft undergo
regular fumigation and sea treatment, suggesting that the mosquitos likely
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entered through an open door. Well, what other, what kind
of defense is that? How else would mosquitos get on
a plane?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yes, and was it in the air at the time
when the mosquitos started attacking people? Was it such a
short flight they just left the door open. I mean
it was like they probably got in through a door.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Well, there is no other way for them to get
on a plane.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, unless they've been breeding in there for some time.
But I can't even imagine there'd be adult by that plan.
I can't. I can't get over the fact that there
was mosquitoes on the plane swarm, and that nobody knew it.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
That's what people are upset about. I'd be pretty upset
too if I was on a plane like that. But anyway,
that was their big defense, that they must have come
through the door. Let's get over to the stuff out
of the defense.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Let's get over to wallscree at the opening belt.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
All right.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
So the Dow is up ninety six points, SMP up
ten points, and the NASAC opened up twenty seven points.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Thanks so much, JACQ LINCRL. Hey, a new New Jersey
gubernatorial poll shows one candidate way ahead in his primary race.
We'll talk with that candidate, Jack Chittarelli next. Chubby Checkers
has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame.
(18:39):
Let's talk more about that with sal Cerencione, who is
the senior director of Rock Programming and Specialty at Premiere
Radio Networks. Sal, I don't know how you feel about
Chubby Checkers, but I didn't know what he did. I
didn't know whose dog he killed and why he wasn't
getting inducted into the Hall of after all of these years.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Well maybe it was just the nominating committee just perhaps
felt he was a novelty act, or maybe they are elitist,
as some people call them. So I don't know, but
you know I was I was only a baby when
the actually I don't the twist came out I think
in sixty one or something, if I'm not mistaken. So
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I was born the year after. But no doubt I
knew all about Chubby growing up. Many people did not
only a great song, but a dance craze, and you
know he had more. He had other songs as well.
So and quite frankly, at eighty three years old, it's
great that they're able to finally, you know, induct him.
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He'll be there to accept the award, and I don't
know how many more artists from that era will be
looked upon, So it's great that they finally did what
they needed to do.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah, I've talked to him a couple of times over
the years and he said, at this point I may
not go. I got a feeling he's going.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Yeah, I think he's gonna go. He's lobbied very hard
for it, as you know, Larry, So, Yeah, I think
he'll be there, you know, short of gopa bit of
illness or any kind of emergency. I think he'll be
there with bells on when they have the ceremony, which
is November eighth at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles,
and what.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
A wonderful moment that'll be. I know that there's been
a lot of rock stars pushing for him to get in,
so I would imagine there's going to be a performance
of The Twist featuring a lot of other people with
Chubby Checker.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Well, that sounds like the perfect way to end the night,
doesn't it now, with everybody's dancing on stage, And You're right,
a lot of people have pushed for him. So I'm
glad that they the word finally got through to those
who do the nominating because this was the first time
he's been nominated that's the that's the real rub. If
you will, I mean, okay, if at least nominate. He's
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been eligible for nomination since the very beginning, since the
first class went in in nineteen eighty six or seven. Yeah,
just about. But yeah, they wait, they had to wait
till now twenty twenty five to nominate him. But thank
god he's still with us and we'll be there to
accept it.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Is it because young Winner isn't there anymore? Was he
the hold up?
Speaker 7 (21:18):
A lot of people have said that over the years
that you know, there's been you know, he's the one
that ruled with an iron fist and said, you know,
no to this, no to that, et cetera, et cetera,
a reflection perhaps of his magazine, who didn't cover a
lot of the bands that people have been you know,
Champion like Rush is the biggest example. Who knows, I mean,
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you know the new chairman, John Sykes, who of course
is we all work for the same company. But you know,
I'd say this regardless. I mean, he's he's really try
to be as diverse as possible in selecting who should
be nominated, although he doesn't have a say in who
gets nominated or chosen or anything like that. But you know,
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he's pushed for diversity, and this class, the last few
classes that John has been the chairman, have demonstrated that
very much.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I love the people that got in this time. Is
there anybody controversial in the mix here?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
No?
Speaker 7 (22:18):
No, not at all. Uh. The only one that I've
been reading, you know, there's so yeah. The two that
jump out that there's been controversy with and you know,
have been Chubby Checker. But the who I've been reading
that have are surprised that he's getting in are some
very young journalists that don't understand the impact. I'm not
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saying that I'm above them or no more or anything
like that, but they don't get the full impact of Chubby.
And the other one that I've seen some interesting comments
about it are the White Stripes, with many people saying, well,
they came on the scene real quick, but then went
away as quickly, so you know, why are they being
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you know, nominated and now inducted. But you know, they're
looked upon as being very influential and did change the
sound a little bit at the time that they first
came on the scene. And Jack White is a tremendous
guitar player, and he's been a you know, a real
proponent for Vinyl records with his third band records and everything.
So I'll give him a tip of the hat to help,
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you know, bringing back Vinyl to where it is.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
So I should go through these. You got Bad Company,
Chubby Checker, stop me if you want to comment on anybody,
Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cindy Lauper, Outcast, Sound Garden,
and White Stripes. Right, that's a pretty good list.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Yeah, it is. And like I said, it's the diverse.
That's the performer category. So what they've done here, Larry,
is they break this up now every year now the
performer category that's the big one. So when they announced
the nominations, the nominations are for the performer category and
then the rock call and off to the side pick
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other people that they want to be recognized that night.
So for example, they've got the Musical Influence Award and
this year they're recognizing Salt and Peppa and Warren Zeebon,
the late Warren ze Bon.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yes, I.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Yeah, And he's another one that people have lobbied for
a long time and he was never nominated. And uh
so you know. Maybe this is their way of saying,
all right, we don't know he will ever get nominated,
but we do feel that he should be recognized. So
he's going to get this Musical Influence Award, sadly posthumously. Uh.
And then you have the Musical Excellence Award, and that
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goes to artist, musicians, songwriters, producers who or whose originality
and influence creating music.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Have had a dramatic impact on music. And those being
recognized this year are the the producer Tom Bell Big
with the Philly Philadelphia Sound sadly no longer with us.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
The great keyboardist Nicky Hopkins who has played on records
from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, Steve Miller, the Kings,
you name it, also no longer with us. And then
Carol Kay she's the bass player in the Wrecking Crew,
which is the group of studio musicians out on the
West Coast who have played on countless songs and albums
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by the Life of the Beach Boys, Glenn Campbell, the
Righteous Brothers. The list goes on and on, and she
is with us and long overdue. She should have been
recognized a long time ago, so it'll be nice to
see her get inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Let's talk about some of the people that didn't get in.
What surprised you the most of those who didn't get
in this time.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
I kind of thought Billy Idol was going to get
in on his first ballot. I'm not surprised that he didn't,
but you know, he's got a new album coming out.
He performed at the ceremony last year on behalf of
Ozzy Osbourne, and then of course you had Ozzy and
a lot of artists come out in supported him, So
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he was getting a lot of help on the lobbying
side of things, and I thought, you know, they might
just get him in. But I think he was offset
by Cindy Lauper, okay, because I mean that both were
big in the eighties. This was her second nomination. Being
female did not hurt. A matter of fact, he's the
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only female in the performer category. So I think, you know,
he got pushed aside. He'll definitely get in at some point.
I don't think there's any question about that. And I
also think that Mariah Carrey, I, you know, still get
in too, But I think Cindy Lauper, you know, was
the one that wedged her out of the pie. The
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rest not getting in does not really surprise me, even
though Fish was first in the fan vote. I don't
think they're the critics, darlings, and a lot of folks
on the nominating committee work critics or are critics, so
I you know, I mean they know they actually they
got nominated, but you know, I guess, meaning the voting
public didn't feel that their fellow musicians didn't feel that
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they were up to task. I guess at this point,
so we'll see the first time that somebody who's finished
first in the fan boat, by the way, didn't getting inducted.
It happened in to Dave.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Matthews Ban Yeah, it seems to happen a lot. Sal Serencione,
who was the senior director of Rock Programming and Specials
of Premiere Radio Network. Just a wealth of information. Thanks
so much for your.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Time, so well, thanks having me on, Larry. You take
care you too.
And good morning to you. Happy Monday morning, if there
is such a thing. I hope you had a great
weekend in the Big Three. Today. Pope Francis has been
laid to rest after a funeral on Saturday, attended by
the President, the First Lady, just about every world leader,
dozens of world leaders. Cardinal dolm was there and right
(00:21):
after the funeral he had a message for New York Catholics,
and I just want you to know that I bring
your sentiments and your attentions and your heart swiftly at
the funeral. This morning, Dolan will now take part in
the conclave of cardinals to choose the next pope that
should start in a week or so, usually ten to
(00:42):
fifteen days. Former Congressman George Santos, well, he didn't expect this.
He got the maximum of over seven years in prison,
and now he's looking for a pardon, commutation, pardon, whatever, clemency.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I don't know how this works, but yes, in premature terms, yes.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
No, he's got to make up his mind before he
makes the request. Santos must report to prison on July
twenty fifth. Luigi Mangioni is now officially charged with a
federal charge of murder in which carries with it the
possibility of death.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The President's directive was very clear, we are to seek
the death penalty when possible.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
If there was ever a death case. This is one,
and this is just a wild story and explains so much.
Judges are now being arrested for harboring and abetting illegals.
One in New Mexico kept one is in his home
who was here illegally to live with his family. And
(01:48):
a judge in Wisconsin helped a criminal illegal evade ice
by escorting him to a private exit at the courthouse.
For any judge that's going to obstruct ice in there
for horsemen operations or knowingly harboring issulant alien, there's going
to be prosecuted. This shouldn't be a surprise. I've been
saying this since January twenty right. Both judges were arrested
(02:10):
with a threat as you heard from the borders are
Tom Holm and against anybody else who is considering doing
the same thing. And the annual Washington Corresponds In's Dinner
was missing a comedian and it was missing a president,
but it did come with a tongue lashing from a
colleague for ignoring President Biden's mental decline.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But being true tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves.
We myself included, missed a lot of this story and
some people trust us less.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Because of it.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
We bear some responsibility for faith in the media being
at such lows.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Ah, they all applauded, they all alauda, Yeah, that was then,
We're gonna do better now, but they haven't. There was
this self reflection. If you remember after President Biden, if
Jake Tapper, who was a leader at CNN in covering
up for the president, in attacking Republicans that would bring
(03:20):
it up, is now writing a book criticizing the rest
of the media because you know, it wasn't him. It
wasn't him that did it. Everybody knows it was a mistake.
Everybody knows media is suffering because of what they did.
Everybody knows the Democratic Party suffered for covering up for
(03:43):
President Biden. And now they think if they just come
out and admit it, if they're a little self reflective,
everything's going to be okay and everything's going to go away.
Our bad sorry, that's it. As if it's going to stop.
The thing that was made in all of the speeches
(04:03):
at the Correspondence dinner, and there were a couple talking
about how the media has failed us. Everything was in
the past, everything was, Oh, we're going to do better,
We're going to fix this. They have not. For all
the fury, for all the sound and fury about how
things were going to change in CNN, how things were
(04:24):
going to change the network, how we're clearing house of
everybody that had a bias, it's exactly the same. And
that's why the poll numbers are so bad. And let
me give you one example of that. First of all,
this ABC poll that came out that everybody has been
(04:46):
leading with and raving about. Lots of poles have come out.
This is the one they're grabbing onto because it is
the lowest rating for a president in eighty years after
one hundred days. Uh huh, that's a headline. There you go.
We got them. They were so proud of that poll.
(05:06):
Even the other networks we're talking about it, they were
so proud. Finally we got them. Finally we made a
dent in what he's been doing to America. Oh and
by the way, and to democracy. That's the greatest joker
of all, as if democracy is somehow being threatened by anybody,
by the way. So the poll, I'll go through a
(05:31):
lot of it because the questioning in the poll is infuriating.
The way you can make a poll biased is with
the questions, questions that are not objective but preclude an answer,
and so you ask things a certain way and you
get the results you want. This has been This is
(05:54):
really horrible when it comes to that. But the thing
that got me the most is his numbers on the economy.
So fifty three percent, fifty three percent believe the economy
is worse since Donald Trump took office. Really, twenty five
(06:17):
percent say it's exactly the same. Only twenty one percent
say it's better. Now, I want to give you some
figures on the economy. We have strong real GDP numbers,
We have numbers showing robust consumer spending. We have a
(06:39):
resilient labor market with continued low unemployment. So what is
the fear. The fear is in the reporting by the
media about what might happen, what's going to happen. This
is all surrounding the tariffs and the over coverage of
the tariffs that nobody cared about before nobody cared about
(07:04):
the tariffs and the tariff were before. Unless Donald Trump
gets into office. If you remember the first time he
was in office, they said everything was gonna be horrible
because he imposed greater tariffs on China. Remember that, Oh,
farms were gonna close. That was the big thing. Farms
were gonna close. All those poor farmers, you know, the
farmers that nobody cares about, accepted a story like this,
(07:25):
all of a sudden, you have to worry about farms closing.
We'll get more into that because Corey Booker's gotta wonder
an amazing line about that in a second. But real
GDP growth increased, consumer spending is way up. The labor
market had a significant increase. It is robust, it is strong.
(07:49):
There's been an increase in manufacturing jobs and in construction jobs,
and inflation keeps going down and is approaching the two
percent target. Now. The stock market, all because of media
reporting about the tariffs, has been up and down and
(08:10):
up and down and up and down. It's been going crazy.
And I'm sorry if you've got money that you're thinking
about taking back, taking out anytime soon, because I know
that can be worrisome. But every economic indicator is strong.
So why on earth would people think the economy is bad.
(08:33):
It's absolutely and only because of the Democrats they finally
got something that worked. Now Corey Booker, New Jersey Senator
Corey Booker and Hakeem Jeffries from New York and the
minority leader in the House, they decided to have a
protest and they had like a couple dozen people with
(08:53):
them sitting on the steps at the Capitol. And here's
what Corey Booker said about this time. After looking at
the inflation numbers, soon as the poll came out, whoop,
we got to have a protest. Especially Corey Booker. I'm
surprised he didn't give another speech. Here's what he had
to say.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
My office, we have tears and circle up and talk
about it because my office starts broken hearted but then
gets shattered by the end of the week because coming
into our office are people with their American stories, people
who are losing their farm.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That's a lie flease. If anybody out there knows of
a farm in New Jersey where they're worried about closing
up because of the economy right now, call me one
eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. One
eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten there
are lots of farms in southern New Jersey. They I
(09:48):
know for a fact, are doing quite well, but they
feel like they have something. Now you're gonna hear a
lot of this with these polls. You're gonna hear a
lot of lies about the economy, but understand, the numbers
don't add up to a bad economy. I'll get into
(10:09):
it a little bit later about the questions that were asked,
but everything in that ABC poll was a leading question
and it was horrible. We'll talk about that coming up.
But what I really want to talk about is finally
one of the great music sins has been cured. The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations are out, and
(10:29):
finally the organization has a tone for the original sin,
plus tickets to see Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
and Creden's Clear What a Revival Founder and lead singer
John Fogerty at the Beacon Theater at a twenty five well.
A White House press conference has just ended and White
House correspondent John Decker was there for it and was
(10:50):
kind enough to call in what happened?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
John Well out today when I arrived at the White House.
Believe it or not, I got here about six thirty
in the morning toasters, I guess you can call them
yard signs on the north lawn of the White House
showing photographs of individuals that ICE has detained, individuals in
the country illegally committing accused of committing very serious crimes.
(11:16):
And Tom Homan, who is described as the Borders Are
he came out to the briefing room to take questions
regarding the actions of ICE during the president's first one
hundred days in office.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Now, Tom Holman can get a little bit feisty, did he.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I don't think there was much pushback, you know, with
anything that he said. You know, I think he has
maybe he's from Philadelphia's a little bit of an edge.
And surprisingly the Eagles are actually at the White House
later this afternoon to celebrate their Super Bowl victory. But
you know, Tom Homan is someone that the President trusts
on this particular issue, and he has some great numbers
(11:54):
that he wanted to tell in terms of the deportations
that have taken place in record number over the course
of the past one hundred days.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Why did they feel like they had to have this
news conference this morning because did you know about this
yesterday that it was going to happen at eight thirty.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I knew about it at about nine pm last night,
so yeah, it wasn't a surprise. That was one of
the reasons why I got here so early. There's going
to be another early morning, so to speak, of press
conference briefing that will take place tomorrow with the Secretary
of the Treasury. It's all associated with what this week's
all about, Larry. It's the president's a one hundredth day
(12:32):
in office tomorrow, and what the administration wants to do
is to tout what they view as the successes that they've
had during the president's first one hundred days of the
second term.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
What are we going to hear on the news today?
Was there any news made and if so, what was.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
It well news as it relates to this press briefing. Yes, no,
you know, there's nothing that I heard really at the
briefing that I haven't heard before. The issue of border
security is an issue that if it's not the President,
someone else on his behalf is talking about it every
single day. This was, I think, so to speak, Larry,
(13:08):
a victory lap by the administration concerning their efforts and
contrasting their efforts with that of the prior administration, the
Biden administration on the issue of border security.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Did questions and other topics come up?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Oh yeah, sure, I got a question myself and I
actually took that opportunity to ask Tom Holm and a
question about how many individuals are in the country illegally
from you know, the perspective of his position and how
many individuals are really bad people like the ones that
the administration is talting that have been arrested during the
course of the past one hundred days. But Caroline Levitt
(13:45):
also taking some questions in regards to the latest concerning
the war in Ukraine. The president, as you know, over
the weekend, Larry met with President Zelenski while he was
in Rome, Italy for the funeral of Pope Francis. Also
met with other European leaders and the president expressed some
real frustration continued frustration with President Vladimir Putin because there's
(14:06):
no movement on his side in terms of getting to
the point of moving towards peace ending the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, no, I know that frustration. I know when he
got off the helicopter yesterday, and that's what I was hoping.
This was about today. He said, we're very close and
we're going to have an announcement soon on a nuclear
deal with Iran. Did that come up at all?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
No, during the briefing, No, it didn't come up. You know,
I think that those types of big issues we'll hear
likely from the President first before we hear that, you know,
coming into the White House Press brief maybe details would
come from the White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt. But yeah,
nothing too new to be announced beyond what the President
said just over the weekend concerning Iran.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
By the way, thanks a lot for that photo that
you said of all the yard signs with the faces, yeah,
the legals. That's gotten a lot of reaction, a lot
of reaction, had said, I are.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yeah, Well, it got a lot of reaction for me
when I walked in this morning. You know, I saw
as I was walking in the gates of the White House,
and it's something that certainly grabs your attention. You do
not see I mean, I cover the White House, you know,
going all the way back to Bill Clinton, I never
seen anything like that. And so that's another example, Larry,
you know, an example that you can see for yourself
(15:23):
of the administration taking that victory lap on this particular
issue and an issue that the President does have strong
poll numbers on.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
John Decker, w R. White House Correspondent, Thanks so much,
John for thinking of us and for calling in. I
appreciate that time.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Absolutely sure, happy to do it. Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Now let's get the news at nine to thirty with
Jacqueline Carl Jacqueline, Good Morning.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
The Vatican announced today that the Conclave, the closed door
process to select a new pope, will start May seventh.
Members of the College of Cardinals under age eighty are
allowed to vote, and the winner must be selected by
a two thirds majority. New Jersey Senator Corey Booker and
House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries are protesting planned Republican budget cuts.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
The two Democrats sat on the Capitol steps for hours
Sunday as part of a sit in protest. They want
to draw attention to what they say, our Republican efforts
to advance a reckless budget scheme seeking to gut Medicaid,
food assistants, and other basic needs programs. New York Congressman
Hakim Jeffries.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Hundreds has showed up on behalf of the American people
representing millions of the American people.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Billow said, enough, this is not America.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
We are better than this.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
A number of other Democrats and union leaders joined the
lawmakers throughout the sit in protest. I'm Scottpringle WRDWS, So.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
How would you like to be on this flight? According
to the New York Posts, passengers on an Indigo flight
from Lucknow to Delhi had an unexpected ordeal when a
swarm of mosquitoes invaded the cabin, leaving travelers swatting and
scratching throughout the ninety minute flight. The cab and crew
attempted to mitigate the situation by offering lemongrass remedies, which
(17:02):
I find both unimpressive and impressive. It's impressive that they
even had those, but don't come at me with those
when mosquitos are attacking me. Many passengers criticize the airline
and airport for inadequate pest control measures. Indigo respond and
get this response. They pointed out that their aircraft undergo
regular fumigation and sea treatment, suggesting that the mosquitos likely
(17:24):
entered through an open door. Well, what other, what kind
of defense is that? How else would mosquitos get on
a plane?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yes, and was it in the air at the time
when the mosquitos started attacking people? Was it such a
short flight they just left the door open. I mean
it was like they probably got in through a door.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Well, there is no other way for them to get
on a plane.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, unless they've been breeding in there for some time.
But I can't even imagine there'd be adult by that plan.
I can't. I can't get over the fact that there
was mosquitoes on the plane swarm, and that nobody knew it.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
That's what people are upset about. I'd be pretty upset
too if I was on a plane like that. But anyway,
that was their big defense, that they must have come
through the door. Let's get over to the stuff out
of the defense.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Let's get over to wallscree at the opening belt.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
All right.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
So the Dow is up ninety six points, SMP up
ten points, and the NASAC opened up twenty seven points.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Thanks so much, JACQ LINCRL. Hey, a new New Jersey
gubernatorial poll shows one candidate way ahead in his primary race.
We'll talk with that candidate, Jack Chittarelli next. Chubby Checkers
has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame.
(18:39):
Let's talk more about that with sal Cerencione, who is
the senior director of Rock Programming and Specialty at Premiere
Radio Networks. Sal, I don't know how you feel about
Chubby Checkers, but I didn't know what he did. I
didn't know whose dog he killed and why he wasn't
getting inducted into the Hall of after all of these years.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Well maybe it was just the nominating committee just perhaps
felt he was a novelty act, or maybe they are elitist,
as some people call them. So I don't know, but
you know I was I was only a baby when
the actually I don't the twist came out I think
in sixty one or something, if I'm not mistaken. So
(19:25):
I was born the year after. But no doubt I
knew all about Chubby growing up. Many people did not
only a great song, but a dance craze, and you
know he had more. He had other songs as well.
So and quite frankly, at eighty three years old, it's
great that they're able to finally, you know, induct him.
(19:47):
He'll be there to accept the award, and I don't
know how many more artists from that era will be
looked upon, So it's great that they finally did what
they needed to do.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah, I've talked to him a couple of times over
the years and he said, at this point I may
not go. I got a feeling he's going.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Yeah, I think he's gonna go. He's lobbied very hard
for it, as you know, Larry, So, Yeah, I think
he'll be there, you know, short of gopa bit of
illness or any kind of emergency. I think he'll be
there with bells on when they have the ceremony, which
is November eighth at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles,
and what.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
A wonderful moment that'll be. I know that there's been
a lot of rock stars pushing for him to get in,
so I would imagine there's going to be a performance
of The Twist featuring a lot of other people with
Chubby Checker.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Well, that sounds like the perfect way to end the night,
doesn't it now, with everybody's dancing on stage, And You're right,
a lot of people have pushed for him. So I'm
glad that they the word finally got through to those
who do the nominating because this was the first time
he's been nominated that's the that's the real rub. If
you will, I mean, okay, if at least nominate. He's
(20:56):
been eligible for nomination since the very beginning, since the
first class went in in nineteen eighty six or seven. Yeah,
just about. But yeah, they wait, they had to wait
till now twenty twenty five to nominate him. But thank
god he's still with us and we'll be there to
accept it.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Is it because young Winner isn't there anymore? Was he
the hold up?
Speaker 7 (21:18):
A lot of people have said that over the years
that you know, there's been you know, he's the one
that ruled with an iron fist and said, you know,
no to this, no to that, et cetera, et cetera,
a reflection perhaps of his magazine, who didn't cover a
lot of the bands that people have been you know,
Champion like Rush is the biggest example. Who knows, I mean,
(21:40):
you know the new chairman, John Sykes, who of course
is we all work for the same company. But you know,
I'd say this regardless. I mean, he's he's really try
to be as diverse as possible in selecting who should
be nominated, although he doesn't have a say in who
gets nominated or chosen or anything like that. But you know,
(22:02):
he's pushed for diversity, and this class, the last few
classes that John has been the chairman, have demonstrated that
very much.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I love the people that got in this time. Is
there anybody controversial in the mix here?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
No?
Speaker 7 (22:18):
No, not at all. Uh. The only one that I've
been reading, you know, there's so yeah. The two that
jump out that there's been controversy with and you know,
have been Chubby Checker. But the who I've been reading
that have are surprised that he's getting in are some
very young journalists that don't understand the impact. I'm not
(22:39):
saying that I'm above them or no more or anything
like that, but they don't get the full impact of Chubby.
And the other one that I've seen some interesting comments
about it are the White Stripes, with many people saying, well,
they came on the scene real quick, but then went
away as quickly, so you know, why are they being
(23:03):
you know, nominated and now inducted. But you know, they're
looked upon as being very influential and did change the
sound a little bit at the time that they first
came on the scene. And Jack White is a tremendous
guitar player, and he's been a you know, a real
proponent for Vinyl records with his third band records and everything.
So I'll give him a tip of the hat to help,
(23:25):
you know, bringing back Vinyl to where it is.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
So I should go through these. You got Bad Company,
Chubby Checker, stop me if you want to comment on anybody,
Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cindy Lauper, Outcast, Sound Garden,
and White Stripes. Right, that's a pretty good list.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Yeah, it is. And like I said, it's the diverse.
That's the performer category. So what they've done here, Larry,
is they break this up now every year now the
performer category that's the big one. So when they announced
the nominations, the nominations are for the performer category and
then the rock call and off to the side pick
(24:07):
other people that they want to be recognized that night.
So for example, they've got the Musical Influence Award and
this year they're recognizing Salt and Peppa and Warren Zeebon,
the late Warren ze Bon.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yes, I.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Yeah, And he's another one that people have lobbied for
a long time and he was never nominated. And uh
so you know. Maybe this is their way of saying,
all right, we don't know he will ever get nominated,
but we do feel that he should be recognized. So
he's going to get this Musical Influence Award, sadly posthumously. Uh.
And then you have the Musical Excellence Award, and that
(24:46):
goes to artist, musicians, songwriters, producers who or whose originality
and influence creating music.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Have had a dramatic impact on music. And those being
recognized this year are the the producer Tom Bell Big
with the Philly Philadelphia Sound sadly no longer with us.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
The great keyboardist Nicky Hopkins who has played on records
from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, Steve Miller, the Kings,
you name it, also no longer with us. And then
Carol Kay she's the bass player in the Wrecking Crew,
which is the group of studio musicians out on the
West Coast who have played on countless songs and albums
(25:25):
by the Life of the Beach Boys, Glenn Campbell, the
Righteous Brothers. The list goes on and on, and she
is with us and long overdue. She should have been
recognized a long time ago, so it'll be nice to
see her get inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Let's talk about some of the people that didn't get in.
What surprised you the most of those who didn't get
in this time.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
I kind of thought Billy Idol was going to get
in on his first ballot. I'm not surprised that he didn't,
but you know, he's got a new album coming out.
He performed at the ceremony last year on behalf of
Ozzy Osbourne, and then of course you had Ozzy and
a lot of artists come out in supported him, So
(26:08):
he was getting a lot of help on the lobbying
side of things, and I thought, you know, they might
just get him in. But I think he was offset
by Cindy Lauper, okay, because I mean that both were
big in the eighties. This was her second nomination. Being
female did not hurt. A matter of fact, he's the
(26:28):
only female in the performer category. So I think, you know,
he got pushed aside. He'll definitely get in at some point.
I don't think there's any question about that. And I
also think that Mariah Carrey, I, you know, still get
in too, But I think Cindy Lauper, you know, was
the one that wedged her out of the pie. The
(26:50):
rest not getting in does not really surprise me, even
though Fish was first in the fan vote. I don't
think they're the critics, darlings, and a lot of folks
on the nominating committee work critics or are critics, so
I you know, I mean they know they actually they
got nominated, but you know, I guess, meaning the voting
public didn't feel that their fellow musicians didn't feel that
(27:12):
they were up to task. I guess at this point,
so we'll see the first time that somebody who's finished
first in the fan boat, by the way, didn't getting inducted.
It happened in to Dave.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Matthews Ban Yeah, it seems to happen a lot. Sal Serencione,
who was the senior director of Rock Programming and Specials
of Premiere Radio Network. Just a wealth of information. Thanks
so much for your.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Time, so well, thanks having me on, Larry. You take
care you too.
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