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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So let me tell you something that race Stagic left
out a very important fact that he left out in
his forecast. And race Stagic is the best, but you know,
he has limited time. So he talked about today and
tonight and the chance of thunderstorms blah blah blah blah blah.
Tomorrow is going to be beautiful, sunny, less, humid, cool
(00:24):
or eighty four, and he talked about that. But this
is what I want you to focus on. Saturday, mostly sunny, less, humid,
eighty four again, two beautiful days in a row, Friday
and Saturday. Make sure you get out and enjoy it.
Because Sunday, let's not talk about Sunday now, No, Sunday. Yeah,
(00:45):
let's not talk about Sunday. We'll hope that that's going
to not happen.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Okay, it's going to not happen.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, I know Sunday is going to happen. But what
I'm looking at in front of me, I'm hoping for,
I know, the thunderstorms, you know now said it. Yeah,
there's a chance of thunderstorms and showers on Sunday. But
let's see that's a few days off. Maybe that'll change. Yeah,
all right, Now, in the big three. Wow. If you're
a poll watcher, this one is shocking. And maybe we
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should have been listening to Curtis Leewa all along because
he said I got a chance of winning this thing,
and this poll shows he's got a chance of winning
this thing in a new independent poll. It is a shocker.
A statistical three way tie in the New York Mayor's race,
and anybody named Adams is not in that three way tie.
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It's Mom, Donnie Cuomo, and Sliwa And with Adams in
fourth place, there are new calls for him to drop out.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
The last man we had of color was thirty years ago.
How would I look to be stepping down to him
who stepped down from his obligation as the governor.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Eric Adams is having a really bad day. Not only
was he fourth in the poll, but he's being sued
by former interim Police Commissioner Thomas Donnellan, who alleges that
basically he was running a criminal ring with the police department.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
This is a monstrous allegation, and what I'm reading is
that none of it has been corroborated. You don't see
anything in reports or attachments that would corroborate it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
No the timing of this is really suspicious that it
came out. It seems vindictive that it comes out while
he's running for mayor. And as you just heard from
a criminal defense attorney, there's not a lot of meat
in there, just a lot of allegations. In the meantime,
Mom Donnie was in Washington having a breakfast with the
Socialist Democrats in their big Communists get together, and those
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at the meeting came out plus just positively giddy about
Zorin Mam Donnie, They're.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Just beautiful to have someone who is so authentic.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
You know that money cannot buy that.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
In New Jersey, I don't know what's going on. There's
been so many lightning strikes, not only in New Jersey
and across the country. But another lightning strike and another death,
this one in Jackson, New Jersey, at an archery range.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
It was insanely loud and the earth like the earth
exploded and it was dirt flying flying everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, and there was a death in this one, unfortunately,
sixty one year old Robert Montgomery, who was dead at
the scene. They couldn't bring him around. He was volunteering
at the range to teach children. Five children also had
to be taken to the hospital. But all of them
are going to be okay. So none of the kids
that were there learning archery were that seriously hurt.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
And that young man, the twenty eight year old who
was on the golf course last week, just passed away.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, yesterday. And but we have stories of this now
across the country. I don't remember this in the past,
this many lightning strikes and it's been in just the
last couple of weeks. Well, we'll talk more about that
coming up, because there was a couple nationally that you
really should hear about. Also, Comedian Shane Gillis host the
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eSPI Awards. You know, that might not have been the
best selection for the SP's. I'm sure they're going to
get a lot of attention, but there was a lot
of uncomfortable people in the audience. Actually, there was supposed
to be an Epstein joke here, but.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
As it got deleted, must have probably deleted itself, right,
probably never existed. Actually, let's move on as a country
and ignore that.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It was the safest, the least controversial it was of
all the jokes he did. The comedian stole the show
for all the wrong reasons. We'll play the jokes. More
of them. The ones that we can play, we will
play coming up. But in the meantime, let's get to
John Decker. Big day for John Decker yesterday he was
traveling with the President. Of course, John is our wo
(05:12):
R White House in Washington. Correspondent, John, let's focus on
you first, great questions. Talk about what you asked the president.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Well, this was when the President was departing the White
House on a trip to Pittsburgh, and I asked the
President a few questions, one about Russia. And I asked
him the question that you and I you may recall, Larry,
we're discussing on Tuesday. I asked him that same exact question.
I say, I asked the President, why are you giving
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fifty additional days to putin to prosecute his war against Ukraine?
And the President said, initially, I don't think that fifty
days is a particularly long period of time. And then
he turned it on me. He said, why didn't you
ask that same question to bite it? And I told
the President I responded right away, I said, I did
ask tough questions to Biden about Ukraine. And the President
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asked me what was his answer? And I said, they
weren't very good answers as to president. So that was
one set of questions, Larry, and then the second set
of questions had to do with the FED chair, because
of course Jerome Powell is in the news. I asked
the President when was the last time he spoke with Palell?
What did they discuss? And he told me the President
told pal he's not doing a very good job. And
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then I just wanted to see his reaction to this.
I asked the President, will you appoint Howe to another
four year term? And he had same reaction that you
just had. Larry gave me a ForWord answer. He said,
you must be kidding.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Well, good job.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
What was he like that?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
When was the last time, I mean, can we just
talk about for a moment, the accessibility of this president.
When was the last time you got three questions to
a isn't it?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:02):
You know, look, I think that Donald Trump is at
the top of the list in terms of accessibility. It
is remarkable. You ask any reporter who covers the White House,
and you know, I'd go all the way back to
Bill Clinton, and given all those various administrations, all those presidents,
it is Donald Trump at the top of the list
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and the first term and the second term in terms
of being available to answer questions on any topic on
any given day.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You know, it's funny. I saw the Russia question and
I wasn't sure it was you. I knew you were
going to ask it. I wasn't sure it was you.
And I said to Natalie at the time, I said,
I can't tell you because the camera was the back
of your head. That's right, And I said, it really
sounds like him, and this is this is really good.
You went, what can we can call it semi viral
with that question? That was it was shared a lot,
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so just because of the back and forth, and good
for you to stand up and be able to have
that back and forth with the President of the United States.
I know you've been doing it a long time, but
it's funny when the spotlight turns around and it's on
you for a second and you handled it really well well.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
You know, like just on that you know, the President
asked me a question. I responded, I was respectful and responding,
and I said to him, I didn't believe that Biden
gave very good answers, mister President. So look, you know,
I think that the President appreciates that he likes. I
think anybody that stands up for himself or herself, and
(08:28):
that's what you know I did in that particular situation.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yes, and you were respectful, you called him sir, And
I think that you did extremely well. I think there's
others that would have been more agitating, let's put it
that way, and they'd be more agitating just because they
knew they were on camera and they needed to take
on the president. No, you were completely respectful and it
was it was really great. It was very well done.
(08:51):
I'm sure he's gonna remember that too. Let's talk about
the Epstein files only because everybody else is, even Republicans
in the Senate and the House now seem to want
the Epstein files out. What's the White House going to do?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Well?
Speaker 7 (09:06):
The White House says that it is up to Pam Bondy,
the Attorney General, in terms of releasing any files related
to Jeffrey Epstein, and the Attorney General has already spoken
out on this. She says that the no files will
be released and she's firm on that. And the President
putting out a very lengthy social media post yesterday morning
(09:30):
calling those who are calling for the release of this material,
including supporters of his weaklings. That was the word that
he used. And the president is not happy with those
individuals who supported him in the twenty twenty four election
now breaking away from a point of view that he
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has that it's not necessary to release this information to
the public.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, some of them are the usual suspects. The one
that shocked me the most was Josh Howie you know,
a oh yeah, that was a shocking to me because
he's a he's a big, mega guy, and for him
to turn on him, I got a feel and he's
going to have to do something. It'll be well.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
I could go through a list. Michael Flynn, for sure,
national security advisor who the president's tardant, calling for the
president to release information. Marjorie Taylor Green calling for the
president to release those files. Those are just two and
those are maga Republicans to the core, but they've broken
away from the President on this particular issue.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
John Decker WL right, House correspondent in Washington correspond You
got to get a better angle, so the cameras always
get you.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
You have to learn and tell my cameraman and I
will tell my cameraman so you can see that angle, Larry,
so you can see me having the back and forth
with the president.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
It's not just me. I'm not that selfish. I want
America to see that angle. I want everyone to see it.
Thanks a lot, John, all right, here is something we
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Speaker 9 (11:42):
I hope that Trump would remember twenty sixteen when Republican
voters were called a basketfull of deplorables. And what happened
in that election, they pushed him over the top by
calling us stupid, not nice, not that nice at all.
He should be a little bit more presidential. And I'll
(12:03):
tell you, if JD. Vance runs for president, I'm not
voting for him. I'll vote for Rubio because he's more presidential.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I'll tell you what I like. I like them both.
I like JD. Vance. It's a different role. Understand that
he has to defend the president and he has to
take on people, and Rubio does not. But I've been
impressed with both of them, but especially Marco Rubio. You're
right about that. There's a reason that he was confirmed
ninety nine to nothing in the Senate to be the
(12:30):
Secretary of State. And he can handle anything, and he
has done a marvelous job in traveling overseas. So I'm
with you. It's gonna be a tough choice for me,
but I can understand how people will rally around Marco Rubio.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
The press covers everything up. When Biden was in office,
inflation went through the roof. The dollar store became the
dollar twenty five store. I mean every four items. Now
you lose an item. Gus was through the roof. Now
Trump in office. You can tell Chucky I can buy
as I can buy, guess and you know that news
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covers that the price is a gas A do no
anything Trump that does good is not covered.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Where's my radio, Minty, We'll see, we shall see. You
have to listen to the rest of the talkbacks to
see how you feel that you rank in all of that,
to see who gets the radio at the end of
the week. The see Crane radio. Let's do one more.
Let me let me just comment on one thing. What was
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the most amazing thing during the Biden administration maybe the
biggest cover up, Well, the borders, the tough one because
they were claiming it was secure when it was when
we had pictures of people flying over. They still us
that it was secure. But remember when we had two
negative GDPs for two quarters in a row, which has
long been considered a recession, and they went along with
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the Biden administration when they just said no, it's not
and they were like, Okay, that's just fine. You know what,
We'll hold off the talkbacks. We have a few more
to get to. We'll get them throughout the show. But
I do want to talk about something that we just
talked about a couple of seconds ago, and that was
the fact that there has been so many lightning strikes
and deadly lightning strikes in New Jersey. So we had
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the golfer die a couple of days ago and that
was just horrible. His name, by the way, is Simon
John Marianni. It's twenty eight years old. It was the
bally oh In golf Course in hard Easton, and you
remember that, and that was just stunning because you never
hear of that happening. You never hear of lightning strikes.
Then we have another one just yesterday in Jackson, New Jersey,
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sixty one year old Robert Montgomery, who was volunteering to
teach archery and five children got hit. Robert Montgomery died,
but the five children had to be taken to the hospital.
And then in Wayne, New Jersey, a delivery guy almost
gets hit by lightning and it was caught on a
ring doorbell. Now he's okay, but man, was that close
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to him.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It was it looked like it was right behind him,
I mean right behind him.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And you know, even if it's close to you, you're
supposed to be able to feel it. I he is
just so lucky. You're going to put that up online.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yeah, we're going to put it up on seven ten
war dot com slash Larry.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
All right, now, let's talk about the largest Mars rock
ever found on Earth. It was auctioned off. Guess how
much it went for, Jacqueline, You have a guess how
much of the largest Do you know the answer?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Two billion dollars?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Two billion dollars. I'm just livertheless, Yeah, I guess you've
never watched prices, right.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You can't get close without going over.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
That's right. Yeah, No, it went for It was expected
to go between one and two million. It went for
five point three million dollars. That's after fees. By the way,
I didn't never know that. So he bid four point
three million, paid five point three what fees? Somebody gets
rich on those fees. I'm gonna run an auction house. Now,
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let's get to Jackline Carl with the seven thirty news. Jacquelin,
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Senate Republicans worked late into the night to approve the
cutting of funding for public broadcasting, global health programs, and
some more foreign aid. Lawmakers narrowly passed a package that
would claw back nine billion dollars in spending that had
already been approved. It's part of the efforts of the
Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, that used to be
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run by billionaire Elon Musk. And one person is dead
and more than a dozen others, including children, or recovering
from injury suffered during a lightning strike in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Larry was just talking about this.
Speaker 10 (16:52):
A bit writ thing hit the black knight Bowbenders outdoor
archery range in Jackson Township just after seven pm wins Day.
A sixty one year old man was killed. The township's
mayor says he was an instructor at the range. Thirteen
others were hurt, including eight children. The youngest victim is
seven years old. Reports a some suffered burns. A club
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member says a local boy Scout troupe was on the
range at the time. It's not clear if the young
victims were scouts. Andrew Whitman wo R News.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, so here's an interesting story and I want to
know if you believe in this. A group of campers
in Arizona has filed an official report with the Bigfoot
Field Researchers Organization, which I didn't know there was one
until now. After what they claim was a sighting, a
family was looking for a missing member of their group
named Janelle. Janelle's always going missing, apparently, and it's a
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good thing too, because a woman named Amber says she
and her family had an up close and personal encounter
with the mythical man beast, the Bigfoot. For sighting allegedly
happened at a place called which I love, the edge
of the world. If I were Bigfoot, that's where i'd
hang near Sedona. Amber describes the creature as about now.
This is where it gets a little. It's about seven
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feet tall, around four hundred pounds, with a really wide
body and shoulders, and matted white and brown hair and
a flat, leathery hairless face. I feel like I dated
someone like that. Like that could be anybody. Do you
believe in Bigfoot?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Let's get back to that. You feel like you dated
like that?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
But I mean, when I'm thinking of Bigfoot, I want
to hear eleven feet tall, you know, crazy. Oh so
you don't think this Bigfoot was I.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Was big enough. I've met people that are seven feet
tall at right.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I mean the matted white, white and brown hair and
flat leathery, hairless face isn't really my type.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
But I feel like I've seen that. So it was
your ex boyfriend walking around, is what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Maybe you know, just despondent after losing me, must have
fallen down smashed just fan. Well, anyway, do you believe
in Bigfoot? Because I believe he could be there, and
if he is out there somewhere, it would be on
the edge of the world, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
It could be except have been spotted all around the world.
Have you ever gone to the Bigfoot site? Apparently it's
run right out of New Jersey. Really, they do all
of the sitings around the country, hundreds hundreds a year.
I believe.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I believe to lockness Bigfoot UFOs bring it wow.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
All right, thanks Jacqueline Carl. I'm with Bigfoot lovers when
we come back. Science claims it now has the capability
of breeding super babies. We'll talk with doctor Arthur Kaplan
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rn E dot com. Well, here is a headline that's
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going to get your attention inside the Silicon Valley, push
to breed super Babies. Super Babies Now as a comic book,
I would love that, but in reality I got questions.
So let's go to doctor Arthur Kaplan, professor of bioethics
at New York University Langne Medical Center. Uh what is
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this all about? Doctor?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Well, hey, good morning. There's a new company out called Nucleus,
And what they say they can do is take an embryo,
look at its genes, and give you a prediction about
the traits, behavior characteristics that that embryo is gonna have.
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So what they really are asking you to do is,
instead of having babies the old fashioned way, make embryos,
like at an infertility clinic, artificially put them in dishes,
screen them, and then put in the ones you think
are gonna be the super babies. Right behind that is
a technology called crisper. Very simply, it's just a genetic
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scissors that lets you scissor out certain DNA letters from
your genes and then put in other ones that might
be better. This is all the rage in Silicon Valley.
It's all the rage among Musk and other billionaires like
Peter Thiel. They think humanity is so imperiled through to the
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variety of problems ranging from you know, climate change to congestion,
pricing that you know, they've got to have super babies,
super intelligent babies to solve these problems. And I'm gonna
tay you some letters. You're not gonna believe me. But
the reason Musk is so interested in going to Mars
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is because he wants to go there and then populate
it with super babies, with geniuses, you know, people that
he thinks not only can solve the world's problems, but
also we'll just make a better world than this one.
So his escape plan is really to Mars and making
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super babies. What do I think of all this? I
think it's the biggest hogwash I ever heard.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Why do you think it's hogwash? It sounds like it's legitimate.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Well, first of all, we don't have the genetic science
to pick these traits. Second of all, look at a family,
pick any feel you want yours mind, anybody, and look
at the kids same parents, same genes passed on to
the kids, different recombinations, but you know, same parents, same environment,
same upbringing, food development. Do they turn out the same.
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They don't, because environment still shapes who you become, not
just your genes. These guys are gene obsessed and that's
not the whole story. It's probably half the story, if
you want to put it that way. Another reason I
think it's silly is it isn't clear what are the
good traits what you need to solve some problems. Let's say,
emotional intelligence. It may not be there if you need math,
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ability may not be there if you have to be
good verbally. Intelligence isn't a single thing. So I don't
think we're ready or have any science that would let
us breed super geniuses that we could send the Mars. Nope,
don't see it.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, and not worries me because even if they want
to try that, and I can, I guess I can
understand a little bit. You know that you want to
avoid people being born with serious diseases. I get a
little bit. But you know, if you're talking about creating
highly intelligent superhuman beings, well, we never would have had
I can name a few but the first one that
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comes to mind is Stephen Hawking. We would never have
had him, and you know, he was a genius. What
does it matter that he was in a wheelchair. It
just it's a little bit frightening to me.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Even Musk in some of his cronies, they tilt a
little bit on the autism spectrum, right, So parents would say, well,
I'm not gonna do that. I don't want to risk
having a kid with autism. But you can get some
pretty high performing people with autism. So that's what I
mean when I said, we don't really understand the complexity
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of what makes genius.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Something that's important to you and we've agreed on this
in the past, and something that's important to me, or
the measles outbreaks across the country and the reason for it,
which is ridiculous. Can we talk about that it's reached
what a thirty three year high.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Thirty three year high for a preventable disease with a
vaccine that's been around forever and I'm just gonna say,
flat out known to be super super safe. I mean,
you occasionally get somebody with a reaction, but it's one
in a zillion. The odds of preventing measles and kids
really outweigh any any real or worry about dangers. And
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we mentioned autism. There's been a theory about that, the
vaccine causing autism. It's been debunked, I don't know, over
and over and over again. The latest reason that it doesn't.
You don't have to worry about that is we can
diagnose autism now before the agent which you give your
kids a shot. So I don't think the SHOT's causing it,
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because we already know that you're gonna be at risk
again through genetic tests and other chemical tests. So you
really have to get your kids vaccinated. I'm gonna mention
one other thing. You know, the vaccine sometimes wears out.
Even if you're an adult. You're gonna go visit a
newborn baby, you know, the grandkids. You want to make
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sure you're up to date on that measles vaccine. You
don't want to be bringing that into that house, especially
where a new is who has almost no immunity.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Now, the doctor that came up with that theory and
just made it up, they lost his license. He had
his yeah Wakefield, he had he had the study pulled
from the Lancet. You know, and the fact that this
lives on. I wish Hollywood would do a movie on
him as a great evil so that everybody would learn
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what he is and what he did to this country,
because people have not gotten the message through time and
a film less forever. And by the way, if you
played that villain, you're gonna win an Oscar. So if
there's anybody listening out there that in Poland, Hollywood get
that one made. I think that's what we need. Doctor
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Arthur Kaplan, professor of bioethics at New York University Land
Gone Medical Center. Doctor, thank you so much. Good to
talk to him. We focus so much on ice and
immigration these days. We never talk about the border. You
remember the border that was wide open for four years
under Biden. Well Wor correspondent Rory O'Neil has an update
(28:04):
on what it's like now after the break. If you
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what else? People still want to keep talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 11 (28:23):
I think we should only look at the Epstein flight
list after two thousand and eight when he was convicted
of whatever, he was convicted of prostitution or because before
that you could be innocent. After that, you're not innocent
on that flight list.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
It's so interesting you brought up two thousand and eight
because the flight list. The flight lists are available to
up until twenty nineteen, but the two thousand and eight
flight list is extremely limited, and there are certainly conspiracy
theories out there that there are some names, specifically on
two thousand and eight, that people don't want out, And
(29:04):
so over the last couple of days, people keep calling
and say, what about the flight list? We need the
flight list, And a lot of people think, oh, the
flight list have been out. What are you talking about?
Not all of them and not all the names and
not all the flights. So yes, they should be out
because many of them have been out, and to keep
some names and some flights out just raises more suspicions,
(29:28):
So that should be out. I think everything should be
out with reaction. I mean, if you have legal problems
with some of them, just put everything out at this point,
because you're gonna have to. This isn't going away now.
Let's get the Rory O'Neill, wor National correspondent, Rory. We
heard so much about the border a few years ago.
It was top of the news in some places. The border,
(29:50):
the border, the border. Now we don't hear about it anymore.
I wonder why, Well, there's not so much going on
down there.
Speaker 12 (29:56):
You know, we are focused a lot more on deportation
and what ice raids are happening in the protests in
Los Angeles and stuff like that. But activity at the border,
particularly the southern border, has really dried up. This new
report from Customs and Border Protection this week finds that
some of the June numbers were the lowest in the
agency's history. There were twenty five thousand total encounters at
(30:20):
the border. That's the lowest monthly total NCBP history. In fact,
on June twenty eighth, there were only one hundred and
thirty six apprehensions at the border. That's a record low
for any day.
Speaker 10 (30:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I wonder why it wasn't secure before, because it seems
like it's so easy to secure the border. Any thoughts.
Speaker 12 (30:41):
Well, there have been more deployments and more resources have
been sent to the border, but I think more effective
has been the messaging from President Trump essentially putting the
signal out there like, look, you come in here, we're
going to stop you at the border, and if you're here,
we're kicking you out.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
You know.
Speaker 12 (30:56):
I think that's been much more vocal than we've heard
at least in four year years, and that's been a
big change. So that's also, we believe the reason that
the cartels have also slowed down a lot of the traffic.
You know, we're also not seeing the masses gather at
the southern border like we did during the Biden administration.
The people just aren't coming as much, and in large part,
(31:18):
the cartels are sort of in a weight and see
mode to figure out exactly what the policies from the
administration will be.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, the amount of fentanyl that is being apprehended as
it tries to come across the border is way down.
It's like one percent what it used to be. So
it is good news all around. I just am trying
to figure out, since we did this so quickly, why
it wasn't done before, right, And.
Speaker 12 (31:44):
Look, the Biden administration tried to make some of these
changes in the final months leading up to the November
election to try to make the situation look better. They
were trying to push that comprehensive immigration reform bill and
it wasn't that comprehensive. But you know, that's the one
that they accused of President Trump of torpedoing during the
run up to the election. So a lot of things
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they were trying to do, but it just wasn't as
effective as alligator alcatraze perhaps in not carrying some people away.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Apparently we didn't need that. He did all this, He
stopped this before there was any bill passed. Apparently we
didn't need that. So I guess all that time we
were kind of being misled and lied to. It seems
like it was more political than it was real because
we had a president came in that made it his
priority and he is able to, you know, work miracles.
I mean, we have the most And let me ask
(32:34):
you this, because he says this all the time. Is
it the most secure border right now? In history?
Speaker 12 (32:39):
It is? I mean, and that's been a remarkable achievement.
This is why I'm surprised he's not there every day.
You know, if you want to get off the other topic,
the other topic, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Go to the border, to go to.
Speaker 12 (32:51):
The border, yeah, the success there versus you know, being
dogged by this. And by the way, he's the one
who keeps bringing it up on tooth Social by the.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Way, the Epstein list. Yeah, well that's because everybody else is.
Have you seen the trending. It's what it's trending over
the last few days. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 12 (33:10):
They keep on saying, I don't want to talk about it,
I don't want to talk about it, and then he
talks about it. I'm socially we'll stop talking about it.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Thanks so much. Rory O'Neill, wo R National correspondent, appreciate it.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
It was the great lie, wasn't it. It was the
great lie that the border was secure. We got that
over and over and over again. And then they'd show
pictures that have a split screen with like may Orcus,
the worst Homeland Security director in history, saying the border secure,
the border secure, and then have a split screen showing
you people just coming across the border lining up, nobody
stopping them, just walking across the border. And all of
(33:49):
that time, what President Trump proved was you could have
stopped it. In a week. It all could have stopped
and they chose not to. And the big question is why.
That'll be a question that we can answer another show.
But I'll tell you what Rory brought up A great point,
why isn't Donald Trump at the border more? That's his
(34:11):
great success. It's probably what got him into office as
much as anything else, and he's succeeded with it. He
seems to have celebrations over every other victory. We should
have a celebration out of the border about this one. Well,
we've been talking about it all morning. There is a
shocking new poll out that shows a three way statistical
(34:32):
tie in the mayor's race, and that tie does not
include Mayor Adams. We'll talk about it with political commentator
Laura Currin after the eight o'clock News
So let me tell you something that race Stagic left
out a very important fact that he left out in
his forecast. And race Stagic is the best, but you know,
he has limited time. So he talked about today and
tonight and the chance of thunderstorms blah blah blah blah blah.
Tomorrow is going to be beautiful, sunny, less, humid, cool
(00:24):
or eighty four, and he talked about that. But this
is what I want you to focus on. Saturday, mostly sunny, less, humid,
eighty four again, two beautiful days in a row, Friday
and Saturday. Make sure you get out and enjoy it.
Because Sunday, let's not talk about Sunday now, No, Sunday. Yeah,
(00:45):
let's not talk about Sunday. We'll hope that that's going
to not happen.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Okay, it's going to not happen.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, I know Sunday is going to happen. But what
I'm looking at in front of me, I'm hoping for,
I know, the thunderstorms, you know now said it. Yeah,
there's a chance of thunderstorms and showers on Sunday. But
let's see that's a few days off. Maybe that'll change. Yeah,
all right, Now, in the big three. Wow. If you're
a poll watcher, this one is shocking. And maybe we
(01:15):
should have been listening to Curtis Leewa all along because
he said I got a chance of winning this thing,
and this poll shows he's got a chance of winning
this thing in a new independent poll. It is a shocker.
A statistical three way tie in the New York Mayor's race,
and anybody named Adams is not in that three way tie.
(01:37):
It's Mom, Donnie Cuomo, and Sliwa And with Adams in
fourth place, there are new calls for him to drop out.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
The last man we had of color was thirty years ago.
How would I look to be stepping down to him
who stepped down from his obligation as the governor.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Eric Adams is having a really bad day. Not only
was he fourth in the poll, but he's being sued
by former interim Police Commissioner Thomas Donnellan, who alleges that
basically he was running a criminal ring with the police department.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
This is a monstrous allegation, and what I'm reading is
that none of it has been corroborated. You don't see
anything in reports or attachments that would corroborate it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
No the timing of this is really suspicious that it
came out. It seems vindictive that it comes out while
he's running for mayor. And as you just heard from
a criminal defense attorney, there's not a lot of meat
in there, just a lot of allegations. In the meantime,
Mom Donnie was in Washington having a breakfast with the
Socialist Democrats in their big Communists get together, and those
(02:54):
at the meeting came out plus just positively giddy about
Zorin Mam Donnie, They're.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Just beautiful to have someone who is so authentic.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
You know that money cannot buy that.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
In New Jersey, I don't know what's going on. There's
been so many lightning strikes, not only in New Jersey
and across the country. But another lightning strike and another death,
this one in Jackson, New Jersey, at an archery range.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
It was insanely loud and the earth like the earth
exploded and it was dirt flying flying everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, and there was a death in this one, unfortunately,
sixty one year old Robert Montgomery, who was dead at
the scene. They couldn't bring him around. He was volunteering
at the range to teach children. Five children also had
to be taken to the hospital. But all of them
are going to be okay. So none of the kids
that were there learning archery were that seriously hurt.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
And that young man, the twenty eight year old who
was on the golf course last week, just passed away.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, yesterday. And but we have stories of this now
across the country. I don't remember this in the past,
this many lightning strikes and it's been in just the
last couple of weeks. Well, we'll talk more about that
coming up, because there was a couple nationally that you
really should hear about. Also, Comedian Shane Gillis host the
(04:21):
eSPI Awards. You know, that might not have been the
best selection for the SP's. I'm sure they're going to
get a lot of attention, but there was a lot
of uncomfortable people in the audience. Actually, there was supposed
to be an Epstein joke here, but.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
As it got deleted, must have probably deleted itself, right,
probably never existed. Actually, let's move on as a country
and ignore that.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It was the safest, the least controversial it was of
all the jokes he did. The comedian stole the show
for all the wrong reasons. We'll play the jokes. More
of them. The ones that we can play, we will
play coming up. But in the meantime, let's get to
John Decker. Big day for John Decker yesterday he was
traveling with the President. Of course, John is our wo
(05:12):
R White House in Washington. Correspondent, John, let's focus on
you first, great questions. Talk about what you asked the president.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Well, this was when the President was departing the White
House on a trip to Pittsburgh, and I asked the
President a few questions, one about Russia. And I asked
him the question that you and I you may recall, Larry,
we're discussing on Tuesday. I asked him that same exact question.
I say, I asked the President, why are you giving
(05:41):
fifty additional days to putin to prosecute his war against Ukraine?
And the President said, initially, I don't think that fifty
days is a particularly long period of time. And then
he turned it on me. He said, why didn't you
ask that same question to bite it? And I told
the President I responded right away, I said, I did
ask tough questions to Biden about Ukraine. And the President
(06:05):
asked me what was his answer? And I said, they
weren't very good answers as to president. So that was
one set of questions, Larry, and then the second set
of questions had to do with the FED chair, because
of course Jerome Powell is in the news. I asked
the President when was the last time he spoke with Palell?
What did they discuss? And he told me the President
told pal he's not doing a very good job. And
(06:27):
then I just wanted to see his reaction to this.
I asked the President, will you appoint Howe to another
four year term? And he had same reaction that you
just had. Larry gave me a ForWord answer. He said,
you must be kidding.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Well, good job.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
What was he like that?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
When was the last time, I mean, can we just
talk about for a moment, the accessibility of this president.
When was the last time you got three questions to
a isn't it?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:02):
You know, look, I think that Donald Trump is at
the top of the list in terms of accessibility. It
is remarkable. You ask any reporter who covers the White House,
and you know, I'd go all the way back to
Bill Clinton, and given all those various administrations, all those presidents,
it is Donald Trump at the top of the list
(07:22):
and the first term and the second term in terms
of being available to answer questions on any topic on
any given day.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You know, it's funny. I saw the Russia question and
I wasn't sure it was you. I knew you were
going to ask it. I wasn't sure it was you.
And I said to Natalie at the time, I said,
I can't tell you because the camera was the back
of your head. That's right, And I said, it really
sounds like him, and this is this is really good.
You went, what can we can call it semi viral
with that question? That was it was shared a lot,
(07:50):
so just because of the back and forth, and good
for you to stand up and be able to have
that back and forth with the President of the United States.
I know you've been doing it a long time, but
it's funny when the spotlight turns around and it's on
you for a second and you handled it really well well.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
You know, like just on that you know, the President
asked me a question. I responded, I was respectful and responding,
and I said to him, I didn't believe that Biden
gave very good answers, mister President. So look, you know,
I think that the President appreciates that he likes. I
think anybody that stands up for himself or herself, and
(08:28):
that's what you know I did in that particular situation.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yes, and you were respectful, you called him sir, And
I think that you did extremely well. I think there's
others that would have been more agitating, let's put it
that way, and they'd be more agitating just because they
knew they were on camera and they needed to take
on the president. No, you were completely respectful and it
was it was really great. It was very well done.
(08:51):
I'm sure he's gonna remember that too. Let's talk about
the Epstein files only because everybody else is, even Republicans
in the Senate and the House now seem to want
the Epstein files out. What's the White House going to do?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Well?
Speaker 7 (09:06):
The White House says that it is up to Pam Bondy,
the Attorney General, in terms of releasing any files related
to Jeffrey Epstein, and the Attorney General has already spoken
out on this. She says that the no files will
be released and she's firm on that. And the President
putting out a very lengthy social media post yesterday morning
(09:30):
calling those who are calling for the release of this material,
including supporters of his weaklings. That was the word that
he used. And the president is not happy with those
individuals who supported him in the twenty twenty four election
now breaking away from a point of view that he
(09:50):
has that it's not necessary to release this information to
the public.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, some of them are the usual suspects. The one
that shocked me the most was Josh Howie you know,
a oh yeah, that was a shocking to me because
he's a he's a big, mega guy, and for him
to turn on him, I got a feel and he's
going to have to do something. It'll be well.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
I could go through a list. Michael Flynn, for sure,
national security advisor who the president's tardant, calling for the
president to release information. Marjorie Taylor Green calling for the
president to release those files. Those are just two and
those are maga Republicans to the core, but they've broken
away from the President on this particular issue.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
John Decker WL right, House correspondent in Washington correspond You
got to get a better angle, so the cameras always
get you.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
You have to learn and tell my cameraman and I
will tell my cameraman so you can see that angle, Larry,
so you can see me having the back and forth
with the president.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
It's not just me. I'm not that selfish. I want
America to see that angle. I want everyone to see it.
Thanks a lot, John, all right, here is something we
all experienced, only now it has a name, the gen
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Shetty to listen today. Oh A is appreciate. When you
leave us a talk back, you go to the iHeartRadio app,
you look for seven to ten wor then you go
to the talkback feature and we play you on the air.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
I hope that Trump would remember twenty sixteen when Republican
voters were called a basketfull of deplorables. And what happened
in that election, they pushed him over the top by
calling us stupid, not nice, not that nice at all.
He should be a little bit more presidential. And I'll
(12:03):
tell you, if JD. Vance runs for president, I'm not
voting for him. I'll vote for Rubio because he's more presidential.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I'll tell you what I like. I like them both.
I like JD. Vance. It's a different role. Understand that
he has to defend the president and he has to
take on people, and Rubio does not. But I've been
impressed with both of them, but especially Marco Rubio. You're
right about that. There's a reason that he was confirmed
ninety nine to nothing in the Senate to be the
(12:30):
Secretary of State. And he can handle anything, and he
has done a marvelous job in traveling overseas. So I'm
with you. It's gonna be a tough choice for me,
but I can understand how people will rally around Marco Rubio.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
The press covers everything up. When Biden was in office,
inflation went through the roof. The dollar store became the
dollar twenty five store. I mean every four items. Now
you lose an item. Gus was through the roof. Now
Trump in office. You can tell Chucky I can buy
as I can buy, guess and you know that news
(13:07):
covers that the price is a gas A do no
anything Trump that does good is not covered.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Where's my radio, Minty, We'll see, we shall see. You
have to listen to the rest of the talkbacks to
see how you feel that you rank in all of that,
to see who gets the radio at the end of
the week. The see Crane radio. Let's do one more.
Let me let me just comment on one thing. What was
(13:36):
the most amazing thing during the Biden administration maybe the
biggest cover up, Well, the borders, the tough one because
they were claiming it was secure when it was when
we had pictures of people flying over. They still us
that it was secure. But remember when we had two
negative GDPs for two quarters in a row, which has
long been considered a recession, and they went along with
(13:58):
the Biden administration when they just said no, it's not
and they were like, Okay, that's just fine. You know what,
We'll hold off the talkbacks. We have a few more
to get to. We'll get them throughout the show. But
I do want to talk about something that we just
talked about a couple of seconds ago, and that was
the fact that there has been so many lightning strikes
and deadly lightning strikes in New Jersey. So we had
(14:21):
the golfer die a couple of days ago and that
was just horrible. His name, by the way, is Simon
John Marianni. It's twenty eight years old. It was the
bally oh In golf Course in hard Easton, and you
remember that, and that was just stunning because you never
hear of that happening. You never hear of lightning strikes.
Then we have another one just yesterday in Jackson, New Jersey,
(14:46):
sixty one year old Robert Montgomery, who was volunteering to
teach archery and five children got hit. Robert Montgomery died,
but the five children had to be taken to the hospital.
And then in Wayne, New Jersey, a delivery guy almost
gets hit by lightning and it was caught on a
ring doorbell. Now he's okay, but man, was that close
(15:12):
to him.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It was it looked like it was right behind him,
I mean right behind him.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And you know, even if it's close to you, you're
supposed to be able to feel it. I he is
just so lucky. You're going to put that up online.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yeah, we're going to put it up on seven ten
war dot com slash Larry.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
All right, now, let's talk about the largest Mars rock
ever found on Earth. It was auctioned off. Guess how
much it went for, Jacqueline, You have a guess how
much of the largest Do you know the answer?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Two billion dollars?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Two billion dollars. I'm just livertheless, Yeah, I guess you've
never watched prices, right.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You can't get close without going over.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
That's right. Yeah, No, it went for It was expected
to go between one and two million. It went for
five point three million dollars. That's after fees. By the way,
I didn't never know that. So he bid four point
three million, paid five point three what fees? Somebody gets
rich on those fees. I'm gonna run an auction house. Now,
(16:16):
let's get to Jackline Carl with the seven thirty news. Jacquelin,
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Senate Republicans worked late into the night to approve the
cutting of funding for public broadcasting, global health programs, and
some more foreign aid. Lawmakers narrowly passed a package that
would claw back nine billion dollars in spending that had
already been approved. It's part of the efforts of the
Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, that used to be
(16:41):
run by billionaire Elon Musk. And one person is dead
and more than a dozen others, including children, or recovering
from injury suffered during a lightning strike in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Larry was just talking about this.
Speaker 10 (16:52):
A bit writ thing hit the black knight Bowbenders outdoor
archery range in Jackson Township just after seven pm wins Day.
A sixty one year old man was killed. The township's
mayor says he was an instructor at the range. Thirteen
others were hurt, including eight children. The youngest victim is
seven years old. Reports a some suffered burns. A club
(17:15):
member says a local boy Scout troupe was on the
range at the time. It's not clear if the young
victims were scouts. Andrew Whitman wo R News.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, so here's an interesting story and I want to
know if you believe in this. A group of campers
in Arizona has filed an official report with the Bigfoot
Field Researchers Organization, which I didn't know there was one
until now. After what they claim was a sighting, a
family was looking for a missing member of their group
named Janelle. Janelle's always going missing, apparently, and it's a
(17:47):
good thing too, because a woman named Amber says she
and her family had an up close and personal encounter
with the mythical man beast, the Bigfoot. For sighting allegedly
happened at a place called which I love, the edge
of the world. If I were Bigfoot, that's where i'd
hang near Sedona. Amber describes the creature as about now.
This is where it gets a little. It's about seven
(18:09):
feet tall, around four hundred pounds, with a really wide
body and shoulders, and matted white and brown hair and
a flat, leathery hairless face. I feel like I dated
someone like that. Like that could be anybody. Do you
believe in Bigfoot?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Let's get back to that. You feel like you dated
like that?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
But I mean, when I'm thinking of Bigfoot, I want
to hear eleven feet tall, you know, crazy. Oh so
you don't think this Bigfoot was I.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Was big enough. I've met people that are seven feet
tall at right.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I mean the matted white, white and brown hair and
flat leathery, hairless face isn't really my type.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
But I feel like I've seen that. So it was
your ex boyfriend walking around, is what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Maybe you know, just despondent after losing me, must have
fallen down smashed just fan. Well, anyway, do you believe
in Bigfoot? Because I believe he could be there, and
if he is out there somewhere, it would be on
the edge of the world, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
It could be except have been spotted all around the world.
Have you ever gone to the Bigfoot site? Apparently it's
run right out of New Jersey. Really, they do all
of the sitings around the country, hundreds hundreds a year.
I believe.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I believe to lockness Bigfoot UFOs bring it wow.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
All right, thanks Jacqueline Carl. I'm with Bigfoot lovers when
we come back. Science claims it now has the capability
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I would love that, but in reality I got questions.
So let's go to doctor Arthur Kaplan, professor of bioethics
at New York University Langne Medical Center. Uh what is
(21:41):
this all about? Doctor?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Well, hey, good morning. There's a new company out called Nucleus,
And what they say they can do is take an embryo,
look at its genes, and give you a prediction about
the traits, behavior characteristics that that embryo is gonna have.
(22:03):
So what they really are asking you to do is,
instead of having babies the old fashioned way, make embryos,
like at an infertility clinic, artificially put them in dishes,
screen them, and then put in the ones you think
are gonna be the super babies. Right behind that is
a technology called crisper. Very simply, it's just a genetic
(22:28):
scissors that lets you scissor out certain DNA letters from
your genes and then put in other ones that might
be better. This is all the rage in Silicon Valley.
It's all the rage among Musk and other billionaires like
Peter Thiel. They think humanity is so imperiled through to the
(22:49):
variety of problems ranging from you know, climate change to congestion,
pricing that you know, they've got to have super babies,
super intelligent babies to solve these problems. And I'm gonna
tay you some letters. You're not gonna believe me. But
the reason Musk is so interested in going to Mars
(23:10):
is because he wants to go there and then populate
it with super babies, with geniuses, you know, people that
he thinks not only can solve the world's problems, but
also we'll just make a better world than this one.
So his escape plan is really to Mars and making
(23:31):
super babies. What do I think of all this? I
think it's the biggest hogwash I ever heard.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Why do you think it's hogwash? It sounds like it's legitimate.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Well, first of all, we don't have the genetic science
to pick these traits. Second of all, look at a family,
pick any feel you want yours mind, anybody, and look
at the kids same parents, same genes passed on to
the kids, different recombinations, but you know, same parents, same environment,
same upbringing, food development. Do they turn out the same.
(24:02):
They don't, because environment still shapes who you become, not
just your genes. These guys are gene obsessed and that's
not the whole story. It's probably half the story, if
you want to put it that way. Another reason I
think it's silly is it isn't clear what are the
good traits what you need to solve some problems. Let's say,
emotional intelligence. It may not be there if you need math,
(24:25):
ability may not be there if you have to be
good verbally. Intelligence isn't a single thing. So I don't
think we're ready or have any science that would let
us breed super geniuses that we could send the Mars. Nope,
don't see it.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, and not worries me because even if they want
to try that, and I can, I guess I can
understand a little bit. You know that you want to
avoid people being born with serious diseases. I get a
little bit. But you know, if you're talking about creating
highly intelligent superhuman beings, well, we never would have had
I can name a few but the first one that
(25:00):
comes to mind is Stephen Hawking. We would never have
had him, and you know, he was a genius. What
does it matter that he was in a wheelchair. It
just it's a little bit frightening to me.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Even Musk in some of his cronies, they tilt a
little bit on the autism spectrum, right, So parents would say, well,
I'm not gonna do that. I don't want to risk
having a kid with autism. But you can get some
pretty high performing people with autism. So that's what I
mean when I said, we don't really understand the complexity
(25:31):
of what makes genius.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Something that's important to you and we've agreed on this
in the past, and something that's important to me, or
the measles outbreaks across the country and the reason for it,
which is ridiculous. Can we talk about that it's reached
what a thirty three year high.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Thirty three year high for a preventable disease with a
vaccine that's been around forever and I'm just gonna say,
flat out known to be super super safe. I mean,
you occasionally get somebody with a reaction, but it's one
in a zillion. The odds of preventing measles and kids
really outweigh any any real or worry about dangers. And
(26:12):
we mentioned autism. There's been a theory about that, the
vaccine causing autism. It's been debunked, I don't know, over
and over and over again. The latest reason that it doesn't.
You don't have to worry about that is we can
diagnose autism now before the agent which you give your
kids a shot. So I don't think the SHOT's causing it,
(26:33):
because we already know that you're gonna be at risk
again through genetic tests and other chemical tests. So you
really have to get your kids vaccinated. I'm gonna mention
one other thing. You know, the vaccine sometimes wears out.
Even if you're an adult. You're gonna go visit a
newborn baby, you know, the grandkids. You want to make
(26:54):
sure you're up to date on that measles vaccine. You
don't want to be bringing that into that house, especially
where a new is who has almost no immunity.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Now, the doctor that came up with that theory and
just made it up, they lost his license. He had
his yeah Wakefield, he had he had the study pulled
from the Lancet. You know, and the fact that this
lives on. I wish Hollywood would do a movie on
him as a great evil so that everybody would learn
(27:22):
what he is and what he did to this country,
because people have not gotten the message through time and
a film less forever. And by the way, if you
played that villain, you're gonna win an Oscar. So if
there's anybody listening out there that in Poland, Hollywood get
that one made. I think that's what we need. Doctor
(27:43):
Arthur Kaplan, professor of bioethics at New York University Land
Gone Medical Center. Doctor, thank you so much. Good to
talk to him. We focus so much on ice and
immigration these days. We never talk about the border. You
remember the border that was wide open for four years
under Biden. Well Wor correspondent Rory O'Neil has an update
(28:04):
on what it's like now after the break. If you
want to get a talkback message in now is the
time to do it. Go to the iHeartRadio app. Look
for seven to ten WOOR. You'll see the talkback feature
a little microphone, Hit it and record your message. And
what else? People still want to keep talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 11 (28:23):
I think we should only look at the Epstein flight
list after two thousand and eight when he was convicted
of whatever, he was convicted of prostitution or because before
that you could be innocent. After that, you're not innocent
on that flight list.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
It's so interesting you brought up two thousand and eight
because the flight list. The flight lists are available to
up until twenty nineteen, but the two thousand and eight
flight list is extremely limited, and there are certainly conspiracy
theories out there that there are some names, specifically on
two thousand and eight, that people don't want out, And
(29:04):
so over the last couple of days, people keep calling
and say, what about the flight list? We need the
flight list, And a lot of people think, oh, the
flight list have been out. What are you talking about?
Not all of them and not all the names and
not all the flights. So yes, they should be out
because many of them have been out, and to keep
some names and some flights out just raises more suspicions,
(29:28):
So that should be out. I think everything should be
out with reaction. I mean, if you have legal problems
with some of them, just put everything out at this point,
because you're gonna have to. This isn't going away now.
Let's get the Rory O'Neill, wor National correspondent, Rory. We
heard so much about the border a few years ago.
It was top of the news in some places. The border,
(29:50):
the border, the border. Now we don't hear about it anymore.
I wonder why, Well, there's not so much going on
down there.
Speaker 12 (29:56):
You know, we are focused a lot more on deportation
and what ice raids are happening in the protests in
Los Angeles and stuff like that. But activity at the border,
particularly the southern border, has really dried up. This new
report from Customs and Border Protection this week finds that
some of the June numbers were the lowest in the
agency's history. There were twenty five thousand total encounters at
(30:20):
the border. That's the lowest monthly total NCBP history. In fact,
on June twenty eighth, there were only one hundred and
thirty six apprehensions at the border. That's a record low
for any day.
Speaker 10 (30:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I wonder why it wasn't secure before, because it seems
like it's so easy to secure the border. Any thoughts.
Speaker 12 (30:41):
Well, there have been more deployments and more resources have
been sent to the border, but I think more effective
has been the messaging from President Trump essentially putting the
signal out there like, look, you come in here, we're
going to stop you at the border, and if you're here,
we're kicking you out.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
You know.
Speaker 12 (30:56):
I think that's been much more vocal than we've heard
at least in four year years, and that's been a
big change. So that's also, we believe the reason that
the cartels have also slowed down a lot of the traffic.
You know, we're also not seeing the masses gather at
the southern border like we did during the Biden administration.
The people just aren't coming as much, and in large part,
(31:18):
the cartels are sort of in a weight and see
mode to figure out exactly what the policies from the
administration will be.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, the amount of fentanyl that is being apprehended as
it tries to come across the border is way down.
It's like one percent what it used to be. So
it is good news all around. I just am trying
to figure out, since we did this so quickly, why
it wasn't done before, right, And.
Speaker 12 (31:44):
Look, the Biden administration tried to make some of these
changes in the final months leading up to the November
election to try to make the situation look better. They
were trying to push that comprehensive immigration reform bill and
it wasn't that comprehensive. But you know, that's the one
that they accused of President Trump of torpedoing during the
run up to the election. So a lot of things
(32:06):
they were trying to do, but it just wasn't as
effective as alligator alcatraze perhaps in not carrying some people away.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Apparently we didn't need that. He did all this, He
stopped this before there was any bill passed. Apparently we
didn't need that. So I guess all that time we
were kind of being misled and lied to. It seems
like it was more political than it was real because
we had a president came in that made it his
priority and he is able to, you know, work miracles.
I mean, we have the most And let me ask
(32:34):
you this, because he says this all the time. Is
it the most secure border right now? In history?
Speaker 12 (32:39):
It is? I mean, and that's been a remarkable achievement.
This is why I'm surprised he's not there every day.
You know, if you want to get off the other topic,
the other topic, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Go to the border, to go to.
Speaker 12 (32:51):
The border, yeah, the success there versus you know, being
dogged by this. And by the way, he's the one
who keeps bringing it up on tooth Social by the.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Way, the Epstein list. Yeah, well that's because everybody else is.
Have you seen the trending. It's what it's trending over
the last few days. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 12 (33:10):
They keep on saying, I don't want to talk about it,
I don't want to talk about it, and then he
talks about it. I'm socially we'll stop talking about it.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Thanks so much. Rory O'Neill, wo R National correspondent, appreciate it.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
It was the great lie, wasn't it. It was the
great lie that the border was secure. We got that
over and over and over again. And then they'd show
pictures that have a split screen with like may Orcus,
the worst Homeland Security director in history, saying the border secure,
the border secure, and then have a split screen showing
you people just coming across the border lining up, nobody
stopping them, just walking across the border. And all of
(33:49):
that time, what President Trump proved was you could have
stopped it. In a week. It all could have stopped
and they chose not to. And the big question is why.
That'll be a question that we can answer another show.
But I'll tell you what Rory brought up A great point,
why isn't Donald Trump at the border more? That's his
(34:11):
great success. It's probably what got him into office as
much as anything else, and he's succeeded with it. He
seems to have celebrations over every other victory. We should
have a celebration out of the border about this one. Well,
we've been talking about it all morning. There is a
shocking new poll out that shows a three way statistical
(34:32):
tie in the mayor's race, and that tie does not
include Mayor Adams. We'll talk about it with political commentator
Laura Currin after the eight o'clock News
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