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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Friday. Good morning to you. It's gonna be a
great day today, the best day in a long, long time.
Low humidity. Takeoff if you can. I think you're feeling
a little ill right now, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Call in? Not you stay here? Ye here has to
stay here. I'm talking to the person that's listening to
the radio right now.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I'm listening.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Nope, Nope, you're not. You're a part of the show.
You're part of the show.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Foiled again.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Crash, sit back down, get you please, sit back down.
I should not have said that now. In the big
three in the Mayorage race, Mayor Adams, a former cop,
gets the endorsement from almost all the law enforcement unions.
Don't tell me about law enforcement over time.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Tell me about how we brought down crime in the city.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's what That's great. If you want to, if you
want to at the police behind you, a former cop
knows what to say. Don't talk about the overtime. In
the latest polling that you saw yesterday, Adams comes in fourth,
behind Mom, Donnie Cuomo, and Sliwa, who were locked in
a statistical three way tie. Republican Curtis Sliwa is very
(01:19):
much in this race. So one thing everybody knows. You
can't buy, rent, leaseh or own.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Curtis sliwa the billionaires on all three of these candidates.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You know who owns me? The spirit of my mother
and father, the blue collar working class.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
That's you.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
I dedicate this shitty too when I become.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Mayor Well, he's got another hop in its step right now,
he's excited. Curtis Lee was going to be here at
nine oh five in Washington. Donald Trump has been diagnosed
with a condition that affects his veins and cardiovascular system.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
This diagnosis is a progressive one, meaning that there's no
curative treatment or intervention. Sort certainly can lead to persistent swelling,
which can lead to persistent pain and difficulties with mobility
at the age of seventy nine can be difficult at
the age of seventy nine, while also being the president
can be a tremendous amount of work.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
And hallelujah, Stephen Colbert the Trump painting Stephen Colbert is
going away for good.
Speaker 8 (02:16):
It's not just the end of our show, but it's
the end of the Late show on CBS.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I'm not being replaced.
Speaker 8 (02:22):
This is all just going away.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Who would have thought not being funny and being political
and bashing Donald Trump all the time wouldn't work. I
don't understand why his ratings are so low and why
they're getting ready of the show. With that, let's bring
in Rob Astorino, host of The Rob Astorino Show on
WR Saturdays from four to five, host of Saturday Agenda
from one to three on Newsmax, and former Westchester County executive.
(02:47):
I want to get into a lot of things. By
the way, good morning to you, Rep.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Hey, good morning Larry.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I want to get I want to get into a
lot of things, but I want to start with Natalie
was so shocked because apparently you told her about your
dream from last night. And and what really gets me
is that you said you had action dreams. And I'd
like you would explain that, because that can meet a
whole lot of things. You had action dreams, and then
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you actually woke up tired from your dreams.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yeah, and it had nothing to do with women or
being me being like Superman. It was just all stupid,
like motion stuff. And I'm exhausted. I wake up exhausted.
How could that happen?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
What you dream? You dreamed about motion stuff?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
What is no like you know, like jumping around. I'm
just like action stuff, but nothing like Superman stuff. Just dope,
be stuff down with.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Somebody can help back for rob that let us know.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Wow, you know I don't remember any of my dreams,
none of them. None, no, and it really bugs me.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You know, they say you should wake up in the morning.
Speaker 9 (04:02):
As soon as you wake up, you have, you know,
a pencil and paper next to you, before you even think,
start writing stuff down because you know, if you wake
up too much, you'll like it happened to you, you
forget them.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's a great idea. I really don't care that much
about it now, but now I do. I want to know,
but it's a really good idea. Hey, you know, I'm
looking forward to talking to you because I wanted to
hear what you had to say about the Epstein files,
and not about the files themselves, but just the reaction
and the revert in them and the revolt of how
(04:37):
are you okay? Well, good for you.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I'm not in them. That's what I was not dreaming
about that.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
But the revolt of Maga is what got me that
this is what they want to the hill they want
to die on. This is where they want to break
away from Donald Trump. It really fascinated me.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Yeah, I'm I'm trying to make out what this is
all about with Maga. I get it. I understand that. Look,
it's swamp Bill. You know, you promised us that you
were going to send everything out there so we could
see it. And now are you part of the swamp.
Where did they get you or whatever? I don't get.
(05:17):
I mean, last week on my own radio show, which
as you said, is tomorrow at four o'clock, I talked
about this and we took a whole bunch of calls,
and it was like nobody cared about Epstein. What they
cared about was Thomas Crooks and you know, the whole
shooting and why we knew nothing about this guy. So
I don't know. It's not like I say, like normal
people are consumed. Like when I'm talking to regular people,
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they're not talking about the Epstein files. They're just not.
It's something that I think the media and the you know,
political world might be all wrapped up in. But I
don't know. It's it's what Trump said the other day,
like about this creep who cares move on. That's kind
of how that's kind of how I feel, and it's
(06:01):
kind of how the people I've talked to feel. But
maybe I'm dead wrong in this. I don't know, right.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And you have to protect protect the accusers. I mean,
that's what everybody's thinking in this whole thing. You got
to protect them. By the way, you don't only have
to protect them, but you can be sued if you
release something they could late lead to them. So I understand,
I understand the problems with all of this.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
By the way, to your court orders that are stealing
some of this, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, you have to go through all of that, And
that's why when they say even the grand jury, they
have to go through a court to get the grand
jury stuff out. But I saw Harry Enton the other
day and I guess they had a poll out where
they asked people what is the biggest issue in the
country right now, And it was one of those flash
polls where they did it in like twenty four hours
to find out what Epstein was. They had one responded
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out of hundreds, one person.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
On on epstein.
Speaker 10 (06:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
No, see this this is like that's the thing we
get we in the media, the political world, we were
in in the weeds so much that we forget what's
going on in the real world. And that's what I
was saying before. In the real world. I haven't talked
to anybody who came up to me about the Epstein files.
So it's one of those echo chamber things.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, but when I talk about it on this show,
we get talk back after talkback, phone call after phone call.
There is a crowd out there that that's all they
want to talk about. And the problem with that, Rob
is that the media jumped on that because it was
anti Trump, and they went, oh, we got them, we
got them. The Democrats. They want to have hearings. The
Democrats want to have hearings on this now it is realis.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
They didn't want to have hearings for four years when
Biden was there about the Epstein files. Yeah, but yeah,
what why it's so juicy to the media is it's
right on right, right, it's red on red because it's
the magaworld, or at least the perception of the MAGA world,
that's consumed with this and blowing back on Trump. So
(07:56):
they've got cover. Right, it's not just liberal on Trump,
it's not TDS on Trump, it's it's it's right on right.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, I get it. Let's talk about a little bit
of right on right and right now, red on red.
Curtis Leewah, who I think a lot of people were discounting.
In this latest poll, he's in a statistical tie in
the mayor's race. Now we don't know if it's an
outlier yet. We need some other polls to see if
this one is legitimate. But it's Forbes. It's not something
(08:25):
that's paid for by a candidate. What do you think
does Curtis have a real shot?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Well, like I said last time, I think he has
a shot. But a couple things. First of all, this
whole argument that ma'm dommi has reached a ceiling whatever
he got in the primary, that's kind of like where
he is and he can't he can't grow. That to
me is insane and stupid and ridiculous. He's got a
lot of room to grow, ma'm domi. Now, whether or
(08:51):
not he can be held back and somebody can catch
him in a four way race is tough, really really tough,
because the ties are going to split it all up.
You got Cuomo putting out the worst Academy Award winning
or losing video. I mean, did you see that video,
Oh my god, please, So he's ostensibly in it. Adams
(09:14):
has not really spent money yet. Now he's been able
to raise a lot of money. He's getting screwed by
the finance board, which is that that whole thing should
go away, so corrupt campaign finance board. But Adams is
raising a lot of money yet now. So he hasn't
started spending yet. So when he does, his numbers are
gonna move how high? I don't know. Curtis hasn't raised money,
that's a problem. But I think the perception is this
(09:38):
guy is really bad, ma'am dommy, how do we beat him?
It's tough to split up three ways and catch him.
That's the biggest that's the biggest hurdle that they all
have right now.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, we have Curtis coming up here at nine oh five,
so I can't wait to talk about to him about it.
What do you have coming up this weekend?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Well, I mean a little bit of the Epstein stuff,
a little bit of the Mayor's race, and this really
last and I go into one of the churches and
there was a huge dog at the end of my pew.
I have never seen that in my life. And this
whole thing is getting crazy with animals everywhere.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Now, ah, you're talking about the support animals.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
No, not a support animal at all, big golden doodle
that someone thought was cool to bring into the church.
It is insane.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's gonna be fun to listen to. Rob Astorino, host
of the Rob Astorno Show on WOR Saturday is from
four to five, Host of Saturday Agenda on Newsmax from
one to three, and of course, former Westchester County executive.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Have a good show, Rob, All right, Larry, have a
great weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
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And you wanted to talk about that. I agree one
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Speaker 10 (14:29):
Well well, well, well, well, this morning I woke up
to a double blessing. The defunding of NPR PBS I
was okay with, but NPR was awful, and the ending
the canceling of The Late Show, which I hardly ever watched,
but Stephen Colbert just drove me crazy. But NPR, every program,
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every interview, every newscast, every show was anti anti anti Trump, all.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Time anti Republican even for Trump. They have just become
an arm of the Democratic Party, and that's why the
Democrats were so upset about them going away.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
Kurtis Sleewew will be on this morning. Please encourage him
to get on social media and saturated. This is so
so important. But more important even than that, he needs
a Baron Trump to help him speak the same language
on social media to get his message out there so
he can win this race and save the city.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Boy, that's some pretty good political advice. That's really good
political advice to tell you that. You know, Baron Trump
was a star on the campaign because he's the one
that convinced his father to go on all those podcasts
and tell them which ones to go on. And that's
why he was on Joe Rogan. He said, it's really
important that and then he got the Joe Rogan endorsement, which,
(15:52):
by the way, Joe Rogan's turned on him now over
the Epstein thing. Hey no, it's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Seen in the city. So you know, maybe he wants
a job.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, no, I think Baron doesn't need a job right now.
But by the way, he formed a company. I wonder
how that's doing I wonder how that company's doing. Coldplay
was in Boston this week and they have something called
the kiss Cam, and you've probably seen these basketball games
and other events where they get somebody and they kiss. Well,
the camera went up and caught two people, and the
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two people immediately the woman looked shocked and turned her
back so you couldn't see her face. They didn't kiss,
and the guy who was hugging her when they showed
the two of them then sat down in the seat
and covered himself so you couldn't see them anymore, which
made Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, say this.
(16:55):
You can't hear him. Unfortunately, you can't hear him because
everybody's laughing and cheering because of their what they did.
But what he said is they're either shy or they're
having an affair. Well, they were having an affair. Well,
yeah he was. He nailed that one. That's exactly the
right thing, and it was somebody that's worth a whole
(17:17):
lot of money. He is the CEO of Astronomer, which
is a software development firm reportedly valued it over a
billion dollars, and that was his chief people officer, Kristin
Cabot and he's not married to her, but he is married.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Well, he's worth now half a billion.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
And I feel for his wife. Is his wife apparently
immediately had.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
No idea he was a Coldplay fan.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Not took down all her social media, took his last
name off of her profiles.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Can you imagine you had the best point, though, Natalie said,
had they not tried to hie, right, it would never
have gone viral.
Speaker 11 (18:02):
Nobody right.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
So if he didn't duck, if she didn't you know,
turn and you know of course now we all know,
and it just stayed in that arena. Okay, a lot
of people. Maybe somebody would have said, oh I think
I know him, but it would have stayed local. Yeah,
and maybe he would have had to deal with it
with his wife, but he wouldn't have to have dealt
it with the entire world.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
World I know, and out look at I'm going to
keep following this because I want to see if he
keeps his job. It's going to be really fascinating to
see if he keeps his job.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
So next time, just don't duck, Just just own it.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
That's your lesson for all the cheaters.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
My advice.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh yeah, we'll have a We'll have We'll have a
tip for a cheaters every single day thanks to Thataalie.
Let's get the news now at seven point thirty from Jacqueline.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Carl Jacqueline Good Morning.
Speaker 12 (18:47):
The House is approving a nine billion dollars in dose
spending cuts. Lawmakers voted to sixteen to two thirteen to
approve the cuts to public broadcasting global health programs in
foreign aid. This after Republican senators now passed the package Thursday.
The bill can now head to President Trump's tests for
his signature. And as you've heard Larry talking about, CBS
(19:07):
is canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 13 (19:10):
The network says the final show will be in May.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
Next year will be our last season. The network will
be ending the Late Show in May.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
And.
Speaker 13 (19:22):
Colbert, who's hosted the show since twenty fifteen, said he
just learned the news Wednesday night. The network says it's
purely a financial decision and not related to the show's performance, content,
or other matters happening at paramount. CBS says it considers
Colbert irreplaceable and will retire the Late Show franchise. Natalie
Migliori wour News.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
So this is a good story. Why did the chicken
cross the road? It doesn't matter.
Speaker 12 (19:48):
Just do not interfere with a chicken crossing the road
in front of this woman. Cynthia Sosa stopped at an
intersection in Key West on July ninth to let a
chicken cross the road. Another driver angrily honk sped past
her and ran over the chicken. Oh no, so so
chase the drive in her car, eventually blocking their path
and opening their door. She tried to teach them a
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lesson by pulling out bear mace and spray it directly
into the passenger's face while they sat in the vehicle.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
She's obviously upset.
Speaker 12 (20:18):
After fleeing the scene, Sosa was later pulled over by
police and arrested. She now faces charges including two counts
of aggravated battery and one count of burglary with AsSalt battery.
I don't know what the burglary charge is about, but
I just feel like these people committed murder and Cynthia
was just trying to avenge the murder.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, and nothing happened to them.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
It's making me hungry. I'm gonna go to Chick fil
A to the a.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Chicken fil akil a.
Speaker 12 (20:46):
But isn't that a wild story, like to say, like,
I'd be upset if I was letting a chicken cross
the road and someone run it over, I'd be upset.
But I wouldn't chase them down like I was in
some sort of spy thriller could block them and then
run out like mace them with bear mace.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Especially to save a chicken. I mean, it's I get it.
You're in the moments. Yeah, you're in the moment. I
get it. I understand. And so it seems horrible, but
a lot of chickens die every single day and nobody's
trying to save them.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
You know that that's a fair point. But Cynthia is
not going to see it that way.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
No, No, I get it. It's in the moment, you do.
You don't want a living thing to be killed in
front of you, especially that way. So I understand. I understand. Hey,
listen this thing about the lightning strikes. By the way,
thanks a lot, Jacqueline Carl. Lightning strikes, I know it's
way up this year. Usually in a given year, twenty
people die from lightning strikes. We're already up to twelve
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and two in New Jersey two lightning deaths in New
Jersey over the last ten days. Lightning deaths are surging,
and ABC's Jim Ryan has been studying this. He joins
us next to explain why. Also in a new episode
of On Purpose, Jay Shetty sits down with a ward
win actress and singer Cynthony Arivo for a raw and inspiring,
(22:05):
award winning conversation. Cynthia talks about her world win year,
filming back to back movies, performing at the Oscars, and
pouring her soul into a deeply personal new album. Open
the iHeartRadio app and search for On Purpose with Jay
Shetty to listen today, Well, what is going on? We've
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had two people killed by lightning and several cub Scouts
had to go to the to the hospital because because
of lightning strikes in our area. Is it happening more
this year than in the past? For that, Let's talk
to Jim Ryan, ABC News correspondent in Dallas. Jim, I
know you've been looking into this. What are the lightning
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strikes for this year? Are we up for the year?
Speaker 14 (22:50):
We are, Well, we're going to be. We're at a
dozen right now. Larry. We've had twelve so far, including
the two that happened in New Jersey in just the
last couple of weeks. Twelve. Here we are in the
middle of you know, of July last year. For all
of last year there were thirteen. So we're easily on
pace to exceed last year and probably exceed the year
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before that as well, when we had fourteen. This is
sort of an interesting statistic. In twenty sixteen we had
sort of a freak year with forty fatalities all together
from lightning strikes. But since two thousand and six or so,
the numbers have been generally going down. Larry.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Now, there are lightning detectors that you can buy, right
and I would imagine that that would be wise for
someplace like a golf course to.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
Get sure absolutely even in you know, if you have
a farmer ranch, you have wide open spaces, and I'm
looking at one right now. A company called Scientific Sales
offers one, but so do other companies. This has the
siren system attached to it, it has the lightning detector.
The thing's forty five hundred dollars. And you're right, I mean,
if you have a golf course or if you have
a swimming pool, or some public space where a lot
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of people gather might be a good investment, you know,
especially if you can save a life or two.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
How do they work? How can they tell if lightning
is going to strike?
Speaker 14 (24:08):
Well, they detect electrical field in the air, electrical charges
in the air. Right, it's monitoring for lightning. You can
see this, you know. Most commercial airliners now have lightning
detection systems on board, so they can see what's up
ahead and in terms of lightning, and they need to
stay away from it for the purpose of hail for
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aircraft specifically. But yeah, it detects what's happening in the
air in terms of electrical output within a certain range.
The more expensive ones can catch that lightning thirty forty
miles away, which is great. This less expensive one than
forty five hundred dollars one catches it within twenty miles.
But even a thunderstorm twenty miles away can cause lightning
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that strikes you twenty miles away, So it's worth doing something.
And there's something called the thirty thirty rule that the
National Weather Service has larry. If you see the flash
of lightning and then you hear the thunder up to
thirty seconds later, So you hear ten seconds, fifteen, twenty
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seconds later, it's time to head for cover, and not
just under a tree. Getting into a car is a
good idea, Getting into a building is a better idea,
But getting out of the open. With the thirty thirty rule,
right thirty you see the flash, hear the lightning, You
see the flash, here the thunder within thirty seconds, time
to go.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Wow, thirty seconds. Yeah, I had always heard like five
and thirty seconds. That means how far away would it
be at that point?
Speaker 14 (25:40):
That says that it's six miles out. But you know,
I think that you're better off to as you do,
er on the side of caution. I mean, if it's
ten to fifteen seconds, it's time to go, no matter what.
But they're being very conservative conservative about this with this
thirty thirty rule. I decided to look back a little
ways though. Okay, So so here we are sitting at
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a dozen this year and kind of hoping that we
don't see anymore looking at twenty sixteen and the forty
fatalities that happened then, So I did a little historical
research here between nineteen get this, between nineteen forty and
nineteen forty four the annual average for lightning fatalities.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Take a guess theary, Oh, I have no idea.
Speaker 14 (26:23):
Three hundred ninety Oh my, good nighty.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
No, I would never have guessed that. I was thinking
it was going to be higher, But I never would
have guessed something like that.
Speaker 14 (26:33):
Three hundred ninety people per year on average died from
lightning from nineteen forty to nineteen forty four. What was
happening then, well, World War two. So there were training exercises,
you know, group formations, people marching around training for the military.
People were outside, you know, regardless because during wartime that's
where you are a lot of time, civilians and military folks.
(26:55):
And so immediately after that, immediately after the war, we
saw numbers drop back down. Nineteen forty five had only
two hundred and sixty eight, then forty six, two hundred
and thirty one. But what's more, weather forecasting wasn't what
it is today, right right.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Sure, I will tell you that. I with the one
at the golf course, that's the one that gets me
the most. And I know children were involved in the
other one, but they didn't have a warning either. But
the one at the golf course, they did have a
warning system, they just it didn't go off, and the golfers,
even though they could see lightning in the distance, didn't
(27:32):
get off the course because they thought they were safe
because the alarm didn't go off, the siren didn't go off.
But I think the PGA, and you can back me
up on this if it's true, if the PGA says,
if you see lightning, just go get off the course.
Speaker 14 (27:45):
Absolutely, you see the flash's time to go. And I
mean you're you're essentially holding a lightning rod in your
hands if you're out there golfing, right, So, yeah, it's
it is too best to err on the set of
caution there.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
But you're right.
Speaker 14 (27:57):
And part of the problem is that even when places
do have warning systems, in many cases people don't want it.
They say, right, and it's not going to strike. Here
are the chance of getting struck by lightning or about
as good as the chance you know what the chance
is larry one in fifteen thousand, three hundred for your lifetime,
over the course of your life, you have wanted fifteen thousand,
three hundred chants of being hit by lightning. Get out
(28:19):
of there.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, No, that's great advice. Absolutely if you see lightning run,
it doesn't matter how close it is. Jim Ryan, ABC
News corresponded in Dallas. Thanks so much for that. I
appreciate it. Hopefully people can well heed your word. Thanks again,
have a good weekend.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Have you ever been on a course when those went off?
Speaker 9 (28:37):
Because there aren't a lot on soccer fields, so I've
heard them go off many times, and you know, everybody
grunts and groans like, oh, you know, we got to
delay the game a half an hour. And anytime you
hear thunder again, another the clock starts again another thirty
minutes until you could come on. But I mean, just
if you even suspect it, right, why do you want
(28:59):
to chance something?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And apparently these new lightning detectors are amazing. We should
get the people that make it and get them on
the air because apparently they're amazing and they're not selling
the way they should. I mean, if you were running
a golf course, if you're running a swimming pool, if
you're running one of these places where this happens, and
you you'll you could be culpable for some of this.
(29:23):
Why wouldn't you get it?
Speaker 9 (29:25):
And actually I started like looking this up as we
were talking to Jim. They actually have some personal lightning
detectors for people who work outside, people who work up
on radio towers or you know, up on telephone poles
that they look like beepers and they're you know, they're
not forty five hundred dollars from what I could see here.
So it's interesting the technologies out there, just doesn't seem
(29:45):
to people are using it as much.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
You don't have a price on them there.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Uh, the personal ones I'm seeing anything from like forty
five to one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That's amazing. Yeah, yeah, that's worth getting. That's that's great.
I never even heard of that before. I didn't even
know that a winning could go off just because they
could feel electricity in the air even before even before
you see lightning, just the fact that there's some electricity
in the air. They warn you to get off the
(30:15):
course and with a golf course, but man, I mean,
honest to god, anybody anybody like a camp site, anybody
for the you know, kids, summer camps over the summer,
anybody should be able to go out and get one
of these, and they should go out and be able
to get one of these absolutely. So yeah, that was
great information from Jim Ryan. Can we just take a
(30:36):
little bit victory lap one more time, the fact that
the fact that Stephen Colbert is off the air.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I hear your personal victory lap.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Oh yeah, no, I think all of us should. All
of us should take a victory lap that that Stephen
Colbert is off the air. Just celebrate. I understand why
you took exception to the word victory lap, because it's
like I did it. Well, maybe I did, but but
Stephen Colbert was the worst of the worst. You know,
Jimmy Kimmel is a close second. That's gonna be fascinating
(31:09):
to watch right now. How this is going to affect
Jimmy Kimmel because his ratings are awful right now too.
I don't know if you've seen all the late night ratings.
You know who does well? Get guess who does well
on late night? Tell me Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon. He
does really well. He does really well. You know why.
(31:29):
He's just silly, right, and he's nice and he's friendly,
and you don't have to sit there and go, oh
my god, I'm gonna get I'm gonna get a lecture
about politics again. All I wanted to do was take
a few minutes and smile and laugh and hear to
hear an interview with a celebrity. And I got to
hear now about Donald Trump. Now the country's over it. Wait,
(31:50):
first Alligator Alcatraz, and now the new Alcatraz could reopen.
Rory O'Neill has the details next, and don't forget. You
can leave us at talk back all morning long. Just
go to seven to ten WR on the iHeartRadio app.
So we have Alligator Alcatraz, right, they got a whole
lot of fanfare, But what about the real Alcatraz? Remember
(32:12):
months ago Donald Trump talked about bringing balock Alcatraz. Now
apparently he was serious about that. Let's talk to Rory
O'Neil WR National correspondent about it. So is there a
real possibility that they could reopen Alcatraz?
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Well, look, Attorney General General Pam Bondi and Doug Bergham,
the Interior Secretary, both went out to Alcatraz yesterday to
look at what it would take to bring that prison
back online.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
It does be.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
Closed back in nineteen sixty three, largely because with that.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
No, I'm sorry, I thought you were done. Go ahead,
keep going.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Oh, I said it closed in nineteen sixty three, largely
because it needed millions of dollars in repairs, and the
Bureau of Prison said, you know what, this just doesn't
make sense finandia anymore. Question is does it make financial
sense in twenty twenty five, and.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
It doesn't seem like the people in that area wanted.
I heard the mayor was complaining about it because I
guess as a tourist attraction, it makes a lot of.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Money, right, generates millions of dollars in revenue. One point
five million visitors go there. You know, there's some laws
that would have to be changed because technically it's now
part of the National Park Service. That's why the Interior
Secretary went with the ag for this tour, so it
would have to come out of the Park Service, and
that sort of disrupts things because it's all one big
(33:34):
bill to put the Golden Gate Bridge and the presidio
sort of all in there together. So yeah, there's some
laws that would have to be changed. And of course
we don't know how much this is going to cost.
Some have speculated a couple one hundred million dollars, but
you know, government contracts and then that's just the cost
of getting it ready, the cost of running the place
would could be prohibitive. You know already Alligator Alcatraz costs
(33:56):
about two hundred and forty five dollars per inmate per day.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Wow, I'll tell you what I did here. I heard
that press conference with the mayor, and the mayor at
one point said they're talking about spending billions of dollars.
We could use it right here in the city. If
you're going to spend billions of dollars, the state could
use it because we've got some real problems. Why add
another one, which.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
I said, you know, with the two hundred and forty
five dollars a day, you can get a cruise out
of Miami for about seventy nine dollars a day that
also includes rooming board and then that the cruise ship
can just unload somewhere else.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
That's true. That's true. And no alligators and no pythons. Hey,
we talked earlier about this kiss can and I know
you you've been covering that too. Tell us what you.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Know, right, So, it was an amazing concert in Foxborough
before Coldplay playing there, and during the concert they take
a camera and show it around the crowd, And what's
remarkable is they showed one loving couple, but they look
suddenly mortified. And turns out it was the CEO of
(35:02):
a company and the head of HR for that company, Astronaut,
and they're married to other people. So what even when
showing the camera around, Chris Martin, the lead singer for Coldplay, said, boy,
they're either very shy or they're having an affair, and
he was that, right, No.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
We have no idea. What's happened since then?
Speaker 6 (35:23):
Right, Well, there's reports online that the CEO put out
a statement saying that he was embarrassed and says that
the camera caught what should have been a private moment.
He quoted back some Coldplay lyrics and things like that.
Speaker 9 (35:37):
But yeah, I heard that was now the company said
that was not a real statement, not him.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yeah, so it was a little suspicious.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Well, he certainly described the marriage situation.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Now, I think you cover so many things in a day.
I love this story too that you have there. I
mean it's amazing the width and breadth of the things
you cover. But it is you know, Donald Trump has
a habit of just riffing, you know, doing these news conferences.
He talks constantly, and he'll talk about the strangest things.
And I apparently he talked about changing the formula of
(36:12):
Coca Cola. Is it true that Coke may take him
up on that.
Speaker 6 (36:17):
Well, this was a post on Truth's Social saying he's
been speaking to Coca Cola about using real cane sugar
in coke.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Again.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Remember President Trump drinks diet cokes. I don't know why
he cares about coke. Anyway, Apparently this was news to
Coca Cola, so they put out a response saying, we
appreciate the President's enthusiasm for our products, but more details
on new innovative, innovative offerings will be announced soon. So look,
Coke has always offered both. It's called Mexican coke, the
(36:48):
one with the real cane.
Speaker 9 (36:49):
Yeah, that's what I was going to say, because if
you go to Bodega's or even supermarkets around here, phill
have Coca Cola.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
It's usually in glass jars made in Mexico.
Speaker 9 (37:00):
Oh, and that's made with cane sugar for people who
don't want to have a high fruit toast corn syrup.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
We all know that from Disney World, that there's Coca
Cola's from around the world, and they all taste a
little bit differently.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Yes, I've got a glass of Bentley for you. That's
the gross one. If anyone knows Epcot, that was the
gross one that made everyone spit it out.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
But yeah, what's it called Bentley? And where is that from?
Speaker 6 (37:26):
I think it was a British product, But yeah, that
was that used to be in that world of Coca
Cola's place.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Of course, it's I'm.
Speaker 6 (37:33):
Sorry, not Beverly Beverly, Beverly Beverly.
Speaker 9 (37:36):
Okay, my son got obsessed with Fanta when he was
in Europe because it's not made anything like here.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
It's made with fruit juice and it tastes so good.
Speaker 9 (37:46):
I actually had to import a case of it for
Christmas right once because it was like this, you.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Can't find anything like it here. It's too bad.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
The orange, it is such a different Our orange looks
like a neon tree.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yes, I wonder why it's different here. Is it because
it's cheaper they have to do it cheaper, or is
it because of federal restrictions.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I would say it's cheaper.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Lack of restriction, Yes, the lack of restrictions here in
the US that let them put anything in it. Europe
is much more concerned. They don't even have cheese Whiz
in Europe, so what are they?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Rory O'Neill, WR National correspondent, thank you so much. The
Epstein files, or the lack of the Epstein files, dominated
the week. We're going to talk with ABC Washington bureau
chief Rick Klin about that after the eight o'clock news
It's Friday. Good morning to you. It's gonna be a
great day today, the best day in a long, long time.
Low humidity. Takeoff if you can. I think you're feeling
a little ill right now, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Call in? Not you stay here? Ye here has to
stay here. I'm talking to the person that's listening to
the radio right now.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I'm listening.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Nope, Nope, you're not. You're a part of the show.
You're part of the show.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Foiled again.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Crash, sit back down, get you please, sit back down.
I should not have said that now. In the big
three in the Mayorage race, Mayor Adams, a former cop,
gets the endorsement from almost all the law enforcement unions.
Don't tell me about law enforcement over time.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Tell me about how we brought down crime in the city.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's what That's great. If you want to, if you
want to at the police behind you, a former cop
knows what to say. Don't talk about the overtime. In
the latest polling that you saw yesterday, Adams comes in fourth,
behind Mom, Donnie Cuomo, and Sliwa, who were locked in
a statistical three way tie. Republican Curtis Sliwa is very
(01:19):
much in this race. So one thing everybody knows. You
can't buy, rent, leaseh or own.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Curtis sliwa the billionaires on all three of these candidates.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You know who owns me? The spirit of my mother
and father, the blue collar working class.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
That's you.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
I dedicate this shitty too when I become.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Mayor Well, he's got another hop in its step right now,
he's excited. Curtis Lee was going to be here at
nine oh five in Washington. Donald Trump has been diagnosed
with a condition that affects his veins and cardiovascular system.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
This diagnosis is a progressive one, meaning that there's no
curative treatment or intervention. Sort certainly can lead to persistent swelling,
which can lead to persistent pain and difficulties with mobility
at the age of seventy nine can be difficult at
the age of seventy nine, while also being the president
can be a tremendous amount of work.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
And hallelujah, Stephen Colbert the Trump painting Stephen Colbert is
going away for good.
Speaker 8 (02:16):
It's not just the end of our show, but it's
the end of the Late show on CBS.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I'm not being replaced.
Speaker 8 (02:22):
This is all just going away.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Who would have thought not being funny and being political
and bashing Donald Trump all the time wouldn't work. I
don't understand why his ratings are so low and why
they're getting ready of the show. With that, let's bring
in Rob Astorino, host of The Rob Astorino Show on
WR Saturdays from four to five, host of Saturday Agenda
from one to three on Newsmax, and former Westchester County executive.
(02:47):
I want to get into a lot of things. By
the way, good morning to you, Rep.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Hey, good morning Larry.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I want to get I want to get into a
lot of things, but I want to start with Natalie
was so shocked because apparently you told her about your
dream from last night. And and what really gets me
is that you said you had action dreams. And I'd
like you would explain that, because that can meet a
whole lot of things. You had action dreams, and then
(03:13):
you actually woke up tired from your dreams.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yeah, and it had nothing to do with women or
being me being like Superman. It was just all stupid,
like motion stuff. And I'm exhausted. I wake up exhausted.
How could that happen?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
What you dream? You dreamed about motion stuff?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
What is no like you know, like jumping around. I'm
just like action stuff, but nothing like Superman stuff. Just dope,
be stuff down with.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Somebody can help back for rob that let us know.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Wow, you know I don't remember any of my dreams,
none of them. None, no, and it really bugs me.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You know, they say you should wake up in the morning.
Speaker 9 (04:02):
As soon as you wake up, you have, you know,
a pencil and paper next to you, before you even think,
start writing stuff down because you know, if you wake
up too much, you'll like it happened to you, you
forget them.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's a great idea. I really don't care that much
about it now, but now I do. I want to know,
but it's a really good idea. Hey, you know, I'm
looking forward to talking to you because I wanted to
hear what you had to say about the Epstein files,
and not about the files themselves, but just the reaction
and the revert in them and the revolt of how
(04:37):
are you okay? Well, good for you.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I'm not in them. That's what I was not dreaming
about that.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
But the revolt of Maga is what got me that
this is what they want to the hill they want
to die on. This is where they want to break
away from Donald Trump. It really fascinated me.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Yeah, I'm I'm trying to make out what this is
all about with Maga. I get it. I understand that. Look,
it's swamp Bill. You know, you promised us that you
were going to send everything out there so we could
see it. And now are you part of the swamp.
Where did they get you or whatever? I don't get.
(05:17):
I mean, last week on my own radio show, which
as you said, is tomorrow at four o'clock, I talked
about this and we took a whole bunch of calls,
and it was like nobody cared about Epstein. What they
cared about was Thomas Crooks and you know, the whole
shooting and why we knew nothing about this guy. So
I don't know. It's not like I say, like normal
people are consumed. Like when I'm talking to regular people,
(05:41):
they're not talking about the Epstein files. They're just not.
It's something that I think the media and the you know,
political world might be all wrapped up in. But I
don't know. It's it's what Trump said the other day,
like about this creep who cares move on. That's kind
of how that's kind of how I feel, and it's
(06:01):
kind of how the people I've talked to feel. But
maybe I'm dead wrong in this. I don't know, right.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And you have to protect protect the accusers. I mean,
that's what everybody's thinking in this whole thing. You got
to protect them. By the way, you don't only have
to protect them, but you can be sued if you
release something they could late lead to them. So I understand,
I understand the problems with all of this.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
By the way, to your court orders that are stealing
some of this, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, you have to go through all of that, And
that's why when they say even the grand jury, they
have to go through a court to get the grand
jury stuff out. But I saw Harry Enton the other
day and I guess they had a poll out where
they asked people what is the biggest issue in the
country right now, And it was one of those flash
polls where they did it in like twenty four hours
to find out what Epstein was. They had one responded
(06:47):
out of hundreds, one person.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
On on epstein.
Speaker 10 (06:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
No, see this this is like that's the thing we
get we in the media, the political world, we were
in in the weeds so much that we forget what's
going on in the real world. And that's what I
was saying before. In the real world. I haven't talked
to anybody who came up to me about the Epstein files.
So it's one of those echo chamber things.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, but when I talk about it on this show,
we get talk back after talkback, phone call after phone call.
There is a crowd out there that that's all they
want to talk about. And the problem with that, Rob
is that the media jumped on that because it was
anti Trump, and they went, oh, we got them, we
got them. The Democrats. They want to have hearings. The
Democrats want to have hearings on this now it is realis.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
They didn't want to have hearings for four years when
Biden was there about the Epstein files. Yeah, but yeah,
what why it's so juicy to the media is it's
right on right, right, it's red on red because it's
the magaworld, or at least the perception of the MAGA world,
that's consumed with this and blowing back on Trump. So
(07:56):
they've got cover. Right, it's not just liberal on Trump,
it's not TDS on Trump, it's it's it's right on right.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, I get it. Let's talk about a little bit
of right on right and right now, red on red.
Curtis Leewah, who I think a lot of people were discounting.
In this latest poll, he's in a statistical tie in
the mayor's race. Now we don't know if it's an
outlier yet. We need some other polls to see if
this one is legitimate. But it's Forbes. It's not something
(08:25):
that's paid for by a candidate. What do you think
does Curtis have a real shot?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Well, like I said last time, I think he has
a shot. But a couple things. First of all, this
whole argument that ma'm dommi has reached a ceiling whatever
he got in the primary, that's kind of like where
he is and he can't he can't grow. That to
me is insane and stupid and ridiculous. He's got a
lot of room to grow, ma'm domi. Now, whether or
(08:51):
not he can be held back and somebody can catch
him in a four way race is tough, really really tough,
because the ties are going to split it all up.
You got Cuomo putting out the worst Academy Award winning
or losing video. I mean, did you see that video,
Oh my god, please, So he's ostensibly in it. Adams
(09:14):
has not really spent money yet. Now he's been able
to raise a lot of money. He's getting screwed by
the finance board, which is that that whole thing should
go away, so corrupt campaign finance board. But Adams is
raising a lot of money yet now. So he hasn't
started spending yet. So when he does, his numbers are
gonna move how high? I don't know. Curtis hasn't raised money,
that's a problem. But I think the perception is this
(09:38):
guy is really bad, ma'am dommy, how do we beat him?
It's tough to split up three ways and catch him.
That's the biggest that's the biggest hurdle that they all
have right now.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, we have Curtis coming up here at nine oh five,
so I can't wait to talk about to him about it.
What do you have coming up this weekend?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Well, I mean a little bit of the Epstein stuff,
a little bit of the Mayor's race, and this really
last and I go into one of the churches and
there was a huge dog at the end of my pew.
I have never seen that in my life. And this
whole thing is getting crazy with animals everywhere.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Now, ah, you're talking about the support animals.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
No, not a support animal at all, big golden doodle
that someone thought was cool to bring into the church.
It is insane.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's gonna be fun to listen to. Rob Astorino, host
of the Rob Astorno Show on WOR Saturday is from
four to five, Host of Saturday Agenda on Newsmax from
one to three, and of course, former Westchester County executive.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Have a good show, Rob, All right, Larry, have a
great weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
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(12:48):
And I guess when we talked about nagging. Now, this
story we had earlier was the Jason Kelsey, because he's
been coached all his life, loves when his wife Kylie
nags him because he takes it coaching things he should do,
and so he likes those reminders.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
And you wanted to talk about that. I agree one
hundred percent. I'm married forty eight years and my wife
has never nagged me in her mind. Okay, but without
that nagging, I wouldn't be who I am today and
that lover for it, and I hope she never stops.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Thank you. Oh I wish I would have thought to
say that that was perfect. I'm gonna use that when
I go home. That was really really good. Larry Minty,
simply the best, better than all the rest. Now do
I get a tea shirt? I want to be the
envy of my neighborhood. Larry right, let me make a suggestion.
(13:48):
A lot of people use some apps. There's an auto
tune app that will put you in tune and put
some music in the background, so go find it. Try
that call back.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
I just wanted to say that I'm vertically challenged and
bolically impaired, so it's very difficult for me to become
a chick.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Magnet without a men T shirt to wear.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
So please send me my shirt and have a beautiful,
safe weekend. Everybody at the station.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
That was really nice. And by the way, it does
work from what I've been.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
Told begging man, I didn't realize it was going to
get to this.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
They also got the Secrane radio to give away from
the best caller of the week.
Speaker 10 (14:29):
Well well, well, well, well, this morning I woke up
to a double blessing. The defunding of NPR PBS I
was okay with, but NPR was awful, and the ending
the canceling of The Late Show, which I hardly ever watched,
but Stephen Colbert just drove me crazy. But NPR, every program,
(14:51):
every interview, every newscast, every show was anti anti anti Trump, all.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Time anti Republican even for Trump. They have just become
an arm of the Democratic Party, and that's why the
Democrats were so upset about them going away.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
Kurtis Sleewew will be on this morning. Please encourage him
to get on social media and saturated. This is so
so important. But more important even than that, he needs
a Baron Trump to help him speak the same language
on social media to get his message out there so
he can win this race and save the city.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Boy, that's some pretty good political advice. That's really good
political advice to tell you that. You know, Baron Trump
was a star on the campaign because he's the one
that convinced his father to go on all those podcasts
and tell them which ones to go on. And that's
why he was on Joe Rogan. He said, it's really
important that and then he got the Joe Rogan endorsement, which,
(15:52):
by the way, Joe Rogan's turned on him now over
the Epstein thing. Hey no, it's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Seen in the city. So you know, maybe he wants
a job.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, no, I think Baron doesn't need a job right now.
But by the way, he formed a company. I wonder
how that's doing I wonder how that company's doing. Coldplay
was in Boston this week and they have something called
the kiss Cam, and you've probably seen these basketball games
and other events where they get somebody and they kiss. Well,
the camera went up and caught two people, and the
(16:26):
two people immediately the woman looked shocked and turned her
back so you couldn't see her face. They didn't kiss,
and the guy who was hugging her when they showed
the two of them then sat down in the seat
and covered himself so you couldn't see them anymore, which
made Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, say this.
(16:55):
You can't hear him. Unfortunately, you can't hear him because
everybody's laughing and cheering because of their what they did.
But what he said is they're either shy or they're
having an affair. Well, they were having an affair. Well,
yeah he was. He nailed that one. That's exactly the
right thing, and it was somebody that's worth a whole
(17:17):
lot of money. He is the CEO of Astronomer, which
is a software development firm reportedly valued it over a
billion dollars, and that was his chief people officer, Kristin
Cabot and he's not married to her, but he is married.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Well, he's worth now half a billion.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
And I feel for his wife. Is his wife apparently
immediately had.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
No idea he was a Coldplay fan.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Not took down all her social media, took his last
name off of her profiles.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Can you imagine you had the best point, though, Natalie said,
had they not tried to hie, right, it would never
have gone viral.
Speaker 11 (18:02):
Nobody right.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
So if he didn't duck, if she didn't you know,
turn and you know of course now we all know,
and it just stayed in that arena. Okay, a lot
of people. Maybe somebody would have said, oh I think
I know him, but it would have stayed local. Yeah,
and maybe he would have had to deal with it
with his wife, but he wouldn't have to have dealt
it with the entire world.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
World I know, and out look at I'm going to
keep following this because I want to see if he
keeps his job. It's going to be really fascinating to
see if he keeps his job.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
So next time, just don't duck, Just just own it.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
That's your lesson for all the cheaters.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
My advice.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh yeah, we'll have a We'll have We'll have a
tip for a cheaters every single day thanks to Thataalie.
Let's get the news now at seven point thirty from Jacqueline.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Carl Jacqueline Good Morning.
Speaker 12 (18:47):
The House is approving a nine billion dollars in dose
spending cuts. Lawmakers voted to sixteen to two thirteen to
approve the cuts to public broadcasting global health programs in
foreign aid. This after Republican senators now passed the package Thursday.
The bill can now head to President Trump's tests for
his signature. And as you've heard Larry talking about, CBS
(19:07):
is canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 13 (19:10):
The network says the final show will be in May.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
Next year will be our last season. The network will
be ending the Late Show in May.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
And.
Speaker 13 (19:22):
Colbert, who's hosted the show since twenty fifteen, said he
just learned the news Wednesday night. The network says it's
purely a financial decision and not related to the show's performance, content,
or other matters happening at paramount. CBS says it considers
Colbert irreplaceable and will retire the Late Show franchise. Natalie
Migliori wour News.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
So this is a good story. Why did the chicken
cross the road? It doesn't matter.
Speaker 12 (19:48):
Just do not interfere with a chicken crossing the road
in front of this woman. Cynthia Sosa stopped at an
intersection in Key West on July ninth to let a
chicken cross the road. Another driver angrily honk sped past
her and ran over the chicken. Oh no, so so
chase the drive in her car, eventually blocking their path
and opening their door. She tried to teach them a
(20:11):
lesson by pulling out bear mace and spray it directly
into the passenger's face while they sat in the vehicle.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
She's obviously upset.
Speaker 12 (20:18):
After fleeing the scene, Sosa was later pulled over by
police and arrested. She now faces charges including two counts
of aggravated battery and one count of burglary with AsSalt battery.
I don't know what the burglary charge is about, but
I just feel like these people committed murder and Cynthia
was just trying to avenge the murder.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, and nothing happened to them.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
It's making me hungry. I'm gonna go to Chick fil
A to the a.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Chicken fil akil a.
Speaker 12 (20:46):
But isn't that a wild story, like to say, like,
I'd be upset if I was letting a chicken cross
the road and someone run it over, I'd be upset.
But I wouldn't chase them down like I was in
some sort of spy thriller could block them and then
run out like mace them with bear mace.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Especially to save a chicken. I mean, it's I get it.
You're in the moments. Yeah, you're in the moment. I
get it. I understand. And so it seems horrible, but
a lot of chickens die every single day and nobody's
trying to save them.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
You know that that's a fair point. But Cynthia is
not going to see it that way.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
No, No, I get it. It's in the moment, you do.
You don't want a living thing to be killed in
front of you, especially that way. So I understand. I understand. Hey,
listen this thing about the lightning strikes. By the way,
thanks a lot, Jacqueline Carl. Lightning strikes, I know it's
way up this year. Usually in a given year, twenty
people die from lightning strikes. We're already up to twelve
(21:42):
and two in New Jersey two lightning deaths in New
Jersey over the last ten days. Lightning deaths are surging,
and ABC's Jim Ryan has been studying this. He joins
us next to explain why. Also in a new episode
of On Purpose, Jay Shetty sits down with a ward
win actress and singer Cynthony Arivo for a raw and inspiring,
(22:05):
award winning conversation. Cynthia talks about her world win year,
filming back to back movies, performing at the Oscars, and
pouring her soul into a deeply personal new album. Open
the iHeartRadio app and search for On Purpose with Jay
Shetty to listen today, Well, what is going on? We've
(22:25):
had two people killed by lightning and several cub Scouts
had to go to the to the hospital because because
of lightning strikes in our area. Is it happening more
this year than in the past? For that, Let's talk
to Jim Ryan, ABC News correspondent in Dallas. Jim, I
know you've been looking into this. What are the lightning
(22:48):
strikes for this year? Are we up for the year?
Speaker 14 (22:50):
We are, Well, we're going to be. We're at a
dozen right now. Larry. We've had twelve so far, including
the two that happened in New Jersey in just the
last couple of weeks. Twelve. Here we are in the
middle of you know, of July last year. For all
of last year there were thirteen. So we're easily on
pace to exceed last year and probably exceed the year
(23:11):
before that as well, when we had fourteen. This is
sort of an interesting statistic. In twenty sixteen we had
sort of a freak year with forty fatalities all together
from lightning strikes. But since two thousand and six or so,
the numbers have been generally going down. Larry.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Now, there are lightning detectors that you can buy, right
and I would imagine that that would be wise for
someplace like a golf course to.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
Get sure absolutely even in you know, if you have
a farmer ranch, you have wide open spaces, and I'm
looking at one right now. A company called Scientific Sales
offers one, but so do other companies. This has the
siren system attached to it, it has the lightning detector.
The thing's forty five hundred dollars. And you're right, I mean,
if you have a golf course or if you have
a swimming pool, or some public space where a lot
(23:58):
of people gather might be a good investment, you know,
especially if you can save a life or two.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
How do they work? How can they tell if lightning
is going to strike?
Speaker 14 (24:08):
Well, they detect electrical field in the air, electrical charges
in the air. Right, it's monitoring for lightning. You can
see this, you know. Most commercial airliners now have lightning
detection systems on board, so they can see what's up
ahead and in terms of lightning, and they need to
stay away from it for the purpose of hail for
(24:29):
aircraft specifically. But yeah, it detects what's happening in the
air in terms of electrical output within a certain range.
The more expensive ones can catch that lightning thirty forty
miles away, which is great. This less expensive one than
forty five hundred dollars one catches it within twenty miles.
But even a thunderstorm twenty miles away can cause lightning
(24:53):
that strikes you twenty miles away, So it's worth doing something.
And there's something called the thirty thirty rule that the
National Weather Service has larry. If you see the flash
of lightning and then you hear the thunder up to
thirty seconds later, So you hear ten seconds, fifteen, twenty
(25:14):
seconds later, it's time to head for cover, and not
just under a tree. Getting into a car is a
good idea, Getting into a building is a better idea,
But getting out of the open. With the thirty thirty rule,
right thirty you see the flash, hear the lightning, You
see the flash, here the thunder within thirty seconds, time
to go.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Wow, thirty seconds. Yeah, I had always heard like five
and thirty seconds. That means how far away would it
be at that point?
Speaker 14 (25:40):
That says that it's six miles out. But you know,
I think that you're better off to as you do,
er on the side of caution. I mean, if it's
ten to fifteen seconds, it's time to go, no matter what.
But they're being very conservative conservative about this with this
thirty thirty rule. I decided to look back a little
ways though. Okay, So so here we are sitting at
(26:01):
a dozen this year and kind of hoping that we
don't see anymore looking at twenty sixteen and the forty
fatalities that happened then, So I did a little historical
research here between nineteen get this, between nineteen forty and
nineteen forty four the annual average for lightning fatalities.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Take a guess theary, Oh, I have no idea.
Speaker 14 (26:23):
Three hundred ninety Oh my, good nighty.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
No, I would never have guessed that. I was thinking
it was going to be higher, But I never would
have guessed something like that.
Speaker 14 (26:33):
Three hundred ninety people per year on average died from
lightning from nineteen forty to nineteen forty four. What was
happening then, well, World War two. So there were training exercises,
you know, group formations, people marching around training for the military.
People were outside, you know, regardless because during wartime that's
where you are a lot of time, civilians and military folks.
(26:55):
And so immediately after that, immediately after the war, we
saw numbers drop back down. Nineteen forty five had only
two hundred and sixty eight, then forty six, two hundred
and thirty one. But what's more, weather forecasting wasn't what
it is today, right right.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Sure, I will tell you that. I with the one
at the golf course, that's the one that gets me
the most. And I know children were involved in the
other one, but they didn't have a warning either. But
the one at the golf course, they did have a
warning system, they just it didn't go off, and the golfers,
even though they could see lightning in the distance, didn't
(27:32):
get off the course because they thought they were safe
because the alarm didn't go off, the siren didn't go off.
But I think the PGA, and you can back me
up on this if it's true, if the PGA says,
if you see lightning, just go get off the course.
Speaker 14 (27:45):
Absolutely, you see the flash's time to go. And I
mean you're you're essentially holding a lightning rod in your
hands if you're out there golfing, right, So, yeah, it's
it is too best to err on the set of
caution there.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
But you're right.
Speaker 14 (27:57):
And part of the problem is that even when places
do have warning systems, in many cases people don't want it.
They say, right, and it's not going to strike. Here
are the chance of getting struck by lightning or about
as good as the chance you know what the chance
is larry one in fifteen thousand, three hundred for your lifetime,
over the course of your life, you have wanted fifteen thousand,
three hundred chants of being hit by lightning. Get out
(28:19):
of there.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, No, that's great advice. Absolutely if you see lightning run,
it doesn't matter how close it is. Jim Ryan, ABC
News corresponded in Dallas. Thanks so much for that. I
appreciate it. Hopefully people can well heed your word. Thanks again,
have a good weekend.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Have you ever been on a course when those went off?
Speaker 9 (28:37):
Because there aren't a lot on soccer fields, so I've
heard them go off many times, and you know, everybody
grunts and groans like, oh, you know, we got to
delay the game a half an hour. And anytime you
hear thunder again, another the clock starts again another thirty
minutes until you could come on. But I mean, just
if you even suspect it, right, why do you want
(28:59):
to chance something?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And apparently these new lightning detectors are amazing. We should
get the people that make it and get them on
the air because apparently they're amazing and they're not selling
the way they should. I mean, if you were running
a golf course, if you're running a swimming pool, if
you're running one of these places where this happens, and
you you'll you could be culpable for some of this.
(29:23):
Why wouldn't you get it?
Speaker 9 (29:25):
And actually I started like looking this up as we
were talking to Jim. They actually have some personal lightning
detectors for people who work outside, people who work up
on radio towers or you know, up on telephone poles
that they look like beepers and they're you know, they're
not forty five hundred dollars from what I could see here.
So it's interesting the technologies out there, just doesn't seem
(29:45):
to people are using it as much.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
You don't have a price on them there.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Uh, the personal ones I'm seeing anything from like forty
five to one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That's amazing. Yeah, yeah, that's worth getting. That's that's great.
I never even heard of that before. I didn't even
know that a winning could go off just because they
could feel electricity in the air even before even before
you see lightning, just the fact that there's some electricity
in the air. They warn you to get off the
(30:15):
course and with a golf course, but man, I mean,
honest to god, anybody anybody like a camp site, anybody
for the you know, kids, summer camps over the summer,
anybody should be able to go out and get one
of these, and they should go out and be able
to get one of these absolutely. So yeah, that was
great information from Jim Ryan. Can we just take a
(30:36):
little bit victory lap one more time, the fact that
the fact that Stephen Colbert is off the air.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I hear your personal victory lap.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Oh yeah, no, I think all of us should. All
of us should take a victory lap that that Stephen
Colbert is off the air. Just celebrate. I understand why
you took exception to the word victory lap, because it's
like I did it. Well, maybe I did, but but
Stephen Colbert was the worst of the worst. You know,
Jimmy Kimmel is a close second. That's gonna be fascinating
(31:09):
to watch right now. How this is going to affect
Jimmy Kimmel because his ratings are awful right now too.
I don't know if you've seen all the late night ratings.
You know who does well? Get guess who does well
on late night? Tell me Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon. He
does really well. He does really well. You know why.
(31:29):
He's just silly, right, and he's nice and he's friendly,
and you don't have to sit there and go, oh
my god, I'm gonna get I'm gonna get a lecture
about politics again. All I wanted to do was take
a few minutes and smile and laugh and hear to
hear an interview with a celebrity. And I got to
hear now about Donald Trump. Now the country's over it. Wait,
(31:50):
first Alligator Alcatraz, and now the new Alcatraz could reopen.
Rory O'Neill has the details next, and don't forget. You
can leave us at talk back all morning long. Just
go to seven to ten WR on the iHeartRadio app.
So we have Alligator Alcatraz, right, they got a whole
lot of fanfare, But what about the real Alcatraz? Remember
(32:12):
months ago Donald Trump talked about bringing balock Alcatraz. Now
apparently he was serious about that. Let's talk to Rory
O'Neil WR National correspondent about it. So is there a
real possibility that they could reopen Alcatraz?
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Well, look, Attorney General General Pam Bondi and Doug Bergham,
the Interior Secretary, both went out to Alcatraz yesterday to
look at what it would take to bring that prison
back online.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
It does be.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
Closed back in nineteen sixty three, largely because with that.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
No, I'm sorry, I thought you were done. Go ahead,
keep going.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Oh, I said it closed in nineteen sixty three, largely
because it needed millions of dollars in repairs, and the
Bureau of Prison said, you know what, this just doesn't
make sense finandia anymore. Question is does it make financial
sense in twenty twenty five, and.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
It doesn't seem like the people in that area wanted.
I heard the mayor was complaining about it because I
guess as a tourist attraction, it makes a lot of.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Money, right, generates millions of dollars in revenue. One point
five million visitors go there. You know, there's some laws
that would have to be changed because technically it's now
part of the National Park Service. That's why the Interior
Secretary went with the ag for this tour, so it
would have to come out of the Park Service, and
that sort of disrupts things because it's all one big
(33:34):
bill to put the Golden Gate Bridge and the presidio
sort of all in there together. So yeah, there's some
laws that would have to be changed. And of course
we don't know how much this is going to cost.
Some have speculated a couple one hundred million dollars, but
you know, government contracts and then that's just the cost
of getting it ready, the cost of running the place
would could be prohibitive. You know already Alligator Alcatraz costs
(33:56):
about two hundred and forty five dollars per inmate per day.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Wow, I'll tell you what I did here. I heard
that press conference with the mayor, and the mayor at
one point said they're talking about spending billions of dollars.
We could use it right here in the city. If
you're going to spend billions of dollars, the state could
use it because we've got some real problems. Why add
another one, which.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
I said, you know, with the two hundred and forty
five dollars a day, you can get a cruise out
of Miami for about seventy nine dollars a day that
also includes rooming board and then that the cruise ship
can just unload somewhere else.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
That's true. That's true. And no alligators and no pythons. Hey,
we talked earlier about this kiss can and I know
you you've been covering that too. Tell us what you.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Know, right, So, it was an amazing concert in Foxborough
before Coldplay playing there, and during the concert they take
a camera and show it around the crowd, And what's
remarkable is they showed one loving couple, but they look
suddenly mortified. And turns out it was the CEO of
(35:02):
a company and the head of HR for that company, Astronaut,
and they're married to other people. So what even when
showing the camera around, Chris Martin, the lead singer for Coldplay, said, boy,
they're either very shy or they're having an affair, and
he was that, right, No.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
We have no idea. What's happened since then?
Speaker 6 (35:23):
Right, Well, there's reports online that the CEO put out
a statement saying that he was embarrassed and says that
the camera caught what should have been a private moment.
He quoted back some Coldplay lyrics and things like that.
Speaker 9 (35:37):
But yeah, I heard that was now the company said
that was not a real statement, not him.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yeah, so it was a little suspicious.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Well, he certainly described the marriage situation.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Now, I think you cover so many things in a day.
I love this story too that you have there. I
mean it's amazing the width and breadth of the things
you cover. But it is you know, Donald Trump has
a habit of just riffing, you know, doing these news conferences.
He talks constantly, and he'll talk about the strangest things.
And I apparently he talked about changing the formula of
(36:12):
Coca Cola. Is it true that Coke may take him
up on that.
Speaker 6 (36:17):
Well, this was a post on Truth's Social saying he's
been speaking to Coca Cola about using real cane sugar
in coke.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Again.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Remember President Trump drinks diet cokes. I don't know why
he cares about coke. Anyway, Apparently this was news to
Coca Cola, so they put out a response saying, we
appreciate the President's enthusiasm for our products, but more details
on new innovative, innovative offerings will be announced soon. So look,
Coke has always offered both. It's called Mexican coke, the
(36:48):
one with the real cane.
Speaker 9 (36:49):
Yeah, that's what I was going to say, because if
you go to Bodega's or even supermarkets around here, phill
have Coca Cola.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
It's usually in glass jars made in Mexico.
Speaker 9 (37:00):
Oh, and that's made with cane sugar for people who
don't want to have a high fruit toast corn syrup.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
We all know that from Disney World, that there's Coca
Cola's from around the world, and they all taste a
little bit differently.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Yes, I've got a glass of Bentley for you. That's
the gross one. If anyone knows Epcot, that was the
gross one that made everyone spit it out.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
But yeah, what's it called Bentley? And where is that from?
Speaker 6 (37:26):
I think it was a British product, But yeah, that
was that used to be in that world of Coca
Cola's place.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Of course, it's I'm.
Speaker 6 (37:33):
Sorry, not Beverly Beverly, Beverly Beverly.
Speaker 9 (37:36):
Okay, my son got obsessed with Fanta when he was
in Europe because it's not made anything like here.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
It's made with fruit juice and it tastes so good.
Speaker 9 (37:46):
I actually had to import a case of it for
Christmas right once because it was like this, you.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Can't find anything like it here. It's too bad.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
The orange, it is such a different Our orange looks
like a neon tree.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yes, I wonder why it's different here. Is it because
it's cheaper they have to do it cheaper, or is
it because of federal restrictions.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I would say it's cheaper.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Lack of restriction, Yes, the lack of restrictions here in
the US that let them put anything in it. Europe
is much more concerned. They don't even have cheese Whiz
in Europe, so what are they?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Rory O'Neill, WR National correspondent, thank you so much. The
Epstein files, or the lack of the Epstein files, dominated
the week. We're going to talk with ABC Washington bureau
chief Rick Klin about that after the eight o'clock news
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