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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am Larry Menti. Menti in the Morning returns Monday
morning from six to ten. Now it's the iHeartRadio Independence
Day Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It is our two of iHeartRadio's holiday talk program. I'm
Reed Shepherd along with Dana McKay. Jason Behringer is our producer.
We are delighted to have you on board. And did
you know there was a real Uncle Sam? I?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Did you did?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Sam Wilson from Troy, New York was a meatpacker who
sent me to the troops during the War of eighteen
twelve and marked everything U S for United States, so
that came to be known as Uncle Sam. And he
is officially recognized by the way as America's Uncle Sam. Well,
coming up this hour, we're going to talk about summer
(00:55):
travel and summer food. Raced Agic from the Weather Channel
is going to be joining us live, and the day's
top news stories. We start with the first people to
be processed have arrived at what's been called Alligator Alcatraz
in the Everglades. This was the center that's being set
up at what was or an abandoned airport, if you will,
(01:19):
to house about three thousand detainees and prepare them for deportation.
It's not clear how many people have been taken to
the location so far. Donald Trump visited it earlier this week.
Immigration advocates have decried it as a concentration camp as
a matter of fact. But the Republican Party, the state
(01:42):
of Florida jumping right in to become the first state,
if you will, to be following along with President Trump's
agenda on detaining and deporting illegal aliens.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Well, and when they first came up with this idea
of Alligator Alcatraz, the Attorney General of Florida put out
this video and it really kind of seemed like a
PR stunt as opposed to something they were actually going
to do. And then within a matter of eight days,
according to Governor DeSantis, they made it happen, got everything
all set up, It's apparently ready to go. There were
(02:15):
some issues with some rain the other day. There was
a little bit of flooding inside some of the tents,
and those videos went viral, sparking questions as to whether
or not this facility is actually going to be able
to withstand the Florida weather.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, they said it could withstand a Category two hurricane,
and then all of a sudden. You see this video
with the flooding. So a new poll that came out
on Thursday from you gov found that a plurality of
Americans are not on board with the detention center. Forty
eight percent said they oppose Alligator Alcatraz, while only thirty
three percent said they support it. On additional eighteen percent
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were unsure how they felt about it. Also found that
nearly half of Americans forty seven percent, believe people in
migrant detention centers are treated too harshly. So once again,
I will say a poll is a snapshot of an
event or a situation. Take it as you will, buy
into it or don't you know that's not right? There's
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the disclaim.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Well, and speaking of public opinion, the dad who jumped
off the Disney cruise to save his daughter who went
overboard did not sit her up on the railing just
before she fell off the ship. Initial reports and some
social media rumors said that he put her up there
to take a picture and that she fell backwards off
the ship, But after an investigation and talking to several witnesses,
the Broward County Sheriff's Office released this statement, we just
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want people.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
To stop speculating, and once that information is available, it
will be released.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
But no, her dad was not holding her. Nobody was
holding her when she fell off that ship.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Now, according to the New York Post, a witness who
works on the ship said the parents were playing shuffle
board on that same deck and the little girl lost
her balance while sitting on a railing and fell backwards
through a porthole that they believe should not have been opened.
So this is still being being investigated, but it sounds
like this was just a horrible accident and the dad
had nothing to do with it. He jumped in and
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saved his daughter.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And again, props to the dad for jumping in so
quickly and acting to save his daughter. Also props to
the Disney crew for their fast action in getting to
those two and saving them. It's remarkable that they were
able to tread water for so long. It's really that's
normally not something that somebody can do, but they managed
(04:31):
to pull it off. Okay, So, just a couple of
seconds ago, I was talking about the disclaimer for a poll,
all right, and.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
How you should view the poll.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, a new poll for a new Gallop Pole shows
that only thirty six percent of Democrats say they're extremely
or very proud to be an American, while ninety two
percent of Republicans feel that way the most. You know,
the divide among the parties, I suppose is not so
much of a surprise given everyone's reaction to Donald Trump.
(05:03):
You're either very much in favor of him or you're
against him if you're a Democrat, So that doesn't come
as a surprise. But what does kind of bother me
a little bit is that only four in ten adults
part of Generation Z or gen Z as we like
to call it, expressed a high level of pride in
being American, while six and ten millennials and seven in
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ten older US adults like baby boomers, for instance, say
they are proud to be an American.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So the younger you are these days, the less patriotic
you are.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So I'm just going to come out and say, yes,
I am proud to be an American. There we have
in that tie.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
You're definitely proud to be an American, you bet you.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
And with that we check in with Ray Stagic from
the Weather Channel. Ray, thank you so much for joining
us on this fourth of July, and for some parts
of the country we are talking about rain, what about
some other parts of the country.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
That's rain thunderstorms. The app overall, I would say, percentage wise,
is fairly quiet across the lower forty eight Today storms
in northern Minnesota could get severe. One place of interest
here this morning is not only the southeast coast, but
central Texas out in the hill country from San Angelo
and northwest of San Antonio and Austin. It's been raining
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all night, there's been flash flooded warnings, and it's going
to continue to rain this morning. So flooding a problem
there just west of the I thirty five corridor. And
then there's central and South Florida and the southeast coast
with what is now INVEST ninety two.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
L ah oh boy. Now now this now this is
it's still moving away from the southeastern coast. Am I correct?
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Right now the center or where it looks to be
where the center of the greatest thunderstorms is off the coast,
looks like it is just east of in southeast of
Jacksonville if you draw the longitude or the latitude out
and a pretty good burst convection over the last few hours.
But this means for anybody with interest for the holiday weekend,
maybe not necessarily today, but through Saturday and Sunday. If
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for heading out of the beaches, maybe up near Amelia
Island and Daytona Beach and points north, Tybee Island, Hilton Head, Charleston.
Let's throw the outer banks in there, rough seas, dangerous
rip currents, and probably increasing chances of showers and buttererstorms
later today tomorrow. Some of the intensity guidance even suggesting
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that this invest area becomes a tropical storm. So that
would be chantal right now, if that does happen, it
would be a process. It would be about twenty four
to maybe forty eight hours. But the southeast coast doesn't
look great. One of the hot spots for this holiday
weekend the rain in Texas and also some storms which
may be causing delays this morning around Milwaukee and Chicago.
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They should end later today. Should be good in the
Windy City for fireworks displays there.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
West Coast, I mean, how does how's that shape up
for the day?
Speaker 8 (08:02):
Yeah? West Coast warm and dry from La to San Jose,
even inland Phoenix, Salt Lake City. Some showers but no
real significant weather. Boise. Maybe a little wet weather around,
but for the most part, let's say, west of the
Continental Divide, it looks fairly decent overall. I think the
real action and the real focus, if you say, let
me pick two hotspots. Hill country of Texas with a
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flooding southeast coast over the next couple of days in
central and South Florida, with the storms continuing to bring
more heavy rainfall from Tampa over toward Orlando. A little
less of a chance for Miami and the Keys, but
still storm chance is decent today right into tonight.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
So by and large, maybe with the exception of some
of those hotspots, we're looking alright for the fireworks tonight,
all right. Coming up summer travel and summer food. This
is iHeartRadio's holiday talk program.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Hi, I'm Larry Menti. Menti in the Morning returns Monday
more from six to ten. Now more of the iHeartRadio
Independence Day Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Well, it is the middle of summer, and while millions
are expected to travel this holiday weekend, there remains a
great deal of uncertainty about things like foreign travel, immigration, deportation,
travel bands. We are delighted to welcome back one of
our favorite holiday guests, CBS Travel editor Peter Greenberg, Peter
in your latest Travel News Weekly newsletter, you claim that
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things have gone from bad to worse at the FAA.
I want to start off by asking you about that
and what's the situation there.
Speaker 9 (09:37):
Well, you have to go back about ninety years to
find out how bad it's been, but forty years about
to figure out how bad it's become. And the reason
for that is the FAA was established by an Act
of Congress literally ninety years ago, back in nineteen thirty five,
and it was given a dual mandate. Now, the first
part of that mandate I think we can all support
an embrace. It was to an act and for safety.
(09:59):
You all get the behind that. The second part of
the mandate is where it gets confusing. They were given
the mandate to quote, promote the business of aviation. You
cannot do both. And as a result, every time there's
a safety problem and they can determine what went wrong
and a safety solution, the first thing the fa does
is trying to figure out how much is it going
to cost. They're more worried about economic impact than actually
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fixing the problem, and you cannot put a price tag
on safety. That's the biggest concern from the National Transportation
Safety Board that does a great job of investigating these
accidents and coming up with a probable cause. But until
the FA throws out that second part of the mandate,
they're going to mistakenly think that the airlines and the
manufacturers are their clients. They're not. We're their clients.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yeah, I mean, no question the FAA has some issues. Now,
let's talk about prices for a second, because I've always
been a loyal Southwest customer and ever since they made
that change around Memorial Day where now they're charging you
for bags, it seems like they're also now charging a
lot more for a ticket. What can you tell us
about what's going on with Southwest right now?
Speaker 9 (11:07):
Well, Southwest did a great job for years in terms
of branding their entire airline around the idea that you
didn't have to pay for check bags. It was a
distinct marketing benefit and the audience loved it. If you're
a family of four, you saved a significant amount of
money if you were checking bags. Well, as of May
twenty eighth, as you mentioned, that, all changed because a
large investigative investor group has taken over the reins at
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Southwest and all about costs and generating revenue. So it's
not just about charging now for check bags. They're going
to start charging pretty soon for seats, meaning they're going
to upsell a lot of their seats. They're going to
start charging for other change fees if you change your ticket,
and last, but not least, you know, they're doing a
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situation where you used to have a travel bank where
if you didn't use the flight, you've got that money
credit to yourccountany later, it never fired. Now it does.
So all those things adding up, it's basically blown out
the culture of an airline that you loved.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
It has because they I would always go, you know,
Tampa to Baltimore was one of the flights I would
always do, be you know, one hundred, maybe one hundred
and fifty bucks. The last time I looked at was
over four hundred dollars. That's so much they've lost me.
I'm going with Jet Blue or I even flew Frontier
the last time I had to fly, because it was
so much cheaper that that's the only thing I could do.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Frontier is also one of these places that they charge
you for a for seat selection. They charge you for this,
and they charge you for that, so Peter, it kind
of sounds like Southwest is just following the trend.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
You're right, they were the last man standing in that
in that area. Keep in mind, airlines make more money
from antillary fees than they make from tickets or flying
the airline. Last year alone, on bag fees, we take
seven billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
We're talking to CBS Travel editor Peter Greenberg about summer travel.
What do people need to know if they are planning
to travel to a foreign country this summer.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
Well, of course, the entire landscape was changed. We're dealing
with airspace that's now closed over a number of regions,
not just countries, because of conflicted areas. We're dealing with
the other word that we talk about, the worst four
letter word that starts with FN travel. It's called fear.
And as a result, travel overseas is substantially down on
both ways. Foreigners traveling to the US worried about immigration
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and deportation, and Americans worried about situations overseas not traveling.
There a lot of empty seats, so you're going to
see airfares start to drop precipitously on overseas flights. It
doesn't mean we're stopping traveling. We're just going to determine
to go somewhere else, which means twenty twenty five, maybe
the summer of the big American domestic trip. As a
result loss applying to manticks in airfares in the US
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for domestic flights, have nowhere to go but up.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
All right, and once again we say thank you so
much to CBS Travel editor Peter Greenberg for joining us
on this fourth of July. Peter, A happy fourth to you,
and I'll be talking to you again real soon, right,
got you. Well, it's the middle of summer, and when
we think about summer food, what comes to mind hamburgers,
hot dogs, potato salad, watermelon, iced tea. Okay, fine, can
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we do a little bit better? Maybe one of our
favorite guests on these holiday programs joins us once again.
Today we're delighted to say hello to Washington Post food
critic Emily Hile. Emily, I'm thinking there's got to be
something else we can cook up for our Midsummer get togethers.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
There are so.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Many things that you can cook to, you know, really
glow up your little your barbecue. One thing I have
to say, I think the drink of summer twenty twenty five,
and it's really easy, and it's something really easy that
you can add to your get togethers. It's called a
Spicy Savvy be. It's all over TikTok right now, and
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basically you just take a glass of Saviyon blanc and
you slice up a joalapeno pepper. A lot of people
online are freezing their peppers and then adding them into
their drink, which you can do, but I actually tried
it both ways and it doesn't really matter. So you
just throw in a few slices of jalapeno pepper into
your wine and it's delicious. It adds this sort of
like spicy note. It really pairs well with the wine
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and it's a little fun. You can add a little
club soda or seltzer if you want to make it
more of a spritz and kind of lighten things up.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
What's the name of it, again, Emily, because I'm going
to write this down. I have a friend who every
time we go out to eat, she orders a side
of helapanos with everything she order.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
So I have to make this for her.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Oh, she's gonna love this. It's called Spicy Savvy b.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
A spicy savvy.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
V savvy by people referred. Yeah, people call savion blanc
savvy b, which that I've heard for a long time.
I've a friend here, that's all she drinks. I would
just be careful, you know, make sure you know your
spice level, because when I first started, when I first
experimented with this drink, I put way too many halopenu
slices in and.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
I think it I'll.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Start with one.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
So now you need to know what's a good dish
that we can make, either on the grill or something
you bake that will go really well with this spicy
savvy b Well, you.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Know what I love. I really love like a like
a pasta salad. Honestly, I think pasta salads have gotten
maligned over the years. Everyone thinks of them as being
like very old fashioned. But I think you can really
make delicious pasta salads and they go great with everything,
and you know, it's a really nice thing that you
can make and have it your get together and you
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know you can have it so that you know, if
someone is vegetarian, they can maybe eat that instead of
whatever you've got on a grill. If you're not grilling
anything for vegetarians. It's a really nice, really versatile thing
that you can add to your spread.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
We're talking to Washington Post food critic Emily Hile. Emily,
what about the grill? Is there anything aside from steak
and you know, hamburgers that we can spice things up
with with the grill?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I like grilling vegetables, but you know, you can basically
grill anything that you would make in your oven, so
you know, and I think also another thing you can
do to sort of kick up your grilling a little
bit is our sauces. You know, think about marinads, interesting slavers.
Check out whatever you've got on your refrigerator on the door.
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You know, we all have these like little condiments that
we've got hanging out, and take a good look at
that and to see what you've got. You might have
some interesting pickles you could throw into a marinade, great
spicy sauces, like if you've got some chili crisp, or
you know, any of these little bottles that you have
in your refrigerator door, throw them into a marinade and
they're really going to kick things up.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
How are inflation and high grocery prices affecting food trends like,
is there something that's cheap and easy, that's really kind
of fun and creative that we can try this summer.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
So what I really want for this summer, what I
really want the trend to be, is casual entertaining. I
think restaurants have gotten really expensive, so you know, and
especially if you want to like go out with your friends,
you're always worried, you know, about picking a restaurants maybe
too expensive and the one friend who maybe just got
laid off, and you know, but you still you want
to have that great hang. And what I really want
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people to do is to not be intimidated about having
people over. Don't get tu in your head about making
things really fancy. I think people don't care. Like if
someone invites you to their home and they make you,
you know, a pot of spaghetti, you're thrilled.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
You know, you don't have to make dinner.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
That right.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I don't have to be beating you, that's right. Washington
Post food critic Emily Hile. Emily, it is always a
pleasure to talk to you, and we look forward to
talking to you again real soon. Meantime, Thank you so
much for joining us today.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
No problems, Stay cool, out there.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Well, we'll try to stay cool.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
We will, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I'm Reading Shepherd along with Dana McKay, and we'll be
right back. This is iHeartRadio's holiday talk program.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I Am Larry Menty Menti in the Morning returns Monday
morning from six till ten. Now more of the iHeartRadio
Independence Day Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And we're back on iHeartRadio's holiday talk program. I'm Read
Shepherd along with Dana McKay. Jason Bearinger is our producer.
This half hour, the fourth is all about American independence,
and we're going to take a look at one of
the key battles of that war, the Battle of Saratoga,
and a hero whose name has come down through history
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in a very different fashion.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Well, in speaking of fashion, read that tie that July
very patriotic tie. If you want to see Reid's tie,
I took a picture of us and put it on
my Instagram at Dana McKay radio. If you want to
see the faces behind the microphones today, see if we
have faces for radio.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Check that out well, some say we do well. The
top stories of the day include freed American Israeli hostage
Eden Alexander, meeting with President Trump, at the White House
on Thursday, two weeks after the New Jersey native returned
home from nineteen grueling months in Hamas captivity. The twenty
one year old Israeli Defense Forces staff sergeant was finally
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freed from Gaza on May twelfth, after five hundred and
eighty four days at the hands of the terror group.
He was raised in New Jersey, graduated from Tenafly High
School before moving to Israel in twenty twenty two. Served
in the country's military and was on duty on October seventh,
twenty twenty three, when he was abducted alongside two hundred
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and fifty one other Israelis during the Hamas terror attack
that ignited the war in Gaza. As you can imagine,
he was tortured, often locked in a cage during his captivity,
frequently shackled the hands and feet deep within the terrorists
underground tunnel network. So absolutely delighted that he was freed
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and had a chance to meet with President Trump. I
know that meeting went very, very well.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I did think it was interesting that he told the
President that Hamas started to treat him a little bit
better once he won the election, and then of course
Trump said, well, they weren't too afraid of bind it.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
So know how true that is, but that's what he said.
Speaker 10 (21:24):
So.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Kate Middleton returned to her public duties this week after
battling cancer. She visited a hospital on Wednesday and talked
about something anyone who's battled cancer can relate to. She
sat down with some patience and mentioned how challenging it's
been to put on a brave face.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
He put on a seat of brave face, the stoicism
through treatments done.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Yes, I can get by some of him again, but actually,
but the phase offtwards is really you know, it's a
really difficult time.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
You know, you're not necessarily a kindical team any longer,
but you're.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Not able to function normally at a home as you
pass what ceased two and actually someone to help.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
Took you through that and show you guide you through that.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Yeah, sort of phase that comes after you and I
think is really falable.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
What kind of wonder about King Charles and how he's
doing with his cancer treatment as well.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Haven't heard much about her lately at all.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Well.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
The signing of the Declaration of Independence on July fourth,
seventeen seventy six was by no means the beginning of
the Revolutionary War, and certainly not the end of it.
Fighting with the British continued for several years before General
Cornwallis eventual surrender at Yorktown. The turning point of the
conflict is generally thought to be the Battles of Saratoga
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in September and October of seventeen seventy seven, because it
won for the Americans the foreign assistance that was said
to be the last element needed for victory. And in
Saratoga County, New York, they're getting ready for the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary, still some time away, but we
welcome Saratoga County historian Lauren Roberts. Lauren, why were these
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two battles so important?
Speaker 6 (23:07):
So the Battles of Saratoga, which you correctly say, there
are two, the first on September nineteenth, the second on
October seventh of seventeen seventy seven. In the fall, it
was really the Americans' effort to stop the so far
successful invasion from Canada of General John Burgoyne's British army.
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They had successfully come down through the Hudson Valley from Canada,
making pretty good progress and Saratoga was really the last stand.
It was a high point where the Americans were able
to defend the high ground next to the Hudson River.
(23:50):
So definitely the environment played a big role in that,
but really the battles there, the victory at Saratoga, which
the surrender happened on October seventeenth, seventeen seventy seven, which
we know as surrendered ay here locally. That victory was
the first time in world history that a British army,
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an entire British field army, surrendered, and of course that
puts in motion the French to really think that we
had the ability to win, We might be able to
stand up against the British. Now, of course that wasn't
an easy task, but the battles of Saratoga and the
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victory there was the final straw when Benjamin Franklin was
able to commence the French to recognize us as an
independent country, to send us supplies and most importantly a navy.
And so that's why it's known as the turning point
of the American Revolution.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
And what lessons do you think we can learn from
this battle as they would apply today? Is there any
way you know, because we're supposed to learn from history.
Lessons from that that battle do we still hold on
to today.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
I think, you know, the British learned, certainly that.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
The gentlemen Johnny certainly learned his lesson.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
That's right, you know, not to underestimate people in their homeland.
With a cause that they believed in, they fought ferociously
they turned out. I think the British had this idea
that as they came down through the country, all of
these loyalists, all the people that still wanted the British King, uh,
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you know, to be their monarch, were going to come
out of the woodwork and join the British army and
they were just going to run over the Americans and
get all the way to Albany, which was there the
objective in the plan, and then from there they would
decide what to do. But that never happened. That there
were some loyalists that fought with him, But the idea
that this swell of people that really wanted the British
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king to still be their leader, that.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Wasn't true, you know, Lauren, There certainly were a lot
of people who deserve credit for, you know, the outcome
of the Battle of Saratoga. But I've always been fascinated
by the fact that there is one name that has
echoed down through history, and that was Major General Benedict Arnold.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
That's correct. We cannot deny how important he was to
the victory. And he's a complicated figure. We certainly talk
about him all of the time as a trader, and
most people know that. But of course that doesn't happen
until later in the war, and we can always guess,
you know, what it was that made him turn coat,
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but we don't know. He didn't say specifically. We can
certainly see the way he was treated. But at Saratoga
back in seventeen seventy seven, you know, he was upset
that he hadn't been given the promotion he was looking for.
But he still came to Saratoga. He came. Washington asked
him to come, and he came, and he made a difference.
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He turned the tides. He was aggressive, he was loved
by his men, He was a fearless leader, and of
course he in the Second Battle, which happened on October seventh,
he's the one that leads his troops to really overrun
the British defenses, which actually were where the German troops
were located, and of course he's badly wounded, but what
(27:22):
he did there is remembered, and it's interesting in the
way that we remember him when yes.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
It is very interesting.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
The boot, Yes, yes, the boot, probably the most famous
monument in all of Saratoga County, if not all of
upstate New York.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
All right, Lauren Robert, Saratoga County Historian. Two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the Battles of Saratoga coming up before
too long. Lauren, thank you so much for joining us today.
Thank you, and we're coming right back on iHeartRadio's Holiday
Talk program. And we are back on iHeartRadio's Holiday Talk
(28:15):
program for the fourth of July twenty twenty five. I'm
Read Shepherd along with Dana McKay. Jason Behringer is our producer.
Coming up this segment, how to use AI on a
daily basis. We've got a look at sports, and we're
keeping you up to date on the day's top news stories,
including President Trump inviting the pilots who flew in the
(28:36):
mission to bomb Iranian nuclear sites to visit the White
House later today. This will be part of a ceremony
in which President Trump signs that big, beautiful bill. But
it'll be nice to see the pilots as part of
that program.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yes, the B two bomber pilots who carried out the
mission to strike nuclear targets in Iran are visiting the
White House today, But don't expect to see a big
ceremony or public recognition for them. As a fish, she'll say,
they've been advised to keep a low profile in order
to protect their identities and make sure our adversaries are
not able to target them. Now, while President Trump says
(29:10):
the targets in Iran were obliterated, elaked intelligent report basically
said the strikes didn't do much at all, sparking major
backlash from the White House and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Now,
a Pentegon spokesperson, gave a clearer assessment earlier this week.
Speaker 10 (29:25):
I think we're thinking probably closer to two years, like
degraded their program by two years. But what we've seen,
almost in fact, just universally among our allies, was them
congratulating the United States, the President and the Secretary of
Defense on that Bolt operation and the idea that American
action in Iran has set the conditions for global stability.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
So somewhere in the middle of obliterated and just a
couple of broken windows and b two bombers will fly
over as President Trump signs the Big Beautiful Bill Today, all.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Right, and taking a lo look at sports. Cleveland Guardians
pitcher Luis Ortiz is under investigation by Major League Baseball
for allegedly violating the league's sports gambling policy. That's according
to multiple reports. Ortez is being placed on nondisciplinary paid
leave while the investigation is ongoing leave negotiator. The leave
negotiated between the league and the Players Association will last
(30:22):
until after the All Star Break. Mexican boxer Julio Sazar
Chavez Junior, there's a familiar name. He is in ice
custody in California. Department of Homeland Security announced he was
arrested on Wednesday, just days after he faced Jake Paul
in a boxing match in Anaheim. Big milestone for the
(30:42):
Dodgers Clayton Kershaw this week he joined the three thousand
strikeout club. Kershaw becomes the twentieth pitcher and only the
fourth left hander to reach that mark. And some games
to watch today and this weekend, including the Tigers heading
to Cleveland Tigers with a twelve and a half game
lead over the Guardians.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Well, it seems like AI is everywhere now, and there's
no question that AI in the workplace is becoming more
and more common.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
But what about the everyday person? What can we do
with it?
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Daniel James Scott, director of Entrepreneurship at Stetson University, joins
us today to talk about AI, and Daniel's actually the
person who told me about chat GPT a couple of
years ago, and now I use it all the time. So, Daniel,
what are some ways people can use AI in their
daily lives?
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Thank you so much for having me, And I'll tell you,
if you've only used AI as a fat bot or
to supplement your search, you're not really using its full potential.
And I would inferage anyone who's listening to try as
many different AI tools as possible because it is astounding
and it will blow your mind what you're able to
(31:47):
do with AI today.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
So what is one of your favorite things that you've
discovered that AI can do that people can use in
their daily lives data.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
I'm so happy that you asked this question. It's a
way that Google has provided to transform an image without
even writing a prompt. So I tried this. I put
Dana's beautiful headshot into this tool called whisk, and without
even writing a prompt, I selected another image to mix
(32:18):
it with with like whisk, and I created a plush
toy of Dana's headshot. And it is a miracle. It
doesn't look like AI. It looks like a product that
you would buy on Amazon. It's amazing it does.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
It actually reminds me of those Funko Pop toys. I mean,
I know it's a plush toy, but the face looks
like one of those Funko Pop toys.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
It is a miracle. And the thing is, you can
run this as many times as you would like to
get the image where you want it to be. And
I'll tell you my kids and I had a really
fun time sitting down with this particular tool. I took
a picture of the three of us in the car
together and did this kind of same plush thing. And
we're going to use that image in our Christmas this year.
(33:00):
So we're wildly excited.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
All right, So let's talk about maybe just a household
for a moment. How can AI be incorporated into you know,
your daily life at home.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
Another Google tool that I think you're going to find
is outstanding, and I've been using this in so many
different ways, but especially with my kids. There's a program
called Notebook LM, and this is a really wonderful way
to be able to take lots of information. You can
take links that maybe are not necessarily reading appropriate for
(33:34):
your kids, not inappropriate but not reading appropriate, or PDF
documents or books that are publicly available. You can drop
it into this particular platform and it would create a
like a morning show type podcast that my kids can
listen to, that distills information down in a way that
they can understand and listen to and really spark curiosity
(33:56):
for every other thing that they might want to look into.
So we've been using these tools as learning mechanisms and
again no prompt. They don't have to type a thing.
I don't have to expect eight year olds to understand
how the world works to do this, which is really wonderful.
And I've provided an example. I've been into wanting to
write songs for a long time. My dad wrote the
(34:17):
bible for songwriters called Money Chords for Songwriters. I dropped
it in there. It created a twenty minute podcast that
you can listen to today and figure out how to
be a songwriter.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
That's incredible. So what about the guide your mental health
that you shared with us?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
What's that about?
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Because I've actually seen some stories recently about how people
are using AI tools and going into psychosis.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Hopefully this one isn't going to do that.
Speaker 10 (34:43):
Data.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
I'm so happy that you brought this up, because, yes,
in the news, especially over the last week, we've learned
that people are using AI to try to replicate friendships
or replicate the therapist experience, and it is not going well.
So I wouldn't necessarily recommend that you let the robots
take over your mental health quite yet. So there are tools.
(35:07):
One that I shared is hayopal. It's heyopl dot com.
It's a really wonderful tool that was put together by
an AI researcher. That's a closed system, so it's not
an open AI that could just access the Internet and
encourage you to do bad things in the world. It's
one that's a closed system that can really help guide
(35:28):
your mental health journey. And I would recommend as you're
looking at AI models for your family or for yourself
or for work, productivity. There are so many wonderful opportunities
to be able to look at specific tools that really
serve a particular function and use those tools as opposed
to just going to chat gpt because it's free and
(35:50):
typing in what your need is.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Daniel James Scott, director of Entrepreneurship at Stetson University, thank
you for taking a few minutes to come on with
us today. It really is incredible what a I can do.
I've been using chat gpt to come up with recipes.
I'll tell it what I have in my fridge and
my pantry and it'll shoot out all the things that
I can make for dinner.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
So just telling me off the air that you used
it to interpret a dream you had, I did.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
I wasn't going to mention that on the on my
program read but I had a random dream about Britney
Spears and I asked chat gpt to interpret it for me,
and it basically came back that I'm suffering from a
lot of emotional turmoil.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Well, I've tried to use it, but you know, we'll see,
Well we come back. We're going to come back on
the iHeartRadio Holiday Talk program.
I am Larry Menti. Menti in the Morning returns Monday
morning from six to ten. Now it's the iHeartRadio Independence
Day Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It is our two of iHeartRadio's holiday talk program. I'm
Reed Shepherd along with Dana McKay. Jason Behringer is our producer.
We are delighted to have you on board. And did
you know there was a real Uncle Sam? I?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Did you did?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Sam Wilson from Troy, New York was a meatpacker who
sent me to the troops during the War of eighteen
twelve and marked everything U S for United States, so
that came to be known as Uncle Sam. And he
is officially recognized by the way as America's Uncle Sam. Well,
coming up this hour, we're going to talk about summer
(00:55):
travel and summer food. Raced Agic from the Weather Channel
is going to be joining us live, and the day's
top news stories. We start with the first people to
be processed have arrived at what's been called Alligator Alcatraz
in the Everglades. This was the center that's being set
up at what was or an abandoned airport, if you will,
(01:19):
to house about three thousand detainees and prepare them for deportation.
It's not clear how many people have been taken to
the location so far. Donald Trump visited it earlier this week.
Immigration advocates have decried it as a concentration camp as
a matter of fact. But the Republican Party, the state
(01:42):
of Florida jumping right in to become the first state,
if you will, to be following along with President Trump's
agenda on detaining and deporting illegal aliens.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Well, and when they first came up with this idea
of Alligator Alcatraz, the Attorney General of Florida put out
this video and it really kind of seemed like a
PR stunt as opposed to something they were actually going
to do. And then within a matter of eight days,
according to Governor DeSantis, they made it happen, got everything
all set up, It's apparently ready to go. There were
(02:15):
some issues with some rain the other day. There was
a little bit of flooding inside some of the tents,
and those videos went viral, sparking questions as to whether
or not this facility is actually going to be able
to withstand the Florida weather.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, they said it could withstand a Category two hurricane,
and then all of a sudden. You see this video
with the flooding. So a new poll that came out
on Thursday from you gov found that a plurality of
Americans are not on board with the detention center. Forty
eight percent said they oppose Alligator Alcatraz, while only thirty
three percent said they support it. On additional eighteen percent
(02:50):
were unsure how they felt about it. Also found that
nearly half of Americans forty seven percent, believe people in
migrant detention centers are treated too harshly. So once again,
I will say a poll is a snapshot of an
event or a situation. Take it as you will, buy
into it or don't you know that's not right? There's
(03:13):
the disclaim.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Well, and speaking of public opinion, the dad who jumped
off the Disney cruise to save his daughter who went
overboard did not sit her up on the railing just
before she fell off the ship. Initial reports and some
social media rumors said that he put her up there
to take a picture and that she fell backwards off
the ship, But after an investigation and talking to several witnesses,
the Broward County Sheriff's Office released this statement, we just
(03:38):
want people.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
To stop speculating, and once that information is available, it
will be released.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
But no, her dad was not holding her. Nobody was
holding her when she fell off that ship.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Now, according to the New York Post, a witness who
works on the ship said the parents were playing shuffle
board on that same deck and the little girl lost
her balance while sitting on a railing and fell backwards
through a porthole that they believe should not have been opened.
So this is still being being investigated, but it sounds
like this was just a horrible accident and the dad
had nothing to do with it. He jumped in and
(04:09):
saved his daughter.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And again, props to the dad for jumping in so
quickly and acting to save his daughter. Also props to
the Disney crew for their fast action in getting to
those two and saving them. It's remarkable that they were
able to tread water for so long. It's really that's
normally not something that somebody can do, but they managed
(04:31):
to pull it off. Okay, So, just a couple of
seconds ago, I was talking about the disclaimer for a poll,
all right, and.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
How you should view the poll.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, a new poll for a new Gallop Pole shows
that only thirty six percent of Democrats say they're extremely
or very proud to be an American, while ninety two
percent of Republicans feel that way the most. You know,
the divide among the parties, I suppose is not so
much of a surprise given everyone's reaction to Donald Trump.
(05:03):
You're either very much in favor of him or you're
against him if you're a Democrat, So that doesn't come
as a surprise. But what does kind of bother me
a little bit is that only four in ten adults
part of Generation Z or gen Z as we like
to call it, expressed a high level of pride in
being American, while six and ten millennials and seven in
(05:24):
ten older US adults like baby boomers, for instance, say
they are proud to be an American.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So the younger you are these days, the less patriotic
you are.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So I'm just going to come out and say, yes,
I am proud to be an American. There we have
in that tie.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
You're definitely proud to be an American, you bet you.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
And with that we check in with Ray Stagic from
the Weather Channel. Ray, thank you so much for joining
us on this fourth of July, and for some parts
of the country we are talking about rain, what about
some other parts of the country.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
That's rain thunderstorms. The app overall, I would say, percentage wise,
is fairly quiet across the lower forty eight Today storms
in northern Minnesota could get severe. One place of interest
here this morning is not only the southeast coast, but
central Texas out in the hill country from San Angelo
and northwest of San Antonio and Austin. It's been raining
(06:18):
all night, there's been flash flooded warnings, and it's going
to continue to rain this morning. So flooding a problem
there just west of the I thirty five corridor. And
then there's central and South Florida and the southeast coast
with what is now INVEST ninety two.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
L ah oh boy. Now now this now this is
it's still moving away from the southeastern coast. Am I correct?
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Right now the center or where it looks to be
where the center of the greatest thunderstorms is off the coast,
looks like it is just east of in southeast of
Jacksonville if you draw the longitude or the latitude out
and a pretty good burst convection over the last few hours.
But this means for anybody with interest for the holiday weekend,
maybe not necessarily today, but through Saturday and Sunday. If
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for heading out of the beaches, maybe up near Amelia
Island and Daytona Beach and points north, Tybee Island, Hilton Head, Charleston.
Let's throw the outer banks in there, rough seas, dangerous
rip currents, and probably increasing chances of showers and buttererstorms
later today tomorrow. Some of the intensity guidance even suggesting
(07:31):
that this invest area becomes a tropical storm. So that
would be chantal right now, if that does happen, it
would be a process. It would be about twenty four
to maybe forty eight hours. But the southeast coast doesn't
look great. One of the hot spots for this holiday
weekend the rain in Texas and also some storms which
may be causing delays this morning around Milwaukee and Chicago.
(07:52):
They should end later today. Should be good in the
Windy City for fireworks displays there.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
West Coast, I mean, how does how's that shape up
for the day?
Speaker 8 (08:02):
Yeah? West Coast warm and dry from La to San Jose,
even inland Phoenix, Salt Lake City. Some showers but no
real significant weather. Boise. Maybe a little wet weather around,
but for the most part, let's say, west of the
Continental Divide, it looks fairly decent overall. I think the
real action and the real focus, if you say, let
me pick two hotspots. Hill country of Texas with a
(08:25):
flooding southeast coast over the next couple of days in
central and South Florida, with the storms continuing to bring
more heavy rainfall from Tampa over toward Orlando. A little
less of a chance for Miami and the Keys, but
still storm chance is decent today right into tonight.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
So by and large, maybe with the exception of some
of those hotspots, we're looking alright for the fireworks tonight,
all right. Coming up summer travel and summer food. This
is iHeartRadio's holiday talk program.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Hi, I'm Larry Menti. Menti in the Morning returns Monday
more from six to ten. Now more of the iHeartRadio
Independence Day Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Well, it is the middle of summer, and while millions
are expected to travel this holiday weekend, there remains a
great deal of uncertainty about things like foreign travel, immigration, deportation,
travel bands. We are delighted to welcome back one of
our favorite holiday guests, CBS Travel editor Peter Greenberg, Peter
in your latest Travel News Weekly newsletter, you claim that
(09:30):
things have gone from bad to worse at the FAA.
I want to start off by asking you about that
and what's the situation there.
Speaker 9 (09:37):
Well, you have to go back about ninety years to
find out how bad it's been, but forty years about
to figure out how bad it's become. And the reason
for that is the FAA was established by an Act
of Congress literally ninety years ago, back in nineteen thirty five,
and it was given a dual mandate. Now, the first
part of that mandate I think we can all support
an embrace. It was to an act and for safety.
(09:59):
You all get the behind that. The second part of
the mandate is where it gets confusing. They were given
the mandate to quote, promote the business of aviation. You
cannot do both. And as a result, every time there's
a safety problem and they can determine what went wrong
and a safety solution, the first thing the fa does
is trying to figure out how much is it going
to cost. They're more worried about economic impact than actually
(10:23):
fixing the problem, and you cannot put a price tag
on safety. That's the biggest concern from the National Transportation
Safety Board that does a great job of investigating these
accidents and coming up with a probable cause. But until
the FA throws out that second part of the mandate,
they're going to mistakenly think that the airlines and the
manufacturers are their clients. They're not. We're their clients.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yeah, I mean, no question the FAA has some issues. Now,
let's talk about prices for a second, because I've always
been a loyal Southwest customer and ever since they made
that change around Memorial Day where now they're charging you
for bags, it seems like they're also now charging a
lot more for a ticket. What can you tell us
about what's going on with Southwest right now?
Speaker 9 (11:07):
Well, Southwest did a great job for years in terms
of branding their entire airline around the idea that you
didn't have to pay for check bags. It was a
distinct marketing benefit and the audience loved it. If you're
a family of four, you saved a significant amount of
money if you were checking bags. Well, as of May
twenty eighth, as you mentioned, that, all changed because a
large investigative investor group has taken over the reins at
(11:31):
Southwest and all about costs and generating revenue. So it's
not just about charging now for check bags. They're going
to start charging pretty soon for seats, meaning they're going
to upsell a lot of their seats. They're going to
start charging for other change fees if you change your ticket,
and last, but not least, you know, they're doing a
(11:51):
situation where you used to have a travel bank where
if you didn't use the flight, you've got that money
credit to yourccountany later, it never fired. Now it does.
So all those things adding up, it's basically blown out
the culture of an airline that you loved.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
It has because they I would always go, you know,
Tampa to Baltimore was one of the flights I would
always do, be you know, one hundred, maybe one hundred
and fifty bucks. The last time I looked at was
over four hundred dollars. That's so much they've lost me.
I'm going with Jet Blue or I even flew Frontier
the last time I had to fly, because it was
so much cheaper that that's the only thing I could do.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Frontier is also one of these places that they charge
you for a for seat selection. They charge you for this,
and they charge you for that, so Peter, it kind
of sounds like Southwest is just following the trend.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
You're right, they were the last man standing in that
in that area. Keep in mind, airlines make more money
from antillary fees than they make from tickets or flying
the airline. Last year alone, on bag fees, we take
seven billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
We're talking to CBS Travel editor Peter Greenberg about summer travel.
What do people need to know if they are planning
to travel to a foreign country this summer.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
Well, of course, the entire landscape was changed. We're dealing
with airspace that's now closed over a number of regions,
not just countries, because of conflicted areas. We're dealing with
the other word that we talk about, the worst four
letter word that starts with FN travel. It's called fear.
And as a result, travel overseas is substantially down on
both ways. Foreigners traveling to the US worried about immigration
(13:25):
and deportation, and Americans worried about situations overseas not traveling.
There a lot of empty seats, so you're going to
see airfares start to drop precipitously on overseas flights. It
doesn't mean we're stopping traveling. We're just going to determine
to go somewhere else, which means twenty twenty five, maybe
the summer of the big American domestic trip. As a
result loss applying to manticks in airfares in the US
(13:48):
for domestic flights, have nowhere to go but up.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
All right, and once again we say thank you so
much to CBS Travel editor Peter Greenberg for joining us
on this fourth of July. Peter, A happy fourth to you,
and I'll be talking to you again real soon, right,
got you. Well, it's the middle of summer, and when
we think about summer food, what comes to mind hamburgers,
hot dogs, potato salad, watermelon, iced tea. Okay, fine, can
(14:13):
we do a little bit better? Maybe one of our
favorite guests on these holiday programs joins us once again.
Today we're delighted to say hello to Washington Post food
critic Emily Hile. Emily, I'm thinking there's got to be
something else we can cook up for our Midsummer get togethers.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
There are so.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Many things that you can cook to, you know, really
glow up your little your barbecue. One thing I have
to say, I think the drink of summer twenty twenty five,
and it's really easy, and it's something really easy that
you can add to your get togethers. It's called a
Spicy Savvy be. It's all over TikTok right now, and
(14:50):
basically you just take a glass of Saviyon blanc and
you slice up a joalapeno pepper. A lot of people
online are freezing their peppers and then adding them into
their drink, which you can do, but I actually tried
it both ways and it doesn't really matter. So you
just throw in a few slices of jalapeno pepper into
your wine and it's delicious. It adds this sort of
like spicy note. It really pairs well with the wine
(15:14):
and it's a little fun. You can add a little
club soda or seltzer if you want to make it
more of a spritz and kind of lighten things up.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
What's the name of it, again, Emily, because I'm going
to write this down. I have a friend who every
time we go out to eat, she orders a side
of helapanos with everything she order.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
So I have to make this for her.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Oh, she's gonna love this. It's called Spicy Savvy b.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
A spicy savvy.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
V savvy by people referred. Yeah, people call savion blanc
savvy b, which that I've heard for a long time.
I've a friend here, that's all she drinks. I would
just be careful, you know, make sure you know your
spice level, because when I first started, when I first
experimented with this drink, I put way too many halopenu
slices in and.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
I think it I'll.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Start with one.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
So now you need to know what's a good dish
that we can make, either on the grill or something
you bake that will go really well with this spicy
savvy b Well, you.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Know what I love. I really love like a like
a pasta salad. Honestly, I think pasta salads have gotten
maligned over the years. Everyone thinks of them as being
like very old fashioned. But I think you can really
make delicious pasta salads and they go great with everything,
and you know, it's a really nice thing that you
can make and have it your get together and you
(16:30):
know you can have it so that you know, if
someone is vegetarian, they can maybe eat that instead of
whatever you've got on a grill. If you're not grilling
anything for vegetarians. It's a really nice, really versatile thing
that you can add to your spread.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
We're talking to Washington Post food critic Emily Hile. Emily,
what about the grill? Is there anything aside from steak
and you know, hamburgers that we can spice things up
with with the grill?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I like grilling vegetables, but you know, you can basically
grill anything that you would make in your oven, so
you know, and I think also another thing you can
do to sort of kick up your grilling a little
bit is our sauces. You know, think about marinads, interesting slavers.
Check out whatever you've got on your refrigerator on the door.
(17:15):
You know, we all have these like little condiments that
we've got hanging out, and take a good look at
that and to see what you've got. You might have
some interesting pickles you could throw into a marinade, great
spicy sauces, like if you've got some chili crisp, or
you know, any of these little bottles that you have
in your refrigerator door, throw them into a marinade and
they're really going to kick things up.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
How are inflation and high grocery prices affecting food trends like,
is there something that's cheap and easy, that's really kind
of fun and creative that we can try this summer.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
So what I really want for this summer, what I
really want the trend to be, is casual entertaining. I
think restaurants have gotten really expensive, so you know, and
especially if you want to like go out with your friends,
you're always worried, you know, about picking a restaurants maybe
too expensive and the one friend who maybe just got
laid off, and you know, but you still you want
to have that great hang. And what I really want
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people to do is to not be intimidated about having
people over. Don't get tu in your head about making
things really fancy. I think people don't care. Like if
someone invites you to their home and they make you,
you know, a pot of spaghetti, you're thrilled.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
You know, you don't have to make dinner.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
That right.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I don't have to be beating you, that's right. Washington
Post food critic Emily Hile. Emily, it is always a
pleasure to talk to you, and we look forward to
talking to you again real soon. Meantime, Thank you so
much for joining us today.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
No problems, Stay cool, out there.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Well, we'll try to stay cool.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
We will, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I'm Reading Shepherd along with Dana McKay, and we'll be
right back. This is iHeartRadio's holiday talk program.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I Am Larry Menty Menti in the Morning returns Monday
morning from six till ten. Now more of the iHeartRadio
Independence Day Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And we're back on iHeartRadio's holiday talk program. I'm Read
Shepherd along with Dana McKay. Jason Bearinger is our producer.
This half hour, the fourth is all about American independence,
and we're going to take a look at one of
the key battles of that war, the Battle of Saratoga,
and a hero whose name has come down through history
(19:42):
in a very different fashion.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Well, in speaking of fashion, read that tie that July
very patriotic tie. If you want to see Reid's tie,
I took a picture of us and put it on
my Instagram at Dana McKay radio. If you want to
see the faces behind the microphones today, see if we
have faces for radio.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Check that out well, some say we do well. The
top stories of the day include freed American Israeli hostage
Eden Alexander, meeting with President Trump, at the White House
on Thursday, two weeks after the New Jersey native returned
home from nineteen grueling months in Hamas captivity. The twenty
one year old Israeli Defense Forces staff sergeant was finally
(20:23):
freed from Gaza on May twelfth, after five hundred and
eighty four days at the hands of the terror group.
He was raised in New Jersey, graduated from Tenafly High
School before moving to Israel in twenty twenty two. Served
in the country's military and was on duty on October seventh,
twenty twenty three, when he was abducted alongside two hundred
(20:45):
and fifty one other Israelis during the Hamas terror attack
that ignited the war in Gaza. As you can imagine,
he was tortured, often locked in a cage during his captivity,
frequently shackled the hands and feet deep within the terrorists
underground tunnel network. So absolutely delighted that he was freed
(21:07):
and had a chance to meet with President Trump. I
know that meeting went very, very well.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I did think it was interesting that he told the
President that Hamas started to treat him a little bit
better once he won the election, and then of course
Trump said, well, they weren't too afraid of bind it.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
So know how true that is, but that's what he said.
Speaker 10 (21:24):
So.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Kate Middleton returned to her public duties this week after
battling cancer. She visited a hospital on Wednesday and talked
about something anyone who's battled cancer can relate to. She
sat down with some patience and mentioned how challenging it's
been to put on a brave face.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
He put on a seat of brave face, the stoicism
through treatments done.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Yes, I can get by some of him again, but actually,
but the phase offtwards is really you know, it's a
really difficult time.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
You know, you're not necessarily a kindical team any longer,
but you're.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Not able to function normally at a home as you
pass what ceased two and actually someone to help.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
Took you through that and show you guide you through that.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Yeah, sort of phase that comes after you and I
think is really falable.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
What kind of wonder about King Charles and how he's
doing with his cancer treatment as well.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Haven't heard much about her lately at all.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Well.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
The signing of the Declaration of Independence on July fourth,
seventeen seventy six was by no means the beginning of
the Revolutionary War, and certainly not the end of it.
Fighting with the British continued for several years before General
Cornwallis eventual surrender at Yorktown. The turning point of the
conflict is generally thought to be the Battles of Saratoga
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in September and October of seventeen seventy seven, because it
won for the Americans the foreign assistance that was said
to be the last element needed for victory. And in
Saratoga County, New York, they're getting ready for the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary, still some time away, but we
welcome Saratoga County historian Lauren Roberts. Lauren, why were these
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two battles so important?
Speaker 6 (23:07):
So the Battles of Saratoga, which you correctly say, there
are two, the first on September nineteenth, the second on
October seventh of seventeen seventy seven. In the fall, it
was really the Americans' effort to stop the so far
successful invasion from Canada of General John Burgoyne's British army.
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They had successfully come down through the Hudson Valley from Canada,
making pretty good progress and Saratoga was really the last stand.
It was a high point where the Americans were able
to defend the high ground next to the Hudson River.
(23:50):
So definitely the environment played a big role in that,
but really the battles there, the victory at Saratoga, which
the surrender happened on October seventeenth, seventeen seventy seven, which
we know as surrendered ay here locally. That victory was
the first time in world history that a British army,
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an entire British field army, surrendered, and of course that
puts in motion the French to really think that we
had the ability to win, We might be able to
stand up against the British. Now, of course that wasn't
an easy task, but the battles of Saratoga and the
(24:32):
victory there was the final straw when Benjamin Franklin was
able to commence the French to recognize us as an
independent country, to send us supplies and most importantly a navy.
And so that's why it's known as the turning point
of the American Revolution.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
And what lessons do you think we can learn from
this battle as they would apply today? Is there any
way you know, because we're supposed to learn from history.
Lessons from that that battle do we still hold on
to today.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
I think, you know, the British learned, certainly that.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
The gentlemen Johnny certainly learned his lesson.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
That's right, you know, not to underestimate people in their homeland.
With a cause that they believed in, they fought ferociously
they turned out. I think the British had this idea
that as they came down through the country, all of
these loyalists, all the people that still wanted the British King, uh,
(25:36):
you know, to be their monarch, were going to come
out of the woodwork and join the British army and
they were just going to run over the Americans and
get all the way to Albany, which was there the
objective in the plan, and then from there they would
decide what to do. But that never happened. That there
were some loyalists that fought with him, But the idea
that this swell of people that really wanted the British
(25:59):
king to still be their leader, that.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Wasn't true, you know, Lauren, There certainly were a lot
of people who deserve credit for, you know, the outcome
of the Battle of Saratoga. But I've always been fascinated
by the fact that there is one name that has
echoed down through history, and that was Major General Benedict Arnold.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
That's correct. We cannot deny how important he was to
the victory. And he's a complicated figure. We certainly talk
about him all of the time as a trader, and
most people know that. But of course that doesn't happen
until later in the war, and we can always guess,
you know, what it was that made him turn coat,
(26:40):
but we don't know. He didn't say specifically. We can
certainly see the way he was treated. But at Saratoga
back in seventeen seventy seven, you know, he was upset
that he hadn't been given the promotion he was looking for.
But he still came to Saratoga. He came. Washington asked
him to come, and he came, and he made a difference.
(27:01):
He turned the tides. He was aggressive, he was loved
by his men, He was a fearless leader, and of
course he in the Second Battle, which happened on October seventh,
he's the one that leads his troops to really overrun
the British defenses, which actually were where the German troops
were located, and of course he's badly wounded, but what
(27:22):
he did there is remembered, and it's interesting in the
way that we remember him when yes.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
It is very interesting.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
The boot, Yes, yes, the boot, probably the most famous
monument in all of Saratoga County, if not all of
upstate New York.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
All right, Lauren Robert, Saratoga County Historian. Two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the Battles of Saratoga coming up before
too long. Lauren, thank you so much for joining us today.
Thank you, and we're coming right back on iHeartRadio's Holiday
Talk program. And we are back on iHeartRadio's Holiday Talk
(28:15):
program for the fourth of July twenty twenty five. I'm
Read Shepherd along with Dana McKay. Jason Behringer is our producer.
Coming up this segment, how to use AI on a
daily basis. We've got a look at sports, and we're
keeping you up to date on the day's top news stories,
including President Trump inviting the pilots who flew in the
(28:36):
mission to bomb Iranian nuclear sites to visit the White
House later today. This will be part of a ceremony
in which President Trump signs that big, beautiful bill. But
it'll be nice to see the pilots as part of
that program.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yes, the B two bomber pilots who carried out the
mission to strike nuclear targets in Iran are visiting the
White House today, But don't expect to see a big
ceremony or public recognition for them. As a fish, she'll say,
they've been advised to keep a low profile in order
to protect their identities and make sure our adversaries are
not able to target them. Now, while President Trump says
(29:10):
the targets in Iran were obliterated, elaked intelligent report basically
said the strikes didn't do much at all, sparking major
backlash from the White House and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Now,
a Pentegon spokesperson, gave a clearer assessment earlier this week.
Speaker 10 (29:25):
I think we're thinking probably closer to two years, like
degraded their program by two years. But what we've seen,
almost in fact, just universally among our allies, was them
congratulating the United States, the President and the Secretary of
Defense on that Bolt operation and the idea that American
action in Iran has set the conditions for global stability.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
So somewhere in the middle of obliterated and just a
couple of broken windows and b two bombers will fly
over as President Trump signs the Big Beautiful Bill Today, all.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Right, and taking a lo look at sports. Cleveland Guardians
pitcher Luis Ortiz is under investigation by Major League Baseball
for allegedly violating the league's sports gambling policy. That's according
to multiple reports. Ortez is being placed on nondisciplinary paid
leave while the investigation is ongoing leave negotiator. The leave
negotiated between the league and the Players Association will last
(30:22):
until after the All Star Break. Mexican boxer Julio Sazar
Chavez Junior, there's a familiar name. He is in ice
custody in California. Department of Homeland Security announced he was
arrested on Wednesday, just days after he faced Jake Paul
in a boxing match in Anaheim. Big milestone for the
(30:42):
Dodgers Clayton Kershaw this week he joined the three thousand
strikeout club. Kershaw becomes the twentieth pitcher and only the
fourth left hander to reach that mark. And some games
to watch today and this weekend, including the Tigers heading
to Cleveland Tigers with a twelve and a half game
lead over the Guardians.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Well, it seems like AI is everywhere now, and there's
no question that AI in the workplace is becoming more
and more common.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
But what about the everyday person? What can we do
with it?
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Daniel James Scott, director of Entrepreneurship at Stetson University, joins
us today to talk about AI, and Daniel's actually the
person who told me about chat GPT a couple of
years ago, and now I use it all the time. So, Daniel,
what are some ways people can use AI in their
daily lives?
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Thank you so much for having me, And I'll tell you,
if you've only used AI as a fat bot or
to supplement your search, you're not really using its full potential.
And I would inferage anyone who's listening to try as
many different AI tools as possible because it is astounding
and it will blow your mind what you're able to
(31:47):
do with AI today.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
So what is one of your favorite things that you've
discovered that AI can do that people can use in
their daily lives data.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
I'm so happy that you asked this question. It's a
way that Google has provided to transform an image without
even writing a prompt. So I tried this. I put
Dana's beautiful headshot into this tool called whisk, and without
even writing a prompt, I selected another image to mix
(32:18):
it with with like whisk, and I created a plush
toy of Dana's headshot. And it is a miracle. It
doesn't look like AI. It looks like a product that
you would buy on Amazon. It's amazing it does.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
It actually reminds me of those Funko Pop toys. I mean,
I know it's a plush toy, but the face looks
like one of those Funko Pop toys.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
It is a miracle. And the thing is, you can
run this as many times as you would like to
get the image where you want it to be. And
I'll tell you my kids and I had a really
fun time sitting down with this particular tool. I took
a picture of the three of us in the car
together and did this kind of same plush thing. And
we're going to use that image in our Christmas this year.
(33:00):
So we're wildly excited.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
All right, So let's talk about maybe just a household
for a moment. How can AI be incorporated into you know,
your daily life at home.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
Another Google tool that I think you're going to find
is outstanding, and I've been using this in so many
different ways, but especially with my kids. There's a program
called Notebook LM, and this is a really wonderful way
to be able to take lots of information. You can
take links that maybe are not necessarily reading appropriate for
(33:34):
your kids, not inappropriate but not reading appropriate, or PDF
documents or books that are publicly available. You can drop
it into this particular platform and it would create a
like a morning show type podcast that my kids can
listen to, that distills information down in a way that
they can understand and listen to and really spark curiosity
(33:56):
for every other thing that they might want to look into.
So we've been using these tools as learning mechanisms and
again no prompt. They don't have to type a thing.
I don't have to expect eight year olds to understand
how the world works to do this, which is really wonderful.
And I've provided an example. I've been into wanting to
write songs for a long time. My dad wrote the
(34:17):
bible for songwriters called Money Chords for Songwriters. I dropped
it in there. It created a twenty minute podcast that
you can listen to today and figure out how to
be a songwriter.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
That's incredible. So what about the guide your mental health
that you shared with us?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
What's that about?
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Because I've actually seen some stories recently about how people
are using AI tools and going into psychosis.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Hopefully this one isn't going to do that.
Speaker 10 (34:43):
Data.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
I'm so happy that you brought this up, because, yes,
in the news, especially over the last week, we've learned
that people are using AI to try to replicate friendships
or replicate the therapist experience, and it is not going well.
So I wouldn't necessarily recommend that you let the robots
take over your mental health quite yet. So there are tools.
(35:07):
One that I shared is hayopal. It's heyopl dot com.
It's a really wonderful tool that was put together by
an AI researcher. That's a closed system, so it's not
an open AI that could just access the Internet and
encourage you to do bad things in the world. It's
one that's a closed system that can really help guide
(35:28):
your mental health journey. And I would recommend as you're
looking at AI models for your family or for yourself
or for work, productivity. There are so many wonderful opportunities
to be able to look at specific tools that really
serve a particular function and use those tools as opposed
to just going to chat gpt because it's free and
(35:50):
typing in what your need is.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Daniel James Scott, director of Entrepreneurship at Stetson University, thank
you for taking a few minutes to come on with
us today. It really is incredible what a I can do.
I've been using chat gpt to come up with recipes.
I'll tell it what I have in my fridge and
my pantry and it'll shoot out all the things that
I can make for dinner.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
So just telling me off the air that you used
it to interpret a dream you had, I did.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
I wasn't going to mention that on the on my
program read but I had a random dream about Britney
Spears and I asked chat gpt to interpret it for me,
and it basically came back that I'm suffering from a
lot of emotional turmoil.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Well, I've tried to use it, but you know, we'll see,
Well we come back. We're going to come back on
the iHeartRadio Holiday Talk program.
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