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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Friday to Yeah, I hope you're ready for this weekend.
It's going to be pretty nice and the Big Three.
After an anti Semitic attack in Washington that killed a
young Jewish couple, there is increased in YPD presence and
a show of force at synagogues in New York. There
is real fear right now in the community. In San Diego,
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there was a plane crash that went right into a
residential area.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
There are multiple cars in fall down there. We have
jet fuel all over the place. We have has Matt
on scene right now and we've asked for more resources
to come for that and working with the military. So
we have jet fuel. And then we had multiple cars
that were on fire. We first got on scene too.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It was a miracle if you see that scene with
all these homes and cars on fire, that nobody on
the ground was killed, but the two people on the
Sesna aircraft were both killed, and legendary music agent Dave Shapiro,
who is being remembered in Hollywood now, was one of them.
The other was Daniel Williams, who was the drummer of
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the heavy metal band Devil Wears Prada. And finally, there
will be an investigation into the cover up of Biden's
diminishing mental capacity while he was president.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
The Biden administration basically misled and deceived the American people
about the president's competency. And here again we're talking about
the leader of the free world, the commander in chief.
This is a national security issue.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Right, and that's why it's been referred to the FBI
and they're going to handle the investigation. Also, there will
be a House investigation. So it started the Trump agenda.
The Big Beautiful Bill is now going to the Senate
after passing the House by a slim margin.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
We stand ready to continue our work together to deliver
on the One Big Beautiful Bill, as President Trump named
it himself. We're going to send that to his desk.
We're going to get there by Independence Day on July fourth,
and we are going to say, celebrate a new Golden
age in America.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And let's talk more about the Big Beautiful Bill, also
known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. They actually
named the bill after what Donald Trump was calling it
on the campaign trail with Rick Kline, ABC News Washington
Bureau Chief. You know, Rick, I get tired of I
get tired of saying this to Rick Klein, that man,
what a week it was. We get to talk to
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him about not only the South African president being in
the Oval Office and Donald Trump lecturing him about his
own country and showing him a tape. You have the big,
beautiful bill, and then you have all of these Supreme
Court rulings. Some went Donald Trump's way and some went
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the other way, and so you have a very busy week.
But this is this is what you have with the
Trump administration. It is there's a there's a saying for this.
Remember when they first bombed Iraq, they called it chak
and awe because they were going to have so many
bombs and so much that it would just scare the
bejeebis out of everybody in the Arab world that the
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United States was coming from him. Well, it's also shock
and all in Washington as well. But the nice thing
is that he's always accessible to people just like Rick Klein. Hello, Rick,
thanks for being here today.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Hey, my pleasure are with you.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
No, it's wonderful. I'll tell you what. We've talked about
this a lot about every single week with the Trump administration,
so much happens, and it seems the storyline seems to change,
not only every day, but every minute. Let's start by
talking about what happened in the Oval office with the
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Prime Minister of South Africa.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Yeah, I mean, look, I think this was a lot
different than the conversation with Zelenski, which seemed organic. This
was planned, some people calling an ambush even and President
went in there with an agenda. He wanted to show
these videos, many them deeply misleading and not showing at
all what he said he was. They were uh to
make this argument to the South African UH, South African
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President with some of his best friends, prominent golfers in
the room. Really extraordinary scene. Not an issue that has
gotten a lot of attention here in the US. And
again there's a lot of questions about how accurate even
the evidence that he presented was. And you could see
the South African leader squirm and even saying, look, I
wish I had a plane to give you maybe a
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little bit if you had that, I offer.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That's very funny. Let's let's talk about what you you
just mentioned, which was the what you said was the
misleading documentary and the misleading photograph.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
The photograph was brought up at the press briefing and
and it's not a graveyard, and and so that's why
people were saying it was misleading because it's not a graveyard,
but they it was a memorial. It was a memorial
to all of the farmers that died. The Associated Press
has called it that, NBC News has called that. So,
I mean, you know, are you splitting hairs just a
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little bit?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Well, I mean, first, it was a moral of formers
that have died over decades. Some of them are black farmers,
it's not it's not specific to white farmers. The other
thing is that some of the some of the video
and the evidence there is actually from other countries.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Look are you talking about the Are you talking about
the video for the other countries?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Look? Yes, And I don't think it splitting hairs to
say it was deeply misleading. And that's not to diminish
any tragic death of anyone, even racially motivated in any direction.
But the portrait of the president painted of what he
called white genocide is slightly not true. There's actual genocides
going on in the world, including today, ad soon that
these refugees do not have that protective status any longer.
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White South Africans do and there's questions about why that is. Sure,
the president has the authority to do it, he has
done it, but to to to paint that portrait of
of a so called white geneicide in South Africa just
does not align with the bass right now.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
It does not.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It was very interesting at the end when the Prime
Minister from South Africa said asked him about genocide specifically,
and he admitted that he just saw all these reports
that he didn't know for a fact, and so I
thought that was a really fascinating part.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
It is, and I think it's reflective of often he
is the product of the inputs that he that he gets.
I mean, you saw that a couple of weeks ago
in his interview with my colley Terry Moran, when he
was insisting that Ringo Garcia had the letters MS one
three on his knuckles when it's flatly not true. He
disputed it over and over again. You can look at it,
go google it right now if you want. You can
tell that's actually letters NS one three or not on
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his knuckles. Despite what the President's d not to say.
He might not be a bad guy or gang member,
any of those things, but it just was not true,
And I think the evidence that was in front of
him by somebody, he guessed it otherwise, and he insisted
it to be true despite the actual fact.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, and he was put in there to show that
the symbols underneath meant those things. That's what it was
put in there for by somebody in the FBI or
somebody in Homeland Security. Like again, the big beautiful bill
gets past. What's it going to do in the state.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Yeah, I look the Senate. I think it's a question
of what it looks like, not if it passes. Frankly,
and they even adds an achievement, and you know, they
got to hand it. They're like Johnson, you got to
hand it to the President Trump. You be able to
get his party in order, got exactly the number of
votes who needed to pass it. Under very difficult circumstances
and very tight political circumstances. They got the votes once again.
And you can keep doubting it or keep wondering about it,
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but it's probably going to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
It means quite a bit for New Yorkers some extension
at least temporarily of the state and local tax deduction,
although it's not nearly what New Yorkers and others in
the Tristate area had before. And some very deep tax
cuts beyond that, extension of a lot of the tax
cuts that Trump passed in his first term permanently, a
huge increase to the deficit against in the quarter of
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trillions of dollars. You see the bond market reacting negatively
to it. And yes, real cuts, real cuts the medicaid
into staff programs and beneficiaries that are part of this
part of what the Republicans said they would do if
they took if they took office.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, I think that somewhere along the line, we do
have to start cutting government spending. I agree with Rand Paul.
He's the one that's out in front of this saying this,
this is still costing too much. It's still costing too
much somewhere every he talks about it, and then whenever
he tries to do it, they get hammered for it.
And so there has to be somebody that gets in
there and says, look, we're just we're just spending more
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money than we're taking in. So maybe Donald Trump is
the guy, but this bill, man, it's it's expensive and.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
And and the thing is, I think one of those
intellectual dishonesty here that that you know, if you're going
to cut government spending, say you're cutting it, And what's
being said now about about medicaid does not align again
with the fact it is cutting spending, it is cutting programs,
it is cutting beneficiaries. People are going to have to
pay more for things. It's how happening to suggest that
this is all sawed and abuse. That's just not true.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Well, I would argue that we don't know until it's
put through. I would argue that we don't You don't
really know how much fraud is out there. You don't
know how many people are not working and receiving medicaid
until until the requirements go through, and then we'll see
how much money it saves. So it's not not true.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
But that's not how that's But that's not how it's
being done. It's there are numbers that are set to it,
so it's identifying the numbers first and then and then
finding the ways to meet the numbers later. So you're, yes,
you're entirely right. We don't know how much fraud or
waste or abuse is in there. But if there if
the total amount of money being spent is less. It's
going to mean less things for people.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It just will Well, I understand that, but again, and
you just prove my point by saying that, yes, again,
we have to We do have to wait and see
because they've been looking at fraud and abuse and they've
been doing that through DOGE and they've been looking through
some of the money. So maybe they know something we don't.
We You might be right, you might be right, but
we have to wait and see. Ah, darn it. I
wanted to get this Supreme Court and now we're running
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out of time. But I do want to know what's
coming up on the Sunday Show this week. Rick.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Well, I'll give you back your time because we're actually
on break this weekend. We get ran free programming on
its stead so for on Sunday morning.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And how about that? That worked out perfectly. Thanks a lot, Rick,
Thanks a lot for your time. It was great to
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Well.
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Speaker 7 (11:18):
Hi, guys, Tony from Massive Peaker Park. Don't the politicians
work for us? Why do we have to wait to
hear what is in a bill? Why is it that
the first thing that we know about and anything that
is not discussed or expressed to us, the people just
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won't pass. I'm sorry it passed, but no it wasn't
on the front, so it's no good Tony.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I love your idea, and there's no way. There's no
way that'll happen because they don't want you to know
everything that's in a bill, especially and I'm the bus bill,
and they also many times don't want to wait to
vote for it. But you have every right, the people
have every right to know everything that's in a bill.
(12:07):
Before the fact, I had never, truthfully ever thought about
that before, but you're right. I'd love to see somebody
pass legislation to say the bill has to be posted publicly.
Everything in the bill has to be posted publicly before
anybody votes on it, and then if you make changes,
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you can't vote on it right away. You've got to
hold it until everybody can see it. That's a wonderful idea.
I don't think anybody's ever going to go for it,
and especially because of the Omnibus Bill. The omnibus Bill
is the most corrupt piece of legislation that passes at
the end of every legislative session when nobody's watching, it's
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getting near the holidays, and it's usually by a lot
of Congressmen who aren't going to be in office anymore,
and they did you know what happened last time the
Omnibus bill was passed. They sat there and people could
go up and write pages of things they want, and
they mostly pay off donors at that point. That's why
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you see these weird research projects, and you see money
going to some museum, or you see money going to
some school, and it's just because or the teachers' unions
or things like that, and it's only because that the
congressmen in that district's trying to pay off their donors.
And they sat there for the last omnibus bill. As
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people brought in pages to include, they didn't even look
at them. They just put them in. They just put
them in. It was a big trough that every one
of those pigs could feed out of, and you and
I are paying for it. And that's why I don't
believe any of them when they say they want to
reduce the deficit, they want to cut spending, because most
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of them, I shouldn't say any of them, there's very
few of them, but most of them talk a good talk.
But then they're in at the trough for the omnibus
at the end so they can pay off their donors.
But that would end with your idea. I think we
have a front runner for talk back of the day.
I don't get to vote, but I can say that
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was pretty darn good. And you know, so then they
waste that kind of money. And the way they're going
to save money is to get rid of a penny.
And I kind of get it. Making a penny these
days is really expensive, much more expensive than it used
to be. It is skyrocketed in costs. You know it
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used to work. Let's just say ten years ago, it
cost one point three cents to make a penny, which
means you were losing thirty percent every time you make
a penny. We're close to thirty percent. And now it's
jumped to three dollars and sixty nine cents three excuse me,
three cents point sixty nine, three point sixty nine cents
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to make a penny. So it's almost four times the
worth of a penny to make it. And so it
was eventually gonna go. And Donald Trump looked at it
and said, this is silly. We're losing too much money.
So it's going to be gone. And pretty soon, if
there's not enough pennies in circulation, we're gonna have to
start charging everything with point five at the end instead
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of one cent. It's gonna have to be a nickel.
That's what they're doing in Canada. That's gonna happen. Now.
Now let's go to Jacqueline Carl with the eight thirty news, Jacquelin.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Good Morning. Six people are presumed dead after a private
jet crashed into a San Diego neighborhood. I'd already say
the Sesta five point fifty had six people on board
when it flew into a patch of dense fog, clipped
a power line, and crashed into a house early Thursday
in North San Diego. No one on the ground was killed.
Amtrak is set to close one of the four East
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River tunnels tonight for long term repairs, kicking off a
nearly three year project.
Speaker 9 (16:05):
Governor Hukel had been urging Amtrak to try and do
this major repair work without a full tube shutdown, but
Amtrak insists the full closure is the way to go
to make Superstorm Sandy related repairs. La doub R President
Rob Free.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
The event of an incident that would happen would really
restrict that operation and could result in delays, cancelations, or
even suspension of service.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
But Amtrak Executive vice president Laura Mason says.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
The risk is that something might go wrong, but we
feel well prepared for it, and we've worked very closely
with Long Island and New Jersey Transit on this plan.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
Amtrak is canceling two daily trips to Alby as a
result of the work. I'm scappringle wrdws.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Okay, Larry, it's a thirty on Friday. Time for real
or fake news headlines?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Are you ready?
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yep? All right?
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Number one man diagnosed with parrot chlamydia after breathing in
chicken poop. True, it is, According to the Sun, a
fifty four year old guy from Hungary went to the
hospital after coughing for months and feeling weak. Doctors found
a lung infection caused by a rare bacteria called Chlamydius attackie.
The man didn't own any birds, but he lived near
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a pet shop with birds and had chickens whose droppings
he cleaned without a mask.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I didn't even know all that I know.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Viral Okay, this is now the number two viral trend
sees gen z replacing selfies with three D printed busts
of their pets.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Huh, true, that one's fake.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
Three City replaces speed cameras with roaming clowns to gently
shame reckless drivers.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
False. Yes.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
Four bear cub rescued from woods being raised by humans
in bear suits. True yup. According to MSN, a tiny
flack bear cub just two months old, was found crying
alone in California's Lost Padres National Forest with no sign
of his mother. When taken to a wild life set,
the cub was very weak and needed urgent care workers
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dress in bear costumes to feed and care for him,
mimicking his mother's behavior to keep him from bonding with humans.
That's pretty above and beyond. Number five drug smuggling cat
caught sneaking into prison with heroin.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Huh, that's another good one. If this is fake, you're
getting so much better at the fake ones. Let's let's
say true it is.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
According to The Mirror, a cat and Sri Lanka got
caught trying to sneak drugs into a high security prison.
The feeline fell and had a small bag tied around
its neck with nearly two grams of heroin, two SIM
cards and a memory chip inside. The bag was handed
over to the police, who were now trying to figure
out who sent the cat on this mission.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
That's oh man, I got one wrong. I want to
go back to the days where I got them all,
which was a long time ago.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Good though. No, you usually get them all or maybe one,
and they're so weird.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, they are good. You're so good at coming up
with the fake ones. They are now. Thank you, Thanks
so much, Jacquelyn Carl Congratulations is Stephen from Staten Island,
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twenty five all week. Well you know him, miss Frazier.
What you don't know, maybe, is that Kelsey Grammar has
been dealing with a family tragedy for almost fifty years
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and he's finally able to talk about it. An interview
with the legendary TV actor next Welcome Back. I'm honored
to have the chance to talk with the great Kelsey Grammar,
someone that I have admired for a long time, not
only for his acting and the directings, but for his
insights into well into life. And now he has a
new book out called Karen, A Brother Remembers. It is
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about his sister Karen, who was brutally murdered in nineteen
seventy five. Sarah, thank you so much for talking with
us today.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Thanks Claire. It's my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I can't imagine going through something like this, and I
can understand why it was so difficult to deal with,
let alone write about. How did you finally find the
strength to write about this after all these years?
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Well, it was.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
In a session of channeling with a woman named Esther,
who's a medium, who said, Oh, your sister wants or
you to tell her story. So I thought, well, how
would I go about doing that? I sat down and
started to write some notes, and a couple months after
I had this session with her, I finally had written
about ten pages and I thought to myself, Oh, I'm
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writing a book. I'm writing a book about my sister
and you know, and I realized that it was going
to be about the two of us and about the
love that we had shared and what it was like
to try to deal with the fact that she was
taken the way she was in such a brutal way.
And then the book itself started to find something else
that I wanted to try to convey to people, which
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was to try to help them deal if they've suffered
something similar. And we've all suffered something similar, we've all
lost a loved one. So that this idea of cherishing
the joy that I'd had with Karen and sort of
reviving and revivifying her was what became the thrust of
the book, So that people would understand who Karen was
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and kind of meet her and bring her into their lives,
into their imaginations, and so she would live again. And
that's what I hope the book is accomplishing. It seems
to be doing pretty well.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
What an amazing moment that is though, for you and
for everybody listening who have lost loved ones to know
that there is there is still some connection. Do you
feel like Karen is still in your life around you?
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Yes, more now than before.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
It was funny all throughout the book, I mean I started,
it was then the first time pages is where suddenly
I felt I though, I was interrupted by Karen and
she said that's enough, now you need to move on,
And I thought, wow, that's and.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Then that became kind of the foundations of the book.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
She would she would guide me at times and say,
there's a one moment when she says, leave us for
a time with Gordon in the hospital, and you have
to go back to New York. There's something I have
to purge, and that's That's exactly what I heard, and
it was it was a very interesting thing to sense
that she was guiding me through some of it, and
that our love was still sort of, you know, by
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printed and alive. And it was a very gratifying experience,
very very very moving and helpful for.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Me and comforting. It must have been comforting, I.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Know, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
In the book you detailed the murder of Karen. That
could not have been easy.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
No, it's it was challenging. I didn't want to inflict
anything unnecessarily on the reader. But I also I sense
it if I was going to be able to really
help anybody that's been through something similar, then there had
to be a kind of credibility, a credential of suffering
that would you be the same kind of mark. It's
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almost like showing someone else your scars to prove that
you'd been through the same thing, and so that those
people would trust the journey I was taking with them
and the advice I was offering. Trust it as if
from someone who'd been through a similar thing.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Are you any tragedy like this? And I know I
was a news reporter for several years, so I dealt
with the families of many many murder victims. And there
are many victims. There's the parents, the families, the brothers.
Like you, sometimes they never recover. Has this book helped
you recover?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Yes, it took me to a new place of.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
And what I hope is what I hope can do
for others too, is it took me to the place
where the grief, though it's indelible and will never be changed,
it will never go away. The opposite image now when
you look at the grief, is one of hope and
joy and remembrance that it is as powerful as the
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grief was, and maybe even sometimes a little more powerful.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
The joy I.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Feel now that I would sometimes not be able to
access before was overwhelmed by the grief often and so
the last image of Karen was you know, her corpse, basically,
and that was a very hard thing. But now the
image I have is the one of her alive and
part of my life. And the days we shared together
and the joys we had together. There are great, great days,
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and I just hope that other people can focus on
those days of their loved ones, even as the you know,
the specter of.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
The tragedy still hast them.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah, I think it will. I absolutely think it will.
And that's that's a wonderful thought, and that's a wonderful
way to put it. Let me ask you this, since
you are now still in connection with your sister, did
she like the book?
Speaker 6 (25:13):
I think she's very happy about the book. Yeah. I think.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
I think she was almost pushing me in a way
to say, you know, you have a few other things
you got to do. Still opened my eyes up to
some other things, and there's another couple of books coming
I'm working on now.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
But also I've neglected my music.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
For a long time, and I think there's this kind
of energy saying, you know, you got to go do
all these things like you started when we were a kid.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Well, Sarah, I thank you so much for your time
and for sharing that story, and I hope everybody goes
out to buy the book. Thank you so much. Kelsey.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
I'm sorry take care you too.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I'll tell you what I am absolutely when it comes
to things like mediums, you know, and being able to
connect with somebody in the afterlife. I'm absolutely a cynic
with that. But hearing him talk about it and hearing
the connection that he made or he says that he
made with his sister, and I believe him. I believe
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there was something there because it just seemed too real
when he was talking, makes me at least open to
the possibility. And you know, there was part of me.
And I'm sure you might have felt the same way.
I'd love to hear from you. Leave us a talk
back at seven to ten wor and the iHeartRadio app.
But I'm sure you may have felt the same way,
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because all of us long for that connection. No matter
who you are, if you lost someone near to you,
you still miss them, you still miss them, and you
long for that connection. So I would try it. I
would absolutely try it. The book Again is Karen a
Brother Remembers. It's available online in bookstores right now. You know,
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we were talking a little while ago about the back
and forth about the graveyard that was shown and whether
whether it was true it was fake or not, and
that came up at the White House, and this is
the reporter and Caroline Levitt going back and forth about it.
Speaker 12 (27:20):
Video showed images of crosses in South Africa about white
farmers who have been killed and politically persecuted because of
the color of their skin. And those crosses are representing
their lives. Those crosses are representing their lives in the
fact that they are now dead and their government did
nothing about it. Are you disputing that?
Speaker 8 (27:42):
There's no fact?
Speaker 12 (27:43):
It's the video showed what the President claimed it showed,
because it did not show that.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
But even more, what I'm asking you is who.
Speaker 12 (27:47):
What the one did show that white cross is representing
people who have perished because of racial persecration.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
She ended. Caroline Levit ended that with saying, that's a
ridiculous line of questioning. Uh, it's going to be an
interesting four years at the White House. New Yorkers are
on the move right now for Memorial Day weekend. But
where are they going? Natalie Migleori gets the Beat on
the Street next.
Speaker 10 (28:12):
Now it's seventen w oars Beat on the Street with
Natalie Migliori.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Well, it is a holiday weekend and people are getting
out of town, so where are they going? Natalie Mglori
asks about weekend plans in her beat on the Street. Natalie,
good morning.
Speaker 13 (28:30):
Yeah, good morning, Larry. We've got plane, strains and automobiles
to get golf Memorial Day weekend as millions of people
head to their final destinations. You'll find me at Penn
Station this morning, the Amtrak hub finding out where people
are going.
Speaker 14 (28:47):
Fwarida, Philly, Washington, DC, card North Carolina.
Speaker 11 (28:50):
All a visit a friend.
Speaker 15 (28:52):
I'm going to upstate New York when my family lives
all Fortue, New York.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, we're headed to the Jersey Shore.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
We're going to Bayhead, Boston.
Speaker 14 (28:58):
We're not from here. We just came here for the
Beyonce show.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'm just going home off a red Eye, Long Island.
Speaker 11 (29:03):
There's a Walmart there?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Is there anything else there?
Speaker 11 (29:06):
Do you know from McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yeah, that's where I'm at it.
Speaker 13 (29:10):
Yeah, Larry, I love that he's going to my home
place for a Walmart. Not a beach, not Adventureland, not
Huntington Village, not Rockville Center, but a big box store.
What a landmark destination. At least two million people are
expected to get their vacation spot via train this year
all the people I talked to taking the train over
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driving or hopping on a plate.
Speaker 12 (29:33):
Yeah, it was unfortunately not a conversation for us, just
being met everyone in the city.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
None of us have a car, so we're all taking
a train this morning.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
We don't have a car.
Speaker 12 (29:42):
Definitely much easier than flying down there, I think, and
I think it's cheaper than driving down there.
Speaker 14 (29:48):
We actually looked to fly, but for me it was
like six hundred and fifty dollars for one day just
to come to New York. That's an hour flight six
hundred and fifty round trip. So it was cheaper to
the train route.
Speaker 11 (30:01):
Oh got it?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
Like that?
Speaker 9 (30:02):
Like the train is as cheapest where.
Speaker 15 (30:04):
I could get.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 13 (30:07):
So, with more than three and a half million people
expected to fly this Memorial Day weekend, people were weighing
taking a flight, but say it's not always logistically possible
or in the budget because I'm broke.
Speaker 11 (30:18):
The train is for me is a lot more affordable.
I like, I'm working on like a college budget, So
if I buy my ticket in advance, it's a lot
more affordable. And then this is a lot easier to
get to by the train.
Speaker 15 (30:32):
So I live in the middle of nowhere, so like
I can only like the closest way to get there
would be the train, and it's still like an hour away,
so I have to have my brother come pick me up.
Speaker 13 (30:45):
Yeah, there you go. What a good brother driving one
hour one way, one hour.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Or the other.
Speaker 13 (30:50):
I'm sure my brother would do that for me. But Larry,
I only found one person taking a flight from Newark
of all places, while others really put some thought in.
So why they're avoiding the airport.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
I'm going to the airport, yeah Newark.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah, I'm just relaxing, like, if something goes wrong, it's
not my control.
Speaker 15 (31:10):
So it's pretty chill about those things.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Well, it's been kind of dangerous out there.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
I don't know if you've been you know, watching, you
know this is probably the safest way to travel is
by train.
Speaker 14 (31:19):
So Newark right now is not is not is not
the thing.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
It's just a show.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And I love my life.
Speaker 15 (31:25):
So I was like, no, we'll take a train.
Speaker 11 (31:27):
I recently took a plane and it was insane, like
the delays and stuff. And obviously, of course, like people
getting fired are not a lot enough staff working is
obviously the reason for that reason why. But it's obviously
not convenient if you have somewhere to be and you're
delayed hours and hours.
Speaker 13 (31:45):
Yeah, and on top of maybe not enough staff working
and air traffic control towers, we also have to think
about the technology. That's been a big conversation at Newark
Airport Lowry. So people really avoiding Newark or any airport
because they say it's just faster to get where they
have to go. And at least forty five million Americans
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no trains, no planes, but taking their cars to travel
more than fifty miles from home, and Larry, you know,
I was thinking about it this morning. Whenever I take
a train, I find like I'm always rushing to my destination,
Like I'm I'm just making the train in time. But
when I'm at the airport out there, like five hours
in advance, I got to go singing. I got to
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get myself a meal, like, you know, And these people
are hanging around the train hub, you know, and I'm like, Wow,
you guys have time to hang out and grab a coffee.
I'm always just kind of just catching the train as
it rolls off the track.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I feel, so yeah, and coffee rolled off your tongue too.
Every once in a while, the accident sneaks out. Every
once in a while, it comes out.
Speaker 13 (32:52):
It's there.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, look at I think. I hope people have a
great time, and I hope that people have wonderful plans.
And it's a three day weekend. I'm just asking that
on Monday, people take just a moment to remember what
the days about. Just a moment, And I don't want
to ruin anybody's weekend or ruin anybody's day, but a
call to somebody who lost someone in a war, or
go to a parade, or go to a flag ceremony,
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just do something because the meaning of the day has
been so lost in a community weekend.
Speaker 13 (33:25):
Yeah, and there are so many parades and ceremonies happening,
specifically in local towns across the region, the Tri state area.
So you know, you think you live in a small
little town, but they are happening all over parades and ceremonies.
So there's always a way to take part in honoring
somebody and a service member.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Right, just take part out of your day's that's the
reason the day is here. Just take a small part
out of your day and then get on with the
beach and get on with everything else, and just remember
because we wouldn't have everything we have right now if
it wasn't for the men and women who gave their
lives for this weekend. So just a small remembrance of that.
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Other than that, have the time of your life.
Speaker 13 (34:11):
Yeah, Land of the Free, because of the brave, so awry.
Have a great weekend, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Of you two have a tremendous weekend. Well, the p
Diddy trial wraps up an explosive, explosive week, especially yesterday,
and Ethan Shanfield, who was a reporter for Variety, was
in the courtroom to see it all. That is next
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Happy Friday to Yeah, I hope you're ready for this weekend.
It's going to be pretty nice and the Big Three.
After an anti Semitic attack in Washington that killed a
young Jewish couple, there is increased in YPD presence and
a show of force at synagogues in New York. There
is real fear right now in the community. In San Diego,
(00:23):
there was a plane crash that went right into a
residential area.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
There are multiple cars in fall down there. We have
jet fuel all over the place. We have has Matt
on scene right now and we've asked for more resources
to come for that and working with the military. So
we have jet fuel. And then we had multiple cars
that were on fire. We first got on scene too.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It was a miracle if you see that scene with
all these homes and cars on fire, that nobody on
the ground was killed, but the two people on the
Sesna aircraft were both killed, and legendary music agent Dave Shapiro,
who is being remembered in Hollywood now, was one of them.
The other was Daniel Williams, who was the drummer of
(01:02):
the heavy metal band Devil Wears Prada. And finally, there
will be an investigation into the cover up of Biden's
diminishing mental capacity while he was president.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
The Biden administration basically misled and deceived the American people
about the president's competency. And here again we're talking about
the leader of the free world, the commander in chief.
This is a national security issue.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Right, and that's why it's been referred to the FBI
and they're going to handle the investigation. Also, there will
be a House investigation. So it started the Trump agenda.
The Big Beautiful Bill is now going to the Senate
after passing the House by a slim margin.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
We stand ready to continue our work together to deliver
on the One Big Beautiful Bill, as President Trump named
it himself. We're going to send that to his desk.
We're going to get there by Independence Day on July fourth,
and we are going to say, celebrate a new Golden
age in America.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And let's talk more about the Big Beautiful Bill, also
known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. They actually
named the bill after what Donald Trump was calling it
on the campaign trail with Rick Kline, ABC News Washington
Bureau Chief. You know, Rick, I get tired of I
get tired of saying this to Rick Klein, that man,
what a week it was. We get to talk to
(02:24):
him about not only the South African president being in
the Oval Office and Donald Trump lecturing him about his
own country and showing him a tape. You have the big,
beautiful bill, and then you have all of these Supreme
Court rulings. Some went Donald Trump's way and some went
(02:45):
the other way, and so you have a very busy week.
But this is this is what you have with the
Trump administration. It is there's a there's a saying for this.
Remember when they first bombed Iraq, they called it chak
and awe because they were going to have so many
bombs and so much that it would just scare the
bejeebis out of everybody in the Arab world that the
(03:07):
United States was coming from him. Well, it's also shock
and all in Washington as well. But the nice thing
is that he's always accessible to people just like Rick Klein. Hello, Rick,
thanks for being here today.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Hey, my pleasure are with you.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
No, it's wonderful. I'll tell you what. We've talked about
this a lot about every single week with the Trump administration,
so much happens, and it seems the storyline seems to change,
not only every day, but every minute. Let's start by
talking about what happened in the Oval office with the
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Prime Minister of South Africa.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Yeah, I mean, look, I think this was a lot
different than the conversation with Zelenski, which seemed organic. This
was planned, some people calling an ambush even and President
went in there with an agenda. He wanted to show
these videos, many them deeply misleading and not showing at
all what he said he was. They were uh to
make this argument to the South African UH, South African
(04:08):
President with some of his best friends, prominent golfers in
the room. Really extraordinary scene. Not an issue that has
gotten a lot of attention here in the US. And
again there's a lot of questions about how accurate even
the evidence that he presented was. And you could see
the South African leader squirm and even saying, look, I
wish I had a plane to give you maybe a
(04:28):
little bit if you had that, I offer.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That's very funny. Let's let's talk about what you you
just mentioned, which was the what you said was the
misleading documentary and the misleading photograph.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
The photograph was brought up at the press briefing and
and it's not a graveyard, and and so that's why
people were saying it was misleading because it's not a graveyard,
but they it was a memorial. It was a memorial
to all of the farmers that died. The Associated Press
has called it that, NBC News has called that. So,
I mean, you know, are you splitting hairs just a
(05:03):
little bit?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Well, I mean, first, it was a moral of formers
that have died over decades. Some of them are black farmers,
it's not it's not specific to white farmers. The other
thing is that some of the some of the video
and the evidence there is actually from other countries.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Look are you talking about the Are you talking about
the video for the other countries?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Look? Yes, And I don't think it splitting hairs to
say it was deeply misleading. And that's not to diminish
any tragic death of anyone, even racially motivated in any direction.
But the portrait of the president painted of what he
called white genocide is slightly not true. There's actual genocides
going on in the world, including today, ad soon that
these refugees do not have that protective status any longer.
(05:45):
White South Africans do and there's questions about why that is. Sure,
the president has the authority to do it, he has
done it, but to to to paint that portrait of
of a so called white geneicide in South Africa just
does not align with the bass right now.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
It does not.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It was very interesting at the end when the Prime
Minister from South Africa said asked him about genocide specifically,
and he admitted that he just saw all these reports
that he didn't know for a fact, and so I
thought that was a really fascinating part.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
It is, and I think it's reflective of often he
is the product of the inputs that he that he gets.
I mean, you saw that a couple of weeks ago
in his interview with my colley Terry Moran, when he
was insisting that Ringo Garcia had the letters MS one
three on his knuckles when it's flatly not true. He
disputed it over and over again. You can look at it,
go google it right now if you want. You can
tell that's actually letters NS one three or not on
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his knuckles. Despite what the President's d not to say.
He might not be a bad guy or gang member,
any of those things, but it just was not true,
And I think the evidence that was in front of
him by somebody, he guessed it otherwise, and he insisted
it to be true despite the actual fact.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, and he was put in there to show that
the symbols underneath meant those things. That's what it was
put in there for by somebody in the FBI or
somebody in Homeland Security. Like again, the big beautiful bill
gets past. What's it going to do in the state.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Yeah, I look the Senate. I think it's a question
of what it looks like, not if it passes. Frankly,
and they even adds an achievement, and you know, they
got to hand it. They're like Johnson, you got to
hand it to the President Trump. You be able to
get his party in order, got exactly the number of
votes who needed to pass it. Under very difficult circumstances
and very tight political circumstances. They got the votes once again.
And you can keep doubting it or keep wondering about it,
(07:34):
but it's probably going to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
It means quite a bit for New Yorkers some extension
at least temporarily of the state and local tax deduction,
although it's not nearly what New Yorkers and others in
the Tristate area had before. And some very deep tax
cuts beyond that, extension of a lot of the tax
cuts that Trump passed in his first term permanently, a
huge increase to the deficit against in the quarter of
(07:58):
trillions of dollars. You see the bond market reacting negatively
to it. And yes, real cuts, real cuts the medicaid
into staff programs and beneficiaries that are part of this
part of what the Republicans said they would do if
they took if they took office.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, I think that somewhere along the line, we do
have to start cutting government spending. I agree with Rand Paul.
He's the one that's out in front of this saying this,
this is still costing too much. It's still costing too
much somewhere every he talks about it, and then whenever
he tries to do it, they get hammered for it.
And so there has to be somebody that gets in
there and says, look, we're just we're just spending more
(08:33):
money than we're taking in. So maybe Donald Trump is
the guy, but this bill, man, it's it's expensive and.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
And and the thing is, I think one of those
intellectual dishonesty here that that you know, if you're going
to cut government spending, say you're cutting it, And what's
being said now about about medicaid does not align again
with the fact it is cutting spending, it is cutting programs,
it is cutting beneficiaries. People are going to have to
pay more for things. It's how happening to suggest that
this is all sawed and abuse. That's just not true.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Well, I would argue that we don't know until it's
put through. I would argue that we don't You don't
really know how much fraud is out there. You don't
know how many people are not working and receiving medicaid
until until the requirements go through, and then we'll see
how much money it saves. So it's not not true.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
But that's not how that's But that's not how it's
being done. It's there are numbers that are set to it,
so it's identifying the numbers first and then and then
finding the ways to meet the numbers later. So you're, yes,
you're entirely right. We don't know how much fraud or
waste or abuse is in there. But if there if
the total amount of money being spent is less. It's
going to mean less things for people.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It just will Well, I understand that, but again, and
you just prove my point by saying that, yes, again,
we have to We do have to wait and see
because they've been looking at fraud and abuse and they've
been doing that through DOGE and they've been looking through
some of the money. So maybe they know something we don't.
We You might be right, you might be right, but
we have to wait and see. Ah, darn it. I
wanted to get this Supreme Court and now we're running
(10:01):
out of time. But I do want to know what's
coming up on the Sunday Show this week. Rick.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Well, I'll give you back your time because we're actually
on break this weekend. We get ran free programming on
its stead so for on Sunday morning.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And how about that? That worked out perfectly. Thanks a lot, Rick,
Thanks a lot for your time. It was great to
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Speaker 7 (11:18):
Hi, guys, Tony from Massive Peaker Park. Don't the politicians
work for us? Why do we have to wait to
hear what is in a bill? Why is it that
the first thing that we know about and anything that
is not discussed or expressed to us, the people just
(11:40):
won't pass. I'm sorry it passed, but no it wasn't
on the front, so it's no good Tony.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I love your idea, and there's no way. There's no
way that'll happen because they don't want you to know
everything that's in a bill, especially and I'm the bus bill,
and they also many times don't want to wait to
vote for it. But you have every right, the people
have every right to know everything that's in a bill.
(12:07):
Before the fact, I had never, truthfully ever thought about
that before, but you're right. I'd love to see somebody
pass legislation to say the bill has to be posted publicly.
Everything in the bill has to be posted publicly before
anybody votes on it, and then if you make changes,
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you can't vote on it right away. You've got to
hold it until everybody can see it. That's a wonderful idea.
I don't think anybody's ever going to go for it,
and especially because of the Omnibus Bill. The omnibus Bill
is the most corrupt piece of legislation that passes at
the end of every legislative session when nobody's watching, it's
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getting near the holidays, and it's usually by a lot
of Congressmen who aren't going to be in office anymore,
and they did you know what happened last time the
Omnibus bill was passed. They sat there and people could
go up and write pages of things they want, and
they mostly pay off donors at that point. That's why
(13:11):
you see these weird research projects, and you see money
going to some museum, or you see money going to
some school, and it's just because or the teachers' unions
or things like that, and it's only because that the
congressmen in that district's trying to pay off their donors.
And they sat there for the last omnibus bill. As
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people brought in pages to include, they didn't even look
at them. They just put them in. They just put
them in. It was a big trough that every one
of those pigs could feed out of, and you and
I are paying for it. And that's why I don't
believe any of them when they say they want to
reduce the deficit, they want to cut spending, because most
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of them, I shouldn't say any of them, there's very
few of them, but most of them talk a good talk.
But then they're in at the trough for the omnibus
at the end so they can pay off their donors.
But that would end with your idea. I think we
have a front runner for talk back of the day.
I don't get to vote, but I can say that
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was pretty darn good. And you know, so then they
waste that kind of money. And the way they're going
to save money is to get rid of a penny.
And I kind of get it. Making a penny these
days is really expensive, much more expensive than it used
to be. It is skyrocketed in costs. You know it
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used to work. Let's just say ten years ago, it
cost one point three cents to make a penny, which
means you were losing thirty percent every time you make
a penny. We're close to thirty percent. And now it's
jumped to three dollars and sixty nine cents three excuse me,
three cents point sixty nine, three point sixty nine cents
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to make a penny. So it's almost four times the
worth of a penny to make it. And so it
was eventually gonna go. And Donald Trump looked at it
and said, this is silly. We're losing too much money.
So it's going to be gone. And pretty soon, if
there's not enough pennies in circulation, we're gonna have to
start charging everything with point five at the end instead
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of one cent. It's gonna have to be a nickel.
That's what they're doing in Canada. That's gonna happen. Now.
Now let's go to Jacqueline Carl with the eight thirty news, Jacquelin.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Good Morning. Six people are presumed dead after a private
jet crashed into a San Diego neighborhood. I'd already say
the Sesta five point fifty had six people on board
when it flew into a patch of dense fog, clipped
a power line, and crashed into a house early Thursday
in North San Diego. No one on the ground was killed.
Amtrak is set to close one of the four East
(15:59):
River tunnels tonight for long term repairs, kicking off a
nearly three year project.
Speaker 9 (16:05):
Governor Hukel had been urging Amtrak to try and do
this major repair work without a full tube shutdown, but
Amtrak insists the full closure is the way to go
to make Superstorm Sandy related repairs. La doub R President
Rob Free.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
The event of an incident that would happen would really
restrict that operation and could result in delays, cancelations, or
even suspension of service.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
But Amtrak Executive vice president Laura Mason says.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
The risk is that something might go wrong, but we
feel well prepared for it, and we've worked very closely
with Long Island and New Jersey Transit on this plan.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
Amtrak is canceling two daily trips to Alby as a
result of the work. I'm scappringle wrdws.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Okay, Larry, it's a thirty on Friday. Time for real
or fake news headlines?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Are you ready?
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yep? All right?
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Number one man diagnosed with parrot chlamydia after breathing in
chicken poop. True, it is, According to the Sun, a
fifty four year old guy from Hungary went to the
hospital after coughing for months and feeling weak. Doctors found
a lung infection caused by a rare bacteria called Chlamydius attackie.
The man didn't own any birds, but he lived near
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a pet shop with birds and had chickens whose droppings
he cleaned without a mask.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I didn't even know all that I know.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Viral Okay, this is now the number two viral trend
sees gen z replacing selfies with three D printed busts
of their pets.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Huh, true, that one's fake.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
Three City replaces speed cameras with roaming clowns to gently
shame reckless drivers.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
False. Yes.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
Four bear cub rescued from woods being raised by humans
in bear suits. True yup. According to MSN, a tiny
flack bear cub just two months old, was found crying
alone in California's Lost Padres National Forest with no sign
of his mother. When taken to a wild life set,
the cub was very weak and needed urgent care workers
(18:03):
dress in bear costumes to feed and care for him,
mimicking his mother's behavior to keep him from bonding with humans.
That's pretty above and beyond. Number five drug smuggling cat
caught sneaking into prison with heroin.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Huh, that's another good one. If this is fake, you're
getting so much better at the fake ones. Let's let's
say true it is.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
According to The Mirror, a cat and Sri Lanka got
caught trying to sneak drugs into a high security prison.
The feeline fell and had a small bag tied around
its neck with nearly two grams of heroin, two SIM
cards and a memory chip inside. The bag was handed
over to the police, who were now trying to figure
out who sent the cat on this mission.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
That's oh man, I got one wrong. I want to
go back to the days where I got them all,
which was a long time ago.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Good though. No, you usually get them all or maybe one,
and they're so weird.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, they are good. You're so good at coming up
with the fake ones. They are now. Thank you, Thanks
so much, Jacquelyn Carl Congratulations is Stephen from Staten Island,
who just won a pair of tickets to see the
Brotherhood of Rock Tour starring Styx, Rio Speedwagon lead singer
Kevin Cronin and former Eagle Don Felder at the PNC
(19:20):
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at ticketmaster dot com. Next week, starting on Tuesday, we're
giving away tickets to see the Beach Boys at a
twenty five all week. Well you know him, miss Frazier.
What you don't know, maybe, is that Kelsey Grammar has
been dealing with a family tragedy for almost fifty years
(19:44):
and he's finally able to talk about it. An interview
with the legendary TV actor next Welcome Back. I'm honored
to have the chance to talk with the great Kelsey Grammar,
someone that I have admired for a long time, not
only for his acting and the directings, but for his
insights into well into life. And now he has a
new book out called Karen, A Brother Remembers. It is
(20:08):
about his sister Karen, who was brutally murdered in nineteen
seventy five. Sarah, thank you so much for talking with
us today.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Thanks Claire. It's my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I can't imagine going through something like this, and I
can understand why it was so difficult to deal with,
let alone write about. How did you finally find the
strength to write about this after all these years?
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Well, it was.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
In a session of channeling with a woman named Esther,
who's a medium, who said, Oh, your sister wants or
you to tell her story. So I thought, well, how
would I go about doing that? I sat down and
started to write some notes, and a couple months after
I had this session with her, I finally had written
about ten pages and I thought to myself, Oh, I'm
(20:54):
writing a book. I'm writing a book about my sister
and you know, and I realized that it was going
to be about the two of us and about the
love that we had shared and what it was like
to try to deal with the fact that she was
taken the way she was in such a brutal way.
And then the book itself started to find something else
that I wanted to try to convey to people, which
(21:15):
was to try to help them deal if they've suffered
something similar. And we've all suffered something similar, we've all
lost a loved one. So that this idea of cherishing
the joy that I'd had with Karen and sort of
reviving and revivifying her was what became the thrust of
the book, So that people would understand who Karen was
(21:35):
and kind of meet her and bring her into their lives,
into their imaginations, and so she would live again. And
that's what I hope the book is accomplishing. It seems
to be doing pretty well.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
What an amazing moment that is though, for you and
for everybody listening who have lost loved ones to know
that there is there is still some connection. Do you
feel like Karen is still in your life around you?
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Yes, more now than before.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
It was funny all throughout the book, I mean I started,
it was then the first time pages is where suddenly
I felt I though, I was interrupted by Karen and
she said that's enough, now you need to move on,
And I thought, wow, that's and.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Then that became kind of the foundations of the book.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
She would she would guide me at times and say,
there's a one moment when she says, leave us for
a time with Gordon in the hospital, and you have
to go back to New York. There's something I have
to purge, and that's That's exactly what I heard, and
it was it was a very interesting thing to sense
that she was guiding me through some of it, and
that our love was still sort of, you know, by
(22:40):
printed and alive. And it was a very gratifying experience,
very very very moving and helpful for.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Me and comforting. It must have been comforting, I.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Know, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
In the book you detailed the murder of Karen. That
could not have been easy.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
No, it's it was challenging. I didn't want to inflict
anything unnecessarily on the reader. But I also I sense
it if I was going to be able to really
help anybody that's been through something similar, then there had
to be a kind of credibility, a credential of suffering
that would you be the same kind of mark. It's
(23:19):
almost like showing someone else your scars to prove that
you'd been through the same thing, and so that those
people would trust the journey I was taking with them
and the advice I was offering. Trust it as if
from someone who'd been through a similar thing.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Are you any tragedy like this? And I know I
was a news reporter for several years, so I dealt
with the families of many many murder victims. And there
are many victims. There's the parents, the families, the brothers.
Like you, sometimes they never recover. Has this book helped
you recover?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Yes, it took me to a new place of.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
And what I hope is what I hope can do
for others too, is it took me to the place
where the grief, though it's indelible and will never be changed,
it will never go away. The opposite image now when
you look at the grief, is one of hope and
joy and remembrance that it is as powerful as the
(24:20):
grief was, and maybe even sometimes a little more powerful.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
The joy I.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Feel now that I would sometimes not be able to
access before was overwhelmed by the grief often and so
the last image of Karen was you know, her corpse, basically,
and that was a very hard thing. But now the
image I have is the one of her alive and
part of my life. And the days we shared together
and the joys we had together. There are great, great days,
(24:47):
and I just hope that other people can focus on
those days of their loved ones, even as the you know,
the specter of.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
The tragedy still hast them.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah, I think it will. I absolutely think it will.
And that's that's a wonderful thought, and that's a wonderful
way to put it. Let me ask you this, since
you are now still in connection with your sister, did
she like the book?
Speaker 6 (25:13):
I think she's very happy about the book. Yeah. I think.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
I think she was almost pushing me in a way
to say, you know, you have a few other things
you got to do. Still opened my eyes up to
some other things, and there's another couple of books coming
I'm working on now.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
But also I've neglected my music.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
For a long time, and I think there's this kind
of energy saying, you know, you got to go do
all these things like you started when we were a kid.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Well, Sarah, I thank you so much for your time
and for sharing that story, and I hope everybody goes
out to buy the book. Thank you so much. Kelsey.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
I'm sorry take care you too.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I'll tell you what I am absolutely when it comes
to things like mediums, you know, and being able to
connect with somebody in the afterlife. I'm absolutely a cynic
with that. But hearing him talk about it and hearing
the connection that he made or he says that he
made with his sister, and I believe him. I believe
(26:17):
there was something there because it just seemed too real
when he was talking, makes me at least open to
the possibility. And you know, there was part of me.
And I'm sure you might have felt the same way.
I'd love to hear from you. Leave us a talk
back at seven to ten wor and the iHeartRadio app.
But I'm sure you may have felt the same way,
(26:37):
because all of us long for that connection. No matter
who you are, if you lost someone near to you,
you still miss them, you still miss them, and you
long for that connection. So I would try it. I
would absolutely try it. The book Again is Karen a
Brother Remembers. It's available online in bookstores right now. You know,
(27:01):
we were talking a little while ago about the back
and forth about the graveyard that was shown and whether
whether it was true it was fake or not, and
that came up at the White House, and this is
the reporter and Caroline Levitt going back and forth about it.
Speaker 12 (27:20):
Video showed images of crosses in South Africa about white
farmers who have been killed and politically persecuted because of
the color of their skin. And those crosses are representing
their lives. Those crosses are representing their lives in the
fact that they are now dead and their government did
nothing about it. Are you disputing that?
Speaker 8 (27:42):
There's no fact?
Speaker 12 (27:43):
It's the video showed what the President claimed it showed,
because it did not show that.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
But even more, what I'm asking you is who.
Speaker 12 (27:47):
What the one did show that white cross is representing
people who have perished because of racial persecration.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
She ended. Caroline Levit ended that with saying, that's a
ridiculous line of questioning. Uh, it's going to be an
interesting four years at the White House. New Yorkers are
on the move right now for Memorial Day weekend. But
where are they going? Natalie Migleori gets the Beat on
the Street next.
Speaker 10 (28:12):
Now it's seventen w oars Beat on the Street with
Natalie Migliori.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Well, it is a holiday weekend and people are getting
out of town, so where are they going? Natalie Mglori
asks about weekend plans in her beat on the Street. Natalie,
good morning.
Speaker 13 (28:30):
Yeah, good morning, Larry. We've got plane, strains and automobiles
to get golf Memorial Day weekend as millions of people
head to their final destinations. You'll find me at Penn
Station this morning, the Amtrak hub finding out where people
are going.
Speaker 14 (28:47):
Fwarida, Philly, Washington, DC, card North Carolina.
Speaker 11 (28:50):
All a visit a friend.
Speaker 15 (28:52):
I'm going to upstate New York when my family lives
all Fortue, New York.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, we're headed to the Jersey Shore.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
We're going to Bayhead, Boston.
Speaker 14 (28:58):
We're not from here. We just came here for the
Beyonce show.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'm just going home off a red Eye, Long Island.
Speaker 11 (29:03):
There's a Walmart there?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Is there anything else there?
Speaker 11 (29:06):
Do you know from McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yeah, that's where I'm at it.
Speaker 13 (29:10):
Yeah, Larry, I love that he's going to my home
place for a Walmart. Not a beach, not Adventureland, not
Huntington Village, not Rockville Center, but a big box store.
What a landmark destination. At least two million people are
expected to get their vacation spot via train this year
all the people I talked to taking the train over
(29:31):
driving or hopping on a plate.
Speaker 12 (29:33):
Yeah, it was unfortunately not a conversation for us, just
being met everyone in the city.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
None of us have a car, so we're all taking
a train this morning.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
We don't have a car.
Speaker 12 (29:42):
Definitely much easier than flying down there, I think, and
I think it's cheaper than driving down there.
Speaker 14 (29:48):
We actually looked to fly, but for me it was
like six hundred and fifty dollars for one day just
to come to New York. That's an hour flight six
hundred and fifty round trip. So it was cheaper to
the train route.
Speaker 11 (30:01):
Oh got it?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
Like that?
Speaker 9 (30:02):
Like the train is as cheapest where.
Speaker 15 (30:04):
I could get.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 13 (30:07):
So, with more than three and a half million people
expected to fly this Memorial Day weekend, people were weighing
taking a flight, but say it's not always logistically possible
or in the budget because I'm broke.
Speaker 11 (30:18):
The train is for me is a lot more affordable.
I like, I'm working on like a college budget, So
if I buy my ticket in advance, it's a lot
more affordable. And then this is a lot easier to
get to by the train.
Speaker 15 (30:32):
So I live in the middle of nowhere, so like
I can only like the closest way to get there
would be the train, and it's still like an hour away,
so I have to have my brother come pick me up.
Speaker 13 (30:45):
Yeah, there you go. What a good brother driving one
hour one way, one hour.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Or the other.
Speaker 13 (30:50):
I'm sure my brother would do that for me. But Larry,
I only found one person taking a flight from Newark
of all places, while others really put some thought in.
So why they're avoiding the airport.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
I'm going to the airport, yeah Newark.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah, I'm just relaxing, like, if something goes wrong, it's
not my control.
Speaker 15 (31:10):
So it's pretty chill about those things.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Well, it's been kind of dangerous out there.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
I don't know if you've been you know, watching, you
know this is probably the safest way to travel is
by train.
Speaker 14 (31:19):
So Newark right now is not is not is not
the thing.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
It's just a show.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And I love my life.
Speaker 15 (31:25):
So I was like, no, we'll take a train.
Speaker 11 (31:27):
I recently took a plane and it was insane, like
the delays and stuff. And obviously, of course, like people
getting fired are not a lot enough staff working is
obviously the reason for that reason why. But it's obviously
not convenient if you have somewhere to be and you're
delayed hours and hours.
Speaker 13 (31:45):
Yeah, and on top of maybe not enough staff working
and air traffic control towers, we also have to think
about the technology. That's been a big conversation at Newark
Airport Lowry. So people really avoiding Newark or any airport
because they say it's just faster to get where they
have to go. And at least forty five million Americans
(32:06):
no trains, no planes, but taking their cars to travel
more than fifty miles from home, and Larry, you know,
I was thinking about it this morning. Whenever I take
a train, I find like I'm always rushing to my destination,
Like I'm I'm just making the train in time. But
when I'm at the airport out there, like five hours
in advance, I got to go singing. I got to
(32:29):
get myself a meal, like, you know, And these people
are hanging around the train hub, you know, and I'm like, Wow,
you guys have time to hang out and grab a coffee.
I'm always just kind of just catching the train as
it rolls off the track.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I feel, so yeah, and coffee rolled off your tongue too.
Every once in a while, the accident sneaks out. Every
once in a while, it comes out.
Speaker 13 (32:52):
It's there.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, look at I think. I hope people have a
great time, and I hope that people have wonderful plans.
And it's a three day weekend. I'm just asking that
on Monday, people take just a moment to remember what
the days about. Just a moment, And I don't want
to ruin anybody's weekend or ruin anybody's day, but a
call to somebody who lost someone in a war, or
go to a parade, or go to a flag ceremony,
(33:16):
just do something because the meaning of the day has
been so lost in a community weekend.
Speaker 13 (33:25):
Yeah, and there are so many parades and ceremonies happening,
specifically in local towns across the region, the Tri state area.
So you know, you think you live in a small
little town, but they are happening all over parades and ceremonies.
So there's always a way to take part in honoring
somebody and a service member.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Right, just take part out of your day's that's the
reason the day is here. Just take a small part
out of your day and then get on with the
beach and get on with everything else, and just remember
because we wouldn't have everything we have right now if
it wasn't for the men and women who gave their
lives for this weekend. So just a small remembrance of that.
(34:08):
Other than that, have the time of your life.
Speaker 13 (34:11):
Yeah, Land of the Free, because of the brave, so awry.
Have a great weekend, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Of you two have a tremendous weekend. Well, the p
Diddy trial wraps up an explosive, explosive week, especially yesterday,
and Ethan Shanfield, who was a reporter for Variety, was
in the courtroom to see it all. That is next
plus listen for the keyword after the nine o'clock news,
then head to sevent ten woar dot com for your
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