Hour 3: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees

 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So did you wake up early on Saturday morning to
watch the funeral for Pope Francis. Yeah, neither did I
because everything's online nowaday nowadays, so you can watch everything online.
You don't have to watch it live. But it was
incredible and it leads off our Big Three today. Pope
Francis has been laid to rest after a funeral on Saturday,

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attended by President Trump of course, First Lady Malania Trump.
There were dozens of world leaders from every corner of
the earth, and Cardinal Dolan also was there. And right
after the funeral, he was outside. You could hear the
traffic in the background. He had a message for New
York Catholics.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
And I just want you to know that I bring
you your sentiments and your attentions and your heart swift
me at the funeral this morning.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
So what's up next is the conclave of cardinals when
they locked themselves in the Vatican and choose the next pope.
But that's not going to happen for ten to fifteen days.
And what we've heard is that there's a lot of
talk on the streets of the Vatican, in the streets
of Rome, a lot of debate going on, and they

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claim there's never any campaigning for the job. You know
that there is some campaigning going on right now for
who is going to be the next pope. The interesting
thing is there are so many new cardinals. Like all
those betting lines and all the speculation of who it
might be, throw it out the window. Nobody knows what's

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going to happen. Nobody predicted Pope Francis from Argentina, So
forget all the predictions. Don't bet on it. It's a
losing bet. And unless you have somebody with incredible odds
that you think you can make some money on. But
I don't think it's a mortal sin to be betting
on who the next Pope is going to be. Former

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Congressman George Santos, by the way, got the maximum sentence
of over seven years I think seven years and three
months in prison, and now he is looking.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
For a pardon, commutation, pardon, whatever, clemency. I don't know
how this works, but yes, in premature terms, yes.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, you better figure out how that works. If you're
going to look for a pardon from Donald Trump. My
feeling is he's not going to go anywhere close to
this case. And if he doesn't get a pardon, commutation
or whatever, he has to report to prison on July
twenty fifth. I don't think he's going to do well
in prison, unless it's one of those cozy federal prisons.

(02:35):
Luigi Mangioni is now officially charged with federal charges of homicide,
which carries with it the possibility of the death penalty.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
The President's directive was very clear, we are to seek
the death penalty when possible, if there was ever a
death case.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
This is one. How about these judges that are being
arrested for harboring illegal criminals. One in New Mexico kept
one of them in his house to live with his family.
He gave him a gun. And a judge in Wisconsin
helped a criminal illegal evade ice by escorting him to

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a private exit at the courthouse. For anny judge that's
going to obstruct ice and the enforcement operations, or knowingly
harboring issulant alien is going to be prosecuted. This shouldn't
be a surprise. I've been saying this since January twentieth.
Now President Trump is having a news conference at eight

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point thirty today, and it's a surprise news conference. The
reason we know it's a surprise. Is because John Decker,
the White House correspondent for WR was going to be
on the air today. He had to cancel. Reagan Rees.
We had to move for her around a little bit
because she's going to be there, but she was kind
enough to call in anyway. So Reagan, first of all,

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Reagan Reese with the Daily Caller. She is the White
House Carus fonded for the Daily Caller. Reagan, do you
know what this is about today?

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah, So what we pretty much know is that today's
day ninety nine of President Trump's second administration, and we
are nearing day one hundred and today is going to be,
you know, day they're going to be talking about the
themes of the first one hundred days, one of being
securing the border mission. You know, Caroline Love is briefing

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eight thirty eight am. She's bringing Tom Homan the White House.
Borders are to the briefing. Lining the White House drive
where the press walks up, there are photos of you know,
the illegal immigrants that they've arrested in the first one
hundred days and the crimes that they have been wanted for,
from murder to you know, having sentinel on them, to

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sexual abuse of a child, et cetera. Lining the drive so,
you know, really sends a message to the press who
are are crying about President Trump's mass deportation effort.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, I'm sure the story of these judges is going
to come up today because it is it is just
incredible that these judges are going to such lengths to
try to hide and keep from ice people who are
here illegally.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah, it's definitely been a theme of the administration citing
back against.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
These judges, and the press has been pushing them too on.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
You know, the president gets angry at the judges and
then what his response is and if they're going to
ignore the judge's orders. You know, this today will probably
be about that. It will probably be about I know
that there was a mother and a child departed together
over the weekend. I think there's some controversy around that.

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I'm sure we'll hear about this Maryland Father of the
Year that's been deeported. And you know, I want to
ask Tom Holman, you know, is he happy with the
rate of deportations? What are they doing to keep those
deportations going and to increase the speed of them.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
But we'll see what happens.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
I was kind of hoping because I heard him talking
to the press when he got off the helicopter yesterday
and he stopped, as he always does, to talk to
the media and somebody he said at one point, we're
very close. We're going to be making an announcement soon.
We're very close to a deal with Iran. Do you
have any more information on that?

Speaker 3 (06:30):
I don't, unfortunately.

Speaker 6 (06:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
You know what's great about President Trump is that when
you ask him a question, he will pretty much give you,
I think, the answer or it's the best way to
break news.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
It's a little bit.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Harder to get information out of way House officials, understandably so,
but if you ask the President something point blank to
his face, sometimes he will give the opportunity to break
news or give you the answer there. And so, you know,
I think we only we know right now as much
as President Trump is sharing.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
You had a surprising headline in the Daily Caller that
I'd love to ask you about, and the headline was
Trump signals openness to tax increase on the wealthy to
take care of the middle class. Well, that will take
away one of the attacks by the Democrats, because that's
what they go after him for all the time. It's
part of the oligarchy tour with AOC and Bernie Sanders.

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So what is that about and could that happen and
could it happen soon?

Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yeah, This was an article or an interview he did
with Time magazine that published sometime last week. I think
it was on Friday, where he kind of signaled this
openness to this tax increase on the wealthy, but kind
of said, you know, I'm not sure if it's going
to be in the Reconciliation Bill of Congress is going
to make it happen. Earlier in the week, he had
been asked about it in the Oval office and he

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had shot it down.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
He pulled cold water on it.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
So I think it's unclear when that Time interview was conducted.
But you know, those are two different responses from President
Trump on this issue, which you know is sometimes what
we like to see, what he likes to do is
kind of throw everyone in two different directions. But you know,
the key indicators that he's meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson

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today and Mike Johnson has said that he is not
interested in a tact tike on the rich, but they
do that meeting today, and I would be surprised if
it didn't come up in that meeting real quick.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
I'd love to get a reaction from you, because it's
a big story here today only because he is the
New Jersey Center with Corey Booker and from New York
also Hakeem Jefferies having a protest on this on the
on the Capital steps to talk about the economy. And
what's interesting to me is, I know the poll numbers

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in the economy are bad, but if you look at
the numbers, the economy is pretty good. And yet he
claims he has people coming to his office and they're
crying because their farm somewhere in New Jersey is going
to close.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Well, when it comes to the economy, I think what
we're seeing is a little bit of what we face
during the Battomy administration. Was the economy numbers, you know,
are decent or getting better, but American people aren't feeling
it yet. And there's definitely been some anxiety around the
President's tariff plan, which I think is probably adding to
some stress of the American people. But in terms of

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this protest, this is really the first time I'm hearing
about it.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
But you I took a walk yesterday.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
I lived on Capitol Hill and I walked by a
Capitol building.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
And there was just like a little crowd of people sitting.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
On the Capitol steps with megaphones and signs, and so
perhaps that's what that was.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
They were yelling, they were angry about some stuff. It
wasn't super disruptive.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
They're just kind of sitting on steps talking to each
other into their megaphone.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
So maybe that's what that was.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
That's exactly what it was, that way on for twelve hours,
twelve hours on the Capitol steps. Corey Booker wants attention
so much he's definitely going to be running, but I
don't think he's even going to register. Look, I know
you got to get to the White House press conference.
Thank you so much for spending some time with us.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Reagan Reese, White House correspondent for The Daily Caller, an
independent woman's foreign visiting fellow. Wondering about the Vana White
and Pat Sajack relationship. Don't worry, it's doing pretty well. Also,
tickets to see Creden's Clear What a Revival founder and
lead singer John Fogerty at the Beacon Theater at A
twenty five. Thanks so much for listening this morning, and

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thank you for your talkbacks. As I say all the time,
the show is a whole lot better when you are
involved with it. If you want to leave a talkback,
go to the iHeartRadio app look for seven to ten
woor and then the talkback feature. You hit the graffhone
and you record what you want to say, and then
you're on the air. This is a talk back about
a bakery in South Jersey that I guess people down

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in South Jersey wear too much perfume or too much cologne.
Because it got so bad, they have asked people to please,
if you're gonna wear a lot of perfume or cologne,
to use the drive through.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Though gas it did she use the drive through instead
of banning them. I think that was kind of like
a good compromise.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
I'm not sure you can bang it.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
Can you ban someone for their perfume for their stay?

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Wouldn't that be great? Though? That's a lawsuit in the
making because somebody will feel embarrassed. But yeah, they said
that they love people love the smell of the bakery,
and people have complained and they claim that there's some
employees there that have asthma, and it's overpowering. I got
to feel on the owners just didn't like it, but
we got to talk back about it.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Does the Century Bakery think that anyone's going to go
to their bakery since they're pushing people away from wearing perfume,
Give me a break.

Speaker 8 (12:08):
That is just the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
You have to deal with it, right, there's.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
A perfume wearer.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yes, absolutely, I'll be honest with you if I think
it's not just if you're wearing perfume, if you overpowering, right,
if you have way too much perfume or cologne?

Speaker 7 (12:26):
Do you think this was a very personal situation like
that there was one customer that they don't.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Like and I don't come in here.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, like you know smelly Ira that that person that
comes in all the time that they tyral that comes
in consp You're probably right. It is just one or
two people to come in, and it's overpowering.

Speaker 7 (12:48):
Because honestly, a small business, they don't have the They
shouldn't be telling people not to come in.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
I mean, but that.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Was a compromise.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
This place has been around for eighty years. It's been
around so long and it's so popular. I have heard
about it down in South Jersey, so it is one
of those establishments that everybody knows and likes to go
there because they're famous for their bakery products. But I
have the feeling you're right. They couldn't say they couldn't
make it the Smelly Ira law. They actually had to

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say everybody. I'm not pointing out anybody in particular, but everybody,
if you're wearing too much cologne, don't come in.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
So talkbacks are great.

Speaker 7 (13:27):
You want to continue the conversation on Facebook or Instagram,
We've got it there.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Just we'd love to hear what you think.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
And what about the picture you put up?

Speaker 7 (13:35):
Oh, we were talking with Reggan earlier about the White
House putting up these lawn signs with all of the
arrests that they've made through ice. So we have those
pictures up in the video courtesy of John Decker, who
took them early this morning for us, and we posted
them on Instagram and Twitter and Facebook and all those
great places. Just follow seven to ten wor on your

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favorite social platform.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
And I'll tell you what that picture is something to
see because it's an amazing I wonder who got that job.
Who got the job of going through all the pictures
of who's been deported and putting them on lawn signs,
Like there's hundreds of them, hundreds.

Speaker 7 (14:14):
It's like a high school, you know, in high school
and they put all the lawn signs out for graduation.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
It's what it looks like in the way they're graduating.
If you're worried at all about Vana White and Pat
Sajack and their relationship since Pat Sajack is no longer
with Wheel of Fortune, will worry no longer because Vana
White says that they're getting along just great and she

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continues to see him and that he supports what they're doing.
On the show. Pat Sajak made a lot of money.
Guess how much Vana White makes per year?

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh, it's a stupid amount of money for.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Three days work? Give it. Take a guess a year
a year like eight million.

Speaker 7 (14:58):
I was gonna say twenty.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
In between ten million dollars.

Speaker 7 (15:01):
Well it's closer to Jacqueline Okay.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah, she makes ten million dollars.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
I'll do it for five and they only work. They
only work, like I don't even know if it's like
twenty days a year.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
I'll do it for one million. Oh, there you go.
We'll let him know.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Maybe I'm available.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Maybe you're going to get a phone call. But they
said that it was that they really love Ryan Seacrest.
On the show, he said, I'm not replacing Pat Sajack.
I'm just stepping in. Vana White appreciated that so much.
So in case you were concerned about the relationship, don't
be in there doing I was worried. Yeah, I know,
you're doing just fine. How Jacqueline Karl with the eight

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thirty News Jacquelin.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Good morning. President Trump is again asking Vladimir Putin to
negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine. Trump tober
porter Sunday he wants the Russian leader to quote stop shooting,
sit down, and sign a deal to when the fighting,
adding that he was disappointed missiles were flying. And the
MTA is expected to unveil it's latest revenue numbers tied

(16:02):
to Manhattan congestion Pricing at committee meetings today.

Speaker 9 (16:05):
Numbers from January and February revealed that the MCA is
on track to meeting its goal of bringing in half
a billion dollars in the first year of congestion pricing
and we'll get a look at March numbers today. Now,
New York officials are in the middle of battling the
Trump administration in court after the FEDS ordered the tolling
program to be shut and threatened to withhold federal funding
if those congestion pricing cameras are not turned off by

(16:27):
May twenty first. Governor hokel and the MTA insists the
tolling program is working. I'm Staff Pringle WRDWS.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
All right, so this is a public service announcement for
biscuit heads. If you're going to vandalize something, make sure
it's not taking pictures of.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
You while you do it.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
According to WMSV, Rashaan Gordon was arrested on April twenty
fifth for allegedly vandalizing a Metro Nashville Police safety camera
at the Uner Recreation Center on April sixteenth. Surveillance footage
from the camera helped identify God and his vehicle, leading
to his arrest. In addition to the vandalism charge, he

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faces charges of resisting arrests and aggravated assault on a
police officer.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
I wonder what was up with him, I don't know.
That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard was he.
I got a feeling there was some substances involved in that, but.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
M I got that feeling too.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Thanks so much, and we want to congratulate our winner,
Jim McFadden from green Brook, New Jersey, who just won
a pair of tickets to see Creeden's Clear What a
Revival Founder and lead singer John Fogerty at the Beacon Theater,
May twenty ninth. Tickets available at ticketmaster dot com. Another
chance to win tomorrow at a twenty five Well we

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told you about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
inductees for twenty twenty five. They were just announced and
it is one of the best ever. It's a great one.
Find out about the inductees and what our rock means.
Music expert Sal Serension has to say. Next, Chubby Checkers

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has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Let's talk more about that with Sal Serencione, who is
the Senior Director of Rock Programming and Specialty at Premiere
Radio Networks. Sal, I don't know how you feel about
Chubby Checkers, but I didn't know what he did. I
didn't know whose dog he killed and why he wasn't

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getting inducted into the Hall of Fame after all of
these years.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
Well maybe it was just the nominating committee just perhaps
felt he was a novelty act, or maybe they are elitist,
as some people call them. So I don't know, but
you know I was. I was only a baby when
the actually I don't the twist came out. I think
is sixty one or something, if I'm not mistaken. So

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I was born the year after. But no doubt I
knew all about Chubby growing up. Many people did not
only a great song, but a dance craze, and you know,
he had more. He had other songs as well. So
and quite frankly, at eighty three years old, it's great
that they're able to finally, you know, induct him. He'll

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be there to accept the award, and I don't know
how many more artists from that era will be looked upon.
So it's great that they finally did what they needed
to do.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah. I've talked to him a couple of times over
the years, and he said, at this point, I may
not go. I got a feeling he's going.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
Yeah, I think he's going to go. He's lobbied very
hard for it, as you know, Larry, So, yeah, I
think I think he'll be there, you know, sort of
got a bit of an illness or any kind of emergency.
I think he'll be there with bells on when they
have the ceremony, which is November eighth at the Peacock
Theater in Los Angeles, And what a.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Wonderful moment that'll be. I know that there's been a
lot of rock stars pushing for him to get in,
so I would imagine there's going to be a performance
of the Twist featuring a lot of other people with
Chubby Checker.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
Well, that sounds like the perfect way to end the night,
doesn't it now, with everybody dancing on stage. And you're right,
a lot of people have pushed for him, So I'm
glad that they the word finally got through to those
who do the nominating because this was the first time
he's been nominated. That's the that's the real rub. If
you will, I mean, okay, if at least nominate. He's

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been eligible for nomination since the very beginning, since the
first class went in in nineteen eighty six or seven, Yeah,
just about. But yeah, they they had to wait till
now twenty twenty five to nominate him. But thank god
he's still with us and we'll be there to accept it.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Is it because young Winner isn't there anymore? Was he
the hold up?

Speaker 5 (20:50):
A lot of people have said that over the years
that you know, there's been you know, he's the one
that ruled with an iron fist and said, you know,
no to this, no to that, et cetera. A reflection
perhaps of his magazine, who didn't cover a lot of
the bands that people have been you know, Champion like
Rush is the biggest example. Who knows, I mean, you

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know the new chairman, John Sykes, who of course is uh.
We all work for the same company. But you know,
I'd say this regardless. I mean, he's he's really try
to be as diverse as possible in selecting who should
be nominated, although he doesn't have a say and who
gets nominated or chosen or anything like that, but you

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know he's pushed for diversity and this class demon the
last few classes that John has been the chairman have
demonstrated that very much.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
I love I love the people that got in this time.
Is there anybody controversial in the mix here?

Speaker 10 (21:50):
No?

Speaker 5 (21:51):
No, not at all. Uh. The only one that I've
been reading, you know, there's so yeah. The two that
jump out that there's been controversy with and you know,
have been Chubby Checker. But the who I've been reading
that have are surprised that he's getting in are some
very young journalists that don't understand the impact. I'm not

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saying that I'm above them or no more or anything
like that, but they don't get the full impact of Chubby.
And the other one that I've seen some interesting comments
about are the White Stripes, with many people saying, well,
they came on the scene real quick, but then went
away as quickly, so you know, why are they being

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you know, nominated and now inducted. But you know, they're
looked upon as being very influential and did change the
sound a little bit at the time that they first
came on the scene. And Jack White is a tremendous
guitar player, and he's been a you know, real proponent
for Vinyl records with his Third Band records and everything.
So I'll give him a tip of the hat to help,

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you know, bringing back Vinyl to where it is.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
So I should go through these you got bad company,
Chubby Checker, stop me if you want to comment on anybody,
Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cindy Lauper, Outcasts, Sound Garden,
and White Stripes. Right, that's a pretty good list.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
Yeah, it is. And like I said, it's the diverse.
That's the performer category. So what they've done here, Larry,
is they break this up now every year. Now the
performer category that's the big one. So when they announced
the nominations, the nominations are for the performer category, and
then the rock call can off to the side pick

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other people that they want to be recognized that night.
So for example, they've got the Musical Influence Award and
this year they're recognizing Salt and Peppa and Warren Zeebon,
the late Warren z B.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yes, I love Warren Zebon. I just.

Speaker 11 (23:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
And he's another one that people have lobbied for a
long time and he was never nominated, and so you know,
maybe this is their way of saying, all right, we
don't know he will ever get nominated, but we do
feel that he should be recognized. So he's going to
get this Musical Influence Award, sadly posthumously, and then you
have the Musical Excellence Award, and that goes to artist, musicians,

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songwriters' producers whose originality and influence creating music have had
a dramatic impact on music. And those being recognized this
year are the is the producer Tom Bell Big with
the Philly Philadelphia Sound sadly no longer with us. The
great keyboardist Nicky Hopkins who has played on records from
the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, Steve Miller, the Kings,

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you name it, also no longer with us. And then
Carol Kay He's the bass player in the Wrecking Crew,
which is the group of studio musicians out on the
West Coast who have played on countless songs and albums
by the likes of The Beach Boys, Glenn Campbell, the
Righteous Brothers. The list goes on and on, and she

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is with us and long overdue. She should have been
recognized a long time ago, so it'll be nice to
see her get inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Let's talk about some of the people that didn't get in.
What surprised you the most of those who didn't get
in this time.

Speaker 8 (25:19):
I kind of thought.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
Billy Idol was going to get in on his first ballot.
I'm not surprised that he didn't, but you know, he's
got a new album coming out. He performed at the
ceremony last year on behalf of Ozzy Osbourne, and then
of course you had Ozzy and a lot of artists
come out in support of him, so he was getting
a lot of help on the lobbying side of things,

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and I thought, you know, they might just get him in.
But I think he was offset by Cindy Lauper, okay,
because I mean that both were big in the eighties.
This was her second nomination. Being female did not hurt.
A matter of fact, he's the only female in the
performer category, so I think, you know, he got pushed aside.

(26:06):
He'll definitely get in at some point. I don't think
there's any question about that. And I also think that
Mariah Carrey, I, you know, still get in too. But
I think Cindy Lauper, you know, was the one that
wedged her out of the pie. The rest not getting
in does not really surprise me, even though Fish was

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first in the fan vote. I don't think they're the
critics darlings, and a lot of folks on the nominating
committee were critics or are critics so I you know,
I mean, they know they actually they got nominated, but
you know, I guess, meaning the voting public didn't feel
that their fellow musicians didn't feel that they were up
to task. I guess at this point, so we'll see

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the first time that somebody who's finished first in the
fan vote. By the way, didn't get inducted. It happened
to Dave Matthews Ban.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, it seems to happen a lot. Sal Serencion, who
was the senior director of Rock Programming and Specials of
Premiere Radio Network. Just a wealth of information. Thanks so
much for your time.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
So well, thanks having me on, Larry, You take care
you too.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Donald Trump's national approval rating takes a hit, but what
are every day New Yorkers thinking. Natalie mcgleiory gets to
Beat on the Street next.

Speaker 7 (27:19):
Now it's seventen wrs Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliori.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Well reason Paul's show that Donald Trump's approval ratings have
taken a real hit, but we wanted to find out
what New Yorkers think, and that's the topic of today's
Beat on the Street with Natalie mcgliory. Good morning, Natalie.

Speaker 8 (27:40):
Yeah, good morning, Larry.

Speaker 11 (27:41):
Well.

Speaker 8 (27:42):
According to an EBC Washington Post poll, only thirty nine
percent of respondents approve of the job the president is doing.
That's even lower than his approval rating in twenty seventeen,
which was at forty So of course, let's take it
to the streets for our own survey.

Speaker 12 (27:58):
Yes we if I approve them, Yes I do. I
do approve of Trump.

Speaker 10 (28:02):
I mean, he's trying to do the best, but like
the saying, go, you can't rush fine wine, and Rome
wasn't built in a day. But my friends don't want
to hear that.

Speaker 13 (28:09):
We'll seen thirty nine percent before, so I don't think
it means anything to him at thirty nine percent.

Speaker 6 (28:14):
Of this Fine Well, I voted for him, but now
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
I'm not a fan. Now I never was a fan, honestly.

Speaker 13 (28:21):
Now, I've hated Trump since I've ever heard of his name.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Oh, I don't pay any attention to that.

Speaker 13 (28:25):
I'm not really into politics, so I'm not really sure
what's going on.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
But the world seems to be going okay, so.

Speaker 8 (28:32):
Well, Larry, As long as the world is turning, I
guess there's no issues here. But either way, seventy three
percent of responding say the economy is in bad shape,
with fifty three percent saying it's gotten worse than Trump
got into the Oval office. Just over forty one percent
of people say their personal finances have dipped with Trump
at the helm, but former President Biden so that same

(28:54):
response last summer.

Speaker 13 (28:56):
Uncertainty in the markets. That's a primary reason. It's the
uncertainty and the market's interest rates are still not lower.
We don't know what's going on. How many activities not up?
I think that's it.

Speaker 6 (29:08):
Faces are going up, ted, food is going up. Everything
is going up because of the tariff.

Speaker 12 (29:14):
You know, if you listen to Howard Lutnix and he
kind of explains it pretty well.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
I think he's pretty sharp.

Speaker 12 (29:18):
And you know, the country's you hemorrhaging into the rest
of the world, and in a couple of years of
you know, the rest of the world is going to
own our country. So they got to fix it.

Speaker 10 (29:26):
We'll take it one day at a time, but let's
give him patience for Biden was four years of what
did he do? He really destroyed our country.

Speaker 8 (29:33):
Now a majority of people are concerned about the president's
efforts to reduce the size of the government, with fifty
seven percent of people saying he's gone too far with
closing federal agencies. Yet, immigration remains a top issue, with
sixty seven percent of respondents saying birthright citizenship should be protected,
while opposition to deportation remains lower at fifty one percent.

(29:54):
We've got reaction to both issues.

Speaker 10 (29:56):
Immigration. Stuff is bad, is really bad. My father came
here from Europe. He did it the right way. After
the Second World War. He assimilated, and a lot of
these people they don't want assimilate. That's not right either.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
The Democrat says he's going to cut Social Security and Medicare,
but I understand how he wants to get the frauds
out of the system. But now everybody's up in there
and nobody can say what their future will be. And
this is just for like the coming six months. I'm
not talking about a year from now. We're depending on

(30:28):
some kind of support right now. Now.

Speaker 8 (30:32):
Listen, Trump has appointed R. F. Kennedy Junior as Health Secretary.
Many people aren't focused on it. The poll doesn't focus
on it, but this New Yorker is, especially after rfk
announced the ban on red food dies in foods.

Speaker 11 (30:44):
One thing I will give Trump credit for Bobby Kennedy
originally reached out to Kamala and she wouldn't even take
his call. So whatever I feel about Trump, I will
give him credit that he took that call. I think
people have gotten law in media that is not reporting correctly,
that is not reporting unbiasedly, that is not presenting all

(31:08):
the facts, and so they're just caught up in this
judgment without truly knowing a lot of things. I feel
like he is an intelligent enough human being. If you
have listened to him fully for any amount.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Of time, that man is extremely learned.

Speaker 11 (31:24):
He does not speak on things he does not know.

Speaker 8 (31:28):
And there you have it. So we're not really focused
on that. But Larry, I think we have a talk back.

Speaker 6 (31:32):
Is that?

Speaker 5 (31:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (31:34):
I hope you're feeling better because you weren't here on
Friday and you were missed.

Speaker 10 (31:39):
Oh wait, wait, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait
a minute, where.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Is Natalie Maingleori?

Speaker 3 (31:52):
I mean that's that's that's the highlight of the show.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
And your bags to be answered. Whoops, I stepped on
him book? How about that? Was that wonderful?

Speaker 4 (32:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (32:05):
I'm feeling better. Oh that's so nice.

Speaker 11 (32:08):
Thank you?

Speaker 8 (32:08):
So much guys.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Okay, not only be back tomorrow morning at eight fifty.
No Charles, no charges filed yet, but Leticia James has
already hired a high powered Biden attorney. We'll talk about
that after the nine o'clock News