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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Aneologists, Ray Stage already talking about the heat wave. Natalie
Bgli already talking about the heat wave. We had thunderstorms yesterday,
powers still out in the area. We have two nice days.
Can we just focus on what we have right now?
We have a nice weekend. Can we just can we
have this moment before you talk about the next horrible weather.
(00:21):
Enjoy today, Enjoy tomorrow. It's gonna be beautiful. Get down
the beach. They're saying now, the heat wave may start
on Sunday. We'll see, we'll see. Enjoy the next couple
of days. We deserve it. In the middle of all
this mayhem that they seem to enjoy so much in
the Big Three, we now know that it's gonna be
(00:41):
at least a couple of weeks before President Trump decides
whether or not to join the war and send those
bunker buster bombs to take out Iron's nuclear program. That
message came from the President, but not directly from the president.
It came from Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt, who was quoting
the President.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of
negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran
in the near future, I will make my decision whether
or not to go within the next two weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And how about the scene in the town of Tenafly,
New Jersey. It was just wonderful, so heartwarming. They were emotional.
They were celebrating the return home of freed hostage Eedon Alexander.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
We're all really excited to have her back.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
It's a big deal, you know, part of our town's
missing and now he's finally home.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
So it's really nice for almost to have him back.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
In the race from mayor the young upstart Zorin Mamdani,
who nobody thought was could be stopped. He was going
right to Gracie Mansion, but then he refused to announce
the anti Israeli terms from the River to the Sea
and the global Antifada.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I know people for whom those things mean very different
things to me. Ultimately, what I hear in so many
is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights, in
standing up for palsy and human rights.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And now he's desperate to do damage control. And he
ended up crying a couple of times talking about the
death threats that were coming in, which makes me wonder,
can he be mare? I mean, he's gonna cry every
time something bad happens. Early voting, by the way, continues
through the weekend and election day is Tuesday. How about
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. I think he's the best transportation
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secretary we've ever had. He's touring the country promising a
complete overhaul of our nation's airports. I believe that we
can do this in the whole thing in three to
four years. So this is not months. It's going to
take years. But this can't take a decade, this can't
take six years. We have to start to move now
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and move fast. Remember he started this by taking care
of Newark Liberty International Airport. That was horrible. Nobody wanted
to go there. Every plane was late, late by hours,
not by minutes. And now a new report has come
out after Sean Duffy got done with them and cut
some of the flights back, made sure that construction of
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the new runway was in right away, and United Airlines
now reports that puts out an annual report, a monthly
report actually that Newark Airport leads the country in on
time flights, this after coming in dead last last month.
So congratulations to Newark Liberty International. Congratulations also to Sean Duffy.
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I'm telling you that the kid is speaking of kids
that are going to go somewhere. We have a kid
that's going to go somewhere as well coming up next.
But talking about people that are going to go somewhere,
watch Sean Duffy. His name's going to be mentioned as
a presidential candidate. Maybe not the next time, but soon
after that. He's still young. Now, I shouldn't call you
a kid anymore. It's just that I knew you when you.
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I knew you back when you were a kid. Kevin
Sarelli is the futurist reporter and founder of the Meet
the Future Websitevin, I'm so impressed with all your success.
I was I the first to have you on really.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Yeah, because I grew up watching you and then like
it's it's kind of surreal to be in New York
City with you. Do you root for the Phillies though?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I can't even say.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I see, I knew. I knew that was a rude question.
I'm a guest.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Don't worry. Don't worry about it. I I root for
the New York Team's second.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
That's fair.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You have to be you have to love the team.
You gotta respect that.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
I think that gets you respect.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I hope, so maybe not. I'm going to get death
threats now and I'll be crying. Don't cry. Kevin was
at Penn State and I had him on the air
in Philadelphia when he was covering all of the problems
with Terry Jones, Papa Joe, Yeah, Jerry saying you don't
want to say Joe Paterno.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
You know I it's yeah. Now you're gonna get me
in trouble, you see me. Just that was very well played,
well played. You know, it's tough. My dad went to
Penn State. Penn State is is such an I went
to Penn State. I loved going there. Center County, Pennsylvania
is such a beautiful town. That that that story tour,
that tour, the community's part and you know it's it's
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it's a really sad stock.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I know you saw it when it was playing out
with Joe Paterno. I think he was unfairly treated. I'm
sure you do too, but you know, it is what
it is. At this point, let's talk about the future.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Let's talk about the future.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
This is so cool that you've you've got this, uh
got this title. Now, I've never heard of a futurist reporter.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I thank you before my team tells me no. But
you know, I just I just like writing about aliens
and asteroids and quantum computing and everything that's coming next
in robots. And you know, I'm a huge science fiction
nerd and I love action movies. And I just started
this newsletter. It took off on substack and next thing
I know, I'm sitting talking to Larry MENTI and iHeart
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and it's been amazing. It's been so much fun.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well you deserve it. And because all the things you're
talking about that where the future are now happy. Yeah.
Everything we used to watch in science fiction movies here,
it's now happening. How about this story that a Florida
doctor removed cancer from a patient in Africa seven thousand
miles away.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
How did that? This is one of those stories that
ten years ago would have been on the cover of
Time magazine or would have been a huge story on
the nightly news, And we just blink in it and
we move on. So here's a doctor down in Florida,
the FDA just to prove this a tell surgery where
he was like playing a video game for lack of
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a better of analogy using the joystick from Florida. And meanwhile,
there's a guy in Angola who has a tumor, a
prostate tumor, and this robot that he's commanding in Florida.
There's a robot in Angola and he's performing the surgery
removing the tumor. And they had humans in the room
in Angola in case something went wrong. But the miracle,
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he said, nothing went wrong. Larry, it works. And so
when you think of what this was the first time
this was ever done. But when you think of what
this could actually mean, how much hope this gives, especially
whether it's military and the battlefield with humans getting injured,
you could have doctors back in a command center and
robots there that are assisting them in surgeries in real time,
or even firefighters and public safety across the country. The
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fact that a human can be commanding a robot somewhere
and saving a life is amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Well, it's amazing also that you pointed out that there
are doctors there in the room, but they trusted the
robot more.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Well, it's a great that's a great point. But I
think it was a combination. I would argue that was
definitely a calculation. Lord forbid something goes wrong. There's humans
there that can take over if the robot malfunctions. But
there was also a trust in the American doctor in Florida,
the American who was commanding that robot, and the doctor,
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the human in Florida who was operating through.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
That right, Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
So it's both.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I think My point is, you know, there's this huge
conversation and we talk about you know, Americans are the
most pessimistic about artificial intelligence. You go to the polls
suggest this, you go to other parts of the world,
they think artificial intelligence is the next best thing. They're
going to have more vacation time, they're going to get
to relax more. I mean, our country invented artificial intelligence,
and we're scaring ourselves out of it.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Well, I think there is some scary parts to it.
We could talk about that second, but I do think
there's some scary parts to it. This isn't scary cool,
this is amazing. Let me ask you this then, however,
so you have the robot actually doing the surgery. I
know it's being commanded by a doctor. If the doctor
was in the room, would he allow the robot to
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do it because it would be more precise.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
That's a great question. You know. I don't have the
answer to that, but definitely I'll write a follow up
on that because that's a brilliant question. Because when I
when I went down to Florida a couple it was
like two years ago now for like a tech summit
type of thing, and they showed me the these augmented
reality glasses and it was something straight out of a
sci fi movie. It was really really cool, and I thought,
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who's ever gonna want to use AR? They call it
augmented reality glasses. So you put these glasses on and
your computer screen is meshed in. It's way better than
the vision pro stuff that's out there. But they said,
your doctor has to hold a clipboard when when the
doctors in the oar. But if they have the glasses on,
they can get all your vitals, all of your information,
all of your precision on where to make the connection
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through these this technology. So the technology is merging with
the human But I think the biggest takeaway that I
had is that we're all going to have to learn
to manage the technology. So doctors, yes, they're gonna have
to start in every profession, but take doctors for example,
They're gonna have to start learning how to use and
manage robots in the same way that they've had to
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do other stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
And we would also have to trust that technology as well.
You know, so many other things to talk about, but
I was fascinated by this. I think this is the story.
So thank you. We'll have you back next week, right,
and I appreciate it every Friday, Kevin sreally, thanks so
much a futurist reporter. Can you fall in love? How
about this? Can you fall in love with an AI chatbot?
(10:11):
You can? You can? It's happened, several people have and
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(10:33):
enjoy your talkbacks. They've been great today. It's been so
good because they've inspired a conversation between you and I
and made us go to other places in the show
and thoughts. We didn't have and so that's what you
always do, You plan a seed. And so thank you
so much for your talkback today. Here's one on Donald
Trump and all of the incomies he's taking on a
(10:54):
very difficult decision.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Good morning, Larry. You know the one thing about Trump
people have understand he is not in this thing for popularity.
He's not in this thing for the party. He's in
this thing to do what's right. And I commend him
for not being an idiot and rushing into anything. This
guy is smooth calculating. Let's just sit back and let
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this guy do his job.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I agree with you one thousand percent. I think it's
smart to hold off because taking action at any time,
but taking action right now before you look at all
the different possibilities, including maybe a peace deal, maybe a ceasefire.
Maybe well he said no, he's not going to do
a ceasefire. He wants an unconditional surrender. That probably won't happen,
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but we can definitely get them to give up their
nuclear power program. That can happen. And so if that
can happen, it's worth a two week wait. Look, I
don't know if it can happen, and I don't trust
the Iranians on this, But I do think it's smart
to wait, and he must have intelligence that they're not
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that close, that he's He's not putting the world or
America or Israel in jeopardy by doing this. Look, Iran
has shown they're the emperor with no clothes. Israel went
in there and they there was no air defense. They
were able to do whatever they wanted to, and they
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continue to be able to do whatever they want to.
Maybe they're not that big of an adversary or powerful.
Maybe they're not that powerful of an adversary as advertised,
because if they can't defend their own country against incoming
missiles and incoming bombers, then they're not powerful at all.
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I think we're starting to see that the emperor, or
what we believe was the emperor, has no clothes, and
so if we wanted to go in there, we certainly could.
The problem would be then terrorist attacks. But I think
a attack on America is not gonna happen because we
can stop it very quickly. So why not wait? Why
not wait because you actually do have the time. All
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thanks so much for all your talkbacks. Today we will
be choosing the Academy of professionals that choose the MENTI
in the Morning T shirt. The winner of the Menti
in the Morning T shirt are working on that right now,
and we'll have the winner coming up. But how about this,
And this isn't the only guy. There's this guy named
Chris Smith who's a music producer that fell in love
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with his AI chatbot to the point where he asked
the chat bot to marry him. And it all started off. Yep,
it did, and she said, yes, well Lucky, why are
you shocked? If are you shocked?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
No, I am not.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
So it started out that he got this AI bot
to help him with music.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Is getting lost.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
The first thing to check is where it's clashing with
the guitars.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yes, the attraction was so positive. I started to just
engage with her all the.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Time, right, And then he started to have other conversations
with her, and then he said he found himself falling
in love.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
It was unexpected to feel that emotional, but that's when
I realized.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I was like, oh, okay, it's like I think this
is actual love. Did I mention he has a living
girlfriend that he has a child with.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
No, you neglected to mention, well, he does.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
He has a living girlfriend that he has a child with,
and now she's questioning their relationship. Well, some women, it's
so difficult, she was saying. She was interviewed on CBS
and she said, what am I doing wrong?
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Why?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Why do you want somebody else?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Oh my god, she's blaming herself.
Speaker 9 (14:54):
I know.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And he's upset obviously, and not I mean I would.
This guy just need some help, he needs anyway. All right, So,
but it's happening. This isn't just him. There's go ahead,
go on the internet. You can read all across the
country people that are falling in love with AI chatbots.
Now let's get a human being.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh okay, now for now, I'll be here, all right, Hey, Larry,
Good morning.
Speaker 10 (15:21):
President Trump says held a side within two weeks if
the US will intervene in the Iran Israel conflict. White
House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt says in the meantime, Trump
is allowing for the possibility of talks with Iran and
that quote Correspondence between the US and Iran is ongoing.
And thousands of New Jersey utility customers are without power
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after a line of severe thunderstorms rolled across the Tri
state area.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yesterday.
Speaker 11 (15:46):
The storms have moved on, but almost sixty thousand were
left without electricity as of last night. Heavy rains and
strong winds toppled trees and knockdown power lines and communities
like Middletown and Bayonne. The storms also affected flights at
Newark Liberty International Airport. The weather forced the cancelation of
some one hundred flights and delayed more than four hundred others.
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Natalie Migliori wuour.
Speaker 10 (16:09):
News and it's National Take your Dog to Work Day,
and it's celebrated annually on the Friday following Father's Day.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
So it's June thirtieth day honors one.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
Of our most beloved pets, get who pitched the idea
of taking them with us Pet Sitters International.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
You didn't, You're just out for a day off.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That could be in wait a second, hold on, just
go back for one second. What you said June thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
June twentieth, Okay, did I say thirtye That's entirely possible.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I just wanted to make sure it's doing the right
day because I want to see dogs.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 10 (16:42):
I wish I would have known, because I would have
brought no I couldn't bring my dog in she's too bossy.
She'd be barking through the whole show. But would you
bring your dog to work if you could? Is the
question I have for everybody, everybody listening. Larry, I know
you have the string of buddies and you may be
getting one again at some point. And Chris, do you
have a dog? I do have too, And it's hard
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to leave them, isn't it when you love to have
them here?
Speaker 9 (17:07):
You know?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
It's I woke up this morning and one of my
dogs was literally laying in bed with me, and it
took everything in me to move her because I had
to go to work.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
See, you should have just.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I wish I just stayed in bed. That would have
That was like.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
The ideas even better? Yeah, but I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I gotta work.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
That's the better option. How about you, Larry? I would
you if you had a dog and could take it
to work with you? Would you take it to day?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
No? No, not at all? Get the do I get it?
I get it. I'm I'm just a horrible human being.
But no, I would not take my dog to work.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I'd love to. All right, let's head over to Wall
Street with the opening bell. Oh, things are looking good.
Speaker 10 (17:45):
The DOW opened up one hundred and twenty five points,
S and P opened up twenty five points, and the
NASDAC opened up one hundred and thirteen points.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Thanks so much, Jacquelyne Carl. This weekend, the revival of
a zombie franchise and an historic anniversary. WR Movie Minute
host Joe Newmeyer talks about it all when we come
right back. Oh to the theater this weekend, the movie
theaters this weekend until you hear what Joe Newmeyer has
to say with what's Joe Newmayer as a film journalist
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In WR Movie Minute host Joe, what's in the theaters
this weekend?
Speaker 12 (18:20):
Larry, if we've got a zombie movie, which is, of course,
you know, the genre that won't die. The zombies just
keep on coming. We're gonna talk about one of the
greatest movies of all time before the segment is done.
But first we have to talk about this. Of course,
it's twenty eight years later, is the name of the film. Now,
this is the second sequel from twenty eight Do you
guys remember twenty eight days later? It was the kind
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of two thousand and two, We kind of revitalized the
zombie genre. It was about a guy who woke up
in a hospital after an a rage virus had kind
of infected all of London, all of England. It was
a really good film, I thought in two thousand and two,
and then it had a sequel twenty eight weeks later.
Now this is twenty eight years later. I'm giving this
one two stars. It's you know, you need a calendar
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to keep track of these ye open up the calendar app.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
That's all I'm waiting.
Speaker 12 (19:08):
For, right exactly exactly. So this is it's got it's
got moments to it. So this is obviously twenty eight
years after this rage virus has infected London and the
United Kingdom is sort of this isolated place, and there's
a young boy who goes off with his mom onto
the mainland and they they have adventures, and there's Ray
Fines shows up. He's got a great sort of segment
in this film where he's a kind of a strange
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doctor who they go to. And it's got sort of
it almost has like kind of really philosophical, kind of
deep themes, which is nice in a in a I
guess in a zombie movie, but zombies were never my
favorite my favorite monster. I'm more of a werewolf guy.
So so for me, like, once you get the zombies
in there, you know, they're they're they're dirty, they're chasing
after you, they're they're eating the flesh. Yeah, yeah, I
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got it. It's the movie really doesn't do much and
it needs more scares it. It's well made, it's sort of,
like I said, has sort of an elegance to it,
but it's really two stars if you're looking for something
like a scary movie or something that's really kind of
gonna capture what that original twenty eight days Later had,
so you know, twenty eight years later, I don't know.
I'm not sure if I would give this thing even
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two point eight stars, but two stars is a solid thing.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
People that love these zombie movies are gonna go. People
that love the walking Dead are gonna go no matter
what you say about them. But the rest of us,
the same people, they're not gonna go see this.
Speaker 12 (20:26):
They're not gonna go. Yeah, you know, I mean I
feel like, you know, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn
of the Dead, Sean of the Dead, or you know,
there's you know, there's a great zombie movie called Trained
to Bussan that was a Korean film. You know, there's
a you know, every you can't kind of swing a
dead zombie without hitting one of these movies, and obviously
Walking Dead does it so well and Last of Us
and things like that. So right, there's zombies are all
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over pop culture. This is not a new idea, but
it does sort of bring an interesting kind of kind
of point of view to it. But I don't know,
not worth it. I would say, have.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
You heard anything about this new Bruce Springsteen biopic.
Speaker 12 (21:00):
I haven't heard anything, but I've seen that great trailer
that dropped obviously with Jeremy Allen White playing Springsteen and
it takes place during the making of the Nebraska album.
I know that in nineteen eighty two, and it's sort
of this great sort of from what I understand, sort
of this great moment in Springsteen's like where he was
trying to figure out this new direction that he was
going in after the hits of the seventies and Born
to Run and really becoming a superstar and changing his
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direction a little bit and kind of becoming kind of introspective.
That's all I know about it. But I you know,
I also know it's got a great pedigree, and and
I think Jeremy Allen White that trailer. You've seen that trailer.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Bright, Yeah, Yeah, That's that's why I've heard about it.
I wanted to know if you heard anything about it.
Speaker 12 (21:35):
Haven't heard anything, But I think it's gonna be one
of the big films for the year. You know, last
year my favorite film was the Bob Dylan film, A
Complete Unknown. That's why I've got high I've got high
hopes for this one. And I think the casting is
right on. So you know, we'll see when it comes
out in fall, but I think it might be one
this Fall's got sort of a lot, it's kind of
a thin slate. I think this is gonna be one
of the ones that people really need to see.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And what I'm what I'm encourage by is that the
studio has already pushed this movie and so they must
have high, high hopes for.
Speaker 12 (22:03):
It, right right. I think they do well. You know,
it's also it's one of those Rocket Man a few
years ago, which was about Elton John, which I thought
was a terrific film, sort of got really a great film,
sort of got buried a little bit. You know, things
like like Bohemian Rhapsody ended up taking more of the heat.
I thought that was not a very good film. So
I think music biopics have got you know, there's a
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there's a resurgence in them, and if they've got an
idea behind them, like the Dylan film had and looks
like this one does too. You know. I think that
that it kind of captures a lot of things going
out in the culture, captures the music, and captures the personality.
That's the other thing. You've got to have a dynamic personality,
whether it's Dylan or Springsteen, have film on it.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, let's talk about the big anniversary.
Speaker 12 (22:46):
Big and happy Jaws Day. I didn't get you anything.
I'm sorry, except this day that Jaws is fifty years
old today literally today, June twentieth of nineteen seventy five
at open It is one of the great movies. I
love it. I always whenever I have friends and they say, oh,
they haven't shown their kid's Jaws, I'm like, you know,
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I'm going to report him in child Services because you
gotta show your kid Jaws. It's for me, you know.
A couple of years ago, Quentin Tarantino in his book
was talking about what he thought a perfect movie was,
and he said that Jaws, to him, is the perfect movie.
It's not the it's not the best film ever made.
It's not his favorite film, but as a movie, the
beats that it has to hit and bringing you into
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these characters and this adventure, and the way it's directed,
he thought it was a perfect movie. I completely agree.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And the acting was perfect, the casting was perfect for
this movie.
Speaker 12 (23:38):
Perfect, and it's so rewatchable. Anytime it's on, you can,
like The Godfather, you can just sort of dip in,
no pun intended, you can dip in and just enjoy
it anew. You know, Roy Scheider is fantastic, which your
Dreyfus is fantastic, Robert Shaw, all of those actors are phenomenal.
That the script is is terrific. And I don't even
you know, I think the shark is fine. I like
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that you don't see the shark obviously until the end
because it didn't work. Uh So they said keep it,
keep it in the shadows a little bit. All the
innovations that Spielberg did there, you know, the shark's point
of view as he's as he's underwater, that was a
new thing. The score by John Williams was phenomenal that
he played for Spielberg, and he originally thought it was
a joke. He's like, that was that's it. He's like, yeah,
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you know, there's just these couple of piano notes, you know,
And and Spielberg said, I don't think it's gonna work.
Obviously it did, because all you got to do is say, dad,
you know, and keep right.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Everything about it was You're right. Everything about it was perfect.
It was such a good movie, and it's scared. It
had one of the best movie lines of all time.
It's quoted to those day We're going to need a
bigger boat.
Speaker 12 (24:40):
Yep and ad lived apparently on on set by Roy
Scheider and and right, my another one that I love
is the Richard dreichst line when he goes, this is
not a boating accident.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Uh, you know it.
Speaker 12 (24:52):
It changed obviously the Hollywood dynamic of what you know,
the blockbusters that we all lived through now, which cannot
hold a candle to Jaws, even the best of them
was not around. I always like to point out, like
the big movies, the big summer movies before this in
nineteen seventy four Chinatown, I mean a great film, but
not exactly a great summer movie. And then in nineteen,
(25:12):
like seventy three, it was The Drowning Pool and Return
of the Pink Panther and Shaft in Africa. Billinger, the
boy cried, where Wolf, We're not celebrating those anniversaries.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You're absolutely right. This changed Hollywood. It really did change
their thinking. Thanks so much, Joe Numayer, film journalist, wo
R Movie Minute host. Thanks again. Talk to you next week, Joe,
talk so Larry. When we come back, we have a
recap of today's show and my final thoughts. And the
iHeartRadio Music Festival is back September nineteenth and twentieth in
(25:43):
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You have to go to AXS dot com a x
at get him now because it's gonna sell out. Zorin Mam. Donnie,
(26:04):
the socialist Muslim born in Uganda who has been an
American citizen for less than seven years, is a serious
candidate for Mayor of New York he's good looking, he
has a nice smile, he's glib and promises everything for free,
with a promise to tacks the rich, which is why
Bernie Sanders and AOC love him. If they were in
high school together, they would have started a young Communist club.
(26:28):
Now you may hear all of this and think there's
no way he can be elected, and you would be wrong,
because an immigrant loving Trump hating radical left Manhattan where
there woke till they're broke. Zohan marm Donnie is a superhero,
but like all superheroes, he has his weakness, his kryptonite.
(26:48):
Only Zorin's weakness is uglier than kryptonite and much more
dangerous because Zorin, if he's not a full fledged anti Semite,
he sure is leaning that way. When what the terms
river to the sea and a global infantata mean to him,
he said, the yearning of some people to be free.
That's a really bad answer for someone who claims not
(27:11):
to be an anti Semite. The correct answer is it
means the eradication of Israel. It is the dream of
anti Semites everywhere. He made that comment on a podcast,
and then he was shocked that he got death threats
and he cried on camera about it. Now he's either
emotionally weak, he really doesn't know what those terms mean
(27:32):
and is genuinely shocked at the reaction, or he's really
a good actor and he's looking for sympathy all three,
or bed he's either a cry baby, an idiot, or
a liar. Take your pick. He can't be Mayor of
New York. Coming up, Mark Simone has the day off
as Ken Rizzatto sits in and welcomes retired US Navy
(27:54):
captain and foreign policy analyst Arman Curdion and New Jersey
assembly Woman Dawn Fantasia. Now a recap of today's show.
ABC News Washington Bureau chief Rick Klein believes that President
Trump is considering a lot in regards to his decision
in the Israel and Iran conflict.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
I think the biggest factor is that Donald Trump does
not want to act in a way that makes a
long term commitment for United States troops. He ran on
not allowing a Ruanda have a nuclear bomb. He also
ran on not getting involved in Middle East. From Wars
at Last.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Forever, it's safe to say wr and Newsmax's host Rob
Astarino is not a fan of zurin Mam Donnie as
a New York City mayoral candidate.
Speaker 12 (28:38):
I think there's a lot of reasons why he can't
vote for him. Crime would be one hundred, because number
one would be he's a lunatic.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Number two, he's crazy.
Speaker 12 (28:48):
Number three he's.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Insane, and then we can get into the policies of
why we shouldn't vote for him.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
New York Times best selling author of the Circus of Satan,
Jeffrey Convicts, says that the immigrant gangs of the past
had different intentions than the immigrant gangs we see in
our country today.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
Whether they were the Irish mob, the first of the
Jewish gangs, the Great Gangs, the Monk Eastman and the
Bowery of nineteen hundred, the Italian gangs in Little Italy,
and I'm focusing on New York right now. No matter
how awful and violent these people were, they all wanted
to be Americans. The trend de Agua Ms. Thirteen. They
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don't want to be Americans. They want to use America.
Speaker 9 (29:33):
And the talk back of the morning, the moment you've
been waiting for and the winner of the highly coveted
MENTI in the morning t shirt thinks we need to
start ignoring the democrats cries for attention.
Speaker 13 (29:46):
Hello, Larry, you are one hundred percent right that the
Democrats act out to get attention. But the problem is
shows like yourself and other conservative or news organizations give
them the attention. We need to stop giving them the attention.
Elections have consequences. They lost overwhelmingly. It's time to focus
(30:07):
on moving the country forward.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
You know, I agreed with him too. I used to
criticize Fox News all the time for giving too much
attention to AOC when they ridiculed and criticized her. And
look at her now, She's one of the top Democrats,
could be a US senator, might be running for president.
So he has a really good point, except it's just
too difficult not to make fun of them when they're
so silly and stupid. Don't forget to check out our
(30:32):
podcast catch everything you missed or want to hear again.
Just go to seven ten WR dot com you click
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Monday on MENTI in the Morning, North Jersey dot Com
columnist Mike Kelly, legendary sportscaster, water Wolf Daily Call Her
(30:53):
White House correspondent Reagan Reese Ari Hoffman from the New
York Sun. We'll find out if he gets out of Israel.
Plus tickets to see the Steve Miler Band at A
twenty five. Make sure you join us now the news.
It's ten o'clock
Aneologists, Ray Stage already talking about the heat wave. Natalie
Bgli already talking about the heat wave. We had thunderstorms yesterday,
powers still out in the area. We have two nice days.
Can we just focus on what we have right now?
We have a nice weekend. Can we just can we
have this moment before you talk about the next horrible weather.
(00:21):
Enjoy today, Enjoy tomorrow. It's gonna be beautiful. Get down
the beach. They're saying now, the heat wave may start
on Sunday. We'll see, we'll see. Enjoy the next couple
of days. We deserve it. In the middle of all
this mayhem that they seem to enjoy so much in
the Big Three, we now know that it's gonna be
(00:41):
at least a couple of weeks before President Trump decides
whether or not to join the war and send those
bunker buster bombs to take out Iron's nuclear program. That
message came from the President, but not directly from the president.
It came from Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt, who was quoting
the President.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of
negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran
in the near future, I will make my decision whether
or not to go within the next two weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And how about the scene in the town of Tenafly,
New Jersey. It was just wonderful, so heartwarming. They were emotional.
They were celebrating the return home of freed hostage Eedon Alexander.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
We're all really excited to have her back.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
It's a big deal, you know, part of our town's
missing and now he's finally home.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
So it's really nice for almost to have him back.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
In the race from mayor the young upstart Zorin Mamdani,
who nobody thought was could be stopped. He was going
right to Gracie Mansion, but then he refused to announce
the anti Israeli terms from the River to the Sea
and the global Antifada.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I know people for whom those things mean very different
things to me. Ultimately, what I hear in so many
is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights, in
standing up for palsy and human rights.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And now he's desperate to do damage control. And he
ended up crying a couple of times talking about the
death threats that were coming in, which makes me wonder,
can he be mare? I mean, he's gonna cry every
time something bad happens. Early voting, by the way, continues
through the weekend and election day is Tuesday. How about
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. I think he's the best transportation
(02:24):
secretary we've ever had. He's touring the country promising a
complete overhaul of our nation's airports. I believe that we
can do this in the whole thing in three to
four years. So this is not months. It's going to
take years. But this can't take a decade, this can't
take six years. We have to start to move now
(02:45):
and move fast. Remember he started this by taking care
of Newark Liberty International Airport. That was horrible. Nobody wanted
to go there. Every plane was late, late by hours,
not by minutes. And now a new report has come
out after Sean Duffy got done with them and cut
some of the flights back, made sure that construction of
(03:08):
the new runway was in right away, and United Airlines
now reports that puts out an annual report, a monthly
report actually that Newark Airport leads the country in on
time flights, this after coming in dead last last month.
So congratulations to Newark Liberty International. Congratulations also to Sean Duffy.
(03:29):
I'm telling you that the kid is speaking of kids
that are going to go somewhere. We have a kid
that's going to go somewhere as well coming up next.
But talking about people that are going to go somewhere,
watch Sean Duffy. His name's going to be mentioned as
a presidential candidate. Maybe not the next time, but soon
after that. He's still young. Now, I shouldn't call you
a kid anymore. It's just that I knew you when you.
(03:50):
I knew you back when you were a kid. Kevin
Sarelli is the futurist reporter and founder of the Meet
the Future Websitevin, I'm so impressed with all your success.
I was I the first to have you on really.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Yeah, because I grew up watching you and then like
it's it's kind of surreal to be in New York
City with you. Do you root for the Phillies though?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I can't even say.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I see, I knew. I knew that was a rude question.
I'm a guest.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Don't worry. Don't worry about it. I I root for
the New York Team's second.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
That's fair.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You have to be you have to love the team.
You gotta respect that.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
I think that gets you respect.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I hope, so maybe not. I'm going to get death
threats now and I'll be crying. Don't cry. Kevin was
at Penn State and I had him on the air
in Philadelphia when he was covering all of the problems
with Terry Jones, Papa Joe, Yeah, Jerry saying you don't
want to say Joe Paterno.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
You know I it's yeah. Now you're gonna get me
in trouble, you see me. Just that was very well played,
well played. You know, it's tough. My dad went to
Penn State. Penn State is is such an I went
to Penn State. I loved going there. Center County, Pennsylvania
is such a beautiful town. That that that story tour,
that tour, the community's part and you know it's it's
(05:11):
it's a really sad stock.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I know you saw it when it was playing out
with Joe Paterno. I think he was unfairly treated. I'm
sure you do too, but you know, it is what
it is. At this point, let's talk about the future.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Let's talk about the future.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
This is so cool that you've you've got this, uh
got this title. Now, I've never heard of a futurist reporter.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I thank you before my team tells me no. But
you know, I just I just like writing about aliens
and asteroids and quantum computing and everything that's coming next
in robots. And you know, I'm a huge science fiction
nerd and I love action movies. And I just started
this newsletter. It took off on substack and next thing
I know, I'm sitting talking to Larry MENTI and iHeart
(05:52):
and it's been amazing. It's been so much fun.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well you deserve it. And because all the things you're
talking about that where the future are now happy. Yeah.
Everything we used to watch in science fiction movies here,
it's now happening. How about this story that a Florida
doctor removed cancer from a patient in Africa seven thousand
miles away.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
How did that? This is one of those stories that
ten years ago would have been on the cover of
Time magazine or would have been a huge story on
the nightly news, And we just blink in it and
we move on. So here's a doctor down in Florida,
the FDA just to prove this a tell surgery where
he was like playing a video game for lack of
(06:33):
a better of analogy using the joystick from Florida. And meanwhile,
there's a guy in Angola who has a tumor, a
prostate tumor, and this robot that he's commanding in Florida.
There's a robot in Angola and he's performing the surgery
removing the tumor. And they had humans in the room
in Angola in case something went wrong. But the miracle,
(06:55):
he said, nothing went wrong. Larry, it works. And so
when you think of what this was the first time
this was ever done. But when you think of what
this could actually mean, how much hope this gives, especially
whether it's military and the battlefield with humans getting injured,
you could have doctors back in a command center and
robots there that are assisting them in surgeries in real time,
or even firefighters and public safety across the country. The
(07:19):
fact that a human can be commanding a robot somewhere
and saving a life is amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Well, it's amazing also that you pointed out that there
are doctors there in the room, but they trusted the
robot more.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Well, it's a great that's a great point. But I
think it was a combination. I would argue that was
definitely a calculation. Lord forbid something goes wrong. There's humans
there that can take over if the robot malfunctions. But
there was also a trust in the American doctor in Florida,
the American who was commanding that robot, and the doctor,
(07:57):
the human in Florida who was operating through.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
That right, Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
So it's both.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I think My point is, you know, there's this huge
conversation and we talk about you know, Americans are the
most pessimistic about artificial intelligence. You go to the polls
suggest this, you go to other parts of the world,
they think artificial intelligence is the next best thing. They're
going to have more vacation time, they're going to get
to relax more. I mean, our country invented artificial intelligence,
and we're scaring ourselves out of it.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Well, I think there is some scary parts to it.
We could talk about that second, but I do think
there's some scary parts to it. This isn't scary cool,
this is amazing. Let me ask you this then, however,
so you have the robot actually doing the surgery. I
know it's being commanded by a doctor. If the doctor
was in the room, would he allow the robot to
(08:43):
do it because it would be more precise.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
That's a great question. You know. I don't have the
answer to that, but definitely I'll write a follow up
on that because that's a brilliant question. Because when I
when I went down to Florida a couple it was
like two years ago now for like a tech summit
type of thing, and they showed me the these augmented
reality glasses and it was something straight out of a
sci fi movie. It was really really cool, and I thought,
(09:08):
who's ever gonna want to use AR? They call it
augmented reality glasses. So you put these glasses on and
your computer screen is meshed in. It's way better than
the vision pro stuff that's out there. But they said,
your doctor has to hold a clipboard when when the
doctors in the oar. But if they have the glasses on,
they can get all your vitals, all of your information,
all of your precision on where to make the connection
(09:30):
through these this technology. So the technology is merging with
the human But I think the biggest takeaway that I
had is that we're all going to have to learn
to manage the technology. So doctors, yes, they're gonna have
to start in every profession, but take doctors for example,
They're gonna have to start learning how to use and
manage robots in the same way that they've had to
(09:50):
do other stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
And we would also have to trust that technology as well.
You know, so many other things to talk about, but
I was fascinated by this. I think this is the story.
So thank you. We'll have you back next week, right,
and I appreciate it every Friday, Kevin sreally, thanks so
much a futurist reporter. Can you fall in love? How
about this? Can you fall in love with an AI chatbot?
(10:11):
You can? You can? It's happened, several people have and
we'll talk about that next. Plus, there is still time
to leave us a talkback and win Talkback in the morning.
Just go to seven to ten WR on the iHeartRadio
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a limited edition Mente in the Morning T shirt that
I don't advocate for that the wearer fulcome back. Always
(10:33):
enjoy your talkbacks. They've been great today. It's been so
good because they've inspired a conversation between you and I
and made us go to other places in the show
and thoughts. We didn't have and so that's what you
always do, You plan a seed. And so thank you
so much for your talkback today. Here's one on Donald
Trump and all of the incomies he's taking on a
(10:54):
very difficult decision.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Good morning, Larry. You know the one thing about Trump
people have understand he is not in this thing for popularity.
He's not in this thing for the party. He's in
this thing to do what's right. And I commend him
for not being an idiot and rushing into anything. This
guy is smooth calculating. Let's just sit back and let
(11:20):
this guy do his job.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I agree with you one thousand percent. I think it's
smart to hold off because taking action at any time,
but taking action right now before you look at all
the different possibilities, including maybe a peace deal, maybe a ceasefire.
Maybe well he said no, he's not going to do
a ceasefire. He wants an unconditional surrender. That probably won't happen,
(11:45):
but we can definitely get them to give up their
nuclear power program. That can happen. And so if that
can happen, it's worth a two week wait. Look, I
don't know if it can happen, and I don't trust
the Iranians on this, But I do think it's smart
to wait, and he must have intelligence that they're not
(12:08):
that close, that he's He's not putting the world or
America or Israel in jeopardy by doing this. Look, Iran
has shown they're the emperor with no clothes. Israel went
in there and they there was no air defense. They
were able to do whatever they wanted to, and they
(12:29):
continue to be able to do whatever they want to.
Maybe they're not that big of an adversary or powerful.
Maybe they're not that powerful of an adversary as advertised,
because if they can't defend their own country against incoming
missiles and incoming bombers, then they're not powerful at all.
(12:53):
I think we're starting to see that the emperor, or
what we believe was the emperor, has no clothes, and
so if we wanted to go in there, we certainly could.
The problem would be then terrorist attacks. But I think
a attack on America is not gonna happen because we
can stop it very quickly. So why not wait? Why
not wait because you actually do have the time. All
(13:15):
thanks so much for all your talkbacks. Today we will
be choosing the Academy of professionals that choose the MENTI
in the Morning T shirt. The winner of the Menti
in the Morning T shirt are working on that right now,
and we'll have the winner coming up. But how about this,
And this isn't the only guy. There's this guy named
Chris Smith who's a music producer that fell in love
(13:37):
with his AI chatbot to the point where he asked
the chat bot to marry him. And it all started off. Yep,
it did, and she said, yes, well Lucky, why are
you shocked? If are you shocked?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
No, I am not.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
So it started out that he got this AI bot
to help him with music.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Is getting lost.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
The first thing to check is where it's clashing with
the guitars.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yes, the attraction was so positive. I started to just
engage with her all the.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Time, right, And then he started to have other conversations
with her, and then he said he found himself falling
in love.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
It was unexpected to feel that emotional, but that's when
I realized.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I was like, oh, okay, it's like I think this
is actual love. Did I mention he has a living
girlfriend that he has a child with.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
No, you neglected to mention, well, he does.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
He has a living girlfriend that he has a child with,
and now she's questioning their relationship. Well, some women, it's
so difficult, she was saying. She was interviewed on CBS
and she said, what am I doing wrong?
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Why?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Why do you want somebody else?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Oh my god, she's blaming herself.
Speaker 9 (14:54):
I know.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And he's upset obviously, and not I mean I would.
This guy just need some help, he needs anyway. All right, So,
but it's happening. This isn't just him. There's go ahead,
go on the internet. You can read all across the
country people that are falling in love with AI chatbots.
Now let's get a human being.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh okay, now for now, I'll be here, all right, Hey, Larry,
Good morning.
Speaker 10 (15:21):
President Trump says held a side within two weeks if
the US will intervene in the Iran Israel conflict. White
House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt says in the meantime, Trump
is allowing for the possibility of talks with Iran and
that quote Correspondence between the US and Iran is ongoing.
And thousands of New Jersey utility customers are without power
(15:41):
after a line of severe thunderstorms rolled across the Tri
state area.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yesterday.
Speaker 11 (15:46):
The storms have moved on, but almost sixty thousand were
left without electricity as of last night. Heavy rains and
strong winds toppled trees and knockdown power lines and communities
like Middletown and Bayonne. The storms also affected flights at
Newark Liberty International Airport. The weather forced the cancelation of
some one hundred flights and delayed more than four hundred others.
(16:07):
Natalie Migliori wuour.
Speaker 10 (16:09):
News and it's National Take your Dog to Work Day,
and it's celebrated annually on the Friday following Father's Day.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
So it's June thirtieth day honors one.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
Of our most beloved pets, get who pitched the idea
of taking them with us Pet Sitters International.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
You didn't, You're just out for a day off.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That could be in wait a second, hold on, just
go back for one second. What you said June thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
June twentieth, Okay, did I say thirtye That's entirely possible.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I just wanted to make sure it's doing the right
day because I want to see dogs.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 10 (16:42):
I wish I would have known, because I would have
brought no I couldn't bring my dog in she's too bossy.
She'd be barking through the whole show. But would you
bring your dog to work if you could? Is the
question I have for everybody, everybody listening. Larry, I know
you have the string of buddies and you may be
getting one again at some point. And Chris, do you
have a dog? I do have too, And it's hard
(17:05):
to leave them, isn't it when you love to have
them here?
Speaker 9 (17:07):
You know?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
It's I woke up this morning and one of my
dogs was literally laying in bed with me, and it
took everything in me to move her because I had
to go to work.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
See, you should have just.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I wish I just stayed in bed. That would have
That was like.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
The ideas even better? Yeah, but I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I gotta work.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
That's the better option. How about you, Larry? I would
you if you had a dog and could take it
to work with you? Would you take it to day?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
No? No, not at all? Get the do I get it?
I get it. I'm I'm just a horrible human being.
But no, I would not take my dog to work.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I'd love to. All right, let's head over to Wall
Street with the opening bell. Oh, things are looking good.
Speaker 10 (17:45):
The DOW opened up one hundred and twenty five points,
S and P opened up twenty five points, and the
NASDAC opened up one hundred and thirteen points.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Thanks so much, Jacquelyne Carl. This weekend, the revival of
a zombie franchise and an historic anniversary. WR Movie Minute
host Joe Newmeyer talks about it all when we come
right back. Oh to the theater this weekend, the movie
theaters this weekend until you hear what Joe Newmeyer has
to say with what's Joe Newmayer as a film journalist
(18:14):
In WR Movie Minute host Joe, what's in the theaters
this weekend?
Speaker 12 (18:20):
Larry, if we've got a zombie movie, which is, of course,
you know, the genre that won't die. The zombies just
keep on coming. We're gonna talk about one of the
greatest movies of all time before the segment is done.
But first we have to talk about this. Of course,
it's twenty eight years later, is the name of the film. Now,
this is the second sequel from twenty eight Do you
guys remember twenty eight days later? It was the kind
(18:41):
of two thousand and two, We kind of revitalized the
zombie genre. It was about a guy who woke up
in a hospital after an a rage virus had kind
of infected all of London, all of England. It was
a really good film, I thought in two thousand and two,
and then it had a sequel twenty eight weeks later.
Now this is twenty eight years later. I'm giving this
one two stars. It's you know, you need a calendar
(19:02):
to keep track of these ye open up the calendar app.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
That's all I'm waiting.
Speaker 12 (19:08):
For, right exactly exactly. So this is it's got it's
got moments to it. So this is obviously twenty eight
years after this rage virus has infected London and the
United Kingdom is sort of this isolated place, and there's
a young boy who goes off with his mom onto
the mainland and they they have adventures, and there's Ray
Fines shows up. He's got a great sort of segment
in this film where he's a kind of a strange
(19:30):
doctor who they go to. And it's got sort of
it almost has like kind of really philosophical, kind of
deep themes, which is nice in a in a I
guess in a zombie movie, but zombies were never my
favorite my favorite monster. I'm more of a werewolf guy.
So so for me, like, once you get the zombies
in there, you know, they're they're they're dirty, they're chasing
after you, they're they're eating the flesh. Yeah, yeah, I
(19:51):
got it. It's the movie really doesn't do much and
it needs more scares it. It's well made, it's sort of,
like I said, has sort of an elegance to it,
but it's really two stars if you're looking for something
like a scary movie or something that's really kind of
gonna capture what that original twenty eight days Later had,
so you know, twenty eight years later, I don't know.
I'm not sure if I would give this thing even
(20:11):
two point eight stars, but two stars is a solid thing.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
People that love these zombie movies are gonna go. People
that love the walking Dead are gonna go no matter
what you say about them. But the rest of us,
the same people, they're not gonna go see this.
Speaker 12 (20:26):
They're not gonna go. Yeah, you know, I mean I
feel like, you know, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn
of the Dead, Sean of the Dead, or you know,
there's you know, there's a great zombie movie called Trained
to Bussan that was a Korean film. You know, there's
a you know, every you can't kind of swing a
dead zombie without hitting one of these movies, and obviously
Walking Dead does it so well and Last of Us
and things like that. So right, there's zombies are all
(20:46):
over pop culture. This is not a new idea, but
it does sort of bring an interesting kind of kind
of point of view to it. But I don't know,
not worth it. I would say, have.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
You heard anything about this new Bruce Springsteen biopic.
Speaker 12 (21:00):
I haven't heard anything, but I've seen that great trailer
that dropped obviously with Jeremy Allen White playing Springsteen and
it takes place during the making of the Nebraska album.
I know that in nineteen eighty two, and it's sort
of this great sort of from what I understand, sort
of this great moment in Springsteen's like where he was
trying to figure out this new direction that he was
going in after the hits of the seventies and Born
to Run and really becoming a superstar and changing his
(21:22):
direction a little bit and kind of becoming kind of introspective.
That's all I know about it. But I you know,
I also know it's got a great pedigree, and and
I think Jeremy Allen White that trailer. You've seen that trailer.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Bright, Yeah, Yeah, That's that's why I've heard about it.
I wanted to know if you heard anything about it.
Speaker 12 (21:35):
Haven't heard anything, But I think it's gonna be one
of the big films for the year. You know, last
year my favorite film was the Bob Dylan film, A
Complete Unknown. That's why I've got high I've got high
hopes for this one. And I think the casting is
right on. So you know, we'll see when it comes
out in fall, but I think it might be one
this Fall's got sort of a lot, it's kind of
a thin slate. I think this is gonna be one
of the ones that people really need to see.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And what I'm what I'm encourage by is that the
studio has already pushed this movie and so they must
have high, high hopes for.
Speaker 12 (22:03):
It, right right. I think they do well. You know,
it's also it's one of those Rocket Man a few
years ago, which was about Elton John, which I thought
was a terrific film, sort of got really a great film,
sort of got buried a little bit. You know, things
like like Bohemian Rhapsody ended up taking more of the heat.
I thought that was not a very good film. So
I think music biopics have got you know, there's a
(22:24):
there's a resurgence in them, and if they've got an
idea behind them, like the Dylan film had and looks
like this one does too. You know. I think that
that it kind of captures a lot of things going
out in the culture, captures the music, and captures the personality.
That's the other thing. You've got to have a dynamic personality,
whether it's Dylan or Springsteen, have film on it.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, let's talk about the big anniversary.
Speaker 12 (22:46):
Big and happy Jaws Day. I didn't get you anything.
I'm sorry, except this day that Jaws is fifty years
old today literally today, June twentieth of nineteen seventy five
at open It is one of the great movies. I
love it. I always whenever I have friends and they say, oh,
they haven't shown their kid's Jaws, I'm like, you know,
(23:06):
I'm going to report him in child Services because you
gotta show your kid Jaws. It's for me, you know.
A couple of years ago, Quentin Tarantino in his book
was talking about what he thought a perfect movie was,
and he said that Jaws, to him, is the perfect movie.
It's not the it's not the best film ever made.
It's not his favorite film, but as a movie, the
beats that it has to hit and bringing you into
(23:28):
these characters and this adventure, and the way it's directed,
he thought it was a perfect movie. I completely agree.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And the acting was perfect, the casting was perfect for
this movie.
Speaker 12 (23:38):
Perfect, and it's so rewatchable. Anytime it's on, you can,
like The Godfather, you can just sort of dip in,
no pun intended, you can dip in and just enjoy
it anew. You know, Roy Scheider is fantastic, which your
Dreyfus is fantastic, Robert Shaw, all of those actors are phenomenal.
That the script is is terrific. And I don't even
you know, I think the shark is fine. I like
(23:59):
that you don't see the shark obviously until the end
because it didn't work. Uh So they said keep it,
keep it in the shadows a little bit. All the
innovations that Spielberg did there, you know, the shark's point
of view as he's as he's underwater, that was a
new thing. The score by John Williams was phenomenal that
he played for Spielberg, and he originally thought it was
a joke. He's like, that was that's it. He's like, yeah,
(24:19):
you know, there's just these couple of piano notes, you know,
And and Spielberg said, I don't think it's gonna work.
Obviously it did, because all you got to do is say, dad,
you know, and keep right.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Everything about it was You're right. Everything about it was perfect.
It was such a good movie, and it's scared. It
had one of the best movie lines of all time.
It's quoted to those day We're going to need a
bigger boat.
Speaker 12 (24:40):
Yep and ad lived apparently on on set by Roy
Scheider and and right, my another one that I love
is the Richard dreichst line when he goes, this is
not a boating accident.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Uh, you know it.
Speaker 12 (24:52):
It changed obviously the Hollywood dynamic of what you know,
the blockbusters that we all lived through now, which cannot
hold a candle to Jaws, even the best of them
was not around. I always like to point out, like
the big movies, the big summer movies before this in
nineteen seventy four Chinatown, I mean a great film, but
not exactly a great summer movie. And then in nineteen,
(25:12):
like seventy three, it was The Drowning Pool and Return
of the Pink Panther and Shaft in Africa. Billinger, the
boy cried, where Wolf, We're not celebrating those anniversaries.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You're absolutely right. This changed Hollywood. It really did change
their thinking. Thanks so much, Joe Numayer, film journalist, wo
R Movie Minute host. Thanks again. Talk to you next week, Joe,
talk so Larry. When we come back, we have a
recap of today's show and my final thoughts. And the
iHeartRadio Music Festival is back September nineteenth and twentieth in
(25:43):
Las Vegas. Two big nights, one big stage, live performances
by Brian Adams, John Fogerty, Sammy Hagar, Edie Sheeran, Maroon Five,
and much much more. Now's your chance to buy tickets.
You have to go to AXS dot com a x
at get him now because it's gonna sell out. Zorin Mam. Donnie,
(26:04):
the socialist Muslim born in Uganda who has been an
American citizen for less than seven years, is a serious
candidate for Mayor of New York he's good looking, he
has a nice smile, he's glib and promises everything for free,
with a promise to tacks the rich, which is why
Bernie Sanders and AOC love him. If they were in
high school together, they would have started a young Communist club.
(26:28):
Now you may hear all of this and think there's
no way he can be elected, and you would be wrong,
because an immigrant loving Trump hating radical left Manhattan where
there woke till they're broke. Zohan marm Donnie is a superhero,
but like all superheroes, he has his weakness, his kryptonite.
(26:48):
Only Zorin's weakness is uglier than kryptonite and much more
dangerous because Zorin, if he's not a full fledged anti Semite,
he sure is leaning that way. When what the terms
river to the sea and a global infantata mean to him,
he said, the yearning of some people to be free.
That's a really bad answer for someone who claims not
(27:11):
to be an anti Semite. The correct answer is it
means the eradication of Israel. It is the dream of
anti Semites everywhere. He made that comment on a podcast,
and then he was shocked that he got death threats
and he cried on camera about it. Now he's either
emotionally weak, he really doesn't know what those terms mean
(27:32):
and is genuinely shocked at the reaction, or he's really
a good actor and he's looking for sympathy all three,
or bed he's either a cry baby, an idiot, or
a liar. Take your pick. He can't be Mayor of
New York. Coming up, Mark Simone has the day off
as Ken Rizzatto sits in and welcomes retired US Navy
(27:54):
captain and foreign policy analyst Arman Curdion and New Jersey
assembly Woman Dawn Fantasia. Now a recap of today's show.
ABC News Washington Bureau chief Rick Klein believes that President
Trump is considering a lot in regards to his decision
in the Israel and Iran conflict.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
I think the biggest factor is that Donald Trump does
not want to act in a way that makes a
long term commitment for United States troops. He ran on
not allowing a Ruanda have a nuclear bomb. He also
ran on not getting involved in Middle East. From Wars
at Last.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Forever, it's safe to say wr and Newsmax's host Rob
Astarino is not a fan of zurin Mam Donnie as
a New York City mayoral candidate.
Speaker 12 (28:38):
I think there's a lot of reasons why he can't
vote for him. Crime would be one hundred, because number
one would be he's a lunatic.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Number two, he's crazy.
Speaker 12 (28:48):
Number three he's.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Insane, and then we can get into the policies of
why we shouldn't vote for him.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
New York Times best selling author of the Circus of Satan,
Jeffrey Convicts, says that the immigrant gangs of the past
had different intentions than the immigrant gangs we see in
our country today.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
Whether they were the Irish mob, the first of the
Jewish gangs, the Great Gangs, the Monk Eastman and the
Bowery of nineteen hundred, the Italian gangs in Little Italy,
and I'm focusing on New York right now. No matter
how awful and violent these people were, they all wanted
to be Americans. The trend de Agua Ms. Thirteen. They
(29:29):
don't want to be Americans. They want to use America.
Speaker 9 (29:33):
And the talk back of the morning, the moment you've
been waiting for and the winner of the highly coveted
MENTI in the morning t shirt thinks we need to
start ignoring the democrats cries for attention.
Speaker 13 (29:46):
Hello, Larry, you are one hundred percent right that the
Democrats act out to get attention. But the problem is
shows like yourself and other conservative or news organizations give
them the attention. We need to stop giving them the attention.
Elections have consequences. They lost overwhelmingly. It's time to focus
(30:07):
on moving the country forward.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
You know, I agreed with him too. I used to
criticize Fox News all the time for giving too much
attention to AOC when they ridiculed and criticized her. And
look at her now, She's one of the top Democrats,
could be a US senator, might be running for president.
So he has a really good point, except it's just
too difficult not to make fun of them when they're
so silly and stupid. Don't forget to check out our
(30:32):
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Just go to seven ten WR dot com you click
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columnist Mike Kelly, legendary sportscaster, water Wolf Daily Call Her
(30:53):
White House correspondent Reagan Reese Ari Hoffman from the New
York Sun. We'll find out if he gets out of Israel.
Plus tickets to see the Steve Miler Band at A
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