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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it's Friday. I know a lot of you have
already taken off to get the weekends started. It looks
like it's going to be very nice. Enjoy the weekend.
Thanks for taking part of your Friday to spend it
with us. In the Big Three Men, there is a
lot going on after the anti Semitic attack in Washington
that killed a young Jewish couple. There is an increased
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show of NYPD officers at synagogues and a big show
of force. There is real fear right now in the
Jewish community.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Thing to be Jewish in this country right now, and
it's a scary thing to be Jewish in the world
right now.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
In San Diego, a plane crashes into a residential area.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
There are multiple cars in fall down there. We have
jet fuel all over the place. We have hazmat on
scene right now and we've asked for more resources to
come for that and working with the military. So we
have jet fuel, and then we had multiple cars that
were on fire we first got on scene too.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Doesn't it seem like this kind of stuff is happening
more than ever before. It's just a miracle that nobody
on the ground was killed, but the two on the
Sesna aircraft were both killed, and this is making big
headlines in Hollywood. Music agent Dave Shapiro and Daniel Williams,
the drummer of the La heavy metal band devil Ware's Prada,
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were both killed in the crash. Finally, there will be
an investigation into the cover up of Biden's diminishing mental capacity. Finally,
it was all happening while he was president, leading to
the question who was running the country.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
The Biden administration basically misled and deceived the American people
about the president's competency. And here again we're talking about
the leader of the free world, the commander in chief.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
This is a national security issue and the Trump agenda,
the Big Beautiful Bill, is now going to the Senate
after passing the House by the slimmest of margins.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
We stand ready to continue our work together to deliver
on the one Big Beautiful Bill, as President Trump named
it himself. We're going to send that to his desk.
We're going to get there by Independence Day on July fourth,
and we are going to celebrate a new golden age
in America.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And also, the p Diddy trial continued and from all reports,
yesterday was an explosive day. Let's get right to Ethan Shanfeld,
who was a reporter for Variety. Ethan, good morning to you,
Good morning, how are you. I'm doing well. I heard
I know you were in the court room yesterday. Tell
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us what happened.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Yeah, yesterday was a big day. We had quite a
few people testify against Sean Combs, one of them being
Scott Mescutti, who's otherwise known as Kid Cutty, the rapper
who might end up being the most famous person to
testify in court. But Kid Cutty talked about an incident
going back to twenty eleven in which there was a
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break in in his house and then a few weeks
later his car floated, And those incidents were never you know,
officially traced back to Sean Combs, but there's reason to
believe that he had something to do with it, given
Kid Cutty's romantic involvement with Cassie, who was dating Diddy
for eleven years.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah. We always hear about the of course, at the
beginning of the trial, and we always hear about the
prosecution witnesses and what they had to say for the prosecution.
Were they at all successful, did they get a chance
to cross examine. Were they successful at all in breaking
down some of his testimony.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
With Kid Cutty specifically, I don't think so. You know,
the events that he could really testify about are quite
limited compared to the scale of this case. But I
will say one of the more interesting people to testify
was actually before Kid Cutty, which was a guy named
George Kaplan who was Ditty's personal assistant for a couple
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of years. And it was interesting during the cross examination
because you could tell that George still had quite a
bit of respect for Diddy and wouldn't really speak too
poorly about him, even though he said he had witnessed
alleged incidents where you know, it really shook.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Him to his core.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
You could tell he still kind of liked him.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It is interesting, and we've been bringing this up throughout
the trial. Entire trial. There are a lot of really
explosive things that have been said by Cassie, by Kid Cuddy,
by the assistant that you're talking about, and they talk
about despicable behavior or domestic abuse in Cassie's case, but
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they have to tie that together to fit the federal charges.
Have they been able to Were they able to yesterday?
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
And I think the thing that people keep talking about
in the courtroom is we've still got six weeks to
go at least, and so the focus of the trial
for the first couple of weeks has largely been on Cassie.
She is the star witness of this case. She testified
for four days about the alleged abuse that she suffered.
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And you know, there's a very clear case here for
domestic violence and perhaps even sexual abuse, but you know,
they're going to have to zoom out quite a bit
and bring in other alleged victims, and because he's charged
with sex trafficking and racketeering, which are much bigger charges.
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And I think that if this case was maybe a
state case where they were just getting him on domestic violence,
it would be a no brainer. But this is going
to be a little more difficult to sort of draw
out that constellation.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I understand that it's early in the case, but we've
had several high profile defense attorneys on the air here
saying they don't think the case is and a hold
that they believe P. Diddy's going to walk, And it's
exactly because of what we're talking about. They have all
this evidence, they have some horrible things that will shock
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the jury, but they have to make it look like
a criminal organization and that they were actually trafficking people.
And you can tell me you've been in the courtroom
every day. Have they even started to talk about any
of that a little bit?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
I mean, I think that the prosecution is pretty smart
and that they have a plan for introducing these things.
You know, one of the factors of racketeering, for example,
is arson, and that's where you bring in kid Cutty
to talk about this car explosion, and you have other
factors like kidnapping and forced labor. They've asked a lot
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of the former assistants, you know, what would happen if
you went to bed? They talked about some of these
people talked about working for twenty one days straight with
twenty hour days. And so when you start getting these
people to walk into was their forced labor? Would you
lose your job if you said, you know, I haven't
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slept in forty eight hours. I need to get some rest.
So I think that they're drawing out these pieces. And
in respect to the sex trafficking, one of the things
that I'd like to see more from the prosecution is
you really need to hammer down on whether the sexual
activity was coercion or not. That is a major factor
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in the sex trafficking. And I think that it's tough
with Cassie because there's just so much evidence that they've
introduced where she talks about, you know, wanting to do
these freak offs, which were these drug bent you know,
drug and sex binges with Ditty, And you know, there's
also this aspect of violence. When she tried to exit
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that hotel room, like in the video that we've all seen,
he came out and he beat her up. So they
really need to draw out the fact that when she
didn't participate in these sexual activities or when she tried
to leave, she was met with violence.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
How about the hell's the jury doing? Are they still engaged?
It seems like it.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Yes, it's interesting to see how did he sort of
peers over at them and he definitely looks at them
a lot and tries to, you know, gauge their reaction
to certain things. But at least from my vantage point,
they don't really give him much. You know, they seem
to be engaged and listening intently.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And how is did he Some people have been reporting
that he seems to be playing a big part in
his own defense.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I mean, he's kept pretty quiet.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
One of the things that was interesting to me yesterday
with George Kaplan, the former assistant, was George was praising
him quite a bit when his defense attorneys were asking
about the lessons that he learned while he was an
employee of Ditty's, and George was was sort of talking
about how did he taught him lessons in business that
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he carries with him, you know, until today, and that
he really respected his you know, business acumen and his
work ethic. And Diddy was sitting there just nodding along,
and you could tell that he was enjoying the praise.
And then when George left the witness stand, you could
tell he gave Diddy like a subtle nod and it
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seemed to me.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Like he was enjoying that testimony. Well, he's thinking, if
this guy gets off, I don't want to be on
his bedside. I'm sure that was part of it as well.
Real quick, what is coming up today today? There's no court?
Oh there you go, nothing, nothing is the answer. Oh
that's great, it's good for you as well. Thanks so much.
That was really interesting. I appreciate it, Eith hold for
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one second. Ethan Sandfeld, thank you so much from Variety magazine.
Appreciate your time, Ethan Shanfield. If you were graduating from
college and Kermit the Frog is announced as your keynote speaker,
is that a good thing or a bad thing? Well,
he addressed grants at the University of Maryland. Then it
turns out it was a great thing. Here words of
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wisdom from a frog. Next, and don't forget. You can
leave us a talk back to get involved in talkback
of the morning. We're coming right back. Welcome back. Well,
the three day weekend is going to start. It is Friday,
and if you are remembering someone special on this Memorial Day,
just realize that we are there remembering them all, including
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your loved one with you. And we want to say
thank you to you too, because your sacrifice helped to
make us free. We talked about Memorial Day just a
moment ago when we were talking about people's weekend plans,
and that inspire hired one of the talkbacks.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Two Memorial Day parades bay Ridge, Brooklyn and Staten Island.
The Sons in the American Revolution will be marching in both.
You know everyone, come on out. They're both great events.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, please find an event near you. You have to
stay for the whole thing. Just go and remember that's
all you have to do. Doesn't take much out of
your weekend. It's not going to ruin your weekend. Just
realize what the day is for on Monday.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
If I was graduating, I guess i'd love it. You know,
a lot of its age that if Kermit the Frog
was the keynote speaker, you know, I it's I guess
it's something you talk about your whole life, but you
know you'd won somebody like a philosopher or some politicians,
or a business leader or something like that, or a humorist,
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maybe a comedian, a great actor or something like that.
I guess Kermit is a great actor. I don't know.
I don't know how I feel about it, or at
least I didn't know how I felt about it. And he,
by the way he gave the commencement address yesterday at
the University of Maryland, I didn't know how I felt
about it until I heard him. He was actually really
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good and at times profound.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
Many of you are trying to make career connections and
networking connections and are applying for jobs and grad schools
and quietly panicking about rent and loans and the pranks
of eggs.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Good grief. Well, that wasn't the one. And though that
was h that was kind of funny.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
It's important to stay connected to your loved ones, stay
connected to your friends, and most of all, stay connected
to your dreams.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
There you go, that was pretty good. I will tell
you this. I don't know if you've seen it. I
don't know if anybody's taken a look at the video
of him speaking. The kids were thrilled. Now you know, understand,
he really can't see a lot of what's going on.
The guy is under the odium. That's you know, controlling guy.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
It's Kermit.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yes.
Speaker 10 (13:05):
Oh, so.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
They're all waving to them and they're all saying hi
to them, which is really which is really cute. I mean,
these are these are graduates that are are they're adults
now they're going on with the rest of their life,
but you know, they're still kind of in that in
between age. And you saw the child come out in
all of them. It was really it was really sweet.
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It was very very sweet. In fact, it was you know,
almost moving. Here's some other words of wisdom, using some
frog wisdom from Kermit the front.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Rather than jumping over someone to get what you want,
consider reaching out your hand and taking the leap side
by side, because life is better when we leap together.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
How about that? Huh?
Speaker 9 (13:57):
I like it?
Speaker 10 (13:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (13:58):
I mean I think if nothing else, they're never going
to forget their you know, their commencement speech.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
It's true. I don't even remember who spoke at mine.
Speaker 11 (14:06):
I know who spoke in mine, but I don't remember
anything he said. To be fair, I only graduated it
like five years ago, so I should remember.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Now you have to tell us who it was.
Speaker 11 (14:15):
It was Bob Lee from ESPN. He's not ESPN anymore,
but longtime ESPN. Yes, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Know who he is. That's a good one. Do you
remember yours, Jacqueline? No, I just said that.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I couldn't tell you with a gun to my head
who it was, let alone.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
What they said.
Speaker 10 (14:33):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I wonder if most people were like that that they died.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I might have had a boring one like you said,
Like there was an actor or comedian or Kermit.
Speaker 9 (14:41):
I would always remember.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Like you said, I skipped mine.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
What do you skipped your college graduation.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
They did because I was I was working, I was
already working, and I couldn't. I just couldn't.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
You can't get a day off to go graduate.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I didn't even ask at that time. I didn't even
I was so happy get the job, but I guess
I didn't even want to say, hey, can I have
the day off? And apparently I from everybody that was there,
they said, I didn't miss much. So and listen to
you guys. I mean, you know, you don't even remember yours.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Jacqueline and I remember the lunch afterwards, but nothing something else.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
I remember Gollamps and sent my diploma.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It was just like whatever, what to say Chris?
Speaker 11 (15:22):
Oh yeah, I mean yeah, I don't remember what he said.
But maybe if Kermit was there, though, I would have
remembered more.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Because that's true. Man, I bet you people listened to Kermit. Yeah,
they didn't listen to whoever you had it yours, Bob Lee.
You didn't even like. No, I liked.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
I actually thought it, like I remember enjoying it in
the moment because he's like a sports guy, and that's
what I went. I wanted to be in sports radio,
so like I was like, oh, this is really cool.
This is like good for me, but I just don't
remember what he said.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, Bob Lee's like a legend.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, he's awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
He was like one of the originals right.
Speaker 11 (15:58):
Oh yeah yeah, one of the original Seaton Hallum. So
I went to Seaton Hall, so I made better connection
as well.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
So it's a good one. That's a really good one.
It's not karmit from.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
No, That's what I'm saying, like, it'sctically who is.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
It's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But that's a full circle moment because current was probably
one of the first people or you know, entities to
teach them when they were little.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Very good, excellent point. That's why you're the news person now.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
That thanks Larry, good morning. Over two hundred crypto investors
showed up for Donald Trump's Galla dinner promoting his new
Meme coin. The event was held Thursday night at Trump's
golf course near Washington, d C. Where investors had to
buy the President's Trump crypto currency in order to gain entrance.
Triple A is expecting a record number of people to
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travel for the holiday weekend.
Speaker 12 (16:47):
New York City is ranked as the third most popular
domestic destination for the Memorial Day weekend. That, combined with
a record number of people traveling this holiday, means the
roads are expected to be congested at times.
Speaker 13 (16:58):
Triple A is Robertson l load up the truck and
go to the Uncle Joe, or go to a beach,
or go to a park. It's not the big holiday
that you might see later in the summer.
Speaker 12 (17:09):
Triple A is predicting more than forty five million Americans
will go fifty miles or more for the weekend, most
doing it by vehicle. Gas prices are about fifty cents
lower per gallon than this time last year. I'm skappringle
wr news now.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
According to wallet Hub, as we head into the Memorial
Day weekend, research reveal some fun facts and stats about
the holidays. It's a popular time for cookouts, as fifty
eight percent of Americans planned to barbecue. Over one hundred
million households around the world will watch the National Memorial
Day Parade. Over forty seven million veterans have served. Veterans
have served in the US military during wartime, and it's
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also the second best day for beer sales, with Fourth
of July at number one and Labor Day coming in third.
What are you guys doing for the Memorial Day weekend? Ma?
Speaker 13 (17:54):
Are we doing?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah? No, we have a relative that owns a restaurant
and we always go down the shore to restaurant.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
That's so you're going to be by the beach.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yep, eating seafood Yep. That's exactly right. That's what I'll
be doing, Nellis. How about Chris?
Speaker 9 (18:09):
Uh yeah, just Barbicue and some friends you the FI YESBQ,
very good. A lot of hot dogs will be consumed
this weekend. I'm just gonna go shopping.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Let's get over to speaking of money, let's get over
to Wall Street. At the opening bell, the Dow is
down four hundred and twenty three points. S andp is
opened down sixty seven points in the Nasdaq opened down
three hundred and eight points.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Or you could go to a movie, Jacqueline, Thanks so much,
Jacqueline Carl. This Memorial Day weekend, Tom Cruise is back
with one final installment in his classic movie franchise to
help fill out your Memorial Day weekend. Joe Neumeier talks
about it next. Now, this is a huge weekend for
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movie theaters in the movie industry. This is when they
put out expected block bus because they know a lot
of people have three days off and are looking for
something to do. And in the past, wow, the box
office has been huge. So let's go to Joe Neumeyer,
film journalist wo R movie Minted host to find out
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what's out this weekend. And Joe, let me just tell
you one thing before we get started. Sure I watch
Nobody's Full on because you told me to last week.
You said you should watch Nobody's Full great suggestion, my wife,
Thanks you, I thank you. A wonderful movie with Paul Newman.
You are batting a thousand that can't wait for a
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suggestion at the end of all this, but let's start
talking about this weekend. Thanks.
Speaker 14 (19:41):
Thanks. I just also say, Larry, I'm so glad you
found the right Nobody's Fool, because just as a side note,
there are about two hundred movies called Nobody one of
those titles that like comes around every years, or like
you know, there's always kind of one called you know,
Mercy or Memory or No Mercy or something. So uh,
I'm glad you found the right Nobody's Fool. And that
is a delightful film and a hidden gym this weekend,
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and I don't know how hidden it is, but obviously
the big movie is the big mission, impossible conclusion. It's
called the Final Reckoning.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It is.
Speaker 14 (20:10):
It's not a jewel, but it's it's got a lot
of great things in it. I'm getting it three stars.
These This is, you know, obviously, the eighth movie in
this in this huge franchise that started in nineteen ninety six.
Tom Cruise is you know, Meal ticket. Now he's doing
all these incredible things and I'm you know, the stunts
just kind of keep on getting bigger and bigger. I'm
not gonna ruin it for anybody, but but I will
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say it's it's very long. It's two hours and forty
five minutes. And for a three star movie to kind
of not hit like epic quality like that at almost
three hours long, that's a lot. That said, there's there's
a couple of good action sequences in it, but the
final half hour, and again this isn't ruining anything. The
final half hour is this amazing airplane scramble that Cruise
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is doing around these two biplanes, you know, these sort
of it's kind of a fun retro thing because obviously
in these movies that are all about of high technology.
And in this one, there's an evil AI that's gonna,
you know, destroy the world and destroy humanity. So on
these old World War two biplanes, he's crawling around on
them and the and and you can actually see it's him.
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The camera at work is right there. Whether it was
done by you know, shooting it by drones or another
another plane nearby, or something, that's really extraordinary. And I
would say this about whether it was anybody on there,
like it could have been, you know, Chris Farley sitting
there crawling around the plane. I don't care when you
see somebody like that, risky, literally risking their lives. I'm
sure he was tethered to a to a cable or something,
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you know, but like in the old fashioned way like
they did in Hollywood's Golden age, and even in things
like the great Bond movies of the seventies, really doing
something exciting that's not CGI, it's not computer enhanced. It's
literally a human being crawling around an airplane in mid air,
going from one airplane to another. It's it's incredible. It's
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a really amazing sequence. And and sitting through the first
two and a half hours of the thing, that's kind
of heavily plotted. Is worth it for that final half
hour sequence. So an enthusiastic three stars for this final
we say it's the final one. Who knows what will happen,
but they're calling it the final reckoning mission impossible. I mean,
they're all those stunts, right, and all those movies is
what they're known for.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
That's great. Three stars for this. That's wonderful because a
lot of times Memorial Day movies don't live up to
the hype, but this one certainly does. Huh yeah, Memorial
Day and you know, back me up on this, this
is the movie theaters really look forward to Memorial Day
because this is they've had some of their biggest hits
ever released on this weekend.
Speaker 14 (22:38):
That's right, That's exactly right, Lare. And it obviously goes
back and we just mentioned the seventies, goes back to
the seventies. Things like Jaws Star Wars opened up on
Memorial Day weekend, which really sort of woke up Hollywood
to like, oh yeah, this is when kids and everybody
you know start to go to the movies. It's sort
of funny that like in nineteen seventy two, they weren't
thinking about that, they were like, I'll just throw anything
out there. Then suddenly Jaws comes around. They're like, oh yeah, right,
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let's let's get the know the big shark movies out there.
So so it's always a big traditional moment. And you know,
and obviously in some of the biggest ones, you know,
the the Star Wars movies, like I mentioned, Empire Strikes
Back is the one that I remember as like even
more than Star Wars, which came out, you know, memorially
weekend of seventy seven. When Empire Strikes Back opened, that
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of Memorial Day of eighty that was sort of this
big event, saying the Indiana Jones sequels, you know, Temple
of Doom and the third one, Last Crusade, which I
really love, those came out Memorial Day weekend. Even like
the Star Trek reboot that was came out in two
thousand and nine that JJ Abrams and Iowas sort of
think of as a as a high water mark of
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Memorial Day stuff that was really exciting. And some of
these big movies really really do it some of them, don't.
I mean, Ishtar came out Memorial Day weekend, you know, Flintstone,
so you know, it's not always not always a knock
out of the park, but when it is, it's really
an exciting start to summer. And Hollywood knows that they
bank it. You know that these opening weekends for these movies,
they can go upwards of you know, one hundred and
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fifty million if if the if all the stars aligned
for them.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You know, it's funny. I pulled up I'm knowing you
were going to do this. I pulled up the top
grossing Memorial Day weekends, and who made the most money?
Do you know who it is?
Speaker 14 (24:17):
I think, isn't it one of the Pirates of the
Caribbean movies?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Right?
Speaker 14 (24:19):
I think it's like at World's End or something very good.
That's second, it's the second one. And then there's a
law I know laws for and of course, like lotties
are adjusted for inflation, and of course all the Avengers movies,
you know, are the Endgame movies come out? No, what's
number one?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I was shocked by it, but I guess it's also
because remember they always have to adjust these for inflation,
and when they do that, gone with the Wind always wins.
But yeah, every single time Top Gun.
Speaker 14 (24:44):
Maverick, Well, that's right from twenty twenty two. That's right exactly,
and you know that's and I think the other thing too,
We have to sort of remember that that was during
the you know, that was sort of the first big
summer of the pandemic. You know, twenty twenty twenty twenty
one were sort of we're sort of washout. So finally
Top Gun Maveri comes around in twenty twenty two to
get people back to this theaters. That is surprising, right,
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because a lot of those may fast and furious movies, which,
by the way, this Mission Impossible movie, this one reminds
me a little of a fast and furious movie. Like
there's a lot of tie into all the other seven
movies in this series. All of those movies all open
up on the on Memorial Day weekend and they get
them in there. I also like the ones that are
sort of kind of quirky that nobody sort of remembers
and that sort of like oh yeah, you know, I
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mean the Natural opened up on the Field of Dreams,
which I think we talked about last week. You know,
those movies opened up on Memorial Day weekend, So there's
there's or even Cliffhanger, you know, the Stallone film that's
actually one of his better non rocky, non Rambo films,
opened up on Memorial Day weekend, so it can it
can sort of be this time when you go, oh, look,
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here's this cool original thing that's not a franchise, not
a sequel, and uh, and it catches people's attention. But
it's got once it's got that spot of Memorial Day
weekend and it automatically becomes like the States could be
up really hot.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Well, I'll tell you what if this new movie does
what it's expected to do. Tom Tom Cruise is the
movie star of Hollywood at this point. I mean, he
has got a long time, but he stands by himself.
Speaker 14 (26:11):
He does, and you know, I mean, and good for
him for you know, saying okay, like I'm gonna turn
these action things into like he he pivoted. He was
at a certain point ten years ago or so where
he said, like, these are the things I'm gonna make.
And and you know, if this new you know, obviously
in about two years there is gonna be the new
Oscar for best stunt Action. I think if they don't
have him, you know, coming in off you know, through
a hole in the in the ceiling or jumping out
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of a plane or coming out of a submarine that
bursts up into the into the theater. If they don't
do that, they're missing an opportunity because he's the guy
who's really brought great stunt work back to back to
the movies.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You know, absolutely they need to give him an oscar too.
I thought he was gonna win for Born in the
fourth of July. I thought that was going to happen,
but for some reason, for some reason, they won't give
him one.
Speaker 14 (26:55):
Well, you know what it was. I think that one
also that was that was a split year because it
was Morgan Freeman for driving this Daisy, and it was
Daniel d Lewis. Will eventually won from my Left Foot,
But I agree cru should have won from Born on
the Fourth or Fly, which I think is an amazing film,
and and so and Jerry Maguire, which people forget about.
I mean it's sort of a it's a it's a
rom com joke in some ways, but it was a
really good performance back in nineteen ninety six. And that's
(27:16):
and playing a modern guy that's hard to do. That's
hard to do. I agree, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Agree with you one thousand percent. By about Joey McGuire.
Of course, I am a huge fan of the director,
but I love because I also love Almost Famous, but
I thought he was wonderful in that movie.
Speaker 14 (27:32):
Even I'll even one up you a little bit, Larry.
I don't mind Vanilla Sky, which is the I'm the
only guy in America who doesn't mind. I think it's
you know, it's flawed, but it's a crazy nutty movie
that Cruise did with Cameron Crowe, where it's a sort
of a futuristic sci fi thing. I don't mind it.
I think it's sort of a it's a it's a
it's a very fun bad movie Vanilla Sky from I
think It's two thousand that held do with Cameron crow
(27:54):
and the Pelope Cruz is the is the girl in
there and Cameron Diaz.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
It's funny because Cameron Crowe says he only that movie
so he could pay for Almost Famous.
Speaker 14 (28:05):
It's a good investment in that way.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Thanks so much, Joe Numeier, film journalist, w R Movie
Minute critic appreciate it. When we come back, we'll have
a recap of today's show and my final thoughts as
we wind up. Another minty in the morning on wo r.
Let's get some final thoughts from Larry Well. There are
three words that hurt my ears, actually hurt my soul
when I hear them, and I hear them every single
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year this time of year. Happy Memorial Day. And if
you've said it, I'm not trying to shame you. Because
the meeting of the day has been lost. I get you.
It's become the unofficial start of summer. Remember something. It
was never supposed to be. It is supposed to be
a day when we remember and pay tribute to those
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who died protecting America and keeping us free. It's been
lost in Memorial Day sales, vacations at the and another
three day weekend. And who's to blame for this? Well,
who's to blame for almost every bad decision Congress. In
nineteen sixty eight they passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.
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It's the reason that Memorial Day has lost its meaning.
It is the reason that our greatest President, George Washington
is not honored anymore with a day of his own. Instead,
it's President's Day. I don't know about you, but I
don't think James Buchanan deserves even part of a day.
But the most evil unintended consequence is Memorial Day that
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started in eighteen sixty five when it was called Decoration Day,
when loved ones would decorate the grave sites of brothers, fathers,
and sons who died in the Civil War. It was
right and it was proper to do just that. The
aberration of that day is well, it's embarrassing. And listen,
(29:57):
I'm not trying to shame you. If you weekend plans,
a small gesture is all. It takes. A parade, visit
a memorial ceremony here, or call a gold star family
and say thank you because they suffered too. Just remember
why we are free and able to enjoy the miracle
of America, able to enjoy this three day weekend. Do
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it by saying thank you to those who made it
possible in any way that suits you. Coming up, Mark Simone,
Welcome Showbiz for one one, dot COM's Roger Friedman and
Fox News journalist Liz Peek. Plus listen for the keyword
after the ten o'clock news that head to seven to
ten wor dot com for your chance at one thousand
(30:42):
dollars Now a recap of today's show. Reporter and founder
of Meet the Future website Kevin Sirelli believes it is
time for our politicians to start looking at policies that
are consistent with our world that is rapidly moving forward.
Speaker 15 (31:01):
You know, you have to wonder when will the policy
conversations be shifted to get not even just into the future,
but into the present day, whether it's on digital currency
or these new medical breakthroughs. It's just it's very antiquated
to conversations, and so there doesn't seem to be right
now an outlook for the future on from any policymakers.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Wo R National correspondent Rory O'Neil sees some turbulence coming
for that big beautiful bill as it hits the Senate.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
We've heard from Rand Paul, a Republican, saying he cannot
support this as is because he doesn't support raising the
debt limit another four trillion dollars. Josh Hawley doesn't like
to cuts to medicaid. You know, President Trump has said
he doesn't want cuts to MEDICAI, but there are cuts
to Medicaid, and Hally thinks it's political suicide to pass
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this as is. See what they come up with on
the Senate side.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Variety reporter Ethan Schenfeld has been in the courtroom for
the Diddy trial and talked about what we've seen and
where the case may go in the coming weeks.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
The focus of the trial for the first couple of
weeks has largely been on Cassie.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
She is the star witness of this case.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
She testified for four days about the alleged abuse that
she suffered. And they're gonna have to zoom out quite
a bit and bring in other alleged victims.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
And because he's charged.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
With sex trafficking and racketeering, which are much bigger charges.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Well, I'll tell you what. We really appreciate your talkbacks today,
and it was tough to come up with a winner
for Talkback of the week. And despite the tough week
we've had for this holiday weekend going into it, it's
important to remember those who fight for our freedom, which
leads us to our talk back of the morning.
Speaker 16 (32:59):
Kind of a bubber way to and the week yesterday
and with the stabbings and I mean the shootings in
DC and a plane crash, but hopefully we will prevail
this shell Pass just too.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Shell Pass, Larry.
Speaker 16 (33:11):
I wanted to say God bless you the too. Natalie's
Jacqueline Chris Crash, and let's not forget our favorite Bernie Vider.
Enjoy your weekend as we honor those that gave their
lives for us so we could be free.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Ah, God, bless you too. Thank you so much for
that message. It's an important message. I don't I think
every reminder this weekend of how we should be honoring
those who made our lives possible. They made America possible
because they were willing to give their own lives for us.
Every single reminder is important. So I thank you so
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much for that. What a wonderful what a wonderful message.
That was perfect And we hadn't played that yet. That
came in late. We hadn't even played that yet. Yeah
and so yeah right at the buzzer. And it's so
wonderful that he was talked back in the morning and
he deserves it. Thank you so much for that, sir.
It was really wonderful. And don't forget to check out
our podcast catch everything you missed or you want to
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and click the podcast tab. It's that easy. If you
have a chance, and you have you didn't get a
chance to hear it. Take a listen to the Kelsey
Grammar interview as he remembers his sister who is brutally murdered.
He's got a new book out coming up Tuesday. On
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MENTI in the morning, we got Mike Kelly, columnists for
North Jersey dot Com. He'll be at seven o five.
Legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf. Oh, by the way, go next tonight.
I hope he's talking about a big win for the
next tonight, Warner Wolf at seven thirty five, tickets to
see the Beach Boys at a twenty five, and New
(34:53):
York Post entertainment critic Johnny Oleigzinski will be here at
nine to thirty five. Stay safe, enjoy the Memorial Day weekend,
take time to remember why all of this is possible.
And now the news. It's ten o'clock
Well, it's Friday. I know a lot of you have
already taken off to get the weekends started. It looks
like it's going to be very nice. Enjoy the weekend.
Thanks for taking part of your Friday to spend it
with us. In the Big Three Men, there is a
lot going on after the anti Semitic attack in Washington
that killed a young Jewish couple. There is an increased
(00:22):
show of NYPD officers at synagogues and a big show
of force. There is real fear right now in the
Jewish community.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Thing to be Jewish in this country right now, and
it's a scary thing to be Jewish in the world
right now.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
In San Diego, a plane crashes into a residential area.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
There are multiple cars in fall down there. We have
jet fuel all over the place. We have hazmat on
scene right now and we've asked for more resources to
come for that and working with the military. So we
have jet fuel, and then we had multiple cars that
were on fire we first got on scene too.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Doesn't it seem like this kind of stuff is happening
more than ever before. It's just a miracle that nobody
on the ground was killed, but the two on the
Sesna aircraft were both killed, and this is making big
headlines in Hollywood. Music agent Dave Shapiro and Daniel Williams,
the drummer of the La heavy metal band devil Ware's Prada,
(01:16):
were both killed in the crash. Finally, there will be
an investigation into the cover up of Biden's diminishing mental capacity. Finally,
it was all happening while he was president, leading to
the question who was running the country.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
The Biden administration basically misled and deceived the American people
about the president's competency. And here again we're talking about
the leader of the free world, the commander in chief.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
This is a national security issue and the Trump agenda,
the Big Beautiful Bill, is now going to the Senate
after passing the House by the slimmest of margins.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
We stand ready to continue our work together to deliver
on the one Big Beautiful Bill, as President Trump named
it himself. We're going to send that to his desk.
We're going to get there by Independence Day on July fourth,
and we are going to celebrate a new golden age
in America.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And also, the p Diddy trial continued and from all reports,
yesterday was an explosive day. Let's get right to Ethan Shanfeld,
who was a reporter for Variety. Ethan, good morning to you,
Good morning, how are you. I'm doing well. I heard
I know you were in the court room yesterday. Tell
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us what happened.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Yeah, yesterday was a big day. We had quite a
few people testify against Sean Combs, one of them being
Scott Mescutti, who's otherwise known as Kid Cutty, the rapper
who might end up being the most famous person to
testify in court. But Kid Cutty talked about an incident
going back to twenty eleven in which there was a
(02:55):
break in in his house and then a few weeks
later his car floated, And those incidents were never you know,
officially traced back to Sean Combs, but there's reason to
believe that he had something to do with it, given
Kid Cutty's romantic involvement with Cassie, who was dating Diddy
for eleven years.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah. We always hear about the of course, at the
beginning of the trial, and we always hear about the
prosecution witnesses and what they had to say for the prosecution.
Were they at all successful, did they get a chance
to cross examine. Were they successful at all in breaking
down some of his testimony.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
With Kid Cutty specifically, I don't think so. You know,
the events that he could really testify about are quite
limited compared to the scale of this case. But I
will say one of the more interesting people to testify
was actually before Kid Cutty, which was a guy named
George Kaplan who was Ditty's personal assistant for a couple
(04:00):
of years. And it was interesting during the cross examination
because you could tell that George still had quite a
bit of respect for Diddy and wouldn't really speak too
poorly about him, even though he said he had witnessed
alleged incidents where you know, it really shook.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Him to his core.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
You could tell he still kind of liked him.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It is interesting, and we've been bringing this up throughout
the trial. Entire trial. There are a lot of really
explosive things that have been said by Cassie, by Kid Cuddy,
by the assistant that you're talking about, and they talk
about despicable behavior or domestic abuse in Cassie's case, but
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they have to tie that together to fit the federal charges.
Have they been able to Were they able to yesterday?
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
And I think the thing that people keep talking about
in the courtroom is we've still got six weeks to
go at least, and so the focus of the trial
for the first couple of weeks has largely been on Cassie.
She is the star witness of this case. She testified
for four days about the alleged abuse that she suffered.
(05:14):
And you know, there's a very clear case here for
domestic violence and perhaps even sexual abuse, but you know,
they're going to have to zoom out quite a bit
and bring in other alleged victims, and because he's charged
with sex trafficking and racketeering, which are much bigger charges.
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And I think that if this case was maybe a
state case where they were just getting him on domestic violence,
it would be a no brainer. But this is going
to be a little more difficult to sort of draw
out that constellation.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I understand that it's early in the case, but we've
had several high profile defense attorneys on the air here
saying they don't think the case is and a hold
that they believe P. Diddy's going to walk, And it's
exactly because of what we're talking about. They have all
this evidence, they have some horrible things that will shock
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the jury, but they have to make it look like
a criminal organization and that they were actually trafficking people.
And you can tell me you've been in the courtroom
every day. Have they even started to talk about any
of that a little bit?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
I mean, I think that the prosecution is pretty smart
and that they have a plan for introducing these things.
You know, one of the factors of racketeering, for example,
is arson, and that's where you bring in kid Cutty
to talk about this car explosion, and you have other
factors like kidnapping and forced labor. They've asked a lot
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of the former assistants, you know, what would happen if
you went to bed? They talked about some of these
people talked about working for twenty one days straight with
twenty hour days. And so when you start getting these
people to walk into was their forced labor? Would you
lose your job if you said, you know, I haven't
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slept in forty eight hours. I need to get some rest.
So I think that they're drawing out these pieces. And
in respect to the sex trafficking, one of the things
that I'd like to see more from the prosecution is
you really need to hammer down on whether the sexual
activity was coercion or not. That is a major factor
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in the sex trafficking. And I think that it's tough
with Cassie because there's just so much evidence that they've
introduced where she talks about, you know, wanting to do
these freak offs, which were these drug bent you know,
drug and sex binges with Ditty, And you know, there's
also this aspect of violence. When she tried to exit
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that hotel room, like in the video that we've all seen,
he came out and he beat her up. So they
really need to draw out the fact that when she
didn't participate in these sexual activities or when she tried
to leave, she was met with violence.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
How about the hell's the jury doing? Are they still engaged?
It seems like it.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Yes, it's interesting to see how did he sort of
peers over at them and he definitely looks at them
a lot and tries to, you know, gauge their reaction
to certain things. But at least from my vantage point,
they don't really give him much. You know, they seem
to be engaged and listening intently.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And how is did he Some people have been reporting
that he seems to be playing a big part in
his own defense.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I mean, he's kept pretty quiet.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
One of the things that was interesting to me yesterday
with George Kaplan, the former assistant, was George was praising
him quite a bit when his defense attorneys were asking
about the lessons that he learned while he was an
employee of Ditty's, and George was was sort of talking
about how did he taught him lessons in business that
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he carries with him, you know, until today, and that
he really respected his you know, business acumen and his
work ethic. And Diddy was sitting there just nodding along,
and you could tell that he was enjoying the praise.
And then when George left the witness stand, you could
tell he gave Diddy like a subtle nod and it
(09:35):
seemed to me.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Like he was enjoying that testimony. Well, he's thinking, if
this guy gets off, I don't want to be on
his bedside. I'm sure that was part of it as well.
Real quick, what is coming up today today? There's no court?
Oh there you go, nothing, nothing is the answer. Oh
that's great, it's good for you as well. Thanks so much.
That was really interesting. I appreciate it, Eith hold for
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one second. Ethan Sandfeld, thank you so much from Variety magazine.
Appreciate your time, Ethan Shanfield. If you were graduating from
college and Kermit the Frog is announced as your keynote speaker,
is that a good thing or a bad thing? Well,
he addressed grants at the University of Maryland. Then it
turns out it was a great thing. Here words of
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wisdom from a frog. Next, and don't forget. You can
leave us a talk back to get involved in talkback
of the morning. We're coming right back. Welcome back. Well,
the three day weekend is going to start. It is Friday,
and if you are remembering someone special on this Memorial Day,
just realize that we are there remembering them all, including
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your loved one with you. And we want to say
thank you to you too, because your sacrifice helped to
make us free. We talked about Memorial Day just a
moment ago when we were talking about people's weekend plans,
and that inspire hired one of the talkbacks.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Two Memorial Day parades bay Ridge, Brooklyn and Staten Island.
The Sons in the American Revolution will be marching in both.
You know everyone, come on out. They're both great events.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, please find an event near you. You have to
stay for the whole thing. Just go and remember that's
all you have to do. Doesn't take much out of
your weekend. It's not going to ruin your weekend. Just
realize what the day is for on Monday.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
If I was graduating, I guess i'd love it. You know,
a lot of its age that if Kermit the Frog
was the keynote speaker, you know, I it's I guess
it's something you talk about your whole life, but you
know you'd won somebody like a philosopher or some politicians,
or a business leader or something like that, or a humorist,
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maybe a comedian, a great actor or something like that.
I guess Kermit is a great actor. I don't know.
I don't know how I feel about it, or at
least I didn't know how I felt about it. And he,
by the way he gave the commencement address yesterday at
the University of Maryland, I didn't know how I felt
about it until I heard him. He was actually really
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good and at times profound.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
Many of you are trying to make career connections and
networking connections and are applying for jobs and grad schools
and quietly panicking about rent and loans and the pranks
of eggs.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Good grief. Well, that wasn't the one. And though that
was h that was kind of funny.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
It's important to stay connected to your loved ones, stay
connected to your friends, and most of all, stay connected
to your dreams.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
There you go, that was pretty good. I will tell
you this. I don't know if you've seen it. I
don't know if anybody's taken a look at the video
of him speaking. The kids were thrilled. Now you know, understand,
he really can't see a lot of what's going on.
The guy is under the odium. That's you know, controlling guy.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
It's Kermit.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yes.
Speaker 10 (13:05):
Oh, so.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
They're all waving to them and they're all saying hi
to them, which is really which is really cute. I mean,
these are these are graduates that are are they're adults
now they're going on with the rest of their life,
but you know, they're still kind of in that in
between age. And you saw the child come out in
all of them. It was really it was really sweet.
(13:28):
It was very very sweet. In fact, it was you know,
almost moving. Here's some other words of wisdom, using some
frog wisdom from Kermit the front.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Rather than jumping over someone to get what you want,
consider reaching out your hand and taking the leap side
by side, because life is better when we leap together.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
How about that? Huh?
Speaker 9 (13:57):
I like it?
Speaker 10 (13:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (13:58):
I mean I think if nothing else, they're never going
to forget their you know, their commencement speech.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
It's true. I don't even remember who spoke at mine.
Speaker 11 (14:06):
I know who spoke in mine, but I don't remember
anything he said. To be fair, I only graduated it
like five years ago, so I should remember.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Now you have to tell us who it was.
Speaker 11 (14:15):
It was Bob Lee from ESPN. He's not ESPN anymore,
but longtime ESPN. Yes, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Know who he is. That's a good one. Do you
remember yours, Jacqueline? No, I just said that.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I couldn't tell you with a gun to my head
who it was, let alone.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
What they said.
Speaker 10 (14:33):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I wonder if most people were like that that they died.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I might have had a boring one like you said,
Like there was an actor or comedian or Kermit.
Speaker 9 (14:41):
I would always remember.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Like you said, I skipped mine.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
What do you skipped your college graduation.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
They did because I was I was working, I was
already working, and I couldn't. I just couldn't.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
You can't get a day off to go graduate.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I didn't even ask at that time. I didn't even
I was so happy get the job, but I guess
I didn't even want to say, hey, can I have
the day off? And apparently I from everybody that was there,
they said, I didn't miss much. So and listen to
you guys. I mean, you know, you don't even remember yours.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Jacqueline and I remember the lunch afterwards, but nothing something else.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
I remember Gollamps and sent my diploma.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It was just like whatever, what to say Chris?
Speaker 11 (15:22):
Oh yeah, I mean yeah, I don't remember what he said.
But maybe if Kermit was there, though, I would have
remembered more.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Because that's true. Man, I bet you people listened to Kermit. Yeah,
they didn't listen to whoever you had it yours, Bob Lee.
You didn't even like. No, I liked.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
I actually thought it, like I remember enjoying it in
the moment because he's like a sports guy, and that's
what I went. I wanted to be in sports radio,
so like I was like, oh, this is really cool.
This is like good for me, but I just don't
remember what he said.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, Bob Lee's like a legend.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, he's awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
He was like one of the originals right.
Speaker 11 (15:58):
Oh yeah yeah, one of the original Seaton Hallum. So
I went to Seaton Hall, so I made better connection
as well.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
So it's a good one. That's a really good one.
It's not karmit from.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
No, That's what I'm saying, like, it'sctically who is.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
It's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But that's a full circle moment because current was probably
one of the first people or you know, entities to
teach them when they were little.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Very good, excellent point. That's why you're the news person now.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
That thanks Larry, good morning. Over two hundred crypto investors
showed up for Donald Trump's Galla dinner promoting his new
Meme coin. The event was held Thursday night at Trump's
golf course near Washington, d C. Where investors had to
buy the President's Trump crypto currency in order to gain entrance.
Triple A is expecting a record number of people to
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travel for the holiday weekend.
Speaker 12 (16:47):
New York City is ranked as the third most popular
domestic destination for the Memorial Day weekend. That, combined with
a record number of people traveling this holiday, means the
roads are expected to be congested at times.
Speaker 13 (16:58):
Triple A is Robertson l load up the truck and
go to the Uncle Joe, or go to a beach,
or go to a park. It's not the big holiday
that you might see later in the summer.
Speaker 12 (17:09):
Triple A is predicting more than forty five million Americans
will go fifty miles or more for the weekend, most
doing it by vehicle. Gas prices are about fifty cents
lower per gallon than this time last year. I'm skappringle
wr news now.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
According to wallet Hub, as we head into the Memorial
Day weekend, research reveal some fun facts and stats about
the holidays. It's a popular time for cookouts, as fifty
eight percent of Americans planned to barbecue. Over one hundred
million households around the world will watch the National Memorial
Day Parade. Over forty seven million veterans have served. Veterans
have served in the US military during wartime, and it's
(17:44):
also the second best day for beer sales, with Fourth
of July at number one and Labor Day coming in third.
What are you guys doing for the Memorial Day weekend? Ma?
Speaker 13 (17:54):
Are we doing?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah? No, we have a relative that owns a restaurant
and we always go down the shore to restaurant.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
That's so you're going to be by the beach.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yep, eating seafood Yep. That's exactly right. That's what I'll
be doing, Nellis. How about Chris?
Speaker 9 (18:09):
Uh yeah, just Barbicue and some friends you the FI YESBQ,
very good. A lot of hot dogs will be consumed
this weekend. I'm just gonna go shopping.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Let's get over to speaking of money, let's get over
to Wall Street. At the opening bell, the Dow is
down four hundred and twenty three points. S andp is
opened down sixty seven points in the Nasdaq opened down
three hundred and eight points.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Or you could go to a movie, Jacqueline, Thanks so much,
Jacqueline Carl. This Memorial Day weekend, Tom Cruise is back
with one final installment in his classic movie franchise to
help fill out your Memorial Day weekend. Joe Neumeier talks
about it next. Now, this is a huge weekend for
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movie theaters in the movie industry. This is when they
put out expected block bus because they know a lot
of people have three days off and are looking for
something to do. And in the past, wow, the box
office has been huge. So let's go to Joe Neumeyer,
film journalist wo R movie Minted host to find out
(19:14):
what's out this weekend. And Joe, let me just tell
you one thing before we get started. Sure I watch
Nobody's Full on because you told me to last week.
You said you should watch Nobody's Full great suggestion, my wife,
Thanks you, I thank you. A wonderful movie with Paul Newman.
You are batting a thousand that can't wait for a
(19:36):
suggestion at the end of all this, but let's start
talking about this weekend. Thanks.
Speaker 14 (19:41):
Thanks. I just also say, Larry, I'm so glad you
found the right Nobody's Fool, because just as a side note,
there are about two hundred movies called Nobody one of
those titles that like comes around every years, or like
you know, there's always kind of one called you know,
Mercy or Memory or No Mercy or something. So uh,
I'm glad you found the right Nobody's Fool. And that
is a delightful film and a hidden gym this weekend,
(20:03):
and I don't know how hidden it is, but obviously
the big movie is the big mission, impossible conclusion. It's
called the Final Reckoning.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It is.
Speaker 14 (20:10):
It's not a jewel, but it's it's got a lot
of great things in it. I'm getting it three stars.
These This is, you know, obviously, the eighth movie in
this in this huge franchise that started in nineteen ninety six.
Tom Cruise is you know, Meal ticket. Now he's doing
all these incredible things and I'm you know, the stunts
just kind of keep on getting bigger and bigger. I'm
not gonna ruin it for anybody, but but I will
(20:30):
say it's it's very long. It's two hours and forty
five minutes. And for a three star movie to kind
of not hit like epic quality like that at almost
three hours long, that's a lot. That said, there's there's
a couple of good action sequences in it, but the
final half hour, and again this isn't ruining anything. The
final half hour is this amazing airplane scramble that Cruise
(20:53):
is doing around these two biplanes, you know, these sort
of it's kind of a fun retro thing because obviously
in these movies that are all about of high technology.
And in this one, there's an evil AI that's gonna,
you know, destroy the world and destroy humanity. So on
these old World War two biplanes, he's crawling around on
them and the and and you can actually see it's him.
(21:14):
The camera at work is right there. Whether it was
done by you know, shooting it by drones or another
another plane nearby, or something, that's really extraordinary. And I
would say this about whether it was anybody on there,
like it could have been, you know, Chris Farley sitting
there crawling around the plane. I don't care when you
see somebody like that, risky, literally risking their lives. I'm
sure he was tethered to a to a cable or something,
(21:35):
you know, but like in the old fashioned way like
they did in Hollywood's Golden age, and even in things
like the great Bond movies of the seventies, really doing
something exciting that's not CGI, it's not computer enhanced. It's
literally a human being crawling around an airplane in mid air,
going from one airplane to another. It's it's incredible. It's
(21:56):
a really amazing sequence. And and sitting through the first
two and a half hours of the thing, that's kind
of heavily plotted. Is worth it for that final half
hour sequence. So an enthusiastic three stars for this final
we say it's the final one. Who knows what will happen,
but they're calling it the final reckoning mission impossible. I mean,
they're all those stunts, right, and all those movies is
what they're known for.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
That's great. Three stars for this. That's wonderful because a
lot of times Memorial Day movies don't live up to
the hype, but this one certainly does. Huh yeah, Memorial
Day and you know, back me up on this, this
is the movie theaters really look forward to Memorial Day
because this is they've had some of their biggest hits
ever released on this weekend.
Speaker 14 (22:38):
That's right, That's exactly right, Lare. And it obviously goes
back and we just mentioned the seventies, goes back to
the seventies. Things like Jaws Star Wars opened up on
Memorial Day weekend, which really sort of woke up Hollywood
to like, oh yeah, this is when kids and everybody
you know start to go to the movies. It's sort
of funny that like in nineteen seventy two, they weren't
thinking about that, they were like, I'll just throw anything
out there. Then suddenly Jaws comes around. They're like, oh yeah, right,
(22:59):
let's let's get the know the big shark movies out there.
So so it's always a big traditional moment. And you know,
and obviously in some of the biggest ones, you know,
the the Star Wars movies, like I mentioned, Empire Strikes
Back is the one that I remember as like even
more than Star Wars, which came out, you know, memorially
weekend of seventy seven. When Empire Strikes Back opened, that
(23:19):
of Memorial Day of eighty that was sort of this
big event, saying the Indiana Jones sequels, you know, Temple
of Doom and the third one, Last Crusade, which I
really love, those came out Memorial Day weekend. Even like
the Star Trek reboot that was came out in two
thousand and nine that JJ Abrams and Iowas sort of
think of as a as a high water mark of
(23:39):
Memorial Day stuff that was really exciting. And some of
these big movies really really do it some of them, don't.
I mean, Ishtar came out Memorial Day weekend, you know, Flintstone,
so you know, it's not always not always a knock
out of the park, but when it is, it's really
an exciting start to summer. And Hollywood knows that they
bank it. You know that these opening weekends for these movies,
they can go upwards of you know, one hundred and
(24:01):
fifty million if if the if all the stars aligned
for them.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You know, it's funny. I pulled up I'm knowing you
were going to do this. I pulled up the top
grossing Memorial Day weekends, and who made the most money?
Do you know who it is?
Speaker 14 (24:17):
I think, isn't it one of the Pirates of the
Caribbean movies?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Right?
Speaker 14 (24:19):
I think it's like at World's End or something very good.
That's second, it's the second one. And then there's a
law I know laws for and of course, like lotties
are adjusted for inflation, and of course all the Avengers movies,
you know, are the Endgame movies come out? No, what's
number one?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I was shocked by it, but I guess it's also
because remember they always have to adjust these for inflation,
and when they do that, gone with the Wind always wins.
But yeah, every single time Top Gun.
Speaker 14 (24:44):
Maverick, Well, that's right from twenty twenty two. That's right exactly,
and you know that's and I think the other thing too,
We have to sort of remember that that was during
the you know, that was sort of the first big
summer of the pandemic. You know, twenty twenty twenty twenty
one were sort of we're sort of washout. So finally
Top Gun Maveri comes around in twenty twenty two to
get people back to this theaters. That is surprising, right,
(25:05):
because a lot of those may fast and furious movies, which,
by the way, this Mission Impossible movie, this one reminds
me a little of a fast and furious movie. Like
there's a lot of tie into all the other seven
movies in this series. All of those movies all open
up on the on Memorial Day weekend and they get
them in there. I also like the ones that are
sort of kind of quirky that nobody sort of remembers
and that sort of like oh yeah, you know, I
(25:26):
mean the Natural opened up on the Field of Dreams,
which I think we talked about last week. You know,
those movies opened up on Memorial Day weekend, So there's
there's or even Cliffhanger, you know, the Stallone film that's
actually one of his better non rocky, non Rambo films,
opened up on Memorial Day weekend, so it can it
can sort of be this time when you go, oh, look,
(25:47):
here's this cool original thing that's not a franchise, not
a sequel, and uh, and it catches people's attention. But
it's got once it's got that spot of Memorial Day
weekend and it automatically becomes like the States could be
up really hot.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Well, I'll tell you what if this new movie does
what it's expected to do. Tom Tom Cruise is the
movie star of Hollywood at this point. I mean, he
has got a long time, but he stands by himself.
Speaker 14 (26:11):
He does, and you know, I mean, and good for
him for you know, saying okay, like I'm gonna turn
these action things into like he he pivoted. He was
at a certain point ten years ago or so where
he said, like, these are the things I'm gonna make.
And and you know, if this new you know, obviously
in about two years there is gonna be the new
Oscar for best stunt Action. I think if they don't
have him, you know, coming in off you know, through
a hole in the in the ceiling or jumping out
(26:33):
of a plane or coming out of a submarine that
bursts up into the into the theater. If they don't
do that, they're missing an opportunity because he's the guy
who's really brought great stunt work back to back to
the movies.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You know, absolutely they need to give him an oscar too.
I thought he was gonna win for Born in the
fourth of July. I thought that was going to happen,
but for some reason, for some reason, they won't give
him one.
Speaker 14 (26:55):
Well, you know what it was. I think that one
also that was that was a split year because it
was Morgan Freeman for driving this Daisy, and it was
Daniel d Lewis. Will eventually won from my Left Foot,
But I agree cru should have won from Born on
the Fourth or Fly, which I think is an amazing film,
and and so and Jerry Maguire, which people forget about.
I mean it's sort of a it's a it's a
rom com joke in some ways, but it was a
really good performance back in nineteen ninety six. And that's
(27:16):
and playing a modern guy that's hard to do. That's
hard to do. I agree, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Agree with you one thousand percent. By about Joey McGuire.
Of course, I am a huge fan of the director,
but I love because I also love Almost Famous, but
I thought he was wonderful in that movie.
Speaker 14 (27:32):
Even I'll even one up you a little bit, Larry.
I don't mind Vanilla Sky, which is the I'm the
only guy in America who doesn't mind. I think it's
you know, it's flawed, but it's a crazy nutty movie
that Cruise did with Cameron Crowe, where it's a sort
of a futuristic sci fi thing. I don't mind it.
I think it's sort of a it's a it's a
it's a very fun bad movie Vanilla Sky from I
think It's two thousand that held do with Cameron crow
(27:54):
and the Pelope Cruz is the is the girl in
there and Cameron Diaz.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
It's funny because Cameron Crowe says he only that movie
so he could pay for Almost Famous.
Speaker 14 (28:05):
It's a good investment in that way.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Thanks so much, Joe Numeier, film journalist, w R Movie
Minute critic appreciate it. When we come back, we'll have
a recap of today's show and my final thoughts as
we wind up. Another minty in the morning on wo r.
Let's get some final thoughts from Larry Well. There are
three words that hurt my ears, actually hurt my soul
when I hear them, and I hear them every single
(28:31):
year this time of year. Happy Memorial Day. And if
you've said it, I'm not trying to shame you. Because
the meeting of the day has been lost. I get you.
It's become the unofficial start of summer. Remember something. It
was never supposed to be. It is supposed to be
a day when we remember and pay tribute to those
(28:52):
who died protecting America and keeping us free. It's been
lost in Memorial Day sales, vacations at the and another
three day weekend. And who's to blame for this? Well,
who's to blame for almost every bad decision Congress. In
nineteen sixty eight they passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.
(29:14):
It's the reason that Memorial Day has lost its meaning.
It is the reason that our greatest President, George Washington
is not honored anymore with a day of his own. Instead,
it's President's Day. I don't know about you, but I
don't think James Buchanan deserves even part of a day.
But the most evil unintended consequence is Memorial Day that
(29:37):
started in eighteen sixty five when it was called Decoration Day,
when loved ones would decorate the grave sites of brothers, fathers,
and sons who died in the Civil War. It was
right and it was proper to do just that. The
aberration of that day is well, it's embarrassing. And listen,
(29:57):
I'm not trying to shame you. If you weekend plans,
a small gesture is all. It takes. A parade, visit
a memorial ceremony here, or call a gold star family
and say thank you because they suffered too. Just remember
why we are free and able to enjoy the miracle
of America, able to enjoy this three day weekend. Do
(30:19):
it by saying thank you to those who made it
possible in any way that suits you. Coming up, Mark Simone,
Welcome Showbiz for one one, dot COM's Roger Friedman and
Fox News journalist Liz Peek. Plus listen for the keyword
after the ten o'clock news that head to seven to
ten wor dot com for your chance at one thousand
(30:42):
dollars Now a recap of today's show. Reporter and founder
of Meet the Future website Kevin Sirelli believes it is
time for our politicians to start looking at policies that
are consistent with our world that is rapidly moving forward.
Speaker 15 (31:01):
You know, you have to wonder when will the policy
conversations be shifted to get not even just into the future,
but into the present day, whether it's on digital currency
or these new medical breakthroughs. It's just it's very antiquated
to conversations, and so there doesn't seem to be right
now an outlook for the future on from any policymakers.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Wo R National correspondent Rory O'Neil sees some turbulence coming
for that big beautiful bill as it hits the Senate.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
We've heard from Rand Paul, a Republican, saying he cannot
support this as is because he doesn't support raising the
debt limit another four trillion dollars. Josh Hawley doesn't like
to cuts to medicaid. You know, President Trump has said
he doesn't want cuts to MEDICAI, but there are cuts
to Medicaid, and Hally thinks it's political suicide to pass
(31:53):
this as is. See what they come up with on
the Senate side.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Variety reporter Ethan Schenfeld has been in the courtroom for
the Diddy trial and talked about what we've seen and
where the case may go in the coming weeks.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
The focus of the trial for the first couple of
weeks has largely been on Cassie.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
She is the star witness of this case.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
She testified for four days about the alleged abuse that
she suffered. And they're gonna have to zoom out quite
a bit and bring in other alleged victims.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
And because he's charged.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
With sex trafficking and racketeering, which are much bigger charges.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Well, I'll tell you what. We really appreciate your talkbacks today,
and it was tough to come up with a winner
for Talkback of the week. And despite the tough week
we've had for this holiday weekend going into it, it's
important to remember those who fight for our freedom, which
leads us to our talk back of the morning.
Speaker 16 (32:59):
Kind of a bubber way to and the week yesterday
and with the stabbings and I mean the shootings in
DC and a plane crash, but hopefully we will prevail
this shell Pass just too.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Shell Pass, Larry.
Speaker 16 (33:11):
I wanted to say God bless you the too. Natalie's
Jacqueline Chris Crash, and let's not forget our favorite Bernie Vider.
Enjoy your weekend as we honor those that gave their
lives for us so we could be free.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Ah, God, bless you too. Thank you so much for
that message. It's an important message. I don't I think
every reminder this weekend of how we should be honoring
those who made our lives possible. They made America possible
because they were willing to give their own lives for us.
Every single reminder is important. So I thank you so
(33:49):
much for that. What a wonderful what a wonderful message.
That was perfect And we hadn't played that yet. That
came in late. We hadn't even played that yet. Yeah
and so yeah right at the buzzer. And it's so
wonderful that he was talked back in the morning and
he deserves it. Thank you so much for that, sir.
It was really wonderful. And don't forget to check out
our podcast catch everything you missed or you want to
(34:12):
hear again. Just go to seven ten woar dot com
and click the podcast tab. It's that easy. If you
have a chance, and you have you didn't get a
chance to hear it. Take a listen to the Kelsey
Grammar interview as he remembers his sister who is brutally murdered.
He's got a new book out coming up Tuesday. On
(34:32):
MENTI in the morning, we got Mike Kelly, columnists for
North Jersey dot Com. He'll be at seven o five.
Legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf. Oh, by the way, go next tonight.
I hope he's talking about a big win for the
next tonight, Warner Wolf at seven thirty five, tickets to
see the Beach Boys at a twenty five, and New
(34:53):
York Post entertainment critic Johnny Oleigzinski will be here at
nine to thirty five. Stay safe, enjoy the Memorial Day weekend,
take time to remember why all of this is possible.
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