Hour 4: Country Music Awards

Country Music Awards.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, Happy Friday to you. I hope you have a
great Mother's Day to all the moms out there in
the Big Three. Today, what else leads off the Big Three?
We have a new pope and for the first time,
the pope is American. Cardinal Robert Francis Privos born in
Chicago is now Pope Leo the fourteenth and his brother

(00:24):
Lois Lewis excuse me, his brother Lewis saw it coming.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
We used to tease him, you're gonna be Pope someday,
you're too holy and you know, joking ribbon and when
he went into the seminary, it's like, oh wow, okay.
And then a couple of years ago when the Pope
made him a cardinal, it's like, this could happen.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Holy Come.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
It's funny because he wasn't the only one that said that.
Apparently teachers said that, and some of the neighbors said,
you're going to be pope someday, And here he is.
He is Pope today. Monsignor Joseph Grimaldi, Vicar General of
the Diocese of Brooklyn, will be with us in just
a couple of minutes to talk about the significance of
this pope and what it means to America and to

(01:05):
the Catholic Church. The New York US Attorney and the
Justice Department has officially opened a criminal investigation into US
into New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
They're claiming that I engaged in mortgage fraud, that I
somehow decided that I was a resident of Virginia, which
would be some commute every morning to the office of
twenty eight Liberty.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, we all know you didn't really live there. That's
kind of the point. That was the fraud part. Help
is coming from the Trump administration to Newark Liberty International
Airport immediately.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
We're in the process of bringing together all the airlines
that serve Newark and putting them in a room and
having a conversation about how they reduce their capacity in Newark.
So if you book a flight, you know it's not
going to be delayed or canceled. You're actually going to
get on that fight and it's gonna fly now.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
As he said, that was Secretary Sean Duffy, Secretary of
Transportation Sean Duffy, as he said, that's the short term help,
followed by a nationwide major upgrade to the entire air
traffic control system across the country, and he says that's
going to take three to four years. Now, there were
estimates it would take ten, but he says if they

(02:27):
without taking shortcuts, if they just do a massive upgrade
all at once across the country, it can be done
in three to four years. Tom Homan says, any of
the people with vises who took part in the violent
protest at Columbia's Butler Library this week, they're going to

(02:48):
be deported.

Speaker 6 (02:49):
So if they want to come here and support our enemies,
a terrorist organization, they want to take over college campuses,
they want to sell security guards, they want to damage
college property, they're going to be deported.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah. Tom Holman is in New York this week because
of a couple of issues. He's tripling the number of
people here after the city Council sued Mayor Adams for
allowing ICE agents in Rikers Island, and he says, now
we have to go out into the communities and get them.
And now we're going to go to their workplaces and

(03:20):
also get them there. Now, let's get to Monsignor Joseph Grimaldi.
He is Vicar General of the Diocese of Brooklyn, which
includes parts of Queen's Monsignor, thanks for taking the time
to talk to us today.

Speaker 7 (03:34):
Good morning, great to be on.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Good morning.

Speaker 8 (03:36):
Tell us.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Tell us about Pope Lewis the Leo the fourteenth.

Speaker 7 (03:42):
Look Leo the fourteenth, Yes, previously Cardinal Robert Prevost. As
we all know, we're very proud as Americans that he's
American born and educated. He is a great man who
brings a great diversity of experience with him being an
American and and serving for a number of years here

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as an Augustinian in the US, and then going to
the missions over in in Peru, serving there is both
a pastor and then as a bishop true missionary spirit.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
And serving the poor.

Speaker 7 (04:18):
And I think that's a big part of his his persona,
you might say, is his his sensitivity to the needs
of the poor and the marginalized. And as he said
so beautifully yesterday, Uh, you know, the arms of the
church must be open, like the a colonnade around Saint
Peter's Square to all, to welcome all, and continuing that

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saying spirit in many ways like Saint Pope Francis, having
that openness, having that willingness to dialogue. Pope Leo said,
it's so important to listen that concept of you know,
senidality and in the inclusion of laity in in leadership
in the church. He spoke of that and important important

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elements in our world today and important elements for the
leadership of our church.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I want to talk about the church and then I
want to talk about America and the American Church separately.
Where do you think There's a lot of guess work
right now? And is he going to be conservative? Is
he going to be liberal? Is it going to be
down in the middle. Is he going to be liberal
on some issues and conservative on others. I think a
lot of people are trying to read tea leaves and
figure out which way he's going to take the Catholic Church.

(05:35):
Do you have any thoughts on that.

Speaker 7 (05:37):
I mean, obviously it's a little early, one day into
his pontificate, but in taking the name Leo, you know,
following in the footsteps of Leo the thirteenth, As we know,
he was the pope at the turn of the of
the nineteenth century. He was pope during the Industrial Revolution,

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rare of arm. One of his greatest encyclicals was on
social justice and during the the you know, the growth
of industry, and he stressed the rights of the worker,
the dignity of the human person. So I think that
gives us a bit of an insight into in Pope

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Leo the fourteenth.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, it's interesting that you said, and I was kind
of heartened by the fact that you said, it's kind
of early. He's only one day into this, because some
people have been looking at his past writings and his
past postings on even on social media and trying to
make determinations of where he's going to take the church.
But what you said is it's a blank slate right now.

(06:44):
Is that what you believe?

Speaker 7 (06:46):
Well, I'm saying that, Yeah, he's I mean now is
Pope he's he's the universal pastor. You know, what he
has said in the past certainly can gives us some
indication of his style of leadership, his priorities. But as
he said, my mission is to lead people into a

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deeper love relationship with Jesus Christ. And I think, you know,
as Pope of the universal Catholic Church in so many ways,
his call is to be that universal leader that recognizes
and respects the various traditions and cultures that so you know,
enrich are Catholic faith.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
It's not one way.

Speaker 7 (07:28):
It's not one road, you know, it's not one dogmatic teaching.
It's such a diversity. And that's the richness in the
variety of all the cultures and people that make up
our rich Catholic tradition. And I think he's going to
respect that and enrich that and enhance it.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Oh that's really well said. What about the effect on
the American Catholic Church. I know American Catholics are thrilled
that finally an American was chosen. What kind of an
effect do you see it happening on the church in
this country.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (08:03):
I saw an interview with the Holy Father about two
years ago. He was cardinal, and he said, you know,
I have a good understanding obviously, you know, being an
American spending many years as a priest here in the US.
He said, I have a good understanding of the American Church.
And you know, that made me feel good. You know,
he really understands the church. He understands the issues that

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face the church in the United States at this time.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
So I think we're going to have a pope.

Speaker 7 (08:30):
We're going to have a man who who would really
listen and understand the complexity of not only the American Church,
but but the church throughout the world.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Well, it was wonderful to talk to you. Thanks, thanks
for those insights, Monsignor Joseph Grimaldy, Vicar General of the
Diocese of Brooklyn. And again that includes part of Queen's
I hope to talk to you again, Monseignor.

Speaker 7 (08:54):
Thank you very much, have a great day.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Bye bye.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Last night's Country Music Awards, they were full of prizes,
weren't they who took home the coveted Entertainer of the
Year award? Find out next Well, I always appreciate your talkbacks,
but now you have a real good reason to leave
a talkback, and that is because we have a contest
going on for Talkback of the Morning, and the competition

(09:19):
today is hot and heavy. Lots of talkbacks, more importantly,
lots of great talkbacks. Thank you so much for them.

Speaker 9 (09:27):
That's absolutely bs. It is Mother's Day for those who
are your mother, not mother efforts, not mother, Teresa. I'll
celebrate my mother. My kids can celebrate their mother.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Okay, Maner knew this would be such a passionate debate
that you know they're wearing going on, didn't think the swearing. Wow,
there's people on both sides, the Bidens on the view. Ah,
and you thought the view couldn't get worse. They tried

(10:12):
to help them, they did.

Speaker 10 (10:16):
I say he should be out there every single day.
I think we should see Joe Biden everywhere leading everything.
I think it's great that he gets out there.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
He was absolutely a gift to the Republican Party of
the fact that he decided to emerge right now. And
it's not just me saying that, it's Democrats saying that,
many of them saying this is the worst thing that
could have happened at this moment, a remembrance of the
last four years, because they felt like they were starting

(10:51):
to get some ground finally with something on the tariffs,
and now the Bidens decide they're going to re emerge,
just to remind everybody what it was like and the
reason you elected Donald Trump in the first place. So,
uh yeah, obviously this is just the two of them.
And he even said at one point, he said, you know,

(11:12):
we have to figure out what my role is going
to be in the Democratic Party. They want your role
to be director of Rehobeth Beach. If you could stay
on Rehoboth Beach and just make sure that like all
the trash collections going well. That would be wonderful. I'm
sure that's what they're hoping for. Maybe they get They
got to get Nancy Pelosi to talk to him again.

(11:34):
They got to get Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to
have a visit to tell him, Hey, could you do
us a favor? Could you stay in the basement just
a little bit longer? Because you're killing us right now. Now,
let's talk about the Country Music Awards. Did you watch?
Because it was a great night, let off with Reba McIntyre.

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That was Reba McIntyre, Miranda Lambert, and Lany Wilson, several
generations of great women of country music. Landy Wilson, by
the way, was the big winner of the night. We'll
get to her in a second, but how about we
do another tribute, this one to Keith Urbin by the
Brothers Osborne. Country music is really taking off. Do you

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find yourself listening to more and more country music.

Speaker 11 (12:23):
I've become a fan of country music. I would say
even about ten years ago.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
I have her.

Speaker 11 (12:29):
I never listened to it as a kid, but at
all I wouldn't be able to name anybody but Willie
Nelson probably.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
No, I agree with you, and I think it's because
in the seventies I grew up loving singer songwriters, and
all the singer songwriters right now are in country music.
I mean. And also I think rap at a certain
point took over the top forty charts and a lot
of people felt abandoned by that, and a lot of
people who really loved singer songwriters and some of the

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great groups of the the seventies and eighties, like the
Eagles and the Harmonies, they missed that type of music.
And where do you find it. You find it in
country music, and I think that's one of the reasons
it took off. How about Group of the year Old Dominion.

Speaker 6 (13:14):
Speaking of heroes, I do want to mention Rascal Flats
again because we would not be here without you guys.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Just trailblazon what a band can do in this business.
Rascal Flats. There you go, there, you want to go back,
that Rascal Flats. Wonderful, wonderful group. The big winner of
the night was Ella Langley and it was her first
year in the the CMA. She won the New Performer
of the Year, but she also won for her flirty

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duet with Riley Wilson called You Look Like You Love Me.
She was the big winner, but she didn't take Entertainer
of the Year. That went to Landy Wilson.

Speaker 12 (13:54):
I'm so proud of every single one of y'all.

Speaker 8 (13:57):
Y'all are whooping butt.

Speaker 13 (13:58):
The girls are kicking down some bars and I love it.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
She's great member. She was the one that was on Yellowstone.
Wasn't she Wasn't she did? Wouldn't she the performer on Yellowstone?

Speaker 11 (14:10):
I'm gonna say yes, if you think so.

Speaker 14 (14:12):
I do.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
I believe it was her. That was the first time
I saw her then. Of course I've heard her music
and her music's great, But that's the personality she had
in Yellowstone. She is a great personality. I'll tell you
what country music is in good hands for the future. Now,
let's get the news at nine thirty with Jacqueline Carl Jacquelin.

Speaker 8 (14:30):
Good Morning.

Speaker 12 (14:31):
An American cardinal is celebrating his first Mass as Pope
Leo the fourteenth. Today's Mass at the Sistine Chapel was
attended by the cardinals who elected the pope this week
during a two day conclave at the Vatican. They selected
Cardinal Robert Francis Privos of Chicago, who is now the
first American Pope. And Three new cases of measles are

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being reported in New York State, bringing this year's total
to seven.

Speaker 8 (14:56):
The state Health Department says the cases were discovered in
patient It's younger than five years old, who traveled internationally
and live in Orange County. Officials say they're carefully monitoring
the increasing cases across the world, with local health departments
prepared to investigate cases and distribute vaccines or administer other
protected measures. Measles is a serious disease that can make

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people very ill, especially young children, and experts are urging
everyone of age to make sure they have an MMR vaccine.
Natalie mcliori Woor News. So we've all.

Speaker 12 (15:30):
Dated and these sustating expert I don't like. Why you
need an expert to tell you this. They say, these
innocent questions will get you ghosted. According to The New
York Post, sex and relationship expert Alexa Johnson warns it,
some seemingly innocent questions can be the kiss of death
for first dates.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
She advises skipping over.

Speaker 12 (15:50):
The overshares and not asking what are we or you're like,
imagine a first state and you're like, so what are we?

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Like?

Speaker 12 (15:58):
Are we getted down the aisle? Also another one is
why are you still single? Do you think I'm hotter
than your ex? Have you had any work done? How
much money do you make? What's your body count? How
many kids do you want? This is all no knows
who first daid questions. And I can't believe someone's got
to tell somebody that you aren't like asking these You

(16:20):
don't bring this stuff up, like how much money do
you make? Am I hotter than your ex? And imagine that?
Have you ever been asked or asked a question when
first dating someone that made you or them run for
the hills?

Speaker 11 (16:34):
I can't remember what was too long ago? The last
first date I had was probably thirty five years ago.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
How to go great? Because I married him? How about you, Larry?
I can't remember dating to ta get the truth, it's
been my god. I've been married twice in one one
right after the other, so I can't remember first dates.

Speaker 11 (16:58):
I have spoken to people who who have had for states,
and yes, they have been very questionable conversations. Right, some
people like this just don't know, like the politics really
in general. I think that's probably a date two or
three thing. See what someone's like and maybe figure out
their political because that is just a it's jarring to

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somebody to have to ask something, you know, very personal
to someone, especially now politics.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
I don't think ever was, but now it is.

Speaker 12 (17:28):
I was just gonna say, especially now, because I think
I've dated people for years and not known which what
their politics were back in the day. Anyway, heading over
to the stock market at the opening, bell over.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
To Wall Street.

Speaker 12 (17:39):
Okay, so the Dow is up eighty eight points, SMP
opened up twenty points, and the Nasdaq opened up ninety
eight points.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Thanks so much, Jacqueline, Carl, Jacqueline. While you were doing
the news, we did get some breaking news. Former Supreme
Court Justice David Souter, a low key New England Republican
who was then a liberal in the Court for eighteen years,
has died. He was eighty five years old. This is
really shocking and it's going to bring about now over

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the next few months, a big fight about who's going
to replace him on the court. Donald Trump will be
able to get the nomination, but I'm sure there's going
to be much more coming up on this today on
WR and on the news across the country. But David
Souter dead at the age of eighty five. When we

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come back, well, how could I forget this summer preview time?
Check out what this year's hottest movies might be and
can you guess what year was the best for summer
movies ever? Well, Joe Numaier Woor's Movie Minute Guy will
tell us what he thinks next. Well, just to recap

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for you, former Justice Suitor has died at the age
of eighty five. He retired from the Supreme Court back
in two thousand and nine. He retired when he was
only sixty nine years old. They are right currently right now,
four Supreme Court justices who are older than him. Soda Mayor,

(19:18):
I believe it was Sonya Soda Mayor replaced him on
the Supreme Court. But we got the news just today
that former Justice Suitor David Souter has died at the
age of eighty five. Now, let's go to the movie Guy.
Joe Neumeyer. Thanks. He's the host of w r's Movie Minute.

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He's also a longtime film journalist and he's coming on
just in time for all of the summer movies, and
I'm sure he's seen most of them at this point.
First of all, let's start with this, Joe, talk about
what an important time it is right now, four movies.

(20:01):
This is when they hopefully you'll make a lot of money.
This and Christmas.

Speaker 15 (20:04):
Right, that's exactly right, Lair And and you know, it's one
of those things where it's you know, people sort of
talk about, you know, box office usually it's about it's
there's three or four major movies every year that kind of,
you know, lift up the box office. So far out
we've had you know, the Minecraft movie was a huge hit,
Thunderbolts surprisingly, I'm was it was a really big hit.
There's a few others. But but really, you know, hollywoods

(20:26):
or banks on it. It's like it's like there it's
their big it's their big thing. It's every summer. They've
got to be able to kind of have something to
show for all that all that all that junk that
they put out. And to be honest, uh, when when
the when the summer movies hit, people say, Wow, what
a great summer that was. I don't know if this
summer is going to be that, but I think there's
some some good potential stuff. One of the things that's
sort of shocking is the big one that's coming out, obviously,

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is Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning. Now we assume it's
the Final Reckoning they say it. You know, I'm sure
there could be some way that Tom Cruise would jump
out of an airplane and they'd be able to film
it and throw it out. There is another Mission Impossible movie,
but this one comes out twenty nine years after the
first one he did. I was doing some research that
first Mission Impossible movie came out in nineteen ninety six.

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A lot of the kids who are gonna be going
to the movie theater weren't even born then, probably not
even you know, ten years away from being born. So hopefully,
you know, it'll live up to the great stunt standards
of all the other movies in this series. And that
is something that that is true, like all those all
those stunts and all these MISSI Impossible movies have been
have been great. So that one's coming out from Memorial Day.
Then you've got a couple of other things that I

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think are gonna be you know, a lot of them
are reboots or sequels, but they're still exciting. Twenty eight
years Later is the latest in that zombie series that
also came out like in the early two thousands of
twenty eight days later. Then you've got karate Kid Legends,
which is gonna bring Ralph Machio and Jackie Chan together.
There's gonna be a new film called f one not

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a sequel and how to Reboot to Anything. And it
starts Brad Pitt and he's like this down in his
race car driver who gets another chance on the track
That looks kind of good. Big the Big Fourth of
July movie is gonna be a their sequel, but it's
Jurassic World rebirth, same kind of idea. I wish they'd
do something new with these dinos. This is the same
kind of thing. Humans go to a dinosaur island and

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you know, guess, guess what bad stuff happened? You don't
go to the island where there's dinosaurs, right, Well, should
know this on like seven movies in if they say
go to the dinosaur island, don't go the opposite way.
There's a new Fantastic four movie comes around, which I
feel like every generation gets there, gets their Fantastic Four movie.
This one's called Fantastic Four First Steps Marvel's gonna try

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and bring in the you know, that first family of
superheroes that they had back in nineteen sixty two into
the fold. We'll see if they can do it. There's
a reboot The Naked Gun, which is a great series
of the It was a sixth episode TV show that
became a series of films with Leslie Nielsen. This time
Liam Neeson plays the goofy cop and then Superman. They're

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reintroducing Superman as again like they do every every ten
years or so. I've got hopes for this one. It's
directed by James Gunn, who did the Guardians of the
Galaxy movies, and we'll see if it kind of lives
up to It's not going to live up to my
favorite superhero movie of all time, which was that first
Superman movie that Christopher Reeve did in seventy eight, which obviously,
you know, everybody remembers as a Landmark comme, not a

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summer movie though Superman back in seventy eight, it was
a Christmas movie, but it was magical.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
I agree with you that was the best Superman movie.
It was just absolutely captivating, and I think a lot
of it's because of the actors not just because it
was Superman. It was really well acted.

Speaker 15 (23:34):
That's right, And it also had it had a sense
of innocence and Americana to it. You know, the scens
of them in Smallville or even before he ever puts
on the red and blue suit, like there's sort of
a set. There's an epic quality to that first movie
that I think is really hard to capture. But that
was also like that was before Hollywood kind of even
kind of knew what a summer movie was. Jaws in
seventy five, as we always know, kicks off the blockbuster era,

(23:58):
but even like even Star Wars, like that summer of
seventy seven was sort of like Star Wars the Spy
Who Loved Me and Smoking in the Bandit like that
was sort of it. Hollywood was still remembering, Oh right,
kids in summertime have things to do. I guess back
in the seventies that I was the seventies kid. You
went out and you played and you you know, you
ran around the wat Yeah uh, you didn't, just.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Right right right right, you know, right back to just
I want to talk about Superman for one more second,
because you tapped into something that I believe is true.
They didn't try to do too much with it. They
it was there was an innocence about it. It was
like it was like the cartoon or the comic book
you read as a kid. And I think that's what
was power was all these movies now try to do

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way too much, and sometimes that gets the story gets
lost or the characters get lost in the story.

Speaker 15 (24:46):
I totally agree. And we were talking like that a
little bit on the Thunderbolts last week. You know that
it's like Thunderbolts, like all the superhero movies and all
these kind of big you know they call them IP,
all these big international you know, probably that that they're
trying to bring in. I don't really they don't really
have that same thing. And Superman as a story, I
mean it was part of the story was written by
Mario Puzo, who had written The Godfather. So it has

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like a great, you know, a great sort of basis
to it. You had the you know, the comic books
that it really kind of adhered to, and it was
about kind of doing good. Lex Luthor was a great villain,
but it was sort of it was about more than
it was more than about like just fistfights or big
explosions or things like that. So you know, anytime Superman's
on TV, and I and this sounds like a cliche,
but it's true, I will always leave it on. Superman
is Superman too, But Superman the first one is phenomenal.

(25:30):
But once they started to get into the eighties, then
you get the big summer stuff that you know. For
my money, and I've been on record for this for
a long time, the greatest summer for summer movies of
all time is nineteen eighty two. Are you ready for
this amazing list? Leerry, Rocky three, Poulter Geist, Star Trek two,

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The Wrath of Khan Et, The Extraterrestrial Conan, The Barbarian
Blade Runner, The Thing, Firefox, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Tron which is not a good movie, but it's still
fun to watch, night Shift, which is a great comedy,
and even the best Friday of the Thirteenth movie, Friday
the Thirteenth three D, which is ridiculous. What I would
watch any of those movies or all of.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Them right now.

Speaker 15 (26:12):
I would just you know, get a giant Vata coffee
and watch all of them right now. Those are all
amazing movies.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Let me since since you're a critic. Let me tell
you my favorite line ever from a critic. That was
from the late great Dennis Cunningham, who saw Coding the
Barbarian and said about Arnold Schwarzenegger, I'd call him a
great actor, but he's not that good yet. Excuse me,
I blew the line. I'd call him a bad actor,
but he's not that good.

Speaker 15 (26:38):
But he's not get right, but he's perfect to go
down the Barbarian. You know, he doesn't have to do much.
He just kind of holts around. Yeah, that's a great line,
and that was a great summer. I was like fifteen
at that summer. What an amazing summer to be fifteen
to be watching all those all those great films. We'll
never have one like that, but hopefully some of these,
you know, will have The kids who are fifteen now
will be able to go and say, oh, I just

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saw Fantasperman. Chances are they won't have the same experience.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Well, yeah, there's nothing original anymore. So what you saw
last summer you might see this summer. So yeah, it's
so disappointing, but I can't wait. At the same time,
I can't wait to see it. Joe Neumeyer, film journalist,
wo R Movie Minute host. Thanks so much, Joe, have
a good weekend.

Speaker 15 (27:19):
Thanks Larry, you too.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
When we come back, we will have a recap of
today's show and my final thoughts. Well, it turns out
Democrats are just as bad as the opposition party as
they were when they were in charge. They are the
gift that keeps on giving to the Republican Party and
to Donald Trump. Let's start with the re emergence of

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former President Joe Biden. Just at a time when the
Democrats were starting to make a little bit of a
dent in Donald Trump's armor, with fear over the tariffs,
fueled by the media lies about what might happen, what
could happen. Just at that moment comes Joe Biden with
a mini media tour on the BBC and on the View.

(28:04):
Did you watch? Pretty embarrassing, wasn't it. A Democratic lawmaker
texted me and said simply, oh God, I'm watching Biden.
Please make this go away. I texted back and said no,
please Joe Biden twenty twenty eight. But this wasn't the
first misstep by the party. They embraced Kilmar Abrego Garcia,

(28:27):
a terrorist aported Duel Salvador. They traveled down to be
with him. They railed against Doge until they found out
people kind of like cuts to the government. They embraced
sanctuary cities even though the public has turned on them.
They still fight for biological males to play women's sports
even though ninety percent of the public is against it.

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And now they are against the tariffs, which makes you
know it's going to turn out well with new trade
deals that make a Erica Richard because they're always wrong.
All I can say to the Democrats is please, please
keep doing exactly what you're doing. And did Joe Biden?

(29:12):
You're doing great. Can't get enough of you on TV.
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Now a recap of today's show. WR and newsmac's host
Rob Astarino thinks that the appointment of Robert Prevost as
the new Pope could have been obvious if you.

Speaker 13 (29:45):
Look at his credentials, if you look at his resume,
he checks a lot of boxes. You know, he was
in a diocese, he.

Speaker 16 (29:53):
Grew up in Chicago.

Speaker 13 (29:54):
He did mission work as they do in the Augustinians.
He was worldwide, visited fifty country is. He spent time
in the Vatican in a very high position, so he
knows how it runs and how it works, and he
knows all the players.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
ABC News Washington Bureau chief Rick Kline thinks the trade
deal announced between the US and the UK could offer
some insight into other potential deals.

Speaker 14 (30:18):
The potential for a deal is certainly there, even if
you know this is really just this is just a framework,
and again it's hard to see how other countries can
do the same. It also tells me it's going to
take some time, because if it took this long for
the Brits just to get to a framework, I can't
imagine how complicated it's going to be for other countries
that have, you know, either tenser relationships or more tenuous relationships,
or rely one way or another in the United States

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in different ways.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
ABC News corresponded. Shannon Kingston believes Janine Piro might end
up back at Fox News again eventually, even after her
recent appointment by Trump as interim US attorney in DC.

Speaker 16 (30:55):
We don't know how long this position that Jine Pierro
was taking, how long it's to the last because the
President the White House have not yet indicated is whether
they're going to go ahead and pursue Senate confirmation. Well,
whether this is going to be really just an introm role.
The cap on that is one hundred and twenty days.

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Speaker 3 (31:29):
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