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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, good morning, and thanks so much for being here today.
We know you have a lot of choices. Thanks for
spending time with us making that choice in the Big Three.
Believe it or not, After twenty four hours on the
Big Beautiful Bill, the Senate is still in session now. Finally, finally,
the Big Beautiful Bill is on the floor. So we
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after some arguments and after some speeches, we may get
a vote coming up. But it's incredible that this vote
a rama is still going on. It's expected to pass
by the way fifty one to forty nine, but that's
not the end of it. It has to go to the
House and that's not a sure thing any of us
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can anticipate that it will just flow through smoothly.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So I am personally not optimistic. We'll have this fight
to life for Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I don't know how long this is going to take
in the Senate, but this is going to be at
least another hour before there's a vote. In the rent guidelines,
the Rent Go Sideline Board has approved an increase in
the city of three percent for one year leases and
four and a half for two year leases, and nobody
on either side is happy.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's a waste of time.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
This is done every year, but no, no good. People
are making money, but we're not making more money.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I look at six hundred dollars a year more on
the one year lease, or nine hundred dollars more a year.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And that means what are we gonna cut back on?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So that's the tenants. The landlords aren't happy either. Their
expenses went up over eight percent. They wanted six percent
increase and they got threes that they lost five percent
of their profits last year. And some of them are
small business owners. And also, as we just heard from
Natalie Jersey, transit fairs go up three percent. Oh, it's
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gonna be a burden.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
My belts tighte as it is right now, and I
can't even go another notch. And I really have to
decide if I'm going to take transit again.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
In the Diddy trial, the jury is complaining to the
judge about juror number twenty five. They say he doesn't
understand the judges instructions. This guy is a scientist from Manhattan.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
This is someone who's speaking, sticking to their guns and
not agreeing with a lot of what the other jurors
are saying. That's the kind of person. The defense wants,
so that's the last person they would want thrown off
a jury.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, I hope you have a great Fourth of July weekend.
I hope you have plans. If you're going to Long Island,
the drones will be out in full force after a
shark attack last week and several shark sightings.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
As soon as someone sees anything even questionable will have
it called into park operations utilizing lifeguards. Swimmers will be
removed from the water at that location.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
There have been ten shark attacks on Long Island beaches
in the last three years. And now let's get the
Rich Lowry, editor in chief of the National Review. I
was looking forward to talking to you, Rich, and good morning,
and I was looking forward to talking to you because
I wanted to hear your thoughts on zorin Mom Donnie
oh Man.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You know it's some of the last polling showed it
was consistent with an upset, and sure enough it happened.
You know, this is the way it often goes. You
have the young guy who catches people's imagination, is very energetic,
and you have a more established candidate saying we can't
risk this young guy. And very often, especially in primaries,
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voters tend to go with the young guy. He is
so callo, he's so far left that this stuff is
so extreme. He's going to be a disaster for the city.
It breaks my heart.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Callo is a perfect word to describe him. And and
he's selling a bill of goods. I like when Eric
Adams called him a snake oil salesman because none of
the things he's saying he's going to do does he
have the power to do. Yeah, so the media hasn't
done a great job of holding his feet to the
fire on that.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
No, but look, Eric Adams, he looks better than much
better than mom, Donnie. But he has a lot to
answer for here. If he weren't so ineffectual and corrupt,
he'd be winning a second term, you know, the second term,
the way Democrats always do. And who are mayors of
New York City instead said we keep staring down the
barrel of this guy. Yeah, but hocals not go and
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go along with a lot of this stuff. It's it's
already it's ideas that already failed. There's nothing fresh about
them whatsoever. I mean, government run grocery stores is something
you know, tried in the Soviet Union, it's seventy years
ago and it didn't work. It doesn't work, so it's
it's insane. But unfortunately, the broad theme of affordability that
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does resonate with people you're just talking about, you know,
the contention over rent increases. I think rents went up
sixteen percent across the city last year. That's just a crusher.
And you need more houses, you need market solutions to it.
But he wants more socialism, obviously, No.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And we didn't even get a chance to talk about
some of the other problems with him, including the anti
semitism and him saying on one of his websites that
they're how bad it is, and how the fact that
they have to now get equality because of the rich
white neighborhoods have to share.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, yeah, Now he says, it's just the important part
of that. It's the first part, the rich, not the white.
But why did it include the white if the white
wasn't important. It's shameful, it's disgusting. If anyone did it
in reverse, they'd be laughed out of a drummed out
of public life. And that's what he deserves too. But
New York City is a left wing city, especially you
know Democratic voters in a primary, So this is what
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we're looking at.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Right in the primary and the general election. I'm not
sure he can win. I really don't think he can
win because older voters come out in mass and moderates
come out in Mass and so I don't think he
attracts any votes from them. So I do want to
talk about something you wrote which was kind of shocking
to me. Is Donald Trump as a Republican moderate?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah. I think within the Republican Party as he's redefined it,
he's smack in the middle. We saw it in the
debate over whether he should strike Iran, and he did.
I'm very grateful that he did. I think that was fantastic.
But you had the more isolation of saying this would
be a disaster, he shouldn't do it, and they had
more new neocon types to use that over Warren Frase
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saying well, maybe should go for regime chains, and he
goes right down the middle. Right. We see it on
immigration enforcement. The folks on the right wanted to court everyone,
no matter where what they're doing or who they are,
you know, working on farms or whatnot. I tend to
agree with them, by the way, and Trump's like, no,
let's do a lot of deportations, but also let's listen
to the business interest. So again and again, this big
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beautiful bill that's on the floor of the Senate. Now
everything he's kind of right smack dab in the middle
of the party.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Well, that's fascinating. That's a great point. But I haven't
ever thought of it that way. I didn't think the
attack on Iran was certainly a moderate position. But I
understand now the argument you're making that the America First
people were saying you shouldn't be going in there at all.
I don't think he made many Democrats happy either when
he did that.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I want to say, a Republican moders in the middle
of the Republican Party. And it's easy to you know,
to not realize this because he speaks immoderately, right, so
you know, the all capsure social points posts and whatnot
or not, you know, those that sort of things. Susan
Collins is doing who is often described as a moderate,
but she's not a Republican motor. She's on the left
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of the Republican Party.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Let me tell you this too. I agree with you
completely to get rid of some of these federal buildings.
They have outlived their usage. They're not necessary anymore. That
was a great column.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Thank you. Well, well, this is called brutalism, this architectural
style that was in vogue in the sixties and seventies.
Not a lot of good things came out of those decades.
These buildings are just horrific, just exposed on concrete. They
haven't They've always been ugly, they always been hated by
the public. They haven't aged well they're talking. They're falling apart,
cost massive amount of money just to maintain them. We're
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seeing the FBI move out of their building, which by
some estimates is the ugliest building in America. We're seeing
HUDs is going to move out of its building. There
are several more of these, but we should just get
get it's not you know, I'm not a huge fan
of bureaucracy, but if federal workers are going to work
in buildings, they should be decent looking buildings. They shouldn't
be an eye sore to everyone walking by or driving by.
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So the sooner we can blow these things up, the better.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, I agree with you. Well, you don't need to
build something that big. Half the people aren't showing up anyway.
Everybody's working from home these days, so it's just like
some of the buildings in the major cities, they're not
needed anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, but again, you're gonna need some building, and let's
just make it look pretty. Donald Trump had executive order
to that effect the first term. People are outraged by
Biden repealed it and he's and he's reinstituted it now.
But if we're gonna build new build let's just make
them make them look nice. That doesn't seem controversial.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Agreed, And I'm sure Donald Trump agrees with you. I'm
sure he can't wait to build some new buildings in Washington.
Maybe he'll wait till he leaves office so he can
profit from it. Thanks so much, Rich Lowry, good to talk.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
To you again.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Gen Z's killing the open tab and bartenders are fed up.
Plus should you really split the bill when you only
had a soda? That's next. There's still time to leave
us a talk back. By the way, go to seven
to ten WLR on the iHeartRadio app. You're back as always.
Thanks for your talkbacks. The competition is hot and heavy.
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We've had some really good ones today for the Mentee
and the morning t shirt. I understand while you're clamoring
for that. Please no more phone calls. We can't give
them away unless you are talk back of the morning.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
There is nothing like a holiday weekend coming up. Get
this big beautiful pill pasted. It will be done on
July fourth.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
It's gonna be tight. It's gonna be tight. I'm telling
you that right now. Let's let me see real quickly
where they are at with the bill. They're just still
mulling around. Most of the senators aren't even on the floor.
But that's next on the agenda. So it sounds like
that's going to get passed today. We'll see what happens
in the House. That they could just take it and
vote on it and get it through. I'm not sure
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that's going to happen. There's a couple of Republicans out
there that are worried about the cost of it.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
But I'm betting Soros that he wants it quiet because
of his history of all those das that he supported
that were cut and release, catch and release whatever, and
therefore he doesn't want his name on this candidate. But
he's paying the way for this candidate.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That's really fascinating. Whether George Soros is behind Zorin. Mom, Danni,
I bet you you're right that we have to look
into I'm going to have that in the next couple
of days. We will absolutely look into that real quickly.
I want to get to there's a couple of stories
I want to get to really fast. We didn't talk
enough about the Disney Cruise Line where a little girl
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fell into the water and this dad, who is Dad
of the Year and did, I would hope what most
dads would do, just jumped in right after her and
grabbed onto her, saved her life and then was treading water.
Now he didn't know what was going to happen next.
But I don't think you think in that moment. Now
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you just jump in. You know that your little girl's
in trouble, and then so you jump in the saver.
But the cruise line also did a wonderful job. Apparently
as soon as it happened, everybody, all the staff ran. Well, yeah,
they got a chance to talk to the passengers. They
describe it.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
I just saw a bunch of the staff running outside
on the fourth floor deck, and I figured something had happened.
Speaker 9 (11:50):
I think it was really heroic.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
I mean, he jumped in after her, and they were
treading water and.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
He was just holding on to her.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
I felt sick to my stomach, youth bumps the whole time,
and I don't think I breathe until they returned to
the ship.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
We all cheered.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, there was a florious cheering. Everybody came to the
deck to watch this happen. But how about them lowering
lowering the lifeboat and getting them that that's just to me,
that's amazing because there's been so many stories where somebody's
fallen off and that's it, you're done. But this one,
so many people saw and and we're able to tell
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the staff, and the staff saw it too, and the
captain saw it too, So uh, what a what an
incredible happy ending to this.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
It's unbelievable because when you watch the video, I mean,
and it was she felt and he felt quite some
you know way.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
It was four floors up, four floors, yeah yeah, and
who knows what's gonna happen when you hit the water,
right yeah, yeah, No, it's a The whole thing is
amazing and it's a miracle. So let's get to this
other story that we were just talking about a second ago.
The fact that gen Z is really ticking off bartons
because they don't want to just add up the bill.
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They want to pay for every drink, right.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
They don't want to They don't want to run a tab.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Right exactly. They want to pay for every drink independently
of the other drinks. It's actually a really smart thing
to do, it is, but bartenders hate it absolutely. And
you know why they hate it.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Well, because, well, one, it's a lot of work, right,
you got to run every single one. But more everybody
just a tab just grows and grows and gries and
you don't think about it. And then there's no oh,
I'll get your drink to worry about it put on
my tab. Then there's some mystery person probably pretty bak
on your tab too that you don't even know about.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
That happens, and the tip gets bigger too.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
When the tab gets bigger, the tips get bigger. So
even if they're not even thinking about the ownership of
the place, I'm going to start doing this. Like I
go out all the time.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I've never seen you open a tab always.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
I was just out on Saturday and I had one
one cocktail was like fourteen bucks. And in Jersey because
that's why I was not twenty five, and I you know,
I was leaving and so it was on somebody's tap
and I said, here's a twenty but no, no, no, no, no,
I said, oh yes, yes, yes, yes, because at twelve o'clock,
when you leave and you get that bill, you're gonna
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be looking for my twenty. Here you go take it.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
How about it's nice when you when you're out with
a lot of people and then it's time to split
the bill among everybody? Can you speak up if you like,
just had a salad or a drink.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
That's always been tricky and I that's why you do, like,
because I I'm that person. I'll have like a Seltzer
and cranberry and then you know, expect to be paying
like everybody's bar tab. I just do separate, separate checks.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, what if it didn't happen that way? What if
they said, okay, let's everybody chip in now, what would
you say?
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Would you say say something?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It would be nice if the other people did.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
See that's it. I wouldn't say anything, but I would hope. Yeah,
the people I was with said, oh no, no, Natalie
only had a celt in granberry right, you know, just
give us twin bucks, you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I said something one time with some very powerful people
and it didn't go well. It was at a restaurant
in New Orleans at the Super Bowl when I showed
up late and just had a drink and they all
had meals and appetising and then they said it's time
to split to mili. I said, whoa, whoa, wait a second, Yeah,
they had meals and all you had was a drink.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Although those people were.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Rude, they are, yeah, they are, they are rude. Thank you,
Thank you. Still didn't go well. All right, let's get
to Jacqueline Carl with the nine to thirty news, Jacklin.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Good morning. The Senate remains in vote a rama mode
this morning, after lawmakers worked through the night on President
Trump's massive spending bill. Republican senators are trying to iron
out differences overcuts to Medicaid, green energy tax credits, and
other measures that would be needed to fund the bill's
tax cuts. At least two GOP senators and every Democrat
have so far promised to vote against the bill, and
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a rent increases coming for those living in roughly one
million New York City rent stabilized apartments.
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Ten ins packed a meeting in East Harlem Monday night,
but left unhappy after the rent guidelines board voted for
a three percent rent increase on one year leases and
a four and a half percent increase on two year leases.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
It just pushes me and people like me a lot
closer to what am I gonna do.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
My wages aren't.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
Changing, but Landlord Laura, she was hoping for an even
higher increase.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
It's just making it harder and harder for us to
continue to operate quality housing when we don't have revenue
to cover the increasing expenses.
Speaker 10 (16:35):
Rent increases for new leases go into effects starting in October.
I'm scafpringle wr news.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Well, I have some good news. We are safe from
the robots taking over for now. A hotel in Japan
has been using humanoid robots as receptionists, and according to
The New York Post, this Argentinian tourists recorded herself panicking
when two polite robot clerks tried to check her into
Tokyo's Henna Hotel. Managers once bragged that two hundred and
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forty robots would slash costs, But guess say the machines
freeze miss here requests and create extra work. More than
half of the robot employees have since been mothballed and
human workers rehired. Yay for the humans. We're still in business,
at least for now. I'm probably gonna be one of
the first to go and we get the robots in here.
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But anyway, let's head over to Wall Street. At the
opening bill, the Dow is up like a sixth of
a point.
Speaker 11 (17:30):
I hate what happens.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
What I have to try to say that The S
and P is open down sixteen points in the Nasdaq
opened down ninety nine points.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So we're all in agreement that eventually AI and robots
are going to take over. Well, at least my job.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I know that's going to be the first to go.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well, I'm not I am worried about your job, but
I'm worried about a bigger you know, taking over everything.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
You want to hear something that this recently just happened. What, okay,
So you rent a car, all right, you bring it
back okay, and some human person looks at it, make
sure it's okay, you didn't bang it up. Whatever, Well,
I think it was hurts. I'm pretty sure it hurts
the customer's outraged because now they have an AI powered
scanner that detects even the smallest marks, and this guy
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got charged four hundred and forty bucks for a one
inch scuff.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Oh wow.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
So now you have to ask when you rent your car,
who's going to be checking this car when I when
it comes back, Because if that robot's checking, I'm going
somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I selectively rent cars from a place that I know
doesn't check because they're lazy. So that's what you have
to do. You have to walk around and find out.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I find the lazy people.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Absolutely remember the thrill of seeing the first Jurassic Park.
There's been several sequels since then, and now Hollywood is
banking on yet another iteration of the theme. Is it
any good? Film journalist Joe Numeier tells us next, I'll
tell you what I go to film journal listen w
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o R movie, minuted host Joe Neumeyer with much trepidation,
because I really want this new Jurassic Park movie to
be good, and I'm so afraid he's gonna tell me
it's not.
Speaker 11 (19:16):
Joe, No, no, no, no, Larry, It's okay. It's it's
good in the way that this is gonna sound crazy.
It's good in the way that it needs to be. Okay, right,
It's got some great chase sequences. I'm giving it three
stars overall. So that's you know, right, that's that's a
positive section. That's good. Uh, it's got this. It's it's
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good in the ways that needs to be. It's got
some really solid chases, some scary Dino's. It's got you know,
uh sequences that you sort of remember. There is a
great Jaws homage in like the first half hour where there's, uh,
some characters are on a boat and they're they're chasing
this this you know, uh, swimming dinosaur. I don't know
what they're called. Uh, you know, it's essentially like a
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prehistoric shark kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
We're we're all waiting.
Speaker 11 (20:05):
Here's the butt is that the concept with these movies
has not evolved. And and I this is the seventh one.
Now I love the first one. I'm a huge fan
of the first Drassic Park. And this is the same
writer as the first one, David kep who's a terrific screenwriter.
But the concept never evolves. It's just simply humans going
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to an island where they have to run from dinosaurs,
and you know, as great as that is, you really
need something different. Now. Sort of part of the stick
on this one is that they say, oh, there's a
there are sort of these these mutant dinosaurs, because that's
why they're on this island, is because this is where
they were doing experiments. But that's not really it. I
want something new. I thought the second one was gonna
do that, where it's like, here's dinosaurs walking around the
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United States and you know they're in San Diego and whatever.
The last few movies tried that. You need something like
that to do this, to do this differently, and I
wish that it was. So that's why. And you have
a don't care about the characters here. Scarlett Johansson plays
a mercenary and she's fine, but you don't care about her.
There's a scientist, of course, a military guy. You just don't.
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You don't feel the same way as you do about
Jeff Goldbloom in the first movie, or Sam Neil, you know,
or or Durham. Those are great characters mixing with the adventures.
So it's three stars. It gets the adventure stuff in
there kind of right, but it just doesn't have that
specialness or the characters you care about, or something new
with the concept.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
You know, And I can I just ask you, that's
interesting what you said that you don't care about these characters.
Is that the script or the acting.
Speaker 11 (21:36):
I think it's the script. I think it's the script
and the concept. And it was the same problem with
these Chris Pratt movies, the three of them that came,
the Jurassic World movies that came previous I started in
twenty fifteen. You know, with with Bryce, Alice Howard and
Chris Pratt, you just don't care about these characters. And
when you don't have that, then it's just a thrill, right.
And I think you know, people gave the original Jaws
and Jurassic Park and certain things when they came out.
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They integrated them by calling them, you know, critics that
they say, oh, it's just a it's just a roller
coaster rise, just a throw ride. And in fact those
movies are much more than that. But these movies, you
really see that that that sort of you know, backhanded compliment,
uh be the case, which is that they are really
like a carnival ride. You really are just not caring
about the They're like non player characters or whatever in
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a video game, you don't really care about them, so
unlike the you know, Spielberg that was his That's always
been his gift. He really makes you care about the
characters in his movies. It's not just about the the
adventure or the predicament that they're in. Yeah, there's always.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
A story you care about, isn't there. There's always some
other story that you really care about. Whether it's the
relationship between a mother and a child, whether it's the
relationship between us and nature. There's always this other story.
Speaker 11 (22:49):
Absolutely, and that's you know, part of his differ as
one of the greatest living screen living directors and British
directors of all time. And I and then you just
sort of and then on the script level, I just
wish there was something different going on. You know, there's
famously there was there was the Durastic Park four was
never made back in the nineties, and there was a
script going around that was actually by the great filmmaker
John Sales where there was it was set in a
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you see a little of this in one of the
Chris Pratt movies, but it was set in a castle
and there were these dinosaur dog human mutants that they
had they had combined. That movie was never made, and
that script is sort of notorious where people are like,
oh my god, you know the Jurassic Park movie that
was never made, and it seemed like totally bonkers and nutsy,
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like a sixties B movie kind of thing. But at
least that would have been something different, and and this
movie just has the same kind of thing, except it's
got one dinosaur that looks a little bit like I
don't know what he looks like. He looks a little
like Godzilla or something, so he's not really like a
he's sort of a dinosaur combo with something. So three
stars because the action is good. I just wish that
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there was more going on here. It's the same kind
of thing. It is better than the last three, though
I will say that it's it's the closest to the
to the spiel original than they've ever come. I just
wish it was more. It's still a good time at
the movie, though, I will say that it's still you
still walk out feeling like you had a fun, fun
rollercoaster ride.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
But there is nothing.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
New, is there. I mean, you're you're criticizing this for
not being new. There's nothing now We were just talking
earlier about the remake of Saint Elmo's Fire and the
remake of Devilware's Prada. They're going to remake every old
idea because they seem to have no new ones.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
No new ones. And I and I, you know, if
the things that they did from the eighties, it's like
there are certain things that seem to you know, the
Beatle Juice sequel, I didn't think was that special, uh
when they kind of bring things back. I always thought, like,
you know, the Goonies is a great example of something
that either could be remade or certainly have a sequel to.
You know, have those kids in that movie, you know,
uh now grown up? Or I think you've mentioned Ferris
(24:50):
Bueller is a great idea for like, have a have
a sequel to Ferris Bueller where he's I don't know,
working a Wall Street job or something and he takes
his day off or something. Yeah like that for.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You made Ferres the principle, that's the idea that Yeah,
by the way, one of our callers called him. We
were talking about the remakes earlier, and one of our
callers called in it, and I agree with them that
et should be remade. With ET returning.
Speaker 11 (25:14):
You know, Natalie mentioned that while I was waiting, that's
an amazing idea. What was it like? He thought like, maybe, like,
you know, have have Elliott be the grown up scientist
who has to you know, fight against the evil ET's
that come back or something. That's a great idea, that's
the fun. People never say yes to it, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Oh why would he never say?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
So?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
He has control over that, and he would he would
have to do the remake if it ever gets remade, right,
that's right.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
I remember I've interviewed him a couple of times, and
when he did War of the Worlds, you know, people
were sort of asking him about like they were like, oh,
are you now do you think aliens are evil? Because
here there, And he's like, well, no, it's not like
he suddenly changed his mind, and it was like, you know, no, no,
actually I think the War of the World's aliens are bad.
He was like, there's just there's stories about good aliens
and bad aliens. I think ET is so precious to
him and so important, and I think that it represents
(26:01):
a lot of who he was growing up as a kid,
you know, kind of in the Arizona suburbs. You know,
Child of Divorce, all that stuff. I think there's a
lot of him in Et and he would never want
it to be brought back in any form, even if
he did it himself. I think he knows how special
it is, and it is such a special movie it is.
But that's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, and the remake would be special too. Joe Neumeier,
a film journalist wo R Movie Minted hosts. Thanks a lot, Joe,
I'm gonna see Jurassic Park when when we come back.
My final thoughts, a recap of today's show and the
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Larry So, when I heard about the Rent Guidelines Board
(27:04):
that it was allowing rents to be raised in the
city by three percent for one year, leases and four
point five percent for five year leases. I immediately thought
of Zorinmamdani and his hand handed promise to freeze rent
for four years. It reminds us that he is making
these pie in the sky promises with no depth of thought,
(27:26):
no concept of the consequences or reality. Yes, rent is
going up, but so is the cost to landlords, many
of them small business owners who run one or two properties.
An independent survey found that the expenses for those landlords
has gone up over eight percent. They're getting three percent back.
(27:50):
Some of them are struggling and a five percent loss
is devastating. And one of those landlords who was interviewed
on television and wanted to remind Zorhan Mamdani that she's
black and many of the landlords that he wants to
stick it to are minorities. It was a shot at
(28:12):
Mandanni's racist policies, spelled out on his website that we
need to redistribute wealth from the quote richer, whiter neighborhoods,
and he has defended that race baiting. Let's stop, please
always being concerned about the tenants and not the small
(28:32):
business landlords who are struggling just as much. We can
care for both of them and the struggles they've been
dealing with with an ineffective system that gave birth to
the Rent Guidelines Board. I absolutely agree that, as Jimmy
McMillan would say, the rent is too damn high. But
the board was formed as a scapegoat. We need real solutions,
(28:55):
not a mamdanni's slogan that's as shallow as a birdbath.
Rent equality that is fair to all. That's something we
can do. Vote accordingly. Coming up next, Mark Simone welcomes
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dollars Now a recap of today's show. ABC News investigative
reporter Peter Harralambuos believes that the one juror who is
still undecided could be a good sign for p Diddy
as he awaits a verdict at.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
The end of the day.
Speaker 9 (29:40):
He might be the basically the last thing preventing them
from getting to a conviction. It's, you know, really impossible
to say at this point. But we're looking at these
notes and reading into them. Yeah, I think it's something
that they should look at as kind of a good
sign at least that things might be going in their
favor in that deliberations room.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Editor in chief of the National Review, Rich Lowry, he
is concerned with what a potential Zoran mam Donni mayor
Oal term would look like for New York City.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
This is the way it often goes. You have the
young guy who catches people's imagination, is very energetic, and
you have a more established candidate saying we can't risk
this young guy, and very often, especially in primaries, voters
tend to go with the young guy. He's so far
left that this stuff is so extreme. He's going to
be a disaster for the city. It breaks my heart
(30:29):
mine too.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Former wl R news director Joe Bartlett thinks that despite
Zorhan Mamdani's faults, he was able to nail his messaging
during the campaign.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I don't know that I could pull a lever for him.
I don't know that I could pull the lever for Cuomo.
Adams has not really done anything. It's not a very
good choice. But I think the point here is it's
easy to dismiss Zoran, but I think he has tapped
into a growing feeling of resentment among the voters of
the city and.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
The Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins is excited about the
summer ahead for Playland Park in Rye and creating new memories.
Speaker 12 (31:09):
Park is almost one hundred years old, and again that
means is a lot of people around that have playland memories.
We always have to have a joke. But no matter
where you are in the country, you get to see
a play lamb bumper sticker somewhere.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
And the talk back of the Morning and winner of
the Menti in the Morning t shirt had a great
suggestion for a movie reboot movie I'd.
Speaker 12 (31:35):
Like to see remad is Et where Et comes back
with the rest of his race is killer Aliens and
Elliot's the growing up scientist trying to stop it all.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Great idea, And don't forget to check out our podcast
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with us Now the news. It's ten o'clock
Well, good morning, and thanks so much for being here today.
We know you have a lot of choices. Thanks for
spending time with us making that choice in the Big Three.
Believe it or not, After twenty four hours on the
Big Beautiful Bill, the Senate is still in session now. Finally, finally,
the Big Beautiful Bill is on the floor. So we
(00:23):
after some arguments and after some speeches, we may get
a vote coming up. But it's incredible that this vote
a rama is still going on. It's expected to pass
by the way fifty one to forty nine, but that's
not the end of it. It has to go to the
House and that's not a sure thing any of us
(00:43):
can anticipate that it will just flow through smoothly.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So I am personally not optimistic. We'll have this fight
to life for Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I don't know how long this is going to take
in the Senate, but this is going to be at
least another hour before there's a vote. In the rent guidelines,
the Rent Go Sideline Board has approved an increase in
the city of three percent for one year leases and
four and a half for two year leases, and nobody
on either side is happy.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's a waste of time.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
This is done every year, but no, no good. People
are making money, but we're not making more money.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I look at six hundred dollars a year more on
the one year lease, or nine hundred dollars more a year.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And that means what are we gonna cut back on?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So that's the tenants. The landlords aren't happy either. Their
expenses went up over eight percent. They wanted six percent
increase and they got threes that they lost five percent
of their profits last year. And some of them are
small business owners. And also, as we just heard from
Natalie Jersey, transit fairs go up three percent. Oh, it's
(01:51):
gonna be a burden.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
My belts tighte as it is right now, and I
can't even go another notch. And I really have to
decide if I'm going to take transit again.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
In the Diddy trial, the jury is complaining to the
judge about juror number twenty five. They say he doesn't
understand the judges instructions. This guy is a scientist from Manhattan.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
This is someone who's speaking, sticking to their guns and
not agreeing with a lot of what the other jurors
are saying. That's the kind of person. The defense wants,
so that's the last person they would want thrown off
a jury.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, I hope you have a great Fourth of July weekend.
I hope you have plans. If you're going to Long Island,
the drones will be out in full force after a
shark attack last week and several shark sightings.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
As soon as someone sees anything even questionable will have
it called into park operations utilizing lifeguards. Swimmers will be
removed from the water at that location.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
There have been ten shark attacks on Long Island beaches
in the last three years. And now let's get the
Rich Lowry, editor in chief of the National Review. I
was looking forward to talking to you, Rich, and good morning,
and I was looking forward to talking to you because
I wanted to hear your thoughts on zorin Mom Donnie
oh Man.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You know it's some of the last polling showed it
was consistent with an upset, and sure enough it happened.
You know, this is the way it often goes. You
have the young guy who catches people's imagination, is very energetic,
and you have a more established candidate saying we can't
risk this young guy. And very often, especially in primaries,
(03:31):
voters tend to go with the young guy. He is
so callo, he's so far left that this stuff is
so extreme. He's going to be a disaster for the city.
It breaks my heart.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Callo is a perfect word to describe him. And and
he's selling a bill of goods. I like when Eric
Adams called him a snake oil salesman because none of
the things he's saying he's going to do does he
have the power to do. Yeah, so the media hasn't
done a great job of holding his feet to the
fire on that.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
No, but look, Eric Adams, he looks better than much
better than mom, Donnie. But he has a lot to
answer for here. If he weren't so ineffectual and corrupt,
he'd be winning a second term, you know, the second term,
the way Democrats always do. And who are mayors of
New York City instead said we keep staring down the
barrel of this guy. Yeah, but hocals not go and
(04:25):
go along with a lot of this stuff. It's it's
already it's ideas that already failed. There's nothing fresh about
them whatsoever. I mean, government run grocery stores is something
you know, tried in the Soviet Union, it's seventy years
ago and it didn't work. It doesn't work, so it's
it's insane. But unfortunately, the broad theme of affordability that
(04:46):
does resonate with people you're just talking about, you know,
the contention over rent increases. I think rents went up
sixteen percent across the city last year. That's just a crusher.
And you need more houses, you need market solutions to it.
But he wants more socialism, obviously, No.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And we didn't even get a chance to talk about
some of the other problems with him, including the anti
semitism and him saying on one of his websites that
they're how bad it is, and how the fact that
they have to now get equality because of the rich
white neighborhoods have to share.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, yeah, Now he says, it's just the important part
of that. It's the first part, the rich, not the white.
But why did it include the white if the white
wasn't important. It's shameful, it's disgusting. If anyone did it
in reverse, they'd be laughed out of a drummed out
of public life. And that's what he deserves too. But
New York City is a left wing city, especially you
know Democratic voters in a primary, So this is what
(05:42):
we're looking at.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Right in the primary and the general election. I'm not
sure he can win. I really don't think he can
win because older voters come out in mass and moderates
come out in Mass and so I don't think he
attracts any votes from them. So I do want to
talk about something you wrote which was kind of shocking
to me. Is Donald Trump as a Republican moderate?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah. I think within the Republican Party as he's redefined it,
he's smack in the middle. We saw it in the
debate over whether he should strike Iran, and he did.
I'm very grateful that he did. I think that was fantastic.
But you had the more isolation of saying this would
be a disaster, he shouldn't do it, and they had
more new neocon types to use that over Warren Frase
(06:24):
saying well, maybe should go for regime chains, and he
goes right down the middle. Right. We see it on
immigration enforcement. The folks on the right wanted to court everyone,
no matter where what they're doing or who they are,
you know, working on farms or whatnot. I tend to
agree with them, by the way, and Trump's like, no,
let's do a lot of deportations, but also let's listen
to the business interest. So again and again, this big
(06:45):
beautiful bill that's on the floor of the Senate. Now
everything he's kind of right smack dab in the middle
of the party.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Well, that's fascinating. That's a great point. But I haven't
ever thought of it that way. I didn't think the
attack on Iran was certainly a moderate position. But I
understand now the argument you're making that the America First
people were saying you shouldn't be going in there at all.
I don't think he made many Democrats happy either when
he did that.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I want to say, a Republican moders in the middle
of the Republican Party. And it's easy to you know,
to not realize this because he speaks immoderately, right, so
you know, the all capsure social points posts and whatnot
or not, you know, those that sort of things. Susan
Collins is doing who is often described as a moderate,
but she's not a Republican motor. She's on the left
(07:33):
of the Republican Party.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Let me tell you this too. I agree with you
completely to get rid of some of these federal buildings.
They have outlived their usage. They're not necessary anymore. That
was a great column.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Thank you. Well, well, this is called brutalism, this architectural
style that was in vogue in the sixties and seventies.
Not a lot of good things came out of those decades.
These buildings are just horrific, just exposed on concrete. They
haven't They've always been ugly, they always been hated by
the public. They haven't aged well they're talking. They're falling apart,
cost massive amount of money just to maintain them. We're
(08:10):
seeing the FBI move out of their building, which by
some estimates is the ugliest building in America. We're seeing
HUDs is going to move out of its building. There
are several more of these, but we should just get
get it's not you know, I'm not a huge fan
of bureaucracy, but if federal workers are going to work
in buildings, they should be decent looking buildings. They shouldn't
be an eye sore to everyone walking by or driving by.
(08:30):
So the sooner we can blow these things up, the better.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, I agree with you. Well, you don't need to
build something that big. Half the people aren't showing up anyway.
Everybody's working from home these days, so it's just like
some of the buildings in the major cities, they're not
needed anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, but again, you're gonna need some building, and let's
just make it look pretty. Donald Trump had executive order
to that effect the first term. People are outraged by
Biden repealed it and he's and he's reinstituted it now.
But if we're gonna build new build let's just make
them make them look nice. That doesn't seem controversial.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Agreed, And I'm sure Donald Trump agrees with you. I'm
sure he can't wait to build some new buildings in Washington.
Maybe he'll wait till he leaves office so he can
profit from it. Thanks so much, Rich Lowry, good to talk.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
To you again.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Gen Z's killing the open tab and bartenders are fed up.
Plus should you really split the bill when you only
had a soda? That's next. There's still time to leave
us a talk back. By the way, go to seven
to ten WLR on the iHeartRadio app. You're back as always.
Thanks for your talkbacks. The competition is hot and heavy.
(09:36):
We've had some really good ones today for the Mentee
and the morning t shirt. I understand while you're clamoring
for that. Please no more phone calls. We can't give
them away unless you are talk back of the morning.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
There is nothing like a holiday weekend coming up. Get
this big beautiful pill pasted. It will be done on
July fourth.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
It's gonna be tight. It's gonna be tight. I'm telling
you that right now. Let's let me see real quickly
where they are at with the bill. They're just still
mulling around. Most of the senators aren't even on the floor.
But that's next on the agenda. So it sounds like
that's going to get passed today. We'll see what happens
in the House. That they could just take it and
vote on it and get it through. I'm not sure
(10:18):
that's going to happen. There's a couple of Republicans out
there that are worried about the cost of it.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
But I'm betting Soros that he wants it quiet because
of his history of all those das that he supported
that were cut and release, catch and release whatever, and
therefore he doesn't want his name on this candidate. But
he's paying the way for this candidate.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That's really fascinating. Whether George Soros is behind Zorin. Mom, Danni,
I bet you you're right that we have to look
into I'm going to have that in the next couple
of days. We will absolutely look into that real quickly.
I want to get to there's a couple of stories
I want to get to really fast. We didn't talk
enough about the Disney Cruise Line where a little girl
(11:07):
fell into the water and this dad, who is Dad
of the Year and did, I would hope what most
dads would do, just jumped in right after her and
grabbed onto her, saved her life and then was treading water.
Now he didn't know what was going to happen next.
But I don't think you think in that moment. Now
(11:28):
you just jump in. You know that your little girl's
in trouble, and then so you jump in the saver.
But the cruise line also did a wonderful job. Apparently
as soon as it happened, everybody, all the staff ran. Well, yeah,
they got a chance to talk to the passengers. They
describe it.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
I just saw a bunch of the staff running outside
on the fourth floor deck, and I figured something had happened.
Speaker 9 (11:50):
I think it was really heroic.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
I mean, he jumped in after her, and they were
treading water and.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
He was just holding on to her.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
I felt sick to my stomach, youth bumps the whole time,
and I don't think I breathe until they returned to
the ship.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
We all cheered.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, there was a florious cheering. Everybody came to the
deck to watch this happen. But how about them lowering
lowering the lifeboat and getting them that that's just to me,
that's amazing because there's been so many stories where somebody's
fallen off and that's it, you're done. But this one,
so many people saw and and we're able to tell
(12:25):
the staff, and the staff saw it too, and the
captain saw it too, So uh, what a what an
incredible happy ending to this.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
It's unbelievable because when you watch the video, I mean,
and it was she felt and he felt quite some
you know way.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
It was four floors up, four floors, yeah yeah, and
who knows what's gonna happen when you hit the water,
right yeah, yeah, No, it's a The whole thing is
amazing and it's a miracle. So let's get to this
other story that we were just talking about a second ago.
The fact that gen Z is really ticking off bartons
because they don't want to just add up the bill.
(13:04):
They want to pay for every drink, right.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
They don't want to They don't want to run a tab.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Right exactly. They want to pay for every drink independently
of the other drinks. It's actually a really smart thing
to do, it is, but bartenders hate it absolutely. And
you know why they hate it.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Well, because, well, one, it's a lot of work, right,
you got to run every single one. But more everybody
just a tab just grows and grows and gries and
you don't think about it. And then there's no oh,
I'll get your drink to worry about it put on
my tab. Then there's some mystery person probably pretty bak
on your tab too that you don't even know about.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
That happens, and the tip gets bigger too.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
When the tab gets bigger, the tips get bigger. So
even if they're not even thinking about the ownership of
the place, I'm going to start doing this. Like I
go out all the time.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I've never seen you open a tab always.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
I was just out on Saturday and I had one
one cocktail was like fourteen bucks. And in Jersey because
that's why I was not twenty five, and I you know,
I was leaving and so it was on somebody's tap
and I said, here's a twenty but no, no, no, no, no,
I said, oh yes, yes, yes, yes, because at twelve o'clock,
when you leave and you get that bill, you're gonna
(14:18):
be looking for my twenty. Here you go take it.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
How about it's nice when you when you're out with
a lot of people and then it's time to split
the bill among everybody? Can you speak up if you like,
just had a salad or a drink.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
That's always been tricky and I that's why you do, like,
because I I'm that person. I'll have like a Seltzer
and cranberry and then you know, expect to be paying
like everybody's bar tab. I just do separate, separate checks.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, what if it didn't happen that way? What if
they said, okay, let's everybody chip in now, what would
you say?
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Would you say say something?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It would be nice if the other people did.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
See that's it. I wouldn't say anything, but I would hope. Yeah,
the people I was with said, oh no, no, Natalie
only had a celt in granberry right, you know, just
give us twin bucks, you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I said something one time with some very powerful people
and it didn't go well. It was at a restaurant
in New Orleans at the Super Bowl when I showed
up late and just had a drink and they all
had meals and appetising and then they said it's time
to split to mili. I said, whoa, whoa, wait a second, Yeah,
they had meals and all you had was a drink.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Although those people were.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Rude, they are, yeah, they are, they are rude. Thank you,
Thank you. Still didn't go well. All right, let's get
to Jacqueline Carl with the nine to thirty news, Jacklin.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Good morning. The Senate remains in vote a rama mode
this morning, after lawmakers worked through the night on President
Trump's massive spending bill. Republican senators are trying to iron
out differences overcuts to Medicaid, green energy tax credits, and
other measures that would be needed to fund the bill's
tax cuts. At least two GOP senators and every Democrat
have so far promised to vote against the bill, and
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a rent increases coming for those living in roughly one
million New York City rent stabilized apartments.
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Ten ins packed a meeting in East Harlem Monday night,
but left unhappy after the rent guidelines board voted for
a three percent rent increase on one year leases and
a four and a half percent increase on two year leases.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
It just pushes me and people like me a lot
closer to what am I gonna do.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
My wages aren't.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
Changing, but Landlord Laura, she was hoping for an even
higher increase.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
It's just making it harder and harder for us to
continue to operate quality housing when we don't have revenue
to cover the increasing expenses.
Speaker 10 (16:35):
Rent increases for new leases go into effects starting in October.
I'm scafpringle wr news.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Well, I have some good news. We are safe from
the robots taking over for now. A hotel in Japan
has been using humanoid robots as receptionists, and according to
The New York Post, this Argentinian tourists recorded herself panicking
when two polite robot clerks tried to check her into
Tokyo's Henna Hotel. Managers once bragged that two hundred and
(17:01):
forty robots would slash costs, But guess say the machines
freeze miss here requests and create extra work. More than
half of the robot employees have since been mothballed and
human workers rehired. Yay for the humans. We're still in business,
at least for now. I'm probably gonna be one of
the first to go and we get the robots in here.
(17:22):
But anyway, let's head over to Wall Street. At the
opening bill, the Dow is up like a sixth of
a point.
Speaker 11 (17:30):
I hate what happens.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
What I have to try to say that The S
and P is open down sixteen points in the Nasdaq
opened down ninety nine points.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So we're all in agreement that eventually AI and robots
are going to take over. Well, at least my job.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I know that's going to be the first to go.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well, I'm not I am worried about your job, but
I'm worried about a bigger you know, taking over everything.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
You want to hear something that this recently just happened. What, okay,
So you rent a car, all right, you bring it
back okay, and some human person looks at it, make
sure it's okay, you didn't bang it up. Whatever, Well,
I think it was hurts. I'm pretty sure it hurts
the customer's outraged because now they have an AI powered
scanner that detects even the smallest marks, and this guy
(18:15):
got charged four hundred and forty bucks for a one
inch scuff.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Oh wow.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
So now you have to ask when you rent your car,
who's going to be checking this car when I when
it comes back, Because if that robot's checking, I'm going
somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I selectively rent cars from a place that I know
doesn't check because they're lazy. So that's what you have
to do. You have to walk around and find out.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I find the lazy people.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Absolutely remember the thrill of seeing the first Jurassic Park.
There's been several sequels since then, and now Hollywood is
banking on yet another iteration of the theme. Is it
any good? Film journalist Joe Numeier tells us next, I'll
tell you what I go to film journal listen w
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o R movie, minuted host Joe Neumeyer with much trepidation,
because I really want this new Jurassic Park movie to
be good, and I'm so afraid he's gonna tell me
it's not.
Speaker 11 (19:16):
Joe, No, no, no, no, Larry, It's okay. It's it's
good in the way that this is gonna sound crazy.
It's good in the way that it needs to be. Okay, right,
It's got some great chase sequences. I'm giving it three
stars overall. So that's you know, right, that's that's a
positive section. That's good. Uh, it's got this. It's it's
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good in the ways that needs to be. It's got
some really solid chases, some scary Dino's. It's got you know,
uh sequences that you sort of remember. There is a
great Jaws homage in like the first half hour where there's, uh,
some characters are on a boat and they're they're chasing
this this you know, uh, swimming dinosaur. I don't know
what they're called. Uh, you know, it's essentially like a
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prehistoric shark kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
We're we're all waiting.
Speaker 11 (20:05):
Here's the butt is that the concept with these movies
has not evolved. And and I this is the seventh one.
Now I love the first one. I'm a huge fan
of the first Drassic Park. And this is the same
writer as the first one, David kep who's a terrific screenwriter.
But the concept never evolves. It's just simply humans going
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to an island where they have to run from dinosaurs,
and you know, as great as that is, you really
need something different. Now. Sort of part of the stick
on this one is that they say, oh, there's a
there are sort of these these mutant dinosaurs, because that's
why they're on this island, is because this is where
they were doing experiments. But that's not really it. I
want something new. I thought the second one was gonna
do that, where it's like, here's dinosaurs walking around the
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United States and you know they're in San Diego and whatever.
The last few movies tried that. You need something like
that to do this, to do this differently, and I
wish that it was. So that's why. And you have
a don't care about the characters here. Scarlett Johansson plays
a mercenary and she's fine, but you don't care about her.
There's a scientist, of course, a military guy. You just don't.
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You don't feel the same way as you do about
Jeff Goldbloom in the first movie, or Sam Neil, you know,
or or Durham. Those are great characters mixing with the adventures.
So it's three stars. It gets the adventure stuff in
there kind of right, but it just doesn't have that
specialness or the characters you care about, or something new
with the concept.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
You know, And I can I just ask you, that's
interesting what you said that you don't care about these characters.
Is that the script or the acting.
Speaker 11 (21:36):
I think it's the script. I think it's the script
and the concept. And it was the same problem with
these Chris Pratt movies, the three of them that came,
the Jurassic World movies that came previous I started in
twenty fifteen. You know, with with Bryce, Alice Howard and
Chris Pratt, you just don't care about these characters. And
when you don't have that, then it's just a thrill, right.
And I think you know, people gave the original Jaws
and Jurassic Park and certain things when they came out.
(21:59):
They integrated them by calling them, you know, critics that
they say, oh, it's just a it's just a roller
coaster rise, just a throw ride. And in fact those
movies are much more than that. But these movies, you
really see that that that sort of you know, backhanded compliment,
uh be the case, which is that they are really
like a carnival ride. You really are just not caring
about the They're like non player characters or whatever in
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a video game, you don't really care about them, so
unlike the you know, Spielberg that was his That's always
been his gift. He really makes you care about the
characters in his movies. It's not just about the the
adventure or the predicament that they're in. Yeah, there's always.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
A story you care about, isn't there. There's always some
other story that you really care about. Whether it's the
relationship between a mother and a child, whether it's the
relationship between us and nature. There's always this other story.
Speaker 11 (22:49):
Absolutely, and that's you know, part of his differ as
one of the greatest living screen living directors and British
directors of all time. And I and then you just
sort of and then on the script level, I just
wish there was something different going on. You know, there's
famously there was there was the Durastic Park four was
never made back in the nineties, and there was a
script going around that was actually by the great filmmaker
John Sales where there was it was set in a
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you see a little of this in one of the
Chris Pratt movies, but it was set in a castle
and there were these dinosaur dog human mutants that they
had they had combined. That movie was never made, and
that script is sort of notorious where people are like,
oh my god, you know the Jurassic Park movie that
was never made, and it seemed like totally bonkers and nutsy,
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like a sixties B movie kind of thing. But at
least that would have been something different, and and this
movie just has the same kind of thing, except it's
got one dinosaur that looks a little bit like I
don't know what he looks like. He looks a little
like Godzilla or something, so he's not really like a
he's sort of a dinosaur combo with something. So three
stars because the action is good. I just wish that
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there was more going on here. It's the same kind
of thing. It is better than the last three, though
I will say that it's it's the closest to the
to the spiel original than they've ever come. I just
wish it was more. It's still a good time at
the movie, though, I will say that it's still you
still walk out feeling like you had a fun, fun
rollercoaster ride.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
But there is nothing.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
New, is there. I mean, you're you're criticizing this for
not being new. There's nothing now We were just talking
earlier about the remake of Saint Elmo's Fire and the
remake of Devilware's Prada. They're going to remake every old
idea because they seem to have no new ones.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
No new ones. And I and I, you know, if
the things that they did from the eighties, it's like
there are certain things that seem to you know, the
Beatle Juice sequel, I didn't think was that special, uh
when they kind of bring things back. I always thought, like,
you know, the Goonies is a great example of something
that either could be remade or certainly have a sequel to.
You know, have those kids in that movie, you know,
uh now grown up? Or I think you've mentioned Ferris
(24:50):
Bueller is a great idea for like, have a have
a sequel to Ferris Bueller where he's I don't know,
working a Wall Street job or something and he takes
his day off or something. Yeah like that for.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You made Ferres the principle, that's the idea that Yeah,
by the way, one of our callers called him. We
were talking about the remakes earlier, and one of our
callers called in it, and I agree with them that
et should be remade. With ET returning.
Speaker 11 (25:14):
You know, Natalie mentioned that while I was waiting, that's
an amazing idea. What was it like? He thought like, maybe, like,
you know, have have Elliott be the grown up scientist
who has to you know, fight against the evil ET's
that come back or something. That's a great idea, that's
the fun. People never say yes to it, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Oh why would he never say?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
So?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
He has control over that, and he would he would
have to do the remake if it ever gets remade, right,
that's right.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
I remember I've interviewed him a couple of times, and
when he did War of the Worlds, you know, people
were sort of asking him about like they were like, oh,
are you now do you think aliens are evil? Because
here there, And he's like, well, no, it's not like
he suddenly changed his mind, and it was like, you know, no, no,
actually I think the War of the World's aliens are bad.
He was like, there's just there's stories about good aliens
and bad aliens. I think ET is so precious to
him and so important, and I think that it represents
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a lot of who he was growing up as a kid,
you know, kind of in the Arizona suburbs. You know,
Child of Divorce, all that stuff. I think there's a
lot of him in Et and he would never want
it to be brought back in any form, even if
he did it himself. I think he knows how special
it is, and it is such a special movie it is.
But that's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, and the remake would be special too. Joe Neumeier,
a film journalist wo R Movie Minted hosts. Thanks a lot, Joe,
I'm gonna see Jurassic Park when when we come back.
My final thoughts, a recap of today's show and the
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Larry So, when I heard about the Rent Guidelines Board
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that it was allowing rents to be raised in the
city by three percent for one year, leases and four
point five percent for five year leases. I immediately thought
of Zorinmamdani and his hand handed promise to freeze rent
for four years. It reminds us that he is making
these pie in the sky promises with no depth of thought,
(27:26):
no concept of the consequences or reality. Yes, rent is
going up, but so is the cost to landlords, many
of them small business owners who run one or two properties.
An independent survey found that the expenses for those landlords
has gone up over eight percent. They're getting three percent back.
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Some of them are struggling and a five percent loss
is devastating. And one of those landlords who was interviewed
on television and wanted to remind Zorhan Mamdani that she's
black and many of the landlords that he wants to
stick it to are minorities. It was a shot at
(28:12):
Mandanni's racist policies, spelled out on his website that we
need to redistribute wealth from the quote richer, whiter neighborhoods,
and he has defended that race baiting. Let's stop, please
always being concerned about the tenants and not the small
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business landlords who are struggling just as much. We can
care for both of them and the struggles they've been
dealing with with an ineffective system that gave birth to
the Rent Guidelines Board. I absolutely agree that, as Jimmy
McMillan would say, the rent is too damn high. But
the board was formed as a scapegoat. We need real solutions,
(28:55):
not a mamdanni's slogan that's as shallow as a birdbath.
Rent equality that is fair to all. That's something we
can do. Vote accordingly. Coming up next, Mark Simone welcomes
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dollars Now a recap of today's show. ABC News investigative
reporter Peter Harralambuos believes that the one juror who is
still undecided could be a good sign for p Diddy
as he awaits a verdict at.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
The end of the day.
Speaker 9 (29:40):
He might be the basically the last thing preventing them
from getting to a conviction. It's, you know, really impossible
to say at this point. But we're looking at these
notes and reading into them. Yeah, I think it's something
that they should look at as kind of a good
sign at least that things might be going in their
favor in that deliberations room.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Editor in chief of the National Review, Rich Lowry, he
is concerned with what a potential Zoran mam Donni mayor
Oal term would look like for New York City.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
This is the way it often goes. You have the
young guy who catches people's imagination, is very energetic, and
you have a more established candidate saying we can't risk
this young guy, and very often, especially in primaries, voters
tend to go with the young guy. He's so far
left that this stuff is so extreme. He's going to
be a disaster for the city. It breaks my heart
(30:29):
mine too.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Former wl R news director Joe Bartlett thinks that despite
Zorhan Mamdani's faults, he was able to nail his messaging
during the campaign.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I don't know that I could pull a lever for him.
I don't know that I could pull the lever for Cuomo.
Adams has not really done anything. It's not a very
good choice. But I think the point here is it's
easy to dismiss Zoran, but I think he has tapped
into a growing feeling of resentment among the voters of
the city and.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
The Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins is excited about the
summer ahead for Playland Park in Rye and creating new memories.
Speaker 12 (31:09):
Park is almost one hundred years old, and again that
means is a lot of people around that have playland memories.
We always have to have a joke. But no matter
where you are in the country, you get to see
a play lamb bumper sticker somewhere.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
And the talk back of the Morning and winner of
the Menti in the Morning t shirt had a great
suggestion for a movie reboot movie I'd.
Speaker 12 (31:35):
Like to see remad is Et where Et comes back
with the rest of his race is killer Aliens and
Elliot's the growing up scientist trying to stop it all.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Great idea, And don't forget to check out our podcast
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Easy coming up tomorrow and Menti in the Morning. Criminal
defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman, New York City Councilwoman Vicki Palladino,
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