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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From midtown Manhattan for the entire tri state area these
is minty in the morning on sevent wr.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Well, it's Friday. It's gonna be hot out there. If
you're going to the beach, though, it's gonna be hot,
but it's gonna be a lot better with that cool
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Try to stay cool and please don't overexert yourself in
the Big Three Today, Jelaine Maxwell spills the beans. The
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convicted sex trafficker now serving a twenty year sentence in Florida,
answered questions for six hours about Jeffrey Epstein and his clients,
which is all upsetting the women who were victimized as teenagers.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I think that to be told that suddenly she's being
brought to the table as a potential source of information
when she's previously been charged with perjury by the government
is very confusing and unsettling.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, they're talking to her again today, and the big
question is has she been offered a deal, which would
really be upsetting to some of the victims who came
forward to put her behind bars. Former Congressman George Santos
reports to prison today after his plea for a pardon
from Donald Trump that didn't work out.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I don't think it made it to the president.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Unfortunately, gatekeepers have blockaded for ever getting to the President.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The Trump administration is suing New York City for its
sanctuary city policy in the wake of a Customs and
Border Patrol agent being shot in the face by two
assailants who both had long rap sheets in both Boston
and New York City, and they were only in the
country for a couple of years.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
He was arrested four different times in New York City
and because of the mayor's policies and sanctuary city policies,
was released back to do harm to people into individuals
living in the city. Make no mistake, this officer is
in the hospital today fighting for his life because of
the policies of the mayor of the city.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That's Homeland Security Secretary Christie nom by the way, in
the lawsuit against the city to get rid of sanctuary cities.
Mayor Adams is the first name listed in the federal lawsuit.
A young police officer president, a long young police officer
in Suffolk County is shot in the face while serving
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a search warrant at the home of a murder suspect.
This happened in North Bay Shore.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
So I spoke to him a little while ago. He's
got a smile on his face. I think he's in
a lot of pain, but I think he understands that, yeah,
this could could have gone a lot worse. So I think,
you know, he's happy to be alive, and we're happy
that he is alive.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
And pro wrestling lost its greatest star.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
Again what Meania Night.
Speaker 9 (02:58):
Again?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
His Hulkogan at the Republican National Convention in twenty twenty.
He died of a heart attack at seventy one years old,
and another another celebrity death on the exact same day,
And that's the great Chuck MANCHIONI with one song that
is timeless. We're gonna hear it. Well, we've all our lives.
We're gonna hear it the rest of our life feels
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so good. He is also dead at the age of
eighty four. Now let's bring in Kevin Surreally. I love
talking to Kevin because he doesn't just talk about what's
happening now. He doesn't talk about what happened in the past.
He's talking about the future. In fact, he is a
futurist reporter and I really believe he may be the
only futurist reporter in the country. And he is founder
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of the Meet the Future website.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
Kevin.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Before we start, is that how you get to your website?
You just write out meet the Future. Ye meet the
Future dot com.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
You can go to you go to MCS for me
the Future, MTF dot tv, MCS dot tv. And we
are just growing like crazy. And honestly, Larry, thank you
so much for all the time that you have me
on and it's really exciting to see how this has
taken off. And trust me when I tell you, in
the next six months it's only going to get bigger
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and bigger.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
I kid, well, that was a tease. Why what's happening?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
I look it. Well, we've got our gaily newsletter and
we're just at the early stages now putting together a
board and it's gonna hopefully be You know, I don't
trust the media. I trust Larry, but I don't really
trust the mainstream media. And I think it's because the
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media has stopped covering a lot of the the the
huge transformations that are happening right before our eyes, robotics,
space exploration, health technology and explaining it to people. And
when they do cover it, they're very doom and gloom
about it and not very optimistic, and so so I
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think the intention, one of the intentions of MCF Meet
the Future is to help empower people about the future
that they don't have to be so afraid of it,
and to help explain how technology can help them become
more human and that it could be a good thing,
especially on the health side.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, it's MTF dot TV. Thanks for clearing that up.
But I believe, and look at I've worked at newspapers,
you know, I've worked in radio, i worked in TV
my whole life. I've had a long career in media,
and I believe that media doesn't cover it the way
it should be covered simply because they don't understand it.
They don't have someone like I agree, someone like you
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who's an expert in this and that that's the only
reason that's that's what you're seeing in the media right now,
is they should be hiring people that have a grasp
of what's going on. Instead, they take a reporter and
they put them on this story and they and many
times they don't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Well, a lot of like earlier this week, to your point,
I got to hear General goot Line, who's the head
of Space Force. I heard him speak about the Golden
Dome and the technology that that is going to require
to protect not just Americans, but all of our cyber
assets and whatnot, and just our way of life. And
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hearing him speak about it and the technology that that
is going to happen in order to deploy this capability
by twenty twenty eight, which is just around the corner,
it's an incredible feat for America that we're able to
launch such technology to protect ourselves in the next couple
of years, and that is really unprecedented. And to your point,
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I think, regardless of your thoughts on Elon Musk or
Sam Altman or Mark Zuckerberg, we can't cover going to
Mars as just a vanity project for a billionaire, which
is how the media covers it. They don't talk about
why it's important from a security standpoint, from a communications
stamp point, from a technology standpoint, why should you want
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to go to Mars? Well, the average human being interacts
with space based technology more than two dozen times per day,
I mean right now and calling into your radio program.
The satellites that are involved with this. You take out space.
Our whole entire way of life, our banking systems, our
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communication systems, the way that we navigate the world every
single day as Americans is taken out. And so I
really totally agree with your point that the media does
not do a good job explaining these issues to the public,
and the public sees right through it. The public understands
that they're not getting the full story, and they've had it.
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And so MCF is hopefully going to help translate all
of these issues to the public so that they can
make more informed decisions about these issues.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
He who does get it, And to your point about
how important space is, is the one that launched space
for us, even though people talked about it since Eisenhower.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
But he also.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Had an executive order this week, as a matter of fact,
a series of executive orders to boost US dominance in
artificial intelligence, which is huge, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Yes? Oh my gosh, yes. And I grew up outside
of Philadelphia, and last week President Trump was outside of
Pittsburgh on the other side of the state from where
I grew up with really all of the heads of
AI and technology and revitalizing a plant in outside of
Pittsburgh is a data center. Data centers are what power
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artificial intelligence, and so the electricity needs as a result
of America's boom on artificial intelligence, which by the way,
Americans inventive. We should be proud of that as an
American invention, we are going to need more electricity. We're
going to need data centers, which is a complete revitalization
of the energy sector here in the United States. In fact,
they're talking about putting data centers on the Moon because
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of how much AI we're going to need as a society,
which is another reason people should care about space. But
to your point, earlier this week, President Trump signing three
executive orders for AI and trying to declare dominance against
the Chinese Communist Party, And that's really what this is
all about. And so I thought you were going to
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say that Trump invented space, force that she also did.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
I did.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I did say that. Yeah, you missed it on that.
You know what, Kevin, we do have to run. But
let's get let's get you out again. We have to
talk more about AI because it's absolutely the Future. Don't
be sorry. Don't be sorry. You were fascinating. Kevin's really
Futurist reporter and founder of the Meet the Future website
WTF dot TV. You hear a lot about ten thousand
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steps a day to keep you healthy. Now research shows
it doesn't take that much. Will give you the new number.
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Speaker 7 (11:54):
Told over and over and over.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Again that if you get ten thousand steps in and
a that's going to make you healthy. If you get
ten thousand steps in a day, that's the sweet spot,
that's what's going to give you a longer life. Right,
how many times have we heard that over and.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Over and over.
Speaker 11 (12:12):
I have my watch set to ten thousand steps to
let me know when I reach it, and I stress
when I don't reach it.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I've circled my house just to get to it.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
I have all right, nobody is that community.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
No, they are really.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
There's a lot of people out there.
Speaker 11 (12:27):
When you're at nine thousand, six hundred and seventy eight,
you're like, oh, come on.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Well, now you're going to feel silly. You know why
because they've changed the number. This is based on medical research.
They have a new report shows data that just seven
thousand steps a day can greatly reduce a person's risk
to things like cardiovascular disease or cancer, and anything over
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that is really not that significant. It doesn't change it
all that much. Seven thousand is the sweet spot you
got to get. And this is According to ABC News
medical correspondent doctor Tara Narula.
Speaker 13 (13:07):
Seven thousand steps is about three miles, so about two
thousand steps per mile, about forty to sixty minutes of walking.
Here in New York City, you can count two hundred
steps through every city block. How do we build this
into our days? Every step count? So maybe use the
bathroom that's a little farther away, Get up and walk
when you have your office meetings and talk on the phone.
Don't use door dasher seamless to order food to your house.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Go out and get it.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
I can't use the bathroom that's further away. I can't.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I'm a little bit older and I can't hold it
as well. And during these breaks I have to run
because I have to go in and get back.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
So we only have one bathroom on our floor.
Speaker 9 (13:44):
Life.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
It's so crazy.
Speaker 11 (13:46):
I know, Oh, we're relatively close, and there's some other
people that are kind of far.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And I know, and then we have the cleaning crew
in there all of the time, and they time it
out specifically around my schedule.
Speaker 11 (13:57):
I mean, it's nice that it's clean, but I or
when you see that tape up in front of the door,
it says do not andre You're like.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Oh, come on, and it's always watch the next break.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
When I go running, that's when it's going to be
up there.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And then I had just have to hold it till
the rest of the hold it to the rest.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
No, it's not too late. That's never happened. That's what crashed.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
Now.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
I just whispered in my ear.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I'll like you to know that happens, but not yet.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, no, no, I've been pretty good. Let's get back.
We've been sidetracked here. Let's get back to the seven
thousand steps.
Speaker 13 (14:29):
I found that if you walk seven thousand steps per
day as opposed to two thousand, you decrease your risk
of a lot of these health outcomes by about six
to forty seven percent. In addition, if you pushed beyond
seven thousand steps to ten thousand or twelve thousand, there
was really a very small incremental benefit. So maybe seven
thousand is more of the sweet spot.
Speaker 11 (14:48):
This might be the best news of the day really,
because you do you think there's a lot of people
that do this, the ten thousand steps?
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Oh I do you know them?
Speaker 10 (14:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I'm just a slow That's what the
problem is.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
It's like five miles a day.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I know, my poor wife tries to get me to
walk all the time, and I, you know, I just
then my kids, thank God, go with her. But I
always say no, seven ten warning before we get to
Joe Neumayer, can we just sit back and be in
awe of a second? In for a second of Venus Williams.
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Venus Williams is forty five years old. She hasn't been
in tennis for a year. You know, she's been playing,
but not professionally. It's not the same thing to go
out and play with your kids or play with a friend.
So she comes back and competes in the City Open
in Washington, d C. Again, some of the top ranked
players in the world half her age, less than half
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her age, and she wins.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
The entire thing.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Now that is shocking in and of itself, because she
came back to compete and everybody's go, why are you
coming back? You're forty five, And then she wins. And
they interviewed her afterwards and they said to her, so,
why did you come back? And her answer was more
shocking than the win.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I had to come back for the insurance because they
informed me earlier this year, I'm on Cobra.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
So it's like I got to get my benefits on her.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
I started training.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Here's the best answer ever.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
And she said that on a microphone, and that's why
you hear the laugh in the crowd.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
That was the first thing she said.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I mean, look, I hope that's true because that is
such a wonderful story. But I can't believe that Venus
Williams is struggling to pay any medical bills.
Speaker 11 (16:44):
I know, but do you know what to hear someone
like that talk about Cobra, something we all talk about.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Oh, I gotta go on Cobra is phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
No, I think that was all said tongue in cheek.
At least I certainly hope it is. Now let's get
to Joe Neumeier, film journalist and wo R Movie Minute critic.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Good morning, Joe, Morning Larry.
Speaker 10 (17:08):
We've got another superhero movie this weekend. Who could have
guessed right? Usually every summer has at least two. As
you know, I wasn't crazy about Superman, but everyone loved it,
so maybe I'm in the wrong on that. But I
got to tell you, I'm much more enthusiastic about the
new one. It's the fantastic Four First Steps, which is
kind of a hard name to say. They could have
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just called it, you know something else, the Fantastic four
First Steps.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
It is.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
It's essentially the second reboot of The Fantastic Four, which
I always thought, you know, it was Marvel's first comic
back in like nineteen sixty one or sixty two. I
always thought it was going to be unfilmable because if
they had tried, like three other times. One was a
cheap o version in the nineties that if you ever
see it on YouTube, it's actually pretty pretty comical and quaint.
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And then there was the bigger budget sort of one
in like two thousand and six with Chris Evans as
the human Torks. And then there was a dreadful one
in twenty fifteen that was all dark and kind of
like a horror film. They got it right, They finally
got it right. It's not fantastic, no pun intended, but
I'm giving it a solid three stars. It's really entertaining
for anyone who doesn't know it's it's essentially, like they
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call them Marvel's First Family.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
It's it's four.
Speaker 10 (18:18):
Characters who become superheroes after getting bashed by cosmic rays
in a spaceship. You do not see the origin story.
No spoiler here, you don't see the origin story. You
hear about it. Thank goodness, because we don't need anything
like that again, just like in you know, Superman or
Spider Man movies. We don't need to see Uncle Ben
die again. But it's really fun. It's said in a
retro nineteen early sixties, so it's almost like mad Men
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or something, but it's on an alternate Earth. So the
Fantastic Four have come back and there after a few
years like they're beloved by humanity, and their powers are
I've always thought they were sort of not really cinematic.
They do them really well. There's a threat by the
one of their famous villains is named Galactus, this big
giant guy who eat planets, and the Silver Surfer who
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hears a female silver surfer named Shalah Ball shows up.
And you know, the point is it is just it's
the right tone. It's it's light without being jokey, and
it's actionally without being overwhelming or clanky. I was, you know,
happily surprised by it. So three stars for the Fantastic Four,
not four stars, but a solid three stars for the
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Fantastic Four first.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Steps have.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
All the other iterations of the Fantastic Four failed at
the box office?
Speaker 10 (19:31):
Well, the first one was the first one in two
thousand and six was a hit for Fox, and then
the sequel to that, which is called Rise of the
Silver Surfer was not. The last one that they did
in twenty fifteen was a huge bomb and lost a
lot of money and sort of famously so. And then
the one in the nineties was just like almost like
straight to video or something. So they've all it has
not been a successful that Like I say, that one
in two thousand and six that started, uh kind of
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two movies back then, but they were they were not
big enough hits. The cast wasn't really right. Michael Chickliss
played the Thing, you know, the big rock big guy.
Those of us who grew up on comic books, we
know these things. You know. He was kind of wearing
actual sort of you know, foam makeup or something, so
he actually looked good. And I like Michael Chicklis but
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here it's it's you know, he's a cgi character, the Thing.
And Vanessa Kirby plays the Invisible Woman, and I love her.
I think she's really terrific actually, and almost everything. I
just was really knocked out, you know, it was just
really or not knocked out. I would let me just
say I was really pleasantly surprised but that they were
able to do this, because I just thought, again, they
were gonna try, and it was gonna be too dorky,
you know, for you for trying, but great use.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Of the word dorky.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I appreciate that. I'm so glad they kept trying. I
thought that I thought the whole franchise was dead. To
take it the truth, I don't think it was ever
going to be re erected, and so I'm glad it
was because it was one of my favorite comic books
as a kid. And and so I think there's a
lot of people out there that love the Fantastic Four.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
So you see this doing well, I.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
Do, maybe not Superman numbers, it maybe not won't soar
that high, but I see it doing really well. And
they're gonna integrate these characters now into other Marvel movies.
And there's even sort of a little bit of a
nod because remember remember the Incredibles from like twenty years ago,
the Great Animated Pixar Pixar's greatest film, The Incredibles, which
was sort of an homage to the Fantastic Four. There's
almost a little bit of that in here too. You know,
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The Incredibles used a lot of sort of James bond
sixties kind of feel, and this movie sort of has
a little bit of that too, although you know, not
quite James Bondie, but it kind of has that same
sense of style. So I think people will That's the
other thing. It really feels fresh. It doesn't feel like
all the other Marvel movies. It feels like something totally different,
and you don't have to have seen, you know, twenty
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years of Marvel movies to know where you are with it.
It's a They did a lot of things right with this,
and the director also did WandaVision on TV, which I liked.
So so it's got a lot of things right. I
think it's gonna make some money and at the very least,
it's making these characters relevant again, right, which they they
had not been. I think forout the last you know,
twenty five years of movies, people were sort of like
a Fantastic four, we can't bring him into the movies.
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They brought him in they you know, it's a stretch,
but they did it.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, you know, they They've gotten every major star. And
I'm trying to think of what they haven't done as
a movie that might be successful. I know that Marvel
had a lot of franchises they made into series that
never were movies, like Daredevil, which was successful. It was
really successful. I don't know why they they that's a
test run. I don't know why they see it right there,
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this is successful. Why don't we make it a movie?
Speaker 9 (22:33):
Right?
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Well, I think they kind of he was in the
Last spider Man movie. The you know, so that character
they brought in Daredevil, the TV guy Charlie I forget
his name, but they brought him Charlie Cox. They brought
him in as a cameo for the Last Spider Man movie. Right.
I always thought, you know, a character named Nova from
the seventies would be a fun chore. And again, that's
kind of spacey, and this is kind of a movie
that takes place in space, and I guess they were
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going to try and do Howard the Duck. I never
really got into Howard the Duck.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
I it was a huge failure.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
It was right, Oh that that's exactly what that's you exactly.
The one of the eighties is horrible. They're gonna try
and bring him in though, because he shows up in
one of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, so that
I think they're gonna try and do it right. There's
no way you can do any worse than the one
from the eighties. That the thing is, that's like a
bad drug trip. If you ever watched that Howard the
Duck movie, that is just that's a that's a nightmare,
this nightmare inducing thing.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Going back to when I was like ten, I love
Justice League of America. Oh yeah, And I'm shocked that
that hasn't been because that has so many cast members
working together, just like the Justice League. I guess it
gets unwieldy when you have that many characters.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
Right, it does. And you know they're trying to do
that a little bit in the in the Superman movie.
This is certainly no spoiler because everyone who has seen
it by now knows, uh. You know, they try and
you see the Giant Hall of Justice like in the
in the animated one, and there's a bunch of characters
in there that are that that are kind of fresh
to the to the movies Hawk Girl or whatever, mister Terrific.
Sure they're trying to do that with the Superman movie.
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Uh so, who knows. I think, you know, go all
out and bring in guys like the Elongated Man and
Hawkman and all these things they've tried in various iterations.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
The animated one from the seventies is always the one,
the high watermark if you have me for you know,
the super Friends, but it's it would be fun if
they did it, if they could do it, I don't know,
and make it light, make it make it fun like Superman.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
To agree absolutely, and I feel like you're coming around
on Superman a little bit.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Yeah, you know, it's funny because I've been talking about
it a lot since it's open, and people have sorted
been saying, oh, you know, and I haven't seen it.
I only saw it once. I kind of want to
see it again because maybe I missed something. Maybe I
went in expecting something that was as good as the
nineteen seventy eight Christopher Reversion. Nothing really could be, so
maybe my expectations were high, and I think that I
maybe need to go in and now knowing what is
Some movies are like that. You know, you go in
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the second time knowing that it's not quite this thing,
and you end up having a better time or see
things you didn't see. So maybe it's I see things
for the second or third time sometimes just to have
a fresh set of eyes on it. And maybe this
is the one. Maybe I need to have a they
put my my super laser vision on it a little
bit more, you know, focus on take off my clerk
Kent glasses and see it for what it is because
people love it.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, I'd love to find that'd be great. We have
to talk about that in the future if you see
it again. Joe Neumeyer, thank you so much.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
Thanks Larry, how good weekend.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Joe Neumeyer, film journalist, w of R, movie Minute host.
When we come back, my final thoughts, a recap of
today's show, talk Back of the Morning and the Sea
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Speaker 7 (25:31):
On Minty in the Morning on WR. Here's Larry and
some final thoughts.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Well, the Jeffrey Epstein case is challenging all of us,
all of our core values. It is certainly caused self
introspection on my part, much of it because of you,
the listeners who have reacted vociferously and emotionally, both on
radio and on social media. When I said we should
just move on and trust me, I have listened. I
(26:01):
do have a tendency, a tendency to focus every story
through a political filter. Who can gain the most seats,
how would hurt an agenda? But through it all, I
do research and I do listen, and trust me, I
research a lot. I came across two things I hadn't
thought of. I had argued that you couldn't release the
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names because of lawsuits and an allegation itself isn't proof
of any crime. And then I heard the argument from
Congressman Pete Sessions that there are hundreds of hours of
videos with recognizable faces. That provides the identity a name
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to go with the face, and it also provides indisputable
proof of a crime of statutory rape and engaging in prostitution.
Hadn't thought of that? And then I heard an interview
with any Farmer, a victim of Jeffrey Epps's Julaane Maxwell,
and dozens of powerful men who visited Pedophile Island. She
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was only sixteen. She was one of the few victims
brave enough to shed her anonymity to come forward and
testify against Maxwell. She was willing to testify against Epstein
before he died. Why she wants accountability, She still wants
it today and her only fear is that the people
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who took advantage of her and her friends will never
have to pay, will never be held accountable. You know what,
politics be damned. Sometimes you need a voice from the
innocent to set you straight. Identify the men on those
tapes and prosecute them. Coming up next, Mark Simone welcomes
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WR and newsmac's host Rob Astorino thinks the Trump administration
(28:13):
lawsuit against Eric Adams may actually be a good thing
for the mayor politically.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
This probably does not hurt Adams in a city like
New York because again it's it's overwhelmingly Democrat and the electric.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
They thought he was way too close to Trump.
Speaker 10 (28:29):
So a lawsuit by the Trump administry administration and attacks
by the administration on Adams doesn't necessarily hurt him.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Representative for New York seventeenth District Mike Lawler talked about
what went into his decision to pull out of the
race for governor.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Of New York.
Speaker 14 (28:46):
I met with President in person for about an hour.
The President certainly expressed his perspective of how important the
House majority is, but ultimately this was my decision, and
at the end of the day, one of the reasons
why I took me six months to work through it
was because I actually like what I'm doing. Look, I'm
thirty eight years old. There's a long road ahead, and
I'm a big believer life works out the way it's
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supposed to, and whatever the future holds it hold.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
ABC News Washington bureau chief Rickline is surprised at how
long the Jeffrey Epstein story has been able to stay
at the top of the media's radar.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
As more information comes out The Walst Eternal the New
York Times have having details of aspects of their relationship
and how close Trump and Epstein themselves where it is baffling.
Trump is used to having control over media narratives, and
he's lost those for now three weeks, which is an
eternity in trump Land.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Professor of TV and pop culture at Syracuse University, Robert
Thompson believes the relationships we develop with celebrities through media
has a big impact on our lives.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
There's a sense that some of these people a musician
you listen to all the time, or a TV show
you watch a lot, you actually spend more time with
them than you do with many of the people that
you love deeply. And I think there is a and
then when they go that there's some sort of loss.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
And the talk back of the Morning and winner of
the Mente in the Morning T Shirt had a touching
comment about the loss of so many cultural icons this week.
Speaker 15 (30:14):
Malcolm, Jamal Warner, Connie Francis, Chuck Mangione, Haulk Hogan, Ozzy Osbourne,
Larry I don't know how old you are, but my
youth seems to be a figure in the far distance
that grows banter every day.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Yeah, I got a feel and we're near the same age,
well said, very touching. Thank you for all your incredible
talkbacks this week. They're always adding so much to the show.
But you know what, we don't think anything can top
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From midtown Manhattan for the entire tri state area these
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Well, it's Friday. It's gonna be hot out there. If
you're going to the beach, though, it's gonna be hot,
but it's gonna be a lot better with that cool
breeze coming off the ocean. I hope you get a
each day today because it's gonna be a press of outside.
Try to stay cool and please don't overexert yourself in
the Big Three Today, Jelaine Maxwell spills the beans. The
(00:34):
convicted sex trafficker now serving a twenty year sentence in Florida,
answered questions for six hours about Jeffrey Epstein and his clients,
which is all upsetting the women who were victimized as teenagers.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I think that to be told that suddenly she's being
brought to the table as a potential source of information
when she's previously been charged with perjury by the government
is very confusing and unsettling.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, they're talking to her again today, and the big
question is has she been offered a deal, which would
really be upsetting to some of the victims who came
forward to put her behind bars. Former Congressman George Santos
reports to prison today after his plea for a pardon
from Donald Trump that didn't work out.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I don't think it made it to the president.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Unfortunately, gatekeepers have blockaded for ever getting to the President.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The Trump administration is suing New York City for its
sanctuary city policy in the wake of a Customs and
Border Patrol agent being shot in the face by two
assailants who both had long rap sheets in both Boston
and New York City, and they were only in the
country for a couple of years.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
He was arrested four different times in New York City
and because of the mayor's policies and sanctuary city policies,
was released back to do harm to people into individuals
living in the city. Make no mistake, this officer is
in the hospital today fighting for his life because of
the policies of the mayor of the city.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That's Homeland Security Secretary Christie nom by the way, in
the lawsuit against the city to get rid of sanctuary cities.
Mayor Adams is the first name listed in the federal lawsuit.
A young police officer president, a long young police officer
in Suffolk County is shot in the face while serving
(02:28):
a search warrant at the home of a murder suspect.
This happened in North Bay Shore.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
So I spoke to him a little while ago. He's
got a smile on his face. I think he's in
a lot of pain, but I think he understands that, yeah,
this could could have gone a lot worse. So I think,
you know, he's happy to be alive, and we're happy
that he is alive.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
And pro wrestling lost its greatest star.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
Again what Meania Night.
Speaker 9 (02:58):
Again?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
His Hulkogan at the Republican National Convention in twenty twenty.
He died of a heart attack at seventy one years old,
and another another celebrity death on the exact same day,
And that's the great Chuck MANCHIONI with one song that
is timeless. We're gonna hear it. Well, we've all our lives.
We're gonna hear it the rest of our life feels
(03:21):
so good. He is also dead at the age of
eighty four. Now let's bring in Kevin Surreally. I love
talking to Kevin because he doesn't just talk about what's
happening now. He doesn't talk about what happened in the past.
He's talking about the future. In fact, he is a
futurist reporter and I really believe he may be the
only futurist reporter in the country. And he is founder
(03:42):
of the Meet the Future website.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
Kevin.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Before we start, is that how you get to your website?
You just write out meet the Future. Ye meet the
Future dot com.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
You can go to you go to MCS for me
the Future, MTF dot tv, MCS dot tv. And we
are just growing like crazy. And honestly, Larry, thank you
so much for all the time that you have me
on and it's really exciting to see how this has
taken off. And trust me when I tell you, in
the next six months it's only going to get bigger
(04:13):
and bigger.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
I kid, well, that was a tease. Why what's happening?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
I look it. Well, we've got our gaily newsletter and
we're just at the early stages now putting together a
board and it's gonna hopefully be You know, I don't
trust the media. I trust Larry, but I don't really
trust the mainstream media. And I think it's because the
(04:40):
media has stopped covering a lot of the the the
huge transformations that are happening right before our eyes, robotics,
space exploration, health technology and explaining it to people. And
when they do cover it, they're very doom and gloom
about it and not very optimistic, and so so I
(05:00):
think the intention, one of the intentions of MCF Meet
the Future is to help empower people about the future
that they don't have to be so afraid of it,
and to help explain how technology can help them become
more human and that it could be a good thing,
especially on the health side.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, it's MTF dot TV. Thanks for clearing that up.
But I believe, and look at I've worked at newspapers,
you know, I've worked in radio, i worked in TV
my whole life. I've had a long career in media,
and I believe that media doesn't cover it the way
it should be covered simply because they don't understand it.
They don't have someone like I agree, someone like you
(05:38):
who's an expert in this and that that's the only
reason that's that's what you're seeing in the media right now,
is they should be hiring people that have a grasp
of what's going on. Instead, they take a reporter and
they put them on this story and they and many
times they don't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Well, a lot of like earlier this week, to your point,
I got to hear General goot Line, who's the head
of Space Force. I heard him speak about the Golden
Dome and the technology that that is going to require
to protect not just Americans, but all of our cyber
assets and whatnot, and just our way of life. And
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hearing him speak about it and the technology that that
is going to happen in order to deploy this capability
by twenty twenty eight, which is just around the corner,
it's an incredible feat for America that we're able to
launch such technology to protect ourselves in the next couple
of years, and that is really unprecedented. And to your point,
(06:40):
I think, regardless of your thoughts on Elon Musk or
Sam Altman or Mark Zuckerberg, we can't cover going to
Mars as just a vanity project for a billionaire, which
is how the media covers it. They don't talk about
why it's important from a security standpoint, from a communications
stamp point, from a technology standpoint, why should you want
(07:03):
to go to Mars? Well, the average human being interacts
with space based technology more than two dozen times per day,
I mean right now and calling into your radio program.
The satellites that are involved with this. You take out space.
Our whole entire way of life, our banking systems, our
(07:24):
communication systems, the way that we navigate the world every
single day as Americans is taken out. And so I
really totally agree with your point that the media does
not do a good job explaining these issues to the public,
and the public sees right through it. The public understands
that they're not getting the full story, and they've had it.
(07:46):
And so MCF is hopefully going to help translate all
of these issues to the public so that they can
make more informed decisions about these issues.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
He who does get it, And to your point about
how important space is, is the one that launched space
for us, even though people talked about it since Eisenhower.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
But he also.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Had an executive order this week, as a matter of fact,
a series of executive orders to boost US dominance in
artificial intelligence, which is huge, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Yes? Oh my gosh, yes. And I grew up outside
of Philadelphia, and last week President Trump was outside of
Pittsburgh on the other side of the state from where
I grew up with really all of the heads of
AI and technology and revitalizing a plant in outside of
Pittsburgh is a data center. Data centers are what power
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artificial intelligence, and so the electricity needs as a result
of America's boom on artificial intelligence, which by the way,
Americans inventive. We should be proud of that as an
American invention, we are going to need more electricity. We're
going to need data centers, which is a complete revitalization
of the energy sector here in the United States. In fact,
they're talking about putting data centers on the Moon because
(09:02):
of how much AI we're going to need as a society,
which is another reason people should care about space. But
to your point, earlier this week, President Trump signing three
executive orders for AI and trying to declare dominance against
the Chinese Communist Party, And that's really what this is
all about. And so I thought you were going to
(09:22):
say that Trump invented space, force that she also did.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
I did.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I did say that. Yeah, you missed it on that.
You know what, Kevin, we do have to run. But
let's get let's get you out again. We have to
talk more about AI because it's absolutely the Future. Don't
be sorry. Don't be sorry. You were fascinating. Kevin's really
Futurist reporter and founder of the Meet the Future website
WTF dot TV. You hear a lot about ten thousand
(09:48):
steps a day to keep you healthy. Now research shows
it doesn't take that much. Will give you the new number.
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Speaker 7 (11:54):
Told over and over and over.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Again that if you get ten thousand steps in and
a that's going to make you healthy. If you get
ten thousand steps in a day, that's the sweet spot,
that's what's going to give you a longer life. Right,
how many times have we heard that over and.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Over and over.
Speaker 11 (12:12):
I have my watch set to ten thousand steps to
let me know when I reach it, and I stress
when I don't reach it.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I've circled my house just to get to it.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
I have all right, nobody is that community.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
No, they are really.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
There's a lot of people out there.
Speaker 11 (12:27):
When you're at nine thousand, six hundred and seventy eight,
you're like, oh, come on.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Well, now you're going to feel silly. You know why
because they've changed the number. This is based on medical research.
They have a new report shows data that just seven
thousand steps a day can greatly reduce a person's risk
to things like cardiovascular disease or cancer, and anything over
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that is really not that significant. It doesn't change it
all that much. Seven thousand is the sweet spot you
got to get. And this is According to ABC News
medical correspondent doctor Tara Narula.
Speaker 13 (13:07):
Seven thousand steps is about three miles, so about two
thousand steps per mile, about forty to sixty minutes of walking.
Here in New York City, you can count two hundred
steps through every city block. How do we build this
into our days? Every step count? So maybe use the
bathroom that's a little farther away, Get up and walk
when you have your office meetings and talk on the phone.
Don't use door dasher seamless to order food to your house.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Go out and get it.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
I can't use the bathroom that's further away. I can't.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I'm a little bit older and I can't hold it
as well. And during these breaks I have to run
because I have to go in and get back.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
So we only have one bathroom on our floor.
Speaker 9 (13:44):
Life.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
It's so crazy.
Speaker 11 (13:46):
I know, Oh, we're relatively close, and there's some other
people that are kind of far.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And I know, and then we have the cleaning crew
in there all of the time, and they time it
out specifically around my schedule.
Speaker 11 (13:57):
I mean, it's nice that it's clean, but I or
when you see that tape up in front of the door,
it says do not andre You're like.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Oh, come on, and it's always watch the next break.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
When I go running, that's when it's going to be
up there.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And then I had just have to hold it till
the rest of the hold it to the rest.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
No, it's not too late. That's never happened. That's what crashed.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
Now.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
I just whispered in my ear.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I'll like you to know that happens, but not yet.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, no, no, I've been pretty good. Let's get back.
We've been sidetracked here. Let's get back to the seven
thousand steps.
Speaker 13 (14:29):
I found that if you walk seven thousand steps per
day as opposed to two thousand, you decrease your risk
of a lot of these health outcomes by about six
to forty seven percent. In addition, if you pushed beyond
seven thousand steps to ten thousand or twelve thousand, there
was really a very small incremental benefit. So maybe seven
thousand is more of the sweet spot.
Speaker 11 (14:48):
This might be the best news of the day really,
because you do you think there's a lot of people
that do this, the ten thousand steps?
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Oh I do you know them?
Speaker 10 (14:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I'm just a slow That's what the
problem is.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
It's like five miles a day.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I know, my poor wife tries to get me to
walk all the time, and I, you know, I just
then my kids, thank God, go with her. But I
always say no, seven ten warning before we get to
Joe Neumayer, can we just sit back and be in
awe of a second? In for a second of Venus Williams.
(15:27):
Venus Williams is forty five years old. She hasn't been
in tennis for a year. You know, she's been playing,
but not professionally. It's not the same thing to go
out and play with your kids or play with a friend.
So she comes back and competes in the City Open
in Washington, d C. Again, some of the top ranked
players in the world half her age, less than half
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her age, and she wins.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
The entire thing.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Now that is shocking in and of itself, because she
came back to compete and everybody's go, why are you
coming back? You're forty five, And then she wins. And
they interviewed her afterwards and they said to her, so,
why did you come back? And her answer was more
shocking than the win.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I had to come back for the insurance because they
informed me earlier this year, I'm on Cobra.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
So it's like I got to get my benefits on her.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
I started training.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Here's the best answer ever.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
And she said that on a microphone, and that's why
you hear the laugh in the crowd.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
That was the first thing she said.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I mean, look, I hope that's true because that is
such a wonderful story. But I can't believe that Venus
Williams is struggling to pay any medical bills.
Speaker 11 (16:44):
I know, but do you know what to hear someone
like that talk about Cobra, something we all talk about.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Oh, I gotta go on Cobra is phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
No, I think that was all said tongue in cheek.
At least I certainly hope it is. Now let's get
to Joe Neumeier, film journalist and wo R Movie Minute critic.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Good morning, Joe, Morning Larry.
Speaker 10 (17:08):
We've got another superhero movie this weekend. Who could have
guessed right? Usually every summer has at least two. As
you know, I wasn't crazy about Superman, but everyone loved it,
so maybe I'm in the wrong on that. But I
got to tell you, I'm much more enthusiastic about the
new one. It's the fantastic Four First Steps, which is
kind of a hard name to say. They could have
(17:29):
just called it, you know something else, the Fantastic four
First Steps.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
It is.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
It's essentially the second reboot of The Fantastic Four, which
I always thought, you know, it was Marvel's first comic
back in like nineteen sixty one or sixty two. I
always thought it was going to be unfilmable because if
they had tried, like three other times. One was a
cheap o version in the nineties that if you ever
see it on YouTube, it's actually pretty pretty comical and quaint.
(17:53):
And then there was the bigger budget sort of one
in like two thousand and six with Chris Evans as
the human Torks. And then there was a dreadful one
in twenty fifteen that was all dark and kind of
like a horror film. They got it right, They finally
got it right. It's not fantastic, no pun intended, but
I'm giving it a solid three stars. It's really entertaining
for anyone who doesn't know it's it's essentially, like they
(18:15):
call them Marvel's First Family.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
It's it's four.
Speaker 10 (18:18):
Characters who become superheroes after getting bashed by cosmic rays
in a spaceship. You do not see the origin story.
No spoiler here, you don't see the origin story. You
hear about it. Thank goodness, because we don't need anything
like that again, just like in you know, Superman or
Spider Man movies. We don't need to see Uncle Ben
die again. But it's really fun. It's said in a
retro nineteen early sixties, so it's almost like mad Men
(18:41):
or something, but it's on an alternate Earth. So the
Fantastic Four have come back and there after a few
years like they're beloved by humanity, and their powers are
I've always thought they were sort of not really cinematic.
They do them really well. There's a threat by the
one of their famous villains is named Galactus, this big
giant guy who eat planets, and the Silver Surfer who
(19:02):
hears a female silver surfer named Shalah Ball shows up.
And you know, the point is it is just it's
the right tone. It's it's light without being jokey, and
it's actionally without being overwhelming or clanky. I was, you know,
happily surprised by it. So three stars for the Fantastic Four,
not four stars, but a solid three stars for the
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Fantastic Four first.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Steps have.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
All the other iterations of the Fantastic Four failed at
the box office?
Speaker 10 (19:31):
Well, the first one was the first one in two
thousand and six was a hit for Fox, and then
the sequel to that, which is called Rise of the
Silver Surfer was not. The last one that they did
in twenty fifteen was a huge bomb and lost a
lot of money and sort of famously so. And then
the one in the nineties was just like almost like
straight to video or something. So they've all it has
not been a successful that Like I say, that one
in two thousand and six that started, uh kind of
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two movies back then, but they were they were not
big enough hits. The cast wasn't really right. Michael Chickliss
played the Thing, you know, the big rock big guy.
Those of us who grew up on comic books, we
know these things. You know. He was kind of wearing
actual sort of you know, foam makeup or something, so
he actually looked good. And I like Michael Chicklis but
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here it's it's you know, he's a cgi character, the Thing.
And Vanessa Kirby plays the Invisible Woman, and I love her.
I think she's really terrific actually, and almost everything. I
just was really knocked out, you know, it was just
really or not knocked out. I would let me just
say I was really pleasantly surprised but that they were
able to do this, because I just thought, again, they
were gonna try, and it was gonna be too dorky,
you know, for you for trying, but great use.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Of the word dorky.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I appreciate that. I'm so glad they kept trying. I
thought that I thought the whole franchise was dead. To
take it the truth, I don't think it was ever
going to be re erected, and so I'm glad it
was because it was one of my favorite comic books
as a kid. And and so I think there's a
lot of people out there that love the Fantastic Four.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
So you see this doing well, I.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
Do, maybe not Superman numbers, it maybe not won't soar
that high, but I see it doing really well. And
they're gonna integrate these characters now into other Marvel movies.
And there's even sort of a little bit of a
nod because remember remember the Incredibles from like twenty years ago,
the Great Animated Pixar Pixar's greatest film, The Incredibles, which
was sort of an homage to the Fantastic Four. There's
almost a little bit of that in here too. You know,
(21:23):
The Incredibles used a lot of sort of James bond
sixties kind of feel, and this movie sort of has
a little bit of that too, although you know, not
quite James Bondie, but it kind of has that same
sense of style. So I think people will That's the
other thing. It really feels fresh. It doesn't feel like
all the other Marvel movies. It feels like something totally different,
and you don't have to have seen, you know, twenty
(21:44):
years of Marvel movies to know where you are with it.
It's a They did a lot of things right with this,
and the director also did WandaVision on TV, which I liked.
So so it's got a lot of things right. I
think it's gonna make some money and at the very least,
it's making these characters relevant again, right, which they they
had not been. I think forout the last you know,
twenty five years of movies, people were sort of like
a Fantastic four, we can't bring him into the movies.
(22:05):
They brought him in they you know, it's a stretch,
but they did it.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, you know, they They've gotten every major star. And
I'm trying to think of what they haven't done as
a movie that might be successful. I know that Marvel
had a lot of franchises they made into series that
never were movies, like Daredevil, which was successful. It was
really successful. I don't know why they they that's a
test run. I don't know why they see it right there,
(22:30):
this is successful. Why don't we make it a movie?
Speaker 9 (22:33):
Right?
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Well, I think they kind of he was in the
Last spider Man movie. The you know, so that character
they brought in Daredevil, the TV guy Charlie I forget
his name, but they brought him Charlie Cox. They brought
him in as a cameo for the Last Spider Man movie. Right.
I always thought, you know, a character named Nova from
the seventies would be a fun chore. And again, that's
kind of spacey, and this is kind of a movie
that takes place in space, and I guess they were
(22:54):
going to try and do Howard the Duck. I never
really got into Howard the Duck.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
I it was a huge failure.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
It was right, Oh that that's exactly what that's you exactly.
The one of the eighties is horrible. They're gonna try
and bring him in though, because he shows up in
one of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, so that
I think they're gonna try and do it right. There's
no way you can do any worse than the one
from the eighties. That the thing is, that's like a
bad drug trip. If you ever watched that Howard the
Duck movie, that is just that's a that's a nightmare,
this nightmare inducing thing.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Going back to when I was like ten, I love
Justice League of America. Oh yeah, And I'm shocked that
that hasn't been because that has so many cast members
working together, just like the Justice League. I guess it
gets unwieldy when you have that many characters.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
Right, it does. And you know they're trying to do
that a little bit in the in the Superman movie.
This is certainly no spoiler because everyone who has seen
it by now knows, uh. You know, they try and
you see the Giant Hall of Justice like in the
in the animated one, and there's a bunch of characters
in there that are that that are kind of fresh
to the to the movies Hawk Girl or whatever, mister Terrific.
Sure they're trying to do that with the Superman movie.
(23:58):
Uh so, who knows. I think, you know, go all
out and bring in guys like the Elongated Man and
Hawkman and all these things they've tried in various iterations.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
The animated one from the seventies is always the one,
the high watermark if you have me for you know,
the super Friends, but it's it would be fun if
they did it, if they could do it, I don't know,
and make it light, make it make it fun like Superman.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
To agree absolutely, and I feel like you're coming around
on Superman a little bit.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Yeah, you know, it's funny because I've been talking about
it a lot since it's open, and people have sorted
been saying, oh, you know, and I haven't seen it.
I only saw it once. I kind of want to
see it again because maybe I missed something. Maybe I
went in expecting something that was as good as the
nineteen seventy eight Christopher Reversion. Nothing really could be, so
maybe my expectations were high, and I think that I
maybe need to go in and now knowing what is
Some movies are like that. You know, you go in
(24:46):
the second time knowing that it's not quite this thing,
and you end up having a better time or see
things you didn't see. So maybe it's I see things
for the second or third time sometimes just to have
a fresh set of eyes on it. And maybe this
is the one. Maybe I need to have a they
put my my super laser vision on it a little
bit more, you know, focus on take off my clerk
Kent glasses and see it for what it is because
people love it.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, I'd love to find that'd be great. We have
to talk about that in the future if you see
it again. Joe Neumeyer, thank you so much.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
Thanks Larry, how good weekend.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Joe Neumeyer, film journalist, w of R, movie Minute host.
When we come back, my final thoughts, a recap of
today's show, talk Back of the Morning and the Sea
Crane Radio talk Back of the Week.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
On Minty in the Morning on WR. Here's Larry and
some final thoughts.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Well, the Jeffrey Epstein case is challenging all of us,
all of our core values. It is certainly caused self
introspection on my part, much of it because of you,
the listeners who have reacted vociferously and emotionally, both on
radio and on social media. When I said we should
just move on and trust me, I have listened. I
(26:01):
do have a tendency, a tendency to focus every story
through a political filter. Who can gain the most seats,
how would hurt an agenda? But through it all, I
do research and I do listen, and trust me, I
research a lot. I came across two things I hadn't
thought of. I had argued that you couldn't release the
(26:23):
names because of lawsuits and an allegation itself isn't proof
of any crime. And then I heard the argument from
Congressman Pete Sessions that there are hundreds of hours of
videos with recognizable faces. That provides the identity a name
(26:44):
to go with the face, and it also provides indisputable
proof of a crime of statutory rape and engaging in prostitution.
Hadn't thought of that? And then I heard an interview
with any Farmer, a victim of Jeffrey Epps's Julaane Maxwell,
and dozens of powerful men who visited Pedophile Island. She
(27:06):
was only sixteen. She was one of the few victims
brave enough to shed her anonymity to come forward and
testify against Maxwell. She was willing to testify against Epstein
before he died. Why she wants accountability, She still wants
it today and her only fear is that the people
(27:29):
who took advantage of her and her friends will never
have to pay, will never be held accountable. You know what,
politics be damned. Sometimes you need a voice from the
innocent to set you straight. Identify the men on those
tapes and prosecute them. Coming up next, Mark Simone welcomes
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cosmetic surgeon doctor Arthur Perry and comedian Jackie Martling. Plus
listen for the keyword after the ten o'clock news, Then
head to seven ten WR dot com for your chance
at one thousand dollars. Now a recap of today's show,
WR and newsmac's host Rob Astorino thinks the Trump administration
(28:13):
lawsuit against Eric Adams may actually be a good thing
for the mayor politically.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
This probably does not hurt Adams in a city like
New York because again it's it's overwhelmingly Democrat and the electric.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
They thought he was way too close to Trump.
Speaker 10 (28:29):
So a lawsuit by the Trump administry administration and attacks
by the administration on Adams doesn't necessarily hurt him.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Representative for New York seventeenth District Mike Lawler talked about
what went into his decision to pull out of the
race for governor.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Of New York.
Speaker 14 (28:46):
I met with President in person for about an hour.
The President certainly expressed his perspective of how important the
House majority is, but ultimately this was my decision, and
at the end of the day, one of the reasons
why I took me six months to work through it
was because I actually like what I'm doing. Look, I'm
thirty eight years old. There's a long road ahead, and
I'm a big believer life works out the way it's
(29:07):
supposed to, and whatever the future holds it hold.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
ABC News Washington bureau chief Rickline is surprised at how
long the Jeffrey Epstein story has been able to stay
at the top of the media's radar.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
As more information comes out The Walst Eternal the New
York Times have having details of aspects of their relationship
and how close Trump and Epstein themselves where it is baffling.
Trump is used to having control over media narratives, and
he's lost those for now three weeks, which is an
eternity in trump Land.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Professor of TV and pop culture at Syracuse University, Robert
Thompson believes the relationships we develop with celebrities through media
has a big impact on our lives.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
There's a sense that some of these people a musician
you listen to all the time, or a TV show
you watch a lot, you actually spend more time with
them than you do with many of the people that
you love deeply. And I think there is a and
then when they go that there's some sort of loss.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
And the talk back of the Morning and winner of
the Mente in the Morning T Shirt had a touching
comment about the loss of so many cultural icons this week.
Speaker 15 (30:14):
Malcolm, Jamal Warner, Connie Francis, Chuck Mangione, Haulk Hogan, Ozzy Osbourne,
Larry I don't know how old you are, but my
youth seems to be a figure in the far distance
that grows banter every day.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Yeah, I got a feel and we're near the same age,
well said, very touching. Thank you for all your incredible
talkbacks this week. They're always adding so much to the show.
But you know what, we don't think anything can top
that one. So our winner today is also our talkback
of the Week and the winner of the Sea Crane
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