Hour 4: Movie franchise revival

Movie franchise revival.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Friday to you. We keep inching closer to the
week and gonna be rainy for most of this, but Sunday,
Sunday's the day. Sunday is going to be great in
the Big Three. This is a shocking story to NYPD.
Officers had been suspended pending further investigation when it was

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discovered they were working security for the men who kidnapped
and tortured an Italian tourist for his crypto passwords.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
If you're working off duty without authorization, you could be suspended,
You could even be terminated as a police officer.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, well, they didn't have authorization. There is no evidence, however,
and one of the officers, by the way, was on
Mayor Eric Adams detail. Again, there's no evidence that the
officers took part in the torture, although one of the
officers allegedly picked up the victim at the airport. One
of the heroes of the aftermath of nine to eleven

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Police Mission, Or Bernard Carrick, is dead.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Don't think there are very few people in my life
that I relied on more than Bernie Carrick, Nor are
there too many people in my life.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Actually, there was no one in my life who was
braver than he was. That's former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Carrick
had a fall from grace. You'll remember when he spent
time in prison for tax fraud. Carrick was sixty nine
years old. Dozens arrested after protests over a high school
student deported in New York. The high school student from

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the Bronx after showing up for a scheduled immigration hearing.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
He is a.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Student, a hard worker, a family.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Now he is actually the father figure to two siblings
because his dad passed away and his mom is a widow.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Trump administration does have to come out and address this.
So far, they have been silent. I guess they're figuring
out who is the blame and who did this, and
it's finally happening. James Comer is calling White House staff
to testify as to who was running the White House
when Joe Biden was in office and who was more

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importantly signing important executive orders and other documents when President
Biden just could not Many.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Of those documents were signed on days where Joe Biden
was anywhere near the White House. There's no evidence of
any email communication between the president and the staffers.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
How about this. The FBI is ready to make public
formally classified documents on several high profile cases, including the
death of Jeffrey Epstein. I heard Dan Bongino talking about
the videos which he has seen, and he says there
is no indication from the videos, it makes clear even
though there was only one camera not working, all the

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others were. Nobody was there, nobody showed up. He believes
from the videos it was suicide. A ceasefire agreement is
now on the table for Hamas to agree to.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
Special Envoy Witkoff and the President submitted a seats fire
proposal to Hamas that Israel backed and supported. Israel signed
off on this proposal before it was sent to Hamas.
I can also confirm that those discussions are continuing.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
I know we've gone more than three right now, but
come on, we can't leave out the next.

Speaker 6 (03:23):
I'm the New York Niques of what elimination in the eye,
and they are alive and kicking. And now the series
to game six in Indy with the Pacer League cut
three games to.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Two, six o'clock tomorrow in Indianapolis. Now let's get to
doctor Arthur Caplan, professor of bioethics at New York University
len Gone Medical Center. Good morning to you, doctor. Hey, Hey,
glad you're here today. Hey, this is I don't know
whether to think this is a great thing or it's
a little bit of a scary thing that doctors can

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now test embryos for autism, well sort of.

Speaker 7 (04:03):
There are many many genetic tests are popping up almost monthly,
new ones. Because you may remember, Larry, we map the genome,
meaning we have a pretty good idea of what our
genes letter by letter, DNA letter by DNA letter read.
On the other hand, we also know that autism is

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partly caused by genetics. I know, RFK Junior keeps saying
it's in some kind of environmental boxin, but the studies
have shown that there are about one hundred genes involved
that put you at risk of autism. That's not purely genes,
to be fair to Kennedy, but it's partly so. The
tests can pick up some of those genes, but they

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can't pick up all of them. Some couples are saying, well,
I don't want a kid with autism. I don't think
they're getting counseled properly because there's a whole spectrum or
range of outcomes with autism, and a parent needs to
hear about that. Companies they're pushing the testing because they
make money from it. The other reason to be a
little skeptical is that a test it's not that accurate yet,

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let's just put it that way. So I'm a little wary.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Right, But it is a little scary about what the
future is going to be if we can start studying embryos.
You know, when does it for the perfect child? I mean,
can you make determinations on whether you want to take
a child to birth based on what you find out
from a genetic test. It just seems like it's getting

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down the path where that we don't want to go.

Speaker 7 (05:39):
No, well, that path is definitely coming. You know, it's
easy to do sex determination quietly. People do pick the
gender that they want sorting embryos looking for male and female.
That test is pretty strong. It's expensive, but you can
do it. I do think we're headed that way, and
I think the times talk about how far we can

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go is now. I don't have a big problem with
clear cut diseases. You tell me you don't want a
child born with sickle cell disease. You don't want a
child born with tas acts disease or something even that's
going to shorten their life. They can't live without a
ton of suffering. Okay, maybe that's going to be acceptable,
but when we get to the blue eyes and the

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selection for freckles, and you know, sort of the beauty
side of things, it makes me very nervous.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
I'm so glad you mentioned how wide the spectrum is
on autism, and I know they did widen the spectrum
of years ago, and that's one of the reasons there's
so many cases, because there's so many different types of
people that have them. But I have two, a Nissan
and nephew, both with autism. And I've worked closely with

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the with the with the societies that deal with autism.

Speaker 8 (07:00):
And I.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Was surprised when you were say most of the studies
bring it down to genes, because I was told over
and over again, we don't know what the cause is.

Speaker 7 (07:12):
Well, these gene studies are all within the past couple
of years, so new data coming in very very fast.
Definitely got a genetic component, there's no doubt, but it's complex.
It's not a simple gene. You know, if you have
Huntington's disease. It's like one gene mistake and to get
it cystic fibrosis, same sort of thing. This is dozens
of errors that put you at risk. But it's not

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a simple, simple one gene. You got autism. By the way,
that's probably why there's a spectrum. You know, everybody's there from.
I have a friend who's got a child in an institution.
I have a friend whose autistic child this week graduated
with a master's degree in computer science. So you know,
it's a complex condition because many genes, many contributing factors.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Oh yeah, some genius people with Aspergers and Aspergers Gates.

Speaker 7 (08:05):
Probably is Aspergers.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, and they're on the spectrum. And I've met people
in wheelchairs that can't speak. As a matter of fact,
I have a story about of a gentleman that was
in a wheelchair and he couldn't speak for years, and
they finally got a computer for him to talk, and
they said, what have you been doing all this time?
He said, listening, And he was very smart. It was

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it was really yeah, yeah, it was. It was kind
of a shame. Let's talk about Secretary Kennedy announcing removing
COVID nineteen vaccines for children and pregnant persons taking that
off the recommending schedule. What do you think.

Speaker 7 (08:41):
I don't like the pregnant removal. I think that does
prevent a disease to babies. Remember, newborns don't have an
immune system, so they're really vulnerable to catching infections. They
depend on the mom's immune system when they're insider, and
then they transmit that immunity for at least a couple
of weeks when the baby's born, but they don't build

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their own immunity for a while. So I think pregnant women,
even though it's rare, I think the vaccine's safe. I
think they can do the job. I think there they
made a mistake. I would not take it off to
recommend their list for pregnant women. Children are not all
the same. I'll put it this way, Larry. The reason
you want to vaccinate to protect kids is if you've

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got one of those kids who's got diabetes cancer, ben,
the mom may wan vaccinate or the siblings as kids,
because they're going to expose that kid who's vulnerable to COVID.
So part of the thought is who needs to get
it to protect themselves? But I think they underestimate a
little bit. There are kids that want to vaccinate to

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protect their brothers and sisters, to protect somebody else.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Doctor Arthur Kaplan, Professor of Bioethics at New York University
Land Going Medical Center. Doctor, thanks for your time. Having
a good weekend.

Speaker 7 (09:57):
Hey, thanks, Arry?

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Absolutely would you spend one hundred and forty dollars for
a seafood buffet? Since I can almost hear you saying no,
let me add that the reviews compare it to a
resort vacation. We'll talk about it next and presenting the
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another once at a lifetime event. All right, we're wrapping

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up the contest. The caller of the Morning is going
to be announced in about a half hour, I should say,
the talk back of the Morning but you're you know,
you're kind of calling in. Do you go to the
talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. You look for seven
to ten WI and there's a microphone there, and that's
how you leave your talkbacks.

Speaker 9 (11:04):
My father lived in ninety five on his own, in
his own apartment, and he says something very interesting. He said,
as you age, the things that were easy become difficult,
and the things that were difficult become impossible. So you
have to adapt and learn how to change and do
the same things you used to do in a different way.
He also said, when you stop moving, your die and

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he stopped driving at ninety three, and at ninety three
he learned how to use a computer.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Wow, that's that was a great homage to your your grandfather,
very very wise, wise man.

Speaker 10 (11:36):
I missed part of the show yesterday and I was
wondering if you had commented on the hazing scandal at
the Seaton Hall baseball team. There was an article in
yesterday's Post and I found it very disturbing.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
No, I didn't, and it is extremely disturbing. And Natalie
has close ties to Seaton Hall and she came in
until me all about it and she was shocked too.
She was shocked to the point and you can back
me up on this, Natalie, that you couldn't even tell
me some of the things that happen.

Speaker 11 (12:09):
Oh, the details are horrific. You know, you've heard the
culture of sports teams and hazing and these what they
call traditions. I mean, there's nothing that you should call
tradition about this. And if it's true, heads after roll.
So there's enough people that had to have known what

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was going on.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
If this is all true, this has happened. I thought
we got rid of this. I know, I thought there
was laws against it. I thought we stopped it at universities.
I know that some of the fraternities that took part
in this in the past, and some of the sports
teams that took part in this past have had suspensions.
And I don't know how to get through And I
don't even know what the culture is that causes this
kind of stuff.

Speaker 11 (12:52):
Right, And I mean there was physical abuse, allegations, sexual misconduct.
It's just really that in according to the report, the coach.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Knew what it seems to be every time. It just
seems to be every time, and so that's why they
do it. If they know that the coach is okay
with it. Of course they're gonna do well. We'll talk more
about that on Monday, but thanks for bringing it up.
It's just it sickens me. Well, how about this one
of the most expensive all you can eat buffets in

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the country. Would shun people with the price. There's no
way you can see the price and go, you know
what a buffet one hundred and forty bucks. I'm there.
There's no way most people would go have a one hundred.
There's two of you. You have to go by yourself
for two hundred and eighty bucks.

Speaker 11 (13:50):
I mean, there's a lot of things in the city
that are that expensive. There are you know, high end
Michelin Star restaurants. But you hear buffet and you're like,
you're gonna get a deal. Well, and you hear what's
at this buffet?

Speaker 1 (14:03):
First?

Speaker 11 (14:04):
You know it took a lot.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Well, we're talking about this because a guy named John
Barr of Brooklyn, New York made the journey to the
Nordic in Rhode Island for the one hundred and forty
dollars buffet of seafood and filet mignon.

Speaker 12 (14:20):
Unlimited lobster crab legs, oysters, clams, seafood in every form imaginable.
The crab legs easily the star, but the land food
shocked me. Prime rib, perfectly seasoned steak. This wasn't just
a buffet, It was a feast. Then came dessert, custom milkshakes,
build your own Sundays, a full wall of cakes, cookies
and pies on a nice day, bonfires, long games, and

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live music by the water, all of it for one
hundred forty dollars.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
A person. Does that guy work for the place. He doesn't.
He's really good, he's excellent. He was sold at the end.
I mean, if he doesn't do reviews, he should be
doing reviews. That was wow, Well that was wonderful. Now
let's get the news at nine to thirty with Jacqueline
Carl Jacqueline.

Speaker 13 (15:05):
Hey, Larry, good morning. President Trump's tariff plan is being
reinstated by a federal appeals court for now. The court
granted the administration's request to pause a lower courts ruling
that blocked most of Trump's tariffs on other countries. And
the New York Knicks are still alive after beating the
pacers at Madison Square Garden last night.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Jalen Brunson had thirty two points for the Knicks as
they beat the Pacers one eleven ninety four in Game five.
But it wasn't just Brunson. Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau very
impressed with Karl Anthony Towns in the first half.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
I thought he was very aggressive, and I think that's
super important.

Speaker 10 (15:40):
I think jailing as well.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
I thought the first quarter that's hurt the tone for
the game.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
The garden was rocking, with Knicks fans chanting nix and
seven in the final moments of the game. The Knicks
trail the best of seven series three games to two
as they head back to Indiana for Game six Saturday.
I'm Scattpringle WRDWS, so we have.

Speaker 13 (15:58):
Some mixed reviews on what went on during a plane
delay Delta flight in Orlando. A couple of hours went by,
but during this time, someone got the idea to give
a young girl access to the plane's intercom system so
she could sing a Disney song. So video has been
trending on the unnamed girl treating her fellow passengers to

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her rendition of how far I'll go from Moana. I
don't have that, but I have the song, so you
know it from Mohana.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
No One a Lord.

Speaker 13 (16:32):
So you need some lung capacity for this now. Some
parents might get all weepy and overwhelmed by the adorable factor.
Others who saw the video called it their worst nightmare
and reason not to get that real id.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
How would you think?

Speaker 13 (16:45):
What would you think if some little gal or guy
got a hold of that, they gave it to him,
you know, the the intercom system, and they were treating
you to Disney songs.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
I would think it's adorable.

Speaker 13 (16:57):
Oh, Larry, you're surprising me today.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Well shut for kids. I have a soft spot for kids.
I would think it was as absolutely adorable. I would too,
I would I have a soft spot for kids.

Speaker 13 (17:09):
I would think unless it was really grating and they
kept singing it over and and I might say, all right,
you don't know how far I'll go to get you
off this on this microphone.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
How about you, Natalie? I know you.

Speaker 11 (17:21):
I love kids, obviously, but I can understand maybe not
wanting to hear the entire song. Give us, you know,
a couple of a couple of chords. Yeah, you know,
we got stuff to do.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
If I saw anybody like rolling their eyes, I would
stand and applaud to try to start a standing ovation.
That's probably the best way to end it. By the way,
just to a standing ovation to say great job. That
was wonderful. I'm sure she was great. I gotta go
find this.

Speaker 13 (17:48):
Yeah, I know I was looking for it, but I said,
let me at least give them mo On a song
so they know which one and how like, how loud
and passionate you have to sing this song? Anyway, heading
over to Wall Street. At the opening, bell Dow opened
down one hundred and twenty four points, S ANDP opened
down nineteen points, and the NASDAC opened down sixty nine points.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Thanks so much, Jacqueline Carl Are you going to go
see the new Karate Kid? Before you answer, you might
want to hear what the movie minute guy Joe Newmeyer
has to say about it. He's next. Before we get
to Joe Newmyer, if you were watching the NIXT game
last night and you saw the cutaway that went viral
of one of the camera guys blowing a bubble, that

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was Crash, who is our board op. Crash was blowing
a bubble during the game. They took a shot of
him and that went everywhere. Congratulations. I would love to
go viral someday. Nice job. Now let's get the Joe Newmeyer,
film journalist, wr movie Minute host. Good morning Joe, Good
morning Larry.

Speaker 14 (18:53):
So we've got a a franchise reboot this weekend. I
don't know, have you seen me the ads that they've
kind of been, you know, kind of out there but
not out there. It's it's called Karate Kid Legends. I'm
sure like you like me, like grew up on those
Karate Kid movies a little bit. Yeah, this one. I'm
giving it one star though it's it's kind of yeah,

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I'm kind of oh, I know, a karate chop right
to the box office of Karate Kid Legends. You know,
here's the thing. The movie like try so hard to
sort of be like those movies from the eighties and
that first Karate Kid movie. I gotta say, like when
you rewatch it, like it's really sweet. It's got a
good message. The nineteen eighty four version with Ralph Macho,

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and it's kind of, you know, back in those days,
it kind of had like an innocence and it kind
of had like a good message about about trying to
kind of find your calling or deal with adversity through
through you know, martial arts or whatever the case may be.
This movie sort of tries so hard to be that
that it's kind of pitiful, like you kind of like,
you know, you kind of want to pat it on
the head and say, you know, good job. I get

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what you're trying to do. Do this for kids nowadays,
but it doesn't really work. And the big stick of
the movie, obviously, the big hook is that it combined.
Ralph Maccio shows up and then and then Jackie Chan
shows up. And Jackie Chan was in the earlier reboot
from twenty ten, which was called The Karate Kid, which
although he is teaching kung fu, so let's not ask

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too many questions on that, right, I guess The Kung
Fu Kid doesn't sound as good. So there's a you know,
a new young actor named Ben Wang who the two
of them trained because there's a bully in his high
school that he has to deal with. You know, I'm
all for this kind of thing for young kids. It
kind of you know, I think young audiences might appreciate
the kind of the enthusiasm and the optimistic energy of it,

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but anybody older than ten or eleven is kind of
going to look at it and feel like it's kind
of childish. And I never saw did you ever watch
Cobra Kai? I never saw that series that was streaming whatever,
like six seasons or something.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, I watched a lot of it, but I lost interest.

Speaker 14 (20:58):
Yeah, yeah, I never I know, had the interest. I
heard it was good, I never watched it. So this
is this doesn't sort of even acknowledge any of that.
So it's one star. And the thing that I thought
about coming out was that, you know, those first three
Karate Kid movies, which people maybe don't know, were all
directed by the same guy who made Rocky, John g Elvitson.
So it was the same director. And in fact, I
remember in eighty four that was sort of a thing

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that people were talking about, you know that in seventy
six he had done Rocky and in eighty four now
he did Karate Kids, and they kind of have the
same kind of message. Well, this movie has got like
a lot of kind of compilations stuff, so it feels
like it was directed by somebody who had seen like
the clips of the Rocky movies. They didn't really you know,
watch a whole Rocky movie. They saw like all the
training sequences on like a YouTube mashup or something, and

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so this kind of feels like it was directed by
somebody who did that. So one star, I don't know.
I just also feel like it's it's it's one of
these eighties franchise reboots that kind of come around and
don't really work. Last week we were talking a little
bit about Top Gun Maverick and how that that really
worked and so it was a huge box office hit
a couple of years ago. But they rarely work. You know,

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things like the Terminator movies don't time travel from the
they're great in the eighty five and ninety one versions,
the reboots don't work, or the Predator movies I think
don't really work. I guess there's another Highlander coming out,
there's another Predator coming out, and a Tron movie coming
out at the end of this year, like anybody was

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asking for another Tron movie. So one star for Karate
Kid Legends, and it kind of should stay. The Karate
Kid stuff should stay in the eighties where it belongs.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
I'll tell you what, all the movies you just talked
about that are coming out to be reboot none of them.
None of them interest me. But there are there are
some movies from the eighties that should be rebooted that
I have big interest in, like Back to the Future.
I would love to see a new Back to the Future.

Speaker 14 (22:47):
I disagree with you on that only just because I
love that first movie. To me, that's the perfect summer movie,
that first ninet eighty five Back to the Future. So
while the idea is and I even like the two sequels,
Actually the second one's a little weak, but I like
all three of them. If I was on a desert island,
I would take those three movies rather than those first
three Star Wars movies. And a lot of people disagree
with me on that.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
They give you another one. How about Et.

Speaker 14 (23:09):
Yeah, ET's the other one. I don't think they should remove.
He Comes Back, He Comes Back works on Wall Street.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
I think.

Speaker 14 (23:25):
That's right. That's right. Here's the one that's kind of
a deep with that kind of merges a little of
these two conversations. It's called Big Trouble in a Little China.
Did you ever see that one with Kurt Russell. It's
really wacky and fun. Instrected by John Carpenter, who did
Escape from New York and Halloween and it's got a
great Kurt Russell performance, and they were sort of doing

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a little bit of like a John Wayne imitation. It's
sort of a it's kind of like a chop socky
sci fi mashup. I would love to see that, like
a sequel to that, or get you know, Kurt Russell.
He's still fun. I've had you know, lunch with him
one time at sun Dance. He was really fun. A
couple of years ago. He'd be up for it. Let's
get a reboot a big Trouble in Little China going,
because that would be a really fun idea, and maybe

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maybe you know, get a couple of them, get you know,
two or three movies out of them. I don't think
it would be a great idea.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
I think it's really nice. It's kind of adorable that
you have these movies from the eighties that you like
so much you never want them ruined and rebooted. But
I think the fact that they're so big and so
many people love them is exactly the reason they should
be rebooted. And many of them give way to a reboot,
like et Et Comes Home.

Speaker 14 (24:35):
Come on, give them a suit, fifty bucks in a
new suit, Send them out on his way. Yeah, no,
that's true fun idea. But here's the here's the thing
that that I always think of though. I'll give you
two words. Indiana Jones. Those three Indiana Jones movies from
the eighties are fantastic. I love them. I've got the
posters here in my office. But then you know Dial

(24:56):
of Destiny, you know Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I
mean those movies that really they have fun moments that
they should not have been made. And I think that
that that character is sort of the example of of
of a franchise that should have stayed in the eighties,
kept it there, They could have rebooted it in some
other way, but bring it. And I love Harrison Ford,
but bringing him back for that first that one in
two thousand and eight and then the one a couple

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of years ago, I think didn't do the franchise any
any favors. I think it kind of made people think
Indiana Jones, whereas you know Temple of Doom, even the
last one that that from the eighties, Last Crusade, great movies,
so fun.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
How about this one? How about Ferris Bueler's Day Off
where Ferris is now the principal.

Speaker 14 (25:35):
That's a great idea.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
That's amazing.

Speaker 14 (25:39):
That's a great idea. Yeah, that one I'll buy. Yeah,
that one that I'll buy. That's a that's a fantastic Wow.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
I've never gotten that before.

Speaker 14 (25:49):
I'm stunned Larry start writing that, because that's a Yeah,
that's a million dollar or at least one hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
I can't imagine nobody else has thought of that. I
don't know that that's a great idea.

Speaker 14 (26:00):
If someone they would have had it, like a right,
like a breastfoot club, remove would be kind of bad.
Like there's now they're five middle aged you know, office
workers or something like like, and they're all sitting in
their coffee break group or something at their office. But
that's a great idea, Farris Viewler. Yeah. The and one

(26:21):
last thing is we were talking about, uh, we were
talking about karate movies or whatever. It's also just reminded
me of those movies that kind of make like a
I mean, because you'd think like karate or kuntsu are
such visual things, but those like Jackie chan is in
this movie, the Jackie chan movies from the eighties are
really fun and and things like Police Story or a
couple of years ago, somebody introduced me to a couple
of those movies that I had I had never seen,

(26:42):
and they're really fun. So if anyone wants to see
really great sort of kung fu or karate movies, you know,
the like, you know, you can obviously go to the
Bruce Lee movies, but the but the the Jackie Chan
movies from the eighties are fun.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Perfect, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Hey, Joe, we got to go,
Joe Numeyer, film journalist, wr movie minute critic. Don't steal
my idea.

Speaker 14 (27:06):
I'm writing it now.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Thanks a lot, Joe. When we come back, we'll have
a recap of today's show, my final thoughts, and the
talk back of the morning. Let's get some final thoughts
from Larry. This just isn't right. They are the words
from liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan when asked about
district court justices across the country being used to stop

(27:30):
the Trump agenda. Elena Kagan, of course, is a Supreme
Court justice and a liberal one. Democrats have gone to
federal district court one hundred and eighty one times to
stop Trump policy. That's more than any other president, not
just at this point in their presidency for the whole term,

(27:52):
more than Biden over four years, more than Obama or
Bush over eight years each. As a matter of fact,
if you add up the court injunctions from those twenty
years from all three of those presidents, you don't come
close to the district court injunctions against Trump. And if
you take the past one hundred years, sixty two percent

(28:15):
of all injunctions against presidents have been against Donald Trump
since the Revolutionary War, ninety two percent have been made
by justices nominated by Democrats. That's not a big surprise.
Need any more proof that this is a political strategy.
If you can't beat them at the ballot box, beat

(28:36):
them in court. Why haven't we heard more about this? Well,
you know, it's the exact same reason that we didn't
hear about President Biden's declining mental capacity as much as
we should have. The media only covers, only cares about
anti Trump stories. An anti Biden story they cover up

(28:58):
even lay about. Just watch any time the mainstream media
reporters ask Trump a question and then tell me I'm wrong.
We were promised a bill to limit district court rulings
to only that district, not nationwide, but as usual by
some of the Republicans, promises, promises and no action. So

(29:20):
we're looking at the Supreme Court. We know we already
have the vote of one liberal judge, Eleda Kagan. It
seems like a slam dunk. We just need that ruling
because this has got to stop. And remember this, by
the way, when time comes for the district court judge nominations,
the Democrats outplayed the Republicans. It's time now to fight fire.

(29:46):
With fire coming up next, Mark Simone welcomes political strategist
Ed Rollins and comedian Jackie Martling. Now a recap of
today's show. ABC News Washington Bureau chief Rick Kline try
his best to make sense of the mess surrounding tariffs
at the moment right now.

Speaker 8 (30:05):
The latest is, I can understand it if you follow
this balancing ball, is that the tariffs are still in
effect such as they are, although you know Trump has
been waiving some of them or delaying some of them
as he tries to negotiate with entities like the EU
or sign one off agreement. So you're right, it's a
confusing one.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
WLR and Newsmax host Rob Astorino is worried about the
potential of socialists or in mom Donnie winning the New
York City mayor race.

Speaker 14 (30:32):
Oh my god.

Speaker 15 (30:33):
Yes, this guy is frightening if he actually gets in,
because if he gets in, there's no rails. There's no
Republican city council. There's no moderate, normal city council. There
is a city council stuffed with imbeciles and ignoramuses like
this guy, and so they will go along with a

(30:54):
lot of what he wants.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
ABC News investigative reporter Peter haral Ambu's believes despite the
battle with Donald Trump, Harvard had a good few days recently.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yesterday, altho He's considered it was a big win for Harvard.
They got a judge to issue a preliminary injunction that's
blocking the Trump administration from carrying out its plan to
prevent them from enrolling international students. There was a temporary
order last week that's now been extended. The Department of
Homeland Security actually backtracked on their demands from Harvard in
a way, giving them more time. And all of this

(31:27):
came as Harvard celebrated its annual commencements.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Futurist reporter Kevin Surreally shares the secret to a long life.

Speaker 16 (31:37):
There's a place in Aquinowa, Japan, which has the highest
concentration of individuals who have aged higher than one hundred,
and Sardinia, Italy is the second highest. And what he
found is that it's not again that they're lifting weights
or running ultra marathons. They've got a daily rhythm.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
We had a tremendous amount of great talkbacks today, Thanks
so much for that on some pretty serious topics. But
the winner of Menti in the Morning T shirt for
the talk back of the Morning wanted to tell us
about his family and what they called the n piece
of bread.

Speaker 11 (32:17):
At least of my Puerto Rican household.

Speaker 7 (32:19):
We called it el kulitos, loosely translated means the butt
of the bread.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Have a good day. That's such a pretty word for butt.
It is right. I like that. Yeah, you're a pain
in my el calito. I love that. Don't forget to
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