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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And good morning, Larry MENSI here with Laura Kern. We
now have seen the face of the assassin who killed
United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the streets of New
York this week, and we know what those words written
on the shellcasings now mean.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Deny delay depose variations of the maximum deny delay defend,
which is actually the name of a book. These are
sayings and you can find them all over the internet
and read it and other postings about insurance company practices
of trying to find ways out of paying on claims
that they are disputing.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That all goes to motive. But the search is still on.
The killer tonight is still on the loose. Another day
of deliberations in the Daniel Penny manslaughter trial, and as
it drags on, more and more people are predicting this outcome.
Any quick verdict is out the window. So we're trending
in the direction of a possibility of a hang jury.
(00:58):
And Pete Hegsath will not go quietly into the night.
He is fighting in the halls of Congress, surrounded by reporters,
and he had this message for them, And.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'm proud of what I fought for I'm not going
to back down from them one bit.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I will answer all of these senators questions, but this
will not be a.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Process tried in the media. I don't answer to anyone
in this group.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
The nominee for the Secretary of Defense has spent much
of the week meeting with Senators trying to get their
support for confirmation, while President Biden is watching to see
how that goes, and in the meantime, he is reportedly
looking for a replacement in case Hegseth fails. Now, I've
(01:41):
been really excited to talk to our next guest because
the last time I talked to when we were talking
about Mayor Adams, and since then he have a press
conference where Mayor Adams seemed to try to move a
little bit closer to not only the new borders are
Tom Homan, but to Donald Trump. Joe Barelli is the
Minor party leader of the New York City Council from
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Staten Island. Joe, I'm sure you heard or saw what
Mayor Adams said. What do you make of it?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Look, I think it's a step in the right direction.
You know, we've obviously been critical of Mayor Adams throughout
the migrant crisis that was self inflicted, something that he
voluntarily went into and certainly led the charge as the
leading Democrat of the largest city in America. I mean,
so anytime you have someone changing their tune, I'm open
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to it, and I'm glad he's meeting with Tom Hogan.
We actually have a meeting with Tom Hogan ourselves that
same day with our Bipartisan Common Sense Caucus, because we
want to figure out a way to actually begin removing
people who are here, not just here illegally, but who
are committing crimes or have been convicted of crimes in
their whole country. We used to have a system where
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people who wanted to come here would be vetted and
if they were accused of a crime or they were
previously convicted, there's a good chance they wouldn't be left in.
That's all we're asking for. Just go back to before,
you know, before the Trump derangement syndrome took over the
Democratic Party in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen, and go
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back to a time where we did have immigration, but
we had regulated immigration and a better system.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
You know, that's such a good point. And I you know,
pre Trump, we had Obama and there was a record
number of deportations under President Obama that a lot of
people don't even talk about. So, but what I'm curious
to know, just from your point of view, we're seeing,
you know, I think I think Mayor Adams has sort
of hinted about how he feels. He's kind of suggested
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to Albany into Washington that he needs help from his
fellow Democrats that help to deal with the migrant crisis.
That help was not forthcoming. What do you make of
his sort of playing foot seat under the table with Trump,
as I joke, as sort of a brewing bromance. What
do you make of that politically Visavi Eric Adams.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Look, and by the way, Lauria, you're right. I mean
they called Obama the deporter in chief.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
When he was president, and the Progressors were angry, very angry.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
And because you know, to some degree he was doing
the right thing. He was deporting people who were here
committing crimes and doing bad stuff. That's fine. But to
your point about Mayor Adams, I don't think he's playing
foot sea. I think he's trying to just be cooperative
with a federal government that's offering him a lifeline to
solve a real problem faced by New Yorkers. You know,
we have polling and now we have election results showing
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that people are just sick and tired of this crisis.
Even if you thought this was a good idea in
the beginning when there was five thousand people and ten
thousand people and fifteen thousand people, when you got to
the point where you saw two hundred and now fifty
thousand people who come through our system, another seventy are
still in the system, and we're seeing the upticks and crime,
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and we're seeing the downstream quality of life consequences. People
are just sick. So I if someone's throwing you a
lifeline in this case, President Trump, I'm home and and
everyone in between. I think Mayor Adams is right to
try to take up that mantle. I'm trying to put
pressure on him to find a way to end around
our sanctuary city law because it's not fair that we
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can't cooperate with ICE. I mean, think think about it.
Imagine the city Council saying, you know, NYPD is not
going to cooperate with the FBI on the mafia. The
only people who would gain from that are the mafia.
In the same thinking, if we're not cooperating on Trenday
or Raguai or anyone else, the only people who benefit
from that are the gang members and the criminals.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
And guess who's hurt by those gangs. It's other immigrants.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
For the most part, one hundred percent is the same
community and fairness. I point stipulated, right, most of these
folks are coming here for the right intentions. I get it,
but there's bad apples in that bunch, and they're poisoning
in the well and they're probably making it harder for
some compromise to come down the road.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
And the important thing is, though Laura and Joe, is
it's not just other immigrants. Because the NYP came out
and said seventy five percent of the crimes in midtown
Manhattan are committed by those who were here illegally, that
many seventy five percent of the tourists memember. There was
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that gang of juveniles, Joe that was trying to impress
trend de Arragua. And even when they're arrested, because they're juveniles,
nobody could know who they are and they couldn't take
their immigration status. So I just don't understand this is
there I know, the last time we talked, you talked
about a group in city Council that wasn't big enough
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to do some common sense policies when it comes to
sanctuary cities. Is it growing at this point or are
you stuck at a number?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
No.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Look, you know, the elections or council will come around
every four years, so it's tough to grow in the
short term. But we went from two Republicans in addition
to me when I first art in the council ten
years ago. So now we have six Republicans and three
Democrats who conference with us in this common sense caucus.
So we've trippled our numbers in four years. It's still
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not enough we need, really, I mean, if we're being honest,
we need non partisan elections in New York City for
a public office, for municipal offices. That's how most cities
in America basically except for us in Philadelphia, most cities
have non partisan elections. And it forces or rather it
allows the public to vote beyond just you know, for
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people who are the most progressive and most woke who
can win a Democratic primary. It opens up the process
to blanks and independents and Republicans and you get a
more balanced government, and you get a government that's more
accountable to the actual people who care about the potholes,
who care about public safety, who care about the how
their garbage.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Is taken out.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
You know, Joe, I think that's a really interesting idea.
I hadn't heard that about New York City. In Nasau County,
our village elections are not Republican and Democrat. It's just
you know, like the Home Rule Party or that you know,
they make up some name, but it's not so partisan.
And maybe if people can see beyond party and vote
for the issues and the common sense solutions, that could
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be a big help towards New York City succeeding.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I mean at Fearela Wardy, right, there's no Republican or
Democratic way to take out the trash. And that's why
so many cities have adopted this. They've adopted this model
and they're doing better. You just see cities that are
just more accountable to a broader public. Everyone who talks
about voter turnout and how to enfranchise more voters, non
partisan elections at the municipal level of the way to go.
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I am a shameless partisan, by the way, I wear
my Republicanism on the sleeve. And if I was in Congress,
I would be having that you know, elephant red banner
that I'd be waiving as fierce as I can because
in Washington there are two significant ideological differences on how
we government. In New York City, do we want public safety?
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (09:01):
How do we fund the police? It's real practical, common
sense dividing lines that we don't need partisanship.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I agree. Municipal government is about infrastructure, It's about running things,
it's about managing a city. It's not about great ideologies.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Well, no, this has all been about ideologies this administration,
and especially says City Council. Yes, but it is. And
Mike and Joe Burrelli's fighting the good fight. We talked
to and we're running out of time, but we talked
to Vicky Palladino last week and she was just wonderful.
But she came up with a great idea. She talked
about how small the election turnout is for City Council
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and how easy it would be to change that, how
easy it would be able to change City Council because
you don't need that many people to get out there
and vote and I'll tell you what, Joe, I'm all in.
I mean, if you know you need our support, I'm
all in and getting to try to change this because
this city council makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
You're right, She's right. Some races get won by two
thousand votes, one thousand votes. I mean, these are not races.
And again, if we opened it up to everyone registered
to vote, you would see larger turnout and you wouldn't
be as dominated by these leftist advocate groups that really
drive a few hundred votes and actually make a significant impact.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And with that, we gotta go and say it a
Joe Burrelli City council member, minority leader, thanks again, Joe,
and say it ain't so. Thank you and say it
ain't so. Is the Taylor Swift Era's tour coming to
an end? Maybe maybe not. We'll explain next. Welcome back,
Thanks for being with us today. This is Larry Manty,
(10:41):
Laura Kern, and Laura. It is the end of an era.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Yes, and by that you mean tour.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, the eras tour more than one hundred and fifty
shows across five continents. Taylor Swift's record breaking tour is
coming to an end.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Can I just tell you really quickly my experience. It's
going to a tailor.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Oh wow, yeah please.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
So this was the previous tour. I went with a
friend and our kids, and I was never a tailor fan.
My daughters loved her. I was not into her at all.
I gotta tell you, I was bewitched. I was seduced.
I fell in love during this. It was up in
the Gillette Stadium like eighty thousand people, and I felt
like she was talking right to me.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Is she has a kind of magnetism and charisma that
I was not prepared for.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That is so nice to hear from you, because all
I think about you is the person that hates the
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, and so it's nice to hear
your soft signe.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I do have some vulnerability.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah, that's I've heard that story, by the way, time
and time again. You from guys that I know that
were forced to take their, you know, pre adolescent kids
to see Taylor Swift and then they said, after the
first song, I'm standing and singing along and clapping, and
so yeah, no, she has a magnetism.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
She does.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
There's a guy named Rob Sheffield who has a New
York Times Best selling book on tailor Swift and he
talks about her effect.
Speaker 9 (12:10):
She's not a big fan of downtime. As we know,
she's someone who is always restless, and even on this tour,
the biggest stadium tour ever, she made a thirty one
song double album in her spare time. So I think
it's fair to say that she's not going to be
going to a beach and putting her feet up and
not making any new music. She's certainly entitled to do
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that if she wants to. She's more than her in
the right. But from what we know of her, we
know that she likes to work and she likes to
drop surprises on people.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Right, That's a big part of it. She likes to
drop surprises on people. What he says is watch the
last tour on Sunday night because there may be an announcement.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
So does love to announce things, doesn't she? And she
loves to announce things in big moments when she knows
that the world is watching. It seems highly likely that
she might choose that night to drop some kind of bombshell.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Rob Sheffield interrupted, you go ahead.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
No, I had nothing to add. I just wanted to
hear what mister Sheffield has.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
To say no. I mean, it's fascinating what he's said.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
He knows her extremely well, traveled with her, got to
talk to her over a year's time, so he knows
her very well, and she's very thankful for his books. So,
but it does you know, right now, it's amazing when
you go to social media and you hear the people
that are just I guess the word is like they're
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in mourning that this isn't going to continue because there's
so many people that didn't get a chance to see her,
especially so many of her fans.
Speaker 9 (13:46):
People have been thriving on the energy of it, town
to town night after night, even not being there, just
kind of tuning in live streams in the gossip and
so it's kind of a period of morning as well
as celebration.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You know, Billboard magazine the other day, do you know
what I'm gonna say, blame Billboard Magazine the other day
came out with the list of the people that have
had the most influence in the twenty first century pop stars,
the ones that had the most influence. Guess who was
number one? Taylor Swift, Beyonce.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Oh wow, yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
No, you can't see that.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I mean I have.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Young daughters, you know, teenage and a little bit older,
so I kind of have an insight into that culture
more than I would if I was just a regular old,
middle aged lady without daughters, and so that kind of
does track also, although I think at the larger culture,
if I had to pick it, I would say, Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Wait, Jacqueline clarl do are you hearing this? Nope, Nope,
she's not hearing that.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
I need another lady to back me up here.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
The no, she's the biggest Swift to hear. Oh is
Oh yeah, I made the mistake.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
That makes sense. I could see her really, yeah, that
totally makes sense.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
Truck.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
I didn't tru at at all.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I didn't understand that.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
They don't underestimate Beyonce. I mean she is a force
of nature.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Nothing like Taylor Swift. No one has had this impact
since the Beatles.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, you're right.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I understand. It's it's tough, it's one and two, it's
one and two and two. But I mean Taylor Swift
is the quel.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Taylor Swift is just sort of a magical presence. I mean,
it's real, real, star power there.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, and you know her tour set records.
She set records on the charts. She's broken the records.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Got that adorable boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You like Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
He's cute.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, he's like a big dufis, isn't.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
He ault kind of a charm so it's like part
of his charm.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, she is the smart one. She's absolutely the smart one,
and he's just mirror. I get to go with Taylor.
Got an amazing podcast. I don't know if you've seen.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
That Noo and his brother right, yes, and they.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Have huge stars to come on all of the time
because it has such an impact. You can listen to it.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
By the way, we didn't set that up. I promise no,
he didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I just thought of it, and thank god I did,
because somebody would have said, why didn't you mention the
iHeart app when you talked about Kelsey. What's it called?
What's the name of the I can't remember New Heights.
I think it's called New Heights. I know that's a
horrible name. Blades looking at me like it's a horrible name,
but you know, one of my sick can I say
(16:32):
it's it's broken records.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
I'm going to listen.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
No, I I have never listened to the entire podcast.
I see it on Instagram or I see it pop
up on a social media feed. Uh, and they seem
like they're a riot. Jason Kelsey is a star and
he's the smart one in the family. He was the
former center for the Philadelphia Eagles, and you know now
he's in retirement. He got hired, he got a huge
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contract with one of the networks to cover football. And
he's bill acting like a Kelsey. He still drinks out front,
he still gets into fights beforehand. Here's controversy all the time.
But he's very, very very smart. At the same time.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
My interest I love a good podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, absolutely, you gotta listen. I think it's called New Heights.
I'll check on that. Uh. Right after the News with
Jacqueline Carl Good Morning, Jacqueline.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Good Morning. Anthem.
Speaker 10 (17:22):
Blue Cross Blue Shield is halting a decision that drew
outrage from doctors and others.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Blue Cross Blue Shield had previously.
Speaker 10 (17:29):
Announced they wouldn't reimburse anesthesia costs if the surgery went
on for what the insurer.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Deem too long.
Speaker 10 (17:36):
The announcement to halt their decision came one day after
the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the
Delta Airline stow away and a flight from New York
to Paris is charged theirs AI in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Fifty seven year old Svetlana Dolly is accused of being
a stowaway without consent. If convicted, she could face five
years behind bars. Dolly managed to clear JFK Airport security
last week and board a Delta flight to Paris without
showing a boarding pass. The Russian woman who has the
US green cart apparently took advantage of the Thanksgiving holiday
(18:11):
madness to blend him with the crowd. She did not
enter a plea and is being detained until mid afternoon
Friday to give her legal aid lawyer time to work
out a bail deal. Sarah Lee Kessler wor News.
Speaker 10 (18:25):
So here is a feel good story, if ever there
were one. So this woman, Laney Benavidez, was approached by
a stranger at an Arizona walmart and he said he
was hungry and needed food. She didn't hesitate. She gave
him a few debucks. Stranger was actually social media influencer
Jimmy Dartz who rewarded Benavite's kindness with one thousand dollars,
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bringing her to tears.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
It gets better.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
Darts learns that Benavide's husband is in the hospital battling
cancer and that the family is struggling financially, so he
starts a crowd fun that raised almost one hundred thousand
dollars for them.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
How nice is that?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
You know what?
Speaker 6 (19:06):
That reminds me of those fairy tales where the little
old beggar lady comes to the door. Oh yes, and
it turns out she's a good witch or whatever, and
then she, you know, she blesses with gold and the
people who are generous to her. So it's like a
really nice morality tale. Be kind to people. You never know.
You might not get one thousand dollars, but it'll make
you feel good.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
Well, then she got one hundred thousand dollars when they
found out that her family was struggling, so I mean
it was really great.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Also, that's another twist on the.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
Cinderella thing where the woman comes and like begs her
for something and she gives her some food and whatever,
and it turns out she's the fairy godmother.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
You know what.
Speaker 10 (19:41):
Let's take a walk over to Wall Street at the
opening bell. So the Dow at the opening bell opened
up eighty six points, SMP opened up twelve points, and
the Nasdaq fifty five points.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Hmmm, THG you jack linly had big weekends at the
box office the last two weeks. Can we make it
three weeks in a row? We'll ask film journalist Joe Neumeyer. Next,
and welcome back. I'm Larry Matt. You here with Laura Kern.
When was the last time, Laura, you went to a
movie theater?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
I went to the movies last weekend?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Did you really?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
I sure did with my family.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
A whole lot of people have gone the last and
it was good.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
I mean I love going to the actual movies, and
there were actually other people in the audience as well.
It was like the old days. It was great.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I haven't gone since Oppenheimer. It was the last time
I went. I think a lot of people have not
been going to the movie theaters the pandemic because everything
streams anyway, and.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
So I just love the tribal aspect of going to
the movies and being with people.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Although you have nobody at your house, you don't like
them very much.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Home when I'm home. I got stuff to do. I'm
not just gonna sit on my butt.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
You hear that Joe Nuheimer new Meyer. Excuse me, I
called Joppenheimer. I messed up both.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
They don't have that German name right exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Film journalist w R. Movie Minute. It seems like people
are going back to the theaters. These last couple of
weekends have been great.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
They are this has been a big for the box office,
of course, or mentioned Clicked, of course, so it's Gladiator
too and Wicked, which have been like this big jugger
not of course, not as big as Barbie and Oppenheimer.
And I think they're trying to make this happen in
a lot of different ways. I think they, And I
also think I think the kids kind of want to
make it happen, which is sort of a nice thing.
They want to go to the movie theaters, as Laura said,
to have this big communal experience. So the next one
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that I hear about is at Christmas time. Who knows
if it's actually gonna, you know, be as big as
as Clicked. But there's a there's a remake of No Faratu,
you know, the Dracula movie, all right, and then there's
the Bob Dylan biopic, and we'll be talking about these
in a couple of weeks called The Complete Unknown, and
I guess what the kids are calling it is Bob Farratu.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Like that.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
We'll see, but if it has kind of thing this week.
This is kind of a crazy week, guys. This is
interesting because I was talking about going to see, you know,
big movies. This is a weekend where there's gonna be
a lot of small movies. Kind of we're kind of
in between blockbusters a little bit. We've got Mufasa and
Craven the Hunter and things like that coming up. But
this weekend there's like three or four little movies that
are actually all not that bad. The first one I
want to talk about is called The Order. It's sort
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of an early nineteen eighties action thriller that's about a
white supremacist group that has broken off based on a
true story, and Dude Law is the FBI agent who's
sort of trying to track them down in the Pacific Northwest.
You know, it's missing a couple of strong beats, but
it kind of it has an energy to it. It's
kind of gritty in a lot of ways, So I
give that a good solid three stars. Then there's one
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called ware Wolves, and I know that sounds crazy, but
it's called where Wolves and it's kind of a I
don't want to say it's a it's a small budget
movie because it's actually kind of you know, these movies
all we cost a little bit. But it's one of
the things this is about is it's a it's an
action thriller about there's a super moon that comes out
and it turns everybody on the Earth, of course who
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looks at the moon or gets you know, kind of
hit by moonlight into werewolves. That's the name. But it
has all these cool kind of special effects that remind
me of those movies from the nineteen eighties like an
American Werewolf in London and Howling and Silver Bullet and
those sort of a thing, you know, those great kind
of practical what's called practical effects where you can you know,
it's not done with CGI. So that's a lot of
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fun and I give it two stars for that. Frank
Grillo is the is the main guy, and he's been
in a bunch of things like Cast America and a
few things, so that's a fun movie. Then there's a
sports drama called Unstoppable. That's really nice. It's a it's
a based on a true story about a wrestling a
kid who was born with one leg who becomes a
star college wrestler for Arizona State. And Jennifer low pezant
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Bobby kind of Valley. He's always great to pay his parents.
And that's a really nice little drama. And then there's
a movie called Night Bitch, which sort of follows from
from Werewolves and it's but this one is kind of
for them. This one's for the out there. It's actually
based on a novel and Amy Adams plays a mom
of like a two year old who kind of feels
like she's losing her identity a little bit and imagines
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herself sort of becoming a dog at night. Now there's
only a little bit of that in the movie, so
it's not really like a werewolfy thing.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
So we could call it where Bitch.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
They could call it where a Bitch exactly where like
they would sing in Young Frank sign, you know, wear
bitch their bitch. They're kind of So that's three starts
for that. The thing I want to note about that
movie is it is directed by this woman named maryel Heller,
who also did the the Tom Hanks Mister Rogers movie
a couple of years ago, A beautiful day in the neighborhood.
(24:38):
So it's got the same kind of emotionalism to it.
So it's something kind of something for everybody in lieu
of a big blockbus throw there. There's like four movies
out there that it's got to find somebody's interest in
some ways, you know, a bunch of little things.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
And I really associate the holidays. I mean, my family
we would always go to the movies around the holidays
and we would see everything. And I love that. There
are some great things for me to go and do
that with this year.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, and I think, you know, Hollywood has
picked up on that obviously. You know, there's the move
there's as many movies this this season as I think
because of the strike last year. But things like Wicked
and Mufasa and all those things are kind of going
to be the ones that people go to. And obviously
Malana too has been a huge hits. Oh yeah, there
are lots of things for families to go to. Yeah,
which is nice. You know, we had out of the
house a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
We had a conversation last time about holiday movies and
which ones had staying power, and we were saying that
Elf was probably the last one that's going to be
a classic and that people will watch over and over again.
And then I heard somebody on the air talking about
this new Christmas movie coming out that they thought was
going to join that rank. The Red One. Is that
(25:43):
what it's called a red one? With the Rock as Santa?
Is it that good?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
It's actually not. It's actually.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Trying to be nice.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I'm trying to be nice. It's the holiday season. But
it's also not that bad, which I know sounds like
I'm damning it with frank praise. The Rock plays a
sort of a bodyguard for Santa, and Santa is played
by J. K. Simmons, who's great, and the sort of
the twist on this is he's not a jolly, fat
old Elf. He's actually kind of a cut, buff old
man Santa. But he gets kidnapped and the Rock recruits
(26:15):
a human sort of a thief played by Chris Evans,
and the two of them have to find Santa again.
I will say I agree that it's it's kind of
a nice holiday movie. I don't know if it'll be
a holiday classic, but it could be like the Santa Claus,
the Tim Allen movie, where it's sort of this weird
holiday thing that kind of comes up. The genre kind
of mixes together and people say, oh, yeah, I know
it's red one. It's the one where Santa gets it
(26:36):
gets the kidnapped.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
It's so funny. The guy that I was listening to
made the same exact comparison to the Tim Allen movie
Santa Claus.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
We did.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It's interesting that that is really really funny. Look, I'm
glad you said it's not, because it made no sense
to me.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
You know what's a great now this is going back
to the black and white days. Carrie Grant in The
Bishop's Wife. I think that's my favorite Christmas movie. It's
so magical and lovely.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
That's a great one, right now that you know, the
forties really did that. You know the Christmas movie is right,
that's I think that's from forty seven, and obviously it's
a Wonderful Life is from like a year earlier, forty six. Yeah,
they really did it well in the forties, I think
for a lot of reasons, you know, war and everything
else before.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, I have this mission in life where I want
to come up with a movie that he doesn't know
that Joe Noubier can't just say immediately who is in it.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
When and when it came out.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
He's like an encyclopedia. It is kind of right. It
is truly amazing, except for the red one.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Right what we could skip that one? Exactly?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
We can that one is there? I mean, is there
a big Christmas movie in the waiting?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
No? There, you know, there's not. There's nothing big and
holidays the way I think Mufasa, I think Disney is
hoping that obviously Mufasa, which is a prequel to The
Lion King.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
It's sort of like the Wicked of the Lion King
is when the two rivals were friends.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yes, exactly, that Scour and Mufasa, you know, the two
brothers or something kind of come up and and the
you know again like this sort of like the CGI,
the photo realistic imagery of these of these animals walking around.
I think it's supposed to be the big, the big
drawing point for it, like a coup. This is something
that Disney has been doing since the they remade The
Lion King. So we'll see how it is. But I
think that's kind of be something that people are going
(28:17):
to go to for families. Otherwise, I'm not sure No
Fau really covers as a big Santam movie or is
a big holiday maybe Bob Faratu though, comebine, it's perfect.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I actually can't wait for the Bob Dylan movie. And
I heard the acting. It is unbelieved.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
You have you seen it.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I'm seeing it tonight.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Actually, okay, I'm curious to know what you're saying. I'll
be reading about the post.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Yeah, exactly. And I hear Dylan himself likes it. So
that's a good movie, right, really yeah, yeah, he says
it's okay. So, but I guess the funny thing is
he said he wanted to make sure that there was
one thing in there that is not true. I guess
he told the director, Uh, James Mangle he that, but
Dylan said, I want something in it that really true.
And uh, that's the worst Pop Dylan imitation.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I agree. I wasn't even sure if it was a
Bob Dylan impersonation or you were choking on something.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I was doing l' imitation that was sort of like
a little elf thing.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
That's perfect. Joe new Meyer, I'm gonna I'm gonna do
some studying and the next time we speak, I'm gonna
try to come up with a movie that you don't
know about. It's gonna be the stump. Joe Newmeyer segment.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Love The challenge accepted sounds good.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Larry Very Weekend Joe new Meyer, a film journalist and
w o R movie Minute host. Music Act after music
Act hates that their song is played at Donald Trump rallies,
and they've asked him to stop playing it, but one
group loves that he uses their big songs. We'll tell
(29:55):
you who next come back. I'm Larry mante in with
Laura Kern and we're just wrapping things up. This has
been great today for fun, it has been now. I
asked a question a moment ago about what music act
is fine? Is fine with Donald Trump playing his songs
because so many of them hear him playing the songs
(30:16):
and then they say, no, you can't use that anymore.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
But why he has to play Lee Greenwood over and
over and over.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
That's what you guess, that's what you've been blame. Both
guessed that it was Lee Greenwood and I get that,
but no, it is another group of Lee Greenwood by
the way, has no problem.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Lee Greenwood's there.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
He trotted out last night at the Tilla Center.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
He's making Lee Greenwood's career.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
Song.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
It's a great song, which, by the way.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
And he does have a syntax problem.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I should point out, yes, I should point out that
the grammar. Queen and blame both hate the song.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
I don't hate the song. I just think the copy
editor in me wants to fix the grammar.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I thought, because you weren't proud to beIN in the marror, I.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Thought, maybe I am proud to be an American, and
I actually became an American because I used to be Canadian,
and so I became an American citizen on purpose. I
chose this land of ours.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
That's right. I had no choice.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
I have a lot of I have a lot of
pride in my American ness.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Well, so you want to hear the group anymore any more? Guesses?
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Go ahead, village people, Why I am here?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Wait?
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Wait, and they're making millions?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Now?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Absolutely?
Speaker 8 (31:38):
What was there?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
They They've really had two hits right in.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
The navy gay anthems, May we add both gay anthems?
Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm just saying
I'm going to bring that up. Well, that's what I'm
here for.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
The other one is not gay at all. Macho man. Yeah,
that was their three hits.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Man, how they did well with those three songs?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Oh yeah, we all know their names and the song
still play all the time and they're still making money.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
So yeah, Gods, where's they're happy? Can't blame them.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
God bless the village people. And then yes, Donald Trump
playing their song, of course they're going, yes, yeah, no, absolutely, Well,
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(32:32):
Roger Friedman from Showbiz four eleven dot com and journalist
Miranda Devine. Quick recap. ABC News Jerusalem corresponded Jordana Miller
explains what the recent attack on Syria means for Israel.
Speaker 11 (32:49):
This is not a good development for the state of
Israel right now. The rebels are made up of largely
Islamist extremist groups. Right break offs from ISIS, breakoffs from
al Qaida, and the Leron may be a common enemy.
These groups have no love for the state of Israel.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
New York City Minority leader Joe Borelli is pleased with
the direction of the city's leadership.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
I think it's a step in the right direction. You know,
we've obviously been critical of Mayor Adams throughout the migrant
crisis that was self inflicted, something that he voluntarily went
into and certainly led the charge as the leading Democrat
of the largest city in America. I mean, so, anytime
you have someone changing their tune, I'm open to it.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Wr and Newsmax host Rob Astarino believes Donald Trump's past
is a good sign for Pete Hegsath's Defense secretary nomination.
Speaker 12 (33:51):
Donald Trump is one just go back to Brett Kavanaugh,
who will stick with you if he believes in it.
And Donald Trump is one who says the media is
a bunch of jackals, you know. So, I mean, he's
been through it, and I think he's got patience when
it comes to somebody like a Pete hegg says.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Political commentator and former NASA County executive Laura Karen co
hosted with Me Today and is eager to see where
the country is in a few years. If you haven't
figured it out. Yet Laura has a deep hatred for
Pete Hegg.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Says, I don't have a deep hatred for hardly.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Anybody and does not want him in there because.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
No, you know what, Actually, I'm going to say, you're wrong.
In a way, the America wanted Donald Trump, and they
wanted Donald Trump's people. So part of like a sick
part of me, is like, Okay, go for it. Let's
see how it all works out.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Oh, we love seeing the sixth side of Laura. Comic
and Fox News contributor Jimmy Fahla is upset that he
wasn't chosen as Transportation Secretary.
Speaker 8 (34:53):
I ran into Trump last night at the Patriot Awards, okay,
and he said, he goes, well, you know, Sean Duffy
has nine kids, so he's used to get them around.
You know, that's transportation for you. And I was like, dude,
I was a taxi driver in New York City. I
was driving wizards and hobbits.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
And time travelers. You know, kids are kids.
Speaker 8 (35:11):
You throw on a movie. There's no DVD for a
guy who says he's visiting you from the future.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
That's great. Coming up Monday on The wr Morning Show,
Mike Kelly, calumnists for North Jersey dot Com at seven
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ABC political analyst Steve Roberts at eight oh five, We're
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(35:38):
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at eight fifty. Johnny Olegzinski, New York Post entertainment critic
with the Golden Globe nominations at nine to twenty five. Laura,
I hope you had fun.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
I had a ball. Thank you so much for inviting me.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
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