Hour 4: Texas flood update

Texas flood update.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, I'm sorry to say that the death toll from
the Texas floods just keeps rising. That is, of course,
leading off our Big Three today. In the meantime, emotions
are high as parents finally and and just people in
the area who just want to pay respects finally get
to visit the once flooded campsites.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
My heart breaks for the families.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Sorr, I be honestly looked at him, You're like, I
was like, lud great.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I mean, I think if it was my grand kids,
that's what I think about.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I don't know I would make it.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, that's the way many of us feel. We're going
to talk with ABC correspond to Jim Ryan in about
a minute. He's been covering the floods in Texas. He'll
give us the very latest. The pressure continues in the
New York City mayor's race. This is what Natalie Migliori
was just talking about for one of the candidates not
named Ma'm Donnie to drop out Mayor Adams as Andrew

(01:00):
Cuomo had the nerve to call him and ask the
mayor to move aside. Andrew, are you that level of arrogance?
I'm the city mayor, I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
The city mayor of the City of New York, and
you expect for me this episide when you just lost
to Johan by twelve points.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Right. So Adams turned the tables on Cuomo and told
him he should be the one who drops out. April
first is now the new date. Countries will be hit
with high taris if they don't work out a deal
with the US, and Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says, we're
pretty close. We are close to several deals.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
As as always, there's a lot of foot dragging on
the other side, and so I would expect to see
several big announcements over the next couple of days.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
And Benjamin net Yahoo was at the White House and
had a surprise for President Trump. He has nominated him
for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 6 (02:02):
He's forging piece as we speak, in one country and
one region after the other. So I want to present
to you, as President, the letter I sent to the
Nobel Prize Committee. It's nominating you for the Peace Prize,
which is well deserved and you should get it.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Thank you very much. This I didn't know. In the meantime,
there are talks going on in Doha between Israel and
Hamas for a ceasefire. We just talked to Jordana Miller
a few minutes ago, and she says on all the
issues they are ninety percent through it all, that they
are very close. The biggest issue right now seems to

(02:42):
be a peace deal at the very end of the
ceasefire and who has to do what in that peace deal.
So they're still talking. It doesn't look like they're going
to end up with an agreement by Thursday, but we
shall see him. We'll keep talking to Jordana, but in
the meantime, we need to talk to Jim Ryan, ABC
News correspondent who has been covering the floods. He right

(03:06):
now is in Kerrville, Texas. Jim, as always, let's just
start with getting the latest from there.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Well, yeah, I mean, the search and rescue really is
morphing into more of a search and recovery effort. It's
been a couple of days since anyone was found alive
out in the massive debris field created when rivers here
in central Texas overflowed their banks on Friday. Kerr County,
where I am, eighty four people died. Travis County over

(03:32):
by Austin seven people. Williamson County to the north of
their two people. It goes on and on. The total
this morning of people who have died from this flash
flooding event is one hundred and four larry, which is
almost inconceivable in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, no, the numbers are stunning, and you keep hoping
when you hear fifty, when you hear eighty, that that's
going to end it. And it hasn't ended. Are there
still people missing that they're looking for?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
There are, but it's anybody's guess how many. I mean
in Kerr County right here, we know of eleven people
who are missing. Those are the people from that girls camp.
They're camp MISSEDIC ten campers, one camp councilor a nineteen
year old are still missing there, but many more were
likely camping on their own and their RVs or had

(04:19):
pitched tents alongside the river before the flash flooding events.
So there's really no firm number. But I mean, in
terms of the suspected number is twenty twenty five people,
but I can guarantee you that it'll be higher than
that as the searchers get out farther into the field.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
There are two missions. I would imagine going on right
now simultaneously, and of course the most important missue is
recovery and trying to find as many people, or if
not all the people, as humanly possible. But at the
same time, they have to start rebuilding, don't they. They
have to start some kind of reconstruction.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Which seems like an impossible task at this point. I'm
looking down onto the river the Guadalupe here in Currville.
Old trees, massive trees seventy seventy five feet high, were
toppled over, blown down just by the schwarz of the water.
So it's almost like a whole forest was knocked over
just alongside this little stretch of the Guadalupe River. And

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this is the pattern they're seeing from the headwaters of
the Guadaloupe all the way down to where it lets
off around San Antonio almost. And you see that with
that river, with the Colorado, with the Medina River, the
other rivers that run through this area and overflowed their banks.
So just the job of recovery I think will take

(05:39):
years to accomplish.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Therey the rain that you just had, was that anything significant?
And that did that hamper all of the efforts that
are going on.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
No the rain that happened yesterday did not cause new flooding.
It makes for a miserable job for those four hundred
or so search and rescue people out there trumping through
the mud, but it didn't hamper their efforts. Their search
is continued as normal. So yeah, and today the weather
is sunny, it's quite warm, it's going to be humid

(06:08):
this afternoon. Won't be much fun, but that job will continue.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
The way you describe the scene, with the trees and
all of the debris and everything that has to be
cleaned up, that's one job. But having to search through
all that it has to be arduous may be too
soft of a word for it.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, well, I think so. I watched yesterday as as
a crew hoisted a car out of the muddy debris
where it had been positioned where it had fallen down
into the river and been covered up. So they pulled
it out with a wrecker with a tow truck. Right,
and then it's not just a matter of opening up
the door and seeing it if anybody's inside there. It's
a matter of cracking open the doors, trying to crack

(06:52):
open the doors or smashed through the windows, and then
shoveling away tons and tons of mud inside that vehicle.
And that's a process that's repeated over and over as
they look for any other bodies people who might have
been in these vehicles or in RVs. The mud is
just everywhere.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Larry, Well, you, like I, have been around for a
long time and you've covered many many disasters. Have you
seen anything like this?

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, the damage itself kind of reminds me of hurricane damage,
and I've seen a lot of that, except that it's
so localized. Instead of a broad area of twenty miles
wide and thirty forty miles long, you're talking about fairly
a narrow area alongside these rivers, so maybe the river
and then one hundred and fifty or two hundred yards

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on either side, maybe a quarter mile, and it goes
for twenty or twenty five miles long. And it's just
intense and it's not wind. It's the water that has
blown everything down.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
No, and there have been some heroes that have come
out of this. We've keep talking today about a guy
from Oxford, New Jersey who was a hero and and
saved a lot of the people. I'm sure you've heard
this story at Camp mystic.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, he'd been dropped down there in a helicopter. I
think it's the same person, and began suddenly he realized
that he was the only first responder there in the
middle of this disaster and having to round up these
girls and the camp counselors and try to evacuate evacuate
them to safety. He found that the job was already underway,
that these kids were rallying together and figuring out where
to go and what to do, and that those stories

(08:29):
are repeated all up and down by these first responders
who are telling these stories of survival and of rescue.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's twenty six year old Scott Ruskin. He is the
pride of New Jersey. Thanks so much, Jim, hope to
get to talk to you again. Thanks. Larry is w
NBA superstar Caitlin Clark not getting her due because of jealousy.
A prominent w NBA reporter thinks, so we're going to
hear from her. Coming up next as always. Johnny Alexinski

(08:59):
joins us now because he's religiously early, and so he
comes in for this segment. But it's good he's here
because yesterday I wish he was here Yesterday yesterday we
spoke to a creative team from the new off Broadway
show Rolling Thunder, and it was pretty amazing. It hasn't
opened yet, but Rebecca Blake is the producer. Bryce Hallett

(09:20):
is the writer. They were here. By the way, if
you want to hear the interview, you can check it
out on our podcast at seven to ten wor dot com.
It's a limited engagement performance. It begins July tenth at
the New World Stages. For tickets, you go to Rolling
Thunder US dot com Rolling Thunder us dot com. It's
all about the Vietnam War and personal experiences in the

(09:43):
Vietnam War and the music. Listen to this, A Hard
Rain's Gonna Fall, all on the Watchtower, Born to Be Wild,
Black Magicwoman, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Eve of Destruction, some
of the greatest straw songs during the Vietnam War that
they play as they act out all of these experiences

(10:05):
from people who served in Vietnam. So I want to
go see it. It sounds it sounds special. On the
reaction we got, Johnny was amazing. Lots of people calling,
lots of people wanting to get more information on it.

Speaker 7 (10:17):
And New World Stages is a great venue, especially if
you kind of want to go to Broadway and stay
in the neighborhood but explore something off Broadway. It's just
one block from Times Square, great restaurants and a little calmer.
So yeah, New World Stages has a lot of great shows.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Nice. I can't wait to see it. Now, let's get
to some talkbacks real fast. Here's a couple of because
I don't know if you know, Johnny, but there's a
huge competition for a MINTI in the Morning T shirt.
But why are you laughing?

Speaker 3 (10:45):
I just.

Speaker 7 (10:48):
I've been wearing mine to red carpets to Gallas. I
can totally understand.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
And then let you get away with that, don't you They.

Speaker 7 (10:53):
Do they do? They hurrying me down the red carpet,
No one takes my picture, but they let me get
away with it.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
So here you go. Here are the people that are
vying for the T shirt. Also, we have a new contest.
Talk back of the Week gets a sea Crane radio. Well,
the Seacrane radio. Let's just ed it. That a Seacrane radio.
It's pretty cool. I have one at home. I have
a couple at home. As a matter of fact, there's
a solar powered one that's incredible.

Speaker 8 (11:21):
In emergencies, something will come up between now and the
election for mayor and Muldannie will go down. However, the
Republicans or independents, we need to focus on one slogan
like Muldanni is a socialist.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Muldanni is a socialist.

Speaker 8 (11:38):
Keep repeating it.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Socialism doesn't work. Well. If Vicky Palladino was here, should
say he's a communist. Oh so with Donald Trump. As
a matter of.

Speaker 9 (11:47):
Fact, my wife who is from Cuba. As a message
for Mandani, you should go to Cuba and spend some
time there and learn how the stores, the grocery stores
Andy Houdine really really worked there.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
And one last one all about Mam Donnie.

Speaker 10 (12:06):
The people that are going to vote for Mondannie are
just dumb. You can't be that stupid, very little education
on the behalf of the folks that are going to
vote for Mondanni. They just don't get it. They have
no real world experience. They have no clue what it's
like to live in a communist or socialized country. And

(12:28):
they think it's going to be better. Good luck.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
But they're promised everything for free, for free, and they
have nothing to have that they have to do.

Speaker 7 (12:35):
And as we learn with every election in New York,
it's in fact a great chunk of the electorate in
this city and in this state. Are that stupid? They
do it over and over and over again.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Great, great point, real quick. I do have to get
to this, and Johnny, I know you're not going to
be interested already w NBA superstar Caitlin Clark. They've had
the All Star voting, right, and this shows you how
how jealous everybody in the league is about her. Number
one among the media. Of course, fans had her ranked no.

(13:07):
Fans had a ranked number one, The media had to
rank number three. The players had her ranked ninth, the
ninth best person in the league. And if you remember
Michelle Tafoya from NBC, she says it's jealousy.

Speaker 11 (13:21):
America loves her, the fans clearly love her, the media
likes her, but the players can't stand her ninth best
guard in the league. Don't try to give me the
excuses of well, she's been struggling lately, or she missed
some games with injury. Come on, this is insanity. And
I think it's an activist vote by the women of
the WNBA who simply cannot stand her success. It's so

(13:46):
dumb and it's so childish.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
But attendance has gone up, their salaries have gone up.
They get the fly on private planes. Now because of her,
they are killing themselves. Now, let's get the latest news
at nine point thirty with Jaqueline Carl Jaqueline.

Speaker 12 (14:01):
Larry, Good Morning. Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz says there
needs to be a better system after a camp on
the Guadalupe River wasn't warned of rapidly rising floodwaters, the
floods in central Texas Friday were devastating At the All
Girls Camp Mystic. At least twenty seven children and counselors
were killed. The overall deaththoll stands at more than one

(14:23):
hundred with search and rescue efforts continuing today. And con
Edison is holding hearings today over proposed steep rate hikes.

Speaker 13 (14:32):
The utility company that serves New York City in Westchester
County is proposing an eleven percent increase in electricity costs
and a thirteen percent hike on natural gas costs. Governor
Cathy Hokeel was outraged when she first got word of
this proposal.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Go back to the drawing board and figure this out.

Speaker 11 (14:47):
But you're not going to get that kind of rate
increase from our hard work in New Yorkers, particularly our seniors.

Speaker 13 (14:52):
Con Edison says the proposed increase will help pay for
infrastructure upgrades and deal with higher demand. Manhattan Community College
and Courtly Town Hall in Westchester have hearings this afternoon
in the evening where a public and sound off. I'm
scappringle wrdws.

Speaker 12 (15:06):
I love stories like this. A thrift store shopper recently
found four hundred dollars cold hard cash and a secret
pocket of a vintage Korean leather bomber jacket that they
bought for just four bucks. The discovery was shared in
the Reddit form thrift store Halls, where the buyers shared
the jacket was found in the store's electronic section and

(15:29):
has a removable fur lining that was hiding the secret pocket.
All of the bills were at least twenty years old,
so it's likely known was where the money was in
the jacket. Reminds me of storage Wars. Did you ever
get an unexpected windfall like this? And I bet there
are a lot of great stories outlet there like this.
In the Naked City.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
There are a lot of stories like this, I unfortunately
never did, Johnny, do you have one?

Speaker 7 (15:51):
I actually found ten bucks in my shorts this week,
and oh, I leapt in the air.

Speaker 12 (15:56):
I would too.

Speaker 7 (15:56):
That's a double digit bill. That's very nice.

Speaker 12 (15:59):
Once I'm a bracelet on the sidewalk, a diamond bracelet,
and I brought it into the like a couple stores
in the diamond district, and they'd be like, we'll give
you a thousand dollars for it right now, right now,
and I was like they were too eager, So I
want to see how much it's really worth.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
This is a long time ago. I still have it. Wow,
that's great. That's why you did the whole story to
brag about that.

Speaker 12 (16:20):
Really, I just thought it was great. Four dollars and
you get four hundred dollars in the pocket. Did I
ever tell you about that diamond bracelet I lost one
time street? What street was that on? I might have
that bracelet for you, Natalie. I'll bring it in tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Stocks.

Speaker 12 (16:39):
Oh all right, So we're over to Wall Street the
opening bell, and the Dow is down fifty nine points,
the S and P is up two points, and the
Nasdaq is up sixty two points.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Man I can't wait for this, Jacqueline, you'll be excited too,
Thanks so much. They're making Hot Wheels into a movie.
Oh my god, I've been waiting for this day. I'm
sure you have been too, Johnny. Right, we're gonna talk
to Johnny Olzinsky, New York Post entertainment critic. Next. Well,
he's always here early before his regular segment, but now

(17:11):
it is time for his regular segment. Johnny Oleczinsky, New
York Post entertainment critic. I can't tell you how excited
I am to hear that they're finally, finally gonna make
a movie out of Hot Wheels. My kids will be excited,
my grandkids will be excited. I'm sure you're excited, Johnny.

Speaker 7 (17:28):
How sincere you just sounded uh yeah, yeah, I'm thrilled.
I'm thrilled to bits what they're gonna do. They just
announced this yesterday. There's going to be a Hot Wheels movie,
and they're probably gonna make the trademark signs as big
as the title. It's gonna, you know, just soulless, soulless nonsense.
But it's from the people who did Barbie. It's Mattel right,
and they're trying to turn a toy universe. They're gonna

(17:50):
do poll Pocket and Barney Smart and Masters of the
Universe Smart. They're just toy movie after toy movie.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
And you're gonna have to go to every one of them. Right.

Speaker 7 (18:01):
That's the thing, you know, when you guys see a
movie announcement and you see it on wherever you read,
on the New York Post whatever, you just scroll by. Okay,
I look at it like a fortune teller, you know,
giving me the tarot cards, and I just got the
death one. I'm seeing into my future what I'm going
to have to do, And I'm going to have to

(18:22):
really seriously consider this movie and come up with an
opinion about Hot Wheels and write six hundred words about it.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
I'm sure you can be objective.

Speaker 14 (18:31):
I can.

Speaker 7 (18:32):
Hey, maybe Hot Wheels. Maybe maybe Hot Wheels will surprise me.
Maybe the best picture Hot Wheels.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Were you surprised by Barbie?

Speaker 14 (18:44):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (18:44):
I hated Barbie. Oh I hated Barbie. And I know, Hey,
it made a money talks Johnny Walks, it made over
a billion dollars. It went on to the Oscars, which
was shameful, by the way, absolutely shameful. I thought it
was sort of bad Elf, like a Barbie's.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Oh come on, I loved Elf by the way I
love Elf, And so you didn't like.

Speaker 7 (19:04):
Elfie, No, I love Elf. Elf is great, but I
was just what annoyed me about Barbie was it was
so high minded and kind of a mess. But it
was so high minded for a movie that is about
a children's toy, and they're to, oh, no, no, it's
high art. It is absolutely high art. And we'll have
Tony Kushner who talks about it. It's the height of sophistication.

(19:27):
When it was just a silly little toy movie, maybe
I would have liked it more if it acted that way.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
It was a height of sophistication because they were trying
to attract adult audience as well. But it was able
to do that. It was able to get an adult
audience and to still get children. That's just smart, isn't it.

Speaker 14 (19:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (19:44):
I was able to get an adult audience that all
got together and dressed in pink, just the kind of
people you know you want to hang out with, had
no offense. Natalie was wearing a lovely shade of pink. Today.
It is Barbie pink that I have.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
It is but you know what, you also hated Jurassic Park, right, Yes, Well,
let's be clear.

Speaker 7 (20:10):
I love the original Jurassic Park. That is a groundbreaking, tremendous,
terrific movie. Jurassic World Rebirth. I gave it a bunch
of titles in my review. I said, Jurassic World Regurgitation,
Jurassic World revolting, Jurassic World revile. If you can kind
of get the sense for how I felt about it,

(20:31):
Why Larry tell me this, why do people after seven
movies on, why do people keep schlepping to this deadly island?
We know that at this point they know every time
people go a lot of people die, and they keep going.
And this was maybe the laziest ever Scarlett Johansson and
Jonathan Bailey A big Pharma. Big Pharma just tells them,

(20:53):
you have to go get blood samples from these big
dinosaurs that'll probably kill you because those blood samples can
help us cure heart disease. That's the pot that is
the plot makes sense, and you know, cover your cover ears,
cover your ears. This is a slight spoiler, but you
know that in the end they get them, they cure
heart disease. So it's so stupid. So if you make

(21:15):
a sequel to that movie, I guess the leading cause
of death in the world is now cured, so we're good. Oh,
it is just imbecilic, moronic stuff, and they keep making
him and it's making so much money. And I'm sure
people that are yelling at their radio about this buzzkill
joyless man who hated Jurassic World. Well, I'll send some

(21:37):
talkback because I can take him.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
You know, it's funny you usually disagree with Newmeyer, but
in this case it sounds like you two are are together.
Except that he did say justice. See, they did a
really nice job with the dinosaurs, even better than the original.
I mean, it was very nicely done because Cg's gotten better.
Look at the face you're making, because Cg's gotten a

(21:59):
lot better. So like that, he said. But it was soulless.
It it had no was not character driven, And that
was the best part about the original Jurassic Park. You
actually cared about the humans. In this one, you could
care less about the humans involved.

Speaker 7 (22:13):
I disagree a bit with Joe on the CGI. The
reason that for that being I miss tactile effects. So
when you ever look at a making of of Spielberg's
Jurassic Park. You can see they built a t rex right,
and they're getting right up to this face and the
scales look real, and that's a really frightening thing. Remember
that t Rex actually smashed that suv. That wasn't an
animated thing. And viewers can perceive when they're looking at

(22:36):
something real versus something not. And I haven't been afraid
of these stupid dinosaurs since, you know, Taileoni ran through
the forest screaming. Really, these aren't horror movies, they aren't
fantasy movies. They're just kind of nothing.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
It's so much more fun when you hate a movie.
So you've hated You're gonna hate Hot Wheels. You've already
decided that you hated Jurassic Park. What about super Man?
The New Superman's coming out? Are you gonna hate that?

Speaker 7 (23:02):
So reviews for that are coming out today, but some
first reactions have hit, and I would guess that reviews
for this will be all over the map. It's very light.
It's kind of going back to the Christopher Eve style,
but even lighter than that. It's not like those awful
sooty Zack Snyder movies we had, you know, Man of
Steel that were just so brute because the superman I

(23:24):
think is supposed to be it's he's not Batman. It's
it's not you know, solving petty crimes. And he's an inspiring, fun,
silly guy and that is what you're getting with this.
It might be slightly too silly, but I enjoyed it,
and uh.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Oh you saw it. I didn't know you saw it.

Speaker 7 (23:43):
I have seen it, and I just slightly broken bar oh,
that's all right. But it's also you know, what I
really liked about it is there's no other than the
marvelous Racial Brazahan, the marvelous Missus Masel. There's not really
big stars in it, and so it's much better than
seeing Scarlett Johann or Robert Downey Junior and you kind
of go, oh, hi, you know, here's this Oscar winner.

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It allows you to get into it a little more.
David Corn Sweat is a great Superman.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
When is your review coming out? So we can make
sure we can all get online and read it to
make up for this moment.

Speaker 7 (24:15):
Three pm. And what I would like is get everyone
in the house or everyone at work and all click
it ten times at the same time in coordination it'll
be fun. It'll be fun for everybody.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Quickly, let's talk about Bernadette Peters. What does you have
coming up?

Speaker 7 (24:28):
So, Bernadette for twenty seven years has had a great
charity called Broadway Barks. And you go into Schubert Alley
and you'll see a bunch of your favorite Broadway stars
putting up pets for adoption. Not theirs, but they help
get beautiful, cute, cuddly pets adopted. And I know it's
Bernadette's big passion outside of performing, and thousands of pets

(24:50):
over the years have gone into the homes of wonderful
families thanks to Broadway Barks. And you can go for
free in Schubert Ally it's Saturday at three pmonful.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Thank you, Johnny Olegzinski, New York Posts entertainment critic. Thanks
a lot, Johnny. See you again next week when we
come back. My final thoughts, a recap of today's show
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Speaker 14 (25:43):
Now.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
With some final thoughts, here's Larry. So if you listen
to the Democrats and their minions in the media, you
would think the economy was horrible. But inflation is down,
consumer spending is low, the GDP is solid, unemployment is low,
Every major indicator is solid the best, by the way,
in five years, you may not know all of that,

(26:05):
because all we keep hearing about is how bad things
are going to be by the Democrats and the media,
or maybe, you know, maybe we should just lump them
together and call them the mediacrats. They keep telling us
how bad things are going to be because of the tariffs. Really,
when many of the tariffs have already taken effect and

(26:26):
I haven't seen a big change of you. We'll have
to check the next inflation numbers. But in May, prices
one up zero point one percent, tenth of one percent.
That was much lower than predicted, much lower. In the meantime,
people are suffering because the credit card rates their high,
mortgage rates are high, and so few can buy or

(26:48):
sell a house. Why Because the worst FED chairman in
history gets to make the call on interest rates and
he does whatever the media and the Democrats want him
to do. He's the one who refused to raise rates
when we had the worst inflation in forty years, and
now that that inflation is under control, he refuses to

(27:09):
bring them down. He's costing America and Americans trillions of
dollars and making our lives significantly worse, not because of
how things are, but because of his bias belief of
how things may be. There should be a way to

(27:29):
impeach a FED chairman. There isn't, but the president can
remove him for cause. I think the president has the cause.
Now it's time to pull the trigger. Coming up next,
Marx Simone welcomes streaming host Bill O'Reilly and political strategist

(27:51):
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recap of today's show. ABC News correspondent in Dallas, Jim Ryan,
gave us an update on the fatal floods that hit
Texas over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
The search and rescue really is morphing into more of
a search and recovery effort. It's been a couple of
days since anyone was found alive out in the massive
debris field created when rivers here in central Texas overflowed
their banks on Friday. The total this morning of people
who have died from this flash flooding event is one
hundred and four.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
WR National correspondent Rory O'Neil offered some tips to maximize
your savings on Amazon Prime Day.

Speaker 15 (28:40):
There's a lot of criticism that Prime Days ain't what
they used to be, as they say and look. One
of the reasons is so many of the items we
see on Amazon are not sold by Amazon, and that's
why the advice, more than ever, especially if you're buying
something expensive, is to do a search on the price
history of that product.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Fox News contributor Joe Kanca doesn't understand why Democrats continue
to shoot themselves in the foot over the same issues.

Speaker 14 (29:09):
There's four major polls out where Americans support deportations, not
just of those here illegally committing crimes, but all illegals.
ABC News Quinnipiak, I could go down the line. So
Democrats once again are are dying on this hill?

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Oh no, political analyst J. C. Polanka, who I love,
except that he believes that the moment may be just
right for Zora and Mom Donnie to shock us again
and win the mayoral race.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
The mass massing, Larry, it's just not Do you know
how many Democrats came out to vote just two weeks ago,
one point one million? Larry? Do you know how many
people came out to vote in totally November twenty twenty one,
one point one million. These Democrats are energized, and what
we're seeing is a perfect storm for there to be
a socialist mayor New York City.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Well, that was really depressing. And today's talk back of
the morning our MENTI in the Morning t Shirt winner
and the contender now for the Sea Crane Radio talkback
of the Week impressed us with the most creative use
of vocabulary. Here's what I think should happen.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
BB and Trump should come to Manhattan, arrest Mom Damie
and deport him for moral turpitude.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
How about that moral turpitude the nuns used to use
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