Larry's big three 7/7/25

Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including the deadly flood in Texas, the Big Beautiful Bill being signed into law, and ceasefire talks continuing between Israel and Hamas. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stown from seven to ten, wor waking up with money
in the morning.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
So did you hear ray stage in just a second ago?
Listen to this. So today thunderstorms possible, Tonight thunderstorms possible,
Tuesday thunderstorms possible, Wednesday thunderstorms possible, Thursday thunderstorms possible, Friday
thunderstorms possible. Showers and thunderstorms possible every single day, and
a lot of that's because of the humidity. So it's
gonna be it's gonna be a strange week. It's gonna

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be sticky, and then we might have some severe thunderstorms
every once in a while. But I've looked ahead because
I thought to myself, what could possibly be a good sign,
what could possibly be good in this locusts no, no, no,
locus would be a bad sign. That's exactly the opposite.

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But Saturday and Sunday it seems like it's gonna be
cloudy with no rain, Okay, so that's good. Yeah, and
eighty degrees okay, so that's not too bad. I mean,
after the week, we're going to be through it. But
you know, it's way ahead, he extended, forecaster. No good whatsoever,
especially when it goes by a past a couple of days.

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But for right now there's hope that we're after you
get through, after you suffer through this week, you're going
to have a decent weekend in the Big Three. Today,
just a horrific story death and destruction in Central Texas
in the wake of a once in a century flood.

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People that die, kids have died.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
We're still finding people out here.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
We have to rebuild because what else do we have
about here?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
We have nothing. Literally, Yeah, they're still searching for bodies.
They're saying, now, well, there's reports of eighty two. Now
I just started a report of eighty it's several are missing,
including twelve children, because it was campsites all along the
river in central Florida. Jim Ryan is in Tech is
covering the flooding. We'll talk with him at nine oh five. Well,

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the Big Beautiful Bill is now law, and after all
the fear mongering by the Democrats, the Big Beautiful Bill
will be the law of the land and we'll see
its benefits. On this vote, the yaser two hundred and fifteen,
the nayser two hundred fourteen, with one answering present, the
bill is passed. Yeah, And then they started Channing USA. Now,

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after getting this bill passed, Donald Trump said he will
do everything he can to prevent Zorin Mam Danni from
becoming mayor of New York City.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
As President of the United States, I'm proclaiming here and
now that America is never going to be Communist in
any way shape form, and that intrudes.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
New York City. In Israel, there is great hope now
for a cease fire with a mom that would release
ten living hostages and the bodies of eighteen others, and
maybe afterwards real peace talks.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
A CEIs fire means choosing life, as cis fire means
choosing life.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh, I thought he had more to say. I thought
it was like Hakeem Jeffries, it was just going to
be a long pause, and that he was going to continue.
We have Jordana Miller coming up at six point thirty
five to explain what's going on right now because Hamas
has accepted the ceasefire and Benjamin nettan Yahoo is the
one that is stalling on it. We'll find out exactly

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what's going up going on with Jordana in just about
a half an hour. And at the Coney Island hot
Dog Eating contest Everything Old Is New Again. Champion of
the World.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Joey Jeffner.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Joey Chestnuts down seventy hot dogs in ten minutes, but
that is short of his record of seventy six enough
to win, however, the Mustard Yellow Belt for the record
seventeenth time. Unbelievable. You can go to the iHeartRadio app
and leave us a talk back about any of the
things we're going to talk about today. And while you're

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there on the free iHeartRadio app, be sure to set
a preset for seven ten wor well. The story of
the day is out of Texas and the flood that
hit there. And I know if you're a parent and
you've sent your kids to camp, and if your parent,
chances are you sent your kids to some camp, you

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can internalize this immediately. You think to yourself and you worry,
right when there are a certain age, especially, you worry
it they're going to be okay. You want to go
visit the camp. You know you shouldn't. You try to
call all the time just to make sure everything's all right.
You worry, worry, worry, worry, and you trust and you

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trust that they're going to be fine. And to get
the phone call and to hear that of flood, the
torrential rain hit in the middle of the night and
we can't find your son and daughter is maybe the
most terrific thing I could ever think happening to a parent,

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because the idea that you left them off at camp
and you thought it was a wonderful thing, and then
they're just gone and you didn't get to say goodbye,
You didn't get to see them. The last thing you
remember is hugging them as they wanted the camp, and
then worrying and then the worst happens.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
I'm gonna cry because it's horrible.

Speaker 5 (05:49):
I'm standing ten minutes from where we were twenty four
hours ago with the kids swimming, having fun, and it's gone.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
So it's all gone.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Kids didn't have a chance. When you look at some
of these campsites. Now you're gonna hear about campsites at
the river, but there were several campsites. Some of them
are up higher. I'm sure the ones that got by
the river felt lucky. Oh my, you know, we get
right by the river, we get the goin the river
all the time. But it turns out that the kids
that were up higher were a little luckier.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
Our entire focus at this time is on the search
and reunification efforts for those remained unaccounted for. That is
where our energy, our resources, and our attention are directed.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, it's a massive search right now up and down
the river. And there's gonna be more rain today. That's
the horrible part of all of this. We'll get into
what happened in a second, but right now, I mean
the media, of course didn't back off, and we'll get
into that in a second. They were horrific. We're gonna
have to deal with this now with the national media

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for a while, they've been horrific on every single story.
Can't not infuse politics on it, They can't not infuse
their hatred of trumpet Trump. Even in the worst moments,
they have to jump in and because they can't help themselves,
it's just a knee jerk reaction. This is Trump's fault.
Wait do you hear? What? Do I get to that part?

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It's unbelievable. In the meantime, you have people suffering, you
have people hoping that their child is still alive, knowing
that there's a slim chance of that, and then you
have Greg Abbot, who's done a wonderful job in a tragedy, and.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
It was nothing short of horrific to see what those
young children went through. And we will remain one hundred
percent dedicated searching for every single one of the children.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Greg abb At, the governor, and Donald Trump has signed
an emergency order with what amounts to unlimited funding to
help Texas to rebuild and help them in their search
and rescue efforts. We're also hearing from some of the
children that survived.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
The flood started getting bigger and it was going up
to we have bunk beds in our cabins, and it
was going up to the top bunk and we had
one choice, and we had to swim out of our cabins.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Right he was in along with his brother, who you're
gonna hear from in a second. They were in a
cabin a little bit higher. So, so if you think
about it, there's it's the river, and then you have
some campsites that are right next to the river, and
they're they're just gone. They're destroyed. People that went back
and to look at it said there's nothing there. But

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then you can go up there's an elevated ground and
that's where these two boys were.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, and some cabins like flooded, flooded away, but nobody died.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
No one died.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, we are thankful for that.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Or on the way here we saw all of like
other camps destroyed like oblorated.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
All right, now, let's get to the media in this.
All you should be doing when you cover this, and
I've covered so many too many tragedies in my life,
massive tragedies in my life, and all you should be
doing in this is talking about the recovery, the recovery,
the victims, the families of the victims. That's all you

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should be concerned about at this moment. The media jumped
immediately to well, it's the Trump cuts, the federal budget cuts.
They didn't have a warning, and Homeland Security came out
immediately and said, the media is purposely lying about this.
We sent out a warning twelve hours before the flood,

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and then we had alerts every half hour, and a
lot of the people that survived were because of those alerts,
because volunteer firefighters went through the area with a siren
and a loudspeaker telling people to get out the area.
They did have a siren system that was not installed

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that was a state siren system and one of the
reasons they didn't have the funding to put it together
was because of the State Senate. This has nothing to
do with budget cuts in Washington. Both the National Weather
Service and Homeland Security has said that nothing to do
with it. They had all the alerts out, but the

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media couldn't help itself and understand until the midterms, we're
gonna have to deal with this almost every single day.
Shame on them. We'll have the latest coming up with
Jim Ryan in about two hours. The Dali Lama celebrated
his birthday and that gives me an excuse to play
one of the greatest movie clips of all times. Stay

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with us