The WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Mendte - - 7 - 5 - 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from WOR Now, the WOR Saturday
Morning Show. Here's Larry MINTI, Welcome to Saturday Morning. On
this week's show, ABC's Peter Harralambus has been in the
courtroom from the beginning of the Sean Didty Combs trial,
and he's coming up to tell us how he thinks
sentencing is going to go for Diddy. North Jersey dot

(00:23):
Com columnist Mike Kelly thinks Zoran Mamdani may provide a
playbook for Democrats across the country. Rich Demiro, the WOR
Tech Guy, tells us how to get the best Fourth
of July fireworks photos. And the Movie Minute host Joe
Numeier is here to tell us about the new Jurassic
Park movie and if it's any good. But first, let's

(00:46):
talk about the Sean Diddy Coombs verdict and sentencing with
ABC's Peter Haralambus. Peter, you nailed it. You kept talking
about that it's not possible to find him guilty on
the four other charges because they're all predicate charges for
the racketeering charge. So something had to give, and it
certainly did. It was I guess it wasn't that surprising

(01:08):
to you because you seem to see that coming.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
You know. I gotta say, though, I was a bit
shocked hearing it read in real I think, you know,
a lot of people have talked about a lot of
legal nils talked about this possibility from the start, that
you know, the rocketeering was a bit of a stretch,
and that perhaps the jury just kind of only takes
those those two lesser counts to prostitution charges because they're
kind of the obvious ones. Those are the low hanging fruit.

(01:32):
And that's basically what we saw just yesterday really a
roller coaster ride for Sean Combs. You saw him basically
drop to his knees in open court praying and then
getting around the applause from the gallery. He went from
that kind of epic high to a bit of a
low in the afternoon when he was denied bail and
told he had to report back to prison. While the

(01:54):
way it's his sentencing, nevertheless, he seems like he's relieved.
We could hear him in the Gallery Bay Gallery basically
telling his family, baby, I'm coming home. He sees this
as a total win.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, I think it was. I think it was a
total win for him, even though he's going to spend
probably a couple of years in jail. I know that
the prostitution is asking for five what's the defense asking
for two?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, the defense has suggested that the guidelines are around
two years, and then they'd subtract ten months. He's already
spent that in prison. They did a bit of victory
lap yesterday. I looked up some statistics and they were
kind of talking about how unlikely it is to beat
the Southern District of New York on racketeering conspiracy charges,

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and they're right. Federal prosecutors generally, according to some statistics,
between the last five years, win ninety seven percent of
racketeering cases that they that they charge. So this is
really one of the first instances I can think of
in which the defense team has beat those rico charges,
which is kind of a big win for them. That's
something they talked about at a press conference outside court.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
And it validates them not getting up and I know
they did. They offered a defense in the cross examinations,
but it still was kind of unusual that they did
just end and didn't take the time to give more
of a defense. They just after the prosecution rested. They've
rested I think a lot of people thought, oh, that's
taking a chance, But this validates it, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, I think that's exactly right. I mean, when I
saw that defense and then when I heard their closing statement,
it seemed like the kind of thing that was that
wasn't necessarily aiming for an acquittal, but kind of aiming
towards one two jurors who might be skeptical the kind
of closing statement and defense case that's kind of aimed
at getting a hung jury, not necessarily a full acquittal.
But it seems like their strategy completely worked here and

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that the jury in this case effectillively rejected the prosecution
theory in its entirety. They rejected the idea that this
was coercive, They rejected the idea that this was sex trafficking.
They rejected the idea that this was a racketeering conspiracy
and kind of this organized criminal enterprise. The only thing
that they found was that Shaun Combs basically transported people

(04:04):
consensually over state lines for the purposes of sex. That's
basically all you need to do to prove those prostitution counts,
and that's all they got him on.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
You know, even though we saw what an awful person
he is, and we saw some horrific acts, and some
horrific acts were described. He is now a first time offender,
so you would think the judge would go low on
the jail sentence, wouldn't you.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, on one hand, you're right on that he is
a first time offender. He doesn't get that enhancement when
it comes to the sentencing that a prior criminal would get.
But the judge kind of gave some indications of how
he might look at this during yesterday's bail hearing. This
was around five o'clock where he was debating whether or
not to release Combs before his sentencing, and the judge

(04:50):
kind of blamed the the sense for the reason why
Combs is still in prison, you know, as you well
remember their theory. Their argument was that Shaun Combs was
of violent person, that he engaged in domestic violence. That
basically what you saw on that video where Combs' is
beating Cassie Ventura is domestic violence. And they didn't shy

(05:10):
from that. They leaned into it. They acknowledged it was
what it was, but they suggested that isn't you know,
sex trafficking, that is intact here and conspiracy, and that
strategy worked completely. It seems like when it came to
the defense trying to convince the jury, but the judge
basically pointed to that exact argument and said, well, your
client is a propensity for violence. I have no reason

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just to release him on bail given the fact that
you've openly admitted that throughout this trial.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
I get that, And I was bringing up the point
that I thought he would still get he'd just get
the two years because he's a first time offender, and
you came back with that, which was, you know, compelling.
Does that mean you think he's going to get more
than two years?

Speaker 2 (05:51):
I could see the based on how the judge phrased
things yesterday, I could see him deciding to kind of
punish him a bit more than that. I think one
thing to consider with federal sentencing is that, you know,
while the judge can't consider the allegations for the count
someone who's quitted, he can't consider the domestic violence generally.
So you know, the government has suggested he should get

(06:12):
four to five years. They've suggested that could go upward
based on how the judge kind of slammed the combs
for this domestic violence. I could see him kind of
signing with the prosecutors and giving him bit more time.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Excuse me, ABC investigative reporter Peter Haralamboos still to come.
Is the new Jurassic Park sequel worth going to see? Movie?
Minuted host Joe Newmeyer tells us about it. After the break,
here's Larry Minty with more of the wr Saturday Morning show.
Jurassic World The Rebirth is in theaters this weekend. Is

(06:47):
it worth buying a ticket to see? Let's ask film
journalist and wo R movie minuted host Joe Newmeyer. I
really want this new Jurassic Park movie to be good,
and I'm so afraid he's gonna tell me it's not.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Joe, No, no, no, no, Larry. It's okay. It's it's
good in.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
The way that this is gonna sound crazy. It's good
in the way that it needs to be. Okay, Right,
It's got some great chase sequences. I'm giving it three
stars overall, So that's you know, right, that's that's a
positive section. That's good. Uh, it's got the it's it's
good in the ways that it needs to be. It's
got some really solid chases, some scary Dino's it's got
you know, uh sequences that you sort of remember. There

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is a great Jaws homage in like the first half
hour where there's, uh, some characters are on a boat
and they're they're chasing this this you know, uh, swimming dinosaur.
Don't know what they're called. Uh, you know, it's essentially
like a prehistoric shark kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
We're alwaiting.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
But here's the butt is that the concept with these
movies has not evolved. And and I this is the
seven one.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Now.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
I love the first one. I'm a huge fan of
the first Drassic Park. And this is the same writer
as the first one, David Kep, who's a terrific screenwriter.
But the concept never evolves. It's just simply humans going
to an island where they have to run from dinosaurs.
And you know, as great as that is, you really
need something different now. Sort of part of the stick

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on this one is that they say, oh, there's a
there are sort of these these mutant dinosaurs because that's
why they're on this island is because this is where
they were doing experiments. But that's not really it. I
want something new. I thought the second one was gonna
do that where it's like, here's dinosaurs walking around the
United States and you know they're in San Diego and whatever.
The last few movies tried that you need something like

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that to do this, to do this differently, and I
wish that it was. So that's why. And you kind
of don't care about the characters here. Scarlott Johansson plays
a mercenary and she's fine, but you don't care about her.
There's a scientist, of course, a military guy. You just don't.
You don't feel the same way as you do about
Jeff Goldbloom in the first review, or Sam Neil, you know,
or or durn Those are great characters mixing with the adventures.

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So it's three stars. It gets the adventure stuff in
there kind of right, but it just doesn't have that
specialness or the characters you care about, or something new
with the concept.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
You know. And I can I just ask you, that's
interesting what you said that you don't care about these characters.
Is that the script or the acting.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
I think it's the script. I think it's the script
and the concept. And it was the same problem with
these Chris Pratt movies, the three of them that came
the Jurassic World movies that came previous, that started in
twenty fifteen, you know, with with Bryce Dallis Howard and
Chris Pratt. You just don't care about these characters. And
when you don't have that, then it's just a thrill, right.
And I think you know, people gave the original Jaws
and Jurassic Part and certain things when they came out.

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They denigraated them by calling them, you know, critics that
they said, oh, it's just a it's just a roller
coaster rise, just a thrill ride. And in fact those
movies are much more than that. But these movies, you
really see that that sort of you know, backhanded compliment
be the case, which is that they are really like
a carnival ride. You really are just not caring about
the They're like non player characters or whatever in a

(10:08):
video game. You don't really care about them. So unlike
the you know, Spielberg that was that's always been his gift.
He really makes you care about the characters.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
In his movies.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
It's not just about the adventure or the predicament that
they're in.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, there's always a story you care about, isn't there.
There's always some other story that you really care about,
whether it's the relationship between a mother and a child,
whether it's the relationship between us and nature. There's always
this other story.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Absolutely, and that's you know, part of his gift as
one of the greatest living screen living directors and British
directors of all time. And I and then you just
sort of and then on the script level, I just
wish there was something different going on. You know, there's
famously there was this there was the Jurassic Park four
was never made back in the nineties, and there was
a script going around that was actually by the great
filmmaker John Sales, where there was it was set in

(10:57):
a you see a little of this in one of
the Chris Pratt movie, but it was set in a
castle and there were these dinosaur dog human mutants that
they had they had combined. That movie was never made,
and that script is sort of notorious where people are like,
oh my god, you know the Jurassic part movie that
was never made, and it seemed like totally bonkers and nutsy,

(11:17):
like a sixties B movie kind of thing. But at
least that would have been something different. And and this
movie just has the same kind of thing, except it's
got one dinosaur that looks a little bit like I
don't know what he looks like. He looks a little
like Godzilla or something, so he's not really like a
he's sort of a dinosaur combo with something. So three
stars because the action is good. I just wish that

(11:38):
there was more going on here. It's the same kind
of thing. It is better than the last three, though
I will say that it's it's the closest to the
to the Spielberg original than they've ever come. I just
wish it was more. It's still a good time at
the movie, though, I will say that it's still you
still walk out feeling like you had a fun, a
fun roller coaster ride there.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
I mean, you're criticizing this for not being new. There's
nothing that we were just talking earlier about the remake
of Saint Elmo's Fire and the remake of Devilware's Prada.
They're going to remake every old idea because they seem
to have no new ones.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
No new ones, and I and I you know the
things that they did from the eighties. It's like there
are certain things that seem to you know, the Beatle
Jewice sequel I didn't think was that special when they
kind of bring things back. I always thought, like, you know,
the Goonies is a great example of something that either
could be remade or certainly have a sequel to. You know,
have those kids in that movie you know now grown up?

(12:35):
Or I think you've mentioned Ferris Bueller is a great
idea for like, have a have a sequel to Ferris
Bueller where he's I don't know, working a Wall Street
job or something and he takes his day off or something.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, if you made Ferris the principle, that's the idea
that would have been great. Yeah. By the way, one
of our callers called in. We were talking about the
remakes earlier, and one of our callers called in it,
and I agree with them that ET should be remade
with e T returning.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
You know, Natalie mentioned that while I was winning, that's
an amazing idea. What was it like? He thought like, maybe, like,
you know, have Elliott be the grown up scientist who
has to you know, fight against the evil ets that
come back or something. That's a great idea. That's a
fun People would never say yes to it, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Oh why would he never say? So? He has control
over that, and he would he would have to do
the remake if it ever gets remade, right, that's right.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
I remember I've interviewed him a couple of times, and
when he did War of the Worlds, you know, people
were sort of asking him about like they were like, oh,
are you now do you think aliens are evil? Because
here there? And He's like, well, no, it's not like
he suddenly changed his mind and was like, you know, no, no,
actually I think the War of the World's aliens are bad.
He was like, there's just there's stories about good aliens
and bad aliens. I think ET is so precious to
him and so important, and I think that it represents

(13:46):
a lot of who he was growing up as a kid,
you know, kind of in the Arizona suburbs, you know,
child of divorce, all that stuff. I think there's a
lot of him in ET, and he would never want
it to be brought back in even if he did
it himself. I think he knows how special it is.
I mean, it is such a special movie.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
It is. But yeah, and the remake would be special too.
Joe Neumeyer, film journalist, wo R Movie Minted host. Thanks
a lot, Joe I'm gonna see Jurassic Park. Still to come.
On Saturday morning, Rich DeMuro from rich on Tech tells
us about the new Nothing smartphone. Yep, that's the name,
and it'll soon be available in the United States. Rich

(14:28):
will tell us if it's even worth checking out. Coming
up on Saturday morning, is Zorin Mamdani showing Democrats how
to win future elections? God, I hope not. We'll talk
with Mike Kelly from North Jersey dot Com about that.
Here again is Larry Menti with the WOOR Saturday Morning Show.

(14:48):
Welcome back. Zorin Mamdani, a Muslim socialist bordering on a
communist from Uganda, is on the cusp of becoming New
York City's next mayor after a shocking easy win in
the Democratic primary. Does he provide a playbook for other
Democrats to win across the country. North Jersey dot COM's

(15:10):
award winning columnist Mike Kelly wrote a column about that.
The story nationally and locally right now, I just saw
it everywhere this weekend. Is your hand, mom, Donnie. He's
taken the nation by storm? But what does that mean
for the Democratic Party? Is this their blueprint going forward?

(15:31):
Mike because some seems some seem to show some trepidation
with that. What do you think, Well, good morning, Larry.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yes, I think Democrats all over the country are sitting
there looking at the in the mirror and going, now what.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
For.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
You know, last November it was Kabla Harris in it,
you know, just complete meltdown and uh, and now we've
got you know, this new mayor kid. You know, I
was thinking over the weekend, do you remember the Tom
Hanks movie Big, where he's a little boy he suddenly
becomes big and goes into the goes into the toy

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store and starts giving all kinds of advice on the
kinds of toys that children will like to play with.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
That.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
I'm sorry, but that's what I think.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
So him Mandati is.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Like, it's like big here in politics. And and on
a serious note, he has completely you know, overturned the
traditional democratic way of doing things, uh or getting elected
in New York City, and I think that's going to
spill over the borders into my state of New Jersey.

(16:47):
We have a gubernatorial race in Virginia, and then you know,
the year after that into the into the congressional races.
I think this is a real you know, it's one
of those earthquake moments.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
I think it is an earthquake moment because he is
so radical, he's so to the left. But you have
to give him credit. He doesn't lie about any of that.
He's full front telling you exactly the way he thinks.
A lot of how he thinks is scary. And I
loved your analogy, but I think this is more than that.
Just somebody that came out of nowhere, a little boy
becoming big. I think, really there was This has all

(17:22):
been planned. I mean, he's got a lot of money,
he's got a lot of support. I know he has
mommy's money and he's running on that. I guess it
is a little boy reference if you're running with mommy's money.
But he has an organization out there like I've never
seen before. There's something else going on with this race.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
Well that's the other point I wanted to make. He
is the new kid on the block and the new
flavor of the week. Let's all be honest about that. However,
he's also done things in a very much old fashioned way.
He went out and he organized voters. He organized the
campaigns there organized they get out the vote. Drive it,

(18:02):
and I think, you know, I don't know if your
listeners realize how important that is in getting elected, especially
in New York City where you really have to go
knocking on doors and getting people out. That's what we
call local politics, and you know, it happens in districts
all over the country for successful people. And this is

(18:22):
his methodology, and to his credit, he figured it out.
He knows how to do it, you know. Getting back
to his politics, though, I think it's going to be
very interesting to see how a Muslim mayor is elected
in a city with a large number of Jewish voters.

(18:42):
If he's elected, I want to I'm going to be
very interested to see how that transforms the Democratic Party
and actually transforms the way Democrats operate in New York City.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Mike, if he gets elected, he can't do anything he
says he's going to do. That's the dirty little secret
in this whole thing. He can't do any of it.
And somehow skates on this.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
I think you're right. I mean, you know, the idea
of free buses sounds great, but who's going to pay
for the idea of government run grocery stores. Well, I
don't know about that. You know, I if the government
could just get you know, the DMV, get it going correctly,
to just stick to that. Okay, license plates, driver's licenses,

(19:29):
you know, filling the potholes. Now they weren't on grocery stores,
but you know, it's one of those kinds of things though,
that gets people to the polls and you know, free
bus rides. Sure, I'll vote, you know that kind of thing.
That's what that's he that's what's attractive about this guy.
What I think whoever challenges him, and it looks like

(19:50):
Andy Cuomo is going to try to come you know,
come back from the dead here once again.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
They really got to drill down on the practicality of
what he wants to do.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Well, they have to, I mean they try to all
the time, and he just seems to skate on it.
And I'm not sure why they're allowing him to do that.
I think they just love the story behind it. I
want to get back to the fact that where I
don't think this is grassroots as as you think. We
were talking to a citizen journalist that has this website
of about a two months ago when Mom Donnie was

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still just starting to make waves, and he was at
a TESLA protest and he saw mom Donni there and
he tried to talk to mom Donnie, and as soon
as he said something negative, there were all of these people,
they had different color vests for their jobs, going over
to him, escorting him away, and then they had these
big guys security come up on him. That is an organization,

(20:44):
and that was early on. So I really have a
mistrust to how grassroots this is. There's something else to
this guy. There's something else happening that he was too
well organized and too well funded very early on.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Mike, Well, I've seen that happen a lot as a
journalist over the years. You know, we all think of
the left as you know, open minded and that sort
of thing. Now they're not. They're they're just as they're
just as controlling as anybody else's in many cases, and
you know, you ask a tough question in a you know,
uh uh, you know, a left wing press conference or

(21:23):
that sort of thing, suddenly you get, you know, you know,
you get the evil stare and that sort of thing.
And in this case, I'm not surprised that you know,
staffers from Mondami uh sort of surrounded this guy and
and tried to harass him or that sort of thing.
This is this, This is what happens I think with
with tough journalists and trying to ask questions. If this continues,

(21:45):
I want to see what the New York Press Corps
is going to do about it. I mean, they used
to be tougher, to be honest with you. I'm not
sure how tough they were on this guy when he
was wrying. So we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
You're right, they failed. They failed so far. Luckily they're
only halfway through the town. But so far you'd have
to give them a failing grade. Mike Kelly, Award winning
columnist from North Jersey dot Com. Up next, Rich from
rich on Tech on a new app to rate movies
before you take the time to go see them. Rich
is next back now to the WR Saturday Morning Show

(22:19):
with Larry MINTI. Have you ever tried to take a
photograph of fireworks? It never turns out well. Well, Rich
DeMuro from rich on Tech, heard Sunday nights from eight
to eleven on WR, is here to tell us how
to take perfect firework pictures.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
I mean, look, we're all taking them on our smartphones,
and I will tell you having tested smartphones for the past,
you know, fifteen twenty years, they've gotten better. They've gotten
better at night shots, they've gotten better at capturing fireworks.
But my number one tip is, unless you're a pro photographer,
just enjoy the fireworks, because honestly, you're never gonna look
at these pictures ever again. Larry, when was the last

(22:58):
time you searched the fireworks in your photo.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
I don't because they all suck. I tell you, I
don't because they're bad. But if you can tell me
how to make them better, I may look at them again.

Speaker 5 (23:09):
So a couple of things you can do if you
want to take pictures. Number one, you got to stabilize
your phone. These things are high up in the sky.
They're far away. You are holding a tiny little phone
in your hand. If you don't have a tripod, which
come on, you don't want to be the nerd at
the fireworks or the tripod. Hold your arms close to
your body and stable your phone. Stabilize your phone. That's
number one. Number two, turn off the flash. A lot

(23:31):
of phones have a night mode you can use, or
some sort of low light mode. Turn that on for sure.
You can also try a long exposure mode if you
want something that's a little bit more artistic. And then
there's also something called burst mode, so you can set
your volume up to be a burst mode on the
iPhone right now. The iPhone, it used to be if
you pressed and hold on the shutter, it would take

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a bunch of pictures at once. They switched that to
a record mode. So if you want to still use
burst mode on the iPhone, you can switch that setting,
or you've got to go into settings and change it
to burst mode. And then the other thing, and this
comes from a lot of pro photographers.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Composition.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
So if you're just aiming up in the sky and
there's nothing to sort of give you the perspective of
the fireworks, get a tree in there, get a building
in there, and it'll look a whole lot better, which
I think is a good one.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, that's a great Other things, yep.

Speaker 5 (24:21):
Two other things, Larry clean your lens and if you want,
you can actually record the picture, record the fireworks, and
while you're recording, you can tap the little white shutter
button in the upper right hand corner of your phone
to snap a picture at the same time, or you
can go back in Google Photos and actually extract a
frame from the video. So those are all the ways

(24:42):
to do it. But my advice we'll just enjoy.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, after all those tips, nobody's going to not take
that advice and try to take the best pictures possible.
But we can always hope. I don't know if everybody
knows this about you, but being rich on tech makes
him a world traveler. Everybody wants them. He's gone to
London and he attended the launch of something called the
Nothing Phone three, so there must have been a one

(25:05):
to two Nothing phone. I've never heard of these. What
are they?

Speaker 5 (25:09):
No, you haven't, most people have not. Nothing is a
startup based in London. So the reason why they brought
a bunch of people out to London, including myself, is
because this new phone three is going to be sold
here in the US. So they've had a bunch of
phones in the past, they weren't truly launched here in
the US. This one is going to be. And it's
a great phone. It's a high end smartphone. It's eight

(25:30):
hundred dollars, it's got great cameras. It's got this unique
look so it almost has like a c through back
and it has a little display on the back. They
call it the glyph Matrix. It can do fun things
like show you the time or countdown timers and things
like that. But you can also shake the phone for
a magic eight ball, spin the bottle. So, as you

(25:51):
can see, this company has kind of a fun design
focused angle to it, and so their whole point is
to make you use your phone left, I know, which
sounds silly, but they've got a whole bunch of features
on here that gets you doom scrolling less and just
kind of being in the world more.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
So.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
This is going to ship in a couple of weeks.
Here again, eight hundred dollars. The big problem I see
with this, Larry, is that, as far as I know,
they don't have a major carrier signed on, which means
you're gonna have to buy it directly from them or
through Amazon, which is not ideal because most people in
the US, as we know, either use an iPhone or
they will buy it from their carrier if they don't,

(26:29):
and so them not having that distribution could be a problem.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Right, It's going to be tough to break into the
market when you're starting a d eight hundred dollars too. Hey, listen,
I want to give people a look behind the curtain
for a second, because you send us some notes on
what you'd like to talk about, and I think sometimes
you're just showing off. Listen to this sentence. I tested
out the car Play Ultra in a two hundred and

(26:54):
fifty thousand dollars Aston Martin. Man, some days I just
want to be rich on.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
Oh come on, I'll take you for a ride. We'll
go out in the Aston Martin. I was Actually, I've
never been scared to test drive a car, because I
do occasionally test a bunch of one. This is probably
the most expensive one. I design a waiver that was
like six pages long, and here it is. It's the
Aston Martin, it's the DBX, this is their suv, and

(27:21):
it's the first car to launch with what's called CarPlay Ultra.
So I'm sure you're familiar with the concept of CarPlay.
CarPlay Ultra is the next version of this, which the
big difference is is that it takes over all of
the screens in your car, so not just the main
dashboard screen, but also that info cluster behind your steering wheel.

(27:41):
So what does that mean? You can customize your gauges
and the widgets and all the things that you see
on your dashboard a little bit more. But the downside
is people think that this makes your car seem too
apply and if you think about an Aston Martin, yeah,
they've got the little Aston Martin logo in there. People
are saying, well, isn't this taking away from the heart

(28:02):
and soul of the car to make it all look
like Apple car Play.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (28:06):
My experience is that it was very easy to use.
It's familiar, and you could always go back to the
regular dashboard if you want, but you can now control
all of the settings of the car, things like radio,
climate and all the vehicle settings right from inside car Play.
So it's one screen to rule them all.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Hey, we're running out of time, but I do want
to talk to you about Rotten Tomatoes having an app,
because I just love Rotten Tomatoes. I never realized until
you told me that they didn't have a proper app
in the past.

Speaker 5 (28:35):
I know, and I can't believe they finally got one
after we just talked about movie apps a couple weeks ago.
So yes, Rotten Tomatoes now available for the iPhone. You
can track the movies you want to watch. See the reviews.
It's got those Tomato Meter and Popcorn Meter scores. And
yeah it's on iOS right now. Android version is coming soon.
Sorting options are a little limited if you're on Android

(28:57):
and you want something really good. I like the app
call Just Watch. That's a good alternative until Rotten Tomatoes
comes out for the for the Android as well. But
I love Rotten Tomatoes scores. I think they're really good
and a good indicator of the movies I want to watch.
So now you have a proper way to track them.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
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