The WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Mendte - - 11 - 22 - 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from wor Now the wr Saturday
Morning Show. Here's Larry Minty.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Welcome to Saturday Morning. On this week's show, Eric Adams
was in Israel for the week, and ABC News correspondent
Jordana Miller says he was treated like a rock star.
We'll talk to her in just a few seconds. Daily
caller White House correspondent Reagan Reese says the press briefings
under Donald Trump are completely different than under Joe Biden.

(00:31):
Rich DeMuro from rich on Tech has some advice on
how to build a strong password for all of your accounts.
And Movie Minute host Joe Neumeier gives us his opinion
on part two of the Wicked movie. But let's start
with Jordana Miller in Israel. Jordana, I'm interested when Mayor

(00:51):
Adams is there to visit. Of course, it's big news
here in New York. Is it big news in Israel?

Speaker 3 (00:57):
It is. I have to say, he's being treated like
a rock star.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
He met with us, Yeah, as you said, he met
with the Israeli Prime Minister. He met with the President
of Israel, Isaac Hertzog. He met as well with the
Foreign Minister Guidon saar, I mean, you know, making the rounds,
if you will, and really just everyone heaping a lot
of praise and gratitude on him. I mean for Israelis

(01:25):
and for some Jews. The election of mom Dani has
set off alarm bells. And now it's you know, I
think the leadership here in Israel is feeling grateful that
they had Adams, who, as you know, has been a
very big supporter of Israel. He came to visit here

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in Israel in the you know, in the first weeks
after Hamas's deadly attack on October seventh. He has been
vocal in his fight indeed and in word and indeed
against anti Semitism. And that's something that's been highlighted here
and we're hearing, you know, over and over again each

(02:09):
leader say here, you know that Mayor Adams is a
is a true friend of Israel.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Well for a day, and it really did last, I
don't I'm not even sure if it was a full day.
For a day, it seemed like zorin mom Donnie was
backing off of his pledge to arrest Benjamin Netnaho if
he ever came to New York. But in a couple
of other interviews there he was again saying, I'm going
to enforce international law. And so if Netnah who comes,

(02:37):
I have to enforce international law, which seems to man
he is going to arrest him. Has did that come up?
And has Benjamin Netanyah who addressed that?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
So, first of all, with all due respect to mom, Donnie,
I mean, you're you know, he is now the mayor
of New York City. He should definitely check the facts
before he speaks. It's now he's in a position, you know,
of responsibility. Right, He's not a candidate. The United States
is not party to the International Criminal Court. They are

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not under any obligation to implement the rulings of the
International Criminal Court. It doesn't apply to the United States.
Natannell can go to New York, to every borough, to
every state in America and and no nobody has a
there's no authority to arrest the Israeli Prime Minister. Now,

(03:32):
maybe that was a great line when he was running
for mayor of New York City, but I would suggest
he shall fit, you know, because it makes him sound
like he's not that informed on you know, what the
International Criminal Court is.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, No, he keeps saying it he keeps saying that
he's going to do it and that he's going to
enforce it.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
And by the way, this is the problem people have
with Mom Dunny. Right, you need to be clear about
what the facts are. When someone asks you about Hamas, right,
you should, without blinking an eye, you should absolutely reject
what Hammas stands for. They don't represent the Palestinian people.
They are a terrorist organization.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Right.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
You know, no any American campus, let alone the top
campuses in America, should be waving a Hamas flag.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Right.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
That's like waving an Isis flag. Right. So Mom Donnie
needs I think he's going to have to try to,
you know, get a hold of his rhetoric and try
to stay you know, in reality and really you know,
not not actually tap into people's worst fears, whether you're

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a Jew or not.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Well, he's already said he's not going to march in
the Israeli Day Parade, and he also has come out
and said several times when he's been asked he will,
he refuses to call Israel a Jewish state. So I
don't think any of the I don't think things are
going to change overnight with how he feels about Israel

(05:08):
and the people of New York City elected him. Uh,
it's a It is a frightening situation for Jews that
live in New York because many of them have been
very vocal saying they don't feel protected by this man.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
I mean, I hope that maum Donnie turns out to,
you know, be a terrific mayor in New York City.
I hope that he represents, represents and protects all of
New York, all of the residents of New York City, right,
no matter what color or creed right that they are
or religion. So, you know, Mam Donnie now again is

(05:44):
in a position of responsibility and he really needs to
be careful with the words he uses.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
You know.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Everybody, uh, you know that is part of the progressive
movement is very interested and courts an ultimate you know,
Palestinian state that's led by the Palestinians that hopefully will
be democratic.

Speaker 6 (06:08):
Right.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
What mum Donni doesn't understand is that when people call
Israel a Jewish state, it's because it is a place
that has historical connections for Jews, and Jews see themselves
as a people in the same sense that Palestinians see
themselves as a people, or the Indians right, or any
ethnic group. So you know, I would suggest maybe Mum

(06:30):
Donni do what others have done in the past, and
that is, you know, find someone to maybe get a tutorial,
really an in depth tutorial on Jews Jewish identity Israel, right,
because it's clearly doesn't quite understand things.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah. I don't think he's going to do that, but
you're down to that is a wonderful thought. I look
forward to talking to you again, especially as Zora in
Mom Donnie starts to after getting sworn in as he's
mayor ABC correspondent in Israel, Jordana Miller. So what exactly
happened this week when many of the social media sites
went down at the same time. Rich de Muro from

(07:10):
rich On Tech has the answer.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Next now more of the woor Saturday Morning Show and
Larry Minty welcome back.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
So you think your online passwords are really safe, think again.
But Rich DeMuro from rich On Tech can fix that.
Here's Rich tell us exactly what a cloud flare outage is.

Speaker 7 (07:35):
Yeah, so this happened earlier this week. Remember, a lot
of major sites were down, People were having errors, and
people were wondering you know what is cloud flare number one?
And was this a cyber attack? So it was not
a cyber attack. It was actually a pretty basic error.
There was a file that they uploaded and it just

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wrecked havoc with their systems, like it just kept doubling
in size every five minutes, just taking down all their servers.
So as you saw all those websites big and small
had errors, including chat, GBT and many others. They were
able to stop it and fix it. But I think
the larger picture here, Larry, is that these companies, just
a few key companies, are controlling such large swaths of

(08:19):
the Internet like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and I'm talking about
their cloud services. So when those services have an issue,
it takes down a bigger and bigger chunk of the
Internet with it.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, it happened when we were on the air and
we were getting calls from a lot of people saying,
I can't get on Twitter, I can't get on Instagram,
I don't know what's going on, And it turned out
to be this. It affected a lot of sites.

Speaker 7 (08:43):
Yeah, And I think that's the public service that you do,
is that you know, if you're on your computer and
you're having these issues, and you're like, wait a second,
is it me? And you're sitting there restarting your computer,
turning off your internet, turning it back on. So that's
why here in the news media, we try to get
this information out there so that you're not pulling your
hair out going is it just me? This was the
craziest part, Larry. The website that people go to to

(09:05):
check to see if it's like, it's called downdetector dot
com that was affected by this, So people going to
that website couldn't figure out if this was down for
everyone else or just them.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
I'll tell you what this next story that you're talking about,
the worst passwords of twenty twenty five. I constantly get
notices from Google and sometimes from social media saying your
password has been compromised. You may want to change it.
What does that mean exactly? Is there somewhere where they

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keep track of compromised passwords?

Speaker 7 (09:39):
Yeah, So what happens is if you use a password
on a website and that website gets hacked in some
sort of data leak or dump or whatever, that turns
up on the web, like on the dark Web most
of the time, and so often Google and these other security.
Password manager programs will scan the dark web to look

(09:59):
at these passwords and alert you because typically it'll have
your password and your email and so they'll say, hey, Larry,
you might want to change this because we found this
password on the internet, and so you want to go
in and definitely change those for sure. And there's nothing
you can do about it, sadly, because once something's on
the dark web, it's never coming down. But I tell
you this because I would love you to use strong,

(10:22):
original passwords for each website. Because of that website gets hacked,
that password only works there, so it's not going to
work on your other websites. But nord pass came out
with a report the worst passwords for twenty twenty five.
Number one this year is admin number two password and
globally one two three, four five six is still tops.

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And we all know we've used these passwords in the past,
Please don't do it in the future.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
So getting back that's amazing. And I know one two
three four five six, I've heard that. I've heard that
before getting back to the hacked passwords. Is that really
that common? It seems like every time I change my password,
I still get a notice saying my password has been compromised.
So no matter how intense my passwords, how complicated it is,

(11:14):
it can be stolen and I can still be hacked.

Speaker 7 (11:17):
Yeah, And that's the thing about using unique passwords, because
it doesn't matter how complex it is, someone's not gonna
be able to guess it if it's complex, Right, that's
the beauty of having a complex password. The problem is,
these websites get hacked on the back end. A lot
of times it's social engineering, and employee gets tricked into
opening up a database or sharing a database, and then

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these passwords get out there and then the hackers collect
them into these giant files that they share around online, saying, hey,
we've got a whole bunch of new passwords that people
are using, and here's their email address and here's their password.
And what they do is they take that one password
and your email addressed and they try it on a
bunch of different websites. So that's why it's really important

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to use a unique pastor for every website. Because let's
say you sign up on a website with one, two, three, four, five, six,
and you use that on six different websites. Now they
can log into all six of those websites because you've
used that same password everywhere, so one password kind of keeps.
It just relegated to that one hack.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
So what is Prime's fuel Up Friday?

Speaker 7 (12:19):
Yeah, if you're gonna, if you're a Prime member, you
get twenty five cents off per gallon of gas on
Fridays through the end of the year. So this is
a Prime perk. You have to be an Amazon Prime Member,
but many people are. This works at seventy five hundred
gas stations in the US, including BP, Amaco and then AMPM.
You have to sign up on the website, so go

(12:42):
to Amazon search fuel Up Fridays and just link up
your information and then once you go to the pump,
easy twenty five cents off a gallon. Why not do it?

Speaker 2 (12:52):
I'll tell you what, Rich, I've never trusted bitcoin because
I can't understand it. I don't know what it's based on.
I can tell you what everything else is based on
NCS in the stock market. I can't figure out what
Bitcoin is based on. And now is starting to slide
a little bit.

Speaker 7 (13:06):
Yeah, this week I say do not talk to your
bitcoin friends about bitcoin this week because it's really bad. Larry.
It went down under ninety thousand, which was a six
month low. And yet you like a lot of people
do not understand bitcoin, and I think that's pretty common
in the market with financial stuff unless you're an expert.
But again, a lot of people like bitcoin, they've heard

(13:29):
about it, they want to get in on the investment.
But this week was really bad. It's thirty percent off.
It's October high. It was at one hundred and twenty
six thousand. One point two trillion dollars in crypto value
has vanished since October. Obviously, crypto kind of follows the
larger stock market in general, so people are just more
cautious right now. And the big problem is big investors.

(13:52):
They are selling a lot of their crypto right now
and that's adding to the pressure of why this is
dropping so fast.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Rich Demiro from rich On ten can be heard Sunday
nights from eight to eleven. Also you can follow him
at rich on Tech on Instagram. Donald Trump and the
Florida Governor Ron de Santos are in a war of
words about foreign work visas Daily Caller White House reporter
Reagan Reese is here to talk about that. So how

(14:21):
good or how bad is the second part of the
Wicked movie. It's in the theaters right now and Joe
Numeier has seen it. The movie minute host is still ahead.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Here's Larry Minting with more of the wr Saturday Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Welcome back. I'm sure you noticed how different the White
House press briefings are in the Trump White House compared
to the Biden White House. Let's talk with Daily Caller
White House correspondent Reagan reeves about both of them because
she had to deal with both of them every day. Reagan.
I was watching a White House briefing the other day

(14:58):
and I saw Caroline Levin. She was asking she wanted
to get away from some reporters, and she went Reagan, Reagan,
and she was covered. I assume you're the only Reagan
in the room, are you?

Speaker 5 (15:08):
Yes, I am.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
She seems they're really like you, I would hope.

Speaker 5 (15:13):
So, I mean, you know, that's always Do you want
to be liked by the press secretary? You know, I
could go either way. Of course, you want to keep
a professional, cordial relationship, but you also want to ask
questions about are tests of the administration. And you know,
no matter where you fall on what side of the aisle.
So you know, I hope she respects me. I respect her,

(15:36):
and I think we have a good working relationship.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
You know, It's funny when we were first talking to you,
it was when Biden was in office, and you talked
about the fact that how long you went without being
called on. Wow, that changed. You seem to get called
on constantly.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
Now, yeah, I mean you hear a lot of talk
I think from you know, just outside voices, sometimes within
the mainstream media. I gave a lecture at Berkeley a
couple of weeks ago, and the students were kind of
pushing back on something I had said about Trump and
his administration being good to the press and being accessible

(16:15):
to the press, and I just pointed to the fact
that I was shut out of the Biden White House
because we I write for the Daily Caller, which is
a conservative outlet. My colleagues, other colleagues of mine, that
our conservative reporters were barred from the events. A lot of
US conservative journalists were uninvited to the Biden Christmas party.

(16:40):
For journalists, it's completely a one adien. If you look
at a press secret you look at a Trump press briefing,
you look at Caroline's press briefings, they're not just calling
on this friendly is or the people that they think
are going to align with them or ask them a
good question. They're sparring with CNN, with NBC, with ABC.

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They're taking those tough questions, and she spans the room,
so does President Trump. Sure they might insult those mainstream
media journalists, and that's probably the biggest difference between maybe
me and them, But in terms of access, it is
far more fair and balanced than it wasn't the past administration, right.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
And nobody called out the Biden administration on that. This
is extremely important. What you're talking about is to call
on everybody in the press corps, whether you agree with
them or whether they agree with you or not, whether
you feel like you're going to get the coverage you
want or not, you should call on everyone.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
Yeah, one hundred percent. And I think it's a great
opportunity for the administration to, you know, answer those tough questions,
push back on them, to start with those tough reporters,
and that I think is what they that Trump administration
has strength is they will take CNN and ABC and

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NBC and they'll answer those questions. And they're not afraid.
They don't shy away from them. And that's probably one
of the things that rally's President Trump's based the most
is when they call out the fake news media. And
so the Trump administration is very good at also just
wanting to go into tough situations. We see President Trump

(18:29):
go and do interviews with CNN, ABC sixty Minutes, and CBS.
We never saw President Biden do similar things. We never
saw White House Pros Secretary Underbiden, Kreean Jean Pierre, do
similar things. And you know, part of it is because
Kreean John Pierre couldn't handle those tense questions from those

(18:51):
who disagreed with her. She just wasn't a talented press secretary.
But you know the other is, I think they have
a different view of out let's and reporters like myself.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Right, but it's you know, it infringes on freedom of
the president, infringes on free speech. Was it was horrible.
But let's talk about the H one B visus. Explain
to people what they are and why this is such
a controversy right now.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
Yeah, the basis of the situation is essentially, do we
want to bring immigrants in to in a legal way
to help with the workforce in America? And that's a
big debate right now within the Maggie universe. And I
think when you talk to people who are typically aligned
with the President and have an America First viewpoint, they

(19:40):
will probably break with him on this issue where he
is saying that the workers we have in America right
now are not talented enough to work in America. They're
not talented enough to work in manufacturing plants or in
the industry, and so therefore we need to bring in
immigrants from other countries to fill those jobs because they're

(20:03):
more skill than the Americans we have.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Now.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
This is something that yeah, really breaks with the America
First base, and it's you know, the President's pays a
lot of backlash for it. Some of his previous opponents
are capitalizing on it right now, but that's the basis
of the issue. And it also ties into the President

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wanted to bring in six hundred thousand Chinese students over
the next few years to America. You know, that's this
could be a traded situation, that's being him trying to
make a deal with people. But it's these two issues
are really causing the president headache with the America First base.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, I get it, and I think he was in
articulate on that, although he'll never admit to that. And
I do think that it's just like in a South
Korean plant, you want South Koreans. And so I'm not
sure this is as much of a controversy as it
should be, but I think it was just the way
he spoke. Reagan Reese white House corresponded for The Daily
Caller and Independent Women's Foreign Visiting Fellow. The holidays are

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coming up, and so are the oscars. So what new
movies are being released? Well, I ask Joe Newmyer wo
R Movie Minute host.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Next back now to the WOOR Saturday Morning Show with
Larry Minty.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Usually the biggest movie has come out about now, So
let's talk to Joe Newmeyer, a film journalist and w
o R Movie Minute host with us every Friday at
this time. Was I right about that?

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Joe?

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Are there blockbusters coming out now?

Speaker 4 (21:42):
You absolutely are right? But it is a different world though, Larry.
It's interesting because you know, many years ago that was
sort of there would be two or three blockbusters sort
of right around the Thanksgiving or Christmas time moviegoing season.
Now it's less, and there's and you know, there's there's
with streaming, it's sort of a different world. But I
will say that obviously this Weekend's Wicked for Good is
the first time in a while that I can think

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of something that is it's a big family movie, it's
a destination viewing. It's it's coming out a year after
the last one, last year's Wicked, which was a huge hit,
made like seven hundred and fifty billion worldwide. You know,
this is sort of a kind of in some ways
a throwback to those eras that we're talking about, of
those great big movies coming at that everybody had to
see right around the holidays. And so let's get to

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Wicked for Good. I really liked it. It's three stars
for the reason I think people have talked about with
the musical on Broadway, which obviously has been running for
twenty years or so, is that the second act doesn't
have as many great songs as the first act. And
I never saw it on Broadway, but I know from
watching the first movie there's a couple of great numbers
in that first movie. This movie, you know, is a
little darker. It's got a much kind of a slowly

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more serious tone, and it doesn't have those two or
three great numbers. It's got, you know, four good and
a few new ones, but it doesn't have defined gravity
or popular and so I'm giving it a solid three stars.
If people are Wicked fans though we sounds like I'm
from Boston. If people are Wicked fans there will absolutely
be satisfied. And if you've never sort of seen it,

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I think you're gonna not notice that it's not as
strong as the first one. But the first one absolutely
is sort of a four star movie in my mind.
This is a solid three stars though, and it's got
so many great things in it. They're great Cynthia Arrivo
and Ariana Grande. Jeff Goldblum is so terrific as the
as the Sneaky Wizard, you know, for people who don't know,
it's a re reimagining of the world of the Wizard

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of Oz. And one of the things that I think
is sort of fun in this one is you you
sort of see bits and pieces of Dorsey and the
Tin Man and this Characrow kind of as they're sort
of they're having their adventure. Obviously, the main story is
the is the characters Glinda and Alphaba, but you sort
of see a little bit of that of the of
the previous movie going on. It's like through a window
or something. It's kind of hard to describe, but it's

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really wisely done. It's well, it's well orchestrated. So three
solid stars for Wicked for Good.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
It's going to do really well. It's going to do
really well at the box office. There's a whole whiz
cult out there, you know, they're a wicked cult that
are going to go see it. And Natalie, your daughter, right,
she's all excited. She wants to go.

Speaker 6 (24:09):
She has tickets tonight seven thirty.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
But she's had him for a while. Yeah, oh yeah, as.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
Soon as she could.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
And she will see it several times.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
She's already said that because she's tried the first one
several times. So I said, you know, viewing two or three,
I'll get to go with her.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
So this is a sure thing. This is going to
dominate not only this weekend, but probably next weekend too.
Oh yeah, all through the HUT. I can't imagine.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
I absolutely can imagine people after Thanksgiving dinner or prep
you know, on Wednesday Friday, as people kind of are
getting ready for it to get with family going to
see it. It is a it's a crowd pleaser and
people are gonna really like it. And it's also it's
got a good heart to it. I mean, you know,
all the all the cliches, has got a herd, it's
got a brain, it's got courage, all that stuff. But
it really does have a good message and it's and

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it's really fun to watch and people who really kind
of buy into this stuff. It's really a good movie.
And I think that that's kind of thing is very
hard to find. And also a movie that you see
with the community, see it with people, see it on
the big screen. You know, it's not you know, you
don't want to say next week knives Out. The next
knives Out movie is coming out, which is also really good.
It's called Wake Up dead Man, and that's from Netflix.
That'll be on Netflix, you know, a couple like a

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month and a half or so later. And that's good too,
And I want to give that a shout out before
we kind of get it run out of time. But
this is the kind of movie that people will say,
let everybody pack up, go get your snacks, and beend
three hours at the movies. It's not that long. It's
only two hours and fifteen minutes, but with trailers and
have a good time.

Speaker 6 (25:31):
How many movies have been made in two parts that
were filmed at the same time and then you know,
spaced out a year apart.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
That can't be too often.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
I can't think of any.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
A really good question, Matt. Actually, the only one that
comes to mind that because it is Back to the
Future part two and three back in nineteen eighty nine
and nineteen ninety. This is just off the top of
my head. Robert Zemeck has filmed them both at the
same time. Obviously, it was a couple of years after
the first Back to the Future movies, but they filmed
them both at the same time, and they both came
out like Some of eighty nine and Summer of ninety.
That's the only one I can think of. There are

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a few movies where it's been a couple of years
and they pick up where the last movie left off,
like Qlatham of Solis left off where Casino Royale did
or Halloween two picked up where Halloween left off. But
that's like two or three or four years in between movies,
and they weren't filmed at the same time. The only
other one I can think of is back to the future.
And then you know they're also not talking about Wicked

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for Good as as it's important to note that, like
they film them simultaneously, so they obviously film that the
same and they're talking about it as a continuation not
as a sequels. Interesting, like their their messenging on it
is that it's a continuation and when you see it,
you absolutely pick pick up on that.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
That's interesting very much like you're there. Yeah, for nonconformists
like me who don't want to go see Whiz and
they don't want to see Knives Out. Oh, I keep
calling it Whiz Wicked.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
Yeah, right, yeah, that's a different thing, right.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Right, completely separate uh presentations?

Speaker 4 (26:55):
Right right?

Speaker 2 (26:56):
What is out there for me? Are there any of
the Oscar movies, the smaller movies that are really good
that might be in contention for an Oscar?

Speaker 4 (27:05):
You know, the Brendan Frasier movie Rental Family just opened
this weekend too, and he obviously just got Best Actor
for The Whale last year, and he's really good in
this this sweet movie. It's about a actor in Japan
who gets an American actor in Japan who kind of
gets a job like in through this agency a made
up agency that hires people to be like, you know,

(27:25):
sort of extras at weddings or funerals or things like that,
and that's kind of a sweet movie. It's kind of
a fish out of water thing that's going on. I'd
also you know, there's one or two movies in theaters
still that are also like on Netflix. There's a really
good movie called Train Dreams that's a very quiet, sort
of contemplative movie that's really a nice sort of it's
an adult movie that's on Netflix, but it's also in

(27:45):
a few theaters. I also want to call out I
don't know if it's still showing anywhere, but Frankenstein, which
is a really good version of that story, is on
Netflix right now. It was in theaters just recently. That's
also one that if you don't want to see, if
you want to see another sort of classic story like Wicked,
but done in a slowly new way, I'd also recommend this.
Gerramo do Toro's Frankenstein. It's really a solid film.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
How many five stars that you've given out this year?
I'm trying. I'm trying to figure out the oscars already,
because I know it's Oscar time. I know this is
when the big movies come out. How many five star
movies have you had this year?

Speaker 4 (28:18):
I think this pastor has been about like four. I
gave the Bruce Springsteen movie five stars. I gave The
Long Walk, the Stephen King adaptation five stars. I can't
really think of too many others. It's been like maybe
one other that I really that really knocked me out
of the on the Ballpark. Otherwise, it's been kind of
a weak year. Oscar stuff is going to be weird
because one Battle after another seems to be the one

(28:38):
that people are betting on. I don't know about it.
I think that there's I think there's a lot of
other options that people are going to go for it.
There's a small movie called Hamnet that might win. I
don't know. That's a that's a possibility. That's sort of
a very serious drama about Shakespeare at the time that
he was writing Hamlet. It's a it's kind of a
strange year. So the movies that people have really liked,
like One Battle after another, I didn't give five stars.

(29:00):
I think I gave that three. So it's been kind
of a weak year. We'll see what happens. There's one
coming out called Marty Supreme. We'll talk about that closer
to Christmas with Timothy Shallomey. That's an interesting movie. That's
not a five star movie for me, but it's it's good.
There's also there's a small movie called Sheep Dog that
is not gonna be openingun till January. It's technically opening

(29:20):
this year. We'll talk about that towards the end of
the year. It's one of my favorites. That also is
a really sick.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
And I'll tell you this, Usually the movies that are
the front runners this early never win it. It doesn't
seem for some reason, there's another movie that nobody's talking
about that's gonna shoot up and.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Win exactly right. That's smart Lerr. Yeah, there's a there's
a peak too early, and there's too much, like you know,
there's so much hype going on, and I think that
opening a movie in October is always sort of a
not necessarily a safe bet. I think they think that
that's going to get them in the conversation early and
it tends it tends to be uh, they end up
falling back.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
You know.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
That's the horse that doesn't that doesn't finish the race.

Speaker 7 (29:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah, the problem is I have grand orders and I
gotta go to the sea wicked. I know that's what. Okay,
yeah you will.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
It's a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
I'll love it through then I'll just watch that the
entire time.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
See through their eyes exactly, exactly.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Wo R Movie Minute host Joe Neumayer. That wraps up
Saturday Morning for this week. Thanks for listening, and thanks
to Natalie Vaka and Peter Aolano for putting the show
together every week. Have a great rest of your weekend.
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