July 7, 2025 • 33 mins
In Hour 3, Mark Thompson kicks off with a preview of Amazon’s first-ever 4-day Prime Day event, spotlighting the can’t-miss deals and how it’s become the Black Friday of the digital age. Then, Mark shifts to the flood risk facing parts of California, connecting lessons from Texas’s recent catastrophe with an SF Chronicle warning about our own vulnerabilities. Later, Mark unpacks Israeli PM Netanyahu’s visit to D.C. and his aims for Gaza’s future governance—and discusses the surprising move to nominate President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize. The hour wraps with a breakdown of Trump’s much-hyped “big beautiful bill” and what it could mean for Californians.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is a Prime Day coming up with the these
are the best Prime Day deals of twenty twenty five.
It's four days. It's the first time they've done four days.
Doesn't the Bible say it should only be one day?
How did they get to four days? They had to
build that out.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I thought it was eight nine ten.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's July eighth at twelve oh one, you are correct,
young Michael Krozer and ends July eleventh at eleven to
fifty nine pm. It's a full ninety six hours of deals.
Four days. Yeah, four fabulous, gorgeous, double clicking days. I
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was going to say, I was like, yeah, I don't
remember four days ever. No, that's cool, double the length
from previous years. They had to get clearing from the
tower to do that. And they'll be daily themed drops
at midnight featuring brands like Samsung and Levi's and Keels.
So watch for the deals within the deals. The top
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deal categories we have shifted through and we have them
for you now. Amazon devices lead the top deal categories,
like the Fire tablets, the Echo the Kindle Fire TV
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like you'll get fifty percent off Fire HD ten. Well
that makes sense, I mean that's right. I mean they've
got that their deals. Sure their deal should be the
best exactly. They also say that look for electronics to
be wildly discounted. Smartphones, headphones, laptops, the smart watches, the
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Garmin Phoenix seven Pro and the Beat Solo four in
particular could be decent to scoop up over the four
day prime schedule. Beauty and personal care discounts up to
eighty three percent, Looreal, Niviya, Dyson. These are all things
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that will be again wildly discounted during this time. You know,
I just got an air fryer, and sure enough, why
did not? I wait? Air friers will be discounted. Robot vacuums,
Home and kitchen have a lot to say when it
comes to the discounts. Should be a good period, a
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good chunk of discounts in the home and kitchen categories.
The Shark, Ninja, the Eureka. These are when it comes
to vacuums and friars. You've hit your sweet spot. July
eight through the eleventh, It's four days. Lego Barbie trampolines,
nerve sets in the Toy and Outdoor department, cycling and
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sporting gear, the Garmin, bike gear, action cams, accessories.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
It reminds me. I bought a h what is it
called a krozier when you strap it to your head,
it's a camera. It's some a goproro GoPro thank you.
I bought a go pro last year and it's still
in the box. It was an impulse buy and I
thought that this will really be a great thing to
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I forget how I had it figuring in because it
really I should just put it up on you know,
offers up or something. Probably it's still in the boxes,
I said. But anyway, garment, bike gear, and action cams
like go pros and accessories big big bargains during this time.
And finally, if you're into music, there are all kinds
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of deals on instruments, on plugins, lessons from third party
stores too. Now Here are the things you should watch
out for. These are the problems you have to keep
them in mind. Many deals are real, often thirty to
seventy percent off, sometimes even higher, but some maybe fake markdowns,
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they say. Flashy marketing tactics like countdown. Timers can pressure
impulse buys. Stick to your wish list, they say, don't deviate.
I am very motivated by there are two other people
looking at this deal right now. I'm very motivated by that. Yeah,
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it really does work on me. Yeah that's right. Seventeen
people have looked at this deal. It really does work
on me. I'm telling you, I know, I give you,
I confess, I confess.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
All my software much so many people have given me
a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's like the equivalent of standing around like the costco
free food samples. They just hover around like vultures. Oh
so it feels like it, but I imagine it is true.
It is true. Do you participate yearly in the preme?
I I don't know if I don't look forward to
it predictive, but I'll definitely check it out. Sure, it's
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a weird thing. This society has now evolved to the
point that this is almost something that we just understand.
But we interact with Amazon and mail order so much
now it's just so easy, it's so frictionless. You double click.
It's and isn't that the ease of Amazon partially? Wouldn't
you say that's the success of Amazon that it's just
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so frictionless. They have your information, they have your credit card,
You click it and boom, it's at your door in
a day or two days. Yeah. And then the other
thing is that you can take it back. I mean,
the return policy at Amazon is so good that it
has created I think it's a cornerstone of their success.
Now others have followed, and you you know, you sort
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of want I'm always looking for return policy and you know,
delivery charges, what's snuck in, shipping charges, this sort of thing.
But my point in mentioning it is the kind of
the wonder of Christmas Morning that comes every time there's
an Amazon baggage delivered. We're sort of past that now,
but there is still something special when you've ordered something
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during these prime days, and you know, if it's a
big item, particularly you know you're looking forward to it's delivery.
There's a huge, huge number of discounted items when it
comes to television sets. I mean, it really is, and
I've read that huge What's that? Those are huge, huge
popular items, popular items and wildly discounted. I mean that
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you know, in other words, if you're looking for a
place where they're discounting hard. They are discounting hard in
that area.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Two years ago, during Prime Week or Prime Days, my
wife and I bought like five TVs, like various sizes,
so that way put a TV in every room in
the house, including the garage because they were so freaking
cheat and you don't need a cable anymore because they're
all you know, Wi Fi and Nabel, right, you just
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plug in and go. And then so it's like, uh, yeah,
we we needed to redo and we redid that just
so updated all the TVs at one shot, and I
was like less than a grand for all of them.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh yeah, I mean, I'm just looking at the deals
here there. It's incredible. Yeah, and it's pretty cool because
I don't use it often. But like I forgot what
I ordered recently, like within a week ago, and let's
say it was like July first, and said, oh, it'll
get there around the seventh. It showed up on the
third and I didn't even I got regular delivery. So
they're quick. I mean, if we don't need to like
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do the exbedit unless it's like an emergency, well how
about the thing where you click and it says will
be delivered between those it's like, let's say it's ten
in the morning or at nine in the morning, it'll
deliver between two and six today. Yeah, two and six today.
Where are you people like right outside my house waiting. Dude, dude,
he's ordering something. Can we can we rally something by
six ago? I mean it's crazy and it'll show like,
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oh your fear five stops away for stuff. You know,
it'll show like each delivery on the way to your place.
It's like cool, it is crazy. Well, Amazon devices obviously
lead the way, but there's a lot to check on
and they tell you to create wish lists, set a budget,
check competitor prices, you know, look at Walmart and best Buy,
and use price tracker tools like Camel Camel Camel to
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make sure you're really getting savings. I mean, this is
the thing, the whole idea somehow that it's just a
marketing thing. Now they actually have to serve up some
deals because there are too many ways to check to
make sure they really are deals. And at some point
you really undercut your whole thing if it's all a fraud.
So four days of magic, good luck when we come back.
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Could California face a similar disaster to the one in Texas.
We'll talk about that next.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You know, this Texas tragedy is just that. I mean,
there are just so many elements here that are heartbreaking.
Majority of the deaths there in Kerr County eighty four fatalities,
twenty eight kids, and their search and rescue efforts still
going on, individuals still missing. Could it happen in California?
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And we don't get the amount of flash flooding that
they do in Texas, but we do get flash floods
here as you well know. Now they have this flash
flood Alley, which is where the volume of rain in
just three hours, which was six to ten inches, maybe
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even in excess of that, I saw thirteen inches in
some spots. And that Guadeloupe River surging, I mean that
was the those are the twin Towers of devastation. I
mean that's just you know, you have that kind of
a tremendous amount of water being dropped in a three
hour time period, you have that unprecedented surge of that river,
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and you know the results. I mean, the river rose
more than twenty feet within hours, So could it happen here?
I mean again, we do get flash flooding here, and
many of you listening right now you live in areas
where it does happen. The National Flood Risk Analysis does
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highlight California's coastal mountain basins and the Sierra Nevada Foothills
among the slash flood hotspots nationally. And we're right alongside
the Texas Hill Country, which where the whole tragedy went down.
So the ingredients for this sort of tragedy steep terrain,
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right narrow canyons, hard soils, you know that resist absorbing
the water, and then bursts of torrential rain and communities
and this is a key communities built right there in
harm's way. The thing that adds another layer of risk
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here in California is what wildfire burns cars. So that
is an element here that is a real problem. After
a fire, slopes don't have the vegetation they can shed
all these waves of mud, rocks, trees, and water. It's
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called debris flow. You've seen it, you know it. We've
seen it in burned areas across every you know, everywhere
from Santa Barbara and the tragedy there to the foothills
of the San Gabriels. So these smaller storms hit burned
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areas and unstable slopes and then boom, you're looking at
debris flow. So the San Gabriel and San Bernadino Mountains
especially prone to this kind of thing. You know, in
two thousand and three, it was heavy rain that triggered
debris flows and that tore through campgrounds and homes Waterman
Canyon near San Bernadino. Five adults and nine children were killed.
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That was mudd and debris swept through a church camp
and that was a situation that was linked later to
the design of a coltrans road and parts of the
coastal range similar dangerous. Twenty eighteen, the thunderstorm over the
San Inez Mountains more than an inch and a half
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of rain in fifteen minutes, and that triggered that deadly
flow from the Thomas fire burn scar that tore through Motcito.
That's what I was talking about before twenty three people died.
Most of our disasters, most of our flash flooding like
this happens during the wet winter season. Right when you
have large scale storms, you have the atmospheric rivers We've
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discussed the dynamics a lot here on KFI, and usually
you have days in advance that you know that's going
to happen. I mean, we can forecast an atmospheric river
and a lot of the atmospheric elements well ahead of
when they show up. The Texas floods were incredibly deadly
because the extreme rainfall happens so quickly. I mean, you
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have totals nearing two feet, you have a tremendous amount
of water in that airman. So I would say in
looking at California, you see that we have some elements
that are similar to Texas. We have that monsoonal flow
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in July and August. Right, that's a flow out of
the South. It's very juicy, it's very full of water,
and sometimes it brings those tropical air masses northward and
there's strong thunderstorms, heavy rain, particularly in the Sierra and
the eastern slopes of the SI area, including you know,
the counties up north Alpine Mono monsoonal storms can wash
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out roads and campgrounds with sudden flash floods. But I
would say the deserts where fast developing storms can drop
a lot of rain in a short time and that's
where the hard ground can't absorb it fast enough. That's
where there is a real threat of flash flooding. And
while we're less prone to some of these deluged which
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is like Texas saw, we still have a lot of
the elements that these Texans have, and they face down
on a more frequent basis. So it's something to be
concerned with. I think one of the great things we
have in California is a solid warning system between cell
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phones and between state and county officials. I think you
have a real vigilance about this kind of thing and
about the elements coming together that would produce this. You know,
there were extenuating circumstances. In the case of Texas, kids
were told not to bring their phone. I mean, you
had it happening in the middle of the night, the
real ramp up of the warnings, and you just had, honestly,
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you had adults asleep at the switch, unable to get
the word out. And then of course you have the
tragedy of a warning system that a siren system in effect,
like a tornatic activity producing sirens across Oklahoma, Kansas, et cetera.
That same system was pitched in Texas for that same area,
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but they said it was just too expensive, and so
we end up where we end up. I think in
California we have a better track record in that way.
So it's a Tim Conway Junior show, Donald Trump and
the Nobel Prize. We'll talk about it next.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Looks like there is a buzz buzz around Donald Trump
and the coveted Nobel Peace Prize. You know how there's
an Oscar buzz before they give the oscars out and
the movies that seem like they might be odds on
favorites to take the Oscar, they get a buzz about
it and they call it Oscar buzz. Well, Nobel has
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never had that Nobel Prize buzz per se. But this
isn't the per se days. This isn't a normal time anymore.
This is the time of Nobel Peace Prize buzz.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Express the appreciation and admiration not only of all Israelis,
but of the Jewish people and many many admirers around
the world for your leadership.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
And this is of course Benjamin Nettan Yahoo, the Prime
Minister of Israel and you're hearing him handing President Donald
Trump a letter nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Your leadership of the free world, your leadership of a
just cause, and the pursuit of peace and security, which
you're leading in many lands now, especially in the midities,
we have great opportunities. The President has an extraordinary team,
and I think our teams together make an extraordinary combination
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to read challenges and seize opportunity. But the President has
already realized great opportunities. He forged the around the courts.
He's forging piece as we speak, in one country and
one region after the other. So I want to present
to you, mister President, the letter I sent to the
Nobel Prize committee. Oh it's no man in you for
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the Peace Prize, which is well deserved and you should
get it.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Thank you very much. This I didn't know. Wow, thank
you very much. Coming from you in particular, this is
a very meaningful Thank you very much. Beat me, thank you,
thank you for everything you're doing.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
It's a great honor.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Well, there you go. They should get the acoustics in
that dining room worked out a little bit, a little cavernous.
But apart from that, it was pretty powerful. I mean,
you know, before you say anything about and I think
a lot can be said. But you know, they gave
the Nobel Prize to Barack Obama, and even he was
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embarrassed by it. Do you remember it was? It happened
so soon after he became president. It was like I
just showed up here. You guys are laying the Nobel
Prize on me. I don't quite understand it. So I
think when it comes to these prizes, and please don't
misunderstand me, some of them you think, oh my god,
of course this is a person who's won is deserving
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of our reverence and respect, and how grateful the world
is for whatever it might be. But I think also
the Nomel Peace Prize, and again this isn't the Nobel
Committee speaking, but it's it's a sense of the components
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that go in to winning them a Nobel Peace Prize,
and how one can be nominated with any number of components.
And again it can be any number of things. So
there are five Nobel piece, so that they give one
for chemistry and physics and physiology or medicine literature. You know,
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it's been awarded annually, and this Peace Prize is. You know,
it's a very big deal. And I was trying to
see a list of those who have won, you know,
peace Prize laureates. You'd think that I could have that, producer, Matt,
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I'd have that list, and yet I don't. But the
important thing is that in the conversation around the Nobel
Peace Prize, you have our President Donald Trump. Now again
you may say, hey, what are you talking about. They've
just he bombed Iran and now declares the piece days
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later and you're going to give them the Noil peace Price. Well, again,
you can look at what's happened in the Middle East
as a way to reimagine the region. The fact that
Iran has been weakened considerably, right, that's the reason that
the Israelis could fly in, the Americans could fly in,
et cetera. The Iran proxies Syria, you know, completely decapitated.
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It's not no longer a sod et cetera. The Hooties
have been weakened in Yemen, has balads other than Lebanon. Really,
it's like they're not a factor anymore. The region has
changed dramatically, so the extent that someone wants to claim
credit for it, you can claim credit for it. I mean, again,
it's a moment in time. But apparently the weird thing
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as it goes down is we're still in the middle
of a conflict. In fact, even at this dinner remarks
whatever that you just heard, Donald Trump is saying, I
hope we don't have to go back in. So he's
not ruling out the possibility of future military action. He says,
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I'm hoping we're not going to have to do that.
They want to meet, they want to work something out.
And of course then there's Ukraine and Russia. He says,
we're going to send some more weapons. We have to.
He said they were primarily defensive weapons because Ukraine is
being quote hit very hard, and then he repeated that
he was disappointed in his call with Vladimir Putin. So
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it's look, the world is a dangerous place, and it's
in the middle of that mailstream of activity that you've
got this happening. But the israelis in the form of
Benjamin Netanyah, who say, hey, this guy Trump, we think
he's worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize. And by the way,
that's Benjamin Netanyah who's speaking. And as you know, even
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in his own country of Israel. He's not exactly the
most popular guy, but they're in Israel like America, there
are different factions and different opinions, and there's an ebb
and flow to that popularity. So but you didn't get
me the list of Now you get me the list
of Nova. Now I'm almost Barack Obama won an nine
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for diplomacy and Nuclear Disarmament Vision. And even Barack Obama
was embarrassed to get it. He didn't want it. You
could tell it was like, gosh, this is awkward. Kofi
Ann the United Nations and Kofian on and one yes,
Sir Arafat got it along with Jitchakra being in Shimone
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Perez because they put together the Oslo Accords. Remember for
peace in the Middle East, Nelson Mandela, Mikhel Gorbachev, the
end of the Cold War, Desmond Tutu, Desmond Tutu, for
the anti apartheid activism in nineteen eighty four. And now
maybe maybe some sort of celebration of a ceasing of
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hostilities and at least that one part of the Middle
East because of Donald Trump. Maybe that's what Netanyahu is suggesting.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Just always. I mentioned this before, It seems like there's
a real event happening. When Mo Kelly and his crew
come in. I've got a whole bunch of like social
media stuff is powered up. There are a bunch of
extra people here. Everybody looks good, they feel good. It
just like, all of a suddenly feel like show business
is coming, you know. And Mo, I'm glad that you're
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you're you're here, and I'm glad that Ronner is here
with you because I know you guys do a lot
about movies. You go to the movies together, You talk
about going to the movies together and everything.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
When Mark shows up last couple of time he's been
ditching us, here we.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Go and this is the mother's milk of your show
comes to movies now. The fourth of July weekend is
a huge weekend right in holiday movie blockbuster history, right well,
not recently, not in recent years.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
And you look at the larger slump of movie theaters,
you wonder if July fourth still had that same type
of bang for its buck for the movie industry.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
But this weekend, this past weekend, seems like yes, it does. Yeah, well,
they say, and you're right. The tradition of what's been
big weekends and sort of the reality the new reality
was streaming and all the rest. Everything's open for interpretation.
But this Jurassic World rebirth ninety one and a half
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million dollars is that the global total was three hundred
and twenty two million, which is insane. And if you
look at the title closely, they're letting you know that
there are another eight or nine movies coming. Well, I mean,
you don't even need to look at the title. You
only need to look at the box office worldwide, and
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you know that one way or the other they'll get
eight or nine.
Speaker 7 (26:09):
Yeah, three hundred and eighteen million. You cannot in any
way criticize that. That is a fantastic weekend worldwide, and
it speaks to the worldwide appeal of that franchise. Even still,
it's generational. Now, well, a real slow.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Learning curve on reanimating the dinosaurs maybe not such a
great idea. Yeah, yeah, they are, by the way, and
as you guys know, they've talked about this and are
actually doing a little bit of this reanimating stuff. It's
a little different. But anyway, that for another time, but
for the moment, they're reanimating this franchise. And as you say, Mo,
and I think one of the reasons that it does
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so well worldwide is you don't need you can put
it in any language, right, it's a you know, it's
so visually spectacular. It kind of appeals to both children
and adults.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
There is a fantastical aspect to it that I think
attracts children. We as adults, we kind of grew up
with the franchise, going back to the original, and so
I haven't been a fan of all the movies. I'm
a fan of the brand and franchise. Not all the
movies were all that good. But if they can keep
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finding ways, to Mark Ronner's point, keep reanimating these dinosaurs
and they keep eating people, then people will still keep
going to the movies.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, just see F One. You guys saw the movie.
Both saw it, and Mark and I have very different
takes on it. No, Mo's, of course is incorrect.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
That I happened to really like it, Mark happened to
really not like it.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
What was your problem with it? It was just astonishingly stupid.
It was a lot of really good racing footage, surrounded
by an almost non existent story, and what was there
was just insultingly bad. Apparently MO did not feel as
insulted as you, well, not at all. MO is far
more easily entertained. I got Wow, what about How to
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Train Your Dragon? Another million? And it's fourth week, It's
two hundred and twenty four million after twenty four days.
Speaker 7 (28:04):
What I find surprising about that that's a live live
adaptation of that of that title, and so here to
fore most of those movies did not do exceptionally well.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
That one I think is punching above its weight. Far
less successful is the Disney Pictar l eoh.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
One of the worst openings of all time for Pixar movies,
and I don't know, I didn't see much of it
as far as the promotion, so I'm not surprised that
it under performed on sun level. But that poorly says
a lot about the Pixar brand. I think it used
to be if you put it out there and it
was Pixar, it was going to do well. Maybe people
are reticent to go to the movies just on the
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strength of a brand alone.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, I mean the other side of this is Disney
put out that Lallo and Stitch. Wasn't that a that
was a another live action and which actually overperformed. That's
kind of I mentioned like that, that's that offsets the
underperformance of l e oh. I mean at least from
a studios town. Yeah. Yeah, because they're still counting the
money the same way, right right, And Mission Impossible. The
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final reckoning is still part of the conversation because it
continues to track apparently along the lines of F one numbers.
You know, it has some half life. Part of that
I think has to do with it.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
There is an international audience which is bought in to
certain movies F one. Of course, the international audience is
going to be bigger than the domestic audience because F
one is bigger around the world than it is here
in the United States. Mission Impossible, that franchise is big
everywhere around the world depending on what you read. I
read that that particular movie had a budget anywhere from
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five hundred to seven hundred million dollars. So I don't
know how much money it is making, but I enjoyed
it thoroughly.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
It's a real crowd pleaser, and no matter what you
think of Tom Cruise or the like, maybe half hour
to forty five minutes of clunky exposition. It's got some
stuff in there that is just absolute big screen movie
stuff that you're not gonna get anywhere else. What is
the what is the parallel in history for his screen
star like Tom Cruise. I was just trying to as.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Far as action movie star, I don't know, because Tom
Cruise doing all of his own stunts provides a different
vantage point to view a movie star. We had been
talking about this on Later with Mo Kelly. I think
that's a part and should be considered part of his
acting performance. He's not just acting as if he is
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a secret agent. He is doing all the things that
we think this super agent is doing in the movie.
You know, it's not like cut bringing to look alike.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, no, it's true. It's imagining. I'm laughing because it's
almost a Jackie Chan level of involvement with stunts and
certainly the big ones. But you have a level of
acting I'd say. I mean he's a talented actor. When
you seem born on the fourth of July, we can
go deep in that Born on the fourth of July.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
You can go back to taps his original role shopposite
Timothy Hutton.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
The firm opposite Gene Hackman.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
He's had some wonderful, wonderful performances obviously a few good
men that got overshadowed later in his career because he's
doing all of this mission impossible work.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, he's really good at all.
Mark you mentioned Jackie chan I mentioned a few weeks
ago comparing Tom Cruise to Harold Lloyd, which is maybe
in old reference for a lot of listeners, but he
was a silent movie star and known for taking insane
risks with trains and heights on buildings, things like that.
Tom Cruise is totally the modern Harold lloydle Oh, that's
(31:43):
really fascinating that probably, I mean Harold Lloyd and again
just before all of our times. But you can see
the YouTube compilations and you see, I mean there was
no room for error. I mean, I understand that there's
no room for error in the Cruise stuff, but there
on some level is an escape patch.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Yeah, there was really no osha, there was no type
of protection.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, there was no green screen right with it with
a line attaching you to the plane. Harold Lloyd rightfully
should have been killed numerous times just amazing. That's a
great reference too. I feel like I'm only auditing this
college class. So I'm going to wrap it up. What
else you got Mo for tonight? Anything you want to mention?
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
We're going to talk about the aftermath of the fourth
of July.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
Obviously it's a dangerous holiday and it proved as much
this past weekend. We've got to talk about the good
news and bad news about that. We're going to go
beyond the box score with Jackie Ray, a regular commentator.
More gambling, more suspicion about the legitimacy of our sports,
the future of fantasy sports, and whether it's actually legal
in a state like California, which ostensibly gambling is illegal.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, yeah, that's what they say. But watching these pitchers
where they can now bet on each pitch, Yeah, all
those prop bets, all of a sudden, the ball just
get a wild pitch. Let there be no dispute at
the end and then the following suspension. I'm loving it.
I'll hear it every minute of it. Mo Kelly Later
with Mo Kelly next. Thanks Conway kids, We'll see you tomorrow.
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Speaker 1 (33:14):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is a Prime Day coming up with the these
are the best Prime Day deals of twenty twenty five.
It's four days. It's the first time they've done four days.
Doesn't the Bible say it should only be one day?
How did they get to four days? They had to
build that out.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I thought it was eight nine ten.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's July eighth at twelve oh one, you are correct,
young Michael Krozer and ends July eleventh at eleven to
fifty nine pm. It's a full ninety six hours of deals.
Four days. Yeah, four fabulous, gorgeous, double clicking days. I
(00:51):
was going to say, I was like, yeah, I don't
remember four days ever. No, that's cool, double the length
from previous years. They had to get clearing from the
tower to do that. And they'll be daily themed drops
at midnight featuring brands like Samsung and Levi's and Keels.
So watch for the deals within the deals. The top
(01:15):
deal categories we have shifted through and we have them
for you now. Amazon devices lead the top deal categories,
like the Fire tablets, the Echo the Kindle Fire TV
(01:36):
like you'll get fifty percent off Fire HD ten. Well
that makes sense, I mean that's right. I mean they've
got that their deals. Sure their deal should be the
best exactly. They also say that look for electronics to
be wildly discounted. Smartphones, headphones, laptops, the smart watches, the
(02:01):
Garmin Phoenix seven Pro and the Beat Solo four in
particular could be decent to scoop up over the four
day prime schedule. Beauty and personal care discounts up to
eighty three percent, Looreal, Niviya, Dyson. These are all things
(02:26):
that will be again wildly discounted during this time. You know,
I just got an air fryer, and sure enough, why
did not? I wait? Air friers will be discounted. Robot vacuums,
Home and kitchen have a lot to say when it
comes to the discounts. Should be a good period, a
(02:46):
good chunk of discounts in the home and kitchen categories.
The Shark, Ninja, the Eureka. These are when it comes
to vacuums and friars. You've hit your sweet spot. July
eight through the eleventh, It's four days. Lego Barbie trampolines,
nerve sets in the Toy and Outdoor department, cycling and
(03:12):
sporting gear, the Garmin, bike gear, action cams, accessories.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
It reminds me. I bought a h what is it
called a krozier when you strap it to your head,
it's a camera. It's some a goproro GoPro thank you.
I bought a go pro last year and it's still
in the box. It was an impulse buy and I
thought that this will really be a great thing to
(03:39):
I forget how I had it figuring in because it
really I should just put it up on you know,
offers up or something. Probably it's still in the boxes,
I said. But anyway, garment, bike gear, and action cams
like go pros and accessories big big bargains during this time.
And finally, if you're into music, there are all kinds
(03:59):
of deals on instruments, on plugins, lessons from third party
stores too. Now Here are the things you should watch
out for. These are the problems you have to keep
them in mind. Many deals are real, often thirty to
seventy percent off, sometimes even higher, but some maybe fake markdowns,
(04:24):
they say. Flashy marketing tactics like countdown. Timers can pressure
impulse buys. Stick to your wish list, they say, don't deviate.
I am very motivated by there are two other people
looking at this deal right now. I'm very motivated by that. Yeah,
(04:47):
it really does work on me. Yeah that's right. Seventeen
people have looked at this deal. It really does work
on me. I'm telling you, I know, I give you,
I confess, I confess.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
All my software much so many people have given me
a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's like the equivalent of standing around like the costco
free food samples. They just hover around like vultures. Oh
so it feels like it, but I imagine it is true.
It is true. Do you participate yearly in the preme?
I I don't know if I don't look forward to
it predictive, but I'll definitely check it out. Sure, it's
(05:25):
a weird thing. This society has now evolved to the
point that this is almost something that we just understand.
But we interact with Amazon and mail order so much
now it's just so easy, it's so frictionless. You double click.
It's and isn't that the ease of Amazon partially? Wouldn't
you say that's the success of Amazon that it's just
(05:47):
so frictionless. They have your information, they have your credit card,
You click it and boom, it's at your door in
a day or two days. Yeah. And then the other
thing is that you can take it back. I mean,
the return policy at Amazon is so good that it
has created I think it's a cornerstone of their success.
Now others have followed, and you you know, you sort
(06:08):
of want I'm always looking for return policy and you know,
delivery charges, what's snuck in, shipping charges, this sort of thing.
But my point in mentioning it is the kind of
the wonder of Christmas Morning that comes every time there's
an Amazon baggage delivered. We're sort of past that now,
but there is still something special when you've ordered something
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during these prime days, and you know, if it's a
big item, particularly you know you're looking forward to it's delivery.
There's a huge, huge number of discounted items when it
comes to television sets. I mean, it really is, and
I've read that huge What's that? Those are huge, huge
popular items, popular items and wildly discounted. I mean that
(06:54):
you know, in other words, if you're looking for a
place where they're discounting hard. They are discounting hard in
that area.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Two years ago, during Prime Week or Prime Days, my
wife and I bought like five TVs, like various sizes,
so that way put a TV in every room in
the house, including the garage because they were so freaking
cheat and you don't need a cable anymore because they're
all you know, Wi Fi and Nabel, right, you just
(07:22):
plug in and go. And then so it's like, uh, yeah,
we we needed to redo and we redid that just
so updated all the TVs at one shot, and I
was like less than a grand for all of them.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh yeah, I mean, I'm just looking at the deals
here there. It's incredible. Yeah, and it's pretty cool because
I don't use it often. But like I forgot what
I ordered recently, like within a week ago, and let's
say it was like July first, and said, oh, it'll
get there around the seventh. It showed up on the
third and I didn't even I got regular delivery. So
they're quick. I mean, if we don't need to like
(07:54):
do the exbedit unless it's like an emergency, well how
about the thing where you click and it says will
be delivered between those it's like, let's say it's ten
in the morning or at nine in the morning, it'll
deliver between two and six today. Yeah, two and six today.
Where are you people like right outside my house waiting. Dude, dude,
he's ordering something. Can we can we rally something by
six ago? I mean it's crazy and it'll show like,
(08:17):
oh your fear five stops away for stuff. You know,
it'll show like each delivery on the way to your place.
It's like cool, it is crazy. Well, Amazon devices obviously
lead the way, but there's a lot to check on
and they tell you to create wish lists, set a budget,
check competitor prices, you know, look at Walmart and best Buy,
and use price tracker tools like Camel Camel Camel to
(08:40):
make sure you're really getting savings. I mean, this is
the thing, the whole idea somehow that it's just a
marketing thing. Now they actually have to serve up some
deals because there are too many ways to check to
make sure they really are deals. And at some point
you really undercut your whole thing if it's all a fraud.
So four days of magic, good luck when we come back.
(09:05):
Could California face a similar disaster to the one in Texas.
We'll talk about that next.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You know, this Texas tragedy is just that. I mean,
there are just so many elements here that are heartbreaking.
Majority of the deaths there in Kerr County eighty four fatalities,
twenty eight kids, and their search and rescue efforts still
going on, individuals still missing. Could it happen in California?
(09:45):
And we don't get the amount of flash flooding that
they do in Texas, but we do get flash floods
here as you well know. Now they have this flash
flood Alley, which is where the volume of rain in
just three hours, which was six to ten inches, maybe
(10:07):
even in excess of that, I saw thirteen inches in
some spots. And that Guadeloupe River surging, I mean that
was the those are the twin Towers of devastation. I
mean that's just you know, you have that kind of
a tremendous amount of water being dropped in a three
hour time period, you have that unprecedented surge of that river,
(10:29):
and you know the results. I mean, the river rose
more than twenty feet within hours, So could it happen here?
I mean again, we do get flash flooding here, and
many of you listening right now you live in areas
where it does happen. The National Flood Risk Analysis does
(10:53):
highlight California's coastal mountain basins and the Sierra Nevada Foothills
among the slash flood hotspots nationally. And we're right alongside
the Texas Hill Country, which where the whole tragedy went down.
So the ingredients for this sort of tragedy steep terrain,
(11:15):
right narrow canyons, hard soils, you know that resist absorbing
the water, and then bursts of torrential rain and communities
and this is a key communities built right there in
harm's way. The thing that adds another layer of risk
(11:36):
here in California is what wildfire burns cars. So that
is an element here that is a real problem. After
a fire, slopes don't have the vegetation they can shed
all these waves of mud, rocks, trees, and water. It's
(11:57):
called debris flow. You've seen it, you know it. We've
seen it in burned areas across every you know, everywhere
from Santa Barbara and the tragedy there to the foothills
of the San Gabriels. So these smaller storms hit burned
(12:18):
areas and unstable slopes and then boom, you're looking at
debris flow. So the San Gabriel and San Bernadino Mountains
especially prone to this kind of thing. You know, in
two thousand and three, it was heavy rain that triggered
debris flows and that tore through campgrounds and homes Waterman
Canyon near San Bernadino. Five adults and nine children were killed.
(12:40):
That was mudd and debris swept through a church camp
and that was a situation that was linked later to
the design of a coltrans road and parts of the
coastal range similar dangerous. Twenty eighteen, the thunderstorm over the
San Inez Mountains more than an inch and a half
(13:03):
of rain in fifteen minutes, and that triggered that deadly
flow from the Thomas fire burn scar that tore through Motcito.
That's what I was talking about before twenty three people died.
Most of our disasters, most of our flash flooding like
this happens during the wet winter season. Right when you
have large scale storms, you have the atmospheric rivers We've
(13:26):
discussed the dynamics a lot here on KFI, and usually
you have days in advance that you know that's going
to happen. I mean, we can forecast an atmospheric river
and a lot of the atmospheric elements well ahead of
when they show up. The Texas floods were incredibly deadly
because the extreme rainfall happens so quickly. I mean, you
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have totals nearing two feet, you have a tremendous amount
of water in that airman. So I would say in
looking at California, you see that we have some elements
that are similar to Texas. We have that monsoonal flow
(14:13):
in July and August. Right, that's a flow out of
the South. It's very juicy, it's very full of water,
and sometimes it brings those tropical air masses northward and
there's strong thunderstorms, heavy rain, particularly in the Sierra and
the eastern slopes of the SI area, including you know,
the counties up north Alpine Mono monsoonal storms can wash
(14:36):
out roads and campgrounds with sudden flash floods. But I
would say the deserts where fast developing storms can drop
a lot of rain in a short time and that's
where the hard ground can't absorb it fast enough. That's
where there is a real threat of flash flooding. And
while we're less prone to some of these deluged which
(15:00):
is like Texas saw, we still have a lot of
the elements that these Texans have, and they face down
on a more frequent basis. So it's something to be
concerned with. I think one of the great things we
have in California is a solid warning system between cell
(15:21):
phones and between state and county officials. I think you
have a real vigilance about this kind of thing and
about the elements coming together that would produce this. You know,
there were extenuating circumstances. In the case of Texas, kids
were told not to bring their phone. I mean, you
had it happening in the middle of the night, the
real ramp up of the warnings, and you just had, honestly,
(15:43):
you had adults asleep at the switch, unable to get
the word out. And then of course you have the
tragedy of a warning system that a siren system in effect,
like a tornatic activity producing sirens across Oklahoma, Kansas, et cetera.
That same system was pitched in Texas for that same area,
(16:05):
but they said it was just too expensive, and so
we end up where we end up. I think in
California we have a better track record in that way.
So it's a Tim Conway Junior show, Donald Trump and
the Nobel Prize. We'll talk about it next.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Looks like there is a buzz buzz around Donald Trump
and the coveted Nobel Peace Prize. You know how there's
an Oscar buzz before they give the oscars out and
the movies that seem like they might be odds on
favorites to take the Oscar, they get a buzz about
it and they call it Oscar buzz. Well, Nobel has
(16:52):
never had that Nobel Prize buzz per se. But this
isn't the per se days. This isn't a normal time anymore.
This is the time of Nobel Peace Prize buzz.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Express the appreciation and admiration not only of all Israelis,
but of the Jewish people and many many admirers around
the world for your leadership.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
And this is of course Benjamin Nettan Yahoo, the Prime
Minister of Israel and you're hearing him handing President Donald
Trump a letter nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Your leadership of the free world, your leadership of a
just cause, and the pursuit of peace and security, which
you're leading in many lands now, especially in the midities,
we have great opportunities. The President has an extraordinary team,
and I think our teams together make an extraordinary combination
(17:57):
to read challenges and seize opportunity. But the President has
already realized great opportunities. He forged the around the courts.
He's forging piece as we speak, in one country and
one region after the other. So I want to present
to you, mister President, the letter I sent to the
Nobel Prize committee. Oh it's no man in you for
(18:20):
the Peace Prize, which is well deserved and you should
get it.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Thank you very much. This I didn't know. Wow, thank
you very much. Coming from you in particular, this is
a very meaningful Thank you very much. Beat me, thank you,
thank you for everything you're doing.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
It's a great honor.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Well, there you go. They should get the acoustics in
that dining room worked out a little bit, a little cavernous.
But apart from that, it was pretty powerful. I mean,
you know, before you say anything about and I think
a lot can be said. But you know, they gave
the Nobel Prize to Barack Obama, and even he was
(19:02):
embarrassed by it. Do you remember it was? It happened
so soon after he became president. It was like I
just showed up here. You guys are laying the Nobel
Prize on me. I don't quite understand it. So I
think when it comes to these prizes, and please don't
misunderstand me, some of them you think, oh my god,
of course this is a person who's won is deserving
(19:24):
of our reverence and respect, and how grateful the world
is for whatever it might be. But I think also
the Nomel Peace Prize, and again this isn't the Nobel
Committee speaking, but it's it's a sense of the components
(19:44):
that go in to winning them a Nobel Peace Prize,
and how one can be nominated with any number of components.
And again it can be any number of things. So
there are five Nobel piece, so that they give one
for chemistry and physics and physiology or medicine literature. You know,
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it's been awarded annually, and this Peace Prize is. You know,
it's a very big deal. And I was trying to
see a list of those who have won, you know,
peace Prize laureates. You'd think that I could have that, producer, Matt,
(20:35):
I'd have that list, and yet I don't. But the
important thing is that in the conversation around the Nobel
Peace Prize, you have our President Donald Trump. Now again
you may say, hey, what are you talking about. They've
just he bombed Iran and now declares the piece days
(20:58):
later and you're going to give them the Noil peace Price. Well, again,
you can look at what's happened in the Middle East
as a way to reimagine the region. The fact that
Iran has been weakened considerably, right, that's the reason that
the Israelis could fly in, the Americans could fly in,
et cetera. The Iran proxies Syria, you know, completely decapitated.
(21:23):
It's not no longer a sod et cetera. The Hooties
have been weakened in Yemen, has balads other than Lebanon. Really,
it's like they're not a factor anymore. The region has
changed dramatically, so the extent that someone wants to claim
credit for it, you can claim credit for it. I mean, again,
it's a moment in time. But apparently the weird thing
(21:46):
as it goes down is we're still in the middle
of a conflict. In fact, even at this dinner remarks
whatever that you just heard, Donald Trump is saying, I
hope we don't have to go back in. So he's
not ruling out the possibility of future military action. He says,
(22:07):
I'm hoping we're not going to have to do that.
They want to meet, they want to work something out.
And of course then there's Ukraine and Russia. He says,
we're going to send some more weapons. We have to.
He said they were primarily defensive weapons because Ukraine is
being quote hit very hard, and then he repeated that
he was disappointed in his call with Vladimir Putin. So
(22:31):
it's look, the world is a dangerous place, and it's
in the middle of that mailstream of activity that you've
got this happening. But the israelis in the form of
Benjamin Netanyah, who say, hey, this guy Trump, we think
he's worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize. And by the way,
that's Benjamin Netanyah who's speaking. And as you know, even
(22:51):
in his own country of Israel. He's not exactly the
most popular guy, but they're in Israel like America, there
are different factions and different opinions, and there's an ebb
and flow to that popularity. So but you didn't get
me the list of Now you get me the list
of Nova. Now I'm almost Barack Obama won an nine
(23:19):
for diplomacy and Nuclear Disarmament Vision. And even Barack Obama
was embarrassed to get it. He didn't want it. You
could tell it was like, gosh, this is awkward. Kofi
Ann the United Nations and Kofian on and one yes,
Sir Arafat got it along with Jitchakra being in Shimone
(23:41):
Perez because they put together the Oslo Accords. Remember for
peace in the Middle East, Nelson Mandela, Mikhel Gorbachev, the
end of the Cold War, Desmond Tutu, Desmond Tutu, for
the anti apartheid activism in nineteen eighty four. And now
maybe maybe some sort of celebration of a ceasing of
(24:02):
hostilities and at least that one part of the Middle
East because of Donald Trump. Maybe that's what Netanyahu is suggesting.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Just always. I mentioned this before, It seems like there's
a real event happening. When Mo Kelly and his crew
come in. I've got a whole bunch of like social
media stuff is powered up. There are a bunch of
extra people here. Everybody looks good, they feel good. It
just like, all of a suddenly feel like show business
is coming, you know. And Mo, I'm glad that you're
(24:44):
you're you're here, and I'm glad that Ronner is here
with you because I know you guys do a lot
about movies. You go to the movies together, You talk
about going to the movies together and everything.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
When Mark shows up last couple of time he's been
ditching us, here we.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Go and this is the mother's milk of your show
comes to movies now. The fourth of July weekend is
a huge weekend right in holiday movie blockbuster history, right well,
not recently, not in recent years.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
And you look at the larger slump of movie theaters,
you wonder if July fourth still had that same type
of bang for its buck for the movie industry.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
But this weekend, this past weekend, seems like yes, it does. Yeah, well,
they say, and you're right. The tradition of what's been
big weekends and sort of the reality the new reality
was streaming and all the rest. Everything's open for interpretation.
But this Jurassic World rebirth ninety one and a half
(25:44):
million dollars is that the global total was three hundred
and twenty two million, which is insane. And if you
look at the title closely, they're letting you know that
there are another eight or nine movies coming. Well, I mean,
you don't even need to look at the title. You
only need to look at the box office worldwide, and
(26:06):
you know that one way or the other they'll get
eight or nine.
Speaker 7 (26:09):
Yeah, three hundred and eighteen million. You cannot in any
way criticize that. That is a fantastic weekend worldwide, and
it speaks to the worldwide appeal of that franchise. Even still,
it's generational. Now, well, a real slow.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Learning curve on reanimating the dinosaurs maybe not such a
great idea. Yeah, yeah, they are, by the way, and
as you guys know, they've talked about this and are
actually doing a little bit of this reanimating stuff. It's
a little different. But anyway, that for another time, but
for the moment, they're reanimating this franchise. And as you say, Mo,
and I think one of the reasons that it does
(26:42):
so well worldwide is you don't need you can put
it in any language, right, it's a you know, it's
so visually spectacular. It kind of appeals to both children
and adults.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
There is a fantastical aspect to it that I think
attracts children. We as adults, we kind of grew up
with the franchise, going back to the original, and so
I haven't been a fan of all the movies. I'm
a fan of the brand and franchise. Not all the
movies were all that good. But if they can keep
(27:12):
finding ways, to Mark Ronner's point, keep reanimating these dinosaurs
and they keep eating people, then people will still keep
going to the movies.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, just see F One. You guys saw the movie.
Both saw it, and Mark and I have very different
takes on it. No, Mo's, of course is incorrect.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
That I happened to really like it, Mark happened to
really not like it.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
What was your problem with it? It was just astonishingly stupid.
It was a lot of really good racing footage, surrounded
by an almost non existent story, and what was there
was just insultingly bad. Apparently MO did not feel as
insulted as you, well, not at all. MO is far
more easily entertained. I got Wow, what about How to
(27:58):
Train Your Dragon? Another million? And it's fourth week, It's
two hundred and twenty four million after twenty four days.
Speaker 7 (28:04):
What I find surprising about that that's a live live
adaptation of that of that title, and so here to
fore most of those movies did not do exceptionally well.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
That one I think is punching above its weight. Far
less successful is the Disney Pictar l eoh.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
One of the worst openings of all time for Pixar movies,
and I don't know, I didn't see much of it
as far as the promotion, so I'm not surprised that
it under performed on sun level. But that poorly says
a lot about the Pixar brand. I think it used
to be if you put it out there and it
was Pixar, it was going to do well. Maybe people
are reticent to go to the movies just on the
(28:47):
strength of a brand alone.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, I mean the other side of this is Disney
put out that Lallo and Stitch. Wasn't that a that
was a another live action and which actually overperformed. That's
kind of I mentioned like that, that's that offsets the
underperformance of l e oh. I mean at least from
a studios town. Yeah. Yeah, because they're still counting the
money the same way, right right, And Mission Impossible. The
(29:13):
final reckoning is still part of the conversation because it
continues to track apparently along the lines of F one numbers.
You know, it has some half life. Part of that
I think has to do with it.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
There is an international audience which is bought in to
certain movies F one. Of course, the international audience is
going to be bigger than the domestic audience because F
one is bigger around the world than it is here
in the United States. Mission Impossible, that franchise is big
everywhere around the world depending on what you read. I
read that that particular movie had a budget anywhere from
(29:50):
five hundred to seven hundred million dollars. So I don't
know how much money it is making, but I enjoyed
it thoroughly.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
It's a real crowd pleaser, and no matter what you
think of Tom Cruise or the like, maybe half hour
to forty five minutes of clunky exposition. It's got some
stuff in there that is just absolute big screen movie
stuff that you're not gonna get anywhere else. What is
the what is the parallel in history for his screen
star like Tom Cruise. I was just trying to as.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Far as action movie star, I don't know, because Tom
Cruise doing all of his own stunts provides a different
vantage point to view a movie star. We had been
talking about this on Later with Mo Kelly. I think
that's a part and should be considered part of his
acting performance. He's not just acting as if he is
(30:38):
a secret agent. He is doing all the things that
we think this super agent is doing in the movie.
You know, it's not like cut bringing to look alike.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, no, it's true. It's imagining. I'm laughing because it's
almost a Jackie Chan level of involvement with stunts and
certainly the big ones. But you have a level of
acting I'd say. I mean he's a talented actor. When
you seem born on the fourth of July, we can
go deep in that Born on the fourth of July.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
You can go back to taps his original role shopposite
Timothy Hutton.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
The firm opposite Gene Hackman.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
He's had some wonderful, wonderful performances obviously a few good
men that got overshadowed later in his career because he's
doing all of this mission impossible work.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, he's really good at all.
Mark you mentioned Jackie chan I mentioned a few weeks
ago comparing Tom Cruise to Harold Lloyd, which is maybe
in old reference for a lot of listeners, but he
was a silent movie star and known for taking insane
risks with trains and heights on buildings, things like that.
Tom Cruise is totally the modern Harold lloydle Oh, that's
(31:43):
really fascinating that probably, I mean Harold Lloyd and again
just before all of our times. But you can see
the YouTube compilations and you see, I mean there was
no room for error. I mean, I understand that there's
no room for error in the Cruise stuff, but there
on some level is an escape patch.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Yeah, there was really no osha, there was no type
of protection.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, there was no green screen right with it with
a line attaching you to the plane. Harold Lloyd rightfully
should have been killed numerous times just amazing. That's a
great reference too. I feel like I'm only auditing this
college class. So I'm going to wrap it up. What
else you got Mo for tonight? Anything you want to mention?
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
We're going to talk about the aftermath of the fourth
of July.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
Obviously it's a dangerous holiday and it proved as much
this past weekend. We've got to talk about the good
news and bad news about that. We're going to go
beyond the box score with Jackie Ray, a regular commentator.
More gambling, more suspicion about the legitimacy of our sports,
the future of fantasy sports, and whether it's actually legal
in a state like California, which ostensibly gambling is illegal.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, yeah, that's what they say. But watching these pitchers
where they can now bet on each pitch, Yeah, all
those prop bets, all of a sudden, the ball just
get a wild pitch. Let there be no dispute at
the end and then the following suspension. I'm loving it.
I'll hear it every minute of it. Mo Kelly Later
with Mo Kelly next. Thanks Conway kids, We'll see you tomorrow.
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