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Hour 3: USS Lincoln · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Well, just a stunning story from over in the Persian
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Speaker 1: Golf where the USS Abraham Lincoln has been holding fort.
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Speaker 1: They've been there for nine months, two hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: days without ever going to port, and they've had some
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Speaker 1: extreme problems. They've had low morale, extreme exhaustion. They've had
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Speaker 1: suicide attempts, people allegedly trying to jump overboard, and many
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Speaker 1: of the people there just say there's a lack of
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Speaker 1: mission clarity. We want to know why we're here and
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Speaker 1: what we're supposed to be doing. And apparently it's just
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Speaker 1: to be a base for some of the planes that
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Speaker 1: take off, but right now we have no airstrike, so
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Speaker 1: why can't they get to port? But also it's just
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Speaker 1: basic shortages. Family members have flag shortages of fresh food
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Speaker 1: and essential living supplies. Crew members have reported broken toilets there,
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Speaker 1: plumbing issues, that have had internal complaints of water contamination.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, you know how we're getting all
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Speaker 1: this information because of families that talk to their daughters
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Speaker 1: and sons that are on the USS Abraham Lincoln and
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Speaker 1: calling and writing to Stars and Stripes. The military publication
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Speaker 1: they broke this story. So at top of the hat
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Speaker 1: to them, so all of these complaints and the news
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Speaker 1: story has gotten to the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,
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Speaker 1: who had this to say.
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Speaker 2: Completely misrepresentative.
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Speaker 3: Listen, we make.
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Speaker 4: Sure at every ship, every crew, every captain has everything
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Speaker 4: we can provide them at every single moment.
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Speaker 5: Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more
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Speaker 5: respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody. What they
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Speaker 5: do in those high seas and those austere conditions with
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Speaker 5: less port calls.
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Speaker 2: It's incredible. Americans don't understand what it's like to that.
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Speaker 5: So, as someone who's been not been on a ship
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Speaker 5: like that, but been on long deployments, I feel.
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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, Curtis to what he just said, these are
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Speaker 1: all reports he's saying. I completely discredit that he said
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Speaker 1: at the beginning because I think because he just can't
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Speaker 1: believe it's true. But there's going to be an investigation.
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Speaker 1: It will be a military investigation, so we may never
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Speaker 1: find out what the investigation found out.
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Speaker 2: Well, members of Congress want to visit the uses Slank
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Speaker 2: and then they should be able to have conversations with
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Speaker 2: the staff, the crew, and obviously the officers in charge.
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Speaker 2: I think the smartest thing for Pete Hexev. Instead of
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Speaker 2: being so defensive about that, was saying, hey, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you. The problem started with the USS
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Speaker 2: gerald Ford. Now it's the finest fighting vessel that has
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Speaker 2: ever been created by the Navy. I mean aircraft carrier
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Speaker 2: they had, Oh my god. They were based out of Norfolk, Virginia.
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Speaker 2: Remember they were there in the Caribbean, the West Indies.
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Speaker 2: They provided the bulk of the support and the attacks
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Speaker 2: that were done on Venezuela when we extricated Maduro, and
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Speaker 2: then they were sent naturally right away. Thereafter we got
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Speaker 2: involved in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf with Iran.
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Speaker 2: They were the lead aircraft carrier. And remember what happened.
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Speaker 2: They had a fire. They had toilet issues. Remember the
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Speaker 2: big thing they were using these modern day micro size toilets.
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Speaker 2: They couldn't absorb the toilet paper or just like in
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Speaker 2: real life, you know on land, what are those the wipes?
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Speaker 2: You know, So there are all kinds of mechanical problems.
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Speaker 2: So they went to crete in order to get their maintenance.
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Speaker 2: And I think what happened was they had been deployed
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Speaker 2: for three hundred and twenty six days before it returned.
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Speaker 2: That broke the record for the longest carrier deployment since Vietnam.
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Speaker 2: So that that's the ain't aircraft carrier. But you had
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Speaker 2: to replace it, and the USS Lincoln was scheduled to
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Speaker 2: get maintenance, get a little R and R because they
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Speaker 2: had been out there a long time. So what they
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Speaker 2: did is said, well, we got to replace the top
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Speaker 2: of the line aircraft carrier with the USS Lincoln. And
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Speaker 2: as you pointed out, there were all kinds of problems.
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Speaker 2: First of all, let me explain just from my dad's
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Speaker 2: experience in the Persian golf because remember it used to
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Speaker 2: be on an oil oil tanker. Hotter in the hell. Man,
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Speaker 2: you're out on the flight deck in this case an
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Speaker 2: aircraft carrier, but you're out on the deck of this
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Speaker 2: oil tanker. Man, it's like one hundred and twenty degrees
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Speaker 2: in the shade. It's not a place you want to be.
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Speaker 2: It is hot in hell there constantly there's no R
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Speaker 2: and R. You can't be stopping off at the friends
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Speaker 2: the Persian golfer countries, you know, you know, not doing
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Speaker 2: R and R and Saudi Arabia or Qatar or bob Rain,
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Speaker 2: you know, oman you know, friendly Persian Gulf countries, No
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Speaker 2: or Iraq, which is a little further north, so they
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Speaker 2: haven't had any R and M. I think what they
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Speaker 2: got to do now is figure that out. Then that
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Speaker 2: far from the Mediterranean, you send that aircraft carrier over
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Speaker 2: to Naples, Oh my god, Italia with all the women
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Speaker 2: there and the restaurants and bars, because they probably have
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Speaker 2: a lot of money because they haven't had to spend
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Speaker 2: that much money when they're on the ship. Boy, you
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Speaker 2: give them a little bit of R and R and
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Speaker 2: it may actually get him back on track. But I
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Speaker 2: think this is more of a human relations issue, is
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Speaker 2: that the Pentagon has to understand that a lot of
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Speaker 2: these men and women are wondering, well, what is the mission?
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Speaker 2: To find the mission for us? And even though they
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Speaker 2: may not be able to define it to the public,
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Speaker 2: I think Pete hexf and his staff should go on board,
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Speaker 2: should have meetings, should so hey, look, let me tell
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Speaker 2: you doing a great job. Everybody likes to see that.
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Speaker 2: You know, no matter how bad he is, it's not
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Speaker 2: going to be mutiny on the bounty. You know. Although
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Speaker 2: when you hear that people are so mentally impaired, have
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Speaker 2: such mental health issues that they were thinking of jumping overboard.
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Speaker 2: That should have triggered some alarm bells right there, because remember, understand,
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Speaker 2: when you go below deck, unlike let's say normal places
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Speaker 2: where you do your service, they're hot racks. What that
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Speaker 2: mean is somebody has that rack for twelve hours, then
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, that person gets up, they go
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Speaker 2: on duty for twelve and somebody else gets right into
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Speaker 2: your rack. It is so condensed that five dozen people
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Speaker 2: on this floating warship and so not much room to move,
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Speaker 2: And if you don't ever get to shore and get
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Speaker 2: a little bit of R and R, it's really gonna
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Speaker 2: have a mental health issue problem with you, Like when
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Speaker 2: are we ever gonna be able to get to shore again.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people have been contacting the Military Times
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Speaker 1: and giving their stories as well and saying, you know,
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Speaker 1: I was on deployments, my son is on a long deployment.
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Speaker 1: So this story is not going to end, It's going
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Speaker 1: to continue.
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Speaker 3: Ever since we released that report, we're getting more and
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Speaker 3: more feedback from sailors from previous deployments who are just
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Speaker 3: really sausc there, are exhausted, and they're discussing that more
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Speaker 3: and more with us. Because I think that's a narrative
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Speaker 3: that has been suppressed a little bit until now.
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Speaker 1: But you went back in a little bit history to
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Speaker 1: talk about the gerald Ford. There are several long deployments.
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Speaker 1: Usually they do get to port, but there's been some
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Speaker 1: that have been a couple of years. And it was
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Speaker 1: also pointed out by some of the military people that
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Speaker 1: who we really should be concerned about are the people
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Speaker 1: in our submarines who go out for months at a
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Speaker 1: time and never see port. They don't even see the
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Speaker 1: surface sometimes. So yeah, a long deployment isn't unusual. Never
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Speaker 1: making it to port is the unusual part about this.
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Speaker 1: But I do think there has to be a thorough investigation.
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Speaker 1: I hope they allow. You talked about some Congressmen wanting
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Speaker 1: to go. I hope they allow it, because it's mostly
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Speaker 1: Democrats that want to go, and that really has to
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Speaker 1: be okayed by the administration. It has to be okayed
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Speaker 1: by Congress, and so I hope the Republicans are smart
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Speaker 1: enough to just go with them, because this is one
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Speaker 1: of those stories that should be nonpartisan.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Abraham Lincoln will be relieved in the
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Speaker 2: Middle East of Persian golf by the George Washington Aircraft Carrier.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure these arrangements were made quickly as this story
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Speaker 2: took on a life of its own. But if nothing more,
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Speaker 2: we'll end up learning about more of what the men
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Speaker 2: and women in our US Navy have to deal with
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Speaker 2: when they're out at sea and they're living in very
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Speaker 2: cramped quarters and when things go wrong, like we freak
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Speaker 2: out when our bathrooms don't work right, who do you call?
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Speaker 2: There's still pumise out there at sea. You're not getting
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Speaker 2: mail right because of porch package pirates. They have packages,
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Speaker 2: you know, they call them care packages, family and friends
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Speaker 2: shending to them that have never arrived, and then not
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Speaker 2: getting they're not getting update and information. And I think
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Speaker 2: probably what was most problematic for me, they say they
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Speaker 2: have deck safety concerns. Now what does that mean? Does
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Speaker 2: that mean when you're out there on the deck and
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Speaker 2: you're flagging the flights that are taking off or coming back?
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Speaker 1: But there's always safety concerns And heg Seth and there's
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Speaker 1: a reason he was downplaying this a little bit, And
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Speaker 1: I agree that he was downplaying it a little bit.
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Speaker 1: He says, listen, we have helicopters. We're constantly been giving them.
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Speaker 1: We've constantly been sending in people to fix their problems.
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Speaker 1: We have constantly been sending helicopters in to you know,
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Speaker 1: fix the toilets, for instance, for mental health care. So
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Speaker 1: I think there's a couple of things going on here.
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Speaker 1: Family members who were very upset are calling the Military Times,
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Speaker 1: and so that's how the story got out. But it
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Speaker 1: takes a little bit of time to get some phone
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Speaker 1: calls in or to get some messages into the families.
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Speaker 1: The problems could have been taken care of already. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to wait and see. I'm not saying that's
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Speaker 1: the case, but he does say they've been sending helicopters
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Speaker 1: there to fix the problems.
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Speaker 2: There is a lesson to be learned here, as so
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Speaker 2: wondering if there will be jobs waiting for them because
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Speaker 2: of ai man plumbers. We can never have enough plumbers
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Speaker 2: in the military. In regular life, that plumber will charge
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Speaker 2: you an alm and a leg just to come and
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Speaker 2: use the plunger or the snake. So lessen to everybody
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Speaker 2: out there if you're trying to plan a career, just remember,
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Speaker 2: without the plumbers, nothing happens. In fact, when you go
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Speaker 2: to a construction job, Larry, oftentimes nothing gets done until
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Speaker 2: the plumbers arrive and do the installation. A whole job
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Speaker 2: will be on hold. That's the premium place that they
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Speaker 1: Very true.
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Speaker 1: Great, perfect, it's perfect. I gotta go to that garden.
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Speaker 2: But right now.
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Speaker 1: Yet no, not yet, not yet. We have some talkbacks
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Speaker 1: to get to. Oh I don't want to leave them.
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Speaker 2: That's why a storm came over and was talking in
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Speaker 2: my ear, and it was like, you're gonna confused me.
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Speaker 1: That's why you're here. Now let's get to some talkbacks.
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Speaker 1: We did a lot of topics today, and so you
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Speaker 1: have a lot of talkbacks on different things. Flock cameras.
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Speaker 6: They save and find thousands of people. So where are they?
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Speaker 6: I come to having found that gun tree lady, These
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Speaker 6: These flat cameras got to go.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you what. Next show, we'll talk more
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Speaker 1: about how flock cameras were used with the gu three kidnapping.
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Speaker 7: One of the major problems for single men in New
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Speaker 7: York City possibly elsewhere, is the fact that most women
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Speaker 7: It's nice when they tell you on the first data too,
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Speaker 7: so you could rule them out. But I'm not sure
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Speaker 7: what to do about that.
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Speaker 1: And that sounds like a man with a story.
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Speaker 2: I gotta know more. Wow, what is going through the
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Speaker 2: mail order bride category? Wow?
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Speaker 8: Is crazy that people are defending Luigian ANGIONI I just
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Speaker 8: don't understand this.
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Speaker 4: For the life of me, I think I live on
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Speaker 4: another planet.
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Speaker 8: Like Hello world, Wake up.
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Speaker 4: He murdered someone.
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Speaker 1: It's not it wasn't an accident.
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Speaker 6: It was cold blooded.
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Speaker 8: He murdered him, and you're defending this guy. I just
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Speaker 8: don't get it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he stalked and then murdered him and he should
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Speaker 1: be put away for life. We'll find out what happens today.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, Let's get right now the eight thirty news some
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Speaker 2: darrea whenning guys.
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Speaker 8: Sunny and warm today, beautiful start to the weekend less
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Speaker 8: humid high of eighty five degrees. Luigi Mangioni is expected
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Speaker 8: to plead guilty this morning in federal court to stalking
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Speaker 8: resulting in the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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Speaker 8: Mangione offso faces state murder charges in the twenty twenty
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Speaker 8: four fatal shooting of Thompson on a sidewalk here in Manhattan.
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Speaker 8: You have two weeks, That's what New York state officials
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Speaker 8: are giving a dozen law enforcement agencies to end their
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Speaker 8: agreements with ICE.
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Speaker 9: Governor Kathy Hokles says five agencies have already ended their
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Speaker 9: contracts with ICE, but she's still waiting for confirmation from
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Speaker 9: the Nassau County Sheriff's Office and police Department that they'll
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Speaker 9: formerly and their agreements. However, Nasau County Executive Bruce Blakeman,
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Speaker 9: who is running as New York's Republican candidate for governor,
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Speaker 9: has been a staunch supporter of federal immigration operations. It
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Speaker 9: comes as President Trump visits Nassau County's local police facilities
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Speaker 9: to talk with Blakeman and local officials about crime statistics
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Speaker 9: and immigration enforcement. Natalie mcniori wor new.
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Speaker 8: The USS George Washington is on its way to the
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Speaker 8: Middle East, where it will take the place of the
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Speaker 8: USS Abraham Lincoln. There's concern for the mental health of
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Speaker 8: the crew on the Lincoln.
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Speaker 10: The carrier, in its five thousand sailors and marines, have
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Speaker 10: spent more than two hundred and fifty days at sea,
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Speaker 10: most of it supporting the war with Iran, including more
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Speaker 10: than two hundred straight days without a port call. A
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Speaker 10: US official confirms a sailor did go overboard this month,
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Speaker 10: but was recovered. Families of those on board told The
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Speaker 10: Military Times at least two sailors have tried to jump
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Speaker 10: from the carrier, but Central Command says reports of a
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Speaker 10: spike in suicidal thoughts among the crew are false.
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Speaker 8: ABC's Karen Why in Washington, the board of the Kennedy
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Speaker 8: Center will try again to add President Trump's name to
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Speaker 8: the venue. It voted in favor of a new inscription,
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Speaker 8: which would add the words Restored and Renovated by President
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Speaker 8: Donald J. Trump below President John F. Kennedy's name. That
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Speaker 8: decision could lead to another court challenge the Yankees lost
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Speaker 8: to Seattle one to nothing. The Mets were off. Next
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Dary, and congratulations to Mike Girard from Yonkers.
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Speaker 2: Ah, hold on a second momentary. Chris was whispering in
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Speaker 2: my ear the quiet storm. And now my mistake with
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Speaker 2: all the papers that I have here, Larry, as you
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Speaker 2: can see, I shuffle the wrong paper in front. No, no, no, no.
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Speaker 2: How many of you you get these spams on your phone?
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Speaker 2: You get these spam texts? Well, you're told by your parents, grandparents,
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Speaker 2: aunts and uncles that this is happening friends, and they wonder,
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Speaker 2: how the hell did they ever get all of my
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Speaker 2: personal information like my phone number, my home address, my email.
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Speaker 2: How did they get all my family members' names and
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Speaker 1: But awe of the obituary is about movie theaters and
22:04
Speaker 1: that the movie industry was dying, especially movie theaters that
22:09
Speaker 1: were empty most of the year, were premature or maybe
22:14
Speaker 1: just completely false. Let's get to Joe Numeier, film journalist
22:18
Speaker 1: and wo R movie minuted host. Joe, this may end
22:22
Speaker 1: up being the most profitable summer for the movie industry
22:27
Speaker 1: in history. Amazing, isn't it? It's right?
22:30
Speaker 4: What's that great quote? It's like, you know, rumors of
22:32
Speaker 4: my demise have been a little bit exaggerated. That's exactly
22:35
Speaker 4: what the case is here with the box officery. And
22:38
Speaker 4: this is the biggest in twenty nineteen, it hit that
22:41
Speaker 4: four hundred billion mark. Spider Man is the fastest movie
22:44
Speaker 4: to ever hit seven hundred million domestically. I think It
22:48
Speaker 4: really shows a couple of things. One is that you
22:50
Speaker 4: know a lot of people say, oh, you know, it's
22:52
Speaker 4: it kind of changed the habits that people had because
22:54
Speaker 4: of COVID. That's true. Possibly, you know, obviously people kind
22:58
Speaker 4: of fell out of it there. But there's another. It's
23:00
Speaker 4: that people love going to good movies and they love
23:03
Speaker 4: seeing big event movies. And while you know, like streaming
23:06
Speaker 4: has kind of become a way of life, and we
23:08
Speaker 4: all know what's on Netflix, we all know, you know,
23:10
Speaker 4: something new is gonna drop, but there's gonna be series.
23:12
Speaker 4: I think it's actually kind of wet people's appetite for
23:15
Speaker 4: going back to movies in a big way. And you
23:17
Speaker 4: can look back at the fifties with three D and
23:20
Speaker 4: it was the same kind of thing where they kind
23:21
Speaker 4: of were worried that television was gonna was gonna kill
23:24
Speaker 4: the movies. Turns out it just makes people want to
23:27
Speaker 4: go more. But also, I mean, these are all great,
23:29
Speaker 4: big movies that people want to see. Spider Man the
23:31
Speaker 4: Odyssey coming up, We've got the third Dune movie and
23:34
Speaker 4: Avengers Doomsday. These are all movies that people want to see.
23:37
Speaker 4: And I think that that the box office is back,
23:39
Speaker 4: and I hopefully it won't. It won't go away. I
23:41
Speaker 4: think Hollywood will take the message and say give people
23:43
Speaker 4: good stuff and they'll come.
23:45
Speaker 2: You know, Joe Neumeier, I got a bone to pick
23:48
Speaker 2: with you. You gave the Spider Man Return movie. After
23:54
Speaker 2: five years of globe trotting away, He's come back to
23:57
Speaker 2: New York City. He gave me like three and then
24:01
Speaker 2: Larry nudged you and made you feel guilty between and
24:04
Speaker 2: half strikes. So the next time you go to a
24:06
Speaker 2: movie review, if I happen to be shitting next to
24:08
Speaker 2: you with my twenty dollars box of good and plenty
24:11
Speaker 2: plenty good, you ain't getting none of that. You couldn't
24:16
Speaker 2: have a little bit of popcorn again, dollars. You couldn't
24:21
Speaker 2: have been more hopelessly wrong. Apologize, Joe.
24:27
Speaker 4: I'll say I was hopelessly wrong in that I didn't
24:31
Speaker 4: think that it was that good of a movie. I
24:33
Speaker 4: will say I've seen it again. It's still a three
24:35
Speaker 4: and a half star movie. But because I can't tell
24:37
Speaker 4: you guys, I watched the first one, the first Tom
24:39
Speaker 4: Holland movie. I just watched a couple of nights ago.
24:41
Speaker 4: It's so great. I like the other ones more. This
24:44
Speaker 4: one's fine. But you know the reality is that people
24:47
Speaker 4: love the character and it had great buzz, and Righty
24:50
Speaker 4: was gone for five years. The last movie, I think
24:53
Speaker 4: it was terrific, so people really wanted to go to
24:55
Speaker 4: this one. I still think it's a three and a
24:56
Speaker 4: half star movie, but that doesn't mean it's bad. I
24:58
Speaker 4: just think that in relation to other Spider Man movies,
25:01
Speaker 4: Spider Man other, related to the other Spider Man, I
25:04
Speaker 4: think that that Spider Man brand New Day is a
25:07
Speaker 4: little weaker. But it's still fun and I love that
25:09
Speaker 4: people have gone. You know, but I won't take any
25:11
Speaker 4: good and plenty. No, I won't take any other good plenty.
25:13
Speaker 1: It's got like a billion dollars in positive reviews right now.
25:16
Speaker 1: But that's okay. That's okay. You can be in the door.
25:19
Speaker 1: You can make up for it right now, because I'll
25:21
Speaker 1: point after you list. The End of Oak Street is
25:24
Speaker 1: out this weekend, right eighty five of the reviews on oh,
25:33
Speaker 1: eighty five percent of the reviewers and Rotten Tomatoes love
25:36
Speaker 1: the movie, and you.
25:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know one star.
25:42
Speaker 1: I know right now they're going through a dark period
25:44
Speaker 1: or something.
25:45
Speaker 4: It's a dark period that parts of knu Meyer's dark periods.
25:48
Speaker 4: What this is I gotta say, though, guys, this is
25:49
Speaker 4: not like Spider Man. I will say. Okay, So just
25:52
Speaker 4: a quick recap on this movie, if any. It's all
25:54
Speaker 4: in the trailers. There's dinosaurs stopping around a suburban neighborhood,
25:57
Speaker 4: and Hathaway and you and McGregor and their kids are
26:00
Speaker 4: running around. Nobody knows what's happening. The fun of this
26:02
Speaker 4: movie and that's what the only thing that gives it
26:04
Speaker 4: one star is why there are dinosaurs there. So if
26:07
Speaker 4: you don't, don't read any reviews. Some reviews have spoiled it.
26:10
Speaker 4: If you want to see it, don't read anything, because
26:12
Speaker 4: that's the big thing. And if I were teaching a
26:15
Speaker 4: film class, I would actually teach this film about what
26:19
Speaker 4: goes wrong, what could be done better, because it's really
26:21
Speaker 4: it does nothing with this idea. It kind of wants
26:24
Speaker 4: to be like Jurassic Park, right, but it reminds me
26:26
Speaker 4: of the land that time for God or Line of
26:29
Speaker 4: the Loss or something, you know, Marshall Willet Holly on
26:31
Speaker 4: a routine expedition. If if it was, if it had
26:35
Speaker 4: more to it, I would give it more stars. But
26:37
Speaker 4: I'm giving it one star because it ends up being
26:39
Speaker 4: bad acting running around, not enough dinosaurs, not enough creatures
26:43
Speaker 4: going around, and it doesn't do enough with its kind
26:45
Speaker 4: of cool idea. So the cool idea gives it one star,
26:48
Speaker 4: but it needs to do more. It's a shame that
26:51
Speaker 4: it didn't. It didn't kind of take it into crazy areas.
26:53
Speaker 4: As I said to somebody, this is the kind of
26:55
Speaker 4: movie you walk out saying, oh, they should have done this.
26:57
Speaker 4: Oh it would have been cool if they would have
26:59
Speaker 4: done that. And those movies are you know, those are
27:01
Speaker 4: not four star movies. Those forestar movies.
27:03
Speaker 2: Do things right, Joe, you mentioned the Magic World, Jurassic Park.
27:07
Speaker 2: I thought coming into this summer, I saw billboards, placards,
27:13
Speaker 2: video punch just going through you know, my cell phone. Oh,
27:18
Speaker 2: Disclosure Day, Spielberg. Disclosure Day Spielberg. Did that end up
27:23
Speaker 2: becoming a buffo box office movie.
27:27
Speaker 4: No, it was right in the middle, actually, Curtis, I
27:29
Speaker 4: think that critics liked it and audiences kind of went
27:31
Speaker 4: it kind of hit the right moment. There was a
27:33
Speaker 4: lot of ufone news and going on, so people were saying, oh,
27:37
Speaker 4: you know UFOs and look here's Disclosure Day, and I
27:39
Speaker 4: think his name got people in there, but it didn't
27:42
Speaker 4: hit the stratospherees. I think people wanted to or other
27:45
Speaker 4: Spielberg films have Jurassic Park. By the way, if anybody
27:48
Speaker 4: caress on Disney Plus and Hulu right now, and that's all.
27:52
Speaker 4: The Jurassic Park is always great. That nineteen ninety three
27:54
Speaker 4: originals terrific. So No Disclosure Day was not let and
27:57
Speaker 4: I thought it was. I liked the how solid and
28:00
Speaker 4: he did the directing. I thought it was a solidly
28:02
Speaker 4: told story. But it didn't. It didn't do anything new.
28:05
Speaker 4: It didn't again, it like this movie didn't do enough
28:08
Speaker 4: with its with its main idea, which is a shame.
28:10
Speaker 1: It's funny. I was going to ask you about great
28:13
Speaker 1: dinosaur movies, but I think that the list begins and
28:16
Speaker 1: ends with Jurassic Park.
28:18
Speaker 4: It kind of does. It begins and ends with with
28:20
Speaker 4: that first Dressic Park. I don't mind the third one,
28:23
Speaker 4: which is okay, you know, the second one was the
28:25
Speaker 4: other one that he directed. There's also you know, this
28:28
Speaker 4: movie was also making me think of like monsters in
28:31
Speaker 4: suburban areas or something. When some people thought this movie
28:34
Speaker 4: might be a clover Field Tequler preful because it takes
28:37
Speaker 4: place in nineteen eighty two. That's the other good thing
28:39
Speaker 4: about this movie. It takes place in the great Summer
28:41
Speaker 4: of nineteen eighty two. You know, the great movie summer,
28:44
Speaker 4: All the great movies, all the best summer movies came
28:46
Speaker 4: out summer of ninety of nineteen eighty two, So this
28:49
Speaker 4: movie takes place then. So it were kind of reminded
28:51
Speaker 4: me a little bit of like clover Field or Gremlins.
28:53
Speaker 4: You know, remember Gremlins, which is actually, oh yeah that
28:55
Speaker 4: on Peacock. Yeah, that's a great one. So if it
28:58
Speaker 4: had a little bit more to ac kind of like
29:00
Speaker 4: Stranger Things, you know, it kind of has that. Oh
29:02
Speaker 4: remember how the eighties were such a cool, fun time
29:05
Speaker 4: for fantasy movies.
29:06
Speaker 2: It just needed to.
29:07
Speaker 4: Do a little bit more. And also, I don't think
29:10
Speaker 4: you can really shoot a dinosaur with a gun or
29:12
Speaker 4: hit them with a hammer and they'll fall back. I
29:15
Speaker 4: think they were a little stronger. I think they had
29:18
Speaker 4: a little bit more to them.
29:19
Speaker 1: Does that happen in this movie? Is that what you're saying?
29:23
Speaker 4: It does happen in this movie?
29:24
Speaker 2: They get up, but they're like, you.
29:26
Speaker 4: Know, really your hammer? I think you're probably okay, all.
29:34
Speaker 1: Right, I'm with you now, okay, if they if they're
29:39
Speaker 1: if they're fighting dinosaurs with the hammers, I understand your review.
29:43
Speaker 1: Joe Neumeier, film journalist, w R Movie Minute host, thanks.
29:48
Speaker 4: A lot, Joe, Thanks guys.
29:50
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32:02
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32:24
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32:27
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32:40
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32:44
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32:59
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Speaker 2: Well, I will tell you this gugmentatorial race has come
34:21
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34:25
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34:29
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34:33
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34:39
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