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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, this is your morning run for May twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's twenty second May twenty second. That was awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I had last week's date in there, and I was
trying to add fifteen plus seven and clearly I need
to be on my math skills. So yes, everyone, in
case you were wondering, it is Thursday, May fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I aye Robock and I'm JJ Holmes. Trust us, everything
else will be accurate in this morning run. Just the
date is the only thing we're gonna get run yet
get wrong. But hello, do you all on the run
this morning? Robot and I have actually been watching Congress
in session working at three and four a m. What
could be so important that has them working well? They
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might be thinking about their Memorial Day plans. Perhaps you
think that's it.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I think that might be motivating.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Okay, well, whatever works. They are trying to get some
work done. They are trying, in particular to pass a
version of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill in time for the
Memorial Day weekends.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And speaking of Trump, President Trump is about to get
new wings the Trump administration announcing it has officially accepted
that luxury jetliner from Qatar for a new air Force
one and another congressional passing to tell you about Congressman
Jerry Connolly of Virginia has died, making him the third
House Democrat to die this year alone.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Also on the run this morning, a brazen anti Semitic
attack in DC. A man guns down two Israeli embassy
workers than Yell's Free Palestine. Also this morning, five armed
and dangerous inmates still on the loose in New Orleans
after last week's jail break, but two more people have
been arrested for helping them.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Plus more gripping testimony at the Sean Diddycombs trial here
in Lower Manhattan, with more talk of baby oil, drugs
and freak offs. Plus a rare and chilly May nor'easter
is walloping the mid Atlantic and Northeast because of record
high temperatures in the Arctic. Confusing, but we're gonna explain
it all.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Also, Nike, just don't do it please. The company says
your kicks are about to get more expensive, thanks tariffs. Also,
you get a Rolex, you get a Rolex, You get
a Rolex. That was the scene last night at the
NBA MVP ceremony and no, Oprah was not there. And yes,
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plagiarism happens at college, but usually not in the commencement address.
A woman has given up her honorary degree after admitting
that she borrowed much of her speech. Rose, this is wild.
This is where we're supposed to be inspired. What are
my life lessons from this person before I leave?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yes, just copy others and take all the credits.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I we'll get into that, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
We are going to begin our run in Washington, d C. Where, yes,
we have been watching Congress hard at work throughout the night.
An unusual scene, indeed, but perhaps yes, the impending holiday
weekend was the motivation to try and find a resolution
to Trump's big, beautiful bill so everyone can go home
and enjoy the Memorial Day weekend with their families.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Okay, so this is what's going on. House Speaker Mike
Johnson has his hands full again trying to wrangle all
the Republicans behind this bill. This is Trump's large tax
and spending cut package. As of this recording, it is
not clear if he had the votes that he needs
to pass this thing. Of course, Democrats are unified in
their opposition to the bill. Republicans have such a slim
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majority that Speaker Johnson can only afford to lose three
Republicans and still pass it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So the so called Big Beautiful Bill would mostly keep
current tax rates in place, but it would extend Trump's
twenty seventeen tax cuts, and it would also stop taxing
tips and overtime. It will also direct more money to
the military and border security.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
So how do you pay for all of this? Well,
the bill calls for.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Cuts to medicaid, food assistance, education, and clean energy program,
so it is certainly controversial. We will see if Republicans
can get behind it.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
All right, we continue to run in DC where there's
a big old red bow sitting on top of a
four hundred million dollar plane we are talking about. The
Defense Department confirm that the US has officially accepted that
seven forty seven luxury jet from Katar to eventually be
used as Air Force one for President Trump. The Pentagon
says the Air Force has been asked to rapidly upgrade
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the plane so it can be put into use as soon.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
As possible, but extensive work is going to have to
be done before that jet will be considered secure enough
to transport the president, who also confirmed the gift gift
on Wednesday, saying this, They're given the United States Air
Force a jet and it's a great thing exclamation point.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah. Concern here though, that Trump might end up pressuring
the Air Force to work too quickly to get this
thing ready. Pentagon has not given the timeline for the
work that needs to be done, but Trump has made
it clear he'd like for it to be ready as
soon as the end of the year. I have heard
no one suggesting that is any way possible.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
There was a congressman who said, if you got this
thing outfitted and secure enough, it would be at least
till twenty twenty nine before this plane should be ready
to carry the most important person.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
In the world.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah. Also concerns that, yeah, the folks over Doha could
be trying to influence Trump with the gift. Some have
pointed out the plane could even have listening devices installed.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Qatar's Prime minister didn't like that very much and rejected
all of those concerns by saying this, I don't know
why people they are thinking this is considered as a
bribery or considered as something that Qatar wants to buy
and influence with this administration. I don't see any honestly
a valid reason for that. Okay, the new jet will
replaced two planes that have been serving as Air Force
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one for more than three decades, and yes, have had
numerous maintenance problems.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I don't think it's.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Any surprised that there has been issues, and they have
been looking for new plane.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
But how do you pay for this? This was Trump's solution?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
All right. We continue our run again in DC with
news of another member of Congress passing away. We're talking
about Democrat Jerry Connolly of Virginia. He's died now at
the age of seventy five. He was head of the
powerful House Oversight Committee and had served in Virginia's eleventh
district since two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
He did announce last year that he'd been diagnosed with
esophageal cancer, but last month we did get this update
from him, saying, after grueling treatments, we've learned that the cancer,
while initially beaten back, has now returned. I'll do everything
possible to continue to represent you, and thank you for
your grace.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Now, this now makes the third House Democrat that's passed
away this year. Sylvester Turner of Texas died after attending
President Trump's address to Congress in March. This was one
that was all of a sudden. He had been at
the address and seemed fine, went home, and nobody knew
what happened. So that was such a shaker. And then
it was barely a week later the Congressman Raoul Raholva died.
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I had been dealing with a with cancer as well.
It was just wow.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
It's sad, untimely, and a little shocking. Three Democrats in
just the span of five months, I believe. So our
hearts go out to the congressman's family and certainly all
of those who loved and knew him well. Next up
on our run, we will stay in DC. Two Israeli
embassy staff members were shot and killed last night in
the district. The suspect yelled free Palestine as he was
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being taken into custody. This all happened after an event
at the Capitol Jewish Museum. It wrapped around nine pm.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And police stay of a suspect, who has been identified
as thirty year old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, was seen
pacing outside the museum ahead of the shooting. Then he
approached four people when they came out, and he opened fire,
shooting and killing two of them. Police say he then
went back into the museum and was eventually taken into custody,
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where video shows him yelling free Palestine as he was
being taken away. It's unmistakable. We've been watching the video.
It's out this morning. So this is the suspect, this
is the one they took in the custody. You clearly
hear what he's saying.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, and President Trump soon after called it horrible killings
based obviously on anti Semitism. Is really Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said, we're witnessing the terrible price of anti Semitism
and wild incitement against Israel. The Israel embassy later identified
the victims as Sarah Milgram and Uran Lishinsky.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Now, before they had this morning identified the victims, all
we knew about them where it was a couple night out,
a young couple, And they kept saying this was a
couple that was expected to get engaged soon. That's all
the kind of the note said initially. But sure enough
the Israeli ambassador did come out and confirmed and said
this the young man purchased a ring this week with
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the intention of proposing to his girlfriend next week in Jerusalem.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Oh so sad.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I mean it's so heartbreaking, just awful and terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And oh so random. There's a night out and to
be targeted like that, just you just know where their
minds were. I think of all of us, everybody's had
a date, night out, you just out, just at a
nice event, and that happened to them. So yeah, that
was a tough.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
One, Maryan heartbreaking all right.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Next up on the run, we're gonna head to New Orleans,
where five of the escaped inmates remain on the run
at this hour. The Louisiana Attorney General told this to residents, who,
by the way, had been on alert for nearly a
full week. Now that those five men are considered armed
and dangerous.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
But now two more people have been arrested, in this case,
two women who helped some of the escapees after they escaped,
Though police charged both thirty two year old Courtney Harris
and thirty eight year old Corvante Baptiste with accessory after
the fact. Police say Harris drove to the inmates who
are still at large, to multiple locations in New Orleans,
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and Baptiste helped one of the inmates, who has now
been recaptured, get food while he was hiding.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Both women are facing five years behind bars if convicted,
and the Louisiana State Police said this those who choose
to assist or conceal these individuals are violating the law
and will be held accountable. Harboring fugitives threatens the safety
of our communities and will not be tolerated. Police have
said that they believe these men have been able to
stay at large because they are absolutely getting help from
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friends and family.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Meanwhile, an update on the jail maintenance worker who was
arrested and charged with helping the inmates escape. He turned
off the water, police say to a toilet the inmates used.
They were able to rip it off the wall. The
water wasn't flying everywhere, so they were able to escape
through that hole in the wall. So Sterling Williams told
police the inmates threatened to shank him their words if
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he didn't turn off the water. But now there's a
different story. Lawyer has come out and says no, no, no, no, no,
no no, that's not the real reason why his client
turned off the water.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
He said that while yes, the threat was made, he
said that's just silly jail house talk.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
His client is used to that. No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
He turned off the water because of a maintenance issue
with an overflowing toilet in another cell. What an unbelievable coincidence.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
He's just doing a job.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
He was just doing his job, he said.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
A guard told him that an other toilet was overflowing,
So it just so happened.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
He ended up having to turn off the water anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It didn't make any difference that the inmates had already
asked him to.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And election she's just doing his job.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Just had he had to make sure that the toilet
didn't overflow.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
If he goes to trial, we have got to fly
down there. I want to go to every single day
of his trial to hear them explain that one.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I'd like to see a jury buy that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
All right, we will continue with another trial. This one
is currently going on here in Lower Manhattan right out
our window as we report here on a very rainy
day here in Thursday. We'll get into that northeaster here
in just a little bit. But but yeah, the Didty
trial continues this morning, and George Kaplan is expected to
continue his testimony for part of the morning. He's the
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former employee for Sean Combs who allegedly quit after witnessing abuse,
and his testimony yesterday offered more incredible insight into the
world of.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Didty Caplin testified that he worked between eighty and one
hundred hours each week for Diddy. He said he usually
started around nine am and ended anywhere between six pm
and six am. Said did he threaten to fire him
at least about once a month. And he also said
he was in charge of setting up hotel rooms for
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freak offs. This sounds a lot like his other assistant
where this was also his job to be the person
who set all the environment just the way did he
wanted it. This was also Kaplan's job as well. And yes,
he too carried that bag with what he described as
tons of drugs Advil, tailan all well, Vutrin and o
ketamine just an.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, we've gotten halfway through our ditty story here. We
haven't mentioned baby oil yet. So here we are another
day of the trial. You can't have a day without
a baby oil reference. And the onland security agent in
charge of the search at Combe's home in Miami he
was testifying yesterday, went kind of meticulous item by item,
explaining a lot of things that they found at the house,
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and they showed pictures of boxes and boxes of baby oil.
Showed one of their evidence bags which he said in particular,
this was the count. There were thirty one bottles of
baby oil and just in this one evidence bag alone,
and the agent has confirmed Brokes, we have been talking
about this and Cassie Ventura, the agent confirmed they were
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not investigating Sean Comb's until Cassie Ventura has x filed
that lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So she indeed was the catalyst for this criminal proceeding now.
A forensic psychologists also testified for the prosecution about, among
other things, why people stay in abusive relationships. The prosecution
says that they are ahead of schedule. They're going to
call five witnesses today in the trial. And one of
the big, big, big big folks who is going to
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be up on that witness stand, kid Cutting. We were
expecting him actually perhaps yesterday, but it's going to happen.
It looks like today he briefly dated Cassie Ventura while
she was also still seeing Sean Combs.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
There's a lot of beef between those.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Two, so it will be fascinating to hear what Kid
Cutty has to say on the stand today.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
All right, folks, stay with us on this Thursday morning run.
When we come back, we're about to have the unofficial
start of summer, so let's sneak in on nor'easter, shall we. Also,
the NBA MVP Trophy goes well with a rolex apparently,
and running is about to get a little more expensive.
Stay with us, all right, let's continue on this Thursday
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morning run now and just in time for the Memorial
Day weekend and the unofficial start to summer. A rare
and nasty May northeaster is pounding right now. Yeah, well
it's pouring, and yeah, this thing is pounding the mid
Atlantic and Northeast where it feels like anything but summer.
It's miserable, it's wet, it's windy. It's made worse by
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unusually chilly temperatures. The heat is currently on. You just
said it before we start it. Yeah, heat feels good.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I had to turn the heat back on.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
This is crazy, yes, and this is going to last
into the holiday weekend for all of us lucky folks. Nor'easters,
if you don't know, are coastal storms that move off
the East coast, but they typically occur during the colder
months of the year. Rarely do we see one this
close to summer. But the reason why it's happening now
is fascinating and it's alarming.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
According to weather.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Experts, nor'easters are fueled by a clash of colder air
that comes down south from the Arctic and it meets
with that warmer air pushing north over the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Okay, so this rarely happens in late spring and summer
because temperatures in the East are usually warmer and are
similar to the heat from the Atlantic, so there's no
clash of temperatures. But because it's been a record hot
May in Iceland, it's been unseasonably warm in both Greenland
and Canadian Arctic. All that heat has ejected colder air
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from the Arctic and sent it farther south than normal
for this time of year, and that colder air is
now giving us this rare northeaster. Well done, Robot put
all that together, and it made sense to.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Me, right, because it's counterintuitive that because it's hotter in
the Arctic that we're colder right now. But the way
that was explained, it made sense to.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Me about that cold air. Now it oh, we get it.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Fun cold air from the Arctic mixing with all the
warm air in the Atlantic, and wila, we have terrible
weather here Memorial Day weekend. All right, next up on
the run, well, our run maybe getting a little more expensive.
Many of you know how much we love our Nike
Alpha flies when we run well. Nike has just announced
it is raising its prices on much of its footwear, apparel,
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and equipment, and it's happening in just a matter of days,
and they point to Trump's terrasts.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well, they say those prices are going to go well
between two and ten dollars. There are a few items
that will be exempt from price hikes. They say children's products,
Nike Air Force one shoes, and any item priced under
one hundred dollars will all remain the same price.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And it's pretty cool why.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Nike says it's trying to be cognizant if the financial
challenges families are facing. And then they say that air
Force one shoe is such a common shoe that people
wear in the workplace that they wanted to try to
keep that price flat as well. So right now, Nike
produces nearly half of its footwear in China and Vietnam,
so you can see.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Why the prices have to rise.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It's facing that new thirty percent tariff out of China
and a ten percent tariff out of Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
We can tell you are run here on this Thursday.
With trophies and rolecks watches being given out in Oklahoma
City yesterday, the NBA made the official announcement last night
that Shay Gildius Alexander is this year's NBA MVP. The
Oklahoma City thunder point guard led the league in scoring
and has his team in the Western Conference finals right now.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Glad you pronounced his name.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
So he got the MVP trophy, but did not want
his teammates to feel like they were left out, so.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
He bought all of them new Rolex watches.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I love these stories when a lot of big time athletes,
I think like some running backs sometimes will buy stuff
for their linemen and things. I love those cariers.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
And then he had a very tearful acceptance speech that
we want to read you part of this is what
Alexander had to say. I dreamt about it as a kid,
but as a kid, it's a fake dream. But as
the days go on and you realize that you get
closer to your dream, it's hard not to freak out.
It's hard not to be a six year old kid.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Again, love it well done. It was really really well done.
This is a twenty six year old kid. He's been
doing great things for the past several years, and I
just love the way he goes about his business. This
is surprising to me. This one nugget on this this
is this game was created here. The best players in
the world are here in the United States, but the
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MVP of the MBA has been from somewhere else for
the past what is this eight years? Seven years. We
have not had an American born MVP since James Harden
in twenty eighteen. Alexander's from Canada. Before that, Joker is
from Serbia. Before that, Cameroon in Greece with two guys
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and names are slipping. But yeah, that is I guess
a compliment that the game has grown and it's international.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
That's a good way to look at it.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But come on, come on, Americans. The final leg of
our run. He Robes couldn't wait to talk about a
college commizment speaker has returned the honorary degree. She was
given a graduation because she plagiarized her commencement address. Plagiarism
in college, it happens, Yeah, just not.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
In that particular place.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
That's not where you used to think it hilarious. Yet.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Evelyn Harris spoke Sunday at graduation at Smith College in Massachusetts.
She was given an honorary degree. She's a longtime musician,
she's a vocal teacher. But a few days later, the
school president sent a letter to the campus community explaining Harris.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Had plagiarized most of her speech, or, as they put it,
she borrowed much of her speech without the attribution typical
of and central to the ideals of academic integrity.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So, according to the school, Harris was forthcoming about her
choices while also acknowledging, and see what you think about this,
that she sought to infuse words of others with her
emotional valance.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Okay, that's all fine, but you have to say, I
heard it once by so and so or this person
said that you have to give attribution.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You can't claim it as your own unique thought.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
She was saying, she was infusing you, infusing the words
of others. That's different from stealing, okay, or borrowing. She
was infusing, but she did voluntarily give up the honorary degree.
What is the lesson for that graduating class? A positive
you take out of this?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I would just say that there are consequences to your decisions,
and there is humiliation that typically follows when you make
bad choices.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So perhaps it was a.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Very good lesson for them to learn, not when they
thought they were going to be learning, but in the
aftermath of it.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Absolutely is this not I don't know this woman. I
haven't heard anything else other than what she admitted, but
I've seen she's had decades, like fifty years she's been
working in in this business. You haven't learned enough of
your own stuff. You don't have enough original material give
these kids after fifty years.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
That's tough.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And you know what, my god, how how embarrassing. I mean,
I'm just saying, like, she's got to be so mortified.
She's in the academic world. Yeah, that's kind of like
one of the main things you say you're going to do,
like you that's what you police against and now that
you've contributed to it.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, that's that is a rough day. For her.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
All right, well, our quote of the day here today.
I'm trying to see if it could be something our
commencement speaker could use. But this is something we'd like
for you to consider as you go about your Thursday.
It is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It is one I have heard often, but it spoke
to me this morning from the Great Maya Angelou. She says,
if you don't like something, change it. If you can't
change it, change your attitude. I love that, and I
you know it's we all try to fight against something.
We want it to be different. And yes, sometimes we
can change things. But when you can't, you have to
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accept it, don't you.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, all the time, it's not going to change. So
change attitude, folks. So yes, with that, Maya angelouis if
you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it,
change your attitude, folks. So that stays with you for
the day at least. I'm TJ. Holmes always appreciate your
running with us.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I can't change the weather, but I'm going to change
my attitude towards it.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Sometimes it's fun to have a cozy, rainy, chilly day
we're traveling.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
That's true. All right. Let's hope it doesn't impact our travel.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
All right, I am extending this podcast. My my apologies
to everyone I made robot. I've a wonderful Thursday.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, this is your morning run for May twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's twenty second May twenty second. That was awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I had last week's date in there, and I was
trying to add fifteen plus seven and clearly I need
to be on my math skills. So yes, everyone, in
case you were wondering, it is Thursday, May fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I aye Robock and I'm JJ Holmes. Trust us, everything
else will be accurate in this morning run. Just the
date is the only thing we're gonna get run yet
get wrong. But hello, do you all on the run
this morning? Robot and I have actually been watching Congress
in session working at three and four a m. What
could be so important that has them working well? They
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might be thinking about their Memorial Day plans. Perhaps you
think that's it.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I think that might be motivating.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Okay, well, whatever works. They are trying to get some
work done. They are trying, in particular to pass a
version of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill in time for the
Memorial Day weekends.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And speaking of Trump, President Trump is about to get
new wings the Trump administration announcing it has officially accepted
that luxury jetliner from Qatar for a new air Force
one and another congressional passing to tell you about Congressman
Jerry Connolly of Virginia has died, making him the third
House Democrat to die this year alone.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Also on the run this morning, a brazen anti Semitic
attack in DC. A man guns down two Israeli embassy
workers than Yell's Free Palestine. Also this morning, five armed
and dangerous inmates still on the loose in New Orleans
after last week's jail break, but two more people have
been arrested for helping them.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Plus more gripping testimony at the Sean Diddycombs trial here
in Lower Manhattan, with more talk of baby oil, drugs
and freak offs. Plus a rare and chilly May nor'easter
is walloping the mid Atlantic and Northeast because of record
high temperatures in the Arctic. Confusing, but we're gonna explain
it all.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Also, Nike, just don't do it please. The company says
your kicks are about to get more expensive, thanks tariffs. Also,
you get a Rolex, you get a Rolex, You get
a Rolex. That was the scene last night at the
NBA MVP ceremony and no, Oprah was not there. And yes,
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plagiarism happens at college, but usually not in the commencement address.
A woman has given up her honorary degree after admitting
that she borrowed much of her speech. Rose, this is wild.
This is where we're supposed to be inspired. What are
my life lessons from this person before I leave?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yes, just copy others and take all the credits.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I we'll get into that, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
We are going to begin our run in Washington, d C. Where, yes,
we have been watching Congress hard at work throughout the night.
An unusual scene, indeed, but perhaps yes, the impending holiday
weekend was the motivation to try and find a resolution
to Trump's big, beautiful bill so everyone can go home
and enjoy the Memorial Day weekend with their families.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Okay, so this is what's going on. House Speaker Mike
Johnson has his hands full again trying to wrangle all
the Republicans behind this bill. This is Trump's large tax
and spending cut package. As of this recording, it is
not clear if he had the votes that he needs
to pass this thing. Of course, Democrats are unified in
their opposition to the bill. Republicans have such a slim
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majority that Speaker Johnson can only afford to lose three
Republicans and still pass it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So the so called Big Beautiful Bill would mostly keep
current tax rates in place, but it would extend Trump's
twenty seventeen tax cuts, and it would also stop taxing
tips and overtime. It will also direct more money to
the military and border security.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
So how do you pay for all of this? Well,
the bill calls for.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Cuts to medicaid, food assistance, education, and clean energy program,
so it is certainly controversial. We will see if Republicans
can get behind it.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
All right, we continue to run in DC where there's
a big old red bow sitting on top of a
four hundred million dollar plane we are talking about. The
Defense Department confirm that the US has officially accepted that
seven forty seven luxury jet from Katar to eventually be
used as Air Force one for President Trump. The Pentagon
says the Air Force has been asked to rapidly upgrade
(04:34):
the plane so it can be put into use as soon.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
As possible, but extensive work is going to have to
be done before that jet will be considered secure enough
to transport the president, who also confirmed the gift gift
on Wednesday, saying this, They're given the United States Air
Force a jet and it's a great thing exclamation point.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah. Concern here though, that Trump might end up pressuring
the Air Force to work too quickly to get this
thing ready. Pentagon has not given the timeline for the
work that needs to be done, but Trump has made
it clear he'd like for it to be ready as
soon as the end of the year. I have heard
no one suggesting that is any way possible.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
There was a congressman who said, if you got this
thing outfitted and secure enough, it would be at least
till twenty twenty nine before this plane should be ready
to carry the most important person.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
In the world.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah. Also concerns that, yeah, the folks over Doha could
be trying to influence Trump with the gift. Some have
pointed out the plane could even have listening devices installed.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Qatar's Prime minister didn't like that very much and rejected
all of those concerns by saying this, I don't know
why people they are thinking this is considered as a
bribery or considered as something that Qatar wants to buy
and influence with this administration. I don't see any honestly
a valid reason for that. Okay, the new jet will
replaced two planes that have been serving as Air Force
(05:54):
one for more than three decades, and yes, have had
numerous maintenance problems.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I don't think it's.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Any surprised that there has been issues, and they have
been looking for new plane.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
But how do you pay for this? This was Trump's solution?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
All right. We continue our run again in DC with
news of another member of Congress passing away. We're talking
about Democrat Jerry Connolly of Virginia. He's died now at
the age of seventy five. He was head of the
powerful House Oversight Committee and had served in Virginia's eleventh
district since two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
He did announce last year that he'd been diagnosed with
esophageal cancer, but last month we did get this update
from him, saying, after grueling treatments, we've learned that the cancer,
while initially beaten back, has now returned. I'll do everything
possible to continue to represent you, and thank you for
your grace.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Now, this now makes the third House Democrat that's passed
away this year. Sylvester Turner of Texas died after attending
President Trump's address to Congress in March. This was one
that was all of a sudden. He had been at
the address and seemed fine, went home, and nobody knew
what happened. So that was such a shaker. And then
it was barely a week later the Congressman Raoul Raholva died.
(07:09):
I had been dealing with a with cancer as well.
It was just wow.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
It's sad, untimely, and a little shocking. Three Democrats in
just the span of five months, I believe. So our
hearts go out to the congressman's family and certainly all
of those who loved and knew him well. Next up
on our run, we will stay in DC. Two Israeli
embassy staff members were shot and killed last night in
the district. The suspect yelled free Palestine as he was
(07:36):
being taken into custody. This all happened after an event
at the Capitol Jewish Museum. It wrapped around nine pm.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And police stay of a suspect, who has been identified
as thirty year old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, was seen
pacing outside the museum ahead of the shooting. Then he
approached four people when they came out, and he opened fire,
shooting and killing two of them. Police say he then
went back into the museum and was eventually taken into custody,
(08:03):
where video shows him yelling free Palestine as he was
being taken away. It's unmistakable. We've been watching the video.
It's out this morning. So this is the suspect, this
is the one they took in the custody. You clearly
hear what he's saying.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, and President Trump soon after called it horrible killings
based obviously on anti Semitism. Is really Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said, we're witnessing the terrible price of anti Semitism
and wild incitement against Israel. The Israel embassy later identified
the victims as Sarah Milgram and Uran Lishinsky.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Now, before they had this morning identified the victims, all
we knew about them where it was a couple night out,
a young couple, And they kept saying this was a
couple that was expected to get engaged soon. That's all
the kind of the note said initially. But sure enough
the Israeli ambassador did come out and confirmed and said
this the young man purchased a ring this week with
(08:58):
the intention of proposing to his girlfriend next week in Jerusalem.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Oh so sad.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I mean it's so heartbreaking, just awful and terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And oh so random. There's a night out and to
be targeted like that, just you just know where their
minds were. I think of all of us, everybody's had
a date, night out, you just out, just at a
nice event, and that happened to them. So yeah, that
was a tough.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
One, Maryan heartbreaking all right.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Next up on the run, we're gonna head to New Orleans,
where five of the escaped inmates remain on the run
at this hour. The Louisiana Attorney General told this to residents, who,
by the way, had been on alert for nearly a
full week. Now that those five men are considered armed
and dangerous.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
But now two more people have been arrested, in this case,
two women who helped some of the escapees after they escaped,
Though police charged both thirty two year old Courtney Harris
and thirty eight year old Corvante Baptiste with accessory after
the fact. Police say Harris drove to the inmates who
are still at large, to multiple locations in New Orleans,
(10:03):
and Baptiste helped one of the inmates, who has now
been recaptured, get food while he was hiding.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Both women are facing five years behind bars if convicted,
and the Louisiana State Police said this those who choose
to assist or conceal these individuals are violating the law
and will be held accountable. Harboring fugitives threatens the safety
of our communities and will not be tolerated. Police have
said that they believe these men have been able to
stay at large because they are absolutely getting help from
(10:31):
friends and family.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Meanwhile, an update on the jail maintenance worker who was
arrested and charged with helping the inmates escape. He turned
off the water, police say to a toilet the inmates used.
They were able to rip it off the wall. The
water wasn't flying everywhere, so they were able to escape
through that hole in the wall. So Sterling Williams told
police the inmates threatened to shank him their words if
(10:56):
he didn't turn off the water. But now there's a
different story. Lawyer has come out and says no, no, no, no, no,
no no, that's not the real reason why his client
turned off the water.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
He said that while yes, the threat was made, he
said that's just silly jail house talk.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
His client is used to that. No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
He turned off the water because of a maintenance issue
with an overflowing toilet in another cell. What an unbelievable coincidence.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
He's just doing a job.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
He was just doing his job, he said.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
A guard told him that an other toilet was overflowing,
So it just so happened.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
He ended up having to turn off the water anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It didn't make any difference that the inmates had already
asked him to.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And election she's just doing his job.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Just had he had to make sure that the toilet
didn't overflow.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
If he goes to trial, we have got to fly
down there. I want to go to every single day
of his trial to hear them explain that one.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I'd like to see a jury buy that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
All right, we will continue with another trial. This one
is currently going on here in Lower Manhattan right out
our window as we report here on a very rainy
day here in Thursday. We'll get into that northeaster here
in just a little bit. But but yeah, the Didty
trial continues this morning, and George Kaplan is expected to
continue his testimony for part of the morning. He's the
(12:11):
former employee for Sean Combs who allegedly quit after witnessing abuse,
and his testimony yesterday offered more incredible insight into the
world of.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Didty Caplin testified that he worked between eighty and one
hundred hours each week for Diddy. He said he usually
started around nine am and ended anywhere between six pm
and six am. Said did he threaten to fire him
at least about once a month. And he also said
he was in charge of setting up hotel rooms for
(12:41):
freak offs. This sounds a lot like his other assistant
where this was also his job to be the person
who set all the environment just the way did he
wanted it. This was also Kaplan's job as well. And yes,
he too carried that bag with what he described as
tons of drugs Advil, tailan all well, Vutrin and o
ketamine just an.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, we've gotten halfway through our ditty story here. We
haven't mentioned baby oil yet. So here we are another
day of the trial. You can't have a day without
a baby oil reference. And the onland security agent in
charge of the search at Combe's home in Miami he
was testifying yesterday, went kind of meticulous item by item,
explaining a lot of things that they found at the house,
(13:21):
and they showed pictures of boxes and boxes of baby oil.
Showed one of their evidence bags which he said in particular,
this was the count. There were thirty one bottles of
baby oil and just in this one evidence bag alone,
and the agent has confirmed Brokes, we have been talking
about this and Cassie Ventura, the agent confirmed they were
(13:41):
not investigating Sean Comb's until Cassie Ventura has x filed
that lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So she indeed was the catalyst for this criminal proceeding now.
A forensic psychologists also testified for the prosecution about, among
other things, why people stay in abusive relationships. The prosecution
says that they are ahead of schedule. They're going to
call five witnesses today in the trial. And one of
the big, big, big big folks who is going to
(14:10):
be up on that witness stand, kid Cutting. We were
expecting him actually perhaps yesterday, but it's going to happen.
It looks like today he briefly dated Cassie Ventura while
she was also still seeing Sean Combs.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
There's a lot of beef between those.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Two, so it will be fascinating to hear what Kid
Cutty has to say on the stand today.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
All right, folks, stay with us on this Thursday morning run.
When we come back, we're about to have the unofficial
start of summer, so let's sneak in on nor'easter, shall we. Also,
the NBA MVP Trophy goes well with a rolex apparently,
and running is about to get a little more expensive.
Stay with us, all right, let's continue on this Thursday
(15:00):
morning run now and just in time for the Memorial
Day weekend and the unofficial start to summer. A rare
and nasty May northeaster is pounding right now. Yeah, well
it's pouring, and yeah, this thing is pounding the mid
Atlantic and Northeast where it feels like anything but summer.
It's miserable, it's wet, it's windy. It's made worse by
(15:21):
unusually chilly temperatures. The heat is currently on. You just
said it before we start it. Yeah, heat feels good.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I had to turn the heat back on.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
This is crazy, yes, and this is going to last
into the holiday weekend for all of us lucky folks. Nor'easters,
if you don't know, are coastal storms that move off
the East coast, but they typically occur during the colder
months of the year. Rarely do we see one this
close to summer. But the reason why it's happening now
is fascinating and it's alarming.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
According to weather.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Experts, nor'easters are fueled by a clash of colder air
that comes down south from the Arctic and it meets
with that warmer air pushing north over the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Okay, so this rarely happens in late spring and summer
because temperatures in the East are usually warmer and are
similar to the heat from the Atlantic, so there's no
clash of temperatures. But because it's been a record hot
May in Iceland, it's been unseasonably warm in both Greenland
and Canadian Arctic. All that heat has ejected colder air
(16:26):
from the Arctic and sent it farther south than normal
for this time of year, and that colder air is
now giving us this rare northeaster. Well done, Robot put
all that together, and it made sense to.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Me, right, because it's counterintuitive that because it's hotter in
the Arctic that we're colder right now. But the way
that was explained, it made sense to.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Me about that cold air. Now it oh, we get it.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Fun cold air from the Arctic mixing with all the
warm air in the Atlantic, and wila, we have terrible
weather here Memorial Day weekend. All right, next up on
the run, well, our run maybe getting a little more expensive.
Many of you know how much we love our Nike
Alpha flies when we run well. Nike has just announced
it is raising its prices on much of its footwear, apparel,
(17:15):
and equipment, and it's happening in just a matter of days,
and they point to Trump's terrasts.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well, they say those prices are going to go well
between two and ten dollars. There are a few items
that will be exempt from price hikes. They say children's products,
Nike Air Force one shoes, and any item priced under
one hundred dollars will all remain the same price.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And it's pretty cool why.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Nike says it's trying to be cognizant if the financial
challenges families are facing. And then they say that air
Force one shoe is such a common shoe that people
wear in the workplace that they wanted to try to
keep that price flat as well. So right now, Nike
produces nearly half of its footwear in China and Vietnam,
so you can see.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Why the prices have to rise.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It's facing that new thirty percent tariff out of China
and a ten percent tariff out of Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
We can tell you are run here on this Thursday.
With trophies and rolecks watches being given out in Oklahoma
City yesterday, the NBA made the official announcement last night
that Shay Gildius Alexander is this year's NBA MVP. The
Oklahoma City thunder point guard led the league in scoring
and has his team in the Western Conference finals right now.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Glad you pronounced his name.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
So he got the MVP trophy, but did not want
his teammates to feel like they were left out, so.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
He bought all of them new Rolex watches.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I love these stories when a lot of big time athletes,
I think like some running backs sometimes will buy stuff
for their linemen and things. I love those cariers.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
And then he had a very tearful acceptance speech that
we want to read you part of this is what
Alexander had to say. I dreamt about it as a kid,
but as a kid, it's a fake dream. But as
the days go on and you realize that you get
closer to your dream, it's hard not to freak out.
It's hard not to be a six year old kid.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Again, love it well done. It was really really well done.
This is a twenty six year old kid. He's been
doing great things for the past several years, and I
just love the way he goes about his business. This
is surprising to me. This one nugget on this this
is this game was created here. The best players in
the world are here in the United States, but the
(19:20):
MVP of the MBA has been from somewhere else for
the past what is this eight years? Seven years. We
have not had an American born MVP since James Harden
in twenty eighteen. Alexander's from Canada. Before that, Joker is
from Serbia. Before that, Cameroon in Greece with two guys
(19:43):
and names are slipping. But yeah, that is I guess
a compliment that the game has grown and it's international.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
That's a good way to look at it.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But come on, come on, Americans. The final leg of
our run. He Robes couldn't wait to talk about a
college commizment speaker has returned the honorary degree. She was
given a graduation because she plagiarized her commencement address. Plagiarism
in college, it happens, Yeah, just not.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
In that particular place.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
That's not where you used to think it hilarious. Yet.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Evelyn Harris spoke Sunday at graduation at Smith College in Massachusetts.
She was given an honorary degree. She's a longtime musician,
she's a vocal teacher. But a few days later, the
school president sent a letter to the campus community explaining Harris.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Had plagiarized most of her speech, or, as they put it,
she borrowed much of her speech without the attribution typical
of and central to the ideals of academic integrity.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So, according to the school, Harris was forthcoming about her
choices while also acknowledging, and see what you think about this,
that she sought to infuse words of others with her
emotional valance.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Okay, that's all fine, but you have to say, I
heard it once by so and so or this person
said that you have to give attribution.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You can't claim it as your own unique thought.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
She was saying, she was infusing you, infusing the words
of others. That's different from stealing, okay, or borrowing. She
was infusing, but she did voluntarily give up the honorary degree.
What is the lesson for that graduating class? A positive
you take out of this?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I would just say that there are consequences to your decisions,
and there is humiliation that typically follows when you make
bad choices.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So perhaps it was a.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Very good lesson for them to learn, not when they
thought they were going to be learning, but in the
aftermath of it.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Absolutely is this not I don't know this woman. I
haven't heard anything else other than what she admitted, but
I've seen she's had decades, like fifty years she's been
working in in this business. You haven't learned enough of
your own stuff. You don't have enough original material give
these kids after fifty years.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
That's tough.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And you know what, my god, how how embarrassing. I mean,
I'm just saying, like, she's got to be so mortified.
She's in the academic world. Yeah, that's kind of like
one of the main things you say you're going to do,
like you that's what you police against and now that
you've contributed to it.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, that's that is a rough day. For her.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
All right, well, our quote of the day here today.
I'm trying to see if it could be something our
commencement speaker could use. But this is something we'd like
for you to consider as you go about your Thursday.
It is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It is one I have heard often, but it spoke
to me this morning from the Great Maya Angelou. She says,
if you don't like something, change it. If you can't
change it, change your attitude. I love that, and I
you know it's we all try to fight against something.
We want it to be different. And yes, sometimes we
can change things. But when you can't, you have to
(22:57):
accept it, don't you.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, all the time, it's not going to change. So
change attitude, folks. So yes, with that, Maya angelouis if
you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it,
change your attitude, folks. So that stays with you for
the day at least. I'm TJ. Holmes always appreciate your
running with us.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I can't change the weather, but I'm going to change
my attitude towards it.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Sometimes it's fun to have a cozy, rainy, chilly day
we're traveling.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
That's true. All right. Let's hope it doesn't impact our travel.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
All right, I am extending this podcast. My my apologies
to everyone I made robot. I've a wonderful Thursday.
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