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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's morning run.
It is Wednesday, May seventh.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Holmes and on the run this morning, Chimney Watch is
officially underway. The Conclave begins in Rome to elect a
new pope. We've got your cliff notes on how this
thing is going to go today.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And the world is also watching another developing and alarming story.
Two nuclear armed nations on the brink of war, the
first major escalation between India and Pakistan in decades.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Also on the run this morning, the Supreme Court gives
President Trump a win and says he can ban transgender
people from military service. Also, President Trump offers assistance and
an insult to former President Obama, all in the same breath.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And Columbia University announces major layoffs after losing four hundred
million dollars in federal funding. Plus, a second Navy fighter
jet falls off an aircraft carrier in less than a week.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
But it gets worse. It fell off the exact same
aircraft carrier.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Also this morning, Smokey Robinson is being sued for fifty
million dollars by four women who call him a quote
serial rapist. Also an update on that fan who fell
from the stands and onto the field at a Pittsburgh
Pirates game. He's just taken his.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
First steps, and George Clooney sets a Broadway record for
the most money made by a show in one week.
Also on the run, Burger King is being sued over
the size of its whoppers.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Plus, there won't be a Triple Crown winner this year
because the Kentucky Derby winner is skipping the Preakness next weekend.
But why And I can't even believe I'm excited about
this story. Love Island USA returns for season seven. We
are just a few weeks away. I blame U Robes
for this, but yes, I'm become a weird. I don't
even hate watch.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's a guilty pleasure. Yes, there it is. We can't
wait to get to that.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But we begin our Wednesday morning in Rome, where the
conclave is about to officially get underway. While most of
you were sleeping, the Cardinals began their day by attending
a mass in Saint Peter's Basilica.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
We've been watching. It was beautiful to watch the.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, and I've seen masks before. You just don't usually
see all the cardinals like any mass I've been to
of course didn't look like that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
But it was beautiful place also, Yeah, Saint Peter's Basilica.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's just a gorgeous place to watch and it's the
beginning of oh so much more.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, So it won't be until later today. It's going
to be around four to thirty local time, ten thirty
am Eastern time. The cardinals are going to say a prayer,
head over to the Sistine Chapel. Doors are going to
be locked, and those one hundred and thirty three cardinals
who are eligible to vote will be inside just them.
They will all swear an oath of.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Secrecy, and then around five pm Local time, that's eleven
am Eastern time, the cardinals will cast their first vote.
And that's when the fun for all of us begins,
because we'll all be staring at that newly installed chimney
on top of the Sistine Chapel. The cardinals have to
come to a two thirds majority in order to elect
a new pope.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So you know how this goes. Now, black smoke coming
from the chimney. That means no pope has been chosen
and the voting will go on. You see white smoke,
that means we got a new one. If you're trying
to gauge when you should start staring at this chimney. Well,
the two conclaves the previous to the first vote resulted
in black smoke. That was around eight o'clock local times,
so that would be early afternoon for us. Nobody expects
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there to be a pope chosen on that first vote.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yes, so yes, if what we all believe to be
true will happen, no pope is elected today. Tomorrow there
will be four more chances, two votes in the morning
and two votes in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So no what we're going to be looking at.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And if there is no new pope after three days,
the cardinals take a twenty four hour break to reflect
before resuming voting. And by the way, no conclave has
lasted more than four days since eighteen thirty one.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Right, we'll continue here on this very busy Wednesday morning.
Ron and two nuclear armed nations are on the brink
of a large scale conflict, and that's something everybody needs
to set up and pay attention to. This is a
very tense time right now. For longtime adversaries India and Pakistan,
after India launched air strikes Wednesday against Pakistan.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
India claims the strikes were in response to a terror
attack last month. Twenty six people killed in that attack
when a gunman stormed an area that was popular with
Indian tourists. Now, India blamed Pakistan for the attack, but
Pakistan denies any involvement.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Still, India claims its air strikes were aimed at terrorist infrastructure,
but Pakistan claims civilians were killed and it's called the
air strikes an act of war. Pakistan now claims it
has shot down at least five Indian fighter jets. So
this is where we are. The two countries, of course,
have lived in a state of heightened tensions since they
gained independence from Britain back in nineteen forty seven over
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disputed land. They have fought several wars in their history.
And again, when you talk about nuclear powers going at it,
the whole world is paying attention.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
They certainly are. We're gonna head a back home to
this country. Next up on the run and a legal
win for President Trump and a major setback for transgender rights.
In a six to three decision, the Supreme Court granted
Trump's emergency request that allows him to implement his ban
on all transgender people serving in the military.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, that ban has been blocked by lower courts as
they considered several lawsuits against the ban. One of the
plane of suing to block this thing from going into
place said that the Supreme Court ruling quote is a
devastating blow to transgender service members who have demonstrated their
capabilities and commitment to our nation's defents.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And another group representing transgender service members said Trump's policy
has nothing to do with military readiness and everything to
do with prejudice.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
All right, we'll continue on the run now in DC.
President Trump has extended a very kind offer to former
President Obama. He offered to help him finish building his
presidential library in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Is dripping with sarcasm. I love it, Yes, so I'll continue.
What a kind gesture. But wait for it, that kind
gesture was actually wrapped in an insult. President Trump was
meeting in the Oval Office with new Canadian Prime Minister
talking about other things, when, for whatever reason, he took
a turn to the ongoing construction of Obama's presidential library.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Okay, so this is what Trump offered quote, I mean, look,
President Obama, and if he wanted help, I give him
help because I build on time and on budget. He's
building his presidential library in Chicago. It's a disaster. End quote.
Oh no, But he wasn't done.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
No. He went on to say that Obama quote said
something to the effect I only want DEI I only
want woke.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
He wants woke people to build it.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well, he got woke people and they have massive cost overruns.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
The job is stopped. I don't know, it's a disaster.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It's not clear why he chose that moment with the
Canadian Prime Minister to talk about President or Obama.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yes, the library had nothing to do with nothing, as
we say, But the Obama Foundation did hear about this.
They did respond saying it's all good here and they
look forward to the library opening next year. However, do
need to note this Trump was not totally wrong in
his assessment of what's been happening with the Chicago Library
for President Obama. If you've seen some of the headlines,
really over the years, they were several years behind and
(07:24):
even starting construction, and the cost overruns have hit hundreds
of millions of dollars. It is being funded privately, so
these aren't taxpayer dollars. But still it's had these issues
and they've also faced lawsuits. They faced lawsuits about racial
discrimination against some of the subcontractors. It's been a bit
of a mess. And the Wall Street Journal reports this
(07:44):
is the longest stretch we've ever seen of the end
of a presidency and the opening of a presidential library.
So he's not totally wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, shocking that he would point it out, all right,
next up on our run, let's uh, we're talking about
President Trump. So he cut their funding and now one
university says it's cutting jobs as a direct result.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, we're talking about one hundred and eighty employees at
Columbia University. They're losing their jobs after the university lost
four hundred million dollars in federal funding. The President cut
the schools funding like he has at other elite schools,
claiming that the school did not do enough to stop
anti semitism during campus protests over the Israel Hamas War.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Columbia says the employees being cut are funded in some
way through those federal grants. It's not clear if more
layoffs are coming, but the school has been negotiating with
the Trump administration, and they've also sued the administration as well.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Some more to come on that.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So the argument here, they say, even if the money
comes back instantly, you've done so much damage it would
take years to kind of restart what is going to
be stopped now. So that's direct results now of the
cuts being made. We will continue here on our run now.
And the US Navy they must have fighter jets to
spare because they keep just dropping them in the ocean
(09:02):
at an alarming rate.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
For the second time in about a week, an Fa
eighteen fighter jet just fell off the side of an
aircraft carrier.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
But get this, it's the same.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Aircraft carrier where another fighter jet was lost when it
also fell off the side of the ship last week.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Okay, let's talky about this latest incident. It was just
yesterday and according to the military, the jet was attempting
to land on the USS Truman when it failed to
catch the wire. Now there's a tail hook on the plane.
These things, of course, are going at incredible speeds and
you're landing on an aircraft carrier. You got to stop
pretty quickly. So there's a hook on the back of
the plane. It's supposed to catch a wire that's on
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the aircraft carrier. It's necessary to slow the plane down.
The best reference roads I have is the first Top Gun.
You saw a lot of this in that opening scene.
You literally see how that happens. That's probably the only
time any of us will actually get to see that.
But put that reference in your head.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
That's what happened.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Well, that didn't happen like what you saw on Top Gun.
And instead of slowing down or coming to a stop,
the plane he just kept going right off the side.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Of the aircraft carrier and into the water.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Thankfully, there were only minor injuries because the aviators were
able to eject in time. And yes, another jet fell
off the side last week when the crew lost control
of the aircraft was being towed. That seventy million dollars
plane went off the side and into the water as well. Yeah,
a graveyard of FA eighteen's in the ocean.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
That has somebody's got a they're investigating all incidents. Somebody's
got a loose. You cannot lose two seventy million dollar
planes in a week just by dropping them.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
There's going to be consequence.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
All right, We will continue here on our run now
with music legend Smokey Robinson. He is faking, facing rather
heinous allegations in a new lawsuit brought by four women
who once worked for him.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Those women have filed a fifty million dollar lawsuit accusing
the Motown legend of being a quote sick and serial rapist.
The women are former housekeepers who claimed that between two
thousand and seven and twenty twenty four, they were sexually
assaulted and raped repeatedly by Robinson at his La home.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Two of the women claim in this lawsuit they were
raped on more than twenty occasions. Smoking Robinson's wife, Francis,
is also named in the suit, claiming she was aware
of the assaults, but also accused her of harassment and
labor violations.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
The women filed the lawsuit as Jane Does one through four,
but they attended a press conference yesterday announcing the lawsuit,
but they did have their faces covered with masks. Robinson
is now eighty five years old, and yeah, he's Motown Royalty.
This is shocking and disturbing and just Icky.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Can I ask? I want to ask you because it's
always Jane Doe, Jane do Jane do in a lot
of lawsuits. They are a Jane Doe. But they attended
that press conference. Yes, they had like surgical you know,
COVID masks. Think of it like that. What it said
to me in the moment and what it says to
you if anything. That they did physically show up in
front camera.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, they wanted in the best way it could by
still preserving their anonymity, say here we are and yes
we're real and this isn't frivolous.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I mean that was probably the point of them.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yes, attending the next lego bar run, Now takes us
to Pittsburgh. Got a follow up on that Pirates fan
who had that frightening fall from the stands last week.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, Kevin Markwood was critically injured after falling twenty feet
onto the field at panc Park during the Pittsburgh Pirate
Chicago Cubs game. Markwood's family announced that he has taken
his first steps after breaking his neck, his clavicle, and
his back.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
His girlfriend's mom posted online that he still has a
long way to go, but wrote that he's showing real
strength and that the family is staying hopeful for a
smooth recover.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Mark Wood's fall has been ruled an accident, and a
woman who was sitting next to him in the stands
when he fell says he just got really excited during
a play, saying the momentum from him jumping up in
his seat literally catapulted his body over the railing. And
that makes sense based on what we saw, because we
watched this and I thought he jumped like I thought
(12:58):
maybe he threw himself over to delberately, So when she
says he got catapulted, that makes sense because there really
was force behind it.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Somebody's getting sued. This should not be possible. You should
not be able to just jump up and follow you.
You just terrible. You can't, can't, can't, can't do that.
But it's good to hear he is making some strides.
But stay with us here on this Wednesday morning, Ron,
when we come back, Burger King is being sued. Why
the whopper ain't as big as they said it is? Also,
we will not have a triple crown winner. How do
(13:25):
we know that already? And I'm ready below. Well we
continue now on this Wednesday morning, Ron and Burger King
is going to have to defend the Whopper in court.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The company has been sued over claims it has wrongly,
fraudulently been telling all of us for years that the
Whopper is bigger than its competitors Burgers. I know what
you're thinking, Yeah, yeah, this is another frivolous lawsuit that's
not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah. But here's the thing. That's what Burger Thing thought
as well, and was trying to get the case thrown
out of court. But yesterday a judge ruled the case
has enough merit to go for it, and now Burger
King is going to have to defend its actions in court.
But what exactly did the plaintiffs take issue with.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
They claim that Burger King advertises with images of the
Whopper with oversized patties that have the toppings spilling out
of the buns. But they say, you know what, that
gives a false impression. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
The nineteen people who sue say they want Burger King
to take corrective action, and they want to recoup all
money that the company earned through their false advertising.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Burger King's response is somewhat hilarious for its simplicity and
common sense sentiment.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
This is what they said.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Reasonable consumers know that the entire point of menu boards
is to make items look as appetizing as possible. This
isn't consumer fraud. It's quarter pounds of flame grilled beef
in the stores and in the pictures. But yes, they
are style more beautifully than a minimum wage worker at
your local burger king might put it together.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
That's we know, that's true.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yes, that's it.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
They say.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It's the same one in the picture as the same
one you're eating in the store. And what minimum wage
worker at your local burger king is going to take
time and make it as pretty as they do in
the commercial? Nobody is now. McDonald's and Wendy's have faced
similar lawsuits over the years, but those have actually been
thrown out. So people are paying attention here now because
it's allowed to go forward. But how how I don't
know how this fos.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
You should sue everybody you've ever dated exactly because the
first date they looked the great, But in two months
at six am in the morning, hmmm, sweete, there was
some false advertising.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Wow you went there? Okay, next stup on our run.
There won't be a triple Crown winner.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
The Kentucky Derby was just over the weekend, So how
do we already know that no horse is going to
win the triple Crown.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Because the derby winner won't be running in the Preakness. Sakes,
that's the second jewel in the triple crown. Sovereignty is
the horse being kept out of the next race because
his owners say it's what's in the best long term
interest of the horse.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Instead, they're going to skip the Preakness and enter a
sovereignty in the Belmont Stakes, which is June seventh and
upstate New York. The Preakness is, I believe, just next weekend,
so it's two weeks apart from the Kentucky Derby, and
some people will just say, hey, that's too quick of
a turnaround. So they've advocated for moving the Preakness, but
it's not happening this year. So yes, Sovereignty will skip
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the Preakness.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
It's always fun to see that. Yeah, so I probably
won't watch another horse race this year. I only watch
the next one to see if that horse is going
to win, and then the next one. So that's too bad.
But I didn't realize such a turnaround like that.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I didn't realize. Yeah, too hard on the horses.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Hard right next up on the run here, our next
leg takes us to the Great White Way, where we
have a new record. For the first time in the
history of Broadway a show has grossed four million dollars
in one week.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Good Night and good Luck is that new play co
written by and starring George Klooney, and last week the
show brought in four million, three thousand, four hundred and
eighty two dollars. The record breaking week comes on the
heels of five Tony nominations for the play, including one
for Clooney for Best Performance by a Leading Actor.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Good Night, good Luck is about the legendary showdown between
Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Golden
Age of journalism. It was already the highest grossing play
in Broadway history. The show was playing at the Winter
Garden Theater. Average ticket price this was curious to me.
How do you end up with four million? Your average
ticket price? It was about three hundred and twenty bucks.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
All right.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
For the final leg of our run, we got a text.
Anyone who knows what we're referencing is going to be
interested in this final story. Peacock has just announced that
Love Island USA is back and in just a matter
of weeks.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, Season seven is going to premiere on June third.
Ariana Maddox from vander Pup rules she's back as host.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
And then Ian.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Sterling is that I didn't know his name. That he's
the snarky British narrator. So he does the voice over.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
He is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
That's your favorite part of it. He makes fun of
all the contestants, but not in a mean way, but
in a really funny way.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yes, and the show is going to air new episodes
every day except Wednesday. Islanders are going to compete for
love on Love Island Fiji. They've done it there before.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yes, yes, yes, And then Casa Amoor is coming back
to But that's some inside baseball, so I'll move on.
If you're missing some of the Islanders from previous seasons,
you're in luck. This is of interest to me. Peacock
recently announced a new spin off. It's called Love Island
USA Beyond the Villa. It follows former Islanders around Los
Angeles and their everyday lives with all of their newfound fame.
(18:38):
And I looked at some of the cast. It's all
the people we know in Love from last season. So
but Cordell from you know, Swinging the everyone apparently this
is a trend. People were going to Grand Central or
different train stations or wherever they would have a suitcase
with him and doing that spin that Cordell did at
the beginning of the last season.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
That opening number.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Drew me in. I think that's what made me a.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Fan of the show Ready for Love.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It's a cultural phenomenon. So congrats on what they pull off.
I don't want them to start watering it down too much.
I got it to spin off and a spin off,
and a spin off and a spin off. But do
you think congratulations and it's coming back. But before you go,
before we go, and in this Rune wants you to
take our quote of the day with you. Something we'd
like for you to consider.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
If you can't be thankful for what you have, at
least be thankful for what you've escaped.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Thank you Lord. I love that one right there. Oh,
I love that quote.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Look at all the things you think you you want.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You don't have.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I'm not grateful with this you want.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
You're not grateful for what is in your life right now. Man,
Look behind you, look at that stuff that you got
away from you, whether it's illness, a bad relationship, a
bad job. You overcome so much. I love this quote.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, and what you didn't get is a lot of
people would say God's way, the Universe's way of saying,
it's what you didn't need and you didn't even know it.
Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So I love this quote too. It's a good reminder.
It's all about perspective, ain't it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
If you can't be thankful for what you have, at
least be thankful for what you've escaped. And with that, everyone,
thank you for running with us on this Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Holmes. Thanks for running with us as always, have fun
chimney watching
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's morning run.
It is Wednesday, May seventh.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Holmes and on the run this morning, Chimney Watch is
officially underway. The Conclave begins in Rome to elect a
new pope. We've got your cliff notes on how this
thing is going to go today.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And the world is also watching another developing and alarming story.
Two nuclear armed nations on the brink of war, the
first major escalation between India and Pakistan in decades.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Also on the run this morning, the Supreme Court gives
President Trump a win and says he can ban transgender
people from military service. Also, President Trump offers assistance and
an insult to former President Obama, all in the same breath.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And Columbia University announces major layoffs after losing four hundred
million dollars in federal funding. Plus, a second Navy fighter
jet falls off an aircraft carrier in less than a week.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
But it gets worse. It fell off the exact same
aircraft carrier.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Also this morning, Smokey Robinson is being sued for fifty
million dollars by four women who call him a quote
serial rapist. Also an update on that fan who fell
from the stands and onto the field at a Pittsburgh
Pirates game. He's just taken his.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
First steps, and George Clooney sets a Broadway record for
the most money made by a show in one week.
Also on the run, Burger King is being sued over
the size of its whoppers.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Plus, there won't be a Triple Crown winner this year
because the Kentucky Derby winner is skipping the Preakness next weekend.
But why And I can't even believe I'm excited about
this story. Love Island USA returns for season seven. We
are just a few weeks away. I blame U Robes
for this, but yes, I'm become a weird. I don't
even hate watch.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's a guilty pleasure. Yes, there it is. We can't
wait to get to that.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But we begin our Wednesday morning in Rome, where the
conclave is about to officially get underway. While most of
you were sleeping, the Cardinals began their day by attending
a mass in Saint Peter's Basilica.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
We've been watching. It was beautiful to watch the.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, and I've seen masks before. You just don't usually
see all the cardinals like any mass I've been to
of course didn't look like that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
But it was beautiful place also, Yeah, Saint Peter's Basilica.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's just a gorgeous place to watch and it's the
beginning of oh so much more.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, So it won't be until later today. It's going
to be around four to thirty local time, ten thirty
am Eastern time. The cardinals are going to say a prayer,
head over to the Sistine Chapel. Doors are going to
be locked, and those one hundred and thirty three cardinals
who are eligible to vote will be inside just them.
They will all swear an oath of.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Secrecy, and then around five pm Local time, that's eleven
am Eastern time, the cardinals will cast their first vote.
And that's when the fun for all of us begins,
because we'll all be staring at that newly installed chimney
on top of the Sistine Chapel. The cardinals have to
come to a two thirds majority in order to elect
a new pope.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So you know how this goes. Now, black smoke coming
from the chimney. That means no pope has been chosen
and the voting will go on. You see white smoke,
that means we got a new one. If you're trying
to gauge when you should start staring at this chimney. Well,
the two conclaves the previous to the first vote resulted
in black smoke. That was around eight o'clock local times,
so that would be early afternoon for us. Nobody expects
(03:23):
there to be a pope chosen on that first vote.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yes, so yes, if what we all believe to be
true will happen, no pope is elected today. Tomorrow there
will be four more chances, two votes in the morning
and two votes in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So no what we're going to be looking at.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And if there is no new pope after three days,
the cardinals take a twenty four hour break to reflect
before resuming voting. And by the way, no conclave has
lasted more than four days since eighteen thirty one.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Right, we'll continue here on this very busy Wednesday morning.
Ron and two nuclear armed nations are on the brink
of a large scale conflict, and that's something everybody needs
to set up and pay attention to. This is a
very tense time right now. For longtime adversaries India and Pakistan,
after India launched air strikes Wednesday against Pakistan.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
India claims the strikes were in response to a terror
attack last month. Twenty six people killed in that attack
when a gunman stormed an area that was popular with
Indian tourists. Now, India blamed Pakistan for the attack, but
Pakistan denies any involvement.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Still, India claims its air strikes were aimed at terrorist infrastructure,
but Pakistan claims civilians were killed and it's called the
air strikes an act of war. Pakistan now claims it
has shot down at least five Indian fighter jets. So
this is where we are. The two countries, of course,
have lived in a state of heightened tensions since they
gained independence from Britain back in nineteen forty seven over
(04:48):
disputed land. They have fought several wars in their history.
And again, when you talk about nuclear powers going at it,
the whole world is paying attention.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
They certainly are. We're gonna head a back home to
this country. Next up on the run and a legal
win for President Trump and a major setback for transgender rights.
In a six to three decision, the Supreme Court granted
Trump's emergency request that allows him to implement his ban
on all transgender people serving in the military.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, that ban has been blocked by lower courts as
they considered several lawsuits against the ban. One of the
plane of suing to block this thing from going into
place said that the Supreme Court ruling quote is a
devastating blow to transgender service members who have demonstrated their
capabilities and commitment to our nation's defents.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And another group representing transgender service members said Trump's policy
has nothing to do with military readiness and everything to
do with prejudice.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
All right, we'll continue on the run now in DC.
President Trump has extended a very kind offer to former
President Obama. He offered to help him finish building his
presidential library in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Is dripping with sarcasm. I love it, Yes, so I'll continue.
What a kind gesture. But wait for it, that kind
gesture was actually wrapped in an insult. President Trump was
meeting in the Oval Office with new Canadian Prime Minister
talking about other things, when, for whatever reason, he took
a turn to the ongoing construction of Obama's presidential library.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Okay, so this is what Trump offered quote, I mean, look,
President Obama, and if he wanted help, I give him
help because I build on time and on budget. He's
building his presidential library in Chicago. It's a disaster. End quote.
Oh no, But he wasn't done.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
No. He went on to say that Obama quote said
something to the effect I only want DEI I only
want woke.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
He wants woke people to build it.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well, he got woke people and they have massive cost overruns.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
The job is stopped. I don't know, it's a disaster.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It's not clear why he chose that moment with the
Canadian Prime Minister to talk about President or Obama.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yes, the library had nothing to do with nothing, as
we say, But the Obama Foundation did hear about this.
They did respond saying it's all good here and they
look forward to the library opening next year. However, do
need to note this Trump was not totally wrong in
his assessment of what's been happening with the Chicago Library
for President Obama. If you've seen some of the headlines,
really over the years, they were several years behind and
(07:24):
even starting construction, and the cost overruns have hit hundreds
of millions of dollars. It is being funded privately, so
these aren't taxpayer dollars. But still it's had these issues
and they've also faced lawsuits. They faced lawsuits about racial
discrimination against some of the subcontractors. It's been a bit
of a mess. And the Wall Street Journal reports this
(07:44):
is the longest stretch we've ever seen of the end
of a presidency and the opening of a presidential library.
So he's not totally wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, shocking that he would point it out, all right,
next up on our run, let's uh, we're talking about
President Trump. So he cut their funding and now one
university says it's cutting jobs as a direct result.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, we're talking about one hundred and eighty employees at
Columbia University. They're losing their jobs after the university lost
four hundred million dollars in federal funding. The President cut
the schools funding like he has at other elite schools,
claiming that the school did not do enough to stop
anti semitism during campus protests over the Israel Hamas War.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Columbia says the employees being cut are funded in some
way through those federal grants. It's not clear if more
layoffs are coming, but the school has been negotiating with
the Trump administration, and they've also sued the administration as well.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Some more to come on that.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So the argument here, they say, even if the money
comes back instantly, you've done so much damage it would
take years to kind of restart what is going to
be stopped now. So that's direct results now of the
cuts being made. We will continue here on our run now.
And the US Navy they must have fighter jets to
spare because they keep just dropping them in the ocean
(09:02):
at an alarming rate.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
For the second time in about a week, an Fa
eighteen fighter jet just fell off the side of an
aircraft carrier.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
But get this, it's the same.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Aircraft carrier where another fighter jet was lost when it
also fell off the side of the ship last week.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Okay, let's talky about this latest incident. It was just
yesterday and according to the military, the jet was attempting
to land on the USS Truman when it failed to
catch the wire. Now there's a tail hook on the plane.
These things, of course, are going at incredible speeds and
you're landing on an aircraft carrier. You got to stop
pretty quickly. So there's a hook on the back of
the plane. It's supposed to catch a wire that's on
(09:38):
the aircraft carrier. It's necessary to slow the plane down.
The best reference roads I have is the first Top Gun.
You saw a lot of this in that opening scene.
You literally see how that happens. That's probably the only
time any of us will actually get to see that.
But put that reference in your head.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
That's what happened.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Well, that didn't happen like what you saw on Top Gun.
And instead of slowing down or coming to a stop,
the plane he just kept going right off the side.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Of the aircraft carrier and into the water.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Thankfully, there were only minor injuries because the aviators were
able to eject in time. And yes, another jet fell
off the side last week when the crew lost control
of the aircraft was being towed. That seventy million dollars
plane went off the side and into the water as well. Yeah,
a graveyard of FA eighteen's in the ocean.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
That has somebody's got a they're investigating all incidents. Somebody's
got a loose. You cannot lose two seventy million dollar
planes in a week just by dropping them.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
There's going to be consequence.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
All right, We will continue here on our run now
with music legend Smokey Robinson. He is faking, facing rather
heinous allegations in a new lawsuit brought by four women
who once worked for him.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Those women have filed a fifty million dollar lawsuit accusing
the Motown legend of being a quote sick and serial rapist.
The women are former housekeepers who claimed that between two
thousand and seven and twenty twenty four, they were sexually
assaulted and raped repeatedly by Robinson at his La home.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Two of the women claim in this lawsuit they were
raped on more than twenty occasions. Smoking Robinson's wife, Francis,
is also named in the suit, claiming she was aware
of the assaults, but also accused her of harassment and
labor violations.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
The women filed the lawsuit as Jane Does one through four,
but they attended a press conference yesterday announcing the lawsuit,
but they did have their faces covered with masks. Robinson
is now eighty five years old, and yeah, he's Motown Royalty.
This is shocking and disturbing and just Icky.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Can I ask? I want to ask you because it's
always Jane Doe, Jane do Jane do in a lot
of lawsuits. They are a Jane Doe. But they attended
that press conference. Yes, they had like surgical you know,
COVID masks. Think of it like that. What it said
to me in the moment and what it says to
you if anything. That they did physically show up in
front camera.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, they wanted in the best way it could by
still preserving their anonymity, say here we are and yes
we're real and this isn't frivolous.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I mean that was probably the point of them.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yes, attending the next lego bar run, Now takes us
to Pittsburgh. Got a follow up on that Pirates fan
who had that frightening fall from the stands last week.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, Kevin Markwood was critically injured after falling twenty feet
onto the field at panc Park during the Pittsburgh Pirate
Chicago Cubs game. Markwood's family announced that he has taken
his first steps after breaking his neck, his clavicle, and
his back.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
His girlfriend's mom posted online that he still has a
long way to go, but wrote that he's showing real
strength and that the family is staying hopeful for a
smooth recover.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Mark Wood's fall has been ruled an accident, and a
woman who was sitting next to him in the stands
when he fell says he just got really excited during
a play, saying the momentum from him jumping up in
his seat literally catapulted his body over the railing. And
that makes sense based on what we saw, because we
watched this and I thought he jumped like I thought
(12:58):
maybe he threw himself over to delberately, So when she
says he got catapulted, that makes sense because there really
was force behind it.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Somebody's getting sued. This should not be possible. You should
not be able to just jump up and follow you.
You just terrible. You can't, can't, can't, can't do that.
But it's good to hear he is making some strides.
But stay with us here on this Wednesday morning, Ron,
when we come back, Burger King is being sued. Why
the whopper ain't as big as they said it is? Also,
we will not have a triple crown winner. How do
(13:25):
we know that already? And I'm ready below. Well we
continue now on this Wednesday morning, Ron and Burger King
is going to have to defend the Whopper in court.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The company has been sued over claims it has wrongly,
fraudulently been telling all of us for years that the
Whopper is bigger than its competitors Burgers. I know what
you're thinking, Yeah, yeah, this is another frivolous lawsuit that's
not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah. But here's the thing. That's what Burger Thing thought
as well, and was trying to get the case thrown
out of court. But yesterday a judge ruled the case
has enough merit to go for it, and now Burger
King is going to have to defend its actions in court.
But what exactly did the plaintiffs take issue with.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
They claim that Burger King advertises with images of the
Whopper with oversized patties that have the toppings spilling out
of the buns. But they say, you know what, that
gives a false impression. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
The nineteen people who sue say they want Burger King
to take corrective action, and they want to recoup all
money that the company earned through their false advertising.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Burger King's response is somewhat hilarious for its simplicity and
common sense sentiment.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
This is what they said.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Reasonable consumers know that the entire point of menu boards
is to make items look as appetizing as possible. This
isn't consumer fraud. It's quarter pounds of flame grilled beef
in the stores and in the pictures. But yes, they
are style more beautifully than a minimum wage worker at
your local burger king might put it together.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
That's we know, that's true.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yes, that's it.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
They say.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It's the same one in the picture as the same
one you're eating in the store. And what minimum wage
worker at your local burger king is going to take
time and make it as pretty as they do in
the commercial? Nobody is now. McDonald's and Wendy's have faced
similar lawsuits over the years, but those have actually been
thrown out. So people are paying attention here now because
it's allowed to go forward. But how how I don't
know how this fos.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
You should sue everybody you've ever dated exactly because the
first date they looked the great, But in two months
at six am in the morning, hmmm, sweete, there was
some false advertising.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Wow you went there? Okay, next stup on our run.
There won't be a triple Crown winner.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
The Kentucky Derby was just over the weekend, So how
do we already know that no horse is going to
win the triple Crown.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Because the derby winner won't be running in the Preakness. Sakes,
that's the second jewel in the triple crown. Sovereignty is
the horse being kept out of the next race because
his owners say it's what's in the best long term
interest of the horse.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Instead, they're going to skip the Preakness and enter a
sovereignty in the Belmont Stakes, which is June seventh and
upstate New York. The Preakness is, I believe, just next weekend,
so it's two weeks apart from the Kentucky Derby, and
some people will just say, hey, that's too quick of
a turnaround. So they've advocated for moving the Preakness, but
it's not happening this year. So yes, Sovereignty will skip
(16:27):
the Preakness.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
It's always fun to see that. Yeah, so I probably
won't watch another horse race this year. I only watch
the next one to see if that horse is going
to win, and then the next one. So that's too bad.
But I didn't realize such a turnaround like that.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I didn't realize. Yeah, too hard on the horses.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Hard right next up on the run here, our next
leg takes us to the Great White Way, where we
have a new record. For the first time in the
history of Broadway a show has grossed four million dollars
in one week.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Good Night and good Luck is that new play co
written by and starring George Klooney, and last week the
show brought in four million, three thousand, four hundred and
eighty two dollars. The record breaking week comes on the
heels of five Tony nominations for the play, including one
for Clooney for Best Performance by a Leading Actor.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Good Night, good Luck is about the legendary showdown between
Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Golden
Age of journalism. It was already the highest grossing play
in Broadway history. The show was playing at the Winter
Garden Theater. Average ticket price this was curious to me.
How do you end up with four million? Your average
ticket price? It was about three hundred and twenty bucks.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
All right.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
For the final leg of our run, we got a text.
Anyone who knows what we're referencing is going to be
interested in this final story. Peacock has just announced that
Love Island USA is back and in just a matter
of weeks.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, Season seven is going to premiere on June third.
Ariana Maddox from vander Pup rules she's back as host.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
And then Ian.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Sterling is that I didn't know his name. That he's
the snarky British narrator. So he does the voice over.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
He is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
That's your favorite part of it. He makes fun of
all the contestants, but not in a mean way, but
in a really funny way.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yes, and the show is going to air new episodes
every day except Wednesday. Islanders are going to compete for
love on Love Island Fiji. They've done it there before.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yes, yes, yes, And then Casa Amoor is coming back
to But that's some inside baseball, so I'll move on.
If you're missing some of the Islanders from previous seasons,
you're in luck. This is of interest to me. Peacock
recently announced a new spin off. It's called Love Island
USA Beyond the Villa. It follows former Islanders around Los
Angeles and their everyday lives with all of their newfound fame.
(18:38):
And I looked at some of the cast. It's all
the people we know in Love from last season. So
but Cordell from you know, Swinging the everyone apparently this
is a trend. People were going to Grand Central or
different train stations or wherever they would have a suitcase
with him and doing that spin that Cordell did at
the beginning of the last season.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
That opening number.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Drew me in. I think that's what made me a.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Fan of the show Ready for Love.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It's a cultural phenomenon. So congrats on what they pull off.
I don't want them to start watering it down too much.
I got it to spin off and a spin off,
and a spin off and a spin off. But do
you think congratulations and it's coming back. But before you go,
before we go, and in this Rune wants you to
take our quote of the day with you. Something we'd
like for you to consider.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
If you can't be thankful for what you have, at
least be thankful for what you've escaped.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Thank you Lord. I love that one right there. Oh,
I love that quote.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Look at all the things you think you you want.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You don't have.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I'm not grateful with this you want.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
You're not grateful for what is in your life right now. Man,
Look behind you, look at that stuff that you got
away from you, whether it's illness, a bad relationship, a
bad job. You overcome so much. I love this quote.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, and what you didn't get is a lot of
people would say God's way, the Universe's way of saying,
it's what you didn't need and you didn't even know it.
Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So I love this quote too. It's a good reminder.
It's all about perspective, ain't it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
If you can't be thankful for what you have, at
least be thankful for what you've escaped. And with that, everyone,
thank you for running with us on this Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Holmes. Thanks for running with us as always, have fun
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