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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hello everyone,
this is your Morning Run for Thursday, October sixteenth. I'm
Amy Robots.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And I'm TJ Holmes. We got good news, bad news
new health. The official numbers on obesity in this country.
There's some good news. We're not popping champagne. But there
is some good news, but bad news for a few states.
Everybody wants to know number one and who's number fifty.
We have those numbers as well. Surprised by those states
on the list.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Not surprised by the states, but just surprised at the
overall percentages still and even the minority communities that is
really disturbing alarming numbers.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Will pass those along. Also, why I thought you're supposed
to climb up Mount Everest and that was supposed to
be the big feat. So why is a dude, I
guess setting making history by the way he came down.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Correct setting records and its historic. Even how and where
he got up. I didn't realize there were different peaks
on Mount Everest. So it's a really cool story and
someone made USA proud.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yes. Also, this morning, a judge is telling the guy
who loves to say he fired somebody that. Actually, mister President,
you cannot fire all those federal workers. We'll get into that.
We did get a cause of death as well. For
Diane Keaton, her family is speaking out. Also that big
heg Seth speech. He wants to make sure as many
people as possible see it. In fact, he's ordering that
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as many people as possible see it. We'll explain that.
And Rome's measles supposed to be concentrated, right, we thought
the Texas there was a little cluster there. I cannot
believe we're talking about measles now in another part of
the country.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
South Carolina and actually in Minnesota has some disturbing numbers.
But it's a disturbing trend throughout the country.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Also, the latest on the shutdown. You can write that
story yourself. Also, those Christy known videos at the airport,
while dims want an investigation into those now And jad
Van says all that racist stuff from those young Republicans
just kids being kids. Will read his exact.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Almost boys being boys kind of a thing. Yeah, all right,
let's see how that lands. All right, we begin our
run though overseas with that fragile piece deal. Hama says
there might be a problem with returning the remains of
all the hostages, which of course is a key condition
of the ceasefire. The militant group claims they either don't
know where or don't have access to the bodies, and
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in a statement, here's what they said. The remaining bodies
require significant efforts and specialized equipment to search for and retrieve,
and we are making a great effort to close this file.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, the slow pace now of returning the remains has
led to frustration and anger in Israel, as well as
concerns that, yes, this fragile ceasefire now won't hold. Plus,
Israel says DNA a one body returned over turned over
to them by Hamas doesn't actually match the DNA of
any of the known hostages. Right now, the remains of
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at least nineteen hostages are unaccounted for.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Next up on the Run, the Vice President dismissed those
racist text exchanges by a group of young Republican leaders
as kids telling edgy offensive jokes. That's what kids. Do
you know the story by now, and if you haven't,
we have an entire podcast on it just before this
one if you want to check it out. But Politico
reported on this group chat among leaders of the Young
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Republican Organization.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So yeah, if you don't know the organization, yes, it
is a national group with hundreds of affiliates throughout the States,
and they are yes, affiliated with the National Republican Party.
They focus on eighteen to forty year old conservatives. But
this text chain involving what was at five or six people.
At least there are at least two hundred and fifty
one references in which they use the IN word, the
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R word, and the F word, not the four letter
F word we're talking about the one that's despaired to
the LGBTQ plus community. Also made a reference to black
people being quote, watermelon people, and also compared watching an
NBA game to going to the zoo and watching monkey ball,
praising Hitler at times in favor of slavery, talking about
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what putting their opponents in gas chambers some pretty vile stuff.
But the Vice president spoke about this on the Charlie
Kirk podcast. Actually he said, and we're going to quote
it here, the reality is that kids do stupid things,
especially young boys. They tell edgy offensive jokes like that's
what kids do, And I really don't want us to
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grow up in a country where a kid's telling a
stupid joke, telling a very offensive, stupid joke is cause
to ruin their lives, And at some point we're all
going to have to say enough of this. BS. We're
not going to allow the worst moment in a twenty
one year old's group chat to ruin a kid's life
for the rest of time. That's just not okay. End quote.
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I'm I'm a kind of in agreement that something's stupids
you do at whatever age should not ruin the rest
of you lite. I actually in agreement with that. It's
just they're not condemned for what was said, or it's
more so the reaction people are having to what they
said and kind of dismissing is it's okay, fella's go
ahead tell the jokes.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Boys being boys, locker room talk. Isn't that what they
always try to say, Hey, this is just what we do.
That doesn't mean it's acceptable, And I agree. I don't
think you should lose everything and never have a future
because of something you did at twenty one. However, people
and commit crimes at twenty one and they're held accountable
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for the rest of their lives. So it's just words
do matter, and I think to not acknowledge that is
losing the point of it all.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And several of them, we should note, have been losing jobs,
resigning from jobs that have all been told to step
down from their positions with the Young Republican groups. So yeah,
there are some consequences that continue to come.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
All right. Next up on the Run, a judge just
told President Trump he actually cannot fire federal workers at
least for now.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order yesterday that
stops the administration with moving forward with its stated plans
to lay off thousands of federal workers during this government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
This suit was actually brought by two unions who took
legal action before the shutdown. They had very good foresight
to do this. Yeah, before the president even signaled or
when he signaled he might try to lay people off,
they jumped on this. When they start talking about this
ideal of reduction in force. They sued, and the judge rolled,
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there's a lot of legal ease in there. When you
read a judge's opinion about something. This is as plain
as you can put it. The judge said this quote
you can't do this in a nation of laws, saying
what he's doing is flat out illegal, trying to fire
these folks.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
All right, Well, speaking of that shutdown, next up on
the run, maybe the tenth time will be the charm.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Today's the day ropes.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So you hear us dripping in sarcasms.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
The Senate is said to vote for a tenth time
today on the exact same funding bill that has failed
nine times before. They're just going through the motions of
the same exercise with no expectations that anything is going
to change.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Okay, Yes, failure to pass the funding bill means that
this government shutdown will continue. Today. We're in day sixteen
of the shutdown. One more day and we'll be tied
for the third longest shutdown in US history. We assume
we're going to get to that, So then when we
get to day eighteen, we'll have the record third longest
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of all time. And then next week robes twenty one days.
Once we hit twenty two days, this will be the
second longest shutdown in American history. So we are all
away if we do.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You said once we do.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Did I say that you did? I didn't mean to.
That was actually a slip. I'm hopeful that today the
tenth time will be in fact the charm.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
All right. Next up on the Run, Democrats want an
investigation into those christy knowme videos that some people have
been seeing at airports. The Department of Homeland Security wanted
airport to post these videos right near the airport's security line.
When you're frustrated and it's taking longer than it should
and you're afraid you might miss your flight.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Who should I blame for this?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
In those videos? No one blames Democrats for the shutdown
and the impact it's having on your air traplics.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Okay, no critics will tell you this is a clear
violation of what's called the Hatch Act, which prevents political
activity on the job by federal workers. Democratic leaders and
now send a letter the Department of Homeland Security calling
for the immediate removal of the videos and asks for
info on how much the videos costs and who paid
for woo all right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
A DHS spokesperson dismissed the Democrats' demands as political game gamesmanship,
Which is so funny because that's exactly what they're being
accused of. And I actually don't even think it's an accusation.
It's fairly blatant, by the way I said, some of
you might have seen it, because some airports actually refuse
to play the videos, citing the Hatch Act LaGuardia, Newark, JFK,
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so all the New York airports, so interesting, Charlotte, Seattle, Atlanta, O'Hare,
all of those, and counting several airports, major airports in
some democratic city and some.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Airports did go move forward and are using them. We
never saw an airport nod okay, but we shall see,
all right. Continuing on the run now, Defense Secretary Pete
Hexth wants to make sure everybody gets his anti woke
no dudes in dresses, get your fat ass out of
my military message. He has ordered that everybody in the
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military either watches or reads the speech he gave at
that unprecedented meeting of military leaders last month.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Do you have to file a book report afterwards? I mean,
how does he prove that?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Is this one of those things like we've been in
companies before, where you have to confirm that you want
Do they really.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
We know what we said that. Maybe I don't know,
but you know what we just did.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
No, I've sat through all of them if you didn't
sit through those No, I seriously.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
No, I think I actually asked my assistant to do
it for me.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Okay, so somebody had to sit through there.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Okay, that's really embarrassing, but I think that is a
true statement.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I was busy. In a memo to.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Military leaders, hegxas said they need to verify that every
member of the defense sees the speech and reviews the
policy changes. Reminder, this was all this all took place
to speech when hegxeth called all one star and above
generals back to Quantico at significant expense and travel right
when the government was shutting down. Perfect timing. This all
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happened last.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Month, and they looked them in the face and said
it's embarrassing to see fat generals walking around. And everybody's
got to meet these new standards. Yes, he's an addition,
he said, everybody does need to review the policies as well,
and not just watch the speech.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
The War secretary is bold.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, all right, continuing now here on the run on
this Thursday morning, with Mississippi executed fifty nine year old
Charles Crawford last night by lethal injection. He was pronounced
dead at six fifteen pm local time. He spent thirty
years on death row after being convicted of kidnapping, raping,
and murdering a twenty year old college student back in
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nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So Crawford claimed he blacked out and didn't recall killing
Christy Ray. He was executed after his last minute emergency
appeal to the Supreme Court was turned away, even though
three liberal justices felt it should have been granted. Justice
Sonia Sotomayor wrote that Crawford's lawyers overrided his decision not
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to concede guilt of his trial. Instead, his lawyers told
the jury that Crawford killed Ray, but then pursued an
insanity defense.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So the Supreme Court in twenty eighteen rule that lawyers
cannot do what Crawford's lawyers did. But the issue here
is whether that twenty eighteen decision could be retroactively applied
to Crawford's situation. So Sodamayor wrote that Crawford's lawyers deprived
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him of that basic right. Because the Court declines to act,
Crawford will be sent to his death without ever having
had a real opportunity to hold the state to its
burden of proving his guilt. This is interesting. They're not
saying whether or not there's a question of whether or
not he's guilty, or even question whether or not he
would ultimately get the death penalty. It's just you have
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basic rights. We're violated. Let's go back and do it right.
That makes sense. Kagan, Katanji Brown joins Soda Mayor inscent.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, it was described as like a very vehement descent.
She was clearly upset by the decision not to hear
his case. So in the hours before his execution, Crawford
visited with his family and a preacher. His execution was
the third in just two days here in the United States.
There are six more execution schedules to take place this year.
The next is set for tomorrow night in Arizona. So far,
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thirty eight men have been executed in twenty twenty five
in this country.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
You we mentioned Kagan and Katanji Brown, Jackson, Soda Mayor.
Did everyone vote here? Do we know how it was?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It was just three against. I guess it would be six.
The other side that voted to not listen to the
arguments gave no explanation, and they don't have to, and
oftentimes they don't.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Got you, got you, gotcha all right. Continuing on the
run here now, and Diane Keaton's family has revealed the
Oscar winner's cause of death, and a statement to People magazine,
the family says, we are very grateful for the extraordinary
messages of love and support they have received these past
few days on behalf of their beloved Diane, who passed
away from pneumonia on October eleventh.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Emergency personnel were called to Diane Keaton's home over the
weekend for a report of a person down. Keaton was
taken to the hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
There were no public memorial plans revealed as of yet,
but so many people have been paying homage to her,
including us watching some of her finest films over the
past couple of niths.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
This is one you've beat me over the head with
Baby Boom. It's so I wasn't as familiar with it.
Overboard is your favorite? That one? I love. You can
get me to watch that anytime. Baby Boom, Baby Boom.
H do we have to watch? She's so just her charming, durable.
I love that movie. Alright, Well, folks, stay with us
here on this Thursday morning run when we come back.
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There is new concern about the measles in this country,
so concerned that we're now quarantining school kids. Also coming up,
we got the new numbers on obesity in this country,
and Hawaii and West Virginia are on two very different
ends of the spectrum. And an American set a record
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on Everest, not for going up, but for coming down.
All right, folks, we continue on this Friday eve run.
Next leg takes us to South Carolina, where one hundred
and thirty nine unvaccinated students are now in quarantine after
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being exposed to the measles virus. The South Carolina Department
of Health is working with two school rules to put
the precautionary measures in place to try and stop the
spread of the disease.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Officials just confirmed five additional cases in the Greenville area,
bringing the states total now to sixteen just since July.
Health officials are warning that the measles virus can linger
in the air for up to two hours after an
infected person leaves the room. Isn't that crazy, and they
reiterated the only way the best way to protect yourself
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from measles is the MMR vaccine. That's the measles, momps
and rebella. It's been under attack by our own Health
and Human Services secretary. So these public health officials in
South Carolina are saying please, they're actually setting up vans,
mobile vans to get kids vaccinated.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Are you did you know that? Two hours?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I did not know that. They're saying, this disease is
so contagious, that is, and people don't understand. This is
not like other viruses. This is exceptionally contagious.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I did not realize. Well, despite all of their efforts
there in South Carolina, they say they do expect this
outbreak to row. The upstate region has only a ninety
percent vaccination rate. That sounds high, but don't they say
ninety seven ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It needs to be above ninety five percent for you
to feel comfortable. So they are, they say, significantly below
where they need to be.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
So this makes them vulnerable. It's part of a larger
trend across the US. This year, the US has recorded
more measles cases than it has in any year the
past thirty years.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
All right, next up on the run. We just got
the latest update on obesity in this country, including state rankings,
and there is some good news. Nineteen states have obesity
rates above thirty five percent. That's the bad news. But
that's actually down from twenty three states the year before.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
So it's not great, but we have fewer states that
have the higher percentage.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
That's a good perspective.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Okay, that's a good thing. This is the first time
also that we have seen a year to year drop
in the number of states with obesity rates of thirty
five percent or higher. That also is good news. Here's
the problem. Ten years ago we only had three states
whoa with obesity rates of thirty five percent or higher.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Three and now we have nineteen Yeah, down from twenty three. Yeah,
that's no wow.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah. So these are kind of shocking numbers when you
consider where we were just a short short time ago.
Now we always are look at these state rankings, and
here we go the state with the lowest obesity rate.
It's not the one I would have come up with,
but once I heard it, I was like, oh, that
makes sense. Colorado twenty five.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Percent skiing, hiking, very running. It's an outdoor community where
people are active and you know you've got the sun
how many days a year in that state there, it's
just a that makes sense. Now. After that, the next
best obesity rate was the district of Columbia.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Surprised by that.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
One, Yeah, maybe so, But you know what it's again,
it's a running city. I was like all the running
trails along the Potomac and the bikes. It's I always
saw people out and about when I lived there. Followed
by Massachusetts and Hawaii both at twenty seven percent, and
after that New Jersey at twenty seven point seven percent.
Now Here are the states with the highest obesity rates,
and overwhelmingly the highest obesity rate is in the state
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of West Virginia forty one point four percent. Look when
you look at the poverty rates that reads, you know,
folks are in areas where they don't have services and
don't have access to a lot of the things that
other people do in other states. Followed by Mississippi at
forty point four percent, Louisiana at thirty nine point two percent,
Alabama at thirty eight point nine percent, in Arkansas, So
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that whole swath of the South, it follows.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Your point when you talk about rates and poverty and
rural areas and access to food, access to I mean doctors,
it all has an imbibuty it's that cluster right there.
It's always in these same regions. Another not so good
note here ropes, this is the first time ever that
we don't have a single state with an obesity rate
below twenty five percent. So even Colorado at twenty five
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the lowest. But this is the first time no one
has ranked Wow, follow that in obcity rates. Another terrible note, Roads,
I could not believe this. The Black obesity rate forty
nine point nine percent is calculated by the CDC. That
means half of the black folks in this country are
considered obese, which is considered a disease, a debilitating one.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
That leads to death all diabetes, heart failure, yes, cancer.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
That is a shocking half. The Latino ob three rate
forty five point six percent is calculated by the CDC.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Wow. Yeah, we definitely need to do better. All right,
for the final leg of our run on this Friday,
eve I love this story. An American skier made history yesterday.
Fifty year old Jim Morrison became the first person to
successfully ski Mount Everest's narrow and treacherous north face. Morrison
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spent six weeks on the mountain. It was his third
attempt to ski this route. He made it down from
twenty nine thousand and thirty two feet to Camp one
at nineteen thousand, nine hundred and seventy four feet in
four hours and five minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Wait a minute, how did he do? He did it
in like a leg at a time kind of a thing.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I'm not sure how we did it, but like you
think about, like, I only have one example of what
it's like at oxygen levels at nineteen thousand feet. That
was where he came down from twenty nine thousand feet
to skiing requires a lot of physical output, and I
mean to be able to do.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
That nine thousand feet, I have specialized equipment.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
What do you know? I don't know how he did it,
and certainly when you look at just how steep and
narrow it is.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
My goodness, our planes fly at thirty thousand feet right, Yes,
what in God's name? This is incredible? Now, I'm very
curious about all this. Yes, you damn right? That got
this on video. He was joined by the Oscar winning
directors behind the Free Solo documentary. I assume that's Jimmy
ten yep, the first person I ever climbed to it.
This dude is he's one of the best i'mers in
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the world. Now he's one of the best documentary makers
in the world. It is remarkable. Yes, they recorded this
historic feat. They're going to see this for a national
geographic film. Just summoning Mount Ever's north face peak is
a thing in itself, only been done by a few mountaineers.
The last person to do it was in ninety one.
I did not realize. I hear people climb Mount Evers.
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You just go climb Mount Evers and that's the end of.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
This is considered the most difficult route up to the summit,
and it's only been done by a handful, they said,
and it was by an American initially. The actual peak
is named for this American, but the last person to
do it was in ninety one. That's how hard and
treacherous this is to go up this particular route. Morrison,
and this is probably my favorite part of the story
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dedicated his history making achievement. This is to his late girlfriend,
his late partner, Hillary Nelson. She died nearly three years
ago climbing the eighth highest mountain in the world. So
they were both avid climbers and hikers, so he spread
her ashes when he got to the north Face Peak
before beginning his ski run, and here's what he said
about her afterwards. Climbing the direct north Face and then
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skiing what Hillary and I believe to be the world's
greatest ski run was a dream we chased together. Hillary's
spirit and energy was a galvanizing force for me and
this incredible team. I hope what we accomplished honors her
and the love for these mountains we shared.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I wonder if it was always the plan for them
to do it together.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It sounds like it was. It sounds like it was,
and so the fact that he was able to spread
her ashes up at that peak is just remarkable.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
It's perfect. Isn't that perfect?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It really is. It really is. So I had a
different quote of the day, but I changed it after
the story. I was so moved, and I believe I
have absolutely in the last two years used this quote
because I love it so much by Jack Kerouac. But
when I was writing the story, I just was inspired
to change the quote of the day. And I hope
this inspires all of you to accomplish or do something
you didn't think possible, because in the end, you won't
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remember the time you spent work in the office, or
mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain, Jack Harouac, whatever
your mountain.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Is, so climb some mountains today.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
It's just that moves me. It's such a reminder that
we get focused on all the mundane little things, and
yes they're important. We have to keep our lives going. However,
don't forget to dream, and don't forget to follow up
and follow through on those dreams, because in the end,
you won't remember the time you spent working in the
office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. And
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thank you for running with us with that everyone, I'm
Amy Robot.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
And I'm TJ. Holmes. Always appreciate you all spending some
time with us. We'll talk to y'alls here
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hello everyone,
this is your Morning Run for Thursday, October sixteenth. I'm
Amy Robots.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And I'm TJ Holmes. We got good news, bad news
new health. The official numbers on obesity in this country.
There's some good news. We're not popping champagne. But there
is some good news, but bad news for a few states.
Everybody wants to know number one and who's number fifty.
We have those numbers as well. Surprised by those states
on the list.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Not surprised by the states, but just surprised at the
overall percentages still and even the minority communities that is
really disturbing alarming numbers.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Will pass those along. Also, why I thought you're supposed
to climb up Mount Everest and that was supposed to
be the big feat. So why is a dude, I
guess setting making history by the way he came down.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Correct setting records and its historic. Even how and where
he got up. I didn't realize there were different peaks
on Mount Everest. So it's a really cool story and
someone made USA proud.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yes. Also, this morning, a judge is telling the guy
who loves to say he fired somebody that. Actually, mister President,
you cannot fire all those federal workers. We'll get into that.
We did get a cause of death as well. For
Diane Keaton, her family is speaking out. Also that big
heg Seth speech. He wants to make sure as many
people as possible see it. In fact, he's ordering that
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as many people as possible see it. We'll explain that.
And Rome's measles supposed to be concentrated, right, we thought
the Texas there was a little cluster there. I cannot
believe we're talking about measles now in another part of
the country.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
South Carolina and actually in Minnesota has some disturbing numbers.
But it's a disturbing trend throughout the country.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Also, the latest on the shutdown. You can write that
story yourself. Also, those Christy known videos at the airport,
while dims want an investigation into those now And jad
Van says all that racist stuff from those young Republicans
just kids being kids. Will read his exact.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Almost boys being boys kind of a thing. Yeah, all right,
let's see how that lands. All right, we begin our
run though overseas with that fragile piece deal. Hama says
there might be a problem with returning the remains of
all the hostages, which of course is a key condition
of the ceasefire. The militant group claims they either don't
know where or don't have access to the bodies, and
(02:29):
in a statement, here's what they said. The remaining bodies
require significant efforts and specialized equipment to search for and retrieve,
and we are making a great effort to close this file.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, the slow pace now of returning the remains has
led to frustration and anger in Israel, as well as
concerns that, yes, this fragile ceasefire now won't hold. Plus,
Israel says DNA a one body returned over turned over
to them by Hamas doesn't actually match the DNA of
any of the known hostages. Right now, the remains of
(03:03):
at least nineteen hostages are unaccounted for.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Next up on the Run, the Vice President dismissed those
racist text exchanges by a group of young Republican leaders
as kids telling edgy offensive jokes. That's what kids. Do
you know the story by now, and if you haven't,
we have an entire podcast on it just before this
one if you want to check it out. But Politico
reported on this group chat among leaders of the Young
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Republican Organization.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So yeah, if you don't know the organization, yes, it
is a national group with hundreds of affiliates throughout the States,
and they are yes, affiliated with the National Republican Party.
They focus on eighteen to forty year old conservatives. But
this text chain involving what was at five or six people.
At least there are at least two hundred and fifty
one references in which they use the IN word, the
(03:52):
R word, and the F word, not the four letter
F word we're talking about the one that's despaired to
the LGBTQ plus community. Also made a reference to black
people being quote, watermelon people, and also compared watching an
NBA game to going to the zoo and watching monkey ball,
praising Hitler at times in favor of slavery, talking about
(04:16):
what putting their opponents in gas chambers some pretty vile stuff.
But the Vice president spoke about this on the Charlie
Kirk podcast. Actually he said, and we're going to quote
it here, the reality is that kids do stupid things,
especially young boys. They tell edgy offensive jokes like that's
what kids do, And I really don't want us to
(04:36):
grow up in a country where a kid's telling a
stupid joke, telling a very offensive, stupid joke is cause
to ruin their lives, And at some point we're all
going to have to say enough of this. BS. We're
not going to allow the worst moment in a twenty
one year old's group chat to ruin a kid's life
for the rest of time. That's just not okay. End quote.
(04:56):
I'm I'm a kind of in agreement that something's stupids
you do at whatever age should not ruin the rest
of you lite. I actually in agreement with that. It's
just they're not condemned for what was said, or it's
more so the reaction people are having to what they
said and kind of dismissing is it's okay, fella's go
ahead tell the jokes.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Boys being boys, locker room talk. Isn't that what they
always try to say, Hey, this is just what we do.
That doesn't mean it's acceptable, And I agree. I don't
think you should lose everything and never have a future
because of something you did at twenty one. However, people
and commit crimes at twenty one and they're held accountable
(05:35):
for the rest of their lives. So it's just words
do matter, and I think to not acknowledge that is
losing the point of it all.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And several of them, we should note, have been losing jobs,
resigning from jobs that have all been told to step
down from their positions with the Young Republican groups. So yeah,
there are some consequences that continue to come.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
All right. Next up on the Run, a judge just
told President Trump he actually cannot fire federal workers at
least for now.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order yesterday that
stops the administration with moving forward with its stated plans
to lay off thousands of federal workers during this government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
This suit was actually brought by two unions who took
legal action before the shutdown. They had very good foresight
to do this. Yeah, before the president even signaled or
when he signaled he might try to lay people off,
they jumped on this. When they start talking about this
ideal of reduction in force. They sued, and the judge rolled,
(06:32):
there's a lot of legal ease in there. When you
read a judge's opinion about something. This is as plain
as you can put it. The judge said this quote
you can't do this in a nation of laws, saying
what he's doing is flat out illegal, trying to fire
these folks.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
All right, Well, speaking of that shutdown, next up on
the run, maybe the tenth time will be the charm.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Today's the day ropes.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So you hear us dripping in sarcasms.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
The Senate is said to vote for a tenth time
today on the exact same funding bill that has failed
nine times before. They're just going through the motions of
the same exercise with no expectations that anything is going
to change.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Okay, Yes, failure to pass the funding bill means that
this government shutdown will continue. Today. We're in day sixteen
of the shutdown. One more day and we'll be tied
for the third longest shutdown in US history. We assume
we're going to get to that, So then when we
get to day eighteen, we'll have the record third longest
(07:30):
of all time. And then next week robes twenty one days.
Once we hit twenty two days, this will be the
second longest shutdown in American history. So we are all
away if we do.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You said once we do.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Did I say that you did? I didn't mean to.
That was actually a slip. I'm hopeful that today the
tenth time will be in fact the charm.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
All right. Next up on the Run, Democrats want an
investigation into those christy knowme videos that some people have
been seeing at airports. The Department of Homeland Security wanted
airport to post these videos right near the airport's security line.
When you're frustrated and it's taking longer than it should
and you're afraid you might miss your flight.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Who should I blame for this?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
In those videos? No one blames Democrats for the shutdown
and the impact it's having on your air traplics.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Okay, no critics will tell you this is a clear
violation of what's called the Hatch Act, which prevents political
activity on the job by federal workers. Democratic leaders and
now send a letter the Department of Homeland Security calling
for the immediate removal of the videos and asks for
info on how much the videos costs and who paid
for woo all right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
A DHS spokesperson dismissed the Democrats' demands as political game gamesmanship,
Which is so funny because that's exactly what they're being
accused of. And I actually don't even think it's an accusation.
It's fairly blatant, by the way I said, some of
you might have seen it, because some airports actually refuse
to play the videos, citing the Hatch Act LaGuardia, Newark, JFK,
(08:57):
so all the New York airports, so interesting, Charlotte, Seattle, Atlanta, O'Hare,
all of those, and counting several airports, major airports in
some democratic city and some.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Airports did go move forward and are using them. We
never saw an airport nod okay, but we shall see,
all right. Continuing on the run now, Defense Secretary Pete
Hexth wants to make sure everybody gets his anti woke
no dudes in dresses, get your fat ass out of
my military message. He has ordered that everybody in the
(09:32):
military either watches or reads the speech he gave at
that unprecedented meeting of military leaders last month.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Do you have to file a book report afterwards? I mean,
how does he prove that?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Is this one of those things like we've been in
companies before, where you have to confirm that you want
Do they really.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
We know what we said that. Maybe I don't know,
but you know what we just did.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
No, I've sat through all of them if you didn't
sit through those No, I seriously.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
No, I think I actually asked my assistant to do
it for me.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Okay, so somebody had to sit through there.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Okay, that's really embarrassing, but I think that is a
true statement.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I was busy. In a memo to.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Military leaders, hegxas said they need to verify that every
member of the defense sees the speech and reviews the
policy changes. Reminder, this was all this all took place
to speech when hegxeth called all one star and above
generals back to Quantico at significant expense and travel right
when the government was shutting down. Perfect timing. This all
(10:27):
happened last.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Month, and they looked them in the face and said
it's embarrassing to see fat generals walking around. And everybody's
got to meet these new standards. Yes, he's an addition,
he said, everybody does need to review the policies as well,
and not just watch the speech.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
The War secretary is bold.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, all right, continuing now here on the run on
this Thursday morning, with Mississippi executed fifty nine year old
Charles Crawford last night by lethal injection. He was pronounced
dead at six fifteen pm local time. He spent thirty
years on death row after being convicted of kidnapping, raping,
and murdering a twenty year old college student back in
(11:05):
nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So Crawford claimed he blacked out and didn't recall killing
Christy Ray. He was executed after his last minute emergency
appeal to the Supreme Court was turned away, even though
three liberal justices felt it should have been granted. Justice
Sonia Sotomayor wrote that Crawford's lawyers overrided his decision not
(11:27):
to concede guilt of his trial. Instead, his lawyers told
the jury that Crawford killed Ray, but then pursued an
insanity defense.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So the Supreme Court in twenty eighteen rule that lawyers
cannot do what Crawford's lawyers did. But the issue here
is whether that twenty eighteen decision could be retroactively applied
to Crawford's situation. So Sodamayor wrote that Crawford's lawyers deprived
(11:55):
him of that basic right. Because the Court declines to act,
Crawford will be sent to his death without ever having
had a real opportunity to hold the state to its
burden of proving his guilt. This is interesting. They're not
saying whether or not there's a question of whether or
not he's guilty, or even question whether or not he
would ultimately get the death penalty. It's just you have
(12:16):
basic rights. We're violated. Let's go back and do it right.
That makes sense. Kagan, Katanji Brown joins Soda Mayor inscent.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, it was described as like a very vehement descent.
She was clearly upset by the decision not to hear
his case. So in the hours before his execution, Crawford
visited with his family and a preacher. His execution was
the third in just two days here in the United States.
There are six more execution schedules to take place this year.
The next is set for tomorrow night in Arizona. So far,
(12:45):
thirty eight men have been executed in twenty twenty five
in this country.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
You we mentioned Kagan and Katanji Brown, Jackson, Soda Mayor.
Did everyone vote here? Do we know how it was?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It was just three against. I guess it would be six.
The other side that voted to not listen to the
arguments gave no explanation, and they don't have to, and
oftentimes they don't.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Got you, got you, gotcha all right. Continuing on the
run here now, and Diane Keaton's family has revealed the
Oscar winner's cause of death, and a statement to People magazine,
the family says, we are very grateful for the extraordinary
messages of love and support they have received these past
few days on behalf of their beloved Diane, who passed
away from pneumonia on October eleventh.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Emergency personnel were called to Diane Keaton's home over the
weekend for a report of a person down. Keaton was
taken to the hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
There were no public memorial plans revealed as of yet,
but so many people have been paying homage to her,
including us watching some of her finest films over the
past couple of niths.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
This is one you've beat me over the head with
Baby Boom. It's so I wasn't as familiar with it.
Overboard is your favorite? That one? I love. You can
get me to watch that anytime. Baby Boom, Baby Boom.
H do we have to watch? She's so just her charming, durable.
I love that movie. Alright, Well, folks, stay with us
here on this Thursday morning run when we come back.
(14:10):
There is new concern about the measles in this country,
so concerned that we're now quarantining school kids. Also coming up,
we got the new numbers on obesity in this country,
and Hawaii and West Virginia are on two very different
ends of the spectrum. And an American set a record
(14:32):
on Everest, not for going up, but for coming down.
All right, folks, we continue on this Friday eve run.
Next leg takes us to South Carolina, where one hundred
and thirty nine unvaccinated students are now in quarantine after
(14:54):
being exposed to the measles virus. The South Carolina Department
of Health is working with two school rules to put
the precautionary measures in place to try and stop the
spread of the disease.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Officials just confirmed five additional cases in the Greenville area,
bringing the states total now to sixteen just since July.
Health officials are warning that the measles virus can linger
in the air for up to two hours after an
infected person leaves the room. Isn't that crazy, and they
reiterated the only way the best way to protect yourself
(15:25):
from measles is the MMR vaccine. That's the measles, momps
and rebella. It's been under attack by our own Health
and Human Services secretary. So these public health officials in
South Carolina are saying please, they're actually setting up vans,
mobile vans to get kids vaccinated.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Are you did you know that? Two hours?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I did not know that. They're saying, this disease is
so contagious, that is, and people don't understand. This is
not like other viruses. This is exceptionally contagious.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I did not realize. Well, despite all of their efforts
there in South Carolina, they say they do expect this
outbreak to row. The upstate region has only a ninety
percent vaccination rate. That sounds high, but don't they say
ninety seven ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It needs to be above ninety five percent for you
to feel comfortable. So they are, they say, significantly below
where they need to be.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
So this makes them vulnerable. It's part of a larger
trend across the US. This year, the US has recorded
more measles cases than it has in any year the
past thirty years.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
All right, next up on the run. We just got
the latest update on obesity in this country, including state rankings,
and there is some good news. Nineteen states have obesity
rates above thirty five percent. That's the bad news. But
that's actually down from twenty three states the year before.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
So it's not great, but we have fewer states that
have the higher percentage.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
That's a good perspective.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Okay, that's a good thing. This is the first time
also that we have seen a year to year drop
in the number of states with obesity rates of thirty
five percent or higher. That also is good news. Here's
the problem. Ten years ago we only had three states
whoa with obesity rates of thirty five percent or higher.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Three and now we have nineteen Yeah, down from twenty three. Yeah,
that's no wow.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah. So these are kind of shocking numbers when you
consider where we were just a short short time ago.
Now we always are look at these state rankings, and
here we go the state with the lowest obesity rate.
It's not the one I would have come up with,
but once I heard it, I was like, oh, that
makes sense. Colorado twenty five.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Percent skiing, hiking, very running. It's an outdoor community where
people are active and you know you've got the sun
how many days a year in that state there, it's
just a that makes sense. Now. After that, the next
best obesity rate was the district of Columbia.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Surprised by that.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
One, Yeah, maybe so, But you know what it's again,
it's a running city. I was like all the running
trails along the Potomac and the bikes. It's I always
saw people out and about when I lived there. Followed
by Massachusetts and Hawaii both at twenty seven percent, and
after that New Jersey at twenty seven point seven percent.
Now Here are the states with the highest obesity rates,
and overwhelmingly the highest obesity rate is in the state
(18:12):
of West Virginia forty one point four percent. Look when
you look at the poverty rates that reads, you know,
folks are in areas where they don't have services and
don't have access to a lot of the things that
other people do in other states. Followed by Mississippi at
forty point four percent, Louisiana at thirty nine point two percent,
Alabama at thirty eight point nine percent, in Arkansas, So
(18:35):
that whole swath of the South, it follows.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Your point when you talk about rates and poverty and
rural areas and access to food, access to I mean doctors,
it all has an imbibuty it's that cluster right there.
It's always in these same regions. Another not so good
note here ropes, this is the first time ever that
we don't have a single state with an obesity rate
below twenty five percent. So even Colorado at twenty five
(19:00):
the lowest. But this is the first time no one
has ranked Wow, follow that in obcity rates. Another terrible note, Roads,
I could not believe this. The Black obesity rate forty
nine point nine percent is calculated by the CDC. That
means half of the black folks in this country are
considered obese, which is considered a disease, a debilitating one.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
That leads to death all diabetes, heart failure, yes, cancer.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
That is a shocking half. The Latino ob three rate
forty five point six percent is calculated by the CDC.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Wow. Yeah, we definitely need to do better. All right,
for the final leg of our run on this Friday,
eve I love this story. An American skier made history yesterday.
Fifty year old Jim Morrison became the first person to
successfully ski Mount Everest's narrow and treacherous north face. Morrison
(19:55):
spent six weeks on the mountain. It was his third
attempt to ski this route. He made it down from
twenty nine thousand and thirty two feet to Camp one
at nineteen thousand, nine hundred and seventy four feet in
four hours and five minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Wait a minute, how did he do? He did it
in like a leg at a time kind of a thing.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I'm not sure how we did it, but like you
think about, like, I only have one example of what
it's like at oxygen levels at nineteen thousand feet. That
was where he came down from twenty nine thousand feet
to skiing requires a lot of physical output, and I
mean to be able to do.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
That nine thousand feet, I have specialized equipment.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
What do you know? I don't know how he did it,
and certainly when you look at just how steep and
narrow it is.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
My goodness, our planes fly at thirty thousand feet right, Yes,
what in God's name? This is incredible? Now, I'm very
curious about all this. Yes, you damn right? That got
this on video. He was joined by the Oscar winning
directors behind the Free Solo documentary. I assume that's Jimmy
ten yep, the first person I ever climbed to it.
This dude is he's one of the best i'mers in
(21:00):
the world. Now he's one of the best documentary makers
in the world. It is remarkable. Yes, they recorded this
historic feat. They're going to see this for a national
geographic film. Just summoning Mount Ever's north face peak is
a thing in itself, only been done by a few mountaineers.
The last person to do it was in ninety one.
I did not realize. I hear people climb Mount Evers.
(21:21):
You just go climb Mount Evers and that's the end of.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
This is considered the most difficult route up to the summit,
and it's only been done by a handful, they said,
and it was by an American initially. The actual peak
is named for this American, but the last person to
do it was in ninety one. That's how hard and
treacherous this is to go up this particular route. Morrison,
and this is probably my favorite part of the story
(21:44):
dedicated his history making achievement. This is to his late girlfriend,
his late partner, Hillary Nelson. She died nearly three years
ago climbing the eighth highest mountain in the world. So
they were both avid climbers and hikers, so he spread
her ashes when he got to the north Face Peak
before beginning his ski run, and here's what he said
about her afterwards. Climbing the direct north Face and then
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skiing what Hillary and I believe to be the world's
greatest ski run was a dream we chased together. Hillary's
spirit and energy was a galvanizing force for me and
this incredible team. I hope what we accomplished honors her
and the love for these mountains we shared.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I wonder if it was always the plan for them
to do it together.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It sounds like it was. It sounds like it was,
and so the fact that he was able to spread
her ashes up at that peak is just remarkable.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
It's perfect. Isn't that perfect?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It really is. It really is. So I had a
different quote of the day, but I changed it after
the story. I was so moved, and I believe I
have absolutely in the last two years used this quote
because I love it so much by Jack Kerouac. But
when I was writing the story, I just was inspired
to change the quote of the day. And I hope
this inspires all of you to accomplish or do something
you didn't think possible, because in the end, you won't
(22:58):
remember the time you spent work in the office, or
mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain, Jack Harouac, whatever
your mountain.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Is, so climb some mountains today.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
It's just that moves me. It's such a reminder that
we get focused on all the mundane little things, and
yes they're important. We have to keep our lives going. However,
don't forget to dream, and don't forget to follow up
and follow through on those dreams, because in the end,
you won't remember the time you spent working in the
office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. And
(23:34):
thank you for running with us with that everyone, I'm
Amy Robot.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
And I'm TJ. Holmes. Always appreciate you all spending some
time with us. We'll talk to y'alls here
Hosts And Creators
Amy Robach
T.J. Holmes
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