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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone,
and welcome to Morning Run. It's Friday, October twenty fourth.
I'm Amy Robots and.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm TJ Holmes, and it really is, folks, a jam
packed Friday news wise, everything from what's going on in
the NBA to what's happening with the New York Mayor's race,
a strange endorsement. We got Kim Kaye's aneurysm to talk
about this morning. There was a man executed last night
and some of his final words were, I'm innocent. You
got King Charles of Pope Leo meeting something we ain't
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seen in five hundred years. An airline has been grounded.
Trump quits on Canada over a TV commercial, The East
Wing is gone, and Stranger Things is coming to the
big screen. All that going on, but let's start robes
with really is the story that most Americans at this
point can fill in the blanks. After we say the
government shutdown is on day twenty four.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, that's right, and all eyes continue to be on
DC to watch literally nothing happen. And we can already
say confidently on day twenty four that this shutdown will
get to at least day twenty seven. Because Congress is
not at work.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
There should be some mystery. We shouldn't know already that
this thing is going to go for another three days.
But the reason we know that is because the Senate
has adjourned. They adjourned yesterday and not going to reconvene
until Monday, So that means, yes, no work is being
done in DC at least the two sides not working
on ending this shutdown. So yes, by the time we
get to Monday, the government shutdown will be on day
twenty seven. The Senate, however, Robes did mix things up
(01:31):
a bet made it a little more interesting. So instead
of voting a thirteenth time on the same GEOP backed
spending measure to reopen the government, Republicans introduced a different bill.
This one would pay certain federal employees, contractors, and military
members during the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
But that measure also failed to pass. Democrats say they
don't want the president to be able to decide who
gets paid and who doesn't get paid while the government
is shut down. The Senate reconvenes on Monday at three pm.
I don't get it. I think while real Americans are suffering,
not getting paid and concerned about how they're putting food
(02:07):
on the table or perhaps even paying their next rent check.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The congressman and women shouldn't be allowed to leave the CNS.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
They be forced to stay until they figure it out.
They shouldn't be able to go back home and enjoy
their families.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So you said forced. The thing is they shouldn't have
to be forced. They should be dying to sit in
a room. And we are not leaving this room until
this has worked out. Holidays are coming up. It's the
thing we keep pointing to. And they took a vote
yesterday to say no, we're not gonna pay you while
you continue to work during the shutdown. That's a bad look.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I liken it to think about like a man and
a woman, like you're just like you're just gonna not
see each other just forever, and then how are things
gonna get worked out?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Never ever? You have to sit down face to face.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
All right, we're going to continue on this a Friday
morning run here now with President Trump. He abruptly canceled
all trade negotiations with our friendly neighbors to the north. Yes,
and this was all over a TV ad that features
forty year old comments from Ronald Reagan. Let us explain
this ad aired in Canada by the government of Ontario
in particular, but they are airing these things as part
(03:11):
of an anti tariff campaign. It included this one commercial
and excerpt from Reagan's nineteen eighty seven radio address to
the Nation.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Trump said in a social media post last night, the
Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently,
fraudulently used an advertisement which is fake featuring Ronald Reagan
speaking negatively about tariffs. The ad was for seventy five
million dollars. They only did this to interfere with the
decision of the US Supreme Court and the other courts.
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Tariffs are very important to the national security and economy
of the USA. Based on their egregious behavior, all trade
negotiations with Canada are hereby terminated. Trump's change of tune
came after the Canadian Prime Minister announced plans to double
exports to countries not named the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
All right, continue on the run here now, the East Wing.
You might have heard it's under construction. It's not anymore.
It's gone. The East Wing. The White House is gone.
It has been demolished. That demolition of this one hundred
and twenty year old structure took only a matter of
days this week, and it's being done, of course, to
make way for President Trump's new ninety thousand square foot ballroom.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You know, there are parts of DC and northern Virginia
where you can't even change the color of your shutters
because it's over one hundred years old, it's deemed historic.
So in that sense, this is fairly remarkable. Democrats in
Congress have sent a letter to the White House demanding
answers about the project, which critics say has moved forward
in secrecy and has not been done in coordination with
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the National Capital Planning Commission. Asked about that yesterday in
the press briefing White House spokesperson Carolyn Lovitt.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
We listened to her say this ourselves, babe. She reiterated,
the president does not have to get anyone's approval to
tear down a structure, only to build a new one.
I believe she said vertically as well.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
She did use that work vertical structures. And what was
the reporter actually asked, So you're saying the president can
tear down the Jefferson memorial if he wants to. And
even though Carolyn Levin didn't directly say yes, her answer
was yes. She said, this is legal. This isn't the
president just going rogue. Law allows him to deconstruct something,
(05:28):
he only has to get approval to construct it. Wow,
what's coming down next? I have some suggestions. Continuing on
the run here now, is it's Virginia's turn to redistrict
Yes that States Democrats are now reportedly ready to redraw
their maps and will go to a special session next
week to possibly get this done.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
This is exhausting.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Virginia would join Texas, Missouri, California, and North Carolina and
this year's redistricting race. Right now, Virginia's eleven districts are
split six to five Democrat Republican. It's not clear how
state Democrats would rework the map to their advantage, but
you can bet they're working on it all right.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Continuing on the run here now in what was the
story of the day yesterday and will be the story
unfortunately of the season, probably for the NBA. They have
a mess on their hands just as the season is
getting started. Just three days ago, it kicked off to
much fanfare and much success, but now they got a
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mess After those sprawling indictments were announced yesterday, current and
former NBA coaches and players accused of working in concert
with members of the mafia in elaborate and illegal betting
and gambling schemes.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
More than thirty people were arrested yesterday as a part
of the year's long investigations. Current Portland Trailblazers coach Shauncey
Billups made a court appearance yesterday. The Hall of Famer
is accused of participating in underground poker games that were
rigged to build unsuspecting players out of miss millions of dollars,
using elaborate tech setups that we heard about at this
(07:05):
press conference that were frankly in some instances jaw dropping
to see what they were doing, and using technology wise
to cheat.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
X ray tables that could read cards that were faced down,
contact lenses, contact lenses that could read specially marked what else.
There was a tray, a chip tray that could read
cards as well.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
At cameras and the chandeliers.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
This was some This is gonna be a great movie. Meanwhile,
Miami heat guard Terry Rozier is accused of being part
of a different scheme here. So there were two different
indictments he's accused in the one in which inside information
about players and injuries even were passed along to betters
who would then place prop bets based on that information. Now,
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one of the probably highlight details I say highlight, but
it was one of the most damning details and probably
the worst part robes for the NBA is to hear
the accusation that Terry Rogier took himself intentionally out of
a game by feigning injury so that people he passed
information well two could make money on these prop.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Bets, and then he got a cut of it that
apparently was cashed out at his home.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
That's the worst possible scenario for the NBA, a player
doing something to impact games. So both Billups and Rosier
have been placed on immediate leave by the NBA. One
of the player we want to mention Damon Jones. He
did play in the NBA for ten plus years and
was an assistant coach for several years as well. He's
not in the league, but he is also implicated. Actually robes,
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he's won implicated in both schemes. So in both of
the indictments he was a part of the card games
they're alleging, and he was a part of this betting
passing on inside information. Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
All right, Well, we heard from attorneys from both Rogier
and Billups yesterday who strongly defended their clients. Billups attorney
put it like this. To believe that Chauncey Billups did
what the federal government is accusing him of is to
believe that he would risk his Hall of Fame, legacy,
his reputation, and his freedom. He would not jeopardize those
things for anything, let alone a card game.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I kind of believe that.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Well, look, it does defy logic, it does, but it
doesn't mean that that did.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Well, that's true as well. But the guy, we were
just watching Chuck and Crew from inside NBA. They were
going off LA's night. How could you be this stupid?
You're making twenty four to twenty five to twenty six
million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Charles Barkley was like, this is an addiction, this is stupidity.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, that's what I believe. His line was something I
was actually just watching that.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Cliff and you didn't summarize that was pretty much verbati.
Continue on the run here now. Former New York Governor
Andrew Cromo got somewhat of a surprising endorsement yesterday from
Mayor Eric Adams, as he officially endorsed Cuomo yesterday, mending
Vincent's after months of pretty nasty stuff between the two,
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and they're trying to chip away now at the pretty
sizable lead that Zoran mom Donnie has in the New
York mayoral race.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yes just last month, Adam's ended his bid for reelection,
calling Cuomo a snake and a liar, so a big
departure for him. Yesterday, and even on Wednesday, we saw
the two sitting side by side court side at the
New York Knicks season opener at Madison Square Garden. Cuomo
actually had to race down there from Queen's after we
watched his final debate of the race.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
So, yes, they are. They're hand in hand.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Now, I thought that was cool. What an I say?
It's cool, but that's your night. I get off stage
at a debate, and he skipped some post debate stuff
so he could make it to the game in time.
True Knicks fan during the news or true politician, I
should say, at okay during the news conference though, and
making the announcement about yes, the actual endorsement. Mayor Adams
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actually had on a Knicks cap. He called Mom Donnie
the king of gentrifiers, and Cuomo said this about Adams.
Brothers fight, but when families are attacked, brothers come together.
They're brothers.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Now, yeah, they're brothers.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
What was the lineup, snake and liar and brother. He's
my snake, my liar, my brother. Not clear what impact
endorsement is going to have because the polls show Mom
Donnie has at least double digits, double digit in every
pole we have seen, So we shall see if.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
It's going to make Yeah, Cuomo already got the bump
after Adams dropped out, so it's presumed that most of
Adam's followers or fans or voters moved over to Cuomo anyway,
So we'll see if there is any further impact from that.
But next up on the run, Alabama last night executed
a man who said, in his last words, I.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Didn't kill anybody.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Anthony Boyd was pronounced dead at six thirty three at
the Holman Correctional Facility after being administered nitrogen gas.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, he had pleaded this week for the governor to
meet with him. He had made a recorded message this
thingk was four minutes long or so that was played
at a press conference, so you hear his voice this week,
pleading with the governor to come meet with him. Of course,
that did not happen. Boyd was convicted for his role
in the nineteen ninety three kidnapping and murder of a
man who was burned alive. All this, according to prosecutors,
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was over eighteen two hundred dollars drug debt. According to
witnesses who witnessed this execution, his final words were, I
didn't kill anybody. I didn't participate in killing anybody. Just
want everybody to know there's no justice in this state.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
He finished by saying this, I want all my people
to keep fighting. You all matter, Let's get it. Boyd
was the fortieth person executed in the US this year.
If you want to hear more about him and his
fight for freedom and certainly to prove his innocence, we
actually did a podcast on this a few days ago,
so please check it out. Just listening and hearing to
(12:38):
what he had to say to the governor was compelling
in and of itself, but certainly more information all there
for you at our podcast.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
He could be is guilt is all get out. But
still when you go through this and we go through
the format, a very formal process of killing someone, and
you hear last words and in my ways, just it's.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Tough, and you hear his story and what his re
presentation was or perhaps more importantly was not.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
All right, we'll stay with us, folks, as we continue
on this Friday morning or run. When we come back,
Kim kar dashing in with a shocking medical revelation that
we just found out about having to do with an aneurysm,
we'll explain what's going on with her and maybe what
you need to keep your eye on. Also, King Charles
and Pope Leo met. Why this was such not just
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a historic but a ground breaking meeting between the two. Also,
an American airline had to ground all of its planes
yesterday and we still don't exactly know why. And Netflix
is coming to theaters. All right, folks, let's continue on
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this Friday morning run now with King Charles and Pope Leo.
They prayed together, and that is a big deal. It's
a really big deal. In fact, it's a historic deal
because it represented the first time the head of the
Church of England and the head of the Catholic Church
have worshiped together and robes. Apparently it's been a while
since fifteen thirty four. That is remarkable and once we
(14:13):
explain why are they all.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Then it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
So King Charles and Queen Camilla made this groundbreaking trip
to the Vatican yesterday where they attended Mass at the
Sistine Chapel.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
This is such a big deal because of.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
A historically strained relationship between the Vatican and the Church
of England. And we can all thank Henry the Eighth
for this. Because he wanted to divorce his wife. The
Catholic faith does not allow divorce. He then decided to
start his own church so that he could begin divorcing
wife after wife, and that is how it all happened.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
But that's not shocking.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
What's shocking to me is that there hasn't been an
earlier thawing of relations, Like why did it take until now?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I can't imagine that.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
It would have been a problem for Queen Elizabeth to meet,
you know, I don't know, Francis, Like, that's seems strange.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
They have met, and they they had visit, but there
was an official state visit. A big deal. This would
have happened earlier this year, but it was Pope Francis.
It was planned around that time when he was really ill,
so they had to he would have met and prayed
with him, I do believe, but this is a big
effort to improve the relations between those two. Go back
to Henry the Eighth who knew.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I didn't know it was Yeah, no clue, I thought,
would it would have happened multiforms Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Continuing now on the Run with Kim Kardashian, she revealed
she has She revealed she has a brain aneurysm. Now
that gets attention because I hear brain aneurism and we
immediately think of you can't survive that, that's something you're
not going to come back from. But this is actually
interesting in the fact that she put it out there
is actually helped me understand some things medically. This was
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a preview for an upcoming season of the show The
Kardashian She's seen going into an MRI and then it
cuts to her telling her family there was a little aneurysm.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yes, and then Kim goes on to say that the
reason doctors gave her for her diagnosis was just stress.
The teaser then cuts to Kim emotionally discussing her divorce
from Yea, of course, formerly known as Kanye West, who
is the father of her four children. Now, according to
the Mayo Clinic, brain aneurysms are actually common.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I did not realize this either.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
And most of them are not serious, especially if they're small,
because they don't tend to rupture.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Look, I'm full disclosure. I did not know to hear
they are common. I was under the impression they are
incredibly uncommon because I hear about them and that person
is dead.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Complications are incredibly uncommon.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'll be damn well. An aneurysm is a bulge and
a blood vessel in the brain, different levels of severity.
The main concern is a leak. Oh yes, a rupture.
Rare cases there that could lead to a stroke, brain damage,
or death. About one in fifty people has an unruptured
brain aneurysm, and a lot of them don't even know it.
Most cases don't require treatment, but they are monitored often.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I had no idea, and see Kim, I didn't realize
this either because we don't watch the Kardashians. But apparently
she has been a proponent of and doctors do not
support this of just getting annual or often scans of
your body to see what's going on. So she just
I think she just does this. So it's unclear if
she had any symptoms anything that got her into the MRI,
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but it's believed that perhaps she just she's somebody who
likes to have her body scanned.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
So this is is going to be monitored, but no
treatment is necessary, is that right?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
That's what most if it's small and so this is common.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yes, it's monitoring, yes, and that's something we most folks
don't have the luxury of, Yeah, I'll just go in
for a scan. Obviously, insurance is not paying for you
to go in there.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Of course they're not going to, not unless the doctor
believes there's a reason to have one.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So yes, and even then you got to get a
second and third.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
No, that's so true. And this was just a preview.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
So this is going to be coming up later on,
so I'm sure we'll hear much more about how she
is doing next. Up on the run, Alaska Airlines is
trying to get back up and running and back on schedule.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
This morning.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
The airlines were grounded for much of the day and
into last night. Hundreds of flights were canceled.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
The said this is due to a this is the
quote here. I'm not I didn't read it and then
put it in my own words. They said it was
quote an IT outage that occurred in its primary data center.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
They took their queue from Newark. Okay, that's all they
always say.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
They did point out though this wasn't a cyber attack.
The ground stop was eventually lifted late last night. I
don't know, Rose maybe were covering them more, but it
just seems like they're so so many of these things
that cause a ground stop. That's not a small thing.
That's not one flight being delayed, that's not a mechanical issue.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
That's called we don't have communication with our airplane.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You have to stop flying your plane.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
You would have to. I would hope you would at least.
Next up on the Run, the Fall Classic starts tonight.
The Toronto Blue Jays will be trying to win their
first World Series since nineteen ninety three. The LA Dodgers
will be trying to win their first World Series since
last year.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, the defending champion Dodgers, who have the highest payroll
in baseball, are the heavy heavy favorites going into tonight's matchup,
but the night game tonight is in Toronto. They actually
have home field advantage because well they had a better season.
La hit a couple of bumps there, but Toronto is hosting,
so great for Canada to have the game up there.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
All right, for the final leg of our run, we
have some new New Year's e plans for some of you.
Netflix has done an about face and announced that it
will now release The Stranger Things finale in theaters. Now.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
They had previously and maybe even repetely shot down the
idea of this, but they just had a whole lot
of historic success, right, can we say robes with K
Pop Demon Hunters. They put it in theaters this summer,
so that probably had something to do with the reversal.
The screenings of The Stranger Things Season five ender will
be shown in more than three hundred and fifty theaters
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beginning at eight o'clock on New Year's Eve, the exact
time it's also going to premiere on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
That's a really smart idea.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
The show's creators said, this is something they've been dreaming
about for years, adding this getting to see it on
the big screen with incredible sound picture and a room
full of fans feels like the perfect dare we say, bitch?
And way to celebrate the end of this adventure and
you know, the end of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
All in one?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Are we going to this?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, not that we respect the show. We just kind
of got It was so much to keep up with.
And the seasons have gone how many years?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I know the Upside Down World, and I watched the
first two seasons pretty religiously, but now I haven't.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
This is season five.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
They started out as kids, and now it's different. The
girl is married and she's the stepdaughter of bon Jovie.
I mean, it's all weird.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
She's no longer l Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
All right, we have your quote of the day today
on this Friday, to jumpstart your weekend.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
How about this from Deepak Chopra.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
When you let go of the need for any and
all outcomes, life becomes a creative, magical adventure.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
The need for what outcomes.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
So when you let go of the need for any
and all outcomes, life becomes a creative, magical adventure. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I'm fighting that this morning because and yesterday, and it
has to do mean not being well rested. But isn't
that everything. Whatever we're planning to do today, you know
how you want it to end, your project, at work,
your lunch, your meeting, or whatever you have. And if
it doesn't work out that way.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
It's the whole thing about expectations. I had been working
on this because I had been a victim to this,
and again I was the perpetrator for most of my life.
And I start realizing that my stress and my anxiety
and my frustration comes from my expectations of things being
a certain way, working out a certain way, and other
people acting a certain way.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I can control none of that.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
So if you just let it go and look at
all of it as wow, that's so interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I'm feeling this way. Oh that's so interesting. I'm now
having to figure something out.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I didn't think I was going to have to look
at it from a creative.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Adventure magical kind of way.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It is. But I'm telling you if you start, if
you start recognizing that, if you just flip that switch
and you keep trying to do it every time, it
does start to stick.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
So when you let go of the.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Need for any and all outcomes, life becomes a creative
magical adventure. We hope you have some fun magic and
some adventure this weekend.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Thank you for listening to us. Everyone, I made me robots.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
And I'm TJ. Holmes. Everybody, have yourself for a good
weekend
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone,
and welcome to Morning Run. It's Friday, October twenty fourth.
I'm Amy Robots and.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm TJ Holmes, and it really is, folks, a jam
packed Friday news wise, everything from what's going on in
the NBA to what's happening with the New York Mayor's race,
a strange endorsement. We got Kim Kaye's aneurysm to talk
about this morning. There was a man executed last night
and some of his final words were, I'm innocent. You
got King Charles of Pope Leo meeting something we ain't
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seen in five hundred years. An airline has been grounded.
Trump quits on Canada over a TV commercial, The East
Wing is gone, and Stranger Things is coming to the
big screen. All that going on, but let's start robes
with really is the story that most Americans at this
point can fill in the blanks. After we say the
government shutdown is on day twenty four.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, that's right, and all eyes continue to be on
DC to watch literally nothing happen. And we can already
say confidently on day twenty four that this shutdown will
get to at least day twenty seven. Because Congress is
not at work.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
There should be some mystery. We shouldn't know already that
this thing is going to go for another three days.
But the reason we know that is because the Senate
has adjourned. They adjourned yesterday and not going to reconvene
until Monday, So that means, yes, no work is being
done in DC at least the two sides not working
on ending this shutdown. So yes, by the time we
get to Monday, the government shutdown will be on day
twenty seven. The Senate, however, Robes did mix things up
(01:31):
a bet made it a little more interesting. So instead
of voting a thirteenth time on the same GEOP backed
spending measure to reopen the government, Republicans introduced a different bill.
This one would pay certain federal employees, contractors, and military
members during the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
But that measure also failed to pass. Democrats say they
don't want the president to be able to decide who
gets paid and who doesn't get paid while the government
is shut down. The Senate reconvenes on Monday at three pm.
I don't get it. I think while real Americans are suffering,
not getting paid and concerned about how they're putting food
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on the table or perhaps even paying their next rent check.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The congressman and women shouldn't be allowed to leave the CNS.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
They be forced to stay until they figure it out.
They shouldn't be able to go back home and enjoy
their families.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So you said forced. The thing is they shouldn't have
to be forced. They should be dying to sit in
a room. And we are not leaving this room until
this has worked out. Holidays are coming up. It's the
thing we keep pointing to. And they took a vote
yesterday to say no, we're not gonna pay you while
you continue to work during the shutdown. That's a bad look.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I liken it to think about like a man and
a woman, like you're just like you're just gonna not
see each other just forever, and then how are things
gonna get worked out?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Never ever? You have to sit down face to face.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
All right, we're going to continue on this a Friday
morning run here now with President Trump. He abruptly canceled
all trade negotiations with our friendly neighbors to the north. Yes,
and this was all over a TV ad that features
forty year old comments from Ronald Reagan. Let us explain
this ad aired in Canada by the government of Ontario
in particular, but they are airing these things as part
(03:11):
of an anti tariff campaign. It included this one commercial
and excerpt from Reagan's nineteen eighty seven radio address to
the Nation.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Trump said in a social media post last night, the
Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently,
fraudulently used an advertisement which is fake featuring Ronald Reagan
speaking negatively about tariffs. The ad was for seventy five
million dollars. They only did this to interfere with the
decision of the US Supreme Court and the other courts.
(03:44):
Tariffs are very important to the national security and economy
of the USA. Based on their egregious behavior, all trade
negotiations with Canada are hereby terminated. Trump's change of tune
came after the Canadian Prime Minister announced plans to double
exports to countries not named the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
All right, continue on the run here now, the East Wing.
You might have heard it's under construction. It's not anymore.
It's gone. The East Wing. The White House is gone.
It has been demolished. That demolition of this one hundred
and twenty year old structure took only a matter of
days this week, and it's being done, of course, to
make way for President Trump's new ninety thousand square foot ballroom.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You know, there are parts of DC and northern Virginia
where you can't even change the color of your shutters
because it's over one hundred years old, it's deemed historic.
So in that sense, this is fairly remarkable. Democrats in
Congress have sent a letter to the White House demanding
answers about the project, which critics say has moved forward
in secrecy and has not been done in coordination with
(04:49):
the National Capital Planning Commission. Asked about that yesterday in
the press briefing White House spokesperson Carolyn Lovitt.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
We listened to her say this ourselves, babe. She reiterated,
the president does not have to get anyone's approval to
tear down a structure, only to build a new one.
I believe she said vertically as well.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
She did use that work vertical structures. And what was
the reporter actually asked, So you're saying the president can
tear down the Jefferson memorial if he wants to. And
even though Carolyn Levin didn't directly say yes, her answer
was yes. She said, this is legal. This isn't the
president just going rogue. Law allows him to deconstruct something,
(05:28):
he only has to get approval to construct it. Wow,
what's coming down next? I have some suggestions. Continuing on
the run here now, is it's Virginia's turn to redistrict
Yes that States Democrats are now reportedly ready to redraw
their maps and will go to a special session next
week to possibly get this done.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
This is exhausting.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Virginia would join Texas, Missouri, California, and North Carolina and
this year's redistricting race. Right now, Virginia's eleven districts are
split six to five Democrat Republican. It's not clear how
state Democrats would rework the map to their advantage, but
you can bet they're working on it all right.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Continuing on the run here now in what was the
story of the day yesterday and will be the story
unfortunately of the season, probably for the NBA. They have
a mess on their hands just as the season is
getting started. Just three days ago, it kicked off to
much fanfare and much success, but now they got a
(06:30):
mess After those sprawling indictments were announced yesterday, current and
former NBA coaches and players accused of working in concert
with members of the mafia in elaborate and illegal betting
and gambling schemes.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
More than thirty people were arrested yesterday as a part
of the year's long investigations. Current Portland Trailblazers coach Shauncey
Billups made a court appearance yesterday. The Hall of Famer
is accused of participating in underground poker games that were
rigged to build unsuspecting players out of miss millions of dollars,
using elaborate tech setups that we heard about at this
(07:05):
press conference that were frankly in some instances jaw dropping
to see what they were doing, and using technology wise
to cheat.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
X ray tables that could read cards that were faced down,
contact lenses, contact lenses that could read specially marked what else.
There was a tray, a chip tray that could read
cards as well.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
At cameras and the chandeliers.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
This was some This is gonna be a great movie. Meanwhile,
Miami heat guard Terry Rozier is accused of being part
of a different scheme here. So there were two different
indictments he's accused in the one in which inside information
about players and injuries even were passed along to betters
who would then place prop bets based on that information. Now,
(07:47):
one of the probably highlight details I say highlight, but
it was one of the most damning details and probably
the worst part robes for the NBA is to hear
the accusation that Terry Rogier took himself intentionally out of
a game by feigning injury so that people he passed
information well two could make money on these prop.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Bets, and then he got a cut of it that
apparently was cashed out at his home.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
That's the worst possible scenario for the NBA, a player
doing something to impact games. So both Billups and Rosier
have been placed on immediate leave by the NBA. One
of the player we want to mention Damon Jones. He
did play in the NBA for ten plus years and
was an assistant coach for several years as well. He's
not in the league, but he is also implicated. Actually robes,
(08:34):
he's won implicated in both schemes. So in both of
the indictments he was a part of the card games
they're alleging, and he was a part of this betting
passing on inside information. Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
All right, Well, we heard from attorneys from both Rogier
and Billups yesterday who strongly defended their clients. Billups attorney
put it like this. To believe that Chauncey Billups did
what the federal government is accusing him of is to
believe that he would risk his Hall of Fame, legacy,
his reputation, and his freedom. He would not jeopardize those
things for anything, let alone a card game.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I kind of believe that.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Well, look, it does defy logic, it does, but it
doesn't mean that that did.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Well, that's true as well. But the guy, we were
just watching Chuck and Crew from inside NBA. They were
going off LA's night. How could you be this stupid?
You're making twenty four to twenty five to twenty six
million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Charles Barkley was like, this is an addiction, this is stupidity.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, that's what I believe. His line was something I
was actually just watching that.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Cliff and you didn't summarize that was pretty much verbati.
Continue on the run here now. Former New York Governor
Andrew Cromo got somewhat of a surprising endorsement yesterday from
Mayor Eric Adams, as he officially endorsed Cuomo yesterday, mending
Vincent's after months of pretty nasty stuff between the two,
(09:52):
and they're trying to chip away now at the pretty
sizable lead that Zoran mom Donnie has in the New
York mayoral race.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yes just last month, Adam's ended his bid for reelection,
calling Cuomo a snake and a liar, so a big
departure for him. Yesterday, and even on Wednesday, we saw
the two sitting side by side court side at the
New York Knicks season opener at Madison Square Garden. Cuomo
actually had to race down there from Queen's after we
watched his final debate of the race.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
So, yes, they are. They're hand in hand.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Now, I thought that was cool. What an I say?
It's cool, but that's your night. I get off stage
at a debate, and he skipped some post debate stuff
so he could make it to the game in time.
True Knicks fan during the news or true politician, I
should say, at okay during the news conference though, and
making the announcement about yes, the actual endorsement. Mayor Adams
(10:42):
actually had on a Knicks cap. He called Mom Donnie
the king of gentrifiers, and Cuomo said this about Adams.
Brothers fight, but when families are attacked, brothers come together.
They're brothers.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Now, yeah, they're brothers.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
What was the lineup, snake and liar and brother. He's
my snake, my liar, my brother. Not clear what impact
endorsement is going to have because the polls show Mom
Donnie has at least double digits, double digit in every
pole we have seen, So we shall see if.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
It's going to make Yeah, Cuomo already got the bump
after Adams dropped out, so it's presumed that most of
Adam's followers or fans or voters moved over to Cuomo anyway,
So we'll see if there is any further impact from that.
But next up on the run, Alabama last night executed
a man who said, in his last words, I.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Didn't kill anybody.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Anthony Boyd was pronounced dead at six thirty three at
the Holman Correctional Facility after being administered nitrogen gas.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, he had pleaded this week for the governor to
meet with him. He had made a recorded message this
thingk was four minutes long or so that was played
at a press conference, so you hear his voice this week,
pleading with the governor to come meet with him. Of course,
that did not happen. Boyd was convicted for his role
in the nineteen ninety three kidnapping and murder of a
man who was burned alive. All this, according to prosecutors,
(11:59):
was over eighteen two hundred dollars drug debt. According to
witnesses who witnessed this execution, his final words were, I
didn't kill anybody. I didn't participate in killing anybody. Just
want everybody to know there's no justice in this state.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
He finished by saying this, I want all my people
to keep fighting. You all matter, Let's get it. Boyd
was the fortieth person executed in the US this year.
If you want to hear more about him and his
fight for freedom and certainly to prove his innocence, we
actually did a podcast on this a few days ago,
so please check it out. Just listening and hearing to
(12:38):
what he had to say to the governor was compelling
in and of itself, but certainly more information all there
for you at our podcast.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
He could be is guilt is all get out. But
still when you go through this and we go through
the format, a very formal process of killing someone, and
you hear last words and in my ways, just it's.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Tough, and you hear his story and what his re
presentation was or perhaps more importantly was not.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
All right, we'll stay with us, folks, as we continue
on this Friday morning or run. When we come back,
Kim kar dashing in with a shocking medical revelation that
we just found out about having to do with an aneurysm,
we'll explain what's going on with her and maybe what
you need to keep your eye on. Also, King Charles
and Pope Leo met. Why this was such not just
(13:27):
a historic but a ground breaking meeting between the two. Also,
an American airline had to ground all of its planes
yesterday and we still don't exactly know why. And Netflix
is coming to theaters. All right, folks, let's continue on
(13:51):
this Friday morning run now with King Charles and Pope Leo.
They prayed together, and that is a big deal. It's
a really big deal. In fact, it's a historic deal
because it represented the first time the head of the
Church of England and the head of the Catholic Church
have worshiped together and robes. Apparently it's been a while
since fifteen thirty four. That is remarkable and once we
(14:13):
explain why are they all.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Then it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
So King Charles and Queen Camilla made this groundbreaking trip
to the Vatican yesterday where they attended Mass at the
Sistine Chapel.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
This is such a big deal because of.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
A historically strained relationship between the Vatican and the Church
of England. And we can all thank Henry the Eighth
for this. Because he wanted to divorce his wife. The
Catholic faith does not allow divorce. He then decided to
start his own church so that he could begin divorcing
wife after wife, and that is how it all happened.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
But that's not shocking.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
What's shocking to me is that there hasn't been an
earlier thawing of relations, Like why did it take until now?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I can't imagine that.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
It would have been a problem for Queen Elizabeth to meet,
you know, I don't know, Francis, Like, that's seems strange.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
They have met, and they they had visit, but there
was an official state visit. A big deal. This would
have happened earlier this year, but it was Pope Francis.
It was planned around that time when he was really ill,
so they had to he would have met and prayed
with him, I do believe, but this is a big
effort to improve the relations between those two. Go back
to Henry the Eighth who knew.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I didn't know it was Yeah, no clue, I thought,
would it would have happened multiforms Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Continuing now on the Run with Kim Kardashian, she revealed
she has She revealed she has a brain aneurysm. Now
that gets attention because I hear brain aneurism and we
immediately think of you can't survive that, that's something you're
not going to come back from. But this is actually
interesting in the fact that she put it out there
is actually helped me understand some things medically. This was
(15:47):
a preview for an upcoming season of the show The
Kardashian She's seen going into an MRI and then it
cuts to her telling her family there was a little aneurysm.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yes, and then Kim goes on to say that the
reason doctors gave her for her diagnosis was just stress.
The teaser then cuts to Kim emotionally discussing her divorce
from Yea, of course, formerly known as Kanye West, who
is the father of her four children. Now, according to
the Mayo Clinic, brain aneurysms are actually common.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I did not realize this either.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
And most of them are not serious, especially if they're small,
because they don't tend to rupture.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Look, I'm full disclosure. I did not know to hear
they are common. I was under the impression they are
incredibly uncommon because I hear about them and that person
is dead.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Complications are incredibly uncommon.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'll be damn well. An aneurysm is a bulge and
a blood vessel in the brain, different levels of severity.
The main concern is a leak. Oh yes, a rupture.
Rare cases there that could lead to a stroke, brain damage,
or death. About one in fifty people has an unruptured
brain aneurysm, and a lot of them don't even know it.
Most cases don't require treatment, but they are monitored often.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I had no idea, and see Kim, I didn't realize
this either because we don't watch the Kardashians. But apparently
she has been a proponent of and doctors do not
support this of just getting annual or often scans of
your body to see what's going on. So she just
I think she just does this. So it's unclear if
she had any symptoms anything that got her into the MRI,
(17:18):
but it's believed that perhaps she just she's somebody who
likes to have her body scanned.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
So this is is going to be monitored, but no
treatment is necessary, is that right?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
That's what most if it's small and so this is common.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yes, it's monitoring, yes, and that's something we most folks
don't have the luxury of, Yeah, I'll just go in
for a scan. Obviously, insurance is not paying for you
to go in there.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Of course they're not going to, not unless the doctor
believes there's a reason to have one.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So yes, and even then you got to get a
second and third.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
No, that's so true. And this was just a preview.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
So this is going to be coming up later on,
so I'm sure we'll hear much more about how she
is doing next. Up on the run, Alaska Airlines is
trying to get back up and running and back on schedule.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
This morning.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
The airlines were grounded for much of the day and
into last night. Hundreds of flights were canceled.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
The said this is due to a this is the
quote here. I'm not I didn't read it and then
put it in my own words. They said it was
quote an IT outage that occurred in its primary data center.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
They took their queue from Newark. Okay, that's all they
always say.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
They did point out though this wasn't a cyber attack.
The ground stop was eventually lifted late last night. I
don't know, Rose maybe were covering them more, but it
just seems like they're so so many of these things
that cause a ground stop. That's not a small thing.
That's not one flight being delayed, that's not a mechanical issue.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
That's called we don't have communication with our airplane.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You have to stop flying your plane.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
You would have to. I would hope you would at least.
Next up on the Run, the Fall Classic starts tonight.
The Toronto Blue Jays will be trying to win their
first World Series since nineteen ninety three. The LA Dodgers
will be trying to win their first World Series since
last year.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, the defending champion Dodgers, who have the highest payroll
in baseball, are the heavy heavy favorites going into tonight's matchup,
but the night game tonight is in Toronto. They actually
have home field advantage because well they had a better season.
La hit a couple of bumps there, but Toronto is hosting,
so great for Canada to have the game up there.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
All right, for the final leg of our run, we
have some new New Year's e plans for some of you.
Netflix has done an about face and announced that it
will now release The Stranger Things finale in theaters. Now.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
They had previously and maybe even repetely shot down the
idea of this, but they just had a whole lot
of historic success, right, can we say robes with K
Pop Demon Hunters. They put it in theaters this summer,
so that probably had something to do with the reversal.
The screenings of The Stranger Things Season five ender will
be shown in more than three hundred and fifty theaters
(19:49):
beginning at eight o'clock on New Year's Eve, the exact
time it's also going to premiere on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
That's a really smart idea.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
The show's creators said, this is something they've been dreaming
about for years, adding this getting to see it on
the big screen with incredible sound picture and a room
full of fans feels like the perfect dare we say, bitch?
And way to celebrate the end of this adventure and
you know, the end of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
All in one?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Are we going to this?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, not that we respect the show. We just kind
of got It was so much to keep up with.
And the seasons have gone how many years?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I know the Upside Down World, and I watched the
first two seasons pretty religiously, but now I haven't.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
This is season five.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
They started out as kids, and now it's different. The
girl is married and she's the stepdaughter of bon Jovie.
I mean, it's all weird.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
She's no longer l Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
All right, we have your quote of the day today
on this Friday, to jumpstart your weekend.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
How about this from Deepak Chopra.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
When you let go of the need for any and
all outcomes, life becomes a creative, magical adventure.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
The need for what outcomes.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
So when you let go of the need for any
and all outcomes, life becomes a creative, magical adventure. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I'm fighting that this morning because and yesterday, and it
has to do mean not being well rested. But isn't
that everything. Whatever we're planning to do today, you know
how you want it to end, your project, at work,
your lunch, your meeting, or whatever you have. And if
it doesn't work out that way.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
It's the whole thing about expectations. I had been working
on this because I had been a victim to this,
and again I was the perpetrator for most of my life.
And I start realizing that my stress and my anxiety
and my frustration comes from my expectations of things being
a certain way, working out a certain way, and other
people acting a certain way.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I can control none of that.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
So if you just let it go and look at
all of it as wow, that's so interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I'm feeling this way. Oh that's so interesting. I'm now
having to figure something out.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I didn't think I was going to have to look
at it from a creative.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Adventure magical kind of way.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It is. But I'm telling you if you start, if
you start recognizing that, if you just flip that switch
and you keep trying to do it every time, it
does start to stick.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
So when you let go of the.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Need for any and all outcomes, life becomes a creative
magical adventure. We hope you have some fun magic and
some adventure this weekend.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Thank you for listening to us. Everyone, I made me robots.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
And I'm TJ. Holmes. Everybody, have yourself for a good
weekend
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