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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run.
Happy Christmas Eve everyone. It is Wednesday, December twenty fourth.
I'm Amy Robots and.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm TJ Holmes. I should have looked this up ahead
of time. How many people in the country are one
gift on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
People?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I don't know. My family always has been because us
kids were persistent and relentless. Please please please can we
have one gift on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Nail out? So that's my tradition to dropt.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It is it ISAs a lot of people do that.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I have never done that growing up.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I also think maybe when you go to different families
or you have more like I remember that. Part of
the tradition came about because we would go to one
grandparents house on one night and then the next one
on Christmas Day, so we would always get to open
a couple presents on Christmas Eve, which was exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, it's going to be really exciting because the best
present on this Christmas Eve somebody might open and around
eleven o'clock because that's when the powerball drawing it. Ah, Yes,
this is going to be sweet. It's going to be poetic,
it's going to be awesome that actually we waited all
this time and somebody is going to win one point
seven billion dollars tonight. I'm predicting that this is going
(01:12):
to be the one that's a sweet Christmas Eve store.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You think it's going to be the Christmas miracle that
at least that one person needed, but maybe that we
all need to see because it makes me smile. Just
see sleetly transformed in all the good ways.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, yeah, that's going to be really cool. But a
great Christmas Eve gift somebody possibly going to open tonight.
We will get into what's happening with the powerball. A
lot of things to get to, but I wanted to
start with this. Look, a lot of people on the road, still,
a lot of you have gotten to your destination already,
but weather is still going to be kind of a
big deal. And I saw this from the Weather Channel.
I couldn't put this any better. I couldn't believe this
(01:46):
was their headline. Excuse me. It was the first line
in which you go to their page and they have
a whole Christmas weather section and it says, by far,
the biggest travel headaches will be in the West, but
there could be a sneaky travel headache in parts of
the West too. In short, you should not travel on
Christmas Eve or Christmas in California.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Okay, should not. Well, that's not an option for a
lot of folks they have to travel.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
But I thought it was a serious enough warning. They're
letting you know it's that bad. We know you don't
have a choice to get to but you should not
do it. And we're talking about torrential rains out there.
They've been dealing with some weather for the past couple
of days, but it is I think the worst of
it is today, Christmas Eve and tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The entire coast that is so unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's getting torrential rains, flash flooding. That just sucks. The
Northeast is going to be spared for the most part.
Are going to get some light precipitation, some light snow.
But they say there's some fog and some warmer air
messing around up in the atmosphere. It is going to
cause foggy conditions, so you could which is dangerous weather delays.
So heads up there as far as flights go, that
(02:50):
could cause some problems.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, and they even said Friday because people a lot
of people travel after Christmas the day after Christmas here
in the Northeast. At least, we've got a big system
that could bring snow and ice and sleet and all.
We're traveling on Friday, so good luck to us as well.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's your update on weather. The update on spending. A
lot of you maybe still have a couple of things
to get, hopefully not and you're not stressed right now.
But we have been spending more. Given all ropes we
have seen this year, uncertainty about the economy, go back
to tariffs and things going all this, Americans are still
spending more money.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
We spent more. I definitely can say yes, that is true.
In fact, we have a whole podcast in my potential
guilt shopping. But yeah, but look, it's good for the economy.
Hopefully people were smart about their spending and they can
afford what they purchased. But that's always a problem after
the fact when the bills come in. But hey, I'm
sure retailers are happy because that's not maybe what we
(03:44):
were expecting.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And these numbers came to us from Visa through their survey,
but they say yes, retail spending up four point two percent. Now,
POD guess I don't know if I was surprised by
this or not, but the split. As I'm talking to
you all, you know the answer here, But I wonder, folks,
what would you guess is the split of in store
sales versus online sales?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Did that surprise you?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yes, this is surprising to me. So according to Visa,
seventy three percent of sales are still in store sales,
twenty seven percent were online sales. I would have thought
the online was greater, namely because I guess I'm looking
at our shopping habits. I was even talking to my
mom yesterday, who said, yeah, I just pretty much did
everything online versus years past, where look, there is something fun.
(04:27):
We like going into the brick and mortars. We like
having the experience of holiday shopping. There was something festive
and fun. Even if it's frenetic and busy, it still
kind of creates an atmosphere. So maybe that's why people
this time of year kind of like to be a
part of things.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It surprised me as well that, well, I shouldn't surprise me.
Half of the folks they surveyed so they are using
AI to shop. What it's a We should be surprised.
We use it for everything else. But folks are trying
to are asking AI about the perfect gift, are asking
for suggestions about gifts for their loved ones, and they
say have are using it to shop?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Does that include a Google search or is this specifically
using a chatbot?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
This is the only way they put it. But yeah,
I mean even if you put in a Google search
and you see the answer uptop is an AI answer.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, people are well, okay, then I used that. Then
I did use that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
To get a gift suggestion.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yes, oh my, I absolutely did.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
We got an AI Christmas happening here at the Robot
Holmes House.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Huh, yes it was. It was not for you.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Well, folks, those are your Christmas at least updates.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We got a couple of other things we need to
get out this morning, certainly about Epstein. There's a nursing
home explosion, a tragedy, a catastrophe is how they're putting
it there to update your about happening in Pennsylvania. Also,
Diddy is trying to get out of prison again, and
the Supreme Court gave Donald Trump a loss yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
We will explain.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
All right, But next up on the run, we want
to talk about so many other issues that are going
on here, including that Epstein dump that we talked about
as well, So we'll get into all of that, all.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Right, But first here, folks, tragedy we want to tell
you about here now is an awful, awful story, but
everybody's talking about it. And we're talking about a nine
year old girl who has been missing the past couple
of months, has now been Her mother has now been
charged in the girl's death. We're talking about Melanie Buzzard,
nine years old. You might have seen her if you
don't recognize the name, Her face and her hair is
just the one. The picture that's going around is just
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of a delightful, sweet little girl. But her body was
found two months after went missing from southern California. But
now her mom has been charged. The body was found
in rural Utah, of all places, but Ashley Buzzard is
the mom's name. She has now been arrested and she
is being held without bail as we speak. The body
was found December six, but they are finally yesterday they
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were able to link evidence from the home and a
search warned and the vehicle to finally piece this all together.
The sheriff here talked about just how hainus this crime
is that involved sophisticated premeditation, he said, and a lot
of planning went into this. I was debated about sharing.
(07:03):
We didn't even want to put this story in the rundown,
to be honest with you, but just wanted to give
the update because folks have been looking for this little
girl and to find out her mom is now response
when they say, yes, the girl was shocked.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yes, this beautiful little girl. Her picture has been everywhere
if you go anywhere online, it's a constant story. So
it is a tragic ending that everyone was hoping wouldn't
be the case. Unfortunately, just a sad, terrible story with
literally no explanation. There's no motive behind this tragedy. But
next up on the run. At least two people are dead,
(07:34):
five others are unaccounted for at this hour. This all
happened after an explosion at a nursing home in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And this place is about twenty miles northeast of Philadelphia,
one hundred and seventy four bed facility. It's called the
Bristol Health and Rehab Center. But the governor there said,
this is just a catastrophic event. There was, they say,
a gas company checking out a gas leak next door
to the place when the explosion happened. There was a
follow up, a smaller explosion after authorities got to the
(08:06):
scene as well. But they described a harrowing scene in
which firefighters were literally carrying people on their backs and
handing them off to police officers trying to save. Another
awful event is that the floors collapsed down into the basement.
Apparently there was a water leak, and they said, actually
people were drowning in the damn building.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So this was an awful scene. But two dead, another
five unaccounted for. They don't know for sheer ropes. Those
five maybe they left with they're hoping that maybe we
just don't know where.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
They are and maybe they're not in there.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
As terrible as that all sounds, it could have been
worse than one hundred and seventy four bed facilities. So
there were quite a number of folks in there. And
this is about twenty miles northeast of Philly. So obviously
this is a developing story and we'll keep our eye
on that. Next up on the run, something we've been
keeping our eye on for well, you could say years now,
but specifically in the last couple of days, we've been
(08:59):
awaiting those Epstein files released. They were all supposed to
be out by last Friday. That did not happen. But
we've been getting some file dumps, and certainly there was
a big one yesterday, and one of the documents caused
a lot of stir, raised a lot of eyebrows. A
letter purportedly from Jeffrey Epstein to another very famous pedophile,
(09:23):
a convicted pedophile, Larry Nasser. And now the FBI is
saying that that letter is fake, and we will go
ahead and read the letter for you because you'll see
why it's caused such a stir. This is again signed
by Jay Epstein. As you will know by now, I
have taken the short route home. Good luck. We shared
(09:45):
one thing, our love and caring for young ladies and
the hope they reached their full potential. Our president also
shares our love of young new bile girls. When a
young beauty walked by, he loved to grab snatch, whereas
we ended up snatched grub in the mess halls of
the system. Life is unfair. Yours Jay Epstein, and.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
The Department of Justice has come out now said that
is fake. They give reasons for the postmark. It was
after Epstein actually die. They even say the handwriting doesn't match.
But they have now gone about several things that come
out and possibly don't look good on President Trump. They
have said these things are fake. So the line here is, yes,
(10:26):
all the stuff has come out, and they're telling us
not to believe what we're seeing or seeding.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, So the purpose of the Epstein Files Transparency Act
is muddled, at least in the fact that now the
documents we are getting, when they are unflattering or perhaps
something they don't want to get out, we're just being
told it's fake, and it's hard to know what's real
and what's not. But we'll continue to monitor what continues
to be dumped out at a very opportune time where
(10:51):
folks are busy doing other things rather than focused on
the Epstein files. But we'll keep our eye on that
developing story as well, because there are more files to come,
according to the Department of Justice. Next up on the run,
Russell Brand facing additional charges after two more women have
come forward to accuse the British comedian of rape and
(11:11):
sexual assault.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
He had already been facing chargers back in April. He
has pled not guilty, but several counts of rape and
assault were already held against him. These are new charges
and they say new victims have stepped forward, and so
he's facing two more charges involving rape and sexual assault.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
All of these allegedly.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Happened back between nineteen ninety nine and two thousand and five.
He has I've been putting stuff out on social media,
made a couple of lines. It sound almost like apologies,
if you will, admissions of some kind. But he did
say he wants the truth of his situation and scenario
is how he put it to come out. Also said
pray anyone I've harmed or hurt to be healed again.
He has pled not guilty. Expected to be in court
(11:50):
in January.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
We'll stay with us.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
On this Christmas Eve run Diddy, hoping to be home
sooner than his sentence allows, will explain his new appeal
and how he's trying to get out of prison. Also,
the Supreme Court a rare loss. They hand it for
President Trump yesterday, and of course one point seven billion
dollars up for grabs tonight. How man, how much of
(12:14):
that can I get if I take the cash options
to it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Welcome back everyone to our Christmas Eve morning, Ron and
next up on the run, Well, Sean Diddy. Coombs apparently
is still trying to get out of prison. Attorneys for
Shawn Combs filed an expedited appeal yesterday. They are asking
for his immediate release, or they want the court to
grant a judgment of acquittal, or they would like the
(12:48):
court to vacate his convictions altogether.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Love, as we know, he is serving the fifty year sentence,
excuse me, fifty month fifty month sentence on those two
convictions for transportation to engage in prostitution. Now, their argument
one of them is out and the government didn't prove
his case. That's one thing. The other one, though, I
find interesting robes. They say the judge in the case
aired when he tried or when he did hold against
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Diddy the crimes he was acquitted of in doing his sentence,
and the judge was, yes, you were only convicted of
these two things. But I've seen a pattern and all
these others, and they're saying he did not have the
right to consider that stuff and when I saw him,
is there some legal validity.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
To that I wanted?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
So they filed this on yesterday, So clearly they're not
expecting anyone to take a look at this until after
the new year. Correct, So they're just trying to get
ahead of things. I guess officially get that in before
the new year. But yes, this has been a constant
chirp and chatter from his attorneys. They are doing their job.
They we are seeing them exhausting every single option they
(13:56):
could possibly find or create to get him out of
jail before he's due. What is it twenty twenty an
exact nay? Eight? I believe some it's been shifted, it's
been moved around a little bit based on good behavior
bad behavior. But we'll have more to come, I'm sure
in the new year. Next up on the Run, the
Supreme Court has handed President Trump a loss. It happened yesterday.
(14:19):
They turned down his emergency request to deploy the National
Guard in Chicago. They say the government has failed to
identify a source of authority that would allow the military
to execute the law in Illinois. So who is the authority?
Apparently not the US government but the local officials, and
(14:41):
they certainly don't want the National Guard there. They've made
that clear.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
And this only applies to Chicago, only applies to Illinois.
But they're saying this is a big deal for the
other jurisdictions who want to push back or fight Trump
on this. They look and see what Illinois did, and
it worked on Supreme Court has so far at least
sided with maybe some of those localities.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
All Right, well, finally, and we say finally because maybe
finally we can put an end to this. Well, who
wants to put an end to a rising jackpot but
the people who are reporting on it three days a week.
But yes, Powerball at one point seven billion dollars, it's
pretty cool that the drawing is tonight on Christmas Eve
(15:21):
at eleven pm. It just feels it just feels right
that they would actually get a jackpot winner tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
And most people are not going to stay up late
and watch and wait for the numbers. I think most
people don't do that. So that means you're actually somebody's
going to wake up on Christmas morning, sweetheart. That is awesome.
Somebody's gonna wake up tomorrow with one point seven billion dollars.
I just I love that. Yes, of course I would
wish wish it on all of us, to be honest,
but man, that's one about the lottery. I got many
(15:52):
problems with lottery and roll my eyes about a lot
of stuff that is poetic.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I know when you just said that, I got chills
imagining someone. Look, look I have every every morning we've
had the drawing, I look at the numbers. I'm like, man,
not even closed. But hey, we won four dollars, so
I'll take it. And it's exciting to think someone is
literally going to be holding that lottery ticket looking at
the numbers and realizing, oh my.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
That's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
God, that's gonna be so good luck to you all
in all you're doing today. Really, this is a special time,
and we're making a commitment not to work as hard
today and take a little give ourselves a little beat,
give a little graces. It's Christmas Eve, folks, and so
all the chaos that we've gone through and all the stress,
it finally has felt like it came off today. It
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sucks that today I I'll take credit. I have finally
started focusing on the real reason behind the season kind
of a thing, and I'm ready to finally spread some
Christmas year.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, and I think with look always, news headlines tend
to be dark and heavy, and it's a tough thing
to do day in, day out, and to absorb it
all and to listen and receive all that negative information.
But I do take it with me in the sense
that it reminds me this is the time where we
get to hug the ones we love, We get to
put our phones down and actually spend time with our family.
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And so we plan on doing that tonight and tomorrow,
and we hope you can do the same.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And before we let you go, as always, we'll give
you a quote of the day, something to take with you.
Hope you'll consider this is one of my favorites. Robes quote.
We are so quick to judge others by their worst actions,
yet we judge ourselves by our best intentions. I would
love for people to write that down and just look
at that, keep it on your phone, look at it
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when you're having that moment. We do that all the time.
We look at when somebody else did say, ooh, look
how bad that person is, and then you look at
ourselves and well, I meant to well, I was going
to well, I know I did that, But really what
my intention was. We can soften the blow when it's us,
but we look at somebody else and immediately a look
at what you did? You terrible person, that's who you are.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, if we can maybe look at people through the
lens we look at ourselves, where we could give them
a little bit of grace and understand that maybe we
don't know what was in their head, or what was
in their heart, or what they've been going through. A
lot of people's actions are because they're dealing with pain.
Everyone's got some sort of trauma, some sort of pain.
If we can give each other that grace, it'll go
a long way.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Certainly on this holiday, consider that, folks, we are so
quick to judge others by their worst actions, yet we
judge ourselves by our best intentions. Wherever you are, hope
you are having a good holiday. I hope you have
a wonderful Christmas Eve. We are still working a little bit.
What are the We got a couple of things you
might be interested in going to be posted here to
our feed later in today. One of them is probably
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the biggest fight we have in this house every year.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
The Christmas movie to watch yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
What are you watching as a family on this Christmas Eve. Well,
we will get into our debate. We have a lot
of fun with it. So look forward to hopefully as
seeing that episode. I know I was okay, you're okay.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Oh yeah, we're going to post this.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yes, folks, Elf versus Diehard is what we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yes, we're having that fight. Look for that. We're gonna
be posting that a little late.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Very exciting stuff. But until then, thank you all for
listening to us on this morning run and running with
us I May be Robots
Speaker 2 (19:11):
And on TJ Holmes Merry Christmas Eve,
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run.
Happy Christmas Eve everyone. It is Wednesday, December twenty fourth.
I'm Amy Robots and.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm TJ Holmes. I should have looked this up ahead
of time. How many people in the country are one
gift on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
People?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I don't know. My family always has been because us
kids were persistent and relentless. Please please please can we
have one gift on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Nail out? So that's my tradition to dropt.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It is it ISAs a lot of people do that.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I have never done that growing up.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I also think maybe when you go to different families
or you have more like I remember that. Part of
the tradition came about because we would go to one
grandparents house on one night and then the next one
on Christmas Day, so we would always get to open
a couple presents on Christmas Eve, which was exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, it's going to be really exciting because the best
present on this Christmas Eve somebody might open and around
eleven o'clock because that's when the powerball drawing it. Ah, Yes,
this is going to be sweet. It's going to be poetic,
it's going to be awesome that actually we waited all
this time and somebody is going to win one point
seven billion dollars tonight. I'm predicting that this is going
(01:12):
to be the one that's a sweet Christmas Eve store.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You think it's going to be the Christmas miracle that
at least that one person needed, but maybe that we
all need to see because it makes me smile. Just
see sleetly transformed in all the good ways.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, yeah, that's going to be really cool. But a
great Christmas Eve gift somebody possibly going to open tonight.
We will get into what's happening with the powerball. A
lot of things to get to, but I wanted to
start with this. Look, a lot of people on the road, still,
a lot of you have gotten to your destination already,
but weather is still going to be kind of a
big deal. And I saw this from the Weather Channel.
I couldn't put this any better. I couldn't believe this
(01:46):
was their headline. Excuse me. It was the first line
in which you go to their page and they have
a whole Christmas weather section and it says, by far,
the biggest travel headaches will be in the West, but
there could be a sneaky travel headache in parts of
the West too. In short, you should not travel on
Christmas Eve or Christmas in California.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Okay, should not. Well, that's not an option for a
lot of folks they have to travel.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
But I thought it was a serious enough warning. They're
letting you know it's that bad. We know you don't
have a choice to get to but you should not
do it. And we're talking about torrential rains out there.
They've been dealing with some weather for the past couple
of days, but it is I think the worst of
it is today, Christmas Eve and tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The entire coast that is so unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's getting torrential rains, flash flooding. That just sucks. The
Northeast is going to be spared for the most part.
Are going to get some light precipitation, some light snow.
But they say there's some fog and some warmer air
messing around up in the atmosphere. It is going to
cause foggy conditions, so you could which is dangerous weather delays.
So heads up there as far as flights go, that
(02:50):
could cause some problems.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, and they even said Friday because people a lot
of people travel after Christmas the day after Christmas here
in the Northeast. At least, we've got a big system
that could bring snow and ice and sleet and all.
We're traveling on Friday, so good luck to us as well.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's your update on weather. The update on spending. A
lot of you maybe still have a couple of things
to get, hopefully not and you're not stressed right now.
But we have been spending more. Given all ropes we
have seen this year, uncertainty about the economy, go back
to tariffs and things going all this, Americans are still
spending more money.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
We spent more. I definitely can say yes, that is true.
In fact, we have a whole podcast in my potential
guilt shopping. But yeah, but look, it's good for the economy.
Hopefully people were smart about their spending and they can
afford what they purchased. But that's always a problem after
the fact when the bills come in. But hey, I'm
sure retailers are happy because that's not maybe what we
(03:44):
were expecting.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And these numbers came to us from Visa through their survey,
but they say yes, retail spending up four point two percent. Now,
POD guess I don't know if I was surprised by
this or not, but the split. As I'm talking to
you all, you know the answer here, But I wonder, folks,
what would you guess is the split of in store
sales versus online sales?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Did that surprise you?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yes, this is surprising to me. So according to Visa,
seventy three percent of sales are still in store sales,
twenty seven percent were online sales. I would have thought
the online was greater, namely because I guess I'm looking
at our shopping habits. I was even talking to my
mom yesterday, who said, yeah, I just pretty much did
everything online versus years past, where look, there is something fun.
(04:27):
We like going into the brick and mortars. We like
having the experience of holiday shopping. There was something festive
and fun. Even if it's frenetic and busy, it still
kind of creates an atmosphere. So maybe that's why people
this time of year kind of like to be a
part of things.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It surprised me as well that, well, I shouldn't surprise me.
Half of the folks they surveyed so they are using
AI to shop. What it's a We should be surprised.
We use it for everything else. But folks are trying
to are asking AI about the perfect gift, are asking
for suggestions about gifts for their loved ones, and they
say have are using it to shop?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Does that include a Google search or is this specifically
using a chatbot?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
This is the only way they put it. But yeah,
I mean even if you put in a Google search
and you see the answer uptop is an AI answer.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, people are well, okay, then I used that. Then
I did use that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
To get a gift suggestion.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yes, oh my, I absolutely did.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
We got an AI Christmas happening here at the Robot
Holmes House.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Huh, yes it was. It was not for you.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Well, folks, those are your Christmas at least updates.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We got a couple of other things we need to
get out this morning, certainly about Epstein. There's a nursing
home explosion, a tragedy, a catastrophe is how they're putting
it there to update your about happening in Pennsylvania. Also,
Diddy is trying to get out of prison again, and
the Supreme Court gave Donald Trump a loss yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
We will explain.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
All right, But next up on the run, we want
to talk about so many other issues that are going
on here, including that Epstein dump that we talked about
as well, So we'll get into all of that, all.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Right, But first here, folks, tragedy we want to tell
you about here now is an awful, awful story, but
everybody's talking about it. And we're talking about a nine
year old girl who has been missing the past couple
of months, has now been Her mother has now been
charged in the girl's death. We're talking about Melanie Buzzard,
nine years old. You might have seen her if you
don't recognize the name, Her face and her hair is
just the one. The picture that's going around is just
(06:20):
of a delightful, sweet little girl. But her body was
found two months after went missing from southern California. But
now her mom has been charged. The body was found
in rural Utah, of all places, but Ashley Buzzard is
the mom's name. She has now been arrested and she
is being held without bail as we speak. The body
was found December six, but they are finally yesterday they
(06:43):
were able to link evidence from the home and a
search warned and the vehicle to finally piece this all together.
The sheriff here talked about just how hainus this crime
is that involved sophisticated premeditation, he said, and a lot
of planning went into this. I was debated about sharing.
(07:03):
We didn't even want to put this story in the rundown,
to be honest with you, but just wanted to give
the update because folks have been looking for this little
girl and to find out her mom is now response
when they say, yes, the girl was shocked.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yes, this beautiful little girl. Her picture has been everywhere
if you go anywhere online, it's a constant story. So
it is a tragic ending that everyone was hoping wouldn't
be the case. Unfortunately, just a sad, terrible story with
literally no explanation. There's no motive behind this tragedy. But
next up on the run. At least two people are dead,
(07:34):
five others are unaccounted for at this hour. This all
happened after an explosion at a nursing home in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And this place is about twenty miles northeast of Philadelphia,
one hundred and seventy four bed facility. It's called the
Bristol Health and Rehab Center. But the governor there said,
this is just a catastrophic event. There was, they say,
a gas company checking out a gas leak next door
to the place when the explosion happened. There was a
follow up, a smaller explosion after authorities got to the
(08:06):
scene as well. But they described a harrowing scene in
which firefighters were literally carrying people on their backs and
handing them off to police officers trying to save. Another
awful event is that the floors collapsed down into the basement.
Apparently there was a water leak, and they said, actually
people were drowning in the damn building.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So this was an awful scene. But two dead, another
five unaccounted for. They don't know for sheer ropes. Those
five maybe they left with they're hoping that maybe we
just don't know where.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
They are and maybe they're not in there.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
As terrible as that all sounds, it could have been
worse than one hundred and seventy four bed facilities. So
there were quite a number of folks in there. And
this is about twenty miles northeast of Philly. So obviously
this is a developing story and we'll keep our eye
on that. Next up on the run, something we've been
keeping our eye on for well, you could say years now,
but specifically in the last couple of days, we've been
(08:59):
awaiting those Epstein files released. They were all supposed to
be out by last Friday. That did not happen. But
we've been getting some file dumps, and certainly there was
a big one yesterday, and one of the documents caused
a lot of stir, raised a lot of eyebrows. A
letter purportedly from Jeffrey Epstein to another very famous pedophile,
(09:23):
a convicted pedophile, Larry Nasser. And now the FBI is
saying that that letter is fake, and we will go
ahead and read the letter for you because you'll see
why it's caused such a stir. This is again signed
by Jay Epstein. As you will know by now, I
have taken the short route home. Good luck. We shared
(09:45):
one thing, our love and caring for young ladies and
the hope they reached their full potential. Our president also
shares our love of young new bile girls. When a
young beauty walked by, he loved to grab snatch, whereas
we ended up snatched grub in the mess halls of
the system. Life is unfair. Yours Jay Epstein, and.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
The Department of Justice has come out now said that
is fake. They give reasons for the postmark. It was
after Epstein actually die. They even say the handwriting doesn't match.
But they have now gone about several things that come
out and possibly don't look good on President Trump. They
have said these things are fake. So the line here is, yes,
(10:26):
all the stuff has come out, and they're telling us
not to believe what we're seeing or seeding.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, So the purpose of the Epstein Files Transparency Act
is muddled, at least in the fact that now the
documents we are getting, when they are unflattering or perhaps
something they don't want to get out, we're just being
told it's fake, and it's hard to know what's real
and what's not. But we'll continue to monitor what continues
to be dumped out at a very opportune time where
(10:51):
folks are busy doing other things rather than focused on
the Epstein files. But we'll keep our eye on that
developing story as well, because there are more files to come,
according to the Department of Justice. Next up on the run,
Russell Brand facing additional charges after two more women have
come forward to accuse the British comedian of rape and
(11:11):
sexual assault.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
He had already been facing chargers back in April. He
has pled not guilty, but several counts of rape and
assault were already held against him. These are new charges
and they say new victims have stepped forward, and so
he's facing two more charges involving rape and sexual assault.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
All of these allegedly.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Happened back between nineteen ninety nine and two thousand and five.
He has I've been putting stuff out on social media,
made a couple of lines. It sound almost like apologies,
if you will, admissions of some kind. But he did
say he wants the truth of his situation and scenario
is how he put it to come out. Also said
pray anyone I've harmed or hurt to be healed again.
He has pled not guilty. Expected to be in court
(11:50):
in January.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
We'll stay with us.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
On this Christmas Eve run Diddy, hoping to be home
sooner than his sentence allows, will explain his new appeal
and how he's trying to get out of prison. Also,
the Supreme Court a rare loss. They hand it for
President Trump yesterday, and of course one point seven billion
dollars up for grabs tonight. How man, how much of
(12:14):
that can I get if I take the cash options
to it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Welcome back everyone to our Christmas Eve morning, Ron and
next up on the run, Well, Sean Diddy. Coombs apparently
is still trying to get out of prison. Attorneys for
Shawn Combs filed an expedited appeal yesterday. They are asking
for his immediate release, or they want the court to
grant a judgment of acquittal, or they would like the
(12:48):
court to vacate his convictions altogether.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Love, as we know, he is serving the fifty year sentence,
excuse me, fifty month fifty month sentence on those two
convictions for transportation to engage in prostitution. Now, their argument
one of them is out and the government didn't prove
his case. That's one thing. The other one, though, I
find interesting robes. They say the judge in the case
aired when he tried or when he did hold against
(13:14):
Diddy the crimes he was acquitted of in doing his sentence,
and the judge was, yes, you were only convicted of
these two things. But I've seen a pattern and all
these others, and they're saying he did not have the
right to consider that stuff and when I saw him,
is there some legal validity.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
To that I wanted?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
So they filed this on yesterday, So clearly they're not
expecting anyone to take a look at this until after
the new year. Correct, So they're just trying to get
ahead of things. I guess officially get that in before
the new year. But yes, this has been a constant
chirp and chatter from his attorneys. They are doing their job.
They we are seeing them exhausting every single option they
(13:56):
could possibly find or create to get him out of
jail before he's due. What is it twenty twenty an
exact nay? Eight? I believe some it's been shifted, it's
been moved around a little bit based on good behavior
bad behavior. But we'll have more to come, I'm sure
in the new year. Next up on the Run, the
Supreme Court has handed President Trump a loss. It happened yesterday.
(14:19):
They turned down his emergency request to deploy the National
Guard in Chicago. They say the government has failed to
identify a source of authority that would allow the military
to execute the law in Illinois. So who is the authority?
Apparently not the US government but the local officials, and
(14:41):
they certainly don't want the National Guard there. They've made
that clear.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
And this only applies to Chicago, only applies to Illinois.
But they're saying this is a big deal for the
other jurisdictions who want to push back or fight Trump
on this. They look and see what Illinois did, and
it worked on Supreme Court has so far at least
sided with maybe some of those localities.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
All Right, well, finally, and we say finally because maybe
finally we can put an end to this. Well, who
wants to put an end to a rising jackpot but
the people who are reporting on it three days a week.
But yes, Powerball at one point seven billion dollars, it's
pretty cool that the drawing is tonight on Christmas Eve
(15:21):
at eleven pm. It just feels it just feels right
that they would actually get a jackpot winner tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
And most people are not going to stay up late
and watch and wait for the numbers. I think most
people don't do that. So that means you're actually somebody's
going to wake up on Christmas morning, sweetheart. That is awesome.
Somebody's gonna wake up tomorrow with one point seven billion dollars.
I just I love that. Yes, of course I would
wish wish it on all of us, to be honest,
but man, that's one about the lottery. I got many
(15:52):
problems with lottery and roll my eyes about a lot
of stuff that is poetic.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I know when you just said that, I got chills
imagining someone. Look, look I have every every morning we've
had the drawing, I look at the numbers. I'm like, man,
not even closed. But hey, we won four dollars, so
I'll take it. And it's exciting to think someone is
literally going to be holding that lottery ticket looking at
the numbers and realizing, oh my.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
That's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
God, that's gonna be so good luck to you all
in all you're doing today. Really, this is a special time,
and we're making a commitment not to work as hard
today and take a little give ourselves a little beat,
give a little graces. It's Christmas Eve, folks, and so
all the chaos that we've gone through and all the stress,
it finally has felt like it came off today. It
(16:39):
sucks that today I I'll take credit. I have finally
started focusing on the real reason behind the season kind
of a thing, and I'm ready to finally spread some
Christmas year.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, and I think with look always, news headlines tend
to be dark and heavy, and it's a tough thing
to do day in, day out, and to absorb it
all and to listen and receive all that negative information.
But I do take it with me in the sense
that it reminds me this is the time where we
get to hug the ones we love, We get to
put our phones down and actually spend time with our family.
(17:09):
And so we plan on doing that tonight and tomorrow,
and we hope you can do the same.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And before we let you go, as always, we'll give
you a quote of the day, something to take with you.
Hope you'll consider this is one of my favorites. Robes quote.
We are so quick to judge others by their worst actions,
yet we judge ourselves by our best intentions. I would
love for people to write that down and just look
at that, keep it on your phone, look at it
(17:35):
when you're having that moment. We do that all the time.
We look at when somebody else did say, ooh, look
how bad that person is, and then you look at
ourselves and well, I meant to well, I was going
to well, I know I did that, But really what
my intention was. We can soften the blow when it's us,
but we look at somebody else and immediately a look
at what you did? You terrible person, that's who you are.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, if we can maybe look at people through the
lens we look at ourselves, where we could give them
a little bit of grace and understand that maybe we
don't know what was in their head, or what was
in their heart, or what they've been going through. A
lot of people's actions are because they're dealing with pain.
Everyone's got some sort of trauma, some sort of pain.
If we can give each other that grace, it'll go
a long way.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Certainly on this holiday, consider that, folks, we are so
quick to judge others by their worst actions, yet we
judge ourselves by our best intentions. Wherever you are, hope
you are having a good holiday. I hope you have
a wonderful Christmas Eve. We are still working a little bit.
What are the We got a couple of things you
might be interested in going to be posted here to
our feed later in today. One of them is probably
(18:37):
the biggest fight we have in this house every year.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
The Christmas movie to watch yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
What are you watching as a family on this Christmas Eve. Well,
we will get into our debate. We have a lot
of fun with it. So look forward to hopefully as
seeing that episode. I know I was okay, you're okay.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Oh yeah, we're going to post this.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yes, folks, Elf versus Diehard is what we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yes, we're having that fight. Look for that. We're gonna
be posting that a little late.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Very exciting stuff. But until then, thank you all for
listening to us on this morning run and running with
us I May be Robots
Speaker 2 (19:11):
And on TJ Holmes Merry Christmas Eve,
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