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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
Tuesday morning, everyone, It's March fourth. Welcome to Morning Run
now guaranteed available by six thirty am Eastern Time, every
single day, Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm Amy Roche and I'm TJ Holds and this might
actually be the most jam packed Morning Run yet. A
lot to get to. Thirteen stories and all in this
rundown this morning, including a significant and scary update about
the Pope's condition. The other major story the US has
cut off all military aid to Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Also this morning, a transgender bill fails, Jay Z sues,
Disney apologizes, China and Canada fight back. Trump addresses Congress,
Adrian Brody sets a record, a major CEO resigns.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Plus this morning, Dolly Pardon's husband of sixty years has died.
We're going to pass along her short, very sweet statement
made about him. Robock. We've talked about him in the past,
just hasn't been a public guy. But people almost like, wait,
she was married, because they just weren't always together in public,
very very.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Private, to the point where some people thought she made
him up. They didn't actually believe he existed. But I
did a Google search this morning and actually was enjoying
finding the few rare photos of him that have been
sprinkled throughout the years, but they are definitely few and
far between.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Sixty years. What an incredible, credible love story. We we'll
get into that this morning, but we're going to start
on this Tuesday morning in Washington, DC, President Trump will
address a joint session of Congress tonight. Now, traditionally these
have been boring. Traditionally you could predict how these things
are going to go, even what the presidents are going
to say. But frankly, who the hell knows how this
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is going to go tonight?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Only President Trump, that would be my guest. Democrats are
discussing protest options right now. They're talking about potentially walking out.
Some Democrats are skipping all together. Reportedly, they've been discussing props,
like bringing props with them, like empty egg cartons, noisemakers, etc.
I mean, this could be political theater, truly. Democrats are
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expected to bring guests tonight who have been impacted by
Trump's policies, negatively impacted, we should point out. I Meanwhile,
President Trump is expected to take the opportunity tonight to
tout all of his agenda, his accomplishments from the first
month and a half of his new term, and they
are plentiful.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
That's a lot to squeeze in. He has been known
for having really, really long speeches. In fact, he's set
some records in some of his speeches during the campaign.
So this could be a long one tonight. And yes,
know what you're thinking. Elon will be there. He's expected
to be in the building tonight. Of course, this speech
is scheduled for nine o'clock Eastern time. The Democrats do
get a chance to do a response. They're going to
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have first term Senator Alisa Slatkin of Michigan tackling those
responsibilities tonight. But this might be must see television.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's a good thing you got a good sleep score
last night for the first time on your because I
think we might be up pretty late tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Ready for it all right?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Next up on the Run, the tariff tit for tat
is on. Just as President Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico,
and those extra tariffs on China went into effect at
the stroke of midnight, while those countries all announced they
will be retaliating.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, Canada said there was no justification for the tariffs,
and Prime Minister Trudeau said he plans to immediately impose
twenty five percent tariffs are nearly one hundred billion dollars
of goods from the US. We expect Mexico's response this morning.
They have a scheduled press conference. The Mexican President, however,
has already said that she has a Plan B, a
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Plan C, in a Plan D.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
An additional ten percent tariff was also levied on Chinese imports,
so in response, China has announced retaliatory tariffs on US
food and agricultural imports. When Trump confirmed to reporters on
Monday that those twenty five percent tariffs were indeed happening
as promised. Remember, he put a pause on them last month,
so those countries and some reporters were thinking he might
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do the same nah, So when he said they were
going through, the stock market responded immediately and negatively.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The Dow tumbled nearly seven hundred points. S ANDP was
down two percent. NASDAK was down three percent. Trump said
the tariffs aren't only to force the countries to increase
their fight against veetanol trafficking and illegal immigration, but also
away to even the trade imbalance and push more factories
to relocate to the US.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Experts say short term, though, it's US consumers who will
most likely pay the price. The tariffs on China, Mexico
and Canada, they believe will raise prices for products ranging
from tomatoes to tequila to auto parts. I mean, you
can look and see a laundry list of products now
where you can predict that those prices will go up
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fairly soon.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So they're telling us, yes, the trade war is on
for the next leg of our run is about actual
war taking place, and the United States has now cut
off all military aid to Ukraine and to get it
back public I'm sorry, might be necessary. This is now
the most stunning and consequential fallout from that contentious on
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camera clash between Trump, Zelensky and Vice President J. D.
Vans in the Oval Office on Friday.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
President Trump has ordered a halt to all military aid
to Ukraine, which has relied on US dollars and weapons
during its three year war with Russia. The White House
statement says this, the President has been clear that he
is focused on peace. We need our partners to be
committed to that goal as well. We are pausing and
reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to
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a solution.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So you'll remember, Zelensky was at the White House on Friday,
was expected to sign an economic deal with the White
House as well as have a joint press conference with
President Trump. Didn't go so well. All that was abruptly
canceled after their Oval Office spat on Friday, which, depending
on your perspective, this was either Trump berating Zelensky or
Zelensky being disrespectful and unappreciative, or it was a little
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bit of both men behaving badly.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So the cutoff in military aid is being called a
pause that keeps the door open for the possibility of
aid continuing in the future. Some news outlets are reporting
that the administration wants a public on camera apology from
Zelensky before that aid will continue. You know, we already
saw him go and make a video saying that he
was thanking the United States, something he didn't do in
the Oval Office. Or apparently that's not enough. The United
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States has given nearly sixty six billion dollars in military
assistance to Ukraine since the start of the war in
twenty twenty two. Ukraine can hold on in the coming weeks,
but without US military assistance, they're in serious trouble after that.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
A lot of European allies are stepping up already and
saying they will continue to support and help Ukraine. But
at some point some of the more sophisticated major weapons
that they have been used and have been effective, they're
going to need from the US. But again, like you said,
it's just a pause. A pause can be undone.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That's true. You can hit play.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yes, you can do it all all for a hand.
So we'll see what happens there. Will continue to run
morning with a Republican led effort to implement a federal
ban on transgender athletes in women's sports. It failed yesterday
in the Senate.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
The vote on the bill was strictly along party lines,
and Republicans are going to need some Democratic support to
actually get it through. Transgender issues were a central campaign
issue for many Republicans across the country during the election cycle,
and President Trump regularly gave attention to the issue during
his campaign as well.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, the Senate bill would change federal law to say,
quote sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's
reproductive biology and genetics at birth. Quote, So The House
also passed its own version of the bill. Several states
have been putting bans like this in place and continue
to look at anti trans legislation. But it was a
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major campaign effort by the President, and right now it
looks like, don't know what's going to happen to it
in the Senate. Just don't have the.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Votes, all right. Next up on our run, Linda McMahon
has been confirmed as the Secretary of Education. Job number
one dismantle the Department of Education. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
McMahon is the former WWE executive and closed trump Lly.
She was confirmed along party lines. After those confirmation hearings
of hers got a little contentious at times. President Trump
has said repeatedly that he wants to close the Department
of Education, even saying that McMahon's job is to put
herself out of a job.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
The Education Department, like many others since Trump's return to office,
has been hit with changes and massive layoffs. However, the
department was created by Congress back in nineteen seventy nine,
so it cannot technically be shut down without Congress doing so.
We've seen the President try and bypass Congress even the
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Constitution with some of his measures so we'll see how
this all pans out.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
All right, we continue or Ron now in Rome, our
daily stop where there is a change in tone from
the Vatican regarding the Pope's health. Despite sleeping well through
the night last night, I hope Francis suffered a setback
yesterday with what they're calling two acute respiratory insufficiency episodes.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah. The Vatican said these episodes were caused by a
significant accumulation of endo bronchial mucus and resulting broncos spasm.
That's a lot of medical speak, but this is not good.
This is basically a respiratory failure. So doctors had to
perform two procedures on the Pope to inspect and remove
the excess fluids. They then put him on that non
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invasive mechanical ventilation that they were so excited he was
taken off of Monday.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, the Vatican said Pope France has remained alert through
it all, but that his prognosis remains complex and more
respiratory crises are possible. This unfortunate eternal events came after
several days of positive reports detailing the Pope's improvement. He
was initially admitted to the hospital on February fourteenth, he
ended up getting double pneumonia, and again, ropes. We've been
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talking about it here. It's one thing to not get
a bad report. But if we just got a report
that was just even, that was a good day, that
was a win. And we had three days probably of
slightly positive updates and non negative updates, and we all
kind of took it as encouraging news.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, we were apart for a short fit yesterday and
you sent me a text a screenshot of the latest
update from the Vatican, and you know it obviously is
not good news. And any time an eighty eight year
old man is in the hospital for this long, it's concerning.
And yet to have him take these setbacks and then
to say, oh, more could be on the way. We
will certainly keep our eye on this situation. Next up
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on the Run, Dolly Parton's husband of sixty years has
passed away. Carl Thomas Dean was eighty two years old.
No cause of death was given, but the family said
he passed away at their home in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
And this is what Dolly Parton wrote on social media.
Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can't
do justice to the love we shared for over sixty years.
Thank you for your prayers and sympathy. The two had
been married since nineteen sixty six and he was by
her side through most of her career, though you never
saw him actually by her side. He was a very
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private guy. He didn't like the celebrity aspect, but she
respected that. I mean, she talked about it one too
terribly long ago. Thinks she'd recalled taking him to one
event and he said, Okay, that's a rap, and she
respected that he didn't want to do it, and he
also respected that she had to go do it.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool that they were able
to do that, and what worked for them clearly worked
because it seemed as though it was a beautiful love story.
She always spoke gushingly of him, and yeah, there's sixty
years together is proof in our heart to go out
to her. That has to be an incredibly, incredibly tough
time ahead of her.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And if you don't know, folks, if you want to
have you might not. If he didn't know she was married,
didn't know his name. If you know Joline that song,
he is the inspiration behind it. I didn't know this story.
Other people do. You're shaking your egg?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, what it is? Please? Yeah. So she said that
basically a bank teller was a little smitten with him,
and she noticed he kept making some extra trips to
the bank, and so she said it was a lighthearted
joking moment between them where she would say, ah, you're
spending a lot of time in the bank. We don't
have enough money for you to be in there that long.
So it inspired the song Jolene and that. It's a
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very serious song, but it came from a very lighthearted
joke between the twos.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah. Well that was a cool story that I didn't
know the full story until this morning. But stay with
us on this morning, Ron. When we come back, the
CEO of one of the largest grocery chains in the
US abruptly steps down. Also, Jay Z is suing, and
Adrian Brodie has set a record that, quite frankly, may
never be broken.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Welcome back to this Tuesday morning, Ron. Next up on
the run, jay Z is not letting it go. He
is now suing the woman who accused him of rape,
and he's suing the lawyers who represented her.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, this is defamation, sue claims the attorneys for Jane
Doe knew the allegations she was making were false. Those
claims came in an explosive lawsuit last October in which
an unidentified woman said jay Z and Sean Diddy Combs
raped her twenty years ago and an Awards show after party.
The accuser said she was thirteen years old at the time.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Jay Z, whose real name is Sean Carter, immediately and
in the strongest of terms, denied those allegations and directed
his anger at the attorney, Tony Busby, who he called
a deplorable human. Jane Doe dropped her lawsuit last month
after admitting inconsistency inconsistencies in her stories. But jay Z
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is going after Jane Doe, and yeah, wants someone to
pay for the pain and suffering that he has definitely
talked about that this was one of the worst things
he's ever had to go through talking to his children
about these allegations, and it's one of those things. Once
those allegations are.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Made, we're out there.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
It's very hard to undo people's perception of they don't
hear the outcome, they don't hear the fact that the
charges were you know, the allegations were dropped. They just
stick with people, so it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And Tony Busby, the guy he's going after, remember, is
the guy who has filed at this point dozens and
dozens of lawsuits from alleged accusers of Sean did he Combs?
That guy is the one he's going after here now,
continuing now on this Tuesday morning run next up, the
CEO of the second largest grocery store chain in the
US has abruptly resigned his position after an investigation found
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his personal conduct was quote inconsistent with the company's ethics.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, Kroger said it was made aware of certain personal
conduct by CEO Rodney McMullin, which prompted an investigation. No
details have been released, but Kroger said the issue has
nothing to do with the company's financial performance. It has
nothing to do with Kroger's operations or reporting, and had
nothing to do with any Kroger associates.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
They have completely distant themselves from him in every way.
Whatever he was doing, it must have happened on Saturday
and Sunday and off hours.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah, I had nothing to do with the books. They
may clear this nothing for financial impropriety. McMullan had been
with Krogler for nearly five decades, starting as a part
time store clerk in nineteen seventy eight. You hear that,
that sounds like a cool story. You go from clerk
to the CEO of the company. Sounds like a wonderful story.
But he became CEO of the entire chain in twenty fourteen.
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Krogler shares fell three percent following the news, So more
news will probably slowly come out about that.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
But wow, these personal details tend to leak out at
a certain point of Perhaps even Kroger would like them
to to further distance themselves from him, but we shall see.
Or they might just want the story to go away
so their stocks can go back up, all right. Next
up on the Run, Viewers were hot at Hulu on
Sunday night because just as the biggest oscars of the
night were about to be given. You wait all these
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hours for the big one, here comes the live stream cutout.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, viewers, Okay, this show was three hours and forty
seven minutes long, so you had to make an investment.
So viewers who had been watching the first three and
a half hours of the oscars lost the feed and
got an error message saying the program had ended when
it actually had not. So viewers yes, who were watching
on Hulu at the time that streaming, that streaming show
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missed Mikey Madison win Best Actress and they missed Best
Picture Anora.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Oh my gosh, you wait all night for those awards.
That had to be incredibly frustrating. And on top of it,
this was the first time the Oscars had been live
streamed on Hulu for regular subscribers, so this was a
big deal for Hulu and they were touting it. Disney,
which owns Hulu, issued this apology yesterday evening. We experienced
technical and live stream issues on Hulu which impacted some
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Oscars viewers. We apologize for the experience.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That probably made it all better.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Than Yeah, I'm sure it did. Also, I love this announcement.
The full Oscars replay is available on Hulu. For me,
that's like watching a event when you already know who won.
It's just not the same.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You know, the streamers are having a little difficulty here
and again, they'll get it right. But what was the
Netflix The the Jake Paul Tyson fight right that was
really personally frustrating. We didn't just have to read about
that one from other people. We experienced that. But live
the streamers are trying to get more into live events,
and there have been some major failures in some of
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these live events.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
They'll get it right, but as people turn away from
regular broadcasting. I mean, so many folks don't even have
cable boxes or television sets. They're just you know, projecting
something through a streaming service. So that's what they depend
on for these live events. They'll get it right eventually.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Well eventually the final leg of our run here. Also
Oscar related, two time Oscar winner Adrian Brody. He is
now in the Guinness Book of World Records. He is
a world record holder. Congratulations you make it into that book.
You should be congratulating.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
We all had to pay the price for it, though,
I'm kidding. That was a joke. It was a joke.
During his acceptance speech for Best Actor on Sunday night,
Brody unknowingly broke an eighty year old record for longest
Oscar's acceptance speech ever. Yesterday we talked about how long
Rody's speech was, and I think we estimated, we said, oh,
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probably about five minutes. It actually was five minutes and
forty seconds long.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Felt longer, but that five minutes and forty seconds was
actually ten seconds longer than the previous record holder, who
was a British actor, Greer Garson. Now Garson was the
Oscar winner Best Performance, Best Best Actress. I relieve her
acceptance speech lasted five minutes and thirty seconds. That, of
course was before we even had televised oscars.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Wow. So these days, Oscar winners are typically given about
forty five seconds to speak before the music starts, to
play softly to encourage them to wrap up their speeches. Well,
when the music played for Brody on Sunday night, and
it feels like it was way after forty five seconds,
this is what he had to say. I'm wrapping up.
I will wrap up, turn the music off. I've done
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this before. Thank you. It is not my first rodeo.
But I will be brief. I will not be egregious,
I promise.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
And then he was egregious.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
He was not brief, He wasn't brief.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Who's to say whether or not it was egregious, but look,
that's a huge moment for him. He had something on
his head, something on his heart, and he wanted to
say it. We can all appreciate and respect that in
the moment, which was one of the biggest of his life,
certainly of his career. But everybody else has to respect
the process. Everybody else has to respect the show, the producers,
the viewers, your fellow nominees. And it felt like it
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went a little like we were willing to give him
a little a little okay, go ahead and do your thing,
but he went on and on and on.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And he's known for this. But can you imagine if
everybody went five minutes forty seconds?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
But the forty five seconds, I think is so short
that flies forty five seconds. They only played the music,
I believe, on two maybe three people that night, so
they tried not to try to give him a little rope.
The biggest night of your career, you want more than
forty five seconds.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I have a feeling, you know, they made a joke
about it earlier, or at least I say vay Conan
O'Brien did with the John Lifgo thing, saying he's gonna
we're gonna show him making a sad, disappointed face if
you go too long instead of playing the music. But
I have a feeling what happened with Adrian and Brody
in the record setting speech he gave might be a
joke for next year's Oscar.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
This will go on for ever.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
He's in the history books.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
People, Yes, nobody's going to beat that one. Well, as
you go about here Tuesday, now, something we'd like for
you to consider it is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You know, there are so many quotes from this wonderful woman.
I didn't know where to start, but I picked two.
If that's okay. We have two quotes of the day
because they're similarly themed. We cannot direct the wind, but
we can adjust the sales. And the second quote, don't
get so busy making a living that you forget to
make a life. And I love these two quotes from
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Dolly Parton because I know she's we know she's going
through probably some of the toughest days of her life.
But some of her own words of wisdom when things
are tough, I thought were appropriate for all of us today.
And I just loved both of these quotes because it's
just about perspective, and she certainly had so much.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So for one, again, it's we cannot direct the wind,
but we can adjust the sales. The other is, don't
get so busy making a living that you forget to
make a life, and for that we do appreciate you,
Dolly Bard and our hearts always go out to her.
Many of us say, look, have you been in this business,
certainly on a national level, to any degree you've dealt
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with Dolly Parton.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
She comes in with sunshine like she is, sunshine personified, always.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Always, always, so heart's breaking for her, but while also
something look up to. He've supported her like that for
sixty years in their way. Congratulations to that. And with that, folks,
we want to say to you, have yourself a good Tuesday.
We always appreciate to you going on a run with us.
Don't forget tonight, don't miss the show not o'clock live.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
At Congress with potential props and protests and god knows
what else this is. Probably it might even be more
entertaining than the oscars. All right, everyone, have a wonderful day.
I'm maybe Robot and we'll see you on the run tomorrow.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
Tuesday morning, everyone, It's March fourth. Welcome to Morning Run
now guaranteed available by six thirty am Eastern Time, every
single day, Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm Amy Roche and I'm TJ Holds and this might
actually be the most jam packed Morning Run yet. A
lot to get to. Thirteen stories and all in this
rundown this morning, including a significant and scary update about
the Pope's condition. The other major story the US has
cut off all military aid to Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Also this morning, a transgender bill fails, Jay Z sues,
Disney apologizes, China and Canada fight back. Trump addresses Congress,
Adrian Brody sets a record, a major CEO resigns.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Plus this morning, Dolly Pardon's husband of sixty years has died.
We're going to pass along her short, very sweet statement
made about him. Robock. We've talked about him in the past,
just hasn't been a public guy. But people almost like, wait,
she was married, because they just weren't always together in public,
very very.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Private, to the point where some people thought she made
him up. They didn't actually believe he existed. But I
did a Google search this morning and actually was enjoying
finding the few rare photos of him that have been
sprinkled throughout the years, but they are definitely few and
far between.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Sixty years. What an incredible, credible love story. We we'll
get into that this morning, but we're going to start
on this Tuesday morning in Washington, DC, President Trump will
address a joint session of Congress tonight. Now, traditionally these
have been boring. Traditionally you could predict how these things
are going to go, even what the presidents are going
to say. But frankly, who the hell knows how this
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is going to go tonight?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Only President Trump, that would be my guest. Democrats are
discussing protest options right now. They're talking about potentially walking out.
Some Democrats are skipping all together. Reportedly, they've been discussing props,
like bringing props with them, like empty egg cartons, noisemakers, etc.
I mean, this could be political theater, truly. Democrats are
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expected to bring guests tonight who have been impacted by
Trump's policies, negatively impacted, we should point out. I Meanwhile,
President Trump is expected to take the opportunity tonight to
tout all of his agenda, his accomplishments from the first
month and a half of his new term, and they
are plentiful.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
That's a lot to squeeze in. He has been known
for having really, really long speeches. In fact, he's set
some records in some of his speeches during the campaign.
So this could be a long one tonight. And yes,
know what you're thinking. Elon will be there. He's expected
to be in the building tonight. Of course, this speech
is scheduled for nine o'clock Eastern time. The Democrats do
get a chance to do a response. They're going to
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have first term Senator Alisa Slatkin of Michigan tackling those
responsibilities tonight. But this might be must see television.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's a good thing you got a good sleep score
last night for the first time on your because I
think we might be up pretty late tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Ready for it all right?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Next up on the Run, the tariff tit for tat
is on. Just as President Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico,
and those extra tariffs on China went into effect at
the stroke of midnight, while those countries all announced they
will be retaliating.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, Canada said there was no justification for the tariffs,
and Prime Minister Trudeau said he plans to immediately impose
twenty five percent tariffs are nearly one hundred billion dollars
of goods from the US. We expect Mexico's response this morning.
They have a scheduled press conference. The Mexican President, however,
has already said that she has a Plan B, a
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Plan C, in a Plan D.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
An additional ten percent tariff was also levied on Chinese imports,
so in response, China has announced retaliatory tariffs on US
food and agricultural imports. When Trump confirmed to reporters on
Monday that those twenty five percent tariffs were indeed happening
as promised. Remember, he put a pause on them last month,
so those countries and some reporters were thinking he might
(04:01):
do the same nah, So when he said they were
going through, the stock market responded immediately and negatively.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The Dow tumbled nearly seven hundred points. S ANDP was
down two percent. NASDAK was down three percent. Trump said
the tariffs aren't only to force the countries to increase
their fight against veetanol trafficking and illegal immigration, but also
away to even the trade imbalance and push more factories
to relocate to the US.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Experts say short term, though, it's US consumers who will
most likely pay the price. The tariffs on China, Mexico
and Canada, they believe will raise prices for products ranging
from tomatoes to tequila to auto parts. I mean, you
can look and see a laundry list of products now
where you can predict that those prices will go up
(04:46):
fairly soon.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So they're telling us, yes, the trade war is on
for the next leg of our run is about actual
war taking place, and the United States has now cut
off all military aid to Ukraine and to get it
back public I'm sorry, might be necessary. This is now
the most stunning and consequential fallout from that contentious on
(05:07):
camera clash between Trump, Zelensky and Vice President J. D.
Vans in the Oval Office on Friday.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
President Trump has ordered a halt to all military aid
to Ukraine, which has relied on US dollars and weapons
during its three year war with Russia. The White House
statement says this, the President has been clear that he
is focused on peace. We need our partners to be
committed to that goal as well. We are pausing and
reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to
(05:35):
a solution.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So you'll remember, Zelensky was at the White House on Friday,
was expected to sign an economic deal with the White
House as well as have a joint press conference with
President Trump. Didn't go so well. All that was abruptly
canceled after their Oval Office spat on Friday, which, depending
on your perspective, this was either Trump berating Zelensky or
Zelensky being disrespectful and unappreciative, or it was a little
(06:00):
bit of both men behaving badly.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So the cutoff in military aid is being called a
pause that keeps the door open for the possibility of
aid continuing in the future. Some news outlets are reporting
that the administration wants a public on camera apology from
Zelensky before that aid will continue. You know, we already
saw him go and make a video saying that he
was thanking the United States, something he didn't do in
the Oval Office. Or apparently that's not enough. The United
(06:25):
States has given nearly sixty six billion dollars in military
assistance to Ukraine since the start of the war in
twenty twenty two. Ukraine can hold on in the coming weeks,
but without US military assistance, they're in serious trouble after that.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
A lot of European allies are stepping up already and
saying they will continue to support and help Ukraine. But
at some point some of the more sophisticated major weapons
that they have been used and have been effective, they're
going to need from the US. But again, like you said,
it's just a pause. A pause can be undone.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That's true. You can hit play.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yes, you can do it all all for a hand.
So we'll see what happens there. Will continue to run
morning with a Republican led effort to implement a federal
ban on transgender athletes in women's sports. It failed yesterday
in the Senate.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
The vote on the bill was strictly along party lines,
and Republicans are going to need some Democratic support to
actually get it through. Transgender issues were a central campaign
issue for many Republicans across the country during the election cycle,
and President Trump regularly gave attention to the issue during
his campaign as well.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, the Senate bill would change federal law to say,
quote sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's
reproductive biology and genetics at birth. Quote, So The House
also passed its own version of the bill. Several states
have been putting bans like this in place and continue
to look at anti trans legislation. But it was a
(07:48):
major campaign effort by the President, and right now it
looks like, don't know what's going to happen to it
in the Senate. Just don't have the.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Votes, all right. Next up on our run, Linda McMahon
has been confirmed as the Secretary of Education. Job number
one dismantle the Department of Education. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
McMahon is the former WWE executive and closed trump Lly.
She was confirmed along party lines. After those confirmation hearings
of hers got a little contentious at times. President Trump
has said repeatedly that he wants to close the Department
of Education, even saying that McMahon's job is to put
herself out of a job.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
The Education Department, like many others since Trump's return to office,
has been hit with changes and massive layoffs. However, the
department was created by Congress back in nineteen seventy nine,
so it cannot technically be shut down without Congress doing so.
We've seen the President try and bypass Congress even the
(08:43):
Constitution with some of his measures so we'll see how
this all pans out.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
All right, we continue or Ron now in Rome, our
daily stop where there is a change in tone from
the Vatican regarding the Pope's health. Despite sleeping well through
the night last night, I hope Francis suffered a setback
yesterday with what they're calling two acute respiratory insufficiency episodes.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah. The Vatican said these episodes were caused by a
significant accumulation of endo bronchial mucus and resulting broncos spasm.
That's a lot of medical speak, but this is not good.
This is basically a respiratory failure. So doctors had to
perform two procedures on the Pope to inspect and remove
the excess fluids. They then put him on that non
(09:30):
invasive mechanical ventilation that they were so excited he was
taken off of Monday.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, the Vatican said Pope France has remained alert through
it all, but that his prognosis remains complex and more
respiratory crises are possible. This unfortunate eternal events came after
several days of positive reports detailing the Pope's improvement. He
was initially admitted to the hospital on February fourteenth, he
ended up getting double pneumonia, and again, ropes. We've been
(09:56):
talking about it here. It's one thing to not get
a bad report. But if we just got a report
that was just even, that was a good day, that
was a win. And we had three days probably of
slightly positive updates and non negative updates, and we all
kind of took it as encouraging news.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, we were apart for a short fit yesterday and
you sent me a text a screenshot of the latest
update from the Vatican, and you know it obviously is
not good news. And any time an eighty eight year
old man is in the hospital for this long, it's concerning.
And yet to have him take these setbacks and then
to say, oh, more could be on the way. We
will certainly keep our eye on this situation. Next up
(10:34):
on the Run, Dolly Parton's husband of sixty years has
passed away. Carl Thomas Dean was eighty two years old.
No cause of death was given, but the family said
he passed away at their home in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
And this is what Dolly Parton wrote on social media.
Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can't
do justice to the love we shared for over sixty years.
Thank you for your prayers and sympathy. The two had
been married since nineteen sixty six and he was by
her side through most of her career, though you never
saw him actually by her side. He was a very
(11:09):
private guy. He didn't like the celebrity aspect, but she
respected that. I mean, she talked about it one too
terribly long ago. Thinks she'd recalled taking him to one
event and he said, Okay, that's a rap, and she
respected that he didn't want to do it, and he
also respected that she had to go do it.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool that they were able
to do that, and what worked for them clearly worked
because it seemed as though it was a beautiful love story.
She always spoke gushingly of him, and yeah, there's sixty
years together is proof in our heart to go out
to her. That has to be an incredibly, incredibly tough
time ahead of her.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And if you don't know, folks, if you want to
have you might not. If he didn't know she was married,
didn't know his name. If you know Joline that song,
he is the inspiration behind it. I didn't know this story.
Other people do. You're shaking your egg?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, what it is? Please? Yeah. So she said that
basically a bank teller was a little smitten with him,
and she noticed he kept making some extra trips to
the bank, and so she said it was a lighthearted
joking moment between them where she would say, ah, you're
spending a lot of time in the bank. We don't
have enough money for you to be in there that long.
So it inspired the song Jolene and that. It's a
(12:16):
very serious song, but it came from a very lighthearted
joke between the twos.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah. Well that was a cool story that I didn't
know the full story until this morning. But stay with
us on this morning, Ron. When we come back, the
CEO of one of the largest grocery chains in the
US abruptly steps down. Also, Jay Z is suing, and
Adrian Brodie has set a record that, quite frankly, may
never be broken.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Welcome back to this Tuesday morning, Ron. Next up on
the run, jay Z is not letting it go. He
is now suing the woman who accused him of rape,
and he's suing the lawyers who represented her.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, this is defamation, sue claims the attorneys for Jane
Doe knew the allegations she was making were false. Those
claims came in an explosive lawsuit last October in which
an unidentified woman said jay Z and Sean Diddy Combs
raped her twenty years ago and an Awards show after party.
The accuser said she was thirteen years old at the time.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Jay Z, whose real name is Sean Carter, immediately and
in the strongest of terms, denied those allegations and directed
his anger at the attorney, Tony Busby, who he called
a deplorable human. Jane Doe dropped her lawsuit last month
after admitting inconsistency inconsistencies in her stories. But jay Z
(13:40):
is going after Jane Doe, and yeah, wants someone to
pay for the pain and suffering that he has definitely
talked about that this was one of the worst things
he's ever had to go through talking to his children
about these allegations, and it's one of those things. Once
those allegations are.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Made, we're out there.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
It's very hard to undo people's perception of they don't
hear the outcome, they don't hear the fact that the
charges were you know, the allegations were dropped. They just
stick with people, so it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And Tony Busby, the guy he's going after, remember, is
the guy who has filed at this point dozens and
dozens of lawsuits from alleged accusers of Sean did he Combs?
That guy is the one he's going after here now,
continuing now on this Tuesday morning run next up, the
CEO of the second largest grocery store chain in the
US has abruptly resigned his position after an investigation found
(14:32):
his personal conduct was quote inconsistent with the company's ethics.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, Kroger said it was made aware of certain personal
conduct by CEO Rodney McMullin, which prompted an investigation. No
details have been released, but Kroger said the issue has
nothing to do with the company's financial performance. It has
nothing to do with Kroger's operations or reporting, and had
nothing to do with any Kroger associates.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
They have completely distant themselves from him in every way.
Whatever he was doing, it must have happened on Saturday
and Sunday and off hours.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah, I had nothing to do with the books. They
may clear this nothing for financial impropriety. McMullan had been
with Krogler for nearly five decades, starting as a part
time store clerk in nineteen seventy eight. You hear that,
that sounds like a cool story. You go from clerk
to the CEO of the company. Sounds like a wonderful story.
But he became CEO of the entire chain in twenty fourteen.
(15:26):
Krogler shares fell three percent following the news, So more
news will probably slowly come out about that.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
But wow, these personal details tend to leak out at
a certain point of Perhaps even Kroger would like them
to to further distance themselves from him, but we shall see.
Or they might just want the story to go away
so their stocks can go back up, all right. Next
up on the Run, Viewers were hot at Hulu on
Sunday night because just as the biggest oscars of the
night were about to be given. You wait all these
(15:54):
hours for the big one, here comes the live stream cutout.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, viewers, Okay, this show was three hours and forty
seven minutes long, so you had to make an investment.
So viewers who had been watching the first three and
a half hours of the oscars lost the feed and
got an error message saying the program had ended when
it actually had not. So viewers yes, who were watching
on Hulu at the time that streaming, that streaming show
(16:20):
missed Mikey Madison win Best Actress and they missed Best
Picture Anora.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Oh my gosh, you wait all night for those awards.
That had to be incredibly frustrating. And on top of it,
this was the first time the Oscars had been live
streamed on Hulu for regular subscribers, so this was a
big deal for Hulu and they were touting it. Disney,
which owns Hulu, issued this apology yesterday evening. We experienced
technical and live stream issues on Hulu which impacted some
(16:49):
Oscars viewers. We apologize for the experience.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That probably made it all better.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Than Yeah, I'm sure it did. Also, I love this announcement.
The full Oscars replay is available on Hulu. For me,
that's like watching a event when you already know who won.
It's just not the same.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You know, the streamers are having a little difficulty here
and again, they'll get it right. But what was the
Netflix The the Jake Paul Tyson fight right that was
really personally frustrating. We didn't just have to read about
that one from other people. We experienced that. But live
the streamers are trying to get more into live events,
and there have been some major failures in some of
(17:25):
these live events.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
They'll get it right, but as people turn away from
regular broadcasting. I mean, so many folks don't even have
cable boxes or television sets. They're just you know, projecting
something through a streaming service. So that's what they depend
on for these live events. They'll get it right eventually.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Well eventually the final leg of our run here. Also
Oscar related, two time Oscar winner Adrian Brody. He is
now in the Guinness Book of World Records. He is
a world record holder. Congratulations you make it into that book.
You should be congratulating.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
We all had to pay the price for it, though,
I'm kidding. That was a joke. It was a joke.
During his acceptance speech for Best Actor on Sunday night,
Brody unknowingly broke an eighty year old record for longest
Oscar's acceptance speech ever. Yesterday we talked about how long
Rody's speech was, and I think we estimated, we said, oh,
(18:18):
probably about five minutes. It actually was five minutes and
forty seconds long.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Felt longer, but that five minutes and forty seconds was
actually ten seconds longer than the previous record holder, who
was a British actor, Greer Garson. Now Garson was the
Oscar winner Best Performance, Best Best Actress. I relieve her
acceptance speech lasted five minutes and thirty seconds. That, of
course was before we even had televised oscars.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Wow. So these days, Oscar winners are typically given about
forty five seconds to speak before the music starts, to
play softly to encourage them to wrap up their speeches. Well,
when the music played for Brody on Sunday night, and
it feels like it was way after forty five seconds,
this is what he had to say. I'm wrapping up.
I will wrap up, turn the music off. I've done
(19:04):
this before. Thank you. It is not my first rodeo.
But I will be brief. I will not be egregious,
I promise.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
And then he was egregious.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
He was not brief, He wasn't brief.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Who's to say whether or not it was egregious, but look,
that's a huge moment for him. He had something on
his head, something on his heart, and he wanted to
say it. We can all appreciate and respect that in
the moment, which was one of the biggest of his life,
certainly of his career. But everybody else has to respect
the process. Everybody else has to respect the show, the producers,
the viewers, your fellow nominees. And it felt like it
(19:38):
went a little like we were willing to give him
a little a little okay, go ahead and do your thing,
but he went on and on and on.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And he's known for this. But can you imagine if
everybody went five minutes forty seconds?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
But the forty five seconds, I think is so short
that flies forty five seconds. They only played the music,
I believe, on two maybe three people that night, so
they tried not to try to give him a little rope.
The biggest night of your career, you want more than
forty five seconds.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I have a feeling, you know, they made a joke
about it earlier, or at least I say vay Conan
O'Brien did with the John Lifgo thing, saying he's gonna
we're gonna show him making a sad, disappointed face if
you go too long instead of playing the music. But
I have a feeling what happened with Adrian and Brody
in the record setting speech he gave might be a
joke for next year's Oscar.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
This will go on for ever.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
He's in the history books.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
People, Yes, nobody's going to beat that one. Well, as
you go about here Tuesday, now, something we'd like for
you to consider it is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You know, there are so many quotes from this wonderful woman.
I didn't know where to start, but I picked two.
If that's okay. We have two quotes of the day
because they're similarly themed. We cannot direct the wind, but
we can adjust the sales. And the second quote, don't
get so busy making a living that you forget to
make a life. And I love these two quotes from
(20:54):
Dolly Parton because I know she's we know she's going
through probably some of the toughest days of her life.
But some of her own words of wisdom when things
are tough, I thought were appropriate for all of us today.
And I just loved both of these quotes because it's
just about perspective, and she certainly had so much.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So for one, again, it's we cannot direct the wind,
but we can adjust the sales. The other is, don't
get so busy making a living that you forget to
make a life, and for that we do appreciate you,
Dolly Bard and our hearts always go out to her.
Many of us say, look, have you been in this business,
certainly on a national level, to any degree you've dealt
(21:34):
with Dolly Parton.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
She comes in with sunshine like she is, sunshine personified, always.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Always, always, so heart's breaking for her, but while also
something look up to. He've supported her like that for
sixty years in their way. Congratulations to that. And with that, folks,
we want to say to you, have yourself a good Tuesday.
We always appreciate to you going on a run with us.
Don't forget tonight, don't miss the show not o'clock live.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
At Congress with potential props and protests and god knows
what else this is. Probably it might even be more
entertaining than the oscars. All right, everyone, have a wonderful day.
I'm maybe Robot and we'll see you on the run tomorrow.
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T.J. Holmes
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