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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hello everyone,
and welcome to a Thanksgiving edition of Morning Run. It
is Thursday, November twenty seventh. Happy Turkey Day everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Holmes.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
And this is not recorded ahead of time. No no, no, no, folks,
we didn't do this a day ahead and so we
could take a break today. We are recording this on
Thanksgiving morning.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What does that make us?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It makes us dedicated, is what it makes us romant? Yes, look,
this is news. News has to stay current in our
entire careers. We have in some all the holidays, you
still have to show up to work and put on
a broadcast.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
How many Thanksgivings have you worked in your broadcasting career, dearest.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's been a while though, but yes, plenty over the years.
I like Thanksgiving because I could go in. I was
always doing mornings. I could go in, get it done.
Then I could be home by nine am eleven am.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
So it's funny.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I always volunteer to work Thanksgiving for that exact reason,
because I always want a Christmas off. So I thought
I'll volunteer for Thanksgiving because I can make it back.
I prepared all my dishes the night before, come in,
do the morning show, come back, still have time to
get everything done. I probably just gave instructions about when
to put the turkey in the oven.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Kind of a thing. So, folks, wherever you are today,
whatever you might be doing, hope you made it certainly
to your destination, okay, And I'll prepare to enjoy your
stuffing or your dressing, whatever you call it, if you're
in the northeast or the south. But enjoy it. But
rose the headline. Of course, we've been talking about weather
so much. A lot of folks traveling, another record travel season.
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But the headline I was on I was just looking
for weather and the Weather Channel's website, the bold big
headline said, quote, travel troubles have begun. It's not a
great headline, but it's been a mess for a lot
of folks.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It certainly has one hundred and seventy million Americans dealing
with below average temps.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And what a tease.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Here in New York City, it was absolutely gorgeous yesterday.
It was like like kind of a cloudy, overcast day,
but it was in the sixties.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Perfect.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Oh, it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Not so much this morning, all right, the south, all
the way up here to New York frigid area. They
said cold and blustery, I believe was the headline on
the local TV station Texas through the Midwest and through
the planes.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It's just cold out there.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That is what was left behind with all of those
storms and cold air is going to continue through the weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
So it's gonna be a it's.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Going to be a very chilly, let's dress in layers
kind of black Friday shopping day.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It feels like an immediate like we're getting an immediate
kickoff to the Christmas season because it immediately gets cold.
So folks, you're gonna have to be dealing with that, wondering.
A lot of you ole may be wondering. We're wondering
about you ol are eating. We got some traditional stuff
that most of us. But the menu, we're just going
to share this right quick off the top, the menu
that we have to deal with today. I have fewer
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responsibilities because I have more cooks in the house than
I'm used to, So I am only dealing with the
turkey today and I'm making a lemon marine pie which
I made last night. But that's all I got today.
I got a light day.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's nice though, because the turkey is the most important
and you need to have all your attention focused on that.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
We've got the sides, the robot girls. Ava's doing the
Russell sprouts.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Anna Lisa is my soioux chef with the green beans, stuffing,
potato baked gravy, and then I made the pumpkin swirl
cheesecake last night.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
But yeah, I call it stuffing.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And it's been dressing my whole life, and people they
get kind of fired up about it. And it's not
just regional. We're gonna close the Morning run this morning
about dressing and stuffing. It's always a fun debate to have.
But also going along for the run or our turkey
trot today on this on this Thanksgiving morning, some news
we'll have to get to about a now former Campbell's executive,
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a death row inmate is making headlines. Also Johnny Cash
and an ugly reporter. Plus a major criminal case dropped
against President Trump. And you know this criminal case, it
gave us nothing if it didn't give us one of
the best photos I've ever seen the President Trump for
a number of reasons, but his mugshot he liked it enough.
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He put it up places.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
He well blew it up and had it like displayed everywhere.
He was very proud of it. But we do begin
with an update out of Washington, d C. On those
two West Virginia National Guardsmen who were shot yesterday. It
happened near the White House and what authorities are calling
an ambush style attack.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And this was a big breaking new story yesterday. And
that was some confusion when it happened because someone, an official,
reported that the two had died, had passed away, but no,
they as of this recording, still in critical condition this morning.
This is being investigated by the FBA at FBI as
a possible act of terrorism. They didn't want to initially
say the name of the suspect that's out there now,
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but they made a point, we do not want to
amplify this person who has done this, but they say
it's a twenty nine year old Afghan national. And it
immediately turned into a blame game with the White House
the Trump administration saying this is the fault of the
Biden administration because this guy got into the US on
a program that was meant to give a way to
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enter the US for Afghan who had helped the US
there during the war against the Taliban. He got in
under that program, and the White House immediately pointed to that. Yes, however,
the guy got asylum during the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Oh yeah, so you can.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
The blame game is going on. He came into this
country in twenty twenty one. And because of the incident yesterday,
the White House has paused all Afghan citizens who are
trying to enter the United States. Anyone who was thinking
they were coming to the US, who was applying to
come for the US, all of that.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Now has been put on hold.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You cannot enter this country now legally if you are
coming in here from Afghanistan for now.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And it's too bad. This is we're used to a
blame game. But right now, these two men just doing
their job there in DC, right, and this has happened
to it, but the back and forth has already been done.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Next up on the Run, an update on another still
developing story. Yet this one was everywhere and the numbers
just keep getting worse. A deadly Hong Kong apartment fire.
The death toll has now risen to fifty five. And
when you see the images that we've been seeing, the video.
It is devastating.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
They've been at this since yesterday afternoon, so full twenty
four hours there at least local This is happening in
a suburb north of Hong Kong. But this is a
massive complex that has eight buildings, but seven of them
caught fire. One of them caught them fire and it's
spread to the other seven. Addition to the fifty five killed,
including one firefighter, seventy people have been injured. And listen ropes.
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We see tragedies and big things like this happened in
the US. Sometimes these tragedies and there's an investigation and
it takes a while. They have already arrested three people
wow in this fire who were with the construction company
on manslaughter charges. So they have already moved along and
are placing responsibility somewhere for a nat that's a huge
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tragic augh.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Our hearts go out to everyone there who is affected,
but also on the run this morning. Well back here
in the United States, we can put this in the
category of yeah, we totally saw this one coming.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Campbell's soup has fired.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
That VP who was caught on a recording bashing not
only the company's product, but bashing the people who buy Campbell's.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Soup bash them as poor people, he said, right, And
the food was not healthy and the chickeny compared to
being made on a three D brinner.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, he called it bioengineered meat, which is illegal in
the state of Florida and some other states here in
the United States. So it actually prompted at least the
specific state of Florida to put an investigation into Campbell's
soup products, specifically the meat they put in their soup.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And the guy we're talking about is Martin Balley, with
the VP of it over there. But the company now
says they have been able to authenticate this recording that
is out there that allegedly you hear him making all
of these comments. This is all a part of a
lawsuit and employee got fired that he was wrongly terminated,
and he had recorded a meeting he had with this VP,
and it is out there, and it is awful to
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have somebody this high up in the company saying the
product is that terrible and unhealthy and he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Buy it, making racist comments about some of the employees.
I mean, it was horrific. I always just think if
they had just taken mister Garza was his name. If
they had just taken his complaints seriously, if they had
just investigated what he said he was told and what
he heard, this all in terms of the publicity, the
horrific publicity could.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Have all been avoided, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Next up on the run, the number of babies who
have been sickened and that baby formula bochelism outbreak has
now risen. Thirty seven babies now have officially been connected
to this botulism outbreak.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
The good news is none of those babies have died.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
But certainly, when your baby goes in the hospital because
of the food you're putting in them, there is no
I mean, I can't think of anything more horrific for
a parent to know that they actually put this into
their child unknowingly.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
They're still trying to track it down. Don't know where
this came from, but by heart a couple of days
ago said we can't say that anything we have is safe.
They have essentially said they can't track it down. They've
tested and now they think every single bit of product
they have.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
The lawsuits alone has started.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's yes, and they will be growing most certainly because
this goes back They said at least nine months.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That is crazy, right, Continuing on our run here now
with a death row inmate who has died, but not
by execution. Robot and I have been if you've been
following us, it has been kind of an extraordinary and
record setting year in a lot of ways and executions
in this country, and this was one. We had an
ion for Ralph Leroy Menzi's He was sixty seven years old.
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But he's been on death row for a while and
he is now dead.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yes, but not because the state executed him.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
He's been on death row for thirty seven years and
he was said to be executed. This is It made
a lot of headlines because yes, he was about to
be executed by firing squad. That was supposed to happen
in September, but that execution was postponed because his lawyers
were able to prove and had doctors testify that he
was suffering from dementia, so they postponed.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
They stayed his execution.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
And turns out yes, now he has officially died of
natural causes. He was convicted in nine of a nineteen
eighty six kidnapping and murder of a mother of three.
The victim's family has been notified that he has passed
away in prison, but certainly not the end that most
people would have expected. Thirty seven years on death row.
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We keep talking about these stories, and look, we have
this death penalty in our country, but we haven't been
following through.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
We haven't been Actually, we.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Punish them and convict them, but we don't actually carry
out the punishment.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
And some argue that the and it's not a deterrent,
it's because we don't use it, we don't implement it.
Thirty seven years on death row is wild. All right, folks,
stay with us here on this Thanksgiving Day run. When
we come back, we're gonna lighten things up a little bit.
First of all, we'll get into the dressing versus stuffing debate.
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It's not really that heated of a debate in his house. Actually. Also,
maybe my favorite picture of Donald Trump. He likes it too.
But the case that brought us that photo, well, the
case is gone. Also, Johnny Cash is in a legal
fight with Coca Cola. And he called one reporter piggy.
(11:39):
He's now called another one ugly. All right, folks, we
continue on this Thanksgiving Day morning run, and next up,
after all that folks, That Georgia election interfer's case is over.
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It's dropped, done, moved on. We've been dealing with this
for years. Yes, that case where Trump and eighteen others
were charged and all had pleaded not guilty to trying
to overturn the election results. That case has been thrown out.
A new prosecutor was put on the case. You remember
the other one, Fanny Willis. She all that controversy and
she got caught up in a scandal because she was
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dating a guy who she had hired to work on
the case. Blah blah blah, all of that, folks, And
it's just over now. We went through all of that
and the case has now been dropped. But that was
the case robe that gave us that famous Trump muck shot.
Quite frankly, it might be the best muck shot I've
ever seen in my life, I.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Know, And leave it to Trump to have like the
most powerfully looking.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
He looked like he was in charge.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yes, he looked like he was commanding a presence while
he was getting his mugshot.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
The lighting was even good, it was.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, bizarrely, so you are correct. Normally that's like the
worst possible lighting ever. But I thought it was interesting
to judge of his reasoning for making his ruling was,
in my professional judgment, the citizens of Georgia are not
served by pursuing this case in full for another five
to ten years.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I actually do appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Sentiment that at the end of the day, this is
all incredibly expensive and time consuming, where we could be
pursuing other, perhaps more important.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Cases, and there will be somebody out there arguing that, no,
you can't let this go, you have to pursue justice
at all. That there's somebody who would make that argument.
But this is a judge making that. This has been
going on for.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
A long and Trump took his victory lap on social
Of course he did, of course he did all right.
Next up on the Run, I actually watched this advertisement
because I don't remember seeing it, but it's led to
a lawsuit Johnny Cash versus Coca Cola. The Johnny Cash
estate is suing Coca Cola because they say this advertisement
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is basically fooling customers or fooling folks who are watching
this adveragie into believing they are listening to Johnny Cash
endorsing Coca Cola. There is a sound alike singer, and
I have to say, I was like, I gotta listen
to this for myself, and absolutely I would have thought
it was Johnny Cash.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
See, Okay, so it's clear according to the Johnny Cash
or state, what Coca Cola was trying to do. And
I didn't realize they actually it's not just a thing
where they use somebody who has a This is someone
who does this. They say this is a tribute singer
to Johnny Cash. So clearly they want us to think
this is Johnny Cash, do they not?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Uh? Yes? And I was trying to think about the
legality of that.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I mean, obviously they have their beliefs Coca Cola, but
and so does the Johnny Cash estate.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
But I was wondering, like I didn't know it was
illegal to.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Or potentially something where you could get funds or money,
like you could sue someone in civil court because you're
impersonating someone.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, it's coming with an endorsement this in person. The
gives the impression that somebody that many people love loves
this other thing coke. That is a legal issue. That
is a legal issue. And I didn't realize this thing
in Tennessee. To protect those singers there it's called the
Elvis Act. That it's there for this specific purpose to
protect their name, their image, and their likeness from being
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used without their consent.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, even their AI. I saw that. Like that's they've
added that into it.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
So it's like you can't take any sort of just
version of somebody and pass it off and let people
believe perhaps it is I guess that makes sense. In
that regard, it makes sense. So we will see what happens.
But it is a nice ad. I like the ad.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It worked, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Final leg of our Turkey trot On this Thanksgiving morning,
from Piggy to Ugly. President Trump has lobbed another very
personal and ugly insult at another female reporter. This time
it is Katie Rogers of the New York Times. She
did a piece he called, did a hit piece on
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him aging and slowing down in office.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And whoof that?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You knew he wasn't going to like that.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Of course, he was not going to lay any comparison.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Maybe to Sleepy Joe, which he always likes to refer to.
Of you know, this is going to upset him, So
he put out and this one. When I first saw this,
I thought it was on camera, but that he put
this in writing, so this is going to It's not
a matter of interpreting what he says.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Did he say ugly or did he sit right?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yes, it's not there that So this is what he wrote.
Quote the writer of the story, Katie Rodgers, who is
assigned to write only bad things about me, is a
third rate reporter who is ugly both inside and out.
Despite all of this, I have my highest poll numbers ever,
and with record setting investment being made in America, they
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should only go up. There will be a day when
I run low on energy. It happens to everyone. But
with a perfect physical exam and a company coprehensive cognitive
tests that was aced just recently taken, it certainly is
not now. The reporter is ugly both inside and out.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I don't know, man, It's just it's one of those
things where you can see, like I wish he had
a little self awareness where he could see, Wow, you've
been triggered.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You see how you went off.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Your ego just spouted this off, and you've now brought
everybody down. He also wanted like he's insisting, I've never
worked so hard on my life. He just went straight
into defense mode. You see how fragile his ego is
when you see these posts.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
That's how I look at.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It, you know, I'm sure that's how Gabby burns thing
looks at it as well. If he could spend some
time with her. No, really, some things you recognize that look.
Someone said something about you, a piece was written it,
and I know it's frustrating, it's annoying. What you're the
president and you can't track down every single day something
everybody's saying. It's part of the job. But to react
in such a way that he lived to. Really, a
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woman has got to respect and if you don't like it,
she's doing her job, even if she's after you. Do
you stop and call a woman ugly in public? As
the president of the United States, that's a that's a
tough one.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
But it's it's it's so beneath the office and it's
beneath him, and it's childlike. You just imagine, it's like now, ah, now, ah,
you're ugly.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Just called a woman ugly, piggy and ugly. The president
of United States just called two women piggy and ugly
in public. And that's where we are. Well, folks, you know,
should I do the quote of the day here, you
want to do stuffing in dressing?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, first, let's do well, you know what the quote
of the day is. I don't, So you make the call.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You know what, let's do. Let's do.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Okay, what is it?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
You call it? What stuffing?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I call it stuffing?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Did you grow up calling it stuffing?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I grew up calling it stuffing because I grew up
in Michigan, and so that you understand, Like my formative
years were Michigan and Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Okay, so stuffing I grew up calling it dressing. I
grew up in the South. But how is it cooked?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Oh? Yeah, I don't stuff it in a turkey because
that cannot I understand it was initially, Yes, all of
that stuff was normally put I guess at some point
stuffed into the turkey. But as the daughter of a microbiologist,
I know that that can be potentially dangerous. There can
be salmonella, it might not be cooked all the way through.
So it's much safer to cook the stuffing outside of
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the turkey.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
What's in your stuffing?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Uh, there's it's like basically sour dough, breadcrumbs. You've got celery,
You've got chicken stock. It's delicious, a lot of herbs
and seasoning with juices. What do you get juices? Chicken stock?
I actually that's what makes it juicy instead of the turkey.
That's what it normally would have been. But yeah, we
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much safer to use chicken.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So we're having stuffing today. But we can call it dressing.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
You can call it dressing, okay, cool.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
It's always fascinating to me. My mom is up this morning,
she cooks a second turkey. The second turkey is going
to be discarded. She's only cooking it, so she needs
the used to go into the dressing. This is why
I don't make dressing. I grew up watching my grandmother
and my mom do this complicated thing that the end
of the day was the best ish I've ever had.
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I don't do dressing. Don't even attempt it, because it's
just it's too much.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Well, yes, if you're trying to get turkey juices from
a separate turkey, I understand how that might be complicated.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, No matter where you may be today, folks, if
you're having stuffing addressing, you cooking it on the inside
on the outside, what happened? It doesn't matter. It's not
the point of the day, but it's always a fun
debate stuffing or dressing. But yes, in the South, it's
all I've ever heard or known.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
That's yeah, And it's so funny because obviously I lived
in the South. But once you've already spent a certain
amount of time in another part of the country, you
have different ways of calling things. So who knows sneakers
or tennis shoesses? Tennis shoes too, and up here at sneakers, Yeah, sneakers.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Alight with that, folks, something we want you to consider
as you go about. I didn't have a Turkey themed
or Thanksgiving themes, but this is a good one as
we come a to the end of the year. Quote.
A lot of people live their life on dinner cruise mode, music, dinner, dancing, drinking,
but going no place in particular, no destination, and then
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it brings you right back to the same place you left.
I can't remember where I got that, but it was
an analogy that I appreciated with. Maybe it was where
I was in my life that Yeah, bouncing around this
looks fun, having a good time. Everything around me looks great.
But I went out, I had an adventure and wait
a minute, I end up in the exact same place.
But everything seems fun, it seems like a good time.
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I like the analogy of thinking and remembering, Wow, just
because you are moving or even having a good time,
are you really going anywhere? Are you just doing the
same route and it's bringing you right back to the
same place.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I mean that speaks to me because I obviously can
look back at certain and I'm so happy to have
had adventures and experiences, But a lot of when you
have some real and you look where you ended up,
you can understand that maybe a lot of that is
distraction from not actually having to deal with the issues
in your life or not actually growing or evolving.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You're distracting.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
So that's I mean, look, I'm the first person to
want to have a good time and to you know,
travel the world and all that stuff, and it's wonderful
as long as you can do that in combination with
doing some real traveling within some reflection within at the
same time is always helpful. But yeah, a good question
is why why am I constantly on the move? That
is something that I have been contemplating over the last
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couple of years.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Well, I didn't know would speaks to you that much.
But folks, take this with you today. A lot of
people live their life on dinner cruise mode, music, dinner, dancing, drinking,
going no place in particular, no destination, and then it
brings you right back to the same place you left.
And with that, folks, Happy Thanksgiving to you. We might
hop on and have some updates. It just you never
know how this day is going to develop. So top
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right corner of your Apple podcast app on our show page,
it says follow. Just click that button. You can get
our updates popping up on that screen anytime we put
them out, and there will be plenty throughout this weekend.
So happy Thanksgiving to you all. Appreciate you turkey trotting
with us. I'm t J.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Holan and I'm Amy Robot.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everybody,
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hello everyone,
and welcome to a Thanksgiving edition of Morning Run. It
is Thursday, November twenty seventh. Happy Turkey Day everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Holmes.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
And this is not recorded ahead of time. No no, no, no, folks,
we didn't do this a day ahead and so we
could take a break today. We are recording this on
Thanksgiving morning.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What does that make us?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It makes us dedicated, is what it makes us romant? Yes, look,
this is news. News has to stay current in our
entire careers. We have in some all the holidays, you
still have to show up to work and put on
a broadcast.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
How many Thanksgivings have you worked in your broadcasting career, dearest.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's been a while though, but yes, plenty over the years.
I like Thanksgiving because I could go in. I was
always doing mornings. I could go in, get it done.
Then I could be home by nine am eleven am.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
So it's funny.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I always volunteer to work Thanksgiving for that exact reason,
because I always want a Christmas off. So I thought
I'll volunteer for Thanksgiving because I can make it back.
I prepared all my dishes the night before, come in,
do the morning show, come back, still have time to
get everything done. I probably just gave instructions about when
to put the turkey in the oven.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Kind of a thing. So, folks, wherever you are today,
whatever you might be doing, hope you made it certainly
to your destination, okay, And I'll prepare to enjoy your
stuffing or your dressing, whatever you call it, if you're
in the northeast or the south. But enjoy it. But
rose the headline. Of course, we've been talking about weather
so much. A lot of folks traveling, another record travel season.
(01:35):
But the headline I was on I was just looking
for weather and the Weather Channel's website, the bold big
headline said, quote, travel troubles have begun. It's not a
great headline, but it's been a mess for a lot
of folks.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It certainly has one hundred and seventy million Americans dealing
with below average temps.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And what a tease.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Here in New York City, it was absolutely gorgeous yesterday.
It was like like kind of a cloudy, overcast day,
but it was in the sixties.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Perfect.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Oh, it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Not so much this morning, all right, the south, all
the way up here to New York frigid area. They
said cold and blustery, I believe was the headline on
the local TV station Texas through the Midwest and through
the planes.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It's just cold out there.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That is what was left behind with all of those
storms and cold air is going to continue through the weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
So it's gonna be a it's.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Going to be a very chilly, let's dress in layers
kind of black Friday shopping day.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It feels like an immediate like we're getting an immediate
kickoff to the Christmas season because it immediately gets cold.
So folks, you're gonna have to be dealing with that, wondering.
A lot of you ole may be wondering. We're wondering
about you ol are eating. We got some traditional stuff
that most of us. But the menu, we're just going
to share this right quick off the top, the menu
that we have to deal with today. I have fewer
(02:55):
responsibilities because I have more cooks in the house than
I'm used to, So I am only dealing with the
turkey today and I'm making a lemon marine pie which
I made last night. But that's all I got today.
I got a light day.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's nice though, because the turkey is the most important
and you need to have all your attention focused on that.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
We've got the sides, the robot girls. Ava's doing the
Russell sprouts.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Anna Lisa is my soioux chef with the green beans, stuffing,
potato baked gravy, and then I made the pumpkin swirl
cheesecake last night.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
But yeah, I call it stuffing.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And it's been dressing my whole life, and people they
get kind of fired up about it. And it's not
just regional. We're gonna close the Morning run this morning
about dressing and stuffing. It's always a fun debate to have.
But also going along for the run or our turkey
trot today on this on this Thanksgiving morning, some news
we'll have to get to about a now former Campbell's executive,
(03:48):
a death row inmate is making headlines. Also Johnny Cash
and an ugly reporter. Plus a major criminal case dropped
against President Trump. And you know this criminal case, it
gave us nothing if it didn't give us one of
the best photos I've ever seen the President Trump for
a number of reasons, but his mugshot he liked it enough.
(04:10):
He put it up places.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
He well blew it up and had it like displayed everywhere.
He was very proud of it. But we do begin
with an update out of Washington, d C. On those
two West Virginia National Guardsmen who were shot yesterday. It
happened near the White House and what authorities are calling
an ambush style attack.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And this was a big breaking new story yesterday. And
that was some confusion when it happened because someone, an official,
reported that the two had died, had passed away, but no,
they as of this recording, still in critical condition this morning.
This is being investigated by the FBA at FBI as
a possible act of terrorism. They didn't want to initially
say the name of the suspect that's out there now,
(04:49):
but they made a point, we do not want to
amplify this person who has done this, but they say
it's a twenty nine year old Afghan national. And it
immediately turned into a blame game with the White House
the Trump administration saying this is the fault of the
Biden administration because this guy got into the US on
a program that was meant to give a way to
(05:10):
enter the US for Afghan who had helped the US
there during the war against the Taliban. He got in
under that program, and the White House immediately pointed to that. Yes, however,
the guy got asylum during the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Oh yeah, so you can.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
The blame game is going on. He came into this
country in twenty twenty one. And because of the incident yesterday,
the White House has paused all Afghan citizens who are
trying to enter the United States. Anyone who was thinking
they were coming to the US, who was applying to
come for the US, all of that.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Now has been put on hold.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You cannot enter this country now legally if you are
coming in here from Afghanistan for now.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And it's too bad. This is we're used to a
blame game. But right now, these two men just doing
their job there in DC, right, and this has happened
to it, but the back and forth has already been done.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Next up on the Run, an update on another still
developing story. Yet this one was everywhere and the numbers
just keep getting worse. A deadly Hong Kong apartment fire.
The death toll has now risen to fifty five. And
when you see the images that we've been seeing, the video.
It is devastating.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
They've been at this since yesterday afternoon, so full twenty
four hours there at least local This is happening in
a suburb north of Hong Kong. But this is a
massive complex that has eight buildings, but seven of them
caught fire. One of them caught them fire and it's
spread to the other seven. Addition to the fifty five killed,
including one firefighter, seventy people have been injured. And listen ropes.
(06:42):
We see tragedies and big things like this happened in
the US. Sometimes these tragedies and there's an investigation and
it takes a while. They have already arrested three people
wow in this fire who were with the construction company
on manslaughter charges. So they have already moved along and
are placing responsibility somewhere for a nat that's a huge
(07:02):
tragic augh.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Our hearts go out to everyone there who is affected,
but also on the run this morning. Well back here
in the United States, we can put this in the
category of yeah, we totally saw this one coming.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Campbell's soup has fired.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
That VP who was caught on a recording bashing not
only the company's product, but bashing the people who buy Campbell's.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Soup bash them as poor people, he said, right, And
the food was not healthy and the chickeny compared to
being made on a three D brinner.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, he called it bioengineered meat, which is illegal in
the state of Florida and some other states here in
the United States. So it actually prompted at least the
specific state of Florida to put an investigation into Campbell's
soup products, specifically the meat they put in their soup.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And the guy we're talking about is Martin Balley, with
the VP of it over there. But the company now
says they have been able to authenticate this recording that
is out there that allegedly you hear him making all
of these comments. This is all a part of a
lawsuit and employee got fired that he was wrongly terminated,
and he had recorded a meeting he had with this VP,
and it is out there, and it is awful to
(08:12):
have somebody this high up in the company saying the
product is that terrible and unhealthy and he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Buy it, making racist comments about some of the employees.
I mean, it was horrific. I always just think if
they had just taken mister Garza was his name. If
they had just taken his complaints seriously, if they had
just investigated what he said he was told and what
he heard, this all in terms of the publicity, the
horrific publicity could.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Have all been avoided, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Next up on the run, the number of babies who
have been sickened and that baby formula bochelism outbreak has
now risen. Thirty seven babies now have officially been connected
to this botulism outbreak.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
The good news is none of those babies have died.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
But certainly, when your baby goes in the hospital because
of the food you're putting in them, there is no
I mean, I can't think of anything more horrific for
a parent to know that they actually put this into
their child unknowingly.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
They're still trying to track it down. Don't know where
this came from, but by heart a couple of days
ago said we can't say that anything we have is safe.
They have essentially said they can't track it down. They've
tested and now they think every single bit of product
they have.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
The lawsuits alone has started.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's yes, and they will be growing most certainly because
this goes back They said at least nine months.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That is crazy, right, Continuing on our run here now
with a death row inmate who has died, but not
by execution. Robot and I have been if you've been
following us, it has been kind of an extraordinary and
record setting year in a lot of ways and executions
in this country, and this was one. We had an
ion for Ralph Leroy Menzi's He was sixty seven years old.
(09:51):
But he's been on death row for a while and
he is now dead.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yes, but not because the state executed him.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
He's been on death row for thirty seven years and
he was said to be executed. This is It made
a lot of headlines because yes, he was about to
be executed by firing squad. That was supposed to happen
in September, but that execution was postponed because his lawyers
were able to prove and had doctors testify that he
was suffering from dementia, so they postponed.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
They stayed his execution.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
And turns out yes, now he has officially died of
natural causes. He was convicted in nine of a nineteen
eighty six kidnapping and murder of a mother of three.
The victim's family has been notified that he has passed
away in prison, but certainly not the end that most
people would have expected. Thirty seven years on death row.
(10:44):
We keep talking about these stories, and look, we have
this death penalty in our country, but we haven't been
following through.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
We haven't been Actually, we.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Punish them and convict them, but we don't actually carry
out the punishment.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
And some argue that the and it's not a deterrent,
it's because we don't use it, we don't implement it.
Thirty seven years on death row is wild. All right, folks,
stay with us here on this Thanksgiving Day run. When
we come back, we're gonna lighten things up a little bit.
First of all, we'll get into the dressing versus stuffing debate.
(11:19):
It's not really that heated of a debate in his house. Actually. Also,
maybe my favorite picture of Donald Trump. He likes it too.
But the case that brought us that photo, well, the
case is gone. Also, Johnny Cash is in a legal
fight with Coca Cola. And he called one reporter piggy.
(11:39):
He's now called another one ugly. All right, folks, we
continue on this Thanksgiving Day morning run, and next up,
after all that folks, That Georgia election interfer's case is over.
(12:00):
It's dropped, done, moved on. We've been dealing with this
for years. Yes, that case where Trump and eighteen others
were charged and all had pleaded not guilty to trying
to overturn the election results. That case has been thrown out.
A new prosecutor was put on the case. You remember
the other one, Fanny Willis. She all that controversy and
she got caught up in a scandal because she was
(12:21):
dating a guy who she had hired to work on
the case. Blah blah blah, all of that, folks, And
it's just over now. We went through all of that
and the case has now been dropped. But that was
the case robe that gave us that famous Trump muck shot.
Quite frankly, it might be the best muck shot I've
ever seen in my life, I.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Know, And leave it to Trump to have like the
most powerfully looking.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
He looked like he was in charge.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yes, he looked like he was commanding a presence while
he was getting his mugshot.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
The lighting was even good, it was.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, bizarrely, so you are correct. Normally that's like the
worst possible lighting ever. But I thought it was interesting
to judge of his reasoning for making his ruling was,
in my professional judgment, the citizens of Georgia are not
served by pursuing this case in full for another five
to ten years.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I actually do appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Sentiment that at the end of the day, this is
all incredibly expensive and time consuming, where we could be
pursuing other, perhaps more important.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Cases, and there will be somebody out there arguing that, no,
you can't let this go, you have to pursue justice
at all. That there's somebody who would make that argument.
But this is a judge making that. This has been
going on for.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
A long and Trump took his victory lap on social
Of course he did, of course he did all right.
Next up on the Run, I actually watched this advertisement
because I don't remember seeing it, but it's led to
a lawsuit Johnny Cash versus Coca Cola. The Johnny Cash
estate is suing Coca Cola because they say this advertisement
(13:54):
is basically fooling customers or fooling folks who are watching
this adveragie into believing they are listening to Johnny Cash
endorsing Coca Cola. There is a sound alike singer, and
I have to say, I was like, I gotta listen
to this for myself, and absolutely I would have thought
it was Johnny Cash.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
See, Okay, so it's clear according to the Johnny Cash
or state, what Coca Cola was trying to do. And
I didn't realize they actually it's not just a thing
where they use somebody who has a This is someone
who does this. They say this is a tribute singer
to Johnny Cash. So clearly they want us to think
this is Johnny Cash, do they not?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Uh? Yes? And I was trying to think about the
legality of that.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I mean, obviously they have their beliefs Coca Cola, but
and so does the Johnny Cash estate.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
But I was wondering, like I didn't know it was
illegal to.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Or potentially something where you could get funds or money,
like you could sue someone in civil court because you're
impersonating someone.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, it's coming with an endorsement this in person. The
gives the impression that somebody that many people love loves
this other thing coke. That is a legal issue. That
is a legal issue. And I didn't realize this thing
in Tennessee. To protect those singers there it's called the
Elvis Act. That it's there for this specific purpose to
protect their name, their image, and their likeness from being
(15:17):
used without their consent.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, even their AI. I saw that. Like that's they've
added that into it.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
So it's like you can't take any sort of just
version of somebody and pass it off and let people
believe perhaps it is I guess that makes sense. In
that regard, it makes sense. So we will see what happens.
But it is a nice ad. I like the ad.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It worked, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Final leg of our Turkey trot On this Thanksgiving morning,
from Piggy to Ugly. President Trump has lobbed another very
personal and ugly insult at another female reporter. This time
it is Katie Rogers of the New York Times. She
did a piece he called, did a hit piece on
(16:03):
him aging and slowing down in office.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And whoof that?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You knew he wasn't going to like that.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Of course, he was not going to lay any comparison.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Maybe to Sleepy Joe, which he always likes to refer to.
Of you know, this is going to upset him, So
he put out and this one. When I first saw this,
I thought it was on camera, but that he put
this in writing, so this is going to It's not
a matter of interpreting what he says.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Did he say ugly or did he sit right?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yes, it's not there that So this is what he wrote.
Quote the writer of the story, Katie Rodgers, who is
assigned to write only bad things about me, is a
third rate reporter who is ugly both inside and out.
Despite all of this, I have my highest poll numbers ever,
and with record setting investment being made in America, they
(16:51):
should only go up. There will be a day when
I run low on energy. It happens to everyone. But
with a perfect physical exam and a company coprehensive cognitive
tests that was aced just recently taken, it certainly is
not now. The reporter is ugly both inside and out.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I don't know, man, It's just it's one of those
things where you can see, like I wish he had
a little self awareness where he could see, Wow, you've
been triggered.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You see how you went off.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Your ego just spouted this off, and you've now brought
everybody down. He also wanted like he's insisting, I've never
worked so hard on my life. He just went straight
into defense mode. You see how fragile his ego is
when you see these posts.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
That's how I look at.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It, you know, I'm sure that's how Gabby burns thing
looks at it as well. If he could spend some
time with her. No, really, some things you recognize that look.
Someone said something about you, a piece was written it,
and I know it's frustrating, it's annoying. What you're the
president and you can't track down every single day something
everybody's saying. It's part of the job. But to react
in such a way that he lived to. Really, a
(17:57):
woman has got to respect and if you don't like it,
she's doing her job, even if she's after you. Do
you stop and call a woman ugly in public? As
the president of the United States, that's a that's a
tough one.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
But it's it's it's so beneath the office and it's
beneath him, and it's childlike. You just imagine, it's like now, ah, now, ah,
you're ugly.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Just called a woman ugly, piggy and ugly. The president
of United States just called two women piggy and ugly
in public. And that's where we are. Well, folks, you know,
should I do the quote of the day here, you
want to do stuffing in dressing?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, first, let's do well, you know what the quote
of the day is. I don't, So you make the call.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You know what, let's do. Let's do.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Okay, what is it?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
You call it? What stuffing?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I call it stuffing?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Did you grow up calling it stuffing?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I grew up calling it stuffing because I grew up
in Michigan, and so that you understand, Like my formative
years were Michigan and Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Okay, so stuffing I grew up calling it dressing. I
grew up in the South. But how is it cooked?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Oh? Yeah, I don't stuff it in a turkey because
that cannot I understand it was initially, Yes, all of
that stuff was normally put I guess at some point
stuffed into the turkey. But as the daughter of a microbiologist,
I know that that can be potentially dangerous. There can
be salmonella, it might not be cooked all the way through.
So it's much safer to cook the stuffing outside of
(19:22):
the turkey.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
What's in your stuffing?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Uh, there's it's like basically sour dough, breadcrumbs. You've got celery,
You've got chicken stock. It's delicious, a lot of herbs
and seasoning with juices. What do you get juices? Chicken stock?
I actually that's what makes it juicy instead of the turkey.
That's what it normally would have been. But yeah, we
(19:45):
much safer to use chicken.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So we're having stuffing today. But we can call it dressing.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
You can call it dressing, okay, cool.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
It's always fascinating to me. My mom is up this morning,
she cooks a second turkey. The second turkey is going
to be discarded. She's only cooking it, so she needs
the used to go into the dressing. This is why
I don't make dressing. I grew up watching my grandmother
and my mom do this complicated thing that the end
of the day was the best ish I've ever had.
(20:11):
I don't do dressing. Don't even attempt it, because it's
just it's too much.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Well, yes, if you're trying to get turkey juices from
a separate turkey, I understand how that might be complicated.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, No matter where you may be today, folks, if
you're having stuffing addressing, you cooking it on the inside
on the outside, what happened? It doesn't matter. It's not
the point of the day, but it's always a fun
debate stuffing or dressing. But yes, in the South, it's
all I've ever heard or known.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
That's yeah, And it's so funny because obviously I lived
in the South. But once you've already spent a certain
amount of time in another part of the country, you
have different ways of calling things. So who knows sneakers
or tennis shoesses? Tennis shoes too, and up here at sneakers, Yeah, sneakers.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Alight with that, folks, something we want you to consider
as you go about. I didn't have a Turkey themed
or Thanksgiving themes, but this is a good one as
we come a to the end of the year. Quote.
A lot of people live their life on dinner cruise mode, music, dinner, dancing, drinking,
but going no place in particular, no destination, and then
(21:15):
it brings you right back to the same place you left.
I can't remember where I got that, but it was
an analogy that I appreciated with. Maybe it was where
I was in my life that Yeah, bouncing around this
looks fun, having a good time. Everything around me looks great.
But I went out, I had an adventure and wait
a minute, I end up in the exact same place.
But everything seems fun, it seems like a good time.
(21:38):
I like the analogy of thinking and remembering, Wow, just
because you are moving or even having a good time,
are you really going anywhere? Are you just doing the
same route and it's bringing you right back to the
same place.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I mean that speaks to me because I obviously can
look back at certain and I'm so happy to have
had adventures and experiences, But a lot of when you
have some real and you look where you ended up,
you can understand that maybe a lot of that is
distraction from not actually having to deal with the issues
in your life or not actually growing or evolving.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You're distracting.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
So that's I mean, look, I'm the first person to
want to have a good time and to you know,
travel the world and all that stuff, and it's wonderful
as long as you can do that in combination with
doing some real traveling within some reflection within at the
same time is always helpful. But yeah, a good question
is why why am I constantly on the move? That
is something that I have been contemplating over the last
(22:33):
couple of years.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Well, I didn't know would speaks to you that much.
But folks, take this with you today. A lot of
people live their life on dinner cruise mode, music, dinner, dancing, drinking,
going no place in particular, no destination, and then it
brings you right back to the same place you left.
And with that, folks, Happy Thanksgiving to you. We might
hop on and have some updates. It just you never
know how this day is going to develop. So top
(22:55):
right corner of your Apple podcast app on our show page,
it says follow. Just click that button. You can get
our updates popping up on that screen anytime we put
them out, and there will be plenty throughout this weekend.
So happy Thanksgiving to you all. Appreciate you turkey trotting
with us. I'm t J.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Holan and I'm Amy Robot.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everybody,
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