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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. We made it
to Friday. It's August fifteenth. Happy birthday, mama, and I.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Made me a robox and yes, happy birthday, Mama Robock.
I'm TJ. Holmes. What's your sleep score or ring? Which
you got today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Seventy two? It's getting a little worse each day, but
I'm going to bring it back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay, And I didn't wear my ring last night. That's
all good. I was doing so feeling pretty good on Friday,
though a lot of you would feel pretty good if
you knew you had seventy five one hundred dollars coming
to you courtesy of your phone company. Yes, class action
settlement for AT and T customers, you could be eligible
(00:46):
for seventy five hundred dollars back. Now, am I not
telling the story right? Because they really make you jump
through a lot of hoops to get that money.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yes, well, you have to earn everything you get, right,
so they made you earn it, But yes it is.
You are eligible if you can prove that you were
in some way affected or impacted by their security breach.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, it won't be easy, folks, But yes, you are
eligible for the seventy five hundred. Also, everybody is all
over the DC mayor right now. The city's been taken
over by the Feds. A lot of criticism coming her
way because not because of the job she's doing, but
because of where she happened to go Martha's Vigion. Yeah,
in the middle of the chaos this week she went
(01:25):
to Martha's Vigion. Rose. This is one of those give
me a Frickin' break segments. Just people take a beat
and we'll explaining where she was and why she was there.
And I think maybe the criticism should change.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
No, yes, and the headlines are really misleading. Yes, we'll
get into all of that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Also, this morning, that road trip's getting expensive being on
the run. All those Democrats they get charged five hundred
dollars a day. So those Texas Democrats, yes, they've been
on the run six grand right now, if they've been
fined every day they've been gone, Wow, six dollars that's
not cheap. We'll tell you why they're considering going back
and why now some Republicans in California might be the
(02:04):
next to be on the run. And roadblock is a
clear and present danger. Really that sounds strong.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's according to the Louisiana Attorney General. But when you
hear the lawsuit that they have now filed against roadblocks,
it's very scary. Parents need to be listening.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
All right. Also, someone with the last name Biden was
asked about somebody with the last name Trump and started
dropping F bombs. I get that story, right.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
That's exactly righted it.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I was misleading as well because I'm talking about Hunter
Biden talking about Milania Trump. Why was all that necessary?
We'll get into that.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Also, on the run this morning, there's been another death
in that Legionaire outbreak here in New York City, and
DC police just got new orders. Don't follow Pam Bondi's orders.
That should be fun. And want to boost your podcast listenership,
well all you have to do is have Taylor Swift
on your show.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, that's we've been busting our that's all this strategy,
trying to build our podcast empire. That's all we gotta do.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
That's all we need to do.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So well, hell, we were doing it all wrong. But
we'll explain just how big the numbers were. You know
what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yes, but we do begin our run on this Friday
with Trump and Putin. It's happening today in Alaska. They
are highly anticipated, high stakes face to face meeting scheduled
to start at three thirty Eastern time today and it
could be over by three thirty two.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah. Remember the President said that he'd know in the
first two minutes of their face to face meeting whether
or not a peace deal would be possible. The White
House has tempered expectations about what will come out of
this meeting, but still this hope that this meeting could
be a significant step towards ending that three and a
half year war between Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, the meeting is happening at an air force base
in Alaska. The two men will meet one on one
and then they'll have a working lunch with their delegations,
and then Putin and Trump will hold a joint press conference.
Everybody wait for it. That should be good. That is
must appointment television. Oh today, our hole day needs to
be scheduled right around that, all right, Next upon the run.
D C is fighting back after the Trump administration tried
(04:07):
to appoint an emergency police Commissioner of the DC Metropolitan Police.
President Trump this week declared a public safety emergency and
ordered eight hundred National Guard troops to the city to
deter crime. He also invoked emergency powers, which allows the
government to federalize the DC Police.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yes, so he's a put Attorney General Pam Bondi in
charge of this whole effort. So she has now appointed
the current DEA administrator, Terry Cole, as the new emergency
Commissioner of DC Police, essentially giving him control over DC Police.
The city's response to that, slow your roll and a
letter the city's top lawyer reminds the city's police chief
(04:48):
you are still the police chief, and instructs the police
chief to ignore any order about that coming from Attorney
General Bondy that says anything otherwise.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Possibly go wrong. In his words, the Bondie order is
unlawful and you are not legally obligated to follow it.
The city's argument is that the law doesn't call for
an emergency commissioner, it only requires the city to make
DC Police available on their president's orders.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It's getting legal up in here, all right. Meanwhile, all
this is going on in DC. I know you've turned
your television on and looked at that screen. You cannot
get away from the pictures of seeing National Guard troops
on the ground in DC. So all that was going
on in the city, the city's mayor went to Martha's Vineyard. Yes,
in the midst of a federal takeover of her city
(05:36):
and a crackdown on crime, Mayor Muriel Bowser went to
Martha's vineyard. The headlines are everywhere, and a lot of
them aren't kind of course, as you could imagine roads,
but they're using words like she escapes, she skips town.
The mayor is vacationing in Martha's vinyard. Why the chaos ensues?
While the mayor herself explained why she went to Martha's vineyard.
(05:59):
And she did this in a well laid out tweet.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Rote all right here, we're going to quote her here
from the mayor. Friends. As you know, I'm both a
mom and a mayor, raising a delightful seven year old
on my own. This week, I canceled a scheduled family
trip to lead our city's crisis management efforts. I also
made the more difficult decision to not disrupt my daughter's
camp plans. I needed to get her on Wednesday after
work and bring her home, which I will do tomorrow.
(06:23):
I am in constant contact with my senior team and
have been in constant consultation with our partners throughout a
short swing out of the district. So end of story. There,
she's gone. I guess that would put her gone for
two nights as she traveled to Martha's Vineyard to get
her daughter.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Should that be the end of it?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yes, it should be.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Okay, that's what do you do in this state? Is
not like the city is on fire necessarily, right.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
She's a mom first and a mayor second.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But where is the criticism ever supposed to come? We
talk about this, and she is balancing and doing the
best she can. She's on her own, doesn't have any
other help, just any Maybe people didn't look into it
well enough. You know what if she had gone to
Cleveland to pick up her daughter, No, it might not
be the same headline. Correct?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Correct? Martha's Vineyard sounds very exclusive, very yes, so it's
easy to throw stones.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
All right, We'll continue on the run here on this
Friday morning with First Lady Milania Trump. She demanded an
apology from Hunter Biden for alleging that Jeffrey Epstein introduced
her to her now husband Donald Trump. Her lawyers even
sent a letter to Biden calling his claim untrue and
extremely salacious, and threatened a billion with a b dollar
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lawsuit if he refused to retract it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
So yesterday, Hunter Biden responded with an expletive. Specifically, he said,
and I won't say the word F that, but he
actually said the F word. F that. That's not going
to happen. Biden returned to Andrew Callahan's YouTube program on Thursday,
where last month he made those comments about how the
First Lady and the President met.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yden said he was only going by what people are
saying and cited a Trump biographer who wrote about the
introduction in his book. The Daily Beast even took down
its article about the book's claim after receiving a similar
letter from Malania Trump's lawyer, and issued an apology for
any confusion or misunderstanding.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So Biden went on to say that if Milania and
President Trump want to sit down for a deposition and
clarify the nature of the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein, if
the President and the First Lady want to do that,
I'm more than happy to provide them the platform to
be able to do it. So he's welcoming this lawsuit
with the depositions that will ensue. A spokesperson, this is
actually kind of funny. A spokesperson from Malania Trump responded
(08:40):
to Hunter Biden's comments, stating that the true account of
how the First Lady met President Trump is in her
best selling book.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Milania put that in there.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yes, I thought that was kind of funny. And by
the way, in her book it does say that they
met Milania and Trump meant at a nineteen ninety eight
fashion Week party in New York, and they were introduced
by a modeling agent, not by Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Okay, all right, continuing that on this Friday, run with
the Texas Democrats, who've been on the run for a
couple of weeks, now they might finally be heading home.
They've been on the run since August third, when they
left their state in mass in order to prevent state
Republicans from passing a redistricting bill that could potentially give
Republicans five more seats in Congress.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
The runaway Democrats put out a statement yesterday laying out conditions,
if you will, for their return to the state. At
this point, they know the jig is up and they're
trying to save face and claim some victory of some kind.
The victory, I guess is that they got national attention
on the issue.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yes, they brought attention.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They did do that, They absolutely did that. Well, the
unfortunate part of all of this is, you know what's
awaiting them when they get back to Texas the exact
same issue that they were running away from.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
See, here's the thing. They were staying on the run
until the special session ran out. It's thirty days. So
that special session is slated to end today, and you
know what Republican is going to do when it ends,
immediately call another one that starts today and once again
take up the redistricting legislation. So unless state Democrats want
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to literally stay on the run for the next year
or so, this is going to keep happening over and
over again because they can keep calling special sessions and
that's it. And it's getting expensive. If it's five hundred
a day, do some general math there. Fifty of them
been on the run for two weeks, it's like three
hundred grand. Wow, they've been charged.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
State of Texas just got a boost to its budget,
all right. Meanwhile, California wants in on all of the
redistricting action. Governor Gavin Newsom announced the Election Rigging Response Act,
which is meant to put the state on the path
to redrawing their congressional districts and create enough new seats
for Democrats in order to offset any Republican gains from
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the redistricting will be going on likely in Texas.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Hope this is not what happens every state. Now, Republican
and Democratic are going to start this fight over numbers.
All right. It's a bit of an uphill climb though
for the folks in California, and they are all up
against the clock a little bit. In California, there's an
independent commission that controls the redistricting process, not the legislature.
(11:23):
So they first have to pass legislation to circumvent that process,
and then they have to put the issue before voters,
and they have to do all this. They try to
get it on the November ballot because you need it
pass this year in order to impact the midterms next year. Ah,
so that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Good luck to them all right. Next up on the Run,
we are heading to Manhattan, where city officials announced another
legionnaire's death and a growing number of cases. Four people
have now died, ninety nine others have been sickened. Seventeen
of them remain hospitalized from this outbreak.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Legionnaire's disease calls its flu like symptoms. It's treatable with antibiotics,
but if left untreated, it can lead to shock and
multi organ failure. Health officials say they have identified twelve
cooling towers that are responsible for spreading the disease. You
get Legionnaire's disease by breathing in contaminated water vapor.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So mayor Eric Adams actually for the first time revealed
which buildings in Harlem are actually affected. Kind of scary here.
The Harlem Hospital is one of them. Another building houses
of whole foods with lots of retail stores. There's another
building with medical offices. So I was imagining these were
apartment buildings, residents buildings, but they're not. So a lot
(12:33):
of people have come in and out, and if you're
breathing the air, you could possibly be breathing in Legionnaire's disease.
That's scary. Now, Adam said, all but one cooling tower
have been cleaned and that final tower will be finished.
That that cleaning later today, so they say, by the
end of the day today all the water towers will
be cleaned and should not have Legionnaire's disease in them.
(12:56):
But we shall see.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
All right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this
Friday round. When we come back. Louisiana says that that
game that your kids love, right, Roadblocks, wonderful app it's
actually a clear and present danger to your children. Will
get into that. Also, you might be eligible for seventy
five hundred dollars from AT and T, but they're going
(13:19):
to make you work for it. And it turns out
all you gotta do to have a successful podcast is
get Taylor Swift on it. All right, let's continue on
our run. Now, let's head down to the Bayou. Louisiana
or the state is suing Roadblocks because it claims the
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gaming platform has become the perfect place for pedophiles. Their words,
Louisiana's Attorney General maintains Roadblocks intentionally or recklessly designed a
platform with no age verification process, and that allows people
to create accounts with fake birthdays.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
So that means adults can easily pose as children and
kids can easily say they're older bypassing the controls for
users under the age of thirteen. So Roadblocks has a
huge number of games and experiences if you don't know
that users actually can personally design along with real time messaging.
The lawsuit points to a number of sexually explicit experiences
(14:19):
that have been created that are on the platform now
and name some of them just to give you an idea.
One of them is called Escape to Epstein Island. Another
one Diddy Party, another one public bathroom simulator vibe.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
That's some like something a child is even aware Escape
to Epstein Island, Like, why that just doesn't seem like
some of the kid would.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
No, an adult who's posing as a kid puts something
like this on there, and I don't think younger kids
probably don't even know what Epstein Island is. They think
it's some fun escape to an island and jumps on it.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh againness the Adoorney General I had this to say
about it. Every parent should be aware of the clear
and present danger posed to their children by Roadblocks, so
they can prevent the unthinkable from ever happening in their
own home. According to Roadblocks and report, twenty percent of
its eighty two million users are under the age of nine.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
That's scary right now. Roadblocks wouldn't comment specifically on this lawsuit,
but it did say this, while no system is perfect,
Roadblocks has implemented rigorous technology and enforcement safeguards, including restrictions
on sharing personal information links and user to user image sharing.
The safety of our community is a top priority, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Continuing on our run now on this Friday morning, a
one hundred and seventy seven million dollars settlement against AT
and T and seventy five hundred dollars of that could
be yours. The company settled a couple of class action
lawsuits related to two data breaches in twenty twenty four,
in which customer birthdays and social Security numbers were taken
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and call and text logs were also exposed.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That is scary stuff. The company says. People impacted by
the first breach are eligible to receive a payment of
up to five thousand dollars. Those impacted by the second
breach get up to twenty five hundred dollars. Customers should
get a notice via email letting you know if you
were impacted by the breach and how to file your claim,
which you have to do by November eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Sounds simple enough. However, the company says, you have to
prove you deserve the money. So here's the thing. You
have to show you have credible financial losses first, and
then you have to show that those losses are quote
fairly traceable to the AT and T data breaches.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That's tough when you're supposed to be your own PI,
your own investigator. Like, how do you know?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
That seems like a high bar, right.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yes, that's the big catch. There always is a catch.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
The good luck folks, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
For the final leg of our run. Turns out having
Taylor Swift on your podcast helps boost your podcast like
a lot. The latest episode of the Kelsey Brothers New
Heights podcast featuring Taylor has, as of this recording, racked
up nearly fifteen million views.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It's the most popular episode of the podcast ever, duh,
and according to Spotify, it generated a three thousand percent
increase in new listeners and the number of female listeners
jumped six hundred and eighteen percent. Taylor announced, of course,
her new album The Life of a Showgirl on the
episode and talked for more than two hours, and this
(17:30):
apparently also the longest interview she's ever done.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yes, I mean it makes sense, why, how and where
she did it? Was it an interview, It was a conversation.
It was a safe conversation, and that's why she did it.
But the episode was so popular the live stream if
you guys were watching, you know, it crashed near the
end of the podcast, right when she pulled out her
new album cover. The New Heights X account tweeted this,
shout out all the ninety two percent in swifties for
(17:55):
actually helping us break the internet.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, so ratulations At some point because we do a
lot of relationship episodes and talk here, I would love
to go through it and find all the relationship nuggets
and signs and green flags, as they say. I just
I haven't seen them really interact other than on a
football field.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
People. There were even some mean headlines and we know
what this feels like. Oh that they were discussing with
their PDA, and I was just like, people are so
jealous when people are happy. I really believe that we've
had some of that incoming as well as like if
two people are happy and are touching each other, it's
not gross or they weren't even being gross. They kissed. Oh,
(18:38):
people were upset that they kissed. They were Yeah, and
I just thought, if you are angry at love, you
need to look within.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
All right? And with that, folks, that should be our
quote of the day. Can we go with that? If
you are angry at love, you need to look within.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Yeah. If seeing two people happy and and love pisss
you have another problem that you need to deal with,
all right.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But we're not gonna leave you with that quote, folks.
We're gonna do something, hopefully a little more positive. Yes,
this is what we would like for you to consider
as you go about your Friday. It is our quote
of the day.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy
things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Isn't that so true?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Will Rogers?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Will Rogers said.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
This, think of all that you do trying to impress
somebody you don't even like or no. Oh man, Yes,
this is a good one and oldly but a good one,
but a goodie to always hold on to. Too many
people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they
don't want to impress people they don't like. That's a
(19:45):
good one. And with that, folks, we always appreciate you
running with us. It's been a hell of a week.
Hope you've had a good week, but yes, always appreciate
you running with us.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I'm TJ Holt and I'm Amy Robock. Have a great Friday, everybody,
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. We made it
to Friday. It's August fifteenth. Happy birthday, mama, and I.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Made me a robox and yes, happy birthday, Mama Robock.
I'm TJ. Holmes. What's your sleep score or ring? Which
you got today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Seventy two? It's getting a little worse each day, but
I'm going to bring it back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay, And I didn't wear my ring last night. That's
all good. I was doing so feeling pretty good on Friday,
though a lot of you would feel pretty good if
you knew you had seventy five one hundred dollars coming
to you courtesy of your phone company. Yes, class action
settlement for AT and T customers, you could be eligible
(00:46):
for seventy five hundred dollars back. Now, am I not
telling the story right? Because they really make you jump
through a lot of hoops to get that money.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yes, well, you have to earn everything you get, right,
so they made you earn it, But yes it is.
You are eligible if you can prove that you were
in some way affected or impacted by their security breach.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, it won't be easy, folks, But yes, you are
eligible for the seventy five hundred. Also, everybody is all
over the DC mayor right now. The city's been taken
over by the Feds. A lot of criticism coming her
way because not because of the job she's doing, but
because of where she happened to go Martha's Vigion. Yeah,
in the middle of the chaos this week she went
(01:25):
to Martha's Vigion. Rose. This is one of those give
me a Frickin' break segments. Just people take a beat
and we'll explaining where she was and why she was there.
And I think maybe the criticism should change.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
No, yes, and the headlines are really misleading. Yes, we'll
get into all of that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Also, this morning, that road trip's getting expensive being on
the run. All those Democrats they get charged five hundred
dollars a day. So those Texas Democrats, yes, they've been
on the run six grand right now, if they've been
fined every day they've been gone, Wow, six dollars that's
not cheap. We'll tell you why they're considering going back
and why now some Republicans in California might be the
(02:04):
next to be on the run. And roadblock is a
clear and present danger. Really that sounds strong.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's according to the Louisiana Attorney General. But when you
hear the lawsuit that they have now filed against roadblocks,
it's very scary. Parents need to be listening.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
All right. Also, someone with the last name Biden was
asked about somebody with the last name Trump and started
dropping F bombs. I get that story, right.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
That's exactly righted it.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I was misleading as well because I'm talking about Hunter
Biden talking about Milania Trump. Why was all that necessary?
We'll get into that.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Also, on the run this morning, there's been another death
in that Legionaire outbreak here in New York City, and
DC police just got new orders. Don't follow Pam Bondi's orders.
That should be fun. And want to boost your podcast listenership,
well all you have to do is have Taylor Swift
on your show.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, that's we've been busting our that's all this strategy,
trying to build our podcast empire. That's all we gotta do.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
That's all we need to do.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So well, hell, we were doing it all wrong. But
we'll explain just how big the numbers were. You know
what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yes, but we do begin our run on this Friday
with Trump and Putin. It's happening today in Alaska. They
are highly anticipated, high stakes face to face meeting scheduled
to start at three thirty Eastern time today and it
could be over by three thirty two.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah. Remember the President said that he'd know in the
first two minutes of their face to face meeting whether
or not a peace deal would be possible. The White
House has tempered expectations about what will come out of
this meeting, but still this hope that this meeting could
be a significant step towards ending that three and a
half year war between Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, the meeting is happening at an air force base
in Alaska. The two men will meet one on one
and then they'll have a working lunch with their delegations,
and then Putin and Trump will hold a joint press conference.
Everybody wait for it. That should be good. That is
must appointment television. Oh today, our hole day needs to
be scheduled right around that, all right, Next upon the run.
D C is fighting back after the Trump administration tried
(04:07):
to appoint an emergency police Commissioner of the DC Metropolitan Police.
President Trump this week declared a public safety emergency and
ordered eight hundred National Guard troops to the city to
deter crime. He also invoked emergency powers, which allows the
government to federalize the DC Police.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yes, so he's a put Attorney General Pam Bondi in
charge of this whole effort. So she has now appointed
the current DEA administrator, Terry Cole, as the new emergency
Commissioner of DC Police, essentially giving him control over DC Police.
The city's response to that, slow your roll and a
letter the city's top lawyer reminds the city's police chief
(04:48):
you are still the police chief, and instructs the police
chief to ignore any order about that coming from Attorney
General Bondy that says anything otherwise.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Possibly go wrong. In his words, the Bondie order is
unlawful and you are not legally obligated to follow it.
The city's argument is that the law doesn't call for
an emergency commissioner, it only requires the city to make
DC Police available on their president's orders.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It's getting legal up in here, all right. Meanwhile, all
this is going on in DC. I know you've turned
your television on and looked at that screen. You cannot
get away from the pictures of seeing National Guard troops
on the ground in DC. So all that was going
on in the city, the city's mayor went to Martha's Vineyard. Yes,
in the midst of a federal takeover of her city
(05:36):
and a crackdown on crime, Mayor Muriel Bowser went to
Martha's vineyard. The headlines are everywhere, and a lot of
them aren't kind of course, as you could imagine roads,
but they're using words like she escapes, she skips town.
The mayor is vacationing in Martha's vinyard. Why the chaos ensues?
While the mayor herself explained why she went to Martha's vineyard.
(05:59):
And she did this in a well laid out tweet.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Rote all right here, we're going to quote her here
from the mayor. Friends. As you know, I'm both a
mom and a mayor, raising a delightful seven year old
on my own. This week, I canceled a scheduled family
trip to lead our city's crisis management efforts. I also
made the more difficult decision to not disrupt my daughter's
camp plans. I needed to get her on Wednesday after
work and bring her home, which I will do tomorrow.
(06:23):
I am in constant contact with my senior team and
have been in constant consultation with our partners throughout a
short swing out of the district. So end of story. There,
she's gone. I guess that would put her gone for
two nights as she traveled to Martha's Vineyard to get
her daughter.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Should that be the end of it?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yes, it should be.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Okay, that's what do you do in this state? Is
not like the city is on fire necessarily, right.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
She's a mom first and a mayor second.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But where is the criticism ever supposed to come? We
talk about this, and she is balancing and doing the
best she can. She's on her own, doesn't have any
other help, just any Maybe people didn't look into it
well enough. You know what if she had gone to
Cleveland to pick up her daughter, No, it might not
be the same headline. Correct?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Correct? Martha's Vineyard sounds very exclusive, very yes, so it's
easy to throw stones.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
All right, We'll continue on the run here on this
Friday morning with First Lady Milania Trump. She demanded an
apology from Hunter Biden for alleging that Jeffrey Epstein introduced
her to her now husband Donald Trump. Her lawyers even
sent a letter to Biden calling his claim untrue and
extremely salacious, and threatened a billion with a b dollar
(07:36):
lawsuit if he refused to retract it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
So yesterday, Hunter Biden responded with an expletive. Specifically, he said,
and I won't say the word F that, but he
actually said the F word. F that. That's not going
to happen. Biden returned to Andrew Callahan's YouTube program on Thursday,
where last month he made those comments about how the
First Lady and the President met.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yden said he was only going by what people are
saying and cited a Trump biographer who wrote about the
introduction in his book. The Daily Beast even took down
its article about the book's claim after receiving a similar
letter from Malania Trump's lawyer, and issued an apology for
any confusion or misunderstanding.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So Biden went on to say that if Milania and
President Trump want to sit down for a deposition and
clarify the nature of the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein, if
the President and the First Lady want to do that,
I'm more than happy to provide them the platform to
be able to do it. So he's welcoming this lawsuit
with the depositions that will ensue. A spokesperson, this is
actually kind of funny. A spokesperson from Malania Trump responded
(08:40):
to Hunter Biden's comments, stating that the true account of
how the First Lady met President Trump is in her
best selling book.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Milania put that in there.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yes, I thought that was kind of funny. And by
the way, in her book it does say that they
met Milania and Trump meant at a nineteen ninety eight
fashion Week party in New York, and they were introduced
by a modeling agent, not by Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Okay, all right, continuing that on this Friday, run with
the Texas Democrats, who've been on the run for a
couple of weeks, now they might finally be heading home.
They've been on the run since August third, when they
left their state in mass in order to prevent state
Republicans from passing a redistricting bill that could potentially give
Republicans five more seats in Congress.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
The runaway Democrats put out a statement yesterday laying out conditions,
if you will, for their return to the state. At
this point, they know the jig is up and they're
trying to save face and claim some victory of some kind.
The victory, I guess is that they got national attention
on the issue.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yes, they brought attention.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They did do that, They absolutely did that. Well, the
unfortunate part of all of this is, you know what's
awaiting them when they get back to Texas the exact
same issue that they were running away from.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
See, here's the thing. They were staying on the run
until the special session ran out. It's thirty days. So
that special session is slated to end today, and you
know what Republican is going to do when it ends,
immediately call another one that starts today and once again
take up the redistricting legislation. So unless state Democrats want
(10:18):
to literally stay on the run for the next year
or so, this is going to keep happening over and
over again because they can keep calling special sessions and
that's it. And it's getting expensive. If it's five hundred
a day, do some general math there. Fifty of them
been on the run for two weeks, it's like three
hundred grand. Wow, they've been charged.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
State of Texas just got a boost to its budget,
all right. Meanwhile, California wants in on all of the
redistricting action. Governor Gavin Newsom announced the Election Rigging Response Act,
which is meant to put the state on the path
to redrawing their congressional districts and create enough new seats
for Democrats in order to offset any Republican gains from
(10:59):
the redistricting will be going on likely in Texas.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Hope this is not what happens every state. Now, Republican
and Democratic are going to start this fight over numbers.
All right. It's a bit of an uphill climb though
for the folks in California, and they are all up
against the clock a little bit. In California, there's an
independent commission that controls the redistricting process, not the legislature.
(11:23):
So they first have to pass legislation to circumvent that process,
and then they have to put the issue before voters,
and they have to do all this. They try to
get it on the November ballot because you need it
pass this year in order to impact the midterms next year. Ah,
so that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Good luck to them all right. Next up on the Run,
we are heading to Manhattan, where city officials announced another
legionnaire's death and a growing number of cases. Four people
have now died, ninety nine others have been sickened. Seventeen
of them remain hospitalized from this outbreak.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Legionnaire's disease calls its flu like symptoms. It's treatable with antibiotics,
but if left untreated, it can lead to shock and
multi organ failure. Health officials say they have identified twelve
cooling towers that are responsible for spreading the disease. You
get Legionnaire's disease by breathing in contaminated water vapor.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So mayor Eric Adams actually for the first time revealed
which buildings in Harlem are actually affected. Kind of scary here.
The Harlem Hospital is one of them. Another building houses
of whole foods with lots of retail stores. There's another
building with medical offices. So I was imagining these were
apartment buildings, residents buildings, but they're not. So a lot
(12:33):
of people have come in and out, and if you're
breathing the air, you could possibly be breathing in Legionnaire's disease.
That's scary. Now, Adam said, all but one cooling tower
have been cleaned and that final tower will be finished.
That that cleaning later today, so they say, by the
end of the day today all the water towers will
be cleaned and should not have Legionnaire's disease in them.
(12:56):
But we shall see.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
All right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this
Friday round. When we come back. Louisiana says that that
game that your kids love, right, Roadblocks, wonderful app it's
actually a clear and present danger to your children. Will
get into that. Also, you might be eligible for seventy
five hundred dollars from AT and T, but they're going
(13:19):
to make you work for it. And it turns out
all you gotta do to have a successful podcast is
get Taylor Swift on it. All right, let's continue on
our run. Now, let's head down to the Bayou. Louisiana
or the state is suing Roadblocks because it claims the
(13:42):
gaming platform has become the perfect place for pedophiles. Their words,
Louisiana's Attorney General maintains Roadblocks intentionally or recklessly designed a
platform with no age verification process, and that allows people
to create accounts with fake birthdays.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
So that means adults can easily pose as children and
kids can easily say they're older bypassing the controls for
users under the age of thirteen. So Roadblocks has a
huge number of games and experiences if you don't know
that users actually can personally design along with real time messaging.
The lawsuit points to a number of sexually explicit experiences
(14:19):
that have been created that are on the platform now
and name some of them just to give you an idea.
One of them is called Escape to Epstein Island. Another
one Diddy Party, another one public bathroom simulator vibe.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
That's some like something a child is even aware Escape
to Epstein Island, Like, why that just doesn't seem like
some of the kid would.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
No, an adult who's posing as a kid puts something
like this on there, and I don't think younger kids
probably don't even know what Epstein Island is. They think
it's some fun escape to an island and jumps on it.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh againness the Adoorney General I had this to say
about it. Every parent should be aware of the clear
and present danger posed to their children by Roadblocks, so
they can prevent the unthinkable from ever happening in their
own home. According to Roadblocks and report, twenty percent of
its eighty two million users are under the age of nine.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
That's scary right now. Roadblocks wouldn't comment specifically on this lawsuit,
but it did say this, while no system is perfect,
Roadblocks has implemented rigorous technology and enforcement safeguards, including restrictions
on sharing personal information links and user to user image sharing.
The safety of our community is a top priority, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Continuing on our run now on this Friday morning, a
one hundred and seventy seven million dollars settlement against AT
and T and seventy five hundred dollars of that could
be yours. The company settled a couple of class action
lawsuits related to two data breaches in twenty twenty four,
in which customer birthdays and social Security numbers were taken
(15:53):
and call and text logs were also exposed.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That is scary stuff. The company says. People impacted by
the first breach are eligible to receive a payment of
up to five thousand dollars. Those impacted by the second
breach get up to twenty five hundred dollars. Customers should
get a notice via email letting you know if you
were impacted by the breach and how to file your claim,
which you have to do by November eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Sounds simple enough. However, the company says, you have to
prove you deserve the money. So here's the thing. You
have to show you have credible financial losses first, and
then you have to show that those losses are quote
fairly traceable to the AT and T data breaches.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That's tough when you're supposed to be your own PI,
your own investigator. Like, how do you know?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
That seems like a high bar, right.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yes, that's the big catch. There always is a catch.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
The good luck folks, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
For the final leg of our run. Turns out having
Taylor Swift on your podcast helps boost your podcast like
a lot. The latest episode of the Kelsey Brothers New
Heights podcast featuring Taylor has, as of this recording, racked
up nearly fifteen million views.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It's the most popular episode of the podcast ever, duh,
and according to Spotify, it generated a three thousand percent
increase in new listeners and the number of female listeners
jumped six hundred and eighteen percent. Taylor announced, of course,
her new album The Life of a Showgirl on the
episode and talked for more than two hours, and this
(17:30):
apparently also the longest interview she's ever done.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yes, I mean it makes sense, why, how and where
she did it? Was it an interview, It was a conversation.
It was a safe conversation, and that's why she did it.
But the episode was so popular the live stream if
you guys were watching, you know, it crashed near the
end of the podcast, right when she pulled out her
new album cover. The New Heights X account tweeted this,
shout out all the ninety two percent in swifties for
(17:55):
actually helping us break the internet.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, so ratulations At some point because we do a
lot of relationship episodes and talk here, I would love
to go through it and find all the relationship nuggets
and signs and green flags, as they say. I just
I haven't seen them really interact other than on a
football field.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
People. There were even some mean headlines and we know
what this feels like. Oh that they were discussing with
their PDA, and I was just like, people are so
jealous when people are happy. I really believe that we've
had some of that incoming as well as like if
two people are happy and are touching each other, it's
not gross or they weren't even being gross. They kissed. Oh,
(18:38):
people were upset that they kissed. They were Yeah, and
I just thought, if you are angry at love, you
need to look within.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
All right? And with that, folks, that should be our
quote of the day. Can we go with that? If
you are angry at love, you need to look within.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Yeah. If seeing two people happy and and love pisss
you have another problem that you need to deal with,
all right.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But we're not gonna leave you with that quote, folks.
We're gonna do something, hopefully a little more positive. Yes,
this is what we would like for you to consider
as you go about your Friday. It is our quote
of the day.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy
things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Isn't that so true?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Will Rogers?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Will Rogers said.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
This, think of all that you do trying to impress
somebody you don't even like or no. Oh man, Yes,
this is a good one and oldly but a good one,
but a goodie to always hold on to. Too many
people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they
don't want to impress people they don't like. That's a
(19:45):
good one. And with that, folks, we always appreciate you
running with us. It's been a hell of a week.
Hope you've had a good week, but yes, always appreciate
you running with us.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I'm TJ Holt and I'm Amy Robock. Have a great Friday, everybody,
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