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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run.
It's Wednesday, October eighth. I'm Amy Robot and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm TJ Holmes. Dolly's okay, let's get that out there.
First family member, hers Robe, scared that hell out everybody.
We're always concerned about Dolly. She's a treasure, and I
guess they were trying to give a positive update, but
it kind of sent alarm bells.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
When someone says they're up all night praying for someone,
that sounds pretty dire.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yes, it does. It scared a lot of people, but
that family member had to come back out and say no, no,
no, no no. What I was trying to say was we'll
explain though, what's going on with Darley. There have been
some concerns about her health as of late. Also, I
guess we've all been guilty of it at some point.
You flip somebody off, right, We've not proud of it.
But even as a kid, maybe did it.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I've joked around with you and done it. Still wasn't
well received.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay, yeah, I wouldn't admit that publicly anymore. But has
it ever cost you money? For doing so, probably not
might have got you in trouble in school. But one
guy just got fined two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
folks for flipping the bird. Will explain to who he
was and why that finger was so expensive. Also, we
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have an ambassador as the Bahamas.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Sign me up?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, who was the last one? Anybody can talk? Take
your time, You're not gonna come up with it. But
we haven't had one for fifteen years. And the one
we have now, Robes is one of your boys.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, proud of them, Yes, and he.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Has a Heisman trophy. You will explain what's going on there.
We do have Groundhog's Day today? Is when is actual
Groundhogs Day?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
February said something.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Okay, well it's going on again. This feels more like
the Bill Murray movie. But the Groundhog's Day is happening
in DC. They keep doing the same thing over and
over and over every single day, and we do expect
them to do it again today and the result is
going to be the same. The government's still going to
be shot. We'll get into all of that, but for
right now, I want you to subscribe top right corner
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of your podcast. Apple Podcast app screen where you see
our show follow and then you can get our updates
coming to you whenever you don't have to go looking.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
For Also on the run this morning, Texas troops are
now in Chicago. Air traffic controllers are staying home fur
load workers are now stressed about back pay. That's very understandable,
and the former top cop in the US is going
to be arranged today.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Quite the scene there, But we do have to start
in our nation's capital, Yes ground all day on Capitol Hill,
where the Senate is once again scheduled to vote on
the same two competing funding proposals that have failed fine
times already. I guess six times of charms what they're thinking.
But yes, they're expected to fail again today and the
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government will remain closed again today. Then they'll come back
and do the same thing again tomorrow with the same results.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And that's where we are, folks. Democrats and Republicans are
at an impass and right now there is no clear
path or solution that's presented itself that could get us
out of it and get the government reopen. Republicans want
to pass a short term spending measure that would keep
the government open while they negotiate a longer term deal.
Democrats have rejected that and has said what healthcare guarantees
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before they negotiate?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
All right? And adding fuel now to the furloughed fire,
the President suggested that maybe those estimated seven hundred and
fifty thousand furloughed federal workers won't be getting back pay.
The White House confirmed that there is a draft memo
they've sent to agencies that hinted that back pay from
a government shut down might not be assured by current law.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Wo Well, the President was asked about this in the
Offal Office, specifically about workers not getting back pay. Here's
what he said. I would say it depends on who
we're talking about. It really depends on who you're talking about.
But for the most part, we're going to take care
of our people. There are some people that really don't
deserve to be taken care of, and we will take
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care of them in a different way. That's some gangster
stuff right there. What does that mean? Who is in
which group? That's the big question. I think a lot
of you people are asking which one do I fit into.
The President followed up a short time later and said, okay,
he'd follow the law, but again, what's the law.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But when you hear these things, he has been determining
some argue what the law is and how it fits
into his agenda. So this certainly set off alarm bells.
But yes, law says governments shut down workers not being
paid should bit their back pay when the government reopens. Now,
the effects of the shutdown are becoming more and more
evident at the nation's airports, where air traffic control shortages
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are causing delays, cancelations, and frustration for travelers. Focusing on
Nashville for a second, so short staffed last night that
they were leaning on air traffic controllers from Memphis. Flights
were delayed on average last night in Nashville about two hours.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
The FAA is warning ground stops are possible at several
major airports today DC, Philly, Miami, San Francisco, Newark, New York.
They even go as far as listing a group as
a groundstop in Boston is not just possible but expected.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, this is happening because yes, air traffic controllers are
not being paid right now. They are calling out sick
in higher numbers. They are considered essential workers and required
by law to keep showing up for work. Even though
they are not being paid during the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And when you have the President suggesting that some people
might not get paid, that would be an even greater
incentive for folks to call out sick.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Why show up?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Why show up? And my goodness, we've been traveling a
bunch this month and our travels just happened to take
a pause, and thank god. I can't imagine if you
have a vacation plan or an important work meeting plan.
This is scary stuff. You can't rely on the nation airports.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
But a safety is one thing. That safety is a
first point. But you remember all the incidents we were
reporting about, and some of it had to do with
something happening in the tower, somebody looking at two screens
when normally it's only one. This kind of thing happened
even before, and some of the air traffic control leaders
of the union are saying, you know what, I know
you all are seeing the effects of this, and you
all think we're so stressed. We deal with this crap
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every single day. Wow, this is how we roll.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
All right. Next up on the run, the Texas National
Guard is in Illinois and is expected to start patrolling
the streets of Chicago but this might be a short
development for them or deployment for them.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, State of Illinois and the City of Chicago, we
told you about this yesterday. They sued the Trump administration
to stop their plan to send troops to the city,
but the judge in the case refused to immediately block
the deployment of the National Guard into Chicago, so in
tes she gave the White House until tonight to respond
and a hearing is scheduled tomorrow. So they might end
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up only doing two days of duty there, depending on
what this judge does say tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
All right, Next up on the run, the former head
of the FBI is going to be arraigned in a
Virginia court today. James Comy is facing charges of obstruction
of justice and making false statements.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, the charges them from testimony that Comy gave to
Congress five years ago in which he denied authorizing leaks
to the media. Comya Komy, who was fired by Trump
during his first term and has been a frequent critic
of the president, was indicted days after President Trump publicly
urged A. G. Pambondi to do so. Would he be
the number one nemesis public nemesis I'm trying to think
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of all the people that the president really seems to
be irked by, and he directs his some of that
ire towards Komy certainly. I mean, he's gonna have to
Comy's family.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
For I was just going to say, it's not just Comy,
He's going after anyone who has associated his daughter, his
son in law. I mean, this is definitely it appears
to be quite the vendetta. I guess that's happening right now.
But what a specta, what a spectacle today in Virginia,
and it's it's frightening in a lot of ways to
a lot of folks. All right, Next up on the run.
This sounds crazy, but a guy is getting fined two
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hundred and fifty thousand dollars for giving the middle finger.
But the guy we're talking about is the owner of
the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones, and the people he flashed
a middle finger to football fans in the stadium.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Okay, the story gets funny because you listen to how
he explains it. Now, the NFL hit Jones with this
fine after he was caught on camera. And when I
say clearly, folks, I mean clearly flipping the middle finger
towards fans in the stand. He was up in his
box at MetLife Stadium Sunday where the Cowboys were playing
the New York Jets, and he was looking down at
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the fans and he flipped the thing in. So here's
the funny part of all this. Jones acknowledge that this
is what happened, but he says robes that flipping the
people off it was an accident.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
That makes zero sense.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Not an accident like it went the wrong direction, like
that was the wrong group out. No, no, no, he said,
the finger coming.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Out itself was a mixed I can understand if it
was a joke, if you're doing it to be funny. Honestly,
that's pretty much the only reason I've ever done it
is to be funny.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Like, haha, that's not what he's talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Okay, how do you accidentally flip someone off?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Listen to him explain it?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All right, he says, I mean I asked that rhetorically,
because we actually have his answer where he says the
gesture was inadvertent on my part. Sorry, I'm trying not
to laugh, because that was right after we made our
last touchdown and we were all excited about it. There
wasn't any antagonistic issue or anything like that. I just
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put up the wrong show. On the hand, that was
inadvertently done, I'm not kidding. If you want to call
it accidental, you can call it accidental. But the intention
was thumbs up and basically pointing at our fans because
everybody was jumping up and down excited. So is he
saying that he is suffering from a form of dementia
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or mental lapse, because how do you confuse the thumbs
up with a middle finger?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It was an involuntary reflex. No, it just popped up.
Sometimes I don't know. Your body twitches in different ways.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
In his Sometimes sometimes when I want to say congratulations,
I say, f you what that would be akin to that?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Okay, that's an oddity as well. But when you see
the video, Okay, this is the thing. When you see
the video, he's smiling and having a good time. It
looks so odd. That didn't look like anything antagonistic about
his stance, and the fans in front of him were
allegedly cowboys fans that he was celebrating with, So that
does make no sense why he would flip people off
who were celebrating his team. Sorry, all my daughter was
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walking to school and she's trying to FaceTime me right now. No,
but when you see it, it does. I don't know
how something accidentally happens like that. I don't know you're
trying to point one way.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I don't know why would he have flipped off the
fans who were cheering the success.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
No reason to other thing, no reason to so I
don't know how it's involuntary. And I also don't know
why he would ever lip off his own fans. Okay,
it's an interesting, interesting story, but I encourage you look
at the video and you're gonna go hmmm. His demeanor
doesn't match the gesture.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Okay, all right, all right, could do you go on
the run? Now? Oh? Lebron, He just can't get it
right sometimes, According to son Well, a social media post.
One social media post sent Laker tickets skyrocketing. This one
post was from the King himself, King James, and he
teased in this social media post what he dubbed a
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second decision. This is a play. I think it might
have been. One of the biggest missteps in Lebron james
career is when he went from Cleveland to Miami. He
did this whole big production, called it the decision of
where he was going to go. He hadn't even told
Cleveland that he was leaving, and then on a national
live broadcast, they have to find out that they're Golden Boy,
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the guy they love is gonna bring much he is leaving.
So a lot of people like that was just dumb
and low down and a bad look. Any even admitted
later it was a mistake. So he puts out a
social media post this week saying there is a second decision.
So we're all thinking ropes. This is going to be
a very big deal.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, I mean we're thinking retirement, right, yes, okay, all right,
So yeah, he's in his twenty third season, He's won
his gold medals, his championships, his MVP Awards, He's the
all time leading scorer in NBA history. So the speculation was,
of course that maybe maybe Lebron's decision could be about
his retirement. Why not go out on top right, and
fans then immediately ran out started buying up tickets to
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the final Lakers home game of the year, which could
end up being the final game of Lebron James' career.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Makes sense, right, Yes, okay, you get your hands on
those tickets. But before his social media post, the average
cheap seat ticket was about eighty bucks average. That went
up to six hundred dollars on average for the cheap
seats just from one social media post.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I mean, hey, that's a marketing genius move. If you're
trying to bring in some more bucks for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
It wasn't supposed to be. He was trying to bring
in bucks for Hennessy. This was all tied to an
alcohol promotion, a branding thing he was doing. Yes, clever advertising.
Some people didn't necessarily appreciate him going this round.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I don't think people like being tricked. They like being intrigued,
they like, but they don't like being tricked.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And this seemed intentional and played off something that was
really a tough moment in his career. In a lot
of ways, at least publicly, he has made very few
missteps publicly. The guy's freaking amazing. So stay with us
here on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back,
one of Robox guys is the new ambassador to the Bahamas.
I'll explain why she probably won't stand behind that. He's
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one of my guys. Also, we have an update on Dolly. Actually,
we have an update on the update that a family
member gave that scared the hell out of all of us.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Continuing our Wednesday morning Ron, we have a new US
ambassador to the Bahamas for the first time in fifteen years.
Who was the last one? I forgot?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You know, I wrote the story and I did the research,
and I looked back. I still can't remember. I was
looking at it a short time ago and I still
don't know. Wow, So apologies, but it's been a long
long time. We have a new ambassador. You might have
heard of him. Everybody say hello to Ambassador Herschel Walker.
Go dogs, Oh boy, yes, we remember him right. He
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was confirmed by the Senate yesterday after a strictly party
line vote. Walker Herschel Walker is an absolute legend. He's
an NFL Star, former NFL Star Heisman Trophy member winner
from of course, University of Georgia. But recently he was
most known as an unsuccessful and scandal written candidate for
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Senate from Georgia. He lost that race, but he's been
a close ally of Donald Trump. I didn't realize that
nomination was still going on. I think I faintly remember
hearing it was up, got voted on, and he's the
new ambassador.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I mean, if you can get an ambassadorship to any
Caribbean island, that sounds kind of awesome. We should work
on Turks, yes, uh, yes, officially putting in our bid
for Turks and Caico's ambassador. All right for the final
leg of our run. Everyone pray for Dolly. That is
what Dolly Parton's sister Freedom posted to Facebook yesterday, and
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it sent fans everywhere into a panic, and it was
justified panic.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
This was justified because you remember she postponed significantly her
upcoming Vegas residency due to health issues that were unspecified.
And now her sister telling us all she's up all
night praying for Dolly. Of course, everybody was gonna be free.
Everybody was going to be concerned. It's one of those
things you see a name, a particular name, trending on
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Twitter overnight and you get scared the hell out of you.
And this is look, Dolly. We don't mess around with
Dolly in the health.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And she's a treasure, She's a national treasure. And what
her sister wrote was alarming. Period.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Thankfully Frida didn't leave us hanging. I'm imagining she got
a few calls from Dolly Parton's management team. She cleared
the air a couple of hours later, telling us last
night that Dolly is in fact just a little under
the weather. Writing this, I didn't mean to scare anyone
or make it sound so serious when asking for prayers
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for Dolly, Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Her original message ended, God's speed my sissy, Dolly, we
all love you. That's a death noticate. That sounds like
a send off. What the action?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
God speed?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Hell? Okay, so that concerned everybody. She clarified later the
sister did that she quote simply asked for prayers because
I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It
was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers
for her big sister. She also thanked all of Dolly's
fans for lifting her up, adding that their love truly
makes a difference.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah, and she would have been a really good faith or.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
The other thing is was she does she know a
whole lot more than we do about the health, and
she spoke too soon.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I think that is what most people feel. I mean,
that would be a fair assessment of what just happened,
because it wasn't about face. So I actually want to
read the entire first message and just let everyone realize
we're not making this up. This really did sound like
Dolly Pardon was on her deathbed and we don't know
what's going on, because, as you pointed out, Dolly didn't
specify what her health issues were. But this is what
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Frieda said last night. I was up all night praying
for my sister Dolly. Many of you know she hasn't
been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the
power of prayer, and I have been led to ask
all of the world that loves her to be prayer
warriors and pray with me. She's strong, she loved, and
with all all the prayers being lifted for her, I
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know in my heart she's going to be just fine.
God speed, my sissy, Dolly, My silly Dolly. We all
love you. That sounds like imminent death.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Coupled with the recent health news that Dolly Pardon put
out herself. But she said, and she was joking, and
I mean she put a little humor in it as well,
but she said, what needs a few procedures, Yes, that's
what she said, and she made some joke about using them.
It's my cosmetic surgeon. I'm going to see you, and
that's funny. But because of the joke, we all, I think,
felt a little better. We did, And she did say
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the residency is coming back later September this year, right, No,
next year, next year? Yeah, I mean it was a
long delay. That delay means there's some recovery involved in
a lot of or scheduling. I don't know what what,
but this out there, we'll hear more.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I bet you'll hear more, because I feel like that's
not going to satisfy folks to say she's just a
little under the weather. If someone has a cold, you
don't put out a Facebook post like that when you're
Dolly Parton's sister. No, so, anyway to be continued on
that one, but we want to leave everyone today on
this Wednesday with our quote of the day. You don't
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drown by falling in the water, You drown by staying there.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
That makes sense, Do that make sense? You got to
get out of your predicament. Sometimes I guess I'm piecing together.
Sometimes we end up in a mess. And no, you're
actually noted drowning in it. All you gotta do is,
you know, you gotta get out of it. You step
out of it. Somebody's actually throwing you a life raft.
Somebody's throwing your life preserver once you grab that thing.
Sometimes we refused to do that and we end up
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in the water and drowning. So, yes, that's a good
who's that coming?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Well? This comes from doctor Edwin Cole. He's the founder
of the Christians Men's Network. He you know this is
this is a guy who has been an had spent
his life he's been gone for a couple decades now,
but spend his life ministering men in the Christian faith.
But I love this concept, like sometimes you have to
learn to swim. Sometimes you have to let some I
want to throw you a lifeline. But it's by staying
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and staying in the water and staying in the mess
and really just not being able to pull yourself out
of it, that is what ends up getting us all
in trouble. It's not the initial accident, it's not being
able to recover. And I do appreciate this. You don't
drown by falling in the water, You drowned by staying there.
I think it's really hopeful too, because that stuff happens
to us every day, all the time, and it's just
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how we get ourselves out of it, even if it's mental.
Getting ourselves out of things is how we lift ourselves up.
So thank you, doctor Edwin Cole. We appreciate those words
of wisdom, and with that, thank you for running with
us everyone. I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Holmes from with Chelse
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run.
It's Wednesday, October eighth. I'm Amy Robot and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm TJ Holmes. Dolly's okay, let's get that out there.
First family member, hers Robe, scared that hell out everybody.
We're always concerned about Dolly. She's a treasure, and I
guess they were trying to give a positive update, but
it kind of sent alarm bells.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
When someone says they're up all night praying for someone,
that sounds pretty dire.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yes, it does. It scared a lot of people, but
that family member had to come back out and say no, no,
no, no no. What I was trying to say was we'll
explain though, what's going on with Darley. There have been
some concerns about her health as of late. Also, I
guess we've all been guilty of it at some point.
You flip somebody off, right, We've not proud of it.
But even as a kid, maybe did it.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I've joked around with you and done it. Still wasn't
well received.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay, yeah, I wouldn't admit that publicly anymore. But has
it ever cost you money? For doing so, probably not
might have got you in trouble in school. But one
guy just got fined two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
folks for flipping the bird. Will explain to who he
was and why that finger was so expensive. Also, we
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have an ambassador as the Bahamas.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Sign me up?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, who was the last one? Anybody can talk? Take
your time, You're not gonna come up with it. But
we haven't had one for fifteen years. And the one
we have now, Robes is one of your boys.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, proud of them, Yes, and he.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Has a Heisman trophy. You will explain what's going on there.
We do have Groundhog's Day today? Is when is actual
Groundhogs Day?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
February said something.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Okay, well it's going on again. This feels more like
the Bill Murray movie. But the Groundhog's Day is happening
in DC. They keep doing the same thing over and
over and over every single day, and we do expect
them to do it again today and the result is
going to be the same. The government's still going to
be shot. We'll get into all of that, but for
right now, I want you to subscribe top right corner
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Speaker 1 (02:12):
For Also on the run this morning, Texas troops are
now in Chicago. Air traffic controllers are staying home fur
load workers are now stressed about back pay. That's very understandable,
and the former top cop in the US is going
to be arranged today.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Quite the scene there, But we do have to start
in our nation's capital, Yes ground all day on Capitol Hill,
where the Senate is once again scheduled to vote on
the same two competing funding proposals that have failed fine
times already. I guess six times of charms what they're thinking.
But yes, they're expected to fail again today and the
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government will remain closed again today. Then they'll come back
and do the same thing again tomorrow with the same results.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And that's where we are, folks. Democrats and Republicans are
at an impass and right now there is no clear
path or solution that's presented itself that could get us
out of it and get the government reopen. Republicans want
to pass a short term spending measure that would keep
the government open while they negotiate a longer term deal.
Democrats have rejected that and has said what healthcare guarantees
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before they negotiate?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
All right? And adding fuel now to the furloughed fire,
the President suggested that maybe those estimated seven hundred and
fifty thousand furloughed federal workers won't be getting back pay.
The White House confirmed that there is a draft memo
they've sent to agencies that hinted that back pay from
a government shut down might not be assured by current law.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Wo Well, the President was asked about this in the
Offal Office, specifically about workers not getting back pay. Here's
what he said. I would say it depends on who
we're talking about. It really depends on who you're talking about.
But for the most part, we're going to take care
of our people. There are some people that really don't
deserve to be taken care of, and we will take
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care of them in a different way. That's some gangster
stuff right there. What does that mean? Who is in
which group? That's the big question. I think a lot
of you people are asking which one do I fit into.
The President followed up a short time later and said, okay,
he'd follow the law, but again, what's the law.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But when you hear these things, he has been determining
some argue what the law is and how it fits
into his agenda. So this certainly set off alarm bells.
But yes, law says governments shut down workers not being
paid should bit their back pay when the government reopens. Now,
the effects of the shutdown are becoming more and more
evident at the nation's airports, where air traffic control shortages
(04:46):
are causing delays, cancelations, and frustration for travelers. Focusing on
Nashville for a second, so short staffed last night that
they were leaning on air traffic controllers from Memphis. Flights
were delayed on average last night in Nashville about two hours.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
The FAA is warning ground stops are possible at several
major airports today DC, Philly, Miami, San Francisco, Newark, New York.
They even go as far as listing a group as
a groundstop in Boston is not just possible but expected.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, this is happening because yes, air traffic controllers are
not being paid right now. They are calling out sick
in higher numbers. They are considered essential workers and required
by law to keep showing up for work. Even though
they are not being paid during the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And when you have the President suggesting that some people
might not get paid, that would be an even greater
incentive for folks to call out sick.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Why show up?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Why show up? And my goodness, we've been traveling a
bunch this month and our travels just happened to take
a pause, and thank god. I can't imagine if you
have a vacation plan or an important work meeting plan.
This is scary stuff. You can't rely on the nation airports.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
But a safety is one thing. That safety is a
first point. But you remember all the incidents we were
reporting about, and some of it had to do with
something happening in the tower, somebody looking at two screens
when normally it's only one. This kind of thing happened
even before, and some of the air traffic control leaders
of the union are saying, you know what, I know
you all are seeing the effects of this, and you
all think we're so stressed. We deal with this crap
(06:22):
every single day. Wow, this is how we roll.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
All right. Next up on the run, the Texas National
Guard is in Illinois and is expected to start patrolling
the streets of Chicago but this might be a short
development for them or deployment for them.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, State of Illinois and the City of Chicago, we
told you about this yesterday. They sued the Trump administration
to stop their plan to send troops to the city,
but the judge in the case refused to immediately block
the deployment of the National Guard into Chicago, so in
tes she gave the White House until tonight to respond
and a hearing is scheduled tomorrow. So they might end
(06:59):
up only doing two days of duty there, depending on
what this judge does say tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
All right, Next up on the run, the former head
of the FBI is going to be arraigned in a
Virginia court today. James Comy is facing charges of obstruction
of justice and making false statements.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, the charges them from testimony that Comy gave to
Congress five years ago in which he denied authorizing leaks
to the media. Comya Komy, who was fired by Trump
during his first term and has been a frequent critic
of the president, was indicted days after President Trump publicly
urged A. G. Pambondi to do so. Would he be
the number one nemesis public nemesis I'm trying to think
(07:40):
of all the people that the president really seems to
be irked by, and he directs his some of that
ire towards Komy certainly. I mean, he's gonna have to
Comy's family.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
For I was just going to say, it's not just Comy,
He's going after anyone who has associated his daughter, his
son in law. I mean, this is definitely it appears
to be quite the vendetta. I guess that's happening right now.
But what a specta, what a spectacle today in Virginia,
and it's it's frightening in a lot of ways to
a lot of folks. All right, Next up on the run.
This sounds crazy, but a guy is getting fined two
(08:10):
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for giving the middle finger.
But the guy we're talking about is the owner of
the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones, and the people he flashed
a middle finger to football fans in the stadium.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Okay, the story gets funny because you listen to how
he explains it. Now, the NFL hit Jones with this
fine after he was caught on camera. And when I
say clearly, folks, I mean clearly flipping the middle finger
towards fans in the stand. He was up in his
box at MetLife Stadium Sunday where the Cowboys were playing
the New York Jets, and he was looking down at
(08:44):
the fans and he flipped the thing in. So here's
the funny part of all this. Jones acknowledge that this
is what happened, but he says robes that flipping the
people off it was an accident.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
That makes zero sense.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Not an accident like it went the wrong direction, like
that was the wrong group out. No, no, no, he said,
the finger coming.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Out itself was a mixed I can understand if it
was a joke, if you're doing it to be funny. Honestly,
that's pretty much the only reason I've ever done it
is to be funny.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Like, haha, that's not what he's talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Okay, how do you accidentally flip someone off?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Listen to him explain it?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All right, he says, I mean I asked that rhetorically,
because we actually have his answer where he says the
gesture was inadvertent on my part. Sorry, I'm trying not
to laugh, because that was right after we made our
last touchdown and we were all excited about it. There
wasn't any antagonistic issue or anything like that. I just
(09:39):
put up the wrong show. On the hand, that was
inadvertently done, I'm not kidding. If you want to call
it accidental, you can call it accidental. But the intention
was thumbs up and basically pointing at our fans because
everybody was jumping up and down excited. So is he
saying that he is suffering from a form of dementia
(10:00):
or mental lapse, because how do you confuse the thumbs
up with a middle finger?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It was an involuntary reflex. No, it just popped up.
Sometimes I don't know. Your body twitches in different ways.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
In his Sometimes sometimes when I want to say congratulations,
I say, f you what that would be akin to that?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Okay, that's an oddity as well. But when you see
the video, Okay, this is the thing. When you see
the video, he's smiling and having a good time. It
looks so odd. That didn't look like anything antagonistic about
his stance, and the fans in front of him were
allegedly cowboys fans that he was celebrating with, So that
does make no sense why he would flip people off
who were celebrating his team. Sorry, all my daughter was
(10:40):
walking to school and she's trying to FaceTime me right now. No,
but when you see it, it does. I don't know
how something accidentally happens like that. I don't know you're
trying to point one way.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I don't know why would he have flipped off the
fans who were cheering the success.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
No reason to other thing, no reason to so I
don't know how it's involuntary. And I also don't know
why he would ever lip off his own fans. Okay,
it's an interesting, interesting story, but I encourage you look
at the video and you're gonna go hmmm. His demeanor
doesn't match the gesture.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Okay, all right, all right, could do you go on
the run? Now? Oh? Lebron, He just can't get it
right sometimes, According to son Well, a social media post.
One social media post sent Laker tickets skyrocketing. This one
post was from the King himself, King James, and he
teased in this social media post what he dubbed a
(11:35):
second decision. This is a play. I think it might
have been. One of the biggest missteps in Lebron james
career is when he went from Cleveland to Miami. He
did this whole big production, called it the decision of
where he was going to go. He hadn't even told
Cleveland that he was leaving, and then on a national
live broadcast, they have to find out that they're Golden Boy,
(11:56):
the guy they love is gonna bring much he is leaving.
So a lot of people like that was just dumb
and low down and a bad look. Any even admitted
later it was a mistake. So he puts out a
social media post this week saying there is a second decision.
So we're all thinking ropes. This is going to be
a very big deal.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, I mean we're thinking retirement, right, yes, okay, all right,
So yeah, he's in his twenty third season, He's won
his gold medals, his championships, his MVP Awards, He's the
all time leading scorer in NBA history. So the speculation was,
of course that maybe maybe Lebron's decision could be about
his retirement. Why not go out on top right, and
fans then immediately ran out started buying up tickets to
(12:38):
the final Lakers home game of the year, which could
end up being the final game of Lebron James' career.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Makes sense, right, Yes, okay, you get your hands on
those tickets. But before his social media post, the average
cheap seat ticket was about eighty bucks average. That went
up to six hundred dollars on average for the cheap
seats just from one social media post.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I mean, hey, that's a marketing genius move. If you're
trying to bring in some more bucks for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
It wasn't supposed to be. He was trying to bring
in bucks for Hennessy. This was all tied to an
alcohol promotion, a branding thing he was doing. Yes, clever advertising.
Some people didn't necessarily appreciate him going this round.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I don't think people like being tricked. They like being intrigued,
they like, but they don't like being tricked.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And this seemed intentional and played off something that was
really a tough moment in his career. In a lot
of ways, at least publicly, he has made very few
missteps publicly. The guy's freaking amazing. So stay with us
here on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back,
one of Robox guys is the new ambassador to the Bahamas.
I'll explain why she probably won't stand behind that. He's
(13:54):
one of my guys. Also, we have an update on Dolly. Actually,
we have an update on the update that a family
member gave that scared the hell out of all of us.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Continuing our Wednesday morning Ron, we have a new US
ambassador to the Bahamas for the first time in fifteen years.
Who was the last one? I forgot?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You know, I wrote the story and I did the research,
and I looked back. I still can't remember. I was
looking at it a short time ago and I still
don't know. Wow, So apologies, but it's been a long
long time. We have a new ambassador. You might have
heard of him. Everybody say hello to Ambassador Herschel Walker.
Go dogs, Oh boy, yes, we remember him right. He
(14:45):
was confirmed by the Senate yesterday after a strictly party
line vote. Walker Herschel Walker is an absolute legend. He's
an NFL Star, former NFL Star Heisman Trophy member winner
from of course, University of Georgia. But recently he was
most known as an unsuccessful and scandal written candidate for
(15:05):
Senate from Georgia. He lost that race, but he's been
a close ally of Donald Trump. I didn't realize that
nomination was still going on. I think I faintly remember
hearing it was up, got voted on, and he's the
new ambassador.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I mean, if you can get an ambassadorship to any
Caribbean island, that sounds kind of awesome. We should work
on Turks, yes, uh, yes, officially putting in our bid
for Turks and Caico's ambassador. All right for the final
leg of our run. Everyone pray for Dolly. That is
what Dolly Parton's sister Freedom posted to Facebook yesterday, and
(15:41):
it sent fans everywhere into a panic, and it was
justified panic.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
This was justified because you remember she postponed significantly her
upcoming Vegas residency due to health issues that were unspecified.
And now her sister telling us all she's up all
night praying for Dolly. Of course, everybody was gonna be free.
Everybody was going to be concerned. It's one of those
things you see a name, a particular name, trending on
(16:06):
Twitter overnight and you get scared the hell out of you.
And this is look, Dolly. We don't mess around with
Dolly in the health.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And she's a treasure, She's a national treasure. And what
her sister wrote was alarming. Period.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Thankfully Frida didn't leave us hanging. I'm imagining she got
a few calls from Dolly Parton's management team. She cleared
the air a couple of hours later, telling us last
night that Dolly is in fact just a little under
the weather. Writing this, I didn't mean to scare anyone
or make it sound so serious when asking for prayers
(16:39):
for Dolly, Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Her original message ended, God's speed my sissy, Dolly, we
all love you. That's a death noticate. That sounds like
a send off. What the action?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
God speed?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Hell? Okay, so that concerned everybody. She clarified later the
sister did that she quote simply asked for prayers because
I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It
was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers
for her big sister. She also thanked all of Dolly's
fans for lifting her up, adding that their love truly
makes a difference.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah, and she would have been a really good faith or.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
The other thing is was she does she know a
whole lot more than we do about the health, and
she spoke too soon.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I think that is what most people feel. I mean,
that would be a fair assessment of what just happened,
because it wasn't about face. So I actually want to
read the entire first message and just let everyone realize
we're not making this up. This really did sound like
Dolly Pardon was on her deathbed and we don't know
what's going on, because, as you pointed out, Dolly didn't
specify what her health issues were. But this is what
(17:40):
Frieda said last night. I was up all night praying
for my sister Dolly. Many of you know she hasn't
been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the
power of prayer, and I have been led to ask
all of the world that loves her to be prayer
warriors and pray with me. She's strong, she loved, and
with all all the prayers being lifted for her, I
(18:02):
know in my heart she's going to be just fine.
God speed, my sissy, Dolly, My silly Dolly. We all
love you. That sounds like imminent death.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Coupled with the recent health news that Dolly Pardon put
out herself. But she said, and she was joking, and
I mean she put a little humor in it as well,
but she said, what needs a few procedures, Yes, that's
what she said, and she made some joke about using them.
It's my cosmetic surgeon. I'm going to see you, and
that's funny. But because of the joke, we all, I think,
felt a little better. We did, And she did say
(18:36):
the residency is coming back later September this year, right, No,
next year, next year? Yeah, I mean it was a
long delay. That delay means there's some recovery involved in
a lot of or scheduling. I don't know what what,
but this out there, we'll hear more.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I bet you'll hear more, because I feel like that's
not going to satisfy folks to say she's just a
little under the weather. If someone has a cold, you
don't put out a Facebook post like that when you're
Dolly Parton's sister. No, so, anyway to be continued on
that one, but we want to leave everyone today on
this Wednesday with our quote of the day. You don't
(19:11):
drown by falling in the water, You drown by staying there.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
That makes sense, Do that make sense? You got to
get out of your predicament. Sometimes I guess I'm piecing together.
Sometimes we end up in a mess. And no, you're
actually noted drowning in it. All you gotta do is,
you know, you gotta get out of it. You step
out of it. Somebody's actually throwing you a life raft.
Somebody's throwing your life preserver once you grab that thing.
Sometimes we refused to do that and we end up
(19:38):
in the water and drowning. So, yes, that's a good
who's that coming?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Well? This comes from doctor Edwin Cole. He's the founder
of the Christians Men's Network. He you know this is
this is a guy who has been an had spent
his life he's been gone for a couple decades now,
but spend his life ministering men in the Christian faith.
But I love this concept, like sometimes you have to
learn to swim. Sometimes you have to let some I
want to throw you a lifeline. But it's by staying
(20:03):
and staying in the water and staying in the mess
and really just not being able to pull yourself out
of it, that is what ends up getting us all
in trouble. It's not the initial accident, it's not being
able to recover. And I do appreciate this. You don't
drown by falling in the water, You drowned by staying there.
I think it's really hopeful too, because that stuff happens
to us every day, all the time, and it's just
(20:26):
how we get ourselves out of it, even if it's mental.
Getting ourselves out of things is how we lift ourselves up.
So thank you, doctor Edwin Cole. We appreciate those words
of wisdom, and with that, thank you for running with
us everyone. I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
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