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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. It's Thursday, or as I
like to say, Friday eve. It's December seventeenth. I'm Amy,
robots the eighteenth. Oh god, it's the eighteenth. Wow, I
screwed that. I thought you are correct, and I started
off Morning Run with a bang.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That means you got the rest of Morning Run to
make up for it. No, that was nothing. I'm tj ols.
Hey there, folks, you really think that's the biggest screw
up we're going to have to day? Probably not, but
welcome everybody. We did have a late night, so we
can please give her a break. I had a late
night and had a tough time getting to sleep, stayed
up and watch the Trump speech and had difficult time
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sleeping afterwards. Usually do when I get yelled at for
twenty minutes right before bed, And that's what it felt
like last night. Look, this is not about politics. A
cat any observer. He was amped up last night.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
He was amped up, but he was also speeding through
his prepared remarks and racing almost Yeah, he was.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
He was.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I think he knew that the networks wanted to get back,
or at least CBS wanted to get back to Survivor's finale.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Well, you know, if he'd taken his time like normal,
this might have been a forty five minute speech. But
that's true. This is what it was like. So we'll
tell you and get into that. But that wasn't the
only jaw dropping thing really that came from President Trump.
Yesterday they revealed the new plaques at the Walk of
Fame in the White House, and you won't believe some
of the things written on the official presidential plaques of
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the likes of Biden and Obama. You really will not
believe it. Also this morning, we don't see this all
the time, and wrote this is difficult to stomach for
those families, But the government is taking responsibility for that
deadly crash over Reagan National Airport, that deadly mid air
collision that happened in January. The government is actually saying,
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and in pretty clear terms, this was the fault of
the army in those pilots.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, and we'll get into it, but it's amazing. Look,
nothing's going to bring back, sadly, the sixty seven people
who died, but hearing someone take responsibility for it It's
amazing how that actually goes towards healing, and so that
was a huge step in that direction. Also on the
Run this morning, Nick Reiner made his first court appearance yesterday,
and we heard directly from his siblings for the first
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time since their parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner were murdered.
It's also sentencing day for Brian Walsh. Rhode Island officials
are asking for the public's health and finding a second
man who is not a suspect. An Oklahoma preacher is
facing life in prison, and a teenage serial killer is
set to die tonight by lethal injection, forty years after
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his first murder.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Also on the Run this morning, the Academy Awards says
announced a major change of address and power Ball. I'm
kind of ready to just get this one. Let's just
get over with. Were doing the same thing every two
to three days, saying okay, yes it's nobody won again
last night. So now we're getting up to an incredible
record in Powerball. Remember it was one point two five
billion before. Where do y'all think it is now? But yes,
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it is going up.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
We begin our run though about last night President Trump
using that primetime address to the nation pretty much to
blast former President Biden while at the same time touting
his economic plan for the country. It was eighteen minutes long.
As we mentioned, he was racing through his prepared remarks,
and it did look like, and this was unusual, that
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he pretty much stayed to the script.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
He didn't add.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Lib very often. When he did, it was very obvious.
And even though the partisan tone was on brand for Trump,
we shouldn't be surprised by what he said, but it
still felt incredibly uncomfortable for him to use a primetime
address on network television to be remarkably partisan.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Oh, it was a stump speech. It was uh yes,
him touting what he thinks or his accomplishments, and we
heard Biden's name repeated. He blamed pretty much everything. Every
economic problem the country has he blamed on Biden said
that he President Trump inherited a mess from Biden. It's
going to take time and effort to fix it. Now.
One thing that jumped up Robert I thought this was beautiful.
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Every US service member, he said, is going to get
a check for Christmas in the amount of seventeen hundred
and seventy six dollars. You can imagine what that is.
In honor of of course, but yes, the nation's two
hundred and fifteenth anniversary said they are going to get
these checks. They said they've started going out already calling
this a warrior dividend and bragged that, hey, we're making
more money off Tariff's got some extra and give it
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to the soldiers wherever it's coming from, whatever they're doing.
I love this. I actually love, love love this.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It was the one bright spot. Yes, as President Trump
was saying his favorite word is tariff, he did at
least put some of that tariff revenue to very good
use that I think everyone can applaud. All right, Next
up on the run, speaking of having a partisan tone,
this one. When I saw this story, when I said,
jaw dropped, my jaw actually dropped. President Trump has installed
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new plaques, like official permanent plaques, underneath the pictures of
all the former presidents. This is in the portrait gallery
along the West Wing. But he instead of giving just
the details of someone's presidency, he used the plaques to
hurl insults and make unfounded claims beneath several of the photos.
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And if you read the plaques, they actually sound like
his truth social posts. Oh they've been punctuated, yes, with
exclamation points.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
In all caps at some point. Look, we understand he's
not a fan. But history is history. Every president did
some things good, some did some bad economically and even personally.
It's fun, we get it. This is other level. So
to set the tone for you all here to understand
what this is. Every president has a portrait up there
except one, Joe Biden. Instead of Joe Biden's picture there,
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there is a picture of an auto pen making a
signature Joe Biden. That is as partisan and crazy as
you can imagine. That is why it's it's almost un
certainly beneath the office. But it's almost unbelievable that anyone
would do that. But this is what's happening in the
White House. But yes, oh, it even gets better, folks.
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Part of the I think Joe Biden has two plaques right,
because he couldn't get it all in and one right.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Oh yeah, they were stacked on top of each top sleepy.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Joe Biden was by far the worst president in American history.
That is how the plaque starts, folks, And it goes
on from there. Taking office as a results of the
most corrupt election ever seen in the US, blames him
for pretty much everything, also starting a couple of wars.
It says up there, quote seeing Biden's devastating weakness, Russia
invaded Ukraine and Hamas terror has launched the heinous October
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seventh attack on Israel. Again, folks, this is in the
White House, on an official wall, it also says on
the other plaque it starts. Nicknamed both Sleepy Joe and
Crooked Joe, Biden was dominated by radical left handlers. They
and their allies in the fake news media attempted to
cover up his severe mental decline and his unpresidented use
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of the auto pen. Again, folks, this is not He
didn't post this on social These are those thick, bronze
made plaques that go on the wall, and this is
the hall that honors every US president. And this is
what's under there describing Biden.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Biden got the worst of it, but President Obama didn't
fare too well either. Under his photo at least he
got his photo up there, it says Barack Hussein Obama
was the first black president, a community organizer, one term
senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political
figures in American history.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
He claims on this.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Plaque that Obama spied on the twenty sixteen presidential campaign
of Donald J. Trump and presided over the creation of
the Russia Russia Russia hoax, the worst political scandal in
America history. He also mentions Hillary Clinton under Obama Yeah,
under Obama's plaque, saying that she was his hand picked successor,
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and then noted that Hillary would then lose the presidency
to Donald J.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
He also mentions Hillary's lost to him under President Clinton's
plaque as well.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
She was never president and got two mentions yep. Also
underneath President Reagan's pick this one is this might be
the funniest one talking about. It might be the funniest one,
but he's talking about Ronald Reagan. Of course gave him
a lot of good praise during the plaque, but at
the end it said that Reagan quote was a fan
of President Donald J. Trump before President Trump's historic run
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for the White House. Likewise, President Trump was a fan
of his exclamation point that's at the White House now,
folks up on the wall, this is where.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
We are, Okay, but you do It's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I don't know what to say. He's rewriting history. This
is his hist This is not the people's house. It's
his house. He can do whatever the hell he wants,
and that is how he's treating it. Fine. He's redecorated,
he tore down ballrooms, he's put up a new ballroom,
all this stuff. It is not the people's house. It
is his until he leaves, and he's treating it as such.
That's his mindset. And if he's going to have that mindset,
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I ain't mad at him. But I was told it
was supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
The people's white house, white all right. Next up on
the run, Nick Reiner made his first court appearance Wednesday,
and he didn't enter a plea because his arraynment hearing
actually got moved. Now for the second time, that will
happen on January seventh. The only words we heard Nick
Reiner accused of murdering his two parents. He only said, yes,
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your honor, three words. He is facing two counts of
first degree murder with special circumstances.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
His attorney spoke outside the courthouse afterwards, Alan Jackson, a
very renowned attorney, has some big time celebrity clients, but
he said this is a very complex case with some
serious issues and said that people should not jump to conclusions.
We don't exactly know what he's referring to with complex
and serious issues. We did hear from the siblings of
Nick Reiner, his older brother, younger sister, saying words cannot
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begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every
moment of the day. Said that Rob and Michelle Rein
or their parents were not just our parents, they were
our best friends. They go on to ask for privacy,
but you noted one thing. They did not mention their
brother in that statement. Nothing about a sibling, not his name,
not even acknowledgment of any circumstand They just talked about
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their parents.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
They and I think we both talked about how it
was impressive how they wrote this, and they just asked
for speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity. And
that's something that we can all do for them, for
the Reiner family, and honestly for everyone in our lives.
Next up on the Run today, Mark's day six of
the manhunt for the Brown University shooter.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
He killed two students, injured nine others.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
They had a late afternoon presser yesterday, and that's when
we heard from Rhode Island authorities who are saying.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Hey, we need your help.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We're looking for another person who may have encountered the
person of interest. And they showed photos of this guy,
making clear he's not a suspect, but they're hoping maybe
he can help them find the man they're actually looking forward.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
How was that again? They say, this is not a
suspect of any kind, But how is that person feeling
like the whole country is looking for you because they're
looking for him.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
That's that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You're just walking down the street and now all of
a sudden, your face is plastered all over the world.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I thought this person would have been found pretty quickly.
I just wonder how much information they have. But everybody's
watching this story. Somebody's gonna reckon that face? Is there?
Pretty clear?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And that was what late afternoon. We haven't heard a
peep peep.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah. Also, again, I think it's a more of an
indication every day that goes by, just how desperate they
are for information. They put up a map yesterday doing
the press conference and showed an area where they think
this person of interest was last seen, and they're telling
everybody you live in this area, please go through check
all your cameras and everything you got. They even said
if you don't know how to work it, we will
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send an officer to your house and help you. With
this video. They're trying to remain as positive as possible,
saying we're going to get this person, not going to
stop until we find them. But also the one positive
update we got ropes that seems like all those that
who were injured are starting to do better. One remaining
in critical, but five others in stable. These few others
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had been released, but the ones even they were saying
in stable condition were getting better according to their parents.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That was certainly the silver lining in that press conference
where they certainly seemed desperate at this point to find
this man all right. Next up on the Run, it
is sentencing day for Brian Walsh. He was convicted of
murdering his wife Anna Walsh in the first degree. You remember,
he admitted to dismembering her or he pleaded guilty to
that and to manipulating her lying to police, but he
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was convicted by a jury after about six hours of deliberation,
and the other two charges.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
He pleaded guilty to are actually important.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
We were explained by a criminal defense need that just
in case this murder conviction somehow gets vacated or overturned
or whatever on the appeals process, at least we know
he'll still be behind bars because he pleaded guilty to
these two other charges.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
So yeah, we are expecting court to start at nine
o'clock this morning. We are told local affiliates reporting that
yes on, the Walsh's family members will be reading impact
state Whens. Don't know how long this is expected to last,
but always powerful moments. This is a chance for them
to face and speak directly to the man now convicted
of killing on a wash.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
That's right, and next up on the run.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Police have arrested and charged an Oklahoma preacher on child
sex abuse charges. We're talking about sixty eight year old
Joe Campbell. He ministered thousands of children across four states
for the past fifty.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Years nam but now arrested. He was arrested at the
children's camp that he runs in Missouri. Some of his victims,
alleged victims, have been trying to get him charged for
the past forty years, so if convicted, he faces life
in prison. The charges here one count of first degree rape,
one count of leude or indecent acts to a child
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under the age of sixteen.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
This is a horrific story, and it's not just it's
horrific obviously by the acts he's accused of, but also
by the inaction of some police local authorities who they
say did nothing. Five women have said that he sexually
abused them as children in the seventies and eighties when
he was their minister. Nine others, including four men, said
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they showed him He showed them pornography, made lude comments,
touch them inappropriately.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
So that right.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
There is fourteen people and police do believe there are
many more victims out there, and they are actually asking
those folks to come.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Forward now, I fole as we continue our run on
this Thursday morning now at Florida, set to execute it's
nineteenth inmate tonight. This one fifty eight year old Frank
Athan Walls. He was a teenager. He was a teenage
serial killer. He first murdered someone back in nineteen was
eighty five. He was seventeen, I believe at the time.
But he murdered a nineteen year old woman by the
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name of Tommy Lou Whitten and then went on to
commit at least four more murders after that. This was
the case. I didn't remember, it, didn't recognize, but it was
called the Tuesday murders because all of them happened either
on a Tuesday or in the overnight hours of Tuesday.
Don't know why. I never saw a reason why. They
think could just be a coincidence, but that's what they
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were called. The former sheriff said, this guy terrorized the
town because these murders. They didn't know who was doing it.
They were happening in really close proximity for each other.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And complete random strangers. There was no rhyme or reason
as to who he chose. But many of these were
sexual crimes before they were murders. He was convicted and
sentenced to death for two of the murders, but he
later confessed to all of them. Many of his victims
family members haven't lived to see tonight, given the forty
years that have passed, but here's what one relative had
to say about his execution tonight.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I thought this was fascinating.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
She said, I'm going to have a drink and toast
to my grandma and close that chapter. She was two
years old when her Grandma was killed by this man.
She said, I don't think it's ever going to be healed,
but I will feel relief knowing that all the other
families will sleep better knowing it's done and over with
and there's no way for him to fight it anymore.
And with that, we are going to take a break.
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But coming up next on the run, we're going to
talk about the government in a rare moment, taking responsibility
for the fatal collision, the mid air collision over Reagan
National Airport at the beginning of this year.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Also the oscars.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
They are moving, making a big change that's going to
affect a lot of folks viewing habits.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
And yes, we're talking Powerball. Get your tickets, folks.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
We are looking to have another potentially record setting jackpot.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
All right, folks, we continue on this Friday Eve run
now with the US government taking responsibility for that fatal
collision between an Army black Hall helicopter and an American
Airline Lines plane near Reagan National Airport at the beginning
of the year. Sixty seven people die. The Justice Department
is now saying, and I quote, the United States admits
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that the helicopter pilots failed to maintain vigilance so as
to see and avoid the passenger plane, and their failure
to do so was a cause, in fact and a
proximate cause of the accident. End quote. That is as
much of a this was our fault statement as you're
going to get. Yep.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
And that was the government's admission.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
They made it as part of a civil lawsuit that's
been filed by the family of one of the passengers
killed in that collision. But it was remarkable to see
full admission, no excuses, it's our fault. The blame rests here.
That's pretty remarkable, all right. Next up on the run,
it is the end of an era for broadcast television
and the Academy Awards. The OSCARS ceremony is moving beginning
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just three years from now, in twenty twenty nine. For
the following four years, the Academy Awards will now be
seen on YouTube. The awards show has aired live on
ABC since the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
This is just what's happening. This is just another big
step in everything moving from linear to freaking streaming someway. Yeah,
most recent ceremony brought in twenty million viewers. That sounds
pretty good. And they used to be happy with that,
but still it's a fraction of the audience that tune
in for the award show back in the day. So
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take the Titanic year fifty five million, the year that
one is.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
The weezt That was the peak year of the Oscars viewing.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
But several years before, before the past two there was
a steady decline to the point they thought they would
get it off ABC altogether because it cost too much.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, last year they actually had a little bit of
a peak. But yes, you're right, starting from the pandemic.
Right after the pandemic, it was like abysmal.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So now they're going to be available live and freedom
viewers around the world on YouTube. YouTube has the largest
share of US streaming viewing. By the way, the Academy
is hoping that all this leads to a bigger international audience.
I think Conan last year, I think he has this
job for life. He did such a good job, Like
finally looked like somebody got it right in that room.
I'm not dogging the other but it's a tough gig.
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He seemed to really get it. He's going to be
back forever.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Uh Yeah, And look, I think it's It's fascinating. I
wonder what ABC is feeling like. That was such look
during our years or that was such a huge part
of the network and look, you don't get many events
where you have that many people looking at your network,
and this was really we didn't have the Olympic because
we didn't have but we.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Had the Oscar. So this is a huge loss for ABC.
All right, final leg of the run. Nobody won again.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
We are at forty four consecutive drawings with no jackpot wins,
but that means the jackpot just got quite a bit
bigger once again.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
One point five billion. This is where we are. So
Saturday night's going to be a good night for somebody possibly,
but yes, one point five billion. That would be the
second biggest of the year and the one before. Wait,
so these are back to back to have this right?
Or was there a little one in between the one
point seven eighty seven billion jackpot in September?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yeah, there was no.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I don't know if there was one in between or not,
I don't know, but that was the largest one of
the year.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Of the year, so these are almost back to back
us correct with these billion dollar jackpots? Cash Valley of
course six hundred and eighty six point five million, I say,
of course, like, of course I'm gonna mention that, and
of course you should take that option.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, I was hoping for a six in front of
that number with the cash ash. Remember we were at
a four, then we're a five, now we're at a six.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
The four looks good. Everything looks good once the four
get three is.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Right, that's hilarious. All right.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
On this Friday Eve, we are going to leave you
with our quote of the day. This one comes from
one of my favorite monks. He is a well known philosopher.
Everything he says it will just be golden monk tick.
Not Han, Yes you have a fat and have a foul.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
He's my favorite monk.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Who is your third favorite?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I don't know that I have a list. Take not
Han is amazing. Look him up. Everything that he has
said is just incredibly powerful. All right.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Quote of the day. Sometimes your joy is the source
if your smile. But sometimes your smile can be.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
The source of your joy.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Oh your joy, yes, your own joy, yes, or and
other people's as well. But if you find yourself smiling,
you can't help. Like sometimes you kind of just push that,
like I'm gonna smile. I'm going to react in a
positive way and it changes your whole energy and it
brings joy. And yes, you're right, it's not just you.
It does affect everyone around you. Without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
You're around someone who's smiling, you just feel better.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You know what. Everybody, please try that today. When you
get on an elevator or make eye contact with somebody,
just smile. Just give him a big old smile. It
really does change everything.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, walking across the street practicing, I've done that in
New York before, and it really is uplifting because it
lifts you up, but it also lifts up the people
around you.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
And New Yorkers get a bad rap for being like
harsh or even loud and whatnot. New Yorkers are some
of the kindness they keep to themselves, like the head down,
I got somewhere to be. But if you need help,
you make eye contact. I have always found that to
be the case. The New Yorkers are wonderful.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
So sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
And without everyone, thank you so much for running with us.
I'm Amy robot and
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I'm TJ Holmes be running with you all soon.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone,
and welcome to Morning Run. It's Thursday, or as I
like to say, Friday eve. It's December seventeenth. I'm Amy,
robots the eighteenth. Oh god, it's the eighteenth. Wow, I
screwed that. I thought you are correct, and I started
off Morning Run with a bang.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That means you got the rest of Morning Run to
make up for it. No, that was nothing. I'm tj ols.
Hey there, folks, you really think that's the biggest screw
up we're going to have to day? Probably not, but
welcome everybody. We did have a late night, so we
can please give her a break. I had a late
night and had a tough time getting to sleep, stayed
up and watch the Trump speech and had difficult time
(00:43):
sleeping afterwards. Usually do when I get yelled at for
twenty minutes right before bed, And that's what it felt
like last night. Look, this is not about politics. A
cat any observer. He was amped up last night.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
He was amped up, but he was also speeding through
his prepared remarks and racing almost Yeah, he was.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
He was.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I think he knew that the networks wanted to get back,
or at least CBS wanted to get back to Survivor's finale.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Well, you know, if he'd taken his time like normal,
this might have been a forty five minute speech. But
that's true. This is what it was like. So we'll
tell you and get into that. But that wasn't the
only jaw dropping thing really that came from President Trump.
Yesterday they revealed the new plaques at the Walk of
Fame in the White House, and you won't believe some
of the things written on the official presidential plaques of
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the likes of Biden and Obama. You really will not
believe it. Also this morning, we don't see this all
the time, and wrote this is difficult to stomach for
those families, But the government is taking responsibility for that
deadly crash over Reagan National Airport, that deadly mid air
collision that happened in January. The government is actually saying,
(01:55):
and in pretty clear terms, this was the fault of
the army in those pilots.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, and we'll get into it, but it's amazing. Look,
nothing's going to bring back, sadly, the sixty seven people
who died, but hearing someone take responsibility for it It's
amazing how that actually goes towards healing, and so that
was a huge step in that direction. Also on the
Run this morning, Nick Reiner made his first court appearance yesterday,
and we heard directly from his siblings for the first
(02:23):
time since their parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner were murdered.
It's also sentencing day for Brian Walsh. Rhode Island officials
are asking for the public's health and finding a second
man who is not a suspect. An Oklahoma preacher is
facing life in prison, and a teenage serial killer is
set to die tonight by lethal injection, forty years after
(02:46):
his first murder.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Also on the Run this morning, the Academy Awards says
announced a major change of address and power Ball. I'm
kind of ready to just get this one. Let's just
get over with. Were doing the same thing every two
to three days, saying okay, yes it's nobody won again
last night. So now we're getting up to an incredible
record in Powerball. Remember it was one point two five
billion before. Where do y'all think it is now? But yes,
(03:08):
it is going up.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
We begin our run though about last night President Trump
using that primetime address to the nation pretty much to
blast former President Biden while at the same time touting
his economic plan for the country. It was eighteen minutes long.
As we mentioned, he was racing through his prepared remarks,
and it did look like, and this was unusual, that
(03:30):
he pretty much stayed to the script.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
He didn't add.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Lib very often. When he did, it was very obvious.
And even though the partisan tone was on brand for Trump,
we shouldn't be surprised by what he said, but it
still felt incredibly uncomfortable for him to use a primetime
address on network television to be remarkably partisan.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Oh, it was a stump speech. It was uh yes,
him touting what he thinks or his accomplishments, and we
heard Biden's name repeated. He blamed pretty much everything. Every
economic problem the country has he blamed on Biden said
that he President Trump inherited a mess from Biden. It's
going to take time and effort to fix it. Now.
One thing that jumped up Robert I thought this was beautiful.
(04:14):
Every US service member, he said, is going to get
a check for Christmas in the amount of seventeen hundred
and seventy six dollars. You can imagine what that is.
In honor of of course, but yes, the nation's two
hundred and fifteenth anniversary said they are going to get
these checks. They said they've started going out already calling
this a warrior dividend and bragged that, hey, we're making
more money off Tariff's got some extra and give it
(04:36):
to the soldiers wherever it's coming from, whatever they're doing.
I love this. I actually love, love love this.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It was the one bright spot. Yes, as President Trump
was saying his favorite word is tariff, he did at
least put some of that tariff revenue to very good
use that I think everyone can applaud. All right, Next
up on the run, speaking of having a partisan tone,
this one. When I saw this story, when I said,
jaw dropped, my jaw actually dropped. President Trump has installed
(05:04):
new plaques, like official permanent plaques, underneath the pictures of
all the former presidents. This is in the portrait gallery
along the West Wing. But he instead of giving just
the details of someone's presidency, he used the plaques to
hurl insults and make unfounded claims beneath several of the photos.
(05:24):
And if you read the plaques, they actually sound like
his truth social posts. Oh they've been punctuated, yes, with
exclamation points.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
In all caps at some point. Look, we understand he's
not a fan. But history is history. Every president did
some things good, some did some bad economically and even personally.
It's fun, we get it. This is other level. So
to set the tone for you all here to understand
what this is. Every president has a portrait up there
except one, Joe Biden. Instead of Joe Biden's picture there,
(05:56):
there is a picture of an auto pen making a
signature Joe Biden. That is as partisan and crazy as
you can imagine. That is why it's it's almost un
certainly beneath the office. But it's almost unbelievable that anyone
would do that. But this is what's happening in the
White House. But yes, oh, it even gets better, folks.
(06:18):
Part of the I think Joe Biden has two plaques right,
because he couldn't get it all in and one right.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Oh yeah, they were stacked on top of each top sleepy.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Joe Biden was by far the worst president in American history.
That is how the plaque starts, folks, And it goes
on from there. Taking office as a results of the
most corrupt election ever seen in the US, blames him
for pretty much everything, also starting a couple of wars.
It says up there, quote seeing Biden's devastating weakness, Russia
invaded Ukraine and Hamas terror has launched the heinous October
(06:51):
seventh attack on Israel. Again, folks, this is in the
White House, on an official wall, it also says on
the other plaque it starts. Nicknamed both Sleepy Joe and
Crooked Joe, Biden was dominated by radical left handlers. They
and their allies in the fake news media attempted to
cover up his severe mental decline and his unpresidented use
(07:11):
of the auto pen. Again, folks, this is not He
didn't post this on social These are those thick, bronze
made plaques that go on the wall, and this is
the hall that honors every US president. And this is
what's under there describing Biden.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Biden got the worst of it, but President Obama didn't
fare too well either. Under his photo at least he
got his photo up there, it says Barack Hussein Obama
was the first black president, a community organizer, one term
senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political
figures in American history.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
He claims on this.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Plaque that Obama spied on the twenty sixteen presidential campaign
of Donald J. Trump and presided over the creation of
the Russia Russia Russia hoax, the worst political scandal in
America history. He also mentions Hillary Clinton under Obama Yeah,
under Obama's plaque, saying that she was his hand picked successor,
(08:08):
and then noted that Hillary would then lose the presidency
to Donald J.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
He also mentions Hillary's lost to him under President Clinton's
plaque as well.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
She was never president and got two mentions yep. Also
underneath President Reagan's pick this one is this might be
the funniest one talking about. It might be the funniest one,
but he's talking about Ronald Reagan. Of course gave him
a lot of good praise during the plaque, but at
the end it said that Reagan quote was a fan
of President Donald J. Trump before President Trump's historic run
(08:42):
for the White House. Likewise, President Trump was a fan
of his exclamation point that's at the White House now,
folks up on the wall, this is where.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
We are, Okay, but you do It's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I don't know what to say. He's rewriting history. This
is his hist This is not the people's house. It's
his house. He can do whatever the hell he wants,
and that is how he's treating it. Fine. He's redecorated,
he tore down ballrooms, he's put up a new ballroom,
all this stuff. It is not the people's house. It
is his until he leaves, and he's treating it as such.
That's his mindset. And if he's going to have that mindset,
(09:19):
I ain't mad at him. But I was told it
was supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
The people's white house, white all right. Next up on
the run, Nick Reiner made his first court appearance Wednesday,
and he didn't enter a plea because his arraynment hearing
actually got moved. Now for the second time, that will
happen on January seventh. The only words we heard Nick
Reiner accused of murdering his two parents. He only said, yes,
(09:44):
your honor, three words. He is facing two counts of
first degree murder with special circumstances.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
His attorney spoke outside the courthouse afterwards, Alan Jackson, a
very renowned attorney, has some big time celebrity clients, but
he said this is a very complex case with some
serious issues and said that people should not jump to conclusions.
We don't exactly know what he's referring to with complex
and serious issues. We did hear from the siblings of
Nick Reiner, his older brother, younger sister, saying words cannot
(10:10):
begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every
moment of the day. Said that Rob and Michelle Rein
or their parents were not just our parents, they were
our best friends. They go on to ask for privacy,
but you noted one thing. They did not mention their
brother in that statement. Nothing about a sibling, not his name,
not even acknowledgment of any circumstand They just talked about
(10:31):
their parents.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
They and I think we both talked about how it
was impressive how they wrote this, and they just asked
for speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity. And
that's something that we can all do for them, for
the Reiner family, and honestly for everyone in our lives.
Next up on the Run today, Mark's day six of
the manhunt for the Brown University shooter.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
He killed two students, injured nine others.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
They had a late afternoon presser yesterday, and that's when
we heard from Rhode Island authorities who are saying.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Hey, we need your help.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We're looking for another person who may have encountered the
person of interest. And they showed photos of this guy,
making clear he's not a suspect, but they're hoping maybe
he can help them find the man they're actually looking forward.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
How was that again? They say, this is not a
suspect of any kind, But how is that person feeling
like the whole country is looking for you because they're
looking for him.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
That's that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You're just walking down the street and now all of
a sudden, your face is plastered all over the world.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I thought this person would have been found pretty quickly.
I just wonder how much information they have. But everybody's
watching this story. Somebody's gonna reckon that face? Is there?
Pretty clear?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And that was what late afternoon. We haven't heard a
peep peep.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah. Also, again, I think it's a more of an
indication every day that goes by, just how desperate they
are for information. They put up a map yesterday doing
the press conference and showed an area where they think
this person of interest was last seen, and they're telling
everybody you live in this area, please go through check
all your cameras and everything you got. They even said
if you don't know how to work it, we will
(12:01):
send an officer to your house and help you. With
this video. They're trying to remain as positive as possible,
saying we're going to get this person, not going to
stop until we find them. But also the one positive
update we got ropes that seems like all those that
who were injured are starting to do better. One remaining
in critical, but five others in stable. These few others
(12:21):
had been released, but the ones even they were saying
in stable condition were getting better according to their parents.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That was certainly the silver lining in that press conference
where they certainly seemed desperate at this point to find
this man all right. Next up on the Run, it
is sentencing day for Brian Walsh. He was convicted of
murdering his wife Anna Walsh in the first degree. You remember,
he admitted to dismembering her or he pleaded guilty to
that and to manipulating her lying to police, but he
(12:48):
was convicted by a jury after about six hours of deliberation,
and the other two charges.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
He pleaded guilty to are actually important.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
We were explained by a criminal defense need that just
in case this murder conviction somehow gets vacated or overturned
or whatever on the appeals process, at least we know
he'll still be behind bars because he pleaded guilty to
these two other charges.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
So yeah, we are expecting court to start at nine
o'clock this morning. We are told local affiliates reporting that
yes on, the Walsh's family members will be reading impact
state Whens. Don't know how long this is expected to last,
but always powerful moments. This is a chance for them
to face and speak directly to the man now convicted
of killing on a wash.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
That's right, and next up on the run.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Police have arrested and charged an Oklahoma preacher on child
sex abuse charges. We're talking about sixty eight year old
Joe Campbell. He ministered thousands of children across four states
for the past fifty.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Years nam but now arrested. He was arrested at the
children's camp that he runs in Missouri. Some of his victims,
alleged victims, have been trying to get him charged for
the past forty years, so if convicted, he faces life
in prison. The charges here one count of first degree rape,
one count of leude or indecent acts to a child
(14:05):
under the age of sixteen.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
This is a horrific story, and it's not just it's
horrific obviously by the acts he's accused of, but also
by the inaction of some police local authorities who they
say did nothing. Five women have said that he sexually
abused them as children in the seventies and eighties when
he was their minister. Nine others, including four men, said
(14:27):
they showed him He showed them pornography, made lude comments,
touch them inappropriately.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
So that right.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
There is fourteen people and police do believe there are
many more victims out there, and they are actually asking
those folks to come.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Forward now, I fole as we continue our run on
this Thursday morning now at Florida, set to execute it's
nineteenth inmate tonight. This one fifty eight year old Frank
Athan Walls. He was a teenager. He was a teenage
serial killer. He first murdered someone back in nineteen was
eighty five. He was seventeen, I believe at the time.
But he murdered a nineteen year old woman by the
(15:01):
name of Tommy Lou Whitten and then went on to
commit at least four more murders after that. This was
the case. I didn't remember, it, didn't recognize, but it was
called the Tuesday murders because all of them happened either
on a Tuesday or in the overnight hours of Tuesday.
Don't know why. I never saw a reason why. They
think could just be a coincidence, but that's what they
(15:22):
were called. The former sheriff said, this guy terrorized the
town because these murders. They didn't know who was doing it.
They were happening in really close proximity for each other.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And complete random strangers. There was no rhyme or reason
as to who he chose. But many of these were
sexual crimes before they were murders. He was convicted and
sentenced to death for two of the murders, but he
later confessed to all of them. Many of his victims
family members haven't lived to see tonight, given the forty
years that have passed, but here's what one relative had
to say about his execution tonight.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I thought this was fascinating.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
She said, I'm going to have a drink and toast
to my grandma and close that chapter. She was two
years old when her Grandma was killed by this man.
She said, I don't think it's ever going to be healed,
but I will feel relief knowing that all the other
families will sleep better knowing it's done and over with
and there's no way for him to fight it anymore.
And with that, we are going to take a break.
(16:16):
But coming up next on the run, we're going to
talk about the government in a rare moment, taking responsibility
for the fatal collision, the mid air collision over Reagan
National Airport at the beginning of this year.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Also the oscars.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
They are moving, making a big change that's going to
affect a lot of folks viewing habits.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
And yes, we're talking Powerball. Get your tickets, folks.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
We are looking to have another potentially record setting jackpot.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
All right, folks, we continue on this Friday Eve run
now with the US government taking responsibility for that fatal
collision between an Army black Hall helicopter and an American
Airline Lines plane near Reagan National Airport at the beginning
of the year. Sixty seven people die. The Justice Department
is now saying, and I quote, the United States admits
(17:10):
that the helicopter pilots failed to maintain vigilance so as
to see and avoid the passenger plane, and their failure
to do so was a cause, in fact and a
proximate cause of the accident. End quote. That is as
much of a this was our fault statement as you're
going to get. Yep.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
And that was the government's admission.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
They made it as part of a civil lawsuit that's
been filed by the family of one of the passengers
killed in that collision. But it was remarkable to see
full admission, no excuses, it's our fault. The blame rests here.
That's pretty remarkable, all right. Next up on the run,
it is the end of an era for broadcast television
and the Academy Awards. The OSCARS ceremony is moving beginning
(17:56):
just three years from now, in twenty twenty nine. For
the following four years, the Academy Awards will now be
seen on YouTube. The awards show has aired live on
ABC since the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
This is just what's happening. This is just another big
step in everything moving from linear to freaking streaming someway. Yeah,
most recent ceremony brought in twenty million viewers. That sounds
pretty good. And they used to be happy with that,
but still it's a fraction of the audience that tune
in for the award show back in the day. So
(18:31):
take the Titanic year fifty five million, the year that
one is.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
The weezt That was the peak year of the Oscars viewing.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
But several years before, before the past two there was
a steady decline to the point they thought they would
get it off ABC altogether because it cost too much.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, last year they actually had a little bit of
a peak. But yes, you're right, starting from the pandemic.
Right after the pandemic, it was like abysmal.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So now they're going to be available live and freedom
viewers around the world on YouTube. YouTube has the largest
share of US streaming viewing. By the way, the Academy
is hoping that all this leads to a bigger international audience.
I think Conan last year, I think he has this
job for life. He did such a good job, Like
finally looked like somebody got it right in that room.
I'm not dogging the other but it's a tough gig.
(19:14):
He seemed to really get it. He's going to be
back forever.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Uh Yeah, And look, I think it's It's fascinating. I
wonder what ABC is feeling like. That was such look
during our years or that was such a huge part
of the network and look, you don't get many events
where you have that many people looking at your network,
and this was really we didn't have the Olympic because
we didn't have but we.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Had the Oscar. So this is a huge loss for ABC.
All right, final leg of the run. Nobody won again.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
We are at forty four consecutive drawings with no jackpot wins,
but that means the jackpot just got quite a bit
bigger once again.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
One point five billion. This is where we are. So
Saturday night's going to be a good night for somebody possibly,
but yes, one point five billion. That would be the
second biggest of the year and the one before. Wait,
so these are back to back to have this right?
Or was there a little one in between the one
point seven eighty seven billion jackpot in September?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yeah, there was no.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I don't know if there was one in between or not,
I don't know, but that was the largest one of
the year.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Of the year, so these are almost back to back
us correct with these billion dollar jackpots? Cash Valley of
course six hundred and eighty six point five million, I say,
of course, like, of course I'm gonna mention that, and
of course you should take that option.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, I was hoping for a six in front of
that number with the cash ash. Remember we were at
a four, then we're a five, now we're at a six.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
The four looks good. Everything looks good once the four
get three is.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Right, that's hilarious. All right.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
On this Friday Eve, we are going to leave you
with our quote of the day. This one comes from
one of my favorite monks. He is a well known philosopher.
Everything he says it will just be golden monk tick.
Not Han, Yes you have a fat and have a foul.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
He's my favorite monk.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Who is your third favorite?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I don't know that I have a list. Take not
Han is amazing. Look him up. Everything that he has
said is just incredibly powerful. All right.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Quote of the day. Sometimes your joy is the source
if your smile. But sometimes your smile can be.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
The source of your joy.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Oh your joy, yes, your own joy, yes, or and
other people's as well. But if you find yourself smiling,
you can't help. Like sometimes you kind of just push that,
like I'm gonna smile. I'm going to react in a
positive way and it changes your whole energy and it
brings joy. And yes, you're right, it's not just you.
It does affect everyone around you. Without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
You're around someone who's smiling, you just feel better.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You know what. Everybody, please try that today. When you
get on an elevator or make eye contact with somebody,
just smile. Just give him a big old smile. It
really does change everything.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, walking across the street practicing, I've done that in
New York before, and it really is uplifting because it
lifts you up, but it also lifts up the people
around you.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
And New Yorkers get a bad rap for being like
harsh or even loud and whatnot. New Yorkers are some
of the kindness they keep to themselves, like the head down,
I got somewhere to be. But if you need help,
you make eye contact. I have always found that to
be the case. The New Yorkers are wonderful.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
So sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
And without everyone, thank you so much for running with us.
I'm Amy robot and
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I'm TJ Holmes be running with you all soon.
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