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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, this is your morning Run for Thursday, August fourteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Amy Rovit and I'm TJ Holmes. You'll hear it there,
she hesitated, because we haven't updated the date in our
rundown here. It still says August seventh or whatever.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It happens at least once.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
A week, so in the interest of full transparency. There
on that pause, you were not mistaken. You heard it right, folks.
What was your sleep score? Baby?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Seventy nine?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That's pretty good, right, well, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Got that's when I have to go. Look, that's where
my sleep score didn't get as good as it could have,
because I did well with rim and deep sleep, but
I only golt. Let's see, five hours and thirty three minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Okay, five hours and twenty seven minutes here, seventy six.
That's a pretty good sleep score for me. That means
we are going through ab a wonderful morning run.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, we've been in sync. We have in the eighties. Yesterday,
we're in the high seventies. Today.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We stay in sync. But I don't need an oral
ring to tell me that. But hey, hope you all
are getting a good start to your Friday eve. Did
you hear the news, folks, the President of the United
States is going to be serving as host of a
prime time award show. You are hearing me correctly. Roads
He keeps doing things we have never seen before, and
Trump has now signed up to host an ward show.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Trump has trumped himself.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, yes, we'll get into all those details this morning. Also,
happy meals. Look, some nutrition is might be happy to
hear that people are taking happy meals and just dumping
the food out in the sidewalk. But that's not what
they're supposed to do. Look, this is kind of a
big deal. Piles of McDonald's burgers and fries.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Who leaves fries behind? I'm sorry, you know that.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
That's a big deal. We gotta get into it. But
McDonald's has responded, apologized, and had to cancel a promotion
all because of this good news here is well drinking,
y'all aren't drinking as much you folks out there. This
is great news, is it not?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
It is great news. They believe that people are heeding
the warnings that alcohol consumption can lead to cancer diagnoses.
People are concerned about their health. They want to live longer,
they want to live better, and they're drinking less.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So, folks, Yes, our official polling that we do to
find out exactly how many people in this country are drinking,
hitting some of the lowest numbers we have seen. You
folks aren't drinking as much. We'll give all the details
and look, it's one thing if a guy tells a
woman she has to pay for her own engagement ring.
It's another thing to tell us she's got to go
out into the dirt and dig around to try to
(02:29):
find her own uncut diamond for the ring. Rose. This
is too far. This story is going too far.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
She actually said it was a dream of hers. No
one made her do it, she wanted to do it.
And I didn't even know you could do it. This
is all news to me, and I'm kind of inspired.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Uh, And I'm from Arkansas and that's why I knew
about it. We'll explain why a New Yorker ended up
in Arkansas and found a diamond that is now going
to be used in her engagement ring. All that coming up,
or reminder, just do it. Take a look at your phone.
That Apple podcast app right there top right corner. A
little tap it says, follow on our show page. Just
(03:06):
click that you can get all of our updates. But
also on this morning, Ron the Kennedy Center honors. The
recipients were announced yesterday, but Trump made sure to tell
us the type of honorees he rejected.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
The Wokesters and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones reveals a stage
four cancer diagnosis, but from decades ago. And you know
that federal takeover of DC that we've been telling you about.
National Guard there in the streets at the nation's capital
just for thirty days, right, it might not be temporary.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Actually, also this morning, the Trump putin summit already sounds
like a waste of time, according to Zelensky. And everybody
is seeing the news. It's everywhere. Taylor Swift was on
her boyfriend's podcast it finally aired last night. Bought a
big deal is to get the actual album release date.
It's October, I do believe. Yeah, it's coming a little later.
But look, that was everybody's talking about. It was a
(04:00):
very cute to see, and you got, really, I guess,
so much coverage of their relationship. This was the first
time we actually got real news about their relationship because
it's from them and we got to see them.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It was cool, and I appreciate the fact that, you know,
she doesn't do interviews and she doesn't go on podcasts,
so it's cool that well, she chose a very special podcast.
It actually is integral to their actual relationship, which I
didn't know about. All right, But we begin our run
on this Friday Eve. Maybe not a great sign that
the day before the peace summit in Alaska, words like
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bluffing and severe consequences are already being thrown around.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, this Zelensky less meeting, it's scheduled to take place
tomorrow between President Trump and Russian President Putin with the
hopes of moving the peace process forward in this now
three year Russia Ukraine war. Well, during a press conference yesterday,
Trump was as directly if there would be consequences if
Putin did not agree to a peace deal. His response
was severe consequences, but he would not allowate on exactly
(05:00):
what that meant.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And the president yesterday had a virtual conference with Ukrainian
President Zelenski as well as European leaders, and Zelensky confirmed
he told the world leaders that Putin is full of it,
saying Putin definitely does not want peace. He wants occupation
of our country, and we all really understand that. He
flat out said that Putin is bluffing.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
All right, continuing on this Friday Eve run now, recipients
for this year's Kennedy Center Honors were announced yesterday, and
you can't really argue with some of these right legendary
rockers Kiss also Rocky himself, Sylvester Stallone, who of course
is very buddy buddy with the president these days, that's right.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And country music legend George Strait. Everyone knows his name.
And then disco queen I Will Survive, Gloria Gayner.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Is that the greatest female empowerment song theme of all time?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I think it is? In my opinion, Yes, it's right
up there, at least in the top three, but it's
one that most girls know every word. And stage actor
and singer Uh Phantom of the Opera Michael Crawford. He
also was awarded. The Kennedy Center Honors have been around
since nineteen seventy eight. It always draws interest because of
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the star power even the iconic status of some of
the recipients over the years.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
But the announcement drew even more interest this year because
of Yes, President Trump who has been keen on exerting
his power and influence over the Performing Arts Center. He
personally revealed the nominees yesterday at a press conference. This
was very trump esque, and this was very much a
television production. All of the pictures were up on posters
of each of the recipients, but they were covered. They
(06:39):
were draped at first, and then there were reveals this
was a produced This's a television production now. The President
said he was ninety eight percent involved in the selection process.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
He noted that he'd turned down plenty of other potential
honorees because they were too woke. I had a couple
of wolsters, he said. Trump fired the Kennedy Center board
earlier this year, filled it with his own appointees, and
then named himself chairman.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Have you heard woke strews before?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
No? But that might catch on all right.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
The President also revealed who's going to serve as host
of the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony. After much consideration and debate,
President Trump has selected as this year's host. President Trump, folks,
the President of the United States, is going to be
in prime time hosting what's essentially a television awards show. Robes.
(07:30):
This is a doozy and you better believe I will
be watching.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Oh, we will be watching.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
This is what Trump told reporters at the press conference.
I've been asked to host, I said, I'm the President
of the United States. Are you fools asking me to
do that? Sir, you'll get much higher ratings. I said,
I don't care. I'm the president of the United States.
I won't do it. They said please, and then Chief
of Staff Susie Wilds said, sir, I would like you
(07:56):
to host. I said, okay, I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
That's verbe them folks what she just read. And that's
how he put it. He tried to convince us all
that I really didn't want this attention.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But everyone told me that I'd get higher ratings if
I hosted. Okay, fine, what's a man supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Fine, they desperately want me stop it some more. This
is great reminder here. The president didn't even attend the
Kennedy Center honors during his first term as president because
some artists threatened to skip in protests. Other artists over
the years have canceled shows because of Trump's involvement with
the Center. Now the Kennedy Center Honors is going to
air December seventh on c B Frickin'.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yes, doesn't paramount own CBS.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
This is I mean, you just can't beat this. So
this is on a Sunday. So on Sunday night you'll
be able to watch President Trump in primetime on CBS.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Right after sixty minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Monday night you'll be able to watch Cobert on the
same network. So take that schedule sixty minutes. Then the
next day you got But this is unbelievable. But how
many times we said that worried about conspiracy?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Theorists have at it crazy? All right? Next up on
the Run the federal takeover of DC. Yeah, it might
not be so temporary. National Guard troops continued to trickle
into the nation's capital on President Trump's orders after he
declared a public safety emergency in the city. He also
invoked special emergency powers that allow him to put DC
(09:27):
Metropolitan Police under federal control for thirty days.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well expected to be more than that now, according to
the President himself, who revealed yesterday that he will be
asking Congress for a quote long term extension of the
federalization of the DC Police. How long is long term?
Don't know. Does he mean this is going to be permanent?
We don't know. We wait and see. But this is
(09:50):
a disturbing development for certainly a lot of folks in
DC thinking this was a short term thing to get
crime under control.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, thirty days, that's all it takes. Next up on
the Run, a new Gallup poll shows Americans are drinking
less than ever before. The national survey revealed only fifty
four percent of US adults say they consume alcohol. That's
the lowest percentage in the poll's ninety year history of
collecting data on drinking.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, and the people who said they did drink said
they were drinking less. Gallup says over the years, there
has been a decline in alcohol consumption. From nineteen ninety
seven to twenty twenty three, at least sixty percent of
Americans said they drank alcohol. That number felt of fifty
eight percent in twenty twenty four, and now it's fallen
even more.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And one of the bigger headlines younger adults are drinking
the least amount of any group. Only fifty percent said
they drank alcohol. That's down from fifty nine percent in
twenty twenty three. Fifty six percent of US middle aged
folks thirty five to fifty four said they drink. But
that's a big drop from seventy percent in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So what's happening here. The poll credits a recent focus
on the dangers of drinking. Last year, then Surgeon General
doctor Vivek Murphy called for alcoholic beverages to carry warning
labels like cigarettes should be noted. Gallup does say that
they do this based on telephone interviews of one thousand
adults across the country. Self reporting, as you know, isn't
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always reliable. And you know that because every time you
go into your doctor's office and they ask you how
much do you drink? You always back it off a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yes, they say, most people under report how much they drink.
You don't say. But if the same poll is conducted
every year, the same people who might be limiting or
at least making it a little bit less than what
we think, we're all doing it at the same time
each year.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So this is positive. This is great news. Is it
not for people to drink? But you know what, this
is a great example of if you just empower people
and give them information, they can make decisions for their
own lives. And they're making it seems to be a
positive one.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
And look what's happened with cigarettes. I mean it worked
with that. And when people start to see like alcohol
related debts surged in the past couple decades and people
are recognizing this. However, the one age group that actually
went up and drinking slightly, ages fifty five and older.
Their drinking went up slightly over the year. And the
other point that some folks have made the younger adults
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only fifty percent. They're also saying, yeah, that's because there's
a huge increase in cannabis use. So people are younger
folks are shifting from drinking to marijuana, and that's the
study that needs to be done.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Is okay, But also would a doctor if a doctor
if I said, hey, doc, should I have a drink
vodka tonight or have this joint? What is that doctor
going to jo?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I can tell you my oncologist has flat out and
my friend who also is stage four said, we got
the exact same director from our physicians, especially cancer patients.
Don't drink that glass of wine, go ahead and pop
a gummy that marijuana. Mushrooms far safer for especially cancer
patients and those who have survived cancer than alcohol period.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And we should say that Amy and TJ podcast is
not indoors.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Now, anybody please puts all your doctor before taking any
sort of controlled substance. Please please please. That was just
a personal anecdote that I received from my personal physician
with my personal health history. Thank you all right. Next
up on the Run, a new Netflix documentary on the
Dallas Cowboys has revealed a private battle that Cowboys owner
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and general manager Jerry Jones has been fighting for more
than a decade. Jones was diagnosed with stage four melanoma
back in June of twenty ten. Now, a stage four
cancer diagnosis means the cancer has spread to other parts
of the body, it's metastasized, and in many cases, stage
four diagnoses can be terminal.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It's kind of shocking to see her stage four back
in twenty ten, and we have been seeing him carry
on his duties for the last fifteen plus years. Had
no idea. He credits his fabulous treatment at MD Anderson,
a cancer center in Houston, specifically an experimental drug called
p D one for saving his life. He said that
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he also had two lung surgeries, two lymphnode surgeries over
the years, says he is now tumor free. That is,
had no idea.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
About it, especially coming on the heels of the Brandon
Blackstock story. He had stage four melanoma and died so
early at forty eight, so a lot of folks are
crediting him actually coming out and saying this as giving
people hope. Because people hear stage four melanoma, you think
it's a death sentence, And actually, the American Cancer Society
says the five year survival rate is thirty five percent,
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so it's you know, yes, it is a serious and
oftentimes terminal diagnosis, but there are survivors and it's good
for folks to see that when they're in the middle
of a battle.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
All right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this
Friday Eve Run when we come back, why Taylor Swift
went with orange, why people are dumping McDonald's fries on
the sidewalk, and why a woman had to dig through
the dirt for her own engagement Ring Diamond.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Welcome back to this Friday Eve edition of our morning Run,
and next up on the Run, Taylor Swift, who rarely
does interviews, spent two hours on her boyfriend Travis Kelsey's
podcast with his brother Jason, that all happened last night.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, that's awesome they were able to get this exclusive.
She actually credits the podcast for her relationship with Travis
Kelce because he used the podcast to get in touch
with her after going to one of Swift's shows on
her era's tour. Sounds a little creepy, but it's all right.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Kind of acknowledge it is a little creepy. He actually
tried to. Okay, well, so he tried to He had
a bracelet. He tried to get a security guard or
someone to pass it up to her and they were like, nah, bro,
it's not happening. So he went to the podcast the
next day to try and do a shout out.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
He shot his shot and the first one missed apparently
with the bracelet. I didn't know about that. He said.
He was mesmerized by the singer and just had to
find a way to meet her.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yep, and so here's some of the other headlines that
came out of the podcast. Swift revealed her twelfth album,
The Life of a Showgirl, will be released on October third.
It will have just twelve tracks, including a title track
featuring Sabrina Carpenter. Very cool. Swift says the album is
going to be much more upbeat than her last one.
She actually said it's going to be a one to
eighty from her last album. The music is about what
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was going on behind the scenes in her inner life.
During the aristrore, she.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Says the album's orange cover represents the energy of her
life right now. Kelsey chimed in, saying, you are going
to move. The album is going to make you dance.
She went on to talk about her hobbies, her family.
At one point, she got emotional talking about how difficult
it was for her to finally get her master recordings back.
She says she fell to the ground crying when she
finally got the news that she owned her own music.
(16:44):
That was a big public back and forth that we saw,
but some of the details to think just how important
it was and how emotional it was, so you learn
a whole lot. But I am just rooting for and
I think this is a cool, sweet story. Yeah, they're
rooting for these two.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
So many cameras pegged on them during the games, and
it was just fun to see them interact. They were
very close and hugging and just sweet, very comfortable with
each other. It was a nice display of affection and
couple goals. As they say, right next up on the run,
people have been buying and then immediately dumping their McDonald's
food in the trash, even on the sidewalk right outside
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the restaurants. Literally piles of uneaten McDonald's burgers and fries
had been collecting on the sidewalks right outside of some
McDonald's stores in Japan.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
So what's happening here, Well, McDonald's had a Happy Meal
promotional campaign. Each Happy Meal came with a toy and
a Pokemon card. Now, obviously a Happy Meal is meant
for children, but what had happened was that people started
buying Happy Meals in bulk just to get the coveted
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cards inside so they could sell them. So, yes, they
go in, as you can imagine ropes. If you order
ten of these things just to go resell them, you
go in, you get your ten Happy meals, you pull
out the cards, and they have been walking out and
just dumping the food immediately on the draft.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
That's so terrible. Anyway, McDonald said they sold out in
a day and apologized to residents, customers, and the staff
for all that mess. The company says it's going to
make changes in the future to limit sales and possibly
restrict mobile ordering. Yeah, like one per person. By the way,
the Happy meal in Japan costs about three dollars and
fifty cents. The Pokemon cards that are being put online
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for resale hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
It's not a bad strategy.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, but give the food to someone, please.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You make a good point. Take out those cards and
just walk down the street.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You'll find happy meals to those.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
People who want a burger and price. That's a good point,
all right. Final leg of the run here proof that
hard work pays off. Thirty one year old New Yorker
Micher Fox traveled from New York to my home state
of Arkansas. She spent three weeks there. That's more time
than I've spent there since I graduated college. She spent
three weeks there. Why she was sifting through dirt? Why
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would anybody do this? While she was hoping to find
a diamond for her engagement ran.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
She arrived at the Crater of Diamonds State Park. This
is one of the only diamond producing sites in the
world where members of the publicans search for and keep
any diamonds they may find. They call it the finders
Keeper's rule. Fox began her search on July eighth. She
said she kept searching every single day for three weeks.
She literally took three weeks off of work and said,
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every day, I'm going to go and look for a diamond.
And this is amazing. It was on her very last
day of trying, July twenty ninth, that is, twenty one
days of searching through the dirt, she saw something glistening
by her feet. At first, she says, she thought it
was a spiderweb with some dew on it, but no,
it was an actual diamond.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Of course, she wasn't sure, but the state park staff
confirmed that she had found a two two point three
carrot diamond, colorless with a rounded shape. It's the third
largest diamond found at the park so far this year. Yes, folks,
they find them there. She named this was this the
Fox Blue Diamond, after her and her fiance's last names.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Colorless diamond. That's like remarkable, So I love what Fox
told the press after she found her diamond. She said
her choice to look for her own stone was reflective
of how problems come up in marriages. You need to
be willing and able to solve those problems with hard work.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
She said.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Money people think solves problems, but actually so case in point,
she didn't have the money to get the diamond she wanted,
so she put in the hard work and voila.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
All right. Since the Grater of Diamonds became a state
park in nineteen seventy two, more than thirty five thousand
diamonds have been found there. Now you might be thinking, yeah,
little diamonds, that's cute and whatever. No, no, no, no, folks,
this is gonna want to make you book a trip
to Arkansas right now because they have found there a
record breaking forty point two to three carrot diamond there
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and the person that finds it gets to keep it wild. Ah.
So there have been more than three hundred and sixty
six diamonds found in the park this year alone. Eleven
of them weighed over a carrot each.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
That's worth a trip. I had no idea this existed.
So thirty five thousand diamonds have been found since it
became a state park, since it became a park that
you could find what you kept. But it actually has
been around since the beginning of the century, and that
at point one point, it was a diamond. Mind, seventy
five thousand diamonds have been found in total on this
in the state park. That's that's enticing.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
It's a thing I never went because I didn't have
the patience for it. And it's about three hours south
of Fayetteville. Or went to school in that area, that's
side of the state. But yeah, I've known people who
take trips and it's fun and it's cool even you
don't find anything, just the hope of the ideal. Oooh,
what's that?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
That's the excitement I think that would be. It's like
thirty seven acres, so I can see why three weeks
might have been where she felt she needed. But how
cool is that on the last day?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Oh yeah, and by the way, colorless two point three care.
I just looked online at some retailers two point three
carried round colorless diamond. These are the prices listed from
lowest to highest, thirty five thousand, forty nine thousand, fifty
two thousand, fifty five thousands. My point is she might
have needs to sell this thing.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
No, that's amazing. What a great story to tell THEOS store.
That's story all right? And on this Friday, if we
are going to leave you with something to consider for
the rest of your day. This is the quote of
the day today. Rock Bottom has built more winners than privilege.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yes, okay, I get to had to figure out what
they're saying there, but yes, the I guess most of
the people we see in the success stories we see
are not because people were privileged. It's because people bust
at their butts. I think unfortunately too often we see
people who are now privileged or who do have great success,
who have great access. We look at everybody as evil.
(22:57):
They're bad. They have that they made it there. Those folks,
a lot of them came from the same spot you.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Did, absolutely and the folks who were given it. Perhaps
the folks with privilege tend to historically speaking, generically speaking,
squander it, not be appreciative of it. And it happens
so often. It's a scary thing. Even when you do
make it to a certain point, you know, don't mess
up your kids by giving them an easy road. The
whole point is hard work and fighting for something, scrapping
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for something or earning something. That is what creates that
feeling of worth and accomplishment. It's not because someone just
handed it to you. I know we look at other
people and say, that's so unfair, look at what they have,
But actually, when you hit rock bottom, that's motivating as hell.
Rock Bottom has built more winners than privilege. I love that,
all right, Thanks for running with us, everybody on this Thursday.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I'm any Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. You see how
soon
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, this is your morning Run for Thursday, August fourteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Amy Rovit and I'm TJ Holmes. You'll hear it there,
she hesitated, because we haven't updated the date in our
rundown here. It still says August seventh or whatever.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It happens at least once.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
A week, so in the interest of full transparency. There
on that pause, you were not mistaken. You heard it right, folks.
What was your sleep score? Baby?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Seventy nine?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That's pretty good, right, well, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Got that's when I have to go. Look, that's where
my sleep score didn't get as good as it could have,
because I did well with rim and deep sleep, but
I only golt. Let's see, five hours and thirty three minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Okay, five hours and twenty seven minutes here, seventy six.
That's a pretty good sleep score for me. That means
we are going through ab a wonderful morning run.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, we've been in sync. We have in the eighties. Yesterday,
we're in the high seventies. Today.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We stay in sync. But I don't need an oral
ring to tell me that. But hey, hope you all
are getting a good start to your Friday eve. Did
you hear the news, folks, the President of the United
States is going to be serving as host of a
prime time award show. You are hearing me correctly. Roads
He keeps doing things we have never seen before, and
Trump has now signed up to host an ward show.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Trump has trumped himself.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, yes, we'll get into all those details this morning. Also,
happy meals. Look, some nutrition is might be happy to
hear that people are taking happy meals and just dumping
the food out in the sidewalk. But that's not what
they're supposed to do. Look, this is kind of a
big deal. Piles of McDonald's burgers and fries.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Who leaves fries behind? I'm sorry, you know that.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
That's a big deal. We gotta get into it. But
McDonald's has responded, apologized, and had to cancel a promotion
all because of this good news here is well drinking,
y'all aren't drinking as much you folks out there. This
is great news, is it not?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
It is great news. They believe that people are heeding
the warnings that alcohol consumption can lead to cancer diagnoses.
People are concerned about their health. They want to live longer,
they want to live better, and they're drinking less.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So, folks, Yes, our official polling that we do to
find out exactly how many people in this country are drinking,
hitting some of the lowest numbers we have seen. You
folks aren't drinking as much. We'll give all the details
and look, it's one thing if a guy tells a
woman she has to pay for her own engagement ring.
It's another thing to tell us she's got to go
out into the dirt and dig around to try to
(02:29):
find her own uncut diamond for the ring. Rose. This
is too far. This story is going too far.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
She actually said it was a dream of hers. No
one made her do it, she wanted to do it.
And I didn't even know you could do it. This
is all news to me, and I'm kind of inspired.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Uh, And I'm from Arkansas and that's why I knew
about it. We'll explain why a New Yorker ended up
in Arkansas and found a diamond that is now going
to be used in her engagement ring. All that coming up,
or reminder, just do it. Take a look at your phone.
That Apple podcast app right there top right corner. A
little tap it says, follow on our show page. Just
(03:06):
click that you can get all of our updates. But
also on this morning, Ron the Kennedy Center honors. The
recipients were announced yesterday, but Trump made sure to tell
us the type of honorees he rejected.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
The Wokesters and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones reveals a stage
four cancer diagnosis, but from decades ago. And you know
that federal takeover of DC that we've been telling you about.
National Guard there in the streets at the nation's capital
just for thirty days, right, it might not be temporary.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Actually, also this morning, the Trump putin summit already sounds
like a waste of time, according to Zelensky. And everybody
is seeing the news. It's everywhere. Taylor Swift was on
her boyfriend's podcast it finally aired last night. Bought a
big deal is to get the actual album release date.
It's October, I do believe. Yeah, it's coming a little later.
But look, that was everybody's talking about. It was a
(04:00):
very cute to see, and you got, really, I guess,
so much coverage of their relationship. This was the first
time we actually got real news about their relationship because
it's from them and we got to see them.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It was cool, and I appreciate the fact that, you know,
she doesn't do interviews and she doesn't go on podcasts,
so it's cool that well, she chose a very special podcast.
It actually is integral to their actual relationship, which I
didn't know about. All right, But we begin our run
on this Friday Eve. Maybe not a great sign that
the day before the peace summit in Alaska, words like
(04:33):
bluffing and severe consequences are already being thrown around.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, this Zelensky less meeting, it's scheduled to take place
tomorrow between President Trump and Russian President Putin with the
hopes of moving the peace process forward in this now
three year Russia Ukraine war. Well, during a press conference yesterday,
Trump was as directly if there would be consequences if
Putin did not agree to a peace deal. His response
was severe consequences, but he would not allowate on exactly
(05:00):
what that meant.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And the president yesterday had a virtual conference with Ukrainian
President Zelenski as well as European leaders, and Zelensky confirmed
he told the world leaders that Putin is full of it,
saying Putin definitely does not want peace. He wants occupation
of our country, and we all really understand that. He
flat out said that Putin is bluffing.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
All right, continuing on this Friday Eve run now, recipients
for this year's Kennedy Center Honors were announced yesterday, and
you can't really argue with some of these right legendary
rockers Kiss also Rocky himself, Sylvester Stallone, who of course
is very buddy buddy with the president these days, that's right.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And country music legend George Strait. Everyone knows his name.
And then disco queen I Will Survive, Gloria Gayner.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Is that the greatest female empowerment song theme of all time?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I think it is? In my opinion, Yes, it's right
up there, at least in the top three, but it's
one that most girls know every word. And stage actor
and singer Uh Phantom of the Opera Michael Crawford. He
also was awarded. The Kennedy Center Honors have been around
since nineteen seventy eight. It always draws interest because of
(06:13):
the star power even the iconic status of some of
the recipients over the years.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
But the announcement drew even more interest this year because
of Yes, President Trump who has been keen on exerting
his power and influence over the Performing Arts Center. He
personally revealed the nominees yesterday at a press conference. This
was very trump esque, and this was very much a
television production. All of the pictures were up on posters
of each of the recipients, but they were covered. They
(06:39):
were draped at first, and then there were reveals this
was a produced This's a television production now. The President
said he was ninety eight percent involved in the selection process.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
He noted that he'd turned down plenty of other potential
honorees because they were too woke. I had a couple
of wolsters, he said. Trump fired the Kennedy Center board
earlier this year, filled it with his own appointees, and
then named himself chairman.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Have you heard woke strews before?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
No? But that might catch on all right.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
The President also revealed who's going to serve as host
of the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony. After much consideration and debate,
President Trump has selected as this year's host. President Trump, folks,
the President of the United States, is going to be
in prime time hosting what's essentially a television awards show. Robes.
(07:30):
This is a doozy and you better believe I will
be watching.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Oh, we will be watching.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
This is what Trump told reporters at the press conference.
I've been asked to host, I said, I'm the President
of the United States. Are you fools asking me to
do that? Sir, you'll get much higher ratings. I said,
I don't care. I'm the president of the United States.
I won't do it. They said please, and then Chief
of Staff Susie Wilds said, sir, I would like you
(07:56):
to host. I said, okay, I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
That's verbe them folks what she just read. And that's
how he put it. He tried to convince us all
that I really didn't want this attention.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But everyone told me that I'd get higher ratings if
I hosted. Okay, fine, what's a man supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Fine, they desperately want me stop it some more. This
is great reminder here. The president didn't even attend the
Kennedy Center honors during his first term as president because
some artists threatened to skip in protests. Other artists over
the years have canceled shows because of Trump's involvement with
the Center. Now the Kennedy Center Honors is going to
air December seventh on c B Frickin'.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yes, doesn't paramount own CBS.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
This is I mean, you just can't beat this. So
this is on a Sunday. So on Sunday night you'll
be able to watch President Trump in primetime on CBS.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Right after sixty minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Monday night you'll be able to watch Cobert on the
same network. So take that schedule sixty minutes. Then the
next day you got But this is unbelievable. But how
many times we said that worried about conspiracy?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Theorists have at it crazy? All right? Next up on
the Run the federal takeover of DC. Yeah, it might
not be so temporary. National Guard troops continued to trickle
into the nation's capital on President Trump's orders after he
declared a public safety emergency in the city. He also
invoked special emergency powers that allow him to put DC
(09:27):
Metropolitan Police under federal control for thirty days.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well expected to be more than that now, according to
the President himself, who revealed yesterday that he will be
asking Congress for a quote long term extension of the
federalization of the DC Police. How long is long term?
Don't know. Does he mean this is going to be permanent?
We don't know. We wait and see. But this is
(09:50):
a disturbing development for certainly a lot of folks in
DC thinking this was a short term thing to get
crime under control.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, thirty days, that's all it takes. Next up on
the Run, a new Gallup poll shows Americans are drinking
less than ever before. The national survey revealed only fifty
four percent of US adults say they consume alcohol. That's
the lowest percentage in the poll's ninety year history of
collecting data on drinking.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, and the people who said they did drink said
they were drinking less. Gallup says over the years, there
has been a decline in alcohol consumption. From nineteen ninety
seven to twenty twenty three, at least sixty percent of
Americans said they drank alcohol. That number felt of fifty
eight percent in twenty twenty four, and now it's fallen
even more.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And one of the bigger headlines younger adults are drinking
the least amount of any group. Only fifty percent said
they drank alcohol. That's down from fifty nine percent in
twenty twenty three. Fifty six percent of US middle aged
folks thirty five to fifty four said they drink. But
that's a big drop from seventy percent in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So what's happening here. The poll credits a recent focus
on the dangers of drinking. Last year, then Surgeon General
doctor Vivek Murphy called for alcoholic beverages to carry warning
labels like cigarettes should be noted. Gallup does say that
they do this based on telephone interviews of one thousand
adults across the country. Self reporting, as you know, isn't
(11:15):
always reliable. And you know that because every time you
go into your doctor's office and they ask you how
much do you drink? You always back it off a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yes, they say, most people under report how much they drink.
You don't say. But if the same poll is conducted
every year, the same people who might be limiting or
at least making it a little bit less than what
we think, we're all doing it at the same time
each year.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So this is positive. This is great news. Is it
not for people to drink? But you know what, this
is a great example of if you just empower people
and give them information, they can make decisions for their
own lives. And they're making it seems to be a
positive one.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
And look what's happened with cigarettes. I mean it worked
with that. And when people start to see like alcohol
related debts surged in the past couple decades and people
are recognizing this. However, the one age group that actually
went up and drinking slightly, ages fifty five and older.
Their drinking went up slightly over the year. And the
other point that some folks have made the younger adults
(12:13):
only fifty percent. They're also saying, yeah, that's because there's
a huge increase in cannabis use. So people are younger
folks are shifting from drinking to marijuana, and that's the
study that needs to be done.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Is okay, But also would a doctor if a doctor
if I said, hey, doc, should I have a drink
vodka tonight or have this joint? What is that doctor
going to jo?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I can tell you my oncologist has flat out and
my friend who also is stage four said, we got
the exact same director from our physicians, especially cancer patients.
Don't drink that glass of wine, go ahead and pop
a gummy that marijuana. Mushrooms far safer for especially cancer
patients and those who have survived cancer than alcohol period.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And we should say that Amy and TJ podcast is
not indoors.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Now, anybody please puts all your doctor before taking any
sort of controlled substance. Please please please. That was just
a personal anecdote that I received from my personal physician
with my personal health history. Thank you all right. Next
up on the Run, a new Netflix documentary on the
Dallas Cowboys has revealed a private battle that Cowboys owner
(13:21):
and general manager Jerry Jones has been fighting for more
than a decade. Jones was diagnosed with stage four melanoma
back in June of twenty ten. Now, a stage four
cancer diagnosis means the cancer has spread to other parts
of the body, it's metastasized, and in many cases, stage
four diagnoses can be terminal.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It's kind of shocking to see her stage four back
in twenty ten, and we have been seeing him carry
on his duties for the last fifteen plus years. Had
no idea. He credits his fabulous treatment at MD Anderson,
a cancer center in Houston, specifically an experimental drug called
p D one for saving his life. He said that
(14:00):
he also had two lung surgeries, two lymphnode surgeries over
the years, says he is now tumor free. That is,
had no idea.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
About it, especially coming on the heels of the Brandon
Blackstock story. He had stage four melanoma and died so
early at forty eight, so a lot of folks are
crediting him actually coming out and saying this as giving
people hope. Because people hear stage four melanoma, you think
it's a death sentence, And actually, the American Cancer Society
says the five year survival rate is thirty five percent,
(14:28):
so it's you know, yes, it is a serious and
oftentimes terminal diagnosis, but there are survivors and it's good
for folks to see that when they're in the middle
of a battle.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
All right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this
Friday Eve Run when we come back, why Taylor Swift
went with orange, why people are dumping McDonald's fries on
the sidewalk, and why a woman had to dig through
the dirt for her own engagement Ring Diamond.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Welcome back to this Friday Eve edition of our morning Run,
and next up on the Run, Taylor Swift, who rarely
does interviews, spent two hours on her boyfriend Travis Kelsey's
podcast with his brother Jason, that all happened last night.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, that's awesome they were able to get this exclusive.
She actually credits the podcast for her relationship with Travis
Kelce because he used the podcast to get in touch
with her after going to one of Swift's shows on
her era's tour. Sounds a little creepy, but it's all right.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Kind of acknowledge it is a little creepy. He actually
tried to. Okay, well, so he tried to He had
a bracelet. He tried to get a security guard or
someone to pass it up to her and they were like, nah, bro,
it's not happening. So he went to the podcast the
next day to try and do a shout out.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
He shot his shot and the first one missed apparently
with the bracelet. I didn't know about that. He said.
He was mesmerized by the singer and just had to
find a way to meet her.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yep, and so here's some of the other headlines that
came out of the podcast. Swift revealed her twelfth album,
The Life of a Showgirl, will be released on October third.
It will have just twelve tracks, including a title track
featuring Sabrina Carpenter. Very cool. Swift says the album is
going to be much more upbeat than her last one.
She actually said it's going to be a one to
eighty from her last album. The music is about what
(16:18):
was going on behind the scenes in her inner life.
During the aristrore, she.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Says the album's orange cover represents the energy of her
life right now. Kelsey chimed in, saying, you are going
to move. The album is going to make you dance.
She went on to talk about her hobbies, her family.
At one point, she got emotional talking about how difficult
it was for her to finally get her master recordings back.
She says she fell to the ground crying when she
finally got the news that she owned her own music.
(16:44):
That was a big public back and forth that we saw,
but some of the details to think just how important
it was and how emotional it was, so you learn
a whole lot. But I am just rooting for and
I think this is a cool, sweet story. Yeah, they're
rooting for these two.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
So many cameras pegged on them during the games, and
it was just fun to see them interact. They were
very close and hugging and just sweet, very comfortable with
each other. It was a nice display of affection and
couple goals. As they say, right next up on the run,
people have been buying and then immediately dumping their McDonald's
food in the trash, even on the sidewalk right outside
(17:20):
the restaurants. Literally piles of uneaten McDonald's burgers and fries
had been collecting on the sidewalks right outside of some
McDonald's stores in Japan.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
So what's happening here, Well, McDonald's had a Happy Meal
promotional campaign. Each Happy Meal came with a toy and
a Pokemon card. Now, obviously a Happy Meal is meant
for children, but what had happened was that people started
buying Happy Meals in bulk just to get the coveted
(17:50):
cards inside so they could sell them. So, yes, they
go in, as you can imagine ropes. If you order
ten of these things just to go resell them, you
go in, you get your ten Happy meals, you pull
out the cards, and they have been walking out and
just dumping the food immediately on the draft.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
That's so terrible. Anyway, McDonald said they sold out in
a day and apologized to residents, customers, and the staff
for all that mess. The company says it's going to
make changes in the future to limit sales and possibly
restrict mobile ordering. Yeah, like one per person. By the way,
the Happy meal in Japan costs about three dollars and
fifty cents. The Pokemon cards that are being put online
(18:31):
for resale hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
It's not a bad strategy.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, but give the food to someone, please.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You make a good point. Take out those cards and
just walk down the street.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You'll find happy meals to those.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
People who want a burger and price. That's a good point,
all right. Final leg of the run here proof that
hard work pays off. Thirty one year old New Yorker
Micher Fox traveled from New York to my home state
of Arkansas. She spent three weeks there. That's more time
than I've spent there since I graduated college. She spent
three weeks there. Why she was sifting through dirt? Why
(19:06):
would anybody do this? While she was hoping to find
a diamond for her engagement ran.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
She arrived at the Crater of Diamonds State Park. This
is one of the only diamond producing sites in the
world where members of the publicans search for and keep
any diamonds they may find. They call it the finders
Keeper's rule. Fox began her search on July eighth. She
said she kept searching every single day for three weeks.
She literally took three weeks off of work and said,
(19:33):
every day, I'm going to go and look for a diamond.
And this is amazing. It was on her very last
day of trying, July twenty ninth, that is, twenty one
days of searching through the dirt, she saw something glistening
by her feet. At first, she says, she thought it
was a spiderweb with some dew on it, but no,
it was an actual diamond.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Of course, she wasn't sure, but the state park staff
confirmed that she had found a two two point three
carrot diamond, colorless with a rounded shape. It's the third
largest diamond found at the park so far this year. Yes, folks,
they find them there. She named this was this the
Fox Blue Diamond, after her and her fiance's last names.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Colorless diamond. That's like remarkable, So I love what Fox
told the press after she found her diamond. She said
her choice to look for her own stone was reflective
of how problems come up in marriages. You need to
be willing and able to solve those problems with hard work.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
She said.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Money people think solves problems, but actually so case in point,
she didn't have the money to get the diamond she wanted,
so she put in the hard work and voila.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
All right. Since the Grater of Diamonds became a state
park in nineteen seventy two, more than thirty five thousand
diamonds have been found there. Now you might be thinking, yeah,
little diamonds, that's cute and whatever. No, no, no, no, folks,
this is gonna want to make you book a trip
to Arkansas right now because they have found there a
record breaking forty point two to three carrot diamond there
(21:00):
and the person that finds it gets to keep it wild. Ah.
So there have been more than three hundred and sixty
six diamonds found in the park this year alone. Eleven
of them weighed over a carrot each.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
That's worth a trip. I had no idea this existed.
So thirty five thousand diamonds have been found since it
became a state park, since it became a park that
you could find what you kept. But it actually has
been around since the beginning of the century, and that
at point one point, it was a diamond. Mind, seventy
five thousand diamonds have been found in total on this
in the state park. That's that's enticing.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
It's a thing I never went because I didn't have
the patience for it. And it's about three hours south
of Fayetteville. Or went to school in that area, that's
side of the state. But yeah, I've known people who
take trips and it's fun and it's cool even you
don't find anything, just the hope of the ideal. Oooh,
what's that?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
That's the excitement I think that would be. It's like
thirty seven acres, so I can see why three weeks
might have been where she felt she needed. But how
cool is that on the last day?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Oh yeah, and by the way, colorless two point three care.
I just looked online at some retailers two point three
carried round colorless diamond. These are the prices listed from
lowest to highest, thirty five thousand, forty nine thousand, fifty
two thousand, fifty five thousands. My point is she might
have needs to sell this thing.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
No, that's amazing. What a great story to tell THEOS store.
That's story all right? And on this Friday, if we
are going to leave you with something to consider for
the rest of your day. This is the quote of
the day today. Rock Bottom has built more winners than privilege.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yes, okay, I get to had to figure out what
they're saying there, but yes, the I guess most of
the people we see in the success stories we see
are not because people were privileged. It's because people bust
at their butts. I think unfortunately too often we see
people who are now privileged or who do have great success,
who have great access. We look at everybody as evil.
(22:57):
They're bad. They have that they made it there. Those folks,
a lot of them came from the same spot you.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Did, absolutely and the folks who were given it. Perhaps
the folks with privilege tend to historically speaking, generically speaking,
squander it, not be appreciative of it. And it happens
so often. It's a scary thing. Even when you do
make it to a certain point, you know, don't mess
up your kids by giving them an easy road. The
whole point is hard work and fighting for something, scrapping
(23:23):
for something or earning something. That is what creates that
feeling of worth and accomplishment. It's not because someone just
handed it to you. I know we look at other
people and say, that's so unfair, look at what they have,
But actually, when you hit rock bottom, that's motivating as hell.
Rock Bottom has built more winners than privilege. I love that,
all right, Thanks for running with us, everybody on this Thursday.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I'm any Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. You see how
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