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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everyone, Welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday,
November thirteenth. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Holmes.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, not to our members
of Congress, but to the seven hundred and thirty thousand
folks out there, robes who have been working for the
past forty three days unpaid, missing paychecks, and they kept
the country going.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Yes, thank god for them.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We need them, we count on them, we rely on them,
and they've been treated terribly over the past month and
a few days.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yes, seven hundred and thirty thousand federal workers considered a
central happened, con essential happened, continuing to come to work
and rose. They are the heroes in this. There's nobody
in Washington who should take credit. We did the right thing.
These folks are the heroes who whether it's tsa VA,
medicare all those folks have to keep going, those things
have to keep running. Air traffic controllers kept us in
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the air.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Thank you, yes, thank you. Yet almost six weeks, six
weeks without.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Pay, that is something that most people cannot afford.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
And yet they had to figure out how to do it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You know what, you're not getting paid doing some of
the most important work in the federal government in air
traffic controller. You don't want I would have donated. This
is one thing you want to donate. I would donate.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I don't want that person stressed out.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
No, no, when safety is on the line. Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
But we thought we had to start. But just with that, yes,
you all know the shutdown is over. We'd get into
some of the details. With some of the stuff in there,
we can't even believe what's coming. But this is a
good news. Officially the government has reopened today. We'll get
into all that. But also on the run this morning,
there's an Epstein vote that's imminent, Diddy's release pushback. Senators
want you to pay them half a mill an expensive
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name change to tell you about. And we have a long, long,
overdue quote of the day. You'll know we do these
every single day. Today is a very special one that
in fact, we didn't plan on doing, but we had
to include it because Robes heard it this morning and
it had her in tears when she heard it. Even
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though Robes, you heard it fifty times before.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It right gets you every time, But every time I
see this quote, and I hear it delivered by the
person who said it, I lose it. It's a reminder,
and yes, cannot wait to get to that. But let's
begin our run with the big news. Finally, the shutdown
is over. The government has reopened. Federal workers are being
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told to return to work today after forty three days,
the longest shutdown in US history. President Trump last night
signed the compromise bill to reopen the government.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And in case you're wondering, the House did vote. These
were the numbers, two hundred and twenty two to two
nine to approve this measure. Six Dmocrats voted with Republicans
to approve the bill. Actually two Democrats voted excuse me,
two Republicans voted with Democrats to oppose it. The bill
does not include those healthcare subsidies roads. This was the
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whole point, the whole justification for the Democrats shutting down
the government is that they insisted on getting these healthcare
subsidies and ropes.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
They are not in this bill.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That is got to feel and sound so frustrating to
the folks who were so deeply affected. This bill funds
the government through the end of January. Hopefully, I say,
hopefully giving Congress enough time to negotiate that long term deal.
And if they don't, yeah, this might be groundhog Day
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all over again.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
At the end of January.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The government reopened today and officially the clock is ticking
on the next shutdown is where.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
We do you think lessons have been learned?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
They would be political lessons for them, only only what
they if they see polling that says yep. This was
our came to our advantage to keep hurting the American people.
They will continue to do it if they think they're
gaining any ground.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And the problem is twenty twenty six is in midterm
election year, a very important year politically and we I'm
sorry this might sound cynical. It's just from experience. This
is how they vote. It determines whether or not they
get re elected. Yes.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Period.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So a short time after the President's signature reopened the government.
That was obviously great news, we got some more good news.
The FAA is going to cap flight cancelations at six
percent for now. This was I didn't expect this news
so soon after, but this news came fairly immediately after.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
This is huge because I was questioning why are they
continuing to ramp up cancelations if the government is now
officially reopened.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
So this is a huge relief for a lot of folks.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
The plan had been for flight cancelations to go up
to eight percent today and then ten percent tomorrow, but
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said they are seen a rapid
decline in callouts from air traffic controllers.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, so the six percent reduction currently in place will
remain indefinitely. Don't know when that might end, but it's
staying there for now. And as they put it, they
are assessing whether the system can gradually return to normal operations. Still,
the cancelations of their ropes. This is a good good
sign for them to say, we don't have to do anymore.
We can just hold This is a very positive note.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh yes, we're vera and anyone who was worried about
their Thanksgiving travel plans, and certainly understandably, so I feel
like now you can kind of your shoulders can relax.
They can drop not out of the woods, out of
the US, but not as scary.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, now get this, folks.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Just as soon as they pass this damn bill, Congress
is already trying to repeal at least part of it.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
This is insane. You got to listen to this. The
House is now going to vote next week on repealing
a provision that some say was slipped into the bill,
and nobody seems to be sure or willing to confess
where it came from and who is responsible for it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
What is this provision, you ask, Well, it allows senators
to sue the government and be awarded a minimum of
five hundred thousand dollars in taxpayer money. Say what now, Well,
let us explain.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
You remember earlier this year when it was revealed that
eight Republican senators had their phone records obtained without their
knowledge as part of a then DOJ attorney Jacksmiths investigated
into the January sixth attacks. That was a big deal
for these senators to hear that their information had been
taken without their knowledge. Well, the provision and the funding
bill now would allow those senators to sue and be
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paid a minimum robes of five hundred thousand dollars if
they win their case against the government. Again, that's just
the minimum amount.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
They would get.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Whoo.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Speaker Johnson said this. He was shocked and angry when
he found out of it at the eleventh hour, So
who did.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
This ropes They don't. Nobody's taking responsibility. Nobody said, well
where to come in? Well, I don't know who put
it in there? Well who's job?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
What?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
They're absolutely there's nobody ability. There was one outlet. They
called every single office to try to find out, and
everybody's like.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
M wasn't me, wasn't me.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So they're arguing now Rode that they are going to
vote and get that taken out now, and some are
coming out and say, yeah, of course it shouldn't be
in there, but nobody knows.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You know what though, It's just just when we need
to start rebuilding trust again in our government and the
people who we have elected to lead our government. This
is just gross, like when no one, like if someone
just said, okay, it was me, you know, the fact
that no one's admitting it that I feel like we're
dealing with children.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
The argument some are standing by say well, the reason
this is there, let me just put this out there,
saying we want to make sure this can never happen again,
So we want to make an example and make it
so punitive.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
And line our pockets with that money.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Well maybe I'm sure they're going to donate it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
To Jerry uh huh, but it's taxpayer dollars. We've been
through enough. We've been through enough, all right, now that
they're all finally back at work and the government has
reopened one of their first orders of business, Jeffrey Epstein, you.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Can't make this stuff up. So Speaker Johnson said he
is now going to call a vote next week on
releasing the Epstein files. At this point, I don't even
know what the Epstein files are. I guess just everything
y'all got put it out there now. The Speaker Johnson
is not doing this out of the kindness of his
own heart. His hand is being forced after House members
collected enough signatures to compel the Speaker to call this vote.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
So news of this vote comes after yesterday's release of
years old Epstein emails by the House Oversight Committee, and
of course, one of the big headlines we have a
whole podcast on this that we put out yesterday that
Epstein wrote that Trump quote knew about the girls end quote,
and he wrote in an email that Trump had spent
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hours at Epstein's home with Virginia Geuffrey. So we just
want to put this out there. President Trump has never
been accused of wrongdoing. He's always denied that he did
anything criminal, and even Virginia Dufrey herself said he was
always pleasant around here. So no one's suggesting that President
Trump did anything with these girls.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It the suggestion is, or at least the absolute outright.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Statement is from Epstein that Trump knew what was going
on in his home.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Continuing on the run here now with Diddy.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
His expected release date is all over the place, robes.
It's changed already now. He's only been in prison for
Dick's Prison in New Jersey for about two weeks.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Been eventful two weeks.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I was gonna say lots happened in those two weeks.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Originally did He's release date was listed as May eighth,
twenty twenty eight, but now it's changed to June fourth,
twenty twenty eight. That's about a month later than originally
listed by the Federal Bureau of Prison's inmate records. There
has been no explanation given from the prison as to
why there is this change in date, but it does
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come after there were some reported rules violations, including misuse
of Ditty's phone privileges. Within like a few days of
him getting there.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And that's when we know CBS obtained the records that's verifiable.
That one is verified. And this was a it was
a three way call. He wasn't supposed to add somebody
to the call. You can only call one person.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
They are your violation of prison rules. You can't.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
You can only have certain people that are already on
a pre approved phone list. And so if someone brings
someone else in, you could bring anyone in who isn't
approved to be on the phone list.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Big deal, all right, So TMZ. In addition to that, though,
they reported that he was caught with homemade prison alcohol,
but his reps came out publicly vehemently denied that, so
that one's up in the air. But a month got added.
He's been in prison for two weeks and he's already
had a month added to his seat.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And it's interesting because the records that CBS obtained about
his phone violations specifically stated their recommendation for what the
punishment should be, and that was basically ninety days without
PHAM privileges and ninety days without extra commissary privileges. So
it had no mention of a pushed back prison release.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Date, and the reason we say is a thing is
all over the place.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
As soon as he got in there, we got confirmation
he was in this rehab program that can cut up
to a year off your sentence, and now he got
a month.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
So I don't know, there's going to be a ditty
update like every few days.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
This is what it's supposed to get. Quiet.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
It's a leaky prison. Apparently.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Continuing on the run here on this Friday e folks,
we want to mention here thoughts and prayers of many
this morning are with Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader,
civil rights icon really at this point has been hospitalized
this morning.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, he's been under observation for progressive super nuclear palsy.
It's a rare degenerative condition. He was diagnosed with it
back in April, and he's eighty four years old. He's
already been diagnosed and is deal with Parkinson's for more
than a decade now. So he's battling a lot of
things right now. He's at an age where that is
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scarier than typical. So our thoughts and prayers are certainly
with him and his family.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
All right, folks, and stay with us here on this
Thursday morning run when we come back, folks, it's a
rap for those pennies, but don't throw them out. We'll explain.
Also coming up, we've seen a lot of companies, even
a lot of celebrities go through name changes. Nobody has
had one that's about to be as expensive as the
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Secretary of Defenses new business cards. All right, folks, let's
continue on this Thursday morning run. Calling Pete Hegseth the
Secretary of War instead of the Secretary of Defense. Is
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ropes a really costly proposition.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
That's right, NBC News is reporting it is going to
potentially cost I would never have guessed.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
This two that makes sense billion.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
With the b dollars to go through the process of
changing the name of the Defense Department officially to the
War Department, as directed by President Trump via executive order.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
According to NBC's sources, the cost of rewriting code for
all those Pentagon websites, changing signs, badges, letterheads, as well
as updating all this stuff at signage all over the world.
On our basis, yes, we'll cost upwards up two billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Part of that.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I didn't think about this, but they have a lot
of internal and external websites sites that we can jump
on as citizens. But think of all of that internal
stuff they have going on. They have to change and
rewrite all this code so everything says Department of War.
They said, that's tricky.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Why could that two billion dollars go to help? Who
could that serve?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
How much good could that money do beyond a name change?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
It's it's serving our messaging, and that two billion dollars
is going to send the message to everybody around the
war that we don't mess around.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Oh my god, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
A Pentagon spokesperson said they are quote aggressively implement and
implementing the name change, but it's not clear if everything
will get changed and just how soon those changes will
take place. One note, the administration can informally refer to
it as the Department of War.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
To change the name officially would take an Act of Congress.
So if you can't change the.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Name officially without Congress voting to approve it, how can
they spend two billion dollars to change all of the
signage and to change all of the internal websites and external.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It's like, my full name is Lutilius Holmes Junior. I
go by TJ. Now if I in my professional career
over the past twenty five years. Want to go back
now and I want to change all of that stuff
to my official and my real name. A change like
you can do it, we will do it all the time.
So we can still refer to the Defense Department as
the War Department. But to actually change it officially, it
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can't be done unless Congress does.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
But how can they change signs then if Congress hasn't
approved it, that's not just colloquially calling it something different.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
But to your point.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
About my name there, I whoop up my point about
my name. I chose to just call myself TJ. I
didn't go to the government and go through a process
and do a legal name change. I just decided to
call myself TJ. You met, You've never called me anything
but TJ.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, So even when I'm mad at you, I don't
go to your lutilius.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yes, it's kind of the thing they're doing is like that.
I just I want everybody to call me this, and
that's what everybody's.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Gonna call me.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
My business cards, my whole it's been that, But officially
I'm still the Defense Department.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Oh my god, that's so worth two billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You know what a lot of pennies in that two billion,
and there ain't no more for him because the penny
is officially over. As we wrap up this Thursday morning run,
pennies are officially over after two d and thirty years.
The last penny was minted yesterday, and Philadelphia administration made
the decision earlier this year to end production of the
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one cent coin because frankly it was costing too much.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I support this, uh I do. It's annoying to have
to even like deal with pennies. Mass production of pennies
ceased months ago, by the way, but yesterday they minted
the final five. They will not go into circulation. They're
gonna be auctioned off instead. And by the way, do
not throw away your pennies because they're still legal tender.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
And will remain so.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
And there are three hundred billion pennies still in circulation.
I actually had to look up how much that is.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Can you do the math? I'm terrible with this kind
of thing.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
You I just need to.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Take two zeros off of thirty three hundred billion, so
three billion.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's thirty million, that's according to AI. My my whatever,
it's thirty million dollars. I cannot deal with all those zeros.
It'd be lovely to have to, but I don't deal
with all those zeros.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
But is this an issue or not?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
But it could have a financial implication here because people
are gonna use a lot of people still use cash,
use coins.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
You go to a store, Oh yeah, are you around?
No pennies?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
There?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Up around it?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
You people? So I can I haven't used cash like pennies.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
When if you actually pulled a penny out of your
pocket and put it down for tender, like legal tender
to actually pay for something I cannot remember.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
You see a penny on the ground, you can pick.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
It up all day long. You'll have good luck.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Was the last time you do that? You just walk
past a penny somebody?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I actually feel guilty when I do it that maybe
that's gonna give me bad luck.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
So sometimes I've picked it up.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Please pick up your.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Pennies, folks, they are they're gonna be rarities soon enough.
Before we let you go, h something. We always like
to leave you with something where you consider as you
go about your day. It is our quote of the day,
and this one is the one we talked about off
the Top that had robes. Hey, look, I'll admit it
had me in tears ever since every time time I
hear it as well. But the context for it, it's
from Tony Todd, star of Candy Man and also star
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of the Final Destination movies and the Final Final Destination
that came out this summer.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
He played a role.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
He had been sick with cancer for a long long time,
but they brought him back to be a part of
this movie and you could tell he was much thinner,
his voice was different, but he delivers just a golden
final moment for himself and Final Destination. And this is
the quote that sticks with us.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I intend to enjoy the time I have left, and
I suggest you do the same.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Life is precious. Enjoy every single second. You never know
when and.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
The reason that's powerful words without the story, but knowing
those words were delivered by an iconic actor who's been
in some iconic roles and this was his final moment
in film, and that is the message he left us with.
And then he passed away, of course earlier this year,
and is just an incredible moment. And if you haven't
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seen the movie, if you don't want to see the movie.
It's on HBO Max. Fast forward to that part. I
just listened. It's five minutes that he's in there.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
The cool thing is the story.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Obviously, it's a horror movie and it's all about you know,
death is coming for you. So he's telling this to
kids who are trying to cheat death basically, and he
said death is coming for all of us. Is what
he started out with, and it's just a reminder for
anyone who is battling something, who has lost someone. This
is a powerful quote. And to hear him deliver it
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with such it was, yes, with his iconic voice, but
also with such purity and love and meaning, and it
was so deeply personal.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
He wasn't just delivering a line in a movie.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
He was speaking truth, and he was speaking from his
heart and what he was actually living and dealing with,
and that's what makes it so powerful.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So, folks, we incur, really really really. You don't have
to be a horror movie fan, but I It is
called Final Destination Bloodlines. It's the most recent Final Destination movie.
It's on HBO Max. If you don't want to, Yes,
we love the movie, watch the whole thing, but fast
forward to that part. And just listen to Tony Todd.
But again, I intend to enjoy the time I have left,
and I suggest you do the same. Life is precious.
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Enjoy every single second. You never know when. Thank you,
Tony Todd. I wanted to reserve and not take this
moment to be offended once again at the Academy for
leaving him out of the end memorial.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I know we were just saying that if you know,
they loved him out, but if, man, if they had
just ended it with that line, because how cool? Who
do you know who has been able to deliver a
line like that within months of dying and have it
live on in a film like that for all to see.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
I mean, how special is that? Thank you, Tony Todd.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yes, and thank you all for running with us as
always for now, I am TJ. Holmes, a man of
my still wiping away tears partner Amy Roeboch. We will
talk to y'all real since mhmm mm hmmmmm
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everyone, Welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday,
November thirteenth. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Holmes.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, not to our members
of Congress, but to the seven hundred and thirty thousand
folks out there, robes who have been working for the
past forty three days unpaid, missing paychecks, and they kept
the country going.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Yes, thank god for them.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We need them, we count on them, we rely on them,
and they've been treated terribly over the past month and
a few days.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yes, seven hundred and thirty thousand federal workers considered a
central happened, con essential happened, continuing to come to work
and rose. They are the heroes in this. There's nobody
in Washington who should take credit. We did the right thing.
These folks are the heroes who whether it's tsa VA,
medicare all those folks have to keep going, those things
have to keep running. Air traffic controllers kept us in
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the air.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Thank you, yes, thank you. Yet almost six weeks, six
weeks without.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Pay, that is something that most people cannot afford.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
And yet they had to figure out how to do it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You know what, you're not getting paid doing some of
the most important work in the federal government in air
traffic controller. You don't want I would have donated. This
is one thing you want to donate. I would donate.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I don't want that person stressed out.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
No, no, when safety is on the line. Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
But we thought we had to start. But just with that, yes,
you all know the shutdown is over. We'd get into
some of the details. With some of the stuff in there,
we can't even believe what's coming. But this is a
good news. Officially the government has reopened today. We'll get
into all that. But also on the run this morning,
there's an Epstein vote that's imminent, Diddy's release pushback. Senators
want you to pay them half a mill an expensive
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name change to tell you about. And we have a long, long,
overdue quote of the day. You'll know we do these
every single day. Today is a very special one that
in fact, we didn't plan on doing, but we had
to include it because Robes heard it this morning and
it had her in tears when she heard it. Even
(02:13):
though Robes, you heard it fifty times before.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It right gets you every time, But every time I
see this quote, and I hear it delivered by the
person who said it, I lose it. It's a reminder,
and yes, cannot wait to get to that. But let's
begin our run with the big news. Finally, the shutdown
is over. The government has reopened. Federal workers are being
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told to return to work today after forty three days,
the longest shutdown in US history. President Trump last night
signed the compromise bill to reopen the government.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And in case you're wondering, the House did vote. These
were the numbers, two hundred and twenty two to two
nine to approve this measure. Six Dmocrats voted with Republicans
to approve the bill. Actually two Democrats voted excuse me,
two Republicans voted with Democrats to oppose it. The bill
does not include those healthcare subsidies roads. This was the
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whole point, the whole justification for the Democrats shutting down
the government is that they insisted on getting these healthcare
subsidies and ropes.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
They are not in this bill.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That is got to feel and sound so frustrating to
the folks who were so deeply affected. This bill funds
the government through the end of January. Hopefully, I say,
hopefully giving Congress enough time to negotiate that long term deal.
And if they don't, yeah, this might be groundhog Day
(03:43):
all over again.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
At the end of January.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The government reopened today and officially the clock is ticking
on the next shutdown is where.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
We do you think lessons have been learned?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
They would be political lessons for them, only only what
they if they see polling that says yep. This was
our came to our advantage to keep hurting the American people.
They will continue to do it if they think they're
gaining any ground.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And the problem is twenty twenty six is in midterm
election year, a very important year politically and we I'm
sorry this might sound cynical. It's just from experience. This
is how they vote. It determines whether or not they
get re elected. Yes.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Period.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So a short time after the President's signature reopened the government.
That was obviously great news, we got some more good news.
The FAA is going to cap flight cancelations at six
percent for now. This was I didn't expect this news
so soon after, but this news came fairly immediately after.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
This is huge because I was questioning why are they
continuing to ramp up cancelations if the government is now
officially reopened.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
So this is a huge relief for a lot of folks.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
The plan had been for flight cancelations to go up
to eight percent today and then ten percent tomorrow, but
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said they are seen a rapid
decline in callouts from air traffic controllers.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, so the six percent reduction currently in place will
remain indefinitely. Don't know when that might end, but it's
staying there for now. And as they put it, they
are assessing whether the system can gradually return to normal operations. Still,
the cancelations of their ropes. This is a good good
sign for them to say, we don't have to do anymore.
We can just hold This is a very positive note.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh yes, we're vera and anyone who was worried about
their Thanksgiving travel plans, and certainly understandably, so I feel
like now you can kind of your shoulders can relax.
They can drop not out of the woods, out of
the US, but not as scary.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, now get this, folks.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Just as soon as they pass this damn bill, Congress
is already trying to repeal at least part of it.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
This is insane. You got to listen to this. The
House is now going to vote next week on repealing
a provision that some say was slipped into the bill,
and nobody seems to be sure or willing to confess
where it came from and who is responsible for it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
What is this provision, you ask, Well, it allows senators
to sue the government and be awarded a minimum of
five hundred thousand dollars in taxpayer money. Say what now, Well,
let us explain.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
You remember earlier this year when it was revealed that
eight Republican senators had their phone records obtained without their
knowledge as part of a then DOJ attorney Jacksmiths investigated
into the January sixth attacks. That was a big deal
for these senators to hear that their information had been
taken without their knowledge. Well, the provision and the funding
bill now would allow those senators to sue and be
(06:43):
paid a minimum robes of five hundred thousand dollars if
they win their case against the government. Again, that's just
the minimum amount.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
They would get.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Whoo.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Speaker Johnson said this. He was shocked and angry when
he found out of it at the eleventh hour, So
who did.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
This ropes They don't. Nobody's taking responsibility. Nobody said, well
where to come in? Well, I don't know who put
it in there? Well who's job?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
What?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
They're absolutely there's nobody ability. There was one outlet. They
called every single office to try to find out, and
everybody's like.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
M wasn't me, wasn't me.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So they're arguing now Rode that they are going to
vote and get that taken out now, and some are
coming out and say, yeah, of course it shouldn't be
in there, but nobody knows.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You know what though, It's just just when we need
to start rebuilding trust again in our government and the
people who we have elected to lead our government. This
is just gross, like when no one, like if someone
just said, okay, it was me, you know, the fact
that no one's admitting it that I feel like we're
dealing with children.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
The argument some are standing by say well, the reason
this is there, let me just put this out there,
saying we want to make sure this can never happen again,
So we want to make an example and make it
so punitive.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
And line our pockets with that money.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Well maybe I'm sure they're going to donate it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
To Jerry uh huh, but it's taxpayer dollars. We've been
through enough. We've been through enough, all right, now that
they're all finally back at work and the government has
reopened one of their first orders of business, Jeffrey Epstein, you.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Can't make this stuff up. So Speaker Johnson said he
is now going to call a vote next week on
releasing the Epstein files. At this point, I don't even
know what the Epstein files are. I guess just everything
y'all got put it out there now. The Speaker Johnson
is not doing this out of the kindness of his
own heart. His hand is being forced after House members
collected enough signatures to compel the Speaker to call this vote.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
So news of this vote comes after yesterday's release of
years old Epstein emails by the House Oversight Committee, and
of course, one of the big headlines we have a
whole podcast on this that we put out yesterday that
Epstein wrote that Trump quote knew about the girls end quote,
and he wrote in an email that Trump had spent
(08:59):
hours at Epstein's home with Virginia Geuffrey. So we just
want to put this out there. President Trump has never
been accused of wrongdoing. He's always denied that he did
anything criminal, and even Virginia Dufrey herself said he was
always pleasant around here. So no one's suggesting that President
Trump did anything with these girls.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It the suggestion is, or at least the absolute outright.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Statement is from Epstein that Trump knew what was going
on in his home.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Continuing on the run here now with Diddy.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
His expected release date is all over the place, robes.
It's changed already now. He's only been in prison for
Dick's Prison in New Jersey for about two weeks.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Been eventful two weeks.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I was gonna say lots happened in those two weeks.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Originally did He's release date was listed as May eighth,
twenty twenty eight, but now it's changed to June fourth,
twenty twenty eight. That's about a month later than originally
listed by the Federal Bureau of Prison's inmate records. There
has been no explanation given from the prison as to
why there is this change in date, but it does
(10:05):
come after there were some reported rules violations, including misuse
of Ditty's phone privileges. Within like a few days of
him getting there.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And that's when we know CBS obtained the records that's verifiable.
That one is verified. And this was a it was
a three way call. He wasn't supposed to add somebody
to the call. You can only call one person.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
They are your violation of prison rules. You can't.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
You can only have certain people that are already on
a pre approved phone list. And so if someone brings
someone else in, you could bring anyone in who isn't
approved to be on the phone list.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Big deal, all right, So TMZ. In addition to that, though,
they reported that he was caught with homemade prison alcohol,
but his reps came out publicly vehemently denied that, so
that one's up in the air. But a month got added.
He's been in prison for two weeks and he's already
had a month added to his seat.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And it's interesting because the records that CBS obtained about
his phone violations specifically stated their recommendation for what the
punishment should be, and that was basically ninety days without
PHAM privileges and ninety days without extra commissary privileges. So
it had no mention of a pushed back prison release.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Date, and the reason we say is a thing is
all over the place.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
As soon as he got in there, we got confirmation
he was in this rehab program that can cut up
to a year off your sentence, and now he got
a month.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
So I don't know, there's going to be a ditty
update like every few days.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
This is what it's supposed to get. Quiet.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
It's a leaky prison. Apparently.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Continuing on the run here on this Friday e folks,
we want to mention here thoughts and prayers of many
this morning are with Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader,
civil rights icon really at this point has been hospitalized
this morning.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, he's been under observation for progressive super nuclear palsy.
It's a rare degenerative condition. He was diagnosed with it
back in April, and he's eighty four years old. He's
already been diagnosed and is deal with Parkinson's for more
than a decade now. So he's battling a lot of
things right now. He's at an age where that is
(12:07):
scarier than typical. So our thoughts and prayers are certainly
with him and his family.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
All right, folks, and stay with us here on this
Thursday morning run when we come back, folks, it's a
rap for those pennies, but don't throw them out. We'll explain.
Also coming up, we've seen a lot of companies, even
a lot of celebrities go through name changes. Nobody has
had one that's about to be as expensive as the
(12:32):
Secretary of Defenses new business cards. All right, folks, let's
continue on this Thursday morning run. Calling Pete Hegseth the
Secretary of War instead of the Secretary of Defense. Is
(12:55):
ropes a really costly proposition.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
That's right, NBC News is reporting it is going to
potentially cost I would never have guessed.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
This two that makes sense billion.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
With the b dollars to go through the process of
changing the name of the Defense Department officially to the
War Department, as directed by President Trump via executive order.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
According to NBC's sources, the cost of rewriting code for
all those Pentagon websites, changing signs, badges, letterheads, as well
as updating all this stuff at signage all over the world.
On our basis, yes, we'll cost upwards up two billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Part of that.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I didn't think about this, but they have a lot
of internal and external websites sites that we can jump
on as citizens. But think of all of that internal
stuff they have going on. They have to change and
rewrite all this code so everything says Department of War.
They said, that's tricky.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Why could that two billion dollars go to help? Who
could that serve?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
How much good could that money do beyond a name change?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
It's it's serving our messaging, and that two billion dollars
is going to send the message to everybody around the
war that we don't mess around.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Oh my god, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
A Pentagon spokesperson said they are quote aggressively implement and
implementing the name change, but it's not clear if everything
will get changed and just how soon those changes will
take place. One note, the administration can informally refer to
it as the Department of War.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
To change the name officially would take an Act of Congress.
So if you can't change the.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Name officially without Congress voting to approve it, how can
they spend two billion dollars to change all of the
signage and to change all of the internal websites and external.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It's like, my full name is Lutilius Holmes Junior. I
go by TJ. Now if I in my professional career
over the past twenty five years. Want to go back
now and I want to change all of that stuff
to my official and my real name. A change like
you can do it, we will do it all the time.
So we can still refer to the Defense Department as
the War Department. But to actually change it officially, it
(15:07):
can't be done unless Congress does.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
But how can they change signs then if Congress hasn't
approved it, that's not just colloquially calling it something different.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
But to your point.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
About my name there, I whoop up my point about
my name. I chose to just call myself TJ. I
didn't go to the government and go through a process
and do a legal name change. I just decided to
call myself TJ. You met, You've never called me anything
but TJ.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, So even when I'm mad at you, I don't
go to your lutilius.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yes, it's kind of the thing they're doing is like that.
I just I want everybody to call me this, and
that's what everybody's.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Gonna call me.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
My business cards, my whole it's been that, But officially
I'm still the Defense Department.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Oh my god, that's so worth two billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You know what a lot of pennies in that two billion,
and there ain't no more for him because the penny
is officially over. As we wrap up this Thursday morning run,
pennies are officially over after two d and thirty years.
The last penny was minted yesterday, and Philadelphia administration made
the decision earlier this year to end production of the
(16:08):
one cent coin because frankly it was costing too much.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I support this, uh I do. It's annoying to have
to even like deal with pennies. Mass production of pennies
ceased months ago, by the way, but yesterday they minted
the final five. They will not go into circulation. They're
gonna be auctioned off instead. And by the way, do
not throw away your pennies because they're still legal tender.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
And will remain so.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
And there are three hundred billion pennies still in circulation.
I actually had to look up how much that is.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Can you do the math? I'm terrible with this kind
of thing.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
You I just need to.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Take two zeros off of thirty three hundred billion, so
three billion.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's thirty million, that's according to AI. My my whatever,
it's thirty million dollars. I cannot deal with all those zeros.
It'd be lovely to have to, but I don't deal
with all those zeros.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
But is this an issue or not?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
But it could have a financial implication here because people
are gonna use a lot of people still use cash,
use coins.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
You go to a store, Oh yeah, are you around?
No pennies?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
There?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Up around it?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
You people? So I can I haven't used cash like pennies.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
When if you actually pulled a penny out of your
pocket and put it down for tender, like legal tender
to actually pay for something I cannot remember.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
You see a penny on the ground, you can pick.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
It up all day long. You'll have good luck.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Was the last time you do that? You just walk
past a penny somebody?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I actually feel guilty when I do it that maybe
that's gonna give me bad luck.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
So sometimes I've picked it up.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Please pick up your.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Pennies, folks, they are they're gonna be rarities soon enough.
Before we let you go, h something. We always like
to leave you with something where you consider as you
go about your day. It is our quote of the day,
and this one is the one we talked about off
the Top that had robes. Hey, look, I'll admit it
had me in tears ever since every time time I
hear it as well. But the context for it, it's
from Tony Todd, star of Candy Man and also star
(18:07):
of the Final Destination movies and the Final Final Destination
that came out this summer.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
He played a role.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
He had been sick with cancer for a long long time,
but they brought him back to be a part of
this movie and you could tell he was much thinner,
his voice was different, but he delivers just a golden
final moment for himself and Final Destination. And this is
the quote that sticks with us.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I intend to enjoy the time I have left, and
I suggest you do the same.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Life is precious. Enjoy every single second. You never know
when and.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
The reason that's powerful words without the story, but knowing
those words were delivered by an iconic actor who's been
in some iconic roles and this was his final moment
in film, and that is the message he left us with.
And then he passed away, of course earlier this year,
and is just an incredible moment. And if you haven't
(19:04):
seen the movie, if you don't want to see the movie.
It's on HBO Max. Fast forward to that part. I
just listened. It's five minutes that he's in there.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
The cool thing is the story.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Obviously, it's a horror movie and it's all about you know,
death is coming for you. So he's telling this to
kids who are trying to cheat death basically, and he
said death is coming for all of us. Is what
he started out with, and it's just a reminder for
anyone who is battling something, who has lost someone. This
is a powerful quote. And to hear him deliver it
(19:34):
with such it was, yes, with his iconic voice, but
also with such purity and love and meaning, and it
was so deeply personal.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
He wasn't just delivering a line in a movie.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
He was speaking truth, and he was speaking from his
heart and what he was actually living and dealing with,
and that's what makes it so powerful.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So, folks, we incur, really really really. You don't have
to be a horror movie fan, but I It is
called Final Destination Bloodlines. It's the most recent Final Destination movie.
It's on HBO Max. If you don't want to, Yes,
we love the movie, watch the whole thing, but fast
forward to that part. And just listen to Tony Todd.
But again, I intend to enjoy the time I have left,
and I suggest you do the same. Life is precious.
(20:18):
Enjoy every single second. You never know when. Thank you,
Tony Todd. I wanted to reserve and not take this
moment to be offended once again at the Academy for
leaving him out of the end memorial.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I know we were just saying that if you know,
they loved him out, but if, man, if they had
just ended it with that line, because how cool? Who
do you know who has been able to deliver a
line like that within months of dying and have it
live on in a film like that for all to see.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
I mean, how special is that? Thank you, Tony Todd.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yes, and thank you all for running with us as
always for now, I am TJ. Holmes, a man of
my still wiping away tears partner Amy Roeboch. We will
talk to y'all real since mhmm mm hmmmmm
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