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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, August eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Holmes. Your sleep score this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Is eighty two.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good. Yeah, I got a good one.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah, I got six and a half hours of sleep.
You don't who sleep.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I didn't wear my ring last night, but it's okay.
I feel great. Judge me by no score, just by
my attitude in my mindset today, which is gonna be
a good one, Robes because did Zalnsy learn his lesson?
There's a very big meeting happening at the White House today.
Zelensky is going to be back at the White House.
The last time it didn't go so well.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Think he's gonna say thank you. He's practicing thank you,
So appreciative of you, sir, mister Trump, Trump, you have
saved our country. Yeah, he's got he's got all of
those mantras ready to go.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Oh yes, after Trump and pudin Matt. Now, Trump and
Zelensky are back at the White House. But Zelensky is
rolling deep. He brought a bunch of big names with
him for this meeting. We'll get into that. My favorite
story of the morning is something that's happening here in
New York. We shops might have to move a few feet.
What happened here in New York that we have marijuana
(01:14):
dispensaries now suing the state for a mistake that the
state made, which robes do I have right? Has to
do with allowing the dispensaries to be too close to
a school.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Part correct, Yes, So it's very specific and there was
some mismeasuring going on that they've now said whoopsie too,
And it's going to be a huge price tag.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Latest you ever returned the library book, you remember.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Maybe like maybe a week or two overdue.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Okay, Now they used to charge you a quarter or
something used to cost something. Well, there's a library book
that has now been returned after eighty plus years, but
it had a note in it that's kind of cute.
We've seen some stories like this over the years about
books being returned, but this one had a particular note.
It's worth noting. And I guess everybody knows him as
General Zod. We've lost General Zod, the guy who played
(02:05):
the original I guess super villain that went up against
the original Superman and the original Superman movies has died.
But once you start, I'm sure you read in what
a career from Terrence Stamp. It wasn't He wasn't just
the super villain.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yes, he was a notable actor who has been in
our lives. Whether you knew his name or not, you
certainly know his face and his work.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And also we'll get into the box office. We think
we contributed greatly to the word of mouth that helped
a horror movie pull off something that few horror movies can.
We'll explain. Also a reminder here do it now, folks
on your Apple podcast app right there top corner of
the screen, little tab that says followed, just click that
now then you can get all of our updates. Also,
(02:47):
we'll be talking about on the morning run this morning,
a deadly mass shooting in Brooklyn and police say several
shooters on the loose. Texas Democrats and Republicans about to
do this thing all over again. To Americans have drowned
at a resort, that same resort, and they've drowned on
the same day in the Bahamas. And then also this
morning rode the story. I can't believe I thought they
were so polite. Aren't they known for being polite in Canada?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, the Canadians, they're very polite, except for when they're not,
except for when you really upset them. Ten thousand flight
attendants are now on strike, and despite the government telling them,
you have to go back to work, they're like, nah,
we're not going to huge standoff.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
That was the part that got me. The federal government
told you to go back to work, and you said.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Nah, exactly. And so now, yes, hundreds of thousands of
passengers are stranded at the busiest time of the year.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
All right, we'll give you the latest on that in
a sac but we do begin our run in DC.
And guess who's coming back to the White House. Yes,
after their last Oval office meeting turned into a pretty
unprecedented voice raising clash of world leaders, which played out
in front of cameras, President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenski
will try again today.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
The two will meet at the White House. Just days
after President try i'mp met with Russian President Putin in Alaska.
That Alaska summit didn't result in a ceasefire agreement or
a peace deal. President Trump now putting the onus on
Ukraine to end the war. Writing on truth Social last night,
President Zelenski of Ukraine can end the war with Russia
almost immediately if he wants to, or he can continue
(04:20):
to fight. Remember how it started.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And that reminder he gave us was about land several
years ago during the Obama administration that was given away
to Russia. What he's saying now is you're going to
have to give up something, is what he's telling folks.
He also told them in Ukraine give up the idea
of joining NATO as well. So the president seems to
be I guess ropes after the meeting with Putin, softening
(04:45):
some of his stands about Ukraine's positions, Zelenski bringing reinforcements
this time to this meeting. Listens, all these folks. He's
bringing the leaders of uk France, Germany, Italy and Finland,
as well as bringing the NATO Secretary General and the
head of the European Union. So all of them will
be there kind of to kind of enforce and push
(05:08):
and advocate for the Ukrainian position.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
At least all right. Next up on the run, Texas Democrats,
who've been on the run for weeks succeeded in running
out the clock. Way to go, guys. To avoid a
Republican led redistricting plan, the Democrats skipped out on the
thirty day special session, which ended on Friday.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Congrats, you waited out the special session which ended on Friday,
and two hours after it ended on Friday, Governor Abbott
called for another one. So today Democrats will be expected
to show up at work, and once again, Republicans planned
to take up a redistricting bill that could give Republicans
an extra five seats in Congress. Yes, rogues, we've got
(05:50):
back to back special sessions.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So as predicted was a result, Yes, exactly so. The
Texas House Speaker said he expects to have enough members
in place this afternoon for them to move forward with business.
He also reissued civil arrest warrants for absent Democrats and
instructed law enforcement to bring back Democrats found within state lines.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Next leg of our run now brings us back here
to New York City, where police are on the hunt
for multiple shooters responsible for bullets flying at a Brooklyn
nightclub this weekend. At least thirteen people were shot. Three
were killed, including a nineteen year old.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
This all happened at the Taste of the City nightclub
in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Police say this
was a gang related shooting. They believe as many as
four shooters were involved. The victims in age range from
nineteen to sixty one. The survivors, thankfully have non life
threatening injuries.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
The next leg of our run now takes us to
the Bahamas, foreign unrelated set of tragedies. To American Carnival
Cruise Line passengers drowned in separate incidents on the same
day in the same area, one a seventy four year
old woman, the other a seventy nine year old man.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
They both drowned at Celebration Key in Grand Bahama. It's
a private location that's designated just for Carnival cruise guests.
It has a water park, a beach club, lagoons, restaurants.
So one victim drowned while swimming in a pool and
the other drowned while snorkeling at the beach.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Carnival Cruise Line said both victims were traveling with their
families and added, our thoughts and prayers are with the
guests and their families, and our care team is providing assistance.
This is incredible. I didn't know this was a thing anyway,
like a private area. But what are the chances of
that two customers are the same company in the same place.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, within a matter of hours. And they were actually
on different cruise ships. So several carnival cruise ships they
can all dock at this place and allow their passengers
to get off and enjoy some time on the island.
So they were even on separate ships. That's how unrelated
these two drownings were all right. Next up on the
run some trouble in the skies. The largest international airline
(07:56):
operating in the US will not restart operation until later
this evening, so they say, because that's definitely not guaranteed.
Air Canada had to suspend its plan to resume limited
flights yesterday after the flight attendants union that began striking
over the weekend announced it would defy a federal return
to work order.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Okay, so what happened here? Flight attendants were ordered by
their government. The Canadian government told them to go back
to work by two o'clock Sunday, but the decision by
the union to refuse that order forced Air Canada to
now cancel around two hundred and forty more flights that
was on Sunday. The strike is overpay and scheduling disputes,
(08:37):
and so far has stranded more than one hundred thousand travelers.
During the peak summer travel season.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Air Canada typically operates around seven hundred flights a day
in the airline. Right now, it's urging customers not to
go to the airport unless they have a confirmed flight,
and says it will offer refunds, credits or will rebook
customers on other carriers. Look, the head of the flight
attendant union said, we're not coming back to work Monday.
We're not coming back to work Tuesday. So even though
(09:04):
Air Canada says it's hoping to resume flights by later
this evening, it seems unlikely unless there's some major change.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
What do you do. They have shut down an airline. Yeah,
we have shut it down.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Despite the government order. Let's see if the government steps
in and starts do you know, I don't know when
posing fines doing something to try and motivate them to
go back to work while still negotiating.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
All right, we continue on the run here. Now we'll
head back here to New York City, where a group
of legal marijuana dispensaries is suing the state because the
state accidentally allow them to open too close to schools. Now,
we are talking about here more than one hundred locations
(09:45):
that are essentially in the wrong spot.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yes, just by a little bit, but enough where it's
an issue. So the lawsuit is asking a Supreme Court
judge to allow these locations to remain legal and to
prevent the state from taking any action against them, seeing
how it was them, the state who allowed their businesses
to open their in the first place. The state alerted
about one hundred and fifty existing and proposed dispensaries that
(10:09):
they had been misreading a state law that requires their
shops to be a specific distance from schools.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
When you say they had been misreading where they the state.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Correct the state the state regulators.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Misreading a state law. So the law says dispensaries are
supposed to be five hundred feet away from the nearest school,
but instead of beginning the measurement from the school's property line,
regulators had been measuring from the school's door to the
door of the business, which obviously is a much different distance.
(10:48):
So the dispensaries have been told they can keep doing
business for now and then operate with expired licenses as
long as they filed for renewal. But what happens after
that is the.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Issue, right because they say, why do I want to
invest in this location with advertising having people know where
I am, knowing I'm only going to have to move,
That's not a good way to move forward. So the
state is set up a fund for shops to apply
for up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
relocation fees. But shop owners want the courts to intervene
and let them stay and grow their business despite that. So,
(11:22):
you know, this has been a bit of there's been
all sorts of issues with a mayor Adams trying to
shut down illegal dispensaries popping up everywhere. You know, this
has just been a NonStop issue. But they started legalizing
stores three years ago. There are four hundred and fifty
legal cannabis dispensaries in the state of New York right now,
and it's growing, it's exploding. They're kind they're kind of
(11:44):
as plentiful as Starbucks. It seems. They keep popping up
on every street corner.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
So that's my argument. It seems like it'd be impossible
to stay at certain distance away from schools here. They're
just popping up everywhere we are. We have seen that
like night We used to see the places where you
have to go to the back and do secret knock
and all that stuff. But now these nice new, big
open and advertising. Yes, these are legal dispensaries. They got
a it's a lot of investment we've seen.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yes, and a lot of stories. Not just a couple.
We're talking hundreds.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Oh my goodness. All right, well, folks, stay with us
here on this Monday morning run. When we come back. Oh,
he's the guy that we first knew as the guy
who was going up against the superman we all fell
in love with. Yes, the guy who played General Zode
has passed away. We'll talk more about his legacy. Also
coming up on the run, Robes and I would like
(12:35):
to think we had something to do with the horror
movie Weapons having as good of a second weekend as
it just had. And better late than never is one thing.
But eighty years.
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Speaker 3 (13:45):
We continue now on this Monday Morning Ron with actor
Terrence Stamp. He has passed away at the age of
eighty seven, and yes Rose Most folks probably know him
best as General Zod and the Superman movie Superman one
and two, but of course he had a six decade
award winning career.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That's right. The British actor first game fame in nineteen
sixty two when his debut film role gained him a
Best Supporting Actor nomination. Yeah, his first movie ever and
he gets an Oscar nom That shows you his talent. Yes.
He went on to play General Zod opposite Christopher Reeves
Superman in those two movies. And he played adversary to
(14:22):
Michael Douglass in Wall Street.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Do you remember that when he was the guy that
Charlie Sheen had to follow around because of this British
lord that Michael Douglass was just he had to go
defeat him. He was that guy. He was cool with hell.
He was also politician and Star Wars episode one, and
recently he played the head of the family in Murder
Mystery The Adam Sandler Mover on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I forgot about that.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yes, And here's another interesting fact about him. I didn't know,
which makes me respect him even more. He was in
talks to possibly replace Sean Connery the original James Bond.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You could see that, absolutely could.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
He said he didn't get the role or he never
got a call back about it because he had ideas
for taking the character in kind of some wild.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Directions that wasn't gonna find what's it's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
So the family, his family said he did pass away
on Sunday and the way they put it, he leaves
behind an extraordinary body of work, both as an actor
and a writer that will continue to touch people for
years to come.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Certainly, well all right. Next up on the run, word
of Mouth is really working for weapons. The original horror
movie was once again number one at the box office,
making twenty five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Okay, that's awesome, But the most impressive part is that
is an incredibly low drop off from its opening weekend.
That was about a forty three percent drop off from
its audience the previous week. We talk about this all
the time. The averages somewhere around fifty to sixty. If
you have a bad drop off, anything above sixty, but
you're in the forties, that's good. If it's a horror movie,
(15:57):
it's almost unheard of. Right, doesn't happen with a horror
movie that often. So the movie has now made one
hundred and forty eight million dollars worldwide on a thirty
eight million dollar budgets.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yes, I am really really happy to see this. Also
number two, Freak Here Friday did pretty well at number two,
and then the sequel, Nobody two, brought in nine point
two million in its first weekend. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
All right. For the final leg of our run, we're
going to head to San Antonio, where a library book
that was due back in twenty eight days was finally
returned eighty two years later.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Okay, Your Child, His Family and Friends is the book
by Bruce Strain and was checked out in July of
nineteen forty three, and when it was returned just recently,
it had a letter inside written by someone who identified
themselves only as Paag from Oregon. They write that they
(16:52):
found the book in their father's possessions after he passed.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
The letter states, the book must have been borrowed by
my grandmother. I hope there was no late fee for
it because Grandma won't be able to pay for it anymore.
Kind of funny. So inside the book it actually has
that stamp with the finest for the overdue book. It
was three cents a day back in nineteen forty three,
So by that calculation, the late fee would be nearly
nine hundred dollars. But if you take inflation into account,
(17:17):
that number would actually be closer to sixteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
That is incredible.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Now, the good news they're not going to charge them
for it. The public library down there in San Antonio
actually stopped charging late fees in twenty twenty one. The
library said the book is in good condition and will
be on display through August. Then the plan is to
sell it to benefit the library.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So that's cool. It's now of fame or of note,
and so it can actually generate a donation that will
then benefit the library.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Would you have bothered if you found that book? Will
you have taken the time or would you have held
onto it? You think?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I don't think I would have taken the time. I'm
going to be honest. Would you I would have.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Thought it was cool to have it and would have
held on to it probably and thought that was cool, right,
The book that my grandma granddad.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, apparently the story was that the grandma got a
job to go be work at the embassy in Mexico,
and so when she moved and traveled, she just it
was too hard to get the book back to It
was like a sudden deployment, I guess to Mexico, and
so she probably just accidentally packed up the book and
then she's in another country she's thinking, eh, what am
I going to do? Exactly? So then it passed down
(18:23):
to her son, and then he passed it down to
his So that's very cool.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, I wish they had stay in the family now right.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I know. Well, as you go about your day on
this Monday, we have our quote of the day, and
this one I thought was pretty motivational to anyone who
is doing their side hustle, doing their things, struggling a
little bit, trying to make ends meet. I loved this quote.
In year one, they laugh at you. In year five
(18:50):
they ask how you did it? Keep going exclamation point?
Doesn't that feel good to hear?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
How many years we had? Three more years left?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, we've been doing this thing now well actually, wow,
morning run is it about to have its year anniversary?
We started right after Labor Day last year and a
few more months when we began, so yeah, we're we're
still trucking. We got a few more years to go out.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Who's this one come from?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
This is unknown, This was unknown, but I just thought
it was such a nice mantra for folks who are
doing that thing, building their business, building their dream career.
I just thought it was a nice reminder. In year one,
they laugh at you. In year five they ask how
you did it?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Keep going all right, folks will think that with you.
Also a reminder here we have a new column this week,
a fresh subject, a fresh question, a fresh issue from
a listener and a reader of ours to our Yahoo
Ask Amy and TJ column this time. Who were getting
this from?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Holks?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I believe Betty, and Betty writes in that her husband
won't set boundaries with his ex wife. In her words,
the ex wife is always hugging and kissing on him.
So what should she do?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yes? Check out our answer, our response, our advice to
this particular reader. It's on Yahoo dot com in the
life section. You can find it there. Later we'll be
coming back on here and actually reading some of your
comments and some of your advice that you'll have for
Betty as well.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, so please, once you read the article, feel free
to leave a comment with what you think Betty should
do and we will check it all out. So in
the meantime, though, thank you so much for running with
us on this Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holme.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
We'll say y'all soon
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, August eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Holmes. Your sleep score this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Is eighty two.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good. Yeah, I got a good one.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah, I got six and a half hours of sleep.
You don't who sleep.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I didn't wear my ring last night, but it's okay.
I feel great. Judge me by no score, just by
my attitude in my mindset today, which is gonna be
a good one, Robes because did Zalnsy learn his lesson?
There's a very big meeting happening at the White House today.
Zelensky is going to be back at the White House.
The last time it didn't go so well.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Think he's gonna say thank you. He's practicing thank you,
So appreciative of you, sir, mister Trump, Trump, you have
saved our country. Yeah, he's got he's got all of
those mantras ready to go.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Oh yes, after Trump and pudin Matt. Now, Trump and
Zelensky are back at the White House. But Zelensky is
rolling deep. He brought a bunch of big names with
him for this meeting. We'll get into that. My favorite
story of the morning is something that's happening here in
New York. We shops might have to move a few feet.
What happened here in New York that we have marijuana
(01:14):
dispensaries now suing the state for a mistake that the
state made, which robes do I have right? Has to
do with allowing the dispensaries to be too close to
a school.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Part correct, Yes, So it's very specific and there was
some mismeasuring going on that they've now said whoopsie too,
And it's going to be a huge price tag.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Latest you ever returned the library book, you remember.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Maybe like maybe a week or two overdue.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Okay, Now they used to charge you a quarter or
something used to cost something. Well, there's a library book
that has now been returned after eighty plus years, but
it had a note in it that's kind of cute.
We've seen some stories like this over the years about
books being returned, but this one had a particular note.
It's worth noting. And I guess everybody knows him as
General Zod. We've lost General Zod, the guy who played
(02:05):
the original I guess super villain that went up against
the original Superman and the original Superman movies has died.
But once you start, I'm sure you read in what
a career from Terrence Stamp. It wasn't He wasn't just
the super villain.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yes, he was a notable actor who has been in
our lives. Whether you knew his name or not, you
certainly know his face and his work.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And also we'll get into the box office. We think
we contributed greatly to the word of mouth that helped
a horror movie pull off something that few horror movies can.
We'll explain. Also a reminder here do it now, folks
on your Apple podcast app right there top corner of
the screen, little tab that says followed, just click that
now then you can get all of our updates. Also,
(02:47):
we'll be talking about on the morning run this morning,
a deadly mass shooting in Brooklyn and police say several
shooters on the loose. Texas Democrats and Republicans about to
do this thing all over again. To Americans have drowned
at a resort, that same resort, and they've drowned on
the same day in the Bahamas. And then also this
morning rode the story. I can't believe I thought they
were so polite. Aren't they known for being polite in Canada?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, the Canadians, they're very polite, except for when they're not,
except for when you really upset them. Ten thousand flight
attendants are now on strike, and despite the government telling them,
you have to go back to work, they're like, nah,
we're not going to huge standoff.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
That was the part that got me. The federal government
told you to go back to work, and you said.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Nah, exactly. And so now, yes, hundreds of thousands of
passengers are stranded at the busiest time of the year.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
All right, we'll give you the latest on that in
a sac but we do begin our run in DC.
And guess who's coming back to the White House. Yes,
after their last Oval office meeting turned into a pretty
unprecedented voice raising clash of world leaders, which played out
in front of cameras, President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenski
will try again today.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
The two will meet at the White House. Just days
after President try i'mp met with Russian President Putin in Alaska.
That Alaska summit didn't result in a ceasefire agreement or
a peace deal. President Trump now putting the onus on
Ukraine to end the war. Writing on truth Social last night,
President Zelenski of Ukraine can end the war with Russia
almost immediately if he wants to, or he can continue
(04:20):
to fight. Remember how it started.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And that reminder he gave us was about land several
years ago during the Obama administration that was given away
to Russia. What he's saying now is you're going to
have to give up something, is what he's telling folks.
He also told them in Ukraine give up the idea
of joining NATO as well. So the president seems to
be I guess ropes after the meeting with Putin, softening
(04:45):
some of his stands about Ukraine's positions, Zelenski bringing reinforcements
this time to this meeting. Listens, all these folks. He's
bringing the leaders of uk France, Germany, Italy and Finland,
as well as bringing the NATO Secretary General and the
head of the European Union. So all of them will
be there kind of to kind of enforce and push
(05:08):
and advocate for the Ukrainian position.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
At least all right. Next up on the run, Texas Democrats,
who've been on the run for weeks succeeded in running
out the clock. Way to go, guys. To avoid a
Republican led redistricting plan, the Democrats skipped out on the
thirty day special session, which ended on Friday.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Congrats, you waited out the special session which ended on Friday,
and two hours after it ended on Friday, Governor Abbott
called for another one. So today Democrats will be expected
to show up at work, and once again, Republicans planned
to take up a redistricting bill that could give Republicans
an extra five seats in Congress. Yes, rogues, we've got
(05:50):
back to back special sessions.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So as predicted was a result, Yes, exactly so. The
Texas House Speaker said he expects to have enough members
in place this afternoon for them to move forward with business.
He also reissued civil arrest warrants for absent Democrats and
instructed law enforcement to bring back Democrats found within state lines.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Next leg of our run now brings us back here
to New York City, where police are on the hunt
for multiple shooters responsible for bullets flying at a Brooklyn
nightclub this weekend. At least thirteen people were shot. Three
were killed, including a nineteen year old.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
This all happened at the Taste of the City nightclub
in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Police say this
was a gang related shooting. They believe as many as
four shooters were involved. The victims in age range from
nineteen to sixty one. The survivors, thankfully have non life
threatening injuries.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
The next leg of our run now takes us to
the Bahamas, foreign unrelated set of tragedies. To American Carnival
Cruise Line passengers drowned in separate incidents on the same
day in the same area, one a seventy four year
old woman, the other a seventy nine year old man.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
They both drowned at Celebration Key in Grand Bahama. It's
a private location that's designated just for Carnival cruise guests.
It has a water park, a beach club, lagoons, restaurants.
So one victim drowned while swimming in a pool and
the other drowned while snorkeling at the beach.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Carnival Cruise Line said both victims were traveling with their
families and added, our thoughts and prayers are with the
guests and their families, and our care team is providing assistance.
This is incredible. I didn't know this was a thing anyway,
like a private area. But what are the chances of
that two customers are the same company in the same place.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, within a matter of hours. And they were actually
on different cruise ships. So several carnival cruise ships they
can all dock at this place and allow their passengers
to get off and enjoy some time on the island.
So they were even on separate ships. That's how unrelated
these two drownings were all right. Next up on the
run some trouble in the skies. The largest international airline
(07:56):
operating in the US will not restart operation until later
this evening, so they say, because that's definitely not guaranteed.
Air Canada had to suspend its plan to resume limited
flights yesterday after the flight attendants union that began striking
over the weekend announced it would defy a federal return
to work order.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Okay, so what happened here? Flight attendants were ordered by
their government. The Canadian government told them to go back
to work by two o'clock Sunday, but the decision by
the union to refuse that order forced Air Canada to
now cancel around two hundred and forty more flights that
was on Sunday. The strike is overpay and scheduling disputes,
(08:37):
and so far has stranded more than one hundred thousand travelers.
During the peak summer travel season.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Air Canada typically operates around seven hundred flights a day
in the airline. Right now, it's urging customers not to
go to the airport unless they have a confirmed flight,
and says it will offer refunds, credits or will rebook
customers on other carriers. Look, the head of the flight
attendant union said, we're not coming back to work Monday.
We're not coming back to work Tuesday. So even though
(09:04):
Air Canada says it's hoping to resume flights by later
this evening, it seems unlikely unless there's some major change.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
What do you do. They have shut down an airline. Yeah,
we have shut it down.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Despite the government order. Let's see if the government steps
in and starts do you know, I don't know when
posing fines doing something to try and motivate them to
go back to work while still negotiating.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
All right, we continue on the run here. Now we'll
head back here to New York City, where a group
of legal marijuana dispensaries is suing the state because the
state accidentally allow them to open too close to schools. Now,
we are talking about here more than one hundred locations
(09:45):
that are essentially in the wrong spot.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yes, just by a little bit, but enough where it's
an issue. So the lawsuit is asking a Supreme Court
judge to allow these locations to remain legal and to
prevent the state from taking any action against them, seeing
how it was them, the state who allowed their businesses
to open their in the first place. The state alerted
about one hundred and fifty existing and proposed dispensaries that
(10:09):
they had been misreading a state law that requires their
shops to be a specific distance from schools.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
When you say they had been misreading where they the state.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Correct the state the state regulators.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Misreading a state law. So the law says dispensaries are
supposed to be five hundred feet away from the nearest school,
but instead of beginning the measurement from the school's property line,
regulators had been measuring from the school's door to the
door of the business, which obviously is a much different distance.
(10:48):
So the dispensaries have been told they can keep doing
business for now and then operate with expired licenses as
long as they filed for renewal. But what happens after
that is the.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Issue, right because they say, why do I want to
invest in this location with advertising having people know where
I am, knowing I'm only going to have to move,
That's not a good way to move forward. So the
state is set up a fund for shops to apply
for up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
relocation fees. But shop owners want the courts to intervene
and let them stay and grow their business despite that. So,
(11:22):
you know, this has been a bit of there's been
all sorts of issues with a mayor Adams trying to
shut down illegal dispensaries popping up everywhere. You know, this
has just been a NonStop issue. But they started legalizing
stores three years ago. There are four hundred and fifty
legal cannabis dispensaries in the state of New York right now,
and it's growing, it's exploding. They're kind they're kind of
(11:44):
as plentiful as Starbucks. It seems. They keep popping up
on every street corner.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
So that's my argument. It seems like it'd be impossible
to stay at certain distance away from schools here. They're
just popping up everywhere we are. We have seen that
like night We used to see the places where you
have to go to the back and do secret knock
and all that stuff. But now these nice new, big
open and advertising. Yes, these are legal dispensaries. They got
a it's a lot of investment we've seen.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yes, and a lot of stories. Not just a couple.
We're talking hundreds.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Oh my goodness. All right, well, folks, stay with us
here on this Monday morning run. When we come back. Oh,
he's the guy that we first knew as the guy
who was going up against the superman we all fell
in love with. Yes, the guy who played General Zode
has passed away. We'll talk more about his legacy. Also
coming up on the run, Robes and I would like
(12:35):
to think we had something to do with the horror
movie Weapons having as good of a second weekend as
it just had. And better late than never is one thing.
But eighty years.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
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Speaker 3 (13:45):
We continue now on this Monday Morning Ron with actor
Terrence Stamp. He has passed away at the age of
eighty seven, and yes Rose Most folks probably know him
best as General Zod and the Superman movie Superman one
and two, but of course he had a six decade
award winning career.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That's right. The British actor first game fame in nineteen
sixty two when his debut film role gained him a
Best Supporting Actor nomination. Yeah, his first movie ever and
he gets an Oscar nom That shows you his talent. Yes.
He went on to play General Zod opposite Christopher Reeves
Superman in those two movies. And he played adversary to
(14:22):
Michael Douglass in Wall Street.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Do you remember that when he was the guy that
Charlie Sheen had to follow around because of this British
lord that Michael Douglass was just he had to go
defeat him. He was that guy. He was cool with hell.
He was also politician and Star Wars episode one, and
recently he played the head of the family in Murder
Mystery The Adam Sandler Mover on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I forgot about that.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yes, And here's another interesting fact about him. I didn't know,
which makes me respect him even more. He was in
talks to possibly replace Sean Connery the original James Bond.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You could see that, absolutely could.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
He said he didn't get the role or he never
got a call back about it because he had ideas
for taking the character in kind of some wild.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Directions that wasn't gonna find what's it's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
So the family, his family said he did pass away
on Sunday and the way they put it, he leaves
behind an extraordinary body of work, both as an actor
and a writer that will continue to touch people for
years to come.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Certainly, well all right. Next up on the run, word
of Mouth is really working for weapons. The original horror
movie was once again number one at the box office,
making twenty five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Okay, that's awesome, But the most impressive part is that
is an incredibly low drop off from its opening weekend.
That was about a forty three percent drop off from
its audience the previous week. We talk about this all
the time. The averages somewhere around fifty to sixty. If
you have a bad drop off, anything above sixty, but
you're in the forties, that's good. If it's a horror movie,
(15:57):
it's almost unheard of. Right, doesn't happen with a horror
movie that often. So the movie has now made one
hundred and forty eight million dollars worldwide on a thirty
eight million dollar budgets.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yes, I am really really happy to see this. Also
number two, Freak Here Friday did pretty well at number two,
and then the sequel, Nobody two, brought in nine point
two million in its first weekend. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
All right. For the final leg of our run, we're
going to head to San Antonio, where a library book
that was due back in twenty eight days was finally
returned eighty two years later.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Okay, Your Child, His Family and Friends is the book
by Bruce Strain and was checked out in July of
nineteen forty three, and when it was returned just recently,
it had a letter inside written by someone who identified
themselves only as Paag from Oregon. They write that they
(16:52):
found the book in their father's possessions after he passed.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
The letter states, the book must have been borrowed by
my grandmother. I hope there was no late fee for
it because Grandma won't be able to pay for it anymore.
Kind of funny. So inside the book it actually has
that stamp with the finest for the overdue book. It
was three cents a day back in nineteen forty three,
So by that calculation, the late fee would be nearly
nine hundred dollars. But if you take inflation into account,
(17:17):
that number would actually be closer to sixteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
That is incredible.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Now, the good news they're not going to charge them
for it. The public library down there in San Antonio
actually stopped charging late fees in twenty twenty one. The
library said the book is in good condition and will
be on display through August. Then the plan is to
sell it to benefit the library.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So that's cool. It's now of fame or of note,
and so it can actually generate a donation that will
then benefit the library.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Would you have bothered if you found that book? Will
you have taken the time or would you have held
onto it? You think?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I don't think I would have taken the time. I'm
going to be honest. Would you I would have.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Thought it was cool to have it and would have
held on to it probably and thought that was cool, right,
The book that my grandma granddad.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, apparently the story was that the grandma got a
job to go be work at the embassy in Mexico,
and so when she moved and traveled, she just it
was too hard to get the book back to It
was like a sudden deployment, I guess to Mexico, and
so she probably just accidentally packed up the book and
then she's in another country she's thinking, eh, what am
I going to do? Exactly? So then it passed down
(18:23):
to her son, and then he passed it down to
his So that's very cool.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, I wish they had stay in the family now right.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I know. Well, as you go about your day on
this Monday, we have our quote of the day, and
this one I thought was pretty motivational to anyone who
is doing their side hustle, doing their things, struggling a
little bit, trying to make ends meet. I loved this quote.
In year one, they laugh at you. In year five
(18:50):
they ask how you did it? Keep going exclamation point?
Doesn't that feel good to hear?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
How many years we had? Three more years left?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, we've been doing this thing now well actually, wow,
morning run is it about to have its year anniversary?
We started right after Labor Day last year and a
few more months when we began, so yeah, we're we're
still trucking. We got a few more years to go out.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Who's this one come from?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
This is unknown, This was unknown, but I just thought
it was such a nice mantra for folks who are
doing that thing, building their business, building their dream career.
I just thought it was a nice reminder. In year one,
they laugh at you. In year five they ask how
you did it?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Keep going all right, folks will think that with you.
Also a reminder here we have a new column this week,
a fresh subject, a fresh question, a fresh issue from
a listener and a reader of ours to our Yahoo
Ask Amy and TJ column this time. Who were getting
this from?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Holks?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I believe Betty, and Betty writes in that her husband
won't set boundaries with his ex wife. In her words,
the ex wife is always hugging and kissing on him.
So what should she do?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yes? Check out our answer, our response, our advice to
this particular reader. It's on Yahoo dot com in the
life section. You can find it there. Later we'll be
coming back on here and actually reading some of your
comments and some of your advice that you'll have for
Betty as well.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, so please, once you read the article, feel free
to leave a comment with what you think Betty should
do and we will check it all out. So in
the meantime, though, thank you so much for running with
us on this Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holme.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
We'll say y'all soon
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