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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run.
It's Wednesday, October twenty ninth. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Holmes. October twenty ninth. It's a day of contradictions, Robe.
We got a lot of, I guess, kind of some
dire headlines today. Snap benefits are about to run out,
Folks are struggling, don't know how they're going to put
food on the table. Now, we're getting word that two
of the biggest employers in the country are cutting five
figure numbers of jobs. But at the same time we
(00:37):
get word that Apple just went over a trillion dollars
four trillion dollars port trillion. Yes, okay, yeah, only one
of three three companies. Okay, So what is going on
that we have these two Americas going on?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, I mean it is extreme on both ends, sadly,
and uh, there's no real there's no progress that's being
made in the middle of I'm helping everybody, and Congress
is what chillin'.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It also almost feels like we're going backwards with the shutdown,
like we're not getting closer to a resolution. It looks
like we're getting farther away. We'll give you the latest
on where we are there and ropes. I talk about contradictions.
There are air strikes in Gaza by Israel, but we're
told the ceasefire is still in place.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It makes zero sense. And we're talking now the numbers.
The death toll from those air strikes is going up
throughout the morning. So it is concerning that both things
could be true.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
All right, folks, We've got a lot to get to
this morning. As always, we want to remind you top
right corner of that Apple podcast app where you see
our show page, a little button says follow you click
that make sure our updates are coming to you. Also,
we have to get into this morning. What is sixty
four dead in Rio? We were thinking of some natural disaster. No, no, no, folks,
this was part of a police raid. We'll tell you
(01:52):
why the UN wants to get involved in that. Of course.
Now all the news we knew this was coming roads
the news about Thailand all the present and it says
President pregnant women do not take talanol. Well, there is
a lawsuit now, folks, going after the makers of talanol.
In particular. A state is doing so. Also this morning,
there is a group folks that are supposed to advise
(02:14):
the president when it comes to construction in Washington, DC.
We'll tell you what he just did with all members
of that commission. You could probably guess. Also, the World
Series was a bit of a boor last night, Rose
it only went nine innings.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I'm sorry, n I like how you added last night.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Just nine innings.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Wait, a bit of a bore last night?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
What I mean?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Most baseball games are oh.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
My god, I don't don't, don't. Don't get me fired up.
Don't get me worked up this morning. Also, we have
a new Doctor Seuss book, who knew. We'll tell you
what that's about. And we have the very latest on
this hurricane Melissa coming out, which is still doing its
thing as we speak. So stick around. We need to
give you those updates and we'll give them to you
really quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yes, and we beg our run overseas. Were Israel resumed? Yes,
those air strikes in Gaza overnight latest reports at least
one hundred and four people killed. But we're told the
ceasefire is holding.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yes, we'll try to make sense to that. But Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Nanya, who says he ordered what he
called powerful strikes because Hamas has violated the ceasefire agreement.
He says he accused the militant group of firing on
Israeli soldiers in Gaza, killing one, and Israel says Hamas
isn't holding up its end of the deal to return
(03:32):
the remains of remaining hostages. They released a video. There's
like a fourteen minute video that they say shows Hamas
members staging the discovery of remains. Now, we've looked at
this video and robes. It clearly shows I don't know
who they are, but it shows them digging a fresh hole,
(03:53):
putting remains in it, covering those remains with dirt, and
then calling over like a Red crossworker to say, look
look what we found. They released this video of that happening.
They say this is a violation.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Wow. All right. While President Trump said Israel was in
fact justified in its response with those airstrikes, he said
he is also still confident in the ceasefire holding.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Next up on the Run, we're going to turn to
the very latest on Hurricane Melissa. The storm is now
it's still a category three and this morning it did
make its second landfall in Cuba, and that island is
now dealing with severe flooding.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, they're going to be dealing with it for a
good chunk of the day today. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands
of people remain without power in Jamaica, where Melissa May
landfall Tuesday as a Category five storm, winds above one
hundred and eighty five miles per hour. It is officially
the strongest storm to ever hit Jamaica, and it's one
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of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded. It is expected
to go across Cuba this morning and then hit the
Bahamas later in the day.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
All right, we turn now to Rio de Janeiro, where
sixty four people died yesterday in a massive police operation
and now the United Nations wants an immediate investigation.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And what's described as the largest raid in the city's history,
thousands of police and military personnel targeted one of the
largest criminal gangs in Brazil. Clashes turned the streets into
war zones. Ultimately, eighty one arrests were made, drugs and
weapons were confiscated. Four police officers were among the sixty
four killed.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Next up on the run, we're going to head back
home and the latest on the government shutdown. We are
now in day twenty nine and the Senate keeps giving
us a literal demonstration of insanity, doing the same thing
over and over again and expecting a different results.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yes, these leaders of ours voted for a thirteenth time
yesterday on the same Republican backed short term spending measure
that would reopen the government. And yes, for the thirteenth
time it failed. House of Representatives remains out of session,
they ain't even at work, and Speaker of Mike Johnson
says he is going to stick to his stands that
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there's no reason to bring them back to work until
the Senate does its work and acts in some way
form of fashion.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And now a new fight is erupting over Snap benefits,
which are slated to run out on Saturday. Democrats are
calling on the administration to release billions in reserve funds
to keep the food benefits flowing to low income Americans,
but the White House is pushing back, claiming it doesn't
have the legal authority to use those funds for Snap benefits.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And now twenty five states are suing over the suspension
of Snap benefits and want a judge to force the
administration to tap into that reserve fund. Those twenty five states,
all Democratic states and Democratic folks who are part of
this suing. Without a resolution, forty two million Americans who
rely on SNAP also of course called the food Stamp
program are not going to get their benefits starting on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Meanwhile, air traffic controllers missed their first full paychecks of
the shutdown yesterday. And get this, just in terms of
a sign of the times, airlines are actually now providing
meals for air traffic controllers. We're talking Delta, United, Jet Blue,
and that's what they're trying to do to at least
give them some sort of something broke.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
We don't need this full. Your air traffic controller that's
in control of your safety while you're in the air
is worried about paying their electric bill and they're hungry.
B I saw. That's a shame. That is a shame.
And the Transportation Secretary Secretary Sean Duffy said they continue
to get a higher than normal number of sick calls.
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A lot of controllers are stressed, of course about finances,
so they call in sometimes I just need a day off.
But a lot of them, Roji said, are calling in
sick because they're calling in sick to the job that's
not giving them a check so they can go spend
time at another job that will pay them. They said,
a lot of them are turning to driving upers is
where we are. So get this stat from Sunday, eighty
(08:03):
seven hundred flight delays on Sunday. I don't know what
the normal number is, so let me just say that
part first. But to hear that forty four percent of
the delays were because of staffing shortages. This is dangerous
and it's not just inconvenient.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's dangerous. So yeah, that's a very good point. You
don't want a tired, upset, nervous, anxious air traffic controller.
All right, Next up on the run. Did you know
there is a Commission on Fine Arts in Washington?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I wasn't aware, did you.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I did not know that either.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It spent a lot of time with him.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Now. So it's an independent federal agency whose job it
is to give expert advice to the President on matters
of design and esthetics in the nation's capital and review
design proposals for government buildings.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Fired all of them. President just fired all of them.
Got six of them on the Commission fired all of them.
These are the people who would approve plans to give
advice about what you're going to do with these twins
in your ballroom and putting an arch in the city.
Those people have all been fired. And how were they fired? Well,
they got a nice little email yesterday that simply said,
quote on behalf of President Donald J. Trump. I am
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writing to inform you that your position as a member
of the Commission of Fine Arts is terminated, effective immediately.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All were previously appointed by President Biden, and we're expected
to serve a four year term that ends in twenty
twenty eight. But the White House said Trump is going
to appoint a new commission more aligned with President Trump's
America First policies.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Translation, my people that will do what I tell them
to do, Yes, exactly. And he's a president. He has
a right to do that. I guess. Thanks up on
the run here now. Several major US companies have announced
significant layoffs. Amazon among them, send a message to its
employees Tuesday that it would be cutting fourteen thousand jobs
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as it shifts its resources to artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And Ups announced it had cut thirty four thousand jobs
and a they did fourteen thousand management positions in just
the first nine months of this year. So for those
of you trying to do the math, that is a
total of forty eight thousand jobs gone so far this
year at UPS. Target also said it's planning to act
eighteen hundred corporate roles and notified its home state of
(10:19):
Minnesota that it plans to lay off more than eight
hundred employees in January as it restructures, and finally, CBS
parent company paramount S guidance is expected to eliminate more
than one thousand positions today. Those folks will literally be
getting their notices today.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And even before all this news, layoffs have been trending
higher in the US nearly nine hundred and fifty thousand
cuts so far this year through September. That is the
latest data we have because the government such shut down,
so we're not getting the most up to date information.
Robe You put a good point in here. The Fed
has a very important job to do and they won't
(10:56):
have the information they need to make it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yes, yes, they decide on the next interest rate decision
whether or not they're going to cut it tomorrow, but
they don't have the latest jobs numbers, which absolutely typically
would factor into their decision.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Well, I didn't think about you. We were talking about
the shutdown. People don't know how to plan for the holidays,
that people are buying tickets. What's your budget going to
be in all this? I didn't think as well. Halloween
is a very big budget holiday and it's for kids
and families.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yep, I mean costumes cost money. All that candy cost money.
I mean seriously, if you're a house that's highly visited,
you're talking hundreds of dollars that people just might not
have now at this point as just extra backup for
some holiday.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah, I skipped right over Halloween, was thinking about thanks youving.
This is a big family, This is big for kids.
This is another day that parents really want to make
special for their kids.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
When my kids were younger. Actually, I was actually feeling
a little sad about it today because this week was
so much fun getting the costumes ready. But it also
costs money. And yes, my mom used to make our
costumes from scratch, but still, I mean that's time, that's money,
all these things that folks don't have these days. All Right, meantime,
with all of that bad news, some companies appear to
actually be doing exceptionally well. Apple on Tuesday became the
(12:09):
third company ever to break through that four trillion dollar
market value. It didn't last for long. Apple ended the
trading day just below the historic threshold, really close, at
three point nine to nine trillion.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
But in Vidia and Microsoft they both crossed the four
trillion mark in July, and Videa's value has grown significantly
since then, closing at four point eight. Do I have
the right four point almost four point nine trillion? Yes,
they're about to cross correct at five.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yes, y'all AI. It's all about the AI well.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Apple stock is also expected to climb higher after tomorrow's
earnings report, where financial experts expect the company to report
more than one hundred billion dollars in quarterly earnings. It's yes,
it makes your stomach turn. And this is why if
you're a politician, all you do is rail against the billionaires.
You throw that out because you see these two worlds
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not colliding, but there were two separate Americas.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
It's all true. But when you've got trillion dollar companies
aligning themselves politically, that is the move. Because if people
have been noting, Apple CEO Tim Cook has been everywhere,
Trump has been recently, He's paid multiple visits to the
Old Office. He attended that state dinner with King Charles
that they hosted in the UK and Trump's honor. He
also was with Trump again in Japan on Tuesday this week.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I missed that completely.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
That was all noted. And the fact that most apple
products have been exempt from tariffs. Those two things aren't
just coincidental.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You know what we look, it's good that we folks
want to criticize. And why you at this event? You
know what they are producing for their investors. This is
business and it sucks if you are. You don't want
to be on the wrong side of Trump. But you
look at November one, all this is going on, and
your nervous that your snap benefits aren't going to get
(14:00):
put into the account because of what ooh this one's okay, fine,
shut down a couple of days. Figured out, you made
your points. Come on, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yes, agreed, Oh yeah, yeah, all right, sorry, all right.
Next up on the run, Texas assuing the makers of
tail and all the state claims the companies behind the
common painkiller used deceptive marketing practices to sell their product
to pregnant women despite alleged links to autism.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Okay, we have to say this always out loud. The
medical community consensus here. The links don't exist. There is
nothing at least in the evidence right now. You want
to keep studying, knock yourself out, But the doctors will
tell you there is nothing that they have seen, and
this has been studied at nauseum that makes a direct
link between taking tail and All and higher rates of autism. Well,
(14:51):
there's despite what the medical community says about this, The
Texas AG said, quote, these corporations lied for decades, knowingly
in endangering millions to line their pockets. Of course, it
was just last month we saw the president. It's a
pretty big announcement. He said. It was one of the
most important press conferences he's ever done at the White House.
He had the doctors around him, and he flat out.
So pregnant women do not take Thailand All because of
(15:16):
the links. The company responded robe saying that it is
deeply concerned by the perpetuation of mis information.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
That would make sense, because I'm sure their investors are
deeply concerned as well.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
You know, I want what are pregnant women doing now?
I mean, I guess I like, what are they being advised?
Are they? Are there women? There have to be there
are women cutting back on taking. Of course they are,
of course, which doctors will tell them. You're probably putting
yourself at more risk by doing that. Correct. All right, well,
folks on this what is it Wednesday?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It's Wednesday, on this Wednesday morning, Folks, stay with us
when we come back on this morning run. Yes, Game
four of the World Series. Normally it would have been
an exciting one, but after game the standards were a
little different. And Doctor Seuss, we have just discovered a
brand new never before seen or even known about Doctor
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Seus's book. Yes, a new one is coming our waves.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
They here continuing our Wednesday Morning ron and next up
on the run. Game four of the World Series Snoozefest
only went nine innings last night.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
By yes, after that eighteen inning doozy in Game three,
my hopes were up for another classic. It was a
good game, but nothing like that. But Game four last night,
Toronto Blue Jays bounced back to beat the LA Dodgers
six to two. The series now tie two to two.
Game five is tonight in La and Rose. Because it's
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two too, it means we're guaranteed to get a game
six as well. That's very exciting.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Thank god. Yeah, did you hear Brad Paisley is now
mister Moore baseball? Did you see this story? It's all
the headlines, So this is actually so interesting. He performed
the national anthem during, of course, that eighteen inning matchup,
but guess what. He also performed the anthem before the
previous one, the one that actually was the longest eighteen
(17:20):
inning matchup when the Dodgers outlasted the Boston Red Sox,
also a Game three. He also performed the anthem before
an eleven inning Game two in the twenty seventeen World
Series and a ten inning game Game one in LA
last year. So he says, every time he performs the
national anthem, they go into extra innings.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
What can you name it? I'm sorry, I don't want
to put you on the spot. A Brad Paisley hit
song or anything. I was wondering if he had Maybe
he has a something that naturally goes into this. I
don't know his songs, but that is funny. He's the guy.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
He does have a famous song that is not coming
to mind right.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Now, whiskey lullaby, She's everything she's ever did. That's the one.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Okay, that's not really a baseball story, but no, no songles.
That is kind of a cool nugget.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
For the final leg of the run.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
More than three decades after his death, a brand new
book by Doctor Seuss will be released next year. The manuscript,
complete with a cover sketch and art direction, was discovered.
It was sitting there all along in the archives of
the University of California, San Diego.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
This is they just happened upon it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, they never so they were just going through his
stuff and found this never before seen manuscript that was
completely ready to go.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Wow. So he did all the work, yeah for them
all right. The title of this book is Seeing the
Fifty United States. It features the cat and had two
little cat helpers that encourage children to learn about and
name all fifty States. The CEO of Doctor Seuss Enterprises said,
uncovering a new work from Ted is like finding a
time capsule of his imagination. Theodore Sus Geisel, Yes Sus
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the name. I don't think I knew Doctor Seus's real name.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I did neither. That's why when she said Ted. I
scratch my head and then realized, Okay, his name is
Theodore Seeing The Fifty United States will debut on June second,
twenty twenty six. How's this for timing just a month
before America's big two hundred and fiftieth birthday July fourth,
twenty twenty six. That just worked out. Sometimes, Wow, a
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whole book never seen before by doctor Seuss about the
fifty United States, all in time for our big birthday celebration.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Hey, sometimes the universe just puts things together.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
For you, doesn't it though? And by the way, it's
available for pre order now if you'd like to get
in on the action.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
All right, folk, something we'd like for you to take
with you, something for you to consider on this Wednesday.
It is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
In every life, we have some trouble, I said, trouble
instead of trouble. Let me start over again, nice because
I'm having trouble speaking In every life we have some trouble.
But when you worry, you make it double. Don't worry
be happy, doctor Sue say that Bobby McFerrin. So obviously
we know the song don't worry Be Happy, But somehow
(20:08):
I didn't really know the line before it, which I
thought was really.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Cool, which is, in every life you have some trouble.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
In every life, we have some trouble. But when you worry,
you make it double.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Don't worry, be happy.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
And yes it sounded so's like, but love the song,
love the artist, love the message, and with that everyone,
thank you for listening to this Wednesday edition of our
Morning Run.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ Holmes. We'll be talking
to me all soon
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run.
It's Wednesday, October twenty ninth. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Holmes. October twenty ninth. It's a day of contradictions, Robe.
We got a lot of, I guess, kind of some
dire headlines today. Snap benefits are about to run out,
Folks are struggling, don't know how they're going to put
food on the table. Now, we're getting word that two
of the biggest employers in the country are cutting five
figure numbers of jobs. But at the same time we
(00:37):
get word that Apple just went over a trillion dollars
four trillion dollars port trillion. Yes, okay, yeah, only one
of three three companies. Okay, So what is going on
that we have these two Americas going on?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, I mean it is extreme on both ends, sadly,
and uh, there's no real there's no progress that's being
made in the middle of I'm helping everybody, and Congress
is what chillin'.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It also almost feels like we're going backwards with the shutdown,
like we're not getting closer to a resolution. It looks
like we're getting farther away. We'll give you the latest
on where we are there and ropes. I talk about contradictions.
There are air strikes in Gaza by Israel, but we're
told the ceasefire is still in place.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It makes zero sense. And we're talking now the numbers.
The death toll from those air strikes is going up
throughout the morning. So it is concerning that both things
could be true.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
All right, folks, We've got a lot to get to
this morning. As always, we want to remind you top
right corner of that Apple podcast app where you see
our show page, a little button says follow you click
that make sure our updates are coming to you. Also,
we have to get into this morning. What is sixty
four dead in Rio? We were thinking of some natural disaster. No, no, no, folks,
this was part of a police raid. We'll tell you
(01:52):
why the UN wants to get involved in that. Of course.
Now all the news we knew this was coming roads
the news about Thailand all the present and it says
President pregnant women do not take talanol. Well, there is
a lawsuit now, folks, going after the makers of talanol.
In particular. A state is doing so. Also this morning,
there is a group folks that are supposed to advise
(02:14):
the president when it comes to construction in Washington, DC.
We'll tell you what he just did with all members
of that commission. You could probably guess. Also, the World
Series was a bit of a boor last night, Rose
it only went nine innings.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I'm sorry, n I like how you added last night.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Just nine innings.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Wait, a bit of a bore last night?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
What I mean?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Most baseball games are oh.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
My god, I don't don't, don't. Don't get me fired up.
Don't get me worked up this morning. Also, we have
a new Doctor Seuss book, who knew. We'll tell you
what that's about. And we have the very latest on
this hurricane Melissa coming out, which is still doing its
thing as we speak. So stick around. We need to
give you those updates and we'll give them to you
really quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yes, and we beg our run overseas. Were Israel resumed? Yes,
those air strikes in Gaza overnight latest reports at least
one hundred and four people killed. But we're told the
ceasefire is holding.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yes, we'll try to make sense to that. But Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Nanya, who says he ordered what he
called powerful strikes because Hamas has violated the ceasefire agreement.
He says he accused the militant group of firing on
Israeli soldiers in Gaza, killing one, and Israel says Hamas
isn't holding up its end of the deal to return
(03:32):
the remains of remaining hostages. They released a video. There's
like a fourteen minute video that they say shows Hamas
members staging the discovery of remains. Now, we've looked at
this video and robes. It clearly shows I don't know
who they are, but it shows them digging a fresh hole,
(03:53):
putting remains in it, covering those remains with dirt, and
then calling over like a Red crossworker to say, look
look what we found. They released this video of that happening.
They say this is a violation.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Wow. All right. While President Trump said Israel was in
fact justified in its response with those airstrikes, he said
he is also still confident in the ceasefire holding.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Next up on the Run, we're going to turn to
the very latest on Hurricane Melissa. The storm is now
it's still a category three and this morning it did
make its second landfall in Cuba, and that island is
now dealing with severe flooding.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, they're going to be dealing with it for a
good chunk of the day today. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands
of people remain without power in Jamaica, where Melissa May
landfall Tuesday as a Category five storm, winds above one
hundred and eighty five miles per hour. It is officially
the strongest storm to ever hit Jamaica, and it's one
(04:51):
of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded. It is expected
to go across Cuba this morning and then hit the
Bahamas later in the day.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
All right, we turn now to Rio de Janeiro, where
sixty four people died yesterday in a massive police operation
and now the United Nations wants an immediate investigation.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And what's described as the largest raid in the city's history,
thousands of police and military personnel targeted one of the
largest criminal gangs in Brazil. Clashes turned the streets into
war zones. Ultimately, eighty one arrests were made, drugs and
weapons were confiscated. Four police officers were among the sixty
four killed.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Next up on the run, we're going to head back
home and the latest on the government shutdown. We are
now in day twenty nine and the Senate keeps giving
us a literal demonstration of insanity, doing the same thing
over and over again and expecting a different results.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yes, these leaders of ours voted for a thirteenth time
yesterday on the same Republican backed short term spending measure
that would reopen the government. And yes, for the thirteenth
time it failed. House of Representatives remains out of session,
they ain't even at work, and Speaker of Mike Johnson
says he is going to stick to his stands that
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there's no reason to bring them back to work until
the Senate does its work and acts in some way
form of fashion.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And now a new fight is erupting over Snap benefits,
which are slated to run out on Saturday. Democrats are
calling on the administration to release billions in reserve funds
to keep the food benefits flowing to low income Americans,
but the White House is pushing back, claiming it doesn't
have the legal authority to use those funds for Snap benefits.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And now twenty five states are suing over the suspension
of Snap benefits and want a judge to force the
administration to tap into that reserve fund. Those twenty five states,
all Democratic states and Democratic folks who are part of
this suing. Without a resolution, forty two million Americans who
rely on SNAP also of course called the food Stamp
program are not going to get their benefits starting on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Meanwhile, air traffic controllers missed their first full paychecks of
the shutdown yesterday. And get this, just in terms of
a sign of the times, airlines are actually now providing
meals for air traffic controllers. We're talking Delta, United, Jet Blue,
and that's what they're trying to do to at least
give them some sort of something broke.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
We don't need this full. Your air traffic controller that's
in control of your safety while you're in the air
is worried about paying their electric bill and they're hungry.
B I saw. That's a shame. That is a shame.
And the Transportation Secretary Secretary Sean Duffy said they continue
to get a higher than normal number of sick calls.
(07:42):
A lot of controllers are stressed, of course about finances,
so they call in sometimes I just need a day off.
But a lot of them, Roji said, are calling in
sick because they're calling in sick to the job that's
not giving them a check so they can go spend
time at another job that will pay them. They said,
a lot of them are turning to driving upers is
where we are. So get this stat from Sunday, eighty
(08:03):
seven hundred flight delays on Sunday. I don't know what
the normal number is, so let me just say that
part first. But to hear that forty four percent of
the delays were because of staffing shortages. This is dangerous
and it's not just inconvenient.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's dangerous. So yeah, that's a very good point. You
don't want a tired, upset, nervous, anxious air traffic controller.
All right, Next up on the run. Did you know
there is a Commission on Fine Arts in Washington?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I wasn't aware, did you.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I did not know that either.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It spent a lot of time with him.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Now. So it's an independent federal agency whose job it
is to give expert advice to the President on matters
of design and esthetics in the nation's capital and review
design proposals for government buildings.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Fired all of them. President just fired all of them.
Got six of them on the Commission fired all of them.
These are the people who would approve plans to give
advice about what you're going to do with these twins
in your ballroom and putting an arch in the city.
Those people have all been fired. And how were they fired? Well,
they got a nice little email yesterday that simply said,
quote on behalf of President Donald J. Trump. I am
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writing to inform you that your position as a member
of the Commission of Fine Arts is terminated, effective immediately.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All were previously appointed by President Biden, and we're expected
to serve a four year term that ends in twenty
twenty eight. But the White House said Trump is going
to appoint a new commission more aligned with President Trump's
America First policies.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Translation, my people that will do what I tell them
to do, Yes, exactly. And he's a president. He has
a right to do that. I guess. Thanks up on
the run here now. Several major US companies have announced
significant layoffs. Amazon among them, send a message to its
employees Tuesday that it would be cutting fourteen thousand jobs
(09:52):
as it shifts its resources to artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And Ups announced it had cut thirty four thousand jobs
and a they did fourteen thousand management positions in just
the first nine months of this year. So for those
of you trying to do the math, that is a
total of forty eight thousand jobs gone so far this
year at UPS. Target also said it's planning to act
eighteen hundred corporate roles and notified its home state of
(10:19):
Minnesota that it plans to lay off more than eight
hundred employees in January as it restructures, and finally, CBS
parent company paramount S guidance is expected to eliminate more
than one thousand positions today. Those folks will literally be
getting their notices today.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And even before all this news, layoffs have been trending
higher in the US nearly nine hundred and fifty thousand
cuts so far this year through September. That is the
latest data we have because the government such shut down,
so we're not getting the most up to date information.
Robe You put a good point in here. The Fed
has a very important job to do and they won't
(10:56):
have the information they need to make it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yes, yes, they decide on the next interest rate decision
whether or not they're going to cut it tomorrow, but
they don't have the latest jobs numbers, which absolutely typically
would factor into their decision.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Well, I didn't think about you. We were talking about
the shutdown. People don't know how to plan for the holidays,
that people are buying tickets. What's your budget going to
be in all this? I didn't think as well. Halloween
is a very big budget holiday and it's for kids
and families.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yep, I mean costumes cost money. All that candy cost money.
I mean seriously, if you're a house that's highly visited,
you're talking hundreds of dollars that people just might not
have now at this point as just extra backup for
some holiday.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah, I skipped right over Halloween, was thinking about thanks youving.
This is a big family, This is big for kids.
This is another day that parents really want to make
special for their kids.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
When my kids were younger. Actually, I was actually feeling
a little sad about it today because this week was
so much fun getting the costumes ready. But it also
costs money. And yes, my mom used to make our
costumes from scratch, but still, I mean that's time, that's money,
all these things that folks don't have these days. All Right, meantime,
with all of that bad news, some companies appear to
actually be doing exceptionally well. Apple on Tuesday became the
(12:09):
third company ever to break through that four trillion dollar
market value. It didn't last for long. Apple ended the
trading day just below the historic threshold, really close, at
three point nine to nine trillion.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
But in Vidia and Microsoft they both crossed the four
trillion mark in July, and Videa's value has grown significantly
since then, closing at four point eight. Do I have
the right four point almost four point nine trillion? Yes,
they're about to cross correct at five.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yes, y'all AI. It's all about the AI well.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Apple stock is also expected to climb higher after tomorrow's
earnings report, where financial experts expect the company to report
more than one hundred billion dollars in quarterly earnings. It's yes,
it makes your stomach turn. And this is why if
you're a politician, all you do is rail against the billionaires.
You throw that out because you see these two worlds
(13:01):
not colliding, but there were two separate Americas.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
It's all true. But when you've got trillion dollar companies
aligning themselves politically, that is the move. Because if people
have been noting, Apple CEO Tim Cook has been everywhere,
Trump has been recently, He's paid multiple visits to the
Old Office. He attended that state dinner with King Charles
that they hosted in the UK and Trump's honor. He
also was with Trump again in Japan on Tuesday this week.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I missed that completely.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
That was all noted. And the fact that most apple
products have been exempt from tariffs. Those two things aren't
just coincidental.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You know what we look, it's good that we folks
want to criticize. And why you at this event? You
know what they are producing for their investors. This is
business and it sucks if you are. You don't want
to be on the wrong side of Trump. But you
look at November one, all this is going on, and
your nervous that your snap benefits aren't going to get
(14:00):
put into the account because of what ooh this one's okay, fine,
shut down a couple of days. Figured out, you made
your points. Come on, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yes, agreed, Oh yeah, yeah, all right, sorry, all right.
Next up on the run, Texas assuing the makers of
tail and all the state claims the companies behind the
common painkiller used deceptive marketing practices to sell their product
to pregnant women despite alleged links to autism.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Okay, we have to say this always out loud. The
medical community consensus here. The links don't exist. There is
nothing at least in the evidence right now. You want
to keep studying, knock yourself out, But the doctors will
tell you there is nothing that they have seen, and
this has been studied at nauseum that makes a direct
link between taking tail and All and higher rates of autism. Well,
(14:51):
there's despite what the medical community says about this, The
Texas AG said, quote, these corporations lied for decades, knowingly
in endangering millions to line their pockets. Of course, it
was just last month we saw the president. It's a
pretty big announcement. He said. It was one of the
most important press conferences he's ever done at the White House.
He had the doctors around him, and he flat out.
So pregnant women do not take Thailand All because of
(15:16):
the links. The company responded robe saying that it is
deeply concerned by the perpetuation of mis information.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
That would make sense, because I'm sure their investors are
deeply concerned as well.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
You know, I want what are pregnant women doing now?
I mean, I guess I like, what are they being advised?
Are they? Are there women? There have to be there
are women cutting back on taking. Of course they are,
of course, which doctors will tell them. You're probably putting
yourself at more risk by doing that. Correct. All right, well,
folks on this what is it Wednesday?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It's Wednesday, on this Wednesday morning, Folks, stay with us
when we come back on this morning run. Yes, Game
four of the World Series. Normally it would have been
an exciting one, but after game the standards were a
little different. And Doctor Seuss, we have just discovered a
brand new never before seen or even known about Doctor
(16:12):
Seus's book. Yes, a new one is coming our waves.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
They here continuing our Wednesday Morning ron and next up
on the run. Game four of the World Series Snoozefest
only went nine innings last night.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
By yes, after that eighteen inning doozy in Game three,
my hopes were up for another classic. It was a
good game, but nothing like that. But Game four last night,
Toronto Blue Jays bounced back to beat the LA Dodgers
six to two. The series now tie two to two.
Game five is tonight in La and Rose. Because it's
(16:55):
two too, it means we're guaranteed to get a game
six as well. That's very exciting.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Thank god. Yeah, did you hear Brad Paisley is now
mister Moore baseball? Did you see this story? It's all
the headlines, So this is actually so interesting. He performed
the national anthem during, of course, that eighteen inning matchup,
but guess what. He also performed the anthem before the
previous one, the one that actually was the longest eighteen
(17:20):
inning matchup when the Dodgers outlasted the Boston Red Sox,
also a Game three. He also performed the anthem before
an eleven inning Game two in the twenty seventeen World
Series and a ten inning game Game one in LA
last year. So he says, every time he performs the
national anthem, they go into extra innings.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
What can you name it? I'm sorry, I don't want
to put you on the spot. A Brad Paisley hit
song or anything. I was wondering if he had Maybe
he has a something that naturally goes into this. I
don't know his songs, but that is funny. He's the guy.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
He does have a famous song that is not coming
to mind right.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Now, whiskey lullaby, She's everything she's ever did. That's the one.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Okay, that's not really a baseball story, but no, no songles.
That is kind of a cool nugget.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
For the final leg of the run.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
More than three decades after his death, a brand new
book by Doctor Seuss will be released next year. The manuscript,
complete with a cover sketch and art direction, was discovered.
It was sitting there all along in the archives of
the University of California, San Diego.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
This is they just happened upon it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, they never so they were just going through his
stuff and found this never before seen manuscript that was
completely ready to go.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Wow. So he did all the work, yeah for them
all right. The title of this book is Seeing the
Fifty United States. It features the cat and had two
little cat helpers that encourage children to learn about and
name all fifty States. The CEO of Doctor Seuss Enterprises said,
uncovering a new work from Ted is like finding a
time capsule of his imagination. Theodore Sus Geisel, Yes Sus
(18:55):
the name. I don't think I knew Doctor Seus's real name.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I did neither. That's why when she said Ted. I
scratch my head and then realized, Okay, his name is
Theodore Seeing The Fifty United States will debut on June second,
twenty twenty six. How's this for timing just a month
before America's big two hundred and fiftieth birthday July fourth,
twenty twenty six. That just worked out. Sometimes, Wow, a
(19:23):
whole book never seen before by doctor Seuss about the
fifty United States, all in time for our big birthday celebration.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Hey, sometimes the universe just puts things together.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
For you, doesn't it though? And by the way, it's
available for pre order now if you'd like to get
in on the action.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
All right, folk, something we'd like for you to take
with you, something for you to consider on this Wednesday.
It is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
In every life, we have some trouble, I said, trouble
instead of trouble. Let me start over again, nice because
I'm having trouble speaking In every life we have some trouble.
But when you worry, you make it double. Don't worry
be happy, doctor Sue say that Bobby McFerrin. So obviously
we know the song don't worry Be Happy, But somehow
(20:08):
I didn't really know the line before it, which I
thought was really.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Cool, which is, in every life you have some trouble.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
In every life, we have some trouble. But when you worry,
you make it double.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Don't worry, be happy.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
And yes it sounded so's like, but love the song,
love the artist, love the message, and with that everyone,
thank you for listening to this Wednesday edition of our
Morning Run.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ Holmes. We'll be talking
to me all soon
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