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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, this is your Morning Run for Thursday July
twenty fourth. I'm Amy Robots.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And I'm TJ. Holmes. You'll hear that pause there, she
has the wrong day in the rundown. Here it says Wednesday,
July twenty fourth. So you heard that pause. That's what
that was.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
It was just a recalibration in my brain in the moment.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes, and we have a number. We have an you all.
We have an update, a very important number. We have
an exact number we can give you today for how
many steps you need to take to be healthier. They
have the evidence. I thought the number was a little low.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, I'm same, but this one actually has a significant
outcome where you actually can lower your risk of death
by almost forty percent.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And they're giving us an exact number of steps. We
have that update. Also, another big number of interest today
the number of beer that is being given out for
free to celebrate one company's fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Do I have that right?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes, and it happens to be. It might not be
my favorite tasting beer, but it is the beer I
drink most often.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It is your go to beer. In fact, to my
nineteen year.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Old when she first realized what your beer of choice was,
she kind of threw her nose up at wow.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Okay form a nineteen year old. Some of the stuff
no also a lot of interest to women here. I
thought this was a cool feature. Uber is doing something
specifically for women and for safety, a new feature they're
going to be adding. And a legendary duo I'm talking
absolute legends in the world of music robes. They had
(01:42):
a classic album in nineteen seventy three. Do you know
that album was never updated from vinyl? It wasn't even
put on CD.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And this group is so legendary that you didn't even
know who they were before you started dating.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
We can get into that later. But this album they
are putting out in finally reissuing this album people have
been asking for for fifty years. A really really cool
story there. But also on the run this morning, we
all know President Trump he's been trying to distract from
the Jeffrey Epstein controversy. Well, today's Wall Street Journal headline
(02:16):
is not going to help. The paper says Trump was
told in May that his name appears in the Epstein files.
Multiple times.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
The Wall Street Journal that's funny, okay, also request deny
the DOJ, asking to release Epstein testimony, but the judge says,
can't do it, my hands are tied.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Also, subpoenas were flying on Capitol Hill yesterday. Bill and
Hillary got one. So did Robert Mahler, James Comy, Eric Holder,
Merrick Garland, you name it. And it was all related
to Jeffrey Epstein. Oh and by the way, Glene Maxwell
is expecting visitors today.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
And she also got a subpoena, right, yes, yes, that
was another subpoena person all right. And then a gut
wrenching emotional day in court. Convicted kill or Brian Coberger
heard his sentence and also heard directly from the family
and friends of those four Idaho college students he brutally murdered.
We'll have more on that in just a bit, but
we begin our run on this Friday Eve. Everybody, Donald
(03:16):
Trump's name, yes, is in the Epstein files multiple times,
and the President was told about it months ago.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah. That explosive new headline comes to us today Curtsy
of the Wall Street Journal, which is reporting that the
Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump in May that his
name appears in the files. The journal is also reporting
that the DOJ told Trump that they weren't going to
release any more Epstein files because they contain child pornography
and personal info on victims.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Now important to note here.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
The paper says there is nothing in those files that
implicates Trump in any criminal wrongdoing, and some more quick
to point out that the President's answer recently, when he
was asked directly by a reporter if Bondi told him
his name was in the files they were pointing out,
his response was no, No, she's She's given us a
very quick briefing.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You just can't get away from this and can't distract.
There's another new headline. This is all everybody is focusing on.
And now to hear that so boldly, it could be
and who knows how it's in there, But to have
the headline about the files people can't see and his
name is in it multiple times, obviously you jumped to well,
he must be the one trying to keep them from
coming out. Correct, This is his group of folks and
(04:32):
some supporders are in an uproar over this. We're gonna
continue on the run here on this Thursday, morning. Oh
to be a fly on the wall for the meeting
taking place today at the Federal Prison in Tallahassee, because
that is where Gallaine Maxwell is serving her twenty year
prison sentence and where today she'll have a visitor the
Department of Justice.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
ABC News is reporting the meeting will include a senior
justice official. Earlier this week, the DOJ said Deputy Attorney
General Todd Blanche would be seeking a meeting in coming days. Well,
now it appears that meeting is happening today. Blanche confirmed
previously that he was in touch with Maxwell's lawyer, saying, quote,
justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of
(05:14):
Justice is reaching out to Glaine Maxwell to ask what
do you know? And everyone wants to know? Oh, my god,
everyone wants to know. I mean, her brother has expressed
concern that she could be killed in prison. You know,
there's she knows everything. She was Epstein's right hand.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
There's wonder how many people are nervous today about this meeting.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I would think a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
All right, next up on the run, let's stay with
Ghlainne Maxwell, because guess what, she's a pretty busy woman
these days. She was Yes, also subpoena to testify by
the House Oversight Committee. They already have a time and
a location in mind, August eleventh, at her current home. Yes,
once again, if you missed it the first time, the
Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So why would they like to speak to her? Are
they trying to dig into some Epstein files and get
some name? Oh no, no, no, no no. In their
letter to her, Congress put it this way, It is
imperative that Congress conduct oversight of the federal government's enforcement
of sex trafficking laws, generally and specifically its handling of
(06:20):
the investigation and prosecution of you and mister Epstein. In particular.
The committee seeks your testimony to inform the consideration of
potential legislative solutions to improve federal efforts to combat sex trafficking.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
That's not the reason why they want to talk to her.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
No, she's going to help us reform our system. She
is going to serve.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Now, Okay, cannot wait for that. All eyes will be
on Capitol Hill on August eleventh. All right, next up
on our run. The Trump administration said it would not
be releasing more Epstein files. Congress is trying to force
them to anyway. A House committee yesterday voted to subpoena
the Department of Justice for the files.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, several Republicans voted with Democrats for the subpoena, but
only after Republicans got a few things they wanted, namely
subpoenas for everybody for a number of prominent Democrats, including
Bill and Hillary Clinton, also former FBI directors Muller and Comy,
as well as former Attorney Generals Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch.
(07:23):
So again, filpoenas were flying. They were surprised that some
Republicans were going to go ahead with this and vote
for the Epstein files. But when they got to sweeten
the pot for themselves and say political sure, we'll go
on board.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
And well, next up on the Run and rounding out
are Epstein coverage on Morning Run, just like they promised.
The Trump administration has asked a court to release Jeffrey
Epstein grand jury testimony. The answer they got back from
the court no, Yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
In issuing her order, the judge made it sound pretty
cut and dry, writing law does not permit the court
to grant the government's request. The court's hands are tied
a point that the government concedes and Epstein served thirteen
months in jail for a two thousand and eight child
sex conviction in Florida. So this they were asking for
(08:11):
the files from that Florida.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Case, right, and the Justice Department also asked New York
courts to release grand jury testimony related to Epstein's twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Arrest on sex trafficking charges.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
This time the court didn't say no, but they didn't
say yes either. Instead, they called the government's request inadequate
and gave them until next week to get their stuff
together and try again.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I'm sorry that was a placeholder when I was writing it.
I didn't update it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
To get their ish together is what you write. That's fine.
I interpreted that as stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
All well, folks. Next up on the run here we
head to Idaho, where it was an emotional and a
long day really at the sentencing hearing for Brian Koberger,
the thirty year old former PhD student who pleaded guilty
to killing four University of Idaho students. That was nearly
three years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
More than a dozen people, family members, the two surviving roommates,
and even the prosecutor who built the case against him,
spoke passionately, some filled with anger as they directly addressed
what was described as an expression list killer. He sat there, unemotional,
without expression. One father told Coburger, you tried to divide us.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You failed.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Instead, your actions have united everyone in their disgust for you.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And it was tough because this was this was live streams.
This is a court where they have cameras and you
could see, and this was to see everything. And I
think everybody in the court room was emotional or a
motive in some way except him.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah, even his own mother.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, the whole time. So, yeah, he was in court yesterday.
Family members told him they hoped, some that he would
suffer violence in prison. There were some who stood up
and said they had forgiven him, some who said they
were praying for him. So it really ran the gamut there.
Coburger did not speak during the hearing. He was asked
(10:02):
by the judge if he had something to say, and
this was the moment Robes everybody was waiting on is
he finally going to say I'm sorry or explain why
he did what he did. Instead, all he said was
I respectfully decline. Somebody in the court yelled coward at
that point.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, and that's because many yes, as you pointed out,
hoped Coburger would explain why why he brutally stabbed Madison, Mogen,
Kaylee Gonsalvez, Zana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin for people he
did not know in the middle of the night for
no apparent reason. The judge acknowledged that he too shared
(10:39):
the desire of the victims' families to understand the motive
in the case, but he said he didn't have the
legal authority to make Coburger speak, and he also said
he didn't believe that anything Coburger would have said could
be trusted, and the prosecutor added to that, saying asking
Cober to explain his actions would only allow him to
shape his own narrative.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The judge ultimately Sentencedburger, as expected, to four consecutive life sentences,
no opportunity for parole. News conference followed the sentencing, where
investigators went over never before heard details in the case,
and some of these were horrific to hear. All this
information had been under gag order until now. They did
dispel several theories about how Coburger may have known some
(11:21):
of his victims, saying it was possible that he chose
the home because of its locational layout, but ultimately investigator
said they simply had no answers and no link between
the killer and his victims. This was a tough day
and people on both sides. Some wanted to hear, desperate
to hear from him in court yesterday.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yes, something they wanted to hear.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Some because even the investigators, after an exhaustive and lengthy
investigation into trying to figure out why, how where did
he even come up with this plan? And why would
he have chosen four of the six roommates. I mean
he had to go upstairs. The downstairs roommates survived and
had no idea what was going on upstairs. It's so puzzling,
(12:04):
and it turns out it looks like we're never gonna know.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
All right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this
Thursday morning run when we come back. A new feature
being added to Uber that is meant to make women
feel safer and safer and more comfortable in their rides.
Also coming up a treat for music fans that they
have been waiting fifty years on. And we have an
exact number of steps you need to take that can
(12:28):
greatly improve your health. And what is probably my favorite
story of the day, why has a whole bunch of
beer about to be given out for free?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Welcome back everyone to this Friday Eve edition of Morning
Run and next up on The Run. A new feature
is coming soon on your Uber app for women who
prefer to have other women drive them. It's aptly named
Women Preferences, and it will be available over the next
few weeks in three cities to begin with Los Angeles,
San Francisco, and Detroit.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Well, it sounds like something from a dating app, Women
Preferences fill out this section, yes, but Uber said it's
about giving women more choice, more control, and more comfort
when they ride and drive. This is how it's going
to work. When requesting a trip, women riders will see
the option called women Drivers the way time could be
longer than anticipated. Of course, you can always opt for
(13:27):
another ride with a faster pick up. So why I
guess this makes sense, though I assume there aren't as
many women drivers. But I didn't know it was this low.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I actually thought it was lower.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Uber said only one in five of its drivers are women,
so twenty percent of its drivers are women. I have
to tell you I'm picked up by women about one
percent of the time. So I mean, I will say
when I'm in other cities.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Just about the collect Los.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Angeles specifically, I do have we have found that we
have more female drivers, But in New York. I'm telling you,
I'm trying to think of one right now. I've I
think twice in ten years. However long we've been using Uber,
have I had a woman like? They just don't exist
in the city. I don't know why, right Well, women
can also use the reserve function function to pre book
(14:13):
trips with women drivers. That might help you out with
a wait time. And while it's not guaranteed, you can
just turn on the woman preference in your app settings
and that's going to increase your chances of being matched
with the woman driver, but it won't guarantee it.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Well, that's cool to give the option.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Well done, Uber Well continuing on the run here now,
music fans been waiting for this for fifty years. A
classic album is about to get a reissue. The album
is Buckingham Nix. Don't know if you've ever heard of that,
but you've heard of them.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, it's the only album from Lindsey Buckingham and Buckingham
and Stevie Nicks as a duo, and this is before
they both joined Fleetwood Mac. The album was released in
nineteen seventy three, but it was never reissued from its
original vinyl release.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
There's no digital there's no streaming version of this. It
wasn't even put onto a CD.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, you can't. You can't get it. You couldn't get it.
So the music now they are being able to put
this together and reissue. It's going to be sourced from
analog master recordings, they say, in high resolution digital files.
It's going to be out September nineteenth, and we need
to make this clear people hear about Fleetwood Mac. Here
about these two no new music. They're not essentially doing
a new album release with a couple of new tracks,
(15:26):
same album, just for the first time in fifty years,
it's going to be available in a different format.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's funny you were asking me because obviously Stevie CKX
I know Stevie X. You said who is he when
I first brought her up to you, which was hilarious
to me. But it's also funny you pointed out her
duo the other half is Lindsay Buckingham, who is a man.
So the woman Stevie and the man's lindsay, just to.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Be clear for everybody, Yeah, Crystal, clearing of it all right.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Next up on the run, new research says you don't
have to walk those ten thousand steps we've heard so
much about to reap massive health benefits. Scientists now believe,
and there's a study done that walking just seven thousand
steps a day can reduce your risk of dementia, depression,
even dying from cancer. All right.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They found that compared to people who only walk two
thousand steps a day, those who made it two seven
thousand had a thirty seven percent reduction in risk of
dying from cancer, thirty eight percent for dementia, twenty two
percent less for depression, forty seven percent reduction in overall
risk of dying. So the bottom line here is just
I guess walk, walk as much as you can do.
(16:31):
The study show that with every additional one thousand steps
taken there is a return on investment, but the rate
at which steps reduce risks begin to slow above the
seven thousand marks. So yes, go get some extra in,
is what they're saying. But anything much over seven thousand
not going to help you that much.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It is going to help you, it's just not going
to help you as much as these from two thousand
to seven thousand. So and they to that point, they add,
those who are currently active and achieving the ten thousand
steps a day, keep up the good work. There is
no need to modify your step count. So they're actually
encouraging people. Hey, if you can go over ten, that's great.
That's only gonna help you more. But they say for
those of us who are far from achieving the ten
(17:11):
thousand targets, it can be overwhelming for folks and actually
make people not even try at all. They're saying getting
to seven thousand steps a day offers almost comparable health
benefits for the outcomes we examined.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
So just encouraging people to walk a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, all right, for the final leg of our run,
I feel like I need a drink.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
TJ.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Well, yeah, there's some ice coffee there, and there's some
sparkling water and Red Bull over.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Here, but you know it's in the refrigerator. Oh yes,
Miller Life.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And this has got to be your favorite story of
the day because your favorite beer is celebrating it's fiftieth
anniversary in a big way.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
It's fifty it always tastes so fresh. Though. Miller Lite
is offering, yes, fifty thousand free beers at bars across
the country exactly one week from tomorrow, August first, which
happens to be International Beer Day. The beer company will
give away free drinks at four hundred and fifty bars nationwide,
and all you have to do is go to their
website Miller dot com slash Fine Celebration.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Of course, I've already done this for us. Clicked on
the link right away.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
There is an amazing location right here in the city
on the Lower East Side, telling you it looks like
a really cute place. So let's make a date for
next Friday. But Miller Lte is hosting its main event
at the Miller Lte Brewery in Milwaukee, where they are
doing a New Year's Eve style beer drop.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I don't really understand what this looks like, but cans
are going to drop one by one from a what
they call a massive six pack installation.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
But it's happening at four to fifty pm local time,
and the drop will be live streamed across all time zones,
so they can have this big fiftieth anniversary celebration and
you hopefully will be at a bar near you raising
a free beer.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Okay, the time fifty is that it's supposed to be
fifty four fifty.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, four fifty PM.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
So I don't know why they chose that, but apparently
if you've got a free beer in your hand, it
doesn't matter for fifty Yes, they.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Had too many beers before they came up with the time.
Four fifty sounds good. Yeah, let's just do that, all right,
folks before we head out of here. Something we'd like
for you to take with you and consider it is
our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Weak people revenge, Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore. That
is from one of the smartest brains ever known on
this planet, Albert Einstein.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I just thought that was really cool.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I hadn't thought about it that way. When you get frustrated,
you're angry, you're upset, this is a good way to
kind of look at it. Weak people revenge, Strong people forgive.
Intelligent people ignore.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm smart. I'm a sharp guy that must be really
really intelligent.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Because you're just like, I'm gonna ignore that.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Not a revenge guy, but not a forgive guy.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Really either, you aren't, that is true.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think I I'm a forgive person. I have a
hard time ignoring, and I definitely don't agree with revenge.
That's that's not not in me. So I'm strong and
you're smart, but I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Also weak because I don't forgive. Okay, we're gonna get
back to you on that and we figure this thing out, folks,
but we always appreciate you running with us. We will
talk to you really, really soon. I'm Tej and.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I'm maybe Robock. We'll see you on the run tomorrow.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, this is your Morning Run for Thursday July
twenty fourth. I'm Amy Robots.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And I'm TJ. Holmes. You'll hear that pause there, she
has the wrong day in the rundown. Here it says Wednesday,
July twenty fourth. So you heard that pause. That's what
that was.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
It was just a recalibration in my brain in the moment.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes, and we have a number. We have an you all.
We have an update, a very important number. We have
an exact number we can give you today for how
many steps you need to take to be healthier. They
have the evidence. I thought the number was a little low.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, I'm same, but this one actually has a significant
outcome where you actually can lower your risk of death
by almost forty percent.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And they're giving us an exact number of steps. We
have that update. Also, another big number of interest today
the number of beer that is being given out for
free to celebrate one company's fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Do I have that right?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes, and it happens to be. It might not be
my favorite tasting beer, but it is the beer I
drink most often.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It is your go to beer. In fact, to my
nineteen year.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Old when she first realized what your beer of choice was,
she kind of threw her nose up at wow.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Okay form a nineteen year old. Some of the stuff
no also a lot of interest to women here. I
thought this was a cool feature. Uber is doing something
specifically for women and for safety, a new feature they're
going to be adding. And a legendary duo I'm talking
absolute legends in the world of music robes. They had
(01:42):
a classic album in nineteen seventy three. Do you know
that album was never updated from vinyl? It wasn't even
put on CD.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And this group is so legendary that you didn't even
know who they were before you started dating.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
We can get into that later. But this album they
are putting out in finally reissuing this album people have
been asking for for fifty years. A really really cool
story there. But also on the run this morning, we
all know President Trump he's been trying to distract from
the Jeffrey Epstein controversy. Well, today's Wall Street Journal headline
(02:16):
is not going to help. The paper says Trump was
told in May that his name appears in the Epstein files.
Multiple times.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
The Wall Street Journal that's funny, okay, also request deny
the DOJ, asking to release Epstein testimony, but the judge says,
can't do it, my hands are tied.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Also, subpoenas were flying on Capitol Hill yesterday. Bill and
Hillary got one. So did Robert Mahler, James Comy, Eric Holder,
Merrick Garland, you name it. And it was all related
to Jeffrey Epstein. Oh and by the way, Glene Maxwell
is expecting visitors today.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
And she also got a subpoena, right, yes, yes, that
was another subpoena person all right. And then a gut
wrenching emotional day in court. Convicted kill or Brian Coberger
heard his sentence and also heard directly from the family
and friends of those four Idaho college students he brutally murdered.
We'll have more on that in just a bit, but
we begin our run on this Friday Eve. Everybody, Donald
(03:16):
Trump's name, yes, is in the Epstein files multiple times,
and the President was told about it months ago.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah. That explosive new headline comes to us today Curtsy
of the Wall Street Journal, which is reporting that the
Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump in May that his
name appears in the files. The journal is also reporting
that the DOJ told Trump that they weren't going to
release any more Epstein files because they contain child pornography
and personal info on victims.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Now important to note here.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
The paper says there is nothing in those files that
implicates Trump in any criminal wrongdoing, and some more quick
to point out that the President's answer recently, when he
was asked directly by a reporter if Bondi told him
his name was in the files they were pointing out,
his response was no, No, she's She's given us a
very quick briefing.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You just can't get away from this and can't distract.
There's another new headline. This is all everybody is focusing on.
And now to hear that so boldly, it could be
and who knows how it's in there, But to have
the headline about the files people can't see and his
name is in it multiple times, obviously you jumped to well,
he must be the one trying to keep them from
coming out. Correct, This is his group of folks and
(04:32):
some supporders are in an uproar over this. We're gonna
continue on the run here on this Thursday, morning. Oh
to be a fly on the wall for the meeting
taking place today at the Federal Prison in Tallahassee, because
that is where Gallaine Maxwell is serving her twenty year
prison sentence and where today she'll have a visitor the
Department of Justice.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
ABC News is reporting the meeting will include a senior
justice official. Earlier this week, the DOJ said Deputy Attorney
General Todd Blanche would be seeking a meeting in coming days. Well,
now it appears that meeting is happening today. Blanche confirmed
previously that he was in touch with Maxwell's lawyer, saying, quote,
justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of
(05:14):
Justice is reaching out to Glaine Maxwell to ask what
do you know? And everyone wants to know? Oh, my god,
everyone wants to know. I mean, her brother has expressed
concern that she could be killed in prison. You know,
there's she knows everything. She was Epstein's right hand.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
There's wonder how many people are nervous today about this meeting.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I would think a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
All right, next up on the run, let's stay with
Ghlainne Maxwell, because guess what, she's a pretty busy woman
these days. She was Yes, also subpoena to testify by
the House Oversight Committee. They already have a time and
a location in mind, August eleventh, at her current home. Yes,
once again, if you missed it the first time, the
Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So why would they like to speak to her? Are
they trying to dig into some Epstein files and get
some name? Oh no, no, no, no no. In their
letter to her, Congress put it this way, It is
imperative that Congress conduct oversight of the federal government's enforcement
of sex trafficking laws, generally and specifically its handling of
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the investigation and prosecution of you and mister Epstein. In particular.
The committee seeks your testimony to inform the consideration of
potential legislative solutions to improve federal efforts to combat sex trafficking.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
That's not the reason why they want to talk to her.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
No, she's going to help us reform our system. She
is going to serve.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Now, Okay, cannot wait for that. All eyes will be
on Capitol Hill on August eleventh. All right, next up
on our run. The Trump administration said it would not
be releasing more Epstein files. Congress is trying to force
them to anyway. A House committee yesterday voted to subpoena
the Department of Justice for the files.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, several Republicans voted with Democrats for the subpoena, but
only after Republicans got a few things they wanted, namely
subpoenas for everybody for a number of prominent Democrats, including
Bill and Hillary Clinton, also former FBI directors Muller and Comy,
as well as former Attorney Generals Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch.
(07:23):
So again, filpoenas were flying. They were surprised that some
Republicans were going to go ahead with this and vote
for the Epstein files. But when they got to sweeten
the pot for themselves and say political sure, we'll go
on board.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
And well, next up on the Run and rounding out
are Epstein coverage on Morning Run, just like they promised.
The Trump administration has asked a court to release Jeffrey
Epstein grand jury testimony. The answer they got back from
the court no, Yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
In issuing her order, the judge made it sound pretty
cut and dry, writing law does not permit the court
to grant the government's request. The court's hands are tied
a point that the government concedes and Epstein served thirteen
months in jail for a two thousand and eight child
sex conviction in Florida. So this they were asking for
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the files from that Florida.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Case, right, and the Justice Department also asked New York
courts to release grand jury testimony related to Epstein's twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Arrest on sex trafficking charges.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
This time the court didn't say no, but they didn't
say yes either. Instead, they called the government's request inadequate
and gave them until next week to get their stuff
together and try again.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I'm sorry that was a placeholder when I was writing it.
I didn't update it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
To get their ish together is what you write. That's fine.
I interpreted that as stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
All well, folks. Next up on the run here we
head to Idaho, where it was an emotional and a
long day really at the sentencing hearing for Brian Koberger,
the thirty year old former PhD student who pleaded guilty
to killing four University of Idaho students. That was nearly
three years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
More than a dozen people, family members, the two surviving roommates,
and even the prosecutor who built the case against him,
spoke passionately, some filled with anger as they directly addressed
what was described as an expression list killer. He sat there, unemotional,
without expression. One father told Coburger, you tried to divide us.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You failed.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Instead, your actions have united everyone in their disgust for you.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And it was tough because this was this was live streams.
This is a court where they have cameras and you
could see, and this was to see everything. And I
think everybody in the court room was emotional or a
motive in some way except him.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah, even his own mother.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, the whole time. So, yeah, he was in court yesterday.
Family members told him they hoped, some that he would
suffer violence in prison. There were some who stood up
and said they had forgiven him, some who said they
were praying for him. So it really ran the gamut there.
Coburger did not speak during the hearing. He was asked
(10:02):
by the judge if he had something to say, and
this was the moment Robes everybody was waiting on is
he finally going to say I'm sorry or explain why
he did what he did. Instead, all he said was
I respectfully decline. Somebody in the court yelled coward at
that point.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, and that's because many yes, as you pointed out,
hoped Coburger would explain why why he brutally stabbed Madison, Mogen,
Kaylee Gonsalvez, Zana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin for people he
did not know in the middle of the night for
no apparent reason. The judge acknowledged that he too shared
(10:39):
the desire of the victims' families to understand the motive
in the case, but he said he didn't have the
legal authority to make Coburger speak, and he also said
he didn't believe that anything Coburger would have said could
be trusted, and the prosecutor added to that, saying asking
Cober to explain his actions would only allow him to
shape his own narrative.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The judge ultimately Sentencedburger, as expected, to four consecutive life sentences,
no opportunity for parole. News conference followed the sentencing, where
investigators went over never before heard details in the case,
and some of these were horrific to hear. All this
information had been under gag order until now. They did
dispel several theories about how Coburger may have known some
(11:21):
of his victims, saying it was possible that he chose
the home because of its locational layout, but ultimately investigator
said they simply had no answers and no link between
the killer and his victims. This was a tough day
and people on both sides. Some wanted to hear, desperate
to hear from him in court yesterday.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yes, something they wanted to hear.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Some because even the investigators, after an exhaustive and lengthy
investigation into trying to figure out why, how where did
he even come up with this plan? And why would
he have chosen four of the six roommates. I mean
he had to go upstairs. The downstairs roommates survived and
had no idea what was going on upstairs. It's so puzzling,
(12:04):
and it turns out it looks like we're never gonna know.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
All right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this
Thursday morning run when we come back. A new feature
being added to Uber that is meant to make women
feel safer and safer and more comfortable in their rides.
Also coming up a treat for music fans that they
have been waiting fifty years on. And we have an
exact number of steps you need to take that can
(12:28):
greatly improve your health. And what is probably my favorite
story of the day, why has a whole bunch of
beer about to be given out for free?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Welcome back everyone to this Friday Eve edition of Morning
Run and next up on The Run. A new feature
is coming soon on your Uber app for women who
prefer to have other women drive them. It's aptly named
Women Preferences, and it will be available over the next
few weeks in three cities to begin with Los Angeles,
San Francisco, and Detroit.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Well, it sounds like something from a dating app, Women
Preferences fill out this section, yes, but Uber said it's
about giving women more choice, more control, and more comfort
when they ride and drive. This is how it's going
to work. When requesting a trip, women riders will see
the option called women Drivers the way time could be
longer than anticipated. Of course, you can always opt for
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another ride with a faster pick up. So why I
guess this makes sense, though I assume there aren't as
many women drivers. But I didn't know it was this low.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I actually thought it was lower.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Uber said only one in five of its drivers are women,
so twenty percent of its drivers are women. I have
to tell you I'm picked up by women about one
percent of the time. So I mean, I will say
when I'm in other cities.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Just about the collect Los.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Angeles specifically, I do have we have found that we
have more female drivers, But in New York. I'm telling you,
I'm trying to think of one right now. I've I
think twice in ten years. However long we've been using Uber,
have I had a woman like? They just don't exist
in the city. I don't know why, right Well, women
can also use the reserve function function to pre book
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trips with women drivers. That might help you out with
a wait time. And while it's not guaranteed, you can
just turn on the woman preference in your app settings
and that's going to increase your chances of being matched
with the woman driver, but it won't guarantee it.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Well, that's cool to give the option.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Well done, Uber Well continuing on the run here now,
music fans been waiting for this for fifty years. A
classic album is about to get a reissue. The album
is Buckingham Nix. Don't know if you've ever heard of that,
but you've heard of them.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, it's the only album from Lindsey Buckingham and Buckingham
and Stevie Nicks as a duo, and this is before
they both joined Fleetwood Mac. The album was released in
nineteen seventy three, but it was never reissued from its
original vinyl release.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
There's no digital there's no streaming version of this. It
wasn't even put onto a CD.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, you can't. You can't get it. You couldn't get it.
So the music now they are being able to put
this together and reissue. It's going to be sourced from
analog master recordings, they say, in high resolution digital files.
It's going to be out September nineteenth, and we need
to make this clear people hear about Fleetwood Mac. Here
about these two no new music. They're not essentially doing
a new album release with a couple of new tracks,
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same album, just for the first time in fifty years,
it's going to be available in a different format.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's funny you were asking me because obviously Stevie CKX
I know Stevie X. You said who is he when
I first brought her up to you, which was hilarious
to me. But it's also funny you pointed out her
duo the other half is Lindsay Buckingham, who is a man.
So the woman Stevie and the man's lindsay, just to.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Be clear for everybody, Yeah, Crystal, clearing of it all right.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Next up on the run, new research says you don't
have to walk those ten thousand steps we've heard so
much about to reap massive health benefits. Scientists now believe,
and there's a study done that walking just seven thousand
steps a day can reduce your risk of dementia, depression,
even dying from cancer. All right.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They found that compared to people who only walk two
thousand steps a day, those who made it two seven
thousand had a thirty seven percent reduction in risk of
dying from cancer, thirty eight percent for dementia, twenty two
percent less for depression, forty seven percent reduction in overall
risk of dying. So the bottom line here is just
I guess walk, walk as much as you can do.
(16:31):
The study show that with every additional one thousand steps
taken there is a return on investment, but the rate
at which steps reduce risks begin to slow above the
seven thousand marks. So yes, go get some extra in,
is what they're saying. But anything much over seven thousand
not going to help you that much.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It is going to help you, it's just not going
to help you as much as these from two thousand
to seven thousand. So and they to that point, they add,
those who are currently active and achieving the ten thousand
steps a day, keep up the good work. There is
no need to modify your step count. So they're actually
encouraging people. Hey, if you can go over ten, that's great.
That's only gonna help you more. But they say for
those of us who are far from achieving the ten
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thousand targets, it can be overwhelming for folks and actually
make people not even try at all. They're saying getting
to seven thousand steps a day offers almost comparable health
benefits for the outcomes we examined.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
So just encouraging people to walk a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, all right, for the final leg of our run,
I feel like I need a drink.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
TJ.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Well, yeah, there's some ice coffee there, and there's some
sparkling water and Red Bull over.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Here, but you know it's in the refrigerator. Oh yes,
Miller Life.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And this has got to be your favorite story of
the day because your favorite beer is celebrating it's fiftieth
anniversary in a big way.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
It's fifty it always tastes so fresh. Though. Miller Lite
is offering, yes, fifty thousand free beers at bars across
the country exactly one week from tomorrow, August first, which
happens to be International Beer Day. The beer company will
give away free drinks at four hundred and fifty bars nationwide,
and all you have to do is go to their
website Miller dot com slash Fine Celebration.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Of course, I've already done this for us. Clicked on
the link right away.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
There is an amazing location right here in the city
on the Lower East Side, telling you it looks like
a really cute place. So let's make a date for
next Friday. But Miller Lte is hosting its main event
at the Miller Lte Brewery in Milwaukee, where they are
doing a New Year's Eve style beer drop.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I don't really understand what this looks like, but cans
are going to drop one by one from a what
they call a massive six pack installation.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
But it's happening at four to fifty pm local time,
and the drop will be live streamed across all time zones,
so they can have this big fiftieth anniversary celebration and
you hopefully will be at a bar near you raising
a free beer.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Okay, the time fifty is that it's supposed to be
fifty four fifty.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, four fifty PM.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
So I don't know why they chose that, but apparently
if you've got a free beer in your hand, it
doesn't matter for fifty Yes, they.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Had too many beers before they came up with the time.
Four fifty sounds good. Yeah, let's just do that, all right,
folks before we head out of here. Something we'd like
for you to take with you and consider it is
our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Weak people revenge, Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore. That
is from one of the smartest brains ever known on
this planet, Albert Einstein.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I just thought that was really cool.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I hadn't thought about it that way. When you get frustrated,
you're angry, you're upset, this is a good way to
kind of look at it. Weak people revenge, Strong people forgive.
Intelligent people ignore.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm smart. I'm a sharp guy that must be really
really intelligent.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Because you're just like, I'm gonna ignore that.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Not a revenge guy, but not a forgive guy.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Really either, you aren't, that is true.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think I I'm a forgive person. I have a
hard time ignoring, and I definitely don't agree with revenge.
That's that's not not in me. So I'm strong and
you're smart, but I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Also weak because I don't forgive. Okay, we're gonna get
back to you on that and we figure this thing out, folks,
but we always appreciate you running with us. We will
talk to you really, really soon. I'm Tej and.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I'm maybe Robock. We'll see you on the run tomorrow.
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