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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everyone, It's Tuesday, August fifth. Welcome to Morning Run.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ Holmes. Folks, a reminder
pick up their phone right now. Open that Apple podcast
app top right corner of the screen on our show page,
little button that says follow. Click on that you can
make sure all of our updates, all of our podcasts
come directly to you. We have so many of these days.
Even our parents are saying, guys, we can't keep up.
It's so true. I don't know where we are.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
My mom's like, I'm still on last week's episodes.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm trying to catch up.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yes, so yes, if you do that, just click click
subscribe that follow button at the top. The stuff will
come to you this morning. It's not over yet. Something
happened yesterday, folks. At around ten forty am, American eagle
stock took off. It started soaring, robes At ten forty am.
What happened? At ten thirty five am, Trump spoke a
(01:00):
social media post about American eagle scent their stock soaring.
The story is not done yet. He has now jumped
in it.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's wild. I mean Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We did this story first, about this ad about how
she has great genes. What a week and a half ago,
and still still folks are talking about it, and some
American Negro investors are probably quite happy about it.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
But yes, Trump helped them out. We'll get into those details. Also, folks,
we know a lot of animal shelters, a lot of zoos. Oftentimes, look,
they need donations, they want people to contribute. They often
have those calls. But one particular zoo is calling for
donations of live animals because they want to feed them
to their other animals, and this has caused quite the
(01:46):
international uproar.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Correct unwanted pets going as live bait doesn't exactly sit
well with most animal lovers.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
But they have a perfectly good reason and excuse that
they would want to do this, and they say it
makes perfect sense. We will get into that this morning
as well.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Also on the run this morning, arrest warrants have been
issued for those Texas Democrats who fled the state, and
the Department of Justice has launched an investigation of the
Obama administration.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Plus this morning, did he asked to go home again?
He got the same answer. Eric Menindez got out of
prison for a couple of weeks. He's back now. Wildfires
are causing fits out West, and legionnaire's disease is causing
concern in Harlem, and I think robes and thank you
for putting it in there. But first things first was
to explain to people a reminder, what is legionnaire's disease.
(02:37):
We will update you on that and remind you exactly
what this is.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
But we begin our run in Washington, d C. Where
the Justice Department is yes going after the Obama administration.
Attorney General Pambondi has ordered prosecutors to launch a grand
jury investigation looking at allegations that the Obama officials conspired
to falsely accuse then candidate Trump of colluding with Russia.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So investigators are going to submit their findings to a
grand jury, which will have the power to subpoena and
ultimately bring possible criminal charges. President Trump recently, he will remember,
accused former President Obama of treason without any evidence, for
allegedly making up evidence about Russian interference. We do not
know at this point who could be targeted by this investigation.
(03:25):
We don't know a timeline for when the grand jury
would be convened and get started. But plenty will tell
you this is just another distraction, unnecessary. These answers have
actually already been given by a Senate committee who investigated
this very very thing.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
All right, well, next up on the run, speaking of
President Trump and headlines, one presidential social media post at
American Eaglestock jumped more than twenty percent.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, folks, This controversy and conversation around that American Eagle
ad featuring actress Sidney Sweeney continues and even ramped up
this week after President Trump was in during a press
gaggle that Sweeney was a registered Republican. That's what the
reporter said to Trump, said, did you know this? He
said he didn't know, but he said, if that's the case,
then he thinks the ad is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
But he followed up with yesterday with a lengthy truth
social post in which he went out of his way
to fawn over Sweeney and the ad. Here's what he wrote,
Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the hottest and that's
an all caps hottest ad out there. It's for American
Eagle and the jeans are flying off the shelves, go
get them Sydney.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Okay again, that was around ten thirty in the morning
he put up that post, and around ten thirty five
ten forty American Eagle stock took off ended up closing
up twenty three percent yesterday. But in that same post,
in which he was praising Sweeney and American Eagle, he
went on to criticize kind of I don't nowhere here,
(04:55):
but he's gonna bring it home. He criticized Carmaker Jaguar
and but Light. Now, how did they get involved in
all this? He said they had woke advertisements, which he
said destroyed their company.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And then he also threw in a Taylor Swift chap saying,
just look at woke singer Taylor Swift. Ever since I
alerted the world as to what she was by saying
the truth that I can't stand her, and then he
put in parentheses hate exclamation.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
That wasn't all Capta's work, well, the word hate.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
She was booed out of the Super Bowl and became
no longer hot. Okay, the tide has seriously turned. Being
woke is for losing. Being Republican is what you want
to be.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Okay, just out of nowhere, I mean Taylor Swift, and
he's trying to make a point and look, this is
Republican messaging. Woke, woke, woke, woke woke. They have been
what was the roum before that critical race theory. People
don't even know what that was, and you heard it
everywhere and oh, I'm supposed to be against it. They
were dead on in their messaging and they keep going
after this woke thing. So he's using the Sydney Sweeney
(06:00):
ad to say, look, celebrate blonde hair, blue eyes. Nobody
has to be woke and diverse. And look at how
well it went. Is the point he's trying to make. Woof,
all right, we'll break that win down later, but next
up on our run, Texas Democrats still on their run. Yeah,
they're on the run from Texas Governor Greg Abbott apparently,
(06:23):
who has now ordered Texas law enforcement to arrest.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Them all in an escalating local battle with national implications.
State Democratic lawmakers, Yeah, they fled the state over the
weekend in order to deny Republicans an opportunity to pass
a new redistricting plan. That legislation would redraw the Texas
congressional districts in a way that could give Republicans an
advantage up to five additional seats in Congress, So.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Without at least two thirds of members present, they can't
debate or pass legislation down in Texas. So at least
fifty Democrats got out of dodge, fled, and they went
into the waiting arms of Democrats like Illinois and New York.
And even though the governor ordered the Department of Public
Safety to quote, locate, arrest, and return any member who
(07:09):
abandoned their duty, Texas law enforcement, of course, does not
have jurisdiction outside of Texas ropes. How long is this
going to go? Eh, until some of these folks decide
their kids need them at home. Their spouses are complaining,
how long you're going to be gone. All they can
do is delay, But they can't stop. They have to
go back at some point.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
So the Republicans can just wait them out. Essentially, yes,
they can't.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
They got to come home.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
It's not a matter of if, but when? Yes, Okay,
all right, Next up on the run, We're going to
head to New York City, where two people have died
and at least fifty eight others have been diagnosed with
Legionaire's disease, twenty one of whom had to be hospitalized,
So this was serious.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
What exactly is Legionnaire's disease, U.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Ask, Yeah, it's a type of pneumonia caused by the
bacteria Legionella grows in warm water. Can be caused by
plumbing system. Officials say the cluster of illnesses are in
five particular zip codes in Harlem and likely occurred from
eleven cooling towers in the area that test it positive
(08:10):
for the bacteria.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So you can contract Lesionnaire's disease if you breathe in
water vapor that contains the bacteria. The disease cannot be
transmitted from person to person, so I'm imagining you're standing
in the shower or something the vapor like from the
hot water. It enters into your system that way. So
it's treated with antibiotics, so it is treatable. You just
have to get the antibiotics in time. So New York
(08:33):
City officials are urging residents in the area to please
pay attention if you experience flu like symptoms. You know,
if you have a fever, if you have muscle aches,
if you have any difficulty breathing. Residents should contact their
healthcare provider immediately because this is serious.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And again it is treatable. It just has to be
treated in time.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And I heard right, not person to person. That's not
how we're going to No, that's not something I would
have known off the top of my head about lesionnaire's disease.
All right, Continuing on the run, now, we're going to
head to California, where nearly two thousand firefighters are battling
a wildfire that spurned more than seventy two thousand acres
and injured at least three people at this point, that's right.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
One civilian was hospitalized with burn injuries to contractor employees
who were assisting firefighters were also injured on the job
as well. The Gifford fire right now has prompted evacuation
orders in both Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Well five hundred structures threatened by the fire. In a
major highway in the area had to be closed with
flames on both sides of the road. Right now, Gifford
fire is only three percent contained. The cause right now
is under investigation.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And next up on the run, he keeps asking can
I please go home? And he keeps getting the same answer. No,
Sean Diddycombs had his bail request denied yet again yesterday
after making that last ditch, yet compelling argument for why
he should be allowed to leave jail until his sentencing
in October.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, he has been held at a federal jail in
Brooklyn since his arrest last September, and throughout his true
he's had bail denied numerous times, including the day the
verdict was announced. Each time, the judge said he wasn't
convinced that Combs wasn't a flight risk or a risk
to the public or particular individual.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Combs was convicted of two counts of transportation to engage
in prostitution, with a ten year maximum per count. He
was acquitted of the more serious charges of racketeering and
sex trafficking.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
His sentencing is scheduled.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
For October third, and so yes, he will have to
remain behind bars until that day, and of course there
will be more time added to what he's serving now.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I mean, is this his last? Is he going to
try again? He tried. I was surprised by this one.
But his point here is that he has only been
convicted of two particular things, two counts and Their argument was,
as nobody else in the United States who's being held
in jail who's been convicted of these two things. That's
the argument. The judge just keeps pushing back every time. Yeah,
(10:54):
but I'm considering some of this other stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, we did a whole podcast on it exactly a
week could go on two today, a week ago when
they made the plea, and it was a compelling argument.
It was legally fascinating, but we kind of were pretty
sure the judge was gonna do what he did because
it's what he's done each and every other time before.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I kind of lost count. But this has got to
be at least five, maybe more times he's asked the
judge to let him out. He keeps offering, what, here's
fifty million dollars. This time he upped and say, you know,
I'm gonna give you three guaranteurs, like financial people who
will back this. Still judge said nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
People would be outraged if he were let out of
jail before he was sentenced. Yes, I think that that's
a huge part of this.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
All right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this
Tuesday morning run when we come back. Yet, we've been
talking about Sean Diddy combs, he wanted to get out
of jail for a little while. Well, Eric Menindez, he's
been wanting to get out of prison too, and he
did for a few weeks, but it was just for
a hospital visit. We'll explain that he's now back in prison.
Also coming up, what is this zoo doing? They are
(11:57):
asking for donations of live, healthy, unwanted animals so they
can feed them to their other animals. All right, folks,
let's continue now this Tuesday morning run. Next up, Eric
Menendez back in prison after spending weeks in the hospital.
(12:21):
He was suffering from kidney stones. Apparently, both Eric and
La Mendez are hoping their time behind bars is coming
to an end, possibly later this month. Their parole hearing
scheduled for August twenty first.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That's right, The brothers were initially sentenced to life without
the possibility of parole for the nineteen eighty nine murders
of their murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez. However,
this past May, you may remember, a judge re sentenced
them to fifty years to life in prison, and given
their ages at the time of the murders, they are
now eligible for parole. We've heard from their attorney multiple
(12:55):
times that he kept thinking they'd be home.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They'd be home. They'd be home this time, actually for real.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
In a couple of weeks they could legitimately be back home.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
It was Thanksgiving they were targetings.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And then first of the year and now, so there
were several pathways to their freedom. This was the most
promising and will be the most promising. So we shall
see what happens with that parole board. And by the way,
twenty members of their family have signed up and said, hey,
we want them out. They've served their time, they've been rehabilitated,
They're sorry for their crimes, all right, folks.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Final leg of our run here now. A zoo in
Denmark is asking for donations, specifically, give us your live, healthy,
unwonted animals so we can feed them to our predators. Woo.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
This zoo in northern Denmark put out a call for
help online, saying give us your chickens, your rabbits, your
guinea pigs, will even take your horse. In a social
media post, the zoo claims that small, live animals are
an important part of the diet of our predators, especially
the European links which needs whole pray that resembles what
it would naturally hunt in the wild.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
And they say at this zoo they have a responsibility
to imitate their animals natural food chain and say they
quote gently euthanize the animals that are brought in which
are then used as food is their argument. And though
they claim this is something they've done for you in
the year's past and is something that is actually commonplace
(14:26):
in Denmark, the zoo got, as you could imagine, some
pretty swift criticism and questions from all over the world.
Ultimately Robes they turned off comments on their Instagram page
and they had to issue this update.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Here is their update.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
After great international interest, we have chosen to close the
comments section on this post. We understand that the post
arouses emotions and interest, but hateful and malicious rhetoric is
not necessary and we encourage you to maintain a good tone.
We are happy to elaborate and answer questions in your
inbox or by e.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
They just couldn't take the hate well.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I mean, I don't know what to say about that.
It is common play. I don't know how I it
sounded odd to me. It sounded it sounded monstrous to
me even, but we're talking about the wild. We're talking
about wild animals. This is what happens in nature. But
to hand over your own live and healthy pet that
you don't want anymore and say here, yes, serve it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I think the issue is the term pet. If it's
your pet, yeah, it feels really terrible.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
It's one thing to go take it back to the
shelter or try to find it other home for it.
But to literally say, hey, I'm going to offer up
my pet, like almost as a sacrifice the cycle witness,
let's watch it being eaten by a predator. Like that's
as awful as you like a pet that you love
that you took care of.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Well, they said animal. It didn't have to be a pet.
It could be a guinea pig or a chicken or
those are pets.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I mean, yes, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It's it is disturbing, but then it is ironic, and
then people go back with hate and malicious comments that's
also not in the spirit, Like it's just yeah, we
all get dirty when people start throwing lud.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yes, all right, well, folks, here's something to take with
you today, something we'd like for you to consider it.
Is a wonderful quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yes, I love this one. Success is not the key
to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you
love what you are doing, you will be successful. That
comes to us from Albert Schweitze. He was born in
eighteen seventy five German physician, mathematician, philosopher. He's a Nobel
(16:35):
Peace Prize winner. Never heard of him before, but I
just love the way he phrased this.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You can't help but kind of roll your eyes. Easy
for somebody to say that who is in a position
professionally where they are successful, But yeah, it's hard to
I get it one hundred percent, but we have to
acknowledge that sometimes you just come on, all I gotta
do is be happy at this job that's paying me
very little and I'm struggling to keep the lights on.
But hey, I'm happy.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
This is interesting, though, because I think people do define
success as wealth, as money, as being at the top
of your game. But how many people have we even
talked about recently who have shocked us all by obviously
showing their lives were not successful even though they looked
like it on the outside.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
On the inside, they were not. So it speaks to that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You know, how many people have you seen at the
top of your game who you have met and thought, wow,
they are wildly unhappy. Yes, yes, people think that's what
they need to be happy, but they actually just need
to find out how to be happy without any of
that other stuff, and then you will be successful.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That's the point I'm speaking of. The other side today
is rolling their eyes at the quote, like, come on, man,
that's all I gotta do. And but I get it.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
But if you're happier, success, it makes perfect sense in life.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yes, all right, take that with you today. Success is
not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
I actually can say I love what I'm doing, and
I have for a while. But we get caught up
in all right, oh we nailed it this month. Oh
we didn't know that deal didn't come through. Ah, we
(18:13):
got this thing, and we do measure so oftentimes we're
successful because of things that come our way. But I
am happy with what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Same, all right, that's a very positive note to end on.
We hope that you can take that with you throughout
your day.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
As well.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Today you see the cardinal.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Oh there's a cardinal. That's my animal. Oh my goodness.
That was perfect. Actually, wow, that was the cherry on top.
And with that I made Robock. Thank you for running
with us on this Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
And I'm d J Holmes. I'm about to go be
happy and successful and apparently chase down a card. Talk
to the Elton
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everyone, It's Tuesday, August fifth. Welcome to Morning Run.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ Holmes. Folks, a reminder
pick up their phone right now. Open that Apple podcast
app top right corner of the screen on our show page,
little button that says follow. Click on that you can
make sure all of our updates, all of our podcasts
come directly to you. We have so many of these days.
Even our parents are saying, guys, we can't keep up.
It's so true. I don't know where we are.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
My mom's like, I'm still on last week's episodes.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm trying to catch up.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yes, so yes, if you do that, just click click
subscribe that follow button at the top. The stuff will
come to you this morning. It's not over yet. Something
happened yesterday, folks. At around ten forty am, American eagle
stock took off. It started soaring, robes At ten forty am.
What happened? At ten thirty five am, Trump spoke a
(01:00):
social media post about American eagle scent their stock soaring.
The story is not done yet. He has now jumped
in it.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's wild. I mean Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We did this story first, about this ad about how
she has great genes. What a week and a half ago,
and still still folks are talking about it, and some
American Negro investors are probably quite happy about it.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
But yes, Trump helped them out. We'll get into those details. Also, folks,
we know a lot of animal shelters, a lot of zoos. Oftentimes, look,
they need donations, they want people to contribute. They often
have those calls. But one particular zoo is calling for
donations of live animals because they want to feed them
to their other animals, and this has caused quite the
(01:46):
international uproar.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Correct unwanted pets going as live bait doesn't exactly sit
well with most animal lovers.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
But they have a perfectly good reason and excuse that
they would want to do this, and they say it
makes perfect sense. We will get into that this morning
as well.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Also on the run this morning, arrest warrants have been
issued for those Texas Democrats who fled the state, and
the Department of Justice has launched an investigation of the
Obama administration.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Plus this morning, did he asked to go home again?
He got the same answer. Eric Menindez got out of
prison for a couple of weeks. He's back now. Wildfires
are causing fits out West, and legionnaire's disease is causing
concern in Harlem, and I think robes and thank you
for putting it in there. But first things first was
to explain to people a reminder, what is legionnaire's disease.
(02:37):
We will update you on that and remind you exactly
what this is.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
But we begin our run in Washington, d C. Where
the Justice Department is yes going after the Obama administration.
Attorney General Pambondi has ordered prosecutors to launch a grand
jury investigation looking at allegations that the Obama officials conspired
to falsely accuse then candidate Trump of colluding with Russia.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So investigators are going to submit their findings to a
grand jury, which will have the power to subpoena and
ultimately bring possible criminal charges. President Trump recently, he will remember,
accused former President Obama of treason without any evidence, for
allegedly making up evidence about Russian interference. We do not
know at this point who could be targeted by this investigation.
(03:25):
We don't know a timeline for when the grand jury
would be convened and get started. But plenty will tell
you this is just another distraction, unnecessary. These answers have
actually already been given by a Senate committee who investigated
this very very thing.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
All right, well, next up on the run, speaking of
President Trump and headlines, one presidential social media post at
American Eaglestock jumped more than twenty percent.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, folks, This controversy and conversation around that American Eagle
ad featuring actress Sidney Sweeney continues and even ramped up
this week after President Trump was in during a press
gaggle that Sweeney was a registered Republican. That's what the
reporter said to Trump, said, did you know this? He
said he didn't know, but he said, if that's the case,
then he thinks the ad is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
But he followed up with yesterday with a lengthy truth
social post in which he went out of his way
to fawn over Sweeney and the ad. Here's what he wrote,
Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the hottest and that's
an all caps hottest ad out there. It's for American
Eagle and the jeans are flying off the shelves, go
get them Sydney.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Okay again, that was around ten thirty in the morning
he put up that post, and around ten thirty five
ten forty American Eagle stock took off ended up closing
up twenty three percent yesterday. But in that same post,
in which he was praising Sweeney and American Eagle, he
went on to criticize kind of I don't nowhere here,
(04:55):
but he's gonna bring it home. He criticized Carmaker Jaguar
and but Light. Now, how did they get involved in
all this? He said they had woke advertisements, which he
said destroyed their company.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And then he also threw in a Taylor Swift chap saying,
just look at woke singer Taylor Swift. Ever since I
alerted the world as to what she was by saying
the truth that I can't stand her, and then he
put in parentheses hate exclamation.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
That wasn't all Capta's work, well, the word hate.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
She was booed out of the Super Bowl and became
no longer hot. Okay, the tide has seriously turned. Being
woke is for losing. Being Republican is what you want
to be.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Okay, just out of nowhere, I mean Taylor Swift, and
he's trying to make a point and look, this is
Republican messaging. Woke, woke, woke, woke woke. They have been
what was the roum before that critical race theory. People
don't even know what that was, and you heard it
everywhere and oh, I'm supposed to be against it. They
were dead on in their messaging and they keep going
after this woke thing. So he's using the Sydney Sweeney
(06:00):
ad to say, look, celebrate blonde hair, blue eyes. Nobody
has to be woke and diverse. And look at how
well it went. Is the point he's trying to make. Woof,
all right, we'll break that win down later, but next
up on our run, Texas Democrats still on their run. Yeah,
they're on the run from Texas Governor Greg Abbott apparently,
(06:23):
who has now ordered Texas law enforcement to arrest.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Them all in an escalating local battle with national implications.
State Democratic lawmakers, Yeah, they fled the state over the
weekend in order to deny Republicans an opportunity to pass
a new redistricting plan. That legislation would redraw the Texas
congressional districts in a way that could give Republicans an
advantage up to five additional seats in Congress, So.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Without at least two thirds of members present, they can't
debate or pass legislation down in Texas. So at least
fifty Democrats got out of dodge, fled, and they went
into the waiting arms of Democrats like Illinois and New York.
And even though the governor ordered the Department of Public
Safety to quote, locate, arrest, and return any member who
(07:09):
abandoned their duty, Texas law enforcement, of course, does not
have jurisdiction outside of Texas ropes. How long is this
going to go? Eh, until some of these folks decide
their kids need them at home. Their spouses are complaining,
how long you're going to be gone. All they can
do is delay, But they can't stop. They have to
go back at some point.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
So the Republicans can just wait them out. Essentially, yes,
they can't.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
They got to come home.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
It's not a matter of if, but when? Yes, Okay,
all right, Next up on the run, We're going to
head to New York City, where two people have died
and at least fifty eight others have been diagnosed with
Legionaire's disease, twenty one of whom had to be hospitalized,
So this was serious.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
What exactly is Legionnaire's disease, U.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Ask, Yeah, it's a type of pneumonia caused by the
bacteria Legionella grows in warm water. Can be caused by
plumbing system. Officials say the cluster of illnesses are in
five particular zip codes in Harlem and likely occurred from
eleven cooling towers in the area that test it positive
(08:10):
for the bacteria.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So you can contract Lesionnaire's disease if you breathe in
water vapor that contains the bacteria. The disease cannot be
transmitted from person to person, so I'm imagining you're standing
in the shower or something the vapor like from the
hot water. It enters into your system that way. So
it's treated with antibiotics, so it is treatable. You just
have to get the antibiotics in time. So New York
(08:33):
City officials are urging residents in the area to please
pay attention if you experience flu like symptoms. You know,
if you have a fever, if you have muscle aches,
if you have any difficulty breathing. Residents should contact their
healthcare provider immediately because this is serious.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And again it is treatable. It just has to be
treated in time.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And I heard right, not person to person. That's not
how we're going to No, that's not something I would
have known off the top of my head about lesionnaire's disease.
All right, Continuing on the run, now, we're going to
head to California, where nearly two thousand firefighters are battling
a wildfire that spurned more than seventy two thousand acres
and injured at least three people at this point, that's right.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
One civilian was hospitalized with burn injuries to contractor employees
who were assisting firefighters were also injured on the job
as well. The Gifford fire right now has prompted evacuation
orders in both Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Well five hundred structures threatened by the fire. In a
major highway in the area had to be closed with
flames on both sides of the road. Right now, Gifford
fire is only three percent contained. The cause right now
is under investigation.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And next up on the run, he keeps asking can
I please go home? And he keeps getting the same answer. No,
Sean Diddycombs had his bail request denied yet again yesterday
after making that last ditch, yet compelling argument for why
he should be allowed to leave jail until his sentencing
in October.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, he has been held at a federal jail in
Brooklyn since his arrest last September, and throughout his true
he's had bail denied numerous times, including the day the
verdict was announced. Each time, the judge said he wasn't
convinced that Combs wasn't a flight risk or a risk
to the public or particular individual.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Combs was convicted of two counts of transportation to engage
in prostitution, with a ten year maximum per count. He
was acquitted of the more serious charges of racketeering and
sex trafficking.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
His sentencing is scheduled.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
For October third, and so yes, he will have to
remain behind bars until that day, and of course there
will be more time added to what he's serving now.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I mean, is this his last? Is he going to
try again? He tried. I was surprised by this one.
But his point here is that he has only been
convicted of two particular things, two counts and Their argument was,
as nobody else in the United States who's being held
in jail who's been convicted of these two things. That's
the argument. The judge just keeps pushing back every time. Yeah,
(10:54):
but I'm considering some of this other stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, we did a whole podcast on it exactly a
week could go on two today, a week ago when
they made the plea, and it was a compelling argument.
It was legally fascinating, but we kind of were pretty
sure the judge was gonna do what he did because
it's what he's done each and every other time before.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I kind of lost count. But this has got to
be at least five, maybe more times he's asked the
judge to let him out. He keeps offering, what, here's
fifty million dollars. This time he upped and say, you know,
I'm gonna give you three guaranteurs, like financial people who
will back this. Still judge said nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
People would be outraged if he were let out of
jail before he was sentenced. Yes, I think that that's
a huge part of this.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
All right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this
Tuesday morning run when we come back. Yet, we've been
talking about Sean Diddy combs, he wanted to get out
of jail for a little while. Well, Eric Menindez, he's
been wanting to get out of prison too, and he
did for a few weeks, but it was just for
a hospital visit. We'll explain that he's now back in prison.
Also coming up, what is this zoo doing? They are
(11:57):
asking for donations of live, healthy, unwanted animals so they
can feed them to their other animals. All right, folks,
let's continue now this Tuesday morning run. Next up, Eric
Menendez back in prison after spending weeks in the hospital.
(12:21):
He was suffering from kidney stones. Apparently, both Eric and
La Mendez are hoping their time behind bars is coming
to an end, possibly later this month. Their parole hearing
scheduled for August twenty first.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That's right, The brothers were initially sentenced to life without
the possibility of parole for the nineteen eighty nine murders
of their murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez. However,
this past May, you may remember, a judge re sentenced
them to fifty years to life in prison, and given
their ages at the time of the murders, they are
now eligible for parole. We've heard from their attorney multiple
(12:55):
times that he kept thinking they'd be home.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They'd be home. They'd be home this time, actually for real.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
In a couple of weeks they could legitimately be back home.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
It was Thanksgiving they were targetings.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And then first of the year and now, so there
were several pathways to their freedom. This was the most
promising and will be the most promising. So we shall
see what happens with that parole board. And by the way,
twenty members of their family have signed up and said, hey,
we want them out. They've served their time, they've been rehabilitated,
They're sorry for their crimes, all right, folks.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Final leg of our run here now. A zoo in
Denmark is asking for donations, specifically, give us your live, healthy,
unwonted animals so we can feed them to our predators. Woo.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
This zoo in northern Denmark put out a call for
help online, saying give us your chickens, your rabbits, your
guinea pigs, will even take your horse. In a social
media post, the zoo claims that small, live animals are
an important part of the diet of our predators, especially
the European links which needs whole pray that resembles what
it would naturally hunt in the wild.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
And they say at this zoo they have a responsibility
to imitate their animals natural food chain and say they
quote gently euthanize the animals that are brought in which
are then used as food is their argument. And though
they claim this is something they've done for you in
the year's past and is something that is actually commonplace
(14:26):
in Denmark, the zoo got, as you could imagine, some
pretty swift criticism and questions from all over the world.
Ultimately Robes they turned off comments on their Instagram page
and they had to issue this update.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Here is their update.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
After great international interest, we have chosen to close the
comments section on this post. We understand that the post
arouses emotions and interest, but hateful and malicious rhetoric is
not necessary and we encourage you to maintain a good tone.
We are happy to elaborate and answer questions in your
inbox or by e.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
They just couldn't take the hate well.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I mean, I don't know what to say about that.
It is common play. I don't know how I it
sounded odd to me. It sounded it sounded monstrous to
me even, but we're talking about the wild. We're talking
about wild animals. This is what happens in nature. But
to hand over your own live and healthy pet that
you don't want anymore and say here, yes, serve it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I think the issue is the term pet. If it's
your pet, yeah, it feels really terrible.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
It's one thing to go take it back to the
shelter or try to find it other home for it.
But to literally say, hey, I'm going to offer up
my pet, like almost as a sacrifice the cycle witness,
let's watch it being eaten by a predator. Like that's
as awful as you like a pet that you love
that you took care of.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Well, they said animal. It didn't have to be a pet.
It could be a guinea pig or a chicken or
those are pets.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I mean, yes, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It's it is disturbing, but then it is ironic, and
then people go back with hate and malicious comments that's
also not in the spirit, Like it's just yeah, we
all get dirty when people start throwing lud.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yes, all right, well, folks, here's something to take with
you today, something we'd like for you to consider it.
Is a wonderful quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yes, I love this one. Success is not the key
to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you
love what you are doing, you will be successful. That
comes to us from Albert Schweitze. He was born in
eighteen seventy five German physician, mathematician, philosopher. He's a Nobel
(16:35):
Peace Prize winner. Never heard of him before, but I
just love the way he phrased this.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You can't help but kind of roll your eyes. Easy
for somebody to say that who is in a position
professionally where they are successful, But yeah, it's hard to
I get it one hundred percent, but we have to
acknowledge that sometimes you just come on, all I gotta
do is be happy at this job that's paying me
very little and I'm struggling to keep the lights on.
But hey, I'm happy.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
This is interesting, though, because I think people do define
success as wealth, as money, as being at the top
of your game. But how many people have we even
talked about recently who have shocked us all by obviously
showing their lives were not successful even though they looked
like it on the outside.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
On the inside, they were not. So it speaks to that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You know, how many people have you seen at the
top of your game who you have met and thought, wow,
they are wildly unhappy. Yes, yes, people think that's what
they need to be happy, but they actually just need
to find out how to be happy without any of
that other stuff, and then you will be successful.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That's the point I'm speaking of. The other side today
is rolling their eyes at the quote, like, come on, man,
that's all I gotta do. And but I get it.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
But if you're happier, success, it makes perfect sense in life.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yes, all right, take that with you today. Success is
not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
I actually can say I love what I'm doing, and
I have for a while. But we get caught up
in all right, oh we nailed it this month. Oh
we didn't know that deal didn't come through. Ah, we
(18:13):
got this thing, and we do measure so oftentimes we're
successful because of things that come our way. But I
am happy with what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Same, all right, that's a very positive note to end on.
We hope that you can take that with you throughout
your day.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
As well.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Today you see the cardinal.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Oh there's a cardinal. That's my animal. Oh my goodness.
That was perfect. Actually, wow, that was the cherry on top.
And with that I made Robock. Thank you for running
with us on this Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
And I'm d J Holmes. I'm about to go be
happy and successful and apparently chase down a card. Talk
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