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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 this Thursday Morning Run.
Yes Thursday, July tenth, I'm Amy Robot.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And I'm TJ Holmes and on the Run. This morning,
the death toll continues to rise as hundreds of volunteers
continue to search for the missing in the aftermath of
the Texas flooding. Also this morning, President Biden's doctor pleads
the fifth and refuses to answer questions about the former
president's declining health.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And it's been a tough stretch for Elon Musk. His
ex AI chatbox Grock goes off the rails following an update,
complimenting Hitler and spewing other anti semitic rhetoric.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Also, the AI boom has kind of pulted a US
chip making company to become the most valuable company the
world has ever known. Also, President Trump compliments the president
of another country on his beautiful English. Turns out though
English is the official language of the country that man
is from.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And the Trump administry is doubling down on California by
doubling up on lawsuits suing the state over totally different issues.
Transgender athletes and eggs, and we've now learned six Secret
Service agents were suspended following the assassination attempt on President
Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. And we are only halfway through
twenty twenty five and already the US has the highest
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number of confirmed measles cases in more than thirty years.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Plus this morning, recently booted Love Island in the USA,
contestants here or Tega put out a lengthy apology video,
but declare is in it that it's not an apology video.
We'll explain. Also, the highest NBA salary ever has just
been announced, breaking the record for the highest NBA salary
set ten days ago. And sometimes we all just feel
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like there's not enough hours in the day, and there
is a reason for it, especially yesterday, because it turns
out yesterday was the shortest day in the recorded history
of planet Earth. So you were not alone if you
felt you couldn't get everything done yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Ah, that's explains so so much. Yes, we will get
to that in just a moment, But we begin to
run on this Thursday morning with an update from Texas
that death hole now reaching at least one hundred twenty
in the fourth of July flooding disaster. The number of
missing remains around one hundred and seventy as hundreds of
volunteers continue to search a nearly two hundred mile area
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for those missing. Authorities announced it's been days since anyone
was rescued. In fact, this is so disturbing. Friday, the
day of the flooding, was the last time any missing
person was found alive.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And now even NASA has gotten involved. They've got two
specialized aircrafts up in the air helping emergency responders look
for the missing and the massive debris left behind from
the flash flooding. Meantime, lawmakers are already taking action to
try and ensure something like this never happens again. Texas
Governor Greg Abbott has called for a special legislative session
next week to call for improved early warning systems and
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to put better preparedness and response systems in place set up.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has called for a federal investigation
to see if decreased staffing at the National Weather Service
contributed to poor communication with local officials. Remember that first
warning from the National Weather Service came around one fourteen
am on Friday. That was about three hours before the
catastrophic flooding began. Several other warnings followed, but most people
were asleep and never received those alerts. Well, next up
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on our run, President Biden's doctor is not talking, even
under congressional subpoena. The former president's doctor was on Capitol
Hill yesterday as part of a GOP led investigation of
Biden's health while he was in the White House.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, but in his deposition before the House Oversight Committee,
doctor Kevin O'Connor refused to answer questions and had two
pretty good reasons for it, one doctor client privilege, the
other the Fifth Amendment. And he said this statement several times,
and I quote, on the advice of counsel, I must
respectfully decline to answer based on the physician patient privilege
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and the reliance on my right under the first excuse me,
fifth Amendment.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And of course that is only going to fuel speculation
that there was a conspiracy to hide the true nature
of Biden's physical and mental health while he was president.
Doctor O'Connor was Biden's physician all four years during his presidency.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
All right, let's keep going on the run here with
Elon Musk. He seems to be working out the anti
semitic kinks in Grock, his company's chat box that has
been spewing some hate speech this week. Grock calls quite
a stir online when it started giving some questionable responses
to user inquiries.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
For example, when asked who controls the government, it responded,
one group's overrepresented, way beyond their two percent population share.
Think Hollywood execs, Wall Street CEOs and Biden's own cabinet.
And here's another doozy for you. It suggested to deal
with such vile anti white hate, Adolf Hitler, no question,
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he'd spot the pattern and handle it decisively every damn time.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Okay, this is a bit of a problem measure. You
can see. This started happening after Musk critic sized the
AI chad bot, saying it relied too heavily on mainstream
media sources when it was generating responses. So instead, he said,
it shouldn't shy away from making claims which are politically
incorrect as long as they are true. Okay, the company
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has not yet given another update. They're still working on
this thing. But the update we got now was supposed
to be the one that corrected things, and it ends
up all this anti semitic stuff. So they're trying to
do it again and fix it. And the company says
they've taken action to ban hate speech before rock posts.
This is wild. It is he's criticizing his own AIS
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like he's in a fight with an artificial intelligent person.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And then to hear this AI rock bot go off
on just really highly offensive, cringe worthy, get anyone else
canceled kind of comments.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well, I don't know how you polite. I mean, these
are very smart guys, but the AI scours the internet
for answers to your question, and so some of the
answers and some of the thoughts out there have to
do with the I mean, how does it know not
to listen to that website because that's a hate group, right,
and they have to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Wild, all right? Next up on a run a major
milestone in the market. Yesterday, a US company became the
most valuable company the world has ever known.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Let me guess, Let me guess, no guess? Yes, you
would only have fright two guesses, would you?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Apple and Microsoft?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You would be wrong on both of those because it's
actually in Nvidia. You know that name. Well, if you don't,
now you've been hearing it a lot more lately, and
you will hear it a lot more in the future.
But it hit the four trillion dollar mark, becoming the
first company to ever be valued at that astronomical number.
This is a US chip maker and it has been
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a powerhouse in the booming AI space. Its stock was
up about three percent yesterday during the day and that's
what put it over that official four trillion dollar mark.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It's all so scary. It really does feel like we're
living in a world of megan. AI has taken over
the world. I mean truly, this company made forty four
billion dollars last quarter. In one quarter, it made forty
four billion dollars. That's up sixty nine percent from the
same quarter last year. So yes, AI is in fact booming.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
That's a boom that kind of I mean, we see
growth numbers two five percent when something that you can
tell something that exploding in that industry. We continue on
the run here now something we all need to maybe
pay a little attention to and maybe know who you're
talking to, know who you're meeting with, do a little
bit of background, because there was an awkward moment at
the White House yesterday and it started though with a
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compliment and don't. Oftentimes, awkward moments road starts with a compliment. Yes,
you're just off a little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You think you're doing good. Yeah, you think you're saying
something nice.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And actually it hurts. Yes. This started with a compliment
from President Trump. He was hosting a number of foreign
leaders and he praised one of them for their beautiful
English and said, this and such good English. Where did
you learn to speak so beautifully? Where were you educated?
Is the question he asked this man.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Problem with that is that he was complimenting the English
of a man who was the president of an English
speaking country. It was the Liberian president. Yes, he is
from Liberia. He was raised in Liberia, and he was
educated in Liberia.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Where they speak English. After the President complimented his English,
look you give the president of Liberia a credit, He
smiled politely. It was a little awkward, but he kept
a very pleasant look on his face. Was a little confused,
but he didn't take the opportunity to correct President Trump.
He probably knew that wasn't a good way to go,
but he went on to say that, yes, I'm just
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I was educated in Liberia. Now, the President didn't stop there.
He said I have people at this table talking about
his staff that can't speak English nearly as well. So
he continued, it was trying to be funny and had
no idea. Look, this is fine. I bet how many
people listening to us if I asked them what is
the national language of Liberia.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Couldn't say coresh And I believe the other members who
were there at the table all had headsets on, so
they were having to have President Trump's words translated, and
he was the only one who didn't, so that might
have made him stand out. He thought it was impressive,
but it's look, it's just.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
An awkward and a weird mistake to make on that stage.
It's tough. It's awful. Everybody's coming out to the president
about this and going on saying how going through his
record on African nations, he still hasn't met or visited
Africa and all this stuff. But the Foreign Minister of
Liberia said, we took no offense. Look, we do have
a beautiful way of speaking. It's our own version of English.
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He was this complimented, and the White House said it
was just a heartfelt compliment.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Everybody calmed down and that was a great way to
handle it okay.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And so after they did that heartfelt compliment, the Trump
administration went back to suing people. As we continue on
the run now, the Trump administration just hit California with
not one, but two new lawsuits on two very different issues,
eggs and transgender athletes.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
First, the administration is going out for the state's Board
of Education and its sports governing body for alleged Title
nine violations, claiming the state is discriminating against girls by
allowing transgender athletes to compete. President Trump had threatened to
take away federal dollars if the state allowed a transgender
athlete to compete in the state's high school track championships.
That athlete did compete and won two state titles.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So in the other lawsuit, the administration is going after
the state's animal anti cruelty laws. So what problem could
anybody have with laws that are supposed to prevent cruelty
to animals. Well, the administration says they're leading to increased
egg prices because they add bureaucratic red tape and set
on reasonable safety standards that lead to an increase in
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those egg prices. These laws out there, they were proved
by voters actually, but there are rules about how much
space a chicken can have. You literally have to have
enough space as a chicken to stretch your legs out
to not touch another chicken. It's that specific. But they
said all over the country, all producers can't do that
for you to do business with them, and they say
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it hurts. Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, the prices went up twenty percent after the laws
were enactive. That's what they claimed, all right. Next up
on our run, we have learned that six Secret Service
agents were disciplined for their actions surrounding the assassination attempt
on President Trump in Pennsylvania last summer. Those agents ranged
from supervisors to lower level agents. They were all placed
on leave over operational failures at that July incident in
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Butler in which a bullet grazed Trump's ear while he
was giving that campaign speech.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, the head of the Secret Service, you might remember, resigned.
I think it was just a week and a half
after that incident. The suspensions have been handed out in
recent months after the agents went through a review process
and ranged in suspension from ten to forty two days.
But still somebody was held accountable and saying that you
did something so wrong that it warrants disciplinary action, and
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we're just hearing about it now because it's a federal
review process that goes through. But this was four a
lot of people. It's none of vice.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It makes sense. A bullet used, the President's here, and
blood was everywhere, and certainly there was an operational failure.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
All right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this
Thursday Morning Run when we come back. Yes, folks, it
wasn't just you. Yesterday was a very very short day,
in fact, the shortest one the earth has ever known. Also,
the NBA season is over, but a record was set
in the NBA yesterday when it comes to Salary and
that love Islander who was just booted for some past
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racial remarks. What she is apologizing in a video that
she says, do not take as an apology.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Welcome back to this Thursday edition of Your Morning Run.
Next up, this year is now officially the worst year
for measles in thirty three years, and we're only halfway
through the year. With two hundred and eighty eight confirmed
cases so far, the US has already surpassed its total
number of cases for twenty nineteen, which at that time
was the worst year in a quarter century.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Lay how bad things now. According to the CDC, they
said this year the worst year since nineteen ninety two.
There were more than twenty one hundred confirmed cases that year.
The fear is we are well on our way to
matching or surpassing that number. The worst on record. It
was twenty five years ago though, in two thousand, when
the US officially declared measles eliminated after high vaccination rates
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stopped nearly all spread of the disease.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
But this year's outbreak began in West Texas as you
might remember, killing two children. It's grown to seven hundred
fifty cases in that area alone, an area that has
a large unvaccinated population. That outbreak has now spread to
thirty eight states.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Apology this is we were following this very very closely,
and this is an update. I in myself didn't even
realize we were up to that many cases, seven hundred
and fifty and that many states as well. The CDC
says the risk of measles infection is low for the
overall population, and the best defense yes vaccination. Before the
first measles vaccine in the nineteen sixties, between four hundred
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and five hundred America as mostly children died every year
from the disease. All Right.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Next up, on a run recently booted Love Islander, Sierra
or Tega says she's sorry and that she had no
idea she had been using a racial slur. Or Tega
had an unceremonious but highly publicized exit from the villa
after old social media posts surfaced in which she used
a racial slur about the Asian community.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Obviously, folks came after her on social media, with plenty
calling for her to be removed from the show. Now
an episode this week, the narrator simply said Sierra has
left for personal reasons. That was it. Now. In a
lengthy Instagram video post, or Tega explains that she's been
back in the US about forty eight hours now and
it's has some time to process. Without being highly emotional
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is the way she put at robes, and she says
she wanted to most importantly say sorry to the entire
Asian community, saying quote, I am deeply, truly, honestly so sorry.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
She goes on to say, I had no idea that
the word held as much pain, as much harm and
came with this history as it did, and or I
never would have used it. I had no ill intention
when I was using it, but that is absolutely no
excuse because intent doesn't excuse ignorance or Tega says she
agrees with the network's decision to remove her from the show,
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but pleaded with people to not meet hate with hate.
And yes, we teased this ahead of time, but I
did see she made a point to say this is
not an apology video where she apologized.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Did that? I guess it hits. I guess she's trying
to make a point. She said, this is not an
apology video, it's an accountability video. And for whatever, just
going through it's kind of long. You listen through the
whole thing. It is edited time. You can tell it
cuts to some parts of the video. There's actually a
screenshot of somebody edited in I guess video of a
screen grab of a text. She's trying to confirm some stuff. Okay,
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I'll take her at her word that she didn't know
it just to say that this is not an apology video,
it's an accountability video.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I guess. I give what she's saying, and it could
be both, and I think maybe that's what she's trying.
She's trying not to say sorry, isn't good enough. She's
going to do better and her actions will speak louder
than her words and all of that. Clearly, this was
highly produced and something that I'm sure a team of
crisis experts went over with her. But hey, she's making
an effort.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
All right. We'll continue on our run here now with
the NBA season. It's over. It just ended. In fact,
you might have noticed that we talked about it quite
a bit here every day. No, the Oklahoma City Thunder,
as you know, just won the NBA Tile. The season
is over. But a new NBA record was just set yesterday,
the highest annual salary ever. The Phoenix Suns have signed
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their all star guard Devin Booker to a two year
extension robes that is worth one hundred and forty five
million dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
So that puts the extension and an average annual amount
of seventy two point five million dollars. And that is
the highest ever, and that beats the previous record set
about ten days ago.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yes, I remember those Oklahoma City Thunder. We were just
talking about. Where there's Superstar Guard League MVP, NBA Finals MVP.
What's his name again? Your boy?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I still can't say it shy, Shay Gilja See I
knew I still was gonna get get.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Wrong Jay Gilgius Alexander Gilgius like Gorge Georgias. Yes, Shay Gilgius,
say gil Alexander. Yes, he just this month signed a
contract extension that was value that's seventy one point two
million dollars a year. So his record has already been
broken in a matter of days.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I'm going to run myself. He's not going to be
shy about his money, and then I'll remember it. He's Shay,
He's not shy.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
But the Guilgeous you got already.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I think I got Gilgeous now Gorgeous, I got it. Okay,
next time I'm gonna slay it.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
All right, folks, final lick of our run. But I
don't know what you were feeling yesterday, Robe, what just
me everybody else? You feel like you've struggled to get
everything done you needed to get done. Yesterday felt like
it just wasn't enough time in the day. And it
turns out you were right.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yesterday was actually the shortest day in the recorded history
of planet Earth. Seriously, as we all know, it takes
Earth precisely twenty four hours to make a full rotation, right, yeah,
twenty four hours. That's eighty six four hundred seconds.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
So scientists have been noticing in recent years, based on
precise advanced atomic cocks that they use, that sometimes the
Earth can slow down in its rotation just a bit.
Yesterday was one of those days. So you did not
get your full twenty four hours. So how much were
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you shorted yesterday? One and a half milliseconds. Now that
might not sound like much to you, but when it
comes to the Earth, if you slow down even that
much over time, it can cause a problem. Give some context, bro,
Do you have any context for one and a half
milliseconds the nine before? Okay? I didn't either, But it
takes you longer to blink, okay longer?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
All right, all right, so we're okay. So really we
didn't actually have a noticeably shorter day yesterday. It just
always feels like that. Okay, Why does this happen? The
Moon is at one of its farthest points from the
Earth's equator. That changes the gravitational pull slightly, which causes
the planet to spend just a little faster. They've already
identified July twenty second and August fifth as two other
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short days we will have this summer, all right, So
I guess we need to just take advantage of every
moment we have.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
It seems silly, but we could introduce something down the road,
something called a leap second. You understand the concept of
a leap year. We have to do every four years
to even things out. But we still we continue with
this problem of adjusting those atomic clocks. I mean, think
about your Look at how many devices are in front
of you, right, we got five devices, six that all
run on these atomic clocks. If they start going off,
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then all of a sudden, your medical information isn't moving
at the right speed at the right time because the
clocks on these computers don't work. What about your financial
transactions that depend on precise timing. So I know it
seems kind of silly, but implications aren't serious for this
down the road. This is another one of the things
that did a deep dive on.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeesh, wow, I'm impressed. All right, Well, let's leave everyone
now with something to think about more than just time
and science. That blows my mind. So here is a
quote of the day. Is our week long devotion dedication
to Dali La to the Dali Lama, who turned ninety
on Sunday. So here is one of his amazing quotes
for you to consider.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot
survive without human affection. That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I thought that that spoke to me. It just kind
of made me think everybody can use a hug. Hug
someone today. That was my takeaway from that. Yes, we
all focus on certain ways of relaxing or focusing or
being better people, but honestly, we just need each other.
I know that sounds cheesy, but to use.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
The word survive, you can live without this and that,
but you can't survive. I like that word. That one
word changes, it's the whole meaning in such a powerful way.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
All Right, we'll give it to you one more time
on this Thursday. We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection. Thank you, Dali Lama,
and thank you everyone for listening to us. I'm Amy
Robot and I'm t. J.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Holmes. Will be running with you again real soon
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for this Thursday Morning Run.
Yes Thursday, July tenth, I'm Amy Robot.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And I'm TJ Holmes and on the Run. This morning,
the death toll continues to rise as hundreds of volunteers
continue to search for the missing in the aftermath of
the Texas flooding. Also this morning, President Biden's doctor pleads
the fifth and refuses to answer questions about the former
president's declining health.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And it's been a tough stretch for Elon Musk. His
ex AI chatbox Grock goes off the rails following an update,
complimenting Hitler and spewing other anti semitic rhetoric.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Also, the AI boom has kind of pulted a US
chip making company to become the most valuable company the
world has ever known. Also, President Trump compliments the president
of another country on his beautiful English. Turns out though
English is the official language of the country that man
is from.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And the Trump administry is doubling down on California by
doubling up on lawsuits suing the state over totally different issues.
Transgender athletes and eggs, and we've now learned six Secret
Service agents were suspended following the assassination attempt on President
Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. And we are only halfway through
twenty twenty five and already the US has the highest
(01:21):
number of confirmed measles cases in more than thirty years.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Plus this morning, recently booted Love Island in the USA,
contestants here or Tega put out a lengthy apology video,
but declare is in it that it's not an apology video.
We'll explain. Also, the highest NBA salary ever has just
been announced, breaking the record for the highest NBA salary
set ten days ago. And sometimes we all just feel
(01:44):
like there's not enough hours in the day, and there
is a reason for it, especially yesterday, because it turns
out yesterday was the shortest day in the recorded history
of planet Earth. So you were not alone if you
felt you couldn't get everything done yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Ah, that's explains so so much. Yes, we will get
to that in just a moment, But we begin to
run on this Thursday morning with an update from Texas
that death hole now reaching at least one hundred twenty
in the fourth of July flooding disaster. The number of
missing remains around one hundred and seventy as hundreds of
volunteers continue to search a nearly two hundred mile area
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for those missing. Authorities announced it's been days since anyone
was rescued. In fact, this is so disturbing. Friday, the
day of the flooding, was the last time any missing
person was found alive.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And now even NASA has gotten involved. They've got two
specialized aircrafts up in the air helping emergency responders look
for the missing and the massive debris left behind from
the flash flooding. Meantime, lawmakers are already taking action to
try and ensure something like this never happens again. Texas
Governor Greg Abbott has called for a special legislative session
next week to call for improved early warning systems and
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to put better preparedness and response systems in place set up.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has called for a federal investigation
to see if decreased staffing at the National Weather Service
contributed to poor communication with local officials. Remember that first
warning from the National Weather Service came around one fourteen
am on Friday. That was about three hours before the
catastrophic flooding began. Several other warnings followed, but most people
were asleep and never received those alerts. Well, next up
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on our run, President Biden's doctor is not talking, even
under congressional subpoena. The former president's doctor was on Capitol
Hill yesterday as part of a GOP led investigation of
Biden's health while he was in the White House.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, but in his deposition before the House Oversight Committee,
doctor Kevin O'Connor refused to answer questions and had two
pretty good reasons for it, one doctor client privilege, the
other the Fifth Amendment. And he said this statement several times,
and I quote, on the advice of counsel, I must
respectfully decline to answer based on the physician patient privilege
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and the reliance on my right under the first excuse me,
fifth Amendment.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And of course that is only going to fuel speculation
that there was a conspiracy to hide the true nature
of Biden's physical and mental health while he was president.
Doctor O'Connor was Biden's physician all four years during his presidency.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
All right, let's keep going on the run here with
Elon Musk. He seems to be working out the anti
semitic kinks in Grock, his company's chat box that has
been spewing some hate speech this week. Grock calls quite
a stir online when it started giving some questionable responses
to user inquiries.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
For example, when asked who controls the government, it responded,
one group's overrepresented, way beyond their two percent population share.
Think Hollywood execs, Wall Street CEOs and Biden's own cabinet.
And here's another doozy for you. It suggested to deal
with such vile anti white hate, Adolf Hitler, no question,
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he'd spot the pattern and handle it decisively every damn time.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Okay, this is a bit of a problem measure. You
can see. This started happening after Musk critic sized the
AI chad bot, saying it relied too heavily on mainstream
media sources when it was generating responses. So instead, he said,
it shouldn't shy away from making claims which are politically
incorrect as long as they are true. Okay, the company
(05:15):
has not yet given another update. They're still working on
this thing. But the update we got now was supposed
to be the one that corrected things, and it ends
up all this anti semitic stuff. So they're trying to
do it again and fix it. And the company says
they've taken action to ban hate speech before rock posts.
This is wild. It is he's criticizing his own AIS
(05:38):
like he's in a fight with an artificial intelligent person.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And then to hear this AI rock bot go off
on just really highly offensive, cringe worthy, get anyone else
canceled kind of comments.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well, I don't know how you polite. I mean, these
are very smart guys, but the AI scours the internet
for answers to your question, and so some of the
answers and some of the thoughts out there have to
do with the I mean, how does it know not
to listen to that website because that's a hate group, right,
and they have to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Wild, all right? Next up on a run a major
milestone in the market. Yesterday, a US company became the
most valuable company the world has ever known.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Let me guess, Let me guess, no guess? Yes, you
would only have fright two guesses, would you?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Apple and Microsoft?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You would be wrong on both of those because it's
actually in Nvidia. You know that name. Well, if you don't,
now you've been hearing it a lot more lately, and
you will hear it a lot more in the future.
But it hit the four trillion dollar mark, becoming the
first company to ever be valued at that astronomical number.
This is a US chip maker and it has been
(06:44):
a powerhouse in the booming AI space. Its stock was
up about three percent yesterday during the day and that's
what put it over that official four trillion dollar mark.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It's all so scary. It really does feel like we're
living in a world of megan. AI has taken over
the world. I mean truly, this company made forty four
billion dollars last quarter. In one quarter, it made forty
four billion dollars. That's up sixty nine percent from the
same quarter last year. So yes, AI is in fact booming.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
That's a boom that kind of I mean, we see
growth numbers two five percent when something that you can
tell something that exploding in that industry. We continue on
the run here now something we all need to maybe
pay a little attention to and maybe know who you're
talking to, know who you're meeting with, do a little
bit of background, because there was an awkward moment at
the White House yesterday and it started though with a
(07:34):
compliment and don't. Oftentimes, awkward moments road starts with a compliment. Yes,
you're just off a little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You think you're doing good. Yeah, you think you're saying
something nice.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And actually it hurts. Yes. This started with a compliment
from President Trump. He was hosting a number of foreign
leaders and he praised one of them for their beautiful
English and said, this and such good English. Where did
you learn to speak so beautifully? Where were you educated?
Is the question he asked this man.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Problem with that is that he was complimenting the English
of a man who was the president of an English
speaking country. It was the Liberian president. Yes, he is
from Liberia. He was raised in Liberia, and he was
educated in Liberia.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Where they speak English. After the President complimented his English,
look you give the president of Liberia a credit, He
smiled politely. It was a little awkward, but he kept
a very pleasant look on his face. Was a little confused,
but he didn't take the opportunity to correct President Trump.
He probably knew that wasn't a good way to go,
but he went on to say that, yes, I'm just
(08:40):
I was educated in Liberia. Now, the President didn't stop there.
He said I have people at this table talking about
his staff that can't speak English nearly as well. So
he continued, it was trying to be funny and had
no idea. Look, this is fine. I bet how many
people listening to us if I asked them what is
the national language of Liberia.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Couldn't say coresh And I believe the other members who
were there at the table all had headsets on, so
they were having to have President Trump's words translated, and
he was the only one who didn't, so that might
have made him stand out. He thought it was impressive,
but it's look, it's just.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
An awkward and a weird mistake to make on that stage.
It's tough. It's awful. Everybody's coming out to the president
about this and going on saying how going through his
record on African nations, he still hasn't met or visited
Africa and all this stuff. But the Foreign Minister of
Liberia said, we took no offense. Look, we do have
a beautiful way of speaking. It's our own version of English.
(09:35):
He was this complimented, and the White House said it
was just a heartfelt compliment.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Everybody calmed down and that was a great way to
handle it okay.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And so after they did that heartfelt compliment, the Trump
administration went back to suing people. As we continue on
the run now, the Trump administration just hit California with
not one, but two new lawsuits on two very different issues,
eggs and transgender athletes.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
First, the administration is going out for the state's Board
of Education and its sports governing body for alleged Title
nine violations, claiming the state is discriminating against girls by
allowing transgender athletes to compete. President Trump had threatened to
take away federal dollars if the state allowed a transgender
athlete to compete in the state's high school track championships.
That athlete did compete and won two state titles.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So in the other lawsuit, the administration is going after
the state's animal anti cruelty laws. So what problem could
anybody have with laws that are supposed to prevent cruelty
to animals. Well, the administration says they're leading to increased
egg prices because they add bureaucratic red tape and set
on reasonable safety standards that lead to an increase in
(10:43):
those egg prices. These laws out there, they were proved
by voters actually, but there are rules about how much
space a chicken can have. You literally have to have
enough space as a chicken to stretch your legs out
to not touch another chicken. It's that specific. But they
said all over the country, all producers can't do that
for you to do business with them, and they say
(11:03):
it hurts. Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, the prices went up twenty percent after the laws
were enactive. That's what they claimed, all right. Next up
on our run, we have learned that six Secret Service
agents were disciplined for their actions surrounding the assassination attempt
on President Trump in Pennsylvania last summer. Those agents ranged
from supervisors to lower level agents. They were all placed
on leave over operational failures at that July incident in
(11:26):
Butler in which a bullet grazed Trump's ear while he
was giving that campaign speech.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, the head of the Secret Service, you might remember, resigned.
I think it was just a week and a half
after that incident. The suspensions have been handed out in
recent months after the agents went through a review process
and ranged in suspension from ten to forty two days.
But still somebody was held accountable and saying that you
did something so wrong that it warrants disciplinary action, and
(11:52):
we're just hearing about it now because it's a federal
review process that goes through. But this was four a
lot of people. It's none of vice.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It makes sense. A bullet used, the President's here, and
blood was everywhere, and certainly there was an operational failure.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
All right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this
Thursday Morning Run when we come back. Yes, folks, it
wasn't just you. Yesterday was a very very short day,
in fact, the shortest one the earth has ever known. Also,
the NBA season is over, but a record was set
in the NBA yesterday when it comes to Salary and
that love Islander who was just booted for some past
(12:25):
racial remarks. What she is apologizing in a video that
she says, do not take as an apology.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Welcome back to this Thursday edition of Your Morning Run.
Next up, this year is now officially the worst year
for measles in thirty three years, and we're only halfway
through the year. With two hundred and eighty eight confirmed
cases so far, the US has already surpassed its total
number of cases for twenty nineteen, which at that time
was the worst year in a quarter century.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Lay how bad things now. According to the CDC, they
said this year the worst year since nineteen ninety two.
There were more than twenty one hundred confirmed cases that year.
The fear is we are well on our way to
matching or surpassing that number. The worst on record. It
was twenty five years ago though, in two thousand, when
the US officially declared measles eliminated after high vaccination rates
(13:21):
stopped nearly all spread of the disease.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
But this year's outbreak began in West Texas as you
might remember, killing two children. It's grown to seven hundred
fifty cases in that area alone, an area that has
a large unvaccinated population. That outbreak has now spread to
thirty eight states.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Apology this is we were following this very very closely,
and this is an update. I in myself didn't even
realize we were up to that many cases, seven hundred
and fifty and that many states as well. The CDC
says the risk of measles infection is low for the
overall population, and the best defense yes vaccination. Before the
first measles vaccine in the nineteen sixties, between four hundred
(13:59):
and five hundred America as mostly children died every year
from the disease. All Right.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Next up, on a run recently booted Love Islander, Sierra
or Tega says she's sorry and that she had no
idea she had been using a racial slur. Or Tega
had an unceremonious but highly publicized exit from the villa
after old social media posts surfaced in which she used
a racial slur about the Asian community.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Obviously, folks came after her on social media, with plenty
calling for her to be removed from the show. Now
an episode this week, the narrator simply said Sierra has
left for personal reasons. That was it. Now. In a
lengthy Instagram video post, or Tega explains that she's been
back in the US about forty eight hours now and
it's has some time to process. Without being highly emotional
(14:44):
is the way she put at robes, and she says
she wanted to most importantly say sorry to the entire
Asian community, saying quote, I am deeply, truly, honestly so sorry.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
She goes on to say, I had no idea that
the word held as much pain, as much harm and
came with this history as it did, and or I
never would have used it. I had no ill intention
when I was using it, but that is absolutely no
excuse because intent doesn't excuse ignorance or Tega says she
agrees with the network's decision to remove her from the show,
(15:16):
but pleaded with people to not meet hate with hate.
And yes, we teased this ahead of time, but I
did see she made a point to say this is
not an apology video where she apologized.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Did that? I guess it hits. I guess she's trying
to make a point. She said, this is not an
apology video, it's an accountability video. And for whatever, just
going through it's kind of long. You listen through the
whole thing. It is edited time. You can tell it
cuts to some parts of the video. There's actually a
screenshot of somebody edited in I guess video of a
screen grab of a text. She's trying to confirm some stuff. Okay,
(15:49):
I'll take her at her word that she didn't know
it just to say that this is not an apology video,
it's an accountability video.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I guess. I give what she's saying, and it could
be both, and I think maybe that's what she's trying.
She's trying not to say sorry, isn't good enough. She's
going to do better and her actions will speak louder
than her words and all of that. Clearly, this was
highly produced and something that I'm sure a team of
crisis experts went over with her. But hey, she's making
an effort.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
All right. We'll continue on our run here now with
the NBA season. It's over. It just ended. In fact,
you might have noticed that we talked about it quite
a bit here every day. No, the Oklahoma City Thunder,
as you know, just won the NBA Tile. The season
is over. But a new NBA record was just set yesterday,
the highest annual salary ever. The Phoenix Suns have signed
(16:34):
their all star guard Devin Booker to a two year
extension robes that is worth one hundred and forty five
million dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
So that puts the extension and an average annual amount
of seventy two point five million dollars. And that is
the highest ever, and that beats the previous record set
about ten days ago.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yes, I remember those Oklahoma City Thunder. We were just
talking about. Where there's Superstar Guard League MVP, NBA Finals MVP.
What's his name again? Your boy?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I still can't say it shy, Shay Gilja See I
knew I still was gonna get get.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Wrong Jay Gilgius Alexander Gilgius like Gorge Georgias. Yes, Shay Gilgius,
say gil Alexander. Yes, he just this month signed a
contract extension that was value that's seventy one point two
million dollars a year. So his record has already been
broken in a matter of days.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I'm going to run myself. He's not going to be
shy about his money, and then I'll remember it. He's Shay,
He's not shy.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
But the Guilgeous you got already.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I think I got Gilgeous now Gorgeous, I got it. Okay,
next time I'm gonna slay it.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
All right, folks, final lick of our run. But I
don't know what you were feeling yesterday, Robe, what just
me everybody else? You feel like you've struggled to get
everything done you needed to get done. Yesterday felt like
it just wasn't enough time in the day. And it
turns out you were right.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yesterday was actually the shortest day in the recorded history
of planet Earth. Seriously, as we all know, it takes
Earth precisely twenty four hours to make a full rotation, right, yeah,
twenty four hours. That's eighty six four hundred seconds.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
So scientists have been noticing in recent years, based on
precise advanced atomic cocks that they use, that sometimes the
Earth can slow down in its rotation just a bit.
Yesterday was one of those days. So you did not
get your full twenty four hours. So how much were
(18:26):
you shorted yesterday? One and a half milliseconds. Now that
might not sound like much to you, but when it
comes to the Earth, if you slow down even that
much over time, it can cause a problem. Give some context, bro,
Do you have any context for one and a half
milliseconds the nine before? Okay? I didn't either, But it
takes you longer to blink, okay longer?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
All right, all right, so we're okay. So really we
didn't actually have a noticeably shorter day yesterday. It just
always feels like that. Okay, Why does this happen? The
Moon is at one of its farthest points from the
Earth's equator. That changes the gravitational pull slightly, which causes
the planet to spend just a little faster. They've already
identified July twenty second and August fifth as two other
(19:11):
short days we will have this summer, all right, So
I guess we need to just take advantage of every
moment we have.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
It seems silly, but we could introduce something down the road,
something called a leap second. You understand the concept of
a leap year. We have to do every four years
to even things out. But we still we continue with
this problem of adjusting those atomic clocks. I mean, think
about your Look at how many devices are in front
of you, right, we got five devices, six that all
run on these atomic clocks. If they start going off,
(19:43):
then all of a sudden, your medical information isn't moving
at the right speed at the right time because the
clocks on these computers don't work. What about your financial
transactions that depend on precise timing. So I know it
seems kind of silly, but implications aren't serious for this
down the road. This is another one of the things
that did a deep dive on.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeesh, wow, I'm impressed. All right, Well, let's leave everyone
now with something to think about more than just time
and science. That blows my mind. So here is a
quote of the day. Is our week long devotion dedication
to Dali La to the Dali Lama, who turned ninety
on Sunday. So here is one of his amazing quotes
for you to consider.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot
survive without human affection. That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I thought that that spoke to me. It just kind
of made me think everybody can use a hug. Hug
someone today. That was my takeaway from that. Yes, we
all focus on certain ways of relaxing or focusing or
being better people, but honestly, we just need each other.
I know that sounds cheesy, but to use.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
The word survive, you can live without this and that,
but you can't survive. I like that word. That one
word changes, it's the whole meaning in such a powerful way.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
All Right, we'll give it to you one more time
on this Thursday. We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection. Thank you, Dali Lama,
and thank you everyone for listening to us. I'm Amy
Robot and I'm t. J.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Holmes. Will be running with you again real soon
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