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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone,
and welcome to this Friday edition of Morning Run. Yes,
it's Friday, every one, October seventeenth.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. It's a good
Friday for the Governor of Illinois. Now, you wouldn't think
that I had given a lot of the news going
back and forth with the President about putting National Guard
troops on the ground. But the Governor of Illinois has
a lot to celebrate. I didn't realize how much I
didn't know he was a billionaire already.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I didn't know that either. I didn't realize that he
was heir to this massive hotel fortune. But he's made
a little fortune for himself this past year.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, in Vegas. We'll explain the good fortune of the
Governor of Illinois this morning. Also, I asked you right
before we went on robes, like what stories are you
was interested in and the most fun with if you
brow this morning, there's a look we talked about frivolous lawsuits.
So's the line. You can you can indict a ham
sandwich or whatever frivolous place. This one kind of takes
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the cake for me.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, people a class action lawsuit over noisy shoes. Seriously
squeaky shoes. Yes, we should actually get involved because we
have squeaky shoes too.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We have a case Nike Watch out. We are coming
for you. But we will explain. There is a class
action lawsuit for people who say their sneakers are too loud.
We will get into that this morning. Also, we should
have a class action lawsuit over ticket prices. If you're
trying to go to a World Cup game next year
here in the US, good luck. We are talking. They're
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not quite six figures, but they're getting up there close.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And you know what's annoying about this. It's not FIFA,
which is of course the host of the World Cup
here in the Americas. But it's the resale issue. And
that's always the problem with any sort of concert or venue.
It's not the actual sale of the ticket. It's folks
quickly getting a ticket and then reselling it for exorbitant prices.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You know, I think what should happen is Mackenzie Scott
should buy up all the tickets and just give them away.
Mackenzie Scott applaud this woman once again, the philanthropist who
said she's gonna give away her fortune, which is upwards
of forty billion. Has done it again in robes. She
is focusing a lot on HBCU's minority communities, and she
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just hooked up one HBCU the likes of which they
have never seen before.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
It's incredible, especially with the war on wokeness and diversity.
It's wonderful to have a woman like that in the world.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
We will let you know what her latest big donation is.
What I want to let you know is always top
bright corner of your Apple podcast app where you see
our show page. Little button says follow click that you
can get our updates coming to you all the time.
Also on the run this morning, we did see another
execution last night. Also, another Trump critic is facing charges.
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Also another vote on ending the shutdown yesterday, and another
Trump putin summit is in the works. And also on
the run this morning, Look, the virus formerly known as
monkey pox has shown up in the US robes. That's
not necessarily the big deal. It's who has monkey pox
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that is causing concern. We'll get into that this morning.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Absolutely, But we do begin our run on this Friday
with news of another Trump putin summit. We don't know
the exact time, but the location has been set.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, President Trump said he was on the phone with
Russian President Vladimir Putin for about two and a half
hours yesterday and the two men agreed to meet again
in Budapest. It's going to happen within the next couple
of weeks, the president said. Said the purpose of this
meeting to see if we can bring the inglorious war
between Russia and Ukraine to an end.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Trump added that he believes the success in the Middle
East peace process will actually help in negotiating an end
to the Russia Ukraine war. Meantime, Ukrainian President Zelenski will
be at the White House today. President Trump said they
will discuss his call with Putin and go forward with that.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, I'm regular over to the house because him and
then Yahoo.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Who else did we were the two that have been
there most often, just in the last couple of months.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Seems like once a week they stopped by, almost continuing
on the run here now. Yes, another high profile Trump critic,
not quite political foes, but yes, Trump critics publicly another
one has been indicted. This one actually served in his administration.
We're talking about former Trump National security advisor John Bolton.
He was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday and
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he is facing eighteen counts having to do with national
defense information.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
He's accused of improperly retaining, storing, and sharing sensitive materials.
Bolton in a statement denied any wrongdoing, and he got
in a plug for his book. Good for him.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Did you like this? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You know what take advantage? This is the no press
is bad press kind of theory. I guess when you're
selling a book, Bolton said this. Donald Trump's retribution against
me began during Trump's first administration continued when he tried
unsuccessfully to block the publication of my book The Room
where It Happened before the twenty twenty election, and became
one of his rallying cries in his reelection. Now I
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had become the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department
to charge those he deems to be his enemies with
charges that were declined before, or distort the facts.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I usually roll my eyes when people like shamelessly promote
their book. This was just kind of laid in there,
subtly appropriately to a certain degree. I didn't mind it
that much.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I didn't mind it at all I think this was.
Actually it got a little laugh from me.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It did for me too. Now, his lawyer goes on
to say that the charge is stem from Bolton's personal
diary entries, which he shared with immediate family. The argument
is that he made these little injuries, have entries having
to do with his work, he sent them to family,
and because those entries had something to do with national security,
and he sent it to a family member, then therefore
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he must have That's kind of the basis of all
that They say. This has been investigated for years and years,
and this is just the president trying to get them.
Of course, James Comey, the former FBI director, and Letitia James,
the age here in New York who brought the case
against Trump. They both are facing federal indictments as well.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Pam Bondi has been busy. Next up on the Run,
day seventeen for the shutdown. Voted on the bill for
the tenth time yesterday and as we predicted, same results.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, our shutdown updates are getting shorter and shorter in
the rundowns every day.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You're not even writing complete sentences, You're just putting in
like bullet points.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Okay, shutdown. Day seventeen voted for a tenth time yesterday,
same result. No Dems, no Republicans, Shane's eyes. Will get
to day twenty next week. Here's the thing, folks, they're
not there adjourned today. It seems weird during a shutdown.
It seems like you should work through the weekend. Instead,
they're taking days off.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Actually, well for people who weren't getting their paychecks, I
think they will probably wholeheartedly agree with that sentimental.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
So here's the point, folks. So we know we're on
day seventeen. Now, there's not going to be any work
during the week, so we will get to eighteen nineteen
twenty of the shutdown will be on Monday. Day twenty
one will be Tuesday. If we get to Wednesday, this
will be the second longest government shut down in US history.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Oh wow, you said if instead of when yesterday, you
were going with when you know?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I am it's Friday. Feeling a little more upomous.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Okay, Next up on the run, we will head to Arizona,
where tonight fifty five year old Richard Jerff is the
scheduled excuse me to die by lethal injection after pleading
guilty to the murder of an entire family, including a
five year old boy. It happened more than thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
This was a brutal quadruple murder. We will not get
into the details of this heinous crime here this morning,
but Jerff chose not to seek clemency for these murders.
The motive, according to prosecutors, he was exacting revenge because
he believed someone in the family stole electronic equipment from
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his home. That's bad enough, but get this, the family
member who allegedly stole his stuff wasn't even at the
house at the time of the murders.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I mean, I have chills from head to toe because
unfortunately I did read the details and they are horrific.
This will be Arizona's second execution of the year and
this country's thirty ninth execution. There were currently one hundred
and eight prisoners on death row in Arizona. This is
the fourth execution this week in the US, and a
lot has been written about the state of Arizona, specifically
because they are among a couple of states that had
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some serious issues with their lethal injection process, where they
had reports that are also equally heinoused to talk about
in terms of how long it took people to die
and the pain they experienced. So they actually just reinstated
the death penalty or at least following through on executions
three years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You know, we should probably if we check their calendar,
they might have a full execution calendar, if you will,
as morbid as that sounds, because they're trying to catch up.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, one hundred and eight prisoners on death row because
they had a long moratorium trying to figure out how
to make the drugs they have be less cruel and unusual.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You say fourth this week and think about is supposed
to be five? Yeah, one guy had his the state
of exe Robertson in Texas. Yeah, continuing here on the
run here on this Friday morning. Now, the first US
cases of a severe strain of IMPOCS have been identified.
The thing here is that these are the first US
cases where the two people infected had no recent travel history.
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So where did they get it? As the question, We
only know that patients are from California, or the California
residents at least, and they required hospitalization and are now
isolating and recovering at home.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
One is from Long Beach, the other La County and
right now, health officials say there is no known connection
between those two people and they don't know how they
got it. There have been six previous previous cases this
year of this more severe strain of EMPOCS, but all
of those patients had recently traveled to areas associated with
the outbreak, which is in central and Eastern Africa.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So the health department is investigating trying to figure out
who the patients came in contact with. They're looking for
the source of exposure. This freaks medical professionals out where
we don't know how to contain this damn thing.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
In all the articles, health officials are using terms like
deeply concerning.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Okay, Well, parts of Africa are dealing with person to
person spread of this strain of the disease, which is
spread through sex and other forms of direct contact and
through touching contaminated items like betting or clothing. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Mpox is a virus that was formerly known as monkey pox,
and people who contract it have flu like symptoms and
often get a painful rash that appears on their hands, feet, chest, face, mouth,
or even near the genitals. Most people do recover within
two to four weeks, but it's described as painful and excruciating.
There is a vaccine available for people considered most at
risk risk. A lot of this is gay men through
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same sex sex, basically is how a lot of this
is transferred. But it's in the same family of smallpox.
And the good news is it's rarely fatal. It's just
scary and not something anybody wants.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
But this is one of those things highly contagious, right,
can spread. Where did they get They got it here? Yes, somewhere.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Wow, it's scary.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That is a little scary. All right, Folks who want
to continue here on this Friday morning, run now with
Ace Freely, founding member of the legendary rock band Kiss,
he has passed away at the age of seventy four.
Ace Freely served as lead guitarist. He died at his
home in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
In a statement, his family said this, we are completely
devastated and heartbroken in his last moments, we were fortunate
enough to have been able to surround him with loving, caring,
peaceful words, thoughts, prayers and intentions as he left this earth.
Freely announced last month that he was canceling shows after
he had to go to the hospital after a fall
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at the studio. That's all we know is that he fell,
and then a few weeks later he died seventy four.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
You hear that's so young these days, right. His fellow
Mats Geene Simmons Paul Stanley put out a joint statement.
They said he was an essential and irreplaceable rock soldier
during some of the most formative foundational chapters of Kiss. Now.
Ace Freeley was born Paul Daniel Freeley and eventually became
known as Spaceman when Kiss was formed in seventy three. Look,
(12:19):
I have to be honest, I didn't know they had
names going with. There was a Catman, there was a Spaceman,
there was I didn't know they each had these.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Little I Look, obviously we know the iconic look and
some of the songs, but I was not that familiar
as well. So Freeley left the band actually in the
early eighties, but he reunited with Kiss in nineteen ninety
six as they continued to tour. Kiss has sold more
than one hundred million albums and went into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame in twenty fourteen. I know
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they're about to get a big award in December, so
it's sad he wasn't able to be there for it,
but certainly he had an amazing story, a high school dropout,
no guitar lessons, and yet he became a rose to
playing the guitar.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
No, he joked about that. He said, yeah, I never
had a guitar lesson. I dropped out of high school
and here I am a millionaire and it's like the
American dream. It's just he wasn't being arrogant about it.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
It's just talented.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Wow, that's pretty incredible. His story is incredible. If you
get a chance to read up and look about his story,
you should absolutely do so. Today stay with us here though,
on this Friday morning run, a billionaire keeps getting richer
playing a game that you've probably played in Vegas as well. Also,
Mackenzie Scott, she's pretty rich, but she is spreading the
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love even more. Also, we didn't even realize Robaka and
I that we might have a case against Nike because
some other folks are suing their shoe company because their
shoes are too damn loud. Seriously, and if you want
to go to the World Cup in the US next year,
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save your pennies.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Actually go to Vegas.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You can leave them a lot more than pennies. Stay
with us books, all right, folks, we continue on this
Friday morning ron the rich keep getting richer, you know
that saying, But it's true, and there's something about it
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that just makes Yes, it's annoying. Yeah, it's kind of annoying,
but yes, it's the case for the governor of Illinois.
Didn't you know? First of all, he's an heir to
the Hyatt hotel chain. He's worth about four billion dollars
and well he picked up some more change in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, he's on the Forbes list. I saw he's like
number three hundred and something, but I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah, rich's mayor, excuse me, a governor's.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
The year might be. I have to check that out,
but it would seem like a three point nine billion
in counting. But guess what he can add one point
four million to that cash because that's how much he
won in a casino in Vegas. Governor J. B. Pritzker
reported the gambling windfall on his federal tax return this week.
That's why we all found out, he told reporters after
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they asked him. He got lucky in blackjack on vacation
with his wife and some friends in Vegas. Pritzker's saying, quote,
anybody who's played cards in a casino, you often play
for too long and lose whatever it is you want.
I was fortunate enough to have to leave before that happened.
He was one point four million dollars up. I can't
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even get my head around that. You've asked me to
stop when I'm like a couple hundred bucks up.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Okay, this is this is billionaire behavior. This is billionaire
behave to think you know what I left before I
lost that one point four million. Of course you're supposed
to get up and.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Leave when you win one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Leave My thing. I always say to you, babe, just
cash out, put the money in your pocket. You can
keep playing. But if you see it up there on
that little electronic monitor, it just feels like play money.
You keep going to get little chips.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, it doesn't feel real.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
It doesn't feel now. Spokesperson for the government, Look, the
guy's a billionaire. Does he need this one point four million?
You could argue no, So all he said he's going
to donate the money to charity. That should be the
end of the story. The problem here is that he
hasn't done it yet, and if he made the money already,
we're just finding out about it. The question from reporters
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was why hasn't he donated the money yet? There was
no response, and so the suggestion kind of being that
you kind of got called on it, and no, you're
saying you're going to donate it to charity. Either way,
it's fine if he wants to keep the money. I'm
not mad.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Hey, it's his prerogatives.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yes, like you said out, so he shouldn't be called
on it. He is a big time a poker player,
and I didn't realize he has a charity event that
raises money for charity a poker game.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, it's called the Chicago Poker Challenge and it raises
millions of dollars for the Holocaust Museum and Educational Center.
So he does do some good with hip. But we'll
see what he is going to I feel like he's
going to have to announce now where he's it's going
to have to be giving that money. He's going to
have to do it. But you know who's not going
to have to do it, McKenzie Scott. She doesn't want
your money, She added, again, Yes she doesn't. No one
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even has to ask her a question because she's given
it away before you even can. The billionaire philanthropist has
just given an HBCU the largest single donation in its history.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
We are talking Morgan State University in Baltimore. It is
getting sixty three million dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
So awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
This is the latest round of donations from Mackenzie Scott.
She's been on a giving spree the past several years.
As you know, she's pledged to give away her fortune,
which was estimated around forty billion dollars after her divorce
from Amazon CEO Chef Bezos back in.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Twenty nineteen, sixty three million. I wonder where she gets
those numbers from, because.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
They're all over the place. We have some more details here,
but they're never even numbers, So I don't know how
she does.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I kind of am curious about what why she comes
up with those specific numbers. They're not typical. Obviously, nothing's
typical about what she's giving away. In addition to the
Morgan State donation, she's also donated forty million dollars to
the African American Cultural Heritage Action F that's a group
that preserves and promotes black culture. And then Scott has
given away about twenty billion dollars in the past five years.
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Some of her biggest here's another like, here are the
weird numbers. I'm talking about four hundred and thirty six
million dollars to Habitat for Humanity, two hundred and eighty
one million dollars to Boys and Girls Clubs of America,
and two hundred and seventy five million to Planned Parenthood.
She also gave forty million to MSU Morgan.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
State, YO. So this Morgan State one was her second
one she's done.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
She's given one hundred million dollars to one HBCU that
I've bet a bunch of people listening to us have
no idea what that school is, where it is, maybe
never even heard of it. I hadn't eight Morgan State University. Yes,
I mean this woman applaud her and continued to applaud
she has given away I think nearly half of her money.
That's with a B. She is doing generational change in
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the donation she's making and these are not restricted. Then
she's not given a money say it has to go
to this programmer that she's not loved about this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I love again, got chills for all the right reasons,
this time just to hear what she does and hopefully
gets contagious, you know, the crazy thing.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And people have whatever opinion they have about Jeff Bezos
for whatever reasons, with what he does with his money,
but his money. Don't let me wrong, I'm not, but
that money coming from Amazon is changing lives because someone
who has access to that money has decided what she
wants to do with it. Life is funny. That marriage,
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that divorce, that ugliness in the public is benefiting children.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Some kids sometimes good.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Well, I didn't want to go there. My point is
you can never think that all this good could come
out of what that was. I applaud mcind'scuss.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
That's a really really good point, and I think it's
a it's it's a it's a good example of not
always taking things at a certain value, but recognizing that
sometimes when bad things happen, good things can come out
of it.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
These guys, Oh, I love this lady. I really want
to talk to her. I applaud this woman. All right,
we want to continue here on this is the last leg.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
We've got one more after this.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Well, Okay, we got two last legs, all right. First
up here has to do with this class action lawsuit
we've been talking about. Yes, customers have filed a class
action suit against a popular athletic shoe company because the
shoes are too damn loud. In fact, the soup claims
that the customers are embarrassed to wear the sneakers we're
talking about on brand. We do have some of these,
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but they kind of look cool and they clearly are popular,
but they say the shoes squeak so loud when you
walk in them that they've now filed a lawsuit class
action in nature.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Okay, so here are the claims in the lawsuit. Claim
number one, the materials cause a noise and embarrassing squeak
with each and every step. Claim too, the customers complain
that the company refused to compensate them, so customers resorted
to diy modifications to their shoes. Okay, here's the other claim.
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After approximately three months of using his shoes, the plaintiff
noticed a squeaking with every step that he has been on.
Unable to stop, plaintiff cannot walk and run in his
Cloud Monsters without experiencing a squeak. With every step.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yes, that's one of the shoes here, So it's not
just one particular shoe, it's the shoes with this cloud
tech is what on claims they have look robes. We
wear Alpha fly shoes. You all these these super shoes.
I guess running shoes the big component.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
They're really light, but they're really loud.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
But the reason you have to make them really light
you have to use very soft, foamy light materials with
air in them. And when you walk, every step is loud.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
We laugh get out, especially if we don't usually wear
shoes in the house, but if we do have them
on right before we go on the run, I'm laughing
because it's so noisy. I can't hear anything. And even
on the street it's like, thank god we have air pods.
If you take them out, like wow, we are so
loud when we run.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
They are super duper loud. They just are I mean,
we wake up. We scared to wake up people in
the house when we are going out for a run. Really,
they are four week and now squeaky folks. It is
really loud.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Though it's funny, okay, but come on, you're gonna sue
over it, right, and we continue to buy them because
they're awesome shoes.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Okay, and there are eleven different styles that are mentioned
in this lawsuit, and the shoes cost around one hundred
and seventy dollars up to that point. But what are
you supposed to do, ropes?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Don't buy them again if you don't like them.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I can't imagine buying like a diesel vehicle and then
going back. You know what, this engine it's a little loud.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I mean you, good luck with your lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Okay, final leg of the run here. Now World Cup
is here. Well it's not until next year, but the
fever has hit us. And we can see that because
FIFA has announced that more than a million tickets have
been sold for next year's World Cup, gonna be hosted
here and US, in Canada, and in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
So people from two hundred and twelve different countries have
already purchased tickets. The top buyers, not surprisingly, are from
the US, Canada, and Mexico. That makes sense. But here
are the next countries in order. I love this. It
just kind of shows the I guess, the fan base
oh yeah, in each of these countries. So here they
are in order. The number of people who have bought tickets.
The next biggest buyers are from England, Germany like soccer,
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Brazil them too, I hear Spain they're kind of big
on it, Columbia, Argentina, World Cuvers and France they like that.
So the first round of tickets were available through a
lottery of four point five million applicants. The next lottery
will be open to fans in just ten days, that's
on October twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Wait, we need to sign up for this, Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Like you have to get into the lottery. If you
want to get a ticket that is being sold at
its actual faced value, then you need to get in
line literally for a chance to buy one of these tickets.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
This is what we got to do. So the lowest
priced seats were set at sixty dollars, but most seats
in the majority of matches are set at much higher.
The opening match in California has seat prices ranging from
five hundred and sixty dollars to about three thousand bucks. However,
FIFA's resale site has now officially opened. Those prices are.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Absurd and they're gonna get more absurd. This is just
the beginning. So that same opening match where we told you.
Prices range from five hundred and sixty bucks to nearly
three thousand. Okay, well guess what They actually have seats
listed for as much as sixty one thousand, six hundred
and forty two dollars a piece for that opening match,
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the final match, and look, this is gonna get higher,
which will take place in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which
is really close to where you and I are. Babe.
Resale seat prices range from ninety five hundred dollars all
the way to fifty seven thousand, five hundred dollars. This
is as a Thursday after this.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Says got to be in a luxury box of something
you can't come.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
On that's insane, you.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Know, I put it out there. Might some see if
some money, ye see if some money pace for it.
A third lottery round for tickets starting in December is
going to happen, and close to the tournament itself, they'll
have a first come, first serve situation. But the tournament
runs from June eleventh through July nineteenth, twenty twenty six.
We are wildly excited.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
About We need to get on this. We have talked
about this.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Or maybe we should go to Europe.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
It's so fun to watch World Cup games in Europe.
So ironically, even though it's taking place in the US,
we would actually buy a ticket and fly to England
to watch the game in an English pub. It's more fun.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Crazy, but it really is the case. I think the
US is qualified. Yeah, the US is it, So that'll
be big for the US.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
But this is We're actually going to plan our vacation
schedule around this in June next year. All right. Quote
of the day for everyone on this Friday. Loved this
quote and loved who it came from. Most unhappiness is
caused by people listening to themselves instead of talking to themselves.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Listening to themselves and stuff. Yes, you're you're you're doing
what some thing in your mind is telling you to do,
instead of you telling yourself what needs to be done. Yeah,
we do that.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Often your thoughts start to get you know you, Just
I think someone once said, just if you don't think
your mind is overactive in creating all sorts of worst
case scenarios and really inventing or reinventing things to suit
how you feel, just take a moment to observe yourself
in the shower. Your mind is going crazy. So yes,
(26:27):
instead of talking to yourself in logical ways and recognizing
and acknowledging. But well, now our thoughts, man, it is
they are our own worst enemy. I just love this.
So this comes from William James. He's a psychologist who
was born in eighteen forty two. But I did a
little research. He was dubbed the father of American psychology.
He was the first educator in this country to offer
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a class in psychology, and he essentially founded Harvard's psychology department. Wow,
which is so cool. I've never heard of this guy,
but I think his brother is Henry James, a very
famous novelist that many people might know. So cool story.
Love the quote William James.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
William Bill James, and Henry James.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yes, creativity, Well they were creative beyond their names. No
they didn't, But I'll say the quote for you one
more time. It's something really to think about and then
talk to yourself about later. Most unhappiness is caused by
people listening to themselves instead of talking to themselves. So
(27:29):
we hope you have a happy Friday and a wonderful weekend.
Thank you for running with us, every one.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I'm Amy Rosa and I'm TJ Holmes.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone,
and welcome to this Friday edition of Morning Run. Yes,
it's Friday, every one, October seventeenth.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. It's a good
Friday for the Governor of Illinois. Now, you wouldn't think
that I had given a lot of the news going
back and forth with the President about putting National Guard
troops on the ground. But the Governor of Illinois has
a lot to celebrate. I didn't realize how much I
didn't know he was a billionaire already.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I didn't know that either. I didn't realize that he
was heir to this massive hotel fortune. But he's made
a little fortune for himself this past year.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, in Vegas. We'll explain the good fortune of the
Governor of Illinois this morning. Also, I asked you right
before we went on robes, like what stories are you
was interested in and the most fun with if you
brow this morning, there's a look we talked about frivolous lawsuits.
So's the line. You can you can indict a ham
sandwich or whatever frivolous place. This one kind of takes
(01:01):
the cake for me.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, people a class action lawsuit over noisy shoes. Seriously
squeaky shoes. Yes, we should actually get involved because we
have squeaky shoes too.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We have a case Nike Watch out. We are coming
for you. But we will explain. There is a class
action lawsuit for people who say their sneakers are too loud.
We will get into that this morning. Also, we should
have a class action lawsuit over ticket prices. If you're
trying to go to a World Cup game next year
here in the US, good luck. We are talking. They're
(01:34):
not quite six figures, but they're getting up there close.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And you know what's annoying about this. It's not FIFA,
which is of course the host of the World Cup
here in the Americas. But it's the resale issue. And
that's always the problem with any sort of concert or venue.
It's not the actual sale of the ticket. It's folks
quickly getting a ticket and then reselling it for exorbitant prices.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You know, I think what should happen is Mackenzie Scott
should buy up all the tickets and just give them away.
Mackenzie Scott applaud this woman once again, the philanthropist who
said she's gonna give away her fortune, which is upwards
of forty billion. Has done it again in robes. She
is focusing a lot on HBCU's minority communities, and she
(02:18):
just hooked up one HBCU the likes of which they
have never seen before.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
It's incredible, especially with the war on wokeness and diversity.
It's wonderful to have a woman like that in the world.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
We will let you know what her latest big donation is.
What I want to let you know is always top
bright corner of your Apple podcast app where you see
our show page. Little button says follow click that you
can get our updates coming to you all the time.
Also on the run this morning, we did see another
execution last night. Also, another Trump critic is facing charges.
(02:49):
Also another vote on ending the shutdown yesterday, and another
Trump putin summit is in the works. And also on
the run this morning, Look, the virus formerly known as
monkey pox has shown up in the US robes. That's
not necessarily the big deal. It's who has monkey pox
(03:09):
that is causing concern. We'll get into that this morning.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Absolutely, But we do begin our run on this Friday
with news of another Trump putin summit. We don't know
the exact time, but the location has been set.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, President Trump said he was on the phone with
Russian President Vladimir Putin for about two and a half
hours yesterday and the two men agreed to meet again
in Budapest. It's going to happen within the next couple
of weeks, the president said. Said the purpose of this
meeting to see if we can bring the inglorious war
between Russia and Ukraine to an end.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Trump added that he believes the success in the Middle
East peace process will actually help in negotiating an end
to the Russia Ukraine war. Meantime, Ukrainian President Zelenski will
be at the White House today. President Trump said they
will discuss his call with Putin and go forward with that.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, I'm regular over to the house because him and
then Yahoo.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Who else did we were the two that have been
there most often, just in the last couple of months.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Seems like once a week they stopped by, almost continuing
on the run here now. Yes, another high profile Trump critic,
not quite political foes, but yes, Trump critics publicly another
one has been indicted. This one actually served in his administration.
We're talking about former Trump National security advisor John Bolton.
He was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday and
(04:28):
he is facing eighteen counts having to do with national
defense information.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
He's accused of improperly retaining, storing, and sharing sensitive materials.
Bolton in a statement denied any wrongdoing, and he got
in a plug for his book. Good for him.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Did you like this? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You know what take advantage? This is the no press
is bad press kind of theory. I guess when you're
selling a book, Bolton said this. Donald Trump's retribution against
me began during Trump's first administration continued when he tried
unsuccessfully to block the publication of my book The Room
where It Happened before the twenty twenty election, and became
one of his rallying cries in his reelection. Now I
(05:07):
had become the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department
to charge those he deems to be his enemies with
charges that were declined before, or distort the facts.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I usually roll my eyes when people like shamelessly promote
their book. This was just kind of laid in there,
subtly appropriately to a certain degree. I didn't mind it
that much.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I didn't mind it at all I think this was.
Actually it got a little laugh from me.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It did for me too. Now, his lawyer goes on
to say that the charge is stem from Bolton's personal
diary entries, which he shared with immediate family. The argument
is that he made these little injuries, have entries having
to do with his work, he sent them to family,
and because those entries had something to do with national security,
and he sent it to a family member, then therefore
(05:52):
he must have That's kind of the basis of all
that They say. This has been investigated for years and years,
and this is just the president trying to get them.
Of course, James Comey, the former FBI director, and Letitia James,
the age here in New York who brought the case
against Trump. They both are facing federal indictments as well.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Pam Bondi has been busy. Next up on the Run,
day seventeen for the shutdown. Voted on the bill for
the tenth time yesterday and as we predicted, same results.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, our shutdown updates are getting shorter and shorter in
the rundowns every day.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You're not even writing complete sentences, You're just putting in
like bullet points.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Okay, shutdown. Day seventeen voted for a tenth time yesterday,
same result. No Dems, no Republicans, Shane's eyes. Will get
to day twenty next week. Here's the thing, folks, they're
not there adjourned today. It seems weird during a shutdown.
It seems like you should work through the weekend. Instead,
they're taking days off.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Actually, well for people who weren't getting their paychecks, I
think they will probably wholeheartedly agree with that sentimental.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
So here's the point, folks. So we know we're on
day seventeen. Now, there's not going to be any work
during the week, so we will get to eighteen nineteen
twenty of the shutdown will be on Monday. Day twenty
one will be Tuesday. If we get to Wednesday, this
will be the second longest government shut down in US history.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Oh wow, you said if instead of when yesterday, you
were going with when you know?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I am it's Friday. Feeling a little more upomous.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Okay, Next up on the run, we will head to Arizona,
where tonight fifty five year old Richard Jerff is the
scheduled excuse me to die by lethal injection after pleading
guilty to the murder of an entire family, including a
five year old boy. It happened more than thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
This was a brutal quadruple murder. We will not get
into the details of this heinous crime here this morning,
but Jerff chose not to seek clemency for these murders.
The motive, according to prosecutors, he was exacting revenge because
he believed someone in the family stole electronic equipment from
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his home. That's bad enough, but get this, the family
member who allegedly stole his stuff wasn't even at the
house at the time of the murders.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I mean, I have chills from head to toe because
unfortunately I did read the details and they are horrific.
This will be Arizona's second execution of the year and
this country's thirty ninth execution. There were currently one hundred
and eight prisoners on death row in Arizona. This is
the fourth execution this week in the US, and a
lot has been written about the state of Arizona, specifically
because they are among a couple of states that had
(08:23):
some serious issues with their lethal injection process, where they
had reports that are also equally heinoused to talk about
in terms of how long it took people to die
and the pain they experienced. So they actually just reinstated
the death penalty or at least following through on executions
three years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You know, we should probably if we check their calendar,
they might have a full execution calendar, if you will,
as morbid as that sounds, because they're trying to catch up.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, one hundred and eight prisoners on death row because
they had a long moratorium trying to figure out how
to make the drugs they have be less cruel and unusual.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You say fourth this week and think about is supposed
to be five? Yeah, one guy had his the state
of exe Robertson in Texas. Yeah, continuing here on the
run here on this Friday morning. Now, the first US
cases of a severe strain of IMPOCS have been identified.
The thing here is that these are the first US
cases where the two people infected had no recent travel history.
(09:21):
So where did they get it? As the question, We
only know that patients are from California, or the California
residents at least, and they required hospitalization and are now
isolating and recovering at home.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
One is from Long Beach, the other La County and
right now, health officials say there is no known connection
between those two people and they don't know how they
got it. There have been six previous previous cases this
year of this more severe strain of EMPOCS, but all
of those patients had recently traveled to areas associated with
the outbreak, which is in central and Eastern Africa.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So the health department is investigating trying to figure out
who the patients came in contact with. They're looking for
the source of exposure. This freaks medical professionals out where
we don't know how to contain this damn thing.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
In all the articles, health officials are using terms like
deeply concerning.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Okay, Well, parts of Africa are dealing with person to
person spread of this strain of the disease, which is
spread through sex and other forms of direct contact and
through touching contaminated items like betting or clothing. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Mpox is a virus that was formerly known as monkey pox,
and people who contract it have flu like symptoms and
often get a painful rash that appears on their hands, feet, chest, face, mouth,
or even near the genitals. Most people do recover within
two to four weeks, but it's described as painful and excruciating.
There is a vaccine available for people considered most at
risk risk. A lot of this is gay men through
(10:50):
same sex sex, basically is how a lot of this
is transferred. But it's in the same family of smallpox.
And the good news is it's rarely fatal. It's just
scary and not something anybody wants.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
But this is one of those things highly contagious, right,
can spread. Where did they get They got it here? Yes, somewhere.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Wow, it's scary.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That is a little scary. All right, Folks who want
to continue here on this Friday morning, run now with
Ace Freely, founding member of the legendary rock band Kiss,
he has passed away at the age of seventy four.
Ace Freely served as lead guitarist. He died at his
home in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
In a statement, his family said this, we are completely
devastated and heartbroken in his last moments, we were fortunate
enough to have been able to surround him with loving, caring,
peaceful words, thoughts, prayers and intentions as he left this earth.
Freely announced last month that he was canceling shows after
he had to go to the hospital after a fall
(11:50):
at the studio. That's all we know is that he fell,
and then a few weeks later he died seventy four.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
You hear that's so young these days, right. His fellow
Mats Geene Simmons Paul Stanley put out a joint statement.
They said he was an essential and irreplaceable rock soldier
during some of the most formative foundational chapters of Kiss. Now.
Ace Freeley was born Paul Daniel Freeley and eventually became
known as Spaceman when Kiss was formed in seventy three. Look,
(12:19):
I have to be honest, I didn't know they had
names going with. There was a Catman, there was a Spaceman,
there was I didn't know they each had these.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Little I Look, obviously we know the iconic look and
some of the songs, but I was not that familiar
as well. So Freeley left the band actually in the
early eighties, but he reunited with Kiss in nineteen ninety
six as they continued to tour. Kiss has sold more
than one hundred million albums and went into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame in twenty fourteen. I know
(12:48):
they're about to get a big award in December, so
it's sad he wasn't able to be there for it,
but certainly he had an amazing story, a high school dropout,
no guitar lessons, and yet he became a rose to
playing the guitar.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
No, he joked about that. He said, yeah, I never
had a guitar lesson. I dropped out of high school
and here I am a millionaire and it's like the
American dream. It's just he wasn't being arrogant about it.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
It's just talented.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Wow, that's pretty incredible. His story is incredible. If you
get a chance to read up and look about his story,
you should absolutely do so. Today stay with us here though,
on this Friday morning run, a billionaire keeps getting richer
playing a game that you've probably played in Vegas as well. Also,
Mackenzie Scott, she's pretty rich, but she is spreading the
(13:33):
love even more. Also, we didn't even realize Robaka and
I that we might have a case against Nike because
some other folks are suing their shoe company because their
shoes are too damn loud. Seriously, and if you want
to go to the World Cup in the US next year,
(13:53):
save your pennies.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Actually go to Vegas.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You can leave them a lot more than pennies. Stay
with us books, all right, folks, we continue on this
Friday morning ron the rich keep getting richer, you know
that saying, But it's true, and there's something about it
(14:16):
that just makes Yes, it's annoying. Yeah, it's kind of annoying,
but yes, it's the case for the governor of Illinois.
Didn't you know? First of all, he's an heir to
the Hyatt hotel chain. He's worth about four billion dollars
and well he picked up some more change in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, he's on the Forbes list. I saw he's like
number three hundred and something, but I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah, rich's mayor, excuse me, a governor's.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
The year might be. I have to check that out,
but it would seem like a three point nine billion
in counting. But guess what he can add one point
four million to that cash because that's how much he
won in a casino in Vegas. Governor J. B. Pritzker
reported the gambling windfall on his federal tax return this week.
That's why we all found out, he told reporters after
(15:03):
they asked him. He got lucky in blackjack on vacation
with his wife and some friends in Vegas. Pritzker's saying, quote,
anybody who's played cards in a casino, you often play
for too long and lose whatever it is you want.
I was fortunate enough to have to leave before that happened.
He was one point four million dollars up. I can't
(15:24):
even get my head around that. You've asked me to
stop when I'm like a couple hundred bucks up.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Okay, this is this is billionaire behavior. This is billionaire
behave to think you know what I left before I
lost that one point four million. Of course you're supposed
to get up and.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Leave when you win one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Leave My thing. I always say to you, babe, just
cash out, put the money in your pocket. You can
keep playing. But if you see it up there on
that little electronic monitor, it just feels like play money.
You keep going to get little chips.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, it doesn't feel real.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
It doesn't feel now. Spokesperson for the government, Look, the
guy's a billionaire. Does he need this one point four million?
You could argue no, So all he said he's going
to donate the money to charity. That should be the
end of the story. The problem here is that he
hasn't done it yet, and if he made the money already,
we're just finding out about it. The question from reporters
(16:16):
was why hasn't he donated the money yet? There was
no response, and so the suggestion kind of being that
you kind of got called on it, and no, you're
saying you're going to donate it to charity. Either way,
it's fine if he wants to keep the money. I'm
not mad.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Hey, it's his prerogatives.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yes, like you said out, so he shouldn't be called
on it. He is a big time a poker player,
and I didn't realize he has a charity event that
raises money for charity a poker game.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, it's called the Chicago Poker Challenge and it raises
millions of dollars for the Holocaust Museum and Educational Center.
So he does do some good with hip. But we'll
see what he is going to I feel like he's
going to have to announce now where he's it's going
to have to be giving that money. He's going to
have to do it. But you know who's not going
to have to do it, McKenzie Scott. She doesn't want
your money, She added, again, Yes she doesn't. No one
(17:02):
even has to ask her a question because she's given
it away before you even can. The billionaire philanthropist has
just given an HBCU the largest single donation in its history.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
We are talking Morgan State University in Baltimore. It is
getting sixty three million dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
So awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
This is the latest round of donations from Mackenzie Scott.
She's been on a giving spree the past several years.
As you know, she's pledged to give away her fortune,
which was estimated around forty billion dollars after her divorce
from Amazon CEO Chef Bezos back in.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Twenty nineteen, sixty three million. I wonder where she gets
those numbers from, because.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
They're all over the place. We have some more details here,
but they're never even numbers, So I don't know how
she does.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I kind of am curious about what why she comes
up with those specific numbers. They're not typical. Obviously, nothing's
typical about what she's giving away. In addition to the
Morgan State donation, she's also donated forty million dollars to
the African American Cultural Heritage Action F that's a group
that preserves and promotes black culture. And then Scott has
given away about twenty billion dollars in the past five years.
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Some of her biggest here's another like, here are the
weird numbers. I'm talking about four hundred and thirty six
million dollars to Habitat for Humanity, two hundred and eighty
one million dollars to Boys and Girls Clubs of America,
and two hundred and seventy five million to Planned Parenthood.
She also gave forty million to MSU Morgan.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
State, YO. So this Morgan State one was her second
one she's done.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
She's given one hundred million dollars to one HBCU that
I've bet a bunch of people listening to us have
no idea what that school is, where it is, maybe
never even heard of it. I hadn't eight Morgan State University. Yes,
I mean this woman applaud her and continued to applaud
she has given away I think nearly half of her money.
That's with a B. She is doing generational change in
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the donation she's making and these are not restricted. Then
she's not given a money say it has to go
to this programmer that she's not loved about this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I love again, got chills for all the right reasons,
this time just to hear what she does and hopefully
gets contagious, you know, the crazy thing.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And people have whatever opinion they have about Jeff Bezos
for whatever reasons, with what he does with his money,
but his money. Don't let me wrong, I'm not, but
that money coming from Amazon is changing lives because someone
who has access to that money has decided what she
wants to do with it. Life is funny. That marriage,
(19:28):
that divorce, that ugliness in the public is benefiting children.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Some kids sometimes good.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Well, I didn't want to go there. My point is
you can never think that all this good could come
out of what that was. I applaud mcind'scuss.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
That's a really really good point, and I think it's
a it's it's a it's a good example of not
always taking things at a certain value, but recognizing that
sometimes when bad things happen, good things can come out
of it.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
These guys, Oh, I love this lady. I really want
to talk to her. I applaud this woman. All right,
we want to continue here on this is the last leg.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
We've got one more after this.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Well, Okay, we got two last legs, all right. First
up here has to do with this class action lawsuit
we've been talking about. Yes, customers have filed a class
action suit against a popular athletic shoe company because the
shoes are too damn loud. In fact, the soup claims
that the customers are embarrassed to wear the sneakers we're
talking about on brand. We do have some of these,
(20:32):
but they kind of look cool and they clearly are popular,
but they say the shoes squeak so loud when you
walk in them that they've now filed a lawsuit class
action in nature.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Okay, so here are the claims in the lawsuit. Claim
number one, the materials cause a noise and embarrassing squeak
with each and every step. Claim too, the customers complain
that the company refused to compensate them, so customers resorted
to diy modifications to their shoes. Okay, here's the other claim.
(21:06):
After approximately three months of using his shoes, the plaintiff
noticed a squeaking with every step that he has been on.
Unable to stop, plaintiff cannot walk and run in his
Cloud Monsters without experiencing a squeak. With every step.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yes, that's one of the shoes here, So it's not
just one particular shoe, it's the shoes with this cloud
tech is what on claims they have look robes. We
wear Alpha fly shoes. You all these these super shoes.
I guess running shoes the big component.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
They're really light, but they're really loud.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
But the reason you have to make them really light
you have to use very soft, foamy light materials with
air in them. And when you walk, every step is loud.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
We laugh get out, especially if we don't usually wear
shoes in the house, but if we do have them
on right before we go on the run, I'm laughing
because it's so noisy. I can't hear anything. And even
on the street it's like, thank god we have air pods.
If you take them out, like wow, we are so
loud when we run.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
They are super duper loud. They just are I mean,
we wake up. We scared to wake up people in
the house when we are going out for a run. Really,
they are four week and now squeaky folks. It is
really loud.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Though it's funny, okay, but come on, you're gonna sue
over it, right, and we continue to buy them because
they're awesome shoes.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Okay, and there are eleven different styles that are mentioned
in this lawsuit, and the shoes cost around one hundred
and seventy dollars up to that point. But what are
you supposed to do, ropes?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Don't buy them again if you don't like them.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I can't imagine buying like a diesel vehicle and then
going back. You know what, this engine it's a little loud.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I mean you, good luck with your lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Okay, final leg of the run here. Now World Cup
is here. Well it's not until next year, but the
fever has hit us. And we can see that because
FIFA has announced that more than a million tickets have
been sold for next year's World Cup, gonna be hosted
here and US, in Canada, and in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
So people from two hundred and twelve different countries have
already purchased tickets. The top buyers, not surprisingly, are from
the US, Canada, and Mexico. That makes sense. But here
are the next countries in order. I love this. It
just kind of shows the I guess, the fan base
oh yeah, in each of these countries. So here they
are in order. The number of people who have bought tickets.
The next biggest buyers are from England, Germany like soccer,
(23:23):
Brazil them too, I hear Spain they're kind of big
on it, Columbia, Argentina, World Cuvers and France they like that.
So the first round of tickets were available through a
lottery of four point five million applicants. The next lottery
will be open to fans in just ten days, that's
on October twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Wait, we need to sign up for this, Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Like you have to get into the lottery. If you
want to get a ticket that is being sold at
its actual faced value, then you need to get in
line literally for a chance to buy one of these tickets.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
This is what we got to do. So the lowest
priced seats were set at sixty dollars, but most seats
in the majority of matches are set at much higher.
The opening match in California has seat prices ranging from
five hundred and sixty dollars to about three thousand bucks. However,
FIFA's resale site has now officially opened. Those prices are.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Absurd and they're gonna get more absurd. This is just
the beginning. So that same opening match where we told you.
Prices range from five hundred and sixty bucks to nearly
three thousand. Okay, well guess what They actually have seats
listed for as much as sixty one thousand, six hundred
and forty two dollars a piece for that opening match,
(24:32):
the final match, and look, this is gonna get higher,
which will take place in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which
is really close to where you and I are. Babe.
Resale seat prices range from ninety five hundred dollars all
the way to fifty seven thousand, five hundred dollars. This
is as a Thursday after this.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Says got to be in a luxury box of something
you can't come.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
On that's insane, you.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Know, I put it out there. Might some see if
some money, ye see if some money pace for it.
A third lottery round for tickets starting in December is
going to happen, and close to the tournament itself, they'll
have a first come, first serve situation. But the tournament
runs from June eleventh through July nineteenth, twenty twenty six.
We are wildly excited.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
About We need to get on this. We have talked
about this.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Or maybe we should go to Europe.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
It's so fun to watch World Cup games in Europe.
So ironically, even though it's taking place in the US,
we would actually buy a ticket and fly to England
to watch the game in an English pub. It's more fun.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Crazy, but it really is the case. I think the
US is qualified. Yeah, the US is it, So that'll
be big for the US.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
But this is We're actually going to plan our vacation
schedule around this in June next year. All right. Quote
of the day for everyone on this Friday. Loved this
quote and loved who it came from. Most unhappiness is
caused by people listening to themselves instead of talking to themselves.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Listening to themselves and stuff. Yes, you're you're you're doing
what some thing in your mind is telling you to do,
instead of you telling yourself what needs to be done. Yeah,
we do that.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Often your thoughts start to get you know you, Just
I think someone once said, just if you don't think
your mind is overactive in creating all sorts of worst
case scenarios and really inventing or reinventing things to suit
how you feel, just take a moment to observe yourself
in the shower. Your mind is going crazy. So yes,
(26:27):
instead of talking to yourself in logical ways and recognizing
and acknowledging. But well, now our thoughts, man, it is
they are our own worst enemy. I just love this.
So this comes from William James. He's a psychologist who
was born in eighteen forty two. But I did a
little research. He was dubbed the father of American psychology.
He was the first educator in this country to offer
(26:49):
a class in psychology, and he essentially founded Harvard's psychology department. Wow,
which is so cool. I've never heard of this guy,
but I think his brother is Henry James, a very
famous novelist that many people might know. So cool story.
Love the quote William James.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
William Bill James, and Henry James.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yes, creativity, Well they were creative beyond their names. No
they didn't, But I'll say the quote for you one
more time. It's something really to think about and then
talk to yourself about later. Most unhappiness is caused by
people listening to themselves instead of talking to themselves. So
(27:29):
we hope you have a happy Friday and a wonderful weekend.
Thank you for running with us, every one.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I'm Amy Rosa and I'm TJ Holmes.
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