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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
An iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run.
It's Monday, May twelfth.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes. Coming up on
today's run, the US and China call for a trade
war truce, a major breakthrough overnight that is already a
global game changer.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Plus Pope Leo makes his first Sunday appearance and warns
of a third World war. And President Trump accepts a
four hundred million dollar gift from a Middle East country
as he heads to that region in his first major
international trip of his second term.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Also on the Run this morning, so far, so good
in that shaky ceasefire between India and Pakistan. Also, the
last American held by Hamas is expected to be released
at any moment, And equipment keeps failing and keeps causing
issues at Newark Airport, this time a groundstop.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Also on the Morning Run, at least ten people have
been hospitalized in the nation's latest listeria outbreak. Plus the
Kentucky Derby winning jockey gets fined and suspended for breaking
the rules on whipping the horse.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Also, Centners keeps doing its thing at the box office,
and its thing is to dominate for a fourth weekend
in a row.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
We begin our run though, this morning with something that
was just announced, a major breakthrough in the trade war.
The US and China have agreed to stop pummeling one another.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
After a weekend of direct talks in Geneva, the US
and China say they will roll back their exorbitant tariffs
on each other for the time being. Now, we watched
this press conference earlier with the US trade representatives trying
to explain some of these numbers. Well, we pulled this
one back, and then we went up ten percent on
this one. Then we may have left over here, and
then they okay, this is the bottom line. All you
need to know. That one hundred and forty five percent
(01:49):
tariff that the US imposed on China will be rolled
back to thirty percent, and that one hundred and twenty
five percent tariff that China imposed on the US goes
down to whoow.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Okay, So now what, Well, there will be a ninety
day pause on these tariffs while talks for a longer
term solution continue, and the markets will take it while
they can get at. Stock futures, as you might imagine,
shot up sharply Upon the news of this deal, the
Dow was already up one thousand points. It will be
very interesting to watch the stock market today, but certainly
(02:23):
this is good news for everyone, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Next, Legaba Run takes us to Washington, DC, and just
as President Trump heads to the Middle East on the
first major international trip of his second term, he confirmed
on social media that the Department of Defense is accepting
a massive gift free of charge.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That gift is a luxury Boeing seven forty seven to
eight jet that will be outfitted to replace Air Force one.
The giver of that gift the Katari royal family, and
Trump consumed thank them in person because one of his
stops in this week's trip is to Doha, Qatar.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Okay, let's get this straight here. The jet, according to
the President, will be used on a temporary basis in
a very public and transparent transaction his words. Also reportedly
it's going to be donated to his presidential library after
he leaves office, so he can continue to use it personally. However,
Cutter says this would be a government to government transaction,
(03:20):
not a personal gift to President Trump, saying this is
a gift from the Qatari Ministry of Defense to the Pentagon.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Of course, there are massive ethical and potentially legal issues
with this transaction, as well as some security issues that
I hadn't thought about until I started reading. And while
this completely makes sense, security experts say this plane is
going to have to be pretty much torn apart to
be checked for surveillance equipment and to confirm the integrity
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of the plane before it flies in its official duty
as air Force one.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Is this not the most important piece of transportation that
the US government essentially owns. It carries our president. You're
going to put that in the hands of a foreign government.
You all make this and send this to carry our
most important person. Yeah, there are a lot of issues
that seems wild. So Democrats, of course, they jumped on this.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer posted this, It's not just bribery,
(04:14):
it's premium foreign influence with extra leg room.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
But I'm bump. I had to include that one, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Well, The Constitution, of course, prohibits anyone holding public office
from accepting gifts from any of any kind from a king,
a prince, or foreign state without congressional consent.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But Attorney General Pam Bondi and Trump's top White House
lawyer have already chimed in saying this deal would be
legally permissible for the DoD to accept the jet as
long as it's ultimately transferred to Trump's presidential library just
before his term ends. Okay, we'll see about that. I'm
sure there will still be some legal issues thrown up.
(04:52):
Trump toured the plane earlier this year, and CNN is
reporting that it is expected to be in use within
two years. This plane has roughly a four hundred million
dollar price tag to it.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Do you remember we remember doing this story something at
the end of Biden's term when they had gifts that
were given they could take them themselves, but they had
to pay for them. They had to pay the government back.
I don't know how you get around and he uses
a four hundred million dollar gifts for personal use later,
how do you get around that?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
If anybody can, Trump will find a way.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Wow, that was a compliment. That was a kind of backhanded,
but still it was a compliment to his skills. We
continue to run. The next leg now takes us to Rome,
where Pope Leo the fourteenth was back on that balcony
yesterday for his first Sunday address since being elected Pope.
The Vatican says about one hundred thousand people were there
in Saint Peters Square.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
To hear him, and he used his first Sunday address
to talk peace, mentioning three current conflicts in the world.
He applauded the agreement between India and Pakistan to immediately
stop fighting, and he called for peace in Gaza and Ukraine,
but he said we are facing a third World war
in pieces.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The people held the first Mass Friday in the Sistine Chapel.
The Pope had his first one there in the Sistine Chapel.
This was the day after he was elected. He's got
a full schedule. He will continue his papal duties. We'll
see that over the next week, but he officially doesn't
start his papal term until next Sunday with his official
(06:20):
papal inauguration ceremony. And also this morning, you're going to
be hearing a lot more from him. He's holding a
press conference of sorts, but meeting with reporters taking some questions.
So curious to hear what he says. I'm curious to
hear what language is he uses.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, he speaks several and We've we heard a little
bit of English from him for the first time over
the weekend, but mostly he's been sticking to Italian and
a little bit of Spanish. Of course, his last papal
duties were or actually what was papal duties. He was
a bishop, he was a cardinal in Peru. So yes,
he speaks money languages. But can't wait to hear what
he has to say later today.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Next leg of our run takes us overseas. So the
ceasefire between India and Pakistan, the one that probably did
reference in his address that truce appears to be holding
on its first full day and had a pretty shaky.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Start though that's true, but both sides claimed on Sunday
to have come out on top. After Trump announced this
peace agreement over the weekend. The US helped mediate the deal,
Senator Mark or Rubio getting a lot of praise for it.
Pakistan acknowledged that and directly thank President Trump for his
leadership in the mediation. Notably, though, India did not mention
(07:26):
any US involvement, saying instead in their statement quote India
and Pakistan was worked out directly between the two countries. Quote.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, after all, it's always amazing that everybody wants credit. Well, no,
we didn't flinge. It wasn't a deal. It was okay, fine,
Just people stop fighting and people stop dying. Will take it.
The four day conflict between the two longtime rivals had
been escalating, Dozens had been killed and drone the missile shelling.
Trump praised both countries for having strength, wisdom, and fortitude,
(07:55):
as he put it, to fully know and understand that
it was time to stop the current aggression that could
have led to the death and destruction of so many now.
Trump added that he plans to substantially increase trade now
with both countries following the ceasefire.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
All right. Next up on our run, the last American
hostage being held by HAMAS is expected to be released imminently.
US and HAMAS officials say a deal has been reached
for Eden Alexander to be returned to his family now.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He was captured in that October seventh, twenty twenty three
Hamas attack that started this current conflict. He's an Israeli soldier,
but at dual Israeli American citizenship.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Hamas says it had been in secret talks with the
US over Alexander's release, which is being described as a
goodwill gesture meant to help move the sides closer to
a ceasefire deal, which is of course something we are
all hoping for.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
All Right, we'll stay with us here on this Monday morning.
Ron when we come back, Why Robot and I have
just canceled our flight into and out of Newark Airport.
We probably aren't the only ones doing that. We will explain. Also,
update on a Lasteria outbreak, and the Kentucky Derby winning
jockey has been fined and suspended. He hit the horse
(09:09):
too many times. We'll explain. All right, let's continue our
Monday morning run now with this. What the actual hell
is going on at Newark Airport? There has been yet
another scary sounding equipment outage happened yesterday at the airport.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
The FAA is calling it a telecommunications issue with the
equipment used for air traffic controllers to communicate with planes
into and out of Newark Airport. Sounds important, yeah, very important,
communication key. It was serious enough that the FAA issued
a ground stop for all planes headed to Newark. This
lasted for about forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Okay, again, this one was just yesterday. We had another
incident on Friday, same airport, in which there was a
radio and radar outage that lasted for about ninety seconds. Now,
the same thing happened last month. Air traffic controllers lost
the ability to see planes on the radar and communicate
with pilots. Now, just hearing that out loud, imagining you
(10:15):
are flying, you don't have any idea you're flying into Newark,
You're about the land, and the air traffic controller loses
sight of your plane and can't communicate with your pilot. Now,
you might not have any idea that that happened, but
in a critical moment, that is going to be a
disaster if they don't get this worked out.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, and speaking to just how traumatic this was the
incident that one was so jarring that several air traffic
controllers actually took trauma leave after that happened. So thousands
of flights ended up delayed and canceled after these incidents.
And despite all of this, the Transportation Secretary says it's
safe to fly in and out of Newark, though they
are reducing the number of daily flights in the interim
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while they're working out the kings. You and I are
literally anseling a trip and changing airports and airlines. I
even think probably because of it. My parents are coming
in this week because my daughter's graduating from college. They
literally just changed their flights to LaGuardia and my das
did it cost more and it's the timing isn't as good.
(11:16):
But he'd rather do that than put himself in this
situation of being at the mercy of whatever glitch this is.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
They can't they keep calling us a glitch. This glitch is.
You know this is going to be a disaster. You
can't get a glitch like this. You can't. You just
can't do this. You can't see or communicate with a plane.
Come on, yall, all right, we want to continue our run. Here.
Now another scary update here, folks. This one has to
do with a lasteria outbreak currently going on already hospitalize
(11:44):
at least ten people in California and Nevada. CDC and
FDA investigating more than eighty ready to eat products that
are included in his recall, from snag boxes to sandwiches
and pastas. All these were produced by Fresh and Ready Foods.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Here's the scary part to me. The recalled products have
already been distributed to hospitals, hotels, convenience stores, airports, and
airlines with best by dates between April twenty second and
May nineteenth. Obviously, they're reaching out to all of these places,
but it's still a scary thing to think that these
are out there. Symptoms of listeria infection usually begin within
(12:23):
two weeks of eating contaminated food, but they can start
any time between the day you eat it all the
way up to ten weeks later. It's really hard, so
that's what they're saying. At least ten people have been hospitalized.
It's really hard for them to know exactly how far
reaching this has been.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
We're talking pregnant women, newborns, people sixty five and older.
Folks with weekend immune systems are the most at risk
from listeria infections. By this. Many of these stories, as
we've done about all kinds of eyebreak, this is an issue.
It's hard to trace it because some people, you know,
you somebody's going to get sick in six weeks and
forget all about a listeria outbreak. They don't know to
go report it. So we just it's hard to know
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how big of an issue this is.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
All right, next up on our run. The Kentucky Derby
winning jockey has now been fined and suspended because he
hit his horse more times than he should have.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
At Junior alvaretas his name. He was riding Sovereignty when
the horse finished first at last week's Kentucky Derby. But
during that race, Alvarado struck the horse with his riding
crop eight times. You're only allowed six. These are the rules,
and they kind of change over the years. But I
didn't realize as a specific the way you supposed to
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hold your hand, how high you can hold it, how
many times in succession you can hit, you supposed to
give the horse time to respond after you hit it.
There are some very specific rules about hitting the.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Horse, and we neither one of us had any idea
that that was even in place. I guess it makes
sense when we think about it. Alvarado is being fined
sixty two thousand dollars and suspended for two races at
Churchill Downs. Now, despite the fine and the suspension, the
results of the Kentucky Derby do not change. Sovereignty remains
the winner.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Not really, because if you're implying that somehow he Is
it about him cheating or is it about cruel and unusual? Like,
I don't know which one which reason either behind or
maybe it's both.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Either way, they have a rule in plays. I assume
he must have gotten some kind of advantage if he
did it more times than he should have. But also
if you you just broke a rule, Yeah, why shouldn't
you be disqualified? I was waiting anyway, Sovereignty's still your winner. Albarado,
he was fine that sixty two thousand we talked about,
but this is his second violation in the past six month.
(14:33):
The way it works, you ten percent fine for your
first violation on your winnings. He got three hundred and
ten thousand four winning it, but it was his second
violation twenty percent. That's where the sixty two k comes from.
And that's a significant.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, that certainly end.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You gotta pay TAXI, you gotta pay your agent, you
gotta that's of money for him.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
All Right, we're gonna move on now to the final
leg of our run, and we're gonna head to the movies,
where two movies continue to dominate the box office. Thunderbolts
and Sinners top the arts once again over the weekend,
despite a number of new movies vuying for those top spots.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, Thunderbolts in first place where it's second weekend thirty
three point one million dollars domestically, has now picked up
two hundred and seventy million plus around the world. I've
been hearing good things about this movie. I'm a Marvel fan,
and some of these The Gardens of the Galaxy was
kind of a surprise. He and you put some misfits together. Yeah,
I'm kind of curious about this one. But of course
(15:26):
Centers is still doing its thing. Ryan Coogler's original story
horror movie came in seconds his fourth weekend, but it's
crossed the two hundred million dollar mark globally. It brought
in another twenty one million dollars in the US alone
over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, so in total, Sinners now made two hundred and
eighty three point three million dollars. That is remarkable, And
you pointed out an original horror movie. Imax just announced
it's bringing Cinners back to its screens by popular demand
next weekend, so expect those numbers to continue to rise.
But this week we are excited. There are high hopes
(16:00):
for another major horror movie arriving at theaters final destination, Bloodlines.
We've been waiting for this one.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, with those people. We've been catching up watching the
previous what five just such creative deaths if you will,
if you're a horror movie fan, been looking forward to it.
But before we let you go on this Monday, this
is how we want you to start your week. We
have our quote of the day, something we would like
for you to take with you as you go about
your Monday.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, this one just spoke to me. It's Monday, you're
a little tired, but this is a good one to
remember from an amazing man. Love the life you live,
Live the life you love.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Hey, break that one down for me.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
That's from Bob Marley by the way, so you can
see it's very poetic in nature. But yeah, it's about
loving the life that you're living, right, just remembering that
there are so many things to love about it. But
it's also a reminder to live the life you love,
to choose the things you love, to choose the time.
I feel like you have to spend it with the
people you love, with things you love doing. This is
our one shot, and every day we get to choose
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how we live. And so I just loved the poetic
nature of the quote, but what it also meant or
said to me.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
So I'll give it to us one more time from
Bob Marley, and I'm asking you to do it because
it's kind of given. I tried to read it a
couple of times, and I keep getting tongue tagged with
all the live and the life and the love and
so you do.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It feel tired? Right? So yeah, it's at a little bleary.
I do can't read this well all right, love the
life you live, and live the life you love. Thank
you for that, Bob Marley, and thank you for running
with us. Everyone.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I'm made robots and I am TJ. Holmes. Enjoy your Monday.
See you on the run tomorrow
Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
An iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run.
It's Monday, May twelfth.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes. Coming up on
today's run, the US and China call for a trade
war truce, a major breakthrough overnight that is already a
global game changer.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Plus Pope Leo makes his first Sunday appearance and warns
of a third World war. And President Trump accepts a
four hundred million dollar gift from a Middle East country
as he heads to that region in his first major
international trip of his second term.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Also on the Run this morning, so far, so good
in that shaky ceasefire between India and Pakistan. Also, the
last American held by Hamas is expected to be released
at any moment, And equipment keeps failing and keeps causing
issues at Newark Airport, this time a groundstop.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Also on the Morning Run, at least ten people have
been hospitalized in the nation's latest listeria outbreak. Plus the
Kentucky Derby winning jockey gets fined and suspended for breaking
the rules on whipping the horse.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Also, Centners keeps doing its thing at the box office,
and its thing is to dominate for a fourth weekend
in a row.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
We begin our run though, this morning with something that
was just announced, a major breakthrough in the trade war.
The US and China have agreed to stop pummeling one another.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
After a weekend of direct talks in Geneva, the US
and China say they will roll back their exorbitant tariffs
on each other for the time being. Now, we watched
this press conference earlier with the US trade representatives trying
to explain some of these numbers. Well, we pulled this
one back, and then we went up ten percent on
this one. Then we may have left over here, and
then they okay, this is the bottom line. All you
need to know. That one hundred and forty five percent
(01:49):
tariff that the US imposed on China will be rolled
back to thirty percent, and that one hundred and twenty
five percent tariff that China imposed on the US goes
down to whoow.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Okay, So now what, Well, there will be a ninety
day pause on these tariffs while talks for a longer
term solution continue, and the markets will take it while
they can get at. Stock futures, as you might imagine,
shot up sharply Upon the news of this deal, the
Dow was already up one thousand points. It will be
very interesting to watch the stock market today, but certainly
(02:23):
this is good news for everyone, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Next, Legaba Run takes us to Washington, DC, and just
as President Trump heads to the Middle East on the
first major international trip of his second term, he confirmed
on social media that the Department of Defense is accepting
a massive gift free of charge.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That gift is a luxury Boeing seven forty seven to
eight jet that will be outfitted to replace Air Force one.
The giver of that gift the Katari royal family, and
Trump consumed thank them in person because one of his
stops in this week's trip is to Doha, Qatar.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Okay, let's get this straight here. The jet, according to
the President, will be used on a temporary basis in
a very public and transparent transaction his words. Also reportedly
it's going to be donated to his presidential library after
he leaves office, so he can continue to use it personally. However,
Cutter says this would be a government to government transaction,
(03:20):
not a personal gift to President Trump, saying this is
a gift from the Qatari Ministry of Defense to the Pentagon.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Of course, there are massive ethical and potentially legal issues
with this transaction, as well as some security issues that
I hadn't thought about until I started reading. And while
this completely makes sense, security experts say this plane is
going to have to be pretty much torn apart to
be checked for surveillance equipment and to confirm the integrity
(03:48):
of the plane before it flies in its official duty
as air Force one.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Is this not the most important piece of transportation that
the US government essentially owns. It carries our president. You're
going to put that in the hands of a foreign government.
You all make this and send this to carry our
most important person. Yeah, there are a lot of issues
that seems wild. So Democrats, of course, they jumped on this.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer posted this, It's not just bribery,
(04:14):
it's premium foreign influence with extra leg room.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
But I'm bump. I had to include that one, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Well, The Constitution, of course, prohibits anyone holding public office
from accepting gifts from any of any kind from a king,
a prince, or foreign state without congressional consent.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But Attorney General Pam Bondi and Trump's top White House
lawyer have already chimed in saying this deal would be
legally permissible for the DoD to accept the jet as
long as it's ultimately transferred to Trump's presidential library just
before his term ends. Okay, we'll see about that. I'm
sure there will still be some legal issues thrown up.
(04:52):
Trump toured the plane earlier this year, and CNN is
reporting that it is expected to be in use within
two years. This plane has roughly a four hundred million
dollar price tag to it.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Do you remember we remember doing this story something at
the end of Biden's term when they had gifts that
were given they could take them themselves, but they had
to pay for them. They had to pay the government back.
I don't know how you get around and he uses
a four hundred million dollar gifts for personal use later,
how do you get around that?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
If anybody can, Trump will find a way.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Wow, that was a compliment. That was a kind of backhanded,
but still it was a compliment to his skills. We
continue to run. The next leg now takes us to Rome,
where Pope Leo the fourteenth was back on that balcony
yesterday for his first Sunday address since being elected Pope.
The Vatican says about one hundred thousand people were there
in Saint Peters Square.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
To hear him, and he used his first Sunday address
to talk peace, mentioning three current conflicts in the world.
He applauded the agreement between India and Pakistan to immediately
stop fighting, and he called for peace in Gaza and Ukraine,
but he said we are facing a third World war
in pieces.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The people held the first Mass Friday in the Sistine Chapel.
The Pope had his first one there in the Sistine Chapel.
This was the day after he was elected. He's got
a full schedule. He will continue his papal duties. We'll
see that over the next week, but he officially doesn't
start his papal term until next Sunday with his official
(06:20):
papal inauguration ceremony. And also this morning, you're going to
be hearing a lot more from him. He's holding a
press conference of sorts, but meeting with reporters taking some questions.
So curious to hear what he says. I'm curious to
hear what language is he uses.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, he speaks several and We've we heard a little
bit of English from him for the first time over
the weekend, but mostly he's been sticking to Italian and
a little bit of Spanish. Of course, his last papal
duties were or actually what was papal duties. He was
a bishop, he was a cardinal in Peru. So yes,
he speaks money languages. But can't wait to hear what
he has to say later today.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Next leg of our run takes us overseas. So the
ceasefire between India and Pakistan, the one that probably did
reference in his address that truce appears to be holding
on its first full day and had a pretty shaky.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Start though that's true, but both sides claimed on Sunday
to have come out on top. After Trump announced this
peace agreement over the weekend. The US helped mediate the deal,
Senator Mark or Rubio getting a lot of praise for it.
Pakistan acknowledged that and directly thank President Trump for his
leadership in the mediation. Notably, though, India did not mention
(07:26):
any US involvement, saying instead in their statement quote India
and Pakistan was worked out directly between the two countries. Quote.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, after all, it's always amazing that everybody wants credit. Well, no,
we didn't flinge. It wasn't a deal. It was okay, fine,
Just people stop fighting and people stop dying. Will take it.
The four day conflict between the two longtime rivals had
been escalating, Dozens had been killed and drone the missile shelling.
Trump praised both countries for having strength, wisdom, and fortitude,
(07:55):
as he put it, to fully know and understand that
it was time to stop the current aggression that could
have led to the death and destruction of so many now.
Trump added that he plans to substantially increase trade now
with both countries following the ceasefire.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
All right. Next up on our run, the last American
hostage being held by HAMAS is expected to be released imminently.
US and HAMAS officials say a deal has been reached
for Eden Alexander to be returned to his family now.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He was captured in that October seventh, twenty twenty three
Hamas attack that started this current conflict. He's an Israeli soldier,
but at dual Israeli American citizenship.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Hamas says it had been in secret talks with the
US over Alexander's release, which is being described as a
goodwill gesture meant to help move the sides closer to
a ceasefire deal, which is of course something we are
all hoping for.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
All Right, we'll stay with us here on this Monday morning.
Ron when we come back, Why Robot and I have
just canceled our flight into and out of Newark Airport.
We probably aren't the only ones doing that. We will explain. Also,
update on a Lasteria outbreak, and the Kentucky Derby winning
jockey has been fined and suspended. He hit the horse
(09:09):
too many times. We'll explain. All right, let's continue our
Monday morning run now with this. What the actual hell
is going on at Newark Airport? There has been yet
another scary sounding equipment outage happened yesterday at the airport.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
The FAA is calling it a telecommunications issue with the
equipment used for air traffic controllers to communicate with planes
into and out of Newark Airport. Sounds important, yeah, very important,
communication key. It was serious enough that the FAA issued
a ground stop for all planes headed to Newark. This
lasted for about forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Okay, again, this one was just yesterday. We had another
incident on Friday, same airport, in which there was a
radio and radar outage that lasted for about ninety seconds. Now,
the same thing happened last month. Air traffic controllers lost
the ability to see planes on the radar and communicate
with pilots. Now, just hearing that out loud, imagining you
(10:15):
are flying, you don't have any idea you're flying into Newark,
You're about the land, and the air traffic controller loses
sight of your plane and can't communicate with your pilot. Now,
you might not have any idea that that happened, but
in a critical moment, that is going to be a
disaster if they don't get this worked out.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, and speaking to just how traumatic this was the
incident that one was so jarring that several air traffic
controllers actually took trauma leave after that happened. So thousands
of flights ended up delayed and canceled after these incidents.
And despite all of this, the Transportation Secretary says it's
safe to fly in and out of Newark, though they
are reducing the number of daily flights in the interim
(10:55):
while they're working out the kings. You and I are
literally anseling a trip and changing airports and airlines. I
even think probably because of it. My parents are coming
in this week because my daughter's graduating from college. They
literally just changed their flights to LaGuardia and my das
did it cost more and it's the timing isn't as good.
(11:16):
But he'd rather do that than put himself in this
situation of being at the mercy of whatever glitch this is.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
They can't they keep calling us a glitch. This glitch is.
You know this is going to be a disaster. You
can't get a glitch like this. You can't. You just
can't do this. You can't see or communicate with a plane.
Come on, yall, all right, we want to continue our run. Here.
Now another scary update here, folks. This one has to
do with a lasteria outbreak currently going on already hospitalize
(11:44):
at least ten people in California and Nevada. CDC and
FDA investigating more than eighty ready to eat products that
are included in his recall, from snag boxes to sandwiches
and pastas. All these were produced by Fresh and Ready Foods.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Here's the scary part to me. The recalled products have
already been distributed to hospitals, hotels, convenience stores, airports, and
airlines with best by dates between April twenty second and
May nineteenth. Obviously, they're reaching out to all of these places,
but it's still a scary thing to think that these
are out there. Symptoms of listeria infection usually begin within
(12:23):
two weeks of eating contaminated food, but they can start
any time between the day you eat it all the
way up to ten weeks later. It's really hard, so
that's what they're saying. At least ten people have been hospitalized.
It's really hard for them to know exactly how far
reaching this has been.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
We're talking pregnant women, newborns, people sixty five and older.
Folks with weekend immune systems are the most at risk
from listeria infections. By this. Many of these stories, as
we've done about all kinds of eyebreak, this is an issue.
It's hard to trace it because some people, you know,
you somebody's going to get sick in six weeks and
forget all about a listeria outbreak. They don't know to
go report it. So we just it's hard to know
(12:58):
how big of an issue this is.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
All right, next up on our run. The Kentucky Derby
winning jockey has now been fined and suspended because he
hit his horse more times than he should have.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
At Junior alvaretas his name. He was riding Sovereignty when
the horse finished first at last week's Kentucky Derby. But
during that race, Alvarado struck the horse with his riding
crop eight times. You're only allowed six. These are the rules,
and they kind of change over the years. But I
didn't realize as a specific the way you supposed to
(13:32):
hold your hand, how high you can hold it, how
many times in succession you can hit, you supposed to
give the horse time to respond after you hit it.
There are some very specific rules about hitting the.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Horse, and we neither one of us had any idea
that that was even in place. I guess it makes
sense when we think about it. Alvarado is being fined
sixty two thousand dollars and suspended for two races at
Churchill Downs. Now, despite the fine and the suspension, the
results of the Kentucky Derby do not change. Sovereignty remains
the winner.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Not really, because if you're implying that somehow he Is
it about him cheating or is it about cruel and unusual? Like,
I don't know which one which reason either behind or
maybe it's both.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Either way, they have a rule in plays. I assume
he must have gotten some kind of advantage if he
did it more times than he should have. But also
if you you just broke a rule, Yeah, why shouldn't
you be disqualified? I was waiting anyway, Sovereignty's still your winner. Albarado,
he was fine that sixty two thousand we talked about,
but this is his second violation in the past six month.
(14:33):
The way it works, you ten percent fine for your
first violation on your winnings. He got three hundred and
ten thousand four winning it, but it was his second
violation twenty percent. That's where the sixty two k comes from.
And that's a significant.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, that certainly end.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You gotta pay TAXI, you gotta pay your agent, you
gotta that's of money for him.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
All Right, we're gonna move on now to the final
leg of our run, and we're gonna head to the movies,
where two movies continue to dominate the box office. Thunderbolts
and Sinners top the arts once again over the weekend,
despite a number of new movies vuying for those top spots.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, Thunderbolts in first place where it's second weekend thirty
three point one million dollars domestically, has now picked up
two hundred and seventy million plus around the world. I've
been hearing good things about this movie. I'm a Marvel fan,
and some of these The Gardens of the Galaxy was
kind of a surprise. He and you put some misfits together. Yeah,
I'm kind of curious about this one. But of course
(15:26):
Centers is still doing its thing. Ryan Coogler's original story
horror movie came in seconds his fourth weekend, but it's
crossed the two hundred million dollar mark globally. It brought
in another twenty one million dollars in the US alone
over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, so in total, Sinners now made two hundred and
eighty three point three million dollars. That is remarkable, And
you pointed out an original horror movie. Imax just announced
it's bringing Cinners back to its screens by popular demand
next weekend, so expect those numbers to continue to rise.
But this week we are excited. There are high hopes
(16:00):
for another major horror movie arriving at theaters final destination, Bloodlines.
We've been waiting for this one.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, with those people. We've been catching up watching the
previous what five just such creative deaths if you will,
if you're a horror movie fan, been looking forward to it.
But before we let you go on this Monday, this
is how we want you to start your week. We
have our quote of the day, something we would like
for you to take with you as you go about
your Monday.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, this one just spoke to me. It's Monday, you're
a little tired, but this is a good one to
remember from an amazing man. Love the life you live,
Live the life you love.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Hey, break that one down for me.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
That's from Bob Marley by the way, so you can
see it's very poetic in nature. But yeah, it's about
loving the life that you're living, right, just remembering that
there are so many things to love about it. But
it's also a reminder to live the life you love,
to choose the things you love, to choose the time.
I feel like you have to spend it with the
people you love, with things you love doing. This is
our one shot, and every day we get to choose
(17:04):
how we live. And so I just loved the poetic
nature of the quote, but what it also meant or
said to me.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
So I'll give it to us one more time from
Bob Marley, and I'm asking you to do it because
it's kind of given. I tried to read it a
couple of times, and I keep getting tongue tagged with
all the live and the life and the love and
so you do.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It feel tired? Right? So yeah, it's at a little bleary.
I do can't read this well all right, love the
life you live, and live the life you love. Thank
you for that, Bob Marley, and thank you for running
with us. Everyone.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I'm made robots and I am TJ. Holmes. Enjoy your Monday.
See you on the run tomorrow
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