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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey folks,
this is your morning Run for Thursday, August twenty First,
I'm TJ. Holmes, And you never know what someone's going through.
A little kindness, a little patience, a little understanding. It
costs you nothing, but can mean the world to someone else.
(00:23):
Those words from Judge Frank Caprio, who is the king
of kindness that we just lost. I wanted to start
with a quote from him. We'll be talking about him more.
If you don't know who. Frank Caprio is a judge
who has really been dubbed the nicest judge in the
world because so many of his antics in the courtroom
and being kind to people, they played out viraly for
(00:45):
people to see. And he has millions of followers, billions
of views, and he passed away the age of eighty eight.
We'll talk about him more. There's morning and by all
means look him up in his videos and just words
of kindness. That was his thing. So we'll be getting
into that. There's morning. All. Well, so you still got
a shot at it. Powerball nobody won last night. You
will tell you what that sucker gets up to for
this weekend. For the next drawing. And also here in
(01:09):
New York, someone working for Mayor Adams campaign, or at
least an advisor to Mayor Adams. In New York Mayor
handed a reporter a bag of potato chips yesterday with
cash in it. But you have got to hear the
reason that they say this was all just a misunderstanding.
We'll explain. Also, reminder for you do it now. On
(01:30):
your Apple podcast app top right corner a little tab
that says follow. Just click on that you can get
our updates anytime you like. Many of you may have
noticed by now you have not heard Amy Robot's voice
yet on this morning run, and you're not going to.
It was only amount of time. I suppose many speculated,
but she left me. I just paused there as a tabloid.
(01:53):
Reporters can go crazy for a second. No, she bounced
for a couple of days. She's we had a kid.
We had to get to college. I had to get
out to Boulder, Colorado. So given that the kid we
had to get into college, only one of us could go.
And given that it's her kid and not mine, we
figured she was a better choice. So, my dear Emmi
Roback is out in Boulder, Colorado, now dropping off our
(02:13):
dear Annalise for her junior no excuse me, her sophomore
year of college. But Robock will be back with us soon.
Also on the run this morning. The Ten Commandments are
not going up in Texas classrooms this school year. The
DOJ gets another shot at releasing Epstein files, Target gets
a new CEO. The Benindez brothers finally get a parole
hearing today. Texas Democrats get a reality check and they
(02:37):
only delayed the inevitable. And the WNBA is really having
a moment right now. But another cool moment, historic moment,
record breaking moment for them last night as they saw
a rookie score more points than any rookie ever has
in a w NBA game. We'll get in to that,
but let's start though with Hurricane Aaron. It's on everybody's
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mind right now. It is still a Category two hurricane
and it is not a threat to make landfall in
the US, but still damn Erin is causing all kinds
of problems. It's triggered mandatory evacuations in parts of the Carolinas.
There are beach closures up and down the East coast,
North Carolina and Virginia in particular are under tropical storm alerts,
(03:17):
but folks lit to relief from Florida all the way
up to New England are being warned that Erin, which
is a massive storm that's turning about two hundred miles
off the east coast of the US, is creating dangerous
surf and rip current conditions. There have been dozens of
rip current rescues in recent days. Those dangers are expected
(03:38):
to remain for the next several days as the storm continues.
It stays away from the US coast, but it's a
massive storm and it's making its way up, so it's
going to cause as problems for the next few days.
Let's continue on the run now, and it is finally here.
The Menindez brothers are getting their long awaited parole hearing
in a California court again today. It's happening first up
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though it's going to be Eric Menndez. They're doing these separately,
so he gets his first today, we followed by his
brother tomorrow. Now, his parole hearing starts at eight thirty
local time. Lyles will be tomorrow at the same time.
The brothers, as you know, killed their parents in nineteen
eighty nine were originally sentenced to life in prison without
the possibility of parole, but they were re sentenced in
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May of this year to fifty years to life, and
by changing their sentence that made them eligible for parole,
and that is what's going to be discussed today. Their
family has been pushing for their release. Yes, the same
family that these two killed family members, and those family,
all of them, have come together now and pushing for
the release of these two I say boys, they were
(04:43):
grown men now. But the family issued a statement yesterday
saying that the brothers have expressed sincere remorse to our
family to this day and have built a meaningful life
defined by purpose and service. However, the District Attorney sees
it differently and as against their release, and claims the
brothers have not demonstrated full insight into their crimes or
shown that they have been fully rehabilitated, and therefore continue
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to pose a risk to society. That's how the DA
puts it on. Lyle and Eric were twenty one and
eighteen at the time of the murders. They are now
fifty seven and fifty four, So when could this possibly
happen again? The parole hearing today, another one tomorrow. So
the parole board is going to make a recommendation. Don't
exactly nor when it could come immediately, but then their
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Chief Council has up to one hundred and twenty days
to review their recommendation before it then goes to California
Governor Gavin Newsom, who will have another thirty days to
sign off on it. So we are talking about this process.
Could be another five months. They could tell the Menindaz
brothers tomorrow you both, we believe should be paroled, but
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it could still be several months after that before we
ever see them walk out of prison. Also, just so
happened to be yesterday was the thirty six annaverse of
that crime. Yes, it was August twentieth of nineteen eighty
nine when they killed their parents. We continue on the
run now. The Trumpet administration took another l in court
(06:10):
yesterday and now is zero for three in its attempts
to get Epstein grand jury testimony released to the public.
The trump dj this time made a motion for the
court to release transcripts related to the New York sex
trafficking case of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The judge yesterday denied their request and suggested in his ruling,
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like a previous judge had also suggested that the government's
attempts are a quote diversion aimed at the quote illusion
of transparency. Judge also said that the government is already
in possession of much more information than anything contained in
the grand jury transcripts. The DOJ's previous attempts to request
grand jury testimony from two other courts were also denied.
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Let's continue on the run now and next leg brings
us back kit to New York City, and it's kind
of the last thing that scandal ridden New York Mayor
Eric Adams needs right now, a headline that one of
his longtime advisers tried to give a reporter a potato
chip bag full of cash, sour cream, and onion. To
(07:16):
be precise, this is for real, This actually happened yesterday. Now.
The woman in question is Winnie Greco. She has been
a fundraiser and volunteer for Adams over the years, and
even served as his director of Asian Affairs. Now Greco
is accused of and even admits to, giving the bag
of cash to a reporter at an Adams campaign event
(07:38):
in Harlem yesterday. The reporter works for a local outlet
called The City and says she immediately tried to give
it back to No Avail and then reported it to
the campaign. Now this sounds like when you hear this,
this doesn't make any sense. It's a bag empty of
the chips, but is filled with cash, sour creamin onion. Again,
but hand it to a reporter. Surely that's a bribe.
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But Greco and her lawyer say, you got it all wrong.
So how is it possible and why under what circumstance
could you justify this happening. Well, Greco, who is Chinese,
says the reporter misunderstood her kind gesture, which she said
is culturally common. Her attorney's words and I quote, I
(08:23):
can see how this looks strange, but I assure you
that Winnie's intent was purely innocent. In the Chinese culture,
money has often given to others in a gesture of
friendship and gratitude. Winnie is apologetic and embarrassed by any
negative impression or confusion. This may have cost fine folks,
you want to buy that? Sure? Where is the part
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in Chinese culture about the money? Being put in a
bag of sour cream and onion chips. That's the part
I missed. Perhaps the Atoms campaign made clear that gregel
holds no official position anymore with the campaign the new outlet,
the News out I'd rather put out a statement as well,
saying that the incident quote speaks to a rampant and
blatant disregard for the role of a free and fair press.
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But then they added this little gem at the end,
and I quote the choice of sour cream and onion
chips is also questionable. You see why I was focusing
on the sour creeman onion well. Mayor Adams, who was
in the midst of a re election campaign in which
he is nowhere near the top of the candidates, was
facing corruption charges last year until the DOJ dropped that case.
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He's also had several members of his administration who have
been the target of corruption investigations. Next leg of our
run now texs us back to Texas and No, Texas,
you cannot legally require every public classroom to display the
Ten Commandments, he has. A judge yesterday ruled against the
state law that said schools would be required to have
(09:49):
a copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall in
every single classroom. The law even when as far as
giving specific required sizes of the posters. The law, which
was signed by Governor Abbott in June, was set to
go into effect this school year, but several families sued,
and its ruling, the court said the law said that
the law is impermissible and that it takes sides on
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theological questions and officially favors Christian denominations over others. The
state ag already said he's going to appeal this decision. Meanwhile,
Arkansas and Louisiana they passed laws requiring the Ten Commandments
in classrooms as well. You know what happened. They were
both struck down last year. A lot of people now
believe this case ultimately is going to have to head
to the Supreme Court for them to decide what can
(10:34):
be done in classrooms. We'll stay in Texas with his
next leg and after all that runaway Democrat drama in
Texas yesterday, the state legislature passed that redistricting bill. Anyway,
that new map would create potentially another five seats in
Congress for Republicans. So Democrats in an attempt to stop
the bill from passing. You'll remember they fled the state.
(10:55):
They were gone for weeks, denied Republicans a chance to
move the bill forward, but ultimately they had the ability
to delay. The state Senate is expected to pass that
bill as early as today. And as you know, California
is already working on a plan to redraw its own
congressional map to counter Texas. But get this, folks, there
are a number of states out there considering redrawing their
(11:16):
maps now. So this is set off a what a
redistricting race? I suppose we continue on the run now
with Target hoping to get back to its Tarjay hey day.
You remember that, well, not just a thing in the South,
but Tarja. So many people I was around in the
South would call it Tarja because it's kind of an
elevated experience. Yes, it's budget, but it had nice things.
(11:36):
So Tarja was what it used to be called. They're
trying to get back to that heyday. Step one, CEO
step down. The company announced that Brian Cornell is giving
up the reins after what has been a pretty disastrous
stretched for the company. Nine out of the past eleven
quarters they have had flat or declining sales. That includes
(11:57):
this most recent quarter. Cornell had been at the Helm
the last eleven years. He officially leaves the job early
next year. Another longtime Target exec is going to take over. Now.
Some of Target's recent struggles are attributed to boycotts that
targeted the company after it got in line with the
anti DEI sentiment that was coming out of the White House. Well,
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stay with us here on this. What is this Thursday,
Thursday Friday Eve run? I guess I should say the
WNBA saw a rookie do something yesterday that no rookie
has ever done before. Also coming up no winner in
the powerball jackpot last night, tell you how much money
you could possibly win on Saturday now with the next
drawing and the nicest judge in the world, we just
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lost him at the age of eighty eight, but my god,
he left a legacy. All right, folks, Let's continue on
this Friday Eve run. Now with a record that was
set in the w NBA last night Dallas Wing Star page.
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Beckers scored forty four points. That is now the most
points ever scored by a rookie. And what a rookie
to score it. Paige Beckers, you remember her from Yukon.
She was a superstar there her nickname she got during
college page buckets. But yeah, she has now beat the
record set by basketball great Candice Parker, who scored forty
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in a game during her rookie year back in two
thousand and eight. Also, folks, let you know next leg
of the run. I can tell you got another shot
at the powerball jackpot. It's happening on Saturday the next drawing.
Nobody won last night's jackpot. It was estimated at six
hundred and fifty million dollars, So there will be another
drawing on Saturday for an estimated seven hundred million dollars.
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So these things start to get up to these bigger numbers,
you naturally started thinking, well, is this going to be
a record setting jackpot? To get this, we are nowhere
near biggest jackpot of all time territory, not even close.
All of the previous top ten jackpots the largest ever
are in the billion. Seven hundred million isn't even high
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enough to make it to the top ten of largest jackpots.
So the biggest one of all time. Remember twenty twenty two,
one ticket, one ticket was sold in California. That jackpot
was two point zero four billion dollars and the last
leg of the run here. This is the one that
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actually my dear Robot sent me a text this morning
from Boulder asked me how I was doing, and I
was honest with her at the time, and I had
tears running down my face reading and researching this next
story because fans of kindness are mourning today. They're morning
the passing of New England judge who gained millions of
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followers and a billion views online, Judge Frank Caprio. He
has died at the age of eighty eight. Gaprio was
dubbed the nicest judge in the world. He starred in
the show Caught Improvidence, in which he often compassionately and
hilariously presided over cases now calling in Providence. It started
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as a local show. I think it ran yeah on
the local channels there, but then it got picked up
in syndication for a couple of years and the judge
was actually nominated for a couple of Emmys for the show.
But this was a show that wasn't just putting on
in fake cases. It was just a camera that they
put in the Providence courtroom to capture this guy. He
was the show in how he dealt with so many
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people that came through his courtroom. An example, one young
lady came in she had a traffic ticket. He dismissed
it because he liked her smile. She was smiling and
she seemed kind. He said, one thing you can't fake
is a smile and let her go. Another situation where
a woman I think he had a traffic ticket, what
should her punishment be? He actually asked her kids that
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were there, what should it be? And sometimes he would
invite kids up to the bench to be a part
of He just had a different way of handling his courtroom.
And his different way wasn't just about dropping the hammer.
It was about being compassionate, seeing people, even in some
of their worst moments, just still also giving them the
grace and some dignity for the mistakes they had made.
He was just wonderful. His family put out a statement
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saying quote beloved for his compassion, humility and unwavering belief
in the goodness of people. Judgecaprio touched the lives of
millions through his work in the courtroom, and beyond his warmth,
his humor, his kindness left an indelible mark on all
who knew him. I would argue a mark on those
who didn't know him as well. Judgecaprio was diagnosed with
cancer in twenty twenty three, got through that. But he's
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died now at the age of eighty eight. Survived by
five kids, seven grandkids, and two great grandkids. And very
cool to see this. He survived by his wife of
sixty years. If there's anything you're going to do today,
just to take two minutes, please look up some of
his videos. Frank Caprio. Just look at some of his videos,
and we don't have enough people. It makes you feel
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bitter about people with all the nastiness we see sometimes,
but it's a reminder that there are a bunch of people,
I think probably most out there life him. He just
had a platform in which he could push his message
out and he took advantage of it. But there are
a lot of good people out there like this, and
he is a gem. But he left so much behind.
So as I let you go here, something we always
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like for you to consider it is our quote of
the day, And yeah, I picked one from Judge Frank Capril.
He said, and I quote, the best legacy we can
leave behind is how we made others feel Choose kindness always,
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Judge Frank Capriole, that's just one. He's got a ton
a ton of gems. And you know what, I'm not
crying because I'm sad. Yeah, it's sad when somebody passes.
But he had eighty eight years and a hell of
a life and a hell of the legacy. But man,
who this dude makes you feel good about the possibility
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and people, So please check them out today and take
that with you. The best legacy we can leave behind
is how we made others feel. Choose kindness always, Hi, folks.
With that, I'm T j Olmes for my dear Amy Robot.
Please you all go out there be kind to somebody today.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey folks,
this is your morning Run for Thursday, August twenty First,
I'm TJ. Holmes, And you never know what someone's going through.
A little kindness, a little patience, a little understanding. It
costs you nothing, but can mean the world to someone else.
(00:23):
Those words from Judge Frank Caprio, who is the king
of kindness that we just lost. I wanted to start
with a quote from him. We'll be talking about him more.
If you don't know who. Frank Caprio is a judge
who has really been dubbed the nicest judge in the
world because so many of his antics in the courtroom
and being kind to people, they played out viraly for
(00:45):
people to see. And he has millions of followers, billions
of views, and he passed away the age of eighty eight.
We'll talk about him more. There's morning and by all
means look him up in his videos and just words
of kindness. That was his thing. So we'll be getting
into that. There's morning. All. Well, so you still got
a shot at it. Powerball nobody won last night. You
will tell you what that sucker gets up to for
this weekend. For the next drawing. And also here in
(01:09):
New York, someone working for Mayor Adams campaign, or at
least an advisor to Mayor Adams. In New York Mayor
handed a reporter a bag of potato chips yesterday with
cash in it. But you have got to hear the
reason that they say this was all just a misunderstanding.
We'll explain. Also, reminder for you do it now. On
(01:30):
your Apple podcast app top right corner a little tab
that says follow. Just click on that you can get
our updates anytime you like. Many of you may have
noticed by now you have not heard Amy Robot's voice
yet on this morning run, and you're not going to.
It was only amount of time. I suppose many speculated,
but she left me. I just paused there as a tabloid.
(01:53):
Reporters can go crazy for a second. No, she bounced
for a couple of days. She's we had a kid.
We had to get to college. I had to get
out to Boulder, Colorado. So given that the kid we
had to get into college, only one of us could go.
And given that it's her kid and not mine, we
figured she was a better choice. So, my dear Emmi
Roback is out in Boulder, Colorado, now dropping off our
(02:13):
dear Annalise for her junior no excuse me, her sophomore
year of college. But Robock will be back with us soon.
Also on the run this morning. The Ten Commandments are
not going up in Texas classrooms this school year. The
DOJ gets another shot at releasing Epstein files, Target gets
a new CEO. The Benindez brothers finally get a parole
hearing today. Texas Democrats get a reality check and they
(02:37):
only delayed the inevitable. And the WNBA is really having
a moment right now. But another cool moment, historic moment,
record breaking moment for them last night as they saw
a rookie score more points than any rookie ever has
in a w NBA game. We'll get in to that,
but let's start though with Hurricane Aaron. It's on everybody's
(02:57):
mind right now. It is still a Category two hurricane
and it is not a threat to make landfall in
the US, but still damn Erin is causing all kinds
of problems. It's triggered mandatory evacuations in parts of the Carolinas.
There are beach closures up and down the East coast,
North Carolina and Virginia in particular are under tropical storm alerts,
(03:17):
but folks lit to relief from Florida all the way
up to New England are being warned that Erin, which
is a massive storm that's turning about two hundred miles
off the east coast of the US, is creating dangerous
surf and rip current conditions. There have been dozens of
rip current rescues in recent days. Those dangers are expected
(03:38):
to remain for the next several days as the storm continues.
It stays away from the US coast, but it's a
massive storm and it's making its way up, so it's
going to cause as problems for the next few days.
Let's continue on the run now, and it is finally here.
The Menindez brothers are getting their long awaited parole hearing
in a California court again today. It's happening first up
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though it's going to be Eric Menndez. They're doing these separately,
so he gets his first today, we followed by his
brother tomorrow. Now, his parole hearing starts at eight thirty
local time. Lyles will be tomorrow at the same time.
The brothers, as you know, killed their parents in nineteen
eighty nine were originally sentenced to life in prison without
the possibility of parole, but they were re sentenced in
(04:20):
May of this year to fifty years to life, and
by changing their sentence that made them eligible for parole,
and that is what's going to be discussed today. Their
family has been pushing for their release. Yes, the same
family that these two killed family members, and those family,
all of them, have come together now and pushing for
the release of these two I say boys, they were
(04:43):
grown men now. But the family issued a statement yesterday
saying that the brothers have expressed sincere remorse to our
family to this day and have built a meaningful life
defined by purpose and service. However, the District Attorney sees
it differently and as against their release, and claims the
brothers have not demonstrated full insight into their crimes or
shown that they have been fully rehabilitated, and therefore continue
(05:07):
to pose a risk to society. That's how the DA
puts it on. Lyle and Eric were twenty one and
eighteen at the time of the murders. They are now
fifty seven and fifty four, So when could this possibly
happen again? The parole hearing today, another one tomorrow. So
the parole board is going to make a recommendation. Don't
exactly nor when it could come immediately, but then their
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Chief Council has up to one hundred and twenty days
to review their recommendation before it then goes to California
Governor Gavin Newsom, who will have another thirty days to
sign off on it. So we are talking about this process.
Could be another five months. They could tell the Menindaz
brothers tomorrow you both, we believe should be paroled, but
(05:49):
it could still be several months after that before we
ever see them walk out of prison. Also, just so
happened to be yesterday was the thirty six annaverse of
that crime. Yes, it was August twentieth of nineteen eighty
nine when they killed their parents. We continue on the
run now. The Trumpet administration took another l in court
(06:10):
yesterday and now is zero for three in its attempts
to get Epstein grand jury testimony released to the public.
The trump dj this time made a motion for the
court to release transcripts related to the New York sex
trafficking case of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The judge yesterday denied their request and suggested in his ruling,
(06:31):
like a previous judge had also suggested that the government's
attempts are a quote diversion aimed at the quote illusion
of transparency. Judge also said that the government is already
in possession of much more information than anything contained in
the grand jury transcripts. The DOJ's previous attempts to request
grand jury testimony from two other courts were also denied.
(06:55):
Let's continue on the run now and next leg brings
us back kit to New York City, and it's kind
of the last thing that scandal ridden New York Mayor
Eric Adams needs right now, a headline that one of
his longtime advisers tried to give a reporter a potato
chip bag full of cash, sour cream, and onion. To
(07:16):
be precise, this is for real, This actually happened yesterday. Now.
The woman in question is Winnie Greco. She has been
a fundraiser and volunteer for Adams over the years, and
even served as his director of Asian Affairs. Now Greco
is accused of and even admits to, giving the bag
of cash to a reporter at an Adams campaign event
(07:38):
in Harlem yesterday. The reporter works for a local outlet
called The City and says she immediately tried to give
it back to No Avail and then reported it to
the campaign. Now this sounds like when you hear this,
this doesn't make any sense. It's a bag empty of
the chips, but is filled with cash, sour creamin onion. Again,
but hand it to a reporter. Surely that's a bribe.
(08:01):
But Greco and her lawyer say, you got it all wrong.
So how is it possible and why under what circumstance
could you justify this happening. Well, Greco, who is Chinese,
says the reporter misunderstood her kind gesture, which she said
is culturally common. Her attorney's words and I quote, I
(08:23):
can see how this looks strange, but I assure you
that Winnie's intent was purely innocent. In the Chinese culture,
money has often given to others in a gesture of
friendship and gratitude. Winnie is apologetic and embarrassed by any
negative impression or confusion. This may have cost fine folks,
you want to buy that? Sure? Where is the part
(08:45):
in Chinese culture about the money? Being put in a
bag of sour cream and onion chips. That's the part
I missed. Perhaps the Atoms campaign made clear that gregel
holds no official position anymore with the campaign the new outlet,
the News out I'd rather put out a statement as well,
saying that the incident quote speaks to a rampant and
blatant disregard for the role of a free and fair press.
(09:07):
But then they added this little gem at the end,
and I quote the choice of sour cream and onion
chips is also questionable. You see why I was focusing
on the sour creeman onion well. Mayor Adams, who was
in the midst of a re election campaign in which
he is nowhere near the top of the candidates, was
facing corruption charges last year until the DOJ dropped that case.
(09:29):
He's also had several members of his administration who have
been the target of corruption investigations. Next leg of our
run now texs us back to Texas and No, Texas,
you cannot legally require every public classroom to display the
Ten Commandments, he has. A judge yesterday ruled against the
state law that said schools would be required to have
(09:49):
a copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall in
every single classroom. The law even when as far as
giving specific required sizes of the posters. The law, which
was signed by Governor Abbott in June, was set to
go into effect this school year, but several families sued,
and its ruling, the court said the law said that
the law is impermissible and that it takes sides on
(10:13):
theological questions and officially favors Christian denominations over others. The
state ag already said he's going to appeal this decision. Meanwhile,
Arkansas and Louisiana they passed laws requiring the Ten Commandments
in classrooms as well. You know what happened. They were
both struck down last year. A lot of people now
believe this case ultimately is going to have to head
to the Supreme Court for them to decide what can
(10:34):
be done in classrooms. We'll stay in Texas with his
next leg and after all that runaway Democrat drama in
Texas yesterday, the state legislature passed that redistricting bill. Anyway,
that new map would create potentially another five seats in
Congress for Republicans. So Democrats in an attempt to stop
the bill from passing. You'll remember they fled the state.
(10:55):
They were gone for weeks, denied Republicans a chance to
move the bill forward, but ultimately they had the ability
to delay. The state Senate is expected to pass that
bill as early as today. And as you know, California
is already working on a plan to redraw its own
congressional map to counter Texas. But get this, folks, there
are a number of states out there considering redrawing their
(11:16):
maps now. So this is set off a what a
redistricting race? I suppose we continue on the run now
with Target hoping to get back to its Tarjay hey day.
You remember that, well, not just a thing in the South,
but Tarja. So many people I was around in the
South would call it Tarja because it's kind of an
elevated experience. Yes, it's budget, but it had nice things.
(11:36):
So Tarja was what it used to be called. They're
trying to get back to that heyday. Step one, CEO
step down. The company announced that Brian Cornell is giving
up the reins after what has been a pretty disastrous
stretched for the company. Nine out of the past eleven
quarters they have had flat or declining sales. That includes
(11:57):
this most recent quarter. Cornell had been at the Helm
the last eleven years. He officially leaves the job early
next year. Another longtime Target exec is going to take over. Now.
Some of Target's recent struggles are attributed to boycotts that
targeted the company after it got in line with the
anti DEI sentiment that was coming out of the White House. Well,
(12:17):
stay with us here on this. What is this Thursday,
Thursday Friday Eve run? I guess I should say the
WNBA saw a rookie do something yesterday that no rookie
has ever done before. Also coming up no winner in
the powerball jackpot last night, tell you how much money
you could possibly win on Saturday now with the next
drawing and the nicest judge in the world, we just
(12:40):
lost him at the age of eighty eight, but my god,
he left a legacy. All right, folks, Let's continue on
this Friday Eve run. Now with a record that was
set in the w NBA last night Dallas Wing Star page.
(13:00):
Beckers scored forty four points. That is now the most
points ever scored by a rookie. And what a rookie
to score it. Paige Beckers, you remember her from Yukon.
She was a superstar there her nickname she got during
college page buckets. But yeah, she has now beat the
record set by basketball great Candice Parker, who scored forty
(13:21):
in a game during her rookie year back in two
thousand and eight. Also, folks, let you know next leg
of the run. I can tell you got another shot
at the powerball jackpot. It's happening on Saturday the next drawing.
Nobody won last night's jackpot. It was estimated at six
hundred and fifty million dollars, So there will be another
drawing on Saturday for an estimated seven hundred million dollars.
(13:41):
So these things start to get up to these bigger numbers,
you naturally started thinking, well, is this going to be
a record setting jackpot? To get this, we are nowhere
near biggest jackpot of all time territory, not even close.
All of the previous top ten jackpots the largest ever
are in the billion. Seven hundred million isn't even high
(14:02):
enough to make it to the top ten of largest jackpots.
So the biggest one of all time. Remember twenty twenty two,
one ticket, one ticket was sold in California. That jackpot
was two point zero four billion dollars and the last
leg of the run here. This is the one that
(14:25):
actually my dear Robot sent me a text this morning
from Boulder asked me how I was doing, and I
was honest with her at the time, and I had
tears running down my face reading and researching this next
story because fans of kindness are mourning today. They're morning
the passing of New England judge who gained millions of
(14:46):
followers and a billion views online, Judge Frank Caprio. He
has died at the age of eighty eight. Gaprio was
dubbed the nicest judge in the world. He starred in
the show Caught Improvidence, in which he often compassionately and
hilariously presided over cases now calling in Providence. It started
(15:07):
as a local show. I think it ran yeah on
the local channels there, but then it got picked up
in syndication for a couple of years and the judge
was actually nominated for a couple of Emmys for the show.
But this was a show that wasn't just putting on
in fake cases. It was just a camera that they
put in the Providence courtroom to capture this guy. He
was the show in how he dealt with so many
(15:28):
people that came through his courtroom. An example, one young
lady came in she had a traffic ticket. He dismissed
it because he liked her smile. She was smiling and
she seemed kind. He said, one thing you can't fake
is a smile and let her go. Another situation where
a woman I think he had a traffic ticket, what
should her punishment be? He actually asked her kids that
(15:48):
were there, what should it be? And sometimes he would
invite kids up to the bench to be a part
of He just had a different way of handling his courtroom.
And his different way wasn't just about dropping the hammer.
It was about being compassionate, seeing people, even in some
of their worst moments, just still also giving them the
grace and some dignity for the mistakes they had made.
He was just wonderful. His family put out a statement
(16:09):
saying quote beloved for his compassion, humility and unwavering belief
in the goodness of people. Judgecaprio touched the lives of
millions through his work in the courtroom, and beyond his warmth,
his humor, his kindness left an indelible mark on all
who knew him. I would argue a mark on those
who didn't know him as well. Judgecaprio was diagnosed with
cancer in twenty twenty three, got through that. But he's
(16:32):
died now at the age of eighty eight. Survived by
five kids, seven grandkids, and two great grandkids. And very
cool to see this. He survived by his wife of
sixty years. If there's anything you're going to do today,
just to take two minutes, please look up some of
his videos. Frank Caprio. Just look at some of his videos,
and we don't have enough people. It makes you feel
(16:52):
bitter about people with all the nastiness we see sometimes,
but it's a reminder that there are a bunch of people,
I think probably most out there life him. He just
had a platform in which he could push his message
out and he took advantage of it. But there are
a lot of good people out there like this, and
he is a gem. But he left so much behind.
So as I let you go here, something we always
(17:13):
like for you to consider it is our quote of
the day, And yeah, I picked one from Judge Frank Capril.
He said, and I quote, the best legacy we can
leave behind is how we made others feel Choose kindness always,
(17:39):
Judge Frank Capriole, that's just one. He's got a ton
a ton of gems. And you know what, I'm not
crying because I'm sad. Yeah, it's sad when somebody passes.
But he had eighty eight years and a hell of
a life and a hell of the legacy. But man,
who this dude makes you feel good about the possibility
(18:01):
and people, So please check them out today and take
that with you. The best legacy we can leave behind
is how we made others feel. Choose kindness always, Hi, folks.
With that, I'm T j Olmes for my dear Amy Robot.
Please you all go out there be kind to somebody today.
Hosts And Creators
Lauren Zima
Chris Harrison
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