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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Good
morning everyone, It's Monday, May fifth. Welcome to your Morning Run.
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Holmes and on this Monday Morning Run, the details will
just take your breath away. Police say they stopped a
hate field plot to attack Lady Gaga's massive weekend concert
in Rio.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
And another disturbing incident Reagan National Airport involving a Blackhawk helicopter.
Plus Star Wars fans and Catholics unite against President Trump
for depicting himself as a Jedi and as the Pope.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Also on the run this morning, just a heads up,
get your new IDs or you won't be getting on
your next plane. You need to hear this. Also, no
one is entirely sure what he's talking about. Just one
reaction to Trump's latest trade war announcement, a one hundred
percent tariff on movies okay.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And also on the run this morning, the trial of
Sean Diddycom's It's underway this morning in Manhattan. Plus Elon
Musk gets his own city in Texas, and the President
wants to reopen the most famous prison in the country
though it's been closed for sixty years and you have
to swim to it.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And happy Cinco de Mayo. But whatever you do, folks,
when you are toasting, possibly with that margarita tonight, don't
toast to Mexican Independence Day. We'll explain. It's a common
misconception and a common mistake. But some people will really
get onto you if you make the mistake. But we'll
get into this and explain. Single demayo.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
All right, looking forward to that, but we have to
begin our run in Rio, where a major tragedy was
averted over the weekend at a Lady Gaga concert. Three
people have been arrested in Brazil for planning an attack
at Gaga's free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de
jan Era.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Police there say two people, one a man, and they
identify the other as a teenager. They were planning to
use improvised explosives Molotov cocktails, they say, during the concert,
and we're going to target members of the La LGBTQ
plus community. Authorities also arrested a third person, who they
say had been planning a satanic ritual by killing a
child or baby during the concert. That suspect is facing
(02:12):
terrorism charges.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
The group reportedly posed as fans of Lady Gaga online,
but were actually trying to incite acts of violence from
other fans at the concert. Thankfully, the concert went on
without incident, and incredibly, more than two million people attended.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It was quite a sight to see. So when you
hear these details about what someone was planning to do
with this crowd where there is it's not just a
matter of limited security. You got that many people, you
just can't secure it all as much as you'd like to.
Spokespords of her Gaga said that neither Gaga or her
team knew anything about the threat or a police operation
until the day after the concert, and that concert was
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a history maker, the largest show of Goga's career, and
she posted afterwards it was the biggest crowd for any
woman in history.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And thankfully it went out, went off without incident, all right.
Next up on our run, The White House had some
fun on social media this weekend with a couple of
AI generated photos of President Trump. One image was kind
of funny, the other one was kind of sacrilegious. So
we'll start without it.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well, yeah, plenty of folks, prominent Catholics included, weren't amused
and didn't appreciate the image of the President dressed as
the Pope. You could see him. He's in a cassock
with a cross around his neck, and he's wearing that
papal headdress. But President Trump posted the image after recently
joking that he liked to be pope. You remember, he
got asked by a reporter who he thought should be
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the choice for the next pope. His response was, I'd
like to be pope. That would be my number one choice. Haha,
we say, but here we are.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, so ah haha. Indeed, there was immediate blowback, as
you can imagine, but this statement from the New York
State Catholic Conference sums it up pretty well. There is
nothing clever or funny about this image. Mister President. We
just buried our beloved Pope Francis, and the cardinals are
about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new
successor of Saint Peter. Do not mock us.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Is that fair? Yes, I mean it's hard to argue
with I think all he was just joking, y'all. Take
it easy.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's hard to Timing is everything. It probably never would
be a good time to put that image out, But
especially not now as we head into this very solemn week.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I think, well, I can't wait to see what he
does for Mlkday.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, timing and tone thinks that he
doesn't do so well. The other image he posted was
lighter in nature, but still people took issue with a
particular details.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Okay, this one is funny. This image was in celebration
of Star Wars Day, which is, of course, May the
Fourth get it, May the Fourth be with you. It's
a fun day. People have a good time with it.
But this image shows an incredibly muscular President Trump is bulging,
arms are out in this kind of tank top thing
he had. There are eagles behind him as an American flag
behind him, and along with the image, he wrote this
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happy May the Fourth to all, including the radical left
lunatics who are fighting so hard to bring sith lords, murderers,
drug lords, dangerous and well known MS thirteen gang members
back into our galaxy. You're not the rebellion, You're the
empire quote.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Okay, So in the image, Trump is holding a lightsaber.
Here's the problem. The lightsaber is red, and as everybody knows,
or at least should know, red lightsabers are used by
the dark side. Think Darth Vader. You wouldn't use it
to fight evil because red means you are the evil.
I remember the lightsabers that my brother and I played
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with were green greed. That's the good guys, right.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
As simple as that. So it's it's funny that no
one noticed or they do it on purpose, but people
immediately pointed that out, and you know where the jokes
went from there. We will continue here on this morning
Day Morning Ryn with President Trump again says he has
identified and now taking steps to stop the latest threat
to US national security movies, in particular movies not made
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in the United States. Yes, and his latest tarif announcement,
President Trump says he will put a one hundred percent
tariff on all movies not produced in the United States.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
We can hear you all now saying this to yourself,
because we all just said it to ourselves. Huh. We're
going to quote the president. Now, here's exactly what he said.
He said yesterday. The movie industry in America is dying
a very fast death. Other countries are offering all sorts
of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from
the United States. Hollywood and many other areas within the
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USA are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by
other nations and therefore a national security threat. It is
in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda. Therefore, I
am authorizing the Department of Commerce and the United States
Trade Representative to immediately begin the process of instituting a
one hundred percent tariff on any and all movies coming
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into our country that are produced in foreign lands. We
want movies made in America again.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Now, you we were quick to kind of dismiss on
what is he talking about, but in this statement says
he has authorized movement is being made on this particular issue.
So we are now going to quote the New York Times,
which wrote about this movie tariff by saying this, as
is often the case with mister Trump's declarations on social media,
it was not entirely clear what he was talking about.
(07:14):
You can't do it any better than that. And I
want to give this reporter credit. Don't know who he is,
Brooks Barnes, but that line kind of sums it all up.
You can't put it any better than that, because what
is he talking about? What are you gonna do? Which
movies are gonna tax the streaming ones are the ones
at the theater that they have to be foreign language films.
What if it was worked on partly overseas and part
in the US. What if some of the money is
coming from overseas but the movie was actually shot in
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the U. We just don't know how this could possibly work.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, I mean a lot of movies are on location
because the story insists that it is so that it
just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And Hollywood has been heard. Look, we know what New Orleans, Atlanta, Vancouver,
other places offer incentives that have been drawing people out
of Hollywood, even places in the US. But it's been
happening overseas as well.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You didn't get a better deal maybe inside with tax
breaks instead of punishing it for actually maybe having important
storytelling that has to be done overseas. All right, we'll
see what happens with that. But next up on our run,
let's continue with President Trump. He now says he wants
the most violent criminals in the US to be housed
at the most famous prison in the US. The problem
(08:19):
is it's been closed for sixty years. Yeah, we're talking
about Alcatraz.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, that one. Alcatraz overnight, the President called for it
to be reopened, rebuilt. Seriously, he said this last night
on social media. And before you immediately dismiss this as
just a middle of the night social media amusing by
President Trump, he actually says once again he has taken
steps already robes to make this happen.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yes, quoting him right here today, I am directing the
Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI,
and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt
Alcatraz to house America's most ruthless and violent offenders. We
will no longer be held hostage to criminals, hugs and
judges that are afraid to do their job, and allow
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us to remove criminals who came into our country illegally.
The reopening of Alcatraz will serve as a symbol of law,
order and justice. The big question is is he for real?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well, this would be a challenge because Alcatraz has been
closed since nineteen sixty three. You're gonna need much more
than a fresh coat of paint and some new screen
doors to get this thing up and running again. The
price tag would be astronomical. Obviously, this would take years
and years and years, and Alcatraz is currently a museum.
A lot of people know this. It's a must see
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part of any vacation to the Bay Area. You can
just stand there and look at it. But still you
can take a boat over, go through, take the door.
But it is a museum. It almost seems impossible that
this place could be opening it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
We shall see all right, next up on the run.
This is the public service announcements of sorts and one
I need to heed you. We only have two days
left to get your real ID. That is the new
form of identification. It has a star on the top
if you need to know and see whether or not
you have one. Yes, there should be a star. If
your ID does not have a star like mine, You're
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going to have to bring your passport to the airport
to fly domestically starting Wednesday, So every traveler over the
age of eighteen must now have a real ID to
travel through all US airport security checkpoints.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So if you don't have a passport or an enhanced
driver's license that some states issue, what do you do? Well?
You can first expect significant delays, You can expect additional screening.
You could expect not being allowed through security. According to
the TSA website, you will not be allowed to enter
the security checkpoint if you choose to not provide acceptable identification,
you decline to cooperate with the identity verification process, or
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your identity cannot be confirmed.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So TSA is recommending if you don't have a real
ID or you don't have a passport, you should give
yourself an extra hour to go through security and bring
your birth certificate or your Social Security card if you
can find either one. I don't know that I can
right now. So, yeah, what is this going to do
to the already long, frustrating security lines at the airport?
Probably it's going to be a huge pain. So if
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you don't have one, so try to go make an
appointment at your local DMV and get that real Id'd that.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Go for you yesterday?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Terribly?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yes, Robes checked, I have my real ID. By the way,
Robes had to check. I was trying to get an appointment.
This is true. You were trying to get an appointment
and they were booked here in New York through.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
The end of August summer the end of August.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Could not get one, folks, So you might be in
a little trouble here. If you figured out people are
on the website, they're trying to see if there are
any cancelations. Possibly as well. Homeland Security website has a
real ID map. You can click on your state to
get information on what to do to get a real ID.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, and I think government officials are saying, y'all knew
about this. You have plenty of time. This has been
in the works since two thousand and five. I mean,
I mean, okay, the Congress passed it back in two
thousand and five following a nine to eleven commission recommendation,
but they've delayed in forcing it several times over the
last twenty years. So maybe some of us were hoping
they were going to kick the can further. Not so much.
(12:06):
Time is up, he is.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Finally, we will continue here on this Monday morning run
with a story that's hard to believe that this is happening.
Another Blackhawk helicopter issue at Reagan National Airport. Yes, this
one caused a major disruption. Two different airplanes had to
abort their landings because of an Army helicopter. We're learning
this happened last week.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, the US Transportation Secretary said it's unacceptable that a
Delta Airlines flight and a Republic Airways fight had to
perform go around maneuvers and reposition for another approach to land,
all because of this helicopter. The FAA said, the army
helicopter took I'm quoting here a scenic route around the
Pentagon versus proceeding directly from the west to the airport
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as they were supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating. This
incident took place around two thirty Thursday afternoon. Restrictions had
been put in place since that January twenty ninth deadly
mid air collision between a Black Hall helicopter and the
American Airlines plane that killed all sixty seven people on
board both those aircraft.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
But after this latest incident, the Transportation Secretary has now
restricted all non essential helicopter operations around Reagan National, writing
this on X safety must always come first. We just
lost sixty seven souls. No more helicopter rides for VIPs
or unnecessary training in a congested DCA airspace full of civilians.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
All right, We'll stay with us air folks on this
Monday morning run. When we come back elon Musk is
getting his own city in Texas. We'll explain. Also, a
ninety four year old decides to retire ninety four, so
why are y'all surprised that he's retiring. Also, it is
Cinco de Mayo. It is not Mexican Independent Day will
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tell you the proper way to toasts. All right, let's
continue this Monday morning run now, and our next leg
takes us to Texas, where Elon Musk has now gotten
his own city kind of sort of. The area in
Texas where Musk operates his company SpaceX has now officially
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become a city, and its new name is Muskville. I'm kidding.
They did not name it Muskville. It is actually called
Star Base. Good ring too it yeah, starbar Galactic Star
based Texas. That ain't bad. Actually, they had to vote
on this in the city and it it passed pretty overwhelmingly.
The residents of the area had to vote on it.
(14:34):
The residents, he had two hundred and eighty three of them.
And who do you think they were? They were all
SpaceX employees of course, who are in the area, So
this is not much of choker.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
It resoundedly passed. Yes, Musk wrote on X After the vote,
Star Based Texas is now a real city exclamation point.
He's been working on this since twenty twenty one. The
city is only one point six square miles, but it's
going to have a mayor and two commissioners. And this
is another shaker. A SpaceX vice president Bobby Peden be
the first mayor of Star Based Texas.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You know what, you can always say you were the
first ione. You know, ten twenty years from now this
becomes some booming metropolis of sorts, if you will.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
We will look back on this and go, well, have
you been there?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I have to Starbase.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Ain't no way it's going to be a booming metropolis.
This is in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So was Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Okay, all right, we shall see.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
All right, we continue on the run here now with
Warren Buffett boll He sure can't keep a secret. The
Oracle of Omaha shocked just about everybody this weekend announcing
that he would retire as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at
the end of this year.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It was such a shocking announcement that even his hand
picked successor, who was sitting right next to him at
the time of the announcement almost fell out of his chair,
like he literally had no idea. This was at a
conference over the weekend in front of a live audience
of thousands of investors.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, he was on stage. Buffett was during a Q
and A period along with the vice chairman we mentioned,
and he unexpectedly told the crowd he will be stepping
down at the end of the year. He's ninety four
years but he has always said he had no plans
to retire. Really, folks thought he would die in his role.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Now, he said only his two kids knew about his
decision to retire ahead of time. And yes. Known as
the Oracle of Omaha, Buffett is a legend, widely considered
perhaps the greatest investor in the world. He's been at
the Helm of Berkshire Berkshire Hathaway. He turned it into
a company worth one point six trillion dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Now he has a personal wealth of about one hundred
and fifty billion dollars. It seemed like every year I've
been alive, he's been on the Richest Person in the
World list. But he has pledged to give all this
money away. In a cool part during that announcement, he
said he's going to retire. Of course, the crowd was shot.
But then they gave him a wonderful ovation, and he
said this, your enthusiasm could be interpreted two ways. That's funny.
(16:47):
That is really funny. I give him credit there, but
he is obviously legendary, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I say, you always have to be really smart to
be really funny, and he's both. It looks like all right.
Next up on the run, the trial of Sean Diddy
Combs is finally here. Jury selection actually begins today in
Lower Manhattan. We're bracing ourselves because we can pretty much
see the courthouse outside of our apartment. He's facing five
federal counts of sex, trafficking and racketeering, all related to
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those so called freak offs in which he allegedly drugged, coerced,
and abused partygoers.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
At Combs has pleaded not guilty to all charges has
maintained his innocence throughout. He did confirm last Thursday at
a pre trial hearing, the final pre trial hearing, that
prosecutors had offered him a plea deal they could have
reduced his jail time. He turned it down. He is, yes,
facing the possibility of life in prison.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
All right for the final leg of our run. Do
not get scolded today by mistakingly saying today we're celebrating
Mexican Independence Day. Somebody is just waiting to jump in
and correct you on that one.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I've seen this go down before, yes I have. Well, so, yes,
this is a common misconception. It's okay if you make
the mistake. A lot of people do. But still single
Demayo is a celebration of Mexican Independence Day. That is
a false statement. Mexican Independence is actually on September sixteenth.
Think of that, that's their fourth of July. So September sixteenth,
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eighteen ten is when Mexico declared liberation from Spain.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
All right, it was fifty years later then that Cinco
de Mayo was born. On May fifth, eighteen sixty two,
Mexican forces defeated Napoleon's French troops at the Battle of Puebla.
The French at the time saw an opportunity in Mexico
to expand its influence and they invaded.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
So, yeah, this was a year's long conflict against the French.
But on May fifth, eighteen sixty two, a raggtab bunch
of ill equipped and outnumbered Mexican fighters defeated the French
at this Battle of Puebla. That battle didn't end the conflict.
In fact, it went on for several more years, but
the French finally left the country some five years later.
But the Battle of Puebla became the symbol of Mexican resistance,
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hence May fifth single Demyel, which was a very big
day of Mexican pride.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And a very big day of people going out to
celebrate something they don't understand. But it's a reason to
get a margarita. You know what I just learned through
in this interesting I didn't know all of this information.
You should never order a glass of rose from Provence.
Apparently that would be like almost religious. Now that we
know the origins of sincred a mile, you gotta stick
to the margarita.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Wow. Yeah, I didn't even want to know.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
That's my two favorite drinks. So today it'll be a margarita.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
All right, folks, all right, before we let you go
on this Monday to start your week, something we'd like
for you to consider it is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
You can't walk with God and run with the devil.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Take it at that. There are so many folks who
can relate to that. Who are what during the day,
don't you have plenty of folks who are are so
self righteous, and so many people who are telling you
how you're morally wrong, and so many people who cling
to this thing of religion and God and think they're
on the right side, but then they're in the streets
they're running around doing this and that. And this came
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from my pastor. But it's a very simple way to
see it and put it. And we all know people
like this.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, you can't have it both ways. Acrits.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Essentially is what this That's what I meant to break down.
That's all I was saying.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, so this is from the files of t j R.
A Ka, this is from your pastor.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yes, you can't walk with the God and run with
the devil. Love that all right, folks, And with that,
we always appreciate you running with us. I hope you
getting off to a good start on this Monday morning.
We certainly will be running with you again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I'm teaching and I'm Amy Robock. Have a great Monday, everyone,
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Good
morning everyone, It's Monday, May fifth. Welcome to your Morning Run.
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Holmes and on this Monday Morning Run, the details will
just take your breath away. Police say they stopped a
hate field plot to attack Lady Gaga's massive weekend concert
in Rio.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
And another disturbing incident Reagan National Airport involving a Blackhawk helicopter.
Plus Star Wars fans and Catholics unite against President Trump
for depicting himself as a Jedi and as the Pope.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Also on the run this morning, just a heads up,
get your new IDs or you won't be getting on
your next plane. You need to hear this. Also, no
one is entirely sure what he's talking about. Just one
reaction to Trump's latest trade war announcement, a one hundred
percent tariff on movies okay.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And also on the run this morning, the trial of
Sean Diddycom's It's underway this morning in Manhattan. Plus Elon
Musk gets his own city in Texas, and the President
wants to reopen the most famous prison in the country
though it's been closed for sixty years and you have
to swim to it.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And happy Cinco de Mayo. But whatever you do, folks,
when you are toasting, possibly with that margarita tonight, don't
toast to Mexican Independence Day. We'll explain. It's a common
misconception and a common mistake. But some people will really
get onto you if you make the mistake. But we'll
get into this and explain. Single demayo.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
All right, looking forward to that, but we have to
begin our run in Rio, where a major tragedy was
averted over the weekend at a Lady Gaga concert. Three
people have been arrested in Brazil for planning an attack
at Gaga's free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de
jan Era.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Police there say two people, one a man, and they
identify the other as a teenager. They were planning to
use improvised explosives Molotov cocktails, they say, during the concert,
and we're going to target members of the La LGBTQ
plus community. Authorities also arrested a third person, who they
say had been planning a satanic ritual by killing a
child or baby during the concert. That suspect is facing
(02:12):
terrorism charges.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
The group reportedly posed as fans of Lady Gaga online,
but were actually trying to incite acts of violence from
other fans at the concert. Thankfully, the concert went on
without incident, and incredibly, more than two million people attended.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It was quite a sight to see. So when you
hear these details about what someone was planning to do
with this crowd where there is it's not just a
matter of limited security. You got that many people, you
just can't secure it all as much as you'd like to.
Spokespords of her Gaga said that neither Gaga or her
team knew anything about the threat or a police operation
until the day after the concert, and that concert was
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a history maker, the largest show of Goga's career, and
she posted afterwards it was the biggest crowd for any
woman in history.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And thankfully it went out, went off without incident, all right.
Next up on our run, The White House had some
fun on social media this weekend with a couple of
AI generated photos of President Trump. One image was kind
of funny, the other one was kind of sacrilegious. So
we'll start without it.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well, yeah, plenty of folks, prominent Catholics included, weren't amused
and didn't appreciate the image of the President dressed as
the Pope. You could see him. He's in a cassock
with a cross around his neck, and he's wearing that
papal headdress. But President Trump posted the image after recently
joking that he liked to be pope. You remember, he
got asked by a reporter who he thought should be
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the choice for the next pope. His response was, I'd
like to be pope. That would be my number one choice. Haha,
we say, but here we are.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, so ah haha. Indeed, there was immediate blowback, as
you can imagine, but this statement from the New York
State Catholic Conference sums it up pretty well. There is
nothing clever or funny about this image. Mister President. We
just buried our beloved Pope Francis, and the cardinals are
about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new
successor of Saint Peter. Do not mock us.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Is that fair? Yes, I mean it's hard to argue
with I think all he was just joking, y'all. Take
it easy.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's hard to Timing is everything. It probably never would
be a good time to put that image out, But
especially not now as we head into this very solemn week.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I think, well, I can't wait to see what he
does for Mlkday.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, timing and tone thinks that he
doesn't do so well. The other image he posted was
lighter in nature, but still people took issue with a
particular details.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Okay, this one is funny. This image was in celebration
of Star Wars Day, which is, of course, May the
Fourth get it, May the Fourth be with you. It's
a fun day. People have a good time with it.
But this image shows an incredibly muscular President Trump is bulging,
arms are out in this kind of tank top thing
he had. There are eagles behind him as an American flag
behind him, and along with the image, he wrote this
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happy May the Fourth to all, including the radical left
lunatics who are fighting so hard to bring sith lords, murderers,
drug lords, dangerous and well known MS thirteen gang members
back into our galaxy. You're not the rebellion, You're the
empire quote.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Okay, So in the image, Trump is holding a lightsaber.
Here's the problem. The lightsaber is red, and as everybody knows,
or at least should know, red lightsabers are used by
the dark side. Think Darth Vader. You wouldn't use it
to fight evil because red means you are the evil.
I remember the lightsabers that my brother and I played
(05:27):
with were green greed. That's the good guys, right.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
As simple as that. So it's it's funny that no
one noticed or they do it on purpose, but people
immediately pointed that out, and you know where the jokes
went from there. We will continue here on this morning
Day Morning Ryn with President Trump again says he has
identified and now taking steps to stop the latest threat
to US national security movies, in particular movies not made
(05:52):
in the United States. Yes, and his latest tarif announcement,
President Trump says he will put a one hundred percent
tariff on all movies not produced in the United States.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
We can hear you all now saying this to yourself,
because we all just said it to ourselves. Huh. We're
going to quote the president. Now, here's exactly what he said.
He said yesterday. The movie industry in America is dying
a very fast death. Other countries are offering all sorts
of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from
the United States. Hollywood and many other areas within the
(06:23):
USA are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by
other nations and therefore a national security threat. It is
in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda. Therefore, I
am authorizing the Department of Commerce and the United States
Trade Representative to immediately begin the process of instituting a
one hundred percent tariff on any and all movies coming
(06:45):
into our country that are produced in foreign lands. We
want movies made in America again.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Now, you we were quick to kind of dismiss on
what is he talking about, but in this statement says
he has authorized movement is being made on this particular issue.
So we are now going to quote the New York Times,
which wrote about this movie tariff by saying this, as
is often the case with mister Trump's declarations on social media,
it was not entirely clear what he was talking about.
(07:14):
You can't do it any better than that. And I
want to give this reporter credit. Don't know who he is,
Brooks Barnes, but that line kind of sums it all up.
You can't put it any better than that, because what
is he talking about? What are you gonna do? Which
movies are gonna tax the streaming ones are the ones
at the theater that they have to be foreign language films.
What if it was worked on partly overseas and part
in the US. What if some of the money is
coming from overseas but the movie was actually shot in
(07:35):
the U. We just don't know how this could possibly work.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, I mean a lot of movies are on location
because the story insists that it is so that it
just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And Hollywood has been heard. Look, we know what New Orleans, Atlanta, Vancouver,
other places offer incentives that have been drawing people out
of Hollywood, even places in the US. But it's been
happening overseas as well.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You didn't get a better deal maybe inside with tax
breaks instead of punishing it for actually maybe having important
storytelling that has to be done overseas. All right, we'll
see what happens with that. But next up on our run,
let's continue with President Trump. He now says he wants
the most violent criminals in the US to be housed
at the most famous prison in the US. The problem
(08:19):
is it's been closed for sixty years. Yeah, we're talking
about Alcatraz.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, that one. Alcatraz overnight, the President called for it
to be reopened, rebuilt. Seriously, he said this last night
on social media. And before you immediately dismiss this as
just a middle of the night social media amusing by
President Trump, he actually says once again he has taken
steps already robes to make this happen.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yes, quoting him right here today, I am directing the
Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI,
and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt
Alcatraz to house America's most ruthless and violent offenders. We
will no longer be held hostage to criminals, hugs and
judges that are afraid to do their job, and allow
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us to remove criminals who came into our country illegally.
The reopening of Alcatraz will serve as a symbol of law,
order and justice. The big question is is he for real?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well, this would be a challenge because Alcatraz has been
closed since nineteen sixty three. You're gonna need much more
than a fresh coat of paint and some new screen
doors to get this thing up and running again. The
price tag would be astronomical. Obviously, this would take years
and years and years, and Alcatraz is currently a museum.
A lot of people know this. It's a must see
(09:35):
part of any vacation to the Bay Area. You can
just stand there and look at it. But still you
can take a boat over, go through, take the door.
But it is a museum. It almost seems impossible that
this place could be opening it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
We shall see all right, next up on the run.
This is the public service announcements of sorts and one
I need to heed you. We only have two days
left to get your real ID. That is the new
form of identification. It has a star on the top
if you need to know and see whether or not
you have one. Yes, there should be a star. If
your ID does not have a star like mine, You're
(10:08):
going to have to bring your passport to the airport
to fly domestically starting Wednesday, So every traveler over the
age of eighteen must now have a real ID to
travel through all US airport security checkpoints.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So if you don't have a passport or an enhanced
driver's license that some states issue, what do you do? Well?
You can first expect significant delays, You can expect additional screening.
You could expect not being allowed through security. According to
the TSA website, you will not be allowed to enter
the security checkpoint if you choose to not provide acceptable identification,
you decline to cooperate with the identity verification process, or
(10:43):
your identity cannot be confirmed.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So TSA is recommending if you don't have a real
ID or you don't have a passport, you should give
yourself an extra hour to go through security and bring
your birth certificate or your Social Security card if you
can find either one. I don't know that I can
right now. So, yeah, what is this going to do
to the already long, frustrating security lines at the airport?
Probably it's going to be a huge pain. So if
(11:08):
you don't have one, so try to go make an
appointment at your local DMV and get that real Id'd that.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Go for you yesterday?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Terribly?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yes, Robes checked, I have my real ID. By the way,
Robes had to check. I was trying to get an appointment.
This is true. You were trying to get an appointment
and they were booked here in New York through.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
The end of August summer the end of August.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Could not get one, folks, So you might be in
a little trouble here. If you figured out people are
on the website, they're trying to see if there are
any cancelations. Possibly as well. Homeland Security website has a
real ID map. You can click on your state to
get information on what to do to get a real ID.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, and I think government officials are saying, y'all knew
about this. You have plenty of time. This has been
in the works since two thousand and five. I mean,
I mean, okay, the Congress passed it back in two
thousand and five following a nine to eleven commission recommendation,
but they've delayed in forcing it several times over the
last twenty years. So maybe some of us were hoping
they were going to kick the can further. Not so much.
(12:06):
Time is up, he is.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Finally, we will continue here on this Monday morning run
with a story that's hard to believe that this is happening.
Another Blackhawk helicopter issue at Reagan National Airport. Yes, this
one caused a major disruption. Two different airplanes had to
abort their landings because of an Army helicopter. We're learning
this happened last week.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, the US Transportation Secretary said it's unacceptable that a
Delta Airlines flight and a Republic Airways fight had to
perform go around maneuvers and reposition for another approach to land,
all because of this helicopter. The FAA said, the army
helicopter took I'm quoting here a scenic route around the
Pentagon versus proceeding directly from the west to the airport
(12:49):
as they were supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating. This
incident took place around two thirty Thursday afternoon. Restrictions had
been put in place since that January twenty ninth deadly
mid air collision between a Black Hall helicopter and the
American Airlines plane that killed all sixty seven people on
board both those aircraft.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
But after this latest incident, the Transportation Secretary has now
restricted all non essential helicopter operations around Reagan National, writing
this on X safety must always come first. We just
lost sixty seven souls. No more helicopter rides for VIPs
or unnecessary training in a congested DCA airspace full of civilians.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
All right, We'll stay with us air folks on this
Monday morning run. When we come back elon Musk is
getting his own city in Texas. We'll explain. Also, a
ninety four year old decides to retire ninety four, so
why are y'all surprised that he's retiring. Also, it is
Cinco de Mayo. It is not Mexican Independent Day will
(13:48):
tell you the proper way to toasts. All right, let's
continue this Monday morning run now, and our next leg
takes us to Texas, where Elon Musk has now gotten
his own city kind of sort of. The area in
Texas where Musk operates his company SpaceX has now officially
(14:12):
become a city, and its new name is Muskville. I'm kidding.
They did not name it Muskville. It is actually called
Star Base. Good ring too it yeah, starbar Galactic Star
based Texas. That ain't bad. Actually, they had to vote
on this in the city and it it passed pretty overwhelmingly.
The residents of the area had to vote on it.
(14:34):
The residents, he had two hundred and eighty three of them.
And who do you think they were? They were all
SpaceX employees of course, who are in the area, So
this is not much of choker.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
It resoundedly passed. Yes, Musk wrote on X After the vote,
Star Based Texas is now a real city exclamation point.
He's been working on this since twenty twenty one. The
city is only one point six square miles, but it's
going to have a mayor and two commissioners. And this
is another shaker. A SpaceX vice president Bobby Peden be
the first mayor of Star Based Texas.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You know what, you can always say you were the
first ione. You know, ten twenty years from now this
becomes some booming metropolis of sorts, if you will.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
We will look back on this and go, well, have
you been there?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I have to Starbase.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Ain't no way it's going to be a booming metropolis.
This is in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So was Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Okay, all right, we shall see.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
All right, we continue on the run here now with
Warren Buffett boll He sure can't keep a secret. The
Oracle of Omaha shocked just about everybody this weekend announcing
that he would retire as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at
the end of this year.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It was such a shocking announcement that even his hand
picked successor, who was sitting right next to him at
the time of the announcement almost fell out of his chair,
like he literally had no idea. This was at a
conference over the weekend in front of a live audience
of thousands of investors.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, he was on stage. Buffett was during a Q
and A period along with the vice chairman we mentioned,
and he unexpectedly told the crowd he will be stepping
down at the end of the year. He's ninety four
years but he has always said he had no plans
to retire. Really, folks thought he would die in his role.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Now, he said only his two kids knew about his
decision to retire ahead of time. And yes. Known as
the Oracle of Omaha, Buffett is a legend, widely considered
perhaps the greatest investor in the world. He's been at
the Helm of Berkshire Berkshire Hathaway. He turned it into
a company worth one point six trillion dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Now he has a personal wealth of about one hundred
and fifty billion dollars. It seemed like every year I've
been alive, he's been on the Richest Person in the
World list. But he has pledged to give all this
money away. In a cool part during that announcement, he
said he's going to retire. Of course, the crowd was shot.
But then they gave him a wonderful ovation, and he
said this, your enthusiasm could be interpreted two ways. That's funny.
(16:47):
That is really funny. I give him credit there, but
he is obviously legendary, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I say, you always have to be really smart to
be really funny, and he's both. It looks like all right.
Next up on the run, the trial of Sean Diddy
Combs is finally here. Jury selection actually begins today in
Lower Manhattan. We're bracing ourselves because we can pretty much
see the courthouse outside of our apartment. He's facing five
federal counts of sex, trafficking and racketeering, all related to
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those so called freak offs in which he allegedly drugged, coerced,
and abused partygoers.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
At Combs has pleaded not guilty to all charges has
maintained his innocence throughout. He did confirm last Thursday at
a pre trial hearing, the final pre trial hearing, that
prosecutors had offered him a plea deal they could have
reduced his jail time. He turned it down. He is, yes,
facing the possibility of life in prison.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
All right for the final leg of our run. Do
not get scolded today by mistakingly saying today we're celebrating
Mexican Independence Day. Somebody is just waiting to jump in
and correct you on that one.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I've seen this go down before, yes I have. Well, so, yes,
this is a common misconception. It's okay if you make
the mistake. A lot of people do. But still single
Demayo is a celebration of Mexican Independence Day. That is
a false statement. Mexican Independence is actually on September sixteenth.
Think of that, that's their fourth of July. So September sixteenth,
(18:06):
eighteen ten is when Mexico declared liberation from Spain.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
All right, it was fifty years later then that Cinco
de Mayo was born. On May fifth, eighteen sixty two,
Mexican forces defeated Napoleon's French troops at the Battle of Puebla.
The French at the time saw an opportunity in Mexico
to expand its influence and they invaded.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
So, yeah, this was a year's long conflict against the French.
But on May fifth, eighteen sixty two, a raggtab bunch
of ill equipped and outnumbered Mexican fighters defeated the French
at this Battle of Puebla. That battle didn't end the conflict.
In fact, it went on for several more years, but
the French finally left the country some five years later.
But the Battle of Puebla became the symbol of Mexican resistance,
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hence May fifth single Demyel, which was a very big
day of Mexican pride.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And a very big day of people going out to
celebrate something they don't understand. But it's a reason to
get a margarita. You know what I just learned through
in this interesting I didn't know all of this information.
You should never order a glass of rose from Provence.
Apparently that would be like almost religious. Now that we
know the origins of sincred a mile, you gotta stick
to the margarita.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Wow. Yeah, I didn't even want to know.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
That's my two favorite drinks. So today it'll be a margarita.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
All right, folks, all right, before we let you go
on this Monday to start your week, something we'd like
for you to consider it is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
You can't walk with God and run with the devil.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Take it at that. There are so many folks who
can relate to that. Who are what during the day,
don't you have plenty of folks who are are so
self righteous, and so many people who are telling you
how you're morally wrong, and so many people who cling
to this thing of religion and God and think they're
on the right side, but then they're in the streets
they're running around doing this and that. And this came
(19:53):
from my pastor. But it's a very simple way to
see it and put it. And we all know people
like this.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, you can't have it both ways. Acrits.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Essentially is what this That's what I meant to break down.
That's all I was saying.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, so this is from the files of t j R.
A Ka, this is from your pastor.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yes, you can't walk with the God and run with
the devil. Love that all right, folks, And with that,
we always appreciate you running with us. I hope you
getting off to a good start on this Monday morning.
We certainly will be running with you again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I'm teaching and I'm Amy Robock. Have a great Monday, everyone,
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