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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Hello everyone,
this is your Morning Run for Thursday, April third. I'm
Amy Robots.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And I'MTJ Holmes and on the run this morning, Oh
what a sight of the whole. President Trump announcing his
Liberation Day tariffs in Wendy, Washington, DC, sending shock waves
around the world, imposing tariffs on well just about everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And perhaps not so shocking the markets. Well, they're not
happy with futures and foreign markets tanking following Trump's announcement.
Plus a handful of Senate Republicans joined Democrats in trying
to block some of those tariffs, but there is zero
chance of that working.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Also this morning, is it a headline or not? Elon
Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency soon. The
White House has a strong response to some of those
media reports. Also, Mayor Eric Adams is off the hook.
A federal judge dismisses all charges against him, but not
before making his feelings known about the deal.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And with time ticking for TikTok, Amazon makes a pitch
to purchase the site before Saturday's deadline, and fifteen million
Americans are in the path of a dangerous and possible
once in a generation weather event that already has spawned
tornadoes and flooding.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And also on the run this morning in twenty twenty five,
can the US government tell you who you cannot date?
Apparently the answer is yes, if you want to keep
your job with the US government, we'll explain.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That is a very interesting story that I cannot wait
to get to. But in the meantime, we must begin
our run. In Washington, d C. President Trump had the
world watching as he finally unveiled his tariff plan on
what he said we'll be remembered as Liberation Day, calling
it our declaration of economic independency.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And it was quite the scene. We knew this was
probably going to be a well produced show, and it
sure was a lot of American flags President outside, huge crowd. There,
a lot of guys in hard had so it was
quite the television production. President Trump was out there holding
a poster board at the podium. He actually did look
like a kid who was in class giving a presentation.
(02:10):
He was pointing to his poster board explaining things, but
he was showing the tariffs each country charges the US
and what the US tariffs are now going to be
in those respective countries. It seemed there was a larger visual.
Maybe that was planned, but Trump mentioned it was so
windy out there would have blown away, so we improvised.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, it was like a show and tell in Washington,
d C. Except for nobody wanted to hear what he
was saying, because the big announcement was this, there will
be a ten percent tariff on all countries the US
trades with. But that was just the starting point. Trump
said his tariffs are kind compared to how countries tax
the US, saying we would only be charging other countries
(02:51):
half the rate they charge us. Trump saying, hey, I'm
giving them a fifty percent discount here. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
President said these tariffs were going to art being smart.
It means the US is going to start being smart
and we're going to start being very wealthy. Again his words,
the ten percent tariff will take effect on April fifth,
higher ones on April ninth. I know this is a
lot to try to keep up with all these dates,
but yes, the fifth and the ninth are the next
big dates coming up. The world reaction was swift threats
(03:18):
of retaliatory tariffs on US goods coming from places all
over the world, So there will be a response. This
is war. Not a single soldier is going to be
used in this. All of the soldiers on this one
are economists, Wall Street guys, guys and soups ties went
to Harvard, those kind of guys. But this is a
full scale now trade war.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, it certainly is, and not one that many countries
were expecting. I mean really, the reaction was shocked from
a lot of folks. They weren't expecting the tariffs to
be as high as they were. And so next up
on our run. Well, the markets around the world didn't
like Trump's Liberation Day announcement not one bit. This morning,
Asian markets opened lower across the board, including Japan's Nike,
(04:01):
which opened four percent lower.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Now marks in Europe opening lowyer this morning as well.
You as futures are down two to three percent at
least as of this recording. Number of US companies have
taken major hits, the likes of Amazon, Apple, Walmart all
down five to seven percent. But then you have these
discount companies like Dollar Tree five below. Those companies, of course,
depend on some lower priced goods coming in from overseas.
(04:25):
They took some bigger hits of ten percent or more,
so a number of companies are struggling this month.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, and next up on the run, Well, we had
the President announcing these new tariffs just as the Senate
was making a move to block some of those tariffs
from going into place. In a somewhat bipartisan rebuke, the
Senate voted fifty one to forty eight for a bill
that would block tariffs from going into place, specifically those
tariffs on Canada.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So all the Democrats in the Senate supported the bill,
but four Republicans joined them. You can probably already guess
the names of these four Republicans. They have been somewhat
of a thorn in the side of President Trump at times.
Those four Republicans both senators from Kentucky, Ran Paul and
Mitch McConnell. Then you had Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and
Susan Collins of Maine, all joined the Democrats. Before the vote,
(05:13):
President called out those four Republicans on social media and
said they should get on the Republican bandwagon. They did
not get.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That message or they just didn't listen, right, So what
happens now The bill would go to the House, but
Republican leadership has already said they have no plans to
bring it to the floor for a vote. However, some
Democrats are considering some legislative maneuvering that could force a
vote in the House where there is a razor thin
Republican majority.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Okay, so let's say that happens. Even if it gets
that far and is passed by the Senate and the House,
where's it going to go then robes for the President's
desk to be signed to become legislation. That ain't happening.
So this exercise, sure, they're going through it, but there's
even if it was going to get through Congrey, he
is not going to sign anything that's going to cancel
(05:59):
his own tariffs.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh who doesn't love a symbolic vote. I guess that's
all that was yesterday. Next up on the Run, more
big news out of Washington or not. The White House
has confirmed that Elon Musk will leave his position at
the Department of Government Efficiency in the coming weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Duh is what they're saying. To some reports out there
that are saying something else, White House pres Secretary Carolyn
Levitt pointed out that yes, this shouldn't be a surprise
to any one because Elon Musk, Ashi wrote and President
Trump have both publicly stated that Elon will depart the
public service as special government employee when his incredible work
(06:38):
at DOGE is complete.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah. Lovitt was reacting to media reports that implied Musk
was exiting earlier that anticipated, perhaps because of problems with Tesla, etc.
Calling that scoop that some journalists claim they had garbage
is what she called it. The White House pointed out
special government employees, which is what Musk is. They're allowed
to work for no more than one hundred and thirty
(07:00):
days within a three hundred and sixty five day period.
So that would mean Musk's one hundred thirty days would
be up on May thirtieth. So yeah, they're saying, duh, Yeah,
he is leaving in the coming weeks.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
As we said, all right, we continue our run. This
next leg brings us back to New York, where case dismissed.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is no longer facing
federal corruption charges. A judge yesterday made it official. Justice
Department had requested in February that the case be dismissed,
saying that it interfered with Adam's ability to run the City,
which includes helping President Trump carry out his immigration agenda.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Hmmm, so the judge dismissed the case with prejudice. That
means prosecutors cannot bring this case back later. But this
is what the judge added. Everything here smacks of a bargain,
he said, referring to the appearance of a quid pro
quo between Adams and Trump. The mayor said after the
charges were dismissed, I want to apologize to New Yorkers
(07:56):
for having to go through this with me, a baseless
case that should have never been brought in the first place.
Mayor Adams always denied the corruption charges against him, but
now he does not have to have his day in court.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
This is a remarkable turnaround all that happened, all talking
about the race coming of the New York mayors or
how this was going to shake things up. He goes
from being possibly a convicted felon to not even being
charged with a crime anymore. He was facing possibly that
idea of facing the voters as a convicted.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Film correct, so he got out of any legal problems
he was facing. The question is, how will New Yorkers
deal with this when it comes to the voting booth.
We know that former Governor Andrew Cuomo is in the
race as well, and his numbers are showing that he's
doing well. But he obviously he has his own baggage
to contend with as well. So this mayoral race here
(08:51):
in New York City is going to be quite the spectacle.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
All right, Well, folk, stay with us here on this
Thursday morning run. When we come back, you need to
listen up. Soh download TikTok today because it might be
gone by the weekend. Also coming up, we are in
the middle of a historic weather event. It's supposed to
last through the weekend, and the US government is telling
folks who they can and cannot date stigmus. All right,
(09:25):
we continue our Thursday morning run and for this next leg,
TikTok for TikTok, the social media app is once again
on the clock and could go dark in the US
by this weekend. There is a Saturday deadline for the
company to find a non Chinese owner in order to
continue operating in the US.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
This is deja vu all over again, because this same
scenario played out in January when TikTok missed a deadline
to find a buyer and went dark. For a day.
Then President Trump took office and gave the company a
seventy five day extension. Well that's seventy five days is
up on Saturday. The administration has been working to find
a solution, which includes finding private US investors to buy.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
It, and now reportedly Amazon is the latest to put
their name in the half for possibly acquiring the social
media giant, which has one hundred and seventy million users
in the US. President Trump has said he believes they
will have a solution by the deadline. Nobody seems to
be panicked right now. But just for the sake of safety,
go ahead and download it today.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, and capca, remember I couldn't download that for that
period of time, So yes, get to you need just
in case, all right. Next up on our run, Millions
of Americans are in the midst of or are bracing
for what's being described as a once in a generation
weather event. Widespread life threatening weather is predicted to last
through the weekend as a long line of dangerous weather
(10:51):
is slowly making its way east.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, this system spawned tornadoes last night in places like Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky.
Hundreds of thousand of people are without power this morning,
and now record flooding is predicted from Missouri to Mississippi
because that storm system has actually slowed down, so it's
just gonna sit on top of some areas and just
dump and dump and dump water.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah. I saw a headline that said three April's worth
of rain may fall in just the next few days
to give some perspective, So three months of rain in
a matter of days. So yes, millions will remain under
watches and warnings throughout the weekend. And I have to say,
we you know, we get sometimes these scary headlines from
(11:38):
whether folks who are just trying to keep people safe.
But this seems legit. I mean, the Storm Prediction Center says,
you know, because you know, you do try to take
things with a green and salt like, oh, is this
just for you know, to get people scared so that
they tune in and click or whatever. But the Storm
Prediction Center says this is the highest possible risk level.
So on a scale of one to five, they've issued
(11:59):
a five. And that is fairly rare when it comes
to weather forecasting.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
YE Significant tornado outlook, particularly dangerous situation. Those are the
type of official designations they are giving to this weather
event at times, and those are just things we don't
hear a lot. You remember growing up as a kid,
we grew up in areas that had tornado. Yep, you
hear a tornado. Watch you go, okay, you hear a
(12:25):
tornado warning. You know you need to take this seriously.
This stuff is way above any of that.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
The sirens are sounding, yes, and you know a.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Funny note out of Little Rock. The mayor there they
do their sirens, their tests of the emergency sirens. They
do it at noon on Wednesday. He had to go
out and publicly say we are canceling that test. If
you hear a siren, it's for real.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Wow. He didn't want to make anybody be confused if
they had to use it for real.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It all for real today, folks. He had to alert them.
So that's what's going on. So please keep those folks
in mind. And if you're in those areas that have
people in those areas, man, you need to check on him,
and please please please be careful today it is absolutely
a life threatening situation. Final leg of our run here
on this Thursday morning, and this was when I brought
to your attention robes you said, what is happening? But
(13:13):
let us explain here the second most populous country in
the world, China. Yes, a billion and a half Chinese citizens,
and don't even think about dating one of them. That
is the specific directive reportedly now given to US government
employees in China.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
The Associated Press is reporting earlier this year, a policy
was put into place that bans US personnel based in
China from having romantic or sexual relationships with any Chinese citizen.
This was put into effect by the previous US ambassador
to China before he left his post in January, but
it was not announced publicly.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And apparently this band also applies to family members of
US personnel as well as contractors any of these folks
who might have security clearances. Now, rules against US personnel
frinizing with citizens of a particular country isn't unheard of,
But the AP points out that this new policy in
China is different because it's a broad and strict blanket band,
(14:14):
the likes of which we haven't seen since the Cold War.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yes, the policy is a Cold War throwback, when intelligence
agencies around the world employed the tactic of sending attractive
people to cozy up to and date US personnel in
an attempt to acquire sensitive information. It all sounds like
the plot of a movie, but this stuff actually happened,
and that makes a lot of sense. But this is
(14:38):
when it comes to just how humans act and interact
and where you are and where you live and who
you see. This is ridiculous. There's absolutely no way that
this could absolutely, like you, you're telling me people like, Okay,
that's cool. I'm going to be surrounded by people of
a certain off limits citizenship for nationality and I can't
(15:00):
date any of them. Never gonna happen, but it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Lets you know of the level of I guess competition,
and I guess in a lot of ways. China is
absolutely considered an enemy, an enemy of the US, and
certainly when it comes to intelligence and things, and they
are taking this precaution. We talk about TikTok. They didn't
want TikTok here because it's owned by China, and they're
going to have all this access to all these American
(15:24):
citizens and information. So it's taken to another level that
you can't even it's a billion and a half folks
right outside.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Of the lad Yeah, come on, you can't tell people
who have fallen in love with, or who not to
fall in love with, or who not to be attracted to.
I think that's what I mean. Look, they can try
to enforce it, but good luck.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Look from somebody with experience. When you are employer tries
to get involved with your dating, sometimes goes.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Love wins, love winds.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Folks with that as you go about your Thursday now,
hopefully with a smile on your face. Something we want
you to consider it is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, if you need a little motivation here, let's get
some motivation from one of the greats from MLK Junior
himself love this quote. Thought we would share it with
you today. If you can't fly, then run. If you
can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl.
But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I love that that can be literal or figure toive.
You can actually do that both ways and it absolutely works.
But that's it. Good Do you just kind of keep moving?
What's the one? If you're going through a storm, keep going?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, just when you're going through hell, keep going. Yep,
those are all you know. Sometimes there are the simplest
quotes and things we already know. But just the way
you say, it just resonates, and this one did, of
course from the great.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
So with that, take that with you today, folks as
you go about your Thursday. Remember, if you can't fly,
then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you
can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do today, you
have to keep moving forward. And with that, folks, we
always appreciate you running with.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Us on Pjlman and I'm Amy Roboch. Have a wonderful
Thursday everyone. We'll see you on the run tomorrow, which
is Friday,
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Hello everyone,
this is your Morning Run for Thursday, April third. I'm
Amy Robots.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And I'MTJ Holmes and on the run this morning, Oh
what a sight of the whole. President Trump announcing his
Liberation Day tariffs in Wendy, Washington, DC, sending shock waves
around the world, imposing tariffs on well just about everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And perhaps not so shocking the markets. Well, they're not
happy with futures and foreign markets tanking following Trump's announcement.
Plus a handful of Senate Republicans joined Democrats in trying
to block some of those tariffs, but there is zero
chance of that working.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Also this morning, is it a headline or not? Elon
Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency soon. The
White House has a strong response to some of those
media reports. Also, Mayor Eric Adams is off the hook.
A federal judge dismisses all charges against him, but not
before making his feelings known about the deal.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And with time ticking for TikTok, Amazon makes a pitch
to purchase the site before Saturday's deadline, and fifteen million
Americans are in the path of a dangerous and possible
once in a generation weather event that already has spawned
tornadoes and flooding.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And also on the run this morning in twenty twenty five,
can the US government tell you who you cannot date?
Apparently the answer is yes, if you want to keep
your job with the US government, we'll explain.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That is a very interesting story that I cannot wait
to get to. But in the meantime, we must begin
our run. In Washington, d C. President Trump had the
world watching as he finally unveiled his tariff plan on
what he said we'll be remembered as Liberation Day, calling
it our declaration of economic independency.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And it was quite the scene. We knew this was
probably going to be a well produced show, and it
sure was a lot of American flags President outside, huge crowd. There,
a lot of guys in hard had so it was
quite the television production. President Trump was out there holding
a poster board at the podium. He actually did look
like a kid who was in class giving a presentation.
(02:10):
He was pointing to his poster board explaining things, but
he was showing the tariffs each country charges the US
and what the US tariffs are now going to be
in those respective countries. It seemed there was a larger visual.
Maybe that was planned, but Trump mentioned it was so
windy out there would have blown away, so we improvised.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, it was like a show and tell in Washington,
d C. Except for nobody wanted to hear what he
was saying, because the big announcement was this, there will
be a ten percent tariff on all countries the US
trades with. But that was just the starting point. Trump
said his tariffs are kind compared to how countries tax
the US, saying we would only be charging other countries
(02:51):
half the rate they charge us. Trump saying, hey, I'm
giving them a fifty percent discount here. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
President said these tariffs were going to art being smart.
It means the US is going to start being smart
and we're going to start being very wealthy. Again his words,
the ten percent tariff will take effect on April fifth,
higher ones on April ninth. I know this is a
lot to try to keep up with all these dates,
but yes, the fifth and the ninth are the next
big dates coming up. The world reaction was swift threats
(03:18):
of retaliatory tariffs on US goods coming from places all
over the world, So there will be a response. This
is war. Not a single soldier is going to be
used in this. All of the soldiers on this one
are economists, Wall Street guys, guys and soups ties went
to Harvard, those kind of guys. But this is a
full scale now trade war.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, it certainly is, and not one that many countries
were expecting. I mean really, the reaction was shocked from
a lot of folks. They weren't expecting the tariffs to
be as high as they were. And so next up
on our run. Well, the markets around the world didn't
like Trump's Liberation Day announcement not one bit. This morning,
Asian markets opened lower across the board, including Japan's Nike,
(04:01):
which opened four percent lower.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Now marks in Europe opening lowyer this morning as well.
You as futures are down two to three percent at
least as of this recording. Number of US companies have
taken major hits, the likes of Amazon, Apple, Walmart all
down five to seven percent. But then you have these
discount companies like Dollar Tree five below. Those companies, of course,
depend on some lower priced goods coming in from overseas.
(04:25):
They took some bigger hits of ten percent or more,
so a number of companies are struggling this month.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, and next up on the run, Well, we had
the President announcing these new tariffs just as the Senate
was making a move to block some of those tariffs
from going into place. In a somewhat bipartisan rebuke, the
Senate voted fifty one to forty eight for a bill
that would block tariffs from going into place, specifically those
tariffs on Canada.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So all the Democrats in the Senate supported the bill,
but four Republicans joined them. You can probably already guess
the names of these four Republicans. They have been somewhat
of a thorn in the side of President Trump at times.
Those four Republicans both senators from Kentucky, Ran Paul and
Mitch McConnell. Then you had Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and
Susan Collins of Maine, all joined the Democrats. Before the vote,
(05:13):
President called out those four Republicans on social media and
said they should get on the Republican bandwagon. They did
not get.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That message or they just didn't listen, right, So what
happens now The bill would go to the House, but
Republican leadership has already said they have no plans to
bring it to the floor for a vote. However, some
Democrats are considering some legislative maneuvering that could force a
vote in the House where there is a razor thin
Republican majority.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Okay, so let's say that happens. Even if it gets
that far and is passed by the Senate and the House,
where's it going to go then robes for the President's
desk to be signed to become legislation. That ain't happening.
So this exercise, sure, they're going through it, but there's
even if it was going to get through Congrey, he
is not going to sign anything that's going to cancel
(05:59):
his own tariffs.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh who doesn't love a symbolic vote. I guess that's
all that was yesterday. Next up on the Run, more
big news out of Washington or not. The White House
has confirmed that Elon Musk will leave his position at
the Department of Government Efficiency in the coming weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Duh is what they're saying. To some reports out there
that are saying something else, White House pres Secretary Carolyn
Levitt pointed out that yes, this shouldn't be a surprise
to any one because Elon Musk, Ashi wrote and President
Trump have both publicly stated that Elon will depart the
public service as special government employee when his incredible work
(06:38):
at DOGE is complete.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah. Lovitt was reacting to media reports that implied Musk
was exiting earlier that anticipated, perhaps because of problems with Tesla, etc.
Calling that scoop that some journalists claim they had garbage
is what she called it. The White House pointed out
special government employees, which is what Musk is. They're allowed
to work for no more than one hundred and thirty
(07:00):
days within a three hundred and sixty five day period.
So that would mean Musk's one hundred thirty days would
be up on May thirtieth. So yeah, they're saying, duh, Yeah,
he is leaving in the coming weeks.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
As we said, all right, we continue our run. This
next leg brings us back to New York, where case dismissed.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is no longer facing
federal corruption charges. A judge yesterday made it official. Justice
Department had requested in February that the case be dismissed,
saying that it interfered with Adam's ability to run the City,
which includes helping President Trump carry out his immigration agenda.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Hmmm, so the judge dismissed the case with prejudice. That
means prosecutors cannot bring this case back later. But this
is what the judge added. Everything here smacks of a bargain,
he said, referring to the appearance of a quid pro
quo between Adams and Trump. The mayor said after the
charges were dismissed, I want to apologize to New Yorkers
(07:56):
for having to go through this with me, a baseless
case that should have never been brought in the first place.
Mayor Adams always denied the corruption charges against him, but
now he does not have to have his day in court.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
This is a remarkable turnaround all that happened, all talking
about the race coming of the New York mayors or
how this was going to shake things up. He goes
from being possibly a convicted felon to not even being
charged with a crime anymore. He was facing possibly that
idea of facing the voters as a convicted.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Film correct, so he got out of any legal problems
he was facing. The question is, how will New Yorkers
deal with this when it comes to the voting booth.
We know that former Governor Andrew Cuomo is in the
race as well, and his numbers are showing that he's
doing well. But he obviously he has his own baggage
to contend with as well. So this mayoral race here
(08:51):
in New York City is going to be quite the spectacle.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
All right, Well, folk, stay with us here on this
Thursday morning run. When we come back, you need to
listen up. Soh download TikTok today because it might be
gone by the weekend. Also coming up, we are in
the middle of a historic weather event. It's supposed to
last through the weekend, and the US government is telling
folks who they can and cannot date stigmus. All right,
(09:25):
we continue our Thursday morning run and for this next leg,
TikTok for TikTok, the social media app is once again
on the clock and could go dark in the US
by this weekend. There is a Saturday deadline for the
company to find a non Chinese owner in order to
continue operating in the US.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
This is deja vu all over again, because this same
scenario played out in January when TikTok missed a deadline
to find a buyer and went dark. For a day.
Then President Trump took office and gave the company a
seventy five day extension. Well that's seventy five days is
up on Saturday. The administration has been working to find
a solution, which includes finding private US investors to buy.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
It, and now reportedly Amazon is the latest to put
their name in the half for possibly acquiring the social
media giant, which has one hundred and seventy million users
in the US. President Trump has said he believes they
will have a solution by the deadline. Nobody seems to
be panicked right now. But just for the sake of safety,
go ahead and download it today.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, and capca, remember I couldn't download that for that
period of time, So yes, get to you need just
in case, all right. Next up on our run, Millions
of Americans are in the midst of or are bracing
for what's being described as a once in a generation
weather event. Widespread life threatening weather is predicted to last
through the weekend as a long line of dangerous weather
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is slowly making its way east.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, this system spawned tornadoes last night in places like Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky.
Hundreds of thousand of people are without power this morning,
and now record flooding is predicted from Missouri to Mississippi
because that storm system has actually slowed down, so it's
just gonna sit on top of some areas and just
dump and dump and dump water.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah. I saw a headline that said three April's worth
of rain may fall in just the next few days
to give some perspective, So three months of rain in
a matter of days. So yes, millions will remain under
watches and warnings throughout the weekend. And I have to say,
we you know, we get sometimes these scary headlines from
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whether folks who are just trying to keep people safe.
But this seems legit. I mean, the Storm Prediction Center says,
you know, because you know, you do try to take
things with a green and salt like, oh, is this
just for you know, to get people scared so that
they tune in and click or whatever. But the Storm
Prediction Center says this is the highest possible risk level.
So on a scale of one to five, they've issued
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a five. And that is fairly rare when it comes
to weather forecasting.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
YE Significant tornado outlook, particularly dangerous situation. Those are the
type of official designations they are giving to this weather
event at times, and those are just things we don't
hear a lot. You remember growing up as a kid,
we grew up in areas that had tornado. Yep, you
hear a tornado. Watch you go, okay, you hear a
(12:25):
tornado warning. You know you need to take this seriously.
This stuff is way above any of that.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
The sirens are sounding, yes, and you know a.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Funny note out of Little Rock. The mayor there they
do their sirens, their tests of the emergency sirens. They
do it at noon on Wednesday. He had to go
out and publicly say we are canceling that test. If
you hear a siren, it's for real.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Wow. He didn't want to make anybody be confused if
they had to use it for real.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It all for real today, folks. He had to alert them.
So that's what's going on. So please keep those folks
in mind. And if you're in those areas that have
people in those areas, man, you need to check on him,
and please please please be careful today it is absolutely
a life threatening situation. Final leg of our run here
on this Thursday morning, and this was when I brought
to your attention robes you said, what is happening? But
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let us explain here the second most populous country in
the world, China. Yes, a billion and a half Chinese citizens,
and don't even think about dating one of them. That
is the specific directive reportedly now given to US government
employees in China.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
The Associated Press is reporting earlier this year, a policy
was put into place that bans US personnel based in
China from having romantic or sexual relationships with any Chinese citizen.
This was put into effect by the previous US ambassador
to China before he left his post in January, but
it was not announced publicly.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And apparently this band also applies to family members of
US personnel as well as contractors any of these folks
who might have security clearances. Now, rules against US personnel
frinizing with citizens of a particular country isn't unheard of,
But the AP points out that this new policy in
China is different because it's a broad and strict blanket band,
(14:14):
the likes of which we haven't seen since the Cold War.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yes, the policy is a Cold War throwback, when intelligence
agencies around the world employed the tactic of sending attractive
people to cozy up to and date US personnel in
an attempt to acquire sensitive information. It all sounds like
the plot of a movie, but this stuff actually happened,
and that makes a lot of sense. But this is
(14:38):
when it comes to just how humans act and interact
and where you are and where you live and who
you see. This is ridiculous. There's absolutely no way that
this could absolutely, like you, you're telling me people like, Okay,
that's cool. I'm going to be surrounded by people of
a certain off limits citizenship for nationality and I can't
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date any of them. Never gonna happen, but it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Lets you know of the level of I guess competition,
and I guess in a lot of ways. China is
absolutely considered an enemy, an enemy of the US, and
certainly when it comes to intelligence and things, and they
are taking this precaution. We talk about TikTok. They didn't
want TikTok here because it's owned by China, and they're
going to have all this access to all these American
(15:24):
citizens and information. So it's taken to another level that
you can't even it's a billion and a half folks
right outside.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Of the lad Yeah, come on, you can't tell people
who have fallen in love with, or who not to
fall in love with, or who not to be attracted to.
I think that's what I mean. Look, they can try
to enforce it, but good luck.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Look from somebody with experience. When you are employer tries
to get involved with your dating, sometimes goes.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Love wins, love winds.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Folks with that as you go about your Thursday now,
hopefully with a smile on your face. Something we want
you to consider it is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, if you need a little motivation here, let's get
some motivation from one of the greats from MLK Junior
himself love this quote. Thought we would share it with
you today. If you can't fly, then run. If you
can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl.
But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I love that that can be literal or figure toive.
You can actually do that both ways and it absolutely works.
But that's it. Good Do you just kind of keep moving?
What's the one? If you're going through a storm, keep going?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, just when you're going through hell, keep going. Yep,
those are all you know. Sometimes there are the simplest
quotes and things we already know. But just the way
you say, it just resonates, and this one did, of
course from the great.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
So with that, take that with you today, folks as
you go about your Thursday. Remember, if you can't fly,
then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you
can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do today, you
have to keep moving forward. And with that, folks, we
always appreciate you running with.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Us on Pjlman and I'm Amy Roboch. Have a wonderful
Thursday everyone. We'll see you on the run tomorrow, which
is Friday,
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