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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, It's Tuesday, October twenty First, I'm Amy Robots
and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Holmes. Folks, it is just October. But we have what
they're calling here in New York a miracle on thirty
fourth Street. That sounds really sweet, rogues, but the story
itself is kind of sad. But I guess a miracle
that a newborn baby was found. And I think it's
the city's busiest subway station, right.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yes, was it? Which one?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Was it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Penn Station.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
At first I thought Harold Square, but yeah, same area.
But yes, that is a remarkable story. The baby is okay.
That's the good news. But obviously an investigation is underway
as to how this baby was left and by whome.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We don't know those details, folks. We will tell you
what's going on here in New York with that story.
Also the shutdown story, you can write it yourself. But
we are now on day twenty one, which is now
tied for the second longest in US government history. We
really thought that would be over by now.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well it could be twenty one more days in counting.
I mean, there's no end in sight.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That is the problem. We'll get into that a whole
lot more to get into this morning. But as always,
top right corner of your Apple podcast app, where you
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get our updates anytime.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yes, and also on the run this morning, Amazon says, Hey, everyone,
no worries. It's all good now. VP Vans is on
the way to Israel. Demolition is underway at the White House.
A woman is in charge in Japan. The clock is
ticking right now to find those stolen French Crown jewels.
A Cord gives the okay for the National Guard in Portland.
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Comy wants his case dismiss and Diddy wants a do
over again. But we begin our run on this Tuesday.
If you were experiencing an internet issue yesterday, like so
many of us were, you were likely dealing with a
massive Amazon Web outage. I had no idea the reach
of Amazon until yesterday, did you.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
H Yeah, And this is the problem people are screaming.
I mean, you don't necessarily really think Amazon. You don't
think my shop app is going to be affected? Is
it that kind of thing? You just don't get how
much we depend on the services of Amazon.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
That is frightening because yes as TJ was just pointing
out Amazon web Services, I didn't realize this is a
cloud service provider that supports much of the Internet, and
so when it has a problem, so do a significant
amount of websites.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You have critics screaming about this for years and years
and years. We depend too much on one thing, the
system goes down and everything essentially shuts down. So yesterday,
for about two hours, apps for major banks, gaming sites,
entertainment services started to have issues. Folks. We're talking about WhatsApp,
venmo coinbased, the New York Times, games, Wall Street Journal app, Amazon, Hulu, Snapchat, McDonald's,
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the Ring, Doorbells, even Fortnite, Delta, United Airlines, the British government,
even their website and tax services all impacted by one
company having an issue, and that was Amazon. This all
started around three to five am yesterday, but still by midafternoon.
It wasn't all worked out. Still some spotty service issues
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on multiple sites.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
In total, there are more than eight million reports of disruptions,
mostly here in the US and in Britain. Amazon said
the issue stemmed from here's their quote, an internal system
that monitored how it balanced.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Traffic across its network.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Whatever that means the bigger concern as we were just
talking about how reliant we all are on just a
few tech providers. So that includes Amazon, there's Microsoft and Google.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yes, so yeah, it was only a matter of hours,
and you might think it's not a big deal. Okay,
I couldn't get my get an update on where my
package was through the shop app or something minor like that.
Oh I can't stream my favorite show. Folks, we are
talking about estimates of several hundred billion dollars lost yesterday.
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When you talk about productivity at an office, that's one thing.
But folks, you a lot of folks weren't able to shop.
You could not spend that money. Folks, businesses missed out.
I didn't think the number is going to be that staggering.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, I was trying to buy something, Remember I was
shouting out to you, is your internet acting up because
I can't get this, and you're like.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Mine's fine, and I was.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And then my daughter called me from college saying, Mom,
I can't submit my job application. I'm so frustrated. So
we had no idea this was all Amazon related.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Where were you trying to buy so desperately yesterday?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Oh something?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I'm just kidding. I know that it was. I was
just making light.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yes, I know you knew, all right. Next up on
the run. Authorities believe they stopped. This is a scary story.
A mass shooting at the Atlanta Airport. A man was
arrested already inside the terminal at Hartsville Jackson yesterday after
police say, thankfully they got a tip from his family
and forty eight year old Billy Cagele was taken into custody.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Part of this story that's so chilling is that, of
course they have the video from inside the airport where
you see this suspect. Police say they got this call
from his family. The family was warning police that this
man again. Forty nine year old Billy Kgole had been
on social media and was live streaming saying that he
was headed to the airport. He had a gun and
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he was going to quote shoot it up now. Security
camera video shows him entering the airport and according to police,
he was scanning the area he planned to attack now
as he was in the airport, he then started making
his way back out with the intent to retrieve a weapon,
according to police, and that's when they took him down.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
An AR fifteen style rifle was found in his pickup
truck right outside the airport. Police say Kegel is a
convicted felon with the history of mental health issues. He's
been charged with terrorists threatening and criminal attempt to commit
aggravated assaults.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
But you mentioned the video. When you look at this guy,
he just looks like your next door neighbor. Oh, that's
the scary thing.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
There was nothing menacing about him, nothing suspicious looking about him.
If you saw him walking down the airport, you figured
his family and his kids were right behind him.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
He fit appropriately into the Atlanta airport. This is one
we know very very well. Even when police they have
the body cam of them talking to him, he was
so calm in how he responded to them. There was
nothing intimidating about him and his vehicle. Again, we know
this airport well, like the long term and the short
term parking, you have to walk across the street and whatnot.
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His vehicle was right outside the door. Wow, right outside
the door. So they flat out say they prevented a
tragedy yesterday. Wow. Continuing on the run here on this
Tuesday morning, an appeals court has handed the Trump administration
a victory and its effort to deploy National Guard troops
in ore again. In a two to one ruling, a
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panel of appellate judges cleared the way for President Trump
to send the Guard to Portland. The ruling sets aside
another court's restraining order which stopped that deployment.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
President Trump says he wants troops in Portland to stop
an uprising, which he describes that's how he describes the
ongoing protests at the ICE facility.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Again.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
The panel voted two to one in Trump's favor, but
the one dissenting appeals judge had a pretty funny response
that we want to read for you. Given Portland's protesters
well known pension for wearing chicken suits, inflatable frog costumes,
or nothing at all when expressing their disagreement with the
methods employed by ICE, observers may be tempted to view
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the majority's ruling, which accepts the government characterization of Portland
as a warzone as merely absurd. I mean, they did
have a naked bike race the other day, But what do.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You think about that? Is that a revolt is what
this judge is trying to say. And I like when
judges sometimes do plain speak. This is a close as
she could get to saying give me a fucking break.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah, it was drifting in sarcaster.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Obviously, the state is now going to ask that the
full panel of Appella judges review this case, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Continuing on the run now will stay in court with
James Comy this time, and he wants to get out
of court. He wants a court to throw out the
case against him. Lawyers for the now indicted former FBI
director folt a series of motions in court yesterday want
the case against Comy dismissed, arguing its vindictive and unlawful
for him to be prosecuted.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Their words, it's an egregious abuse of power and a
personal vendetta by the president. Comy was charged with making
false statements and obstruction of justice.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Continuing on the run now, Vice President jad Vans on
his way to Israel this morning, part of the who's
who of administration big dogs dispatch to Israel to try
to keep the peace plan on track.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
The President's Middle East Envoy, Steve Whitkoff and his son
in law, advisor Jared Kushner are already there.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
The ceasefire is still holding, though it was.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
On shaky ground over the weekend, with both sides accusing
the other of violations. Was an Israeli our airstrike that
killed at least four dozen. There was a Hamas attack
on Israeli soldiers. So there's been from tit for tat,
but hopefully peace is still going.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Strong, possible.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I'm just like, I didn't know what the right phraseology
was there.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
The question market in that peace is still there there.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I mean that's fair.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You go to Japan for this next leg and some
history in Japan. That country has elected its first ever
female prime minister. Sanay Katashi is her name. Sixty four
years old, she want to vote among fellow lawmakers. That
now makes her the first woman to ever lead government there.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
She is described as a right winger who opposes same
sex marriage, and she's also apparently a hardliner on immigration.
Trump is visiting Japan next week. Looks like they have
some things that they share in common.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
That's a crazy I mean, getting that job is one thing,
and then it's like, oh god, I got a week.
Trump's comment, Yeah, get ready, get the house in order.
Continue on the road. Now the House, the White House
demolition is underway there at one of the most iconic
parts of the White House. You've seen these pictures, right,
and folks if you haven't, it's just a little disturbing.
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It's a little surreal. Don't get me wrong. It's they're
doing what they're planning to do. But to see this
iconic building, this White building, you know the structure of
the architecture well, and to see it essentially one part
of it being demolished is a little jarring. The East
Wing is what we're talking about. It's being torn down,
in part in order to make way for the President's
new ninety thousand square foot two hundred million dollars ballroom.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Wow, two hundred millions ballroom, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
The the east wing is traditionally where first Ladies have
had their offices. The administration had previously said the east
wing would not be touched, just that the new ballroom
would be near it, So apparently that has not held. Apparently, also,
the National Capital Planning Commission did not sign off on this.
They approved construction of major renovations to government buildings.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
The head of this organization is somebody the president put
in charge of this organization. Now a lot of people
look at this and say, wait, he hasn't gotten approval
to make this kind of major change. Well, this organization
now is saying, hey, he doesn't need our approval. We
only approve new construction and renovation. We have nothing to
do with demolition. Oh my, they say, we have no
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sway over what you down.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So there is there is nothing to be done.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
If you get a look at it, folks, it is
just a little I mean, we know things have to happen,
but this thing's been there since nineteen oh two, hasn't
been renovated since nineteen forty something, and is just to
see it being demolished.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, I'm sure it's going to be the best ballroom
ever ever.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Ever. Continue on the run here now, day twenty one
of the shutdown, second longest government shutdown in US history.
We told you this at the top. There wasn't eleventh
vote yesterday. They voted eleven times, and the same damn
thing that was shot down ten times previously. It failed,
this Republican measure to reopen the government. So no signs
of this thing ending. And if you want to sign
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that is not going to end. The House is not
even in town, the House of Representatives during a shutdown,
ain't even there, just on standby, just in case something
happens in they're needed.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
So it's being realistic, you think, so, I'm just being fun.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
You're not there.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Of course they should be there working to try and
reopen the government. Of course they should be there.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Speaker Johnson says, not on them. We have to wait
on the Senate to do their thing. It's just a
weird look that the governments shut down, piecing people are losing.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
You want to show up and you want to be there.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You want instructive regardless of whether or not you think
you have the power to do so.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
At least just the optics are bad optics.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
A sorry, continue on the run here now some good
news right here robes quick update on the health of
former President Biden. He rang the bell, always a big deal,
but yes, he completed radiation therapy yesterday. According to his family,
and this was cause for them to celebrate.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
They posted some video of him doing that traditional ringing
of the bell at something cancer patients do to commemorate
the completion of treatment. Biden turns eighty three next month
and has been battling an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
We don't know if he'll need more treatments or a win,
but certainly, wow, it's hard to imagine he might have
been president going through cancer treatment in front of the world.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
What does this in some better content? Ringing the bell?
It doesn't mean you're completely out of the clear the
rest of your life kind of thing. What does it mean?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
So you ring the bell usually when you have difficult treatments,
so a lot of times it happens after either radiation
or after chemotherapy.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
It's a big thing. So I didn't ring a bell.
I had a bubble party.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So different hospitals do different things, but they usually do
something to celebrate the end of difficult treatment, knowing you're
done with the tough stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
But you know what, I guess that's great for that individual.
But they say they like to do this because other
people need to hear that bell ringing and know there's
hope and know there's something to look forward too. So
that's really cool. And certainly hope. The vice president, she's
the vice president, the former president is doing. Okay, stay
with it here on this Tuesday morning run. When we
come back, no surprise, but Diddy wants to get out
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of jail and he has now filed some official paperwork
saying he wants to do this whole thing over again. Also,
we have an update on those French family jewels, Crown jewels.
I should say that we're stolen. Here's the thing. The
clock is ticking because they might be about to melt
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down or chop down those what is it they was
the price of these things.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
They have millions and millions of dollars. It's priceless.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's priceless jewels. But the race is on to stop
these thieves from possibly chopping it up. And then the
final leg of our run today when we come back,
focus the miracle on thirty fourth Street, a newborn baby
found in Penn Station. Sorry, folks, we continue on this
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Tuesday morning run now and no surprise, you kind of
saw this coming, but it's official. Sean Diddy Combs has
put the court on notice. That he plans to appeal
his convictions. His attorney's filed the notice yesterday. They weren't
required to give a basis for an appeal, though his
attorneys have previously argued in court that the law that
he was convicted on was wrongly applied to his case.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage
in prostitution and he was sentenced to fifty months in prison.
We will see what this latest appeal, well, at least
how it turns out. Next up on the run, though,
we are going to head to Paris, where the Louver
remains closed today. As the investigation continues into Sunday's brazen
robbery of the French Crown Jewels, authorities are racing against
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the clock to try and find the four men involved
and recover the priceless stolen property.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, the French authorities believe organized crime was most likely involved.
Are concerned the thieves, yes, maybe breaking the historic pieces
apart to sell the stones on the black market, which
everybody agrees would be a damn shame. We are learning
more about the thieves and what they were able to steal.
So we had a royal sapphire tiara, a necklace and
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matching earrings sounds nice. A royal emerald necklace and its
matching earrings hm. And a tiara and a brooch worn
by Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon. The third one
of the items is listed by the Society of Friends
of the Loop as worth more than seven point eight
million dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
That's just one item, right, Yeah, that's just one item,
and it's just an estimation. So the thieves were notably
they dropped Eugenie's crown in their mad dash out That
crown had more than thirteen hundred diamonds, more than eleven
hundred rose cut diamonds and fifty six emeralds.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
So well, at.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Least that's one thing they didn't get their hands on.
We are getting new details about how the actual heist
went down. The robbery began thirty minutes after the Loover
opened on Sunday. That was around nine to thirty in
the morning. That is when four thieves came to the
museum with an electric ladder mounted on a truck.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, two of them had yellow safety vests, so that
I guess that made them look official. At least they
they rolled the ladder up to the second floor to
the Crown Jewels section. Again, folks, this is happening in
broad daylight. This is a bustling Sunday in well, they're
not up that early.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
In zone kind of Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Everyone had okay, but this is in broad daylight that
they're doing this. So then at ninth thirty four they
used the power tools they brought with them to break
that window, smashed two display cases, grabbed the jewels, and
then left through the same window they had just broken.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yes, by nine thirty eight, the thieves had fled on
waiting motorcycles. They said, yesterday we heard scooters. One of
the two who knows it's Europe. They might be interchangeable.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It's probably they.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Tried to burn like the bucket, the cherry picker bucket
that they rode up.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Somehow they thought that was going to not let authorities
get back up to where they were a distraction.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Maybe they set it on fire.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
We know that museum officials don't believe that these were armed,
but reportedly the security guards who were there said they
were threatened, and so they quickly just were evacuating visitors
who were in the gallery to protect the people inside,
and they weren't protecting the jewels.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Are the guards armed armed at the I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I would think no, that would be my guest. But
who knows.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
There are some questions for those.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Guards because they didn't they just said that they were threatened.
I mean, I don't know with the power tools.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Maybe they used very strong language. Maybe continuing on the
run here. Now the World Series is set. I'm going
to be a matchup of the defending champs and a
team that hasn't been in the World Series in thirty
two years. That's the Toronto Blue Jays. They pulled off
a dramatic comeback win last night against the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Down by two runs and the seventh inning, blue Jays
outfielder George Springer hit a three run homer that ended
up being the game winner. The Blue Jays are now
in the World Series for the first time since nineteen
ninety three. Game one is on Friday. I left you
on the couch, Yes, you were in and honestly, did
you see it? Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Absolutely. This was a wonderful moment because it didn't look
good for Toronto. They haven't had a World Series since
in thirty something years. Even the Prime Minister when he
visited the White House, they were saying something about the
Toronto Blue. This is weeks ago. He said, yeah, I'll
be back for the World Series. That was kind of cool.
So now it's US versus Canada, if you will, even
if you're not a Dodgers fan, it's a US versus
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Canada situation, like we need more reasons to combat our
neighbors to the north. All right, final leg of our
run here now the miracle on thirty fourth Street, that
is what New York transit authorities are calling it. A
newborn baby found yesterday abandoned at one of, if not
the busiest train station in New York. And it might
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be the most famous. Even if you don't live here,
people know this one.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
The baby girl was left at the bottom of a
staircase at Penn Station. Police got an anonymous call around
nine to thirty am that alerted them about the baby.
She was wrapped in a blanket, described as alert and
with her umbilical cord still attached.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Now this was I guess, I say, sweet, I guess
they did what they were supposed to do. They could
have called nine to one waited for authorities to go
or at least the ambulance to show up. But these
police officers took that baby themselves to the hospital for
to get checked out again, listed in stable condition from
all accounts, and you've been reading up on this as
well this morning. The baby seems to be doing okay,
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seems to be fine. Now. A penn station is at
seventh Avenue and thirty fourth Street here in New York.
Normally this is the last place you would want to
leave a baby, but it might be the best place. Look,
a lot of people are going by there, and there's
a good chance obviously the baby's going to be found.
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But I mean, thank god baby wasn't stepped on or
kicked or it's very busy place.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Look, I feel sorry for any woman, Oh can make
me cry who felt that desperate.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, that's what weird.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I couldn't get help, who couldn't turn to someone who
didn't think she had another choice. So at least her
baby is okay, And we'll hopefully find a loving, beautiful family.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
And may never find that this is now a criminal
case when it didn't have to be. There are laws
in pretty much every state now that you can leave
a child somewhere. It's the case. Here at a fire
station or hospital, you can take that child. No questions
asked why this had to be the case. In bilicals Core,
it's still attach.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It's called desperation and fear.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
This year, you're so that's the criminal part of It's sad,
I get it, but it's it's desperation and fear.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, all right. But before we let you go here
on this Tuesday morning, folks, something we like for you
to take with you. It is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
What we feel is not based on our experience, but
on our interpretation of experiences. That's from Tony Robbins's famous
motivational speaker. I'm sure I don't even need to explain
who he is, but I thought that was such a
cool way to look at it. Sometimes when we're feeling
a certain way, we justify it like it's because this happened,
But sometimes we have to recognize it's our interpretation of
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what happened, and that's very different oftentimes than what did happen.
So I just always love that reminder to take a beat.
What we feel is not based on our experience, but
on our interpretation of experiences.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I'm trying to think of how I feel right now
based on how I'm interpreting this podcast, or if it's
based on my true experience in this podcast. So I'm
gonna go deal with that, folks. I hope you have
a good Tuesday. We always appreciate you running with us.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I'm Tjiling and I'm Adey Robot. We'll talk to you soon.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, It's Tuesday, October twenty First, I'm Amy Robots
and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Holmes. Folks, it is just October. But we have what
they're calling here in New York a miracle on thirty
fourth Street. That sounds really sweet, rogues, but the story
itself is kind of sad. But I guess a miracle
that a newborn baby was found. And I think it's
the city's busiest subway station, right.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yes, was it? Which one?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Was it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Penn Station.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
At first I thought Harold Square, but yeah, same area.
But yes, that is a remarkable story. The baby is okay.
That's the good news. But obviously an investigation is underway
as to how this baby was left and by whome.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We don't know those details, folks. We will tell you
what's going on here in New York with that story.
Also the shutdown story, you can write it yourself. But
we are now on day twenty one, which is now
tied for the second longest in US government history. We
really thought that would be over by now.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well it could be twenty one more days in counting.
I mean, there's no end in sight.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That is the problem. We'll get into that a whole
lot more to get into this morning. But as always,
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get our updates anytime.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yes, and also on the run this morning, Amazon says, Hey, everyone,
no worries. It's all good now. VP Vans is on
the way to Israel. Demolition is underway at the White House.
A woman is in charge in Japan. The clock is
ticking right now to find those stolen French Crown jewels.
A Cord gives the okay for the National Guard in Portland.
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Comy wants his case dismiss and Diddy wants a do
over again. But we begin our run on this Tuesday.
If you were experiencing an internet issue yesterday, like so
many of us were, you were likely dealing with a
massive Amazon Web outage. I had no idea the reach
of Amazon until yesterday, did you.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
H Yeah, And this is the problem people are screaming.
I mean, you don't necessarily really think Amazon. You don't
think my shop app is going to be affected? Is
it that kind of thing? You just don't get how
much we depend on the services of Amazon.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
That is frightening because yes as TJ was just pointing
out Amazon web Services, I didn't realize this is a
cloud service provider that supports much of the Internet, and
so when it has a problem, so do a significant
amount of websites.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You have critics screaming about this for years and years
and years. We depend too much on one thing, the
system goes down and everything essentially shuts down. So yesterday,
for about two hours, apps for major banks, gaming sites,
entertainment services started to have issues. Folks. We're talking about WhatsApp,
venmo coinbased, the New York Times, games, Wall Street Journal app, Amazon, Hulu, Snapchat, McDonald's,
(03:03):
the Ring, Doorbells, even Fortnite, Delta, United Airlines, the British government,
even their website and tax services all impacted by one
company having an issue, and that was Amazon. This all
started around three to five am yesterday, but still by midafternoon.
It wasn't all worked out. Still some spotty service issues
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on multiple sites.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
In total, there are more than eight million reports of disruptions,
mostly here in the US and in Britain. Amazon said
the issue stemmed from here's their quote, an internal system
that monitored how it balanced.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Traffic across its network.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Whatever that means the bigger concern as we were just
talking about how reliant we all are on just a
few tech providers. So that includes Amazon, there's Microsoft and Google.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yes, so yeah, it was only a matter of hours,
and you might think it's not a big deal. Okay,
I couldn't get my get an update on where my
package was through the shop app or something minor like that.
Oh I can't stream my favorite show. Folks, we are
talking about estimates of several hundred billion dollars lost yesterday.
(04:11):
When you talk about productivity at an office, that's one thing.
But folks, you a lot of folks weren't able to shop.
You could not spend that money. Folks, businesses missed out.
I didn't think the number is going to be that staggering.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, I was trying to buy something, Remember I was
shouting out to you, is your internet acting up because
I can't get this, and you're like.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Mine's fine, and I was.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And then my daughter called me from college saying, Mom,
I can't submit my job application. I'm so frustrated. So
we had no idea this was all Amazon related.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Where were you trying to buy so desperately yesterday?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Oh something?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I'm just kidding. I know that it was. I was
just making light.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yes, I know you knew, all right. Next up on
the run. Authorities believe they stopped. This is a scary story.
A mass shooting at the Atlanta Airport. A man was
arrested already inside the terminal at Hartsville Jackson yesterday after
police say, thankfully they got a tip from his family
and forty eight year old Billy Cagele was taken into custody.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Part of this story that's so chilling is that, of
course they have the video from inside the airport where
you see this suspect. Police say they got this call
from his family. The family was warning police that this
man again. Forty nine year old Billy Kgole had been
on social media and was live streaming saying that he
was headed to the airport. He had a gun and
(05:30):
he was going to quote shoot it up now. Security
camera video shows him entering the airport and according to police,
he was scanning the area he planned to attack now
as he was in the airport, he then started making
his way back out with the intent to retrieve a weapon,
according to police, and that's when they took him down.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
An AR fifteen style rifle was found in his pickup
truck right outside the airport. Police say Kegel is a
convicted felon with the history of mental health issues. He's
been charged with terrorists threatening and criminal attempt to commit
aggravated assaults.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
But you mentioned the video. When you look at this guy,
he just looks like your next door neighbor. Oh, that's
the scary thing.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
There was nothing menacing about him, nothing suspicious looking about him.
If you saw him walking down the airport, you figured
his family and his kids were right behind him.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
He fit appropriately into the Atlanta airport. This is one
we know very very well. Even when police they have
the body cam of them talking to him, he was
so calm in how he responded to them. There was
nothing intimidating about him and his vehicle. Again, we know
this airport well, like the long term and the short
term parking, you have to walk across the street and whatnot.
(06:37):
His vehicle was right outside the door. Wow, right outside
the door. So they flat out say they prevented a
tragedy yesterday. Wow. Continuing on the run here on this
Tuesday morning, an appeals court has handed the Trump administration
a victory and its effort to deploy National Guard troops
in ore again. In a two to one ruling, a
(07:00):
panel of appellate judges cleared the way for President Trump
to send the Guard to Portland. The ruling sets aside
another court's restraining order which stopped that deployment.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
President Trump says he wants troops in Portland to stop
an uprising, which he describes that's how he describes the
ongoing protests at the ICE facility.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Again.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
The panel voted two to one in Trump's favor, but
the one dissenting appeals judge had a pretty funny response
that we want to read for you. Given Portland's protesters
well known pension for wearing chicken suits, inflatable frog costumes,
or nothing at all when expressing their disagreement with the
methods employed by ICE, observers may be tempted to view
(07:39):
the majority's ruling, which accepts the government characterization of Portland
as a warzone as merely absurd. I mean, they did
have a naked bike race the other day, But what do.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You think about that? Is that a revolt is what
this judge is trying to say. And I like when
judges sometimes do plain speak. This is a close as
she could get to saying give me a fucking break.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah, it was drifting in sarcaster.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Obviously, the state is now going to ask that the
full panel of Appella judges review this case, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Continuing on the run now will stay in court with
James Comy this time, and he wants to get out
of court. He wants a court to throw out the
case against him. Lawyers for the now indicted former FBI
director folt a series of motions in court yesterday want
the case against Comy dismissed, arguing its vindictive and unlawful
for him to be prosecuted.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Their words, it's an egregious abuse of power and a
personal vendetta by the president. Comy was charged with making
false statements and obstruction of justice.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Continuing on the run now, Vice President jad Vans on
his way to Israel this morning, part of the who's
who of administration big dogs dispatch to Israel to try
to keep the peace plan on track.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
The President's Middle East Envoy, Steve Whitkoff and his son
in law, advisor Jared Kushner are already there.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
The ceasefire is still holding, though it was.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
On shaky ground over the weekend, with both sides accusing
the other of violations. Was an Israeli our airstrike that
killed at least four dozen. There was a Hamas attack
on Israeli soldiers. So there's been from tit for tat,
but hopefully peace is still going.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Strong, possible.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I'm just like, I didn't know what the right phraseology
was there.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
The question market in that peace is still there there.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I mean that's fair.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You go to Japan for this next leg and some
history in Japan. That country has elected its first ever
female prime minister. Sanay Katashi is her name. Sixty four
years old, she want to vote among fellow lawmakers. That
now makes her the first woman to ever lead government there.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
She is described as a right winger who opposes same
sex marriage, and she's also apparently a hardliner on immigration.
Trump is visiting Japan next week. Looks like they have
some things that they share in common.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
That's a crazy I mean, getting that job is one thing,
and then it's like, oh god, I got a week.
Trump's comment, Yeah, get ready, get the house in order.
Continue on the road. Now the House, the White House
demolition is underway there at one of the most iconic
parts of the White House. You've seen these pictures, right,
and folks if you haven't, it's just a little disturbing.
(10:13):
It's a little surreal. Don't get me wrong. It's they're
doing what they're planning to do. But to see this
iconic building, this White building, you know the structure of
the architecture well, and to see it essentially one part
of it being demolished is a little jarring. The East
Wing is what we're talking about. It's being torn down,
in part in order to make way for the President's
new ninety thousand square foot two hundred million dollars ballroom.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Wow, two hundred millions ballroom, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
The the east wing is traditionally where first Ladies have
had their offices. The administration had previously said the east
wing would not be touched, just that the new ballroom
would be near it, So apparently that has not held. Apparently, also,
the National Capital Planning Commission did not sign off on this.
They approved construction of major renovations to government buildings.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
The head of this organization is somebody the president put
in charge of this organization. Now a lot of people
look at this and say, wait, he hasn't gotten approval
to make this kind of major change. Well, this organization
now is saying, hey, he doesn't need our approval. We
only approve new construction and renovation. We have nothing to
do with demolition. Oh my, they say, we have no
(11:26):
sway over what you down.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So there is there is nothing to be done.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
If you get a look at it, folks, it is
just a little I mean, we know things have to happen,
but this thing's been there since nineteen oh two, hasn't
been renovated since nineteen forty something, and is just to
see it being demolished.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, I'm sure it's going to be the best ballroom
ever ever.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Ever. Continue on the run here now, day twenty one
of the shutdown, second longest government shutdown in US history.
We told you this at the top. There wasn't eleventh
vote yesterday. They voted eleven times, and the same damn
thing that was shot down ten times previously. It failed,
this Republican measure to reopen the government. So no signs
of this thing ending. And if you want to sign
(12:08):
that is not going to end. The House is not
even in town, the House of Representatives during a shutdown,
ain't even there, just on standby, just in case something
happens in they're needed.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
So it's being realistic, you think, so, I'm just being fun.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
You're not there.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Of course they should be there working to try and
reopen the government. Of course they should be there.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Speaker Johnson says, not on them. We have to wait
on the Senate to do their thing. It's just a
weird look that the governments shut down, piecing people are losing.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
You want to show up and you want to be there.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You want instructive regardless of whether or not you think
you have the power to do so.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
At least just the optics are bad optics.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
A sorry, continue on the run here now some good
news right here robes quick update on the health of
former President Biden. He rang the bell, always a big deal,
but yes, he completed radiation therapy yesterday. According to his family,
and this was cause for them to celebrate.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
They posted some video of him doing that traditional ringing
of the bell at something cancer patients do to commemorate
the completion of treatment. Biden turns eighty three next month
and has been battling an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
We don't know if he'll need more treatments or a win,
but certainly, wow, it's hard to imagine he might have
been president going through cancer treatment in front of the world.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
What does this in some better content? Ringing the bell?
It doesn't mean you're completely out of the clear the
rest of your life kind of thing. What does it mean?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
So you ring the bell usually when you have difficult treatments,
so a lot of times it happens after either radiation
or after chemotherapy.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
It's a big thing. So I didn't ring a bell.
I had a bubble party.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So different hospitals do different things, but they usually do
something to celebrate the end of difficult treatment, knowing you're
done with the tough stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
But you know what, I guess that's great for that individual.
But they say they like to do this because other
people need to hear that bell ringing and know there's
hope and know there's something to look forward too. So
that's really cool. And certainly hope. The vice president, she's
the vice president, the former president is doing. Okay, stay
with it here on this Tuesday morning run. When we
come back, no surprise, but Diddy wants to get out
(14:05):
of jail and he has now filed some official paperwork
saying he wants to do this whole thing over again. Also,
we have an update on those French family jewels, Crown jewels.
I should say that we're stolen. Here's the thing. The
clock is ticking because they might be about to melt
(14:25):
down or chop down those what is it they was
the price of these things.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
They have millions and millions of dollars. It's priceless.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's priceless jewels. But the race is on to stop
these thieves from possibly chopping it up. And then the
final leg of our run today when we come back,
focus the miracle on thirty fourth Street, a newborn baby
found in Penn Station. Sorry, folks, we continue on this
(14:55):
Tuesday morning run now and no surprise, you kind of
saw this coming, but it's official. Sean Diddy Combs has
put the court on notice. That he plans to appeal
his convictions. His attorney's filed the notice yesterday. They weren't
required to give a basis for an appeal, though his
attorneys have previously argued in court that the law that
he was convicted on was wrongly applied to his case.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage
in prostitution and he was sentenced to fifty months in prison.
We will see what this latest appeal, well, at least
how it turns out. Next up on the run, though,
we are going to head to Paris, where the Louver
remains closed today. As the investigation continues into Sunday's brazen
robbery of the French Crown Jewels, authorities are racing against
(15:39):
the clock to try and find the four men involved
and recover the priceless stolen property.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, the French authorities believe organized crime was most likely involved.
Are concerned the thieves, yes, maybe breaking the historic pieces
apart to sell the stones on the black market, which
everybody agrees would be a damn shame. We are learning
more about the thieves and what they were able to steal.
So we had a royal sapphire tiara, a necklace and
(16:06):
matching earrings sounds nice. A royal emerald necklace and its
matching earrings hm. And a tiara and a brooch worn
by Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon. The third one
of the items is listed by the Society of Friends
of the Loop as worth more than seven point eight
million dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
That's just one item, right, Yeah, that's just one item,
and it's just an estimation. So the thieves were notably
they dropped Eugenie's crown in their mad dash out That
crown had more than thirteen hundred diamonds, more than eleven
hundred rose cut diamonds and fifty six emeralds.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
So well, at.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Least that's one thing they didn't get their hands on.
We are getting new details about how the actual heist
went down. The robbery began thirty minutes after the Loover
opened on Sunday. That was around nine to thirty in
the morning. That is when four thieves came to the
museum with an electric ladder mounted on a truck.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, two of them had yellow safety vests, so that
I guess that made them look official. At least they
they rolled the ladder up to the second floor to
the Crown Jewels section. Again, folks, this is happening in
broad daylight. This is a bustling Sunday in well, they're
not up that early.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
In zone kind of Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Everyone had okay, but this is in broad daylight that
they're doing this. So then at ninth thirty four they
used the power tools they brought with them to break
that window, smashed two display cases, grabbed the jewels, and
then left through the same window they had just broken.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yes, by nine thirty eight, the thieves had fled on
waiting motorcycles. They said, yesterday we heard scooters. One of
the two who knows it's Europe. They might be interchangeable.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It's probably they.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Tried to burn like the bucket, the cherry picker bucket
that they rode up.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Somehow they thought that was going to not let authorities
get back up to where they were a distraction.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Maybe they set it on fire.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
We know that museum officials don't believe that these were armed,
but reportedly the security guards who were there said they
were threatened, and so they quickly just were evacuating visitors
who were in the gallery to protect the people inside,
and they weren't protecting the jewels.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Are the guards armed armed at the I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I would think no, that would be my guest. But
who knows.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
There are some questions for those.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Guards because they didn't they just said that they were threatened.
I mean, I don't know with the power tools.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Maybe they used very strong language. Maybe continuing on the
run here. Now the World Series is set. I'm going
to be a matchup of the defending champs and a
team that hasn't been in the World Series in thirty
two years. That's the Toronto Blue Jays. They pulled off
a dramatic comeback win last night against the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Down by two runs and the seventh inning, blue Jays
outfielder George Springer hit a three run homer that ended
up being the game winner. The Blue Jays are now
in the World Series for the first time since nineteen
ninety three. Game one is on Friday. I left you
on the couch, Yes, you were in and honestly, did
you see it? Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Absolutely. This was a wonderful moment because it didn't look
good for Toronto. They haven't had a World Series since
in thirty something years. Even the Prime Minister when he
visited the White House, they were saying something about the
Toronto Blue. This is weeks ago. He said, yeah, I'll
be back for the World Series. That was kind of cool.
So now it's US versus Canada, if you will, even
if you're not a Dodgers fan, it's a US versus
(19:14):
Canada situation, like we need more reasons to combat our
neighbors to the north. All right, final leg of our
run here now the miracle on thirty fourth Street, that
is what New York transit authorities are calling it. A
newborn baby found yesterday abandoned at one of, if not
the busiest train station in New York. And it might
(19:37):
be the most famous. Even if you don't live here,
people know this one.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
The baby girl was left at the bottom of a
staircase at Penn Station. Police got an anonymous call around
nine to thirty am that alerted them about the baby.
She was wrapped in a blanket, described as alert and
with her umbilical cord still attached.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Now this was I guess, I say, sweet, I guess
they did what they were supposed to do. They could
have called nine to one waited for authorities to go
or at least the ambulance to show up. But these
police officers took that baby themselves to the hospital for
to get checked out again, listed in stable condition from
all accounts, and you've been reading up on this as
well this morning. The baby seems to be doing okay,
(20:16):
seems to be fine. Now. A penn station is at
seventh Avenue and thirty fourth Street here in New York.
Normally this is the last place you would want to
leave a baby, but it might be the best place. Look,
a lot of people are going by there, and there's
a good chance obviously the baby's going to be found.
(20:36):
But I mean, thank god baby wasn't stepped on or
kicked or it's very busy place.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Look, I feel sorry for any woman, Oh can make
me cry who felt that desperate.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, that's what weird.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I couldn't get help, who couldn't turn to someone who
didn't think she had another choice. So at least her
baby is okay, And we'll hopefully find a loving, beautiful family.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
And may never find that this is now a criminal
case when it didn't have to be. There are laws
in pretty much every state now that you can leave
a child somewhere. It's the case. Here at a fire
station or hospital, you can take that child. No questions
asked why this had to be the case. In bilicals Core,
it's still attach.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It's called desperation and fear.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
This year, you're so that's the criminal part of It's sad,
I get it, but it's it's desperation and fear.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, all right. But before we let you go here
on this Tuesday morning, folks, something we like for you
to take with you. It is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
What we feel is not based on our experience, but
on our interpretation of experiences. That's from Tony Robbins's famous
motivational speaker. I'm sure I don't even need to explain
who he is, but I thought that was such a
cool way to look at it. Sometimes when we're feeling
a certain way, we justify it like it's because this happened,
But sometimes we have to recognize it's our interpretation of
(21:51):
what happened, and that's very different oftentimes than what did happen.
So I just always love that reminder to take a beat.
What we feel is not based on our experience, but
on our interpretation of experiences.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I'm trying to think of how I feel right now
based on how I'm interpreting this podcast, or if it's
based on my true experience in this podcast. So I'm
gonna go deal with that, folks. I hope you have
a good Tuesday. We always appreciate you running with us.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I'm Tjiling and I'm Adey Robot. We'll talk to you soon.
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