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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, It's Tuesday, August twenty sixth. I'm Amy Robots and.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm TJ Holmes, and it's got to stop this hoaxing,
this swatting, these hoaxes at the universities across the country.
This is an issue now, robes. They're just going back
to school and yesterday at least half a dozen there's
some major ones that are making headlines. But folks, we
have at least half a dozen schools wait students were
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sent running yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's disgusting and scary and not only is it disruptive,
but my concern is, unfortunately, when the next school shooting happens,
will we be prepared, will we take it seriously? With
all of these hoaxes, it's just frightening stuff and it's
appalling to me. And if it's one person or a
group of people, my god, I hope they're caught.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And we'll let you all know about how we were
alerted yesterday. We got calls and to two of the
fake shootings that were happening on campus. We'll get into that. Also,
it ain't got enough to worry about a damn flesh
eating worm a screwworm. We gotta worry about this.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Now you google that stuff and you will be also
just frightened and disgusted all in one.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
How about this as a public service announcement, do not
google screwworm. Will tell you what you need to know. Here. Also,
this morning snooped and snapped in it. Snoop is if
you've gone anywhere on social media this morning, you'll see
Snoop's name, but you will tell you why going to
a movie with his grandkid has now turned into a
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cancel Snoop situation and that is not a joke. We'll
get into that. And Roose Lil nas X. We were
concerned about him, right he went to the hospital for
an overdose and was arrested, but he is facing now
this is a more serious issue than we originally thought.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, when you first heard the reports about how he
was caught and what he was doing, you were even
wondering if it was a felicity stunt. But that is
not the case at all, and he is now in
serious trouble and.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Facing years possibly in jail. We'll get into that. And yes,
eight hundred and fifteen million dollars good news. As we
always say, Uh, you didn't win the power ball last night,
Good news is you got another shot. Addict, nobody else
did either on Wednesdays up to eight hundred and fifteen
million dollars. We'll tell you how close that is. The
record territory now. Also as a reminder, on that screen
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now on your phone the Apple podcast app typewright corner,
just click follow you can continue to get our updates.
We'll also have for you on the run this morning.
Flag burning now a White House priority. Also, Trump tells
a lady she's fired. Her response, no, I'm not. Also,
five journalists killed, and what Israel calls a mishap Utah
is getting in on the redistricting action. The Defense Department
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has a name change in mind, and one airline is
making a policy change on plus sized passengers that you'll
need to hear. But we begin our run robes. Like
I mentioned at the both of us within hours yesterday
were getting calls and messages from loved ones, from family members.
You from your daughter who was at the University of Colorado,
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Me from my sister and niece who are both near
the University of Arkansas campus, live and work there. Both
of them hours apart, saying, holy hell, there's a lockdown
on campus. There's an active shooter.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, it was personally disturbing and scary to both of us.
My daughter described friends of hers who were still in
class running from their classrooms. There was chaos. She had
already been home for the day of her classes, but
this was the first full week of school, and to
have it begin like that, where kids are running from
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their rooms afraid for their lives, it's disgusting. And your
sister was deeply concerned.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, I mean we are look university of anybody knows,
I'm very connected to the University of Arkansas, my alma mater,
and yes I have family members living within distance of
the university now, but we talked about this. This terrifies
a campus community. And now it seems almost every university
in the country almost is going to be on notice
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because this has now become a disruptive, a scary and
potentially dangerous trend. Universities being swatted.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Right, so people are making fake emergency calls to report
an active shooter, which then prompts a major police response.
There have been half a dozen or so in the country,
just as students are back to class for the fall semester.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So yeah, yesterday it happened at the University of Arkansas,
where the first day of classes had to be canceled
after a report of a shooter at the campus library.
So the police showed up in force as they often do,
no indication of a shooter at all.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And then students at the University of Colorado again first
full week of classes were told to shelter in place
around five o'clock after a report about shots fired once
again at the library, and once again police say they
found no evidence of a shooter and no threat to
the campus.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah. Similar fake incidents though yesterday at Iowa State, Kansas State,
the University of New Hampshire, as well as North Arizona University.
Also on Sunday, South Carolina and Villanova were both swatted,
and then that was Villanova's second incident in four days.
No arrests have been made in any of these incidents.
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I should mention the one in South Carolina. Just saw
this detailed police released that the caller was a male
and even had like some sound effects in the background
to mimic gunshots.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I'm appalled. So that's all I can say. And as
a parent, who just dropped her daughter off at campus.
Stop just stop. It's terrible, it's awful, and it causes
so much unnecessary anxiety. And my big concern is when
the real deal happens, what the reaction may be. All right,
next up, we're on the run. We're going to head
overseas where Israel is being widely condemned for an attack
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on a hospital in Gaza that killed at least twenty
two people, including five journalists. Even Israel acknowledged the airstrikes
aftermath and called it a mishap.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, this attack happened in kind of a one two
punch of air strikes. There were only a couple of
minutes apart, as reporters and medics were actually arriving to
the scene of that first air strike. So you had
the medics working to help people, and then you had
the reporters covering that air strike, and that's when boom,
they got hit with a second air strike. Even some
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reporters were live, they have images of this. This happened
live while I was on the air. But journalists with
the AP, Reuters and Al Jazeera were killed.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
News Organization sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
expressing outrage and requesting an independent investigation, and called on
Israel to once and for all halt it's a borrent
practice of targeting journalists. Israel responded by saying it does
not target civilians and that it deeply regrets the tragic mishap.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
All I want to head down to Washington, d C.
For the next leg of our run. And what's in
a name? Because President Trump wants to rename the Department
of Defense. He wants to give it its old name back,
the Department of War.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
As Trump was speaking to reporters in the Oval Office
alongside the South Korean President, he was answering a question
about the National Guard in DC how long they were
going to be there, when he suddenly turned the conversation
to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying heg Seth has been
an incredible with the as I call it, the Department
of War.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
The President, isn't it some of the world leaders. Don't
you feel bad for him? They're there to talk to
the President.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
About something happening right now.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
They just have to sit in that chair while he
just goes off.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's why I wanted to put that detail in because
it made it extra.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Bizarre, all right. The President went on to say, you know,
we call it the Department of Defense, but between us,
I think we're going to change the name. You want
to know the truth. I think we're going to have
some information on that maybe soon. Trump justified the name
change by saying, when we won World War one and two,
it was called the Department of War.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And that is true. The War Department existed from seventeen
eighty nine all the way to nineteen forty seven, but
that is when President Truman split the army in the
Air Force and then joined them with the Navy, calling
this newly formed cabinet the Defense Department. Trump suggested a
name change was imminent, saying there would be more news
on it over the next couple of weeks, but any
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name change would need to be approved by Congress. He
didn't like the word defense, he said, he liked to
think of us as being on the offense.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yes, this is funny. Any name change would have to
be approved by Congress. It's never so how many times
that's he done something. We said, well, it needs to
be approved by.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Congress, and then he does it anyway, Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Continuing on the run now, we're head to California where
they are continuing with their fighting words over redistricting. Now,
Republicans are opposing Governor Gavin Newsom's redistricting plan, and they're
taking it all the way to the state Supreme Court.
The Republicans out there filed an emergency put tis to
block a November special election for the proposition that was
signed into law last week.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
So this proposition changes the state's congressional map to make
five Republican held districts more favorable to Democrats. But this
is in direct response to Texas Republicans doing the exact
same thing to their congressional map, making five Democratic health
seats favorable to Republicans.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
All right, So one California Republican congressman says, as long
as I have breath in my body, I'm going to
fight every step of the way, every loophole they do,
every constitutional measure they break, We're going to challenge them
in court. Okay. So if voters approve the plan in November,
the new map will be used for the next three
election cycles and next up on our run.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
We've been so focused on Texas and California in that
redistricting fight. Now here comes Utah. A judge yesterday ordered
the legislature to redraw the state's congressional maps in time
for next year's midterm election.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yes, Utah is solidly a red state. It has four
congressional districts, So why would it be a big deal.
Not a lot at stake, you would think. However, the
margins are so tight. It's a big deal because for
years Salt Lake City has been divided up in such
a way that it favors Republicans. So the judge yesterday
is telling them you can't do that anymore and requiring
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them to redraw the districts, which would then open the
way possibly for a Democrat to get a seat. This
was all some jerrymandering out there as well. They redrew
their lines in twenty twenty one. They weren't supposed to.
It was supposed to be up to an independent commission.
The judge now has says, Nope, you weren't supposed to
do that in the first place, So put them back
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where they're supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Oh my god, this is just going to be more
and more and more. It's exhausting, all right. Next up
on the run, the first black woman to ever serve
on the Federal Reserve Board. Is now the first Federal
Reserve Board member to ever be fired by a president
of the United States.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Not a good line, is it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's not a good look.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The escalation of his ongoing and very public beef with
the Federal Reserve. President Trump yesterday said he was removing
Lisa Cook from her position, effective immediately. Trump claimed in
a termination letter that he posted on social media that
he is exercising a constitutional power he has which allows
him to remove a Federal Reserve governor for cause.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So the cause that President Trump is claiming is that
Cook made false statements on mortgage applications. This would be
the first time in history that a president has removed
a FED Board member, and Cook says he does not
have the right to do it. In response to the President,
Cook said, President Trump purported to fire me for cause
when no cause exists under the law and he had
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no authority to do so.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, she made clear she is not going to be resigning,
and her attorney said they'd be taking quote, whatever actions
needed to prevent his attempted illegal action. The President has,
as you know, he has soundly and allow criticize the
Central Bank and in particular Chairman Jerome Powell. He always
gets onto them for not cutting interest rates. I think
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he has two governors he's put on that board and
he could possibly get another seat. So this is him.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Some will argue trying to get his way get power
over that board. Next up on the run, Speaking of
the President, Well, he got back to one of his
favorite pastimes yesterday signing headline making executive orders. One of
them aims to curb the practice of letting people walk
out of jail for free.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah. The President has talked about his opposition to this
cashless bail in the past. It's a system used in
many parts of the country a lot of jurisdictions that
allows people arrested to get out of jail while awaiting trial,
but without having to post a monetary bail. Maybe you
get out, you hear it. Sometimes get out on your
own recognizance or other reasons. Judge have leeway and they
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don't have to give money. So this executive order threatens
to withhold federal funding from jurisdictions that allow cashless bail.
The point here is a lot of people say it's
a public safety risk because if you allow cash liar's bail.
The criminal gets out essentially for free, and then they
don't show up for trial.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
There's no incentive, financial incentive for them to stay, to
show up.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
The other side of that is, well, everybody isn't a
hard and criminal criminal. Sometimes they are just low income
folks who are now making it difficult for them to
continue to function and live and get out of jail.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
All right. Well, he also signed an executive order against
burning the American flag. The order says the US will
cancel the visas of foreign nationals who desecrate the American flag,
and it directs the Attorney General to prosecute cases of
flag burning. Now here's a reminder, babe, we were just
having this conversation the other day. Do you remember this
burning the flag is protected speech according to a nineteen
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eighty nine Supreme Court ruling. So the president wanting to
go against a Supreme Court ruling.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Oh, he mentioned it in his executive order, and this
one they haven't ruled. If somebody burns the flag when
they're trying to start a fight or something.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It's something specific.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
He mentioned it in there. He's trying to get around it,
is what I'm trying to say. Continue on, the run
hat now with Lil nas X facing some pretty serious
charges after his early morning naked catwalk in La earlier
this week. The Grammy winner has been charged now with
four felonies, including three counts of battery with injury on
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a police officer.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Lil nas X, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill,
was arrested taken to a hospital for a suspected overdose
after police were called to reports of a naked man
walking in the streets of Studio City. There is plenty
of video on there online if you'd like to see
it for yourself. Well, he's spent a couple of nights
in jail. He's now been released on a seventy five
thousand dollars bail. He's pleaded not guilty to the charges,
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which carry a penalty by the way of up to
ten years in prison.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
What are we talking about here again? The video. The
first thing you see the video, you were concerned for him, like, wow,
he doesn't look right. Second thing you think was, man,
this is some video or something they're going to put
out in a distant third, you thought this was a
very serious, sweetheart. The three counts carry three years apiece
and that's why it's almost ten years wow on the
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police office. All right, we'll stay with us here, folks,
on this Tuesday morning run. When we come back. Of
all the things you gotta worry about, now they're telling
us there's a flesh eating worm running around out there.
We'll get into that. Also, Southwest Airlines changes policy and
it's one that any overweight passenger needs to hear about. Also,
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Snoop Done stepped in it. Why is he going to
be canceled after he went to see an animated movie?
And yes, folks, it's that time again. Powerball is getting serious.
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Speaker 2 (16:44):
All right, let's continue on this Tuesday morning, Ron we
head to Marylyn, where a rare and disturbing human case
of a flesh eating parasite has been confirmed. This is
the New World screwworm. Is that the official time the
New World screw worm. It feeds on living tissue of
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warm blooded animals and in rare cases, humans mostly get
this on open or untreated wounds.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
And that's where we're gonna end my Google search because
I went on to read the further description and I
was almost physically ill. All right. There is no existing
treatment for screw worm, but quick removal is key. They say.
The infected Maryland resident had traveled to El Salvador, where
a recent outbreak in Central America has definitely raised concerns
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here in the United States that it could spread to
this country. Now the resident has fully recovered and it
does not appear they infected any other human or animal.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Now, the screw worm has been largely eradicated from livestock
in this country. Happened decades ago, but federalist state health
officials say the Maryland case is not a cause for alarm.
Why do you put that at the top? I would
have appreciated that line first. I'm over stressed in.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
That because every time someone tells you don't panic, the
first thing I think of is I should definitely panic.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
This is a perfect yeah, exactly. I feel like when authorities,
when federal health officials say things like that, it makes
me more concerned.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Okay, but let me remind you that federal and state
health officials say the Maryland case is not a cause
for alarm, saying the risk to public health in the
United States from this introduction is very low.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Okay, but it's still there and it's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
But you know, I did he come back with it?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yes, they believe that's what happened.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It flew with him.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
And wait, wait, okay, okay, I said I wasn't going
to google it. But let's just say, in a matter
of an hour that worm lays hundreds of eggs in
your skin, and within like hours you have hundreds of
larvae in your skin. So I just it makes and
then obviously they can turn into it's just really disturbing,
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like I okay, So I guess it's been contained.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Here to hear from the CDC on this today.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Right, all right, moving on, next up on the run.
You know, if he had to have flown right, So,
I'm thinking of anyone who's on the plane.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I'm thinking about the thing surviving that whole way. Like
you're on a plane attached to you with all those people,
and you're telling me there's nothing to be alarmed about. Again,
look here, okay, we what is my probably one of
our worst genres of horror movies that we love all
horror movies, body horror and flesh eating anything.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yes, that's not oh all right, okay, all right now
really and moving on next up on the run. Southwest Airlines,
speaking of air travel, will soon end its current policy
on plus sized passengers. At the beginning of next year.
Southwest will now require travelers who don't fit within the
arm rests to pay for an extra seat in advance.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, how is this different? Well, the current policy allows
for passengers to pay for an extra seat up front,
but then you can get that money back for the
seat later, or you can request a free extra seat
at the airport. Under the new policy, though, a refund
is possible, but only if the flight isn't fully booked
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good luck, time of departure, and if both of the
passengers tickets were purchased on the same booking class. So
they're making it almost impossible. Correct, they gets you money, man. Okay.
The new rule goes into effect on the same day
Southwest starts assigning seats for the first time, that is
January twenty seventh.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
All right. Next up on the Run, Snoop Dogg is
making headlines, and not the kind he wants. After a
podcast appearance where he said he was scared to take
his grandchildren to the movies, The rapper talked about not
knowing what to tell his grandson after he saw a
same sex scene in Disney Pixar's twenty twenty two animated
film Light Year.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Okay, it's part of his quote here. What you see
is what you see, and they're putting it everywhere. They're like,
she had a baby with another woman. Well, my grandson
in the middle of the movie is like, Papa Snoop,
how she have a baby with a woman? She is
a woman now. A light Year, if you'll remember, features
an LGBTQ plus character and same sex kiss scene. Because
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of that, the film did not play in some parts
of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrang Egypt among them.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yes, and so Snoop went on to say that moment
in the theater fed him up, except for he said
the actual word. Here's what Snoop said. I'm like, scared
to go to the movies, y'all throwing me in the
middle of shit that I don't have an answer for.
It threw me for a loop. I'm like, what part
of the movie was this? These are kids. We have
to show that at this age they're going to ask questions.
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I don't have the answer now, No surprise here, tremendous
backlash on social media. As you mentioned, Snoop getting canceled. Here,
people saying things like, imagine singing about drugs and violence,
but you're scared of gay people. So people have just
taken on that theme and saying it's not hard to
explain to your kids that there are same sex couples.
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It's not hard to explain to your kids that gay
parents exist.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And I encourage everybody just to go look up the
clip and the full context and how the conversation was going,
what was being said. A lot of it online. Of course,
a lot of people didn't watch it. They see a
headline and they immediately start attacking, and that doesn't help
the conversation. So yes, I agree, but it's up to
aren't these conversations having happening all the time on all
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sides where people are wondering, I want to have this
conversation at home. Why am I being forced by something
on the outside to do so? But it's the world
and movies and walking down the street you see two
people holding hands.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It's important to note that Disney initially was going to
take that scene out, but then there was an uproar
among many Disney employees and so the decision was made
to put it back into the film. So it was
a controversial decision in the first place to put it in.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
That's what we have to ask ourselves, why is a
company even debating about We're going to get some backlash
if we show these two characters, or we'll.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Get backlash when it gets out that we took that
out of the movie. So at that point, yes, it's
but it's resurfaced, the controversy has and there's a discussion.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Now. All right, well, final leg of the run. Here
what Wednesday might be?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Oh yeah, Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Wednesday is the Wednesday's a drum. So Wednesday might be
my final podcast because after I win this eight hundred
and fifteen million on Wednesday night, y'all I ever gonna
hear from me again, And some of y'all might be saying, DJ,
we preferred that way. Anyway, we've been waiting for that.
We're rooting for you to make that eight hundred and
fifteen million. But yes, we are getting into billion dollar
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jackpot territory now. Powerball jackpot up to eight hundred and
fifteen million after once again nobody matched the winning numbers
and last night's drawing.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
In fact, there has not been a winner since May
thirty first. That's thirty eight straight drawings without a winner,
and that's why we're up to the number we're at.
So yes, there will be that next drawing tomorrow night
for an estimated eight hundred and fifteen million cash payout.
In case you we're wondering three hundred and sixty seven
point nine million dollars. This would be the tenth largest
powerball jackpot, so we shall see. You got to be
(24:10):
in it to win it.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Caveat there tenth largest power ball Yes, jagpot. All of
the top ten are well over a billion wow dollars.
Who're not there yet? Getting there though?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
All right now, time for your quote of the day
on this Tuesday. This comes to us from an author,
roy T. Bennett. I'm not familiar with him, but I
liked his quote a lot. He says, don't be pushed
around by the fears in your mind. Be led by
the dreams in your heart.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Pushed around by the fears in your mind. What was
the last to say?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Again, be led by the dreams in your heart.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
It sounds sweet. I'm trying to apply it practically well.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Fear is often the reason why we don't do things.
And I'm not talking about stand at the edge of
a cliff. I'm talking about pursuing our dreams, or pursuing
that person who you have feelings for, or just putting
yourself out there being vulnerable. So yeah, let your heart,
the dreams and your heart lead the way instead of
the fears in your mind.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I like that, all right, Well give it to us
one more time.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind,
be led by the dreams in your heart. And with that,
thank you for running with us. Everyone. I'm Ade Robot and.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I'm TJ Hold. We will see you all on the
run of real same
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, It's Tuesday, August twenty sixth. I'm Amy Robots and.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm TJ Holmes, and it's got to stop this hoaxing,
this swatting, these hoaxes at the universities across the country.
This is an issue now, robes. They're just going back
to school and yesterday at least half a dozen there's
some major ones that are making headlines. But folks, we
have at least half a dozen schools wait students were
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sent running yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's disgusting and scary and not only is it disruptive,
but my concern is, unfortunately, when the next school shooting happens,
will we be prepared, will we take it seriously? With
all of these hoaxes, it's just frightening stuff and it's
appalling to me. And if it's one person or a
group of people, my god, I hope they're caught.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And we'll let you all know about how we were
alerted yesterday. We got calls and to two of the
fake shootings that were happening on campus. We'll get into that. Also,
it ain't got enough to worry about a damn flesh
eating worm a screwworm. We gotta worry about this.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Now you google that stuff and you will be also
just frightened and disgusted all in one.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
How about this as a public service announcement, do not
google screwworm. Will tell you what you need to know. Here. Also,
this morning snooped and snapped in it. Snoop is if
you've gone anywhere on social media this morning, you'll see
Snoop's name, but you will tell you why going to
a movie with his grandkid has now turned into a
(01:38):
cancel Snoop situation and that is not a joke. We'll
get into that. And Roose Lil nas X. We were
concerned about him, right he went to the hospital for
an overdose and was arrested, but he is facing now
this is a more serious issue than we originally thought.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, when you first heard the reports about how he
was caught and what he was doing, you were even
wondering if it was a felicity stunt. But that is
not the case at all, and he is now in
serious trouble and.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Facing years possibly in jail. We'll get into that. And yes,
eight hundred and fifteen million dollars good news. As we
always say, Uh, you didn't win the power ball last night,
Good news is you got another shot. Addict, nobody else
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We'll also have for you on the run this morning.
Flag burning now a White House priority. Also, Trump tells
a lady she's fired. Her response, no, I'm not. Also,
five journalists killed, and what Israel calls a mishap Utah
is getting in on the redistricting action. The Defense Department
(02:48):
has a name change in mind, and one airline is
making a policy change on plus sized passengers that you'll
need to hear. But we begin our run robes. Like
I mentioned at the both of us within hours yesterday
were getting calls and messages from loved ones, from family members.
You from your daughter who was at the University of Colorado,
(03:12):
Me from my sister and niece who are both near
the University of Arkansas campus, live and work there. Both
of them hours apart, saying, holy hell, there's a lockdown
on campus. There's an active shooter.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, it was personally disturbing and scary to both of us.
My daughter described friends of hers who were still in
class running from their classrooms. There was chaos. She had
already been home for the day of her classes, but
this was the first full week of school, and to
have it begin like that, where kids are running from
(03:46):
their rooms afraid for their lives, it's disgusting. And your
sister was deeply concerned.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, I mean we are look university of anybody knows,
I'm very connected to the University of Arkansas, my alma mater,
and yes I have family members living within distance of
the university now, but we talked about this. This terrifies
a campus community. And now it seems almost every university
in the country almost is going to be on notice
(04:14):
because this has now become a disruptive, a scary and
potentially dangerous trend. Universities being swatted.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Right, so people are making fake emergency calls to report
an active shooter, which then prompts a major police response.
There have been half a dozen or so in the country,
just as students are back to class for the fall semester.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So yeah, yesterday it happened at the University of Arkansas,
where the first day of classes had to be canceled
after a report of a shooter at the campus library.
So the police showed up in force as they often do,
no indication of a shooter at all.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And then students at the University of Colorado again first
full week of classes were told to shelter in place
around five o'clock after a report about shots fired once
again at the library, and once again police say they
found no evidence of a shooter and no threat to
the campus.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah. Similar fake incidents though yesterday at Iowa State, Kansas State,
the University of New Hampshire, as well as North Arizona University.
Also on Sunday, South Carolina and Villanova were both swatted,
and then that was Villanova's second incident in four days.
No arrests have been made in any of these incidents.
(05:29):
I should mention the one in South Carolina. Just saw
this detailed police released that the caller was a male
and even had like some sound effects in the background
to mimic gunshots.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I'm appalled. So that's all I can say. And as
a parent, who just dropped her daughter off at campus.
Stop just stop. It's terrible, it's awful, and it causes
so much unnecessary anxiety. And my big concern is when
the real deal happens, what the reaction may be. All right,
next up, we're on the run. We're going to head
overseas where Israel is being widely condemned for an attack
(06:02):
on a hospital in Gaza that killed at least twenty
two people, including five journalists. Even Israel acknowledged the airstrikes
aftermath and called it a mishap.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, this attack happened in kind of a one two
punch of air strikes. There were only a couple of
minutes apart, as reporters and medics were actually arriving to
the scene of that first air strike. So you had
the medics working to help people, and then you had
the reporters covering that air strike, and that's when boom,
they got hit with a second air strike. Even some
(06:33):
reporters were live, they have images of this. This happened
live while I was on the air. But journalists with
the AP, Reuters and Al Jazeera were killed.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
News Organization sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
expressing outrage and requesting an independent investigation, and called on
Israel to once and for all halt it's a borrent
practice of targeting journalists. Israel responded by saying it does
not target civilians and that it deeply regrets the tragic mishap.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
All I want to head down to Washington, d C.
For the next leg of our run. And what's in
a name? Because President Trump wants to rename the Department
of Defense. He wants to give it its old name back,
the Department of War.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
As Trump was speaking to reporters in the Oval Office
alongside the South Korean President, he was answering a question
about the National Guard in DC how long they were
going to be there, when he suddenly turned the conversation
to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying heg Seth has been
an incredible with the as I call it, the Department
of War.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
The President, isn't it some of the world leaders. Don't
you feel bad for him? They're there to talk to
the President.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
About something happening right now.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
They just have to sit in that chair while he
just goes off.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's why I wanted to put that detail in because
it made it extra.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Bizarre, all right. The President went on to say, you know,
we call it the Department of Defense, but between us,
I think we're going to change the name. You want
to know the truth. I think we're going to have
some information on that maybe soon. Trump justified the name
change by saying, when we won World War one and two,
it was called the Department of War.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And that is true. The War Department existed from seventeen
eighty nine all the way to nineteen forty seven, but
that is when President Truman split the army in the
Air Force and then joined them with the Navy, calling
this newly formed cabinet the Defense Department. Trump suggested a
name change was imminent, saying there would be more news
on it over the next couple of weeks, but any
(08:27):
name change would need to be approved by Congress. He
didn't like the word defense, he said, he liked to
think of us as being on the offense.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yes, this is funny. Any name change would have to
be approved by Congress. It's never so how many times
that's he done something. We said, well, it needs to
be approved by.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Congress, and then he does it anyway, Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Continuing on the run now, we're head to California where
they are continuing with their fighting words over redistricting. Now,
Republicans are opposing Governor Gavin Newsom's redistricting plan, and they're
taking it all the way to the state Supreme Court.
The Republicans out there filed an emergency put tis to
block a November special election for the proposition that was
signed into law last week.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
So this proposition changes the state's congressional map to make
five Republican held districts more favorable to Democrats. But this
is in direct response to Texas Republicans doing the exact
same thing to their congressional map, making five Democratic health
seats favorable to Republicans.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
All right, So one California Republican congressman says, as long
as I have breath in my body, I'm going to
fight every step of the way, every loophole they do,
every constitutional measure they break, We're going to challenge them
in court. Okay. So if voters approve the plan in November,
the new map will be used for the next three
election cycles and next up on our run.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
We've been so focused on Texas and California in that
redistricting fight. Now here comes Utah. A judge yesterday ordered
the legislature to redraw the state's congressional maps in time
for next year's midterm election.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yes, Utah is solidly a red state. It has four
congressional districts, So why would it be a big deal.
Not a lot at stake, you would think. However, the
margins are so tight. It's a big deal because for
years Salt Lake City has been divided up in such
a way that it favors Republicans. So the judge yesterday
is telling them you can't do that anymore and requiring
(10:19):
them to redraw the districts, which would then open the
way possibly for a Democrat to get a seat. This
was all some jerrymandering out there as well. They redrew
their lines in twenty twenty one. They weren't supposed to.
It was supposed to be up to an independent commission.
The judge now has says, Nope, you weren't supposed to
do that in the first place, So put them back
(10:40):
where they're supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Oh my god, this is just going to be more
and more and more. It's exhausting, all right. Next up
on the run, the first black woman to ever serve
on the Federal Reserve Board. Is now the first Federal
Reserve Board member to ever be fired by a president
of the United States.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Not a good line, is it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's not a good look.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The escalation of his ongoing and very public beef with
the Federal Reserve. President Trump yesterday said he was removing
Lisa Cook from her position, effective immediately. Trump claimed in
a termination letter that he posted on social media that
he is exercising a constitutional power he has which allows
him to remove a Federal Reserve governor for cause.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So the cause that President Trump is claiming is that
Cook made false statements on mortgage applications. This would be
the first time in history that a president has removed
a FED Board member, and Cook says he does not
have the right to do it. In response to the President,
Cook said, President Trump purported to fire me for cause
when no cause exists under the law and he had
(11:43):
no authority to do so.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, she made clear she is not going to be resigning,
and her attorney said they'd be taking quote, whatever actions
needed to prevent his attempted illegal action. The President has,
as you know, he has soundly and allow criticize the
Central Bank and in particular Chairman Jerome Powell. He always
gets onto them for not cutting interest rates. I think
(12:06):
he has two governors he's put on that board and
he could possibly get another seat. So this is him.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Some will argue trying to get his way get power
over that board. Next up on the run, Speaking of
the President, Well, he got back to one of his
favorite pastimes yesterday signing headline making executive orders. One of
them aims to curb the practice of letting people walk
out of jail for free.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah. The President has talked about his opposition to this
cashless bail in the past. It's a system used in
many parts of the country a lot of jurisdictions that
allows people arrested to get out of jail while awaiting trial,
but without having to post a monetary bail. Maybe you
get out, you hear it. Sometimes get out on your
own recognizance or other reasons. Judge have leeway and they
(12:50):
don't have to give money. So this executive order threatens
to withhold federal funding from jurisdictions that allow cashless bail.
The point here is a lot of people say it's
a public safety risk because if you allow cash liar's bail.
The criminal gets out essentially for free, and then they
don't show up for trial.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
There's no incentive, financial incentive for them to stay, to
show up.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
The other side of that is, well, everybody isn't a
hard and criminal criminal. Sometimes they are just low income
folks who are now making it difficult for them to
continue to function and live and get out of jail.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
All right. Well, he also signed an executive order against
burning the American flag. The order says the US will
cancel the visas of foreign nationals who desecrate the American flag,
and it directs the Attorney General to prosecute cases of
flag burning. Now here's a reminder, babe, we were just
having this conversation the other day. Do you remember this
burning the flag is protected speech according to a nineteen
(13:46):
eighty nine Supreme Court ruling. So the president wanting to
go against a Supreme Court ruling.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Oh, he mentioned it in his executive order, and this
one they haven't ruled. If somebody burns the flag when
they're trying to start a fight or something.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It's something specific.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
He mentioned it in there. He's trying to get around it,
is what I'm trying to say. Continue on, the run
hat now with Lil nas X facing some pretty serious
charges after his early morning naked catwalk in La earlier
this week. The Grammy winner has been charged now with
four felonies, including three counts of battery with injury on
(14:24):
a police officer.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Lil nas X, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill,
was arrested taken to a hospital for a suspected overdose
after police were called to reports of a naked man
walking in the streets of Studio City. There is plenty
of video on there online if you'd like to see
it for yourself. Well, he's spent a couple of nights
in jail. He's now been released on a seventy five
thousand dollars bail. He's pleaded not guilty to the charges,
(14:47):
which carry a penalty by the way of up to
ten years in prison.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
What are we talking about here again? The video. The
first thing you see the video, you were concerned for him, like, wow,
he doesn't look right. Second thing you think was, man,
this is some video or something they're going to put
out in a distant third, you thought this was a
very serious, sweetheart. The three counts carry three years apiece
and that's why it's almost ten years wow on the
(15:14):
police office. All right, we'll stay with us here, folks,
on this Tuesday morning run. When we come back. Of
all the things you gotta worry about, now they're telling
us there's a flesh eating worm running around out there.
We'll get into that. Also, Southwest Airlines changes policy and
it's one that any overweight passenger needs to hear about. Also,
(15:34):
Snoop Done stepped in it. Why is he going to
be canceled after he went to see an animated movie?
And yes, folks, it's that time again. Powerball is getting serious.
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Speaker 2 (16:44):
All right, let's continue on this Tuesday morning, Ron we
head to Marylyn, where a rare and disturbing human case
of a flesh eating parasite has been confirmed. This is
the New World screwworm. Is that the official time the
New World screw worm. It feeds on living tissue of
(17:05):
warm blooded animals and in rare cases, humans mostly get
this on open or untreated wounds.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
And that's where we're gonna end my Google search because
I went on to read the further description and I
was almost physically ill. All right. There is no existing
treatment for screw worm, but quick removal is key. They say.
The infected Maryland resident had traveled to El Salvador, where
a recent outbreak in Central America has definitely raised concerns
(17:35):
here in the United States that it could spread to
this country. Now the resident has fully recovered and it
does not appear they infected any other human or animal.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Now, the screw worm has been largely eradicated from livestock
in this country. Happened decades ago, but federalist state health
officials say the Maryland case is not a cause for alarm.
Why do you put that at the top? I would
have appreciated that line first. I'm over stressed in.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
That because every time someone tells you don't panic, the
first thing I think of is I should definitely panic.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
This is a perfect yeah, exactly. I feel like when authorities,
when federal health officials say things like that, it makes
me more concerned.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Okay, but let me remind you that federal and state
health officials say the Maryland case is not a cause
for alarm, saying the risk to public health in the
United States from this introduction is very low.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Okay, but it's still there and it's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
But you know, I did he come back with it?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yes, they believe that's what happened.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It flew with him.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
And wait, wait, okay, okay, I said I wasn't going
to google it. But let's just say, in a matter
of an hour that worm lays hundreds of eggs in
your skin, and within like hours you have hundreds of
larvae in your skin. So I just it makes and
then obviously they can turn into it's just really disturbing,
(18:59):
like I okay, So I guess it's been contained.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Here to hear from the CDC on this today.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Right, all right, moving on, next up on the run.
You know, if he had to have flown right, So,
I'm thinking of anyone who's on the plane.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I'm thinking about the thing surviving that whole way. Like
you're on a plane attached to you with all those people,
and you're telling me there's nothing to be alarmed about. Again,
look here, okay, we what is my probably one of
our worst genres of horror movies that we love all
horror movies, body horror and flesh eating anything.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yes, that's not oh all right, okay, all right now
really and moving on next up on the run. Southwest Airlines,
speaking of air travel, will soon end its current policy
on plus sized passengers. At the beginning of next year.
Southwest will now require travelers who don't fit within the
arm rests to pay for an extra seat in advance.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, how is this different? Well, the current policy allows
for passengers to pay for an extra seat up front,
but then you can get that money back for the
seat later, or you can request a free extra seat
at the airport. Under the new policy, though, a refund
is possible, but only if the flight isn't fully booked
(20:16):
good luck, time of departure, and if both of the
passengers tickets were purchased on the same booking class. So
they're making it almost impossible. Correct, they gets you money, man. Okay.
The new rule goes into effect on the same day
Southwest starts assigning seats for the first time, that is
January twenty seventh.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
All right. Next up on the Run, Snoop Dogg is
making headlines, and not the kind he wants. After a
podcast appearance where he said he was scared to take
his grandchildren to the movies, The rapper talked about not
knowing what to tell his grandson after he saw a
same sex scene in Disney Pixar's twenty twenty two animated
film Light Year.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Okay, it's part of his quote here. What you see
is what you see, and they're putting it everywhere. They're like,
she had a baby with another woman. Well, my grandson
in the middle of the movie is like, Papa Snoop,
how she have a baby with a woman? She is
a woman now. A light Year, if you'll remember, features
an LGBTQ plus character and same sex kiss scene. Because
(21:15):
of that, the film did not play in some parts
of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrang Egypt among them.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yes, and so Snoop went on to say that moment
in the theater fed him up, except for he said
the actual word. Here's what Snoop said. I'm like, scared
to go to the movies, y'all throwing me in the
middle of shit that I don't have an answer for.
It threw me for a loop. I'm like, what part
of the movie was this? These are kids. We have
to show that at this age they're going to ask questions.
(21:43):
I don't have the answer now, No surprise here, tremendous
backlash on social media. As you mentioned, Snoop getting canceled. Here,
people saying things like, imagine singing about drugs and violence,
but you're scared of gay people. So people have just
taken on that theme and saying it's not hard to
explain to your kids that there are same sex couples.
(22:04):
It's not hard to explain to your kids that gay
parents exist.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And I encourage everybody just to go look up the
clip and the full context and how the conversation was going,
what was being said. A lot of it online. Of course,
a lot of people didn't watch it. They see a
headline and they immediately start attacking, and that doesn't help
the conversation. So yes, I agree, but it's up to
aren't these conversations having happening all the time on all
(22:29):
sides where people are wondering, I want to have this
conversation at home. Why am I being forced by something
on the outside to do so? But it's the world
and movies and walking down the street you see two
people holding hands.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It's important to note that Disney initially was going to
take that scene out, but then there was an uproar
among many Disney employees and so the decision was made
to put it back into the film. So it was
a controversial decision in the first place to put it in.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
That's what we have to ask ourselves, why is a
company even debating about We're going to get some backlash
if we show these two characters, or we'll.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Get backlash when it gets out that we took that
out of the movie. So at that point, yes, it's
but it's resurfaced, the controversy has and there's a discussion.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Now. All right, well, final leg of the run. Here
what Wednesday might be?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Oh yeah, Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Wednesday is the Wednesday's a drum. So Wednesday might be
my final podcast because after I win this eight hundred
and fifteen million on Wednesday night, y'all I ever gonna
hear from me again, And some of y'all might be saying, DJ,
we preferred that way. Anyway, we've been waiting for that.
We're rooting for you to make that eight hundred and
fifteen million. But yes, we are getting into billion dollar
(23:39):
jackpot territory now. Powerball jackpot up to eight hundred and
fifteen million after once again nobody matched the winning numbers
and last night's drawing.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
In fact, there has not been a winner since May
thirty first. That's thirty eight straight drawings without a winner,
and that's why we're up to the number we're at.
So yes, there will be that next drawing tomorrow night
for an estimated eight hundred and fifteen million cash payout.
In case you we're wondering three hundred and sixty seven
point nine million dollars. This would be the tenth largest
powerball jackpot, so we shall see. You got to be
(24:10):
in it to win it.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Caveat there tenth largest power ball Yes, jagpot. All of
the top ten are well over a billion wow dollars.
Who're not there yet? Getting there though?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
All right now, time for your quote of the day
on this Tuesday. This comes to us from an author,
roy T. Bennett. I'm not familiar with him, but I
liked his quote a lot. He says, don't be pushed
around by the fears in your mind. Be led by
the dreams in your heart.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Pushed around by the fears in your mind. What was
the last to say?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Again, be led by the dreams in your heart.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
It sounds sweet. I'm trying to apply it practically well.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Fear is often the reason why we don't do things.
And I'm not talking about stand at the edge of
a cliff. I'm talking about pursuing our dreams, or pursuing
that person who you have feelings for, or just putting
yourself out there being vulnerable. So yeah, let your heart,
the dreams and your heart lead the way instead of
the fears in your mind.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I like that, all right, Well give it to us
one more time.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind,
be led by the dreams in your heart. And with that,
thank you for running with us. Everyone. I'm Ade Robot and.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I'm TJ Hold. We will see you all on the
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