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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run.
It's Wednesday, September tenth. I'm Amy Robots and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm TJ Holmes. And the rich keep getting richer. We
always hear that, but Robes this still will take you
back a little bit. Forbes says its wealthiest Americans list out,
and it's always curious to see who's going to be
on it. Usually the same names, but to hear how
much richer they got from one year to the next
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is still kind of mind boggling.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It's mind blowing. Actually, I had to read it a
couple of times to make sure from twenty twenty four
to twenty twenty five, the four hundred richest people in
America got significantly richer. Will tell you that number, it
really is absurd.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Also, speaking of numbers and just how expensive things can get, well,
one NFL player is learning a very difficult lesson right
now and just how expensive spit can be. Yes, you
heard me correctly, but yes, the NFL has doled out
punishment for one particular player who got into some pretty
big trouble on Night one of the NFL season.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Why are you making that because spitting on someone is
one of the grossest, rudest things you can do to
another human, and.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's also one of the most expensive things now you
can do to another human. We'll explain that fine. Also,
Cracker Barrel just said, never mind, this is a mess.
Cracker Bill, just give up, just shut down for a month,
get your ish together and come back. Cracker Barrel. Yes,
after the whole logo mess, they have now done an
about face on another issue having to do with their restaurants.
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They're essentially just thrown up their hands and say never mind.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I mean, if the old adage no press, there's no
such thing as bad press, then they're getting a lot
of free publicity, so that might be the upside.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, it really makes me want to run in for
a biscuit and gravy. Also on the run this morning,
a new Girl Scout cookie. I usually will say, don't
mess with a good thing when you got it, But
Girl Scout has a new cookie and Apple has a
new phone. Did they do what they said they were
going to do? All inspiring or whatever it is supposed to.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Be like awe dropping, but I don't know. It was
interesting and kind of cool, but I don't know if
I was, my job did not drop. I'm going to
just be honest.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
We'll let you know if you need to run out
and pay what they eleven hundred dollars for the new iPhone. Also, folks,
look at your iPhone possibly right now. The Apple podcast
app where our show page is top right corner button.
It says follow click that you can get our updates
coming to you. Don't have to go looking for him.
Also on the run this morning, Yes, Lisa Cook can
keep her job on the FED board for now. Also
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the growing mystery of a decomposing body found in a
singer's car. Also, the US economy produced far fewer jobs
than reported. The US Supreme Court is set to decide
the tariff question once and for all. And Rolle just
a fascinating story about a man who goes overboard on
a cruise ship. But he did not accident fall.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
He jumped on purpose. Yes, we'll get into why, because
that is the big question in just a bit, But
we begin our run with the fate of Trump's tariffs.
The US economy and perhaps even the world economy, is
now in the hands of the United States Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yes, the justices yesterday agree to hear arguments and fast
track a decision on those so called Liberation Day tariffs.
The President is asking the justices to overturn a lower
court ruling that said he acted outside of his authority
in imposing those tariffs, which are the centerpiece of his
economic agenda.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
The central point for the justices. Can the president impose
the tariffs under special emergency powers without congressional approval? Well,
the Court is going to hear arguments the first week
of November, and certainly all eyes and all of the
world markets will be on those nine justices, all that back.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And forth than all we've gone. They could essentially say, Nope,
he couldn't have done it. What do you do? They say,
they've collected now and by the time a decision could
come next year, a trillion dollars they have already collected.
We're supposed to do return that money to all these countries.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
This is a conservative leaning Supreme Court, so one I'm
sure at least Trump is hoping, and that's why he
wanted it to go to the Supreme Court, that they
will be on his side. Chelsea.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
They are going to hear it in November. Normally they
wouldn't decide until June. They say they're going to fast
track it so we could get a decision. We're expected
to get a decision much sooner than we normally would.
Continuing on the run here on this Wednesday morning. And yes,
we know math is hard, haven't you said that? At
least once a while. I've said it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
But I'm not a mathematician or a statistician. I am
a journalist. And that's why I got a journalism degree,
because I didn't have to take any math courses.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Okay, but math is hard even for the statisticians. Because
the folks of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is actually
making this point for us all.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yes, the people whose job it is to literally count
says their jobs numbers were off and robes not just
by a digit or two.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
No, the BLS just revised previously reported jobs numbers, which
now show the economy added far fewer jobs than previously reported.
Just how many fewer jobs. We're talking nine hundred eleven
thousand fewer, so almost a million.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
That's wild. Now, this revision covers the twelve month period
that ended in March. Now we hear about the revisions
this one's making headlines because of how big it is.
But this is a normal part of what they do.
They do routine revisions. They're done by the Bureau every year.
But yes, this one seems a little bigger, doesn't It
robes well, it should because it is the largest downward
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revision of jobs numbers in the Bureau's history of keeping
up with this.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
The BLS. Wow, you could just take the l out
of it and sorry the BLS or right, this popped
in my head. The BLS has been under scrutiny in
recent weeks from the President, who just fired the head
of the department and complained publicly that the monthly jobs
reports were being manipulated in order to make him and
Republicans look bad. The White House response a press title,
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a press release that was titled BLS Revisions show President
Trump was right again. The revisions cover the last nine
months of the Biden administration, So he feels a little
justified in this as well, because it really wasn't too
much on his watch.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
The title though, he was right again.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
He's on brand.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's on the consistent White House dot gov website. Just
to think of something like just I know it finds
what we're used to with Trump now, but to think
of previous presidents, the idea that a president would put
that on the official one. Yes, it's amazing. Continuing on
the run now, this is one right now. The President
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isn't right about talking about Lisa Cook. She can keep
her job for now. At least. The recently fired federal
Reserve governor has now been unfired by a federal judge
who says President Trump was not within his authority when
he claimed to have cause to remove her from the faith.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
What's it like for Lisa Cook walking into work now?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Is it like?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Does she get applauded? Is she like? What does that
feel like?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
She probably sneaks in the back.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
My goodness, at least, well, I hope that her card
works to get her his wife into the building. Cook
fought back after her firing and took Trump to court.
Late yesterday, a judge said President Trump has not identified
anything related to Cook's conduct or job performance as a
board member that would indicate that she is harming the
board or the public interest by executing her duties unfaithfully
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or ineffectively. Trump claimed that Cook lied on a mortgage application,
which he says rose to the level that allowed him
to fire her for cause, which the law does allow. Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The judge, though, addressed that point as well, saying Cook
has made a strong showing that her purported removal was
done in violation of the Federal Reserve Acts for cause provision.
The judge though, did acknowledge, Hey, there are some weird
legal questions here that maybe need to be worked out
for the long term, but still right now sided with Cook.
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This was the first time in history that a US
president has fired a board governor. Yesterday's ruling allows us
Cook to remain on the board while the legal fight continues.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
All right. Next up on the run, The rich just
keep getting richer. It's not just saying, it's the truth.
Forbes annual list of the four hundred wealthiest Americans is out,
and this year the richest people are more than one
trillion dollars richer than just the year before.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Elon Musk top of the list. No surprise, four years
in a row. He has crossed the four hundred billion
dollar mark, the first person to ever do so, and
he is way ahead of number two on the list,
Larry Ellison. Larry Ellison is one hundred and fifty billion
dollars behind Elie On, like even in this group, Elon
sets himself. It's wild. It is remarkable. Of course, Ellison
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is co founder of the tech company Oracle. He's got
about two hundred and seventy six billion dollars average, they say,
though the estimate and how much he's worth.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Rounding out the top five, Number three Mark Zuckerberg at
two hundred and fifty three billion, Number four Jeff Bezos
with two hundred and forty one billion, and number five
Larry Page with Google at one hundred and seventy nine billion.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I'm about to ask the question, but it's probably a
silly question. Do you think these guys even looking at
these numbers? You're in the top five, you got two
hundred billion in the bank, and you're still looking, man,
how can I catch that?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Now? Of course they are, because they wouldn't be where
they are if they didn't have that Mine have that mindset.
You have to have that mindset to be of that list,
all right.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Other big names and rankings on the list this year,
number nine with one hundred and fifty billion, mister Warren Buffett.
Bill Gates is on the list at number fourteen and
one hundred and seven billion. Trump is on the list
at number two hundred and one seven point three billion.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Not too chet.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
He's probably commenting, I should probably look at his social media.
He would say, they got this number wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I'm so much higher on the list. They didn't include X, Y,
and Z all right. Next up on the Run, we're
heading to La, where a potential murder mystery is unfolding.
A badly decomposed body was found in a tesla belonging
to the singer David who I had to look up
how to say his name because it looks like de
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forvid D four VD. But if you know the singer,
he goes by David.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah. La police were called to an impound lot after
they got reports of a foul odor coming from a vehicle. Now,
the details of what they found are pretty nasty, to
say the least, just gruesome. What they found in the
bag that was in a trunk of this tesla. The
body they say was not intact. An identification of this
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body is going to be delayed because of the decomposition
of the victim.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
As well, So it sounds like it was perhaps dismembered
and decomposing oof. The tesla was initially impounded after a
person we don't know who it was, reported it had
been abandoned. Then it was taken to an impound lot.
It was there for several days before officers were called
to inspect it because of the smell. The owner of
the test Lastinger, David, is out on tour right now, and,
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according to his people, is reportedly fully cooperating with police
as they conduct what they're calling a death investigation.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Didn't he just perform He's performed since, yes, this all happened, right.
Police say there was another body get this, found in
a car yesterday at another impound lot that was just
seven miles away from this impound lot, but they say,
at this point the investigation, there is no known connection
between the two cases. Robes, I know you were doing
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kind of a deep dive on this and you were
shaking your head, and you'd spent some time looking into this.
But it's hard to imagine that his car ends up
abandoned somewhere, ends up with a body in it that's
dismembered and decomposing.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Right, And there's zero explanation right now. He may have
a very good one as to how the car registered
to him ended up where it did abandoned with the
body in it. But there are a lot of questions
and not a lot of answers right now.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
All right, well, folks, stay with us here on this
Wednesday Morning run. When we come back, the Girl Scouts
have a new cookie, Cracker Barrel has a new plan,
and do you need a new iPhone?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Welcome back to your Wednesday morning run and next up
on the run, Man Overboard. Authorities in Puerto Rico were
frantically searching for a cruise ship passenger who fell off
the ship. But it turns out he actually didn't fall.
He jumped.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And it also turns out police didn't want to save him.
They wanted to arrest him. Authorities say, hey, Gonzales Diaz
leapt from his Royal Caribbean cruise over the weekend near
the port of San Juan. Police say he told them
he jumped because he wanted to avoid monetary reporting requirements
when he entered the US, and he thought he was
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going to have to pay taxes on this. He had
like a fourteen grand or something in cash, so he
says was trying to avoid that.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I'm laughing at the idea that he leapt. I just
see this person like leaping off of a cruise ship.
But yes, okay, upon further investigation, none of that was true.
Royal Caribbean told police that the man was actually trying
to avoid paying his casino bill. They say he was
on the hook for a total of sixteen, seven hundred
and ten dollars and twenty four cents to the cruise line.
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As they put it, the debt is almost exclusively associated
to casino and gaming expenses, so he was not trying
to avoid paying taxes. He was trying to avoid paying
his casino bill.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
They had the exact amount. And is it amazing what
people will do. We're desperate when it comes to whatever.
Who knows what's going on? This man's yes, mate, he
was risking death, Yes, because of a casino bill.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Oh that's he had the cash on him so we
could have paid it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's yeah, he had almost the amount.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
He had it on him in the water, Like wow,
that was risky as well.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
He also had several IDs and I think he had
two cell phones. He probably had it in a baggy.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
He got it. He knew what he was doing, all.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Right, Continuing on the run. Now, one of, if not
the most expensive loogies the world has ever known. That's
what we're turning to. Now. The NFL has set the
punishment for Eagle star Jalen Carter, who spit on another
player during last week's NFL opener. Carter has now been
fined fifty seven two hundred and twenty two dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
How did they come up with that two hundred and
twenty two at the end?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Continue reading?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Okay, the star defensive lineman was ejected before the first
play from scrimmage during the Thursday night game against the
Dallas Cowboys. He and Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott were this
is your verb. We're jawing at a each other. That
means mouthing off. I guess on the first got helmet
to helmet at one point, and Carter was seen clearly
spitting on Prescott.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, he couldn't deny this at all. Yes, the referee
called it, but even the referee had not caught it.
The entire world saw it on repeat as they played
it on the broadcast. Now, the NFL said Carter's ejection
before he ever played a down essentially serves as a
one game suspension. He got kicked out, so there you go.
He forfeits his game check. So to your point, the
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fifty and twenty two dollars is the average of whatever
his salary is for the year. They get paid game
by game, so that is where it comes from. He
did immediately apologize after the game. Nothing else to say.
Screwed it up, all right?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Next up on the run, Apple's newest and slimmest iPhone,
the iPhone Air, was unveiled on Monday. Apple CEO Tim
Cook called it the biggest leap ever for iPhone. Oh
another leap, this one just not off a cruise ship.
It's point two million slimmer. Then it's competitor the Galaxy
S twenty five Edge. I don't really know, Like, I'm
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really bad with measurements, but the iPhone Air is five
point six millimeters In case anyone wanted to know what's.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
The current one? Then how thick is my current? Is
it half the size?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I mean it mine looks it looks like almost half
an inch?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Really? Just eyeball, my volunteers right now.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Again, I just told you I'm not good with like measurements.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Okay, so this sounds cool. Everybody wants the slick, new
thin iPhone, right the iPhone Air, which you got to
compromise on a few things, in particular the camera. You're
only going to get one camera compared to the three
on the iPhone seventeen Pro, and it has a slightly
shorter battery life twenty seven hours of video playbag versus thirty.
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How do those compromises sound to you?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
That's that's not bad. I don't even know what these
three cameras actually do. It just looks cool that I
really don't even know, all right.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
The new lineup of iPhone seventeen also includes the Standard,
the Roll, the Max, which will all have better battery life,
faster performance, and cameras with enhanced zoom capability.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And I don't know that I even like that, all right.
Apple also announced its new Apple Watches, which will come
with a new feature to detect hypertension and will give
a sleep score for users who wear their watch to bed.
That seems wildly uncomfortable, but they're obviously trying to compete
with Aura and some of these other technology devices you
can wear to bed. Wow, a watch to bed, all right?
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And finally, Apple showcased its new generation of air pods,
which have a new feature that offers a live translation capability,
so you can listen to a live audio from anywhere
in the world and get immediate playback in your preferred language.
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
That is unbelievable that technology is doing that. Yep. And
air think about that. Yeah, and you can an air pod,
a little one hundred device.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
You see people on the un for years now, right
getting their own language put back. But it's like with
real live translators. This has actually happened in via AI,
so they're able to do it. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That is unbelievable. All right. Well, next up on the
run here now they said they're not changing the logo.
Now Cracker Barrel says they ain't changing anything. After an
about face on changing the logo because of customer or
conservative backlash, the company now says robes that it is
canceling the plans it had to remodel and update the stores.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
The logo change was part of a larger seven hundred
million dollar revamping, rebranding, and refreshing of the company, which
was supposed to include changing the look of many restaurants. Well,
now the company says never mind about all of it.
Writing on social media, if your restaurant hasn't been remodeled,
you don't need to worry. It won't be Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
They went on to say, we hope today's step reinforces
that we hear you. And that's what they said after
they change. When they took they just wanted to take
the guy with the overalls and the barrel off of
the logo. Folks went crazy, called them, we'll call this
d Yeah, the president got involved. They said, never mind
what six.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Days later, I don't really understand.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Six days later, so so now only four they say,
of their six hundred and sixty stores ever got any
type of revamp. It's done. They spent all this money
and just said never mind.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I don't under I love a refresh, I love a remodel.
I don't understand. But hey, I guess maybe it ultimately
ended up or will end up saving them some money.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
To your point, aren't we about some things like don't
change anything that some things that are so close to
our nostalgic nostalgic But unfortunately sometimes these things seem like
we're not We're trying to keep people out of something.
It seems exclusive to us versus Yay, we want to
be inclusive, everybody can come in. It seems like you're
trying to keep folks out of what you're doing. Yeah,
and that's things.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Oh, it's a little bit of a pr mess, all right.
For the final leg of our run, we do have
some exciting news though, from the Girl Scouts. There is
a new cookie debuting in January when Girls Scout Cookie season.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
All right, it's called the new cookie, the Explore Moores.
It's to say, yeah, like s'mores.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Right, but no, but it's not like smores.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But it's playing off the name Explore Moores.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Well, they're getting rid of a cookie called s'mores, So
I don't even know it's Yes, I think it's about
just exploring more.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Okay, all right, Well it's a Rocky Road inspired cookie.
This is how they describe it. A chocolate cookie with
a creamy filling with notes of chocolate, marshmallow and toasted
almond flavor cream. So when are you.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
With a twist?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Okay? According to the Girl Scouts, the cookie reflects the
spirit of exploration at the heart of every Girl's Scout.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
The new edition comes after we receive word that two
other cookies are being retired for the upcoming season. Cookie
fans will no longer be able to purchase the aforementioned
s'mores and toast Ya cookies also have nother price of
a box of Girl Scout cookies is going up. Ten
years ago, it is between four and five dollars, depending
on your chapter. Now they're selling boxes for as much
as seven dollars. I don't think that's a big price
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increase ten years ago, they've I guess maybe they've nearly
doubled it.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
But I knows as much as you.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Want exactly best sellers in this order a thin Mints, Samoas,
and tagalongs and along tag alongs. There, aren't they? Just
that shortbread cookie? Yeah, I think that's a tag along,
but it's funny umber one. Yes, but this is I
don't like the thin mint people because I'm a Samoa
girl all the way. You and I actually funny enough,
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and we don't even eat that many sweets. But you
and I I think initially connected. I feel like it
was over ten years ago when somehow we both realized,
maybe on a story, that samoas were our favorite cookies.
Like you two wow, same.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's not usually the one people name, I feel, but yeah,
since it's the second most populous, so obviously people like it.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I also didn't realize. I know you're always like, when
are Girl Scout cookies being sold? I actually went online
to see if you could get them around You cannot.
It is from January to April, and so I actually
there's a countdown for the New York area Girl Scouts.
We have one hundred and twenty seven days until we
can get this new cookie.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I like that they do that because they build up
a demand. Yeah, you can't get them all year, so
when you see there are Girl Scout cookies available, you
have to go get them.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
And think about it. How many things now do you
have to wait for? Almost there's almost nothing. Everything's on demand,
everything's immediate, everything's right away. So that instant gratification culture.
I love that we have something that we have to
wait for, we have to wait.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
On like next week's White Lotus episode. There are some
shows that make you wait. But if most of them
even dump the whole season, you can.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
We get pumpkin spice lattes in August now, so I
ever get them.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
That's it. It's just I've never had one. It's just
how you all act when that pumpkin stuff starts.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I know, you love when people talk about them. Like PSLs.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
All right, okay, folk, this is something as you go
about your day, something we want you to take with you
and consider. It is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, warn or consumed.
Happiness is this spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace,
and gratitude. It hard to do, though, it is, but
you know what, it's a habit in a way you can't.
I'm reading about this where you can choose it and
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you have to practice it, and it is a state
of mind and you can be in it. And it's
just one of those things people are looking to buy something,
to earn something. Oh so it says happiness cannot be
traveled too.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So that's something we find happiness and travel on vacation.
Wait until I'll be so happy if when I get
a break and go okay, what else?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Happiness cannot be traveled to. It cannot be owned.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Okay, Oh wow, look at my car, Look at my house,
look at my jewelry, look at my Yes, those things
make us happy.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It cannot be earned earned.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I got you money, salary, you can't. This is not
the thing that's makes me a reward. A metal an honor.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay, Happiness cannot be worn.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Oh I love that suit, though I just got to
do code too.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
From Happiness cannot be consumed. Taste so good. Oh my god,
this loss of wine. I'm loving it now. Happiness is
the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace,
and gratitude. And this was given to us, this quote
by a man named Dennis Weitely. He just passed in
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June at the age of ninety two. He was an
author and a motivational speaker. And I just I love this.
I'd never heard this quote before and it's so true.
And I think we all are looking for these outside
or these external things to make us happy, but truly
we have to choose it. So I love that and
we hope that you can take that with you on
this Wednesday. Thank you for running with us. Everyone. I'm
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Amy Robots.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And I am TJ. Holmes. We'll talk to y'll soon.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run.
It's Wednesday, September tenth. I'm Amy Robots and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm TJ Holmes. And the rich keep getting richer. We
always hear that, but Robes this still will take you
back a little bit. Forbes says its wealthiest Americans list out,
and it's always curious to see who's going to be
on it. Usually the same names, but to hear how
much richer they got from one year to the next
(00:33):
is still kind of mind boggling.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It's mind blowing. Actually, I had to read it a
couple of times to make sure from twenty twenty four
to twenty twenty five, the four hundred richest people in
America got significantly richer. Will tell you that number, it
really is absurd.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Also, speaking of numbers and just how expensive things can get, well,
one NFL player is learning a very difficult lesson right
now and just how expensive spit can be. Yes, you
heard me correctly, but yes, the NFL has doled out
punishment for one particular player who got into some pretty
big trouble on Night one of the NFL season.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Why are you making that because spitting on someone is
one of the grossest, rudest things you can do to
another human, and.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's also one of the most expensive things now you
can do to another human. We'll explain that fine. Also,
Cracker Barrel just said, never mind, this is a mess.
Cracker Bill, just give up, just shut down for a month,
get your ish together and come back. Cracker Barrel. Yes,
after the whole logo mess, they have now done an
about face on another issue having to do with their restaurants.
(01:40):
They're essentially just thrown up their hands and say never mind.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I mean, if the old adage no press, there's no
such thing as bad press, then they're getting a lot
of free publicity, so that might be the upside.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, it really makes me want to run in for
a biscuit and gravy. Also on the run this morning,
a new Girl Scout cookie. I usually will say, don't
mess with a good thing when you got it, But
Girl Scout has a new cookie and Apple has a
new phone. Did they do what they said they were
going to do? All inspiring or whatever it is supposed to.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Be like awe dropping, but I don't know. It was
interesting and kind of cool, but I don't know if
I was, my job did not drop. I'm going to
just be honest.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
We'll let you know if you need to run out
and pay what they eleven hundred dollars for the new iPhone. Also, folks,
look at your iPhone possibly right now. The Apple podcast
app where our show page is top right corner button.
It says follow click that you can get our updates
coming to you. Don't have to go looking for him.
Also on the run this morning, Yes, Lisa Cook can
keep her job on the FED board for now. Also
(02:38):
the growing mystery of a decomposing body found in a
singer's car. Also, the US economy produced far fewer jobs
than reported. The US Supreme Court is set to decide
the tariff question once and for all. And Rolle just
a fascinating story about a man who goes overboard on
a cruise ship. But he did not accident fall.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
He jumped on purpose. Yes, we'll get into why, because
that is the big question in just a bit, But
we begin our run with the fate of Trump's tariffs.
The US economy and perhaps even the world economy, is
now in the hands of the United States Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yes, the justices yesterday agree to hear arguments and fast
track a decision on those so called Liberation Day tariffs.
The President is asking the justices to overturn a lower
court ruling that said he acted outside of his authority
in imposing those tariffs, which are the centerpiece of his
economic agenda.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
The central point for the justices. Can the president impose
the tariffs under special emergency powers without congressional approval? Well,
the Court is going to hear arguments the first week
of November, and certainly all eyes and all of the
world markets will be on those nine justices, all that back.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And forth than all we've gone. They could essentially say, Nope,
he couldn't have done it. What do you do? They say,
they've collected now and by the time a decision could
come next year, a trillion dollars they have already collected.
We're supposed to do return that money to all these countries.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
This is a conservative leaning Supreme Court, so one I'm
sure at least Trump is hoping, and that's why he
wanted it to go to the Supreme Court, that they
will be on his side. Chelsea.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
They are going to hear it in November. Normally they
wouldn't decide until June. They say they're going to fast
track it so we could get a decision. We're expected
to get a decision much sooner than we normally would.
Continuing on the run here on this Wednesday morning. And yes,
we know math is hard, haven't you said that? At
least once a while. I've said it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
But I'm not a mathematician or a statistician. I am
a journalist. And that's why I got a journalism degree,
because I didn't have to take any math courses.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Okay, but math is hard even for the statisticians. Because
the folks of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is actually
making this point for us all.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yes, the people whose job it is to literally count
says their jobs numbers were off and robes not just
by a digit or two.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
No, the BLS just revised previously reported jobs numbers, which
now show the economy added far fewer jobs than previously reported.
Just how many fewer jobs. We're talking nine hundred eleven
thousand fewer, so almost a million.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
That's wild. Now, this revision covers the twelve month period
that ended in March. Now we hear about the revisions
this one's making headlines because of how big it is.
But this is a normal part of what they do.
They do routine revisions. They're done by the Bureau every year.
But yes, this one seems a little bigger, doesn't It
robes well, it should because it is the largest downward
(05:51):
revision of jobs numbers in the Bureau's history of keeping
up with this.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
The BLS. Wow, you could just take the l out
of it and sorry the BLS or right, this popped
in my head. The BLS has been under scrutiny in
recent weeks from the President, who just fired the head
of the department and complained publicly that the monthly jobs
reports were being manipulated in order to make him and
Republicans look bad. The White House response a press title,
(06:16):
a press release that was titled BLS Revisions show President
Trump was right again. The revisions cover the last nine
months of the Biden administration, So he feels a little
justified in this as well, because it really wasn't too
much on his watch.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
The title though, he was right again.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
He's on brand.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's on the consistent White House dot gov website. Just
to think of something like just I know it finds
what we're used to with Trump now, but to think
of previous presidents, the idea that a president would put
that on the official one. Yes, it's amazing. Continuing on
the run now, this is one right now. The President
(06:57):
isn't right about talking about Lisa Cook. She can keep
her job for now. At least. The recently fired federal
Reserve governor has now been unfired by a federal judge
who says President Trump was not within his authority when
he claimed to have cause to remove her from the faith.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
What's it like for Lisa Cook walking into work now?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Is it like?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Does she get applauded? Is she like? What does that
feel like?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
She probably sneaks in the back.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
My goodness, at least, well, I hope that her card
works to get her his wife into the building. Cook
fought back after her firing and took Trump to court.
Late yesterday, a judge said President Trump has not identified
anything related to Cook's conduct or job performance as a
board member that would indicate that she is harming the
board or the public interest by executing her duties unfaithfully
(07:43):
or ineffectively. Trump claimed that Cook lied on a mortgage application,
which he says rose to the level that allowed him
to fire her for cause, which the law does allow. Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The judge, though, addressed that point as well, saying Cook
has made a strong showing that her purported removal was
done in violation of the Federal Reserve Acts for cause provision.
The judge though, did acknowledge, Hey, there are some weird
legal questions here that maybe need to be worked out
for the long term, but still right now sided with Cook.
(08:15):
This was the first time in history that a US
president has fired a board governor. Yesterday's ruling allows us
Cook to remain on the board while the legal fight continues.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
All right. Next up on the run, The rich just
keep getting richer. It's not just saying, it's the truth.
Forbes annual list of the four hundred wealthiest Americans is out,
and this year the richest people are more than one
trillion dollars richer than just the year before.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Elon Musk top of the list. No surprise, four years
in a row. He has crossed the four hundred billion
dollar mark, the first person to ever do so, and
he is way ahead of number two on the list,
Larry Ellison. Larry Ellison is one hundred and fifty billion
dollars behind Elie On, like even in this group, Elon
sets himself. It's wild. It is remarkable. Of course, Ellison
(09:06):
is co founder of the tech company Oracle. He's got
about two hundred and seventy six billion dollars average, they say,
though the estimate and how much he's worth.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Rounding out the top five, Number three Mark Zuckerberg at
two hundred and fifty three billion, Number four Jeff Bezos
with two hundred and forty one billion, and number five
Larry Page with Google at one hundred and seventy nine billion.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I'm about to ask the question, but it's probably a
silly question. Do you think these guys even looking at
these numbers? You're in the top five, you got two
hundred billion in the bank, and you're still looking, man,
how can I catch that?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Now? Of course they are, because they wouldn't be where
they are if they didn't have that Mine have that mindset.
You have to have that mindset to be of that list,
all right.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Other big names and rankings on the list this year,
number nine with one hundred and fifty billion, mister Warren Buffett.
Bill Gates is on the list at number fourteen and
one hundred and seven billion. Trump is on the list
at number two hundred and one seven point three billion.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Not too chet.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
He's probably commenting, I should probably look at his social media.
He would say, they got this number wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I'm so much higher on the list. They didn't include X, Y,
and Z all right. Next up on the Run, we're
heading to La, where a potential murder mystery is unfolding.
A badly decomposed body was found in a tesla belonging
to the singer David who I had to look up
how to say his name because it looks like de
(10:25):
forvid D four VD. But if you know the singer,
he goes by David.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah. La police were called to an impound lot after
they got reports of a foul odor coming from a vehicle. Now,
the details of what they found are pretty nasty, to
say the least, just gruesome. What they found in the
bag that was in a trunk of this tesla. The
body they say was not intact. An identification of this
(10:52):
body is going to be delayed because of the decomposition
of the victim.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
As well, So it sounds like it was perhaps dismembered
and decomposing oof. The tesla was initially impounded after a
person we don't know who it was, reported it had
been abandoned. Then it was taken to an impound lot.
It was there for several days before officers were called
to inspect it because of the smell. The owner of
the test Lastinger, David, is out on tour right now, and,
(11:20):
according to his people, is reportedly fully cooperating with police
as they conduct what they're calling a death investigation.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Didn't he just perform He's performed since, yes, this all happened, right.
Police say there was another body get this, found in
a car yesterday at another impound lot that was just
seven miles away from this impound lot, but they say,
at this point the investigation, there is no known connection
between the two cases. Robes, I know you were doing
(11:49):
kind of a deep dive on this and you were
shaking your head, and you'd spent some time looking into this.
But it's hard to imagine that his car ends up
abandoned somewhere, ends up with a body in it that's
dismembered and decomposing.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Right, And there's zero explanation right now. He may have
a very good one as to how the car registered
to him ended up where it did abandoned with the
body in it. But there are a lot of questions
and not a lot of answers right now.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
All right, well, folks, stay with us here on this
Wednesday Morning run. When we come back, the Girl Scouts
have a new cookie, Cracker Barrel has a new plan,
and do you need a new iPhone?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Welcome back to your Wednesday morning run and next up
on the run, Man Overboard. Authorities in Puerto Rico were
frantically searching for a cruise ship passenger who fell off
the ship. But it turns out he actually didn't fall.
He jumped.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And it also turns out police didn't want to save him.
They wanted to arrest him. Authorities say, hey, Gonzales Diaz
leapt from his Royal Caribbean cruise over the weekend near
the port of San Juan. Police say he told them
he jumped because he wanted to avoid monetary reporting requirements
when he entered the US, and he thought he was
(13:11):
going to have to pay taxes on this. He had
like a fourteen grand or something in cash, so he
says was trying to avoid that.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I'm laughing at the idea that he leapt. I just
see this person like leaping off of a cruise ship.
But yes, okay, upon further investigation, none of that was true.
Royal Caribbean told police that the man was actually trying
to avoid paying his casino bill. They say he was
on the hook for a total of sixteen, seven hundred
and ten dollars and twenty four cents to the cruise line.
(13:39):
As they put it, the debt is almost exclusively associated
to casino and gaming expenses, so he was not trying
to avoid paying taxes. He was trying to avoid paying
his casino bill.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
They had the exact amount. And is it amazing what
people will do. We're desperate when it comes to whatever.
Who knows what's going on? This man's yes, mate, he
was risking death, Yes, because of a casino bill.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Oh that's he had the cash on him so we
could have paid it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's yeah, he had almost the amount.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
He had it on him in the water, Like wow,
that was risky as well.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
He also had several IDs and I think he had
two cell phones. He probably had it in a baggy.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
He got it. He knew what he was doing, all.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Right, Continuing on the run. Now, one of, if not
the most expensive loogies the world has ever known. That's
what we're turning to. Now. The NFL has set the
punishment for Eagle star Jalen Carter, who spit on another
player during last week's NFL opener. Carter has now been
fined fifty seven two hundred and twenty two dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
How did they come up with that two hundred and
twenty two at the end?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Continue reading?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Okay, the star defensive lineman was ejected before the first
play from scrimmage during the Thursday night game against the
Dallas Cowboys. He and Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott were this
is your verb. We're jawing at a each other. That
means mouthing off. I guess on the first got helmet
to helmet at one point, and Carter was seen clearly
spitting on Prescott.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, he couldn't deny this at all. Yes, the referee
called it, but even the referee had not caught it.
The entire world saw it on repeat as they played
it on the broadcast. Now, the NFL said Carter's ejection
before he ever played a down essentially serves as a
one game suspension. He got kicked out, so there you go.
He forfeits his game check. So to your point, the
(15:31):
fifty and twenty two dollars is the average of whatever
his salary is for the year. They get paid game
by game, so that is where it comes from. He
did immediately apologize after the game. Nothing else to say.
Screwed it up, all right?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Next up on the run, Apple's newest and slimmest iPhone,
the iPhone Air, was unveiled on Monday. Apple CEO Tim
Cook called it the biggest leap ever for iPhone. Oh
another leap, this one just not off a cruise ship.
It's point two million slimmer. Then it's competitor the Galaxy
S twenty five Edge. I don't really know, Like, I'm
(16:06):
really bad with measurements, but the iPhone Air is five
point six millimeters In case anyone wanted to know what's.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
The current one? Then how thick is my current? Is
it half the size?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I mean it mine looks it looks like almost half
an inch?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Really? Just eyeball, my volunteers right now.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Again, I just told you I'm not good with like measurements.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Okay, so this sounds cool. Everybody wants the slick, new
thin iPhone, right the iPhone Air, which you got to
compromise on a few things, in particular the camera. You're
only going to get one camera compared to the three
on the iPhone seventeen Pro, and it has a slightly
shorter battery life twenty seven hours of video playbag versus thirty.
(16:48):
How do those compromises sound to you?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
That's that's not bad. I don't even know what these
three cameras actually do. It just looks cool that I
really don't even know, all right.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
The new lineup of iPhone seventeen also includes the Standard,
the Roll, the Max, which will all have better battery life,
faster performance, and cameras with enhanced zoom capability.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And I don't know that I even like that, all right.
Apple also announced its new Apple Watches, which will come
with a new feature to detect hypertension and will give
a sleep score for users who wear their watch to bed.
That seems wildly uncomfortable, but they're obviously trying to compete
with Aura and some of these other technology devices you
can wear to bed. Wow, a watch to bed, all right?
(17:27):
And finally, Apple showcased its new generation of air pods,
which have a new feature that offers a live translation capability,
so you can listen to a live audio from anywhere
in the world and get immediate playback in your preferred language.
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
That is unbelievable that technology is doing that. Yep. And
air think about that. Yeah, and you can an air pod,
a little one hundred device.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
You see people on the un for years now, right
getting their own language put back. But it's like with
real live translators. This has actually happened in via AI,
so they're able to do it. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That is unbelievable. All right. Well, next up on the
run here now they said they're not changing the logo.
Now Cracker Barrel says they ain't changing anything. After an
about face on changing the logo because of customer or
conservative backlash, the company now says robes that it is
canceling the plans it had to remodel and update the stores.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
The logo change was part of a larger seven hundred
million dollar revamping, rebranding, and refreshing of the company, which
was supposed to include changing the look of many restaurants. Well,
now the company says never mind about all of it.
Writing on social media, if your restaurant hasn't been remodeled,
you don't need to worry. It won't be Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
They went on to say, we hope today's step reinforces
that we hear you. And that's what they said after
they change. When they took they just wanted to take
the guy with the overalls and the barrel off of
the logo. Folks went crazy, called them, we'll call this
d Yeah, the president got involved. They said, never mind
what six.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Days later, I don't really understand.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Six days later, so so now only four they say,
of their six hundred and sixty stores ever got any
type of revamp. It's done. They spent all this money
and just said never mind.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I don't under I love a refresh, I love a remodel.
I don't understand. But hey, I guess maybe it ultimately
ended up or will end up saving them some money.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
To your point, aren't we about some things like don't
change anything that some things that are so close to
our nostalgic nostalgic But unfortunately sometimes these things seem like
we're not We're trying to keep people out of something.
It seems exclusive to us versus Yay, we want to
be inclusive, everybody can come in. It seems like you're
trying to keep folks out of what you're doing. Yeah,
and that's things.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Oh, it's a little bit of a pr mess, all right.
For the final leg of our run, we do have
some exciting news though, from the Girl Scouts. There is
a new cookie debuting in January when Girls Scout Cookie season.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
All right, it's called the new cookie, the Explore Moores.
It's to say, yeah, like s'mores.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Right, but no, but it's not like smores.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But it's playing off the name Explore Moores.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Well, they're getting rid of a cookie called s'mores, So
I don't even know it's Yes, I think it's about
just exploring more.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Okay, all right, Well it's a Rocky Road inspired cookie.
This is how they describe it. A chocolate cookie with
a creamy filling with notes of chocolate, marshmallow and toasted
almond flavor cream. So when are you.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
With a twist?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Okay? According to the Girl Scouts, the cookie reflects the
spirit of exploration at the heart of every Girl's Scout.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
The new edition comes after we receive word that two
other cookies are being retired for the upcoming season. Cookie
fans will no longer be able to purchase the aforementioned
s'mores and toast Ya cookies also have nother price of
a box of Girl Scout cookies is going up. Ten
years ago, it is between four and five dollars, depending
on your chapter. Now they're selling boxes for as much
as seven dollars. I don't think that's a big price
(21:06):
increase ten years ago, they've I guess maybe they've nearly
doubled it.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
But I knows as much as you.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Want exactly best sellers in this order a thin Mints, Samoas,
and tagalongs and along tag alongs. There, aren't they? Just
that shortbread cookie? Yeah, I think that's a tag along,
but it's funny umber one. Yes, but this is I
don't like the thin mint people because I'm a Samoa
girl all the way. You and I actually funny enough,
(21:33):
and we don't even eat that many sweets. But you
and I I think initially connected. I feel like it
was over ten years ago when somehow we both realized,
maybe on a story, that samoas were our favorite cookies.
Like you two wow, same.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's not usually the one people name, I feel, but yeah,
since it's the second most populous, so obviously people like it.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I also didn't realize. I know you're always like, when
are Girl Scout cookies being sold? I actually went online
to see if you could get them around You cannot.
It is from January to April, and so I actually
there's a countdown for the New York area Girl Scouts.
We have one hundred and twenty seven days until we
can get this new cookie.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I like that they do that because they build up
a demand. Yeah, you can't get them all year, so
when you see there are Girl Scout cookies available, you
have to go get them.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
And think about it. How many things now do you
have to wait for? Almost there's almost nothing. Everything's on demand,
everything's immediate, everything's right away. So that instant gratification culture.
I love that we have something that we have to
wait for, we have to wait.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
On like next week's White Lotus episode. There are some
shows that make you wait. But if most of them
even dump the whole season, you can.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
We get pumpkin spice lattes in August now, so I
ever get them.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
That's it. It's just I've never had one. It's just
how you all act when that pumpkin stuff starts.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I know, you love when people talk about them. Like PSLs.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
All right, okay, folk, this is something as you go
about your day, something we want you to take with you
and consider. It is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, warn or consumed.
Happiness is this spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace,
and gratitude. It hard to do, though, it is, but
you know what, it's a habit in a way you can't.
I'm reading about this where you can choose it and
(23:15):
you have to practice it, and it is a state
of mind and you can be in it. And it's
just one of those things people are looking to buy something,
to earn something. Oh so it says happiness cannot be
traveled too.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So that's something we find happiness and travel on vacation.
Wait until I'll be so happy if when I get
a break and go okay, what else?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Happiness cannot be traveled to. It cannot be owned.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Okay, Oh wow, look at my car, Look at my house,
look at my jewelry, look at my Yes, those things
make us happy.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It cannot be earned earned.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I got you money, salary, you can't. This is not
the thing that's makes me a reward. A metal an honor.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay, Happiness cannot be worn.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Oh I love that suit, though I just got to
do code too.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
From Happiness cannot be consumed. Taste so good. Oh my god,
this loss of wine. I'm loving it now. Happiness is
the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace,
and gratitude. And this was given to us, this quote
by a man named Dennis Weitely. He just passed in
(24:16):
June at the age of ninety two. He was an
author and a motivational speaker. And I just I love this.
I'd never heard this quote before and it's so true.
And I think we all are looking for these outside
or these external things to make us happy, but truly
we have to choose it. So I love that and
we hope that you can take that with you on
this Wednesday. Thank you for running with us. Everyone. I'm
(24:37):
Amy Robots.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And I am TJ. Holmes. We'll talk to y'll soon.
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