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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, and welcome to this Monday edition of our
Morning Run. Yeah, it's Monday, August fourth.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. There are actually
birds chirping. We kind of escaped Manhattan for a minute
and actually are recording this outside. We can actually hear
birds for a change.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Oh, it's so nice and see green things instead of concrete.
It's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It is wonderful. But on this Monday morning here, there
are essentially wanted posters all over Texas right now because
they're looking for Democrats. I think the right word is fled.
They have fled the state as if they're wanted, but
it's all a part of a tactic because of something
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very important going on down there. But they might be
in a city near you right now because they did
flee the state of peace.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
This is a bizarre story that we will explain in
just a moment.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And do I have right her character WKRP in Cincinnati.
We know there's this bombshell, but that character Lonnie Anderson
played was a smart, strong, beautiful woman when.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
She was one of the first characters where yes, she
could be beautiful and smart. She was the smartest woman
in the smartest person in the room, or in the
newsroom at least w KRP in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I guess a lot of people heard that news over
the weekend. We just got that Lonnie Anderson has passed away.
Will be talking more about her in just a second.
And also, I guess we knew it wasn't long before
we heard Trump chime in on the whole Sydney Sweeney
American Eagle controversy. He chimed in. He says he loves it,
but with a big if. He says he loves the
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ad if something, and we'll tell you what that something
happened to be. But we'll also on this Monday morning,
as we get going, we're were talking about the Montana manhunt.
It continued, Glene Maxwell gets moved, nobody's saying why, and
a fan arrested for tossing a sex toy onto a
WNBA court.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Oooh, but the person in charge of the jobs report, well,
she gets fired hours after putting out the jobs report.
And also on the morning run still number one, but
bad news at the box office for Fantastic four, and
on this National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. We're going to
tell you why Ruth Wakefield might be the most important
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person in the history of all cookies.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I don't think we're overstating it. She's that big of
a deal. Will explain why I didn't know who she was.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
And I didn't know her name either, but we will.
After today's morning run. We begin, though our run in Texas,
where a good old fashioned Texas showdown is shaping up today.
State Democrats have been given until three o'clock to show
up or else.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, this is an ongoing, heated and incredibly consequential fight
over redistricting. Texas Democrats have literally fled the state, dozens
of them. I think the count might be up to
fifty to fifty one left this weekend ended up in
the waiting arms of Democrats and Democratic leaning cities and states, Boston, Albany,
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Chicago among them.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So they got out of dodge this weekend to prevent
state Republicans, who have the majority in the state legislature,
from passing a redistricting bill that would redraw the state's
congressional lines, possibly adding up to five more Republican seats.
The legislature needs at least two thirds of the members
present in order to do business. That means they need
one hundred members present.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So you see what they're doing there. Oh, Democrats have
denied them that two thirds by leaving. This is a
process called breaking decorum. So this is a standoff, a
little standoff. Now, So what happens. The governor has threatened
that if they don't return by three o'clock today when
the legislative session starts, then he will invoke a rule
that allows for them to be stripped of their membership
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in the state legislature. He's talking about actually kicking them out,
and he says he has the power to do it, all.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Right, And they also would face a fine of five
hundred dollars per day for not showing up at work.
The state Attorney General puts it this way. We're quoting
him here. The Democrats in this Texas House who try
and run away like cowards should be found, arrested and
brought back to the capital immediately. We should use every
tool at our disposal to hunt down those who think
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they are above the law.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Hunt downs pretty strong.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's against the law to not show up at your job.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
To do your job. Out of people, they have fled
the state. Now how what they can invoke in state
law down there. I don't know, but they've done this
before in the past, and you know, they ended up
coming back and the redistricting still took place.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Isn't it kind of embarrassing? Like they run away and
then they have to come back with their tails between
their legs. That's kind of how it feels.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Well, it feels like what would some say about democrats
around the country, stand up and fight, stay here and fight.
This scene will be read by many as you're running
from responsibility or running from a fight.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
It's not a good look and it's not good for
a like when you're campaigning to be re elected. I
have a feeling that could be used against all of them.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Everybody pay attention to what's happening in Texas. Redistricting is
a big, big it's the next new fight. Now, if
you're in charge of a legislature, and if you're a
Democratic one or a Republican one, we can just say, hey,
we'll redraw the lines for our advantage.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
That should not the ferrymandering, right, that's what they call it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
We're supposed to happen after a census every ten years.
We're not there.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It's not happening because of a census.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yes. Sorry, we'll continue on the run now. Next leg
takes us to Montana, where a man hunt there is
now in its fourth day. Law enforcement trying to track
down the man who shot and killed four people in
a bar on Friday.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The suspect is Michael Paul Brown, a military veteran who
served in a rock during the war. Police say he
lived next door to the bar, was a regular there,
and they have no idea why he walked into the
bar at ten thirty Friday morning and just started shooting.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, this happened in the town of Anaconda, about twenty
five miles north of Butte, Montana. The State Attorney General
cold Brown an unstable person who murdered four people in
cold blood for no reason whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Wow, all right. Next up on the run without any explanation.
Convicted sex trafficker Glaine Maxwell has been moved from a
federal prison in Florida to a federal prison camp in Texas.
Maxwell's new home. You know, people are connecting the dots.
Here comes just two weeks after her two day, nine
hour session with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche where her
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attorney says she answered questions about one hundred people associated
with Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Just a coincidence, Just a coincidence, perhaps the coincidence. Her
former prison is described as a low security prison for
men and women. Her new digs or a minimum security
camp just for women. Do I have it right? It's
described as even lower security, correct than the other?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Ohka correct.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Even Maxwell's attorney isn't talking about why his client was
moved from one prison to another. And if he ain't talking,
ain't nobody talking? Because he's been talking this whole time.
It seems that all this has been going on. She
is serving, of course, a twenty year prison sentence for
child sex trafficking and connection with Epstein.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Now, her victims, along with Virginia Giuffrey's family, released a
statement about Maxwell's move. Here's what they said. I think
I'm going to read the whole thing because it's pretty compelling.
It is with horror and outrage that we object to
the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Gallaine Maxwell has received.
Gallaiine Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor
children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown
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any leniency Yet without any notification to the Maxwell victims.
The government overnight has moved Maxwell to a minimum security
luxury prison in Texas. This is the justice system failing
victims right before our eyes. The American public should be
enraged by the preferential treatment being given to a pedophile
and a criminally charged child sex offender. The Trump administration
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should not credit a word Maxwell says, as the government
itself sought charges against Maxwell for being a serial liar.
This move smacks of a cover up. The victims deserve better.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
We don't have an answer, like why was she moved?
This is another one of those things where if you
have something with so many conspiracy theories, you need more
transparency now than ever. And we're all scratching our heads.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
What happened was crickets. Not one person is talking.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
All right, folks will continue on the run. Now. We
probably knew this robes. It was only going to be
a matter of time before the President himself chimed in
on the American Eagle Sydney Sweeney good Genes controversy, and
he chimed in in a critical What would you call this?
I didn't know what to call it, typical, classic, or hilarious?
Trump fashion.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
They all appliflier, all of those applied not to be fair.
He was asked specifically by a reporter about the reports
that Sidney Sweeney registered as a Republican in Florida. Here's
how he responded, Oh, is she a registered Republican? Now?
I love her ad. You'd be surprised at how many
people are Republicans. That's one I wouldn't have known. But
I'm glad you told me that if Sidney Sweeney is
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a registered Republican. I think her ad is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
That's funny. Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You watched it five times this morning.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Every time. Well, meanwhile, we did hear from American Eagle,
the company itself, for the first time since the ad
campaign and all the controversy. The company posted on Instagram.
Pretty simple here, I said, Sidney Sweeney has great jeens,
is and always was about the jeans, her jeans. Her
story will continue to celebrate how everyone wears their American
Eagle jeans with confidence, their way. Great geans look good
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on everyone. And that was it.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, no, apology is just a further statement that hey,
we aren't excluding anyone. Everyone has good gens if they
wear American eagle jeans.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I'm looking at this the number of times they said
gens in that four sentence statement.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
That was deliberate and j E A n s.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
By the way, I never used the g no.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
All right, Next time up on the Run. The person
in charge of the person, yes, in charge of putting
out the monthly US jobs reports was fired on Friday, notably,
just hours after putting out the latest monthly jobs report.
Apparently President Trump didn't like the latest report, which showed
a slow down in the US economy with a weaker
than expected seventy three thousand jobs created.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, the President called the latest jobs numbers ridiculous and
accused the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
manipulating the numbers in order to make the President and
Republicans look bad. Others say, the President is just shooting
the messenger, and that's all this commissioner is supposed to be,
is just delivering the facts happening what the numbers said.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
All right, Next up on the Run. Actress Lonnie Anderson
has passed away just days before her eightieth birthday. Her
publicist confirmed Anderson's death, saying she died in the hospital
following an unspecified prolonged illness.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And of course, most known for playing that platinum blonde
receptionist who was as smart and she was beautiful on
the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati in the seventies and eighties.
Her role as Jennifer Marlowe earned her three Golden Globe
nominations and two Emmy nominations.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Anderson's contentious divorce from her third husband, Bert Reynolds landed
her in the tabloids for years, but the two men
did fences shortly before Reynold's death in twenty eighteen. Anderson continued,
by the way, acting into her seventies. In twenty twenty three,
we have got to check this out because I put
this in there because we know we love our lifetime movies.
It was called Ladies of the Eighties, a Diva's Christmas.
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I think we need to put that on in honor
of Lonnie Anderson today. But she had more than sixty
acting credits to her name. That is remarkable. She was
beloved and yes, she'll always be that wonderful role model. Honestly,
for a lot of women in that era, you didn't
see women who were smart and the wittiest woman in
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the room or the wittiest person in the room, and
it was cool. She was able to bring that character
to life.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
She was the wittiest and yeah it was the prettiest
is the prettiest one in the room. But this mornings
one at the same time, and you always remember that song.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That WKRP in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
We will never ever forget. All right, Well, stay with us,
folks on this Monday Morning run. When we come back,
we do a deep dive on this National Cookie Day
into some history of your favorite cookie. Also coming up
on the run this morning. Look, there was another big
weekend for Fantastic Four at the box office, but it
kind of spells bad news at the same time. And
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why was a w NBA fan arrested for something they
tossed onto the court? We continue now on this Monday
Morning run with this Dildos have been flying at w
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NBA games lately, and now an arrest has been made.
Seriously here, folks, for reasons that aren't quite clear short
of folk just being idiots, somebody at at least two
w NBA games last week tossed a sex toy onto
the court during the game.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It happened at one game between the Atlanta Dream and
the Golden State Valkyries on Tuesday in Georgia. It happened
again at another game in Chicago on Friday. An arrest
was made for that incident in Georgia. And by the way,
the WNBA said, it was not the same person. So
two different people throwing sex toys. You asked me if
we could say dildo, I think we can.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What else is it supposed to be called? Is that?
I didn't know if that were a vulge or.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I don't know. I guess either one's fine. We know
what they're talking about.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
This was what it was here, And the NBA said,
anybody who's called doing something like this obviously would be
ejected and given an automatic one year ban. Now, besides
this being just immature, quite disrespectful, it's quite stupid, it's
incredibly dangerous. I mean, robes, we watch these athletes plenty
of times. It's going as fast as you can up
in the air at speed land. Can you imagine falling
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or landing on a foreign object?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Like? Yeah, you know, I hadn't. I just I just
thought of it as being incredibly disrespectful. I didn't even
imagine how dangerous it could say but that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Dangerous and you know, I'll put Sophie Cunningham, she plays
for the Indiana Fever. She put out a tweet and
said it this simply stop throwing dil dos at us.
You're going to hurt one of us. And that was it.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, why are you going to a game if you're
going to be that rude and that awful. I just
can't even imagine doing that, like going there with that intention.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
There, This requires premeditation, correct, You have to sneak it
in actually, because they check bags oftentimes and whatever you
play down before the game.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I'm glad they're arrested, and you should be banned more
than a year. You should be banned for life if
you throw something like that or anything onto the court.
All right. Next up on the Run. Still number one
at the box office, but not great news for Fantastic four.
The Marvel movie fell off in a concerning way in
its second weekend in theaters.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Say yes, it was the number one movie of the weekend.
It made forty million dollars, but that represents robes a
sixty six percent drop from its opening weekend. That's a
much bigger drop than industry experts were predicting, and it's
not a good sign. And it's kind of a little unexpected.
Here the movie is well reviewed and they were expecting
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it to benefit from good word of mouth.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
All right, Well, the movie did have a huge opening weekend,
making one hundred and seventeen million dollars, and now has
made nearly four hundred million dollars worldwide. So no one's
crying over there over the numbers. The Bad Guys Too
made twenty two point eight million in its debut. Naked
Gun opened with seventeen million in third place. Is that
less than expected?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
No, it's right on point. It looks like it might
have good legs, it might les a little. It didn't
cost a whole lot. I kind of want to see it.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I would be interested in it. It's that silly slapstick
humor that you know what, if you're in the right mood,
it's it's funny.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I love the original. Sorry final leg Here, it's National
Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. This is not just cookie Day.
Is specific.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
It's very specifical.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Okay, So in honor of the day, several companies are
offering some sweet deals around the country. But I did
not at all know the history of the chocolate chip
cookie until Robes did a deep dive this morning.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, this is interesting. It turns out a chef named
Ruth Wakefield who ran the toll House in with her
husband in Massachusetts. So that's a real place, the toll
House in. She is credited with inventing the chocolate chip
cookie back in nineteen thirty seven. As the story goes,
she decided to cut a semi sweet chocolate bar into
bits and then added it into her butter Drop do
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cookies and voila, the chocolate chip cookie was born. She
published her recipe the next year, in nineteen thirty eight,
and that is when Nesley began taking her recipe and
promoted it on the back of its packaging, the very
one that's still there today, the one that I have
used for decades when I was a little girl with
my chocolate chip cookies, my chocolate chips, looking at the
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back of that package to make my recipe?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Would she not have been able to? I mean, she
shared it with everybody. She should have kept it to herself, right,
Thank you Ruth for that. If you want to celebrate
the day, you can get a freak chocolate chunk cookie
with any other purchase at Insomnia Cookies. The day, Sweet
Addison's offering a fifty percent discount on chocolate chip cookies
on its website. Tates is celebrating by offering a thirty
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percent discount.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
H Yes, and finally, if you're near one of the
four hundred US locations of Double Tree by Hilton Hotels today,
you can get a free complimentary signature warm chocolate chip cookie.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Even if you're not a customer.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Correct, walk on in, you pass by one of those
Double Tree Hiltons, just say hey, I'd like my chocolate
chip cookie.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's kind of nice word keto.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Right now, you could maybe make one exception today.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
All right, folks, but before we let you go on
this Monday morning, something we would like for you to consider.
It is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I saw this and thought of you do or do not?
There is no try? That is from Yoda.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
How many times have you heard me say this? When
you sit to I ask you to do something, you said,
I'll try. No, no, no, don't try.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
That's exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Don't do it. Don't try. I don't want the effort.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You want results. You don't give a rats. You know
what about the effort. It's about the actual outcome.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Look, Yoda's got some good ones and this is so simple. Hot.
This is one of the shortest quotes you probably ever
plucked out. Do or do not? There is no try.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yes, that should be your next tattoo because you live
by that. I love it, and you impose it on
everyone else. All Right, before we let you go, I
want to let you know that it's Monday, so that
means our column on Yahoo in the Life section, we
have a new column out today and we have one
reader asking us political differences are tearing my forty five
(18:59):
year marriage part can we make it work? This was
an interesting one and a question that probably a lot
of families are dealing with have been dealing with over
the last year or so, But this one was interesting
that a marriage more than four decades strong could be
torn apart by politics.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And we had all kinds of questions here and we
did give our thoughts. You can read that. I'll just
go to the Life section of Yahoo dot com. Life Section,
Yahoo dot com. You will see it right there. You'll
see our answer, you can chime in, and we'll also
be sharing with you all in a follow up podcast.
Some of the results we were getting from some of
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our readers, mainly men usually yes.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
We love looking at the comments.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Please comments.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
A lot of men like to comment on our Yahoo column,
but please everyone, This is for everyone to leave a
comment and we will yeah, go over all of that
in an episode later this week, so check out that.
But in the meantime, thank you for running with us. Everyone.
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Holmes. We'll see y'all soon.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, and welcome to this Monday edition of our
Morning Run. Yeah, it's Monday, August fourth.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. There are actually
birds chirping. We kind of escaped Manhattan for a minute
and actually are recording this outside. We can actually hear
birds for a change.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Oh, it's so nice and see green things instead of concrete.
It's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It is wonderful. But on this Monday morning here, there
are essentially wanted posters all over Texas right now because
they're looking for Democrats. I think the right word is fled.
They have fled the state as if they're wanted, but
it's all a part of a tactic because of something
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very important going on down there. But they might be
in a city near you right now because they did
flee the state of peace.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
This is a bizarre story that we will explain in
just a moment.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And do I have right her character WKRP in Cincinnati.
We know there's this bombshell, but that character Lonnie Anderson
played was a smart, strong, beautiful woman when.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
She was one of the first characters where yes, she
could be beautiful and smart. She was the smartest woman
in the smartest person in the room, or in the
newsroom at least w KRP in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I guess a lot of people heard that news over
the weekend. We just got that Lonnie Anderson has passed away.
Will be talking more about her in just a second.
And also, I guess we knew it wasn't long before
we heard Trump chime in on the whole Sydney Sweeney
American Eagle controversy. He chimed in. He says he loves it,
but with a big if. He says he loves the
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ad if something, and we'll tell you what that something
happened to be. But we'll also on this Monday morning,
as we get going, we're were talking about the Montana manhunt.
It continued, Glene Maxwell gets moved, nobody's saying why, and
a fan arrested for tossing a sex toy onto a
WNBA court.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Oooh, but the person in charge of the jobs report, well,
she gets fired hours after putting out the jobs report.
And also on the morning run still number one, but
bad news at the box office for Fantastic four, and
on this National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. We're going to
tell you why Ruth Wakefield might be the most important
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person in the history of all cookies.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I don't think we're overstating it. She's that big of
a deal. Will explain why I didn't know who she was.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
And I didn't know her name either, but we will.
After today's morning run. We begin, though our run in Texas,
where a good old fashioned Texas showdown is shaping up today.
State Democrats have been given until three o'clock to show
up or else.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, this is an ongoing, heated and incredibly consequential fight
over redistricting. Texas Democrats have literally fled the state, dozens
of them. I think the count might be up to
fifty to fifty one left this weekend ended up in
the waiting arms of Democrats and Democratic leaning cities and states, Boston, Albany,
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Chicago among them.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So they got out of dodge this weekend to prevent
state Republicans, who have the majority in the state legislature,
from passing a redistricting bill that would redraw the state's
congressional lines, possibly adding up to five more Republican seats.
The legislature needs at least two thirds of the members
present in order to do business. That means they need
one hundred members present.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So you see what they're doing there. Oh, Democrats have
denied them that two thirds by leaving. This is a
process called breaking decorum. So this is a standoff, a
little standoff. Now, So what happens. The governor has threatened
that if they don't return by three o'clock today when
the legislative session starts, then he will invoke a rule
that allows for them to be stripped of their membership
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in the state legislature. He's talking about actually kicking them out,
and he says he has the power to do it, all.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Right, And they also would face a fine of five
hundred dollars per day for not showing up at work.
The state Attorney General puts it this way. We're quoting
him here. The Democrats in this Texas House who try
and run away like cowards should be found, arrested and
brought back to the capital immediately. We should use every
tool at our disposal to hunt down those who think
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they are above the law.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Hunt downs pretty strong.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's against the law to not show up at your job.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
To do your job. Out of people, they have fled
the state. Now how what they can invoke in state
law down there. I don't know, but they've done this
before in the past, and you know, they ended up
coming back and the redistricting still took place.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Isn't it kind of embarrassing? Like they run away and
then they have to come back with their tails between
their legs. That's kind of how it feels.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Well, it feels like what would some say about democrats
around the country, stand up and fight, stay here and fight.
This scene will be read by many as you're running
from responsibility or running from a fight.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
It's not a good look and it's not good for
a like when you're campaigning to be re elected. I
have a feeling that could be used against all of them.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Everybody pay attention to what's happening in Texas. Redistricting is
a big, big it's the next new fight. Now, if
you're in charge of a legislature, and if you're a
Democratic one or a Republican one, we can just say, hey,
we'll redraw the lines for our advantage.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
That should not the ferrymandering, right, that's what they call it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
We're supposed to happen after a census every ten years.
We're not there.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It's not happening because of a census.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yes. Sorry, we'll continue on the run now. Next leg
takes us to Montana, where a man hunt there is
now in its fourth day. Law enforcement trying to track
down the man who shot and killed four people in
a bar on Friday.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The suspect is Michael Paul Brown, a military veteran who
served in a rock during the war. Police say he
lived next door to the bar, was a regular there,
and they have no idea why he walked into the
bar at ten thirty Friday morning and just started shooting.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, this happened in the town of Anaconda, about twenty
five miles north of Butte, Montana. The State Attorney General
cold Brown an unstable person who murdered four people in
cold blood for no reason whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Wow, all right. Next up on the run without any explanation.
Convicted sex trafficker Glaine Maxwell has been moved from a
federal prison in Florida to a federal prison camp in Texas.
Maxwell's new home. You know, people are connecting the dots.
Here comes just two weeks after her two day, nine
hour session with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche where her
(06:40):
attorney says she answered questions about one hundred people associated
with Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Just a coincidence, Just a coincidence, perhaps the coincidence. Her
former prison is described as a low security prison for
men and women. Her new digs or a minimum security
camp just for women. Do I have it right? It's
described as even lower security, correct than the other?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Ohka correct.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Even Maxwell's attorney isn't talking about why his client was
moved from one prison to another. And if he ain't talking,
ain't nobody talking? Because he's been talking this whole time.
It seems that all this has been going on. She
is serving, of course, a twenty year prison sentence for
child sex trafficking and connection with Epstein.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Now, her victims, along with Virginia Giuffrey's family, released a
statement about Maxwell's move. Here's what they said. I think
I'm going to read the whole thing because it's pretty compelling.
It is with horror and outrage that we object to
the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Gallaine Maxwell has received.
Gallaiine Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor
children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown
(07:40):
any leniency Yet without any notification to the Maxwell victims.
The government overnight has moved Maxwell to a minimum security
luxury prison in Texas. This is the justice system failing
victims right before our eyes. The American public should be
enraged by the preferential treatment being given to a pedophile
and a criminally charged child sex offender. The Trump administration
(08:02):
should not credit a word Maxwell says, as the government
itself sought charges against Maxwell for being a serial liar.
This move smacks of a cover up. The victims deserve better.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
We don't have an answer, like why was she moved?
This is another one of those things where if you
have something with so many conspiracy theories, you need more
transparency now than ever. And we're all scratching our heads.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
What happened was crickets. Not one person is talking.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
All right, folks will continue on the run. Now. We
probably knew this robes. It was only going to be
a matter of time before the President himself chimed in
on the American Eagle Sydney Sweeney good Genes controversy, and
he chimed in in a critical What would you call this?
I didn't know what to call it, typical, classic, or hilarious?
Trump fashion.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
They all appliflier, all of those applied not to be fair.
He was asked specifically by a reporter about the reports
that Sidney Sweeney registered as a Republican in Florida. Here's
how he responded, Oh, is she a registered Republican? Now?
I love her ad. You'd be surprised at how many
people are Republicans. That's one I wouldn't have known. But
I'm glad you told me that if Sidney Sweeney is
(09:07):
a registered Republican. I think her ad is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
That's funny. Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You watched it five times this morning.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Every time. Well, meanwhile, we did hear from American Eagle,
the company itself, for the first time since the ad
campaign and all the controversy. The company posted on Instagram.
Pretty simple here, I said, Sidney Sweeney has great jeens,
is and always was about the jeans, her jeans. Her
story will continue to celebrate how everyone wears their American
Eagle jeans with confidence, their way. Great geans look good
(09:38):
on everyone. And that was it.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, no, apology is just a further statement that hey,
we aren't excluding anyone. Everyone has good gens if they
wear American eagle jeans.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I'm looking at this the number of times they said
gens in that four sentence statement.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
That was deliberate and j E A n s.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
By the way, I never used the g no.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
All right, Next time up on the Run. The person
in charge of the person, yes, in charge of putting
out the monthly US jobs reports was fired on Friday, notably,
just hours after putting out the latest monthly jobs report.
Apparently President Trump didn't like the latest report, which showed
a slow down in the US economy with a weaker
than expected seventy three thousand jobs created.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, the President called the latest jobs numbers ridiculous and
accused the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
manipulating the numbers in order to make the President and
Republicans look bad. Others say, the President is just shooting
the messenger, and that's all this commissioner is supposed to be,
is just delivering the facts happening what the numbers said.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
All right, Next up on the Run. Actress Lonnie Anderson
has passed away just days before her eightieth birthday. Her
publicist confirmed Anderson's death, saying she died in the hospital
following an unspecified prolonged illness.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And of course, most known for playing that platinum blonde
receptionist who was as smart and she was beautiful on
the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati in the seventies and eighties.
Her role as Jennifer Marlowe earned her three Golden Globe
nominations and two Emmy nominations.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Anderson's contentious divorce from her third husband, Bert Reynolds landed
her in the tabloids for years, but the two men
did fences shortly before Reynold's death in twenty eighteen. Anderson continued,
by the way, acting into her seventies. In twenty twenty three,
we have got to check this out because I put
this in there because we know we love our lifetime movies.
It was called Ladies of the Eighties, a Diva's Christmas.
(11:32):
I think we need to put that on in honor
of Lonnie Anderson today. But she had more than sixty
acting credits to her name. That is remarkable. She was
beloved and yes, she'll always be that wonderful role model. Honestly,
for a lot of women in that era, you didn't
see women who were smart and the wittiest woman in
(11:52):
the room or the wittiest person in the room, and
it was cool. She was able to bring that character
to life.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
She was the wittiest and yeah it was the prettiest
is the prettiest one in the room. But this mornings
one at the same time, and you always remember that song.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That WKRP in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
We will never ever forget. All right, Well, stay with us,
folks on this Monday Morning run. When we come back,
we do a deep dive on this National Cookie Day
into some history of your favorite cookie. Also coming up
on the run this morning. Look, there was another big
weekend for Fantastic Four at the box office, but it
kind of spells bad news at the same time. And
(12:29):
why was a w NBA fan arrested for something they
tossed onto the court? We continue now on this Monday
Morning run with this Dildos have been flying at w
(12:50):
NBA games lately, and now an arrest has been made.
Seriously here, folks, for reasons that aren't quite clear short
of folk just being idiots, somebody at at least two
w NBA games last week tossed a sex toy onto
the court during the game.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It happened at one game between the Atlanta Dream and
the Golden State Valkyries on Tuesday in Georgia. It happened
again at another game in Chicago on Friday. An arrest
was made for that incident in Georgia. And by the way,
the WNBA said, it was not the same person. So
two different people throwing sex toys. You asked me if
we could say dildo, I think we can.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What else is it supposed to be called? Is that?
I didn't know if that were a vulge or.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I don't know. I guess either one's fine. We know
what they're talking about.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
This was what it was here, And the NBA said,
anybody who's called doing something like this obviously would be
ejected and given an automatic one year ban. Now, besides
this being just immature, quite disrespectful, it's quite stupid, it's
incredibly dangerous. I mean, robes, we watch these athletes plenty
of times. It's going as fast as you can up
in the air at speed land. Can you imagine falling
(14:04):
or landing on a foreign object?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Like? Yeah, you know, I hadn't. I just I just
thought of it as being incredibly disrespectful. I didn't even
imagine how dangerous it could say but that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Dangerous and you know, I'll put Sophie Cunningham, she plays
for the Indiana Fever. She put out a tweet and
said it this simply stop throwing dil dos at us.
You're going to hurt one of us. And that was it.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, why are you going to a game if you're
going to be that rude and that awful. I just
can't even imagine doing that, like going there with that intention.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
There, This requires premeditation, correct, You have to sneak it
in actually, because they check bags oftentimes and whatever you
play down before the game.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I'm glad they're arrested, and you should be banned more
than a year. You should be banned for life if
you throw something like that or anything onto the court.
All right. Next up on the Run. Still number one
at the box office, but not great news for Fantastic four.
The Marvel movie fell off in a concerning way in
its second weekend in theaters.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Say yes, it was the number one movie of the weekend.
It made forty million dollars, but that represents robes a
sixty six percent drop from its opening weekend. That's a
much bigger drop than industry experts were predicting, and it's
not a good sign. And it's kind of a little unexpected.
Here the movie is well reviewed and they were expecting
(15:20):
it to benefit from good word of mouth.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
All right, Well, the movie did have a huge opening weekend,
making one hundred and seventeen million dollars, and now has
made nearly four hundred million dollars worldwide. So no one's
crying over there over the numbers. The Bad Guys Too
made twenty two point eight million in its debut. Naked
Gun opened with seventeen million in third place. Is that
less than expected?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
No, it's right on point. It looks like it might
have good legs, it might les a little. It didn't
cost a whole lot. I kind of want to see it.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I would be interested in it. It's that silly slapstick
humor that you know what, if you're in the right mood,
it's it's funny.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I love the original. Sorry final leg Here, it's National
Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. This is not just cookie Day.
Is specific.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
It's very specifical.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Okay, So in honor of the day, several companies are
offering some sweet deals around the country. But I did
not at all know the history of the chocolate chip
cookie until Robes did a deep dive this morning.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, this is interesting. It turns out a chef named
Ruth Wakefield who ran the toll House in with her
husband in Massachusetts. So that's a real place, the toll
House in. She is credited with inventing the chocolate chip
cookie back in nineteen thirty seven. As the story goes,
she decided to cut a semi sweet chocolate bar into
bits and then added it into her butter Drop do
(16:38):
cookies and voila, the chocolate chip cookie was born. She
published her recipe the next year, in nineteen thirty eight,
and that is when Nesley began taking her recipe and
promoted it on the back of its packaging, the very
one that's still there today, the one that I have
used for decades when I was a little girl with
my chocolate chip cookies, my chocolate chips, looking at the
(16:59):
back of that package to make my recipe?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Would she not have been able to? I mean, she
shared it with everybody. She should have kept it to herself, right,
Thank you Ruth for that. If you want to celebrate
the day, you can get a freak chocolate chunk cookie
with any other purchase at Insomnia Cookies. The day, Sweet
Addison's offering a fifty percent discount on chocolate chip cookies
on its website. Tates is celebrating by offering a thirty
(17:24):
percent discount.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
H Yes, and finally, if you're near one of the
four hundred US locations of Double Tree by Hilton Hotels today,
you can get a free complimentary signature warm chocolate chip cookie.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Even if you're not a customer.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Correct, walk on in, you pass by one of those
Double Tree Hiltons, just say hey, I'd like my chocolate
chip cookie.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's kind of nice word keto.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Right now, you could maybe make one exception today.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
All right, folks, but before we let you go on
this Monday morning, something we would like for you to consider.
It is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I saw this and thought of you do or do not?
There is no try? That is from Yoda.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
How many times have you heard me say this? When
you sit to I ask you to do something, you said,
I'll try. No, no, no, don't try.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
That's exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Don't do it. Don't try. I don't want the effort.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You want results. You don't give a rats. You know
what about the effort. It's about the actual outcome.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Look, Yoda's got some good ones and this is so simple. Hot.
This is one of the shortest quotes you probably ever
plucked out. Do or do not? There is no try.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yes, that should be your next tattoo because you live
by that. I love it, and you impose it on
everyone else. All Right, before we let you go, I
want to let you know that it's Monday, so that
means our column on Yahoo in the Life section, we
have a new column out today and we have one
reader asking us political differences are tearing my forty five
(18:59):
year marriage part can we make it work? This was
an interesting one and a question that probably a lot
of families are dealing with have been dealing with over
the last year or so, But this one was interesting
that a marriage more than four decades strong could be
torn apart by politics.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And we had all kinds of questions here and we
did give our thoughts. You can read that. I'll just
go to the Life section of Yahoo dot com. Life Section,
Yahoo dot com. You will see it right there. You'll
see our answer, you can chime in, and we'll also
be sharing with you all in a follow up podcast.
Some of the results we were getting from some of
(19:38):
our readers, mainly men usually yes.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
We love looking at the comments.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Please comments.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
A lot of men like to comment on our Yahoo column,
but please everyone, This is for everyone to leave a
comment and we will yeah, go over all of that
in an episode later this week, so check out that.
But in the meantime, thank you for running with us. Everyone.
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Holmes. We'll see y'all soon.
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