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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, August twentieth. I'm Amy Robots and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm TJ Holmes. What's that sleep school robes?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Oh my battery died?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I got a sixty one. This is where we are today.
It's exactly where we should be after a birthday celebration
like we had yesterday. So this is going to be
a doozy. You all bear with us on this morning run.
We've been hearing a lot robes of course. Hurricane Aaron.
I think we stopped paying attention to a certain degree
because we kept being told it wasn't going to make landfall.
But this thing is calling some real serious, very dangerous
(00:39):
conditions still for the US.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
That's right. Dozens and dozens of water rescues have already happened.
Beaches are shut down, there is no swimming on beaches
all up and down the East Coast for good reason.
Rip currents, dangerous waves, and they say, yes, the worst
is still to come Thursday into Friday. Things could still
be bad until it finally heads out further into sea.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We'll get into that in just a moment. Also making
headlines today a comment that President Trump may talking about
our museums focused too much on the fact that slavery
was bad. That's the headline. He did actually say that,
and he wrote it actually, yes, in a social media post.
But Roges, we need to give the full context of
what he said. We're not gonna judge, but he said.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It, he wrote it. HiT's undisputed.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Also this morning, those Epstein files that the DOJ said
they would not be releasing, well turns out somebody else
might release them anyway. Also, those Texas Democrats, how do
you like this new tactic? They went on the run.
Now they're having a sleepover.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I don't think they like their families very much.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yes, they haven't been on tell you what those Texas
Democrats who fled are now doing. Also, this is not
going to help the relationship between the City of DC
and the DOJ. Well, the DJ is now investigating DC
over some crime statistics. We have another legionaire death to
tell you about in New York. Also, favorite story of
the day. We see this every once in a while,
(02:03):
surprise performances by superstars. Right, nobody know they're in the crowd,
and they hop up and do a surprise performance. This happened.
Justin Bieber did this in front of thousands when a
DJ was performing.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
We thought that was Justin Bieber, except it wasn't Justin Bieber,
and it wasn't even an American.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
But this is a guy who literally has all the tattoos,
like the exact same tattoos as Justin Bieber, looks like
Justin Bieber, and if you check out the video, it's
hard to believe it wasn't Justin Bieber.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
So he takes his job seriously and he fooled an
entire crowd. My favorite story of the morning. But we
will begin on the run this morning in North Carolina,
where a state of emergency has been issued as Hurricane
Aaron brings dangerous waves and rip currents now to the
East Coach.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
The category two storm is not going to officially make
landfall in the US, but there's a tropical storm warning
for North Carolina's outer banks and mandatory evacuation orders in
place for some of those residents and visitors. Authorities already
rescued more than fifty people from the ocean at Wrightsville Beach.
Swimming has been banned on beaches from North Carolina all
the way up to New York.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, there are high surf advisors in play stretching from
Florida and Massachusetts. Tomorrow, waze as high as twenty feet
could hit the Carolinas as Hurricane Aaron makes its closest
pass to the outer banks and then heads out to sea. Meantime,
authorities are warning beach goers up and down the East
Coast to avoid going into the ocean this week.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
All right. Next up on the run, the Justice Department
said it would not be releasing any more Epstein files,
but the public might get to see those files after all.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah. The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the DOJ earlier this
month for the documents related to the government investigation and
to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The committee now
says it expects to receive those files this week, and
we'll begin the process of reviewing, redacting, and then releasing
(03:59):
them to the public. Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Buckle up, everybody, all right. Next up on the run,
Texas Democrats ended their road trip their next tactic us sleepover.
Some Democrats are now sleeping in the House Chamber of
the state Capitol after refusing to go along with Republican
permission slips.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, these Dems say after returning to the state Capitol,
they were forced to sign these so called slips in
which they agree to round the clock shadowing by law
enforcement any time they want to leave the House Chamber
and move around the Capitol. There are reports that they
had officers follow them to the bathroom. There was another
report women says she went to the grocery store robes
(04:40):
and there was an officer following her, faking like he
was shopping in the aisle. Yeah, they're being tailed. So
Republicans are trying to keep these Democrats from fleeing the
state again in an effort to prevent Republicans from passing
a redistricting bill that could give their party a bigger
advantage in Congress.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
At least one refused to sign the permission slip initially
and spent Monday night in the House chamber. So then
more Democrats joined her last night, some tearing up their
permission slip, saying it was a mistake for them to
sign them in the first place. Meanwhile, they're already in
the midst of another special session to take up the
same redistricting measure. So this really just feels like a
lot of theater, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Continuing on the right, now, we had to a place
that is the master of theater, Washington, DC. The Department
of Justice investigating whether DC police manipulated data to make
crime rates appear lower than they actually are. Newly meanted
US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Piro, is
(05:37):
leading the investigation that we'll look at both police and
city officials.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Last spring, Metro Police Commander Michael Pulliam was suspended over
allegations that he altered crime data. Those are allegations he denies,
by the way. But President Trump posted this about the
investigation on social media, saying DC gave fake crime numbers
in order to create a false illusion of safety. This
is a very bad and dangerous thing to do, and
(06:02):
they are under serious investigation for so doing.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
All right. So Trump went on to tout that since
he brought in the National Guard, DC is perhaps the
safest city in the world and quote getting better every
single hour. The DC mayor has pointed to crime stats
that show violent crime in the district decreased by twenty
six percent compared to last year to argue that a
federal takeover of police in DC was unnecessary.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
But even the head of the DC Police Union acknowledged
that while there's a possibility crime has come down, he
has a hard time believing the numbers are down that much, saying,
I think there are concerns about the accuracy of the numbers.
He went on to say this, what we know, what
our members know is that we go call to call
to call out on the streets at night, going from
robbery to carjacking, to stabbing to shooting, and we just
(06:52):
know that crime is ubiquitous and it's all in every
quadrant of the city. So to have people tell us, well,
crime is down, you shouldn't be worried about that. That's
not the reality that we feel on the streets.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I believe that, But it can also be true that
crime stats are down. So what do we believe? These
numbers are put together by the federal government, by the
way they give you crime statistics, so we just shouldn't
believe anything.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It's hard to imagine how you manipulate numbers. I mean,
at a certain point, the investigation is going to show
the numbers that are truly there, and they how they
compare a year to year, But.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Our government officials we keep like we can't believe anything.
I believe those stats because they're in my favor. Those
over there aren't in my favor. Nope, somebody lies, somebody manipulated,
there's nothing to believe.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
It's it. It really is making everyone seem like they're shady.
It's hard to imagine what's true when what's not.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Continuing on the run, now, I will stay in DC
or The White House confirmed previously that the administration would
be reviewing the content at Smithsonian museums, but President Trump
went a step further yesterday, saying that museums focus too
much on quote how bad slavery was end quote. Now,
these headlines are going to be everywhere. Some of them
(08:06):
are clickbaity, sure, but he did use that line. And
we'll give you the full text and full context of
what the President said and his truth social posts all.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Right, quoting the President here. The museums throughout Washington, but
all over the country are essentially the last remaining segment
of woke. The Smithsonian is out of control, where everything
discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was,
and how unaccomplished The downtrodden have been. Nothing about success,
nothing about brightness, nothing about the future. We are not
(08:38):
going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed
my attorneys to go through the museums and start the
exact same process that has done that has been done
with colleges and universities, where tremendous progress has been made.
The country cannot be woke, because woke is broke. We
have the hottest country in the world, and we want
people to talk about it, including in our museums.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Can you tell me the line the Smithsonian discusses too
much how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. What does that mean?
How unaccomplished the down trodden have been? What does that
want mean?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
That seems strange. It's just to talk about I guess,
tough times and.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
How unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. All right, Well, the President,
you might remember, signed an executive order in March directing
his administration to remove what he calls improper ideology from
the Smithsonian. In a letter to the Smithsonian last week,
the administration said it's review of the museum's aim and
I quote again to ensure alignment with the President's directive
(09:40):
to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and
restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I don't know why that's just all so very scary
to me. But to your point about the numbers, this
would be another point where you say, just because you
don't like history or you don't like the truth, doesn't
mean you should just erase it.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
It's part of I don't know how you talk American
history or the history the founding of this country without
talking about some things that happened which were ugly.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Sure, and we learn from our mistakes by acknowledging them,
not by making them disappear. Alrighty well, next up on
the run, we're gonna head to New York City, where
a fifth person has now died from Legionnaire's disease. Fourteen
people remain hospitalized. More than one hundred and eight people
have been sickened in the outbreak that has plagued central
Harlem since late July.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Now, the bacteria that causes Legionnaire's disease was found in
twelve cooling towers in ten buildings, including Harlem Hospital and
several retail stores. The city says all of the towers.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Have now been cleaned, but legionnaires is a type of
pneumonia that occurs when people breathe in that contaminated water vapor.
Symptoms usually begin within two days to two weeks after exposure,
and it is treatable with antibiotics, So city officials continue
to urge people if you're feeling flu like symptoms, please
please please go to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
This just keeps going. When we first heard about this,
I thought, Okay, they'll get this wrapped up. It's kes lingered, yes, yeah,
and now another death that's huge, scary. All right, we'll
stay with us folks here on this Wednesday morning run
when we come back. The WNBA was expected to do it,
but still it's a big deal what they just did.
Thanks Caitlin. Also coming up this morning run, my favorite
(11:24):
story of the morning. He got on stage in front
of thousands and performed justin Bieber, or at least they
thought that's who it was. All right, let's keep going
on this Wednesday morning run with the WNBA. It was expected,
(11:48):
but it is absolutely worth noting. The WNBA has set
a new attendance record and was more impressive. There's still
a month to go in the season.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
The previous record was back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I know that was two thousand and two. That is
my typo. I apologize everybody. I just put robot in
that bad position.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It is two thousand, man, there you go manipulating the
numbers two and two. The previous record was back in
two thousand and two when two point three million fans
attended games that season, and the team with the highest
attendance the Indiana Fever. Can you guess why?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
That's awesome?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
What she's her name is Caitlin Clark's.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Amazing what she's doing to this league. But yes, she
has done a lot. That team has I think sold
out most of not all of their home games. But
really what's been driving the numbers and the increase in
attendance really the Golden State Valkyries. They're actually an expansion team.
So if you got an extra team, obviously that's a
lot more fans are going to be attending. But this
(12:46):
record is going to fall robes several times over the
next several years because the WNBA is expanding and they
got five teams new teams coming over the next five years.
So it's wonderful to see what that league has been
doing has been able to do stars out the Angel
Reese of course, who's a personal favorite in Katel Clark.
It's great to see them having the moment they're.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Having, and I love you. You're the one who kind
of clued me into this saying there. It's fun to
watch and it's almost more artful to watch in some
ways to see the women play versus the men.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Because they're not just huge and gonna overpower you and
gonna dunk on you. There's a different artistreet to the
women's college game and WNBA. I love it obviously, So yes,
I put this in there because I thought it was cool.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
That is very cool. All right, well this was very uncool.
For the final leg of the run, we had to
Vegas where a popular DJ and his audience thought they
were being treated to a surprise Justin Bieber performance, only
to find out they were being duped by a French
Justin Bieber in person.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Here so how this happened? The DJ was up there performing,
he was told somebody came down and said, hey, Bieber
is in the audience and he wanted to sing one
of his songs. Sorry, The DJ posted on social media
afterwards that little did I know, I was about to
be sorry. So right after the performance and it looked
and sounded you yes, yeah, okay, you wouldn't have known,
(14:04):
especially if you're out in the crowd having a good time.
You're ten rows, twenty rows, one hundred people deep. Of
course you think it's Justin Bieber. It sounds like him.
So right after it looked and sounded like we said,
just like him. The DJ says to camera that was insane,
until he's told that it actually was not the Justin Bieber,
to which he replied, no way exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
He did a very good impersonation. Maybe you should try.
The Bieber look alike was actually an impersonator from Norman Dy, France.
His name is Dylan Desclose. His manager claims desk Close
and his team went to the club as the impersonator
when someone came to them and asked him if he
would like to perform. Of course, thinking he was Justin Bieber,
(14:46):
so he said. They accepted, but then admitted immediately after
the performance that desk Close was not actually Bieber. Because
they say it's a job. We don't want to hurt anyone.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Okay, I'm don't have this right. They saw him and
he he was such a dead ringer for Justin Bieber
that they went to him, Hey, Justin, would you like
to perform?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
According to his manager, that is what happened.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Wow. So yeah, I don't want hurt nobody, but they
would have. Ones got hurt. They got kicked out. Yeah,
they were removed from the resort, banned from win properties
for life. But this is impressive. You said, this guy
takes his jobs eily.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, he's been an impersonator for eight years. As I
mentioned at the top of the podcast, he has the
exact same tattoos as Bieber. Like it's crazy. They racked up,
by the way, a nearly ten thousand dollars bottle service
tab before they got kicked out, but they did pay it,
so obviously he's a successful Bieber impersonator.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
This seems kind of like no harm, no foul. It
didn't seem like I mean, it's a funny story. You
don't want to get duped, but you fail for it.
I mean, yeah, clearly I'm not Justin Bieber, right, look.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
At me anyway. I think everyone had fun and the
video is going crazy. If you want to check it
out for yourself, it is fun, all right, fun story.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
All right, well folks, well we let you go on
this Wednesday. Something we would like for you to consider
it is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
In the end, it's not the years in your life
that count, it's the life in your years. That is
from Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Is an that the thing? Don't we always we just
want to what's our goal, usually to live longer. We
want more years years years. We don't actually make an
argument about what we want in our day. Yeah, we
want those years to actually look like.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
We're thinking of quantity over quality. For sure. I thought
about this. It was your birthday yesterday. We're talking about
numbers and we do. We all count and it's such
a big focus of how we mark time. But it's
how we're filling our time, who we're spending it with,
what we're doing, and the purpose of just making all
of those moments, all those minutes, all of those hours count.
(16:42):
I love it. Thank you, Abraham Lincoln, Thank.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You Abraham Lincoln. With that, folks, we always appreciate you
running with us or.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
For now, I'm t Jhilan and I'm Amy Robock. Have
a wonderful Wednesday. Everybody,
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's morning run.
It's Wednesday, August twentieth. I'm Amy Robots and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm TJ Holmes. What's that sleep school robes?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Oh my battery died?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I got a sixty one. This is where we are today.
It's exactly where we should be after a birthday celebration
like we had yesterday. So this is going to be
a doozy. You all bear with us on this morning run.
We've been hearing a lot robes of course. Hurricane Aaron.
I think we stopped paying attention to a certain degree
because we kept being told it wasn't going to make landfall.
But this thing is calling some real serious, very dangerous
(00:39):
conditions still for the US.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
That's right. Dozens and dozens of water rescues have already happened.
Beaches are shut down, there is no swimming on beaches
all up and down the East Coast for good reason.
Rip currents, dangerous waves, and they say, yes, the worst
is still to come Thursday into Friday. Things could still
be bad until it finally heads out further into sea.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We'll get into that in just a moment. Also making
headlines today a comment that President Trump may talking about
our museums focused too much on the fact that slavery
was bad. That's the headline. He did actually say that,
and he wrote it actually, yes, in a social media post.
But Roges, we need to give the full context of
what he said. We're not gonna judge, but he said.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It, he wrote it. HiT's undisputed.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Also this morning, those Epstein files that the DOJ said
they would not be releasing, well turns out somebody else
might release them anyway. Also, those Texas Democrats, how do
you like this new tactic? They went on the run.
Now they're having a sleepover.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I don't think they like their families very much.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yes, they haven't been on tell you what those Texas
Democrats who fled are now doing. Also, this is not
going to help the relationship between the City of DC
and the DOJ. Well, the DJ is now investigating DC
over some crime statistics. We have another legionaire death to
tell you about in New York. Also, favorite story of
the day. We see this every once in a while,
(02:03):
surprise performances by superstars. Right, nobody know they're in the crowd,
and they hop up and do a surprise performance. This happened.
Justin Bieber did this in front of thousands when a
DJ was performing.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
We thought that was Justin Bieber, except it wasn't Justin Bieber,
and it wasn't even an American.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
But this is a guy who literally has all the tattoos,
like the exact same tattoos as Justin Bieber, looks like
Justin Bieber, and if you check out the video, it's
hard to believe it wasn't Justin Bieber.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
So he takes his job seriously and he fooled an
entire crowd. My favorite story of the morning. But we
will begin on the run this morning in North Carolina,
where a state of emergency has been issued as Hurricane
Aaron brings dangerous waves and rip currents now to the
East Coach.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
The category two storm is not going to officially make
landfall in the US, but there's a tropical storm warning
for North Carolina's outer banks and mandatory evacuation orders in
place for some of those residents and visitors. Authorities already
rescued more than fifty people from the ocean at Wrightsville Beach.
Swimming has been banned on beaches from North Carolina all
the way up to New York.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, there are high surf advisors in play stretching from
Florida and Massachusetts. Tomorrow, waze as high as twenty feet
could hit the Carolinas as Hurricane Aaron makes its closest
pass to the outer banks and then heads out to sea. Meantime,
authorities are warning beach goers up and down the East
Coast to avoid going into the ocean this week.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
All right. Next up on the run, the Justice Department
said it would not be releasing any more Epstein files,
but the public might get to see those files after all.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah. The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the DOJ earlier this
month for the documents related to the government investigation and
to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The committee now
says it expects to receive those files this week, and
we'll begin the process of reviewing, redacting, and then releasing
(03:59):
them to the public. Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Buckle up, everybody, all right. Next up on the run,
Texas Democrats ended their road trip their next tactic us sleepover.
Some Democrats are now sleeping in the House Chamber of
the state Capitol after refusing to go along with Republican
permission slips.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, these Dems say after returning to the state Capitol,
they were forced to sign these so called slips in
which they agree to round the clock shadowing by law
enforcement any time they want to leave the House Chamber
and move around the Capitol. There are reports that they
had officers follow them to the bathroom. There was another
report women says she went to the grocery store robes
(04:40):
and there was an officer following her, faking like he
was shopping in the aisle. Yeah, they're being tailed. So
Republicans are trying to keep these Democrats from fleeing the
state again in an effort to prevent Republicans from passing
a redistricting bill that could give their party a bigger
advantage in Congress.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
At least one refused to sign the permission slip initially
and spent Monday night in the House chamber. So then
more Democrats joined her last night, some tearing up their
permission slip, saying it was a mistake for them to
sign them in the first place. Meanwhile, they're already in
the midst of another special session to take up the
same redistricting measure. So this really just feels like a
lot of theater, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Continuing on the right, now, we had to a place
that is the master of theater, Washington, DC. The Department
of Justice investigating whether DC police manipulated data to make
crime rates appear lower than they actually are. Newly meanted
US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Piro, is
(05:37):
leading the investigation that we'll look at both police and
city officials.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Last spring, Metro Police Commander Michael Pulliam was suspended over
allegations that he altered crime data. Those are allegations he denies,
by the way. But President Trump posted this about the
investigation on social media, saying DC gave fake crime numbers
in order to create a false illusion of safety. This
is a very bad and dangerous thing to do, and
(06:02):
they are under serious investigation for so doing.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
All right. So Trump went on to tout that since
he brought in the National Guard, DC is perhaps the
safest city in the world and quote getting better every
single hour. The DC mayor has pointed to crime stats
that show violent crime in the district decreased by twenty
six percent compared to last year to argue that a
federal takeover of police in DC was unnecessary.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
But even the head of the DC Police Union acknowledged
that while there's a possibility crime has come down, he
has a hard time believing the numbers are down that much, saying,
I think there are concerns about the accuracy of the numbers.
He went on to say this, what we know, what
our members know is that we go call to call
to call out on the streets at night, going from
robbery to carjacking, to stabbing to shooting, and we just
(06:52):
know that crime is ubiquitous and it's all in every
quadrant of the city. So to have people tell us, well,
crime is down, you shouldn't be worried about that. That's
not the reality that we feel on the streets.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I believe that, But it can also be true that
crime stats are down. So what do we believe? These
numbers are put together by the federal government, by the
way they give you crime statistics, so we just shouldn't
believe anything.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It's hard to imagine how you manipulate numbers. I mean,
at a certain point, the investigation is going to show
the numbers that are truly there, and they how they
compare a year to year, But.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Our government officials we keep like we can't believe anything.
I believe those stats because they're in my favor. Those
over there aren't in my favor. Nope, somebody lies, somebody manipulated,
there's nothing to believe.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
It's it. It really is making everyone seem like they're shady.
It's hard to imagine what's true when what's not.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Continuing on the run, now, I will stay in DC
or The White House confirmed previously that the administration would
be reviewing the content at Smithsonian museums, but President Trump
went a step further yesterday, saying that museums focus too
much on quote how bad slavery was end quote. Now,
these headlines are going to be everywhere. Some of them
(08:06):
are clickbaity, sure, but he did use that line. And
we'll give you the full text and full context of
what the President said and his truth social posts all.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Right, quoting the President here. The museums throughout Washington, but
all over the country are essentially the last remaining segment
of woke. The Smithsonian is out of control, where everything
discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was,
and how unaccomplished The downtrodden have been. Nothing about success,
nothing about brightness, nothing about the future. We are not
(08:38):
going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed
my attorneys to go through the museums and start the
exact same process that has done that has been done
with colleges and universities, where tremendous progress has been made.
The country cannot be woke, because woke is broke. We
have the hottest country in the world, and we want
people to talk about it, including in our museums.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Can you tell me the line the Smithsonian discusses too
much how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. What does that mean?
How unaccomplished the down trodden have been? What does that
want mean?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
That seems strange. It's just to talk about I guess,
tough times and.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
How unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. All right, Well, the President,
you might remember, signed an executive order in March directing
his administration to remove what he calls improper ideology from
the Smithsonian. In a letter to the Smithsonian last week,
the administration said it's review of the museum's aim and
I quote again to ensure alignment with the President's directive
(09:40):
to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and
restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I don't know why that's just all so very scary
to me. But to your point about the numbers, this
would be another point where you say, just because you
don't like history or you don't like the truth, doesn't
mean you should just erase it.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
It's part of I don't know how you talk American
history or the history the founding of this country without
talking about some things that happened which were ugly.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Sure, and we learn from our mistakes by acknowledging them,
not by making them disappear. Alrighty well, next up on
the run, we're gonna head to New York City, where
a fifth person has now died from Legionnaire's disease. Fourteen
people remain hospitalized. More than one hundred and eight people
have been sickened in the outbreak that has plagued central
Harlem since late July.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Now, the bacteria that causes Legionnaire's disease was found in
twelve cooling towers in ten buildings, including Harlem Hospital and
several retail stores. The city says all of the towers.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Have now been cleaned, but legionnaires is a type of
pneumonia that occurs when people breathe in that contaminated water vapor.
Symptoms usually begin within two days to two weeks after exposure,
and it is treatable with antibiotics, So city officials continue
to urge people if you're feeling flu like symptoms, please
please please go to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
This just keeps going. When we first heard about this,
I thought, Okay, they'll get this wrapped up. It's kes lingered, yes, yeah,
and now another death that's huge, scary. All right, we'll
stay with us folks here on this Wednesday morning run
when we come back. The WNBA was expected to do it,
but still it's a big deal what they just did.
Thanks Caitlin. Also coming up this morning run, my favorite
(11:24):
story of the morning. He got on stage in front
of thousands and performed justin Bieber, or at least they
thought that's who it was. All right, let's keep going
on this Wednesday morning run with the WNBA. It was expected,
(11:48):
but it is absolutely worth noting. The WNBA has set
a new attendance record and was more impressive. There's still
a month to go in the season.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
The previous record was back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I know that was two thousand and two. That is
my typo. I apologize everybody. I just put robot in
that bad position.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It is two thousand, man, there you go manipulating the
numbers two and two. The previous record was back in
two thousand and two when two point three million fans
attended games that season, and the team with the highest
attendance the Indiana Fever. Can you guess why?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
That's awesome?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
What she's her name is Caitlin Clark's.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Amazing what she's doing to this league. But yes, she
has done a lot. That team has I think sold
out most of not all of their home games. But
really what's been driving the numbers and the increase in
attendance really the Golden State Valkyries. They're actually an expansion team.
So if you got an extra team, obviously that's a
lot more fans are going to be attending. But this
(12:46):
record is going to fall robes several times over the
next several years because the WNBA is expanding and they
got five teams new teams coming over the next five years.
So it's wonderful to see what that league has been
doing has been able to do stars out the Angel
Reese of course, who's a personal favorite in Katel Clark.
It's great to see them having the moment they're.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Having, and I love you. You're the one who kind
of clued me into this saying there. It's fun to
watch and it's almost more artful to watch in some
ways to see the women play versus the men.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Because they're not just huge and gonna overpower you and
gonna dunk on you. There's a different artistreet to the
women's college game and WNBA. I love it obviously, So yes,
I put this in there because I thought it was cool.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
That is very cool. All right, well this was very uncool.
For the final leg of the run, we had to
Vegas where a popular DJ and his audience thought they
were being treated to a surprise Justin Bieber performance, only
to find out they were being duped by a French
Justin Bieber in person.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Here so how this happened? The DJ was up there performing,
he was told somebody came down and said, hey, Bieber
is in the audience and he wanted to sing one
of his songs. Sorry, The DJ posted on social media
afterwards that little did I know, I was about to
be sorry. So right after the performance and it looked
and sounded you yes, yeah, okay, you wouldn't have known,
(14:04):
especially if you're out in the crowd having a good time.
You're ten rows, twenty rows, one hundred people deep. Of
course you think it's Justin Bieber. It sounds like him.
So right after it looked and sounded like we said,
just like him. The DJ says to camera that was insane,
until he's told that it actually was not the Justin Bieber,
to which he replied, no way exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
He did a very good impersonation. Maybe you should try.
The Bieber look alike was actually an impersonator from Norman Dy, France.
His name is Dylan Desclose. His manager claims desk Close
and his team went to the club as the impersonator
when someone came to them and asked him if he
would like to perform. Of course, thinking he was Justin Bieber,
(14:46):
so he said. They accepted, but then admitted immediately after
the performance that desk Close was not actually Bieber. Because
they say it's a job. We don't want to hurt anyone.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Okay, I'm don't have this right. They saw him and
he he was such a dead ringer for Justin Bieber
that they went to him, Hey, Justin, would you like
to perform?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
According to his manager, that is what happened.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Wow. So yeah, I don't want hurt nobody, but they
would have. Ones got hurt. They got kicked out. Yeah,
they were removed from the resort, banned from win properties
for life. But this is impressive. You said, this guy
takes his jobs eily.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, he's been an impersonator for eight years. As I
mentioned at the top of the podcast, he has the
exact same tattoos as Bieber. Like it's crazy. They racked up,
by the way, a nearly ten thousand dollars bottle service
tab before they got kicked out, but they did pay it,
so obviously he's a successful Bieber impersonator.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
This seems kind of like no harm, no foul. It
didn't seem like I mean, it's a funny story. You
don't want to get duped, but you fail for it.
I mean, yeah, clearly I'm not Justin Bieber, right, look.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
At me anyway. I think everyone had fun and the
video is going crazy. If you want to check it
out for yourself, it is fun, all right, fun story.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
All right, well folks, well we let you go on
this Wednesday. Something we would like for you to consider
it is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
In the end, it's not the years in your life
that count, it's the life in your years. That is
from Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Is an that the thing? Don't we always we just
want to what's our goal, usually to live longer. We
want more years years years. We don't actually make an
argument about what we want in our day. Yeah, we
want those years to actually look like.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
We're thinking of quantity over quality. For sure. I thought
about this. It was your birthday yesterday. We're talking about
numbers and we do. We all count and it's such
a big focus of how we mark time. But it's
how we're filling our time, who we're spending it with,
what we're doing, and the purpose of just making all
of those moments, all those minutes, all of those hours count.
(16:42):
I love it. Thank you, Abraham Lincoln, Thank.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You Abraham Lincoln. With that, folks, we always appreciate you
running with us or.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
For now, I'm t Jhilan and I'm Amy Robock. Have
a wonderful Wednesday. Everybody,
Hosts And Creators
Lauren Zima
Chris Harrison
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