Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
Speaker 1: morning everyone, Thanks for joining us on this Wednesday Morning run.
Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, March eleven. I'm surprised. I didn't know
Speaker 2: it was Wednesday already.
Speaker 3: And apparently you don't know your name either. You've yet
Speaker 3: to introduce yourself. Oh I'm I'm just standing by. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's Robes. I'm TJ. And I guess we're a little
Speaker 3: messed that. We had a stressful night. Were all we
Speaker 3: couldn't sleep. We were waiting for this thirteen hundred pound
Speaker 3: satellite to crash to earth. NASA, what's going on? We
Speaker 3: need an update?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they said they were going to keep us updated.
Speaker 1: We've heard nothing. We've been scouring the intertnet for any
Speaker 1: sign from NASA or the sky know anything about where
Speaker 1: this satellite and its remnants are landing. But they did
Speaker 1: give us a full twenty four hour window, so we're
Speaker 1: well within it any moment now.
Speaker 3: But they told us seven forty five last night Eastern time,
Speaker 3: this Van Allen probe that's been up there for over
Speaker 3: a decade is finally going to come crashing back to Earth.
Speaker 3: Thirteen hundred pounds. They say most of it is going
Speaker 3: to disintegrate upon re entry. But Robes, they said there
Speaker 3: is a no excuse me lo chance of causing harm
Speaker 3: to humans.
Speaker 2: They use the word is hell, not zero, not no
Speaker 2: lo one in forty two hundred. I believe for the odds,
Speaker 2: and they're not odds that I I know. Those aren't
Speaker 2: good odds.
Speaker 3: All right, But we're keeping an eye on the skies
Speaker 3: and on NASAA. But we were talking about this one yesterday.
Speaker 3: We haven't gotten the update about where this sucker is.
Speaker 3: They say, give or take twenty four hours, so I
Speaker 3: guess up until tonight it's possible.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's live like we're dying, everybody.
Speaker 3: All right, folks, Also on the run on this Wednesday morning,
Speaker 3: we'll be making stops in Miami, in Alabama, in Toronto,
Speaker 3: and Tehran, as well as making an stop at an
Speaker 3: airport near you. We'll explain that. But yes, let's begin, Robes.
Speaker 3: We have to begin an update on the war with Iran.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: And there is not a single sign of a way
Speaker 1: out or even an end to this conflict.
Speaker 2: Missiles and drones and tough talk continue to fly from
Speaker 2: both sides.
Speaker 3: Yeah, on both sides. From the US side, Defense Secretary
Speaker 3: of Pete Hegseth He said Tuesday was the most intense
Speaker 3: day of strikes yet against Iran. That was followed by
Speaker 3: Iranian officials warning that today will be its most intense
Speaker 3: day of strikes of the war.
Speaker 1: Now, a lot of the focus right now is on
Speaker 1: the street of Hormuz, an important shipping lane for twenty
Speaker 1: percent of the world's oil tanker traffic is just trickling
Speaker 1: through there now as Iran has promised to disrupt oil exports.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, the Pentagon announced that one hundred and forty US
Speaker 3: service members have been injured during the war, eight of
Speaker 3: them seriously. But they did want to point out one
Speaker 3: hundred and eight of that one hundred and forty have
Speaker 3: already returned to duty, so they had minor injuries and
Speaker 3: wind right back. And also a reminder here seven US
Speaker 3: service members have been killed since this war.
Speaker 1: With the ron starting, our next leg of the run
Speaker 1: takes us to Toronto, where police sate two men opened
Speaker 1: fire on the US consulate yesterday there and are now
Speaker 1: asking for the public's help to try and track them down.
Speaker 1: It happened in the early morning hours on Tuesday. Police
Speaker 1: sad the men drove to the consulate, got out of
Speaker 1: a white Honda CRV and then they both fired at
Speaker 1: the building, but only using one handgun. No one was
Speaker 1: injured in this attack, but again police want to know
Speaker 1: who was behind it.
Speaker 3: Continuing on our run, now, let's head to Alabama. The
Speaker 3: governor there has commuted the sentence of a death row
Speaker 3: inmate who was just two days away from execution.
Speaker 1: Charles Sunny Burton was scheduled to die by nitrogen gas tomorrow.
Speaker 1: He had been on death row for thirty five years.
Speaker 1: For Get this a murder he did not himself commit.
Speaker 1: He was with five other men who robbed an auto
Speaker 1: store back in nineteen ninety one, and one of his
Speaker 1: accomplices shot and killed a customer.
Speaker 3: And again the I don't know the official name of
Speaker 3: this law, but it's known colloquially.
Speaker 2: As the felony murder or the hand of one.
Speaker 3: The hand of one is the law. But yes, if
Speaker 3: you were there or part of a crime that resulted
Speaker 3: in a death, you can still be charged with murder.
Speaker 3: Burton and the other part of the story Robes, not
Speaker 3: only did he not commit the murder, he wasn't physically
Speaker 3: inside the store when the murder happened he had already
Speaker 3: run out, but have commuted his sentence. The actual gunman
Speaker 3: was also sentenced to death, but his sentence was later
Speaker 3: commuted so worded it didn't make sense to a lot
Speaker 3: of people. Wise, the guy who didn't pull the trigger
Speaker 3: have a harsher sentence than the guy who actually did.
Speaker 1: So the governor corrected it, and he will now spend
Speaker 1: the rest of his days behind bars.
Speaker 3: All right, Next LEGABA run takes us two. The airport.
Speaker 3: It's a fun place these days. Yes, you've seen some
Speaker 3: of the coverage of security lines going out into parking lots,
Speaker 3: lines two, three, four, five hours long, and a lot
Speaker 3: of airports are warning people now. It used to be
Speaker 3: what we they'd say, get to the airport at our head.
Speaker 3: Then it went to two, Now it's three. Now they're saying, yeah, five,
Speaker 3: four or five hours. You need to get their ahead
Speaker 3: because TSA sick calls are going up and hundreds of
Speaker 3: TSA employees have left the agency since this current shutdown
Speaker 3: started nearly a month ago. A lot of this information
Speaker 3: now coming to us from CBS News that got its
Speaker 3: hand on an internal TSA memo.
Speaker 2: All right, so here's the deal.
Speaker 1: The TSA call out rate has been six percent during
Speaker 1: the shutdown. Some days it's been as high as nine percent.
Speaker 1: For some perspective, it's normally at two percent. But get this,
Speaker 1: at Houston's Hobby Airport, more than half of TSA workers
Speaker 1: called out sick on March eighth. Forty seven percent called
Speaker 1: out sick the following day.
Speaker 3: You remember those pictures. It was the worst. We didn't
Speaker 3: see these numbers at the time, but we saw the lines.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable because we're all used to seeing some
Speaker 1: long lines.
Speaker 2: I've never seen lines this long.
Speaker 3: And so that explains what was happening at Hobby Airport. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: during this shutdown, some of the worst call out rates
Speaker 3: are happening at the airports. JFK is a number one
Speaker 3: twenty one percent call out rate. Can you imagine a
Speaker 3: fifth of your work staff calls out every day? How
Speaker 3: do you replace that? You can't really? Atlanta who nineteen percent? There,
Speaker 3: New Orleans fourteen percent call out rate. Also, they mentioned
Speaker 3: this is a higher rate of I guess people leaving
Speaker 3: the agency. Three hundred and five officers have left during
Speaker 3: this shutdown. Bro, that's a big deal. You can't just
Speaker 3: hire somebody tomorrow and they're on the job next week.
Speaker 3: Got you need months and months and month to get
Speaker 3: people up to speed.
Speaker 1: Correct that you need to be properly trained. This is
Speaker 1: very important work. This is security work to keep our
Speaker 1: skies safe, to prevent terror attacks.
Speaker 3: And if you can, folks, if you're traveling coming up
Speaker 3: anytime soon, you should always do this. But especially now,
Speaker 3: be kind to those TSA agents. I know sometimes they're
Speaker 3: barking at you and it doesn't feel good, but they're
Speaker 3: trying to move the line along sometimes. And now those
Speaker 3: folks you're looking at have not been paid a month.
Speaker 3: They missed a partial paycheck earlier in the shutdown. This
Speaker 3: week Friday, they will miss their first full paycheck.
Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run.
Speaker 1: In a very different twist, I guess this might just
Speaker 1: actually be adding I don't know, salt to the wound.
Speaker 2: The rich just keep getting richer.
Speaker 1: The annual Forbes list of richest people in the world
Speaker 1: is out, and it is proving that that old adage
Speaker 1: is in fact true.
Speaker 3: It's a real thing. It really is literally a real thing.
Speaker 3: Look the list. A lot of these names, yeah, the
Speaker 3: usual suspects. But what makes it exceptional is that this
Speaker 3: year's list set a record for the year number of
Speaker 3: billionaires there are in the world and for how much
Speaker 3: money they are all collectively worth. The record now four
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty eight billionaires in the world. That's up
Speaker 3: four hundred more than last year. What are they worth?
Speaker 3: Twenty point one trillion dollars? That is up for trillion
Speaker 3: dollars from last year. And hey, concrads, we are awesome
Speaker 3: here in a mint Merica. Fifteen out of the top
Speaker 3: twenty richest in the world are all American.
Speaker 1: Capitalism at its finest. Number one on the list, Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: and it's not even close. He's worth an estimated I
Speaker 1: can't even give my head around this. Eight hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty nine billion dollars. What is that? How do you
Speaker 1: manage that? How do you keep track of all of that?
Speaker 2: Well, that's about six hundred billion more the number two
Speaker 2: on the list, Larry Page, the Google co founder, his
Speaker 2: net worth listed around two hundred and sixty seven billion.
Speaker 2: The other Google co founder, Serrie Brinn, is on the
Speaker 2: list as well, followed by Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. Trump,
Speaker 2: by the way, six hundred and forty five on the list,
Speaker 2: with six point five billion.
Speaker 3: Wow, As we said, the usual suspects on the list,
Speaker 3: and then you'll go into a bunch of Walton's. You know,
Speaker 3: the usual suspects on the list. Continue here. Now, folks
Speaker 3: that love shell feesh, you need to heal this. Hear this.
Speaker 3: FDA issuing an advisory for raw oysters and Manila clams,
Speaker 3: saying they could be contaminated with neurovirus EW.
Speaker 1: The advisory says restaurants and stores should not serve or
Speaker 1: sell the shellfish that was a tongue twister that were
Speaker 1: sold to various states. The recalled oysters were distributed in
Speaker 1: Washington State. Okay, so that's for the oysters. But the
Speaker 1: clams were shipped to Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada,
Speaker 1: New York, Oregon, and Washington.
Speaker 2: Here's my favorite part end quote.
Speaker 1: May have been distributed to other states as well, so
Speaker 1: basically everywhere. I mean, how could you possibly know where
Speaker 1: your oysters are coming from?
Speaker 3: What are we supposed to do? How do we look
Speaker 3: out for these?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What are we supposed to do? You can't mark a clam.
Speaker 2: Especially when you read the next line.
Speaker 3: Okay, the FDA said, The contaminated showfish made look, smell,
Speaker 3: and taste just fine. It might even be delicious. So
Speaker 3: what do we know? Really? Where are where is the stuff?
Speaker 3: How do I should I not eat an oyster everywhere? Wait?
Speaker 3: But how do we get this out of the chain
Speaker 3: supply chain?
Speaker 2: Go online?
Speaker 1: Look?
Speaker 2: And what this is all coming? I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: know honestly.
Speaker 1: Look, I right now would probably not order oysters or clams.
Speaker 3: I just what is no virus? This is the one
Speaker 3: we always hear about on cruise ships.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's the leading cause of food borne illness in
Speaker 1: the US. And look, I've had it once in my life.
Speaker 1: I will never forget it. I lost six pounds. Let's
Speaker 1: just put it like that in two days. Vomiting, cramping, diarrhea, nausea, fever, headaches,
Speaker 1: body aches.
Speaker 2: It's horrific.
Speaker 1: You aren't gonna die, probably, but you're gonna want to.
Speaker 3: You know. I've known some people go wow, I have
Speaker 3: a red carpet in a couple of days. This sounds
Speaker 3: like the perfect for me.
Speaker 1: There is a line from Mean Girls, the original says
Speaker 1: I'm one stomach flew away from my perfect dress size.
Speaker 1: It's horrific, But that actually has been said. It's completely
Speaker 1: not politically correct to say anything like that anymore.
Speaker 2: But that was a line from mean Girls.
Speaker 3: All right, well, folks, stay with us here on this
Speaker 3: Wednesday Morning Run. When we come back. Something happened last
Speaker 3: night in the NBA that we all should be celebrating,
Speaker 3: but for some reason, a lot of folks are finding
Speaker 3: a way to criticize it. We'll explain the Kobe Bryant
Speaker 3: record that fell and why so many people are upset.
Speaker 3: And you're looking for a job, we got one for you.
Speaker 3: It doesn't pay a whole lot in money, but it
Speaker 3: pays a whole lot in pizza. Continuing now on this
Speaker 3: Wednesday Morning Run, a big congratulations to the Miami Heat Center.
Speaker 3: Bam at a bio. He moved past Kobe Bryant last
Speaker 3: night on a list and that's a big deal. Bam
Speaker 3: out of Bio scored eighty three points in a game
Speaker 3: last night. Wow, that is the second most in NBA history. Now,
Speaker 3: even Robes, not being as big of a basketball fan
Speaker 3: or historian or whatever, most people realize who's has the
Speaker 3: all time record. That's Wilt Chamberlain, who scored one hundred points.
Speaker 3: Most people understand that as a record that's never going
Speaker 3: to be broken.
Speaker 1: Coby didn't know that, Kobe, you didn't know that Will
Speaker 1: scored one hundred.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna just I have to be honest.
Speaker 1: I had.
Speaker 2: I mean, I obviously know who Will Chamberlain is, but
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. No.
Speaker 3: Wow, Okay, sorry, folks have got a lot more work
Speaker 3: to do around this house than I thought. But yes, Wilt,
Speaker 3: all time record never gonna be touched. Kobe scored eighty one.
Speaker 3: Bam scored eighty three last night, second most yes in
Speaker 3: a game. But he set the record last night for
Speaker 3: the number of free throws attempted and made in a game,
Speaker 3: thirty six of forty three. So thirty six of his
Speaker 3: points came from the free throw line. And at the
Speaker 3: end of this game, the Washington Wizards and the Miami
Speaker 3: Heat were looked like they were in cahoots, essentially working
Speaker 3: together to file this guy, to get him to the
Speaker 3: line to get the record. A lot of people are
Speaker 3: they into. This game was comical, It was silly the
Speaker 3: way they were fought. The game was out of reach
Speaker 3: and silly fouls and it was it was It wasn't pretty,
Speaker 3: but hey, he got his eighty three and he will
Speaker 3: go down in history. That's what happened.
Speaker 2: But there's an asterisk.
Speaker 3: There won't be some of us will remember it, but
Speaker 3: he's a part of history and that record likely won't
Speaker 3: be touched. This guy is not a big score. He
Speaker 3: averages like twenty a game. He's a center. The most
Speaker 3: he's ever scored in a game is forty one. I
Speaker 3: think what so Yeah, it was just out of nowhere.
Speaker 3: But he's a dominant dude. He had a great game
Speaker 3: and then it just got silly in the end.
Speaker 2: All right, Okay, well, congratulations to me.
Speaker 3: He deserves a He's a good dude.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, all right, all right, next up on the run,
Speaker 1: and this is the final leg of our run in
Speaker 1: honor of the upcoming Pie Day.
Speaker 2: Did you know what that was?
Speaker 3: The number? Not pizza?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's p I Pie Day, March fourteenth, three fourteen,
Speaker 1: you get it.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So clever of Pizza Hut to try.
Speaker 1: And basically take advantage of Pie Day by offering up
Speaker 1: a new position within its company.
Speaker 2: It's called hut crust connoisseur.
Speaker 3: Hut crust are yeah.
Speaker 2: Like pizza Hut hot crust. I was thinking for a
Speaker 2: crust core.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's a real position where Pizza Hut will pay
Speaker 1: someone to eat pizza crust for an entire.
Speaker 3: Year for what though.
Speaker 1: So the official job description is this, the Hut Crust
Speaker 1: connoisseur becomes the official guardian of the hut Crust platform.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means, but.
Speaker 1: Basically you'd be responsible for tasting and testing all new
Speaker 1: crust innovations.
Speaker 3: And then giving your opinion correct, so they would trust
Speaker 3: your opinion correct. You have some power correct. Okay, that's
Speaker 3: kind of cool.
Speaker 2: I guess yes.
Speaker 1: And I also think what's cooled the annual salary. And
Speaker 1: you can probably guess why thirty one thousand, four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifteen and ninety two cents three.
Speaker 3: Point one four one five is all I remember from pie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well those are the first seven digits of pie.
Speaker 1: And so that is why your salary is that What
Speaker 1: are you qualify? So they're just going to find out,
Speaker 1: probably if you're a really good reviewer, because to apply
Speaker 1: and how they're going to pick the person, you have
Speaker 1: to submit a review of their new hand tossed pizza.
Speaker 1: So I'm guessing if you're clever, if you've got something good, funny, interesting,
Speaker 1: maybe even constructive to say. Ok but www dot pizza
Speaker 1: hut crust dot com that's where you submit your review
Speaker 1: of the new hand tossed pizza.
Speaker 2: Good luck to everyone, because in.
Speaker 1: Addition to the paycheck, you're also going to get free
Speaker 1: pizza as much as you want for an entire time.
Speaker 3: As much as you want, as much as you want.
Speaker 2: Free pizza for an entire year.
Speaker 3: Is that one a day? There's got to be a
Speaker 3: cap I don't know. We have pizza part is that weekend.
Speaker 1: If you're the hot crust connoisseur, I bet you they'd say,
Speaker 1: knock yourself out.
Speaker 3: I would absolutely apply for this job. We might, we
Speaker 3: should apply, would or will? I think I might? But
Speaker 3: then we have to go taste the pizza. That's a problem.
Speaker 2: You don't eat pizza crust. Here's the deal.
Speaker 1: We actually when we do eat pizza now, people, And
Speaker 1: even if I know we're running a race and I
Speaker 1: can have a little bit of carbs, I.
Speaker 2: Still don't eat the crust.
Speaker 3: We sound.
Speaker 2: I call them the bones. I leave the bones behind.
Speaker 3: Let this out later.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we ready for our quote of the
Speaker 1: day on this hope day. All right, here it is
Speaker 1: when you stop rehearsing old pain, your nervous system finally relaxes.
Speaker 1: When you stop predicting, predicting disaster, your body stops bracing
Speaker 1: for impact. Happiness isn't adding more to your life. It's
Speaker 1: subtracting mental weight you were never meant to carry.
Speaker 3: What was the second part about the damn? I'm not
Speaker 3: looking at it.
Speaker 2: It's right here, and it's interesting to me. Yes, because
Speaker 2: isn't that what we do.
Speaker 1: If you actually are honest with how your body physically
Speaker 1: reacts to stress, you are bracing for impact. That is
Speaker 1: an apt description of what happens to your body. So
Speaker 1: I'll say it one more time. I thought this was
Speaker 1: such good. When you stop rehearsing old pain, your nervous
Speaker 1: system finally relaxes. When you stop predicting disaster, your body
Speaker 1: stops bracing for impact. Happiness isn't adding more to your life.
Speaker 1: It's subtracting mental weight. You were never meant to care
Speaker 1: where this come from?
Speaker 2: Instagram?
Speaker 3: You didn't want to say where it came from.
Speaker 2: It's my favorite place to be inspired.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, we always appreciate you running with us.
Speaker 3: I hope you found a little inspiration on this Wednesday
Speaker 3: here we always appreciate you on TJ Holmes.
Speaker 2: And I'm Amy Rovok. Thank you for running with us.