Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 2: Hey everybody, it's Wednesday, October second. I'm TJ.
Speaker 1: Holks and I'm Amy Robach. Thank you for coming along
Speaker 1: on the Morning Run with us on this second day
Speaker 1: of October. Civility, fact checking and cut Mike's just a
Speaker 1: few of the takeaways from last night's vice presidential debate.
Speaker 2: Also Aaran attacks Israel like never before, the world awaits
Speaker 2: Israel's response, and an astonishing ditty update Today, expect new
Speaker 2: lawsuits from over a hundred accusers.
Speaker 1: Plus Mayor Adams will have to leave work at City
Speaker 1: Hall today for an appointment in a federal courthouse. Plus
Speaker 1: hundreds still missing and millions remain without power. Now five
Speaker 1: days after Halleen made landfall, and.
Speaker 2: The entertainment world is once again dealing with the loss
Speaker 2: of stars to this time, one played JJ's dad on
Speaker 2: Good Times, the other the soul called Bearded Charmer from
Speaker 2: a longtime reality series, and a journalist's relationship with RFK
Speaker 2: Junior was exposed. She now says it was part of
Speaker 2: a blackmail scheme by her ex fiance.
Speaker 1: And that must be some good olive oil, so good
Speaker 1: that thieves just stole two point five million.
Speaker 3: Dollars worth of it. Let's get started this morning on
Speaker 3: our morning run right here in New York.
Speaker 2: Yeah, last night it was a different looking showdown where
Speaker 2: the candidates discussed, you know, issues, and they were kind
Speaker 2: of nice to each other.
Speaker 1: In the one and only vice presidential debate of the campaign,
Speaker 1: Governor Tim Waltz and Senator JD. Vance got into the
Speaker 1: weeds on several issues. They had policy discussions on a
Speaker 1: number of topics, ranging from climate change to abortion to Obamacare.
Speaker 1: And the remarkable thing is the two avoided the bickering
Speaker 1: and the back and forth and the personal attacks that
Speaker 1: we so often see plaguing the campaign trail and the
Speaker 1: debate stage.
Speaker 2: So this thing got under way and Waltz had a
Speaker 2: bit of a shaky and a nervous start, clearly, but
Speaker 2: then he did find his footing and he had maybe
Speaker 2: the moment of the night. It was a stark moment
Speaker 2: that we're all going to remember. He simply asked Vance
Speaker 2: this question, did Trump lose the twenty twenty election. Vance
Speaker 2: would not give him a direct answer and instead chose
Speaker 2: to turn his attack back to Harris. Waltz then called
Speaker 2: that a damning non answer.
Speaker 1: We have to point out, though, as many people have already,
Speaker 1: Vance had a lot of moments and has generally been
Speaker 1: given to high marks for his performance.
Speaker 3: But one of the more.
Speaker 1: Contentious moments of the night wasn't between Vance and Waltz. Rather,
Speaker 1: it was between Vance and the moderators.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now what has already been and will continue
Speaker 2: to be a much talked about moment of the night,
Speaker 2: CBS cut the candidate's microphones. At one point, moderator Margaret
Speaker 2: Brennan fact checked Vance during a discussion about Haitian migrants
Speaker 2: in Springfille, Ohio, that, of course has been in the
Speaker 2: news a lot. Well, she fact checked him, and then
Speaker 2: she tried to move on the problem.
Speaker 1: CBS made a point to announce that their moderators Brennan
Speaker 1: and Nora O'Donnell would not fact check and instead would
Speaker 1: rely on the candidates to fact check one another. Well,
Speaker 1: Vance was not having it and jumped in saying, Hey,
Speaker 1: the rules were that you weren't going to fact check,
Speaker 1: so since you're fact checking me, I think it's important
Speaker 1: to say what's actually going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he went on to try to explain
Speaker 2: his answer, and the microphones were cut about twenty seconds
Speaker 2: of him responding this. Of course, robes was a big
Speaker 2: issue in the previous two debates. The first cnnded with
Speaker 2: Trump and Biden. I have to remember there's been different matchups,
Speaker 2: and that one the moderators were criticized, say, hey, you
Speaker 2: didn't fact check, you didn't fact check, you didn't do anything.
Speaker 2: And the next one, which was please help.
Speaker 1: Me out there with ABC David Mure and Lindsey Davis,
Speaker 1: and that was of course between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: who the Democrats had their new and final nominee of
Speaker 1: the presidential race, and they too were accused of actually
Speaker 1: fact checking Donald Trump and not fact checking Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: CBS is going to solve that problem. You're not going
Speaker 2: to criticize our moderators. They're just going to step out
Speaker 2: of it. And sure enough they started criticizing or fact
Speaker 2: checking I should say just Vans and a lot of
Speaker 2: people are going to be talking about that. It was
Speaker 2: three on one they argued last night for Vance, but
Speaker 2: he still held his own.
Speaker 1: And I believe the takeaway of the evening though, was
Speaker 1: just our general excitement.
Speaker 3: Shock, yes, but just excitement.
Speaker 1: And it was lovely to see two politicians actually debating.
Speaker 3: The issues and not attacking one another.
Speaker 2: You know, even at the end when their spousers came
Speaker 2: out and they were all pleasant to each other, you
Speaker 2: just saw just a warmth and an interaction. They're going
Speaker 2: through something that nobody el Israel and the planet can understand.
Speaker 2: To be the VP candidate, the spouses of the VP candidates,
Speaker 2: to be up there, it was just a nice moment.
Speaker 2: In the Washington Post, their headline in a news alert quote,
Speaker 2: it was a remarkably civil affair that shouldn't be a headline.
Speaker 2: Isn't that a shame? It is that that's a headline
Speaker 2: that these folks were nice to chi.
Speaker 1: Maybe the presidential candidates can learn from their vice presidential candidates.
Speaker 1: We can only hope next up on our run. On
Speaker 1: this Wednesday, Iran launched its largest direct attack on Israel ever,
Speaker 1: and so far word is that little damage was done
Speaker 1: and there are no reports of any deaths in that country.
Speaker 2: Yeah, despite Aaran lobbing upwards of two hundred missiles towards
Speaker 2: Israel last night, but Israel, with an assist from the US,
Speaker 2: intercepted most of that barrage with anti missile defenses.
Speaker 1: Iran says this was all in retaliation for the recent
Speaker 1: Israeli assassinations of top leaders of those militant groups supported
Speaker 1: by Iran, namely Hamas and Hesbla. Israel is now promising
Speaker 1: there will be consequences for the Iranian attacks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is the latest and an escalating situation
Speaker 2: in the Middle East in which Israel has been battling
Speaker 2: the two militant groups. In recent days, we've seen Israel
Speaker 2: launch attacks on the Lebanese capital bay Roup, as well
Speaker 2: as a limited ground incursion into southern Lebanon, an area
Speaker 2: where Israel believes is a staging area for Hezbeola to
Speaker 2: launch attacks. Oran, for its part, says Israel, if you
Speaker 2: respond to the attacks we just lobbed at you, there
Speaker 2: will be consequences. So both sides are now saying they're
Speaker 2: going to be consequences for the next move that either
Speaker 2: side mixed.
Speaker 1: Every day the escalation continues. It's unfortunate and the news
Speaker 1: is also unfortunate. That continues to pour in surrounding Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 1: The death toll in the southeast continues to climb across
Speaker 1: six states in the aftermath of that storm. So far,
Speaker 1: at least one hundred and fifty nine people have died,
Speaker 1: and officials are saying that number should rise even more,
Speaker 1: and that's because hundreds of others still missing.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's give some context to how many are missing. Here,
Speaker 2: the Red Crossers receive three thousand new requests from people
Speaker 2: looking for family and friends. We have some areas that
Speaker 2: are essentially completely cut off from communication, mainly in the Carolinas.
Speaker 2: The hope is, even though you do have hundreds of
Speaker 2: people missing right now, hopefully they just haven't been able
Speaker 2: to get in contact with those folks with texts and
Speaker 2: phone calls and so all that stuff is down. So
Speaker 2: we see this in disasters all the time. Hopefully every
Speaker 2: single one of those missing folks just needs to be
Speaker 2: get close to a phone.
Speaker 1: So that is certainly the hope, but officials fear that
Speaker 1: that is probably not entirely the case.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Part of the.
Speaker 1: Problem, the large part of the problem, are these power
Speaker 1: outage is that usually can go on for days, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what's happening here. Millions remain in the dark,
Speaker 1: and the infrastructure in so many places is completely wiped out.
Speaker 1: Some areas are so inaccessible supplies can only be dropped
Speaker 1: from the air or on mules. Rescue workers and some
Speaker 1: citizens who are looking for family and friends are actually
Speaker 1: hiking for hours in treacherous conditions to try and find
Speaker 1: and then help their loved ones.
Speaker 2: President Biden will visit North Carolina. Vice President Harris will
Speaker 2: travel to Georgia to take a look at the damage.
Speaker 2: Former President Trump was in Georgia earlier this week as well.
Speaker 2: We're going to continue our run here now. And this
Speaker 2: is just unreal when we first heard it. One hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty accusers. That's how many people, a Texas lawyer
Speaker 2: says he's representing who have sexual assault allegations against Sean
Speaker 2: Diddy Combs, one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 1: He says the allegations go back as far as nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety one, and that at least twenty five of the
Speaker 1: accusers were miners at the time of these alleged assaults,
Speaker 1: including one that.
Speaker 3: Was nine years old at the time. The attorney says he.
Speaker 1: Expects to file a wave of lawsuits very soon across
Speaker 1: several states, and he said we could expect that combs
Speaker 1: enablers and powerful people's dirty secrets will all be exposed.
Speaker 2: The attorney says, and I quote the names will shock you.
Speaker 2: In quote, he's essentially threatening and putting people on notice.
Speaker 2: Even said some of you influential folks, you know who
Speaker 2: you are. I'm giving you a chance to come forward
Speaker 2: before we expose you. Combs, for his part, remains in
Speaker 2: jail in Brooklyn, bail of course, as you know, was
Speaker 2: denied denied twice in his federal racketeering and sex trafficking case.
Speaker 2: He has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty plus. And these lawsuits, they say,
Speaker 2: are going to stretch over a number of states. It's
Speaker 2: just unbelievable to hear that number.
Speaker 1: That same attorney said he's had thousands of people contact him.
Speaker 1: So perhaps even from his perspective one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: where those he filtered out. So people are literally coming
Speaker 1: out of the woodwork as they say, they see him
Speaker 1: in jail, and they're now saying, hey, wait, that happened
Speaker 1: to me. This is probably going to continue, folks.
Speaker 2: Well, we will continue our run, our morning run here
Speaker 2: and just a moment coming up. We cannot believe that
Speaker 2: we have more mourning to do in the entertainment world.
Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone, and next up here on our Morning Run.
Speaker 1: We mourn actor John Amos. He has died at the
Speaker 1: age of eighty four, and wow, does he hold a
Speaker 1: special place in television history as James Evans Senior on
Speaker 1: Good Times. That was the first show ever that depicted
Speaker 1: a black two parent household.
Speaker 2: Yeah, JJ's daddy on that show. But Amos also got
Speaker 2: an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of an older Kuntakinde
Speaker 2: in the miniseries Roots, and a lot of people Robes
Speaker 2: will fondly remain. If you've never seen Good.
Speaker 3: Times, that's hard to imagine.
Speaker 2: But no, watch Roots.
Speaker 3: Yes, the younger generations have not.
Speaker 2: Never seen it, but some folks got to know him
Speaker 2: and love him because he was Kleo McDowell in coming
Speaker 2: to America that role. He is so memorable as the
Speaker 2: dad who Eddie Murphy was trying to impress.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you don't know the name John Amos
Speaker 1: just by reading it, if you google him and you
Speaker 1: see his face, you'll say, oh my gosh, he was
Speaker 1: in everything. His face is iconic and actually in some
Speaker 1: of your favorite movies. I was looking at the list
Speaker 1: and laughing. Yep, one of TJ's favorites. Yep.
Speaker 3: He loves that one.
Speaker 2: Too, and the one die Hard too. I know it
Speaker 2: for I know that movie verbade him almost as you know,
Speaker 2: but he played the good guy who ended up being
Speaker 2: a bad guy in that movie. I didn't know this.
Speaker 2: The Mary Tyler Moish in nineteen seven he played a
Speaker 2: weather man.
Speaker 1: Yet, now that you say that, and when I read that,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, yes, I again one
Speaker 1: of those faces where you know you know him, and
Speaker 1: then you start realizing how much you actually know his
Speaker 1: work because he's been in so many iconic television shows
Speaker 1: and movies and he will certainly certainly be missed. Another
Speaker 1: loss in the entertainment world to tell you about.
Speaker 3: This has been a hell of a week.
Speaker 1: Fritz from the reality show American Pickers died at a
Speaker 1: hospice facility. This followed some complications he had from a
Speaker 1: stroke that he never fully recovered from.
Speaker 3: It happened in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: Sixty years old. That's a young man these days. And
Speaker 2: I mean, I know what sixty years but these days,
Speaker 2: with folks living as long as they are at just
Speaker 2: sixty is a shame. He's been on the show. I
Speaker 2: think over a decade. He was surrounded by friends and family,
Speaker 2: including his co star on the show, Michael Wolf. This
Speaker 2: is a History Channel program. A lot of you see
Speaker 2: a lot of people like these shows. Right. They traveled
Speaker 2: around to try to find treasures all over the country.
Speaker 2: According to friends, there will be a celebration of life
Speaker 2: or Fritz in the spring. It's just going to include
Speaker 2: a motorcycle run.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: The History Channel and the American Pickers production company said
Speaker 1: this about Fritz. We will always remember the bearded charmer
Speaker 1: and his never ending search for vintage motorcycles and bikes.
Speaker 1: Our thoughts are with Frank's loved ones during this difficult time.
Speaker 3: He will be deeply missed.
Speaker 2: What the hell is going on? Like, I'm scared. We
Speaker 2: were sitting here, I think, at this exact spot, at
Speaker 2: this table, and I said, wait a minute, because I
Speaker 2: just saw Julie Andrew's name trending and I think it
Speaker 2: was her birthday.
Speaker 3: And you were concerned everything you Sully.
Speaker 2: With anybody's name on it. You go, oh my god,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter who, young girl. We've just had a
Speaker 2: weird stretch of the past week.
Speaker 3: It feels like.
Speaker 1: One of the most tragic weeks in terms of loss
Speaker 1: of beloved and iconic entertainers this week, it's just every
Speaker 1: starting last weekend. Really, it feels like it's just been
Speaker 1: a daily dayluge losses.
Speaker 2: It's not just entertainers. These are iconic, legendary in some
Speaker 2: cases folks who had no idea what's going on. Hopefully
Speaker 2: it will it will stop, but oh, some incredible losses there.
Speaker 2: We do want to continue now on our run this
Speaker 2: morning and go go back to a bizarre story with
Speaker 2: a lot of twists and turns. And now we got
Speaker 2: another one to report here. New York Magazine reporter put
Speaker 2: on leave after the public revelation that she had a
Speaker 2: personal relationship with RFK Junior says this was all part
Speaker 2: of a blackmail scheme by her ex fiance. Olivia Newsy
Speaker 2: is her name. She made the claimant a court filing
Speaker 2: against Ryan Liza. He is a reporter for Politico who
Speaker 2: Newsy was once engaged to.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, so we're following so far.
Speaker 1: She claims that Newsy explicitly threatened to make sorry she
Speaker 1: let me say this right. Newsy claims that Liza made
Speaker 1: explicitly threatened, explicitly threatened to make public personal information about
Speaker 1: me to destroy my life, career and reputation, a threat
Speaker 1: he has.
Speaker 3: Since carried out.
Speaker 1: So she was in court asking a judge to issue
Speaker 1: a no contact order against her ex fiance, Liza, who
Speaker 1: put out a statement saying he emphatically denies those allegations.
Speaker 2: Well, he went on to say this, he is saddened
Speaker 2: that she is making up lives to divert attention away
Speaker 2: from her own personal and professional failings. Now Liza has
Speaker 2: taken a leb of bapsoms from his job at Political
Speaker 2: This story sparked a lot of debate about journalism ethics,
Speaker 2: and Newsy was placed on leave last month after she
Speaker 2: revealed the previously undisclosed relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Speaker 2: Who she interviewed while he was an independent candidate for president.
Speaker 1: Now, both Newsy and RFK Juniors say and maintain that
Speaker 1: this relationship was not physical. They just had been calling
Speaker 1: it personal. I believe it was text exchanges back and forth,
Speaker 1: and they say it never went further than that. But
Speaker 1: there is another hearing in two weeks where Liza is
Speaker 1: expected to respond directly to Newsy's claims. So this story,
Speaker 1: probably unfortunately for RFK Junior and for Newsy, is.
Speaker 3: Staying in the public eye.
Speaker 1: Next up on our run someone else who has been
Speaker 1: in the public eye in a way he had not intended.
Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams expected back in a federal courthouse this
Speaker 1: morning for a hearing in the criminal case against him.
Speaker 2: They remember, he pleaded not guilty to five federal charges
Speaker 2: related to alleged bribery and corruption, accused of accepting over
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars worth of meals, hotels, and flights.
Speaker 2: Just as week as lawyers ask the judges that the
Speaker 2: bribery charge against him be dismissed because what prosecutors are
Speaker 2: alleging doesn't even fit the legal definition of bribery, So
Speaker 2: they're asking for at least one of the five to
Speaker 2: be dropped.
Speaker 1: And they've also asked the judge to potentially look into
Speaker 1: wrongdoing by the prosecutor's office, saying they leaked information to
Speaker 1: the press about the investigation. And throughout all of this,
Speaker 1: Mayor Adams has said he has no plans to step
Speaker 1: down from office while this is all being litigated.
Speaker 2: And even though Governor Hukel I think she's finally come
Speaker 2: out and said that she has no intention, that doesn't
Speaker 2: appear right now of stepping in even though she has
Speaker 2: the power to remove Adams from office. And you and
Speaker 2: I Robed, we live in this area. We live right
Speaker 2: here downtown by City Hall, and it is literally a
Speaker 2: five minute walk from City Hall to the Federal Courthouse
Speaker 2: on Worth and Baxter. It's all he has to do.
Speaker 2: So it's weird that a lot of people take a
Speaker 2: walk outside. There's a park right there, and he can
Speaker 2: just walk out of the office today and take a
Speaker 2: little stroll over to the federal courthouse.
Speaker 1: Yes, and we've also seen the live trucks lined up
Speaker 1: from all the news outlets. Who will be following him
Speaker 1: on that said walk If that's how he chooses to
Speaker 1: get to the courthouse today, you think.
Speaker 3: You will, we shall see.
Speaker 1: In fact, we have a front row seats.
Speaker 2: We are going to wrap the run with this. Police
Speaker 2: in Texas trying to find thieves that pulled off a
Speaker 2: two and a half million dollar heist. But they did
Speaker 2: not steal cash. No, no, no, no. These thieves got
Speaker 2: away with millions of dollars in olive oil.
Speaker 3: That's a head scratcher.
Speaker 1: Well, this happened at a warehouse in Houston and involved
Speaker 1: truckloads of premium olive oil made by Tara Delisa, a
Speaker 1: company out of Tunisia. About seven hundred bottles were taken,
Speaker 1: and according to the company, some of those bottles have
Speaker 1: already been tracked down at stores being sold at extreme discounts.
Speaker 2: Any of them in New York. This is supposed to
Speaker 2: be some really good olive oil. They have won awards
Speaker 2: all over the world. But what we're talking about here,
Speaker 2: we kind of scratched our heads about it. But this
Speaker 2: has been an issue for years, issue with folks trying
Speaker 2: to steal olive oil, mainly because of drought conditions in Spain,
Speaker 2: where a majority of the world's olive oil comes.
Speaker 1: From, and they haven't been able to produce as much
Speaker 1: olive oil, which has driven up the prices and made
Speaker 1: olive trees and olive oil more expensive and then of.
Speaker 3: Course of more value to thieves. Did I read this right?
Speaker 3: Olive oil became the most shoplifted item in Spain's supermarkets,
Speaker 3: and thieves even go so far as to chop down
Speaker 3: olive trees.
Speaker 2: They will go, they'll sometimes they'll takes time to do it,
Speaker 2: but they'll uproot and take the whole tree. Sometimes they
Speaker 2: just cut off a few branches, and can take the
Speaker 2: olives and sell the olives, but they also can do
Speaker 2: something with the wood. This is a this is a
Speaker 2: commodity now on an illegal market, that it's so expensive
Speaker 2: that people are stealing it.
Speaker 1: Well, I know, Tara Delisa, the type of olive oil
Speaker 1: that was stolen, will you and I immediately googled it.
Speaker 3: I found it on Amazon already.
Speaker 1: If this stuff is so good that people are stealing it,
Speaker 1: maybe this is the best kind of marketing or advertisement
Speaker 1: they could possibly have. Wow, how wonderful their brand is,
Speaker 1: because I'm probably going to buy a bottle and see
Speaker 1: what all the fuss is about.
Speaker 2: Our stuff is so good people are stealing millions of
Speaker 2: dollars over.
Speaker 3: And then let me get sucked. Wow, that's what my
Speaker 3: brain went, right. I love olive oil.
Speaker 2: I didn't cross my mind. Would you make a good point?
Speaker 2: Maybe the company stage that I'm kidding. I am just kidding.
Speaker 2: That is not the case, but that if you see
Speaker 2: any of this olive oil that's fifty percent off or
Speaker 2: seventy five percent off, which they say is going for you.
Speaker 3: Know where it came from exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we are going to leave you as
Speaker 1: we started to do yesterday with a quote, and we
Speaker 1: pulled this one again from the big Manila folder that
Speaker 1: TJ has carried around with him.
Speaker 3: He used to put these sayings.
Speaker 1: On his door once a week, on his dressing room door,
Speaker 1: and everyone loved them, and so we're going to share
Speaker 1: them with.
Speaker 3: You throughout the week.
Speaker 1: Today's quote the proper function of man is to live,
Speaker 1: not to exist. I shall not waste my days in
Speaker 1: trying to prolong them.
Speaker 3: I shall use my time.
Speaker 1: That quote from Jack London, a journalist and author of
Speaker 1: the Call of the Wild.
Speaker 2: So we wanted to leave you on and upbeat, a
Speaker 2: happy and thoughtful note, so please take that with you
Speaker 2: for today. We appreciate you as always running with us.
Speaker 2: We will see you back here tomorrow.