WEBVTT - Morning Run: Duty Free Over, Florida Sets Execution Record, Oysters Kill in LA, More Changes to Cracker Barrel and Record Setting NFL Salary 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:06.200 Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.640 morning everyone, Welcome to Morning Ron. It is Friday, August 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.280 twenty ninth. I'm Amy Robots. 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:14.840 And I'm TJ Holmes. And this is the day a 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:16.599 lot of y'all have been dreading. It's finally here. A 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.560 lot of you folks like cheap goods from overseas. This 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.040 is going to change the way people shop robes because 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.480 that cheap stuff you were getting that you know, you 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:29.560 got twelve items for seventeen dollars. Yes, that's gonna go 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:30.280 up dramatically. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.199 My kids are big fans of those, yes, and they 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:34.559 might not be so much anymore. 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:36.720 We'll tell you why this is a day that so 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:38.960 many of you shoppers have been dreaded. Because, yes, you 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.879 are personally about to get hit with some tariffs. If 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.280 you will, we'll explain. Also, Cracker Barrel can't get this right, 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.879 you know the cracker Barrel controversy. Well, something else has 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.440 come out. Not did they only make a change to 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:55.000 that logo and then change back. They also made changes 0:00:55.040 --> 0:01:00.240 online robes and some things in particularly like LGBTQ plus 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:06.320 US and DEEI have disappeared. A disappeared from their website. 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.680 We'll explain what's going on there also this morning. I 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.000 know it might be a name. A lot of folks, 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.400 a lot of our listeners not familiar, don't keep up necessarily. 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.200 You know the big names in sports, but you don't 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.600 know some of the other names. You know who Tom Brady. 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:19.720 Is, I know quarterbacks names. 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.200 Would you know Michael Parson's name immediately on the top 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:24.959 of your head? Okay, this is all you need to 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.559 know about Michael Parsons. He is now the highest paid 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:33.600 player in the NFL in history who didn't play quarterback. 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:35.240 Wow, that's impressed. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.600 We'll explain why he is such a big deal right now. Also, 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.440 as a reminder, on that phone, on that Apple podcast 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.800 app where you see our page top right corner, a 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.119 little button says follow, Just click that and you can 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.640 get our updates and don't have to go looking for him. 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:49.520 And there have been plenty of updates, it seems lately, 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:50.560 ropes with a lot of news. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.760 Yes, it's been a very busy news cycle and a 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.760 busy day today as well. On the run on this 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.560 Friday morning, we're also going to hear from the parents 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.600 of those two kids who were killed in the mass 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.840 shooting at of Minneapolis Catholic School. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.440 Also Trump fired her, but Lisa Cook is not going 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.320 out without a fight in court. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.080 And the state of Florida is on a record setting 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.919 execution spree, and South Carolina is asking the Supreme Court 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.680 to determine who can pee where. 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:23.200 Also this morning, this is concerning. I wasn't familiar, but 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.400 this is a thing, A flesh eating, potentially deadly flesh 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:32.400 eating bacterium is causing some concerns because of an increase 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.480 in cases. And this is a bacterium again, flesh eating 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:40.560 bacterium that you can get from eating oysters. I didn't 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.200 know in the Gulf it's a thing every year, but 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.280 some of the numbers have gone up to the point 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.079 of concerning. And what was the thing you were telling 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.000 me about this week, the flesh eating screwworm or something. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.440 Oh yeah, there's a screwworm out there too. They came 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.520 from Central America that found its way into the States 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.040 with one case I believe in Maryland. But you know, 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:02.200 my dad always warns again eating oysters in warm waters. 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.600 This is one of the reasons why. So we'll get 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.960 into that story. It is, in fact a cautionary tale 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.120 we begin though our run in Minnesota, where we heard 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.200 yesterday from the parents of the two kids who were 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.200 killed in that attack at a Catholic school mass. Another 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.679 eighteen people were injured when that gunman opened fire through 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.960 a church window Wednesday morning at Annunciation Catholic School right 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.080 outside of Minneapolis. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.480 Yeah, an eight year old Fletcher Merkele and ten year 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:34.320 old Harper Moyski both died. They have now been identified 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.320 in their parents. Both We heard from both sets of 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:42.720 parents yesterday. Now Fletcher's dad, he actually went before reporters. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.280 He got in front of cameras and write this statement. 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.640 It was difficult, obviously to hear him go through it, 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.240 but just a couple of things he said. He said 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:54.200 one quote, yesterday, a coward decided to take our eight 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.120 year old son, Fletcher away from us. Because of their actions, 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.480 we will never be allowed to hold him, talk to him, 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.520 play with him, and watch him grow until the wonderful 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.480 young man he was on the path to becoming. That 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.560 last line sucks. Every time somebody loses a you start 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.200 thinking about the graduations, you'll miss the weddings, You'll me 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.800 those kinds of things immediately, And to hear them say 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.240 that he was on the way to becoming this great 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.040 young man. Another line from the dad said, please remember 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.840 Fletcher for the person he was, and not for the 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.360 act that ended his life. Give your kids an extra 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.159 hug and kiss today. How he ended it. 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.839 That brings tears to your eyes for every parent. Harper's 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.200 parents released a statement. They did not go on camera. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.440 I mean, I cannot even imagine the courage it takes 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.120 to stand there in front of cameras in your worst 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.359 possible moment. But Harper's parents said this in their statement. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.359 Our hearts are broken, not only as parents, but also 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.640 for Harper's sister, who adored her big sister and is 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:52.679 grieving an unimaginable loss. As a family, we are shattered 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.200 and words cannot capture the depth of our pain. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.839 No, I think about it. We talk about parents obviously 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.480 so much, but there are siblings who are going to 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.840 have a very difficult time understanding why the person they 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.159 right that they were sharing a room with, or that's 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.080 down the hall from them, to hear about a little sister. Yeah, 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:09.720 that's not something I'd given much thought to. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.320 That's true. We think about the parents, and her parents 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:16.640 went on to ask leaders and communities to take meaningful 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.680 steps to address gun violence and the mental health crisis 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.479 in this country. They say change is possible and is 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.719 necessary so that Harper's story does not become yet another 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.600 and a long line of tragedies. That last line is 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.599 so reminiscent of every single parent who has lost a 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.960 child to school shootings. It feels like they say the 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.719 same thing. They don't want another family to suffer the 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:40.680 way they have, and yet it continues to happen. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.039 Seems like it always falls on deaf ears. Like you 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.200 have to say, it's almost like obligatory line. We want 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.960 them to do something about gun control 'VOLDI, New Town. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.280 If babies get gun down and we don't do anything 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.240 about it, then it really the one in Uvoldi when 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.720 you were standing there neck was it the mayor? My good, 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.920 it was the mayor. How many babies died in that shooting? 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.760 And just hours later he still didn't want to heat 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.760 ready to fight you. He was mentioned gun control to me. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.520 He got very upset when I mentioned gun control in 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:14.200 the fact that this shooter had mental health issues and 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.040 was still allowed to have access to a gun. He 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.760 refused to acknowledge that that was not an okay thing 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:21.839 which was infuriating. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.640 And I again I will this is a good place 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.279 to mention that the police say that these guns that 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.880 were used in this attack were all legally bought by 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.440 this attacker. Now, the other shooting victims are all expected 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.600 to survive, though as of this recording, at least one 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.400 kid was still listed in critical condition. Meanwhile, police continue 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.479 to work through and go through really hundreds of pages 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:48.200 of writings. This is some really dark and disturbing stuff 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.359 from this shooter. A lot of evidence that was left 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.080 behind they are piecing together, enrolled. It looks like a 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.400 lot of it. He was almost telegraphic telling folks what 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.119 he was going to do. He had plans for the 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.760 school and things he was displaying in these videos, So 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.920 he was telegraphing. And this was all missed. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:07.920 And he was an adult, he was twenty three years old. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.760 But you just got to think, like, where was his mother? 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.800 How did she not see something going on? Right? 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.480 And remember I still been talked about much of the 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.800 debate going back and forth. This was someone who had transitioned, 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:24.720 that was living, was born Robert and now Robin, and 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:26.520 that's been a big part of the debate. I should 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.600 say debate, but the rhetoric and the narrative and the 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.960 nastiness going back and forth, people trying to direct so 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.360 much of their hate towards the trans community. Now, because 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.880 of this individual's actions. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.800 We hope that just there could be lessons learned and 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:43.160 perhaps not more hate wielded in this unbelievable tragedy. Well, 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.200 next up on the Run, we're going to head to Washington, 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:49.680 d C. Where Lisa Cook followed through and yes, she 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.400 has filed a lawsuit against President Trump, who was trying 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.320 to fire her from her role on the Federal Reserve Board. 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.640 Now, Trump said this week he was removing her from 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.320 the board after it was discovered she made false statement 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.400 on a mortgage application, something that Cook is not facing 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.160 an investigation or charges for. She said she will not 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.600 resign or be bullied to resign, but said that she 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.040 would take any questions about her financial history seriously and 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:17.600 would gather the accurate information to answer any legitimate questions 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:18.520 and provide the. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.680 Facts in her suit against the president. She called the 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:25.000 allegations against her unsubstantiated claims that don't rise to the 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.600 level of being fired for cause, and reminder, there are 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:32.000 seven governors on the Federal Reserve Board. Trump now has 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.200 three appointees, so if he gets Cook off of the board, 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:39.800 he would have a majority of the seven and therefore 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.760 one could assume he could get those interest rate cuts 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:44.800 when he wants them, as he wants that. 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.679 It's wild to think he is the most powerful person 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.280 on the planet right the president of the United States, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.320 and he is still finding ways to get more power. 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.880 This is supposed to be an independent agency that makes 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:01.440 decisions that affect the world economy, and wants more power 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:06.160 and influence over it, and he's damn close to getting it. 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.280 To getting it all right, we continue on the run 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.199 now in the state of South Carolina is asking the 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:15.880 Supreme Court for permission to ban trans kids from certain bathrooms. 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.440 South Carolina followed an emergency request with the Court yesterday 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.920 asking the state or asking that the state be allowed 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:24.280 to enforce their law. 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.559 It was passed last year, and this law bans transgender 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:32.319 kids from using the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.640 but an appeals court earlier this month prevented a school 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:39.319 from enforcing that band after a transgender boy was suspended 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.680 from the school for using the boy's bathroom. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.560 The kids' parents sued. In its decision, the appeals Court 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.200 wrote that he was quote a fourteen year old student 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.800 who simply wishes to use the bathroom. Doing so is 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.680 a biological necessity. Doing so in restrooms that match his 0:09:55.800 --> 0:10:00.360 gender identity is his right under our precedent. Should know 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.000 in a matter of weeks at the court, the Supreme 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.160 Court is going to take up this case, which would 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:05.680 be a landmark one. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.520 Yeah, it certainly well, all right. Next up on the run, 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.400 we're going to head to Louisiana, where two people have 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:15.199 died after contracting a flesh eating bacterium after eating raw oysters. 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:19.840 The bacterium is called Vibryo vulnificus. It's naturally occurring in 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.480 warm coastal waters and is more common between May and October. 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.520 So it enters the body through an open wound or 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:31.120 when a person eats raw or undercooked seafood. Now, these 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.080 aren't the first deaths in Louisiana. Two other people have 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.400 also died this year of the same bacterium. It's also 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.200 an unusually active year for the state. On average, the 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.360 state does have seven of these cases per year, and 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.080 on average one death a year. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.040 Oh wow, if you ever needed more evidence to not 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.040 eat raw seafood in warm waters, that would be it, 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.240 at least during that period of time. So far this year, 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.320 in addition to the four deaths, twenty two people have 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.600 been hospitalized and more eighty percent of those cases actually 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.800 came from open wounds exposed to seawater, not from oysters. 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.600 But once you've been infected, you can become seriously ill 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.640 or even need an amputation within a day or two 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.800 of being exposed. About one in five people infected will die. 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.400 Those are serious numbers. Yeah, and Louisiana isn't the only 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.840 state dealing with the bacterium. So far this year, Florida 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.400 has already reported five deaths and twenty three cases. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.800 Your dad again, Your dad is a microbiologist, right, This 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.599 has been his life's work to study food, correct illnesses 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.360 and food. And it's the thing he screams at us 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.880 anytime we go to warm water places go south, do 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.160 not eat the oysters they're walking around trying to serve 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.360 you on a styrofoam trade. 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.040 Yes, I think that's disturbing anyway, but yes, his warning 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.719 is always fresh in my head. Also, you know, analyst 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.480 a couple of years ago had seriously injured her legs. 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.320 She had an open wound and we were near the 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.400 ocean and my dad said, do not go into the water. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.040 And she was younger, she was crying, please, I just 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.200 want to go. He's like, least you are not going 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.679 in that water. I wouldn't have known to tell her 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.120 she couldn't, but I get it now. 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.839 This is a reminder. This is real and even though 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.400 it's rare, you don't want it one in five something 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.520 that has a twenty percent death rate that you don't 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.280 mess around with that exactly continuing on the run now, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.880 Maga got mad. So Cracker Barrel scrapped a plan to 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.480 change its logo, but turns out they didn't stop there. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.880 Cracker Barrel has also scrapped a section of its website 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:35.200 that specifically referenced LGBTQ Plus and diversity initiatives. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.920 In particular, they remove their pride page and their DEI 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:43.160 Belonging Team is now nowhere to be found. As recently 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.040 as this week, the company had a page on its 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:49.080 website that read, on behalf of Cracker Barrel's LGBTQ Plus 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.560 Alliance and DEI Belonging Team, we want to celebrate you 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.840 for being you. It is our greatest mission to ensure 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.360 that pleasing people means all people. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.320 Yeah, well that ain't there no more. You can't find 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.680 that now. That could still be in their hearts, but 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.600 it's not on their website. But the company in a statement, 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.480 explained the changes this way quote. In connection with the 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.160 company's brand work, we have recently made updates to the 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:15.440 Cracker Barrel website, including adding new content and removing out 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.559 of date content. Several months ago, the company also made 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.280 changes to our business resource groups that now focus on 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:25.880 sponsorships or events on our corporate giving initiatives, addressing food 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:31.280 and security, supporting community needs through food, and reducing food waste. Okay, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.720 the worthy causes early not, Yes. 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.320 They certainly are. Earlier this week, Cracker Barrel announced they 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.720 were abandoning a plan to update its fifty year old logo. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.280 That updated logo, yes, removed the old man in overalls 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.480 and the barrel, while right wingers went after them for 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.679 trying to be too woke, and in a matter of 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.240 days the company reversed course. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.480 I believe this is happening Cracker Barel. I don't know 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.600 where its stock is. Remember, plummeted and it lost one 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.559 hundred million dollars immediately after the logo. I don't know 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:00.720 if it's bound it now. 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.000 With some of this stuff, well, money talks, and when 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.480 you start to lose massive amounts like that, you can 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.080 see the scramble that has taken place. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.440 This place. I haven't mentioned I I hated this place 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:14.720 as a kid. I hated Cracker Barrew. Why. I don't know. 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.800 Like I'm sitting here, I'm not how anything against Cracker Barrew. 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.240 I'm saying, like the kid, my dad used to go, 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.520 he used to like it, but I felt uncomfortable always 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.320 in that setting. Yes, we're from the South, A family 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.280 of four black family walks in. 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.120 You know, that's the scene you see in the record Scratch. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.560 You walk in, and it was always a record scratch moment. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.240 And just as a kid, I'm telling you to this day, 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.600 I was always uncomfortable. I hate because my dad loved 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:39.960 the place. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.400 And that's when you have to say, trust your gut. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.080 If you felt that way, there was a ree as 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.640 a child. Wow hate. Don't worry, baby, I've never been, 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:51.280 don't plan on going, and nothing against it, but we 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.560 don't have them in New York City. Really, I've never 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:55.360 seen one. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.960 Continue again. I am not bad mouthing this organization, but 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.800 as a child, I remember that memory as a child, 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.320 just ugh, we gotta go to Cracker Barrel and just 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.720 having to walk into this place where it was uncomfortable 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.000 as a kid all the time. Why it was and 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.160 why I felt that way don't know, but I remember it. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.920 All right, Let's go to Florida. Things have been uncomfortable 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.080 down there for a little while this year because they 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.880 are setting records. I don't know if they're set out 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.080 to set this record road, but it's happened. They're having 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.360 a record year in executions. The state carried out it's 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.600 eleventh of the year last night. Curtis Windham had a 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.040 last minute appeal to the Supreme Court. It was denied 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.040 to it cleared the way for the convicted triple murderer 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:38.680 to be executed by lethal injection. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.840 Previously, the most the state had ever executed in one 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.880 year was eight, so they have far surpassed that. That 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.600 was back in twenty fourteen and then in nineteen eighty four. 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.440 But guess what, it doesn't stop there at eleven. They 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.680 have another one scheduled in three weeks. By the way, 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.640 there have been thirty executions in this country so far 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:00.160 this year. That is the most since twenty fourteen. In 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:04.080 Texas and South Carolina are the next two, but Florida 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.920 is far surpassing them because they only have four each. 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.760 I the way correct, But now, yeah, Florida's gonna be 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.440 at twelve here in a month. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.040 Well, folks, stay with us here on this Friday morning. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.320 Ron when we come back. You folks who love to 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:25.880 buy inexpensive should I say, cheap goods internationally, well your 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:30.040 shopping game is about to change as up today because 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.880 duty free is over. But it's not gonna be a 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:37.920 problem for Michael Parsons. 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It's been a century long rule 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:56.960 called the deminimous Exemption that allows consumers to avoid tariffs 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:00.800 on goods valued at eight hundred dollars or so. 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.480 Now, as of today, you will be charged whatever tariff 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.320 is in place for that country or the origin of 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.840 the goods, and those goods are going to face even 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.040 tighter customs checks. Bottom line, this is going to be 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:18.119 a mess for international shipping. Ninety percent of all shipments 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.800 fall under this rule. So if you're used to those 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.000 bargain prices from outlets like Sheen, get ready to pay more. 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.959 Yeah, they overwhelming majority of packages from China fall under 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.760 this exemption. Some shipments have already been put on hold 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.439 by some carriers in recent days as they prepared for 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:38.240 the change that President Trump announced back in July into July. 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.000 Actually, yeah, last year, by the way, nearly one point 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:45.000 four billion packages entered America duty free. And so President 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.800 Trump has said the duty free policy has been harmful 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:51.959 to US businesses and has been abused to smuggle illegal 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.600 drugs into our country. So he's claiming that US businesses 0:18:55.840 --> 0:19:00.240 are going to get more money and that US residents 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.399 are going to be protected. They're going to be safer 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:04.440 because fewer drugs are going to be coming into the company. 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.040 But you're going to be paying more for your stuff. 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.399 It kind of makes it a US company might be 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.600 more competitive now because you're having to not just pay 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:13.960 for the cheap good, which you prefer, correct, but this 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.040 huge tarifflem you might go, Ah, the hell with it, 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:17.320 I'll just buy local. 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.000 That's what the hope is. But we shall see what 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:23.200 actually ends up being the case. Because several businesses here 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.000 in the United States say when they have to get 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:28.360 parts or small goods or the items that they need 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.360 for their business here in the United States are going 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.479 to dramatically their profit margins are going to dramatically shrink. 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.560 All right, final leg of our run here, Oh, profit 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.080 margins are going up for this young folllow. We don't 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.680 have to tell you about every big new contract or 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.639 professional athlete signs. There's a bunch of them flying around there. 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.480 We don't usually report on them. This one's record setting, 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:56.040 and it's worth noting. And this one is a record 0:19:56.160 --> 0:20:00.560 setting highest paid player in the NFL. Now he has 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.040 set a record. The highest paid player ever in the 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:08.320 NFL who did not throw the ball, is what he is. 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:12.000 He's not a quarterback, yes, obviously. Yes, we're used to 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.520 seeing quarterbacks get ridiculous contracts because you know their names, 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:18.760 you know their faces. They're literally the star of the field, yes, 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:21.600 of course. But defensive ends, how many of those can 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:21.960 you name? 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:23.560 Michael Stray. 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:27.639 Here's the thing. I love. Stray didn't even really know 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:29.760 what his position was. I'm gonna be honest here. That's 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.679