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Speaker 1: morning everyone, It's Monday, April twenty first. Welcome to Morning Run.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Roebuck and I'm TJ. Holmes and on the
Speaker 2: run this morning, breaking and shocking news. This morning, Pope
Speaker 2: Francis has died, just a day after the faithful and
Speaker 2: the world saw him frail but still triumphant as he
Speaker 2: gave the traditional Easter blessing and greeted crowds. We do
Speaker 2: have everything you need to know about this fast moving,
Speaker 2: breaking story, as information has been coming into us for
Speaker 2: the past several hours. We'll give you the very latest
Speaker 2: as we know it.
Speaker 1: Also on this busy morning run, that Eastern truce between
Speaker 1: Russia and Ukraine did not last very long, and more
Speaker 1: states reporting measles cases. Plus the Pentagon needs a new
Speaker 1: cell phone policy.
Speaker 2: Also on the run this morning, Supreme Court justices were
Speaker 2: up late Friday. Trump probably wishes they'd gone to bed early,
Speaker 2: and turns out that White House, how else list of
Speaker 2: demands to Harvard wasn't actually ever supposed to be sent
Speaker 2: to Harvard whoops.
Speaker 1: And the most famous marathon in the world gets underway
Speaker 1: this morning. Plus Wendy's is trying to make up with
Speaker 1: Katie'll let you know how that's going. But first we
Speaker 1: do begin this morning run with that sad and breaking news.
Speaker 1: Pope Francis has died at the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 2: The Vatican said he died at seven thirty five am
Speaker 2: Local time. That's about two thirty five am on the
Speaker 2: East coast here in the US. So this happened while
Speaker 2: most of us were sleeping and a lot of people
Speaker 2: waking up to the news this morning. Francis, as they
Speaker 2: put it, returned to the House of the Father Vatican,
Speaker 2: saying his entire life was dedicated to the service of
Speaker 2: the Lord and his Church. That dedication was on full
Speaker 2: display over the past several days.
Speaker 1: It certainly wasn't. Perhaps that's why it felt so shocking
Speaker 1: when we heard the announcement early this morning, because he
Speaker 1: had seemed to be improving. You and I looked up
Speaker 1: at each other and just stared. There were no words.
Speaker 1: We were genuinely shocked. Yesterday and for the past couple
Speaker 1: of days, the Pope made several unannounced Holy Week appearances
Speaker 1: despite his weakened condition.
Speaker 2: As the doctors remember told the Pope needed to take
Speaker 2: it easy. And why wouldn't they tell him that he'd
Speaker 2: been in the hospital for a month. Yes, they told
Speaker 2: him to avoid large crowds, I think specifically ropes. He
Speaker 2: talked about even not being around children.
Speaker 3: Yes, a lot.
Speaker 2: Yes, he was in the hospital for thirty eight days.
Speaker 2: He was fighting bronchitis initially turned into double pneumonia. His
Speaker 2: doctors only recently revealed that the Ponta nearly died on
Speaker 2: two occasions in fact, and one of them they were
Speaker 2: making a decision. The doctors were to end treatment of
Speaker 2: the Pope, but it was his personal nurse that came
Speaker 2: in and said, nope, you try everything, you do, not stop.
Speaker 2: And they were able to keep him going and he
Speaker 2: was able to leave the hospital. And yes, even though
Speaker 2: despite the doctors telling him to take it easy, it's
Speaker 2: been fascinating to watch him or it was over the
Speaker 2: past several days, continuing to do his work to the
Speaker 2: last minute and fulfill his papal duties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was fascinating and it was inspiring. Yesterday, on
Speaker 1: Easter Sunday, the Pope appeared from the balcony of Saint
Speaker 1: Peter's Basilica to give his traditional Easter blessing without help
Speaker 1: from any breathing apparatus. A lot of people noted. He said,
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, Happy Easter, and with an assistant reading
Speaker 1: his Easter message, which will now perhaps be his final message,
Speaker 1: Francis called for peace and an end to the war
Speaker 1: in Gaza, saying, I appeal to the warring parties, call
Speaker 1: a ceasefire, release the hostages, and come to the aid
Speaker 1: of a starving people that aspires to a future of peace.
Speaker 2: The pope later greeted crowds in Saint Peter's Square from
Speaker 2: his popemobile for the first time since his hospitalization. This
Speaker 2: was a very busy and turned out to be final
Speaker 2: day for the Pope. Earlier, in the same day all
Speaker 2: of this, on Easter, he held a private meeting with
Speaker 2: Vice President J. D. Vance. Officials said the two had
Speaker 2: an exchange of opinions, as they put it, over migrants,
Speaker 2: refugees and prisoners.
Speaker 1: Yes, and Vance is a devout Catholic. He released this
Speaker 1: on X today, tweeting I just learned of the passing
Speaker 1: of Pope Francis. My heart goes out to the millions
Speaker 1: of Christians all over the world who loved him. I
Speaker 1: was happy to see him yesterday though he was obviously
Speaker 1: very ill. But I'll always remember him for the below
Speaker 1: homily he gave in the very early days of COVID.
Speaker 1: It was really quite beautiful. May God rest his soul.
Speaker 2: And a lot of talk and attention is going to turn,
Speaker 2: obviously to what happens now with the church. Well, there's
Speaker 2: going to be now nine days of official morning, the
Speaker 2: conclave where cardinals gather to choose the next pope. That's
Speaker 2: not going to start for at least another fifteen days.
Speaker 2: The pope will be taken to Saint Peter's Basilica, where
Speaker 2: he will lie in state for three days. But it
Speaker 2: won't look quite the same as previous popes.
Speaker 1: That's right. Instead of an elaborate coffin made of Cyprus
Speaker 1: lead and no, Pope Francis opted for a simple wooden
Speaker 1: coffin lined with zinc. And he just made some of
Speaker 1: these changes recently. He didn't want mourners to come see
Speaker 1: his body, as we have seen with other popes raised
Speaker 1: up on this large platform. Instead, his body will remain
Speaker 1: in his coffin with the lid removed, and mourners can
Speaker 1: pass by and pay their respects. Pope Francis will also
Speaker 1: be the first pope in more than a century to
Speaker 1: be buried outside the Vatican. He'll be buried in his
Speaker 1: favorite church, the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome.
Speaker 1: The last pope to be buried there, by the way,
Speaker 1: was in sixteen sixty nine. But he is going to
Speaker 1: be remembered throughout the next days. We haven't heard from
Speaker 1: a lot of world leaders yet. People are just waking
Speaker 1: up to this news, but there will be so much
Speaker 1: more reaction in the company is about what this pope
Speaker 1: meant to the world.
Speaker 2: And it's rare. This will be one of those cases
Speaker 2: where an eighty eight year old man in poor health
Speaker 2: who'd just spent a month in the hospital, where his
Speaker 2: death can be shocking, shocking because of what we just
Speaker 2: saw him do for Easter, and shocking because of the
Speaker 2: direction he seemed to be going. But in all he
Speaker 2: was doing, he was living like a man who knew
Speaker 2: something we didn't know, who knew he was dying, who
Speaker 2: knew he was going to die. We talk about this
Speaker 2: all the time with people, whether you can your twenties, thirties, forties, fifties,
Speaker 2: can you live like this could be your last day?
Speaker 2: And it seemed like and there was something just poetic.
Speaker 2: Sad as it is, but there is something beautiful about
Speaker 2: what we saw him do over the past two months.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and what he was able to do on the
Speaker 1: holiest day of the Catholic calendar year on Easter, that
Speaker 1: he was able to give that final message of peace,
Speaker 1: That he was able to give that final blessing to
Speaker 1: the crowds that had gathered there to see him on
Speaker 1: Easter Sunday. It is fitting for a pope like Pope friends.
Speaker 2: There any better way to put it. He got one
Speaker 2: more Easter in Yeah, and then past seven hours later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's almost like he was waiting for that, like
Speaker 1: he wanted to get to that. And then once he
Speaker 1: fulfilled that last and final duty, I can go. He
Speaker 1: could go there you go now.
Speaker 2: Well again, a sad day for a lot of folks,
Speaker 2: but wow, what the lessons he taught us over the
Speaker 2: past couple of months. We will continue, though, here on
Speaker 2: this Monday morning run with a different type of Eastern message,
Speaker 2: this one from President Trump. Yes, he issued an Easter
Speaker 2: message to the world via social media yesterday that included
Speaker 2: words of hope and well wishes for people around the world,
Speaker 2: and then he unloaded.
Speaker 1: That's definitely a good way to put it. He unleashed
Speaker 1: a long, strongly worded, and sarcastic happy Easter message directed
Speaker 1: at Democrats as well as judges and law enforcement officials
Speaker 1: that he deems as obstructions to his agenda. But he
Speaker 1: saved his best and most biting stuff for former President Biden.
Speaker 2: Now this is how he started it all. This was
Speaker 2: part one of his Easter message. And he says, quote Malany,
Speaker 2: and I would like to wish everyone a very happy Easter,
Speaker 2: whether you are heading out to church or watching service
Speaker 2: from home. May this day be full of peace and
Speaker 2: joy for all who celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: He is risen boom bam done. Nice. Could have left
Speaker 2: it there, but ahh, there is a part too. Now
Speaker 2: and Robes, I debated about this. We are not going
Speaker 2: to interpret this for you. We are just going to
Speaker 2: read now in its entirety, the second part of President
Speaker 2: Trump's Easter message to the world. Robes take it away.
Speaker 1: Happy Easter to all, including the radical left, lunatics who
Speaker 1: are fighting and scheming so hard to bring murderers, drug lords,
Speaker 1: dangerous prisoners, the mentally insane and well known MS thirteen
Speaker 1: gang members and wife beaters back into our country. Happy Easter.
Speaker 1: Also to the weak and ineffective judges and law enforcement
Speaker 1: officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our nation
Speaker 1: to continue, an attack so violent that it will never
Speaker 1: be forgotten. Sleepy Joe Biden purposefully allowed millions of criminals
Speaker 1: to enter our country totally unvetted and unchecked through an
Speaker 1: open borders policy that will go down in history as
Speaker 1: these single most calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America. He
Speaker 1: was by far our worst and most incompetent president, a
Speaker 1: man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing.
Speaker 1: But to him, to the person that ran and manipulated
Speaker 1: the auto pen, perhaps our real president, and to all
Speaker 1: of the people who cheated in the twenty twenty presidential
Speaker 1: election in order to get this highly destructive moron elected,
Speaker 1: I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a
Speaker 1: very happy Easter. I love that he added sincerity when
Speaker 1: clearly it was anything but happy Easter.
Speaker 3: And that's it.
Speaker 2: It's not going to look. Everybody else is out there
Speaker 2: and they can interpret it. We're just going to read
Speaker 2: it to you in its entirety. That is what the
Speaker 2: President of the United States passed along to the world
Speaker 2: on Easter, not even Easter. Easter. We will continue here
Speaker 2: on this morning day morning run with the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: This weekend of the Supreme Court, they told the Trump
Speaker 2: administration stop doing what you're doing. The Justice has issued
Speaker 2: an emergency order in the wee hours of Saturday morning
Speaker 2: that blocks the administration from continuing to deport Venezuelans held
Speaker 2: at a detendent center in Texas.
Speaker 1: These Venezuelans have been the center of intense and ongoing
Speaker 1: court battles recent weeks, as the administration has been deporting
Speaker 1: to Venezuelan migrants under the rarely used Federal Alien Enemies Act,
Speaker 1: which allows for quicker deportation if people deemed a threat
Speaker 1: to this country. The Court votes seven to two. They
Speaker 1: voted to seven to two to halt the deportation after
Speaker 1: hearing an emergency appeal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Court didn't explain its reasoning in the order.
Speaker 2: But this is a big deal because this has been
Speaker 2: an ongoing controversy with President Trump. Yes, this is a
Speaker 2: part of his immigration agenda, in trying to have a
Speaker 2: safe border, in trying to get people out of the
Speaker 2: country he deems are dangerous. So this is a major
Speaker 2: ruling that they have shut this down at least temporarily. Now.
Speaker 2: They didn't explain their reasoning, like I said, in doing so,
Speaker 2: but two justices who dissented, they sure did make their
Speaker 2: feelings known. These two justices were Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Speaker 2: Alito wrote, literally in the middle of the night, the
Speaker 2: Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the
Speaker 2: lower court a chance to rule, without hearing from the
Speaker 2: opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with
Speaker 2: dubious factual support for its order. So some strong dissent there.
Speaker 2: Don't know where that case is going next. Before now,
Speaker 2: this controversial deal, and they've been talking about one person
Speaker 2: in particular who was accidentally deported that case. That story continues,
Speaker 2: Supreme Court. Things stop for now. This isn't over just yet.
Speaker 2: But that was an important.
Speaker 1: Update this COO all right, Well, next up on the run.
Speaker 1: So much for an Eastern truce between Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Now both sides are blaming the other for breaking what
Speaker 1: was announced to be an end to fighting for thirty
Speaker 1: hours in honor of the Easter holiday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on Saturday, putin announced the truce to start later
Speaker 2: that day at six o'clock local time, and and at
Speaker 2: midnight in Moscow. On Sunday, Ukraine agreed, but then Ukraine
Speaker 2: the president Zelensky, he claimed its front line had been
Speaker 2: attacked more than two thousand times since the beginning of Sunday.
Speaker 2: What he's talking about, they'd been hit some twenty three
Speaker 2: hundred times by artillery fired by Russia. So that's where
Speaker 2: two thousand times. It sounds like a lot, but they've
Speaker 2: been counting how many of those.
Speaker 1: Long yet, and Russia was counting too, because it claims
Speaker 1: it defended itself against hundreds of drones and shells coming
Speaker 1: from Ukraine in the same time period. They gave specific numbers,
Speaker 1: saying Ukraine fired four hundred and forty four times from
Speaker 1: guns and mortars and carried out nine hundred drone strikes.
Speaker 1: Very specific. Zelenski said Russia was only trying to create
Speaker 1: a pr campaign and an impression of a ceasefire, while
Speaker 1: Russia insists its troops strictly observed the ceasefire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even though there was still some fighting, Zelenska made
Speaker 2: it clear over the weekend that he still would like
Speaker 2: to extend the Eastern truce for some thirty days. We
Speaker 2: will continue here on this Monday morning run. And as
Speaker 2: a general rule, yeah, you're not supposed to keep things
Speaker 2: from your spouse, But if you're the Secretary of Defense,
Speaker 2: does that include war plans? Is that okay? Do you
Speaker 2: have to tell your spouse about that?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: The New York Times is reporting that Secretary of Defense
Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth shared detailed plans about a US military strike
Speaker 2: in a second group chat that yes, included his wife.
Speaker 1: And to be clear, this was a different group from
Speaker 1: the one that set off a controversy last month. In
Speaker 1: that case, a journalist was accidentally added to a signal
Speaker 1: group chat with top security officials, and in that chat
Speaker 1: details of an upcoming US military strike and Yemen were revealed. Well,
Speaker 1: the Times is reporting that Hegseth used his personal cell
Speaker 1: phone to discuss those same military plans in a separate
Speaker 1: group chat that included his wife and his brother.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thirteen people, according to the Times, were on that chat,
Speaker 2: but none of them were cabinet level and none of
Speaker 2: them had any business discussing any war plans. Several people
Speaker 2: who were on it were advisors to Hegseth, His brother
Speaker 2: included who is officially an advisor to him, but it
Speaker 2: is his brother. His wife was on it as well.
Speaker 2: She has no official role. She doesn't do anything at
Speaker 2: the Pentagon. A Pentagon spokesperson contends that no classified information
Speaker 2: was ever shared or therefore, let it go.
Speaker 1: People, all right. Next up on the run, turns out
Speaker 1: the whole escalation between Harvard University and President Trump might
Speaker 1: have been a big old mistake. That is a pretty
Speaker 1: big oopsie. Remember that email Harvard received from the Trump
Speaker 1: administration that had that list of demands about hiring and
Speaker 1: admissions practices, the one that Harvard refused to comply with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that same list of demands that set off the
Speaker 2: whole back and forth that ultimately led to Trump taking
Speaker 2: away two point two billion dollars in federal funding. Yes,
Speaker 2: that same list of demands that the Trump administration threatened
Speaker 2: out to remove the university's tax exempt status. Yes, that
Speaker 2: list of demands should never have been sent, according to
Speaker 2: The Times. Yes, it came from the White House Task
Speaker 2: Force on Anti Semitism, and it should not have been
Speaker 2: sent and was actually never even authorized.
Speaker 1: Well, a senior White House official trying to do some
Speaker 1: cleanup says the Administration stood by the content of the letter, though,
Speaker 1: and what it took issue with was Harvard's decision to
Speaker 1: publicly refuse the administration without continuing discussions. Here's what the
Speaker 1: White House said. It was malpractice on the side of
Speaker 1: Harvard's lawyers not to pick up the phone and call
Speaker 1: the members of the Anti Semitism Task Force, who they
Speaker 1: had been talking to for weeks. Instead, Harvard went on
Speaker 1: a victimhood campaign.
Speaker 2: The White House says, said the task Force and the
Speaker 2: Trump administration simply wants to ensure that schools like Harvard
Speaker 2: that received taxpayer money follow civil rights laws. President Trump
Speaker 2: claims he wants to cut down on anti Semitism at
Speaker 2: elite schools after several were the site of protests about
Speaker 2: the Israel Gaza war.
Speaker 1: Harvard is not buying though, this notion that it should
Speaker 1: have checked in with the administration after receiving the email
Speaker 1: to make sure that the email was actually the email
Speaker 1: they should have received. They said that the email was
Speaker 1: signed by three federal officials, placed on official letterhead, and
Speaker 1: was sent from the email inbox of a senior federal official,
Speaker 1: so they had no reason not to believe that the
Speaker 1: letter was in fact intended for them.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, save with us here on this Monday
Speaker 2: Morning Ron when we come back. Yes, measles is showing
Speaker 2: up in more states. Also, Wendy's is trying to do
Speaker 2: a do over with Katie Perry, but their stopping short
Speaker 2: of an apology and Minecraft as characters in a video game.
Speaker 3: Are no match for vampires at the box office.
Speaker 2: We continue now. Next leg of our Monday Morning run
Speaker 2: takes us to measles, which is now spreading, with three
Speaker 2: more states now reporting their first cases over the weekend,
Speaker 2: bringing the total now to more than eight hundred cases
Speaker 2: across twenty seven states.
Speaker 1: Louisiana, Virginia, and Missouri are all now reporting their first
Speaker 1: measles cases, and all three cases are linked to international travel.
Speaker 1: In Missouri and Virginia, both patients are children, their vaccination
Speaker 1: status unknown right now, but in Louisiana, the only information
Speaker 1: we have on that patient is they are unvaccinated and
Speaker 1: live in the New Orleans area.
Speaker 2: The authorities are now working on alerting people who may
Speaker 2: have been exposed to these newly documented patients right now.
Speaker 2: This year's cases have nearly tripled the numbers total numb
Speaker 2: number of measles cases in all of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: For this year continues, at the current rate, we could
Speaker 2: reach our highest number in more than three decades. Six
Speaker 2: states have declared measles outbreaks Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, Kansas, Indiana,
Speaker 2: and Michigan, Texas. Of course, with the overwhelming bulk of
Speaker 2: the cases, that's where the outbreak and all of this
Speaker 2: pretty much began, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up on our run, Wendy's is trying to smooth
Speaker 1: things over after starting a beef with popstar Katie Perry,
Speaker 1: but was not willing to go so far as to
Speaker 1: give an actual apology.
Speaker 2: Yeah, after Perry returned from her star studded flight to
Speaker 2: space aboard Blue Origin, wendy said on social media, can
Speaker 2: we send her back? In a later post that showed
Speaker 2: her kissing the ground when she got out of that capsule,
Speaker 2: Wendy's mocked her with I kissed the ground and I
Speaker 2: liked it.
Speaker 1: They also posted when we said women in stem this
Speaker 1: isn't what we meant ouch. I didn't realize they didn't
Speaker 1: just double down, they tripled down.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: After all of those tweets, Wendy's explained its actions this way,
Speaker 1: we always bring a little spice to our socials. But
Speaker 1: when has a ton of respect for Katie Perry and
Speaker 1: her out of this world talent. That does not work
Speaker 1: for me enough. How do you have a ton of
Speaker 1: respect for somebody after you're mocking them continuously online?
Speaker 2: Can anybody just say, Okay, how about this just take
Speaker 2: a joke. It's supposed to just be a little funny.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, how'd you take it? Seemed unnecessary?
Speaker 2: Like why are they going after Katy Kerry?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And they like they singled her out, which was a
Speaker 1: little strange. And then, like I said, it wasn't just
Speaker 1: one kind of off like you know, handed remark er
Speaker 1: fun It was like multiple.
Speaker 2: But this good marketing. Then we're talking about Wendy's and
Speaker 2: we normally never would have. Is that all they wanted
Speaker 2: to do?
Speaker 1: Possibly? And if so, it works?
Speaker 2: Bring a little spice? Do they have the spicy chicken?
Speaker 2: Is this a whole thing?
Speaker 1: Where's the beef? Like I thought they were going to
Speaker 1: play off that maybe a little more too for those
Speaker 1: of us in the eighties who remember that campaign.
Speaker 2: They're playing us all. We continue here on this Monday
Speaker 2: morning run with the box office a new winner, and
Speaker 2: we are actually trying to get out to see this
Speaker 2: pretty quickly. Minecraft a Minecraft movie. Look, it's been doing
Speaker 2: Gangbusters biggest movie of the year actually the box office,
Speaker 2: but now make room for Sinnus. Yes, vampire movie, a
Speaker 2: horror flicks at nineteen thirty two, starring Michael B. Jordan,
Speaker 2: Written and directed by Creed and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler,
Speaker 2: it brought in forty five point six million dollars domestically
Speaker 2: and as won the weekend Fox Afice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're so excited about this. Sinners only cost ninety
Speaker 1: million to make, so they're on their way to being
Speaker 1: very profitable. Hopefully. They're getting rave reviews from critics and
Speaker 1: moviegoers alike, scoring ninety eight percent on Rotten Tomatoes and
Speaker 1: getting an A on Cinema Score that's where people who
Speaker 1: actually go to see the movie give it a ranking.
Speaker 1: It also drew in a refreshingly diverse audience thirty I
Speaker 1: don't know how they get these numbers. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you have to give your ethnicity when you're buying
Speaker 1: a movie ticket, but this is what they said. Thirty
Speaker 1: eight percent of moviegoers to this movie. We're black, thirty
Speaker 1: five percent white, eighteen percent Hispanic and five percent Asian.
Speaker 1: But they were touting just how universally appealing it was.
Speaker 2: Somebody just sitting outside in the theater click think he's black.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, seriously, how do they get that? I
Speaker 1: was really confused?
Speaker 2: Oh man, Minecraft Movie. Though it was close second forty
Speaker 2: one point three million dollars for its third week, That
Speaker 2: is great. Actually, it's now at nearly seven hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty one million dollars in global ticket sales this weekend.
Speaker 2: Strong opening for centers is most likely great news for
Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks. Given the incredible reviews and
Speaker 2: the power of word of mouth. We will see this
Speaker 2: will probably do some kind of a review on it.
Speaker 2: But Ryan Coogler is one of the few directors out
Speaker 2: there that can bring people to the box office with
Speaker 2: his name. Yep, this work. This is an original piece.
Speaker 2: This is not some Minecraft movie based on a video
Speaker 2: game or some other older ip. This is great.
Speaker 1: So this is innovative, really cool horror storytelling. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited to see this, all right. Also excited about today
Speaker 1: because next up on the Run, we want to wish
Speaker 1: a big old good luck to all of you runners
Speaker 1: out there. Today is the one hundred and twenty nine
Speaker 1: Boston Marathon. It's the world's oldest marathon and it always
Speaker 1: falls on Patriots Day, which is always the third Monday
Speaker 1: of April, which is today.
Speaker 2: So we got the first wave of runners. It's going
Speaker 2: to start running around ten o'clock Eastern time this morning.
Speaker 2: They'll have until five thirty the finish line closes at
Speaker 2: that time. Most runners need about six hours to finish
Speaker 2: this thing. It's one of seven major marathons around the world.
Speaker 1: Who just added the Sydney It was a Sydney because
Speaker 1: I had six and then I realized, wait, wasn't there
Speaker 1: a seventh one third? So used to saying six majors
Speaker 1: Sydney now me, So, yes, there are seven majors.
Speaker 2: This is one of the seven. Boston is the big one,
Speaker 2: and it's one that if you're trying to do all the majors,
Speaker 2: A lot of people wait to do this one last
Speaker 2: because it is considered probably the hardest one out there
Speaker 2: because of the route and because of elevation. It has
Speaker 2: a heartbreak hill towards the end. The last place you
Speaker 2: want to be on a hill at the end of
Speaker 2: a marathon. That kind of breaks people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm petrified to do this marathon.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: It actually gives me like fear in my heart. At
Speaker 1: mile twenty there is a full half mile stretch up hill,
Speaker 1: and it's the last of four difficult hills on the course.
Speaker 1: They're known as the Newton Hills. So when you think
Speaker 1: you're done, you got a full half mile up. The
Speaker 1: race is not just hard to run, it's hard to
Speaker 1: get into. Race officials received a record thirty six three
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety three applicants this year. They had to
Speaker 1: turn away more than twelve thousand qualified runners. And when
Speaker 1: I say qualified runners, if you are in the age
Speaker 1: group between eighteen and thirty four, you have to be
Speaker 1: able to prove you can run the marathon in three hours.
Speaker 1: That is unbelievable. And for women three hours and thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: This is in the youngest age group. And to get in,
Speaker 1: even if you qualified with that, you still had to
Speaker 1: beat it by almost seven minutes to get in. That's
Speaker 1: how competitive this is. That's how unbelievably athletic and impressive
Speaker 1: these runners are in the Boston Marathon.
Speaker 2: Thank good luck to them. And this is what we are,
Speaker 2: those weirdos. We will be watching TV today watching people run.
Speaker 2: It's fun, it's wonderful. We're marathoners, so we absolutely get
Speaker 2: into it. Yes, we're looking forward to that today. It's
Speaker 2: very busy morning, this morning an unexpected one. We're going
Speaker 2: to leave you with a quote of the day, as
Speaker 2: we always do, but this one comes to us that
Speaker 2: we just got last Thursday, and it's coming to us
Speaker 2: from Pope Francis, and we can't say enough just how Yes,
Speaker 2: he's an eighty eight year old man frail had been
Speaker 2: in the hospital, but it was shocking to hear this
Speaker 2: morning that he had passed. It's beautiful, but it was
Speaker 2: shocking and it is sad, given we thought he was
Speaker 2: on the way to recovery. But something he said to
Speaker 2: us last said to us. We didn't talk to him personally,
Speaker 2: but what I'm saying said to us all when he
Speaker 2: was leaving a prison last week that he visited on Thursday, Robes,
Speaker 2: where he in the past has washed the feet of
Speaker 2: the prisoners before performing something that Jesus did. He didn't
Speaker 2: do it this year because he says he wasn't in
Speaker 2: good enough health to do so. But a reporter asked
Speaker 2: him something on the way out and that's where we
Speaker 2: find our quote of the day.
Speaker 1: Yes, the Pope said, I am living as I can.
Speaker 1: And the question he was asked is how are you
Speaker 1: planning to spend your Easter. They were trying to figure
Speaker 1: out if he was going to be making an appearance
Speaker 1: or if he was going to be doing any official
Speaker 1: duties as pope, and his quote was so simple, I
Speaker 1: am living as I can. And I went back to
Speaker 1: go look at some Pope Francis quotes and you came up.
Speaker 1: You said, you know what, I think? He said something
Speaker 1: really powerful. It was really short, but it was so
Speaker 1: applicable to so many, so many people who were suffering,
Speaker 1: so many people who don't know what tomorrow brings, so
Speaker 1: many people who may be ill or just not in
Speaker 1: a good place. It's so powerful. I am living as
Speaker 1: I can. I love that.
Speaker 2: So with that, folks, take that with you on this Monday,
Speaker 2: a day to reflect a lot of people just wrapping up.
Speaker 2: We saw a lot of people out for enjoying time
Speaker 2: with family on Easter yesterday. It's always something beautiful about
Speaker 2: even the colors. There's something that's beautiful about It doesn't
Speaker 2: matter if you're a Catholic or not. Even religious or not,
Speaker 2: even Christian or not, but there's just something about it
Speaker 2: in this guy. SA very good example over the past
Speaker 2: two months of how to live and how to serve.
Speaker 2: So no matter what you think about him in policy,
Speaker 2: it is another day for all that stuff with the Church.
Speaker 2: It's just he's a man who set a great example.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's about renewal, it's about rebirth and perhaps
Speaker 1: just him now. I love the idea of him returning
Speaker 1: to the Father, as the Vatican put it. So it's
Speaker 1: just a lot to think about and a lot to
Speaker 1: reflect on, and hopefully a lot to inspire all of
Speaker 1: us today. And with that, thank you for running with
Speaker 1: us on this Easter Monday. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2: Holmes. We'll see you on the run tomorrow