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Speaker 1: morning everyone, Thank you for joining us for today's Morning Run.
Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, April thirtieth. I'm Amy Robots.
Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes, And in the interest of full disclosure,
Speaker 2: we're gonna let you all know. This is our second
Speaker 2: time recording this episode because Robes, we are so exhausted
Speaker 2: that apparently we screwed something up the first time we
Speaker 2: recorded the Morning.
Speaker 3: Run and one of our mics wasn't working.
Speaker 1: Yes, so I think it was my mic that wasn't working,
Speaker 1: So we could have just done a morning run with
Speaker 1: TJ Holmes and nobody.
Speaker 2: Wants that you can girly hear talking. But this was
Speaker 2: completely my fault. I needed to look over and see
Speaker 2: that her audio wasn't going up and down on the
Speaker 2: little screen here, So that's on me. But just letting
Speaker 2: you know, this one's gonna be great because we already
Speaker 2: practiced once.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is take two of our Morning Run.
Speaker 2: But hello everybody, and welcome on this morning's Wednesday Morning Run.
Speaker 2: What we got for you. We got Trump twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: The constitution says he can't run again, but nobody at
Speaker 2: his one hundred day rally last night in Michigan seemed.
Speaker 1: To care plus the biggest interview of Trump's presidency so far,
Speaker 1: but the two biggest stars at ABC were nowhere to
Speaker 1: be found, and Trump and Bezos make up after the
Speaker 1: White House publicly pounces on Amazon for even thinking about
Speaker 1: posting products tariff costs on its site.
Speaker 2: Also on this morning's Ron Ups announced twenty thousand layoffs
Speaker 2: after making a decision to take a step back from
Speaker 2: its biggest customer Amazon. Also, a second state is set
Speaker 2: to ban fluoride in its public drinking water.
Speaker 4: Plus, GM recalls six hundred thousand vehicles, including some of
Speaker 4: the most popular trucks and SUVs on the road right now,
Speaker 4: And Katie Perry gets an apology, but no, it was
Speaker 4: not from Wendy's. We will tell you who publicly apologized.
Speaker 1: To the pop stars.
Speaker 2: Still waiting on you those Wendy's. But on the first leg,
Speaker 2: let's start our run here. It is Folks Day one
Speaker 2: hundred and one of the Trump presidency. Day one hundred
Speaker 2: yesterday was an eventful one from start to finish, and
Speaker 2: we're going to start with how he finished the day
Speaker 2: at a rally in Michigan.
Speaker 1: Last night, President Trump looking an awful lot like candidate
Speaker 1: Trump at what was billed as a celebration of his
Speaker 1: first one hundred days in office. His main message, you
Speaker 1: haven't seen anything yet.
Speaker 3: That's actually a direct quote from him.
Speaker 2: Verbatim, exactly what he said. So last night's rally resembled
Speaker 2: many of the campaign rallies we came to know during
Speaker 2: his president's run. So you got the adoring supporters out
Speaker 2: there in the crowd, a lot of red hats, a
Speaker 2: few insults thrown around, plenty of bluster about his accomplishments,
Speaker 2: and also in typical Trump fashion, roads he talked for
Speaker 2: a long time.
Speaker 3: How long do you ask?
Speaker 1: Well, he went on for about an hour and a
Speaker 1: half with a sign behind him that read one hundred
Speaker 1: days of Greatness. Subtle, Yeah, it's very subtle. Trump gave
Speaker 1: this assessment of his second term. It is the most
Speaker 1: successful first one hundred days of any administration in the
Speaker 1: history of our country.
Speaker 2: Again subtle. He also added that tariffs are working. He
Speaker 2: touted his immigration policies. He reminded us that he's smarter
Speaker 2: than the Fed chairman. He said his current low approval
Speaker 2: numbers are not legit, and in another all important moment
Speaker 2: of the night. He actually pulled the crowd to ask
Speaker 2: them which nickname they preferred. He used to refer to
Speaker 2: former President Biden. Your choices are Sleepy Joe or Crooked Joe.
Speaker 2: He asked the crowd which one should I go with?
Speaker 1: And we went back and listened, and there was a
Speaker 1: clear winner. The crowd loved Crooked Joe. It clearly won
Speaker 1: and beat Sleepy Joe.
Speaker 2: Sleepy was a little kinder, right. It seemed like it
Speaker 2: didn't seem mean what he said.
Speaker 1: The meaner the better in the crowd applauded and shared,
Speaker 1: just as Trump was hoping they would do.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Yes, let's start now with how the president started his day.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the day, he marked his first one hundred
Speaker 1: days in office by doing an extended interview with ABC News.
Speaker 1: That interview is making headline because of who did the interview.
Speaker 1: It was not David Muir, the network's biggest star who
Speaker 1: also anchors World News Tonight. It was just named to
Speaker 1: Times one hundred Most Influential lists, like.
Speaker 2: A no brainer. He would do it right what you
Speaker 2: just said, But it also wasn't George Stefanopolos and Walking
Speaker 2: Encyclopedia of US politics. He hosts Good Morning America and
Speaker 2: the network's Sunday morning show. Another good option. Yes, those two.
Speaker 2: But now we're not gonna go with mirror stuff Anopolis.
Speaker 2: We're going with Terry Moran. Do you know that name, folks,
Speaker 2: Terry Moran. Now he is not one of the more
Speaker 2: high profile anchors over that ABC News, but he has
Speaker 2: a long time journalist who's traveled all of the world,
Speaker 2: done big interviews, covered the Supreme Court. We've worked with
Speaker 2: this guy and he knows his stuff. So this is
Speaker 2: not an indictment on him and his ability. We know
Speaker 2: he can do the job just as well or better
Speaker 2: than they could. It's just that when you have these
Speaker 2: high profile interviews, you're used to seeing the biggest stars
Speaker 2: of a network do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you're at a network, you don't even I
Speaker 1: would never even think to, you know, raise my hand, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'll interview President Trump because I know I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: so far back in line. It's always going to go
Speaker 1: to the main, big anchors.
Speaker 2: And then about I was about three people behind you
Speaker 2: in line, so I knew I was liking here.
Speaker 1: So the question why go with Terry Moran over the
Speaker 1: two of the biggest stars.
Speaker 3: At ABC News. Well, there's a clear answer. Trump hates
Speaker 3: both of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Trump took issue with Mure after he moderated that
Speaker 1: presidential debate with Lindsay Davis last year. Trump and a
Speaker 1: lot of other folks accused Mure of being one sided,
Speaker 1: of not giving Kamala Harris the same tough treatment. Remember,
Speaker 1: there weren't supposed to be fact checking involved with the questions,
Speaker 1: and yet they fact checked Trump and they pointed out
Speaker 1: they did not do the same.
Speaker 3: For Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: Afterwards, Trump took issue with Muir for a lot of things,
Speaker 1: also his hair, he mocked his hair.
Speaker 3: And then, of course there's the issue of George.
Speaker 2: Okay, and that issue has to do with a bunch
Speaker 2: of money. Trump sued ABC because of George. George Chefanopolis
Speaker 2: wrongly and repeatedly said that Trump had been held liable
Speaker 2: for rape. Again, remind me he said it ten times.
Speaker 1: I believe it was ten times, and the actual charge
Speaker 1: was sexual assault. And there's a big difference, a big
Speaker 1: legal difference between rape and sexual assault.
Speaker 2: So Trump sued ABC. They eventually settled with Trump for
Speaker 2: sixteen million dollars. So you knew there was no chance
Speaker 2: George was going to be the one in there in
Speaker 2: the Oval office sitting down doing that interview. I think
Speaker 2: he would have done a good job, and I think
Speaker 2: a lot of people would have watched. But I don't
Speaker 2: know if Trump would ever go for that, because Trump
Speaker 2: got to pick who was going to interview him, and
Speaker 2: this is how things go in these big time interviews
Speaker 2: A lot of times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but man, that would have been a sight to see.
Speaker 1: I would have been tuning in. So the responsibility, yes,
Speaker 1: fell to Terry Moran. And if you're not familiar with him,
Speaker 1: apparently the president isn't either. At one point, Trump said
Speaker 1: this in the interview, I picked you because I never.
Speaker 3: Heard of you.
Speaker 1: But that's okay, Yeah, I mean it is funny and
Speaker 1: I guess honest at that point.
Speaker 2: But it was contentious at times. Terry Moran did his job,
Speaker 2: asked the right questions and responded the right way and
Speaker 2: didn't get work. He looked like a seasoned journalist in
Speaker 2: doing what he's doing. But something to keep an eye
Speaker 2: on tonight, folks, we're going to hear from Kamala Harris,
Speaker 2: who we have not heard from in this first hundred days,
Speaker 2: about anything related to Trump. She's speaking at an event
Speaker 2: in California. She's going to be the keynote at a
Speaker 2: women's gala out there, has nothing necessarily to do with Trump,
Speaker 2: but it's honoring Democratic women. This is going to be
Speaker 2: the first time we hear from her, and we are
Speaker 2: expecting ropes. Are they saying we're going to hear her
Speaker 2: speak for the first time about what's been happening.
Speaker 1: Yes, because they've said, look, if you think about it,
Speaker 1: since she lost the election in November, she's truly refrained
Speaker 1: from responding and reacting to any of Trump's policies and
Speaker 1: all of the headlines that have happened over these first
Speaker 1: one hundred days. So yeah, she is expected to call
Speaker 1: out Trump over his policies and how she believes they
Speaker 1: are and he is failing Americans. Right.
Speaker 2: We'll continue here on this Wednesday morning Ron with Amazon
Speaker 2: CEO Jeff Bezos. He had a call with President Trump
Speaker 2: yesterday and apparently the two kissed and made up after
Speaker 2: a report circulated that Amazon was planning to display how
Speaker 2: much idea what cost with Trump's tariffs. You've seen this
Speaker 2: in some places oversee some of the websites that will
Speaker 2: now China based companies. You buy something and your receipt
Speaker 2: shows this is what your price would have been. But
Speaker 2: it's got to be this and it shows how much
Speaker 2: the tariffs cost. Amazon was reportedly going to do this.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. So when we got out about this, the
Speaker 2: White House responded. The briefing yesterday in the morning was contentious,
Speaker 2: and the Press Secretary of Carolyn Levitt called the potential
Speaker 2: move by Amazon a hostile and political act.
Speaker 1: Levitt went on to ask why Amazon would change the
Speaker 1: way it shows prices because of Trump's tariffs when the
Speaker 1: company did not do the same with inflation prices during
Speaker 1: the Biden administration. Well, that was all very effective because
Speaker 1: within hours of the press briefing, Amazon announced the change
Speaker 1: quote was never approved and is not going to happen
Speaker 1: end quote.
Speaker 2: You know, the White House said, Trump called Bezos. Didn't
Speaker 2: tell us exactly what the two said, but Trump did
Speaker 2: later come out and told reporters that quote, Jeff was
Speaker 2: very nice, he was terrific. He solved the problem very quickly,
Speaker 2: and he did the right thing. So that went away immediately.
Speaker 1: Yes, but it's interesting to see how their relationship has evolved,
Speaker 1: because if you remember the first term, Trump like attacked Bezos,
Speaker 1: constantly calling him bozo. He accused Amazon of harming small retailers.
Speaker 1: So now he you know, we've got Bezos at the inauguration.
Speaker 1: He's saying, sure, no problem, we won't do what we
Speaker 1: just said we would do. So it's it's been an
Speaker 1: interesting evolving friendship. Next up on the run, let's keep
Speaker 1: talking about Amazon because it's also a big part of
Speaker 1: another headline this morning. UPS has announced it plans to
Speaker 1: cut more than twenty thousand jobs and close more than
Speaker 1: seventy buildings by the end of June. So just in
Speaker 1: a couple months after deciding to cut back on Amazon deliveries.
Speaker 2: Cause Amazon is their biggest customer, and the UPS now
Speaker 2: says the cuts is going to are going to allow
Speaker 2: them to increase their profitability. UPS says it will say
Speaker 2: three point five billion dollars this year with the decision,
Speaker 2: which is counterintuitive that you're cutting your business with your
Speaker 2: largest customer in half, but it's going to save you
Speaker 2: a lot of money. Now, despite all of this, they say, yes,
Speaker 2: Amazon is going to continue to have a strong working
Speaker 2: relationship with UPS. So no love.
Speaker 1: We were trying to get our head around this because
Speaker 1: it seems like, yeah, you would want to have more
Speaker 1: business with your largest company, but they say it wasn't
Speaker 1: a profitable business. So last year, just to get your
Speaker 1: head around how much UPS delivers an average of twenty
Speaker 1: two point four million packages a day. That means about
Speaker 1: five point seven billion packages for the year. But a
Speaker 1: lot of folks, unfortunately, aren't going to be getting those
Speaker 1: pink slips in the coming days.
Speaker 2: Next leg of our run takes us to Florida, where
Speaker 2: it looks like that state is going to be the
Speaker 2: second one in the country to remove fluoride from its
Speaker 2: public drinking water.
Speaker 1: Lawmakers there passed a bill to stop using fluoride, so
Speaker 1: it now goes to the governor, Ron DeSantis, who has
Speaker 1: already said that he is absolutely going to sign this
Speaker 1: bill into law. The move comes after dentists and other
Speaker 1: public health a visuals maintain that fluoride is a safe
Speaker 1: and effective way to keep teeth strong and reduce cavities.
Speaker 2: You might remember it was Utah last month that became
Speaker 2: the first state to ban fluoride, following a push by
Speaker 2: Health and Human Service AS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
Speaker 2: Kennedy has said that fluoride is a dangerous neurro toxin
Speaker 2: that has been linked authoright as bone breaks, THYRAU disease,
Speaker 2: and cognitive decline.
Speaker 1: Now, there have been some studies that have shown possible
Speaker 1: links at much higher levels than we have currently in
Speaker 1: our drinking water, and there is no definitive evidence that
Speaker 1: backs up the claims that Kennedy has been making. In fact,
Speaker 1: adding fluoride to our water system has been considered one
Speaker 1: of the greatest public health achievements of this past century.
Speaker 1: A lot of folks who are upset about this point
Speaker 1: to the fact that there are many communities who count
Speaker 1: on and rely on fluoride in their water to help
Speaker 1: keep their young children's teeth strong. Some people don't have
Speaker 1: the money to buy all of these expensive toothpastes and mouthwash,
Speaker 1: and so they say this is actually going to cause
Speaker 1: damage and really cause harm to many segments of our population.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, will stay with us on this Take
Speaker 2: two edition of the Wednesday Morning Ron When we come back,
Speaker 2: some of the most popular trucks and SUVs on the
Speaker 2: road are being recalled, and it's a lot of them. Also,
Speaker 2: Katie Perry gets an apology from a fellow pop star.
Speaker 2: We'll read it to you and let you be the
Speaker 2: judge if it was a sincere one or not. We
Speaker 2: continue on this Wednesday morning, run now and next up.
Speaker 2: GM is recalling some of its most popular trucks and
Speaker 2: SUVs because of a problem that can cause the engine
Speaker 2: to fail. We are talking about six hundred thousand vehicles
Speaker 2: being recalled. Names like Escalate, Tahoe, and Yukon.
Speaker 1: Among those names, those are big ones, and GM says
Speaker 1: there is a big defect in a couple of engine
Speaker 1: components that can lead to damage in the engine or
Speaker 1: cause the engine to suddenly.
Speaker 4: Fail, which is kind of a big deal if you're
Speaker 4: driving down the road and your engine stops working.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these are some late model vehicles. Twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: to twenty twenty four are the vehicle years. But yes,
Speaker 2: all the versions of the Escalades, Suburbans, Tahoe, Sierras, and
Speaker 2: Yukons these are all made by GM with the same
Speaker 2: Vight engine that is the problem. They are going to
Speaker 2: fix it for you free of charge. You can certainly
Speaker 2: call and go online and find out if your vehicle
Speaker 2: is a part of this recall. However, if you are
Speaker 2: an owner, you're not going to expect to hear from
Speaker 2: the company until June. They say. The letters alerting people
Speaker 2: to this aren't being mailed until the first week or
Speaker 2: so of June, and that was peculiar. If this is dangerous,
Speaker 2: why isn't this an urgent thing to get everybody into.
Speaker 2: Maybe don't think it's that big of a deal. Who knows.
Speaker 1: Good luck driving in May, is all I can say,
Speaker 1: or at least I mean, if you've heard this, please
Speaker 1: contact your dealer and try to get that done as
Speaker 1: soon as possible. We're gonna move on out to the
Speaker 1: final leg of our run today and probably one of
Speaker 1: our favorite this is our favorite story the day Katie
Speaker 1: Perry is getting an apology from a fellow pop star
Speaker 1: who now says it was mean of her to pile on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you might remember the backlash that came, including from
Speaker 2: several high profile celebrity women, following Perry's star studed ride
Speaker 2: to space aboard Jeff Jeff Bezos is in this a lot?
Speaker 1: Yeah he is.
Speaker 2: And it used to be just Elon and Trump. Now
Speaker 2: we got Bezos and Trump dominating the news. But yes,
Speaker 2: she went up in that blue or Orgon Bezos ship.
Speaker 2: Not long ago celebrity studied trip, but a lot of
Speaker 2: people came out and criticized that trip. Among them was
Speaker 2: British pop singer Lily Allen. She said the trip was
Speaker 2: a showy, unnecessary and tone deaf exercise.
Speaker 1: Allan apologized yesterday in the latest episode of her podcast,
Speaker 1: and we really appreciated that she did this. Too many
Speaker 1: people are afraid or just their egos getting the way
Speaker 1: and they won't apologize. Lily Allen, this is an amazing
Speaker 1: apology and we'll quote it here.
Speaker 3: This is what she said.
Speaker 1: I would actually like to apologize for mean about Katy
Speaker 1: Perry last week. There was actually no need for me
Speaker 1: to bring her name into it, and it was my
Speaker 1: own internalized misogyny. That is such an interesting way to
Speaker 1: put it, you know, because we pointed this out. We
Speaker 1: didn't hear any men pointing the finger at the women.
Speaker 3: Specifically Katy Perry.
Speaker 1: It was all other women pointing the finger at Katy Perry,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, that's an interesting way to look at it.
Speaker 2: She went on to say that she's actually been thinking
Speaker 2: about it a lot and says, quote, it was just
Speaker 2: completely unnecessarily the pile on with her. I mean, I
Speaker 2: disagree with what it was that they did, but she
Speaker 2: wasn't the only person that did it. She was possibly
Speaker 2: the most famous and the one that divides people the most,
Speaker 2: and so there was something in me that decided to
Speaker 2: choose her as the person that should be singled.
Speaker 1: Out that that is so big of her to say
Speaker 1: all of this, And finally she added, I'm just sorry.
Speaker 1: I would have been hurt if it had been me
Speaker 1: and someone in my industry used me and my name
Speaker 1: and I saw that, and I'm sorry. You know, it's
Speaker 1: one of those things where you I'll tell our children
Speaker 1: and we tell ourselves to walk in someone else's shoes,
Speaker 1: imagine what.
Speaker 3: But most people don't.
Speaker 1: And I think it's really cool that she reflected on
Speaker 1: it and what she said and she is now apologizing.
Speaker 1: I just think that's huge of her, and I wish
Speaker 1: more of us could be like that. It reminds me
Speaker 1: of that think before you speak acronym, it's true to
Speaker 1: be you want it to.
Speaker 2: Be true on a true spot, honestly necessarian kind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if it's not one of those things, then
Speaker 1: you probably don't need to say it.
Speaker 2: Please let this be a lesson to us all. Whatever
Speaker 2: you thought about Katie Perry and whatever you think about
Speaker 2: Lily Allen. Both of them deserve some grace for what
Speaker 2: they've done. Lily Allen, she misspoke and I will apply.
Speaker 2: I don't not familiar with her her music. She's a
Speaker 2: Grammy winner, but I'm I'm a fan of hers because
Speaker 2: of the apology now acknowledging that she did something that
Speaker 2: maybe was wrong. So we'll go about to now our Wednesday,
Speaker 2: and we'll leave you with our quote of the day,
Speaker 2: something we like for you to consider, and it's a
Speaker 2: special one to us.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm bigger than the bad thoughts. I'm brighter than
Speaker 1: the light they're trying to I won't let the bad
Speaker 1: thoughts take the wheel. This is from one of our
Speaker 1: friends and an amazing musician, Rachel Platten, and we had
Speaker 1: the honor of watching her perform and an intimate dinner
Speaker 1: last night that Kenneth Cole. He held the dinner in
Speaker 1: honor of May first, which is tomorrow, which is Mental
Speaker 1: health Awareness month. And Rachel's been very open about her
Speaker 1: struggles with postpartum depression.
Speaker 3: It got so bad she.
Speaker 1: Couldn't even get out of the bed for days, and
Speaker 1: her entire last album, which is phenomenal, is pretty much
Speaker 1: devoted to her struggle in her getting out of this darkness.
Speaker 3: But it's so relatable.
Speaker 1: So many people understand this, so many people have thoughts
Speaker 1: that just start to rule them and send you into
Speaker 1: a spiral. And I just loved this line from her
Speaker 1: song that we got to hear her perform last night,
Speaker 1: Bad Thoughts.
Speaker 2: So take this with you today, folks. I'm bigger than
Speaker 2: the bad thoughts. I'm brighter than the light they're trying
Speaker 2: to steal. I won't let the bad thoughts take the wheel.
Speaker 2: If you were listening to us, got that phone in
Speaker 2: your hand, probably go ahead, go to Spotify now and
Speaker 2: look on Rachel Platt in that song bad Thoughts. We
Speaker 2: promise it is worth to listen. And just like the
Speaker 2: rest of our music, actually that one today with that, folks,
Speaker 2: to appreciate you running with us.
Speaker 4: I'm DJ and I'm Amy Roebuck.
Speaker 3: We will see you on the run tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Have a wonderful Wednesday.