WEBVTT - Morning Run: Trump vs Harvard, Biden Speaks Out, Fewer IRS Audits? and Blue Origin Crew Criticized 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:05.840 Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:09.240 morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's morning run. 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:14.120 It's Wednesday, April sixteenth. Your Morning Run guaranteed every Monday 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:16.640 through Friday by six thirty am Eastern Time. 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.160 I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. I suppose a 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.080 lot of people slept well last night. Tax Day it's over, 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.119 it's done. Your refund is coming or your check is 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.760 on the way. Either way, it's done. So this should 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:28.720 be a good day for people. 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.520 Yes, yes, I mean I feel my shoulders relaxing now 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.480 that that's all been taken care of. The worst is over, 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.920 and now I have twelve months until I have to 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.839 worry about it again. Or eleven months maybe. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:43.720 Oh my. Yes. We hopefully we have a good quote 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.040 of the day so you don't have to be worried 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.640 about something a year from Yes. Now, we're just gonna 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.080 embrace today, still in the moment, on this morning run. Yes, 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.360 we always appreciate you running with us. And on today's run, 0:00:55.840 --> 0:01:00.400 it's a showdown between Washington and Harvard, with President Trump 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.480 now demanding an apology from the Ivy League. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.919 School and former President Biden may not have mentioned Trump 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.200 by name, but he certainly had a lot to say 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.000 about him in his first public comments since leaving the 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:12.479 White House. 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.679 Also on the Run this morning, the IRS just got 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.840 all of our returns, but they've also just lost a 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.400 quarter of its workforce. Also this morning, anybody expecting a 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.560 package from China may be waiting for a very long 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.280 time after one all important region announces it's won't be 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.280 sending or receiving any US packages. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.800 Plus a second school shooting at the same high school 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:38.320 in Dallas, sending four students to the hospital. The suspect 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.759 arrested late last night, And a new CDC report confirms 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.000 autism rates in this country are rising, and it also 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:49.120 acknowledges that our nation's Measle's outbreak is worse than being reported. 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:54.400 Also this morning, OUCH Blue origins all female astronaut team 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:59.120 is facing some scathing criticism by several notable female stars, 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:04.320 calling the mission disgusting and privileged. And this morning, beloved 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.120 game show host of the seventies and eighties, Wink Martindale 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:12.680 dies at the age of ninety one. These guys seem 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.079 like we're losing them, but these classic classic game show guys, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.680 was we're going to get into some of his background. 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:19.800 But we've lost another one. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.840 Yeah, tic tac dough. That was a staple at my 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.360 house in the early eighties. I remember it. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.560 Well, all right, we're going to start our run. The 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.680 first leg, we'll have us in DC. And well, that 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.960 escalated quickly after Harvard rejected a White House list of demands. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:39.200 President Trump has made one more demand of the university apologize, 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.680 and he's thrown in a new wrinkle or maybe a threat, 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.800 you could call it, and the escalating beef by suggesting 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.840 Harvard's tax exempt status be taken away. 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.320 In a social media post yesterday, the President said perhaps 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:55.000 Harvard should lose its tax exempt status and be taxed 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:59.080 as a political entity if it keeps pushing political ideological 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:05.120 and terror inspired supporting sickness. Remember, tax exemp status is 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:09.079 totally contingent on acting in the public interest. Now. During 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.400 the press briefing yesterday, Press Secretary Caroline Levitt called on 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.800 Harvard to say I'm sorry, saying President Trump wants to 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:20.000 see Harvard apologize, and Harvard should apologize for the ar regious, 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.600 egregious anti semitism that took place on their college campus 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.280 against Jewish American students. Now. 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.320 Of course, all this comes after the White House announced 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.400 it was freezing two point two billion dollars in federal 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.080 funding to Harvard after the school refused to make changes 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:37.720 the administration wanted, including changes in admission policies, hiring practices, 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.320 among other things. President Trump claims he wants to cut 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:44.280 down on anti Semitism at elite schools, after several were 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.600 the site of protests about the Israeli Gaza war. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:51.200 This feels a little bit like the US China trade 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:54.680 war escalating. We've got another one now between Trump and Harvard. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:56.640 I don't know who he's going to blink first on 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.600 this one, but that's a lot of money. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.040 Yes, and a lot of live who will be absolutely 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.800 upended without that funding. All right, Next up on our run. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.080 Former President Biden was back at a podium last night 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.320 in his first major appearance in speech since leaving office, 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.880 and he never mentioned President Trump by name, But that 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.800 does not mean he didn't have plenty to say about him. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.200 Yeah. Instead, last night he chose to call him this guy. 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.359 That's how he referred to President Trump. Biden revealed for 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.719 the first time publicly, though, what he thinks of the 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.920 new administration using words like devastating and heartbreaking. The former 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.320 president was speaking last night at a conference in Chicago 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.320 that was focused on social security. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.760 He told a group of about two hundred people, in 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.200 fewer than one hundred days, this new administration has done 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:44.440 so much damage and so much destruction, it's kind of breathtaking. 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:48.080 The former president also presented this warning, saying, and we'll 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.080 quote him here, why are these guys taking aim at 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.599 social security now? While they're following that old line from 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.160 tech startups. The quote is move fast, break things. They're 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.880 certainly breaking things. They're shooting first and aiming later. The 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.000 result is a lot of needless pain and sleepless nights. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.719 They want to wreck it so they can rob it. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.640 Also, of note, the former president reference the heated political 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.039 divide we have in this country, saying, we can't go 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.080 on like this as a divided nation, as divided as 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.839 we are. I've been doing this a long time. It's 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:24.159 never been this divided. Granted it's roughly thirty percent, but 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.280 it's a thirty percent that has no heart. Now a 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.520 lot of people are questioning what exactly is he talking 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.480 about there. You can maybe jump to your own conclusion, 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.080 but it didn't sound good. Who those thirty percent necessarily were. Now. 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.400 The White House responded to Biden's speech before he even 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.040 gave it. Actually, the White House spokespursion Carolyn Leavit during 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.479 the day yesterday said, I'm shocked that he is speaking 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.120 at nighttime. I thought his bedtime was much earlier than 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.280 his speech tonight. And that was it. I don't know 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.200 if we is that petty? Is it funny, is it silly? 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:55.000 Is it mean? 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.360 Is it mean? You know I was also thinking it 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.720 was funny, but then it was mean. So it's just 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.960 the mean spiritedness of everything just weighs It can weigh 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.359 you down, can't it. But I yeah, I mean she 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.880 did take a shot, as did Biden. All right, next 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.200 up on the run. Now that you've hopefully filed your taxes, 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.440 or at least filed your extension, you may be less 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.520 likely to face an audit. There has been a mass 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.760 exodus at the IRS. So far, nearly twenty two thousand 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.560 employees have signed up for Trump's offer to resign. They 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.719 get paid leave through September, but there are further layoffs 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:28.840 on the horizon as well. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.440 Yeah, before the president took office, the RS had around 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.599 one hundred thousand employees. It's now on course to lose 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.680 a third of that staff. Some experts out there will 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.080 tell you the agency will be in a weekend position 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.680 to collect taxes, perform audits, and may even make people 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.440 think they can get away with not paying their taxes altogether. 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.800 Yeah. Like, oh, so there are fewer people who are 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.680 looking at returns, so maybe I can sneak something in 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.880 or leave something out. Oh yeah, give it a yeah, 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:57.600 that's a lot of worry I don't need. All right. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.440 Last week, the Acting Commission of the IRS, along with 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.560 other top officials there, quit their jobs over an agreement 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:08.520 to share taxpayer information to help deport undocumented immigrants. The 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:12.640 IRS has previously kept all taxpayer information confidential. And look, 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.520 a lot of people we talked about undocumented immigrants pay 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.760 their taxes. So there is also concern about lost revenue, 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.200 with those immigrants possibly now afraid to file tax returns 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.280 because they will then be targeted and deported. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.560 All right, we'll continue our run here on thisres Wednesday morning, 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.760 on this next leg, and if you are expecting a 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.240 package from China, you might be out of luck. Hong 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:37.160 Kong in particular announced today that it's postal service will 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.600 no longer be sending packages to the US, and this 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.080 is in place effective immediately. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.960 The postal service there said it wouldn't. It would contact 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.960 anyone who had already dropped off packages that were headed 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.520 to the United States and they will return your packages 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:54.560 and refund your postage. Hong Kong government is retaliating to 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.680 the one hundred and forty five percent tear if Trump 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.080 has imposed on Chinese imports, and they posted this on 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:00.760 their website. 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.920 Yeah, they say the public in Hong Kong should be 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:08.000 prepared to pay exorbitant and unreasonable fees due to the 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:13.560 US is unreasonable and bullying acts. Trump also closed a 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.280 loophole that allow Chinese retailers to send clothing and other 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.360 goods to the US without paying any tariffs roads. We 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.880 were talking this was a big deal because there are 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.840 a lot of low price Chinese retailers that we're finding 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.040 a way to send that stuff. 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.000 Absolutely get there. It's called fast Fashion, and there are 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.200 several companies in the Asian market. Shean is one that 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.400 I know my girls use and I have used as well. 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.559 And you get these goods for a lot cheaper because yes, 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.680 they are not paying the terrifts. But now if these 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.240 companies and these businesses are being forced to pay that 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.120 one hundred and forty five percent tariff when they were 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.560 paying zero, everything's going to change, all right. Next up 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:53.680 on the Run, we're going to head to Dallas, where 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.880 a second school shooting has happened at the same high 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.600 school in less than one year. For student thanks were injured. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.319 They were all sent to the hospital, but one of 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:06.080 them seriously injured when a gunman opened fire at Wilmer 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.200 Hutchins High School just after one pm yesterday. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.400 Yeah, this is DejaVu of a heartbreaking scene. Look, we've 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.640 covered a lot of school shootings and you see this 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.640 on TV. But that scene where the parents are rushing 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.360 to the school to try to find their kids, well 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:24.040 that scene played out once again at the same school, 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.240 So parents were rushing trying to reunite with their children. 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:30.160 Police arrested the shooter late Tuesday evening, but have not 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.360 released an identity. According to Dallas official, someone at the 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.960 school opened the door to the suspect, who then began firing. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:41.200 Wilmer Hutchins High had already implemented metal detectors and had 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.679 a clear backpack policy following a school shooting there nearly 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.320 a year ago, so a lot of people were asking 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.880 how did he get in? And the best we have 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.720 gotten from the Dallas police so far is that he entered. 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.880 This gunman entered in off hours, so it wasn't the 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.480 fault of their staff or their metal detectors. Somehow he 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.840 knew how to get in ahead of time, or at 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:03.720 least at a time when no one was there. Texas 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.679 Governor Greg Abbott tweeted our hearts go out to the 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.240 victims of this senseless act of violence at Wilmer Hutchins 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.600 High School and offered law enforcement resources to bring the 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:13.600 gunman to justice. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.800 Abbott also said he's adding another five hundred million dollars 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.240 to the more than three billion he's already directed to 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.040 school safety since he's been governor. The school will be 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.319 closed for the rest of this week. Dallas police will 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:28.320 be stationed at other district schools for an added safety measure. 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.800 Yeah, it's just tough. We're still still still talking about 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:32.600 school shootings. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.560 I stayed with us folks here on this Wednesday morning run. 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.840 When we come back. We've been talking about how bad 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.960 the measles outbreak is in the us. Well, actually it's 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.880 worse also coming up. Yes, it was all smiles and 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.920 all cheers and at all celebrity female crew came back 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.360 to earth. Well now they're really being brought back down 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.280 to earth by a number of notable female celebrities who 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.280 call that trip disgusting. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:10.280 Stay with us, Welcome back to the Wednesday morning run. 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.280 Next up on our run, this country's measles outbreak is 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:17.200 likely much worse than we know, the Centers for Disease 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.360 Control said. The agency is struggling to keep up with 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:24.200 state's requests for support with battling this disease. 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:25.680 And so far this year, there've been more than seven 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.600 hundred measles cases nationwide, and that's been across twenty four states. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.520 But a senior CDC scientist said yesterday that there are 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:36.040 a large number of cases that have not been reported. 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.080 And probably will never be reported, so we won't know 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.920 the full scope of it. But to twenty twenty five, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.840 we know this is already the second worst year on 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.760 record for the disease. The CDC just deployed a second 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.360 team to West Texas, where the measles out outbreak began, 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.720 after already sending fifteen employees earlier in the year to 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.559 try and help stop the spread. So far, it has 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:01.200 done little to curb the spread. Children and one adult 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.679 have already died from this measle's outbreak. Dozens of others 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.240 have been hospitalized, and it doesn't look like it's easing 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:07.600 up at any point. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.840 All Right, we'll continue now the next leg of our run. 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.480 The CDC making headlines around a new study it just 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:17.360 released about the country's rising autism rate. In twenty twenty two, 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:21.400 nearly one in thirty one children was diagnosed with autism 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:22.280 by the age of. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.120 Eight, but that is up from one in thirty six 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.320 back in twenty twenty The other some of the other 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.520 points that came out of the report, Boys continue to 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.640 have higher rates of autism diagnosis than girls, and it 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.240 was also more common among Asian, Black, and Hispanic children 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:38.640 than it was in white children. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.480 And the report acknowledge that improvements in identifying the disorder 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.439 have been apparent, which may explain the increase in cases. 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.560 Simply put, we are better at identifying it, so of 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.480 course you're going to have more cases identified, simple as that. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.400 The Department of Health and Human Services has asked the 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:56.280 CDC to study a relationship between vaccines and autism. However, 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.960 there's decades of evidence that shows there is no link 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:01.600 between vaccines and autism. 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.160 Yes, and they are doing that at the best of 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.880 this DH excuse me the Department of Health and Human 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:13.440 Services Director RFK Junior, who said yesterday that autism is 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:17.400 preventable and that the risks and costs of this crisis 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.240 are a thousand times more threatening to our country than 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.280 COVID nineteen. A lot of people pointed out that the 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.760 CDC the results of this report stand in contrast to 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.400 what RFK Junior is saying about a possible link between 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.079 measles and autism, saying, no, this is just simply, as 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.960 you put it, about diagnosing and identifying this disorder. 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.160 Didn't he say this was recently? He said, they're going 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.280 to know by September. They have a new task force 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:41.800 or whatever they're going to call that, but they are 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.360 going to identify a cause of autism. Y. 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:46.520 Yes, and it would be nice at least to put 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.240 the argument or the concerns behind us and move forward. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.760 Never, well, let's stay what it's here now or we're 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:57.760 continuing now the next leg of our run, folks. And 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.720 this is a heck of a talker here that all 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.160 female star studied Blue Origin crew is now being brought 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:09.079 back down to Earth figuratively, as several notable celebrities are 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.880 openly criticizing the trip as nothing more than an unnecessary, 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:19.520 wasteful publicity stunt. Words like privileged, exploitation, gluttonous are being 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:20.640 thrown around woo. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.640 Katy Perry and Gail King were among the six woman 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.760 crew that went on the ten minute ride to space 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.880 on Monday aboard Blue Origin. The trip had been promoted 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.400 for weeks as history making and inspiring. The women were 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.800 on the cover of magazines. Gail's preparation was followed closely 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.440 by her CBS Morning colleagues. Bezos fiance was on board, 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.960 Oprah was there to support her friend. A couple of 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.360 Kardashians were there at the launch. Katy Perry even saying 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:46.479 in space, Okay. 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.600 This was a well produced, made for TV moment if 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.440 you've ever seen it, And that was just a kind 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.920 of a general sense of excitement that this was taking place. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.280 And we will have to admit we got caught up 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.240 and we're excited about it and watching it as well. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:04.880 But one person's excitement is another person's disgust. Yes, disgusted 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:09.280 is the word that model Emily Radikowski Radakowski Okay, Emily 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.640 Radakowski used in a social media video talking about the 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.400 Blue Origin trip. And this is what she said. Look 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.080 at the state of the world and think about how 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.160 many resources went into putting these women into space and 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:25.880 for what for what? What was the marketing there? I'm disgusted, literally, 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:27.040 I'm disgusting. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.200 That seems like a lot. But guess what she was 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.720 just getting warmed up. She went on to say this, 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.280 having a man who has gained his power and become 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:40.520 a part of the one percent purely through exploitation and greed, 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.960 deciding to take his fiance and a few other famous 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:48.400 women to space for space tourism is not progress. Nope, 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.960 still not done. She added. This privilege is not an accomplishment. 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.440 Exploitation is certainly not an accomplishment. And being able to 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.640 take the privilege that you have gained from exploitation and 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:03.520 greed of the planet, of resources, of human beings and 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.360 then doing something like going to space for eleven minutes 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.800 is certainly not an accomplishment. I think we're at a 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:11.440 place in the world where we need to be able 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.240 to discern what real progress looks like, and what happened 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.560 yesterday was nothing like that. 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.320 No, no, this was not a one offer, folks. This 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.600 was not just her popping off on her own. Actress 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:26.720 Olivia Mile Wild excuse me, Olivia Wild chimed in saying, 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:30.960 simply this a billion dollars bought some good memes. I guess. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.920 Comedian Amy Schumer mocked the trip and a video online, 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.320 and then actress Olivia Mon said, prior to the trip quote, 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.840 there are so many other things that are so important 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.160 in the world right now. What are you guys going 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.720 to do up in space? What's the point Is it 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.600 historic that you guys are going on a ride. I 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.880 think it's a bit gluttonous. The cover of L magazine, 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:52.520 I don't know. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.040 I think she does know what she thinks. Gail King 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.440 and Lauren Sanchez have acknowledged that some criticism was out there. 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.360 King had said that people who are criticizing don't really 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.760 understand what's happening here, and she encouraged them to do 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.000 more of a deep dive on the trip, and Sanchez 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.320 said this, I would love to have critics come to 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.960 Blue Origin and see the thousands of employees that don't 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.240 just work there, but they put their heart and soul 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.840 into this vehicle. They love their work and they loved 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.120 the mission, and it's a big deal for them. 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:20.000 You know. 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:24.480 I wasn't expecting that much pushback or that much criticism, 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.640 and notably by other women. I don't know that we've 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.960 heard a man way in on this, and perhaps maybe 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:31.320 smartly so they have not. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:33.639 We know better. I'm just going to sit here quietly. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.000 You can say whatever you want to say. But I 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:39.000 was but why why? It makes sense? But very strong criticism. 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.640 There's some criticism having to do is like mother Earth? 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:46.199 Why be you that kind of wasteful? But I don't know, 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.480 there's some balance you have to find. I think they 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:53.119 made an argument that there was inspiration, science, there was 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.560 something behind this other than a joy ride. But I 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.240 don't know if that message. Yeah. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.399 I mean, everyone's obviously entitled, entitled to their means, but 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:05.720 I just don't know that it's to me. When you're 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:09.919 throwing words like disgusting out there, you're adding to the problem, 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:10.679 not solving it. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.800 That is strong. You're right, it's a matter of some time. 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.000 You could. You would listen to it differently, depending on 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.040 the words that were chosen. But why all women? Why 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.680 it seemed it's tough for me to hear very prominent 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:28.480 and successful and talented and respected women criticize this other 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.680 group of respected, talented women. 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.479 It's not fun to watch as a woman. I can 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.000 say that much. It doesn't It doesn't make you feel good, 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:36.720 does it. I think you can still have a conversation, 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:40.200 you can still disagree without using certain words and going 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:40.920 below the belt. 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.679 All right, Well, next up on our run here, the 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.679 last leg of our run. Here, on this Wednesday, we 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.160 are going to talk about long time in legendary game 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.679 show host Wink Martindale. He has passed away at the 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.399 age of ninety one. Died in California with his family 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:58.720 by his side, according to a statement from the family. 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.480 Yes, Martindale was the host of what seemed like countless 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:05.840 game shows starting in the seventies, most notably notably as 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.880 the host of Gambit High Rollers and Tic Tac Dough 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.159 He had, Yeah, that was the when we watched. I 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.080 was looking at the years too. It was like laid 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.760 seventies to like mid eighties, like eighty five sweet Spot, 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.000 seventy five years in broadcasting, But we were actually talking. 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.680 You know, his name wasn't on the same level. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:23.280 Obviously. 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.600 I knew Bob Barker and Bob you Banks and Chuck Woolry, 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.080 but Marketdal Martindale. I had to look him up, and 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.080 as soon as I saw his face, I knew exactly 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:32.679 who he was. 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:34.760 See, I didn't make the link. I knew the name, 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:36.560 and I would have. I was thinking was an actor, 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:38.840 and then I saw his face. I was like, oh 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:40.680 that guy. So anybody who's hearing us right now, you 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:42.919 probably know the name. You certainly one hundred percent know 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:46.080 the face. I did not know he's star I had. 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.160 I am just blown away. Now he's a homeboy. This 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.240 guy is from Jackson, Tennessee, was born there. Started his 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:56.240 career in Jackson, but moved to Memphis, which is where 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.960 he became he really took off, and where he befriended 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:04.440 a young rock star by the name of Elvis Presley. 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.800 He actually gave one of his first ever television interviews. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:10.440 He did with Elvis Presley. I had no idea. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:12.439 That's so cool, and I don't know, it's funny, like 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.000 I think about Memphis and Tennessee and back in the day, 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.520 and I still remember him here. I never heard his 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:19.840 Southern accent from him, so that's actually interesting too. 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:21.119