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Speaker 1: morning everyone, It's Tuesday, April first to welcome to Morning Run.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ Holt. It is April
Speaker 2: fools Day. Don't know what you got up your sleeve today,
Speaker 2: but we want to let you know off the bat.
Speaker 2: We have not inserted some prank story into this podcast.
Speaker 2: A lot of people do that, and even though we
Speaker 2: expect it on April Fool's Day, some people are still
Speaker 2: fooled by it. Are you usually a fan of pranks?
Speaker 1: No, so I don't. Ever. I'm not a prankster because
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's something about me that feels bad
Speaker 1: about making somebody feel worried, scared, sad, or happy when
Speaker 1: it wasn't warranted. So I'm not a But I have
Speaker 1: been pranked plenty. My mom is a prankster, and finally,
Speaker 1: several years ago, I told her that I severely do
Speaker 1: not enjoy being pranked, and so she finally stopped. So
Speaker 1: let's hope, mom, there are no pranks up your sleep today.
Speaker 1: But if you've ever wondered why we actually do play
Speaker 1: pranks on this day, well, would you believe it all
Speaker 1: has to do with the French fish a pope and
Speaker 1: Julius Caesar will explain.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But first on this morning's run, they are literally
Speaker 2: digging through rubble by hand to try to find survivors
Speaker 2: from that massive earthquake. The death toll now in the thousands,
Speaker 2: will have the latest.
Speaker 1: Plus those extended stay astronauts speak publicly for the first time.
Speaker 1: Was not expecting to hear this. They want to go back.
Speaker 2: Also in this morning's run, Senator Corey Booker just won't
Speaker 2: shut up. Hooters won't shut down despite its bankruptcy filing,
Speaker 2: So don't worry. You'll still be able to get in
Speaker 2: and marvel at all those amazing wings.
Speaker 1: Even you got tongue tied with that one, all right.
Speaker 1: Also on today's run, Tiger Woods called President Trump months
Speaker 1: ago to tell him something we only found out about
Speaker 1: last week. And taking this sour out of sour patch kids,
Speaker 1: surely this is an April fool's joke.
Speaker 2: And congratulations to the Yukon women who have now made
Speaker 2: it to sixteen of the past seventeen final fours. But
Speaker 2: what's really impressive is what they did not do after
Speaker 2: winning last night.
Speaker 1: You had to explain that one to me but we
Speaker 1: will share that with all of you in just a bit.
Speaker 1: But we begin our run overseas on this Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1: The death toll from me and Mar's massive earthquake has
Speaker 1: passed a very sad milestone, and after passing the two
Speaker 1: thousand mark late yesterday, the latest numbers now show it
Speaker 1: nearing three thousand.
Speaker 2: As of this recording, the death toll has officially reached
Speaker 2: twenty seven hundred and nineteen and Yanmar twenty more dead.
Speaker 2: In Thailand, Nearly four hundred and fifty people remain missing.
Speaker 2: Search and rescue efforts still underway today, but researchers, or
Speaker 2: rather the searchers, have acknowledged that this time is running
Speaker 2: out for anyone still trapped beneath.
Speaker 1: The rubble, and we are starting to hear the stories
Speaker 1: of those who have died, like two hundred Buddhist monks
Speaker 1: crushed by their own monastery, seven hundred Muslims killed while
Speaker 1: praying at mosques for Ramadan. The list goes on and on,
Speaker 1: all of them heartbreaking. One of them was just frankly
Speaker 1: too sad to write here, involving fifty preschoolers and their
Speaker 1: two teachers, But you just saw the people were exactly
Speaker 1: where they were supposed to be midday when the earthquake struck,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately some of them were in buildings that could
Speaker 1: not withstand the shaking.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Growing concern now that this earthquake will only make
Speaker 2: hunger and disease outbreaks in the country even worse than
Speaker 2: they already were. There's been a four year civil war
Speaker 2: going on in the area. Relief efforts have been challenging.
Speaker 2: There are power out of just fuel shortages, and there
Speaker 2: has been extreme hot weather. They're doing all this work
Speaker 2: now up to one hundred and four degree heat.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The seven point seven magnitude earthquake hit that region
Speaker 1: on Friday, followed by several large aftershocks and a second
Speaker 1: earthquake that registered at five point one. There are reports
Speaker 1: of people hungry without shelter, sleeping in the streets because
Speaker 1: they were afraid to go back in their homes. It's
Speaker 1: unbelievably unfolding tragedy that's going on there in that area.
Speaker 2: Well, the next leg of our run now takes us
Speaker 2: to Washington, where Senator Corey Booker could use a brick.
Speaker 2: He's been talking all night, literally. The Democratic senator from
Speaker 2: New Jersey took to the Senate floor last night around
Speaker 2: seven pm Eastern time, and he has been talking ever since.
Speaker 1: Yes, as of this recording right here on Tuesday morning,
Speaker 1: Senator Corey Booker is still talking, and he's been talking
Speaker 1: nearly twelve straight hours. And this isn't to filibuster legislation.
Speaker 1: It is not to prevent one of President's nominees from
Speaker 1: being confirmed. We've seen those before. Rather, he's just trying
Speaker 1: to make his point, which is what TJ Well.
Speaker 2: He's been doing us in protest. Senators. Democratic senators especially
Speaker 2: have been trying to find a way to push back
Speaker 2: against President Trump, and this is how Senator Booker has
Speaker 2: chosen to do so. This is in protest of Trump's
Speaker 2: priorities and policies. Booker and God on the Senate floor
Speaker 2: last night and started by saying this, I rise for
Speaker 2: the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United
Speaker 2: States Senate for as long as I am physically able.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been watching him on the live c Span
Speaker 1: feed this morning. Just checked in on him a short
Speaker 1: while ago, and even after ten hours, he was looking
Speaker 1: pretty good, still has some energy. We've seen him lean
Speaker 1: on the podium a couple of times, and just a
Speaker 1: short while ago. He said, we've been going about ten
Speaker 1: hours now, but we're going to start the next section,
Speaker 1: so he does not appear to be wrapping up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've seen this from time to time. Actually over
Speaker 2: the years in the Senate, we had Ran Paul he
Speaker 2: did ten hours in twenty seventeen over NSA surveillance, take
Speaker 2: Cruise did twenty one hours in twenty thirteen in opposition
Speaker 2: of the Affordable Care Act. But the record for the
Speaker 2: longest speech in Senate history twenty four hours and eighteen minutes.
Speaker 1: What could a senator be so passionately opposed to that
Speaker 1: he was willing to speak that long to stop the
Speaker 1: Civil Rights Act? It was Senator strom Thurmon of South Carolina.
Speaker 1: He spoke that long back in nineteen fifty seven. It
Speaker 1: was all in an attempt to stop the landmark Civil
Speaker 1: Rights Act. So well, that is simply what that was.
Speaker 1: But we're continuing to keep our eye on Booker. He
Speaker 1: is taking how is he taking? Can he take breaks?
Speaker 2: What if he has to p Yeah, they have to
Speaker 2: have constant debates, so somebody has to constantly be talking.
Speaker 2: Senators are allowed to ask him a question. So what
Speaker 2: they do is have some of their buddies, and he's
Speaker 2: had Senator Murphy come up and ask him a question.
Speaker 2: But the question can be a fifteen minute speech as
Speaker 2: long as you ask a question at the end. So
Speaker 2: he's been getting little breaks like that. But eyes are
Speaker 2: on him now on a live feed. He's leaning on
Speaker 2: the podium, glasses on, wearing a black suit, black tie,
Speaker 2: and he seems to be going strong. So good for him.
Speaker 2: He's found this way to protest push back because Democrats
Speaker 2: have been getting yelled at all over the country about
Speaker 2: fight fight, fight, fight, fight, And at least this is
Speaker 2: a very public display of him doing something. We can
Speaker 2: tell you our run here on this was this now
Speaker 2: Wednesday is Tuesday.
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, Tuesday morning.
Speaker 2: Next up on the run here. President Trump says he's
Speaker 2: cool with it with his former daughter in law dating
Speaker 2: Tiger Woods. He was asked about it in the Oval
Speaker 2: Office yesterday. In the President's response, let them be happy.
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods announced on social media last week what Tabloyd's
Speaker 1: had been reporting for a while that he was dating
Speaker 1: Vanessa Trump, that is the ex wife of Donald Trump Junior.
Speaker 1: They were married for thirteen years. They have five kids together.
Speaker 1: And even though we only got confirmation of the relationship
Speaker 1: last week. President Trump said Tiger called him a couple
Speaker 1: of months ago to give him a heads up. They
Speaker 1: have been friendly, of course, both big golfers, and so
Speaker 1: nice to hear. It's all good, all.
Speaker 2: Right, We will continue here on this Tuesday morning, ron
Speaker 2: as I say, we're finally hearing now from recently returned
Speaker 2: astronauts Sunny Williams and Butch Willmore. The two made their
Speaker 2: first public comments and spending an unexpected nine months at
Speaker 2: the International Space Station. They were originally only supposed to
Speaker 2: be up there for a week.
Speaker 1: Yes, Willmore acknowledged in human spaceflight they prepare for a
Speaker 1: number of contingencies, saying this is a curvy road. You
Speaker 1: never know where it's going to go, and that certainly
Speaker 1: the case for both Wilmore and Williams. The astronauts said
Speaker 1: they were actually surprised by how much intense public focus
Speaker 1: was on them and their mission.
Speaker 2: So after making it to the International Space Station in
Speaker 2: Boeing's Starliner capsule, they ran into some problems with the
Speaker 2: thrusters during the docking process. NASA made the decision to
Speaker 2: return the aircraft without a crew. It did make it
Speaker 2: back safely by the way, but they too then had
Speaker 2: to remain on the space station for another two hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty six days.
Speaker 1: We say had to and they we've even reported that
Speaker 1: they were stuck, and they didn't like that because they said, hey,
Speaker 1: we put ourselves to work, we stayed busy in space,
Speaker 1: and they said their extended stay was likely much harder
Speaker 1: for their families than it was for them. Wilmore and
Speaker 1: williams our meeting with Boeing leaders and engineers to talk
Speaker 1: about some upgrades to the Starliner capsule, but one of
Speaker 1: the big headlines was they said they would fly on
Speaker 1: it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Will Moore said, we're going to rectify the issues
Speaker 2: we encountered, We're going to fix it, and we're going
Speaker 2: to make it work. Boweing's completely committed, NASA is completely committed.
Speaker 2: And with that, I get on in a heartbeat. What
Speaker 2: good for them? Was good to see them with so
Speaker 2: much talk about them, and we were all interested in
Speaker 2: that story, but it was really really nice to see
Speaker 2: their smiling faces up there yesterday and to hear their story.
Speaker 2: What an incredible story they'll have.
Speaker 1: They love what they do and it probably in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways was a treat that they got to
Speaker 1: do more of it. It's not every day that anyone
Speaker 1: or any one of us would ever give the opportunity
Speaker 1: to go to space so cool that they enjoyed it
Speaker 1: and they want to go back.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, well stay with us here on this
Speaker 2: Tuesday Morning run when we come back. Hooters has filed
Speaker 2: for bankruptcy, but don't worry, those short shorts aren't going anywhere. Also,
Speaker 2: Yukon women keep making history and keep impressing us all
Speaker 2: going back to a final four, they're twenty fourth. Also,
Speaker 2: do you even know why we have an April Fool's Day?
Speaker 2: It's quite confusing, and the truth is nobody really knows.
Speaker 2: We continue our Tuesday Morning ron now and for this
Speaker 2: next leg. Not everybody has a thing for Hooters And now,
Speaker 2: the restaurant chain famous for its wings and other stuff,
Speaker 2: has filed for bankruptcy, but swears it's not going out
Speaker 2: of business.
Speaker 1: Hooters announced it's going into bankruptcy in order to restructure
Speaker 1: its business and deal with the reported three hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy six million dollars in debt. But at the same
Speaker 1: time they're going into bankruptcy, they are making this clear
Speaker 1: they are here to stay in a statement, the CEO says,
Speaker 1: the bankruptcy filing marks an important milestone in our effort
Speaker 1: to reinforce Hooters financial foundation and continue delivering the guest
Speaker 1: obsessed hospitality experience and delicious food our customers and communities
Speaker 1: have come to expect.
Speaker 2: Now, the company is selling its one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: restaurants to a group of current franchisees. The company says
Speaker 2: it will look like business as usual for customers. This
Speaker 2: is not a surprise. We've seen several restaurant change red
Speaker 2: Lobster among them, that have had to make some pretty
Speaker 2: drastic changes and cuts because they're dealing with the pain
Speaker 2: of labor and food costs. So not surprising. But this
Speaker 2: is an iconic brand for one reason or another.
Speaker 1: But I love how you're dancing around the whole thing.
Speaker 2: There's nothing to dance around here. That's what this is
Speaker 2: all about.
Speaker 1: Big boobs, big what tight shirts, big boob short shorts.
Speaker 1: That's their that's their signature.
Speaker 2: It's a look. Sure. But I haven't been into a
Speaker 2: Hootera's restaurant in maybe since college.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, just having I don't know that I've ever
Speaker 1: been in one.
Speaker 2: It's I think I might have. It's iconic. It did
Speaker 2: its thing, it grew into the business. It is. It's
Speaker 2: suffering now it's going to stick around. Thinks people are gonna.
Speaker 1: Be that it is an iconic American restaurant experience.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll continue on our run this morning with
Speaker 2: Yukon women. They are going back to the final four.
Speaker 2: That's sounds familiar because it should sound familiar, because this
Speaker 2: story program has now made sixteen of the last seventeen
Speaker 2: final fours. That takes a minute to sink in because
Speaker 2: most coaches can only dream of getting to one. You
Speaker 2: get to two, you're one of the greats. You get
Speaker 2: to three, you're a Hall of famer. They have made
Speaker 2: sixteen of the last seventeen. That's just unreal, it really is.
Speaker 1: And the two seeded Huskies did it again last night
Speaker 1: in convincing fashion against one seed USC. And you know what,
Speaker 1: it's important to point out USC was without its big star.
Speaker 1: We talked about this on a podcast last week. Juju Watkins,
Speaker 1: who went down earlier in the tournament with a season
Speaker 1: ending injury. The pain on her face was palpable, and
Speaker 1: certainly her team missed her last night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can only think about what might have been,
Speaker 2: but longtime Yukon phenom Page Becker's known as page Buckets.
Speaker 2: She dropped thirty one last night. She had forty in
Speaker 2: the previous game. They look great. They won that game
Speaker 2: last night seventy eight sixty four and the other game
Speaker 2: of the night. One seed Texas Dispatch two seed TCU,
Speaker 2: Texas and Yukon now joined South Carolina and UCLA to
Speaker 2: make up the women's Final Four, which starts Friday in Tampa.
Speaker 2: And that's three number one seeds. Yukon is the only
Speaker 2: number two seeds on the men and women's side. All
Speaker 2: one seeds except for Yukon, they're the only two seed in.
Speaker 2: But this program twenty four final fours overall, eleven national titles.
Speaker 2: They're used to winning. But you asked earlier, like the
Speaker 2: most impressive thing about them last night gives you an
Speaker 2: idea of their mindset is what they didn't do, which
Speaker 2: is what most teams do after they make a final four,
Speaker 2: the celebration afterwards. They don't do it.
Speaker 1: They don't cut down the nets. Why the idea of
Speaker 1: cutting like, explain this to me. The idea of cutting
Speaker 1: down the nest is kind of like, hell yeah, we
Speaker 1: took that basket and we I mean, what's the point
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: It's tradition. You do it after championship. They do it
Speaker 2: on all levels, high school levels, even there's a huge accomplishment.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get a trophy that goes into some case,
Speaker 2: and you take the net and you place it over
Speaker 2: that trophy. It's just a part of it. This is
Speaker 2: the net we won in and then every player cuts
Speaker 2: a little piece of that net and they take it
Speaker 2: home with them and it's just a part of tradition.
Speaker 2: Yukon women as their tradition, they don't touch the nets
Speaker 2: after they make a final four because their mindset is
Speaker 2: we're not done. We ain't won anything. We just made
Speaker 2: it to the next round of the tournament. That's a
Speaker 2: mindset and that lets you know why they are great.
Speaker 2: That is gangster to me. We don't want the net
Speaker 2: everybody celebrating all these other teams cutting it. Oh, they
Speaker 2: don't touch it. They had a ladder set up for
Speaker 2: them to go up and cut the net down. It
Speaker 2: was not used. I love love this about the Yukon women.
Speaker 2: We will continue now the next leg of our run.
Speaker 2: Let's get into some April fools. Day now, and a
Speaker 2: lot of people today are expecting to hear just kidding
Speaker 2: from the makers of sour Patch Kids candy after what
Speaker 2: seemed like a just too obvious April Fools joke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a problem with April Fools jokes. They need
Speaker 1: to be subtle, right for you to actually believe them. Well,
Speaker 1: this wasn't so sad. The company that makes sour Patch
Speaker 1: Kids candy announced that they are no longer going to
Speaker 1: be sour and they're no longer going to be called
Speaker 1: sour patch Kids. Instead, they're just going to be now
Speaker 1: patch Kids. Come on, it's hard for me to even
Speaker 1: say that. And making the announcement on social media, the
Speaker 1: company said, we've heard enough, We've had enough. You are
Speaker 1: not sour enough. Well, guess what, We're not sour at
Speaker 1: all anymore effective Immediately, we're no longer sour patch Kids. Instead,
Speaker 1: we're giving you exactly what you deserve, just Patch Kids.
Speaker 1: While this may seem sudden, our decision is final.
Speaker 2: It's too far right. They went too far. Sour Patch
Speaker 2: Kids are one of the most popular candies in this country.
Speaker 2: In fact, was whatever website, candy dot com or whatever.
Speaker 2: It was the number three best selling candy at Halloween.
Speaker 2: You're not going to change a working formula.
Speaker 1: And yes, I mean it got me through my second pregnancy.
Speaker 1: Those sour patch kids really help stave off nausea. So
Speaker 1: the sour was a key component to the candy.
Speaker 2: What if they're actually for this cannot be, it's not.
Speaker 1: There's no possible way because the sour is the selling point.
Speaker 2: Yes, so just wait for it on the final leg. Though,
Speaker 2: why do we even have an April Fool's Day? Why
Speaker 2: is it that countries all over the world celebrate April
Speaker 2: first as the day to prank people?
Speaker 1: We were curious because we didn't know the answer. You
Speaker 1: asked me this yesterday. Do you know why we have
Speaker 1: April Fool's Day? I said, actually no. When it turns out,
Speaker 1: nobody really knows for sure. But there are several theories,
Speaker 1: and one of the leading leading theories is this one.
Speaker 1: This makes a lot of sense to me. Actually, in
Speaker 1: the fifteen hundreds, in France, there was a switch from
Speaker 1: the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
Speaker 2: Clear is it right up? You get it? Let us
Speaker 2: explain what the hell that means. So the two calendars.
Speaker 2: We go back to France, the Julian calendar was established
Speaker 2: by Julius Caesar. The new year started on April first, right,
Speaker 2: So when it was replaced in France with the Grigoran calendar,
Speaker 2: named after Pope Gregory the thirteenth, the new year started
Speaker 2: on January first. That's the calendar we all use now.
Speaker 2: But there was a switch, right, so news didn't necessarily
Speaker 2: travel quickly in those days. You can't just go to Twitter,
Speaker 2: you can't just turn on the TV. So some people
Speaker 2: didn't get the memo that the new year is now
Speaker 2: supposed to start on January first, and they kept celebrating
Speaker 2: New Year's on April first, and those people became known
Speaker 2: as Yes April fools, and they were subject to jokes
Speaker 2: and rell cule and tricks, and part of the tricks
Speaker 2: they would attach a fish, a paper fish to somebody's
Speaker 2: back and see how long they walked around town with
Speaker 2: it on their back.
Speaker 1: It's like a like a kick me sign, but kind
Speaker 1: of that back in the day.
Speaker 2: Longer you had it on the dumber you are. It
Speaker 2: was a little joke they would do, but it was
Speaker 2: I had no idea. That's just a theory.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows for sure, but that actually makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. Like, I get that, and I could see
Speaker 1: why people think that the new year starts on April four,
Speaker 1: because you finally start to get warmer weather and it's
Speaker 1: like a reset. Spring is here. So it makes a
Speaker 1: lot of sense to me.
Speaker 2: Didn't you use this term in a podcast Vernal equinoxies. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's springtime. So that's another theory, is that simply around
Speaker 2: the vernal equinox, people were thrown off by the change
Speaker 2: of weather. They were fooled by it. So that is
Speaker 2: a theory of why they're called April fools.
Speaker 1: Like you know, on Saturday when it was eighty degrees
Speaker 1: in New York City and on Sunday when it was
Speaker 1: forty degrees.
Speaker 2: We were all March fools.
Speaker 1: We were March fools. All right. Well, we would like
Speaker 1: you to consider this as you head out on your
Speaker 1: April Fools Day today. It's our quote of the day.
Speaker 2: Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice
Speaker 2: at the end of the day saying I will try
Speaker 2: again tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I liked this. I thought this is cool. A lot
Speaker 1: of people have a lot of quotes about courage, but
Speaker 1: this one spoke to me. This is from Mary Ann Rodmaker.
Speaker 1: She's a writer and an author, but it just it
Speaker 1: was my Sometimes we just need to reset right. Courage
Speaker 1: doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at
Speaker 1: the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And with that, thank you so much for running with us. Everyone.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I am TJ. Holmes. See you
Speaker 2: on the home Day run tomorrow