Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2: Hey there, everybody, welcome to your morning run on this Monday,
Speaker 2: November eleventh, Veterans Day, when we stopp to honor those
Speaker 2: who have served in the US military.
Speaker 1: I'm Tjil and I'm Amy Robach. And for all the
Speaker 1: men and women out there who serve or who have served,
Speaker 1: we honor you. Thank you for your sacrifice, and thank
Speaker 1: you all for running with us. And on this morning's run,
Speaker 1: another assassination plot against the former President. Trump names a
Speaker 1: new borderzar and UN ambassador, plus all fifty states have
Speaker 1: now officially been called.
Speaker 2: Also on today's run, Republicans getting close to winning the House,
Speaker 2: saying goodbye to the man us who made us scared
Speaker 2: to say candy Man five times and twenty five down
Speaker 2: and eighteen monkeys to.
Speaker 1: Go, plus bitcoin sores Tesla worth a trillion a yell.
Speaker 1: Education now includes a course on Beyonce and wicked dolls
Speaker 1: aren't supposed to be this wicked. We begin our run
Speaker 1: this morning with another attempt on Donald Trump's life. Three
Speaker 1: people have now been charged in Iran backed murder plots,
Speaker 1: one of them specifically involving trying to assassinate President elect Trump.
Speaker 2: Now this is a murder for higher plot. Two people
Speaker 2: have been arrested, but the third is believed to be
Speaker 2: in Tehran right now. Boj says the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Speaker 2: Corps asked Farhud Shakri is the name to kill Trump
Speaker 2: to avenge the twenty twenty death of the leader of
Speaker 2: Iran's elite force.
Speaker 1: Shakerri told the FBI that when he was instructed to
Speaker 1: assassinate Trump, he told the group it will cost a
Speaker 1: lot of money. Well, apparently the official from that group
Speaker 1: said this, We already have spent a lot of money,
Speaker 1: so money is not an issue, he said. He was
Speaker 1: asked also to surveil two Jewish American citizens here in
Speaker 1: New York City and was offered half a million dollars
Speaker 1: to murder either of them.
Speaker 2: US Attorney Damian Williams said that the charges against the
Speaker 2: three are message to Iran that it cannot continue to
Speaker 2: target citizens of the US and the President elect. He said,
Speaker 2: quite simply, this has to stop.
Speaker 1: All right. Next up on the run, we head to DC,
Speaker 1: where President Biden and President elect Trump will meet in
Speaker 1: person this week. The two will meet in the Offal
Speaker 1: Office at eleven am Eastern time. It happens on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: You remember Biden extended the customary invitation to Trump when
Speaker 1: he called him to congratulate him on his election win.
Speaker 2: However, Trump did not extend the same invitation back in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, did not host Biden after that election. Again,
Speaker 2: that went against something that's been a long practice here
Speaker 2: in the United States. Trump spokesperson did say that Trump
Speaker 2: is looking forward to this meeting. So it's good to see, frankly,
Speaker 2: that things getting somewhat back to normal, at least customary,
Speaker 2: as we say, going to continue. You are run now
Speaker 2: with the President elect Trump. He continues going through a
Speaker 2: pile of resumes at his home in mar A Lago,
Speaker 2: trying to fill spots in his new administration. And we
Speaker 2: just got a word of two more key appointments.
Speaker 1: That's right. He is reportedly tapped Representative Elise Defhonic as
Speaker 1: UN ambassador. The New York Republican has been a solid
Speaker 1: Trump supporter, arguably a lawyer. She even voted against certifying
Speaker 1: some of Joe Biden's electoral votes in the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 2: Also, Trump announced over the weekend that Tom Homan will
Speaker 2: serve as his border zar. Homan is a former acting
Speaker 2: director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. In
Speaker 2: making the announcement late yesterday, Trump said there was quote
Speaker 2: nobody better at policing and controlling our borders than Holman.
Speaker 2: And he also said he's going to be in charge
Speaker 2: of and I quote deportation of all illegal aliens back
Speaker 2: to their country of origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have
Speaker 2: no doubt he will do a fantastic and long awaited
Speaker 2: for job. He says that part at the end there,
Speaker 2: Trump about long awaited. He did nominate this guy back
Speaker 2: in his first administration, but he never got a Senate
Speaker 2: The governor got the Senate to act on it, so
Speaker 2: he was never actually officially in the role. But as
Speaker 2: a borders are it's not the same. He doesn't need
Speaker 2: Senate approval.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so these are confirmed. If Trump wants to put
Speaker 1: them there, that's exactly where they will be. All right.
Speaker 1: Next up on our run, we're going to head to Arizona,
Speaker 1: which was the only state left to be called in
Speaker 1: the presidential election. Well, now it is official. Trump won,
Speaker 1: and this puts the electoral college count at three twelve
Speaker 1: for Trump, two twenty six for Harris.
Speaker 2: So we won Arizona. It was the last state outstanding.
Speaker 2: But this isn't necessarily consequential at this point, but it
Speaker 2: is symbolic. With this win, Trump officially has swept all
Speaker 2: seven of those battleground states we were talking so much
Speaker 2: about before the election, including he's flipped back every state
Speaker 2: that Biden won in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: And that is remarkable because in all the days and
Speaker 1: even weeks leading up to this election, we kept saying
Speaker 1: that all those swing states were too close to call,
Speaker 1: they were razor thin. Turns out none of that actually
Speaker 1: was true. We're also waiting to see who will have
Speaker 1: the majority in the House of Representatives. That's still being decided.
Speaker 1: About a dozen or so races are still outstanding, and
Speaker 1: as of Sunday, Republicans still needed to win five or
Speaker 1: so of those to retain their majority in the House.
Speaker 1: They have already secured a Republican majority in the Senate.
Speaker 2: And we'll continue with the election here on our run.
Speaker 2: At least some ripple effects from it after the election.
Speaker 2: Those effects have high dollar amounts attached to them. Tesla
Speaker 2: hits a trillion, Bitcoin hits eighty thousand, Tesla stock had
Speaker 2: a huge rally, pushing it back over the trillion dollar
Speaker 2: mark is what we've been seeing since the election.
Speaker 1: That's right. Investors believe, or at least they're betting that
Speaker 1: Trump's return to president will be a positive for us
Speaker 1: in Elon Musk's electric vehicle company, So it is once
Speaker 1: again among seven companies in the S and P five
Speaker 1: hundred to be valued at over a trillion dollars. It's
Speaker 1: been more than two and a half years since Tesla
Speaker 1: traded at that level.
Speaker 2: It went up twenty eight percent since Trump was elected. Now,
Speaker 2: another stock doing really well since Trump's re election has
Speaker 2: been Bitcoin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it hit another new record, posting above eighty thousand
Speaker 1: on Sunday. It's been rising steadily in the days following
Speaker 1: Tuesday's election. It's up eighty percent for the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Trump was once a bitcoin skeptic, but he has
Speaker 2: been talking about it in recent months and has embraced it,
Speaker 2: it seems, and he also has a financial stake in it.
Speaker 2: So in August, Trump said that cryptocurrencies could define the
Speaker 2: future and said he wanted mind minted and made in
Speaker 2: the USA. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just checked. It's now above eighty two thousand as
Speaker 1: of this recording, so it is still steadily rising.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll stay with us here on this veteran's
Speaker 2: day morning run. When we come back, we are grown folks,
Speaker 2: but this guy was so good he still has us
Speaker 2: scared to say candy man in the mirror. We do
Speaker 2: remember the man behind that.
Speaker 1: Meant welcome back everyone. Next up on our run, one
Speaker 1: of our favorite horror movie villains has passed away. It
Speaker 1: happened last week, but news broke over the weekend, and
Speaker 1: we're such huge fans of his we wanted to pay
Speaker 1: tribute to him. You know his face and his iconic,
Speaker 1: larger than life stature, but you may not know his name.
Speaker 2: His name is Tony Todd, and he has passed away
Speaker 2: at the age of sixty nine. And this is the
Speaker 2: guy to this day keeps us from saying candy man
Speaker 2: in the mirror as adults. We still won't do it
Speaker 2: because of how well he portrayed this character. But Tony
Speaker 2: Todd's management company said it best that he was known
Speaker 2: worldwide for his towering presence, but both physically and artistically,
Speaker 2: Tony leaves behind an indelible legacy of film theater in
Speaker 2: the hearts of those who had the honor of knowing him.
Speaker 2: We bid farewell to Tony Todd, a giant of cinema
Speaker 2: and a beloved soul who's impact on our lives and
Speaker 2: the world of film will never be forgotten.
Speaker 1: It's so true. I mean Todd played the original that
Speaker 1: was such a good movie nineteen ninety two, candy Man,
Speaker 1: and then again in the remake back in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: He was the urban legend killer who had a hook
Speaker 1: on one arm, could be summoned, yes, by saying his
Speaker 1: name five times in front of a mirror. To this day,
Speaker 1: I have never will never say it. Have you ever
Speaker 1: said it?
Speaker 2: I refused to whatever will the rest of my life never.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that may sound silly, but why why temed fate?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: He and you see his face every time you think
Speaker 1: about that movie. Oh my goodness, he did it so
Speaker 1: well well.
Speaker 2: Those who actually knew him personally say all this fear
Speaker 2: the rest of us have about him, He's actually, in
Speaker 2: real life was the opposite of that villain he say.
Speaker 2: He was a cherished mentor and friend and a beacon
Speaker 2: of kindness and wisdom. The way they put it. The
Speaker 2: actor Yahyah, who played candy Man in the remake, he
Speaker 2: was the main character we talked to him on the
Speaker 2: air once grown man, who plays the character in the remake,
Speaker 2: he still said he refused to do it on the
Speaker 2: air with us. He would not say Candy Man, even
Speaker 2: sitting there with us. It's it's wild how something like
Speaker 2: that can have such an impact. Forty seven years old,
Speaker 2: still his character, I refuse to do same.
Speaker 1: And you know what, getting to actually learn a little
Speaker 1: bit about Todd. We just knew him as Candy Man,
Speaker 1: but he's a theater trained actor. He earned his master's
Speaker 1: degree from Trudy, a repertory company. And I love what
Speaker 1: he said. He said, I didn't get my master's degree
Speaker 1: saying hey, I want to be a horror film star.
Speaker 1: He just wanted to be a good actor. But he
Speaker 1: said this, and this makes so much sense. Horror fans
Speaker 1: are the most ferocious fan base there is. That allows
Speaker 1: for a lot of personal appearances and celebrating a genre
Speaker 1: that sort of kicked to the side, but also passionately adored.
Speaker 1: And certainly that's a good way to describe his career,
Speaker 1: because he had a big career in horror films, not
Speaker 1: just Candy Man, but he was also in Final Destination franchise,
Speaker 1: Neither The Living Dead, The Crow Hatchet also one of
Speaker 1: our favorite TV shows twenty four. He was in that
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: He had this booming voice. I was never able to
Speaker 2: be around him. They say he was kind of a towering,
Speaker 2: a tall guy, but he had this booming voice. And
Speaker 2: he was in The Rock. Oh yeah, a horror move.
Speaker 2: But he played one of the bad guys in the Rock,
Speaker 2: alongside Sean Connery, alongside Ed Harris. But he was just
Speaker 2: one of the soldiers. But he still stood out every
Speaker 2: time he spoke. Yeah, he just had an incredible, incredible voice.
Speaker 2: In sixty nine is young. It's so young.
Speaker 1: I know he was six five, but yes, he had
Speaker 1: a commanding presence. And we're going to watch candy Man today.
Speaker 2: If we made the vleet traveled over the weekend on
Speaker 2: the plane, we say when we get back.
Speaker 1: We're watching candy Man. That is on the agenda today,
Speaker 1: all right, next up on our run, we also want
Speaker 1: to honor Judith Jamison, a legend and pioneer in the
Speaker 1: world of dance. She has passed away. She became an
Speaker 1: international star when she joined the famed Alvin Ailey Dance
Speaker 1: Company back in nineteen sixty five and was a rare
Speaker 1: sight in ballet. She was, of course a black dancer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she danced with Ali for fifteen years before leaving
Speaker 2: for other opportunities. But she returned to the dance company
Speaker 2: as artistic director, a role she held for some twenty
Speaker 2: years and is widely credited for guiding it through difficult
Speaker 2: times and ultimately making it more successful and popular than ever.
Speaker 2: She passed away here in New York afterwards, described as
Speaker 2: a brief illness eighty one years old. Everyone it does.
Speaker 2: You know Alvin Ailey. Everyone knows that name, and she
Speaker 2: is credited in large part in recent years having it
Speaker 2: stretching its popularity. And I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 2: been to the Center here in New York, but you
Speaker 2: walking in and just see these little kids, these little
Speaker 2: black boys and girls, and not all black boys and girls,
Speaker 2: but to see these little kids getting an opportunity and
Speaker 2: being in there and bouncing around based on a legacy
Speaker 2: that Alvin Alien and Judith Jamison put together, it is
Speaker 2: a really special place to go in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she certainly has left her market and will continue
Speaker 1: on all right. Next up on our run, we're going
Speaker 1: to head to South Carolina, where twenty five monkeys have
Speaker 1: finally been recovered after more than forty of them escaped
Speaker 1: from a research laboratory. We told you about this. It
Speaker 1: happened in the town of Yamassei last week. Well as
Speaker 1: of Saturday, just one had been found. I mean we
Speaker 1: were keeping up on this, We were keeping tabs on this.
Speaker 1: When you say you were doing it, okay, find it
Speaker 1: was me.
Speaker 2: You were doing the monkey count a weekend. Okay, they
Speaker 2: tose on Saturday they just found one. I was kind
Speaker 2: of rooting for the monkeys, so I was like, go guys.
Speaker 2: But then I got word that a sizeable group twenty
Speaker 2: four more or safely secured as well. For that total
Speaker 2: of twenty five, vets have been examining all the monkeys
Speaker 2: said they're in good health. Staff at the research laboratory
Speaker 2: where the monkey's escaped they work through the weekend to
Speaker 2: feed and keep an eye on the animals. We didn't
Speaker 2: really understand this. They said they had eyes on them,
Speaker 2: but they couldn't.
Speaker 1: They can't catch them. So they said the monkeys have
Speaker 1: been interacting with their companions inside the facility. I love
Speaker 1: this visual, apparently jumping back and forth over the facilities
Speaker 1: fence so they come say hi to their friends. Then
Speaker 1: they just go back in the wild and enjoy themselves.
Speaker 1: But offic she'll say that's a positive sign that they're
Speaker 1: they're coming back and forth. But still, folks, eighteen monkeys
Speaker 1: remain on the lamps.
Speaker 2: We're room for them. Do you get in trouble, Like
Speaker 2: if a monkey came to the door and you take
Speaker 2: it in, are you in trouble? Yeah, you're not supposed
Speaker 2: to see harboring a fugitive money probably, yes, Well, they
Speaker 2: have told folks in the area that actually, don't do that.
Speaker 2: You should not interact with these monkeys. But they say
Speaker 2: there's no physical or health threat, but to lock your
Speaker 2: doors and lock your windows. No threat, but lock your doors,
Speaker 2: lock you windows, and call nine one one. But nothing
Speaker 2: to worry out. They have said. Traps up around town
Speaker 2: and officials are using thermal technology to try to track
Speaker 2: down and get the rest of them. But there's just
Speaker 2: some part this the stories. Well, it's all fun and
Speaker 2: games until somebody gets hurt. Hopefully that's not the case,
Speaker 2: including a monkey.
Speaker 1: They claim they're small little gals who have are perfectly
Speaker 1: healthy and haven't been tested yet, so they're friendly. But yes,
Speaker 1: leave it to the officials to round them up.
Speaker 2: I have that right, you just said, but there these
Speaker 2: were all female monkeys.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they're little girls too, Like they're small little things.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why they're so hard to catch.
Speaker 2: Are so well organized as well.
Speaker 1: All right, next up on our run wickedly funny or
Speaker 1: just downright wicked. It's unclear right now who's responsible for
Speaker 1: a major marketing blunder at Mattel.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is what happened, and I'm sure somebody there
Speaker 2: is explaining, Well, what happened was Okay, the new Wicked
Speaker 2: movies coming out. If obviously you know about this thing.
Speaker 2: You've seen the promo that's been going on everywhere for months,
Speaker 2: seems like even years. They've been promoting this movie. So
Speaker 2: it's coming, but the Wicked dolls are going to come
Speaker 2: along with it to promote the movie. So the dolls
Speaker 2: have a problem. That's on the packaging, that's right.
Speaker 1: So on the packaging there's a website listed that's supposed
Speaker 1: to send you to the web page for the new
Speaker 1: Wicked movie.
Speaker 2: Well, could go wrong, everything's fine.
Speaker 1: But instead the URL printed on them takes you to
Speaker 1: a pornographic website. The special edition dolls were created in
Speaker 1: partnership with Universal pictures, and yes, it takes you to
Speaker 1: a site that requires users to be eighteen years or
Speaker 1: older to enter. Mattel was forced to release this statement.
Speaker 2: Over the weekend. It says they were made aware of
Speaker 2: a misprint on the packaging of the Mattel Wicked collection dolls,
Speaker 2: which intended to direct consumers to the official wickedmovie dot
Speaker 2: com landing page. We deeply regret this unfortunate error and
Speaker 2: are taking immediate action to remedy this. Parents are advised
Speaker 2: that the misprinted, incorrect website is not appropriate for our children.
Speaker 2: They're advising folks as well. If you you have this thing,
Speaker 2: you need to throw the packaging out. Obviously you need
Speaker 2: to do so. But can you explain I did read?
Speaker 2: I don't know if you want to explain, we don't
Speaker 2: need to give the other website. But how this could
Speaker 2: possibly happen?
Speaker 1: Uh No, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Well, it's not a matter of just
Speaker 2: a random so it's wickedmovie dot com. It is the
Speaker 2: right one, and they just changed that a little bit,
Speaker 2: and it ends up being if you leave something out
Speaker 2: of that UURL, it then becomes something that goes to
Speaker 2: this website. So it's not like some random person just
Speaker 2: put some www dot xx. I don't know whatever.
Speaker 1: Right, it was close, it was, it was close, very close.
Speaker 2: And it looked if you look at it, it does
Speaker 2: it looks innocent? Right? It doesn't look like it, especially
Speaker 2: if you have it talking about the Wicked movie. But yeah,
Speaker 2: one little mistake and a huge difference.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is how they were alerted,
Speaker 1: but I laughed. In one of the write ups I
Speaker 1: saw it said that someone went to x and tweeted this, Hey, Mattel,
Speaker 1: whoever's responsible for your marketing packaging for the new official
Speaker 1: Wicked dolls have made a huge mistake.
Speaker 2: That's tough for something like that mass produced. How many
Speaker 2: eyeballs to look at this, to do something like that,
Speaker 2: and we can't. We laugh about it here and it's
Speaker 2: all funn and games and do your child. It's not
Speaker 2: going on a website and see something that I'm supposed
Speaker 2: to be seeing.
Speaker 1: Agreed, Agreed, all right for the final leg of our run.
Speaker 1: Beyonce one oh one. Beyonce has made the history books. Well,
Speaker 1: she's made a Yale class titled Beyonce Makes History Black
Speaker 1: Radical Tradition, History, culture, theory and Politics through Music.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's the course description that will go along with
Speaker 2: this new class. Beyonce's work is going to be put
Speaker 2: under a lens. It's going to examine black intellectual thought
Speaker 2: and activism. Students are going to analyze Beyonce's albums, performance, politics,
Speaker 2: and concert films. It's going to be taught by a
Speaker 2: writer in Black studies scholar who has planned this course
Speaker 2: for years. It's going to be the first time she
Speaker 2: is a devoted and entire lecture course to Beyonce's.
Speaker 1: Work, and this may be a first for Yale. But
Speaker 1: I found this very interesting. Apparently Beyonce courses have been
Speaker 1: a thing, or at least college courses for years now. Rutgers,
Speaker 1: the University of Illinois at Chicago, Cornell, University of Texas
Speaker 1: at San Antonio, California, Polytech State University in Arizona State
Speaker 1: University all have had Beyonce themed classes.
Speaker 2: Now, I've heard about these classes before, but I think
Speaker 2: the only one that came to mind initially was Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2: She's had or they have had Taylor Swift themed courses
Speaker 2: at several universities, including Harvard, Florida, Berkeley. But I was
Speaker 2: trying to think, I'm sure it's out there, but Taylor
Speaker 2: Swift's was the first one that came to mind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't have those kind of courses when I
Speaker 1: went to university.
Speaker 2: Anything I had.
Speaker 1: Mine was like yeah, like history, like just basic history. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, political economy, Like I can't think of
Speaker 1: anything that fun. But yes, by the way, also, we
Speaker 1: should congratulate Beyonce eleven Grammy nominations, Taylor got six, but
Speaker 1: a lot of folks in between. It seems like it's
Speaker 1: going to be a really fun Grammy Award show this year.
Speaker 2: And I'm aware. We are aware that Sabrina Carpenter was
Speaker 2: nominated for Grammy because she told us. You happen to
Speaker 2: be at a we'll get into that later. We happen
Speaker 2: to be at a Sabrina Carpenter concert in which she announced
Speaker 2: to the crowd that she just gotten several Grammy nominations
Speaker 2: as well. So we'll get into that later. But congratulations
Speaker 2: to everybody.
Speaker 1: Yes, and as we leave you, we would like you
Speaker 1: to consider this as you go about your day today
Speaker 1: on this Monday Veterans Day.
Speaker 2: Here is your quote. If you don't like the road
Speaker 2: you're walking, start paving another one. This was one you
Speaker 2: pulled out today from one of our favorite favorite.
Speaker 1: People, Dolly Parton. Yes but yeah, you know you're starting
Speaker 1: the week. If you're not liking how it's starting, then
Speaker 1: make a change right If you don't like the road
Speaker 1: you're walking, start paving another one. I love that from Dolly.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you, Dolly, and we appreciate you for listening
Speaker 1: to the Morning Run with us.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. Please enjoy the
Speaker 2: rest of your Veterans Day, and please take a moment
Speaker 2: to say thank you to event if you get a chance.
Speaker 1: M hm mhm.