Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
Speaker 1: morning everyone, this is your Morning Run for May fifteenth.
Speaker 1: I'm Amy Robot and.
Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holmes. Everybody check out Amy Robot now because
Speaker 2: she might be a mess later or in party mode.
Speaker 2: Congratulations is graduation day. You're going to your oldest is
Speaker 2: going to be graduating today from NYU, and you're either
Speaker 2: going to be crying like a baby later or party
Speaker 2: in heart that you got one over with and out
Speaker 2: of the way.
Speaker 1: Yes, my bank account is going to be very joyful today.
Speaker 1: The last tuition payment was made a few months ago.
Speaker 1: But yes, we're celebrating ava and getting to go to
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. That's a pretty cool venue for a college graduation.
Speaker 1: So I'm very proud of her and all she's accomplished.
Speaker 1: She is a bright, beautiful human who has an amazing
Speaker 1: future and I'm excited for her and a.
Speaker 2: Lot of your parents are going through. That is that
Speaker 2: season where it's high school, whether it's college, congratulation. Enjoy
Speaker 2: the season. But we do want to get going on
Speaker 2: our run this morning, on this Thursday morning, and coming
Speaker 2: up today, President Trump on the final leg of his
Speaker 2: four day trip across the Middle East, closing in on
Speaker 2: his trillion dollar mission. Meanwhile, President Zalinski showed up this
Speaker 2: morning for peace talks with nobody to talk to, stood
Speaker 2: up by Trump and Pudin.
Speaker 1: Plus, the Supreme Court is taking a birthright citizenship and
Speaker 1: owe so much more. Bottom line, can district judges impose
Speaker 1: a nationwide block on Trump's executive orders? Also, it is
Speaker 1: day four of the Sean Diddy Combs trial and star
Speaker 1: witness Cassie Ventura is back on the stand after a
Speaker 1: second day of graphic and heartbreaking testimony.
Speaker 2: Also on the run this morning, some Starbucks baristas on
Speaker 2: strike this week because they don't like being told what
Speaker 2: to where to work. Guess not everybody looks good in black. Also,
Speaker 2: same app, newish name. A surprise announcement, the streaming app
Speaker 2: Max is changing its name two HBO Max might sound
Speaker 2: familiar because that was its previous name. No doubt, you know,
Speaker 2: I went back and I'm not sure which one of
Speaker 2: those stories is my favorite today, Starbucks or HBO Max,
Speaker 2: For those two are doozies.
Speaker 1: It is because you know, I don't know about anyone else,
Speaker 1: but I still have old apps on my phone and
Speaker 1: on and I always get confused which one is the
Speaker 1: right one because they've changed their name so many times.
Speaker 2: Well, this story is not going to help you. It
Speaker 2: is certain Max is going back to its old name.
Speaker 2: We'll explain why and it actually makes sense.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we begin our run though overseas where
Speaker 1: President Trump is on the final leg of his Middle
Speaker 1: East tour. Trump is headed to the United Arab Emirates
Speaker 1: after a headline making trip across Katar and Saudi Arabia
Speaker 1: this week, and he seems.
Speaker 2: To be getting closer to that trillion dollar goal in
Speaker 2: the region, securing several lucrative business deals for the US
Speaker 2: yesterday and cutter totally more than two hundred and forty
Speaker 2: three billion dollars. That, of course, now in addition to
Speaker 2: the six hundred billion dollars in commitments he got from
Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1: One of the biggest deals happened yesterday with Qatar Airwaves,
Speaker 1: who announced on an historic who announced an historic purchase
Speaker 1: of one hundred and sixty Boeing jetliners with the option
Speaker 1: of purchasing fifty more so, it is Boeing's largest sale
Speaker 1: ever of its wide body airplanes. The White House released
Speaker 1: a statement about the sale, calling President Trump the deal
Speaker 1: maker in chief.
Speaker 2: He's making deals, but he's also being a diplomat on
Speaker 2: this trip, not all business. A major breakthrough with Syria,
Speaker 2: Trump met with series new president yesterday urged him to
Speaker 2: normalize relations with that country's longtime rival Israel. The request
Speaker 2: came after Trump announced he would lift all economic sanctions
Speaker 2: against the country.
Speaker 1: And when Trump flies to Abu Dhabi later today, he
Speaker 1: will meet with the UAE's leader and discuss another business
Speaker 1: deal related to artificial intelligence. So he has been wheeling
Speaker 1: and dealing across the Middle East. It was noted though,
Speaker 1: that when the discussions were made about the Boeing jetliners
Speaker 1: and the lucrative deals made with Cutter, no one including
Speaker 1: the president thus that luxury Boeing jetliner that will be
Speaker 1: donated as the new Air Force one. Still a lot
Speaker 1: of controversy over that here in the States, But as
Speaker 1: far as we can tell, President Trump is going forward
Speaker 1: with that plan for a new Air Force one.
Speaker 2: What is there to talk about. They're giving me a
Speaker 2: four hundred million on a plane. I'm accepting it. Everybody
Speaker 2: shut up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he said it would be stupid to reject the offer.
Speaker 2: He we'll continue on this Thursday morning. Run now, and
Speaker 2: somebody should probably tell Ukrainian President Zelenski that his date
Speaker 2: is not coming. He arrived in Turkey this morning for
Speaker 2: peace talks, but at this point he doesn't have anybody
Speaker 2: to talk to. Puutin ain't coming, Trump ain't coming.
Speaker 1: You Actually, we were just watching the arrival of Zelenski
Speaker 1: and you said, there he is all alone on the tarmac.
Speaker 1: Ukraine and Russia had signaled that the two countries would
Speaker 1: have direct talks today on ending their three year wars.
Speaker 1: Zelenski then proposed those direct talks between him and President Putin.
Speaker 1: Putin even signaled in recent days he was open to
Speaker 1: the idea, and President Trump, who yes, is on that
Speaker 1: Middle East trip not too far for him to go
Speaker 1: over to Turkey, suggested he might change his schedule and
Speaker 1: head to Istanbul for the meeting.
Speaker 2: But now it appears nobody told Zelensky he is actually
Speaker 2: now being stood up. It appears by Putin and Trump.
Speaker 2: It's unclear if the two sides Russian Ukraine will even
Speaker 2: have their delegations meet. This has been very confusing, very uncertain,
Speaker 2: but Moscow has confirmed Putin will not be there. However,
Speaker 2: the Russians do have a delegation there. Now, of course
Speaker 2: you do have a US delegation that's going to be going.
Speaker 2: Secretary of State Rubio is going to be there, and
Speaker 2: Zelensky is there along with a Ukrainian delegation. But they
Speaker 2: actually have not confirmed whether anybody is going to meet,
Speaker 2: even though they're all in the same city right now.
Speaker 2: If they do meet, the Ukraine officials and the Russians,
Speaker 2: this would be the first face to face meeting in
Speaker 2: three years. That is no small thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so let's hope it goes forward. And I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe Zelensky can just sit it out and let the
Speaker 1: delegates do their thing.
Speaker 2: But we shall see.
Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we head to d C,
Speaker 1: where today the Supreme Court is taking up birthright citizenship.
Speaker 1: Justices will hear arguments over President Trump's emergency request to
Speaker 1: lift the nationwide ban that is blocking his executive order
Speaker 1: to end birthright citizenship.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, he wants to end birthright citizenship. He wants
Speaker 2: to limit that to only children born to lawful permanent
Speaker 2: residents in the US. This has been the case in
Speaker 2: this country, and a lot of people say this is
Speaker 2: the beauty of this country. In a lot of ways
Speaker 2: that the fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution gives citizenship
Speaker 2: to any child born in the US, regardless of your
Speaker 2: legal status of your parents. So it's that simple. We've
Speaker 2: all grown up knowing this. If you are born in
Speaker 2: this country, on this soil, you're a US citizen. Nothing
Speaker 2: else talk about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you say, it's that simple, And that's what legal
Speaker 1: scholars say. Trump's planned and birthright citizenship they believe will
Speaker 1: be struck down. But the court today, this is what's interesting,
Speaker 1: is focusing on whether local district judges have the authority
Speaker 1: to block Trump policies nationwide. So the Trump administration is
Speaker 1: asking the justices to limit that block to only the
Speaker 1: individual people or organizations who are suing against his executive order.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: I hope you all catch that, because this is a really, really,
Speaker 2: really big deal. Because the individual courts a smaller court
Speaker 2: and a smaller jurisdiction, Why should they have the right
Speaker 2: to tell the president what he can do across the nation.
Speaker 2: That's the argument that's now being made. And if he
Speaker 2: is allowed that right, then will so many these He's
Speaker 2: been sued for everything, it feels like, so he would
Speaker 2: have then the power to still keep policies in place
Speaker 2: in the nation, even if those policies don't apply to
Speaker 2: certain people who are suing him. Right, that is a
Speaker 2: big deal. It is so, yes, he could implement this
Speaker 2: birthright citizenship nation why his executive order as some of
Speaker 2: the legal cases are making their way through the legal system.
Speaker 2: The ruling could also determine whether lower courts can block yes,
Speaker 2: federal layoffs, funding freezes, deportation protocols, all those other things
Speaker 2: we've been hearing about. And this is rare ropes. I
Speaker 2: didn't realize it was Supreme Court this time of year
Speaker 2: to convene a case is not really something they do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they say, this is a May surprise that you
Speaker 1: do not see the Supreme Court convening in the month
Speaker 1: of May. It's just incredibly rare. So it speaks to
Speaker 1: the level of importance, at least that the justices felt
Speaker 1: this rose to that level. There are so many legality
Speaker 1: or legal issues going on right now. It's incredibly confusing. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: we need the nation's highest court to clear it up.
Speaker 1: What can happen, what can proceed while there are lawsuits ongoing?
Speaker 2: Whoo, all right, hope y'all got that.
Speaker 1: It is confusing, but we will see what the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court decides to do. Hopefully they say by early summer.
Speaker 1: Next up on the run more explosive testimony yesterday from
Speaker 1: the prosecution star witness at the Diddy trial. We're talking,
Speaker 1: of course, about Cassie Ventura. She was on the stand
Speaker 1: all day Wednesday and draw bombshell after bombshell describing several
Speaker 1: instances of Shawn Combe's allegedly beating her and on one occasion,
Speaker 1: she says raping her a.
Speaker 2: Ventura, who dated Combs for ten years, testified that she
Speaker 2: has been to rehab on several occasions, gone through trauma therapy,
Speaker 2: and was suicidal for a time. This is what she
Speaker 2: said on the stand yesterday quote, I didn't want to
Speaker 2: be alive anymore. At that point, I couldn't take the
Speaker 2: pain that I was in anymore, and so I just
Speaker 2: tried to walk out the front door into traffic. Now,
Speaker 2: she said it was ultimately her now husband who stopped
Speaker 2: her from hurting herself.
Speaker 1: Yes. Dressed in a great turtleneck dress and a blackjacket,
Speaker 1: Ventur also walked the jury through several images they were
Speaker 1: shown of the so called freakofs. They showed some still pictures,
Speaker 1: and she was pointing out the people who were in
Speaker 1: the images and at one point telling them that's me.
Speaker 1: Venor also for the first time publicly acknowledged this settlement
Speaker 1: agreement she reached with Combs after she filed that lawsuit
Speaker 1: against him in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: May you remember you filed the She filed the lawsuit
Speaker 2: less than twenty four hours later, he settled, and it
Speaker 2: was widely reported at the time that the amount was
Speaker 2: thirty million dollars dollars. She conferred yesterday it was actually
Speaker 2: twenty million dollars that they settled for. She is expected
Speaker 2: to be able to stand for the rest of the week.
Speaker 2: Cross examination the rope starts this morning, and that is
Speaker 2: going to be some powerful stuff because the defense, as
Speaker 2: we know, they're supposed to do their job, and she is,
Speaker 2: by any account a victim. We've seen her be a
Speaker 2: victim on video, and they're going to have to go
Speaker 2: after her and attack a lot of what she's saying.
Speaker 2: This is always uncomfortable at trials.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be the defense basically trying to
Speaker 1: go after her credibility in the fact that she was
Speaker 1: a willing participant who was a consenting adult, and so
Speaker 1: it's most likely going to be getting very uncomfortable in
Speaker 1: that Manhattan courtroom.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, stay with us here not Thursday Morning Ron.
Speaker 2: When we continue, Starbucks has a problem. Some of their
Speaker 2: baristas don't like the new dress code. Black ain't for everybody, apparently,
Speaker 2: Also coming up one of your favorite apps, favorite streaming
Speaker 2: as it's changing its name back to its old name,
Speaker 2: we'll explain.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to this Thursday edition of our Morning Run,
Speaker 1: and next up on the run, some Starbucks baristas are
Speaker 1: on strike this week. They have staged walkouts and protests
Speaker 1: its stores across the country, demanding that the company come
Speaker 1: to the negotiating table.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what has the baristas so worked up? You ask,
Speaker 2: black Shirts? They are protesting a new Starbucks dress code
Speaker 2: that was implemented this week. And the new dress code
Speaker 2: requires them to wear solid black shirts with khaki, black
Speaker 2: or blue denim bottoms, and of course they have to
Speaker 2: wear that iconic now green Starbucks apron. What's the problem, ropes?
Speaker 2: That's no good?
Speaker 1: They say. They liked the previous dress code, which gave
Speaker 1: them more options for colors and allowed for patterned shirts.
Speaker 1: Everyone loves a good pattern, don't they. Starbucks claims the
Speaker 1: change was made in order to keep a more uniform
Speaker 1: look at their stores, which contributes to a more inviting
Speaker 1: experience for customers. They say, and you know what I
Speaker 1: get this. The company also said having them wear the
Speaker 1: black T shirts will also allow the green aprons to
Speaker 1: pop a little more.
Speaker 2: Starbucks would even further, They say, Hey, we will actually
Speaker 2: give you two free black shirts, so you don't have
Speaker 2: to use your own if you don't want to. So
Speaker 2: what's the big deal?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: You might be hearing this story right now and rolling
Speaker 2: your eyes a little bit, but I kind of did too.
Speaker 2: But then it seemed pretty serious because the union representing
Speaker 2: the barista says the company shouldn't have made a change
Speaker 2: without collective bargaining. They say they should have been able
Speaker 2: to come negotiate any type of change in the uniform,
Speaker 2: and the union put out a statement, this is pretty
Speaker 2: strong over some black T shirts robes, They say, quote
Speaker 2: Starbucks has lost its way.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Instead of listening to riestas who make the Starbucks experience
Speaker 2: what it is, they are focused on all the wrong things,
Speaker 2: like implementing a restrictive new dress code. Customers don't care
Speaker 2: what color our clothes are when they're waiting thirty minutes
Speaker 2: for a latte. End quote. I got all kinds of.
Speaker 1: Things thirty minutes for a latte. I've never waited thirty
Speaker 1: minutes for a latte. Don't A lot of places don't,
Speaker 1: most places especially, I mean, they have dress codes. This
Speaker 1: is just a part of working at an organization. If
Speaker 1: you choose to work there, you got to follow the rules.
Speaker 2: Well, the argument is those rules we are under a
Speaker 2: contract with you all. If you make any changes, we
Speaker 2: should have been at the negotiating table to be a
Speaker 2: part of the change. That kind of makes sense.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well Starbucks fired back to the union statement,
Speaker 1: saying this, it would be more productive if the union
Speaker 1: would put the same effort into coming back to the
Speaker 1: table that they're putting into protesting wearing black shirts to work.
Speaker 1: And so the tid for tat continues. And by the way,
Speaker 1: we're talking about a thousand baristas over I guess seventy
Speaker 1: five stores, So it does represent less than one percent
Speaker 1: of Starbucks workers who have now either protested or done
Speaker 1: a walkout. So the impact probably is fairly minimal to
Speaker 1: the customers and to the experience. So not sure how
Speaker 1: much of a power grab this will be.
Speaker 2: You want to be sympathetic to the baristas. Obviously you do,
Speaker 2: because they do. We've seen plenty they They're busting their
Speaker 2: butts back there. People are yelling at them, streaming at
Speaker 2: them to trying to get your name right on the cup.
Speaker 2: So you do want to be sympathetic. But I've read
Speaker 2: some of the statements. I'm like, wow, this is Is
Speaker 2: it that deep? It's a black T shirt.
Speaker 1: It's a classic staple. That's what I would say. They
Speaker 1: want to have an issue pairs well with everything.
Speaker 2: Take an issue with the ugly green apron if you
Speaker 2: had an how about forcing me to wear patterned shirts?
Speaker 1: When I would have an issue?
Speaker 2: And the Starbucks are just kidding. We love those green aprons. Okay,
Speaker 2: we love them all right. Final leg of our run,
Speaker 2: no doubt. Favorite story of the day. A streaming app
Speaker 2: that is clearly having an identity crisis. Max, formerly known
Speaker 2: as HBO Max, It is changing its name two HBO Max,
Speaker 2: get It, got It. We're gonna say this for you
Speaker 2: one more time for the people in the back roads
Speaker 2: in case they didn't understand it.
Speaker 1: Yes, the app currently known as Max, where you watch
Speaker 1: shows like White Lotus will now be renamed to HBO Max,
Speaker 1: which was its previous name. Does that make sense now? Yeah.
Speaker 1: The parent company, Warner Brothers Discovery made the announcement yesterday
Speaker 1: and it was a surprise announcement that it was bringing
Speaker 1: its old name back, just two years after changing the
Speaker 1: name to Max.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you hear the reasons for it, and it
Speaker 2: does kind of make sense. I mean, a little egg
Speaker 2: on your face. You just changed your name two years
Speaker 2: ago and now you just changed it back. So they
Speaker 2: did have a little fun with this, so they're embracing
Speaker 2: how ridiculous it is, but it makes sense. They made
Speaker 2: a determination that the HBO brand was being diluted because
Speaker 2: two years ago they changed the name from HBO Max
Speaker 2: to just Max. Why would they do that. They intentionally
Speaker 2: dropped the HBO because they thought they could appeal to
Speaker 2: a broader audience. The suggestion that people hear HBO and
Speaker 2: they associate just certain things. So they thought HBO Max
Speaker 2: is only that limited stuff we used to get from HBO,
Speaker 2: So they dropped it and thought this was going to
Speaker 2: appeal to a broader audiit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, unfortunately that strategy did not work because though
Speaker 1: it sounded good to include all of the Discovery Channel
Speaker 1: shows give that wider range of content to customers, it
Speaker 1: turns out the customers didn't want that. They just want
Speaker 1: quality shows that HBO has come to be known for.
Speaker 1: So in other words, Old Seasons of thousand Pounds Sisters
Speaker 1: doesn't exactly belong in the same breath as White Lotus
Speaker 1: or The Last of Us.
Speaker 2: That makes sense though, right, it does?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Execs also demerate they're a boy changing the name to
Speaker 2: just Max. A lot of people were confused and they
Speaker 2: wondered if HBO had gone away altogether. So what's happening
Speaker 2: now is that they're conceding that they can't compete with
Speaker 2: the variety and the everything for everyone model of a
Speaker 2: behemoth like Netflix. So they're now accepting it, waving the
Speaker 2: white flag, and we're going to stay in our lane.
Speaker 1: That sometimes works best, doesn't if you just stay in
Speaker 1: your lane? So bottom line quality over quantity. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you're thinking, wait, is that the only name? This
Speaker 1: is the fourth time they have changed the name of
Speaker 1: the app. And this is speaking to what I was
Speaker 1: talking about earlier, because I had HBO go and then
Speaker 1: my passwords changed for them because I had to change
Speaker 1: the app. I think I might even still have that app.
Speaker 1: I need to get rid of it. And then HBO
Speaker 1: now which I had that as well, forgot I remember,
Speaker 1: and then HBO Max and then Max. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: it has been super confusing. So hopefully they stick with this.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, they stay in their lane and we
Speaker 1: can just delete all the other apps and confusion and
Speaker 1: passwords and user names. It's it's all too much, so please,
Speaker 1: please please, that's hopefully this one sticks.
Speaker 2: Glad they had. It's cool at least when they acknowledge,
Speaker 2: we know this is silly and we feel stupid, but
Speaker 2: this is why we're doing it. And they embraced it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, they had some fun with it on social media,
Speaker 1: making fun of themselves because they knew that people were
Speaker 1: going to give them some yeah.
Speaker 2: Some craps. But now as we leave you on this
Speaker 2: Thursday morning run, we'd like for you to consider it
Speaker 2: is our quote of the.
Speaker 1: Day from the files of TJ.
Speaker 2: Holmes.
Speaker 1: Classy is when you have a lot to say, but
Speaker 1: you choose to stay silent in front of fools. I
Speaker 1: can hear that coming out of your mouth.
Speaker 2: How hard is that to do for everybody. It's hard
Speaker 2: to stay silent in front of fools.
Speaker 1: I believe you even said to me yesterday, why are
Speaker 1: you arguing with with someone who's being so foolish?
Speaker 2: It was somebody we shouldn't call out for being I won't.
Speaker 1: Call them out, but you were hearing the conversation as
Speaker 1: I was having a You know, it was a it
Speaker 1: was a calm argument, but a disagreement.
Speaker 2: And it was ridiculous. Clearly you were one hundred percent right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I say, why are you arguing? You know some mom
Speaker 2: always said, don't argue with the fool because from a distance,
Speaker 2: nobody can tell who was who.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So honestly, when I saw this quote, it reminded
Speaker 1: me of yesterday, and I just thought, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is perfectly in theme, and I get it.
Speaker 2: For some reason, I think I got this from George Clooney.
Speaker 2: I don't that might not. Don't hold me to it, folks,
Speaker 2: but for some reason, I feel like this came from
Speaker 2: Coloney for some reason, I can't remember, but take that
Speaker 2: with you today, folks. Classy is when you have a
Speaker 2: lot to say, but you choose to stay silent in
Speaker 2: front of fools. So practice some silence today, folks, but
Speaker 2: hopefully you're not around too many fools.
Speaker 1: But for now I'm teaching, and I maybe Robock have
Speaker 1: a great Friday Eve. Everybody will see you on the
Speaker 1: run tomorrow