Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone,
Speaker 1: and welcome to Morning Run. It's Friday. We made it
Speaker 1: to Friday, and we made it to August. It's August first.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes, and hold on
Speaker 2: to your horses on this one, folks. We don't know
Speaker 2: how this one's gonna go. What's your RA score this morning?
Speaker 2: I just sleep last night.
Speaker 1: Well, sixty nine.
Speaker 2: It was your or ring score. So that's if you
Speaker 2: were in school, that would be a D.
Speaker 1: Or an F. But yes, at least a D four
Speaker 1: hours and fifty two minutes of total sleep. How about you, babe?
Speaker 2: I had a sixty one was my sleep score. But
Speaker 2: I thrive on this time. I've been I don't know
Speaker 2: if I'm just loopy or what, but I'm a little I.
Speaker 1: Feel great to yes, that's awesome. I don't but the
Speaker 1: music has helped. We've been jamming all morning.
Speaker 2: The last song we listened to before we started this
Speaker 2: was Donna Summer Last Dance. So that is where you
Speaker 2: are getting us right now. But I hope you all
Speaker 2: are doing well this morning. We saw it last night.
Speaker 2: Robes the first FIR interview that Kamala Harris has done
Speaker 2: since the election. She did it last night. Did you
Speaker 2: find any irony about where she happened to do it?
Speaker 1: I think it was a deliberate choice and applauded, I'm
Speaker 1: sure by her many fans. She was on the Laid
Speaker 1: Show with Stephen Colbert. Makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: Peace all that together. We'll tell you what she had
Speaker 2: to say last night. And folks, we told you about
Speaker 2: the arrest, of course in the Arkansas hiker murders, but
Speaker 2: Robes the details we're getting now, many people speculate and said,
Speaker 2: probably the last thing those parents did was try to
Speaker 2: protect their kids as they were being attacked. But we're
Speaker 2: getting the details about the mom now and what she did.
Speaker 2: I think every parent and probably every mom, when they
Speaker 2: hear that go yep, that sounds about right.
Speaker 1: Chills from head to toe. And you know what, not
Speaker 1: just about being a mom, a good mom, but also
Speaker 1: about being a good wife.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we're getting some new details there and we'll
Speaker 2: bring those to you this morning. With that story really
Speaker 2: is really the story of the morning. Certainly an awful story,
Speaker 2: but man, there was something about the love of a
Speaker 2: mother and a parent like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, hell, I'm flooded with emotion reading it, and
Speaker 1: it is just oh, it just makes you want to
Speaker 1: hug your kids and hug the people you love. Also
Speaker 1: on the run this morning, a shocking revelation yesterday in
Speaker 1: Texas the three people who were in charge of emergency
Speaker 1: response in Kurrk County were all out of pocket during
Speaker 1: the deadly flooding fourth of July weekend.
Speaker 2: Oh so, this morning, President Trump tweaks his teriffs and
Speaker 2: changes the deadline for implementing them. The markets were not impressed.
Speaker 1: Plus, Florida is having a record year in executions, so
Speaker 1: many that the state may overtake Texas.
Speaker 2: Also, the White House was about to be a construction zone.
Speaker 2: President Trump is about to make a major change that
Speaker 2: he has wanted for years.
Speaker 1: And Justin Timberlake says he considered canceling his tour because
Speaker 1: of the pain he was in and then was shocked
Speaker 1: when doctor told him what was actually wrong with him.
Speaker 1: And he is sharing that news with all of us.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that in just a bit, but we
Speaker 1: begin our run on this Friday morning. In Arkansas, police
Speaker 1: say the man arrested for killing the couple that was
Speaker 1: hiking with their two young children, has admitted to the crime.
Speaker 1: They also released new details about the deaths, including how
Speaker 1: the parents fought to protect their children.
Speaker 2: Andrew James McGann, twenty eight years old. He was arrested
Speaker 2: Wednesday after that five day manhunt. At a press conference yesterday,
Speaker 2: authority said he indicated to them that he committed the murders.
Speaker 2: In the words of the state police spokesperson, I would
Speaker 2: call it an admission.
Speaker 1: He is facing two counts of capital murder in the
Speaker 1: deaths of Clinton and Kristen Brink, who were attacked while
Speaker 1: on a Haikud Devil's Den State Park Saturday with their
Speaker 1: two young children. Police say the parents were both stabbed. McGann,
Speaker 1: according to police, attacked Clinton Brink first, and as that
Speaker 1: attack was happening, Kristin ushered her children to safety before
Speaker 1: then returning back to help her husband. She was then
Speaker 1: killed as well.
Speaker 2: You know, we a lot of folks speculated and just
Speaker 2: wondered what happened there. I don't think this was a
Speaker 2: scenario I considered when you think about how the attack
Speaker 2: might have happened, But to think she because we wondered
Speaker 2: how did the kids have the wherewithal to go? Find
Speaker 2: someone or go find the visitor center. She got them
Speaker 2: on their way and got them to safety and went back.
Speaker 1: To go help her husband.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Other new details though, we heard, folks.
Speaker 2: Police do say they found DNA at the scene and
Speaker 2: it does match mcgans Also, they say one of the
Speaker 2: witnesses told them that a man left the trail with
Speaker 2: what appeared to be blood on his face, and that
Speaker 2: man got into a car. That car was traced to
Speaker 2: Springdale and that's how they ended up finding the suspect
Speaker 2: arresting him at a barber shop. Police said they still
Speaker 2: don't have a mode of no indication of any connection
Speaker 2: of any kind between the suspect and the victims. This
Speaker 2: appeared to be a totally random act and McGann has
Speaker 2: no criminal history, had just moved to the area for
Speaker 2: a new teaching gig, had passed several background checks in
Speaker 2: school districts in Texas, Oklahoma, and now Arkansas.
Speaker 1: Makes a teacher no sense at all, And I'm sure
Speaker 1: more details will continue to emerge, but yes, that question
Speaker 1: to why has not been answered. Next up on the Run,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris said she is taking a break from politics
Speaker 1: in her first post election interview, Harris told the Late
Speaker 1: Show Stephen Colbert that the American political system is broken,
Speaker 1: and when asked if the reason she isn't running for
Speaker 1: California governor was because she's going to run for a different,
Speaker 1: perhaps higher office, she said no.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, she said no.
Speaker 1: She said no. She said no, but added that for
Speaker 1: now phrase no for now?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so again she said it this way,
Speaker 2: for now. I don't want to go back in the system.
Speaker 2: I want to travel the country. I want to listen
Speaker 2: to people. I want to talk with people, and I
Speaker 2: don't want it to be transactional where I'm asking for
Speaker 2: their vote. You buy that?
Speaker 1: No, No, do you really want to go around the
Speaker 1: country listening to people and talk to people with no agenda?
Speaker 1: Of course, your agenda is to potentially seek another office.
Speaker 2: Well, she's trying to figure out how she can best contribute.
Speaker 2: So she's going on a bit of a listening tour,
Speaker 2: if you will, And maybe she comes out of that
Speaker 2: and figure she wants to start a nonprofit.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's possible.
Speaker 2: She also says she and her husband tuned out the
Speaker 2: news for months after she left office, with you there, Sister,
Speaker 2: saying she was just not into self mutilation.
Speaker 1: That's why we don't google ourselves.
Speaker 2: With you there too, Sis Haris said. Instead she watched
Speaker 2: cooking shows.
Speaker 1: We chose Below Deck and ninety Day Fiance, but we
Speaker 1: get you.
Speaker 2: I did get an Omega Markles show there for a
Speaker 2: little while, all right.
Speaker 1: The former Vice president has also been busy writing her
Speaker 1: upcoming memoir. It's called one hundred and seven Days. The
Speaker 1: title gives away the plot. Harris said. The book will
Speaker 1: discuss how in tenths and short her campaign was after
Speaker 1: President Biden abruptly stepped down as the Democratic nominee last summer.
Speaker 1: News of her memoir was released hours before her appearance
Speaker 1: on the Colbert Shore. So all well timed.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll continue on the run here now with
Speaker 2: President Trump. He made a few tariff tweaks. Yesterday signed
Speaker 2: an executive order which adjusted previously announced tariffs on sixty
Speaker 2: eight countries and the European Union.
Speaker 1: Remember those Liberation Day tariffs announced back in April. They
Speaker 1: were supposed to go into effect today August first. However,
Speaker 1: with yesterday's executive order, those Liberation Day tariffs have been adjusted. Wow,
Speaker 1: how many tariffs have been adjusted to all of them?
Speaker 1: And then readjusted and then adjusted again. Well, a lot
Speaker 1: of these adjustments have had those tariffs go down, and
Speaker 1: that new rate will now take effect on August seventh.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it'll see throws more uncertainty and move the
Speaker 2: date back, and the markets reacted and the futures have
Speaker 2: been down this morning at least. But certainty. We just
Speaker 2: need certainty, So let's threw things back up in the air.
Speaker 1: I mean what you say, say what you mean?
Speaker 2: That's funny. Next up on the run here now we're
Speaker 2: going to head down to Florida. At Stay carried out
Speaker 2: its ninth execution of the year last night, setting a
Speaker 2: new state record, one that's likely going to be broken
Speaker 2: again next month, with two more executions planned.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's correct, and it's this month because it's August first.
Speaker 1: I said next month, but it's actually it's actually scheduled
Speaker 1: in two weeks, two of them. All Right before sixty
Speaker 1: year old Edward Zakrazuski was put to death by lethal injection,
Speaker 1: he had some uh, well, he had some interesting final words.
Speaker 1: Here is what Edward Zakrazuski had to say. I want
Speaker 1: to thank the good people of the Sunshine State for
Speaker 1: killing me in the most cold, calculated, clean, humane, efficient
Speaker 1: way possible. I have no complaints. He was pronounced dead
Speaker 1: at six twelve pm.
Speaker 2: Oh zach Zeuski was convicted and sentenced to death with
Speaker 2: the nineteen ninety four machety killings of his wife and
Speaker 2: their two young childs, and testimony the trial revealed after
Speaker 2: his wife asked for a divorce, he told people he
Speaker 2: would rather kill his family than have a divorce. Now,
Speaker 2: Florida has carried out more executions this year than, of course,
Speaker 2: it has ever had, but also than any other state
Speaker 2: this year, including Texas. Texas has had four. South Carolina
Speaker 2: has had four as well, and I believe the country
Speaker 2: has as a whole somewhere around ten left to our schedule,
Speaker 2: and this would end up being a big year, if
Speaker 2: you will, for executions in this country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy to think that Florida has more than
Speaker 1: doubled Texas and South Carolina all right. Next up on
Speaker 1: the run, the three people in charge of emergency response
Speaker 1: in Kirk County, Texas during last month's deadly flooding were
Speaker 1: all out of pocket as that emergency unfolded. Two were
Speaker 1: asleep and another was out of town at a lake house.
Speaker 2: Yeah. These were some pretty hard to hear revelations. They
Speaker 2: came in a legislative hearing held in Kirk County yesterday.
Speaker 2: The county's top of officials gave testimony about their response
Speaker 2: to the two the disaster, which killed at least one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty six people. The county emergency Management director,
Speaker 2: guy named William Thomas, admitted that he was home sick
Speaker 2: the day before the flood hit and didn't participate in
Speaker 2: at least two emergency planning meetings that day leading up
Speaker 2: to the night of the emergency. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He says he was asleep during the emergency and was
Speaker 1: alerted at five thirty am when his wife woke him
Speaker 1: up to tell him that work called. The county sheriff
Speaker 1: was also asleep and didn't wake up until they were
Speaker 1: well into the emergency. And then the county judge, the
Speaker 1: county executive, well, he was away at a lake and
Speaker 1: also didn't wake up until about five thirty am.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then they held this hearing. This was from
Speaker 2: the Texas Legislature, but they actually went to Kerr County
Speaker 2: and had the hearing there. So this was attended by
Speaker 2: a lot of local folks who were impacted by the
Speaker 2: response and to hear these are the three people in
Speaker 2: charge and I mean one representative at some point, Am
Speaker 2: I hearing you right? That the three people in charge
Speaker 2: were essentially nowhere to be found.
Speaker 1: It's unfortunate that it was on a holiday. People take
Speaker 1: that opportunity either to go to a lake cast, to
Speaker 1: sleep in, to not be as you know, you're not
Speaker 1: looking at your phone, you're not worried about getting to work.
Speaker 1: You're just you're in vacation mode.
Speaker 2: And you know what They were challenged on that in
Speaker 2: saying you knew before you went to bed what the
Speaker 2: hell was coming and the possibility you stay just and
Speaker 2: the purpose of this hearing was, of course to get
Speaker 2: answers about what happened during the emergency response and how
Speaker 2: to improve systems in the future. Stay with us here
Speaker 2: on this Friday morning run. When we come back, Justin
Speaker 2: Timberlake was considering ending his tour because he was in
Speaker 2: so much pain. He now knows what was causing it.
Speaker 2: And the White House is about to get a big, new,
Speaker 2: beautiful ballroom. It's gonna cost two hundred million, but I'm
Speaker 2: told you don't have to pay for it.
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Speaker 1: Friday edition of our Morning Run and next up on
Speaker 1: the Run Justin Timberlake just wrapped his two year world tour,
Speaker 1: but he almost didn't make it to the end of
Speaker 1: it because of health issues. Timberlake announcing on social media
Speaker 1: that he was diagnosed with lime disease.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He said he was shocked when he first received
Speaker 2: the diagnosis, but at least he could understand why he
Speaker 2: was feeling massive amounts of nerve, pain, fatigue, sickness while
Speaker 2: he had been performing. He said it was so difficult
Speaker 2: he began to question whether he could actually continue performing.
Speaker 1: Yes, Timberlake posted this, I was faced with a personal
Speaker 1: decision stop touring. I decided the joy the performing brings
Speaker 1: me far outweighs the fleeting stress my body was feeling.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad I kept going. Timberlake said he decided
Speaker 1: to share the news of his diagnosis in order to
Speaker 1: be more transparent about my struggles so that they aren't misinterpreted.
Speaker 2: Didn't I see somewhere he was being criticized for a performance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lackluster performance. My parents saw him on this tour
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and they said it was one of the
Speaker 1: best shows they had ever seen. That it was my
Speaker 1: mom and dad. First of all, I was laughing. Mom
Speaker 1: and dad went to go see JT like.
Speaker 2: The center stage right, so excited.
Speaker 1: But yes, they said it was one of the best
Speaker 1: shows they had ever seen. But maybe he was having
Speaker 1: an off night. And it makes sense now given what
Speaker 1: he was dealing with.
Speaker 2: Isn't that something how we just well, what do I
Speaker 2: always say? Give people a beat before you criticize. You
Speaker 2: just don't know what people.
Speaker 1: Are going It was probably miraculous that he was up
Speaker 1: there performing at all, and he.
Speaker 2: Was considering canceling, and he was ripped for perform good enough.
Speaker 1: It wasn't exciting enough. It wasn't whatever they were.
Speaker 2: Maybe I get it, and maybe he should have been
Speaker 2: more transparent earlier. Maybe maybe, but just give people a
Speaker 2: break sometimes. This ten time Grammy winner canceled postponed multiple
Speaker 2: shows throughout the tour because of health issues. Lime disease
Speaker 2: a reminder here is a bacterial infection transmitted by deer ticks.
Speaker 2: Three stages of the disease, which can include flu like symptoms,
Speaker 2: joint pain, fatigue, and other neurological and cardiac issues. When
Speaker 2: caught early, it's successfully treated with antibiotics in most cases.
Speaker 1: I know you won't be surprised to hear this, but
Speaker 1: about five years ago, I too had a tickborn illness
Speaker 1: and it's it's real. I mean I was fevers and aches.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what was going on. I finally went
Speaker 1: to the doctor and boila tickborn illness. Had to be
Speaker 1: on antibiotics, but it did clear it up.
Speaker 2: Where do you where do you get ticks?
Speaker 1: Well? I got them covering hurricane in North Carolina. That's
Speaker 1: you're out in the what I was out in floodwaters
Speaker 1: and got some tics. It's I think it's called Rocky
Speaker 1: Mountain fever down there in North Carolina. Wow, I feel you.
Speaker 1: Jt all right. Timberlake ended his post by thanking his wife,
Speaker 1: Jessica Biel and their two sons, saying, I love this.
Speaker 1: Nothing is more powerful than your unconditional love. You are
Speaker 1: my heart and my home. I'm on my way.
Speaker 2: That's cute.
Speaker 1: That was very cute.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I hope he's doing better. His is on
Speaker 2: his way, final leg of the run. Here. Now White
Speaker 2: House gonna be on the construction for the next few years.
Speaker 2: The Trump administration unveiled plans to build a new ninety
Speaker 2: thousand square foot ballroom at the White House.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is like the Gilded Age.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly what it's going to look like.
Speaker 1: Right. Wow, Okay, nothing's being torn down. Rather, they're making
Speaker 1: the addition to the east wing. President Trump has been
Speaker 1: talking about this for years. The White House doesn't actually
Speaker 1: have space for large events like state dinners. I did
Speaker 1: not know that. I didn't know that when they need
Speaker 1: to have those large events, they actually have to put
Speaker 1: up tents next to the White House to accommodate a
Speaker 1: larger number of guests.
Speaker 2: So now for everybody say they didn't know that, now
Speaker 2: it's going to make sense to you. When you ever
Speaker 2: hear about a state dinner and you see the video
Speaker 2: of people on the red carpet entering, there's a red
Speaker 2: carpet and they're walking through a tent because they don't
Speaker 2: have enough room at the actual White House to do it.
Speaker 2: They literally have to have state dinners.
Speaker 1: It's a big house. How do they not that's wild
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: Don't have enough space for it? Yes, doing this renovation now.
Speaker 2: The new ballroom's going to hold six hundred and fifty guests.
Speaker 2: Construction begins in September, is supposed to be done before
Speaker 2: the president's term ends. This will be the first structural
Speaker 2: addition to the White House since the Truman Balcony was
Speaker 2: at it in nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the cost though out it's just a ballroom, two
Speaker 1: hundred million, dollars. Who is paying you ask? That is unclear.
Speaker 1: The White House has, the president and other donors are
Speaker 1: committed to raising the money, and in great Trump fashion,
Speaker 1: here was his quote. I love this. I'm good at
Speaker 1: building things, and we're going to build quickly and on time.
Speaker 2: I kind of believe I kind of do too.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, that'll be fun and exciting, and I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for my invitation. It's actually terrazy picked out already,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: But in all seriousness, the People's House probably needs that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we shouldn't. I'm not against it. A state dinner in
Speaker 2: a tent.
Speaker 1: That's not let's.
Speaker 2: Stop doing no.
Speaker 1: That doesn't show any kind of good representation of this country.
Speaker 2: So all right, that's kind of cool. Before we let
Speaker 2: you go on this Friday, something we like for you
Speaker 2: to consider it is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1: This is actually something for you, I think if you're
Speaker 1: gonna get why I pick this. Games are won by
Speaker 1: players who focus on the playing field, not by those
Speaker 1: whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard. I like that
Speaker 1: because we're all looking for the outcome. We're all looking
Speaker 1: to see did I win? Did I get it? Did
Speaker 1: we are we there? Instead? Or maybe we're looking at
Speaker 1: the clock or whatever. We're all focused on how we
Speaker 1: measure our success. But if you actually just focus on
Speaker 1: playing the game, that's how you really win.
Speaker 2: Oh look at you, but I got nothing ad.
Speaker 1: I thought it would be from a like a coach
Speaker 1: or something, and I thought it was kind of cool
Speaker 1: it was from Warren Buffett. I mean making a sports
Speaker 1: analogy there with how you win.
Speaker 2: Games are won by players who focus on the playing field,
Speaker 2: not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.
Speaker 2: Keep that one on you today. That's a really, really
Speaker 2: good one to apply to a lot of facets of life.
Speaker 2: And with that, folks, we always appreciate you running with us.
Speaker 2: Don't miss our recovery run tomorrow morning. What is something
Speaker 2: you know for sure it's going to be in the
Speaker 2: recovery run we did this week.
Speaker 1: I would say going to Ava's improv theater Showkay that
Speaker 1: I was about to go. We're gonna go do it
Speaker 1: again tonight too, so we'll have a lot to talk about.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, some folks, we always appreciate you running with us.
Speaker 2: I'm TJ and.
Speaker 1: I'm Amy Robock. Have a great Friday and an even
Speaker 1: better weekend.