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Speaker 1: morning everyone, It's Monday, March thirty. First, welcome to your
Speaker 1: Morning Run.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ Holmes. And on the
Speaker 2: Monday Morning Run, is this hopeful or not? Another possible
Speaker 2: cease fire on the table between Israel and Hamas. Also
Speaker 2: this morning, a handful of rescues keep hope alive in
Speaker 2: me and Mark where the death toll continues to climb
Speaker 2: following Friday's massive earthquake.
Speaker 1: And many thought President Trump was joking when he's talked
Speaker 1: about a third term in office. Well he's made it
Speaker 1: very clear now that he's serious. And speaking of Sirius,
Speaker 1: President Trump says, get ready. More tariffs are coumbing this week,
Speaker 1: calling one of them the Big One.
Speaker 2: Plus this morning, Prince Harry is being accused of bullying
Speaker 2: and harassment. Also a big change at the White House.
Speaker 2: Corresponding to dinner, they are dropping the comedian problem is
Speaker 2: they had already hired one.
Speaker 1: And a lot of talk today about country musician Morgan
Speaker 1: Wallen abruptly walking off the NSL set Saturday night, followed
Speaker 1: by a cryptic social media post. Plus award winning actor
Speaker 1: Richard Chamberlain passed away over the weekend at the age
Speaker 1: of ninety.
Speaker 2: Oh, so the final four is set, and it's a
Speaker 2: final four like we've only seen one other time before. Also, well,
Speaker 2: we don't ever want to see this again. An ugly
Speaker 2: scene at an NBA game over the weekend, five players,
Speaker 2: two coaches thrown out and suspensions might be coming.
Speaker 1: And poor snow White in just its second week at
Speaker 1: the box office, a disastrous drop in an already dismal
Speaker 1: showing for the Disney film.
Speaker 2: But we're going to try to find a way this
Speaker 2: morning with snow White. We are going to endorse the
Speaker 2: film in a way. We've been talking about this a lot,
Speaker 2: and we saw the movie, but then we appreciated and
Speaker 2: enjoyed it more after we started listening to the soundtrack afterwards. Really,
Speaker 2: it's really something to behold, and we want to lift
Speaker 2: this movie up. It seems like it's nothing but bad
Speaker 2: news for this movie.
Speaker 3: That's true. We have enjoyed parts of it after the fact.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, but we want to start this morning
Speaker 2: with a sign of possible progress. Hamas has agreed to
Speaker 2: a proposed ceasefire deal with Israel. Israel hasn't agreed to
Speaker 2: a damn thing yet and has continued its promised military offensive.
Speaker 1: In fact, ten people were killed, including five children, in
Speaker 1: an Israeli air strike, according to health officials in Gaza.
Speaker 1: That attack came on Eid, which wraps up the holiest
Speaker 1: time of the year from Muslims, and it comes as
Speaker 1: Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal that was proposed by Egypt.
Speaker 2: Yeah. As part of that deal, Hamas would release five
Speaker 2: living hostages. Israel would again allow aid to flow into Gaza.
Speaker 2: Both sides would agree to a four to day ceasefire,
Speaker 2: among other things. But all of that was not good
Speaker 2: enough for Israel, which countered the proposal and demanded more
Speaker 2: hostages be released.
Speaker 1: Israel broke the previous ceasefire about two weeks ago with
Speaker 1: a surprise bombardment of strikes that killed four hundred people.
Speaker 1: Israel at the time said it was frustrated with the
Speaker 1: lack of progress after the first phase that the ceasefire
Speaker 1: ended on more mar First, let's hope that this may
Speaker 1: maybe a baby step towards another ceasefire, and.
Speaker 2: We go to our next leg where you just said
Speaker 2: the word hope. Ropes. They're certainly holding on to it
Speaker 2: overseas now with a growing death toll from the earthquake
Speaker 2: that rocked Meanmar and Thailand. As of this recording, at
Speaker 2: least seventeen hundred people are confirmed dead, another thirty four
Speaker 2: hundred injured. More than one hundred others still remain missing.
Speaker 1: So rescues are underway as we speak. In fact, earlier
Speaker 1: this morning, search crews were able to free four more
Speaker 1: people from collapse buildings in me and mar That was
Speaker 1: three days ago that this earthquake hit. So among them
Speaker 1: was a pregnant woman, a young girl. In Bangkok, at
Speaker 1: least eighteen people were killed with that earthquake, including eleven
Speaker 1: in a high rise building under construction that completely collapsed.
Speaker 2: Okay, so desperate searches continue now. They got cranes involved,
Speaker 2: dog sniffers involved, looking for more than seventy people who
Speaker 2: are believed to be buried under the rubble. The searches
Speaker 2: are happy in difficult conditions. Temperatures are above one hundred
Speaker 2: degrees and there have been numerous after shocks and even
Speaker 2: second recorded earthquake, A second one that was I think
Speaker 2: that was a pretty good It was.
Speaker 1: A five point one, a five point one earthquake. Also
Speaker 1: adding to all of this chaos, Me and Mar is
Speaker 1: embroiled in a four year civil war. So on Sunday,
Speaker 1: the National Unity government announced it would implement a two
Speaker 1: week pause in offensive military operations in the areas affected
Speaker 1: by the earthquake. The military government in Me and Maar
Speaker 1: has not made a similar announcement, so it's really unclear
Speaker 1: right now what's going to happen with the fighting as
Speaker 1: search and rescue operations are underway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so far, China, Russia, India have also in emergency
Speaker 2: teams and supplies to the area, in addition to Thailand, Malaysia,
Speaker 2: Vietnam as well. The US has sent nothing yet today,
Speaker 2: but has pledged to help. Yesterday, the US Embassy and
Speaker 2: Mianmar announced on its website that the US would provide
Speaker 2: up to two million dollars in aid that would be
Speaker 2: disseminated through humanitarian groups based in the area.
Speaker 1: Well next up on the run, we have heard President
Speaker 1: Trump talk about a third term before. We've even recently
Speaker 1: reported on a Tennessee congressman who proposed amending the twenty
Speaker 1: second Amendment for another term for Trump. But you know what,
Speaker 1: it all seemed pretty far fetched. However, we're now learning
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem that way to President Trump.
Speaker 2: Have we not learned yet to take this man at
Speaker 2: his word? Yesterday, Trump told NBC News that he is
Speaker 2: not joking about trying to serve a third term as president,
Speaker 2: saying there are methods which you could do it. When
Speaker 2: asked if one way to do it would be to
Speaker 2: have Vice President jd. Vance run for the top job
Speaker 2: and then pass the baton to him, Trump answered, well,
Speaker 2: that's one, but there are others too. When asked to
Speaker 2: give another way, he refused to elaborate.
Speaker 1: So the twenty second Amendment, in case you need a
Speaker 1: little refresher, was added to the Constitution back in nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty one to make sure that no person is elected
Speaker 1: to the office of president more than twice. This was
Speaker 1: put in place after FDR was elected four times in
Speaker 1: a row. Now, some legal experts who have weighed in
Speaker 1: on Trump's latest statements believe it would require an extraordinary,
Speaker 1: if not impossible, level of support from elected officials, the courts,
Speaker 1: and of course the voters.
Speaker 2: Okay, so they're suggesting that Trump is instead talking about
Speaker 2: a third term to show as much strength as possible,
Speaker 2: knowing that he's trying to be anything other than a
Speaker 2: lame duck president.
Speaker 1: Hm.
Speaker 2: Trump will be eighty two at the end of his
Speaker 2: second term as president. With so much talk about age
Speaker 2: in the last round of the presidential election, I can't
Speaker 2: imagine folks being on board with me. Eighty two, My goodness,
Speaker 2: most stressful job in the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and when asked, why would you want to still
Speaker 1: work at eighty two, he just said.
Speaker 3: I like working.
Speaker 2: I believe it when he says that I do too.
Speaker 2: But a third term, he says, he's not joking. This
Speaker 2: is not going to go away. Everything that we've heard
Speaker 2: that we thought was far fetched, he ends up doing it.
Speaker 1: Well, if he's already talking about it three months into
Speaker 1: his second term, you know it's on his mind now.
Speaker 1: It's certainly going to be on his mind in a
Speaker 1: year or two from now.
Speaker 2: All Right, we'll get to You're on the run here
Speaker 2: with some more Trump. This time we're talking tariffs, and
Speaker 2: President Trump says, you ain't seen nothing yet. What he
Speaker 2: called the big one is coming this week and markets,
Speaker 2: world leaders, all of us just bracing ourselves.
Speaker 1: Yeah, truly, And it's on April second, that's this Wednesday,
Speaker 1: is what President Trump has dubbed Liberation day, when the
Speaker 1: White House will announce a whole new round of tariffs.
Speaker 1: The President says, these are reciprocal tariffs that will apply
Speaker 1: to all countries.
Speaker 2: And keep in mind, this is going to be different
Speaker 2: from the auto tariffs we've already heard about, from the
Speaker 2: steel tariffs already announced, and different from the tariffs aimed
Speaker 2: directly at certain countries Canada, Mexico, China, Venezuela, the EU
Speaker 2: with the wine and the liquor tariffs.
Speaker 3: I can't keep them all straight, babe, I just can't.
Speaker 2: Well, you're going to have a good time on Wednesday,
Speaker 2: because he's announcing a whole new round this coming. So
Speaker 2: the markets already have seen this morning, the futures at
Speaker 2: least of this recording. The markets aren't liking what they're seeing,
Speaker 2: and all the markets are scheduled, at least the ones
Speaker 2: here in the US look like they're going to end
Speaker 2: the month down based on all this chaos we've seen
Speaker 2: in this month.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you think that he's named April second Liberation Day
Speaker 1: to avoid doing it tomorrow, which is April Fool's Day?
Speaker 3: And he might think people think he's kidding.
Speaker 2: I don't ever think he's kidding, even on April fools.
Speaker 2: Whatever announcement he makes, I'll take.
Speaker 3: Him word all right.
Speaker 1: Next up on our Run. We talked here last week
Speaker 1: about Prince Harry expressing his devastation in his shock after
Speaker 1: stepping down from a charity he founded in honor of
Speaker 1: his mother. Well, now the executive director of that charity
Speaker 1: has come out firing against Prince Harry, saying, hey, we
Speaker 1: got it all wrong, and she accused Prince Harry of
Speaker 1: bullying and harassment.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Sophiechendolca is her name. She's the head of Cinta
Speaker 2: Bali and she gave an extended interview to Sky News
Speaker 2: in which she says Harry made the announcement that he
Speaker 2: was leaving the organization without telling her or anyone else
Speaker 2: at the charity. He announced his departure last week as
Speaker 2: patron of Cinti Bali, which is an Africa based charity
Speaker 2: that helps children with HIV AIDS.
Speaker 1: Prince Harry helped start the organization twenty years ago as
Speaker 1: a tribute to his late mother. Princess Diana. Chandoka has
Speaker 1: claimed mismanagement, misconduct and abuse of power at the charity.
Speaker 1: She said Prince Harry's resignation is an example of the
Speaker 1: bullying and called it an attack on her and the
Speaker 1: five hundred and forty people who work for the organization.
Speaker 2: She went as far as saying Harry's toxicity, she used
Speaker 2: that word, his toxicity was a challenge for the charity.
Speaker 2: Even said she was asked to do positive pr for
Speaker 2: Megan Markle but didn't want the charity to become part
Speaker 2: of the quote Sussex pr machine.
Speaker 3: Oooh.
Speaker 1: This is apparently all part of an internal power struggle
Speaker 1: in which the board wanted the executive director removed, but
Speaker 1: she has taken legal action to prevent from getting let go.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a whole big, ugly mass that's just
Speaker 1: spilling out. And we remember what Prince Harry said last week.
Speaker 1: He said what's transpired is unthinkable. We are in shock
Speaker 1: that we have to do this. Who knows, he said,
Speaker 1: She said thing right now, And sadly it's being displayed
Speaker 1: for the world to see.
Speaker 2: It's spilling out publicly unfortunately. And like we talked about
Speaker 2: here last week as well, this was something that was
Speaker 2: part of improving his public image. You know, it was
Speaker 2: in honor of his mother. This has to be something
Speaker 2: that's very important and special to him, but some of
Speaker 2: the accusations, I mean, she didn't hold back. It was
Speaker 2: tough and some of what she said. But more to
Speaker 2: come on that for sure. Stay here with us on
Speaker 2: this morning run. When we come back the White House
Speaker 2: Correspondence Dinner. You know that annual spectacle, Well it's gonna
Speaker 2: look dinner gonna look different this year, and you know
Speaker 2: what one comedian is actually having to bear the brunt
Speaker 2: of it. Will explain. Also coming up, why did Morgan
Speaker 2: Wallin walk off stage at SNL and why is everybody
Speaker 2: chiming in on that? Also, Richard Chamberlain has passed away
Speaker 2: if you haven't seen that news over the weekend, and
Speaker 2: the final four is set and it's a final four
Speaker 2: like we've only seen once before. We continue now on
Speaker 2: our Monday Morning ron with the annual spectacle that is
Speaker 2: the White House Correspondence Dinner. It is going to be
Speaker 2: re envisioned this year. We're told they could have told
Speaker 2: amber Roughin that ahead of time, though the comedian was
Speaker 2: slated to be the performer at this year's dinner, but
Speaker 2: she was abruptly dropped over the weekend.
Speaker 1: In fact, the head of the White House Correspondence Association
Speaker 1: said They're board voted unanimously to drop her from the program.
Speaker 1: You hear that and you think, well, gosh, is she
Speaker 1: being canceled? What did she do? Here's the deal. The
Speaker 1: answer is nothing.
Speaker 2: She did nothing, folks. But the head of the Correspondence
Speaker 2: Association explained it this way, and I quote, at this
Speaker 2: consequential moment for journalism, I want to ensure the focus
Speaker 2: is not on the politics of division, but entirely on
Speaker 2: awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship
Speaker 2: and membership to the next generation of journalists. Fine, knock
Speaker 2: yourself out, do that. But they announced Amber Ruffin as
Speaker 2: the comedic performer two months ago. So what happened in
Speaker 2: the past two months that made you go from wanting
Speaker 2: her and having this event to where we are now.
Speaker 2: This had to be more than simply a change of heart.
Speaker 2: So what was it? Well, your guess is as good
Speaker 2: as are. We don't have an answer. I'm sorry I
Speaker 2: set that up like we had an answer.
Speaker 3: Don't worry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they said there will be a re
Speaker 1: envisioning for our dinner and details will come later. The
Speaker 1: dinner is on April twenty six, and she's.
Speaker 3: A long time comedian and writer.
Speaker 1: She's been with The Seth Meyers Show for six years,
Speaker 1: and when she was announced as the comedian, the headlining
Speaker 1: comedian for the Dinner, the Correspondence Association described her this way.
Speaker 2: This is great, all right, we quote them. Keep in
Speaker 2: mind what we just said right now, listen to what
Speaker 2: they say about it.
Speaker 3: This is what they said about Amber Ruffin.
Speaker 1: Her unique talents are ideal for this current political and
Speaker 1: cultural climate. Her perspective will fit right in with the
Speaker 1: dinner's tradition of honoring the freedom of the press while
Speaker 1: rose the most powerful people on all sides of the
Speaker 1: aisle and the journalists who cover them.
Speaker 2: I don't get how you go from that to all
Speaker 2: of a sudden now as a consequential moment for journalism,
Speaker 2: and we want to ensure the focus is not on
Speaker 2: the politics of the vision. And you just said she
Speaker 2: was perfect for this because she's perfect for the political
Speaker 2: and cultural climate that we are currently in. How what
Speaker 2: happened in two months?
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: And also, look, I haven't been to the Dinner in
Speaker 1: many years, but I have gone repeatedly, I'd say at
Speaker 1: least four or five times over my years. As a journalist,
Speaker 1: and this is usually just a fun, lighthearted event where yeah,
Speaker 1: there is roasting, but it's all in good fun. The
Speaker 1: comedians make fun of politicians on both sides of the aisle.
Speaker 3: They make fun of journalists, they make fun of the
Speaker 3: relationships between the two.
Speaker 1: It's so fun for everyone just to put their egos.
Speaker 3: Aside and laugh together.
Speaker 1: And that's what it's traditionally been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but a lot of folks their eyes looking at
Speaker 2: this spectacle in DC of these people patting themselves on
Speaker 2: the back, dressed up, laughing and hooton and holler, and
Speaker 2: with the politicians that they're supposed to actually be covering.
Speaker 2: That is a criticism of this event.
Speaker 1: But we should point out the president himself, other than
Speaker 1: President Trump, has always or when I had been there,
Speaker 1: always participated and also joined in on the fun making
Speaker 1: jokes at themselves and at others. So it was everybody
Speaker 1: was in on it. Nobody was being targeted.
Speaker 2: Obama was great. You can remember some of his I
Speaker 2: remember George W. Bush, he was paid along. Trump has
Speaker 2: not been to one of these as president. He has
Speaker 2: attended in the past. In fact, I was there in
Speaker 2: attendance at one of them, and actually talked to him
Speaker 2: in Milania and the question I asked him, you think
Speaker 2: you're going to be up on that stage delivering the
Speaker 2: remarks one of these days. This was before he ran
Speaker 2: for president, and that we didn't know he was running
Speaker 2: at the time.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: And that was the last time I was at the
Speaker 2: Correspondence dinner. But it's just bizarre, and I hated for Amber.
Speaker 2: We have interviewed her and have been an her and
Speaker 2: she's a wonderful talent. And to just get dropped for
Speaker 2: what some will deem political correctness reasons for it. You're
Speaker 2: trying to play Kate in some way somebody. But that's
Speaker 2: just forth so.
Speaker 1: The irony and the anti wokeness campaign that is that
Speaker 1: she would somehow get canceled because of Yeah, the exact same.
Speaker 3: Reason, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up on our run another story that had a
Speaker 1: lot of people chirping this weekend. Country singer Morgan wall
Speaker 1: And tried an Irish exit from Saturday Night Live. The
Speaker 1: problem is he didn't do it right because everybody saw it.
Speaker 2: Is that the point nobody knowing.
Speaker 1: An Irish exit is when you leave and nobody notices,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you look around and say Hey,
Speaker 1: where did so and so go?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well everybody saw where Morgan Wahan went. Okay, this
Speaker 2: is what happened. He was a musical performer on SNL
Speaker 2: this weekend and at the end of the show he
Speaker 2: walked off stage. He didn't stick around for that traditional goodbye.
Speaker 2: You know it and you know it well, it is
Speaker 2: the part at the end when the show is done.
Speaker 2: The hosts just come back and they say thanks for
Speaker 2: being here, goodbye, and then the music plays and the
Speaker 2: credits roll. As the credits rolling music's playing, you see
Speaker 2: the cast and the host kind of mingling playfully on stage,
Speaker 2: hugging each other and making some jokes and some cracks.
Speaker 2: But we all kind of stick around and watch. It's
Speaker 2: fun to see their interaction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that started to happen. Mikey Madison was the host.
Speaker 1: She said goodbye to the audience while on was standing
Speaker 1: next to her. As soon as she said the goodbye,
Speaker 1: she hugged him. He gave her kind of a half
Speaker 1: hug and then just bounced. He walked right off the
Speaker 1: stage through the audience, directly towards the camera, walked past
Speaker 1: the camera and was gone.
Speaker 2: The worst Irish exit.
Speaker 3: And then here's this.
Speaker 1: Later in a social media post, he wrote, get me
Speaker 1: to God's Country, accompanied by a picture that appeared to
Speaker 1: be taken out of the window of a plane. So
Speaker 1: he was leaving New York City quickly. No official word
Speaker 1: on what this was all about, but he has had
Speaker 1: a controversial history with SNL. He was supposed to be
Speaker 1: the performer in twenty twenty, but then he was dropped
Speaker 1: after the video service to him flagrantly breaking COVID protocols.
Speaker 3: He also got caught.
Speaker 1: With a racial slur, so there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: controversy around him, and some people were even wondering why
Speaker 1: he was invited back to be the musical guest.
Speaker 3: In the first place.
Speaker 1: Clearly he didn't want to be there, and I don't
Speaker 1: think there are a lot of people out there who
Speaker 1: didn't want him to be there either.
Speaker 2: But if you go see the video today, is just
Speaker 2: kind of hilarious. I mean, it could be completely innocent.
Speaker 2: He wasn't thinking about anything other than Okay, the show's over.
Speaker 2: This is the way I've been coming on too stage
Speaker 2: and off stage he walks right off the front of
Speaker 2: the stage, folks. I'm not saying he didn't go to
Speaker 2: the side as of steps he walks.
Speaker 1: I think the personally watching it, I think he did
Speaker 1: it on purpose. I think he did it to make
Speaker 1: a statement. And the reason why I think that is
Speaker 1: because he did walk right through the camera. He knows
Speaker 1: exactly what he was doing. Number one and number two
Speaker 1: because they rehearse this. I mean they go through rehearsals
Speaker 1: very specifically. And then to that tweet, I'm sorry, like
Speaker 1: that is just basically get me the heck out of
Speaker 1: New York City.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think the two are.
Speaker 3: They're related, in my opinion.
Speaker 2: Is what everybody was, and they will continue to be
Speaker 2: buzzing about that.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Next up on the run, A passing to tell you
Speaker 1: about actor Richard Chamberlain, died over the weekend at the
Speaker 1: age of ninety from complications following a stroke. If you're
Speaker 1: of a certain age, you know his name. Some of
Speaker 1: you may not, but this was a household name in
Speaker 1: my home growing up. My mom was a fan of
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty three television series The Thornbirds. I always
Speaker 1: I don't know why I remember her watching that in
Speaker 1: our home, but I certainly do. Chamberlain played a priest
Speaker 1: who fell in love with the local girl, that role
Speaker 1: winning him his third Golden Globe.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was That's what the show was about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was okay spicy.
Speaker 2: He was Nover's award winning role in another nineteen eighties
Speaker 2: hit TV mini series, Showgun. He had breakout role. Nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty one, he was cast as the lead role on
Speaker 2: Doctor Kilkildare as that in the TV medical drama had
Speaker 2: the same name, Doctor Kildare. Chamberlain also had success as
Speaker 2: Jason Bourne opposite Jacqueline Smith and The Bourne Identity, which
Speaker 2: was nineteen eighty eight. Now that was a two part
Speaker 2: TV movie. That role made even more famous a few
Speaker 2: years later by Matt Damon on the big screen.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's right.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize he was actually the original Jason Bourne.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't until two thousand and three that Chamberlain
Speaker 1: finally came out as gay in his memoir that was
Speaker 1: titled Shattered Love, and his lifelong partner shared this message
Speaker 1: on Chamberlain's passing. He wrote, our beloved Richard is with
Speaker 1: the angels now he is free and soaring to those
Speaker 1: loved ones before us. How blessed we were to have
Speaker 1: known such an amazing and loving soul. Love never dies,
Speaker 1: and our love is under his wings, lifting him to
Speaker 1: his next great adventure. I thought that was a really
Speaker 1: beautiful nod to him and to their love and to
Speaker 1: how he lived his life.
Speaker 2: You know, I jumped out of me there twenty two
Speaker 2: thousand and three. That was twenty two years ago that
Speaker 2: I have that right. And he was ninety years old
Speaker 2: to think that he was seventy yeah, before he came out,
Speaker 2: before people knew he was gay. Just what he life
Speaker 2: was like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a heart throb.
Speaker 1: So he was considered that leading man that all the
Speaker 1: girls were swooning over. You know, I think that might
Speaker 1: be why my mom liked watching Thornbird. So when he
Speaker 1: had that stature of being a ladies man, basically, I
Speaker 1: think it was you know, he talked about how difficult
Speaker 1: it was for him to come out in Hollywood at
Speaker 1: that time for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 2: All Right, we will continue here on the run on
Speaker 2: this Monday morning with the final four. It is set.
Speaker 2: You probably watched a lot of this over the weekend
Speaker 2: and a surprise, of course, we watched every bounce of
Speaker 2: the ball this weekend, and that was a surprise. Now
Speaker 2: in the final four. The surprise is that all four
Speaker 2: number one seeds are going to the final four. Now,
Speaker 2: they're the best teams, why wouldn't they be going. Well,
Speaker 2: the thing is this usually does not happen. This is
Speaker 2: quite a surprise because this is only the second time
Speaker 2: in the history of the tournament that all four number
Speaker 2: one seeds have made it to the final four. So
Speaker 2: you got Auburn, Duke Houston in Florida. The last time
Speaker 2: that all four number seeds were in the final four,
Speaker 2: that was in two thousand and eight. So these are
Speaker 2: the best teams. But this has been a tournament that
Speaker 2: some have criticized or complained about to a certain degree.
Speaker 2: We didn't have any cinderellas all high seeds. Arkansas was
Speaker 2: the cinderella. That was a ten seed that shouldn't have
Speaker 2: been a cinderella. But we just don't have the big
Speaker 2: upsets like we were used to seeing. But yes, all
Speaker 2: four number one seed So going to the final.
Speaker 3: Four, all right.
Speaker 1: And on the women's side, the final four will be
Speaker 1: determined by the end.
Speaker 3: Of the day today.
Speaker 1: UCLA and South Carolina are already in Connecticut is playing
Speaker 1: number one seed usc and number one seed Texas plays
Speaker 1: TCU later today, so we'll have those results by tomorrow
Speaker 1: and next up on our run. Well, it was more
Speaker 1: of a skirmish than a brawl, but still it was
Speaker 1: not pretty last night as a scuffle between players during
Speaker 1: an NBA game spilled into the first couple of rows
Speaker 1: of fans.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This was in the second quarter of the game
Speaker 2: Minneapolis last night between the Timberwolves and the Detroit Pistons. Now,
Speaker 2: after a file, which wasn't that dramatic of a file,
Speaker 2: a couple of the players got a little mouthy, a
Speaker 2: little chesty with each other. It turned into a shoving
Speaker 2: match that involved all players on the court and even
Speaker 2: some coaches. It was a huge scrum of players and coaches,
Speaker 2: many of them ended up. Yeah, and the lapse of
Speaker 2: fans who were seated in the first couple of row
Speaker 2: at the baseline. So five coaches, excuse me, five players?
Speaker 2: Two coaches ejected, No, I didn't see. I went through
Speaker 2: this video a lot didn't see a lot of swinging
Speaker 2: and punches, and that certainly will get you an automatic suspension.
Speaker 2: But it's just ugly. It's ugly if it would have
Speaker 2: happened just on the court, But when you see fans
Speaker 2: start to be I guess pawns or the victims if
Speaker 2: you will. Yeah, collateral damage in that this is an
Speaker 2: ugly scene that the NBA is going to do something
Speaker 2: about it. It looks awful.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't just two coaches. It was a head coach, right,
Speaker 1: Detroit's head.
Speaker 2: Coach j bicker Staff.
Speaker 1: His name is Yes, I was just as a bicker Staff.
Speaker 3: Well, that's ironic.
Speaker 2: And you know why bicker Staff got thrown out because
Speaker 2: he was bickering with an assistant coach from the other team.
Speaker 2: They were chomping at each other. So just you see
Speaker 2: the video. This wasn't much, but it looked like a
Speaker 2: whole lot and that's going to be.
Speaker 1: A problem for this It's just embarrassing to even see
Speaker 1: that happening at that level. All right, And for the
Speaker 1: final leg of our run, well, a bit of surprise
Speaker 1: at the box office this weekend, A working Man beat
Speaker 1: snow White. Jason Statham's new movie, Yes it is called
Speaker 1: a working Man was number one at the weekend box office.
Speaker 2: So snow White, of course, opened last weekend, came in second. Sure,
Speaker 2: snow White has gotten a lot of flak lately. It
Speaker 2: was still though widely expected to be able to hold
Speaker 2: on and even easily to the number one spot, given
Speaker 2: it had limited major competition, but the bad reviews, bad
Speaker 2: word of mouth, and controversy seemed to have doomed this movie.
Speaker 2: It had a sixty six percent drop off from last
Speaker 2: weekend's box office. What that means is there was a
Speaker 2: sixty seven percent drop off in how much money it made.
Speaker 2: That is a disastrous drop off for a movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so a working Man brought in just fifteen point
Speaker 1: two million dollars in the domestic box office. Snow White
Speaker 1: brought in a little over fourteen million. Snow White cost
Speaker 1: more than two hundred and fifty million to make. It's
Speaker 1: made one hundred and forty three point one month total worldwide.
Speaker 1: So they still have a long and winding road to
Speaker 1: even break even on this one, and that may not happen.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll tell you. It's like no shot. Yeah at
Speaker 2: this point. But we went and saw the movie and
Speaker 2: we understood that some of the criticism wasn't just people
Speaker 2: hating on it because of the controversy. People took issue
Speaker 2: with the film and that's fine, just as just on
Speaker 2: its merits, right. But we went back and we listened
Speaker 2: to the soundtrack, and we have been listening to it
Speaker 2: constantly and we have been running to it. Even the
Speaker 2: music is once again, we appreciate it more when we
Speaker 2: hear it and not see it on screen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we made it known.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was not a fan of the movie,
Speaker 1: and I love Disney movies, but I just wasn't a
Speaker 1: fan of this one and had nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the controversies.
Speaker 3: So I think maybe watching.
Speaker 1: It and hearing the music created a different feeling when
Speaker 1: I've just been listening. We've been listening to the music
Speaker 1: just around the house, like you said, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, like, Okay, I like this song now, and
Speaker 1: so it's growing on me for sure.
Speaker 3: And you read like you're a huge fan.
Speaker 2: Of Oh cue good Things grow. Oh my goodness, you've
Speaker 2: been humming. Oh I love that song. I've been running
Speaker 2: to it the Good Things. It is amazing. And Rachel
Speaker 2: Zegler think what you want. But she is an immense talent.
Speaker 2: She is she is so so hey, if you think
Speaker 2: about seeing the movie, try this first. Listen to the soundtrack. Ya,
Speaker 2: go listen to the music, and it will make you excited.
Speaker 2: I think a little more about the movie. You might
Speaker 2: think what you want about the movie, but the music's great.
Speaker 3: I agree, we can all agree on that.
Speaker 2: And here we are given Disney an endorsement. I think
Speaker 2: that's some stuff.
Speaker 1: All right. We'd like you to consider this as you
Speaker 1: go about your day to day on this Monday, this
Speaker 1: last day of March.
Speaker 3: Here is your quote of the day.
Speaker 2: Don't let somebody else's opinion of you become your reality.
Speaker 3: I have to remind myself of this sometimes. I think
Speaker 3: we all do.
Speaker 1: But it's it's good to remember that that we can't
Speaker 1: give away our power. And I think in a lot
Speaker 1: of different ways. We all do it in little ways
Speaker 1: throughout the day, but in big ways sometime, and this
Speaker 1: is one of them. So this spoke to me this morning,
Speaker 1: so I'll say it one more time for everybody as
Speaker 1: you get about your day today, don't let someone else's
Speaker 1: opinion of you become your reality. And with that, thank
Speaker 1: you for running with us on this Monday morning.
Speaker 2: I'm Ami Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes. We'll see you
Speaker 2: back here on the run tomorrow, folks,