Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, this is your.
Speaker 3: Morning Run for Thursday, July third. I'm Amy Robot.
Speaker 1: And I'm TJ. Holmes. We call it Thursday June. What
Speaker 1: was it July third? Yes, I guess forever. This is
Speaker 1: going to be known as the day after the Diddy verdict. Yes,
Speaker 1: came down. What a day we saw yesterday, and it
Speaker 1: has been declared a victory for Diddy in court yesterday,
Speaker 1: but he's still waking up behind bars today. He found
Speaker 1: out that he was not guilty on the three most
Speaker 1: serious charges he was facing, with the judge deny his
Speaker 1: bail until sentencing for his two lesser convictions. Will give
Speaker 1: you the very latest.
Speaker 3: Also on the Run this morning, it's the Houses turned
Speaker 3: now to work through tonight to try and get President
Speaker 3: Trump's Big Beautiful Bill passed by tomorrow's imposed deadline. And
Speaker 3: U Penn changed its transgender athlete policy, apologized, and woila.
Speaker 3: They are now one hundred and seventy five million dollars richer.
Speaker 1: Also this morning, seven people are missing and feared dead
Speaker 1: after a fireworks warehouse explosion in California. Also check your
Speaker 1: Oscar Mayer Turkey bacon in that fridge. Today, there is
Speaker 1: a massive recall to tell you about following a suspected
Speaker 1: lysteria contamination.
Speaker 3: And nine thousand Microsoft employees are being fired in the
Speaker 3: latest round of some major layoffs for that company. Plus
Speaker 3: we have an update on the beloved performer Red Panda,
Speaker 3: who's been wowing fans for decades at basketball halftime show
Speaker 3: as well. We're gonna tell you how she's doing and
Speaker 3: why and how she fell.
Speaker 2: Off her unicycle in the first place.
Speaker 1: Oh so, this morning, a major league pitcher just became
Speaker 1: the newest and one of the fastest ever to reach
Speaker 1: an elite club in baseball. And Chuck E Cheese for adults. Yes,
Speaker 1: the iconic brand is now banking on the fact that
Speaker 1: grown ups just want to have fun too. I'm all
Speaker 1: over this one.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, you and I both are. This is right
Speaker 2: up our Alex.
Speaker 1: How could you not? Lee just loved Chucky. It was
Speaker 1: a magical place as a kid.
Speaker 3: Oh and that to have the arcades, they're gonna we'll
Speaker 3: get into it, but they have all of these retro
Speaker 3: arcade games that you and I love. They say, if
Speaker 3: you loved a joystick in your day, you're gonna love
Speaker 3: Chuck's arcade.
Speaker 1: Do we still get the tickets?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Do I think so? Yeah, they're trying to keep it
Speaker 2: retro all.
Speaker 1: The tickets where you need twenty thousand and you still
Speaker 1: only get a stick of gum that stuff. I love that. Man.
Speaker 3: When those tickets start coming out from this machine is
Speaker 3: the best feeling.
Speaker 1: In the world.
Speaker 2: It's like you hit the jackpot.
Speaker 1: Oh I kin. So we'll get into that store, but
Speaker 1: we are going to start in Lower Manhattan where it
Speaker 1: was all a buzz yesterday. Yes, the final day of
Speaker 1: the Ditty trial, and what a day it was. A
Speaker 1: mixed verdict brought a mix of emotions, especially for Sean
Speaker 1: Combs himself, whose lawyers declared the trial a victory of
Speaker 1: all victories for Diddy. He was found guilty of two
Speaker 1: of the five counts against him.
Speaker 3: Those two counts, transportation to engage in prostitution, were the
Speaker 3: lesser charges against him and carry a ten your maximum sentence.
Speaker 3: Prosecutors initially said they were gonna seek the maximum twenty years,
Speaker 3: but later told the judge the guidelines for sentencing put
Speaker 3: the number closer to four or five years. The defense team,
Speaker 3: meanwhile said it would ask for a sentence as low
Speaker 3: as twenty one months. Keep in mind, did he has
Speaker 3: already served nine months, so if that were the case,
Speaker 3: he'd only have another year.
Speaker 1: That is incredible. He went from facing life in prison
Speaker 1: to possibly being out in very short time now after
Speaker 1: avoiding convictions on the racketeering and sex trafficking charges. Did
Speaker 1: he hope he'd be getting out of jail? Actually yesterday
Speaker 1: on bail ropes the way this went yesterday, what the
Speaker 1: verdicts came down in the morning, they had a hearing
Speaker 1: at one where they submitted letters about bail, and then
Speaker 1: we had to wait until five o'clock to hear the
Speaker 1: judge's decision on bail. So in that four hour window,
Speaker 1: did he a lot of people, a lot of experts
Speaker 1: were out there saying he's probably gonna go home today,
Speaker 1: and they thought he might, so he certainly thought he
Speaker 1: was going to and his defense team, are you yes,
Speaker 1: it should be granted at this point offered up a
Speaker 1: million dollars bond, But that late hearing, the judge rules
Speaker 1: Ditty has not proven not to be a threat and
Speaker 1: not to be a flight risk, and should remain in
Speaker 1: jail until his sentencing hearing, which right now is scheduled
Speaker 1: for do I.
Speaker 3: Have it right, early October year, the Cotober third third,
Speaker 3: it was the date, but the defenses asking for that
Speaker 3: to be expedited, and that certainly may happen. The judge
Speaker 3: and the attorneys are actually scheduled to meet next week
Speaker 3: to hammer oute a possible plan to move up that
Speaker 3: sentencing date. Outside the courthouse yesterday, Diddy's lead attorneys spoke
Speaker 3: and called this a great victory for not just Diddy,
Speaker 3: but for the jury system, and even gave a nod
Speaker 3: to the citizens, those twelve men and women who serve
Speaker 3: on jurys.
Speaker 1: All right, continuing on the run here on this Thursday morning,
Speaker 1: and last night it was the House of Representatives turn
Speaker 1: to burn that midnight oil. They've been up all night
Speaker 1: and as of this recording, I am still watching debate
Speaker 1: happen on the floor of the House. They have been
Speaker 1: literally up all night in the House chamber debate and
Speaker 1: deal making.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: Specifically, at three point thirty am this morning, they took
Speaker 3: a key procedural vote that now allows Republicans to bring
Speaker 3: President Trump's major domestic agenda aka the Big Beautiful Bill,
Speaker 3: to the floor for a final vote.
Speaker 2: Now as of this recording.
Speaker 3: That vote was expected at some point this morning and
Speaker 3: certainly today because Republicans are still trying to meet President
Speaker 3: Trump's arbitrary deadline of July fourth. They're also trying to
Speaker 3: get the heck out of there for the holiday.
Speaker 1: And there was an issue getting some back. They had
Speaker 1: already been out of town, and there were some weather issues,
Speaker 1: some flight cancelation delays, so there was a struggle just
Speaker 1: to get everybody there. But the Republican margins are so
Speaker 1: thin that you need everybody back because they can only
Speaker 1: afford to lose three Republican votes for this thing to
Speaker 1: steal pass. But they are on track. Always dramatic on
Speaker 1: Capitol Hill, we shall see continue the run here now
Speaker 1: with the University of Pennsylvania school has been rewarded for
Speaker 1: doing what Trump told them to do. Their reward one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 3: Yes, one day day after reaching that agreement with the
Speaker 3: Trump administration over its handling of transgender athletes, penn got
Speaker 3: a deposit into its account from the federal government to
Speaker 3: the tune of one hundred and seventy five million dollars
Speaker 3: in federal dollars to the school. That money to the
Speaker 3: university had been frozen in March by the administration.
Speaker 1: Why was it frozen because the school allowed Leah Thomas
Speaker 1: to compete. Thomas last competed four Penn in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two and was the first openly transgender athlete to win
Speaker 1: a Division I title. Partner Education launched an investigation of
Speaker 1: Penn found the school had violated athletes' rights, and now
Speaker 1: the school is saying it agrees and will wipe out
Speaker 1: Thomas's records and titles, as well as apologize to the
Speaker 1: female athletes they say were quote disadvantaged all right.
Speaker 3: Next up on the run, Authorities say seven people are
Speaker 3: unaccounted for and feared dead following an explosion at a
Speaker 3: California fireworks warehouse this week.
Speaker 1: Now firefighters responded to the scene just as the warehouse
Speaker 1: exploded in a huge fireball, set numerous adjacent buildings on fire,
Speaker 1: spread to some nearly eighty acres. Wednesday, investigators were still
Speaker 1: trying to use drones to monitor hotspots in the area.
Speaker 1: Some folks who lived nearby had to be evacuated still
Speaker 1: haven't been able to return home, and by in the area,
Speaker 1: we're talking about a full mile evacuation zone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a serious and scary explosion and likely deadly.
Speaker 3: The fireworks company called Devastating Pyrotechnics, owns the warehouse. They
Speaker 3: said they're grateful for the quick emergency response from law enforcement,
Speaker 3: but that their focus is with their employees.
Speaker 2: Here's what they had to say.
Speaker 3: Our hearts and thoughts are with those we lost their
Speaker 3: families and everyone impacted in our community. Right now, the
Speaker 3: cause of this explosion is currently under investigation, but it
Speaker 3: was devastating and the aftermath is still something the community.
Speaker 2: Is dealing with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to your point, and I stopped you on several
Speaker 1: I said, you cannot be serious if that's the name
Speaker 1: of the company, it just so happens to be.
Speaker 2: Called Devastating Pyrotechnics. I know that was ironic and awful.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I actually triple checked it because I wanted to make
Speaker 3: sure that actually was the name of the fireworks company.
Speaker 1: All right, we continue on the road, on the road,
Speaker 1: on the run. We do run a long road.
Speaker 2: Yes, sometimes it's bumpy.
Speaker 1: Well, this one, this is a We were doing a
Speaker 1: lot of food recalls, it seems like for a stretch
Speaker 1: of months to the point that we kind of backed
Speaker 1: off and had to discern which ones rose to a
Speaker 1: certain level this one does. This is a major, major
Speaker 1: recall involving more than three hundred and sixty thousand pounds
Speaker 1: of oscar Meyer turkey bacon that may be contaminated with
Speaker 1: Listeria bacteria.
Speaker 3: So far, no illnesses have been confirmed, but USDA officials
Speaker 3: are warning the company found potential listeria contamination in their
Speaker 3: laboratory testing. So this turkey bacon in question was produced
Speaker 3: from late April to mid June, and it's very likely
Speaker 3: in your refrigerator. It includes product ship to the US
Speaker 3: stores nationwide, So if you have oscar Meyer turkey bacon
Speaker 3: in the twelve ounce, thirty eight ounce, or forty eight
Speaker 3: ounce packages, you absolutely need to throw them out or
Speaker 3: you can return them to the store you purchased them.
Speaker 1: All right, complete list of the effect that products is
Speaker 1: on the CDC's website website. You have to remember the
Speaker 1: listeria can call serious illness even death in older adults,
Speaker 1: young children, pregnant women and their infants.
Speaker 3: And actually the CDC and the USDA, who are involved
Speaker 3: in this recall said they wanted to make this clear
Speaker 3: because of.
Speaker 2: What happened last year with poreshead. You mentioned the other recalls.
Speaker 3: This listeria outbreaks are serious and they spread quickly, and
Speaker 3: ten people died and that, so they're trying to avoid
Speaker 3: that by getting the word out about this tricky bacon.
Speaker 3: Next up on the run, another round of major layoffs
Speaker 3: for Microsoft. The company announced it is eliminating nine thousand
Speaker 3: jobs worldwide, the largest.
Speaker 1: Cut in staff since twenty twenty three, when it fired
Speaker 1: ten thousand workers. Earlier this year, Microsoft cut six thousand jobs,
Speaker 1: and around one thousand jobs were cut back in January
Speaker 1: as well. That six thousand cuts that was in May,
Speaker 1: thing had one thousand in January. Getting all these numbers right,
Speaker 1: So it's been quite a bit lately. The restructuring is
Speaker 1: hitting the Xbox gaming division of Microsoft the hardest, where
Speaker 1: two thousand workers were fired and entire studios have been
Speaker 1: shut down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there were some long anticipated games that folks now
Speaker 3: say are never going to hit the Xbox, so a
Speaker 3: lot of folks are disappointed by this move. Microsoft says
Speaker 3: it's focusing now less on gaming more on artificial intelligence
Speaker 3: and what they call operational efficiency. A year ago, Microsoft
Speaker 3: employed two hundred and twenty eight thousand full time workers
Speaker 3: more than half of them are here in the US,
Speaker 3: but certainly their numbers are declining.
Speaker 1: All right, folks, stay with us here on this Thursday
Speaker 1: morning run when we come back. We got an update
Speaker 1: about that beloved NBA halftime performer who fell off her unicycle.
Speaker 1: Well turns out she did break a bone and it
Speaker 1: turns out her unicycle was broken as well.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Explain Also, we saw something happen in Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: that only twenty other people have ever done in Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball. And ah, stay worse for this one, folks,
Speaker 1: chuck e cheese, not just for the kids anymore. We
Speaker 1: continue now on this Thursday morning ran I want to
Speaker 1: keep sending love to Red Panda, the beloved and longtime
Speaker 1: NBA halftime performer who took a tumble this week. We
Speaker 1: got an update on what happened and she confirmed that yes,
Speaker 1: she did break her wrist in that fall.
Speaker 3: It happened Tuesday night at the beginning of her performance
Speaker 3: at halftime of the WNBA game in Minneapolis between the
Speaker 3: Indiana Fever and the Minnesota Lynx. Red Panda, whose real
Speaker 3: name is Rongnu, rides a seven foot unicycle while balancing
Speaker 3: bulls on her arms and feet and then kicks the
Speaker 3: bowl up and balances them on her head.
Speaker 2: She fell off the.
Speaker 3: Unicycle at the start of her show and immediately grabbed
Speaker 3: her wrist. According to her rep, the wrist was severely
Speaker 3: broken and Red Panda spent eleven hours.
Speaker 2: At the hospital after the inn incident.
Speaker 3: She's going to need months to recover, but promises to
Speaker 3: be back and ready for next NBA season. But get this,
Speaker 3: her rep said that fall was actually caused because of
Speaker 3: a problem with the unicycle itself.
Speaker 2: It was somehow damaged in transit, and.
Speaker 3: They say in a statement that the fall was due
Speaker 3: to the left paddle, specifically of her unicycle being damaged. Also,
Speaker 3: by the way, this is the second time she's broken
Speaker 3: the exact same risk. She's been doing this since nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety three, and we certainly wish her a speedy recovery.
Speaker 1: Ropes, Yeah, that makes sense. The first thing I said,
Speaker 1: I said, she didn't even get to the bulls. It's
Speaker 1: like as soon as she got on the unicycle she
Speaker 1: came down. Something looked wrong, Like why did she just
Speaker 1: lose her balance? They're saying, now something was wrong with
Speaker 1: that unicycle. That makes sense to me now, But yes,
Speaker 1: we're all wishing her well. We'll turn from the NBA
Speaker 1: now to Major League Baseball, and we have a new
Speaker 1: member to an elite club in the MLB. LA Dodgers
Speaker 1: left hander Clayton Kershaw last night gave his home crowd
Speaker 1: a treat and they witnessed history as he became only
Speaker 1: the twentieth pitcher to record three thousand strikeouts. Happened in
Speaker 1: the sixth inning against the Chicago White Sox. And you
Speaker 1: know this guy is gonna go down in history. Vinnie Kapra.
Speaker 1: You don't know his name, but he's the guy who
Speaker 1: who was struck out. He was the number three thousand,
Speaker 1: So he'll go down to History's.
Speaker 2: Lucky Vinnie not so much.
Speaker 3: The game stopped, a standing ovation went on and on,
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers played a tribute video to Kershaw.
Speaker 2: They were ready.
Speaker 3: A future Hall of Famer who has played his entire
Speaker 3: career with the Dodgers. He's won the Cy Young Award,
Speaker 3: an MVP Award, a World Series, and is a ten
Speaker 3: time All Star.
Speaker 2: He's the twentieth to do it, yes, but he did
Speaker 2: it faster than most.
Speaker 3: He's the fourth fastest to reach three thousand strikeouts and
Speaker 3: only took him two thousand, seven hundred and eighty one
Speaker 3: and a half innings.
Speaker 2: Yes, but who was counting?
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball is serious about their yes records and
Speaker 1: their stats, so congrats to him. We're gonna get through
Speaker 1: this last one quickly because the Zarowack and I are
Speaker 1: literally being rained on as we are recording this right now.
Speaker 1: We're doing it outside. Didn't know if you all could
Speaker 1: tell with a little noise in the background, but we
Speaker 1: got to and for some better weather, and here we
Speaker 1: are getting rained on.
Speaker 2: Well it feels so good. I love the rain right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you say that until your Apple computer shuts it
Speaker 1: down because it's got rained on. Well, yes, final leg here.
Speaker 1: Sure we all love Chuck E Cheese as a kid,
Speaker 1: but how would you like to go to Chuck E
Speaker 1: Cheese one that's specifically designed for you now and adults?
Speaker 1: The famous kids entertainment chain is banking on the hope
Speaker 1: that grown ups like us like to have fun too
Speaker 1: by opening ten Chucks Arcade locations across eight states.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there are retro favorite games there like Miss pac Man,
Speaker 3: Mortal Kombat, Donkey Kong, and Sandy Pete.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 3: Doesn't that just take you right back along with some
Speaker 3: newer games like Jurassic Park. The new rollout features full menus,
Speaker 3: original artwork. Some locations are selling clothing and toys and
Speaker 3: candy alongside all the games.
Speaker 2: But this is cool, they say. No two locations are
Speaker 2: exactly alike.
Speaker 1: Each one's specific, all right, The company said, Chuck's Arcade
Speaker 1: is a natural evolution, an opportunity to extend our Arcade
Speaker 1: legacy into new formats that engage both lifelong fans in
Speaker 1: general and new generation through a curated mix of retro
Speaker 1: classics and cutting edge experiences. I applaud this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of our favorite places to go in New York
Speaker 1: up the street called Recreation Bar. We love it because
Speaker 1: it has retro game it's so.
Speaker 3: Fun, and they have barcades around too, which is just
Speaker 3: a fun you know.
Speaker 2: It just takes you right back. But I looked up
Speaker 2: the closest.
Speaker 3: One to us is in Connecticut, so if you're up
Speaker 3: for a drive, we could check it out.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to do it, all right.
Speaker 3: So as you go about your day on this Thursday,
Speaker 3: we have your quote of the day for you today.
Speaker 3: This one comes to us from an American author named
Speaker 3: John C. Maxwell, And here is what he had to say,
Speaker 3: when was.
Speaker 1: The last time you did something for the first time?
Speaker 1: That is a wonderful thing to ponder today as you're
Speaker 1: just hey, take a moment, because it says a lot
Speaker 1: about you. It says about what you're willing to do,
Speaker 1: where your life is and what risk you're willing to take.
Speaker 1: Are you living in a monotonous way? Are you sat
Speaker 1: satisfied with the norm which is okay for some people,
Speaker 1: but that is just every day we should do something
Speaker 1: that we've never done before.
Speaker 3: I love this because it's just it's thought provoking and
Speaker 3: it challenges you to maybe think outside of your normal
Speaker 3: comfort zone and do something adventurous, do something fun, do
Speaker 3: something you didn't think you could do. I love this idea.
Speaker 3: So this quote of the day is a question for
Speaker 3: you to ponder as well. We'll give it to you
Speaker 3: one last time, when was the last time you did
Speaker 3: something for the first time? And with that, thank you
Speaker 3: for running with us on this Thursday. All the rain
Speaker 3: just stopped, but we.
Speaker 1: Can say that already we have done something today that
Speaker 1: we've never done before. We recorded an episode of Morning
Speaker 1: Run literally sitting in the rain.
Speaker 3: See check mark for us today. But we'll try to
Speaker 3: do a few more things we haven't done before. We
Speaker 3: hope you do too.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Roeboch.
Speaker 1: And I'm TJ. Holmes. Folks, we'll see y'll soon