Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Hey
Speaker 1: there are folks, a hostage situation in Soho, a French
Speaker 1: face shove, a devil is on the loves of the Ozarks,
Speaker 1: and Sidney Sweeney is selling us sweet bathwater for eight dollars.
Speaker 1: Those were just some of the stories that kept us
Speaker 1: talking after our morning run this week. Hey there, folks,
Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ on this
Speaker 1: May thirty first, on this Saturday Robe. Some of these stories,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say we keep arguing about, but
Speaker 1: we go at it about some of this stuff. We're
Speaker 1: not on the same page.
Speaker 2: We don't always agree with how we think things should
Speaker 2: go or how people reacted. So it's fun to have
Speaker 2: a conversation after the fact, and maybe y'all can get
Speaker 2: into your own discussions about what you think about some
Speaker 2: of the big stories of the week. And Monday Woo.
Speaker 2: It started out with a bang, with an unthinkable story
Speaker 2: that happened right here in Soho in Manhattan. And do most.
Speaker 1: Folks around the country know where Soho is in? You know,
Speaker 1: maybe not so common for us, but it's yeah.
Speaker 2: That's a good point. It's it's lower Manhattan it's south
Speaker 2: of Houston Street, thus the name Soho. So it's a
Speaker 2: very bougie part of the city. There's a lot of shopping,
Speaker 2: a lot of cute restaurants, a lot of tourists. When
Speaker 2: you like to go to Manhattan and try to see
Speaker 2: if you can spot a celebrity, a lot of folks
Speaker 2: go to Soho because that's where a lot of that's
Speaker 2: wet a listers and you know, of course us like,
Speaker 2: because we're right, like to have a drink or have
Speaker 2: a bite, an overpriced bite somewhere. So, yes, this is
Speaker 2: a very wealthy and swanky part of the city. It's
Speaker 2: not a place where you would ever imagine the story
Speaker 2: that's being told could happen in a eight bedroom luxury
Speaker 2: townhouse in Soho on Prince Spring.
Speaker 1: But is that more so the part of the story
Speaker 1: all right too. Allegedly, two guys take another guy hostage
Speaker 1: because they want his bitcoin password and they essentially want
Speaker 1: to rob him. Yes, so they hold him hostage for
Speaker 1: weeks and the according to police, torture this guy put
Speaker 1: him through all kinds of hell. He finally gets away,
Speaker 1: runs down the street, he finds a traffic cop and
Speaker 1: here we are. But in this story. Would this be
Speaker 1: as big of a deal if it wasn't in Soho
Speaker 1: in New.
Speaker 2: York, it would still be a big deal. But it's
Speaker 2: a bigger deal when you think about, yes, who did
Speaker 2: it and where they were doing it. I have to
Speaker 2: tell you I saw the pictures. I lived on that
Speaker 2: street about ten years ago. I lived about three doors down,
Speaker 2: and I did not have a swinky eight bedroom townhouse.
Speaker 1: The five bedroom places it was nice.
Speaker 2: I just want to point that out. This was not
Speaker 2: the same. But I lived on that same street.
Speaker 1: But your rooftop deck was amazing.
Speaker 2: However, I did not have a rooftop.
Speaker 1: The grill I couldn't believe. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: know that gorilla up there.
Speaker 2: I had a massive roach infestation in that apartment, to
Speaker 2: be honest, and let me be.
Speaker 1: Clear here, folks, I'm just joking. She didn't have all.
Speaker 2: But no, it actually shocked me even more because I thought,
Speaker 2: my god, I know that door, I know that townhouse,
Speaker 2: and to think what police say happened inside of it,
Speaker 2: it is I think it would always be a story
Speaker 2: when you get these details because this alleged victim who
Speaker 2: apparently now they're saying, now these other two men was
Speaker 2: invited to the home. They were all crypto investors, they
Speaker 2: all had lots of money. He was twenty eight years old,
Speaker 2: came off the plane from Italy and he says, these
Speaker 2: two men who have now been arrested, who are currently
Speaker 2: being held without bail, beat him, drugged him, used electric shock,
Speaker 2: hanged him off a five story balcony, and he believed
Speaker 2: were actually going to ultimately kill him. And so he
Speaker 2: managed to escape because he finally, after seventeen days, told
Speaker 2: these two men, okay, okay, I'll give you my bitcoin password.
Speaker 2: I'll let you have access to my bitcoin fortune. And
Speaker 2: when he told them that, they went down to go
Speaker 2: get a computer, and at that point, somehow he was
Speaker 2: able to escape. He ran barefoot and bloodied down Prince
Speaker 2: Street until he found a traffic cop and asked for help.
Speaker 2: That's crazy to think that that all happened.
Speaker 1: I mean, desperate times. What I'm saying is, there's something
Speaker 1: about I always say this, What am I missing about
Speaker 1: this story? There's got to be something I am missing
Speaker 1: because if someone is that, it's not just a regular theft.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much money possibly he had in bitcoin,
Speaker 1: that it was worth millions. Well, also, I don't know
Speaker 1: how desperate you have to be to do this. How
Speaker 1: do you think you're going to get away from away
Speaker 1: with holding a hostage in that neighborhood for that many weeks?
Speaker 1: How do you think you're going to get away with that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the other thing that was so interesting to
Speaker 2: me is that the judge denied bail for both of
Speaker 2: these men who have been accused of all of these
Speaker 2: heinous crimes and took away their passports because he said specifically,
Speaker 2: they have the money and the means to escape and
Speaker 2: not be found. They have private planes. These are men
Speaker 2: who have in credible means and the ability to to
Speaker 2: just disappear because of all the money they have. So
Speaker 2: why were they so desperate to get more money? We
Speaker 2: don't know those details, they have not been provided, but
Speaker 2: we're talking. When police went into this town house, they
Speaker 2: say they found multiple polaroid pictures of the victim with
Speaker 2: a gun to his head smoking a crack pipe because
Speaker 2: they put it in his mouth. They found torture devices
Speaker 2: including a saw, chicken wire, night vision goggles, a gun,
Speaker 2: and ammunition. Like this sounded like a horror movie, like
Speaker 2: police break in silence of the lambs find this, you know,
Speaker 2: serial killer with all of his That's what it sounded
Speaker 2: like to me.
Speaker 1: This sounds like desperation to me. I want to hear
Speaker 1: more about what in the world was going on. This
Speaker 1: is it's just all too bizarre. I'm throwing soho.
Speaker 2: And there's another quick twist because they're trying to tie
Speaker 2: Eric Adams and his police detective to this too, because
Speaker 2: apparently two off duty police officers or who work for
Speaker 2: Mayor Adams were the two men who actually drove this
Speaker 2: victim from the airport to the suspect's townhouse, and so
Speaker 2: they're trying to figure out they don't think that they
Speaker 2: knew what was going to happen, but they're still having
Speaker 2: an internal investigation to see what they knew and if
Speaker 2: they were even supposed to be moonlighting basically as private
Speaker 2: security for these two crypto investors. So there are many
Speaker 2: legs to this story.
Speaker 1: All right. That kept folks talking. Another one that kept
Speaker 1: folks talking, not just us, was that French face shove
Speaker 1: that everybody saw. What do you do with this? The
Speaker 1: French president is getting off a plane on a trip
Speaker 1: to Asia and old doors open, you know, that traditional
Speaker 1: walk down those long steps. After a president arrived somewhere, well,
Speaker 1: the door opens, the camera see him standing there, and
Speaker 1: then you see two hands come and shove him. One
Speaker 1: shoves him pretty hard in the face. We find out, yes,
Speaker 1: it is his wife and Brigitte. And now this set
Speaker 1: off in international issue. They tried to explain it robes
Speaker 1: of course, as hey, we were just horse playing around,
Speaker 1: just bickering a little bit. They played it off like
Speaker 1: it was just fun and games. But this set everybody
Speaker 1: off scrutinizing their relationship. What else can they say besides
Speaker 1: we were just playing around, which could be true.
Speaker 2: I don't buy that for one second. I don't think
Speaker 2: they were playing around. She looked visibly upset, and when
Speaker 2: he went to reach for her when they were going
Speaker 2: down the steps, this gentleman often do, or a husband
Speaker 2: would do for his wife, she clearly pulls away and
Speaker 2: doesn't want him touching her. So they were clearly upset
Speaker 2: with one another. There were clearly having an argument. And look,
Speaker 2: I get mccrone's situation or dilemma, because if he said
Speaker 2: what really happened, then what does that say about his wife?
Speaker 2: I mean, imagine if it were reversed, imagine if we
Speaker 2: saw Macrone shoving Brigitte in the face, we would all
Speaker 2: be having a very different conversation.
Speaker 1: You have to ask, is it ever acceptable for a
Speaker 1: wife to do what we saw her do?
Speaker 2: No? I don't think there can be a double standard
Speaker 2: when it comes to this. I don't think that anyone
Speaker 2: has the right or should be allowed to physically push
Speaker 2: someone or hit someone if if they're upset. That is unacceptable,
Speaker 2: especially for I don't know, people of a certain age.
Speaker 2: You'd think they'd know better. This is not acceptable behavior.
Speaker 2: So how does he explain what his wife did other
Speaker 2: than to literally throw her under the bus and say, yeah,
Speaker 2: she shoved me, she was pissed off at me, we
Speaker 2: were having a fight.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well that's what I mean if they were on
Speaker 1: Okay again, we're taking them at their word that this
Speaker 1: is what happened. But where this is what always drives
Speaker 1: us crazy ropes is don't treat me like I'm stupid.
Speaker 1: I know what I just saw.
Speaker 2: Okay, So don't say you were joking around and you
Speaker 2: were you know, being playful and you were horsing around.
Speaker 2: That's just simply not true anyway.
Speaker 1: Anything if you don't want to.
Speaker 2: Exactly just say it's a private matter, and that's how
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm sure hindsight's twenty twenty, and maybe he wishes
Speaker 2: he would have done this, but it's just far better
Speaker 2: to not tell a lie. I mean, that's really what
Speaker 2: it was. He wasn't telling the truth.
Speaker 1: I want to leave some room for the possibility of yes,
Speaker 1: we saw it wrong, that we don't know that our
Speaker 1: our eyes are lying to us. What I want to
Speaker 1: leave some room for. But that was not a playful shove, now,
Speaker 1: it was this is not to be in We saw
Speaker 1: what we saw. She shoved him. You could go as
Speaker 1: far as saying violently yes to his face.
Speaker 2: Agreed, He jerked back fully.
Speaker 1: What else?
Speaker 2: And he looked shocked by it. Oh, he had a
Speaker 2: look of disbelief on his face almost. And then when
Speaker 2: he turned and saw members of the press waiting for
Speaker 2: them with cameras rolling, he knew he was probably very
Speaker 2: sure at that point that whoopsie, that all just got
Speaker 2: caught on video. And yes, it's been paused, it's been
Speaker 2: zoomed in on, it's been slow mode. And really what
Speaker 2: you see is unmistakable. You see a wife who is
Speaker 2: mad at her husband, who lost control and shoved him
Speaker 2: in the face. And it really isn't anything less.
Speaker 1: Than that, or maybe we're just seeing get wrong. I
Speaker 1: will take them at their words, but they say, over
Speaker 1: in France, did you see all that? Over in France
Speaker 1: is not as big of a deal it is other places,
Speaker 1: because the French have a long history at least the
Speaker 1: press does leaving people alone public figures in their private manners,
Speaker 1: no matter how scandalous. Sometimes it might be well.
Speaker 2: And just to point out for those who don't know,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure it would be hard. You'd have to
Speaker 2: be living under a rock perhaps not to know that. Okay,
Speaker 2: their love story in our country I don't think would
Speaker 2: have ever flown. But this Macrone was the student of
Speaker 2: his now wife, Brigitte. He was fifteen when she was
Speaker 2: thirty nine, She was married with children, She was his
Speaker 2: theater teacher, and after a certain amount of time that
Speaker 2: passed by, they then got together. And there is a
Speaker 2: twenty five year age gap. But it began, or at
Speaker 2: least that maybe there was this spark of romance began
Speaker 2: when he was fifteen and she was thirty nine.
Speaker 1: I'd have to say it like that. Well, I am
Speaker 1: not gonna poo anybody's unorthodox love story. Okay, you all
Speaker 1: do your thing, just don't be shoving each other in
Speaker 1: the head. I was about to say on camera, but
Speaker 1: you just shouldn't do that.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't do it in private in any way.
Speaker 1: Another story, there's a devil on the loose in the Ozarks.
Speaker 1: I didn't see this show, right, Devil.
Speaker 2: In the Devil in the Ozarks. It's HBO Max. You
Speaker 2: can see it on Is it Max or HBO Max? Now?
Speaker 2: Is it HBO Max?
Speaker 1: Well, it's still Max until further Okay, so it's Max.
Speaker 2: So it's a Max documentary. You can watch it on
Speaker 2: Hulu or Max. And I actually want to watch it
Speaker 2: now after hearing a little bit more about this case.
Speaker 2: But they put this on just because his story of
Speaker 2: how he was convicted was so fascinating. But now he's
Speaker 2: on the run, you.
Speaker 1: Know what, that's key to explain. I didn't say that, right.
Speaker 1: The show has been out there already years about this guy,
Speaker 1: because he was apparently a bad enough dude with an
Speaker 1: interesting enough story that they decided to do a documentary
Speaker 1: on him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a police officer and briefly a police chief.
Speaker 2: If he was actually removed from that position because he
Speaker 2: was having so many run ins with city employees with citizens.
Speaker 2: He was just as many people in the town say
Speaker 2: he was evil and they knew it, and so he
Speaker 2: was forced to step down. But nine months after he
Speaker 2: was pushed out as police chief, he was still a
Speaker 2: police officer. He was convicted of shooting a city employee,
Speaker 2: a water employee, the city's water employee, in the head.
Speaker 2: And then when he gets arrested for that, they run
Speaker 2: his DNA through the system and find out bing it's
Speaker 2: a match for a twenty year old rape of a
Speaker 2: school teacher in Rogers, and you're very familiar with Rogers, Arkansas.
Speaker 2: That was, yeah, an unsolved crime, no one knew, but
Speaker 2: it was a violent rape. And so he was then
Speaker 2: convicted of that as well. So a rapist and a murderer.
Speaker 1: And a guy who's the subject of a documentary because
Speaker 1: of his crimes is on the.
Speaker 2: Loose, on the loose, and there is real fear that
Speaker 2: perhaps he could be seeking vengeance or revenge because he's
Speaker 2: just Everyone who knew him said he's that kind of guy.
Speaker 2: But his name is Grant Harden, and how he escaped
Speaker 2: from prison is also remarkable. This could be a whole
Speaker 2: other documentary. He impersonated a corrections officer, but they don't
Speaker 2: know how he did it because he had a uniform on.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a uniform that is issues for that prison.
Speaker 2: But somehow he made one, found one, created one. They
Speaker 2: don't know. And he walked out in broad daylight on
Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon and a prison guard let him go because
Speaker 2: he looked efficially.
Speaker 1: That's incredible to me that prison. Did you see an update?
Speaker 2: I haven't seen whether or not he has been let
Speaker 2: go or not, my goodness, but you know the area,
Speaker 2: so that's part of what they're talking about. This search
Speaker 2: is incredibly complicated because the Ozarks, if you haven't been
Speaker 2: right there in northeast Arkansas is northwest Arkansas. What is
Speaker 2: that terrain like?
Speaker 1: It's just mountainous. It's beautiful, but it's literally everybody's you've
Speaker 1: heard of the Ozarks yet that's just a mountainous region.
Speaker 1: There is all kinds of wildlife out there. The weather
Speaker 1: can be horrific depending on the time of year. You
Speaker 1: got lakes around, you have all it is. It's God's country.
Speaker 1: You could argue this is where you would that's what
Speaker 1: you would describe it as God's country. And if he
Speaker 1: is just run around out there in the mountains, in
Speaker 1: the woods and he knows the area, they say, guys
Speaker 1: from Arkansas, Ah, this might take a while. I was
Speaker 1: just blown away that how in the world of all things,
Speaker 1: you have a literally a TV star if you will,
Speaker 1: in your jail and you let him walk out. Even
Speaker 1: the prison guard when you looked at his.
Speaker 2: Face, Yeah, how did you not recognize him?
Speaker 1: That he is the devil?
Speaker 2: He is probably the most famous inmate, I would argue.
Speaker 2: I would guess who else has their own Max series
Speaker 2: right about their crime? How was he able to not
Speaker 2: be recognized even if he had a prison uniform on
Speaker 2: you? You still think that you know the guy?
Speaker 1: That's bold And again part of the issue they said
Speaker 1: he does have Yes, he has police training. He knows
Speaker 1: how to help himself, he knows how to come across
Speaker 1: like a police officer. So yeah, he is on the run.
Speaker 1: That was just one of those stories when you told
Speaker 1: me about it. Initially, somebody escaped in Arkansas, blah blah, like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, how did this guy get away? So
Speaker 1: that's a somebody's Well, there'll be an update next here.
Speaker 2: There needs to be consequences, how that happened, and why
Speaker 2: that happens. I think we should lighten it up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we need to end this with the story that we're
Speaker 2: still talking about, and that is Sidney Sweeney. She's one
Speaker 2: of the biggest hottest stars around. Now she is putting
Speaker 2: up her bathwater for sale.
Speaker 1: That's the headline that is actually accurate. Sidney Sweeney is
Speaker 1: selling her actual bathwater. I saw the headline, I said,
Speaker 1: let me look into this more, and I was like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: that's right. Actually is that's actually true. I love this story.
Speaker 1: I love what they're doing. It's a partnership doctor. I
Speaker 1: wasn't familiar Doctor's Watch.
Speaker 2: Doctor Squatch. I've never heard of that soap. But now hey,
Speaker 2: smart marketings. But they're talking about it now.
Speaker 1: Some of you, all of them are may be already familiar.
Speaker 1: She did a collaboration with them in which she was
Speaker 1: in a tub in a bubble bath that went viral.
Speaker 1: So now they've come back robes and she put out
Speaker 1: and say, hey, people kept asking me about my bath water,
Speaker 1: so we saved it. And they're not just selling it
Speaker 1: for you to smell, drink or put on you. I
Speaker 1: should say that they're infusing it.
Speaker 2: Yes, they're infusing it with an exfoliating soap that they say, yes,
Speaker 2: is actually has Sydney's bathwater inside of it. And yeah,
Speaker 2: it's been described as a very real and very limited
Speaker 2: edition of exfoliating soap made with sand pine bark extract
Speaker 2: and a touch of Sydney's real bathwater. Would you buy the.
Speaker 1: Soap under no circumstance? Not just out of curiosity because
Speaker 1: I'm just not a thing. But I only see this
Speaker 1: as brilliant marketing. I think it's wonderful. They could literally
Speaker 1: take one drop and put it in that mixture, and
Speaker 1: technically it's mixed with her bath soap, So somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: go out and actually think they are getting If someone
Speaker 1: goes out and buys a bar of soap and says,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get in the shower with this
Speaker 1: bar of soap because then I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Rub Sydney's Sweeney's DNA all over me. Wait, will that
Speaker 2: have her DNA in it? And could that have other
Speaker 2: implications it's being washed off?
Speaker 1: You know, could if there's even any bathwater in there
Speaker 1: at all?
Speaker 2: How do they prove that her bathwater's in there?
Speaker 1: You fill a tub with water, say hey, Sidney, come
Speaker 1: stick two hands in it. It's her bath water. You
Speaker 1: could technically get away with it that that's not the point.
Speaker 1: It's just they're playing on And yes, this young woman.
Speaker 1: Every time I go into Saphora, which is a lot
Speaker 1: with a twelve year old, Sidney Sweeney's there.
Speaker 2: She's everywhere in every movie, She's on every bill board.
Speaker 1: White Lotus is the only thing I have seen her in.
Speaker 1: I don't have any relationship with Sidney Sweeney, but I
Speaker 1: love this. I love that she's doing it. I love
Speaker 1: that she's embracing it. Some people want to It's going
Speaker 1: to be some haters out there and saying this is
Speaker 1: too far, it's just too much. This is silly, and
Speaker 1: you're selling sex and you're selling fantasy and all.
Speaker 2: It's okay, it's fine. With all the other things going
Speaker 2: on in the world and a lot of what we
Speaker 2: just talked about in this podcast, we kind of need stories.
Speaker 1: Like this, right, I don't mind this one.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't take ourselves so seriously.
Speaker 1: Is it too much eight bucks for I think eight bucks.
Speaker 2: I think that actually is a decent price point for
Speaker 2: what they're selling. And I loved how they described this
Speaker 2: or who said this a perfect combination of the two
Speaker 2: best places on the planet, the outdoors and Sydney's. Sweeney's
Speaker 2: back up even that she laughed was I was.
Speaker 1: A little annoyed at that one. Really, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, that's that's freaking clever because it was
Speaker 1: a little that went a little too far from me.
Speaker 1: The best place on earth is to be in the
Speaker 1: tub with the naked girl. That one went a little
Speaker 1: too far puts still sex cells. It's brilliant and it's edgy,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit and it has everybody talking. I
Speaker 1: don't mind this one at all.
Speaker 2: It's good, clean fun five thousand bars. But I'm bumped.
Speaker 2: Oh god, see you even miss my bad.
Speaker 1: Pun well because I think it's good, nasty fun, because
Speaker 1: the nastiest place in my home on a daily basis
Speaker 1: will be the tub I just got out of. Everybody said,
Speaker 1: why I want to sit own?
Speaker 2: Do you want to know something? I I hardly ever
Speaker 2: take a bath, but when I do, I shower first
Speaker 2: for that exact reason. Does that Does anyone else do that?
Speaker 1: To your point, I always shower before I get into
Speaker 1: a body of water of some kind. If I get
Speaker 1: into a tub, if I get into a pool, if
Speaker 1: I get it to the hot tub, yeah, oh god,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, and then.
Speaker 2: I shower afterwards. Of course, it's not about getting clean.
Speaker 2: It's about feeling warm, sudsy water around you. Perhaps it
Speaker 2: is for me. That is not about getting clean, Because
Speaker 2: anyone who's had a kid or had to, you know,
Speaker 2: give someone a bath. You see the remnants around the tub,
Speaker 2: and it's disgusting.
Speaker 1: I know, Sydney Sweeney's gorgeous, but she takes nasty baths
Speaker 1: like the rest of us. Okay, she is getting funk
Speaker 1: off that body of hers, and lord knows all the
Speaker 1: other products. She might have a lot more coming off
Speaker 1: her body than I do.
Speaker 2: So that's true, all the lotions we use stuff, I
Speaker 2: get it, I get it. Yeah. So now this has
Speaker 2: turned from good clean fun tech net. Wow, we just
Speaker 2: spiraled on that one.
Speaker 1: Bad How many bads am I taking with you? I
Speaker 1: can remember one one.
Speaker 2: We have taken one one together.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to get out of that one. No,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Because we both showered first,
Speaker 1: I think, so this is now gone too far. We
Speaker 1: will not be selling our bath water folks.
Speaker 3: All right, I feel like we should wrap it up. Hey,
Speaker 3: I hope you all had a little laugh and a
Speaker 3: little bit to talk about. We appreciate you as always
Speaker 3: running with us on the weekend. Have a wonderful day, everybody.
Speaker 3: Ye