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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Ron. It's Friday, April fourth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I am TJ. Holmes. Always appreciate you running with us Morning Run guaranteed to be ready and waiting for you at six thirty am Eastern time every single day Friday. We have made it to Friday. We have started our day. We have been blasting Disney theme songs and it has been a great Morning Run.
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Speaker 1: It actually has. It definitely was uplifting to sing along and type along this morning. I had fun. Thank you for putting that on.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we needed to have a little fun because today, folks, unfortunately the news ain't so great, especially with the stock market. Tell you what's coming up on the Friday Morning Run. Just skip checking on your fro one K today, all right, the stock market plungees in its steepest decline we've seen since the pandemic, thanks tariffs.
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Speaker 1: And more so of your weather is weeping across the country today and into the weekend. After already claiming at least seven lives plus. Prince Harry finally addresses those accusations from the chairwoman of his former charity sent to ballet after the UK has announced an investigation into the charity.
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Speaker 2: Also, President Trump is sending a strong message to schools across the country drop all DEI or lose all federal funding. Also, another controversial Trump nominee is confirmed. Doctor Memet Oz will now be in charge of health coverage for nearly half the country.
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Speaker 1: And former Vice President Mike Pence will receive a prestigious honor in Washington for his courage for defying his boss President Trump, who by the way, called him a coward and is snow White's less than anticipated success at the box office messing it up for a new and previously planned live action remake for my favorite Rapunzels Tangled.
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Speaker 2: Also this morning, a sweet moment to tell you about. In Vegas, of all places, Tom Cruise took up pause from promoting to honor his friend Val Kilmer. Will tell you exactly what he said. I think we like a lot of people. Yesterday spent a lot of time with the TV on to a vow Kilmer movie. I think Tombstone was the one we had going. We went with Batman Forever later, but uh, you couldn't help it. Just wanted to go check him out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you had a steady stream of Kilmer movies on in honor of him. All right, we're gonna begin the big story today on this Friday morning run with the stock markets. The headlines are unanimous and punishing. Global stock markets buckled, cratered, plummeted, you picked the word, but they were all negative. And this was all following President Trump's big tariff announcement this week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, folks, we're seeing the times of declines we haven't seen in years. Two point seven trillion dollars in market value was lost on Thursday, one day. Two point seven trillion dollars gone, biggest decline we have seen since the pandemic that was in March of twenty twenty s and P five hundred was down four percent. Now Jones down three and a half percent, down nearly six percent.
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Speaker 1: The markets all responding to Trump's announcement of that minimum ten percent tariff on all US imports. But of course that was just the starting point. Most countries are going to see a lot bigger percentage points than that. Trump announcing we will charge every country half the rate they charge us. So that has caused countries around the world to threaten hire retaliatory tariffs, which means we are in the midst of a full blown international trade war.
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Speaker 2: So President Trump was asked about this yesterday, and this is what he told reporters. Quote, I think it's going well end Quote. Yes, there was more. He damn sure, better be more than that. He went on to say this, the markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom, the country is going to boom, and the rest of the world wants to see if there is any way they can make a deal.
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Speaker 1: Wait, did you hear that last part, if they can make a deal. Yeah, that's right. The President said he is willing to make a deal, saying the tariffs give the US great power to negotiate. Why is that such a big deal that he just said that. Well, it's the exact opposite of what White House officials were repeatedly saying earlier in the day, insisting that Trump would not negotiate or back off from the tariffs he announced this week. Looks like anything and everything is up for grabs.
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Speaker 2: Now, well, yeah, it's unclear. So if it's unclear, that's what investors, that's what the markets hate. Give us some kind of certainty give us something to go with. So the back and forth. Look, folks, he said this is going to be painful for a little while. This is absolutely painful for a lot of They are losing real money as we speak. But he's claiming his plan is going to pay off later. It might take us years to see the results. However, we'll continue here on this Friday morning. We turn now to this deadly and destructive weather system. It continues to impact millions of Americans. It's called a once in a generation storm. It's living up to the name. Seven people have been confirmed killed from the system that is sweeping across the country. It's going to continue to recavoc into the weekend.
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Speaker 1: That's right, Five people died in Tennessee, one in Indiana and another in Missouri. Thirteen others have been injured, but local officials say, especially the ones in Tennessee say, those numbers, unfortunately, are likely to climb even higher.
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Speaker 2: And so far we got to count of at least thirty tornadoes in the South and Midwest. Rescuers have been searching through rubble after several strong tornadoes demolished homes and buildings. Really, this is one of those cases where we see neighborhoods just wiped out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the tornado threat unfortunately continues now today into the weekend as the storm is moving eastward. But behind the tornado threat is another danger heavy rain and the potential for catastrophic flooding. Forecasters say another ten to fifteen inches of rain could fall through Saturday night on areas that have already been impacted, and that flooding risk will then continue into next week. We said this yesterday on the podcast, but I've just seen the same type of dire warnings out there by meteorologists and weather forecasters saying people, please pay attention to your local radar, to your local weather reports because this is potentially deadly and detructive and just everyone needs to be on alert.
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Speaker 2: We have really appreciated our local weather folks here. We have watched more local news specifically because weather in the past several days. That's true, because of this system. We continue here on this Friday morning run and Prince Harry has finally spoken days after being accused of bullying, harassment and sexism by the chairwoman of Senta Bale, the charity that Prince Harry co founded in honor of his late mother. Princess Diana.
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Speaker 1: So after news at Senta Balia is now being investigated by Britain's Charity Commission. That's a watchdog group that regulates charities in England and Wales. Well, Prince Harry said he was relieved. He wrote this on behalf of the former trustees and patrons. We share in the relief that the Charity Commission confirmed they will be conducting a robust inquiry. We fully expect it will unveil the truth that collectively forced us to resign.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, forced two. He stepped down from the organization along with its co founder and five other trustees after an internal conflict with the chairwoman, Sophie Shandoka. Now she has spent the last several days making multiple allegations against the trustees and Prince Harry, including that she was the target of the publicity machine of Megan Markel and Prince Hareic Woof.
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Speaker 1: And so Prince Harry and other members of the trustees released a statement saying what has transpired over the last week has been heartbreaking to witness, especially when such blatant lies hurt those who have invested decades in this shared goal.
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Speaker 2: What is that goal?
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Speaker 1: The mission of this charity actually began in two thousand and six to honor Princess Diana to raise money to help victims of the HIV pandemic in Lesotho. It's expanded to Botswana. It includes aid to people affected by substance abuse and gender based violence. This is a charity that's doing very important work.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's been around, like, yeah, twenty years. The honor did this was an honor of his mother. I just hate to see it going down like this right now. But the investigation is going to look into whether the charity's current and former trustees, including its chair have fulfilled their duties and responsibilities under charity law. Now. The chairwoman says she also welcomes the inquiry, saying she hoped it would bring comfort to the people they serve that the new board of trustees are acting appropriately.
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Speaker 1: There is certainly more to come on that story, all right. Next up on our run, the Trump administration is putting schools across the country on notice ditch DEI or lose your federal funding, and a letter sent to states, the White House threatens to withhold the billions in federal state education grantsate controls unless states promise they are adhering to Trump's directives, the diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that they need to be going away.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The letter he said to all the states has right at the top. It says, this reminder of legal obligations undertaken in exchange for receiving federal financial assistance. That's the nice way of saying you have been warned that. The letters to the states include a form to be filled out that certifies that they are not using any DEI policies.
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Speaker 1: And there is a timeline attached to this. States have just ten days to respond. You may remember Trump signed that executive order not long after taking office eliminating DEI programs from the federal government.
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Speaker 2: And as a reminder here, the federal government hands out some eighteen billion dollars in the federal grants tied to Title one money. We hear that all the time, but this money is mainly set aside for lower income schools. Also, this get hurt. I don't know how you prove they're essentially signing an Affidavid saying I promise I'm not doing any DEI. How do you investigate everybody? But the threat of losing that kind of money is catastrophic. It could be for a lot of places. We'll continue here on this Friday morning run doctor Oz now officially the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Senace It the Senate excuse Me confirmed memet Oz along party lines fifty three to forty five, despite some intense questioning by Democrats in the Senate Finance condec.
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Speaker 1: Most notably, doctor Oz would not say whether he supported the proposed GOP to Medicaid that has been making many headlines, but instead he said this to senators, Let's be aggressive in modernizing our tools to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse. This will stop unscrupleous people from stealing vulnerable Americans and extend the life of the Medicare Trust Fund. So the agency doctor Oz now runs provides coverage for seventy nine million people on Medicaid sixty eight million people on Medicare. It remains to be seen what he will do with those cuts.
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Speaker 2: All right, folk, stay with us here on this Friday morning. Ron When we come back, we're gonna wrap it up with our last few legs of running for the week, including this story. The President called him a coward. The Kennedys call him courageous. Also, what is with the beef between two Disney princesses. Yes, Rapunzel is mad at snow White. Also Tom Cruise with some sweet words were his former on screen adversary Falclm. All right, we will continue here on our Friday morning run with this. The crowd wanted to hang him. The President called him a coward. Mike Pence is now being called courageous and being honored for what he did on that infamous January sixth day. Pence will receive the John F. Kennedy Profile Encourage Awards specifically for his refusal to do what Trump wanted him to do, not certify the twenty twenty election results, something of course, he was constitutionally obligated to do so.
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Speaker 1: The JFK Library Foundation, in making the announcement, said, Pence put his life and career on the line to ensure the constitutional transfer of presidential power on January sixth, twenty twenty one. You'll remember, yes, Trump pressured Pence to hold up certification, claiming there was voting fraud in some states.
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Speaker 2: So while the mob was assaulting the Capitol, Pence was literally on the run and in hiding inside that building, refused even the Secret Service recommendation that he leave the building. So now he's getting this award. It's going to happen in a ceremony that's going to be May fourth. That's a Sunday in Boston. I don't know why I added that. I just happened to know.
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Speaker 1: That's a it's a Sunday, all right, May the fourth be with you. The Kennedy Foundation wrote that Pence's decision is an example of President Kennedy's belief that an act of political courage can change the course of history. And this is a ward that's been given out since nineteen eighty nine, recognized many public officials, including President Obama, first President Bush, Gabby Gifford's, Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi. So Mike Pence will be added to a very esteemed list of public services.
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Speaker 2: Looking forward to his speech, wonder what he's going to say in the midst of that. You got Trump back in the White House, and now he is being honored for doing his duty, which is something. Doing his duty is what Trump called him a coward for. So I'm interesting to hear. We're kind of speeches.
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Speaker 1: You can't wait to hear that speach?
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Speaker 2: All right? Well, next up here on the wrong O, why might be messing things up for Rapunzel. Disney is reportedly having second thoughts about doing a live action version of its twenty ten animated hit and Robot's Favorite Tangled.
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Speaker 1: Absolute favorite Disney movie ever. Love the movie, love the music now.
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Speaker 2: According to Ward to this.
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Speaker 1: I was yes. According to multiple media reports, Disney has now paused development of the movie, which already had a director and a writer attached to the project. And the news comes yes after a less than stellar critical and commercial reception for snow White. That's a very kind way to put it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't know for sure these two things are connected, but yes, the live action version of snow White was released two weeks ago. You've been hearing plenty about it, all the controversy I has been plagued, and that it opened to a disappointing forty five million dollars in the US, made a total of almost one hundred and fifty million dollars worldwide. That ain't good against an estimated budget of two hundred and fifty plus million dollars before all the the advertising and promotional cost. So this is you got numbers out there in estimates, this is going to be a nine a pretty significant nine figure loss. It is.
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Speaker 1: They're in the red significantly. So it's unclear, yes, if Disney is simply rethinking the direction of a live action Tangled or if it's ditching the project altogether. Disney does have a live action Lee, Lo and Stitch coming out next month. A live action Moana is scheduled for a twenty twenty six release. And by the way, just Isn't just Me Who Love Tangled? The animated Tangled film made six hundred million dollars at the box office and gave us the Oscar nominated song it should have won. I See the Light, which I play at nauseum that the and at last I See the Light. No that you're thinking of Hercules, Go the Distance.
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Speaker 2: Go the Distance, Yes, but Bolton does a version of that one.
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Speaker 1: I love that one. But I See the Light.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Zachary Levi, we just talked to him on the podcast. He is there with Mandy Moore. They sing I See the Light and it's a good one.
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Speaker 2: So been blaring some of these songs, and look, we encourage you all to do. So whatever's going on in your life, take a beat. Listen to a couple of Disney song. I cannot believe you promoting this, but listen to a couple of Disney songs. They really got us going. This one.
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Speaker 1: It's moodlifting.
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Speaker 2: It absolutely is that a final legt of our Friday run now, and Tom Cruise had some sweet words for his friend and Top Gun co star Val Kilmer. Cruz was in Vegas yesterday for a previously scheduled appearance at CinemaCon As, an annual convention of movie theater owners.
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Speaker 1: He was there to promote the upcoming installment of Mission Impossible, but before he got into his remarks about the movie, he asked for a moment of silence for Kilmer, who died Tuesday at the age of sixty five.
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Speaker 2: And then Tom Cruise said this quote, I'd like to honor a dear friend of mine, Val Kilmer. I can't tell you how much I admire his work, how grateful and honored I was when he joined Top Gun and came back later for Top Gun Maverick. He loved movies and he gave a lot to all of us. Just kind of think about all the wonderful times that we had with him, And then He closed by saying, I wish you well in the next journey talking to Val Kilmer, so sweet air. I guess we were a lot of us waiting to hear. They will forever be tied in cinema history together because of Top Gun. And we're talking about we were watching Valkilmer movies yesterday. That was the one. The last one we had on was Top Gun.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was very cool. He did so cool. Oh in the original, Yes he was. He was too cool for school in every way. Those frosted tips on his hair, Yeah, he was cool.
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Speaker 2: All right, Before you go about your day, we've already given you a recommendation for some songs you need to be listening to. But something else we want you to take with you on this Friday. It is our quote of the day.
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Speaker 1: What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. I love that. That's from Ralph Waldo Emerson, famed poet, writer, author. He has a lot of great motivational quotes, but this one spoke to me today.
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Speaker 2: Folks. It lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. And with that, folks, we appreciate you putting in some runs with us this week. Okay, sorry, I made it through the whole episode without comming, and now we're wrapping it up and I'm struggling.
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Speaker 1: I maybe Robot, have a wonderful Friday and an even better weekend, and we'll see you on the run on Monday.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Ron. It's Friday, April fourth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I am TJ. Holmes. Always appreciate you running with us Morning Run guaranteed to be ready and waiting for you at six thirty am Eastern time every single day Friday. We have made it to Friday. We have started our day. We have been blasting Disney theme songs and it has been a great Morning Run.
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Speaker 1: It actually has. It definitely was uplifting to sing along and type along this morning. I had fun. Thank you for putting that on.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we needed to have a little fun because today, folks, unfortunately the news ain't so great, especially with the stock market. Tell you what's coming up on the Friday Morning Run. Just skip checking on your fro one K today, all right, the stock market plungees in its steepest decline we've seen since the pandemic, thanks tariffs.
00:00:58
Speaker 1: And more so of your weather is weeping across the country today and into the weekend. After already claiming at least seven lives plus. Prince Harry finally addresses those accusations from the chairwoman of his former charity sent to ballet after the UK has announced an investigation into the charity.
00:01:15
Speaker 2: Also, President Trump is sending a strong message to schools across the country drop all DEI or lose all federal funding. Also, another controversial Trump nominee is confirmed. Doctor Memet Oz will now be in charge of health coverage for nearly half the country.
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Speaker 1: And former Vice President Mike Pence will receive a prestigious honor in Washington for his courage for defying his boss President Trump, who by the way, called him a coward and is snow White's less than anticipated success at the box office messing it up for a new and previously planned live action remake for my favorite Rapunzels Tangled.
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Speaker 2: Also this morning, a sweet moment to tell you about. In Vegas, of all places, Tom Cruise took up pause from promoting to honor his friend Val Kilmer. Will tell you exactly what he said. I think we like a lot of people. Yesterday spent a lot of time with the TV on to a vow Kilmer movie. I think Tombstone was the one we had going. We went with Batman Forever later, but uh, you couldn't help it. Just wanted to go check him out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you had a steady stream of Kilmer movies on in honor of him. All right, we're gonna begin the big story today on this Friday morning run with the stock markets. The headlines are unanimous and punishing. Global stock markets buckled, cratered, plummeted, you picked the word, but they were all negative. And this was all following President Trump's big tariff announcement this week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, folks, we're seeing the times of declines we haven't seen in years. Two point seven trillion dollars in market value was lost on Thursday, one day. Two point seven trillion dollars gone, biggest decline we have seen since the pandemic that was in March of twenty twenty s and P five hundred was down four percent. Now Jones down three and a half percent, down nearly six percent.
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Speaker 1: The markets all responding to Trump's announcement of that minimum ten percent tariff on all US imports. But of course that was just the starting point. Most countries are going to see a lot bigger percentage points than that. Trump announcing we will charge every country half the rate they charge us. So that has caused countries around the world to threaten hire retaliatory tariffs, which means we are in the midst of a full blown international trade war.
00:03:24
Speaker 2: So President Trump was asked about this yesterday, and this is what he told reporters. Quote, I think it's going well end Quote. Yes, there was more. He damn sure, better be more than that. He went on to say this, the markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom, the country is going to boom, and the rest of the world wants to see if there is any way they can make a deal.
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Speaker 1: Wait, did you hear that last part, if they can make a deal. Yeah, that's right. The President said he is willing to make a deal, saying the tariffs give the US great power to negotiate. Why is that such a big deal that he just said that. Well, it's the exact opposite of what White House officials were repeatedly saying earlier in the day, insisting that Trump would not negotiate or back off from the tariffs he announced this week. Looks like anything and everything is up for grabs.
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Speaker 2: Now, well, yeah, it's unclear. So if it's unclear, that's what investors, that's what the markets hate. Give us some kind of certainty give us something to go with. So the back and forth. Look, folks, he said this is going to be painful for a little while. This is absolutely painful for a lot of They are losing real money as we speak. But he's claiming his plan is going to pay off later. It might take us years to see the results. However, we'll continue here on this Friday morning. We turn now to this deadly and destructive weather system. It continues to impact millions of Americans. It's called a once in a generation storm. It's living up to the name. Seven people have been confirmed killed from the system that is sweeping across the country. It's going to continue to recavoc into the weekend.
00:04:54
Speaker 1: That's right, Five people died in Tennessee, one in Indiana and another in Missouri. Thirteen others have been injured, but local officials say, especially the ones in Tennessee say, those numbers, unfortunately, are likely to climb even higher.
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Speaker 2: And so far we got to count of at least thirty tornadoes in the South and Midwest. Rescuers have been searching through rubble after several strong tornadoes demolished homes and buildings. Really, this is one of those cases where we see neighborhoods just wiped out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the tornado threat unfortunately continues now today into the weekend as the storm is moving eastward. But behind the tornado threat is another danger heavy rain and the potential for catastrophic flooding. Forecasters say another ten to fifteen inches of rain could fall through Saturday night on areas that have already been impacted, and that flooding risk will then continue into next week. We said this yesterday on the podcast, but I've just seen the same type of dire warnings out there by meteorologists and weather forecasters saying people, please pay attention to your local radar, to your local weather reports because this is potentially deadly and detructive and just everyone needs to be on alert.
00:06:03
Speaker 2: We have really appreciated our local weather folks here. We have watched more local news specifically because weather in the past several days. That's true, because of this system. We continue here on this Friday morning run and Prince Harry has finally spoken days after being accused of bullying, harassment and sexism by the chairwoman of Senta Bale, the charity that Prince Harry co founded in honor of his late mother. Princess Diana.
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Speaker 1: So after news at Senta Balia is now being investigated by Britain's Charity Commission. That's a watchdog group that regulates charities in England and Wales. Well, Prince Harry said he was relieved. He wrote this on behalf of the former trustees and patrons. We share in the relief that the Charity Commission confirmed they will be conducting a robust inquiry. We fully expect it will unveil the truth that collectively forced us to resign.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, forced two. He stepped down from the organization along with its co founder and five other trustees after an internal conflict with the chairwoman, Sophie Shandoka. Now she has spent the last several days making multiple allegations against the trustees and Prince Harry, including that she was the target of the publicity machine of Megan Markel and Prince Hareic Woof.
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Speaker 1: And so Prince Harry and other members of the trustees released a statement saying what has transpired over the last week has been heartbreaking to witness, especially when such blatant lies hurt those who have invested decades in this shared goal.
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Speaker 2: What is that goal?
00:07:29
Speaker 1: The mission of this charity actually began in two thousand and six to honor Princess Diana to raise money to help victims of the HIV pandemic in Lesotho. It's expanded to Botswana. It includes aid to people affected by substance abuse and gender based violence. This is a charity that's doing very important work.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's been around, like, yeah, twenty years. The honor did this was an honor of his mother. I just hate to see it going down like this right now. But the investigation is going to look into whether the charity's current and former trustees, including its chair have fulfilled their duties and responsibilities under charity law. Now. The chairwoman says she also welcomes the inquiry, saying she hoped it would bring comfort to the people they serve that the new board of trustees are acting appropriately.
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Speaker 1: There is certainly more to come on that story, all right. Next up on our run, the Trump administration is putting schools across the country on notice ditch DEI or lose your federal funding, and a letter sent to states, the White House threatens to withhold the billions in federal state education grantsate controls unless states promise they are adhering to Trump's directives, the diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that they need to be going away.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The letter he said to all the states has right at the top. It says, this reminder of legal obligations undertaken in exchange for receiving federal financial assistance. That's the nice way of saying you have been warned that. The letters to the states include a form to be filled out that certifies that they are not using any DEI policies.
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Speaker 1: And there is a timeline attached to this. States have just ten days to respond. You may remember Trump signed that executive order not long after taking office eliminating DEI programs from the federal government.
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Speaker 2: And as a reminder here, the federal government hands out some eighteen billion dollars in the federal grants tied to Title one money. We hear that all the time, but this money is mainly set aside for lower income schools. Also, this get hurt. I don't know how you prove they're essentially signing an Affidavid saying I promise I'm not doing any DEI. How do you investigate everybody? But the threat of losing that kind of money is catastrophic. It could be for a lot of places. We'll continue here on this Friday morning run doctor Oz now officially the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Senace It the Senate excuse Me confirmed memet Oz along party lines fifty three to forty five, despite some intense questioning by Democrats in the Senate Finance condec.
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Speaker 1: Most notably, doctor Oz would not say whether he supported the proposed GOP to Medicaid that has been making many headlines, but instead he said this to senators, Let's be aggressive in modernizing our tools to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse. This will stop unscrupleous people from stealing vulnerable Americans and extend the life of the Medicare Trust Fund. So the agency doctor Oz now runs provides coverage for seventy nine million people on Medicaid sixty eight million people on Medicare. It remains to be seen what he will do with those cuts.
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Speaker 2: All right, folk, stay with us here on this Friday morning. Ron When we come back, we're gonna wrap it up with our last few legs of running for the week, including this story. The President called him a coward. The Kennedys call him courageous. Also, what is with the beef between two Disney princesses. Yes, Rapunzel is mad at snow White. Also Tom Cruise with some sweet words were his former on screen adversary Falclm. All right, we will continue here on our Friday morning run with this. The crowd wanted to hang him. The President called him a coward. Mike Pence is now being called courageous and being honored for what he did on that infamous January sixth day. Pence will receive the John F. Kennedy Profile Encourage Awards specifically for his refusal to do what Trump wanted him to do, not certify the twenty twenty election results, something of course, he was constitutionally obligated to do so.
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Speaker 1: The JFK Library Foundation, in making the announcement, said, Pence put his life and career on the line to ensure the constitutional transfer of presidential power on January sixth, twenty twenty one. You'll remember, yes, Trump pressured Pence to hold up certification, claiming there was voting fraud in some states.
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Speaker 2: So while the mob was assaulting the Capitol, Pence was literally on the run and in hiding inside that building, refused even the Secret Service recommendation that he leave the building. So now he's getting this award. It's going to happen in a ceremony that's going to be May fourth. That's a Sunday in Boston. I don't know why I added that. I just happened to know.
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Speaker 1: That's a it's a Sunday, all right, May the fourth be with you. The Kennedy Foundation wrote that Pence's decision is an example of President Kennedy's belief that an act of political courage can change the course of history. And this is a ward that's been given out since nineteen eighty nine, recognized many public officials, including President Obama, first President Bush, Gabby Gifford's, Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi. So Mike Pence will be added to a very esteemed list of public services.
00:12:41
Speaker 2: Looking forward to his speech, wonder what he's going to say in the midst of that. You got Trump back in the White House, and now he is being honored for doing his duty, which is something. Doing his duty is what Trump called him a coward for. So I'm interesting to hear. We're kind of speeches.
00:12:55
Speaker 1: You can't wait to hear that speach?
00:12:57
Speaker 2: All right? Well, next up here on the wrong O, why might be messing things up for Rapunzel. Disney is reportedly having second thoughts about doing a live action version of its twenty ten animated hit and Robot's Favorite Tangled.
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Speaker 1: Absolute favorite Disney movie ever. Love the movie, love the music now.
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Speaker 2: According to Ward to this.
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Speaker 1: I was yes. According to multiple media reports, Disney has now paused development of the movie, which already had a director and a writer attached to the project. And the news comes yes after a less than stellar critical and commercial reception for snow White. That's a very kind way to put it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't know for sure these two things are connected, but yes, the live action version of snow White was released two weeks ago. You've been hearing plenty about it, all the controversy I has been plagued, and that it opened to a disappointing forty five million dollars in the US, made a total of almost one hundred and fifty million dollars worldwide. That ain't good against an estimated budget of two hundred and fifty plus million dollars before all the the advertising and promotional cost. So this is you got numbers out there in estimates, this is going to be a nine a pretty significant nine figure loss. It is.
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Speaker 1: They're in the red significantly. So it's unclear, yes, if Disney is simply rethinking the direction of a live action Tangled or if it's ditching the project altogether. Disney does have a live action Lee, Lo and Stitch coming out next month. A live action Moana is scheduled for a twenty twenty six release. And by the way, just Isn't just Me Who Love Tangled? The animated Tangled film made six hundred million dollars at the box office and gave us the Oscar nominated song it should have won. I See the Light, which I play at nauseum that the and at last I See the Light. No that you're thinking of Hercules, Go the Distance.
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Speaker 2: Go the Distance, Yes, but Bolton does a version of that one.
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Speaker 1: I love that one. But I See the Light.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Zachary Levi, we just talked to him on the podcast. He is there with Mandy Moore. They sing I See the Light and it's a good one.
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Speaker 2: So been blaring some of these songs, and look, we encourage you all to do. So whatever's going on in your life, take a beat. Listen to a couple of Disney song. I cannot believe you promoting this, but listen to a couple of Disney songs. They really got us going. This one.
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Speaker 1: It's moodlifting.
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Speaker 2: It absolutely is that a final legt of our Friday run now, and Tom Cruise had some sweet words for his friend and Top Gun co star Val Kilmer. Cruz was in Vegas yesterday for a previously scheduled appearance at CinemaCon As, an annual convention of movie theater owners.
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Speaker 1: He was there to promote the upcoming installment of Mission Impossible, but before he got into his remarks about the movie, he asked for a moment of silence for Kilmer, who died Tuesday at the age of sixty five.
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Speaker 2: And then Tom Cruise said this quote, I'd like to honor a dear friend of mine, Val Kilmer. I can't tell you how much I admire his work, how grateful and honored I was when he joined Top Gun and came back later for Top Gun Maverick. He loved movies and he gave a lot to all of us. Just kind of think about all the wonderful times that we had with him, And then He closed by saying, I wish you well in the next journey talking to Val Kilmer, so sweet air. I guess we were a lot of us waiting to hear. They will forever be tied in cinema history together because of Top Gun. And we're talking about we were watching Valkilmer movies yesterday. That was the one. The last one we had on was Top Gun.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was very cool. He did so cool. Oh in the original, Yes he was. He was too cool for school in every way. Those frosted tips on his hair, Yeah, he was cool.
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Speaker 2: All right, Before you go about your day, we've already given you a recommendation for some songs you need to be listening to. But something else we want you to take with you on this Friday. It is our quote of the day.
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Speaker 1: What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. I love that. That's from Ralph Waldo Emerson, famed poet, writer, author. He has a lot of great motivational quotes, but this one spoke to me today.
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Speaker 2: Folks. It lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. And with that, folks, we appreciate you putting in some runs with us this week. Okay, sorry, I made it through the whole episode without comming, and now we're wrapping it up and I'm struggling.
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Speaker 1: I maybe Robot, have a wonderful Friday and an even better weekend, and we'll see you on the run on Monday.
