Full Transcript for Morning Run: Delta Jets Collide, Diddy Wants to Talk, Government Still Shutdown, Bad Bunny SNL and Most Banned Author

of course, Robes, we are still closed for business as a federal government, right. 00:02:41 Speaker 1: We certainly are. So we begin our Friday Eve run with the big question on most people's minds this morning, how long will this government shut down last? We have an answer at least until Friday. 00:02:54 Speaker 3: No, that's not very specific, but we got something. The point is, don't expect anything today. Are in day two now of this shutdown. Congress is out of session for the Jewish holiday, so no business being done. So tomorrow Friday is the first opportunity for members of Congress to possibly reach a deal. But to be honest with you, folks, it does not look good. Both sides continued to sound like they're digging in their heels more so than coming around to compromise. 00:03:19 Speaker 1: That's right, Democrats. Democrats have been insisting on assurances about Medicaid cuts. Republicans say, sure, we can talk about that, but only after we sign a temporary measure to keep the government open. Meanwhile, an estimated seven hundred and fifty thousand federal workers are being furloughed, but the Trump administration says some of those furloughs will end up being firing. 00:03:41 Speaker 3: Yeah, he spoke of this and talked about it as kind of a threat even before the shutdown happened. But he has absolutely said this is something that's going to happen. It looks like they're moving forward with it. The Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt said yesterday that firings were imminent, and then the President wrote this on social media. Republicans must use this opportunity of Democrat forced closure to clear out dead wood, waste, and fraud. Billions of dollars can be saved. 00:04:09 Speaker 1: Some of the first money the president was looking to cut is in Democrat led states. 00:04:14 Speaker 3: Hmmm. 00:04:15 Speaker 1: The administration has paused or canceled billions of dollars in funding. In particular, it's a big story here locally in New York. They're eighteen billion dollars in federal infrastructure dollars has been put on holds. 00:04:28 Speaker 3: Now, you might say, well why, and a lot of people will say, well, clearly they're doing this in retaliation. No, no, no, no, you don't have to speculate, folks, They're saying exactly why. The head of the White House Budget Office tweeted this quote, Roughly eighteen billion dollars in New York City infrastructure projects have been put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles. Day didn't even. 00:04:55 Speaker 2: Say practices, just principles, all right. 00:04:58 Speaker 1: And in case that wasn't clear enough for you, the Department of Transportation put out this statement saying it's reviewing New York's unconstitutional practices and that it will take more time because of the shutdown. Now, the money was earmarked for two major projects here in New York, a Hudson River tunnel and a subway on the city's east side. 00:05:20 Speaker 3: Say well, well, well, what those are two headaches here? The east side certainly could to use work. Really the tunnel, that work is essentially not going to be reimbursed at some point if New York runs out of money, those projects will have to stop. 00:05:34 Speaker 1: Unless Trump has the purse strings. 00:05:36 Speaker 3: I'll be damned all right. Next up on the Run, though Lisa Cook keeps on winning against the President. Cook, the Federal Reserve governor that President Trump has tried, tried, and tried again to fire, was told by the Supreme Court yesterday that she can hold onto her job for the time being. 00:05:52 Speaker 1: Trump has been trying to get her off the Federal Reserve for months now, initially firing her for cause, claiming she on a mortgage application. But Cook sued to keep her job and has won it every single step along the legal. 00:06:06 Speaker 3: Way, and then trumpasa's Supreme Court to intervene immediately, but instead, yesterday the court said Cook can stay in her role until the court hears oral arguments in the case. In January, Cook did participate in the last FED meeting in which they did cut interest rates. They have two more meetings this year. She will be there, all right. 00:06:24 Speaker 1: Next up on the Run. Some sad news to report. We talked about it at the top of this episode, but a major loss to the animal conservation movement. Doctor Jane Goodall, the beloved and regarded researcher who devoted her life to document the behavior and the social lives of chimpanzees, has died at the age of ninety one. 00:06:44 Speaker 3: At The Jane Goodall Institute announced her death Wednesday, saying she died of natural causes while on a speaking tour in California. She's ninety one on a speaking tour. 00:06:55 Speaker 1: I love that she was, Like you said, she was working until the day she did at something she loved and was passionate about. 00:07:03 Speaker 3: We hear and it's cool when we hear people dive ole. They oftentimes they say they've died at home, surrounded by family kind of thing. This seems appropriate to She was still out there, yeah, doing her thing. But they released the statement saying this Doctor Godoll's discoveries as an ethologist is that right, Yes, revolutionize science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world. She became famous for her work with chimpanzees in Tanzania in the nineteen sixties, when she immersed herself in their habitat to experience their society, quote as a neighbor rather than a distant observer. 00:07:38 Speaker 1: I was doing a deep dive on all of her work and just what she faced and how many years she literally lived among them, with them, risking her life from not just you know, their society, but certainly she talked about crocodiles and pythons and all of these Yes, all of these things that she was literally living around. 00:07:57 Speaker 3: What's the show you love? Is it alone? 00:08:00 Speaker 1: Yes? Alone? Yes? 00:08:02 Speaker 3:

She was kind of that. 00:08:04 Speaker 2: She did that, yes, but. 00:08:05 Speaker 1: All in the name of science, not for personal gain, not for money, not for fame. But she acquired a lot of that with her numerous articles, her books, her documentaries. She became one of the most, if not the most famous scientist in the twentieth century. She's credited for opening the door for more women to enter all fields of science. 00:08:23 Speaker 2: I love that. 00:08:24 Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about that, but much has been written about that since her passing, and it makes a lot of sense. 00:08:28 Speaker 2: What else? 00:08:29 Speaker 1: Who else did women have to look to in that field? Not really anyone except for Jane Goodall. Now, among Goodall's many awards, she was named a Dame of the British Empire, by Queen Elizabeth back in two thousand and three, and just this past January, she was awarded our highest honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Joe Biden. She is survived by her son, her sister, and three grandchildren. 00:08:53 Speaker 3: What a life. I didn't realize that I miss the Presidential Medal Freedom. Yeah, I just forgot her. 00:08:59 Speaker 1: I didn't realize that either, But yes, it was noted among her many, many, many awards that she's won over the years. 00:09:04 Speaker 3: You know you mentioned Tanzania. That was when I got how big of a deal she was. I knew her name, but I happened to be at a conference in Tanzania, all these African heads of state and this little white lady walks in, and the amount of regard and respect that this room had for this lady, it made you stand up and go wait a second, and again you know who she was, but she is just so highly regarded in any room, and that was in Tanzania. 00:09:29 Speaker 2: That's really cool it happened. 00:09:30 Speaker 3: So ah, what a loss. Great about the girl. We don't realize this wasn't just that field. She opened it up for all fields. 00:09:37 Speaker 1: Yes, any woman who thought could I do that? Could I go into that she opened that door. 00:09:42 Speaker 3: Ah, what a loss. All right, we're going to continue on this. What you keep calling it Friday eve, I always mess that up. So it's Thursday, right, I continue on this Thursday morning, Ron And tomorrow is it, folks? Tomorrow is sentencing day for Diddy and now we expect to hear from him in court. Yes, Sean Diddy Combs has asked to address the court tomorrow during sentencing for his two convictions for transportation to engage in prostitution. 00:10:09 Speaker 2: Man, that is going to be quite the spectacle. 00:10:12 Speaker 1: So he just lost that last ditch effort this week to have his convictions thrown out and get a new trial. His lawyers now argue he should only be sentenced to fourteen months in prison. Prosecutors are asking for a much different sentence. They're asking for eleven years. Meanwhile, Comb's legal team is also asking that Mia not be allowed to give a victim impact statement. 00:10:33

Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of people remember that pseudonym. This witness testified under that pseudonym. She was a key prosecution witness. I think she was up there a couple of days if you remember as well, Robes. But she worked as an assistant for Combs and claimed that he assaulted her on several occasions. But in their request to the judge to keep her from giving a victim impact statement, did He's legal team said, I'm quoting here simply, she is not a victim of anything. Went on to say, quote, she is so eager to return to court when she plainly does not have to and is not even entitled to. This is a show for her. 00:11:12 Speaker 2: Wow. 00:11:13 Speaker 1: I mean, do I've never heard of a defendant getting a say or even trying to have a say. I mean, if you are a purported victim, if the prosecution literally put you up as a witness. However, he wasn't convicted on those crimes. 00:11:27 Speaker 3: Even the prosecution concedes she is not. She does not qualify as what we're talking about as a. 00:11:33 Speaker 1: Victim because the jury did not find him guilty on the charges that were associated with her allegation. 00:11:39 Speaker 3: So there, I mean, Wow, what have we been saying from the jump? Oh, he's got a good team. Wow, does you have brought up stuff? We like, really you can do that? 00:11:47 Speaker 1: And then I thought, wait, now that you mention it, I guess that does make a whole lot of sense. All right, Next, up on the run as we are about to head to LaGuardia. Really comforting news to know that just a few hours ago, two jets collided at laguardi At airport last night. It happened around ten pm. They were both Delta Regional jets. Did we mention we were flying Delta? Officials say they were both going at low speeds? 00:12:10 Speaker 2: Thankfully. 00:12:11 Speaker 3: Are we gonna be looking out the window or yes? 00:12:12 Speaker 2: I you know you like that window open. 00:12:15 Speaker 1: I love the window open, and you're always looking for incoming. 00:12:17 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm that. I'm that dude that annoys everybody because I got my everybody. I think early flights so it's dark, people want to go to sleep. I'm the dude got the lights on the lapt that guy window up, like. 00:12:30 Speaker 1: Come on, because we've been up since three am, so it's like mid morning. 00:12:35 Speaker 3: With the issue they had last night, he was around ten o'clock, but one plane had just arrived from Charlotte. The other was preparing to take off for RONOK. Now, it's being described like Robe just said, as a low speed collision. But one plane's wing hit the front of the other plane. We heard the audio from the cockpit and the pilot was reporting damage to the cockpit window. And yes, you see the front of this plane smashed. They say, low speed, that was a pretty decent hit to do some damage to that plane. Now, nobody engine on the passengers, but they do say one flight attendant reportedly hurt her knee. But that's certainly the good news. But man, these stories keep bading out roads. 00:13:11 Speaker 2: They're scary. 00:13:12 Speaker 1: At least it was again at low speed, all right. Next up on the run, Hurricane Immelda made a direct pass over Bermuda overnight as a category two storms, winds gusting more than one hundred miles per hour. You know, it's the reports are pretty slim right now. I couldn't find a lot. But there have been no immediate reports of injuries or deaths. That's the good news. Many of the residents, they say, whether that storm and shelters set up throughout the island. 00:13:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, National Weather Service warrant that hurricane force winds, damaging waves, and flash flooding could continue throughout the early morning hours. Hundreds of customers remain without power today. 00:13:45 Speaker 1: Yeah. Bermuda schools, government offices, and its airport have been closed. The island deployed one hundred soldiers to secure buildings, clear roads, and help at emergency shelters. But weather experts do expect conditions to rapidly improve. It's moving on out to see it's not making landfall anywhere else, so they're hoping that those conditions will improve. 00:14:03 Speaker 2: And then the airport does plan to reopen. 00:14:06 Speaker 3: All right, Well, folks, stay with us on this Friday Eve run when we come back. The most banned author in American schools also happens to be Robes favorite author. Also, stay here, bad Bunny before he takes that Super Bowl, super big stage. Well, he's got a pretty big stage, as we can too. Continuing now on this Thursday morning run. Next up, it turns out one of the world's most widely known, highly regarded authors is also the most banned author in US schools. Now once, once you thought about it for a second, does it make sense? 00:14:50 Speaker 2: I guess. 00:14:51 Speaker 3: But come on, he's brilliant, but he is scary. 00:14:55 Speaker 1: But we learned so much from some of these tales of terror. 00:14:59 Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, Stephen King banned in more places and more schools in the US than anybody else. 00:15:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking about the author of it, Misery Carrie the Lost Boys The Outsider and my personal favorite. Just thought i'd throw this in there if you haven't read it. Eleven twenty two. Sixty three is such a good book. It's I've read so many of Stephen King's books. That is my favorite. But just naming a few of his sixty three novels, not even getting into his hundreds of short stories, some of which have been made into massive movies. So this is a prolific author who is just a near and dear to my heart. 00:15:35 Speaker 2: Anyway, I think it was a short story. 00:15:38 Speaker 1: So a lot of the movies that we see, that we watch, that we love, actually were just short stories. So penn America's Banned in the USA released its annual report after tracking more than sixty eight hundred instances of books being banned for this school year. 00:15:54 Speaker 2: And again, I. 00:15:55 Speaker 1:

Didn't know that this was still happening in our country. 00:15:58 Speaker 2: I have to be honest, but get this. 00:16:00 Speaker 1: Eighty percent of all book bands happened this year in just three states. 00:16:06 Speaker 3: Oh my god, you know what. I don't even want to tell. We don't want to tell, y'all. You can guess them. 00:16:10 Speaker 1: Florida, Texas and Tennessee. 00:16:15 Speaker 3: Okay, the group's director says, it's not just a story of red states in blue states. Though in Florida not all of the school districts responded to the calls or banning books. You can find differences from county to county. That's interesting. Now, kids, most banned books are excuse me, King's most banned Carrie and the Stand remind me of the Stand. 00:16:33 Speaker 1: I actually don't know Carrie obviously. I mean, I don't know if it's going to give any kids an idea to throw pigs blood on someone they don't like during prom. 00:16:43 Speaker 2: But maybe there's a story. 00:16:45 Speaker 3: But maybe they're bank because they're scary. But some of this stuff still scares you, I know, and me, I should. 00:16:51 Speaker 1: Say, but I just I'm just not a fan of banning books period. 00:16:55 Speaker 3: Okay, that's the point. There we go. The most banned work of any author was at Clockwise excuse me, a clockwork Orange. Did you know that one? No? 00:17:03 Speaker 2: No, that is the most banned book. 00:17:06 Speaker 3: Of all Huh, nineteen sixties dystopian classic from Anthony Burgess. 00:17:10 Speaker 2: All right, good to know. Learned a lot with that one. 00:17:13 Speaker 1: For the final leg of our run, we are heading right here to New York City and big news about who will be hosting the season premiere of Saturday Night Live this weekend. I think we're gonna have to stay up and watch me Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny. He's having quite the week. 00:17:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, he got the super Bowl, that's a pretty big gig. But to do the season premiere of actually SNL is a very, very big deal. I'm not saying it's on par but it is a huge honor. Of course, him being named the headline of the Super Bowl sparks and uproar, backlash, how we want to say it, outrage from the Mago community, in particular, upset by him being selected. He is a non English musician. Yeah, I think that is what if you don't know him that well, what makes him incredibly special? And if you, I mean, you just have to respect. He refused to start speaking or singing in English to make his music I guess more marketable in the US. 00:18:13 Speaker 1: And yet and he did. 00:18:15 Speaker 3: Who did was it, Ricky Martin? You could go Mark Anthony. A lot of crossover stars started singing in English. He did not, and does not, And he's still what he is. I respect the hell of that. He's no stranger to the show though he's been on the show several times. He's gonna feature Doja cat as the musical guess. 00:18:34 Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy, right He's and she yes, that's amazing. I mean, I do

think you after all the backlash, and we did a whole podcast on this, if you want to hear. I don't know how many episodes ago it was, but there were some really mean spirited, terrible things being said about him. So he's going to get that opening monologue, and I can't imagine he wouldn't address all of that. 00:19:01 Speaker 3: I'm going to say first first joke he telles is going to address it. 00:19:03 Speaker 1: So I actually can't wait to see what he has to say. This is kind of an awesome opportunity for him to use this platform, and let's hope he can have some fun, some humility and just yes we can all make I mean, maybe this could be united. 00:19:18 Speaker 3: He's a goof, he has a person. I say he's a good and that he doesn't mind being vulnerable, he doesn't mind he's not some macho doue. He doesn't mind being the butt of a joke, he doesn't mind making fun of himself. And he's an activist, like he could go full politics if he. 00:19:34 Speaker 2: Wants to, we'll see. 00:19:35 Speaker 1: But I think we will be watching, as will a lot of you on Saturday night, So we look forward to that. 00:19:41 Speaker 3: In folks, something we want to leave you with as always something for you to consider on this Thursday. It is our quote of the day. I will learn it with you. 00:19:48 Speaker 1: The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy, it becomes simple, fair and easy. 00:20:00 Speaker 3: A lot of people are reacting the way I am right now. It becomes simple, fair and easy. And when we stop expecting it to be those things, do we expect it? Life is hard, don't we understand? 00:20:12 Speaker 1: But I think, why do we get so upset when there's traffic? Why do we get so upset when there's rain on our picnic? Why do we get because we have expectations that are unrealistic and so once you start. 00:20:24 Speaker 3: Looking low realistic for things to go well. 00:20:26 Speaker 2: It's unrealistic for things to go perfectly the way. 00:20:29 Speaker 1: You want them to, just to have decent traffic. But maybe you got to finish that podcast, or maybe you got to finish that conversation you were having, or maybe the rain that upset you because you had a picnic made a gardener very happy because there are vegetables got water. The point being is when you lower your expectations, you actually recognize and you accept, and once you accept, then your life does become simple and easy because you're just accepting. 00:20:58 Speaker 3: Of what is it's gonna be your best day mine. 00:21:00 Speaker 1: I actually thought this was a good one because we're about to go to the airport. Travel is always a little bit tough, so I just thought this was a good remind we when we're going. 00:21:09 Speaker 3: To the airport where last night two freaking planes ran into each other. That happens to be the airline we're getting onto at the exact same airport. We are flying from the same airport within twelve hours of that insect. 00:21:21 Speaker 1: The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy, it becomes simple, fair and easy. 00:21:28 Speaker 3: And with that, folks, we always appreciate you running with us. I'm TJ. Holmes heading out for a simple, fair and easy day now. 00:21:36 Speaker 2: I'm Amy Roboch. 00:21:37 Speaker 1: Thanks for running with us.