Morning Run: A Pilot’s “Meow”, Jesus Embraces Trump, Sotomayor is Sorry, ATL Shooting Spree, Talk of More Peace Talks, A GREAT Quote of the Day, and more!

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Ron. It is Thursday, April sixteenth.

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Speaker 3: I'm a Nero Box.

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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes and you need Ray in your life. If you don't know who Ray is, this incredible British singer. She's an international superstar rogue. But we got to sit a few feet from her as she put on a concert at Radio City last night. You need to know this lady.

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Speaker 3: It was amazing.

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Speaker 2: It was actually one of my Christmas gifts that you gave me this year, and it was I love an experience gift and so it was so fun. You get to open it, you get to anticipate it, you get to be excited about it. And then last night we actually got to go hear her sing and she her voice is under real. I mean she was almost operatic in moments like I was blown away because yeah, she can sing like the best of them, but then she can go into a range that honestly is only a few people in the world can sing the way she sings. And she was just just a showstopper. So if you get a chance a to just download her music, listen to her music worth it is my favorite song. That's what kind of brought us to her, at least brought me to her. But man, she's got a lot of good hits.

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Speaker 1: So that's on this Thursday morning. Run the Run starts at Radio City Music Hall. From there, we're gonna make a bunch of stops that we did have a late night. We're dragging a little bit this morning, but we are okay. This is when we do some of our best behind the scenes work because this is It's been a fun morning trying to get up and going well, that's all right. Everybody has that morning every once in a while. It is Thursday, right.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Friday eve, Friday eve, baby.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we got a bunch of stops to make this morning. But we do want to give this update at least robes that. We don't have official word, but things do seem to be going in the direction of more talks between the US and Deron.

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Speaker 2: And that is a good thing. President Trump did hint this week. There are more negotiations ongoing, and now a Pakistani delegation has arrived in Tehran, so fingers crossed they'll be able to help facilitate another round of talks because that two week ceasefire expires next week, so more talking is good, either an extension we're hoping of a ceasefire, or maybe actually a deal.

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Speaker 1: But if the war does continue, will we even have a Defense Secretary to execute it? As we continue on this run, we say that because Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Roobes is facing articles of impeachment. That is serious, That is a high bar. Were talking about high crimes and misdemeanors, and we're talking about it possibly going nowhere, but hey, it's happening.

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Speaker 2: Yes, about a dozen Democrats filed those articles of impeachment and alleged Yes we like the that phrase high crimes and misdemeanors, but including unauthorized war negligence, violation of laws of armed conflict, targeting citizens. There's a whole list of the allegations being levied against Pete Hegseth, who I'm sure will remain unbothered by it all because House Democrats just don't have the votes to have this thing move forward, and certainly even if it got to the Senate, it would certainly not go very far there as well.

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Speaker 1: And a reminder to the people, I always like to say, Schoolhouse rock this thing. But if you have to be reminded and impeachment, they have to only have a majority vote in the House to actually impeach somebody, but then you got to have two thirds vote to actually kick them out, and that two thirds has to be in the Senate. Ain't happening.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So if you're interested at all in this story, we did an episode a f you back early this morning talking about Yeah, we Schoolhouse Rocked did about what's at stake, what the process.

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Speaker 3: Is like, and when it's happened before in our history.

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Speaker 1: I will continue on this Friday Eve run now with Brian Hooker after telling us he just cannot stop. He will not be able to stop looking for his missing wife. Well, Brian Hooker has now left where his missing wife was last seen, the Bahamas. Yes, but the search there Ropes continues for Lynette.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 2: He was released from police custody earlier this week after a Bahamian police didn't have enough evidence to charge him in connection with the disappearance of his wife, Lynnette. He claims that she fell out of their dinghy during a sunset trip on the water. He said rough seas knocked her out of the boat and high winds pulled them apart on April fourth, But his attorney says Hooker has now left the Bahamas after he said he wasn't going to leave. He says he wasn't going anywhere, but apparently his mom is sick.

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Speaker 1: Oh, you can understand whatever's going on with him. I can't imagine him going back to the Bahamas a given.

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Speaker 2: He claims he's going right back to help look for her. So we shall see, all right.

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Speaker 1: Continuing on the run here now went ahead to Atlanta, where a shooting spree across that area left a Department of Homeland Security employee and one other woman dead, along with a third person who was in critical condition.

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Speaker 2: That's right, DHS eploye Lauren Bullis was just out walking her dog when she was randomly and brutally shot and stabbed to death by twenty six year old Ola lukatin A don Abel. I'm hoping I say that correct. Just hours before, a Bell randomly shot a woman to death outside a restaurant, and before that he shot a man multiple times outside a supermarket, and that man remains in critical condition.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Suspect facing at least six charges, including murder and aggravated assault ropes. Where's the motive here?

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Speaker 3: There is none.

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Speaker 2: That's why they just they don't know he chose his victims at random. He is a naturalized citizen that happened back in twenty twenty two, who's from the UK. But just they don't believe the DHS employee was targeted at all. He just went out on a shooting rampage in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, boths. We'll continue on this Friday Eve run with our Supreme Court justices. You know what, they make mistakes too. Usually, roads when people make mistakes, certainly when they're in the public eye, were not used to them very quickly saying I'm sorry I made a mistake. But Justice Sonya sonoma Ar is absolutely doing that. She is apologizing for what she is calling the inappropriate comments she made last week about fellow Justice Brett Kevinaugh.

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Speaker 2: I know I appreciated this story. We could all learn something from Sono Mayar. She released a statement saying, I regret my hurtful comments. I have apologized to my colleague.

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Speaker 3: Now. She's referencing last week. She was speaking at the University of Kansas.

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Speaker 2: They're law school there, and she was criticizing the Court's decision regarding immigration related stops in LA that sparked those massive protests. Here's what she said. She never named him, by the way, but I guess everyone knew what.

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Speaker 3: She was talking about.

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Speaker 2: I had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary stops. This is from a man whose parents were professionals and probably doesn't really know any person who works by the hour.

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Speaker 1: That's tough. B I don't Oh, I don't want the Supreme Court to get infected by everything else. Yeah, side of that building.

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Speaker 2: And the reason why this is making such headlines, this business is so rare. You don't hear justices personally make swipes at other justices, especially when speaking publicly.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that wasn't his decision. Oh that wasn't about his decision. It was about his personal Yes.

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Speaker 2: People kind of pointed it out, and so they say, in the point, how rare it was for one Supreme Court justice to say something about another one. So yes, she issued the apology and it was appropriate. And look, it's nice to see that she can make amends and she did personally reach.

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Speaker 3: Out to him. I really hope this is not lesson learned hopeful future.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, folks, stay with us here on this Friday Eve run. When we come back the President and Jesus together, we'll explain the next picture that the President put up on his social media of age after all the backlash from the one, you know, the one where he was Jesus. Excuse me a doctor. Also coming up is that a cat in the cockpit.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone to this Friday Eve morning run. And look, you know, Trump might not have gotten it right the first time, where you know, he looked exactly like Jesus or a saint healing the sick. But now, okay, he's got a new one out where he didn't depict himself as Jesus, but Jesus still makes an appearance. And this is in another image President Trump posted to true social yesterday. If you haven't seen it, you got to check it out.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it shows the president kind they're kind of touching foreheads. They're leaned into each other, the President and Jesus, and Jesus has his arm around the President and his hand is kind of draped over with the President's shoulder, and then the other hand is on the President's chest, so it looks like a very familiar embrace and two brothers.

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Speaker 2: Side by side, Jesus walking lockstep, arm in arm with President Trump.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and I believe he put this right. He didn't come up oh okay.

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Speaker 2: But on the reposts he wrote the radical left lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice.

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Speaker 1: Poking. He's just messing with folks, and he There are some really funny stuff out there on social media. It's crazy robes, of course, so they could do with ai these days. But I saw one where it looks like a like a scene from the pit on HBO. And then they call in some emergency and the doctor comes in and Trump walks around the corner very slowly, wearing that white robe with the red sash, and he walks over to the patient, puts his hand on his forehead. Lights start, and this is all a So it looks like a real video. People are having some fun with it, but obviously it wasn't funny to the cat.

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Speaker 3: No, it was not funny to a lot of Christians out there, all right. For the last leg of our run, favorite story of the day, this is a great story.

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Speaker 2: The FAA is investigating a couple of pilots, but you're not gonna believe what They're being investigated for meowing and barking at each other over the radio.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and I don't know if this was on, if it was they were landing or they were taking off, but it was happening near Reagan National earlier this week. The audio was captured. It's out there for you to hear, and then the recording robes you hear clearly and more than one occasion, one pilot go meow on the on the radio. Another pilot responds with barking noises, and the best partho robes is that they got a SmackDown from air traffic control.

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Speaker 3: But their response was hilarious.

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Speaker 2: So at one point an air traffic control chimes in and says, hey, you guys need to be professional pilots.

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Speaker 3: Their response meow.

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Speaker 1: That was the one that got take me out again.

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Speaker 2: So then the air traffic controller clap back because after that, now the air driver controller said, this is why you still fly on RJ A regional.

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Speaker 1: Jet insultative it yeah, like this is like these are this is where people get trained, like you haven't moved up in your career, And now I see why because you're playing on the radio, and this is obviously serious. It sounds silly as hell, but you don't want this happening ropes.

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Speaker 2: No FAA regulations prohibit non essential communications below ten thousand feet.

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Speaker 3: That makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 2: Conversations must be related to the safe operation of the aircraft. The FAA investigates all situations where pilots may have violated any regulation. So you're telling me they may get like actually in trouble for meyowing and barking.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the penalty would be for something like this. And look, other pilots have chined in and said every once in a while, there's this or that, but there's some suggestion that they use some emergency channel, that this is not funny. You should not be doing this below ten thousand feet. I think that's a pretty critical time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm okay without rule being in placed.

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Speaker 1: In any flight, but the roads, all the things we have seen and incidents with planes that don't necessarily have to do with the plane malfunctioning, don't have to do necessarily with the mistake being made by the pipe. We got enough stuff to worry about ropes. We don't take our seat belts off. We hold hands even tighter after we land.

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Speaker 2: Now, right, you're looking for any like like crossing the runway or being the tarmac. Used to be so safe, everything was good, Now not so much.

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Speaker 1: What was the place recently we go on the tarmac or on the plane, was like, where's all this traffic coming from? It was there's car traffic all over the run We're paying attention to this stuff. So what I'm saying, I don't want a pilot me out it is what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: It was funny though.

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Speaker 2: All right, we've got your quote of the day for this Thursday morning. Ron.

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Speaker 3: Here it is. There is no greater.

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Speaker 2: Illusion than thinking the accomplishment of some goal will change your life. What will change your life is who you become in the process of going for it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good one. Right, that's a good one. Yeah. We think our development or we think we've made it after we get to the end goal, not realizing that our development is happening on the way. That makes absolute perfect.

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Speaker 2: Sense, and not paying attention to it. You could take it to even like a marriage. People, you just want to get to the wedding, just want to get to the wedding or getting that job, that dream job you've always wanted. You get it, and now what so you.

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Speaker 3: Start to think your future.

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Speaker 2: Guys, if I just get this, if I just find the guy, if I just get married, if I just get that job, my life's going to be great. Now. The whole point is becoming the person you're supposed to be, the process, all the lessons you're learning along the way.

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Speaker 3: It's not the destination.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: You just mentioned relationships, and people think once I get there, there'll be this and that. I was very taken, and she said it publicly. I was so taken watching a Grammy stage level performer last night robes as accomplished as she is, as talented as she is. How much she talked about the pain of an ex, how much she talked about not being in a relationship right now, how much she talked about how difficult it is to be single. Wrote so much emphasis put on that thing, and she I'm not absolutely can't break her down. Don't know her, but it seems like that end goal you just mentioned, to be in a relationship, is so important to her.

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Speaker 2: And we forget about, man, all the things we are doing right now, that we're learning and we're growing from it, and when it's hard, that's when we learn. I just I love the idea that we all get we do. There's an illusion that we'll be happy. If that's not the point, it's who we're becoming in the process of it.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, one more time for you.

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Speaker 2: There is no greater illusion than thinking the accomplishment of some goal will change your life. What will change your life is who you've become in the process of going for it. And with that, everyone, thank you for running with us on this Thursday.

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Speaker 3: I madey wrote, I thought it was Friday Eve, Friday Friday.

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Speaker 1: You're the one that puts me into that mindset. But yes, thank you for running with us on this Friday. Folks will talk to us soon.

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Speaker 2: Mhm hm

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Speaker 1: Hm