Sept. 1, 2025
Morning Run: Happy Labor Day, Powerball Over a Billion, Trump Tariffs Illegal, Ding Dong Ditch Death, Deadly Earthquake and Pope Gets Political
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to your Monday Morning Run. It's Monday, September first.
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Speaker 2: I'm Ami Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. Happy Labor Day to you all when we celebrate the American worker, and every single one of us on this day are working to make sure we never have to work again. And it could happen for all of us tonight, Robes. All of our dreams are coming together today.
00:00:31
Speaker 1: Possibly we could become billionaires.
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Speaker 2: Still end billionaire. It's up to one point one, y'all. It's been going on since May thirty first. But yes, there will be another drawing tonight for a life changing amount of money.
00:00:42
Speaker 1: My goodness. Can you go online and buy Powerball tickets? I need to find out how we can get our hands on one because we're not in the States.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but because we aren't in the States, we might not be allowed to buy as well.
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Speaker 1: I don't think you can investigate. So we can't become billionaires tonight.
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Speaker 2: Then we can.
00:00:58
Speaker 1: You got to be in it to win it. It will be on the podcast tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: But folks, yes, I know you all. Powerball Fever is gripping the nation, So good luck with that. Tonight we'll tell you what's at stake, how much money you can take home in that cash lump. Some Also as the reminder, looking at that phone right now, top right corner, little button says follow click that at the top of our page. You can get our updates anytime. You don't have to go looking for them.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and we have updates throughout the day, each and every day. But on this morning's run, we're also going to be talking about a tragic story out of Houston. A child was shot and killed while playing a prank that a lot of us played, that I absolutely played when I was a kid. Plus a developing story overseas. Hundreds are feared dead in an early morning earthquake that happened in Afghanistan.
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Speaker 2: Also on the run this morning, police investigating a death at the Burning Man Festival, Rudy Giuliani involved in a serious accident, Pope Leo's first comments on American gun violence, and now what after Trump's tariffs were ruled illegal?
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll get into all of that in just a moment, but we begin our run with today Labor Day. If somebody walked up to you and asked, hey, what's the story behind this holiday? Do you have the answer?
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Speaker 2: How far would you have gotten? I would say, well, it celebrate to the American workers.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly as where my answer would have started and then finished.
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Speaker 2: How long has it been around? Don't know who started it? Don't know why do we do it on Monday? Not sure why September?
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Speaker 1: Don't know.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you're gonna have all these answers now, folks, because here are your cliff notes. Labor Day is observed, of course, every first Monday of September. It's a celebration of the American worker. That's what we all know. But it started out as a grassroots movement that eventually led to Labor Day observations in several states in the late eighteen hundreds. So this started with states, not the federal government.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So Oregon was the first state to pass a Labor Day observance, and then Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and then New York. The first Labor Day raid was in New York in eighteen eighty two, where workers took unpaid time off and marched from city Hall to Union Square. Didn't know that and it wouldn't be until eighteen ninety four that Congress passed the law that made Labor Day a federal holiday.
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Speaker 2: So Monday in September, why the first Monday in September. Don't have a real good answer for this one, no real significance. They were trying to develop this holiday, so when can we do one that wouldn't get in the way of another holiday? September falls right there in between. They thought fourth of July Thanksgiving. That's nice, and the weather is kind of nice around this time, so they kind of picked it out of convenience and trying to get the most attention. And there you.
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Speaker 1: Good job lawmakers for once. Wow. Geez, Sorry that was extra cynical, all right. Next up on the run, we're gonna head overseas where more than six hundred people as of this recording, are feared dead and more than fifteen hundred others injured after a six point zero magnitude earthquake struck Afghanis and.
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Speaker 2: Hidden the remote mountainous area near the border with Pakistan, so it's been difficult for rescue teams to try to get the full extent of the damage there and even get a full understanding and just how much loss of life. A massive search and rescue effort is underway right now. Reports some entire villages under rubble and landslides cutting off areas from help.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the earthquake shook buildings from Cobble to Islamabad and at least five aftershocks have been rocking the area, ranging from four point five to five point two magnitude. And the quake hit in the middle of the night ride around midnight local time while most people were sleeping, and it struck at a shallow depth. I was trying to understand this, but it was just five miles down. So that makes this type of an earthquake far more destructive. Even with a moderate magnitude six point zero might not sound like that much, but because it was such a shallow earthquake, it is devastating. And right now, I mean, if you go and look at some of the news outlets, there is live reporting and it's just new images, new numbers are coming in. But this is a top situation where it happened. These were areas and villages that were hard to get to when the roads were good and passable. Now it's incredibly difficult to get to these people who need help.
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Speaker 2: That's a really good point to make, because sometimes you do hear six point zero and they'll say, okay, a moderate one, not the eight point oh's we're used to hearing. But it does. It makes all the difference of how shallow they are. That's devastating. I actually didn't know that detail until you just pointed out there. All right, let's continue on this next leg of our run. It takes us to DC, and of course here we are, just as businesses and consumers are recovering from the tariff whiplash of the past several months, a court has now stepped in and said, you know what, those tariffs are actually illegal.
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Speaker 1: An appeals court ruled on Friday that Trump did not have the authority to issue his Liberation Day tariffs, which are the centerpiece of his second term and his economic agenda. Those tariffs set off an international trade war that finally seemed to be settling down as the US has reached trade deals with some countries. Yes, there are still some negotiations that are still going on with others, but it seems to be wrapping up.
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Speaker 2: Yes we are in the midst of this still, but yes it's supposed to be wrapping up. But now this Court says they are illegal. The tariffs, though, are going to remain in place. That the administration does have about a month now to give a response to this ruling. Meanwhile, President Trump has already said he wants the Supreme Court to step in and settle the matter. Continue on this run now, and President Trump had to speak up. It was a he found himself in an odd position this weekend, had to give some of life statements after unfounded rumors spread on the internet that he had died. Where is Trump and Trump is dead? We're trending hashtags over the weekend? Wow?
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, not exactly sure where this all originated, but the President had not had any official public appearances since his cabinet meeting last Wednesday, and he didn't have anything on his public schedule for the holiday weekend. The President was eventually spotted leaving the White House yesterday and then on the golf course before that, though he did write this on social media. Never felt better in my life. Also, DC is a crime free zone.
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Speaker 2: That was the message.
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Speaker 1: You got to get that in.
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Speaker 2: You know, he is matter what is due messaging and I mean he's just a producer, but that's what you do. You jump on the thing everybody's talking about. You come in on that and then you get your message in that you.
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Speaker 1: Want to get check and check all.
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Speaker 2: We continue on this run now on this Monday morning, and a homicide investigation underway after a man was found dead in a pool of blood at the Burning Man Festival. It's all according to police, but as a festival attendee found the man around nine o'clock Saturday night, which was around the same time with a big moment of the festival when they light that giant man on fire.
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Speaker 1: The annual arts and music festival attracts tens of thousands to Black Rock Desert. This is in Nevada and it wraps up today and attendees were told to be vigilant even though this appears to be a singular crime. But this is going to be a difficult crime to investigate because everyone leaves once the festival's over all.
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Speaker 2: Your suspects, all your evidence. Everybody goes their own way. And I included that they're this sound from our quote from a law enforcement officials that this is a complicated crime because we're investigating in a city that is going to be gone in a few days. Wow, what do you do, are you suspect? You can't? How do you do that? So they hadn't even identified as of this recording who the victim actually is.
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Speaker 1: Wow, and how can they possibly tell attendees? It appears to be a singular crime.
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Speaker 2: Right, but the festival went on for another day plus. That's frightening after that, all right, we'll continue on the run now. Next leg takes us to the Vatican, where Pope Leo called for an end to the pandemic of arms while praying for the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting victims on Sunday. This is during Mass on Sunday. Pope Leo spoke English as he denounced that left two children dead and twenty other injured. They were all shot. While praying at.
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Speaker 1: Mass, so Chicago born Pope Leo told the crowd in Saint Peter's Square, our prayers for the victims of the tragic shooting during a school mass in the American state of Minnesota. We hold in our prayers that countless children killed and injured every day around the world. Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.
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Speaker 2: The Minneapolis shooter fired one hundred and sixteen rifle rounds through the church's stained glass windows before dying by suicide. Right after news broke of the tragedy, Pope Leo did not make any political commentary about guns in America. Instead sent the telegram that said he was saddened by the terrible tragedy and sent his heartfelt condolences and the assurance of spiritual closeness to all those affected.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was the first time he decided to make a public stance against guns, or at least to have some sort of control over the epidemic. The pandemic, he called it, is certainly taking over our world, all right. Next up on the Run, we're going to head to Houston, speaking of gun violence, where an eleven year old boy was shot and killed after playing a childhood prank. The boy had been ringing doorbells and running away with a group of friends. It's all part of a game called doorbell ditch or ding Dong ditch.
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Speaker 2: Now, a witness said they saw the boy running from a house after ringing the doorbell, just before police say someone chased him from the home and shot him in the back. Now, this happened around eleven o'clock at night Saturday night. He was rushed at the hospital, where he ultimately died from his injuries.
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Speaker 1: Police questioned and then released a person from the home, and so far no arrests have been made. That is puzzling, but investigators say they're looking at surveillance video and they are preparing for a possible murder charge against the shooter. Can't imagine how it's just possible. I mean, the details of this seem pretty black and white now. The doorbell prank has been around for ages. I absolutely remember doing this as a kid a couple times friends, not maybe at eleven o'clock at night, but it's been popularized on TikTok, so a lot of these kids will do it. They'll be videoing it or filming it while they do it, and that's led to several recent tragedies.
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Speaker 2: So May, we had a Virginia man was charged with second degree murder after shooting and killing a teenager who was filming the doorbell prank. In twenty twenty, California man sentenced to life in prison he killed three teenagers by crashing his car into them after they had just pranked him. I don't know the details of that one. Do you know what time of day that one might have been. And this is why this is kind of key and police have been warning, they say, please talk to your kids. And why this isn't funny because as an adult in certain parts of this country where you're allowed to keep guns in your house, if at midnight, they're not just ringing a doorbell, sometimes they're banging as if you got the police at your door. It scares the hell out of somebody. They hop up, see somebody running. You don't know somebody's there to attack, thank you or whatever else. This is just it's terrible. But to chase the kid down the street, I don't understand.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's successive. And so yes, we will be following up on that story to see what happens.
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Speaker 2: Down the street. And no one has been arrested chasing a ten year old down the street. It's shooting him in this.
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Speaker 1: It's hard back, hard to imagine, right all right. Next up on the Run, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a serious car accident that left him with numerous injuries, including a fractured vertebrae. The accident happened in New Hampshire over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: According to believes, Giuliani was the passenger in a vehicle driven by a staffer when another vehicle hit them from behind at quote high speed. The other vehicle, according to police, was driven by a nineteen year old woman. That woman, Juliani and his staffer were all taken to the hospital. Their injuries are described as non life threatening, but.
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Speaker 1: In addition to the fractured vertebrae, Juliani's office says he had multiple lacerations and contusions, several broken bones, and injury to his left arm and his lower leg. The details about how this all went down are puzzling.
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Speaker 2: And the police say they are continuing to investigate every aspect of the accident. But how this went down is that police say Giuliani had stopped to help an alleged domestic violence victim who had flagged him down on the road. Is that how you read it as well? Yes, okay, so that's the scenario we're given. He then called nine to one to one at some point to alert police and stayed on the scene until police responded. Now, police did point out that he stayed until they left, he left and then the accident happened. They pointed out, they don't believe this was a targeted attack, and Robes, I haven't seen anywhere if they've connected. Was it the same woman that hit him?
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Speaker 1: They've conted no. But it's just bizarre because they've made sure to include the fact that he had helped this woman and then said they didn't think that the accident or the it was an attack that targeted I don't know. It's very confusing. Why bring up that detail then, yeah, it is not connected to know what he.
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Speaker 2: Was doing ahead of time before he had this accident. It's bizarre. It doesn't make any sense. And maybe it happened exactly what it sounds like. But hey, certainly hope he's okay. What eighty one years old? Yeah at this point, well, certainly hope at least he's okay. We'll stay with us on this Monday Morning Run when we come back. It might be one of the final segments Roboc and I ever do on Morning Run, because after we win this billion dollars tonight, you will never hear from us again.
00:14:41
Speaker 1: Welcome back to this Labor Day edition of our Monday Morning Run. And maybe none of us or at least one of us won't have to labor much longer, because you got to be in it to win it. And if you are interested in becoming a billionaire and never having to labor again. The powerball jackpot has has now reached one point billion, one point one billion dollars. See, I even had a hard time saying it. It's so much cash it one of us might, did you is this I've met to the listener. Obviously we would both share it also. Now okay, yeah, of course.
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Speaker 2: Sorright my head protecting my assets, all right.
00:15:21
Speaker 1: Well, once again, there was no jackpot winner after Saturday's nine hundred and fifty million dollar drawing. So now that jackpot has swelled up to one point one million.
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Speaker 2: So the cash pay out now four hundred and ninety eight point four million. If you want the cash, that's what you're gonna have in your account after the government takes some of that. Well, there has not been a jackpot winner since May thirty first. Now next drawing tonight, one point one billion dollars now the eleventh largest jackpot of all time. It's also one of only thirteen times that the lottery has ever gone over a billion dollars. All of those times robes happened in the past ten years after they changed the odds. They changed the odds. They went from one in one hundred and seventy five million to one in two hundred and ninety two million. They did that on purpose to increase these jackpots, to get people interested. Then gets you to buy tickets.
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize they did this. They increased the number of white ball choices from fifty nine to sixty nine. Then they decreased the powerball number from thirty five to twenty six bars.
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Speaker 2: Wow, it changed the odds. It makes it harder easier to win smaller prizes, but harder to win the jackpot. And the only time a lot of people buy tickets. You and I and a lot of us don't pay attention until it gets to the seven hundred and fifty billion dollar mark, so they needed to increase sales. It's working.
00:16:52
Speaker 1: Well, we have to figure this out. How we can try to purchase a ticket.
00:16:56
Speaker 2: I want to have? Oh, we cat able to can buy it for us?
00:16:59
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right. Okay. Do we trust her?
00:17:01
Speaker 2: That is an absolute no.
00:17:03
Speaker 1: Na, she would definitely split it.
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Speaker 2: She's graduated from college. Anything with us.
00:17:09
Speaker 1: Who paid for college. She owes me. All right, we would like you to consider this as you go about your day on this Labor Day today. Our quote of the day comes from Neil Donald Walsh that is an American author, and he says, this life begins at the end of your comfort zone. What do you think about that?
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Speaker 2: That's great? What is isn't that the idea growth? Nothing ever happens without pain discomfort. Man, if you are comfortable right now, you ain't living at all. But we all seem to be fighting trying to get comfortable. We want to get settled.
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Speaker 1: Everyone's trying to avoid discomfort at all costs. And yet it's only when you go through it and you push yourself through pain, pass pain, that you actually get that big gang. Whether it's climbing a mountain, running a half marathon, making a relationship, work, it's all uncomfortable sometimes.
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Speaker 2: Even going for the promotion, trying a new career, launching a new product, whatever it is. Discomfort. All right, I'm you know on my movie quotes, this is one. I'm sorry it's a James Bond movie, but he said, what's the point of living if you can't feel alive? This reminds me of that what are we doing day in day out trying to get comfortable? Just don't want to be uneasy at all.
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Speaker 1: You always say, I just want to get settled. That's like that's one of your famous quotes that you say, but no, but it's true, and I love this. So it's just a reminder for everybody get out there and do some living today because life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Love that. As if you have some extra time today, you could check out our weekly column. It's dropped again. It's Monday. It's on Yahoo in the life section, and we have a reader who asks us a question and we give our best advice. Our reader asks at least tells us that she fell in love with the twenty five, a man twenty five years older than her. She was a freshman in college. This all happened thirteen years ago. It didn't work out then, but now this man who's twenty five years older than her has stepped back into her life. Should she try again now that she's older?
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Speaker 2: And we have thoughts, thoughts as columnists and thoughts as parents, So please check out what we had to say. And by all means, chime in because then we come back on we do an episode in which we read you all's comments and your advice to her. So we always appreciate you all running with us. But for now, Happy Labor Day to you all.
00:19:42
Speaker 1: I'm TJ and I'm Amy Roboch. Have a great day, everybody,
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to your Monday Morning Run. It's Monday, September first.
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Speaker 2: I'm Ami Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. Happy Labor Day to you all when we celebrate the American worker, and every single one of us on this day are working to make sure we never have to work again. And it could happen for all of us tonight, Robes. All of our dreams are coming together today.
00:00:31
Speaker 1: Possibly we could become billionaires.
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Speaker 2: Still end billionaire. It's up to one point one, y'all. It's been going on since May thirty first. But yes, there will be another drawing tonight for a life changing amount of money.
00:00:42
Speaker 1: My goodness. Can you go online and buy Powerball tickets? I need to find out how we can get our hands on one because we're not in the States.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but because we aren't in the States, we might not be allowed to buy as well.
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Speaker 1: I don't think you can investigate. So we can't become billionaires tonight.
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Speaker 2: Then we can.
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Speaker 1: You got to be in it to win it. It will be on the podcast tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: But folks, yes, I know you all. Powerball Fever is gripping the nation, So good luck with that. Tonight we'll tell you what's at stake, how much money you can take home in that cash lump. Some Also as the reminder, looking at that phone right now, top right corner, little button says follow click that at the top of our page. You can get our updates anytime. You don't have to go looking for them.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and we have updates throughout the day, each and every day. But on this morning's run, we're also going to be talking about a tragic story out of Houston. A child was shot and killed while playing a prank that a lot of us played, that I absolutely played when I was a kid. Plus a developing story overseas. Hundreds are feared dead in an early morning earthquake that happened in Afghanistan.
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Speaker 2: Also on the run this morning, police investigating a death at the Burning Man Festival, Rudy Giuliani involved in a serious accident, Pope Leo's first comments on American gun violence, and now what after Trump's tariffs were ruled illegal?
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll get into all of that in just a moment, but we begin our run with today Labor Day. If somebody walked up to you and asked, hey, what's the story behind this holiday? Do you have the answer?
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Speaker 2: How far would you have gotten? I would say, well, it celebrate to the American workers.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly as where my answer would have started and then finished.
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Speaker 2: How long has it been around? Don't know who started it? Don't know why do we do it on Monday? Not sure why September?
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Speaker 1: Don't know.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you're gonna have all these answers now, folks, because here are your cliff notes. Labor Day is observed, of course, every first Monday of September. It's a celebration of the American worker. That's what we all know. But it started out as a grassroots movement that eventually led to Labor Day observations in several states in the late eighteen hundreds. So this started with states, not the federal government.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So Oregon was the first state to pass a Labor Day observance, and then Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and then New York. The first Labor Day raid was in New York in eighteen eighty two, where workers took unpaid time off and marched from city Hall to Union Square. Didn't know that and it wouldn't be until eighteen ninety four that Congress passed the law that made Labor Day a federal holiday.
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Speaker 2: So Monday in September, why the first Monday in September. Don't have a real good answer for this one, no real significance. They were trying to develop this holiday, so when can we do one that wouldn't get in the way of another holiday? September falls right there in between. They thought fourth of July Thanksgiving. That's nice, and the weather is kind of nice around this time, so they kind of picked it out of convenience and trying to get the most attention. And there you.
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Speaker 1: Good job lawmakers for once. Wow. Geez, Sorry that was extra cynical, all right. Next up on the run, we're gonna head overseas where more than six hundred people as of this recording, are feared dead and more than fifteen hundred others injured after a six point zero magnitude earthquake struck Afghanis and.
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Speaker 2: Hidden the remote mountainous area near the border with Pakistan, so it's been difficult for rescue teams to try to get the full extent of the damage there and even get a full understanding and just how much loss of life. A massive search and rescue effort is underway right now. Reports some entire villages under rubble and landslides cutting off areas from help.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the earthquake shook buildings from Cobble to Islamabad and at least five aftershocks have been rocking the area, ranging from four point five to five point two magnitude. And the quake hit in the middle of the night ride around midnight local time while most people were sleeping, and it struck at a shallow depth. I was trying to understand this, but it was just five miles down. So that makes this type of an earthquake far more destructive. Even with a moderate magnitude six point zero might not sound like that much, but because it was such a shallow earthquake, it is devastating. And right now, I mean, if you go and look at some of the news outlets, there is live reporting and it's just new images, new numbers are coming in. But this is a top situation where it happened. These were areas and villages that were hard to get to when the roads were good and passable. Now it's incredibly difficult to get to these people who need help.
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Speaker 2: That's a really good point to make, because sometimes you do hear six point zero and they'll say, okay, a moderate one, not the eight point oh's we're used to hearing. But it does. It makes all the difference of how shallow they are. That's devastating. I actually didn't know that detail until you just pointed out there. All right, let's continue on this next leg of our run. It takes us to DC, and of course here we are, just as businesses and consumers are recovering from the tariff whiplash of the past several months, a court has now stepped in and said, you know what, those tariffs are actually illegal.
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Speaker 1: An appeals court ruled on Friday that Trump did not have the authority to issue his Liberation Day tariffs, which are the centerpiece of his second term and his economic agenda. Those tariffs set off an international trade war that finally seemed to be settling down as the US has reached trade deals with some countries. Yes, there are still some negotiations that are still going on with others, but it seems to be wrapping up.
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Speaker 2: Yes we are in the midst of this still, but yes it's supposed to be wrapping up. But now this Court says they are illegal. The tariffs, though, are going to remain in place. That the administration does have about a month now to give a response to this ruling. Meanwhile, President Trump has already said he wants the Supreme Court to step in and settle the matter. Continue on this run now, and President Trump had to speak up. It was a he found himself in an odd position this weekend, had to give some of life statements after unfounded rumors spread on the internet that he had died. Where is Trump and Trump is dead? We're trending hashtags over the weekend? Wow?
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, not exactly sure where this all originated, but the President had not had any official public appearances since his cabinet meeting last Wednesday, and he didn't have anything on his public schedule for the holiday weekend. The President was eventually spotted leaving the White House yesterday and then on the golf course before that, though he did write this on social media. Never felt better in my life. Also, DC is a crime free zone.
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Speaker 2: That was the message.
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Speaker 1: You got to get that in.
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Speaker 2: You know, he is matter what is due messaging and I mean he's just a producer, but that's what you do. You jump on the thing everybody's talking about. You come in on that and then you get your message in that you.
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Speaker 1: Want to get check and check all.
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Speaker 2: We continue on this run now on this Monday morning, and a homicide investigation underway after a man was found dead in a pool of blood at the Burning Man Festival. It's all according to police, but as a festival attendee found the man around nine o'clock Saturday night, which was around the same time with a big moment of the festival when they light that giant man on fire.
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Speaker 1: The annual arts and music festival attracts tens of thousands to Black Rock Desert. This is in Nevada and it wraps up today and attendees were told to be vigilant even though this appears to be a singular crime. But this is going to be a difficult crime to investigate because everyone leaves once the festival's over all.
00:08:11
Speaker 2: Your suspects, all your evidence. Everybody goes their own way. And I included that they're this sound from our quote from a law enforcement officials that this is a complicated crime because we're investigating in a city that is going to be gone in a few days. Wow, what do you do, are you suspect? You can't? How do you do that? So they hadn't even identified as of this recording who the victim actually is.
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Speaker 1: Wow, and how can they possibly tell attendees? It appears to be a singular crime.
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Speaker 2: Right, but the festival went on for another day plus. That's frightening after that, all right, we'll continue on the run now. Next leg takes us to the Vatican, where Pope Leo called for an end to the pandemic of arms while praying for the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting victims on Sunday. This is during Mass on Sunday. Pope Leo spoke English as he denounced that left two children dead and twenty other injured. They were all shot. While praying at.
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Speaker 1: Mass, so Chicago born Pope Leo told the crowd in Saint Peter's Square, our prayers for the victims of the tragic shooting during a school mass in the American state of Minnesota. We hold in our prayers that countless children killed and injured every day around the world. Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.
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Speaker 2: The Minneapolis shooter fired one hundred and sixteen rifle rounds through the church's stained glass windows before dying by suicide. Right after news broke of the tragedy, Pope Leo did not make any political commentary about guns in America. Instead sent the telegram that said he was saddened by the terrible tragedy and sent his heartfelt condolences and the assurance of spiritual closeness to all those affected.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was the first time he decided to make a public stance against guns, or at least to have some sort of control over the epidemic. The pandemic, he called it, is certainly taking over our world, all right. Next up on the Run, we're going to head to Houston, speaking of gun violence, where an eleven year old boy was shot and killed after playing a childhood prank. The boy had been ringing doorbells and running away with a group of friends. It's all part of a game called doorbell ditch or ding Dong ditch.
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Speaker 2: Now, a witness said they saw the boy running from a house after ringing the doorbell, just before police say someone chased him from the home and shot him in the back. Now, this happened around eleven o'clock at night Saturday night. He was rushed at the hospital, where he ultimately died from his injuries.
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Speaker 1: Police questioned and then released a person from the home, and so far no arrests have been made. That is puzzling, but investigators say they're looking at surveillance video and they are preparing for a possible murder charge against the shooter. Can't imagine how it's just possible. I mean, the details of this seem pretty black and white now. The doorbell prank has been around for ages. I absolutely remember doing this as a kid a couple times friends, not maybe at eleven o'clock at night, but it's been popularized on TikTok, so a lot of these kids will do it. They'll be videoing it or filming it while they do it, and that's led to several recent tragedies.
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Speaker 2: So May, we had a Virginia man was charged with second degree murder after shooting and killing a teenager who was filming the doorbell prank. In twenty twenty, California man sentenced to life in prison he killed three teenagers by crashing his car into them after they had just pranked him. I don't know the details of that one. Do you know what time of day that one might have been. And this is why this is kind of key and police have been warning, they say, please talk to your kids. And why this isn't funny because as an adult in certain parts of this country where you're allowed to keep guns in your house, if at midnight, they're not just ringing a doorbell, sometimes they're banging as if you got the police at your door. It scares the hell out of somebody. They hop up, see somebody running. You don't know somebody's there to attack, thank you or whatever else. This is just it's terrible. But to chase the kid down the street, I don't understand.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's successive. And so yes, we will be following up on that story to see what happens.
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Speaker 2: Down the street. And no one has been arrested chasing a ten year old down the street. It's shooting him in this.
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Speaker 1: It's hard back, hard to imagine, right all right. Next up on the Run, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a serious car accident that left him with numerous injuries, including a fractured vertebrae. The accident happened in New Hampshire over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: According to believes, Giuliani was the passenger in a vehicle driven by a staffer when another vehicle hit them from behind at quote high speed. The other vehicle, according to police, was driven by a nineteen year old woman. That woman, Juliani and his staffer were all taken to the hospital. Their injuries are described as non life threatening, but.
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Speaker 1: In addition to the fractured vertebrae, Juliani's office says he had multiple lacerations and contusions, several broken bones, and injury to his left arm and his lower leg. The details about how this all went down are puzzling.
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Speaker 2: And the police say they are continuing to investigate every aspect of the accident. But how this went down is that police say Giuliani had stopped to help an alleged domestic violence victim who had flagged him down on the road. Is that how you read it as well? Yes, okay, so that's the scenario we're given. He then called nine to one to one at some point to alert police and stayed on the scene until police responded. Now, police did point out that he stayed until they left, he left and then the accident happened. They pointed out, they don't believe this was a targeted attack, and Robes, I haven't seen anywhere if they've connected. Was it the same woman that hit him?
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Speaker 1: They've conted no. But it's just bizarre because they've made sure to include the fact that he had helped this woman and then said they didn't think that the accident or the it was an attack that targeted I don't know. It's very confusing. Why bring up that detail then, yeah, it is not connected to know what he.
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Speaker 2: Was doing ahead of time before he had this accident. It's bizarre. It doesn't make any sense. And maybe it happened exactly what it sounds like. But hey, certainly hope he's okay. What eighty one years old? Yeah at this point, well, certainly hope at least he's okay. We'll stay with us on this Monday Morning Run when we come back. It might be one of the final segments Roboc and I ever do on Morning Run, because after we win this billion dollars tonight, you will never hear from us again.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to this Labor Day edition of our Monday Morning Run. And maybe none of us or at least one of us won't have to labor much longer, because you got to be in it to win it. And if you are interested in becoming a billionaire and never having to labor again. The powerball jackpot has has now reached one point billion, one point one billion dollars. See, I even had a hard time saying it. It's so much cash it one of us might, did you is this I've met to the listener. Obviously we would both share it also. Now okay, yeah, of course.
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Speaker 2: Sorright my head protecting my assets, all right.
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Speaker 1: Well, once again, there was no jackpot winner after Saturday's nine hundred and fifty million dollar drawing. So now that jackpot has swelled up to one point one million.
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Speaker 2: So the cash pay out now four hundred and ninety eight point four million. If you want the cash, that's what you're gonna have in your account after the government takes some of that. Well, there has not been a jackpot winner since May thirty first. Now next drawing tonight, one point one billion dollars now the eleventh largest jackpot of all time. It's also one of only thirteen times that the lottery has ever gone over a billion dollars. All of those times robes happened in the past ten years after they changed the odds. They changed the odds. They went from one in one hundred and seventy five million to one in two hundred and ninety two million. They did that on purpose to increase these jackpots, to get people interested. Then gets you to buy tickets.
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize they did this. They increased the number of white ball choices from fifty nine to sixty nine. Then they decreased the powerball number from thirty five to twenty six bars.
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Speaker 2: Wow, it changed the odds. It makes it harder easier to win smaller prizes, but harder to win the jackpot. And the only time a lot of people buy tickets. You and I and a lot of us don't pay attention until it gets to the seven hundred and fifty billion dollar mark, so they needed to increase sales. It's working.
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Speaker 1: Well, we have to figure this out. How we can try to purchase a ticket.
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Speaker 2: I want to have? Oh, we cat able to can buy it for us?
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right. Okay. Do we trust her?
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Speaker 2: That is an absolute no.
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Speaker 1: Na, she would definitely split it.
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Speaker 2: She's graduated from college. Anything with us.
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Speaker 1: Who paid for college. She owes me. All right, we would like you to consider this as you go about your day on this Labor Day today. Our quote of the day comes from Neil Donald Walsh that is an American author, and he says, this life begins at the end of your comfort zone. What do you think about that?
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Speaker 2: That's great? What is isn't that the idea growth? Nothing ever happens without pain discomfort. Man, if you are comfortable right now, you ain't living at all. But we all seem to be fighting trying to get comfortable. We want to get settled.
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Speaker 1: Everyone's trying to avoid discomfort at all costs. And yet it's only when you go through it and you push yourself through pain, pass pain, that you actually get that big gang. Whether it's climbing a mountain, running a half marathon, making a relationship, work, it's all uncomfortable sometimes.
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Speaker 2: Even going for the promotion, trying a new career, launching a new product, whatever it is. Discomfort. All right, I'm you know on my movie quotes, this is one. I'm sorry it's a James Bond movie, but he said, what's the point of living if you can't feel alive? This reminds me of that what are we doing day in day out trying to get comfortable? Just don't want to be uneasy at all.
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Speaker 1: You always say, I just want to get settled. That's like that's one of your famous quotes that you say, but no, but it's true, and I love this. So it's just a reminder for everybody get out there and do some living today because life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Love that. As if you have some extra time today, you could check out our weekly column. It's dropped again. It's Monday. It's on Yahoo in the life section, and we have a reader who asks us a question and we give our best advice. Our reader asks at least tells us that she fell in love with the twenty five, a man twenty five years older than her. She was a freshman in college. This all happened thirteen years ago. It didn't work out then, but now this man who's twenty five years older than her has stepped back into her life. Should she try again now that she's older?
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Speaker 2: And we have thoughts, thoughts as columnists and thoughts as parents, So please check out what we had to say. And by all means, chime in because then we come back on we do an episode in which we read you all's comments and your advice to her. So we always appreciate you all running with us. But for now, Happy Labor Day to you all.
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Speaker 1: I'm TJ and I'm Amy Roboch. Have a great day, everybody,