March 4, 2026
Morning Run: New Supreme Leader, Dow Drops, Gas Prices Rise, Kristi Noem Won’t Apologize, Texas Primary Victory, Florida Execution and Uber Air Taxis
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, thanks for joining us for today's morning run. It is Wednesday, March fourth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. A happy Wednesday here in New York. A lot going on, but let's start with positivity and being upbeat. And you looking at the weather forecast and seeing a seven on.
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Speaker 1: It, I mean, a girl can dream. It is supposedly next week going to hit seventy degrees here in New York City. Let me tell you, I'm excited because today we're above a freezing boom. We're gonna hit fifty today and I can't remember the last morning where we have recorded this and it is already thirty six degrees?
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Speaker 2: Do you celebrate?
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Speaker 1: That is so exciting, Host of Hoodie Weather, We'll take it.
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Speaker 2: We'll take it. But good morning to you all. Yes, so much, and we'll get to all the stuff going on in the world. But my goodness, let's start with a smile on our faces. But yes, this run is going to take us to a bunch of spots today. Texas will be making a stop there, will make a stop in DC where hopefully they stop yelling at each other. By now we'll make a stop in Florida, stop in Georgia, not for an SEC football game though, and also we'll be making a stop in Iran and Robes that is our biggest stop, and that's where we need to begin. Of course, all eyes, all thoughts, all prayers really on what's happening in that conflict.
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Speaker 1: Yes, let's get you up to date with the war on Iran. Top officials of the Iranian regime yesterday met to choose their new Supreme leader.
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Speaker 2: Who the hell wants this job? Robes. We've all applied for jobs before, and there's little job descriptions. You're expected to do this, this and this. For this job, you're expected to just stay alive as long as possible.
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Speaker 1: Thirty seven years in office for the previous Supreme leader.
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Speaker 2: However, here's the problem with the current job opening. Israel says that whomever is the next Supreme Leader is going to immediately be fair game Robes, as they put it, a target for elimination. With that they're picking.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think most people want to and now I withdraw my nomination today, Israel says. It also launched another major wave of what they call broad strikes. Against regime targets in Iran, and the death toll within that country is now reportedly just over nine hundred, that is according to a human rights group there. And meantime, the US continues to advise Americans who are in the region to get out.
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Speaker 2: Now the American embassy some of them have closed. They have been advising some folks in some areas, Americans do not come to the embassy for help. Other installations, military installations have been targets of Iranian tacts. Several countries robes we've seen this are scrambling. There are in some cases hundreds of thousands of citizens from some countries in the Middle East in this regions and there some European countries are trying to get together like charter flaw and how to get people out.
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Speaker 1: They were saying, some folks who have means are actually spending a lot of cash chartering private planes. That's the only way out of some of these areas, including Dubai. The Pentagon Tuesday identified four of the six US service members who have been killed in the war already. They died when Iran hit a US base in Kuwait.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there were actually six deaths to report there but they only identified four of them before. We do want to mention they were out of des Moines, Iowa. One of them Captain Cody Cork, thirty five years old. He's originally from winter Haven, Florida. You had Sergeant first Class Nicole Aymoor thirty nine years old, she's out of White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: And then you have Sergeant first Class Noah Tietjens, who is out of Bellevue, Nebraska. And then Sergeant Declan Cody or you already out of des Moines. And then there's Cody Cork out of winter Haven, Florida.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess this is all they sent out. The they released the pictures of them all as well, and Robes, it just strikes you all of these are tragic, every one of these families hurting just the same. But there was something about seeing deckling Cody's face and hearing that he's twenty years old, and it's just a reminder a lot of these are very young men and women, and to us, Robes, given that we got one kid that's in college age right now, it's I mean, Robes, it's these are babies.
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Speaker 1: When you see those young faces. Yes, yeah, and we already I know on the news, we've heard from his sister who's just just sobbing, saying I wish I could have told him I loved him one more time. Those were you know, that's important to remember. There is real loss happening as we wage this war, and certainly are a reminder of the service and the sacrifice that so many families make in this country. We're going to stick with Iran adjacent news for this next leg of our run, which brings us back to Wall Street, because things got pretty ugly for a while yesterday with fears that the war with Iran could drag on and on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this got everybody's attention. Twelve hundred points dial drop yesterday during the day. That's a big deal. It ended up recovering, still closing down four hundred points, which would have been alarming anyway if the Dow drops and ends four hundred points down, but the twelve hundred got attention. We see oil prices continuing to spike, so robes the question when do oil prices now translate to higher gas prices? Well, tripa A says just in the past week, the average has gone up twenty cents, So keep an eye on that.
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Speaker 1: So the answer is immediately, all right. The next run of our run takes us to DC, where Homeland Security Secretary Christinome testified before a Senate committee yesterday.
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Speaker 2: This was our first time that she gave congressional testimony since the killing of Alex Preddy and Renee Good in Minneapolis. Her hearing robes went about exactly how you thought it would.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you made an appointment television here and turned it on immediately.
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Speaker 2: And then I had to turn it off. I turned it down first, but the was still coming through.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yelling, finger pointing. And then we heard from Nome, who defended the administration and defended her actions and her words because she refused, and this made a lot of headline. She refused to take back calling Alex Pretty and Renee Good domestic terrorist in the immediate aftermath of their killings.
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Speaker 2: Baby, why it's okay to admit we made a mistake. This was she was handed every opportunity, and even not in a nasty way.
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Speaker 1: You know she couldn't. I think that's what's so frustrating, like out of fear of what somehow saying you got it wrong. But see that is what actually builds trust when you say Look, I was dealing with the information that came immediately, and that is what it appeared to be. But upon further reflection and upon more information, I'm able to say now that no, in fact, while they might have been agitators, they weren't domestic terrorists.
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Speaker 2: A tough one. Grove. That was a tough one to not be able to admit any type of one. You didn't even have to say I'm sorry. You could say I had that information and as I sit here today, I don't believe they're domestic terror Yes, with.
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Speaker 1: The new information we have now, yes.
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Speaker 2: You're confused. I was tough. It was uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: It's so ironic when people do that out of a need to somehow justify actions versus a need to build trust. And that is what you would hope could happen from the leaders of this country, but it often never does. Also, by the way, no one was called a disaster, a disappointment, incompetent, and that was from a Republican.
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Speaker 2: Tom Tillis, North Carolina went off. Republican Yes of North Carolina went off on her did most of the speaking. He actually said, you know what, I don't have a question for you. I'm gonna talk, and he ended up throwing in a question or two in there, but he ultimately called for her to resign. That is a big, big deal what happened yesterday. A couple of Republicans were tough on her yesterday, Robes on that panel.
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Speaker 1: Don't the term election year.
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Speaker 2: She can survive this one. Meanwhile, another member of the president's cabinet will also be soon testifying before Congress on Congress on a different matter.
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Speaker 1: Yes, one that is well, it's captivated the attention of this country and the world. Yes, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik has agreed to testify before the very same committee that hauled the Clintons in for testimony last week. Yes, Lutnik is willingly voluntarily going to answer questions from the House Oversight Committee investigating the Epstein investigation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the questions about his relationship have dogged him for years about Epstein, his name appears in those files. Recent document dumps appear to show Lutnick's relationship with Epstein lasted longer, though than Lutnik had previously publicly stated, and well after Epstein had been convicted of sex crimes. Even rogues, there's confirmation that he actually went to the island Epstein's Island. So a date for this testimony has not been announced.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it so interesting? A lot of what has brought down so many folks hasn't even necessarily been the content of the communications. Certainly that's been the case in some but a lot of it has been the timing or the extension of the communication and the friendship that lasted beyond what they said. Initially it was everyone wanted to put that end date. Oh, once we knew he was a convicted pedophile, we pulled away. Yeah, a lot of people have been proven to change the timeline to fit their.
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Speaker 2: Needs, you know, and to their credit, people who push for these files. And I know it's been a lot of controversy, but that has resulted in things happening. Look, absolutely, former Prince Andrew is not in handcuffs because of something he did a sex crime, but you know, these files came out and they are looking at him and they found evidence possibly of another crime, and they arrested him. So Robes this maybe something positive has been effective.
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Speaker 1: It absolutely has been a transparency works people. All right. Next up on the run, we're going to head to Texas for what was one of the closest watched and most expensive primary races in the country.
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Speaker 2: They're all trying to decide there who was going to represent the state in the Senate. Now, this is a very big race because there's some question of whether Democrats could actually flip a seat. Well, the Democrats on the Democratic sign James Tallerrico with an assist from Colbert. Maybe he is now the projected winner, defeating high profile Kamala Harris endors Congresswoman Jasmin Crockett.
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Speaker 1: Actually, yes, it could be courtesy of Colbert, but you also might even say that it's courtesy of A.
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Speaker 2: Brendan Carr the administration.
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Speaker 1: Yes, by highlighting this, yes, this all now put his name into another stratosphere with the Colbert situation. And though the race has been called by news outlets, we should point out Crockett did not concede last night when she addressed her supporters. Instead, she said voters had been disenfranchised after confusion about polling places that had some people being turned away.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen with this world. It's on this because some they kept the polling places open a couple of hours longer. There's talk of her possibly filing some kind of a lawsuit. Is it to make to try to win or just doing it on behalf of the voters? And then tall Errico himself said yes, he acknowledged that there were some issues and didn't necessarily give a victory speech last night. This one's up in the air. Wow, all right, all right? The Republican side, they were also voting last night. Senator John Cornyn was unable to get enough vote to avoid a runoff. So he is going to face the state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has great name recognition in that state. Wow.
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Speaker 1: Yes, TBD on Texas, all right. The next leg of our run takes us to Florida, where that state executed its third inmate in three weeks last night. Fifty three year old Billy Leon Kirs died by lethal injection for killing a police officer thirty five years ago.
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Speaker 2: And thirty five years ago. Billy Leon Curse was just eighteen years old when he shot twenty nine year old officer Danny Parrish after grabbing his gun during a traffic stop, shot him at least thirteen times. Curse was pronounced dead last night after being given that three drug cocktail that lethal injection, but he was announced dead at six twenty four pm. He declined a last meal. He had though last words that will linger for some time at least Robes for a family of his victim.
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Speaker 1: That's right, this is what Curse had to say to his family. I sincerely apologize for what I have done. There is no way I can repay that. With this death. It will never repay that. And in turn, pray my father give me strength to ask their forgiveness so I can go on my journey. All I can do is ask for their forgiveness to give you peace and resolve. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people will roll their eyes at a convicted cop killer on his last opportunity about to be put to death saying that. But Robes, you can say that if you want to. But the widow accepted those words, and she said it was very valuable to her.
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Speaker 1: Said it gave her peace. And look, isn't that at the end. You're never going to bring your loved one back, But if you can get some sense of closure in peace, And he did give that to her, she said with those final words.
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Speaker 2: Even more incredible, Robes is that it was a much different tone because he had a sentencing hearing three decades ago, and she was the one that reported he almost how would you say that he was toying with her?
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Speaker 1: Yes, in the courtroom, Yes, he smiled at her and winked at her. When he was given the opportunity to have words at his sentencing, he chose and said to do that to her. He made a different choice at the end of his life.
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Speaker 2: All right, will continue on the run here now we will head down to Georgia and a historic trial and verdict in that state where a dad has now been held criminally responsible for the alleged actions of his child during a school shooting.
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Speaker 1: Yes, in less than two hours, a jury convicted fifty five year old Colin Gray of twenty seven felony counts, including four counts of second degree murder, after police say his fourteen year old son Colt, opened fire on his high school with a gun that Colin gave him. That gun injured four killed four people and injured nine others.
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Speaker 2: And the prosecutors say that I keep getting their names, makes up cult and Colin is the dad. Colin is the dad? All right. So Colin, according to prosecutors, ignored the warning signs that his son had anger issues and obsession with school shooters, they said, instead of giving him help, got him an assault rifle for Christmas. That rifle was used in the mass shooting.
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Speaker 1: Great sentencing Dad has not been set yet, but he is facing what amounts to life in prison for his convictions. And by the way, all of that happening before his son has even gone to trial. That's why we've had to say allegedly because his son has not been convicted of that mass shooting.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how that works. He can be the dad has been held responsible for shooting that the sun hasn't been held responsible, correct, And that's the legal system sometimes. All right, we'll continue here on the run in just a moment. When we come back, a major suspension in professional sports here in the US. How much is this guy going to be suspended for an entire season? We'll explain. Also, the next time you call an hoover, don't look for it on the curb, look forward in the Sky's there. We continue on this humpday run on this Wednesday morning. Yes, continuing now. A major League baseball player has been suspended for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. But the length of the suspension robes is noteworthy.
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Speaker 1: One hundred and sixty two games. I have no idea what that math is, but according to TJ who wrote the story, that would amount to the entire upcoming season.
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Speaker 2: Yes, the whole season. The Major League Baseball season is one hundred and sixty two games. You know what, do you know how many in an NFL season?
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Speaker 1: Are you kidding? No?
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Speaker 2: I don't know hockey. I don't know how many hockey season. I got baseball in basketball, but I don't.
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Speaker 1: Tell you any games in any season of any sport.
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Speaker 2: Okay, one hundred and sixty two is the entire season, and that is a big deal. He's one of only a handful to ever have this happen. But there's this Atlanta Braves outfit, A Jeriksen Profer is his name. He's gonna miss the entire upcoming season. And along with missing the season rogues, when you get suspended, you you miss your whole salary. Woo, fifteen million dollars. He's going to lose. He now the reason this happened. He failed a second drug test. He failed one last March, and when you failed the first one, you get an eighty game suspension. But the rules state that a second positive and it's automatic, you're out for the entire tame.
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Speaker 1: Also, what an idiot he already got He already filled one drug test and got an eighty game suspension. You're just gonna keep on doing it and just up the ani.
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Speaker 2: Here's the thing, he said. This is not something he did intentionally. We don't have the entire explanation. But he used the word willingly. He said he would never willingly take a banned substance. But he is accepting MLB's decision. I thought he was gonna say I would never knowingly he said willing.
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Speaker 1: That sounds like someone set him down, rejected, like like yeah, like tied him to something and injected it.
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Speaker 2: Was what he's saying, no, and this is than that. But he has accepted it. And this is the part I thought you would find interesting. You said, what an idiot kind of a thing, and I'm with you. But for the two seasons he would have made twenty seven million dollars in salary. Because of the suspensions, he is only going to keep six million up twenty. He is losing twenty one million I double out of his twenty seven million dollar salary. He is losing it, because when you suspend it, you don't get your salary.
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Speaker 1: I doubled down with what an idiot saying it.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it was an accident, but robes, if it was an accident the first time, I ain't drinking nothing but water. I ain't even take an advil.
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Speaker 1: I can tell you right now, I'm not accidentally ingesting testosterone. I can just tell you that. I don't even need a drug test to tell me that.
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Speaker 2: Look, these guys are you know how they are with their bodies and the things they take and supplements and staying ahead and you got it. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but when twenty plus million dollars is on the line, I'm going to be real careful, all right for the final leg of our run. Your options for an uber ride are soon going to be expanded. No longer will it just be comfort black XL or VIP or share. Now uber air is coming to certain markets. What is uber Air?
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Speaker 2: You have tell me that first?
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Speaker 1: So in Dubai by the end of the year. But I was saving that for the end, but I'll go ahead and drop that.
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Speaker 2: See, I hadn't be going through the whole story, so I'm just asking out of curiosity. What's happening? Ye okay, so you know I'm not even gonna look at that, So okay, go ahead.
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Speaker 1: All right, So riders are going to be able to choose an air taxi option, complete with an Uber Black pickup and drop off to your all electric aircraft that will be waiting for you and up to three other passengers.
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Speaker 2: Wait, so you take a car to the Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So when you click, according to Uber, when you click the air taxi option, it automatically will give you an Uber Black to drive you to the location, whatever little heliport airport area they have, and it's it's included in the price. Now. The experience will offer spacious seating and large panoramic windows, with a certified commercial pilot that will take you above all those congested urban areas so you can get where you need to go quickly.
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Speaker 2: And what though, what am I flying?
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Speaker 1: It's an all electric like I think it's said it had six propellers. It's a little I have I've seen pictures of it. It's not a helicopter, it's not a plane. It's somewhere in between helicopter plane. It charges from with an electric charge. It can go for one hundred hours. It's a little nervous, like a little nerve wracking to think you're in an electrically charged aircraft.
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Speaker 2: How high is it going above like that?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, yes, it's above above congested urban areas, like I'm guessing it's kind of the way a helicopter would operate in the city, which we've seen.
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Speaker 2: But it's floating just above traffic as traffic.
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Speaker 1: No, no, but that sounds like the Jetsons and I like it. It also sounds expensive, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: It should be.
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Speaker 1: It will be expensive, but Uber says it will cost similar to what you pay for an Uber black trap. That is, that is what they but they say the details are coming, so we don't know exactly what that means.
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Speaker 2: And what certification do you have to have as a.
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Speaker 1: Pilot commercial airplan airpilot.
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Speaker 2: You're telling me the person who's flying me in an Uber air can also fly for United Correct, that's a lot.
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Speaker 1: That's what they said, a commerce a certified commercial pilot ubber okay. In terms of timing, Uber Air is reportedly already in its final phase of being certified to operate here in the United States. The FAA has to give that final approval. It's already completed more than fifty thousand miles of flight testing here now. Uber is currently seeking approval in several markets. They include Dubai, which will be the first New York, LA, the UK and Japan. First up will be Dubai, and they say that they will have people flying by the end of the year.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you know what, This is just the direction we're going, I guess eventually. But I have tons of questions.
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Speaker 1: Haven't we always thought that flying cars? I would think when I was young, by twenty twenty six we'd have flying cars. And we're getting close.
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Speaker 2: But how many people can get in the thing?
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Speaker 1: Four?
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Speaker 2: How big is it? Where is it taking?
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Speaker 1: It? Says it's spacious and existen me.
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Speaker 2: Does it just go up and down the runway?
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Speaker 1: No, I don't think it needs to run. They're building little pads in Dubai right now to on building comedy.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: I think it's more like, you know, think about where our hellup heads are here in New York City. I'm envisioning something like that.
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Speaker 2: But do I need to go from here here to the Hamptons or can I just go from downtown to Midtown? Well?
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Speaker 1: I don't know how what what would constitute a verifiable trip or something that would make sense for them?
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Speaker 2: Yes, all right, sorry, okay, we didn't plan to spend that much time on that. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: I had questions, so many questions. What are you a journalist or something? All right, We're gonna leave you on this Wednesday with our quote of the day. I think you will. I actually pick this one thinking you would love it. I hope you do. Oh boy, the higher your standards, the quieter your phone.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't take me long at all. We talk about this all the time, the folks that you need to get out of that circle. Why are you hanging out with people who have time on their hands? It's okay. It's not rude to be exclusive, not rude to be discerning with your time. It's not rude to pick and choose who gets your time. It's okay. Yeah, Oh god, I love that. The higher your standard, wa'd you say? The quieter your phone? Yep?
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I thought this was a quote. Good for you, and look for me and for many of us, I think it takes some age, some wisdom, some really hard earned lessons before you recognize that It's not about how many people you have wanting things from you or wanting to hang out. It's the quality of the people and the quality of the relationships that you have that actually give you peace. So the higher your standards love it, the quieter your phone love it. And with that everyone, thank you for running with us on this Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Roboto and i am DJ Holmes. Keep those phones quiet.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, thanks for joining us for today's morning run. It is Wednesday, March fourth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. A happy Wednesday here in New York. A lot going on, but let's start with positivity and being upbeat. And you looking at the weather forecast and seeing a seven on.
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Speaker 1: It, I mean, a girl can dream. It is supposedly next week going to hit seventy degrees here in New York City. Let me tell you, I'm excited because today we're above a freezing boom. We're gonna hit fifty today and I can't remember the last morning where we have recorded this and it is already thirty six degrees?
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Speaker 2: Do you celebrate?
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Speaker 1: That is so exciting, Host of Hoodie Weather, We'll take it.
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Speaker 2: We'll take it. But good morning to you all. Yes, so much, and we'll get to all the stuff going on in the world. But my goodness, let's start with a smile on our faces. But yes, this run is going to take us to a bunch of spots today. Texas will be making a stop there, will make a stop in DC where hopefully they stop yelling at each other. By now we'll make a stop in Florida, stop in Georgia, not for an SEC football game though, and also we'll be making a stop in Iran and Robes that is our biggest stop, and that's where we need to begin. Of course, all eyes, all thoughts, all prayers really on what's happening in that conflict.
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Speaker 1: Yes, let's get you up to date with the war on Iran. Top officials of the Iranian regime yesterday met to choose their new Supreme leader.
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Speaker 2: Who the hell wants this job? Robes. We've all applied for jobs before, and there's little job descriptions. You're expected to do this, this and this. For this job, you're expected to just stay alive as long as possible.
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Speaker 1: Thirty seven years in office for the previous Supreme leader.
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Speaker 2: However, here's the problem with the current job opening. Israel says that whomever is the next Supreme Leader is going to immediately be fair game Robes, as they put it, a target for elimination. With that they're picking.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think most people want to and now I withdraw my nomination today, Israel says. It also launched another major wave of what they call broad strikes. Against regime targets in Iran, and the death toll within that country is now reportedly just over nine hundred, that is according to a human rights group there. And meantime, the US continues to advise Americans who are in the region to get out.
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Speaker 2: Now the American embassy some of them have closed. They have been advising some folks in some areas, Americans do not come to the embassy for help. Other installations, military installations have been targets of Iranian tacts. Several countries robes we've seen this are scrambling. There are in some cases hundreds of thousands of citizens from some countries in the Middle East in this regions and there some European countries are trying to get together like charter flaw and how to get people out.
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Speaker 1: They were saying, some folks who have means are actually spending a lot of cash chartering private planes. That's the only way out of some of these areas, including Dubai. The Pentagon Tuesday identified four of the six US service members who have been killed in the war already. They died when Iran hit a US base in Kuwait.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there were actually six deaths to report there but they only identified four of them before. We do want to mention they were out of des Moines, Iowa. One of them Captain Cody Cork, thirty five years old. He's originally from winter Haven, Florida. You had Sergeant first Class Nicole Aymoor thirty nine years old, she's out of White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: And then you have Sergeant first Class Noah Tietjens, who is out of Bellevue, Nebraska. And then Sergeant Declan Cody or you already out of des Moines. And then there's Cody Cork out of winter Haven, Florida.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess this is all they sent out. The they released the pictures of them all as well, and Robes, it just strikes you all of these are tragic, every one of these families hurting just the same. But there was something about seeing deckling Cody's face and hearing that he's twenty years old, and it's just a reminder a lot of these are very young men and women, and to us, Robes, given that we got one kid that's in college age right now, it's I mean, Robes, it's these are babies.
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Speaker 1: When you see those young faces. Yes, yeah, and we already I know on the news, we've heard from his sister who's just just sobbing, saying I wish I could have told him I loved him one more time. Those were you know, that's important to remember. There is real loss happening as we wage this war, and certainly are a reminder of the service and the sacrifice that so many families make in this country. We're going to stick with Iran adjacent news for this next leg of our run, which brings us back to Wall Street, because things got pretty ugly for a while yesterday with fears that the war with Iran could drag on and on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this got everybody's attention. Twelve hundred points dial drop yesterday during the day. That's a big deal. It ended up recovering, still closing down four hundred points, which would have been alarming anyway if the Dow drops and ends four hundred points down, but the twelve hundred got attention. We see oil prices continuing to spike, so robes the question when do oil prices now translate to higher gas prices? Well, tripa A says just in the past week, the average has gone up twenty cents, So keep an eye on that.
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Speaker 1: So the answer is immediately, all right. The next run of our run takes us to DC, where Homeland Security Secretary Christinome testified before a Senate committee yesterday.
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Speaker 2: This was our first time that she gave congressional testimony since the killing of Alex Preddy and Renee Good in Minneapolis. Her hearing robes went about exactly how you thought it would.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you made an appointment television here and turned it on immediately.
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Speaker 2: And then I had to turn it off. I turned it down first, but the was still coming through.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yelling, finger pointing. And then we heard from Nome, who defended the administration and defended her actions and her words because she refused, and this made a lot of headline. She refused to take back calling Alex Pretty and Renee Good domestic terrorist in the immediate aftermath of their killings.
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Speaker 2: Baby, why it's okay to admit we made a mistake. This was she was handed every opportunity, and even not in a nasty way.
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Speaker 1: You know she couldn't. I think that's what's so frustrating, like out of fear of what somehow saying you got it wrong. But see that is what actually builds trust when you say Look, I was dealing with the information that came immediately, and that is what it appeared to be. But upon further reflection and upon more information, I'm able to say now that no, in fact, while they might have been agitators, they weren't domestic terrorists.
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Speaker 2: A tough one. Grove. That was a tough one to not be able to admit any type of one. You didn't even have to say I'm sorry. You could say I had that information and as I sit here today, I don't believe they're domestic terror Yes, with.
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Speaker 1: The new information we have now, yes.
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Speaker 2: You're confused. I was tough. It was uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: It's so ironic when people do that out of a need to somehow justify actions versus a need to build trust. And that is what you would hope could happen from the leaders of this country, but it often never does. Also, by the way, no one was called a disaster, a disappointment, incompetent, and that was from a Republican.
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Speaker 2: Tom Tillis, North Carolina went off. Republican Yes of North Carolina went off on her did most of the speaking. He actually said, you know what, I don't have a question for you. I'm gonna talk, and he ended up throwing in a question or two in there, but he ultimately called for her to resign. That is a big, big deal what happened yesterday. A couple of Republicans were tough on her yesterday, Robes on that panel.
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Speaker 1: Don't the term election year.
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Speaker 2: She can survive this one. Meanwhile, another member of the president's cabinet will also be soon testifying before Congress on Congress on a different matter.
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Speaker 1: Yes, one that is well, it's captivated the attention of this country and the world. Yes, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik has agreed to testify before the very same committee that hauled the Clintons in for testimony last week. Yes, Lutnik is willingly voluntarily going to answer questions from the House Oversight Committee investigating the Epstein investigation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the questions about his relationship have dogged him for years about Epstein, his name appears in those files. Recent document dumps appear to show Lutnick's relationship with Epstein lasted longer, though than Lutnik had previously publicly stated, and well after Epstein had been convicted of sex crimes. Even rogues, there's confirmation that he actually went to the island Epstein's Island. So a date for this testimony has not been announced.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it so interesting? A lot of what has brought down so many folks hasn't even necessarily been the content of the communications. Certainly that's been the case in some but a lot of it has been the timing or the extension of the communication and the friendship that lasted beyond what they said. Initially it was everyone wanted to put that end date. Oh, once we knew he was a convicted pedophile, we pulled away. Yeah, a lot of people have been proven to change the timeline to fit their.
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Speaker 2: Needs, you know, and to their credit, people who push for these files. And I know it's been a lot of controversy, but that has resulted in things happening. Look, absolutely, former Prince Andrew is not in handcuffs because of something he did a sex crime, but you know, these files came out and they are looking at him and they found evidence possibly of another crime, and they arrested him. So Robes this maybe something positive has been effective.
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Speaker 1: It absolutely has been a transparency works people. All right. Next up on the run, we're going to head to Texas for what was one of the closest watched and most expensive primary races in the country.
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Speaker 2: They're all trying to decide there who was going to represent the state in the Senate. Now, this is a very big race because there's some question of whether Democrats could actually flip a seat. Well, the Democrats on the Democratic sign James Tallerrico with an assist from Colbert. Maybe he is now the projected winner, defeating high profile Kamala Harris endors Congresswoman Jasmin Crockett.
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Speaker 1: Actually, yes, it could be courtesy of Colbert, but you also might even say that it's courtesy of A.
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Speaker 2: Brendan Carr the administration.
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Speaker 1: Yes, by highlighting this, yes, this all now put his name into another stratosphere with the Colbert situation. And though the race has been called by news outlets, we should point out Crockett did not concede last night when she addressed her supporters. Instead, she said voters had been disenfranchised after confusion about polling places that had some people being turned away.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen with this world. It's on this because some they kept the polling places open a couple of hours longer. There's talk of her possibly filing some kind of a lawsuit. Is it to make to try to win or just doing it on behalf of the voters? And then tall Errico himself said yes, he acknowledged that there were some issues and didn't necessarily give a victory speech last night. This one's up in the air. Wow, all right, all right? The Republican side, they were also voting last night. Senator John Cornyn was unable to get enough vote to avoid a runoff. So he is going to face the state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has great name recognition in that state. Wow.
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Speaker 1: Yes, TBD on Texas, all right. The next leg of our run takes us to Florida, where that state executed its third inmate in three weeks last night. Fifty three year old Billy Leon Kirs died by lethal injection for killing a police officer thirty five years ago.
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Speaker 2: And thirty five years ago. Billy Leon Curse was just eighteen years old when he shot twenty nine year old officer Danny Parrish after grabbing his gun during a traffic stop, shot him at least thirteen times. Curse was pronounced dead last night after being given that three drug cocktail that lethal injection, but he was announced dead at six twenty four pm. He declined a last meal. He had though last words that will linger for some time at least Robes for a family of his victim.
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Speaker 1: That's right, this is what Curse had to say to his family. I sincerely apologize for what I have done. There is no way I can repay that. With this death. It will never repay that. And in turn, pray my father give me strength to ask their forgiveness so I can go on my journey. All I can do is ask for their forgiveness to give you peace and resolve. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people will roll their eyes at a convicted cop killer on his last opportunity about to be put to death saying that. But Robes, you can say that if you want to. But the widow accepted those words, and she said it was very valuable to her.
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Speaker 1: Said it gave her peace. And look, isn't that at the end. You're never going to bring your loved one back, But if you can get some sense of closure in peace, And he did give that to her, she said with those final words.
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Speaker 2: Even more incredible, Robes is that it was a much different tone because he had a sentencing hearing three decades ago, and she was the one that reported he almost how would you say that he was toying with her?
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Speaker 1: Yes, in the courtroom, Yes, he smiled at her and winked at her. When he was given the opportunity to have words at his sentencing, he chose and said to do that to her. He made a different choice at the end of his life.
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Speaker 2: All right, will continue on the run here now we will head down to Georgia and a historic trial and verdict in that state where a dad has now been held criminally responsible for the alleged actions of his child during a school shooting.
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Speaker 1: Yes, in less than two hours, a jury convicted fifty five year old Colin Gray of twenty seven felony counts, including four counts of second degree murder, after police say his fourteen year old son Colt, opened fire on his high school with a gun that Colin gave him. That gun injured four killed four people and injured nine others.
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Speaker 2: And the prosecutors say that I keep getting their names, makes up cult and Colin is the dad. Colin is the dad? All right. So Colin, according to prosecutors, ignored the warning signs that his son had anger issues and obsession with school shooters, they said, instead of giving him help, got him an assault rifle for Christmas. That rifle was used in the mass shooting.
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Speaker 1: Great sentencing Dad has not been set yet, but he is facing what amounts to life in prison for his convictions. And by the way, all of that happening before his son has even gone to trial. That's why we've had to say allegedly because his son has not been convicted of that mass shooting.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how that works. He can be the dad has been held responsible for shooting that the sun hasn't been held responsible, correct, And that's the legal system sometimes. All right, we'll continue here on the run in just a moment. When we come back, a major suspension in professional sports here in the US. How much is this guy going to be suspended for an entire season? We'll explain. Also, the next time you call an hoover, don't look for it on the curb, look forward in the Sky's there. We continue on this humpday run on this Wednesday morning. Yes, continuing now. A major League baseball player has been suspended for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. But the length of the suspension robes is noteworthy.
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Speaker 1: One hundred and sixty two games. I have no idea what that math is, but according to TJ who wrote the story, that would amount to the entire upcoming season.
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Speaker 2: Yes, the whole season. The Major League Baseball season is one hundred and sixty two games. You know what, do you know how many in an NFL season?
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Speaker 1: Are you kidding? No?
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Speaker 2: I don't know hockey. I don't know how many hockey season. I got baseball in basketball, but I don't.
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Speaker 1: Tell you any games in any season of any sport.
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Speaker 2: Okay, one hundred and sixty two is the entire season, and that is a big deal. He's one of only a handful to ever have this happen. But there's this Atlanta Braves outfit, A Jeriksen Profer is his name. He's gonna miss the entire upcoming season. And along with missing the season rogues, when you get suspended, you you miss your whole salary. Woo, fifteen million dollars. He's going to lose. He now the reason this happened. He failed a second drug test. He failed one last March, and when you failed the first one, you get an eighty game suspension. But the rules state that a second positive and it's automatic, you're out for the entire tame.
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Speaker 1: Also, what an idiot he already got He already filled one drug test and got an eighty game suspension. You're just gonna keep on doing it and just up the ani.
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Speaker 2: Here's the thing, he said. This is not something he did intentionally. We don't have the entire explanation. But he used the word willingly. He said he would never willingly take a banned substance. But he is accepting MLB's decision. I thought he was gonna say I would never knowingly he said willing.
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Speaker 1: That sounds like someone set him down, rejected, like like yeah, like tied him to something and injected it.
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Speaker 2: Was what he's saying, no, and this is than that. But he has accepted it. And this is the part I thought you would find interesting. You said, what an idiot kind of a thing, and I'm with you. But for the two seasons he would have made twenty seven million dollars in salary. Because of the suspensions, he is only going to keep six million up twenty. He is losing twenty one million I double out of his twenty seven million dollar salary. He is losing it, because when you suspend it, you don't get your salary.
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Speaker 1: I doubled down with what an idiot saying it.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it was an accident, but robes, if it was an accident the first time, I ain't drinking nothing but water. I ain't even take an advil.
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Speaker 1: I can tell you right now, I'm not accidentally ingesting testosterone. I can just tell you that. I don't even need a drug test to tell me that.
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Speaker 2: Look, these guys are you know how they are with their bodies and the things they take and supplements and staying ahead and you got it. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but when twenty plus million dollars is on the line, I'm going to be real careful, all right for the final leg of our run. Your options for an uber ride are soon going to be expanded. No longer will it just be comfort black XL or VIP or share. Now uber air is coming to certain markets. What is uber Air?
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Speaker 2: You have tell me that first?
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Speaker 1: So in Dubai by the end of the year. But I was saving that for the end, but I'll go ahead and drop that.
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Speaker 2: See, I hadn't be going through the whole story, so I'm just asking out of curiosity. What's happening? Ye okay, so you know I'm not even gonna look at that, So okay, go ahead.
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Speaker 1: All right, So riders are going to be able to choose an air taxi option, complete with an Uber Black pickup and drop off to your all electric aircraft that will be waiting for you and up to three other passengers.
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Speaker 2: Wait, so you take a car to the Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So when you click, according to Uber, when you click the air taxi option, it automatically will give you an Uber Black to drive you to the location, whatever little heliport airport area they have, and it's it's included in the price. Now. The experience will offer spacious seating and large panoramic windows, with a certified commercial pilot that will take you above all those congested urban areas so you can get where you need to go quickly.
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Speaker 2: And what though, what am I flying?
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Speaker 1: It's an all electric like I think it's said it had six propellers. It's a little I have I've seen pictures of it. It's not a helicopter, it's not a plane. It's somewhere in between helicopter plane. It charges from with an electric charge. It can go for one hundred hours. It's a little nervous, like a little nerve wracking to think you're in an electrically charged aircraft.
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Speaker 2: How high is it going above like that?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, yes, it's above above congested urban areas, like I'm guessing it's kind of the way a helicopter would operate in the city, which we've seen.
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Speaker 2: But it's floating just above traffic as traffic.
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Speaker 1: No, no, but that sounds like the Jetsons and I like it. It also sounds expensive, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: It should be.
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Speaker 1: It will be expensive, but Uber says it will cost similar to what you pay for an Uber black trap. That is, that is what they but they say the details are coming, so we don't know exactly what that means.
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Speaker 2: And what certification do you have to have as a.
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Speaker 1: Pilot commercial airplan airpilot.
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Speaker 2: You're telling me the person who's flying me in an Uber air can also fly for United Correct, that's a lot.
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Speaker 1: That's what they said, a commerce a certified commercial pilot ubber okay. In terms of timing, Uber Air is reportedly already in its final phase of being certified to operate here in the United States. The FAA has to give that final approval. It's already completed more than fifty thousand miles of flight testing here now. Uber is currently seeking approval in several markets. They include Dubai, which will be the first New York, LA, the UK and Japan. First up will be Dubai, and they say that they will have people flying by the end of the year.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you know what, This is just the direction we're going, I guess eventually. But I have tons of questions.
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Speaker 1: Haven't we always thought that flying cars? I would think when I was young, by twenty twenty six we'd have flying cars. And we're getting close.
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Speaker 2: But how many people can get in the thing?
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Speaker 1: Four?
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Speaker 2: How big is it? Where is it taking?
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Speaker 1: It? Says it's spacious and existen me.
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Speaker 2: Does it just go up and down the runway?
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Speaker 1: No, I don't think it needs to run. They're building little pads in Dubai right now to on building comedy.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: I think it's more like, you know, think about where our hellup heads are here in New York City. I'm envisioning something like that.
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Speaker 2: But do I need to go from here here to the Hamptons or can I just go from downtown to Midtown? Well?
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Speaker 1: I don't know how what what would constitute a verifiable trip or something that would make sense for them?
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Speaker 2: Yes, all right, sorry, okay, we didn't plan to spend that much time on that. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: I had questions, so many questions. What are you a journalist or something? All right, We're gonna leave you on this Wednesday with our quote of the day. I think you will. I actually pick this one thinking you would love it. I hope you do. Oh boy, the higher your standards, the quieter your phone.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't take me long at all. We talk about this all the time, the folks that you need to get out of that circle. Why are you hanging out with people who have time on their hands? It's okay. It's not rude to be exclusive, not rude to be discerning with your time. It's not rude to pick and choose who gets your time. It's okay. Yeah, Oh god, I love that. The higher your standard, wa'd you say? The quieter your phone? Yep?
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I thought this was a quote. Good for you, and look for me and for many of us, I think it takes some age, some wisdom, some really hard earned lessons before you recognize that It's not about how many people you have wanting things from you or wanting to hang out. It's the quality of the people and the quality of the relationships that you have that actually give you peace. So the higher your standards love it, the quieter your phone love it. And with that everyone, thank you for running with us on this Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Roboto and i am DJ Holmes. Keep those phones quiet.