May 15, 2026
Morning Run: Trump Heading Home, 41 Americans Monitored, Dow Above 50K, Double Executions, Death Row Inmate Freed, Senators Shocking Vote, and Drake Is Back
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's for Friday, May fifteenth. I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. You did a little shoulder thing when you're just so happy this morning. You're feeling it.
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Speaker 3: Sunshining, you know what.
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Speaker 1: We're about to finally get some consistently warm weather here in the Northeast.
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Speaker 3: The sun is shining.
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Speaker 1: It's Friday. My baby is home from college. The baby life is good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah it is. We have a half marathon running this weekend in a place we've never run half marathon before. So yes, we are on an upbeat. Hope you are as well on this Friday, wherever you may be. We're gonna be making several stops today in Nebraska, in Texas, in Oklahoma as well. Also make a stop on Wall Street, Mega stop in Atlanta. But let's start robes in Beijing, where it's already over. The President's on his way back as we speak.
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Speaker 1: Yes, the journey has begun for the President heading back home. He's on his way back to the United States. After that big two day summit in Beijing. He got more pomp and circumstance on his way out, a big, big, big send off at the airport, just like we saw as he was coming down that red carpet, oh, just forty eight hours ago.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he got maybe the pomp and circumstance, but we don't know what else he got because we're still waiting on word of what was actually produced from this summit. Now, the President used some superlatives and describing some of the things that took place. He didn't say we got some fantastic trade deals. He did make a couple of comments about a few other things that the Chinese side didn't necessarily confirm. So we're anticipating more word on all of that. But of course Taiwan and Iran we're on the agenda. But Rode that seemed like President Trump was doing more of the talking about. Yeah, President Chief, yet he agreed with me on all this stuff, and then President She just since they're kind of quietly yes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: In fact, on Air Force one, President Trump just basically telling journal don't worry about Taiwan.
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Speaker 3: It's all gonna be good. So that's kind of where we're left on things.
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Speaker 1: Okay, next up on the run, let's talk about something else. That's still kind of just lingering a lot of unsurity unclear.
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Speaker 3: Well, is that a word you said, unsurety? Yeah, I think I made it up. Did I make that word up?
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Speaker 2: Hey?
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Speaker 3: I hope you cat just long enjoy it everybody.
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Speaker 1: But yes, we do have an update of sorts on the hunt of virus here in the United States. The CDC says there are now forty one Americans actively being monitored for possible infections.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so here's the breakdown that they gave us. Sixteen of these are former ship passengers who are in Nebraska that we've been hearing so much about getting treated there. Two of them also former ship passengers, but they were sent to Emory and Atlanta. Okay, so then we got seven. I don't know if I was aware of this robes seven former ship passengers who left before the outbreak. I didn't realize we had that many back here in the.
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Speaker 3: Up, not before the outbreak, but before they knew it was an outbreak.
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Speaker 2: There it is.
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Speaker 1: They were on the ship when the first Dutch passenger died, and certainly his wife had been infected. No one just was aware there was an outbreak. But yes, they returned to those five different states, four different.
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Speaker 2: States, most folks, and then you got another sixteen out there who were just unlucky enough to sit next to one of these folks on a plane. And so now they are being monitored by the CDC as well. They from what I can tell Worldpe, they're being asked to stay at home, but they're.
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Speaker 3: Not being forced to stay at home.
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Speaker 1: And the other little development that has occurred over the last couple of days that doctor, so we don't have actually an active known case here of hantavirus in the United States. Previously we thought the doctor he had been isolated in that bio containment chamber. He now tested negatives. So officially we don't have a positive case here in the United States.
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Speaker 2: And that's a good sign. And I also want to take a moment everybody. Unsurety is a word unsure with t y at the end, thanks on surety, And I could tell you had some unsurety about whether or not that was the worst.
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Speaker 1: I'm always open to the fact that I can make things up. Yeah, I'm like, oh, did I was that just in my brain? Or did I hear or read that somewhere?
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Speaker 2: Hey, what word did you give me yesterday? And I said, that's what they should have called it. You did this yesterday. You're pretty good. You're a pretty good linguist, I give you.
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Speaker 1: I'm a wordsmith. What can I say even when they're not words?
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Speaker 3: All right?
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run the President. Yes, we mentioned coming back from China. But here's some good news. Maybe perhaps, even though there is some unsurety about what was said during that meeting, the Dow closed above fifty thousand yesterday, and they like surety, So maybe they were buying what the president and president she were selling.
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Speaker 2: So there's some optimistity out there about what's happening. They continue on the run here. Now, this is where we are today, on this Friday, Friday. It's Friday. Let's go, do you now? Okay, this was a hell of a day in the US yesterday two executions carried out, one in Texas, one in Oklahoma. We'll start in Texas. He was declared dead at eleven o'clock Central time after a day.
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Speaker 3: Of eight eleven Central time.
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Speaker 1: You said eleven o'clock, but eight eleven pm Central time, you said eleven o'clock.
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Speaker 2: Eleven, Just straight up eleven.
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Speaker 3: He did the skipped the eight man. It's Friday.
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Speaker 2: All right, Busby is his name, Edward Buzby declared dead at eight eleven pm Central time last night. But this was a day of really sitting around and waiting to see whether or not this execution was even going to take place.
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Speaker 1: And honestly, we did not think it was going to we, yes, were checking it hourly, but there had been a stay of execution in place for the majority of the day. The Supreme Court stepped in lifted that stay of execution upon the request of the Attorney General there in Texas. And this happened hours before the scheduled execution. So Buzzby, as you might remember, was convicted of a two thousand and four robbery and murderer of a seventy seven year old former college professor.
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Speaker 2: And you want to hear more about this. So this was a and we should say this was the longest we cover a number of these and executions in this country. This was the longest final words you called a final statement. Yeah, he was asked to be any last words. And it's something to hear.
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Speaker 3: It really is. So, yes, that is one of the episodes.
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Speaker 1: I think it is the episode before this one, so please check it out if this is of any interest to you. It's fascinating to hear what he said to the victim's family before he was executed.
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Speaker 2: All right. Also, we mentioned there were two. The other in Oklahoma State carried out a morning execution. Raymond Johnson given lethal injection at ten am. He was convicted for the two thousand and seven murder of his ex girlfriend and her seven month old daughter.
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Speaker 1: And next up on the run, a man who had been on death row for thirty years walked out of prison yesterday. However, he did not walk out an exonerated man just yet. Richard Glossip is getting a new trial for the nineteen ninety seven murder for higher killing of his boss, a motel manager.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Now, the Supreme Court throughout his conviction last year, clearing the way for him to get a new trial, and a judge set bond yesterday at five hundred thousand dollars. He was able to make it. And a guy who got the death penalty is at home waiting robes to be tried again for the same crime. And please help me. You did a dive into this one. The issue is not necessarily guilter in it. It was not technicality, but it was something, well.
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Speaker 1: It is. It is guilter innocence because the only evidence against him was the state's star witness. The state star witness is actually the self confessed murderer. He's the one who wielded this baseball bat as he brutally beat the motel manager. Now we are going to record another full episode on this. This is an insane story. Kim Kardashian has been tweeting about this story. Has been a part of this story for several years now, Susan Sarandon, Doctor Philip Mean, you have a lot of celebrities the Innocence Project. So many folks here have been rallying around Richard Glossip. So we're going to give you a full story. You're going to need to hear this. This is a much bigger story and we're going to have that up in a couple of hours.
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Speaker 2: That key witness lie, that's the issue. They say. Prosecutors knew somebody was lying on the stand. You can't get any bigger than a no, no, and prosecution to that.
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Speaker 1: And he is expected to testify again at this third trial. This is a fascinating case, so please please please stay tuned for that episode, which is coming your way soon on this feed.
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Speaker 2: And stay with us here on our Morning Ron because coming up you, yes, you are going to applaud something that you're us centered just did. They did it for you, And as soon as you smile, I'm gonna tell you why you shouldn't even be applaud them anyway, we'll explain. Also, coming up here, Drake just dropped his ninth, tenth and eleventh album All in One Night.
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Speaker 1: So here welcome back everyone to your Friday edition of Morning Run and next up on the Run.
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Speaker 3: Hey, it's very.
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Speaker 1: Rare that we actually get to applaud us senators, but this story yes had us clapping. Senators made a very nice symbolic gesture. Yesterday they unanimously We never get to say that either. They unanimously agreed to have their own salaries withheld if there is ever.
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Speaker 3: Another government shut down. You like it, I love it?
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Speaker 2: Do you like it?
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Speaker 1: All? Right?
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Speaker 2: Yes, this takes effect after the mid terms. Fine, but their salaries are one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars a year. So they're saying. After we saw back to back longest shutdowns in history. One was forty three and the other was how many dollars left count the second one I did as well, but people were hurting, The country was hurting. TSA workers weren't getting paid and hurting. They say, hey, we're not going to take a.
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Speaker 1: Salary either, and that is to me, a yeah, obviously, if you actually can't keep the government funded and running, which would be like the bare minimum of what your job is, you shouldn't get paid because nobody else in any private sector job would be paid if they couldn't actually make sure the bare minimum was happening.
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Speaker 2: Roughly seventy five percent of senators are millionaires. At least seven of them are worth over fifty million dollars. This is nothing to them, so it is a symbolic gesture. It means nothing. That don't we say the measure of characters when you do something right when it's inconvenient for you. Stop stop stop, wow, stop you really wanted to give you credit for this? You know want to?
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Speaker 3: They got fined each day they would come.
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Speaker 2: To a solution something else. I'm trying roads even in trying to give them a little this gesture you're making. You know what, we're not. We're going to suffer too. You're not You're not at all roads, one hundred and seventy four thousand. Most of these guys, it's a drop in the bucket. They have people that they make that am at home that they make that So I get And you can applause this if you want to, but I'm just trying to give some context here. Literally seventy five percent of millionaires, and they have a handful almost I think the count is close to ten that are literally worth fifty million dollars plush. So, hey, guys, you're going to give up one hundred and seventy four thousand a year.
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Speaker 1: Most of these men and women are there for truly service. No, it's it's oftentimes for the power, right, I mean, it's not the money. His money does not draw anyone to become a senator.
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Speaker 2: What's the thing we argue all the time that people go to the Senate because they're trying to get rich. No, they show up that way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they show up rich and now they can wield power along with their money.
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Speaker 3: And that is why. All right, sorry, it's in service. It's in service.
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Speaker 1: I forgot for the final leg of our run, Well, this was a this is a big headline in our home yesterday. I heard nothing but Drake, Drake, Drake yesterday, Drake is back. If you hadn't heard when I say, we knew he was scheduled to release a new album overnight, I mean TJ and Sabine knew that he was scheduled to release a new album overnight.
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Speaker 3: I did not. But apparently this is a really big deal.
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Speaker 1: Apparently because this is his first album since he suffered that resounding rap battle defeat at the hands of Kendrick Lamar and that was written by t J Holmes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so sure enough. Yes, he released his ninth studio album last night. He then released his tenth album, and then released his eleventh album, Boom Boom Boom, dropped three albums. This was unexpected. The titles Iceman, Hibep, t hibpt, that's it, and then made of Honor forty three new songs, robes, He's taken shots.
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Speaker 3: How many of them have heard?
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Speaker 1: Uh?
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Speaker 2: Oh, at least five.
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Speaker 3: I came in. I came in. You said, I have to stop listening. I need to work, ki, I can't work.
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Speaker 2: I was behind on time because he's telling all of these stories. It is intimate, it sounds personal. The music, the production is off, the charts. This guy is amazing. Rose got to give the man his due. He is an incredible, incredible artist. He knows how to do this. But some of his lyrics, it sounds like he's going right back into some rap beasts.
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Speaker 3: Well it Look, he didn't win a Grammy and he didn't headline the super Bowl, but he sold a lot, a lot during that rap battle.
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Speaker 2: He's been working ropes. He's out there doing this thing. Give him credit. It was a humiliating loss at the Grammys in the super Bowl, I mean, can you get take a bigger l than that?
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Speaker 1: And then he tried to sue his own record label. That was embarrassing. With Kendrick, Lamar is in the same under the same umbrella.
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Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, but he goes through some much but taking shit. I don't want to do a beef again.
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Speaker 1: I don't the big beef was you said you're okay with him doing a beef or with Lebron, with Lebront, as long as he leaves Kendrick.
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Speaker 2: Alone, don't don't get into another rap. I got him. Lebron can't out wrap him, so he's gonna win that. But just don't not another I don't we can't do it again.
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Speaker 1: You should have heard TJ reacting to the Lebron song. I mean, you were just going crazy yesterday, like no oh damn, yeah, it was apparently that good.
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Speaker 3: You had to explain everything to me. I was like, what does that mean? What does that mean? Twenty three and meter?
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Speaker 2: What is that?
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Speaker 3: Yes, I just know the genealogy site.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so let's wrap this up because we got work to do.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, we will leave you on this Friday with our quote of the day.
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Speaker 1: I think it is, but I think it'll make you chuckle good. Notice how the GPS never says made a mistake. It just says recalculating route. That's life. I knew you.
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Speaker 3: I liked the message.
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Speaker 2: We get the idea mistake, mistake, mistake. Okay, fine, I'm being a little too literal, but I get the point it's trying to make.
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Speaker 3: How what does it say it says?
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Speaker 1: Notice how the GPS never says made a mistake. It just says recalculating route.
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Speaker 3: That's life. Yesterday we were going to the airport. It was a little confusing.
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Speaker 1: We missed a turn and it was recalculating the route, and I just thought instead of and I actually started to get upset.
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Speaker 3: You're like, babe, it's okay, Like we got time.
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Speaker 1: And I thought, this is such a fun euphemism for life, in the sense that, yeah, sometimes you make the wrong turn, but it's okay. You recalculate and maybe you just get on a better road, maybe you avoid something on the road you were on. Anyway, I saw this quote I thought of yesterday, and it just all came together in a full circle. I thank you.
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Speaker 3: I hope you all love that as well.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for running with us on this Friday and every day I made me robots and Holmes runs It
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's for Friday, May fifteenth. I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. You did a little shoulder thing when you're just so happy this morning. You're feeling it.
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Speaker 3: Sunshining, you know what.
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Speaker 1: We're about to finally get some consistently warm weather here in the Northeast.
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Speaker 3: The sun is shining.
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Speaker 1: It's Friday. My baby is home from college. The baby life is good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah it is. We have a half marathon running this weekend in a place we've never run half marathon before. So yes, we are on an upbeat. Hope you are as well on this Friday, wherever you may be. We're gonna be making several stops today in Nebraska, in Texas, in Oklahoma as well. Also make a stop on Wall Street, Mega stop in Atlanta. But let's start robes in Beijing, where it's already over. The President's on his way back as we speak.
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Speaker 1: Yes, the journey has begun for the President heading back home. He's on his way back to the United States. After that big two day summit in Beijing. He got more pomp and circumstance on his way out, a big, big, big send off at the airport, just like we saw as he was coming down that red carpet, oh, just forty eight hours ago.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he got maybe the pomp and circumstance, but we don't know what else he got because we're still waiting on word of what was actually produced from this summit. Now, the President used some superlatives and describing some of the things that took place. He didn't say we got some fantastic trade deals. He did make a couple of comments about a few other things that the Chinese side didn't necessarily confirm. So we're anticipating more word on all of that. But of course Taiwan and Iran we're on the agenda. But Rode that seemed like President Trump was doing more of the talking about. Yeah, President Chief, yet he agreed with me on all this stuff, and then President She just since they're kind of quietly yes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: In fact, on Air Force one, President Trump just basically telling journal don't worry about Taiwan.
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Speaker 3: It's all gonna be good. So that's kind of where we're left on things.
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Speaker 1: Okay, next up on the run, let's talk about something else. That's still kind of just lingering a lot of unsurity unclear.
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Speaker 3: Well, is that a word you said, unsurety? Yeah, I think I made it up. Did I make that word up?
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Speaker 2: Hey?
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Speaker 3: I hope you cat just long enjoy it everybody.
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Speaker 1: But yes, we do have an update of sorts on the hunt of virus here in the United States. The CDC says there are now forty one Americans actively being monitored for possible infections.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so here's the breakdown that they gave us. Sixteen of these are former ship passengers who are in Nebraska that we've been hearing so much about getting treated there. Two of them also former ship passengers, but they were sent to Emory and Atlanta. Okay, so then we got seven. I don't know if I was aware of this robes seven former ship passengers who left before the outbreak. I didn't realize we had that many back here in the.
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Speaker 3: Up, not before the outbreak, but before they knew it was an outbreak.
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Speaker 2: There it is.
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Speaker 1: They were on the ship when the first Dutch passenger died, and certainly his wife had been infected. No one just was aware there was an outbreak. But yes, they returned to those five different states, four different.
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Speaker 2: States, most folks, and then you got another sixteen out there who were just unlucky enough to sit next to one of these folks on a plane. And so now they are being monitored by the CDC as well. They from what I can tell Worldpe, they're being asked to stay at home, but they're.
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Speaker 3: Not being forced to stay at home.
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Speaker 1: And the other little development that has occurred over the last couple of days that doctor, so we don't have actually an active known case here of hantavirus in the United States. Previously we thought the doctor he had been isolated in that bio containment chamber. He now tested negatives. So officially we don't have a positive case here in the United States.
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Speaker 2: And that's a good sign. And I also want to take a moment everybody. Unsurety is a word unsure with t y at the end, thanks on surety, And I could tell you had some unsurety about whether or not that was the worst.
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Speaker 1: I'm always open to the fact that I can make things up. Yeah, I'm like, oh, did I was that just in my brain? Or did I hear or read that somewhere?
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Speaker 2: Hey, what word did you give me yesterday? And I said, that's what they should have called it. You did this yesterday. You're pretty good. You're a pretty good linguist, I give you.
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Speaker 1: I'm a wordsmith. What can I say even when they're not words?
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Speaker 3: All right?
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run the President. Yes, we mentioned coming back from China. But here's some good news. Maybe perhaps, even though there is some unsurety about what was said during that meeting, the Dow closed above fifty thousand yesterday, and they like surety, So maybe they were buying what the president and president she were selling.
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Speaker 2: So there's some optimistity out there about what's happening. They continue on the run here. Now, this is where we are today, on this Friday, Friday. It's Friday. Let's go, do you now? Okay, this was a hell of a day in the US yesterday two executions carried out, one in Texas, one in Oklahoma. We'll start in Texas. He was declared dead at eleven o'clock Central time after a day.
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Speaker 3: Of eight eleven Central time.
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Speaker 1: You said eleven o'clock, but eight eleven pm Central time, you said eleven o'clock.
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Speaker 2: Eleven, Just straight up eleven.
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Speaker 3: He did the skipped the eight man. It's Friday.
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Speaker 2: All right, Busby is his name, Edward Buzby declared dead at eight eleven pm Central time last night. But this was a day of really sitting around and waiting to see whether or not this execution was even going to take place.
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Speaker 1: And honestly, we did not think it was going to we, yes, were checking it hourly, but there had been a stay of execution in place for the majority of the day. The Supreme Court stepped in lifted that stay of execution upon the request of the Attorney General there in Texas. And this happened hours before the scheduled execution. So Buzzby, as you might remember, was convicted of a two thousand and four robbery and murderer of a seventy seven year old former college professor.
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Speaker 2: And you want to hear more about this. So this was a and we should say this was the longest we cover a number of these and executions in this country. This was the longest final words you called a final statement. Yeah, he was asked to be any last words. And it's something to hear.
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Speaker 3: It really is. So, yes, that is one of the episodes.
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Speaker 1: I think it is the episode before this one, so please check it out if this is of any interest to you. It's fascinating to hear what he said to the victim's family before he was executed.
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Speaker 2: All right. Also, we mentioned there were two. The other in Oklahoma State carried out a morning execution. Raymond Johnson given lethal injection at ten am. He was convicted for the two thousand and seven murder of his ex girlfriend and her seven month old daughter.
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Speaker 1: And next up on the run, a man who had been on death row for thirty years walked out of prison yesterday. However, he did not walk out an exonerated man just yet. Richard Glossip is getting a new trial for the nineteen ninety seven murder for higher killing of his boss, a motel manager.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Now, the Supreme Court throughout his conviction last year, clearing the way for him to get a new trial, and a judge set bond yesterday at five hundred thousand dollars. He was able to make it. And a guy who got the death penalty is at home waiting robes to be tried again for the same crime. And please help me. You did a dive into this one. The issue is not necessarily guilter in it. It was not technicality, but it was something, well.
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Speaker 1: It is. It is guilter innocence because the only evidence against him was the state's star witness. The state star witness is actually the self confessed murderer. He's the one who wielded this baseball bat as he brutally beat the motel manager. Now we are going to record another full episode on this. This is an insane story. Kim Kardashian has been tweeting about this story. Has been a part of this story for several years now, Susan Sarandon, Doctor Philip Mean, you have a lot of celebrities the Innocence Project. So many folks here have been rallying around Richard Glossip. So we're going to give you a full story. You're going to need to hear this. This is a much bigger story and we're going to have that up in a couple of hours.
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Speaker 2: That key witness lie, that's the issue. They say. Prosecutors knew somebody was lying on the stand. You can't get any bigger than a no, no, and prosecution to that.
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Speaker 1: And he is expected to testify again at this third trial. This is a fascinating case, so please please please stay tuned for that episode, which is coming your way soon on this feed.
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Speaker 2: And stay with us here on our Morning Ron because coming up you, yes, you are going to applaud something that you're us centered just did. They did it for you, And as soon as you smile, I'm gonna tell you why you shouldn't even be applaud them anyway, we'll explain. Also, coming up here, Drake just dropped his ninth, tenth and eleventh album All in One Night.
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Speaker 1: So here welcome back everyone to your Friday edition of Morning Run and next up on the Run.
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Speaker 3: Hey, it's very.
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Speaker 1: Rare that we actually get to applaud us senators, but this story yes had us clapping. Senators made a very nice symbolic gesture. Yesterday they unanimously We never get to say that either. They unanimously agreed to have their own salaries withheld if there is ever.
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Speaker 3: Another government shut down. You like it, I love it?
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Speaker 2: Do you like it?
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Speaker 1: All? Right?
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Speaker 2: Yes, this takes effect after the mid terms. Fine, but their salaries are one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars a year. So they're saying. After we saw back to back longest shutdowns in history. One was forty three and the other was how many dollars left count the second one I did as well, but people were hurting, The country was hurting. TSA workers weren't getting paid and hurting. They say, hey, we're not going to take a.
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Speaker 1: Salary either, and that is to me, a yeah, obviously, if you actually can't keep the government funded and running, which would be like the bare minimum of what your job is, you shouldn't get paid because nobody else in any private sector job would be paid if they couldn't actually make sure the bare minimum was happening.
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Speaker 2: Roughly seventy five percent of senators are millionaires. At least seven of them are worth over fifty million dollars. This is nothing to them, so it is a symbolic gesture. It means nothing. That don't we say the measure of characters when you do something right when it's inconvenient for you. Stop stop stop, wow, stop you really wanted to give you credit for this? You know want to?
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Speaker 3: They got fined each day they would come.
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Speaker 2: To a solution something else. I'm trying roads even in trying to give them a little this gesture you're making. You know what, we're not. We're going to suffer too. You're not You're not at all roads, one hundred and seventy four thousand. Most of these guys, it's a drop in the bucket. They have people that they make that am at home that they make that So I get And you can applause this if you want to, but I'm just trying to give some context here. Literally seventy five percent of millionaires, and they have a handful almost I think the count is close to ten that are literally worth fifty million dollars plush. So, hey, guys, you're going to give up one hundred and seventy four thousand a year.
00:11:51
Speaker 1: Most of these men and women are there for truly service. No, it's it's oftentimes for the power, right, I mean, it's not the money. His money does not draw anyone to become a senator.
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Speaker 2: What's the thing we argue all the time that people go to the Senate because they're trying to get rich. No, they show up that way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they show up rich and now they can wield power along with their money.
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Speaker 3: And that is why. All right, sorry, it's in service. It's in service.
00:12:19
Speaker 1: I forgot for the final leg of our run, Well, this was a this is a big headline in our home yesterday. I heard nothing but Drake, Drake, Drake yesterday, Drake is back. If you hadn't heard when I say, we knew he was scheduled to release a new album overnight, I mean TJ and Sabine knew that he was scheduled to release a new album overnight.
00:12:42
Speaker 3: I did not. But apparently this is a really big deal.
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Speaker 1: Apparently because this is his first album since he suffered that resounding rap battle defeat at the hands of Kendrick Lamar and that was written by t J Holmes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so sure enough. Yes, he released his ninth studio album last night. He then released his tenth album, and then released his eleventh album, Boom Boom Boom, dropped three albums. This was unexpected. The titles Iceman, Hibep, t hibpt, that's it, and then made of Honor forty three new songs, robes, He's taken shots.
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Speaker 3: How many of them have heard?
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Speaker 1: Uh?
00:13:21
Speaker 2: Oh, at least five.
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Speaker 3: I came in. I came in. You said, I have to stop listening. I need to work, ki, I can't work.
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Speaker 2: I was behind on time because he's telling all of these stories. It is intimate, it sounds personal. The music, the production is off, the charts. This guy is amazing. Rose got to give the man his due. He is an incredible, incredible artist. He knows how to do this. But some of his lyrics, it sounds like he's going right back into some rap beasts.
00:13:48
Speaker 3: Well it Look, he didn't win a Grammy and he didn't headline the super Bowl, but he sold a lot, a lot during that rap battle.
00:13:57
Speaker 2: He's been working ropes. He's out there doing this thing. Give him credit. It was a humiliating loss at the Grammys in the super Bowl, I mean, can you get take a bigger l than that?
00:14:07
Speaker 1: And then he tried to sue his own record label. That was embarrassing. With Kendrick, Lamar is in the same under the same umbrella.
00:14:15
Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, but he goes through some much but taking shit. I don't want to do a beef again.
00:14:19
Speaker 1: I don't the big beef was you said you're okay with him doing a beef or with Lebron, with Lebront, as long as he leaves Kendrick.
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Speaker 2: Alone, don't don't get into another rap. I got him. Lebron can't out wrap him, so he's gonna win that. But just don't not another I don't we can't do it again.
00:14:34
Speaker 1: You should have heard TJ reacting to the Lebron song. I mean, you were just going crazy yesterday, like no oh damn, yeah, it was apparently that good.
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Speaker 3: You had to explain everything to me. I was like, what does that mean? What does that mean? Twenty three and meter?
00:14:50
Speaker 2: What is that?
00:14:51
Speaker 3: Yes, I just know the genealogy site.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so let's wrap this up because we got work to do.
00:14:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, we will leave you on this Friday with our quote of the day.
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Speaker 1: I think it is, but I think it'll make you chuckle good. Notice how the GPS never says made a mistake. It just says recalculating route. That's life. I knew you.
00:15:21
Speaker 3: I liked the message.
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Speaker 2: We get the idea mistake, mistake, mistake. Okay, fine, I'm being a little too literal, but I get the point it's trying to make.
00:15:30
Speaker 3: How what does it say it says?
00:15:32
Speaker 1: Notice how the GPS never says made a mistake. It just says recalculating route.
00:15:38
Speaker 3: That's life. Yesterday we were going to the airport. It was a little confusing.
00:15:43
Speaker 1: We missed a turn and it was recalculating the route, and I just thought instead of and I actually started to get upset.
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Speaker 3: You're like, babe, it's okay, Like we got time.
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Speaker 1: And I thought, this is such a fun euphemism for life, in the sense that, yeah, sometimes you make the wrong turn, but it's okay. You recalculate and maybe you just get on a better road, maybe you avoid something on the road you were on. Anyway, I saw this quote I thought of yesterday, and it just all came together in a full circle. I thank you.
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Speaker 3: I hope you all love that as well.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for running with us on this Friday and every day I made me robots and Holmes runs It