April 2, 2026
Morning Run: Trump Replacing Bondi?, Shutdown May End, Trump Iran Address, Murdered Florida Politician, Brooklyn Baby Killed, Ted Bundy Victim, Hershey’s Making Changes and Megan Thee Stallion
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday, April second. I'm Amy Robox and I TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes on the Run this morning.
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Speaker 3: Going to be making stops on Capitol Hill and Utah, Coral Springs, Florida, Brooklyn Broadway, Phoenix, Italy, and Hershey, Pennsylvania. But we do want to start this morning with reaction to President Trump's prime time address.
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Speaker 2: Not reaction from Robes.
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Speaker 3: Democrats, Republicans, or some other politicians, but reaction from the markets. And this kind of tells you a lot of what you need to know.
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Speaker 1: That's right, because it appears that investors did not like what they heard from the president last night. Because we now can see that oil prices have jumped more than seven percent, and that happened immediately after his speech. That's pretty remarkable.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he speaks, I mean, the most powerful man in the world, bully pulpit, all that stuff they say it he speaks, and he has sent the markets up and down for the past ever weeks just by saying a few words.
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Speaker 1: And it appears it's not what he said, but perhaps more importantly, what he didn't say.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he did not say one exactly when this thing is going to end, and two he didn't say how negotiations were going. So those things left out. Oil prices, as we just mentioned John markets around the world took a tumble, in particular in Asia as of this recording. US stock futures are all down at this point, and Robes of course, when people hear about oil prices going up, you know, gas prices are going to be the immediate concern. And yes, remind you went up again fourth the day. But four dollars and eight cents our national average in California now knocking on the door of average six dollars a gallon gasoline.
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Speaker 1: That is hard to get your head around. And the big question is what was it that President Trump said last night that isn't sitting so well. He did say that the war was nearing completion.
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Speaker 2: We heard that before, though, right, didn't we hear that after weekend? One?
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Speaker 3: I guess that's the thing robes all these different messages. So once again last night, yes, we didn't necessarily hear anything new about how the war is going. You heard words like obliterate, things like the world has never seen, you know, things like that.
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Speaker 2: We're used to hearing.
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Speaker 3: But the twenty minute speech, and he did go about defending why Operation Epic Fury was necessary in the first place.
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Speaker 1: That's right, and so while he was defending the motivations behind the war, he didn't really offer any new explanations or justifications for the war. He did offer a timeline that two to three week kind of ambiguous ended thing. He didn't explain how it was going to end, but he said Iran was building a vast arsenal of ballistic missiles that were a threat to America's homeland and that threat is gone.
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Speaker 3: That threat's gone. But he did not say something I think Robes a lot of people were hoping to hear, how are these negotiations going, because it's been over a week since he said they agreed to everything, and Iran keeps saying we not even negotiating. So he did not talk last night during this twenty minute speech when he had the entire country and the world's attention, Ropes did not say negotiations they're going, Well, they're moving forward. I don't have to worry about the deadline I put in place. He didn't say any of that. He used the word.
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Speaker 1: Discussions, discussions, and it was one quick moment that you could miss if you weren't listening carefully. And look, I think maybe one good thing is there doesn't appear to be an escalation in terms of ground troops. He made no mention of those thirty five hundred marines that were moved into the area in any way, shape or form, going in boots on the ground. But he also just didn't get too specific about this end date for the war. Shortly, very shortly, that's what we kept hearing.
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Speaker 3: All right, we will continue on the run now. And good, hey, some good news, right, this is great news. Finally that looks like there is a real opportunity to end what is now a record shutdown.
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Speaker 1: Wow, Republicans in Congress announced yesterday, Yes, they've reached a deal. What's the deal. It's not new, it's just that now the House Republicans have finally agreed to go along with the sentence version of the bill.
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Speaker 3: And this bill is the one that would essentially fund everything except Ice. So the issue now though robes Yes, even if there is a deal, which not guaranteed, all the Republicans in the House will be on board with this.
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Speaker 2: But if there is a deal. Everybody's on vacation. Everybody's gone until what is it, all this week and all next week, and so they're not due back until. So the shutdown. We have a solution that we can't actually implement.
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Speaker 3: That's perfect. We have the fix, and we can't do anything. So no word on if they're going to call them all back.
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Speaker 1: Did absence make the heart grow fonder? How do they all get to this point? On the phone, on a zoom call. I'm so confused? All right, next up on the run. We now have multiple outlets reporting President Trump is considering replacing Attorney General Pam Bondi. The New York Times, citing four administration sources, is saying not only is the President thinking about firing her, he actually already has another person in mind for the job.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is New York Times doing that reporting. But CNN has its own independent reporting, also saying they have several sources telling them the same thing. The two outlets both say no decision has been made by the president, but the President has been frustrated with Bondi's handling of the Epstein files and the department as a whole. The EPA director Lee Zelden is the name that's been floated out there as a possible replacement Grove. This is we go through them, what Cash Bettel, Christinome, Marco Rubio.
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Speaker 2: And yes, Pam Bondi. These are the high profile faces.
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Speaker 1: Pete HEGs, don't forget I should have led with that one. Oh and Sean Duffy. It's funny. There are so often times we don't really remember cabinet members names. Sometimes they are very short lived. But these these folks have been memorable. Let's just say that, all right. Next up on the Run, a Florida politician was found dead at her home yesterday and police say her her husband is in custody. Nancy Marier Bowen served as vice mayor of Coral Springs, Florida.
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Speaker 3: The authorities there say they went to her home for a welfare check. I think you were reading into this a little bit. Seemed like another friend or family member was concerned about something they had heard on the phone, so call police said need you go check on her? And sure enough they show up and they find her dead in what they say it seems to be a domestic incident. Our husband, Stephen Bowen, is in police custody. This morning, But do I have right ropes? They picked him up in another city.
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Speaker 1: He left, He left, and they used the word fled to a friend's home. And we haven't gotten too many details about how she was killed, just that she was shot dead and that was around ten am yesterday morning when they found her body. She's been in politics since twenty twenty, a beloved Floridian politician in that community. And her family is reeling because they just lost her brother, Josh in December. So just a few months ago, he died by suicide. He was a Parkland shooting survivor. They say he had been troubled and dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts ever since he survived that shooting, and so he finally, unfortunately took his own life in December. And now they've lost his sister to violence.
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Speaker 3: That's strange connection in twist there that we heard. But yeah, they're keeping an eye on that. No charges have been filed yet, but he's the only suspect.
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Speaker 1: It's being held in connection with her death. That's how they've put it.
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Speaker 2: All. Right, We're going to continue on this run. When do you give your heads up?
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Speaker 3: The starting with that story, we just share We have a tough string of pretty violent crime stories here that we want to share, but this one, sertainly one here in New York got a lot of attension and broke a lot of hearts. A seven month old baby and a stroller was shot and killed by a stray bullet in Brooklyn yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Yes, the heartbreaking scene played out in the middle of the afternoon on a beautiful, warm spring day here in New York. Police a a passenger on the back of a moped began firing at a group of people. And when I see a group of people, it was adults and children, and they were gathered on the sidewalk on a beautiful day. They believed the shooting was gang related and that the baby was not the intended target.
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Speaker 3: And so this moped sped off, crash into an oncoming car. Two men on it were thrown off, one of them injured taken to a hospital. The other man fled. As of this recording still on the loose, but this was Look, there's just some stuff you can't taken. There's video of this actually that well, of course they blur off the worst stuff, but you see the mom immediately react to what happened.
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Speaker 2: In that stroller and it is off.
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Speaker 1: It's gutting. It's absolutely gutting, all right. Next up on the Run, a judge has denied bond for quadruple amputee and professional cornhole player twenty seven year old Dayton Webber.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been charged with both first and second agree murder after police say he shot his front seat passenger twice in the head while he was driving. After the two got into a heated.
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Speaker 1: Argument, Weber's attorney told the court that Weber acted in self defense and to expect a lengthy trial to prove it. He said this in court. The truth here is that he would have been a murder victim if he had not acted immediately in defense of his life.
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Speaker 3: Okay, here's the thing about this case is there there are two eyewitnesses, and when we say eyewitnesses, they were in the car, they were in the back seat of the car. Now, ultimately Weber fled and took off, but not before he asked the two of them to help him get the body out of the car. They said oh no, and they got out ended up calling police. The body was found later in the middle of a front yard. Yeah, right, but Weber lost his arms and legs as a ten month old and rodes. It's kind of impressive what he has been able to do. He's been featured on national news stories ESPN as a corn Ole player and look, we've seen video of him online. He's posted of him firing a gun. So just hard to get your head around how this was possible, but there's video that shows how it is.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and he will be back in court on May sixth, and we will of course continue to follow that developing story. But next up on the run. More than fifty years after her murder, police yesterday were finally able to confirm who killed seventeen year old Laura and Amy notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. DNA evidence preserved from the nineteen seventy four murder was finally able to be matched with DNA from Bundy.
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Speaker 3: Laura and Amy when missing Halloween night after she left a party to go to a convenience store. Her naked, badly beaten, and bound body was found nearly a month later by two college students who are hiking in the American FOURK Canyon in Utah.
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Speaker 1: Now shortly before he was executed, Bundy admitted to killing Amy, but refused to provide any details to police to corroborate his confession. So the case remained unsolved. But because of new technology and this DNA match, police can now officially close Amy's case. And they actually say now that they have this DNA that they didn't have before in this database, they believe they'll be able to solve other open cases against Bundy. He is known to have killed thirty women, but he claims to have killed upwards of one hundred, so there might be a lot of unsolved cases that might finally get enclosure because of this.
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Speaker 3: I want to turn to a cold case that is getting closure, but we have a lot of questions about it still. A missing thirteen year old girl has been found alive. But the thing is this thirteen year old girl went missing thirty two years ago.
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Speaker 1: Yes, her name is Christina Marie Plant and she was last seen May sixteenth, nineteen ninety four, walking to a horse stable where she had a horse. There. It was in a mountainous area northeast of Phoenix. There were extensive searches, police volunteers, missing person posters all up in the area, but the case eventually went cold.
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Speaker 3: So we got a statement from the Sheriff's office there, saying, utilizing advances in technology, modern investigative techechniques, and detailed case review detect those developed new leads that ultimately led to a breakthrough.
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Speaker 2: What was the breakthrough? What happened? Where's she been? Who she been with?
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Speaker 3: We don't know, police say, out of respect for plants privacy. No additional details have been released as to what happened.
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Speaker 1: And I think most people are hoping that those details are forthcoming at some point, because yeah, thirteen years old vanished without a trace, and now she suddenly pops up.
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Speaker 3: I have so many questions. But if those not a crime, right, they didn't say they're going out. They didn't say, so that being the case, whatever is going on the privacy, I want to know what's going on, but I have to respect whatever that is.
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Speaker 2: But I absolutely want to know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think everyone does all right. Next up on the Run, Four astronauts on the Artemis two mission successfully blasted off into space yesterday at six thirty five pm Eastern time, and we were watching. You know what, It's funny. A lot of times I get nervous or you start to I felt so confident watching that craft I don't know what it's called because it's on a Space Shuttle, right.
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Speaker 2: Capsule, the rocket was the capsule.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yes, the Orion spacecraft shooting up in the air. It was just magical.
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Speaker 3: It was and you know what we have to world to have to stop. You know, this is my These are my favorite commentators on television, astronauts. The NASA folks they have doing this commentary is an absolute master class in how you do analysis of a big event. They're not TV people trying to put on and whatnot, but they're walking you through everything that's happening. NASA dot Gov, NASA TV, y'all are the best I have ever seen doing so. The crew we're talking about it the first humans to fly on this spacecraft, gonna take them farther and faster than any astronaut has gone before. The first time in more than fifty years that we have sent human beings towards the Moon.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. Artemis two is just the beginning of several planned missions that will follow and will ultimately they say, leading us to have a permanent base on the Moon. And this mission is being described basically as a test flight. It's a ten day mission they're going to be testing how the spacecraft operates, how it is able to basically park or you know, just set up. Yeah, they're literally taking it for a test drive. So by Monday, we're expecting some photographs from the far side of the Moone surface that no human has ever seen before. So that's pretty cool something to look forward to.
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Speaker 2: That's cool.
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll stay with us here on this Thursday morning run. When we come back, Megan the Stallion is headed back to the stage, Tiger Woods is headed overseas. Hershey's wants your help. H No, not Hershey's. I got we got two big chalks and Hershey's, so we got two big chocolate stories. One from Hershey's, one from Nesley. Both are hilarious. One of them wants your help, the other one wants your forgiveness.
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Speaker 1: Stay here, welcome back everyone to this Friday Eve morning run. And next up, Meghan d Stallion some good news here. She will be back on stage tonight after that health kit scare sent her to the hospital in the middle of her Tuesday night Broadway performance.
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Speaker 3: It took me a second to catch up. You said, clearly, I'm not sleeping enough, you said, Thursday no Friday night. I couldn't piece that together. What is she talking about?
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Speaker 2: What day is?
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow? Is Friday?
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Speaker 2: I had no? I am so confused. I am not well. Okay, got it? Now? Today is Thursday? This WHI should be Friday?
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Speaker 1: Eve?
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Speaker 2: Yes? Which is got it? Better to say? Okay? Yes?
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Speaker 3: Meghan's stallion, Yes, Grammy Winner. In our second week of an eight week residency as Zidler in Mulin Rouge the Musical, I told her fans she was diagnosed with extreme exhaustion, dehydration, vaso constriction, and low metabolic levels.
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Speaker 2: Tell me again, vaso constriction.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, basically, you're just so dehydrated that your veins are collapsing, and when your veins start to collapse, you feel like you can't breathe, your heart is racing. It's a terrible feeling. And yes, you could faint. So she was released from the hospital. She was able to skip both performances on Wednesday to rest up, promise she'd be back tonight giving one hundred percent. Her social media post was fairly heartbreaking, just explaining how she's been pushing herself past her limits, how scared she was that she thought she was going to faint. She had said through her rep that she felt like she literally could not breathe. So she just needed one day, she says, to rest, reset and take care of herself. By the way, though, this is impressive. She started last week since Meghandi Stallion has been on Mulin rouge. Ticket sales last week we're up thirty nine percent from the week before, So she's a huge draw and she's hopefully back to doing what she does so well tonight.
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Speaker 2: The ticket sales are going to be up higher next week.
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Speaker 3: Now you've been saying you want I love this show, Yes, but I am interested now, not because of what has happened. I just didn't realize the role she was playing. I didn't realize I've seen her Broadway that I just didn't pay enough attention. I'm paying attention now and she is making it a draw for me.
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Speaker 1: And she's the first female to take on this role of narrator, so the nightclub owner. It's a really integral part of the musical. So yes, let's I'll book the tickets as soon as we get off.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you don't have to go that fast.
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Speaker 3: I continue year on the run on this Friday Eve, Tiger Woods he's heading overseas for rehab. A judge yesterday granted his request to leave the country to seek treatment after his DUI arrest last week. I thought this was something asked to good permission, I guess to do things, But the judge signed off on this after what his attorney explained, which sounds pretty serious, right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it makes sense. His attorney said that there was an urgent need for a level of care that cannot safely or effectively be done within the United States, as his privacy has been repeatedly compromised. Ongoing medical scrutiny and public exposure create significant barriers to his care and would result in setbacks and an inability to fully engage in treatment. That does make sense if you feel like you know this, always overlooking your shoulder, thinking someone is taking a video of you or trying to get some information to sell to a tabloid. He figures overseas people won't care as much. I don't know. He's an international star, so I'm not sure, but there is probably a decreased level of interest.
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Speaker 3: And there's probably some really private, secluded something over there he can find. But man, I hope he's hope he gets okay, we're really looking forward to the possibility of him playing in the Masters this month, and that seems like, oh, give the damn. Yeah, just who cares. That's not the most relevant thing in his man's life.
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Speaker 1: Right, You don't have anything if you don't have your health period. All right. Next up on the Ron, Hershey's is changing its recipe for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and they're changing it now back to the original recipe. This takes me back to our morning run a couple weeks ago.
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Speaker 3: I cannot believe they actually are changing this because of the critic.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of smart though, because now they're getting publicity for it. Everyone's going to go want to buy this back to the original recipe, and they're going to have a boost in sales.
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Speaker 3: So the criticism came because it was that they were cutting corners and had abandoned the original recipe that depended on real chocolate and peanut butter. Now, big deal, somebody's criticizing Who cares somebody's criticizing Reese's Peanut butter cups.
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Speaker 2: When when the guy's last name is Reese. Yeah, it's kind of a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it was his grandfather's recipe and he went public and it was a scathing criticism. Okay, it was back in February. That's a pretty quick turnaround though, within a few weeks in this business, Yes, Hershey said, we are committed to making products consumers love, and that means continually reviewing our recipes to meet evolving tastes and preferences. It's funny because they said that's the reason why they amended the recipe, when the truth is, the price of is it cocal powder or cocoa, however you want to say, it has increased significantly, So this was about money. They just didn't want to admit it.
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Speaker 3: Did this came to mind? Did Crackle Barrel? Did they change as fast as hershees?
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Speaker 1: Did bit faster? I feel like it was even quicker. Yes, all right, we'll stay in the chocolate world here and next up on the run, Nestley is not letting it go. The company's viral announcement. You remember this that four hundred thousand kit Cat bars were stolen from its production site in Italy. Well, they now want all of our help to track down the candy. We told you about this earlier in this week. These bar cool codes that are on the labels.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody's gonna be looking out for bar codes when they buy their KitKat. Twelve tons of candy. It was loaded onto a truck at the company's production site in Italy they were taking. Somebody drove off with it. Nobody knows where the truck is. Apparently they don't have lowjacket, a GPS and nothing on their trucks, so don't know where it is. So NESTLEI followed up yesterday and I didn't think about this Robes. They had to tell people this is not an April Fool's joke. Oh wow, I did it kind of made.
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Speaker 1: Because it was funny, and I actually when we reported on it, I think it was the day before April Fools, I thought. But maybe people just heard about it that day and thought this is a joke. No way, somebody stole twelve tons of kit Cats. But they say, yes, this is not a stunt or an April Fools joke, and we really want to know where they've gone. So we've created a stolen KitKat tracker. It's funny that lets you check if your KitKat is from the missing batch. Actually smart. Maybe people would even go out to buy Kitcats to see if they got a stolen kitcat because you can type in the batch code. Is it an app? It's some website used on the website.
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Speaker 2: I did it this morning. You click on the link, it takes you to All you have to do is type in your Barcoe.
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Speaker 1: And it'll pop up with what do you get if you have a stolen cat?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely nothing? It gets you to the website. This is good, bros.
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Speaker 3: I hadn't thought about a Reese's cup or a kit Cat since I was twelve. It's on my mind now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're both really good.
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Speaker 3: I don't like peanut butter. I really don't like Reese's peanut butter. He knew that though. I love that, You know, I don't like chocolate. I love What am I talking about?
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Speaker 1: Now?
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Speaker 3: If somebody steals a bunch of hairbol gummy bears, then I'm on the case.
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Speaker 1: Good to note. Oh right, I've got the quote of the day today. Here I am lollygagging. I am already Nope, I already have it. I just I took a picture of it already.
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Speaker 2: See what we'd see? What I'm dealing with? Where is it? Here?
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Speaker 1: We go?
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 1: You can't always have a good day, but you can always face a bad day with a good attitude.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's fair. It sounds great. If I'm not in the middle of a bad day.
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Speaker 1: It's tough. No. I think it's just that moment when you're feeling down. I think we've all been there, and it's just that recognition, Wait a minute, this is on me. Yes, this sucks or this didn't go my way. But right now, in this moment, I can decide I don't have to be happy, but I can start reversing this negative attitude. And I have had to do that plenty of times. Sometimes it takes a while to recognize I am really being a pancakes right now, and it's not changing anything. It's just making everyone around me miserable. Getting myself. Yeah, I've been a little ploddy. You can't always have a good day, but you can always face a bad day with a good attitude.
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Speaker 3: It's a bad day, things don't go your way.
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Speaker 1: No, it's just whatever you wanted to happen, or what your expectations of what should happen somehow don't meet what actually does happen.
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Speaker 2: Bad day so far?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yes, am I you asking me if I've had I'm just having a slow day. Just a slow day, all right. And with that, everyone, we hope you can make your attitude as sunny as possible despite the circumstances. Thank you for running with us. I'm Amy Robot Holmes.
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Speaker 2: Run with you, l Ser
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday, April second. I'm Amy Robox and I TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes on the Run this morning.
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Speaker 3: Going to be making stops on Capitol Hill and Utah, Coral Springs, Florida, Brooklyn Broadway, Phoenix, Italy, and Hershey, Pennsylvania. But we do want to start this morning with reaction to President Trump's prime time address.
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Speaker 2: Not reaction from Robes.
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Speaker 3: Democrats, Republicans, or some other politicians, but reaction from the markets. And this kind of tells you a lot of what you need to know.
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Speaker 1: That's right, because it appears that investors did not like what they heard from the president last night. Because we now can see that oil prices have jumped more than seven percent, and that happened immediately after his speech. That's pretty remarkable.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he speaks, I mean, the most powerful man in the world, bully pulpit, all that stuff they say it he speaks, and he has sent the markets up and down for the past ever weeks just by saying a few words.
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Speaker 1: And it appears it's not what he said, but perhaps more importantly, what he didn't say.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he did not say one exactly when this thing is going to end, and two he didn't say how negotiations were going. So those things left out. Oil prices, as we just mentioned John markets around the world took a tumble, in particular in Asia as of this recording. US stock futures are all down at this point, and Robes of course, when people hear about oil prices going up, you know, gas prices are going to be the immediate concern. And yes, remind you went up again fourth the day. But four dollars and eight cents our national average in California now knocking on the door of average six dollars a gallon gasoline.
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Speaker 1: That is hard to get your head around. And the big question is what was it that President Trump said last night that isn't sitting so well. He did say that the war was nearing completion.
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Speaker 2: We heard that before, though, right, didn't we hear that after weekend? One?
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Speaker 3: I guess that's the thing robes all these different messages. So once again last night, yes, we didn't necessarily hear anything new about how the war is going. You heard words like obliterate, things like the world has never seen, you know, things like that.
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Speaker 2: We're used to hearing.
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Speaker 3: But the twenty minute speech, and he did go about defending why Operation Epic Fury was necessary in the first place.
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Speaker 1: That's right, and so while he was defending the motivations behind the war, he didn't really offer any new explanations or justifications for the war. He did offer a timeline that two to three week kind of ambiguous ended thing. He didn't explain how it was going to end, but he said Iran was building a vast arsenal of ballistic missiles that were a threat to America's homeland and that threat is gone.
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Speaker 3: That threat's gone. But he did not say something I think Robes a lot of people were hoping to hear, how are these negotiations going, because it's been over a week since he said they agreed to everything, and Iran keeps saying we not even negotiating. So he did not talk last night during this twenty minute speech when he had the entire country and the world's attention, Ropes did not say negotiations they're going, Well, they're moving forward. I don't have to worry about the deadline I put in place. He didn't say any of that. He used the word.
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Speaker 1: Discussions, discussions, and it was one quick moment that you could miss if you weren't listening carefully. And look, I think maybe one good thing is there doesn't appear to be an escalation in terms of ground troops. He made no mention of those thirty five hundred marines that were moved into the area in any way, shape or form, going in boots on the ground. But he also just didn't get too specific about this end date for the war. Shortly, very shortly, that's what we kept hearing.
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Speaker 3: All right, we will continue on the run now. And good, hey, some good news, right, this is great news. Finally that looks like there is a real opportunity to end what is now a record shutdown.
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Speaker 1: Wow, Republicans in Congress announced yesterday, Yes, they've reached a deal. What's the deal. It's not new, it's just that now the House Republicans have finally agreed to go along with the sentence version of the bill.
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Speaker 3: And this bill is the one that would essentially fund everything except Ice. So the issue now though robes Yes, even if there is a deal, which not guaranteed, all the Republicans in the House will be on board with this.
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Speaker 2: But if there is a deal. Everybody's on vacation. Everybody's gone until what is it, all this week and all next week, and so they're not due back until. So the shutdown. We have a solution that we can't actually implement.
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Speaker 3: That's perfect. We have the fix, and we can't do anything. So no word on if they're going to call them all back.
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Speaker 1: Did absence make the heart grow fonder? How do they all get to this point? On the phone, on a zoom call. I'm so confused? All right, next up on the run. We now have multiple outlets reporting President Trump is considering replacing Attorney General Pam Bondi. The New York Times, citing four administration sources, is saying not only is the President thinking about firing her, he actually already has another person in mind for the job.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is New York Times doing that reporting. But CNN has its own independent reporting, also saying they have several sources telling them the same thing. The two outlets both say no decision has been made by the president, but the President has been frustrated with Bondi's handling of the Epstein files and the department as a whole. The EPA director Lee Zelden is the name that's been floated out there as a possible replacement Grove. This is we go through them, what Cash Bettel, Christinome, Marco Rubio.
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Speaker 2: And yes, Pam Bondi. These are the high profile faces.
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Speaker 1: Pete HEGs, don't forget I should have led with that one. Oh and Sean Duffy. It's funny. There are so often times we don't really remember cabinet members names. Sometimes they are very short lived. But these these folks have been memorable. Let's just say that, all right. Next up on the Run, a Florida politician was found dead at her home yesterday and police say her her husband is in custody. Nancy Marier Bowen served as vice mayor of Coral Springs, Florida.
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Speaker 3: The authorities there say they went to her home for a welfare check. I think you were reading into this a little bit. Seemed like another friend or family member was concerned about something they had heard on the phone, so call police said need you go check on her? And sure enough they show up and they find her dead in what they say it seems to be a domestic incident. Our husband, Stephen Bowen, is in police custody. This morning, But do I have right ropes? They picked him up in another city.
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Speaker 1: He left, He left, and they used the word fled to a friend's home. And we haven't gotten too many details about how she was killed, just that she was shot dead and that was around ten am yesterday morning when they found her body. She's been in politics since twenty twenty, a beloved Floridian politician in that community. And her family is reeling because they just lost her brother, Josh in December. So just a few months ago, he died by suicide. He was a Parkland shooting survivor. They say he had been troubled and dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts ever since he survived that shooting, and so he finally, unfortunately took his own life in December. And now they've lost his sister to violence.
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Speaker 3: That's strange connection in twist there that we heard. But yeah, they're keeping an eye on that. No charges have been filed yet, but he's the only suspect.
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Speaker 1: It's being held in connection with her death. That's how they've put it.
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Speaker 2: All. Right, We're going to continue on this run. When do you give your heads up?
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Speaker 3: The starting with that story, we just share We have a tough string of pretty violent crime stories here that we want to share, but this one, sertainly one here in New York got a lot of attension and broke a lot of hearts. A seven month old baby and a stroller was shot and killed by a stray bullet in Brooklyn yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Yes, the heartbreaking scene played out in the middle of the afternoon on a beautiful, warm spring day here in New York. Police a a passenger on the back of a moped began firing at a group of people. And when I see a group of people, it was adults and children, and they were gathered on the sidewalk on a beautiful day. They believed the shooting was gang related and that the baby was not the intended target.
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Speaker 3: And so this moped sped off, crash into an oncoming car. Two men on it were thrown off, one of them injured taken to a hospital. The other man fled. As of this recording still on the loose, but this was Look, there's just some stuff you can't taken. There's video of this actually that well, of course they blur off the worst stuff, but you see the mom immediately react to what happened.
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Speaker 2: In that stroller and it is off.
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Speaker 1: It's gutting. It's absolutely gutting, all right. Next up on the Run, a judge has denied bond for quadruple amputee and professional cornhole player twenty seven year old Dayton Webber.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been charged with both first and second agree murder after police say he shot his front seat passenger twice in the head while he was driving. After the two got into a heated.
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Speaker 1: Argument, Weber's attorney told the court that Weber acted in self defense and to expect a lengthy trial to prove it. He said this in court. The truth here is that he would have been a murder victim if he had not acted immediately in defense of his life.
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Speaker 3: Okay, here's the thing about this case is there there are two eyewitnesses, and when we say eyewitnesses, they were in the car, they were in the back seat of the car. Now, ultimately Weber fled and took off, but not before he asked the two of them to help him get the body out of the car. They said oh no, and they got out ended up calling police. The body was found later in the middle of a front yard. Yeah, right, but Weber lost his arms and legs as a ten month old and rodes. It's kind of impressive what he has been able to do. He's been featured on national news stories ESPN as a corn Ole player and look, we've seen video of him online. He's posted of him firing a gun. So just hard to get your head around how this was possible, but there's video that shows how it is.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and he will be back in court on May sixth, and we will of course continue to follow that developing story. But next up on the run. More than fifty years after her murder, police yesterday were finally able to confirm who killed seventeen year old Laura and Amy notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. DNA evidence preserved from the nineteen seventy four murder was finally able to be matched with DNA from Bundy.
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Speaker 3: Laura and Amy when missing Halloween night after she left a party to go to a convenience store. Her naked, badly beaten, and bound body was found nearly a month later by two college students who are hiking in the American FOURK Canyon in Utah.
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Speaker 1: Now shortly before he was executed, Bundy admitted to killing Amy, but refused to provide any details to police to corroborate his confession. So the case remained unsolved. But because of new technology and this DNA match, police can now officially close Amy's case. And they actually say now that they have this DNA that they didn't have before in this database, they believe they'll be able to solve other open cases against Bundy. He is known to have killed thirty women, but he claims to have killed upwards of one hundred, so there might be a lot of unsolved cases that might finally get enclosure because of this.
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Speaker 3: I want to turn to a cold case that is getting closure, but we have a lot of questions about it still. A missing thirteen year old girl has been found alive. But the thing is this thirteen year old girl went missing thirty two years ago.
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Speaker 1: Yes, her name is Christina Marie Plant and she was last seen May sixteenth, nineteen ninety four, walking to a horse stable where she had a horse. There. It was in a mountainous area northeast of Phoenix. There were extensive searches, police volunteers, missing person posters all up in the area, but the case eventually went cold.
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Speaker 3: So we got a statement from the Sheriff's office there, saying, utilizing advances in technology, modern investigative techechniques, and detailed case review detect those developed new leads that ultimately led to a breakthrough.
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Speaker 2: What was the breakthrough? What happened? Where's she been? Who she been with?
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Speaker 3: We don't know, police say, out of respect for plants privacy. No additional details have been released as to what happened.
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Speaker 1: And I think most people are hoping that those details are forthcoming at some point, because yeah, thirteen years old vanished without a trace, and now she suddenly pops up.
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Speaker 3: I have so many questions. But if those not a crime, right, they didn't say they're going out. They didn't say, so that being the case, whatever is going on the privacy, I want to know what's going on, but I have to respect whatever that is.
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Speaker 2: But I absolutely want to know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think everyone does all right. Next up on the Run, Four astronauts on the Artemis two mission successfully blasted off into space yesterday at six thirty five pm Eastern time, and we were watching. You know what, It's funny. A lot of times I get nervous or you start to I felt so confident watching that craft I don't know what it's called because it's on a Space Shuttle, right.
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Speaker 2: Capsule, the rocket was the capsule.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yes, the Orion spacecraft shooting up in the air. It was just magical.
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Speaker 3: It was and you know what we have to world to have to stop. You know, this is my These are my favorite commentators on television, astronauts. The NASA folks they have doing this commentary is an absolute master class in how you do analysis of a big event. They're not TV people trying to put on and whatnot, but they're walking you through everything that's happening. NASA dot Gov, NASA TV, y'all are the best I have ever seen doing so. The crew we're talking about it the first humans to fly on this spacecraft, gonna take them farther and faster than any astronaut has gone before. The first time in more than fifty years that we have sent human beings towards the Moon.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. Artemis two is just the beginning of several planned missions that will follow and will ultimately they say, leading us to have a permanent base on the Moon. And this mission is being described basically as a test flight. It's a ten day mission they're going to be testing how the spacecraft operates, how it is able to basically park or you know, just set up. Yeah, they're literally taking it for a test drive. So by Monday, we're expecting some photographs from the far side of the Moone surface that no human has ever seen before. So that's pretty cool something to look forward to.
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Speaker 2: That's cool.
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll stay with us here on this Thursday morning run. When we come back, Megan the Stallion is headed back to the stage, Tiger Woods is headed overseas. Hershey's wants your help. H No, not Hershey's. I got we got two big chalks and Hershey's, so we got two big chocolate stories. One from Hershey's, one from Nesley. Both are hilarious. One of them wants your help, the other one wants your forgiveness.
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Speaker 1: Stay here, welcome back everyone to this Friday Eve morning run. And next up, Meghan d Stallion some good news here. She will be back on stage tonight after that health kit scare sent her to the hospital in the middle of her Tuesday night Broadway performance.
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Speaker 3: It took me a second to catch up. You said, clearly, I'm not sleeping enough, you said, Thursday no Friday night. I couldn't piece that together. What is she talking about?
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Speaker 2: What day is?
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow? Is Friday?
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Speaker 2: I had no? I am so confused. I am not well. Okay, got it? Now? Today is Thursday? This WHI should be Friday?
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Speaker 1: Eve?
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Speaker 2: Yes? Which is got it? Better to say? Okay? Yes?
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Speaker 3: Meghan's stallion, Yes, Grammy Winner. In our second week of an eight week residency as Zidler in Mulin Rouge the Musical, I told her fans she was diagnosed with extreme exhaustion, dehydration, vaso constriction, and low metabolic levels.
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Speaker 2: Tell me again, vaso constriction.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, basically, you're just so dehydrated that your veins are collapsing, and when your veins start to collapse, you feel like you can't breathe, your heart is racing. It's a terrible feeling. And yes, you could faint. So she was released from the hospital. She was able to skip both performances on Wednesday to rest up, promise she'd be back tonight giving one hundred percent. Her social media post was fairly heartbreaking, just explaining how she's been pushing herself past her limits, how scared she was that she thought she was going to faint. She had said through her rep that she felt like she literally could not breathe. So she just needed one day, she says, to rest, reset and take care of herself. By the way, though, this is impressive. She started last week since Meghandi Stallion has been on Mulin rouge. Ticket sales last week we're up thirty nine percent from the week before, So she's a huge draw and she's hopefully back to doing what she does so well tonight.
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Speaker 2: The ticket sales are going to be up higher next week.
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Speaker 3: Now you've been saying you want I love this show, Yes, but I am interested now, not because of what has happened. I just didn't realize the role she was playing. I didn't realize I've seen her Broadway that I just didn't pay enough attention. I'm paying attention now and she is making it a draw for me.
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Speaker 1: And she's the first female to take on this role of narrator, so the nightclub owner. It's a really integral part of the musical. So yes, let's I'll book the tickets as soon as we get off.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you don't have to go that fast.
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Speaker 3: I continue year on the run on this Friday Eve, Tiger Woods he's heading overseas for rehab. A judge yesterday granted his request to leave the country to seek treatment after his DUI arrest last week. I thought this was something asked to good permission, I guess to do things, But the judge signed off on this after what his attorney explained, which sounds pretty serious, right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it makes sense. His attorney said that there was an urgent need for a level of care that cannot safely or effectively be done within the United States, as his privacy has been repeatedly compromised. Ongoing medical scrutiny and public exposure create significant barriers to his care and would result in setbacks and an inability to fully engage in treatment. That does make sense if you feel like you know this, always overlooking your shoulder, thinking someone is taking a video of you or trying to get some information to sell to a tabloid. He figures overseas people won't care as much. I don't know. He's an international star, so I'm not sure, but there is probably a decreased level of interest.
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Speaker 3: And there's probably some really private, secluded something over there he can find. But man, I hope he's hope he gets okay, we're really looking forward to the possibility of him playing in the Masters this month, and that seems like, oh, give the damn. Yeah, just who cares. That's not the most relevant thing in his man's life.
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Speaker 1: Right, You don't have anything if you don't have your health period. All right. Next up on the Ron, Hershey's is changing its recipe for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and they're changing it now back to the original recipe. This takes me back to our morning run a couple weeks ago.
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Speaker 3: I cannot believe they actually are changing this because of the critic.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of smart though, because now they're getting publicity for it. Everyone's going to go want to buy this back to the original recipe, and they're going to have a boost in sales.
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Speaker 3: So the criticism came because it was that they were cutting corners and had abandoned the original recipe that depended on real chocolate and peanut butter. Now, big deal, somebody's criticizing Who cares somebody's criticizing Reese's Peanut butter cups.
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Speaker 2: When when the guy's last name is Reese. Yeah, it's kind of a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it was his grandfather's recipe and he went public and it was a scathing criticism. Okay, it was back in February. That's a pretty quick turnaround though, within a few weeks in this business, Yes, Hershey said, we are committed to making products consumers love, and that means continually reviewing our recipes to meet evolving tastes and preferences. It's funny because they said that's the reason why they amended the recipe, when the truth is, the price of is it cocal powder or cocoa, however you want to say, it has increased significantly, So this was about money. They just didn't want to admit it.
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Speaker 3: Did this came to mind? Did Crackle Barrel? Did they change as fast as hershees?
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Speaker 1: Did bit faster? I feel like it was even quicker. Yes, all right, we'll stay in the chocolate world here and next up on the run, Nestley is not letting it go. The company's viral announcement. You remember this that four hundred thousand kit Cat bars were stolen from its production site in Italy. Well, they now want all of our help to track down the candy. We told you about this earlier in this week. These bar cool codes that are on the labels.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody's gonna be looking out for bar codes when they buy their KitKat. Twelve tons of candy. It was loaded onto a truck at the company's production site in Italy they were taking. Somebody drove off with it. Nobody knows where the truck is. Apparently they don't have lowjacket, a GPS and nothing on their trucks, so don't know where it is. So NESTLEI followed up yesterday and I didn't think about this Robes. They had to tell people this is not an April Fool's joke. Oh wow, I did it kind of made.
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Speaker 1: Because it was funny, and I actually when we reported on it, I think it was the day before April Fools, I thought. But maybe people just heard about it that day and thought this is a joke. No way, somebody stole twelve tons of kit Cats. But they say, yes, this is not a stunt or an April Fools joke, and we really want to know where they've gone. So we've created a stolen KitKat tracker. It's funny that lets you check if your KitKat is from the missing batch. Actually smart. Maybe people would even go out to buy Kitcats to see if they got a stolen kitcat because you can type in the batch code. Is it an app? It's some website used on the website.
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Speaker 2: I did it this morning. You click on the link, it takes you to All you have to do is type in your Barcoe.
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Speaker 1: And it'll pop up with what do you get if you have a stolen cat?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely nothing? It gets you to the website. This is good, bros.
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Speaker 3: I hadn't thought about a Reese's cup or a kit Cat since I was twelve. It's on my mind now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're both really good.
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Speaker 3: I don't like peanut butter. I really don't like Reese's peanut butter. He knew that though. I love that, You know, I don't like chocolate. I love What am I talking about?
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Speaker 1: Now?
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Speaker 3: If somebody steals a bunch of hairbol gummy bears, then I'm on the case.
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Speaker 1: Good to note. Oh right, I've got the quote of the day today. Here I am lollygagging. I am already Nope, I already have it. I just I took a picture of it already.
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Speaker 2: See what we'd see? What I'm dealing with? Where is it? Here?
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Speaker 1: We go?
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 1: You can't always have a good day, but you can always face a bad day with a good attitude.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's fair. It sounds great. If I'm not in the middle of a bad day.
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Speaker 1: It's tough. No. I think it's just that moment when you're feeling down. I think we've all been there, and it's just that recognition, Wait a minute, this is on me. Yes, this sucks or this didn't go my way. But right now, in this moment, I can decide I don't have to be happy, but I can start reversing this negative attitude. And I have had to do that plenty of times. Sometimes it takes a while to recognize I am really being a pancakes right now, and it's not changing anything. It's just making everyone around me miserable. Getting myself. Yeah, I've been a little ploddy. You can't always have a good day, but you can always face a bad day with a good attitude.
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Speaker 3: It's a bad day, things don't go your way.
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Speaker 1: No, it's just whatever you wanted to happen, or what your expectations of what should happen somehow don't meet what actually does happen.
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Speaker 2: Bad day so far?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yes, am I you asking me if I've had I'm just having a slow day. Just a slow day, all right. And with that, everyone, we hope you can make your attitude as sunny as possible despite the circumstances. Thank you for running with us. I'm Amy Robot Holmes.
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Speaker 2: Run with you, l Ser