April 30, 2026
Morning Run: WHCD Suspect Selfie, James Comey Surrender, New “Horrific” D4vd Details, Iran War Costs, 2 Scheduled Executions, Voting Rights Act and Country Music Star Death
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: And iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 3: Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Thursday, or as we like to say, for Friday Eve, April thirtieth, the last day of April.
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Speaker 1: We she means she, and you're the only one that uses Friday Eve. I can akilate you.
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Speaker 2: You're the only one who doesn't use it.
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Speaker 1: Wow, this is what we're going to go with.
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Speaker 4: This is how most of our fights go, folks, exactly like that. Welcome every Friday t day homes here. We told you all yesterday we were leaving New York. The King went to our neighborhood in New York. Yes, on his four day US Visit was down at Battery Park, our neighborhood, at the World Trade yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Yes, they were visiting the nine to eleven Memorial and honoring those This is about to be the twenty fifth anniversary of the terror attacks. So yes, the King and Queen were in Lower Manhattan and we were already on our.
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Speaker 4: Way south, Yes, way way way south south, even souther than the South. Yes, we are in our Caribbean Bureau, if you will, so we will be spending the next few days. You might hear a breathe, some birds surfing in back, some water rushing possibly, But yes, we are in beautiful settings right now for this one. That's why Rose has a huge smile on her face. Yes, as we speak. But we will be making stops, not just here in the Caribbean where we are. We're on the run today. We have to make stops in the Capitol Hill. We're making stops in courtrooms in Virginia, LA and New Orleans, as well as making stops in Florida and Texas. But we have to start right now, world. We'll start in DC. We it's Thursday. The White House Correspondents Center was on Saturday, and we still keep getting new information. We'll get a whole lot more, but some more more disturbing details starting to come out.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 3: The alleged gunman at the White House Correspondent Center is expected back in court today. This will be his detention hearing. Cole Thomas Allen has been charged with attempting to assassinate the president. And we did get some new details yesterday in a court.
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Speaker 4: Filence, and in particular a picture, a disturbing picture that you see an image of him Royalt. He took a selfie apparently before he went downstairs to rush the White House correspondence and try to apparently take out members of the president's cabinet. He took a selfie ahead of time.
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Speaker 3: And smiling, and even in his monk shot, he has a grin on his face. It's bizarre. I don't know what else to say about it. It's not something you would expect it would be assassined to do moments before carrying out his planned mission. I know, let me take a quick selfie with my AMMO and my guns all on me, just to prove the point about what I'm about to do. It's almost as if he wanted to be remembered. He wanted to be known. That was an important part of this to him.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a selfie and a uh. He was wearing all blackie on the red tie, but you could see him. He had a holster on. He looked like he was being outfitted for battle of some kind. But he took this picture in the mirror before he went downstairs. The prosecutors are going to argue that he needs to stay in jail. That's what the hearing is about today. Because as long as the president, the cabinet continue to make public appearances. They say this guy is a threatn I guess that would make sense.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's just no way this dude is getting out of jail today or anytime soon. All right. Next up on the run, speaking of jail, for FBI director James Comy had to surrender to authorities yesterday. He's facing charges that he too threatened the life of the President of the United States. But he didn't do it with guns or any planned manifesto. No, he did it with apparently, according to prosecutors, seashells.
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Speaker 4: Pretty dangerous seashells because they spelled something out in particular. Now, Comy was in federal court in Virginia. He did not officially enter a plea, but he has been out there publicly denying any wrongdoing. Remember this, Robes is over a picture that the former top cop in the US took while he was out on a beach stroll and wanted to post stan stick.
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Speaker 2: Let's not do this while we're here in the Caribbean.
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Speaker 3: Yes, but he put out a picture that had the numbers eighty six forty seven spelled out with seashells, and uh, Trump didn't like that so much.
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Speaker 4: He doesn't like anything. This guy does so much. But they are saying that that eighty six term is a suggestion that people say eighty six something means you want to get rid of something, you want to dump something, you want to throw out something. But the President and the Justice Department are saying that also means you want to kill somebody.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Trump put this out on truth Social eighty six is a mob term for kill him. They say, eighty six him, eighty six forty seven means kill President Trump. James Comy, who was a dirty cop, one of the worst, knows this full well, eight miles out, six feet down. Didn't he also lie to the FBI about this, I think so.
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Speaker 1: And that was it. That was the extent of his post yesterday. That was it.
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Speaker 4: This will continue with most legal scholars and robes. Everybody out there looking at this who has a law degree says this is a waste of everybody's time.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, because eighty six can also it's a very common kitchen term.
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Speaker 1: Sweetheart. Short order cooks all over the country are going, what the hell.
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Speaker 2: I say, eighty six ten times a day minimum.
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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, all right, I'll continue on the run here. Now we're going to head to a different courtroom, this one out in LA where prosecutors have released more details in their case against singer David and a story that was almost robes, unfathomable, unimaginable and unthinkable is getting worse.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't think it was possible, but it certainly has.
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Speaker 3: David, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, has been charged with murder in the death of fourteen year old Celestrie Ves Hernandez, who's dismembered and badly decomposed body was found in the trunk of his abandoned Tesla last September.
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Speaker 2: Apparently it had been there since July twenty ninth.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but he was only arrested April seventeenth, So in recent weeks and he has been charged with first degree pre meditated murder. Now we got a lot more detail and a lot more graphic detail robes from the state's court filing yesterday. This was something that his attorney's defense attorneys were pushing to say, Hey, we want this evidence out there.
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Speaker 3: Okay, head scratching, Yeah, head scratching now that you hear it, correct, Yes, So they claim this is, according to the prosecutors, that David stabbed her several times and stood by while she bled out. They also detail him luring her to his home. They say he ordered a shovel, chainsaws, and inflatable pools so that he could actually do the dismembering without getting blood on his garage floor.
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Speaker 2: However, there was blood.
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Speaker 3: Stains on his garage floor that they say are linked the DNA linked to Celeste Revas Hernandez her ring Finger had a tattoo of his name, they say, and her ring finger and pinky were chopped off and have not been found. He does remain in jail, no bail, But we have another hearing we know about twelve, and then another one on May twenty six.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so a lot more to come there. But that's a that is a disturbing story. We only give you a few of the highlights here. If you want to go back on our feet, it was the first episode that we put up today, So go back two episodes in our feed and you will see that we have a full episode on what's happening with singer David.
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Speaker 2: Yes, all right.
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Speaker 3: In the meantime though, next up on the Run, ending the War, reopening the Strait of Horror moves. Yeah, it's simple didn't you know that all Iran has to do is cry uncle. The President yesterday said the US naval blockade of the Strait is genius and will continue until Iran essentially waves a white flag something they've shown.
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Speaker 2: He says, interest in doing okay.
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Speaker 4: And so we're going to give you what the president said on three different occasions yesterday. And this is why rolled people get confused, like he keeps doing so many interviews. He was just hopping on the phone with reporters, so every little thing comes out and he seems to contradict himself. So this is where we are with the war. The president from the Oval office said, quote, now they have to cry uncle. That's all they have have to do. Just say we give up. Simple enough. Trump then to Axios Online, made this statement, quote, the blockade is somewhat more effective than the bombing. They are choking like a stuffed pig, and it is going to be worse for them. They can't have a nuclear weapon. And then on true Social he says this a wran can't get their act together. They don't know how to sign a non nuclear deal. They better get smart soon. There is official statement after statement from the President of the United States.
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Speaker 1: So that tells you where are we in the war with the wrong rooms?
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Speaker 3: Unclear, there would be my response, But here is what is clear. Oil prices and gas prices are going in the wrong direction, and the president.
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Speaker 2: Is supremely aware of that.
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Speaker 3: With this being a midterm election year at all, and the economy stupid we all know pretty much has a huge driving force in which way or how people tend to vote. So, yes, oil spiked yesterday. It was around the one hundred and twenty five dollars a barrel mark. That is the highest level it's hit since the start of the war. That's significant. And gas prices are now at an average of four thirty a gallon, that's the highest average we've paid in four years. We heard analys nineteen years old having to fill up her car in Colorado complaining now that she's actually like limiting trips because she doesn't want to use the gas because she doesn't have discretionary spending, as do a lot of folks.
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Speaker 4: That's a nineteen year old kid with mommy's support. Correct, there are a bunch of families don't have a lifeline. There are a bunch of family We to listen to her say, yay, it used to cost me this. Now it cost me this almost double or whatever it was she was paying. So she is cutting back on college life, Yes, to fill it.
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Speaker 2: She does.
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Speaker 3: She does have mommy support, but it is a fixed income that is not changing based on the economy.
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Speaker 1: She's doing it. Everybody's doing it, Robes. The midterms are going to.
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Speaker 3: Be something, and that's why maybe you see all of these confusing posts from Trump trying to figure out a way to make it stop.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, California, not that they were going to vote Republican anyway, even though they got two candidates out there leading right now for the Republican governor. I can't even I can't even fathom what California is paying right now. You all are paying the highest amount for gas per gallon. Now you finally went over that six dollar mark.
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Speaker 3: My god, when I was in college, I paid eighty eight cents in gallon in Georgia.
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Speaker 2: I remember that.
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Speaker 3: Well, all right, Next up on the run, we heard for the first time yesterday how much the war with Iran has cost US taxpayers already. It's end counting, by the way, twenty five billion dollars. That number was revealed yesterday during Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth's hearing before the House Oversight Committee.
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Speaker 1: But he wasn't the one to reveal it.
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Speaker 4: If you recall the Pentagon, well, a number of lawmakers have been frustrated because they've been trying to get an answer to that question, how much is this costing us? And we heard for the time, Yes, this was Pete Hexseth, he was the star of this hearing, but the Pentagon controller money guy was also up there testifying, and he was the one who actually revealed that number. He said, most of this robes comes from munitions dropping them bombs. We have spent billions on those munitions that now need to get restocked. And some Democrats immediately heard those numbers that that number is low.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I was actually trying to tell you the three or four black Hawks, that not black Hawks, that f eighteen's the fighter jets that we've lost from enemy fire.
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Speaker 1: Three were friendly fire.
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Speaker 2: Sorry friendly fire, and one enemy fire ANEMI fire.
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Speaker 4: And those are what fifty million dollars planes or whatever they say it is. Well, so yes, they're saying it's much higher. It's not just about munitions, it's about moving people around. So that number is many will tell you astronomically higher.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the run, two executions scheduled for this evening here in the United States. One is happening in Florida and the other in Texas. That should not be a surprise to anyone in the Florida one. This guy has been on death row. We're not making this up for fifty years.
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Speaker 4: Nineteen seventy six was the murder nineteen seventy six. This guy is going to be executed tonight for a murder he committed before I was born. James Ernest Hitchcock is his names. Nineteen seventy six. This was a rape and murder at thirteen year old girl. His lethal injection. His schedule for six o'clock tonight. Now again, road, we hear, we night. We're used to hearing twenty years, thirty years, every once in a while, forty years on death row. But this one took so long. There was a bunch of back and forth that were a bunch of appeals. It wasn't this the guy who had the death sentence.
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Speaker 2: He was sentenced to.
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Speaker 3: Death four times, three of them were overturned. Finally, it's stuck. I believe in nineteen ninety six. One of those happened the night before. He was said to be electrocuted actually in the state of Florida. Tonight he will die by lethal injection. So and also tonight we have another lethal injection in Texas. James Broadnext his name. He is being executed for the two thousand and nine double murder of two music producers. But here's the twist on this case. Another man has confessed to the double murder his cousin who was with him that night. Broadnext committed the robbery with his cousin, who now has come forward to say he was the one who pulled the trigger. That doesn't seem to have affected or impacted anyone in terms of the execution going forward this point.
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Speaker 4: Yes, every court, every judge has rejected an appeal and they have not listened based on this new confession that's come for it Rope. So both of these executions expected to go through tonight. Yes, something obviously any time can happen, But I'm pretty sure Hitchcock is not waiting for DeSantis to call.
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Speaker 2: No, he's not.
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Speaker 3: And we have By the way, if you want to check out our feed, we have an episode on each of these executions and the murders.
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Speaker 2: These are fascinating cases.
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Speaker 3: So many families waiting for decades at least, certainly in the Florida execution, to see this day finally arrives. So please check those episodes out if you're interested in these cases.
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Speaker 4: I don't remind this will be the ninth and tenth executions of the year in the United States.
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Speaker 1: We'll stay with us here on this Friday Eve run.
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Speaker 4: When we come back, look the FED Chair, Jerome Pile Powell, US of the FED Chair, not known as being the most exciting, most outgoing, most fun people in the world. But Jerome Powell has just done something that I want to give him a high five for doing. I don't know if it's petty or not, but it's my kind of move and it has pissed off the President. We'll explain that. Also, a very big decision by the Supreme Court yesterday that President Obama says is absolutely dismantling the voting rights of minorities in this country. Stay, hey, the folks, we continue on this Friday Eve run with the Feed Chair Jerome Powell. He's gonna do something no FED Chair has done in nearly eighty years, and it's a move that he knows robes, he knows this is gonna hmmm poke the president.
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Speaker 3: Yes, okay, So it's no secret that President Trump hates Jerome Powell hates.
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Speaker 1: Is that wordy too strong?
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Speaker 3: No? I think that he would probably say that, and he probably has.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Trump has tried firing him multiple times. He's tried investigating him. That hasn't worked. Powell has stood firm. He's continued to do his job as FED chairman. He has refused to lower interest rates when President Trump tells him to. But his term alas as chair of the Federal Reserves ends next month.
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Speaker 1: So what a relief for the president. He's finally done with this guy.
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Speaker 4: But no, no, no, no, no, Powell has now announced that he plans to stay on as a member of the board, which he apparently has the right to do, and he will be a voting member. So this denies President Trump an opportunity to not just one get rid of this guy and get him out of his life, but it denies him an opportunity to fill the seat with somebody who might do Trump's bidding.
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Speaker 1: Rose, I don't know if No.
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Speaker 4: Powell gave reasons for this he said, this institution, these attacks are something that cannot stand and I need to stick around and help. So he did give a legit reason for it. The roads part of it has to be I just want to poke this guy.
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Speaker 2: You can't make me leave.
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Speaker 3: And Trump on truth Social you can see was already irked because he wrote Jerome too late. Powell wants to stay at the FED because he can't get a job anywhere else.
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Speaker 2: Nobody wants him.
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Speaker 3: I don't think that hurt I don't think that hurt Jerome Powell's feelings at all.
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Speaker 4: You know how quickly Jerome Powell would be hired by any major firm with his knowledge.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yeah, speaking engagements alone actually would be incredibly lucrative.
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Speaker 2: He could write a book.
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Speaker 3: I mean seriously, there are so many things he could do to make a lot of money. So I actually think it's pretty cool he's staying.
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Speaker 4: Oh, he doesn't even have to talk about his time as FED chairman. He could just talk about Trump the whole time.
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Speaker 1: I would hire him and go speak all right.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the Run, the Supreme Court delivered a controversial and potentially consequential decision yesterday on the Voting Rights Acts.
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Speaker 4: Okay, this is enormous, Roodes, and it is more I guess made more even a big deal because of everything we've seen with jerremandering in the country over the past year. But a six to three ruin the course struck down Louisiana's redrawn congressional map, saying that the state wrongly used race in creating a new quote unquote black district.
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Speaker 3: It is a practice that we all know has gone on for decades in this country, and it was meant to create districts that were with minorities that would have more voting power, and it would give minorities the ability to have more representation in Washington.
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Speaker 1: So that's the thing.
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Speaker 4: The Voting Rights Act started with a legit purpose back in the day roes because black folks didn't have voting rights. Black folks don't have it, so you should be allowed the Voting Rights Act to create districts that put them in a position to where they have more voting power.
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Speaker 1: That is the idea. So that was supposed to be the idea.
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Speaker 4: So now the court split along ideological lines saying that you all now cannot use race in these lines. So that has given Republicans a thumbs up and an okay to redraw the lines for strictly political reasons and if black folks or minorities get hurt, it doesn't matter because the Court just told us now that race cannot be used or considered in an outsized way. That is why folks are now saying the Voting Rights Act has been completely gutted and the country is going a direction robe now that in this civil rights era we were trying to correct something and this puts us back. It's I know, a lot of headlines are out there, people trying to figure out Supreme Court did this in Louisiana. So why is this a big deal for the voter run? That's what the key is, right.
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Speaker 3: Former President Obama called the decisions systematically that it systematically dilutes and weakens the voting power of racial minorities.
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Speaker 2: That's absolutely the impact of this.
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Speaker 4: So then the president, the current president, called the decision a big win. You got these two guys saying the absolute opposite thing about this voting right, tech, bro, this Jeremaning thing is a mess.
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Speaker 2: Yeah it is.
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Speaker 3: Because next up on the run, the Florida Legislature, as expected, approved a new congressional map that would give could give Republicans an additional four seats on Congress.
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Speaker 1: So what do you think the Santas seal He's going to sign.
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Speaker 3: It or not.
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he's going to sign it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's going.
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Speaker 3: So they are signing as quickly quickly as he does his death warrants.
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Speaker 4: I can't I don't know where we are now, which states have done it successfully and it's not challenged in court. I don't know who has the advantage in Congress anymore with I actually do not know.
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Speaker 2: We shall see TBD.
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Speaker 3: I guess this is all still developing, and it's not going in the way that some had helped.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the Run and the final leg of our Run, singer songwriter David allan Coe.
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Speaker 2: He has died at the age of eighty six. You didn't know his name?
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Speaker 3: I actually just I know that song Take this job and Shut.
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Speaker 1: Did you know the author of excuse me the singer of that song? No?
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Speaker 2: I didn't.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know the name.
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Speaker 3: Even I just knew. I just knew David allan Coe. I did not know Johnny Paycheck, which is kind of funny. Is that his real name? Well?
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, that he wrote. He wrote that song, didn't perform it.
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize that.
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Speaker 4: Okay, people know his name and know some of it. But he uh, he had a couple hits. But but he was knowing some outlaw country singer. But yeah, he was known as a prolific songwriter, had.
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Speaker 2: More country artist songwriter.
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Speaker 3: All Right, So David allan Coe passing away at the age of eighty six, cause of death not release at this point. On this Friday Eve, we have our quote of the day. You know, I love my self empowerment quotes. Yet this is a good one and it requires some reflection. Where I've been getting all of mine as of late, which is the stage pages of Instagrams. But I do I do find like when I go into my search, I don't know what you get, but I just get lots of quotes because I'm always I do end up following and liking a lot of these pages that really give you some inspiration. And so here's one that just landed for me. Whatever goes wrong in your life has a trace back to you. Stop blaming, start owning. That is where your power lies.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Oh that's everything, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: It is?
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Speaker 3: And it's the hardest thing to do. And look, we see it. I see it in my life. I'm fully copying to this. But when we start watching shows and you start seeing other people doing it, the first, most, the.
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Speaker 2: Easiest, perhaps.
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Speaker 3: Best way when you've got all this emotion and you're upset in your anger is to just blame someone else. It's your fault, you did this, and I just if we can take a step back.
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Speaker 2: We are giving away our power.
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Speaker 3: We're outsourcing our moods, we're outsourcing our joy, We're leaving it in other people's hands. No, you got to own what you did to create the situation you are now in, and only then can you change the situation. Only then can you make things better.
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Speaker 4: Whatever goes wrong in your life has a trace back to you. There are very few things that go wrong in your life that you had no hand.
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Speaker 2: In, correct.
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Speaker 3: I mean there might be a few, you could probably come up with them, but most of them, certainly situations or relationships.
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Speaker 2: You have to take a look and self reflect.
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Speaker 3: So one more time for everybody, whatever goes wrong in your life has a trace back to you. Stop blaming, start owning. That's where your power lies. And with that, one thank you. For joining us on this Thursday or Friday Eve morning run. I'm Amy Robot and i am T. J.
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Speaker 1: Holmes.
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Speaker 4: We always appreciate you running with us Again. We'll be running with you from the Caribbean this week. Do we call this officially our Caribbean Bureau.
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Speaker 2: Yes, our Caribbean Bureau, all right.
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Speaker 4: So we will have a little more pep on our steps, join our voice, smiles on our face probably this week.
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Speaker 1: We always appreciate you running with us. Talk so
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: And iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 3: Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Thursday, or as we like to say, for Friday Eve, April thirtieth, the last day of April.
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Speaker 1: We she means she, and you're the only one that uses Friday Eve. I can akilate you.
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Speaker 2: You're the only one who doesn't use it.
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Speaker 1: Wow, this is what we're going to go with.
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Speaker 4: This is how most of our fights go, folks, exactly like that. Welcome every Friday t day homes here. We told you all yesterday we were leaving New York. The King went to our neighborhood in New York. Yes, on his four day US Visit was down at Battery Park, our neighborhood, at the World Trade yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Yes, they were visiting the nine to eleven Memorial and honoring those This is about to be the twenty fifth anniversary of the terror attacks. So yes, the King and Queen were in Lower Manhattan and we were already on our.
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Speaker 4: Way south, Yes, way way way south south, even souther than the South. Yes, we are in our Caribbean Bureau, if you will, so we will be spending the next few days. You might hear a breathe, some birds surfing in back, some water rushing possibly, But yes, we are in beautiful settings right now for this one. That's why Rose has a huge smile on her face. Yes, as we speak. But we will be making stops, not just here in the Caribbean where we are. We're on the run today. We have to make stops in the Capitol Hill. We're making stops in courtrooms in Virginia, LA and New Orleans, as well as making stops in Florida and Texas. But we have to start right now, world. We'll start in DC. We it's Thursday. The White House Correspondents Center was on Saturday, and we still keep getting new information. We'll get a whole lot more, but some more more disturbing details starting to come out.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 3: The alleged gunman at the White House Correspondent Center is expected back in court today. This will be his detention hearing. Cole Thomas Allen has been charged with attempting to assassinate the president. And we did get some new details yesterday in a court.
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Speaker 4: Filence, and in particular a picture, a disturbing picture that you see an image of him Royalt. He took a selfie apparently before he went downstairs to rush the White House correspondence and try to apparently take out members of the president's cabinet. He took a selfie ahead of time.
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Speaker 3: And smiling, and even in his monk shot, he has a grin on his face. It's bizarre. I don't know what else to say about it. It's not something you would expect it would be assassined to do moments before carrying out his planned mission. I know, let me take a quick selfie with my AMMO and my guns all on me, just to prove the point about what I'm about to do. It's almost as if he wanted to be remembered. He wanted to be known. That was an important part of this to him.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a selfie and a uh. He was wearing all blackie on the red tie, but you could see him. He had a holster on. He looked like he was being outfitted for battle of some kind. But he took this picture in the mirror before he went downstairs. The prosecutors are going to argue that he needs to stay in jail. That's what the hearing is about today. Because as long as the president, the cabinet continue to make public appearances. They say this guy is a threatn I guess that would make sense.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's just no way this dude is getting out of jail today or anytime soon. All right. Next up on the run, speaking of jail, for FBI director James Comy had to surrender to authorities yesterday. He's facing charges that he too threatened the life of the President of the United States. But he didn't do it with guns or any planned manifesto. No, he did it with apparently, according to prosecutors, seashells.
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Speaker 4: Pretty dangerous seashells because they spelled something out in particular. Now, Comy was in federal court in Virginia. He did not officially enter a plea, but he has been out there publicly denying any wrongdoing. Remember this, Robes is over a picture that the former top cop in the US took while he was out on a beach stroll and wanted to post stan stick.
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Speaker 2: Let's not do this while we're here in the Caribbean.
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Speaker 3: Yes, but he put out a picture that had the numbers eighty six forty seven spelled out with seashells, and uh, Trump didn't like that so much.
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Speaker 4: He doesn't like anything. This guy does so much. But they are saying that that eighty six term is a suggestion that people say eighty six something means you want to get rid of something, you want to dump something, you want to throw out something. But the President and the Justice Department are saying that also means you want to kill somebody.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Trump put this out on truth Social eighty six is a mob term for kill him. They say, eighty six him, eighty six forty seven means kill President Trump. James Comy, who was a dirty cop, one of the worst, knows this full well, eight miles out, six feet down. Didn't he also lie to the FBI about this, I think so.
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Speaker 1: And that was it. That was the extent of his post yesterday. That was it.
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Speaker 4: This will continue with most legal scholars and robes. Everybody out there looking at this who has a law degree says this is a waste of everybody's time.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, because eighty six can also it's a very common kitchen term.
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Speaker 1: Sweetheart. Short order cooks all over the country are going, what the hell.
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Speaker 2: I say, eighty six ten times a day minimum.
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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, all right, I'll continue on the run here. Now we're going to head to a different courtroom, this one out in LA where prosecutors have released more details in their case against singer David and a story that was almost robes, unfathomable, unimaginable and unthinkable is getting worse.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't think it was possible, but it certainly has.
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Speaker 3: David, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, has been charged with murder in the death of fourteen year old Celestrie Ves Hernandez, who's dismembered and badly decomposed body was found in the trunk of his abandoned Tesla last September.
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Speaker 2: Apparently it had been there since July twenty ninth.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but he was only arrested April seventeenth, So in recent weeks and he has been charged with first degree pre meditated murder. Now we got a lot more detail and a lot more graphic detail robes from the state's court filing yesterday. This was something that his attorney's defense attorneys were pushing to say, Hey, we want this evidence out there.
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Speaker 3: Okay, head scratching, Yeah, head scratching now that you hear it, correct, Yes, So they claim this is, according to the prosecutors, that David stabbed her several times and stood by while she bled out. They also detail him luring her to his home. They say he ordered a shovel, chainsaws, and inflatable pools so that he could actually do the dismembering without getting blood on his garage floor.
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Speaker 2: However, there was blood.
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Speaker 3: Stains on his garage floor that they say are linked the DNA linked to Celeste Revas Hernandez her ring Finger had a tattoo of his name, they say, and her ring finger and pinky were chopped off and have not been found. He does remain in jail, no bail, But we have another hearing we know about twelve, and then another one on May twenty six.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so a lot more to come there. But that's a that is a disturbing story. We only give you a few of the highlights here. If you want to go back on our feet, it was the first episode that we put up today, So go back two episodes in our feed and you will see that we have a full episode on what's happening with singer David.
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Speaker 2: Yes, all right.
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Speaker 3: In the meantime though, next up on the Run, ending the War, reopening the Strait of Horror moves. Yeah, it's simple didn't you know that all Iran has to do is cry uncle. The President yesterday said the US naval blockade of the Strait is genius and will continue until Iran essentially waves a white flag something they've shown.
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Speaker 2: He says, interest in doing okay.
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Speaker 4: And so we're going to give you what the president said on three different occasions yesterday. And this is why rolled people get confused, like he keeps doing so many interviews. He was just hopping on the phone with reporters, so every little thing comes out and he seems to contradict himself. So this is where we are with the war. The president from the Oval office said, quote, now they have to cry uncle. That's all they have have to do. Just say we give up. Simple enough. Trump then to Axios Online, made this statement, quote, the blockade is somewhat more effective than the bombing. They are choking like a stuffed pig, and it is going to be worse for them. They can't have a nuclear weapon. And then on true Social he says this a wran can't get their act together. They don't know how to sign a non nuclear deal. They better get smart soon. There is official statement after statement from the President of the United States.
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Speaker 1: So that tells you where are we in the war with the wrong rooms?
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Speaker 3: Unclear, there would be my response, But here is what is clear. Oil prices and gas prices are going in the wrong direction, and the president.
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Speaker 2: Is supremely aware of that.
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Speaker 3: With this being a midterm election year at all, and the economy stupid we all know pretty much has a huge driving force in which way or how people tend to vote. So, yes, oil spiked yesterday. It was around the one hundred and twenty five dollars a barrel mark. That is the highest level it's hit since the start of the war. That's significant. And gas prices are now at an average of four thirty a gallon, that's the highest average we've paid in four years. We heard analys nineteen years old having to fill up her car in Colorado complaining now that she's actually like limiting trips because she doesn't want to use the gas because she doesn't have discretionary spending, as do a lot of folks.
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Speaker 4: That's a nineteen year old kid with mommy's support. Correct, there are a bunch of families don't have a lifeline. There are a bunch of family We to listen to her say, yay, it used to cost me this. Now it cost me this almost double or whatever it was she was paying. So she is cutting back on college life, Yes, to fill it.
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Speaker 2: She does.
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Speaker 3: She does have mommy support, but it is a fixed income that is not changing based on the economy.
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Speaker 1: She's doing it. Everybody's doing it, Robes. The midterms are going to.
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Speaker 3: Be something, and that's why maybe you see all of these confusing posts from Trump trying to figure out a way to make it stop.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, California, not that they were going to vote Republican anyway, even though they got two candidates out there leading right now for the Republican governor. I can't even I can't even fathom what California is paying right now. You all are paying the highest amount for gas per gallon. Now you finally went over that six dollar mark.
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Speaker 3: My god, when I was in college, I paid eighty eight cents in gallon in Georgia.
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Speaker 2: I remember that.
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Speaker 3: Well, all right, Next up on the run, we heard for the first time yesterday how much the war with Iran has cost US taxpayers already. It's end counting, by the way, twenty five billion dollars. That number was revealed yesterday during Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth's hearing before the House Oversight Committee.
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Speaker 1: But he wasn't the one to reveal it.
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Speaker 4: If you recall the Pentagon, well, a number of lawmakers have been frustrated because they've been trying to get an answer to that question, how much is this costing us? And we heard for the time, Yes, this was Pete Hexseth, he was the star of this hearing, but the Pentagon controller money guy was also up there testifying, and he was the one who actually revealed that number. He said, most of this robes comes from munitions dropping them bombs. We have spent billions on those munitions that now need to get restocked. And some Democrats immediately heard those numbers that that number is low.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I was actually trying to tell you the three or four black Hawks, that not black Hawks, that f eighteen's the fighter jets that we've lost from enemy fire.
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Speaker 1: Three were friendly fire.
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Speaker 2: Sorry friendly fire, and one enemy fire ANEMI fire.
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Speaker 4: And those are what fifty million dollars planes or whatever they say it is. Well, so yes, they're saying it's much higher. It's not just about munitions, it's about moving people around. So that number is many will tell you astronomically higher.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the run, two executions scheduled for this evening here in the United States. One is happening in Florida and the other in Texas. That should not be a surprise to anyone in the Florida one. This guy has been on death row. We're not making this up for fifty years.
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Speaker 4: Nineteen seventy six was the murder nineteen seventy six. This guy is going to be executed tonight for a murder he committed before I was born. James Ernest Hitchcock is his names. Nineteen seventy six. This was a rape and murder at thirteen year old girl. His lethal injection. His schedule for six o'clock tonight. Now again, road, we hear, we night. We're used to hearing twenty years, thirty years, every once in a while, forty years on death row. But this one took so long. There was a bunch of back and forth that were a bunch of appeals. It wasn't this the guy who had the death sentence.
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Speaker 2: He was sentenced to.
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Speaker 3: Death four times, three of them were overturned. Finally, it's stuck. I believe in nineteen ninety six. One of those happened the night before. He was said to be electrocuted actually in the state of Florida. Tonight he will die by lethal injection. So and also tonight we have another lethal injection in Texas. James Broadnext his name. He is being executed for the two thousand and nine double murder of two music producers. But here's the twist on this case. Another man has confessed to the double murder his cousin who was with him that night. Broadnext committed the robbery with his cousin, who now has come forward to say he was the one who pulled the trigger. That doesn't seem to have affected or impacted anyone in terms of the execution going forward this point.
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Speaker 4: Yes, every court, every judge has rejected an appeal and they have not listened based on this new confession that's come for it Rope. So both of these executions expected to go through tonight. Yes, something obviously any time can happen, But I'm pretty sure Hitchcock is not waiting for DeSantis to call.
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Speaker 2: No, he's not.
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Speaker 3: And we have By the way, if you want to check out our feed, we have an episode on each of these executions and the murders.
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Speaker 2: These are fascinating cases.
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Speaker 3: So many families waiting for decades at least, certainly in the Florida execution, to see this day finally arrives. So please check those episodes out if you're interested in these cases.
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Speaker 4: I don't remind this will be the ninth and tenth executions of the year in the United States.
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Speaker 1: We'll stay with us here on this Friday Eve run.
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Speaker 4: When we come back, look the FED Chair, Jerome Pile Powell, US of the FED Chair, not known as being the most exciting, most outgoing, most fun people in the world. But Jerome Powell has just done something that I want to give him a high five for doing. I don't know if it's petty or not, but it's my kind of move and it has pissed off the President. We'll explain that. Also, a very big decision by the Supreme Court yesterday that President Obama says is absolutely dismantling the voting rights of minorities in this country. Stay, hey, the folks, we continue on this Friday Eve run with the Feed Chair Jerome Powell. He's gonna do something no FED Chair has done in nearly eighty years, and it's a move that he knows robes, he knows this is gonna hmmm poke the president.
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Speaker 3: Yes, okay, So it's no secret that President Trump hates Jerome Powell hates.
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Speaker 1: Is that wordy too strong?
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Speaker 3: No? I think that he would probably say that, and he probably has.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Trump has tried firing him multiple times. He's tried investigating him. That hasn't worked. Powell has stood firm. He's continued to do his job as FED chairman. He has refused to lower interest rates when President Trump tells him to. But his term alas as chair of the Federal Reserves ends next month.
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Speaker 1: So what a relief for the president. He's finally done with this guy.
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Speaker 4: But no, no, no, no, no, Powell has now announced that he plans to stay on as a member of the board, which he apparently has the right to do, and he will be a voting member. So this denies President Trump an opportunity to not just one get rid of this guy and get him out of his life, but it denies him an opportunity to fill the seat with somebody who might do Trump's bidding.
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Speaker 1: Rose, I don't know if No.
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Speaker 4: Powell gave reasons for this he said, this institution, these attacks are something that cannot stand and I need to stick around and help. So he did give a legit reason for it. The roads part of it has to be I just want to poke this guy.
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Speaker 2: You can't make me leave.
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Speaker 3: And Trump on truth Social you can see was already irked because he wrote Jerome too late. Powell wants to stay at the FED because he can't get a job anywhere else.
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Speaker 2: Nobody wants him.
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Speaker 3: I don't think that hurt I don't think that hurt Jerome Powell's feelings at all.
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Speaker 4: You know how quickly Jerome Powell would be hired by any major firm with his knowledge.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yeah, speaking engagements alone actually would be incredibly lucrative.
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Speaker 2: He could write a book.
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Speaker 3: I mean seriously, there are so many things he could do to make a lot of money. So I actually think it's pretty cool he's staying.
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Speaker 4: Oh, he doesn't even have to talk about his time as FED chairman. He could just talk about Trump the whole time.
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Speaker 1: I would hire him and go speak all right.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the Run, the Supreme Court delivered a controversial and potentially consequential decision yesterday on the Voting Rights Acts.
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Speaker 4: Okay, this is enormous, Roodes, and it is more I guess made more even a big deal because of everything we've seen with jerremandering in the country over the past year. But a six to three ruin the course struck down Louisiana's redrawn congressional map, saying that the state wrongly used race in creating a new quote unquote black district.
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Speaker 3: It is a practice that we all know has gone on for decades in this country, and it was meant to create districts that were with minorities that would have more voting power, and it would give minorities the ability to have more representation in Washington.
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Speaker 1: So that's the thing.
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Speaker 4: The Voting Rights Act started with a legit purpose back in the day roes because black folks didn't have voting rights. Black folks don't have it, so you should be allowed the Voting Rights Act to create districts that put them in a position to where they have more voting power.
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Speaker 1: That is the idea. So that was supposed to be the idea.
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Speaker 4: So now the court split along ideological lines saying that you all now cannot use race in these lines. So that has given Republicans a thumbs up and an okay to redraw the lines for strictly political reasons and if black folks or minorities get hurt, it doesn't matter because the Court just told us now that race cannot be used or considered in an outsized way. That is why folks are now saying the Voting Rights Act has been completely gutted and the country is going a direction robe now that in this civil rights era we were trying to correct something and this puts us back. It's I know, a lot of headlines are out there, people trying to figure out Supreme Court did this in Louisiana. So why is this a big deal for the voter run? That's what the key is, right.
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Speaker 3: Former President Obama called the decisions systematically that it systematically dilutes and weakens the voting power of racial minorities.
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Speaker 2: That's absolutely the impact of this.
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Speaker 4: So then the president, the current president, called the decision a big win. You got these two guys saying the absolute opposite thing about this voting right, tech, bro, this Jeremaning thing is a mess.
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Speaker 2: Yeah it is.
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Speaker 3: Because next up on the run, the Florida Legislature, as expected, approved a new congressional map that would give could give Republicans an additional four seats on Congress.
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Speaker 1: So what do you think the Santas seal He's going to sign.
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Speaker 3: It or not.
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he's going to sign it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's going.
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Speaker 3: So they are signing as quickly quickly as he does his death warrants.
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Speaker 4: I can't I don't know where we are now, which states have done it successfully and it's not challenged in court. I don't know who has the advantage in Congress anymore with I actually do not know.
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Speaker 2: We shall see TBD.
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Speaker 3: I guess this is all still developing, and it's not going in the way that some had helped.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the Run and the final leg of our Run, singer songwriter David allan Coe.
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Speaker 2: He has died at the age of eighty six. You didn't know his name?
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Speaker 3: I actually just I know that song Take this job and Shut.
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Speaker 1: Did you know the author of excuse me the singer of that song? No?
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Speaker 2: I didn't.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know the name.
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Speaker 3: Even I just knew. I just knew David allan Coe. I did not know Johnny Paycheck, which is kind of funny. Is that his real name? Well?
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, that he wrote. He wrote that song, didn't perform it.
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize that.
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Speaker 4: Okay, people know his name and know some of it. But he uh, he had a couple hits. But but he was knowing some outlaw country singer. But yeah, he was known as a prolific songwriter, had.
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Speaker 2: More country artist songwriter.
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Speaker 3: All Right, So David allan Coe passing away at the age of eighty six, cause of death not release at this point. On this Friday Eve, we have our quote of the day. You know, I love my self empowerment quotes. Yet this is a good one and it requires some reflection. Where I've been getting all of mine as of late, which is the stage pages of Instagrams. But I do I do find like when I go into my search, I don't know what you get, but I just get lots of quotes because I'm always I do end up following and liking a lot of these pages that really give you some inspiration. And so here's one that just landed for me. Whatever goes wrong in your life has a trace back to you. Stop blaming, start owning. That is where your power lies.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Oh that's everything, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: It is?
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Speaker 3: And it's the hardest thing to do. And look, we see it. I see it in my life. I'm fully copying to this. But when we start watching shows and you start seeing other people doing it, the first, most, the.
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Speaker 2: Easiest, perhaps.
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Speaker 3: Best way when you've got all this emotion and you're upset in your anger is to just blame someone else. It's your fault, you did this, and I just if we can take a step back.
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Speaker 2: We are giving away our power.
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Speaker 3: We're outsourcing our moods, we're outsourcing our joy, We're leaving it in other people's hands. No, you got to own what you did to create the situation you are now in, and only then can you change the situation. Only then can you make things better.
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Speaker 4: Whatever goes wrong in your life has a trace back to you. There are very few things that go wrong in your life that you had no hand.
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Speaker 2: In, correct.
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Speaker 3: I mean there might be a few, you could probably come up with them, but most of them, certainly situations or relationships.
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Speaker 2: You have to take a look and self reflect.
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Speaker 3: So one more time for everybody, whatever goes wrong in your life has a trace back to you. Stop blaming, start owning. That's where your power lies. And with that, one thank you. For joining us on this Thursday or Friday Eve morning run. I'm Amy Robot and i am T. J.
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Speaker 1: Holmes.
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Speaker 4: We always appreciate you running with us Again. We'll be running with you from the Caribbean this week. Do we call this officially our Caribbean Bureau.
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Speaker 2: Yes, our Caribbean Bureau, all right.
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Speaker 4: So we will have a little more pep on our steps, join our voice, smiles on our face probably this week.
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Speaker 1: We always appreciate you running with us. Talk so