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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, It's Tuesday, April eighth. Welcome to Morning Run.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Amy Robots and I am TJ Holmes, And shame
on you. If you are well rested this morning, you
should have stayed up and watched the NCAA National Championship
last night. Congratulations to Florida, which pulled off another historic win,
and you are among those who were well rested this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I was gonna say, I'll try not to take that personally.
I mean, I'm more arrested than you are. I stayed
up until. Yeah, this is a big shame on you
moment for me. I think there was six minutes left
in the game, and I just I mean I had
been falling asleep on the couch. I just couldn't keep
my eyes open. So I woke up. I came in
this morning and I said, what happened?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, history happened, That's what you said. It was a stunning, stunning,
stunning game last night. But congratulations to Floria. We'll get
into what happened at the game last night. It was
a heartbreaker for sure. But on the Run this morning,
on this what do we have now Tuesday morning. Along
the run today, this is what we have for you,
President Trump and China escalating trade tensions with a midnight
deadline on tariffs looming tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And all that talk and some fake news contributed to
a wild and chaotic day on Wall Street. Plus, the
most valuable company in the world is now six hundred
billion dollars less valuable thanks tariffs.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Also, after meeting with Trump, Net and Yahoo says he
will eliminate Israel's trade deficit with the US. Also after
meeting with Net and Yahoo, Trump says the US will
hold direct talks with Iran, and Iran says it's not
exactly what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Plus RFK Junior announces he will recommend we stop adding
fluoride to our nation's drinking water, reversing seven decades of policy.
Plus flooding continues in the South as evacuations continue and
the death tool rises across multiple states.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Also on the run this morning, Prince Harry wants one
particular royal privileged back and is making his case in
court today. And an animal has been brought back from extinction. Yes,
Jurassic Park is really happening. This is for real, A
lot of people were talking about it yesterday and the
implications down the road who are immense.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I read this and then reread this, and still my
mind is blown. Cannot wait to get to that story.
But first, we're going to begin our run with a
game of chicken, and so far, no one is winning,
especially not the stock market.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And President Trump has threatened to slap an additional fifty
percent tariff on china imports to the US if China
does not withdraw the thirty four percent tariff it just
imposed in retaliation to Trump's thirty four percent reciprocal tariff
announced last week. So it's just a big back and forth. Now,
China's response didn't leave much room for interpretation.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
No, it did not. This is what they put on
social media. The US threat to escalate tariffs on China
is a mistake on top of a mistake. China will
never accept it. If the US insists on its own way,
China will fight to the end. Trump's ten percent tariff
on all US imports began over the weekend, but it's
the higher tariffs on those individual countries that begins tomorrow
(03:09):
or tonight at midnight, and that has set the stage
for some possible last minute negotiations.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And of course Trump did some clapping back on social media,
saying all talks with China concerning the requested meetings with
US will be terminated. Negotiations with other countries which have
also requested meetings will begin taking place immediately. That's what
the President roh, he said. This continued escalation in uncertainty. Look,
everybody's keeping an eye on this right now. Everybody knows
the markets are going in wild directions, but mostly going
(03:37):
in the wrong direction because of all this.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That's right. At one point on Monday, US stocks actually
stopped falling and the S and P actually surged up
back by like seven percent points after reports circulated that
Trump was considering a ninety day pause on the tariffs. Well,
once the White House confirmed that report was actually fake news,
the markets lost most of any ground they gained.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, the close of the day, the dial Jones was
off three hundred and forty nine points, S and P
was down just slightly. The Nasdaq actually got up at
one point or one percent higher. This morning, futures are
looking slightly up, so maybe the bleeding has stopped. Doll
futures jump nearly six hundred points s and p NASDACK
both up more than one percent in future. So it
(04:22):
looks like we're looking at an opening this morning that
maybe is not so devastating.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, we haven't seen that in three days in market trading,
so we'll see what the day brings. Next up on
our run. No company has taken a beating like Apple
in this current market chaos. Since Trump announced his liberation
Dey tariff's, Apple has lost about twenty percent of its
total market value.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Now that means nearly six hundred and forty billion dollars gone.
Apple is particularly his positioned to feel the pain of
the tariffs because guess where so many of the components
where its products come from and are constructed. Yes, China.
China was hit, of course, like we just mentioned, with
additional tariffs. It retaliated. Trump then threatened to raise tariffs
even more so. China in particular as a worrying place
(05:06):
for a lot of investors.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I know this is in the story where you would chuckle,
but you were saying China the way Trump says, China's
the thing now right, says the revon off for me.
I guess it is all right. Next up on the run,
President Trump made quite the announcement following his meeting with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The leaders focused on two issues, tariffs,
duh and Iran. Let's begin with Iran. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Trump announced the US is going to hold direct talks
with Iran Saturday to talk about a nuclear deal. It's
been seven years since reps from the US and Iran
have actually met face to faith. Trump says, we have
a very big meeting and we will see what happens.
Those his words.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
However, Iran's foreign minister posted on x that Saturday's meeting
in Oman would involve indirect, high level talks, saying it
is as much an opportunity as it is a test.
The ball is in America's court.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The other headline out of this was that net Yaho
says he plans to eliminate Israel's trade deficit with the
US after Trump imposed a seventeen percent reciprocal tariff that
was up to begin at midnight tomorrow. Nan Yoho nan
Yahoo rather, saying it was the right thing to do
and that he hopes Israel can serve as a model
for many countries who ought to do the same. So
it looks like the negotiating tactic works at least in
(06:18):
one situation.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
For one country. Yes, we'll see about the one hundred
and eighty four others in the coming days. Next up
on the run, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Junior, has announced he will ask the CDC to
stop recommending fluoride in our nation's drinking water. Kennedy says
he's putting a task force together to focus on this
particular issue.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
The APA administrator, who spoke alongside Kennedy at yesterday's news conference,
says his agency is looking into new scientific information on
the potential health risks of fluoride. Kennedy has previously said
that fluoride has been associated with brain development issues, arthrit
his bone breaks, and thyroid.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Disease, and while some studies have shown possible links at
much higher levels, there is no definitive proof of any
dangers with the florid levels in our current drinking water.
Fluoride was added to the water back in the nineteen
fifties to strengthen our teeth to reduce cavities, and right
now about two thirds of Americans have fluoride in their.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Water, and make no mistake, it is widely as a
consensus considered one of the greatest public health achievements in history.
The fact that fluoride got into the water. Well, we'll
continue on the run on this Tuesday morning. With rivers
that continue to rise following the once in a generation
storm that is responsible now for at least twenty four
deaths across seven states.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Kentucky's governor actually pleaded with residents yesterday, asking them to
stop driving through water and to not move barricades to
do so. Yesterday, more than sixty people had to be
evacuated from a hotel in Louisville that suddenly became surrounded
by floodwaters.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Fifteen inches of rain fell in Kentucky, fourteen inches in
Arkansas and Tennessee. Authorities and those hard hit areas are
asking people to stay home and help their neighbors. If
you can't. The rain is gone, that means nothing. Do
not get comfortable, because the threat is far from over.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
That's right, That's what all of these authorities and weather
forecasters are saying. Just because it's stopped raining does not
mean the danger is gone. In fact, more than forty
rivers across the area are expected to be in major
flood stage over the next couple of days, So please, please, please,
everyone be careful out there.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
All right, folks, We're going to continue on this Tuesday
Morning run in just a moment. When we come back.
Prince Harry might not be a working Royal anymore, but
he wants a particular royal privilege back. Also, the heartbreak
last night and the history made in the NCAA National
Championship and Jurassic Park is real. They have for the
first time d extincted an animal. Welcome back to your
(08:54):
Tuesday Morning Ron. This next leg takes us to London
and Prince Harry might no longer be a working but
he's fighting in court today to get back some of
the royal treatment, in particular security.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
In what's now been a five year legal fight, Prince
Harry is trying to get courts to overturn the UK's
decision to strip him and his family of government funded
security protection. That decision was made back in twenty twenty
when he and his wife decided they didn't want to
be working Royals and instead they moved to California.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
The printery claims that his family is at risk when
they return home without proper security, saying even though he's
not a working royal, he remains a member of the
royal family and that comes with obviously inherent risks.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
You can't get rid of that, like he's never not
going to be a member of the royal family. So
Harry went as far as saying the UK can never
feel like home if it's not possible to keep safe
when they are on UK soil. It's not clear if
he's going to actually be in court himself, but his
lawyers will be making the case over the next two
days in court in London.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Don't know what to make of that. He actually offered
it one point, Hey, I'll just give me the security
and I will actually pay for They said, no, that's
essentially we're not going to use public officers as your
private security is essentially what that was doing. So it
seems I don't know the government. Do you, as a taxpayer,
would you want to be paying security for guy who
lives in California and this comes over the visit every
(10:16):
once in a while, It seems like he should get it.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, I mean, I feel like it's one of those
issues where it really doesn't take too much to understand
the situation he's in. And it's not one he can control,
and it's because of what family he was born into.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
There were some legal implications here, what's lawful, what they
can and what they can't do. But it's just it sucks.
It's been going off for five years, especially fighting in court.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, especially if he's going to pay pay for it himself,
it seems.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
And part of it is he was only asking for
give us access to the same security information at least
so we know about some of those threats. So they
don't even have access to that stuff, he's arguing as well,
And that's it's tough. It's tough. We'll continue on this
road now and our next leg of the run takes
us to San Antonio, where there was a historic and
(11:07):
heartbreaking night the Florida Gators pulled off an incredible comeback
to win the NCAA National Championship. Last night, the one
seed Gators were down by twelve points in the second
half to fellow one seed Houston, which led for most
of the game and seemed to be having its way
with Florida for most.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Of the game, which is why I felt perfectly comfortable
going to bed last night at a decent time. But yes,
Florida came roaring back very late to a two point lead.
With seconds to play. Houston still had a chance to
tie or take the lead. In the final possession, They
called time out to set up a play with about
twenty seconds left in the game.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
They never got a shot off. This was set up
as the perfect National Championship scenario. This is the stuff
dreams are made of. You're down by two, your team
has the ball, you go tie it up and you
go to overtime, or you take a three pointer and
win the game. This is a setup for like a
historic and heroic moment. But at the end Houston player
(12:05):
went up for a three pointer without four point nine
seconds left, a Florida player jumped in his way. Or
the Houston player again was trying to take the shot,
and he didn't release the shot. He didn't take it.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Instead, he dropped the ball like literally you dropped the ball.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So when you literally dropped the ball, he then can't
touch it again or it would have been a violation.
So he had to stand there and look at this
bouncing ball waiting for one of his teammates to come
get it. Nobody ever did, and all this is happening second,
sticking off the clock. So a Florida player finally dove
for the ball and you could just see the clock.
It's one thing if you take the shot and you
(12:41):
miss it, you can live with that. You don't even
get a shot off, you don't even get a chance.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You dropped the ball.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
He literally dropped the ball. So yeah, time ran out
and that was that. TV cameras as soon as soon
as this happened. The Houston coach Kelvin Sampson, it was
that he was standing motionless, just with that stunned look,
just dumbfounded at what he had just seen. So we
talked about how historic this was. Florida only led for
a minute and four seconds of a forty minute game
(13:09):
and they won.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
That is that is heartbreaking? You don't even want to
win like that?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Uh yeah, I'll take it. I don't care what would happen.
I don't care how we win.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I don't want to win like that. I got no
problem with that. This was we talked about historic. This
was the third largest comeback in National Championship game history.
This is also Florida's third National championship there first since
two thousand and seven when they won back to back
and Florida has done this in three straight games. Now
that they had to come back from a significant second
half deficit to win the game, so great way to
(13:44):
end it. It was a blowout in the women's Championship. It
was good to see a really close, competitive, hard fought
It was a wonderful game line.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I'm glad you stayed up for a babe.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You know I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Gonna all right for the final leg of our run.
A story that had folks buzzing yesterday about the possibility
of us, how having a real life Jurassic Park situation
in the near future. A biotech company announced yesterday it
had successfully brought an animal back from extinction, a dire wolf,
which has not walked the earth in more than ten
(14:14):
thousand years.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So I didn't immediately know what a dire wolf was.
Maybe some of you do, maybe some of you don't.
But here's a way that gets you to understand. It's
the white wolf that was popularized in Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Oh yeah, totally no, which family has it with? That
was the Starks, the Starks, the Starks.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yes, it's that wolf essentially, but it was a real thing.
It did roll North America at one point, but that
was some thirteen thousand years ago. But now a company
called Colossal Biosciences, so US based company says it has
made history by making the dire wolf the first animal
to ever be as they put it, d extinct.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It And the question remains, why should we do that?
We are we messing with nature? All right? They are
showing off three wolves born in the past several months
that they say are dire wolves. And here's how they
pulled it off. They had to extract real dire wolf
DNA from fossils. Hmmm, this really sounds like Jurassic Park.
(15:13):
Then they used that to alter the cells of a
gray wolf, which is genetically nearly identical to the dire wolf.
And then they used all of that to create embryos
that they then implanted into saragate dogs. That I mean,
I actually can see the scene in Jurassic Park, and
that's where my mind goes when I'm reading what they did.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Was his name John, He was The name was John
Hammond who when they had everybody like a little movie theater,
he was given the presentation. Yep, this is exactly kind
of what they were described. But yes, they had who's
going to give birth to these pups? Yes, they used
sarahgot dogs. The dogs gave birth. The pups are now
being kept at a sanctuary in an undisclosed location. Now
(15:54):
this all sounds interesting and wonderful, but there are skeptics
out there who are questioning whether they've created and actual
dire wolf, or have you just created a hybrid that
has similar features, or have you actually created something new
altogether that we have never seen.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, and I'm gonna go back to what I said
in the middle of all of this. Why are we
messing around with this anyway? When you tinker with DNA, Yes,
you could be creating a new kind of species. It's
a little alarming. And perhaps even more alarming is the
next sentence. The company has said it has a stated
(16:30):
goal of bringing back the wooly mammoth by twenty twenty six.
Is that a joke?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
They're gonna do the dodo as well. But they have
a couple, they have a list. This was the company
not too long ago where there was a big story
about the mouse that had the wooly mammoth like fur
on it. They created that. That was several weeks ago.
That was a big thing. This is what they're saying.
This is science. It has implications for all kinds of
medical advancements in the future. They say, why not? They say,
(16:58):
this is a tool we have and we should be
you using it. But to your point, what if you're
creating a super animal? Where are you creating an animal
that's something we've never seen before that is a monster
of some kind.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Or yes, that's scary, or what if they figure out
how to take human DNA out of cadavers and start
recreating people who once already existed. I mean, the implications
are frightening. I'm just curious where the oversight is. That's
my question. Like, can any company just do whatever they
want and create whatever they want? Or is the government
(17:33):
do they have a say about what types of scientific
experiments are going on inside these labs?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Well, they are showing off these and they're cute little
pups when they were born. They're cute and adorable. Yet
and about them.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Until they get bigger?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Okay, al right, folks, Well, on this Tuesday morning, before
we let you go, someone we like for you to
consider as you go about your day. It is our
quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Talking about our problems. Is our greatest addiction, break the habit,
talk talk about your joys. This really spoke to me today.
It can be gosh, just day in and day out,
an overwhelming thing just to be alive. And yeah, we
do tend to sit there and complain and talk about
what's wrong. So I loved this quote. It kind of
(18:14):
turned me around this morning.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Whatever, dude, I didn't get enough sleep last night. My
textas are behind. I want to talk about my problems.
I'm gonna stick with that addiction. Okay, let me have
my moment. Man. I'm sorry, y'all. That is not how
we need to leave you today. Sorry, Let's do that
quote one more time.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit.
Talk about your joys. I feel joy just saying that.
It does turn around your mood. So thank you everyone
for running with us.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I'm any Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. Don't let me
or anybody else take you joy today.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Have a good one.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, It's Tuesday, April eighth. Welcome to Morning Run.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Amy Robots and I am TJ Holmes, And shame
on you. If you are well rested this morning, you
should have stayed up and watched the NCAA National Championship
last night. Congratulations to Florida, which pulled off another historic win,
and you are among those who were well rested this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I was gonna say, I'll try not to take that personally.
I mean, I'm more arrested than you are. I stayed
up until. Yeah, this is a big shame on you
moment for me. I think there was six minutes left
in the game, and I just I mean I had
been falling asleep on the couch. I just couldn't keep
my eyes open. So I woke up. I came in
this morning and I said, what happened?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, history happened, That's what you said. It was a stunning, stunning,
stunning game last night. But congratulations to Floria. We'll get
into what happened at the game last night. It was
a heartbreaker for sure. But on the Run this morning,
on this what do we have now Tuesday morning. Along
the run today, this is what we have for you,
President Trump and China escalating trade tensions with a midnight
deadline on tariffs looming tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And all that talk and some fake news contributed to
a wild and chaotic day on Wall Street. Plus, the
most valuable company in the world is now six hundred
billion dollars less valuable thanks tariffs.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Also, after meeting with Trump, Net and Yahoo says he
will eliminate Israel's trade deficit with the US. Also after
meeting with Net and Yahoo, Trump says the US will
hold direct talks with Iran, and Iran says it's not
exactly what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Plus RFK Junior announces he will recommend we stop adding
fluoride to our nation's drinking water, reversing seven decades of policy.
Plus flooding continues in the South as evacuations continue and
the death tool rises across multiple states.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Also on the run this morning, Prince Harry wants one
particular royal privileged back and is making his case in
court today. And an animal has been brought back from extinction. Yes,
Jurassic Park is really happening. This is for real, A
lot of people were talking about it yesterday and the
implications down the road who are immense.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I read this and then reread this, and still my
mind is blown. Cannot wait to get to that story.
But first, we're going to begin our run with a
game of chicken, and so far, no one is winning,
especially not the stock market.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And President Trump has threatened to slap an additional fifty
percent tariff on china imports to the US if China
does not withdraw the thirty four percent tariff it just
imposed in retaliation to Trump's thirty four percent reciprocal tariff
announced last week. So it's just a big back and forth. Now,
China's response didn't leave much room for interpretation.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
No, it did not. This is what they put on
social media. The US threat to escalate tariffs on China
is a mistake on top of a mistake. China will
never accept it. If the US insists on its own way,
China will fight to the end. Trump's ten percent tariff
on all US imports began over the weekend, but it's
the higher tariffs on those individual countries that begins tomorrow
(03:09):
or tonight at midnight, and that has set the stage
for some possible last minute negotiations.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And of course Trump did some clapping back on social media,
saying all talks with China concerning the requested meetings with
US will be terminated. Negotiations with other countries which have
also requested meetings will begin taking place immediately. That's what
the President roh, he said. This continued escalation in uncertainty. Look,
everybody's keeping an eye on this right now. Everybody knows
the markets are going in wild directions, but mostly going
(03:37):
in the wrong direction because of all this.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That's right. At one point on Monday, US stocks actually
stopped falling and the S and P actually surged up
back by like seven percent points after reports circulated that
Trump was considering a ninety day pause on the tariffs. Well,
once the White House confirmed that report was actually fake news,
the markets lost most of any ground they gained.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, the close of the day, the dial Jones was
off three hundred and forty nine points, S and P
was down just slightly. The Nasdaq actually got up at
one point or one percent higher. This morning, futures are
looking slightly up, so maybe the bleeding has stopped. Doll
futures jump nearly six hundred points s and p NASDACK
both up more than one percent in future. So it
(04:22):
looks like we're looking at an opening this morning that
maybe is not so devastating.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, we haven't seen that in three days in market trading,
so we'll see what the day brings. Next up on
our run. No company has taken a beating like Apple
in this current market chaos. Since Trump announced his liberation
Dey tariff's, Apple has lost about twenty percent of its
total market value.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Now that means nearly six hundred and forty billion dollars gone.
Apple is particularly his positioned to feel the pain of
the tariffs because guess where so many of the components
where its products come from and are constructed. Yes, China.
China was hit, of course, like we just mentioned, with
additional tariffs. It retaliated. Trump then threatened to raise tariffs
even more so. China in particular as a worrying place
(05:06):
for a lot of investors.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I know this is in the story where you would chuckle,
but you were saying China the way Trump says, China's
the thing now right, says the revon off for me.
I guess it is all right. Next up on the run,
President Trump made quite the announcement following his meeting with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The leaders focused on two issues, tariffs,
duh and Iran. Let's begin with Iran. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Trump announced the US is going to hold direct talks
with Iran Saturday to talk about a nuclear deal. It's
been seven years since reps from the US and Iran
have actually met face to faith. Trump says, we have
a very big meeting and we will see what happens.
Those his words.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
However, Iran's foreign minister posted on x that Saturday's meeting
in Oman would involve indirect, high level talks, saying it
is as much an opportunity as it is a test.
The ball is in America's court.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The other headline out of this was that net Yaho
says he plans to eliminate Israel's trade deficit with the
US after Trump imposed a seventeen percent reciprocal tariff that
was up to begin at midnight tomorrow. Nan Yoho nan
Yahoo rather, saying it was the right thing to do
and that he hopes Israel can serve as a model
for many countries who ought to do the same. So
it looks like the negotiating tactic works at least in
(06:18):
one situation.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
For one country. Yes, we'll see about the one hundred
and eighty four others in the coming days. Next up
on the run, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Junior, has announced he will ask the CDC to
stop recommending fluoride in our nation's drinking water. Kennedy says
he's putting a task force together to focus on this
particular issue.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
The APA administrator, who spoke alongside Kennedy at yesterday's news conference,
says his agency is looking into new scientific information on
the potential health risks of fluoride. Kennedy has previously said
that fluoride has been associated with brain development issues, arthrit
his bone breaks, and thyroid.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Disease, and while some studies have shown possible links at
much higher levels, there is no definitive proof of any
dangers with the florid levels in our current drinking water.
Fluoride was added to the water back in the nineteen
fifties to strengthen our teeth to reduce cavities, and right
now about two thirds of Americans have fluoride in their.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Water, and make no mistake, it is widely as a
consensus considered one of the greatest public health achievements in history.
The fact that fluoride got into the water. Well, we'll
continue on the run on this Tuesday morning. With rivers
that continue to rise following the once in a generation
storm that is responsible now for at least twenty four
deaths across seven states.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Kentucky's governor actually pleaded with residents yesterday, asking them to
stop driving through water and to not move barricades to
do so. Yesterday, more than sixty people had to be
evacuated from a hotel in Louisville that suddenly became surrounded
by floodwaters.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Fifteen inches of rain fell in Kentucky, fourteen inches in
Arkansas and Tennessee. Authorities and those hard hit areas are
asking people to stay home and help their neighbors. If
you can't. The rain is gone, that means nothing. Do
not get comfortable, because the threat is far from over.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
That's right, That's what all of these authorities and weather
forecasters are saying. Just because it's stopped raining does not
mean the danger is gone. In fact, more than forty
rivers across the area are expected to be in major
flood stage over the next couple of days, So please, please, please,
everyone be careful out there.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
All right, folks, We're going to continue on this Tuesday
Morning run in just a moment. When we come back.
Prince Harry might not be a working Royal anymore, but
he wants a particular royal privilege back. Also, the heartbreak
last night and the history made in the NCAA National
Championship and Jurassic Park is real. They have for the
first time d extincted an animal. Welcome back to your
(08:54):
Tuesday Morning Ron. This next leg takes us to London
and Prince Harry might no longer be a working but
he's fighting in court today to get back some of
the royal treatment, in particular security.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
In what's now been a five year legal fight, Prince
Harry is trying to get courts to overturn the UK's
decision to strip him and his family of government funded
security protection. That decision was made back in twenty twenty
when he and his wife decided they didn't want to
be working Royals and instead they moved to California.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
The printery claims that his family is at risk when
they return home without proper security, saying even though he's
not a working royal, he remains a member of the
royal family and that comes with obviously inherent risks.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
You can't get rid of that, like he's never not
going to be a member of the royal family. So
Harry went as far as saying the UK can never
feel like home if it's not possible to keep safe
when they are on UK soil. It's not clear if
he's going to actually be in court himself, but his
lawyers will be making the case over the next two
days in court in London.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Don't know what to make of that. He actually offered
it one point, Hey, I'll just give me the security
and I will actually pay for They said, no, that's
essentially we're not going to use public officers as your
private security is essentially what that was doing. So it
seems I don't know the government. Do you, as a taxpayer,
would you want to be paying security for guy who
lives in California and this comes over the visit every
(10:16):
once in a while, It seems like he should get it.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, I mean, I feel like it's one of those
issues where it really doesn't take too much to understand
the situation he's in. And it's not one he can control,
and it's because of what family he was born into.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
There were some legal implications here, what's lawful, what they
can and what they can't do. But it's just it sucks.
It's been going off for five years, especially fighting in court.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, especially if he's going to pay pay for it himself,
it seems.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
And part of it is he was only asking for
give us access to the same security information at least
so we know about some of those threats. So they
don't even have access to that stuff, he's arguing as well,
And that's it's tough. It's tough. We'll continue on this
road now and our next leg of the run takes
us to San Antonio, where there was a historic and
(11:07):
heartbreaking night the Florida Gators pulled off an incredible comeback
to win the NCAA National Championship. Last night, the one
seed Gators were down by twelve points in the second
half to fellow one seed Houston, which led for most
of the game and seemed to be having its way
with Florida for most.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Of the game, which is why I felt perfectly comfortable
going to bed last night at a decent time. But yes,
Florida came roaring back very late to a two point lead.
With seconds to play. Houston still had a chance to
tie or take the lead. In the final possession, They
called time out to set up a play with about
twenty seconds left in the game.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
They never got a shot off. This was set up
as the perfect National Championship scenario. This is the stuff
dreams are made of. You're down by two, your team
has the ball, you go tie it up and you
go to overtime, or you take a three pointer and
win the game. This is a setup for like a
historic and heroic moment. But at the end Houston player
(12:05):
went up for a three pointer without four point nine
seconds left, a Florida player jumped in his way. Or
the Houston player again was trying to take the shot,
and he didn't release the shot. He didn't take it.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Instead, he dropped the ball like literally you dropped the ball.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So when you literally dropped the ball, he then can't
touch it again or it would have been a violation.
So he had to stand there and look at this
bouncing ball waiting for one of his teammates to come
get it. Nobody ever did, and all this is happening second,
sticking off the clock. So a Florida player finally dove
for the ball and you could just see the clock.
It's one thing if you take the shot and you
(12:41):
miss it, you can live with that. You don't even
get a shot off, you don't even get a chance.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You dropped the ball.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
He literally dropped the ball. So yeah, time ran out
and that was that. TV cameras as soon as soon
as this happened. The Houston coach Kelvin Sampson, it was
that he was standing motionless, just with that stunned look,
just dumbfounded at what he had just seen. So we
talked about how historic this was. Florida only led for
a minute and four seconds of a forty minute game
(13:09):
and they won.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
That is that is heartbreaking? You don't even want to
win like that?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Uh yeah, I'll take it. I don't care what would happen.
I don't care how we win.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I don't want to win like that. I got no
problem with that. This was we talked about historic. This
was the third largest comeback in National Championship game history.
This is also Florida's third National championship there first since
two thousand and seven when they won back to back
and Florida has done this in three straight games. Now
that they had to come back from a significant second
half deficit to win the game, so great way to
(13:44):
end it. It was a blowout in the women's Championship. It
was good to see a really close, competitive, hard fought
It was a wonderful game line.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I'm glad you stayed up for a babe.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You know I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Gonna all right for the final leg of our run.
A story that had folks buzzing yesterday about the possibility
of us, how having a real life Jurassic Park situation
in the near future. A biotech company announced yesterday it
had successfully brought an animal back from extinction, a dire wolf,
which has not walked the earth in more than ten
(14:14):
thousand years.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So I didn't immediately know what a dire wolf was.
Maybe some of you do, maybe some of you don't.
But here's a way that gets you to understand. It's
the white wolf that was popularized in Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Oh yeah, totally no, which family has it with? That
was the Starks, the Starks, the Starks.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yes, it's that wolf essentially, but it was a real thing.
It did roll North America at one point, but that
was some thirteen thousand years ago. But now a company
called Colossal Biosciences, so US based company says it has
made history by making the dire wolf the first animal
to ever be as they put it, d extinct.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It And the question remains, why should we do that?
We are we messing with nature? All right? They are
showing off three wolves born in the past several months
that they say are dire wolves. And here's how they
pulled it off. They had to extract real dire wolf
DNA from fossils. Hmmm, this really sounds like Jurassic Park.
(15:13):
Then they used that to alter the cells of a
gray wolf, which is genetically nearly identical to the dire wolf.
And then they used all of that to create embryos
that they then implanted into saragate dogs. That I mean,
I actually can see the scene in Jurassic Park, and
that's where my mind goes when I'm reading what they did.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Was his name John, He was The name was John
Hammond who when they had everybody like a little movie theater,
he was given the presentation. Yep, this is exactly kind
of what they were described. But yes, they had who's
going to give birth to these pups? Yes, they used
sarahgot dogs. The dogs gave birth. The pups are now
being kept at a sanctuary in an undisclosed location. Now
(15:54):
this all sounds interesting and wonderful, but there are skeptics
out there who are questioning whether they've created and actual
dire wolf, or have you just created a hybrid that
has similar features, or have you actually created something new
altogether that we have never seen.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, and I'm gonna go back to what I said
in the middle of all of this. Why are we
messing around with this anyway? When you tinker with DNA, Yes,
you could be creating a new kind of species. It's
a little alarming. And perhaps even more alarming is the
next sentence. The company has said it has a stated
(16:30):
goal of bringing back the wooly mammoth by twenty twenty six.
Is that a joke?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
They're gonna do the dodo as well. But they have
a couple, they have a list. This was the company
not too long ago where there was a big story
about the mouse that had the wooly mammoth like fur
on it. They created that. That was several weeks ago.
That was a big thing. This is what they're saying.
This is science. It has implications for all kinds of
medical advancements in the future. They say, why not? They say,
(16:58):
this is a tool we have and we should be
you using it. But to your point, what if you're
creating a super animal? Where are you creating an animal
that's something we've never seen before that is a monster
of some kind.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Or yes, that's scary, or what if they figure out
how to take human DNA out of cadavers and start
recreating people who once already existed. I mean, the implications
are frightening. I'm just curious where the oversight is. That's
my question. Like, can any company just do whatever they
want and create whatever they want? Or is the government
(17:33):
do they have a say about what types of scientific
experiments are going on inside these labs?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Well, they are showing off these and they're cute little
pups when they were born. They're cute and adorable. Yet
and about them.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Until they get bigger?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Okay, al right, folks, Well, on this Tuesday morning, before
we let you go, someone we like for you to
consider as you go about your day. It is our
quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Talking about our problems. Is our greatest addiction, break the habit,
talk talk about your joys. This really spoke to me today.
It can be gosh, just day in and day out,
an overwhelming thing just to be alive. And yeah, we
do tend to sit there and complain and talk about
what's wrong. So I loved this quote. It kind of
(18:14):
turned me around this morning.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Whatever, dude, I didn't get enough sleep last night. My
textas are behind. I want to talk about my problems.
I'm gonna stick with that addiction. Okay, let me have
my moment. Man. I'm sorry, y'all. That is not how
we need to leave you today. Sorry, Let's do that
quote one more time.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit.
Talk about your joys. I feel joy just saying that.
It does turn around your mood. So thank you everyone
for running with us.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I'm any Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. Don't let me
or anybody else take you joy today.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Have a good one.
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