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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone,
and welcome to Morning Run. It is Monday, July fourteenth.
I'm Amy Robots and I.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Am TJ Holmes. And am I the only one who
was shocked that Pepe and Iris were the fourth couple
that America liked on Love Island USA. I expected them
to possibly even win.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You know what, I think that they were so good,
They were so non controversial that it just didn't rise right.
People have to feel passionate one way or the other.
Maybe they were just too calm and too normal.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Okay, that's one of the shockers. Y'all know exactly what
the hell we're talking about. Love Island USA finally wrapped
up last night. You already know what happened when I
get into that, But that just helps you explain why
some of us are a little exhausted this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
We didn't know it was a two hour finale, so
we had already created this plan with our daughters, like
let's stay up and watched Love Island finale all together.
And then it was Sabin who said, you know it's
two hours, right, Yeah, and then.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We had to well, some of us stayed.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Up through it and some of us passed out early.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Some of us being you.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You actually pulled me off the cost and said, Babe,
you just need to go ahead and go to best.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So I was in there with three girls watching Love
Island USA until eleven last night. But that's wrapped up.
But what a phenomenon. It was plenty of conversations to
be had about that. But we will get going on
the run this morning, and we got new details about
what's happening in Texas where we have emergency crews there
who had to stop searching for the missing from last
(01:39):
week's devastating flooding to go rescue more people who are
being impacted by rising floodwaters after another round of heavy
rain hit the area yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, it was a terrible scene there and also in
Kentucky as well, where a gunman opened fire at a
church in Kentucky, killing two women after shooting a state
trooper during a graphic stop. Plus two major fires in
Arizona have destroyed dozens of historic buildings and shut down
the north rim of the Grand Canyon for the rest
of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Also, President Trump and Rosie o'donald just can't quit each other.
The longtime rivals keep going at it, and this time
President Trump is threatening to take away roso O'donald's citizenship.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
M all right. Also, did you see this one? Elmo
got hacked?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
No other way to explain the horrific anti Semitic posts
that he allegedly made on social media.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Also on the run this morning, a cinner is your winner.
At Wimbledon, a seventeen year old kid just became the
youngest number one overall draft pick since Ken Griffy Junior.
And no surprise, Superman was number one at the box office.
Question is just how high did he fly? Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
That was cute. I like what you did.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's the best I got this morning. I mean, it
took a lot to even come up with that.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
It wasn't that impresive, but still I got the reference.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
All right. Now we do begin our run though in
Texas as we have for so many days emergency crews
there literally had to stop searching for the missing and
rescue even more people from rising floodwaters. Another round of
heavy rain caused more flooding, prompting more water rescues and
evacuations in so many communities along those rivers.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, they were closely monitoring the rising waters in the
very areas still reeling from the fourth of July flooding.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said emergency crews rescued dozens of
residents in the area conditions became too dangerous for the
thousands of volunteers searching for the hundreds still missing in
the area. Those efforts had to stop for much of
the day until the rain finally ended. That was mid
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afternoon yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Now, as of this recording, the death toll from last
weekend's flash flooding is at one hundred thirty two and
the number of missing is still hovering around that same number,
around one hundred and seventy missing people. Texas officials say
they are vowing that the search will continue until every
single missing person is found. But so many families just waiting,
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holding their breath and wondering what's happened to their loved ones.
It is a horrific scene and just so awful that
they were dealing with more rain and more flooding all right.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Next leg of our run now takes us to Kentucky,
where police say a man shot and killed two women
at a church service there Sunday. Not long after that
same suspect shot a state trooper.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
This all started yesterday morning, when police say the suspect
was pulled over near the Lexington Airport and opened fire
on the state trooper. The trooper survived and is reportedly
in stable condition.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But the suspect then fled carjacked somebody, and drove to
the church, which was about fifteen miles away, where he
opened fire, killing a thirty two year old woman and
a seventy two year old woman. Two others were also
injured in that shooting that they're expected to survive now.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Police responded and shot and killed the suspect, who they
have not yet named publicly. They believed the shooter did
have a connection to the church, but they have not
yet said what the motive might have been for that shooting.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Continue are run now in Arizona, where two major fires
have destroyed up to eighty structures, including a National Historic landmark,
the Grand Canyon Lodge. The Dragon Bravo fires, what it's called,
destroyed the lodge, which is on the north rim of
the Grand Canyon National Park. It was the only inn
park lodging for tourists and had been opened since nineteen
(05:26):
thirty seven. Ropes I haven't visited the Grand Canyon, but
I didn't realize that it's the only in park option
you have if you want to stay at Grand Gag.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I didn't know that either, and it actually had a
kitchen fire. It's been there for a long long time.
It was rebuilt in nineteen thirty seven after they had
already had another fire there. But these current fires, they
have taken away so many structures. It consumed the visitors center,
a gas station, a wastewater treatment plant, and administrative building,
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some employee housing there in the Grand Canyon area, along
with numerous historic cabins. So far, the Dragon Brava Fire,
along with the White Sage Fire, have burned more than
forty thousand acres in the area, and the entire North
Rim has been closed to tourists for the rest of
the year now.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
The fires began on the fourth of July from lightning strikes.
What officials say high temperatures, low humility, strong wind gus
have fueled the fires, making them extremely difficult to fight.
Further complicating matters, a chlorine gas leak from the fire
ravaged wastewater treatment plants, forced firefighters to evacuate the area
On Sunday. Neither fire has been contained at this point.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
All right, Next up on the run, President Trump says
he may take away US citizenship from Rosy O'Donnell, even
though there's a well established Supreme Court ruling that prohibits
the government from doing that very thing.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh, come on, a pesky little Supreme Court of ruling
is not going to stop Trump when he had set
his mind to something. Drump rode on social media over
the weekend quote, because of the facts, Rosy O'Donnell is
not in the best interests of great country. I am
giving serious consideration to taking away her citizenship. She is
a threat to humanity and should remain in the wonderful
(07:10):
country of Ireland if they want her. God bless America.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Okay, So, Rosie O'Donnell moved to Ireland in January after
Trump won the election, and she says because Trump won
the election, she says she's in the process of obtaining
Irish citizenship based on her family lineage. O'Donnell has been
very active on social media, writing about Trump's administration, criticizing
his Big Beautiful Bill, among other things, and saying he
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has put the country in danger with his horrible decisions.
She ended, calling him an evil manchild.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Okay, well he pop off this time, but what was
the one that sent him off?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Calling him an evil manchild?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
She also said that was the new one.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yes, And she also said.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That his cuts to the National Weather Service caused so
many of the deaths in Texas. So she was putting
a lot of blame on him for his administration's policies.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Okay, and he just finally just fired back back. Okay.
The two have been at this for years, publicly four years,
even long before he became president. She responded to Trump's
post over the weekend saying Trump has always hated the
fact that I see him for who he is, a criminal,
con man, sexual, abusing, liar, out to harm our nation
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to serve himself. This is why I moved to Ireland.
Depending on what side of the oh you are on,
you probably like his words or you like her words.
But in both cases, just we gotta calm down. We
got to bring the temperature down. It's just the public
and it's ugly.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And it's unnecessary.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You can dispute someone's policy, you can dispute someone's way
of going about things without calling each other names, and
both of them have resorted to that. Now Rosie said
she will move back to the US when all citizens
have equal rights in America.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
We will never see her again then.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Right, I mean, that's such a way that means right.
I know, so she is anyway, but this by his Trump? Now,
who got sleep in?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Wow? I just I need to go back to bed
as well. I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But what I was trying to say is that obviously,
even though Trump threatened to take away her citizenship, every
single legal legal expert in this country says.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's literally impossible. He cannot do that, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Just wanted to make that clear, all right, Next up,
even though it was very unclear the way I just
said that. Next up on our run, Elmo also had
some trouble with his words, saying some wild stuff on
his x account yesterday, and it was very clear the
little red fella.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Had been hacked.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Sesame Street says the account of the forever upbeat Elmo
was compromised after the official Elmo account started putting out
this is terrible, racist, anti Semitic messages like you.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Know what I was debating, Well, should should we tell
folks what it was to understand the impact but just
not even repeat these words. I was debating about it.
I'm what's in front of us, But I.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Think I think it's okay to say what was said, Okay,
knowing full well that Elmo did not say these thors.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Okay, it was very vile stuff, folks. But yes, a
post that said, quote kill all Jews, another one quote
all Jews should die again quote Jews control the world
and need to be exterminated. Now, that is just don't
know who this person was and how this came about.
The stuff was eventually deleted and Sesame Street had to
(10:27):
put out a statement about it.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, their statement was Elmo's ex account was compromised today
by an unknown hacker who posted disgusting messages, including anti
Semitic and racist posts. We are working to restore full
control of the account. Scary stuff, though, when someone can
take over an account, and we're talking about these AI
controlled folks now coming out and just who knows where
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all the stuff is coming out from. But it's scary
because you don't know how secure your account is and
who has access to so many of your electronic and
media files.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
It's scary.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
They can get to Elmo, they can get to any
of us.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
All right, folks, stay with us here on this Monday
morning run. We're gonna let to a Robot take a
quick nap during this break, but when we come back
and continue the run, Wimbledon's been around about one hundred
and fifty years, but yesterday something happened there that has
never happened before. Also coming up, there's a seventeen year
old kid, a high schooler in Oklahoma. You don't know
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his name, you don't know what he's been up to,
but there's a reason we want to mention him to
you this morning. And we're gonna wrap up things with Superman.
Did he do what he was supposed to do, which
is rescue the DC Universe? All right, folks, let's continue.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Robot has her nap and she assures us she will
not flub another word for the rest of this morning run,
and let's continue on the run with this congratulation to
jannik Center, who yesterday became the first Italian ever to
win Wimbledon. Do you know how to say that with
the correct Italian congratulate? Congrat Why do we both were
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gesturing with our hands.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
This is what Italians do.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
We're supposed to do. Okay. Yes, he's the first Italian
to ever win Wimbledon, the first in the nearly one
hundred and fifty year history of this tournament.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, Center, the number one ranked player in the world,
beat Carlos Alcarez, the number two ranked player in the world,
in four sets. Alcaaz had won the previous two Wimbledon
championships and had beaten Center the last five times the
two played each other, including all the one you just
loved so much last month and the French Open final epic,
second longest final in the French Open history.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You were talking about it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I was raving about that match. But these are the
guys now, all right, Center and al Karaz. These two
men have won the past seven majors, and they've won
the last nine out of twelve. So you're talking about
the men's game. And Federer's gone, the Doll's gone. Those
two guys were everything. You got your next two guys
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right here. They'll be going at it for years and
years and years and robes. Last week, of course, Amanda Anisimova,
the young American who made it to the women's final,
she had a tough time.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, we were so excited about her. We were rooting
for her.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
But she lost, not just in straight sets, this was painful.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
She didn't win a single game. It was six to oh,
six to oh.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
She was rattled by the moment, the nerves, the environments,
and every little inch you mishit a ball, just a
slight bit and it's out versus and she just made
too many mistakes. But she'll be back. But that was
tough to see. We were really really rooting for her.
All right, let's continue another sports related story here, and
in all likelihood, robes, you didn't know the Major League
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Baseball drafts was this weekend? Did you?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
One hundred percent? I did not know.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Okay, people didn't know, and that's okay. Still we want
you to know something about it. A seventeen year old
kid was the number one overall draft pick and is
the youngest to be drafted number one since Ken Griffy Junior.
Now you're not big into baseball, No, you know that
name though, King Griffy.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Oh of course I know that name.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Well, there you go, and that was back in nineteen
eighty seven. So if this kid is the youngest since
Ken Griffy, then he must have something come.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, so maybe we'll all know his name, just like
we know Ken Griffy Juniors. His name is Eli Willitts.
What makes him so special that the Washington Nationals would
pick a high schooler number one overall, Well, it boils
down to this, he's really, really good. He's from Oklahoma.
He led his high school team to three straight state
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championships and is considered an insanely talented, plate disciplined, switch
hitting shortstop. And by the way, his dad also played
in the Major He.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Comes from good stock, which they sometimes take into account.
He doesn't turn eighteen until December, and they say that's
a very good indication of a kid. Is this mature
before his eighteenth birthday? They turn out to be Major
League Baseball stars. Yes, he is now the third youngest
player to be drafted number one. We mentioned King Griffy Junior,
he was the second youngest, but the youngest ever Robes
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was a guy named Tim Foley in nineteen sixty eight.
But the thing is, all three of these guys were
seventeen years old. Just days were separate between all three
of them. They were only difference in age by thirty
six days between all three, but they were all seventeen
years old.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
That's a lot of pressure on Willits though, you know,
to have everyone talking about expectations are so much a
part of the mental game.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I just always wonder. I'm thinking, that's so much pressure
for the seventeen year old.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Now he's expected to be as good as Ken Griffy Junior.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
See you're sounding sweet like, I'm all, he's a seventeen
year old. Yeah, then you see the six to two
stood of a kid.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
You're like, Okay, that grown man, he's got it, he's
got it all right.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Last lick over run here on this morning, and I look,
we talked about we were up late last night. I tried.
There are all kinds of clever headlines out there about
how the Superman movie did over the weekend. You can
guess some of them.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Box office record, whatever. I just I tried my best robes.
I wasted time sitting and staring at the screen just
to finally tell everybody, this Superman did really well at
the box office. That's all.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, that's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The highly anticipated reboot made one hundred and twenty two
million dollars at the US box office over the weekend.
That makes it the third largest opening of the year,
behind a Minecraft movie and the live action Lee Low
and Stitch. A lot was on the line with this movie.
This is the first movie in Warner Brothers new DC
Universe relaunch.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, they've had some big time missus with Shazam to
Aquaman to The Flash. You might remember some of that stuff.
But the studio change course brought in a new team
hoping to rise Superman's Red coattails to create a Marvel
like universe of heroes that they have done so well
in like every Marvel movie made a billion dollars, it seemed.
But they're trying to do that kind of thing, and
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this was the start of it. But it brought in
another ninety five million dollars overseas to a pretty decent start,
at least for the man.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
See, we really really really want to see this one,
it's been so well reviewed. Instead, we finally got to
see twenty seven years No, twenty eight years later, damn it.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
See I still screwed it up. I was doing so well.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Would you take a year off of mine because.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
My brain is not functioning.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Twenty eight years later, So we finally saw that horror
movie yesterday, but Superman is next for us.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Okay, but before we let you go, we should obviously
do it pretty quickly. Something we would like me you
to take with you on your day and consider it
is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Okay, And before I realized that I wasn't going to
be able to speak this morning, this is a long quote,
but I just thought it was so powerful, So bear
with me. I'm going to do my best not to
mess this, folks.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Of all days, I kid you not, this is quite
literally the longest quote of the day we have ever used.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
It's so good, though, I'm gonna take my time. Don't
before you speak, listen, before you write, think, before you spend, earn,
before you invest, investigate, before you criticize, wait, before you pray, forgive,
before you quit, try, before you retire, save, and before
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you die give.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I loved that.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I know it's a lot, but every single one of
those things could be a quote, you know, like, just
before you speak, listen, I could have that tattooed on
my arm at least help me.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You wouldn't do it, it might help.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
So.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, before I criticize, I should wait. Sorry you didn't
follow this, and before you work, sleep this. Okay, folks,
you gotta let this go, but take that with you today.
It is cool. It's worth repeating. Before you speak, listen
before you write, think before you spend, earn before you invest,
Investigate before you criticize, Wait before you pray, forgive, before
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you quit, try, before you retire, safe before you die.
Give great quote today it is really.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Going all right.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
So thank you for running with us and for bearing
with us, or maybe just bearing with me on this Monday.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Everyone. I'm Amy Robock and on behalf of my partner T. J.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Holmes. We hope you have a wonderful day and thank
you for running with us
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone,
and welcome to Morning Run. It is Monday, July fourteenth.
I'm Amy Robots and I.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Am TJ Holmes. And am I the only one who
was shocked that Pepe and Iris were the fourth couple
that America liked on Love Island USA. I expected them
to possibly even win.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You know what, I think that they were so good,
They were so non controversial that it just didn't rise right.
People have to feel passionate one way or the other.
Maybe they were just too calm and too normal.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Okay, that's one of the shockers. Y'all know exactly what
the hell we're talking about. Love Island USA finally wrapped
up last night. You already know what happened when I
get into that, But that just helps you explain why
some of us are a little exhausted this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
We didn't know it was a two hour finale, so
we had already created this plan with our daughters, like
let's stay up and watched Love Island finale all together.
And then it was Sabin who said, you know it's
two hours, right, Yeah, and then.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We had to well, some of us stayed.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Up through it and some of us passed out early.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Some of us being you.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You actually pulled me off the cost and said, Babe,
you just need to go ahead and go to best.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So I was in there with three girls watching Love
Island USA until eleven last night. But that's wrapped up.
But what a phenomenon. It was plenty of conversations to
be had about that. But we will get going on
the run this morning, and we got new details about
what's happening in Texas where we have emergency crews there
who had to stop searching for the missing from last
(01:39):
week's devastating flooding to go rescue more people who are
being impacted by rising floodwaters after another round of heavy
rain hit the area yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, it was a terrible scene there and also in
Kentucky as well, where a gunman opened fire at a
church in Kentucky, killing two women after shooting a state
trooper during a graphic stop. Plus two major fires in
Arizona have destroyed dozens of historic buildings and shut down
the north rim of the Grand Canyon for the rest
of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Also, President Trump and Rosie o'donald just can't quit each other.
The longtime rivals keep going at it, and this time
President Trump is threatening to take away roso O'donald's citizenship.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
M all right. Also, did you see this one? Elmo
got hacked?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
No other way to explain the horrific anti Semitic posts
that he allegedly made on social media.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Also on the run this morning, a cinner is your winner.
At Wimbledon, a seventeen year old kid just became the
youngest number one overall draft pick since Ken Griffy Junior.
And no surprise, Superman was number one at the box office.
Question is just how high did he fly? Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
That was cute. I like what you did.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's the best I got this morning. I mean, it
took a lot to even come up with that.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
It wasn't that impresive, but still I got the reference.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
All right. Now we do begin our run though in
Texas as we have for so many days emergency crews
there literally had to stop searching for the missing and
rescue even more people from rising floodwaters. Another round of
heavy rain caused more flooding, prompting more water rescues and
evacuations in so many communities along those rivers.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, they were closely monitoring the rising waters in the
very areas still reeling from the fourth of July flooding.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said emergency crews rescued dozens of
residents in the area conditions became too dangerous for the
thousands of volunteers searching for the hundreds still missing in
the area. Those efforts had to stop for much of
the day until the rain finally ended. That was mid
(03:41):
afternoon yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Now, as of this recording, the death toll from last
weekend's flash flooding is at one hundred thirty two and
the number of missing is still hovering around that same number,
around one hundred and seventy missing people. Texas officials say
they are vowing that the search will continue until every
single missing person is found. But so many families just waiting,
(04:04):
holding their breath and wondering what's happened to their loved ones.
It is a horrific scene and just so awful that
they were dealing with more rain and more flooding all right.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Next leg of our run now takes us to Kentucky,
where police say a man shot and killed two women
at a church service there Sunday. Not long after that
same suspect shot a state trooper.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
This all started yesterday morning, when police say the suspect
was pulled over near the Lexington Airport and opened fire
on the state trooper. The trooper survived and is reportedly
in stable condition.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But the suspect then fled carjacked somebody, and drove to
the church, which was about fifteen miles away, where he
opened fire, killing a thirty two year old woman and
a seventy two year old woman. Two others were also
injured in that shooting that they're expected to survive now.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Police responded and shot and killed the suspect, who they
have not yet named publicly. They believed the shooter did
have a connection to the church, but they have not
yet said what the motive might have been for that shooting.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Continue are run now in Arizona, where two major fires
have destroyed up to eighty structures, including a National Historic landmark,
the Grand Canyon Lodge. The Dragon Bravo fires, what it's called,
destroyed the lodge, which is on the north rim of
the Grand Canyon National Park. It was the only inn
park lodging for tourists and had been opened since nineteen
(05:26):
thirty seven. Ropes I haven't visited the Grand Canyon, but
I didn't realize that it's the only in park option
you have if you want to stay at Grand Gag.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I didn't know that either, and it actually had a
kitchen fire. It's been there for a long long time.
It was rebuilt in nineteen thirty seven after they had
already had another fire there. But these current fires, they
have taken away so many structures. It consumed the visitors center,
a gas station, a wastewater treatment plant, and administrative building,
(05:54):
some employee housing there in the Grand Canyon area, along
with numerous historic cabins. So far, the Dragon Brava Fire,
along with the White Sage Fire, have burned more than
forty thousand acres in the area, and the entire North
Rim has been closed to tourists for the rest of
the year now.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
The fires began on the fourth of July from lightning strikes.
What officials say high temperatures, low humility, strong wind gus
have fueled the fires, making them extremely difficult to fight.
Further complicating matters, a chlorine gas leak from the fire
ravaged wastewater treatment plants, forced firefighters to evacuate the area
On Sunday. Neither fire has been contained at this point.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
All right, Next up on the run, President Trump says
he may take away US citizenship from Rosy O'Donnell, even
though there's a well established Supreme Court ruling that prohibits
the government from doing that very thing.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh, come on, a pesky little Supreme Court of ruling
is not going to stop Trump when he had set
his mind to something. Drump rode on social media over
the weekend quote, because of the facts, Rosy O'Donnell is
not in the best interests of great country. I am
giving serious consideration to taking away her citizenship. She is
a threat to humanity and should remain in the wonderful
(07:10):
country of Ireland if they want her. God bless America.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Okay, So, Rosie O'Donnell moved to Ireland in January after
Trump won the election, and she says because Trump won
the election, she says she's in the process of obtaining
Irish citizenship based on her family lineage. O'Donnell has been
very active on social media, writing about Trump's administration, criticizing
his Big Beautiful Bill, among other things, and saying he
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has put the country in danger with his horrible decisions.
She ended, calling him an evil manchild.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Okay, well he pop off this time, but what was
the one that sent him off?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Calling him an evil manchild?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
She also said that was the new one.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yes, And she also said.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That his cuts to the National Weather Service caused so
many of the deaths in Texas. So she was putting
a lot of blame on him for his administration's policies.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Okay, and he just finally just fired back back. Okay.
The two have been at this for years, publicly four years,
even long before he became president. She responded to Trump's
post over the weekend saying Trump has always hated the
fact that I see him for who he is, a criminal,
con man, sexual, abusing, liar, out to harm our nation
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to serve himself. This is why I moved to Ireland.
Depending on what side of the oh you are on,
you probably like his words or you like her words.
But in both cases, just we gotta calm down. We
got to bring the temperature down. It's just the public
and it's ugly.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And it's unnecessary.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You can dispute someone's policy, you can dispute someone's way
of going about things without calling each other names, and
both of them have resorted to that. Now Rosie said
she will move back to the US when all citizens
have equal rights in America.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
We will never see her again then.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Right, I mean, that's such a way that means right.
I know, so she is anyway, but this by his Trump? Now,
who got sleep in?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Wow? I just I need to go back to bed
as well. I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But what I was trying to say is that obviously,
even though Trump threatened to take away her citizenship, every
single legal legal expert in this country says.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's literally impossible. He cannot do that, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Just wanted to make that clear, all right, Next up,
even though it was very unclear the way I just
said that. Next up on our run, Elmo also had
some trouble with his words, saying some wild stuff on
his x account yesterday, and it was very clear the
little red fella.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Had been hacked.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Sesame Street says the account of the forever upbeat Elmo
was compromised after the official Elmo account started putting out
this is terrible, racist, anti Semitic messages like you.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Know what I was debating, Well, should should we tell
folks what it was to understand the impact but just
not even repeat these words. I was debating about it.
I'm what's in front of us, But I.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Think I think it's okay to say what was said, Okay,
knowing full well that Elmo did not say these thors.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Okay, it was very vile stuff, folks. But yes, a
post that said, quote kill all Jews, another one quote
all Jews should die again quote Jews control the world
and need to be exterminated. Now, that is just don't
know who this person was and how this came about.
The stuff was eventually deleted and Sesame Street had to
(10:27):
put out a statement about it.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, their statement was Elmo's ex account was compromised today
by an unknown hacker who posted disgusting messages, including anti
Semitic and racist posts. We are working to restore full
control of the account. Scary stuff, though, when someone can
take over an account, and we're talking about these AI
controlled folks now coming out and just who knows where
(10:52):
all the stuff is coming out from. But it's scary
because you don't know how secure your account is and
who has access to so many of your electronic and
media files.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
It's scary.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
They can get to Elmo, they can get to any
of us.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
All right, folks, stay with us here on this Monday
morning run. We're gonna let to a Robot take a
quick nap during this break, but when we come back
and continue the run, Wimbledon's been around about one hundred
and fifty years, but yesterday something happened there that has
never happened before. Also coming up, there's a seventeen year
old kid, a high schooler in Oklahoma. You don't know
(11:28):
his name, you don't know what he's been up to,
but there's a reason we want to mention him to
you this morning. And we're gonna wrap up things with Superman.
Did he do what he was supposed to do, which
is rescue the DC Universe? All right, folks, let's continue.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Robot has her nap and she assures us she will
not flub another word for the rest of this morning run,
and let's continue on the run with this congratulation to
jannik Center, who yesterday became the first Italian ever to
win Wimbledon. Do you know how to say that with
the correct Italian congratulate? Congrat Why do we both were
(12:16):
gesturing with our hands.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
This is what Italians do.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
We're supposed to do. Okay. Yes, he's the first Italian
to ever win Wimbledon, the first in the nearly one
hundred and fifty year history of this tournament.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, Center, the number one ranked player in the world,
beat Carlos Alcarez, the number two ranked player in the world,
in four sets. Alcaaz had won the previous two Wimbledon
championships and had beaten Center the last five times the
two played each other, including all the one you just
loved so much last month and the French Open final epic,
second longest final in the French Open history.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You were talking about it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I was raving about that match. But these are the
guys now, all right, Center and al Karaz. These two
men have won the past seven majors, and they've won
the last nine out of twelve. So you're talking about
the men's game. And Federer's gone, the Doll's gone. Those
two guys were everything. You got your next two guys
(13:12):
right here. They'll be going at it for years and
years and years and robes. Last week, of course, Amanda Anisimova,
the young American who made it to the women's final,
she had a tough time.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, we were so excited about her. We were rooting
for her.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
But she lost, not just in straight sets, this was painful.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
She didn't win a single game. It was six to oh,
six to oh.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
She was rattled by the moment, the nerves, the environments,
and every little inch you mishit a ball, just a
slight bit and it's out versus and she just made
too many mistakes. But she'll be back. But that was
tough to see. We were really really rooting for her.
All right, let's continue another sports related story here, and
in all likelihood, robes, you didn't know the Major League
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Baseball drafts was this weekend? Did you?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
One hundred percent? I did not know.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Okay, people didn't know, and that's okay. Still we want
you to know something about it. A seventeen year old
kid was the number one overall draft pick and is
the youngest to be drafted number one since Ken Griffy Junior.
Now you're not big into baseball, No, you know that
name though, King Griffy.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Oh of course I know that name.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Well, there you go, and that was back in nineteen
eighty seven. So if this kid is the youngest since
Ken Griffy, then he must have something come.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, so maybe we'll all know his name, just like
we know Ken Griffy Juniors. His name is Eli Willitts.
What makes him so special that the Washington Nationals would
pick a high schooler number one overall, Well, it boils
down to this, he's really, really good. He's from Oklahoma.
He led his high school team to three straight state
(14:47):
championships and is considered an insanely talented, plate disciplined, switch
hitting shortstop. And by the way, his dad also played
in the Major He.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Comes from good stock, which they sometimes take into account.
He doesn't turn eighteen until December, and they say that's
a very good indication of a kid. Is this mature
before his eighteenth birthday? They turn out to be Major
League Baseball stars. Yes, he is now the third youngest
player to be drafted number one. We mentioned King Griffy Junior,
he was the second youngest, but the youngest ever Robes
(15:15):
was a guy named Tim Foley in nineteen sixty eight.
But the thing is, all three of these guys were
seventeen years old. Just days were separate between all three
of them. They were only difference in age by thirty
six days between all three, but they were all seventeen
years old.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
That's a lot of pressure on Willits though, you know,
to have everyone talking about expectations are so much a
part of the mental game.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I just always wonder. I'm thinking, that's so much pressure
for the seventeen year old.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Now he's expected to be as good as Ken Griffy Junior.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
See you're sounding sweet like, I'm all, he's a seventeen
year old. Yeah, then you see the six to two
stood of a kid.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
You're like, Okay, that grown man, he's got it, he's
got it all right.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Last lick over run here on this morning, and I look,
we talked about we were up late last night. I tried.
There are all kinds of clever headlines out there about
how the Superman movie did over the weekend. You can
guess some of them.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Box office record, whatever. I just I tried my best robes.
I wasted time sitting and staring at the screen just
to finally tell everybody, this Superman did really well at
the box office. That's all.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, that's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The highly anticipated reboot made one hundred and twenty two
million dollars at the US box office over the weekend.
That makes it the third largest opening of the year,
behind a Minecraft movie and the live action Lee Low
and Stitch. A lot was on the line with this movie.
This is the first movie in Warner Brothers new DC
Universe relaunch.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, they've had some big time missus with Shazam to
Aquaman to The Flash. You might remember some of that stuff.
But the studio change course brought in a new team
hoping to rise Superman's Red coattails to create a Marvel
like universe of heroes that they have done so well
in like every Marvel movie made a billion dollars, it seemed.
But they're trying to do that kind of thing, and
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this was the start of it. But it brought in
another ninety five million dollars overseas to a pretty decent start,
at least for the man.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
See, we really really really want to see this one,
it's been so well reviewed. Instead, we finally got to
see twenty seven years No, twenty eight years later, damn it.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
See I still screwed it up. I was doing so well.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Would you take a year off of mine because.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
My brain is not functioning.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Twenty eight years later, So we finally saw that horror
movie yesterday, but Superman is next for us.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Okay, but before we let you go, we should obviously
do it pretty quickly. Something we would like me you
to take with you on your day and consider it
is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Okay, And before I realized that I wasn't going to
be able to speak this morning, this is a long quote,
but I just thought it was so powerful, So bear
with me. I'm going to do my best not to
mess this, folks.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Of all days, I kid you not, this is quite
literally the longest quote of the day we have ever used.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
It's so good, though, I'm gonna take my time. Don't
before you speak, listen, before you write, think, before you spend, earn,
before you invest, investigate, before you criticize, wait, before you pray, forgive,
before you quit, try, before you retire, save, and before
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you die give.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I loved that.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I know it's a lot, but every single one of
those things could be a quote, you know, like, just
before you speak, listen, I could have that tattooed on
my arm at least help me.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You wouldn't do it, it might help.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
So.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, before I criticize, I should wait. Sorry you didn't
follow this, and before you work, sleep this. Okay, folks,
you gotta let this go, but take that with you today.
It is cool. It's worth repeating. Before you speak, listen
before you write, think before you spend, earn before you invest,
Investigate before you criticize, Wait before you pray, forgive, before
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you quit, try, before you retire, safe before you die.
Give great quote today it is really.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Going all right.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
So thank you for running with us and for bearing
with us, or maybe just bearing with me on this Monday.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Everyone. I'm Amy Robock and on behalf of my partner T. J.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Holmes. We hope you have a wonderful day and thank
you for running with us
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