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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good Morning Everybody, Monday, December ninth, This is your Morning Run.
I'm TJ.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Holk and I'm Amy Robach and on the run this morning,
jay Z in his own words defending himself against what
he calls a heinous and idiotic accusation that he and
Sean Diddy Comb's sexually assaulted a minor.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Also this morning, in his first network interview since the election,
President Elect Trump made this promise he'll quickly pardon. January
sixth rioters.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Plus fifty years in power ousted in two weeks, a
stunning turn of events. In Syria, the president has fled,
rebels have taken over, and the world is cautiously optimistic
about what's next.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Also still on the loose and maybe in Georgia, police
haven't been able to track down the gunman who killed
the United Healthcare CEO, despite video of the shooting, the getaway,
and the gunman's face.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And the college football playoff is set. The top twelve
teams are in Team number thirteen and team number fourteen. Well,
they got beef.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Also, seven hundred and sixty five million dollars sounds like
a Powerball jackpot is actually one SuperStar's payday after agreeing
to the largest contract in professional sports.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
History, plus two billion dollars and two hundred and fifty
pairs of custom boots. Taylor Swift wrapped up her arrest
tour last night what will we do with ourselves? Now?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And first there was demure, then there was brain rot,
and now another publication has announced another word of the year,
and this one we actually get.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And you think lubitons are expensive, We'll wait until you
hear how much Dorothy's slippers just sold for at auction.
We have a lot of big numbers in the morning
run today, but we'll get to all of that in
just a bit. We begin the run this morning with
a disturbing lawsuit. Jay Z is fiercely defending himself against
an ugly allegation that he, along with Sean Diddy Combs,
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raped a thirteen year old girl.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Now, this dropping news came late yesterday after a civil
lawsuit was filed alleging that Jay and Diddy drugged and
then took turns assaulting the miner at an MTV Video
Music Awards after party back in the year two thousand.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
The accuser is only identified as Jane Doe in the
lawsuit and says another unidentified female celebrity stood by and
watched the assault happen. The lawsuit was brought by the
Texas attorney who's claim to represent more than one hundred
alleged victims of Combs and has been filing lawsuits against
him on a regular basis for several weeks now.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
He initially claimed that there were other celebrities involved and
threatened to name them publicly. Jay Z is the first
celebrity he's named. Jay Z, whose real name is Sean Carter,
responded strongly to the allegation and didn't let a lawyer
or a rep speak for him.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Instead, he put out a lengthy statement that we actually
want to read in full because it is such a
departure from what we often hear from celebrities that it's
difficult to put it all in proper context or to
sum it up. So here it is, in.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Jay Z's words. Here Now, my lawyer received a blackmail
attempt called a demand letter from a lawyer named Tony Busby.
What he had calculated was the nature of these allegations
in the public scrutiny would make me want to settle, No, sir,
it had the opposite effect. It made me want to
expose you for the fraud you are in a very
public fashion. So no, I will not give you one
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red penny.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore
you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one.
Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should
be locked away. Would you not agree these alleged victims
would deserve real justice if that were the case. This lawyer,
who I have done a bit of research on, seems
to have a pattern of these types of theatrics.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Jayz goes on to say, I have no idea how
you have come to be such a deplorable human, mister Busby,
but I promise you I have seen your kind many
times over. I'm more than prepared to deal with your type.
You claim to be a marine. Marines are known for
their valor. You have neither honor nor dignity. My only
heartbreak is for my family. My wife and I will
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have to sit our children down, one of whom is
at an age where her friends will surely see the
press and ask questions about the nature of these claims
and explain the cruelty and greed of people. I mourn
yet another loss of innocence. Children should not have to
endure such at their young age. It is unfair to
have to try to understand inexplicable degrees of malice meant
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to destroy families and human spirit.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Jay Z continues with my heart and support goes out
to true victims in the world who have to watch
how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability
by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit. You have
made a terrible error in judgment thinking that all celebrities
are the same. I am not from your world. I'm
a young man who made it out of the projects
of Brooklyn. We don't play these types of games. We
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have very strict codes and honor. We protect children. You
seem to deployd people for personal gain. Only your network
of conspiracy theorists fake physics will believe the idiotic claims
you have levied against me, that, if not for the
seriousness surrounding harm to kids, would be laughable. I look
forward to showing you just how different I am.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And with that, wow, a little Brooklyn, it sounded like
almost even came out a jay Zy in that statement,
but that's such a departure from what we often hear
from celebrities who end up in some kind of public
scandal of any kind, and certainly these allegations are as
heinous and shocking as they get. The attorney Tony Busby
responded to Jay's statement by claiming that his client hasn't
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asked for a diamond, instead requested mediation. He also said
his client will not be bullied or harassed, but instead
has now been emboldened. This particular lawsuit was originally filed
in October. It only named Cones as a defendant, but
it was updated yesterday and refiled to include Sean Carter's name.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Diddy's lawyers responded to this news by saying Busby has
now been exposed for aimless publicity stunts designed to extract
payments from celebrities who fear having lies spread about them.
But yes, you said, jaw dropping in our jaws certainly
dropped when we saw this news yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And no word of course, many asking about Beyonce jay
Z's wife haven't heard, at least of this recording, any
statements or anything from her. But as all this was
going on with Diddy, we know he's still sitting in jail.
He's facing bracketeering charges and sex trafficking charges in a
federal case. We always said that you can't get bigger
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than Diddy in the world of hip hop. He is
just a powerhouse in that world. If you were going
to dare try to find a bigger name, it would
be Jay Zve's. So we will continue now on the
run and we will head to Washington. And in his
first post election television interview, President elect Donald Trump said
he will act quote very quickly first day to pardon
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his supporters who have been imprisoned for years. Said they've
been imprisoned and I'm gonna use his words here in
a filth the disgusting place that shouldn't even be allowed
to be open. He's talking about the prison where they're
being held. He did acknowledge there may be some exceptions
to those pardons if somebody was radical or crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Right now, nearly sixteen hundred people have been charged surrounding
the events of January sixth, and more than twelve hundred
of them have been convicted. Currently, around two hundred and
fifty people are behind bars, but over the past four years,
more than six hundred have been sentenced to prison for
their actions.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That day, He didn't rule out pardoning rioters who pled guilty,
including those who admitted to assaulting police officers, saying he
believed they had no choice at the time. He said
that he blamed the system for their guilty police, saying
our legal system is corrupt and nasty.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Trump also said he will not use the Justice Department
to seek revenge on his political foes, but warned that
some members of the House Committee who investigated the January
sixth attack should go to jail. While he said he
would not direct his nominees for FBI director and Attorney
General to go after his rivals, he said if President
Biden wants to, he could pardon the mini members end quote,
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maybe he should, And.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
When directly asked if he would legally go after outgoing
President Joe Biden appointing a special prosecutor to investigate him,
Trump had this to say, I'm not looking to go
back in the past. I'm looking to make our country successful.
Retribution will be through success.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
In the interview, he also said he would work to
extend tax cuts he passed in his first term. He
also said he would not restrict he's not going to
seek to restrict abortion pills. And on the immigration front,
Trump said that he does, in fact have plans to
deport millions of undocumented immigrants and end birthright citizenship.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Also said that his upcoming term will be different than
the first, in part because people like him now, pointing
to his big win, saying when I won the first time,
I wasn't nearly as popular as this, and one thing
that's very important in terms of the election. I love
that I won the popular vote, and buy a lot.
I don't know what to take of that. He had
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a lot to say, and some of it I guess
was a little encouraging and maybe a little discouraging to
hear in terms of the back and forth.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Some of it might have been a little confusing because
he said he wasn't going to go after foes, but
then also made the point to say that President Biden
might want to pardon them. So I don't think that
was cleared up in any way, shape or form with
that interview. But he did make a lot of his
intentions known in that interview.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
All Right, we will continue our run on this Monday morning. Now,
that brutal thirteen year civil war that killed an estimated
half a million people has ended and the Middle East
might be changed forever. The question now will it be
changed for the better or worse.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
In an absolutely stunning and rapid turn of events, rebel
forces took over Syria and said President Bashar al Asad
packing he and his family are now in Moscow, where
he has been granted Asilum.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
The song had been in power the past twenty four years.
Before that, his dad was in power for thirty years.
So that's fifty years of one family's brutal reign in Syria.
And it was all over in a matter of two weeks.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, it was just two weeks ago that Syrian opposition
forces launched a surprise offensive, quickly made gains against Asad's
military forces, and it all culminated with the fall of
the capital Damascus. It happened on Sunday. Syria has been
in a civil war since two thy eleven, when protests
broke out against Asad's rule and he responded in ways
that shocked the world. You probably remember torture, extra judicial killings,
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and war crimes that included a chemical attack in twenty thirteen, and.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
While Asad was widely condemned sanctioned and isolated by the West.
His neighbors in the region tolerated him and even embraced
him to a certain degree. He's enjoyed support from Russia, Iran,
and the Iran backed militant group Hesblah. However, they're all
kind of busy right now. Russia has its hands fold
with war in Ukraine, Iran and Hezbolah have been preoccupied
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with their conflict with Israel.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
The rebels took advantage of Assyrian government, who keys at
whose key allies are stretched thin right now? So what
happens next? President Biden called it a fundamental act of
justice that al Assad has been ousted, but said this
is now a moment of opportunity and risk.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Because here's the thing. The rebel group that has taken
over is designated a terrorist group by the international community,
Hayat Tahar al Sham or HTS. You'll be seeing that
a lot. HTS was once known as al Qaeda in Syria,
but later distance itself from al Qaeda and claim to
adopt a more moderate tone. And you're going to hear
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this name a lot as well. Abu Muhammad al Galani.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah, he's the leader of HTS. And now the de
facto leader of Syria. He's also been labeled a terrorist
and is now a major player in the region that
the international community is going to have to figure out
how to work with. And the US still has troops
in Syria now continuing the fight against ISIS, and according
to the military, the US truck seventy five ISIS targets yesterday.
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That's the same day that Asad fled the country. A
lot going on over there, and a lot unclear as
to what will happen next.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, and the uncertainty is a thing that really scares people.
ISIS is still there. There's a vacuum there now. And
Asad it's pretty incredible his run. He wasn't this guy
who's we consider of the world because there's a brutal dictator.
Was an optimologist working in London at the age of
thirty four when he got called back to come home
because he needed to be groomed to be the leader
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of Syria. His brother died in a car accident. It's
funny how this I say funny, that's not the right word,
but you get what I'm saying here. It's just amazing
how this turn of events and how a guy goes
from that to becoming. He was hopeful that this guy
was going to be new and young. He was Western educated. Yeah,
he was going to be different.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That I did not know he was an optomologist. That
just hard to imagine given the atrocities that have been
attributed to him and what he's done to his own people.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But Syria is going to be different going forward. But
stay with us here on this Morning Run. When we
come back, they have a picture of his face, They
have the killing on video, They had to get away
on video. But police still cannot track down the gunman
who kill the United Healthcare CEO in New York's here,
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Welcome back to the Morning Run and next stuff on
our Run. New York detectives heading to Georgia on the
hunt for the mass gunman who shot and killed United
Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week. Police still
don't know the identity of the shooter. They have been
collecting new information about how he carried out the brazen
and targeted attacked them.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Authorities now believe he came to New York the Sunday
before Thanksgiving after getting on a Greyhound bus in Atlanta.
He was reportedly spotted on board that bus in DC,
but that would mean he was potentially in New York
City for a full ten days before the shooting, and after.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
He shot Thompson outside of New York Hilton in Midtown,
he rode off on an e bike, eventually took a
taxi to the Port Authority bus facility on one hundred
and seventy eighth Street, got back on a bus headed
out of the city. Despite several new images including him
in the back of the cab, detectives still have not
been able to identify him, but say they are good progress.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah the FBI is assisting in the now nationwide manhunt.
So far, the NYPD has recovered that backpack that allegedly
belonged to the shooter and inside it a Tommy Hill
figure jacket and monopoly money. Who knows what that all means.
And over the weekend police searched a pond in Central Park.
Police divers hunting for evidence, but it's unclear if they
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actually found anything of value.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And they also say it may take a few more
days to see if the DNA they were able to
retrieve from several pieces of evidence left at the scene
will lead to a match in their database, apparently have
a water ball and candy wrapper that they're checking out.
In terms of motive, they're still looking into those bullet
casings that had the words deny, defend, and depose written
on them. They say it's eerily similar to the title
of a twenty ten book delay, Deny, Defend, Why insurance
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companies don't pay claims, and what you can do about it.
Detectors are actively investigating whether anger at the insurance industry
was the motive behind the killings. We have seen some
of that anger play out in ugly ways after the killing,
with people almost celebrating the fact that someone killed a
healthcare ceo. Look, we all get it. We've all been
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affected in some way former fashion or frustrated by the
healthcare industry, and some people have actually blamed healthcare companies
for the deaths of people in their families. This is
a tough one with something coming to the surface here.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, it is, and it's hard to read and just
I mean, I think we just get so quick to
dehumanize people. But this was a father of two teenage boys.
He had a wife who's just fallen apart over this.
She calls senseless shooting. So it's difficult to read all
of that anger, but it's something that probably insurance companies
and all of us have to acknowledge.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
A lot of heavy stuff. This morning, We're going to
take a little bit of a turn on the run here. Now, Yes,
let's do it.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Let's head to the gridiron. There was so much speculation
over the past couple of days and weeks, but we
now know who's in and who's out of the first
ever twelve team college football playoff. One of the big upsets,
and I'm not that upset about it, but I am
a bulldog. Alabama is out. Sam is in.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah. Selection committee said they had quite a debate, but
ultimately it was the number of wins Alabama had against
ranked opponents, which was a good thing, a positive in
their column, but they had some ugly losses against unranked
teams that probably did them in. SMU was undefeated in conference,
they didn't have as strong of a conference schedule, did
have as many impressive wins, and their losses were too
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ranked teams.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, the process. I hear you saying it, and I
was watching some of the commentary. It's all still a
bit confusing to me. But I was asking you TJ
a lot of questions as we were watching the announcement yesterday.
This will be a pro style playoff with four rounds
at eleven games taking place over a one month period
of time. Now. The number one seed is Oregon, who
was the only unbeaten team of the playoff, followed by
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My Georgia Bulldogs, who came in at number two after
that incredible overtime win over Texas this weekend, making them
the SEC champs once again.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, that game had storyline after storyline. It was an
ugly game, but it was the storylines in that game
were incredible. Boise State at number three, Arizona State is
at number four. The four teams, those first four get
buys of the first round, and then followed by that
in order, you got Texas, Penn State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Tennessee,
Indiana SMU, and the final team to make the cut
the Clemson Tigers, who got in by winning their conference championship.
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The championship the national championship game will be played January
twentieth at the Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta. So we
had to flip a coin. That's Inauguration Day. Are we
going to the championship, we go into the inauguration.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I'm gonna go. Well, if the Bulldogs are in, it's
the championship, hands down, all right. The next leg of
our run brings us back to New York, where a
new record has been set for the largest contract in
professional sports history, and it goes to Wan Soto, the
outfielder who is one of the best and most powerful
hitters in baseball who helped the Yankees get to this
year's World Series.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
He has agreed to a fifteen year, seven hundred and
sixty five million dollar contract that will keep him in
New York, but not with the Yankees. He is signing
this record deal with the rival New York Mets. Wow.
So some of the numbers here. He is going to
get a seventy five million dollars signing bonus and then
an average of fifty one to fifty five million dollars
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per year of this fifteen.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
That mind blowing. The contract beats the previous record set
just a year ago when La Dodgers star Sho hee
O Tani signed a seven hundred million dollar deal. But
Otani's deal included a lot of deferred money. Soto's does
not and a big reason he is worth all this money. Yeah,
he's one of the best in the game, but he's
also just twenty six years old, so they're getting him
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in his prime.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
There's a premium on that. This guy's had many, many,
many good years. I mean, he could still get better
in the next couple of years. But the cool thing
this is why he said, you bet on yourself. It
sounded crazy few years two years ago he turned down
a four hundred and forty million dollar deal with the
Washington Nationals. He's twenty four years old or whatever. You
turned down four hundred and forty million betting on yourself
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to get to this day. That's in price, so let
that be a lot and to us all, no, we
don't have his talent, but sometimes when you know what
you're doing, you got to bet on yourself and it
worked out.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Wow. Yeah, that's one way to put it. It worked out.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Next up on our run. Look, Rog and I didn't
go to a Taylor Swift concert. We had no plans
to get tickets to one. But for whatever reason, we're
almost sad and Phil lost now that the Era's tour
is over. Taylor'swifth hung up her lubiton boots last night
in Vancouver, performing the final show of her record shattering
concert tour that can only be described as a global phenomenon.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
The tour launched in March of last year on Glendale, Arizona,
and she's done one hundred and fifty shows since then
on five continents that included shows in twenty three US cities,
and at the end of last year, it became the
highest grossing tour of all time. It was the first
tour to crack the one billion dollar mark final number
and estimated two point two billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
She also put out a movie about the concert in
his theaters last year, made ninety three million dollar dollars
in its opening weekend and eventually made two hundred and
sixty million, and it's the highest grossing concert film of
all time. Since this tour launch, she's been named Times
Person of the Year, she launched another new album. She
debuted on Forbes list of Billionaires. What I'm saying is
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Taylor Swift is doing well. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I mean, she even had a book about the concert
that cracked almost the million dollar mark in just one week.
I mean, there's not like everything she touches turns to gold,
maybe even her boyfriend and her boyfriend's brother's podcast.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
See, I was trying to get through this without mentioning
the boyfriend. And there you go for her Sari, her
concert book. The only book that sold more in that
dime frame was by Barack Obama. I mean, but the
cool part, if you will see anything any images of her,
she's always wearing these Christian Lubatonte shoes on stage. He
designed two hundred and fifty pairs just for her for
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this tour. Sixty of them were not designed specifically just
for the European leg of the tour. But the cool
thing about him, the red bottoms are still there, but
they he put rubber souls so she could dance around
and not slip on stage. Yes, how cool? Is that?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
So cool? And he knows what he's doing, because that's
as the best kind of advertising you could possibly have.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
They will be on sales all right.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Next up on Around another word of the year, this
one from Miriam Webster. It is polarization and in this
divisive presidential election year, shouldn't be that big of a surprise.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
So depending on who you as the results of the election,
either call celebration or was the reason for despair and depression,
but Miriam Webster's editor at large said, the word polarization
is a very specific kind of division, one where we
tend towards the extremes rather than toward the center.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
The online dictionary site logs one hundred million page views
a month. It chooses the word of the year by
tracking the search and usage of words, and it says
polarization grew dramatically in search volume over twenty twenty four
because of the quote desire of Americans to better understand
the complex state of affairs.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
So we googled it. Yeah, okay, so rounding out the
top five for Merriam Webster demure. We've been talking about
that one for a while. This seems fortnite. That's a
British word, But I don't remember who's in that song
with Taylor Swift Fortnite. She does that with collaboration with
somebody I can't remember. Okay. Totality is also on the list.
That's a path of totality that was about April's solar eclipse.
And then resonate that is about text generated by AI.
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They apparently use this word disproportionately.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Wow, now I'm going to look for resonate in any
text I get and be like up. They didn't write that,
They just asked AI to write it. Good to know,
all right. For the final leg of our run, There's
no place like Home. Dorothy's ruby red slippers sold it
auction over the weekend, shattering the previous record for the
largest amount spent for a piece of Hollywood memorabilia ever.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
So, going into this, the auction house thought they would
end up getting around ten million dollars for that. They
were wrong. Undisclosed buyer paid twenty eight million dollars for
the slippers, which are one of only four surviving pairs
worn by Judy Garland in Wizard of Oz. But this
particular pair was the primary pair. So these are the ones,
if you will. Now, when you add up taxes and
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fees and things to this, the twenty eight million goes
to thirty two point five million dollars total.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, and that is vastly more than the previous record
holder from twenty eleven, Marilyn Monroe's famous subway dress, you know,
the one where her dress flies up over the subway
grades and she's trying to hold it down. That only
went for five point five two million dollars at auction?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Can I was that dress white?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Absolutely white? Yes? Yes? And the record breaking ruby red
slippers sold on Saturday. Well, they aren't just worth all
that money. They actually have a really incredible story behind them.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
A guy who owned them twenty years ago. He loaned
them to the Judy Garland Museum in Garland's hometown of
Grand Rapids, Michigan. But the shoes were stolen by two
Minnesota men. That wasn't until twenty eighteen that the FBI
track them down were able to recover them. They had
to set up a whole sting for it. Authority say
the thieves who had hoped to sell them believe the
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slippers were made of real room, only to find out
that the rubies were actually made of glass. That's surprising
because usually criminals are known for their intellect.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, I mean really, they really thought that those were
actual rubies? Come on that that's kind of sad, all right. Well,
when the Judy Garland Museum heard about the auction, they
got so excited they wanted them back, so they raised
money from private donors hoping to get them. The Minnesota
state legislature even gave them one hundred thousand dollars to
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help to add to their total.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
We'll talk about that later.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, it fell far, far short of that final twenty
eight million dollar bid.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
The Executi director of the museum, said it was pretty
clear early on that we weren't going to be at
the running and get it back. She said, it's kind
of closing the book on a chapter of the Ruby
Slippers for us, And that's okay. I think it's a
testament to how important the Wizard of Oz is to
the world. That they sold for that much. It had
to have some impact. That wicket is everywhere right now.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I was thinking the same thing, and because to your point,
also at the auction, a Wicked Witch of the West
hat sold for nearly three million dollars, so people are
really invested and willing to spend a lot of cash
on getting this memorabilia.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I would have something about the hat. I don't know why.
I like the hat for some reason more than the slippers.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Really, no slippers, I know they're so iconic. I'm sorry.
All right. We'd like to you to consider this as
you go about your day today on this Monday.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
It's your quote of the day, and the quote is
when you get what you want, that's God's direction. When
you don't get what you want, that's God's protection. This
is a take on all had said to me on
the number of occasions in my life that man's rejection
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is God's protection. That's another way to put it. Yes,
I've heard that from man's rejection is God's protection. It's
just the idea. And everybody right now who can hear
the sounds of our voice, you can think right now
to a moment in your life that you wanted something
so bad and then a month, six months, two years
later you're.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Like, oh, thank God, absolutely yes, So we'll say it
for you one more time. When you get what you want,
that's God's direction. When you don't get what you want,
that's God's protection. Thank you everybody for running with us
on this very busy Monday. I'm Amy Robots and.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I'm DJ Holmes. Will run with you tomorrow.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good Morning Everybody, Monday, December ninth, This is your Morning Run.
I'm TJ.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Holk and I'm Amy Robach and on the run this morning,
jay Z in his own words defending himself against what
he calls a heinous and idiotic accusation that he and
Sean Diddy Comb's sexually assaulted a minor.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Also this morning, in his first network interview since the election,
President Elect Trump made this promise he'll quickly pardon. January
sixth rioters.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Plus fifty years in power ousted in two weeks, a
stunning turn of events. In Syria, the president has fled,
rebels have taken over, and the world is cautiously optimistic
about what's next.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Also still on the loose and maybe in Georgia, police
haven't been able to track down the gunman who killed
the United Healthcare CEO, despite video of the shooting, the getaway,
and the gunman's face.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And the college football playoff is set. The top twelve
teams are in Team number thirteen and team number fourteen. Well,
they got beef.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Also, seven hundred and sixty five million dollars sounds like
a Powerball jackpot is actually one SuperStar's payday after agreeing
to the largest contract in professional sports.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
History, plus two billion dollars and two hundred and fifty
pairs of custom boots. Taylor Swift wrapped up her arrest
tour last night what will we do with ourselves? Now?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And first there was demure, then there was brain rot,
and now another publication has announced another word of the year,
and this one we actually get.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And you think lubitons are expensive, We'll wait until you
hear how much Dorothy's slippers just sold for at auction.
We have a lot of big numbers in the morning
run today, but we'll get to all of that in
just a bit. We begin the run this morning with
a disturbing lawsuit. Jay Z is fiercely defending himself against
an ugly allegation that he, along with Sean Diddy Combs,
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raped a thirteen year old girl.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Now, this dropping news came late yesterday after a civil
lawsuit was filed alleging that Jay and Diddy drugged and
then took turns assaulting the miner at an MTV Video
Music Awards after party back in the year two thousand.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
The accuser is only identified as Jane Doe in the
lawsuit and says another unidentified female celebrity stood by and
watched the assault happen. The lawsuit was brought by the
Texas attorney who's claim to represent more than one hundred
alleged victims of Combs and has been filing lawsuits against
him on a regular basis for several weeks now.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
He initially claimed that there were other celebrities involved and
threatened to name them publicly. Jay Z is the first
celebrity he's named. Jay Z, whose real name is Sean Carter,
responded strongly to the allegation and didn't let a lawyer
or a rep speak for him.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Instead, he put out a lengthy statement that we actually
want to read in full because it is such a
departure from what we often hear from celebrities that it's
difficult to put it all in proper context or to
sum it up. So here it is, in.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Jay Z's words. Here Now, my lawyer received a blackmail
attempt called a demand letter from a lawyer named Tony Busby.
What he had calculated was the nature of these allegations
in the public scrutiny would make me want to settle, No, sir,
it had the opposite effect. It made me want to
expose you for the fraud you are in a very
public fashion. So no, I will not give you one
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red penny.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore
you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one.
Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should
be locked away. Would you not agree these alleged victims
would deserve real justice if that were the case. This lawyer,
who I have done a bit of research on, seems
to have a pattern of these types of theatrics.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Jayz goes on to say, I have no idea how
you have come to be such a deplorable human, mister Busby,
but I promise you I have seen your kind many
times over. I'm more than prepared to deal with your type.
You claim to be a marine. Marines are known for
their valor. You have neither honor nor dignity. My only
heartbreak is for my family. My wife and I will
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have to sit our children down, one of whom is
at an age where her friends will surely see the
press and ask questions about the nature of these claims
and explain the cruelty and greed of people. I mourn
yet another loss of innocence. Children should not have to
endure such at their young age. It is unfair to
have to try to understand inexplicable degrees of malice meant
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to destroy families and human spirit.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Jay Z continues with my heart and support goes out
to true victims in the world who have to watch
how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability
by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit. You have
made a terrible error in judgment thinking that all celebrities
are the same. I am not from your world. I'm
a young man who made it out of the projects
of Brooklyn. We don't play these types of games. We
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have very strict codes and honor. We protect children. You
seem to deployd people for personal gain. Only your network
of conspiracy theorists fake physics will believe the idiotic claims
you have levied against me, that, if not for the
seriousness surrounding harm to kids, would be laughable. I look
forward to showing you just how different I am.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And with that, wow, a little Brooklyn, it sounded like
almost even came out a jay Zy in that statement,
but that's such a departure from what we often hear
from celebrities who end up in some kind of public
scandal of any kind, and certainly these allegations are as
heinous and shocking as they get. The attorney Tony Busby
responded to Jay's statement by claiming that his client hasn't
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asked for a diamond, instead requested mediation. He also said
his client will not be bullied or harassed, but instead
has now been emboldened. This particular lawsuit was originally filed
in October. It only named Cones as a defendant, but
it was updated yesterday and refiled to include Sean Carter's name.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Diddy's lawyers responded to this news by saying Busby has
now been exposed for aimless publicity stunts designed to extract
payments from celebrities who fear having lies spread about them.
But yes, you said, jaw dropping in our jaws certainly
dropped when we saw this news yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And no word of course, many asking about Beyonce jay
Z's wife haven't heard, at least of this recording, any
statements or anything from her. But as all this was
going on with Diddy, we know he's still sitting in jail.
He's facing bracketeering charges and sex trafficking charges in a
federal case. We always said that you can't get bigger
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than Diddy in the world of hip hop. He is
just a powerhouse in that world. If you were going
to dare try to find a bigger name, it would
be Jay Zve's. So we will continue now on the
run and we will head to Washington. And in his
first post election television interview, President elect Donald Trump said
he will act quote very quickly first day to pardon
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his supporters who have been imprisoned for years. Said they've
been imprisoned and I'm gonna use his words here in
a filth the disgusting place that shouldn't even be allowed
to be open. He's talking about the prison where they're
being held. He did acknowledge there may be some exceptions
to those pardons if somebody was radical or crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Right now, nearly sixteen hundred people have been charged surrounding
the events of January sixth, and more than twelve hundred
of them have been convicted. Currently, around two hundred and
fifty people are behind bars, but over the past four years,
more than six hundred have been sentenced to prison for
their actions.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That day, He didn't rule out pardoning rioters who pled guilty,
including those who admitted to assaulting police officers, saying he
believed they had no choice at the time. He said
that he blamed the system for their guilty police, saying
our legal system is corrupt and nasty.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Trump also said he will not use the Justice Department
to seek revenge on his political foes, but warned that
some members of the House Committee who investigated the January
sixth attack should go to jail. While he said he
would not direct his nominees for FBI director and Attorney
General to go after his rivals, he said if President
Biden wants to, he could pardon the mini members end quote,
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maybe he should, And.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
When directly asked if he would legally go after outgoing
President Joe Biden appointing a special prosecutor to investigate him,
Trump had this to say, I'm not looking to go
back in the past. I'm looking to make our country successful.
Retribution will be through success.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
In the interview, he also said he would work to
extend tax cuts he passed in his first term. He
also said he would not restrict he's not going to
seek to restrict abortion pills. And on the immigration front,
Trump said that he does, in fact have plans to
deport millions of undocumented immigrants and end birthright citizenship.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Also said that his upcoming term will be different than
the first, in part because people like him now, pointing
to his big win, saying when I won the first time,
I wasn't nearly as popular as this, and one thing
that's very important in terms of the election. I love
that I won the popular vote, and buy a lot.
I don't know what to take of that. He had
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a lot to say, and some of it I guess
was a little encouraging and maybe a little discouraging to
hear in terms of the back and forth.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Some of it might have been a little confusing because
he said he wasn't going to go after foes, but
then also made the point to say that President Biden
might want to pardon them. So I don't think that
was cleared up in any way, shape or form with
that interview. But he did make a lot of his
intentions known in that interview.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
All Right, we will continue our run on this Monday morning. Now,
that brutal thirteen year civil war that killed an estimated
half a million people has ended and the Middle East
might be changed forever. The question now will it be
changed for the better or worse.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
In an absolutely stunning and rapid turn of events, rebel
forces took over Syria and said President Bashar al Asad
packing he and his family are now in Moscow, where
he has been granted Asilum.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
The song had been in power the past twenty four years.
Before that, his dad was in power for thirty years.
So that's fifty years of one family's brutal reign in Syria.
And it was all over in a matter of two weeks.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, it was just two weeks ago that Syrian opposition
forces launched a surprise offensive, quickly made gains against Asad's
military forces, and it all culminated with the fall of
the capital Damascus. It happened on Sunday. Syria has been
in a civil war since two thy eleven, when protests
broke out against Asad's rule and he responded in ways
that shocked the world. You probably remember torture, extra judicial killings,
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and war crimes that included a chemical attack in twenty thirteen, and.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
While Asad was widely condemned sanctioned and isolated by the West.
His neighbors in the region tolerated him and even embraced
him to a certain degree. He's enjoyed support from Russia, Iran,
and the Iran backed militant group Hesblah. However, they're all
kind of busy right now. Russia has its hands fold
with war in Ukraine, Iran and Hezbolah have been preoccupied
(10:45):
with their conflict with Israel.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
The rebels took advantage of Assyrian government, who keys at
whose key allies are stretched thin right now? So what
happens next? President Biden called it a fundamental act of
justice that al Assad has been ousted, but said this
is now a moment of opportunity and risk.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Because here's the thing. The rebel group that has taken
over is designated a terrorist group by the international community,
Hayat Tahar al Sham or HTS. You'll be seeing that
a lot. HTS was once known as al Qaeda in Syria,
but later distance itself from al Qaeda and claim to
adopt a more moderate tone. And you're going to hear
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this name a lot as well. Abu Muhammad al Galani.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah, he's the leader of HTS. And now the de
facto leader of Syria. He's also been labeled a terrorist
and is now a major player in the region that
the international community is going to have to figure out
how to work with. And the US still has troops
in Syria now continuing the fight against ISIS, and according
to the military, the US truck seventy five ISIS targets yesterday.
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That's the same day that Asad fled the country. A
lot going on over there, and a lot unclear as
to what will happen next.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, and the uncertainty is a thing that really scares people.
ISIS is still there. There's a vacuum there now. And
Asad it's pretty incredible his run. He wasn't this guy
who's we consider of the world because there's a brutal dictator.
Was an optimologist working in London at the age of
thirty four when he got called back to come home
because he needed to be groomed to be the leader
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of Syria. His brother died in a car accident. It's
funny how this I say funny, that's not the right word,
but you get what I'm saying here. It's just amazing
how this turn of events and how a guy goes
from that to becoming. He was hopeful that this guy
was going to be new and young. He was Western educated. Yeah,
he was going to be different.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That I did not know he was an optomologist. That
just hard to imagine given the atrocities that have been
attributed to him and what he's done to his own people.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But Syria is going to be different going forward. But
stay with us here on this Morning Run. When we
come back, they have a picture of his face, They
have the killing on video, They had to get away
on video. But police still cannot track down the gunman
who kill the United Healthcare CEO in New York's here,
(13:08):
Welcome back to the Morning Run and next stuff on
our Run. New York detectives heading to Georgia on the
hunt for the mass gunman who shot and killed United
Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week. Police still
don't know the identity of the shooter. They have been
collecting new information about how he carried out the brazen
and targeted attacked them.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Authorities now believe he came to New York the Sunday
before Thanksgiving after getting on a Greyhound bus in Atlanta.
He was reportedly spotted on board that bus in DC,
but that would mean he was potentially in New York
City for a full ten days before the shooting, and after.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
He shot Thompson outside of New York Hilton in Midtown,
he rode off on an e bike, eventually took a
taxi to the Port Authority bus facility on one hundred
and seventy eighth Street, got back on a bus headed
out of the city. Despite several new images including him
in the back of the cab, detectives still have not
been able to identify him, but say they are good progress.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah the FBI is assisting in the now nationwide manhunt.
So far, the NYPD has recovered that backpack that allegedly
belonged to the shooter and inside it a Tommy Hill
figure jacket and monopoly money. Who knows what that all means.
And over the weekend police searched a pond in Central Park.
Police divers hunting for evidence, but it's unclear if they
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actually found anything of value.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And they also say it may take a few more
days to see if the DNA they were able to
retrieve from several pieces of evidence left at the scene
will lead to a match in their database, apparently have
a water ball and candy wrapper that they're checking out.
In terms of motive, they're still looking into those bullet
casings that had the words deny, defend, and depose written
on them. They say it's eerily similar to the title
of a twenty ten book delay, Deny, Defend, Why insurance
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companies don't pay claims, and what you can do about it.
Detectors are actively investigating whether anger at the insurance industry
was the motive behind the killings. We have seen some
of that anger play out in ugly ways after the killing,
with people almost celebrating the fact that someone killed a
healthcare ceo. Look, we all get it. We've all been
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affected in some way former fashion or frustrated by the
healthcare industry, and some people have actually blamed healthcare companies
for the deaths of people in their families. This is
a tough one with something coming to the surface here.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, it is, and it's hard to read and just
I mean, I think we just get so quick to
dehumanize people. But this was a father of two teenage boys.
He had a wife who's just fallen apart over this.
She calls senseless shooting. So it's difficult to read all
of that anger, but it's something that probably insurance companies
and all of us have to acknowledge.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
A lot of heavy stuff. This morning, We're going to
take a little bit of a turn on the run here. Now, Yes,
let's do it.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Let's head to the gridiron. There was so much speculation
over the past couple of days and weeks, but we
now know who's in and who's out of the first
ever twelve team college football playoff. One of the big upsets,
and I'm not that upset about it, but I am
a bulldog. Alabama is out. Sam is in.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah. Selection committee said they had quite a debate, but
ultimately it was the number of wins Alabama had against
ranked opponents, which was a good thing, a positive in
their column, but they had some ugly losses against unranked
teams that probably did them in. SMU was undefeated in conference,
they didn't have as strong of a conference schedule, did
have as many impressive wins, and their losses were too
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ranked teams.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, the process. I hear you saying it, and I
was watching some of the commentary. It's all still a
bit confusing to me. But I was asking you TJ
a lot of questions as we were watching the announcement yesterday.
This will be a pro style playoff with four rounds
at eleven games taking place over a one month period
of time. Now. The number one seed is Oregon, who
was the only unbeaten team of the playoff, followed by
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My Georgia Bulldogs, who came in at number two after
that incredible overtime win over Texas this weekend, making them
the SEC champs once again.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, that game had storyline after storyline. It was an
ugly game, but it was the storylines in that game
were incredible. Boise State at number three, Arizona State is
at number four. The four teams, those first four get
buys of the first round, and then followed by that
in order, you got Texas, Penn State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Tennessee,
Indiana SMU, and the final team to make the cut
the Clemson Tigers, who got in by winning their conference championship.
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The championship the national championship game will be played January
twentieth at the Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta. So we
had to flip a coin. That's Inauguration Day. Are we
going to the championship, we go into the inauguration.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I'm gonna go. Well, if the Bulldogs are in, it's
the championship, hands down, all right. The next leg of
our run brings us back to New York, where a
new record has been set for the largest contract in
professional sports history, and it goes to Wan Soto, the
outfielder who is one of the best and most powerful
hitters in baseball who helped the Yankees get to this
year's World Series.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
He has agreed to a fifteen year, seven hundred and
sixty five million dollar contract that will keep him in
New York, but not with the Yankees. He is signing
this record deal with the rival New York Mets. Wow.
So some of the numbers here. He is going to
get a seventy five million dollars signing bonus and then
an average of fifty one to fifty five million dollars
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per year of this fifteen.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
That mind blowing. The contract beats the previous record set
just a year ago when La Dodgers star Sho hee
O Tani signed a seven hundred million dollar deal. But
Otani's deal included a lot of deferred money. Soto's does
not and a big reason he is worth all this money. Yeah,
he's one of the best in the game, but he's
also just twenty six years old, so they're getting him
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in his prime.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
There's a premium on that. This guy's had many, many,
many good years. I mean, he could still get better
in the next couple of years. But the cool thing
this is why he said, you bet on yourself. It
sounded crazy few years two years ago he turned down
a four hundred and forty million dollar deal with the
Washington Nationals. He's twenty four years old or whatever. You
turned down four hundred and forty million betting on yourself
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to get to this day. That's in price, so let
that be a lot and to us all, no, we
don't have his talent, but sometimes when you know what
you're doing, you got to bet on yourself and it
worked out.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Wow. Yeah, that's one way to put it. It worked out.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Next up on our run. Look, Rog and I didn't
go to a Taylor Swift concert. We had no plans
to get tickets to one. But for whatever reason, we're
almost sad and Phil lost now that the Era's tour
is over. Taylor'swifth hung up her lubiton boots last night
in Vancouver, performing the final show of her record shattering
concert tour that can only be described as a global phenomenon.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
The tour launched in March of last year on Glendale, Arizona,
and she's done one hundred and fifty shows since then
on five continents that included shows in twenty three US cities,
and at the end of last year, it became the
highest grossing tour of all time. It was the first
tour to crack the one billion dollar mark final number
and estimated two point two billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
She also put out a movie about the concert in
his theaters last year, made ninety three million dollar dollars
in its opening weekend and eventually made two hundred and
sixty million, and it's the highest grossing concert film of
all time. Since this tour launch, she's been named Times
Person of the Year, she launched another new album. She
debuted on Forbes list of Billionaires. What I'm saying is
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Taylor Swift is doing well. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I mean, she even had a book about the concert
that cracked almost the million dollar mark in just one week.
I mean, there's not like everything she touches turns to gold,
maybe even her boyfriend and her boyfriend's brother's podcast.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
See, I was trying to get through this without mentioning
the boyfriend. And there you go for her Sari, her
concert book. The only book that sold more in that
dime frame was by Barack Obama. I mean, but the
cool part, if you will see anything any images of her,
she's always wearing these Christian Lubatonte shoes on stage. He
designed two hundred and fifty pairs just for her for
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this tour. Sixty of them were not designed specifically just
for the European leg of the tour. But the cool
thing about him, the red bottoms are still there, but
they he put rubber souls so she could dance around
and not slip on stage. Yes, how cool? Is that?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
So cool? And he knows what he's doing, because that's
as the best kind of advertising you could possibly have.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
They will be on sales all right.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Next up on Around another word of the year, this
one from Miriam Webster. It is polarization and in this
divisive presidential election year, shouldn't be that big of a surprise.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
So depending on who you as the results of the election,
either call celebration or was the reason for despair and depression,
but Miriam Webster's editor at large said, the word polarization
is a very specific kind of division, one where we
tend towards the extremes rather than toward the center.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
The online dictionary site logs one hundred million page views
a month. It chooses the word of the year by
tracking the search and usage of words, and it says
polarization grew dramatically in search volume over twenty twenty four
because of the quote desire of Americans to better understand
the complex state of affairs.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
So we googled it. Yeah, okay, so rounding out the
top five for Merriam Webster demure. We've been talking about
that one for a while. This seems fortnite. That's a
British word, But I don't remember who's in that song
with Taylor Swift Fortnite. She does that with collaboration with
somebody I can't remember. Okay. Totality is also on the list.
That's a path of totality that was about April's solar eclipse.
And then resonate that is about text generated by AI.
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They apparently use this word disproportionately.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Wow, now I'm going to look for resonate in any
text I get and be like up. They didn't write that,
They just asked AI to write it. Good to know,
all right. For the final leg of our run, There's
no place like Home. Dorothy's ruby red slippers sold it
auction over the weekend, shattering the previous record for the
largest amount spent for a piece of Hollywood memorabilia ever.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
So, going into this, the auction house thought they would
end up getting around ten million dollars for that. They
were wrong. Undisclosed buyer paid twenty eight million dollars for
the slippers, which are one of only four surviving pairs
worn by Judy Garland in Wizard of Oz. But this
particular pair was the primary pair. So these are the ones,
if you will. Now, when you add up taxes and
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fees and things to this, the twenty eight million goes
to thirty two point five million dollars total.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, and that is vastly more than the previous record
holder from twenty eleven, Marilyn Monroe's famous subway dress, you know,
the one where her dress flies up over the subway
grades and she's trying to hold it down. That only
went for five point five two million dollars at auction?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Can I was that dress white?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Absolutely white? Yes? Yes? And the record breaking ruby red
slippers sold on Saturday. Well, they aren't just worth all
that money. They actually have a really incredible story behind them.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
A guy who owned them twenty years ago. He loaned
them to the Judy Garland Museum in Garland's hometown of
Grand Rapids, Michigan. But the shoes were stolen by two
Minnesota men. That wasn't until twenty eighteen that the FBI
track them down were able to recover them. They had
to set up a whole sting for it. Authority say
the thieves who had hoped to sell them believe the
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slippers were made of real room, only to find out
that the rubies were actually made of glass. That's surprising
because usually criminals are known for their intellect.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, I mean really, they really thought that those were
actual rubies? Come on that that's kind of sad, all right. Well,
when the Judy Garland Museum heard about the auction, they
got so excited they wanted them back, so they raised
money from private donors hoping to get them. The Minnesota
state legislature even gave them one hundred thousand dollars to
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help to add to their total.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
We'll talk about that later.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, it fell far, far short of that final twenty
eight million dollar bid.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
The Executi director of the museum, said it was pretty
clear early on that we weren't going to be at
the running and get it back. She said, it's kind
of closing the book on a chapter of the Ruby
Slippers for us, And that's okay. I think it's a
testament to how important the Wizard of Oz is to
the world. That they sold for that much. It had
to have some impact. That wicket is everywhere right now.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I was thinking the same thing, and because to your point,
also at the auction, a Wicked Witch of the West
hat sold for nearly three million dollars, so people are
really invested and willing to spend a lot of cash
on getting this memorabilia.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I would have something about the hat. I don't know why.
I like the hat for some reason more than the slippers.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Really, no slippers, I know they're so iconic. I'm sorry.
All right. We'd like to you to consider this as
you go about your day today on this Monday.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
It's your quote of the day, and the quote is
when you get what you want, that's God's direction. When
you don't get what you want, that's God's protection. This
is a take on all had said to me on
the number of occasions in my life that man's rejection
(25:43):
is God's protection. That's another way to put it. Yes,
I've heard that from man's rejection is God's protection. It's
just the idea. And everybody right now who can hear
the sounds of our voice, you can think right now
to a moment in your life that you wanted something
so bad and then a month, six months, two years
later you're.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Like, oh, thank God, absolutely yes, So we'll say it
for you one more time. When you get what you want,
that's God's direction. When you don't get what you want,
that's God's protection. Thank you everybody for running with us
on this very busy Monday. I'm Amy Robots and.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I'm DJ Holmes. Will run with you tomorrow.
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Amy Robach
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