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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning run.
It's Wednesday, November nineteenth. I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Holmes.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Hope you get this Morning run this morning because we
had a hard time getting to you yesterday. A lot
of you had issues. Somebody owes us all in apology
robes for what they did to the internet yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Stuff just didn't work and we had no idea.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Why isn't it scary how dependent we are for reasons
we don't even realize until it goes away.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
That's a good, good point. Nobody heard a cloud fair
before yesterday. But this company was responsible for the shutdown.
Everything's up and running and they did apologize. So we'll
talk about that today. In a moment, we're going to
get to Rolls. I guess at the lu it struck
us a little differently because we know this young lady
pretty well. But Trump went after a reporter in a
(00:57):
pretty pretty harsh way in front of a lot lot
of people, including a world leader, and it was it
was tough, and in the midst of all that, calls
for a license to be taken away from the network.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It was hard to watch just because yes, we know her,
I respect her. She is a great reporter. And I
don't say that lightly. I don't think you would either.
This isn't just us saying, oh, you know, poor journalist.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Trump's being mean. This was uncalled for and an unwarranted.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, so we'll get into that moment and why now
it has turned into maybe a bigger deal because yes,
he's calling for once again a license to be taken
away from a network. But we do want to make
sure that top right corner of your Apple podcast app
on our show screen it says follow. Just click that
and you can make sure you get all of our updates.
And we have had plenty a lot of news been
(01:47):
going on lately, but also in the news and on
this run this morning, a singer is a murder suspect,
lebron and a one hundred year old painting both set
records yesterday racial redistricting and toilet sells for twelve million dollars.
But Robes, let's begin first with a day we saw
on Capitol Hill yesterday, the day we're going to have today,
(02:10):
and wow, days that we thought we might never see.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
That's right, it is pretty much a done deal. Something
we did not think we would say, and something we
rarely say when we're talking about Congress. But the full
Epstein files will finally be released.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
We believe.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I just wanted to cover us a little bit there
by putting that we believe at the end. Yes, the
House of Representatives yesterday overwhelmingly approved the bill that compels
the DELJ to release everything they have. And after they
approved it the House by a vote of four hundred
and twenty seven to one, the Senate approved it by
unanimous consent.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So now we are just waiting on a couple of
eyes to be dotted and a few teas to be crossed,
and this thing will be headed to the President's desk
today and President Trump has already said he is going
to sign it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
So what's this bill do?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
It says that all unclassified records, the documents, communications, and
investigative materials associated with the Epstein case are to be released. Okay,
So if this gets signed today, when are we going
to see all this stuff?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Really?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well, the bill calls for the documents to be released
within thirty days, so on day twenty nine we will
put No, it's sometime within the next month we should
be able to read through. And we don't even know
how much we're talking about. I mean, already twenty thousand
emails were released, so how much more is there we
shall see? But the House passed it votes four hundred
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and twenty seven to one.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
So who was the lone no vote?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Representative Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I thought it might have been a mistake, like you
hit the wrong button or something like that, but it's
not what happened. He's actually standing by his vote and
put out a statement saying it this way, this bill
reveals and injures thousands of innocent people, witnesses, people who
provided alibis, family members, and so on. If enacted in
its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal
(04:02):
investigative files released to a rabid media will absolutely result
in innocent people being hurt. So he has a moral
ground he's standing on. He does think names might get
out and do damage to a lot of people. I
think that's probably a fair concern.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
We have a whole podcast on this, by the way,
if you want to check it out. I believe it's
the podcast before this where I weigh in quite a
bit on why. I think that is an absurd, an
absurd reason to vote no, just because we had all
of those victims who he is supposedly trying to protect
standing there on Capitol Hill saying release the files. So
(04:39):
it does fly in the face of that. I understand
the sentiment, but in this specific case doesn't make a
lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You don't have to go listen to the episode.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Now, no, we sail all right, I'm sorry, I got
I got on my pulpit. All right, Next up on
the run problem solved. All your websites should be back
up and fully running after that. How did yesterday caused
by a company most of us did not even know
the name of Did you know it?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Cloud Flair?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I've never heard of it before.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Didn't look familiar. I looked at their logo, everything nothing
sounded familiar. Yes, this happened yesterday morning. All of us
started noticing our websites weren't working. Our site was down.
We weren't able to actually post and put up our
even and I had no idea. We depended on cloud Flare.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But apparently we cannot put up podcasts if cloud Flare
is down.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
But people went craze of course X was down, chat
GPT was down, but the company cloud Flare, took full responsibility.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yes, it's a massive web company that helps businesses manage
traffic to their website.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
It provides security.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
It has millions of clients, including those big ones that
depend on their service, some of the ones we just mentioned.
Another way to put it, your favorite websites need cloud
Flare to function properly and safely.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So what happened? They didn't exactly track down the cause,
but cloud Flare Robes, the CEO, put out a statement,
everybody take note. This is how it started. And I
quote I won't Men's words earlier today, we failed our
customers and the broader internet.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
That is nice.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
How you put out an apology, just said yep, we
did it. This is on us, didn't point to anything
else and said we are sorry, we messed up. I
think most people are willing to yes that type of
an apology. He made clear also this was important that
this was not a cyber attack.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
This was their screw up. Wow, completely all right.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I do kind of want to know what it was,
though I probably wouldn't understand it if he even explained it.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
All right, So next up on the run.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
This is a big headline today singer David and his
name is spelled D four VD just in case you've
read it and didn't know how it was pronounced. Singer
David is now officially considered a suspect in the death
of a fifteen year old girl who was found dead
in the trunk of his car, and.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
David, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, has been
under scrutiny, but up until now police have not called
him or anybody else suspect.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
In September, the decomposing and dismembered body of fifteen year
old Celeste Revas Hernandez was found in the trunk of
a Tesla registered to David. Authorities are waiting on a
determination of a cause of death. Once they get that,
then they might be able to speed up an arrest
if that is imminent. Hernandez had been reported missing in
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April of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
David started out on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
He was actually on a world tour when Revas's body
was found, and he notably kept singing. He stayed on
his tour until finally he decided to call it off
when he realized that yes, there was a lot of
media reports and a lot of questions surrounding any potential
involvement he might have with her or with her death.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Robe.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
You have to keep me honest on my writing of
this story. We I think a lot of places. You see,
she's a fifteen year old girl, but police absolutely believe
she could have been dead up to what was it months, Yes,
in that trunk. Her birthday was the day before she
was found, so they believe she was dead much longer,
meaning she was actually still a fourteen year old child
(08:12):
when she passed. You mentioned that to me earlier, and
we keep saying fifteen, but she was fourteen when she
actually she was. And that's just I don't know, for
whatever reason, feels like important. It's distinction to me, all right.
Continuing on the run now with President Trump, he said
yesterday that he wants to revoke ABC's broadcasting license now roads,
(08:33):
I'm not sure if that necessarily sounds like much of
us a surprise. It seems like sometimes daily, but certainly weekly,
he's threatening the present some way.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
For him of fashion.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yes, So this time, however, this was part of a larger,
really uncomfortable, really awkward moment where Trump viciously chied it
an ABC reporter in the Oval office.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah, and the reporter we're talking about here is Mary Bruce,
who has for a long time covered DC and covered
the White House. Now, Trump was taking questions from the
reporters during his meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince. They
were sitting in the Oval Office.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You've seen this.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Set up before. So Mary's question to the President was
about the Epstein files. This was it directly, and I'm quoting.
Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why
not just do it now?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
And so this is how the President responded. You know,
it's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude.
I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way
you ask these questions. You start off with the man
who's highly respected asking him about awful, insubordinate, and just
a terrible question. You could even ask that same question nicely.
(09:45):
You're all psyched. Somebody psyches you over at ABC. You're
a terrible person and a terrible reporter.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Damn, Like this is in front of everybody, this is
front of the Saudi Crown Prince. It's just so uncomfortable,
and that that question set him off.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And we watched her ask it. She asked it very plainly.
She didn't have attitude on it. I didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Bro We rewound, and rewound, and rewind.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
We kept looking at trying to identify see something a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Look if she were sarcastic or had like a tone.
There was none of that.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
She just asked him a question, very plainly.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
But he was just getting started, folks. He went on
to say this to her quote, people are wise to
your hoax, and ABC, your company, your crappy company, is
one of the perpetrators. Now, at this point, she tries
to jump in and get back on track about the question.
He just keeps barreling forward. He says, I'll tell you something.
I think the license should be taken away from ABC
because your news is so fake and it's so wrong,
(10:46):
And we have a great commissioner chairman who should look
at that, because I think when you come in and
you're ninety seven percent negative to Trump and then Trump
wins the election in a landslide, that means obviously your
news is not credible. You are not credible as a reporter.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
He wrapped with this, I think the way you ask
a question with the anger and the meanness is terrible.
You need to go back and learn to be a reporter.
No more questions from you. It's like the Soup Nazi
at the end. No more soup for you, no more
questions from you. It seems to me as though he
got embarrassed in front of the Crown Prince and he
was trying to be the big man and say I'm
(11:26):
not going to take crap from you, and it seemed
as though because it was I mean, Look, we're used
to him chiding folks and saying what he thinks, but
this was exceptionally harsh.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
And the reason it matters that he mentions the chairman
in ABC is because, of course the FCC chair Brendan Kaugh,
has gone after a network has said things publicly before
about talent being fired or about dangling the license as
a threat out there. So we will see, we have
seen before when President Trump gives a directive like that publicly,
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Bondi and others will follow.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yes, all right, continue on the run. Now.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
You remember that whole Texas redistricting drama. Yeah, they redrew
their map to give Republicans an advantage. Democrats left the state,
went on the run. You remember that whole thing trying
to supported the effort what they were trying to pick
up five additional Republican seats.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
It was a big drama.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yes, Well, now a federal court has thrown out that
new map said you can't use it. So the ruling
by a panel of judges is now ordering the state
to go back to the previous map and wrote that
redrawing the map when beyond just politics, that there was
substantial evidence that the state racially jerry mandered the map.
The governor already said they're going to appeal to the
(12:38):
US Supreme Court.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
So it's not over. But the saga continues.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Uh, just the saga that it was to think that
after all that, and it's set off a redistricting race
in California and other states. Now to think the one
Texas put in place, they can't even use it.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Oh the irony.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
That was the point.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
All right, folks, stay with the US here on this
Wednesday Morning run. When we come back. What do Lebron,
a painting and a toilet all have in common? Well,
they had record breaking days yesterday.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's there.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
We continue now on this Wednesday Morning Run with Lebron
James brother just keeps making history. He made it last
night in his season debut. So what record did he set?
Robes You might be thinking points, assists, rebounds. No, he
actually set a record just by stepping onto the floor.
He's now the first player to ever play twenty three
(13:45):
straight seasons in the nb A. Congratulations, I think that.
I mean, look, he gets a lot of awards for
a lot of things. His longevity, his health is something
he should absolutely be applauded for. This is incredible that
he's been able to do this, But this was his
first game of the year. He's been out with injury,
so this was his season debut.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Speaking to probably the wear and tear on his body,
it is remarkable that he is able to do what
he does at the level he does it. But yeah,
he had to miss some games because his body has reacted.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Him and he and Tom Brady have figured something out.
Tom Brady was playing at a really high level in
his early forties and it's just not something U see.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
So I applaud this.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yes, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Next up on the run, somebody paid two hundred and
thirty six point four million dollars last night for a
piece of art. It makes it the second most expensive
piece of art ever sold at auction.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
It's a particular piece of art called Portrait of Elizabeth Letterer.
It's a full length one of only two known full
length portraits by Gustav Klimt, a prominent Austrian painter.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yes, it was painted over three years between nineteen fourteen
and nineteen sixteen. It has a hell of a story
behind it. The woman in the portrait is the daughter
of a I'm and one of the wealthiest families in
Vienna at the time. And when Germany the Nazis came in,
they looted everything from certainly the wealthy folks. They took
all the art robes from this place, but reportedly didn't
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want this because it was essentially a family photo. It
had no value, and they even one museum said it
was too Jewish, it looked wo Jewish, and they left
it behind and it was safe.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
So that's the story behind this painting.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And I love the next part of the story because
it's from one of my favorite people who have ever
walked on this planet. The painting had been in the
private collection of philanthropist Leonard Lauter, the son of Este Laughter.
He died back in June at the age of ninety two,
and he was known.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
I didn't know this to have one of the greatest
private art collections in the world.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
He's written, nown like the respect he has around the world,
like one of the greatest in the world in terms
of art collection.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Man and his stuff toled for nearly half a billion
dollars last night, and of his art will be auctioned
off today. By the way, the most expensive painting ever
sold Salvador Monday by Leonardo da Vinci in twenty seventeen.
That painting sold for four hundred and fifty point three
million dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
This one that sold last night. It was kept in
a private his private collection, and so I think it was.
A family member said it was left, not left.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It was hung in.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
The dining room like like you and I would hang
a regular picture.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I mean at the house. He said.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
They were actually nervous because they treated it like it
was normal. And the chair they were scared. The chair
would bump up against it as people were sitting down,
like it was just art to them. And it's worth
all this, it's just a painting story. Oh god, oh
rich people problems all right. Finally here that same auction
we're talking about last night. A toilet, a literal functioning
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toilet sold for twelve point one million dollars. You have
to ask, right Roves, what's the big deal. Well, the
big deal is that it's made of solid gold.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Ah, that makes more sense now.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
It's quite heavy, weighs two and twenty three pounds. It
is supposed to be a satirical commentary about the ultra wealthy.
I cannot believe the name of this sculpture, America.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
He named it America.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
We're a golden toilet.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
A satirical commentary about the ultra wealthy, which is a
solid gold toilet, and it's called America, and.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
It's called and it was sold for twelve point one
million dollars. I can't believe this last yes bit of information.
The artist Italian artist, Maurizio Catalan. That's the same guy
who put a banana on the wall with duct tape
And how much did that sell for? And then you
just keep replacing the banana, But they gave you instructions
on where to hang it on your wall and what
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duct tape to use it with. This is absurd, And
yet he's smarter than the rest of us because we
don't understand art all right.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Before we let you go, something we like you to
consider it is our quote of the day again, one
more from my files robes. You haven't seen this one yet.
It's a very simple one. Love to hear what you
think of this. The quote is almost is the saddest
word in the world. I can't remember where I got that,
(18:19):
but I loved it. Well. It is awful to think
almost I almost did this. I almost finished, I almost graduated,
I almost made it back, I almost made it on time.
I almost told her I love her.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I almost died. That's the only time I can think
for it with you.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Almost died, That too, is sad trauma you're going to
have to live with. But folks, you get the idea.
This almost worked. But we certainly appreciate you running with us.
As always, I'm d J.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Holmes and I baby Robock. Thank you for running with us.
We'll talk to you soon.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning run.
It's Wednesday, November nineteenth. I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Holmes.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Hope you get this Morning run this morning because we
had a hard time getting to you yesterday. A lot
of you had issues. Somebody owes us all in apology
robes for what they did to the internet yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Stuff just didn't work and we had no idea.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Why isn't it scary how dependent we are for reasons
we don't even realize until it goes away.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
That's a good, good point. Nobody heard a cloud fair
before yesterday. But this company was responsible for the shutdown.
Everything's up and running and they did apologize. So we'll
talk about that today. In a moment, we're going to
get to Rolls. I guess at the lu it struck
us a little differently because we know this young lady
pretty well. But Trump went after a reporter in a
(00:57):
pretty pretty harsh way in front of a lot lot
of people, including a world leader, and it was it
was tough, and in the midst of all that, calls
for a license to be taken away from the network.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It was hard to watch just because yes, we know her,
I respect her. She is a great reporter. And I
don't say that lightly. I don't think you would either.
This isn't just us saying, oh, you know, poor journalist.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Trump's being mean. This was uncalled for and an unwarranted.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, so we'll get into that moment and why now
it has turned into maybe a bigger deal because yes,
he's calling for once again a license to be taken
away from a network. But we do want to make
sure that top right corner of your Apple podcast app
on our show screen it says follow. Just click that
and you can make sure you get all of our updates.
And we have had plenty a lot of news been
(01:47):
going on lately, but also in the news and on
this run this morning, a singer is a murder suspect,
lebron and a one hundred year old painting both set
records yesterday racial redistricting and toilet sells for twelve million dollars.
But Robes, let's begin first with a day we saw
on Capitol Hill yesterday, the day we're going to have today,
(02:10):
and wow, days that we thought we might never see.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
That's right, it is pretty much a done deal. Something
we did not think we would say, and something we
rarely say when we're talking about Congress. But the full
Epstein files will finally be released.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
We believe.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I just wanted to cover us a little bit there
by putting that we believe at the end. Yes, the
House of Representatives yesterday overwhelmingly approved the bill that compels
the DELJ to release everything they have. And after they
approved it the House by a vote of four hundred
and twenty seven to one, the Senate approved it by
unanimous consent.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So now we are just waiting on a couple of
eyes to be dotted and a few teas to be crossed,
and this thing will be headed to the President's desk
today and President Trump has already said he is going
to sign it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
So what's this bill do?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
It says that all unclassified records, the documents, communications, and
investigative materials associated with the Epstein case are to be released. Okay,
So if this gets signed today, when are we going
to see all this stuff?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Really?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well, the bill calls for the documents to be released
within thirty days, so on day twenty nine we will
put No, it's sometime within the next month we should
be able to read through. And we don't even know
how much we're talking about. I mean, already twenty thousand
emails were released, so how much more is there we
shall see? But the House passed it votes four hundred
(03:32):
and twenty seven to one.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
So who was the lone no vote?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Representative Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I thought it might have been a mistake, like you
hit the wrong button or something like that, but it's
not what happened. He's actually standing by his vote and
put out a statement saying it this way, this bill
reveals and injures thousands of innocent people, witnesses, people who
provided alibis, family members, and so on. If enacted in
its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal
(04:02):
investigative files released to a rabid media will absolutely result
in innocent people being hurt. So he has a moral
ground he's standing on. He does think names might get
out and do damage to a lot of people. I
think that's probably a fair concern.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
We have a whole podcast on this, by the way,
if you want to check it out. I believe it's
the podcast before this where I weigh in quite a
bit on why. I think that is an absurd, an
absurd reason to vote no, just because we had all
of those victims who he is supposedly trying to protect
standing there on Capitol Hill saying release the files. So
(04:39):
it does fly in the face of that. I understand
the sentiment, but in this specific case doesn't make a
lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You don't have to go listen to the episode.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Now, no, we sail all right, I'm sorry, I got
I got on my pulpit. All right, Next up on
the run problem solved. All your websites should be back
up and fully running after that. How did yesterday caused
by a company most of us did not even know
the name of Did you know it?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Cloud Flair?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I've never heard of it before.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Didn't look familiar. I looked at their logo, everything nothing
sounded familiar. Yes, this happened yesterday morning. All of us
started noticing our websites weren't working. Our site was down.
We weren't able to actually post and put up our
even and I had no idea. We depended on cloud Flare.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But apparently we cannot put up podcasts if cloud Flare
is down.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
But people went craze of course X was down, chat
GPT was down, but the company cloud Flare, took full responsibility.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yes, it's a massive web company that helps businesses manage
traffic to their website.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
It provides security.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
It has millions of clients, including those big ones that
depend on their service, some of the ones we just mentioned.
Another way to put it, your favorite websites need cloud
Flare to function properly and safely.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So what happened? They didn't exactly track down the cause,
but cloud Flare Robes, the CEO, put out a statement,
everybody take note. This is how it started. And I
quote I won't Men's words earlier today, we failed our
customers and the broader internet.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
That is nice.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
How you put out an apology, just said yep, we
did it. This is on us, didn't point to anything
else and said we are sorry, we messed up. I
think most people are willing to yes that type of
an apology. He made clear also this was important that
this was not a cyber attack.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
This was their screw up. Wow, completely all right.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I do kind of want to know what it was,
though I probably wouldn't understand it if he even explained it.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
All right, So next up on the run.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
This is a big headline today singer David and his
name is spelled D four VD just in case you've
read it and didn't know how it was pronounced. Singer
David is now officially considered a suspect in the death
of a fifteen year old girl who was found dead
in the trunk of his car, and.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
David, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, has been
under scrutiny, but up until now police have not called
him or anybody else suspect.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
In September, the decomposing and dismembered body of fifteen year
old Celeste Revas Hernandez was found in the trunk of
a Tesla registered to David. Authorities are waiting on a
determination of a cause of death. Once they get that,
then they might be able to speed up an arrest
if that is imminent. Hernandez had been reported missing in
(07:24):
April of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
David started out on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
He was actually on a world tour when Revas's body
was found, and he notably kept singing. He stayed on
his tour until finally he decided to call it off
when he realized that yes, there was a lot of
media reports and a lot of questions surrounding any potential
involvement he might have with her or with her death.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Robe.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
You have to keep me honest on my writing of
this story. We I think a lot of places. You see,
she's a fifteen year old girl, but police absolutely believe
she could have been dead up to what was it months, Yes,
in that trunk. Her birthday was the day before she
was found, so they believe she was dead much longer,
meaning she was actually still a fourteen year old child
(08:12):
when she passed. You mentioned that to me earlier, and
we keep saying fifteen, but she was fourteen when she
actually she was. And that's just I don't know, for
whatever reason, feels like important. It's distinction to me, all right.
Continuing on the run now with President Trump, he said
yesterday that he wants to revoke ABC's broadcasting license now roads,
(08:33):
I'm not sure if that necessarily sounds like much of
us a surprise. It seems like sometimes daily, but certainly weekly,
he's threatening the present some way.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
For him of fashion.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yes, So this time, however, this was part of a larger,
really uncomfortable, really awkward moment where Trump viciously chied it
an ABC reporter in the Oval office.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah, and the reporter we're talking about here is Mary Bruce,
who has for a long time covered DC and covered
the White House. Now, Trump was taking questions from the
reporters during his meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince. They
were sitting in the Oval Office.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You've seen this.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Set up before. So Mary's question to the President was
about the Epstein files. This was it directly, and I'm quoting.
Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why
not just do it now?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
And so this is how the President responded. You know,
it's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude.
I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way
you ask these questions. You start off with the man
who's highly respected asking him about awful, insubordinate, and just
a terrible question. You could even ask that same question nicely.
(09:45):
You're all psyched. Somebody psyches you over at ABC. You're
a terrible person and a terrible reporter.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Damn, Like this is in front of everybody, this is
front of the Saudi Crown Prince. It's just so uncomfortable,
and that that question set him off.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And we watched her ask it. She asked it very plainly.
She didn't have attitude on it. I didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Bro We rewound, and rewound, and rewind.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
We kept looking at trying to identify see something a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Look if she were sarcastic or had like a tone.
There was none of that.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
She just asked him a question, very plainly.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
But he was just getting started, folks. He went on
to say this to her quote, people are wise to
your hoax, and ABC, your company, your crappy company, is
one of the perpetrators. Now, at this point, she tries
to jump in and get back on track about the question.
He just keeps barreling forward. He says, I'll tell you something.
I think the license should be taken away from ABC
because your news is so fake and it's so wrong,
(10:46):
And we have a great commissioner chairman who should look
at that, because I think when you come in and
you're ninety seven percent negative to Trump and then Trump
wins the election in a landslide, that means obviously your
news is not credible. You are not credible as a reporter.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
He wrapped with this, I think the way you ask
a question with the anger and the meanness is terrible.
You need to go back and learn to be a reporter.
No more questions from you. It's like the Soup Nazi
at the end. No more soup for you, no more
questions from you. It seems to me as though he
got embarrassed in front of the Crown Prince and he
was trying to be the big man and say I'm
(11:26):
not going to take crap from you, and it seemed
as though because it was I mean, Look, we're used
to him chiding folks and saying what he thinks, but
this was exceptionally harsh.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
And the reason it matters that he mentions the chairman
in ABC is because, of course the FCC chair Brendan Kaugh,
has gone after a network has said things publicly before
about talent being fired or about dangling the license as
a threat out there. So we will see, we have
seen before when President Trump gives a directive like that publicly,
(12:00):
Bondi and others will follow.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yes, all right, continue on the run. Now.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
You remember that whole Texas redistricting drama. Yeah, they redrew
their map to give Republicans an advantage. Democrats left the state,
went on the run. You remember that whole thing trying
to supported the effort what they were trying to pick
up five additional Republican seats.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
It was a big drama.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yes, Well, now a federal court has thrown out that
new map said you can't use it. So the ruling
by a panel of judges is now ordering the state
to go back to the previous map and wrote that
redrawing the map when beyond just politics, that there was
substantial evidence that the state racially jerry mandered the map.
The governor already said they're going to appeal to the
(12:38):
US Supreme Court.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
So it's not over. But the saga continues.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Uh, just the saga that it was to think that
after all that, and it's set off a redistricting race
in California and other states. Now to think the one
Texas put in place, they can't even use it.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Oh the irony.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
That was the point.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
All right, folks, stay with the US here on this
Wednesday Morning run. When we come back. What do Lebron,
a painting and a toilet all have in common? Well,
they had record breaking days yesterday.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's there.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
We continue now on this Wednesday Morning Run with Lebron
James brother just keeps making history. He made it last
night in his season debut. So what record did he set?
Robes You might be thinking points, assists, rebounds. No, he
actually set a record just by stepping onto the floor.
He's now the first player to ever play twenty three
(13:45):
straight seasons in the nb A. Congratulations, I think that.
I mean, look, he gets a lot of awards for
a lot of things. His longevity, his health is something
he should absolutely be applauded for. This is incredible that
he's been able to do this, But this was his
first game of the year. He's been out with injury,
so this was his season debut.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Speaking to probably the wear and tear on his body,
it is remarkable that he is able to do what
he does at the level he does it. But yeah,
he had to miss some games because his body has reacted.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Him and he and Tom Brady have figured something out.
Tom Brady was playing at a really high level in
his early forties and it's just not something U see.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
So I applaud this.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yes, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Next up on the run, somebody paid two hundred and
thirty six point four million dollars last night for a
piece of art. It makes it the second most expensive
piece of art ever sold at auction.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
It's a particular piece of art called Portrait of Elizabeth Letterer.
It's a full length one of only two known full
length portraits by Gustav Klimt, a prominent Austrian painter.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yes, it was painted over three years between nineteen fourteen
and nineteen sixteen. It has a hell of a story
behind it. The woman in the portrait is the daughter
of a I'm and one of the wealthiest families in
Vienna at the time. And when Germany the Nazis came in,
they looted everything from certainly the wealthy folks. They took
all the art robes from this place, but reportedly didn't
(15:12):
want this because it was essentially a family photo. It
had no value, and they even one museum said it
was too Jewish, it looked wo Jewish, and they left
it behind and it was safe.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
So that's the story behind this painting.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And I love the next part of the story because
it's from one of my favorite people who have ever
walked on this planet. The painting had been in the
private collection of philanthropist Leonard Lauter, the son of Este Laughter.
He died back in June at the age of ninety two,
and he was known.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
I didn't know this to have one of the greatest
private art collections in the world.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
He's written, nown like the respect he has around the world,
like one of the greatest in the world in terms
of art collection.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Man and his stuff toled for nearly half a billion
dollars last night, and of his art will be auctioned
off today. By the way, the most expensive painting ever
sold Salvador Monday by Leonardo da Vinci in twenty seventeen.
That painting sold for four hundred and fifty point three
million dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
This one that sold last night. It was kept in
a private his private collection, and so I think it was.
A family member said it was left, not left.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It was hung in.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
The dining room like like you and I would hang
a regular picture.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I mean at the house. He said.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
They were actually nervous because they treated it like it
was normal. And the chair they were scared. The chair
would bump up against it as people were sitting down,
like it was just art to them. And it's worth
all this, it's just a painting story. Oh god, oh
rich people problems all right. Finally here that same auction
we're talking about last night. A toilet, a literal functioning
(16:49):
toilet sold for twelve point one million dollars. You have
to ask, right Roves, what's the big deal. Well, the
big deal is that it's made of solid gold.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Ah, that makes more sense now.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
It's quite heavy, weighs two and twenty three pounds. It
is supposed to be a satirical commentary about the ultra wealthy.
I cannot believe the name of this sculpture, America.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
He named it America.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
We're a golden toilet.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
A satirical commentary about the ultra wealthy, which is a
solid gold toilet, and it's called America, and.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
It's called and it was sold for twelve point one
million dollars. I can't believe this last yes bit of information.
The artist Italian artist, Maurizio Catalan. That's the same guy
who put a banana on the wall with duct tape
And how much did that sell for? And then you
just keep replacing the banana, But they gave you instructions
on where to hang it on your wall and what
(17:49):
duct tape to use it with. This is absurd, And
yet he's smarter than the rest of us because we
don't understand art all right.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Before we let you go, something we like you to
consider it is our quote of the day again, one
more from my files robes. You haven't seen this one yet.
It's a very simple one. Love to hear what you
think of this. The quote is almost is the saddest
word in the world. I can't remember where I got that,
(18:19):
but I loved it. Well. It is awful to think
almost I almost did this. I almost finished, I almost graduated,
I almost made it back, I almost made it on time.
I almost told her I love her.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I almost died. That's the only time I can think
for it with you.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Almost died, That too, is sad trauma you're going to
have to live with. But folks, you get the idea.
This almost worked. But we certainly appreciate you running with us.
As always, I'm d J.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Holmes and I baby Robock. Thank you for running with us.
We'll talk to you soon.
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