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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, this is your morning Run for Thursday, September eleventh.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ. Holmes and Robes. Doesn't
it seem like every September eleventh is the most beautiful
day in New York every single year?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It is haunting and very true. Yeah, it's seventy nine
and sunny today and just a gorgeous day on an
incredibly solemn day. For a number of reasons.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It's always beautiful around the city. We of course, are
in Lower Manhattan. We're waking up again seeing so many firefighters,
police officers and uniforms, a lot of families gathering a
lot of flowers and commemoration for nine to eleven on
this day, the twenty fourth anniversary. Will be talking about
that some this morning. There is a lot folks of
news this morning, but we want to start with what
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right now is on everybody's mind. The political assassination of
Charlie Kirk. The latest. We should tell you off the
top that as we speak this morning, as of this recording,
the assassin is still on the loose ropes.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
That's correct. So we begin our run in Utah, where
conservative superstar thirty one year old Charlie Kirk was killed
by a single bullet yesterday as he was holding that
political event on a Utah college campus.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Kirk, a husband and father of two young children, was
a popular podcast host, a co founder of Turning Point USA,
a nonprofit group, and also a leading voice in President
Trump's MAGA movement. He is credited for helping reelect Donald Trump.
In fact, Trump himself has given the young man credit
on several occasions for helping getting him elected, and he
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rallied folks young voters really almost like nothing we have
seen in recent years, at least from a single individual
building such a movement.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
And it was continuing that relationship with younger voters where
Kirk found himself ironically taking a question on mass shootings
and gun violence on that college campus when one shot
rang out and struck him in the neck, causing him
to immediately slump over. Witnesses described seeing large amounts of
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blood as his security detail rushed him out and to
the hospital, where he later died. The world heard of
his passing from the President, who posted on True Social
the great and even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead now.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Trump went on to address the nation last night, calling
Kirk a martyr for truth and freedom. He said, quote,
Charlie was the best of America and the monster who
attacked him was attacking our whole country. Trump continued, though,
in this four minute speech and address that he posted
on social media, he blamed the radical left in his words, saying,
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for years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful
Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's most vicious
mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly
responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today,
and it must stop right now.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Trump has ordered all American flags throughout the country to
be lowered to half staff through Sunday night in honor
of Kirk, and more than three thousand people, mostly students,
were there at Kirk's event on the campus of Utah
Valley University, and minutes before his death, Kirk had just
posted on x we are so back, touting the first
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leg of what was going to be I believe it
was a fourteen city American comeback tour.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So we heard a lot of comments yesterday, A lot
of people prominent folks and including politicians from both sides
of the aisle, did condemn what happened. We did hear
from ever of every living former president, including vice president
or excuse me, former President Joe Biden said to quote,
there is no place in our country for this kind
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of violence. It must end now. Biden, of course, and
Kambala Harris opponents of one Donald Trump, who was literally
shot during an event during the campaign. So we think
about that robes and what that would have meant for
this country if a political candidate, somebody that polarizing had
I mean that bullet could.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Have moved, just raised his hair a little.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Bit one way or another. But this is this is
not a politician. But this was a political assassination. It's
just not something we're used to seeing outside of the sixties.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That's true. That's true. And meantime, Yes, that massive manhunt
is currently underway for the person responsible for firing that
fatal shot. Despite bringing in two separate persons of interest,
authorities released both of them saying quote, there are no
current ties to the shooting with either of these individuals.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah. The FBI said it's working with state and local
law enforcement to fully investigate and seek justice in this shooting.
They're also asking for tips from the public and going
over the many videos that were taken by people in
the crowd who inadvertently captured the killing on their cell phones.
That is a massive undertaking. What'd you just say, three.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Thousand people, thousand people.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Three thousand phones need to be gone through because everybody
had them out and we're recording something at some point.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, And those videos, some of them are circulating online
and are very graphic and difficult to watch. And right now,
the only information we have about this killer is from
an image captured on a campus CCTV. It's a person
described as someone dressed in all dark clothing. That is
not a lot to go on. And right now authorities
believe that shot was fired, they say, from a longer distance,
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potentially from a rooftop.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, and this calls quite a bit of confusion yesterday, Robes,
even for you and I while we were deciding trying
to figure out what to record and when to record,
and how to maybe go back and maybe update a
previous recording, because we were told there is no one
in custody, then someone is in custody, Then nobody's in custody.
And in fact, cash Puttel, the FBI director himself, put
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out a tweet saying that they had the person in custody.
The university, it was the one that originally put out
the message saying they believe the shooter fired from two
hundred yards away from a campus building. Now, Utah Valley
University is the biggest public university in all of Utah.
They have forty seven thousand students. They're going to stay
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closed until Monday. That's probably the right call. But you
were saying yesterday the university was asking students to just
go home. Yes, go away, and they were also offering
them police escorts if they wanted.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Correct, because the gunman is on the loose and the campus,
the entire campus is a crime scene at this point,
so it's difficult to have all of those students around
while an active investigation and a shooter is out on
the loose. So Utah's governor said this, I want to
make it crystal clear right now to whoever did this,
we will find you, we will try you, and we
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will hold you accountable to the furthest extent of the law.
And I just want to remind people that we still
have the death penalty here in this date of Utah,
and we're hoping to learn more information about what police
may or may not know. Shortly, officials are going to
be holding a press conference, they say, at nine am
Eastern time this morning, So we will be monitoring.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
That continuing on the run. Now, and this is kind
of certainly an adjacent story to this Charlie Kirk assassination.
An MSNBC analyst has been fired, a longtime political analyst
fired for some pretty insensitive remarks made during yesterday's live
coverage of the Kirk shooting. Now we heard this ourselves,
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Rose and I did. While we were watching the coverage.
A commentator suggested that perhaps it could have been a
Charlie Kirk supporter firing a gun in celebration. Now, you're
shaking your head there at the time, we were shaking
and maybe scratching our heads.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Like why could you Why would he say that we
didn't know what.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Had happened, But that type of speculation that maybe this
was just a random celebration and a stray bullet hit
him exactly in hit that it sounded odd when we
heard it. But not only did he say this, it
also went on to suggest that Kirk's own rhetoric. His
own rhetoric led to the shooting. So in the heat
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of this moment, those things were said. Robes and folks
immediately jumped on.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
And we know this commentator well, we worked with him
for many, many years. The commentator was Matthew Dowd. He's
been with MSNBC since twenty twenty two, but he had
a very long stint at ABC News with TJ and me.
And this is what he said that was met with
immediate online backlash. And I'm going to quote him directly.
Kirk has been one of the most divisive, especially divisive
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younger figures in this who is constantly sort of pushing
this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at
certain groups. And I always go back to hateful thoughts
lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.
And I think that is the environment we are in.
You can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you
have and then saying these awful words and not expect
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all actions to take place. And that's the unfortunate environment
we are in.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And MSNBC did go on and apologize, saying in a
statement during our breaking news coverage of the shooting of
Charlie Kirk, Matthew Dowd made comments that were inappropriate and unacceptable.
We apologize for his statements, as has he there is
no place for violence in America, political or otherwise. Dowd
later apologized on social media as well for his tone
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and words and said, I in no way intended for
my comments to blame Kirk for this horrendous attack. We
should stop. And so we work with this guy a
long time, not just liked him, but certainly believe he's
a decent dude. And he says some things I'm sure
he wished he hadn't. But in the heat of that moment,
given what politics is, you knew someone was going to
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jump on that. And it did sound awful, and the
timing was awful.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Absolutely, and so MSNBC made their choice, and Matthew Dowd
is now out of a job. Next up on the Run.
This is just this is a this is a tough
day we had yesterday because shots rang out less than
an hour after the deadly targeted shooting of Charlie Kirk,
this time in the neighboring state of Colorado at a
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Colorado high school. Students at Evergreen High school just outside
of Denver, went into lockdown as more than one hundred
law enforcement officers searched every room for an active shooter
within minutes of receiving a nine one one call reporting
gunfire at the school.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
This was wild. You have the TV on on one
breaking new shooting and it's interrupted by breaking news of
another shooting. Is exactly what happened yesterday, And you got
calls from your daughter on both of these. She's in Boulder,
so one of these happened what twenty minutes from her,
the shooting at.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The high She said, Mom, there are shootings everywhere around me.
I'm freaking out.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, so in this one now in the high school, campus,
police say a sixteen year old male student ultimately died
from a self inflicted gunshot wound after shooting two of
his fellow students with a handgun. One of those students
is in critical condition this morning. The other is being
treated for non life threatening.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Injuries, and investigators today are continuing to interview students who
witnessed the shooting. So many were right there when it happened.
They're trying to piece together how and why Evergreen High
School listen to this became the forty seventh school shooting
in this country so far this year, sobering number.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
All right, we're going to continue on the run here now.
And yeah, September eleventh is a twenty fourth anniversary of
the worst terror attack on US soil. And we were
saying here off the top, and we're looking out the
window here it is a stunning, a stunning weather day.
Not a cloud in the sky, just a crystal blue sky,
beautiful crisp weather. And it seems like every single year
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the weather is like it was on that beautiful September
eleventh morning. But yes, another day we're going to have commemorations,
remembrance for the nine to eleven terror attacks. But it's
always special robes, it's solemn, yes, but there's something kind
of beautiful to see folks coming together, all the uniforms
down here, the flowers and the families, and they go
through this routine and ceremony every year.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yes, And that ceremony begins at eight forty six a m.
Eastern time, and that, of course is the time the
first plane struck the towers, and that is followed by
the reading of the names and six moments of silence
when the towers struck when the towers fell when the
plane hit the Pentagon, and then when the plane crashed
in Pennsylvania. And just as a reminder, two thousand, nine
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hundred seventy seven people died in those attacks, including two
seven hundred and fifty three here in New York City,
one hundred and eighty four at the Pentagon, and forty
on Flight ninety three that crashed in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And President Trump is going to participate in the nine
to eleven ceremony at the Pentagon today. Meanwhile, Vice President JD.
Vance and his wife will be at Ground zero in
Lower Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And then President Trump will be at the Pentagon for
the nine to eleven ceremony there as well. And then
Trump makes his way to New York later in the
day to attend a Yankees game tonight.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Okay, you know they are given the fans a heads up.
You need to get here early. We have security. Mess.
Don't let happen what happened at the US Oven correct
when Trump attended that right? Absolute mess. Sorry, continuing on
the run here now. In a breaking story this morning,
the UK ambassador to the US has been fired for
his newly revealed links to Jeffrey Epstein. The ambassador is
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Peter Mandelsson. His name has appeared in the recently released
trove of Epstein documents.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, he had quite a showing in the birthday book
that we talked about, and wow, that was a jaw
dropping birthday book indeed. But these new records were released
by the House Oversight Committee after they subpoened them from
the Justice Department, and the new records reveal well, I
guess there's no other way to put it than a
chummier than previously known relationship between Mandelson and Epstein. He
called him his best pal, I.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Believe the best pal in the UK office kind of
explained their reasoning if you will. They released this day
been saying well, in light of the information and the
emails written by Peter Mandelson, the Prime Minister has asked
the Foreign Secretary to withdraw him as ambassador. The email
show the depth and extent of Peter Mandelsson's relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein is materially different from that known at the
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time of his appointment, and they do this for us
robe they get specific. They say, in particular Peter Mandelsson's
suggestion that Jeffrey Epstein's first conviction was wrongful and should
be challenged. Is new information. In light of that, and
mindful of the victims of Epstein's crimes, he has been
withdrawn as ambassador with immediate effects. Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
All right. Next up on the run, FBI Director Cash
Pttel is being sued by the guys he fired, and
they claimed Pettel confessed that their firings were in fact
retaliation for investigating President Trump. This lawsuit is now brought
by three former top FBI officials, including Brian Driscoll, who
served as interim FBI Director when Trump came into office
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this year.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, they're suing Patel as well as Attorney General Pam
Bondi and claim Patel was trying to keep his own
job and just following orders from the White House and
the Justice Department when they were fired. The suit states
that there was nothing Patel could do to quote, stop
these or any other firings because the FBI tried to
put the president in jail and he hasn't forgotten it
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end quote. The suit goes on to say the PTEL
even acknowledged to them that the firings were retaliatory and
against FBI personnel policy because he had no choice and
had to do it anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Ooh, his own words being used against him, all right,
next up on the run. Ever since his convictions in July,
Sean Ditty Combs has continued to argue that he should
get a new trial and that his conviction should be
thrown out. Well, guess what now a judge says he
is willing to listen to Ditty's arguments. The judge in
his case has set a September twenty fifth date, that's
two weeks from today, for a hearing where he will
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consider Combs.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Most Yeah, he was convicted, of course, of two counts
of transportation to engage in prostitution, but was acquitted of
three more serious charges against him. He is facing years
in prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for October third.
So that's the date, Robes, we've had our eyes on
and we're waiting for. But now this one is a
week prior. Yes, so he's going to make a decision
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about a new trial of throwing out the convictions a
week before sentence he's sentenced.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Should be interesting this morning, are we.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Supposed to Is this just a routine thing or should
we be looking at this like, wait.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
A minute, I'm not I don't have the answer to that,
but we need to get some legal advice on that.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
All right, well, folks stay with us here on this
Thursday Morning ron when we come back. It's normally not
supposed to be a headline when a father and son
have tea, but when it's the King and the Prince,
it's a big deal. We'll explain why hopes are now
high in Britain. Also, we have a COVID milestone that
we think is worth sharing. Also, Ed Sheeran has to
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clear up where exactly he's going to be moving and
would the richest man in America please stand up?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Welcome back to this Thursday Morning Rona next up on
the run. You know, it would not normally be an
international headline that a father and son had tea together,
But yes, when the father is King Charles and the
son is Prince Harry, Yeah, that's a big deal. Royal
father and son reportedly in fact had tea at the
King's private residence yesterday.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Why is this such a big deal. It's a big
deal because this is the first known gathering of these
two and more than a year and a half. Wow,
that seems like, I mean, you talk about any parent
and child relationship, you go, that's too bad, what's going on?
But when you talk about these two, it is something
about that I didn't realize it's been that long. So
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now that they've together, speculation out there that maybe maybe
this is a sign that the family rift could be easing.
The strain has been there for years. That didn't realize.
Robes two thousand and one, twenty one the interview, that
Oprah interview where Megan Marke was talking about how the
family they were racist, and the baby and all this stuff,
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and then the legal fight over whether or not he
could still have security for his family, So all that
stuff kind of put a strain on relations. He is
on a solo trip right now for several engagements, so
he stopped by to see Pops. So there's hope that
things could get better.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, that's certainly a good sign, and another good sign
to report here on the run a COVID milestone worth noting.
For the first time since the pandemic, COVID is not
in the top ten of the leading causes of death
in the United States.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah. CDC's got some updated numbers and they reflect the
dropping COVID depths over the past three years, and last
year twenty twenty four, it was no longer in the
top ten. At its peak in twenty twenty one, COVID
was the third leading cause of death in the US.
Four hundred and sixty three thousand deaths attributed to COVID
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that year.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
That's wild. Well, the leading causes of death in the
US continued to be heart disease and cancer. And this
is a sad note. COVID was replaced in the top
ten by suicide. So we certainly have a lot of
work to do with mart I saw that in health crisis.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
You wanted to celebrate, like, oh, if it was replaced
literally replaced by suicide.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Maybe that can be a just a warning and a
cause for change.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Okay, Well, continue on the run now, and I'm trying
to Robes. You're gonna have to help me clear this
up because we thought the richest man in the world
in the US was Elon Musk, because Forbes told us
that they told us that Elon Musk was the richest
guy in the war when they put out their annual list,
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and the guy who was number two on the list
was actually way behind.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Wait, like like one hundred and fifty billion dollars behind.
We actually made an note of it in yesterday's podcast
in Morning Run. We were like, oh, so far behind.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Not even close. So tell me why, Robes. On the
same day that Elon was declared the richest, that the
guy who was number two ended up being number one,
Please help me.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Briefly briefly surpassed, briefly surpassed Musk because the shares of
his company surged forty three percent in one day. But
by the end of trading yesterday, Oracles Larry Ellison that
was the number two, only increased his wealth by ninety
billion dollars, and that was just shy of matching Musk's number.
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According to Bloomberg, see there are competing lists of who
is the richest person in the world, so Ellison's fortune,
according to Bloomberg, now sits at three hundred and eighty
three billion dollars. Bloomberg puts Musk's wealth at three hundred
and eighty four billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
So their declaration of who was the richest was just
based on one day at the end of trading. Kind
of a thing.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, well, in the middle of trading. According to Bloomberg,
Ellison's fortune surpassed Musks, but by the end of trading,
when things settled a little bit, he was a billion shy,
so it didn't. It was a couple hours he became
America's richest man according to Bloomberg.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Okay, well, Forbes again, like we said, it says Musk
has a much bigger cushion. His number is a four
hundred and thirty nine billion, isn't it. Didn't They say
he's the first one to cross form.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, Billy, So that's why I was confused when I
saw Bloomberg putting Musk's wealth at three eighty four. So
it's just it's based on some estimate or calculation on
what everyone's company is worth in some private holdings that
Musk might have. But anyway, Forbes says that Musk is
at four hundred and thirty nine billion, so he was
never he never lost his status according to Forbes.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Okay, bottom line, folks, they are really rich, yeah, and
they get richer and poorer during the day based on
the stock market. Correct, but their richer importer, poor kid
go up by billions, by billions. Literally, they are gaining
and losing billions daily.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, that's wild, all right. Next up on the run,
Ed Sharon is trying to clear things up about his
upcoming move to the US. Hold your horses, everybody, It's
just temporary.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
It's amazing how this kind of took off what he
calls a bit of a stir after a recent podcast
appearance in which he said he was moving to the US,
adding I feel like I'm the only person moving to America.
Of course, we've seen some recent celebrities talking about there,
getting out of the country, blah blah blah. But the
uproar was enough that Sharon felt he needed to respond
and issue a clarification.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yes. On social media yesterday, Sharon wrote, I'm not moving.
I'm going on tour with my family and relocating to
the continent. I'm touring on. Don't want to commute from
London to San Diego, obviously. He added, Also, this isn't
a tax thing. It's USA, not UAE. I'll always pay
tax in UK, that's where I lived.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
There were some people thinking he was trying to avoid that.
If you want to avoid taxes.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Don't go to the United States, and certainly don't live
in California.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Well, yeah, that's the last thing you would do all right.
Next up on the run, kiss my grits. I guess
a lot of people as soon as you hear that,
you know flow immediately where we're going. Yes, The phrase
popular the rise by flow on the hit sitcom Alice,
and the actress Polly Holiday, who nailed that phrase week
in and week out for years, has passed away at
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the age of eighty eight. A rep says she died
to her home in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
As a kid, I would say that to my brother
because I wasn't allowed to really say anything too untoward,
but I could say kiss my griants and it was
so fun. Holiday played the unforgettable scene stealing gum chewing
flow at Mels Diner on Alice. She was nominated for
three Emmys won two Golden Globes for her role. But
she had an extensive and successful career in theaters and
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was nominated for a Tony Award for her role in
the revival of Kat on a Hot Tin Roof We
just watched. I didn't realize she had a long list
of TV and film credits, but notably Missus, digl and
Gremlins and You sent me a text with the clip
of her in Grandma's that the woman she played, this
older woman who goes flying. Oh, it was a very
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hilarious catapult that she had in this movie. But I
didn't realize that was Flow. I just I did not
connect the two.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
She played a It was a small but memorable role.
As soon as you see it, you go, oh, but yes,
they tossed Flow out of a window and it's hilarious.
But you know, just to folks like that, you don't
they make such an impression on your life. I didn't
know she lived here in New York. They say she
didn't have any family. That she leaves behind, no direct.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
No, no surrounded by loved ones.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
It's kind of a thing with a thing somewhere here
in Manhattan. A woman who made such an impression on
us almost our entire lives is just here in town.
We haven't thought about her, and she passes away here
and it was just sad to hear how it happened.
But she brought so much joy and again she made
a smile even this morning.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, she really did all right. For the final leg
of our run, the clearest sign of life we've ever
found on.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Mars, did your ears perk up when you hear that.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yes, of course I saw, you know what. I saw
these headlines all day yesterday, but we were in the
middle of breaking news and I was like, what is that.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I'm not I was skeptical, okay, but hey, these are
this is folks. We are not making this up. That's
a direct quote, clearest sign of life we've ever found
on Mars. That is how NASA is describing a new
discovery on the Red planet. So what exactly did they
find leopard spots? This will require a little explanation, Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
So NASA's Perseverance rover identified and collected samples from what
appeared to be spots on a rock in an area
of Mars believed to have been formed by water, possibly
billions of years ago. According to scientists, it appears a
chemical process happened on the rocks that caused a textured
discoloration in places I e. Leopard spots, and that discoloration
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could be from ancient micropial life. Are we talking about
moss like Mars moss?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It basically looks like it, right when I look at
the pictures, it kind of looks like it. Okay, Oh,
they calling them leopard spots? So this is peer reviewed,
which we all know is a big deal. So some
outside scientists are looked at this and they're all kind
of an agreement that yes, this could be. So what
do we do now? Not a damn thing, because we
can't get the samples back to Earth. That's the only
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way to confirm what they're suggesting is they need to
get it in a lab here, but they can't do
that because we don't have a way to get the
samples back because we don't got no money. They scrapped
the Mars Sample return program, that is what it's called,
because it costs too much. So we might have just
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found life, but have no way at this point to confirm.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I'm gonna need some further explanations to why it's such
a big deal that there's.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Moss on Mars because we do not have, and never
have had definitive confirmation of life beyond Earth, a confirmation
that there was life on another planet to see if
that's it. No, you want to be big.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Headed, big eyes, triangular shaped heads.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
That's life for you.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That's extraterrestrial.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
There was a sitcom called Conehead.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
That's not how it works, all right, I guess it's
something mos Mars Mars Moss. There we go. All right,
let's now hopefully leave you with something to think about,
something positive, something inspirational. We all need that right now.
And here is our quote of the day. Each morning
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we are born again. What we do today is what
matters most. This is from Buddha. And I know I've
fleaned down Buddha a couple times, but I was looking it. Actually,
I spent way too much time trying to find something
to in a way sheer us all up or give
us some hope. And I just felt like, sometimes we
just need to remember that each day we can start anew,
(28:08):
even with all the heavy, dark news around us. Sometimes
every day we can make better and different choices.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Thank you for that, and I'm glad you were. And
in folks, she was. She was very frustrated this morning,
taking the time. She was not taking her time, just
spending a lot of time trying to find the right quote.
And it is everything is felt heavy. Even got up
and walked around a little bit, because you were the
one that was doing all the writing about Kirk and
then the shooting in Colorado as well, So that stuff
is heavy. So hopefully you can take this with you, folks,
(28:40):
and it did make me feel better. Each morning we
are born again. What we do today is what matters most. Yes,
you can worry about that mistake you met yesterday, that
nasty comment you made to somebody you shouldn't have I
don't know, not holding the elevator when you saw that
family on the way. Whatever you did today, you can
do it differently. You could do better. Yes, that's a
(29:02):
good quote. Thanks for that.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Each morning we are born again. What we do today
is what matters most. Thanks for running with us everyone.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. Will be talking
to y'all real soon.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, this is your morning Run for Thursday, September eleventh.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ. Holmes and Robes. Doesn't
it seem like every September eleventh is the most beautiful
day in New York every single year?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It is haunting and very true. Yeah, it's seventy nine
and sunny today and just a gorgeous day on an
incredibly solemn day. For a number of reasons.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It's always beautiful around the city. We of course, are
in Lower Manhattan. We're waking up again seeing so many firefighters,
police officers and uniforms, a lot of families gathering a
lot of flowers and commemoration for nine to eleven on
this day, the twenty fourth anniversary. Will be talking about
that some this morning. There is a lot folks of
news this morning, but we want to start with what
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right now is on everybody's mind. The political assassination of
Charlie Kirk. The latest. We should tell you off the
top that as we speak this morning, as of this recording,
the assassin is still on the loose ropes.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
That's correct. So we begin our run in Utah, where
conservative superstar thirty one year old Charlie Kirk was killed
by a single bullet yesterday as he was holding that
political event on a Utah college campus.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Kirk, a husband and father of two young children, was
a popular podcast host, a co founder of Turning Point USA,
a nonprofit group, and also a leading voice in President
Trump's MAGA movement. He is credited for helping reelect Donald Trump.
In fact, Trump himself has given the young man credit
on several occasions for helping getting him elected, and he
(01:42):
rallied folks young voters really almost like nothing we have
seen in recent years, at least from a single individual
building such a movement.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
And it was continuing that relationship with younger voters where
Kirk found himself ironically taking a question on mass shootings
and gun violence on that college campus when one shot
rang out and struck him in the neck, causing him
to immediately slump over. Witnesses described seeing large amounts of
(02:12):
blood as his security detail rushed him out and to
the hospital, where he later died. The world heard of
his passing from the President, who posted on True Social
the great and even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead now.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Trump went on to address the nation last night, calling
Kirk a martyr for truth and freedom. He said, quote,
Charlie was the best of America and the monster who
attacked him was attacking our whole country. Trump continued, though,
in this four minute speech and address that he posted
on social media, he blamed the radical left in his words, saying,
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for years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful
Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's most vicious
mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly
responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today,
and it must stop right now.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Trump has ordered all American flags throughout the country to
be lowered to half staff through Sunday night in honor
of Kirk, and more than three thousand people, mostly students,
were there at Kirk's event on the campus of Utah
Valley University, and minutes before his death, Kirk had just
posted on x we are so back, touting the first
(03:29):
leg of what was going to be I believe it
was a fourteen city American comeback tour.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So we heard a lot of comments yesterday, A lot
of people prominent folks and including politicians from both sides
of the aisle, did condemn what happened. We did hear
from ever of every living former president, including vice president
or excuse me, former President Joe Biden said to quote,
there is no place in our country for this kind
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of violence. It must end now. Biden, of course, and
Kambala Harris opponents of one Donald Trump, who was literally
shot during an event during the campaign. So we think
about that robes and what that would have meant for
this country if a political candidate, somebody that polarizing had
I mean that bullet could.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Have moved, just raised his hair a little.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Bit one way or another. But this is this is
not a politician. But this was a political assassination. It's
just not something we're used to seeing outside of the sixties.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That's true. That's true. And meantime, Yes, that massive manhunt
is currently underway for the person responsible for firing that
fatal shot. Despite bringing in two separate persons of interest,
authorities released both of them saying quote, there are no
current ties to the shooting with either of these individuals.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah. The FBI said it's working with state and local
law enforcement to fully investigate and seek justice in this shooting.
They're also asking for tips from the public and going
over the many videos that were taken by people in
the crowd who inadvertently captured the killing on their cell phones.
That is a massive undertaking. What'd you just say, three.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Thousand people, thousand people.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Three thousand phones need to be gone through because everybody
had them out and we're recording something at some point.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, And those videos, some of them are circulating online
and are very graphic and difficult to watch. And right now,
the only information we have about this killer is from
an image captured on a campus CCTV. It's a person
described as someone dressed in all dark clothing. That is
not a lot to go on. And right now authorities
believe that shot was fired, they say, from a longer distance,
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potentially from a rooftop.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, and this calls quite a bit of confusion yesterday, Robes,
even for you and I while we were deciding trying
to figure out what to record and when to record,
and how to maybe go back and maybe update a
previous recording, because we were told there is no one
in custody, then someone is in custody, Then nobody's in custody.
And in fact, cash Puttel, the FBI director himself, put
(05:56):
out a tweet saying that they had the person in custody.
The university, it was the one that originally put out
the message saying they believe the shooter fired from two
hundred yards away from a campus building. Now, Utah Valley
University is the biggest public university in all of Utah.
They have forty seven thousand students. They're going to stay
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closed until Monday. That's probably the right call. But you
were saying yesterday the university was asking students to just
go home. Yes, go away, and they were also offering
them police escorts if they wanted.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Correct, because the gunman is on the loose and the campus,
the entire campus is a crime scene at this point,
so it's difficult to have all of those students around
while an active investigation and a shooter is out on
the loose. So Utah's governor said this, I want to
make it crystal clear right now to whoever did this,
we will find you, we will try you, and we
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will hold you accountable to the furthest extent of the law.
And I just want to remind people that we still
have the death penalty here in this date of Utah,
and we're hoping to learn more information about what police
may or may not know. Shortly, officials are going to
be holding a press conference, they say, at nine am
Eastern time this morning, So we will be monitoring.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
That continuing on the run. Now, and this is kind
of certainly an adjacent story to this Charlie Kirk assassination.
An MSNBC analyst has been fired, a longtime political analyst
fired for some pretty insensitive remarks made during yesterday's live
coverage of the Kirk shooting. Now we heard this ourselves,
(07:30):
Rose and I did. While we were watching the coverage.
A commentator suggested that perhaps it could have been a
Charlie Kirk supporter firing a gun in celebration. Now, you're
shaking your head there at the time, we were shaking
and maybe scratching our heads.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Like why could you Why would he say that we
didn't know what.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Had happened, But that type of speculation that maybe this
was just a random celebration and a stray bullet hit
him exactly in hit that it sounded odd when we
heard it. But not only did he say this, it
also went on to suggest that Kirk's own rhetoric. His
own rhetoric led to the shooting. So in the heat
(08:14):
of this moment, those things were said. Robes and folks
immediately jumped on.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
And we know this commentator well, we worked with him
for many, many years. The commentator was Matthew Dowd. He's
been with MSNBC since twenty twenty two, but he had
a very long stint at ABC News with TJ and me.
And this is what he said that was met with
immediate online backlash. And I'm going to quote him directly.
Kirk has been one of the most divisive, especially divisive
(08:39):
younger figures in this who is constantly sort of pushing
this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at
certain groups. And I always go back to hateful thoughts
lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.
And I think that is the environment we are in.
You can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you
have and then saying these awful words and not expect
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all actions to take place. And that's the unfortunate environment
we are in.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And MSNBC did go on and apologize, saying in a
statement during our breaking news coverage of the shooting of
Charlie Kirk, Matthew Dowd made comments that were inappropriate and unacceptable.
We apologize for his statements, as has he there is
no place for violence in America, political or otherwise. Dowd
later apologized on social media as well for his tone
(09:27):
and words and said, I in no way intended for
my comments to blame Kirk for this horrendous attack. We
should stop. And so we work with this guy a
long time, not just liked him, but certainly believe he's
a decent dude. And he says some things I'm sure
he wished he hadn't. But in the heat of that moment,
given what politics is, you knew someone was going to
(09:48):
jump on that. And it did sound awful, and the
timing was awful.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Absolutely, and so MSNBC made their choice, and Matthew Dowd
is now out of a job. Next up on the Run.
This is just this is a this is a tough
day we had yesterday because shots rang out less than
an hour after the deadly targeted shooting of Charlie Kirk,
this time in the neighboring state of Colorado at a
(10:14):
Colorado high school. Students at Evergreen High school just outside
of Denver, went into lockdown as more than one hundred
law enforcement officers searched every room for an active shooter
within minutes of receiving a nine one one call reporting
gunfire at the school.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
This was wild. You have the TV on on one
breaking new shooting and it's interrupted by breaking news of
another shooting. Is exactly what happened yesterday, And you got
calls from your daughter on both of these. She's in Boulder,
so one of these happened what twenty minutes from her,
the shooting at.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The high She said, Mom, there are shootings everywhere around me.
I'm freaking out.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, so in this one now in the high school, campus,
police say a sixteen year old male student ultimately died
from a self inflicted gunshot wound after shooting two of
his fellow students with a handgun. One of those students
is in critical condition this morning. The other is being
treated for non life threatening.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Injuries, and investigators today are continuing to interview students who
witnessed the shooting. So many were right there when it happened.
They're trying to piece together how and why Evergreen High
School listen to this became the forty seventh school shooting
in this country so far this year, sobering number.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
All right, we're going to continue on the run here now.
And yeah, September eleventh is a twenty fourth anniversary of
the worst terror attack on US soil. And we were
saying here off the top, and we're looking out the
window here it is a stunning, a stunning weather day.
Not a cloud in the sky, just a crystal blue sky,
beautiful crisp weather. And it seems like every single year
(11:45):
the weather is like it was on that beautiful September
eleventh morning. But yes, another day we're going to have commemorations,
remembrance for the nine to eleven terror attacks. But it's
always special robes, it's solemn, yes, but there's something kind
of beautiful to see folks coming together, all the uniforms
down here, the flowers and the families, and they go
through this routine and ceremony every year.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yes, And that ceremony begins at eight forty six a m.
Eastern time, and that, of course is the time the
first plane struck the towers, and that is followed by
the reading of the names and six moments of silence
when the towers struck when the towers fell when the
plane hit the Pentagon, and then when the plane crashed
in Pennsylvania. And just as a reminder, two thousand, nine
(12:30):
hundred seventy seven people died in those attacks, including two
seven hundred and fifty three here in New York City,
one hundred and eighty four at the Pentagon, and forty
on Flight ninety three that crashed in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And President Trump is going to participate in the nine
to eleven ceremony at the Pentagon today. Meanwhile, Vice President JD.
Vance and his wife will be at Ground zero in
Lower Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And then President Trump will be at the Pentagon for
the nine to eleven ceremony there as well. And then
Trump makes his way to New York later in the
day to attend a Yankees game tonight.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Okay, you know they are given the fans a heads up.
You need to get here early. We have security. Mess.
Don't let happen what happened at the US Oven correct
when Trump attended that right? Absolute mess. Sorry, continuing on
the run here now. In a breaking story this morning,
the UK ambassador to the US has been fired for
his newly revealed links to Jeffrey Epstein. The ambassador is
(13:27):
Peter Mandelsson. His name has appeared in the recently released
trove of Epstein documents.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, he had quite a showing in the birthday book
that we talked about, and wow, that was a jaw
dropping birthday book indeed. But these new records were released
by the House Oversight Committee after they subpoened them from
the Justice Department, and the new records reveal well, I
guess there's no other way to put it than a
chummier than previously known relationship between Mandelson and Epstein. He
called him his best pal, I.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Believe the best pal in the UK office kind of
explained their reasoning if you will. They released this day
been saying well, in light of the information and the
emails written by Peter Mandelson, the Prime Minister has asked
the Foreign Secretary to withdraw him as ambassador. The email
show the depth and extent of Peter Mandelsson's relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein is materially different from that known at the
(14:18):
time of his appointment, and they do this for us
robe they get specific. They say, in particular Peter Mandelsson's
suggestion that Jeffrey Epstein's first conviction was wrongful and should
be challenged. Is new information. In light of that, and
mindful of the victims of Epstein's crimes, he has been
withdrawn as ambassador with immediate effects. Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
All right. Next up on the run, FBI Director Cash
Pttel is being sued by the guys he fired, and
they claimed Pettel confessed that their firings were in fact
retaliation for investigating President Trump. This lawsuit is now brought
by three former top FBI officials, including Brian Driscoll, who
served as interim FBI Director when Trump came into office
(15:02):
this year.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, they're suing Patel as well as Attorney General Pam
Bondi and claim Patel was trying to keep his own
job and just following orders from the White House and
the Justice Department when they were fired. The suit states
that there was nothing Patel could do to quote, stop
these or any other firings because the FBI tried to
put the president in jail and he hasn't forgotten it
(15:26):
end quote. The suit goes on to say the PTEL
even acknowledged to them that the firings were retaliatory and
against FBI personnel policy because he had no choice and
had to do it anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Ooh, his own words being used against him, all right,
next up on the run. Ever since his convictions in July,
Sean Ditty Combs has continued to argue that he should
get a new trial and that his conviction should be
thrown out. Well, guess what now a judge says he
is willing to listen to Ditty's arguments. The judge in
his case has set a September twenty fifth date, that's
two weeks from today, for a hearing where he will
(15:59):
consider Combs.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Most Yeah, he was convicted, of course, of two counts
of transportation to engage in prostitution, but was acquitted of
three more serious charges against him. He is facing years
in prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for October third.
So that's the date, Robes, we've had our eyes on
and we're waiting for. But now this one is a
week prior. Yes, so he's going to make a decision
(16:22):
about a new trial of throwing out the convictions a
week before sentence he's sentenced.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Should be interesting this morning, are we.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Supposed to Is this just a routine thing or should
we be looking at this like, wait.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
A minute, I'm not I don't have the answer to that,
but we need to get some legal advice on that.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
All right, well, folks stay with us here on this
Thursday Morning ron when we come back. It's normally not
supposed to be a headline when a father and son
have tea, but when it's the King and the Prince,
it's a big deal. We'll explain why hopes are now
high in Britain. Also, we have a COVID milestone that
we think is worth sharing. Also, Ed Sheeran has to
(17:01):
clear up where exactly he's going to be moving and
would the richest man in America please stand up?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Welcome back to this Thursday Morning Rona next up on
the run. You know, it would not normally be an
international headline that a father and son had tea together,
But yes, when the father is King Charles and the
son is Prince Harry, Yeah, that's a big deal. Royal
father and son reportedly in fact had tea at the
King's private residence yesterday.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Why is this such a big deal. It's a big
deal because this is the first known gathering of these
two and more than a year and a half. Wow,
that seems like, I mean, you talk about any parent
and child relationship, you go, that's too bad, what's going on?
But when you talk about these two, it is something
about that I didn't realize it's been that long. So
(17:59):
now that they've together, speculation out there that maybe maybe
this is a sign that the family rift could be easing.
The strain has been there for years. That didn't realize.
Robes two thousand and one, twenty one the interview, that
Oprah interview where Megan Marke was talking about how the
family they were racist, and the baby and all this stuff,
(18:20):
and then the legal fight over whether or not he
could still have security for his family, So all that
stuff kind of put a strain on relations. He is
on a solo trip right now for several engagements, so
he stopped by to see Pops. So there's hope that
things could get better.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, that's certainly a good sign, and another good sign
to report here on the run a COVID milestone worth noting.
For the first time since the pandemic, COVID is not
in the top ten of the leading causes of death
in the United States.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah. CDC's got some updated numbers and they reflect the
dropping COVID depths over the past three years, and last
year twenty twenty four, it was no longer in the
top ten. At its peak in twenty twenty one, COVID
was the third leading cause of death in the US.
Four hundred and sixty three thousand deaths attributed to COVID
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that year.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
That's wild. Well, the leading causes of death in the
US continued to be heart disease and cancer. And this
is a sad note. COVID was replaced in the top
ten by suicide. So we certainly have a lot of
work to do with mart I saw that in health crisis.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
You wanted to celebrate, like, oh, if it was replaced
literally replaced by suicide.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Maybe that can be a just a warning and a
cause for change.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Okay, Well, continue on the run now, and I'm trying
to Robes. You're gonna have to help me clear this
up because we thought the richest man in the world
in the US was Elon Musk, because Forbes told us
that they told us that Elon Musk was the richest
guy in the war when they put out their annual list,
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and the guy who was number two on the list
was actually way behind.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Wait, like like one hundred and fifty billion dollars behind.
We actually made an note of it in yesterday's podcast
in Morning Run. We were like, oh, so far behind.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Not even close. So tell me why, Robes. On the
same day that Elon was declared the richest, that the
guy who was number two ended up being number one,
Please help me.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Briefly briefly surpassed, briefly surpassed Musk because the shares of
his company surged forty three percent in one day. But
by the end of trading yesterday, Oracles Larry Ellison that
was the number two, only increased his wealth by ninety
billion dollars, and that was just shy of matching Musk's number.
(20:41):
According to Bloomberg, see there are competing lists of who
is the richest person in the world, so Ellison's fortune,
according to Bloomberg, now sits at three hundred and eighty
three billion dollars. Bloomberg puts Musk's wealth at three hundred
and eighty four billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
So their declaration of who was the richest was just
based on one day at the end of trading. Kind
of a thing.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, well, in the middle of trading. According to Bloomberg,
Ellison's fortune surpassed Musks, but by the end of trading,
when things settled a little bit, he was a billion shy,
so it didn't. It was a couple hours he became
America's richest man according to Bloomberg.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Okay, well, Forbes again, like we said, it says Musk
has a much bigger cushion. His number is a four
hundred and thirty nine billion, isn't it. Didn't They say
he's the first one to cross form.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, Billy, So that's why I was confused when I
saw Bloomberg putting Musk's wealth at three eighty four. So
it's just it's based on some estimate or calculation on
what everyone's company is worth in some private holdings that
Musk might have. But anyway, Forbes says that Musk is
at four hundred and thirty nine billion, so he was
never he never lost his status according to Forbes.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Okay, bottom line, folks, they are really rich, yeah, and
they get richer and poorer during the day based on
the stock market. Correct, but their richer importer, poor kid
go up by billions, by billions. Literally, they are gaining
and losing billions daily.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, that's wild, all right. Next up on the run,
Ed Sharon is trying to clear things up about his
upcoming move to the US. Hold your horses, everybody, It's
just temporary.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
It's amazing how this kind of took off what he
calls a bit of a stir after a recent podcast
appearance in which he said he was moving to the US,
adding I feel like I'm the only person moving to America.
Of course, we've seen some recent celebrities talking about there,
getting out of the country, blah blah blah. But the
uproar was enough that Sharon felt he needed to respond
and issue a clarification.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yes. On social media yesterday, Sharon wrote, I'm not moving.
I'm going on tour with my family and relocating to
the continent. I'm touring on. Don't want to commute from
London to San Diego, obviously. He added, Also, this isn't
a tax thing. It's USA, not UAE. I'll always pay
tax in UK, that's where I lived.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
There were some people thinking he was trying to avoid that.
If you want to avoid taxes.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Don't go to the United States, and certainly don't live
in California.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Well, yeah, that's the last thing you would do all right.
Next up on the run, kiss my grits. I guess
a lot of people as soon as you hear that,
you know flow immediately where we're going. Yes, The phrase
popular the rise by flow on the hit sitcom Alice,
and the actress Polly Holiday, who nailed that phrase week
in and week out for years, has passed away at
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the age of eighty eight. A rep says she died
to her home in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
As a kid, I would say that to my brother
because I wasn't allowed to really say anything too untoward,
but I could say kiss my griants and it was
so fun. Holiday played the unforgettable scene stealing gum chewing
flow at Mels Diner on Alice. She was nominated for
three Emmys won two Golden Globes for her role. But
she had an extensive and successful career in theaters and
(23:53):
was nominated for a Tony Award for her role in
the revival of Kat on a Hot Tin Roof We
just watched. I didn't realize she had a long list
of TV and film credits, but notably Missus, digl and
Gremlins and You sent me a text with the clip
of her in Grandma's that the woman she played, this
older woman who goes flying. Oh, it was a very
(24:16):
hilarious catapult that she had in this movie. But I
didn't realize that was Flow. I just I did not
connect the two.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
She played a It was a small but memorable role.
As soon as you see it, you go, oh, but yes,
they tossed Flow out of a window and it's hilarious.
But you know, just to folks like that, you don't
they make such an impression on your life. I didn't
know she lived here in New York. They say she
didn't have any family. That she leaves behind, no direct.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
No, no surrounded by loved ones.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
It's kind of a thing with a thing somewhere here
in Manhattan. A woman who made such an impression on
us almost our entire lives is just here in town.
We haven't thought about her, and she passes away here
and it was just sad to hear how it happened.
But she brought so much joy and again she made
a smile even this morning.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, she really did all right. For the final leg
of our run, the clearest sign of life we've ever
found on.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Mars, did your ears perk up when you hear that.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yes, of course I saw, you know what. I saw
these headlines all day yesterday, but we were in the
middle of breaking news and I was like, what is that.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I'm not I was skeptical, okay, but hey, these are
this is folks. We are not making this up. That's
a direct quote, clearest sign of life we've ever found
on Mars. That is how NASA is describing a new
discovery on the Red planet. So what exactly did they
find leopard spots? This will require a little explanation, Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
So NASA's Perseverance rover identified and collected samples from what
appeared to be spots on a rock in an area
of Mars believed to have been formed by water, possibly
billions of years ago. According to scientists, it appears a
chemical process happened on the rocks that caused a textured
discoloration in places I e. Leopard spots, and that discoloration
(26:02):
could be from ancient micropial life. Are we talking about
moss like Mars moss?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It basically looks like it, right when I look at
the pictures, it kind of looks like it. Okay, Oh,
they calling them leopard spots? So this is peer reviewed,
which we all know is a big deal. So some
outside scientists are looked at this and they're all kind
of an agreement that yes, this could be. So what
do we do now? Not a damn thing, because we
can't get the samples back to Earth. That's the only
(26:31):
way to confirm what they're suggesting is they need to
get it in a lab here, but they can't do
that because we don't have a way to get the
samples back because we don't got no money. They scrapped
the Mars Sample return program, that is what it's called,
because it costs too much. So we might have just
(26:53):
found life, but have no way at this point to confirm.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I'm gonna need some further explanations to why it's such
a big deal that there's.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Moss on Mars because we do not have, and never
have had definitive confirmation of life beyond Earth, a confirmation
that there was life on another planet to see if
that's it. No, you want to be big.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Headed, big eyes, triangular shaped heads.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
That's life for you.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That's extraterrestrial.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
There was a sitcom called Conehead.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
That's not how it works, all right, I guess it's
something mos Mars Mars Moss. There we go. All right,
let's now hopefully leave you with something to think about,
something positive, something inspirational. We all need that right now.
And here is our quote of the day. Each morning
(27:46):
we are born again. What we do today is what
matters most. This is from Buddha. And I know I've
fleaned down Buddha a couple times, but I was looking it. Actually,
I spent way too much time trying to find something
to in a way sheer us all up or give
us some hope. And I just felt like, sometimes we
just need to remember that each day we can start anew,
(28:08):
even with all the heavy, dark news around us. Sometimes
every day we can make better and different choices.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Thank you for that, and I'm glad you were. And
in folks, she was. She was very frustrated this morning,
taking the time. She was not taking her time, just
spending a lot of time trying to find the right quote.
And it is everything is felt heavy. Even got up
and walked around a little bit, because you were the
one that was doing all the writing about Kirk and
then the shooting in Colorado as well, So that stuff
is heavy. So hopefully you can take this with you, folks,
(28:40):
and it did make me feel better. Each morning we
are born again. What we do today is what matters most. Yes,
you can worry about that mistake you met yesterday, that
nasty comment you made to somebody you shouldn't have I
don't know, not holding the elevator when you saw that
family on the way. Whatever you did today, you can
do it differently. You could do better. Yes, that's a
(29:02):
good quote. Thanks for that.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Each morning we are born again. What we do today
is what matters most. Thanks for running with us everyone.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. Will be talking
to y'all real soon.
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