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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
is Wednesday, July twenty third. I'm Amy Robots and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm TJ Holmes. Remember you can follow the show and
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show up for you every single morning. And this morning,
something that had robes me smiling is because she was smiling.
(00:35):
If you haven't seen this yet, Venus Williams looks like
the teenager we met all those years ago because she
won a match, and this is pretty cool to see
her smile.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's funny you told me to make sure I checked
out the video. I went back and looked, and you
know who. She reminded me of Sabine. So when you
said a childlike smile, Sabine's twelve. And the way when
she gets excited, she knows she just did something good
like finish her track meet, and she's got this cute,
adorable smile that is exactly the smile of Venus had on.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Her face, and Venius was smiling because she made history.
We'll get into that. Also, Mexican coke is coming. Well,
I didn't think the President was for real about this
when he said I told Coke to change the formula,
and sure enough, Mexican coke is coming. I'm told it
tastes better.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It's well, it's pure cane sugar, so it tastes different
at least than the high fruit dose corn syrup we're
all used to drinking. So you know, I haven't had
a real coke in oh my god, decades. Like I'm
a diet cokeing. I do like a diet coke, like
I wouldn't even know what it would what the taste
is going to change into.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So they're making headlines because of Coke's announcement and what
they said and who they did not mention in the announcement.
Also that you know, Congress, do you feel better knowing
that the House of Representatives going home early? But I
feel better well, because they can't do more damage.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
They're supposed to actually uh yeah, actually promote the just
what we need to do better and be better in
this country. So that's funny how we all know that's
not true.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Explaining why they're actually heading home early for recess. They're
heading out today early and then we're supposed to. And look,
everybody's talking about Ozzie oars born today and yesterday after
we learned of his passing. Started listening to some Ozzy
Osbourne music today this morning. Didn't realize some of it
I knew and didn't know it was Black Sappiting correct.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well see, and I don't know a lot of Black Sabbath,
but I know a lot of Ozzy's hits as a
solo artist. So yes, we were listening to all of
our favorites this morning in honor of him.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And I knew Paranoid, which was a big one, but
I only know because it was in a movie that
I liked, fun and a cool scene with them taking
off on helicopters and Samuel L. Jackson was talking crazy
and it hit that song was playing in the background.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It so hey, look if you are a big runner,
his music is banging like the just the tempo itself
like Mama, I'm coming home. But man, they are there
are some good ones.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I haven't run to this stuff. I should. It feels
like somebody's chasing you half the time.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I feel like we could absolutely do that. The Crazy
Train great running song. I think I'm gonna play that
today on our run.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
All right, Well, so also on this morning run, we're
gonna be talking about Gallaine Maxwell as well. She needs
to check her voicemail because the Department of Justice is
trying to get in touch. She has a major new
development in the ongoing Epstein saga. As the DJ says,
it wants to talk to her.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Does she have voicemail in prison?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You get what I was saying there, I just was checking.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I just want to make sure, like didn't know if
it made suddenly got self.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Fhon, So answer is okay.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Plus, President Obama has been accused of a crime that
is punishable by death. The accusation was made in the
Oval Office, by you can guess.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Also, this morning kind of a what the hell from
a lot of us in the New York area. We're
just finding out that a man has been running around
New York with explosive devices this summer. He is under
arrest right now. But what was he up to? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That was a scary one. And then one of the
Menendez brothers is out of prison today and in the
hospital and then trans athletes, well, they will not be
able to go for gold for Team USA at the
Olympics now that the USOC has officially changed their policy.
But we begin our morning run with yes, the passing
of a legend. The rocker known as the Prince of
(04:14):
Darkness and one of the founders of heavy metal, Ozzy
Osbourne has died at the age of seventy six.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It was his family that announced his death yesterday. Didn't
give a lot of details exactly about what happened to him,
but they did say that quote, it is with more
sadness than mere words can convey that we have to
report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning.
He was with his family and surrounded by love. We
ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Will they?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I certainly hope folks will, But I mean, this is
a tough one and we've seen some I think when
you are this is just a dad and a husband
and just a friend and the guy they know for
everybody else, he was this larger than life fame. So
when I see something says it's more sadness than mere
words can convey almost feel. It was Jamie Fox's statement
about malcol Jamal Warren like no words like it looks
(05:05):
like they're looking for something to say and they just
don't have it, just don't have it.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It makes sense though.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah. His music career spanned some six decades, more than
one hundred million records, sold five Grammys. He rose to fame,
of course, says the lead singer of the heavy metal
band Black Sabbath.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
In fact, the band just reunited. They gave their farewell
concert on July fifth, so we're talking days ago in
Osbourne's hometown of Birmingham, England. Osbourne had been vocal and
recently had been vocal about recently suffering from Parkinson's disease.
He could no longer walk or stand, according to his
wife Sharon, So he was at the concert on stage,
(05:42):
seated on a black throne, closing out his career, singing
the band's biggest hits, including Iron Man and Yes Paranoid TJ.
His condition was exacerbated by years of heavy drug and
alcohol use. And just to put it into perspective, these
are his words from his autobiography I Am Ozzy. He
wrote over the Paswert forty years. I've been loaded on booze, coke, acid, queludes,
(06:04):
glue cough mixture, heroin, ra hypnol, klonopin, vicodin, and too
many other heavy duty substances to list.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Why didn't you make that our quote of the.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Day, right? I mean that was just a list, a
laundry list that I have never seen before.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well, the world, it's always extreme behavior on stage, including
Biden the head off of a live dove. I didn't
know about this one. I knew about the bat. I
also didn't know about the throwing. Well, I knew about
the throwing the meat in the audiences. I didn't know
that he peed on the Alamo.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
He was actually banned from performing in San Antonio for
years because of that. And the live doves actually happened
in a boardroom in front of CBS executives because he
was pissed about where the meeting was going.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Where'd he get the dove?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I think somehow, I don't know why, but he might
have actually bitten the head off of two dot doves.
It's it's disputed at CBS.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yes, okay, now one of they having problems over there.
They just got birds.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Wife. I have no idea how there were doves in
the meeting room. Now.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Audiences, though, fell in love with the softer, comedic, family
man side of Ozzy and his hit MTV reality show
The Osbourne's. Osborne, alongside his wife Sharon, their then teenaged
kids Jack and Kelly, showed the loving, chaotic and profanity
laced home life with a family shared together. This is
how I got.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
There, heah. Do you remember how many peeppeep peep every
time he spoke? It was just bleeped out the whole time. Yes,
I fell. This is how I got to know him
as well. From that show. It was their most popular
show at the time on MTV. Osbourne was inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, once as
a member of Black Sabbath back in two thousand and
six and as a solo performer just last year. More
(07:36):
than twenty years ago, Osborne told Rolling Stone magazine he
would like his epitaph to read Ozzy Osbourne born nineteen
forty eight died so and so. He went on to say,
I guarantee that if I was to die tonight tomorrow,
it would be Ozzy Osbourne, the man who bit the
head off a bat died in his hotel room. I
know that's coming. That's funny, right, He did have an
(08:00):
sense of humor, and I love this He and Sharon
despite all the rock and roll crazy antics that he's
known for. They just celebrated forty three years together. They
were married July fourth, nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That's tough with somebody that long, go through that much.
You know, she's seen all kinds of craziness with his dude,
and to still be together and you know she is
just devastated right now.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I got you thinking about that. He's credited her with
his comeback, his life, his success, which just I mean,
she literally pulled him up from nothing and when he
was at his lowest, and he credits her for all
of that.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
All right, we will continue on our run how now,
and we're going to head to the nation's capital with
a House of Representatives is heading home early for some
of vacation. They were supposed to head out Thursday, but
they're getting out of there a day early today, maybe Robes.
They just got all of their work done early.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That sounds like Congress to me. No, even vacation comes
down to politics. House Speaker Mike Johnson is sending everybody
home early so they don't have to deal with Jeffrey Epstein.
Democrats and even some Republicans were pushing for a possible
vote on a bill that called for more Epstein files
to be released.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, Speaker Johnson wasn't trying to have that headache, so
he's shutting things down a day early, saying, quote, there's
no purpose for Congress to push an administration to do
something they're already doing, making a reference there to the
releasing of files that the administration is in the midst
of doing.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
All right, Next up on the run and speaking of Epstein,
could Gallaine Maxwell make a deal? The Justice Department wants
to have a little chat with the convicted Epstein associate,
who is currently serving a twenty year prison sentence.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah. The Deputy Attorney General has contactic Maxwell's attorney, saying, quote,
Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of
Justice is reaching out to Gallaine Maxwell to ask what
do you know? Robes? Apparently she knows everything. Maxwell's attorney
responded that Glaine will always testify truthfully. We are grateful
to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth
(09:57):
in this case.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Wow stand Yeah, that's going to be a doozy if
she actually testifies. My god, people have been waiting for
this for years, all right. Next up on our run,
President Trump, from the Oval Office yesterday accused a former
president of a crime that is punishable by death, the
crime treason. The former president Barack Obama.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah. President Trump was actually meeting with the President of
the Philippines in the Oval Office to tout a trade
deal when Trump went off on a treason tangent. So
what prompted it? A question about Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Pivot hard All stories lead to Jeffrey Epstein over these
past few weeks. Well, a reporter asked a question about
the Epstein files, and the President, yes, pivoted to allegations
about the Obama administration. Here's what Trump said, It's time
to go after people. Obama's been caught directly. What they
did in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty is very criminal.
(10:56):
It's criminal at the highest level. The leader of the
gang was Barack Obama. Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard
of him except for the fact he gets shielded from
the press his entire life. So that's really the things
you should be talking about. Look, He's guilty. It's not
a question. This was treason. This was every word you
can think of. They try to steal the election.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Okay, so what is he talking about here? This follows
members of his administration saying recently that they've uncovered information
that shows Obama officials tried to undermine Trump's twenty sixteen victory. Again,
no evidence of this, No, this has been substantiated. The
President just went off on this thing yesterday. President Obama's office,
which doesn't often chime in on what Trump is up to,
(11:38):
said they could not let this one go and in
a statement said, quote out of respect for the office
of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the
constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House
with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to
merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous, and a week
(12:00):
attempt at distraction, a lot of stuff is coming up.
That's just like, where's this come from? Where's this come from?
We're talking about the Washington football team again, and what's happening?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Distraction, distraction, deflect, and distract all right. Next up on
the run, A frightening bomb plot was foiled in Manhattan.
The New York man was charged Tuesday for allegedly building
and stashing seven homemade bombs across the city, including on
active subway tracks and building rooftops.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Now Michael Gan is his name. Fifty five years old.
He is now facing federal charges that include attempted destruction
of property by means of explosives, transportation of explosive materials,
and unlawful possession of destructive devices. Authority say he stored
explosive devices on two residential rooftops in Soho, threw one
(12:48):
unto the Williamsburg Bridge subway tracks, and had another device
on him when he was arrested.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Police arrested Gan within hours of him posting this on Instagram.
Who wants me to go out and play like no Tomorrow.
Gan has twelve prior felony arrests and three convictions. If
he's convicted on these new charges, he faces a maximum
of forty years behind bars.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
All right, we continue on our run now with Eric Menendez.
He is out of prison. His attorney would like for
him to stay out of prison. The fifty four year
old got out of prison to go to the hospital.
He's been hospitalized diagnosed with a serious medical condition. Is
that all they're saying.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
TMZ is reporting that it's kidney stones, but that has
not been confirmed by any other news outlet.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
All right, well, Mendez attorney Mark Geragos is asking that
his client be released from prison because of his condition,
as the brothers await there parole hearing scheduled for next month.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yes, gerrit Go's saying, I'm calling the governor. He's done
this in the past, in the COVID and post COVID
error era. I would ask that he furlough Eric in
advance of the hearing. Now, a spokesperson for the California
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed that, yes, Eric Menendez
is in a medical facility and is in fair condition.
Both Eric and Lyle were represented back in May, or
(14:01):
excuse me, were resentenced back in May for the shotgun
killings of their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez in nineteen
eighty nine. They've served some thirty four years I believe
behind bars.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
It was in May of this year judge determined the
brothers did not pose an unreasonable risk if they were released,
making them eligible for parole immediately. That parole hearing is
scheduled to begin on August twentieth. We'll stay with us
here on this Wednesday Morning Run when we come back.
The US Olympic Committee has made a decision change policy
when it comes to transgender athletes. Also, Mexican Coke is
(14:35):
coming to the USA and teenage Venus Williams is back.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Welcome back to this Wednesday Morning Ron and next up
on the run. Transgender athletes have effectively been barred from
representing the United States at the Olympics. The US Olympic
Committee quietly he made this major change to its policy,
which was posted to the committee's website this week. It
states they will ensure women have a fair and safe
competition environment consistent with Executive Order one four to zero one.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Roes what is Executive Order one four to two zero one. Well,
most folks will recognize it by another name that it
was given. It was called the Keeping Men Out of
Women's Sports Executive Order. That's the one that President Trump
signed not long after returning to office. The US Olympic
Committee says they are simply doing what President Trump has
(15:35):
told them they must do, saying, quote, as a federally
chartered organization, we have an obligation to comply with federal expectations.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
What are the International Olympic Committee's rules on transgender athletes?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
They left it up to the country's individual Olympic committees
to do so. But then what happens when they all
have to compete.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's what I'm asking, Right, We've never even had this
conversation before, have one.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
We haven't had to. There have been trans athletes who
have competed before, actually have competed before in the Olympics.
So but now we had the boxer last year, they
were questioning whether or not she was actually a she.
So these debates, these conversations, they're not done this.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Hate God, no, it's not done. All right, Well there, yes,
more to come on that. But next up on our run,
we know this much Mexican coke is coming to America.
Coca Cola says it will start selling a version of
coke this fall that uses real cane sugar instead of
high fruit dose corn syrup.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
That company says this is part of its innovation agenda
and that this fall they would launch coke made with
US cane sugar to expand its product range. That's all
they're doing. Ropes, the company did not mention President Trump,
who last week jumped the gun and announced that he
had gotten Coca Cola to agree to change the formula.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Coca Cola's response at the time was simply that they
appreciated Trump's enthusiasm for their brand, but stopped short of
confirming that they would change their formula. The company already
uses cane sugar instead of high fructose corps instead of
high fructose corn syrup in coke sold in a number
of other countries, including Mexico.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
So yeah, folks, I did not realize actually Sabine was
the one that explained the bottles of coke that you see.
I just thought, oh, that's cool retro. No, it's actually
coke with cane sugar that comes from Mexico that some
people swear tastes better. I think it tastes better just
because it's in a cute little bottle.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
It is in a cute bottle.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Right for the final leg of our run, Now, congratulations
to Venus Williams. She won a tennis match yesterday. She
didn't win a championship, she didn't even win a match
that was at a major tournament, but we congratulate her
because it was her first match after an almost two
year hiatus, and she is forty five years old.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yes, she is now the second oldest woman to ever
win a tour level match. She beat Peyton Stearns, who's
a former NCAA champion, ranked number thirty five in the world,
and is twenty two years younger than Venus. In fact,
Venus had already won several majors before Stearn's was even born.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
That's kind of cool, and this player is not some pushover.
I gave the stats there about her that she's legit,
So she didn't just beat somebody, some nobody. Now we
mentioned she's the second oldest woman to ever win a
singles match at the tour level, it almost seems mean
to congratulations, you're older now and you can still play.
But still it was cool, So who was the oldest?
(18:24):
Kind of makes sense to a lot of folks. Martina Navratilova,
she won at the age of forty seven. That was
the two thousand and four she won a match at Wimbledon.
And if you get a chance, it will make you
smile today. See the end of her match when she
walks up, she wins, and then she walks up congratulates
the player, she shakes the hand with the ref. She
is just beaming.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Oh, it's so cute. It actually, if you're feeling down,
you just want to feel uplifted and just see what's
possible at any age. Truly, I love this, and I
also love that there's another congratulations in order, because when
she was talking to reporters afterwards, she confirmed that she
is engaged to her boyfriend Andrea Pretti. He's Italian, just
moments after winning her first tennis match. People have been
(19:05):
speculating they saw a ring on her finger back in February,
so she confirmed it. Congratulations to Venus and Andrea.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
So maybe that was the smile and not really.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I mean a little bit of both. She has a
lot of reasons to.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Celebrate, but it looked like pure joy, somebody who just
enjoys the game. I know it's intense and all the
championship she's won and how difficult it is at times,
but she just looked like a kid enjoying tennis.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yester. She said that her fiance inspired her, that he
is the one who said keep doing it, keep going,
because she said she really wanted to quit, she was
over it, and he really pushed her and she thanked
him for it. It was very sweet.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Congrats Venus, and we promise us the last time we
will discuss your age before we go here folks, something
we'd like for you to consider it is a fantastic
quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't
bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous
world out there. That is from the late great Ozzie Osbourne.
It was especially funny given, of course, what he is
infamous for. Maybe we should say for biting the heads
off of certain animals. But yes, he was tongue in
cheek when he made this statement, and it also can
(20:06):
be applied to all of our lives.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Take his name out of it and just read that
quote without in it applies. It absolutely applies. Tie his
name to it, and now it's still applies, but it's Larry's.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't
bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous
world out there. Thank you, Ozzy Osbourne. We paid tribute
to you. I am going to be running to your
songs today. Thank you for what you gave to the
world of music and to the reality show World. You
know a lot of folks are missing him today, so
we hope you have a wonderful day everyone. With that,
(20:40):
thank you for running with us.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes. Will be running
with you soon
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run
is Wednesday, July twenty third. I'm Amy Robots and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm TJ Holmes. Remember you can follow the show and
have it pop up the new episodes every single morning
on our Morning Run in your phone. If you pick
up that iPhone right now, go to the podcast app,
click on our show and at the top right corner
it says follow. Just click on that and this will
show up for you every single morning. And this morning,
something that had robes me smiling is because she was smiling.
(00:35):
If you haven't seen this yet, Venus Williams looks like
the teenager we met all those years ago because she
won a match, and this is pretty cool to see
her smile.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's funny you told me to make sure I checked
out the video. I went back and looked, and you
know who. She reminded me of Sabine. So when you
said a childlike smile, Sabine's twelve. And the way when
she gets excited, she knows she just did something good
like finish her track meet, and she's got this cute,
adorable smile that is exactly the smile of Venus had on.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Her face, and Venius was smiling because she made history.
We'll get into that. Also, Mexican coke is coming. Well,
I didn't think the President was for real about this
when he said I told Coke to change the formula,
and sure enough, Mexican coke is coming. I'm told it
tastes better.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It's well, it's pure cane sugar, so it tastes different
at least than the high fruit dose corn syrup we're
all used to drinking. So you know, I haven't had
a real coke in oh my god, decades. Like I'm
a diet cokeing. I do like a diet coke, like
I wouldn't even know what it would what the taste
is going to change into.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So they're making headlines because of Coke's announcement and what
they said and who they did not mention in the announcement.
Also that you know, Congress, do you feel better knowing
that the House of Representatives going home early? But I
feel better well, because they can't do more damage.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
They're supposed to actually uh yeah, actually promote the just
what we need to do better and be better in
this country. So that's funny how we all know that's
not true.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Explaining why they're actually heading home early for recess. They're
heading out today early and then we're supposed to. And look,
everybody's talking about Ozzie oars born today and yesterday after
we learned of his passing. Started listening to some Ozzy
Osbourne music today this morning. Didn't realize some of it
I knew and didn't know it was Black Sappiting correct.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well see, and I don't know a lot of Black Sabbath,
but I know a lot of Ozzy's hits as a
solo artist. So yes, we were listening to all of
our favorites this morning in honor of him.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And I knew Paranoid, which was a big one, but
I only know because it was in a movie that
I liked, fun and a cool scene with them taking
off on helicopters and Samuel L. Jackson was talking crazy
and it hit that song was playing in the background.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It so hey, look if you are a big runner,
his music is banging like the just the tempo itself
like Mama, I'm coming home. But man, they are there
are some good ones.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I haven't run to this stuff. I should. It feels
like somebody's chasing you half the time.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I feel like we could absolutely do that. The Crazy
Train great running song. I think I'm gonna play that
today on our run.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
All right, Well, so also on this morning run, we're
gonna be talking about Gallaine Maxwell as well. She needs
to check her voicemail because the Department of Justice is
trying to get in touch. She has a major new
development in the ongoing Epstein saga. As the DJ says,
it wants to talk to her.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Does she have voicemail in prison?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You get what I was saying there, I just was checking.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I just want to make sure, like didn't know if
it made suddenly got self.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Fhon, So answer is okay.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Plus, President Obama has been accused of a crime that
is punishable by death. The accusation was made in the
Oval Office, by you can guess.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Also, this morning kind of a what the hell from
a lot of us in the New York area. We're
just finding out that a man has been running around
New York with explosive devices this summer. He is under
arrest right now. But what was he up to? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That was a scary one. And then one of the
Menendez brothers is out of prison today and in the
hospital and then trans athletes, well, they will not be
able to go for gold for Team USA at the
Olympics now that the USOC has officially changed their policy.
But we begin our morning run with yes, the passing
of a legend. The rocker known as the Prince of
(04:14):
Darkness and one of the founders of heavy metal, Ozzy
Osbourne has died at the age of seventy six.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It was his family that announced his death yesterday. Didn't
give a lot of details exactly about what happened to him,
but they did say that quote, it is with more
sadness than mere words can convey that we have to
report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning.
He was with his family and surrounded by love. We
ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Will they?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I certainly hope folks will, But I mean, this is
a tough one and we've seen some I think when
you are this is just a dad and a husband
and just a friend and the guy they know for
everybody else, he was this larger than life fame. So
when I see something says it's more sadness than mere
words can convey almost feel. It was Jamie Fox's statement
about malcol Jamal Warren like no words like it looks
(05:05):
like they're looking for something to say and they just
don't have it, just don't have it.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It makes sense though.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah. His music career spanned some six decades, more than
one hundred million records, sold five Grammys. He rose to fame,
of course, says the lead singer of the heavy metal
band Black Sabbath.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
In fact, the band just reunited. They gave their farewell
concert on July fifth, so we're talking days ago in
Osbourne's hometown of Birmingham, England. Osbourne had been vocal and
recently had been vocal about recently suffering from Parkinson's disease.
He could no longer walk or stand, according to his
wife Sharon, So he was at the concert on stage,
(05:42):
seated on a black throne, closing out his career, singing
the band's biggest hits, including Iron Man and Yes Paranoid TJ.
His condition was exacerbated by years of heavy drug and
alcohol use. And just to put it into perspective, these
are his words from his autobiography I Am Ozzy. He
wrote over the Paswert forty years. I've been loaded on booze, coke, acid, queludes,
(06:04):
glue cough mixture, heroin, ra hypnol, klonopin, vicodin, and too
many other heavy duty substances to list.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Why didn't you make that our quote of the.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Day, right? I mean that was just a list, a
laundry list that I have never seen before.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well, the world, it's always extreme behavior on stage, including
Biden the head off of a live dove. I didn't
know about this one. I knew about the bat. I
also didn't know about the throwing. Well, I knew about
the throwing the meat in the audiences. I didn't know
that he peed on the Alamo.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
He was actually banned from performing in San Antonio for
years because of that. And the live doves actually happened
in a boardroom in front of CBS executives because he
was pissed about where the meeting was going.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Where'd he get the dove?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I think somehow, I don't know why, but he might
have actually bitten the head off of two dot doves.
It's it's disputed at CBS.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yes, okay, now one of they having problems over there.
They just got birds.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Wife. I have no idea how there were doves in
the meeting room. Now.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Audiences, though, fell in love with the softer, comedic, family
man side of Ozzy and his hit MTV reality show
The Osbourne's. Osborne, alongside his wife Sharon, their then teenaged
kids Jack and Kelly, showed the loving, chaotic and profanity
laced home life with a family shared together. This is
how I got.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
There, heah. Do you remember how many peeppeep peep every
time he spoke? It was just bleeped out the whole time. Yes,
I fell. This is how I got to know him
as well. From that show. It was their most popular
show at the time on MTV. Osbourne was inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, once as
a member of Black Sabbath back in two thousand and
six and as a solo performer just last year. More
(07:36):
than twenty years ago, Osborne told Rolling Stone magazine he
would like his epitaph to read Ozzy Osbourne born nineteen
forty eight died so and so. He went on to say,
I guarantee that if I was to die tonight tomorrow,
it would be Ozzy Osbourne, the man who bit the
head off a bat died in his hotel room. I
know that's coming. That's funny, right, He did have an
(08:00):
sense of humor, and I love this He and Sharon
despite all the rock and roll crazy antics that he's
known for. They just celebrated forty three years together. They
were married July fourth, nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That's tough with somebody that long, go through that much.
You know, she's seen all kinds of craziness with his dude,
and to still be together and you know she is
just devastated right now.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I got you thinking about that. He's credited her with
his comeback, his life, his success, which just I mean,
she literally pulled him up from nothing and when he
was at his lowest, and he credits her for all
of that.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
All right, we will continue on our run how now,
and we're going to head to the nation's capital with
a House of Representatives is heading home early for some
of vacation. They were supposed to head out Thursday, but
they're getting out of there a day early today, maybe Robes.
They just got all of their work done early.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That sounds like Congress to me. No, even vacation comes
down to politics. House Speaker Mike Johnson is sending everybody
home early so they don't have to deal with Jeffrey Epstein.
Democrats and even some Republicans were pushing for a possible
vote on a bill that called for more Epstein files
to be released.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, Speaker Johnson wasn't trying to have that headache, so
he's shutting things down a day early, saying, quote, there's
no purpose for Congress to push an administration to do
something they're already doing, making a reference there to the
releasing of files that the administration is in the midst
of doing.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
All right, Next up on the run and speaking of Epstein,
could Gallaine Maxwell make a deal? The Justice Department wants
to have a little chat with the convicted Epstein associate,
who is currently serving a twenty year prison sentence.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah. The Deputy Attorney General has contactic Maxwell's attorney, saying, quote,
Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of
Justice is reaching out to Gallaine Maxwell to ask what
do you know? Robes? Apparently she knows everything. Maxwell's attorney
responded that Glaine will always testify truthfully. We are grateful
to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth
(09:57):
in this case.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Wow stand Yeah, that's going to be a doozy if
she actually testifies. My god, people have been waiting for
this for years, all right. Next up on our run,
President Trump, from the Oval Office yesterday accused a former
president of a crime that is punishable by death, the
crime treason. The former president Barack Obama.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah. President Trump was actually meeting with the President of
the Philippines in the Oval Office to tout a trade
deal when Trump went off on a treason tangent. So
what prompted it? A question about Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Pivot hard All stories lead to Jeffrey Epstein over these
past few weeks. Well, a reporter asked a question about
the Epstein files, and the President, yes, pivoted to allegations
about the Obama administration. Here's what Trump said, It's time
to go after people. Obama's been caught directly. What they
did in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty is very criminal.
(10:56):
It's criminal at the highest level. The leader of the
gang was Barack Obama. Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard
of him except for the fact he gets shielded from
the press his entire life. So that's really the things
you should be talking about. Look, He's guilty. It's not
a question. This was treason. This was every word you
can think of. They try to steal the election.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Okay, so what is he talking about here? This follows
members of his administration saying recently that they've uncovered information
that shows Obama officials tried to undermine Trump's twenty sixteen victory. Again,
no evidence of this, No, this has been substantiated. The
President just went off on this thing yesterday. President Obama's office,
which doesn't often chime in on what Trump is up to,
(11:38):
said they could not let this one go and in
a statement said, quote out of respect for the office
of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the
constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House
with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to
merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous, and a week
(12:00):
attempt at distraction, a lot of stuff is coming up.
That's just like, where's this come from? Where's this come from?
We're talking about the Washington football team again, and what's happening?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Distraction, distraction, deflect, and distract all right. Next up on
the run, A frightening bomb plot was foiled in Manhattan.
The New York man was charged Tuesday for allegedly building
and stashing seven homemade bombs across the city, including on
active subway tracks and building rooftops.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Now Michael Gan is his name. Fifty five years old.
He is now facing federal charges that include attempted destruction
of property by means of explosives, transportation of explosive materials,
and unlawful possession of destructive devices. Authority say he stored
explosive devices on two residential rooftops in Soho, threw one
(12:48):
unto the Williamsburg Bridge subway tracks, and had another device
on him when he was arrested.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Police arrested Gan within hours of him posting this on Instagram.
Who wants me to go out and play like no Tomorrow.
Gan has twelve prior felony arrests and three convictions. If
he's convicted on these new charges, he faces a maximum
of forty years behind bars.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
All right, we continue on our run now with Eric Menendez.
He is out of prison. His attorney would like for
him to stay out of prison. The fifty four year
old got out of prison to go to the hospital.
He's been hospitalized diagnosed with a serious medical condition. Is
that all they're saying.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
TMZ is reporting that it's kidney stones, but that has
not been confirmed by any other news outlet.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
All right, well, Mendez attorney Mark Geragos is asking that
his client be released from prison because of his condition,
as the brothers await there parole hearing scheduled for next month.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yes, gerrit Go's saying, I'm calling the governor. He's done
this in the past, in the COVID and post COVID
error era. I would ask that he furlough Eric in
advance of the hearing. Now, a spokesperson for the California
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed that, yes, Eric Menendez
is in a medical facility and is in fair condition.
Both Eric and Lyle were represented back in May, or
(14:01):
excuse me, were resentenced back in May for the shotgun
killings of their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez in nineteen
eighty nine. They've served some thirty four years I believe
behind bars.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
It was in May of this year judge determined the
brothers did not pose an unreasonable risk if they were released,
making them eligible for parole immediately. That parole hearing is
scheduled to begin on August twentieth. We'll stay with us
here on this Wednesday Morning Run when we come back.
The US Olympic Committee has made a decision change policy
when it comes to transgender athletes. Also, Mexican Coke is
(14:35):
coming to the USA and teenage Venus Williams is back.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Welcome back to this Wednesday Morning Ron and next up
on the run. Transgender athletes have effectively been barred from
representing the United States at the Olympics. The US Olympic
Committee quietly he made this major change to its policy,
which was posted to the committee's website this week. It
states they will ensure women have a fair and safe
competition environment consistent with Executive Order one four to zero one.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Roes what is Executive Order one four to two zero one. Well,
most folks will recognize it by another name that it
was given. It was called the Keeping Men Out of
Women's Sports Executive Order. That's the one that President Trump
signed not long after returning to office. The US Olympic
Committee says they are simply doing what President Trump has
(15:35):
told them they must do, saying, quote, as a federally
chartered organization, we have an obligation to comply with federal expectations.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
What are the International Olympic Committee's rules on transgender athletes?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
They left it up to the country's individual Olympic committees
to do so. But then what happens when they all
have to compete.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's what I'm asking, Right, We've never even had this
conversation before, have one.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
We haven't had to. There have been trans athletes who
have competed before, actually have competed before in the Olympics.
So but now we had the boxer last year, they
were questioning whether or not she was actually a she.
So these debates, these conversations, they're not done this.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Hate God, no, it's not done. All right, Well there, yes,
more to come on that. But next up on our run,
we know this much Mexican coke is coming to America.
Coca Cola says it will start selling a version of
coke this fall that uses real cane sugar instead of
high fruit dose corn syrup.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
That company says this is part of its innovation agenda
and that this fall they would launch coke made with
US cane sugar to expand its product range. That's all
they're doing. Ropes, the company did not mention President Trump,
who last week jumped the gun and announced that he
had gotten Coca Cola to agree to change the formula.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Coca Cola's response at the time was simply that they
appreciated Trump's enthusiasm for their brand, but stopped short of
confirming that they would change their formula. The company already
uses cane sugar instead of high fructose corps instead of
high fructose corn syrup in coke sold in a number
of other countries, including Mexico.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
So yeah, folks, I did not realize actually Sabine was
the one that explained the bottles of coke that you see.
I just thought, oh, that's cool retro. No, it's actually
coke with cane sugar that comes from Mexico that some
people swear tastes better. I think it tastes better just
because it's in a cute little bottle.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
It is in a cute bottle.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Right for the final leg of our run, Now, congratulations
to Venus Williams. She won a tennis match yesterday. She
didn't win a championship, she didn't even win a match
that was at a major tournament, but we congratulate her
because it was her first match after an almost two
year hiatus, and she is forty five years old.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yes, she is now the second oldest woman to ever
win a tour level match. She beat Peyton Stearns, who's
a former NCAA champion, ranked number thirty five in the world,
and is twenty two years younger than Venus. In fact,
Venus had already won several majors before Stearn's was even born.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
That's kind of cool, and this player is not some pushover.
I gave the stats there about her that she's legit,
So she didn't just beat somebody, some nobody. Now we
mentioned she's the second oldest woman to ever win a
singles match at the tour level, it almost seems mean
to congratulations, you're older now and you can still play.
But still it was cool, So who was the oldest?
(18:24):
Kind of makes sense to a lot of folks. Martina Navratilova,
she won at the age of forty seven. That was
the two thousand and four she won a match at Wimbledon.
And if you get a chance, it will make you
smile today. See the end of her match when she
walks up, she wins, and then she walks up congratulates
the player, she shakes the hand with the ref. She
is just beaming.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Oh, it's so cute. It actually, if you're feeling down,
you just want to feel uplifted and just see what's
possible at any age. Truly, I love this, and I
also love that there's another congratulations in order, because when
she was talking to reporters afterwards, she confirmed that she
is engaged to her boyfriend Andrea Pretti. He's Italian, just
moments after winning her first tennis match. People have been
(19:05):
speculating they saw a ring on her finger back in February,
so she confirmed it. Congratulations to Venus and Andrea.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
So maybe that was the smile and not really.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I mean a little bit of both. She has a
lot of reasons to.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Celebrate, but it looked like pure joy, somebody who just
enjoys the game. I know it's intense and all the
championship she's won and how difficult it is at times,
but she just looked like a kid enjoying tennis.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yester. She said that her fiance inspired her, that he
is the one who said keep doing it, keep going,
because she said she really wanted to quit, she was
over it, and he really pushed her and she thanked
him for it. It was very sweet.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Congrats Venus, and we promise us the last time we
will discuss your age before we go here folks, something
we'd like for you to consider it is a fantastic
quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't
bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous
world out there. That is from the late great Ozzie Osbourne.
It was especially funny given, of course, what he is
infamous for. Maybe we should say for biting the heads
off of certain animals. But yes, he was tongue in
cheek when he made this statement, and it also can
(20:06):
be applied to all of our lives.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Take his name out of it and just read that
quote without in it applies. It absolutely applies. Tie his
name to it, and now it's still applies, but it's Larry's.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't
bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous
world out there. Thank you, Ozzy Osbourne. We paid tribute
to you. I am going to be running to your
songs today. Thank you for what you gave to the
world of music and to the reality show World. You
know a lot of folks are missing him today, so
we hope you have a wonderful day everyone. With that,
(20:40):
thank you for running with us.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes. Will be running
with you soon
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