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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, July
twenty First, I'm Amy Robots.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And I'm TJ Holmes. Hope you all had a great weekend.
Here we are Monday Robes. Highlight of your weekend was.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Just chilling with you. Oh wow, like honestly, just chilling
on the couch with you.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh that is very sweet. We did get the chance
to go see a movie this weekend. Not enough of
us went to see this particular movie because it didn't
do great at the box office, but that was a highlight.
I know what you did last summer, the reboot.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, that was fun. We had a good time laughing
along with it in moments.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
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Morning Run here for a while, but they got onto
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Speaker 2 (01:20):
If that easy. Go to our show page up at
the top. It says follow, And that's all there is
to it. But let's get going. On the run on
this Monday morning, now who And on the run, one
billionaire named Trump sues another billionaire for billions of dollars. Also,
a car plows into a crowd in LA and they
say it was intentional. And Pat Tillman's brother crashes into.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
A post office all right, and the number of missing
in Texas goes from triple digits down to three plus.
An airline grounded its entire fleet and in a pilot
apologizes to his passengers after quite possibly saving their lives.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Also on the run this morning, the British Open wasn't
incredibly entertaining yet on a ventful affair. Trump insists two
proteins revert back to their old controversial and offensive team
names and WNBA stars don't do subtle when it comes
to getting a pay raise.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And on the Morning run, guess it wasn't a fair
fight at the box office this weekend, Superman and Dinosaurs
versus Smurfs. Who do you think what?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It wasn't even much of a competition. The Smurfs were
a little bit of a surprise this weekend. Yeah, the
franchise has been around for a while and done pretty well.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It was beloved by us as children in the cartoon
form just Saturday Mornings. Smurfs. Oh my goodness, somehow it
didn't necessarily translate to the big screen.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Is a smurf village? That was a name of a run.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Sur Villageyeah, Poka Smurf, smurfed.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
All of the All right, we'll get into that shortly,
but we got something else we got to get started
on this morning. He saw through on the threat. I
guess we should say that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
We will begin our run on this Monday morning. Because
Trump said he was going to do it. We should
believe him when he says he's going to do something. Yes,
President Trump followed through and sued the Wall Street Journal
for ten billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, he threatened to do so after the journal published
an article last week claiming that Trump wrote a birthday
note to disgrace financier Jeffrey Epstein for his fiftieth birthday.
That two thousand and three note was allegedly part of
a leatherbound book put together by Epstein associate Glenne Maxwell,
and included well wishes from Epstein's friends and family.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
The journal describes the message as typewritten texts surrounded by
a hand drawn sketch of a naked woman, complete with
the arcs representing breasts, and the signature Donald is written
just under the waste of the naked woman in a
way that's supposed to represent pubic hare. The letter closes
with this line, according to the paper, happy birthday and
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may every day be another wonderful secret.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
You can imagine that is not a good look, and
the President said last week that he warned Rupert Murdoch
not to publish the article or face a lawsuit. Murdoch,
of course, is the head of News Court, which owns
the paper Wall Street Journal. The President has now filed
that lawsuit and This is how he announced it, writing
on true social quote, we have just filed a powerhouse lawsuit.
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Powerhouse was in all caps, by the way, Powerhouse lawsuit
against everyone involved in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory fake
news article in the useless rag that is the Wall
Street Journey.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
But wait, there's more, and it's in perfect true Trump form.
Here he says, quote, this lawsuit is filed not only
on behalf of your favorite president me me is in
all caps, but also in order to continue standing up
for all Americans who will no longer tolerate the abusive
wrongdoings of the fake news media. I hope Rupert and
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his friends are looking forward to the many hours of
depositions and testimonies they will have to provide in this case.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. We will
make America great again. Depositions with an.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
S of all this and somebody could easily be dismiss dismissive,
an odd, this isn't going to go anywhere or whatever.
When CEOs of companies this big get threatened with depositions
that get filmed and then get released later, that is
a that's a threatening language that a CEO will sit
up and pay attention to because nobody wants that. So
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if this follows the other the way, the other lawsuits
go rope. So how long before the settlement right now?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, I was just gonna say, this isn't just a threat.
I mean, we have seen what he has done. He's
followed through in the lawsuits, and then those lawsuits have
all ended in multimillion dollar settlements. So we shall see.
But that has been the trend.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
All right. We continue on the run on this Monday
morning and head to California now, where thirty people were
injured after a man drove his car into a crowd
of bystanders outside an East Los Angeles nightclub in Robes.
This was like a chaotic, a wild scene, like all
night This was just a mess of a scene.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Because that was just the beginning. So it started. Police
say twenty nine year old Fernando Ramirez had just been
kicked out of the club for disruptive behavior. That's when
police say he intentionally then drove his vehicle into a
group that had come out of the club. There were
food trucks, a lot of folks standing around. The injuries
in the crowd range from minor too serious and one
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woman in her twenties has leg injuries. She is still
in critical condition as of this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And then after the crash, you get this, several people
dragged Ramirez out of his car started beating him down.
One man then shot and wounded him, and that man
took off. That shooter remains on the loose. Ramirez was
initially taken to the hospital with non life threatening injuries.
He was later booked in jail charge with assault with
a deadly weapon.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And turns out Ramirez was on parole at the time
of this incident. Police say he is a lengthy criminal history,
with at least eleven criminal cases that range from misdemeanors
to violent felonies, including domestic battery and a conviction for
attacking a man outside a Whole Foods store. So this
man has a long rap sheet and a history of violence,
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and I think most people will say he is where
he belongs, behind bars this.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Morning, all right. The next leg of our run keeps
us in California, where authorities are continuing to investigate why
a man intentionally slammed into a neighborhood post office, setting
the building on fire. Police say forty four year old
Richard Tillman is the man responsible to say he deliberately
reversed his vehicle into the lobby of the Almonden Post Office.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It took fifty firefighters more than an hour and a
half to put out that fire that destroyed the building
and all the mail and packages inside. Yeah, it's tough
for a lot of folks who might have been waiting
for god knows what right. Tilman is behind bars this
morning at the Santa Clara County Jail. He's waiting a
court hearing that's scheduled for Wednesday at noon, and he
has been charged with arson.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, and Tillman is the brother of late NFL star
turned US Army ranger Pat Tillman, who was killed in
a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan more than twenty years ago.
Police don't know Tillman's motives for I guess going after
this post office, but said he spray painted Viva le
may or Viva la me on the outside of the
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post office before ramming his vehicle into it. We were
trying to understand the translation Viva we get at long lived.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, it's like Viva la France or Viva las Vegas.
It's like long live me. Maybe it's hard to understand
what that might mean. There were other reports of folks
who heard the crash, came out and said they saw
him on the phone. He had a beer in his hand.
People were saying he might have been live streaming this incident.
So a lot of questions. Hoping to have some answers
in the coming days. Next up on the Run, we're
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going to head to Texas, where officials there have dramatically
revised the number of missing in that deadly fourth of
July flooding. Over the weekend, authorities dropped the number of missing,
which was at ninety seven all the way down.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
To just three and they say a lot of the
people who are initially reported as missing have been verified
as safe and have been removed from that list. That's
a good thing. Historic flooding killed at least one hundred
and thirty five people, though in many more were fear
dared after a wall of floodwater swept over the Guadaloupe River,
rising more than twenty feet in less than an hour.
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The Kerrville Police Department said. While the updated missing figures
offer some relief, searchers remain focused on reuniting the three
individuals who are still unaccounted for, with their families well.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Next up on the run, President Trump wants the Washington
Commanders to change their name back to the one that
offended people. And he's telling them to change it or else.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yes, seemingly out of nowhere, the President yesterday went in
on the Washington Commanders and Major League Baseball's Cleveland Guardians.
Both teams changed their names in twenty twenty after the
so called national reckoning on race following the killing of
George Floyd. Cleveland dropped its long standing name of Indians
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and Washington dropped Redskins. Both had been the source of
debate and controversy for I mean probably decades. People after
them change names, that's right.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So President Trump said this on Sunday and again quoting
him here, the Washington Whatevers should immediately change their name
back to the Washington Redskins football team. There is a
big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of
the six original Baseball teams with a storied past our.
Great Indian people in massive numbers want this to happen.
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Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them.
Times are different now than they were three or four
years ago. We are a country of passion and common
sense owners. This isn't all caps get it done?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, so the president here mean he has expressed this
before that they shouldn't have changed the names, but he
hasn't gone so far publicly to call them out for
doing so and insist that they do so. But he
ramped up pressure in a follow up social media post
in which he said there could be consequences if Washington
doesn't bring back the old name. We see the team
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in the league recently an a deal to build a
new stadium for the team.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So the President is now threatening to hold up that deal,
writing this quote, I may put a restriction on them
that if they don't change the name back to the
original Washington Redskins and get rid of the ridiculous moniker
Washington Commanders, I won't make a deal for them to
build a stadium in Washington. The team would be much
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more valuable and the deal would be more exciting for everyone.
The question is can he actually hold up the deal.
It's unclear President Biden signed to build transferring ownership of
the land for the new stadium over to DC already.
So we shall see if there's a will, there's a way.
Though with President Trump, he can give.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Them certainly headaches, but DC owns the land. But they
still have to jump through a few hurdles with the
council there to get this done. But this is out
of nowhere. Can you imagine after all that to change
the name, to change the logos, all the money that
went into the rebranding of this team to go back.
I can't imagine that happened. Oh yeah, should have mentioned.
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Both teams have said, yeah, this isn't on our radar,
got no plans to be changing the name of our team.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, like you said, seemingly out of nowhere. But some
folks might also be pointing the finger at a Wag
the dog situation where he's trying to distract from the
whole Wall Street Journal Jeffrey Epstein connection and want to
talk about something else that'll get people talking.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
But you would only think that if you're cynical. But
who would think that we continue on the run here
on there's Monday morning with some relief, I guess for
Alaska Airlines passengers, because as of two o'clock this morning,
at least the airline finally lifted its ground stop. Yes,
it grounded everything, every plane, the whole fleet because of
a software outage. Now, yes, things are up and running again,
(12:46):
Rose Rose, But that does that mean everything is running smoothly?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah? My guess is the answer is no, because the
airline put out this statement after they said, yeah, we
lifted the ground stop. However, as we reposition our aircraft
and cruise, there will most likely be residual impacts to
our flights. It will take some time to get our
overall operations back to normal. End quote. Several passengers reported
being stuck out on tarmac's late last night for hours
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while waiting for information from airline staff, only to be
taken off those planes and wait to be rebooked. Alaska
Airlines is the fifth largest US airline, with more than
forty four million customers each year, A lot of probably
very tired and upset passengers this morning.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I know they had to massage that language, but just
be straight with us. As we reposition, there will most
likely be residual impacts.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Today's going to suck.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, just say it in one statement, guys, it's going
to be. It's going to suck happy for all of
us today, right. Continuing on the run and on that
theme of being straight with airline passengers. I don't know
if I want to hear this from my pilot. We're
just now learning about a frightening near miss with a
Delta operated plane, and the pilot was straight with his passengers,
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and he said this and I quote, not a fun
day at work. Ah. That is what he told his
shaken passengers after the plane made an unexpected move while
trying to land on Friday rope. That's the unexpected move.
This sounds like it would have scared the hell out
of you if you on the planet.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Oh yeah, you're going for a landing and your plane
makes it a complete U turn. That's how it's been described.
The Delta pilot actually apologized to passengers for having to
make an aggressive maneuver to avoid colliding with a B
fifty two bomber in the same airspace. The flight had
taken off from Minneapolis, and once it safely landed, the
pilot then got on the loud speaker and said this
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about having to dramatically avoid the military jet. And this
is a quote because some folks recorded his message, so
we actually do have the verbatim.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And this is it, folks. He say quote, given his speed,
I don't know how fast they were going, but they
were going a lot faster than us. I felt it
was the safest thing to do to turn behind it.
So sorry about the aggressive maneuver. It caught me d
by surprise. This is not normal at all. I don't
know why they didn't give us a heads up because
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the Air Force base does have radar. Long story short,
it was not fun, but I do apologize for it,
and thank you for understanding. Not a fun day at work.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And then the plane reportedly launched into a huge applause
after they heard the pilot say that, and a lot
of folks did say, we appreciate letting us know, because
sometimes what the hell was that? Yeah, and you never know,
and the pilot might not want to tell you for
all sorts of legal reasons, but they did appreciate the
fact that they were let in on what was going on. Now.
The North Dakota city where they were landing is home
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to an Air Force base with B fifty two bombers,
and an Air Force spokesperson confirmed to news outlets that yes,
a B fifty two aircraft did conduct a flyover of
the North Dakota State fair Friday evening. The incident is
being investigated. But thankfully, obviously that pilot did what he
was supposed to do when he landed that airplane safely.
But still scary.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
But that's the part like the near miss thing, and
there wasn't a near miss. They ran into each other
over the Potomac, right, All these types of things are like,
why does that happened? He didn't see it? Why didn't
they see us? They have radar, You gotta be aware
of each other, and that can't happen.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, and the pilot was pissed when he was like,
that's not supposed to happen. This is not normal.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, I know pilots are supposed to be good at
their jobs. We shouldn't expect them to be this good
to avoid that's.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
What air traffic controllers are.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yes, that's it.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That's the part the scariest hell to me. All right, well, folks,
stay with us here on this morning morning, Monday morning,
run when we come back. Let's see here Robes two
two major athletic competitions over the weekend. They weren't exactly
nail biers, but some major headlines came out of both,
and also Smurfs no match for dinosaurs. Duh. This is
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Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
A television showrunner is almost like being a governor. You know.
It's the same thing from Gleed Nip Tuck. The days
of civil discourse are over. The thing that I was
not prepared for was the Kennedy firestorm, Monsters, the Lyle
and Eric Menendez story. And I haven't really spoken about this.
One of my good friends who's the star of one
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of my shows coming up, Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You may have heard of her, one of the most
prolific writers, producers, and directors in Hollywood today.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Are monsters made or are they born?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
This is Ryan Murphy.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Hollywood used to be Hollywood. How about the pressure you
put on yourself. You're competing against this guy, Ryan Murphy. Well,
that's the secret of my career. Do the opposite of
what you just did. Get another twenty years of this
in you. That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Listen to This is Gavin Newsom on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. All right,
let's continue you on this Monday morning run now. And
if you're a fan of Down to the Wire, nail
biting high stakes championship competition. Then yesterday's British Open was
not for you because it was downright boring, But it
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was right up your alley if you appreciate excellence and
dominance ropes.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
That's right, Scotti. Scheffler made it look easy and on
the final day of the tournament the outcome was never
in doubt and he eventually won by four strokes. Scheffler
is the number one ranked golfer and has been on
a terror as of late. He won the PGA Championship
earlier this year by five strokes, and he won the
Masters last year by four strokes.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
He is now a four time major winner, and he
has won three of the four majors, so he could
become now only the seventh player ever Robes to pick
up all four majors. He only has the US Open.
I think he hasn't won. Scheffler had people buzzing though
before the tournament with comments he may suggesting his own
passion for the game of golf and saying, and I'm
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quoting here, I think I told you about this rope
you did when the tournament started. It was very cool.
He said, what's the point, This is not a fulfilling life.
It's fulfilling from a sense of accomplishment, but it's not
fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart.
That's something that I wrestle with on a daily basis.
Why do I want to win the Open Championship so badly?
I don't know, because if I win, it's going to
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be awesome for two minutes Rogues. He said that before
the tournament, wins the tournament, he already predicted, like, I'm
gonna win a big deal. Even if I win.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It's one of those moments where when you get like,
there are I mean, there are probably only a few
people in the world who can say I had this
crazy goal, I met this goal and now what. And
Olympians probably have this. I think certainly in my career
I felt this where you get to the place where
you had wished and hope for your whole life and
then you say to yourself, now what. And it's kind
of cool to hear someone at his level articulate that.
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So he went on to say, this, you win it,
you celebrate, get to hug my family, my sister's there.
It's such an amazing moment. And then it's like Okay,
what are we going to eat for dinner? It goes on.
It feels like you work your whole life to celebrate
winning a tournament for like a few minutes. It only
lasts a few minutes. I appreciate this. It's such a
thing to consider as we're all on this well most
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of us are on this mission to have success. But
then what happens when you achieve it? Like what matters
when you're on your deathbed? What matters when you reflect back?
You know, it's a moment.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I thought it was just wonderful. I want to include
his quotes there, but congratulations they am. He is dominating
in golf in a way that Tiger Woods used to
when he first was on a tear in the nineties.
This dude is doing gang busters. So congrats to him
for winning and also have having perspectives. Yeah. Continuing on
the run now with the WNBA All Star Game. It
was a real nail bier this Weekend Robes final score
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one fifty one to one thirty one. It was a
kind of a defensive battle between these two teams. Obviously
the game wasn't competitive. It wasn't competitive at all really,
but the players use the weekend showcase and the attention
on them to make a very powerful statement. During warmups,
the players wore T shirts and across those T shirts
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a message that said, pay us what you owe us.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I mean, very clear and to the point. The players say.
This decision was made at a closed door meeting the
morning of the game. The league and the players are
in the midst of negotiations on a new collective bargaining
agreement in which the players are seeking a larger share
of revenue and a different salary structure.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Essentially, they're asking for a larger piece of a pie
that is getting larger. The league is having its moment
right now. They got bar Key, young stars and a
huge multi billion dollar media deal they just signed, so
they want a piece of that.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
And that's fair, that's no doubt fair.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
They're not arguing, pay us what you pay Lebron in steph.
They're saying, just give us a se much percentage of
the money that's coming in, and more money is coming.
No argument. They say they got emotional because at the
end the crowd on their own started chanting pay them,
pay I love that, pay them, so good for them.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
That's awesome, all right, for the final leg of our run.
A couple of highly anticipated new movies didn't quite meet
expectations at the box office this weekend. The reboot of
I Know What You Did Last Summer and the new
Smurfs movie ended up in third and fourth place at
the box office.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, the thirteen million dollars that I Know What You
Did Last Summer brought in. I guess we contributed about
thirty bucks. Yeah we did. Yeah, we did this weekend,
but it made thirteen million dollars, a little below expectations.
But it didn't cost a lot to make that movie,
so it's not the worst thing in the world. But
the Smurf movie ended up in fourth place, just eleven
million dollars at opening. That's tough because that has a
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nearly sixty million dollar budget and some big names attached
to that one.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, outch on that one. Superman though still flying high
on top of the box office for a second straight
weekend with fifty seven million dollars. It's now earned just
over four hundred million dollars worldwide, and Jurassic World reworth
was number two this weekend. It took in twenty three
million dollars. Both of those are well reviewed correct.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
They are, and I think audiences are. We got to
get to see Superman.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I know, I really this week, this week, we're gonna
do it. We're gonna do it, We're gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yes, let's do it. That all right? Books something that
we like for you to consider as you go about
your day on this Monday. It is our quote of
the day.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yes, anyone can give up. It is the easiest thing
to do. Sorry, I even screwed up the quote. Let
me start over again because I'm not giving up. I'm
gonna keep trying to get this right. Here's the quote.
Anyone can give up. It is the easiest thing in
the world to do. But to hold it together when
everyone would expect you to fall apart, Now, that is
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true strength. And that comes to us from a man
named Chris Bradford. He's a British black belt martial artist
who authored If you have Young Children, you may know
these Young Samurai book series, But just thought it was
such a cool thing on a Monday. Sometimes it's overwhelming,
and sometimes you're working your ass off and you feel
like it's just not working out. I liked this quote
to be motivating for all of us who might find
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ourselves in that place.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
That's a good one. Anyone can give up. It is
the easiest thing in the world to do. But to
hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart,
now that is true strength. And with that, folks, we
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Speaker 1 (24:25):
Holmes and I'm Amy Robot. Have a great Monday, everyone,
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, July
twenty First, I'm Amy Robots.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And I'm TJ Holmes. Hope you all had a great weekend.
Here we are Monday Robes. Highlight of your weekend was.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Just chilling with you. Oh wow, like honestly, just chilling
on the couch with you.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh that is very sweet. We did get the chance
to go see a movie this weekend. Not enough of
us went to see this particular movie because it didn't
do great at the box office, but that was a highlight.
I know what you did last summer, the reboot.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, that was fun. We had a good time laughing
along with it in moments.
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If you all wouldn't mind doing that, Yeah, you could
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Speaker 2 (01:20):
If that easy. Go to our show page up at
the top. It says follow, And that's all there is
to it. But let's get going. On the run on
this Monday morning, now who And on the run, one
billionaire named Trump sues another billionaire for billions of dollars. Also,
a car plows into a crowd in LA and they
say it was intentional. And Pat Tillman's brother crashes into.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
A post office all right, and the number of missing
in Texas goes from triple digits down to three plus.
An airline grounded its entire fleet and in a pilot
apologizes to his passengers after quite possibly saving their lives.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Also on the run this morning, the British Open wasn't
incredibly entertaining yet on a ventful affair. Trump insists two
proteins revert back to their old controversial and offensive team
names and WNBA stars don't do subtle when it comes
to getting a pay raise.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And on the Morning run, guess it wasn't a fair
fight at the box office this weekend, Superman and Dinosaurs
versus Smurfs. Who do you think what?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It wasn't even much of a competition. The Smurfs were
a little bit of a surprise this weekend. Yeah, the
franchise has been around for a while and done pretty well.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It was beloved by us as children in the cartoon
form just Saturday Mornings. Smurfs. Oh my goodness, somehow it
didn't necessarily translate to the big screen.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Is a smurf village? That was a name of a run.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Sur Villageyeah, Poka Smurf, smurfed.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
All of the All right, we'll get into that shortly,
but we got something else we got to get started
on this morning. He saw through on the threat. I
guess we should say that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
We will begin our run on this Monday morning. Because
Trump said he was going to do it. We should
believe him when he says he's going to do something. Yes,
President Trump followed through and sued the Wall Street Journal
for ten billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, he threatened to do so after the journal published
an article last week claiming that Trump wrote a birthday
note to disgrace financier Jeffrey Epstein for his fiftieth birthday.
That two thousand and three note was allegedly part of
a leatherbound book put together by Epstein associate Glenne Maxwell,
and included well wishes from Epstein's friends and family.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
The journal describes the message as typewritten texts surrounded by
a hand drawn sketch of a naked woman, complete with
the arcs representing breasts, and the signature Donald is written
just under the waste of the naked woman in a
way that's supposed to represent pubic hare. The letter closes
with this line, according to the paper, happy birthday and
(03:42):
may every day be another wonderful secret.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
You can imagine that is not a good look, and
the President said last week that he warned Rupert Murdoch
not to publish the article or face a lawsuit. Murdoch,
of course, is the head of News Court, which owns
the paper Wall Street Journal. The President has now filed
that lawsuit and This is how he announced it, writing
on true social quote, we have just filed a powerhouse lawsuit.
(04:08):
Powerhouse was in all caps, by the way, Powerhouse lawsuit
against everyone involved in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory fake
news article in the useless rag that is the Wall
Street Journey.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
But wait, there's more, and it's in perfect true Trump form.
Here he says, quote, this lawsuit is filed not only
on behalf of your favorite president me me is in
all caps, but also in order to continue standing up
for all Americans who will no longer tolerate the abusive
wrongdoings of the fake news media. I hope Rupert and
(04:44):
his friends are looking forward to the many hours of
depositions and testimonies they will have to provide in this case.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. We will
make America great again. Depositions with an.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
S of all this and somebody could easily be dismiss dismissive,
an odd, this isn't going to go anywhere or whatever.
When CEOs of companies this big get threatened with depositions
that get filmed and then get released later, that is
a that's a threatening language that a CEO will sit
up and pay attention to because nobody wants that. So
(05:18):
if this follows the other the way, the other lawsuits
go rope. So how long before the settlement right now?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, I was just gonna say, this isn't just a threat.
I mean, we have seen what he has done. He's
followed through in the lawsuits, and then those lawsuits have
all ended in multimillion dollar settlements. So we shall see.
But that has been the trend.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
All right. We continue on the run on this Monday
morning and head to California now, where thirty people were
injured after a man drove his car into a crowd
of bystanders outside an East Los Angeles nightclub in Robes.
This was like a chaotic, a wild scene, like all
night This was just a mess of a scene.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Because that was just the beginning. So it started. Police
say twenty nine year old Fernando Ramirez had just been
kicked out of the club for disruptive behavior. That's when
police say he intentionally then drove his vehicle into a
group that had come out of the club. There were
food trucks, a lot of folks standing around. The injuries
in the crowd range from minor too serious and one
(06:14):
woman in her twenties has leg injuries. She is still
in critical condition as of this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And then after the crash, you get this, several people
dragged Ramirez out of his car started beating him down.
One man then shot and wounded him, and that man
took off. That shooter remains on the loose. Ramirez was
initially taken to the hospital with non life threatening injuries.
He was later booked in jail charge with assault with
a deadly weapon.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And turns out Ramirez was on parole at the time
of this incident. Police say he is a lengthy criminal history,
with at least eleven criminal cases that range from misdemeanors
to violent felonies, including domestic battery and a conviction for
attacking a man outside a Whole Foods store. So this
man has a long rap sheet and a history of violence,
(07:01):
and I think most people will say he is where
he belongs, behind bars this.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Morning, all right. The next leg of our run keeps
us in California, where authorities are continuing to investigate why
a man intentionally slammed into a neighborhood post office, setting
the building on fire. Police say forty four year old
Richard Tillman is the man responsible to say he deliberately
reversed his vehicle into the lobby of the Almonden Post Office.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It took fifty firefighters more than an hour and a
half to put out that fire that destroyed the building
and all the mail and packages inside. Yeah, it's tough
for a lot of folks who might have been waiting
for god knows what right. Tilman is behind bars this
morning at the Santa Clara County Jail. He's waiting a
court hearing that's scheduled for Wednesday at noon, and he
has been charged with arson.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, and Tillman is the brother of late NFL star
turned US Army ranger Pat Tillman, who was killed in
a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan more than twenty years ago.
Police don't know Tillman's motives for I guess going after
this post office, but said he spray painted Viva le
may or Viva la me on the outside of the
(08:08):
post office before ramming his vehicle into it. We were
trying to understand the translation Viva we get at long lived.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, it's like Viva la France or Viva las Vegas.
It's like long live me. Maybe it's hard to understand
what that might mean. There were other reports of folks
who heard the crash, came out and said they saw
him on the phone. He had a beer in his hand.
People were saying he might have been live streaming this incident.
So a lot of questions. Hoping to have some answers
in the coming days. Next up on the Run, we're
(08:37):
going to head to Texas, where officials there have dramatically
revised the number of missing in that deadly fourth of
July flooding. Over the weekend, authorities dropped the number of missing,
which was at ninety seven all the way down.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
To just three and they say a lot of the
people who are initially reported as missing have been verified
as safe and have been removed from that list. That's
a good thing. Historic flooding killed at least one hundred
and thirty five people, though in many more were fear
dared after a wall of floodwater swept over the Guadaloupe River,
rising more than twenty feet in less than an hour.
(09:10):
The Kerrville Police Department said. While the updated missing figures
offer some relief, searchers remain focused on reuniting the three
individuals who are still unaccounted for, with their families well.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Next up on the run, President Trump wants the Washington
Commanders to change their name back to the one that
offended people. And he's telling them to change it or else.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yes, seemingly out of nowhere, the President yesterday went in
on the Washington Commanders and Major League Baseball's Cleveland Guardians.
Both teams changed their names in twenty twenty after the
so called national reckoning on race following the killing of
George Floyd. Cleveland dropped its long standing name of Indians
(09:52):
and Washington dropped Redskins. Both had been the source of
debate and controversy for I mean probably decades. People after
them change names, that's right.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So President Trump said this on Sunday and again quoting
him here, the Washington Whatevers should immediately change their name
back to the Washington Redskins football team. There is a
big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of
the six original Baseball teams with a storied past our.
Great Indian people in massive numbers want this to happen.
(10:24):
Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them.
Times are different now than they were three or four
years ago. We are a country of passion and common
sense owners. This isn't all caps get it done?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, so the president here mean he has expressed this
before that they shouldn't have changed the names, but he
hasn't gone so far publicly to call them out for
doing so and insist that they do so. But he
ramped up pressure in a follow up social media post
in which he said there could be consequences if Washington
doesn't bring back the old name. We see the team
(10:58):
in the league recently an a deal to build a
new stadium for the team.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So the President is now threatening to hold up that deal,
writing this quote, I may put a restriction on them
that if they don't change the name back to the
original Washington Redskins and get rid of the ridiculous moniker
Washington Commanders, I won't make a deal for them to
build a stadium in Washington. The team would be much
(11:24):
more valuable and the deal would be more exciting for everyone.
The question is can he actually hold up the deal.
It's unclear President Biden signed to build transferring ownership of
the land for the new stadium over to DC already.
So we shall see if there's a will, there's a way.
Though with President Trump, he can give.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Them certainly headaches, but DC owns the land. But they
still have to jump through a few hurdles with the
council there to get this done. But this is out
of nowhere. Can you imagine after all that to change
the name, to change the logos, all the money that
went into the rebranding of this team to go back.
I can't imagine that happened. Oh yeah, should have mentioned.
(12:04):
Both teams have said, yeah, this isn't on our radar,
got no plans to be changing the name of our team.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, like you said, seemingly out of nowhere. But some
folks might also be pointing the finger at a Wag
the dog situation where he's trying to distract from the
whole Wall Street Journal Jeffrey Epstein connection and want to
talk about something else that'll get people talking.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
But you would only think that if you're cynical. But
who would think that we continue on the run here
on there's Monday morning with some relief, I guess for
Alaska Airlines passengers, because as of two o'clock this morning,
at least the airline finally lifted its ground stop. Yes,
it grounded everything, every plane, the whole fleet because of
a software outage. Now, yes, things are up and running again,
(12:46):
Rose Rose, But that does that mean everything is running smoothly?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah? My guess is the answer is no, because the
airline put out this statement after they said, yeah, we
lifted the ground stop. However, as we reposition our aircraft
and cruise, there will most likely be residual impacts to
our flights. It will take some time to get our
overall operations back to normal. End quote. Several passengers reported
being stuck out on tarmac's late last night for hours
(13:12):
while waiting for information from airline staff, only to be
taken off those planes and wait to be rebooked. Alaska
Airlines is the fifth largest US airline, with more than
forty four million customers each year, A lot of probably
very tired and upset passengers this morning.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I know they had to massage that language, but just
be straight with us. As we reposition, there will most
likely be residual impacts.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Today's going to suck.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, just say it in one statement, guys, it's going
to be. It's going to suck happy for all of
us today, right. Continuing on the run and on that
theme of being straight with airline passengers. I don't know
if I want to hear this from my pilot. We're
just now learning about a frightening near miss with a
Delta operated plane, and the pilot was straight with his passengers,
(13:57):
and he said this and I quote, not a fun
day at work. Ah. That is what he told his
shaken passengers after the plane made an unexpected move while
trying to land on Friday rope. That's the unexpected move.
This sounds like it would have scared the hell out
of you if you on the planet.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Oh yeah, you're going for a landing and your plane
makes it a complete U turn. That's how it's been described.
The Delta pilot actually apologized to passengers for having to
make an aggressive maneuver to avoid colliding with a B
fifty two bomber in the same airspace. The flight had
taken off from Minneapolis, and once it safely landed, the
pilot then got on the loud speaker and said this
(14:37):
about having to dramatically avoid the military jet. And this
is a quote because some folks recorded his message, so
we actually do have the verbatim.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And this is it, folks. He say quote, given his speed,
I don't know how fast they were going, but they
were going a lot faster than us. I felt it
was the safest thing to do to turn behind it.
So sorry about the aggressive maneuver. It caught me d
by surprise. This is not normal at all. I don't
know why they didn't give us a heads up because
(15:06):
the Air Force base does have radar. Long story short,
it was not fun, but I do apologize for it,
and thank you for understanding. Not a fun day at work.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And then the plane reportedly launched into a huge applause
after they heard the pilot say that, and a lot
of folks did say, we appreciate letting us know, because
sometimes what the hell was that? Yeah, and you never know,
and the pilot might not want to tell you for
all sorts of legal reasons, but they did appreciate the
fact that they were let in on what was going on. Now.
The North Dakota city where they were landing is home
(15:39):
to an Air Force base with B fifty two bombers,
and an Air Force spokesperson confirmed to news outlets that yes,
a B fifty two aircraft did conduct a flyover of
the North Dakota State fair Friday evening. The incident is
being investigated. But thankfully, obviously that pilot did what he
was supposed to do when he landed that airplane safely.
But still scary.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
But that's the part like the near miss thing, and
there wasn't a near miss. They ran into each other
over the Potomac, right, All these types of things are like,
why does that happened? He didn't see it? Why didn't
they see us? They have radar, You gotta be aware
of each other, and that can't happen.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, and the pilot was pissed when he was like,
that's not supposed to happen. This is not normal.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, I know pilots are supposed to be good at
their jobs. We shouldn't expect them to be this good
to avoid that's.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
What air traffic controllers are.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yes, that's it.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That's the part the scariest hell to me. All right, well, folks,
stay with us here on this morning morning, Monday morning,
run when we come back. Let's see here Robes two
two major athletic competitions over the weekend. They weren't exactly
nail biers, but some major headlines came out of both,
and also Smurfs no match for dinosaurs. Duh. This is
(16:58):
Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
A television showrunner is almost like being a governor. You know.
It's the same thing from Gleed Nip Tuck. The days
of civil discourse are over. The thing that I was
not prepared for was the Kennedy firestorm, Monsters, the Lyle
and Eric Menendez story. And I haven't really spoken about this.
One of my good friends who's the star of one
(17:21):
of my shows coming up, Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You may have heard of her, one of the most
prolific writers, producers, and directors in Hollywood today.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Are monsters made or are they born?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
This is Ryan Murphy.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Hollywood used to be Hollywood. How about the pressure you
put on yourself. You're competing against this guy, Ryan Murphy. Well,
that's the secret of my career. Do the opposite of
what you just did. Get another twenty years of this
in you. That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Listen to This is Gavin Newsom on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. All right,
let's continue you on this Monday morning run now. And
if you're a fan of Down to the Wire, nail
biting high stakes championship competition. Then yesterday's British Open was
not for you because it was downright boring, But it
(18:13):
was right up your alley if you appreciate excellence and
dominance ropes.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
That's right, Scotti. Scheffler made it look easy and on
the final day of the tournament the outcome was never
in doubt and he eventually won by four strokes. Scheffler
is the number one ranked golfer and has been on
a terror as of late. He won the PGA Championship
earlier this year by five strokes, and he won the
Masters last year by four strokes.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
He is now a four time major winner, and he
has won three of the four majors, so he could
become now only the seventh player ever Robes to pick
up all four majors. He only has the US Open.
I think he hasn't won. Scheffler had people buzzing though
before the tournament with comments he may suggesting his own
passion for the game of golf and saying, and I'm
(18:57):
quoting here, I think I told you about this rope
you did when the tournament started. It was very cool.
He said, what's the point, This is not a fulfilling life.
It's fulfilling from a sense of accomplishment, but it's not
fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart.
That's something that I wrestle with on a daily basis.
Why do I want to win the Open Championship so badly?
I don't know, because if I win, it's going to
(19:18):
be awesome for two minutes Rogues. He said that before
the tournament, wins the tournament, he already predicted, like, I'm
gonna win a big deal. Even if I win.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It's one of those moments where when you get like,
there are I mean, there are probably only a few
people in the world who can say I had this
crazy goal, I met this goal and now what. And
Olympians probably have this. I think certainly in my career
I felt this where you get to the place where
you had wished and hope for your whole life and
then you say to yourself, now what. And it's kind
of cool to hear someone at his level articulate that.
(19:50):
So he went on to say, this, you win it,
you celebrate, get to hug my family, my sister's there.
It's such an amazing moment. And then it's like Okay,
what are we going to eat for dinner? It goes on.
It feels like you work your whole life to celebrate
winning a tournament for like a few minutes. It only
lasts a few minutes. I appreciate this. It's such a
thing to consider as we're all on this well most
(20:12):
of us are on this mission to have success. But
then what happens when you achieve it? Like what matters
when you're on your deathbed? What matters when you reflect back?
You know, it's a moment.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I thought it was just wonderful. I want to include
his quotes there, but congratulations they am. He is dominating
in golf in a way that Tiger Woods used to
when he first was on a tear in the nineties.
This dude is doing gang busters. So congrats to him
for winning and also have having perspectives. Yeah. Continuing on
the run now with the WNBA All Star Game. It
was a real nail bier this Weekend Robes final score
(20:45):
one fifty one to one thirty one. It was a
kind of a defensive battle between these two teams. Obviously
the game wasn't competitive. It wasn't competitive at all really,
but the players use the weekend showcase and the attention
on them to make a very powerful statement. During warmups,
the players wore T shirts and across those T shirts
(21:05):
a message that said, pay us what you owe us.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I mean, very clear and to the point. The players say.
This decision was made at a closed door meeting the
morning of the game. The league and the players are
in the midst of negotiations on a new collective bargaining
agreement in which the players are seeking a larger share
of revenue and a different salary structure.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Essentially, they're asking for a larger piece of a pie
that is getting larger. The league is having its moment
right now. They got bar Key, young stars and a
huge multi billion dollar media deal they just signed, so
they want a piece of that.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
And that's fair, that's no doubt fair.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
They're not arguing, pay us what you pay Lebron in steph.
They're saying, just give us a se much percentage of
the money that's coming in, and more money is coming.
No argument. They say they got emotional because at the
end the crowd on their own started chanting pay them,
pay I love that, pay them, so good for them.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
That's awesome, all right, for the final leg of our run.
A couple of highly anticipated new movies didn't quite meet
expectations at the box office this weekend. The reboot of
I Know What You Did Last Summer and the new
Smurfs movie ended up in third and fourth place at
the box office.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, the thirteen million dollars that I Know What You
Did Last Summer brought in. I guess we contributed about
thirty bucks. Yeah we did. Yeah, we did this weekend,
but it made thirteen million dollars, a little below expectations.
But it didn't cost a lot to make that movie,
so it's not the worst thing in the world. But
the Smurf movie ended up in fourth place, just eleven
million dollars at opening. That's tough because that has a
(22:34):
nearly sixty million dollar budget and some big names attached
to that one.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, outch on that one. Superman though still flying high
on top of the box office for a second straight
weekend with fifty seven million dollars. It's now earned just
over four hundred million dollars worldwide, and Jurassic World reworth
was number two this weekend. It took in twenty three
million dollars. Both of those are well reviewed correct.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
They are, and I think audiences are. We got to
get to see Superman.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I know, I really this week, this week, we're gonna
do it. We're gonna do it, We're gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yes, let's do it. That all right? Books something that
we like for you to consider as you go about
your day on this Monday. It is our quote of
the day.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yes, anyone can give up. It is the easiest thing
to do. Sorry, I even screwed up the quote. Let
me start over again because I'm not giving up. I'm
gonna keep trying to get this right. Here's the quote.
Anyone can give up. It is the easiest thing in
the world to do. But to hold it together when
everyone would expect you to fall apart, Now, that is
(23:34):
true strength. And that comes to us from a man
named Chris Bradford. He's a British black belt martial artist
who authored If you have Young Children, you may know
these Young Samurai book series, But just thought it was
such a cool thing on a Monday. Sometimes it's overwhelming,
and sometimes you're working your ass off and you feel
like it's just not working out. I liked this quote
to be motivating for all of us who might find
(23:55):
ourselves in that place.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
That's a good one. Anyone can give up. It is
the easiest thing in the world to do. But to
hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart,
now that is true strength. And with that, folks, we
always appreciate you listening to us. Remember you can always
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