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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 Friday, July eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm Amy Roboch and I'MTJ.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Holmes.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
An earthquake in the world of entertainment. CBS is canceling
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The network calls it
a financial decision. Others are already suggesting it was a
political decision.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Plus, President Trump says he will sue the Wall Street
Journal for an article. He says he warned them not
to print. That article suggests he drew a sketch of
a naked lady. We'll explain.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Also, the President made another attempt to quiet the MAGA
uproar over Epstein and wants more documents released. Also, the
President has been diagnosed with a common condition, the symptoms
of which were noticed days ago by the public.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Also on the Run This Morning, One day in jail.
That is all the Department of Justice is requesting for
the only police officer convicted in the fatal shooting of
Breonna Taylor. Plus, public broadcasting and foreign aid programs are
losing billions of dollars as Congress passes a massive spending cut,
A spending cut bill overnight.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's spanding. It's ever expanding spending.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Thanks for pointing out that slip of the time.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh everybody caught it in It was just me.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Also on the run this morning, a regifted whip fetches
more than a half million dollars at auction.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
But this is not just any old whip. A hint
for you, d.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
D Yes, you know where we're going with that. We'll
tell you about this storied whip. Also, a Massachusetts man
made one lucky lottery mistake. That mistake ended up not
costing him money.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It doubled his jackpot.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
This was kind of cool, and I would love to
hear the chances of this if you could compute, of
this ever happen.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yes, but you gotta love a lucky mistake. They're rare.
Usually you pay for your mistakes. He actually got paid
for his. All right, we're going to begin our run
this morning. Though, with that shocking announcement in the entertainment world,
CBS says it is canceling the most watched show in
late night, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The show
will end in May after Colbert's contract expires.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
All right, Now, despite what you might be thinking. The
network insists its decision was purely a financial decision against
a challenging bat drop in late night, and they say
it had nothing to do with the show's performance or
content or quote other matters happening at Paramount. They Robes
decided to add that in there before anybody ever started criticizing.
(02:45):
We'll get more into that now. The other matters, yes,
that we're talking about here, multi billion dollar merger with
movie studio Skydance. The thing about that is that it
requires approval from the Trump administration. Also, sixteen million dollars
settlement with the President over a sixty minutes interview with
Kamala Harris. People are citing those things. That's maybe playing
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a factor into this show, which Colbert goes after Trump damn.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
There every night.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, yes, And specifically on Monday Night, Colbert called that
settlement with President Trump quote a big fat bribe end quote,
and then mocked reports that Paramount would now try to
please Trump by putting pressure on him. That was on
Monday Night DJ timing.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I mean, I mean, so obviously people are.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Going to look at that, go hmm, one hundred percent.
People are trying to connect those dots. So last night,
Colbert acknowledged the network's decision and this is kind of crazy,
saying he was only told about the cancelation the night before,
on Wednesday night, so he had just hours to process
this very shocking announcement. And that's when the audience bowed
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and Colbert agreed with the audience, saying, yeah, I share
your feelings.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But he did.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Praise CBS as well, calling them a great partner and
thanking them for the opportunity and for the beautiful theater
he's called home the past ten years. That's the famed
Ed Sullivan Theater. The Late Show franchise began in nineteen
ninety three with of course David Letterman, but late night
network programming has been struggling in recent years, most of
the country, of course, moving away from traditional broadcast and
cable television and over to streaming services. I mean, the
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numbers and the ratings, they just are what they are.
It was kind of shocked to look at them, to
see a couple of them are averaging under two million.
I mean, in the heyday, you can't imagine what it was,
but under two million these days and late night the
salaries that these guys are making look these are institutions.
It's weird to see one go.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's a sign of the times, and it's just sad
and just it's I don't know, shocking is like a
minimal word to use. I mean, I think people were
really like they're gutted by it as well, because so
many people love Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But what else if the number one late night show
that is an institution can be done away with for
final Anchel reasons, than isn't everything on the chopping block?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It seems that could be the case, all right. Next
up on the run, President Trump says he is about
to sue another major media outlet. This time it's the
Wall Street Journal. The paper released an article late yesterday
with this title, Jeffrey Epstein's friends sent him body letters
for a fiftieth birthday album. One was from Donald Trump,
all right.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Then, the article goes on to describe the details of
the alleged letter from Trump to Epstein in two thousand
and three. That letter included a sketch of a naked lady.
According to the paper, it was part of a leatherbound
book put together by Epstein associate Glene Maxwell, and included
well wishes from Epstein's friends and family.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
The journal describes the message as typewritten text surrounded by
a hand drawn sketch of a naked woman, completed with
arcs representing breasts, and the signature Donald is written just
under the waist of the naked woman in a way
that is supposed to represent pubic hair. The letter closes
with this line and perhaps this might be the most
damning of it all. According to the paper, it says,
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happy birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
You can imagine.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
But yes, I had the TV on at some points
last night and saw clips the lower third from some
of the cable outlets.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Were using that line.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
The journal claims the letter was among documents that were
part of the Justice Department investigation into Epstein and Maxwell.
The president's response to all this would me, he said,
and I quote, this is a fake thing. It's a
fake Wall Street Journal story. I never wrote a picture
in my life. I don't draw pictures of women. It's
not my language, it's not my word.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
But he went further on social media, claiming in op
pose that he personally warned the journal and owner Rupert
Murdoch that the letter was fake. And that he would sue.
The President wrote that mister Murdoch stated he would take
care of it, but obviously did not have the power
to do so. The editor of the Wall Street Journal,
Emma Tuck, was told directly by Carolyn Levitt and by
President Trump that the letter was a fake, but Emma
(07:05):
Tucker didn't want to hear that. Instead, they are going
with a false, malicious and defamatory story. Anyway, President Trump
will be suing the Wall Street Journal News Corp. And
mister Murdoch. Shortly, he referred to himself in third person there.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I think he reposted a larger statements.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I just wanted to make sure, yeah, you got it
right now.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
The President has some pretty high profile eight figure wins
against legacy media lately, after suing and eventually settling lawsuits
with ABC and CBS News. Both of those have those numbers, right,
sixteen million dollars for both, right, all right? And he
continued at least the statement on his social media saying
the press has to learn to be truthful and not
rely on sources that probably don't even exist. President Trump
(07:47):
has already beaten George Stephanopoulos and ABC sixty Minutes and
CBS and others, and looks forward to suing and holding
accountable the once great Wall Street Journal. It was truly
turned out be a disgusting and filthy rag end. Quote
is what the President said.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Wow, all right. Well, not long after that, the President
made another attempt at calming the uproar over his administration's
handling of the Epstein files. In a major change of tune,
Trump now says he wants Attorney General Pam Bondi to
release more files related to Epstein, in particular grand jury testimony.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Just after nine o'clock last night, the President posted on
his social media this one's from him for sure.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to the
Jeffrey Epstein to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General
Pambondi to produce any and all pertinent grand jury testimony,
subject to court approval. This scam perpetuated by the Democrats, should.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
End, right now.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
A couple of things in there. Pertinent, who decides whether
it's pertinent? Yeah, and then once you decide it's pertinent,
then a court has the okay at being released. So
still a couple of steps in there that the MAGA
folks might not like this. MAGA revolts started last week
when the DJ said no more Epstein files would be
released and there was no Epstein client list, and oh,
by the way, they said Epstein died by suicide in
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his jail cell.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
All right. Next up on Iran President Trump's health. Many
noticed the president appeared to have swollen ankles when several
images were shown of him sitting at the FIFA club
soccer match in New Jersey. Is it five for a Fifaifa?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I questioned myself for a second the FIFA club soccer
match in New Jersey earlier this week.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I have another ye gay moment?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I did?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I did?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And what's the basketball player from Oklahoma City?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Please say Gilgess Alexander.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh, fine on the spot, all right. Getting back to
the President and his swollen ankles here, Yes, those images
kind of made the rounds. A lot of people noticed it,
but the White House now says the President himself noticed
swelling and brought it to the attention of his doctors,
and he's now been diagnosed with chronic venus insufficiency or
cv I. This is a condition when veins in the
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legs are dammited and have a difficult time bringing blood
back up to the heart. It's impact about one in
twenty adults, and usually people over the age of fifty.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
The White House called it a benign and common condition,
particularly in individuals over the age of seventy. His physical
also made note of other pictures circulating that appear to
show bruising on the back of Trump's hand. Well, they
said it is partly due to soft tissue irritation from
frequent handshaking, firm handshakes. All right, that's good to you.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
All run now in DC, A bill that cuts nine
billion dollars in spending is now headed to the White
House for Trump's signature. It was a heavy lift for
Republicans who finally passed the bill that slashes the budget
of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS,
cuts eight billion dollars from four and eight programs as well.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
The House passed the bill in another middle of the
night vote the day after. The Senate did the very same,
narrowly passing its version around two am. The day before.
All Democrats in both chambers voted against the cuts. Republicans
outed the bill as cutting woke and wasteful government spending.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah Democrats described the spending cuts in the bill as
cruel and detrimental to American leadership. The CEO of the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting said the bill will have profound, lasting,
negative consequences for every American, adding that the cuts will
lead to many local public radio and television stations having
to shut down.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
All right, Next up on run, The Justice Department has
recommended time in jail for the only officer convicted in
the killing of Breonna Taylor. How much time are they
asking the judge to sentence him to one day?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yes, The DOJ says Brett Hankerson is not a threat
to the public after he was convicted of violating Taylor's
rights in that botched twenty twenty raid in Louisville. Hankerson
and two other officers were fired while they actually fired
into the home while serving a no knock warned where
Taylor and her boyfriend were sleeping.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Taylor's boyfriend, thinking they were intruders, fired one shot, and
then the officers fired dozens of rounds into the home,
billing Taylor. Hankinson fired at least ten times blindly through
a window, hitting no one. The window was covered by
blinds as.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
While he fired ten shots into a window and couldn't
see what he was shooting at.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Those bullets ended up in another apartment, never hit anybody.
He is the only officer held accountable in any way
with a conviction, and he's the officer whose bullets didn't
hit her. What he had actually shot her, he would
not be in legal trouble as the wildest.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Story, it really, really truly is yes. And so the
Justice Department said this Hankinson did not shoot miss Taylor
and is not otherwise responsible for her death. Counsel is
unaware of another prosecution in which a police officer has
been charged with depriving the rights of another person for
returning fire and not injuring anyone.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
However, the attorney for Taylor's family called this a dangerous
precedent and in a statement said, when a police officer
was found guilty of violating someone's constitutional rights, there must
be real accountability and justice, recommending just one day in
prison and sends the unmistakable message that white officers can
violate the civil rights of black Americans with near total impunity.
(13:10):
So one day, what's the point? Just asked for no sentence. Well,
it's essentially for time served. He was first arrested and
spent one day being booked at the jail. That counts
as one day, so they're essentially giving him credit for
time served by asking for this. But it seems almost
like an insult.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Well what's the point, Yeah, it makes no sense. It
is it is adding injury to insult or insult to injury.
That's right on brand for me. I like to switch
up sayings and make them my own.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, would you like to make people think? All right,
you folks, stay with us here all this Friday morning
run when we come back. I would have bought this
piece of movie memorabilia, but however I could not afford it. Also,
coming up, a man made a huge, huge mistake with
his lottery ticket and it doubled his winning.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Welcome back to this Friday edition of Morning Ron And
how much would you pay for an actual whip used
by Indiana Jones TJ. How much would you pay at
this point?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Now it's a matter of what I could.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Afford, but a lot, okay, you would give whatever you could. Well,
one particularly storied whip from Indiana Jones in the last
crusade went up for auction last night and the winning
bid was five hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
All right.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
This was the third installment of the Indiana Jones initial
trilogy and this was at the end of the movie.
You've seen this right, yes, okay, when his dad played
by Sean Connery, had been shot and he needed to
save him. So he has to go get the Holy Grail.
But he has to go pass all these death defying tests. Well,
the whip he carried in that final series, that final
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climax of the movie. That is the whip we're talking about.
So it's a big deal. It's part of inomatic history.
But there's even more history to it, Robes. This is fascinating.
This whip was once owned by Princess Diana.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I love how this went down. So the whip was
given to Prince Charles by Harrison Ford himself during the
nineteen eighty nine UK premiere. Very cool. Prince Charles then
gefted it to Princess Diana. You know, they got divorce.
She probably wanted to get rid of all this stuff
her ex husband gave her. And that's kind of a
thing a lot of women do. Usually it's jewelry. But
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she's like, I don't want this thing. It reminds me
of my ex husband.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Okay, we're circulating.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I'm totally speculating. Makes sense, Yeah, that's where my brain went,
all right. So so Princess Diana then gives it to
someone else. That someone else is the unidentified seller who
put the whip up for auction.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yes, the whip unidentified buyer as well. But this whip
was part of a larger auction of movie memorabilia this week,
which also included the sale of the Rosebud sled featured
in Citizen kan Now does that automatically trigger a memory?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Do you know what that?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I don't I know. I thought Citizen Kane was in
black and white, So I'm it's do we It is.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Considered maybe maybe the greatest film ever made.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I don't think I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But there's a Rosebud, a famous sled in there. So
that sled was also sold part of this big week
of stuff, and it sold for fourteen point seventy five
million dollars. That makes it the second most expensive movie
prop ever sold, the number one. I bet if I
gave you all just a moment.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You could come up with what was number one, because
we talked about it here quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, it's, of course Dorothy's slippers, the shoes worn by
Judy Garland herself and the Wizard of Oz. They fetched
thirty two point five million dollars and I get that,
so I kind of want to watch Citizen King.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
That was a December ride with the shoes, after they
were recovered they had been stolen.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
There there was a whole thing with them, Yeah, the shoes,
but yes they were I paid a pretty penny for that,
all right, for the final leg of our run. It's rare,
but sometimes making a mistake can be a good thing,
and in this next story, it was a very good thing.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Massa jusetts Man earlier this month bought a powerball ticket
at a local grocery store. All right, nothing too crazy
about that. Looking at it later, he thought the final
drawing on that ticket had already happened. So he made
a mistake. He's looking at his ticket. He thinks, oh,
this drawing already happened, so this one is no good.
So he went out purchased another ticket using the exact
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same numbers, and he purchased this one at a gas station.
So now he has two tickets with the same number,
but robes he only thinks one is legit.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Right, But it was a lucky mistake because all five
numbers he chose both times matched the five white balls
in the powerball drawing, and both tickets were for the
same drawing. He just made a mistake, so he doubled
the tickets. That doubled his earnings. It landed him one
million dollars for each winning ticket, for a total of
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two million dollars. He was only missing the red powerball
number five. But imagine if he had, they have had
to have paid out two powerball winnings. That's would they
even have the funds for that?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
See, I know they don't.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Do they split it with himself split If.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Two different people win, they have the same winning numbers,
then they have to share.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, fine, but why didn't he have to share it
with himself with the five winning numbers. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
These aren't considered the ultimate jack pot individual wins you
can have.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
So if he had gotten the power obviously he would
have made a lot more money, but he wouldn't have
doubled it. This is the only way he could have.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Doubled it the only way and look, so this works
out beautifully. Yes, the newly minted millionaire says, the double
win feels good, but he doesn't know what he's going
to do with all that money. Each store, well, he
bought those winning tickets gets ten thousand grand. That's also
ten grand. That's always cool. And the chances of winning
any powerball prize is one in twenty four point nine million.
(18:53):
The powerball numbers are astronomical. I can't remember what post chances.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
It's like two hundred and forty nine million. It's like,
you know, one hundred times more than that. But like,
what a cool story, and congratulations to him.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And something we want you to take with you on
this Friday something to consider it is our quote of
the day, Robes.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You picked a doozy today.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yes, the most dangerous thing you can do in life
is play it safe. And I'll get into it later
we do our Sunday morning run where we really go
into these quotes. But the person who said this, I
don't even Casey Nicetat, but his story is crazy. I
did a deep dive on him, but he's an American YouTuber.
But his story talk about a rags to Riches story.
(19:32):
It's pretty cool. So I love that he is just
as a reminder to all of us, go for it.
The most dangerous thing you can do in life is
play it safe, love it.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And with that, folks, we appreciate you running with us
this week on the Morning Run. Obviously, so much more
to come from us, and we comment on you see
us throwing up episodes left and right on all kinds
of things. We'll continue to do that. Today we'll probably
be talking about look for an extended episode about what's
happening in media and with the Colbert the Late Show
(20:05):
being canceled, that is really, it really is an earthquake
in entertainment. We should all pay attention to that. And
of course you can look for our Saturday recovery run.
That's a big one because we all needed and to
be honest with you, I felt.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
A little down, a little heavy and a little weighty.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
With just the same fights every morning. Everybody's arguing about something.
Trump is suing somebody, somebody's it's just constant. I just
felt the weight of news this morning. Yeah, it made
me want to just we should take a day and
just do nothing but positive, uplifting stories.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
One day of the week.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, we actually could probably pull that off one time.
But the recovery run, yes we do on Saturday mornings
is just a reminder to all of us to take
moments for ourselves, moments to do things we love the
to we kind of go over how we found those
moments and sometimes how we failed finding those moments. So
check that out tomorrow morning. And then, of course, yes
I just teased it, but on Sunday we'll go through
all of our quotes, have a bonus quote, and really
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get into what they need mean to us and to
all of us. All Right, so I'm Amy Roebuck, and well,
I guess you just already said, I'm TJ. Holmes. So
you know what, y'all have a wonderful Friday and have
an even better weekend.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone,
and welcome to Morning Run. It's Friday, July eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm Amy Roboch and I'MTJ.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Holmes.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
An earthquake in the world of entertainment. CBS is canceling
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The network calls it
a financial decision. Others are already suggesting it was a
political decision.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Plus, President Trump says he will sue the Wall Street
Journal for an article. He says he warned them not
to print. That article suggests he drew a sketch of
a naked lady. We'll explain.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Also, the President made another attempt to quiet the MAGA
uproar over Epstein and wants more documents released. Also, the
President has been diagnosed with a common condition, the symptoms
of which were noticed days ago by the public.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Also on the Run This Morning, One day in jail.
That is all the Department of Justice is requesting for
the only police officer convicted in the fatal shooting of
Breonna Taylor. Plus, public broadcasting and foreign aid programs are
losing billions of dollars as Congress passes a massive spending cut,
A spending cut bill overnight.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's spanding. It's ever expanding spending.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Thanks for pointing out that slip of the time.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh everybody caught it in It was just me.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Also on the run this morning, a regifted whip fetches
more than a half million dollars at auction.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
But this is not just any old whip. A hint
for you, d.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
D Yes, you know where we're going with that. We'll
tell you about this storied whip. Also, a Massachusetts man
made one lucky lottery mistake. That mistake ended up not
costing him money.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It doubled his jackpot.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
This was kind of cool, and I would love to
hear the chances of this if you could compute, of
this ever happen.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yes, but you gotta love a lucky mistake. They're rare.
Usually you pay for your mistakes. He actually got paid
for his. All right, we're going to begin our run
this morning. Though, with that shocking announcement in the entertainment world,
CBS says it is canceling the most watched show in
late night, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The show
will end in May after Colbert's contract expires.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
All right, Now, despite what you might be thinking. The
network insists its decision was purely a financial decision against
a challenging bat drop in late night, and they say
it had nothing to do with the show's performance or
content or quote other matters happening at Paramount. They Robes
decided to add that in there before anybody ever started criticizing.
(02:45):
We'll get more into that now. The other matters, yes,
that we're talking about here, multi billion dollar merger with
movie studio Skydance. The thing about that is that it
requires approval from the Trump administration. Also, sixteen million dollars
settlement with the President over a sixty minutes interview with
Kamala Harris. People are citing those things. That's maybe playing
(03:07):
a factor into this show, which Colbert goes after Trump damn.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
There every night.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, yes, And specifically on Monday Night, Colbert called that
settlement with President Trump quote a big fat bribe end quote,
and then mocked reports that Paramount would now try to
please Trump by putting pressure on him. That was on
Monday Night DJ timing.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I mean, I mean, so obviously people are.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Going to look at that, go hmm, one hundred percent.
People are trying to connect those dots. So last night,
Colbert acknowledged the network's decision and this is kind of crazy,
saying he was only told about the cancelation the night before,
on Wednesday night, so he had just hours to process
this very shocking announcement. And that's when the audience bowed
(03:53):
and Colbert agreed with the audience, saying, yeah, I share
your feelings.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But he did.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Praise CBS as well, calling them a great partner and
thanking them for the opportunity and for the beautiful theater
he's called home the past ten years. That's the famed
Ed Sullivan Theater. The Late Show franchise began in nineteen
ninety three with of course David Letterman, but late night
network programming has been struggling in recent years, most of
the country, of course, moving away from traditional broadcast and
cable television and over to streaming services. I mean, the
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numbers and the ratings, they just are what they are.
It was kind of shocked to look at them, to
see a couple of them are averaging under two million.
I mean, in the heyday, you can't imagine what it was,
but under two million these days and late night the
salaries that these guys are making look these are institutions.
It's weird to see one go.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's a sign of the times, and it's just sad
and just it's I don't know, shocking is like a
minimal word to use. I mean, I think people were
really like they're gutted by it as well, because so
many people love Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But what else if the number one late night show
that is an institution can be done away with for
final Anchel reasons, than isn't everything on the chopping block?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It seems that could be the case, all right. Next
up on the run, President Trump says he is about
to sue another major media outlet. This time it's the
Wall Street Journal. The paper released an article late yesterday
with this title, Jeffrey Epstein's friends sent him body letters
for a fiftieth birthday album. One was from Donald Trump,
all right.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Then, the article goes on to describe the details of
the alleged letter from Trump to Epstein in two thousand
and three. That letter included a sketch of a naked lady.
According to the paper, it was part of a leatherbound
book put together by Epstein associate Glene Maxwell, and included
well wishes from Epstein's friends and family.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
The journal describes the message as typewritten text surrounded by
a hand drawn sketch of a naked woman, completed with
arcs representing breasts, and the signature Donald is written just
under the waist of the naked woman in a way
that is supposed to represent pubic hair. The letter closes
with this line and perhaps this might be the most
damning of it all. According to the paper, it says,
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happy birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
You can imagine.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
But yes, I had the TV on at some points
last night and saw clips the lower third from some
of the cable outlets.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Were using that line.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
The journal claims the letter was among documents that were
part of the Justice Department investigation into Epstein and Maxwell.
The president's response to all this would me, he said,
and I quote, this is a fake thing. It's a
fake Wall Street Journal story. I never wrote a picture
in my life. I don't draw pictures of women. It's
not my language, it's not my word.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
But he went further on social media, claiming in op
pose that he personally warned the journal and owner Rupert
Murdoch that the letter was fake. And that he would sue.
The President wrote that mister Murdoch stated he would take
care of it, but obviously did not have the power
to do so. The editor of the Wall Street Journal,
Emma Tuck, was told directly by Carolyn Levitt and by
President Trump that the letter was a fake, but Emma
(07:05):
Tucker didn't want to hear that. Instead, they are going
with a false, malicious and defamatory story. Anyway, President Trump
will be suing the Wall Street Journal News Corp. And
mister Murdoch. Shortly, he referred to himself in third person there.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I think he reposted a larger statements.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I just wanted to make sure, yeah, you got it
right now.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
The President has some pretty high profile eight figure wins
against legacy media lately, after suing and eventually settling lawsuits
with ABC and CBS News. Both of those have those numbers, right,
sixteen million dollars for both, right, all right? And he
continued at least the statement on his social media saying
the press has to learn to be truthful and not
rely on sources that probably don't even exist. President Trump
(07:47):
has already beaten George Stephanopoulos and ABC sixty Minutes and
CBS and others, and looks forward to suing and holding
accountable the once great Wall Street Journal. It was truly
turned out be a disgusting and filthy rag end. Quote
is what the President said.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Wow, all right. Well, not long after that, the President
made another attempt at calming the uproar over his administration's
handling of the Epstein files. In a major change of tune,
Trump now says he wants Attorney General Pam Bondi to
release more files related to Epstein, in particular grand jury testimony.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Just after nine o'clock last night, the President posted on
his social media this one's from him for sure.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to the
Jeffrey Epstein to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General
Pambondi to produce any and all pertinent grand jury testimony,
subject to court approval. This scam perpetuated by the Democrats, should.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
End, right now.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
A couple of things in there. Pertinent, who decides whether
it's pertinent? Yeah, and then once you decide it's pertinent,
then a court has the okay at being released. So
still a couple of steps in there that the MAGA
folks might not like this. MAGA revolts started last week
when the DJ said no more Epstein files would be
released and there was no Epstein client list, and oh,
by the way, they said Epstein died by suicide in
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his jail cell.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
All right. Next up on Iran President Trump's health. Many
noticed the president appeared to have swollen ankles when several
images were shown of him sitting at the FIFA club
soccer match in New Jersey. Is it five for a Fifaifa?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I questioned myself for a second the FIFA club soccer
match in New Jersey earlier this week.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I have another ye gay moment?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I did?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I did?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And what's the basketball player from Oklahoma City?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Please say Gilgess Alexander.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh, fine on the spot, all right. Getting back to
the President and his swollen ankles here, Yes, those images
kind of made the rounds. A lot of people noticed it,
but the White House now says the President himself noticed
swelling and brought it to the attention of his doctors,
and he's now been diagnosed with chronic venus insufficiency or
cv I. This is a condition when veins in the
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legs are dammited and have a difficult time bringing blood
back up to the heart. It's impact about one in
twenty adults, and usually people over the age of fifty.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
The White House called it a benign and common condition,
particularly in individuals over the age of seventy. His physical
also made note of other pictures circulating that appear to
show bruising on the back of Trump's hand. Well, they
said it is partly due to soft tissue irritation from
frequent handshaking, firm handshakes. All right, that's good to you.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
All run now in DC, A bill that cuts nine
billion dollars in spending is now headed to the White
House for Trump's signature. It was a heavy lift for
Republicans who finally passed the bill that slashes the budget
of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS,
cuts eight billion dollars from four and eight programs as well.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
The House passed the bill in another middle of the
night vote the day after. The Senate did the very same,
narrowly passing its version around two am. The day before.
All Democrats in both chambers voted against the cuts. Republicans
outed the bill as cutting woke and wasteful government spending.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah Democrats described the spending cuts in the bill as
cruel and detrimental to American leadership. The CEO of the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting said the bill will have profound, lasting,
negative consequences for every American, adding that the cuts will
lead to many local public radio and television stations having
to shut down.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
All right, Next up on run, The Justice Department has
recommended time in jail for the only officer convicted in
the killing of Breonna Taylor. How much time are they
asking the judge to sentence him to one day?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yes, The DOJ says Brett Hankerson is not a threat
to the public after he was convicted of violating Taylor's
rights in that botched twenty twenty raid in Louisville. Hankerson
and two other officers were fired while they actually fired
into the home while serving a no knock warned where
Taylor and her boyfriend were sleeping.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Taylor's boyfriend, thinking they were intruders, fired one shot, and
then the officers fired dozens of rounds into the home,
billing Taylor. Hankinson fired at least ten times blindly through
a window, hitting no one. The window was covered by
blinds as.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
While he fired ten shots into a window and couldn't
see what he was shooting at.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Those bullets ended up in another apartment, never hit anybody.
He is the only officer held accountable in any way
with a conviction, and he's the officer whose bullets didn't
hit her. What he had actually shot her, he would
not be in legal trouble as the wildest.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Story, it really, really truly is yes. And so the
Justice Department said this Hankinson did not shoot miss Taylor
and is not otherwise responsible for her death. Counsel is
unaware of another prosecution in which a police officer has
been charged with depriving the rights of another person for
returning fire and not injuring anyone.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
However, the attorney for Taylor's family called this a dangerous
precedent and in a statement said, when a police officer
was found guilty of violating someone's constitutional rights, there must
be real accountability and justice, recommending just one day in
prison and sends the unmistakable message that white officers can
violate the civil rights of black Americans with near total impunity.
(13:10):
So one day, what's the point? Just asked for no sentence. Well,
it's essentially for time served. He was first arrested and
spent one day being booked at the jail. That counts
as one day, so they're essentially giving him credit for
time served by asking for this. But it seems almost
like an insult.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Well what's the point, Yeah, it makes no sense. It
is it is adding injury to insult or insult to injury.
That's right on brand for me. I like to switch
up sayings and make them my own.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, would you like to make people think? All right,
you folks, stay with us here all this Friday morning
run when we come back. I would have bought this
piece of movie memorabilia, but however I could not afford it. Also,
coming up, a man made a huge, huge mistake with
his lottery ticket and it doubled his winning.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Welcome back to this Friday edition of Morning Ron And
how much would you pay for an actual whip used
by Indiana Jones TJ. How much would you pay at
this point?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Now it's a matter of what I could.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Afford, but a lot, okay, you would give whatever you could. Well,
one particularly storied whip from Indiana Jones in the last
crusade went up for auction last night and the winning
bid was five hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
All right.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
This was the third installment of the Indiana Jones initial
trilogy and this was at the end of the movie.
You've seen this right, yes, okay, when his dad played
by Sean Connery, had been shot and he needed to
save him. So he has to go get the Holy Grail.
But he has to go pass all these death defying tests. Well,
the whip he carried in that final series, that final
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climax of the movie. That is the whip we're talking about.
So it's a big deal. It's part of inomatic history.
But there's even more history to it, Robes. This is fascinating.
This whip was once owned by Princess Diana.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I love how this went down. So the whip was
given to Prince Charles by Harrison Ford himself during the
nineteen eighty nine UK premiere. Very cool. Prince Charles then
gefted it to Princess Diana. You know, they got divorce.
She probably wanted to get rid of all this stuff
her ex husband gave her. And that's kind of a
thing a lot of women do. Usually it's jewelry. But
(15:28):
she's like, I don't want this thing. It reminds me
of my ex husband.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Okay, we're circulating.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I'm totally speculating. Makes sense, Yeah, that's where my brain went,
all right. So so Princess Diana then gives it to
someone else. That someone else is the unidentified seller who
put the whip up for auction.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yes, the whip unidentified buyer as well. But this whip
was part of a larger auction of movie memorabilia this week,
which also included the sale of the Rosebud sled featured
in Citizen kan Now does that automatically trigger a memory?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Do you know what that?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I don't I know. I thought Citizen Kane was in
black and white, So I'm it's do we It is.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Considered maybe maybe the greatest film ever made.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I don't think I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But there's a Rosebud, a famous sled in there. So
that sled was also sold part of this big week
of stuff, and it sold for fourteen point seventy five
million dollars. That makes it the second most expensive movie
prop ever sold, the number one. I bet if I
gave you all just a moment.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You could come up with what was number one, because
we talked about it here quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, it's, of course Dorothy's slippers, the shoes worn by
Judy Garland herself and the Wizard of Oz. They fetched
thirty two point five million dollars and I get that,
so I kind of want to watch Citizen King.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
That was a December ride with the shoes, after they
were recovered they had been stolen.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
There there was a whole thing with them, Yeah, the shoes,
but yes they were I paid a pretty penny for that,
all right, for the final leg of our run. It's rare,
but sometimes making a mistake can be a good thing,
and in this next story, it was a very good thing.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Massa jusetts Man earlier this month bought a powerball ticket
at a local grocery store. All right, nothing too crazy
about that. Looking at it later, he thought the final
drawing on that ticket had already happened. So he made
a mistake. He's looking at his ticket. He thinks, oh,
this drawing already happened, so this one is no good.
So he went out purchased another ticket using the exact
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same numbers, and he purchased this one at a gas station.
So now he has two tickets with the same number,
but robes he only thinks one is legit.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Right, But it was a lucky mistake because all five
numbers he chose both times matched the five white balls
in the powerball drawing, and both tickets were for the
same drawing. He just made a mistake, so he doubled
the tickets. That doubled his earnings. It landed him one
million dollars for each winning ticket, for a total of
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two million dollars. He was only missing the red powerball
number five. But imagine if he had, they have had
to have paid out two powerball winnings. That's would they
even have the funds for that?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
See, I know they don't.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Do they split it with himself split If.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Two different people win, they have the same winning numbers,
then they have to share.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, fine, but why didn't he have to share it
with himself with the five winning numbers. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
These aren't considered the ultimate jack pot individual wins you
can have.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
So if he had gotten the power obviously he would
have made a lot more money, but he wouldn't have
doubled it. This is the only way he could have.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Doubled it the only way and look, so this works
out beautifully. Yes, the newly minted millionaire says, the double
win feels good, but he doesn't know what he's going
to do with all that money. Each store, well, he
bought those winning tickets gets ten thousand grand. That's also
ten grand. That's always cool. And the chances of winning
any powerball prize is one in twenty four point nine million.
(18:53):
The powerball numbers are astronomical. I can't remember what post chances.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
It's like two hundred and forty nine million. It's like,
you know, one hundred times more than that. But like,
what a cool story, and congratulations to him.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And something we want you to take with you on
this Friday something to consider it is our quote of
the day, Robes.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You picked a doozy today.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yes, the most dangerous thing you can do in life
is play it safe. And I'll get into it later
we do our Sunday morning run where we really go
into these quotes. But the person who said this, I
don't even Casey Nicetat, but his story is crazy. I
did a deep dive on him, but he's an American YouTuber.
But his story talk about a rags to Riches story.
(19:32):
It's pretty cool. So I love that he is just
as a reminder to all of us, go for it.
The most dangerous thing you can do in life is
play it safe, love it.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And with that, folks, we appreciate you running with us
this week on the Morning Run. Obviously, so much more
to come from us, and we comment on you see
us throwing up episodes left and right on all kinds
of things. We'll continue to do that. Today we'll probably
be talking about look for an extended episode about what's
happening in media and with the Colbert the Late Show
(20:05):
being canceled, that is really, it really is an earthquake
in entertainment. We should all pay attention to that. And
of course you can look for our Saturday recovery run.
That's a big one because we all needed and to
be honest with you, I felt.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
A little down, a little heavy and a little weighty.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
With just the same fights every morning. Everybody's arguing about something.
Trump is suing somebody, somebody's it's just constant. I just
felt the weight of news this morning. Yeah, it made
me want to just we should take a day and
just do nothing but positive, uplifting stories.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
One day of the week.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, we actually could probably pull that off one time.
But the recovery run, yes we do on Saturday mornings
is just a reminder to all of us to take
moments for ourselves, moments to do things we love the
to we kind of go over how we found those
moments and sometimes how we failed finding those moments. So
check that out tomorrow morning. And then, of course, yes
I just teased it, but on Sunday we'll go through
all of our quotes, have a bonus quote, and really
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get into what they need mean to us and to
all of us. All Right, so I'm Amy Roebuck, and well,
I guess you just already said, I'm TJ. Holmes. So
you know what, y'all have a wonderful Friday and have
an even better weekend.
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