June 19, 2026
(Friday) Morning Run from Ireland: NYC Knicks Parade, Iran Peace Agreement, Mangione Defense Reversal, Missing Personal Trainer Update, Reflecting Pool Problems, Obama Brought To Tears and USA Vs Australia
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to your Friday morning run. It is June nineteenth, I mean.
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Speaker 2: Happy Juneteenth from Ireland, from TJ and Amy. We've been making our way this week. We're all over the place, Amsterdam, to Belgium, to France and now to Ireland.
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Speaker 1: Has their order right yep? Okay, yes, we're in Limerick. I can't think of a better place to celebrate Juneteenth.
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Speaker 2: Than the widest place I've ever been in my life. Correct, Well, that's okay, that's okay. I'll be back home soon. But yes, happy June teenth. Yes, your banks and your post office they're gonna be closed today. This is a federal holiday, a reminder, of course people know by now, but this is a celebration of the day that the folks in Texas, the enslaved folks, got word after two years after the Emancipation Proclamation that they were in fact free. So was it Biden? Biden made it a yes. So it all is a federal holiday. So enjoy your Juneteenth wherever you may be. I know where a lot of folks were yesterday, a place, you know, it felt a little weird to see the pictures and get all the messages from our folks back in New York during the Knicks break.
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Speaker 1: Oh yes, we were getting NonStop videos and facetimes and photographs from all of our family and friends who were talking the thick of it, and some complaints as well. Yeah, it was impossible to get anywhere in Manhattan yesterday. But you know what, my heart was warmed. I was sad not to be a part of it, but I did feel connected seeing all of that joy and just there were unbelievable images of folks up on the scaffolding finally putting it to good use to get just this beautiful view, just to get a glimpse of the next Yes.
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Speaker 2: It was in our neighborhood, Lower Manhattan is where this all went down. So it was yes, little Fomo watching it from afar, but we probably would have been complaining and we were there as well. With Congress and wedding, I think at least one marriage is being talked about, but there were several photos of proposals.
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Speaker 1: That's really cute in the prece if you're diehard Knicks fans, that is moment that was fifty three years in the making, and if you're waiting for figure to figure out when to do it, how to do it. That's a pretty cool thing.
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Speaker 2: This one felt different to me from the Disney, Like some people go to Disney to get proposed and get married, and we find that a little for people thirty seven to do that.
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Speaker 1: It's a choice.
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Speaker 2: It's fine, this one works. This one makes sense to me. Knock yourself out. We even had a proposal that was connected to something that we absolutely love that so this made sense to me.
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Speaker 1: Yes, this one makes it if you have a shared love of something, when when a moment arises where it all comes together and you found that perfect moment for your proposal to me, and it really was perfect. I couldn't have chosen a better place, a better time, it was everything. So yes, congratulations to those folks who are newly engaged thanks to the next.
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Speaker 2: Right, and now we got smiles on our faces. Let's get to the news. But yeah, we got a lot to get to on the morning run, including now it happens to all of us robes. You got travel plans, you got a big trip plan, sometimes a big internet sational trip, and all of a sudden you have to cancel it. That's apparently what happened to JD.
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Speaker 1: Vance? Okay, yeah, we're talking about the newly signed peace agreement between the US and Iran, and yes, it is off to a rocky and interesting start, because yes, Vance was expected to travel to Switzerland today for a possible signing ceremony and for a new round of negotiations.
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Speaker 2: However, yeah, he got a notice from Delta's that his flight's been canceled. No, it didn't come from Delta, but the trip was abruptly canceled. They had folks in place, the media pool was ready to go, they were all packed up, and whatever happens, this had to be canceled. So no negotiations this weekend, no signing ceremony. Again, this is all, at least for now. The White House was asked about this robes and they said they simply weren't able to finalize all the plans in time.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yes, but Trump did sign that new agreement on Wednesday. It calls for the reopening of the Straight of Horn, moves, an end to the US military blows. And here's the big one. It allows another sixty days to come up with a final agreement about the entire reason we went to war in the first place, Iran's nuclear program.
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Speaker 2: All right, But as we continue on this run, we will give you an update on gas prices. With all the back and forth about negotiations, bombs aren't flying anymore. Have you noticed that gas prices have been dropping? They are below four dollars a gallon for the first time in a long time, since March thirtieth.
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Speaker 1: Actually, wow, and just how far below four dollars you ask? Well, the national average is now three dollars and ninety nine cents, just below We'll take it. Prices have been steadily declining in recent weeks, so we can only hope that they're going to continue in that direction.
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Speaker 2: What a funny little typo in my script here I said gas was four dollars a barrel.
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be something? Got it? Oil?
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Speaker 2: I got my oil is in barrels and gases and gallons. But use I think we said it correctly.
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Speaker 1: You want oil to be below one hundred, you want gas to be under four?
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Speaker 2: All right? Could thine you on the run?
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Speaker 1: Here?
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Speaker 2: Now sudden surprising reversal. Luigi Mangioni his attorneys say they will now no longer pursue an extreme emotional disturbance defense at his state murder trial. Now, shocking reversal here, because they just told us the day before, I should say, told the court that this is what they were going to do. They were going to essentially make an argument that he was under some extreme emotional distress of some kind at the time of Yes.
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Speaker 1: So here's perhaps the reason why there was a sudden reversal. Yesterday, Mangioni's defense team had a Thursday deadline to provide prosecutors with information to support that defense. Now, if the defense had been successful, Mangioni, who's accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, would have been convicted of manslaughter rather than first degree murder.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this defense emotional extreme emotional disturbance only allowed in New York. His attorneys wouldn't have been able to use it in his federal trial that scheduled to begin a month after his state trial starts this September.
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Speaker 1: All right. Next up on the Run, the investigation continues into the missing thirty nine year old personal trainer. Her name is Elena Moore. A body was found in a wooded area matching Moore's description in the exact clothing she was last seen in after a tip came into police.
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Speaker 2: She was reported missing by her husband a week ago. Today police say it is not he is not a person of interest in this case. She was last seen on surveillance video at a gym where she works and then walking towards a wooded area nearby. And that's it. And it's that wooded area at least half mile from her last known location is where this body has been found.
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Speaker 1: Yes, officials say it may take days for that official identification. But there was some strange video from a week before she went missing where she appeared to be confused posing as a door dash driver. It was all caught on ring cam. A lot of folks are and who know her and who loved her are really confused about what may have happened. But police have not ruled out foul play. But they certainly have said that her husband is not a person of interest. So we have a full, full episode on this if you want to check it out. It is really a fascinating and mysterious story that requires a lot of answers. All right, next.
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Speaker 2: Next leg of our run here takes us to the Congo. Give me an update here on the Obola outbreak that's been going on there for the past month or so. Africa CDC says at least two hundred people died in the first month of the outbreak. That would make it one of the worst known outbreaks ever ropes.
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Speaker 1: Yes, there are nearly nine hundred confirmed cases, but the Africa CDC claims there could be up to thirty five thousand suspected. Close context, get your head around that number. This outbreak was only confirmed on May fifteenth, but it was believed to have started weeks earlier, some of even suggested months earlier.
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Speaker 2: All right, next, Lego bar Run takes us to Grand Park in Chicago, or the man who admits to placing a burning cross in that park made his first public appearance, or I should say court appearance, yes, yesterday, It certainly wasn't his first public one. Merlin lou is his name. He's facing multiple charges now robed, including felonies, related to the incident this week that shocked and really horrified folks there in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: Yes, say burning cross. I can't believe we even have to say this or explain it, but evokes imagery from some of the darkest racial days in this country. Certainly a symbol of the Ku Klux Klan, and twenty one year old Lou has claimed publicly that he had no idea about the extreme racial history. Rather, he says he was doing this as a protest against the Trump administration. He was not remanded into custody. He's allowed to remain free, but he is facing some serious, serious charges.
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Speaker 2: I continue on the run here. Now, let's take a swim in that reflecting pool.
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Speaker 1: Eel.
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Speaker 2: Okay, maybe we won't take a swim in that reflecting pool pool because we've got new reflecting pool problems. Newly renovated pool, of course, cost estimated fourteen million to repair there in the National Mall. Trump is so prone to brag about where it appeals to have some more problems now robes and I guess you've seen these pictures too. But something is peeling from the surface that they just readid.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are pictures of this all over the internet. It does appear that part of the sealant that was painted that now famous American flag blue is now kind of floating. There's actually a chunk of it floating at the surface. So it's unclear what the problem is because man, they just fixed this sucker. And also, yes, the algae has returned, so it's green again. This is a bit of a well, this might be egg in the face right now at the President because he was so proud of this.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know, maybe it's just growing pangs. It just maybe it just happened. It's gonna make some adjustments.
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Speaker 1: For footbo owners know what this is like.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, But pool. He was bragging about this pool for a long time and that he's the hero. He fixed the thing. Making comparisons to Biden and Obama and everything else. Bro, it's been a few days it turned green again.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. He had side by side comparisons of the reflecting pool under Obama and Biden and it literally looked apocalyptic. And now the same thing.
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Speaker 2: And the same problems, the same problem. It's been here for one hundred plus years. You saw the video, two of them, the word boring bottles of a.
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Speaker 1: High hydrogen peroxide. This is hilarious. That looked desperate, It looked absolutely ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: All right, well, folks, stay with us here on this Friday morning run. When we come back, we're heading to New Jersey where a mystery man is set to make an appearance. We will explain the story of the missing congressman. Also, big opening for the Obama Presidential Center yesterday and the former first Lady had the former President in tears and he knew this was coming. We'll explain. And World Cup, we've got the fever this week all in Europe. USA will have the fever again tonight. Stay here.
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Speaker 1: We continue our Friday Morning ron with the mystery man that we've actually done a couple episodes on. He is planning a return to Congress. We're talking about New Jersey Republican Tom Kin Junior. He has not shown up for work since March fifth, and not only that, he has not once, not once been seen in public.
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Speaker 2: Now, folks have been trying to track him down. There have been reporters, have been photographers whore trying to find family compound that they think he's hold up at. He just has not been seen. They did say he was dealing with some kind of medical issue. As staff has said that they've been keeping up to date on his social media and whatnot, not updates about him, but trying to stay engaged with the community and say hey, you are represented. Still he was going to return now ropes they say, June thirtieth, so we will see him again.
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Speaker 1: I hope he's okay. What's going to be a pretty massive reveal. We have not seen him. He has not voted. He I mean, look, I know his staff can assure or try to reassure his constituents that he's still on the job, but it certainly doesn't seem like he is. And he is running for reelection, so it would be of great importance for him to actually physically show up somewhere.
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Speaker 2: He does have an opponent. Now, he was unopposed in the primary, so he didn't have to come out for that, but now they need to see him.
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Speaker 1: Wow. All right. Next up on the run, a lot of people were seen that the Obama Presidential Center's official opening, and it was, yes, beyond a star studded opening ceremony. Thousands of people were on the city's south side for the opening, and yes, the former president and the first Lady both gave keynote addresses.
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Speaker 2: This was sweet. She gave a speech and they made clear she didn't let him see it ahead of time, and she got out there to speak and she actually said, you're going to look at me for this, and you could hear him mouth, no, I'm not, and sure enough she started gushing about him and his legacy and who he is and his just that moral compass that he always had off. He started tearing up and sweet. He kind of knew this was coming, knew this was going to happen, but it was cool to see. The daughters. Haven't seen them.
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Speaker 1: Well, they have stayed very private. You know, there's even been word. Look, they are trying to make their own way. Can you imagine what that's like. And even some of the projects they've been on, they don't even use their last name because they just you know, they want to be able to be successful on their own, and certainly they look like they're doing.
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Speaker 2: Just yes, smile to see. I remember the Bush daughters, Yeah right, they were just at that age. They were sweet. We saw them grow up, and I know they had some moments, but still they Yes, absolutely, I have Oh no.
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Speaker 1: I don't have teenage daughters anymore in their twenties. But yes, it was. It was in near memory and I remember what that was like.
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Speaker 2: So this the star stoodn't line up. I should just say Oprah was there, and they probably give you the idea. Of course, they've been closed for a long time. But the only former president not there, of course, was Trump, and he was not invited.
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Speaker 1: That makes sense.
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Speaker 2: By the way, there's zero chance Michelle Obama would have allowed that.
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Speaker 1: She hasn't shown up when he's been there.
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Speaker 3: I think there's zero chance. I agree, and I allowed him at her party. Agreed, agreed, and they have every right for that. Yes, but yes, from they had Tyler Perry was there.
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Speaker 1: That's uh. I mean they had John Just, Stephen Wonder, Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteing, Tom Hanks, Gavin Newsome, Jennifer Hudson, The Root, Steven Spielberg, Stephen Colbert comment, Yeah, that's pretty cool, you know.
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Speaker 2: I give they didn't refer to Trump. There were some references here and there. Michelle Obama at one point said something going through her husband's list of things he did. She said earning. She didn't say earning winning a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Speaker 1: Everybody knew it. You know what. You don't have to do anything much more than something subtle to reference something we're all very aware of.
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Speaker 2: And then Obama used the line, I want this to be a mecca for Hope. I don't know if he had Trump in mind, but Trump has put out some pretty nasty AI images of the Trump of the Obama. Oh he enters calling it a mecca for trash, a mecca for it's awful. It's awful. So it's a mecca for hope. Don't know if he specifically meant that for the current pro.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm pretty sure he did. And it lands well done, It landed all right. Next up on the run, USA plays Australia tonight in their second manth the World Cup. We won the first match against Paraguay. But this is going to be I mean, this is going to be a fun one to watch and this is going to be it.
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Speaker 2: If they win this one probably now guaranteed. I think the numbers worth that they'll go to the next stage. So they're off to a very good start. Mexico is the first team to make it to the knockout stage. They won last night against Japan, I believe. So they won their first two matches. You know, the folks in Mexico are losing it.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's you know, we should have gone to Mexico, babe. Duh.
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Speaker 2: It was a tough one, but that was the route we had.
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Speaker 1: We had a good route. It worked. It worked all right. On this Friday, we will leave you with our quote of the day. When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know, But if you listen, you may learn something new.
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Speaker 2: Take that with you today, stay it again for the people in the back.
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Speaker 1: When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know, but if you listen, you may learn something new.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, man, that's so simple. Take that with you. Please remember that one, folks, That is such a just listen. It is such a good skill that benefits you and the person you're sitting across from. Just stop, don't just shut up and just let the person finish.
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Speaker 1: While you're thinking about the next thing you're gonna say, listen.
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Speaker 2: To what they're saying.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 2: Oh, all human existence and relationship boiled down to a few simple things that turn out to sometimes be impossible to do.
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Speaker 1: I listen, Just listen. I know it can be so hard, but it really does change your life. With that, everyone, we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Robot and I'm DJ Holmes.
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Speaker 2: We will be running with you soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to your Friday morning run. It is June nineteenth, I mean.
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Speaker 2: Happy Juneteenth from Ireland, from TJ and Amy. We've been making our way this week. We're all over the place, Amsterdam, to Belgium, to France and now to Ireland.
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Speaker 1: Has their order right yep? Okay, yes, we're in Limerick. I can't think of a better place to celebrate Juneteenth.
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Speaker 2: Than the widest place I've ever been in my life. Correct, Well, that's okay, that's okay. I'll be back home soon. But yes, happy June teenth. Yes, your banks and your post office they're gonna be closed today. This is a federal holiday, a reminder, of course people know by now, but this is a celebration of the day that the folks in Texas, the enslaved folks, got word after two years after the Emancipation Proclamation that they were in fact free. So was it Biden? Biden made it a yes. So it all is a federal holiday. So enjoy your Juneteenth wherever you may be. I know where a lot of folks were yesterday, a place, you know, it felt a little weird to see the pictures and get all the messages from our folks back in New York during the Knicks break.
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Speaker 1: Oh yes, we were getting NonStop videos and facetimes and photographs from all of our family and friends who were talking the thick of it, and some complaints as well. Yeah, it was impossible to get anywhere in Manhattan yesterday. But you know what, my heart was warmed. I was sad not to be a part of it, but I did feel connected seeing all of that joy and just there were unbelievable images of folks up on the scaffolding finally putting it to good use to get just this beautiful view, just to get a glimpse of the next Yes.
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Speaker 2: It was in our neighborhood, Lower Manhattan is where this all went down. So it was yes, little Fomo watching it from afar, but we probably would have been complaining and we were there as well. With Congress and wedding, I think at least one marriage is being talked about, but there were several photos of proposals.
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Speaker 1: That's really cute in the prece if you're diehard Knicks fans, that is moment that was fifty three years in the making, and if you're waiting for figure to figure out when to do it, how to do it. That's a pretty cool thing.
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Speaker 2: This one felt different to me from the Disney, Like some people go to Disney to get proposed and get married, and we find that a little for people thirty seven to do that.
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Speaker 1: It's a choice.
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Speaker 2: It's fine, this one works. This one makes sense to me. Knock yourself out. We even had a proposal that was connected to something that we absolutely love that so this made sense to me.
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Speaker 1: Yes, this one makes it if you have a shared love of something, when when a moment arises where it all comes together and you found that perfect moment for your proposal to me, and it really was perfect. I couldn't have chosen a better place, a better time, it was everything. So yes, congratulations to those folks who are newly engaged thanks to the next.
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Speaker 2: Right, and now we got smiles on our faces. Let's get to the news. But yeah, we got a lot to get to on the morning run, including now it happens to all of us robes. You got travel plans, you got a big trip plan, sometimes a big internet sational trip, and all of a sudden you have to cancel it. That's apparently what happened to JD.
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Speaker 1: Vance? Okay, yeah, we're talking about the newly signed peace agreement between the US and Iran, and yes, it is off to a rocky and interesting start, because yes, Vance was expected to travel to Switzerland today for a possible signing ceremony and for a new round of negotiations.
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Speaker 2: However, yeah, he got a notice from Delta's that his flight's been canceled. No, it didn't come from Delta, but the trip was abruptly canceled. They had folks in place, the media pool was ready to go, they were all packed up, and whatever happens, this had to be canceled. So no negotiations this weekend, no signing ceremony. Again, this is all, at least for now. The White House was asked about this robes and they said they simply weren't able to finalize all the plans in time.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yes, but Trump did sign that new agreement on Wednesday. It calls for the reopening of the Straight of Horn, moves, an end to the US military blows. And here's the big one. It allows another sixty days to come up with a final agreement about the entire reason we went to war in the first place, Iran's nuclear program.
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Speaker 2: All right, But as we continue on this run, we will give you an update on gas prices. With all the back and forth about negotiations, bombs aren't flying anymore. Have you noticed that gas prices have been dropping? They are below four dollars a gallon for the first time in a long time, since March thirtieth.
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Speaker 1: Actually, wow, and just how far below four dollars you ask? Well, the national average is now three dollars and ninety nine cents, just below We'll take it. Prices have been steadily declining in recent weeks, so we can only hope that they're going to continue in that direction.
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Speaker 2: What a funny little typo in my script here I said gas was four dollars a barrel.
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be something? Got it? Oil?
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Speaker 2: I got my oil is in barrels and gases and gallons. But use I think we said it correctly.
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Speaker 1: You want oil to be below one hundred, you want gas to be under four?
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Speaker 2: All right? Could thine you on the run?
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Speaker 1: Here?
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Speaker 2: Now sudden surprising reversal. Luigi Mangioni his attorneys say they will now no longer pursue an extreme emotional disturbance defense at his state murder trial. Now, shocking reversal here, because they just told us the day before, I should say, told the court that this is what they were going to do. They were going to essentially make an argument that he was under some extreme emotional distress of some kind at the time of Yes.
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Speaker 1: So here's perhaps the reason why there was a sudden reversal. Yesterday, Mangioni's defense team had a Thursday deadline to provide prosecutors with information to support that defense. Now, if the defense had been successful, Mangioni, who's accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, would have been convicted of manslaughter rather than first degree murder.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this defense emotional extreme emotional disturbance only allowed in New York. His attorneys wouldn't have been able to use it in his federal trial that scheduled to begin a month after his state trial starts this September.
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Speaker 1: All right. Next up on the Run, the investigation continues into the missing thirty nine year old personal trainer. Her name is Elena Moore. A body was found in a wooded area matching Moore's description in the exact clothing she was last seen in after a tip came into police.
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Speaker 2: She was reported missing by her husband a week ago. Today police say it is not he is not a person of interest in this case. She was last seen on surveillance video at a gym where she works and then walking towards a wooded area nearby. And that's it. And it's that wooded area at least half mile from her last known location is where this body has been found.
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Speaker 1: Yes, officials say it may take days for that official identification. But there was some strange video from a week before she went missing where she appeared to be confused posing as a door dash driver. It was all caught on ring cam. A lot of folks are and who know her and who loved her are really confused about what may have happened. But police have not ruled out foul play. But they certainly have said that her husband is not a person of interest. So we have a full, full episode on this if you want to check it out. It is really a fascinating and mysterious story that requires a lot of answers. All right, next.
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Speaker 2: Next leg of our run here takes us to the Congo. Give me an update here on the Obola outbreak that's been going on there for the past month or so. Africa CDC says at least two hundred people died in the first month of the outbreak. That would make it one of the worst known outbreaks ever ropes.
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Speaker 1: Yes, there are nearly nine hundred confirmed cases, but the Africa CDC claims there could be up to thirty five thousand suspected. Close context, get your head around that number. This outbreak was only confirmed on May fifteenth, but it was believed to have started weeks earlier, some of even suggested months earlier.
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Speaker 2: All right, next, Lego bar Run takes us to Grand Park in Chicago, or the man who admits to placing a burning cross in that park made his first public appearance, or I should say court appearance, yes, yesterday, It certainly wasn't his first public one. Merlin lou is his name. He's facing multiple charges now robed, including felonies, related to the incident this week that shocked and really horrified folks there in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: Yes, say burning cross. I can't believe we even have to say this or explain it, but evokes imagery from some of the darkest racial days in this country. Certainly a symbol of the Ku Klux Klan, and twenty one year old Lou has claimed publicly that he had no idea about the extreme racial history. Rather, he says he was doing this as a protest against the Trump administration. He was not remanded into custody. He's allowed to remain free, but he is facing some serious, serious charges.
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Speaker 2: I continue on the run here. Now, let's take a swim in that reflecting pool.
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Speaker 1: Eel.
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Speaker 2: Okay, maybe we won't take a swim in that reflecting pool pool because we've got new reflecting pool problems. Newly renovated pool, of course, cost estimated fourteen million to repair there in the National Mall. Trump is so prone to brag about where it appeals to have some more problems now robes and I guess you've seen these pictures too. But something is peeling from the surface that they just readid.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are pictures of this all over the internet. It does appear that part of the sealant that was painted that now famous American flag blue is now kind of floating. There's actually a chunk of it floating at the surface. So it's unclear what the problem is because man, they just fixed this sucker. And also, yes, the algae has returned, so it's green again. This is a bit of a well, this might be egg in the face right now at the President because he was so proud of this.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know, maybe it's just growing pangs. It just maybe it just happened. It's gonna make some adjustments.
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Speaker 1: For footbo owners know what this is like.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, But pool. He was bragging about this pool for a long time and that he's the hero. He fixed the thing. Making comparisons to Biden and Obama and everything else. Bro, it's been a few days it turned green again.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. He had side by side comparisons of the reflecting pool under Obama and Biden and it literally looked apocalyptic. And now the same thing.
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Speaker 2: And the same problems, the same problem. It's been here for one hundred plus years. You saw the video, two of them, the word boring bottles of a.
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Speaker 1: High hydrogen peroxide. This is hilarious. That looked desperate, It looked absolutely ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: All right, well, folks, stay with us here on this Friday morning run. When we come back, we're heading to New Jersey where a mystery man is set to make an appearance. We will explain the story of the missing congressman. Also, big opening for the Obama Presidential Center yesterday and the former first Lady had the former President in tears and he knew this was coming. We'll explain. And World Cup, we've got the fever this week all in Europe. USA will have the fever again tonight. Stay here.
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Speaker 1: We continue our Friday Morning ron with the mystery man that we've actually done a couple episodes on. He is planning a return to Congress. We're talking about New Jersey Republican Tom Kin Junior. He has not shown up for work since March fifth, and not only that, he has not once, not once been seen in public.
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Speaker 2: Now, folks have been trying to track him down. There have been reporters, have been photographers whore trying to find family compound that they think he's hold up at. He just has not been seen. They did say he was dealing with some kind of medical issue. As staff has said that they've been keeping up to date on his social media and whatnot, not updates about him, but trying to stay engaged with the community and say hey, you are represented. Still he was going to return now ropes they say, June thirtieth, so we will see him again.
00:11:35
Speaker 1: I hope he's okay. What's going to be a pretty massive reveal. We have not seen him. He has not voted. He I mean, look, I know his staff can assure or try to reassure his constituents that he's still on the job, but it certainly doesn't seem like he is. And he is running for reelection, so it would be of great importance for him to actually physically show up somewhere.
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Speaker 2: He does have an opponent. Now, he was unopposed in the primary, so he didn't have to come out for that, but now they need to see him.
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Speaker 1: Wow. All right. Next up on the run, a lot of people were seen that the Obama Presidential Center's official opening, and it was, yes, beyond a star studded opening ceremony. Thousands of people were on the city's south side for the opening, and yes, the former president and the first Lady both gave keynote addresses.
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Speaker 2: This was sweet. She gave a speech and they made clear she didn't let him see it ahead of time, and she got out there to speak and she actually said, you're going to look at me for this, and you could hear him mouth, no, I'm not, and sure enough she started gushing about him and his legacy and who he is and his just that moral compass that he always had off. He started tearing up and sweet. He kind of knew this was coming, knew this was going to happen, but it was cool to see. The daughters. Haven't seen them.
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Speaker 1: Well, they have stayed very private. You know, there's even been word. Look, they are trying to make their own way. Can you imagine what that's like. And even some of the projects they've been on, they don't even use their last name because they just you know, they want to be able to be successful on their own, and certainly they look like they're doing.
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Speaker 2: Just yes, smile to see. I remember the Bush daughters, Yeah right, they were just at that age. They were sweet. We saw them grow up, and I know they had some moments, but still they Yes, absolutely, I have Oh no.
00:13:20
Speaker 1: I don't have teenage daughters anymore in their twenties. But yes, it was. It was in near memory and I remember what that was like.
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Speaker 2: So this the star stoodn't line up. I should just say Oprah was there, and they probably give you the idea. Of course, they've been closed for a long time. But the only former president not there, of course, was Trump, and he was not invited.
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Speaker 1: That makes sense.
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Speaker 2: By the way, there's zero chance Michelle Obama would have allowed that.
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Speaker 1: She hasn't shown up when he's been there.
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Speaker 3: I think there's zero chance. I agree, and I allowed him at her party. Agreed, agreed, and they have every right for that. Yes, but yes, from they had Tyler Perry was there.
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Speaker 1: That's uh. I mean they had John Just, Stephen Wonder, Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteing, Tom Hanks, Gavin Newsome, Jennifer Hudson, The Root, Steven Spielberg, Stephen Colbert comment, Yeah, that's pretty cool, you know.
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Speaker 2: I give they didn't refer to Trump. There were some references here and there. Michelle Obama at one point said something going through her husband's list of things he did. She said earning. She didn't say earning winning a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Speaker 1: Everybody knew it. You know what. You don't have to do anything much more than something subtle to reference something we're all very aware of.
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Speaker 2: And then Obama used the line, I want this to be a mecca for Hope. I don't know if he had Trump in mind, but Trump has put out some pretty nasty AI images of the Trump of the Obama. Oh he enters calling it a mecca for trash, a mecca for it's awful. It's awful. So it's a mecca for hope. Don't know if he specifically meant that for the current pro.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm pretty sure he did. And it lands well done, It landed all right. Next up on the run, USA plays Australia tonight in their second manth the World Cup. We won the first match against Paraguay. But this is going to be I mean, this is going to be a fun one to watch and this is going to be it.
00:15:09
Speaker 2: If they win this one probably now guaranteed. I think the numbers worth that they'll go to the next stage. So they're off to a very good start. Mexico is the first team to make it to the knockout stage. They won last night against Japan, I believe. So they won their first two matches. You know, the folks in Mexico are losing it.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's you know, we should have gone to Mexico, babe. Duh.
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Speaker 2: It was a tough one, but that was the route we had.
00:15:32
Speaker 1: We had a good route. It worked. It worked all right. On this Friday, we will leave you with our quote of the day. When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know, But if you listen, you may learn something new.
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Speaker 2: Take that with you today, stay it again for the people in the back.
00:15:48
Speaker 1: When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know, but if you listen, you may learn something new.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, man, that's so simple. Take that with you. Please remember that one, folks, That is such a just listen. It is such a good skill that benefits you and the person you're sitting across from. Just stop, don't just shut up and just let the person finish.
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Speaker 1: While you're thinking about the next thing you're gonna say, listen.
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Speaker 2: To what they're saying.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 2: Oh, all human existence and relationship boiled down to a few simple things that turn out to sometimes be impossible to do.
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Speaker 1: I listen, Just listen. I know it can be so hard, but it really does change your life. With that, everyone, we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Robot and I'm DJ Holmes.
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Speaker 2: We will be running with you soon.