June 12, 2026
(Friday) Morning Run: Iran War Over, Trump Kennedy Center, Jeffrey Lee NOT Executed, Pentagon False Alarm, National Mall Vandalism, Musk First Trillionaire, Taylor Hall Of Fame and World Cup Red Flags
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everybody, and welcome to your Friday Morning Run. Yes it is Friday, June twelfth. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. Our first stop on the run this morning is going to be in Amsterdam. Yes, we pray you will bear with us a little bit. We are getting adjusted, just got off a long flight. We want to make sure we hopped on and got our morning run up. But yes, we have made our way to Amsterdam for the World Cup. Makes sense, right, total.
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Speaker 1: Sense when we explain it, will We decided, instead of maybe trying to afford the expensive tickets to go see World Cup games in person, we would go fly to Europe and watch some of the home teams play in their respective home country.
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Speaker 3: So first up is the Netherlands.
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Speaker 2: So we will let you know where we'll end up over the next several days. But yes we are country hopping and watching those countries teams play in the World Cup in America. It makes perfect sense. But either way we have to make sure we hopped on this morning and tell you about the Morning Run and robes. Look, this is major news back in America, really world news. Here, but we have to start with robes. The war is over, We're told.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and we say we're told because it is in fact a direct quote from the President of the United States Trump saying we ended the war with Iran today. And he made those comments not long after he called off another round of promised airstrikes against Iran. Do you have any times though, I've lost count, But at least he didn't do it on a Tuesday.
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Speaker 3: He did it on a Thursday.
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Speaker 2: But Taco Thursday was trending as well, though, But yes, he's done this over and over and over again. Was the first one the white civilization. I'm gonna take us, So, yes, he's been doing us, he threatened. He took it back, But the threat he made at the time was that, yes, there was going to be a third night of major bombing. This would have been three straight nights, but it got called off. He was saying that discussions with Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved. I have, as President of the United States, canceled the schedule strikes and bombings against Iran. This evening. Discussions and final points have been in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved. That sounds great, But in that true social post, when he said approved by all parties involved, he listed them, Iran wasn't one of them, and a lot of people pointed out.
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Speaker 1: Look, he's made a lot of big declarations that he has rescinded, amended, taken back. So, yes, we have to wait and see what actually happens, but the stock market has reacted. Oil prices dropped upon hearing that news, and then later he followed up yes, declaring that the war is over and that a signing ceremony for the deal would happen as early as this weekend.
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Speaker 2: It's huge, are you kidding me?
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Speaker 3: Great?
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Speaker 2: That sounds fantastic. And then we heard from Iran came out and you can already guess what they said, because every time he comes out and says we're close to this and that and the other, Iran comes back and says, naw ween agreed to none of that stuff. Even at one point, you remember ropes he said in the gosh negotiations, we're going at a rapid pace. Aaran said, yeah, we're not negotiating at all. We're not even passing notes. We've shut this thing down. So Iran came out and said, no, nothing has been agreed to.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so again we'll just have to wait and see per usual, as has been the case for the past several weeks. All right, next up on the run. Trump is fighting. This is not a shocker to keep his name on the Kennedy set.
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Speaker 2: I'm shocked. Just let it go like he almost got an out, like a judge is making you do it. Just take your loss and go home.
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Speaker 1: The idea of watching those construction workers remove his name from a building is something he cannot stand to even think about.
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Speaker 2: Every single brad is gonna lead with that image.
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Speaker 1: There's gonna be a camera set up just to wait and watch and then replay it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, or knows it.
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Speaker 2: Will they take it down in the middle of the night, covered up or something.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll do their best to keep any one of the members of the media from getting that image. But the administration, yes, is appealing the Judge's ruling that it was in fact illegal to put Trump's name on the building.
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Speaker 2: Okay, he said it was illegal, but the judge also gave him a deadline. You got two weeks to get the name off the building. That deadline is folks today Friday, so late last night they put the appeal in. I don't know what happens now they're challenging you that so I don't know if they'll get a stay, if a ruling can be made. Are they gonna wait to take it off until they get something from the judge. I don't know what happens, but I'm shot. I am roped on this one. I'm fighting to keep my name in front of Kennedy's.
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Speaker 3: Eh.
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Speaker 2: That's I'm a little surprised by this one.
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Speaker 1: Nothing he does surprises me anymore. I say that, and then I'm shocked all the time.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, the scheduled execution of Jeffree Lee in the state of Alabama did not take place as plan last night. This was a very surprising development because the Supreme Court decided to step in and make things pretty much impossible for Alabama to move forward as it wanted to.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, when you first hear, we have to make sure we get the clarity here, you hear the Supreme Court stepped in on an execution. They did not stay the execution. They did not say no, he shouldn't die and evidence should be reviewed and no, no, no no. What they say is you just can't kill them the way you want to kill them, which is with nitrogen gas, which is Alabama's preferred method. So the court says you can't use that. So an appeals court decision down in Alabama is the one that stands, which says that this thing is unconstitutional. This method of execution robes, this has far reaching implications. Pasted Jeffrey.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and we were actually surprised because the State of Alabama through the day yesterday was saying we're going to go ahead as planned, and we thought, well, if they can't use nitrogen gas, they must have lethal injection ready to go.
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Speaker 3: But it turns out they did not.
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Speaker 1: They were literally hoping, it seems like now, or maybe even assuming, the Supreme Court was going to allow Alabama to do what it wanted to do, because it has in the past. So this was the departure from what the Supreme Court had decided in other cases or in other challenges. And so yes, now they are going to have to get their ducks in a row and figure out They claim they are still going to execute Jeffree Lee, but it's just delayed. So he has a temporary stay, but it is temporary.
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Speaker 2: I get, I haven't seen it. I don't know when is the death warrant expires. Usually it's the same day. That night they're going to have to sign another one. He bought him. Sometimes the Supreme Court has saved his life for a little while longer.
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Speaker 3: Yep, that is true.
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Speaker 1: So we'll have more on that story, because it certainly is a complicated one, and as you pointed out, Babe has far reaching impact.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, The Pentagon was in lockdown for a short time yesterday for a hazardous materials incident. We were watching all the cable news outlets went crazy, breaking news. Oh my goodness, what could this possibly be?
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Speaker 2: And this is Robes, a very big deal. When you talk about that facility and we're in the middle of war, people are wondering is there something going on? Are their attacks being launched in some way here? Well, this frawling complex the Pentagon, how many folks I can't remember, with thousands obviously, but it's a huge complex, but a lot of folks had to shelter in place. They got that order after what was called an air quality issue that set off alarms. These are high tech systems are supposed to be able to tell if anthraxis in the air. So this went on for several hours. It turns out to be a false alarm. But this sensitive system, I guess every once in a while and have a glitch.
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Speaker 1: But everybody was okay, frightening glitch, but thank goodness, it was, in fact, yes, a false alarm, all right. Next up on the Run, police are investigating what the Trump administration calls deranged vandalism at the National Mall. What would you say is derange vandalism? How about the number eighty six forty seven. It could be seen from quite a distance. It was in the grassy area on the mall this week.
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Speaker 2: How would you describe it looked like if you were trying to kill that grass.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like almost like they use round up like a weak killer to.
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Speaker 2: Make eighty six forty seven. You couldn't see it that well, but you could see it, no problem. But yeah, discolored grass is what it looks like. Don't know who did it, don't know the cause. But they did put out a statement roads and they called it deranged and said this person is sick. And you know they're pissed because they're trying to make the National Mall the prettiest thing ever for the.
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Speaker 1: Big Yeah, this weekend, the President's Birthday, the two hundred and fiftieth celebration begins. The National Mall is the centerpiece of these celebrations. And look, that was pretty clever to use round up to kill the grass, because how do you fix it? You got to paint it green?
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Speaker 3: I mean, will damn.
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Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to have to.
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Speaker 1: Try to like literally put paint on it, because you can't do anything with dead grass.
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Speaker 2: That considered I guess vandalism, but I can't. I guess you can't kill a tree in the National Mall. You can't kill the grass.
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Speaker 3: I suppose I would think that was a crime, for sure, for sure.
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Speaker 2: But all this, of course, James Comy is currently being hauled into court over eighty six forty seven. You remember the Instagram post he's had that up and uh made with shells, the eighty shells forty seven And folks, are they took that as a threat? He is being Yes, he's been charged with threatening the president by eighty six to forty seven.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see if any charges are filed against these vandals. All right next up on the run, President Trump announced that he is nominating j. Clayton, the former chairman of the SEC and the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to serve as the next Director of National Intelligence.
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Speaker 2: He would replace outgoing Director Tulci Gabbert. And he doesn't have extend national security expertise either, But LIZI had more than the other guy who was just handing out mortgages. Apparently a Bill Poulti was the other guy. He was announced less than two weeks ago as the temporary guy, and both Democrats and Republicans robes are like, what the actual hell is going on?
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Speaker 3: Why? What come on?
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Speaker 1: We know you like the guy, but what does he actually know about national security? That would be nothing. So given Poulty's nomination, everyone's cheering Clayton.
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Speaker 3: They say.
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Speaker 1: The nomination drew praise from both parties, and he's expected to be confirmed as early as next week. I was hearing Wednesday he may already be confirmed.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll stay with us on this Friday morning run from Amster Dan. When we come back, we know the saying the rich just keep getting richer. Elon Musk has now taken that to a whole new level. Will explain. Taylor Swift being honored honored last night, and she got an honor that only one other person can say they outdid her in this one will explain. And the World Cup officially underway, and the very first first match made some history, not the kind we wanted to see.
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Speaker 1: Stay here, well, welcome back to your Friday morning run. And next up on the run, Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire. He was already the richest man on earth, but now with Musk's SpaceX company going public today, yeah, he got a lot richer.
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Speaker 2: A trillion dollars. This has set him up. Now with his combined stock in Tesla and SpaceX, he will go over the one trillion dollar mark. Now his stock alone in SpaceX is gonna be worth eight hundred and sixty seven billion dollars. These numbers are on paper, but they're astronomical. Say what you want about Elon I mean he's just there's a brilliance and something to him and a know how in a business moxy and robes. It's just incredible. And I know people rail against rich and super rich and all these things, but bro, this is this is incredible.
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Speaker 3: He's an innovator.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is incredible.
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Speaker 1: He has created things that no one else has. And to get some perspective, I read's his stocks alone are worth ten times Bill Gates' total net worth, and Musk is now worth as much as the world's next four richest people combined. We're talking about Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brynn, Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison combined.
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Speaker 3: He's richer than all of them.
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Speaker 2: We were just doing a story about Bill Gates yesterday, so he was fresh on our minds. And Bill Gates is in the top twenty. He's number nineteen, actually the richest man in the world. And I believe at some point he was perennially at the top one, two three, Yes, was he not. He's worth one hundred and four million dollars one hundred and four He is worth a tenth of what Elon Musks, insane is worth. It's insane, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the on another very wealthy young woman, Taylor Swift, is now not just rich, she's a Hall of Famer.
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Speaker 2: And young is important in this story as well. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Last night in New York happened at the Marriott Marquis. I don't know why really in New York. But she is the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriter Hall of Fame. She's thirty six. I don't know. I never think about her age where she's thirty six.
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Speaker 3: I feel like she's twenty six. That's funny, she's thirty six. She's older than I thought. But yes, the youngest ever.
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Speaker 1: Do you would you like to know who the youngest ever inducted into the Hall of Fame?
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Speaker 3: Stevie Wonder? How old was he?
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Speaker 2: He was thirty two, and I was kind of shocked and thought he should be younger. He has been. He was you all if you ever get a chance to find some old video of him as an eleven year old kid in Detroit playing every single instrument blind at the Motown factory up there, he.
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Speaker 3: Is that wonder. Yeah, he's a genius. Yes, all right.
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Speaker 1: And for the final leg of our run, the World Cup is officially underway.
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Speaker 3: We are so excited, so is the world. But I don't know.
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Speaker 1: They might have been too excited at the opening match because it made history for all the wrong reasons.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the first match had three red cards. That's three dudes that got kicked out for bad behavior. This is the first time ever that the first match of the World Cup featured three red cards. Ropes. Get this the last World Cup, the entire World Cup only had four red cards.
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Speaker 3: People are excited. They got a little orderly aggressive.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so two players for South Africa got kicked out, one from Mexico got kicked out. Mexico eventually wins the match to Neil for ropes. These were not These were like immediate red card. This wasn't like a guy got a yellow card and then another yellow and then equals are red. No, these were one off, terrible.
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Speaker 1: No, I'm up said, I missed the game. But you know what, the other thing that came out of this game the stands. People were pointing to the fact that the seats were empty. I think, much like us, they made the ticket prices so high. It's so cost prohibitive that, yeah, we flew to Europe rather than pay for the thousands of dollars for these seats. So yeah, I hope that's not the case, because that's just it's not a good look. It can't be can't be feeling good to play in front of, yes, the world. Maybe the cameras are rolling, but if you don't have a crowd there supporting you, cheering for you, even booing you like, just to feel the energy of the crowd, that's a shame.
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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe this is just an early thing. I know. Maybe South Korea match was the one you're talking about.
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Speaker 3: Oh, sorry, that was the other one.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, it looked not Mexico playing in Mexico that was huge. Yes, but yes that's South Korea. You do not ooh road, They're going to be problems if those are consistent scenes.
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Speaker 3: Maybe it was an anomaly.
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Speaker 1: It was South Korea versus Check Yeah, okay, the check check man wrote.
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Speaker 2: You make a very good point, though. Are people going to show up to these games? They can't afford tickets?
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Speaker 1: All right, Well we will be watching from afar, all right. And on this Friday, we're gonna leave you with this quote of the day. I thought this was a fun one. You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.
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Speaker 2: You are the sky everything.
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Speaker 3: Wait what so you're the sky?
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Speaker 1: You're you are your own existence, And yes, weather comes and goes, but it's just weather. You aren't in control of it. You're the sky. Everything and anything's possible. Weather comes and goes, meaning basically, you can't control what's happening in the sky, but you are the sky. Remember that you're powerful. You've got a lot of expansiveness and beauty, and yes, weather rolls in, but it's not your control that comes and goes.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, I had a long flight. It's not landing for fully firing. I think to embrace that one.
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Speaker 3: You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.
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Speaker 2: Where'd you get that one?
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Speaker 3: It's a Buddhist saying. You know me and my Buddhist monks, I love them.
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Speaker 1: Got all sorts of Instagram accounts with Buddhist monks. They have a non stop flow of amazing quotes that get you thinking.
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Speaker 2: And take that one with you today, folks, and you will be thinking about it probably much of the day like I will. But we always appreciate you taking a run with us. But yes, you're gonna come along with us, folks. We will be bouncing around your watching some World Cup. But we will not miss a single run literally or figuratively, because we actually do have our shoes here. We let literally be running in all these places as well.
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Speaker 3: I love running in a new city.
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Speaker 1: It's a great way to see where you want to go later in the day when you map it out on your morning run, so we will be doing that, but thank you for running with us. As always, we hope you have a wonderful week and everybody, I made me robots.
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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ. Holmes. Run soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everybody, and welcome to your Friday Morning Run. Yes it is Friday, June twelfth. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. Our first stop on the run this morning is going to be in Amsterdam. Yes, we pray you will bear with us a little bit. We are getting adjusted, just got off a long flight. We want to make sure we hopped on and got our morning run up. But yes, we have made our way to Amsterdam for the World Cup. Makes sense, right, total.
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Speaker 1: Sense when we explain it, will We decided, instead of maybe trying to afford the expensive tickets to go see World Cup games in person, we would go fly to Europe and watch some of the home teams play in their respective home country.
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Speaker 3: So first up is the Netherlands.
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Speaker 2: So we will let you know where we'll end up over the next several days. But yes we are country hopping and watching those countries teams play in the World Cup in America. It makes perfect sense. But either way we have to make sure we hopped on this morning and tell you about the Morning Run and robes. Look, this is major news back in America, really world news. Here, but we have to start with robes. The war is over, We're told.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and we say we're told because it is in fact a direct quote from the President of the United States Trump saying we ended the war with Iran today. And he made those comments not long after he called off another round of promised airstrikes against Iran. Do you have any times though, I've lost count, But at least he didn't do it on a Tuesday.
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Speaker 3: He did it on a Thursday.
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Speaker 2: But Taco Thursday was trending as well, though, But yes, he's done this over and over and over again. Was the first one the white civilization. I'm gonna take us, So, yes, he's been doing us, he threatened. He took it back, But the threat he made at the time was that, yes, there was going to be a third night of major bombing. This would have been three straight nights, but it got called off. He was saying that discussions with Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved. I have, as President of the United States, canceled the schedule strikes and bombings against Iran. This evening. Discussions and final points have been in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved. That sounds great, But in that true social post, when he said approved by all parties involved, he listed them, Iran wasn't one of them, and a lot of people pointed out.
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Speaker 1: Look, he's made a lot of big declarations that he has rescinded, amended, taken back. So, yes, we have to wait and see what actually happens, but the stock market has reacted. Oil prices dropped upon hearing that news, and then later he followed up yes, declaring that the war is over and that a signing ceremony for the deal would happen as early as this weekend.
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Speaker 2: It's huge, are you kidding me?
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Speaker 3: Great?
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Speaker 2: That sounds fantastic. And then we heard from Iran came out and you can already guess what they said, because every time he comes out and says we're close to this and that and the other, Iran comes back and says, naw ween agreed to none of that stuff. Even at one point, you remember ropes he said in the gosh negotiations, we're going at a rapid pace. Aaran said, yeah, we're not negotiating at all. We're not even passing notes. We've shut this thing down. So Iran came out and said, no, nothing has been agreed to.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so again we'll just have to wait and see per usual, as has been the case for the past several weeks. All right, next up on the run. Trump is fighting. This is not a shocker to keep his name on the Kennedy set.
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Speaker 2: I'm shocked. Just let it go like he almost got an out, like a judge is making you do it. Just take your loss and go home.
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Speaker 1: The idea of watching those construction workers remove his name from a building is something he cannot stand to even think about.
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Speaker 2: Every single brad is gonna lead with that image.
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Speaker 1: There's gonna be a camera set up just to wait and watch and then replay it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, or knows it.
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Speaker 2: Will they take it down in the middle of the night, covered up or something.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll do their best to keep any one of the members of the media from getting that image. But the administration, yes, is appealing the Judge's ruling that it was in fact illegal to put Trump's name on the building.
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Speaker 2: Okay, he said it was illegal, but the judge also gave him a deadline. You got two weeks to get the name off the building. That deadline is folks today Friday, so late last night they put the appeal in. I don't know what happens now they're challenging you that so I don't know if they'll get a stay, if a ruling can be made. Are they gonna wait to take it off until they get something from the judge. I don't know what happens, but I'm shot. I am roped on this one. I'm fighting to keep my name in front of Kennedy's.
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Speaker 3: Eh.
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Speaker 2: That's I'm a little surprised by this one.
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Speaker 1: Nothing he does surprises me anymore. I say that, and then I'm shocked all the time.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, the scheduled execution of Jeffree Lee in the state of Alabama did not take place as plan last night. This was a very surprising development because the Supreme Court decided to step in and make things pretty much impossible for Alabama to move forward as it wanted to.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, when you first hear, we have to make sure we get the clarity here, you hear the Supreme Court stepped in on an execution. They did not stay the execution. They did not say no, he shouldn't die and evidence should be reviewed and no, no, no no. What they say is you just can't kill them the way you want to kill them, which is with nitrogen gas, which is Alabama's preferred method. So the court says you can't use that. So an appeals court decision down in Alabama is the one that stands, which says that this thing is unconstitutional. This method of execution robes, this has far reaching implications. Pasted Jeffrey.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and we were actually surprised because the State of Alabama through the day yesterday was saying we're going to go ahead as planned, and we thought, well, if they can't use nitrogen gas, they must have lethal injection ready to go.
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Speaker 3: But it turns out they did not.
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Speaker 1: They were literally hoping, it seems like now, or maybe even assuming, the Supreme Court was going to allow Alabama to do what it wanted to do, because it has in the past. So this was the departure from what the Supreme Court had decided in other cases or in other challenges. And so yes, now they are going to have to get their ducks in a row and figure out They claim they are still going to execute Jeffree Lee, but it's just delayed. So he has a temporary stay, but it is temporary.
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Speaker 2: I get, I haven't seen it. I don't know when is the death warrant expires. Usually it's the same day. That night they're going to have to sign another one. He bought him. Sometimes the Supreme Court has saved his life for a little while longer.
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Speaker 3: Yep, that is true.
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Speaker 1: So we'll have more on that story, because it certainly is a complicated one, and as you pointed out, Babe has far reaching impact.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, The Pentagon was in lockdown for a short time yesterday for a hazardous materials incident. We were watching all the cable news outlets went crazy, breaking news. Oh my goodness, what could this possibly be?
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Speaker 2: And this is Robes, a very big deal. When you talk about that facility and we're in the middle of war, people are wondering is there something going on? Are their attacks being launched in some way here? Well, this frawling complex the Pentagon, how many folks I can't remember, with thousands obviously, but it's a huge complex, but a lot of folks had to shelter in place. They got that order after what was called an air quality issue that set off alarms. These are high tech systems are supposed to be able to tell if anthraxis in the air. So this went on for several hours. It turns out to be a false alarm. But this sensitive system, I guess every once in a while and have a glitch.
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Speaker 1: But everybody was okay, frightening glitch, but thank goodness, it was, in fact, yes, a false alarm, all right. Next up on the Run, police are investigating what the Trump administration calls deranged vandalism at the National Mall. What would you say is derange vandalism? How about the number eighty six forty seven. It could be seen from quite a distance. It was in the grassy area on the mall this week.
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Speaker 2: How would you describe it looked like if you were trying to kill that grass.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like almost like they use round up like a weak killer to.
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Speaker 2: Make eighty six forty seven. You couldn't see it that well, but you could see it, no problem. But yeah, discolored grass is what it looks like. Don't know who did it, don't know the cause. But they did put out a statement roads and they called it deranged and said this person is sick. And you know they're pissed because they're trying to make the National Mall the prettiest thing ever for the.
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Speaker 1: Big Yeah, this weekend, the President's Birthday, the two hundred and fiftieth celebration begins. The National Mall is the centerpiece of these celebrations. And look, that was pretty clever to use round up to kill the grass, because how do you fix it? You got to paint it green?
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Speaker 3: I mean, will damn.
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Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to have to.
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Speaker 1: Try to like literally put paint on it, because you can't do anything with dead grass.
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Speaker 2: That considered I guess vandalism, but I can't. I guess you can't kill a tree in the National Mall. You can't kill the grass.
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Speaker 3: I suppose I would think that was a crime, for sure, for sure.
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Speaker 2: But all this, of course, James Comy is currently being hauled into court over eighty six forty seven. You remember the Instagram post he's had that up and uh made with shells, the eighty shells forty seven And folks, are they took that as a threat? He is being Yes, he's been charged with threatening the president by eighty six to forty seven.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see if any charges are filed against these vandals. All right next up on the run, President Trump announced that he is nominating j. Clayton, the former chairman of the SEC and the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to serve as the next Director of National Intelligence.
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Speaker 2: He would replace outgoing Director Tulci Gabbert. And he doesn't have extend national security expertise either, But LIZI had more than the other guy who was just handing out mortgages. Apparently a Bill Poulti was the other guy. He was announced less than two weeks ago as the temporary guy, and both Democrats and Republicans robes are like, what the actual hell is going on?
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Speaker 3: Why? What come on?
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Speaker 1: We know you like the guy, but what does he actually know about national security? That would be nothing. So given Poulty's nomination, everyone's cheering Clayton.
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Speaker 3: They say.
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Speaker 1: The nomination drew praise from both parties, and he's expected to be confirmed as early as next week. I was hearing Wednesday he may already be confirmed.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll stay with us on this Friday morning run from Amster Dan. When we come back, we know the saying the rich just keep getting richer. Elon Musk has now taken that to a whole new level. Will explain. Taylor Swift being honored honored last night, and she got an honor that only one other person can say they outdid her in this one will explain. And the World Cup officially underway, and the very first first match made some history, not the kind we wanted to see.
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Speaker 1: Stay here, well, welcome back to your Friday morning run. And next up on the run, Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire. He was already the richest man on earth, but now with Musk's SpaceX company going public today, yeah, he got a lot richer.
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Speaker 2: A trillion dollars. This has set him up. Now with his combined stock in Tesla and SpaceX, he will go over the one trillion dollar mark. Now his stock alone in SpaceX is gonna be worth eight hundred and sixty seven billion dollars. These numbers are on paper, but they're astronomical. Say what you want about Elon I mean he's just there's a brilliance and something to him and a know how in a business moxy and robes. It's just incredible. And I know people rail against rich and super rich and all these things, but bro, this is this is incredible.
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Speaker 3: He's an innovator.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is incredible.
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Speaker 1: He has created things that no one else has. And to get some perspective, I read's his stocks alone are worth ten times Bill Gates' total net worth, and Musk is now worth as much as the world's next four richest people combined. We're talking about Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brynn, Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison combined.
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Speaker 3: He's richer than all of them.
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Speaker 2: We were just doing a story about Bill Gates yesterday, so he was fresh on our minds. And Bill Gates is in the top twenty. He's number nineteen, actually the richest man in the world. And I believe at some point he was perennially at the top one, two three, Yes, was he not. He's worth one hundred and four million dollars one hundred and four He is worth a tenth of what Elon Musks, insane is worth. It's insane, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the on another very wealthy young woman, Taylor Swift, is now not just rich, she's a Hall of Famer.
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Speaker 2: And young is important in this story as well. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Last night in New York happened at the Marriott Marquis. I don't know why really in New York. But she is the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriter Hall of Fame. She's thirty six. I don't know. I never think about her age where she's thirty six.
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Speaker 3: I feel like she's twenty six. That's funny, she's thirty six. She's older than I thought. But yes, the youngest ever.
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Speaker 1: Do you would you like to know who the youngest ever inducted into the Hall of Fame?
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Speaker 3: Stevie Wonder? How old was he?
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Speaker 2: He was thirty two, and I was kind of shocked and thought he should be younger. He has been. He was you all if you ever get a chance to find some old video of him as an eleven year old kid in Detroit playing every single instrument blind at the Motown factory up there, he.
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Speaker 3: Is that wonder. Yeah, he's a genius. Yes, all right.
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Speaker 1: And for the final leg of our run, the World Cup is officially underway.
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Speaker 3: We are so excited, so is the world. But I don't know.
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Speaker 1: They might have been too excited at the opening match because it made history for all the wrong reasons.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the first match had three red cards. That's three dudes that got kicked out for bad behavior. This is the first time ever that the first match of the World Cup featured three red cards. Ropes. Get this the last World Cup, the entire World Cup only had four red cards.
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Speaker 3: People are excited. They got a little orderly aggressive.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so two players for South Africa got kicked out, one from Mexico got kicked out. Mexico eventually wins the match to Neil for ropes. These were not These were like immediate red card. This wasn't like a guy got a yellow card and then another yellow and then equals are red. No, these were one off, terrible.
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Speaker 1: No, I'm up said, I missed the game. But you know what, the other thing that came out of this game the stands. People were pointing to the fact that the seats were empty. I think, much like us, they made the ticket prices so high. It's so cost prohibitive that, yeah, we flew to Europe rather than pay for the thousands of dollars for these seats. So yeah, I hope that's not the case, because that's just it's not a good look. It can't be can't be feeling good to play in front of, yes, the world. Maybe the cameras are rolling, but if you don't have a crowd there supporting you, cheering for you, even booing you like, just to feel the energy of the crowd, that's a shame.
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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe this is just an early thing. I know. Maybe South Korea match was the one you're talking about.
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Speaker 3: Oh, sorry, that was the other one.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, it looked not Mexico playing in Mexico that was huge. Yes, but yes that's South Korea. You do not ooh road, They're going to be problems if those are consistent scenes.
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Speaker 3: Maybe it was an anomaly.
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Speaker 1: It was South Korea versus Check Yeah, okay, the check check man wrote.
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Speaker 2: You make a very good point, though. Are people going to show up to these games? They can't afford tickets?
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Speaker 1: All right, Well we will be watching from afar, all right. And on this Friday, we're gonna leave you with this quote of the day. I thought this was a fun one. You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.
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Speaker 2: You are the sky everything.
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Speaker 3: Wait what so you're the sky?
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Speaker 1: You're you are your own existence, And yes, weather comes and goes, but it's just weather. You aren't in control of it. You're the sky. Everything and anything's possible. Weather comes and goes, meaning basically, you can't control what's happening in the sky, but you are the sky. Remember that you're powerful. You've got a lot of expansiveness and beauty, and yes, weather rolls in, but it's not your control that comes and goes.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, I had a long flight. It's not landing for fully firing. I think to embrace that one.
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Speaker 3: You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.
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Speaker 2: Where'd you get that one?
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Speaker 3: It's a Buddhist saying. You know me and my Buddhist monks, I love them.
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Speaker 1: Got all sorts of Instagram accounts with Buddhist monks. They have a non stop flow of amazing quotes that get you thinking.
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Speaker 2: And take that one with you today, folks, and you will be thinking about it probably much of the day like I will. But we always appreciate you taking a run with us. But yes, you're gonna come along with us, folks. We will be bouncing around your watching some World Cup. But we will not miss a single run literally or figuratively, because we actually do have our shoes here. We let literally be running in all these places as well.
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Speaker 3: I love running in a new city.
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Speaker 1: It's a great way to see where you want to go later in the day when you map it out on your morning run, so we will be doing that, but thank you for running with us. As always, we hope you have a wonderful week and everybody, I made me robots.
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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ. Holmes. Run soon.