July 3, 2026
(Friday) Morning Run: National Mall Crowds, Mamdani 78 Degrees, Olympian Felony Indictment, Guthrie Fake Ransom Plea, Epstein DOJ Deadline, Daredevil Couple Charged, MSG Wedding Day and World Cup Viewership Record
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to your Friday Morning Run. It's July third. I'm Amy Robots.
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Speaker 3: And I'm GJ. Holmes. Seventy eight degrees.
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Speaker 1: You got him at seventy eight degrees, right, folks thermostats, that sounds like a high number. I cannot believe this story, in this conversation, this debate is really raging. Seventy eight degrees is the is too high for the AC? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: You know what's funny is I actually walked by our AC yesterday morning and you had it.
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Speaker 4: It's seventy eight degrees.
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Speaker 3: Do you want to do my part?
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Speaker 2: I was like, I'm sorry, this is not happening. If you want to do my part, I turned it down to seventy two, and then I think you turned it down to sixty seven after that.
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Speaker 3: But this is going crazy.
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Speaker 1: Mayor Mom Donnie who people have their issues with our mayor here in New York. He just ropes we're in the middle of this heat wave, gonna be triple digits for two three days straight here in New York, and he's trying to reduce pressure on the grid. He recommended that everybody set your thermostats to seventy eight degrees. Obviously, Republicans, you can understand them attacking him. But Robes, why did that set everybody off? Why did seventy eight degrees get accusations of socialism and communism?
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Speaker 2: Because that's hot, that's hot in an apartment, first of all. And number two, you like to give people an exact number that they have to set their temperature to feels very oppressive.
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Speaker 4: He wasn't forcing them, and in demand, he.
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Speaker 3: Wasn't forcing them. He was just suggesting.
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Speaker 2: It was I think people don't like being told what to do in their own homes.
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Speaker 3: They don't like guidance.
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Speaker 2: We know and like to tell you here's the level of comfort I suggest you stay in or discomfort.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps I cannot believe like that, I cannot believe this is the thing.
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Speaker 3: That set everybody off of that debate rages.
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Speaker 1: But yes, seventy eight degrees, Republicans are going after this guy. But it turns out Robes that yes, President Trump's Department of Energy has had its own recommendations Robes for where you should leave the thermostat.
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Speaker 4: This is hilarious.
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Speaker 2: So they had put up on their website recommending.
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Speaker 4: Given the heat wave and the effects on the.
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Speaker 2: Power grid, that folks set their temperatures their thermometers to seventy five to seventy eight degrees for energy efficiency. However, with all the ruffled feathers out there, hilariously, this is my favorite part. By yesterday afternoon, Thursday afternoon, it appears that they deleted that part of their recommendation on their website.
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Speaker 3: Page no longer found.
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Speaker 1: I've been looking forward trying to do the link, but that has been their robes. That has been the recommendation from the Department of Energy is to do the exact thing that Mom Donnie recommended that people range.
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Speaker 4: I feel like that felt less.
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Speaker 1: I can not believe that you are genuinely upset by a recommend a suggestion. I want to hear from the people who are in charge. You know what, what is a good temperature that would help out and find the balance.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm gonna do what I want at home.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe people are this upset about freaking recommendation.
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Speaker 2: It's just an excuse to throw shade at Mom Donnie. That's the reality.
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Speaker 3: I don't all for them.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I don't really care that much, but I do think it's funny that people are using that to further attack him and call him a communist.
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Speaker 1: They say it could have just been funny, and folks like, that's not good.
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Speaker 3: It should be.
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Speaker 1: This a debate about it, But you're right, it turned nasty and stupid, and it turns out the Trump administration was recommend the same thing.
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Speaker 2: I have way too many other things we have said about then to actually care what mum Donnie suggests. I said my thermometer to you, and I are going to set art thermometer to however temperature, whatever temperature we prefer. No if he have a debate internally about what our temperature should be, I don't need Mom Donnie weighing in.
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Speaker 4: But it really doesn't affect my life.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's not going to weigh into what's happening in this home.
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Speaker 1: The other thing going on with the Trump administration right now Robes Optics. The Great American State Fair is underway and the crowds have been by viti.
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Speaker 3: But just look, you know what, turn on Fox News and yes, just turn on that's.
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Speaker 4: The interesting thing.
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Speaker 2: So for folks, for Republicans and folks who are Maga lovers, who are upset claiming that the mainstream media is deliberately going to the mall at random times and showing an empty mall and then suggesting that Trump's two hundred and fiftieth Great American State Fair has almost like just let's say, dwindling numbers, not a lot of folks showing up. And look if we have Fox on a lot during the day and we have it up and they are live right there on the National Mall, and I have never seen a crowd once.
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Speaker 4: I've seen like hardly anyone there in the background.
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Speaker 3: Beautiful green grass though, yes, beautiful green grass.
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Speaker 1: Look the pictures are what the pictures are. It hasn't been overwhelming in terms of the crowd that it's fine. But if you listen to the drum administration and a lot of folks online, they're posting pictures, robes, these images of rowdy people just cutting up in the National Mall saying look what is the mainstream media talking about?
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Speaker 3: Look at these crowds, Look at these young people.
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Speaker 1: Look how diverse these folks are going crazy for America's two hundred and fiftieth here at the National Mall.
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Speaker 4: Turns out how.
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Speaker 2: They actually were showing up for a FIFA World Cup watching Christ.
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Speaker 4: Yes, go around the city.
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Speaker 2: Anywhere you want to go, you will find anywhere that has a television set and in a lot of cases beer flowing. You're gonna see massive crowds of folks cheering on their teams. And that's exactly folks show up game time with the big screens and they're watching the World Cup. That doesn't mean they're coming to the mall to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
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Speaker 4: They're there to watch the World Cup.
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Speaker 1: It's called the FIFA Fanzone. It's there on the National Mall as well. But it's ridiculous ropes that we can't just call it what it is. It's not big. There haven't been numbers for the National the Great Maybe it'll pick.
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Speaker 4: Up this weekend with the fourth of July.
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Speaker 2: Maybe starting today there'll be more people gather there. And I would argue a lot of folks can't take off work and they can't bring their families, They can't maybe even afford to bring their.
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Speaker 4: Families with gas prices the way they are to.
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Speaker 2: DC, And so it's not that shocking that that's a huge area that that mall isn't filled up every day with folks that would be that would be a difficult thing to do day in day out.
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Speaker 1: It's also one hundred degrees in DC right now, which is not going to bring a lot of folks out, not going to bring a lot of wet supporters.
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Speaker 4: We didn't even leave the apartment yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Our twenty year old had plans with friends and everyone canceled because no one wants to go outside.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that makes a lot of sense.
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Speaker 1: It's a hot but there was let's give credit that. Ultimately last night there was a decent crowd and a counter of rowdy one robes. After all of this, the back and forth, all the big concert on the National Mall for the birthday, and all those artist were announced and then canceled, the one who never said a word finally said something and was on the stage and appeared to have a good time.
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Speaker 2: Yes, flow Rider brought his apple bottom jeans and it was fun. I mean, look I saw some of the videos. It looked like a big crowd, a fun crowd. Everyone was dancing. Finally something went off. Well, I just I was hoping that Vanilla Ice would show up.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, it would have been nice. That would have been cool.
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Speaker 1: But Rose it also shows once you just the music starts playing, everything else kind of goes away.
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Speaker 4: That's true.
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Speaker 1: We know that song everybody's dance and it could have been a different thing. But all that's going on to the national mall. We got the country's birthday. We've got the big wedding happening today right here in New York. So a lot is happening coming into the fourth of July weekend. But we gotta get you caught up on a few stories. Gives you some headlines here, and let's start rolls with the former olympian who is now being a diet for a felony. He's facing up to ten years in prison. What did he do, Robes, He put his hand in the President's bool.
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Speaker 4: Oh well, that's not what the DOJ says.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they say, Davey Hearn is facing a single count of destruction of property. That is a felony, by the way, because they claim he forcefully and violently pulled on and removed a section of the lining of the reflecting pool.
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Speaker 1: He denies doing anything of the sort. The President has blamed any failings of the reflecting pool makeover on vandals. The makeover they call sixteen plus million dollars.
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Speaker 3: Wasn't it a thing? Weren't people concerned in pools? Like you, somebody pee in the pool? That used to be the problem.
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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I remember.
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Speaker 2: Adults used to always tell children that there'd be a red there's a chemical in the pool.
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Speaker 4: If you pee in it, that it would leave a huge brightness.
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Speaker 2: That's what they told That's what they told me. So that stopped all of us from peeing in the pool.
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Speaker 1: Did you realize quickly that's not I didn't test the theory.
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Speaker 3: I couldn't always a thing.
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Speaker 1: Don't be close to the kid who in the water gets a little warm around you.
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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, that's the least of their concerns. But we actually have an entire episode on this.
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Speaker 4: Check it out on the.
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Speaker 2: Feed because what I mean this press conference by Jeanine Piro the uh she's.
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Speaker 1: The what's that she's ahead of the DC office. Yeah's attorney attorney Turney.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was attorney for DC.
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Speaker 2: That's what her official title is. But it was a hell of a press conference. We have a whole episode on what Davey Hearn is facing. This this is a serious charge. He's looking it up to ten years behind.
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Speaker 4: Bars all right.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run, a California man has pleaded guilty to sending a fake Nancy Guthrie ransom note.
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Speaker 4: His name is Derek Kayea. Is that how you say his name? Derek Kayea was accused of.
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Speaker 2: Texting a ransom demand to the sister of Savannah Guthrie.
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Speaker 4: This all took.
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Speaker 2: Place in the days immediately after Nancy Guthrie disappeared.
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Speaker 1: They said he followed up the text message with a nine second phone call to the family as well, demanding money. He is facing a think robe mostly probation. He's going to be sentenced officially in September. Continuing on the run here now. The Department of Justice was under a deadline of July second, that was yesterday to release unredacted versions of some Epstein files or if you don't release them, explain why you're not releasing those files and robes.
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Speaker 3: They went with the latter option.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and trying to explain away they did.
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Speaker 2: And we are going to do another episode on this because some of their excuses are let's just say, a bit questionable, like we can't find the unredacted version of said document. A lawsuit sought to force the DOJ to produce certain files that were heavily redacted, but the Department.
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Speaker 4: Is defending the limited release.
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Speaker 2: Saying the redactions are appropriate in order to protect victims.
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Speaker 1: All right, continue on the run here now, I just want to give your heads up about some economic news, not so good economic news the economy. US economy added fifty seven thousand jobs last month. That's a disappointing sign for the US economy. The new numbers were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday. The predictions for the job growth were much higher.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think almost double that.
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Speaker 1: So we missed the projections and we had one hundred and twenty nine thousand jobs added in May, so that was down as well. But just something to keep an eye.
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Speaker 4: On there, all right.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run, remember that couple that climbed the Empire State Building to get engaged.
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Speaker 4: Well, they were released.
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Speaker 2: From jail after making a court appearance yesterday, and we did get some information as to how and why and just all the details behind Angela Nicolau and Ivan Berkis's pretty phenomenal yet yes, dangerous proposal.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it turns out, according to some police forces now that in fact, it appears the two might have slept in the Empire State Building overnight, so they hit out there and some of these details are coming, but they are facing a number of charges and some serious charges burglary, reckless endangement and so on and so forth. Did you see them, What did you think about them leaving court yesterday? They were wearing the same outfits. They looked like they were hamming it up.
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Speaker 4: They were smiling.
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Speaker 2: They didn't say much to the cameras, if anything, but they showed their big old smiles and then he gave a big performative kiss right before they went into the subway leaving court.
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Speaker 4: I thought it was cute.
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Speaker 2: Look, they handled it with smiles, and they're they're facing, like you said, some serious charges. The attorney representing them both said that they feel like they have been overcharged, and there were even threats of deportation there from Russia.
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Speaker 4: But they are here legally.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they know how to stage an event. I even gave them very much credit. Robe obviously the iconic shot at the top of the Empire State Building, but he had a bunch of places he could have stopped and gave her a kiss. Along a pretty long walk. He went down a certain number of steps into an iconic New York City subway and stopped. And they didn't kisses. They did some little island type stuff and.
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Speaker 2: With the cameras all flashing. Yes, they know how to work a camera.
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Speaker 3: All right, Well, stay with those books.
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Speaker 1: On this morning Run we come back, we'll talk about the second weekend most talked about a couple in New York right now after those climbers.
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Speaker 3: Also the US. You all saw it, We all watched it.
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Speaker 1: But according to the numbers, all of us watched the US and they set a record for viewership in the World Cup this week.
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Speaker 2: They hear, welcome back to your Friday Morning Run. H What is going on here on this Friday in New York City?
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I think there's a wedding, babe. Did you hear about it?
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Speaker 3: Allegedly?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're told that the wedding festivities are officially underway for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey.
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Speaker 1: Rehearsal dinner, widely reported was supposed to be happening last evening. By all accounts, things went off without a hitch last night. But today is the day that they are supposed to be having their wedding festivity. Start at four four thirty according to reports, and we'll see how the city handles it. Rope Still, I don't know for sure how much they are going to shut down streets here in Midtel, Manhattan, but people are starting to show up swift. These fans just be out there. How big is that crowd going.
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Speaker 3: To get there?
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Speaker 4: I mean this is going to be a spectacle.
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Speaker 2: Yes, there are already names floating around, folks who have checked into hotels.
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Speaker 4: They're looking for people who aren't here.
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Speaker 2: I think everyone's been noticing the Blake lively because people are talking about their rift with the.
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Speaker 4: Justin Bealdoni lawsuit.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's reported that she's upstate New York and so she's not invited to the wedding. So yes, all the sleuths are out there trying to see which celebrities are in town. I think Ed Sharon has been spotted trying to figure out who is going to be at the nuptials. But I thought this was cool. They announced a donation twenty six million dollars to various charities here in New York City.
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Speaker 1: Half of them are New York based, but some charity won in Rhode Island and just stuff they've they've been in partnership with before. But yeah, twenty six million. Now, didn't see exactly how they spread it out among them, twenty six.
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Speaker 2: You know what, she always has a reason. She's a big numbers person, and thirteen is her number. So my guess is because the two of them are together, they each gave thirteen millions, so it's twenty six. Thirteen is her number. She was born on the thirteenth. She's got a whole thing about thirteen.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if people are putting that together online, but that was my first reaction to the twenty six.
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Speaker 3: So I don't know of that.
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Speaker 4: That's a random number. And she is not random.
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Speaker 2: She is specific, and she always has intention behind what she.
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Speaker 4: Chooses to do.
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Speaker 1: Well, good for her and good luck. It's her wedding day, and this is a woman who is Look. I no, I don't have to be a fan of her music to be a fan of her, all right.
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Speaker 3: I don't have her on any playlist that I have.
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Speaker 1: I love her music, and that's okay, you know the one that's to shake it off front, But it's the version that the pigs did and sing it.
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Speaker 3: That's the only uh, that's the only Taylor Swift.
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Speaker 4: Song I have I'm saying love Taylor's.
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Speaker 1: I have seen her in concert and it is one of the best concerts I've ever been to.
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Speaker 3: I just respect her and all she means to the world. Today is her big day.
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Speaker 1: I hope she takes it and enjoys it, and I am rooting for her today.
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Speaker 4: I am to look and she is on every one of my playlists.
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Speaker 2: I brought the girls to a big concert of hers, and certainly she played a Good Morning America.
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Speaker 4: Brought the girls to that too.
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Speaker 2: Look, she knows how to work a room, and I do believe she knows how to operate in life.
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Speaker 4: I just think it's so cool.
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Speaker 2: That they made that donation when all eyes are on them to give back on their wedding weekend. I think that's really a cool thing to do for people who have that kind of meme.
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Speaker 1: She's going to do something today for the fans, and it is going to be perfect.
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Speaker 3: I just I can't wait. She's going to do something.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be perfect, all right, And for the final leg of our run on this Friday, the US win in the knockout stage this week. This is so cool, said a viewership record here in the United.
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Speaker 3: States, and I'm glad to see in Hopes.
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Speaker 1: It's obvious by just walking down the street how much people are into this right now. But yes, it's set a viewership record for an English language broadcast of a soccer match and the US twenty four point four million viewers tuned in to watch the USB Bosnia Herzegovina on Wednesday night. Now, Roabes, the part of the context there is that's even more folks that watched the US women win the World Cup in twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 4: I remember that too.
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Speaker 2: I watched that we owe that was amazing. So that's pretty cool. That shows how far we've come eleven years later. They had twenty two point three million back in twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 3: Enormous. Obviously, that's huge.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, Yeah, and the women were all the talk and the men were kind of the laughing stock at that point.
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Speaker 3: They just they didn't make the last World Cup.
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Speaker 4: That's amazing to think how far we from.
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Speaker 3: And the women went back to back, did they not?
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Speaker 1: So they were up to having this run and the guys weren't even making it, And now here they are.
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Speaker 3: Fin They're getting a moment.
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Speaker 1: Robes and I This is great for US soccer and while my god, this could change the lives of little boys and girls in this country who are now going to start looking at them and trying to be like them.
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Speaker 3: And then here, oh, I can make money doing that too. This is huge.
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Speaker 2: To have the World Cup up here in this country has been a game changer.
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Speaker 4: It really has been.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure where if you live in a city where some of these matches are being held, you've seen it too. It is cool, it's communal, it's celebratory, and Country Roads has always been a favorite song of mine. But my god, to hear people at the end of the matches, people from different countries all singing that song, I gotta say, it just kind of swells you up with pride, and I think we've been short on that in this country. Given the political divisiveness. It's almost as if you feel like if you wear a flag, or you even see our US men's team wearing that flag, that somehow it represents an administration versus a country. And I do appreciate the fact that you can feel some pride in our country and recognize how cool it is that other people.
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Speaker 4: Feel the same about their players. That a whole country can get behind one team.
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Speaker 1: The pride you talk about is that people are actually enjoying America. Folks are coming here from all over the world. And this isn't pride related to our politics. But I have pride related to people now consuming and enjoying because usually they see it from afar. We're represented by this thing, you loud Americans. Now they like the ranch dressing, the cowboy hats, and they're checking us out and having a good time.
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Speaker 3: This has this is just what we needed. This, we needed it.
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Speaker 2: We needed this all right, And on this Friday, this fun Friday, it does feel fun. Here is your quote of the day. Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Speaker 3: Simplicity, patience, compassion.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, before you do anything today, consider those three things. Just stop and give it a beat. It will change how you react to any situation. You will not react the same if you stop and consider those three things before you react today.
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Speaker 3: Isn't that true?
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Speaker 2: And I hadn't thought about these as being the top three, but when I started thinking about it, it really landed for me.
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Speaker 4: So I'll give it to you one more time.
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Speaker 2: Simplicity, patience, compassion, These three are your greatest treasures.
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Speaker 4: And with that everyone, we hope you have a wonderful Friday and weekend. We'll be talking to you throughout. I'm Amy Robot and then on t J Holmes run m
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to your Friday Morning Run. It's July third. I'm Amy Robots.
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Speaker 3: And I'm GJ. Holmes. Seventy eight degrees.
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Speaker 1: You got him at seventy eight degrees, right, folks thermostats, that sounds like a high number. I cannot believe this story, in this conversation, this debate is really raging. Seventy eight degrees is the is too high for the AC? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: You know what's funny is I actually walked by our AC yesterday morning and you had it.
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Speaker 4: It's seventy eight degrees.
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Speaker 3: Do you want to do my part?
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Speaker 2: I was like, I'm sorry, this is not happening. If you want to do my part, I turned it down to seventy two, and then I think you turned it down to sixty seven after that.
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Speaker 3: But this is going crazy.
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Speaker 1: Mayor Mom Donnie who people have their issues with our mayor here in New York. He just ropes we're in the middle of this heat wave, gonna be triple digits for two three days straight here in New York, and he's trying to reduce pressure on the grid. He recommended that everybody set your thermostats to seventy eight degrees. Obviously, Republicans, you can understand them attacking him. But Robes, why did that set everybody off? Why did seventy eight degrees get accusations of socialism and communism?
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Speaker 2: Because that's hot, that's hot in an apartment, first of all. And number two, you like to give people an exact number that they have to set their temperature to feels very oppressive.
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Speaker 4: He wasn't forcing them, and in demand, he.
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Speaker 3: Wasn't forcing them. He was just suggesting.
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Speaker 2: It was I think people don't like being told what to do in their own homes.
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Speaker 3: They don't like guidance.
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Speaker 2: We know and like to tell you here's the level of comfort I suggest you stay in or discomfort.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps I cannot believe like that, I cannot believe this is the thing.
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Speaker 3: That set everybody off of that debate rages.
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Speaker 1: But yes, seventy eight degrees, Republicans are going after this guy. But it turns out Robes that yes, President Trump's Department of Energy has had its own recommendations Robes for where you should leave the thermostat.
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Speaker 4: This is hilarious.
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Speaker 2: So they had put up on their website recommending.
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Speaker 4: Given the heat wave and the effects on the.
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Speaker 2: Power grid, that folks set their temperatures their thermometers to seventy five to seventy eight degrees for energy efficiency. However, with all the ruffled feathers out there, hilariously, this is my favorite part. By yesterday afternoon, Thursday afternoon, it appears that they deleted that part of their recommendation on their website.
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Speaker 3: Page no longer found.
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Speaker 1: I've been looking forward trying to do the link, but that has been their robes. That has been the recommendation from the Department of Energy is to do the exact thing that Mom Donnie recommended that people range.
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Speaker 4: I feel like that felt less.
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Speaker 1: I can not believe that you are genuinely upset by a recommend a suggestion. I want to hear from the people who are in charge. You know what, what is a good temperature that would help out and find the balance.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm gonna do what I want at home.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe people are this upset about freaking recommendation.
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Speaker 2: It's just an excuse to throw shade at Mom Donnie. That's the reality.
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Speaker 3: I don't all for them.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I don't really care that much, but I do think it's funny that people are using that to further attack him and call him a communist.
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Speaker 1: They say it could have just been funny, and folks like, that's not good.
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Speaker 3: It should be.
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Speaker 1: This a debate about it, But you're right, it turned nasty and stupid, and it turns out the Trump administration was recommend the same thing.
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Speaker 2: I have way too many other things we have said about then to actually care what mum Donnie suggests. I said my thermometer to you, and I are going to set art thermometer to however temperature, whatever temperature we prefer. No if he have a debate internally about what our temperature should be, I don't need Mom Donnie weighing in.
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Speaker 4: But it really doesn't affect my life.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's not going to weigh into what's happening in this home.
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Speaker 1: The other thing going on with the Trump administration right now Robes Optics. The Great American State Fair is underway and the crowds have been by viti.
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Speaker 3: But just look, you know what, turn on Fox News and yes, just turn on that's.
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Speaker 4: The interesting thing.
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Speaker 2: So for folks, for Republicans and folks who are Maga lovers, who are upset claiming that the mainstream media is deliberately going to the mall at random times and showing an empty mall and then suggesting that Trump's two hundred and fiftieth Great American State Fair has almost like just let's say, dwindling numbers, not a lot of folks showing up. And look if we have Fox on a lot during the day and we have it up and they are live right there on the National Mall, and I have never seen a crowd once.
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Speaker 4: I've seen like hardly anyone there in the background.
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Speaker 3: Beautiful green grass though, yes, beautiful green grass.
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Speaker 1: Look the pictures are what the pictures are. It hasn't been overwhelming in terms of the crowd that it's fine. But if you listen to the drum administration and a lot of folks online, they're posting pictures, robes, these images of rowdy people just cutting up in the National Mall saying look what is the mainstream media talking about?
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Speaker 3: Look at these crowds, Look at these young people.
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Speaker 1: Look how diverse these folks are going crazy for America's two hundred and fiftieth here at the National Mall.
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Speaker 4: Turns out how.
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Speaker 2: They actually were showing up for a FIFA World Cup watching Christ.
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Speaker 4: Yes, go around the city.
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Speaker 2: Anywhere you want to go, you will find anywhere that has a television set and in a lot of cases beer flowing. You're gonna see massive crowds of folks cheering on their teams. And that's exactly folks show up game time with the big screens and they're watching the World Cup. That doesn't mean they're coming to the mall to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
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Speaker 4: They're there to watch the World Cup.
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Speaker 1: It's called the FIFA Fanzone. It's there on the National Mall as well. But it's ridiculous ropes that we can't just call it what it is. It's not big. There haven't been numbers for the National the Great Maybe it'll pick.
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Speaker 4: Up this weekend with the fourth of July.
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Speaker 2: Maybe starting today there'll be more people gather there. And I would argue a lot of folks can't take off work and they can't bring their families, They can't maybe even afford to bring their.
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Speaker 4: Families with gas prices the way they are to.
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Speaker 2: DC, And so it's not that shocking that that's a huge area that that mall isn't filled up every day with folks that would be that would be a difficult thing to do day in day out.
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Speaker 1: It's also one hundred degrees in DC right now, which is not going to bring a lot of folks out, not going to bring a lot of wet supporters.
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Speaker 4: We didn't even leave the apartment yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Our twenty year old had plans with friends and everyone canceled because no one wants to go outside.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that makes a lot of sense.
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Speaker 1: It's a hot but there was let's give credit that. Ultimately last night there was a decent crowd and a counter of rowdy one robes. After all of this, the back and forth, all the big concert on the National Mall for the birthday, and all those artist were announced and then canceled, the one who never said a word finally said something and was on the stage and appeared to have a good time.
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Speaker 2: Yes, flow Rider brought his apple bottom jeans and it was fun. I mean, look I saw some of the videos. It looked like a big crowd, a fun crowd. Everyone was dancing. Finally something went off. Well, I just I was hoping that Vanilla Ice would show up.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, it would have been nice. That would have been cool.
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Speaker 1: But Rose it also shows once you just the music starts playing, everything else kind of goes away.
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Speaker 4: That's true.
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Speaker 1: We know that song everybody's dance and it could have been a different thing. But all that's going on to the national mall. We got the country's birthday. We've got the big wedding happening today right here in New York. So a lot is happening coming into the fourth of July weekend. But we gotta get you caught up on a few stories. Gives you some headlines here, and let's start rolls with the former olympian who is now being a diet for a felony. He's facing up to ten years in prison. What did he do, Robes, He put his hand in the President's bool.
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Speaker 4: Oh well, that's not what the DOJ says.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they say, Davey Hearn is facing a single count of destruction of property. That is a felony, by the way, because they claim he forcefully and violently pulled on and removed a section of the lining of the reflecting pool.
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Speaker 1: He denies doing anything of the sort. The President has blamed any failings of the reflecting pool makeover on vandals. The makeover they call sixteen plus million dollars.
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Speaker 3: Wasn't it a thing? Weren't people concerned in pools? Like you, somebody pee in the pool? That used to be the problem.
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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I remember.
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Speaker 2: Adults used to always tell children that there'd be a red there's a chemical in the pool.
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Speaker 4: If you pee in it, that it would leave a huge brightness.
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Speaker 2: That's what they told That's what they told me. So that stopped all of us from peeing in the pool.
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Speaker 1: Did you realize quickly that's not I didn't test the theory.
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Speaker 3: I couldn't always a thing.
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Speaker 1: Don't be close to the kid who in the water gets a little warm around you.
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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, that's the least of their concerns. But we actually have an entire episode on this.
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Speaker 4: Check it out on the.
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Speaker 2: Feed because what I mean this press conference by Jeanine Piro the uh she's.
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Speaker 1: The what's that she's ahead of the DC office. Yeah's attorney attorney Turney.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was attorney for DC.
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Speaker 2: That's what her official title is. But it was a hell of a press conference. We have a whole episode on what Davey Hearn is facing. This this is a serious charge. He's looking it up to ten years behind.
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Speaker 4: Bars all right.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run, a California man has pleaded guilty to sending a fake Nancy Guthrie ransom note.
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Speaker 4: His name is Derek Kayea. Is that how you say his name? Derek Kayea was accused of.
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Speaker 2: Texting a ransom demand to the sister of Savannah Guthrie.
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Speaker 4: This all took.
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Speaker 2: Place in the days immediately after Nancy Guthrie disappeared.
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Speaker 1: They said he followed up the text message with a nine second phone call to the family as well, demanding money. He is facing a think robe mostly probation. He's going to be sentenced officially in September. Continuing on the run here now. The Department of Justice was under a deadline of July second, that was yesterday to release unredacted versions of some Epstein files or if you don't release them, explain why you're not releasing those files and robes.
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Speaker 3: They went with the latter option.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and trying to explain away they did.
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Speaker 2: And we are going to do another episode on this because some of their excuses are let's just say, a bit questionable, like we can't find the unredacted version of said document. A lawsuit sought to force the DOJ to produce certain files that were heavily redacted, but the Department.
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Speaker 4: Is defending the limited release.
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Speaker 2: Saying the redactions are appropriate in order to protect victims.
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Speaker 1: All right, continue on the run here now, I just want to give your heads up about some economic news, not so good economic news the economy. US economy added fifty seven thousand jobs last month. That's a disappointing sign for the US economy. The new numbers were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday. The predictions for the job growth were much higher.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think almost double that.
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Speaker 1: So we missed the projections and we had one hundred and twenty nine thousand jobs added in May, so that was down as well. But just something to keep an eye.
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Speaker 4: On there, all right.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run, remember that couple that climbed the Empire State Building to get engaged.
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Speaker 4: Well, they were released.
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Speaker 2: From jail after making a court appearance yesterday, and we did get some information as to how and why and just all the details behind Angela Nicolau and Ivan Berkis's pretty phenomenal yet yes, dangerous proposal.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it turns out, according to some police forces now that in fact, it appears the two might have slept in the Empire State Building overnight, so they hit out there and some of these details are coming, but they are facing a number of charges and some serious charges burglary, reckless endangement and so on and so forth. Did you see them, What did you think about them leaving court yesterday? They were wearing the same outfits. They looked like they were hamming it up.
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Speaker 4: They were smiling.
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Speaker 2: They didn't say much to the cameras, if anything, but they showed their big old smiles and then he gave a big performative kiss right before they went into the subway leaving court.
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Speaker 4: I thought it was cute.
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Speaker 2: Look, they handled it with smiles, and they're they're facing, like you said, some serious charges. The attorney representing them both said that they feel like they have been overcharged, and there were even threats of deportation there from Russia.
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Speaker 4: But they are here legally.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they know how to stage an event. I even gave them very much credit. Robe obviously the iconic shot at the top of the Empire State Building, but he had a bunch of places he could have stopped and gave her a kiss. Along a pretty long walk. He went down a certain number of steps into an iconic New York City subway and stopped. And they didn't kisses. They did some little island type stuff and.
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Speaker 2: With the cameras all flashing. Yes, they know how to work a camera.
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Speaker 3: All right, Well, stay with those books.
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Speaker 1: On this morning Run we come back, we'll talk about the second weekend most talked about a couple in New York right now after those climbers.
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Speaker 3: Also the US. You all saw it, We all watched it.
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Speaker 1: But according to the numbers, all of us watched the US and they set a record for viewership in the World Cup this week.
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Speaker 2: They hear, welcome back to your Friday Morning Run. H What is going on here on this Friday in New York City?
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I think there's a wedding, babe. Did you hear about it?
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Speaker 3: Allegedly?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're told that the wedding festivities are officially underway for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey.
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Speaker 1: Rehearsal dinner, widely reported was supposed to be happening last evening. By all accounts, things went off without a hitch last night. But today is the day that they are supposed to be having their wedding festivity. Start at four four thirty according to reports, and we'll see how the city handles it. Rope Still, I don't know for sure how much they are going to shut down streets here in Midtel, Manhattan, but people are starting to show up swift. These fans just be out there. How big is that crowd going.
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Speaker 3: To get there?
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Speaker 4: I mean this is going to be a spectacle.
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Speaker 2: Yes, there are already names floating around, folks who have checked into hotels.
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Speaker 4: They're looking for people who aren't here.
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Speaker 2: I think everyone's been noticing the Blake lively because people are talking about their rift with the.
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Speaker 4: Justin Bealdoni lawsuit.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's reported that she's upstate New York and so she's not invited to the wedding. So yes, all the sleuths are out there trying to see which celebrities are in town. I think Ed Sharon has been spotted trying to figure out who is going to be at the nuptials. But I thought this was cool. They announced a donation twenty six million dollars to various charities here in New York City.
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Speaker 1: Half of them are New York based, but some charity won in Rhode Island and just stuff they've they've been in partnership with before. But yeah, twenty six million. Now, didn't see exactly how they spread it out among them, twenty six.
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Speaker 2: You know what, she always has a reason. She's a big numbers person, and thirteen is her number. So my guess is because the two of them are together, they each gave thirteen millions, so it's twenty six. Thirteen is her number. She was born on the thirteenth. She's got a whole thing about thirteen.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if people are putting that together online, but that was my first reaction to the twenty six.
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Speaker 3: So I don't know of that.
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Speaker 4: That's a random number. And she is not random.
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Speaker 2: She is specific, and she always has intention behind what she.
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Speaker 4: Chooses to do.
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Speaker 1: Well, good for her and good luck. It's her wedding day, and this is a woman who is Look. I no, I don't have to be a fan of her music to be a fan of her, all right.
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Speaker 3: I don't have her on any playlist that I have.
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Speaker 1: I love her music, and that's okay, you know the one that's to shake it off front, But it's the version that the pigs did and sing it.
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Speaker 3: That's the only uh, that's the only Taylor Swift.
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Speaker 4: Song I have I'm saying love Taylor's.
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Speaker 1: I have seen her in concert and it is one of the best concerts I've ever been to.
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Speaker 3: I just respect her and all she means to the world. Today is her big day.
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Speaker 1: I hope she takes it and enjoys it, and I am rooting for her today.
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Speaker 4: I am to look and she is on every one of my playlists.
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Speaker 2: I brought the girls to a big concert of hers, and certainly she played a Good Morning America.
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Speaker 4: Brought the girls to that too.
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Speaker 2: Look, she knows how to work a room, and I do believe she knows how to operate in life.
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Speaker 4: I just think it's so cool.
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Speaker 2: That they made that donation when all eyes are on them to give back on their wedding weekend. I think that's really a cool thing to do for people who have that kind of meme.
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Speaker 1: She's going to do something today for the fans, and it is going to be perfect.
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Speaker 3: I just I can't wait. She's going to do something.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be perfect, all right, And for the final leg of our run on this Friday, the US win in the knockout stage this week. This is so cool, said a viewership record here in the United.
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Speaker 3: States, and I'm glad to see in Hopes.
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Speaker 1: It's obvious by just walking down the street how much people are into this right now. But yes, it's set a viewership record for an English language broadcast of a soccer match and the US twenty four point four million viewers tuned in to watch the USB Bosnia Herzegovina on Wednesday night. Now, Roabes, the part of the context there is that's even more folks that watched the US women win the World Cup in twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 4: I remember that too.
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Speaker 2: I watched that we owe that was amazing. So that's pretty cool. That shows how far we've come eleven years later. They had twenty two point three million back in twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 3: Enormous. Obviously, that's huge.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, Yeah, and the women were all the talk and the men were kind of the laughing stock at that point.
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Speaker 3: They just they didn't make the last World Cup.
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Speaker 4: That's amazing to think how far we from.
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Speaker 3: And the women went back to back, did they not?
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Speaker 1: So they were up to having this run and the guys weren't even making it, And now here they are.
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Speaker 3: Fin They're getting a moment.
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Speaker 1: Robes and I This is great for US soccer and while my god, this could change the lives of little boys and girls in this country who are now going to start looking at them and trying to be like them.
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Speaker 3: And then here, oh, I can make money doing that too. This is huge.
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Speaker 2: To have the World Cup up here in this country has been a game changer.
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Speaker 4: It really has been.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure where if you live in a city where some of these matches are being held, you've seen it too. It is cool, it's communal, it's celebratory, and Country Roads has always been a favorite song of mine. But my god, to hear people at the end of the matches, people from different countries all singing that song, I gotta say, it just kind of swells you up with pride, and I think we've been short on that in this country. Given the political divisiveness. It's almost as if you feel like if you wear a flag, or you even see our US men's team wearing that flag, that somehow it represents an administration versus a country. And I do appreciate the fact that you can feel some pride in our country and recognize how cool it is that other people.
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Speaker 4: Feel the same about their players. That a whole country can get behind one team.
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Speaker 1: The pride you talk about is that people are actually enjoying America. Folks are coming here from all over the world. And this isn't pride related to our politics. But I have pride related to people now consuming and enjoying because usually they see it from afar. We're represented by this thing, you loud Americans. Now they like the ranch dressing, the cowboy hats, and they're checking us out and having a good time.
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Speaker 3: This has this is just what we needed. This, we needed it.
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Speaker 2: We needed this all right, And on this Friday, this fun Friday, it does feel fun. Here is your quote of the day. Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Speaker 3: Simplicity, patience, compassion.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, before you do anything today, consider those three things. Just stop and give it a beat. It will change how you react to any situation. You will not react the same if you stop and consider those three things before you react today.
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Speaker 3: Isn't that true?
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Speaker 2: And I hadn't thought about these as being the top three, but when I started thinking about it, it really landed for me.
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Speaker 4: So I'll give it to you one more time.
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Speaker 2: Simplicity, patience, compassion, These three are your greatest treasures.
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Speaker 4: And with that everyone, we hope you have a wonderful Friday and weekend. We'll be talking to you throughout. I'm Amy Robot and then on t J Holmes run m