Oct. 13, 2025
Morning Run: Hostages Are Free, Trump Victory Lap, Columbus Day History, Nor’Easter Bearing Down, Deadly Tennessee Explosion and RIP Diane Keaton
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, October thirteenth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Maybe Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. No, the post office is not open today. No, the mail will not be running today. Your bank is likely closed. But you can go to UPS and FedEx if you want to mail something, and Target and Walwater open. That's everything you need to know on this federal holiday.
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Speaker 1: Yes, pretty much.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes. Can we say Happy Columbus Day without offending a significant number of people these days?
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Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that, so.
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Speaker 2: Beending on where you are and what you think, how you feel. It's either Happy Columbus Day or Happy Indigenous People's Day. A little history we'll get into with you this morning. We'll try to get through this run quickly. Look at the holiday Nor'easter happening here where we are, a lot of people are off and maybe taking it easy today. So yeah, I'm trying to lighten it a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but history was made today.
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Speaker 2: Which part which history were talking about?
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Speaker 1: In the Middle East? Yes, yes, the President Trump. They're taking a victory lap of sorts in Israel and in fact, he's been speaking for much of the morning and is quite late to his next date.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll tell you what's happening with the president today, but a heck of a scene playing out in Israel this morning. Also beloved actress Diane Keaton. It was interesting I saw the word quirky. She was described as quirky, and it didn't seem offensive. That's probably right. But Diane Keaton has passed away at the age of seventy nine, which.
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Speaker 1: Is young these days, and really inexplicably no one had I mean I hadn't heard of her looking or feeling ill. So this was a shock to so many people who loved her, including me of course.
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Speaker 2: Also today, the shutdown update is that we're still shut down and it will continue tomorrow. We'll explain why. And also, that's too much money in college football because one school is willing to pay nearly fifty million dollars just to get rid of their coach. They're doing this willingly.
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Speaker 1: That's too much money. That's way too much money.
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Speaker 2: Okay, As always, folks, top right corner of your Apple podcast app on that screen, click that button that says follow you and get all of our dates or updates coming right to you. Also on the run this morning, no survivors in that Tennessee plant explosion. Also too, deadly mass shootings over the weekend, and yes, that nor'easter is causing fits, that's right.
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Speaker 1: But we begin our run on this Monday with news that the hostages are free. The remaining living twenty hostages that were being held by Hamas were freed overnight as part of the peace deal. Seven were initially released, followed a short time later by the remaining thirteen in some.
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Speaker 2: Pretty extraordinary scenes playing out in Israel, in particular on the streets. There were cheering, there were chants, there were tears, there was dancing, there was joy because this has been a day that folks have been waiting some two years for. These hostages have been held since the October seventh, twenty twenty three, attacked by Hamas that killed twelve hundred people. Two one hundred and fifty one hostages were taken on that day. As of this morning, all living hostages are free.
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Speaker 1: That's right. And Palestinian prisoners also being released today. This is a huge development too. With the hostages being released, the peace steel moving forward, Humanitarian aid is expected to now be able to flow freely into and flood Gaza. It's so badly needed. All of those images we've been seeing over the past several months have just been horrific of starvation happening among folks there in Gaza.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and just as all these developments were happening, this morning, President Trump arrived in Israel to take a pretty significant and at this point going over time victory lap. The hostages were just being released when the President stepped off Air Force one there in Israel. He was greeted by the Prime Minister in Benjamin Netnyahoo on the tarmac and the two actually rode in the car together over to the Israeli Parliament, where Trump addressed lawmakers. Now, as of this recording, we had hope to tell you kind of a summary of what he said in his speech. The President is still speaking as of this recording. He has gone over time. He wasn't even expected to be in the country that long, and he is way over time right now.
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Speaker 1: Ropes, I mean, he's soaking it in. How many standing o's has he gotten so far? So, yes, this is his moment, this was his signature. This is probably we are watching his legacy play out in real time right now. So, yes, he is taking his time and you.
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Speaker 2: Can see good energy. Look, he's pointing to people in the audience. He's clearly going off his remarks. That's nothing new. But there's an energy and a life to him, and a bounce and a pep in his step. And why not he should be How can you not? No matter where you are, give him the administration credit for laser focusing on ending this. And it's happened, and all these hostages.
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Speaker 1: Are at it's remarkable. It's been remarkable to watch. He was schedule to only be on the ground there in Israel for about four hours, so he's dueing Egypt next, but who knows when that will happen, because yeah, he is still at the podium, and yes, you can just see in his gestures, in his face he is enjoying this moment.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll keep an eye on that. We want to continue our run though. Back here at home and today, some are celebrating Columbus Day, others are commemorating Indigenous People's Day. Only one, however, is a federal holiday. Of course, we're talking about Columbus Day, and it is probably Robes the most fiercely debated of our federal holiday.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably a fair statement. Plenty of people Italians in particular, would like to honor Columbus as a master navigator and explorer who, will put it in quotes, discovered America. His landing, we can say for sure opened up trade and a cultural exchange that certainly paved the way for a modern USA. That's what we were at least taught in school. But there's been more of as in recent decades over his legacy that many say should include the atrocities committed by Columbus, including the enslavement of indigenous peoples.
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Speaker 2: President Biden, though, was the first president to recognize Indigenous People's Day in twenty twenty one with a proclamation. But it's not a federal holiday, though. You do have about twenty states who have their own Indigenous People's Day. But Columbus Day is recognized on the second Monday of October each year. A little history. You might not know, and you might not believe this, but Columbus Day came about because of a mass lynching in Louisiana. I had not heard this story.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know this, nor had I at all. So in eighteen ninety one, during a time of heightened anti immigrant sentiment in the United States. Wow, history does repeat itself, doesn't it. Eleven Italian immigrants were killed by a lynch mob in New Orleans. Fearing the killings would harm US Italy relations, present and Benjamin Harrison commemorated Christopher Columbus Day the following year as a way to literally smooth things over with Italians. But it was.
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Speaker 2: Supposed to just be a one off thing one year on a big anniversary. But the annual celebration kept going in local communities across the country. They started doing their own thing, and then President Franklin Roosevelt declared that a federal holiday starting in October of nineteen forty three. But it was you jumped on it immediately. It was anti immigrant sentiment that led to the lynching of Italians in New Orleans.
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Speaker 1: This is why history is so important to know and to understand, because it does repeat itself, does it not? If and when we're not paying attention all? Right? Next up on the run, President Trump signed Columbus Day Proclamation, making it very clear where he stands on any Columbus Day debate. Let me guess of the proclamation calls Columbus the original American hero and a giant of Western civilization and one of the most gallant and visionary men to ever walk the face of the earth. We quoted the depression the proclamation.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so the proclamation goes on to say that, quote, we pledged to reclaim his extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue from the left wing arsonists who have sought to destroy his name and dishonor his memory. Again directly from the proclamation, and one more of a good measure, it says, quote, our nation will now abide by a simple truth. Christopher Columbus was a true American hero, and every citizen is eternally indebted to his relentless determination.
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Speaker 1: All right, Quote, it looks like Columbus Day is gonna stick around for a few more years.
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Speaker 2: Little and always. They didn't teach me this in school either, or was I not paying attention that day. He never made it to modern day United States of America. Never.
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Speaker 1: I learned that later in life. Yes, yes, the West Indies, right, that's where he ended up, stopped in.
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Speaker 2: The Bahamas and then did some island happens.
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Speaker 1: That's what I would have done, all right, next up on. That's a good place to be today. Other than anywhere in the Northeast. It's a weather alert day for millions of Americans. A massive nor'easter is making its way up the eastern coast. New Jersey issued a state of emergency. New York Governor Kathy Hockel declared a state of emergency for eight New York counties that includes right where we are here in New York City.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, speaking of Columbus Day, the big parade here in Manhattan has been canceled. Eighty first annual parade. Did you say. It's been canceled before, but never for weather.
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Speaker 1: The only other time it was canceled was for the pandemic. So this is definitely the first time it's been canceled for a weather related issue.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And they can't mess around with the wind here in the city. They will cancel anything you can't have in this city. Things blowing around, people walking on the street all the time. There are travel delays up and down the East Coast as damaging winds, heavy rain, and coastal flooding continue throughout the day today Sunday, there were several weather rescues in both South and North Carolina after nearly ten inches of rain fell in twenty four hours, and then wind gusts up to sixty miles per hour have been tracked from North Carolina to New Jersey and that's supposed to continue to spread north.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they say. Here in Manhattan we could see wind gusts up to sixty miles per hour, and there is serious concern regarding dangerous coastal flooding level. Water levels are reaching highs not seen in more than a decade. They're actually going back to Superstorm Sandy and saying they think some of the water levels will go up past where they reached then. So there is real concern. If you're planning on flying in or out of the Northeast today, be prepared for some major issues. There have been ground delays in place since last night at Boston Logan, New York Area Airport, So it's going to be a tough, tough travel. Tank.
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Speaker 2: You get everybody's attention up here when you say something compared in any way to Superstorm Sandy. Yes, you'll get everybody's attention, all right. Continuing on the run on this Monday morning, now we are on day thirteen of the government shut down Day fourteen is a pretty safe bet. There are no votes planned today on Capitol Hill on any bill they could possibly end the shutdown. Yes, it's they're taking time for the holidays, though they get an extra day to let cooler heads prevail.
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Speaker 1: Sure, I'm sure that'll work. But the finger pointing continued over the weekend, both sides blaming each other, all the while hoping that the American people blamed the other party. Meanwhile, the so called reduction enforce is underway. Thousands of government workers are starting to receive layoff notices.
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Speaker 2: And get this, the Smithsonian is now closed, all museums, research centers, even the National Zoo. They had been able to stay open for the first week or so the shutdown by using leftover front funds from the previous year, but now that has run out, so it's all shut down for now.
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Speaker 1: Wow. All right? Next up on the run, no arrest yet after a mass shooting this weekend in South Carolina at a crowded bar.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, four killed and twenty others injured last night. Place was called Willie's Bar and Grilled on Saint Helena Island. The bar was packed for a high school reunion event. And there have been the nos arrests made yet in this case.
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Speaker 1: And speaking of reunions of sort. Next up on the Run, we're going to head to Mississippi, where at least nine people were killed in five separate shootings across the state in just twenty four hours. It was a big homecoming weekend, so these shootings broke out in three towns from Friday night into Saturday. Many out there celebrating high school homecoming football games. There was some college homecoming football games. I mean, it's really just incredibly sad.
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Speaker 2: So two of the shootings here OJI reference happened on public high school campuses that were hosting games. But the deadliest happened when six people were killed in the town of Leland when a large crowd was celebrating homecoming weekend on main Street. Two other shootings happened at Alcorn State and at Jackson State University events. There, a child was hit by gunfire near a tailgate section. The child is now recovering in the hospital.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, in addition to the weekends death told, ten others were hospitalized with the shootings, and of the five shootings, there have only been three arrests in two of the crime so authorities are urging anyone with information on any of the other shootings. They said this to quote, speak up, share, give us that opportunity to get these subjects off the street and bring peace and tranquility to our community.
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Speaker 2: All right, next leg of our run takes us to Tennessee, where we had a sad update over the weekend. They have confirmed there are no survivors after a massive explosion at an ammunition plant over the weekend. Sixteen people were killed in that blast that has rocked the small Tennessee community. It is about sixty miles from Nashville.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the sheriffs has actually made nationally just it's been so gutting to watch his tearful updates about just They had hope that they could find someone alive inside. They did not, and right now they have no idea what caused the explosion that leveled an entire building in the complex. Some of the debris from the blast has been found as far as two miles away. The plan is operated by Accurate Energetic Systems. It's a company that produces explosives for the US military. But certainly a sad day there in that rural Tennessee area.
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Speaker 2: All right, stay with us. We will continue here on this Monday morning run when we come back. What does it say about you that your employer wants you out of there so bad that they're willing to pay forty nine million dollars just to get rid of you. Also, it is Robos, one of her two probably yeah, favorite movies of all time, and it stars Mith Diane Keaton. The sad news, of course, that she has passed. We'll take a look back at what she has meant to us. All all right, folks, continuing now on this Monday morning run, we can tell you that since we've been recording here, the President finally did wrap his speech and I got off the stage. They're supposed to be heading to Egypt next, but they were treating him like a rock star down there, people pulling, trying to get selfies. I mean, these are members of the Israeli parliament down there, like treating them like he's a superstar, and I guess he is. Contellue me though, on the run here Penn State they got money to be because Penn State is paying forty nine million dollars to get rid of their coach, Yes, head coach James Franklin was fired this weekend after pretty disastrous three game losing streak. But even though they fired him, they still have to pay him.
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Speaker 1: Yes, his buyout amount is the aforementioned forty nine million dollars and that is the second highest buyout in college football history.
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Speaker 2: Remember Jimbo Fisher Texas A and M few years ago. Yes, he got seventy six million to leave. Seventy six million. That's too much money.
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Speaker 1: That is incredible to leave. Yeah. So Franklin, by the way, you know, the one who just got fired for forty nine million. He had Penn State in the college playoffs last year, made it all the way to the national semifinals. But you know, three embarrassing losses and they're cutting their losses.
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Speaker 2: Oh. Janet Jackson said it best. What have you done for me lately?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Right, I guess that's people don't have very forgiving. No, it's called football, baby, Yeah, you're right.
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Speaker 2: All right. So continuing now and the final leg of our run, beloved Oscar winning actress Diane Keaton has passed away at the age of seventy nine. Now we don't know a cause of death, but emergency crews were called to her la home early Saturday morning.
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Speaker 1: According to a nine to one one call, a person was down at the home and needed medical attention. The NPR headline quirky leading lady, you know, And is that right? She was quirky. She looked from she was. She was so uniquely her own person. She didn't subscribe to anyone else's style. Her acting was effortless and genuine. I mean, she just was her own person. And yes she played characters, but she brought her own sense to all of them, where there was just a loving part of everyone she played. I can't say enough good things about her. She won an Oscar in nineteen seventy seven for her role in Annie Hall. And that's that was kind of like her her fashion statement in almost everything she did and played in all of her roles later, she was always that Annie Hall kind of look to her. I loved like a men's wear just cool. Oh, I love, love, love Diane Keaton. But she was in Red Something's gotta give Marvin's Room. Nominated for Oscars.
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Speaker 2: In all of that, I didn't realize she had such a.
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Speaker 1: Yes the Godfather, I mean, I know you loved her in that.
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Speaker 2: She now you talk about the effortless, there's some charm, there's an every woman thing to her that just works. She was supposed, I mean she was up against gangsters in that. I mean some big time I mean Pacino for goutys say, I mean some big, strong guy. She held her own in a she was strong, but yet very quiet in her approach. Yeah, she was fantastic in those movies.
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Speaker 1: She really was. And then Father of the Bride. Baby Boom is yes, my all time right up there with overboard favorite favorite favorite movie. No one ever mentions it, but I am telling you, especially this time of year in the fall, it's one of my favorite movies. I can't even tell you how many times I've seen it. My girls know that it is like our go to movie, feel good movie. I'm feeling down, I put on Baby Boom. And you know what's interesting. She played you know, obviously Father of the Bride, she was so great in that, But she played a wife. She played a love interest in so many of these movies, and yet never and she chose never to be married. Her private life was very private. She adopted two children in her fifties. So it's just she had a remarkable, unique existence at a time where that women weren't allowed to not be wives or to choose not to give birth. She was all of those things and never questioned for them. She just she forged a path and never never apologized for any of it.
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Speaker 2: Oh she is. She had her own style. But I just that word quirky what you could almost take it as offensive just in some In some ways, it was an offensive at all, And I thought it was the most accurate thing I could come up with to describe her. She was unique in some way. Even though she dressed, she had the same smile on a face, always wearing a hat.
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Speaker 1: Usually she's consistent. Love. I put her on a.
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Speaker 2: Nette Benning and in that lane of just elegance and beauty and simplicity and aging gracefully.
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Speaker 1: There's a quiet confidence about her. Right. She wasn't shouting anything from the rooftop. She didn't have to prove anything to anybody, and yet she was an incredible actress, and yet we all loved her. I love what you said, charm. She just had a charm about her and a warmth about her. And she will be sorely and sadly missed. But I think we should watch some of her movies today. I know a lot of people have been doing that over the weekend, and so yes, sweet Godfather, Yes, as long as baby Boom is right afterwards. All right with that, everyone? Thank you? Oh no, you know what, I was so enraptured by talking about one of my favorite actresses that I absolutely forgot to do our quote of the day. You know what, I should have picked a Diane Keaton quote. Well, I missed it on that one, but this is the one I chose for the day. You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are. Now blame is that what we do. We blame our parents, we blame our exes, we blame our bosses, boss our kids. That's why I'm mad. That's why I'm angry, That's why I'm resentful. That's why I never amounted to anything. All of that. We blame everyone but ourselves.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I always get any time it comes up in the house, I said, I can't make you anything. You make me mad, you make me happy, you make me Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well you can have. People can make you feel something, but you can choose how you react to it.
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Speaker 2: Right there it is was the quote again.
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Speaker 1: You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.
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Speaker 2: Because then they would be responsible for who you're going to be later you put in somebody else's hands. Yeah, okay, now I get it.
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Speaker 1: You know what I feel like. Even though I missed, I miss an opportunity to quote Diane Keaton, I feel like she never fell trapped to this. She became exactly who she wanted to be. And I think we can all follow suit, all right, And with that now, thank you for writing with us. Everyone. I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. Have a good Columbus slash Indigenous People's Day. We'll talk to y Elson
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, October thirteenth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Maybe Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. No, the post office is not open today. No, the mail will not be running today. Your bank is likely closed. But you can go to UPS and FedEx if you want to mail something, and Target and Walwater open. That's everything you need to know on this federal holiday.
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Speaker 1: Yes, pretty much.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes. Can we say Happy Columbus Day without offending a significant number of people these days?
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Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that, so.
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Speaker 2: Beending on where you are and what you think, how you feel. It's either Happy Columbus Day or Happy Indigenous People's Day. A little history we'll get into with you this morning. We'll try to get through this run quickly. Look at the holiday Nor'easter happening here where we are, a lot of people are off and maybe taking it easy today. So yeah, I'm trying to lighten it a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but history was made today.
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Speaker 2: Which part which history were talking about?
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Speaker 1: In the Middle East? Yes, yes, the President Trump. They're taking a victory lap of sorts in Israel and in fact, he's been speaking for much of the morning and is quite late to his next date.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll tell you what's happening with the president today, but a heck of a scene playing out in Israel this morning. Also beloved actress Diane Keaton. It was interesting I saw the word quirky. She was described as quirky, and it didn't seem offensive. That's probably right. But Diane Keaton has passed away at the age of seventy nine, which.
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Speaker 1: Is young these days, and really inexplicably no one had I mean I hadn't heard of her looking or feeling ill. So this was a shock to so many people who loved her, including me of course.
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Speaker 2: Also today, the shutdown update is that we're still shut down and it will continue tomorrow. We'll explain why. And also, that's too much money in college football because one school is willing to pay nearly fifty million dollars just to get rid of their coach. They're doing this willingly.
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Speaker 1: That's too much money. That's way too much money.
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Speaker 2: Okay, As always, folks, top right corner of your Apple podcast app on that screen, click that button that says follow you and get all of our dates or updates coming right to you. Also on the run this morning, no survivors in that Tennessee plant explosion. Also too, deadly mass shootings over the weekend, and yes, that nor'easter is causing fits, that's right.
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Speaker 1: But we begin our run on this Monday with news that the hostages are free. The remaining living twenty hostages that were being held by Hamas were freed overnight as part of the peace deal. Seven were initially released, followed a short time later by the remaining thirteen in some.
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Speaker 2: Pretty extraordinary scenes playing out in Israel, in particular on the streets. There were cheering, there were chants, there were tears, there was dancing, there was joy because this has been a day that folks have been waiting some two years for. These hostages have been held since the October seventh, twenty twenty three, attacked by Hamas that killed twelve hundred people. Two one hundred and fifty one hostages were taken on that day. As of this morning, all living hostages are free.
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Speaker 1: That's right. And Palestinian prisoners also being released today. This is a huge development too. With the hostages being released, the peace steel moving forward, Humanitarian aid is expected to now be able to flow freely into and flood Gaza. It's so badly needed. All of those images we've been seeing over the past several months have just been horrific of starvation happening among folks there in Gaza.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and just as all these developments were happening, this morning, President Trump arrived in Israel to take a pretty significant and at this point going over time victory lap. The hostages were just being released when the President stepped off Air Force one there in Israel. He was greeted by the Prime Minister in Benjamin Netnyahoo on the tarmac and the two actually rode in the car together over to the Israeli Parliament, where Trump addressed lawmakers. Now, as of this recording, we had hope to tell you kind of a summary of what he said in his speech. The President is still speaking as of this recording. He has gone over time. He wasn't even expected to be in the country that long, and he is way over time right now.
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Speaker 1: Ropes, I mean, he's soaking it in. How many standing o's has he gotten so far? So, yes, this is his moment, this was his signature. This is probably we are watching his legacy play out in real time right now. So, yes, he is taking his time and you.
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Speaker 2: Can see good energy. Look, he's pointing to people in the audience. He's clearly going off his remarks. That's nothing new. But there's an energy and a life to him, and a bounce and a pep in his step. And why not he should be How can you not? No matter where you are, give him the administration credit for laser focusing on ending this. And it's happened, and all these hostages.
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Speaker 1: Are at it's remarkable. It's been remarkable to watch. He was schedule to only be on the ground there in Israel for about four hours, so he's dueing Egypt next, but who knows when that will happen, because yeah, he is still at the podium, and yes, you can just see in his gestures, in his face he is enjoying this moment.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll keep an eye on that. We want to continue our run though. Back here at home and today, some are celebrating Columbus Day, others are commemorating Indigenous People's Day. Only one, however, is a federal holiday. Of course, we're talking about Columbus Day, and it is probably Robes the most fiercely debated of our federal holiday.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably a fair statement. Plenty of people Italians in particular, would like to honor Columbus as a master navigator and explorer who, will put it in quotes, discovered America. His landing, we can say for sure opened up trade and a cultural exchange that certainly paved the way for a modern USA. That's what we were at least taught in school. But there's been more of as in recent decades over his legacy that many say should include the atrocities committed by Columbus, including the enslavement of indigenous peoples.
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Speaker 2: President Biden, though, was the first president to recognize Indigenous People's Day in twenty twenty one with a proclamation. But it's not a federal holiday, though. You do have about twenty states who have their own Indigenous People's Day. But Columbus Day is recognized on the second Monday of October each year. A little history. You might not know, and you might not believe this, but Columbus Day came about because of a mass lynching in Louisiana. I had not heard this story.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know this, nor had I at all. So in eighteen ninety one, during a time of heightened anti immigrant sentiment in the United States. Wow, history does repeat itself, doesn't it. Eleven Italian immigrants were killed by a lynch mob in New Orleans. Fearing the killings would harm US Italy relations, present and Benjamin Harrison commemorated Christopher Columbus Day the following year as a way to literally smooth things over with Italians. But it was.
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Speaker 2: Supposed to just be a one off thing one year on a big anniversary. But the annual celebration kept going in local communities across the country. They started doing their own thing, and then President Franklin Roosevelt declared that a federal holiday starting in October of nineteen forty three. But it was you jumped on it immediately. It was anti immigrant sentiment that led to the lynching of Italians in New Orleans.
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Speaker 1: This is why history is so important to know and to understand, because it does repeat itself, does it not? If and when we're not paying attention all? Right? Next up on the run, President Trump signed Columbus Day Proclamation, making it very clear where he stands on any Columbus Day debate. Let me guess of the proclamation calls Columbus the original American hero and a giant of Western civilization and one of the most gallant and visionary men to ever walk the face of the earth. We quoted the depression the proclamation.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so the proclamation goes on to say that, quote, we pledged to reclaim his extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue from the left wing arsonists who have sought to destroy his name and dishonor his memory. Again directly from the proclamation, and one more of a good measure, it says, quote, our nation will now abide by a simple truth. Christopher Columbus was a true American hero, and every citizen is eternally indebted to his relentless determination.
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Speaker 1: All right, Quote, it looks like Columbus Day is gonna stick around for a few more years.
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Speaker 2: Little and always. They didn't teach me this in school either, or was I not paying attention that day. He never made it to modern day United States of America. Never.
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Speaker 1: I learned that later in life. Yes, yes, the West Indies, right, that's where he ended up, stopped in.
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Speaker 2: The Bahamas and then did some island happens.
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Speaker 1: That's what I would have done, all right, next up on. That's a good place to be today. Other than anywhere in the Northeast. It's a weather alert day for millions of Americans. A massive nor'easter is making its way up the eastern coast. New Jersey issued a state of emergency. New York Governor Kathy Hockel declared a state of emergency for eight New York counties that includes right where we are here in New York City.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, speaking of Columbus Day, the big parade here in Manhattan has been canceled. Eighty first annual parade. Did you say. It's been canceled before, but never for weather.
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Speaker 1: The only other time it was canceled was for the pandemic. So this is definitely the first time it's been canceled for a weather related issue.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And they can't mess around with the wind here in the city. They will cancel anything you can't have in this city. Things blowing around, people walking on the street all the time. There are travel delays up and down the East Coast as damaging winds, heavy rain, and coastal flooding continue throughout the day today Sunday, there were several weather rescues in both South and North Carolina after nearly ten inches of rain fell in twenty four hours, and then wind gusts up to sixty miles per hour have been tracked from North Carolina to New Jersey and that's supposed to continue to spread north.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they say. Here in Manhattan we could see wind gusts up to sixty miles per hour, and there is serious concern regarding dangerous coastal flooding level. Water levels are reaching highs not seen in more than a decade. They're actually going back to Superstorm Sandy and saying they think some of the water levels will go up past where they reached then. So there is real concern. If you're planning on flying in or out of the Northeast today, be prepared for some major issues. There have been ground delays in place since last night at Boston Logan, New York Area Airport, So it's going to be a tough, tough travel. Tank.
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Speaker 2: You get everybody's attention up here when you say something compared in any way to Superstorm Sandy. Yes, you'll get everybody's attention, all right. Continuing on the run on this Monday morning, now we are on day thirteen of the government shut down Day fourteen is a pretty safe bet. There are no votes planned today on Capitol Hill on any bill they could possibly end the shutdown. Yes, it's they're taking time for the holidays, though they get an extra day to let cooler heads prevail.
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Speaker 1: Sure, I'm sure that'll work. But the finger pointing continued over the weekend, both sides blaming each other, all the while hoping that the American people blamed the other party. Meanwhile, the so called reduction enforce is underway. Thousands of government workers are starting to receive layoff notices.
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Speaker 2: And get this, the Smithsonian is now closed, all museums, research centers, even the National Zoo. They had been able to stay open for the first week or so the shutdown by using leftover front funds from the previous year, but now that has run out, so it's all shut down for now.
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Speaker 1: Wow. All right? Next up on the run, no arrest yet after a mass shooting this weekend in South Carolina at a crowded bar.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, four killed and twenty others injured last night. Place was called Willie's Bar and Grilled on Saint Helena Island. The bar was packed for a high school reunion event. And there have been the nos arrests made yet in this case.
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Speaker 1: And speaking of reunions of sort. Next up on the Run, we're going to head to Mississippi, where at least nine people were killed in five separate shootings across the state in just twenty four hours. It was a big homecoming weekend, so these shootings broke out in three towns from Friday night into Saturday. Many out there celebrating high school homecoming football games. There was some college homecoming football games. I mean, it's really just incredibly sad.
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Speaker 2: So two of the shootings here OJI reference happened on public high school campuses that were hosting games. But the deadliest happened when six people were killed in the town of Leland when a large crowd was celebrating homecoming weekend on main Street. Two other shootings happened at Alcorn State and at Jackson State University events. There, a child was hit by gunfire near a tailgate section. The child is now recovering in the hospital.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, in addition to the weekends death told, ten others were hospitalized with the shootings, and of the five shootings, there have only been three arrests in two of the crime so authorities are urging anyone with information on any of the other shootings. They said this to quote, speak up, share, give us that opportunity to get these subjects off the street and bring peace and tranquility to our community.
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Speaker 2: All right, next leg of our run takes us to Tennessee, where we had a sad update over the weekend. They have confirmed there are no survivors after a massive explosion at an ammunition plant over the weekend. Sixteen people were killed in that blast that has rocked the small Tennessee community. It is about sixty miles from Nashville.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the sheriffs has actually made nationally just it's been so gutting to watch his tearful updates about just They had hope that they could find someone alive inside. They did not, and right now they have no idea what caused the explosion that leveled an entire building in the complex. Some of the debris from the blast has been found as far as two miles away. The plan is operated by Accurate Energetic Systems. It's a company that produces explosives for the US military. But certainly a sad day there in that rural Tennessee area.
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Speaker 2: All right, stay with us. We will continue here on this Monday morning run when we come back. What does it say about you that your employer wants you out of there so bad that they're willing to pay forty nine million dollars just to get rid of you. Also, it is Robos, one of her two probably yeah, favorite movies of all time, and it stars Mith Diane Keaton. The sad news, of course, that she has passed. We'll take a look back at what she has meant to us. All all right, folks, continuing now on this Monday morning run, we can tell you that since we've been recording here, the President finally did wrap his speech and I got off the stage. They're supposed to be heading to Egypt next, but they were treating him like a rock star down there, people pulling, trying to get selfies. I mean, these are members of the Israeli parliament down there, like treating them like he's a superstar, and I guess he is. Contellue me though, on the run here Penn State they got money to be because Penn State is paying forty nine million dollars to get rid of their coach, Yes, head coach James Franklin was fired this weekend after pretty disastrous three game losing streak. But even though they fired him, they still have to pay him.
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Speaker 1: Yes, his buyout amount is the aforementioned forty nine million dollars and that is the second highest buyout in college football history.
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Speaker 2: Remember Jimbo Fisher Texas A and M few years ago. Yes, he got seventy six million to leave. Seventy six million. That's too much money.
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Speaker 1: That is incredible to leave. Yeah. So Franklin, by the way, you know, the one who just got fired for forty nine million. He had Penn State in the college playoffs last year, made it all the way to the national semifinals. But you know, three embarrassing losses and they're cutting their losses.
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Speaker 2: Oh. Janet Jackson said it best. What have you done for me lately?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Right, I guess that's people don't have very forgiving. No, it's called football, baby, Yeah, you're right.
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Speaker 2: All right. So continuing now and the final leg of our run, beloved Oscar winning actress Diane Keaton has passed away at the age of seventy nine. Now we don't know a cause of death, but emergency crews were called to her la home early Saturday morning.
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Speaker 1: According to a nine to one one call, a person was down at the home and needed medical attention. The NPR headline quirky leading lady, you know, And is that right? She was quirky. She looked from she was. She was so uniquely her own person. She didn't subscribe to anyone else's style. Her acting was effortless and genuine. I mean, she just was her own person. And yes she played characters, but she brought her own sense to all of them, where there was just a loving part of everyone she played. I can't say enough good things about her. She won an Oscar in nineteen seventy seven for her role in Annie Hall. And that's that was kind of like her her fashion statement in almost everything she did and played in all of her roles later, she was always that Annie Hall kind of look to her. I loved like a men's wear just cool. Oh, I love, love, love Diane Keaton. But she was in Red Something's gotta give Marvin's Room. Nominated for Oscars.
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Speaker 2: In all of that, I didn't realize she had such a.
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Speaker 1: Yes the Godfather, I mean, I know you loved her in that.
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Speaker 2: She now you talk about the effortless, there's some charm, there's an every woman thing to her that just works. She was supposed, I mean she was up against gangsters in that. I mean some big time I mean Pacino for goutys say, I mean some big, strong guy. She held her own in a she was strong, but yet very quiet in her approach. Yeah, she was fantastic in those movies.
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Speaker 1: She really was. And then Father of the Bride. Baby Boom is yes, my all time right up there with overboard favorite favorite favorite movie. No one ever mentions it, but I am telling you, especially this time of year in the fall, it's one of my favorite movies. I can't even tell you how many times I've seen it. My girls know that it is like our go to movie, feel good movie. I'm feeling down, I put on Baby Boom. And you know what's interesting. She played you know, obviously Father of the Bride, she was so great in that, But she played a wife. She played a love interest in so many of these movies, and yet never and she chose never to be married. Her private life was very private. She adopted two children in her fifties. So it's just she had a remarkable, unique existence at a time where that women weren't allowed to not be wives or to choose not to give birth. She was all of those things and never questioned for them. She just she forged a path and never never apologized for any of it.
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Speaker 2: Oh she is. She had her own style. But I just that word quirky what you could almost take it as offensive just in some In some ways, it was an offensive at all, And I thought it was the most accurate thing I could come up with to describe her. She was unique in some way. Even though she dressed, she had the same smile on a face, always wearing a hat.
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Speaker 1: Usually she's consistent. Love. I put her on a.
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Speaker 2: Nette Benning and in that lane of just elegance and beauty and simplicity and aging gracefully.
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Speaker 1: There's a quiet confidence about her. Right. She wasn't shouting anything from the rooftop. She didn't have to prove anything to anybody, and yet she was an incredible actress, and yet we all loved her. I love what you said, charm. She just had a charm about her and a warmth about her. And she will be sorely and sadly missed. But I think we should watch some of her movies today. I know a lot of people have been doing that over the weekend, and so yes, sweet Godfather, Yes, as long as baby Boom is right afterwards. All right with that, everyone? Thank you? Oh no, you know what, I was so enraptured by talking about one of my favorite actresses that I absolutely forgot to do our quote of the day. You know what, I should have picked a Diane Keaton quote. Well, I missed it on that one, but this is the one I chose for the day. You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are. Now blame is that what we do. We blame our parents, we blame our exes, we blame our bosses, boss our kids. That's why I'm mad. That's why I'm angry, That's why I'm resentful. That's why I never amounted to anything. All of that. We blame everyone but ourselves.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I always get any time it comes up in the house, I said, I can't make you anything. You make me mad, you make me happy, you make me Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well you can have. People can make you feel something, but you can choose how you react to it.
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Speaker 2: Right there it is was the quote again.
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Speaker 1: You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.
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Speaker 2: Because then they would be responsible for who you're going to be later you put in somebody else's hands. Yeah, okay, now I get it.
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Speaker 1: You know what I feel like. Even though I missed, I miss an opportunity to quote Diane Keaton, I feel like she never fell trapped to this. She became exactly who she wanted to be. And I think we can all follow suit, all right, And with that now, thank you for writing with us. Everyone. I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. Have a good Columbus slash Indigenous People's Day. We'll talk to y Elson