March 2, 2026
Morning Run: U.S. Fighter Jets Downed, First American Deaths, Austin Mass Shooting, Cincinnati Mass Shooting, Michael Jordan 3-Peat, ‘Sinners’ Wins Big and ‘Scream 7’ Dominates
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Monday, March second. I'm Amy Robot and on TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes, and we want to get you right to some updates. We are actually just getting in the past several minutes before recording this. We are on this run, going to make stops in several places, Austin, Greenville, South Carolina, Boulder, Los Angeles, and even in Woodsboro. But we need to start right now with a statement we're just getting from US Central Command. They are confirming that three US fighter jets were shot down in Kuwait by the Kuwaitis.
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Speaker 1: Yes, they are describing this as a friendly fire incident. The video is everywhere. It is dramatic, and the sitcom statement that just was released states that, Yes, three US F fifteen E Strike Eagles flying in support of Operation Epicuri went down over Kuwait due to an apparent friendly fire incident during active combat that included attacks from Iranian aircraft, ballistic missiles, and drones. The US Air Force fighter jets were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses. All six aircrew ejected safely have been safely recovered and are in stable condition. Kuwait has acknowledged this incident, and we are grateful for the efforts of the Kuwaiti defense forces and their support in this ongoing operation. They say the cause of the incident is under investigation and they will release additional information when it becomes available.
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Speaker 2: Good to hear. They're okay, this happens, we see it in war Rose. But those pictures this morning, we're awfully dramatic. Some of you may have seen them already, but you see, in particular one jet just falling flat in a spin, going down to the ground. Amazing. All of them, we're told, are stable. I'm going to be okay.
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Speaker 1: It is remarkable that they were able to eject safely in time.
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Speaker 2: I want to continue on the run now. The Pentagon also confirmed Sunday the first US military deaths in the war with Iran. They were killed in action, according to the Defense Department, and the New York Times is reporting they died after a US base in Kowait once again was attacked.
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Speaker 1: Now this all comes afterward this weekend that Aron Supreme Leader and dozens of other members of the Iranian leadership were killed in the US Israeli attacks. President Trump posted another address to social media late yesterday in which he promised America will avenge their deaths, but he also cautioned Americans that quote, sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is.
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Speaker 2: The President also mentioned, I just thought this was interesting ropes he said in his initial statement announcing that the war was on speaking to members of the Revolutionary Guard. Speaking to military members in Iran, put down your arms and give up, or face certain death, and you will have immunity, he said, doing these comments, they're calling by the thousands wanting to give up. Now, it seemed like it was an ad lib depart of his comments. But who are they calling? Where are they? He said, they're calling by the thousands, wanting to put down their arms and give up.
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Speaker 1: It's unclear what that actually means or is specifically referencing.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, President Trump and the remaining Iranian leadership don't seem to be on the same page about negotiating a way out of this war. The President commented during an interview Sunday that he's still ready and willing to talk to the Iranians.
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Speaker 1: But the Iranian security chief Ali Larjani suggests Iran is not ready and willing to talk, and I quote here, we will not negotiate with the United States. That's about as clear as it gets. And his statement was supposed to do his official X accounts, I.
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Speaker 2: Were going to continue on the run. This is still a ran war adjacent here. But a mass shooting in Austin happened on Sundays being investigated now is a possible act of terrorism. The shooting left two people dead, another fourteen in the hospital.
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Speaker 1: This all happened around two am at a bar in the heart of the downtown Austin. Party scene authority say this respect was circling the block several times before he eventually rolled down his window and fired on people who were partying on the outdoor patio.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and they never got out of his vehicle and that part of the shooting, but then drove to a parking lot nearby, got out of that vehicle with a rifle and started shooting people who were walking down the street. Now, this suspect was eventually shot and killed in a confrontation with police, identified as fifty three year old Indiaga Diagne. Someone at the hs so HHS Department of Homeland Security DHS, I should say, said came into this country in two thousand from Senegal, eventually married an American citizen, but has what did become a naturalized US citizen? Yes?
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Speaker 1: And next up on the run, another mass shooting in Cincinnati sent nine people to the hospital, but authorities say those nine, thankfully do not have life threatening injuries.
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Speaker 2: This also early morning hour Sunday, at a crowded nightclub in the city's East End neighborhood. As of this recording, no sus and police have not identified a motive in this one.
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Speaker 1: All right. Next up on the run, our hearts are going out to the campus community at the University of Colorado. That school, and in particular, the football team, are mourning the death of quarterback Dominic Ponder.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the backup QB died in a single vehicle crash yesterday. Police say he was driving a Tesla Model three when he lost control. Some of the details they give a pretty horrific. This sounds like an awful crash. They do believe speed was involved, but hit a guard rail, hit a poll, then ended up down an embankment and the car caught on fire. It just sounds awful. But only one vehicle involved in this accident.
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Speaker 1: Wow, and Ponder was just twenty three years old. He was a transfer student who served Yes as backup quarterback. Coach Dion Sanders called him one of his favorites. Just an awful, awful story, an incredibly sad story out of Bolton.
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Speaker 2: And we always know how campus communities are impacted like this, to have a young person die so suddenly and just it's it's an awful one. And of course we if people don't know your daughter is a sophomore out there at Boulder now and we haven't talked to her about.
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Speaker 1: This year, she'll be waking up to this news and certainly this will be something that so many folks will be talking about. Look, you know, cars are the deadliest weapons we have in this country. If people talk about guns all the time, but yes, it's always so deeply concerning with cars and speed. So we certainly hope that people just slow down and realize how much it's important to just remember your safety when you're on the roads.
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Speaker 2: All right, next leg of our run will take us to South Carolina, Reverend Jesse Jackson getting a final farewell in the state where he was born. Jackson passed away February seventeenth at the age of eighty four. He's now going to lie in state at the South Carolina Capital today.
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Speaker 1: Yes, there have been events honoring his life that began last week in his hometown of Chicago. That's, of course, also the hometown of his Rainbow Push coalition. After South Carolina, Jesse Jackson will return to Chicago for a memorial service and that'll be the big one where we will see so many people showing up there to honor the life and legacy of Jesse Jackson. All right, Next up on the run, Michael Jordan just pulled off another three peat of sorts and has made NASCAR history. Jordan's race team and in particular, his driver, Tyler Reddick, has now won the first three races of the NASCAR season.
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Speaker 2: That has never happened before. This is not like a basketball team in the NBA. Hey, we won our first three games. No, no, no, this is a different beast. This has never happened before. He won the Circle of the America's race in Austin yesterday, just the week after winning in Atlanta, and before that the big one, he won the season opening Daytona five hundred, and you know Tyler Reddick's name, not because necessarily of the driver he is, but the controversy, I guess we should say after that whole video with Michael Jordan's celebrating with his son after the Daytona five hundred just gave.
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Speaker 1: Him a little tug on a shorts, little pat on the back, whatever you want to call it. I'm glad that controversy went away pretty quickly.
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Speaker 2: And there's a cool picture everybody will remember Michael Jordan in his first three He's sitting by himself with the NBA trophy, championship trophy, and he's putting up three fingers after a three pete. Tyler Redick is holding the trophy and putting up three fingers, and they put those two images next to each other. It's kind of cool.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's just remarkable for Michael Jordan to have had the career he's had and now, yes, just still winning.
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Speaker 2: It's what he does, all right, folks, Well, stay with us here on this Monday morning run. When we come back a wonderful and deserved honor for Catherine O'Hara last night, we'll explain what happened there. Also explain what happened when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo get back on a stage at an award show. Hope it went different this time. And we'll tell you what we spent money on this weekend. We put our money on a big winner at the box office.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to this Monday morning run. And it was a bittersweet moment. Last night in Los Angeles, Trind O'Hara posthumously won a Best Actress Award at the thirty second Annual Acting Awards. We say the thirty second Annual Acting Awards. It also used to be called the Screen Actor Guild Awards. Why do they change it the SAG Awards. It's just we all know that.
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Speaker 2: I really don't know. Was it a marketing thing? Was it a branding thing? Screen Actors Guild? Maybe people don't know what that is, but the Acting Awards sounds so.
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Speaker 1: General, yes, and people know what SAG is like the SAG Awards anyway. O'Hara was honored for her role in Apple TV's The Studio.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to finish watching these episodes. We just got going late to the party. Yes, all right, but immediately she is the star of the show. You just can't help it. You don't take your eyes off of her in this show. But Seth Rogan, who created the show, accepted on her behalf and in a touching speech, encourage people who might have people in their lives that don't know about her to have them watch one of her film. He actually mentioned like specific scenes from some of the movies, and he said, when they watched it, and as they're laughing, you say this to him, that's Katherine O'Hara. And we were lucky that we got to live in a world where she so generously shared her talents with us. It was a cool moment.
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Speaker 1: Listening to Seth Rogan talk about Catherine O'Hara reminded me of you. He talked about how yes, about how her brilliance and her just constant working mind. He said he didn't want to tell any other actress this because he didn't want them to get any ideas. But he said, literally after every rehearsal they would come back and she would have sent them an email saying for your consideration, and would have ways to rewrite her entire scene. And he said, in every damn time, it was better. It made the scene better, it made the show better, and he just said that was her brilliance. Literally, her mind was constantly on fire and she was constantly rewriting.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it reminded me of you. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: As soon as I read that, I got I got tearful, just remembering her brilliance, but also thinking of yours.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, great right to please. We will cut this out all. She is not in any way comparing talent of Hara to any possible semblance of talent I actually am.
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Speaker 1: But okay, next step on the run we stay in Hollywood at the Actors Awards.
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Speaker 2: That that's okay.
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Speaker 1: I guess that's what we're calling them. And it was a very different awards show one week later for Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindoor. Actor Michael B. Jordan and the Sinner's cast came out on top. In the final weeks before the Oscars.
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Speaker 2: Michael b named Best Actor for his dual roles as twin brothers in Sinners. He beat it out, He beat out, I mean the usual cast of characters, and we've seen all of these, Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothy Shallomey, Jesse Plemons, Ethan Hawke, and there was a couple of other names.
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Speaker 1: Again, those are the big ones, Yeah, saying who's the guy?
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry the foreign language film, I can't remember you.
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Speaker 1: I am never coming up with you.
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Speaker 2: That pulled off a couple of upsets. But again, this has been cool. But Michael B. Jordans said, the ride has been unbelievable. Thank you for welcoming me in and making me feel seen. Y'all know how I feel about y'all. Yeah, it was very sweet.
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Speaker 1: He gave. He paid homage to all the other actors in his category. He was very humble. It was a beautiful speech. And then when Sinners won Best Ensemble by the way up against the cast of One Battle after Another, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, Jordan's co star Delroy Lindo said making Sinners was an incredible journey. He said, every single day we brought ourselves, our hearts, our souls to this endeavor.
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Speaker 2: Just the day earlier at the NAACP Image Awards, Lindo made his first public comments since that whole in word controversy when the man with Turett shouted that out at him and Michael B. When they were on stage at the bafterwards, he said, quote, before we start, I'd like to officially say we appreciate, I appreciate, we appreciate all the support and the love that we have been shown in the aftermath of what happened last weekend, and was this. It means a lot to us, is an honor to be here amongst our people this evening. It's a classic case of something that could have been very negative becoming very positive.
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Speaker 1: I love that. And then he received a standing ovation. I just thought that was cool. They didn't say any thing in the aftermath, but he saved it for this moment, and it was so perfectly said.
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Speaker 2: It was a It was a nice moment. The NAACP Image Awards that we mentioned here happened as well. Uh And Dion Cole was a comedian who did that. At the top of the show, he acknowledged it. He was saying a prayer to the group, probably mostly black folks NAACP. He said, let us bow our heads in prayer. He said, please, if there are any white men in the audience with Tourette's, please Lord get to them. It's not going to go the way they think it's going to go. He made a funny comment.
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Speaker 1: Everybody last you know what, that's incredibly cool. Because they you know what it's it's it's Michael B. Jordan, it's del or Linda. Just for them to be able to celebrate the love that they felt versus that hateful word. That's pretty impressive and.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad they didn't. They didn't acknowledge the guy at all. Right, Nope, didn't because he didn't acknowledge them. Yep.
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Speaker 1: That seems about right.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I feel my heart rate going up again.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, how about this for the fun, I had a log of our run. We happily contributed our forty seven dollars to the ninety seven million dollar opening of Scream seven at the box.
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Speaker 2: Office, biggest in their franchise history. The opening this thirty years ago. Scream was thirty years ago the first one and thirty.
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Speaker 1: Seven movies later. Neph Campbell was a big draw.
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Speaker 2: Yes, because they lost the other two big stars, Barrera and she got fired for something she said about Palestine and then what was it. General Ortega was a part of the franchise as well. She's not back, So they brought back Nev Campbell and something worked. However, it didn't work on critics. It has actually pretty awful reviews in the thirties on Rotten Tomatoes, I believe.
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Speaker 1: But audience review is high up there, seventy.
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Speaker 2: Eight percent or so. So Ghosts Phase, No matter what, has proved to be an enduring big screen killer. Ninety seven million dollars in the opening. I think thirty of that came from overseas. But yeah, we went and checked it out. We see what the critics mean about the criticism, but it is you.
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Speaker 1: Know what, you know what you're getting, and I think that's why we went into it, even with the bad reviews, saying, you know what, we get the formula, we get the franchise. And I even said this, look, the acting was amazing. It wasn't scary. I mean, you kind of know, but I thought the first five minutes were wildly entertaining, and every single actor who was a part of that movie was phenomenal.
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Speaker 2: No offense to anybody else, But this might have been the best ensemble cast in a Scream seven this and in a Scream movie this might have been true. I'm trying to think, to some others, this might These were talented folks, and hey, even if the script wasn't a plus plus, the acting was.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that is very, very true.
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Speaker 2: All right, our quote no offense to the scriptwriter.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think we've gotten used to horror has now taken is elevated. They had so many movies like even Sinners. Let's talk about that, just taking the genre of horror and making it. It's not just some throwaway script.
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Speaker 2: These are weapons.
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Speaker 1: Yes, interesting, edge of your seat, what's going to happen next? Throwing in all sorts of you know, just really incredible twist and turns.
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Speaker 2: It had.
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Speaker 1: The game has been it has been increased since streams started thirty years ago.
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Speaker 2: Every once in a while, you know, a palate cleanser, a white woman running through the forest and tripping over the one log, you know what. I like that, Every once in a while.
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Speaker 1: You still it was a palate cleanser. I appreciate that, all right. With all of this crazy news out there, I saw this on Instagram actually yesterday, and it made my shoulders just actually fall down, And so I wanted to have this as our quote of the day on this Monday, with all that's taken place over the weekend. Don't forget to imagine the best case scenario too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a I love that.
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Speaker 1: I felt like we need this quote in our lives today. Everyone, I know, we all get it's overwhelming. It's scary. We've got terror threats and heightened alerts, and we're at war and Americans are dying and people around the world are dying, and it's just we see f sixteens falling out of the sky. This is scary stuff. Don't forget to imagine the best case scenario too. It's important, there is hope, there is positivity in the.
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Speaker 2: World's It took me a little while and it takes a little training. But how many times in your life you say, oh, okay, I gotta prepare for the worst case scenario. I got to prepare for the worst, all right, the worst case scenario, worst case. We barely ever stop and think, okay, what if this does work out?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think so I'll take I'll say this. Sometimes we think we don't want to jinx it right. Somehow we get superstitious. But that is a silly notion. Gabby Verston. We love to mention her at least once a week. But this whole notion of manifesting things good in your life.
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Speaker 2: So yes, let's focus.
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Speaker 1: If we're going to have our energy or our thoughts consumed with something. Let's imagine the best case scenario. Let's imagine it all working out.
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Speaker 2: All right, Today's going to work out. I like that.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate that one to day in all right, And with that, everyone, thank you for running with us. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. Again, look for a number of updates here in our feed. Today. Will be updating you here shortly expecting a Pentagon press briefing this morning. After we listen to that, a lot of news likely going to come out. You can look for another update from us on our feed here, but we always appreciate you running with us. I'm TJ. Holmes, and we will talk Y'allso did you say your name?
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Speaker 1: I did already.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, y'all know who she is. I'm TJ. See y'all ser
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Monday, March second. I'm Amy Robot and on TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes, and we want to get you right to some updates. We are actually just getting in the past several minutes before recording this. We are on this run, going to make stops in several places, Austin, Greenville, South Carolina, Boulder, Los Angeles, and even in Woodsboro. But we need to start right now with a statement we're just getting from US Central Command. They are confirming that three US fighter jets were shot down in Kuwait by the Kuwaitis.
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Speaker 1: Yes, they are describing this as a friendly fire incident. The video is everywhere. It is dramatic, and the sitcom statement that just was released states that, Yes, three US F fifteen E Strike Eagles flying in support of Operation Epicuri went down over Kuwait due to an apparent friendly fire incident during active combat that included attacks from Iranian aircraft, ballistic missiles, and drones. The US Air Force fighter jets were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses. All six aircrew ejected safely have been safely recovered and are in stable condition. Kuwait has acknowledged this incident, and we are grateful for the efforts of the Kuwaiti defense forces and their support in this ongoing operation. They say the cause of the incident is under investigation and they will release additional information when it becomes available.
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Speaker 2: Good to hear. They're okay, this happens, we see it in war Rose. But those pictures this morning, we're awfully dramatic. Some of you may have seen them already, but you see, in particular one jet just falling flat in a spin, going down to the ground. Amazing. All of them, we're told, are stable. I'm going to be okay.
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Speaker 1: It is remarkable that they were able to eject safely in time.
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Speaker 2: I want to continue on the run now. The Pentagon also confirmed Sunday the first US military deaths in the war with Iran. They were killed in action, according to the Defense Department, and the New York Times is reporting they died after a US base in Kowait once again was attacked.
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Speaker 1: Now this all comes afterward this weekend that Aron Supreme Leader and dozens of other members of the Iranian leadership were killed in the US Israeli attacks. President Trump posted another address to social media late yesterday in which he promised America will avenge their deaths, but he also cautioned Americans that quote, sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is.
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Speaker 2: The President also mentioned, I just thought this was interesting ropes he said in his initial statement announcing that the war was on speaking to members of the Revolutionary Guard. Speaking to military members in Iran, put down your arms and give up, or face certain death, and you will have immunity, he said, doing these comments, they're calling by the thousands wanting to give up. Now, it seemed like it was an ad lib depart of his comments. But who are they calling? Where are they? He said, they're calling by the thousands, wanting to put down their arms and give up.
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Speaker 1: It's unclear what that actually means or is specifically referencing.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, President Trump and the remaining Iranian leadership don't seem to be on the same page about negotiating a way out of this war. The President commented during an interview Sunday that he's still ready and willing to talk to the Iranians.
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Speaker 1: But the Iranian security chief Ali Larjani suggests Iran is not ready and willing to talk, and I quote here, we will not negotiate with the United States. That's about as clear as it gets. And his statement was supposed to do his official X accounts, I.
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Speaker 2: Were going to continue on the run. This is still a ran war adjacent here. But a mass shooting in Austin happened on Sundays being investigated now is a possible act of terrorism. The shooting left two people dead, another fourteen in the hospital.
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Speaker 1: This all happened around two am at a bar in the heart of the downtown Austin. Party scene authority say this respect was circling the block several times before he eventually rolled down his window and fired on people who were partying on the outdoor patio.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and they never got out of his vehicle and that part of the shooting, but then drove to a parking lot nearby, got out of that vehicle with a rifle and started shooting people who were walking down the street. Now, this suspect was eventually shot and killed in a confrontation with police, identified as fifty three year old Indiaga Diagne. Someone at the hs so HHS Department of Homeland Security DHS, I should say, said came into this country in two thousand from Senegal, eventually married an American citizen, but has what did become a naturalized US citizen? Yes?
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Speaker 1: And next up on the run, another mass shooting in Cincinnati sent nine people to the hospital, but authorities say those nine, thankfully do not have life threatening injuries.
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Speaker 2: This also early morning hour Sunday, at a crowded nightclub in the city's East End neighborhood. As of this recording, no sus and police have not identified a motive in this one.
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Speaker 1: All right. Next up on the run, our hearts are going out to the campus community at the University of Colorado. That school, and in particular, the football team, are mourning the death of quarterback Dominic Ponder.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the backup QB died in a single vehicle crash yesterday. Police say he was driving a Tesla Model three when he lost control. Some of the details they give a pretty horrific. This sounds like an awful crash. They do believe speed was involved, but hit a guard rail, hit a poll, then ended up down an embankment and the car caught on fire. It just sounds awful. But only one vehicle involved in this accident.
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Speaker 1: Wow, and Ponder was just twenty three years old. He was a transfer student who served Yes as backup quarterback. Coach Dion Sanders called him one of his favorites. Just an awful, awful story, an incredibly sad story out of Bolton.
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Speaker 2: And we always know how campus communities are impacted like this, to have a young person die so suddenly and just it's it's an awful one. And of course we if people don't know your daughter is a sophomore out there at Boulder now and we haven't talked to her about.
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Speaker 1: This year, she'll be waking up to this news and certainly this will be something that so many folks will be talking about. Look, you know, cars are the deadliest weapons we have in this country. If people talk about guns all the time, but yes, it's always so deeply concerning with cars and speed. So we certainly hope that people just slow down and realize how much it's important to just remember your safety when you're on the roads.
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Speaker 2: All right, next leg of our run will take us to South Carolina, Reverend Jesse Jackson getting a final farewell in the state where he was born. Jackson passed away February seventeenth at the age of eighty four. He's now going to lie in state at the South Carolina Capital today.
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Speaker 1: Yes, there have been events honoring his life that began last week in his hometown of Chicago. That's, of course, also the hometown of his Rainbow Push coalition. After South Carolina, Jesse Jackson will return to Chicago for a memorial service and that'll be the big one where we will see so many people showing up there to honor the life and legacy of Jesse Jackson. All right, Next up on the run, Michael Jordan just pulled off another three peat of sorts and has made NASCAR history. Jordan's race team and in particular, his driver, Tyler Reddick, has now won the first three races of the NASCAR season.
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Speaker 2: That has never happened before. This is not like a basketball team in the NBA. Hey, we won our first three games. No, no, no, this is a different beast. This has never happened before. He won the Circle of the America's race in Austin yesterday, just the week after winning in Atlanta, and before that the big one, he won the season opening Daytona five hundred, and you know Tyler Reddick's name, not because necessarily of the driver he is, but the controversy, I guess we should say after that whole video with Michael Jordan's celebrating with his son after the Daytona five hundred just gave.
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Speaker 1: Him a little tug on a shorts, little pat on the back, whatever you want to call it. I'm glad that controversy went away pretty quickly.
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Speaker 2: And there's a cool picture everybody will remember Michael Jordan in his first three He's sitting by himself with the NBA trophy, championship trophy, and he's putting up three fingers after a three pete. Tyler Redick is holding the trophy and putting up three fingers, and they put those two images next to each other. It's kind of cool.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's just remarkable for Michael Jordan to have had the career he's had and now, yes, just still winning.
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Speaker 2: It's what he does, all right, folks, Well, stay with us here on this Monday morning run. When we come back a wonderful and deserved honor for Catherine O'Hara last night, we'll explain what happened there. Also explain what happened when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo get back on a stage at an award show. Hope it went different this time. And we'll tell you what we spent money on this weekend. We put our money on a big winner at the box office.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to this Monday morning run. And it was a bittersweet moment. Last night in Los Angeles, Trind O'Hara posthumously won a Best Actress Award at the thirty second Annual Acting Awards. We say the thirty second Annual Acting Awards. It also used to be called the Screen Actor Guild Awards. Why do they change it the SAG Awards. It's just we all know that.
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Speaker 2: I really don't know. Was it a marketing thing? Was it a branding thing? Screen Actors Guild? Maybe people don't know what that is, but the Acting Awards sounds so.
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Speaker 1: General, yes, and people know what SAG is like the SAG Awards anyway. O'Hara was honored for her role in Apple TV's The Studio.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to finish watching these episodes. We just got going late to the party. Yes, all right, but immediately she is the star of the show. You just can't help it. You don't take your eyes off of her in this show. But Seth Rogan, who created the show, accepted on her behalf and in a touching speech, encourage people who might have people in their lives that don't know about her to have them watch one of her film. He actually mentioned like specific scenes from some of the movies, and he said, when they watched it, and as they're laughing, you say this to him, that's Katherine O'Hara. And we were lucky that we got to live in a world where she so generously shared her talents with us. It was a cool moment.
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Speaker 1: Listening to Seth Rogan talk about Catherine O'Hara reminded me of you. He talked about how yes, about how her brilliance and her just constant working mind. He said he didn't want to tell any other actress this because he didn't want them to get any ideas. But he said, literally after every rehearsal they would come back and she would have sent them an email saying for your consideration, and would have ways to rewrite her entire scene. And he said, in every damn time, it was better. It made the scene better, it made the show better, and he just said that was her brilliance. Literally, her mind was constantly on fire and she was constantly rewriting.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it reminded me of you. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: As soon as I read that, I got I got tearful, just remembering her brilliance, but also thinking of yours.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, great right to please. We will cut this out all. She is not in any way comparing talent of Hara to any possible semblance of talent I actually am.
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Speaker 1: But okay, next step on the run we stay in Hollywood at the Actors Awards.
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Speaker 2: That that's okay.
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Speaker 1: I guess that's what we're calling them. And it was a very different awards show one week later for Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindoor. Actor Michael B. Jordan and the Sinner's cast came out on top. In the final weeks before the Oscars.
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Speaker 2: Michael b named Best Actor for his dual roles as twin brothers in Sinners. He beat it out, He beat out, I mean the usual cast of characters, and we've seen all of these, Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothy Shallomey, Jesse Plemons, Ethan Hawke, and there was a couple of other names.
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Speaker 1: Again, those are the big ones, Yeah, saying who's the guy?
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry the foreign language film, I can't remember you.
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Speaker 1: I am never coming up with you.
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Speaker 2: That pulled off a couple of upsets. But again, this has been cool. But Michael B. Jordans said, the ride has been unbelievable. Thank you for welcoming me in and making me feel seen. Y'all know how I feel about y'all. Yeah, it was very sweet.
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Speaker 1: He gave. He paid homage to all the other actors in his category. He was very humble. It was a beautiful speech. And then when Sinners won Best Ensemble by the way up against the cast of One Battle after Another, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, Jordan's co star Delroy Lindo said making Sinners was an incredible journey. He said, every single day we brought ourselves, our hearts, our souls to this endeavor.
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Speaker 2: Just the day earlier at the NAACP Image Awards, Lindo made his first public comments since that whole in word controversy when the man with Turett shouted that out at him and Michael B. When they were on stage at the bafterwards, he said, quote, before we start, I'd like to officially say we appreciate, I appreciate, we appreciate all the support and the love that we have been shown in the aftermath of what happened last weekend, and was this. It means a lot to us, is an honor to be here amongst our people this evening. It's a classic case of something that could have been very negative becoming very positive.
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Speaker 1: I love that. And then he received a standing ovation. I just thought that was cool. They didn't say any thing in the aftermath, but he saved it for this moment, and it was so perfectly said.
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Speaker 2: It was a It was a nice moment. The NAACP Image Awards that we mentioned here happened as well. Uh And Dion Cole was a comedian who did that. At the top of the show, he acknowledged it. He was saying a prayer to the group, probably mostly black folks NAACP. He said, let us bow our heads in prayer. He said, please, if there are any white men in the audience with Tourette's, please Lord get to them. It's not going to go the way they think it's going to go. He made a funny comment.
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Speaker 1: Everybody last you know what, that's incredibly cool. Because they you know what it's it's it's Michael B. Jordan, it's del or Linda. Just for them to be able to celebrate the love that they felt versus that hateful word. That's pretty impressive and.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad they didn't. They didn't acknowledge the guy at all. Right, Nope, didn't because he didn't acknowledge them. Yep.
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Speaker 1: That seems about right.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I feel my heart rate going up again.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, how about this for the fun, I had a log of our run. We happily contributed our forty seven dollars to the ninety seven million dollar opening of Scream seven at the box.
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Speaker 2: Office, biggest in their franchise history. The opening this thirty years ago. Scream was thirty years ago the first one and thirty.
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Speaker 1: Seven movies later. Neph Campbell was a big draw.
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Speaker 2: Yes, because they lost the other two big stars, Barrera and she got fired for something she said about Palestine and then what was it. General Ortega was a part of the franchise as well. She's not back, So they brought back Nev Campbell and something worked. However, it didn't work on critics. It has actually pretty awful reviews in the thirties on Rotten Tomatoes, I believe.
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Speaker 1: But audience review is high up there, seventy.
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Speaker 2: Eight percent or so. So Ghosts Phase, No matter what, has proved to be an enduring big screen killer. Ninety seven million dollars in the opening. I think thirty of that came from overseas. But yeah, we went and checked it out. We see what the critics mean about the criticism, but it is you.
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Speaker 1: Know what, you know what you're getting, and I think that's why we went into it, even with the bad reviews, saying, you know what, we get the formula, we get the franchise. And I even said this, look, the acting was amazing. It wasn't scary. I mean, you kind of know, but I thought the first five minutes were wildly entertaining, and every single actor who was a part of that movie was phenomenal.
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Speaker 2: No offense to anybody else, But this might have been the best ensemble cast in a Scream seven this and in a Scream movie this might have been true. I'm trying to think, to some others, this might These were talented folks, and hey, even if the script wasn't a plus plus, the acting was.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that is very, very true.
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Speaker 2: All right, our quote no offense to the scriptwriter.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think we've gotten used to horror has now taken is elevated. They had so many movies like even Sinners. Let's talk about that, just taking the genre of horror and making it. It's not just some throwaway script.
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Speaker 2: These are weapons.
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Speaker 1: Yes, interesting, edge of your seat, what's going to happen next? Throwing in all sorts of you know, just really incredible twist and turns.
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Speaker 2: It had.
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Speaker 1: The game has been it has been increased since streams started thirty years ago.
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Speaker 2: Every once in a while, you know, a palate cleanser, a white woman running through the forest and tripping over the one log, you know what. I like that, Every once in a while.
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Speaker 1: You still it was a palate cleanser. I appreciate that, all right. With all of this crazy news out there, I saw this on Instagram actually yesterday, and it made my shoulders just actually fall down, And so I wanted to have this as our quote of the day on this Monday, with all that's taken place over the weekend. Don't forget to imagine the best case scenario too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a I love that.
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Speaker 1: I felt like we need this quote in our lives today. Everyone, I know, we all get it's overwhelming. It's scary. We've got terror threats and heightened alerts, and we're at war and Americans are dying and people around the world are dying, and it's just we see f sixteens falling out of the sky. This is scary stuff. Don't forget to imagine the best case scenario too. It's important, there is hope, there is positivity in the.
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Speaker 2: World's It took me a little while and it takes a little training. But how many times in your life you say, oh, okay, I gotta prepare for the worst case scenario. I got to prepare for the worst, all right, the worst case scenario, worst case. We barely ever stop and think, okay, what if this does work out?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think so I'll take I'll say this. Sometimes we think we don't want to jinx it right. Somehow we get superstitious. But that is a silly notion. Gabby Verston. We love to mention her at least once a week. But this whole notion of manifesting things good in your life.
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Speaker 2: So yes, let's focus.
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Speaker 1: If we're going to have our energy or our thoughts consumed with something. Let's imagine the best case scenario. Let's imagine it all working out.
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Speaker 2: All right, Today's going to work out. I like that.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate that one to day in all right, And with that, everyone, thank you for running with us. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. Again, look for a number of updates here in our feed. Today. Will be updating you here shortly expecting a Pentagon press briefing this morning. After we listen to that, a lot of news likely going to come out. You can look for another update from us on our feed here, but we always appreciate you running with us. I'm TJ. Holmes, and we will talk Y'allso did you say your name?
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Speaker 1: I did already.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, y'all know who she is. I'm TJ. See y'all ser