Jan. 2, 2026
Morning/Afternoon Run: Swiss NYE Fire, Trump Threatens Iran, Mountain Lion Kills Hiker, Will Smith Lawsuit, Kennedy Center Ratings, Stranger Things Finale and Trump Vs Clooney
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Welcome everyone to Morning Run, but a little afternoon edition for some.
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Speaker 2: It'll still be morning for others.
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Speaker 1: But it's Friday, January second. We all had a crazy New Years so yeah, a little later start, but wanted to make sure we hit you with some headlines today.
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Speaker 3: I'm Amy Roboch and I'm TJ Holmes. Yes, just wanted to get on record with a few things here. I had a couple of pretty significant updates on a number of stories, ranging from a breaking news story, tragedy to even some pretty big entertainment headlines that we'll get into. But yeah, I just wanted to say, I guess this is our first run of twenty twenty six, so wow, this is how we're starting. Late, Late and lazy is how it's going. But we will pick it up throughout the year, we promised, But let's start robes. I just made a lot of headlines. Of course, a lot of us were doing this. We were at New Year's Eve celebrations and folks, if you haven't seen the news out of Switzerland, there was a ski resort fire that happened, yes, during a New Year's Eve party and we've gotten word ropes that the death toll is up to forty, but also getting worried about how they think this thing started.
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Speaker 1: It is, Oh my goodness, this is just a devastating story. Forty people, yes, dead, but another one hundred and nineteen injured and some are still missing. So they expect those numbers to go up. But right now, the biggest new information is they believe sparklers in champagne bottles started this fire. There was actually a report of a bartender having another bartender on his shoulders and she had a tray of these champagne bottles.
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Speaker 3: I have sparklers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got there and this got too close to the roof.
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Speaker 1: Basically, these are old buildings and it was a wooden ceiling and it just ignited. And that is just so scary and sad to think about.
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Speaker 3: And of course we've all seen. We may have you been outday, we've all seen. But if you've done any clubbing in your life, you see that plenty of times at they walk around with those bottles. That's exactly something that small, that simple, ends up setting off a tragedy of this nature. But yes, to your point, no one should have been that close it's only because they were stacked on top of each other that the bottles got that high.
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Speaker 2: Ah.
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Speaker 1: And right now they're in the just horrific process of trying to identify the victims because, as you can imagine, they say, the fire spread so quickly, and of course there was a mad dash to try and get through apparently some narrow stairs to try and get out this door. But so many people were trapped, and now they're having to go through dental records to try and find out who was in there.
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Speaker 2: But these were a lot of young.
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Speaker 1: Kids, like eighteen, nineteen twenty. This is just devastating to a lot of parents out there just trying to get some answers.
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Speaker 3: Hey, you made that point about the everybody trying to escape. There was a fire escape, but everybody was trying to go out the same entrance that they entered the building. And I mean, what do you do in that emergency to imagine but a awful happening there. Also, it's times another story here that maybe there's a threat of war by the US against Iran and it came to us via what else, social media. This is of course making headlines because of what the president, President Trump did message overnight last night.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he took to truth social as he tends to do, and this was his post. If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J.
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Speaker 2: Trump. And then we have Iranian officials taking.
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Speaker 1: To Twitter basically reacting to that threat, threatening US, just like.
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Speaker 3: A Twitter battle right between leaders of world powers. But yes, the protests have been going on at least a week. They are renewed protests usually about the same stuff, anti government protests and crackdowns. But the President put this out. It was at a weird hour. I think it was overnight sometime. But I need to let you know about that. I need to head out to Colorado and Robes. I believe if you helped me, if you saw the right year. But this is the first suspected mountain lion death since nineteen ninety nine, that's correct, So it's been a long time, so of course this is going to make headlines.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe there were only in the state's history three fatal mountain lion attacks, so This is a big deal there as folks obviously are big outdoors outdoors been so much hiking, and she was on a hiking trail, so this was a suspected attack.
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Speaker 2: But when you hear what happened.
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Speaker 1: This is about seventy miles northwest of Denver, and there were two other hikers who saw a mountain lion standing over this woman's body and they were able to throw rocks at it to get it to go away. One of them was a physician so rushed to this woman's aid and she had no pulse.
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Speaker 2: It was too late, but they were able.
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Speaker 1: To track down not one, but two mountain lions, and they did euthanize them, which is the custom, and they're now checking to see if they had any issues Raby's, etc. But just a scary and rare occurrence.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, as outdoorsy as that state is, this will get attention for sure, and certainly since it's been that long since we've seen anything like it. Also, want to give you an entertainment note here Will Smith. A lot of people woke up to the headlines that Will Smith has been sued for well various things, sexual harassment is in their wrongful termination. But this all has to do roams with someone who made a name for himself on What was a Hit.
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Speaker 1: Talent Show, Yeah, America's Got talent. Brian King Joseph. He is a violinist and electric violinist. He made the finals. He's in the top three of that show back in twenty eighteen. He says that he had private meetings with Will Smith to become a part of his tour that began I Guess in the spring, his latest album, and he is making allegations not just of sexual harassment, but of grooming and pre editory like behavior.
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Speaker 2: The details are minimal.
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Speaker 1: We just heard about some alleged hotel break in that had a bizarre display of items left behind, including a note.
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Speaker 3: And we use breaking very likely there, but really he says, someone left a bottle of beer, a note that said I'll be back by five thirty, HIV medication was in the room, hospital discharge papers were in the room, and he never heard anything about it again. It was signed Stone f So I mean, very few details and some bizarre ones that we are getting. But anytime Will Smith's name is attached to something like this and folks are paying attention, but we'll get any updates to you on that as they come. Want to give you an update also about the Kennedy Center Kennedy Centing Honors. The ratings we talked about some the new numbers came out and that this year was the lowest ratings for the Kennedy Center Honors that were hosted for the first time by a sitting US president. Of course, Donald Trump. I didn't expect this role that they have come out now the Kennedy Center Press office, but out of statement defending the ratings by first attacking the media.
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Speaker 1: Yes, because when you have low ratings and Trump's name put side by side, them are fighting words. So yes, they came out swinging and they said, comparing this year's broadcast ratings to prior years is a classic apples to oranges comparison and evidence.
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Speaker 2: Of far left bias. That's a new one.
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Speaker 1: They went on to say the program performed extremely well across key demographics and platforms, despite industry and timing disadvantages, including a Tuesday air date two days before Christmas.
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Speaker 3: Now, I'll give them that there were disadvantages, but it was just not a year over year. This is the lowest ratings they've ever seen for the show things are just facts, and that's fine. You can explain this and that. I was just surprised. Maybe I shouldn't be that they're actually explaining them away with don't don't even believe the numbers because the far left is reporting the numbers. This is just well.
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Speaker 1: The Kennedy Center released this with the board that Trump appointed, so that is also to be noted. They went on to say, with overall television usage down roughly twenty percent year over year, I don't know if that's true or not, the broadcast still tied for the number one spot among adults age twenty five to fifty four, alongside a live NBA doubleheader.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I mean, that is true.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to go against something live sports that people are very much interested in. That's a fair point to make. But yeah, it had three point one million viewers, and as you pointed out, that is the lowest of all time.
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Speaker 2: You know that stings.
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Speaker 3: No, they can explain it. Speaking in one other television note here, and of no, I'm so curious of how Netflix Stranger Things. The finale was released on what midnight right on New Year's Yes on News the evening Ye's Day, So Netflix crashed almost immediately, but they said it only lasted a few seconds. But I didn't realize robes that they had. Whatever the final numbers are for viewership will be what they are. But I was surprised that that movie that show made twenty million dollars that night. I forgot they were putting it in theaters as a special night thing.
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Speaker 1: They're saying, and they're still working it out because they say it could go upwards even thirty million when the numbers settle, and I thought it was interesting.
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize this.
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Speaker 1: You can't actually charge for tickets because of the contract with Netflix, so.
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Speaker 2: They actually created these tickets with.
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Speaker 1: Concession cash, so you buy your ticket, but it really is a It's like a concession voucher basically, and that's how they got around it.
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Speaker 3: Didn legally get around anything.
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Speaker 2: I thought that was really creative and interesting.
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Speaker 1: But yet I think that it did that well in the theaters and then to have crashed Netflix at the same time, it just shows the level of interest. We had a little one in our house very eager and excited to watch The Stranger Things finale, and she said it lived.
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Speaker 2: Up to expectations.
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Speaker 3: Happy New Year, I'll see y'all late. I'm going to watch my show. It's really how it wins. All right, folks, stay with us here. I don't know how your New Year's Eve was, but Pink spent hers in the hospital. Also for whatever reason, Trump and Clooney are going at it again, and we got the final four in college football. Congratulations to Nick Saban. Stay here, all right, folks, welcome back to this quick and late morning run here on this January second, twenty twenty six. I just wanted to pass along a few headlines to get you caught up on a couple of things here in acting the fact that singer Pink spent her New Year's Eve in the hospital. Her family wasn't by her side. Obviously they talked about that as a family, did they not.
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Speaker 1: They had to have made the decision, because she did make a point to say, I'm here alone while my family's skiing.
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Speaker 2: Yes, smile on her face.
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Speaker 3: Of course she did. But yeah, this is this was not a minor booboo that she was in there for.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she actually was getting two new discs in her neck. She made a joke that she wasn't getting a fancy facelift, but she's getting two new shiny discs in her neck, a new scar, and she talked about being grateful. She said that I appreciate this vessel that I have and use it for all it's worth. So she was just reflecting as many of us did on New Year's e But she reflected from her hospital that saying, hey, I'm fixing my body, and look, that is a tough decision to make.
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Speaker 2: And I guess maybe that was just when.
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Speaker 1: The surgeon was available on New Year's Eve, and she probably said, Hey, I don't want to ruin everyone's New Year's Eve. Y'all go do your thing, go ski, go have fun, and I'll just recover here in the hospital by my.
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Speaker 3: She did say alone. She didn't have to do that.
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Speaker 2: She did say alone. Maybe she I don't know. She said she was okay with it, but then maybe in the moment she's like, man, damn, I'm alone. It's New Year's Eve.
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Speaker 3: I'm thinking about something. She had a big social media thing with her husband years ago in which he left a pan soaking in the sink and she went on and it got so many men and women involved in the debate because don't just sit at there, you had no intention of cleaning it. Don't tell me it's soaking.
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Speaker 1: Soaking, that's what That's what my college roommates used to always.
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Speaker 3: Say, Like I was, like, guys, so I know she doesn't mind giving her husband the business on social media if she needs to. So this was what makes me think of that.
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Speaker 1: I actually think it speaks to the quality of their relationship that they can poke fun at each other.
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Speaker 2: They can have fun with each other even publicly.
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Speaker 3: Criticize each other, yes, by some stuff at the house.
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Speaker 1: It means there is a huge level of trust and love that you can do that and know you're still.
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Speaker 2: Going to be okay.
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Speaker 3: And the reason I remember that is because she was my last interview before I left GMA, and we were going round around about it as well.
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Speaker 2: You were so impressed with her.
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Speaker 3: I love that woman, Oh love that woman. All right, Trump and Clooney, this has been an ongoing thing. I think it's clear the two don't like each other. But there's a new round of this because the Cloonies, if you haven't heard, were just given French citizenship. There has been some criticism and plenty of circles that they deserve blah blah blah, France has defended it, so on and so forth. So now the President felt he wanted to chime in and this one. Some of this is funny.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he was classic Trump when he decided to he unnecessarily took a swipe at George Clooney, but he saw the opportunity and he went with it. Right, So this is what he wrote. Good news exclamation point. George and wal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France, which is sadly in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration, much like we had under sleepy Joe Biden. He never misses an opportunity, does he. All Right, remember when Clooney, after the now infamous debate, dumped Joe during a fundraiser only to go to the other side of another stellar candidate, Jamala, and then.
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Speaker 3: He put k I don't understand that, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Because he always called her Kamala instead of Kamala. I know he did that, but I don't know why he said Jamala, who is now fighting it out with the worst governor in the country, including Tim Waltz, Gavin nooscum for who was going to lead the Democrats to their future defeat. Clooney got more publicity for politics than he did for his very few and totally mediocre movies.
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Speaker 2: He wasn't a movie star at all.
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Speaker 1: He was just an average guy who complained constantly about common sense in politics. And then he put in all caps, make America great again, classic Trump. That's all I can say. I mean, that is exactly what you would expect.
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Speaker 2: It's not shocking and slightly conical.
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Speaker 3: And some will tell you it's brilliant. Pr You take something that's in the headline, you draw attention to yourself for it, and then move on to other things you want to do. That's that was a while when it wasn't. How do we get to France's crime rate? And Gavin Newsom in the same.
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Speaker 2: And immigration he got immigration in there too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, all right, finally here you all might have watched, stayed up late, even man, you missed a classic. It really was a classic. It didn't go the way at least this household necessarily wanted to go. But the Old Miss Georgia game last night was a phenomenal football game and a pretty significant upset. Ole Miss, after losing their coach Lane Kiffen to LSU, is now marching on and has a chance to win it all. That's a that would be a suite and a cool story. But these dudes can play, so Old Miss will be playing in Miami and Indiana will be playing Oregon. If you got any comfort out of yesterday, even though Georgia did lose, bro it had to be seeing Alabama get the afterlute snot beat out of them.
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Speaker 2: They got slaughtered.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so interesting and I think you'll appreciate this because so here's the deal.
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Speaker 2: I watched Alabama get slaughtered.
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Speaker 1: My brother was at the Ole Miss Georgia game and I was saying to him, well, the good news is as we were heading in they were heading into the stadium, I said, the good news is Alabama is getting murdered. Because I'm one of those crazy SEC guys who actually wants Alabama to win.
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Speaker 2: So he was like, and I said, I.
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Speaker 1: Don't share your feeling, but you know I respect it, And he really said, I actually don't want to see Alabama lose. I will always root for the SEC. Yes, so I think you're in the same boat. So he did say that to me, but I went to I was exhausted, barely slept on New Year's Eve, so I could not keep my eyes open. So halftime, I told you, I was like, I gotta go to bed. I cannot keep my eyes open. And I saw we were twenty one to twelve, I think, and I thought, look, it's not I didn't feel totally safe, but I felt pretty good. We looked good in the first half. I felt good about the game. Man, I woke up.
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Speaker 3: It was a great game, though. It was a great, great college football game. But the hats off Trinidad shameless that amazing.
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Speaker 2: Yes it was impressive.
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Speaker 3: Yes, all right, So January eighth, January ninth, when the games do start back up, I will give you a quick a quick quote of the day as we wrap this up. Cry hard, but don't cry long. Remember the best revenge is to move on. Take that with you today. I'm sure there's somewhere and there's somebody that you are hung up on and they ain't even thinking about you. Or there might be somebody you still hung up on and they're looking right at you and they know they are holding something over you because they're still seeing you cry. You want to win that one. Just move on.
00:17:52
Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: It's funny.
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Speaker 1: I love that quote because obviously we've all heard the best revenge.
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Speaker 2: Is success, But I do like the idea of the best revenge is to move on.
00:18:01
Speaker 1: When you hold on to anger and you hold on to that feeling, you're the only one who suffers, truly, you're not affecting the other person at all.
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Speaker 3: So with that, folks, we hope you had a wonderful start to your new year. Appreciate doing a lot of runs with you in twenty twenty six. But for now, I'm TJ. Holmes On behalf of Amy Robot. We will talk to you all soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Welcome everyone to Morning Run, but a little afternoon edition for some.
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Speaker 2: It'll still be morning for others.
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Speaker 1: But it's Friday, January second. We all had a crazy New Years so yeah, a little later start, but wanted to make sure we hit you with some headlines today.
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Speaker 3: I'm Amy Roboch and I'm TJ Holmes. Yes, just wanted to get on record with a few things here. I had a couple of pretty significant updates on a number of stories, ranging from a breaking news story, tragedy to even some pretty big entertainment headlines that we'll get into. But yeah, I just wanted to say, I guess this is our first run of twenty twenty six, so wow, this is how we're starting. Late, Late and lazy is how it's going. But we will pick it up throughout the year, we promised, But let's start robes. I just made a lot of headlines. Of course, a lot of us were doing this. We were at New Year's Eve celebrations and folks, if you haven't seen the news out of Switzerland, there was a ski resort fire that happened, yes, during a New Year's Eve party and we've gotten word ropes that the death toll is up to forty, but also getting worried about how they think this thing started.
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Speaker 1: It is, Oh my goodness, this is just a devastating story. Forty people, yes, dead, but another one hundred and nineteen injured and some are still missing. So they expect those numbers to go up. But right now, the biggest new information is they believe sparklers in champagne bottles started this fire. There was actually a report of a bartender having another bartender on his shoulders and she had a tray of these champagne bottles.
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Speaker 3: I have sparklers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got there and this got too close to the roof.
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Speaker 1: Basically, these are old buildings and it was a wooden ceiling and it just ignited. And that is just so scary and sad to think about.
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Speaker 3: And of course we've all seen. We may have you been outday, we've all seen. But if you've done any clubbing in your life, you see that plenty of times at they walk around with those bottles. That's exactly something that small, that simple, ends up setting off a tragedy of this nature. But yes, to your point, no one should have been that close it's only because they were stacked on top of each other that the bottles got that high.
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Speaker 2: Ah.
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Speaker 1: And right now they're in the just horrific process of trying to identify the victims because, as you can imagine, they say, the fire spread so quickly, and of course there was a mad dash to try and get through apparently some narrow stairs to try and get out this door. But so many people were trapped, and now they're having to go through dental records to try and find out who was in there.
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Speaker 2: But these were a lot of young.
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Speaker 1: Kids, like eighteen, nineteen twenty. This is just devastating to a lot of parents out there just trying to get some answers.
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Speaker 3: Hey, you made that point about the everybody trying to escape. There was a fire escape, but everybody was trying to go out the same entrance that they entered the building. And I mean, what do you do in that emergency to imagine but a awful happening there. Also, it's times another story here that maybe there's a threat of war by the US against Iran and it came to us via what else, social media. This is of course making headlines because of what the president, President Trump did message overnight last night.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he took to truth social as he tends to do, and this was his post. If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J.
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Speaker 2: Trump. And then we have Iranian officials taking.
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Speaker 1: To Twitter basically reacting to that threat, threatening US, just like.
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Speaker 3: A Twitter battle right between leaders of world powers. But yes, the protests have been going on at least a week. They are renewed protests usually about the same stuff, anti government protests and crackdowns. But the President put this out. It was at a weird hour. I think it was overnight sometime. But I need to let you know about that. I need to head out to Colorado and Robes. I believe if you helped me, if you saw the right year. But this is the first suspected mountain lion death since nineteen ninety nine, that's correct, So it's been a long time, so of course this is going to make headlines.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe there were only in the state's history three fatal mountain lion attacks, so This is a big deal there as folks obviously are big outdoors outdoors been so much hiking, and she was on a hiking trail, so this was a suspected attack.
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Speaker 2: But when you hear what happened.
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Speaker 1: This is about seventy miles northwest of Denver, and there were two other hikers who saw a mountain lion standing over this woman's body and they were able to throw rocks at it to get it to go away. One of them was a physician so rushed to this woman's aid and she had no pulse.
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Speaker 2: It was too late, but they were able.
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Speaker 1: To track down not one, but two mountain lions, and they did euthanize them, which is the custom, and they're now checking to see if they had any issues Raby's, etc. But just a scary and rare occurrence.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, as outdoorsy as that state is, this will get attention for sure, and certainly since it's been that long since we've seen anything like it. Also, want to give you an entertainment note here Will Smith. A lot of people woke up to the headlines that Will Smith has been sued for well various things, sexual harassment is in their wrongful termination. But this all has to do roams with someone who made a name for himself on What was a Hit.
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Speaker 1: Talent Show, Yeah, America's Got talent. Brian King Joseph. He is a violinist and electric violinist. He made the finals. He's in the top three of that show back in twenty eighteen. He says that he had private meetings with Will Smith to become a part of his tour that began I Guess in the spring, his latest album, and he is making allegations not just of sexual harassment, but of grooming and pre editory like behavior.
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Speaker 2: The details are minimal.
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Speaker 1: We just heard about some alleged hotel break in that had a bizarre display of items left behind, including a note.
00:06:13
Speaker 3: And we use breaking very likely there, but really he says, someone left a bottle of beer, a note that said I'll be back by five thirty, HIV medication was in the room, hospital discharge papers were in the room, and he never heard anything about it again. It was signed Stone f So I mean, very few details and some bizarre ones that we are getting. But anytime Will Smith's name is attached to something like this and folks are paying attention, but we'll get any updates to you on that as they come. Want to give you an update also about the Kennedy Center Kennedy Centing Honors. The ratings we talked about some the new numbers came out and that this year was the lowest ratings for the Kennedy Center Honors that were hosted for the first time by a sitting US president. Of course, Donald Trump. I didn't expect this role that they have come out now the Kennedy Center Press office, but out of statement defending the ratings by first attacking the media.
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Speaker 1: Yes, because when you have low ratings and Trump's name put side by side, them are fighting words. So yes, they came out swinging and they said, comparing this year's broadcast ratings to prior years is a classic apples to oranges comparison and evidence.
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Speaker 2: Of far left bias. That's a new one.
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Speaker 1: They went on to say the program performed extremely well across key demographics and platforms, despite industry and timing disadvantages, including a Tuesday air date two days before Christmas.
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Speaker 3: Now, I'll give them that there were disadvantages, but it was just not a year over year. This is the lowest ratings they've ever seen for the show things are just facts, and that's fine. You can explain this and that. I was just surprised. Maybe I shouldn't be that they're actually explaining them away with don't don't even believe the numbers because the far left is reporting the numbers. This is just well.
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Speaker 1: The Kennedy Center released this with the board that Trump appointed, so that is also to be noted. They went on to say, with overall television usage down roughly twenty percent year over year, I don't know if that's true or not, the broadcast still tied for the number one spot among adults age twenty five to fifty four, alongside a live NBA doubleheader.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I mean, that is true.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to go against something live sports that people are very much interested in. That's a fair point to make. But yeah, it had three point one million viewers, and as you pointed out, that is the lowest of all time.
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Speaker 2: You know that stings.
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Speaker 3: No, they can explain it. Speaking in one other television note here, and of no, I'm so curious of how Netflix Stranger Things. The finale was released on what midnight right on New Year's Yes on News the evening Ye's Day, So Netflix crashed almost immediately, but they said it only lasted a few seconds. But I didn't realize robes that they had. Whatever the final numbers are for viewership will be what they are. But I was surprised that that movie that show made twenty million dollars that night. I forgot they were putting it in theaters as a special night thing.
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Speaker 1: They're saying, and they're still working it out because they say it could go upwards even thirty million when the numbers settle, and I thought it was interesting.
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize this.
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Speaker 1: You can't actually charge for tickets because of the contract with Netflix, so.
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Speaker 2: They actually created these tickets with.
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Speaker 1: Concession cash, so you buy your ticket, but it really is a It's like a concession voucher basically, and that's how they got around it.
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Speaker 3: Didn legally get around anything.
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Speaker 2: I thought that was really creative and interesting.
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Speaker 1: But yet I think that it did that well in the theaters and then to have crashed Netflix at the same time, it just shows the level of interest. We had a little one in our house very eager and excited to watch The Stranger Things finale, and she said it lived.
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Speaker 2: Up to expectations.
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Speaker 3: Happy New Year, I'll see y'all late. I'm going to watch my show. It's really how it wins. All right, folks, stay with us here. I don't know how your New Year's Eve was, but Pink spent hers in the hospital. Also for whatever reason, Trump and Clooney are going at it again, and we got the final four in college football. Congratulations to Nick Saban. Stay here, all right, folks, welcome back to this quick and late morning run here on this January second, twenty twenty six. I just wanted to pass along a few headlines to get you caught up on a couple of things here in acting the fact that singer Pink spent her New Year's Eve in the hospital. Her family wasn't by her side. Obviously they talked about that as a family, did they not.
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Speaker 1: They had to have made the decision, because she did make a point to say, I'm here alone while my family's skiing.
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Speaker 2: Yes, smile on her face.
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Speaker 3: Of course she did. But yeah, this is this was not a minor booboo that she was in there for.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she actually was getting two new discs in her neck. She made a joke that she wasn't getting a fancy facelift, but she's getting two new shiny discs in her neck, a new scar, and she talked about being grateful. She said that I appreciate this vessel that I have and use it for all it's worth. So she was just reflecting as many of us did on New Year's e But she reflected from her hospital that saying, hey, I'm fixing my body, and look, that is a tough decision to make.
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Speaker 2: And I guess maybe that was just when.
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Speaker 1: The surgeon was available on New Year's Eve, and she probably said, Hey, I don't want to ruin everyone's New Year's Eve. Y'all go do your thing, go ski, go have fun, and I'll just recover here in the hospital by my.
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Speaker 3: She did say alone. She didn't have to do that.
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Speaker 2: She did say alone. Maybe she I don't know. She said she was okay with it, but then maybe in the moment she's like, man, damn, I'm alone. It's New Year's Eve.
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Speaker 3: I'm thinking about something. She had a big social media thing with her husband years ago in which he left a pan soaking in the sink and she went on and it got so many men and women involved in the debate because don't just sit at there, you had no intention of cleaning it. Don't tell me it's soaking.
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Speaker 1: Soaking, that's what That's what my college roommates used to always.
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Speaker 3: Say, Like I was, like, guys, so I know she doesn't mind giving her husband the business on social media if she needs to. So this was what makes me think of that.
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Speaker 1: I actually think it speaks to the quality of their relationship that they can poke fun at each other.
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Speaker 2: They can have fun with each other even publicly.
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Speaker 3: Criticize each other, yes, by some stuff at the house.
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Speaker 1: It means there is a huge level of trust and love that you can do that and know you're still.
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Speaker 2: Going to be okay.
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Speaker 3: And the reason I remember that is because she was my last interview before I left GMA, and we were going round around about it as well.
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Speaker 2: You were so impressed with her.
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Speaker 3: I love that woman, Oh love that woman. All right, Trump and Clooney, this has been an ongoing thing. I think it's clear the two don't like each other. But there's a new round of this because the Cloonies, if you haven't heard, were just given French citizenship. There has been some criticism and plenty of circles that they deserve blah blah blah, France has defended it, so on and so forth. So now the President felt he wanted to chime in and this one. Some of this is funny.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he was classic Trump when he decided to he unnecessarily took a swipe at George Clooney, but he saw the opportunity and he went with it. Right, So this is what he wrote. Good news exclamation point. George and wal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France, which is sadly in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration, much like we had under sleepy Joe Biden. He never misses an opportunity, does he. All Right, remember when Clooney, after the now infamous debate, dumped Joe during a fundraiser only to go to the other side of another stellar candidate, Jamala, and then.
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Speaker 3: He put k I don't understand that, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Because he always called her Kamala instead of Kamala. I know he did that, but I don't know why he said Jamala, who is now fighting it out with the worst governor in the country, including Tim Waltz, Gavin nooscum for who was going to lead the Democrats to their future defeat. Clooney got more publicity for politics than he did for his very few and totally mediocre movies.
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Speaker 2: He wasn't a movie star at all.
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Speaker 1: He was just an average guy who complained constantly about common sense in politics. And then he put in all caps, make America great again, classic Trump. That's all I can say. I mean, that is exactly what you would expect.
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Speaker 2: It's not shocking and slightly conical.
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Speaker 3: And some will tell you it's brilliant. Pr You take something that's in the headline, you draw attention to yourself for it, and then move on to other things you want to do. That's that was a while when it wasn't. How do we get to France's crime rate? And Gavin Newsom in the same.
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Speaker 2: And immigration he got immigration in there too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, all right, finally here you all might have watched, stayed up late, even man, you missed a classic. It really was a classic. It didn't go the way at least this household necessarily wanted to go. But the Old Miss Georgia game last night was a phenomenal football game and a pretty significant upset. Ole Miss, after losing their coach Lane Kiffen to LSU, is now marching on and has a chance to win it all. That's a that would be a suite and a cool story. But these dudes can play, so Old Miss will be playing in Miami and Indiana will be playing Oregon. If you got any comfort out of yesterday, even though Georgia did lose, bro it had to be seeing Alabama get the afterlute snot beat out of them.
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Speaker 2: They got slaughtered.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so interesting and I think you'll appreciate this because so here's the deal.
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Speaker 2: I watched Alabama get slaughtered.
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Speaker 1: My brother was at the Ole Miss Georgia game and I was saying to him, well, the good news is as we were heading in they were heading into the stadium, I said, the good news is Alabama is getting murdered. Because I'm one of those crazy SEC guys who actually wants Alabama to win.
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Speaker 2: So he was like, and I said, I.
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Speaker 1: Don't share your feeling, but you know I respect it, And he really said, I actually don't want to see Alabama lose. I will always root for the SEC. Yes, so I think you're in the same boat. So he did say that to me, but I went to I was exhausted, barely slept on New Year's Eve, so I could not keep my eyes open. So halftime, I told you, I was like, I gotta go to bed. I cannot keep my eyes open. And I saw we were twenty one to twelve, I think, and I thought, look, it's not I didn't feel totally safe, but I felt pretty good. We looked good in the first half. I felt good about the game. Man, I woke up.
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Speaker 3: It was a great game, though. It was a great, great college football game. But the hats off Trinidad shameless that amazing.
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Speaker 2: Yes it was impressive.
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Speaker 3: Yes, all right, So January eighth, January ninth, when the games do start back up, I will give you a quick a quick quote of the day as we wrap this up. Cry hard, but don't cry long. Remember the best revenge is to move on. Take that with you today. I'm sure there's somewhere and there's somebody that you are hung up on and they ain't even thinking about you. Or there might be somebody you still hung up on and they're looking right at you and they know they are holding something over you because they're still seeing you cry. You want to win that one. Just move on.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: It's funny.
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Speaker 1: I love that quote because obviously we've all heard the best revenge.
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Speaker 2: Is success, But I do like the idea of the best revenge is to move on.
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Speaker 1: When you hold on to anger and you hold on to that feeling, you're the only one who suffers, truly, you're not affecting the other person at all.
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Speaker 3: So with that, folks, we hope you had a wonderful start to your new year. Appreciate doing a lot of runs with you in twenty twenty six. But for now, I'm TJ. Holmes On behalf of Amy Robot. We will talk to you all soon.