June 11, 2026
(Thursday) Morning Run: Knicks Historic Comeback, Continued Iranian Strikes, Trump Loves Inflation, Gates Talks Epstein, Chicago Burning Cross, World Cup Today and Delta Passenger Butt Slap
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Be there, everybody, Welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday, June eleventh.
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Speaker 3: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 1: Holmes and it's all anybody's talking about. Something really, really special happened last night in New York Robes. This was beyond just a basketball game. This is more just the Knicks. But this was not just historic. It was exhilarating in Robes. This is MSG has had a bunch of special nights over the years. This one will go down in history as maybe one of the most special nights ever.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I just got chills hearing you say it and just remembering where we all were last night, even seeing Spike Lee this morning, who's seen everything saying exactly what you just said that it was the most remarkable night in sports ever.
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Speaker 1: And it also may be made up for Robes. The lost in Game three for the Knicks might have been worth it to get what we in game four, because in Game four, if you missed it, folks alive, you did, I'm gonna be waking up to the news this morning that the Knicks pulled off the greatest comeback in the history of the NBA Finals. They were down by twenty nine points and came back to win that game, Robes. And they are one game away now from their first championship in fifty three years. It's hard to describe that scene.
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Speaker 3: Robes again in the garden last it was crazy.
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Speaker 2: Look in full disclosure. I fell asleep for about twenty minutes. I think you did too. We were still behind fourteen when I drifted off. When I woke back up, we were four behind. But yes, they were down twenty nine points to the San Antonio Spurs. They took back the lead on a tip in with one point two seconds left.
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Speaker 1: Your boy win that, o g Ananoby. Yes, your boy. You love all the guys whose names you have a hard time.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I just let you say.
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Speaker 1: That, oj Ananobe point two seconds. It was the most basic of plays that he made.
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Speaker 3: It was amazing.
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Speaker 1: They inbounded the ball and the damn Spurs did not cover the guy who inbounded the ball, and he had a free run to the goal to get a rebound and get a tip in. Robes. Chuck. Our good friend Charles Barkley said after the game that the Spurs really are the dumbest team in the history of civilization. Don't get me wrong, the heart of a champion and what the Knicks did last night is historic. But you don't come back from twenty nine down robes without getting some help from the other team doing a bunch of stupid stuff.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you kept saying the Spurs can't keep shooting like this because it was just uncanny.
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Speaker 3: Three point three point three point three, I mean it was.
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Speaker 2: It felt demoralizing actually if you were a Knicks fan in the first half. But man, the scene just for everyone looking there, stunned and silent in Madison Square Garden. At all the watch parties, there were shots of folks just with fallen faces to see them reversed and this celebrations.
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Speaker 3: It was funny. Both of my girls were texting me at different watch parties.
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Speaker 2: Like there are fireworks, the cars are honking.
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Speaker 3: It was so wild and so exciting to see.
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Speaker 1: And yes, that star studded room erupted. This was the buzziest. This was a bigger buzzy room than I Think's Gang. I think Game three was when the president was in attendance. There was back and forth, unfortunately, between the city and the Knick's ownership about the watch party, it ends up getting canceled. It was supposed to be outside yesterday, but they didn't put the screens up. That all that's unfortunate, But if we just stick to the basketball and what happened in there, it's heart Robes to overstate how historically relevant this moment will be in the history of Madison Square Garden, a place that has seen almost everything. Robes, they've seen almost everything, and they ain't ever seen anything like this. It was amazing.
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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift there, celebrity road jumping up and down, screaming, it was.
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Speaker 3: It was quite the same.
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Speaker 1: And Jerry Seinfeld's face you'll remember because it looks like his face of shock we've seen in the show so many times, and he wasn't. It was genuine. You could not believe what you were seeing. So that is all that folks to talk about here in New York today, and Game five will be on Saturday in San Antonio. Yes, Robes, they're up three to one. The Knicks are It's happened before that. Teams have come back from three to one down. Highly unlikely, obviously, but I was there when it happened, when Lebron did it to the Golden State Warrior. So this anything can happen. This can happen. But congrats, and this is really fun. The city deserves this, The city needs this. It was aus even great for the NBA. So we got plenty of the stops to make along the way on this morning's run, but we wanted to get out of the gate with that one. And we're still on a bit of a high from last night.
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Speaker 2: And a lot less sleep, but that adrenaline keeping us going right now.
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Speaker 1: So ridiculous. We got one kid at school today who was up till midnight with U, was watching the game. She's still ain't up. I don't know when she's gonna be up in there. You and I got flight that we're traveling for a lot of travels.
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Speaker 2: Set us up for a wonderful start to our vacation with what, I don't know, two three hours of sleep.
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Speaker 1: Rose, What have you always heard me say? You have to stay up late because if you don't, you might miss history.
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Speaker 2: You told me because you saw that I was sleepy, and I was getting sleepy. But I wanted to stay on that couch because I just knew if I stayed on the couch, I would wake back up and sure enough I woke up.
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Speaker 3: What a night in just the perfect amount of time.
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Speaker 1: I would go to bed. Folks know, because you might miss history, and this is why it's worth losing sleeping.
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Speaker 2: I agree with you to your point was proven last night and then some all right, next up on the run here. On this Thursday, the United States launched strikes against Iran for a second straight day, and for the second straight day, Iran responded with strikes.
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Speaker 3: Of its own.
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Speaker 1: They keep telling us, well, we remain in a ceasefire and negotiations are continuing with the President has kept saying, you know, we might have one in a couple of days to be done in a couple of days, to keep going back. So now Robes, there is a potential for returning to all out hostilities. The Pentagon said that US forces quote launched strikes on Iranian military surveillance capabilities, communications systems, and air defense sites across Iran. Iran then said it responded by targeting US spaces in the region. No word on just how much damage was done on either side, Robes, but it sure is feeling less and less like a ceasefire.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it just feels like they just keep calling them defensive strikes and then self defense, right, right, self defense, and then it's not offensive, so therefore.
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Speaker 3: It's not a war, a war, right, okay, all right? Next up on the run.
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Speaker 2: The markets were listening, however, to what they were seeing, and they didn't like either. And they certainly didn't like hearing President Trump say the US would once again be hitting Iran very hard. So the Dow dropped nine hundred and fifty points yesterday. That is the biggest one day drop of the year and the biggest since October.
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Speaker 1: And yes, things started heading south when the President started talking. He said yesterday the ron was going to pay a big price because they're taking too long to negotiate a deal. So that is what we saw in the stock market. Also, we wrote AI stocks are taking a pretty big hit. The speculation is that a lot of folks are getting ready for SpaceX to do the IPO, so they're clearing out some tech space in their portfolio, so they started dumping AI stocks. But that plus the war. I don't know what kind of day. I haven't seen the futures yet this morning, so I'm not sure how things are looking. But tough day.
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Speaker 3: Yesterday, Yes, certainly it was Next up on the run.
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Speaker 2: A puzzling and surprising response from the President when asked about the sharp rise in prices. Wonder if this had any impact or will have any further impact on the markets, because yes, the Labor Department reported yesterday that inflation rose four point two percent last month.
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Speaker 3: That's the highest jump in three years.
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Speaker 1: So that means people we are paying more for product, which is a bad thing. Uh uh. The President was asked about this. He was asked if he was concerned about the numbers. This was his response, and I quote, no, I love it. You know what, I really love inflation. He went on to explain romes that once the war's over, prices are going to drop. It's making an argument about things could have been worse, and so the inflation is a good thing. He's always talked about bringing prices down, bringing prices down. Sleepy Joe's economy is the one he got stuck with with price This was a value. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Does he think that because the numbers are high now based on his decisions, by the way, that when they come down he'll get credit for that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're setting up kind of a narrative here, possibly to say, hey told you to look at the prices are dropping because of something. He always also mentioned the secret mission. You see this, the secret mission the US had to escort ships through the straight of horror moves that's been going on. It was kind of confusing how he attached it to this, but he said that these one hundred million barrels of oil we've helped get through the straight of horror moves that helped the market in some way.
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Speaker 3: It could have been worse. That's I guess the narrative. Yeah, all right, Well, next up on the run.
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Speaker 2: Bill Gates was on Capitol Hill answering questions for six hours yesterday all about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, which he did call a grave error in judgment. He appeared before the House Oversight Committee, who has been calling very well notable powerful people there to testify as it conducts it's Epstein investigation.
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Speaker 1: Remind me they're investig the investigation or the investigating actual EBSTOC.
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Speaker 3: I think they're doing both, but they are.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I believe it's just a big old investigation because you know, they're transparent.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, his part of his transparency yesterday was telling them that he never saw or was aware of any criminal activity, and he also never hung out with Epstein socially, never went to the island, never was on the plane, and all this he said though Robes he was introduced to him through people he trusted and was initially talking to Epstein about philanthropic endeavors. But after he cut Epstein off Robes, that is when the disgrace financier and convicted sex offender quote had become aware of sensitive information about my personal life, including the fact that I had been unfaithful in my marriage and was working to use information about my infidelities to pressure me to re engage with him. It's part of the statement he gave the committee, as.
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Speaker 2: It's just surreal to think that we're still talking about this. You've got a billionaire philanthropist who is sitting there testifying before Congress, how many years after his death, and are we any closer to really knowing anything between nineteen yes, seven years later, you got Bill Gates.
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Speaker 1: One of the most influential people in business in the world has ever known, is answering questions before six out about this guy.
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Speaker 3: Yep, all right, it's amazing. It really is.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run, people in Chicago speaking of this.
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Speaker 3: This is just a deeply concerning story out of Chicago.
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Speaker 2: So they're asking for help from the public because they're trying to figure out who is responsible for burning a cross prominently placed in Grant Park this week.
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Speaker 3: Yes, this looked.
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Speaker 2: Like the nineteen fifties and sixties in Mississippi.
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Speaker 1: And it's unmistakable. This is a big This is a good sized cross.
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Speaker 3: It was huge.
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Speaker 1: I was thumbing in my head. I'm joining, it's hard to measure with seven eight feet. It was a cross.
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Speaker 3: It looked like the cross that Jesus Christ would be caring.
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Speaker 1: Down the street. Yes, and so this was propped up against a tree and lit. It is in fully engulfed. When you see it, frightening it is. And I don't think we have to remind folks necessarily rose, but this is one of the most frightening scenes in American history. Yes, and intimidating things you can see when it comes to race in this country. So this thing is in plain view. Pedestrians, motorists see it. People start taking videos of it. But police have now released a photo robes of someone, as they put it, was fleeing the scene, and they're asking anybody to come forward please, please come forward, please these kinds of scenes. I don't know what people are thinking, but this thing was big. Somebody had to make it.
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Speaker 3: This was a huge export to do this.
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Speaker 2: And so yes, I hope they find this person and this person pays a hefty price because this instills so much fear and intimidation.
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Speaker 3: And this is an act of violence that is absolute, erupts.
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Speaker 2: The piece and security of every certainly every black person who sees that image.
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Speaker 1: It's a terror image and actually is all right, folks, will stay with us on this Thursday morning run. You've been hearing so much about the World Cup, World Cup, World Cup. It's coming. No, actually it's here. It kicks off today. We'll tell you what's happening. Also, we got another incident on a plane. It calls the plane to be diverted because one passenger apparently couldn't keep his hands off the backside of a flight attendant. Stay here, all right, we continue here on this. You haven't said it.
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Speaker 3: Yet, baby Friday.
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Speaker 1: The thing I always complain about it for us, see, and yes it is is itation. Okay, there we go, and and that's something how it always works every time you say Friday, Eve, roll my eyes get annoy. You didn't say it this morning, and I'm upset. I'm complaining.
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Speaker 3: It's Friday eve, y'all.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that was Sabine that just came around the corner. We got she is up Oka, She's alive. All right, I continue on the run here now. Yes, did you realize Broe, we've been hearing about the World Cup so much? I didn't even it kind of snuck up on me. It starts today.
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Speaker 2: I actually had no idea. Very this is so exciting. We are we've been so caught up with the knicks and maybe perhaps getting our stuff together for later today that we Yes, it definitely fell between the cracks for me, The opening.
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Speaker 1: Match the World Cup fell between the cracks.
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Speaker 2: Yes, in my schedule, in my life, I forgot that today is the opening match in Mexico City.
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Speaker 3: It's Mexico versus South Africa.
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Speaker 1: This is gonna be a cool, cool scene. But it's three o'clock this afternoon is when it officially kicks off, and as folks know, it's all over North America and Mexico. It's happening in US and several sites in several cities. So very cool. And then South Korea Checchia play later in the day. The US Men don't play until tomorrow Paraguay. I'm not sure what time, but I think they're playing out in La.
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Speaker 3: Right, Yes, I believe that is correct. This is all very exciting.
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Speaker 2: It's about to get very fun rooting on the home team and certainly any other any other.
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Speaker 3: Do they have a favorite to win? I have no idea.
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Speaker 1: Yes they do have favorite. France is among the favorites.
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Speaker 2: That's all right, and so for our final leg of the run, let's keep this in travel mode. We're about to get on a plane today.
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Speaker 3: Hopefully we won't have an experience like this one. The plane was diverted.
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Speaker 2: An airline passenger is facing felony charges after an incident aboard a Delta flight. This was a flight headed to Los Angeles from Fort Lauderdale.
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Speaker 3: It's making so much sense. Wait for it, wait for it.
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Speaker 2: Nothing against Florida, but just a Fort Lauderdero resident.
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Speaker 3: This might makes okay, it had to be diverted to Atlanta.
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Speaker 2: You'll understand our laughter and just a moment, go ahead, okay again. The flight was headed to Los Angeles from Fort Lauderdale when it was diverted to Atlanta, a flight attendant reported she was assaulted by a passenger. What did he do? He smacked her on the button?
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Speaker 1: Okay, why would you do this? Did he think he was she was hot and he was flirting? Was it a sexual thing?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 3: Who knows.
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Speaker 1: But according to the criminal complaint, he smacked her on the backside robes with quote sufficient force to cause her body to move forward. She says that, and there's another flight attendant that backs up that saw the incident and says, yes, she was smacked so hard that her whole body moved.
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Speaker 3: Wow. Why so why did he do this?
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Speaker 1: What?
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Speaker 3: What could possibly have motivated him?
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Speaker 2: If he wasn't flirting with her, if he wasn't getting fresh with her. According to the complaint, the reason she skipped him during beverage service.
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Speaker 1: Yes, we've all seen this scene before, have we not? To me it's happening. Yes, Because sometimes they think you're asleep and they don't want to bother you. They might say it a couple of times, can I get you anything? You don't get it, They don't get a response, they move on. Well, she thought he was asleep, so she was doing the considerate thing and moving on. He needed to get her attention.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we smacked her in the ass. Yes, you know, the last time I asked got grabbed by a stranger. It was in Florida. Where in Florida, Georgia Florida game crowd. It was the Florida fans. Sure, yes, they were calling.
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Speaker 2: Us dogs and being rude. So, yes, Florida. That's just been my experience.
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Speaker 3: Or but it was a grab.
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Speaker 1: Smack, This was apparently a smack. But yes, I thought he was asleep. She actually reported it to her bad the lead flight attendant, who told the pilot, who didn't want to take any risk about what was going on and diverted the.
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Speaker 2: Plane because how annoyed do you think You're going to Los Angeles and you end up at the Atlanta Airport trying to get back on another plane. Oh that is a nightmare. Oh my god, what a jerk.
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Speaker 3: Oh right, let's hope we have a little bit of a more peaceful experience on our flight.
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Speaker 1: Well I hope you do, because I assume your ass would be the one getting smacked.
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Speaker 3: My ass is going to be in the seat sleeping, and.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to be the smacker. Of course, it's going to.
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Speaker 3: Be planted in that in that seat all seven hours.
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Speaker 2: All right, we will leave you on this Friday Eve with our quote of the day. I really like we A lot of these are all the same version saying the same thing, but I love the way this one was put.
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Speaker 3: Most people are never fully present.
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Speaker 2: Their mind is trapped suffering somewhere else, either reliving pain or anticipating it. Oh yeah, that one hit home.
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Speaker 1: I am. I'm waiting right now for something to go wrong later as I planning the day. We got travel, we got packing to do, we got so much work to do, and oh yeah, got text stuff. I can't wait go wrong. I'm not staying in this moment right now.
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Speaker 2: That's chosen suffering and then we all do it. But it's so interesting when they put it that way. We're either reliving pain or we're anticipating it.
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Speaker 3: That's so crazy. Why do we do that?
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Speaker 1: Will you hurry over this? I got other stuff. I got some pain to go get it right now?
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Speaker 2: As we live in the present, Let's just have this once more as a reminder maybe to do something different today.
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Speaker 3: Most people are never fully present.
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Speaker 2: Their mind is trapped suffering somewhere else, either reliving pain or anticipating it. Hey, that the truth. All right, let's change things up today. So thank you everyone for running with us on this Friday Eve.
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Speaker 1: I'm Mami Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. We'll run sick, hey,
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Be there, everybody, Welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday, June eleventh.
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Speaker 3: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 1: Holmes and it's all anybody's talking about. Something really, really special happened last night in New York Robes. This was beyond just a basketball game. This is more just the Knicks. But this was not just historic. It was exhilarating in Robes. This is MSG has had a bunch of special nights over the years. This one will go down in history as maybe one of the most special nights ever.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I just got chills hearing you say it and just remembering where we all were last night, even seeing Spike Lee this morning, who's seen everything saying exactly what you just said that it was the most remarkable night in sports ever.
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Speaker 1: And it also may be made up for Robes. The lost in Game three for the Knicks might have been worth it to get what we in game four, because in Game four, if you missed it, folks alive, you did, I'm gonna be waking up to the news this morning that the Knicks pulled off the greatest comeback in the history of the NBA Finals. They were down by twenty nine points and came back to win that game, Robes. And they are one game away now from their first championship in fifty three years. It's hard to describe that scene.
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Speaker 3: Robes again in the garden last it was crazy.
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Speaker 2: Look in full disclosure. I fell asleep for about twenty minutes. I think you did too. We were still behind fourteen when I drifted off. When I woke back up, we were four behind. But yes, they were down twenty nine points to the San Antonio Spurs. They took back the lead on a tip in with one point two seconds left.
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Speaker 1: Your boy win that, o g Ananoby. Yes, your boy. You love all the guys whose names you have a hard time.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I just let you say.
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Speaker 1: That, oj Ananobe point two seconds. It was the most basic of plays that he made.
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Speaker 3: It was amazing.
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Speaker 1: They inbounded the ball and the damn Spurs did not cover the guy who inbounded the ball, and he had a free run to the goal to get a rebound and get a tip in. Robes. Chuck. Our good friend Charles Barkley said after the game that the Spurs really are the dumbest team in the history of civilization. Don't get me wrong, the heart of a champion and what the Knicks did last night is historic. But you don't come back from twenty nine down robes without getting some help from the other team doing a bunch of stupid stuff.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you kept saying the Spurs can't keep shooting like this because it was just uncanny.
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Speaker 3: Three point three point three point three, I mean it was.
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Speaker 2: It felt demoralizing actually if you were a Knicks fan in the first half. But man, the scene just for everyone looking there, stunned and silent in Madison Square Garden. At all the watch parties, there were shots of folks just with fallen faces to see them reversed and this celebrations.
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Speaker 3: It was funny. Both of my girls were texting me at different watch parties.
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Speaker 2: Like there are fireworks, the cars are honking.
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Speaker 3: It was so wild and so exciting to see.
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Speaker 1: And yes, that star studded room erupted. This was the buzziest. This was a bigger buzzy room than I Think's Gang. I think Game three was when the president was in attendance. There was back and forth, unfortunately, between the city and the Knick's ownership about the watch party, it ends up getting canceled. It was supposed to be outside yesterday, but they didn't put the screens up. That all that's unfortunate, But if we just stick to the basketball and what happened in there, it's heart Robes to overstate how historically relevant this moment will be in the history of Madison Square Garden, a place that has seen almost everything. Robes, they've seen almost everything, and they ain't ever seen anything like this. It was amazing.
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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift there, celebrity road jumping up and down, screaming, it was.
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Speaker 3: It was quite the same.
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Speaker 1: And Jerry Seinfeld's face you'll remember because it looks like his face of shock we've seen in the show so many times, and he wasn't. It was genuine. You could not believe what you were seeing. So that is all that folks to talk about here in New York today, and Game five will be on Saturday in San Antonio. Yes, Robes, they're up three to one. The Knicks are It's happened before that. Teams have come back from three to one down. Highly unlikely, obviously, but I was there when it happened, when Lebron did it to the Golden State Warrior. So this anything can happen. This can happen. But congrats, and this is really fun. The city deserves this, The city needs this. It was aus even great for the NBA. So we got plenty of the stops to make along the way on this morning's run, but we wanted to get out of the gate with that one. And we're still on a bit of a high from last night.
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Speaker 2: And a lot less sleep, but that adrenaline keeping us going right now.
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Speaker 1: So ridiculous. We got one kid at school today who was up till midnight with U, was watching the game. She's still ain't up. I don't know when she's gonna be up in there. You and I got flight that we're traveling for a lot of travels.
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Speaker 2: Set us up for a wonderful start to our vacation with what, I don't know, two three hours of sleep.
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Speaker 1: Rose, What have you always heard me say? You have to stay up late because if you don't, you might miss history.
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Speaker 2: You told me because you saw that I was sleepy, and I was getting sleepy. But I wanted to stay on that couch because I just knew if I stayed on the couch, I would wake back up and sure enough I woke up.
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Speaker 3: What a night in just the perfect amount of time.
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Speaker 1: I would go to bed. Folks know, because you might miss history, and this is why it's worth losing sleeping.
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Speaker 2: I agree with you to your point was proven last night and then some all right, next up on the run here. On this Thursday, the United States launched strikes against Iran for a second straight day, and for the second straight day, Iran responded with strikes.
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Speaker 3: Of its own.
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Speaker 1: They keep telling us, well, we remain in a ceasefire and negotiations are continuing with the President has kept saying, you know, we might have one in a couple of days to be done in a couple of days, to keep going back. So now Robes, there is a potential for returning to all out hostilities. The Pentagon said that US forces quote launched strikes on Iranian military surveillance capabilities, communications systems, and air defense sites across Iran. Iran then said it responded by targeting US spaces in the region. No word on just how much damage was done on either side, Robes, but it sure is feeling less and less like a ceasefire.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it just feels like they just keep calling them defensive strikes and then self defense, right, right, self defense, and then it's not offensive, so therefore.
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Speaker 3: It's not a war, a war, right, okay, all right? Next up on the run.
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Speaker 2: The markets were listening, however, to what they were seeing, and they didn't like either. And they certainly didn't like hearing President Trump say the US would once again be hitting Iran very hard. So the Dow dropped nine hundred and fifty points yesterday. That is the biggest one day drop of the year and the biggest since October.
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Speaker 1: And yes, things started heading south when the President started talking. He said yesterday the ron was going to pay a big price because they're taking too long to negotiate a deal. So that is what we saw in the stock market. Also, we wrote AI stocks are taking a pretty big hit. The speculation is that a lot of folks are getting ready for SpaceX to do the IPO, so they're clearing out some tech space in their portfolio, so they started dumping AI stocks. But that plus the war. I don't know what kind of day. I haven't seen the futures yet this morning, so I'm not sure how things are looking. But tough day.
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Speaker 3: Yesterday, Yes, certainly it was Next up on the run.
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Speaker 2: A puzzling and surprising response from the President when asked about the sharp rise in prices. Wonder if this had any impact or will have any further impact on the markets, because yes, the Labor Department reported yesterday that inflation rose four point two percent last month.
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Speaker 3: That's the highest jump in three years.
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Speaker 1: So that means people we are paying more for product, which is a bad thing. Uh uh. The President was asked about this. He was asked if he was concerned about the numbers. This was his response, and I quote, no, I love it. You know what, I really love inflation. He went on to explain romes that once the war's over, prices are going to drop. It's making an argument about things could have been worse, and so the inflation is a good thing. He's always talked about bringing prices down, bringing prices down. Sleepy Joe's economy is the one he got stuck with with price This was a value. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Does he think that because the numbers are high now based on his decisions, by the way, that when they come down he'll get credit for that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're setting up kind of a narrative here, possibly to say, hey told you to look at the prices are dropping because of something. He always also mentioned the secret mission. You see this, the secret mission the US had to escort ships through the straight of horror moves that's been going on. It was kind of confusing how he attached it to this, but he said that these one hundred million barrels of oil we've helped get through the straight of horror moves that helped the market in some way.
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Speaker 3: It could have been worse. That's I guess the narrative. Yeah, all right, Well, next up on the run.
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Speaker 2: Bill Gates was on Capitol Hill answering questions for six hours yesterday all about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, which he did call a grave error in judgment. He appeared before the House Oversight Committee, who has been calling very well notable powerful people there to testify as it conducts it's Epstein investigation.
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Speaker 1: Remind me they're investig the investigation or the investigating actual EBSTOC.
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Speaker 3: I think they're doing both, but they are.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I believe it's just a big old investigation because you know, they're transparent.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, his part of his transparency yesterday was telling them that he never saw or was aware of any criminal activity, and he also never hung out with Epstein socially, never went to the island, never was on the plane, and all this he said though Robes he was introduced to him through people he trusted and was initially talking to Epstein about philanthropic endeavors. But after he cut Epstein off Robes, that is when the disgrace financier and convicted sex offender quote had become aware of sensitive information about my personal life, including the fact that I had been unfaithful in my marriage and was working to use information about my infidelities to pressure me to re engage with him. It's part of the statement he gave the committee, as.
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Speaker 2: It's just surreal to think that we're still talking about this. You've got a billionaire philanthropist who is sitting there testifying before Congress, how many years after his death, and are we any closer to really knowing anything between nineteen yes, seven years later, you got Bill Gates.
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Speaker 1: One of the most influential people in business in the world has ever known, is answering questions before six out about this guy.
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Speaker 3: Yep, all right, it's amazing. It really is.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run, people in Chicago speaking of this.
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Speaker 3: This is just a deeply concerning story out of Chicago.
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Speaker 2: So they're asking for help from the public because they're trying to figure out who is responsible for burning a cross prominently placed in Grant Park this week.
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Speaker 3: Yes, this looked.
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Speaker 2: Like the nineteen fifties and sixties in Mississippi.
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Speaker 1: And it's unmistakable. This is a big This is a good sized cross.
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Speaker 3: It was huge.
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Speaker 1: I was thumbing in my head. I'm joining, it's hard to measure with seven eight feet. It was a cross.
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Speaker 3: It looked like the cross that Jesus Christ would be caring.
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Speaker 1: Down the street. Yes, and so this was propped up against a tree and lit. It is in fully engulfed. When you see it, frightening it is. And I don't think we have to remind folks necessarily rose, but this is one of the most frightening scenes in American history. Yes, and intimidating things you can see when it comes to race in this country. So this thing is in plain view. Pedestrians, motorists see it. People start taking videos of it. But police have now released a photo robes of someone, as they put it, was fleeing the scene, and they're asking anybody to come forward please, please come forward, please these kinds of scenes. I don't know what people are thinking, but this thing was big. Somebody had to make it.
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Speaker 3: This was a huge export to do this.
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Speaker 2: And so yes, I hope they find this person and this person pays a hefty price because this instills so much fear and intimidation.
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Speaker 3: And this is an act of violence that is absolute, erupts.
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Speaker 2: The piece and security of every certainly every black person who sees that image.
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Speaker 1: It's a terror image and actually is all right, folks, will stay with us on this Thursday morning run. You've been hearing so much about the World Cup, World Cup, World Cup. It's coming. No, actually it's here. It kicks off today. We'll tell you what's happening. Also, we got another incident on a plane. It calls the plane to be diverted because one passenger apparently couldn't keep his hands off the backside of a flight attendant. Stay here, all right, we continue here on this. You haven't said it.
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Speaker 3: Yet, baby Friday.
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Speaker 1: The thing I always complain about it for us, see, and yes it is is itation. Okay, there we go, and and that's something how it always works every time you say Friday, Eve, roll my eyes get annoy. You didn't say it this morning, and I'm upset. I'm complaining.
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Speaker 3: It's Friday eve, y'all.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that was Sabine that just came around the corner. We got she is up Oka, She's alive. All right, I continue on the run here now. Yes, did you realize Broe, we've been hearing about the World Cup so much? I didn't even it kind of snuck up on me. It starts today.
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Speaker 2: I actually had no idea. Very this is so exciting. We are we've been so caught up with the knicks and maybe perhaps getting our stuff together for later today that we Yes, it definitely fell between the cracks for me, The opening.
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Speaker 1: Match the World Cup fell between the cracks.
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Speaker 2: Yes, in my schedule, in my life, I forgot that today is the opening match in Mexico City.
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Speaker 3: It's Mexico versus South Africa.
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Speaker 1: This is gonna be a cool, cool scene. But it's three o'clock this afternoon is when it officially kicks off, and as folks know, it's all over North America and Mexico. It's happening in US and several sites in several cities. So very cool. And then South Korea Checchia play later in the day. The US Men don't play until tomorrow Paraguay. I'm not sure what time, but I think they're playing out in La.
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Speaker 3: Right, Yes, I believe that is correct. This is all very exciting.
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Speaker 2: It's about to get very fun rooting on the home team and certainly any other any other.
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Speaker 3: Do they have a favorite to win? I have no idea.
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Speaker 1: Yes they do have favorite. France is among the favorites.
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Speaker 2: That's all right, and so for our final leg of the run, let's keep this in travel mode. We're about to get on a plane today.
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Speaker 3: Hopefully we won't have an experience like this one. The plane was diverted.
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Speaker 2: An airline passenger is facing felony charges after an incident aboard a Delta flight. This was a flight headed to Los Angeles from Fort Lauderdale.
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Speaker 3: It's making so much sense. Wait for it, wait for it.
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Speaker 2: Nothing against Florida, but just a Fort Lauderdero resident.
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Speaker 3: This might makes okay, it had to be diverted to Atlanta.
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Speaker 2: You'll understand our laughter and just a moment, go ahead, okay again. The flight was headed to Los Angeles from Fort Lauderdale when it was diverted to Atlanta, a flight attendant reported she was assaulted by a passenger. What did he do? He smacked her on the button?
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Speaker 1: Okay, why would you do this? Did he think he was she was hot and he was flirting? Was it a sexual thing?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 3: Who knows.
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Speaker 1: But according to the criminal complaint, he smacked her on the backside robes with quote sufficient force to cause her body to move forward. She says that, and there's another flight attendant that backs up that saw the incident and says, yes, she was smacked so hard that her whole body moved.
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Speaker 3: Wow. Why so why did he do this?
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Speaker 1: What?
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Speaker 3: What could possibly have motivated him?
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Speaker 2: If he wasn't flirting with her, if he wasn't getting fresh with her. According to the complaint, the reason she skipped him during beverage service.
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Speaker 1: Yes, we've all seen this scene before, have we not? To me it's happening. Yes, Because sometimes they think you're asleep and they don't want to bother you. They might say it a couple of times, can I get you anything? You don't get it, They don't get a response, they move on. Well, she thought he was asleep, so she was doing the considerate thing and moving on. He needed to get her attention.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we smacked her in the ass. Yes, you know, the last time I asked got grabbed by a stranger. It was in Florida. Where in Florida, Georgia Florida game crowd. It was the Florida fans. Sure, yes, they were calling.
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Speaker 2: Us dogs and being rude. So, yes, Florida. That's just been my experience.
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Speaker 3: Or but it was a grab.
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Speaker 1: Smack, This was apparently a smack. But yes, I thought he was asleep. She actually reported it to her bad the lead flight attendant, who told the pilot, who didn't want to take any risk about what was going on and diverted the.
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Speaker 2: Plane because how annoyed do you think You're going to Los Angeles and you end up at the Atlanta Airport trying to get back on another plane. Oh that is a nightmare. Oh my god, what a jerk.
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Speaker 3: Oh right, let's hope we have a little bit of a more peaceful experience on our flight.
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Speaker 1: Well I hope you do, because I assume your ass would be the one getting smacked.
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Speaker 3: My ass is going to be in the seat sleeping, and.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to be the smacker. Of course, it's going to.
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Speaker 3: Be planted in that in that seat all seven hours.
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Speaker 2: All right, we will leave you on this Friday Eve with our quote of the day. I really like we A lot of these are all the same version saying the same thing, but I love the way this one was put.
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Speaker 3: Most people are never fully present.
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Speaker 2: Their mind is trapped suffering somewhere else, either reliving pain or anticipating it. Oh yeah, that one hit home.
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Speaker 1: I am. I'm waiting right now for something to go wrong later as I planning the day. We got travel, we got packing to do, we got so much work to do, and oh yeah, got text stuff. I can't wait go wrong. I'm not staying in this moment right now.
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Speaker 2: That's chosen suffering and then we all do it. But it's so interesting when they put it that way. We're either reliving pain or we're anticipating it.
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Speaker 3: That's so crazy. Why do we do that?
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Speaker 1: Will you hurry over this? I got other stuff. I got some pain to go get it right now?
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Speaker 2: As we live in the present, Let's just have this once more as a reminder maybe to do something different today.
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Speaker 3: Most people are never fully present.
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Speaker 2: Their mind is trapped suffering somewhere else, either reliving pain or anticipating it. Hey, that the truth. All right, let's change things up today. So thank you everyone for running with us on this Friday Eve.
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Speaker 1: I'm Mami Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. We'll run sick, hey,