Oct. 14, 2026
(Wednesday) Morning Run: Rough 1st Day at WH, Mom Accused of Murdering Family, Pope’s Lung Cancer, Cornell Frat Ban, FL Inmate’s Last Words, Clarkson Bird Now $15M, & MORE!
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast.
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Speaker 3: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your Morning Run. It is Wednesday, October 14th.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. And President Trump is on one right now. He had one of his robes. These are now classic truth social posting sprees. And he has posted a video that is, frankly, shocking. And it's an AI video. This is stunning stuff. It's bizarre behavior.
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Speaker 3: It is. It's showing him successfully wrestling a tiger in an open lawn scenario, which was eerily similar to what we just saw happen in a, it was in the UK, a man who got into a tiger enclosure who was mauled to death.
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Speaker 1: And died, yes.
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Speaker 2: And died, yes.
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Speaker 3: And then, so Trump has that video up first and then has an AI video of himself like actually wrestling a tiger and then becoming friends with it.
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Speaker 4: At the end?
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Speaker 1: In the same position that the man was who died, on the same lawn with the same tiger, he's produced an AI video of himself wrestling and playing with that tiger, and then they're holding each other and their heads are next to each other, smiling, him and the tiger at the end. Rose, it's just, is that funny?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: Is that clever? Is that always just Trump? I don't, babe, that is really bizarre. video and it's.
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Speaker 3: Not even too soon i mean it was literally on the day it happened and it wouldn't even matter if it was a year later it's still in bad taste what was the caption he had about don't ever mess.
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Speaker 1: With nature that's what he put on the one with the guy dying yes put that video up he stopped short i guess didn't show the end when the man actually dies but man so yeah folks good morning to you on this wednesday this hump day uh yes the president's true social is worth checking out today with A lot of folks are talking about it. We'll be talking about that one today. What else are folks going to be talking about? Yes, the White House new press secretary, and we will get into that on the morning run this morning as well. We'll be making stops in Vegas, the Poconos, Central Park, Ithaca, New York, Brooklyn, Florida, Cobb County, Georgia, as well as making a stop at a hospital in Rome. But Robes, let's start with you. A rocky day, a rocky start. That's the kindest way probably to put it for Katie Zachariah.
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Speaker 3: It was a tough first impression, but if nothing else, it's a new day. How about that for the new White House press secretary, Katie Zachariah, after her initial press briefing yesterday was widely panned as odd, brutal, weird, short, shocking, you name it.
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Speaker 2: It was probably attributed to it.
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Speaker 1: Yes, this one only lasted 14 minutes, but get this, eight minutes of that was her reading a prepared statement. It was clear, and it's understandable. She was nervous at the time. The woman can read, obviously. She just didn't read through these notes very well. Maybe it was new to her, and she was just nervous. Babe, that's okay. That's not being mean to her by pointing it out.
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Speaker 3: She didn't read any of it with conviction also, and then didn't know the answer to the only news question she was asked.
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Speaker 2: So it was tough. It was tough.
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Speaker 1: She got just a few questions from a few reporters because she only called on three, and they happened to be from Fox News, Breitbart, and the Daily Mail. There was one point that's well-robed. I guess it was maybe a cute moment, but it was weird, too, where she was trying to mention her husband, and she said Trump instead, mentioned the president instead. It was just odd. It was a rough start.
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Speaker 2: It could have been cute.
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Speaker 1: It ended up just being awkward.
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Speaker 3: Because of how she wasn't able to manage it. Ah, well, her rough day, that was just the beginning. It continued outside the White House briefing room as reporters asked her about her background and her credentials. In particular, Zachariah has presented herself as an attorney. Trump has described her as an attorney in media appearances. According to her resume, she served as, quote, general counsel to.
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Speaker 2: An organization in California.
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Speaker 3: And yes, the president referred to her as attorney in his Truth Social post announcing her new position.
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Speaker 1: However, nobody, and I mean nobody, can find record of her ever passing the bar anywhere. In fact, there's one independent journalist who says he literally... checked all 50 state bars. She has never been barred in any one of them. So that's one thing. But during the press gaggle before heading out to Alaska, President Trump was asked where she'd passed the bar. The president didn't know. And I think quite innocently, Robes, it was a genuine moment. He just turned to her, didn't think it was a big deal, and asked, hey, where'd you pass the bar? That was the question. She was standing behind him. And this one, things got a little more awkward.
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Speaker 3: Yes, because her response was, When I moved to China, they asked again, in what state did you pass the bar?
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Speaker 2: When I moved to China.
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Speaker 1: And that's it.
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Speaker 3: What does that mean? This is a pretty big mess. It hasn't been cleared up. And, yeah, you don't want to start off your first day with a rough press conference and then be shown to potentially have, if, I.
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Speaker 2: Guess I'm saying the kindest way to say it.
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Speaker 1: Misrepresent it?
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Misrepresented your credentials.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And mind you, you do not have to be a practicing attorney. It is not a requirement to do this job. It's not even necessary, Robes. And that's not the point. The point being, on day one, you have a woman up there who it appears, Robes, has misrepresented for years and even let the president go out there and say something that was not true. He does not usually take kindly to things like that. We will see how it goes. Hope she does better. Hope she's okay. But it was a rough day for her yesterday. Rough start.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the run, this is a really tough story. Police say a woman stabbed and killed her three-year-old son and her husband in their resort hotel room. This happened, and we see these commercials all the time where we are here in New York City. This happened at the popular Great Wolf Lodge in the Poconos Mountains. And police say they were alerted to the emergency by the woman herself.
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Speaker 1: The woman is 27-year-old Metallica Harrison. That's her name, Metallica Harrison. She has now been charged with two counts of murder after police say she called 911 asking for help dying. Now, the call came in around 3 in the afternoon on Monday, and police say she told the 911 dispatcher, and I quote, I don't want to be here anymore. And that, quote, she needed help dying and was unable to find the vein in her neck to stab, end quote.
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Speaker 3: Police found a bloody scene in the room when they arrived, and they say Harrison had superficial puncture wounds, on both her neck and her wrist. She talked a bunch in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, but right now they don't have a motive in this case, but she is facing murder charges.
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Speaker 1: They said the husband was stabbed several times and the three-year-old once in the chest. And just nobody can make sense of this. They were there since September 21st. Yeah, I saw that. That's like an extended period of time. Yeah. What in God's name happened? We will have a fuller breakdown of this story and more of the details that Roe, some of them start to sound familiar, given some of the, not just Lindsay Clancy, there've been other cases where some of this stuff starts to sound familiar.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run.
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Speaker 3: We got word from the Vatican that Pope Leo has officially been diagnosed with lung cancer. He checked into the hospital yesterday to have that nodular lesion removed from his lung. And though the Vatican called the surgery successful, doctors did confirm after that surgery that that nodule was malignant.
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Speaker 1: So we don't know a whole lot more. The Vatican did not give details about what stage the cancer might have been in. It didn't spread anywhere. What is further treatment? Might be, Rob, but for now they are, I guess, putting the best spin on this. And for now, the prognosis of he was caught early could be just fine, but he's recovering in the hospital and awake and doing just fine. And Rob, I can't see anywhere any evidence that he's ever been a smoker.
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Speaker 3: That's always so, so concerning that you have, and this is something that obviously happens. You get secondhand smoke or you just, lung cancer can occur to non-smokers, but Certainly we hope for more information from the Vatican.
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Speaker 2: But we wish Pope Leo the very best. It's going to be a tough road.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure Kimo is next and he'll... He'll have a hell of a year at the very least.
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Speaker 1: Is that always a requirement? I mean, because they took out part of it as long as they said. Can you cut that out and it's done and everything's gone and you still got to treat something else?
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Speaker 3: No, because with cancer, the reality is we don't know and we obviously might not ever know if it's spread, but there's always a risk that it's gone into your bloodstream and then that's where it travels and can metastasize.
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Speaker 2: But still, just having it in your lungs is.
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Speaker 3: is a big deal is enough i mean this is one of those cancers where yes if it gets too aggressive and it comes back obviously um it could be fatal but we will keep our eye on that developing story in the meantime though next up on the run in the most unsurprising news of the day kimberly guilfoyle has officially resigned as u.s ambassador to greece yeah the writing was all over the wall on this one um the on the wall right was all over this.
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Speaker 1: Wall The writing was on the wall, is what they're saying. But I was trying to put emphasis here. It was all over this wall. and i didn't read it right.
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Speaker 4: Got it all right the former fiance to donald trump jr was outed in a wall street journal report for allegedly trying to trade her political influence for cold hard cash and a lot of.
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Speaker 1: It in particular yes the headline grabbing part of this was that she asked for a hundred thousand dollars for her credit card bill to be paid off by a Republican donor in exchange for access to top administration officials. Now, in her first press conference as press secretary, Katie Zachariah revealed the president had asked Gil Boyle to resign. And sure enough, by the end of the day, she was out of there.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the run, Cornell has banned all parties and social events at fraternities on campus for the rest of the academic year. This is the latest response to the shocking allegations laid out in that lawsuit filed by a former student who says she was gang raped at the Chi Phi house on campus back in 2024. No criminal charges were ever filed, though the students were disciplined by the school. Of course, that criminal investigation has been reopened. Attorney General Letitia James has taken over and we shall see if there will be, in fact, criminal charges resulting from all of that.
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Speaker 1: All right. Our next leg of our run takes us down to Florida, where that state carried out its nation-leading 17th execution of the year last night. James Chickenhead Robertson was declared dead at 12.32 p.m. after being administered a lethal injection. Yes, I said the execution was last night. This one was actually at noon. There were supposed to be two yesterday. The other one got not commuted, but what, delayed by the governor down there. So this one happened at noon. And Rose, again, it seems like this lethal injection went off without a hitch.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Robertson had been on death row for the 2008 strangulation death of his cellmate. Robertson claimed he'd grown tired of general population imprisonment and he killed his cellmate for the purpose of getting on death row where he says there were, and it appears there are, better conditions for inmates. When asked yesterday if he had any last words, Robertson responded, nah, I'm straight.
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Speaker 1: That kind of reads. We watched his videos, babe. We watched his interviews on that I Am A Killer show on Netflix. You could hear him saying that. That sounds exactly like how he talks and what he would have said. No, I'm straight.
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Speaker 2: Throwing his head back, laughing. Premeditated murder. Yep, I did it. And zero regrets because of it.
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Speaker 1: He got what he wanted.
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Speaker 3: He did.
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Speaker 1: All right, continue on the run here now. Head out to Vegas where the man convicted for the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur was sentenced yesterday to 40 years to life In prison, we're talking about Dwayne Davis, convicted this summer of first-degree murder for orchestrating the 1996 Vegas strip shooting.
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Speaker 3: He wasn't the trigger man, but he is the one who provided the gun, put the plan in place, and he is the only person to ever face charges for the death of Tupac. He's the only one alive who was in that other vehicle where the shots rang out from that ended up taking Tupac's life.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run here now is Head to Six Flags. They have announced closing nine roller coasters across North America following that deadly incident in Georgia. Investigators still trying to figure out how a man riding the Goliath roller coaster was ejected from his seat before hitting the ground. several people, and then falling to his death.
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Speaker 3: Yes, several people were injured in addition to him. And we did learn who the victim was, 42-year-old Hassan Jihad Kareem. He was an Atlanta public school worker, a beloved worker. People are remembering him fondly. But just so you know, Goliath, and TJ, you used to live literally next door to Six Flags Atlanta, but.
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Speaker 2: You could see the roller coaster. You can see it.
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Speaker 3: It It towers above all the other rides. It's the largest roller coaster, the tallest roller coaster there. But it doesn't even take riders upside down. It just has a series of hills and turns. It goes up to 70 miles per hour. There are no seat belts, just lap bars that pull down over the rider's legs and waist. So they're looking into whether there were problems with that lap bar. And these nine roller coasters they closed down are roller coasters similar.
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Speaker 2: One of them even has the name Goliath.
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Speaker 3: And so out of an abundance of caution, they're just re-evaluating all of them. But honestly, after seeing this, and so many people witnessed his death. There are so many descriptions of what it looked like. And I mean, I can't imagine. People were there with their kids and they saw this.
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Speaker 1: Robes, I lived in that neighborhood for 15 years, had a house there. Only went to Six Flags once with Sabine. And the day we went, two people. One of them we literally got pulled off of. We were in the seat because they couldn't get the latch, the thing you just described, to work. They wouldn't stay down. They closed the ride while we were sitting in the seats.
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Speaker 2: That's so scary.
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Speaker 1: And we got off and walked off. Another one we got in line for. Same thing. We were a little distance. They closed the ride ahead of time. Also that day, we didn't ride it. The swings that go around and around. We walked by. People were stuck. The day we went, those three things happened. That is a true story. Sabine will tell you this. Robes, I didn't think about it until you just said the lap bar thing. We were in it, sitting.
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Speaker 2: That's so frightening.
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Speaker 1: And they said, this is closed. Everybody get out.
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Speaker 3: Every time you get nervous if we go do something, I always just say, trust the equipment.
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Speaker 2: You got to trust the equipment. But now, should you?
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Speaker 1: I didn't think about that until you mentioned the lap part. All right. Well, stay with us here on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back, we have updates on the Kelly Clarkson versus the Brooklyn specialty shop. One of the updates is absolutely hilarious. The other is a little disturbing. We'll explain. Also, Central Park. Are you kidding me? It is going to possibly look a lot different in just a short couple of years. One of the most iconic things in the park could be going away.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everyone, to your Wednesday morning run. Remember that $ 15, 000 mechanical bird that Kelly Clarkson wanted to buy at that Brooklyn specialty store?
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Speaker 2: Well, guess what? It's now for sale. For $ 15 million.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty good, right?
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Speaker 2: I like it.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: They're having some fun with it.
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Speaker 1: This is the latest move, and it's back and forth between Clarkson and Art of Play, the Brooklyn shop. She blasted online recently for giving her the pretty woman treatment. She said what? They eyeballed her up and down, looked at her like she couldn't afford it, and gave her some BS answer about why they couldn't sell this one. Obviously, Rose, we remember this. They said it's the mascot. It's permanently attached to the wall. We can't sell you this one. But we can get you another one, a twin, but it's not here right now.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: And they showed her a $ 2, 000 one, and she seemed to be offended by that. So that started the whole mess.
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Speaker 3: Woo, woo. So that's right. They have now released, or it's been found, the store video. She was in the store for, I believe, just under five minutes.
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Speaker 1: Under five.
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Speaker 2: As the store owner said.
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Speaker 3: And you can see her when she's leaving, turn around, and just like her arms, she's... She's upset, you can tell. And she's like pointing at the bird and she doesn't, she looks like the one who started to get all upset. And then she immediately pulls out her phone. when she gets out of the store. And it looks like within her leaving that store and her posting, it was 15 minutes.
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Speaker 2: So she posted out of anger.
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Speaker 1: We said that exact thing.
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Speaker 3: Obviously.
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Speaker 1: She got in the car and put that thing together.
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Speaker 3: But now the store owner is saying that her posts have put his staff in danger, that they're actually getting death threats.
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Speaker 1: We knew possibly that was going to happen. He called it, what, social warfare? Like, you used your platform to attack us in this way. We're going to have a fuller breakdown of this. Yes, saying that Bird is now $ 15 million is pretty clever. I think it's funny. But he said, yeah, huge demand for that bird.
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Speaker 2: Dude, a huge demand.
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Speaker 3: All right. And for the final leg of our run, imagine Central Park without the horse-drawn carriage rides.
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Speaker 2: Well, guess what? That day could be coming, and it could be coming soon.
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Speaker 1: Robes, an agreement has been reached between the mayor of New York and the city council president. This is a big deal. They have reached an agreement, so they're on the same page about this. So now they expect to put this before a full city council vote as early as next week. They do expect to have the votes to pass, and the carriages would be banned in the park starting June of 2028. Robes, you know a lot of animal rights folks in this city. We see it come up all the time. Have been fighting and fighting and fighting and want Want this done. Okay. And I get that part of it. I mean, but still, baby, this is New York. That's Central Park. And that's just nostalgia.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 2: There is an iconic.
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Speaker 1: It's iconic.
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Speaker 3: We were just in the park this past weekend and we're looking at the carriage rides. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 2: But look, there was that.
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Speaker 3: He was 17, 18 years old who died over the summer. First trip to New York. Family came in from India, I believe, to celebrate a graduation. And the carriage rides. I guess the handler stepped away to take a picture of the family. And when he was taking this photo of the family, the horse went rogue, got spooked. The mom falls out. The son goes to try to save her. He falls out and he ends up just landing wrong, hitting his head in the wrong way and died. So that really was the catalyst for this new push.
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Speaker 1: And I get it. And we didn't think about it at all. We just happened to say, nice weekend. We have very few left. Let's just go to the park. And you, me, and Sabine sitting there at Tavern to Go. Tavern on the Green. Tavern to Go, yes. Didn't even think about what we're just sitting there having a drink and looking out and all of a sudden, We're just staring and doing commentary on all the carriages going by. Robes is just a, you don't even think about it. We're like, oh, that's cool. Look at that family. Oh, that's cool. It's just a part of the park. And I get it. But, man.
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Speaker 2: Not going to be sticking around for much longer.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: And for everyone here on this hump day, this is your Wednesday quote of the day.
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Speaker 3: Short and sweet, but I loved it. Do more of what makes you forget your phone.
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Speaker 1: Oh, man, yeah. Man, yeah, but would people have a hard time coming up with that? Coming up with something that you do in day-to-day life that actually you don't even think about, I need to check my phone, look at my phone, or Yeah.
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Speaker 2: You know, you and I are in a good place. And I think we've been able to do it a few times.
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Speaker 3: Most of the time, if we have our girls with us, everyone we need or worry about or need to keep a phone close to us because of is here. So phones away, pictures only. That's the only time. But I love those moments when you and I are just doing our thing. Like, wait, I haven't even looked at my phone. And, you know, that's the moment. So I just love that quote of the day. Remember, do more of what makes you forget your phone. And with that, everyone, thank you for running with us. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Run soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast.
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Speaker 3: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your Morning Run. It is Wednesday, October 14th.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. And President Trump is on one right now. He had one of his robes. These are now classic truth social posting sprees. And he has posted a video that is, frankly, shocking. And it's an AI video. This is stunning stuff. It's bizarre behavior.
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Speaker 3: It is. It's showing him successfully wrestling a tiger in an open lawn scenario, which was eerily similar to what we just saw happen in a, it was in the UK, a man who got into a tiger enclosure who was mauled to death.
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Speaker 1: And died, yes.
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Speaker 2: And died, yes.
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Speaker 3: And then, so Trump has that video up first and then has an AI video of himself like actually wrestling a tiger and then becoming friends with it.
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Speaker 4: At the end?
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Speaker 1: In the same position that the man was who died, on the same lawn with the same tiger, he's produced an AI video of himself wrestling and playing with that tiger, and then they're holding each other and their heads are next to each other, smiling, him and the tiger at the end. Rose, it's just, is that funny?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: Is that clever? Is that always just Trump? I don't, babe, that is really bizarre. video and it's.
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Speaker 3: Not even too soon i mean it was literally on the day it happened and it wouldn't even matter if it was a year later it's still in bad taste what was the caption he had about don't ever mess.
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Speaker 1: With nature that's what he put on the one with the guy dying yes put that video up he stopped short i guess didn't show the end when the man actually dies but man so yeah folks good morning to you on this wednesday this hump day uh yes the president's true social is worth checking out today with A lot of folks are talking about it. We'll be talking about that one today. What else are folks going to be talking about? Yes, the White House new press secretary, and we will get into that on the morning run this morning as well. We'll be making stops in Vegas, the Poconos, Central Park, Ithaca, New York, Brooklyn, Florida, Cobb County, Georgia, as well as making a stop at a hospital in Rome. But Robes, let's start with you. A rocky day, a rocky start. That's the kindest way probably to put it for Katie Zachariah.
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Speaker 3: It was a tough first impression, but if nothing else, it's a new day. How about that for the new White House press secretary, Katie Zachariah, after her initial press briefing yesterday was widely panned as odd, brutal, weird, short, shocking, you name it.
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Speaker 2: It was probably attributed to it.
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Speaker 1: Yes, this one only lasted 14 minutes, but get this, eight minutes of that was her reading a prepared statement. It was clear, and it's understandable. She was nervous at the time. The woman can read, obviously. She just didn't read through these notes very well. Maybe it was new to her, and she was just nervous. Babe, that's okay. That's not being mean to her by pointing it out.
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Speaker 3: She didn't read any of it with conviction also, and then didn't know the answer to the only news question she was asked.
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Speaker 2: So it was tough. It was tough.
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Speaker 1: She got just a few questions from a few reporters because she only called on three, and they happened to be from Fox News, Breitbart, and the Daily Mail. There was one point that's well-robed. I guess it was maybe a cute moment, but it was weird, too, where she was trying to mention her husband, and she said Trump instead, mentioned the president instead. It was just odd. It was a rough start.
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Speaker 2: It could have been cute.
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Speaker 1: It ended up just being awkward.
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Speaker 3: Because of how she wasn't able to manage it. Ah, well, her rough day, that was just the beginning. It continued outside the White House briefing room as reporters asked her about her background and her credentials. In particular, Zachariah has presented herself as an attorney. Trump has described her as an attorney in media appearances. According to her resume, she served as, quote, general counsel to.
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Speaker 2: An organization in California.
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Speaker 3: And yes, the president referred to her as attorney in his Truth Social post announcing her new position.
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Speaker 1: However, nobody, and I mean nobody, can find record of her ever passing the bar anywhere. In fact, there's one independent journalist who says he literally... checked all 50 state bars. She has never been barred in any one of them. So that's one thing. But during the press gaggle before heading out to Alaska, President Trump was asked where she'd passed the bar. The president didn't know. And I think quite innocently, Robes, it was a genuine moment. He just turned to her, didn't think it was a big deal, and asked, hey, where'd you pass the bar? That was the question. She was standing behind him. And this one, things got a little more awkward.
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Speaker 3: Yes, because her response was, When I moved to China, they asked again, in what state did you pass the bar?
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Speaker 2: When I moved to China.
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Speaker 1: And that's it.
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Speaker 3: What does that mean? This is a pretty big mess. It hasn't been cleared up. And, yeah, you don't want to start off your first day with a rough press conference and then be shown to potentially have, if, I.
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Speaker 2: Guess I'm saying the kindest way to say it.
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Speaker 1: Misrepresent it?
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Misrepresented your credentials.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And mind you, you do not have to be a practicing attorney. It is not a requirement to do this job. It's not even necessary, Robes. And that's not the point. The point being, on day one, you have a woman up there who it appears, Robes, has misrepresented for years and even let the president go out there and say something that was not true. He does not usually take kindly to things like that. We will see how it goes. Hope she does better. Hope she's okay. But it was a rough day for her yesterday. Rough start.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the run, this is a really tough story. Police say a woman stabbed and killed her three-year-old son and her husband in their resort hotel room. This happened, and we see these commercials all the time where we are here in New York City. This happened at the popular Great Wolf Lodge in the Poconos Mountains. And police say they were alerted to the emergency by the woman herself.
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Speaker 1: The woman is 27-year-old Metallica Harrison. That's her name, Metallica Harrison. She has now been charged with two counts of murder after police say she called 911 asking for help dying. Now, the call came in around 3 in the afternoon on Monday, and police say she told the 911 dispatcher, and I quote, I don't want to be here anymore. And that, quote, she needed help dying and was unable to find the vein in her neck to stab, end quote.
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Speaker 3: Police found a bloody scene in the room when they arrived, and they say Harrison had superficial puncture wounds, on both her neck and her wrist. She talked a bunch in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, but right now they don't have a motive in this case, but she is facing murder charges.
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Speaker 1: They said the husband was stabbed several times and the three-year-old once in the chest. And just nobody can make sense of this. They were there since September 21st. Yeah, I saw that. That's like an extended period of time. Yeah. What in God's name happened? We will have a fuller breakdown of this story and more of the details that Roe, some of them start to sound familiar, given some of the, not just Lindsay Clancy, there've been other cases where some of this stuff starts to sound familiar.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run.
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Speaker 3: We got word from the Vatican that Pope Leo has officially been diagnosed with lung cancer. He checked into the hospital yesterday to have that nodular lesion removed from his lung. And though the Vatican called the surgery successful, doctors did confirm after that surgery that that nodule was malignant.
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Speaker 1: So we don't know a whole lot more. The Vatican did not give details about what stage the cancer might have been in. It didn't spread anywhere. What is further treatment? Might be, Rob, but for now they are, I guess, putting the best spin on this. And for now, the prognosis of he was caught early could be just fine, but he's recovering in the hospital and awake and doing just fine. And Rob, I can't see anywhere any evidence that he's ever been a smoker.
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Speaker 3: That's always so, so concerning that you have, and this is something that obviously happens. You get secondhand smoke or you just, lung cancer can occur to non-smokers, but Certainly we hope for more information from the Vatican.
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Speaker 2: But we wish Pope Leo the very best. It's going to be a tough road.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure Kimo is next and he'll... He'll have a hell of a year at the very least.
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Speaker 1: Is that always a requirement? I mean, because they took out part of it as long as they said. Can you cut that out and it's done and everything's gone and you still got to treat something else?
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Speaker 3: No, because with cancer, the reality is we don't know and we obviously might not ever know if it's spread, but there's always a risk that it's gone into your bloodstream and then that's where it travels and can metastasize.
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Speaker 2: But still, just having it in your lungs is.
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Speaker 3: is a big deal is enough i mean this is one of those cancers where yes if it gets too aggressive and it comes back obviously um it could be fatal but we will keep our eye on that developing story in the meantime though next up on the run in the most unsurprising news of the day kimberly guilfoyle has officially resigned as u.s ambassador to greece yeah the writing was all over the wall on this one um the on the wall right was all over this.
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Speaker 1: Wall The writing was on the wall, is what they're saying. But I was trying to put emphasis here. It was all over this wall. and i didn't read it right.
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Speaker 4: Got it all right the former fiance to donald trump jr was outed in a wall street journal report for allegedly trying to trade her political influence for cold hard cash and a lot of.
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Speaker 1: It in particular yes the headline grabbing part of this was that she asked for a hundred thousand dollars for her credit card bill to be paid off by a Republican donor in exchange for access to top administration officials. Now, in her first press conference as press secretary, Katie Zachariah revealed the president had asked Gil Boyle to resign. And sure enough, by the end of the day, she was out of there.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the run, Cornell has banned all parties and social events at fraternities on campus for the rest of the academic year. This is the latest response to the shocking allegations laid out in that lawsuit filed by a former student who says she was gang raped at the Chi Phi house on campus back in 2024. No criminal charges were ever filed, though the students were disciplined by the school. Of course, that criminal investigation has been reopened. Attorney General Letitia James has taken over and we shall see if there will be, in fact, criminal charges resulting from all of that.
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Speaker 1: All right. Our next leg of our run takes us down to Florida, where that state carried out its nation-leading 17th execution of the year last night. James Chickenhead Robertson was declared dead at 12.32 p.m. after being administered a lethal injection. Yes, I said the execution was last night. This one was actually at noon. There were supposed to be two yesterday. The other one got not commuted, but what, delayed by the governor down there. So this one happened at noon. And Rose, again, it seems like this lethal injection went off without a hitch.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Robertson had been on death row for the 2008 strangulation death of his cellmate. Robertson claimed he'd grown tired of general population imprisonment and he killed his cellmate for the purpose of getting on death row where he says there were, and it appears there are, better conditions for inmates. When asked yesterday if he had any last words, Robertson responded, nah, I'm straight.
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Speaker 1: That kind of reads. We watched his videos, babe. We watched his interviews on that I Am A Killer show on Netflix. You could hear him saying that. That sounds exactly like how he talks and what he would have said. No, I'm straight.
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Speaker 2: Throwing his head back, laughing. Premeditated murder. Yep, I did it. And zero regrets because of it.
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Speaker 1: He got what he wanted.
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Speaker 3: He did.
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Speaker 1: All right, continue on the run here now. Head out to Vegas where the man convicted for the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur was sentenced yesterday to 40 years to life In prison, we're talking about Dwayne Davis, convicted this summer of first-degree murder for orchestrating the 1996 Vegas strip shooting.
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Speaker 3: He wasn't the trigger man, but he is the one who provided the gun, put the plan in place, and he is the only person to ever face charges for the death of Tupac. He's the only one alive who was in that other vehicle where the shots rang out from that ended up taking Tupac's life.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run here now is Head to Six Flags. They have announced closing nine roller coasters across North America following that deadly incident in Georgia. Investigators still trying to figure out how a man riding the Goliath roller coaster was ejected from his seat before hitting the ground. several people, and then falling to his death.
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Speaker 3: Yes, several people were injured in addition to him. And we did learn who the victim was, 42-year-old Hassan Jihad Kareem. He was an Atlanta public school worker, a beloved worker. People are remembering him fondly. But just so you know, Goliath, and TJ, you used to live literally next door to Six Flags Atlanta, but.
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Speaker 2: You could see the roller coaster. You can see it.
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Speaker 3: It It towers above all the other rides. It's the largest roller coaster, the tallest roller coaster there. But it doesn't even take riders upside down. It just has a series of hills and turns. It goes up to 70 miles per hour. There are no seat belts, just lap bars that pull down over the rider's legs and waist. So they're looking into whether there were problems with that lap bar. And these nine roller coasters they closed down are roller coasters similar.
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Speaker 2: One of them even has the name Goliath.
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Speaker 3: And so out of an abundance of caution, they're just re-evaluating all of them. But honestly, after seeing this, and so many people witnessed his death. There are so many descriptions of what it looked like. And I mean, I can't imagine. People were there with their kids and they saw this.
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Speaker 1: Robes, I lived in that neighborhood for 15 years, had a house there. Only went to Six Flags once with Sabine. And the day we went, two people. One of them we literally got pulled off of. We were in the seat because they couldn't get the latch, the thing you just described, to work. They wouldn't stay down. They closed the ride while we were sitting in the seats.
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Speaker 2: That's so scary.
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Speaker 1: And we got off and walked off. Another one we got in line for. Same thing. We were a little distance. They closed the ride ahead of time. Also that day, we didn't ride it. The swings that go around and around. We walked by. People were stuck. The day we went, those three things happened. That is a true story. Sabine will tell you this. Robes, I didn't think about it until you just said the lap bar thing. We were in it, sitting.
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Speaker 2: That's so frightening.
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Speaker 1: And they said, this is closed. Everybody get out.
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Speaker 3: Every time you get nervous if we go do something, I always just say, trust the equipment.
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Speaker 2: You got to trust the equipment. But now, should you?
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Speaker 1: I didn't think about that until you mentioned the lap part. All right. Well, stay with us here on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back, we have updates on the Kelly Clarkson versus the Brooklyn specialty shop. One of the updates is absolutely hilarious. The other is a little disturbing. We'll explain. Also, Central Park. Are you kidding me? It is going to possibly look a lot different in just a short couple of years. One of the most iconic things in the park could be going away.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everyone, to your Wednesday morning run. Remember that $ 15, 000 mechanical bird that Kelly Clarkson wanted to buy at that Brooklyn specialty store?
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Speaker 2: Well, guess what? It's now for sale. For $ 15 million.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty good, right?
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Speaker 2: I like it.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: They're having some fun with it.
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Speaker 1: This is the latest move, and it's back and forth between Clarkson and Art of Play, the Brooklyn shop. She blasted online recently for giving her the pretty woman treatment. She said what? They eyeballed her up and down, looked at her like she couldn't afford it, and gave her some BS answer about why they couldn't sell this one. Obviously, Rose, we remember this. They said it's the mascot. It's permanently attached to the wall. We can't sell you this one. But we can get you another one, a twin, but it's not here right now.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: And they showed her a $ 2, 000 one, and she seemed to be offended by that. So that started the whole mess.
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Speaker 3: Woo, woo. So that's right. They have now released, or it's been found, the store video. She was in the store for, I believe, just under five minutes.
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Speaker 1: Under five.
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Speaker 2: As the store owner said.
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Speaker 3: And you can see her when she's leaving, turn around, and just like her arms, she's... She's upset, you can tell. And she's like pointing at the bird and she doesn't, she looks like the one who started to get all upset. And then she immediately pulls out her phone. when she gets out of the store. And it looks like within her leaving that store and her posting, it was 15 minutes.
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Speaker 2: So she posted out of anger.
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Speaker 1: We said that exact thing.
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Speaker 3: Obviously.
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Speaker 1: She got in the car and put that thing together.
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Speaker 3: But now the store owner is saying that her posts have put his staff in danger, that they're actually getting death threats.
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Speaker 1: We knew possibly that was going to happen. He called it, what, social warfare? Like, you used your platform to attack us in this way. We're going to have a fuller breakdown of this. Yes, saying that Bird is now $ 15 million is pretty clever. I think it's funny. But he said, yeah, huge demand for that bird.
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Speaker 2: Dude, a huge demand.
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Speaker 3: All right. And for the final leg of our run, imagine Central Park without the horse-drawn carriage rides.
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Speaker 2: Well, guess what? That day could be coming, and it could be coming soon.
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Speaker 1: Robes, an agreement has been reached between the mayor of New York and the city council president. This is a big deal. They have reached an agreement, so they're on the same page about this. So now they expect to put this before a full city council vote as early as next week. They do expect to have the votes to pass, and the carriages would be banned in the park starting June of 2028. Robes, you know a lot of animal rights folks in this city. We see it come up all the time. Have been fighting and fighting and fighting and want Want this done. Okay. And I get that part of it. I mean, but still, baby, this is New York. That's Central Park. And that's just nostalgia.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 2: There is an iconic.
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Speaker 1: It's iconic.
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Speaker 3: We were just in the park this past weekend and we're looking at the carriage rides. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 2: But look, there was that.
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Speaker 3: He was 17, 18 years old who died over the summer. First trip to New York. Family came in from India, I believe, to celebrate a graduation. And the carriage rides. I guess the handler stepped away to take a picture of the family. And when he was taking this photo of the family, the horse went rogue, got spooked. The mom falls out. The son goes to try to save her. He falls out and he ends up just landing wrong, hitting his head in the wrong way and died. So that really was the catalyst for this new push.
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Speaker 1: And I get it. And we didn't think about it at all. We just happened to say, nice weekend. We have very few left. Let's just go to the park. And you, me, and Sabine sitting there at Tavern to Go. Tavern on the Green. Tavern to Go, yes. Didn't even think about what we're just sitting there having a drink and looking out and all of a sudden, We're just staring and doing commentary on all the carriages going by. Robes is just a, you don't even think about it. We're like, oh, that's cool. Look at that family. Oh, that's cool. It's just a part of the park. And I get it. But, man.
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Speaker 2: Not going to be sticking around for much longer.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: And for everyone here on this hump day, this is your Wednesday quote of the day.
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Speaker 3: Short and sweet, but I loved it. Do more of what makes you forget your phone.
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Speaker 1: Oh, man, yeah. Man, yeah, but would people have a hard time coming up with that? Coming up with something that you do in day-to-day life that actually you don't even think about, I need to check my phone, look at my phone, or Yeah.
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Speaker 2: You know, you and I are in a good place. And I think we've been able to do it a few times.
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Speaker 3: Most of the time, if we have our girls with us, everyone we need or worry about or need to keep a phone close to us because of is here. So phones away, pictures only. That's the only time. But I love those moments when you and I are just doing our thing. Like, wait, I haven't even looked at my phone. And, you know, that's the moment. So I just love that quote of the day. Remember, do more of what makes you forget your phone. And with that, everyone, thank you for running with us. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Run soon.