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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Friday, October third. I'm Amy Robot.
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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ. Holmes. We've been talking about that day, Friday October third for a while. Ropes, I cannot believe the day is here. We're going to find out how long did he is going to stay in prison?
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Speaker 1: Yes, and this comes after he made a well a last minute plea basically to the judge, writing a letter. We haven't heard from him directly throughout all of this, but now.
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Speaker 2: We have, so that is something we're keeping an eye on on the run this morning. Also, everybody's talking about it. I found it weird this juxtaposition of these two, I mean, absolute superstars in music. Certainly, what did he was, what his day is versus what Taylor Swift day is. This is a huge day, monumental historic. The album is finally here and it seems like it's her and Travis Kelsey's album.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's true you might imagine that album. The twelfth album dropped at twelve oh one this morning, and swifty fans probably haven't slept much.
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Speaker 2: Also, in some music news, Keith Urban was on stage for the first time since news of his divorce from Nicole. Kimmy will tell you what happened there. Also make it seems like every couple of years they tell me they found Amelia Earhart's plan.
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Speaker 1: Yes, the last time it was a rock formation, okay, but this time, this time they say, this is what they think is actually the wreckage of Amelia airparts plane.
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Speaker 2: We'll tell you why they are so sure. Also, that statue we told you about they took down from the National Mall with Epstein and Trump holding hands. We thought that was going to be the end of it. It was up, then it was gone, but now it's back.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty funny actually when you hear what the anonymous group that got it back up on the mall had to say in their official statement. You'll have to wait for that.
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Speaker 2: All right. And then story you have to hear this morning. It has people in tears, it has people enraged in some ways. But a fundraiser after a mass shooting, but the fundraisers not for the victims. I haven't heard of a story like this before.
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Speaker 1: I haven't either, But this is the ultimate turning the other cheek. What would Jesus do moment, and I found it to be unbelievably powerful.
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Speaker 2: Really, story of the morning. Probably there also, as we continue to get going on this Friday morning run, when it reminds you all that top right corner of the Apple podcast app where you see our show page, little button says follow, just hit that you can get our updates coming to you all the time.
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Speaker 1: All right. Also on the run this morning, a synagogue attack on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. A megachurch pastor is going to jail, a young climber has died at Yosemite. Trump and Governor Newsom using money as leverage. And Apple removes an app because the administration told them to do it. So that'll be an interesting and somewhat controversial story. But we do begin our run on this Friday. In Washington, d C. The Senate today will vote to end the government shut down. All right, don't get your hopes up. It is fully expected that this shutdown will continue through the weekend and into next week.
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Speaker 2: Almost a waste of time. Nobody's expecting this thing to pass. So Democrats, as you know, they are dug in over healthcare subsidies and Medicaid cuts. They refuse to sign a temporary measure to keep the government open while negotiations continue. Meanwhile, Republicans just want to negotiate, and they have refused to give in to Democrats' demands. So here we are. We wait till Monday, we see what happens. The President continues to threaten furloughs are one thing, but now he's talking about permanent firings through this shutdown. Now, so there is the pain is just getting started, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we're going to head across the pond to an attack on a synagogue on the whole day of the year for the Jewish community. It's left two dead and three others injured, and police are calling it a terrorist incident. But this morning we are just getting worried that one of the two people killed was actually killed by police gunfire.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was yesterday morning. Now. Police say the folks were gathering for service outside that synagogue for Yam Kapor when someone pulled up and just started ramming his car into people who were outside. Again, this is a synagogue in Manchester, England. He rammed people with his car, then got out and started attacking them with a knife. The suspect was eventually shot and killed by police. They've identified him as thirty five year old Jihad al Shami, a British citizen of Syrian descent. They say three other people were arrested in connection with this. But we just got this morning robe, just really minutes before we were about to record. Police said that one of the victims had gunshot injuries. Inspect did not have firearms, just a knife. And then now one of the people in the hospital also they've discovered gunshot injuries. So that is it is just tough to hear. They were trying to take down the gunman and this happened. Excuse me, take to how the knife wielding man and this happened.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, this is a developing story, and of course we'll stay on top of it. But next up on the Run, Speaking of developing stories, Diddy speaks. We are hearing directly from Sean Combs for the very first time since his arrest, his trial and his convictions, and for the first time we're hearing him apologize. Combs is scheduled to be in court today for sentencing, but yesterday, on the eve of his sentencing, he wrote and submitted a four page letter to the judge in his case, pleading for mercy and a second chance.
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Speaker 2: This was it's been over a year. Are he've said words sparingly throughout the trial, Yes, sir, No, you're on it with little stuff.
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Speaker 1: You're doing a great job. You're honor.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Little All to hear directly from him is a fascinating read. He starts out, I want to apologize and say how sincerely sorry I am for all the hurt and pain that I have caused others by my conduct. I take full responsibility and accountability for my past wrongs. This has been the hardest two years of my life, and I have no one to blame for my current reality and situation but myself. That is a look. A lot of people say, Yah, we don't buy that. Of course, he's just trying to get out of it.
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Speaker 1: He's sorry, he's facing eleven years in prison, is what a lot of people would say.
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Speaker 2: But at one point in the letter as well, he acknowledges the enormous amount of press his arrest and trial have received and says to the judge, quote, your honor may be inclined to make an example out of me. I would ask your honor to make me an example of what a person can do if afforded a second chance, if you allow me to go home to my family, I promise I will not let you down and I will make you proud. Today, I humbly ask for another chance.
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Speaker 1: Did. He closes out the letter by telling the judge I will never commit a crime again. The sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin at nine thirty am Eastern time in New York. Diddy's defense team has argued for a fourteen month sentence. Prosecutors want those eleven years, all.
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Speaker 2: Right, continue on the run now here. On this Friday morning, we head to the National Mall where it's back that ten foot statue of President Trump holding hands and frolicking.
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Speaker 1: Hill. I needed to use that word again. It was my favorite.
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Speaker 2: If we go outside today and frolic. What does that look like. Let's go frolic.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we hold hands in skip frolick. That's what it looks like they're doing.
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Speaker 2: Oh I've never frolicked then, but it looked like these two were in the statue. So the National Park Service quickly removed it one day after it was put up. They removed it because it was not compliant with an issued permit, they say, But late Thursday afternoon it was back on full display.
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Speaker 1: The statue, originally titled Best Friends Forever, has a new name why Can't We Be Friends, and has been repaired after it suffered damage while being taken down last week. An anonymous group of artists called the Secret Handshake was able to get a new permit and returned the statue to the National Mall for a limited time, releasing this in an email. Just like a toppled Confederate general forced back onto a public square, the Donald Trump Jeffrey Epstein statue has risen from the rubble to stand gloriously on the National Mall once again.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so they have a sense of humor, Yes they do. Over there, the White House and not comment on the reinstallment of the statue, but referred reporters to the statement last week when the statue was first placed on the mall, where they said, liberals are free to waste their money however they see fit. But it's not news that Epstein knew Donald Trump because Donald Trump kicked Epstein out of his club for being a creep.
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Speaker 1: Okay, ah, yes, limited time. I already saw pictures online of people getting selfies with it. It's quite the spectacle in DC.
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Speaker 2: If we went to DC week probably we absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Would, all right. Next up on the Run, Apple has removed an app from its app store because the White House told them to. The app is called ice Block, and it allowed people to exchange information about ice sightings.
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Speaker 2: It launched in April, but after complaints from the administration, Apple says it removed ice Block and others like it, saying, quote, based on information we've received from law enforcement about the safety risks associated with ice Block, we have removed it. However, Attorney General Pam Bondi put it this way. We reached out to Apple today demanding they remove the ice Block app from their app store, and Apple did so. That's so good. Bondi also said the app was designed to put ice agents at risk. It just kind of gave people a heads up. You could report if you saw ice agents. This wasn't a place where you could identify them. That was not a doxing situation, but it would let you know if folks were in the a five mile radius of use.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of like ways when you get the police reports and your speeding and you can slow down. I mean, it saved me from many speeding tickets, So that's what I would think. It was kind of akin to all right, next up on the run, admitting stuff that I've sped before in my life.
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Speaker 2: You just said it so casually.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's like, you know, I try to keep it at ten miles over the speed limit, but I don't want a ticket. I appreciate Wasers for giving me the heads up. All right, Next called Waser. Yeah, we're Wazers.
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Speaker 2: Didn't just make that.
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Speaker 1: No, that is a thing. When you use ways, they actually have little icons of your car and you're a Wazer.
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Speaker 2: I did not know this.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you get points for like letting people know about things that are coming up, whether it's debris in the road or if it because then when you get points, you can make your Waser icon cooler and cuter. Oh yeah, it's a whole thing.
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Speaker 2: I had no idea. Yep, I'm a loser, not a Wazer.
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Speaker 1: Or maybe I'm the loser. All right, Next up on the run, a dilemma for California colleges. Do they play nice with President Trump or do they play nice with Governor Gavin Newsom? Millions and potentially billions of dollars are at stake.
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Speaker 2: All right, who would you side? You to go with Trump? A, You're gonna hedge your bets with Newsom? All right. President Trump has ass nine major universities to sign a pledge committing to the White House Agenda. I'm priorities such as accepting the administration's definition of gender, women's sports admissions policies. They don't want race considered, and so on and so on. So In exchange for signing the pledge, the schools would, as the administration puts it, receive multiple positive benefits, such as substantial and meaningful federal grants and increased overhead payment.
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Speaker 1: In other words, you want this money, you better cooperate. But California Governor Gavin Newsom has countered and threatened to take away state funding from any school that signs the Trump Pledge. As he put it, California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom. However, at this point, only one California school has been asked by Trump to sign the pact, and that's us C.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Other schools Texas, Virginia, Brown, Mit, Even and penn As well, have been asked to sign this play. This is a different one. He's taken money away before this, right, that seems like a threat.
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Speaker 1: This seems like a bride a bride.
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Speaker 2: Yes, all gangster, but it's oh my goodness, all right. Next up on the run here, we're going to head out to Yosemite, folks. A climber there has died after a fall from one of the most famous and challenging rock climbing formations in the world. And he was a live streaming at the time.
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Speaker 1: Oh, this is such a sad story. Ballin Miller was just twenty three years old, but he was already an accomplished climber. He was in Yusemite, Yosemite to climb l Copyitan, an incredible three thousand foot granite wall that attracts big time climbers from around the world. Think of Alex Hanold from free solo documentary Whoever I watched that It is remarkable but certainly has inspired a lot of other climbers to try and follow in his steps. An investigation is underway, but here's what we know from Mill family right now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we mentioned Alex hanelld The reason that was so incredible because he free sooloed that thing. He climbed this sucker without a single rope. I find that to be the most incredible athletic feet a human being has ever accomplished. Quite frankly, now, Miller was not free soloing this climb. Now that's the first thing you kind of think, Oh my goodness. He was up there, he wasn't attached and he fell. Well, he was lead soloing. That's a different technique that allows you to climb alone but still use a rope for safety. He had actually made it to the top. He made it to the summit, but he needed to retrieve some equipment that had gotten stuck, and they believe he was trying to repel down and get it and that's when he actually fell. So not during the climb. The challenging party was just clickting his You know.
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Speaker 1: That most deaths of mountain climbers happens on the descent from Everest on down. When you hear about these accidents, Look, you're tired, your muscles are exhausted from doing the incredible feat that I'm sure he accomplished, So you're not at your best when you're coming down, and that's when oftentimes it happens.
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Speaker 2: He had been live streaming for a couple of days during the climb, and many people reported the horror and seeing this incident take place.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, His mom wrote this. It is with a heavy heart. I have to tell you my incredible son, Balon Miller died during a climbing accident today. My heart is shattered in a million pieces. I don't know how I will get through this. I love him so much. I want to wake up from this horrible nightmare. This is the second climber.
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Speaker 2: Death, second one we have seen this summer at Yoseimone. The other was I think it was an eighteen year old different rock formation, but also died. It was actually free soloing. Wow fell all right, continue on the run here now. At Texas megachurch pastor has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a child and it's heading to jail. Robert Morris pleaded guilty to five counts of lewd and indecent acts with the child.
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Speaker 1: Morris is the founder of Gateway Church in South Lake, Texas, and before he resigned last year, it was one of the largest congregations in the country. Prosecutors say the abuse began in the eighties, when Morris was a traveling evangelist and the girl was just twelve years old. Morris was staying with the girls' family in Oklahoma and the abuse continued for four years. He received a ten year suspended sentence, so he'll only serve six months of that in jail, and he's only going to serve that as part of a plea.
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Speaker 2: Deale, do you hear about the crime? You hear? How how egregious? Some of this was over the years, and a lot of people heard only six months sounded didn't sound.
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Speaker 1: Right, and it doesn't sound right.
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Speaker 2: It was part of a plea. All right, Well, stay with us here, folks. On this Friday morning, ron Keith Urban is back out and back at work on stage for the first time since word of his divorce from Nicole Kitman. Also, they're telling us again they found Milia Earhart's playing, but they tell us it's for real this time. Also an incredible fundraiser, not for the victims of a mass shooting before the family of the shooter. You have to hear this story. And also do you know Taylor Swift? Her album is out? You know her? But guess what people apparently don't know who Elizabeth Taylor is. Will explain a connection all right. Continuing on this Friday morning run, Now, Folks and Keith Urban held his first concert last night since his split with Nicole Kidman became public this week. He played at Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, as part of his High and Alive World tour.
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Speaker 1: Now. He didn't make any reference to his home life during the concert, but Urban did include this was fairly notable, a photo of Nicole Kidman and their two daughters in a slide show that appeared on a big screen behind him while he sang his song heart Like a Hometown. Kidman filed for divorce on Tuesday in Nashville, listing their data separation as the date of filing, which was September thirtieth, and she cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for ending their nineteen year marriage. Neither one of these two megastars has made any public mention of their split, and he had plenty.
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Speaker 2: Of opportunity to say a little anything.
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Speaker 1: He was speaking during the concert. He talked about his parents. He talked about how they put everything on hold to give him his music career, let him drop out of school so yes, he was talking and engaging with the audience, but did not reference what's happening.
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Speaker 2: And I imagine what that felt like to go out there, mate. You know what, it probably felt pretty good. All those people love and support them. Maybe it did feel good there. Continuing on the run here on this Friday, could the mystery behind a million Earhart's disappearance finally be sawved? Researchers from Purdue University believe they have found Amelia Earharts lost playings there there is very strong evidence that an object on a remote island in the South Pacific is the wreck of her aircraft.
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Speaker 1: Five years ago, researchers saw what they called a visual anomaly in a satellite image in a lagoon on a small island halfway between Australia and Hawaii. It's about four hundred miles from where Earhart was scheduled to land next. The underwater object has been visible now as they've gone back in photos dating back to nineteen thirty eight, that is the year after she disappeared. So after years now of studying these satellite images and cross referencing all the historical data they have a team of Purdue researchers is now planning a trip next month to that island to inspect the object for themselves.
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Speaker 2: I would absolutely pay for a ticket to go along for this. This is fascinating. They're going to take photos, videos of the site and then use sonar devices to scan the area before ultimately lifting the underwater object out of the lagoon to inspect it, where they hope to find the smoking gun proof that yes, this is finally a Millia Earhart's plane that we have found. Now research is acknowledge. We could be wrong, they.
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Speaker 1: Did say that, but there's a butt. They think the evidence is very very strong that this is in fact what it is. There have been rumors and speculation that she and her passenger were actually stranded on this island, and so they're going to be looking to see if that is in fact the case. Could she have survived the crash, Could they have lived on this remote island with no way of communicating with the world. It is fascinating, all right. Next up on the run. There have been multiple fundraisers set up following that church shooting in Michigan, where a gunman drove into a Mormon church, opened fire, and then set fire to the building, killing four people and injuring eight others. I mean, this was atrocious and horrific, But among them there is a remarkable and surprising fundraiser.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a member of a Mormon church out of Utah has set up a fundraiser that has reached three hundred and thirty thousand dollars as of this recording at least, but those proceeds are not going to the victim's families. Instead, it's going to the family of the gunman. Dave Butler said he felt compelled to start the fundraiser because the shooter, Thomas Jacob Sandford's wife and young son, are also victims.
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Speaker 1: Butler said it seems obvious to me that it is awful to be shot or to lose a loved one to the shooter in such an event, and it is also awful if your loved one who dies in the event is the shooter. Butler said most of the messages he's received have been positive, and you can read I was reading some of the comments. They're all very positive. But he said there have been a few who have called him evil, saying he's trying to just get attention, and they've actually demanded that he shut down the fundraiser. Which he's not going to do. But I loved his response to all of that. It was beautiful.
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Speaker 2: His response. If you can't see that is turning the other cheek and mourning with those who mourn, and taking care of the least among us, and seeking to be one and being peacemakers and caring for the widows and orphans. If your response to this is to criticize Mormons or to try and cut them out, man, I just think you're not seeing the love. Man Ah, I don't know how to criticize anybody for this he's saying. And he's right. I always think this about families like man, what they have to deal with the rest of their lives. Sometimes moms thinking like where did I go wrong? This guy had a wife and a child, not involved, not involved at all, and what is their life going to be? In that child's life going.
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Speaker 1: To be That child apparently has special medical needs. He said he's actually reached out and spoken to them, But the attorney for the Sanford family said the fundraiser is an unprecedented display of compassion and grace for which we are deeply grateful. The shooter's sister actually spoke to local news media was crying, saying that she was blown away by this generosity. So here's the cool thing. Butler thought, Okay, I don't have a very big social media following, but he just thought it was the right thing to do when he was hoping he could raise five thousand dollars to bring attention to their loss, and he hoped it might help them with a month of costs. More than seven thousand people have contributed in forty eight hours, with offers from ten dollars to five thousand dollars. But I just checked it's at three hundred and thirty two thousand dollars. That's life changing money for this family.
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Speaker 2: I we've getten in tragedy, we get little sprinkles of Wow. Human beings are special. I have to think about the Erica Kirk moment and forgiving and this is unbelieving. And this guy's not tied to.
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Speaker 1: No he actually he's a Mormon in Utah. He has nothing to do with his church in Michigan. But he wanted to show the world that Mormons are christ Like.
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Speaker 2: That's awesome for.
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Speaker 1: The five, I know it. Really it gave me shells for the final leg of our run. The weight is over At twelve oh one am this morning, Taylor's Swift released her much anticipated twelfth album, The Life of a show Girl. Swifty's probably didn't sleep much overnight after waiting nearly two months for Taylor's new music. The pop star first revealed the news of the album on her fiance's podcast back in August.
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Speaker 2: Were they engaged then.
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Speaker 1: No, Well they got it. I think well they might have been. We just didn't find out about it until like the next week.
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Speaker 2: Even more to look forward to for the fans. Yes, a special album release party in theaters across the country this weekend. It'll be called the Official Release Party of a show Girl. The eighty nine minute event will feature the world premiere of her music video for her album's lead single, The Fate of Ophelia, along with others behind the scenes footage and personal reflections from Swift.
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Speaker 1: How smart is that instead of just putting up your music video, she actually is creating a theatrical sensation where you know the box office is going to boom because of this. This is Swift's first new music since last year's The Tortured Poets Department, which, by the way, was the best selling album of twenty twenty four. She sold two million copies in just the first week alone of its release, so expectations are certainly high for this album's success. Hundreds of time Target stores actually opened at midnight this morning to sell the first copies of Swift's album.
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Speaker 2: You have a question, Yeah, sell it? How do they sell it now?
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Speaker 1: It's I mean you can actually physically go get a copy like.
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Speaker 2: A CD or an owl. What are they buying? I thought everybody was doing everything on Spotify.
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Speaker 1: Now I actually don't know. I haven't bought a physical anything in a very long time, but Target was selling them.
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Speaker 2: Are they selling CDs? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I actually can't tell you or Big L Vinyl, I don't know. Find out No, but you noticed what was trending this morning and we got a laugh out of this.
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Speaker 2: Oh I screen grabbed it because I didn't realize or remember that her album was dropping until I went on Google trends this morning. The Fate of Ophelia lyrics, Life of a Showgirl, lyrics, Father Figure lyrics, romantic Every single one was somebody looking for the lyrics of the song, and the one that got me was trending this morning. Who is Elizabeth Taylor?
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Speaker 1: That's the name of one of her songs. This is Elizabeth Taylor. Correct, Yes, and people, kids, young girls probably mostly don't know who Elizabeth Taylor is. Taylor Swift is comparing her love life, which has been obviously storied up until now she's finally found her guy, and she likened it to Elizabeth Taylor, who had seven husbands.
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Speaker 2: I believe, and it's the power of Taylor Swift that one of the top trending questions topics was who is Elizabeth Taylor? That's pretty cute. They don't know.
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Speaker 1: I love it all right. So this quote of the Day on this Friday, TJ is for you because I felt like this is exactly something that has, in a version come out of your mouth. Okay, what hope is not a strategy?
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Speaker 2: Who said that?
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Speaker 1: US Army General Gordon R. Sullivan?
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Speaker 2: Hope is not a strategy? It does sound like something I would say, because what's the thing? Don't try? Do it or don't do it? Don't try, don't hope it works out? Hope that's no good for me. That's not going to help me plan my day, my year or whatever. But there is a line from a Mission Impossible movie where the new guy says to Tom Cruise and crew, hope is not a strategy, and Rebecca Ferguson looks and says, you must be new here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's funny because Hillary Clinton said something like that as well. I went and looked at this. It's been it's been taken and used in different ways. But yes, apparently the original sentiment behind those quotes, Hope is not a strategy. From US Army General Gordon R. Sullivan. So everybody, yeah, figure out what you're gonna do and how you're gonna do it. Don't just hope for the best.
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Speaker 2: You cannot hope.
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Speaker 1: I do love it. I do love hope, but maybe in combination with hard work. All right, And with that, everyone, we hope you enjoy your Friday. I made robot.
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Speaker 2: Then I'm TJ. Holmes. We'll see y'll zoom
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Friday, October third. I'm Amy Robot.
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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ. Holmes. We've been talking about that day, Friday October third for a while. Ropes, I cannot believe the day is here. We're going to find out how long did he is going to stay in prison?
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Speaker 1: Yes, and this comes after he made a well a last minute plea basically to the judge, writing a letter. We haven't heard from him directly throughout all of this, but now.
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Speaker 2: We have, so that is something we're keeping an eye on on the run this morning. Also, everybody's talking about it. I found it weird this juxtaposition of these two, I mean, absolute superstars in music. Certainly, what did he was, what his day is versus what Taylor Swift day is. This is a huge day, monumental historic. The album is finally here and it seems like it's her and Travis Kelsey's album.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's true you might imagine that album. The twelfth album dropped at twelve oh one this morning, and swifty fans probably haven't slept much.
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Speaker 2: Also, in some music news, Keith Urban was on stage for the first time since news of his divorce from Nicole. Kimmy will tell you what happened there. Also make it seems like every couple of years they tell me they found Amelia Earhart's plan.
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Speaker 1: Yes, the last time it was a rock formation, okay, but this time, this time they say, this is what they think is actually the wreckage of Amelia airparts plane.
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Speaker 2: We'll tell you why they are so sure. Also, that statue we told you about they took down from the National Mall with Epstein and Trump holding hands. We thought that was going to be the end of it. It was up, then it was gone, but now it's back.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty funny actually when you hear what the anonymous group that got it back up on the mall had to say in their official statement. You'll have to wait for that.
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Speaker 2: All right. And then story you have to hear this morning. It has people in tears, it has people enraged in some ways. But a fundraiser after a mass shooting, but the fundraisers not for the victims. I haven't heard of a story like this before.
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Speaker 1: I haven't either, But this is the ultimate turning the other cheek. What would Jesus do moment, and I found it to be unbelievably powerful.
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Speaker 2: Really, story of the morning. Probably there also, as we continue to get going on this Friday morning run, when it reminds you all that top right corner of the Apple podcast app where you see our show page, little button says follow, just hit that you can get our updates coming to you all the time.
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Speaker 1: All right. Also on the run this morning, a synagogue attack on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. A megachurch pastor is going to jail, a young climber has died at Yosemite. Trump and Governor Newsom using money as leverage. And Apple removes an app because the administration told them to do it. So that'll be an interesting and somewhat controversial story. But we do begin our run on this Friday. In Washington, d C. The Senate today will vote to end the government shut down. All right, don't get your hopes up. It is fully expected that this shutdown will continue through the weekend and into next week.
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Speaker 2: Almost a waste of time. Nobody's expecting this thing to pass. So Democrats, as you know, they are dug in over healthcare subsidies and Medicaid cuts. They refuse to sign a temporary measure to keep the government open while negotiations continue. Meanwhile, Republicans just want to negotiate, and they have refused to give in to Democrats' demands. So here we are. We wait till Monday, we see what happens. The President continues to threaten furloughs are one thing, but now he's talking about permanent firings through this shutdown. Now, so there is the pain is just getting started, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we're going to head across the pond to an attack on a synagogue on the whole day of the year for the Jewish community. It's left two dead and three others injured, and police are calling it a terrorist incident. But this morning we are just getting worried that one of the two people killed was actually killed by police gunfire.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was yesterday morning. Now. Police say the folks were gathering for service outside that synagogue for Yam Kapor when someone pulled up and just started ramming his car into people who were outside. Again, this is a synagogue in Manchester, England. He rammed people with his car, then got out and started attacking them with a knife. The suspect was eventually shot and killed by police. They've identified him as thirty five year old Jihad al Shami, a British citizen of Syrian descent. They say three other people were arrested in connection with this. But we just got this morning robe, just really minutes before we were about to record. Police said that one of the victims had gunshot injuries. Inspect did not have firearms, just a knife. And then now one of the people in the hospital also they've discovered gunshot injuries. So that is it is just tough to hear. They were trying to take down the gunman and this happened. Excuse me, take to how the knife wielding man and this happened.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, this is a developing story, and of course we'll stay on top of it. But next up on the Run, Speaking of developing stories, Diddy speaks. We are hearing directly from Sean Combs for the very first time since his arrest, his trial and his convictions, and for the first time we're hearing him apologize. Combs is scheduled to be in court today for sentencing, but yesterday, on the eve of his sentencing, he wrote and submitted a four page letter to the judge in his case, pleading for mercy and a second chance.
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Speaker 2: This was it's been over a year. Are he've said words sparingly throughout the trial, Yes, sir, No, you're on it with little stuff.
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Speaker 1: You're doing a great job. You're honor.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Little All to hear directly from him is a fascinating read. He starts out, I want to apologize and say how sincerely sorry I am for all the hurt and pain that I have caused others by my conduct. I take full responsibility and accountability for my past wrongs. This has been the hardest two years of my life, and I have no one to blame for my current reality and situation but myself. That is a look. A lot of people say, Yah, we don't buy that. Of course, he's just trying to get out of it.
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Speaker 1: He's sorry, he's facing eleven years in prison, is what a lot of people would say.
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Speaker 2: But at one point in the letter as well, he acknowledges the enormous amount of press his arrest and trial have received and says to the judge, quote, your honor may be inclined to make an example out of me. I would ask your honor to make me an example of what a person can do if afforded a second chance, if you allow me to go home to my family, I promise I will not let you down and I will make you proud. Today, I humbly ask for another chance.
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Speaker 1: Did. He closes out the letter by telling the judge I will never commit a crime again. The sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin at nine thirty am Eastern time in New York. Diddy's defense team has argued for a fourteen month sentence. Prosecutors want those eleven years, all.
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Speaker 2: Right, continue on the run now here. On this Friday morning, we head to the National Mall where it's back that ten foot statue of President Trump holding hands and frolicking.
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Speaker 1: Hill. I needed to use that word again. It was my favorite.
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Speaker 2: If we go outside today and frolic. What does that look like. Let's go frolic.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we hold hands in skip frolick. That's what it looks like they're doing.
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Speaker 2: Oh I've never frolicked then, but it looked like these two were in the statue. So the National Park Service quickly removed it one day after it was put up. They removed it because it was not compliant with an issued permit, they say, But late Thursday afternoon it was back on full display.
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Speaker 1: The statue, originally titled Best Friends Forever, has a new name why Can't We Be Friends, and has been repaired after it suffered damage while being taken down last week. An anonymous group of artists called the Secret Handshake was able to get a new permit and returned the statue to the National Mall for a limited time, releasing this in an email. Just like a toppled Confederate general forced back onto a public square, the Donald Trump Jeffrey Epstein statue has risen from the rubble to stand gloriously on the National Mall once again.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so they have a sense of humor, Yes they do. Over there, the White House and not comment on the reinstallment of the statue, but referred reporters to the statement last week when the statue was first placed on the mall, where they said, liberals are free to waste their money however they see fit. But it's not news that Epstein knew Donald Trump because Donald Trump kicked Epstein out of his club for being a creep.
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Speaker 1: Okay, ah, yes, limited time. I already saw pictures online of people getting selfies with it. It's quite the spectacle in DC.
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Speaker 2: If we went to DC week probably we absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Would, all right. Next up on the Run, Apple has removed an app from its app store because the White House told them to. The app is called ice Block, and it allowed people to exchange information about ice sightings.
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Speaker 2: It launched in April, but after complaints from the administration, Apple says it removed ice Block and others like it, saying, quote, based on information we've received from law enforcement about the safety risks associated with ice Block, we have removed it. However, Attorney General Pam Bondi put it this way. We reached out to Apple today demanding they remove the ice Block app from their app store, and Apple did so. That's so good. Bondi also said the app was designed to put ice agents at risk. It just kind of gave people a heads up. You could report if you saw ice agents. This wasn't a place where you could identify them. That was not a doxing situation, but it would let you know if folks were in the a five mile radius of use.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of like ways when you get the police reports and your speeding and you can slow down. I mean, it saved me from many speeding tickets, So that's what I would think. It was kind of akin to all right, next up on the run, admitting stuff that I've sped before in my life.
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Speaker 2: You just said it so casually.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's like, you know, I try to keep it at ten miles over the speed limit, but I don't want a ticket. I appreciate Wasers for giving me the heads up. All right, Next called Waser. Yeah, we're Wazers.
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Speaker 2: Didn't just make that.
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Speaker 1: No, that is a thing. When you use ways, they actually have little icons of your car and you're a Wazer.
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Speaker 2: I did not know this.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you get points for like letting people know about things that are coming up, whether it's debris in the road or if it because then when you get points, you can make your Waser icon cooler and cuter. Oh yeah, it's a whole thing.
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Speaker 2: I had no idea. Yep, I'm a loser, not a Wazer.
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Speaker 1: Or maybe I'm the loser. All right, Next up on the run, a dilemma for California colleges. Do they play nice with President Trump or do they play nice with Governor Gavin Newsom? Millions and potentially billions of dollars are at stake.
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Speaker 2: All right, who would you side? You to go with Trump? A, You're gonna hedge your bets with Newsom? All right. President Trump has ass nine major universities to sign a pledge committing to the White House Agenda. I'm priorities such as accepting the administration's definition of gender, women's sports admissions policies. They don't want race considered, and so on and so on. So In exchange for signing the pledge, the schools would, as the administration puts it, receive multiple positive benefits, such as substantial and meaningful federal grants and increased overhead payment.
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Speaker 1: In other words, you want this money, you better cooperate. But California Governor Gavin Newsom has countered and threatened to take away state funding from any school that signs the Trump Pledge. As he put it, California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom. However, at this point, only one California school has been asked by Trump to sign the pact, and that's us C.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Other schools Texas, Virginia, Brown, Mit, Even and penn As well, have been asked to sign this play. This is a different one. He's taken money away before this, right, that seems like a threat.
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Speaker 1: This seems like a bride a bride.
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Speaker 2: Yes, all gangster, but it's oh my goodness, all right. Next up on the run here, we're going to head out to Yosemite, folks. A climber there has died after a fall from one of the most famous and challenging rock climbing formations in the world. And he was a live streaming at the time.
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Speaker 1: Oh, this is such a sad story. Ballin Miller was just twenty three years old, but he was already an accomplished climber. He was in Yusemite, Yosemite to climb l Copyitan, an incredible three thousand foot granite wall that attracts big time climbers from around the world. Think of Alex Hanold from free solo documentary Whoever I watched that It is remarkable but certainly has inspired a lot of other climbers to try and follow in his steps. An investigation is underway, but here's what we know from Mill family right now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we mentioned Alex hanelld The reason that was so incredible because he free sooloed that thing. He climbed this sucker without a single rope. I find that to be the most incredible athletic feet a human being has ever accomplished. Quite frankly, now, Miller was not free soloing this climb. Now that's the first thing you kind of think, Oh my goodness. He was up there, he wasn't attached and he fell. Well, he was lead soloing. That's a different technique that allows you to climb alone but still use a rope for safety. He had actually made it to the top. He made it to the summit, but he needed to retrieve some equipment that had gotten stuck, and they believe he was trying to repel down and get it and that's when he actually fell. So not during the climb. The challenging party was just clickting his You know.
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Speaker 1: That most deaths of mountain climbers happens on the descent from Everest on down. When you hear about these accidents, Look, you're tired, your muscles are exhausted from doing the incredible feat that I'm sure he accomplished, So you're not at your best when you're coming down, and that's when oftentimes it happens.
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Speaker 2: He had been live streaming for a couple of days during the climb, and many people reported the horror and seeing this incident take place.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, His mom wrote this. It is with a heavy heart. I have to tell you my incredible son, Balon Miller died during a climbing accident today. My heart is shattered in a million pieces. I don't know how I will get through this. I love him so much. I want to wake up from this horrible nightmare. This is the second climber.
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Speaker 2: Death, second one we have seen this summer at Yoseimone. The other was I think it was an eighteen year old different rock formation, but also died. It was actually free soloing. Wow fell all right, continue on the run here now. At Texas megachurch pastor has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a child and it's heading to jail. Robert Morris pleaded guilty to five counts of lewd and indecent acts with the child.
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Speaker 1: Morris is the founder of Gateway Church in South Lake, Texas, and before he resigned last year, it was one of the largest congregations in the country. Prosecutors say the abuse began in the eighties, when Morris was a traveling evangelist and the girl was just twelve years old. Morris was staying with the girls' family in Oklahoma and the abuse continued for four years. He received a ten year suspended sentence, so he'll only serve six months of that in jail, and he's only going to serve that as part of a plea.
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Speaker 2: Deale, do you hear about the crime? You hear? How how egregious? Some of this was over the years, and a lot of people heard only six months sounded didn't sound.
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Speaker 1: Right, and it doesn't sound right.
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Speaker 2: It was part of a plea. All right, Well, stay with us here, folks. On this Friday morning, ron Keith Urban is back out and back at work on stage for the first time since word of his divorce from Nicole Kitman. Also, they're telling us again they found Milia Earhart's playing, but they tell us it's for real this time. Also an incredible fundraiser, not for the victims of a mass shooting before the family of the shooter. You have to hear this story. And also do you know Taylor Swift? Her album is out? You know her? But guess what people apparently don't know who Elizabeth Taylor is. Will explain a connection all right. Continuing on this Friday morning run, Now, Folks and Keith Urban held his first concert last night since his split with Nicole Kidman became public this week. He played at Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, as part of his High and Alive World tour.
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Speaker 1: Now. He didn't make any reference to his home life during the concert, but Urban did include this was fairly notable, a photo of Nicole Kidman and their two daughters in a slide show that appeared on a big screen behind him while he sang his song heart Like a Hometown. Kidman filed for divorce on Tuesday in Nashville, listing their data separation as the date of filing, which was September thirtieth, and she cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for ending their nineteen year marriage. Neither one of these two megastars has made any public mention of their split, and he had plenty.
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Speaker 2: Of opportunity to say a little anything.
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Speaker 1: He was speaking during the concert. He talked about his parents. He talked about how they put everything on hold to give him his music career, let him drop out of school so yes, he was talking and engaging with the audience, but did not reference what's happening.
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Speaker 2: And I imagine what that felt like to go out there, mate. You know what, it probably felt pretty good. All those people love and support them. Maybe it did feel good there. Continuing on the run here on this Friday, could the mystery behind a million Earhart's disappearance finally be sawved? Researchers from Purdue University believe they have found Amelia Earharts lost playings there there is very strong evidence that an object on a remote island in the South Pacific is the wreck of her aircraft.
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Speaker 1: Five years ago, researchers saw what they called a visual anomaly in a satellite image in a lagoon on a small island halfway between Australia and Hawaii. It's about four hundred miles from where Earhart was scheduled to land next. The underwater object has been visible now as they've gone back in photos dating back to nineteen thirty eight, that is the year after she disappeared. So after years now of studying these satellite images and cross referencing all the historical data they have a team of Purdue researchers is now planning a trip next month to that island to inspect the object for themselves.
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Speaker 2: I would absolutely pay for a ticket to go along for this. This is fascinating. They're going to take photos, videos of the site and then use sonar devices to scan the area before ultimately lifting the underwater object out of the lagoon to inspect it, where they hope to find the smoking gun proof that yes, this is finally a Millia Earhart's plane that we have found. Now research is acknowledge. We could be wrong, they.
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Speaker 1: Did say that, but there's a butt. They think the evidence is very very strong that this is in fact what it is. There have been rumors and speculation that she and her passenger were actually stranded on this island, and so they're going to be looking to see if that is in fact the case. Could she have survived the crash, Could they have lived on this remote island with no way of communicating with the world. It is fascinating, all right. Next up on the run. There have been multiple fundraisers set up following that church shooting in Michigan, where a gunman drove into a Mormon church, opened fire, and then set fire to the building, killing four people and injuring eight others. I mean, this was atrocious and horrific, But among them there is a remarkable and surprising fundraiser.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a member of a Mormon church out of Utah has set up a fundraiser that has reached three hundred and thirty thousand dollars as of this recording at least, but those proceeds are not going to the victim's families. Instead, it's going to the family of the gunman. Dave Butler said he felt compelled to start the fundraiser because the shooter, Thomas Jacob Sandford's wife and young son, are also victims.
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Speaker 1: Butler said it seems obvious to me that it is awful to be shot or to lose a loved one to the shooter in such an event, and it is also awful if your loved one who dies in the event is the shooter. Butler said most of the messages he's received have been positive, and you can read I was reading some of the comments. They're all very positive. But he said there have been a few who have called him evil, saying he's trying to just get attention, and they've actually demanded that he shut down the fundraiser. Which he's not going to do. But I loved his response to all of that. It was beautiful.
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Speaker 2: His response. If you can't see that is turning the other cheek and mourning with those who mourn, and taking care of the least among us, and seeking to be one and being peacemakers and caring for the widows and orphans. If your response to this is to criticize Mormons or to try and cut them out, man, I just think you're not seeing the love. Man Ah, I don't know how to criticize anybody for this he's saying. And he's right. I always think this about families like man, what they have to deal with the rest of their lives. Sometimes moms thinking like where did I go wrong? This guy had a wife and a child, not involved, not involved at all, and what is their life going to be? In that child's life going.
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Speaker 1: To be That child apparently has special medical needs. He said he's actually reached out and spoken to them, But the attorney for the Sanford family said the fundraiser is an unprecedented display of compassion and grace for which we are deeply grateful. The shooter's sister actually spoke to local news media was crying, saying that she was blown away by this generosity. So here's the cool thing. Butler thought, Okay, I don't have a very big social media following, but he just thought it was the right thing to do when he was hoping he could raise five thousand dollars to bring attention to their loss, and he hoped it might help them with a month of costs. More than seven thousand people have contributed in forty eight hours, with offers from ten dollars to five thousand dollars. But I just checked it's at three hundred and thirty two thousand dollars. That's life changing money for this family.
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Speaker 2: I we've getten in tragedy, we get little sprinkles of Wow. Human beings are special. I have to think about the Erica Kirk moment and forgiving and this is unbelieving. And this guy's not tied to.
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Speaker 1: No he actually he's a Mormon in Utah. He has nothing to do with his church in Michigan. But he wanted to show the world that Mormons are christ Like.
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Speaker 2: That's awesome for.
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Speaker 1: The five, I know it. Really it gave me shells for the final leg of our run. The weight is over At twelve oh one am this morning, Taylor's Swift released her much anticipated twelfth album, The Life of a show Girl. Swifty's probably didn't sleep much overnight after waiting nearly two months for Taylor's new music. The pop star first revealed the news of the album on her fiance's podcast back in August.
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Speaker 2: Were they engaged then.
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Speaker 1: No, Well they got it. I think well they might have been. We just didn't find out about it until like the next week.
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Speaker 2: Even more to look forward to for the fans. Yes, a special album release party in theaters across the country this weekend. It'll be called the Official Release Party of a show Girl. The eighty nine minute event will feature the world premiere of her music video for her album's lead single, The Fate of Ophelia, along with others behind the scenes footage and personal reflections from Swift.
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Speaker 1: How smart is that instead of just putting up your music video, she actually is creating a theatrical sensation where you know the box office is going to boom because of this. This is Swift's first new music since last year's The Tortured Poets Department, which, by the way, was the best selling album of twenty twenty four. She sold two million copies in just the first week alone of its release, so expectations are certainly high for this album's success. Hundreds of time Target stores actually opened at midnight this morning to sell the first copies of Swift's album.
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Speaker 2: You have a question, Yeah, sell it? How do they sell it now?
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Speaker 1: It's I mean you can actually physically go get a copy like.
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Speaker 2: A CD or an owl. What are they buying? I thought everybody was doing everything on Spotify.
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Speaker 1: Now I actually don't know. I haven't bought a physical anything in a very long time, but Target was selling them.
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Speaker 2: Are they selling CDs? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I actually can't tell you or Big L Vinyl, I don't know. Find out No, but you noticed what was trending this morning and we got a laugh out of this.
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Speaker 2: Oh I screen grabbed it because I didn't realize or remember that her album was dropping until I went on Google trends this morning. The Fate of Ophelia lyrics, Life of a Showgirl, lyrics, Father Figure lyrics, romantic Every single one was somebody looking for the lyrics of the song, and the one that got me was trending this morning. Who is Elizabeth Taylor?
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Speaker 1: That's the name of one of her songs. This is Elizabeth Taylor. Correct, Yes, and people, kids, young girls probably mostly don't know who Elizabeth Taylor is. Taylor Swift is comparing her love life, which has been obviously storied up until now she's finally found her guy, and she likened it to Elizabeth Taylor, who had seven husbands.
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Speaker 2: I believe, and it's the power of Taylor Swift that one of the top trending questions topics was who is Elizabeth Taylor? That's pretty cute. They don't know.
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Speaker 1: I love it all right. So this quote of the Day on this Friday, TJ is for you because I felt like this is exactly something that has, in a version come out of your mouth. Okay, what hope is not a strategy?
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Speaker 2: Who said that?
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Speaker 1: US Army General Gordon R. Sullivan?
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Speaker 2: Hope is not a strategy? It does sound like something I would say, because what's the thing? Don't try? Do it or don't do it? Don't try, don't hope it works out? Hope that's no good for me. That's not going to help me plan my day, my year or whatever. But there is a line from a Mission Impossible movie where the new guy says to Tom Cruise and crew, hope is not a strategy, and Rebecca Ferguson looks and says, you must be new here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's funny because Hillary Clinton said something like that as well. I went and looked at this. It's been it's been taken and used in different ways. But yes, apparently the original sentiment behind those quotes, Hope is not a strategy. From US Army General Gordon R. Sullivan. So everybody, yeah, figure out what you're gonna do and how you're gonna do it. Don't just hope for the best.
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Speaker 2: You cannot hope.
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Speaker 1: I do love it. I do love hope, but maybe in combination with hard work. All right, And with that, everyone, we hope you enjoy your Friday. I made robot.
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Speaker 2: Then I'm TJ. Holmes. We'll see y'll zoom
