Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone,
Speaker 1: and thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run. It
Speaker 1: is Wednesday, February eleventh. I'm Amy Robox and.
Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holmes. In tears once again. I can't stop
Speaker 2: crying watching the Olympics. Every single morning, I cannot stop crying.
Speaker 2: And it's not because some heartbreak or some defeat. It's
Speaker 2: the winds and these sweet stories. Perhaps I'm a mess
Speaker 2: every single morning. Happening again this morning? Why am I crying?
Speaker 2: O was snowboarding. It's snowboarding.
Speaker 1: It's impressive as hell, and you just see the work
Speaker 1: and the talent and the skill that goes into it,
Speaker 1: and the pressure is surreal for them to complete these
Speaker 1: seemingly impossible feats.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you why I was crying here in just
Speaker 2: a second, but let's give the update if where those
Speaker 2: We should have been doing this already with folks curious
Speaker 2: as of this recording this morning and again we've been
Speaker 2: watching everything live. It's happening over in Italy. What six
Speaker 2: hours ahead? Do I? Yes, right, So we're watching live
Speaker 2: stuff at two, three, four in the morning, which for
Speaker 2: me is perfect, It's absolutely perfect. But As of this moment,
Speaker 2: the official metal count has the United States in fifth
Speaker 2: when it comes to gold medals, So the gold medal
Speaker 2: listings are like this. Norway has six, Switzerland has four,
Speaker 2: Sweden has three, switz who is that? Germany actually has
Speaker 2: three as well, and then the United States has two.
Speaker 2: If you notice there Winter Olympics, a lot of those
Speaker 2: top countries are cold.
Speaker 1: They're used to cold weather and lots of yes, lots
Speaker 1: of skiers and snowboarders and figure skaters, and yes, cold
Speaker 1: events are their things.
Speaker 2: And overall the metal count, Norway is ahead twelve overall
Speaker 2: medals to Switzerland's seven, and then you got Sweden with
Speaker 2: six and Germany with six as well. The United States
Speaker 2: actually has eight overall medals, but only two of those
Speaker 2: are gold. World We we're just watching a short time ago,
Speaker 2: and this girl, she's my new favorite athlete. I didn't
Speaker 2: even know her before this Maddy Mastro. She's a snowboarder
Speaker 2: and I just fell in love with her before she
Speaker 2: even started competing, because her little personality came out as
Speaker 2: she was sitting there getting ready to go down on
Speaker 2: a run. It was awesome. She starts dropping f bombs.
Speaker 2: HiPE herself up and it was cute and adorable and
Speaker 2: she had she was a badass, and she moved up
Speaker 2: to three. And I'm crying over this girl.
Speaker 3: It's cool to see these athletes.
Speaker 1: Yes, that little private moment where she thought it was private,
Speaker 1: there was a camera on her and you could hear
Speaker 1: her yes, dropping some f bombs and saying I can
Speaker 1: do this, like psyching herself up. It was just cute
Speaker 1: as she's revving herself up. We're all supporting her as
Speaker 1: well from overseas, just hoping she has the best run
Speaker 1: of her life and she did. It was awesome to
Speaker 1: watch her nail it after having that little moment beforehand.
Speaker 2: She'll be competing again. I think it's on Friday. But
Speaker 2: then the quad god Ilian Mallanin is his name, The
Speaker 2: quad guy he competed ended up. He has the skate
Speaker 2: again on Friday, but he's ahead in the qualifying but
Speaker 2: Maxim numb Off, his teammate, the young fellow Robes. We
Speaker 2: were in. We had chills when he made the team.
Speaker 2: But this is the young man who lost his parents
Speaker 2: in that crash in DC a year ago that collided
Speaker 2: over the Potomac with the Army helicopter. He made the
Speaker 2: team about a month ago. In Robes, he stepped onto
Speaker 2: Olympic ice today. Damn see, I'm almost in tears just
Speaker 2: thinking about that moment. It was beautiful.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful, It was emotional. He has that picture
Speaker 1: with him that we've seen now. He has a quote
Speaker 1: from his dad in his jacket. I mean he is
Speaker 1: bringing his parents with him on that ice and we're
Speaker 1: all with him as he escapes.
Speaker 2: That was very cool. We'll tell you what he did
Speaker 2: say actually on the ice. That was kind of a
Speaker 2: nod to his parents. Also the other moment Ropes, Ryan Cochrane, Siegel,
Speaker 2: you know this guy. I didn't. I did hear super
Speaker 2: g They're going, damn near ninety miles an hour down
Speaker 2: a hill. He gets silver. It's not his best event.
Speaker 2: He gets silver, fine, dandy, cool rooting for you. But
Speaker 2: then they show a picture of his little mom over
Speaker 2: on the snow. They're cheering for him. Robes, she won
Speaker 2: gold in the downhill in nineteen seventy frickin two and
Speaker 2: she's there watching her son get a medal.
Speaker 1: I was a mess that brings Honestly, as soon as
Speaker 1: you said that, like emotion just floods my face. You
Speaker 1: can hear it, you can feel the tears coming, because
Speaker 1: that is such a cool moment.
Speaker 2: It was to see her there with his fiance and
Speaker 2: it was just very cool. But Ryan Cochran Siegel is
Speaker 2: gonna give us our quote of the day. We went
Speaker 2: with something he said in his post race interview, Robes
Speaker 2: that I inspirational. Maybe you can relate to it for sure,
Speaker 2: but it lets you know athletes are just like the
Speaker 2: rest of us. What were the two things I learned today?
Speaker 2: Two nuggets I learned. One of them, Robes, is that
Speaker 2: Chloe Kim, the superstar back to back gold medalist snowboarder,
Speaker 2: is dating the NFL defensive Player of the Year, Miles Garrett.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, y'all, I'm behind. I didn't know that either.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: I think that's so cool.
Speaker 1: It's an unlikely pairing physically, but it's cool to see
Speaker 1: them together.
Speaker 2: But he was out there on the snow supporting her.
Speaker 2: Again the more you know. The other thing, I discovered
Speaker 2: snowboarders up there getting ready punch their help. They tapped
Speaker 2: their helmets. I thought they're psyching themselves up. Let's go,
Speaker 2: commentator said the new technology allows them to tap and
Speaker 2: start their music.
Speaker 3: That's so cool.
Speaker 2: And they all need hype music before they start their runs.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: I want to know some playlists.
Speaker 1: I bet you their hype It would be an amazing
Speaker 1: running playlist.
Speaker 2: Ah, they are so cool. Hey, that's your Olympics update.
Speaker 2: But we've been having a blast watching run.
Speaker 1: We certainly have. But our morning run will take us
Speaker 1: to Florida. Yes, we'll go back to Milan, Washington, d C. Canada,
Speaker 1: El Paso, and New York City. But we begin in Tucson, Arizona,
Speaker 1: where a person of interest in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance
Speaker 1: was detained late last night and then released at some
Speaker 1: point in the overnight hours. Now, this was the statement
Speaker 1: that the Sheriff's department put out that did raise so
Speaker 1: much hope and so much anticipation. Earlier today, Pima County
Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department deputies detained a subject during a traffic stop
Speaker 1: south of Tucson. The subject is currently being questioned and
Speaker 1: connection to the Nancy Guthrie investigation. Additional information will be
Speaker 1: released as it becomes available.
Speaker 2: So we were waiting on the next bit of information.
Speaker 2: The next word that possibly this was the big break
Speaker 2: in the case. And yes, we got word that the
Speaker 2: person of interest though had been released, and we got
Speaker 2: that word from the person of interest himself. He did
Speaker 2: an interview or reporters were out there on his porch
Speaker 2: and he gave a few statements. Now he didn't give
Speaker 2: his full name. Carlos is what he's going by, but
Speaker 2: he says he's a DoorDash driver who was pulled over.
Speaker 2: No excuse me, he said, authorities were following him. He
Speaker 2: noticed and he decided to pull over and see what
Speaker 2: was going on. He was detained for a couple hours.
Speaker 2: He said, before they even told him this had anything
Speaker 2: to do with a kidnapping, Say, say what a kidnapping?
Speaker 2: I ain't got nothing to do with nothing in Ropes
Speaker 2: even went as far he didn't seem to know who
Speaker 2: Nancy Guthrie was. Say he doesn't follow the news.
Speaker 1: Says he doesn't watch the Today Show. He didn't know
Speaker 1: who Savannah Guthrie was. I mean the reporters were like,
Speaker 1: you don't know who Savannah Guthrie is.
Speaker 3: He said, I don't watch the news.
Speaker 2: So he said, I hope they get their suspect because
Speaker 2: I'm not It they better do their jobs and find
Speaker 2: the suspect that did it so they can clear my
Speaker 2: name because I'm done again. We are starting over. Excuse me,
Speaker 2: the authorities aren't starting over, but again, we were going
Speaker 2: down a path we thought we might get some resolution.
Speaker 2: No press briefings are planned for today as of this recording.
Speaker 1: Of course, we will continue to follow any developments, and
Speaker 1: there have been a lot in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Next up on the run, a terrible story to tell
Speaker 1: you about out of Canada, a mass shooting at a school.
Speaker 1: We know that at least nine people are dead. Police
Speaker 1: say seven of them died after being shot at the
Speaker 1: high school.
Speaker 3: This was in British Columbia.
Speaker 1: They found two other people who were shot dead at
Speaker 1: a nearby home and they believe it is connected to
Speaker 1: the shooting at the school.
Speaker 2: And no motive right now being addressed by authorities, where
Speaker 2: a shooter was later found dead with a self inflicted
Speaker 2: gunshot wound according to a police and as of this recording,
Speaker 2: it's unclear if or how many of the dead are
Speaker 2: actually students.
Speaker 1: But we've been Next up on our run, I turned
Speaker 1: out to do some breaking and bizarre aviation news the
Speaker 1: FAA has halted all flights coming in and out of
Speaker 1: El Paso International Airport for the next ten days. The
Speaker 1: reason unspecified special security reasons.
Speaker 2: Okay, we need to hear answers to this. Overwhelmingly, the
Speaker 2: majority of you listening are not planning any trip to
Speaker 2: El Paso, Texas, but we need to know what this
Speaker 2: is about and soon. The restriction here includes all airspace
Speaker 2: over El Paso in the neighboring town of Santa Teresa,
Speaker 2: New Mexico. Now, the airport's sent out a notice saying
Speaker 2: all flights have been grounded, including commercial flights, cargo, and
Speaker 2: general aviation, and that the restrictions had been issued on
Speaker 2: short notice. As of this recording, FA is not giving
Speaker 2: us further guidance or explanation about what is going on.
Speaker 2: Let your conspiracy theories run wild. This is some movie
Speaker 2: ish we've seen.
Speaker 1: Yes, like you said, we need more information. There needs
Speaker 1: to be clarification. This is just and it was sudden.
Speaker 1: Even the airport's like, what the hell, we have no
Speaker 1: idea what's going on.
Speaker 2: I immediately went to aliens or something, right, it was my
Speaker 2: first thought.
Speaker 1: I was sorting yeh, I mean, why that particular airspace
Speaker 1: until February twentieth, at eleven thirty pm. There will be
Speaker 1: no flights coming in or.
Speaker 3: Out of El Paso, Texas.
Speaker 1: More to come on that one, but in the meantime,
Speaker 1: next up on the run, an annual tradition of bipartisanship
Speaker 1: has been canceled, shocking in these times. The National Governors
Speaker 1: Association has announced it will not hold its yearly meeting
Speaker 1: with the President after the White House plan to only
Speaker 1: invite Republican governors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you might have heard about this, that they do
Speaker 2: it every year the governors. Every US governor gathers in DC,
Speaker 2: gives them an opportunity to stop by the White House
Speaker 2: while they're there, so they're there for their own meeting,
Speaker 2: and while they're all there together. I think this is
Speaker 2: a really nice thing.
Speaker 3: It is nice.
Speaker 1: Isn't this what the United States of America should be
Speaker 1: doing at least once a year.
Speaker 2: That they're talking and working through issues that state governors
Speaker 2: certainly have to deal with, and we are all together.
Speaker 2: You're never altogether. Let's swing by the White House, say hello,
Speaker 2: what a nice moment that is being canceled. And that's
Speaker 2: a damn shame. And the head of the Governor's Association
Speaker 2: is Republican from Oklahoma, Kevin Stitz. He released this statement
Speaker 2: quote because the National Governor's Association's mission is to represent
Speaker 2: all governors, the Association is no longer serving as the
Speaker 2: facilitator for that event and is no longer included in
Speaker 2: our official program.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: And so here is the White House with their response
Speaker 1: to that. I just spoke with the president about this.
Speaker 1: This is Carolyn Levitt. Correct, Okay, I assume, but I
Speaker 1: just wanted to clarify. I just spoke with the president
Speaker 1: about this. It is a dinner at the White House.
Speaker 1: It's the people's house. It's also the president's home, and
Speaker 1: he can invite whomever he wants to dinners and events
Speaker 1: here at the White House.
Speaker 2: That is true.
Speaker 3: Sure, that's true.
Speaker 1: But is that in the spirit of what the dinner
Speaker 1: is supposed to be?
Speaker 3: Why we have a dinner like this?
Speaker 1: Again, he is the president of the United States of America,
Speaker 1: not just the Publican States of America can.
Speaker 2: Even be in the same room together. I refused to
Speaker 2: even be in the same room. That one sucks, all right.
Speaker 2: Continuing here with the Trump administration. They tried, but a
Speaker 2: grand jury said no to indicting those Democratic lawmakers who
Speaker 2: participated in a video reminding soldiers of their right to
Speaker 2: refuse illegal orders. You'll remember that story, oh.
Speaker 1: Yes, And remember there were six lawmakers in the video,
Speaker 1: including Senator Mark Kelly, who has had a lot coming
Speaker 1: at him because of being in that video. But the
Speaker 1: question is, will the Trump administration just say cool, we
Speaker 1: respect what you just said, Grand jury, or are they
Speaker 1: going to try again to find a way to punish
Speaker 1: these six lawmakers.
Speaker 2: Where was it with Kelly? He sued them. They're trying
Speaker 2: to take his pension and dap his rank.
Speaker 1: There's all sorts of back and forth, all legal, and
Speaker 1: I believe, yes, it's all still tied up in our
Speaker 1: court system.
Speaker 2: All right, let's head down the floor for the next
Speaker 2: leg of our run where that stay carried out The
Speaker 2: first execution of the year for them at least, This
Speaker 2: was sixty four year old Ronald Palmer Heath pronounced it
Speaker 2: dead six twelve pm. Died by lethal injection for the
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty nine murder of a traveling salesman by the
Speaker 2: name of Michael Sheridan.
Speaker 1: Yes, police say Heath and his brother rob shot and
Speaker 1: stabbed Sheraton. Eventually they went on a shopping spree with
Speaker 1: Sheridan's credit cards. That's how he was eventually found. He
Speaker 1: did have final words. They were short, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if this gave perhaps the family members of his
Speaker 1: victim any sort of relief.
Speaker 3: He said, I'm sorry. That's all I can say. Thank you.
Speaker 1: There are two more executions, by the way, scheduled in
Speaker 1: Florida over the next two weeks.
Speaker 2: It's actually sixty five year old Melbyn Trotter set to
Speaker 2: die February twenty four, to fifty three year old Billy
Speaker 2: Leon Curse a week later. On March third. Last year,
Speaker 2: Florida set a state record there for executing nineteen inmates,
Speaker 2: the most in a single year since the death penalty
Speaker 2: was reinstated in nineteen seventy five. However, many they have scheduled.
Speaker 2: Robes the governor down there, DeSantis, he signs them that
Speaker 2: will be more that come up during the year. I
Speaker 2: think we started the year with eighteen or nineteen scheduled.
Speaker 3: It'll oh, that number will rise, for sure, it.
Speaker 2: Will for sure. Folks, stay with us here on this
Speaker 2: Wednesday morning run. When we come back, we'll take another
Speaker 2: dip into Milan where something is happening there that should
Speaker 2: not be happening. Medals are breaking. What since does that make? Also,
Speaker 2: we'll give you the details about Maxim Numbov his skating
Speaker 2: a year after his parents were killed in that plane crash,
Speaker 2: and Robes is gonna have to explain this one to me.
Speaker 2: A former Real Housewife of New York is now a
Speaker 2: former participant of a Real Housewife reunion. Stay here, welcome.
Speaker 1: Back everyone to your Wednesday morning run. And next up
Speaker 1: on the run, this one's a doozy former Real Housewife
Speaker 1: of New York City Jill Zaren.
Speaker 3: A lot of folks know who she is. Oh I do?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess maybe we spend time or something
Speaker 1: we might have because she is in our search shows.
Speaker 3: Yes, she came into the below deck. Yes, that's exactly
Speaker 3: what that is. Boom, I forgot. That's how you would
Speaker 3: know her.
Speaker 2: She did not have a good episode, No, she did not.
Speaker 1: When I worked at the Today Show, we I think
Speaker 1: I interviewed her several times. She's a loud, outspoken woman.
Speaker 1: She's not afraid to share her feelings as many of
Speaker 1: the Real housewives are. She was perfectly cast in that show,
Speaker 1: but she just got fired from her upcoming reunion show series.
Speaker 1: It's called The Golden Life because of a now deleted
Speaker 1: video about Bad Bunny's halftime performance. Here is what producers
Speaker 1: for this new show released in their statement about firing
Speaker 1: Jill's Arran. They said, in light of recent public comments
Speaker 1: made by Jill's eron Blink forty nine Studios has decided
Speaker 1: not to move forward with her involvement in the Golden Life,
Speaker 1: we remain committed to delivering the series in line with
Speaker 1: company standards and values.
Speaker 2: So what is she say? I thought she had written it?
Speaker 3: She did, She stayed all oh, I watched the whole video.
Speaker 2: Is she just saying it to videos? Talking to somebody?
Speaker 1: He is saying it too camera. You can hear people
Speaker 1: in the background clearly. I think they'd been partying. Maybe
Speaker 1: you know, she had having some fun watching the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and she decided to pull up her phone and
Speaker 1: say this to video.
Speaker 3: Okay, I actually transcribed this from her video.
Speaker 2: All right, She says it was the worst halftime show ever.
Speaker 2: It's two hundred and fifty years that were celebrating right
Speaker 2: now in the United States, and I just don't think
Speaker 2: it was appropriate to have it in Spanish. That didn't
Speaker 2: get her fired, right, it gets worse, I know, but
Speaker 2: that's not the fireable part, is it.
Speaker 1: Uh, well, kind of it is. I mean, she just
Speaker 1: it's in its entirety. I don't think anything she individually
Speaker 1: said was that terrible, but they just didn't like what
Speaker 1: she had to say.
Speaker 2: Okay, quite frankly, I didn't need to see him grabbing.
Speaker 3: His what g areas genitals?
Speaker 2: His g area. I think it was totally inappropriate. You
Speaker 2: got all these young kids watching the super Bowl and
Speaker 2: he doesn't have to be grabbing himself every five seconds seconds?
Speaker 2: Is he so insecure? Okay, maybe I need to go
Speaker 2: back and watch this. It's getting funnier. I don't speak Spanish.
Speaker 2: I would have liked to have known the words that
Speaker 2: he was saying. To me, it looked like a political
Speaker 2: statement because there was literally no white people and the
Speaker 2: entire thing I think it was an ice thing. Okay,
Speaker 2: this is good. I think that the NFL sold out,
Speaker 2: and it's very sad because it's been seventy five years.
Speaker 2: It's a shame. Shame. Is there more?
Speaker 1: Yes, Then she went on to start trashing Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1: By the way, when she said there were no white
Speaker 1: people then she starts talking about Lady Gaga, who is
Speaker 1: clearly white, and Lady Gaga got a facelift. I didn't
Speaker 1: recognize her. I literally had to google her face to
Speaker 1: see who it was. She said that they actually, she.
Speaker 3: Said it made it.
Speaker 1: It was the only thing interesting about the halftime show
Speaker 1: because she was able to google Lady Gaga's face and
Speaker 1: that was actually provided some entertainment because yeah, she was
Speaker 1: just me.
Speaker 3: It was me.
Speaker 1: So in addition now to deleting that post, she's also
Speaker 1: disabled the comments on our instagrams. Yeah, because apparently people
Speaker 1: who saw it before him said she was getting abs
Speaker 1: absolutely crushed by comments about her video. Now, look, she
Speaker 1: was set to appear in ten episodes of this reunion series,
Speaker 1: but she she said she gave us. She said the
Speaker 1: producers didn't even give her a chance. She said, I
Speaker 1: took it down right away. People make mistakes.
Speaker 3: I'm human.
Speaker 1: She's very upset that she's been removed from the show
Speaker 1: based on this video.
Speaker 3: She put up, Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Sometimes words have consequences. They made they call I need
Speaker 2: to see the video. I don't know how it comes off.
Speaker 3: She comes off just kind of spouting off.
Speaker 1: This is just what she thought, and it was described
Speaker 1: as racist, and so I was kind of prepared for
Speaker 1: something worse.
Speaker 3: So maybe my expectations were, Oh, what did she say?
Speaker 1: Then when I watched the video, Yes, I can see
Speaker 1: how that was offensive to some people, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: as bad as I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1: It's so funny given Jill Zara and we in fact,
Speaker 1: anyone who should who wants to, they should check out
Speaker 1: that below Deck episode that was entertaining.
Speaker 2: That was the first time you introduced me to her,
Speaker 2: and then I watched I said, oh, okay, see what
Speaker 2: you were talking about this but this part it always
Speaker 2: drives me crazy. Right, how many we've been in she said,
Speaker 2: it looked like a political statement, and because there were
Speaker 2: literally no white people in the entire thing. The number
Speaker 2: of rooms I have to be in.
Speaker 1: Where you look around and say, there are literally no
Speaker 1: people of color in this room.
Speaker 3: But when the roles are reversed, very wrong.
Speaker 2: Here the statement is being made. I don't see whites represented. Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't know Jill's ayren. She had a bad moment,
Speaker 2: but that is hilarious to me. The number of times
Speaker 2: you don't even notice it because your the environment is comfortable.
Speaker 2: She's uncomfortable just watching something on TV that doesn't include
Speaker 2: more of her. Come on, lady, I don't know you.
Speaker 2: Jill's are and I'm not. I don't want to make
Speaker 2: some indictment on the lady, but that statement there, given experience.
Speaker 3: Is just and that's most likely why she was removed
Speaker 3: from the reunion series, which one is she she was
Speaker 3: on Real Housewives of New York City.
Speaker 2: Was that a diverse cast?
Speaker 1: You know, Kelly ben Simone our friend shoes on it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it's not a diverse cast at all.
Speaker 2: No, okay, Oh well continue, let's go back him along
Speaker 2: with his next leg. Beautiful story here. Maxim Noomov did
Speaker 2: get a chance to skate today. He did the men's
Speaker 2: short program. This was the young fellow we all celebrated
Speaker 2: after he made the Olympic team. But the connection to
Speaker 2: him being here and being on the team and skating
Speaker 2: and even that crash his parents died in, it's all
Speaker 2: tied together. And to see him standing there Olympic rings
Speaker 2: under his skates, damn that.
Speaker 1: It was very cool and he qualified, which is so exciting.
Speaker 1: He got eighty five point sixty five qualifying score in
Speaker 1: the short program.
Speaker 3: He's in fourteenth place.
Speaker 1: That means he gets to skate again on Friday, which
Speaker 1: is so cool. When he got his score, he fell
Speaker 1: to his knees. Look what we just did. Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start crying. Talking to his parents, he held up
Speaker 1: a picture of them, and then he showed he showed
Speaker 1: the quote that he has inside his jacket from his father,
Speaker 1: Expect the unexpected, which is so chilling. You can apply
Speaker 1: it obviously to what he's going through right now, but
Speaker 1: also what he's been through. The fact that that was
Speaker 1: his dad's quote, and then for him to be living
Speaker 1: out this nightmare and dream all at the same time
Speaker 1: is making his dad's words come to life in ways
Speaker 1: that no one could have extended.
Speaker 2: Pretty special story, that kid. And it was the score
Speaker 2: he skateed. Yes, it was good enough for fourteenth. He
Speaker 2: gets to skate on Friday. This was the short program.
Speaker 2: The other one's called the free skate. But listen to
Speaker 2: this how is it possible? Ropes? That was his best
Speaker 2: score of the season. It's amazing, like he did his
Speaker 2: best performance in that moment with all this man the Olympics.
Speaker 2: You all get up at two and three in the
Speaker 2: morning and so nobody will see you crying or.
Speaker 3: Say or you could just watch it in prime time
Speaker 3: like most people.
Speaker 2: All right, last one here for are run today. Not
Speaker 2: Olympic records being broken, more medals themselves being broken than
Speaker 2: maybe the records, because at least six athletes have said
Speaker 2: the medals broke after winning events, including some US medalists.
Speaker 2: And I've seen the videos. You see them fall off
Speaker 2: their necks. It's kind of hilarious.
Speaker 1: It's because they're jumping up and down. It's kind of funny.
Speaker 1: But that's when it happened. Did you see the German
Speaker 1: the biathlete that was hilarious?
Speaker 2: Sor I've been working my whole life for this moment.
Speaker 2: I just got a medal and I can't jump and celebrate.
Speaker 2: Gotta here's your goal.
Speaker 1: Be careful, Yeah, don't jump too don't celebrate too much. Yes,
Speaker 1: so ski or Breezy Johnson's gold medal. I think that
Speaker 1: was the first one we heard about broke. As she
Speaker 1: was celebrating her when she said, don't jump up and
Speaker 1: down like I did. She said, it's definitely heavy, heavier
Speaker 1: than expected. I think maybe that's why it broke. She
Speaker 1: was being kind, but it's actually it's the piece that
Speaker 1: attaches the ribbon to the groove in the metal that broke,
Speaker 1: and that's where it's breaking them.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: I thought it was the metal itself and that was
Speaker 1: confusing to me. No, it's the thing that attaches the ribbon.
Speaker 2: Well, if anyone has ever bought a very cheap necklace
Speaker 2: or a cheap charm, you, yeah, the thing gives right,
Speaker 2: that's or cheap keychain even that'll give that little Why
Speaker 2: are Olympic medals made in this shoddy of a way?
Speaker 1: Yes, and this by by the way, we're seeing it now,
Speaker 1: but apparently this has happened in other Olympics, maybe not
Speaker 1: this prominently, but yeah, figure skater Alyssa Lous gold medal
Speaker 1: did the same thing. Skier Jackie Wiles bronze medal did
Speaker 1: the same thing. A Swedish cross country skier, a Dutch skater,
Speaker 1: and that German.
Speaker 3: Biathlete who we saw. They put the video.
Speaker 1: It went viral, solarious with the metal clinking to the ground, with.
Speaker 2: His team jump up and down and you see one
Speaker 2: guy stop and go down to his feet. What's happening?
Speaker 2: So they are taking this situation seriously, they say, Olympic
Speaker 2: offictionals say they're aware, understand that there is a problem here.
Speaker 2: We are paying I love this maximum attention to this matter.
Speaker 2: They are given new medals, I'm told, but with the
Speaker 2: same problem. They're just replacement metals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like they're getting a new, newly and
Speaker 1: better reinforced.
Speaker 3: They just know not to jump, now, that's all.
Speaker 2: That's a funny, very very fun story. Finally, here our
Speaker 2: quote of the day. I took this one from Ryan
Speaker 2: Cochrane Siegel who got his silver medal coming down going
Speaker 2: whatever it is, eighty ninety miles an hour they're going,
Speaker 2: got a silver, not his best event. His mom is
Speaker 2: the one who's a nineteen seventy two gold medalist. She
Speaker 2: was there watching this beautiful, beautiful moment. You're waiting for
Speaker 2: his poetry to come out of his mouth and his
Speaker 2: post race interview about the gold, and there was plenty
Speaker 2: of that. But this is the quote I plucked toward
Speaker 2: you Ropes, and this lets you know that, hey, these
Speaker 2: Olympians are just like us.
Speaker 3: Quote.
Speaker 2: I definitely had to fight some demons with the toilet
Speaker 2: before my run.
Speaker 3: You know, you're in a foreign country.
Speaker 1: He ate something you shouldn't have you're a little add
Speaker 1: that to the nerves of the day in competition and everything.
Speaker 1: It is not a good combo.
Speaker 2: He was talking about combining those things. It was it
Speaker 2: was so much about nerves and how he felt combined
Speaker 2: with He wasn't feeling well and he was just a mess,
Speaker 2: and he had talked about it. But to hear him
Speaker 2: say that you and I run marathons. Yeah, and there's
Speaker 2: always a delicate stomach balance.
Speaker 3: Oh man, it is tough.
Speaker 2: Hear him say it. He just this beautiful moment and
Speaker 2: he just had an honest quote. Now I thought it
Speaker 2: was cool.
Speaker 3: That is that isn't it?
Speaker 2: Look?
Speaker 3: Yes, they are Olympians.
Speaker 1: They physically can do things that the rest of us cannot,
Speaker 1: but they still are human beings who are subjected to
Speaker 1: all of the things that we deal with when we travel,
Speaker 1: when we're nervous.
Speaker 3: But yes, that's cute.
Speaker 2: That's funny. Their bodies do things ours cannot, but their
Speaker 2: bodies also have to do things ours have to do too.
Speaker 2: I definitely had to fight some demons with the toilet
Speaker 2: before my run. A successful run. Congrats to him and
Speaker 2: all the Olympians and they thank you, all those Olympians
Speaker 2: for the entertainment and the joy and the pride. Frankly,
Speaker 2: you give us. We even look at uniforms and go, Wow,
Speaker 2: that one's cool or that one's cool. Wait, you see
Speaker 2: the stars and stripes. You can't help, don't. You can't
Speaker 2: see their faces sometimes, but man, you see that red, white,
Speaker 2: and blue, and you get proud and you root for them.
Speaker 2: And this is special about the Olympics.
Speaker 3: Ropes, I know this is we love the Olympics. Every
Speaker 3: two years.
Speaker 1: This has been special and it's fun to at least
Speaker 1: talk about something positive, something good Americans are doing in the.
Speaker 2: World, despite the controversy between Hunter hess and the President.
Speaker 2: All right, with that, we'll talk to y'all soon. As always,
Speaker 2: appreciate your running with us. I'm T J.
Speaker 3: Holmes and I'm Amy Robock. Thank you for running with us.
Speaker 2: Wow, you didn't know where you were going.
Speaker 1: Well, you said we'll run with you soon, So then
Speaker 1: I realized I couldn't say what you just said, so
Speaker 1: I had to come up with something new.
Speaker 3: Thanks for running with us.
Speaker 2: Sorry, we'll see y'all.