Speaker 1: Autumn, the season that teaches us change can be beautiful.
Speaker 1: A well timed quote this morning from author and illustrator
Speaker 1: Heather still have Son on this first full day of fall,
Speaker 1: Hello to you all on TJ.
Speaker 2: Holmes and I'm Amy Roboch. It's Monday, September twenty third.
Speaker 2: And on today's Morning run, a mass shooting in Alabama
Speaker 2: was possibly a paid targeted hit. Also a deal struck
Speaker 2: over the weekend to avert that government shutdown.
Speaker 1: Plus Kim Kardashian goes to prison, Elon Musk gets sued
Speaker 1: by Cards of Humanity, and what Janet Jackson says she
Speaker 1: heard about Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: Also this morning, what do a missing ring, a dead whale,
Speaker 2: and Rak Junior all have in common? And turns out
Speaker 2: saying beetlejuice three times is a charm at the box office.
Speaker 1: But we have to begin our morning run in Birmingham, Alabama.
Speaker 1: That's where over the weekend a mass shooting took place
Speaker 1: in a busy entertainment district and four people were killed
Speaker 1: seventeen others injured when multiple shooters opened fire.
Speaker 2: Now, as of this recording, those shooters are still on
Speaker 2: the run and police believe they were carrying out a
Speaker 2: paid hit on one individual. That person is among those killed,
Speaker 2: and the other victims were unfortunately caught in the crossfire.
Speaker 1: This was just after eleven pm on Saturday. Multiple people
Speaker 1: drove up to the area, got out of a vehicle
Speaker 1: and began shooting into the crowd, then drove away. Birmingham's
Speaker 1: mayor said they believed the suspects may have used illegal
Speaker 1: gun conversion devices in the shooting, often referred to as
Speaker 1: switches that can override a trigger mechanism and a gun
Speaker 1: and making it essentially a machine gun.
Speaker 2: Wow. And according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
Speaker 2: and Explosives, those conversion devices can actually convert a semi
Speaker 2: automatic pistol and a rifle into fully automatic weapons in
Speaker 2: less than sixty seconds. Well, the next leg of our
Speaker 2: run is taking us to Washington day See the US
Speaker 2: runs out of money in a week, so, of course,
Speaker 2: Congressional leaders announced just yesterday that the crisis has yes
Speaker 2: been averted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently there is now a stop gap spending bill
Speaker 1: in place, i e. A temporary fix that does have
Speaker 1: bipotters partisan support. The government is set to run out
Speaker 1: of money on September thirtieth and less Congress takes action.
Speaker 2: Now, the bill is a three month temporary measure. It's
Speaker 2: going to keep the government running for at least through
Speaker 2: the election and into the end of the year. The
Speaker 2: STOPGAK plan, however, does not include an extra two hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty one million dollars for the Secret Service.
Speaker 1: It does include that two hundred and thirty million extra.
Speaker 1: Of course, a lot of the back and forth has
Speaker 1: been about people trying to sneak a few extra things
Speaker 1: into this spending bill, and they couldn't come to an agreement.
Speaker 1: So the only thing they could agree on is that, yes,
Speaker 1: maybe the Secret Service needs a little extra help. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people might agree with that, given
Speaker 1: some of the scarity we've seen.
Speaker 2: Why am I not was not in a very well
Speaker 2: placed part of that sentence to my apologies.
Speaker 1: Sorry, he's gonna keep it wrong. On this Monday, a
Speaker 1: lot of people.
Speaker 2: Having some Monday I had a case of the Monday's already. Yes,
Speaker 2: happy Monday.
Speaker 1: Everyone, But that's quite all right. We do want to
Speaker 1: continue this run very carefully here. Now, we gotta do
Speaker 1: this in prison. Actually, let me explain. That's where Kim
Speaker 1: Kardashian was over the weekend she met two notorious killers,
Speaker 1: the Menendez brothers. This visit comes after backlash over a
Speaker 1: new Netflix show starring Kardashian that's about Yep, the Menendez.
Speaker 2: Brothers, Yes, and the show Monsters. The Lyle and Eric
Speaker 2: Menendez story has caused a bit of a store and
Speaker 2: it's faced some criticism over its portrayal of the case. Kardashian,
Speaker 2: many of you may know, was taken up criminal justice reform.
Speaker 2: She's visited several prisons in the past and reportedly spoke
Speaker 2: to the Menendez brothers and a number of other prisoners
Speaker 2: at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. This is all
Speaker 2: outside of San Diego, and this all reportedly happened over
Speaker 2: the weekend on Saturday, and she.
Speaker 1: Did apparently have family members with her had a co
Speaker 1: star with her on the show at TV producer as well.
Speaker 1: A lot of people, of course, still remember and know
Speaker 1: the story pretty well. The Menindez brothers were convicted for
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty nine shooting deaths of their parents. The
Speaker 1: story was a media frenzy and it still fascinates to
Speaker 1: this day.
Speaker 2: That's right, and so Eric Lyles put out a lengthy
Speaker 2: statement in response to the show, saying he believes the producer,
Speaker 2: and that producer's name is Ryan Murphy, acted in bad
Speaker 2: faith and Eric believes he intentionally spread lies about himself
Speaker 2: and his brother. Eric went on to say this, and
Speaker 2: I'm going to quote him here. It is sad for
Speaker 2: me to know that Netflix's dishonest portrayal of the tragedies
Speaker 2: surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths several steps backward,
Speaker 2: and so now Murphy the producer, shapes his horrible narrative
Speaker 2: through vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and me
Speaker 2: and disheartening slander. Wow.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Ryan Murphy, a lot of you all may know
Speaker 1: that name, but he is the guy behind a lot
Speaker 1: of TV hits. He's an award winning producer, but he's
Speaker 1: behind hits such as Glee and American Horror Story. This
Speaker 1: is one we have not checked out yet, but a
Speaker 1: lot of people are talking about the Menindez brothers in
Speaker 1: that story on Netflix. I'm sure we'll get to it.
Speaker 1: I want to continue now our morning run with Janet Jackson,
Speaker 1: who said she heard Vice President Kamala Harris isn't black
Speaker 1: and that it was discovered that Harris's dad is white,
Speaker 1: and that was just the beginning of the confusion.
Speaker 2: Jackson made those yeah, we'll call them head scratching comments
Speaker 2: during a wide raging interview that was published over the weekend,
Speaker 2: and so, talking about Kamala Harris, Jackson said, quote, she's
Speaker 2: not black. That's what I heard, that she is Indian.
Speaker 2: She went on to say that she was told it
Speaker 2: was discovered that Harris's dad, yes, is in fact white.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the response, as you can imagine online and
Speaker 1: on social media, was swift. The day after the comments
Speaker 1: became public, a statement was issued on Janet Jackson's behalf
Speaker 1: by someone claiming to be her manager, and in that statement,
Speaker 1: Jackson supposedly expressed her respect for VP Harris and apologized
Speaker 1: for her comments.
Speaker 2: But however, turns out that was not true as well,
Speaker 2: because reps for Jackson tot Variety Magazine the person who
Speaker 2: issued that apology is not connected to Janet Jackson at all,
Speaker 2: and he's gone on to say that he's now been
Speaker 2: fired from Janet Jackson. So a lot of confusion surrounding
Speaker 2: not just what she said, why she said it, but
Speaker 2: whether or not she apologized and who claimed she did
Speaker 2: for the record though, to set this trait for everyone listening,
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris's dad is from Jamaica, he is black and
Speaker 2: her mom is from India.
Speaker 1: That won't be the last time that has to be
Speaker 1: uttered during this campaign cycle, unfortunately, but that continues to
Speaker 1: be as story for reason. We're gonna head now on
Speaker 1: our morning Ron too. Actress Cheryl Hines, spotted without her
Speaker 1: wedding ring at a fashion week event in Milan, also
Speaker 1: posted several pictures of her without her husband, Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior, for her fifty ninth birthday over the weekend.
Speaker 1: And this course comes as reports ropes that her husband
Speaker 1: RFK Junior had a personal relationship with a campaign reporter
Speaker 1: that did a piece on him.
Speaker 2: That's right, and that reporter has since been placed on
Speaker 2: leave from New York Magazine for what her boss said
Speaker 2: was quote potentially damaging reader's trust. The thirty one year
Speaker 2: old reporter did release a statement. She acknowledged that yes,
Speaker 2: she had a personal relationship, seemingly in texts with RFK Junior,
Speaker 2: but she denied that that relationship ever turned physical.
Speaker 1: Heines, meanwhile, has not made any official comment, but just
Speaker 1: last month put out a glowing Instagram post for their
Speaker 1: tenure wedding anniversary. This controversy comes, as I guess, the
Speaker 1: late controversy for RFK Junior. Last week, federal law enforcement agency,
Speaker 1: the National Marine Fisheries Service, opened an official investigation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: get this, and to him reportedly cutting off the head
Speaker 1: of a dead whale and taking it home two decades ago.
Speaker 2: Yes, his daughter shared that story, and now and he
Speaker 2: confirmed it, and now it's become an investigation. Speaking of
Speaker 2: sharing stories, we may all remember that RFK Junior recently
Speaker 2: shared a story about dumping a bear cub carcass in
Speaker 2: Central Park a decade ago. It was a big mystery
Speaker 2: here in New York City that now perhaps was solved
Speaker 2: after RFK Junior admitted that yes, he in fact was
Speaker 2: the person who did that. And then, of course, he
Speaker 2: raised many eyebrows during the pandemic for his controversial stance
Speaker 2: on the COVID vaccine, RFK Junior claiming that the coronavirus
Speaker 2: vaccines were developed to control people via microchips.
Speaker 1: He has, as you probably know by now, dropped out
Speaker 1: of the presidential race. Did that in August and currently
Speaker 1: on the campaign trail for Donald Trump. Well, continuing on
Speaker 1: our morning run. Here in just a moment, Stay with Us,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is being called all kinds of names, very
Speaker 1: offensive stuff by some folks behind a very offensive game.
Speaker 1: Stay with Us.
Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone. Our run continues this morning with a
Speaker 2: major lawsuit. Cards against Humanity says Elon Musk completely effed
Speaker 2: up their land and they're now taking the billionaire and
Speaker 2: his company to court. The makers of the adult party
Speaker 2: game loved by so many, especially perhaps this reporter, file
Speaker 2: a lawsuit against Musk's company's SpaceX, and wants fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's make sense of this. Cards against Humanity
Speaker 1: is based in Chicago, but they bought a piece of
Speaker 1: land in Texas in twenty seventeen is part of an
Speaker 1: effort and I guess kind of a stunt to block
Speaker 1: Trump's potential border wall from being built. The company said
Speaker 1: a crowd sourced the funding for that project and that
Speaker 1: the land has been maintained in its natural state, but
Speaker 1: claims for the past six months, SpaceX has been using
Speaker 1: the land without permission.
Speaker 2: Wow. So in a statement, they called Elon Musk a
Speaker 2: racist billionaire who snuck up on us from behind and
Speaker 2: completely eft that land with gravel tractors and space garbage.
Speaker 2: Cards Against Humanity says it would take the fifteen million
Speaker 2: dollars and disperse it to the original donors who helped
Speaker 2: purchase the land.
Speaker 1: Okay, they have been politically active. If you played the game,
Speaker 1: they are offensive and they don't mind it. It is
Speaker 1: their thing. This is somewhat of a stunt, but it's
Speaker 1: they say, it is real that SpaceX, which is down
Speaker 1: there operating in Texas, has essentially been using their empty
Speaker 1: land as their own little backyard to a certain degree.
Speaker 2: And oh the irony, just the fact that Elon Musk
Speaker 2: obviously has been campaigning on behalf of president former President Trump,
Speaker 2: and then you have Cards against Humanity also politically motivated
Speaker 2: as well. So well, this is just a bit of
Speaker 2: a mess.
Speaker 1: That's funny. In their quote, they went hard after him,
Speaker 1: and they're saying that just the idea of us being
Speaker 1: associated with Elon Musk is very offensive and harmful to
Speaker 1: us and our supporters.
Speaker 2: Speaking of offense, which is literally what they deal in.
Speaker 2: They love to offend.
Speaker 1: I haven't played it yet, we're looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: We want to keep on running here because Caitlin Clark
Speaker 1: just keeps on meeting expectations. She just had a record
Speaker 1: setting and now award winning rookie season in the w NBA.
Speaker 1: She was the unanimous pick for the Associated Press WNBA
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year. She came into the league with
Speaker 1: more hype and attention than any WNBA player ever probably,
Speaker 1: and she set a new record for assists in a season,
Speaker 1: record for points in a season by a rookie. She
Speaker 1: was the first rookie to ever record a triple double.
Speaker 1: She led her team, the Indiana Fever, to their first
Speaker 1: playoff appearance sixteen twenty seventeen somewhere in there. So she
Speaker 1: has delivered.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember starting to watch the WNBA with you,
Speaker 2: and you just kept telling them you have to see
Speaker 2: this girl play. You have to see this woman play.
Speaker 2: And when we were watching all of the collegiate the
Speaker 2: women collegiate players, and certainly I was blown away. And
Speaker 2: I'm not somebody who even knows perhaps what is excellent
Speaker 2: in basketball, but she certainly shows everyone what that word means.
Speaker 1: And that's you know what. That's great. You make a
Speaker 1: great point. This is what they've been doing now, they
Speaker 1: invest in the players. You get someone like you who
Speaker 1: doesn't even watch women's basketball regularly. There's a star you
Speaker 1: want to see. It makes you turn on the TV.
Speaker 1: And they've had record attendance. They have had a record
Speaker 1: viewership this year, and Caitlyn Clark Angel reeves, a lot
Speaker 1: of these young players have been a big part of that.
Speaker 1: Asia Wilson here, we want to talk about it as well,
Speaker 1: because she was the unanimous pick for Associated Press WNBA
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. And I know you saw her
Speaker 1: a lot because we watched a lot of Olympics and
Speaker 1: she dominated for the women.
Speaker 2: Any your excitement watching these women play actually gave me
Speaker 2: excitement to see how incredible they are. And yes, Wilson
Speaker 2: helped the Las Vegas Aces to a couple of championships,
Speaker 2: became the first player in WNBA history to score a
Speaker 2: thousand points in one season. So just some incredible women
Speaker 2: celebrated as they should be.
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark was in college six months ago, eight six months.
Speaker 2: Ago on a commercial we see on television, So good
Speaker 2: for her.
Speaker 1: Exactly, you know what you take this next line because
Speaker 1: you wrote it in there. You knew it wasn't There's a.
Speaker 2: Couple lines that I knew you wouldn't say so I
Speaker 2: tried to actually give you the easier one because I
Speaker 2: know you're not going to say this other one. All right,
Speaker 2: our morning run continues with it's fall, y'all. That's what
Speaker 2: TEJ didn't want to say. Officially the first day of fall. Today,
Speaker 2: we said is the first full day, but the Autumn
Speaker 2: Equedox actually happened at eight forty four am yesterday, September
Speaker 2: twenty second. It is just one of two days in
Speaker 2: the year where the sun is directly above the equator,
Speaker 2: dividing night and day into equal portions. The other time
Speaker 2: of the year is the vernal or spring equinox. And see,
Speaker 2: I was trying to avoid you having to say this
Speaker 2: next line, TJ.
Speaker 1: Wait what we're ah, man, come on.
Speaker 2: You can say and I'll just add my little Okay.
Speaker 1: So here we go, folks. Bring on the changing.
Speaker 2: Leaves, the sweat of weather.
Speaker 1: The pumpkin flavored everything in college football Saturdays. Remember though,
Speaker 1: from now Unzoo the winter solstice on December twenty first,
Speaker 1: the days will shorten, the nights will get longer, and
Speaker 1: in just a few weeks November third, we turned back
Speaker 1: our clocks and gain an hour of extra sleep. Did
Speaker 1: this throw people off. I think people thought, okay, fall
Speaker 1: this company. They thought they were supposed to change their clocks.
Speaker 2: Yes, we get now, it's always the first Saturday in
Speaker 2: November or East. At least recently that's been the case.
Speaker 2: And I always know this because that is when the
Speaker 2: New York City Marathon is. And so that's one of
Speaker 2: the little gifts that we get when we run the
Speaker 2: New New York City Marathon that we get an extra
Speaker 2: hour of sleep the night before. So, yes, that is
Speaker 2: when we turn back our clocks. Yes, we get that
Speaker 2: extra hour. The trade off, in my opinion, is terrible
Speaker 2: because we then get months of darker afternoons. Wah wah.
Speaker 2: So enjoy the daylight while you cant everyone.
Speaker 1: So you want to end on that dark note.
Speaker 2: Huh oh, it's just to remind everyone to take advantage
Speaker 2: of the daylight that we do have.
Speaker 1: Well there it is that we want to end our
Speaker 1: run today on what has been a really good run
Speaker 1: at the box office. Beal Juice Beelejuice tight race to
Speaker 1: number one at the box office over the weekend. It
Speaker 1: went down to the final million, with Yes, the Beal
Speaker 1: Juice sequel taking the top spot at the box office.
Speaker 1: This is a rare, rare feat for a movie to
Speaker 1: have three straight weekends at number one in the box office,
Speaker 1: especially when they were being taken on by such a major,
Speaker 1: major player like Transformers one that just came out over
Speaker 1: the weekend that they ended up with twenty five million
Speaker 1: compared to beatle Juws's twenty six million, So this was
Speaker 1: an upset that few people saw coming. And beatle Juws
Speaker 1: is doing Gangbusters. Robes has three hundred and thirty million
Speaker 1: dollars worldwide tonight.
Speaker 2: That is incredible. And this is all a sequel, as
Speaker 2: you mentioned, a Tim Burton sequel, not just any old
Speaker 2: sequel to his nineteen eighty eight movie that was so beloved,
Speaker 2: and it's so cool. You love to see Winona Ryder,
Speaker 2: Catherine O'Hara, Michael Keaton all reprising their roles. Very cool
Speaker 2: that they all came along to do this once again.
Speaker 2: And of course we got to see we loved Jenna
Speaker 2: Ortega she stars in the movie as well. And just
Speaker 2: mentioning we told you the first and second on the
Speaker 2: list today in the box office, the third place went
Speaker 2: to the movie that I am dying to see that
Speaker 2: I have been trying to wrangle you to the movie
Speaker 2: theater to go see Speak No Evil starring James McAvoy. Yes,
Speaker 2: a horror movie that looks so incredible came in at
Speaker 2: five point nine million in its second week for a
Speaker 2: total of twenty one point five million. Not too shabby
Speaker 2: for a horror flick like that. So I'm excited about
Speaker 2: fitting that into our schedule this week.
Speaker 1: Babef it's only been the schedule, dear lady. Has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with you. It has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: me not going to take you on a movie night.
Speaker 1: But we busy, So folks, we hope you have a
Speaker 1: good and busy and productive and wonderful start to your
Speaker 1: fall on this first full day of fall. We appreciate
Speaker 1: you going on the run with us. We'll see you
Speaker 1: back tomorrow.