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It seemed hard to believe yesterday afternoon when we got the word that there was an apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump this time at a golf course he owns in West Palm Beach, Florida. A suspect 58 year old Ryan Wesley Routh of Hawaii, formerly of North Carolina was arrested. They chased him and but they was taken into custody without incident and the former president is safe. No one else injured with David. You reported extensively for us a couple of months ago and hard to believe it's apparently happened again, especially as you heard how this was all unfolding yesterday. I mean, initially this story was that there was a shootout near a place where the president, the former president was in Florida and then as more details started to come out, you found out, oh, this was another attempted assassination attempt. At least what we know in this case is the suspect is in custody. So hopefully we'll get a chance to find out what his motive is because still two months after the fact it's still not 100% clear what caused Thomas Crooks to decide to try and to shoot the former president up in Butler and apparently there is a lot of information about this suspect on social media channels as well. CBS's Christian Benvenidas, a visual see the suspect left a rifle, a scope and two bank packs when he fled. And there's also a GoPro on the fence there where he was intent on filming what was going on. Well, it's not certain that Routh fired at the former president. It is true that the Secret Service had spotted him and fired in his direction and that's when he took off in a citizen had taken his license plate down and that seemed to be the key right to resting him so quickly. And but he wanted to make sure Donald Trump posted that he was safe and obviously unfortunate that this has happened again. But in this case, nobody apparently was injured. So appreciative of that for sure. We'll be talking about the weekend, the Steelers yesterday, coach Mike Tomlin, whether it was really nice old week. That was pattern. It was really appreciative of the efforts just told the guys in there. Start the season with two road games, B two and O man, it's a pretty good feeling. Obviously, we got a lot to work on, but it's good to work on it with with the required W of the week. Yeah, that's it's good to get a win on the road like that. Sure. The only thing that gets me is sometimes Pittsburgh sports fans get to the point where it's this early in the season. They're already planning their Super Bowl and take trips and so on. Yeah, it's a little early for that. However, the good news is the Ravens lost. Sure. And two and two and certainly better to be two and O and two at this point. And we've experienced that as well, and Cleveland ended up finding a way to win. So the Steelers are in first place and coming home to face the Chargers who had a big game. So one o'clock, Akrasher Stadium on Sunday looking forward and I would imagine David, the Steelers crowd will be pumped up to welcome the Steelers home. No doubt about that. Are they home the following week too, do you know? Well, you're going to make, because usually it seems, because that's the great race weekend and usually it seems like there was always the Steelers game that coincided with that as well. The schedule is definitely home friendly at the end of the season. But we have the Chargers, then they're away against the Colts. Then they host Sunday night football against the Cowboys on October 6th. Wow. The first three of four games are on the road and Indianapolis had a good game yesterday. So we'll see. But one game at a time, David, you know, what the coaches say. And last night, the 76th annual prime time Emmy Awards. And there were a bunch of, most of the, a lot of these shows people never heard of. Right. In Texas, the bear came into the night with a record 23 nominations and took home several awards, including best lead actor, Jeremy Alan White, the bear. Have you ever seen the bear? I've never seen the bear. Do you know what it's about? I have no clue. You know, there's a list. Aaron, did you ever see the bear? I love the bear. Huge fan. How would you describe to David what the bear was all about? Okay. So think of the bougie's restaurant you've ever been to, where the chef is freaking out. The servers are explaining the food to you when they place your food at your plate. They're explaining the wine. That's the show. And it talks about a lot of chefs and their mindset and the turmoil that goes into having this perfectionist demeanor in the kitchen and bringing what you eat. So is the bear the metaphor for the chef, then? Yeah. Yes. Oh my gosh. Great. Love that. They call them the bear and it's set in Chicago. But there are a bunch of winners of shows that a lot of people don't know. Like Shogun. Shogun got all these awards. Do you know what Shogun is, David? I know the Richard Chamberlain Shogun from that was 40 years ago. God. I have not seen it. It's got me thinking. Should I check it out? All these awards. Maybe that's it. Some of these shows that got awards, these streaming shows that aren't, most of them are not on network television, you know, for almost the entire existence of the primetime Emmys up until, you know, the last decade or so. It was ABC, NBC, CBS, maybe HBO, a couple others now, it's spread all over the place. Hulu, FX. Right. Yeah. It's pretty crazy. I was just looking at the list. Yeah, the thing about that too that it gets me is that we've moved away from, you know, the following day, people would talk about, "Hey, did you watch Murphy Brown last night or something like that?" And people talk about it. Now it's, "Oh, don't tell me what happened on the bear because I haven't seen the newest episode yet." It takes away from the cultural, you know, the bringing together people over what they watched or heard. It's a good point. Except for the football games, that's, you know, that's pretty much it. To your point, that is one of the last bastions of collective viewing is live sporting events or presidential debates and that sort of, yeah, that kind of stuff. So that's it. People will be talking about that, but a lot about the Steelers and a lot about what happened in 622 news radio, KDKA, this is Larry Richard and a special report from CBS, former president Donald Trump, safe following what the FBI says appears to be an attempted assassination attempt yesterday afternoon while playing golfs, golf just two months after an attempt on his life here in Brother Pennsylvania. Local authority said that U.S. Secret Service agents protecting former president fired at a man pointing an AK style rifle with a scope at Donald Trump while he was playing on one of his Florida golf courses in West Palm Beach. Law enforcement officials said the man who pointed the rifle was arrested. Ryan Wesley Ralph, 58 years old, officials identified the suspect that he is a Hawaiian resident but used to live in North Carolina most of his life before moving to Hawaii in 2018, where he and his son operated a company building sheds according to an archive version of the web page for his business. Ralph frequently posted on social media about the war in Ukraine at a website where he sought to raise money and recruit volunteers to go to Kiev to join the fight against the Russian invasion. In June of 2020, he made a post on X directed at then president Trump to say that he would win reelection if he issued an executive order for the justice department to prosecute police misconduct. That year he also posted in support of the democratic presidential campaign. However, recent years, his post suggested he has turned on the former president and in July following the assassination attempt here in Pennsylvania, Ralph urge Biden parents to visit those wounded in the shooting in the hospital attend the funeral and they're going to obviously go through a lot of information about the suspect Ryan Wesley Ralph, age 58 again, of Hawaiian residents and former president was not hurt nor was anyone else apparently injured in the incident will have more coming up at the bottom of this hour and also a report from CBS 643 news radio kdk last night in Hollywood. It was the 76th annual prime time Emmys and with the details CBS is Carissa Lawson. Effects is the bear came into the night with a record 23 nominations and took home several awards, including best lead actor Jeremy Allen white the bear. Supporting actor in a comedy series and best supporting actress Liza cologne zeyas, the first Latina to win in that category, but it was HBO's hacks that beat the bear to win best comedy series, the biggest surprise of the night, the historical drama show gun swept the top drama categories, including outstanding drama series, you guys greenlit a very expensive subtitle, Japanese period piece who central climax revolves around a poetry competition. I have no idea why you did that, but thank you for your faith in this incredible team. The hugely popular, but highly contentious Netflix series baby reindeer created by Richard Gadd one awards for lead actor supporting actress writing and outstanding limited series. And when it came to great moments, this ensemble reunion of the West weighing received one of the biggest applause of the night, it's hard to believe that just 25 years ago, Aaron and the writers actually had to use their imaginations to create interesting plot lines for the westward night of laughter, glitz and glamour and some history making moments to Curtis Lawson CBS news. Reach out to us anytime. It's just a click away instant access at kdk radio.com is our email address instant access at kdk radio.com and as David Balorado just indicated, we'll have more coming up at the top of this hour on the attempted assassination attempt, hard to believe. And I know a lot of people got the word yesterday afternoon, David, just, Oh, not again. Oh, no, not again, right in this case, no one was wounded and or injured. So and we don't know all the details about this suspect, but apparently he's left a treasure trove on social media. Yeah, evidently. And of course, that's, you know, the pros and cons of today with social media, you know, you can go back and find so much about somebody once you need to start looking into their past and did apparently he was really obsessed with Russian Ukraine, having gone over and I guess what apparently he's trying to recruit people to go over and fight. Yeah, as you know, at 58 years old, that's typically a lot older than someone who, if you were going to become a mercenary, but if you see the photos and some and they have interviews that he did before prior with, you know, other media outlets in the past. So, but this happened in this case, and I used to work in West Palm Beach, Florida in radio out of college. And it's along the coast. So if you don't know, it's just north of the Fort Lauderdale, Miami area, okay, former president Trump in Mar-a-Lago is the old post estate. You remember the post cereal? Okay, sure. He purchased it and upgraded it, you know, created a golf course there. They had he has other golf courses around there as well, including in Miami, but this one is in West Palm Beach and he was golfing in the afternoon around two o'clock when this occurred. And so at least the difference in this case is apparently from we understand they saw the gun. They took action. The guy tried to flee and and I witnessed jotted down his license plate and never turned it in. There was a very urgent all points bulletin put out and the suspect was tracked down almost immediately. And then taken without incident, however, he left the gun, AK-47. It was reported and a GoPro attached to the fence. Now, there's a fence that surrounds this golf course and he was apparently in the bushes. It's lined the fences also lined with bushes and when you'll see and you will see a video on this fence area, there are palm trees and apparently he could hide himself in there along the fence line. Now, there's a backpack left and a GoPro attached to the fence and they presume that he wanted to video himself doing this. Of course, there's been some speculation, was there enough secret service protection? Because he was able to get that close. Some people were saying, I heard a report somewhere and I can't remember who it was it was making this assertion, but the claim was that if he were the sitting president, there would have been much more security and they would have been able to kept him from even getting that close to to where he was. We're talking three to 500 yards, so if you look at a football field as a hundred yards to give you some perspective, if you lined up three to five football fields, that's quite a distance but not apparently if you have a scope and a rifle or this magnitude. So we'll continue to bring you details as we work our way through this Monday morning.