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Memphis Mom Charged With Murder, Ryan Clark Out at ESPN, and Apple Goes Lease-to-Own · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: A Memphis mother says she was protecting her thirteen year
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  Speaker 1: old daughter. Prosecutor say she committed murder. Now a case
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  Speaker 1: that sparked a national debate is headed to court.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you've got a woman who is kind of
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  Speaker 2: living out your worst nightmare as a parent.
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  Speaker 1: And Ryan Clark is out at ESPN after eleven years
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  Speaker 1: with a network. Reports say he learned he was being
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  Speaker 1: laid off while he was still live on the air.
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  Speaker 3: The boss is no, I'm not happy about this decision.
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  Speaker 3: I've made that very very clear.
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  Speaker 1: And Apple has a new way to get you into
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  Speaker 1: its latest devices without paying the full price upfront. Will
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  Speaker 1: explain the company's new leads to Own program. It's Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: July twenty second from the Black Effect podcast network. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Mimi Brown. This is front page. Here are the day's
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  Speaker 1: biggest stories. Stay with me. A Memphis mother who says
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  Speaker 1: she found a twenty year old man hiding under her
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  Speaker 1: thirteen year old daughter's bed is now facing a first
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  Speaker 1: degree murder charge. Blise a thirty six year old Kindra
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  Speaker 1: Scott came home around one forty in the morning and
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  Speaker 1: found Rodarius Morden underneath her daughter's bed. According to the
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  Speaker 1: arrest affidavit, Scott confronted Morten and ordered him to leave.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say he walked out the front of the house,
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  Speaker 1: but the confrontation didn't end there. Police say Scott followed
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  Speaker 1: Morton outside and shot him once in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the head. Officers found him in the front yard. He
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  Speaker 1: later died. Scott is being charged with first degree murder
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  Speaker 1: and employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony.
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  Speaker 1: Her bond has been said at one hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: and she's due back in court next month.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, the challenges I'm seeing are for the
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  Speaker 2: state in trying to go forward on first degree murder charges.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you've got a woman who is kind of
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  Speaker 2: living out your worst nightmare as a parent. To expect
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  Speaker 2: anybody to be able to act in a cool, calm manner, premeditate,
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  Speaker 2: any sort of actor is just unrealistic. I think even
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  Speaker 2: the best of us, the worst of us, any of us,
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  Speaker 2: would be acting irrational.
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  Speaker 1: The legal fight in this case centers on what happened
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  Speaker 1: after Morton left the house. Under Tennessee law, homeowners can
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  Speaker 1: use deadly force in certain situations to protect themselves from
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  Speaker 1: an intruder. Prosecutors argue those protections no longer applied once
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  Speaker 1: Morton was outside. They're also pointing to statement Scott's daughter
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  Speaker 1: allegedly made to investigators. According to the affidavit, the girl
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  Speaker 1: told police her mother had previously said she would shoot
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  Speaker 1: any boy she found inside the house. Prosecutors say that
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  Speaker 1: statement could help establish premeditation. There's also new questions about
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  Speaker 1: Morton himself. Family members have said he may have had
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  Speaker 1: developmental disabilities, though investigators have not confirmed that publicly or
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  Speaker 1: said whether it played any role in the events leading
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  Speaker 1: up to the shooting. A jury will ultimately decide whether
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors proved this was first degree murder whether the fact
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  Speaker 1: support a lesser charge. Ryan Clark's run at ESPN has
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  Speaker 1: come to an end. The former NFL safety and Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl champion was among several high profile personalities let go
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  Speaker 1: at ESPN as a restructure following its acquisition of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL network. Multiple reports say Clark learned he was being
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  Speaker 1: laid off while he was appearing live on NFL Live.
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  Speaker 1: ESPN reportedly moved up the timing because executives believe news
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  Speaker 1: of the layoffs was about to become public. Clark spent
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  Speaker 1: eleven years at ESPN, becoming one of the network's most
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  Speaker 1: recognizable NFL analysts. Others reportedly affected by the cuts include
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  Speaker 1: Cam Newton, Bart Scott, and NFL insider Tom Pellaciero. The
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  Speaker 1: chairman of ESPN told employees the company had to make
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  Speaker 1: what he called difficult decisions as it combined the operations
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  Speaker 1: with the NFL network. One person who didn't hold back
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  Speaker 1: was Steven A. Smith, who called a decision a mistake
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  Speaker 1: and questioned why ESPN would let go one of his
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  Speaker 1: most recognizable NFL voices.
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  Speaker 3: My brother Ryan Clark, a person that I consider to
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  Speaker 3: be arguably the best NFL analyst in America, is no
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  Speaker 3: longer a member of ES and I can't even tell
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  Speaker 3: y'all how much that hurts. He's a man, and so
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  Speaker 3: he's going to handle it the way men do, and
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  Speaker 3: we understand, but I'm gonna miss him. I am not
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  Speaker 3: happy about this decision one bit. The boss says, no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not happy about this decision. I've made that very
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  Speaker 3: very clear. But it's also important that myself and anybody
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  Speaker 3: else in the world of business be grown ups and
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  Speaker 3: understand that these are the kind of things that happen.
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  Speaker 1: When layoffs happen, Clark addressed the news with the workout
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  Speaker 1: video on Instagram, writing quote proof of life. He also
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  Speaker 1: posted a message of support for colleagues also affected by
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  Speaker 1: the layoffs, saying he was praying for everyone who lost
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  Speaker 1: their jobs. And While his time at ESPN is over,
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  Speaker 1: Clark continues to co host the Pivot podcast, one of
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  Speaker 1: the country's most popular sports podcasts. And finally, Apple is
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  Speaker 1: changing how it wants customers to pay for its products.
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  Speaker 1: According to Bloomberg, the company is partnering with Klarna to
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  Speaker 1: launch a new leasing program called Apple Upgrade. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: buying a new iPhone, iPad, mac or Apple Watch outright,
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  Speaker 1: customers could make monthly payments over two or three years.
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  Speaker 1: When the lease ends, they'll have the option to keep
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  Speaker 1: the device, return it, or upgrade it to a newer model.
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  Speaker 1: The timing isn't accidental. As electronics become more expensive to make,
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  Speaker 1: companies are looking for ways to make higher prices feel
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  Speaker 1: more manageable. A monthly payment is often easier to accept
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  Speaker 1: than paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars upfront. For consumers, though,
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  Speaker 1: the important question isn't just the monthly cost it's the
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  Speaker 1: total costs over the life of the agreement, including any fees,
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  Speaker 1: and the options available when the lease ends. Apple has
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  Speaker 1: not officially announced the date of the program, but Bloomberg
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  Speaker 1: reports it is expected to launch July twenty eighth. That's
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  Speaker 1: Your Front Page. I Mimi Brown. This podcast was brought
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