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The Friday Flyover Replay : Minting Millionaires, Sunset at Stonehenge, and $75 Potato Chips.
Presented by Russell Sherrard.
Narrated by Artificial Intelligence, Our Hosts are Christopher and Jenny.
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Friday, June 20, 2025.
Good Morning! On this day in 1975, Steven Spielberg’s film Jaws was released, transforming the summer movie business and making countless viewers afraid to go into the water.
Today marks the summer solstice—the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. To celebrate, Stonehenge is livestreaming both sunset and sunrise, as we report below.
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TAKEOFF.
Trump to Decide on Iran Strike Within Two Weeks.
President Trump will decide within two weeks whether the U.S. will join Israel’s military campaign against Iran, according to a statement delivered Thursday by press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Meanwhile, an Iranian missile struck a hospital in Israel on Thursday, causing significant damage and injuring at least 71 people, most with minor wounds. Israeli officials condemned the attack as a war crime.
A hacker group believed to be aligned with Israel says it seized $90 million from Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, claiming the platform was being used to help the Iranian regime evade Western sanctions.
Meanwhile, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz backed Israel’s offensive, calling it “the dirty work” the world needs done.
America Minting 1,000 New Millionaires a Day.
The United States created over 1,000 new millionaires every single day in 2024—379,000 people who crossed the seven-figure threshold, accounting for more than half of all new millionaires created globally.
This wealth explosion, driven by the S&P 500’s 25% gain and Nasdaq’s 30% leap, means that now, “everyday millionaires” with $1 million to $5 million in assets collectively control more wealth than all the world’s billionaires combined.
While just 15 centibillionaires control $2.4 trillion in assets, women are positioned to be the biggest winners in the coming “Great Wealth Transfer” of $83 trillion expected to pass between generations over the next 20 years.
America now hosts nearly 40% of the world’s 60 million millionaires, but the tiny countries of Luxembourg and Switzerland still boast the highest concentrations, where more than one in seven adults is a millionaire.
List: What Each State Pays in Federal Taxes.
Delaware leads the nation in federal tax revenue per person at $24,575 per resident in 2023, followed by Massachusetts at $21,747 and Minnesota at $20,728, according to a new study.
Washington D.C. is a major outlier, contributing $54,612 per resident—more than double any state—due to its concentration of high-income earners and government-related economic activity.
West Virginia, Mississippi and New Mexico paid the least per capita, each contributing under $6,000 per person.
POLITICS.
More than half of Democrats—62%—agree that their party’s leadership should be replaced amid infighting in a new Reuters/Ipsos survey. Only 24% said they opposed that idea.
The GOP effort to pass President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” by July 4, before the Senate goes on break, is running into opposition over hitting that deadline.
Hundreds of people gathered outside Minnesota’s Capitol on Wednesday night in a memorial vigil for a state lawmaker and her husband, who were gunned down last weekend.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier proposed a new detention facility to hold illegal immigrants in the Everglades that he dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”
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Now, back to the News.
SPORTS.
The Indiana Pacers defeated the OKC Thunder in Game 6 of the NBA Finals last night, 108-91. The series goes back to Oklahoma on Sunday for a winner-take-all Game 7.
The College World Series final is officially set, with LSU taking on Coastal Carolina tomorrow in game one of a three-game series. Game two will take place on Sunday, and game three, if necessary, will be played Monday night.
The Florida Panthers reportedly damaged the Stanley Cup during their victory celebration, denting the bottom and cracking the trophy’s bowl.
ESPN released their NFL All Quarter Century team, ranking the best players by position since the year 2000. Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, and Patrick Mahomes topped the list for quarterbacks.
FINANCE.
Amazon’s Zoox subsidiary opened a 220,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in California on Wednesday, the first robotaxi factory in the U.S. The autonomous vehicles are designed without steering wheels, pedals, or traditional driving controls.
Russia’s economy is “on the brink of going into a recession,” the country’s economy minister said Thursday at an international economic forum in St. Petersburg.
The rise in gold prices has rewarded Costco customers who bought the retailer’s 1-ounce gold bar last year. Worth $2,399 in June 2024, its value is now about $3,390, up 41% in a year.
SCIENCE AND TECH.
A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded Wednesday night during a routine test at the company’s Starbase facility in Brownsville, Texas, marking its fourth major failure of the year.
The town of Boone, North Carolina, has embraced the eastern hellbender—a giant, slimy salamander nicknamed the “snot otter”—as a regional mascot for clean waterways and community resilience.
wo Chinese satellites, Shijian-21 and Shijian-25, made close approaches in geosynchronous orbit last week, likely testing in-space refueling and servicing capabilities.
THE ROTATOR.
ENTERTAINMENT.
Paul McCartney, who turned 83 this week, is celebrated in a photo series tracing his journey from Liverpool, England, to international music icon.
Jeremy Allen White, Emmy winner for FX’s The Bear, transforms into Bruce Springsteen in the first trailer for the biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.
Al Pacino met Pope Leo XIV on Monday at the Vatican in the first reported official audience between the American pope and a movie star.
ET CETERA.
The summer solstice sunset and sunrise will be livestreamed from Stonehenge this year on Facebook and YouTube. The sunset stream starts at 3 p.m. ET today, and the sunrise kicks off at 11 p.m. ET the same night.
Michigan wildlife officials finally trapped and freed a 110-pound black bear that had a plastic barrel lid stuck around its neck for two years.
Swedish brewery St. Eriks created a $75 potato chip box containing only five chips—$15 per chip, featuring hyper-local ingredients like hand-harvested matsutake mushrooms and truffle seaweed from the Faroe Islands. The ultra-luxury snack was a one-off publicity and charity stunt.
Daily Quote.
“If people get out, there’s not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons.”
— Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on the value of building a detention facility for illegal immigrants in the Everglades
Inspirational Verse of the Day.
Proverbs Chapter 1 Verse 27. When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. KJV
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