Sept. 11, 2026
(Friday) Morning Run: 7 Moments of Silence, Clancy’s New Motion, 11-Year-Old Accused of Murder, Florida’s 15th, Coco & Pegula Out, Happiest States, & MORE!
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Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your Friday morning run. It is Friday, September 11th.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 3: And I'm TJ Holmes, 25 years, 25 years of city. I guess we've been through a lot of anniversaries here in New York, and now living in lower Manhattan, it starts to feel a certain way in the days leading up, and it's certainly been that way, and it was beautiful going through there yesterday.
00:00:34
Speaker 1: Yes, we actually walked right through Ground Zero on our way to dinner last night, and it Yeah, beautiful just to see all the folks who are there to pay their respects, to lay flowers, to remember the fallen. There was just an energy in the air, and it's always different on this day or in the days leading up to 9-11. Just there's a feeling of community, and I know people are there from all around the world. It's not just New Yorkers who come together, and I do appreciate that. Just the feeling of unity and community that you don't often get on a random Thursday or Friday here.
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Speaker 2: In New York City.
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Speaker 3: It's always that way going. It is. Anybody coming to New York, your first stop, if you're here to do a tourist thing, your first stop needs to be there. It's just solemn. There's just something about it that calms you and soothes you. I don't know. It's a place to reflect. I love it, and there are more people there. And even Rose, the tone. We have... It's not just all down and sad, awful. This was the worst tragedy we have seen in this country. But Rhodes, it was like we heard kids rehearsing for the ceremony, right? They were doing the choir. was over there. You could hear them rehearsing, and then on the other side, we see tourists taking pictures with armed New York City police officers with automatic rifles in their hands, right? It's just that it's New York, and it's what we're used to, I guess, even around 9-11.
00:01:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, and even our community, we're here in lower Manhattan, they actually had what they called a long table dinner, and they just brought people together from the different buildings around. We're actually in a cul-de-sac. It sounds crazy, but here in Manhattan and there's a, there's a little park and a bunch of buildings and neighbors from all the different buildings gathered together.
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Speaker 2: They brought their kids, their dogs and food. And they just, they were, it.
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Speaker 1: Was in honor of nine 11, but just how far we've come. And it was a remembrance of what we've been through and where we are today.
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Speaker 3: So, yes, the ceremony is going to get going this morning. I'll give you a couple of details here in a moment. But, yes, along the run, we'll get you caught up on a couple of major stories, but for the most part, but, yes, all eyes on, all thoughts today about this anniversary, the 25th anniversary. But we'll be making stops in Florida, Massachusetts, Oklahoma. Have to make a stop at the gas pump again, and we'll make a stop out at Flushing Meadows again. But let's start, which is essentially across the street from us. We literally sit across the West Side Highway from the towers. Some perspective for a lot of people, you get it, Manhattan at the tip, but if you are in Times Square and you just drive straight south until you drive into the water, that's where we are. That's where lower Manhattan and where these towers did stand and where all the ceremonies are going to be taking place here in just a little bit this morning.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they begin at 8.30 a.m. Eastern Time and.
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Speaker 1: Once again, all 2,977 names will be read aloud by the family of the victims. It usually takes a little more than three hours to read all those names.
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Speaker 3: Do you as well find yourself every year always think, man, that's going to take a while. And then I stop and I watch them read names. It is for whatever reason, Robes, something I always watch and keep the volume up because you learn that, oh, this is a kid that never met their parent, or this is the granddaughter that never met their grandparent, kind of a thing that read these names. I love that they continue. I hope they never stop this.
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Speaker 1: Right, and it's the story behind all of those names. that they're more than just a number. We always talk about how many die, but to actually see or hear, you see the family members and you hear the name, and it just carries a different type of weight. And all living former presidents are expected to be here at Ground Zero.
00:04:23
Speaker 2: We're talking about Clinton, Obama, G.W.
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Speaker 1: Bush, Biden, even New York Mayor Zohan Mamdani says he is attending as well, despite... Many, many calls for him to skip because he's Muslim.
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Speaker 3: And there's, he's got somebody in his administration, his legal counsel that once represented someone who was actually related to, or like a brother-in-law of a hijacker. Like, that close of a connection. And folks are really, you can understand why they're upset. And Rob, you did mention at the top here just how personal this is for folks just getting off the elevator. The idea, the guy here in our building, a guy you rode an elevator with, just how quickly he got fired up 25 years later, by the idea of someone commemorating or celebrating, if you will, 9-11. Yes, it was wild.
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Speaker 1: I was just getting in the elevator and someone who had just moved into our floor looked at me and said, are you going to that long table dinner? And I actually just thought he was wondering if we would be there. And I said, oh, we're kind of new to the building. So and we're we've got other plans. But yes, I did get the memo about it. And I just was kind of defending us for not attending.
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Speaker 2: And he said, well, it effing pisses me off. I lost my wife at 9-11.
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Speaker 1: What's this celebration? He was like, maybe he's like, I find it disgusting. He's like, my wife is dead. And he was so taken aback at this idea of even bringing communities together and, and having any form of, just a gathering that felt like a celebration.
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Speaker 2: And when you walked by, we did see the long table and the dinner. It was celebratory. It was honoring the community.
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Speaker 3: It was a commemoration. Yeah, it was. The people weren't out there partying. There weren't balloons and whatnot. But the point there being, Robes, when you talk about folks don't want Mom Donnie to show up, Robes, this is incredibly personal still to a lot of people. Robes, it just... Just a community celebration pissed that guy off.
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Speaker 2: It did.
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Speaker 1: Yes. And so the point is, even though it's been 25 years, that pain is still raw.
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Speaker 2: It's still real. And it doesn't take much to upset someone.
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Speaker 1: If you do something the wrong way, the wrong person shows up, someone says the wrong thing, yeah, that pain is still right there.
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Speaker 3: So, yeah, there is a petition out there. I think at least 100,000 people have signed it for him not to show up at the ceremony today, but he is going to be there. None of these politicians, however, will be speaking. That is the rule. There will be six moments of silence for when both planes hit, for when both towers fell, also when Flight 93 crashed, and also when the plane hit the Pentagon. So it starts at 846. That's the time the first plane hit the North Tower. 903 is when Flight 175 struck the South Tower. But this year, Robes, this is new. This is great. More people have died after 9-11 because of 9-11-related health issues. So this year they are adding a seventh moment of silence for those who have died since the attacks. Robes, they tripled the number of people who actually died in the attacks have died since the attacks.
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Speaker 1: My goodness. Wow. I mean, that's actually so poignant to have that seventh moment of silence.
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Speaker 2: It really is.
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Speaker 1: The president, meanwhile, will be speaking at a ceremony at the Pentagon, and he will not be attending the ceremony at Ground Zero. J.D.
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Speaker 2: Vance will be coming in his stead.
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Speaker 1: Trump has not specified why he's not coming to New York other than to say he.
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Speaker 2: Got a strong request for the Pentagon, I believe is the word. Yeah, that's how he phrased it.
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Speaker 1: The New York Times reported the president wanted to make remarks at the New York ceremony, and because that's not allowed, that factored into him skipping the ceremony.
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Speaker 2: He flat out denied that, got very upset about that.
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Speaker 1: But the Times is also reporting that something else factored into the president's decision not to come to New York, and that is logistics.
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Speaker 3: This is, okay, this is their reporting this morning. But yes, we know he was in Dallas last night for the midterm convention. He's scheduled actually to fly to Ireland on Saturday. So here we are in between. This is the Friday. He's going, Robes, to Ireland to attend the Irish Open Golf Tournament. So the New York Times is reporting that staying in D.C. makes it logistically easier for him to make an overseas trip to do it out of the Air Force Base there. Andrews Air Force Base versus having to fly out of a commercial airport here in New Jersey. or something like that. They, that is their reporting this morning. I don't know. That just doesn't, that.
00:09:02
Speaker 1: Doesn't make any sense because it's Friday morning. He could still get back to DC.
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Speaker 3: He can do whatever he wants to do. Logistically easier. Who knows if that factored, but, um, either way, Rob, it's something a lot of people are relieved. Maybe that he's not coming. A lot of people maybe didn't want him here, but it still feels wrong on this anniversary of, for everybody to show up but the President of the United States.
00:09:26
Speaker 2: And this is his hometown, too, on top of it.
00:09:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sucks.
00:09:29
Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run, the jury didn't acquit her, but Lindsey Clancy is asking a judge to do that very thing. Clancy's attorney filed a new motion yesterday seeking to.
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Speaker 2: Have her found not guilty.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's called a Rule 25 motion. It essentially says the government didn't have sufficient evidence in the case and asked the judge to do the acquitting for them. Now, if a judge were to grant this motion, it would effectively end the case because then we'd have double jeopardy. She couldn't be tried again for it. Robes, they say this is a long shot, but... that's all Kevin Reddickton doesn't care.
00:10:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's all about the long shot and he plays the long game. All right, next up on the run, an 11-year-old girl has been arrested for shooting and killing her 15-year-old brother.
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Speaker 2: An 11-year-old girl.
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Speaker 3: Girl, yeah.
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Speaker 2: That is hard to get your head around.
00:10:18
Speaker 1: Police have not released a lot of details about the circumstances surrounding the shooting and the identities of either kid. Neither one of them have been released.
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Speaker 3: So all we know so far is that police were called to the scene of a shooting. This was Wednesday afternoon at a home in Edmond. That's just north of Oklahoma City. They found the boy dead there. Again, Robe, this is like 4 in the afternoon. The girl was then not arrested for some several hours later, like 1 o'clock in the morning. And according to reporting, at least audio from the initial calls with police, the girl said that someone had shot her brother. So this might have taken a little investigative work. No motive here at all, Rose, but an 11-year-old? I thought it was going to be an accidental shooting as I read into this. No, he's been arrested. Manslaughter.
00:11:09
Speaker 1: That is deeply disturbing, and obviously there needs to be a few more details that are filled in because this one is just hard to understand.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, Daniel Conahan Jr.
00:11:21
Speaker 1: Was pronounced dead at 6.12 p.m.
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Speaker 2: Eastern time last night.
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Speaker 1: He became the 15th inmate executed in the state of Florida this year. He was convicted for the 1996 kidnapping and murder of a man that police say he lured... to the woods by promising to pay him for posing for nude bondage pictures.
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Speaker 3: Cotahan tied the man to a tree, raped, strangled, and mutilated him. Cotahan was only convicted for this one murder, but he's widely suspected to be a serial killer responsible for up to a dozen murders in that area. He was asked last night, Robes, if he had any last words. He replied, no, sir, I do not, and that was it.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up.
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Speaker 1: On the run, Oil prices continue to rise. This is actually quite significant because we always talk.
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Speaker 2: About that $ 100 a.
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Speaker 1: Barrel benchmark and how we've been below it and we were creeping up near it. Yeah, we've significantly surpassed it. Yeah, this is actually shocking. Oil prices went above $ 108 a barrel yesterday. And yes, that is the highest it has been since May.
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Speaker 3: All right, well, stay with us, folks, on this. Friday morning run. When we come back, I have a question for folks. Have you figured out how to beat jet lag? Well, the L.A. Rams thought they had for their trip to Australia for an NFL game last night. We'll tell you how that went for them. Also, there were hopes that we could get two women, two U.S. women in the U.S. Open Finals. We are sorely disappointed. And the new list, the annual list of the happiest places in the country. Yes, where does your state rank? Robes, I'll tell you, your state was way above mine. All right, welcome back to this Friday morning run. Last night, the NFL had its second game of the season. They kicked off on Wednesday, but last night had a marquee game. It was their first game ever playing in Australia. Now, what time is it in Australia right now? I'm really not sure, but they are way, way ahead. Do I have that right? Like, way, way ahead.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So, big game, big showcase. 100,000 people showed up at the stadium in Melbourne tonight. To watch the San Francisco 49ers take on the LA Rams. Now, the Niners won this game 27-7. Wasn't much of a game. The Rams didn't look good. Robes, a lot was talked about ahead of time. The Rams did not go early. The 49ers went like a week ahead of time to get what? Acclimated.
00:14:08
Speaker 2: That makes so much sense.
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Speaker 3: The Rams had a different policy. They said, nope, we can beat this jet lag thing by only showing up the day before the game. I think like 28 hours. before game time, for whatever reason they had, whatever strategy they thought would work, they looked flat as hell. I don't understand that strategy.
00:14:28
Speaker 2: That makes no sense.
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Speaker 1: The only time I've ever had to perform, doing the Berlin Marathon, and I was doing all the research, and they were saying... For every hour you travel and when you have that big of a jet lag, you need a day to.
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Speaker 2: Acclimate, actually to be at your peak performance.
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Speaker 1: So, yeah, right now, from New York to Melbourne right now is 14-hour difference.
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Speaker 2: That would be.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you took that equation, you'd be like, yeah, you're going to need two weeks to acclimate.
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Speaker 2: That's a little crazy, but... How many hours?
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Speaker 3: I think it was only 28 hours before the game. But their strategy was to keep them on their regular body clocks right up to the last minute. It was some strategy they thought they could.
00:15:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, but how did they sleep on the plane? That's the problem.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how that went. But they did this once before with a game in London, and they won that game.
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Speaker 2: That's only about a five-hour time difference.
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Speaker 3: If they're in L.A., what is that?
00:15:22
Speaker 1: I guess that'd be an eight-hour time difference.
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Speaker 3: What is it? The other one? How many hours?
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Speaker 1: 14.
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Speaker 3: Okay. Anyway, didn't work, but that was an interesting game last night. They didn't look great. Also, other sporting notes here. We had Jessica Pagula and Coco Gauff in the semifinals. They both lost, so there was a chance to get two U.S. women in the U.S. Open final. We're going to have zero. Actually, both of them lost to the number one and number two women in the world.
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Speaker 2: I guess that makes sense.
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Speaker 3: It kind of makes sense. But we are going to get American Man, Tiafoe, and Trinity's boyfriend.
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Speaker 2: Don't even ask me.
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Speaker 3: I'm terrible. Ben Shelton. Ben Shelton. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
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Speaker 2: That'll be exciting.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to get at least one, but I hate to see those have to take each other out, if you will. One of them has to go, but that's going to be fun.
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Speaker 2: One of them has to go.
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Speaker 1: All right, for your final leg of your Friday morning run, we have the annual list of happiest states in America. This comes to us from WalletHub, and it compared the 50 states across these three areas. Number one, the emotional and physical well-being of folks there. Number two, the work environment. And number three, the community and environment.
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Speaker 3: There are a lot of subcategories there, and they really do, Rob. They go through and take this pretty seriously and rate these things. I guess, you know what?
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Speaker 2: I don't understand number two.
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Speaker 3: In that top ten, I said, where is the surprise?
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Speaker 1: I do not understand number two, and I'm trying to think.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: That's the one that really throws me. Just don't get it.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: Number one. I don't think this is that shocking. Hawaii.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I feel like I'd be really happy in Hawaii too.
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Speaker 3: Um, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Number two is New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: Yes. Um, look when you were like state motto is it's okay to come back home and there's like a hashtag New Jersey doesn't stink. Like it's just so interesting that it's number two.
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Speaker 3: Okay. They are rated well though. Rose, I'm looking at the wallet hub site. Uh, No, those are happy to stay. Keep going. I'll come back to the States.
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Speaker 2: All right, number three is Utah. I get that. Number four, Idaho. Heard great things about it.
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Speaker 3: Actually, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Number five, Maryland. Number six, Nebraska. Number seven, Connecticut. Number eight, Minnesota. Number nine, California. Number 10, New Hampshire. New York is 11.
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Speaker 2: It didn't make the top 10. But then, yes, my home state of Georgia, 18. Florida's 21.
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Speaker 3: People would rather live in Georgia than Florida.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for pointing that out. I appreciate that. Arkansas, baby, 48.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. 48. We don't do well in certain categories. New Jersey does well. Emotional and physical well-being ranked number one. Emotional and physical well-being. It has a low number of people who are depressed, who rate depression.
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Speaker 2: You know what, maybe, wow, that's interesting. You know, there's a lot of community in New Jersey. I will say that. Like I think about a lot of my friends flew over there. They have family there. They have a strong sense of belonging.
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Speaker 1: Like New Jerseyans, maybe because they constantly get beat up by New York and Connecticut, they have a strong sense of identity and community and belonging.
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Speaker 2: I've actually noticed that. So that, okay, that reads.
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Speaker 3: Exhibit A, World Cup. Welcome to the game at the New York, New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, when you're that belittled constantly by your big brother, New York, you kind of have to just dig in and love who you're with.
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Speaker 3: So they were number one when it comes to emotional and physical well-being, but they're like right middle of the road when it comes to work environment and community and environment. Yeah. So, like, 23 and 24, like, right dead center, but number one in that, and that's what put them over the edge.
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Speaker 1: Oh, can we also mention Alabama's 45? I'm just going on my, like, the rivals at Georgia.
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Speaker 2: It's hilarious.
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Speaker 3: Okay, wait, 45?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Alabama's 45.
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Speaker 1: Louisiana, 49, and West Virginia comes in at the dead last.
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Speaker 2: Look, they don't, like, obviously, you.
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Speaker 3: Think about the... A lot of SE schools in the bottom here.
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Speaker 1: I know.
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Speaker 2: The South is actually pretty... Yeah, there's a lot of Southern states in the bottom.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah except for georgia number 18 baby.
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Speaker 3: Atlanta really helps you out now all.
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Speaker 1: Right you can check out where your state ranks there on wallet hub correct okay and for your quote of the day on this friday a mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.
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Speaker 2: I love that um what would we be without our.
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Speaker 1: Mistakes i was just having this conversation with ava yesterday that you can look back and say woulda shoulda coulda but actually if you think about it those are all the moments that you grew and you learned and you became a better person truly so a mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you running with us.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 3: And I'm TJ Holmes. Always appreciate you spending some time with us. We'll run soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your Friday morning run. It is Friday, September 11th.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 3: And I'm TJ Holmes, 25 years, 25 years of city. I guess we've been through a lot of anniversaries here in New York, and now living in lower Manhattan, it starts to feel a certain way in the days leading up, and it's certainly been that way, and it was beautiful going through there yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Yes, we actually walked right through Ground Zero on our way to dinner last night, and it Yeah, beautiful just to see all the folks who are there to pay their respects, to lay flowers, to remember the fallen. There was just an energy in the air, and it's always different on this day or in the days leading up to 9-11. Just there's a feeling of community, and I know people are there from all around the world. It's not just New Yorkers who come together, and I do appreciate that. Just the feeling of unity and community that you don't often get on a random Thursday or Friday here.
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Speaker 2: In New York City.
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Speaker 3: It's always that way going. It is. Anybody coming to New York, your first stop, if you're here to do a tourist thing, your first stop needs to be there. It's just solemn. There's just something about it that calms you and soothes you. I don't know. It's a place to reflect. I love it, and there are more people there. And even Rose, the tone. We have... It's not just all down and sad, awful. This was the worst tragedy we have seen in this country. But Rhodes, it was like we heard kids rehearsing for the ceremony, right? They were doing the choir. was over there. You could hear them rehearsing, and then on the other side, we see tourists taking pictures with armed New York City police officers with automatic rifles in their hands, right? It's just that it's New York, and it's what we're used to, I guess, even around 9-11.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and even our community, we're here in lower Manhattan, they actually had what they called a long table dinner, and they just brought people together from the different buildings around. We're actually in a cul-de-sac. It sounds crazy, but here in Manhattan and there's a, there's a little park and a bunch of buildings and neighbors from all the different buildings gathered together.
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Speaker 2: They brought their kids, their dogs and food. And they just, they were, it.
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Speaker 1: Was in honor of nine 11, but just how far we've come. And it was a remembrance of what we've been through and where we are today.
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Speaker 3: So, yes, the ceremony is going to get going this morning. I'll give you a couple of details here in a moment. But, yes, along the run, we'll get you caught up on a couple of major stories, but for the most part, but, yes, all eyes on, all thoughts today about this anniversary, the 25th anniversary. But we'll be making stops in Florida, Massachusetts, Oklahoma. Have to make a stop at the gas pump again, and we'll make a stop out at Flushing Meadows again. But let's start, which is essentially across the street from us. We literally sit across the West Side Highway from the towers. Some perspective for a lot of people, you get it, Manhattan at the tip, but if you are in Times Square and you just drive straight south until you drive into the water, that's where we are. That's where lower Manhattan and where these towers did stand and where all the ceremonies are going to be taking place here in just a little bit this morning.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they begin at 8.30 a.m. Eastern Time and.
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Speaker 1: Once again, all 2,977 names will be read aloud by the family of the victims. It usually takes a little more than three hours to read all those names.
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Speaker 3: Do you as well find yourself every year always think, man, that's going to take a while. And then I stop and I watch them read names. It is for whatever reason, Robes, something I always watch and keep the volume up because you learn that, oh, this is a kid that never met their parent, or this is the granddaughter that never met their grandparent, kind of a thing that read these names. I love that they continue. I hope they never stop this.
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Speaker 1: Right, and it's the story behind all of those names. that they're more than just a number. We always talk about how many die, but to actually see or hear, you see the family members and you hear the name, and it just carries a different type of weight. And all living former presidents are expected to be here at Ground Zero.
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Speaker 2: We're talking about Clinton, Obama, G.W.
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Speaker 1: Bush, Biden, even New York Mayor Zohan Mamdani says he is attending as well, despite... Many, many calls for him to skip because he's Muslim.
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Speaker 3: And there's, he's got somebody in his administration, his legal counsel that once represented someone who was actually related to, or like a brother-in-law of a hijacker. Like, that close of a connection. And folks are really, you can understand why they're upset. And Rob, you did mention at the top here just how personal this is for folks just getting off the elevator. The idea, the guy here in our building, a guy you rode an elevator with, just how quickly he got fired up 25 years later, by the idea of someone commemorating or celebrating, if you will, 9-11. Yes, it was wild.
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Speaker 1: I was just getting in the elevator and someone who had just moved into our floor looked at me and said, are you going to that long table dinner? And I actually just thought he was wondering if we would be there. And I said, oh, we're kind of new to the building. So and we're we've got other plans. But yes, I did get the memo about it. And I just was kind of defending us for not attending.
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Speaker 2: And he said, well, it effing pisses me off. I lost my wife at 9-11.
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Speaker 1: What's this celebration? He was like, maybe he's like, I find it disgusting. He's like, my wife is dead. And he was so taken aback at this idea of even bringing communities together and, and having any form of, just a gathering that felt like a celebration.
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Speaker 2: And when you walked by, we did see the long table and the dinner. It was celebratory. It was honoring the community.
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Speaker 3: It was a commemoration. Yeah, it was. The people weren't out there partying. There weren't balloons and whatnot. But the point there being, Robes, when you talk about folks don't want Mom Donnie to show up, Robes, this is incredibly personal still to a lot of people. Robes, it just... Just a community celebration pissed that guy off.
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Speaker 2: It did.
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Speaker 1: Yes. And so the point is, even though it's been 25 years, that pain is still raw.
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Speaker 2: It's still real. And it doesn't take much to upset someone.
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Speaker 1: If you do something the wrong way, the wrong person shows up, someone says the wrong thing, yeah, that pain is still right there.
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Speaker 3: So, yeah, there is a petition out there. I think at least 100,000 people have signed it for him not to show up at the ceremony today, but he is going to be there. None of these politicians, however, will be speaking. That is the rule. There will be six moments of silence for when both planes hit, for when both towers fell, also when Flight 93 crashed, and also when the plane hit the Pentagon. So it starts at 846. That's the time the first plane hit the North Tower. 903 is when Flight 175 struck the South Tower. But this year, Robes, this is new. This is great. More people have died after 9-11 because of 9-11-related health issues. So this year they are adding a seventh moment of silence for those who have died since the attacks. Robes, they tripled the number of people who actually died in the attacks have died since the attacks.
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Speaker 1: My goodness. Wow. I mean, that's actually so poignant to have that seventh moment of silence.
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Speaker 2: It really is.
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Speaker 1: The president, meanwhile, will be speaking at a ceremony at the Pentagon, and he will not be attending the ceremony at Ground Zero. J.D.
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Speaker 2: Vance will be coming in his stead.
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Speaker 1: Trump has not specified why he's not coming to New York other than to say he.
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Speaker 2: Got a strong request for the Pentagon, I believe is the word. Yeah, that's how he phrased it.
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Speaker 1: The New York Times reported the president wanted to make remarks at the New York ceremony, and because that's not allowed, that factored into him skipping the ceremony.
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Speaker 2: He flat out denied that, got very upset about that.
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Speaker 1: But the Times is also reporting that something else factored into the president's decision not to come to New York, and that is logistics.
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Speaker 3: This is, okay, this is their reporting this morning. But yes, we know he was in Dallas last night for the midterm convention. He's scheduled actually to fly to Ireland on Saturday. So here we are in between. This is the Friday. He's going, Robes, to Ireland to attend the Irish Open Golf Tournament. So the New York Times is reporting that staying in D.C. makes it logistically easier for him to make an overseas trip to do it out of the Air Force Base there. Andrews Air Force Base versus having to fly out of a commercial airport here in New Jersey. or something like that. They, that is their reporting this morning. I don't know. That just doesn't, that.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't make any sense because it's Friday morning. He could still get back to DC.
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Speaker 3: He can do whatever he wants to do. Logistically easier. Who knows if that factored, but, um, either way, Rob, it's something a lot of people are relieved. Maybe that he's not coming. A lot of people maybe didn't want him here, but it still feels wrong on this anniversary of, for everybody to show up but the President of the United States.
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Speaker 2: And this is his hometown, too, on top of it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it sucks.
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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run, the jury didn't acquit her, but Lindsey Clancy is asking a judge to do that very thing. Clancy's attorney filed a new motion yesterday seeking to.
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Speaker 2: Have her found not guilty.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's called a Rule 25 motion. It essentially says the government didn't have sufficient evidence in the case and asked the judge to do the acquitting for them. Now, if a judge were to grant this motion, it would effectively end the case because then we'd have double jeopardy. She couldn't be tried again for it. Robes, they say this is a long shot, but... that's all Kevin Reddickton doesn't care.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's all about the long shot and he plays the long game. All right, next up on the run, an 11-year-old girl has been arrested for shooting and killing her 15-year-old brother.
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Speaker 2: An 11-year-old girl.
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Speaker 3: Girl, yeah.
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Speaker 2: That is hard to get your head around.
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Speaker 1: Police have not released a lot of details about the circumstances surrounding the shooting and the identities of either kid. Neither one of them have been released.
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Speaker 3: So all we know so far is that police were called to the scene of a shooting. This was Wednesday afternoon at a home in Edmond. That's just north of Oklahoma City. They found the boy dead there. Again, Robe, this is like 4 in the afternoon. The girl was then not arrested for some several hours later, like 1 o'clock in the morning. And according to reporting, at least audio from the initial calls with police, the girl said that someone had shot her brother. So this might have taken a little investigative work. No motive here at all, Rose, but an 11-year-old? I thought it was going to be an accidental shooting as I read into this. No, he's been arrested. Manslaughter.
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Speaker 1: That is deeply disturbing, and obviously there needs to be a few more details that are filled in because this one is just hard to understand.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, Daniel Conahan Jr.
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Speaker 1: Was pronounced dead at 6.12 p.m.
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Speaker 2: Eastern time last night.
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Speaker 1: He became the 15th inmate executed in the state of Florida this year. He was convicted for the 1996 kidnapping and murder of a man that police say he lured... to the woods by promising to pay him for posing for nude bondage pictures.
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Speaker 3: Cotahan tied the man to a tree, raped, strangled, and mutilated him. Cotahan was only convicted for this one murder, but he's widely suspected to be a serial killer responsible for up to a dozen murders in that area. He was asked last night, Robes, if he had any last words. He replied, no, sir, I do not, and that was it.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up.
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Speaker 1: On the run, Oil prices continue to rise. This is actually quite significant because we always talk.
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Speaker 2: About that $ 100 a.
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Speaker 1: Barrel benchmark and how we've been below it and we were creeping up near it. Yeah, we've significantly surpassed it. Yeah, this is actually shocking. Oil prices went above $ 108 a barrel yesterday. And yes, that is the highest it has been since May.
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Speaker 3: All right, well, stay with us, folks, on this. Friday morning run. When we come back, I have a question for folks. Have you figured out how to beat jet lag? Well, the L.A. Rams thought they had for their trip to Australia for an NFL game last night. We'll tell you how that went for them. Also, there were hopes that we could get two women, two U.S. women in the U.S. Open Finals. We are sorely disappointed. And the new list, the annual list of the happiest places in the country. Yes, where does your state rank? Robes, I'll tell you, your state was way above mine. All right, welcome back to this Friday morning run. Last night, the NFL had its second game of the season. They kicked off on Wednesday, but last night had a marquee game. It was their first game ever playing in Australia. Now, what time is it in Australia right now? I'm really not sure, but they are way, way ahead. Do I have that right? Like, way, way ahead.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So, big game, big showcase. 100,000 people showed up at the stadium in Melbourne tonight. To watch the San Francisco 49ers take on the LA Rams. Now, the Niners won this game 27-7. Wasn't much of a game. The Rams didn't look good. Robes, a lot was talked about ahead of time. The Rams did not go early. The 49ers went like a week ahead of time to get what? Acclimated.
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Speaker 2: That makes so much sense.
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Speaker 3: The Rams had a different policy. They said, nope, we can beat this jet lag thing by only showing up the day before the game. I think like 28 hours. before game time, for whatever reason they had, whatever strategy they thought would work, they looked flat as hell. I don't understand that strategy.
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Speaker 2: That makes no sense.
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Speaker 1: The only time I've ever had to perform, doing the Berlin Marathon, and I was doing all the research, and they were saying... For every hour you travel and when you have that big of a jet lag, you need a day to.
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Speaker 2: Acclimate, actually to be at your peak performance.
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Speaker 1: So, yeah, right now, from New York to Melbourne right now is 14-hour difference.
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Speaker 2: That would be.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you took that equation, you'd be like, yeah, you're going to need two weeks to acclimate.
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Speaker 2: That's a little crazy, but... How many hours?
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Speaker 3: I think it was only 28 hours before the game. But their strategy was to keep them on their regular body clocks right up to the last minute. It was some strategy they thought they could.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but how did they sleep on the plane? That's the problem.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how that went. But they did this once before with a game in London, and they won that game.
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Speaker 2: That's only about a five-hour time difference.
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Speaker 3: If they're in L.A., what is that?
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Speaker 1: I guess that'd be an eight-hour time difference.
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Speaker 3: What is it? The other one? How many hours?
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Speaker 1: 14.
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Speaker 3: Okay. Anyway, didn't work, but that was an interesting game last night. They didn't look great. Also, other sporting notes here. We had Jessica Pagula and Coco Gauff in the semifinals. They both lost, so there was a chance to get two U.S. women in the U.S. Open final. We're going to have zero. Actually, both of them lost to the number one and number two women in the world.
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Speaker 2: I guess that makes sense.
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Speaker 3: It kind of makes sense. But we are going to get American Man, Tiafoe, and Trinity's boyfriend.
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Speaker 2: Don't even ask me.
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Speaker 3: I'm terrible. Ben Shelton. Ben Shelton. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
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Speaker 2: That'll be exciting.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to get at least one, but I hate to see those have to take each other out, if you will. One of them has to go, but that's going to be fun.
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Speaker 2: One of them has to go.
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Speaker 1: All right, for your final leg of your Friday morning run, we have the annual list of happiest states in America. This comes to us from WalletHub, and it compared the 50 states across these three areas. Number one, the emotional and physical well-being of folks there. Number two, the work environment. And number three, the community and environment.
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Speaker 3: There are a lot of subcategories there, and they really do, Rob. They go through and take this pretty seriously and rate these things. I guess, you know what?
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Speaker 2: I don't understand number two.
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Speaker 3: In that top ten, I said, where is the surprise?
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Speaker 1: I do not understand number two, and I'm trying to think.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: That's the one that really throws me. Just don't get it.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: Number one. I don't think this is that shocking. Hawaii.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I feel like I'd be really happy in Hawaii too.
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Speaker 3: Um, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Number two is New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: Yes. Um, look when you were like state motto is it's okay to come back home and there's like a hashtag New Jersey doesn't stink. Like it's just so interesting that it's number two.
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Speaker 3: Okay. They are rated well though. Rose, I'm looking at the wallet hub site. Uh, No, those are happy to stay. Keep going. I'll come back to the States.
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Speaker 2: All right, number three is Utah. I get that. Number four, Idaho. Heard great things about it.
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Speaker 3: Actually, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Number five, Maryland. Number six, Nebraska. Number seven, Connecticut. Number eight, Minnesota. Number nine, California. Number 10, New Hampshire. New York is 11.
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Speaker 2: It didn't make the top 10. But then, yes, my home state of Georgia, 18. Florida's 21.
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Speaker 3: People would rather live in Georgia than Florida.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for pointing that out. I appreciate that. Arkansas, baby, 48.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. 48. We don't do well in certain categories. New Jersey does well. Emotional and physical well-being ranked number one. Emotional and physical well-being. It has a low number of people who are depressed, who rate depression.
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Speaker 2: You know what, maybe, wow, that's interesting. You know, there's a lot of community in New Jersey. I will say that. Like I think about a lot of my friends flew over there. They have family there. They have a strong sense of belonging.
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Speaker 1: Like New Jerseyans, maybe because they constantly get beat up by New York and Connecticut, they have a strong sense of identity and community and belonging.
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Speaker 2: I've actually noticed that. So that, okay, that reads.
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Speaker 3: Exhibit A, World Cup. Welcome to the game at the New York, New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, when you're that belittled constantly by your big brother, New York, you kind of have to just dig in and love who you're with.
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Speaker 3: So they were number one when it comes to emotional and physical well-being, but they're like right middle of the road when it comes to work environment and community and environment. Yeah. So, like, 23 and 24, like, right dead center, but number one in that, and that's what put them over the edge.
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Speaker 1: Oh, can we also mention Alabama's 45? I'm just going on my, like, the rivals at Georgia.
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Speaker 2: It's hilarious.
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Speaker 3: Okay, wait, 45?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Alabama's 45.
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Speaker 1: Louisiana, 49, and West Virginia comes in at the dead last.
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Speaker 2: Look, they don't, like, obviously, you.
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Speaker 3: Think about the... A lot of SE schools in the bottom here.
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Speaker 1: I know.
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Speaker 2: The South is actually pretty... Yeah, there's a lot of Southern states in the bottom.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah except for georgia number 18 baby.
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Speaker 3: Atlanta really helps you out now all.
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Speaker 1: Right you can check out where your state ranks there on wallet hub correct okay and for your quote of the day on this friday a mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.
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Speaker 2: I love that um what would we be without our.
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Speaker 1: Mistakes i was just having this conversation with ava yesterday that you can look back and say woulda shoulda coulda but actually if you think about it those are all the moments that you grew and you learned and you became a better person truly so a mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you running with us.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 3: And I'm TJ Holmes. Always appreciate you spending some time with us. We'll run soon.