Oct. 16, 2026
(Friday) Morning Run: Kids & Teacher Dead in School Shooting, Body in Barrel Identified, Harry and Meghan Get Love, Guilfoyle Gets Sued, Public Execution Cancelled, Zacharia’s Defense, & Let’s Go Brewers! & MORE!
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there everybody and welcome to your Friday Morning Run. It's Friday, October 16th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: Do you ever have those days you feel like you're missing something? Like I'm missing somebody's birthday or something.
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Speaker 2: Oh really?
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Speaker 1: October 16th feels weird. I think I'm missing something.
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Speaker 2: Oh it's somebody you know marking something.
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Speaker 1: That's tough. Yeah you ever have those?
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Speaker 2: Yes I do. Like you know the date's special but you've Can't remember why.
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Speaker 1: Man, so I'm TJ and I apologize to whoever it is out there that I am. I'm missing a phone call I'm supposed to make. But hello on this Friday as we are zipping through the month of October, wherever you are. We hope you're getting off to a good Friday. We got a number of stops to make today on this morning run, including in Lake Mead in Nevada. Of course, in Bend, Oregon, we'll make a stop in the UK. Make a stop at the Great Wolf Lodge in In Pennsylvania, also Fort Hood, Texas, D.C., and we'll also check in at the weekend box office. But let's start with Robes, the story that had us gripped to the television sets yesterday, trying to figure out for a long time exactly what was going on in an elementary school in Bend, Oregon.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and you know, we haven't had a school shooting like this in a while, and it just brought back so many horrific memories of doing that very thing, waiting for information to see How many people were dead? So right now, police believe a 16-year-old is responsible for the shooting at an Oregon elementary school. It left four people dead. We understand it's three kids and one teacher. Another student and teacher were also critically injured.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this was yesterday afternoon in Bend, Oregon, which is... If you look at it on a Mac, it almost looks like if you just draw a dot right in the center of the state of Oregon, it's about where it is. But this was Silver Rail Elementary School. Now, 911 came in, according to police, around 1 o'clock. Somebody reported that they'd been shot at while they were in their car. Police say that is when More and more 911 calls started coming because the suspect shot his way into the school, said they were actually locked doors to the school robes that he fired at to get inside. And once he got inside, he just started shooting indiscriminately.
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Speaker 2: My goodness. Now, the suspect was eventually shot and killed by a bystander. Police did not identify that person, but said an armed bystander pursued the suspect in school.
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Speaker 1: We cannot wait to hear this story. someone, an armed person took it upon themselves to chase this person down in the school. This is, that's going to be an incredible story.
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Speaker 2: Chills from head to toe. That person almost certainly saved countless lives because the ages of the three kids who were killed, five, eight, and 11. Police say the shooter is a 16 year old boy from Bend, Oregon. They don't know his connection to the school. They don't have a motive right now, but yes, there is going to be quite a few details that come out of this story. that are going to be important.
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Speaker 1: All right, we want to turn now to Vegas, where yesterday a mystery was solved. Police there revealed the identity of a homicide victim whose body was found four years ago in a barrel at Lake Mead. Robes, this too is another fascinating story. Mystery that is only still partially solved, I guess.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we're getting the first details at this press conference that was held yesterday. Police identified the person as Edward Buddy Liberian Jackson. Police say Jackson was from Arkansas, and they believe he was in his mid-50s at the time of his death.
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Speaker 1: The barrel, though, this barrel was found in May of 2022, had a body in it. Now, it remained a mystery and kind of the stuff of lore. because Jackson was murdered with a single gunshot to the head. Now, the way the body was disposed of, Robes, you know I am into my mob history.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: And Vegas was built by the mob, essentially. And, Robes, there are so many stories about bodies that end up in deserts and lakes and barrels and buried all over that place. So this became a part of, and people couldn't help but think and wonder, given the way this person was killed, well, They don't know for sure about robes, about any mob ties. The thing is, they really don't know what happened to this guy, why somebody killed him, why he was even in the area.
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Speaker 2: Right. We're getting some details, but they say he had no known connection to the Vegas area. So we're going to have more on this story later in our feed. Take a look. Just keep your eye out for it because we do kind of get to know who this man was. But yes, there's still so much mystery shrouding this find.
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Speaker 1: I continue on the run here now. Oh, Republican donor and pain in the arse of the Trump administration, Eric Dieters, has followed through on his promise to sue former U.S. Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle for defamation. Dieters has been at the center of the bombshell report that Guilfoyle tried to trade political influence for cash, including asking Dieters to pay off her $ 100, 000 American Express, wasn't it? Yep. American Express bill ahead of her confirmation hearings. Have you seen any? Why does she have a.
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Speaker 2: $ 100, 000 bill? That has not been explained because, like I said, what did you charge a private jet one-way ticket on there?
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Speaker 1: Because I don't know.
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Speaker 2: How do you charge $ 100, 000 on your credit card?
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Speaker 1: Her claim, though, is that people owed her back for travel and expenses.
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Speaker 2: So she was just pre-spending before she actually got the cash for her travel and consulting?
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Speaker 1: Or I thought it might have been reimbursement is what I was saying. Oh, okay. Was she being needed to be reimbursed for the travel maybe? That's a hell of a travel expense. Okay.
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Speaker 2: The fallout led to President Trump asking Guilfoyle to resign as ambassador to Greece, which she did this week. And Dieters is claiming that Guilfoyle and her legal team defamed him multiple times in public, in particular by saying that Dieter owed Guilfoyle money and had not met his contractual obligation to her.
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Speaker 1: He says that is all false. You know, I don't realize, we were actually recording this, folks, a little earlier. We're traveling right now, so we happen to be in a time zone that doesn't really go with New York if you're trying to do early morning. But point is, I didn't realize how difficult it is to continuously say Gilfoyle. We've been struggling with that this morning. You were struggling, I was struggling. Gilfoyle.
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Speaker 2: It's not an easy name. In fact, I've always struggled with it. Every time she's made headlines, I'm like, oh no, her name again.
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Speaker 1: How much more are we going to have to say it? Well, you know what?
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Speaker 2: Probably a lot. And probably we're going to have to say Zachariah even more, which I have been struggling with all week long.
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Speaker 1: We'll get there. All right. Continuing here on this Friday morning run, the public. Live streamed firing squad execution is officially off. President Trump nixed Defense Secretary Pete Hicks' widely condemned plan to live stream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nadal Hassan. I mean, I don't know if we saw the right. Yeah, I don't know, man, but it was just so overwhelmingly widespread. The whole world was against this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I never heard one person say, hell yeah, let's do it.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point.
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Speaker 2: Not one person. The president wrote this on his Truth Social. I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the world to witness how America deals with terrorists and scum like Hassan. But many very good and well-meaning people would rather not watch him die through streaming or through any other visual device. He will die as scheduled by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed. That said, the execution may be viewed in person by the immediate families of the victims if they so choose. They deserve to witness justice.
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Speaker 1: That was a very heartwarming line in there from the president of the United States that we're not used to seeing. But man, it would be special. He said that he is changing his mind and not doing something because, quote, many very good and well-meaning people would rather not. If he applied that to so many things, it sounds like I will give a consideration to somebody else's feelings in this decision. Rose, that's a big line for me. I'm listening to some very good and well-meaning people who might disagree with this. Damn. That's awesome. I mean, you're right.
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Speaker 2: If this could only catch on in the rest of his presidency, that would be amazing.
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Speaker 1: We did have a lot of media outlets out there reporting that Trump advisors only found out, or that Trump rather, only found out this week that Hassan Robes is paralyzed. He uses a wheelchair. How are we going to shoot a guy in front of the world, in the heart, sitting in a chair?
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Speaker 2: I could not imagine that visual ever taking place. And yes, the idea of publicly using a firing squad on a man in a wheelchair couldn't have been appealing to President Trump. All right, next up on the run, police are still trying to come up with a motive for why a woman stabbed her husband and three-year-old son to death in their resort hotel room. This all happened at the popular Great Wolf Lodge in the Pocono Mountains.
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Speaker 1: Yes, 27-year-old Metallica Harris, she has been charged with two counts of murder after police say she called 911 asking for help dying. That call came in around three in the afternoon Monday. She told 911 dispatchers, I don't want to be here anymore. And that quote, she needed help dying and was unable to find the vein in her neck to stab.
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Speaker 2: Police found a bloody scene in their hotel room. Her husband, Charles, had been stabbed several times. Their three-year-old had one stab wound in the chest. Harrison had superficial puncture wounds on her neck and wrists. And yes, police spent the day yesterday going through the family's home, trying to figure out a motive. And they're also looking into the family's finances to try and understand why they left their home and had been staying at the Gray Wolf Lodge for the past several weeks.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that was something that kind of stood out. You hear this family was vacationing, that's one thing, but this is Not too terrible. They're vacationing in their own state, and they were going to be there up to a month. It was strange.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of things to understand on that case that don't make any sense.
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Speaker 1: All right, we continue on the run on this Friday morning. Now, the holdout juror from the Lindsay Clancy trial, Michael Desronville, sat down with Fox News for his first television interview. He says he's been harassed day and night since the trial ended last month, but he maintains he did not have any doubt, any reasonable doubt, about Clancy's guilt. throughout the deliberations. Excuse me for the cough.
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Speaker 2: Despite saying he had a mountain of evidence to back up that stance, he didn't provide any, but he did say he thought Clancy had been methodical in the execution of her three children. That's how he phrased it. He said that that was really big for him. He said, I thought it was logical how she operated, and that was part of the reason why he felt like She should have been found guilty. He talked about his faith. He talked about his love for those three kids, the innocence of them. He talked about his own five-year-old. And as for Lindsey Clancy right now, her fate remains unclear.
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Speaker 1: All eyes on that November 2nd hearing. A lot needs to be decided because the last hearing we thought a lot was going to be decided and they punted.
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Speaker 2: To November 2nd.
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Speaker 1: So everything's happening that day.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: All right. Continuing on the run here now. We are finally hearing directly from the newly installed White House Press Secretary, Katie Zachariah, about her status as an attorney. Rose, she did a couple of interviews and she went to safe places. Is that fair to say?
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Speaker 2: Yes, that's very fair to say. She has officially admitted now that, yes, she never passed the bar. She did this interview with a conservative commentator following the Wall Street Journal's reporting that Zachariah did not pass the California bar exam shortly after graduating from law school. She explained the discrepancy by saying she was distracted with her plans to get married and move to China for her husband's work.
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Speaker 1: I buy that. I mean, I don't mind that she didn't pass the bar. This is not the problem.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and she said she didn't think too much of the results because she said she didn't need to pass the exam to do her work in China. The problem is, or the problem remains, that Zachariah has repeatedly referred to herself as a lawyer in general counsel in both broadcasts and publications. And she insisted, though, she's never described herself as an attorney at law and said there's a lot of misinformation that she misrepresented herself. She doesn't believe she did so.
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Speaker 1: Do you get what was the direct question asked? How were you able to be general counsel and serve in that capacity if you did not pass the bar in California?
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Speaker 2: Did not see.
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Speaker 1: It's a simple question.
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Speaker 2: Yes, did not see that question.
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Speaker 1: It's not a big, like she can put this all to bed. It's done. It's over. Okay, dear lady, you messed up. I'm even willing to listen and forgive, but she keeps giving answers that aren't. Okay, this is Friday. Yes. Press conference is on Tuesday. My, my, my. All right. Well, continuing on with the good news for the Trump administration, a new poll shows President Trump's approval rating has hit a new low. Yes, it was sarcasm at the beginning. It's notable. Okay, there's a lot of polls. How many days now to the midterms, whatever it is, two plus weeks?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Robes, we're going to get poll after poll after poll. We don't give you all every new poll that comes out every morning. This one is of note, Robes. Yes, because it's a record low for the president. And this one comes from Fox News.
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Speaker 2: It's a Fox News poll. Just 36% of respondents said they think the president is doing a good job. 64% disapprove of his job performance. And no surprise, it is still always a little surprising, among Republicans only, His approval rating is at 76%. That's pretty good. Also, no surprise, among Democrats, his approval rating is at 2%.
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Speaker 1: I could have just put 98% disapproval, but it's something funnier about saying 2% approval.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, 2%.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: But where he's really struggling is with independence. 78% disapprove of.
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Speaker 1: His job performance. Wow. Yeah, it doesn't. That doesn't bode well for the midterms. It doesn't look good. All right, stay with us on this Friday morning run. When we come back, two of the most famous U.K. residents finally stepped out together yesterday and it was really a throwback to the days of old. We'll explain. Also coming up, congrats to the folks in Milwaukee. They are getting something they haven't gotten in almost half a century. And this weekend's box office, not exactly expected to do gangbusters.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone, to your Friday morning run. And next up on the run, it was so nice. It really was to see Harry and Meghan smiling together out and about in the United Kingdom. They made their first joint public appearance yesterday since relocating to the UK in August. after a six-year stint in Southern California.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I shouldn't have used the word stint. Like a six-year stint. Like they went to prison. Right? That is funny. Like some punishment to live in Montecito. Sorry about that. They visited three children's charities yesterday in Nottingham. What is that? About an hour plus or a hundred something miles from London, but north of London. But, Rose, these pictures were cool to see. And I hope this felt good to them to get that love. But, yes, these were the days of old when they used to walk out and crowds would greet them and kids are excited and they're taking selfies and handing them flowers. And, yes, they're cheering and hugging Meghan Markle. I hope that felt good to them.
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Speaker 2: I do, too. I thought it was wonderful to see all the enthusiasm and love that they were receiving. And they did seem to be eating it up. Because, look, that is a struggle for that long to feel like everyone hates you. And you do kind of get this feeling. Everyone hates me there. I'm sure she's had those thoughts. So that was wonderful to see. And Harry's been out in public on a couple of occasions for appearances since they moved back. But yes, yesterday did mark the first time Meghan Markle made an official appearance in the UK since 2022.
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Speaker 1: And you remember the Queen's funeral was in September. Her Jubilee was in June.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Right. Did Meghan do the Jubilee as well? I can't remember. We were there, but. I think she did. Did she come back for that?
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Speaker 2: I think she did.
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Speaker 1: Did he come back for that? I cannot remember that. I thought so. Okay, how about that? Remember the balcony, the flyover? How can we not forget? We'll never forget this moment in our lives that that happened and that we got to be there. Was he standing there with Megan on the balcony?
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Speaker 2: I was so focused on William and Kate's kids. I can't remember.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember. But anyway. Good to see them out and about again. It's good to see the Milwaukee Brewers back in the World Series. This is cool for the folks up there in Milwaukee who are getting to see this for the first time in 44 years. Yes, last night the Milwaukee Brewers swept the LA Dodgers. A lot of people are very happy to see this because the Dodgers have the biggest payroll in all of baseball. People consider them the new evil empire to a certain degree. So they won the last two World Series. They are out of this thing now. So now The Brewers await the winner of Cleveland-Tampa series, which Cleveland's up 2-1 in that series, I do believe. But again, Milwaukee, the Brewers, a good baseball town, a fun town, and a beer-drinking town. I'm glad they're getting this.
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Speaker 2: I love this, too. Can you imagine what Milwaukee was like last night?
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Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, several new movies in the box office this weekend, but none are expected to do gangbusters.
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Speaker 1: Huh. Street Fighter? What's that? That one's based on the video game, Street Fighter.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's why I don't know. Sense and Sensibility, you had to ask me about this.
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Speaker 1: It's an adaptation from Jane Austen. I get Jane Austen. What's the other one?
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Speaker 2: Edith Wharton.
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Speaker 1: And there's one more, the one that just did the movie with the.
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Speaker 2: Colleen Hoover?
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Speaker 1: I put them all in the same camp. You've got one in different centuries. All three?
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Speaker 2: No, Jane Austen and Edith Wharton are around the same time.
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Speaker 1: Okay, who did Age of Innocence?
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Speaker 2: That's Edith Wharton.
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Speaker 1: You're killing me, man. I can't keep them straight. I can't keep them straight. All right, Whale Fall.
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Speaker 2: This movie looks interesting. Actually, I looked to see it has good reviews, 70% on Rotten Tomato, but about a man who survived being trapped in a whale's mouth.
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Speaker 1: Well, we don't know if he survived the whole time. Oh, okay. That's the mystery at the end.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, I haven't seen it, so I'm not giving anything away. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: He's the guy who also carries Resident Evil. I say Carrie's because it's almost like a one-man show. He is a fantastic actor. We are huge fans of his now. Who knew? But yes, he stars in this. Seems like he has to kind of pull it off on his own again. A one-man show stuck in a whale's stomach.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, who are you going to be acting off of if you're in a whale's stomach?
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Speaker 1: Which is impressive. We really, really liked it. And then you can see everything. That's the one that everybody's been talking about, the Elizabeth Holmes thing.
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Speaker 2: Oh, this one's supposed to be fantastic. I bet you that will do pretty well. We shall see.
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Speaker 1: But none of them are actually expected to blow the socks off of the box office this weekend.
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Speaker 2: All right. For your quote of the day on this Friday, I thought this was a cool saying. You're allowed to move through life curious instead of grading your performance in it. Sometimes, I'm just going to see what happens is enough. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's how you want to wrap That's what you give me on Friday. What's the thing that I hate most in the world? Just see what happens.
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Speaker 2: Right, but they say save this for the next time everything feels heavier, you feel overwhelmed by responsibilities. It's okay to just see what happens, and that can be enough. Obviously, that's not the way you want to go through your life all the time, but when things feel heavy, this is something that they suggest, the experts, you adapt.
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Speaker 1: What if things always feel heavy?
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Speaker 2: Then just see what happens.
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Speaker 1: Loosen it up. All right, let's see what happens.
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Speaker 2: You're allowed to move through life curious instead of grading your performance in it. I think that's the point. Give yourself a break sometimes. We're always grading our own performance. I should have done this. I could have done this. Why didn't I do that? And it really creates a lot of heaviness and a lot of weight and a lot of stress.
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Speaker 1: I'm still upset I mispronounced gilfoil earlier. See, grading myself, the whole performance. I coughed during the episode. Oh, my God. I need to do better.
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Speaker 2: See? You're allowed to move through life curious instead of grading your performance in it. Sometimes, I'm just going to see what happens is enough. And with that, everyone, we hope you have a wonderful, carefree weekend.
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Speaker 1: I'm Amy Robach. And I'm TJ Holmes. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there everybody and welcome to your Friday Morning Run. It's Friday, October 16th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: Do you ever have those days you feel like you're missing something? Like I'm missing somebody's birthday or something.
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Speaker 2: Oh really?
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Speaker 1: October 16th feels weird. I think I'm missing something.
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Speaker 2: Oh it's somebody you know marking something.
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Speaker 1: That's tough. Yeah you ever have those?
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Speaker 2: Yes I do. Like you know the date's special but you've Can't remember why.
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Speaker 1: Man, so I'm TJ and I apologize to whoever it is out there that I am. I'm missing a phone call I'm supposed to make. But hello on this Friday as we are zipping through the month of October, wherever you are. We hope you're getting off to a good Friday. We got a number of stops to make today on this morning run, including in Lake Mead in Nevada. Of course, in Bend, Oregon, we'll make a stop in the UK. Make a stop at the Great Wolf Lodge in In Pennsylvania, also Fort Hood, Texas, D.C., and we'll also check in at the weekend box office. But let's start with Robes, the story that had us gripped to the television sets yesterday, trying to figure out for a long time exactly what was going on in an elementary school in Bend, Oregon.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and you know, we haven't had a school shooting like this in a while, and it just brought back so many horrific memories of doing that very thing, waiting for information to see How many people were dead? So right now, police believe a 16-year-old is responsible for the shooting at an Oregon elementary school. It left four people dead. We understand it's three kids and one teacher. Another student and teacher were also critically injured.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this was yesterday afternoon in Bend, Oregon, which is... If you look at it on a Mac, it almost looks like if you just draw a dot right in the center of the state of Oregon, it's about where it is. But this was Silver Rail Elementary School. Now, 911 came in, according to police, around 1 o'clock. Somebody reported that they'd been shot at while they were in their car. Police say that is when More and more 911 calls started coming because the suspect shot his way into the school, said they were actually locked doors to the school robes that he fired at to get inside. And once he got inside, he just started shooting indiscriminately.
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Speaker 2: My goodness. Now, the suspect was eventually shot and killed by a bystander. Police did not identify that person, but said an armed bystander pursued the suspect in school.
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Speaker 1: We cannot wait to hear this story. someone, an armed person took it upon themselves to chase this person down in the school. This is, that's going to be an incredible story.
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Speaker 2: Chills from head to toe. That person almost certainly saved countless lives because the ages of the three kids who were killed, five, eight, and 11. Police say the shooter is a 16 year old boy from Bend, Oregon. They don't know his connection to the school. They don't have a motive right now, but yes, there is going to be quite a few details that come out of this story. that are going to be important.
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Speaker 1: All right, we want to turn now to Vegas, where yesterday a mystery was solved. Police there revealed the identity of a homicide victim whose body was found four years ago in a barrel at Lake Mead. Robes, this too is another fascinating story. Mystery that is only still partially solved, I guess.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we're getting the first details at this press conference that was held yesterday. Police identified the person as Edward Buddy Liberian Jackson. Police say Jackson was from Arkansas, and they believe he was in his mid-50s at the time of his death.
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Speaker 1: The barrel, though, this barrel was found in May of 2022, had a body in it. Now, it remained a mystery and kind of the stuff of lore. because Jackson was murdered with a single gunshot to the head. Now, the way the body was disposed of, Robes, you know I am into my mob history.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: And Vegas was built by the mob, essentially. And, Robes, there are so many stories about bodies that end up in deserts and lakes and barrels and buried all over that place. So this became a part of, and people couldn't help but think and wonder, given the way this person was killed, well, They don't know for sure about robes, about any mob ties. The thing is, they really don't know what happened to this guy, why somebody killed him, why he was even in the area.
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Speaker 2: Right. We're getting some details, but they say he had no known connection to the Vegas area. So we're going to have more on this story later in our feed. Take a look. Just keep your eye out for it because we do kind of get to know who this man was. But yes, there's still so much mystery shrouding this find.
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Speaker 1: I continue on the run here now. Oh, Republican donor and pain in the arse of the Trump administration, Eric Dieters, has followed through on his promise to sue former U.S. Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle for defamation. Dieters has been at the center of the bombshell report that Guilfoyle tried to trade political influence for cash, including asking Dieters to pay off her $ 100, 000 American Express, wasn't it? Yep. American Express bill ahead of her confirmation hearings. Have you seen any? Why does she have a.
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Speaker 2: $ 100, 000 bill? That has not been explained because, like I said, what did you charge a private jet one-way ticket on there?
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Speaker 1: Because I don't know.
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Speaker 2: How do you charge $ 100, 000 on your credit card?
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Speaker 1: Her claim, though, is that people owed her back for travel and expenses.
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Speaker 2: So she was just pre-spending before she actually got the cash for her travel and consulting?
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Speaker 1: Or I thought it might have been reimbursement is what I was saying. Oh, okay. Was she being needed to be reimbursed for the travel maybe? That's a hell of a travel expense. Okay.
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Speaker 2: The fallout led to President Trump asking Guilfoyle to resign as ambassador to Greece, which she did this week. And Dieters is claiming that Guilfoyle and her legal team defamed him multiple times in public, in particular by saying that Dieter owed Guilfoyle money and had not met his contractual obligation to her.
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Speaker 1: He says that is all false. You know, I don't realize, we were actually recording this, folks, a little earlier. We're traveling right now, so we happen to be in a time zone that doesn't really go with New York if you're trying to do early morning. But point is, I didn't realize how difficult it is to continuously say Gilfoyle. We've been struggling with that this morning. You were struggling, I was struggling. Gilfoyle.
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Speaker 2: It's not an easy name. In fact, I've always struggled with it. Every time she's made headlines, I'm like, oh no, her name again.
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Speaker 1: How much more are we going to have to say it? Well, you know what?
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Speaker 2: Probably a lot. And probably we're going to have to say Zachariah even more, which I have been struggling with all week long.
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Speaker 1: We'll get there. All right. Continuing here on this Friday morning run, the public. Live streamed firing squad execution is officially off. President Trump nixed Defense Secretary Pete Hicks' widely condemned plan to live stream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nadal Hassan. I mean, I don't know if we saw the right. Yeah, I don't know, man, but it was just so overwhelmingly widespread. The whole world was against this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I never heard one person say, hell yeah, let's do it.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point.
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Speaker 2: Not one person. The president wrote this on his Truth Social. I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the world to witness how America deals with terrorists and scum like Hassan. But many very good and well-meaning people would rather not watch him die through streaming or through any other visual device. He will die as scheduled by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed. That said, the execution may be viewed in person by the immediate families of the victims if they so choose. They deserve to witness justice.
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Speaker 1: That was a very heartwarming line in there from the president of the United States that we're not used to seeing. But man, it would be special. He said that he is changing his mind and not doing something because, quote, many very good and well-meaning people would rather not. If he applied that to so many things, it sounds like I will give a consideration to somebody else's feelings in this decision. Rose, that's a big line for me. I'm listening to some very good and well-meaning people who might disagree with this. Damn. That's awesome. I mean, you're right.
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Speaker 2: If this could only catch on in the rest of his presidency, that would be amazing.
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Speaker 1: We did have a lot of media outlets out there reporting that Trump advisors only found out, or that Trump rather, only found out this week that Hassan Robes is paralyzed. He uses a wheelchair. How are we going to shoot a guy in front of the world, in the heart, sitting in a chair?
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Speaker 2: I could not imagine that visual ever taking place. And yes, the idea of publicly using a firing squad on a man in a wheelchair couldn't have been appealing to President Trump. All right, next up on the run, police are still trying to come up with a motive for why a woman stabbed her husband and three-year-old son to death in their resort hotel room. This all happened at the popular Great Wolf Lodge in the Pocono Mountains.
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Speaker 1: Yes, 27-year-old Metallica Harris, she has been charged with two counts of murder after police say she called 911 asking for help dying. That call came in around three in the afternoon Monday. She told 911 dispatchers, I don't want to be here anymore. And that quote, she needed help dying and was unable to find the vein in her neck to stab.
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Speaker 2: Police found a bloody scene in their hotel room. Her husband, Charles, had been stabbed several times. Their three-year-old had one stab wound in the chest. Harrison had superficial puncture wounds on her neck and wrists. And yes, police spent the day yesterday going through the family's home, trying to figure out a motive. And they're also looking into the family's finances to try and understand why they left their home and had been staying at the Gray Wolf Lodge for the past several weeks.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that was something that kind of stood out. You hear this family was vacationing, that's one thing, but this is Not too terrible. They're vacationing in their own state, and they were going to be there up to a month. It was strange.
00:10:24
Speaker 2: There's a lot of things to understand on that case that don't make any sense.
00:10:28
Speaker 1: All right, we continue on the run on this Friday morning. Now, the holdout juror from the Lindsay Clancy trial, Michael Desronville, sat down with Fox News for his first television interview. He says he's been harassed day and night since the trial ended last month, but he maintains he did not have any doubt, any reasonable doubt, about Clancy's guilt. throughout the deliberations. Excuse me for the cough.
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Speaker 2: Despite saying he had a mountain of evidence to back up that stance, he didn't provide any, but he did say he thought Clancy had been methodical in the execution of her three children. That's how he phrased it. He said that that was really big for him. He said, I thought it was logical how she operated, and that was part of the reason why he felt like She should have been found guilty. He talked about his faith. He talked about his love for those three kids, the innocence of them. He talked about his own five-year-old. And as for Lindsey Clancy right now, her fate remains unclear.
00:11:23
Speaker 1: All eyes on that November 2nd hearing. A lot needs to be decided because the last hearing we thought a lot was going to be decided and they punted.
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Speaker 2: To November 2nd.
00:11:31
Speaker 1: So everything's happening that day.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
00:11:34
Speaker 1: All right. Continuing on the run here now. We are finally hearing directly from the newly installed White House Press Secretary, Katie Zachariah, about her status as an attorney. Rose, she did a couple of interviews and she went to safe places. Is that fair to say?
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Speaker 2: Yes, that's very fair to say. She has officially admitted now that, yes, she never passed the bar. She did this interview with a conservative commentator following the Wall Street Journal's reporting that Zachariah did not pass the California bar exam shortly after graduating from law school. She explained the discrepancy by saying she was distracted with her plans to get married and move to China for her husband's work.
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Speaker 1: I buy that. I mean, I don't mind that she didn't pass the bar. This is not the problem.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and she said she didn't think too much of the results because she said she didn't need to pass the exam to do her work in China. The problem is, or the problem remains, that Zachariah has repeatedly referred to herself as a lawyer in general counsel in both broadcasts and publications. And she insisted, though, she's never described herself as an attorney at law and said there's a lot of misinformation that she misrepresented herself. She doesn't believe she did so.
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Speaker 1: Do you get what was the direct question asked? How were you able to be general counsel and serve in that capacity if you did not pass the bar in California?
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Speaker 2: Did not see.
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Speaker 1: It's a simple question.
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Speaker 2: Yes, did not see that question.
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Speaker 1: It's not a big, like she can put this all to bed. It's done. It's over. Okay, dear lady, you messed up. I'm even willing to listen and forgive, but she keeps giving answers that aren't. Okay, this is Friday. Yes. Press conference is on Tuesday. My, my, my. All right. Well, continuing on with the good news for the Trump administration, a new poll shows President Trump's approval rating has hit a new low. Yes, it was sarcasm at the beginning. It's notable. Okay, there's a lot of polls. How many days now to the midterms, whatever it is, two plus weeks?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Robes, we're going to get poll after poll after poll. We don't give you all every new poll that comes out every morning. This one is of note, Robes. Yes, because it's a record low for the president. And this one comes from Fox News.
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Speaker 2: It's a Fox News poll. Just 36% of respondents said they think the president is doing a good job. 64% disapprove of his job performance. And no surprise, it is still always a little surprising, among Republicans only, His approval rating is at 76%. That's pretty good. Also, no surprise, among Democrats, his approval rating is at 2%.
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Speaker 1: I could have just put 98% disapproval, but it's something funnier about saying 2% approval.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, 2%.
00:14:18
Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: But where he's really struggling is with independence. 78% disapprove of.
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Speaker 1: His job performance. Wow. Yeah, it doesn't. That doesn't bode well for the midterms. It doesn't look good. All right, stay with us on this Friday morning run. When we come back, two of the most famous U.K. residents finally stepped out together yesterday and it was really a throwback to the days of old. We'll explain. Also coming up, congrats to the folks in Milwaukee. They are getting something they haven't gotten in almost half a century. And this weekend's box office, not exactly expected to do gangbusters.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone, to your Friday morning run. And next up on the run, it was so nice. It really was to see Harry and Meghan smiling together out and about in the United Kingdom. They made their first joint public appearance yesterday since relocating to the UK in August. after a six-year stint in Southern California.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I shouldn't have used the word stint. Like a six-year stint. Like they went to prison. Right? That is funny. Like some punishment to live in Montecito. Sorry about that. They visited three children's charities yesterday in Nottingham. What is that? About an hour plus or a hundred something miles from London, but north of London. But, Rose, these pictures were cool to see. And I hope this felt good to them to get that love. But, yes, these were the days of old when they used to walk out and crowds would greet them and kids are excited and they're taking selfies and handing them flowers. And, yes, they're cheering and hugging Meghan Markle. I hope that felt good to them.
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Speaker 2: I do, too. I thought it was wonderful to see all the enthusiasm and love that they were receiving. And they did seem to be eating it up. Because, look, that is a struggle for that long to feel like everyone hates you. And you do kind of get this feeling. Everyone hates me there. I'm sure she's had those thoughts. So that was wonderful to see. And Harry's been out in public on a couple of occasions for appearances since they moved back. But yes, yesterday did mark the first time Meghan Markle made an official appearance in the UK since 2022.
00:16:29
Speaker 1: And you remember the Queen's funeral was in September. Her Jubilee was in June.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
00:16:35
Speaker 1: Right. Did Meghan do the Jubilee as well? I can't remember. We were there, but. I think she did. Did she come back for that?
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Speaker 2: I think she did.
00:16:42
Speaker 1: Did he come back for that? I cannot remember that. I thought so. Okay, how about that? Remember the balcony, the flyover? How can we not forget? We'll never forget this moment in our lives that that happened and that we got to be there. Was he standing there with Megan on the balcony?
00:16:58
Speaker 2: I was so focused on William and Kate's kids. I can't remember.
00:17:02
Speaker 1: I can't remember. But anyway. Good to see them out and about again. It's good to see the Milwaukee Brewers back in the World Series. This is cool for the folks up there in Milwaukee who are getting to see this for the first time in 44 years. Yes, last night the Milwaukee Brewers swept the LA Dodgers. A lot of people are very happy to see this because the Dodgers have the biggest payroll in all of baseball. People consider them the new evil empire to a certain degree. So they won the last two World Series. They are out of this thing now. So now The Brewers await the winner of Cleveland-Tampa series, which Cleveland's up 2-1 in that series, I do believe. But again, Milwaukee, the Brewers, a good baseball town, a fun town, and a beer-drinking town. I'm glad they're getting this.
00:17:44
Speaker 2: I love this, too. Can you imagine what Milwaukee was like last night?
00:17:47
Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.
00:17:49
Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, several new movies in the box office this weekend, but none are expected to do gangbusters.
00:17:58
Speaker 1: Huh. Street Fighter? What's that? That one's based on the video game, Street Fighter.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's why I don't know. Sense and Sensibility, you had to ask me about this.
00:18:06
Speaker 1: It's an adaptation from Jane Austen. I get Jane Austen. What's the other one?
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Speaker 2: Edith Wharton.
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Speaker 1: And there's one more, the one that just did the movie with the.
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Speaker 2: Colleen Hoover?
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Speaker 1: I put them all in the same camp. You've got one in different centuries. All three?
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Speaker 2: No, Jane Austen and Edith Wharton are around the same time.
00:18:26
Speaker 1: Okay, who did Age of Innocence?
00:18:28
Speaker 2: That's Edith Wharton.
00:18:28
Speaker 1: You're killing me, man. I can't keep them straight. I can't keep them straight. All right, Whale Fall.
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Speaker 2: This movie looks interesting. Actually, I looked to see it has good reviews, 70% on Rotten Tomato, but about a man who survived being trapped in a whale's mouth.
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Speaker 1: Well, we don't know if he survived the whole time. Oh, okay. That's the mystery at the end.
00:18:47
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, I haven't seen it, so I'm not giving anything away. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: He's the guy who also carries Resident Evil. I say Carrie's because it's almost like a one-man show. He is a fantastic actor. We are huge fans of his now. Who knew? But yes, he stars in this. Seems like he has to kind of pull it off on his own again. A one-man show stuck in a whale's stomach.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, who are you going to be acting off of if you're in a whale's stomach?
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Speaker 1: Which is impressive. We really, really liked it. And then you can see everything. That's the one that everybody's been talking about, the Elizabeth Holmes thing.
00:19:17
Speaker 2: Oh, this one's supposed to be fantastic. I bet you that will do pretty well. We shall see.
00:19:22
Speaker 1: But none of them are actually expected to blow the socks off of the box office this weekend.
00:19:27
Speaker 2: All right. For your quote of the day on this Friday, I thought this was a cool saying. You're allowed to move through life curious instead of grading your performance in it. Sometimes, I'm just going to see what happens is enough. Yeah.
00:19:47
Speaker 1: That's how you want to wrap That's what you give me on Friday. What's the thing that I hate most in the world? Just see what happens.
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Speaker 2: Right, but they say save this for the next time everything feels heavier, you feel overwhelmed by responsibilities. It's okay to just see what happens, and that can be enough. Obviously, that's not the way you want to go through your life all the time, but when things feel heavy, this is something that they suggest, the experts, you adapt.
00:20:14
Speaker 1: What if things always feel heavy?
00:20:16
Speaker 2: Then just see what happens.
00:20:17
Speaker 1: Loosen it up. All right, let's see what happens.
00:20:19
Speaker 2: You're allowed to move through life curious instead of grading your performance in it. I think that's the point. Give yourself a break sometimes. We're always grading our own performance. I should have done this. I could have done this. Why didn't I do that? And it really creates a lot of heaviness and a lot of weight and a lot of stress.
00:20:36
Speaker 1: I'm still upset I mispronounced gilfoil earlier. See, grading myself, the whole performance. I coughed during the episode. Oh, my God. I need to do better.
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Speaker 2: See? You're allowed to move through life curious instead of grading your performance in it. Sometimes, I'm just going to see what happens is enough. And with that, everyone, we hope you have a wonderful, carefree weekend.
00:20:58
Speaker 1: I'm Amy Robach. And I'm TJ Holmes. Let's see what happens.