(Friday) Morning Run: Possible Mangione Plea, USS Abraham Lincoln Relief, Tupac Jury Seated, More Kennedy Center Name Drama, & MORE!

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Speaker 1: Hey there everybody, and welcome to Morning Run. It is for Friday, August fourteenth.

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Speaker 2: I made me Robox.

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Speaker 3: You started off like this was the calm app and you were about to put everybody through meditation, really very soft.

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Speaker 2: I was very zen.

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Speaker 3: Is that what this Friday is for you?

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Speaker 1: No, well, it's just peace that's gonna just explode into joy shortly.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like peace shouldn't explode at all. This is how it's starting. Good morning everybody, It's Friday. I'm TJ. Holmes. What a week it has been. Got some pretty remarkable stories, Robes. We've got a couple of follow ups that are kind of stunning to a couple of big stories. We've been keeping an eye on. What else is that? What is everybody buzzing about? I guess Spider Man is still doing its thing. It's supposed to have another record weekend, fastest movie to seven hundred million in history mine actually, so we're doing well.

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Speaker 1: We're waiting for it to come on to a streaming store of us because I don't know, it's so weird we are. We have a singular focus when it comes to theater going.

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Speaker 3: And that's horror movies. What's coming out. You know Halloween is coming. You know some stuff is going to be dropping around October. So and what's the one with Jessica shas Stain, the one that everybody's skill Mommy or the other mom the other right, So, yes, we're looking for other things. We're looking from distractions from the real world. These days, a lot is going on with wherever you are. I hope you're getting your Friday off to a very good start. We're making stops in Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Vegas, New York, Minnesota, as well as a stop at the Kennedy Center this morning. Yes that is still its official name. We'll be making all those stops, but let's start ropes. This was pretty quick response from the administration, was it not?

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Speaker 2: You know what?

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Speaker 1: This is the power of pr pressure, media pressure. It It can work, It does work, and it looks like it has in this case, because as we are very happy to report that relief is on the way after those widespread reports of difficult conditions, frankly terrible conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, another aircraft carrier is now heading towards the Middle East.

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Speaker 2: To replace it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's the US as George Washington, it's on its way. The Lincoln's had five thousand sailors that have been out on tour for nine months in support of the war in Iran. They were supposed to be back home in May, and they had no date for return. So that's what they said. Robes was really messing with a lot of that mental health and the conditions on board and the conditions we report Robes. It goes everywhere from mental health problems to unsanitary conditions to them running out of food even.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean no, there are reports of sailors attempting to jump overboard, and these were multiple accounts, so it was just alarming and striking to hear that, and yes, to hear that they were down to rice and tortillas, they had no deodorant, toothpaste. These were the reports that were coming to family members from sailors who were aboard that aircraft carrier.

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Speaker 3: Of course, the military push back on a lot of that stuff, but still Rope this is that story came out and was buzzing yesterday, and by the evening we get word that help is on the way and they're going to be going back home. That's wonderful robes. But is this what it took? Yes, so that's fine. Continuing on the run here now, Yes, we told you some pretty phenomenal updates. This other update here is jaw dropping to a lot of us. Continue on the run. Several news outlets now reporting that Luigi Mangioni is expected to plead guilty in his federal case, and we could hear this as early as today. What robes has been non stop preliminary hearings and fighting over this evidence and that and death penalty and possible pleading guilty.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it is a stunning and frankly shocking development if this indeed happens, because yes, we all remember, of course that Mancioni was accused in the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. There is video literally showing him do it in the middle of midtown Manhattan. Well, he does have that scheduled hearing in his federal case today. So if he pleads guilty today for the federal charges, what's going to happen with the state charges?

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Speaker 3: It could go away. There's some technical or legal whatever in there that if he pleads guilty at a certain time and it has to do it before or after a jury is placed and all kinds of stuff, or the state could just agree that okay, he's going away and there's a double jeopardy argument in here as well. Yes, rohopes this could be it.

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Speaker 1: After all all those hearings, after the we just heard, the big development was that the jurors we're getting, so the potential jurors, because no jury has been seated, but that anyone who would be seated in that case to preside over it would be under a threat of death, so to speak, based on their verdict.

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Speaker 3: They just three weeks away.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they were going to have to make all the jurors when we say anonymous, as in only the judge knows their names, addresses, identities, et cetera. I mean they were going to have to keep this so closely guarded because of the massive public interest and this bizarre hero status martyr status that Luigi Mangioni has acquired in some specific segments of the population.

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Speaker 3: Forgot babe. Yes, they were just arguing for his trial to be live streams. They wanted it to be out there, and now this possibly a reminder that state trial is just three weeks away, and this killing was in twenty twenty four. This has been a non stop story for a year and a half and you're telling me in a matter of weeks it could be over.

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Speaker 1: And we don't understand why because the reports that have come out have said he isn't getting anything for this. There is no deal associated with him pleading guilty, which seems really hard to understand.

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Speaker 2: But maybe we will learn more today.

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Speaker 3: Sure you saw everyone as well that everybody put in the caveat he could still change his mind. Everybody keeps saying that, all right, continue on the run here now. Oklahoma, Tennessee, Alabama all carried out executions yesterday, the first time robe since twenty ten that three inmates were executed on the same day in this country.

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Speaker 2: Yes, two of them took place yesterday morning.

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Speaker 1: In Tennessee, Anthony Darryl Hines died by lethal injection at ten am local time for the nineteen eighty five murder of a hotel made and then around the same time in Oklahoma, Carlos Questa Rodriguez was receiving a lethal injection for the two thousand and three shooting death of his girlfriend.

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Speaker 3: And then at six o'clock last night, Jeremy Williams was put to death for the twenty twenty one rape and murder of a five year old. Her name is Camary Holland. Just a horrific case there. Again, that conviction was in twenty twenty four and the execution already just took place. And that's because he passed up all of his options for appeal, so he wanted to die. So this is the twenty twenty first and twenty second execit Cutionans of the year Robes. The next three up on the schedule are all in Florida. That reads, he signs those things robes when the year started. I don't know if they had one two that were signed that we're on the schedule robes. He's They're up to twelve now for the year and counting. Oh my god, absolutely wow.

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Speaker 1: And the record was nineteen last year, so they are on pace to potentially match that or even surpassed that. All right. Next up on the run, Police have identified the man they say killed his wife and seven year old daughter at a daycare in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: This is just such a chilling detail.

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Speaker 1: They are now revealing that he killed them using a screwdriver.

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Speaker 3: Story actually got worse. I don't know how. Yeah, story actually got worse with the details we're finding about. We talked about this yesterday and we have been talking about this this week. This idea, not this idea, but it seems like a recent phenomenon of familicide, these stories of guys taking out murdering their entire families. And so this was another one. What the second of the week?

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Speaker 2: Second was it not so in a row? What was the Kansas those.

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Speaker 3: The Kansas got four? Yeah, killed his four kids, all under the age of nine. So this one we talked about yesterday. A man stabbed his wife and daughter at a daycare. This is in Hopkins, Minnesota, a daycare that they ran out of a house and there were other kids in the house as a part of the daycare at the time of this killing. The suspect has now identified as forty one year old Nathan Brown. They said he died later of a self inflictated gunshot.

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Speaker 1: One Yes, and the victims forty one year old Kristin Brown, his wife, and seven year old Evie Brown. The idea that he murdered them with a screwdriver. I cannot get out of my head, my god. And by the way, he also killed another relative, according to police, a seventy eight year old woman who was at a home before he headed to the daycare to do all of this. So this was seemingly premeditated, and we always talk about there being some sort of reason behind or some event that oftentimes is the catalyst to these horrific atrocities.

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Speaker 2: Apparently the daycare was closing.

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Speaker 3: The parents are reporting that they got an email from the woman who ran the daycare saying that it was going to have to close because of issues with her husband. Wow, we'll get more details about that, but they all go in line these details of these things. They have so much in common when guys do this, there's some triggering event that messes up their idea of normal or takes away their control, or they're humiliated in some way. Robes this was stunning. Once again, turning now to Vegas, sad they do have a jury now seated in the trial of a former gang member accused of playing a role in the murder of Tupac Shakur. Opening statements are now expected on Monday. In the trial Dwayne Davis. He's accused of not pulling the trigger, but orchestrating the nineteen ninety six killing and providing the gun used.

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Speaker 1: Tupac was gunned down in Vegas after his entourage got into an early you're dust up with a member of a rival gang, and Davis now is the first and only person to be tried for the infamous unsolved murder.

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Speaker 2: The person believed to be the.

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Speaker 1: Actual shooter, as well as two other men on the scene of that shooting, are all.

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Speaker 3: Dead and at least two died in shootings, or all three, maybe two of them died in shootings.

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Speaker 1: One of them died they believe of like a diabetic related.

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Speaker 2: Incident, and one.

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Speaker 3: Of the shoot one of them died not long after.

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Speaker 2: Within two years.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, gret Yes, Yeah, violent bunch there, apparently.

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Speaker 3: Continuing on the run. Here now an update on the Lindsay Clancy trial, Massachusetts mom who strangled her three young children, but she's pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Most of the testimony yesterday was focused on her cell phone and computer data, which did show robe some pretty interesting stuff, and I guess both sides were kind of plucking out the stuff that helped their case.

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Speaker 1: Yes one of the big notable quotes was, you know what is it is?

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Speaker 2: Something about a sociopath? Can you cure a sociopath?

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Speaker 1: That was the prosecution's search that they really wanted to hammer home to the jury, But of course the defense had plenty as well. But she did much a lot of searches about suicide methods by polar disorder, insomnia, postpartum depression, psychosis, schizophrenia.

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Speaker 2: It was almost like something.

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Speaker 1: That we all kind of do in times when we're feeling a certain way, we start googling, like WebMD, do I have this?

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Speaker 2: Do I have that?

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Speaker 1: But this was all in the weeks and in some cases in the days leading up to the killings. Jurors are off today, Kurt Court resumes on Monday, and we will have a full wrap. There are some really interesting, detailed searches that Lindsay Clancy certainly did in the months leading up, and I'm just curious who it helps more. It's fascinating stuff. We'll have a full episode on that after morning run.

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll stay with us here on this Friday morning run. When we come back. A boxer who suffered a traumatic injury in a fight eleven years ago just passed away due to those injuries. We'll explain. Also coming up folks, It's not over yet another attempt to get President Trump's name on the front of the Kennedy Center. All right, continuing here on this morning run, as I was giving what was that commentary on the appearance of local anchors.

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Speaker 1: Yes, right, we get a healthy dose of them every morning, right, so they feel like family, they do.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Look, but they say local news is struggles. It is really critical and important. You don't realize how much you depend on local news, sometimes so for the.

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Speaker 2: Weather, and it's how we got our start.

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Speaker 1: A lot of love to local news anchors, reporters, producers.

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Speaker 2: They make it all happen. We rely on them more than we realize.

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Speaker 3: Yes we do so. And yet I was actually COMPLI.

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Speaker 2: Exactly fantastic, by the way.

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Speaker 3: All right, continuing here on this Friday morning run. A professional boxer former professional boxer has passed away eleven years after the infamous fight that left him with a traumatic brain injury. Pritchard Cologne A die Thursday Robes at the age of thirty three. And I know you don't follow boxing as much, but this is one of those cases, in one of those fights that fight fans will certainly remember and remember him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was once a promising prospect who had an undefeated record. Cologne was repeatedly hit in the back of the head. This happened during a twenty to fifteen fight where he was complaining about the illegal blows and then complained to the ringside doctor about dizzyness. And that fight went on for nine rounds and Cologne eventually collapsed.

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Speaker 2: Was in a coma for months.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and now for the past several years, his family has had to take care of him. He's needed round the clock care. Now it's described bros. He's been in a vegetative state. That's the word they use. Ever since that fight, his dad released this statement, good morning, my people, I regret to inform you of the passing of my son from this earthly world. Now he is in a better place. Thank you for so many years of love and prayers. As much as you can, please keep us in your prayers. It's just yeah, that's you know. I'm be honest. I hadn't kept up. I didn't realize. And ESPN has done a documentary about him and the family. But well, it's this boxing is it is a dangerous These are gladiators, man, It's hard for me to.

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Speaker 2: Watch because you just not just sport like.

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Speaker 1: There's pain, there's damage, there's injury happening, and they're suffering.

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Speaker 3: Years later we watch a fight, even a guy who puts his arm up victorious at the end a few years later still ends up sometimes a problem. It's it's a reminder as an awful story.

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Speaker 1: You said Gladiator. That is kind of what it reminds me of. And yeah, it's hard to watch. Well, this could be hard to look at for a lot of folks. For the final leg of our.

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Speaker 2: Run, Trump really really really.

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Speaker 1: Wants his name on the Kennedy Center apparently, And by the way, this story is a talker.

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Speaker 2: Let's just say that the.

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Speaker 1: Kennedy Center board that Trump himself appointed, remember he removed everyone and then put in all of his people.

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Speaker 2: Well, they have voted once again to add his name to the building. But there's a slight difference this time.

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Speaker 3: This is a hilarious, bordering on pathetic attempt that they're making. Now Robes a judge rule, folks will remember that the board's previous attempt to rename the center the Donald Trump John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was unlawful and that judge ordered that Trump's name be taken down. It was taken down in June, but they put up that tarp, folks, the tarp is still up.

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Speaker 2: That is That to me is stunning.

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Speaker 3: So they have not let the public see that his name is down. What are they doing with this center ban?

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Speaker 2: I'm embarrassed for him. Embarrassed.

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Speaker 3: It's embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: It's like when, yeah, when you grow bangs to cover is it. It's like, I don't know, You're just like we all know what's underneath there.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just it's a it's a it's a pathetic attempt.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So the board, now, folks, has voted once again to change the name of the Kennedy Center. But Robes, they got really cute with this. And I can't wait for this judge's response once he hears this.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so they voted to change the name of the building too, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, restored and renovated by President Donald J.

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Speaker 3: Trump. I don't even it's not even funny anymore. It's it's why, what is the fascination? Why does he trying to take this man's memorial? We saw him take a bullet in Dallas, and Trump is desperate to get his name next to Kennedy's on Kennedy's memorial.

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Speaker 1: I I don't understand. I really don't. And look, I'd rather have the arc to Trump and have him have his own thing, because it's just like he needs something. Even though he has buildings all over the world.

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Speaker 3: Outside outside right now on it. We can't walk down the street.

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Speaker 1: Know how many buildings have his name on it already. I don't know why he needs another.

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Speaker 3: This is a this is a weird when rolled and the way they're doing it, it's it's petty as restored and renovated by just do it because you're a nice guy. You'll get credit for it. You were the president, you had two terms. You're gonna be remembered.

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Speaker 2: I don't understand. And the board also voted to close the center for two years.

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Speaker 3: The judge has a sign off on all this stuff. This is the judge who had a pretty damning name response. That guy Cooper is his name, I think. But what was the line? The Congress changed the name. They're the only ones who can change the name. This is the end of the story, nothing to talk about. So they got cute with it. I can't wait the ye it.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: All right, and on this Friday we have your quote of the day. You pity them moth confusing the lamp for the moon. Yet here you are confusing a screen for the world.

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Speaker 3: That's good, that's good, and that's true. We all we think this is real. I am literally looking at three screens as we're sitting here. Actually, if you count the TVs, I got two high pads and a Mac. You have an iPad and a Mac, and there are two TVs going in this room right now, and both of our phones are up as well. But you're the only thing that matters in the room. Isn't that crazy that my pastors used to say the phone can bring you closer to somebody one thousand miles away and take you farther away from the person you're sitting right next to. And that's true, this idea that these things this ain't life.

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Speaker 2: It's true.

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Speaker 1: And the thing that makes me the saddest because here in New York City, obviously there's so much to look at, and there's so much we should be paying attention to, just for safety reasons. But if you look at just a Manhattan City Street. I guarantee you sixty to seventy percent. That's me being conservative. Are actually walking while looking at their phones. And man, every baby I see in a stroller has a phone or that.

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Speaker 2: It is so sad. It is. It's just like, and what are we doing? What are we teaching?

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Speaker 1: We're Oh my god, And I just thought we all look at a moth and go, ah, poor thing, look at that.

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Speaker 3: And you should look at the person in the subway, go all, poor thing, look at that.

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Speaker 1: And also just correct your own behavior, and like we remind each other every now and then, like let's let's not be on our.

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Speaker 3: Phones right now. Even as you're talking, I'm looking at a screen.

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Speaker 2: You're paying one more time on this Friday.

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Speaker 1: You pity the moth, confusing the lamp for the moon. Yet here you are confusing a screen for the world. So go out and see the world, everybody. I'm Amy Robock.

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Speaker 3: Are you familiar with that quote from Muhammad Ali Mohammed? Every time you I'm waiting for you to say it. When you started, what are you referring to? I pity the food? Who was that course? Obviously whaitiful?

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Speaker 2: I thought that was I thought that was mister T.

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Speaker 3: I petty the fool. Why did I just give that to Muhammed.

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Speaker 2: Because I don't know. I think it's mister T.

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Speaker 3: That sounds like some mom and i'll E would say, alright, folks, enjoy your day, your Friday. We always appreciate your running with us. And yes, I'm t JS, we'll be running with y elseon o