Oct. 30, 2026
(FRIDAY) "Morning Run": Subpoenas & Investigations Before Midterms, Trump Cancels Campaign Trips, OH Ad Comes Down, Another Inmate Escape, Doordash <3 Instacart, $6B Crypto Hack, Goodbye Professor X, & 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 Morning Run. It is Friday, October 30th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Got a number of stops to make on this morning's run, including in Anchorage, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Brinkley, Arkansas as well. We're actually skipping a couple of stops this morning. We were supposed to go to Kansas and Iowa. We'll explain that. But let's start. Robes, four days away. Last weekend before we finally go vote.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's a lot to talk about because the subpoenas are flying and the investigations are being launched. We can start in Alaska. That's been making the biggest headlines. The governor there has launched an investigation into two candidates that share the same name.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the two Dans, Dan Sullivan's you've been hearing about. This was always suspected to be some kind of a plot that Democrats were up to by recruiting some random dude named Dan Sullivan to also run against the incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan. Yes, well, he's been on the ballot, but now a new New York Times investigation has shown that yes, it appears that Democrats and maybe even the Democratic candidates, the campaign folks were involved in recruiting this guy. This has now set this story off into a whole new stratosphere of controversy. And yes, The governor has gotten involved and launched an investigation, but that's not all.
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Speaker 2: That's right. The Department of Justice also is looking into the matter. They have filed a lawsuit and it's now been amended based on that reporting you just talked about, you just referenced from the New York Times. So yeah, they've got about a dozen new subpoenas out there the DOG has issued. And Mary Piltola, of course, the Democrat there, gave a press conference yesterday denying that she had any knowledge of the plan and saying the New York Times doesn't care about affordability of Alaskans and just pivoted into her she didn't.
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Speaker 1: Sound good and that's first i didn't like that last that first she came back and followed up but that first one didn't sound good at all they're just doing this for subscriptions i didn't like that first answer she rushed it.
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Speaker 2: Off and blamed the people who were doing.
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Speaker 1: The report and then followed up by a direct denial but still talking about she's not acknowledging how serious this is like this is messed up if anybody did this she is not right she's not sounding right.
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Speaker 2: And then the other Dan Sullivan, the school teacher, said, yeah, I am running. This is legit. And that didn't land either for me.
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Speaker 1: This is, they're giving, I know this is dirty politics, and I know this stuff has been done historically, but y'all are giving President Trump a layup.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: A layup for blatantly cheating. You cannot, this is not okay, even if it's legal. This is awful stuff. Then you got California. We're talking about the DOJ issued subpoenas over there as well to election workers. The Trump administration has been going after them, saying that there are some 20,000 ballots they believe went to non-citizens. So they want California to pluck out those 20,000 ballots. Well, a judge stepped in and said, I don't have the right to do that. We don't know for sure. So he wouldn't do it. So the federal government has now issued subpoenas out there to some election workers. All of this appears, Robes, in both of these cases and in others around the country. They're laying the groundwork for challenging the election results. So it ain't over on Tuesday, we already know.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: I mean, to have this lawsuits and legal action already taking place before the ballots are even, all the ballots are cast and certainly before they're counted, just perhaps is a bellwether to what is next. And by the way, the Republicans have already said, the Trump administration has already said, if Mary Peltola wins Alaska, they will not recognize her as the actual winner. They will challenge the election results. Next up on the run though, President Trump making some headlines of his own, canceling a couple of scheduled campaign rallies. He has been looking tired, and he has been crisscrossing this country over the last several days.
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Speaker 1: This disappointed me greatly. You know how much I enjoy these rallies, because it's... He essentially gives the same stump speech, and because most people aren't watching every single one of them like I am, I noticed a little nuance, little differences. He does something a little different in this one or that one, and it's always going off the rails.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 1: I was upset to hear that he canceled campaign rallies in Iowa and Kansas. At first, he canceled the one in Kansas. He was asked about it. He said, yeah, my guy there is doing good. I don't need to go there. The reporter kind of pushed back, asking about, well, you're tired, Mr. President. You've been all over the place. He didn't like hearing that. Went off on the reporter, challenged the reporter in his own conditioning, told him you need to put yourself in shape. just went off. So he didn't appreciate that. But the president looks tired. He does. He is tired. He's 80.
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Speaker 2: His voice is tired. His face looks tired. And any 30-year-old would be tired actually keeping the schedule he's been keeping. Yes, he's 80. But he'll have some tele-rallies. Is that what they're calling them? So they were saying, that actually, well, it's hilarious.
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Speaker 3: The thing is, people just want Folks, to be honest, and if he just said, yeah, I'm exhausted, and instead were like, no, you're not in shape, and the administration saying that they'll reach even more people and it'll even be more effective if the president does tele-rallies rather than actual in-person rallies.
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Speaker 1: He could be in one spot sitting at a desk and just call in to a bunch of places. I get that. Like a Zoom call. It sends a signal that we need to be more careful with our resources. Don't go to places necessarily. They claim we don't need to go there because we're doing so well. Others say you're not going there because it's a waste of time.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the run, Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has taken down that controversial ad featuring his opponent Amy Acton's estranged biological mother. The Ramaswamy camp says the ad, which debuted just last week to bipartisan condemnation, is fake. simply rotating out as planned.
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Speaker 1: It featured Acton's estranged mother saying her daughter is a liar, but did not provide the contest that Acton hasn't spoken to her mom in 50 years after she was removed from her mom's custody when police say her stepfather raped her as a child. Several prominent Republicans, not Trump. publicly demanded Ramaswamy take down the ad, including current Governor Mike DeWine. But yes, the president was actually telling him to run it more. It was a gift from God and all this whatnot. They said they were going to spend $ 4 million on it, ended up spending about a million dollars, but it wasn't ever expected to stay up there the whole time necessarily. So either way, it's down now, but the damage has been done.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and once again, they won't admit that they most likely took it down because of the massive damage. negative reaction that it actually ended up backfiring, many people believe, rather than help to the Ramaswamy campaign. All right, next up on the run, shockingly, we have another prison escape to tell you about. This one happened in Arkansas. And it was violent, and I say that because we were just talking yesterday about how it seems like people, prisoners, just slipping out, just peacefully walking out. That was not the case with this one.
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Speaker 1: This was a different kind of dude, a different kind of place, a different kind of scenario here. Let's break this down. He's a 41-year-old. Rodney Smith is the name. First, beat up two prison guards, stole a taser, and then escaped, left on foot. Smith was wearing a T-shirt, yellow jumpsuit pants, no shoes when he escaped. Last seen walking down Some train tracks near the prison. He is in prison, been serving since 2013 for firearms and drug possession.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and Smith's escape, you might remember, comes just days after convicted murderer Jacob Morley broke out of prison in Tennessee. Morley is still on the run after stealing a truck, driving to Illinois before ditching that truck near a state park. admittedly, authorities have no idea where he is.
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Speaker 1: And again, the guy Smith, we should mention, he was where he shouldn't have been. He was waiting on another bed to open up at a state prison, so he was being held locally. Brinkley is a smaller town.
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Speaker 2: You know the area.
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Speaker 1: It's between my hometown of West Memphis and Little Rock in the eastern part of the state. So Brinkley is a cute little, quiet little, yes, and he's being held there waiting for an actual bed, and he took advantage. We talked about this. Guys at hospitals, guys at places there, out of south side of the main prison walls, and they find an opportunity, and he's out there somewhere.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, three people were killed after two helicopters collided in midair. This happened near an Oregon airport. The collision involved a student pilot from the U.K., along with a Texas flight instructor, 32-year-old Matty Asabo, and then in the other helicopter, 38-year-old Oregon pilot Tyler Sturdivant.
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Speaker 1: The debris scattered across a field on a private farm forced a one-mile closure of a nearby highway. FAA NTSB leading the investigation. And to what happened here, the instructor here is 32. That makes more sense. Maybe it was wrong. I saw someone had the name at age of 22. I said, no way. No, 32. It was a 22-year-old pilot.
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Speaker 2: No, with a student pilot from the UK.
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Speaker 1: That didn't make sense.
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Speaker 2: But this happened at 2.15 in the afternoon.
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Speaker 1: Clear visibility, supposedly.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it looked like a beautiful day. So this is really confusing what may have happened here. All right, next up on the run, DoorDash really wants to acquire Instacart, offering up to $ 17 million. billion dollars to purchase them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the deal expected to go through and be finalized by the end of next year. It's approved by Instacart shareholders and government regulators. The deal will combine DoorDash's international presence and logistics expertise with Instacart's technology and relationship with local grocery stores.
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Speaker 2: That's right. But the concern is it could lead to less competition in the delivery space. And we all know that means that is almost certainly higher prices for consumers. It also would give the grocers fewer partners to negotiate with for delivery options. So that's the fear that everyone else prices will rise.
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Speaker 1: This just makes me want to go to the grocery store, just physically get up and go outside and go to the grocery store. This could help the two companies compete with rivals like Amazon and Walmart. However, yes, they got the big dogs. And so these little guys that could, who have become big dogs, still aren't as big as the big dogs. So they're trying to catch up.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And they point out that for those of us, and I actually am one of these people who have annual memberships for free delivery and other perks that you get with the memberships, when they combine, you'll just pay one fee instead of two. And that is true. I have an Instacart and a DoorDash and I pay for free delivery. So your annual membership is combined. So there is A little savings there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have no idea what all that means. I just ask you to order me some more razors and they show up. Continuing on the run here now, this could be the biggest cryptocurrency breach ever. Binance says it believes it was hacked and those hackers possibly gained access to $ 6 billion in cryptocurrency. Binance, if you don't know, is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. Robes I don't get this. We are talking about money you can't touch in a space that doesn't really exist. And six billion dollars is gone. That sounds like magic to me. But this is a big deal. And they don't have a good handle on how much money is actually gone because they keep saying all the investors, your money is safe. And we've secured at least three billion of the six billion. But then where is the other three billion? This is a confusing one. I think they're still trying to figure it out right now.
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Speaker 2: Wow. Even the folks who are in charge of all the cryptocurrency are confused, which is not any help to those of us who are also puzzled by the whole concept of it.
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Speaker 1: All right. Well, stay here with us on this Friday morning run, folks. Yes, we have lost another absolute legend. Yes, we have lost Dr. Xavier. Yes, we will take a quick look back at the life of Sir Patrick Stewart. Also coming up, two sports notes for you. There's good news and there's bad news in the WNBA and after the World Series.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ, and it's your morning run. I guess we're a morning run on Amy and TJ. We have lost another acting legend, 86-year-old Star Trek and X-Men star, Patrick Stewart has died. The British actor died at his Los Angeles home on Wednesday following a brief journey with Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know about this. I didn't either. I'm not sure if it had been out there. It had been talked about, but I did not know he had been dealing with this. And they said a brief journey there. They did have a tribute on his ex account that said, quote, he has been in the warm embrace of family and friends surrounded by live music, prayer, Laughter and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all. We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face. An endearing reminder of his invincible grace. That's a good line for somebody. Invincible grace. That is a good line.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was beautiful how they described his final moments like that. I mean, I went like. My goodness, if we could all go out that way, it kind of gives you chills. You can kind of see the scene, actually, as it was described. But it went on to say, and it was a long post about all he's done in his career and in his personal life, but it ended with, he was a knight, chancellor, motorsport enthusiast, and lifelong Huddersfield football fan. He will be remembered for the dignity, compassion, and humanity he brought to every role in his art and life. Look, he had more than 160 acting credits, and a lot of folks are excited because he's going to appear, of course, now posthumously in the upcoming December blockbuster movie, Avengers Doomsday. Yes, in that iconic role you just mentioned that he played in several previous installments, Professor Charles Xavier, Dr. Xavier.
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Speaker 1: In that.
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Speaker 1: In that souped up wheelchair with the big X's on the wheels. And he was just, that line they gave there, an invincible grace. There are just some people in Hollywood that carry themselves in such a way with grace constantly. And if folks don't, he was actually a character, long running character, Robes. I know it's Sir, and I know he was this and that. He was on Family Guy.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: He played a character on Family Guy, which was an unhinged CIA director.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 1: And his voice is incredible, voicing this ridiculous character still with that same grace and that tone. He was amazing in that role.
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Speaker 2: He was amazing in that role. And you know what? You said invincible grace. That stuck with you. I actually saw, and I was reading about his life, incredible humility. He wrote a memoir where he detailed. He was married three times, and Sonny, his third wife, was there by his side as he died. But he talked about his marriages and his role in it and his mistakes and what he did and what he did wrong. And I just thought that was pretty beautiful to be able to just put that out there in print. And he always lamented the fact that his adult children, he had no relationship with them in the end because of his first failed marriage. So it was just, I thought it was really beautiful that he was able to share that very vulnerable part of his personal life.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and those are things I wanted to know about his dad and his upbringing. And that's been such a documented part of his story. But yeah, that stuff, I mean, we, people have... Their lives, their backgrounds, their flaws, their mistakes, all of this stuff. It doesn't mean his contribution to the world is any less than it was, even though he had some screw-ups. He had some mistakes.
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Speaker 2: But I appreciate that he was willing to talk about them. Yes, he is up on a pedestal. He has been, and rightfully and deservedly so. I just appreciated his transparency and his vulnerability as well.
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Speaker 1: Hey, that would be a five. be a thick book if I have to write about my mistakes in marriage.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's cool that he paved the way for a lot of people to say, you know what, and look at how it ended very beautifully, very lovingly. And today we continue to honor Sir Patrick Stewart.
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Speaker 1: All right, last couple of notes here on you for this Friday morning run, both sports related. One of them, well, they should be good news, good news, bad news, kind of. The good news is we're going to get a Game 7 in the WNBA Finals. This is the first time this will ever happen, Robes. They switched the format a couple years ago to make it a seven-game series just like the NBA. So this is the first time it's gone this far. So Atlanta Dream beat the Golden State Valkyries yesterday to tie the series 3-3. Game 7 is tomorrow night. Game 6. It was yesterday afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It was strange. I came in and I was like, oh, right. I remember you saying, or we had a conversation about the fact that they had to take an afternoon final game or potentially the final game. And it was strange to see it on at that time of day.
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Speaker 1: It really was. It was still sold out. NWNBA has had a great season and they're up on the rise. But your finals, you just, everybody just saw how we don't give a shit. about the WNBA. This is their finals, and you make them play at 1230 in the afternoon. Everybody should have jumped through hoops to say, guys, we got to make sure we don't want the Golden State Valkyrie fans at 930 on a Thursday to have to watch their team. This was a missed opportunity to show how much we care about the WNBA.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but that's the whole point. Obviously, they don't. Because if they did, they would have taken advantage of said opportunity.
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Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. I get it. I get it. Logistically, it might have been tricky, but just flip. Make the Hawks play their sixth game of the season at noon.
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Speaker 2: That would have been so applauded. They would have scored so many points.
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Speaker 1: Forgive the puns.
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Speaker 2: But they would have scored so many points with fans. Of every gender just saying, wow, that's the right thing to do. Who would have said that was the wrong thing to do? A few people, but I can't imagine.
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Speaker 1: A few dudes that were Hawks fans.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly. And you know what? Whatever. You'll get over it. And you'll see the beauty. You would have seen the beauty in it.
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Speaker 1: But even that, folks who had tickets to the Hawks games that night, you could have said, you know what? I will sacrifice so they can have their thing. I know. I know. I know.
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 1: I just thought it was such a missed opportunity. This was the best. We don't care enough. Y'all play at noon. That's not a comment. This is their finals, man. All right. Let's get back to the World Series now. The Brewers won the World Series. Their parade is today. The Brewers are back. They were greeted wonderfully by their fans there at their home stadium. The Robes, here's the thing about that. Yes, this is wonderful. We're on a high. It's their first championship ever. Everybody's celebrating. Robes, we don't know when we'll see baseball again because the current contract between players and the owners is set to expire on December 1. They have been negotiating for months and gotten nowhere. So they believe that as of December 1, there will officially be a lockout in the offseason. Try to get it worked out, but Robes, you go into spring training. If you go a few more months, then you could get to next year And we don't have the beginning of a baseball season. And what do you think? You don't have to be deep into this, Robes. What were they arguing about?
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Speaker 2: Money.
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Speaker 3: Yes, okay.
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Speaker 2: Obviously. I told you, I'm like, I'm not that well versed on the mlb lockout but anyone understands that and i was just looking up the last time because i was like i feel like this just happened yes 99 days from december 2nd to march 10th in 2022 so.
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Speaker 1: They held out the timing you see how it goes.
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Speaker 2: Obviously spring training they're trying to figure it out when they need to figure it out there but until then They'll just have a little game of chicken. Yes.
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Speaker 1: So, congrats to the Brewers, but that thing is looming. The other thing this weekend, Robes, the clocks when you go to bed tomorrow night, right? You got to set it back?
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Speaker 2: Saturday night, we fall back, so we get an extra hour of sleep, which is always great news for anyone, A, who is partying for Halloween, which lands on a Saturday night, and B, for anyone running the New York City Marathon. You get an extra hour of sleep. How are you feeling?
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Speaker 1: Foot's okay this moment, but It's usually okay in the morning. If I start running, don't know. Don't know what's going to happen. So a million folks out there. It's going to be nice weather. Going to depend on that energy and just adrenaline. That's four hours of adrenaline I'm going to need. Yes, you are.
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Speaker 2: But hopefully the city of New York will be able to give you the embrace and the energy and the adrenaline that you need. You know, Nikki and I are going to be cheering on our guys, my best friend and I. So, yes, we're making signs. We're going to be out there. We've got three different stops.
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Speaker 1: You're not making signs.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we are.
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Speaker 1: No, she is, and you might hold it up. You are not making a sign.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I am. I ordered it from Amazon. It's coming tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you're not making. You ordered a sign?
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Speaker 2: No, I ordered the boards to make the signs. Oh, okay. Oh, yes, I'm going to get creative.
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Speaker 1: All right, this will be fun. You're going to write something. You know what you're writing already?
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Speaker 2: No, I've got to think about it, but I know I'm going to write something.
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Speaker 1: But it's going to be a surprise to me?
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Speaker 2: Yes, of course it is. Yes, all right.
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Speaker 1: Can you make it a little edgy?
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Speaker 2: Course i will it's you i'm not gonna or i'll make it super cheesy so you'll laugh that's what i need i might have one of each uh all right different stops different signs all right uh on this friday your quote of the day this was kind of marathon inspired but just in general anyone trying to get it the goal costs what it costs pay it or stop pretending that you want it okay.
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Speaker 1: I had to apply it to several things in my life before I could fully understand that. I know.
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Speaker 2: It was probably like a weird pause for people listening, but I saw your brain ticking, so I thought I'd let you just process it. But you know what? I actually thought this sounds like something you would say. Like, stop your complaining. Do you want it or not? Do it or don't.
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Speaker 1: We had this exact discussion with my foot doctor as I was getting an injection the other day. You were sitting in there. I kept asking, should I do this? Should I do this? And we all conclude, we're here now. It's going to be what it's going to be. Nothing else to do, nothing else to treat, nothing else to, it's going to hurt. And that is the cost of getting across the finish line.
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Speaker 2: Correct. So the goal costs what it costs. Pay it or stop pretending that you want it. I'm Amy Robach. Always appreciate you running with us.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. I'll be running with you on Sunday. Or will you be running with me?
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Speaker 2: We'll be cheering you on.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Friday, October 30th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Got a number of stops to make on this morning's run, including in Anchorage, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Brinkley, Arkansas as well. We're actually skipping a couple of stops this morning. We were supposed to go to Kansas and Iowa. We'll explain that. But let's start. Robes, four days away. Last weekend before we finally go vote.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's a lot to talk about because the subpoenas are flying and the investigations are being launched. We can start in Alaska. That's been making the biggest headlines. The governor there has launched an investigation into two candidates that share the same name.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the two Dans, Dan Sullivan's you've been hearing about. This was always suspected to be some kind of a plot that Democrats were up to by recruiting some random dude named Dan Sullivan to also run against the incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan. Yes, well, he's been on the ballot, but now a new New York Times investigation has shown that yes, it appears that Democrats and maybe even the Democratic candidates, the campaign folks were involved in recruiting this guy. This has now set this story off into a whole new stratosphere of controversy. And yes, The governor has gotten involved and launched an investigation, but that's not all.
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Speaker 2: That's right. The Department of Justice also is looking into the matter. They have filed a lawsuit and it's now been amended based on that reporting you just talked about, you just referenced from the New York Times. So yeah, they've got about a dozen new subpoenas out there the DOG has issued. And Mary Piltola, of course, the Democrat there, gave a press conference yesterday denying that she had any knowledge of the plan and saying the New York Times doesn't care about affordability of Alaskans and just pivoted into her she didn't.
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Speaker 1: Sound good and that's first i didn't like that last that first she came back and followed up but that first one didn't sound good at all they're just doing this for subscriptions i didn't like that first answer she rushed it.
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Speaker 2: Off and blamed the people who were doing.
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Speaker 1: The report and then followed up by a direct denial but still talking about she's not acknowledging how serious this is like this is messed up if anybody did this she is not right she's not sounding right.
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Speaker 2: And then the other Dan Sullivan, the school teacher, said, yeah, I am running. This is legit. And that didn't land either for me.
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Speaker 1: This is, they're giving, I know this is dirty politics, and I know this stuff has been done historically, but y'all are giving President Trump a layup.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: A layup for blatantly cheating. You cannot, this is not okay, even if it's legal. This is awful stuff. Then you got California. We're talking about the DOJ issued subpoenas over there as well to election workers. The Trump administration has been going after them, saying that there are some 20,000 ballots they believe went to non-citizens. So they want California to pluck out those 20,000 ballots. Well, a judge stepped in and said, I don't have the right to do that. We don't know for sure. So he wouldn't do it. So the federal government has now issued subpoenas out there to some election workers. All of this appears, Robes, in both of these cases and in others around the country. They're laying the groundwork for challenging the election results. So it ain't over on Tuesday, we already know.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: I mean, to have this lawsuits and legal action already taking place before the ballots are even, all the ballots are cast and certainly before they're counted, just perhaps is a bellwether to what is next. And by the way, the Republicans have already said, the Trump administration has already said, if Mary Peltola wins Alaska, they will not recognize her as the actual winner. They will challenge the election results. Next up on the run though, President Trump making some headlines of his own, canceling a couple of scheduled campaign rallies. He has been looking tired, and he has been crisscrossing this country over the last several days.
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Speaker 1: This disappointed me greatly. You know how much I enjoy these rallies, because it's... He essentially gives the same stump speech, and because most people aren't watching every single one of them like I am, I noticed a little nuance, little differences. He does something a little different in this one or that one, and it's always going off the rails.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 1: I was upset to hear that he canceled campaign rallies in Iowa and Kansas. At first, he canceled the one in Kansas. He was asked about it. He said, yeah, my guy there is doing good. I don't need to go there. The reporter kind of pushed back, asking about, well, you're tired, Mr. President. You've been all over the place. He didn't like hearing that. Went off on the reporter, challenged the reporter in his own conditioning, told him you need to put yourself in shape. just went off. So he didn't appreciate that. But the president looks tired. He does. He is tired. He's 80.
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Speaker 2: His voice is tired. His face looks tired. And any 30-year-old would be tired actually keeping the schedule he's been keeping. Yes, he's 80. But he'll have some tele-rallies. Is that what they're calling them? So they were saying, that actually, well, it's hilarious.
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Speaker 3: The thing is, people just want Folks, to be honest, and if he just said, yeah, I'm exhausted, and instead were like, no, you're not in shape, and the administration saying that they'll reach even more people and it'll even be more effective if the president does tele-rallies rather than actual in-person rallies.
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Speaker 1: He could be in one spot sitting at a desk and just call in to a bunch of places. I get that. Like a Zoom call. It sends a signal that we need to be more careful with our resources. Don't go to places necessarily. They claim we don't need to go there because we're doing so well. Others say you're not going there because it's a waste of time.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the run, Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has taken down that controversial ad featuring his opponent Amy Acton's estranged biological mother. The Ramaswamy camp says the ad, which debuted just last week to bipartisan condemnation, is fake. simply rotating out as planned.
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Speaker 1: It featured Acton's estranged mother saying her daughter is a liar, but did not provide the contest that Acton hasn't spoken to her mom in 50 years after she was removed from her mom's custody when police say her stepfather raped her as a child. Several prominent Republicans, not Trump. publicly demanded Ramaswamy take down the ad, including current Governor Mike DeWine. But yes, the president was actually telling him to run it more. It was a gift from God and all this whatnot. They said they were going to spend $ 4 million on it, ended up spending about a million dollars, but it wasn't ever expected to stay up there the whole time necessarily. So either way, it's down now, but the damage has been done.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and once again, they won't admit that they most likely took it down because of the massive damage. negative reaction that it actually ended up backfiring, many people believe, rather than help to the Ramaswamy campaign. All right, next up on the run, shockingly, we have another prison escape to tell you about. This one happened in Arkansas. And it was violent, and I say that because we were just talking yesterday about how it seems like people, prisoners, just slipping out, just peacefully walking out. That was not the case with this one.
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Speaker 1: This was a different kind of dude, a different kind of place, a different kind of scenario here. Let's break this down. He's a 41-year-old. Rodney Smith is the name. First, beat up two prison guards, stole a taser, and then escaped, left on foot. Smith was wearing a T-shirt, yellow jumpsuit pants, no shoes when he escaped. Last seen walking down Some train tracks near the prison. He is in prison, been serving since 2013 for firearms and drug possession.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and Smith's escape, you might remember, comes just days after convicted murderer Jacob Morley broke out of prison in Tennessee. Morley is still on the run after stealing a truck, driving to Illinois before ditching that truck near a state park. admittedly, authorities have no idea where he is.
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Speaker 1: And again, the guy Smith, we should mention, he was where he shouldn't have been. He was waiting on another bed to open up at a state prison, so he was being held locally. Brinkley is a smaller town.
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Speaker 2: You know the area.
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Speaker 1: It's between my hometown of West Memphis and Little Rock in the eastern part of the state. So Brinkley is a cute little, quiet little, yes, and he's being held there waiting for an actual bed, and he took advantage. We talked about this. Guys at hospitals, guys at places there, out of south side of the main prison walls, and they find an opportunity, and he's out there somewhere.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, three people were killed after two helicopters collided in midair. This happened near an Oregon airport. The collision involved a student pilot from the U.K., along with a Texas flight instructor, 32-year-old Matty Asabo, and then in the other helicopter, 38-year-old Oregon pilot Tyler Sturdivant.
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Speaker 1: The debris scattered across a field on a private farm forced a one-mile closure of a nearby highway. FAA NTSB leading the investigation. And to what happened here, the instructor here is 32. That makes more sense. Maybe it was wrong. I saw someone had the name at age of 22. I said, no way. No, 32. It was a 22-year-old pilot.
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Speaker 2: No, with a student pilot from the UK.
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Speaker 1: That didn't make sense.
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Speaker 2: But this happened at 2.15 in the afternoon.
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Speaker 1: Clear visibility, supposedly.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it looked like a beautiful day. So this is really confusing what may have happened here. All right, next up on the run, DoorDash really wants to acquire Instacart, offering up to $ 17 million. billion dollars to purchase them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the deal expected to go through and be finalized by the end of next year. It's approved by Instacart shareholders and government regulators. The deal will combine DoorDash's international presence and logistics expertise with Instacart's technology and relationship with local grocery stores.
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Speaker 2: That's right. But the concern is it could lead to less competition in the delivery space. And we all know that means that is almost certainly higher prices for consumers. It also would give the grocers fewer partners to negotiate with for delivery options. So that's the fear that everyone else prices will rise.
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Speaker 1: This just makes me want to go to the grocery store, just physically get up and go outside and go to the grocery store. This could help the two companies compete with rivals like Amazon and Walmart. However, yes, they got the big dogs. And so these little guys that could, who have become big dogs, still aren't as big as the big dogs. So they're trying to catch up.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And they point out that for those of us, and I actually am one of these people who have annual memberships for free delivery and other perks that you get with the memberships, when they combine, you'll just pay one fee instead of two. And that is true. I have an Instacart and a DoorDash and I pay for free delivery. So your annual membership is combined. So there is A little savings there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have no idea what all that means. I just ask you to order me some more razors and they show up. Continuing on the run here now, this could be the biggest cryptocurrency breach ever. Binance says it believes it was hacked and those hackers possibly gained access to $ 6 billion in cryptocurrency. Binance, if you don't know, is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. Robes I don't get this. We are talking about money you can't touch in a space that doesn't really exist. And six billion dollars is gone. That sounds like magic to me. But this is a big deal. And they don't have a good handle on how much money is actually gone because they keep saying all the investors, your money is safe. And we've secured at least three billion of the six billion. But then where is the other three billion? This is a confusing one. I think they're still trying to figure it out right now.
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Speaker 2: Wow. Even the folks who are in charge of all the cryptocurrency are confused, which is not any help to those of us who are also puzzled by the whole concept of it.
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Speaker 1: All right. Well, stay here with us on this Friday morning run, folks. Yes, we have lost another absolute legend. Yes, we have lost Dr. Xavier. Yes, we will take a quick look back at the life of Sir Patrick Stewart. Also coming up, two sports notes for you. There's good news and there's bad news in the WNBA and after the World Series.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ, and it's your morning run. I guess we're a morning run on Amy and TJ. We have lost another acting legend, 86-year-old Star Trek and X-Men star, Patrick Stewart has died. The British actor died at his Los Angeles home on Wednesday following a brief journey with Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know about this. I didn't either. I'm not sure if it had been out there. It had been talked about, but I did not know he had been dealing with this. And they said a brief journey there. They did have a tribute on his ex account that said, quote, he has been in the warm embrace of family and friends surrounded by live music, prayer, Laughter and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all. We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face. An endearing reminder of his invincible grace. That's a good line for somebody. Invincible grace. That is a good line.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was beautiful how they described his final moments like that. I mean, I went like. My goodness, if we could all go out that way, it kind of gives you chills. You can kind of see the scene, actually, as it was described. But it went on to say, and it was a long post about all he's done in his career and in his personal life, but it ended with, he was a knight, chancellor, motorsport enthusiast, and lifelong Huddersfield football fan. He will be remembered for the dignity, compassion, and humanity he brought to every role in his art and life. Look, he had more than 160 acting credits, and a lot of folks are excited because he's going to appear, of course, now posthumously in the upcoming December blockbuster movie, Avengers Doomsday. Yes, in that iconic role you just mentioned that he played in several previous installments, Professor Charles Xavier, Dr. Xavier.
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Speaker 1: In that.
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Speaker 1: In that souped up wheelchair with the big X's on the wheels. And he was just, that line they gave there, an invincible grace. There are just some people in Hollywood that carry themselves in such a way with grace constantly. And if folks don't, he was actually a character, long running character, Robes. I know it's Sir, and I know he was this and that. He was on Family Guy.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: He played a character on Family Guy, which was an unhinged CIA director.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 1: And his voice is incredible, voicing this ridiculous character still with that same grace and that tone. He was amazing in that role.
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Speaker 2: He was amazing in that role. And you know what? You said invincible grace. That stuck with you. I actually saw, and I was reading about his life, incredible humility. He wrote a memoir where he detailed. He was married three times, and Sonny, his third wife, was there by his side as he died. But he talked about his marriages and his role in it and his mistakes and what he did and what he did wrong. And I just thought that was pretty beautiful to be able to just put that out there in print. And he always lamented the fact that his adult children, he had no relationship with them in the end because of his first failed marriage. So it was just, I thought it was really beautiful that he was able to share that very vulnerable part of his personal life.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and those are things I wanted to know about his dad and his upbringing. And that's been such a documented part of his story. But yeah, that stuff, I mean, we, people have... Their lives, their backgrounds, their flaws, their mistakes, all of this stuff. It doesn't mean his contribution to the world is any less than it was, even though he had some screw-ups. He had some mistakes.
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Speaker 2: But I appreciate that he was willing to talk about them. Yes, he is up on a pedestal. He has been, and rightfully and deservedly so. I just appreciated his transparency and his vulnerability as well.
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Speaker 1: Hey, that would be a five. be a thick book if I have to write about my mistakes in marriage.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's cool that he paved the way for a lot of people to say, you know what, and look at how it ended very beautifully, very lovingly. And today we continue to honor Sir Patrick Stewart.
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Speaker 1: All right, last couple of notes here on you for this Friday morning run, both sports related. One of them, well, they should be good news, good news, bad news, kind of. The good news is we're going to get a Game 7 in the WNBA Finals. This is the first time this will ever happen, Robes. They switched the format a couple years ago to make it a seven-game series just like the NBA. So this is the first time it's gone this far. So Atlanta Dream beat the Golden State Valkyries yesterday to tie the series 3-3. Game 7 is tomorrow night. Game 6. It was yesterday afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It was strange. I came in and I was like, oh, right. I remember you saying, or we had a conversation about the fact that they had to take an afternoon final game or potentially the final game. And it was strange to see it on at that time of day.
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Speaker 1: It really was. It was still sold out. NWNBA has had a great season and they're up on the rise. But your finals, you just, everybody just saw how we don't give a shit. about the WNBA. This is their finals, and you make them play at 1230 in the afternoon. Everybody should have jumped through hoops to say, guys, we got to make sure we don't want the Golden State Valkyrie fans at 930 on a Thursday to have to watch their team. This was a missed opportunity to show how much we care about the WNBA.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but that's the whole point. Obviously, they don't. Because if they did, they would have taken advantage of said opportunity.
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Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. I get it. I get it. Logistically, it might have been tricky, but just flip. Make the Hawks play their sixth game of the season at noon.
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Speaker 2: That would have been so applauded. They would have scored so many points.
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Speaker 1: Forgive the puns.
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Speaker 2: But they would have scored so many points with fans. Of every gender just saying, wow, that's the right thing to do. Who would have said that was the wrong thing to do? A few people, but I can't imagine.
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Speaker 1: A few dudes that were Hawks fans.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly. And you know what? Whatever. You'll get over it. And you'll see the beauty. You would have seen the beauty in it.
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Speaker 1: But even that, folks who had tickets to the Hawks games that night, you could have said, you know what? I will sacrifice so they can have their thing. I know. I know. I know.
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 1: I just thought it was such a missed opportunity. This was the best. We don't care enough. Y'all play at noon. That's not a comment. This is their finals, man. All right. Let's get back to the World Series now. The Brewers won the World Series. Their parade is today. The Brewers are back. They were greeted wonderfully by their fans there at their home stadium. The Robes, here's the thing about that. Yes, this is wonderful. We're on a high. It's their first championship ever. Everybody's celebrating. Robes, we don't know when we'll see baseball again because the current contract between players and the owners is set to expire on December 1. They have been negotiating for months and gotten nowhere. So they believe that as of December 1, there will officially be a lockout in the offseason. Try to get it worked out, but Robes, you go into spring training. If you go a few more months, then you could get to next year And we don't have the beginning of a baseball season. And what do you think? You don't have to be deep into this, Robes. What were they arguing about?
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Speaker 2: Money.
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Speaker 3: Yes, okay.
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Speaker 2: Obviously. I told you, I'm like, I'm not that well versed on the mlb lockout but anyone understands that and i was just looking up the last time because i was like i feel like this just happened yes 99 days from december 2nd to march 10th in 2022 so.
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Speaker 1: They held out the timing you see how it goes.
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Speaker 2: Obviously spring training they're trying to figure it out when they need to figure it out there but until then They'll just have a little game of chicken. Yes.
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Speaker 1: So, congrats to the Brewers, but that thing is looming. The other thing this weekend, Robes, the clocks when you go to bed tomorrow night, right? You got to set it back?
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Speaker 2: Saturday night, we fall back, so we get an extra hour of sleep, which is always great news for anyone, A, who is partying for Halloween, which lands on a Saturday night, and B, for anyone running the New York City Marathon. You get an extra hour of sleep. How are you feeling?
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Speaker 1: Foot's okay this moment, but It's usually okay in the morning. If I start running, don't know. Don't know what's going to happen. So a million folks out there. It's going to be nice weather. Going to depend on that energy and just adrenaline. That's four hours of adrenaline I'm going to need. Yes, you are.
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Speaker 2: But hopefully the city of New York will be able to give you the embrace and the energy and the adrenaline that you need. You know, Nikki and I are going to be cheering on our guys, my best friend and I. So, yes, we're making signs. We're going to be out there. We've got three different stops.
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Speaker 1: You're not making signs.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we are.
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Speaker 1: No, she is, and you might hold it up. You are not making a sign.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I am. I ordered it from Amazon. It's coming tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you're not making. You ordered a sign?
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Speaker 2: No, I ordered the boards to make the signs. Oh, okay. Oh, yes, I'm going to get creative.
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Speaker 1: All right, this will be fun. You're going to write something. You know what you're writing already?
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Speaker 2: No, I've got to think about it, but I know I'm going to write something.
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Speaker 1: But it's going to be a surprise to me?
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Speaker 2: Yes, of course it is. Yes, all right.
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Speaker 1: Can you make it a little edgy?
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Speaker 2: Course i will it's you i'm not gonna or i'll make it super cheesy so you'll laugh that's what i need i might have one of each uh all right different stops different signs all right uh on this friday your quote of the day this was kind of marathon inspired but just in general anyone trying to get it the goal costs what it costs pay it or stop pretending that you want it okay.
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Speaker 1: I had to apply it to several things in my life before I could fully understand that. I know.
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Speaker 2: It was probably like a weird pause for people listening, but I saw your brain ticking, so I thought I'd let you just process it. But you know what? I actually thought this sounds like something you would say. Like, stop your complaining. Do you want it or not? Do it or don't.
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Speaker 1: We had this exact discussion with my foot doctor as I was getting an injection the other day. You were sitting in there. I kept asking, should I do this? Should I do this? And we all conclude, we're here now. It's going to be what it's going to be. Nothing else to do, nothing else to treat, nothing else to, it's going to hurt. And that is the cost of getting across the finish line.
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Speaker 2: Correct. So the goal costs what it costs. Pay it or stop pretending that you want it. I'm Amy Robach. Always appreciate you running with us.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. I'll be running with you on Sunday. Or will you be running with me?
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Speaker 2: We'll be cheering you on.