Oct. 23, 2026
(Friday) Morning Run: Trump Loves Condemned Ad, Lindsey Graham Accusations, Top Dem Indicted, LeBron Responds to Trump, Central Park Horse Ban, Baby "Knickson", RIP Viper, & MORE!
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00:00:10
Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your morning run. It's Friday, October 23rd. I'm Amy Robach.
00:00:17
Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. You said it. Friday, October 23rd. This is the day. This is the day Apple fans have been waiting for. It goes on sale today. It's in stores all over the world. The Apple Duo. First foldable Apple phone. We running out and grabbing this thing today?
00:00:33
Speaker 1: No.
00:00:33
Speaker 2: No. Yeah? No, you know what?
00:00:35
Speaker 1: It looks like when you fold it out, it almost looks like a mini iPad.
00:00:38
Speaker 2: It does, and it costs a lot more than an iPad, actually. It's insane.
00:00:43
Speaker 1: It's like $ 2, 000, right?
00:00:45
Speaker 2: Not for the highest-end one, yes, but the mid-range one, I think, everybody would want with enough space is $ 2, 100. The holy shit version is $ 3, 200, babe.
00:00:53
Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. Well, you always see these starting at $ 19. 99, and then they offer you what it would only cost you, $ 83. 90- something cents for two years if you'd like it. And then you can lease it for like $ 57 a month. So see, it's only $ 57.
00:01:12
Speaker 2: Cars are the only thing we should be leasing. You have to lease a phone.
00:01:16
Speaker 1: Isn't that sad? But I did see that was an option on Apple's website that you can lease the phone.
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Speaker 2: How much storage do you have on your phone? The middle I'm saying is that 512 gigabytes. It's kind of a lot. That's not a lot, right? That one is 2,200 bucks. The one terabyte is 2,600 bucks.
00:01:34
Speaker 1: My goodness.
00:01:35
Speaker 2: So good luck out there, folks. I'm going back to flip. I really do want a flip phone as a second phone. Just go back to just call me.
00:01:42
Speaker 1: And then when someone makes you mad, you can just slam it, and you don't have to worry about breaking the very expensive LED screen.
00:01:49
Speaker 2: It feels so good. Hey, folks, yes, we're getting... Started on this Friday. Got a lot of stops to make. Wow, what a very, very busy news day. But we'll be making stops today in Virginia, in Senatobia, Mississippi, in South Carolina, Iowa. We'll also swing by the 76ers locker room. Also make a stop at a Massachusetts courthouse, New York Central Park, Milwaukee, and a New York nursery. But we're going to start here. We have a series, I guess, of still developing and major political stories that are a reminder of just how awful, ugly, dirty politics can be.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and it's, to me, shocking that anybody would voluntarily enter into any political race in our country given what we have seen online and on our television screens. I mean, it's ridiculous. Anyone, everyone knows what it's like, especially if you're in a highly contentious, like there's a Senate seat up for grabs. Your airwaves have been inundated.
00:02:48
Speaker 2: Inundated.
00:02:48
Speaker 1: Inundated. So, yes, remember the widely condemned attack ad in the Ohio governor's race? Yeah, well, Trump loves it. Republican candidate for Ohio governor Vivek Ramaswamy released an ad featuring the birth mother of his Democratic opponent, Dr. Amy Acton. And in it, her mother calls her daughter a liar who needs to seek help.
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Speaker 2: OK, what's left out of the ad? is that Acton has been estranged from her birth mother since she was 12. That's when her birth mother's husband was arrested and charged with raping Acton. Abuse that went on between the ages of 9 and 12, according to Acton, and according to police reports. Now, while plenty considered this below-the-belt politics, President Trump fully endorsed the ad, and Robes, he actually urged Ramaswamy not to take it down. In a long, true social post, Trump called it a powerful ad, and then Well, he took kind of a left turn in this true social post.
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Speaker 1: Ooh, he said, if my mother, the legendary Mary McLeod Trump, said anything bad about me, the fake news would play it up. The Democrats would be totally supportive and it would go down as the ad of the decade, maybe the century. It would win awards for excellence in advertising. Wow. I suggested, on the other hand, that Vivek should keep it up and let everyone listen to the mother of a defective... dishonest and incapable candidate explain how the daughter is a disaster who uncontrollably lies cheats and steals i only wish the mothers of my opponents would be so brave as to come forward and explain that their son or daughter is a liar and much worse that took a lot of courage to do But essentially, what she was really doing was saving Ohio from making a truly horrible choice. The press is trying to convince everyone that this ad is bad because it's so good. Who wouldn't use such an ad?
00:04:53
Speaker 2: I would.
00:04:54
Speaker 1: It's called hitting pay dirt. This is disgusting.
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Speaker 2: Heartbreaks.
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Speaker 1: It makes me feel physically ill to read that.
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Speaker 2: But this is what we do. This is just, it's heartbreaking maybe where we are.
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Speaker 1: To even call a human being defective and a disaster. Right. And to encourage moms to talk shit about their kids for political gain, that that's something to be applauded and to be considered brave and courageous, I feel sick. I feel sick.
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Speaker 2: He was at, where were they last night, Iowa for a rally. He was talking about it last night and said this was actually considered it. He would thank God, like literally, like thank God. for this ad. This is difficult stuff. The mudslinging continued yesterday. This was awful to see, but you probably saw this because everybody was talking about it online, and Lindsey Graham's name was the number one trending topic for quite some time. Now, is this a new low? You be the judge here. Left-wing activists released a 30-minute video that shows three men claiming late Senator Lindsey Graham paid them for sex. This is a video that's titled Closetocracy, features one man who says Graham paid him for sex and taped the encounter when he was just 17 years old.
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Speaker 1: Then two other men go into detail about their alleged paid encounters with Senator Graham in the video as well. Now, Graham, who was never married, repeatedly denied he was gay, very openly and often said, I am not gay, over the years. And he consistently voted against LGBTQ plus legislation. He opposed same-sex marriage. He voted against repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He opposed expanding the definition of hate crimes to include sexual orientation.
00:06:41
Speaker 2: And again, Robes, these allegations, he's dead now, he can't answer them.
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Speaker 1: Correct.
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Speaker 2: But they do become, Robes, somewhat significant that a man who for a long time did not seem to be, by his record, a champion for LGBTQ plus rights.
00:06:54
Speaker 1: Quite the opposite. Quite the opposite. It is shocking from that perspective. After Graham suddenly died in July, Trump, as I believe most of you listening know, appointed his sister Darlene to his seat. But now she is in a very tight race to retain it. There's been no comment from Darlene's campaign about this 30-minute video. But a spokesperson for Charlie Kirk's conservative group, Turning Point USA... shockingly responded to the video by writing this. Dear Democrats, this is why we called him Lady Graham. This isn't an October surprise. We've known this for years. And blaming his sister for the fact that Lindsay was a poorly closeted gay man is only going to backfire. No one cares.
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Speaker 2: I don't. I really don't care if the man wants, if he was gay or whatever, and if he didn't want.
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Speaker 1: To share it. And if he didn't want to be out, that's his prerogative.
00:07:52
Speaker 2: That's completely fine. It does, Robes. It's low. This is, I don't like this at all. Even if it is the case, even if it is true, fine. And Robes, you'd be hard pressed to find someone in DC who in a private moment wouldn't admit, yeah.
00:08:10
Speaker 1: I We all knew or suspected or thought. But the point being is you don't out somebody anyway, and you don't out them after they're dead. Two weeks before the midterms.
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Speaker 2: Okay. We'll stay in this realm of politics, Robes. Something else happening in the state of Virginia, where a very powerful person, you might not know her name or her face, but trust us, she is one of the most powerful and influential politicians, Democrats especially. in the state of Virginia, where she has been indicted on accusations of running ropes, a criminal enterprise. It's bad enough you hear this is a politician and a powerful one, and then you go, wait a minute, she's how old?
00:08:48
Speaker 1: 82. 82-year-old Virginia state senator, Democrat Louise Lucas. is facing a long list of charges, including, I mean, these are significant charges, drug trafficking, money laundering, conspiracy, bribery. It goes on and on and on. The case centers around her family's cannabis shot. The DOJ says she used her political influence to protect their enterprise. Lucas and members of her family are accused of a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy in which they acquired and sold a large amount of marijuana and then hid the profits.
00:09:26
Speaker 2: Lucas surrendered to authorities yesterday, but she did make her way out of the courthouse. Reporters were there shouting questions. She didn't have any comment, but she did make this comment online saying, quote, The FBI, Department of Justice, and the full weight of the federal government have been wielded against an 82-year-old great-grandmother. I grew up under Jim Crow. I've seen what happens when people in power try to silence those who stand up to them. I spent my life fighting back, and I'm not stopping now. This is a hell of an indictment. It was a hell of a big day. Actually, we should say this. The investigation predates the Trump administration. Oh, wow.
00:10:00
Speaker 1: Yes.
00:10:00
Speaker 2: During the Biden administration, they were looking into her. So but a big enough deal that Patel and Todd Blanch both went to Virginia to participate in this press conference.
00:10:10
Speaker 1: My goodness. All right, there's going to be a lot more to come on that story. All right, next up on the run, the family of Cohen Wiley says they have also reviewed or viewed the body cam footage of the police shooting of the one-year-old, and they see things very differently. And the family now wants the Department of Justice to open an investigation into what really happened.
00:10:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll remember earlier this week, the Mississippi Attorney General announced the officer was justified when he fired on a vehicle in a Senatobia Walmart parking lot in June. Police who were already on scene at that Walmart, were alerted to someone possibly shoplifting and chased Cohen's mom and her friend to the car. This newly released body cam video, surveillance video, shows... Yeah, Robes, this is... And again, I am just learning this part of it. Police were at the Walmart as a part of just a different type of.
00:11:03
Speaker 2: What do you call it? A sting, if you will. They were just doing something completely different. Somebody runs into the room where they are and says, hey, somebody's stealing something. Robes cut to the surveillance video outside. You see those two women sprinting to the car, holding items. They just do. Now, police come running out. It's a shoplifting call. Why are five officers out there with guns drawn? That's a hell of a response.
00:11:31
Speaker 1: It's a hell of a response.
00:11:32
Speaker 2: But the vehicle does back up aggressively, hit another car, and then takes off. And it's pretty clear to anybody looking, it does go the direction of one of the officers who has to shuffle out of the way.
00:11:42
Speaker 1: It looks pretty clear that they are trying to get away, and they are ignoring the commands of the police officers with their gun drawn. The family argues it was not a justified use of force. Five officers... Because of a shoplifting call.
00:11:57
Speaker 2: It's kind of weird. What do they train officers? They're shoplifting and someone's running. Pull your gun on a shoplifting. I really don't know the training.
00:12:04
Speaker 1: In the middle of a parking lot of Walmart.
00:12:06
Speaker 2: And again, those guns were out before the vehicle became a weapon. That is true. It is an odd response, but still.
00:12:12
Speaker 1: Yep. Cohen's mom and her friend have maintained they were not shoplifting. They haven't explained why they were running to their car and trying to get away quickly. In a brief statement, the attorney general said she, quote, found the use of force justified. All right, next up on the run, the retired NYPD detective accused of killing a man in a road rage incident made his first court appearance yesterday. Victor Romero pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.
00:12:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, police say the 62-year-old Romero shot Corin Irvine on the George Washington Street A bridge Wednesday after Irvine's car swerved into Romero's lanes. A very recent video, they say, shows Romero speeding up to catch up to Irvine, then firing once into his vehicle. Irvine was hit in the shoulder and then crashed into the median and later died at the hospital.
00:13:01
Speaker 1: Romero was initially held on a murder charge, but that charge was reduced to manslaughter and Irvine's family expressed disdain. emotional frustration that that charge was reduced and suggested that Romero was getting favorable treatment. He was given a $ 1 million bail. Did he post that bail?
00:13:22
Speaker 2: I didn't see that he posted it.
00:13:23
Speaker 1: That's a pretty high bail, but still. And I think it's understandable that immediately the charge was reduced to manslaughter.
00:13:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what they see. That needs to be explained. Yeah, what they see already didn't mean to kill him, perhaps. It was reckless behavior. It was a warning shot, he's going to argue. The intent was not to kill. I guess they're trying to.
00:13:42
Speaker 1: The intent was to just say F you and shoot. All right, next up on the run, the looks-maxing influencer known as Clavicular showed up to a Massachusetts courthouse yesterday in a dark suit and walking a dog on a leash.
00:13:56
Speaker 2: You saw this? It didn't make any... It was strange. Yeah.
00:13:59
Speaker 1: It's like he knows how to get attention and maybe even deflect attention.
00:14:03
Speaker 2: Take your dog to court. I couldn't find a... Dogs can be left alone for a little while.
00:14:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, they can. They certainly can. Brayden Peters, that's his actual name, pleaded not guilty to rape charges against him. He's accused of raping a 17-year-old girl at his family home in Cape Cod in May of last year.
00:14:22
Speaker 2: He's known for promoting sometimes extreme measures to maximize male beauty in particular. He has denied the charges against him, claiming the sex was consensual. He did pay a $ 10, 000 bail, surrendered his passport, also agreed to have no contact or post anything on social media about the alleged.
00:14:38
Speaker 1: Victim because he's been posting a lot so that will be a new order and that must be why the judge added that because he has been professing his innocence throughout all right next up on the run call sign viper this is a heartbreaker This is a heartbreaker. Tom Skerritt, who played the legendary Top Gun instructor who went at it with Tom Cruise, has passed away at the age of 93. When we heard this yesterday, I said, it's like he'll always be 62. I just feel like he's always that age. I couldn't believe, though, he was 93.
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Speaker 2: You know, and that's what, in some of these stories, babe, my immediate reaction wasn't heartbreak. It was almost calmness. Comfort, it was almost peace. You make it to 93. That's awesome. That's a good life. And he had a hell of an impression on all of us in a couple of legendary roles. But yes, he always played... He was either what? The dad, the cop, or the military guy.
00:15:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, he totally was.
00:15:40
Speaker 2: Because he had this every man look to him. He was fantastic.
00:15:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we even said... I was trying to get you to. I didn't make a big push. But I was like, oh, we should watch Steel Magnolias. We can watch Dolly. We can watch Tom. We can watch Julia. We can watch all my favorites. Oh, that movie is so good.
00:15:58
Speaker 2: Steel Magnolias. I had no idea he was in it. Oh, yes.
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Speaker 1: That's where he was just like such a good dad. Up in Smoke, The Dead Zone. I just thought there's so many movies. I keep forgetting all the things he was in.
00:16:12
Speaker 2: But we put on Alien yesterday. We'll watch Top Gun today. But he's just maybe the closest I ever got to crying in Top Gun was the line he delivered at graduation to Tom Cruise when they were going to their assignment after Goose had died. He said, you'll get your backseater when you get there, and if you don't have one, give me a call. I'll fly with you. He delivered that line, and to this day, I still get emotional for whatever reason as a kid watching that. I'm like, oh, my God. He loves the guy now that he was fighting with at times.
00:16:42
Speaker 1: Whatever.
00:16:42
Speaker 2: He delivered one line I remember so well, but Tom Skerritt was just... something else in these movies.
00:16:47
Speaker 1: He really was. He died of natural causes, but we always do this. We put on the films or the music when we lose somebody just to remember and honor them, and just what a gift he was to this world.
00:16:58
Speaker 2: All right, well, stay with us on this Friday morning run when we come back. The president versus LeBron James. Why is this happening? Also coming up, they made it official. They are kicking the carriages out of Welcome back to your Friday morning run with everything going on in the world.
00:17:18
Speaker 1: Yes. The president took time to call out LeBron James yesterday.
00:17:49
Speaker 2: This is important.
00:17:50
Speaker 1: Why, you ask? President Trump didn't appreciate LeBron's stretching routine during the national anthem. LeBron and the Philly 76ers were at the Garden this week to play the Knicks to beat the Knicks. And while the anthem was being performed, LeBron could be seen stretching and in one moment appeared to some to be practicing his golf swing.
00:18:10
Speaker 2: You saw it. What did it come off to you?
00:18:12
Speaker 1: I mean, a little bit, yeah.
00:18:13
Speaker 2: You know what stood out to me? It was swinging left. He swings right as a golfer.
00:18:20
Speaker 1: Oh, that's so funny. I would never know that.
00:18:21
Speaker 2: And I think he's naturally left-handed. But he shoots right and he swings right. I believe that's the case. Anyway, if he was practicing as a golf swing, this is what the president posted on his true social. While listening to our national anthem, LeBron James disrespects our country. I said right from the beginning that he's no good. A total disgrace. LeBron James should apologize to all of those great American warriors and heroes who died for the American flag and all that our country stands for.
00:18:49
Speaker 1: Okay.
00:18:49
Speaker 2: Does that meet the video that you saw?
00:18:51
Speaker 1: No. No. LeBron was asked about it after his game last night. I thought his response was funny. He said with a big smile.
00:19:00
Speaker 2: Huge smile.
00:19:01
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:19:02
Speaker 2: Huge.
00:19:03
Speaker 1: It's a slow news day at the office, you know, slow news day in the office.
00:19:07
Speaker 2: And that was it. And that was the end of it. And the president also last night called for a boycott of the WNBA because some of those teams aren't coming out for the national anthem. Remember the Kaepernick thing, he was all over. Remember that this is one that divides people.
00:19:21
Speaker 1: The United States, the United States, you don't have to do things that Prove that you're a patriot. Like, you don't... We don't have... He was stretching. It's bizarre.
00:19:33
Speaker 2: You saw the president in the video from years ago where he was playing like he was the... Conductor. Conductor of a.
00:19:39
Speaker 1: Yes.
00:19:40
Speaker 2: During the national anthem that was playing around. People have thrown that back. Yes. And it's not the end of the world.
00:19:45
Speaker 1: Okay. And look, these guys listen to the national anthem every single time before they play. So it doesn't, where we might go to a game and it feels like, and it is a special moment. I'm not trying to say it isn't.
00:19:55
Speaker 2: At every one of them, yeah.
00:19:56
Speaker 1: But if you, every single time you play, I can see why it doesn't.
00:20:00
Speaker 2: Feel as singular. His 23rd year in the league? Yes. Robes, 82 games a year.
00:20:06
Speaker 1: He hears the national anthem.
00:20:08
Speaker 2: He hears the national anthem. and he is in the playoffs every year, so add that to it.
00:20:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you put that perspective to it, it might just, yes.
00:20:18
Speaker 2: And he's in his 40s now. He needs to stretch a little more.
00:20:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Put all those things together. Everybody just calm down. Calm down. Next up on the run, they are kicking the horses out of Central Park. The New York City Council voted yesterday to end the 160-year-old tradition of horse-drawn carriages in Central Park. The measure would end the carriages by June of 2028.
00:20:44
Speaker 2: Robes, I haven't seen. I thought he was on board, but Mayor Mamdani hasn't, I guess. I thought he said he was on board, but I read some places that there's still a question of whether or not he will sign this particular bill. Even if he does, the union representing the carriage owners promised to challenge this ban in court. Robes, they got a couple of years. They think they might be able to get all the stuff in court worked out before this 2028 ban. So it's going to go on forever. By the time this goes into effect, we'll know if it's going to legally stand up or not. So that's probably a good thing. Big win for animal rights activists. As long as we've lived here, they have been... saying, get the horses.
00:21:23
Speaker 1: Out of there. They have, but we've also been seeing, because obviously this is a huge story locally here in the New York City area, but the folks who own the carriages, the folks who are the carriage drivers, they have been very vocal saying, you are literally going to make us homeless. This is our livelihood. This is what we do. This is what we love, and you're taking away our careers.
00:21:47
Speaker 2: Some are saying this is just what Central Park is. Like, to have those gone. I mean, you come... You said the big story here locally, and I think about how many people come to this city from all over the world to get in those things in particular. And what's the bridge there called? Like, there's certain parts of New York that are in every movie and every... This is a part, a central part.
00:22:05
Speaker 1: It certainly is. All right, next up on the run, the World Series, if you hadn't heard, starts tonight. The Milwaukee Brewers versus the Tampa Bay Rays. Both teams are looking to win their first ever World Series. I love that. That's a cool.
00:22:19
Speaker 2: Makes you want to watch, right? Yes.
00:22:22
Speaker 1: And game one is tonight in Milwaukee at American Family Field. That's going to be huge.
00:22:27
Speaker 2: Oh, it's going to be.
00:22:28
Speaker 1: It's going to be huge.
00:22:29
Speaker 2: I like small market teams being in the big games. I like that.
00:22:32
Speaker 1: All right.
00:22:32
Speaker 2: Finally, on the run, you tell me, Robes, is this going too far? Of course, the city went crazy. The Knicks won the first championship in 53 years this past year. And so many people were so inspired by the championship, and they used that inspiration, at least, to new parents when naming their son. Now, we have to... help people remember here it was a big thing and certainly online the chant the uh kind of our battle cry knicks in five right knicks in five games we're gonna win this championship in five so it went crazy knicks in five it was everywhere.
00:23:07
Speaker 1: Remember when we went to the u.s open and we were we did a live podcast and we mentioned something about how it was the summer of new york right we had Taylor Swift's wedding. We had so many. We had the skyscraping newlyweds. We had, yes, the Knicks winning. As soon as we mentioned the Knicks, people just started screaming, Knicks in five. Yes. Knicks in five. It's just a chant that you hear a lot here in the city.
00:23:30
Speaker 2: So with that in mind, this couple, the Bradford family, I believe is the last name, they named their son. So his first name is K-N-I-C-K-S-O-N. His first name is Nixon.
00:23:47
Speaker 1: I think Nixon's cute.
00:23:48
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:23:48
Speaker 1: Nixon Bradley is his name? Yes. Okay.
00:23:51
Speaker 2: But what is his middle name, Robes?
00:23:53
Speaker 1: It's F-Y-V-E. Five. But I like how they spelled it.
00:24:02
Speaker 2: Nixon Five.
00:24:03
Speaker 1: Nixon Five Bradley.
00:24:05
Speaker 2: Nope, just Nixon Five. His name is Nixon Five. I think it's kind of fun. What do you do with that?
00:24:10
Speaker 1: I think it's fun. Nixon's cute.
00:24:12
Speaker 2: Nixon's... Nixon? His name is Nixon.
00:24:14
Speaker 1: Nixon is a cute name. I think it's cute. I actually... I think it's awesome. He is going to have a big old smile on his face. I don't know.
00:24:20
Speaker 2: Bro, when people start playing games with the kids' names.
00:24:24
Speaker 1: We watched a movie last night, and in the credits, we saw a name. And this is an old... What was the movie?
00:24:30
Speaker 2: Very old movie. Very old movie. It was an old movie. It was a Freddy... Oh, yeah. It was Nightmare on Elm Street 3. This is how much we watch horror movies.
00:24:37
Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
00:24:37
Speaker 2: On a random Thursday, we watched that.
00:24:39
Speaker 1: Literally, we were watching Nightmare on Elm Street 3. And, you know, when the credits roll, someone's name was Tuesday, K-N-I-G-H-T. Tuesday night.
00:24:49
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:24:51
Speaker 1: I love, you know I love watching credits.
00:24:53
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:24:54
Speaker 1: Because I love looking at people's names because some parents are hilarious. So Nixon 5 and Tuesday night. Way to go. Way to go, parents. All right. On this Friday, we have your quote of the day. The trees are about to let go of everything they worked all year to grow. Call it loss if you want. I'm calling it trust. I loved this.
00:25:17
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:25:19
Speaker 1: That they're going to grow back and that they'll be back greener and more beautiful than ever. Like you have to lose things to have things get a rebirth. The trees are about to let go of everything they worked all year to grow. Call it loss if you want. I'm calling it trust.
00:25:38
Speaker 2: Where'd you get that one?
00:25:39
Speaker 1: On Instagram.
00:25:40
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:25:42
Speaker 1: And with that, everyone, I'm Amy Robach. We always appreciate you running with us.
00:25:49
Speaker 2: And I'm Lou Tillius. We'll run soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your morning run. It's Friday, October 23rd. I'm Amy Robach.
00:00:17
Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. You said it. Friday, October 23rd. This is the day. This is the day Apple fans have been waiting for. It goes on sale today. It's in stores all over the world. The Apple Duo. First foldable Apple phone. We running out and grabbing this thing today?
00:00:33
Speaker 1: No.
00:00:33
Speaker 2: No. Yeah? No, you know what?
00:00:35
Speaker 1: It looks like when you fold it out, it almost looks like a mini iPad.
00:00:38
Speaker 2: It does, and it costs a lot more than an iPad, actually. It's insane.
00:00:43
Speaker 1: It's like $ 2, 000, right?
00:00:45
Speaker 2: Not for the highest-end one, yes, but the mid-range one, I think, everybody would want with enough space is $ 2, 100. The holy shit version is $ 3, 200, babe.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. Well, you always see these starting at $ 19. 99, and then they offer you what it would only cost you, $ 83. 90- something cents for two years if you'd like it. And then you can lease it for like $ 57 a month. So see, it's only $ 57.
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Speaker 2: Cars are the only thing we should be leasing. You have to lease a phone.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that sad? But I did see that was an option on Apple's website that you can lease the phone.
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Speaker 2: How much storage do you have on your phone? The middle I'm saying is that 512 gigabytes. It's kind of a lot. That's not a lot, right? That one is 2,200 bucks. The one terabyte is 2,600 bucks.
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Speaker 1: My goodness.
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Speaker 2: So good luck out there, folks. I'm going back to flip. I really do want a flip phone as a second phone. Just go back to just call me.
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Speaker 1: And then when someone makes you mad, you can just slam it, and you don't have to worry about breaking the very expensive LED screen.
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Speaker 2: It feels so good. Hey, folks, yes, we're getting... Started on this Friday. Got a lot of stops to make. Wow, what a very, very busy news day. But we'll be making stops today in Virginia, in Senatobia, Mississippi, in South Carolina, Iowa. We'll also swing by the 76ers locker room. Also make a stop at a Massachusetts courthouse, New York Central Park, Milwaukee, and a New York nursery. But we're going to start here. We have a series, I guess, of still developing and major political stories that are a reminder of just how awful, ugly, dirty politics can be.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and it's, to me, shocking that anybody would voluntarily enter into any political race in our country given what we have seen online and on our television screens. I mean, it's ridiculous. Anyone, everyone knows what it's like, especially if you're in a highly contentious, like there's a Senate seat up for grabs. Your airwaves have been inundated.
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Speaker 2: Inundated.
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Speaker 1: Inundated. So, yes, remember the widely condemned attack ad in the Ohio governor's race? Yeah, well, Trump loves it. Republican candidate for Ohio governor Vivek Ramaswamy released an ad featuring the birth mother of his Democratic opponent, Dr. Amy Acton. And in it, her mother calls her daughter a liar who needs to seek help.
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Speaker 2: OK, what's left out of the ad? is that Acton has been estranged from her birth mother since she was 12. That's when her birth mother's husband was arrested and charged with raping Acton. Abuse that went on between the ages of 9 and 12, according to Acton, and according to police reports. Now, while plenty considered this below-the-belt politics, President Trump fully endorsed the ad, and Robes, he actually urged Ramaswamy not to take it down. In a long, true social post, Trump called it a powerful ad, and then Well, he took kind of a left turn in this true social post.
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Speaker 1: Ooh, he said, if my mother, the legendary Mary McLeod Trump, said anything bad about me, the fake news would play it up. The Democrats would be totally supportive and it would go down as the ad of the decade, maybe the century. It would win awards for excellence in advertising. Wow. I suggested, on the other hand, that Vivek should keep it up and let everyone listen to the mother of a defective... dishonest and incapable candidate explain how the daughter is a disaster who uncontrollably lies cheats and steals i only wish the mothers of my opponents would be so brave as to come forward and explain that their son or daughter is a liar and much worse that took a lot of courage to do But essentially, what she was really doing was saving Ohio from making a truly horrible choice. The press is trying to convince everyone that this ad is bad because it's so good. Who wouldn't use such an ad?
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Speaker 2: I would.
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Speaker 1: It's called hitting pay dirt. This is disgusting.
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Speaker 2: Heartbreaks.
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Speaker 1: It makes me feel physically ill to read that.
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Speaker 2: But this is what we do. This is just, it's heartbreaking maybe where we are.
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Speaker 1: To even call a human being defective and a disaster. Right. And to encourage moms to talk shit about their kids for political gain, that that's something to be applauded and to be considered brave and courageous, I feel sick. I feel sick.
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Speaker 2: He was at, where were they last night, Iowa for a rally. He was talking about it last night and said this was actually considered it. He would thank God, like literally, like thank God. for this ad. This is difficult stuff. The mudslinging continued yesterday. This was awful to see, but you probably saw this because everybody was talking about it online, and Lindsey Graham's name was the number one trending topic for quite some time. Now, is this a new low? You be the judge here. Left-wing activists released a 30-minute video that shows three men claiming late Senator Lindsey Graham paid them for sex. This is a video that's titled Closetocracy, features one man who says Graham paid him for sex and taped the encounter when he was just 17 years old.
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Speaker 1: Then two other men go into detail about their alleged paid encounters with Senator Graham in the video as well. Now, Graham, who was never married, repeatedly denied he was gay, very openly and often said, I am not gay, over the years. And he consistently voted against LGBTQ plus legislation. He opposed same-sex marriage. He voted against repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He opposed expanding the definition of hate crimes to include sexual orientation.
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Speaker 2: And again, Robes, these allegations, he's dead now, he can't answer them.
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Speaker 1: Correct.
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Speaker 2: But they do become, Robes, somewhat significant that a man who for a long time did not seem to be, by his record, a champion for LGBTQ plus rights.
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Speaker 1: Quite the opposite. Quite the opposite. It is shocking from that perspective. After Graham suddenly died in July, Trump, as I believe most of you listening know, appointed his sister Darlene to his seat. But now she is in a very tight race to retain it. There's been no comment from Darlene's campaign about this 30-minute video. But a spokesperson for Charlie Kirk's conservative group, Turning Point USA... shockingly responded to the video by writing this. Dear Democrats, this is why we called him Lady Graham. This isn't an October surprise. We've known this for years. And blaming his sister for the fact that Lindsay was a poorly closeted gay man is only going to backfire. No one cares.
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Speaker 2: I don't. I really don't care if the man wants, if he was gay or whatever, and if he didn't want.
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Speaker 1: To share it. And if he didn't want to be out, that's his prerogative.
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Speaker 2: That's completely fine. It does, Robes. It's low. This is, I don't like this at all. Even if it is the case, even if it is true, fine. And Robes, you'd be hard pressed to find someone in DC who in a private moment wouldn't admit, yeah.
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Speaker 1: I We all knew or suspected or thought. But the point being is you don't out somebody anyway, and you don't out them after they're dead. Two weeks before the midterms.
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Speaker 2: Okay. We'll stay in this realm of politics, Robes. Something else happening in the state of Virginia, where a very powerful person, you might not know her name or her face, but trust us, she is one of the most powerful and influential politicians, Democrats especially. in the state of Virginia, where she has been indicted on accusations of running ropes, a criminal enterprise. It's bad enough you hear this is a politician and a powerful one, and then you go, wait a minute, she's how old?
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Speaker 1: 82. 82-year-old Virginia state senator, Democrat Louise Lucas. is facing a long list of charges, including, I mean, these are significant charges, drug trafficking, money laundering, conspiracy, bribery. It goes on and on and on. The case centers around her family's cannabis shot. The DOJ says she used her political influence to protect their enterprise. Lucas and members of her family are accused of a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy in which they acquired and sold a large amount of marijuana and then hid the profits.
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Speaker 2: Lucas surrendered to authorities yesterday, but she did make her way out of the courthouse. Reporters were there shouting questions. She didn't have any comment, but she did make this comment online saying, quote, The FBI, Department of Justice, and the full weight of the federal government have been wielded against an 82-year-old great-grandmother. I grew up under Jim Crow. I've seen what happens when people in power try to silence those who stand up to them. I spent my life fighting back, and I'm not stopping now. This is a hell of an indictment. It was a hell of a big day. Actually, we should say this. The investigation predates the Trump administration. Oh, wow.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: During the Biden administration, they were looking into her. So but a big enough deal that Patel and Todd Blanch both went to Virginia to participate in this press conference.
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Speaker 1: My goodness. All right, there's going to be a lot more to come on that story. All right, next up on the run, the family of Cohen Wiley says they have also reviewed or viewed the body cam footage of the police shooting of the one-year-old, and they see things very differently. And the family now wants the Department of Justice to open an investigation into what really happened.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll remember earlier this week, the Mississippi Attorney General announced the officer was justified when he fired on a vehicle in a Senatobia Walmart parking lot in June. Police who were already on scene at that Walmart, were alerted to someone possibly shoplifting and chased Cohen's mom and her friend to the car. This newly released body cam video, surveillance video, shows... Yeah, Robes, this is... And again, I am just learning this part of it. Police were at the Walmart as a part of just a different type of.
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Speaker 2: What do you call it? A sting, if you will. They were just doing something completely different. Somebody runs into the room where they are and says, hey, somebody's stealing something. Robes cut to the surveillance video outside. You see those two women sprinting to the car, holding items. They just do. Now, police come running out. It's a shoplifting call. Why are five officers out there with guns drawn? That's a hell of a response.
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Speaker 1: It's a hell of a response.
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Speaker 2: But the vehicle does back up aggressively, hit another car, and then takes off. And it's pretty clear to anybody looking, it does go the direction of one of the officers who has to shuffle out of the way.
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Speaker 1: It looks pretty clear that they are trying to get away, and they are ignoring the commands of the police officers with their gun drawn. The family argues it was not a justified use of force. Five officers... Because of a shoplifting call.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of weird. What do they train officers? They're shoplifting and someone's running. Pull your gun on a shoplifting. I really don't know the training.
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Speaker 1: In the middle of a parking lot of Walmart.
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Speaker 2: And again, those guns were out before the vehicle became a weapon. That is true. It is an odd response, but still.
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Speaker 1: Yep. Cohen's mom and her friend have maintained they were not shoplifting. They haven't explained why they were running to their car and trying to get away quickly. In a brief statement, the attorney general said she, quote, found the use of force justified. All right, next up on the run, the retired NYPD detective accused of killing a man in a road rage incident made his first court appearance yesterday. Victor Romero pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, police say the 62-year-old Romero shot Corin Irvine on the George Washington Street A bridge Wednesday after Irvine's car swerved into Romero's lanes. A very recent video, they say, shows Romero speeding up to catch up to Irvine, then firing once into his vehicle. Irvine was hit in the shoulder and then crashed into the median and later died at the hospital.
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Speaker 1: Romero was initially held on a murder charge, but that charge was reduced to manslaughter and Irvine's family expressed disdain. emotional frustration that that charge was reduced and suggested that Romero was getting favorable treatment. He was given a $ 1 million bail. Did he post that bail?
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Speaker 2: I didn't see that he posted it.
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Speaker 1: That's a pretty high bail, but still. And I think it's understandable that immediately the charge was reduced to manslaughter.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what they see. That needs to be explained. Yeah, what they see already didn't mean to kill him, perhaps. It was reckless behavior. It was a warning shot, he's going to argue. The intent was not to kill. I guess they're trying to.
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Speaker 1: The intent was to just say F you and shoot. All right, next up on the run, the looks-maxing influencer known as Clavicular showed up to a Massachusetts courthouse yesterday in a dark suit and walking a dog on a leash.
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Speaker 2: You saw this? It didn't make any... It was strange. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's like he knows how to get attention and maybe even deflect attention.
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Speaker 2: Take your dog to court. I couldn't find a... Dogs can be left alone for a little while.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they can. They certainly can. Brayden Peters, that's his actual name, pleaded not guilty to rape charges against him. He's accused of raping a 17-year-old girl at his family home in Cape Cod in May of last year.
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Speaker 2: He's known for promoting sometimes extreme measures to maximize male beauty in particular. He has denied the charges against him, claiming the sex was consensual. He did pay a $ 10, 000 bail, surrendered his passport, also agreed to have no contact or post anything on social media about the alleged.
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Speaker 1: Victim because he's been posting a lot so that will be a new order and that must be why the judge added that because he has been professing his innocence throughout all right next up on the run call sign viper this is a heartbreaker This is a heartbreaker. Tom Skerritt, who played the legendary Top Gun instructor who went at it with Tom Cruise, has passed away at the age of 93. When we heard this yesterday, I said, it's like he'll always be 62. I just feel like he's always that age. I couldn't believe, though, he was 93.
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Speaker 2: You know, and that's what, in some of these stories, babe, my immediate reaction wasn't heartbreak. It was almost calmness. Comfort, it was almost peace. You make it to 93. That's awesome. That's a good life. And he had a hell of an impression on all of us in a couple of legendary roles. But yes, he always played... He was either what? The dad, the cop, or the military guy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he totally was.
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Speaker 2: Because he had this every man look to him. He was fantastic.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we even said... I was trying to get you to. I didn't make a big push. But I was like, oh, we should watch Steel Magnolias. We can watch Dolly. We can watch Tom. We can watch Julia. We can watch all my favorites. Oh, that movie is so good.
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Speaker 2: Steel Magnolias. I had no idea he was in it. Oh, yes.
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Speaker 1: That's where he was just like such a good dad. Up in Smoke, The Dead Zone. I just thought there's so many movies. I keep forgetting all the things he was in.
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Speaker 2: But we put on Alien yesterday. We'll watch Top Gun today. But he's just maybe the closest I ever got to crying in Top Gun was the line he delivered at graduation to Tom Cruise when they were going to their assignment after Goose had died. He said, you'll get your backseater when you get there, and if you don't have one, give me a call. I'll fly with you. He delivered that line, and to this day, I still get emotional for whatever reason as a kid watching that. I'm like, oh, my God. He loves the guy now that he was fighting with at times.
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Speaker 1: Whatever.
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Speaker 2: He delivered one line I remember so well, but Tom Skerritt was just... something else in these movies.
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Speaker 1: He really was. He died of natural causes, but we always do this. We put on the films or the music when we lose somebody just to remember and honor them, and just what a gift he was to this world.
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Speaker 2: All right, well, stay with us on this Friday morning run when we come back. The president versus LeBron James. Why is this happening? Also coming up, they made it official. They are kicking the carriages out of Welcome back to your Friday morning run with everything going on in the world.
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Speaker 1: Yes. The president took time to call out LeBron James yesterday.
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Speaker 2: This is important.
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Speaker 1: Why, you ask? President Trump didn't appreciate LeBron's stretching routine during the national anthem. LeBron and the Philly 76ers were at the Garden this week to play the Knicks to beat the Knicks. And while the anthem was being performed, LeBron could be seen stretching and in one moment appeared to some to be practicing his golf swing.
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Speaker 2: You saw it. What did it come off to you?
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Speaker 1: I mean, a little bit, yeah.
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Speaker 2: You know what stood out to me? It was swinging left. He swings right as a golfer.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's so funny. I would never know that.
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Speaker 2: And I think he's naturally left-handed. But he shoots right and he swings right. I believe that's the case. Anyway, if he was practicing as a golf swing, this is what the president posted on his true social. While listening to our national anthem, LeBron James disrespects our country. I said right from the beginning that he's no good. A total disgrace. LeBron James should apologize to all of those great American warriors and heroes who died for the American flag and all that our country stands for.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Does that meet the video that you saw?
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Speaker 1: No. No. LeBron was asked about it after his game last night. I thought his response was funny. He said with a big smile.
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Speaker 2: Huge smile.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Huge.
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Speaker 1: It's a slow news day at the office, you know, slow news day in the office.
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Speaker 2: And that was it. And that was the end of it. And the president also last night called for a boycott of the WNBA because some of those teams aren't coming out for the national anthem. Remember the Kaepernick thing, he was all over. Remember that this is one that divides people.
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Speaker 1: The United States, the United States, you don't have to do things that Prove that you're a patriot. Like, you don't... We don't have... He was stretching. It's bizarre.
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Speaker 2: You saw the president in the video from years ago where he was playing like he was the... Conductor. Conductor of a.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: During the national anthem that was playing around. People have thrown that back. Yes. And it's not the end of the world.
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Speaker 1: Okay. And look, these guys listen to the national anthem every single time before they play. So it doesn't, where we might go to a game and it feels like, and it is a special moment. I'm not trying to say it isn't.
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Speaker 2: At every one of them, yeah.
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Speaker 1: But if you, every single time you play, I can see why it doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Feel as singular. His 23rd year in the league? Yes. Robes, 82 games a year.
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Speaker 1: He hears the national anthem.
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Speaker 2: He hears the national anthem. and he is in the playoffs every year, so add that to it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you put that perspective to it, it might just, yes.
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Speaker 2: And he's in his 40s now. He needs to stretch a little more.
00:20:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Put all those things together. Everybody just calm down. Calm down. Next up on the run, they are kicking the horses out of Central Park. The New York City Council voted yesterday to end the 160-year-old tradition of horse-drawn carriages in Central Park. The measure would end the carriages by June of 2028.
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Speaker 2: Robes, I haven't seen. I thought he was on board, but Mayor Mamdani hasn't, I guess. I thought he said he was on board, but I read some places that there's still a question of whether or not he will sign this particular bill. Even if he does, the union representing the carriage owners promised to challenge this ban in court. Robes, they got a couple of years. They think they might be able to get all the stuff in court worked out before this 2028 ban. So it's going to go on forever. By the time this goes into effect, we'll know if it's going to legally stand up or not. So that's probably a good thing. Big win for animal rights activists. As long as we've lived here, they have been... saying, get the horses.
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Speaker 1: Out of there. They have, but we've also been seeing, because obviously this is a huge story locally here in the New York City area, but the folks who own the carriages, the folks who are the carriage drivers, they have been very vocal saying, you are literally going to make us homeless. This is our livelihood. This is what we do. This is what we love, and you're taking away our careers.
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Speaker 2: Some are saying this is just what Central Park is. Like, to have those gone. I mean, you come... You said the big story here locally, and I think about how many people come to this city from all over the world to get in those things in particular. And what's the bridge there called? Like, there's certain parts of New York that are in every movie and every... This is a part, a central part.
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Speaker 1: It certainly is. All right, next up on the run, the World Series, if you hadn't heard, starts tonight. The Milwaukee Brewers versus the Tampa Bay Rays. Both teams are looking to win their first ever World Series. I love that. That's a cool.
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Speaker 2: Makes you want to watch, right? Yes.
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Speaker 1: And game one is tonight in Milwaukee at American Family Field. That's going to be huge.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's going to be.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be huge.
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Speaker 2: I like small market teams being in the big games. I like that.
00:22:32
Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: Finally, on the run, you tell me, Robes, is this going too far? Of course, the city went crazy. The Knicks won the first championship in 53 years this past year. And so many people were so inspired by the championship, and they used that inspiration, at least, to new parents when naming their son. Now, we have to... help people remember here it was a big thing and certainly online the chant the uh kind of our battle cry knicks in five right knicks in five games we're gonna win this championship in five so it went crazy knicks in five it was everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Remember when we went to the u.s open and we were we did a live podcast and we mentioned something about how it was the summer of new york right we had Taylor Swift's wedding. We had so many. We had the skyscraping newlyweds. We had, yes, the Knicks winning. As soon as we mentioned the Knicks, people just started screaming, Knicks in five. Yes. Knicks in five. It's just a chant that you hear a lot here in the city.
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Speaker 2: So with that in mind, this couple, the Bradford family, I believe is the last name, they named their son. So his first name is K-N-I-C-K-S-O-N. His first name is Nixon.
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Speaker 1: I think Nixon's cute.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
00:23:48
Speaker 1: Nixon Bradley is his name? Yes. Okay.
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Speaker 2: But what is his middle name, Robes?
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Speaker 1: It's F-Y-V-E. Five. But I like how they spelled it.
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Speaker 2: Nixon Five.
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Speaker 1: Nixon Five Bradley.
00:24:05
Speaker 2: Nope, just Nixon Five. His name is Nixon Five. I think it's kind of fun. What do you do with that?
00:24:10
Speaker 1: I think it's fun. Nixon's cute.
00:24:12
Speaker 2: Nixon's... Nixon? His name is Nixon.
00:24:14
Speaker 1: Nixon is a cute name. I think it's cute. I actually... I think it's awesome. He is going to have a big old smile on his face. I don't know.
00:24:20
Speaker 2: Bro, when people start playing games with the kids' names.
00:24:24
Speaker 1: We watched a movie last night, and in the credits, we saw a name. And this is an old... What was the movie?
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Speaker 2: Very old movie. Very old movie. It was an old movie. It was a Freddy... Oh, yeah. It was Nightmare on Elm Street 3. This is how much we watch horror movies.
00:24:37
Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 2: On a random Thursday, we watched that.
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Speaker 1: Literally, we were watching Nightmare on Elm Street 3. And, you know, when the credits roll, someone's name was Tuesday, K-N-I-G-H-T. Tuesday night.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: I love, you know I love watching credits.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
00:24:54
Speaker 1: Because I love looking at people's names because some parents are hilarious. So Nixon 5 and Tuesday night. Way to go. Way to go, parents. All right. On this Friday, we have your quote of the day. The trees are about to let go of everything they worked all year to grow. Call it loss if you want. I'm calling it trust. I loved this.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
00:25:19
Speaker 1: That they're going to grow back and that they'll be back greener and more beautiful than ever. Like you have to lose things to have things get a rebirth. The trees are about to let go of everything they worked all year to grow. Call it loss if you want. I'm calling it trust.
00:25:38
Speaker 2: Where'd you get that one?
00:25:39
Speaker 1: On Instagram.
00:25:40
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:25:42
Speaker 1: And with that, everyone, I'm Amy Robach. We always appreciate you running with us.
00:25:49
Speaker 2: And I'm Lou Tillius. We'll run soon.