June 26, 2026
(Friday) Morning Run: USMNT Loses, Arrested Fmr Pastor Dead, FL Executes 74-Year-Old, Trump Wins Twice, Islander (Finally) Fired
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Friday, June twenty sixth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robine and on TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 3: Thrilling nights, thrilling nights we get in World Cup every night, we get Love Island every night, thrilling, late.
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Speaker 2: Nights, exhausting. It's all right, Is it all worth it? Yes?
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Speaker 3: There it is. Yes, Good morning to you all. If you didn't see it last night, the US men's national team lost first time and it worke up last night.
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Speaker 2: I did not see it last night.
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Speaker 3: I know you didn't see it because you weren't sitting next to me as I was watching. But this, okay, it that it's fine. They had already won the group. It's fine. The movie it changed nothing, but it turned out to be a thrilling game roads. They lost to Turkey a three to two. On a literal, the last kick of the game went in for Turkey, a score, a goal, and that was it.
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Speaker 2: It was thrilling.
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Speaker 1: And you know what, Look, Turkey isn't advancing, but that was a huge win for them to end their World Cup moment with a win.
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Speaker 3: You should it looked like they just won the World Cup after they won, and that was cool to see. That's a very good point to make this They've been playing out in l A and they kept showing. I swear to god, I saw more celebrity shots than I did of the actual players.
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Speaker 2: During the game. That's funny.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, your boys, Ed Norton and Brad Pitt just standing there chilling, casually, hanging.
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Speaker 2: Out, you know, watching a World Cup game.
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Speaker 3: You boys for some reason, both of those.
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Speaker 2: I'll take it.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, but those guys, the US men's national team, we know they're going to play next Wednesday, Wednesday, July first, in the knockout stage against Boston.
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Speaker 2: Here we go. What time is that? You know? To me, it.
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Speaker 3: Doesn't don't start that, but yes, I just want to give that update and have an upbeat, actually update as we start the morning run, because we got several heavy, heavy stories to get to. But we're going to be making stops today in Florida and Caracas and DC and Fiji also in the Strait of Horror Moves. But let's get started on this run with a pretty big duh.
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Speaker 1: That's a report because new numbers are confirming what Americans already know and have certainly been feeling that, Yes, indeed, prices are going up. Official inflation numbers out yesterday show inflation hit four point one percent in May, and for perspective, that is the highest number we've seen in three years.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and no surprises, has been driven by energy costs, and those costs have been driving up because of the war with Iran, the war robes that we have been told is over. But now, just days after the much talked about Memorandum of Understanding, there appears to be a misunderstanding in the Strait of Hormos.
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Speaker 1: The US says Iran fired on a ship that was trying to pass through the strait, you know, that same strait that President Trump has.
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Speaker 2: Said is free and clear.
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Speaker 1: No injuries, thankfully, were reported, but the vessel did sustain some damage. And here's the issue. The US and Iran disagree over what designated route ships should use when going through this strait. So if they don't go through the right passage, Iran's just going to fire at them.
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Speaker 3: They have the understanding that they are in control of the strait. This is where we told you all to go, and that this is a warning. So now this slows down traffic that it opened up because everybody's company's a little hesitanting what's going on?
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Speaker 1: Do I want to get shot at? Do I want to take the chance that I'm going down the wrong way?
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Speaker 2: Yikes?
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Speaker 3: So this is not a good start.
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Speaker 1: Rose.
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Speaker 3: We just got this new sixty day ceasefire period where they're going to be talking again about what to do ultimately about the nuclear program. Yes, that's where we are, and whatever's in this memorandum of understanding. The President says one thing, Iran says another, and they completely contradict each other.
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Speaker 2: So we wait, alrighty, then, well, next up on the run.
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Speaker 1: Round the clock rescue efforts continue in Venezuela after back to back powerful earthquakes two nights ago. Look, this number is going to change. It's been changing dramatically, unfortunately in the wrong direction. But as of this recording, the official death toll has risen to two hundred thirty five forty three hundred injured, but hundreds of people remain missing.
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Speaker 3: All right, Next, Lego bar Run will take us out to Las Vegas for a shocking update on a story we were talking about yesterday and Rogues. This was a story you brought to my attention. I mean, the details were already Holy hell, and now add this to it. This is a really shocking update.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that former youth pastor who was just arrested in the twenty year old murder of his wife has now died in police custody. We're talking about David Vandermere. He was charged this week with first degree murder and insurance fraud for the two thousand and six death of his wife, Bernadette.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, she felt to her death on a hike. It was an anniversary wedding anniversary hike with her husband. He claimed this was an accident, but new tips in recent years or started coming in that led police to reopen this case. Now rose. They didn't say exactly how he died, but said he was taken to the hospital with self sustained injuries. So he did die by suicide is what they are confirming. But my goodness, what a story. Twenty years and it's thought we were going to get some answers and that's going to be justice and just like that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we were talking about the trial and what that was going to be like and what we were going to learn and yep, some justice for the family. Of Bernadette. But wow, that came to a shocking end yesterday, all right. Next up on the run, Florida carried out its nation leading ninth execution of the year last night, and in doing so, Dusty Ray Spencer became the oldest executed inmate in that state's history.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was seventy four years old. He was declared dead around six ten last night local time, after being given a lethal injection. He was convicted for the brutal murder of his wife. And when we say brutal, it was brutal, and this attack happened in front of her teenage son. They did ask him rolls. He did have last words, curious what you we haven't discussed this ahead of time, Curious what you thought about this?
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was a nod to the family, but it also was more about him. His last words were sorry, sorry to the family. Into thy hands, I commit my spirit and my soul. I'm on my way, Lord, I'm on my way, amen.
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Speaker 3: And that's it. And that's the end of Dusty Ray Spencer. Now, a lot has been talked about on this one. Rome's because, yes, the brutality of his crime, but also the fact that he was seventy four, the oldest in the state.
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Speaker 2: Well, meet another seventy four year old?
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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 2: Another one?
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Speaker 3: Is it next week?
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Speaker 1: It's July fourteenth, so it's a couple of weeks from now. But he too is seventy four. He's twelve days younger than Dusty Ray was. But yes, apparently the state of Florida is unafraid to.
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Speaker 2: Carry it. Yeah, carry out the justice, no matter how long it took.
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Speaker 1: And I believe this seventy four year old who's about to be executed next month has been on death row for an exorbitant amount of time, like forty years plus.
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Speaker 2: I believe all right, next up on the run.
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Speaker 1: The Trump administration has put out what amounts to a wanted post poster for an individual who put her hands in his reflecting poole.
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Speaker 3: This is what we're doing. Now, you touch the pool, you are going to face federal charges.
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Speaker 2: And get your face on a wanted post.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not wild about this. The Park Service released the video yesterday that appears to show someone putting their hands in the reflecting pool. Now, the image or at least the video they show rold just from a distance, and they have to zoom in for you to see this person, and you lose a lot of resolution. You can't see that well. But it does appear from my view that this person does put their hands fully in the water and is examining something or trying to pull something up. It doesn't look like full sabotage that they're trying to essentially charge with.
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Speaker 1: Now, all right, So here's what the Park Service put out on X. The United States Park Police is seeking assistance and identifying the individual depicted here in connection with a destruction of government property investigation. The incident occurred on June nineteenth, at approximately three point thirty six pm at the reflecting Pool on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial in DC. I mean, my goodness, middle of the day. Woman goes, probably sees something floating or just.
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Speaker 3: Curious about that. Everybody's curious about this blue stuff that's floating around everybody. You put your hand on one, and so something that's already coming apart. Correct, you take a piece, but you're now being blamed for the destruction. It robes those images. This lady. I am sorry for her because you can see her very well, and she is now going to become the face of vandalism at that pool. She is going to be the face of the algae, the face of the blue stuff coming up. They have somebody efface the blame.
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Speaker 1: They can put her mugshot right next to the three time Olympian who also is being charged.
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Speaker 3: But this was Oh, they grow those images of her. It looks like she's like a hardcore criminal image.
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Speaker 2: Not not.
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Speaker 3: She doesn't look like that.
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Speaker 2: Right, but they're making it seems.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, the entire reflecting pool is going to be drained after the fourth of July to start.
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Speaker 2: Anew woo all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, the Supreme Court handed President Trump a couple of wins on his immigration agenda. In one ruling, the court cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport hundreds of thousands in the country under temporary protected status known as TPS.
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Speaker 3: Its legal status afforded to people who might face threats in their own countries. Then, in another ruling, the court gave the okay for the administration to turn away asylum seekers at the border. The administration really thought this was a very important tool. Usually when you seek asylum, you have to physically be in the country to do so. They say they can be turned away if you are standing a foot from the border, turn you around.
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Speaker 2: Wow, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, the jury in the federal trial of the man accused of starting that devastating Pacific Palisades fire is actually having a hard time coming to a consensus. Jurors are reporting they are deadlocked after two days of deliberations.
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Speaker 3: Jonathan Rendner connect is his name. He's accused of starting the fire that eventually became the Palisades Fire. It devastated the La neighborhood. We all remember the fire burned more than twenty three thousand acres, destroyed seven thousand structures, and yes, it did result in twelve deaths.
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Speaker 1: Jurors reported to the judge that there are two jurors who are just dug in and refuse to change their position. So you've got, yeah, not one, but two. They're back for deliberations this morning. But we shall see what the judge instructs them to do. My guess is to keep deliberating.
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Speaker 3: All right. We'll stay with us on this Friday morning run when we come back. We got an update on Lionel Ritchie after we saw him have to sit down during a performance. Also got some news from tennis legend Chris Everett about her cancer returning. And we also finally, finally, Alana has left Love Island. Nope, bit was not voluntary.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to our Friday morning RUNA next up on the run, Linel Ritchie is resting and recovering after a scary episode on the first night of his tour. He was performing at the United Center in Chicago Tuesday night when he actually had to stop and sit down in the middle of his performance.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was something to see. I mean, it wasn't that alarming. He didn't seem like he was having a major medical issue. But he's up there singing robes. He went and found the first available step and sat down. He told the audience at the time, quote, when you're feeling dizzy, sits.
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Speaker 2: Your ass down. Good advice.
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Speaker 3: He has now postponed the next couple of shows, but plans to return to the tour next week. And this is one of those things ropes. He looks great, he's seventy seven.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, but I guess it is a little alarming. This was just the first night of his tour. It's not like he'd been on tour for six weeks and all this stress and exhaustion of it came came crashing down on him.
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Speaker 3: Who I assume he hasn't just been sitting around resting food American idol.
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Speaker 2: He's busy. He's a busy, busy working man. But my goodness, that's scary, all right.
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Speaker 3: He was wearing a leather he was.
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Speaker 2: I did see it, maybe got a little hot.
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Speaker 3: I can't ever pull that off.
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Speaker 2: Leather doesn't breathe, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, tennis legend Chris Everett announced she is going to miss out on covering Wimbledon because she just found out her cancer has returned. You may remember she was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer back in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 2: The next year she announced she was cancer free.
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Speaker 1: It came back, but in twenty twenty four she announced that once again she was cancer free.
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Speaker 3: Well, well, if she's sharing this news and already it sounds like she had gotten the news in her I guess she's already on the way to recovery, or at least treating. What's going on now? She said, quote, I have already undergone surgery as the first step in my treatment and recovery, and will begin chemotherapy in the coming weeks, so it's gonna be you'd hate to what she's going through. Fine, I miss her coverage.
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Speaker 1: No, she's fantastic. She knows she knows her stuff. I mean, she is a legend, and look, we wish her well. That's gonna be tough. Ovarian cancer is a tough beast to battle, and going through those rounds of chemo is not going to be easy.
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Speaker 2: So I wish for the best.
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Speaker 3: He says this, the back and forth, the back and forth. She's cancer free, it comes back, he's cancer free.
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of folks are are hesitant to even say I'm cancer free because they don't really know. You can't say yes, they can go look at tumor markers, but it can be in your blood on microscopic levels, and it's it was always there, and it just it blooms back.
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Speaker 2: It's tough.
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Speaker 3: Remission and cancer free aren't interchangeable, or are they.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I just I stay away from them, just because I do think that there's just it's it's I don't know, it's maybe it's just a thing.
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Speaker 2: You just get.
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Speaker 1: I get nervous about jinxing anything, so you just say, right now, everything looks good.
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Speaker 2: You just don't know.
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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the run, Alana has left the building. This is the final leg of our run.
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Speaker 2: And we've been waiting for this one.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's like a house guest that won't leave. We've been waiting on how to be gone.
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Speaker 1: Just I think we're getting an indication as to what the how long or how far in advanced they record these things. Look, when all of this came out that Alana had made some racial slur years back in the video resurfaced, I think they had already recorded and edited stuff, so they just they edited her out of the episode before this one, and all of a sudden in the middle twenty minutes into last night's episode, it just quickly you hear the narrator just say Alana has left.
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Speaker 2: And that's it.
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Speaker 3: So we look, I don't know how to feel about how they handle it Love Island. This time around, they kind of just let her fade away. They knew she wasn't going to be a big player. Why put out a big statement, just this is gonna go away. It's it's done, it's over. They made one line and she's out of there. I rose, my my I don't. I'm not okay with what she did and what we saw in the video of her saying the in word, even rapp into a song. But my heart hurts for her. She's going to turn on a phone and wrote to her whole world.
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Speaker 1: It's happening right now to her, you know it is, And just to have just to go back and go back into society and always just have that.
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Speaker 2: You know that that I like you.
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Speaker 1: You're never gonna lose that you're a racist. Maybe she learns a lot, maybe everyone learns more. You keep thinking people are going to learn, kids are gonna learn, they're not gonna do some of this stupid stuff because they keep seeing this play out over and over and over again. But I guess some of these videos go back so many years. You can't undo. It's already been done. But hopefully people stop.
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Speaker 3: Just stop, please stop.
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Speaker 2: And don't make videos of it and post it.
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Speaker 3: I would say, just don't do.
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Speaker 1: It, yes, step one, obviously, step one, don't do it. But if you're dumb enough to do it, don't put it out there for the world to see.
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Speaker 3: We don't want to label this girl. Don't know anything about her in her heart and what's in her heart, and we have not all covering this called her a racist, no at all, But lady, you can't. People please stop. If you're not.
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Speaker 2: Black, stop, don't say it. I don't care.
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Speaker 3: Your favorite rapper, your favorite all time, and all your friends are black. I don't care where you live if you ain't black. Stop, I don't. I just I didn't know. He still needs to give that education.
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Speaker 2: Just maybe just a little reminder. I'm sure there'll be another one. All right.
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Speaker 1: On this Friday, we have your quote of the day from one of my favorites.
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Speaker 2: Marcus Aurelius. Here we go. I love him.
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Speaker 1: A man wastes his life preparing for a future that was never promised, while the only life he truly owns passes quietly through his hands.
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Speaker 3: Get to the labs, Budy passes quietly through his hands with it.
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Speaker 2: Without him even noticing.
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Speaker 1: Because he's so his eye is on the future and preparing for the future, he misses what's happening right now, and all of a sudden, you're like, wait, where did my life go? Because he kept looking to the future to prepare for the future, he missed the life he actually had.
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Speaker 3: It's been a long week. I don't you should have started the week when I was fresher, started with this one on Monday.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll read it one more time for all of y'all so you can enjoy what you have right now.
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Speaker 1: A man wastes his life preparing for a future that was never promised, while the only life he truly owns passes quietly through his hands.
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Speaker 2: I take from that.
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Speaker 1: Make the vacation plans book, the flights book, the crews book, the road trip.
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Speaker 2: Do it now.
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Speaker 1: People say in a year or in five years, or when I've got more money, or people think about that when it comes to a lot of folks getting married or whatever.
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Speaker 2: The next step. I've got to get this in place before I can do this. Live live, y'all. You don't know what tomorrow brings.
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Speaker 1: You.
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Speaker 3: Throw a y'all in for you on this Friday.
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Speaker 2: And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you running with us. I maybe Robot and M d J.
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Speaker 3: Holmes runs in
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Friday, June twenty sixth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robine and on TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 3: Thrilling nights, thrilling nights we get in World Cup every night, we get Love Island every night, thrilling, late.
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Speaker 2: Nights, exhausting. It's all right, Is it all worth it? Yes?
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Speaker 3: There it is. Yes, Good morning to you all. If you didn't see it last night, the US men's national team lost first time and it worke up last night.
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Speaker 2: I did not see it last night.
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Speaker 3: I know you didn't see it because you weren't sitting next to me as I was watching. But this, okay, it that it's fine. They had already won the group. It's fine. The movie it changed nothing, but it turned out to be a thrilling game roads. They lost to Turkey a three to two. On a literal, the last kick of the game went in for Turkey, a score, a goal, and that was it.
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Speaker 2: It was thrilling.
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Speaker 1: And you know what, Look, Turkey isn't advancing, but that was a huge win for them to end their World Cup moment with a win.
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Speaker 3: You should it looked like they just won the World Cup after they won, and that was cool to see. That's a very good point to make this They've been playing out in l A and they kept showing. I swear to god, I saw more celebrity shots than I did of the actual players.
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Speaker 2: During the game. That's funny.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, your boys, Ed Norton and Brad Pitt just standing there chilling, casually, hanging.
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Speaker 2: Out, you know, watching a World Cup game.
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Speaker 3: You boys for some reason, both of those.
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Speaker 2: I'll take it.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, but those guys, the US men's national team, we know they're going to play next Wednesday, Wednesday, July first, in the knockout stage against Boston.
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Speaker 2: Here we go. What time is that? You know? To me, it.
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Speaker 3: Doesn't don't start that, but yes, I just want to give that update and have an upbeat, actually update as we start the morning run, because we got several heavy, heavy stories to get to. But we're going to be making stops today in Florida and Caracas and DC and Fiji also in the Strait of Horror Moves. But let's get started on this run with a pretty big duh.
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Speaker 1: That's a report because new numbers are confirming what Americans already know and have certainly been feeling that, Yes, indeed, prices are going up. Official inflation numbers out yesterday show inflation hit four point one percent in May, and for perspective, that is the highest number we've seen in three years.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and no surprises, has been driven by energy costs, and those costs have been driving up because of the war with Iran, the war robes that we have been told is over. But now, just days after the much talked about Memorandum of Understanding, there appears to be a misunderstanding in the Strait of Hormos.
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Speaker 1: The US says Iran fired on a ship that was trying to pass through the strait, you know, that same strait that President Trump has.
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Speaker 2: Said is free and clear.
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Speaker 1: No injuries, thankfully, were reported, but the vessel did sustain some damage. And here's the issue. The US and Iran disagree over what designated route ships should use when going through this strait. So if they don't go through the right passage, Iran's just going to fire at them.
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Speaker 3: They have the understanding that they are in control of the strait. This is where we told you all to go, and that this is a warning. So now this slows down traffic that it opened up because everybody's company's a little hesitanting what's going on?
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Speaker 1: Do I want to get shot at? Do I want to take the chance that I'm going down the wrong way?
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Speaker 2: Yikes?
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Speaker 3: So this is not a good start.
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Speaker 1: Rose.
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Speaker 3: We just got this new sixty day ceasefire period where they're going to be talking again about what to do ultimately about the nuclear program. Yes, that's where we are, and whatever's in this memorandum of understanding. The President says one thing, Iran says another, and they completely contradict each other.
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Speaker 2: So we wait, alrighty, then, well, next up on the run.
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Speaker 1: Round the clock rescue efforts continue in Venezuela after back to back powerful earthquakes two nights ago. Look, this number is going to change. It's been changing dramatically, unfortunately in the wrong direction. But as of this recording, the official death toll has risen to two hundred thirty five forty three hundred injured, but hundreds of people remain missing.
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Speaker 3: All right, Next, Lego bar Run will take us out to Las Vegas for a shocking update on a story we were talking about yesterday and Rogues. This was a story you brought to my attention. I mean, the details were already Holy hell, and now add this to it. This is a really shocking update.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that former youth pastor who was just arrested in the twenty year old murder of his wife has now died in police custody. We're talking about David Vandermere. He was charged this week with first degree murder and insurance fraud for the two thousand and six death of his wife, Bernadette.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, she felt to her death on a hike. It was an anniversary wedding anniversary hike with her husband. He claimed this was an accident, but new tips in recent years or started coming in that led police to reopen this case. Now rose. They didn't say exactly how he died, but said he was taken to the hospital with self sustained injuries. So he did die by suicide is what they are confirming. But my goodness, what a story. Twenty years and it's thought we were going to get some answers and that's going to be justice and just like that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we were talking about the trial and what that was going to be like and what we were going to learn and yep, some justice for the family. Of Bernadette. But wow, that came to a shocking end yesterday, all right. Next up on the run, Florida carried out its nation leading ninth execution of the year last night, and in doing so, Dusty Ray Spencer became the oldest executed inmate in that state's history.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was seventy four years old. He was declared dead around six ten last night local time, after being given a lethal injection. He was convicted for the brutal murder of his wife. And when we say brutal, it was brutal, and this attack happened in front of her teenage son. They did ask him rolls. He did have last words, curious what you we haven't discussed this ahead of time, Curious what you thought about this?
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was a nod to the family, but it also was more about him. His last words were sorry, sorry to the family. Into thy hands, I commit my spirit and my soul. I'm on my way, Lord, I'm on my way, amen.
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Speaker 3: And that's it. And that's the end of Dusty Ray Spencer. Now, a lot has been talked about on this one. Rome's because, yes, the brutality of his crime, but also the fact that he was seventy four, the oldest in the state.
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Speaker 2: Well, meet another seventy four year old?
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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 2: Another one?
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Speaker 3: Is it next week?
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Speaker 1: It's July fourteenth, so it's a couple of weeks from now. But he too is seventy four. He's twelve days younger than Dusty Ray was. But yes, apparently the state of Florida is unafraid to.
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Speaker 2: Carry it. Yeah, carry out the justice, no matter how long it took.
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Speaker 1: And I believe this seventy four year old who's about to be executed next month has been on death row for an exorbitant amount of time, like forty years plus.
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Speaker 2: I believe all right, next up on the run.
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Speaker 1: The Trump administration has put out what amounts to a wanted post poster for an individual who put her hands in his reflecting poole.
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Speaker 3: This is what we're doing. Now, you touch the pool, you are going to face federal charges.
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Speaker 2: And get your face on a wanted post.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not wild about this. The Park Service released the video yesterday that appears to show someone putting their hands in the reflecting pool. Now, the image or at least the video they show rold just from a distance, and they have to zoom in for you to see this person, and you lose a lot of resolution. You can't see that well. But it does appear from my view that this person does put their hands fully in the water and is examining something or trying to pull something up. It doesn't look like full sabotage that they're trying to essentially charge with.
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Speaker 1: Now, all right, So here's what the Park Service put out on X. The United States Park Police is seeking assistance and identifying the individual depicted here in connection with a destruction of government property investigation. The incident occurred on June nineteenth, at approximately three point thirty six pm at the reflecting Pool on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial in DC. I mean, my goodness, middle of the day. Woman goes, probably sees something floating or just.
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Speaker 3: Curious about that. Everybody's curious about this blue stuff that's floating around everybody. You put your hand on one, and so something that's already coming apart. Correct, you take a piece, but you're now being blamed for the destruction. It robes those images. This lady. I am sorry for her because you can see her very well, and she is now going to become the face of vandalism at that pool. She is going to be the face of the algae, the face of the blue stuff coming up. They have somebody efface the blame.
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Speaker 1: They can put her mugshot right next to the three time Olympian who also is being charged.
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Speaker 3: But this was Oh, they grow those images of her. It looks like she's like a hardcore criminal image.
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Speaker 2: Not not.
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Speaker 3: She doesn't look like that.
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Speaker 2: Right, but they're making it seems.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, the entire reflecting pool is going to be drained after the fourth of July to start.
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Speaker 2: Anew woo all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, the Supreme Court handed President Trump a couple of wins on his immigration agenda. In one ruling, the court cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport hundreds of thousands in the country under temporary protected status known as TPS.
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Speaker 3: Its legal status afforded to people who might face threats in their own countries. Then, in another ruling, the court gave the okay for the administration to turn away asylum seekers at the border. The administration really thought this was a very important tool. Usually when you seek asylum, you have to physically be in the country to do so. They say they can be turned away if you are standing a foot from the border, turn you around.
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Speaker 2: Wow, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, the jury in the federal trial of the man accused of starting that devastating Pacific Palisades fire is actually having a hard time coming to a consensus. Jurors are reporting they are deadlocked after two days of deliberations.
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Speaker 3: Jonathan Rendner connect is his name. He's accused of starting the fire that eventually became the Palisades Fire. It devastated the La neighborhood. We all remember the fire burned more than twenty three thousand acres, destroyed seven thousand structures, and yes, it did result in twelve deaths.
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Speaker 1: Jurors reported to the judge that there are two jurors who are just dug in and refuse to change their position. So you've got, yeah, not one, but two. They're back for deliberations this morning. But we shall see what the judge instructs them to do. My guess is to keep deliberating.
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Speaker 3: All right. We'll stay with us on this Friday morning run when we come back. We got an update on Lionel Ritchie after we saw him have to sit down during a performance. Also got some news from tennis legend Chris Everett about her cancer returning. And we also finally, finally, Alana has left Love Island. Nope, bit was not voluntary.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to our Friday morning RUNA next up on the run, Linel Ritchie is resting and recovering after a scary episode on the first night of his tour. He was performing at the United Center in Chicago Tuesday night when he actually had to stop and sit down in the middle of his performance.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was something to see. I mean, it wasn't that alarming. He didn't seem like he was having a major medical issue. But he's up there singing robes. He went and found the first available step and sat down. He told the audience at the time, quote, when you're feeling dizzy, sits.
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Speaker 2: Your ass down. Good advice.
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Speaker 3: He has now postponed the next couple of shows, but plans to return to the tour next week. And this is one of those things ropes. He looks great, he's seventy seven.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, but I guess it is a little alarming. This was just the first night of his tour. It's not like he'd been on tour for six weeks and all this stress and exhaustion of it came came crashing down on him.
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Speaker 3: Who I assume he hasn't just been sitting around resting food American idol.
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Speaker 2: He's busy. He's a busy, busy working man. But my goodness, that's scary, all right.
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Speaker 3: He was wearing a leather he was.
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Speaker 2: I did see it, maybe got a little hot.
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Speaker 3: I can't ever pull that off.
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Speaker 2: Leather doesn't breathe, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, tennis legend Chris Everett announced she is going to miss out on covering Wimbledon because she just found out her cancer has returned. You may remember she was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer back in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 2: The next year she announced she was cancer free.
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Speaker 1: It came back, but in twenty twenty four she announced that once again she was cancer free.
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Speaker 3: Well, well, if she's sharing this news and already it sounds like she had gotten the news in her I guess she's already on the way to recovery, or at least treating. What's going on now? She said, quote, I have already undergone surgery as the first step in my treatment and recovery, and will begin chemotherapy in the coming weeks, so it's gonna be you'd hate to what she's going through. Fine, I miss her coverage.
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Speaker 1: No, she's fantastic. She knows she knows her stuff. I mean, she is a legend, and look, we wish her well. That's gonna be tough. Ovarian cancer is a tough beast to battle, and going through those rounds of chemo is not going to be easy.
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Speaker 2: So I wish for the best.
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Speaker 3: He says this, the back and forth, the back and forth. She's cancer free, it comes back, he's cancer free.
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of folks are are hesitant to even say I'm cancer free because they don't really know. You can't say yes, they can go look at tumor markers, but it can be in your blood on microscopic levels, and it's it was always there, and it just it blooms back.
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Speaker 2: It's tough.
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Speaker 3: Remission and cancer free aren't interchangeable, or are they.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I just I stay away from them, just because I do think that there's just it's it's I don't know, it's maybe it's just a thing.
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Speaker 2: You just get.
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Speaker 1: I get nervous about jinxing anything, so you just say, right now, everything looks good.
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Speaker 2: You just don't know.
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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the run, Alana has left the building. This is the final leg of our run.
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Speaker 2: And we've been waiting for this one.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's like a house guest that won't leave. We've been waiting on how to be gone.
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Speaker 1: Just I think we're getting an indication as to what the how long or how far in advanced they record these things. Look, when all of this came out that Alana had made some racial slur years back in the video resurfaced, I think they had already recorded and edited stuff, so they just they edited her out of the episode before this one, and all of a sudden in the middle twenty minutes into last night's episode, it just quickly you hear the narrator just say Alana has left.
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Speaker 2: And that's it.
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Speaker 3: So we look, I don't know how to feel about how they handle it Love Island. This time around, they kind of just let her fade away. They knew she wasn't going to be a big player. Why put out a big statement, just this is gonna go away. It's it's done, it's over. They made one line and she's out of there. I rose, my my I don't. I'm not okay with what she did and what we saw in the video of her saying the in word, even rapp into a song. But my heart hurts for her. She's going to turn on a phone and wrote to her whole world.
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Speaker 1: It's happening right now to her, you know it is, And just to have just to go back and go back into society and always just have that.
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Speaker 2: You know that that I like you.
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Speaker 1: You're never gonna lose that you're a racist. Maybe she learns a lot, maybe everyone learns more. You keep thinking people are going to learn, kids are gonna learn, they're not gonna do some of this stupid stuff because they keep seeing this play out over and over and over again. But I guess some of these videos go back so many years. You can't undo. It's already been done. But hopefully people stop.
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Speaker 3: Just stop, please stop.
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Speaker 2: And don't make videos of it and post it.
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Speaker 3: I would say, just don't do.
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Speaker 1: It, yes, step one, obviously, step one, don't do it. But if you're dumb enough to do it, don't put it out there for the world to see.
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Speaker 3: We don't want to label this girl. Don't know anything about her in her heart and what's in her heart, and we have not all covering this called her a racist, no at all, But lady, you can't. People please stop. If you're not.
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Speaker 2: Black, stop, don't say it. I don't care.
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Speaker 3: Your favorite rapper, your favorite all time, and all your friends are black. I don't care where you live if you ain't black. Stop, I don't. I just I didn't know. He still needs to give that education.
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Speaker 2: Just maybe just a little reminder. I'm sure there'll be another one. All right.
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Speaker 1: On this Friday, we have your quote of the day from one of my favorites.
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Speaker 2: Marcus Aurelius. Here we go. I love him.
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Speaker 1: A man wastes his life preparing for a future that was never promised, while the only life he truly owns passes quietly through his hands.
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Speaker 3: Get to the labs, Budy passes quietly through his hands with it.
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Speaker 2: Without him even noticing.
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Speaker 1: Because he's so his eye is on the future and preparing for the future, he misses what's happening right now, and all of a sudden, you're like, wait, where did my life go? Because he kept looking to the future to prepare for the future, he missed the life he actually had.
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Speaker 3: It's been a long week. I don't you should have started the week when I was fresher, started with this one on Monday.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll read it one more time for all of y'all so you can enjoy what you have right now.
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Speaker 1: A man wastes his life preparing for a future that was never promised, while the only life he truly owns passes quietly through his hands.
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Speaker 2: I take from that.
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Speaker 1: Make the vacation plans book, the flights book, the crews book, the road trip.
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Speaker 2: Do it now.
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Speaker 1: People say in a year or in five years, or when I've got more money, or people think about that when it comes to a lot of folks getting married or whatever.
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Speaker 2: The next step. I've got to get this in place before I can do this. Live live, y'all. You don't know what tomorrow brings.
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Speaker 1: You.
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Speaker 3: Throw a y'all in for you on this Friday.
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Speaker 2: And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you running with us. I maybe Robot and M d J.
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Speaker 3: Holmes runs in