(Monday) Morning Run: 8 Killed in PA Shooting, Judge Stops Trump Ads, Christa Pike Back in Prison, Ella Langley Concert Threat, Pope’s Surgery, Trump’s Holiday Message, Kelly Clarkson/Pretty Woman, & MORE!

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Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, October 12th. I'm Amy Robach.

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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. It's a federal holiday. What do we call it?

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Speaker 1: I mean, in New York, they call it Columbus Day. They lean into it. There are a lot of Italian-Americans here in this part of the country, and they don't shy away from calling it Columbus Day.

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Speaker 2: And what do we, it really does. It depends on where you are and what you call it. But federally speaking, this is Columbus Day. locally in a lot of places, yes, Indigenous People's Day, but either way, folks got a day off. Are they getting the parade going here? Oh, yeah. The weather's going to be okay.

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Speaker 1: The weather's going to be spectacular, actually, 71 and sunny. It's kind of perfect. The parade starts at 1130 this morning here in New York City, up and down Fifth Avenue, Midtown to 72nd Street.

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Speaker 2: And I mentioned weather because it was a, I mean, I guess a total washout, start to finish yesterday. We were getting remnants up in this area from Isaias. The cost fits. It was bad in several places, obviously, but Robes, it widely has been said that it was not as bad as it could have been or even that was predicted to be.

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Speaker 1: Thank goodness. Now, there were four deaths we should report, I believe, in Florida and Alabama, falling trees, that sort of thing. But for the most part, you're correct. I remember we woke up and thinking it was going to be terrible. Saturday morning, it said sustained winds of eight miles per hour. I mean, it broke up. It dumped a lot of rain. But it broke up in terms of wind speed pretty quickly upon making landfall.

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Speaker 2: So I guess we should be grateful for the little blessings in that. But wherever you may be, hope you're getting off to a good holiday start today. We got a lot of stops to make on this Monday morning run. A lot is being talked about and buzzed about out there. including, yes, folks, we will talk about the Kelly Clarkson thing. But we'll also make stops this morning in Erie, Pennsylvania, the Vatican, Nashville, Tulsa, the White House briefing room, as well as the box office. But we should start. Big holidays, something like this. People are celebrating or commemorating some part of history. Oftentimes, look to the president to hear some uplifting, encouraging holiday message. And President Trump did deliver one of those via Truth Social.

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Speaker 1: Yes, isn't it? It was such a kumbaya moment for him. Yes, we'll read it just and let you hear it for what it is. Happy Columbus Day to all. In particular, our great Italian-American community, which was forced to suffer as the radical left Democrats, socialists, and communists rampaged through our cities and towns, ripping down almost all of the beautiful statues of Christopher Columbus. Well, those days of plunder are over, and the statues are back, more magnificent than ever. This is a big day for our great Italian-American community, and the country of Italy itself may be the biggest. Congratulations.

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Speaker 2: And with that, happy Columbus Day to you all. Let's continue on our run on this Columbus Day now. And, Robes, we cannot believe we are talking about this again. It has happened again. Another mass shooting. in which a man essentially wipes out his family. This time, yes, it's in Pennsylvania, in Rose. This time we are talking eight people are dead.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and among the dead, two children and a pregnant woman who was days away from giving birth. And police have confirmed that the shooter who took his own life is related to the victims. He's being described by most news outlets as the patriarch of his family. This happened late Friday in Erie, Pennsylvania. And police say, and they describe them as two distressed women running to the home, banging on the door. That's when the suspect came back out and shot them both before going back into the home.

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Speaker 2: But then when police did arrive, yes, they found the two women dead outside and inside. They found a five-year-old boy, one-year-old girl. They also found two more women and two, what's being described as young men, in the house. There is no motive that we know of in this case, but robes we have been covering for the past three, four, five months. Famillicide. Guys who are wiping out their families in these mad robes. This is several now that we've seen above six dead.

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Speaker 1: It's shocking that it just keeps happening and happening. Look on our feed. We're going to go into all the details we know about this killing up next. So look for that later on in our feed. But in the meantime, next up on the run, a federal judge has stepped in and ordered the Trump administration to stop airing controversial campaign style ads.

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Speaker 2: Surprised by this.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we should be surprised by this.

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Speaker 2: No, that the judge stepped in.

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Speaker 1: Oh, no, not surprised at all.

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Speaker 2: This was illegal from the gym.

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Speaker 1: Right, that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Like, obviously illegal. Why? Why?

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Speaker 1: So, yes, they're controversial because the administration was using taxpayer money, yes, yours and my money, to pay for these ads that were... campaign style.

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Speaker 2: Ads some of them were like plucked from the script of his previous presidential campaign ads bro this was stunning who said you're gonna get away with this and at the end of them you know it usually says paid for by the donald j trump that are paid for by whatever.

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Speaker 1: By the u.s tax dollars that's what it.

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Speaker 2: Said at the paid for by the u.s government is how they ended these So yes, that was our money. But yes, several groups immediately sued to stop what was seemingly a clear violation of federal law. The federal judge has now ordered the ads to be taken off immediately, removed from the air no matter what, and that no more DHS funds, yes, Department of Homeland Security, money from there, taxpayer money, was put over into these ads. Well, This judge said no DHS funds should be used to further develop or publish ads.

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Speaker 1: Do they have to reimburse the DHS?

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Speaker 2: I didn't see anything about that.

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Speaker 1: Because that is what I would think should happen, but who am I? All right, next up on the run... Execution survivor Krista Pike is out of the hospital, and she is already back behind bars.

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Speaker 2: Baby, help me. I was trying to... What do we call her? That seems almost wrong to say, but that's the truth. She's an execution survivor, is she not?

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Speaker 1: That is absolutely what she is. So she's been in the hospital since her September 30th botched execution in Tennessee, where she, yes, survived. After receiving two doses of pentobarbitrol, her attorneys say she's continuing to receive medical care, but she's in prison. So is it a prison hospital instead of a private hospital? And they claim she still has a long recovery ahead of her.

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Speaker 2: They only put it as she's receiving medical care. I guess they probably do have medical units, housing units, but yeah, she is back in prison. Rob, just to read the words that she has been discharged from a hospital, they must have thought she was doing well enough that they didn't. Need to give her specialized care. Well, the governor, of course, there in Tennessee, has placed a moratorium on executions for the rest of the year. But there's no official word on the question everybody's asking Robes. Is he going to commute her sentence? Because technically, I guess she's still on death row.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and look, he's going to be out of office here in less than a month. So, look, if the Republican who's expected to win, she seemed to be very bullish on continuing not only Krista Pike's execution, but all executions. So it'll be interesting to see if he decides to do anything with it before he leaves.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's in the market for an electric chair. Yes, she is. Blackburn, Marsha Blackburn.

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Speaker 1: Yep. All right. Meanwhile, let's go to Florida where they are scheduled to carry out another execution tomorrow night. James Robertson's lethal injection execution is set for noon tomorrow. He's on death row for the 2008 strangulation death of his cellmate. Get this. Robertson claimed he'd grown tired of imprisonment and killed his cellmate for the sole purpose of getting on death row where he said there were better conditions.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had been in prison already for a decade plus. He had spent so much time as a young man, been in prison. Roe said he got sick of it. So now he's 63, I think it is. And finally, his day is coming tomorrow. But get this, it was supposed to be somebody else's day as well. Florida was supposed to have two executions tomorrow. But in a first for Governor DeSantis, he rescinded the death warrant for 74-year-old William Lee Thompson. Thompson was convicted of a 1994 kidnapping and murder, but his attorney, excuse me, 1974 kidnapping and murder, but his attorneys have argued he should be spared because of his mental and physical health. He's 74. They had a psychiatrist have been coming in and examining this guy for the past month. They've been going back and forth from all I can see ropes to Santa's. This is the first time he's ever signed a death warrant and then took it back.

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Speaker 1: I want to hear more about that.

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Speaker 2: That's fascinating. We will hear plenty. Yes, we will be following up. You can expect to see A breakdown on our feed of certainly the execution that's coming up. Those details are wild. This guy wanted to die.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: And strangled somebody just to get on death row. Rose, my goodness.

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Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's somebody who no one's fighting.

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Speaker 2: To save his life.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. All right. Well, next up on the run. Country superstar Ella Langley canceled a weekend concert in Oklahoma just hours before she was set to take the stage, and her team cited something that's deeply concerning, quote, a serious security threat involving the safety of fans, venue personnel, that's funny that that just tripped me up so much, and the artist herself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all we got from them on, what was it, Friday night? They didn't give further details. It was supposed to happen in Tulsa, but Langley ended up performing the next night. The show did go on the next night. They were supposed to be in Lubbock, Texas. She told the folks on stage, I'd make the same decision 10 billion times over. But I'm very curious. Robes, they said they made this decision in coordination with local authorities and whatnot. Wow, that's a big deal.

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Speaker 1: What the heck was it?

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Speaker 2: Yes, what the heck was it? Wow.

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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run, CNN, Fox News, ABC News, NBC News, and CBS News are all under investigation by the Justice Department. The new probe was launched in response to the network's refusal to offer pool coverage for President Trump after he banned CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House.

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Speaker 2: You'll remember the TV networks actually stood in solidarity with the banned outlets, and now the DOJ says it's looking into whether that decision to ban together violated antitrust laws.

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me right now?

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Speaker 2: Something called the Sherman Act that they are specifically looking at, but that has to do with commerce. If you are collaborating for the sake of financial gain.

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Speaker 1: Bringing the price up.

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Speaker 2: This was a First Amendment thing they were doing. So most legal analyst stuff I'm reading is, this is silly, but still another escalation. The DOJ is reporting the biggest networks, or excuse me, investigating the biggest networks.

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Speaker 1: And the reason why they're being investigated is because they stood together in protection of their constitutional rights.

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Speaker 2: Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yes. All right.

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Speaker 1: Well, next up on the run, let's see how she handles all of this mess.

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Speaker 2: She'll be fine.

00:11:35
Speaker 1: Trump has a new press secretary.

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Speaker 2: She'd be fine.

00:11:38
Speaker 1: Katie Zakaria. Is that how we say her name?

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Speaker 2: Zachariah. Of course, I said it wrong. And I know how to say it because I've checked Fox News and how they introduced her, and clearly they know her.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Katie Zachariah. All right, that'll roll off the tongue easily the next time. Katie Zachariah will take over for Carolyn Leavitt, who left back in August. Zachariah has been in the Trump orbit for some time. She's helped on the campaign trail. She spent some time in the DHS press office, and she currently works, or she currently worked, as an advisor to the Trump Media Company. She's also done as TJ checked out, some commentary on Fox News. And the president wants us to know this. She's a, quote, devoted fan and member of MAGA. Trump actually wrote that. Think about this. The press secretary for the president of the United States, who is supposed to be issuing, I'm trying to think, vetted information, information we can trust, has been described as a Trump fan. A fan. What is happening?

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Speaker 2: He just wants his people to know she's on board.

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Speaker 1: She's on our side is what he wants them to know.

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Speaker 2: I get it. And they all are. I mean, I think we know that. He didn't have to announce it, but we know who he keeps close by. But, yeah, he did announce she's starting today, but she has her first press conference will be tomorrow in the White House briefing room. That's some must-see stuff.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait.

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Speaker 2: Still remember Carolyn Levitt's.

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Speaker 1: Oh, yes. We can have some fun with that. All right.

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Speaker 2: Well, stay with us, folks, on this Columbus Day morning run. When we come back, yes, we'll get into how Kelly Clarkson had her pretty woman moment and it might shut down a shop in Brooklyn. We will explain. Also coming up, Pope Leo is going into surgery. And also, we'll talk about this weekend's box office. It was disappointing in a lot of ways, even for the movie that came in number one. All right, welcome back, folks. We continue on this Monday morning run. Robes, how did we get here? A shop in Brooklyn versus Kelly Clarkson. This is a mess of a story that has really taken off on social media over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Yes. So Kelly Clarkson apparently was upset that she went to Brooklyn to look at this store that she thought was really cool. She wanted to buy something apparently that had a very hefty price tag on it. She claims the store... basically didn't think she could afford it and pointed her in a different direction. And she was upset about it and posted that for all to see on social media.

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Speaker 2: And you can imagine what happened to this store. It's called The Art of Play. It's on Atlantic. It's about, it is exactly, Robes, two stops on the train from us where we sit right now. It's a little shop in Brooklyn. It's kind of games and specialty stuff. Robes, they have been getting hounded. They have been getting attacked left and right, as you can imagine, by a lot of Kelly Clarkson's fans. They did put out a statement trying to clear things up. It didn't seem to go that far. But they have a different story to tell, at least Robes, about that interaction. And the thing is, we will never know exactly what happened. Two different sides have two different truths right now. And the facts are somewhere in the middle, and we'll never know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough. They say that they've been attacked by 8 million people. And by the way, Kelly Clarkson doubled down. She responded to their response, calling BS on it, saying she sent a picture of the price tag, saying clearly it's for sale. And other people have put things up saying they've always said it's not for sale. It's become a mascot of the store. They use it. for storytelling time with kids on the weekends.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's not for sale. We know that.

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Speaker 1: But it has a price tag on it, and so that's why she.

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Speaker 2: There's some confusion, but why can't we clear this up before a huge celebrity, six millions of people on this shop, over an interaction that I'm sure both human beings probably feel they'd have done something different.

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Speaker 1: There might have been some miscommunication.

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 1: Hurt feelings that went on.

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Speaker 2: And it came to this, and it just, these are the things, these are the stories I hate most, Robes. I hate them most.

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Speaker 1: Because they're unnecessary.

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Speaker 2: We are going to have a fuller breakdown and give you fuller thoughts of ours about what happened in this whole mess. You can look for that on our feed. It's coming up pretty soon after the morning run. But we continue here on the run now. Pope Leo, scheduled to have surgery this week after a lesion. That's how they put it, Robes. They said a lesion was found on his lung. Now, I'm not as familiar how serious this might sound. I'm sorry I'm leaning on you as my cancer expert. But they said this is a matter of precaution here.

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Speaker 1: Well, yes, but they're always going to downplay it a little bit when it's the Pope. And I do think anytime you hear lesion and lung, that is a scary thing. The Vatican announced that they found a nodular lesion during a routine checkup. He's 71 years old. To remind everyone, they say following doctor's advice, he's going to have it removed immediately. Look, they can be common, often benign, but yes, if you're going into surgery when you're 71 years old, doctors have a reason to do it. If they didn't think it was a big deal, they'd leave it alone. So we shall wait and see. They always try to downplay these things. They don't want to cause concern, especially when it's the Pope. So I think this is a wait and see moment, but certainly something to absolutely keep our eyes on.

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Speaker 2: He had that same smile on his face. He has such a sweet face.

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Speaker 1: He really does. I agree. Yeah, there were probably some sad faces at the box office this weekend.

00:17:27
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, this is how we'll wrap it up.

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Speaker 1: It was a rough, rough weekend.

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Speaker 2: A lot going on, babe.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we actually went to go see the number one movie of the weekend, and we knew ahead of time that it was also one of the worst reviewed releases of the year. And that was, we can get into that, a highly anticipated follow-up bombed, and Tom Cruise's new movie bombed even more, if that was possible.

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Speaker 2: How could he get more bad news for Digger? But first, let's start with Other Mommy. Number one, came in above expectations. Robes, $ 27. 5 million. That's not bad for a horror movie. However, Robes, this thing is getting brutally, brutally reviewed. You could add us to it to a certain degree. i understand where the rotten tomato score comes from.

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Speaker 1: Yes so we oftentimes will see the bad reviews go in and go oh my god it wasn't that bad or we liked it or critics are just way too artsy and you know value things that we don't uh we didn't like it we actually i was so disappointed at how much i didn't like it even knowing going into it that it was badly reviewed yeah it was not our favorite.

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Speaker 2: This yeah yeah it just can't recommend it i hate to No, we cannot. To say something's a bad movie or something, because so many people put work and effort and writing, and I mean, even the director, photographer, whatever, to put this on. And obviously we love some Jessica Justine.

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Speaker 1: And she was fantastic in the movie.

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Speaker 2: But it's just a bizarre movie. We couldn't recommend, but it did come in number one. But yeah, 17% on Rotten Tomatoes. That's not good. So whatever movie money it made this weekend is going to be it, because word is going to get out. People are not going to be going. to see this movie. The other new movie of the weekend, Social Reckoning, a follow-up to what year was Social Network?

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 2: Whenever that one was with Jesse Eisenberg. Well, this one was highly anticipated, Rope, 20 years for the follow-up. Fifth place, $ 5. 5 million. That's really, really bad. Wow.

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Speaker 1: And then Tom Cruise's Digger brought in another, what, $ 3 million or so?

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Speaker 2: $ 3. 2. So we knew it was a disaster. It only opened last weekend to $ 8 million, right, Rope? So Second weekend, you just mentioned $ 3. 2 million. That's a 60% decline. What do you expect? Yes, that's awful. But now Robes, this is being talked about potentially, is not just a major miss or a major flop. Historical nature, Robes, this could be the biggest money-losing movie in the history of cinema. Wow.

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Speaker 1: And I've actually, I saw this, there are some big names coming out supporting it, saying, I watched this movie, it's phenomenal, it's genius. Anne Hathaway, there was another big star who came out.

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Speaker 2: Guillermo del Toro, the director.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and by the way, it is, we agree, that is a movie that we saw and loved and couldn't believe. why people are panning it so much because it actually is a really fantastic film.

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Speaker 2: Well done. It's creative. It's bizarre.

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Speaker 1: It's well acted. We love Digger.

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Speaker 2: We recommend go see Tom Cruise act a fool for two hours. It is just a hell of a movie.

00:20:29
Speaker 1: Don't go see other mommy. Go see Digger. It's so funny. Isn't it?

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Speaker 2: I know. Digger won't be everybody's cup of tea either. Robes, it's bizarre as hell, but it is so beautifully shot. It's just... I loved it. We loved the movie. So there's your weekend box office. You got a quote of the day that goes along with this theme?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of funny, actually. I didn't mean for it, too, because I never know what the kicker is. I picked the quote yesterday, but it's from one of our favorites, Michael Singer. I hadn't heard this quote before, and I love it. The more you need life to go your way, the more likely it is to upset you. Oh, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Michael Singer. Oh, yeah. man ain't that the truth that's the only reason you pissed off because things didn't go.

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Speaker 1: Your way exactly one of his i say this to myself often it goes in line with something i always remember everything will be okay as long as you're okay with everything and that is the truth and that is the key to peace and it's hard to do in the moment but the more you need life to go your way the more likely it is to upset you just remember that it is about expectations uh Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: I don't think anything pisses me off in a day. More than anything, the thing's not going the way I had planned them out.

00:21:41
Speaker 1: Seriously. It's so true. You are.

00:21:42
Speaker 2: That's it.

00:21:43
Speaker 1: Yes. And it's not human nature to.

00:21:46
Speaker 2: Always when somebody else messes it up, like somebody else messes up my schedule.

00:21:50
Speaker 1: When you mess up, you're the cruelest to yourself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I know that stuff's not supposed to happen.

00:21:55
Speaker 1: See, supposed to. That's an evil phrase.

00:21:58
Speaker 2: But I have control over the things that end up going wrong. Do I not? And I go, ah, that mistake. I missed something and it wouldn't have happened. That's me.

00:22:07
Speaker 1: It's because you're a human being and not a robot. The more you need life to go your way, the more likely it is to upset you.

00:22:14
Speaker 2: You know, we were supposed to be done with this in 20 minutes and now it's 22. So we are already off schedule with this freaking episode.

00:22:21
Speaker 1: And with that, everyone, we hope you have a wonderful Monday. I'm Amy Robot.

00:22:25
Speaker 2: And I am Mr. Roboto. Talk soon.