(Monday) Morning Run: Networks Denied WH Access, Another ICE Shooting, Cindy Crawford Son Dead, Concern for Kate Beckinsale, Patrick Clancy Speaks, Ed Sheeran Speaks, Resident Evil Rules, Converse Apologizes, & MORE!

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Monday, September 21st.

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Speaker 3: I'm Amy Robach.

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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes, wherever you might be. Hope you had a wonderful, wonderful weekend that included maybe some college football. Hope it went well for you. It was another wild weekend, just week three. Groves, a lot is happening in college football, as always. It's always fun now. We have something on Mondays.

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Speaker 3: To talk about. Yes.

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Speaker 2: Georgia, Arkansas, we were lucky enough to be able to go see our two alma maters face off. And look, it wasn't as bad as we thought it could be.

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Speaker 1: Actually, it was worse. Because, yes, Arkansas is now a national joke. Arkansas is now a national story because fans are actually boycotting. And not showing up to these games. And now things are being forced. Yes, Arkansas is a national headline because of the wrong reasons. And that sucks. But we'll get it together.

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Speaker 2: But we had fun visiting all the friends and family and all of that.

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Speaker 3: And you know what?

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Speaker 2: Fall feels because today actually is officially the last day of summer.

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow is the first day of fall.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be the best week ever. It just feels good. Everything feels good. So wherever you are, I hope you're getting off to a good start on this Monday. We're going to be making stops in Philadelphia at the United Nations. We're going to make a stop in Mayor Mamdani's mansion this morning. Also at the White House Press Room, Los Angeles, Austin, Texas, as well as at the box office. Let's get caught up here, Robes. Let's start. We actually have several developing stories, one having to do with the press ban at the White House, another having to do with Cindy Crawford's son we're just getting word about has passed away, and also another ice shooting in Austin. So a lot to get you caught up on, Robes. Let's start with what is not quite a constitutional crisis yet, but this is. Let's go to court.

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Speaker 3: It's outrageous.

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Speaker 2: We'll begin with outrage and outrageousness because, yes, journalists from CNN— MSNOW and Politico have been banned from covering the White House. President Trump announced the, yes, obviously, clearly unconstitutional ban on Friday in a Truth Social post.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, I am proud to announce that effective immediately. I am banning fake news, CNN, MSNOW and Politico. He says here, Rose, he's banned him from the White House as a result of their constant reporting fake news. He continues media outlets shouldn't be able to constantly write or report fiction and lies when they're covering the President of the United States, the Trump administration, and the United States of America. Other fake news media outlets to follow. He's going to try this with some other folks. Everybody is going to take him to court over this. Everybody will get their press credentials back.

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Speaker 2: Why?

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Speaker 1: You can't do this, obviously.

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Speaker 2: It's like a two-year-old throwing a tantrum because he doesn't like.

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Speaker 3: What people are writing about him. I don't understand.

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Speaker 2: So, yes, the president didn't just write that. He did follow through with it. And officially, this weekend, journalists from those three outlets were denied access to the White House.

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Speaker 3: Their credentials were taken from them.

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Speaker 2: So, yeah.

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Speaker 1: We don't know what's going to happen with the U.N. He's supposed to be coming to the U.S. to the U.N. today, to New York. Rope CNN is the assigned press pool.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 1: Are the other networks going to say, you know what? You're not going to let our colleagues do it. We're not going to either. We could be left without actual independent coverage of the president is what we're worried about.

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Speaker 2: Because their press credentials have been taken. I mean, they can't get into the White House. Are they still allowed to cover him when he's elsewhere?

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Speaker 1: Nope. Credentials. You cannot cover this guy have been taken away. But again, they're supposed to be the pool reporters for his visit. Rogues not having an independent camera, a news agency on the president of the United States. This is developing.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, this does not take place in a democratic nation, clearly.

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Speaker 3: So, yes, much more to come on that story today.

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Speaker 2: But in the meantime, I'm sure many of you have or are waking up to the news, and it's just devastating. Your heart breaks for Cindy Crawford, the 27-year-old son of supermodel Cindy Crawford, has passed away. We don't have a lot of details this morning. But we know Presley Gerber, the oldest child of Crawford and her husband, Randy Gerber, has died, yeah, just 27.

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Speaker 3: So young.

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Speaker 1: How old is the sister? She's younger.

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Speaker 3: She's younger. I believe she's in her mid-20s.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, she is right now in the middle of a great, successful run. She has a new show. and whatnot that's on. But anyway, you were the one that told me, you said you just kind of followed this family because they're just a gorgeous group of people.

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Speaker 3: They're gorgeous. I don't know. They seemed always so sweet. They were always together in all their pictures. He was kind of a big brother.

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Speaker 2: And there were reports over the years, and he's been very vocal about his struggles with mental health and substance abuse.

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Speaker 1: Well, we don't have a cause of death. It has not been announced. But he did die at a rehab facility. facility, according to the LA Medical Examiner, but that is a developing story. Expecting to get more on that. Want to continue and head down to Austin now. A DoorDash delivery driver was shot by ICE agents in Austin on Sunday, and yes, reportedly, while making deliveries.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Homeland Security didn't release the details of the shooting, but did say that the agency, quote, is leading the investigation into the officer-involved shooting of an illegal alien from Venezuela, their words, who illegally entered our country under the Biden administration and had a final order of removal during a law enforcement operation today in Austin, Texas. The illegal alien's condition is stable, and he is in federal custody pending removal.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: To say illegal alien twice in one sentence about a man you just shot, just, ugh.

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Speaker 1: The Biden thing got me. We just shot a guy. It's Biden's fault. I added that statement. And it's fine. We have no idea the circumstances and what might have been going on and how he might have done anything. But the statement is what it is. The man has been identified as a 28-year-old man from Venezuela. Venezuela. Continuing here on the run, highly anticipated, Robes. Last night we caught this as it was happening on 60 Minutes. Yes, Patrick Clancy speaks. Yes, we heard from the ex-husband of Lindsay Clancy last night in a 60 Minutes interview. This is the only time we've heard from him, Robes, since we saw him on day one and two of testimony during the trial.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he talked about that testimony and how he actually had to take a break because he was having a full-blown panic attack and he almost had to leave in an ambulance. There were some really interesting details that came out that we hadn't heard before about baby Callan's final few days and the time he got to spend, excuse me, with his son before he eventually passed. Talked about Lindsay never actually asking for forgiveness.

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Speaker 3: I thought that was interesting. But he says, I gave it to her anyway.

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Speaker 1: The four days thing, talking about Callan, I think that got me more than anything. And just to hear him speak, not about the trial, not about Lindsay, not about the crime, but just about his child and how grateful he was that his eight-month-old survived for four days and to have that time. That was the part that got me most. And of course, he addressed all this stuff coming his way, the accusations, allegations that he was the one. What would you call this, Robes Online? An online attack, an assault?

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Speaker 3: It Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: He has been just ripped online from people who are frankly making stuff up.

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Speaker 2: They're making stuff up for clicks and they're making stuff up for likes and for, you know, increased subscriptions.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty disgusting.

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Speaker 1: It's mean. It's wrong. And he says it is doing harm. And in particular, he said it's doing harm to the legacy of the kids. Now, we will have more on this and more of a breakdown in our thoughts. Of course, you all know we watched every single second almost of that trial. We'll give you our thoughts on what he said and more about what he said in an upcoming episode in our feed. Also, I want you to know the DA has not yet announced whether or not he is going to retry Clancy for the killing.

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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, Princess Diana's brother is accusing the king now of gaslighting him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this has been basically a daily.

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Speaker 2: He's.

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Speaker 1: Drip, drip, dripping it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say, a daily drip of what's coming in his book, which is officially being released tomorrow. But my goodness, he has had how many days now of constant press headlines because.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: He's coming after the king.

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Speaker 2: And the king had some comments about the book, or at least Buckingham Palace did.

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Speaker 1: Sweetheart, the first excerpt that came out was about, he recalled a story and he said the king said that people will forget about Princess Di soon enough or something like that. That was bad enough. I said, holy hell. But I thought, okay, he's recalling one story. It makes the king look bad. Robes, excerpt after excerpt. He is on a mission to go after this guy. No, no, no, this is different now.

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Speaker 2: This is 30 years of pent-up anger and resentment towards a man who he believes, I'm sure, is in part responsible for his sister's death. So you can see all of that anger, saying that Prince, or now King Charles, was giddy, giddily elated.

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Speaker 3: Upon hearing the news that his sister had died, yes.

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Speaker 2: So he did have some very interesting words about what the king said. Remember that initial statement from Buckingham Palace said that the king was mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment, and color memory.

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Speaker 3: It was a very polite way of saying that Charles Spencer was lying.

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Speaker 1: It was a hell of a... It was dismissive. It was condescending. as, oh, he just don't remember things right. His heart is broken.

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Speaker 3: His grief is clouding his judgment.

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Speaker 1: It was a really crappy statement that was written in the best British politeness, I guess, it was wrapped in. But now here comes Spencer responding to that, quote, well, it's not every day you're gaslit by the king, but I was really upset with that because I thought it was very Not only condescending, but not straight. What I said is straight and true. What did they come back with? That. It doesn't say he didn't say it either. That's what I found interesting. I was really shocked, actually.

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Speaker 3: You said the same thing.

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Speaker 1: What is not in that statement?

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Speaker 3: He did not deny that he said it. Wow.

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Speaker 1: This dude is coming for the king. Stand by, folks.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, guess who's coming to Gracie Mansion? While in New York this week, as we just mentioned, for the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump says, yeah, he's going to make a stop by his good old pal, Mayor Mamdani, at the New York mayor's residence.

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Speaker 1: Are they dating at this point?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: I mean, what?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know politics makes strange bedfellows. Is that what they say?

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Speaker 1: Yes. He's swinging by the house. Yes, Mayor Mamdani's office announced the two will meet at Gracie Mansion today to discuss issues affecting New Yorkers. It was very vague how they put that, but the president is then going to address the U.N. General Assembly. It starts in New York on Tuesday. The Count is robed. 130 world leaders are coming to Manhattan.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, we should not get in our vehicle not once.

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Speaker 3: We're walking everywhere.

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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, concern this morning for actress Kate Beckinsale after she posted, then deleted, some troubling messages on social media. First, she posted a black screen on her regular feed that included only the word buy on it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was followed by another post that read, quote, congratulations, you won, I give up. Now, these posts were later deleted, as well as all of her previous Instagram posts. Robes, you were looking at her page. It's blank. But she has how many, whatever, million followers?

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Speaker 3: 5.6 million followers.

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Speaker 1: Zero posts.

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Speaker 3: Zero posts.

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Speaker 1: Is what it says. Now, as of this recording this morning, we have not heard from her reps. Again, Broke, this could be a matter of she's done with social media and just said bye. But we've seen, Robes, and even recently, some celebrities reach out and do things on social media. So that's why. And it's fair that people are concerned because they don't know what the hell is going on.

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Speaker 2: It's cryptic and it could mean multiple things. And there is a significant level of concern for her mental health well-being, at least at this point. All right.

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Speaker 1: We're keeping an eye on that. But stay with us on this Monday morning run. When we come back, we finally heard from Ed Sheeran in his first concert since Macklemore got kicked off the tour. We'll tell you what he said. Also coming up, we've got another controversial ad in which it Well, the shoe company this time is accused of overlooking some pretty racist imagery, we'll explain. And the weekend box office has prompted Robach and I to make movie plans for today.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to your Monday morning run. Next up on the run, Ed Sheeran held his first concert Saturday night since Macklemore was booted from the tour. He was in Philly and he performed a show without any opening acts. Remember, they all pulled out in solidarity with Macklemore after his Free Palestine remarks.

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Speaker 3: During the new jersey shows.

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Speaker 1: And before he played a single song on saturday sharon delivered prepared remarks in which he said he was making mistakes he didn't get specific about the mistakes and he said also i'm sorry he did acknowledge the horror of the october 7th attacks by hamas but then said quote what is happening in gaza is catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate he vowed that the tour is going to go on didn't mention anything about more opening acts but this was uh A prepared statement. He read it from a teleprompter up there. He cried. Three plus minutes.

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Speaker 2: He got weepy. He had to wipe some tears from his eyes. I mean, it's been an emotional week, I would imagine, being Ed Sheeran.

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Speaker 1: The behind the scenes, I cannot imagine. Talking to billionaires and whatnot.

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Speaker 2: And having your house band say, see you later, we're out of here. That couldn't have felt good at all. He's literally stuck in the middle.

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Speaker 1: But the show did go on. But like you said, Rob, he got it out of the way early. He didn't want to have that hanging over his head. You know what? Another thing he said, babe, he did. You and I will understand this. He took out the center stage part of his show. And he mentioned this in the show that, you know, I took it out. I didn't know if it was going to be OK for me to be in the middle or anything. He didn't say I might be in danger, but he kind of alluded to that wouldn't be a good idea.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: So something he does, folks, in his show, he does it like every three or four or something songs.

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Speaker 3: It was pretty impressive.

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Speaker 1: That this bridge comes out, this automated bridge from the front stage that goes to a center stage, and he can walk back and forth. And it comes out automatically. We have video of it. It was right over our heads.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like walking over us.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: He said, yeah, I didn't know how that was going to go to be out in the middle of everybody. So that was one of the coolest parts of the show.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's a bummer. Oh, well, he is adjusting, I guess.

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Speaker 2: There's some adjustment going on over at Converse right now, to put it mildly. Yes, they've apologized and pulled one of their online ads after some criticism came out that it invoked KKK imagery. The ad features K-pop star Karina. She's wearing a long white skirt and showing off some black Converse.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what's the problem with the ad? At one point, the lighting... against her skirt, hits just the right way with a shadow that it seems to form a triangle hood. That is true. And because the thing is white, it looks a certain way. She's also holding black shoes, black Converse shoes. And she's holding them there in such a way right next to that white skirt that they're dangling. And folks are saying it invokes the image of someone hanging from a tree and those are their feet.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to look at it a couple times to see it, and then when I knew what I was looking for, I definitely saw it. There are even folks who say she's standing on a Converse star, but the way her feet are, it just has the three things, and it looks like three Ks. So if you think the K, K, K, the hood, and then it does look the way, because her head is cut off in this part of the ad.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you only see her waist down.

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Speaker 3: Correct, so it looks like feet are dangling. It really does.

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Speaker 2: I was like, ooh.

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Speaker 3: And so Converse released this statement. We're sorry.

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Speaker 2: We understand why this image is deeply upsetting and recognize that we got this wrong. We removed it from our channels and are working to remove it everywhere it appeared. This should not have happened, and we will do better.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of this one. This is one, Robes, if you hadn't told me ahead of time, I would have just gone past the ad. I wouldn't have seen it. I would have had to stop and study it to come up with that, but I see what folks are talking about. Well, Converse released a statement saying sorry, so they're acknowledging a mistake was made.

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Speaker 2: And it looks like that was nothing deliberate. It would be hard to imagine someone pulled that off, but you never know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess you never. That was really creative trying to sneak in a white hood if you're going to go about it this way and to use this K-pop star to do it, to send a message about racism. Look, yes, you can drop the ball, but it would not be intentional.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 1: We apologize. We learned something. You get more diversity on that staff maybe that looked at this ad. I'm sure somebody in Korea never would have thought about it, her team.

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Speaker 3: No, no. I don't even know that I would have seen it.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at it. Just to be honest, I don't know if it wasn't in my head already if I would have looked at that and come up with that first thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, same. I agree.

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Speaker 2: All right. So for the final leg of our run, I am actually so, so, so, so, so excited. People are getting into their October, Halloween, horror movie moods. We're in that mood 24-7.

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Speaker 3: That is true.

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Speaker 2: We never leave, but we feel validated during this time when everyone gets on board. And yes, Resident Evil was number one at the weekend box office.

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Speaker 3: We were busy doing.

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Speaker 2: Football, so now let's get busy today going to the movies.

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Speaker 1: $ 60 million, number one at the box office. That's incredible. It was $ 40 to $ 50 million it was expected to do. This is the eighth in the series, and we're not big Resident Evil fans, but... People are expecting a higher quality product when it comes to horror movies. People are running to see horror movies. So we obviously love this. But yes, it did well.

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Speaker 2: 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, by the way. That's kind of a big deal. And that, to me, is absolute.

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Speaker 1: What's the audience score?

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Speaker 3: Let me look and see.

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Speaker 2: Because the critics gave it 96%, which is pretty amazing.

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Speaker 3: And then the.

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Speaker 2: Oh, the popcorn meter, that's the audience, 91%. So yes, people loved it. The critics loved it. Zach Kreger made it.

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Speaker 1: That dude.

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Speaker 3: I know, right?

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Speaker 1: If you haven't seen Barbarian, see it.

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Speaker 3: So he knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 2: Look, I have to say, this last couple of years, we've been laughed at our whole lives for how much we love horror movies.

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Speaker 3: Actually even judged. Like, what's wrong with you?

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Speaker 1: And now people are winning Oscars for being in horror movies. Yes. It's kind of fun. Come on, boy.

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Speaker 3: Our season is here, baby.

00:19:14
Speaker 1: Did y'all like Obsessions? Ah, good to have you. Good to have you. Come on, boy.

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Speaker 3: Exactly.

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Speaker 2: And number two, hilarious, Practical Magic 2. Look, I actually need to go back. I think I watched Practical Magic 1. I think pretty much, by all accounts, it was a terrible movie. Really? Yes, but it's campy. It's become like a cult classic now upon reflection. I feel like I would be willing to sit down and watch that again and determine whether or not Practical Magic 2 should be Okay, if y'all could see his face right now, I'm not winning him over with it.

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Speaker 1: No, that's fine. I'm willing to go see this movie that 31% of the audience... excuse me, 31%, Practical Magic, the original, has a 31% Rotten Tomatoes score.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's panned, which could be fun to watch. We like lower rated movies, too.

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Speaker 1: Oh, no, no, no. Sometimes they're a blast.

00:20:03
Speaker 3: They actually have value.

00:20:04
Speaker 1: Oh, yes. And then, yes.

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Speaker 2: All right. So on this Monday, we have your quote of the day. We stress too much for a life that can end at any time. Make sure to live. Oh, yeah.

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Speaker 1: The moment, man. Stay in the moment. It's the key to happiness. Stay in this moment. Say the first part of that again.

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Speaker 2: We stress too much for a life that can end at any time.

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Speaker 1: Any moment. Ain't that something? What are we worried about? Probably something not in the moment. It's going to happen tomorrow or when that bill is due or when this happens or that, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Or what I did yesterday that I shouldn't have done or that I could have done. Yes, we stress too much for a life that can end at any time.

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Speaker 3: Make sure to live. Book those movie tickets, everybody. All right, and with that, we always appreciate you running with us. I'm Amy Robach.

00:20:50
Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Always appreciate you. We'll run soon.