Oct. 17, 2025
Morning Run: Bolton Indicted, Trump-Putin Summit, Absurd World Cup Prices, Governor’s Vegas Jackpot, Mpox CA Scare and Squeaky Shoe Lawsuit
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this Friday edition of Morning Run. Yes, it's Friday, every one, October seventeenth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. It's a good Friday for the Governor of Illinois. Now, you wouldn't think that I had given a lot of the news going back and forth with the President about putting National Guard troops on the ground. But the Governor of Illinois has a lot to celebrate. I didn't realize how much I didn't know he was a billionaire already.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that either. I didn't realize that he was heir to this massive hotel fortune. But he's made a little fortune for himself this past year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, in Vegas. We'll explain the good fortune of the Governor of Illinois this morning. Also, I asked you right before we went on robes, like what stories are you was interested in and the most fun with if you brow this morning, there's a look we talked about frivolous lawsuits. So's the line. You can you can indict a ham sandwich or whatever frivolous place. This one kind of takes the cake for me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, people a class action lawsuit over noisy shoes. Seriously squeaky shoes. Yes, we should actually get involved because we have squeaky shoes too.
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Speaker 2: We have a case Nike Watch out. We are coming for you. But we will explain. There is a class action lawsuit for people who say their sneakers are too loud. We will get into that this morning. Also, we should have a class action lawsuit over ticket prices. If you're trying to go to a World Cup game next year here in the US, good luck. We are talking. They're not quite six figures, but they're getting up there close.
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Speaker 1: And you know what's annoying about this. It's not FIFA, which is of course the host of the World Cup here in the Americas. But it's the resale issue. And that's always the problem with any sort of concert or venue. It's not the actual sale of the ticket. It's folks quickly getting a ticket and then reselling it for exorbitant prices.
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Speaker 2: You know, I think what should happen is Mackenzie Scott should buy up all the tickets and just give them away. Mackenzie Scott applaud this woman once again, the philanthropist who said she's gonna give away her fortune, which is upwards of forty billion. Has done it again in robes. She is focusing a lot on HBCU's minority communities, and she just hooked up one HBCU the likes of which they have never seen before.
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Speaker 1: It's incredible, especially with the war on wokeness and diversity. It's wonderful to have a woman like that in the world.
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Speaker 2: We will let you know what her latest big donation is. What I want to let you know is always top bright corner of your Apple podcast app where you see our show page. Little button says follow click that you can get our updates coming to you all the time. Also on the run this morning, we did see another execution last night. Also, another Trump critic is facing charges. Also another vote on ending the shutdown yesterday, and another Trump putin summit is in the works. And also on the run this morning, Look, the virus formerly known as monkey pox has shown up in the US robes. That's not necessarily the big deal. It's who has monkey pox that is causing concern. We'll get into that this morning.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, But we do begin our run on this Friday with news of another Trump putin summit. We don't know the exact time, but the location has been set.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, President Trump said he was on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin for about two and a half hours yesterday and the two men agreed to meet again in Budapest. It's going to happen within the next couple of weeks, the president said. Said the purpose of this meeting to see if we can bring the inglorious war between Russia and Ukraine to an end.
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Speaker 1: Trump added that he believes the success in the Middle East peace process will actually help in negotiating an end to the Russia Ukraine war. Meantime, Ukrainian President Zelenski will be at the White House today. President Trump said they will discuss his call with Putin and go forward with that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm regular over to the house because him and then Yahoo.
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Speaker 1: Who else did we were the two that have been there most often, just in the last couple of months.
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Speaker 2: Seems like once a week they stopped by, almost continuing on the run here now. Yes, another high profile Trump critic, not quite political foes, but yes, Trump critics publicly another one has been indicted. This one actually served in his administration. We're talking about former Trump National security advisor John Bolton. He was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday and he is facing eighteen counts having to do with national defense information.
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Speaker 1: He's accused of improperly retaining, storing, and sharing sensitive materials. Bolton in a statement denied any wrongdoing, and he got in a plug for his book. Good for him.
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Speaker 2: Did you like this? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: You know what take advantage? This is the no press is bad press kind of theory. I guess when you're selling a book, Bolton said this. Donald Trump's retribution against me began during Trump's first administration continued when he tried unsuccessfully to block the publication of my book The Room where It Happened before the twenty twenty election, and became one of his rallying cries in his reelection. Now I had become the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department to charge those he deems to be his enemies with charges that were declined before, or distort the facts.
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Speaker 2: I usually roll my eyes when people like shamelessly promote their book. This was just kind of laid in there, subtly appropriately to a certain degree. I didn't mind it that much.
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Speaker 1: I didn't mind it at all I think this was. Actually it got a little laugh from me.
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Speaker 2: It did for me too. Now, his lawyer goes on to say that the charge is stem from Bolton's personal diary entries, which he shared with immediate family. The argument is that he made these little injuries, have entries having to do with his work, he sent them to family, and because those entries had something to do with national security, and he sent it to a family member, then therefore he must have That's kind of the basis of all that They say. This has been investigated for years and years, and this is just the president trying to get them. Of course, James Comey, the former FBI director, and Letitia James, the age here in New York who brought the case against Trump. They both are facing federal indictments as well.
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Speaker 1: Pam Bondi has been busy. Next up on the Run, day seventeen for the shutdown. Voted on the bill for the tenth time yesterday and as we predicted, same results.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, our shutdown updates are getting shorter and shorter in the rundowns every day.
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Speaker 1: You're not even writing complete sentences, You're just putting in like bullet points.
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Speaker 2: Okay, shutdown. Day seventeen voted for a tenth time yesterday, same result. No Dems, no Republicans, Shane's eyes. Will get to day twenty next week. Here's the thing, folks, they're not there adjourned today. It seems weird during a shutdown. It seems like you should work through the weekend. Instead, they're taking days off.
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Speaker 1: Actually, well for people who weren't getting their paychecks, I think they will probably wholeheartedly agree with that sentimental.
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Speaker 2: So here's the point, folks. So we know we're on day seventeen. Now, there's not going to be any work during the week, so we will get to eighteen nineteen twenty of the shutdown will be on Monday. Day twenty one will be Tuesday. If we get to Wednesday, this will be the second longest government shut down in US history.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, you said if instead of when yesterday, you were going with when you know?
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Speaker 2: I am it's Friday. Feeling a little more upomous.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Next up on the run, we will head to Arizona, where tonight fifty five year old Richard Jerff is the scheduled excuse me to die by lethal injection after pleading guilty to the murder of an entire family, including a five year old boy. It happened more than thirty years ago.
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Speaker 2: This was a brutal quadruple murder. We will not get into the details of this heinous crime here this morning, but Jerff chose not to seek clemency for these murders. The motive, according to prosecutors, he was exacting revenge because he believed someone in the family stole electronic equipment from his home. That's bad enough, but get this, the family member who allegedly stole his stuff wasn't even at the house at the time of the murders.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I have chills from head to toe because unfortunately I did read the details and they are horrific. This will be Arizona's second execution of the year and this country's thirty ninth execution. There were currently one hundred and eight prisoners on death row in Arizona. This is the fourth execution this week in the US, and a lot has been written about the state of Arizona, specifically because they are among a couple of states that had some serious issues with their lethal injection process, where they had reports that are also equally heinoused to talk about in terms of how long it took people to die and the pain they experienced. So they actually just reinstated the death penalty or at least following through on executions three years ago.
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Speaker 2: You know, we should probably if we check their calendar, they might have a full execution calendar, if you will, as morbid as that sounds, because they're trying to catch up.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred and eight prisoners on death row because they had a long moratorium trying to figure out how to make the drugs they have be less cruel and unusual.
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Speaker 2: You say fourth this week and think about is supposed to be five? Yeah, one guy had his the state of exe Robertson in Texas. Yeah, continuing here on the run here on this Friday morning. Now, the first US cases of a severe strain of IMPOCS have been identified. The thing here is that these are the first US cases where the two people infected had no recent travel history. So where did they get it? As the question, We only know that patients are from California, or the California residents at least, and they required hospitalization and are now isolating and recovering at home.
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Speaker 1: One is from Long Beach, the other La County and right now, health officials say there is no known connection between those two people and they don't know how they got it. There have been six previous previous cases this year of this more severe strain of EMPOCS, but all of those patients had recently traveled to areas associated with the outbreak, which is in central and Eastern Africa.
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Speaker 2: So the health department is investigating trying to figure out who the patients came in contact with. They're looking for the source of exposure. This freaks medical professionals out where we don't know how to contain this damn thing.
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Speaker 1: In all the articles, health officials are using terms like deeply concerning.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, parts of Africa are dealing with person to person spread of this strain of the disease, which is spread through sex and other forms of direct contact and through touching contaminated items like betting or clothing. Now.
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Speaker 1: Mpox is a virus that was formerly known as monkey pox, and people who contract it have flu like symptoms and often get a painful rash that appears on their hands, feet, chest, face, mouth, or even near the genitals. Most people do recover within two to four weeks, but it's described as painful and excruciating. There is a vaccine available for people considered most at risk risk. A lot of this is gay men through same sex sex, basically is how a lot of this is transferred. But it's in the same family of smallpox. And the good news is it's rarely fatal. It's just scary and not something anybody wants.
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Speaker 2: But this is one of those things highly contagious, right, can spread. Where did they get They got it here? Yes, somewhere.
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Speaker 1: Wow, it's scary.
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Speaker 2: That is a little scary. All right, Folks who want to continue here on this Friday morning, run now with Ace Freely, founding member of the legendary rock band Kiss, he has passed away at the age of seventy four. Ace Freely served as lead guitarist. He died at his home in New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: In a statement, his family said this, we are completely devastated and heartbroken in his last moments, we were fortunate enough to have been able to surround him with loving, caring, peaceful words, thoughts, prayers and intentions as he left this earth. Freely announced last month that he was canceling shows after he had to go to the hospital after a fall at the studio. That's all we know is that he fell, and then a few weeks later he died seventy four.
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Speaker 2: You hear that's so young these days, right. His fellow Mats Geene Simmons Paul Stanley put out a joint statement. They said he was an essential and irreplaceable rock soldier during some of the most formative foundational chapters of Kiss. Now. Ace Freeley was born Paul Daniel Freeley and eventually became known as Spaceman when Kiss was formed in seventy three. Look, I have to be honest, I didn't know they had names going with. There was a Catman, there was a Spaceman, there was I didn't know they each had these.
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Speaker 1: Little I Look, obviously we know the iconic look and some of the songs, but I was not that familiar as well. So Freeley left the band actually in the early eighties, but he reunited with Kiss in nineteen ninety six as they continued to tour. Kiss has sold more than one hundred million albums and went into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in twenty fourteen. I know they're about to get a big award in December, so it's sad he wasn't able to be there for it, but certainly he had an amazing story, a high school dropout, no guitar lessons, and yet he became a rose to playing the guitar.
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Speaker 2: No, he joked about that. He said, yeah, I never had a guitar lesson. I dropped out of high school and here I am a millionaire and it's like the American dream. It's just he wasn't being arrogant about it.
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Speaker 1: It's just talented.
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Speaker 2: Wow, that's pretty incredible. His story is incredible. If you get a chance to read up and look about his story, you should absolutely do so. Today stay with us here though, on this Friday morning run, a billionaire keeps getting richer playing a game that you've probably played in Vegas as well. Also, Mackenzie Scott, she's pretty rich, but she is spreading the love even more. Also, we didn't even realize Robaka and I that we might have a case against Nike because some other folks are suing their shoe company because their shoes are too damn loud. Seriously, and if you want to go to the World Cup in the US next year, save your pennies.
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Speaker 1: Actually go to Vegas.
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Speaker 2: You can leave them a lot more than pennies. Stay with us books, all right, folks, we continue on this Friday morning ron the rich keep getting richer, you know that saying, But it's true, and there's something about it that just makes Yes, it's annoying. Yeah, it's kind of annoying, but yes, it's the case for the governor of Illinois. Didn't you know? First of all, he's an heir to the Hyatt hotel chain. He's worth about four billion dollars and well he picked up some more change in Vegas.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's on the Forbes list. I saw he's like number three hundred and something, but I had no idea.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, rich's mayor, excuse me, a governor's.
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Speaker 1: The year might be. I have to check that out, but it would seem like a three point nine billion in counting. But guess what he can add one point four million to that cash because that's how much he won in a casino in Vegas. Governor J. B. Pritzker reported the gambling windfall on his federal tax return this week. That's why we all found out, he told reporters after they asked him. He got lucky in blackjack on vacation with his wife and some friends in Vegas. Pritzker's saying, quote, anybody who's played cards in a casino, you often play for too long and lose whatever it is you want. I was fortunate enough to have to leave before that happened. He was one point four million dollars up. I can't even get my head around that. You've asked me to stop when I'm like a couple hundred bucks up.
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Speaker 2: Okay, this is this is billionaire behavior. This is billionaire behave to think you know what I left before I lost that one point four million. Of course you're supposed to get up and.
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Speaker 1: Leave when you win one hundred dollars.
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Speaker 2: Leave My thing. I always say to you, babe, just cash out, put the money in your pocket. You can keep playing. But if you see it up there on that little electronic monitor, it just feels like play money. You keep going to get little chips.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't feel real.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't feel now. Spokesperson for the government, Look, the guy's a billionaire. Does he need this one point four million? You could argue no, So all he said he's going to donate the money to charity. That should be the end of the story. The problem here is that he hasn't done it yet, and if he made the money already, we're just finding out about it. The question from reporters was why hasn't he donated the money yet? There was no response, and so the suggestion kind of being that you kind of got called on it, and no, you're saying you're going to donate it to charity. Either way, it's fine if he wants to keep the money. I'm not mad.
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Speaker 1: Hey, it's his prerogatives.
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Speaker 2: Yes, like you said out, so he shouldn't be called on it. He is a big time a poker player, and I didn't realize he has a charity event that raises money for charity a poker game.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's called the Chicago Poker Challenge and it raises millions of dollars for the Holocaust Museum and Educational Center. So he does do some good with hip. But we'll see what he is going to I feel like he's going to have to announce now where he's it's going to have to be giving that money. He's going to have to do it. But you know who's not going to have to do it, McKenzie Scott. She doesn't want your money, She added, again, Yes she doesn't. No one even has to ask her a question because she's given it away before you even can. The billionaire philanthropist has just given an HBCU the largest single donation in its history.
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Speaker 2: We are talking Morgan State University in Baltimore. It is getting sixty three million dollars.
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Speaker 1: So awesome.
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Speaker 2: This is the latest round of donations from Mackenzie Scott. She's been on a giving spree the past several years. As you know, she's pledged to give away her fortune, which was estimated around forty billion dollars after her divorce from Amazon CEO Chef Bezos back in.
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Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen, sixty three million. I wonder where she gets those numbers from, because.
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Speaker 2: They're all over the place. We have some more details here, but they're never even numbers, So I don't know how she does.
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Speaker 1: I kind of am curious about what why she comes up with those specific numbers. They're not typical. Obviously, nothing's typical about what she's giving away. In addition to the Morgan State donation, she's also donated forty million dollars to the African American Cultural Heritage Action F that's a group that preserves and promotes black culture. And then Scott has given away about twenty billion dollars in the past five years. Some of her biggest here's another like, here are the weird numbers. I'm talking about four hundred and thirty six million dollars to Habitat for Humanity, two hundred and eighty one million dollars to Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and two hundred and seventy five million to Planned Parenthood. She also gave forty million to MSU Morgan.
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Speaker 2: State, YO. So this Morgan State one was her second one she's done.
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Speaker 1: That's amazing.
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Speaker 2: She's given one hundred million dollars to one HBCU that I've bet a bunch of people listening to us have no idea what that school is, where it is, maybe never even heard of it. I hadn't eight Morgan State University. Yes, I mean this woman applaud her and continued to applaud she has given away I think nearly half of her money. That's with a B. She is doing generational change in the donation she's making and these are not restricted. Then she's not given a money say it has to go to this programmer that she's not loved about this is awesome.
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Speaker 1: I love again, got chills for all the right reasons, this time just to hear what she does and hopefully gets contagious, you know, the crazy thing.
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Speaker 2: And people have whatever opinion they have about Jeff Bezos for whatever reasons, with what he does with his money, but his money. Don't let me wrong, I'm not, but that money coming from Amazon is changing lives because someone who has access to that money has decided what she wants to do with it. Life is funny. That marriage, that divorce, that ugliness in the public is benefiting children.
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Speaker 1: Some kids sometimes good.
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Speaker 2: Well, I didn't want to go there. My point is you can never think that all this good could come out of what that was. I applaud mcind'scuss.
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Speaker 1: That's a really really good point, and I think it's a it's it's a it's a good example of not always taking things at a certain value, but recognizing that sometimes when bad things happen, good things can come out of it.
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Speaker 2: These guys, Oh, I love this lady. I really want to talk to her. I applaud this woman. All right, we want to continue here on this is the last leg.
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Speaker 1: We've got one more after this.
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Speaker 2: Well, Okay, we got two last legs, all right. First up here has to do with this class action lawsuit we've been talking about. Yes, customers have filed a class action suit against a popular athletic shoe company because the shoes are too damn loud. In fact, the soup claims that the customers are embarrassed to wear the sneakers we're talking about on brand. We do have some of these, but they kind of look cool and they clearly are popular, but they say the shoes squeak so loud when you walk in them that they've now filed a lawsuit class action in nature.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so here are the claims in the lawsuit. Claim number one, the materials cause a noise and embarrassing squeak with each and every step. Claim too, the customers complain that the company refused to compensate them, so customers resorted to diy modifications to their shoes. Okay, here's the other claim. After approximately three months of using his shoes, the plaintiff noticed a squeaking with every step that he has been on. Unable to stop, plaintiff cannot walk and run in his Cloud Monsters without experiencing a squeak. With every step.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that's one of the shoes here, So it's not just one particular shoe, it's the shoes with this cloud tech is what on claims they have look robes. We wear Alpha fly shoes. You all these these super shoes. I guess running shoes the big component.
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Speaker 1: They're really light, but they're really loud.
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Speaker 2: But the reason you have to make them really light you have to use very soft, foamy light materials with air in them. And when you walk, every step is loud.
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Speaker 1: We laugh get out, especially if we don't usually wear shoes in the house, but if we do have them on right before we go on the run, I'm laughing because it's so noisy. I can't hear anything. And even on the street it's like, thank god we have air pods. If you take them out, like wow, we are so loud when we run.
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Speaker 2: They are super duper loud. They just are I mean, we wake up. We scared to wake up people in the house when we are going out for a run. Really, they are four week and now squeaky folks. It is really loud.
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Speaker 1: Though it's funny, okay, but come on, you're gonna sue over it, right, and we continue to buy them because they're awesome shoes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, and there are eleven different styles that are mentioned in this lawsuit, and the shoes cost around one hundred and seventy dollars up to that point. But what are you supposed to do, ropes?
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Speaker 1: Don't buy them again if you don't like them.
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Speaker 2: I can't imagine buying like a diesel vehicle and then going back. You know what, this engine it's a little loud.
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Speaker 1: I mean you, good luck with your lawsuit.
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Speaker 2: Okay, final leg of the run here. Now World Cup is here. Well it's not until next year, but the fever has hit us. And we can see that because FIFA has announced that more than a million tickets have been sold for next year's World Cup, gonna be hosted here and US, in Canada, and in Mexico.
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Speaker 1: So people from two hundred and twelve different countries have already purchased tickets. The top buyers, not surprisingly, are from the US, Canada, and Mexico. That makes sense. But here are the next countries in order. I love this. It just kind of shows the I guess, the fan base oh yeah, in each of these countries. So here they are in order. The number of people who have bought tickets. The next biggest buyers are from England, Germany like soccer, Brazil them too, I hear Spain they're kind of big on it, Columbia, Argentina, World Cuvers and France they like that. So the first round of tickets were available through a lottery of four point five million applicants. The next lottery will be open to fans in just ten days, that's on October twenty seven.
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Speaker 2: Wait, we need to sign up for this, Yeah, we do.
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Speaker 1: Like you have to get into the lottery. If you want to get a ticket that is being sold at its actual faced value, then you need to get in line literally for a chance to buy one of these tickets.
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Speaker 2: This is what we got to do. So the lowest priced seats were set at sixty dollars, but most seats in the majority of matches are set at much higher. The opening match in California has seat prices ranging from five hundred and sixty dollars to about three thousand bucks. However, FIFA's resale site has now officially opened. Those prices are.
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Speaker 1: Absurd and they're gonna get more absurd. This is just the beginning. So that same opening match where we told you. Prices range from five hundred and sixty bucks to nearly three thousand. Okay, well guess what They actually have seats listed for as much as sixty one thousand, six hundred and forty two dollars a piece for that opening match, the final match, and look, this is gonna get higher, which will take place in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which is really close to where you and I are. Babe. Resale seat prices range from ninety five hundred dollars all the way to fifty seven thousand, five hundred dollars. This is as a Thursday after this.
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Speaker 2: Says got to be in a luxury box of something you can't come.
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Speaker 1: On that's insane, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, I put it out there. Might some see if some money, ye see if some money pace for it. A third lottery round for tickets starting in December is going to happen, and close to the tournament itself, they'll have a first come, first serve situation. But the tournament runs from June eleventh through July nineteenth, twenty twenty six. We are wildly excited.
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Speaker 1: About We need to get on this. We have talked about this.
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Speaker 2: Or maybe we should go to Europe.
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Speaker 1: It's so fun to watch World Cup games in Europe. So ironically, even though it's taking place in the US, we would actually buy a ticket and fly to England to watch the game in an English pub. It's more fun.
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Speaker 2: Crazy, but it really is the case. I think the US is qualified. Yeah, the US is it, So that'll be big for the US.
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Speaker 1: But this is We're actually going to plan our vacation schedule around this in June next year. All right. Quote of the day for everyone on this Friday. Loved this quote and loved who it came from. Most unhappiness is caused by people listening to themselves instead of talking to themselves.
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Speaker 2: Listening to themselves and stuff. Yes, you're you're you're doing what some thing in your mind is telling you to do, instead of you telling yourself what needs to be done. Yeah, we do that.
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Speaker 1: Often your thoughts start to get you know you, Just I think someone once said, just if you don't think your mind is overactive in creating all sorts of worst case scenarios and really inventing or reinventing things to suit how you feel, just take a moment to observe yourself in the shower. Your mind is going crazy. So yes, instead of talking to yourself in logical ways and recognizing and acknowledging. But well, now our thoughts, man, it is they are our own worst enemy. I just love this. So this comes from William James. He's a psychologist who was born in eighteen forty two. But I did a little research. He was dubbed the father of American psychology. He was the first educator in this country to offer a class in psychology, and he essentially founded Harvard's psychology department. Wow, which is so cool. I've never heard of this guy, but I think his brother is Henry James, a very famous novelist that many people might know. So cool story. Love the quote William James.
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Speaker 2: William Bill James, and Henry James.
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Speaker 1: Yes, creativity, Well they were creative beyond their names. No they didn't, But I'll say the quote for you one more time. It's something really to think about and then talk to yourself about later. Most unhappiness is caused by people listening to themselves instead of talking to themselves. So we hope you have a happy Friday and a wonderful weekend. Thank you for running with us, every one.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Rosa and I'm TJ Holmes.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this Friday edition of Morning Run. Yes, it's Friday, every one, October seventeenth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. It's a good Friday for the Governor of Illinois. Now, you wouldn't think that I had given a lot of the news going back and forth with the President about putting National Guard troops on the ground. But the Governor of Illinois has a lot to celebrate. I didn't realize how much I didn't know he was a billionaire already.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that either. I didn't realize that he was heir to this massive hotel fortune. But he's made a little fortune for himself this past year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, in Vegas. We'll explain the good fortune of the Governor of Illinois this morning. Also, I asked you right before we went on robes, like what stories are you was interested in and the most fun with if you brow this morning, there's a look we talked about frivolous lawsuits. So's the line. You can you can indict a ham sandwich or whatever frivolous place. This one kind of takes the cake for me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, people a class action lawsuit over noisy shoes. Seriously squeaky shoes. Yes, we should actually get involved because we have squeaky shoes too.
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Speaker 2: We have a case Nike Watch out. We are coming for you. But we will explain. There is a class action lawsuit for people who say their sneakers are too loud. We will get into that this morning. Also, we should have a class action lawsuit over ticket prices. If you're trying to go to a World Cup game next year here in the US, good luck. We are talking. They're not quite six figures, but they're getting up there close.
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Speaker 1: And you know what's annoying about this. It's not FIFA, which is of course the host of the World Cup here in the Americas. But it's the resale issue. And that's always the problem with any sort of concert or venue. It's not the actual sale of the ticket. It's folks quickly getting a ticket and then reselling it for exorbitant prices.
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Speaker 2: You know, I think what should happen is Mackenzie Scott should buy up all the tickets and just give them away. Mackenzie Scott applaud this woman once again, the philanthropist who said she's gonna give away her fortune, which is upwards of forty billion. Has done it again in robes. She is focusing a lot on HBCU's minority communities, and she just hooked up one HBCU the likes of which they have never seen before.
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Speaker 1: It's incredible, especially with the war on wokeness and diversity. It's wonderful to have a woman like that in the world.
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Speaker 2: We will let you know what her latest big donation is. What I want to let you know is always top bright corner of your Apple podcast app where you see our show page. Little button says follow click that you can get our updates coming to you all the time. Also on the run this morning, we did see another execution last night. Also, another Trump critic is facing charges. Also another vote on ending the shutdown yesterday, and another Trump putin summit is in the works. And also on the run this morning, Look, the virus formerly known as monkey pox has shown up in the US robes. That's not necessarily the big deal. It's who has monkey pox that is causing concern. We'll get into that this morning.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, But we do begin our run on this Friday with news of another Trump putin summit. We don't know the exact time, but the location has been set.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, President Trump said he was on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin for about two and a half hours yesterday and the two men agreed to meet again in Budapest. It's going to happen within the next couple of weeks, the president said. Said the purpose of this meeting to see if we can bring the inglorious war between Russia and Ukraine to an end.
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Speaker 1: Trump added that he believes the success in the Middle East peace process will actually help in negotiating an end to the Russia Ukraine war. Meantime, Ukrainian President Zelenski will be at the White House today. President Trump said they will discuss his call with Putin and go forward with that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm regular over to the house because him and then Yahoo.
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Speaker 1: Who else did we were the two that have been there most often, just in the last couple of months.
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Speaker 2: Seems like once a week they stopped by, almost continuing on the run here now. Yes, another high profile Trump critic, not quite political foes, but yes, Trump critics publicly another one has been indicted. This one actually served in his administration. We're talking about former Trump National security advisor John Bolton. He was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday and he is facing eighteen counts having to do with national defense information.
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Speaker 1: He's accused of improperly retaining, storing, and sharing sensitive materials. Bolton in a statement denied any wrongdoing, and he got in a plug for his book. Good for him.
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Speaker 2: Did you like this? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: You know what take advantage? This is the no press is bad press kind of theory. I guess when you're selling a book, Bolton said this. Donald Trump's retribution against me began during Trump's first administration continued when he tried unsuccessfully to block the publication of my book The Room where It Happened before the twenty twenty election, and became one of his rallying cries in his reelection. Now I had become the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department to charge those he deems to be his enemies with charges that were declined before, or distort the facts.
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Speaker 2: I usually roll my eyes when people like shamelessly promote their book. This was just kind of laid in there, subtly appropriately to a certain degree. I didn't mind it that much.
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Speaker 1: I didn't mind it at all I think this was. Actually it got a little laugh from me.
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Speaker 2: It did for me too. Now, his lawyer goes on to say that the charge is stem from Bolton's personal diary entries, which he shared with immediate family. The argument is that he made these little injuries, have entries having to do with his work, he sent them to family, and because those entries had something to do with national security, and he sent it to a family member, then therefore he must have That's kind of the basis of all that They say. This has been investigated for years and years, and this is just the president trying to get them. Of course, James Comey, the former FBI director, and Letitia James, the age here in New York who brought the case against Trump. They both are facing federal indictments as well.
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Speaker 1: Pam Bondi has been busy. Next up on the Run, day seventeen for the shutdown. Voted on the bill for the tenth time yesterday and as we predicted, same results.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, our shutdown updates are getting shorter and shorter in the rundowns every day.
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Speaker 1: You're not even writing complete sentences, You're just putting in like bullet points.
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Speaker 2: Okay, shutdown. Day seventeen voted for a tenth time yesterday, same result. No Dems, no Republicans, Shane's eyes. Will get to day twenty next week. Here's the thing, folks, they're not there adjourned today. It seems weird during a shutdown. It seems like you should work through the weekend. Instead, they're taking days off.
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Speaker 1: Actually, well for people who weren't getting their paychecks, I think they will probably wholeheartedly agree with that sentimental.
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Speaker 2: So here's the point, folks. So we know we're on day seventeen. Now, there's not going to be any work during the week, so we will get to eighteen nineteen twenty of the shutdown will be on Monday. Day twenty one will be Tuesday. If we get to Wednesday, this will be the second longest government shut down in US history.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, you said if instead of when yesterday, you were going with when you know?
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Speaker 2: I am it's Friday. Feeling a little more upomous.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Next up on the run, we will head to Arizona, where tonight fifty five year old Richard Jerff is the scheduled excuse me to die by lethal injection after pleading guilty to the murder of an entire family, including a five year old boy. It happened more than thirty years ago.
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Speaker 2: This was a brutal quadruple murder. We will not get into the details of this heinous crime here this morning, but Jerff chose not to seek clemency for these murders. The motive, according to prosecutors, he was exacting revenge because he believed someone in the family stole electronic equipment from his home. That's bad enough, but get this, the family member who allegedly stole his stuff wasn't even at the house at the time of the murders.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I have chills from head to toe because unfortunately I did read the details and they are horrific. This will be Arizona's second execution of the year and this country's thirty ninth execution. There were currently one hundred and eight prisoners on death row in Arizona. This is the fourth execution this week in the US, and a lot has been written about the state of Arizona, specifically because they are among a couple of states that had some serious issues with their lethal injection process, where they had reports that are also equally heinoused to talk about in terms of how long it took people to die and the pain they experienced. So they actually just reinstated the death penalty or at least following through on executions three years ago.
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Speaker 2: You know, we should probably if we check their calendar, they might have a full execution calendar, if you will, as morbid as that sounds, because they're trying to catch up.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred and eight prisoners on death row because they had a long moratorium trying to figure out how to make the drugs they have be less cruel and unusual.
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Speaker 2: You say fourth this week and think about is supposed to be five? Yeah, one guy had his the state of exe Robertson in Texas. Yeah, continuing here on the run here on this Friday morning. Now, the first US cases of a severe strain of IMPOCS have been identified. The thing here is that these are the first US cases where the two people infected had no recent travel history. So where did they get it? As the question, We only know that patients are from California, or the California residents at least, and they required hospitalization and are now isolating and recovering at home.
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Speaker 1: One is from Long Beach, the other La County and right now, health officials say there is no known connection between those two people and they don't know how they got it. There have been six previous previous cases this year of this more severe strain of EMPOCS, but all of those patients had recently traveled to areas associated with the outbreak, which is in central and Eastern Africa.
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Speaker 2: So the health department is investigating trying to figure out who the patients came in contact with. They're looking for the source of exposure. This freaks medical professionals out where we don't know how to contain this damn thing.
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Speaker 1: In all the articles, health officials are using terms like deeply concerning.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, parts of Africa are dealing with person to person spread of this strain of the disease, which is spread through sex and other forms of direct contact and through touching contaminated items like betting or clothing. Now.
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Speaker 1: Mpox is a virus that was formerly known as monkey pox, and people who contract it have flu like symptoms and often get a painful rash that appears on their hands, feet, chest, face, mouth, or even near the genitals. Most people do recover within two to four weeks, but it's described as painful and excruciating. There is a vaccine available for people considered most at risk risk. A lot of this is gay men through same sex sex, basically is how a lot of this is transferred. But it's in the same family of smallpox. And the good news is it's rarely fatal. It's just scary and not something anybody wants.
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Speaker 2: But this is one of those things highly contagious, right, can spread. Where did they get They got it here? Yes, somewhere.
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Speaker 1: Wow, it's scary.
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Speaker 2: That is a little scary. All right, Folks who want to continue here on this Friday morning, run now with Ace Freely, founding member of the legendary rock band Kiss, he has passed away at the age of seventy four. Ace Freely served as lead guitarist. He died at his home in New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: In a statement, his family said this, we are completely devastated and heartbroken in his last moments, we were fortunate enough to have been able to surround him with loving, caring, peaceful words, thoughts, prayers and intentions as he left this earth. Freely announced last month that he was canceling shows after he had to go to the hospital after a fall at the studio. That's all we know is that he fell, and then a few weeks later he died seventy four.
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Speaker 2: You hear that's so young these days, right. His fellow Mats Geene Simmons Paul Stanley put out a joint statement. They said he was an essential and irreplaceable rock soldier during some of the most formative foundational chapters of Kiss. Now. Ace Freeley was born Paul Daniel Freeley and eventually became known as Spaceman when Kiss was formed in seventy three. Look, I have to be honest, I didn't know they had names going with. There was a Catman, there was a Spaceman, there was I didn't know they each had these.
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Speaker 1: Little I Look, obviously we know the iconic look and some of the songs, but I was not that familiar as well. So Freeley left the band actually in the early eighties, but he reunited with Kiss in nineteen ninety six as they continued to tour. Kiss has sold more than one hundred million albums and went into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in twenty fourteen. I know they're about to get a big award in December, so it's sad he wasn't able to be there for it, but certainly he had an amazing story, a high school dropout, no guitar lessons, and yet he became a rose to playing the guitar.
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Speaker 2: No, he joked about that. He said, yeah, I never had a guitar lesson. I dropped out of high school and here I am a millionaire and it's like the American dream. It's just he wasn't being arrogant about it.
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Speaker 1: It's just talented.
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Speaker 2: Wow, that's pretty incredible. His story is incredible. If you get a chance to read up and look about his story, you should absolutely do so. Today stay with us here though, on this Friday morning run, a billionaire keeps getting richer playing a game that you've probably played in Vegas as well. Also, Mackenzie Scott, she's pretty rich, but she is spreading the love even more. Also, we didn't even realize Robaka and I that we might have a case against Nike because some other folks are suing their shoe company because their shoes are too damn loud. Seriously, and if you want to go to the World Cup in the US next year, save your pennies.
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Speaker 1: Actually go to Vegas.
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Speaker 2: You can leave them a lot more than pennies. Stay with us books, all right, folks, we continue on this Friday morning ron the rich keep getting richer, you know that saying, But it's true, and there's something about it that just makes Yes, it's annoying. Yeah, it's kind of annoying, but yes, it's the case for the governor of Illinois. Didn't you know? First of all, he's an heir to the Hyatt hotel chain. He's worth about four billion dollars and well he picked up some more change in Vegas.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's on the Forbes list. I saw he's like number three hundred and something, but I had no idea.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, rich's mayor, excuse me, a governor's.
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Speaker 1: The year might be. I have to check that out, but it would seem like a three point nine billion in counting. But guess what he can add one point four million to that cash because that's how much he won in a casino in Vegas. Governor J. B. Pritzker reported the gambling windfall on his federal tax return this week. That's why we all found out, he told reporters after they asked him. He got lucky in blackjack on vacation with his wife and some friends in Vegas. Pritzker's saying, quote, anybody who's played cards in a casino, you often play for too long and lose whatever it is you want. I was fortunate enough to have to leave before that happened. He was one point four million dollars up. I can't even get my head around that. You've asked me to stop when I'm like a couple hundred bucks up.
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Speaker 2: Okay, this is this is billionaire behavior. This is billionaire behave to think you know what I left before I lost that one point four million. Of course you're supposed to get up and.
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Speaker 1: Leave when you win one hundred dollars.
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Speaker 2: Leave My thing. I always say to you, babe, just cash out, put the money in your pocket. You can keep playing. But if you see it up there on that little electronic monitor, it just feels like play money. You keep going to get little chips.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't feel real.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't feel now. Spokesperson for the government, Look, the guy's a billionaire. Does he need this one point four million? You could argue no, So all he said he's going to donate the money to charity. That should be the end of the story. The problem here is that he hasn't done it yet, and if he made the money already, we're just finding out about it. The question from reporters was why hasn't he donated the money yet? There was no response, and so the suggestion kind of being that you kind of got called on it, and no, you're saying you're going to donate it to charity. Either way, it's fine if he wants to keep the money. I'm not mad.
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Speaker 1: Hey, it's his prerogatives.
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Speaker 2: Yes, like you said out, so he shouldn't be called on it. He is a big time a poker player, and I didn't realize he has a charity event that raises money for charity a poker game.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's called the Chicago Poker Challenge and it raises millions of dollars for the Holocaust Museum and Educational Center. So he does do some good with hip. But we'll see what he is going to I feel like he's going to have to announce now where he's it's going to have to be giving that money. He's going to have to do it. But you know who's not going to have to do it, McKenzie Scott. She doesn't want your money, She added, again, Yes she doesn't. No one even has to ask her a question because she's given it away before you even can. The billionaire philanthropist has just given an HBCU the largest single donation in its history.
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Speaker 2: We are talking Morgan State University in Baltimore. It is getting sixty three million dollars.
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Speaker 1: So awesome.
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Speaker 2: This is the latest round of donations from Mackenzie Scott. She's been on a giving spree the past several years. As you know, she's pledged to give away her fortune, which was estimated around forty billion dollars after her divorce from Amazon CEO Chef Bezos back in.
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Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen, sixty three million. I wonder where she gets those numbers from, because.
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Speaker 2: They're all over the place. We have some more details here, but they're never even numbers, So I don't know how she does.
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Speaker 1: I kind of am curious about what why she comes up with those specific numbers. They're not typical. Obviously, nothing's typical about what she's giving away. In addition to the Morgan State donation, she's also donated forty million dollars to the African American Cultural Heritage Action F that's a group that preserves and promotes black culture. And then Scott has given away about twenty billion dollars in the past five years. Some of her biggest here's another like, here are the weird numbers. I'm talking about four hundred and thirty six million dollars to Habitat for Humanity, two hundred and eighty one million dollars to Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and two hundred and seventy five million to Planned Parenthood. She also gave forty million to MSU Morgan.
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Speaker 2: State, YO. So this Morgan State one was her second one she's done.
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Speaker 1: That's amazing.
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Speaker 2: She's given one hundred million dollars to one HBCU that I've bet a bunch of people listening to us have no idea what that school is, where it is, maybe never even heard of it. I hadn't eight Morgan State University. Yes, I mean this woman applaud her and continued to applaud she has given away I think nearly half of her money. That's with a B. She is doing generational change in the donation she's making and these are not restricted. Then she's not given a money say it has to go to this programmer that she's not loved about this is awesome.
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Speaker 1: I love again, got chills for all the right reasons, this time just to hear what she does and hopefully gets contagious, you know, the crazy thing.
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Speaker 2: And people have whatever opinion they have about Jeff Bezos for whatever reasons, with what he does with his money, but his money. Don't let me wrong, I'm not, but that money coming from Amazon is changing lives because someone who has access to that money has decided what she wants to do with it. Life is funny. That marriage, that divorce, that ugliness in the public is benefiting children.
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Speaker 1: Some kids sometimes good.
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Speaker 2: Well, I didn't want to go there. My point is you can never think that all this good could come out of what that was. I applaud mcind'scuss.
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Speaker 1: That's a really really good point, and I think it's a it's it's a it's a good example of not always taking things at a certain value, but recognizing that sometimes when bad things happen, good things can come out of it.
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Speaker 2: These guys, Oh, I love this lady. I really want to talk to her. I applaud this woman. All right, we want to continue here on this is the last leg.
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Speaker 1: We've got one more after this.
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Speaker 2: Well, Okay, we got two last legs, all right. First up here has to do with this class action lawsuit we've been talking about. Yes, customers have filed a class action suit against a popular athletic shoe company because the shoes are too damn loud. In fact, the soup claims that the customers are embarrassed to wear the sneakers we're talking about on brand. We do have some of these, but they kind of look cool and they clearly are popular, but they say the shoes squeak so loud when you walk in them that they've now filed a lawsuit class action in nature.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so here are the claims in the lawsuit. Claim number one, the materials cause a noise and embarrassing squeak with each and every step. Claim too, the customers complain that the company refused to compensate them, so customers resorted to diy modifications to their shoes. Okay, here's the other claim. After approximately three months of using his shoes, the plaintiff noticed a squeaking with every step that he has been on. Unable to stop, plaintiff cannot walk and run in his Cloud Monsters without experiencing a squeak. With every step.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that's one of the shoes here, So it's not just one particular shoe, it's the shoes with this cloud tech is what on claims they have look robes. We wear Alpha fly shoes. You all these these super shoes. I guess running shoes the big component.
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Speaker 1: They're really light, but they're really loud.
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Speaker 2: But the reason you have to make them really light you have to use very soft, foamy light materials with air in them. And when you walk, every step is loud.
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Speaker 1: We laugh get out, especially if we don't usually wear shoes in the house, but if we do have them on right before we go on the run, I'm laughing because it's so noisy. I can't hear anything. And even on the street it's like, thank god we have air pods. If you take them out, like wow, we are so loud when we run.
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Speaker 2: They are super duper loud. They just are I mean, we wake up. We scared to wake up people in the house when we are going out for a run. Really, they are four week and now squeaky folks. It is really loud.
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Speaker 1: Though it's funny, okay, but come on, you're gonna sue over it, right, and we continue to buy them because they're awesome shoes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, and there are eleven different styles that are mentioned in this lawsuit, and the shoes cost around one hundred and seventy dollars up to that point. But what are you supposed to do, ropes?
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Speaker 1: Don't buy them again if you don't like them.
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Speaker 2: I can't imagine buying like a diesel vehicle and then going back. You know what, this engine it's a little loud.
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Speaker 1: I mean you, good luck with your lawsuit.
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Speaker 2: Okay, final leg of the run here. Now World Cup is here. Well it's not until next year, but the fever has hit us. And we can see that because FIFA has announced that more than a million tickets have been sold for next year's World Cup, gonna be hosted here and US, in Canada, and in Mexico.
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Speaker 1: So people from two hundred and twelve different countries have already purchased tickets. The top buyers, not surprisingly, are from the US, Canada, and Mexico. That makes sense. But here are the next countries in order. I love this. It just kind of shows the I guess, the fan base oh yeah, in each of these countries. So here they are in order. The number of people who have bought tickets. The next biggest buyers are from England, Germany like soccer, Brazil them too, I hear Spain they're kind of big on it, Columbia, Argentina, World Cuvers and France they like that. So the first round of tickets were available through a lottery of four point five million applicants. The next lottery will be open to fans in just ten days, that's on October twenty seven.
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Speaker 2: Wait, we need to sign up for this, Yeah, we do.
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Speaker 1: Like you have to get into the lottery. If you want to get a ticket that is being sold at its actual faced value, then you need to get in line literally for a chance to buy one of these tickets.
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Speaker 2: This is what we got to do. So the lowest priced seats were set at sixty dollars, but most seats in the majority of matches are set at much higher. The opening match in California has seat prices ranging from five hundred and sixty dollars to about three thousand bucks. However, FIFA's resale site has now officially opened. Those prices are.
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Speaker 1: Absurd and they're gonna get more absurd. This is just the beginning. So that same opening match where we told you. Prices range from five hundred and sixty bucks to nearly three thousand. Okay, well guess what They actually have seats listed for as much as sixty one thousand, six hundred and forty two dollars a piece for that opening match, the final match, and look, this is gonna get higher, which will take place in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which is really close to where you and I are. Babe. Resale seat prices range from ninety five hundred dollars all the way to fifty seven thousand, five hundred dollars. This is as a Thursday after this.
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Speaker 2: Says got to be in a luxury box of something you can't come.
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Speaker 1: On that's insane, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, I put it out there. Might some see if some money, ye see if some money pace for it. A third lottery round for tickets starting in December is going to happen, and close to the tournament itself, they'll have a first come, first serve situation. But the tournament runs from June eleventh through July nineteenth, twenty twenty six. We are wildly excited.
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Speaker 1: About We need to get on this. We have talked about this.
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Speaker 2: Or maybe we should go to Europe.
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Speaker 1: It's so fun to watch World Cup games in Europe. So ironically, even though it's taking place in the US, we would actually buy a ticket and fly to England to watch the game in an English pub. It's more fun.
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Speaker 2: Crazy, but it really is the case. I think the US is qualified. Yeah, the US is it, So that'll be big for the US.
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Speaker 1: But this is We're actually going to plan our vacation schedule around this in June next year. All right. Quote of the day for everyone on this Friday. Loved this quote and loved who it came from. Most unhappiness is caused by people listening to themselves instead of talking to themselves.
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Speaker 2: Listening to themselves and stuff. Yes, you're you're you're doing what some thing in your mind is telling you to do, instead of you telling yourself what needs to be done. Yeah, we do that.
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Speaker 1: Often your thoughts start to get you know you, Just I think someone once said, just if you don't think your mind is overactive in creating all sorts of worst case scenarios and really inventing or reinventing things to suit how you feel, just take a moment to observe yourself in the shower. Your mind is going crazy. So yes, instead of talking to yourself in logical ways and recognizing and acknowledging. But well, now our thoughts, man, it is they are our own worst enemy. I just love this. So this comes from William James. He's a psychologist who was born in eighteen forty two. But I did a little research. He was dubbed the father of American psychology. He was the first educator in this country to offer a class in psychology, and he essentially founded Harvard's psychology department. Wow, which is so cool. I've never heard of this guy, but I think his brother is Henry James, a very famous novelist that many people might know. So cool story. Love the quote William James.
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Speaker 2: William Bill James, and Henry James.
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Speaker 1: Yes, creativity, Well they were creative beyond their names. No they didn't, But I'll say the quote for you one more time. It's something really to think about and then talk to yourself about later. Most unhappiness is caused by people listening to themselves instead of talking to themselves. So we hope you have a happy Friday and a wonderful weekend. Thank you for running with us, every one.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Rosa and I'm TJ Holmes.