Oct. 28, 2025
Morning Run: Bounty on Bondi, Shutdown Countdown, Diddy Release Date, Historic World Series and Rockefeller Xmas Tree
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, It's Tuesday, October twenty eighth. I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes, and we begin on this Tuesday morning.
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Speaker 1: Yes, is it with.
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Speaker 2: Full disclosure, slept on the couch last night, folks. It happened sometimes with couples, somebody ends up on the couch. This was not a doghouse situation. I bet some people listening Robes maybe their husbands slept on the couch last night.
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Speaker 1: It was necessary.
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Speaker 3: Come on, World Series.
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Speaker 2: We had a history making game last night that Robes was essentially two games were played.
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Speaker 1: It went eighteen so that sounds like a snoozefest to me.
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Speaker 2: Snooze got more exciting as the up. Yes, because you realized you were watching something special. Yes, folks, if you missed it, the World Series game last night was one of the longest in history. We'll tell you exactly how long it went on. We'll tell you exactly how long I was on the couch, and we'll tell you what's coming up tonight, although we want to make sure we tell you right now as we get going on this Tuesday Morning run. Top right corner of your Apple podcast app on that screen where you see our show page. Little button this has follow Click that and you can get our updates coming to you anytime we.
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Speaker 1: Post them, all right. Also on the run this morning, a Confederate general is back in DC. We'll explain. Kelsey Grammar is a new dad at seventy. Diddy has an official release date. New pressure now to end the shutdown today on arrest for putting a bounty on Bondy and a sixty year old beauty actually a seventy five year old beauty being chopped down. Oh yes, no, yes, seventy five years good cause, they say, though right, yes, ultimately it will it will serve others in multiple fashions.
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Speaker 2: We will explain what's going on there, but we do need to begin this run morning with Melissa. A lot of concern about this major storm. Hurricane Melissa is stronger than Hurricane Katrina, Robes. I know a lot of time, Category two, what does that mean? Category four? What does that mean? Ah, some of that and the winds and all this stuff. But when you say there is a storm stronger than Katrina, we immediately understand what that means, and that what Melissa is right now It is a Category five, so it has sustained winds of about one hundred and seventy plus miles an hour. But it has sustained this category five status for about twenty four plus hours. Now robes and they say this sucker might still be picking up a little steam.
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Speaker 1: It's a monster of a storm and it's expected to officially make landfall in Jamaica at some point this morning. As that category five that means its winds are above one hundred and seventy five miles an hour, it is the strongest storm seen anywhere in the world this year, and as a category five, it would be the strongest storm to ever hit Jamaica. I think Category four was the next most destructive, and that was back in the eighties. So rain, not wind, is anticipated to be the biggest issue though, because the storm is crawling along, it's only going about two miles an hour. Just imagine most people walk at the pace of three miles per hour. So that gives you an idea, y that's crazy, and that's a really cool way to look at it in terms of just giving you at forty inches of rain predicted in some areas, this is going to be catastrophic.
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Speaker 2: It is the and again you know how I get on some of these deep dies on science. But they measure these things based on their pressure, and this one has a pressure that's lower than Katrina ever was, which means it's stronger. Even though it will both category five wind speeds about the same, it has a lower pressure they can measure this is more powerful than Katrina.
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Speaker 1: And it's going to last longer, it sounds like with how slow moving it is, and that's what's so devastating.
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Speaker 2: Anything about that. Think of how fast you just walk to the grocery store right now. The storm is moving slower than you are and dropping all that water. We'll keep an eye on that this morning. But again as of this recording, and it not officially made landfall, but expected to do so at some point this morning. Continuing on the run. Now it's a day twenty eight of the government shut down, and the largest union representing federal employees is urging Congress to immediately end it. They say we should not robes get to a day twenty nine of this name that's right.
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Speaker 1: Specifically, it's calling on lawmakers to adopt the short term funding bill that would immediately reopen the government. That House pass bill has been voted on and voted down twelve times already in the Senate. So, the American Federation of Government Employees said, in addition to immediately ending the shutdown, it wants lawmakers to ensure that workers will get that back pay. Yes.
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Speaker 2: And in a statement, the union put it this way, none of these steps that they're suggesting favors one political side over another. They favor the American people who expect stability from their government and responsibility from their leaders. That's pretty It's.
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Speaker 1: Kind of the basic things we expect from our government.
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Speaker 2: You know, you basic. You know, I wrote this down. I want to give this lady credit because it brought the thing home from e robes in a new way that you know, I give a credit. CBS interviewed a woman talking about, you know, the SNAP program, food drying up. She said this, it should not be a human privilege to be fed. That should be the end of the shutdown. She did, end today, get into a room, we'll figure it out. Yeah, political leverage winning points, and you cannot justify to somebody struggling to put food on the table that this is worth it for them. This is so unnecessary. But when she put that it should be a human privilege to eat.
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Speaker 1: And especially considering that the lawmakers who are creating this game of chicken are getting paid, are going home to see their families, are taking breaks like that all needs to be recognized.
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Speaker 2: Most of them are home right now. But yeah, anyway, I just I wrote it down because she said it, and it brought things home in an a different way.
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Speaker 1: That is immediate perspective, all right. Next up on the run, Police have arrested a twenty nine year old Minnesota man for going on TikTok and saying he wanted Attorney General Pam Bondi dead or alive, but preferably dead. Tyler Avalos offered forty five thousand dollars to anyone who could make that happen for him, and included a picture of Bondi with a sniper scope red dot on her forehead.
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Speaker 2: This is what we do now. FBI agents became aware of the TikTok post from an anonymous tipster who submitted a report to the FBI National Threat Operations Center. That's good to know it's there and it's working. Authority, say TikTok, Google, Comcast help the FBI find and trace Avolo's identity. He's been charged with creating an online post containing a threat to injure and was released on bail, and he was wearing a GPS monitor.
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Speaker 1: Makes sense they would want to keep tabs on him after that. Next up on the Run, Sean Ditty Combs already has a release date May eighth, of twenty twenty eight. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has posted that date to in its inmate database as the official date when Diddy will be eligible for release from prison.
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Speaker 2: He was sentenced, as you know, earlier this month, to fifty months in prison following his convictions on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. The official release date factors in time served. So he's been held since his arrest in September of last year. So robes with all the calculations that he's now done, they've come up with an official date. So May eighth, he can circle that on the calendars.
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Speaker 1: What is that? Three three years and some change three and a half years. But I'm curious, does can that change based on good behavior? Do they do that sort of thing?
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Speaker 2: I think there are several factors, because it can Yeah, that's when he's eligible. So when they say eligible, what is that factory?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: It's not the hard to date necessary and.
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Speaker 1: Every state's different, like how much time you have to serve versus how much time you can get off for good behavior, YadA, YadA, YadA. But that's a ballpark, all right. Next up on the run. You ever heard of General Albert Pike?
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Speaker 2: Didn't know this guy?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we had not heard of this person.
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Speaker 2: He's a big deal though.
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Speaker 1: Apparently he is a former Confederate general and he's making a comeback and that's causing quite the stir in DC. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Do you know this park? I wasn't familiar with it. Was it called Liberty No? No, No, Judiciary Park is what it's called. I didn't know.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of parks, and Jesus, I have no idea. I know you from the area or spit some time I lived there in the area. But this statue of General Albert Pike, it was actually torn down in twenty twenty during George Floyd demonstrations there. It's been restored and returned to its original spot in Judiciary Square. Apparently a park there. It has a bunch of government buildings. But that sounds like every block in DC exact. Okay.
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Speaker 2: So it came down on live TV when demonstrators put ropes and chains around it, pulled the thing down.
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Speaker 1: So the National Park Service announced earlier this year that it was being fixed and going to be put back in place. This is what they had to say. The restoration aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law and recent executive orders to beautify the nation's capital and restore pre existing statues.
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Speaker 2: Okay. So the statue had been there since nineteen oh two, but city officials have been trying to get it removed for decades now. The DC representative, I think a lot of people familiar with her. She's been there for.
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Speaker 1: Ever since when I lived there, which is thirty years ago. Eleanor Holmes Norton.
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Speaker 2: Yes, everybody knows that. You could anybody right now, here's the name. You could see her right now with short haired glasses.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: So she has introduced several bills over the years to remove this statue, and she called Pike and some of this legislation a chief founder of the post Civil War Ku Klux clan, now Norton said about it going back up says it's indefensible and morally objectionable to put the statue back up, said, it's a statue honoring a racist. There is ongoing, not definitive information about his connection, possibly to the Ku Klux Klan.
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Speaker 1: Well, I was just going to ask that follow up, is that documented?
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Speaker 2: It's it's I don't they say the evidence isn't definitive. Got about it, but there are suggestions. But he was a Confederate general, and just so his background has been debated. But this is part of the ongoing debate. A lot of Confederate generals and things honoring the Confederacy have been coming down over the years. Other people say, what is it?
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Speaker 1: It's heritage, nasty heritage, not Hayes. Yes, we've seen that on a few trucks. All right, Next up on New York, Next up on the Run. CBS Evening News anchor John Dickerson is leaving the network and no real explanation has been given.
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Speaker 2: And it almost makes sense that there's no explanation. That is the explanation, right. Dickerson has been co anchoring the evening broadcast only since January. This was after the exit of Nora O'Donnell. Now He's been with a network in varying capacities over the years, but was tapped to co anchor the evening News with Maurice Dubois, who's been a local CBS evening news anchor here for a long time. And this was something brand new we hadn't seen. You got two dudes up there. They were doing kind of longer form storytelling that you would see in sixty minutes.
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Speaker 1: It was a little jarring, actually, I know they were trying something new, and yes, actually the former head of sixty Minutes was in charge of creating this new format, which again was very different than anything we've seen, but the ratings have not been what they had hoped. Dickerson made the announcement on Instagram yesterday, saying this, at the end of this year, I will leave CBS, sixteen years after I sat in as Face the Nation anchor for the first time. I am extremely grateful for all that CBS gave me, the work, the audience's attention, and the honor of being a part of the network's history. And I am grateful for my dear colleagues who've made me a better journalist and a better human. I will miss you.
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Speaker 2: Nice note simple as that. But the network put things out very much honoring him in his time and his journalism. But no one is necessarily saying why and why.
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Speaker 1: It's just fifty seven, so he had potentially quite a few years luck in a very long and respectable, more than respectable significant career that he's had.
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Speaker 2: Hey, life ashore. Maybe he just wants to hang it up in George time, go fishing. Maybe that's it. Maybe has nothing to do with the changes at the head of that network.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's just coincidental.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll stay with us, folks, if you like to hear more sarcasm after this break. When we come back, a further evidence that I have been right all along. Robes and why you cannot go to bed on a live sporting event. Also seventy years old and a new dad Kelsey Grammer, congratulations, will explain the new baby. And there's a new tree coming to New York, but they had to chop it down first. Stay here, all right, folks, we continue on this Tuesday morning ron with further proof of my theory. You cannot go to sleep on sporting events, because if you do, you might miss history.
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Speaker 1: You know what you can do the next morning, after you've had a full night. I say it. Don't watch the undelievably phenomenally concise.
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Speaker 2: Yes you cannot.
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Speaker 1: They're so good.
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Speaker 2: It's a live sporting event. You do not watch it live. Haven't you heard? It's the only thing worth it. They tell you the weather before it happens, they tell you the news after it happens. Sports is the only thing worth watching a lot.
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Speaker 1: What's your sleep score, baby, I.
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Speaker 2: Don't need a sleep score because I woke up bouncing off the walls because I know the score of the game last night. Last night, Game three of the World Series delivered in a major way for US sports fans, and it tied the record for the longest World Series game in history.
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Speaker 1: The La Dodgers and the Toronto Blues Well, because I was just like that sounds like hell. The La Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays played an instant classic ording to sell them last night. That went eighteen innings. That's two full nine inning games. Wow. Double The torture teams were tied five to five after the seventh inning.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god. You know what people do complain that baseball is too long.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying like if it was a basketball game, it'd be different, Like that's fast paced and you're excited and you're back and forth. A baseball game, there's a reason why you have to have a seventh inning stretch.
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Speaker 3: No, but the baseball game, the pitching, the strategy, which guy you put in to match up with that guy, You're going through your bullpen, you're running out of pitchers, all this stuff, what's going on.
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Speaker 2: But yes, the game was tied five to five after seven innings and they went ropes another eleven innings with nobody's scoring.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you just proved my point. But it was thrilling.
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Speaker 2: It was thrill.
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Speaker 1: It can be thrilling, thrilling to watch nobody score for seventh innings.
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Speaker 2: Strategy and skill and talent and pitching in sports.
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Speaker 1: You will never convince that was thrilling.
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Speaker 2: Okay, But again, finally, bottom of the eighteen Dodger first basement, Freddy Freeman crushed a walk off homer ended this game after six hours and thirty nine glorious minutes of baseball. And yes, tis the longest World Series game ever with eighteen innings, But the other one that went eighteen innings was actually seven hours and twenty minutes, so that key them that one was longer. But that one also, Rhodes, was just not that long ago. And it was a Dodgers game in the World Series twenty eighteen that went longer. So the Dodgers I.
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Speaker 1: Missed that one too, all right. Next up on the Run, Kelsey Grammar is seventy His youngest child just a few days old. Yeah, he's a new dad, and he confirmed the birth of his eighth child during a recent podcast appearance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was earlier this this summer actually that the actor and his wife announced confirmed they were expecting. This is the fourth child the couple has together. They have a twelve year old, ten year old eight year old in the house already, and then Grammar has also adult children from previous relationship. They are forty one, thirty three, twenty three, twenty So those are the kids ages forty one thirty three, twenty three, twenty twelve, ten, eight and days. Oh my are the ages. The new kid's name is Christopher. Congratulations, Look, congrats. Love marriage and parenting takes all different kinds of forms sometimes, so good for.
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Speaker 1: Him, good for him. Congratulations for the final leg of our run. It's that time of year. Once again, the countdown the Christmas is on. Now that this year's Rockefeller Christmas Tree has been identified.
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Speaker 2: We're switching energies from the baseball stary. Yes, because this is how.
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Speaker 1: A Now I'm excited about Christmas.
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Speaker 2: I can It's not Halloween yet, it's too early talk about Christmas. But anyway, this tree is a seventy five foot Norway spruce been growing up in upstate New York, just outside of all beneath the town. It's called East Green Bush. Seventy five year old spruce cut down. It's going to be cut down next Thursday, and it's going to arrive by truck two days later to Rockefeller Center. So about November eighth is when they expect.
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Speaker 1: November eighth, we should steer very clear of Rockefeller Center because all eyes will be on all the folks. I know, I didn't need to tell you that with like.
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Speaker 2: November first through like February third, you should stay Rockefeller Center.
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Speaker 1: This year, the Rockefeller Christmas Tree will be decorated with fifty thousand multi colored led lights. I didn't realize this. This is the same star they've had up for a couple of years. Do you did you know what weighs nine hundred pounds?
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Speaker 2: I did know. They used the same one every.
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Speaker 1: Yep, the last several years, it's been a nine hundred pounds Swarovski star. I had to look that up to make sure I had that right. That seems impossible.
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Speaker 2: Are they doing Are they the same ones to do the ball?
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Speaker 1: I believe it's the Swarovski crystals on that as well. So this is the annual tree lighting ceremony is schedule for December third. So yes, it will be a very busy place to be in New York City for the next several months. And we mentioned it is all for a good cause. The tree owner donated this, of course, the Rockefeller Center, and then they will donate the tree to habitat for humanity. It'll be milled into lumber to create homes for folks who need homes. So I love the idea that this actually is a giving tree in a lot of ways.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's cool.
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Speaker 1: Yes, And so for our quote of the day on this Tuesday, as you head out this from it's a Buddhist proverb. I loved it. Learning to unlearn is the highest form of learning and.
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Speaker 2: The most difficult learning isn't it man the old dog new tricks thing, and some people set in their ways. It is man to unlearn some of those habits, yep.
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Speaker 1: And in some of it you know you were, you inherited from your family unknowingly, and then you have to recognize the behavior sometimes and other people, to then see it in yourself and say, you know what, I want it to change. And I don't think it's ever too late to do so. But that's a that's a phrase I hadn't heard before. That is so true. Learning to unlearn is the highest form of learning. And with that, everyone, thank you for joining us on this Tuesday. I'm Ami Robot and.
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Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holm. We're gonna learn Robot to Love the World series. Always loved you running with us. Talk to the Elser
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, It's Tuesday, October twenty eighth. I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes, and we begin on this Tuesday morning.
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Speaker 1: Yes, is it with.
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Speaker 2: Full disclosure, slept on the couch last night, folks. It happened sometimes with couples, somebody ends up on the couch. This was not a doghouse situation. I bet some people listening Robes maybe their husbands slept on the couch last night.
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Speaker 1: It was necessary.
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Speaker 3: Come on, World Series.
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Speaker 2: We had a history making game last night that Robes was essentially two games were played.
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Speaker 1: It went eighteen so that sounds like a snoozefest to me.
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Speaker 2: Snooze got more exciting as the up. Yes, because you realized you were watching something special. Yes, folks, if you missed it, the World Series game last night was one of the longest in history. We'll tell you exactly how long it went on. We'll tell you exactly how long I was on the couch, and we'll tell you what's coming up tonight, although we want to make sure we tell you right now as we get going on this Tuesday Morning run. Top right corner of your Apple podcast app on that screen where you see our show page. Little button this has follow Click that and you can get our updates coming to you anytime we.
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Speaker 1: Post them, all right. Also on the run this morning, a Confederate general is back in DC. We'll explain. Kelsey Grammar is a new dad at seventy. Diddy has an official release date. New pressure now to end the shutdown today on arrest for putting a bounty on Bondy and a sixty year old beauty actually a seventy five year old beauty being chopped down. Oh yes, no, yes, seventy five years good cause, they say, though right, yes, ultimately it will it will serve others in multiple fashions.
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Speaker 2: We will explain what's going on there, but we do need to begin this run morning with Melissa. A lot of concern about this major storm. Hurricane Melissa is stronger than Hurricane Katrina, Robes. I know a lot of time, Category two, what does that mean? Category four? What does that mean? Ah, some of that and the winds and all this stuff. But when you say there is a storm stronger than Katrina, we immediately understand what that means, and that what Melissa is right now It is a Category five, so it has sustained winds of about one hundred and seventy plus miles an hour. But it has sustained this category five status for about twenty four plus hours. Now robes and they say this sucker might still be picking up a little steam.
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Speaker 1: It's a monster of a storm and it's expected to officially make landfall in Jamaica at some point this morning. As that category five that means its winds are above one hundred and seventy five miles an hour, it is the strongest storm seen anywhere in the world this year, and as a category five, it would be the strongest storm to ever hit Jamaica. I think Category four was the next most destructive, and that was back in the eighties. So rain, not wind, is anticipated to be the biggest issue though, because the storm is crawling along, it's only going about two miles an hour. Just imagine most people walk at the pace of three miles per hour. So that gives you an idea, y that's crazy, and that's a really cool way to look at it in terms of just giving you at forty inches of rain predicted in some areas, this is going to be catastrophic.
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Speaker 2: It is the and again you know how I get on some of these deep dies on science. But they measure these things based on their pressure, and this one has a pressure that's lower than Katrina ever was, which means it's stronger. Even though it will both category five wind speeds about the same, it has a lower pressure they can measure this is more powerful than Katrina.
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Speaker 1: And it's going to last longer, it sounds like with how slow moving it is, and that's what's so devastating.
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Speaker 2: Anything about that. Think of how fast you just walk to the grocery store right now. The storm is moving slower than you are and dropping all that water. We'll keep an eye on that this morning. But again as of this recording, and it not officially made landfall, but expected to do so at some point this morning. Continuing on the run. Now it's a day twenty eight of the government shut down, and the largest union representing federal employees is urging Congress to immediately end it. They say we should not robes get to a day twenty nine of this name that's right.
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Speaker 1: Specifically, it's calling on lawmakers to adopt the short term funding bill that would immediately reopen the government. That House pass bill has been voted on and voted down twelve times already in the Senate. So, the American Federation of Government Employees said, in addition to immediately ending the shutdown, it wants lawmakers to ensure that workers will get that back pay. Yes.
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Speaker 2: And in a statement, the union put it this way, none of these steps that they're suggesting favors one political side over another. They favor the American people who expect stability from their government and responsibility from their leaders. That's pretty It's.
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Speaker 1: Kind of the basic things we expect from our government.
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Speaker 2: You know, you basic. You know, I wrote this down. I want to give this lady credit because it brought the thing home from e robes in a new way that you know, I give a credit. CBS interviewed a woman talking about, you know, the SNAP program, food drying up. She said this, it should not be a human privilege to be fed. That should be the end of the shutdown. She did, end today, get into a room, we'll figure it out. Yeah, political leverage winning points, and you cannot justify to somebody struggling to put food on the table that this is worth it for them. This is so unnecessary. But when she put that it should be a human privilege to eat.
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Speaker 1: And especially considering that the lawmakers who are creating this game of chicken are getting paid, are going home to see their families, are taking breaks like that all needs to be recognized.
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Speaker 2: Most of them are home right now. But yeah, anyway, I just I wrote it down because she said it, and it brought things home in an a different way.
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Speaker 1: That is immediate perspective, all right. Next up on the run, Police have arrested a twenty nine year old Minnesota man for going on TikTok and saying he wanted Attorney General Pam Bondi dead or alive, but preferably dead. Tyler Avalos offered forty five thousand dollars to anyone who could make that happen for him, and included a picture of Bondi with a sniper scope red dot on her forehead.
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Speaker 2: This is what we do now. FBI agents became aware of the TikTok post from an anonymous tipster who submitted a report to the FBI National Threat Operations Center. That's good to know it's there and it's working. Authority, say TikTok, Google, Comcast help the FBI find and trace Avolo's identity. He's been charged with creating an online post containing a threat to injure and was released on bail, and he was wearing a GPS monitor.
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Speaker 1: Makes sense they would want to keep tabs on him after that. Next up on the Run, Sean Ditty Combs already has a release date May eighth, of twenty twenty eight. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has posted that date to in its inmate database as the official date when Diddy will be eligible for release from prison.
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Speaker 2: He was sentenced, as you know, earlier this month, to fifty months in prison following his convictions on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. The official release date factors in time served. So he's been held since his arrest in September of last year. So robes with all the calculations that he's now done, they've come up with an official date. So May eighth, he can circle that on the calendars.
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Speaker 1: What is that? Three three years and some change three and a half years. But I'm curious, does can that change based on good behavior? Do they do that sort of thing?
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Speaker 2: I think there are several factors, because it can Yeah, that's when he's eligible. So when they say eligible, what is that factory?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: It's not the hard to date necessary and.
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Speaker 1: Every state's different, like how much time you have to serve versus how much time you can get off for good behavior, YadA, YadA, YadA. But that's a ballpark, all right. Next up on the run. You ever heard of General Albert Pike?
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Speaker 2: Didn't know this guy?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we had not heard of this person.
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Speaker 2: He's a big deal though.
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Speaker 1: Apparently he is a former Confederate general and he's making a comeback and that's causing quite the stir in DC. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Do you know this park? I wasn't familiar with it. Was it called Liberty No? No, No, Judiciary Park is what it's called. I didn't know.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of parks, and Jesus, I have no idea. I know you from the area or spit some time I lived there in the area. But this statue of General Albert Pike, it was actually torn down in twenty twenty during George Floyd demonstrations there. It's been restored and returned to its original spot in Judiciary Square. Apparently a park there. It has a bunch of government buildings. But that sounds like every block in DC exact. Okay.
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Speaker 2: So it came down on live TV when demonstrators put ropes and chains around it, pulled the thing down.
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Speaker 1: So the National Park Service announced earlier this year that it was being fixed and going to be put back in place. This is what they had to say. The restoration aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law and recent executive orders to beautify the nation's capital and restore pre existing statues.
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Speaker 2: Okay. So the statue had been there since nineteen oh two, but city officials have been trying to get it removed for decades now. The DC representative, I think a lot of people familiar with her. She's been there for.
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Speaker 1: Ever since when I lived there, which is thirty years ago. Eleanor Holmes Norton.
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Speaker 2: Yes, everybody knows that. You could anybody right now, here's the name. You could see her right now with short haired glasses.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: So she has introduced several bills over the years to remove this statue, and she called Pike and some of this legislation a chief founder of the post Civil War Ku Klux clan, now Norton said about it going back up says it's indefensible and morally objectionable to put the statue back up, said, it's a statue honoring a racist. There is ongoing, not definitive information about his connection, possibly to the Ku Klux Klan.
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Speaker 1: Well, I was just going to ask that follow up, is that documented?
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Speaker 2: It's it's I don't they say the evidence isn't definitive. Got about it, but there are suggestions. But he was a Confederate general, and just so his background has been debated. But this is part of the ongoing debate. A lot of Confederate generals and things honoring the Confederacy have been coming down over the years. Other people say, what is it?
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Speaker 1: It's heritage, nasty heritage, not Hayes. Yes, we've seen that on a few trucks. All right, Next up on New York, Next up on the Run. CBS Evening News anchor John Dickerson is leaving the network and no real explanation has been given.
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Speaker 2: And it almost makes sense that there's no explanation. That is the explanation, right. Dickerson has been co anchoring the evening broadcast only since January. This was after the exit of Nora O'Donnell. Now He's been with a network in varying capacities over the years, but was tapped to co anchor the evening News with Maurice Dubois, who's been a local CBS evening news anchor here for a long time. And this was something brand new we hadn't seen. You got two dudes up there. They were doing kind of longer form storytelling that you would see in sixty minutes.
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Speaker 1: It was a little jarring, actually, I know they were trying something new, and yes, actually the former head of sixty Minutes was in charge of creating this new format, which again was very different than anything we've seen, but the ratings have not been what they had hoped. Dickerson made the announcement on Instagram yesterday, saying this, at the end of this year, I will leave CBS, sixteen years after I sat in as Face the Nation anchor for the first time. I am extremely grateful for all that CBS gave me, the work, the audience's attention, and the honor of being a part of the network's history. And I am grateful for my dear colleagues who've made me a better journalist and a better human. I will miss you.
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Speaker 2: Nice note simple as that. But the network put things out very much honoring him in his time and his journalism. But no one is necessarily saying why and why.
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Speaker 1: It's just fifty seven, so he had potentially quite a few years luck in a very long and respectable, more than respectable significant career that he's had.
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Speaker 2: Hey, life ashore. Maybe he just wants to hang it up in George time, go fishing. Maybe that's it. Maybe has nothing to do with the changes at the head of that network.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's just coincidental.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll stay with us, folks, if you like to hear more sarcasm after this break. When we come back, a further evidence that I have been right all along. Robes and why you cannot go to bed on a live sporting event. Also seventy years old and a new dad Kelsey Grammer, congratulations, will explain the new baby. And there's a new tree coming to New York, but they had to chop it down first. Stay here, all right, folks, we continue on this Tuesday morning ron with further proof of my theory. You cannot go to sleep on sporting events, because if you do, you might miss history.
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Speaker 1: You know what you can do the next morning, after you've had a full night. I say it. Don't watch the undelievably phenomenally concise.
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Speaker 2: Yes you cannot.
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Speaker 1: They're so good.
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Speaker 2: It's a live sporting event. You do not watch it live. Haven't you heard? It's the only thing worth it. They tell you the weather before it happens, they tell you the news after it happens. Sports is the only thing worth watching a lot.
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Speaker 1: What's your sleep score, baby, I.
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Speaker 2: Don't need a sleep score because I woke up bouncing off the walls because I know the score of the game last night. Last night, Game three of the World Series delivered in a major way for US sports fans, and it tied the record for the longest World Series game in history.
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Speaker 1: The La Dodgers and the Toronto Blues Well, because I was just like that sounds like hell. The La Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays played an instant classic ording to sell them last night. That went eighteen innings. That's two full nine inning games. Wow. Double The torture teams were tied five to five after the seventh inning.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god. You know what people do complain that baseball is too long.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying like if it was a basketball game, it'd be different, Like that's fast paced and you're excited and you're back and forth. A baseball game, there's a reason why you have to have a seventh inning stretch.
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Speaker 3: No, but the baseball game, the pitching, the strategy, which guy you put in to match up with that guy, You're going through your bullpen, you're running out of pitchers, all this stuff, what's going on.
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Speaker 2: But yes, the game was tied five to five after seven innings and they went ropes another eleven innings with nobody's scoring.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you just proved my point. But it was thrilling.
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Speaker 2: It was thrill.
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Speaker 1: It can be thrilling, thrilling to watch nobody score for seventh innings.
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Speaker 2: Strategy and skill and talent and pitching in sports.
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Speaker 1: You will never convince that was thrilling.
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Speaker 2: Okay, But again, finally, bottom of the eighteen Dodger first basement, Freddy Freeman crushed a walk off homer ended this game after six hours and thirty nine glorious minutes of baseball. And yes, tis the longest World Series game ever with eighteen innings, But the other one that went eighteen innings was actually seven hours and twenty minutes, so that key them that one was longer. But that one also, Rhodes, was just not that long ago. And it was a Dodgers game in the World Series twenty eighteen that went longer. So the Dodgers I.
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Speaker 1: Missed that one too, all right. Next up on the Run, Kelsey Grammar is seventy His youngest child just a few days old. Yeah, he's a new dad, and he confirmed the birth of his eighth child during a recent podcast appearance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was earlier this this summer actually that the actor and his wife announced confirmed they were expecting. This is the fourth child the couple has together. They have a twelve year old, ten year old eight year old in the house already, and then Grammar has also adult children from previous relationship. They are forty one, thirty three, twenty three, twenty So those are the kids ages forty one thirty three, twenty three, twenty twelve, ten, eight and days. Oh my are the ages. The new kid's name is Christopher. Congratulations, Look, congrats. Love marriage and parenting takes all different kinds of forms sometimes, so good for.
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Speaker 1: Him, good for him. Congratulations for the final leg of our run. It's that time of year. Once again, the countdown the Christmas is on. Now that this year's Rockefeller Christmas Tree has been identified.
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Speaker 2: We're switching energies from the baseball stary. Yes, because this is how.
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Speaker 1: A Now I'm excited about Christmas.
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Speaker 2: I can It's not Halloween yet, it's too early talk about Christmas. But anyway, this tree is a seventy five foot Norway spruce been growing up in upstate New York, just outside of all beneath the town. It's called East Green Bush. Seventy five year old spruce cut down. It's going to be cut down next Thursday, and it's going to arrive by truck two days later to Rockefeller Center. So about November eighth is when they expect.
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Speaker 1: November eighth, we should steer very clear of Rockefeller Center because all eyes will be on all the folks. I know, I didn't need to tell you that with like.
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Speaker 2: November first through like February third, you should stay Rockefeller Center.
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Speaker 1: This year, the Rockefeller Christmas Tree will be decorated with fifty thousand multi colored led lights. I didn't realize this. This is the same star they've had up for a couple of years. Do you did you know what weighs nine hundred pounds?
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Speaker 2: I did know. They used the same one every.
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Speaker 1: Yep, the last several years, it's been a nine hundred pounds Swarovski star. I had to look that up to make sure I had that right. That seems impossible.
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Speaker 2: Are they doing Are they the same ones to do the ball?
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Speaker 1: I believe it's the Swarovski crystals on that as well. So this is the annual tree lighting ceremony is schedule for December third. So yes, it will be a very busy place to be in New York City for the next several months. And we mentioned it is all for a good cause. The tree owner donated this, of course, the Rockefeller Center, and then they will donate the tree to habitat for humanity. It'll be milled into lumber to create homes for folks who need homes. So I love the idea that this actually is a giving tree in a lot of ways.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's cool.
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Speaker 1: Yes, And so for our quote of the day on this Tuesday, as you head out this from it's a Buddhist proverb. I loved it. Learning to unlearn is the highest form of learning and.
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Speaker 2: The most difficult learning isn't it man the old dog new tricks thing, and some people set in their ways. It is man to unlearn some of those habits, yep.
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Speaker 1: And in some of it you know you were, you inherited from your family unknowingly, and then you have to recognize the behavior sometimes and other people, to then see it in yourself and say, you know what, I want it to change. And I don't think it's ever too late to do so. But that's a that's a phrase I hadn't heard before. That is so true. Learning to unlearn is the highest form of learning. And with that, everyone, thank you for joining us on this Tuesday. I'm Ami Robot and.
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Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holm. We're gonna learn Robot to Love the World series. Always loved you running with us. Talk to the Elser