Morning Run: Breaking News! Dick Cheney Has Passed, Trump Endorses Cuomo, U.S. Shutdown Record, Diddy Appeal, Beaver Moon and Sexiest Man Alive

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Good morning everyone.

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Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, November fourth. I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ Holmes. Yes, it's Tuesday, November fourth. It's election day. Certainly going to get into that. And this is Rogues one of those weird news mornings. I say weird, but it happens in newsrooms every once in a while. You got a show all ready to go, you know what you're going to talk about, big news about the sexiest man alive, and.

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Speaker 3: Then some other news comes in that mutes that a little bit. And yes, that's kind of what happened. We have to hit it all. But yes, we got word this morning. It's a short time before we started recording, that Dick Cheney, former vice president, has died at the age of eighty four.

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Speaker 1: And certainly has left such a legacy behind on US politics. And we will get into all of his contributions and certainly honor his life in just a moment.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so much to get to this morning, including I just found out that there was something called a beaver moon. You're gonna explain later why it's called that.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I am indeed that would be.

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Speaker 3: Very much appreciated. Also, the shutdown on everybody's mind. We have now tied the record for the longest shutdown in US history. But there is a brand new wrinkle, folks, that suggests this thing could go even longer than anticipate. We don't see a way out now, but now there's a new wrinkle that makes us even more complicated. And you know who's my favorite human.

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Speaker 2: Lately, Mackenzie Scott.

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Speaker 3: This woman is doing it and just continues. She has made another significant contribution, a generational, like a game changing contribution to another university. We'll get into that. Also, this New York City mayor's race, Cuomo just got a big endorsement.

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Speaker 2: Huge, the biggest endorsement ever and it.

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Speaker 3: Came in a pretty lengthy social media post. You can guess who the endorsement came from. We'll get into that. Also, the Balco Do I say Balco? Do you know what that means?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: Okay? The Balco scandal, a lot of people will remember, is associated with Barry Bonds, that ped scandal, the Marion Jones scandal where a guy who was correct right now, you got maryon Jones with a guy who was giving drugs to all them he was the head of that sc He's passed away and what a legacy people are talking about he has left behind. Also, Diddy got a win in court. We'll explain that Snap benefits turns out are going out, but we don't know when or how much. Huggies and tailand all now go together. Also, we're getting the terrifying details of that alleged Halloween terror plot in Michigan. And Oscar nominated actress Diane Ladd has passed at the age of what a life, incredibly full life, and she has passed away.

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Speaker 2: We just got talking about legacies.

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Speaker 1: She leaves behind so much incredible art, but also a wonderful daughter, and she announced her passing.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into all of that, but.

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Speaker 1: First up, Yes, Dick Cheney has died at the age of eighty four. He served as vice president for President George W. Bush's two terms, and he's widely considered the most powerful vice president in modern US history. He was a central figure in the War on Terror and getting the US into war with the Rock.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he dealt with heart issues. Pretty much everybody knows this, so you know that he had heart issues throughout his life. I did not realize however, wrote that he actually had five heart attacks throughout his life. The earliest was when he was thirty seven and running for Congress. His last was in twenty ten. He then had a heart transplant in twenty twelve. Now he is a consummate DC insider, and he served in Congress as a rep from Wyoming. He was White House Chief of Staff under President Ford and was a Defense secretary for the first President Bush.

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Speaker 2: That's wild.

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Speaker 1: I remember obviously Defense secretary and Vice President, but I didn't even realize he was a congressman from Wyoming. In the beginning, President George W. Bush tasked him with vetting his running mates, but then he emerged himself as the top contender. You know, and Bush had just won this election the hanging chads against Al Gore. It was tenuous at best, and so yes, Dick Cheney was considered a stabilizing, experienced force behind George W.

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Speaker 2: Bush.

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Speaker 1: His family says he died of complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. In their statement, they say Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country and to live lives of courage. Honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing. That's adorable, and he was certainly known to be a avid outdoorsman.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we mentioned, yeah, it's election day in a couple of places. Only five states do off year statewide elections. But of course there are also countless local races across this country. None, we dare to say, more closely watched than the race for New York City mayor.

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Speaker 3: Yes, barring something crazy happening tonight's or Han Mom Donnie is poised to become the first Muslim mayor of New York. I think the youngest as well. He's thirty four years old. Poles half him away ahead a former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. But Cuomo picked up a pretty big last minute endorsement last night from President Trump himself.

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Speaker 2: Should we read the whole thing?

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Speaker 3: This is an amazing I put it in there for a reason. I like to cut these up. But this isn't This is wild.

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Speaker 1: All right here it is. If communist candidate Zoran mam Dami wins the election for mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing federal funds other than the very minimum as required to my beloved first home, because of the fact that as a Communist, this once great city has zero chance of success or even survival. It can only get worse with a Communist at the helm, and I don't want to send as president good money after bad. It is my obligation to run the nation, and it is my strong conviction that New York City will be a complete and total economic and social disaster should Mamdanni win. His principles have been tested for over a thousand years and never once have they been successful. I would much rather see a Democrat who has a record of success win than a communist with no experience and a record of complete and total failure. He was nothing as alymen, ranked at the bottom of the class, and as mayor of potentially again the greatest city in the world, he has no chance to bring it back to its former glory. We must also remember this. A vote for Curtis Sliwa, who looks much better without the beret, is a vote for Mom Donnie. Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him and hope he does a fantastic job. He is capable of it, Mom, Donnie is not.

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Speaker 3: That is what Cuomo. He made the argument for Cuomo better than Cuomo did. Look, you can take it for what it is, but the President of the United States is saying, if you don't put this other guy in, I am going to limit how much money I send to the largest, most influential city in this country and the world.

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Speaker 2: Even arguably that's a big deal.

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Speaker 3: That's a big deal. So that's why I wanted to include it. Well, the five states that hold off your elections Kentucky, Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Jersey, they'll all be voting tonight. The governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia are being watched very very closely. But it looks like Virginia is going to get it first female what it looks like they will there are two women on the ballots. Then New Jersey. The Republican Chittarelli is really making in these last few weeks, really closing the gap in some of the polls against Mikey Sherriff. Now one of the most significant races of the night is going to be in California. There's not a name on the ballot for this one, but you could argue it's Newsom's name. We're talking about Prop fifty out there. They're deciding whether they want to redraw their congressional districts in order to counter what Texas has done.

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Speaker 1: And we did an entire podcast if you want to catch up on all the elections that are going on today, that should be the podcast before this one if you want to check it out.

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Speaker 2: But next on the run.

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Speaker 1: Today is day thirty five of the government shutdown, and we are now tied for the longest government shutdown in US history.

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Speaker 2: And here's the thing. We don't appear.

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Speaker 1: Any closer to finding a way out of this thing.

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Speaker 3: So the Senate is going to do today for the fourteenth time what they've done thirteen times prior to vote for the same short term Republican back house passed bill that would reopen the government. But now there's a problem. Robes Senate majority of Leader John Thune says that even if they passed that continuing resolution to reopen the government, it wouldn't give them enough time to negotiate a long term appropriation's bill.

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Speaker 1: Let us explain, yes, you broke this down pretty well, so this continuing resolution has the date of November twenty first on it. That was when it was first passed by the House in September. They thought that date would give them plenty of time to negotiate a new funding or spending bill. But November twenty first is now just a couple of weeks away. So even if they passed that resolution today, we might end up dealing with the deadline for another government shutdown on November twenty first. So obviously that date is going to have to be amended. And if that's true, that means the House, which has been at home, they've all been at home chillin', they'd have to come back and vote on a new, updated short term bill. So, my goodness, time gotten.

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Speaker 3: This is going to take time. Now all of them are gone. You got four hundred folks. You got to get back to the US capital to vote. If the Senate does something. This is this was not good news. This was not a welcome sign to hear continuing on the run here. Now, the Trump administration is going to tap into that contingency fund in order to pay snap benefits this month. That's good news, except it's only going to be half funded, and we don't know when recipients will actually receive their funds.

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Speaker 1: That's because the contingency fund has only around four and a half billion dollars. The SNAP program costs about well upwards of eight billion each month, so payments are going to be cut, They're going to be delayed. Forty two million people use SNAP benefits, which also are known as the food Stamp program, and the White House warned that now that it's using this contingency fund, there is no new money or any money for new applicants or any emergency disaster assistance.

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Speaker 2: So we are literally the well is dry.

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Speaker 3: You ever used your mom? Ever use that line? Rob, Peter pay Paul, Yes, yes, I didn't understand it when I was younger, but man, once I started having bills, you understood. I get it. Continue on the run now to twenty year olds or in federal custody this morning, accused of a Halloween weekend attack. They were plotting this potential attack and they were possibly going to target the LGBTQ plus community. The DICH has charged Machman a l and Mahead, mach Mood and An in an ISIS linked plot. That's what they call it, a ISIS linked terror plot to carry out a mass shooting.

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Speaker 1: Wow authority say the two had acquired AR style rifles and sixteen hundred rounds of AMMO. They had scouted potential targets in a Detroit suburb, particularly in an area popular with the LGBTQ plus community, and the charge officially was handling firearms and ammunition and there obviously with some reasonable cost to believe the weapons could be or would be used to commit a federal crime of terrorism.

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Speaker 3: All right, we continue on our run here on this Tuesday election day morning with Diddy. He just got to his new Digs, you know, the federal prison he's going to be staying at in New Jersey to serve his sentence. But he is already scored a victory that could ultimately shorten his time in prison. A judge has granted his request to expedite his appeals process. So Sean did he Combs, as you know, was sentenced to fifty months in prison for his two convictions for transportation to engage in prostitution. But he's challenging the conviction and asked a judge to speed things up for him.

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Speaker 1: So here's the potential schedule the judge set yesterday. Did these lawyers will submit their brief by December twenty third, The prosecution will submit theirs by March thirteenth, and then the two sides will have oral arguments in early April. His lawyers say his appeal will challenge the unfair use of the Man Act that's an infamous statute with a sordid history, to prosecute him for sex with consenting adults. Combs is scheduled right now to get out of prison May eighth, twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 3: I continue on the run now. At least six people have died and twenty seven others sickened after eating prepared pasta meals that were contaminated with lasteria. The meals were sold at major grocery stores including Kroker, Trader Joe's, and Outrobertson's across eighteen states.

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Speaker 1: The pastamaker is Nate's Fine Foods, and they expanded their recall in September, but the company is now working with health officials to try and find the source of this lisceria contamination. Officials believe the true number of people infected and sickened is actually much higher because a lot of people recover without actually going to the hospital. And receiving medical care to be tested. The deaths, by the way, occurred in Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, Oregon, Texas, and Utah continue on the run. Now.

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Speaker 3: Three time Oscar nominated actress Diane Ladd has died at the age of eighty nine. We found this out from her family. In particular, her daughter, actress Laura Dern, announced her mom's passing, saying, my amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother. Diane Ladd passed with me beside her this morning at her home. She was the greatest daughter, mother, granddaughter, actress, artist, and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created. We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now.

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Speaker 1: Lad was nominated for her roles and Alice doesn't live here Anymore, Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose. And Ladd and her daughter Laura Dern were both nominated for their roles in Rambling Rose. They are only one of two parent child duos nominated for an Oscar at the same time. The other was Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda for On Golden Pond.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know that I had no idea. Also get this Ladd's first ex husband, which is Laura Dern's dad, Bruce Dern, released a statement about his former wife, saying she lived a good life. She saw everything the way it was. She was a great teammate to her fellow actor. She was funny, clever, gracious, But most importantly to me, she was a wonderful mother to our incredible, wonderkin daughter. And for that I will forever be grateful ter her.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was so cool that he put that out there. And this was also a cool nugget. Gave some insight into Lad's personality. At a book signing a couple of years ago, she was asked for advice on succeeding in show business. Here's what she had to say. Nothing is going to be handed to you. You have to fight like a dirty rotten dog. It just shows her spear and she will certainly be missed.

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Speaker 3: In her eighties. I thought, you love it to the folks. Yeah, that age. But eighty nine, what a life? What a life? Continuing here on the run another death of note, but for a very different reason here notre I guess he's notorious at this point. Victor Kante is the name you might not recognize it, but he was the architect of one of the greatest scandals in sports history. He has now died at the age of seventy five, but Victor Kanti was the guy who found it Balco Laboratories in the Bay Area and provided those undetectable performance enhancing drugs to elite athletes, among them Barry Bonds and track star former Olympian yes Maryon Jones.

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Speaker 1: His death was announced by a sports nutrition company he founded. No cause of death was mentioned, but that scandal, if you remember, erupted in the early two thousands and ultimately athletes, trainers, coaches and more were convicted for their role in this scheme, and he actually did four months in prison.

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Speaker 3: Several people got called and did some prison time related to that. We'll stay with us on this Tuesday morning run when we come back. A country has done something that no country in the world has ever done. They made a generational ban on smoking. We'll explain. Mackenzie Scott keeps doing her thing and giving away money and changing black lives. We'll explain. Also, Huggies and tail and all are in business together. The moon is doing something weird. Robot will explain that to you. And we have a new sexiest man alive. You might know who he is already, but he has made history as the first openly gay man to grace the cover. All right, folks, we continue on this Tuesday morning ron and one country has become the first to impose a generational ban on smoking. Now, when I first read generational ban, didn't exactly know what they meant. But this is what they're talking about. Anyone born in that country from now on is not allowed to smoke.

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Speaker 1: Wow, it's a grandfather clause. But like the Office. Yes, the South Asia Island nation of Maldives has imposed the ban on smoking and all tobacco, but it only applies to citizens born after January first, two thousand and seven. Smoking has been so prevalent, especially among teens in the nations of half a million, that they decided to do something about it.

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Speaker 2: And so now it's like, sorry.

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Speaker 3: I'm not mad necessarily, I don't know nobody here would go for that, but they're doing something. You we are going to stop everybody from smoking from here on out. Wow. That's I would love to see this in a few years. I'll continue on the run now with mus Kinzie Scott. The role keeps continuing. The bill billionaire philanthropists at this point needs no introduction for our regular listeners of Morning Run because everybody knows. I just love this moment because of what she's doing and how she's gone about it. But she has now gifted Howard University eighty million dollars, one of the single largest donations in that school's one hundred and fifty eight year history. We hear that a lot about her donations. They end up being the largest single donation in some school's history. It's cool.

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Speaker 1: That makes a lot of I don't know how many other people could just drop eighty million dollars as an annual gift per usual, though Scott gives this money with no restrictions, which we love, and it couldn't have come at a more crucial time. Howard was chartered by an Act of Congress and is among a handful of universities who receive an annual federal appropriation and they count on that money. That money, fifty five million dollars, is normally issued in October, but with the government shutdown, that check was never put in the mail.

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Speaker 3: See all the stuff we're talking about. It has such an impact. I even think about this, but people are suffering, including college students. Yes, Scott has made several sizable donations. She did it to three other HBCUs in recent recent week, sixty three million to Morgan State University, fifty million to Virginia State University, and thirty eight million to the University of Maryland at Eastern Shore. Congrats once again to all those schools. But Mackenzie's got again.

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Speaker 1: Salute you Person of the Year. We should nominate her Time Magazine. Seriously, I mean the good she's doing. I love how you say generational change, because this isn't just impacting students now in the university. This has ripple effects for an entire generation.

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Speaker 2: It's so cool to.

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Speaker 1: See all right next up on the run, Huggies and Time and all are coming together in a major merger of companies. Kimberly Clark is buying ken View and a deal that is valued around fifty billion dollars. And you might not know those names of the companies, but you definitely have products from both of them in your cabinet.

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Speaker 3: This is crazy to think about some of these companies and the whole they have on market share. But Kimberly Clark makes Huggies, Clean Eggs and cottonell.

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Speaker 2: Check check, well I don't have Huggy sorry, cleanex and cott Now.

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Speaker 3: Yes it's okay, baby.

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Speaker 2: That was that was twenty years ago.

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Speaker 3: No, we have time. There are ways, by the way, has Thailand Hall, Listerine, a Veno, neut Regina, and Zytech. They even have Benadrilla and band Aid. Wow, that's everything in the cabinet now. Kimbu has, though had some recent struggles. It was spun off from Johnson and Johnson in recent years. Some say they were pretty much on the selling block anyway, and then President Trump recently linked thailand Hall use among pregnant women to an increase in autism risk for children. That obviously doesn't look good for the company. But doctors and science don't agree necessarily with what he said. But that's a huge merger.

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Speaker 2: It certainly is all right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we are in everyone for a lunar treat We already got a glimpse around four am this morning. When I say we, I mean TJ and I because we were up at four am. But it was just a I guess, a preview of what's to come with the Beaver supermoon. That is the largest moon of the year. There is a little bit of a catch though, It's going to be at its brightest tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 3: Wait, so we won't see it.

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Speaker 2: We will keep reading.

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Speaker 3: Okay, eight nineteen eastern Wednesday, the moon will be at its peak, appearing fourteen percent larger than thirty percent brighter. Again, it's daytime, but we're still going to get a gorgeous show. Ah, tonight tomorrow night will still it'll look good to us, but it's not the peak.

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Speaker 1: The peak is at eight nineteen am Eastern time. So yes, obviously that doesn't work well for lighting. But they still say tonight's moon and tomorrow night's moon will be ridiculously beautiful.

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Speaker 3: Okay. And in the beaver moon, what we're talking about is the closest point to Earth in its orbit, and that makes it appear brighter and bigger.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and the reason behind its name.

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Speaker 1: According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, the beaver moon got its name because this is the time of the year when beavers take shelter in their lodges after gathering food for the winter awe. The little beavers are about to hibernate, or at least just chill in their dens.

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Speaker 3: I was really hoping it was a guy named Beaver who discurbed it or something, but that I don't like that story. I finally ron. Congratulations to Jonathan Bailey, you sexy thing you. The actor is People Magazine's twenty twenty five Sexiest Man Alive. He was announced on the Tonight Show last night. The thirty seven year old plays Prince Fierro Yes okay in Wicket and He That was his big screen debut actually in Wicked.

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Speaker 2: Yes and he also plays.

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Speaker 1: For those of us who are fans of Bridgerton Present Party included, he plays Lord Anthony Bridgerton in season two of the Netflix hit Bridgerton and Bailey is the first openly gay man to be named Sexiest Man Alive. Loved this line from him last night. This is what he said when he was on the Tonight Show.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: He said that people named him because he's someone who can really cherish the value of a sexy man.

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Speaker 3: I kind of like that one.

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Speaker 2: It was cute. It was cute.

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Speaker 1: I have to be honest. I didn't know, not that it matters. I just didn't know he was gay, because if you watch him in Bridgerton, he steamy heterosexual scenes a bound, so it's like I would never He's an amazing actor. I didn't know who he was and I didn't know his name, but I knew his face and so now everyone knows both.

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Speaker 3: But the things he's big in that are my jams.

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Speaker 1: He's like Shakespeare trained, So it's funny now that he's sexiest man alive. This man is like got all the bona fides of having just seven yes exactly.

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Speaker 3: Started performing at seven. But congrats. This is always a huge honor. It's it's just a fun thing. It's cool. I love that they do this.

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Speaker 2: I do too, all right.

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Speaker 1: Quote of the day Today, on this busy news day, we oh yeah, we're doing a Gandhi week, so it was fun.

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Speaker 2: I got to pick another Gandhi quote.

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Speaker 1: These are there are so many to choose from, but today I picked Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I've never felt like I was stronger after a win. I got my ass kicked a couple of times and came back from that. Now, right, you feel like you got to work out in you had to fight through something. Don't get me wrong. Winning is difficult at times too, But no, that makes perfect sense. Kandia. It's just golden.

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Speaker 1: It's a reminder when you're going through it that that you are building strength right now. And I think it's just a good reminder when things are tough. Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Thank you maham Gandhia. And with that everyone on this Tuesday, I mean the robots.

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Speaker 3: And I'm TJ. Holmes. Always appreciate you running with us. Talk Toil soon.