May 21, 2026
Morning Run: Detroit Bound Flight Diverted, Ebola Numbers Rise, Raul Castro Indicted, New Mexico Mystery, Arizona Execution, RIP Barney Frank, Vanessa Trump Cancer, and Harvard Limits A’s
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday, May twenty First, I'm Ae me.
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Speaker 2: Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes. Wherever you might be this morning, Glad you could spend a little time here with us. We got a lot to get to this morning, a lot of stops to make all of the country, all over the world. But we are going to stop a lot of places. Actually the place that a lot of you all actually are going to be stopping over the next several days at the gas pump. Yes, big holiday weekend robes, and some folks ain't necessarily looking forward to it, and some folks are absolutely altering their travel plan. Uh yeah.
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Speaker 3: And once again we always hear this from Triple A.
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Speaker 1: It's expected to be record setting in terms of the number of Americans who are traveling on this Memorial Day weekend. And unfortunately for folks taking their vehicles on a highway or a roadway, there is not a state in the Union right now that is paying less than four dollars a gallon for gas.
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Speaker 2: I hadn't seen this before. During this whole there's usually a couple states that's still coming in a little in the three eighty markers. Georgia not the case this time. Every single state is above four dollars a gallon gas seline. The national average is now sitting at four fifty six.
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Speaker 1: And here's a reminder, it was two ninety eight when the war started there was a two, and now there's a four. And per usual, California is paying the highest, where there's a six six dollars and fourteen cents is the average for a gallon of gas in California.
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Speaker 3: That is unreal.
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Speaker 1: In Mississippi and Georgia paying the lowest now, but they're at four oh one and four oh three, respectively.
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Speaker 2: All right, continue here on the run now. And this was a little eyebrow raising. A flight from Paris to Detroit was diverted and not allowed to land or even enter US airspace. Why because it was discovered that one passenger aboard had been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the site of the current Ebola outbreak.
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Speaker 1: So the flight was diverted to Montreal, where the passenger was removed. The United States has rules in place to ban people coming from the DRC, South Sudan and Uganda from traveling to the United States for the next thirty days.
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Speaker 2: So who is this person? How they get on the flight? Well, they're telling us they weren't supposed to. There was an error made. I think they're putting it on Air France, but saying this person was let on the plane in error. Now there were no symptoms and actually there's no known direct exposure. But still robes. You had somebody from the DRC get on a plane and was headed to Detroit and it was caught Robes. It just happened to be caught. But this is how we talk about. These things can travel, these things move, and this was this close robes from someone from the DRC landing in the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: May I also say, obviously he wasn't or I shouldn't say he they were not exhibiting any symptoms yet we know it's a two to twenty one day incubation period. May I also say for all the folks who were on board that plane, they were allowed to come into the United States and they may have all just been exposed to this passenger.
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Speaker 2: Well it's the thing. They can't stop an American from coming back home. But now everybody on that plane has to be stressed the hell out. And well, one interview done with CBS. Can you imagine they said they were flying and the pilot makes an announcement they have to divert. They don't know what's going on, and all of a sudden, this long flight from Paris, all the flight attendants just showed up all of a sudden with masks on midflight.
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Speaker 3: That is freaky.
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Speaker 1: And then they're not giving masks to the passengers. So now you're sitting there in shared airspace. Oh my goodness, that is so so so disturbing. Meanwhile, next up on the run will stick with ebola, and there is an encouraging update about the American doctor who tested positive for ebola. Doctor Peter Stafford is now listed in stable can That is remarkable given how his colleagues were describing how he left Congo headed to Germany.
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Speaker 2: Need help walking. Would they not say he was in bad shape? So Stafford and his wife, they had been in the DRC as medical missionaries, their kids, young kids were with them as well. Now nobody in his group right now it's showing signs or symptoms. That's a good thing. But they've all been taken to Germany, where he had been receiving treatment, his family's being monitored. Nobody else exhibiting symptoms at this point. But we're up to the official account of one hundred and thirty nine deaths in this outbreak and at least six hundred plus cases. But Robes, the words they're used, they think they could be as much as a month plus months behind this outbreak.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that months before they knew. That's very frightening, all right. Next up on the Run, the United States has indicted the ninety four year old former president of Cuba, Raoul Castro. Raoul is the brother of Fidel and he is facing four counts of murder for the downing of two humanitarian aid planes back in nineteen ninety six.
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Speaker 2: Acting ag Todd Blanche made a point of saying that this isn't just for show, and that they have actually issued an arrest warrant for him. Can't imagine him coming over voluntarily and going into court to face these charges. But you have to ask Robes, if he doesn't come, will we go get him?
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Speaker 1: And that is the big question that is yet to be determined.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, Testimony expected to continue today in the Ebony Parker trial after the defense and the prosecution both asked for a mistrial yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Hey Parker is the former assistant principals at rich Neck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, where a first grader shot his teacher in twenty twenty three. That teacher did survive. Prosecutors claim Parker did not take required action when she was warned that the child might have.
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Speaker 1: A gun, so both sides made the motion for a miss trial yesterday after two jurors brought up issues with following along with the testimony.
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Speaker 3: What was sustain was overruled.
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Speaker 1: There were constant interruptions by Parker's defense attorney, and it was really hard even for us.
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Speaker 3: We were rewinding, asking each other what did she just say? What did he just say? Yeah, it was hard to follow.
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Speaker 1: What was it?
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Speaker 2: We totally concur with these jurors, And if a mistrial would have been declared, I would have gone, Okay, we can start over and try again to try to follow this case. But the judge refused to declare a mistrial. Testimony will continue today. Parker is facing up to forty years in prison. All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, a mystery in New Mexico after three deaths and now a number of first responders have fallen ill after exposure.
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Speaker 3: To an unknown substance.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: They were calling to the scene for a reported drug overdose, found four people unresponsive. Three of the four died, but while let the scene, several first responders started experiencing nausea and started vomiting on the spot.
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Speaker 3: Roe, this is frightening.
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Speaker 1: At least twenty three people in total had to be decontaminated, some of them had to be quarantined for a bit as of this recording. This is this is frightening. At least two first responders were listed in serious condition. They say there's no threat to the public, but if they don't know what they're dealing with, unclear how they can make that statement.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how it was clear either. They didn't think this was an airborne situation. So I'm like, how that many people touched something again, but they said, this is not an airborne situation. Okay, all right, but an eye to be kept on that one. Continue on the run here now, I'm going home soon. Those reportedly the final words of convicted killer Leroy Dean McGill before he was given a lethal injection last night in Arizona.
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Speaker 1: He had been convicted in the two thousand and two murder of a man he set on fire. This was the state's first execution of the year, and two more executions are scheduled for today, both in Tennessee and in Florida.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the one in Tennessee is scheduled for this morning. Tony Carruthers scheduled to die by lethal injection for a nineteen ninety four triple homicide in Memphis. Now, this is the case that a lot of people are saying that there's more DNA that needs to be tested in some evidence that needs to be looked at. Yes, Kim Kardashian is on board with folks who are saying that this one should be stopped. Today Governor says he will not stop it. However. Also then tonight Florida is going to execute Richard Knight, who's been on death row since two thousand for the killing of a mom and her four year old daughter. These will now the ones today. Rhodes will end up being the fourteenth and fifteenth executions of the year.
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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run, Well, that didn't take long. A lawsuit has already been filed over the president's one point eight billion dollar anti weaponization fund.
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Speaker 3: It was set up to.
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Speaker 1: Pay people who believe they were unfairly targeted by the DOJ during the Biden administration.
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Speaker 2: No, that's what some say, but others critics call it a slush fund for Trump allies. Now, a group of former Capital police officers who came under attack during the January sixth insurrection have sued to stop the creation of the fund.
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Speaker 1: Yes, they are arguing the administration does not have the legal right to set up the fund and specifically are against one dime going to anyone who attacked police officers.
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Speaker 3: And that sure makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. It does.
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Speaker 1: Why would we pay someone who faced consequences for attacking, slash assaulting police officers.
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Speaker 2: Bro Just everybody stop for a moment and think about January sixth. You immediately have an image in your mind of people crawling up the walls of the Capital, of people inside at Nancy Pelosi's these desk on the floor of the Senate, and all this stuff. Those people got pardoned and now possibly paid, pardoned and paid for what we saw on January sixth. Shouldn't we all be against that I have no words.
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Speaker 3: I have no words, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run A passing to tell you about former Congressman Barney fr Rank, A pioneer for sure, has died at the age of eighty six.
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Speaker 2: He was a constant, wasn't he on television? A bunch of hearings, But he was there for thirty years. But robes he was I look, we all remember and covered. He was hilarious, yes, like he was just he was good with his one liners. He was punchy, he was funny. You know what I never I rarely saw him do, was laugh even though everything he was saying seemed to be funny. So he's going to be missed, certainly from the time he was in the Senate, but he represented excuse me, in the House, but he represented Massachusetts for all those years and was an LGBTQ plus pioneer, one of the first openly gay members of Congress, the first member of Congress who have a same sex marriage. He passed in hospice care. I saw some recent pictures of him, and he had had he was almost unrecognizable, and some of the pictures I did see, but rose they phrase it very specifically. He was the first. He wasn't the first openly gay member, but he was the first to voluntarily come out as gay.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that's an interesting distinction instead of being outed out here, yes, he said this is who I am. And that makes the difference to be able to proudly say that and to serve as an openly gay member of your choosing and you are. Yes, he had a husband. He paved the way for a lot of folks. He normalized it, I guess is a good way to put it.
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Speaker 2: Well, in the Hall of the House, in the Senate, we're still some members a trans member. Some of the stuff that has been directed at her, it's just awful. And he was there. Who knows what he really had to deal with in those times, but this was I mean, you look back on him. He was the Barney excuse me, the like Elizabeth Warren before Elizabeth Warren, like he was the one Hooton and Holland about big business and before Bernie Sanders and all those guys you know, and you.
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Speaker 1: Don't often know congressmen or congressman's names. I mean, there's just so many of them. So to actually have a congressman be known for something good or something positive or being a pioneer. Usually if we know a congressman or congresswoman's name is because yes, there's some sort of controversy or something that is on tooard. This was somebody who actually paved the way, and his legacy lives on this troop.
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Speaker 2: Pay forget the politics, since we all just honor him for what exactly, for what he did. All right, well, stay with us here on this morning run. When we come back, we got more problems at LaGuardia Airport. A runway has to be shut down for something we're used to seeing on the roadway. We'll explain. Also Vanessa Trump as a very personal announcement, she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. We'll give you details about that. Harvard is doing something new. They're making it harder to get an a. This is one I apparently not smart enough to understand, but we'll explain. Also, Robes and I will tell you why you need to run and not walk to the movie theater this Weekend't say it.
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Speaker 3: Back everyone to this Thursday morning run.
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Speaker 1: You know we haven't said Friday Eve one day to day at one moment today.
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Speaker 2: That's you. That's all you do.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I forgot it's Friday Eve. Everybody. That's one reason to be excited.
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Speaker 1: But if you're traveling through LaGuardia, you might want to check your airlines.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, next up on the run. This is a new one.
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Speaker 1: Never thought we'd be reporting on this, but there was a sink hole that caused flight delays and even cancelations at LaGuardia Airport.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, we actually set a sink hole.
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Speaker 2: Babe. We have to watch out. You have to do. I need to look out the window after we land and say hey, hey, we got something on the left.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then when you get out of your taxi, make sure you look down so that there isn't an open man.
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Speaker 3: Hole that you could fall through. Here in New York.
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Speaker 2: It's just we've been hearing too much about issues with flights rope that don't have anything to do with the plane operating in the air. It's so true that part is scary. So they find this sinkhole on our runway yesterday morning during a routine expection, so they had to shut down the runway for the day. It's supposed to be open this morning.
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Speaker 1: Robes.
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Speaker 2: I think they were going for six or six thirty having gotten official word at least as of this recording. But there are two runways at Loguardi two and one was shut down all day yesterday. And this is robes of course, busy travel time.
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Speaker 3: Woo oh yeah.
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Speaker 1: People might be getting away for the Memorial Day weekend and it starts today. Truly, this is when people start to leave and tomorrow for sure. So let's hope that gets repaved and reopened soon, all right. Next up on the run, Vanessa Trump announced yesterday she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She said on social media yesterday that she's had at least one procedure, and as she puts it, she is now staying focused and hopeful. Vanessa Trump was married to Donald Trump Junior for twelve years. They have five kids together. And oh, you might have heard she's currently dating Tiger Woods, who is back now from what I've seen from rehab, and it looks like they are back together. And good for her that she has his support now because he's going through a tough time. And certainly, if she's just now beginning this breast cancer journey, she has some tough months ahead. Certainly we don't know the details about her diagnosis, but we certainly wish her well.
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Speaker 3: It's a scary thing for any woman.
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Speaker 1: To experience, but I can speak with at least some experience that at least we know we have wonderful treatment available availability here for so many women who are diagnosed.
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Speaker 2: I always applauded. I mean, she didn't have to put that out, but agreed he did so, and it's important to do so. So I agree, I applaud her for that. I'll continue on the run here. Now, Harvard is limiting how many a's it can give out. Now, just hearing that, I know you know the story though, but just that line, I scratched my head a little bit. How can you limit how smart your students end up being they earn the A.
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Speaker 3: I have an issue with this, Okay, I have a total issue.
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Speaker 2: With Okay, A lot of students have an issue with it as well, But the faculty didn't. They recently voted and fairly overwhelmingly, to cap the number of top grades, yes, the number of a's in underground graduate courses to twenty percent. Simple way to put that, there are one hundred people in the class. They can only give out twenty a's.
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Speaker 1: Why should you be compared to other people? Why can't the quality of your work stand on its own?
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Speaker 2: Okay, here it is. Then robes is what they explain. They're trying to curb inflation grade inflation at schools. Apparently it's a thing. The theory is robes. If you're giving out so many a's, then the value of the A declines. It becomes less important, less impressive, less prestigious, and professors need to be focused now on rewarding what is truly extraordinary work. The argument almost is that professors need to be tougher graters and only reward truly extraordinary work. Does that read?
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Speaker 1: I understand that that should always be the case, but you shouldn't limit.
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Speaker 3: How many extraordinary students you have in your class.
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Speaker 2: Ah ah, there it is ropes.
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Speaker 3: And obviously, if you've gotten into Harvard, you're probably pretty extraordinary.
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Speaker 2: And you could probably earn an A in the coursework.
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Speaker 3: I think that's terrible.
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Speaker 1: It seems manipulative, and they're trying to make their their a's more prestigials.
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Speaker 2: There you go, but at the.
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Speaker 3: Cost of a student who's worked really hard.
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Speaker 1: I worry about students' mental health because if you're creating this in an already highly pressurized situation and a school that already has a lot of pressure attached to it now for students who don't get a's, and there are a lot of folks who have to take these back home to their parents. I just worry about these type A students who get into Harvard, who want nothing more to make an A. If they don't get an A, how do they feel about themselves? And that's just I don't know if they deserve one.
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Speaker 2: Your coursework last year might have been a worthy in two years, it might not be just because you didn't make a certain cutoff. If fifty be kids in a hundred kid classroom earn an A, you have to chop thirty of them, you have to say thirty of you can't get it. And so, yes, the kids are upset. You mentioned mental health. That is the thing they're worried now about. Now you're adding the You know how hard it was to get into Harvard. You know how hard this course work is. You know how hard I'm sitting in a room with fifty other brilliant people.
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Speaker 3: I feel stressed out just thinking about us.
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Speaker 2: Let's say they're not even going to collaborate. It's going to end up hurting them with collaboration. You got the smartest people in the room who don't want to work together now because they need to protect their own work. Wow.
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Speaker 3: I didn't even think about that. Their competitiveness. Now that has begun, like you're not going to be collaborative. Wow. All right, well good luck with that, Harvard.
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Speaker 2: And this is how we budded it up. They're Harvard. They're smarter than we are, so maybe they know what they're doing.
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Speaker 1: You know what, that's a really good way to just say, go figure it out.
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Speaker 3: Guys, you're smarter than me either.
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Speaker 2: Here on the wrong we do want to give you all just our heads up. You do need to get to the theater. We did this yesterday. We had a very busy, very stressful day and just out of the nowhere, just that we got to go see this movie just to get away from work and an escape in ropes. It's you kind of go. It says a lot, But I'm going back to Insidious and Conjuring, to where I was introduced to a horror movie that was so original and different and awesome that I sat up and paid attention.
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Speaker 1: Yes, in fact, should we do a podcast on this later today?
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Speaker 3: I think I should.
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Speaker 1: But the movie Obsession, it is a horror movie like we've never seen before.
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Speaker 3: It was so innovative, so original, so good. We were laughing. I actually, we can get it.
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Speaker 1: I made a verbal noise that I didn't even know I was capable of making because I got so just I had such a genuine response to some of the scenes in the movie.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's so good. Okay, we definitely have to do a podcast on this, and.
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Speaker 2: So we might need to because it's setting records, robe and the thing that's working. This is rare that you walk out of a movie and you can't wait to go tell somebody to see it. It is doing gangbusters because of that. It had a budget of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That's amazing, and it has set a record because it ended up three at the box office last weekend. It is the cheapest movie to end up in the top three in the past twenty years.
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Speaker 3: I just got chills.
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Speaker 2: Right, the movie is special. Maybe we need to do one look.
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Speaker 3: For it later on our feet.
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Speaker 1: Today we are going to do a full review of Obsession, and we hope that after you hear this episode, you will go.
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Speaker 3: Out and buy your tickets.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's leave you on this Thursday e sorry, this Friday eve Thursday.
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Speaker 3: Run while I screwed that up with your quote of the day.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know what day it is though today it's Thursday.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm trying way too hard, all right. Quote of the day.
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Speaker 1: Stop the delaying joy until life looks a certain way. You are allowed to be happy while you're figuring things out.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I hear you. Okay, I say it again. They say, when more time to.
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Speaker 1: Me, Stop delaying joy until life looks a certain way. You're allowed to be happy while you are figuring things out.
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Speaker 3: And I love that.
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Speaker 1: Because so many times you say, as soon as I get this, as soon as I finish this, as soon as I accomplish this, as soon as I get that thing, then I can be happy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: No, start being happy right now. Stop delaying joy until life looks a certain way. It's never gonna look the way you want it to look, or it's supposed to look.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna stop delaying because I've been delaying until I get sleep, get the travel arrangements worked out, get ready for this interview. We have later record those three episodes, gets to being squared away, do a little packing, have to go grab a couple of things for the trip. Yeah, as soon as I get all that out of way, joy.
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Speaker 3: No, you even said that.
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Speaker 1: I already picked the quote, and you even said really stressed out. But I'm gonna try to have some fun a long way because we got a long day ahead of it.
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Speaker 2: We got a long day. But it's all, Hey, I'm gonna do the joy now. I'm not gonna delay the joints. I get done with all this later. Let's join the joy now. Yeah, boom.
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Speaker 3: All right. I hope that inspired some of y' all out there. And with that, everyone, thank you for running with us. I am Amy Robot.
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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ. Holmes. You don't remember that quote, don't worry another way to put it. Just fake it. Do you make it? Talk to y'll soon,
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday, May twenty First, I'm Ae me.
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Speaker 2: Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes. Wherever you might be this morning, Glad you could spend a little time here with us. We got a lot to get to this morning, a lot of stops to make all of the country, all over the world. But we are going to stop a lot of places. Actually the place that a lot of you all actually are going to be stopping over the next several days at the gas pump. Yes, big holiday weekend robes, and some folks ain't necessarily looking forward to it, and some folks are absolutely altering their travel plan. Uh yeah.
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Speaker 3: And once again we always hear this from Triple A.
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Speaker 1: It's expected to be record setting in terms of the number of Americans who are traveling on this Memorial Day weekend. And unfortunately for folks taking their vehicles on a highway or a roadway, there is not a state in the Union right now that is paying less than four dollars a gallon for gas.
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Speaker 2: I hadn't seen this before. During this whole there's usually a couple states that's still coming in a little in the three eighty markers. Georgia not the case this time. Every single state is above four dollars a gallon gas seline. The national average is now sitting at four fifty six.
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Speaker 1: And here's a reminder, it was two ninety eight when the war started there was a two, and now there's a four. And per usual, California is paying the highest, where there's a six six dollars and fourteen cents is the average for a gallon of gas in California.
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Speaker 3: That is unreal.
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Speaker 1: In Mississippi and Georgia paying the lowest now, but they're at four oh one and four oh three, respectively.
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Speaker 2: All right, continue here on the run now. And this was a little eyebrow raising. A flight from Paris to Detroit was diverted and not allowed to land or even enter US airspace. Why because it was discovered that one passenger aboard had been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the site of the current Ebola outbreak.
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Speaker 1: So the flight was diverted to Montreal, where the passenger was removed. The United States has rules in place to ban people coming from the DRC, South Sudan and Uganda from traveling to the United States for the next thirty days.
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Speaker 2: So who is this person? How they get on the flight? Well, they're telling us they weren't supposed to. There was an error made. I think they're putting it on Air France, but saying this person was let on the plane in error. Now there were no symptoms and actually there's no known direct exposure. But still robes. You had somebody from the DRC get on a plane and was headed to Detroit and it was caught Robes. It just happened to be caught. But this is how we talk about. These things can travel, these things move, and this was this close robes from someone from the DRC landing in the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: May I also say, obviously he wasn't or I shouldn't say he they were not exhibiting any symptoms yet we know it's a two to twenty one day incubation period. May I also say for all the folks who were on board that plane, they were allowed to come into the United States and they may have all just been exposed to this passenger.
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Speaker 2: Well it's the thing. They can't stop an American from coming back home. But now everybody on that plane has to be stressed the hell out. And well, one interview done with CBS. Can you imagine they said they were flying and the pilot makes an announcement they have to divert. They don't know what's going on, and all of a sudden, this long flight from Paris, all the flight attendants just showed up all of a sudden with masks on midflight.
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Speaker 3: That is freaky.
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Speaker 1: And then they're not giving masks to the passengers. So now you're sitting there in shared airspace. Oh my goodness, that is so so so disturbing. Meanwhile, next up on the run will stick with ebola, and there is an encouraging update about the American doctor who tested positive for ebola. Doctor Peter Stafford is now listed in stable can That is remarkable given how his colleagues were describing how he left Congo headed to Germany.
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Speaker 2: Need help walking. Would they not say he was in bad shape? So Stafford and his wife, they had been in the DRC as medical missionaries, their kids, young kids were with them as well. Now nobody in his group right now it's showing signs or symptoms. That's a good thing. But they've all been taken to Germany, where he had been receiving treatment, his family's being monitored. Nobody else exhibiting symptoms at this point. But we're up to the official account of one hundred and thirty nine deaths in this outbreak and at least six hundred plus cases. But Robes, the words they're used, they think they could be as much as a month plus months behind this outbreak.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that months before they knew. That's very frightening, all right. Next up on the Run, the United States has indicted the ninety four year old former president of Cuba, Raoul Castro. Raoul is the brother of Fidel and he is facing four counts of murder for the downing of two humanitarian aid planes back in nineteen ninety six.
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Speaker 2: Acting ag Todd Blanche made a point of saying that this isn't just for show, and that they have actually issued an arrest warrant for him. Can't imagine him coming over voluntarily and going into court to face these charges. But you have to ask Robes, if he doesn't come, will we go get him?
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Speaker 1: And that is the big question that is yet to be determined.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, Testimony expected to continue today in the Ebony Parker trial after the defense and the prosecution both asked for a mistrial yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Hey Parker is the former assistant principals at rich Neck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, where a first grader shot his teacher in twenty twenty three. That teacher did survive. Prosecutors claim Parker did not take required action when she was warned that the child might have.
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Speaker 1: A gun, so both sides made the motion for a miss trial yesterday after two jurors brought up issues with following along with the testimony.
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Speaker 3: What was sustain was overruled.
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Speaker 1: There were constant interruptions by Parker's defense attorney, and it was really hard even for us.
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Speaker 3: We were rewinding, asking each other what did she just say? What did he just say? Yeah, it was hard to follow.
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Speaker 1: What was it?
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Speaker 2: We totally concur with these jurors, And if a mistrial would have been declared, I would have gone, Okay, we can start over and try again to try to follow this case. But the judge refused to declare a mistrial. Testimony will continue today. Parker is facing up to forty years in prison. All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, a mystery in New Mexico after three deaths and now a number of first responders have fallen ill after exposure.
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Speaker 3: To an unknown substance.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: They were calling to the scene for a reported drug overdose, found four people unresponsive. Three of the four died, but while let the scene, several first responders started experiencing nausea and started vomiting on the spot.
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Speaker 3: Roe, this is frightening.
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Speaker 1: At least twenty three people in total had to be decontaminated, some of them had to be quarantined for a bit as of this recording. This is this is frightening. At least two first responders were listed in serious condition. They say there's no threat to the public, but if they don't know what they're dealing with, unclear how they can make that statement.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how it was clear either. They didn't think this was an airborne situation. So I'm like, how that many people touched something again, but they said, this is not an airborne situation. Okay, all right, but an eye to be kept on that one. Continue on the run here now, I'm going home soon. Those reportedly the final words of convicted killer Leroy Dean McGill before he was given a lethal injection last night in Arizona.
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Speaker 1: He had been convicted in the two thousand and two murder of a man he set on fire. This was the state's first execution of the year, and two more executions are scheduled for today, both in Tennessee and in Florida.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the one in Tennessee is scheduled for this morning. Tony Carruthers scheduled to die by lethal injection for a nineteen ninety four triple homicide in Memphis. Now, this is the case that a lot of people are saying that there's more DNA that needs to be tested in some evidence that needs to be looked at. Yes, Kim Kardashian is on board with folks who are saying that this one should be stopped. Today Governor says he will not stop it. However. Also then tonight Florida is going to execute Richard Knight, who's been on death row since two thousand for the killing of a mom and her four year old daughter. These will now the ones today. Rhodes will end up being the fourteenth and fifteenth executions of the year.
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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run, Well, that didn't take long. A lawsuit has already been filed over the president's one point eight billion dollar anti weaponization fund.
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Speaker 3: It was set up to.
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Speaker 1: Pay people who believe they were unfairly targeted by the DOJ during the Biden administration.
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Speaker 2: No, that's what some say, but others critics call it a slush fund for Trump allies. Now, a group of former Capital police officers who came under attack during the January sixth insurrection have sued to stop the creation of the fund.
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Speaker 1: Yes, they are arguing the administration does not have the legal right to set up the fund and specifically are against one dime going to anyone who attacked police officers.
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Speaker 3: And that sure makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. It does.
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Speaker 1: Why would we pay someone who faced consequences for attacking, slash assaulting police officers.
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Speaker 2: Bro Just everybody stop for a moment and think about January sixth. You immediately have an image in your mind of people crawling up the walls of the Capital, of people inside at Nancy Pelosi's these desk on the floor of the Senate, and all this stuff. Those people got pardoned and now possibly paid, pardoned and paid for what we saw on January sixth. Shouldn't we all be against that I have no words.
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Speaker 3: I have no words, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run A passing to tell you about former Congressman Barney fr Rank, A pioneer for sure, has died at the age of eighty six.
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Speaker 2: He was a constant, wasn't he on television? A bunch of hearings, But he was there for thirty years. But robes he was I look, we all remember and covered. He was hilarious, yes, like he was just he was good with his one liners. He was punchy, he was funny. You know what I never I rarely saw him do, was laugh even though everything he was saying seemed to be funny. So he's going to be missed, certainly from the time he was in the Senate, but he represented excuse me, in the House, but he represented Massachusetts for all those years and was an LGBTQ plus pioneer, one of the first openly gay members of Congress, the first member of Congress who have a same sex marriage. He passed in hospice care. I saw some recent pictures of him, and he had had he was almost unrecognizable, and some of the pictures I did see, but rose they phrase it very specifically. He was the first. He wasn't the first openly gay member, but he was the first to voluntarily come out as gay.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that's an interesting distinction instead of being outed out here, yes, he said this is who I am. And that makes the difference to be able to proudly say that and to serve as an openly gay member of your choosing and you are. Yes, he had a husband. He paved the way for a lot of folks. He normalized it, I guess is a good way to put it.
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Speaker 2: Well, in the Hall of the House, in the Senate, we're still some members a trans member. Some of the stuff that has been directed at her, it's just awful. And he was there. Who knows what he really had to deal with in those times, but this was I mean, you look back on him. He was the Barney excuse me, the like Elizabeth Warren before Elizabeth Warren, like he was the one Hooton and Holland about big business and before Bernie Sanders and all those guys you know, and you.
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Speaker 1: Don't often know congressmen or congressman's names. I mean, there's just so many of them. So to actually have a congressman be known for something good or something positive or being a pioneer. Usually if we know a congressman or congresswoman's name is because yes, there's some sort of controversy or something that is on tooard. This was somebody who actually paved the way, and his legacy lives on this troop.
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Speaker 2: Pay forget the politics, since we all just honor him for what exactly, for what he did. All right, well, stay with us here on this morning run. When we come back, we got more problems at LaGuardia Airport. A runway has to be shut down for something we're used to seeing on the roadway. We'll explain. Also Vanessa Trump as a very personal announcement, she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. We'll give you details about that. Harvard is doing something new. They're making it harder to get an a. This is one I apparently not smart enough to understand, but we'll explain. Also, Robes and I will tell you why you need to run and not walk to the movie theater this Weekend't say it.
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Speaker 3: Back everyone to this Thursday morning run.
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Speaker 1: You know we haven't said Friday Eve one day to day at one moment today.
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Speaker 2: That's you. That's all you do.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I forgot it's Friday Eve. Everybody. That's one reason to be excited.
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Speaker 1: But if you're traveling through LaGuardia, you might want to check your airlines.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, next up on the run. This is a new one.
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Speaker 1: Never thought we'd be reporting on this, but there was a sink hole that caused flight delays and even cancelations at LaGuardia Airport.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, we actually set a sink hole.
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Speaker 2: Babe. We have to watch out. You have to do. I need to look out the window after we land and say hey, hey, we got something on the left.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then when you get out of your taxi, make sure you look down so that there isn't an open man.
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Speaker 3: Hole that you could fall through. Here in New York.
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Speaker 2: It's just we've been hearing too much about issues with flights rope that don't have anything to do with the plane operating in the air. It's so true that part is scary. So they find this sinkhole on our runway yesterday morning during a routine expection, so they had to shut down the runway for the day. It's supposed to be open this morning.
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Speaker 1: Robes.
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Speaker 2: I think they were going for six or six thirty having gotten official word at least as of this recording. But there are two runways at Loguardi two and one was shut down all day yesterday. And this is robes of course, busy travel time.
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Speaker 3: Woo oh yeah.
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Speaker 1: People might be getting away for the Memorial Day weekend and it starts today. Truly, this is when people start to leave and tomorrow for sure. So let's hope that gets repaved and reopened soon, all right. Next up on the run, Vanessa Trump announced yesterday she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She said on social media yesterday that she's had at least one procedure, and as she puts it, she is now staying focused and hopeful. Vanessa Trump was married to Donald Trump Junior for twelve years. They have five kids together. And oh, you might have heard she's currently dating Tiger Woods, who is back now from what I've seen from rehab, and it looks like they are back together. And good for her that she has his support now because he's going through a tough time. And certainly, if she's just now beginning this breast cancer journey, she has some tough months ahead. Certainly we don't know the details about her diagnosis, but we certainly wish her well.
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Speaker 3: It's a scary thing for any woman.
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Speaker 1: To experience, but I can speak with at least some experience that at least we know we have wonderful treatment available availability here for so many women who are diagnosed.
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Speaker 2: I always applauded. I mean, she didn't have to put that out, but agreed he did so, and it's important to do so. So I agree, I applaud her for that. I'll continue on the run here. Now, Harvard is limiting how many a's it can give out. Now, just hearing that, I know you know the story though, but just that line, I scratched my head a little bit. How can you limit how smart your students end up being they earn the A.
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Speaker 3: I have an issue with this, Okay, I have a total issue.
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Speaker 2: With Okay, A lot of students have an issue with it as well, But the faculty didn't. They recently voted and fairly overwhelmingly, to cap the number of top grades, yes, the number of a's in underground graduate courses to twenty percent. Simple way to put that, there are one hundred people in the class. They can only give out twenty a's.
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Speaker 1: Why should you be compared to other people? Why can't the quality of your work stand on its own?
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Speaker 2: Okay, here it is. Then robes is what they explain. They're trying to curb inflation grade inflation at schools. Apparently it's a thing. The theory is robes. If you're giving out so many a's, then the value of the A declines. It becomes less important, less impressive, less prestigious, and professors need to be focused now on rewarding what is truly extraordinary work. The argument almost is that professors need to be tougher graters and only reward truly extraordinary work. Does that read?
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Speaker 1: I understand that that should always be the case, but you shouldn't limit.
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Speaker 3: How many extraordinary students you have in your class.
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Speaker 2: Ah ah, there it is ropes.
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Speaker 3: And obviously, if you've gotten into Harvard, you're probably pretty extraordinary.
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Speaker 2: And you could probably earn an A in the coursework.
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Speaker 3: I think that's terrible.
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Speaker 1: It seems manipulative, and they're trying to make their their a's more prestigials.
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Speaker 2: There you go, but at the.
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Speaker 3: Cost of a student who's worked really hard.
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Speaker 1: I worry about students' mental health because if you're creating this in an already highly pressurized situation and a school that already has a lot of pressure attached to it now for students who don't get a's, and there are a lot of folks who have to take these back home to their parents. I just worry about these type A students who get into Harvard, who want nothing more to make an A. If they don't get an A, how do they feel about themselves? And that's just I don't know if they deserve one.
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Speaker 2: Your coursework last year might have been a worthy in two years, it might not be just because you didn't make a certain cutoff. If fifty be kids in a hundred kid classroom earn an A, you have to chop thirty of them, you have to say thirty of you can't get it. And so, yes, the kids are upset. You mentioned mental health. That is the thing they're worried now about. Now you're adding the You know how hard it was to get into Harvard. You know how hard this course work is. You know how hard I'm sitting in a room with fifty other brilliant people.
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Speaker 3: I feel stressed out just thinking about us.
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Speaker 2: Let's say they're not even going to collaborate. It's going to end up hurting them with collaboration. You got the smartest people in the room who don't want to work together now because they need to protect their own work. Wow.
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Speaker 3: I didn't even think about that. Their competitiveness. Now that has begun, like you're not going to be collaborative. Wow. All right, well good luck with that, Harvard.
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Speaker 2: And this is how we budded it up. They're Harvard. They're smarter than we are, so maybe they know what they're doing.
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Speaker 1: You know what, that's a really good way to just say, go figure it out.
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Speaker 3: Guys, you're smarter than me either.
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Speaker 2: Here on the wrong we do want to give you all just our heads up. You do need to get to the theater. We did this yesterday. We had a very busy, very stressful day and just out of the nowhere, just that we got to go see this movie just to get away from work and an escape in ropes. It's you kind of go. It says a lot, But I'm going back to Insidious and Conjuring, to where I was introduced to a horror movie that was so original and different and awesome that I sat up and paid attention.
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Speaker 1: Yes, in fact, should we do a podcast on this later today?
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Speaker 3: I think I should.
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Speaker 1: But the movie Obsession, it is a horror movie like we've never seen before.
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Speaker 3: It was so innovative, so original, so good. We were laughing. I actually, we can get it.
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Speaker 1: I made a verbal noise that I didn't even know I was capable of making because I got so just I had such a genuine response to some of the scenes in the movie.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's so good. Okay, we definitely have to do a podcast on this, and.
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Speaker 2: So we might need to because it's setting records, robe and the thing that's working. This is rare that you walk out of a movie and you can't wait to go tell somebody to see it. It is doing gangbusters because of that. It had a budget of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That's amazing, and it has set a record because it ended up three at the box office last weekend. It is the cheapest movie to end up in the top three in the past twenty years.
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Speaker 3: I just got chills.
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Speaker 2: Right, the movie is special. Maybe we need to do one look.
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Speaker 3: For it later on our feet.
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Speaker 1: Today we are going to do a full review of Obsession, and we hope that after you hear this episode, you will go.
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Speaker 3: Out and buy your tickets.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's leave you on this Thursday e sorry, this Friday eve Thursday.
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Speaker 3: Run while I screwed that up with your quote of the day.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know what day it is though today it's Thursday.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm trying way too hard, all right. Quote of the day.
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Speaker 1: Stop the delaying joy until life looks a certain way. You are allowed to be happy while you're figuring things out.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I hear you. Okay, I say it again. They say, when more time to.
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Speaker 1: Me, Stop delaying joy until life looks a certain way. You're allowed to be happy while you are figuring things out.
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Speaker 3: And I love that.
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Speaker 1: Because so many times you say, as soon as I get this, as soon as I finish this, as soon as I accomplish this, as soon as I get that thing, then I can be happy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: No, start being happy right now. Stop delaying joy until life looks a certain way. It's never gonna look the way you want it to look, or it's supposed to look.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna stop delaying because I've been delaying until I get sleep, get the travel arrangements worked out, get ready for this interview. We have later record those three episodes, gets to being squared away, do a little packing, have to go grab a couple of things for the trip. Yeah, as soon as I get all that out of way, joy.
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Speaker 3: No, you even said that.
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Speaker 1: I already picked the quote, and you even said really stressed out. But I'm gonna try to have some fun a long way because we got a long day ahead of it.
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Speaker 2: We got a long day. But it's all, Hey, I'm gonna do the joy now. I'm not gonna delay the joints. I get done with all this later. Let's join the joy now. Yeah, boom.
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Speaker 3: All right. I hope that inspired some of y' all out there. And with that, everyone, thank you for running with us. I am Amy Robot.
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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ. Holmes. You don't remember that quote, don't worry another way to put it. Just fake it. Do you make it? Talk to y'll soon,