Jan. 23, 2026
Morning Run: DOJ Arrests Church Protesters, ICE Takes 5 Year Old, Philadelphia Sues Trump, Trump Sues J.P. Morgan Chase, Chicago Bragging Rights, Massive Winter Storm and Sinners Makes History
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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 Friday, January twenty third. I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. Hope you settled wherever you are. You should probably sit down inside right now. Not going to leave for a week. This storm, this is all everybody's talking about. What did you say the local reporter or local weather guy just said.
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Speaker 1: He just said, today on Friday is going to be the warmest day for the rest of the month, and.
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Speaker 2: Today's the what today is? Third? Wow? Yeah, eight days a goodness.
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Speaker 3: Of a tundra polar vortex inspired temperature.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we just saw the seven day up there and it said eighteen, nineteen, twenty five, twenty four. Those are the highs for each of those days. So everybody is getting settled. You know this thing is coming. You've seen everybody talking about it. You're taking your preparations, but today is going to be your turn. Dallas, Memphis, Little Roc. Today is your day. Alerts, emergency declarations are all old. We really much two thirds of the country right now, but snow and ice, robes and falling temperatures are going to be the issues with some of those major southern cities going through kind of the mid South.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, temperatures they're not used to seeing at all. Unfortunately, we're a little used to it and it's still difficult. But yeah, folks in Nashville, Charlotte, Raleigh, they're going to get the worst of it starting on Saturday.
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Speaker 3: And ice is the major issue.
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Speaker 1: Ice is so much more problematic than snow, just given what it does to the roads, to your power lines, to tree limbs. There is so much danger associated with ice. And then in Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison, we think we're cold here, we said eighteen, we're talking thirty and forty below.
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Speaker 3: That's the wind chill.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, because actual temperatures that would be hard to get my head around.
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Speaker 2: But still, what does it have was the temperature If you end up at thirty or forty below, right, it's cold there. I've never gotten more heat probably in any live reporting I've done than when I went to Minneapolis and complained the body being cold. Everybody from minneapolists came after me.
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Speaker 1: There's reasons, we're all yes, And they have skywalks to get from building to building, like they know how to deal with the cold there, but still, even people who know how to deal with the cold, thirty to forty below zero is really awful. And then yes, here in the northeast, DC, New York, Boston, we're all bracing ourselves for a ton of snow, the likes of which we haven't seen for five years.
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Speaker 3: They said, we've had a snow deficit.
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Speaker 1: And not really a lot of complaints here, but yeah, we haven't had a significant snowstorm like the one they're predicting in a very long time.
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Speaker 2: So that's happening up in this area on Sunday. Yes, a lot of major cities up here expecting a foot plus of snow is really going to shut things down. And there's some places roads right now they say travel is virtually impossible. Certainly, don't attempt it. Some people have to go places you just don't have a choice. But they say it's virtually impossible, and a lot of places the airlines are trying to help out. You should check with them about their policies now, but they are changing some of the feet and waving some of those rebooking fees right now. What do you do, man, This is a this is a historic storm.
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Speaker 1: And there's nothing you can do about the weather. There's nothing you can change.
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Speaker 2: Well, folks, what you wanted to let you know what was happening weather wise. But we will continue here on this morning's run. This Friday morning run will take us to Minnesota, it'll take us to the United Arab Emirates, take us to Philadelphia, Switzerland, Los Angeles. But we do need to start and not weather related robes in Minneapolis, where there were some fairly significant developments.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 1: Another incident has once again inflamed an already tense situation in Minneapolis.
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Speaker 3: A five year old boy and.
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Speaker 1: His picture He's so cute, was taken into custody by Ice agents. Images of that little guy set off a new round of criticism of the administration tactics that are going on in Minneapolis.
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Speaker 2: So, like everything we've seen in Minneapolis, it seems like they are two sides of the story. So sure enough, we're getting two sides, one from the boys family, one from the Department of Homeland Security that put out this statement saying that the dad is in the country illegally, so they were going after the dad tried to take him into custody. He had pulled into his driveway in a vehicle with the kid in it, so they tried to take him into custody. He fled, leaving the little boy behind in the vehicle. An ICE agent stayed with the boy. Other agents caught up with the dad, apprehended him, and the two of them were then taken into custody and are now at a detention facility in Texas.
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Speaker 1: So, the family attorney says the family has a pending asylum case and are not under deportation issues. In fact, they said that there was an adult there at the home who offered to take the little boy, but that ICE did not allow it. And they're claiming that the father entered the United States legally from Ecuador.
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Speaker 3: This is according to the.
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Speaker 1: Family's attorney, and that Liam's father, the little boy's father, doesn't have a criminal record. So there is going to have to be some explaining between these two accounts because they're vastly different.
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Speaker 2: Seeking asylum, you were here waiting and pending, but they said he did not have a deportation order, so why were they there? Why were they picking him up? The DHS only would say that it is our policy that then whether the child involved will at least ask if do you want your child to stay with you in this detention process or do you have an adult the child can go with. They say they asked that they weren't specific that they asked it. In this case, we continue here on the run still Minneapolis related here, the Justice Department followed through on its threat and arrested three people who were part of that protest that disrupted Sunday service at a Saint Paul church.
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Speaker 1: Among those arrested Nakima Levy Armstrong. She was the head of the group that organized the protest. She's being charged with conspiring to violate constitutional right correct, just for entering that they.
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Speaker 2: Have a right to prisful assembly, yes, practice from a religion, and they violated that as what they're saying now. Can't just leave it there. The administration actually a lot of people talking about say an altered image. It appears to be an AI image of Nakima Levy Armstrong being arrested.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: The Christinom put out a picture on Twitter x fine of the arrest and she's in handcuffs and she's walking stone faced. Half hour later, another picture was put out by the administration, same image, but her face was altered to look like she was sobbing uncontrollably.
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Speaker 3: How is that Okay?
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Speaker 2: They thought it was funny, So you asked that question, and someone asked that question of the administration, and a White House spokesperson said, enforcement of the law will continue, the memes will continue, So they're owning it, like.
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Speaker 1: So, they're probably funny to mock someone who they've arrested, and it was just unnecessarily just again, this is adding fuel to the fire. People are upset. This is an emotionally charged issue. And now to just as an institution as a government to play these little games where we alter images to make them look more desperate or funny, we're making fun of someone. I just ah, it's really really hard to witness and see this coming from the top down because that absolutely impacts the attitude and the decisions people make every day about how they treat each other. All right, Next up on the Run, this is a promising development in the pursuit of peace in that three year Russia Ukraine war. Representatives from the United States, Russia, and Ukraine are all meeting together. This is the first time all three have met in the efforts to end the war. This is significant and it's happening over in the United Arab Emirates. So this is a potentially huge step forward in finally getting peace in that area.
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Speaker 2: All right, we continue on this Friday morning run. Now, TikTok. Remember it was supposed to get banned. You were never going to be able to use it. Again, everybody was freaking out. Well it's been resolved. Not that you ever had a problem, but officially a deal has been in which US investors are going to be taking over US operations of TikTok. You remember the government they filed that excuse me, they passed the law that said that TikTok couldn't operate in the United States if it still had Chinese owners. But the deadline came and went. President kept kicking the can down the road. So officially it's done. Now this is going to be a US investor is going to be Oracle. Actually, I think they're pretty close with the President over there at Oracle. But China and US have okaid and signed off on the deal.
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Speaker 3: All right, everybody can be the huge collective sigh of relief. TikTok is safe. All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, the city of Philadelphia is suing the Trump administration.
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Speaker 3: In particular the Department.
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Speaker 1: Of the Interior. Why you ask this one is a doozy. This is all over slavery exhibits that have been removed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a part of the directive, and other people around the country seem to be following this director from the president. But this is at the President's House at Independence National Park. Now President's House is a location that the former home of Presidents Washington and Adams. Now at the President's House hung art and informational displays having to do with slavery. Those are being taken down and the Department says they're doing it in accordance with Trump's executive order that he signed at the beginning of his second term, in which he was saying he wants, by some accounts, some call it whitewashing. He doesn't want negative things about the country, in particular about slavery and racism to be included.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: And you know what's interesting, the City Council president, she's the one who said whitewashing. She went on to say this, and this really resonated with me. History cannot be erased simply because it is uncomfortable, and that to me, that is just mind boggling that, Oh, we're just going to remove this because we don't like how it feels. But it's so important what they say about history. If we don't learn from it, we're just going to repeat it history.
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Speaker 2: I mean, these are facts. Is we're just erasing These aren't just details. I mean George Washington was a slave owner. Okay, we can accept that. Yes, you want to erase it. Don't want to talk about it? Though?
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Speaker 1: Why why do we need to erase it? It makes zero sense to me. But yes, the lawsuit goes on and we will see what happens with that. But next up on the run. You ever invite people to a big party you're having, You're hoping that the cool kids show up, but they don't. Yeah, that's kind of what happened when President Trump announced his Board of Peace.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Board of Peace. The group is put together he announced his last year, and this was supposed to be a really an exclusive group of world leaders that were going to be responsible for rebuilding the Gaza Strip. Well, major allies passed. So, like, don't get me wrong, Azerbaijan, I'm sure it's a wonderful place, but folks like that are on this particular board, Canada did get an invitation to join, but before they could even say yes or no, the President officially rescinded their invitation.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's read President Trump's truth social post. Dear Prime Minister Carney, of course that is the Prime Minister of Canada. Please let this letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada's joining what will be the most prestigious board of leaders ever assembled at any time.
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Speaker 3: He didn't give any reason, but we kind of know what's up.
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Speaker 1: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said something the President didn't like in Switzerland.
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Speaker 2: Yes he said some didn't even say the president's name, but he said something that it clearly alluded to what was going on with the President wanting to take Greenland. So President Trump and his speech in Dappos, responded by saying this, I watched your Prime minister yesterday. He wasn't so grateful, but they should be grateful to US. Canada lives because of the US. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements. Carney followed up with a statement saying Canada does not live because of the US. Canada thrives because we are Canadian. But it seems like these two they were going at it, but then things calmed at the White House. They had kind of a chummy meeting where they were very personal and laughing. And now this is falling apart again to our neighbor, our direct neighbor to the now.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what's the Canadian Prime minister supposed to say when he makes a comment like that. He has to stand up for his country and his people, And it makes perfect.
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Speaker 2: Sense on the friendly Canadian.
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Speaker 3: Why what are the Canadians ever done to anybody's?
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Speaker 1: Like?
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Speaker 3: They're so nice?
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Speaker 1: All right? Next stuff on the run, President Trump making more friends along the way. He's filed a five billion dollar lawsuit. This time it's not against a media outlet. It's not against a university. This time it's against a bank, as in JP Morgan Chase and specifically CEO Jamie Diamond. He says the bank closed his accounts for political and social reasons. This all happened shortly after the January sixth insurrection. Are we allowed to call it that? Trump considered considerable financial harm and losses? He says, because his accounts were closed JP Morgan Chase had this to say your lawsuit, mister President, is.
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Speaker 3: Merritless d banked.
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Speaker 2: You familiar with that?
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Speaker 1: No, but he kept saying I got debanked, I de banked. Didn't know that was a thing. Thankfully it's never happened to me. Hopefully it never will. But yeah, they just said your accounts aren't welcome here.
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Speaker 3: You're for a bank to say your money isn't welcome here. That's pretty significant.
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Speaker 2: Even the mafia keeps their money in the bank. All right, we'll stay with us on this Friday morning ron folks. When we come back, there is a new busiest airport in the world. Sorry, Hartsville Jackson, somebody just took your title. And also sorry Titanic in La La Land, somebody just took your title too.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone to this Friday edition of Your Morning Run, and next up on the Run, Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport is no longer the busiest airport in the world.
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Speaker 3: That title now goes to Chicago.
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Speaker 1: O'Hare based on preliminary numbers, but that city isn't waiting to go brag about it. They are reclaiming the top spot for the first time since twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 2: These are preliminary numbers, and only because I like pettiness. It would be funny if the final numbers came and they were wrong, because the Chicago mayor came out and said, this is more than a statistic, it's a statement about Chicago's momentum. And he did what he's supposed to do. And I'm sure the numbers are gonna end up this way. But in twenty twenty five, they had eight hundred and fifty seven thousand takeoffs and landings at Chicago. O'Hair, they're hubs, they are American and United. Of course, everybody knows Delta is in Atlanta is the main hub. But they had eight hundred and eight thousand, so it wasn't necessarily that close. No, in terms of who's number one and number two. O hair, you say, here's going to get busier. They have a new concourse D nineteen gates, so they're going to be having more planes and more capacity and more possibilities at their airport here by twenty twenty eight.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so Atlanta better catch up, right.
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Speaker 1: No, Honestly, I spent and you have spent so much of your life flying in and out of Atlanta. It's to me I understand why the Chicago mayor is taking this as a source of pride, But anyone who has to travel through those cities, I don't necessarily want.
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Speaker 3: To live or be near the busiest airport in the world, do you.
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Speaker 2: I mean they have Hartsville Jackson in a good spot.
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Speaker 1: The truth is, I guess if anything goes wrong, you've got options. That is the good thing a smaller airport. If you've got any sort of you're done, You're cooked. You have to wait a day or whatever, so at least you know you're gonna get out of there, probably at when you got a busy airport.
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Speaker 2: As we walk to the next gate, I'm sure.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, Sinners has out done both Titanic and La La Land. It received sixteen Oscar nominations yesterday. That is the most for any movie ever in the history of the Oscars.
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Speaker 3: And it's a horror movie to boot.
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Speaker 2: We will not be cheering harder for a movie than we will for this one, not just because we love it, but it's an a genre that we would love to see get more love like this. We are going crazy if it.
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Speaker 3: Is absolutely I love varieties quote they said, Ryan Cougler has officially rewritten Oscar history. That's pretty cool. So let's see if you can make even more history.
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Speaker 1: Come March fifteenth, at the ninety eighth Academy Awards ceremony, Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Cougler, Fruitville Station. What year was that independent little film with him and freaking Michael B. Jordan And look at him now? Oh my god, it's a wonderful story.
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Speaker 3: Now the record for the most wins is eleven.
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Speaker 1: This is at the actual Oscars ceremony, and it's actually tied among three different movies, Lord of the Rings, ben Her and Titanic. So if if they can get twelve, now they're even more of a history maker, which is pretty pretty cool.
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Speaker 2: I'm a little nervous. Has been a lot of stories about movie.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of pressure and.
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Speaker 2: A bunch of nominations, but walked away with very little.
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Speaker 3: The voting, Yes, that has happened before.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, it don't happen to the color purple. Eleven nominations, zero wins for the color purple. You seriously, So I'm holding my breath here.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know that statistics.
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Speaker 1: I wonder though, Like, so voting is happening right now, and I'm wondering how much of all of this press about being a history maker? Sixteen Oscar nomination? Does that work in your favor or does it work against you? Why?
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Speaker 2: I don't Yes, if you go to LA there's nothing but billboard saying for your consideration.
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Speaker 1: All right, So the ten Best Picture nominees for this year's Oscars are Bogonia f one see Frankenstein, ham Knett, Curious, Marty Supreme. Maybe one day, one battle after another. Next thing, we'll see the Secret Agent. Oh yeah, Sentimental value Sinners are a winner. To come and Train Dreams.
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Speaker 2: That's what's his name? The lead in that one, the guy I like him.
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Speaker 3: I don't know anything about that.
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Speaker 2: I can't remember his name right now. But yes, I'm very curious about these movies, several of them.
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Speaker 1: Well, guess what, we have a big snowstorm, yes, and a lot of time.
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Speaker 3: Joel Edgerton is who you were thinking about?
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Speaker 1: Because I love Joel edgars so oh and Felicity Jones, oh my god, and William H.
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Speaker 3: Macy. Oh they're all in Train Dreams. I'm just looking this up on Rotten Tomatoes. Let's see this Oscar.
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Speaker 1: I know, but now I'm like, so Curious, based on the novel of the same name. Train Dreams is the portrait of Robert Greiner, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly changing America of the early twenty century.
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Speaker 3: That is not a movie that you and I would normally.
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Speaker 2: See sweethart Okay, oh look, look this.
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Speaker 1: The film contains all the wondrous, devastating layers of an entire life. That's it sounds like a downer, but with excellent acting, I can be convinced.
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Speaker 2: Man, that's tough. Life is tough enough. So I don't like to watch Struggle on television.
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Speaker 1: That is struggle, but it's of a fantasy r. I think it's an escape, like I tend to escape.
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Speaker 3: Escape.
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Speaker 1: My mom always makes fun of me because she loves to read like actual, you know, documentary style novels or watch those types of movies.
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Speaker 3: And I like historic fiction. That's the closest thing I get to it. But I like fantasy.
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Speaker 2: But credit to all, yes, I'm curious about all sentimental value is the one with the scars card. Yes, okay, not that. When I will watch him in anything trying to.
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Speaker 3: Check a bunch of these off this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you know what we should do follow ups and episodes on what we talk about all of the you know what, There you go.
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Speaker 3: There's an idea the oscars.
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Speaker 2: Before we let you go, something we want to take with you on this weekend. It is our quote of the day. This one's for you, Robed. It's kind of a I don't know, tough love kind of a quote. When you're hungry and desperate, you fight your way to the top. When you get to the top, you think you deserve a break, don't take a break.
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Speaker 3: I like breaks.
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Speaker 2: They came from my pastor, I'm pretty sure. But you get the idea. Some people will take issue, but you get the point there that you go up and fight your way to the top of that hill, and you go and then you end up back down in that valley some kind of way.
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Speaker 1: Look, and I get the sentiment behind it, and I appreciate it and I agree with it. I also just think there is a point in which you do need to take a little break for mental and physical.
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Speaker 2: Health, all right, folks. But the quote says, when you're hungry and desperate, you fight your way to the top. When you get to the top. You think you deserve a break, don't take a break. So folks, on this Friday, we've just finished morning run, but we got to get to work because we ain't gonna take a break. H We try to get to the top. Okay, all right, folks. Always appreciate your listening, appreciate your running with us. I'm t J.
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Speaker 3: Holmes and I'm Avery Robot. We will run with you soon. Stay safe, everybody,
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Friday, January twenty third. I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. Hope you settled wherever you are. You should probably sit down inside right now. Not going to leave for a week. This storm, this is all everybody's talking about. What did you say the local reporter or local weather guy just said.
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Speaker 1: He just said, today on Friday is going to be the warmest day for the rest of the month, and.
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Speaker 2: Today's the what today is? Third? Wow? Yeah, eight days a goodness.
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Speaker 3: Of a tundra polar vortex inspired temperature.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we just saw the seven day up there and it said eighteen, nineteen, twenty five, twenty four. Those are the highs for each of those days. So everybody is getting settled. You know this thing is coming. You've seen everybody talking about it. You're taking your preparations, but today is going to be your turn. Dallas, Memphis, Little Roc. Today is your day. Alerts, emergency declarations are all old. We really much two thirds of the country right now, but snow and ice, robes and falling temperatures are going to be the issues with some of those major southern cities going through kind of the mid South.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, temperatures they're not used to seeing at all. Unfortunately, we're a little used to it and it's still difficult. But yeah, folks in Nashville, Charlotte, Raleigh, they're going to get the worst of it starting on Saturday.
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Speaker 3: And ice is the major issue.
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Speaker 1: Ice is so much more problematic than snow, just given what it does to the roads, to your power lines, to tree limbs. There is so much danger associated with ice. And then in Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison, we think we're cold here, we said eighteen, we're talking thirty and forty below.
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Speaker 3: That's the wind chill.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, because actual temperatures that would be hard to get my head around.
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Speaker 2: But still, what does it have was the temperature If you end up at thirty or forty below, right, it's cold there. I've never gotten more heat probably in any live reporting I've done than when I went to Minneapolis and complained the body being cold. Everybody from minneapolists came after me.
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Speaker 1: There's reasons, we're all yes, And they have skywalks to get from building to building, like they know how to deal with the cold there, but still, even people who know how to deal with the cold, thirty to forty below zero is really awful. And then yes, here in the northeast, DC, New York, Boston, we're all bracing ourselves for a ton of snow, the likes of which we haven't seen for five years.
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Speaker 3: They said, we've had a snow deficit.
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Speaker 1: And not really a lot of complaints here, but yeah, we haven't had a significant snowstorm like the one they're predicting in a very long time.
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Speaker 2: So that's happening up in this area on Sunday. Yes, a lot of major cities up here expecting a foot plus of snow is really going to shut things down. And there's some places roads right now they say travel is virtually impossible. Certainly, don't attempt it. Some people have to go places you just don't have a choice. But they say it's virtually impossible, and a lot of places the airlines are trying to help out. You should check with them about their policies now, but they are changing some of the feet and waving some of those rebooking fees right now. What do you do, man, This is a this is a historic storm.
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Speaker 1: And there's nothing you can do about the weather. There's nothing you can change.
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Speaker 2: Well, folks, what you wanted to let you know what was happening weather wise. But we will continue here on this morning's run. This Friday morning run will take us to Minnesota, it'll take us to the United Arab Emirates, take us to Philadelphia, Switzerland, Los Angeles. But we do need to start and not weather related robes in Minneapolis, where there were some fairly significant developments.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 1: Another incident has once again inflamed an already tense situation in Minneapolis.
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Speaker 3: A five year old boy and.
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Speaker 1: His picture He's so cute, was taken into custody by Ice agents. Images of that little guy set off a new round of criticism of the administration tactics that are going on in Minneapolis.
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Speaker 2: So, like everything we've seen in Minneapolis, it seems like they are two sides of the story. So sure enough, we're getting two sides, one from the boys family, one from the Department of Homeland Security that put out this statement saying that the dad is in the country illegally, so they were going after the dad tried to take him into custody. He had pulled into his driveway in a vehicle with the kid in it, so they tried to take him into custody. He fled, leaving the little boy behind in the vehicle. An ICE agent stayed with the boy. Other agents caught up with the dad, apprehended him, and the two of them were then taken into custody and are now at a detention facility in Texas.
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Speaker 1: So, the family attorney says the family has a pending asylum case and are not under deportation issues. In fact, they said that there was an adult there at the home who offered to take the little boy, but that ICE did not allow it. And they're claiming that the father entered the United States legally from Ecuador.
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Speaker 3: This is according to the.
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Speaker 1: Family's attorney, and that Liam's father, the little boy's father, doesn't have a criminal record. So there is going to have to be some explaining between these two accounts because they're vastly different.
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Speaker 2: Seeking asylum, you were here waiting and pending, but they said he did not have a deportation order, so why were they there? Why were they picking him up? The DHS only would say that it is our policy that then whether the child involved will at least ask if do you want your child to stay with you in this detention process or do you have an adult the child can go with. They say they asked that they weren't specific that they asked it. In this case, we continue here on the run still Minneapolis related here, the Justice Department followed through on its threat and arrested three people who were part of that protest that disrupted Sunday service at a Saint Paul church.
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Speaker 1: Among those arrested Nakima Levy Armstrong. She was the head of the group that organized the protest. She's being charged with conspiring to violate constitutional right correct, just for entering that they.
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Speaker 2: Have a right to prisful assembly, yes, practice from a religion, and they violated that as what they're saying now. Can't just leave it there. The administration actually a lot of people talking about say an altered image. It appears to be an AI image of Nakima Levy Armstrong being arrested.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: The Christinom put out a picture on Twitter x fine of the arrest and she's in handcuffs and she's walking stone faced. Half hour later, another picture was put out by the administration, same image, but her face was altered to look like she was sobbing uncontrollably.
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Speaker 3: How is that Okay?
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Speaker 2: They thought it was funny, So you asked that question, and someone asked that question of the administration, and a White House spokesperson said, enforcement of the law will continue, the memes will continue, So they're owning it, like.
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Speaker 1: So, they're probably funny to mock someone who they've arrested, and it was just unnecessarily just again, this is adding fuel to the fire. People are upset. This is an emotionally charged issue. And now to just as an institution as a government to play these little games where we alter images to make them look more desperate or funny, we're making fun of someone. I just ah, it's really really hard to witness and see this coming from the top down because that absolutely impacts the attitude and the decisions people make every day about how they treat each other. All right, Next up on the Run, this is a promising development in the pursuit of peace in that three year Russia Ukraine war. Representatives from the United States, Russia, and Ukraine are all meeting together. This is the first time all three have met in the efforts to end the war. This is significant and it's happening over in the United Arab Emirates. So this is a potentially huge step forward in finally getting peace in that area.
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Speaker 2: All right, we continue on this Friday morning run. Now, TikTok. Remember it was supposed to get banned. You were never going to be able to use it. Again, everybody was freaking out. Well it's been resolved. Not that you ever had a problem, but officially a deal has been in which US investors are going to be taking over US operations of TikTok. You remember the government they filed that excuse me, they passed the law that said that TikTok couldn't operate in the United States if it still had Chinese owners. But the deadline came and went. President kept kicking the can down the road. So officially it's done. Now this is going to be a US investor is going to be Oracle. Actually, I think they're pretty close with the President over there at Oracle. But China and US have okaid and signed off on the deal.
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Speaker 3: All right, everybody can be the huge collective sigh of relief. TikTok is safe. All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, the city of Philadelphia is suing the Trump administration.
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Speaker 3: In particular the Department.
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Speaker 1: Of the Interior. Why you ask this one is a doozy. This is all over slavery exhibits that have been removed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a part of the directive, and other people around the country seem to be following this director from the president. But this is at the President's House at Independence National Park. Now President's House is a location that the former home of Presidents Washington and Adams. Now at the President's House hung art and informational displays having to do with slavery. Those are being taken down and the Department says they're doing it in accordance with Trump's executive order that he signed at the beginning of his second term, in which he was saying he wants, by some accounts, some call it whitewashing. He doesn't want negative things about the country, in particular about slavery and racism to be included.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: And you know what's interesting, the City Council president, she's the one who said whitewashing. She went on to say this, and this really resonated with me. History cannot be erased simply because it is uncomfortable, and that to me, that is just mind boggling that, Oh, we're just going to remove this because we don't like how it feels. But it's so important what they say about history. If we don't learn from it, we're just going to repeat it history.
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Speaker 2: I mean, these are facts. Is we're just erasing These aren't just details. I mean George Washington was a slave owner. Okay, we can accept that. Yes, you want to erase it. Don't want to talk about it? Though?
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Speaker 1: Why why do we need to erase it? It makes zero sense to me. But yes, the lawsuit goes on and we will see what happens with that. But next up on the run. You ever invite people to a big party you're having, You're hoping that the cool kids show up, but they don't. Yeah, that's kind of what happened when President Trump announced his Board of Peace.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Board of Peace. The group is put together he announced his last year, and this was supposed to be a really an exclusive group of world leaders that were going to be responsible for rebuilding the Gaza Strip. Well, major allies passed. So, like, don't get me wrong, Azerbaijan, I'm sure it's a wonderful place, but folks like that are on this particular board, Canada did get an invitation to join, but before they could even say yes or no, the President officially rescinded their invitation.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's read President Trump's truth social post. Dear Prime Minister Carney, of course that is the Prime Minister of Canada. Please let this letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada's joining what will be the most prestigious board of leaders ever assembled at any time.
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Speaker 3: He didn't give any reason, but we kind of know what's up.
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Speaker 1: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said something the President didn't like in Switzerland.
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Speaker 2: Yes he said some didn't even say the president's name, but he said something that it clearly alluded to what was going on with the President wanting to take Greenland. So President Trump and his speech in Dappos, responded by saying this, I watched your Prime minister yesterday. He wasn't so grateful, but they should be grateful to US. Canada lives because of the US. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements. Carney followed up with a statement saying Canada does not live because of the US. Canada thrives because we are Canadian. But it seems like these two they were going at it, but then things calmed at the White House. They had kind of a chummy meeting where they were very personal and laughing. And now this is falling apart again to our neighbor, our direct neighbor to the now.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what's the Canadian Prime minister supposed to say when he makes a comment like that. He has to stand up for his country and his people, And it makes perfect.
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Speaker 2: Sense on the friendly Canadian.
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Speaker 3: Why what are the Canadians ever done to anybody's?
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Speaker 1: Like?
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Speaker 3: They're so nice?
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Speaker 1: All right? Next stuff on the run, President Trump making more friends along the way. He's filed a five billion dollar lawsuit. This time it's not against a media outlet. It's not against a university. This time it's against a bank, as in JP Morgan Chase and specifically CEO Jamie Diamond. He says the bank closed his accounts for political and social reasons. This all happened shortly after the January sixth insurrection. Are we allowed to call it that? Trump considered considerable financial harm and losses? He says, because his accounts were closed JP Morgan Chase had this to say your lawsuit, mister President, is.
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Speaker 3: Merritless d banked.
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Speaker 2: You familiar with that?
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Speaker 1: No, but he kept saying I got debanked, I de banked. Didn't know that was a thing. Thankfully it's never happened to me. Hopefully it never will. But yeah, they just said your accounts aren't welcome here.
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Speaker 3: You're for a bank to say your money isn't welcome here. That's pretty significant.
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Speaker 2: Even the mafia keeps their money in the bank. All right, we'll stay with us on this Friday morning ron folks. When we come back, there is a new busiest airport in the world. Sorry, Hartsville Jackson, somebody just took your title. And also sorry Titanic in La La Land, somebody just took your title too.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone to this Friday edition of Your Morning Run, and next up on the Run, Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport is no longer the busiest airport in the world.
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Speaker 3: That title now goes to Chicago.
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Speaker 1: O'Hare based on preliminary numbers, but that city isn't waiting to go brag about it. They are reclaiming the top spot for the first time since twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 2: These are preliminary numbers, and only because I like pettiness. It would be funny if the final numbers came and they were wrong, because the Chicago mayor came out and said, this is more than a statistic, it's a statement about Chicago's momentum. And he did what he's supposed to do. And I'm sure the numbers are gonna end up this way. But in twenty twenty five, they had eight hundred and fifty seven thousand takeoffs and landings at Chicago. O'Hair, they're hubs, they are American and United. Of course, everybody knows Delta is in Atlanta is the main hub. But they had eight hundred and eight thousand, so it wasn't necessarily that close. No, in terms of who's number one and number two. O hair, you say, here's going to get busier. They have a new concourse D nineteen gates, so they're going to be having more planes and more capacity and more possibilities at their airport here by twenty twenty eight.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so Atlanta better catch up, right.
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Speaker 1: No, Honestly, I spent and you have spent so much of your life flying in and out of Atlanta. It's to me I understand why the Chicago mayor is taking this as a source of pride, But anyone who has to travel through those cities, I don't necessarily want.
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Speaker 3: To live or be near the busiest airport in the world, do you.
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Speaker 2: I mean they have Hartsville Jackson in a good spot.
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Speaker 1: The truth is, I guess if anything goes wrong, you've got options. That is the good thing a smaller airport. If you've got any sort of you're done, You're cooked. You have to wait a day or whatever, so at least you know you're gonna get out of there, probably at when you got a busy airport.
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Speaker 2: As we walk to the next gate, I'm sure.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, Sinners has out done both Titanic and La La Land. It received sixteen Oscar nominations yesterday. That is the most for any movie ever in the history of the Oscars.
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Speaker 3: And it's a horror movie to boot.
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Speaker 2: We will not be cheering harder for a movie than we will for this one, not just because we love it, but it's an a genre that we would love to see get more love like this. We are going crazy if it.
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Speaker 3: Is absolutely I love varieties quote they said, Ryan Cougler has officially rewritten Oscar history. That's pretty cool. So let's see if you can make even more history.
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Speaker 1: Come March fifteenth, at the ninety eighth Academy Awards ceremony, Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Cougler, Fruitville Station. What year was that independent little film with him and freaking Michael B. Jordan And look at him now? Oh my god, it's a wonderful story.
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Speaker 3: Now the record for the most wins is eleven.
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Speaker 1: This is at the actual Oscars ceremony, and it's actually tied among three different movies, Lord of the Rings, ben Her and Titanic. So if if they can get twelve, now they're even more of a history maker, which is pretty pretty cool.
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Speaker 2: I'm a little nervous. Has been a lot of stories about movie.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of pressure and.
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Speaker 2: A bunch of nominations, but walked away with very little.
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Speaker 3: The voting, Yes, that has happened before.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, it don't happen to the color purple. Eleven nominations, zero wins for the color purple. You seriously, So I'm holding my breath here.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know that statistics.
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Speaker 1: I wonder though, Like, so voting is happening right now, and I'm wondering how much of all of this press about being a history maker? Sixteen Oscar nomination? Does that work in your favor or does it work against you? Why?
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Speaker 2: I don't Yes, if you go to LA there's nothing but billboard saying for your consideration.
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Speaker 1: All right, So the ten Best Picture nominees for this year's Oscars are Bogonia f one see Frankenstein, ham Knett, Curious, Marty Supreme. Maybe one day, one battle after another. Next thing, we'll see the Secret Agent. Oh yeah, Sentimental value Sinners are a winner. To come and Train Dreams.
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Speaker 2: That's what's his name? The lead in that one, the guy I like him.
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Speaker 3: I don't know anything about that.
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Speaker 2: I can't remember his name right now. But yes, I'm very curious about these movies, several of them.
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Speaker 1: Well, guess what, we have a big snowstorm, yes, and a lot of time.
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Speaker 3: Joel Edgerton is who you were thinking about?
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Speaker 1: Because I love Joel edgars so oh and Felicity Jones, oh my god, and William H.
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Speaker 3: Macy. Oh they're all in Train Dreams. I'm just looking this up on Rotten Tomatoes. Let's see this Oscar.
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Speaker 1: I know, but now I'm like, so Curious, based on the novel of the same name. Train Dreams is the portrait of Robert Greiner, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly changing America of the early twenty century.
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Speaker 3: That is not a movie that you and I would normally.
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Speaker 2: See sweethart Okay, oh look, look this.
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Speaker 1: The film contains all the wondrous, devastating layers of an entire life. That's it sounds like a downer, but with excellent acting, I can be convinced.
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Speaker 2: Man, that's tough. Life is tough enough. So I don't like to watch Struggle on television.
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Speaker 1: That is struggle, but it's of a fantasy r. I think it's an escape, like I tend to escape.
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Speaker 3: Escape.
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Speaker 1: My mom always makes fun of me because she loves to read like actual, you know, documentary style novels or watch those types of movies.
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Speaker 3: And I like historic fiction. That's the closest thing I get to it. But I like fantasy.
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Speaker 2: But credit to all, yes, I'm curious about all sentimental value is the one with the scars card. Yes, okay, not that. When I will watch him in anything trying to.
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Speaker 3: Check a bunch of these off this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you know what we should do follow ups and episodes on what we talk about all of the you know what, There you go.
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Speaker 3: There's an idea the oscars.
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Speaker 2: Before we let you go, something we want to take with you on this weekend. It is our quote of the day. This one's for you, Robed. It's kind of a I don't know, tough love kind of a quote. When you're hungry and desperate, you fight your way to the top. When you get to the top, you think you deserve a break, don't take a break.
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Speaker 3: I like breaks.
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Speaker 2: They came from my pastor, I'm pretty sure. But you get the idea. Some people will take issue, but you get the point there that you go up and fight your way to the top of that hill, and you go and then you end up back down in that valley some kind of way.
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Speaker 1: Look, and I get the sentiment behind it, and I appreciate it and I agree with it. I also just think there is a point in which you do need to take a little break for mental and physical.
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Speaker 2: Health, all right, folks. But the quote says, when you're hungry and desperate, you fight your way to the top. When you get to the top. You think you deserve a break, don't take a break. So folks, on this Friday, we've just finished morning run, but we got to get to work because we ain't gonna take a break. H We try to get to the top. Okay, all right, folks. Always appreciate your listening, appreciate your running with us. I'm t J.
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Speaker 3: Holmes and I'm Avery Robot. We will run with you soon. Stay safe, everybody,