Nov. 19, 2025
Morning Run: Epstein Files, Trump Berates Reporter, D4vd Named Suspect, Massive Web Outage, Lebron James Record And $12 Million Golden Toilet
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning run. It's Wednesday, November nineteenth. I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes.
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Speaker 3: Hope you get this Morning run this morning because we had a hard time getting to you yesterday. A lot of you had issues. Somebody owes us all in apology robes for what they did to the internet yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Stuff just didn't work and we had no idea.
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Speaker 1: Why isn't it scary how dependent we are for reasons we don't even realize until it goes away.
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Speaker 3: That's a good, good point. Nobody heard a cloud fair before yesterday. But this company was responsible for the shutdown. Everything's up and running and they did apologize. So we'll talk about that today. In a moment, we're going to get to Rolls. I guess at the lu it struck us a little differently because we know this young lady pretty well. But Trump went after a reporter in a pretty pretty harsh way in front of a lot lot of people, including a world leader, and it was it was tough, and in the midst of all that, calls for a license to be taken away from the network.
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Speaker 1: It was hard to watch just because yes, we know her, I respect her. She is a great reporter. And I don't say that lightly. I don't think you would either. This isn't just us saying, oh, you know, poor journalist.
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Speaker 4: Trump's being mean. This was uncalled for and an unwarranted.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we'll get into that moment and why now it has turned into maybe a bigger deal because yes, he's calling for once again a license to be taken away from a network. But we do want to make sure that top right corner of your Apple podcast app on our show screen it says follow. Just click that and you can make sure you get all of our updates. And we have had plenty a lot of news been going on lately, but also in the news and on this run this morning, a singer is a murder suspect, lebron and a one hundred year old painting both set records yesterday racial redistricting and toilet sells for twelve million dollars. But Robes, let's begin first with a day we saw on Capitol Hill yesterday, the day we're going to have today, and wow, days that we thought we might never see.
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Speaker 1: That's right, it is pretty much a done deal. Something we did not think we would say, and something we rarely say when we're talking about Congress. But the full Epstein files will finally be released.
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Speaker 4: We believe.
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Speaker 3: I just wanted to cover us a little bit there by putting that we believe at the end. Yes, the House of Representatives yesterday overwhelmingly approved the bill that compels the DELJ to release everything they have. And after they approved it the House by a vote of four hundred and twenty seven to one, the Senate approved it by unanimous consent.
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Speaker 1: So now we are just waiting on a couple of eyes to be dotted and a few teas to be crossed, and this thing will be headed to the President's desk today and President Trump has already said he is going to sign it.
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Speaker 2: So what's this bill do?
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Speaker 3: It says that all unclassified records, the documents, communications, and investigative materials associated with the Epstein case are to be released. Okay, So if this gets signed today, when are we going to see all this stuff?
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Speaker 2: Really?
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Speaker 1: Well, the bill calls for the documents to be released within thirty days, so on day twenty nine we will put No, it's sometime within the next month we should be able to read through. And we don't even know how much we're talking about. I mean, already twenty thousand emails were released, so how much more is there we shall see? But the House passed it votes four hundred and twenty seven to one.
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Speaker 4: So who was the lone no vote?
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Speaker 1: Representative Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana.
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Speaker 3: I thought it might have been a mistake, like you hit the wrong button or something like that, but it's not what happened. He's actually standing by his vote and put out a statement saying it this way, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people, witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, and so on. If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files released to a rabid media will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. So he has a moral ground he's standing on. He does think names might get out and do damage to a lot of people. I think that's probably a fair concern.
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Speaker 1: We have a whole podcast on this, by the way, if you want to check it out. I believe it's the podcast before this where I weigh in quite a bit on why. I think that is an absurd, an absurd reason to vote no, just because we had all of those victims who he is supposedly trying to protect standing there on Capitol Hill saying release the files. So it does fly in the face of that. I understand the sentiment, but in this specific case doesn't make a lot of sense.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to go listen to the episode.
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Speaker 1: Now, no, we sail all right, I'm sorry, I got I got on my pulpit. All right, Next up on the run problem solved. All your websites should be back up and fully running after that. How did yesterday caused by a company most of us did not even know the name of Did you know it?
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Speaker 2: Cloud Flair?
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Speaker 4: I've never heard of it before.
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Speaker 3: Didn't look familiar. I looked at their logo, everything nothing sounded familiar. Yes, this happened yesterday morning. All of us started noticing our websites weren't working. Our site was down. We weren't able to actually post and put up our even and I had no idea. We depended on cloud Flare.
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Speaker 1: But apparently we cannot put up podcasts if cloud Flare is down.
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Speaker 3: But people went craze of course X was down, chat GPT was down, but the company cloud Flare, took full responsibility.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's a massive web company that helps businesses manage traffic to their website.
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Speaker 4: It provides security.
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Speaker 1: It has millions of clients, including those big ones that depend on their service, some of the ones we just mentioned. Another way to put it, your favorite websites need cloud Flare to function properly and safely.
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Speaker 3: So what happened? They didn't exactly track down the cause, but cloud Flare Robes, the CEO, put out a statement, everybody take note. This is how it started. And I quote I won't Men's words earlier today, we failed our customers and the broader internet.
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Speaker 2: That is nice.
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Speaker 3: How you put out an apology, just said yep, we did it. This is on us, didn't point to anything else and said we are sorry, we messed up. I think most people are willing to yes that type of an apology. He made clear also this was important that this was not a cyber attack.
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Speaker 2: This was their screw up. Wow, completely all right.
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Speaker 1: I do kind of want to know what it was, though I probably wouldn't understand it if he even explained it.
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Speaker 4: All right, So next up on the run.
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Speaker 1: This is a big headline today singer David and his name is spelled D four VD just in case you've read it and didn't know how it was pronounced. Singer David is now officially considered a suspect in the death of a fifteen year old girl who was found dead in the trunk of his car, and.
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Speaker 3: David, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, has been under scrutiny, but up until now police have not called him or anybody else suspect.
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Speaker 1: In September, the decomposing and dismembered body of fifteen year old Celeste Revas Hernandez was found in the trunk of a Tesla registered to David. Authorities are waiting on a determination of a cause of death. Once they get that, then they might be able to speed up an arrest if that is imminent. Hernandez had been reported missing in April of twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 4: David started out on TikTok.
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Speaker 1: He was actually on a world tour when Revas's body was found, and he notably kept singing. He stayed on his tour until finally he decided to call it off when he realized that yes, there was a lot of media reports and a lot of questions surrounding any potential involvement he might have with her or with her death.
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Speaker 2: Robe.
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Speaker 3: You have to keep me honest on my writing of this story. We I think a lot of places. You see, she's a fifteen year old girl, but police absolutely believe she could have been dead up to what was it months, Yes, in that trunk. Her birthday was the day before she was found, so they believe she was dead much longer, meaning she was actually still a fourteen year old child when she passed. You mentioned that to me earlier, and we keep saying fifteen, but she was fourteen when she actually she was. And that's just I don't know, for whatever reason, feels like important. It's distinction to me, all right. Continuing on the run now with President Trump, he said yesterday that he wants to revoke ABC's broadcasting license now roads, I'm not sure if that necessarily sounds like much of us a surprise. It seems like sometimes daily, but certainly weekly, he's threatening the present some way.
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Speaker 2: For him of fashion.
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Speaker 1: Yes, So this time, however, this was part of a larger, really uncomfortable, really awkward moment where Trump viciously chied it an ABC reporter in the Oval office.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the reporter we're talking about here is Mary Bruce, who has for a long time covered DC and covered the White House. Now, Trump was taking questions from the reporters during his meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince. They were sitting in the Oval Office.
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Speaker 2: You've seen this.
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Speaker 3: Set up before. So Mary's question to the President was about the Epstein files. This was it directly, and I'm quoting. Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
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Speaker 1: And so this is how the President responded. You know, it's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with the man who's highly respected asking him about awful, insubordinate, and just a terrible question. You could even ask that same question nicely. You're all psyched. Somebody psyches you over at ABC. You're a terrible person and a terrible reporter.
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Speaker 3: Damn, Like this is in front of everybody, this is front of the Saudi Crown Prince. It's just so uncomfortable, and that that question set him off.
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Speaker 4: And we watched her ask it. She asked it very plainly. She didn't have attitude on it. I didn't see it.
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Speaker 2: Bro We rewound, and rewound, and rewind.
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Speaker 3: We kept looking at trying to identify see something a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Look if she were sarcastic or had like a tone. There was none of that.
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Speaker 4: She just asked him a question, very plainly.
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Speaker 3: But he was just getting started, folks. He went on to say this to her quote, people are wise to your hoax, and ABC, your company, your crappy company, is one of the perpetrators. Now, at this point, she tries to jump in and get back on track about the question. He just keeps barreling forward. He says, I'll tell you something. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and it's so wrong, And we have a great commissioner chairman who should look at that, because I think when you come in and you're ninety seven percent negative to Trump and then Trump wins the election in a landslide, that means obviously your news is not credible. You are not credible as a reporter.
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Speaker 1: He wrapped with this, I think the way you ask a question with the anger and the meanness is terrible. You need to go back and learn to be a reporter. No more questions from you. It's like the Soup Nazi at the end. No more soup for you, no more questions from you. It seems to me as though he got embarrassed in front of the Crown Prince and he was trying to be the big man and say I'm not going to take crap from you, and it seemed as though because it was I mean, Look, we're used to him chiding folks and saying what he thinks, but this was exceptionally harsh.
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Speaker 3: And the reason it matters that he mentions the chairman in ABC is because, of course the FCC chair Brendan Kaugh, has gone after a network has said things publicly before about talent being fired or about dangling the license as a threat out there. So we will see, we have seen before when President Trump gives a directive like that publicly, Bondi and others will follow.
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Speaker 2: Yes, all right, continue on the run. Now.
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Speaker 3: You remember that whole Texas redistricting drama. Yeah, they redrew their map to give Republicans an advantage. Democrats left the state, went on the run. You remember that whole thing trying to supported the effort what they were trying to pick up five additional Republican seats.
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Speaker 2: It was a big drama.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Well, now a federal court has thrown out that new map said you can't use it. So the ruling by a panel of judges is now ordering the state to go back to the previous map and wrote that redrawing the map when beyond just politics, that there was substantial evidence that the state racially jerry mandered the map. The governor already said they're going to appeal to the US Supreme Court.
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Speaker 4: So it's not over. But the saga continues.
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Speaker 3: Uh, just the saga that it was to think that after all that, and it's set off a redistricting race in California and other states. Now to think the one Texas put in place, they can't even use it.
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Speaker 4: Oh the irony.
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Speaker 2: That was the point.
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Speaker 3: All right, folks, stay with the US here on this Wednesday Morning run. When we come back. What do Lebron, a painting and a toilet all have in common? Well, they had record breaking days yesterday.
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Speaker 2: It's there.
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Speaker 3: We continue now on this Wednesday Morning Run with Lebron James brother just keeps making history. He made it last night in his season debut. So what record did he set? Robes You might be thinking points, assists, rebounds. No, he actually set a record just by stepping onto the floor. He's now the first player to ever play twenty three straight seasons in the nb A. Congratulations, I think that. I mean, look, he gets a lot of awards for a lot of things. His longevity, his health is something he should absolutely be applauded for. This is incredible that he's been able to do this, But this was his first game of the year. He's been out with injury, so this was his season debut.
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Speaker 1: Speaking to probably the wear and tear on his body, it is remarkable that he is able to do what he does at the level he does it. But yeah, he had to miss some games because his body has reacted.
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Speaker 3: Him and he and Tom Brady have figured something out. Tom Brady was playing at a really high level in his early forties and it's just not something U see.
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Speaker 2: So I applaud this.
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Speaker 4: Yes, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, somebody paid two hundred and thirty six point four million dollars last night for a piece of art. It makes it the second most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction.
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Speaker 4: What is it?
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Speaker 1: It's a particular piece of art called Portrait of Elizabeth Letterer. It's a full length one of only two known full length portraits by Gustav Klimt, a prominent Austrian painter.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it was painted over three years between nineteen fourteen and nineteen sixteen. It has a hell of a story behind it. The woman in the portrait is the daughter of a I'm and one of the wealthiest families in Vienna at the time. And when Germany the Nazis came in, they looted everything from certainly the wealthy folks. They took all the art robes from this place, but reportedly didn't want this because it was essentially a family photo. It had no value, and they even one museum said it was too Jewish, it looked wo Jewish, and they left it behind and it was safe.
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Speaker 2: So that's the story behind this painting.
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Speaker 1: And I love the next part of the story because it's from one of my favorite people who have ever walked on this planet. The painting had been in the private collection of philanthropist Leonard Lauter, the son of Este Laughter. He died back in June at the age of ninety two, and he was known.
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Speaker 4: I didn't know this to have one of the greatest private art collections in the world.
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Speaker 3: He's written, nown like the respect he has around the world, like one of the greatest in the world in terms of art collection.
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Speaker 1: Man and his stuff toled for nearly half a billion dollars last night, and of his art will be auctioned off today. By the way, the most expensive painting ever sold Salvador Monday by Leonardo da Vinci in twenty seventeen. That painting sold for four hundred and fifty point three million dollars.
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Speaker 3: This one that sold last night. It was kept in a private his private collection, and so I think it was. A family member said it was left, not left.
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Speaker 2: It was hung in.
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Speaker 3: The dining room like like you and I would hang a regular picture.
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Speaker 2: I mean at the house. He said.
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Speaker 3: They were actually nervous because they treated it like it was normal. And the chair they were scared. The chair would bump up against it as people were sitting down, like it was just art to them. And it's worth all this, it's just a painting story. Oh god, oh rich people problems all right. Finally here that same auction we're talking about last night. A toilet, a literal functioning toilet sold for twelve point one million dollars. You have to ask, right Roves, what's the big deal. Well, the big deal is that it's made of solid gold.
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Speaker 4: Ah, that makes more sense now.
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Speaker 3: It's quite heavy, weighs two and twenty three pounds. It is supposed to be a satirical commentary about the ultra wealthy. I cannot believe the name of this sculpture, America.
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Speaker 2: He named it America.
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Speaker 4: We're a golden toilet.
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Speaker 3: A satirical commentary about the ultra wealthy, which is a solid gold toilet, and it's called America, and.
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Speaker 1: It's called and it was sold for twelve point one million dollars. I can't believe this last yes bit of information. The artist Italian artist, Maurizio Catalan. That's the same guy who put a banana on the wall with duct tape And how much did that sell for? And then you just keep replacing the banana, But they gave you instructions on where to hang it on your wall and what duct tape to use it with. This is absurd, And yet he's smarter than the rest of us because we don't understand art all right.
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Speaker 3: Before we let you go, something we like you to consider it is our quote of the day again, one more from my files robes. You haven't seen this one yet. It's a very simple one. Love to hear what you think of this. The quote is almost is the saddest word in the world. I can't remember where I got that, but I loved it. Well. It is awful to think almost I almost did this. I almost finished, I almost graduated, I almost made it back, I almost made it on time. I almost told her I love her.
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Speaker 4: I almost died. That's the only time I can think for it with you.
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Speaker 3: Almost died, That too, is sad trauma you're going to have to live with. But folks, you get the idea. This almost worked. But we certainly appreciate you running with us. As always, I'm d J.
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Speaker 1: Holmes and I baby Robock. Thank you for running with us. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning run. It's Wednesday, November nineteenth. I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes.
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Speaker 3: Hope you get this Morning run this morning because we had a hard time getting to you yesterday. A lot of you had issues. Somebody owes us all in apology robes for what they did to the internet yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Stuff just didn't work and we had no idea.
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Speaker 1: Why isn't it scary how dependent we are for reasons we don't even realize until it goes away.
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Speaker 3: That's a good, good point. Nobody heard a cloud fair before yesterday. But this company was responsible for the shutdown. Everything's up and running and they did apologize. So we'll talk about that today. In a moment, we're going to get to Rolls. I guess at the lu it struck us a little differently because we know this young lady pretty well. But Trump went after a reporter in a pretty pretty harsh way in front of a lot lot of people, including a world leader, and it was it was tough, and in the midst of all that, calls for a license to be taken away from the network.
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Speaker 1: It was hard to watch just because yes, we know her, I respect her. She is a great reporter. And I don't say that lightly. I don't think you would either. This isn't just us saying, oh, you know, poor journalist.
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Speaker 4: Trump's being mean. This was uncalled for and an unwarranted.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we'll get into that moment and why now it has turned into maybe a bigger deal because yes, he's calling for once again a license to be taken away from a network. But we do want to make sure that top right corner of your Apple podcast app on our show screen it says follow. Just click that and you can make sure you get all of our updates. And we have had plenty a lot of news been going on lately, but also in the news and on this run this morning, a singer is a murder suspect, lebron and a one hundred year old painting both set records yesterday racial redistricting and toilet sells for twelve million dollars. But Robes, let's begin first with a day we saw on Capitol Hill yesterday, the day we're going to have today, and wow, days that we thought we might never see.
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Speaker 1: That's right, it is pretty much a done deal. Something we did not think we would say, and something we rarely say when we're talking about Congress. But the full Epstein files will finally be released.
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Speaker 4: We believe.
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Speaker 3: I just wanted to cover us a little bit there by putting that we believe at the end. Yes, the House of Representatives yesterday overwhelmingly approved the bill that compels the DELJ to release everything they have. And after they approved it the House by a vote of four hundred and twenty seven to one, the Senate approved it by unanimous consent.
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Speaker 1: So now we are just waiting on a couple of eyes to be dotted and a few teas to be crossed, and this thing will be headed to the President's desk today and President Trump has already said he is going to sign it.
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Speaker 2: So what's this bill do?
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Speaker 3: It says that all unclassified records, the documents, communications, and investigative materials associated with the Epstein case are to be released. Okay, So if this gets signed today, when are we going to see all this stuff?
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Speaker 2: Really?
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Speaker 1: Well, the bill calls for the documents to be released within thirty days, so on day twenty nine we will put No, it's sometime within the next month we should be able to read through. And we don't even know how much we're talking about. I mean, already twenty thousand emails were released, so how much more is there we shall see? But the House passed it votes four hundred and twenty seven to one.
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Speaker 4: So who was the lone no vote?
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Speaker 1: Representative Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana.
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Speaker 3: I thought it might have been a mistake, like you hit the wrong button or something like that, but it's not what happened. He's actually standing by his vote and put out a statement saying it this way, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people, witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, and so on. If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files released to a rabid media will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. So he has a moral ground he's standing on. He does think names might get out and do damage to a lot of people. I think that's probably a fair concern.
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Speaker 1: We have a whole podcast on this, by the way, if you want to check it out. I believe it's the podcast before this where I weigh in quite a bit on why. I think that is an absurd, an absurd reason to vote no, just because we had all of those victims who he is supposedly trying to protect standing there on Capitol Hill saying release the files. So it does fly in the face of that. I understand the sentiment, but in this specific case doesn't make a lot of sense.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to go listen to the episode.
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Speaker 1: Now, no, we sail all right, I'm sorry, I got I got on my pulpit. All right, Next up on the run problem solved. All your websites should be back up and fully running after that. How did yesterday caused by a company most of us did not even know the name of Did you know it?
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Speaker 2: Cloud Flair?
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Speaker 4: I've never heard of it before.
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Speaker 3: Didn't look familiar. I looked at their logo, everything nothing sounded familiar. Yes, this happened yesterday morning. All of us started noticing our websites weren't working. Our site was down. We weren't able to actually post and put up our even and I had no idea. We depended on cloud Flare.
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Speaker 1: But apparently we cannot put up podcasts if cloud Flare is down.
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Speaker 3: But people went craze of course X was down, chat GPT was down, but the company cloud Flare, took full responsibility.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's a massive web company that helps businesses manage traffic to their website.
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Speaker 4: It provides security.
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Speaker 1: It has millions of clients, including those big ones that depend on their service, some of the ones we just mentioned. Another way to put it, your favorite websites need cloud Flare to function properly and safely.
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Speaker 3: So what happened? They didn't exactly track down the cause, but cloud Flare Robes, the CEO, put out a statement, everybody take note. This is how it started. And I quote I won't Men's words earlier today, we failed our customers and the broader internet.
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Speaker 2: That is nice.
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Speaker 3: How you put out an apology, just said yep, we did it. This is on us, didn't point to anything else and said we are sorry, we messed up. I think most people are willing to yes that type of an apology. He made clear also this was important that this was not a cyber attack.
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Speaker 2: This was their screw up. Wow, completely all right.
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Speaker 1: I do kind of want to know what it was, though I probably wouldn't understand it if he even explained it.
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Speaker 4: All right, So next up on the run.
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Speaker 1: This is a big headline today singer David and his name is spelled D four VD just in case you've read it and didn't know how it was pronounced. Singer David is now officially considered a suspect in the death of a fifteen year old girl who was found dead in the trunk of his car, and.
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Speaker 3: David, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, has been under scrutiny, but up until now police have not called him or anybody else suspect.
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Speaker 1: In September, the decomposing and dismembered body of fifteen year old Celeste Revas Hernandez was found in the trunk of a Tesla registered to David. Authorities are waiting on a determination of a cause of death. Once they get that, then they might be able to speed up an arrest if that is imminent. Hernandez had been reported missing in April of twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 4: David started out on TikTok.
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Speaker 1: He was actually on a world tour when Revas's body was found, and he notably kept singing. He stayed on his tour until finally he decided to call it off when he realized that yes, there was a lot of media reports and a lot of questions surrounding any potential involvement he might have with her or with her death.
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Speaker 2: Robe.
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Speaker 3: You have to keep me honest on my writing of this story. We I think a lot of places. You see, she's a fifteen year old girl, but police absolutely believe she could have been dead up to what was it months, Yes, in that trunk. Her birthday was the day before she was found, so they believe she was dead much longer, meaning she was actually still a fourteen year old child when she passed. You mentioned that to me earlier, and we keep saying fifteen, but she was fourteen when she actually she was. And that's just I don't know, for whatever reason, feels like important. It's distinction to me, all right. Continuing on the run now with President Trump, he said yesterday that he wants to revoke ABC's broadcasting license now roads, I'm not sure if that necessarily sounds like much of us a surprise. It seems like sometimes daily, but certainly weekly, he's threatening the present some way.
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Speaker 2: For him of fashion.
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Speaker 1: Yes, So this time, however, this was part of a larger, really uncomfortable, really awkward moment where Trump viciously chied it an ABC reporter in the Oval office.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the reporter we're talking about here is Mary Bruce, who has for a long time covered DC and covered the White House. Now, Trump was taking questions from the reporters during his meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince. They were sitting in the Oval Office.
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Speaker 2: You've seen this.
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Speaker 3: Set up before. So Mary's question to the President was about the Epstein files. This was it directly, and I'm quoting. Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
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Speaker 1: And so this is how the President responded. You know, it's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with the man who's highly respected asking him about awful, insubordinate, and just a terrible question. You could even ask that same question nicely. You're all psyched. Somebody psyches you over at ABC. You're a terrible person and a terrible reporter.
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Speaker 3: Damn, Like this is in front of everybody, this is front of the Saudi Crown Prince. It's just so uncomfortable, and that that question set him off.
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Speaker 4: And we watched her ask it. She asked it very plainly. She didn't have attitude on it. I didn't see it.
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Speaker 2: Bro We rewound, and rewound, and rewind.
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Speaker 3: We kept looking at trying to identify see something a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Look if she were sarcastic or had like a tone. There was none of that.
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Speaker 4: She just asked him a question, very plainly.
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Speaker 3: But he was just getting started, folks. He went on to say this to her quote, people are wise to your hoax, and ABC, your company, your crappy company, is one of the perpetrators. Now, at this point, she tries to jump in and get back on track about the question. He just keeps barreling forward. He says, I'll tell you something. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and it's so wrong, And we have a great commissioner chairman who should look at that, because I think when you come in and you're ninety seven percent negative to Trump and then Trump wins the election in a landslide, that means obviously your news is not credible. You are not credible as a reporter.
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Speaker 1: He wrapped with this, I think the way you ask a question with the anger and the meanness is terrible. You need to go back and learn to be a reporter. No more questions from you. It's like the Soup Nazi at the end. No more soup for you, no more questions from you. It seems to me as though he got embarrassed in front of the Crown Prince and he was trying to be the big man and say I'm not going to take crap from you, and it seemed as though because it was I mean, Look, we're used to him chiding folks and saying what he thinks, but this was exceptionally harsh.
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Speaker 3: And the reason it matters that he mentions the chairman in ABC is because, of course the FCC chair Brendan Kaugh, has gone after a network has said things publicly before about talent being fired or about dangling the license as a threat out there. So we will see, we have seen before when President Trump gives a directive like that publicly, Bondi and others will follow.
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Speaker 2: Yes, all right, continue on the run. Now.
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Speaker 3: You remember that whole Texas redistricting drama. Yeah, they redrew their map to give Republicans an advantage. Democrats left the state, went on the run. You remember that whole thing trying to supported the effort what they were trying to pick up five additional Republican seats.
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Speaker 2: It was a big drama.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Well, now a federal court has thrown out that new map said you can't use it. So the ruling by a panel of judges is now ordering the state to go back to the previous map and wrote that redrawing the map when beyond just politics, that there was substantial evidence that the state racially jerry mandered the map. The governor already said they're going to appeal to the US Supreme Court.
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Speaker 4: So it's not over. But the saga continues.
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Speaker 3: Uh, just the saga that it was to think that after all that, and it's set off a redistricting race in California and other states. Now to think the one Texas put in place, they can't even use it.
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Speaker 4: Oh the irony.
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Speaker 2: That was the point.
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Speaker 3: All right, folks, stay with the US here on this Wednesday Morning run. When we come back. What do Lebron, a painting and a toilet all have in common? Well, they had record breaking days yesterday.
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Speaker 2: It's there.
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Speaker 3: We continue now on this Wednesday Morning Run with Lebron James brother just keeps making history. He made it last night in his season debut. So what record did he set? Robes You might be thinking points, assists, rebounds. No, he actually set a record just by stepping onto the floor. He's now the first player to ever play twenty three straight seasons in the nb A. Congratulations, I think that. I mean, look, he gets a lot of awards for a lot of things. His longevity, his health is something he should absolutely be applauded for. This is incredible that he's been able to do this, But this was his first game of the year. He's been out with injury, so this was his season debut.
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Speaker 1: Speaking to probably the wear and tear on his body, it is remarkable that he is able to do what he does at the level he does it. But yeah, he had to miss some games because his body has reacted.
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Speaker 3: Him and he and Tom Brady have figured something out. Tom Brady was playing at a really high level in his early forties and it's just not something U see.
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Speaker 2: So I applaud this.
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Speaker 4: Yes, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, somebody paid two hundred and thirty six point four million dollars last night for a piece of art. It makes it the second most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction.
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Speaker 4: What is it?
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Speaker 1: It's a particular piece of art called Portrait of Elizabeth Letterer. It's a full length one of only two known full length portraits by Gustav Klimt, a prominent Austrian painter.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it was painted over three years between nineteen fourteen and nineteen sixteen. It has a hell of a story behind it. The woman in the portrait is the daughter of a I'm and one of the wealthiest families in Vienna at the time. And when Germany the Nazis came in, they looted everything from certainly the wealthy folks. They took all the art robes from this place, but reportedly didn't want this because it was essentially a family photo. It had no value, and they even one museum said it was too Jewish, it looked wo Jewish, and they left it behind and it was safe.
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Speaker 2: So that's the story behind this painting.
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Speaker 1: And I love the next part of the story because it's from one of my favorite people who have ever walked on this planet. The painting had been in the private collection of philanthropist Leonard Lauter, the son of Este Laughter. He died back in June at the age of ninety two, and he was known.
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Speaker 4: I didn't know this to have one of the greatest private art collections in the world.
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Speaker 3: He's written, nown like the respect he has around the world, like one of the greatest in the world in terms of art collection.
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Speaker 1: Man and his stuff toled for nearly half a billion dollars last night, and of his art will be auctioned off today. By the way, the most expensive painting ever sold Salvador Monday by Leonardo da Vinci in twenty seventeen. That painting sold for four hundred and fifty point three million dollars.
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Speaker 3: This one that sold last night. It was kept in a private his private collection, and so I think it was. A family member said it was left, not left.
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Speaker 2: It was hung in.
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Speaker 3: The dining room like like you and I would hang a regular picture.
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Speaker 2: I mean at the house. He said.
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Speaker 3: They were actually nervous because they treated it like it was normal. And the chair they were scared. The chair would bump up against it as people were sitting down, like it was just art to them. And it's worth all this, it's just a painting story. Oh god, oh rich people problems all right. Finally here that same auction we're talking about last night. A toilet, a literal functioning toilet sold for twelve point one million dollars. You have to ask, right Roves, what's the big deal. Well, the big deal is that it's made of solid gold.
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Speaker 4: Ah, that makes more sense now.
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Speaker 3: It's quite heavy, weighs two and twenty three pounds. It is supposed to be a satirical commentary about the ultra wealthy. I cannot believe the name of this sculpture, America.
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Speaker 2: He named it America.
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Speaker 4: We're a golden toilet.
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Speaker 3: A satirical commentary about the ultra wealthy, which is a solid gold toilet, and it's called America, and.
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Speaker 1: It's called and it was sold for twelve point one million dollars. I can't believe this last yes bit of information. The artist Italian artist, Maurizio Catalan. That's the same guy who put a banana on the wall with duct tape And how much did that sell for? And then you just keep replacing the banana, But they gave you instructions on where to hang it on your wall and what duct tape to use it with. This is absurd, And yet he's smarter than the rest of us because we don't understand art all right.
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Speaker 3: Before we let you go, something we like you to consider it is our quote of the day again, one more from my files robes. You haven't seen this one yet. It's a very simple one. Love to hear what you think of this. The quote is almost is the saddest word in the world. I can't remember where I got that, but I loved it. Well. It is awful to think almost I almost did this. I almost finished, I almost graduated, I almost made it back, I almost made it on time. I almost told her I love her.
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Speaker 4: I almost died. That's the only time I can think for it with you.
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Speaker 3: Almost died, That too, is sad trauma you're going to have to live with. But folks, you get the idea. This almost worked. But we certainly appreciate you running with us. As always, I'm d J.
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Speaker 1: Holmes and I baby Robock. Thank you for running with us. We'll talk to you soon.