Nov. 18, 2025
Morning Run: Epstein Vote Today, Harvard’s Larry Summers “Ashamed”, Trump’s “Quiet Piggy”, Shedeur Sanders Burglary, and Cambridge’s Word of the Year
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone. It's Tuesday, November eighteenth. I'm Amy Robot.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday. You say Tuesday, that means what It's a new episode of All's Fair.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Actually, when you just said that, I thought, is it Wednesday? And I've messed it up?
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Speaker 2: Oh, don't you missed an anniversary? But no, All's Fair. If you all aren't watching All's Fair on Hulu, Kim Kardashian's new show, new episodes tonight. Hi, I'm TJ Holmes. I'm a super fan of this show.
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Speaker 1: All right, we should watch. Maybe we'll put out an episode about their latest episode later today because it's so good.
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Speaker 2: See, that's how we had to That's how we're starting this Tuesday. It almost sounds like it's a slow newsday, which is not. It's definitely it is not to say, Hey, you have to start with something that makes your smile, makes you happy, something to look forward to, and that's definitely something I'm looking forward to. We always want to remind you click that button upright corner of the Apple podcast app on our show page. It says follow click that you can get all of our updates. All's fair and otherwise. Updates coming your way. Also on the run, we need to tell you about this morning Larry Summers, Schador Sanders, the UN Security Council, a piggy on Air Force one, and we have another word of the year to tell you about. But we do have to begin our run. There's morning. A once unthinkable thing is happening today. The House of Representatives expected to vote on releasing the full Epstein files and get this Robes. We never would have thought this. It's going to pass. It's not even expected to be close the razor. Thin's expected to vote and win overwhelmingly.
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Speaker 1: Yes, because the court of public opinion is watching. After a number of Republicans publicly broke ranks with the White House saying that they wanted the files released, the President and the House Speaker really had no choice in the matter at that point, and they are powerless to stop the vote. So that's why we heard the President this week completely changed course and say yes, he now supports the vote.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is expected at some point today if the House passes the bill, though it's going to go to the Senate, and we don't know what's going to happen there the majority leader there, John Thoom has so far been noncommittal, but Robes there's little feeling that he is going to not bring it up for a vote, especially if it overwhelmingly passes in the House, there will be another public outcry, and Trump says he will sign this thing. So this is huge today.
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Speaker 1: It's remarkable how the pressure of public opinion can completely change the course of things in Washington. But that is how it works, isn't it. And next up on the Run, the fallout from the daily trickle of details from the latest batch of Epstein documents continues. Larry Summers says he is ashamed of his relationship with Epstein and has now vowed to take a step back from public life.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Larry Summers served as Jury secretary for President Clinton and was the director of National Economic Council under President Obama. He has been a big deal in the Democratic political circles for decades. He's also a former president of Harvard University, where he continues as a tenured professor.
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Speaker 1: This week's release of Epstein documents from the House Oversight Committee contained emails that show a really close and friendly relationship, including a large part after Epstein was already a convicted sex offen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. In the statement yesterday, Summers said quote, I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with mister Epstein.
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Speaker 1: He goes on to say, while continuing to fulfill my teaching obligations, I will be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me. Summers has not been accused of a crime. There's nothing in the document suggesting criminal wrong dealing, unless you consider having Epstein as your wingman wrongdoing these two.
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Speaker 2: This is not new about the relationship between these two. It's not new that we know that Epstein gave millions of dollars to Harvard. That's not new. But this is detailing the just how close these two were in emails that don't necessarily ropes suggest a whole lot or bombshells necessarily in information they have. But they're talking to each other in quite frankly personal, intimate, cute, browie little ways. That is a little surprising.
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Speaker 1: Yes, like Epstein helping Summers with a woman who he was trying to pursue. And yes, he is married, has several children. So this is all very embarrassing and certainly nothing he wanted to come out.
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Speaker 2: All right, I want to continue on the run here on this Tuesday morning now, and we want to make a mention of a story and a video that's making the rounds out there. You might have even noticed it this morning, but it seems really odd. You almost have to click on it when you something trending, and the trending topic is quiet piggy. Yes, that was trending on social media this morning and it couldn't help.
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Speaker 1: But wonder why, Well, it's all thanks to President Trump. Quiet Piggy is a direct quote from President Trump, and he directed it towards a reporter on Air Force one. The reporter was trying to ask a question about the Epstein vote in Congress.
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Speaker 2: And this was during a press gaggle. I guess these become pretty famous now ropes. I'd say, a press gaggle on Air Force one. He does this a lot. He steps back every time he's on a plane, rhinald Air Force one and stands there for oftentimes a while talking to reporters. So he was doing that thing where he's leaning through that door a little bit. You've seen the video, You've seen pictures out out there like this. This is what was going on. Reporters were getting their questions in, and an Epstein question comes at him. He points at the reporter who is off camera. You can't see her. He points directly at her, leans in and says quiet, quiet, piggy, and then continues on with his press conference. Nobody says any. I say, press conference, press gaggle. Nobody says anything, and they move on. This is a probably somebody from Bloomberg, but it's getting attention, but Robes is not getting the attention. If can you imagine if Biden, Bush, Clinton, Obama, anybody looked at a reporter during a press gaggle and looked at that female reporter and said, quiet, piggy.
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Speaker 1: Jaws jaws drop reading.
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Speaker 2: This, well, why is it when he does it? We move on. This is almost no other president could get away with this for five minutes.
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Speaker 1: I would say, no other boss, no other male boss in any business, any industry, could say that publicly recorded without doubt to a female. There nothing, There's just no way that that would be allowed or you.
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Speaker 2: Can't say I misheard you say, you're misinterpreting. It's on. He looks at her points, lean's quiet, piggy, and it just goes to show where we are to where he has a different standard of I just can't imagine it's coming out of another president's mouth and I was just moving on with our day.
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Speaker 1: Well, my jaw is still dropped, all right. Next up on the run a sign of the times in the Democratic Party, Hakeem Jeffries is getting a primary challenger.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Hakeem Jeffries the most powerful Democrat in Congress and really certainly one of the most high profile Democrats in the country. He has been front and center, especially during this shutdown showdown. But a twenty seven year old Democratic city councilman wants Hakeem jeffrey seat.
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Speaker 1: That's right. She Osay has officially filed paperwork to run against Jeffries in the primary for the eighth district seat in New York that includes Brooklyn. OSEI is a Democratic socialist hmmm, who endorsed Mom Donnie during his run for New York mayors. So look, I'm sure O say, and maybe other folks in his age bracket and with his political leanings. Feel like when they saw Mom Donnie do what he did in New York City, they feel empowered and let's see what I can do. Let's see who I can push out.
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Speaker 2: Well, we see what Mom Donnie did, as you said, we also saw what Democrats did in Congress, which right now seems to be caving. Right, so they're capitalizing on Hey, this was the guy up there. So this is happening in a lot of places around the country where folks are seeing this is the Democratic old guard. Let's get them out in a twenty seven year old or an unheard of mom Donnie out of the Assembly. Here we are, so we're paying attention to this. Now, this guy is the leader of the Democrats. Somebody thinks, yep, you're not doing a good enough job.
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Speaker 1: Well, if you think about it, Mom Donnie took on Cuomo. Now, granted he was in battled, granted he had his share of scandals, had to step down from the governor's seat, but it was still a Cuomo.
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Speaker 2: You know, Cuomo and Mayor Adams like two guys. Quite frankly, I mean, even with my resume, I could.
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Speaker 1: They were a battlescarred.
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Speaker 2: Let's say they were, and you had something so easily you could attack them on. All right, continue on the run. Here now, folks, a story that is going to be making headlines for quite some time. We got stand your ground is going to be front and center. We assure you once again now that an Indiana man has been charged in the killing of a house cleaner who had mistakenly shown up at his house.
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Speaker 1: Sixty two year old Kurt Anderson is facing a voluntary manslaughter charge. Police say he shot through the door of his own home, killing thirty two year old Maria Florinda Rios Perez de Velasquez. She had arrived just before seven am to clean the house, but she was at the wrong address.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the shooting happened as Velasquez was using a key to try to open the front door of the home. This was at a suburb of Indianapolis. Now, Indiana is one of thirty one states that have so called stand your ground laws. I guess we've seen this play out several times in high profile cases in Florida in particular. But these laws allows homeowners to use deadly forced to stop someone from entering your home.
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Speaker 1: Anderson's attorney says his actions must be evaluated based on the circumstances as he perceived them. Obviously the prosecutors disagree, and we saw this recently in Texas, even with the eleven year old playing that ding Dong dash or whatever it was called. And the question is just because someone is on your property that law of the standard ground law or the other ones, the castle domain law, they don't allow you to use force unless you feel actually threatened. So there is the gray area and that will have to play.
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Speaker 2: Out in corporate This is going to be a fascinating one. Someone is trying to get into your home, you don't know. Why should you just kill him? Does that justify I fear for my life? This woman had a legit, it makes sense why she shies all of it? Okay, could this end up being just a damn this is a terrible set of circumstances or is that unreasonable? Somebody's on your front, so they make rule or exceptions for what if there's a ups delivery guy. Well, if there's a pizza delivery guy, you can't just shoot because somebody's there. Why isn't this not this? This is going to be a.
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Speaker 1: Fascinating It certainly is There's a lot more to come on that one. But next up on the run, the President's Gazza peace plan got a major, major endorsement yesterday, the UN Security Council voted to approve Trump's twenty point plan for peace, viewed as a legitimizing next step in the peace process. The White House had warned that if the Security Council rejected the plan, the ceasefire could be in jeopardy. So it looks like right now things are holding steady.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, folks, stay with us on this Tuesday Morning run. When we come back, Roboc and I are going to do a story we have done every year at this time in our thirty year career in broadcasting, and you know what, you'll want to hear this one too. Also coming up, we have another word of the Year. Yeah, dictionary dot Com had theirs. It was six to seven. Well, Cambridge has theirs and it might be just as annoying to you and should or Sanders just can't catch a freakin' break.
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Speaker 1: Stay here, we continue our Tuesday Morning ron and it is time for the annual media report about the number of people Triple A expects to travel during the Thanksgiving holiday before I read it, Can I guess? Is it record numbers this year?
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Speaker 2: Sound familiar?
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Speaker 1: Yes, We've been doing this for thirty years and every year we have record travel numbers. Except for the pandemic that might have been the only year, and then we made a big deal about how it wasn't a record setting number of travelers. But anyway, this year a record number were expected to travel. Eighty one point eight million, ninety percent are expected to drive.
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Speaker 2: Is that I was surprised by that.
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Speaker 1: I actually was surprised by seeing that as well. Granted, usually Thanksgiving you do think about people hitting the roads.
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Speaker 2: That's you drive to Grandma's house and then you have to fly. It's a bigger deal on Christmas, right.
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Speaker 1: It's a shorter amount of time you have to the holiday, so you try to keep it within a driving distance, or at least most people do so. Seventy three million expected to hit the roads, six point one million expected to fly, and that's up two percent from last year.
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Speaker 2: Have y'all not been watching the news? What's wrong with y'all? Time fly on Thanksgiving?
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Speaker 1: Oh? That's larious? You do have the pandemic numbers? Yes, I put fifty six point eight million traveled for Thanksgiving in twenty twenty, so that was one of the lowest numbers probably in the last thirty years since we've been covering Triple A travel during the holidays.
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Speaker 2: We always roll our eyes every time because sometimes you hate being the reporter getting stuck with that story. But every year you always, oh, that's interesting. Like even right now, I complain that we've been doing this every year, and they're like.
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Speaker 1: Oh, wait, those numbers are interesting. Yes, and we can also maybe next week tell you the best times to get in your car and the worst times to travel.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we'll get back to you on that next week. Next up here on this Tuesday morning, Ron, this dude just can't catch a break. And poor kid. We talking about Shador Sanders here. You remember his story, the son of Dion Sanders, the Hall of Fame. Deon Sanders played at Colorado. They did their thing out there. He is right, he's got some flash, some pizaz to him. People thought that would hurt his draft stock, and sure not. This kid might have been drafted in the top three, ends up dropping to the fifth round.
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Speaker 1: And then gets that prank call from that owner's son, which was terrible. So he thought he got called up sooner than he did. It was so mean.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so he's gone through all that, folks, and he has been the backup, has been the third string in Cleveland all season. Look, they were eleven twelve games into the season. Now he hasn't played well. Sunday he got to play for the first time. He made his NFL debut on Sunday, and it went terribly. He was the backup to the starter. Starter, got an injury, had a concussion. Actually, the team was up by six when Schadur came in at halftime or after halftime. They ended up losing the game. He was four for sixteen, had an interception. It was just all bad. But here's the thing, folks, that's not why we're doing the story. That's not the part we're talking about. You can't catch a break. You know what happened Robes while he was having his NFL debut, which went horribly, somebody was breaking into his house. This goes in line how many stories have we done about this, Robes Countless big name superstars have their houses broken into while they are playing a game.
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Speaker 1: Yes, because these asshole crooks are obviously paying attention to where people are not at home and then taking advantage of someone not being at home, whether they're on a movie set or they're on a football field, you know they're looking at targeting folks who are, yeah, who have a lot of potential, really high valuable items inside set homes and clearly are not at home.
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Speaker 2: You know exactly where they are because they're on the field in the second quarter, right right, So his house got broken into. We don't have about the details exactly what was taken, how much was taken, But this was another in the long line for this kid, like of all things that he was already it was a big day that turned into a bad day that oh wow, his house got broken into as well.
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Speaker 1: This kid, I'm rooting for him.
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Speaker 2: He is going to be in a super Bowl one day.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I do. I do believe things turn around. I do believe that he's learning some valuable lessons in ooh, resilience, patience, forgiveness, all of the above. All right, and this is the final leg of our run. We have another word of the year. We all remember dictionary dot com announcing there's earlier six seven and.
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Speaker 2: How many do we get? I guess Cambridge dictionary dot Com with Miriam Webster.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Miriam Webster. Usually, I mean I do appreciate these. These are fun to talk about it, even if they are a little bit annoying. So the folks at Cambridge have announced their twenty twenty five Word of the Year. It is parasocial.
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Speaker 2: I'm so tired of hearing this word.
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Speaker 1: All right. Here's the definition, involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, or an artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: So it's not new, but it's been making the rounds on social media and now is mainstream conversation. So a parasocial relationship, by the way, can be fun and harmless, or it can be wildly unhealthy.
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Speaker 2: Do you have one?
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Speaker 1: Do I have a para social you know what? Who I feel a connection with? Who I've never met? Goldiehn Okay, But it's fun and it's harmless, it's not unhealthy.
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Speaker 2: But if of celebrity, you have a relationship with someone as a celebrity, if they did something good or bad, do you share in the joy of it happening and the disappointment? Do you feel a personal like it's a like personally, I don't know how to the closest thing. I don't know what I have right now.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I feel I mean I can, I would feel something for sure. If something happened, I would be like, oh no, yes, but I wouldn't. I'd still probably be able to function just fine during the day.
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Speaker 2: We need to come up with one. I bet there's somebody we have. The closest thing I'm thinking now is Kim Kardashian for me. But I'm trying to think we should come up if we all stop and think about it, you probably have a paranormal paranormal parasocial relations.
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Speaker 1: With all the haunting movies we see.
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Speaker 2: And why it's bad is because these things are one way ah and there is no one sided, one way relationship that's healthy anywhere on the planet.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's very true.
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Speaker 2: That's the argument that you could simply make.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's fine. But as long as it's fun and joyful and like you're supporting someone, even if they don't know you are. I don't know, it's good to have someone to root for, as long as it's not you know, unhealthy.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, sorry, before we let you go, someone wants you to consider it is our quote of the day again one here Robes. I don't know if I'll ever let give this back to you. I've been enjoying pulling out the quotes of the Okay, so another one from the TJ files this morning in Robes has not heard this one yet. Quote never fail to give mercy. And that's it, simply put. I know this one did come from my pastor, but it was so so if you just say that to yourself through every interaction during a day, never fail to give mercy. I don't care who that person is, what that person just did to you. Can you do that? I am not good at this. I know I'm not, but to keep it in mind, you see me exercise this.
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Speaker 1: But it's hard, and I think that's okay that it's hard. That's why it is something to aspire to and something to remind yourself of, because it isn't natural. Our natural instinct is to protect ourselves, to defend ourselves, and to blame other people. I think that is just a survival instinct perhaps, But to actually live a full, happy, meaningful, peaceful life, that is what needs to happen. Because think about how many times we don't even realize. Holding onto anger or hate or some sort of perceived grievance, all it does is bring you down. It actually doesn't even affect the other person. So I love it. Could you say it one more time?
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Speaker 2: So yes, folks, take this with you today and it is a short, sweet and simple one. Never fail to give mercy. And with that we always appreciate you spending some time with us here on the morning Run. I'm TJ.
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Speaker 1: Holmes and I'm Amy Robock. We hope you have a wonderful day.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone. It's Tuesday, November eighteenth. I'm Amy Robot.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday. You say Tuesday, that means what It's a new episode of All's Fair.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Actually, when you just said that, I thought, is it Wednesday? And I've messed it up?
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Speaker 2: Oh, don't you missed an anniversary? But no, All's Fair. If you all aren't watching All's Fair on Hulu, Kim Kardashian's new show, new episodes tonight. Hi, I'm TJ Holmes. I'm a super fan of this show.
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Speaker 1: All right, we should watch. Maybe we'll put out an episode about their latest episode later today because it's so good.
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Speaker 2: See, that's how we had to That's how we're starting this Tuesday. It almost sounds like it's a slow newsday, which is not. It's definitely it is not to say, Hey, you have to start with something that makes your smile, makes you happy, something to look forward to, and that's definitely something I'm looking forward to. We always want to remind you click that button upright corner of the Apple podcast app on our show page. It says follow click that you can get all of our updates. All's fair and otherwise. Updates coming your way. Also on the run, we need to tell you about this morning Larry Summers, Schador Sanders, the UN Security Council, a piggy on Air Force one, and we have another word of the year to tell you about. But we do have to begin our run. There's morning. A once unthinkable thing is happening today. The House of Representatives expected to vote on releasing the full Epstein files and get this Robes. We never would have thought this. It's going to pass. It's not even expected to be close the razor. Thin's expected to vote and win overwhelmingly.
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Speaker 1: Yes, because the court of public opinion is watching. After a number of Republicans publicly broke ranks with the White House saying that they wanted the files released, the President and the House Speaker really had no choice in the matter at that point, and they are powerless to stop the vote. So that's why we heard the President this week completely changed course and say yes, he now supports the vote.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is expected at some point today if the House passes the bill, though it's going to go to the Senate, and we don't know what's going to happen there the majority leader there, John Thoom has so far been noncommittal, but Robes there's little feeling that he is going to not bring it up for a vote, especially if it overwhelmingly passes in the House, there will be another public outcry, and Trump says he will sign this thing. So this is huge today.
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Speaker 1: It's remarkable how the pressure of public opinion can completely change the course of things in Washington. But that is how it works, isn't it. And next up on the Run, the fallout from the daily trickle of details from the latest batch of Epstein documents continues. Larry Summers says he is ashamed of his relationship with Epstein and has now vowed to take a step back from public life.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Larry Summers served as Jury secretary for President Clinton and was the director of National Economic Council under President Obama. He has been a big deal in the Democratic political circles for decades. He's also a former president of Harvard University, where he continues as a tenured professor.
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Speaker 1: This week's release of Epstein documents from the House Oversight Committee contained emails that show a really close and friendly relationship, including a large part after Epstein was already a convicted sex offen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. In the statement yesterday, Summers said quote, I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with mister Epstein.
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Speaker 1: He goes on to say, while continuing to fulfill my teaching obligations, I will be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me. Summers has not been accused of a crime. There's nothing in the document suggesting criminal wrong dealing, unless you consider having Epstein as your wingman wrongdoing these two.
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Speaker 2: This is not new about the relationship between these two. It's not new that we know that Epstein gave millions of dollars to Harvard. That's not new. But this is detailing the just how close these two were in emails that don't necessarily ropes suggest a whole lot or bombshells necessarily in information they have. But they're talking to each other in quite frankly personal, intimate, cute, browie little ways. That is a little surprising.
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Speaker 1: Yes, like Epstein helping Summers with a woman who he was trying to pursue. And yes, he is married, has several children. So this is all very embarrassing and certainly nothing he wanted to come out.
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Speaker 2: All right, I want to continue on the run here on this Tuesday morning now, and we want to make a mention of a story and a video that's making the rounds out there. You might have even noticed it this morning, but it seems really odd. You almost have to click on it when you something trending, and the trending topic is quiet piggy. Yes, that was trending on social media this morning and it couldn't help.
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Speaker 1: But wonder why, Well, it's all thanks to President Trump. Quiet Piggy is a direct quote from President Trump, and he directed it towards a reporter on Air Force one. The reporter was trying to ask a question about the Epstein vote in Congress.
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Speaker 2: And this was during a press gaggle. I guess these become pretty famous now ropes. I'd say, a press gaggle on Air Force one. He does this a lot. He steps back every time he's on a plane, rhinald Air Force one and stands there for oftentimes a while talking to reporters. So he was doing that thing where he's leaning through that door a little bit. You've seen the video, You've seen pictures out out there like this. This is what was going on. Reporters were getting their questions in, and an Epstein question comes at him. He points at the reporter who is off camera. You can't see her. He points directly at her, leans in and says quiet, quiet, piggy, and then continues on with his press conference. Nobody says any. I say, press conference, press gaggle. Nobody says anything, and they move on. This is a probably somebody from Bloomberg, but it's getting attention, but Robes is not getting the attention. If can you imagine if Biden, Bush, Clinton, Obama, anybody looked at a reporter during a press gaggle and looked at that female reporter and said, quiet, piggy.
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Speaker 1: Jaws jaws drop reading.
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Speaker 2: This, well, why is it when he does it? We move on. This is almost no other president could get away with this for five minutes.
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Speaker 1: I would say, no other boss, no other male boss in any business, any industry, could say that publicly recorded without doubt to a female. There nothing, There's just no way that that would be allowed or you.
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Speaker 2: Can't say I misheard you say, you're misinterpreting. It's on. He looks at her points, lean's quiet, piggy, and it just goes to show where we are to where he has a different standard of I just can't imagine it's coming out of another president's mouth and I was just moving on with our day.
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Speaker 1: Well, my jaw is still dropped, all right. Next up on the run a sign of the times in the Democratic Party, Hakeem Jeffries is getting a primary challenger.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Hakeem Jeffries the most powerful Democrat in Congress and really certainly one of the most high profile Democrats in the country. He has been front and center, especially during this shutdown showdown. But a twenty seven year old Democratic city councilman wants Hakeem jeffrey seat.
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Speaker 1: That's right. She Osay has officially filed paperwork to run against Jeffries in the primary for the eighth district seat in New York that includes Brooklyn. OSEI is a Democratic socialist hmmm, who endorsed Mom Donnie during his run for New York mayors. So look, I'm sure O say, and maybe other folks in his age bracket and with his political leanings. Feel like when they saw Mom Donnie do what he did in New York City, they feel empowered and let's see what I can do. Let's see who I can push out.
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Speaker 2: Well, we see what Mom Donnie did, as you said, we also saw what Democrats did in Congress, which right now seems to be caving. Right, so they're capitalizing on Hey, this was the guy up there. So this is happening in a lot of places around the country where folks are seeing this is the Democratic old guard. Let's get them out in a twenty seven year old or an unheard of mom Donnie out of the Assembly. Here we are, so we're paying attention to this. Now, this guy is the leader of the Democrats. Somebody thinks, yep, you're not doing a good enough job.
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Speaker 1: Well, if you think about it, Mom Donnie took on Cuomo. Now, granted he was in battled, granted he had his share of scandals, had to step down from the governor's seat, but it was still a Cuomo.
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Speaker 2: You know, Cuomo and Mayor Adams like two guys. Quite frankly, I mean, even with my resume, I could.
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Speaker 1: They were a battlescarred.
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Speaker 2: Let's say they were, and you had something so easily you could attack them on. All right, continue on the run. Here now, folks, a story that is going to be making headlines for quite some time. We got stand your ground is going to be front and center. We assure you once again now that an Indiana man has been charged in the killing of a house cleaner who had mistakenly shown up at his house.
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Speaker 1: Sixty two year old Kurt Anderson is facing a voluntary manslaughter charge. Police say he shot through the door of his own home, killing thirty two year old Maria Florinda Rios Perez de Velasquez. She had arrived just before seven am to clean the house, but she was at the wrong address.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the shooting happened as Velasquez was using a key to try to open the front door of the home. This was at a suburb of Indianapolis. Now, Indiana is one of thirty one states that have so called stand your ground laws. I guess we've seen this play out several times in high profile cases in Florida in particular. But these laws allows homeowners to use deadly forced to stop someone from entering your home.
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Speaker 1: Anderson's attorney says his actions must be evaluated based on the circumstances as he perceived them. Obviously the prosecutors disagree, and we saw this recently in Texas, even with the eleven year old playing that ding Dong dash or whatever it was called. And the question is just because someone is on your property that law of the standard ground law or the other ones, the castle domain law, they don't allow you to use force unless you feel actually threatened. So there is the gray area and that will have to play.
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Speaker 2: Out in corporate This is going to be a fascinating one. Someone is trying to get into your home, you don't know. Why should you just kill him? Does that justify I fear for my life? This woman had a legit, it makes sense why she shies all of it? Okay, could this end up being just a damn this is a terrible set of circumstances or is that unreasonable? Somebody's on your front, so they make rule or exceptions for what if there's a ups delivery guy. Well, if there's a pizza delivery guy, you can't just shoot because somebody's there. Why isn't this not this? This is going to be a.
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Speaker 1: Fascinating It certainly is There's a lot more to come on that one. But next up on the run, the President's Gazza peace plan got a major, major endorsement yesterday, the UN Security Council voted to approve Trump's twenty point plan for peace, viewed as a legitimizing next step in the peace process. The White House had warned that if the Security Council rejected the plan, the ceasefire could be in jeopardy. So it looks like right now things are holding steady.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, folks, stay with us on this Tuesday Morning run. When we come back, Roboc and I are going to do a story we have done every year at this time in our thirty year career in broadcasting, and you know what, you'll want to hear this one too. Also coming up, we have another word of the Year. Yeah, dictionary dot Com had theirs. It was six to seven. Well, Cambridge has theirs and it might be just as annoying to you and should or Sanders just can't catch a freakin' break.
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Speaker 1: Stay here, we continue our Tuesday Morning ron and it is time for the annual media report about the number of people Triple A expects to travel during the Thanksgiving holiday before I read it, Can I guess? Is it record numbers this year?
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Speaker 2: Sound familiar?
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Speaker 1: Yes, We've been doing this for thirty years and every year we have record travel numbers. Except for the pandemic that might have been the only year, and then we made a big deal about how it wasn't a record setting number of travelers. But anyway, this year a record number were expected to travel. Eighty one point eight million, ninety percent are expected to drive.
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Speaker 2: Is that I was surprised by that.
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Speaker 1: I actually was surprised by seeing that as well. Granted, usually Thanksgiving you do think about people hitting the roads.
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Speaker 2: That's you drive to Grandma's house and then you have to fly. It's a bigger deal on Christmas, right.
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Speaker 1: It's a shorter amount of time you have to the holiday, so you try to keep it within a driving distance, or at least most people do so. Seventy three million expected to hit the roads, six point one million expected to fly, and that's up two percent from last year.
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Speaker 2: Have y'all not been watching the news? What's wrong with y'all? Time fly on Thanksgiving?
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Speaker 1: Oh? That's larious? You do have the pandemic numbers? Yes, I put fifty six point eight million traveled for Thanksgiving in twenty twenty, so that was one of the lowest numbers probably in the last thirty years since we've been covering Triple A travel during the holidays.
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Speaker 2: We always roll our eyes every time because sometimes you hate being the reporter getting stuck with that story. But every year you always, oh, that's interesting. Like even right now, I complain that we've been doing this every year, and they're like.
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Speaker 1: Oh, wait, those numbers are interesting. Yes, and we can also maybe next week tell you the best times to get in your car and the worst times to travel.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we'll get back to you on that next week. Next up here on this Tuesday morning, Ron, this dude just can't catch a break. And poor kid. We talking about Shador Sanders here. You remember his story, the son of Dion Sanders, the Hall of Fame. Deon Sanders played at Colorado. They did their thing out there. He is right, he's got some flash, some pizaz to him. People thought that would hurt his draft stock, and sure not. This kid might have been drafted in the top three, ends up dropping to the fifth round.
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Speaker 1: And then gets that prank call from that owner's son, which was terrible. So he thought he got called up sooner than he did. It was so mean.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so he's gone through all that, folks, and he has been the backup, has been the third string in Cleveland all season. Look, they were eleven twelve games into the season. Now he hasn't played well. Sunday he got to play for the first time. He made his NFL debut on Sunday, and it went terribly. He was the backup to the starter. Starter, got an injury, had a concussion. Actually, the team was up by six when Schadur came in at halftime or after halftime. They ended up losing the game. He was four for sixteen, had an interception. It was just all bad. But here's the thing, folks, that's not why we're doing the story. That's not the part we're talking about. You can't catch a break. You know what happened Robes while he was having his NFL debut, which went horribly, somebody was breaking into his house. This goes in line how many stories have we done about this, Robes Countless big name superstars have their houses broken into while they are playing a game.
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Speaker 1: Yes, because these asshole crooks are obviously paying attention to where people are not at home and then taking advantage of someone not being at home, whether they're on a movie set or they're on a football field, you know they're looking at targeting folks who are, yeah, who have a lot of potential, really high valuable items inside set homes and clearly are not at home.
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Speaker 2: You know exactly where they are because they're on the field in the second quarter, right right, So his house got broken into. We don't have about the details exactly what was taken, how much was taken, But this was another in the long line for this kid, like of all things that he was already it was a big day that turned into a bad day that oh wow, his house got broken into as well.
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Speaker 1: This kid, I'm rooting for him.
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Speaker 2: He is going to be in a super Bowl one day.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I do. I do believe things turn around. I do believe that he's learning some valuable lessons in ooh, resilience, patience, forgiveness, all of the above. All right, and this is the final leg of our run. We have another word of the year. We all remember dictionary dot com announcing there's earlier six seven and.
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Speaker 2: How many do we get? I guess Cambridge dictionary dot Com with Miriam Webster.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Miriam Webster. Usually, I mean I do appreciate these. These are fun to talk about it, even if they are a little bit annoying. So the folks at Cambridge have announced their twenty twenty five Word of the Year. It is parasocial.
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Speaker 2: I'm so tired of hearing this word.
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Speaker 1: All right. Here's the definition, involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, or an artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: So it's not new, but it's been making the rounds on social media and now is mainstream conversation. So a parasocial relationship, by the way, can be fun and harmless, or it can be wildly unhealthy.
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Speaker 2: Do you have one?
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Speaker 1: Do I have a para social you know what? Who I feel a connection with? Who I've never met? Goldiehn Okay, But it's fun and it's harmless, it's not unhealthy.
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Speaker 2: But if of celebrity, you have a relationship with someone as a celebrity, if they did something good or bad, do you share in the joy of it happening and the disappointment? Do you feel a personal like it's a like personally, I don't know how to the closest thing. I don't know what I have right now.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I feel I mean I can, I would feel something for sure. If something happened, I would be like, oh no, yes, but I wouldn't. I'd still probably be able to function just fine during the day.
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Speaker 2: We need to come up with one. I bet there's somebody we have. The closest thing I'm thinking now is Kim Kardashian for me. But I'm trying to think we should come up if we all stop and think about it, you probably have a paranormal paranormal parasocial relations.
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Speaker 1: With all the haunting movies we see.
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Speaker 2: And why it's bad is because these things are one way ah and there is no one sided, one way relationship that's healthy anywhere on the planet.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's very true.
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Speaker 2: That's the argument that you could simply make.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's fine. But as long as it's fun and joyful and like you're supporting someone, even if they don't know you are. I don't know, it's good to have someone to root for, as long as it's not you know, unhealthy.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, sorry, before we let you go, someone wants you to consider it is our quote of the day again one here Robes. I don't know if I'll ever let give this back to you. I've been enjoying pulling out the quotes of the Okay, so another one from the TJ files this morning in Robes has not heard this one yet. Quote never fail to give mercy. And that's it, simply put. I know this one did come from my pastor, but it was so so if you just say that to yourself through every interaction during a day, never fail to give mercy. I don't care who that person is, what that person just did to you. Can you do that? I am not good at this. I know I'm not, but to keep it in mind, you see me exercise this.
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Speaker 1: But it's hard, and I think that's okay that it's hard. That's why it is something to aspire to and something to remind yourself of, because it isn't natural. Our natural instinct is to protect ourselves, to defend ourselves, and to blame other people. I think that is just a survival instinct perhaps, But to actually live a full, happy, meaningful, peaceful life, that is what needs to happen. Because think about how many times we don't even realize. Holding onto anger or hate or some sort of perceived grievance, all it does is bring you down. It actually doesn't even affect the other person. So I love it. Could you say it one more time?
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Speaker 2: So yes, folks, take this with you today and it is a short, sweet and simple one. Never fail to give mercy. And with that we always appreciate you spending some time with us here on the morning Run. I'm TJ.
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Speaker 1: Holmes and I'm Amy Robock. We hope you have a wonderful day.