Morning Run: Ghislaine Wants Clemency, Savannah Guthrie New Video, DHS Shutdown Looming, Florida First Execution, Eddie Bauer Bankruptcy, Lindsey Vonn Update, Bad Bunny 64 Explained and Drink Your Coffee

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

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Speaker 2: Good morning everyone.

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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, February tenth. I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ Holmes.

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Speaker 3: The Olympics well underway. We have a debate, we wonder, and we would like to hear from you. Do y'all want us to tell you the results on Morning Run or do you want to wait until primetime coverage to find out? What are people doing?

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Speaker 1: I think that maybe as long as we give a spoiler alert and people can choose to fast forward or not, because at this point it's all out there. If you google anything, if you search anything, you will see who won the gold, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: Nobody's going through there all day waiting. Oh I can't wait to watch tonight to see who wins. Go okay, because it is We've been watching all this great coverage and yes we're crazy people who are watching at three o'clock in the morning Eastern time, watching live results. But we see the live results and then they play promos teasing watch primetime coverage tonight and find out who won that race. You just watch. It's sound of bizarre, it's weird.

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Speaker 2: It's what they have to do now. I mean, think about it. This is uh. I think it's it's the it's the viewer's choice.

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Speaker 1: You could either decide to put blinders on and say no one tell me and then watch.

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Speaker 2: But I think most people watch.

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Speaker 3: Okay, no spoiler alerts today. Just curious about that, as we've been watching a bunch of great skiing action actually this morning. But we'll get going on the run today, which will take us, of course, to Milan. One leg of our run will take us there. We'll also make stops in Tucson, DC, La Florida as well, and also a stop in everybody's breakfast kitchen. Yes, because we have some news. I don't know how big of a story. This is about tea and coffee. Another story about how good or bad it is for your health.

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Speaker 2: This one is definitive.

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Speaker 1: It is the first conclusive study that was done over nearly four decades, published just yesterday.

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Speaker 2: In jama so peer reviewed, not on board.

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Speaker 3: You didn't know about it before. Now they told us something we didn't know, or you're just.

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Speaker 1: Saying they told us that they think there's a link. It suggests there's a link. Now it's confirmed.

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Speaker 3: All right, we will get to all of that today, but the first leg of our run does need to take us out to Tucson, where we got some significant updates in the search for the Nancy Guthrie.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: So we know from the latest headlines that there are still no suspects, no persons of interest, no vehicle of interest.

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Speaker 2: And we also saw.

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Speaker 1: Late yesterday Savannah Guthrie herself again post another video as another ransom deadline past. We knew that that second deadline, for reportedly six million dollars, was late yesterday, and it was about the same time we heard again from Savannah. She struck a very different tone in this latest video the one before. It was as if they were speaking directly to a would be kidnapper or whoever abducted her mother. This time it was just a desperate plea for help from the public.

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Speaker 3: And she used that word if we are in our hour of desperation, but asking anybody, no matter if you're near Tucson or far, please if you see anything, please call in and let authorities know. But she did not mention at all anything about potential kidnappers that we're wanting to hear from you, or response of any kind like that. And FBI is saying the FBI has come out and said they are not well aware of any ongoing communications between Savannah Guthrie and the Guthrie kids and any potential kidnappers. That suggests there is no kidnapping, or at least there is no ransom. This makes no sense, and the mystery continued.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and you know we heard Savannah say, no matter where you live, even if you don't live in Tucson, please be aware of anything suspicious or strange if you see my mother. And the FBI has now put billboards up in neighboring states California, Texas, all around that area. So it does suggest potentially that they believe she could be out of state. Even at this point. That just shows you where they are right now in this case. And the Sheriff's department confirmed there are no scheduled briefings for today. They have said they are not going to have a press conference unless there is a significant development.

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Speaker 3: All right, We continue on the run here now and head to Washington, where Democrats are taking a hard pass on the latest offer from the White House on funding the Department of Homeland Security. This now increases the chance of another government shut down, albeit a partial and very specific government shutdown.

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Speaker 1: That's right, because without a deal the Department of Homeland Security, the funding for that agency will run out at midnight on Friday. While this sounds like a familiar theme, Democrats want reforms and restrictions on ICE agents, but the White House has responded by rebuffing those demands. Now the stage has been set for a partial shutdown to begin on Saturday with truly no end in sight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we call this partial and specific. Yeah, this is just about DHS funding. Now, a lot of people might look at that and say, sure, take their money away for a little while and reform them. But remember, folks, THHS also has FEMA and TSA under them, So it's going to have a real impact on real people if this happens again. And yes, we're talking about the possibility of TSA workers going without paychecks once again. So something to keep an eye on this Friday.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. All right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, Gallaine Maxwell actually appeared before a congressional committee yesterday, but we didn't hear much from her because she took the fifth refusing to answer any questions coming from lawmakers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but her attorney says she'll tell everything, but as a very big if if President Trump gets her out of jail.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's a huge if.

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Speaker 1: So here's what Gallane's attorney said that his client is prepared to speak fully and honestly, and then reminded Congressman and perhaps the President, only she can provide the complete account, which actually might be kind of true.

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Speaker 3: Complete, but everyone will wonder if it's truthful exactly. He goes on to say, some may not like what they hear, but the truth matters. For example, both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing. Miss Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to that explanation.

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Speaker 2: That's a dankling carrot.

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Speaker 3: That's please, sir. Can I have that clemency?

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Speaker 2: Please, sir?

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Speaker 1: If you grant me clemency, I'll make sure the world knows that you are completely and totally innocent. How's that for a bargaining chip.

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Speaker 3: I will clear you under penalty of perjury, that is what she is offering. That's a hell of a deal.

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Speaker 2: Woo now.

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Speaker 1: Maxwell's attorney also explained that while her convictions are on appeal, she is forced to remain silent. She had to take the fifth She had no other choice. So the only way she can tell what she knows and speak the truth is by having clemency granted by President Trump. And you know what, Trump not publicly ruled out pardoning Maxwell.

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Speaker 3: He has been asked several times over time about it, and he kind of jumps around it. The last time he was asked about it was in November. He was on air for was one. He said, quote, I haven't thought about it for months. Maybe I haven't thought about it at all. I don't talk about it. I don't rule it in or out. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: With all the Epstein coverage and all the Epstein headlines and non Alma, he doesn't even think about it. Interesting all right? Next up on the Run Florida, which we all know. If you have been listening to Morning Run, you certainly know, set a record in twenty twenty five for executions. Well, it is about to conduct its first execution of twenty twenty six tonight.

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Speaker 3: His name is Ronald Heath, sixty four years old, scheduled to die by lethal injection at six o'clock Eastern. He committed a murder when he was just sixteen years old. But that's not even the murder he's being executed for tonight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a hell of a story.

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Speaker 1: After being sentenced to thirty years in isen for killing a man in nineteen seventy seven, again, that's when he was sixteen, Heath was released twenty years early and it was soon after his release that he then killed a traveling salesman. That happened in nineteen eighty nine. He was convicted and ultimately was sentenced to death. But that is just such a shame. Imagine if the prison sism actually worked and he actually served the time he was sentenced to, this man might still be alive.

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Speaker 3: It was thirty years he got and twenty years or essentially knocked off that sentence. Florida, as a reminder, did execute nineteen people last year. That was by far the most in the country. I think this number two on the list had five or six executions, but this was by far the most Florida has ever had in its history. Also, want to give you an update now here on the run about Catherine O'Hare's cause of death. It has now been revealed and the actress, it turns out, had been privately dealing with a devastating diagnosis.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. The death certificate issued by LA County listed pulmonary embolism as her official cause of death, but cited rectal cancer as the underlying cause of the embolism.

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Speaker 3: And the right robe. There was no announcement. She never said anything about this in the past year. And I say the past year because according to the death certificate, her oncologist said he had been treating her since March of twenty twenty five. So we've seen her plenty. We made comments about her appearance at times and didn't know anything otherwise, could have been whatever, But man to think now, we saw her a lot, and she missed what Warshow whether she was nominated.

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Speaker 1: Golden Globes, I believe, and you know, yes, she had gotten thinner, but she had made no announcement.

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Speaker 2: You are correct, and she privately battled it. But that's why it was so shocking.

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Speaker 1: No one knew she was sick, no one knew there was anything wrong, and so to have her suddenly that and honestly, seventy one, right, that's young. That is a young age to die at. And she seemed so vibrant and fine just a year earlier. So this is sad, but certainly explains her sudden passing, all right, next up on the run, Eddie Bauer has declared bankruptcy again. This is the second time they've declared bankruptcy since the pandemic, and we're told now some stores will start closing, but according to the company, they need to find a buyer before May, or it might be the end. They might have to close all one hundred and eighty of their store.

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Speaker 3: You do outdoor and skiing and all that stuff, but this is from the what North Face and Patagonia, ARII and Eddie Bowers in that lane, don't they do that stuff?

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Speaker 1: They are, But you know what, I feel like the other companies you just mentioned are just seem to have a bigger pull or a bigger tie to the hiking and adventure community. Eddie Bower's old school. I was actually looking. They outfitted the first American to summit Mount Everest. Yeah, I didn't realize.

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Speaker 3: Are the og Yeah we talked about all the ones now, but they are the original and I think they had the original patent on the whatever down jacket that's too popular now. That was Eddie Bauer. But yes, they have sign of the times here now. Declining sales they cited, and the CEO also said tariff uncertainty is causing a problem. But this is a one hundred and six year old company that started as a fish shop in Washington one hundred and six years ago. It's kind a cool story. I didn't know the backstorre.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and just hearing the backstory because I didn't realize it either. I'm rooting for them, and you know, I don't. I can't remember the last time I bought something from Eddie Bauer, but I'll think about it now. You know, if I didn't realize they were the OG, I really didn't better hurry.

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Speaker 2: Oh all right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, we have gotten an update on Lindsay Vaughan's condition from the original source.

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Speaker 2: Lindsay Vaughn herself.

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Speaker 1: She wanted to make it clear her a seal injury had nothing to do with her crash and her subsequent injury.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that crash was absolutely devastating to watch. Crash in the final the downhill just thirteen seconds into that race. Now she did you could tell. She got caught on one of the gates, her arm and she got twisted around in the air, landed awfully, didn't know what was going on. Took thirty minutes to get the race started again. But Rose, we did find out she broke her leg, but now she's given us an update. It sounds awful, it really does.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we heard her screaming, and it's understandable when you hear what her injuries actually involved. Now on Instagram, she wrote this yesterday, my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would. It wasn't a storybook ending or a fairy tale. It was just life. I dared to dream and had worked so hard to achieve it. Because in downhill ski racing, the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury can be as small as five inches. I was simply five inches too tight on my line when my right arm hooked inside of the gate ooh, twisting me and resulted in my crash. My acl and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever.

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Speaker 3: That's unbelievable to think it's just the coincidence that this devastating injury happens on that same leg. But it is a complex tibia fracture. She says didn't mention anything in her note robes about competing down the road, but just to get back to being okay. They said this leg is going to need multiple surgeries.

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Speaker 1: Her father did speak out, though he has told several news outlets that he hopes that this will be the end of her career as a father. As a parent, you don't want to see your kid go through that. You're proud of them for daring greatly, but at a certain point, at a certain age, you care more about their physical health.

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Speaker 3: Sorright, she's forty one, she's been skiing, probably was since she's five, so you're talking about thirty five plus years. His heart stops every time he's watched that girl go down that slope, hasn't it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, one hundred percent?

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Speaker 3: Every time? He had to watch it one last time and that was the result. Don't ever get on a slope again. Please with heart, We've this has been enough.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I imagine that the way you just said that. I imagine your child every time having a crash the way she did when she was all right injured. And yes, to know that the margins are that small, that one small couple of inches can be the difference between a devastating injury and a gold medal.

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Speaker 2: That is scary as hell. When you're the parent.

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Speaker 3: And you know, even as a fan, if she tells me she wants to retire, I go, Okay, we're gonna have to do it. Remember Alex Haneld climbing that building. Just please, Alex, don't do this.

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Speaker 2: You couldn't watch stop stop.

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Speaker 3: So congrats on a career, Lindsay, be looking forward to seeing you soon. All right, we'll stay with us folks here on this Tuesday morning run. When we come back, we'll talk about another American Olympian, one that has been labeled a loser by the President of the United States while he is responding to what the President said. Also, we'll go back to the Super Bowl halftime show, just trying to understand all those symbols in that halftime show sixty four. We now have an answer as to why bad Bunny was wearing that number on his outfit. And then Robes is going to make the argument for why this is now the most definitive study yet on the benefits of coffee an teeth. There, why we continue on this Tuesday morning run now and a follow up from the American olympian labeled a loser by President Trump. That loser has now.

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Speaker 1: Responded, Oh, His name is Hunter hes loser. He is a free skiers uh and on Instagram. You know what I want to Okay, I want to read what he wrote. But I also it's funny you look at the different headlines and how different people covered his response to being called a loser. Fox News said that he back pedaled or back tracked his original response. I didn't read it as that. Would you have said this was a backtracking? Oh?

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Speaker 3: I was surprised he doubled down politely exactly.

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Speaker 1: I thought he clarified, shocked exactly did he went this route?

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Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.

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Speaker 3: He started it the right way, though he did.

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Speaker 1: So he starts with I love my country and there's a little American flag.

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Speaker 2: Nice, okay, perfect?

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Speaker 1: And you know what, I don't think he acted as if he didn't in.

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Speaker 3: His original stud I never doubted that.

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Speaker 1: So he is just confirming I love my country. That is not backtracking.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Then he goes on to say there is so much that is great about America, but there are always things that could be better.

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Speaker 3: Does every American not agree with that? Say?

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Speaker 2: How could you not?

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Speaker 3: Okay, please continue.

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Speaker 1: One of the many things that makes this country so amazing is that we have the right and the freedom.

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Speaker 2: To point that out. Do we though what we're supposed to? Amen?

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Speaker 1: I believe we did an entire podcast on that yesterday. The best part of the Olympics is that it brings people together, and when so many of us are divided, we need that more than ever. I cannot wait to represent Team USA next week when I compete. Thanks to everyone for their support.

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Speaker 3: They have made. Somebody has made and probably selling right now, hes shirts that say loser on the back. Oh my god, to point it out for fun, for support of him. Oh my goodness. I hope he wins that gold medal, comes back with a big old just thought l tattooed on his forehead.

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Speaker 1: And then he can wrap his body in the American flag and run up and down.

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Speaker 2: I would love to see that.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. Sorry, continue on the run here. Now we'll go back to the halftime show. We know the meaning now of sixty four Bad Bunny war an outfit, that cream all cream outfit. He was wearing kind of a sweater that had sixty four and had his last name on it. Nobody knew what the number sixty four. Men a bunch of speculation out there, and it seems like I didn't see one that actually got this one hundred percent right.

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Speaker 1: No, but it was so interesting when you had the speculation there were five different things sixty four could have represented. That number was very important in his life, it seems like for a number of reasons.

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Speaker 2: But he said this.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen sixty four is the year my uncle Kutito was born, my mother's brother. The little I know about the NFL is thanks to him. My uncle passed away two years ago, shortly after the forty nine Ers lost to Kansas City in the twenty twenty four Super Bowl. I always of taking my uncle to a Super Bowl, and I couldn't, so.

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Speaker 2: He brought him with him by wearing that number.

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Speaker 3: Sixty four the biggest moment, the most eyes that will ever be on bad money, and he wanted his uncle there with him. I applaud you so sweet.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I love that all right, And here it is for the final leg of our run. Good news, spectacular news, if you love happy having a couple of cups of coffee or tea every day. A long term study published in JAMMA on Monday. That's just pointing out how legit it is found that drinking two to three cups of coffee or one to two cups of tea lowers your risk of dementia, cognitive decline, and preserves cognitive function. And decaffeinated coffee and tea did not have the same results, did not show cognitive benefits. That is interesting, and they said all previous studies were inconclusive, so this is actually a big deal. They studied folks from nineteen eighty to twenty twenty three. That's an investment, right, I mean, that's a lot. So here, I was just curious how it worked out. One hundred and thirty thousand people. They had to fill out diet questionnaires about their coffee tea intake every couple of years for thirty seven years, that is commitment. By twenty twenty three, of those one hundred and thirty thousand people, eleven thousand of them had been diagnosed with dementia. So they did find people who drank the most caffeinated coffee had an eighteen percent lowered risk, and among tea drinkers, they had a fourteen percent lower risk. And so they found that there was a sweet spot of daily caffeine intake that's three one hundred milligrams, that's about three cups a day.

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Speaker 3: Is that I don't know. Coffee drinkers. What is an average like a regular coffee drinking not a crazy one or every once, but an average person.

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Speaker 1: Drinks what I probably I mean. I'm a three cup a day person. I've always been. That's just I end up drinking maybe two to three in the morning, and then sometimes one in the afternoon, so I can go anywhere from.

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Speaker 2: Two to four.

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Speaker 3: Tea has just as much.

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Speaker 1: It has a little less caffeine, but they still had and again the decaffeinated versions of those drinks did not have the same results.

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Speaker 3: All about caffeine being good for you in some ways.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Well, they can't isolate the caffeine out. They think that perhaps some of the nutrients in the coffee bean and in the tea leaves contribute or somehow might accelerate.

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Speaker 3: Perhaps they they.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps be able to isolate.

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Speaker 3: So we need more study.

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Speaker 1: They just know the drinking coffee and drinking tea conclusively lowers your risk.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't wipe it out, but it I.

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Speaker 3: Don't know how we need to study that. Look forward to it thirty seven more years later.

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Speaker 2: We'll have more answers.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, folks, before we let you go something we wanted to leave you with. It is our quote of the day, and it is appropriate, it is timely, and it is this quote. We take risks in life. We dream, we love, We jump, and sometimes we fall. Sometimes our hearts are broken. Sometimes we don't achieve the dreams we know we could have. But that is the beauty of life. We can try. I tried, I dreamt, I jumped. Folks are probably put together. Who said that? When she just said it? That was from Lindsay Vaughn. She had in her message when she was updating everybody, kind of a message for yes, you just saw me do it at the Olympics, but every day are all of us doing something or scared to do something and not going for it. You want to take anything for my crash and my pain. Try.

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Speaker 1: I love that. That gives me emotional. Actually, I tried, I dreamt, I jumped.

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Speaker 3: And I say it all and it's life. It's just heartbreak. You got one today. I just happen to have one on a slope in Italy. So I thought she was a good message. She tried to leave with everybody, but she said quote, we take risks in life, we dream, we love, we jump, and sometimes we fall. Sometimes our hearts are broken. Sometimes we don't achieve the dreams we know we could have, but that is also the beauty of life. We can try. I tried, I dreamt, I jumped, And with that, folks, hope you are trying. Hope you are dreaming, and maybe you'll take a leap to day as well. Wherever you are, we always appreciate your running with us.

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Speaker 2: I'm teaching and I'm Amy Roebock. Have a great day and we'll run with you soon.