Morning Run: Growing Ebola Cases, Mosque Shooters Radicalized, Three Executions Scheduled, Trump Tax Protection, Primary Winners, Manhole Cover Death and Red Lobster Closing

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast the Folks. It is Wednesday, May twentieth, and welcome to this Morning Run.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us. I'm TJ.

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Speaker 3: Holks. You don't usually start, and I'm Amy Rob.

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Speaker 2: I want to start over. It feels completely off. Didn't it totally off?

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Speaker 3: Because you start.

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Speaker 2: Most I don't like it. I don't like it. It feels all.

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Speaker 4: Right tomorrow we can return to It's the only podcast I begin.

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Speaker 3: It's funny you start all the others.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm trying to take this one over just like a man. You can let you have the Okay, No, I don't know it's we're doing I don't know why we just did that. And now it does it feel like we need to start over. You know, sometimes you get off on the wrong side of the bed. This is the wrong side of the Morning Run podcast.

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Speaker 3: All right, tomorrow we'll do better. But I thought that was fun. It's okay to switch things up, to switch.

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Speaker 2: Things all the time to time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're switching things up in the Northeast right now because it's hot as hell. It's uh what, it's not supposed to be this hot. We've had yesterday was the nineties. Today it's in the nineties as well, and they told me. I thought it was just summertime, but they told me it's abnormal.

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Speaker 3: This is not normal.

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Speaker 4: And I think we're one day shy of getting a official heat wave. It's three days in a row above ninety degrees. I believe you can call it a heat wave. So we're just having like just a heat ripple.

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Speaker 2: A heat ripple.

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Speaker 3: I made that up.

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Speaker 1: And folks, we're going to be making stops along this run today in the Maldives, Newport News, gonna make a stop in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Also will make stops in the US states of Tennessee, Arizona, and Florida. Also making a stop out in San Diego here in New York City as well as the gas Pump. But let's hop around a couple places road. It was hard to keep up with so much going on last night, but trying to just give you the highlights at least on primary night.

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Speaker 2: It was a big night.

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Speaker 4: It was a very big night, and it took place in six different states in Alabama, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Idaho, and Oregon.

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Speaker 3: Who was the big winner? You ask President Donald J. Trump.

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Speaker 2: He got a running scared, isn't he?

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Speaker 3: Yes, he does.

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Speaker 2: He has them running scared once again.

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Speaker 1: He flexed his GOP muscle and got sweet sweet revenge. I guess Republican Congressman Thomas Massey. You have seen his name and heard his name plenty. How did he become the most famous congressman in the country is because Trump was talking about him every single day, calling him the worst congressman in the history.

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Speaker 2: Of the United States.

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Speaker 1: And he didn't like him because the guy didn't go along with him on certain things along the way. And sure enough Rolees, he targeted Massey, endorsed his primary opponent, and sure enough Massey lost and lost pretty handily last night.

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Speaker 4: To me, that is kind of a moment where you can say, Wow, not all press is good press, because if people know his name because Trump was dogging him, that didn't help him in terms of Sometimes people just think name recognition will get you a vote on the ballot.

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Speaker 3: This time it cost him motion.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy.

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Speaker 1: That's national for us getting to know him in his district. Oh, they they know him already, and the ads they saw non oh.

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Speaker 2: Famous in his own district.

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Speaker 3: There you go, all right.

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Speaker 4: A couple of things of note from Georgia last night as well. Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottom's another name we have heard plenty in the headline. She won the Democratic nomination for governor and she could become the first black woman in the country to be governor and governor of Georgia.

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Speaker 1: That would be cool. My goodness, the lady, why am I blanking on her name? Why do not even try?

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Speaker 2: Right now? The black woman down there does the voting rights.

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Speaker 4: She was like Stacey Abrams, chee as, Yes, it's okay.

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Speaker 2: I've told you everything was off because I started.

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Speaker 3: They got to get over the hump was.

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Speaker 2: Continuing on this hump of Iran.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: President Trump revealed yesterday we didn't know this. He says he was just an hour away from a decision to start bombing ran again when he decided to hold off after Middle East leaders asked him to. Now, this bomb was supposed to be what he said yesterday, it would have been going on Tuesday. Yeah, so it would have been going on and he did really a buzzz. Well, I guess it's typical Trump necessarily, but he gave people a tour of the new ballroom at the White House at the tour, meaning he was out there at the construction site and he's talking about it, and we hear NonStop he's talking, and then they start asking him questions and there's.

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Speaker 3: Just construction noise behind.

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Speaker 1: As he started, he was talking about the ballroom, but Roges, it kind of got weird. They started asking him questions about Iran and other things, and you hear.

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Speaker 3: All that while he's talking.

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Speaker 1: The whole time. But yes, that came out of us. So where are we on the war with Iran? The same place we've been for the past month. It scenes an indefinite seas fire. There is no deadline nor timeline for a deal. The President only said yesterday that they have a limited period of time.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, we'll see TVD on that one, all right. Next up on the Run.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of President Trump, he cut himself a pretty damn good and shocking deal for himself as a part of his settlement with the Department of Justice. He and his family and his businesses will forever be shielded from the IRS looking into their taxes.

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Speaker 1: You get, you get tax community is the deal that they set up for themselves. Now, this is the deal, This anti Weaponization Fund you've been hearing about, supposed to help people who think they have been wronged by the Biden administration. So it's a part of that. But this was a new thing they added yesterday. An amendment, if you will. The exact language released by the Dog's Jay says, the United States is quote forever barred and precluded from prosecuting or pursuing any and all claims and counterclaims end quote against the Trump family and businesses. Folks are losing hell, bro throats, they are losing it. You can't touch his pay taxes from the past.

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Speaker 3: Nothing you can do.

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Speaker 1: From the past. There's a tax liability he's sitting on. It seems like everything is going away. You cannot look into his taxes, of his family, of his business from this moment in the past.

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Speaker 4: Nothing and all it takes for anyone else to get that sweet deal is to become president.

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Speaker 3: Wow. All right.

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Speaker 4: Next up on the Run, more details are coming out about that deadly Moss shooting in San Diego this week. Police say the two shooters actually met and were radicalized online.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, these were seventeen and eighteen year old suspects. They killed three people at that Islamic Center. Before killing themselves, they left behind writings apparently that suggests they hated robes everybody. The FBI agent put it this way. They did not discriminate on who they hated. Wow, that's why you think about discrimination as hating someone. But they didn't discriminate in their discrimination. They hated everybody. We didn't look like that, black folks, women, Jews, Muslims, LGBTQ, plus everybody. They say even in politics, they hated the left and the right.

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Speaker 2: So we're learning more.

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Speaker 1: But clearly a couple of disturbed kids here in robes, like we were saying, there's no indication or at least the people in their circles that there was a problem, that there was an issue, that they had.

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Speaker 3: Issues, kept it all bottled up and found each other online.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 4: Next up on the run, global health officials are warning the number of people infected by ebola could be much higher than reported.

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Speaker 3: Infectious disease experts.

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Speaker 4: Saying that true number may already be in the thousands.

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Speaker 2: Old.

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Speaker 1: Who stop, who's sick? Come on, y'all? That is scary as hell. Yes it is the latest numbers, the official numbers. We have five hundred and forty suspected cases, one hundred and thirty four deaths. We're also learning more about the condition of the American doctor who tested positive for ebola. As he was being transported to a Chairmany.

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Speaker 4: Yes colleagues described doctor Peter Stafford as barely able to stand on his own, saying he looked quote really tired and really sick.

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Speaker 3: Stafford's physician wife.

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Speaker 4: Therefore, children and another physician are all quarantined, but they remain in the Democratic Republic of Congo and so far, thankfully are asymptomatic. This thing is two to twenty one days, so it'll still be a while before they will feel safe that they have avoided being infected. But they did say the good news about the children because a lot of people are worried. It's very rare for children to actually be infected.

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Speaker 3: By this disease. So that's a hopeful sign at least for that family.

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Speaker 1: Well, how you're explaining the other day, They say it attacks folks in this sweet spot of being in good health.

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Speaker 3: In the prime of their lives.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean them all right.

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Speaker 1: Continuing on the run here now, divers have now recovered all the bodies of the Italians who died while discovering underwater caves in the Maldives.

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Speaker 4: Five Italians, one instructor and four researchers died last week when they went for a dive but ended up going well past the permitted depth. And then a Maldive's recovery diver died actually trying to look for them, search for them, and he died from just it was a pressurization.

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Speaker 3: Correct, It's just so deep.

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Speaker 4: Even trained divers can't handle the pressure under that much.

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Speaker 1: Water, and they have now they did have to bring in these specialty divers, deep water diving specialists from Finland. I believe it was they were brought in to recover the bodies. This is very like you said, dangerous stuff ropes. And they brought up two bodies on Tuesday and then another today on this Wednesday. So I mean, that's nice. That's one of those things you to risk your life to not save a life, but to give I give I guess peace to a family. And how these folks have a resting place. This is that's brave work and that's heroic work.

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Speaker 4: And you've got two investigations underway, one criminal correct, maldieves in Rome, but trying to figure out what happened to these divers, why they went where they went, yes, and how perhaps they were even allowed.

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Speaker 3: To go that far all right.

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Speaker 4: Next up on the Run, testimony began in the trial of doctor Ebony Parker, the former assistant principal charged with eight counts of felony child abuse. This is the first known case of a school administrator being held criminally responsible for a school shooting, after a six year old student shot his teacher in the middle of class.

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Speaker 1: Now, prosecutor say Parker did not take appropriate action to protect children after being told that one of her students had brought a loaded gun to school Tuesday. The teacher who survived being shot in the chest was the first to testify. Her name is Abby Schwerner. She told juror she notified both Parker and other teachers that the boy seemed off and violent several times on the day of the shooting.

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Speaker 4: Other staff members testified corroberatings Werner's testimony, but defense attorneys for Parker repeatedly objected throughout the prosecution's case. We were listening, it was actually frustrating to listen to. But during cross defense was questionings Warner and the other staff members why they didn't call police or separate the boy from other students. And today we will hear from the parents of the children inside Warner's classroom. That day, they're expected some of them are expected to take the stand.

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Speaker 2: I continue on the run here now. There are not one, not two, but.

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Speaker 1: Three scheduled executions in three states over the next two days. Tonight, Arizona execute Leroy McGill for the two thousand and two death of a man that he set on fire.

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Speaker 4: And then tomorrow Tennessee and Florida have planned executions as well. Tony Carruthers will be given lethal injection Thursday morning for a horrific nineteen ninety four triple homicide in Memphis that made international headlines.

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Speaker 1: And then tomorrow night, Florida is going to execute Richard Knight. He's been on death row since two thousand for the killing of a mom and her four year old daughter. These now robes will be the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth executions of the year. There aren't that many, relatively speaking, still on the books, at least scheduled for the year, but we do expect more death warrants to get signed, so we'll see what kind of year. This turns out to be in executions. We'll stay with us here on this morning run. What a freak accident and a death in New York City after a woman falls into a manhole.

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Speaker 2: We'll explain.

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Speaker 1: Also some news from the sporting world that tennis fans aren't gonna like too much and biscuit fans aren't gonna like some news we have this morning as well.

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Speaker 2: Data.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back every one to this Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: We were off. You can't even get that out.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Tell you man, I started it off the episode.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you we should have started over them.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, you gotta lean in and it's okay. It's okay to make mistakes. It's not a rising back up, all right. This one is a tough one. This is scary out of New York City. You know, when we are, we drive, we walk, we subway sometimes I even bike through New York City. There are so many potential accidents. We're always amazed that more problems don't incur. But I have never worried about stepping out of a taxi or my own vehicle and worried.

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Speaker 3: About falling through a manhole cover. But that is what happened.

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Speaker 4: A fifty six year old woman fell to her death stepping out of her car in midtown Manhattan, Manhattan. Excuse me, Donna Kaye Gojock parked her car near Rockefeller Center.

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Speaker 3: I think it was fifty second and fifth.

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Speaker 4: Stepped out of her vehicle and then fell directly into an uncovered manhole on the street.

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Speaker 2: We went down about ten feet. Police believe the steam from below caused her to go into cardiac arrest.

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Speaker 3: Isn't that crazy?

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Speaker 2: I thought it was ten feet.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't.

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Speaker 2: The fall steam caused her to go into cardiac arrest. That's amazing.

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Speaker 1: She was pronounced dead in a hospital here in New York. The cover was discovered some fifteen feet away from the opening, and after reviewing video, it appears a truck ran over it and dislodged the cover.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know it was that easy to do.

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Speaker 3: I didn't either.

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Speaker 4: Con Edison, though that's the power company that operates this manhole, says it's actively investigating the incident. But they said, while rare, manhole covers can get displaced by heavy vehicles. So that's just another thing to look out for when you look. When we open in our car doors. In Manhattan, We're always having to look for bicyclists mostly, but now it's like I'm looking down. I would never think to look down to see I mean, that's just so freaky and scary.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know this was.

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Speaker 1: I mean, whose responsibility is it to make sure these things never come off?

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Speaker 2: I don't walk near.

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Speaker 1: Them because we've had incidents in the city before of them blowing off.

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Speaker 2: I literally avoid them no matter what.

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Speaker 3: The scaffolding like.

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Speaker 4: I feel like it's a final destination movie every time we go out.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, now we got man O cover.

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Speaker 3: Right now, you gotta look down.

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Speaker 2: Let's just take the subway, but we could be safe.

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Speaker 1: That's funny, nice, all right, continuing on the run here now some news that just this is this sucks for tennis fans. The number two ranked player in the world and seven time major winner, Carlos Alcaraz is going to miss Wimbledon. He officially withdrew yesterday because of a wrist injury. He was already Robes missing the French Open starts this weekend, and now going to miss it at the Old England Club. He has a big deal. He's a fun, exciting player. Number two ranked in the world as still really young. But it's gonna that's too bad. We're gonna miss it.

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Speaker 3: Oh that is bad.

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Speaker 4: But look, maybe this is even worse for folks who love their red lobster China legs.

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Speaker 3: I know, I don't. I don't know that I've ever been to a red lobster. I'm just not a huge seafood fan. I know you worked. It was everybody Chada Biscuits.

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Speaker 1: Everybody you don't know to chetda business. No, okay, this is a problem. How can you not even if you haven't been and don't like you gotta know that Jedda Biscuits.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh.

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Speaker 3: My god, speaking of Cheddar biscuits.

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Speaker 1: A fe No, you gotta say chet up Chetta biscuits.

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Speaker 3: All right. A red lobster is shutting down in Florida. And here's why that's a big deal.

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Speaker 4: It is the longest continuously running red lobster in the country, and it's been.

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Speaker 3: Open for fifty six years in Tallahasset.

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Speaker 1: Open in nineteen seventy. And it's not the original. The original was in Lakeland, Florida, in nineteen sixty eight. Not too terribly far. But this is the one that's been continuously open this entire time. It's closing because what they call it business circumstances.

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Speaker 3: But what does that mean?

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Speaker 2: Money? Just the financial got it?

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Speaker 3: Okay, it just doesn't make a circumstance.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't make it vague. Well, it sounds like file off of bankruptc in twenty twenty four. They haven't been doing.

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Speaker 1: Great, so we put it that way. It sounds better. But obviously they're doing a very poor job of marketing. If you don't know about the Chada.

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Speaker 3: Biscuits, it sounds like it's is there a red lobster in the city.

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Speaker 2: Uh, that's one in Time Square?

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Speaker 3: Really?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, I'm sure they got cheda biscuits.

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Speaker 3: Maybe before a long run, I can try a cheddar biscuit to.

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Speaker 2: Carve op Oh my god?

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Speaker 3: All right, all right on this Wednesday. You know what, it's so funny.

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Speaker 4: I didn't realize we were going to have a rocky start and a rocky awful.

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Speaker 3: Mid section here of morning run.

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Speaker 4: But the quote I picked for today actually is exactly what they needed to hear. A fresh start isn't always a new place, It's a mindset.

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Speaker 1: A fresh start isn't always a new place. A fresh start isn't always a new place, right, Yes, a mindset, a fresh start.

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Speaker 2: I just want to restart. I just I just want to.

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Speaker 3: But sometimes people talk about needing a fresh start.

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Speaker 4: They try, they think about a move, a new job, maybe a new partner or new whatever. But sometimes it's just about changing your mindset. It's not about changing your surroundings. It's about changing.

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Speaker 2: What's with him whatever.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, that's where we are on this Wednesday.

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Speaker 4: I hope some of you found some inspiration that guy, but as always, thank you for running with us today on this wonderful Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: I made me robot.

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Speaker 1: Okay, she will start the morning run tomorrow per usual, but I'm DJ Holmes always appreciated you running with us