Oct. 29, 2025
Morning Run: Growing Gaza Death-toll, SNAP Benefits Fight, Amazon UPS Mass Layoffs, Soaring Apple Stock, Hurricane Melissa, Texas Sues Tylenol and New Dr. Seuss Book
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run. It's Wednesday, October twenty ninth. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. October twenty ninth. It's a day of contradictions, Robe. We got a lot of, I guess, kind of some dire headlines today. Snap benefits are about to run out, Folks are struggling, don't know how they're going to put food on the table. Now, we're getting word that two of the biggest employers in the country are cutting five figure numbers of jobs. But at the same time we get word that Apple just went over a trillion dollars four trillion dollars port trillion. Yes, okay, yeah, only one of three three companies. Okay, So what is going on that we have these two Americas going on?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it is extreme on both ends, sadly, and uh, there's no real there's no progress that's being made in the middle of I'm helping everybody, and Congress is what chillin'.
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Speaker 2: It also almost feels like we're going backwards with the shutdown, like we're not getting closer to a resolution. It looks like we're getting farther away. We'll give you the latest on where we are there and ropes. I talk about contradictions. There are air strikes in Gaza by Israel, but we're told the ceasefire is still in place.
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Speaker 1: It makes zero sense. And we're talking now the numbers. The death toll from those air strikes is going up throughout the morning. So it is concerning that both things could be true.
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Speaker 2: All right, folks, We've got a lot to get to this morning. As always, we want to remind you top right corner of that Apple podcast app where you see our show page, a little button says follow you click that make sure our updates are coming to you. Also, we have to get into this morning. What is sixty four dead in Rio? We were thinking of some natural disaster. No, no, no, folks, this was part of a police raid. We'll tell you why the UN wants to get involved in that. Of course. Now all the news we knew this was coming roads the news about Thailand all the present and it says President pregnant women do not take talanol. Well, there is a lawsuit now, folks, going after the makers of talanol. In particular. A state is doing so. Also this morning, there is a group folks that are supposed to advise the president when it comes to construction in Washington, DC. We'll tell you what he just did with all members of that commission. You could probably guess. Also, the World Series was a bit of a boor last night, Rose it only went nine innings.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, n I like how you added last night.
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Speaker 2: Just nine innings.
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Speaker 1: Wait, a bit of a bore last night?
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Speaker 2: What I mean?
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Speaker 1: Most baseball games are oh.
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Speaker 2: My god, I don't don't, don't. Don't get me fired up. Don't get me worked up this morning. Also, we have a new Doctor Seuss book, who knew. We'll tell you what that's about. And we have the very latest on this hurricane Melissa coming out, which is still doing its thing as we speak. So stick around. We need to give you those updates and we'll give them to you really quickly.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and we beg our run overseas. Were Israel resumed? Yes, those air strikes in Gaza overnight latest reports at least one hundred and four people killed. But we're told the ceasefire is holding.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we'll try to make sense to that. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nanya, who says he ordered what he called powerful strikes because Hamas has violated the ceasefire agreement. He says he accused the militant group of firing on Israeli soldiers in Gaza, killing one, and Israel says Hamas isn't holding up its end of the deal to return the remains of remaining hostages. They released a video. There's like a fourteen minute video that they say shows Hamas members staging the discovery of remains. Now, we've looked at this video and robes. It clearly shows I don't know who they are, but it shows them digging a fresh hole, putting remains in it, covering those remains with dirt, and then calling over like a Red crossworker to say, look look what we found. They released this video of that happening. They say this is a violation.
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Speaker 1: Wow. All right. While President Trump said Israel was in fact justified in its response with those airstrikes, he said he is also still confident in the ceasefire holding.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, we're going to turn to the very latest on Hurricane Melissa. The storm is now it's still a category three and this morning it did make its second landfall in Cuba, and that island is now dealing with severe flooding.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to be dealing with it for a good chunk of the day today. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people remain without power in Jamaica, where Melissa May landfall Tuesday as a Category five storm, winds above one hundred and eighty five miles per hour. It is officially the strongest storm to ever hit Jamaica, and it's one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded. It is expected to go across Cuba this morning and then hit the Bahamas later in the day.
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Speaker 1: All right, we turn now to Rio de Janeiro, where sixty four people died yesterday in a massive police operation and now the United Nations wants an immediate investigation.
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Speaker 2: And what's described as the largest raid in the city's history, thousands of police and military personnel targeted one of the largest criminal gangs in Brazil. Clashes turned the streets into war zones. Ultimately, eighty one arrests were made, drugs and weapons were confiscated. Four police officers were among the sixty four killed.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we're going to head back home and the latest on the government shutdown. We are now in day twenty nine and the Senate keeps giving us a literal demonstration of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different results.
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Speaker 2: Yes, these leaders of ours voted for a thirteenth time yesterday on the same Republican backed short term spending measure that would reopen the government. And yes, for the thirteenth time it failed. House of Representatives remains out of session, they ain't even at work, and Speaker of Mike Johnson says he is going to stick to his stands that there's no reason to bring them back to work until the Senate does its work and acts in some way form of fashion.
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Speaker 1: And now a new fight is erupting over Snap benefits, which are slated to run out on Saturday. Democrats are calling on the administration to release billions in reserve funds to keep the food benefits flowing to low income Americans, but the White House is pushing back, claiming it doesn't have the legal authority to use those funds for Snap benefits.
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Speaker 2: And now twenty five states are suing over the suspension of Snap benefits and want a judge to force the administration to tap into that reserve fund. Those twenty five states, all Democratic states and Democratic folks who are part of this suing. Without a resolution, forty two million Americans who rely on SNAP also of course called the food Stamp program are not going to get their benefits starting on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, air traffic controllers missed their first full paychecks of the shutdown yesterday. And get this, just in terms of a sign of the times, airlines are actually now providing meals for air traffic controllers. We're talking Delta, United, Jet Blue, and that's what they're trying to do to at least give them some sort of something broke.
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Speaker 2: We don't need this full. Your air traffic controller that's in control of your safety while you're in the air is worried about paying their electric bill and they're hungry. B I saw. That's a shame. That is a shame. And the Transportation Secretary Secretary Sean Duffy said they continue to get a higher than normal number of sick calls. A lot of controllers are stressed, of course about finances, so they call in sometimes I just need a day off. But a lot of them, Roji said, are calling in sick because they're calling in sick to the job that's not giving them a check so they can go spend time at another job that will pay them. They said, a lot of them are turning to driving upers is where we are. So get this stat from Sunday, eighty seven hundred flight delays on Sunday. I don't know what the normal number is, so let me just say that part first. But to hear that forty four percent of the delays were because of staffing shortages. This is dangerous and it's not just inconvenient.
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Speaker 1: It's dangerous. So yeah, that's a very good point. You don't want a tired, upset, nervous, anxious air traffic controller. All right, Next up on the run. Did you know there is a Commission on Fine Arts in Washington?
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Speaker 2: I wasn't aware, did you.
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Speaker 1: I did not know that either.
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Speaker 2: It spent a lot of time with him.
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Speaker 1: Now. So it's an independent federal agency whose job it is to give expert advice to the President on matters of design and esthetics in the nation's capital and review design proposals for government buildings.
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Speaker 2: Fired all of them. President just fired all of them. Got six of them on the Commission fired all of them. These are the people who would approve plans to give advice about what you're going to do with these twins in your ballroom and putting an arch in the city. Those people have all been fired. And how were they fired? Well, they got a nice little email yesterday that simply said, quote on behalf of President Donald J. Trump. I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the Commission of Fine Arts is terminated, effective immediately.
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Speaker 1: All were previously appointed by President Biden, and we're expected to serve a four year term that ends in twenty twenty eight. But the White House said Trump is going to appoint a new commission more aligned with President Trump's America First policies.
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Speaker 2: Translation, my people that will do what I tell them to do, Yes, exactly. And he's a president. He has a right to do that. I guess. Thanks up on the run here now. Several major US companies have announced significant layoffs. Amazon among them, send a message to its employees Tuesday that it would be cutting fourteen thousand jobs as it shifts its resources to artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 1: And Ups announced it had cut thirty four thousand jobs and a they did fourteen thousand management positions in just the first nine months of this year. So for those of you trying to do the math, that is a total of forty eight thousand jobs gone so far this year at UPS. Target also said it's planning to act eighteen hundred corporate roles and notified its home state of Minnesota that it plans to lay off more than eight hundred employees in January as it restructures, and finally, CBS parent company paramount S guidance is expected to eliminate more than one thousand positions today. Those folks will literally be getting their notices today.
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Speaker 2: And even before all this news, layoffs have been trending higher in the US nearly nine hundred and fifty thousand cuts so far this year through September. That is the latest data we have because the government such shut down, so we're not getting the most up to date information. Robe You put a good point in here. The Fed has a very important job to do and they won't have the information they need to make it.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, they decide on the next interest rate decision whether or not they're going to cut it tomorrow, but they don't have the latest jobs numbers, which absolutely typically would factor into their decision.
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Speaker 2: Well, I didn't think about you. We were talking about the shutdown. People don't know how to plan for the holidays, that people are buying tickets. What's your budget going to be in all this? I didn't think as well. Halloween is a very big budget holiday and it's for kids and families.
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Speaker 1: Yep, I mean costumes cost money. All that candy cost money. I mean seriously, if you're a house that's highly visited, you're talking hundreds of dollars that people just might not have now at this point as just extra backup for some holiday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I skipped right over Halloween, was thinking about thanks youving. This is a big family, This is big for kids. This is another day that parents really want to make special for their kids.
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Speaker 1: When my kids were younger. Actually, I was actually feeling a little sad about it today because this week was so much fun getting the costumes ready. But it also costs money. And yes, my mom used to make our costumes from scratch, but still, I mean that's time, that's money, all these things that folks don't have these days. All Right, meantime, with all of that bad news, some companies appear to actually be doing exceptionally well. Apple on Tuesday became the third company ever to break through that four trillion dollar market value. It didn't last for long. Apple ended the trading day just below the historic threshold, really close, at three point nine to nine trillion.
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Speaker 2: But in Vidia and Microsoft they both crossed the four trillion mark in July, and Videa's value has grown significantly since then, closing at four point eight. Do I have the right four point almost four point nine trillion? Yes, they're about to cross correct at five.
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Speaker 1: Yes, y'all AI. It's all about the AI well.
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Speaker 2: Apple stock is also expected to climb higher after tomorrow's earnings report, where financial experts expect the company to report more than one hundred billion dollars in quarterly earnings. It's yes, it makes your stomach turn. And this is why if you're a politician, all you do is rail against the billionaires. You throw that out because you see these two worlds not colliding, but there were two separate Americas.
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Speaker 1: It's all true. But when you've got trillion dollar companies aligning themselves politically, that is the move. Because if people have been noting, Apple CEO Tim Cook has been everywhere, Trump has been recently, He's paid multiple visits to the Old Office. He attended that state dinner with King Charles that they hosted in the UK and Trump's honor. He also was with Trump again in Japan on Tuesday this week.
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Speaker 2: I missed that completely.
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Speaker 1: That was all noted. And the fact that most apple products have been exempt from tariffs. Those two things aren't just coincidental.
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Speaker 2: You know what we look, it's good that we folks want to criticize. And why you at this event? You know what they are producing for their investors. This is business and it sucks if you are. You don't want to be on the wrong side of Trump. But you look at November one, all this is going on, and your nervous that your snap benefits aren't going to get put into the account because of what ooh this one's okay, fine, shut down a couple of days. Figured out, you made your points. Come on, ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 1: Yes, agreed, Oh yeah, yeah, all right, sorry, all right. Next up on the run, Texas assuing the makers of tail and all the state claims the companies behind the common painkiller used deceptive marketing practices to sell their product to pregnant women despite alleged links to autism.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we have to say this always out loud. The medical community consensus here. The links don't exist. There is nothing at least in the evidence right now. You want to keep studying, knock yourself out, But the doctors will tell you there is nothing that they have seen, and this has been studied at nauseum that makes a direct link between taking tail and All and higher rates of autism. Well, there's despite what the medical community says about this, The Texas AG said, quote, these corporations lied for decades, knowingly in endangering millions to line their pockets. Of course, it was just last month we saw the president. It's a pretty big announcement. He said. It was one of the most important press conferences he's ever done at the White House. He had the doctors around him, and he flat out. So pregnant women do not take Thailand All because of the links. The company responded robe saying that it is deeply concerned by the perpetuation of mis information.
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Speaker 1: That would make sense, because I'm sure their investors are deeply concerned as well.
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Speaker 2: You know, I want what are pregnant women doing now? I mean, I guess I like, what are they being advised? Are they? Are there women? There have to be there are women cutting back on taking. Of course they are, of course, which doctors will tell them. You're probably putting yourself at more risk by doing that. Correct. All right, well, folks on this what is it Wednesday?
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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, on this Wednesday morning, Folks, stay with us when we come back on this morning run. Yes, Game four of the World Series. Normally it would have been an exciting one, but after game the standards were a little different. And Doctor Seuss, we have just discovered a brand new never before seen or even known about Doctor Seus's book. Yes, a new one is coming our waves.
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Speaker 1: They here continuing our Wednesday Morning ron and next up on the run. Game four of the World Series Snoozefest only went nine innings last night.
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Speaker 2: By yes, after that eighteen inning doozy in Game three, my hopes were up for another classic. It was a good game, but nothing like that. But Game four last night, Toronto Blue Jays bounced back to beat the LA Dodgers six to two. The series now tie two to two. Game five is tonight in La and Rose. Because it's two too, it means we're guaranteed to get a game six as well. That's very exciting.
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Speaker 1: Thank god. Yeah, did you hear Brad Paisley is now mister Moore baseball? Did you see this story? It's all the headlines, So this is actually so interesting. He performed the national anthem during, of course, that eighteen inning matchup, but guess what. He also performed the anthem before the previous one, the one that actually was the longest eighteen inning matchup when the Dodgers outlasted the Boston Red Sox, also a Game three. He also performed the anthem before an eleven inning Game two in the twenty seventeen World Series and a ten inning game Game one in LA last year. So he says, every time he performs the national anthem, they go into extra innings.
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Speaker 2: What can you name it? I'm sorry, I don't want to put you on the spot. A Brad Paisley hit song or anything. I was wondering if he had Maybe he has a something that naturally goes into this. I don't know his songs, but that is funny. He's the guy.
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Speaker 1: He does have a famous song that is not coming to mind right.
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Speaker 2: Now, whiskey lullaby, She's everything she's ever did. That's the one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the one.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's not really a baseball story, but no, no songles. That is kind of a cool nugget.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: For the final leg of the run.
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Speaker 1: More than three decades after his death, a brand new book by Doctor Seuss will be released next year. The manuscript, complete with a cover sketch and art direction, was discovered. It was sitting there all along in the archives of the University of California, San Diego.
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Speaker 2: This is they just happened upon it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they never so they were just going through his stuff and found this never before seen manuscript that was completely ready to go.
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Speaker 2: Wow. So he did all the work, yeah for them all right. The title of this book is Seeing the Fifty United States. It features the cat and had two little cat helpers that encourage children to learn about and name all fifty States. The CEO of Doctor Seuss Enterprises said, uncovering a new work from Ted is like finding a time capsule of his imagination. Theodore Sus Geisel, Yes Sus the name. I don't think I knew Doctor Seus's real name.
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Speaker 1: I did neither. That's why when she said Ted. I scratch my head and then realized, Okay, his name is Theodore Seeing The Fifty United States will debut on June second, twenty twenty six. How's this for timing just a month before America's big two hundred and fiftieth birthday July fourth, twenty twenty six. That just worked out. Sometimes, Wow, a whole book never seen before by doctor Seuss about the fifty United States, all in time for our big birthday celebration.
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Speaker 2: Hey, sometimes the universe just puts things together.
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Speaker 1: For you, doesn't it though? And by the way, it's available for pre order now if you'd like to get in on the action.
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Speaker 2: All right, folk, something we'd like for you to take with you, something for you to consider on this Wednesday. It is our quote of the day.
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Speaker 1: In every life, we have some trouble, I said, trouble instead of trouble. Let me start over again, nice because I'm having trouble speaking In every life we have some trouble. But when you worry, you make it double. Don't worry be happy, doctor Sue say that Bobby McFerrin. So obviously we know the song don't worry Be Happy, But somehow I didn't really know the line before it, which I thought was really.
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Speaker 2: Cool, which is, in every life you have some trouble.
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Speaker 1: In every life, we have some trouble. But when you worry, you make it double.
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Speaker 2: Don't worry, be happy.
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Speaker 1: And yes it sounded so's like, but love the song, love the artist, love the message, and with that everyone, thank you for listening to this Wednesday edition of our Morning Run.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ Holmes. We'll be talking to me all soon
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run. It's Wednesday, October twenty ninth. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. October twenty ninth. It's a day of contradictions, Robe. We got a lot of, I guess, kind of some dire headlines today. Snap benefits are about to run out, Folks are struggling, don't know how they're going to put food on the table. Now, we're getting word that two of the biggest employers in the country are cutting five figure numbers of jobs. But at the same time we get word that Apple just went over a trillion dollars four trillion dollars port trillion. Yes, okay, yeah, only one of three three companies. Okay, So what is going on that we have these two Americas going on?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it is extreme on both ends, sadly, and uh, there's no real there's no progress that's being made in the middle of I'm helping everybody, and Congress is what chillin'.
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Speaker 2: It also almost feels like we're going backwards with the shutdown, like we're not getting closer to a resolution. It looks like we're getting farther away. We'll give you the latest on where we are there and ropes. I talk about contradictions. There are air strikes in Gaza by Israel, but we're told the ceasefire is still in place.
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Speaker 1: It makes zero sense. And we're talking now the numbers. The death toll from those air strikes is going up throughout the morning. So it is concerning that both things could be true.
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Speaker 2: All right, folks, We've got a lot to get to this morning. As always, we want to remind you top right corner of that Apple podcast app where you see our show page, a little button says follow you click that make sure our updates are coming to you. Also, we have to get into this morning. What is sixty four dead in Rio? We were thinking of some natural disaster. No, no, no, folks, this was part of a police raid. We'll tell you why the UN wants to get involved in that. Of course. Now all the news we knew this was coming roads the news about Thailand all the present and it says President pregnant women do not take talanol. Well, there is a lawsuit now, folks, going after the makers of talanol. In particular. A state is doing so. Also this morning, there is a group folks that are supposed to advise the president when it comes to construction in Washington, DC. We'll tell you what he just did with all members of that commission. You could probably guess. Also, the World Series was a bit of a boor last night, Rose it only went nine innings.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, n I like how you added last night.
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Speaker 2: Just nine innings.
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Speaker 1: Wait, a bit of a bore last night?
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Speaker 2: What I mean?
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Speaker 1: Most baseball games are oh.
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Speaker 2: My god, I don't don't, don't. Don't get me fired up. Don't get me worked up this morning. Also, we have a new Doctor Seuss book, who knew. We'll tell you what that's about. And we have the very latest on this hurricane Melissa coming out, which is still doing its thing as we speak. So stick around. We need to give you those updates and we'll give them to you really quickly.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and we beg our run overseas. Were Israel resumed? Yes, those air strikes in Gaza overnight latest reports at least one hundred and four people killed. But we're told the ceasefire is holding.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we'll try to make sense to that. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nanya, who says he ordered what he called powerful strikes because Hamas has violated the ceasefire agreement. He says he accused the militant group of firing on Israeli soldiers in Gaza, killing one, and Israel says Hamas isn't holding up its end of the deal to return the remains of remaining hostages. They released a video. There's like a fourteen minute video that they say shows Hamas members staging the discovery of remains. Now, we've looked at this video and robes. It clearly shows I don't know who they are, but it shows them digging a fresh hole, putting remains in it, covering those remains with dirt, and then calling over like a Red crossworker to say, look look what we found. They released this video of that happening. They say this is a violation.
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Speaker 1: Wow. All right. While President Trump said Israel was in fact justified in its response with those airstrikes, he said he is also still confident in the ceasefire holding.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, we're going to turn to the very latest on Hurricane Melissa. The storm is now it's still a category three and this morning it did make its second landfall in Cuba, and that island is now dealing with severe flooding.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to be dealing with it for a good chunk of the day today. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people remain without power in Jamaica, where Melissa May landfall Tuesday as a Category five storm, winds above one hundred and eighty five miles per hour. It is officially the strongest storm to ever hit Jamaica, and it's one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded. It is expected to go across Cuba this morning and then hit the Bahamas later in the day.
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Speaker 1: All right, we turn now to Rio de Janeiro, where sixty four people died yesterday in a massive police operation and now the United Nations wants an immediate investigation.
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Speaker 2: And what's described as the largest raid in the city's history, thousands of police and military personnel targeted one of the largest criminal gangs in Brazil. Clashes turned the streets into war zones. Ultimately, eighty one arrests were made, drugs and weapons were confiscated. Four police officers were among the sixty four killed.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we're going to head back home and the latest on the government shutdown. We are now in day twenty nine and the Senate keeps giving us a literal demonstration of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different results.
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Speaker 2: Yes, these leaders of ours voted for a thirteenth time yesterday on the same Republican backed short term spending measure that would reopen the government. And yes, for the thirteenth time it failed. House of Representatives remains out of session, they ain't even at work, and Speaker of Mike Johnson says he is going to stick to his stands that there's no reason to bring them back to work until the Senate does its work and acts in some way form of fashion.
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Speaker 1: And now a new fight is erupting over Snap benefits, which are slated to run out on Saturday. Democrats are calling on the administration to release billions in reserve funds to keep the food benefits flowing to low income Americans, but the White House is pushing back, claiming it doesn't have the legal authority to use those funds for Snap benefits.
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Speaker 2: And now twenty five states are suing over the suspension of Snap benefits and want a judge to force the administration to tap into that reserve fund. Those twenty five states, all Democratic states and Democratic folks who are part of this suing. Without a resolution, forty two million Americans who rely on SNAP also of course called the food Stamp program are not going to get their benefits starting on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, air traffic controllers missed their first full paychecks of the shutdown yesterday. And get this, just in terms of a sign of the times, airlines are actually now providing meals for air traffic controllers. We're talking Delta, United, Jet Blue, and that's what they're trying to do to at least give them some sort of something broke.
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Speaker 2: We don't need this full. Your air traffic controller that's in control of your safety while you're in the air is worried about paying their electric bill and they're hungry. B I saw. That's a shame. That is a shame. And the Transportation Secretary Secretary Sean Duffy said they continue to get a higher than normal number of sick calls. A lot of controllers are stressed, of course about finances, so they call in sometimes I just need a day off. But a lot of them, Roji said, are calling in sick because they're calling in sick to the job that's not giving them a check so they can go spend time at another job that will pay them. They said, a lot of them are turning to driving upers is where we are. So get this stat from Sunday, eighty seven hundred flight delays on Sunday. I don't know what the normal number is, so let me just say that part first. But to hear that forty four percent of the delays were because of staffing shortages. This is dangerous and it's not just inconvenient.
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Speaker 1: It's dangerous. So yeah, that's a very good point. You don't want a tired, upset, nervous, anxious air traffic controller. All right, Next up on the run. Did you know there is a Commission on Fine Arts in Washington?
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Speaker 2: I wasn't aware, did you.
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Speaker 1: I did not know that either.
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Speaker 2: It spent a lot of time with him.
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Speaker 1: Now. So it's an independent federal agency whose job it is to give expert advice to the President on matters of design and esthetics in the nation's capital and review design proposals for government buildings.
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Speaker 2: Fired all of them. President just fired all of them. Got six of them on the Commission fired all of them. These are the people who would approve plans to give advice about what you're going to do with these twins in your ballroom and putting an arch in the city. Those people have all been fired. And how were they fired? Well, they got a nice little email yesterday that simply said, quote on behalf of President Donald J. Trump. I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the Commission of Fine Arts is terminated, effective immediately.
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Speaker 1: All were previously appointed by President Biden, and we're expected to serve a four year term that ends in twenty twenty eight. But the White House said Trump is going to appoint a new commission more aligned with President Trump's America First policies.
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Speaker 2: Translation, my people that will do what I tell them to do, Yes, exactly. And he's a president. He has a right to do that. I guess. Thanks up on the run here now. Several major US companies have announced significant layoffs. Amazon among them, send a message to its employees Tuesday that it would be cutting fourteen thousand jobs as it shifts its resources to artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 1: And Ups announced it had cut thirty four thousand jobs and a they did fourteen thousand management positions in just the first nine months of this year. So for those of you trying to do the math, that is a total of forty eight thousand jobs gone so far this year at UPS. Target also said it's planning to act eighteen hundred corporate roles and notified its home state of Minnesota that it plans to lay off more than eight hundred employees in January as it restructures, and finally, CBS parent company paramount S guidance is expected to eliminate more than one thousand positions today. Those folks will literally be getting their notices today.
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Speaker 2: And even before all this news, layoffs have been trending higher in the US nearly nine hundred and fifty thousand cuts so far this year through September. That is the latest data we have because the government such shut down, so we're not getting the most up to date information. Robe You put a good point in here. The Fed has a very important job to do and they won't have the information they need to make it.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, they decide on the next interest rate decision whether or not they're going to cut it tomorrow, but they don't have the latest jobs numbers, which absolutely typically would factor into their decision.
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Speaker 2: Well, I didn't think about you. We were talking about the shutdown. People don't know how to plan for the holidays, that people are buying tickets. What's your budget going to be in all this? I didn't think as well. Halloween is a very big budget holiday and it's for kids and families.
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Speaker 1: Yep, I mean costumes cost money. All that candy cost money. I mean seriously, if you're a house that's highly visited, you're talking hundreds of dollars that people just might not have now at this point as just extra backup for some holiday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I skipped right over Halloween, was thinking about thanks youving. This is a big family, This is big for kids. This is another day that parents really want to make special for their kids.
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Speaker 1: When my kids were younger. Actually, I was actually feeling a little sad about it today because this week was so much fun getting the costumes ready. But it also costs money. And yes, my mom used to make our costumes from scratch, but still, I mean that's time, that's money, all these things that folks don't have these days. All Right, meantime, with all of that bad news, some companies appear to actually be doing exceptionally well. Apple on Tuesday became the third company ever to break through that four trillion dollar market value. It didn't last for long. Apple ended the trading day just below the historic threshold, really close, at three point nine to nine trillion.
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Speaker 2: But in Vidia and Microsoft they both crossed the four trillion mark in July, and Videa's value has grown significantly since then, closing at four point eight. Do I have the right four point almost four point nine trillion? Yes, they're about to cross correct at five.
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Speaker 1: Yes, y'all AI. It's all about the AI well.
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Speaker 2: Apple stock is also expected to climb higher after tomorrow's earnings report, where financial experts expect the company to report more than one hundred billion dollars in quarterly earnings. It's yes, it makes your stomach turn. And this is why if you're a politician, all you do is rail against the billionaires. You throw that out because you see these two worlds not colliding, but there were two separate Americas.
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Speaker 1: It's all true. But when you've got trillion dollar companies aligning themselves politically, that is the move. Because if people have been noting, Apple CEO Tim Cook has been everywhere, Trump has been recently, He's paid multiple visits to the Old Office. He attended that state dinner with King Charles that they hosted in the UK and Trump's honor. He also was with Trump again in Japan on Tuesday this week.
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Speaker 2: I missed that completely.
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Speaker 1: That was all noted. And the fact that most apple products have been exempt from tariffs. Those two things aren't just coincidental.
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Speaker 2: You know what we look, it's good that we folks want to criticize. And why you at this event? You know what they are producing for their investors. This is business and it sucks if you are. You don't want to be on the wrong side of Trump. But you look at November one, all this is going on, and your nervous that your snap benefits aren't going to get put into the account because of what ooh this one's okay, fine, shut down a couple of days. Figured out, you made your points. Come on, ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 1: Yes, agreed, Oh yeah, yeah, all right, sorry, all right. Next up on the run, Texas assuing the makers of tail and all the state claims the companies behind the common painkiller used deceptive marketing practices to sell their product to pregnant women despite alleged links to autism.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we have to say this always out loud. The medical community consensus here. The links don't exist. There is nothing at least in the evidence right now. You want to keep studying, knock yourself out, But the doctors will tell you there is nothing that they have seen, and this has been studied at nauseum that makes a direct link between taking tail and All and higher rates of autism. Well, there's despite what the medical community says about this, The Texas AG said, quote, these corporations lied for decades, knowingly in endangering millions to line their pockets. Of course, it was just last month we saw the president. It's a pretty big announcement. He said. It was one of the most important press conferences he's ever done at the White House. He had the doctors around him, and he flat out. So pregnant women do not take Thailand All because of the links. The company responded robe saying that it is deeply concerned by the perpetuation of mis information.
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Speaker 1: That would make sense, because I'm sure their investors are deeply concerned as well.
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Speaker 2: You know, I want what are pregnant women doing now? I mean, I guess I like, what are they being advised? Are they? Are there women? There have to be there are women cutting back on taking. Of course they are, of course, which doctors will tell them. You're probably putting yourself at more risk by doing that. Correct. All right, well, folks on this what is it Wednesday?
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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, on this Wednesday morning, Folks, stay with us when we come back on this morning run. Yes, Game four of the World Series. Normally it would have been an exciting one, but after game the standards were a little different. And Doctor Seuss, we have just discovered a brand new never before seen or even known about Doctor Seus's book. Yes, a new one is coming our waves.
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Speaker 1: They here continuing our Wednesday Morning ron and next up on the run. Game four of the World Series Snoozefest only went nine innings last night.
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Speaker 2: By yes, after that eighteen inning doozy in Game three, my hopes were up for another classic. It was a good game, but nothing like that. But Game four last night, Toronto Blue Jays bounced back to beat the LA Dodgers six to two. The series now tie two to two. Game five is tonight in La and Rose. Because it's two too, it means we're guaranteed to get a game six as well. That's very exciting.
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Speaker 1: Thank god. Yeah, did you hear Brad Paisley is now mister Moore baseball? Did you see this story? It's all the headlines, So this is actually so interesting. He performed the national anthem during, of course, that eighteen inning matchup, but guess what. He also performed the anthem before the previous one, the one that actually was the longest eighteen inning matchup when the Dodgers outlasted the Boston Red Sox, also a Game three. He also performed the anthem before an eleven inning Game two in the twenty seventeen World Series and a ten inning game Game one in LA last year. So he says, every time he performs the national anthem, they go into extra innings.
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Speaker 2: What can you name it? I'm sorry, I don't want to put you on the spot. A Brad Paisley hit song or anything. I was wondering if he had Maybe he has a something that naturally goes into this. I don't know his songs, but that is funny. He's the guy.
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Speaker 1: He does have a famous song that is not coming to mind right.
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Speaker 2: Now, whiskey lullaby, She's everything she's ever did. That's the one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the one.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's not really a baseball story, but no, no songles. That is kind of a cool nugget.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: For the final leg of the run.
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Speaker 1: More than three decades after his death, a brand new book by Doctor Seuss will be released next year. The manuscript, complete with a cover sketch and art direction, was discovered. It was sitting there all along in the archives of the University of California, San Diego.
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Speaker 2: This is they just happened upon it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they never so they were just going through his stuff and found this never before seen manuscript that was completely ready to go.
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Speaker 2: Wow. So he did all the work, yeah for them all right. The title of this book is Seeing the Fifty United States. It features the cat and had two little cat helpers that encourage children to learn about and name all fifty States. The CEO of Doctor Seuss Enterprises said, uncovering a new work from Ted is like finding a time capsule of his imagination. Theodore Sus Geisel, Yes Sus the name. I don't think I knew Doctor Seus's real name.
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Speaker 1: I did neither. That's why when she said Ted. I scratch my head and then realized, Okay, his name is Theodore Seeing The Fifty United States will debut on June second, twenty twenty six. How's this for timing just a month before America's big two hundred and fiftieth birthday July fourth, twenty twenty six. That just worked out. Sometimes, Wow, a whole book never seen before by doctor Seuss about the fifty United States, all in time for our big birthday celebration.
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Speaker 2: Hey, sometimes the universe just puts things together.
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Speaker 1: For you, doesn't it though? And by the way, it's available for pre order now if you'd like to get in on the action.
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Speaker 2: All right, folk, something we'd like for you to take with you, something for you to consider on this Wednesday. It is our quote of the day.
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Speaker 1: In every life, we have some trouble, I said, trouble instead of trouble. Let me start over again, nice because I'm having trouble speaking In every life we have some trouble. But when you worry, you make it double. Don't worry be happy, doctor Sue say that Bobby McFerrin. So obviously we know the song don't worry Be Happy, But somehow I didn't really know the line before it, which I thought was really.
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Speaker 2: Cool, which is, in every life you have some trouble.
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Speaker 1: In every life, we have some trouble. But when you worry, you make it double.
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Speaker 2: Don't worry, be happy.
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Speaker 1: And yes it sounded so's like, but love the song, love the artist, love the message, and with that everyone, thank you for listening to this Wednesday edition of our Morning Run.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ Holmes. We'll be talking to me all soon