March 12, 2026
Morning Run: Iranian Girls’ School, Threat to CA, Kouri Richins Testifying?, Executed Inmate’s Apology, Trump/Epstein Titanic Statue, Hegseth Unflattering Photos and Earthlings Avoid Impact
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday, March twelfth. I'm Amy Roboch and we're already off to a better start because I remembered to say my name today.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's the little thing. It's a little win.
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Speaker 3: And that's a reminder everybody take the little winds. Don't have to be big ones, the little things, just getting the date right and your name right. Sometimes there's just enough boom to get you going on a win streak. And I'm TJ. Holmes wind streaks. I just want to mention. We want to mention the Oscars just a few days away. Y'all got a lot of work to do if you need to catch up on some of these movies.
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Speaker 1: Y'all, y'all, we have spent the last two weeks man, trying to watch all the Oscar movies. We're going to put up our movie reviews in the coming days leading up to Sunday, but there is one movie.
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Speaker 4: In particular that took us four different days to watch. And I'm not even exaggerating.
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Speaker 2: We're not folks.
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Speaker 3: Look, it's this is one of those things we watch it you don't have to see exactly. It's not that these movies aren't great, but ropes every one of them in a lot of ways. They are emotionally exhausting, but they are a time consuming their commitments to these movies.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're pushing three out for some of these movies. And look, they're all epic and well acted, well directed, well written, but they're heavy.
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Speaker 4: A lot of them are just emotionally heavy. I'd like we said exhausting.
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Speaker 3: One of us even called Sentimental Value for God's Sake, by the way, might be the best acted movie we saw. The ten Yeah, it's pretty crazy. It's pretty crazy. But anyway, y'all need to start watching now. If you want to get caught up with Sunday.
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Speaker 1: You can just listen to our episodes this weekend or will fill in the planks.
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Speaker 3: We promise it'll be cliff notes versions. These will not be extended episodes. But good morning to you all. Yes, we'll take you a long in the morning run this morning. We'll be making stops in Park City, Utah. Make a stop at the Pentagon Press Room, make a stop on the Oscars bread carpet the National Mall in DC. Ten as well as out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. But we need to start this morning roads by thinking about our brothers and sisters out in California. Got some distressing news yesterday and understandably a little freaked out this morn.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, a lot of folks getting a little paranoid, a little concerned, because, yeah, they got the information that for weeks their local officials have known that they could possibly be targeted by Iran.
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Speaker 3: And we didn't get alerted by this because we got breaking news alert So because we were watching news, No, we started getting text messages from friends and colleagues out in California absolutely worried about this. We see pictures every single day for the past couple of weeks of bombs going off in Iran and around that region, and now they're being told Iran could retaliate here in the US. Let's give some context here. First, there is no specific credible threat to California. However, that did make a lot of folks feel better. Yesterday news came that federal officials have warned state and local officials that Iran might want to attack California with drones.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and that alert was actually sent before the war started. Just before the war started, federal officials have noted that Iran might aspire to pull off an attack like that, but no certainty that they even have the capability to pull it off.
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Speaker 4: So the keyword is aspirational.
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Speaker 1: Not not credible, actually or capable. They are really questioning whether or not Iran even has the ability to pull off something like this, So a warning, but with context. Meanwhile, we're now on day thirteen of the war with Iran.
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Speaker 3: Dan Israel and the United States have kept up their bombardment of Irani and targus. The President Trump said yesterday that the US has already won the war, but he then also added yesterday that we still have to quote finish the job.
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Speaker 4: I don't understand how those two things go together, he.
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Speaker 3: Said at two different times, so okay, he was two different audiences, so maybe they didn't get.
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Speaker 4: Too very different meanings.
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Speaker 1: Okay, But Iran, by the way, has been able to keep up attacking targets in the energy sector. They've gone after oil tankers, and they have been able to essentially choke off most, if not all, traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, which is certainly a major problem. For folks and oil prices, and yes, translating to what we're about to talk about now.
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Speaker 3: Now we're seeing that spike in oil prices. You're talking about twenty percent of the world's oil that needs to travel through the strait of horror moves. And if that comes to a trickle or even a stop, yes, it's going to have an impact. And the oil prices have been spiking. They went over one hundred dollars a barrel yesterday. That was the second time we've seen since this war started, and that's something we haven't seen in a few years.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 1: And so yes, I'm sure you've all noticed the jump and gas prices up sixty cents in just the past month. A number of wealthy oil producing countries did announce yesterday a historic move that is supposed to help.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, releasing four hundred million barrels of oil from there reserves. This represents the largest such emergency oil release in their history. The United States also announced that what one hundred and seventy million barrels supposed to be released from the US oil reserves. Again, it's going to take that stuff a while, they say, robes to get into the market and to make a difference, so the prices might stay inflated for a while.
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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the Run, we'll stay on that topic and just point out that war is expensive. The Pentagon has given Congress the receipts reflecting just how much the war with the Run has already cost us taxpayer.
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Speaker 3: We know generally, right, of course, war costs a lot of money, but this is still, for whatever reason, a bit staggering. The total eleven point three billion.
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Speaker 2: Dollars in the first six days.
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Speaker 3: Within a week of the war, we had put out eleven point three billion dollars in robes. They say that does not include the cost of moving people and equipment around before the war started, just getting everybody in place. That cost is in facted in. So these numbers come to a from the New York Times, which says the Defense Department briefed Congress this week on the war costs.
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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the Run, it looks like it was in fact the United States that mistakenly struck that girls' school in Iran.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of evidence has been pointing toward this in recent days. But that strike on the first day of the war killed at least one hundred and fifty school children. Several news outlets, citing Pentagon sources, are reporting that a preliminary military assessment shows that, yes, the US was at fault for that strike.
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Speaker 1: A formal investigation is underway and will likely take months.
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Speaker 3: We should mention the arobes it was a strike. They say, this wasn't nessari an accident.
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Speaker 1: It was bad detail, outdated maps, outdated intel as to where the military installations were. And in fact, we've said this before and it will be pointed out there is a military installation literally right next door. And I believe that that girls school was once also attached to that installation, but had since changed over into a school.
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Speaker 3: And it's just they hit what they were aiming for. They just didn't know they should not have been aiming for it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just incredibly beyond tragic. All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we will turn now here to the United States and the prosecution expected to rest its case on a trial we have been following and has certainly captivated much of the nation.
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Speaker 4: It's the so called Grief author murder trial.
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Speaker 2: There was another someone used a different name yesterday. Oh my god, it.
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Speaker 1: Was a husband poison husband poison murder trial something like that.
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Speaker 3: There was, But yeah, you hear that and you get the idea. You know what we're talking about. We're talking about Corey Richins, the Utah mother of three. She is on trial accused of spiking her husband's drink with a lethal dose of fentanyl. She would later then go on to write a children's book meant to help kids deal with the grief of losing a parents.
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Speaker 1: And the defense yesterday really went after the credibility of a couple of state witnesses. And you could see on Corey Richand's face that she had a shift in attitude. She felt like maybe at least yesterday she was winning or had a chance at winning.
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Speaker 4: But they were really going after.
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Speaker 1: Her former housekeeper, the woman who the prosecution claims gave her the drugs that Corey Richins, they say, then gave to her husband. Now, today the big question will be, once the prosecution resks rests, will Corey testify. The defense said they need about thirty minutes to talk with their client to see what she will do.
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Speaker 3: We could have those answers this morning. Continuing on the run here now on this Thursday, A lot of last words from a condemned killer last night. Cedric Rix was executed last night in Texas. He'd been on death row for the twenty thirteen deaths of his girlfriend and her eight year old son.
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Speaker 1: But before the lethal injection was administered, Rix was offered an opportunity for his last words, and he took that opportunity, and he chose to repeatedly apologize to the family of his victims, who were all there. I believe seven family members were there watching his lethal injection. He began by saying, I want to say that I'm sorry for taking Roxanne and Anthony from y'all. I'm glad to be able to speak to tell y'all that face to face.
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Speaker 3: And this is coming through us from reporters who were in the room. But he was in there. He killed a mother and her young son, but he also attacked the woman's other son, who was stabbed some twenty five times and survived.
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Speaker 2: He was how old at.
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Speaker 1: The time, He was twelve at the time, twenty five yesterday.
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Speaker 3: In that chamber, he was in there. And so this condemned killer said this, speaking directly to the condemned to the son, quote, I always thought about you, and I'm sorry that I took your mom and your brother away. I hate that you had to experience that. I just can't imagine. But I'm truly sorry for what I've done, and I wish y'all peace and joy as much as you can. But I'm sorry, and that's all I can say.
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Speaker 2: Brochs.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. We have heard from family members in the past the words, those final words do make a difference, and they do matter.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but specifically to the surviving son. He witnessed his mother's death, his brother's death and had to testify to that in court, so they didn't speak when they left the courtroom. But look, I don't nothing can bring them the peace after surviving something so horrific. But I imagine hearing those words had an impact.
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Speaker 3: And the reporters did mention that Rix there as he was about to die, did have tears in his eyes. And he also said to the people he killed, to the mother and the son that he killed, he said he would quote like to tell them I'm sorry face to face, talking about possibly the afterlife. Bok wrote was a heinous crime, but there is a human side always to these It's not just good and evil.
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Speaker 2: Right and wrong.
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Speaker 3: Monsters and angels, you know, so I want to make sure we pass that along.
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Speaker 2: This was you know what.
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Speaker 3: That was one case we didn't know if we were going to cover a lot because there was no question of guilt or innocince. There was no question, right, that kind of legal debate going back and forth, But it turns out.
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Speaker 1: Look, look, I feel like every one of these executions, no matter how you feel about the death penalty, I get something from them in terms of lessons about life. You hear regret, you hear apologies, you see forgiveness. Sometimes they actually can be powerful moments where you learn about how to live your own life better.
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Speaker 3: All right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this Thursday morning. Ron when we come back, A new statue has been put up on the National Mall. It features President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on the Titanic.
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Speaker 2: Will explain.
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Speaker 3: Also, Secretary of Defense Pete Hexa is not ready for his close up and has kicked photographers out of the Pentagon press briefing room. Will explain that one and that big thirteen hundred pound satellite vainly came crashing down and it wasn't that far behind schedules.
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Speaker 1: There Welcome back everyone to your Friday Eve morning run. And if you're in Washington, you might want to check out a new statue that's popped up on the National Mall.
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Speaker 4: It's a statue depicting Trump and Epstein.
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Speaker 1: As Jack and Rose from the titan This is my favorite one.
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Speaker 3: Okay, this is it is come on the group, this Secret Handshake. This group has been putting up these. This is their second or third one that they've done with it the third, but they have been putting these up to make fun of the relationship and keep that story alive. It's satire, it's comedy, but it's flat out hilarious. But this one shows Trump and Epstein in that famous scene from the front of the Titanic where he's trying to get rope to put our arms out and feel like she's floating or flying. And they're depicted as that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it almost looks like a little Jeffrey Epstein and a large President Trump behind. I mean, they're exaggerated in their differences in height and girth.
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Speaker 4: But the group behind the statue is called Secret Handshake.
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Speaker 1: And yes, they had the one of them frolicking holding hands.
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Speaker 4: No, I think it actually said, frolic.
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Speaker 2: You had a good time, thick.
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Speaker 1: Look, there's nothing funny about any of this, but these is these statues are funny.
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Speaker 3: They are Yeah, nothing funny about the Epstein story. Nothing, but they have found a way to make you look at the whole situation and smile in some way by making fun.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and the plaque, especially what it reads, We should read it for you.
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Speaker 1: This you're gonna want to hear this. This is what it says underneath the statue. The tragic love story between Jack and Rose was built on luxurious travel, raucus parties, and secret nude sketches.
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Speaker 2: See where this is going.
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Speaker 1: This monument honors the bond between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, a friendship seemingly built on luxurious travel, raucus parties, and secret nude sketches.
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Speaker 3: Hey, you got to give them credit. That's that's okay, give them credit for that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. And so how long is it gonna last?
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Speaker 2: Don't know. They it came down last time and was damaged.
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Speaker 1: There was a permitting issue too, Yeah, and then they had to repermit it. They put it right back up, But yes, it did get damaged.
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Speaker 3: We'll see how long this one the White hasse had something to say. I think the response was something about when are they going to put something out with Democrats highlighting their relationship?
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Speaker 2: Okay, standard stuff.
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Speaker 3: Continue here on the run. Now we're going to head over to the Pentagon. This was the headline, Pentagon bars photographers over unflattering photos of Hecseth. Now, the first reaction to this, I thought, robe that this is no way this is true. But this was the first headline we got from the Washington Post. Yes, and then they got went everywhere.
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Speaker 1: You came to me and said, there's no way this is true. It is true, and yes, several outlets are reporting there. Photographers have not been allowed to cover the past to Pentagon briefings because after that first Pentagon briefing.
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Speaker 4: Heckshcheff didn't like the photos that were taken of him.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but that is Look, when you're a public figure, a man welcome to the world of the spotlight.
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Speaker 4: And by the way, he was a Fox News anchor. You would think he would know this.
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Speaker 1: When you walk on the street, everywhere you go, guess what your fair game?
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Speaker 2: Hey, but I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I still have problems with this story to think that anyone in a time of war would have this on his or her mind. But the National Press Photographers Association did put out a statement saying this. They said, quote, they find it stunning that one of the nation's highest officials is more concerned with his personal vanity than with complete and accurate reporting of briefings during a war against Iran in which Americans have lost their lives. Preventing credential journalists from documenting official government briefings because officials dislike how they appear in photographs raises serious First Amendment concerns. They kind of nail it without getting mean that.
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Speaker 1: I was just going to say, I feel like that's a very fair statement. Now here's the White House response. The administration said they dismissed the reporter, They called out the Washington Post for laying off photographers, and then we get this from the Pentagon Press Secretary. In order to use space in the Pentagon briefing room. Effectively, we are allowing one representative per news outlet. If uncredentialed excluding pool, photographs from the briefings are immediately released online for the public and press to use. If that hurts the business model for certain news outlets, then they should consider applying for a Pentagon Press credential. Everyone knows what that means. That means you have to sign a pledge saying you won't report any news stories that haven't been authenticated and approved by the Pentagon, which, again from a journalist from our perspective, completely makes it not journalism.
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Speaker 2: They say it's a space issue.
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Speaker 3: So now they're limiting how many people you can get in so you can get the reporter or the photographer, and I mean you need the reporter in the room. So now Roges is not just information. Now they are they have full control over images and photos of him that come out.
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Speaker 4: And I was trying to find the photographs that he's so upset about. But if you, he's got some angry photographs.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know necessarily, I mean, there are plenty of unflattering pictures of him all over the internet, same with me, same with you.
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Speaker 4: That's the way the cookie crumbles.
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Speaker 3: I mean, maybe he's just I don't know, maybe he doesn't like the pictures they're choosing. He made all these phases, nobody's altering the pictures. Yeah, just maybe he's upset that some choose to use the ones that are unflattering. All right, well we will continue here last lack of our run here. Now we need to give an update on this. We've been talking about this last couple of days. We needed to duck. NASA has been telling us that thirteen hundred pound satellite that was out of commission crashing back to the Earth. They so told it was supposed to be back by seven forty five.
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Speaker 4: The last Tuesday night.
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Speaker 2: It was supposed to be.
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Speaker 4: It's Wednesday night, so it was, it was. It was almost twelve hours late on what they said. They gave it a twenty four hour wind.
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Speaker 2: Yea, so it's back.
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Speaker 3: The Van Allen probe officially re under the Earth's atmosphere at six thirty seven am Eastern time yesterday. They say went down somewhere over the eastern Pacific Ocean. But that's I guess that's not so we give them credit for being within that twenty four hour period. But we shouldn't give them credit because this thing is like twelve years early, right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's twelve years early.
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Speaker 1: And they also described it as uncontrolled, like they didn't know where it was going to land. But because the world is covered by water, seventy percent of the world is covered by water.
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Speaker 4: It was like they were hoping and thought it was probably sure enough, it did.
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Speaker 1: Just outside of the Galopagos, Right's and everybody's okay, everybody's okay, just like they predicted probably going to happen that way.
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Speaker 2: So now they can say nailed it.
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Speaker 1: I still don't feel I don't still I still don't feel comfortable with their how the low risk.
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Speaker 2: I always do it the way meteorologists do it.
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Speaker 3: Snowstorm is coming between three and twelve inches, so that as long as you get somewhere in there, they can say they got it right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but snowfall isn't going to kill me, Okay, thirteen pounds satellite traveling at I don't even know the speed of light is probably going to all.
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Speaker 3: Right, before we let you go, man, I don't have the quote today does not go along with this last story, but it is worth talking about anyway. Something we'd like for you to take with you our quote of the day.
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Speaker 2: It is robes. Setbacks and failures.
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Speaker 3: Can be debilitating events that are depressing and painful. These setbacks are coming every single day, and your happiness depends on your ability to put them in perspective.
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Speaker 4: That's perfect.
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Speaker 3: I think I got that from I think a lady on my insight time.
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Speaker 4: Oh I thought you were going to say Instagram. I was gonna be like, you've joined the masses.
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Speaker 3: I do not know, but now this is all that's my key. It depends on you know, I'm bad about this. With my mood, something will happen and it sends me over the edge. The same thing happens two days later when I have rest, and it's not a big deal. It's just a matter of perspective sometimes that you're sometimes you can put in better perspective when you're rested, not as good sometimes when you drag it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what this morning and this is a perfect quote. But remember I said you seem upset about something.
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Speaker 4: You said, I'm awake. Of course I am.
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Speaker 1: That actually is a true quote from earlier this month.
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Speaker 2: I was trying to give something inspirational. Now you just hit them with.
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Speaker 3: That quote of the day, I'm awake, So yeah, I'm pissed and with that, enjoy your Thursday.
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Speaker 1: No, can you read it first one more time. It really is an awesome quote that we can all take to heart today.
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Speaker 3: Setbacks and failures. Failures can be debilitating events that are depressing and painful. These setbacks are coming every single day, and you're hatiness depends on your ability to put them in perspective. And with that, folks, we always appreciate you spending some time with us on this run. A lot coming today in our feed, we're expecting updates about the Cory Richards trial. We might learn whether or not she is going to testify, so keep an eye on that. In all news that is breaking, we're on top of it. We appreciate you spending time with us.
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Speaker 2: I'm TJ.
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Speaker 4: Holmes and I'm Amy Roboc. Thank you for running with us and we will talk to you very soon
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday, March twelfth. I'm Amy Roboch and we're already off to a better start because I remembered to say my name today.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's the little thing. It's a little win.
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Speaker 3: And that's a reminder everybody take the little winds. Don't have to be big ones, the little things, just getting the date right and your name right. Sometimes there's just enough boom to get you going on a win streak. And I'm TJ. Holmes wind streaks. I just want to mention. We want to mention the Oscars just a few days away. Y'all got a lot of work to do if you need to catch up on some of these movies.
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Speaker 1: Y'all, y'all, we have spent the last two weeks man, trying to watch all the Oscar movies. We're going to put up our movie reviews in the coming days leading up to Sunday, but there is one movie.
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Speaker 4: In particular that took us four different days to watch. And I'm not even exaggerating.
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Speaker 2: We're not folks.
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Speaker 3: Look, it's this is one of those things we watch it you don't have to see exactly. It's not that these movies aren't great, but ropes every one of them in a lot of ways. They are emotionally exhausting, but they are a time consuming their commitments to these movies.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're pushing three out for some of these movies. And look, they're all epic and well acted, well directed, well written, but they're heavy.
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Speaker 4: A lot of them are just emotionally heavy. I'd like we said exhausting.
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Speaker 3: One of us even called Sentimental Value for God's Sake, by the way, might be the best acted movie we saw. The ten Yeah, it's pretty crazy. It's pretty crazy. But anyway, y'all need to start watching now. If you want to get caught up with Sunday.
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Speaker 1: You can just listen to our episodes this weekend or will fill in the planks.
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Speaker 3: We promise it'll be cliff notes versions. These will not be extended episodes. But good morning to you all. Yes, we'll take you a long in the morning run this morning. We'll be making stops in Park City, Utah. Make a stop at the Pentagon Press Room, make a stop on the Oscars bread carpet the National Mall in DC. Ten as well as out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. But we need to start this morning roads by thinking about our brothers and sisters out in California. Got some distressing news yesterday and understandably a little freaked out this morn.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, a lot of folks getting a little paranoid, a little concerned, because, yeah, they got the information that for weeks their local officials have known that they could possibly be targeted by Iran.
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Speaker 3: And we didn't get alerted by this because we got breaking news alert So because we were watching news, No, we started getting text messages from friends and colleagues out in California absolutely worried about this. We see pictures every single day for the past couple of weeks of bombs going off in Iran and around that region, and now they're being told Iran could retaliate here in the US. Let's give some context here. First, there is no specific credible threat to California. However, that did make a lot of folks feel better. Yesterday news came that federal officials have warned state and local officials that Iran might want to attack California with drones.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and that alert was actually sent before the war started. Just before the war started, federal officials have noted that Iran might aspire to pull off an attack like that, but no certainty that they even have the capability to pull it off.
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Speaker 4: So the keyword is aspirational.
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Speaker 1: Not not credible, actually or capable. They are really questioning whether or not Iran even has the ability to pull off something like this, So a warning, but with context. Meanwhile, we're now on day thirteen of the war with Iran.
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Speaker 3: Dan Israel and the United States have kept up their bombardment of Irani and targus. The President Trump said yesterday that the US has already won the war, but he then also added yesterday that we still have to quote finish the job.
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Speaker 4: I don't understand how those two things go together, he.
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Speaker 3: Said at two different times, so okay, he was two different audiences, so maybe they didn't get.
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Speaker 4: Too very different meanings.
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Speaker 1: Okay, But Iran, by the way, has been able to keep up attacking targets in the energy sector. They've gone after oil tankers, and they have been able to essentially choke off most, if not all, traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, which is certainly a major problem. For folks and oil prices, and yes, translating to what we're about to talk about now.
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Speaker 3: Now we're seeing that spike in oil prices. You're talking about twenty percent of the world's oil that needs to travel through the strait of horror moves. And if that comes to a trickle or even a stop, yes, it's going to have an impact. And the oil prices have been spiking. They went over one hundred dollars a barrel yesterday. That was the second time we've seen since this war started, and that's something we haven't seen in a few years.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 1: And so yes, I'm sure you've all noticed the jump and gas prices up sixty cents in just the past month. A number of wealthy oil producing countries did announce yesterday a historic move that is supposed to help.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, releasing four hundred million barrels of oil from there reserves. This represents the largest such emergency oil release in their history. The United States also announced that what one hundred and seventy million barrels supposed to be released from the US oil reserves. Again, it's going to take that stuff a while, they say, robes to get into the market and to make a difference, so the prices might stay inflated for a while.
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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the Run, we'll stay on that topic and just point out that war is expensive. The Pentagon has given Congress the receipts reflecting just how much the war with the Run has already cost us taxpayer.
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Speaker 3: We know generally, right, of course, war costs a lot of money, but this is still, for whatever reason, a bit staggering. The total eleven point three billion.
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Speaker 2: Dollars in the first six days.
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Speaker 3: Within a week of the war, we had put out eleven point three billion dollars in robes. They say that does not include the cost of moving people and equipment around before the war started, just getting everybody in place. That cost is in facted in. So these numbers come to a from the New York Times, which says the Defense Department briefed Congress this week on the war costs.
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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the Run, it looks like it was in fact the United States that mistakenly struck that girls' school in Iran.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of evidence has been pointing toward this in recent days. But that strike on the first day of the war killed at least one hundred and fifty school children. Several news outlets, citing Pentagon sources, are reporting that a preliminary military assessment shows that, yes, the US was at fault for that strike.
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Speaker 1: A formal investigation is underway and will likely take months.
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Speaker 3: We should mention the arobes it was a strike. They say, this wasn't nessari an accident.
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Speaker 1: It was bad detail, outdated maps, outdated intel as to where the military installations were. And in fact, we've said this before and it will be pointed out there is a military installation literally right next door. And I believe that that girls school was once also attached to that installation, but had since changed over into a school.
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Speaker 3: And it's just they hit what they were aiming for. They just didn't know they should not have been aiming for it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just incredibly beyond tragic. All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we will turn now here to the United States and the prosecution expected to rest its case on a trial we have been following and has certainly captivated much of the nation.
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Speaker 4: It's the so called Grief author murder trial.
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Speaker 2: There was another someone used a different name yesterday. Oh my god, it.
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Speaker 1: Was a husband poison husband poison murder trial something like that.
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Speaker 3: There was, But yeah, you hear that and you get the idea. You know what we're talking about. We're talking about Corey Richins, the Utah mother of three. She is on trial accused of spiking her husband's drink with a lethal dose of fentanyl. She would later then go on to write a children's book meant to help kids deal with the grief of losing a parents.
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Speaker 1: And the defense yesterday really went after the credibility of a couple of state witnesses. And you could see on Corey Richand's face that she had a shift in attitude. She felt like maybe at least yesterday she was winning or had a chance at winning.
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Speaker 4: But they were really going after.
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Speaker 1: Her former housekeeper, the woman who the prosecution claims gave her the drugs that Corey Richins, they say, then gave to her husband. Now, today the big question will be, once the prosecution resks rests, will Corey testify. The defense said they need about thirty minutes to talk with their client to see what she will do.
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Speaker 3: We could have those answers this morning. Continuing on the run here now on this Thursday, A lot of last words from a condemned killer last night. Cedric Rix was executed last night in Texas. He'd been on death row for the twenty thirteen deaths of his girlfriend and her eight year old son.
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Speaker 1: But before the lethal injection was administered, Rix was offered an opportunity for his last words, and he took that opportunity, and he chose to repeatedly apologize to the family of his victims, who were all there. I believe seven family members were there watching his lethal injection. He began by saying, I want to say that I'm sorry for taking Roxanne and Anthony from y'all. I'm glad to be able to speak to tell y'all that face to face.
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Speaker 3: And this is coming through us from reporters who were in the room. But he was in there. He killed a mother and her young son, but he also attacked the woman's other son, who was stabbed some twenty five times and survived.
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Speaker 2: He was how old at.
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Speaker 1: The time, He was twelve at the time, twenty five yesterday.
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Speaker 3: In that chamber, he was in there. And so this condemned killer said this, speaking directly to the condemned to the son, quote, I always thought about you, and I'm sorry that I took your mom and your brother away. I hate that you had to experience that. I just can't imagine. But I'm truly sorry for what I've done, and I wish y'all peace and joy as much as you can. But I'm sorry, and that's all I can say.
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Speaker 2: Brochs.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. We have heard from family members in the past the words, those final words do make a difference, and they do matter.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but specifically to the surviving son. He witnessed his mother's death, his brother's death and had to testify to that in court, so they didn't speak when they left the courtroom. But look, I don't nothing can bring them the peace after surviving something so horrific. But I imagine hearing those words had an impact.
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Speaker 3: And the reporters did mention that Rix there as he was about to die, did have tears in his eyes. And he also said to the people he killed, to the mother and the son that he killed, he said he would quote like to tell them I'm sorry face to face, talking about possibly the afterlife. Bok wrote was a heinous crime, but there is a human side always to these It's not just good and evil.
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Speaker 2: Right and wrong.
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Speaker 3: Monsters and angels, you know, so I want to make sure we pass that along.
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Speaker 2: This was you know what.
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Speaker 3: That was one case we didn't know if we were going to cover a lot because there was no question of guilt or innocince. There was no question, right, that kind of legal debate going back and forth, But it turns out.
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Speaker 1: Look, look, I feel like every one of these executions, no matter how you feel about the death penalty, I get something from them in terms of lessons about life. You hear regret, you hear apologies, you see forgiveness. Sometimes they actually can be powerful moments where you learn about how to live your own life better.
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Speaker 3: All right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this Thursday morning. Ron when we come back, A new statue has been put up on the National Mall. It features President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on the Titanic.
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Speaker 2: Will explain.
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Speaker 3: Also, Secretary of Defense Pete Hexa is not ready for his close up and has kicked photographers out of the Pentagon press briefing room. Will explain that one and that big thirteen hundred pound satellite vainly came crashing down and it wasn't that far behind schedules.
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Speaker 1: There Welcome back everyone to your Friday Eve morning run. And if you're in Washington, you might want to check out a new statue that's popped up on the National Mall.
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Speaker 4: It's a statue depicting Trump and Epstein.
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Speaker 1: As Jack and Rose from the titan This is my favorite one.
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Speaker 3: Okay, this is it is come on the group, this Secret Handshake. This group has been putting up these. This is their second or third one that they've done with it the third, but they have been putting these up to make fun of the relationship and keep that story alive. It's satire, it's comedy, but it's flat out hilarious. But this one shows Trump and Epstein in that famous scene from the front of the Titanic where he's trying to get rope to put our arms out and feel like she's floating or flying. And they're depicted as that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it almost looks like a little Jeffrey Epstein and a large President Trump behind. I mean, they're exaggerated in their differences in height and girth.
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Speaker 4: But the group behind the statue is called Secret Handshake.
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Speaker 1: And yes, they had the one of them frolicking holding hands.
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Speaker 4: No, I think it actually said, frolic.
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Speaker 2: You had a good time, thick.
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Speaker 1: Look, there's nothing funny about any of this, but these is these statues are funny.
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Speaker 3: They are Yeah, nothing funny about the Epstein story. Nothing, but they have found a way to make you look at the whole situation and smile in some way by making fun.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and the plaque, especially what it reads, We should read it for you.
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Speaker 1: This you're gonna want to hear this. This is what it says underneath the statue. The tragic love story between Jack and Rose was built on luxurious travel, raucus parties, and secret nude sketches.
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Speaker 2: See where this is going.
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Speaker 1: This monument honors the bond between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, a friendship seemingly built on luxurious travel, raucus parties, and secret nude sketches.
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Speaker 3: Hey, you got to give them credit. That's that's okay, give them credit for that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. And so how long is it gonna last?
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Speaker 2: Don't know. They it came down last time and was damaged.
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Speaker 1: There was a permitting issue too, Yeah, and then they had to repermit it. They put it right back up, But yes, it did get damaged.
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Speaker 3: We'll see how long this one the White hasse had something to say. I think the response was something about when are they going to put something out with Democrats highlighting their relationship?
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Speaker 2: Okay, standard stuff.
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Speaker 3: Continue here on the run. Now we're going to head over to the Pentagon. This was the headline, Pentagon bars photographers over unflattering photos of Hecseth. Now, the first reaction to this, I thought, robe that this is no way this is true. But this was the first headline we got from the Washington Post. Yes, and then they got went everywhere.
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Speaker 1: You came to me and said, there's no way this is true. It is true, and yes, several outlets are reporting there. Photographers have not been allowed to cover the past to Pentagon briefings because after that first Pentagon briefing.
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Speaker 4: Heckshcheff didn't like the photos that were taken of him.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but that is Look, when you're a public figure, a man welcome to the world of the spotlight.
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Speaker 4: And by the way, he was a Fox News anchor. You would think he would know this.
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Speaker 1: When you walk on the street, everywhere you go, guess what your fair game?
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Speaker 2: Hey, but I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I still have problems with this story to think that anyone in a time of war would have this on his or her mind. But the National Press Photographers Association did put out a statement saying this. They said, quote, they find it stunning that one of the nation's highest officials is more concerned with his personal vanity than with complete and accurate reporting of briefings during a war against Iran in which Americans have lost their lives. Preventing credential journalists from documenting official government briefings because officials dislike how they appear in photographs raises serious First Amendment concerns. They kind of nail it without getting mean that.
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Speaker 1: I was just going to say, I feel like that's a very fair statement. Now here's the White House response. The administration said they dismissed the reporter, They called out the Washington Post for laying off photographers, and then we get this from the Pentagon Press Secretary. In order to use space in the Pentagon briefing room. Effectively, we are allowing one representative per news outlet. If uncredentialed excluding pool, photographs from the briefings are immediately released online for the public and press to use. If that hurts the business model for certain news outlets, then they should consider applying for a Pentagon Press credential. Everyone knows what that means. That means you have to sign a pledge saying you won't report any news stories that haven't been authenticated and approved by the Pentagon, which, again from a journalist from our perspective, completely makes it not journalism.
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Speaker 2: They say it's a space issue.
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Speaker 3: So now they're limiting how many people you can get in so you can get the reporter or the photographer, and I mean you need the reporter in the room. So now Roges is not just information. Now they are they have full control over images and photos of him that come out.
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Speaker 4: And I was trying to find the photographs that he's so upset about. But if you, he's got some angry photographs.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know necessarily, I mean, there are plenty of unflattering pictures of him all over the internet, same with me, same with you.
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Speaker 4: That's the way the cookie crumbles.
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Speaker 3: I mean, maybe he's just I don't know, maybe he doesn't like the pictures they're choosing. He made all these phases, nobody's altering the pictures. Yeah, just maybe he's upset that some choose to use the ones that are unflattering. All right, well we will continue here last lack of our run here. Now we need to give an update on this. We've been talking about this last couple of days. We needed to duck. NASA has been telling us that thirteen hundred pound satellite that was out of commission crashing back to the Earth. They so told it was supposed to be back by seven forty five.
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Speaker 4: The last Tuesday night.
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Speaker 2: It was supposed to be.
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Speaker 4: It's Wednesday night, so it was, it was. It was almost twelve hours late on what they said. They gave it a twenty four hour wind.
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Speaker 2: Yea, so it's back.
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Speaker 3: The Van Allen probe officially re under the Earth's atmosphere at six thirty seven am Eastern time yesterday. They say went down somewhere over the eastern Pacific Ocean. But that's I guess that's not so we give them credit for being within that twenty four hour period. But we shouldn't give them credit because this thing is like twelve years early, right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's twelve years early.
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Speaker 1: And they also described it as uncontrolled, like they didn't know where it was going to land. But because the world is covered by water, seventy percent of the world is covered by water.
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Speaker 4: It was like they were hoping and thought it was probably sure enough, it did.
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Speaker 1: Just outside of the Galopagos, Right's and everybody's okay, everybody's okay, just like they predicted probably going to happen that way.
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Speaker 2: So now they can say nailed it.
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Speaker 1: I still don't feel I don't still I still don't feel comfortable with their how the low risk.
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Speaker 2: I always do it the way meteorologists do it.
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Speaker 3: Snowstorm is coming between three and twelve inches, so that as long as you get somewhere in there, they can say they got it right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but snowfall isn't going to kill me, Okay, thirteen pounds satellite traveling at I don't even know the speed of light is probably going to all.
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Speaker 3: Right, before we let you go, man, I don't have the quote today does not go along with this last story, but it is worth talking about anyway. Something we'd like for you to take with you our quote of the day.
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Speaker 2: It is robes. Setbacks and failures.
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Speaker 3: Can be debilitating events that are depressing and painful. These setbacks are coming every single day, and your happiness depends on your ability to put them in perspective.
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Speaker 4: That's perfect.
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Speaker 3: I think I got that from I think a lady on my insight time.
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Speaker 4: Oh I thought you were going to say Instagram. I was gonna be like, you've joined the masses.
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Speaker 3: I do not know, but now this is all that's my key. It depends on you know, I'm bad about this. With my mood, something will happen and it sends me over the edge. The same thing happens two days later when I have rest, and it's not a big deal. It's just a matter of perspective sometimes that you're sometimes you can put in better perspective when you're rested, not as good sometimes when you drag it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what this morning and this is a perfect quote. But remember I said you seem upset about something.
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Speaker 4: You said, I'm awake. Of course I am.
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Speaker 1: That actually is a true quote from earlier this month.
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Speaker 2: I was trying to give something inspirational. Now you just hit them with.
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Speaker 3: That quote of the day, I'm awake, So yeah, I'm pissed and with that, enjoy your Thursday.
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Speaker 1: No, can you read it first one more time. It really is an awesome quote that we can all take to heart today.
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Speaker 3: Setbacks and failures. Failures can be debilitating events that are depressing and painful. These setbacks are coming every single day, and you're hatiness depends on your ability to put them in perspective. And with that, folks, we always appreciate you spending some time with us on this run. A lot coming today in our feed, we're expecting updates about the Cory Richards trial. We might learn whether or not she is going to testify, so keep an eye on that. In all news that is breaking, we're on top of it. We appreciate you spending time with us.
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Speaker 2: I'm TJ.
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Speaker 4: Holmes and I'm Amy Roboc. Thank you for running with us and we will talk to you very soon