Morning Run: Kirk Killer's Discord Confession, Student Taunts Kirk Mourners, "Gaza Is Burning," Cook & Comey v. Trump, Prosecco Recall (WTF), No Love for Polly Holliday, and More.

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone. It's Tuesday, September sixteenth, and I'm Amy Roboch.

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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes, and she's gonna be fine, folks. She was a little delayed there and getting the date out because I did an updated in the rundown, so it still says September.

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Speaker 1: Second, second, two weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: I haven't updated in two.

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Speaker 1: Weeks September sixteenth, baby.

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Speaker 2: Okay, sorry about that. But good morning to you all. Hello, Hello, And which one of these stories sounds like it's going to be most important to you this morning, the story about prosecco being recalled, the story about TikTok being saved, or the story about Trump suing the New York Times again, which one probably rises to the level for a lot of people ropes.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm the prosecco for sure.

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Speaker 2: See that's you TikTok. It's TikTok more than like, we'll tell you why. They say, yes, there is. They believe a Tictok deal also a Prosecco recall so serious they don't want you to bring it back to the store.

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Speaker 1: That's correct, and they actually give you instructions on how to dispose of said prosecco.

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Speaker 2: This is a wild, wild story. We'll get into that, another wild story in Robes. It's frankly one of the most disgusting ones I've seen in all of this back and forth about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But a student at Texas Tech has apparently reportedly been kicked out of school because of now what is a viral video Robes of her doing. I think it's the most disgusting thing I have seen in terms of the revelry some have had in terms of Charlie Kirk's death.

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Speaker 1: It was even less about revelry and more about taunting. She was taunting people who were, yes, memorializing and honoring Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 2: Right, We certainly will get into that, but as always, take a look at your phone now that Apple podcast app top right corner of your screen, right where you see our show page. It says follow just click that you can get our updates and there have been a lot lately, and will update you on several things this morning andclusing. Yes, the accused, the Kirk killer, reportedly confessed via text and to a lot of people also Lisa Cook is going to work today despite Trump's efforts. Maureen Komi is taking a page out of Cook's book and suing Trump to get her job back. The Israeli defense minister, declaring Gaza is burning right now, also blues barbecue and military vehicles soon on Bill Street and Robes. This happens at every single award show. It has now happened at the Emmys. They do it in memoriam and we all go, wait, how could you leave that person out?

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Speaker 1: It is always interesting to me who is on that committee and how they missed some major names, some significant figures who passed this year, who of course should have been honored at the ems.

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Speaker 2: What do they usually say, Well, we can't get everybody in. We don't have enough time. But these are folks who they.

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Speaker 1: Are no flash their picture up. We're talking two seconds. Then all you have to do is flash a picture. They don't have.

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Speaker 2: Argued in the past, we just don't have time to get everybody in. But it's folks. Yeah, I cannot believe the snubs in this year.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy's It's pretty wild, all right. But we do begin our run on this Tuesday with the suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination scheduled now to make his first court appearance it happens today. Meanwhile, it's being reported he confessed to the crime, perhaps to as many as twenty people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Washington Post first to report this. At the suspect, Tyler Robinson told a group chat on Discord that he was the shooter, in fact, writing and I'm quoting here, it was me at UVU yesterday. I'm sorry for all of this. At one point, someone joked in response, don't go to McDonald's anytime soon. A lot of you might recognize immediately that reference to Mangioni, who was the accused United Healthcare CEO killer. Nobody could find him for days, like he did this in the middle of New York, the busiest place, and they couldn't find him until.

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Speaker 1: What McDonald's employees saw him at a local store there, and the FEDS swooped in and picked him up at McDonald's.

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Speaker 2: So this is the joke that they're making now. IDEs I know you've been reading this as well. I don't know if they were responding to him thinking he was joking they I wonder if any of them took him seriously. We don't know that yet, but yes, this discord group chat reportedly included twenty people. We're chiming in as he is confessing.

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Speaker 1: Wow. And authorities did release new details about their investigation, including that DNA on a screwdriver found near the rifle they recovered did in fact contain a DNA match to the suspect, and Robinson is scheduled to be in court at three o'clock this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Continuing on the run, now we have another incident of someone facing consequences for seemingly celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk. We have seen people get fired, people have to resign, We have seen all kinds of things where people have. Social media is a lot of statements that people are putting out in some elected officials, school board members, city.

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Speaker 1: Count all these comanes people who should know better.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so a college student eighteen years old, I would also argue should know better. But this student has been arrested and reportedly kicked out of school for a video that you just cannot believe someone, I don't care what you think about politics, that you could do what you see this woman doing is head scratch.

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Speaker 1: It's basically the adult equivalent of Nana Nana boo boo. But you're talking about someone who died, not someone who died, someone who was murdered. So this all happened to Texas Tech. And in this now widely circulated and viewed video, which we both watched, you see a young woman jumping around, mocking and taunting a group of students who were gathered outside the student union to mourn the death of Kirk. And you hear her clearly say y'all, homeie dead. He got shot in the head. And she's gleefully singing it.

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Speaker 2: This isn't a political discussion, this is just decency. Now, the other students did confront her, a fight didn't ensue, at least on the video. We didn't see everything, but we least saw a good chunk of the video and what was going on the other students like, why are you bothering us? Will you go away? One guy I think he was saying, this is what evil looks like and was showing a clear mixture of her. Now, school officials say a campus officer saw the woman actually strike somebody in the head and that's why the officer got involved. The young lady was arrested She's been charged with misdemeanor simple assault. She spent the night in jail before being released this weekend on bond.

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Speaker 1: Local outlets are reporting she is no longer at the school. Newsweek also reporting that Texas Tech confirmed to them the woman is no longer enrolled, and in a statement, this is what the school had to say. Any behavior that denigrates victims of violence is reprehensible, has no place on our campus, and is not aligned with our values.

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Speaker 2: It's a tough conversation we're gonna have to keep having. And his memorial is Sunday, so this is kind of ramping up to this moment. I man, I pray that Sunday goes well, peacefully, calmly and in some way is unifying by something we hear also at that memorial service. Continuing on the run now with this Gaza is burning. Those words from the Israeli Defense Minister after Israel launched a ground incursion into Gaza this morning, a move that has faced strong international condemnation.

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Speaker 1: Israel claims it's going after hamas in urban areas and they're trying to dismantle their ability to launch future attacks, but critics say Israel's stepped up offensive is going to make any peace deal much harder to reach, and it's going to make a humanitarian crisis even worse.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the new offensive comes on the same day that an independent UN human rights group declared for the first time, Israel has committed genocide during the two year war and estimated sixty four thousand Palestinians have died in the conflict. And it wasn't a general when they say that you committed genocide. They had like four specific things and incidents over the several years that they say represent Israeli genocide. And they say not just the Israeli state, they name top members of the government as being behind it.

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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the run, FBI Director Cash Patel will be in the hot seat today. He'll be facing the Senate Judiciary Committee. It's his first oversight hearing.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's flaming. This seat is going to be flame flaming.

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Speaker 1: You're right, it's not just hot, it's going to be en fuego. Patel will likely be bombarded and I use that word deliberately. I chose that verb bombarded with questions about the investigation into Charlie kirk'ssassination as well as the recent firings of senior officials who say Pateel removed them for political retribution.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and his actions in the hours after Kirk was murdered will almost almost certainly, they certainly will be called into question here. Federal and local officials have raised concerns about Patel's judgment. Reports he was dining at a New York City restaurant.

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Speaker 1: Routes Yeah, very exclusive. Can't get a reservation there for most folks, And.

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Speaker 2: He sent word out that an arrest had been made in the killing, only to send a second post. It was ninety minutes later that the subject in custody had been interrogated and released. I remember us watching this. We were going back and forth on whether or not we should do podcast updates. He's like, wait, they have them. Wait, they don't have them. He said they had Wait, that's the FBI director. Then of course they have them. Let's record. And then before we could even hit the button, like, wait a minute, they don't have it.

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Speaker 1: Never mind. Yes, So Patel defended his actions. He said this on Fox and Friends. Could I have worded it a little better in the heat of the moment, Sure, But do I regret putting it out. Absolutely not. I was telling the world what the FBI was doing, as we were doing, and I'm continuing to do that, Okay. Democratic senators are also expected to grill him yes on those recent allegations by former FBI employees who he fired.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and three of the five are ensuing the Trump administration, saying Pateel knew the firings were likely illegal, but did not do anything. He was just trying to keep his own job. The lawsuit states Patel told them he was directed to fire anyone who they identified on a criminal investigation against President Donald J. Trump. Petel testified at his confirmation hearing in January that he would not pursue political retribution as FBI director. This one's at nine am. This is an early start today.

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Speaker 1: I hope he got his sleep, because he's gonna need it today sitting there taking those questions. I think there'll be a lot of statements and questions, but a lot of statements, a lot of statements, all right. Next up on the run, get ready for armored vehicles on Beal Street. The National Guard is heading to the home of the Blues. President Trump says he wants to follow his DC model and put National Guard in Memphis to cut down on crime.

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Speaker 2: And now he signed a presidential memorandum yesterday creating the Memphis Safe Task Force, which will includeb yeahaatf ICE and Homeland Security and yes, National Guard on the ground. Memphis has one of the highest crime rates among large cities in the US, but local officials there have been touting data they say shows crime has been going down this year.

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Speaker 1: We have visited and you warned me, when you turn on the news, every single news story is going to be about another shooting. And sure enough, every morning, every evening, that was all the local news affiliates.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about. Bizarre for someone like you coming in that was your first trip to Memphis. Yes, and I say, hey, I'm telling you what's going to happen. And every single day, every single broadcast, probably the top two and maybe even three, somebody was shot overnight, somebody it was.

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Speaker 1: It was jaw dropping, especially living in New York City. Honestly, you're just not used to hearing that. You'd think we would be, but we're not so very interesting, all right. Next up on the run, President Trump is suing The New York Times again, and not just the paper. He's also suing four of its reporters and the publisher Penguin Random House, all for at least fifteen billion dollars. Trump is claiming defamation and libel, citing reputational damage after a series of articles was released and you can read what they are. But yes, they're all negative towards Trump. But then also a book that was published and here's the title, Lucky Loser, How Donald Trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's pretty harsh Jesus the Lawsit goes on to say that the publications have harmed Trump's business and personal reputation and have caused massive economic damage to his brand value and significant damage to his future financial prospects of The New York Times and Benguin have not commented on the lawsuit. Okay, I guess he has to go through the motions. He has to do this. Yes, reputation, They were the ones who make people think what they think about Trump.

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Speaker 1: He's got to blame someone other than the mirror, all right, But.

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Speaker 2: Hey, look at it this way. Trump's going to save TikTok. Has he done it yet? Well?

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Speaker 1: We think so. Okay, So we don't know how and we don't know any of the details, but yes, they have claimed it has saved the very popular social media platform for one hundred and seventy million Americans, I believe. And by the way, just in time, because that next deadline is tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: We how many times that we push now. Treasure Secretary's got said both sides have struck a framework for a TikTok deal, and when pressed about details, he said, we're not going to talk about the commercial terms of the deal. It's been two private parties, but the commercial terms have been agreed upon. This sounds like a done deal, but it's unclear what private parties he's referring to.

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Speaker 1: Yes, on truth Social we got this from President Trumpey echoed a similarly vague, celebratory tone. He said he wrote that an agreement had been reached concerning a company that young people in our country very much wanted to save. I don't know why it was so vague.

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Speaker 2: The fate of TikTok has of course been in limbo after US law that has been upheld by the Supreme Court s as TikTok cannot operate in the US unless the Chinese owner sells it to a US based company. After several extensions of the band, a number of US companies have expressed interests, including Amazon and Oracle, but at this point we do not know.

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Speaker 1: Still we don't know, but it seems as if one company has agreed on some level of terms with this Chinese company. Bite is bite dance, I believe. Yeah, so that's my takeaway, but it's very generic and maybe we'll get more details later.

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Speaker 2: Today we stay with us here on this Tuesday Morning run. When we come back, Trump fired two women. One sued and got her job back. The other one said, well, you know what, I'll try that too. Also coming up here, prosecco. We're supposed to pop those bottles, not throw them away. We'll explain a bizarre recall that says that your prosecco could be dangerous right now. Also, it happened again. How do you leave out certain people, some of the biggest TV stars we have ever known? Not good enough for the n memorial.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to your Tuesday Morning run. And next up on the run, Lisa Cook gets to go to work today because a judge said she can keep her job even though the President said she was fired. Cook, the first black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve was fired by Trump. She sued, she won, he appealed, she won again, And that's where we are from.

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Speaker 2: X originally fired her for cause, claiming she had lied on mortgage applications by designating two properties as her primary residence and therefore she got more favorable loan terms. A lot of people will tell you the President fired her because he's just looking for a way to get more of his own people on the Federal Reserve board so he can have more influence and in particular, get those interest rates down where he wants them. Courts have so far rejected the President's argument that he acted lawfully in firing Cook.

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Speaker 1: The Federal Reserve starts its two day meeting today. At the end, guests they could announce. We expect they will announce an interest rate cut. Trump has asked the court for an emergency ruling in hopes of getting Cook out of the job before today's meeting failed.

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Speaker 2: And jesus, what a weird two days of meetings. What do you think they're talking about it?

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Speaker 1: Ye oh, I'm sure they are having some fun with Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the run here, former federal prosecutor Maureen Comy is suing the Trump administration, saying she was fired because her father is one of Trump's biggest adversaries. Comey is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey and recently brought high profile criminal cases against Gallane Maxwell and Sean Diddy Combs after being with the Justice Department for nearly.

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Speaker 1: Ten years, so, Comy says she was never provided any cause for her sudden termination in July. So yes, they're pointing to her father as the possible and really the only explanation. The Justice Department has been firing prosecutors who've worked on cases involving Trump or his allies, claiming the department had been weaponized against conservatives during the Biden administration, so that's how they're justifying it. Comee's lawsuit could, however, impact the Trump administration's ability to fire prosecutors who, by the way, are not politically appointed and whose careers typically do continue through both Republican and Democratic administration. So this is definitely not something we've speen before.

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Speaker 2: Typically, yes, until now, during typical administration, until now continuing on the run, no cause for celebration and thro unopened bottles of prosecco. That's what we're being instructed to do. Robes. I don't think there's any circumstance under which I could get you to just throw out some proseco. I think you would take your chance. I think I would too, Okay, But this is what Costco customers are being told, directed and pleaded with to do after a recall for its Kirklis signature prosecco. What is this brand is?

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Speaker 1: I don't Valdeban, I have no idea how to say it.

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Speaker 2: You didn't know, but you just put it in there for me to say.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it'd be fun to see if you could try it.

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Speaker 2: That was a good time.

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Speaker 1: Okay, But yes, it's their signature prosecco. And by the way, yes, Costco makes this very clear, do not bring your unopened bottles of prosecco back to us now. We don't want them throw them away. And they actually use the word immediately because there was a risk that they might spontaneously shatter. According so apparently the bottles of prosecco could shatter even when not handled or in use, So Costco suggests customers should wrap the unopened wine in paper towels and then place that in a plastic bag to avoid any risk while you're disposing of the bottle.

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Speaker 2: Okay, they say you'll get a refund if you bring the recall announcement.

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Speaker 1: I was laughing. I'm I could just print out the announcement like, yeah, I bought some proscco because clearly you can't prove it with the bottle because they're telling you not to bring it back. So how do you prove it? Who has a receipt from Costco? From and these bottles were sold from April to August, so you're talking all over, yeah, twelve states. But still like, now, how do you prove you bought it? You don't have a receipt most likely, which is I don't know twelve ninety.

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Speaker 2: Well, why what happened to these bottles that there can shatter?

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Speaker 1: They haven't explained, and obviously they've had a something's happened where they've noticed it. But yeah, that's terrifying, very scary. Yes, so let's move on to the final leg of our run. Yeah, it happens every year, and Sunday Nights Emmy Awards Show was no exception. There always seems to be some head scratching emissions in their in memoriam segment where they honor the TV world's biggest stars and creators who passed away.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so this year seems to be a bit exceptional with their exceptions, and it did not go unnoticed, of course by viewers who express outraged. Right way to put it right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, there are people who were actually seriously upset about them.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So Vince gil Laney Wilson were performing a moving tribute singing go Rest High on the Mountain. Now viewers do not get the scene. Acknowledgment of acknowledgement of several prominent TV actors, including Hulk Hogan and Polly Holliday is the one that got me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because she had just passed and she was a She was a television star Kiss Magritz.

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Speaker 2: And won awards for her role on that show Alice.

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Speaker 1: I only remember her on television. I know she had some film credits. Gene Hackman's another one. He actually had a significant amount of TV credits in his early days of acting.

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, what is the problem everybody has with Tony Todd?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but this is twice now we were upset that Tony Todd was omitted from the in memoriam at the Oscars because obviously he has an illustrious movie career, but he has tons of TV credits.

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Speaker 2: I am lone away that he didn't make it to the Oscar. He is a part of movie.

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Speaker 1: He's Candy Mystry is Candy Man, part of history.

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Speaker 2: And oh yeah, Daniel Spencer.

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Speaker 1: From What Yes, I what Daniel Okay.

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Speaker 2: I did not catch this name until now.

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Speaker 1: She wasn't in Nope. And how about Sopranos actor Jerry Adler. We did a whole thing on him in Morning Run. He made the Morning Run oh bit list, and he didn't make the Emmys, which is kind of crazy. Dennis the Menis star Jane North, General Hospital star Leslie Charleston who was huge on General Hospital, and King of the Hill actor I don't know him, Jonathan Joss, but people just were up in arms about many of these names just didn't seem fair or rund.

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Speaker 2: What did they always tell us in response every award show they say we don't have time to get everybody in. They often tell us that it's included. Of those names included on some online version, which does it's not the same, but I don't have time. Polly is the one Polly Holiday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, was confusing. How did Flow not make it? She was she is television royalty?

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Speaker 2: She actually that's Oh.

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Speaker 1: I feel like even my girls know Kiss Margarets and I don't even know if they've watched Alice, but they know that line and they know that actress. The annual snobs are so common and even expected that at one point in Sunday Nights Show Everybody Loves Raymond, actor Brad Garrett made a joke that when he dies, he still won't be famous enough to make it into the in Memorium tribute, even though he's an actual Emmy winner. But I mean it's a joke now, I mean he actually made a joke and not realizing. Yes, of course there would be another up in arms article written about who didn't make the list, But you know, I did want to point out because the segment did begin so beautifully with Felicia Rashad remembering her Cosby Show son Malcolm Jamal Warner, who died in July. I thought it was beautiful. They just they just always leave out important names.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to I know, that's a tough job. You're trying to think of a full the past twelve months, everybody who passed. Do you miss someone who's on the committee? How many people are putting together? Do they keep a list all year? I don't know and time wise, but there's got to be some you know are going to to like that's a fireable of fits. The boss come who left holiday off?

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Speaker 1: I would think so, I would think so. But we want to leave you on this Tuesday with our quote of the day. Yeah, and maybe maybe one of the folks who got berated for leaving out Polly Holiday can take this quote to heart. With everything that has happened to you. You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing.

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Speaker 2: You get to choose, and it just doesn't feel that's a mindset, But it's it's hard to think. The challenges that come are opportunities.

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Speaker 1: And they're there for a reason.

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Speaker 2: But they all look like obstacles. I gotta get past this to get there. I gotta get.

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Speaker 1: Past Gabby Bernstein obstacles or detours in the right direction. Do you try to think about that, like stop myself when I get upset or you know, annoyed even that something has happened, and think, wait, what's the lesson here? And sometimes it's to be patient. Sometimes it's to accept reality. And when you do have that gift, when you can do that, that is that's life changing?

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Speaker 2: Is there sometimes no lesson?

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Speaker 1: Well, sometimes the lesson is that it's on you to calm down. You can't wait for someone else to do it for you. You can't blame somebody for how you're feeling. It's really kind of about ownership of your reaction and that is part of it. So yes, once again, this is from Wayne Dyer, by the way, love him amazing, amazing, amazing, incredible motivational speaker and just kind of the grandfather for a lot of our folks today like Abby Bernstein, who credit him for what they do now today to help others with everything that has happened to you. You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. And with that everyone, thank you for listening.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy robots and I'm TJ Holmes. I always appreciate j all running with us