Oct. 21, 2025
Morning Run: Miracle on 34th St, Amazon Outage, ATL Mass Shooting Thwarted, Japan First Female PM, Diddy Seeks Appeal and Canada Vs USA
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, It's Tuesday, October twenty First, I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. Folks, it is just October. But we have what they're calling here in New York a miracle on thirty fourth Street. That sounds really sweet, rogues, but the story itself is kind of sad. But I guess a miracle that a newborn baby was found. And I think it's the city's busiest subway station, right.
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Speaker 3: Yes, was it? Which one?
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Speaker 1: Was it? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Penn Station.
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Speaker 1: At first I thought Harold Square, but yeah, same area. But yes, that is a remarkable story. The baby is okay. That's the good news. But obviously an investigation is underway as to how this baby was left and by whome.
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Speaker 2: We don't know those details, folks. We will tell you what's going on here in New York with that story. Also the shutdown story, you can write it yourself. But we are now on day twenty one, which is now tied for the second longest in US government history. We really thought that would be over by now.
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Speaker 1: Well it could be twenty one more days in counting. I mean, there's no end in sight.
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Speaker 3: That's the problem.
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Speaker 2: That is the problem. We'll get into that a whole lot more to get into this morning. But as always, top right corner of your Apple podcast app, where you see our show page top right corner, a little button sets follow. Just click that you'll get all the updates of ours coming to you, don't have to go looking for them, and there will be quite a few. Actually today we've already got a few stories we're keeping an eye on. But go ahead and click that. You can get our updates anytime.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and also on the run this morning, Amazon says, Hey, everyone, no worries. It's all good now. VP Vans is on the way to Israel. Demolition is underway at the White House. A woman is in charge in Japan. The clock is ticking right now to find those stolen French Crown jewels. A Cord gives the okay for the National Guard in Portland. Comy wants his case dismiss and Diddy wants a do over again. But we begin our run on this Tuesday. If you were experiencing an internet issue yesterday, like so many of us were, you were likely dealing with a massive Amazon Web outage. I had no idea the reach of Amazon until yesterday, did you.
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Speaker 2: H Yeah, And this is the problem people are screaming. I mean, you don't necessarily really think Amazon. You don't think my shop app is going to be affected? Is it that kind of thing? You just don't get how much we depend on the services of Amazon.
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Speaker 1: That is frightening because yes as TJ was just pointing out Amazon web Services, I didn't realize this is a cloud service provider that supports much of the Internet, and so when it has a problem, so do a significant amount of websites.
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Speaker 2: You have critics screaming about this for years and years and years. We depend too much on one thing, the system goes down and everything essentially shuts down. So yesterday, for about two hours, apps for major banks, gaming sites, entertainment services started to have issues. Folks. We're talking about WhatsApp, venmo coinbased, the New York Times, games, Wall Street Journal app, Amazon, Hulu, Snapchat, McDonald's, the Ring, Doorbells, even Fortnite, Delta, United Airlines, the British government, even their website and tax services all impacted by one company having an issue, and that was Amazon. This all started around three to five am yesterday, but still by midafternoon. It wasn't all worked out. Still some spotty service issues on multiple sites.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: In total, there are more than eight million reports of disruptions, mostly here in the US and in Britain. Amazon said the issue stemmed from here's their quote, an internal system that monitored how it balanced.
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Speaker 3: Traffic across its network.
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Speaker 1: Whatever that means the bigger concern as we were just talking about how reliant we all are on just a few tech providers. So that includes Amazon, there's Microsoft and Google.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so yeah, it was only a matter of hours, and you might think it's not a big deal. Okay, I couldn't get my get an update on where my package was through the shop app or something minor like that. Oh I can't stream my favorite show. Folks, we are talking about estimates of several hundred billion dollars lost yesterday. When you talk about productivity at an office, that's one thing. But folks, you a lot of folks weren't able to shop. You could not spend that money. Folks, businesses missed out. I didn't think the number is going to be that staggering.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was trying to buy something, Remember I was shouting out to you, is your internet acting up because I can't get this, and you're like.
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Speaker 3: Mine's fine, and I was.
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Speaker 1: And then my daughter called me from college saying, Mom, I can't submit my job application. I'm so frustrated. So we had no idea this was all Amazon related.
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Speaker 2: Where were you trying to buy so desperately yesterday?
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Speaker 3: Oh something?
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Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. I know that it was. I was just making light.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I know you knew, all right. Next up on the run. Authorities believe they stopped. This is a scary story. A mass shooting at the Atlanta Airport. A man was arrested already inside the terminal at Hartsville Jackson yesterday after police say, thankfully they got a tip from his family and forty eight year old Billy Cagele was taken into custody.
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Speaker 2: Part of this story that's so chilling is that, of course they have the video from inside the airport where you see this suspect. Police say they got this call from his family. The family was warning police that this man again. Forty nine year old Billy Kgole had been on social media and was live streaming saying that he was headed to the airport. He had a gun and he was going to quote shoot it up now. Security camera video shows him entering the airport and according to police, he was scanning the area he planned to attack now as he was in the airport, he then started making his way back out with the intent to retrieve a weapon, according to police, and that's when they took him down.
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Speaker 1: An AR fifteen style rifle was found in his pickup truck right outside the airport. Police say Kegel is a convicted felon with the history of mental health issues. He's been charged with terrorists threatening and criminal attempt to commit aggravated assaults.
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Speaker 3: But you mentioned the video. When you look at this guy, he just looks like your next door neighbor. Oh, that's the scary thing.
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Speaker 1: There was nothing menacing about him, nothing suspicious looking about him. If you saw him walking down the airport, you figured his family and his kids were right behind him.
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Speaker 2: He fit appropriately into the Atlanta airport. This is one we know very very well. Even when police they have the body cam of them talking to him, he was so calm in how he responded to them. There was nothing intimidating about him and his vehicle. Again, we know this airport well, like the long term and the short term parking, you have to walk across the street and whatnot. His vehicle was right outside the door. Wow, right outside the door. So they flat out say they prevented a tragedy yesterday. Wow. Continuing on the run here on this Tuesday morning, an appeals court has handed the Trump administration a victory and its effort to deploy National Guard troops in ore again. In a two to one ruling, a panel of appellate judges cleared the way for President Trump to send the Guard to Portland. The ruling sets aside another court's restraining order which stopped that deployment.
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Speaker 1: President Trump says he wants troops in Portland to stop an uprising, which he describes that's how he describes the ongoing protests at the ICE facility.
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Speaker 3: Again.
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Speaker 1: The panel voted two to one in Trump's favor, but the one dissenting appeals judge had a pretty funny response that we want to read for you. Given Portland's protesters well known pension for wearing chicken suits, inflatable frog costumes, or nothing at all when expressing their disagreement with the methods employed by ICE, observers may be tempted to view the majority's ruling, which accepts the government characterization of Portland as a warzone as merely absurd. I mean, they did have a naked bike race the other day, But what do.
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Speaker 2: You think about that? Is that a revolt is what this judge is trying to say. And I like when judges sometimes do plain speak. This is a close as she could get to saying give me a fucking break.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was drifting in sarcaster.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, the state is now going to ask that the full panel of Appella judges review this case, all right.
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Speaker 2: Continuing on the run now will stay in court with James Comy this time, and he wants to get out of court. He wants a court to throw out the case against him. Lawyers for the now indicted former FBI director folt a series of motions in court yesterday want the case against Comy dismissed, arguing its vindictive and unlawful for him to be prosecuted.
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Speaker 1: Their words, it's an egregious abuse of power and a personal vendetta by the president. Comy was charged with making false statements and obstruction of justice.
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Speaker 2: Continuing on the run now, Vice President jad Vans on his way to Israel this morning, part of the who's who of administration big dogs dispatch to Israel to try to keep the peace plan on track.
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Speaker 1: The President's Middle East Envoy, Steve Whitkoff and his son in law, advisor Jared Kushner are already there.
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Speaker 3: The ceasefire is still holding, though it was.
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Speaker 1: On shaky ground over the weekend, with both sides accusing the other of violations. Was an Israeli our airstrike that killed at least four dozen. There was a Hamas attack on Israeli soldiers. So there's been from tit for tat, but hopefully peace is still going.
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Speaker 2: Strong, possible.
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Speaker 1: I'm just like, I didn't know what the right phraseology was there.
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Speaker 2: The question market in that peace is still there there.
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Speaker 3: I mean that's fair.
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Speaker 2: You go to Japan for this next leg and some history in Japan. That country has elected its first ever female prime minister. Sanay Katashi is her name. Sixty four years old, she want to vote among fellow lawmakers. That now makes her the first woman to ever lead government there.
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Speaker 1: She is described as a right winger who opposes same sex marriage, and she's also apparently a hardliner on immigration. Trump is visiting Japan next week. Looks like they have some things that they share in common.
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Speaker 2: That's a crazy I mean, getting that job is one thing, and then it's like, oh god, I got a week. Trump's comment, Yeah, get ready, get the house in order. Continue on the road. Now the House, the White House demolition is underway there at one of the most iconic parts of the White House. You've seen these pictures, right, and folks if you haven't, it's just a little disturbing. It's a little surreal. Don't get me wrong. It's they're doing what they're planning to do. But to see this iconic building, this White building, you know the structure of the architecture well, and to see it essentially one part of it being demolished is a little jarring. The East Wing is what we're talking about. It's being torn down, in part in order to make way for the President's new ninety thousand square foot two hundred million dollars ballroom.
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Speaker 3: Wow, two hundred millions ballroom, all right.
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Speaker 1: The the east wing is traditionally where first Ladies have had their offices. The administration had previously said the east wing would not be touched, just that the new ballroom would be near it, So apparently that has not held. Apparently, also, the National Capital Planning Commission did not sign off on this. They approved construction of major renovations to government buildings.
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Speaker 2: The head of this organization is somebody the president put in charge of this organization. Now a lot of people look at this and say, wait, he hasn't gotten approval to make this kind of major change. Well, this organization now is saying, hey, he doesn't need our approval. We only approve new construction and renovation. We have nothing to do with demolition. Oh my, they say, we have no sway over what you down.
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Speaker 3: So there is there is nothing to be done.
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Speaker 2: If you get a look at it, folks, it is just a little I mean, we know things have to happen, but this thing's been there since nineteen oh two, hasn't been renovated since nineteen forty something, and is just to see it being demolished.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure it's going to be the best ballroom ever ever.
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Speaker 2: Ever. Continue on the run here now, day twenty one of the shutdown, second longest government shutdown in US history. We told you this at the top. There wasn't eleventh vote yesterday. They voted eleven times, and the same damn thing that was shot down ten times previously. It failed, this Republican measure to reopen the government. So no signs of this thing ending. And if you want to sign that is not going to end. The House is not even in town, the House of Representatives during a shutdown, ain't even there, just on standby, just in case something happens in they're needed.
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Speaker 3: So it's being realistic, you think, so, I'm just being fun.
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Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: You're not there.
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Speaker 1: Of course they should be there working to try and reopen the government. Of course they should be there.
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Speaker 2: Speaker Johnson says, not on them. We have to wait on the Senate to do their thing. It's just a weird look that the governments shut down, piecing people are losing.
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Speaker 3: You want to show up and you want to be there.
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Speaker 1: You want instructive regardless of whether or not you think you have the power to do so.
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Speaker 3: At least just the optics are bad optics.
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Speaker 2: A sorry, continue on the run here now some good news right here robes quick update on the health of former President Biden. He rang the bell, always a big deal, but yes, he completed radiation therapy yesterday. According to his family, and this was cause for them to celebrate.
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Speaker 1: They posted some video of him doing that traditional ringing of the bell at something cancer patients do to commemorate the completion of treatment. Biden turns eighty three next month and has been battling an aggressive form of prostate cancer. We don't know if he'll need more treatments or a win, but certainly, wow, it's hard to imagine he might have been president going through cancer treatment in front of the world.
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Speaker 2: What does this in some better content? Ringing the bell? It doesn't mean you're completely out of the clear the rest of your life kind of thing. What does it mean?
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Speaker 1: So you ring the bell usually when you have difficult treatments, so a lot of times it happens after either radiation or after chemotherapy.
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Speaker 3: It's a big thing. So I didn't ring a bell. I had a bubble party.
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Speaker 1: So different hospitals do different things, but they usually do something to celebrate the end of difficult treatment, knowing you're done with the tough stuff.
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Speaker 2: But you know what, I guess that's great for that individual. But they say they like to do this because other people need to hear that bell ringing and know there's hope and know there's something to look forward too. So that's really cool. And certainly hope. The vice president, she's the vice president, the former president is doing. Okay, stay with it here on this Tuesday morning run. When we come back, no surprise, but Diddy wants to get out of jail and he has now filed some official paperwork saying he wants to do this whole thing over again. Also, we have an update on those French family jewels, Crown jewels. I should say that we're stolen. Here's the thing. The clock is ticking because they might be about to melt down or chop down those what is it they was the price of these things.
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Speaker 3: They have millions and millions of dollars. It's priceless.
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Speaker 2: It's priceless jewels. But the race is on to stop these thieves from possibly chopping it up. And then the final leg of our run today when we come back, focus the miracle on thirty fourth Street, a newborn baby found in Penn Station. Sorry, folks, we continue on this Tuesday morning run now and no surprise, you kind of saw this coming, but it's official. Sean Diddy Combs has put the court on notice. That he plans to appeal his convictions. His attorney's filed the notice yesterday. They weren't required to give a basis for an appeal, though his attorneys have previously argued in court that the law that he was convicted on was wrongly applied to his case.
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Speaker 1: Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and he was sentenced to fifty months in prison. We will see what this latest appeal, well, at least how it turns out. Next up on the run, though, we are going to head to Paris, where the Louver remains closed today. As the investigation continues into Sunday's brazen robbery of the French Crown Jewels, authorities are racing against the clock to try and find the four men involved and recover the priceless stolen property.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the French authorities believe organized crime was most likely involved. Are concerned the thieves, yes, maybe breaking the historic pieces apart to sell the stones on the black market, which everybody agrees would be a damn shame. We are learning more about the thieves and what they were able to steal. So we had a royal sapphire tiara, a necklace and matching earrings sounds nice. A royal emerald necklace and its matching earrings hm. And a tiara and a brooch worn by Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon. The third one of the items is listed by the Society of Friends of the Loop as worth more than seven point eight million dollars.
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Speaker 1: That's just one item, right, Yeah, that's just one item, and it's just an estimation. So the thieves were notably they dropped Eugenie's crown in their mad dash out That crown had more than thirteen hundred diamonds, more than eleven hundred rose cut diamonds and fifty six emeralds.
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Speaker 3: So well, at.
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Speaker 1: Least that's one thing they didn't get their hands on. We are getting new details about how the actual heist went down. The robbery began thirty minutes after the Loover opened on Sunday. That was around nine to thirty in the morning. That is when four thieves came to the museum with an electric ladder mounted on a truck.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, two of them had yellow safety vests, so that I guess that made them look official. At least they they rolled the ladder up to the second floor to the Crown Jewels section. Again, folks, this is happening in broad daylight. This is a bustling Sunday in well, they're not up that early.
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Speaker 3: In zone kind of Saturday night.
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Speaker 2: Everyone had okay, but this is in broad daylight that they're doing this. So then at ninth thirty four they used the power tools they brought with them to break that window, smashed two display cases, grabbed the jewels, and then left through the same window they had just broken.
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Speaker 1: Yes, by nine thirty eight, the thieves had fled on waiting motorcycles. They said, yesterday we heard scooters. One of the two who knows it's Europe. They might be interchangeable.
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Speaker 2: It's probably they.
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Speaker 1: Tried to burn like the bucket, the cherry picker bucket that they rode up.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why.
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Speaker 1: Somehow they thought that was going to not let authorities get back up to where they were a distraction.
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Speaker 3: Maybe they set it on fire.
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Speaker 1: We know that museum officials don't believe that these were armed, but reportedly the security guards who were there said they were threatened, and so they quickly just were evacuating visitors who were in the gallery to protect the people inside, and they weren't protecting the jewels.
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Speaker 2: Are the guards armed armed at the I don't know that.
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Speaker 3: I would think no, that would be my guest. But who knows.
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Speaker 2: There are some questions for those.
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Speaker 1: Guards because they didn't they just said that they were threatened. I mean, I don't know with the power tools.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they used very strong language. Maybe continuing on the run here. Now the World Series is set. I'm going to be a matchup of the defending champs and a team that hasn't been in the World Series in thirty two years. That's the Toronto Blue Jays. They pulled off a dramatic comeback win last night against the Seattle Mariners.
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Speaker 1: Down by two runs and the seventh inning, blue Jays outfielder George Springer hit a three run homer that ended up being the game winner. The Blue Jays are now in the World Series for the first time since nineteen ninety three. Game one is on Friday. I left you on the couch, Yes, you were in and honestly, did you see it? Oh?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. This was a wonderful moment because it didn't look good for Toronto. They haven't had a World Series since in thirty something years. Even the Prime Minister when he visited the White House, they were saying something about the Toronto Blue. This is weeks ago. He said, yeah, I'll be back for the World Series. That was kind of cool. So now it's US versus Canada, if you will, even if you're not a Dodgers fan, it's a US versus Canada situation, like we need more reasons to combat our neighbors to the north. All right, final leg of our run here now the miracle on thirty fourth Street, that is what New York transit authorities are calling it. A newborn baby found yesterday abandoned at one of, if not the busiest train station in New York. And it might be the most famous. Even if you don't live here, people know this one.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 1: The baby girl was left at the bottom of a staircase at Penn Station. Police got an anonymous call around nine to thirty am that alerted them about the baby. She was wrapped in a blanket, described as alert and with her umbilical cord still attached.
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Speaker 2: Now this was I guess, I say, sweet, I guess they did what they were supposed to do. They could have called nine to one waited for authorities to go or at least the ambulance to show up. But these police officers took that baby themselves to the hospital for to get checked out again, listed in stable condition from all accounts, and you've been reading up on this as well this morning. The baby seems to be doing okay, seems to be fine. Now. A penn station is at seventh Avenue and thirty fourth Street here in New York. Normally this is the last place you would want to leave a baby, but it might be the best place. Look, a lot of people are going by there, and there's a good chance obviously the baby's going to be found. But I mean, thank god baby wasn't stepped on or kicked or it's very busy place.
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Speaker 1: Look, I feel sorry for any woman, Oh can make me cry who felt that desperate.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what weird.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't get help, who couldn't turn to someone who didn't think she had another choice. So at least her baby is okay, And we'll hopefully find a loving, beautiful family.
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Speaker 2: And may never find that this is now a criminal case when it didn't have to be. There are laws in pretty much every state now that you can leave a child somewhere. It's the case. Here at a fire station or hospital, you can take that child. No questions asked why this had to be the case. In bilicals Core, it's still attach.
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Speaker 3: It's called desperation and fear.
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Speaker 1: This year, you're so that's the criminal part of It's sad, I get it, but it's it's desperation and fear.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. But before we let you go here on this Tuesday morning, folks, something we like for you to take with you. It is our quote of the day.
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Speaker 1: What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our interpretation of experiences. That's from Tony Robbins's famous motivational speaker. I'm sure I don't even need to explain who he is, but I thought that was such a cool way to look at it. Sometimes when we're feeling a certain way, we justify it like it's because this happened, But sometimes we have to recognize it's our interpretation of what happened, and that's very different oftentimes than what did happen. So I just always love that reminder to take a beat. What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our interpretation of experiences.
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of how I feel right now based on how I'm interpreting this podcast, or if it's based on my true experience in this podcast. So I'm gonna go deal with that, folks. I hope you have a good Tuesday. We always appreciate you running with us.
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Speaker 3: I'm Tjiling and I'm Adey Robot. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, It's Tuesday, October twenty First, I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. Folks, it is just October. But we have what they're calling here in New York a miracle on thirty fourth Street. That sounds really sweet, rogues, but the story itself is kind of sad. But I guess a miracle that a newborn baby was found. And I think it's the city's busiest subway station, right.
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Speaker 3: Yes, was it? Which one?
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Speaker 1: Was it? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Penn Station.
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Speaker 1: At first I thought Harold Square, but yeah, same area. But yes, that is a remarkable story. The baby is okay. That's the good news. But obviously an investigation is underway as to how this baby was left and by whome.
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Speaker 2: We don't know those details, folks. We will tell you what's going on here in New York with that story. Also the shutdown story, you can write it yourself. But we are now on day twenty one, which is now tied for the second longest in US government history. We really thought that would be over by now.
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Speaker 1: Well it could be twenty one more days in counting. I mean, there's no end in sight.
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Speaker 3: That's the problem.
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Speaker 2: That is the problem. We'll get into that a whole lot more to get into this morning. But as always, top right corner of your Apple podcast app, where you see our show page top right corner, a little button sets follow. Just click that you'll get all the updates of ours coming to you, don't have to go looking for them, and there will be quite a few. Actually today we've already got a few stories we're keeping an eye on. But go ahead and click that. You can get our updates anytime.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and also on the run this morning, Amazon says, Hey, everyone, no worries. It's all good now. VP Vans is on the way to Israel. Demolition is underway at the White House. A woman is in charge in Japan. The clock is ticking right now to find those stolen French Crown jewels. A Cord gives the okay for the National Guard in Portland. Comy wants his case dismiss and Diddy wants a do over again. But we begin our run on this Tuesday. If you were experiencing an internet issue yesterday, like so many of us were, you were likely dealing with a massive Amazon Web outage. I had no idea the reach of Amazon until yesterday, did you.
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Speaker 2: H Yeah, And this is the problem people are screaming. I mean, you don't necessarily really think Amazon. You don't think my shop app is going to be affected? Is it that kind of thing? You just don't get how much we depend on the services of Amazon.
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Speaker 1: That is frightening because yes as TJ was just pointing out Amazon web Services, I didn't realize this is a cloud service provider that supports much of the Internet, and so when it has a problem, so do a significant amount of websites.
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Speaker 2: You have critics screaming about this for years and years and years. We depend too much on one thing, the system goes down and everything essentially shuts down. So yesterday, for about two hours, apps for major banks, gaming sites, entertainment services started to have issues. Folks. We're talking about WhatsApp, venmo coinbased, the New York Times, games, Wall Street Journal app, Amazon, Hulu, Snapchat, McDonald's, the Ring, Doorbells, even Fortnite, Delta, United Airlines, the British government, even their website and tax services all impacted by one company having an issue, and that was Amazon. This all started around three to five am yesterday, but still by midafternoon. It wasn't all worked out. Still some spotty service issues on multiple sites.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: In total, there are more than eight million reports of disruptions, mostly here in the US and in Britain. Amazon said the issue stemmed from here's their quote, an internal system that monitored how it balanced.
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Speaker 3: Traffic across its network.
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Speaker 1: Whatever that means the bigger concern as we were just talking about how reliant we all are on just a few tech providers. So that includes Amazon, there's Microsoft and Google.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so yeah, it was only a matter of hours, and you might think it's not a big deal. Okay, I couldn't get my get an update on where my package was through the shop app or something minor like that. Oh I can't stream my favorite show. Folks, we are talking about estimates of several hundred billion dollars lost yesterday. When you talk about productivity at an office, that's one thing. But folks, you a lot of folks weren't able to shop. You could not spend that money. Folks, businesses missed out. I didn't think the number is going to be that staggering.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was trying to buy something, Remember I was shouting out to you, is your internet acting up because I can't get this, and you're like.
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Speaker 3: Mine's fine, and I was.
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Speaker 1: And then my daughter called me from college saying, Mom, I can't submit my job application. I'm so frustrated. So we had no idea this was all Amazon related.
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Speaker 2: Where were you trying to buy so desperately yesterday?
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Speaker 3: Oh something?
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Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. I know that it was. I was just making light.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I know you knew, all right. Next up on the run. Authorities believe they stopped. This is a scary story. A mass shooting at the Atlanta Airport. A man was arrested already inside the terminal at Hartsville Jackson yesterday after police say, thankfully they got a tip from his family and forty eight year old Billy Cagele was taken into custody.
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Speaker 2: Part of this story that's so chilling is that, of course they have the video from inside the airport where you see this suspect. Police say they got this call from his family. The family was warning police that this man again. Forty nine year old Billy Kgole had been on social media and was live streaming saying that he was headed to the airport. He had a gun and he was going to quote shoot it up now. Security camera video shows him entering the airport and according to police, he was scanning the area he planned to attack now as he was in the airport, he then started making his way back out with the intent to retrieve a weapon, according to police, and that's when they took him down.
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Speaker 1: An AR fifteen style rifle was found in his pickup truck right outside the airport. Police say Kegel is a convicted felon with the history of mental health issues. He's been charged with terrorists threatening and criminal attempt to commit aggravated assaults.
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Speaker 3: But you mentioned the video. When you look at this guy, he just looks like your next door neighbor. Oh, that's the scary thing.
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Speaker 1: There was nothing menacing about him, nothing suspicious looking about him. If you saw him walking down the airport, you figured his family and his kids were right behind him.
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Speaker 2: He fit appropriately into the Atlanta airport. This is one we know very very well. Even when police they have the body cam of them talking to him, he was so calm in how he responded to them. There was nothing intimidating about him and his vehicle. Again, we know this airport well, like the long term and the short term parking, you have to walk across the street and whatnot. His vehicle was right outside the door. Wow, right outside the door. So they flat out say they prevented a tragedy yesterday. Wow. Continuing on the run here on this Tuesday morning, an appeals court has handed the Trump administration a victory and its effort to deploy National Guard troops in ore again. In a two to one ruling, a panel of appellate judges cleared the way for President Trump to send the Guard to Portland. The ruling sets aside another court's restraining order which stopped that deployment.
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Speaker 1: President Trump says he wants troops in Portland to stop an uprising, which he describes that's how he describes the ongoing protests at the ICE facility.
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Speaker 3: Again.
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Speaker 1: The panel voted two to one in Trump's favor, but the one dissenting appeals judge had a pretty funny response that we want to read for you. Given Portland's protesters well known pension for wearing chicken suits, inflatable frog costumes, or nothing at all when expressing their disagreement with the methods employed by ICE, observers may be tempted to view the majority's ruling, which accepts the government characterization of Portland as a warzone as merely absurd. I mean, they did have a naked bike race the other day, But what do.
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Speaker 2: You think about that? Is that a revolt is what this judge is trying to say. And I like when judges sometimes do plain speak. This is a close as she could get to saying give me a fucking break.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was drifting in sarcaster.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, the state is now going to ask that the full panel of Appella judges review this case, all right.
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Speaker 2: Continuing on the run now will stay in court with James Comy this time, and he wants to get out of court. He wants a court to throw out the case against him. Lawyers for the now indicted former FBI director folt a series of motions in court yesterday want the case against Comy dismissed, arguing its vindictive and unlawful for him to be prosecuted.
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Speaker 1: Their words, it's an egregious abuse of power and a personal vendetta by the president. Comy was charged with making false statements and obstruction of justice.
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Speaker 2: Continuing on the run now, Vice President jad Vans on his way to Israel this morning, part of the who's who of administration big dogs dispatch to Israel to try to keep the peace plan on track.
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Speaker 1: The President's Middle East Envoy, Steve Whitkoff and his son in law, advisor Jared Kushner are already there.
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Speaker 3: The ceasefire is still holding, though it was.
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Speaker 1: On shaky ground over the weekend, with both sides accusing the other of violations. Was an Israeli our airstrike that killed at least four dozen. There was a Hamas attack on Israeli soldiers. So there's been from tit for tat, but hopefully peace is still going.
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Speaker 2: Strong, possible.
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Speaker 1: I'm just like, I didn't know what the right phraseology was there.
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Speaker 2: The question market in that peace is still there there.
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Speaker 3: I mean that's fair.
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Speaker 2: You go to Japan for this next leg and some history in Japan. That country has elected its first ever female prime minister. Sanay Katashi is her name. Sixty four years old, she want to vote among fellow lawmakers. That now makes her the first woman to ever lead government there.
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Speaker 1: She is described as a right winger who opposes same sex marriage, and she's also apparently a hardliner on immigration. Trump is visiting Japan next week. Looks like they have some things that they share in common.
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Speaker 2: That's a crazy I mean, getting that job is one thing, and then it's like, oh god, I got a week. Trump's comment, Yeah, get ready, get the house in order. Continue on the road. Now the House, the White House demolition is underway there at one of the most iconic parts of the White House. You've seen these pictures, right, and folks if you haven't, it's just a little disturbing. It's a little surreal. Don't get me wrong. It's they're doing what they're planning to do. But to see this iconic building, this White building, you know the structure of the architecture well, and to see it essentially one part of it being demolished is a little jarring. The East Wing is what we're talking about. It's being torn down, in part in order to make way for the President's new ninety thousand square foot two hundred million dollars ballroom.
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Speaker 3: Wow, two hundred millions ballroom, all right.
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Speaker 1: The the east wing is traditionally where first Ladies have had their offices. The administration had previously said the east wing would not be touched, just that the new ballroom would be near it, So apparently that has not held. Apparently, also, the National Capital Planning Commission did not sign off on this. They approved construction of major renovations to government buildings.
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Speaker 2: The head of this organization is somebody the president put in charge of this organization. Now a lot of people look at this and say, wait, he hasn't gotten approval to make this kind of major change. Well, this organization now is saying, hey, he doesn't need our approval. We only approve new construction and renovation. We have nothing to do with demolition. Oh my, they say, we have no sway over what you down.
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Speaker 3: So there is there is nothing to be done.
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Speaker 2: If you get a look at it, folks, it is just a little I mean, we know things have to happen, but this thing's been there since nineteen oh two, hasn't been renovated since nineteen forty something, and is just to see it being demolished.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure it's going to be the best ballroom ever ever.
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Speaker 2: Ever. Continue on the run here now, day twenty one of the shutdown, second longest government shutdown in US history. We told you this at the top. There wasn't eleventh vote yesterday. They voted eleven times, and the same damn thing that was shot down ten times previously. It failed, this Republican measure to reopen the government. So no signs of this thing ending. And if you want to sign that is not going to end. The House is not even in town, the House of Representatives during a shutdown, ain't even there, just on standby, just in case something happens in they're needed.
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Speaker 3: So it's being realistic, you think, so, I'm just being fun.
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Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: You're not there.
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Speaker 1: Of course they should be there working to try and reopen the government. Of course they should be there.
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Speaker 2: Speaker Johnson says, not on them. We have to wait on the Senate to do their thing. It's just a weird look that the governments shut down, piecing people are losing.
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Speaker 3: You want to show up and you want to be there.
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Speaker 1: You want instructive regardless of whether or not you think you have the power to do so.
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Speaker 3: At least just the optics are bad optics.
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Speaker 2: A sorry, continue on the run here now some good news right here robes quick update on the health of former President Biden. He rang the bell, always a big deal, but yes, he completed radiation therapy yesterday. According to his family, and this was cause for them to celebrate.
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Speaker 1: They posted some video of him doing that traditional ringing of the bell at something cancer patients do to commemorate the completion of treatment. Biden turns eighty three next month and has been battling an aggressive form of prostate cancer. We don't know if he'll need more treatments or a win, but certainly, wow, it's hard to imagine he might have been president going through cancer treatment in front of the world.
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Speaker 2: What does this in some better content? Ringing the bell? It doesn't mean you're completely out of the clear the rest of your life kind of thing. What does it mean?
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Speaker 1: So you ring the bell usually when you have difficult treatments, so a lot of times it happens after either radiation or after chemotherapy.
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Speaker 3: It's a big thing. So I didn't ring a bell. I had a bubble party.
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Speaker 1: So different hospitals do different things, but they usually do something to celebrate the end of difficult treatment, knowing you're done with the tough stuff.
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Speaker 2: But you know what, I guess that's great for that individual. But they say they like to do this because other people need to hear that bell ringing and know there's hope and know there's something to look forward too. So that's really cool. And certainly hope. The vice president, she's the vice president, the former president is doing. Okay, stay with it here on this Tuesday morning run. When we come back, no surprise, but Diddy wants to get out of jail and he has now filed some official paperwork saying he wants to do this whole thing over again. Also, we have an update on those French family jewels, Crown jewels. I should say that we're stolen. Here's the thing. The clock is ticking because they might be about to melt down or chop down those what is it they was the price of these things.
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Speaker 3: They have millions and millions of dollars. It's priceless.
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Speaker 2: It's priceless jewels. But the race is on to stop these thieves from possibly chopping it up. And then the final leg of our run today when we come back, focus the miracle on thirty fourth Street, a newborn baby found in Penn Station. Sorry, folks, we continue on this Tuesday morning run now and no surprise, you kind of saw this coming, but it's official. Sean Diddy Combs has put the court on notice. That he plans to appeal his convictions. His attorney's filed the notice yesterday. They weren't required to give a basis for an appeal, though his attorneys have previously argued in court that the law that he was convicted on was wrongly applied to his case.
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Speaker 1: Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and he was sentenced to fifty months in prison. We will see what this latest appeal, well, at least how it turns out. Next up on the run, though, we are going to head to Paris, where the Louver remains closed today. As the investigation continues into Sunday's brazen robbery of the French Crown Jewels, authorities are racing against the clock to try and find the four men involved and recover the priceless stolen property.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the French authorities believe organized crime was most likely involved. Are concerned the thieves, yes, maybe breaking the historic pieces apart to sell the stones on the black market, which everybody agrees would be a damn shame. We are learning more about the thieves and what they were able to steal. So we had a royal sapphire tiara, a necklace and matching earrings sounds nice. A royal emerald necklace and its matching earrings hm. And a tiara and a brooch worn by Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon. The third one of the items is listed by the Society of Friends of the Loop as worth more than seven point eight million dollars.
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Speaker 1: That's just one item, right, Yeah, that's just one item, and it's just an estimation. So the thieves were notably they dropped Eugenie's crown in their mad dash out That crown had more than thirteen hundred diamonds, more than eleven hundred rose cut diamonds and fifty six emeralds.
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Speaker 3: So well, at.
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Speaker 1: Least that's one thing they didn't get their hands on. We are getting new details about how the actual heist went down. The robbery began thirty minutes after the Loover opened on Sunday. That was around nine to thirty in the morning. That is when four thieves came to the museum with an electric ladder mounted on a truck.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, two of them had yellow safety vests, so that I guess that made them look official. At least they they rolled the ladder up to the second floor to the Crown Jewels section. Again, folks, this is happening in broad daylight. This is a bustling Sunday in well, they're not up that early.
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Speaker 3: In zone kind of Saturday night.
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Speaker 2: Everyone had okay, but this is in broad daylight that they're doing this. So then at ninth thirty four they used the power tools they brought with them to break that window, smashed two display cases, grabbed the jewels, and then left through the same window they had just broken.
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Speaker 1: Yes, by nine thirty eight, the thieves had fled on waiting motorcycles. They said, yesterday we heard scooters. One of the two who knows it's Europe. They might be interchangeable.
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Speaker 2: It's probably they.
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Speaker 1: Tried to burn like the bucket, the cherry picker bucket that they rode up.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why.
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Speaker 1: Somehow they thought that was going to not let authorities get back up to where they were a distraction.
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Speaker 3: Maybe they set it on fire.
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Speaker 1: We know that museum officials don't believe that these were armed, but reportedly the security guards who were there said they were threatened, and so they quickly just were evacuating visitors who were in the gallery to protect the people inside, and they weren't protecting the jewels.
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Speaker 2: Are the guards armed armed at the I don't know that.
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Speaker 3: I would think no, that would be my guest. But who knows.
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Speaker 2: There are some questions for those.
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Speaker 1: Guards because they didn't they just said that they were threatened. I mean, I don't know with the power tools.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they used very strong language. Maybe continuing on the run here. Now the World Series is set. I'm going to be a matchup of the defending champs and a team that hasn't been in the World Series in thirty two years. That's the Toronto Blue Jays. They pulled off a dramatic comeback win last night against the Seattle Mariners.
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Speaker 1: Down by two runs and the seventh inning, blue Jays outfielder George Springer hit a three run homer that ended up being the game winner. The Blue Jays are now in the World Series for the first time since nineteen ninety three. Game one is on Friday. I left you on the couch, Yes, you were in and honestly, did you see it? Oh?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. This was a wonderful moment because it didn't look good for Toronto. They haven't had a World Series since in thirty something years. Even the Prime Minister when he visited the White House, they were saying something about the Toronto Blue. This is weeks ago. He said, yeah, I'll be back for the World Series. That was kind of cool. So now it's US versus Canada, if you will, even if you're not a Dodgers fan, it's a US versus Canada situation, like we need more reasons to combat our neighbors to the north. All right, final leg of our run here now the miracle on thirty fourth Street, that is what New York transit authorities are calling it. A newborn baby found yesterday abandoned at one of, if not the busiest train station in New York. And it might be the most famous. Even if you don't live here, people know this one.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 1: The baby girl was left at the bottom of a staircase at Penn Station. Police got an anonymous call around nine to thirty am that alerted them about the baby. She was wrapped in a blanket, described as alert and with her umbilical cord still attached.
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Speaker 2: Now this was I guess, I say, sweet, I guess they did what they were supposed to do. They could have called nine to one waited for authorities to go or at least the ambulance to show up. But these police officers took that baby themselves to the hospital for to get checked out again, listed in stable condition from all accounts, and you've been reading up on this as well this morning. The baby seems to be doing okay, seems to be fine. Now. A penn station is at seventh Avenue and thirty fourth Street here in New York. Normally this is the last place you would want to leave a baby, but it might be the best place. Look, a lot of people are going by there, and there's a good chance obviously the baby's going to be found. But I mean, thank god baby wasn't stepped on or kicked or it's very busy place.
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Speaker 1: Look, I feel sorry for any woman, Oh can make me cry who felt that desperate.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what weird.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't get help, who couldn't turn to someone who didn't think she had another choice. So at least her baby is okay, And we'll hopefully find a loving, beautiful family.
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Speaker 2: And may never find that this is now a criminal case when it didn't have to be. There are laws in pretty much every state now that you can leave a child somewhere. It's the case. Here at a fire station or hospital, you can take that child. No questions asked why this had to be the case. In bilicals Core, it's still attach.
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Speaker 3: It's called desperation and fear.
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Speaker 1: This year, you're so that's the criminal part of It's sad, I get it, but it's it's desperation and fear.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. But before we let you go here on this Tuesday morning, folks, something we like for you to take with you. It is our quote of the day.
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Speaker 1: What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our interpretation of experiences. That's from Tony Robbins's famous motivational speaker. I'm sure I don't even need to explain who he is, but I thought that was such a cool way to look at it. Sometimes when we're feeling a certain way, we justify it like it's because this happened, But sometimes we have to recognize it's our interpretation of what happened, and that's very different oftentimes than what did happen. So I just always love that reminder to take a beat. What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our interpretation of experiences.
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of how I feel right now based on how I'm interpreting this podcast, or if it's based on my true experience in this podcast. So I'm gonna go deal with that, folks. I hope you have a good Tuesday. We always appreciate you running with us.
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Speaker 3: I'm Tjiling and I'm Adey Robot. We'll talk to you soon.