Morning Run: Missiles Flying In Iran, Uganda Closes Borders, Chemical Implosion Death Toll, Major Lynette Hooker Update, Matthew Perry Assistant, Pam Bondi Cancer and Hot Feet Lawsuit

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Welcome everyone to this episode of Morning Run. It is Thursday, May twenty eighth. I'm Amy Robot.

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Speaker 2: How you doing this morning, Amy Robock.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing well. How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm over it?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, as it's so much negativity and so much I don't know. We're deep diving into news and looking at news too often, and it's too negative too often.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I got up this morning, I was like, gee, I just was kind of over really being down. I wanted to be up and wanted to find positive and wanted to stay in that lane today.

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Speaker 1: How about if I told you it's Friday Eve.

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Speaker 3: You know what, That's perfect because nothing annoys me more than you calling it to Friday Eve. I used to say that to you on set all the time when I was a little down. I said, somebody needs to piss me off just to get my energy, just to get me going.

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Speaker 2: Thank you baby for that. You're welcome.

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Speaker 3: It's Friday Eve, everybody, Yes, welcome every This Morning Ron a number of stops to make this morning. We'll be making a stop in DC, in Uganda, in Florida, in the Bahamas, make a stop on a carnival cruise ship, make a stop up in Washington State as well as in Laos.

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Speaker 2: But let's begin.

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Speaker 3: Robes with the seas fire in which they keep firing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny you said ceasefire, because the first line of our story is missiles are flying once again. But everyone is still claiming that the ceasefire between the US and Iran remains in place. The US yesterday again carried out what it called self defense strikes aimed at Iran's drone capabilities, and Iran today is saying it retaliated by firing on US military basis.

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Speaker 3: However, we're still in a ceasefire as of now, they say, both sides Robes. There were some encouraging news and signals because both sides seem to be going towards an agreement, that progress was being made. Yet here we are nothing just yet. The President though again reiterated there's that the cabinet meeting yesterday or the White House that he is in no hurry could do this all day. And he said he feels no pressure to end the war, and he used this line, Robes, I don't care.

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Speaker 2: About the midterms.

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Speaker 3: Some thought that there'd be political pressure that he want to hurry this thing up before the midterms, and that was the quote he had yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Obviously he cares about the midterms. He cares passionately about running he seems like it and whose support he gives uh it to?

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, Also at that cabinet meeting, the President issued this threat, they'll behave just like everyone else, or will have to blow them up.

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Speaker 2: Now who was he talking about? Now, naturally, who would you think he's talking about.

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Speaker 1: If you hear that, that's who you I would think he was talking about. But oh no, he was talking about our ally Oman.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Now where is this coming from. The President was actually answering the question about the straight of horror moves. And there are reports out there that are Ron and Oman would team up to reopen the strait and then manage it.

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Speaker 2: And that's what he was referring to. In Robe.

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Speaker 3: This was his response, Oman, will behave just like everybody else, or will have to blow them up. They understand that they'll be fine. Wow, it's just stunning robes that between Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: And Colombia and Iran.

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Speaker 3: And to add another to the list to threaten to blow up an ally.

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Speaker 1: Well, to tell an ally to behave is so condescending, and especially from our culture to their culture, that cannot land.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: There are other ways to make the same point, and that one was his choice. I can only imagine how it was received.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, Uganda has closed its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo to try to stop ebola from spreading. The current outbreak, which is raging right now in the DRC has claimed at least two hundred and twenty lives, with now well over eight thousand suspected cases.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just a handful.

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Speaker 3: Of cases right now that have popped up in Uganda, but they are trying to keep it from spreading close the border. Anybody who comes over, I think in this twenty one day period, you are going to get stopped and you are going to get checked. This is something that who has advised against. But at the same time, if you're Uganda and you share that big of a border with a place where ebola is raging, uh, you can maybe understand. But again it continues to be a public health emergency of international concern continuing on the run here now eleven people presume dead in that chemical tank implosion in Washington State this week, and the governor there said this is going to end up robes being the worst industrial accident in that state's history. This happened at a paper mill and long View Tuesdays is about fifty miles north of Portland.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so that tank holds nearly a million gallons of what they call white liquords, described as a highly corrosive chemical. Two bodies have been recovered, and we know that seven employees have been hospitalized. And here's the scary thing. The cause of the explosion is still unknown at this point. And that's, yes, a deep concern because you'd obviously want to make sure it doesn't happen again. But if you don't know why it happened in the first place, that's not possible.

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Speaker 3: And the pictures are that you see how this thing is mangled and collapsed over onto its side. But again, and Rosie, there's the other thing they added to this, these chemicals. If they go in and recover the bodies, they then have to decontaminate them in some ways fully, so this work will continue for quite a while.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, rescuers have found five of seven people trapped in a flooded cave and louse. While they're still looking for the other missing two, officials are also putting together the extremely complicated plan of trying to extract the group.

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Speaker 3: Okay, this requires these rescuers to crawl through pitch black, total black to get to these five men on that elevated ledge. This is a thousand foot some places are less than two feet wide. Other sections are submerged in water. Rescue crews are appealing for more help on social media and roabes.

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Speaker 2: This is I give them credit for these searchers.

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Speaker 3: They know what they're doing robes obviously in doing the rescue, but they are so social media.

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Speaker 1: Savvy they are, and they're saying, hey, guys, anyone, we need at least thirty more oxygen tanks before we can even try to bring these men back up, because they need these oxygen tanks for themselves and for the men, and they're going to have to have a refueling station at some place while they're making their progress on their way back up, because they say there is no room for error, like when you're doing an underwater dive and bringing people up. It's not that you can just go up this is complicated. You may have to stop, you may have to remove equipment. So they have to have a refueling area within the system while they're bringing these men up, and they've been trapped for nine days, nowhere.

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Speaker 2: Close to being out of danger. Step one. They're alive, right, yes, five of them at least, still got two more they're looking for and certainly holding out. Hope.

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Speaker 3: We continue on this run now with a major update, Robes, I didn't see this one coming. Major update in the search for Lynette Hooker. That's the Michigan woman who disappeared after going overboard on a dinghy ride with her husband in the Bahamas in April.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the US Coast Guard is renewing its efforts to find her. They're actually going to start up the search for her once again after and this is the big bombshell. They received new data that appears to contradict her husband's account of what happened.

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Speaker 3: But where he was, Yes, that's the thing. They have GPS data now, Robes. What they're essentially saying is this GPS data from the boat that they were using contradicts his account. So they were listening to him and where he said they were, So they searched that area. Now this GPS data is showing them something else.

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Speaker 2: Robes. They might have been looking for her in the wrong place.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like they were because he told them to look in the wrong place. Woo all right. Yes, And Brian Hooker, as you might remember, has always claimed his wife fell off a dinghy in rough waters and the two of them got separated. He was detained. He was arrested and detained and they held him as long as they could, but they just didn't have enough evidence to actually charge him with her murder.

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Speaker 3: Now the US Coast Guard has come back. They have requested from the Bahamian government permission to send divers back in robes. They are essentially going to be looking somewhere they didn't know to look before. This could be huge, guests ropes, This could be huge, all right. Continuing on the run here now, yet another person is getting jail time in connection with Matthew Perry's twenty twenty three overdose death robes. They keep coming these, key, I didn't realize this. Many folks were actually charged and have fled guilty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, death.

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Speaker 1: This one is his personal assistant. Kenneth Wamasa was sentenced to three years and five months in jail. He pleaded guilty to his role in injecting Perry with ketamine. And he is the last of five to plead guilty.

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Speaker 3: I think all but one of them got jail time, some significant relevant jail time. Continuing on the run here now is this now familiar? Ropes Justice Department added again opened a criminal investigation in two e Jean Carrol, the woman who successfully sued President Trump for sexual assault.

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Speaker 1: This can't I mean, it doesn't look right. It can't be right. Carol filed two civil lawsuits against President Trump was awarded nearly ninety million dollars. Well, now the DOJ is looking into whether Carol committed perjury in a twenty twenty two deposition when she failed to disclose that she had gotten outside help with her legal fees.

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Robes?

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Speaker 3: This adder to the list is what this is going to look like? Comy Letitia James a political enemy ror. This has seemed this reeks of retaliation. So if you want to say, okay, this is a real issue, did she commit perjury?

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing. This issue was.

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Speaker 3: Already addressed during an appeal, and a judge addressed it saying, yeah, this is reasonable. She forgot or was unaware that there was some outside funding for her legal fees. She wasn't involved in that. It's reasonable. The answers, so this has already come up.

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Speaker 2: Already been adjudicated. It actually has bro So this just wreeks.

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Speaker 3: This a criminal investigation of the woman who had a civil lawsuit against him.

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Speaker 1: That's called using the an arm of the government. And that is not acceptable.

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Speaker 2: It's not legal.

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Speaker 1: You can't use an arm of the government that you're technically in charge of to pursue your enemies.

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Speaker 2: And yet wow.

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Speaker 1: All right. Next up on the Run, a judge decided that the teen accused of raping and murdering his stepsister on a cruise ship last fall can stay out of jail while he awaits trial. And we also learned the sixteen year old's name and saw his face for the very first time.

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Speaker 2: Name is Timothy Hudson.

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Speaker 3: He walked out of court with his uncle free over the request of the prosecution, who argued that he should stay in jail and that he is a danger to the community and question how anyone can trust he won't act again, including Robes in particular, the family itself you're taking care of this kid, his uncle and aunt, and you got other kids in the house. The prosecutor made that point two miners.

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Speaker 1: Hudson has pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and sexually assaulting eighteen year old Anna Kepner last November. Kepner's body was found wrapped in a blanket under a bed in her shared cabin with Hudson. Her death was ruled a homicide by mechanical asphyxiation.

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll stay with us here on this Friday eve. Look on when we come back. It turns out Jill Biden saw what all all of us saw during that twenty twenty four disastrous presidential debate. Will explain, and Carnival Cruise is being sued by a passenger for millions of dollars.

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Speaker 2: What did the airline do?

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Speaker 4: Well, cruise line? What I say, airline Aline? Well, yeah, airlines can't do this. Only cruiser lines can do what he's accusing this cruise line of doing.

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Speaker 2: Could you believe this one? It was?

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Speaker 1: It was quite funny.

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Speaker 3: Okay, this one's gonna be a doozy and you better watch that first step. Stay it, all right, we continue here on this Friday Eve run that line you give me all the time.

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Speaker 2: You say that all the time. Watch that first step.

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Speaker 1: It's a neozy yea groundhog day.

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Speaker 3: And it does have a connection to our story we're going to talk about in the second with the carnival cruise line being sued by a passenger. Will explain just a second, but that line, I don't even know what You say it all the time, and it just came to my mind because I hear you say it so often.

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Speaker 1: We'll have to put it on one day and you can actually watch it for yourself.

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Speaker 2: The impact you're having on me all this time we spend together, all right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, former Attorney General Pam Bondi says she is undergoing treatment now for thyroid cancer. The diagnosis came shortly after Trump fired her back in April. Bondi revealed that she had surgery a couple of weeks ago and continues to go through treatments.

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Speaker 3: Right next up here on the Run, doctor Jill Biden feared her husband might be having a stroke on national television during that disastrous twenty twenty four debate performance. She admitted this in a CBS interview that it scared her as she watched him during that debate, which ultimately cost him the nomination. Rogues, we all saw it happening. I thought this was fascinating to hear her say this. Not just he was having a bad performance. She thought things were going so bad, he was having a health emergency.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she thought there was a medical condition he was suffering. In the moment, she said that this was interesting. She said she had never seen him like that before. And she says she has never seen him like that since I don't know how then you explain what we all watched. I mean, obviously it was so disastrous. It cost him the nomination. It was the end of his political career, certainly the end of his nomination. So yeah, to think that it was just a one off seems highly improbable. But that is what she is saying.

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Speaker 2: You know what, sometimes I'll have to think about it.

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Speaker 3: In sports, sometimes you just have a stinker on the big stage. Sometimes guys it just doesn't work. And maybe he just had that bad of a night, just off, just thrown. Who know, But to hear her say this is interesting. This was part of a tease. I'm not sure when the full interview is going to air, but they started putting out excerpts. But that was a big one getting headlines.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly, all right.

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Speaker 1: And for the final leg of our run, and perhaps our favorite story of the day, a carnival cruise passengers suing the cruise line for five million dollars claiming he was injured on his trip. What was his injury?

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Speaker 3: You ask?

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Speaker 2: Hot feet?

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Speaker 3: This happens, right, isn't this? Can they make a pool deck that doesn't get hot?

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Speaker 2: Obviously we've all experienced.

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Speaker 1: It's called here's your remedy, flip flops?

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well he didn't have them available, and why should he, Robes. He claimed that the pool deck got too hot and he burned his feet while walking from the pool back to his seat. This is about a twenty foot walk.

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Speaker 1: According to the lawsuit, he should have run faster. Jorge Luis Elvira Nunez says he suffered second degree burns that's serious, on the bottom of his feet because the pool deck got unreasonably hot.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Robes, I mean is that they actually say that the company should have known that this thing could burn feet in a matter of seconds.

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Speaker 1: He's the only passenger though, who's suing.

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Speaker 3: Yes, But they say they have found incidents or cases in the past in which people have complained or have had injuries related to hot decks on.

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Speaker 2: The cruise ship.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know what is your They have thousands upon thousands, and over the years, hundreds of thousands, millions of people have walked on the deck of a cruise ship pool.

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Speaker 1: With a sun beating down on said deck, and most reasonable people. I think that it'll be interesting to see what happens with this, because I do think that there is a reasonable sense of personal responsibility that you need to put shoes on.

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Speaker 2: What is the responsibility the cruise line? How I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Is there a way to create a cooling system in a pool deck? I don't know. I think all of us have run across a pull deck going O O out yeah, and then I think I should have flip flops ready to go if I know it's hot because the sun's been beating down on the deck. There is personal responsibility. This also has to be common sense has to come into play here. There's a lot of things like you need to consider before placing blame on a company because the sun was too hot on a pool deck.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how this worked. But he says there was there was injury that was suffering, infection or something that he had. Hey, so there is pain and suffering, but he wants five million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Good luck with that, sir.

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Speaker 1: Let's move on now to our quote of the day on this Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Does it relate to anything that we've been talking about today? Not really? Okay, not really. I didn't think.

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Speaker 1: I didn't try to make it thematic this time because from one of our favorites, Eckart toole. All right, it's a very simple, short and simple quote, but I.

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Speaker 2: Hope it lands.

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Speaker 1: Get the inside right, the outside.

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Speaker 3: Will fall into place. Get the inside right, and the outside will fall into place. Do you know was he speaking about something in particular or this is I'm thinking about as it relates to human being, your attitude, health, your mind, all these things.

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Speaker 2: Yes? Is it that thing?

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Speaker 3: Sometimes people say you feel good if you look good right, like it starts on the outside, which.

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Speaker 2: Can be the case something feel good right, yes.

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Speaker 3: But if you do feel good, yes, that can also lead to results on the outside.

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Speaker 1: And I do think that basically it's about having the right mindset and whatever happens on the outside happens. But if you're okay on the inside, everything is going to be okay on the outside. Truly, that is your superpower, and we all give it away every day to reacting to things that are out of our control, and we let it absolutely eat us up and ruin our day. But if you have your inside right, your head is right, on the outside, everything's going to be okay. And I remember one of I think this is Michael Singer. Everything's going to be okay as long as you're okay with everything. And that literally is something.

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Speaker 2: I tell myself.

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Speaker 1: If I find internally I'm starting to spiral, everything is going to be okay.

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Speaker 2: You should have because you're okay with everything. You should have saved that for your for tomorrow. You actually yeah, so.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna double quote yeah, double quote. So you're welcome.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I was about to say.

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Speaker 1: And without everyone, we always appreciate you running with us, and thank you for running with us on this Friday Eve.

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Speaker 2: I'm made Robot and I'm t J. Holmes. We'll run with you, sir,