Feb. 16, 2026
Morning Run: More Epstein Fallout, New Guthrie Video, Michael Jordan Victory, Obama Speaks Out, Paul Caneiro Verdict Olympic Highlights and “Wuthering Heights” Dominates
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there everybody, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Monday, TJ's favorite day of the week, February sixteenth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ Holmes favorite day. But got put in a bad mood watching men's Was it slalom?
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Speaker 1: Just slalom? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Men slalom? What is happening? They fifty sixty percent of them weren't making it down the hill because of conditions. Why can't they call it? It's like, wait, We'll wait until it's better.
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Speaker 1: I think, just from a timeline standpoint, you're just subject to conditions and it's tough to watch. People who started out at the beginning had much better conditions, and then the snow coming down, it just started deteriorating and that is when people just started not finishing or crashing. It was tough to watch.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome to your Morning Run. I start with the morning beef with the Olympics. It's just I'm not used to watching the sport that much, but it seemed unfair or wrong. If the conditions aren't okay to the point most people aren't making it down, then how is this a fair competition anyway, but speed skating started and I got excited again. So that's the Olympics. We'll be talking more Olympics this morning. But it is President's Day. Most people are need to know. It is a federal holiday. The banks are closed, post office is closed, stock exchange is closed, all your state local government schools closed. But you should be able to get good sales. Don't they do President's Day?
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Speaker 1: Saying they do? Isn't it like mattresses and things like that? I feel like household items.
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Speaker 2: So Happy President's Day, even though today is not actually President's Day, ropes. I don't know if we remember this or we were taught this, but the official holiday is not called President's Day. Instead, today is Washington's birthday. That is the name, the official federal holiday name is Washington's Birthday.
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Speaker 1: Did not know that?
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Speaker 2: Do you remember? Did we know it at some point and then we forgot it?
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Speaker 1: I guess because I always thought it was Lincoln's birthday.
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Speaker 2: Here we go, there it is, and that's where we get it twisted. So back in the eighteen hundreds they proposed a bill to commemorate Washington's birthday. We've been doing it since the eighteen eighties. By the fact, an Arkansas senator actually proposed the bill. Another little nugget for you, but it became Washington's birthdays. In the nineteen sixty eight, Congress wanted to combine Washington and Lincoln's birthdays as a celebration and rename the day, but they rejected that. So it continues to be Washington's birthday officially. But then retailers started using the three day weekend to want to sell items. They started calling it President's Day.
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Speaker 1: Wow, and that stuck because that's all I know today as.
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Speaker 2: Because you wouldn't say, oh, what are you doing this weekend and going to that Washington Birthday sale at Target?
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Speaker 1: No, it doesn't never that before in my life.
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Speaker 2: So isn't that crazy? The reason we call it President's Day is because big time retailers push that name. So here we are.
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Speaker 1: It all comes back to money, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: Wow, We got a centircle Monday, I have it. But yes, happy Washington's Birthday today. But the Olympics going on robes. We did a podcast about it yesterday. But the Americans have been struggling. The big time Americans have been struggling and doing were a little behind in the metal count and particularly the gold metal count right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, not doing so well here, but not shocking. When you think about the Winter Olympics, who's on top. It's Norway, who they know a little something about Nordic weather. Yeah, they've got twelve gold medals twenty six total. Italy the home country, the host country, has eight gold medals with twenty two medals in total. United States coming in third with five gold seventeen overall, Netherlands five gold eleven overall, and Sweden five gold eleven overall.
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Speaker 2: Italy is doing well. We talked about home court advantage, if you will, at the Olympics. I was looking at it. You have one hundred percent right the two Olympics that the Winter Games that the Americans did best in Number one was Vancouver, close enough close, but you know the second Salt Lake City.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that makes so much sense.
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Speaker 2: That's the most medals. So keep an eye out today. Pairs figure skating. We're planning our day around this final today with two American teams are in the top ten and then rod This should be noted, Johannes Clabo from Norway is now the Michael Phelps of the Winter Games. He has more gold medals than anybody in Winter Olympics history, and he did it over the weekend. That's worth noting.
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Speaker 1: That's special, that's very cool and very impressive, no doubt when we've just been watching NonStop Olympics. That will continue today and throughout the rest of the week. But in the meantime, our morning run takes us to Washington, d C, New Jersey, Daytona, Los Angeles, and yes we'll dip back into Milan, but we have to begin our run in Tucson, Arizona, where Savannah Guthrie has issued another public plea to the person holding her mom or to the person or persons who know where she is or where the abductor is. We are now in the third week of this search, and there have been a few developments over the weekend. Those gloves that were reported found along the side of the road about two miles from Nancy Guthrie's home, will they now say they believe those match the gloves that the suspect wore in that surveillance video and they have found DNA evidence in or on those gloves that.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Savana Guthrie put out another video. There's not about a minute fifteen seconds long, saying that they still believe that their mother is out there. But this was an important line quote. I wanted to say to whoever has her or knows where she is, that it's never too late, and you're not lost or alone, and it is never too late to do the right thing. Again, Robescene, it like just we run out of options for making pleas. We said we'll pay and nothing so that she's pleaing or making a direct plea to someone's decency and humanity. We will see if that happens to work. But a reminder, folks, there have been no suspects named, no persons of interest identified, and at this point no body being detained. So this continues all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, your TSA agents are once again going without pay. Yes, that partial shutdown of the government began on Friday night at midnight. This is all over funding the Department of Homeland Security. This is all in the aftermath of what we saw happened in Minneapolis. Democrats are demanding reforms for ICE agents and how they operate, but right now they seem to be at an impasse. Those Democrats and Republicans no signs of a solution, insight, and.
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Speaker 2: A reminder here the Department of Homeland Security. Yes, all this fight is over ICE, but under DHS you also have just mentioned TSA, you have border Patrol, you got the Hoard, you got the Secret Service, you got FEMA. So money has been moved around in some budgets. So it's not clear how many of them will and won't get paid, but TSA, those won't be getting paid, and a number of other people are going to possibly be furloughed and be losing out on checks if this thing goes much much longer. BUTES, we don't know how much longer, and why the hell are they in recess? The government is President's Day.
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Speaker 1: We just told you.
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Speaker 2: Sorry if I just told you it was Washington's birthday, by the way, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we head to New Jersey, where a fifty nine year old Paul Canaro was found guilty on Friday, and pretty quickly. Canaro was convicted for the horrific murders of his own brother, sister in law, his eleven year old nephew, and his eight year old niece. He then set their home on fire and then went back to his own house and set that on fire as well to cover up the crimes and make authorities believe that he and his family were also victims.
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Speaker 2: And the motive here, according to prosecutors, was simply money. Canarow was holding a house of hearts. They described his financial situation during this trial Robes. That was just teetering, it sounded like. But the jury deliberated. What'd you say? They said, it didn't take them long. A few hours. A long and complicated case with all this evidence. They didn't take long.
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Speaker 1: An a month's long trial. That's a very good point. They knew pretty quickly. They had a significant amount of evidence, from surveillance video to cash receipts to testimony from folks. I mean they had the audio calls. The last time we heard his brother Keith canaro and demanding answers for the money that Paul had stolen. So there were a lot of smoking guns.
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Speaker 2: Now May twelfth is his sentencing. I guess that's a formality. We know it's going to happen. Now. There will be opportunities here, which is important for victim impact statements. But as far as how much time he's going to get, he's not stepping out of prison again. The rest of his life.
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Speaker 1: That is correct, all right. Next up on the Run, we are hearing from former President Barack Obama for the first time since Trump. President Trump reposted that ape video that we heard so much about that it's just a short while ago, a few days ago. Well, he was talking on a podcast over the weekend. He didn't directly address that ape video, but he did discuss the impact of Trump's rhetoric, and.
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Speaker 2: He said, the majority of American people find this behavior deeply troubling. It is true that it gets attention. It's true that it's a distraction. He continued on here that I think most of us believe that, right. He said that this country, most people still believe in decency, courtesy, kindness, and that this sort of clown show that's happening in social media and on television. And what is true is that there doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum, and that's something there's no shame about it, like people are proudly insulting each other left and right. If you'll remember, President Trump was criticized by lawmakers on the left and the right when that video went up. The President did take it down, blamed a staffer, I believe, yes, but wouldn't apologize for it condemn it either. He never would just come out and say, yeah, that's a deplorable image, that's awful. I wouldn't have done that hat I've seen. He did never say that.
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Speaker 1: Nope, And everyone was hoping for the best, but certainly that did not occur. And I thought President Obama was very classy in his response to it.
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Speaker 2: All, and it didn't seem to be bothering him. When we saw him at the NBA All Star Game yesterday, he seemed to be at He's just fine.
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Speaker 1: Lois loose and having fun doing what he loves.
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Speaker 2: You know what. It was very cool to see him hanging and enjoying retirement. I know he's still active, he's still busy, but man, to be out of this mess has to feel good, and it retirement looks good on him.
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Speaker 1: It does, it does indeed, all right. Next up on the run, Hollywood mogul and the chairman of the twenty twenty eight LA Olympics Organizing Committee. We're talking about Casey Wasserman. He's announced that he is selling his talent agency after growing scrutiny about his ties to Gallaine Maxwell. In that recent Epstein files drop, there were a number of emails between Wasserman and Galanine Maxwell where Wasserman says he wants to see Maxwell where a tight leather outfit. In another email, he tells her, I think of you all the time. And in these documents, it was also documented that Wasserman flew on Epstein's plane once, but he claims it was for a humanitarian trip to Africa.
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Speaker 2: Okay, And this is what he said to his staff in an email. I'm deeply sorry that my past personal mistakes have caused you so much discomfort. It's not fair to you, and it's not fair to the clients and partners we represent so vigorously and care so deeply about. He has a number of high profile clients, but a couple of them left, Abby Walmback and Chavalarone lost those two clients since these emails came out, the Olympic Committee said they were standing by Washerman, the essentially saying, so much of this stuff has come out now with stuff that was already publicly out there, so nothing has changed. So now he is going to give all of his attention to planning the Olympics.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting though, we've seen so many people around the world actually have to leave positions, step down. We just saw that big one Goldman Sachs I think was at the Norwegian ambassador, just people. The fallout has been significant in this latest drop. So for Wasserman to sell his agency is one thing. But it's interesting that the Olympic Committee's like, yeah, we're cool because.
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Speaker 2: They knew about it. It wouldn't that be weird just because you're finding out about it now we're paying attention to it. We knew this stuff already. And to that argument, I see that point. But Robes Epstein, how much stuff did he touch? He's dead and we are talking about the guy planning the freaking Olympics even is under scrutiny because of a relationship. This, this Epstein thing is I'm amazed at his relationships. It is stunning. It was a large web robes from the White House to the Olympics, just everything. Oh my goodness. Sorry, we'll stay with us here on this Monday. It's Monday.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Monday, your favorite day of the week, This Monday morning.
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Speaker 2: Run when we come back, Michael Jordan just picked up another major championship. Also, who won the weekend box office? Well we saw this when coming stick it.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone to this Monday morning run and next up on the run, Michael Jordan's having quite the celebration. He's used to being a champion, but he won a different kind of championship yesterday. We're talking the Daytona five hundred.
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Speaker 2: This dude's awesome. You could do whatever he's He's gonna win a championship in anything he does. But yes, Michael Jordan is a team owner and his car won the Daytona five hundred. The driver was Tyler Reddick. He's in some of the headlines, but so many people plays are so true. Michael Jordan won a championship. But Tyler Reddick, his driver, led for one lap of the Daytona five hundred. It was the last lap and it was the one that matters. So it was a couple of crashes on that final lap and let him dodge. He got around him cross finish line. To see Michael Jordan in a winter circle like that holding up a trophy. The dude's a six time champion in the NBA and just picked up probably the most regarded championship in NASCAR race.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty remarkable. And the smile on his face, he was so so happy. I mean, he's used to winning, but this one seemed extra special to him.
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Speaker 2: Well, that was very cool.
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Speaker 1: All right. For the final leg of the run, we are talking movies. Look, we've had a conversation about this particular movie in his house quite a bit. This was a this was expected to do well, but not as well as it did Wuthering Heights. But what a perfect weekend to put this movie out on Valentine's Day weekend. This is an acclaimed book that most of us girls read growing up, certainly I did. And it made thirty eight million bucks domestically forty two million internationally. And this did exceed all expectations.
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Speaker 2: Well, this doesn't happen the flip to where the money the movie makes more internationally than it does on the domestic front. That is pretty remarkable to see that number. How many how much the legs it's going to have is the question, Because it did cost quite a bit to make. It's made that money. It hasn't made the marketing money back yet, but it's not being that greatly reviewed.
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Speaker 1: But I still want to see it. Look, and also you've got Margot, Robbie.
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Speaker 2: And Jacob Frankenstein.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Malone, what's his thing so bad that he's the one who everyone knows all the girls are swooning over? Yes in Frankenstein, Lar d lerb el Jacob Ellerby. Yes, we're terrible. Oh my god, ler DC, Lordy, Hey man, apologies, my brother, Sorry man, we just had a moment.
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Speaker 2: It's Monday. We've been doing a lot of traveling.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I shouldn't bring up people until I've looked at yet, Jacob Elerdy.
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Speaker 2: Lordy Elarty tell us being to wake up god.
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Speaker 1: This we are showing our age. Every single person under the age of forty is laughing at us, and some people over the age of forty are laughing at us as well. But look, those two stars and their chemistry apparently is pretty electric. So I would go just to see that.
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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, fine, But seventy six percent of the audience of women.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and that's why on Valentine's Day us women were able to convince some of our significant others to come with us, but.
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Speaker 2: Half of the audience was women going alone.
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Speaker 1: Then Gallentine's Day is a big deal.
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Speaker 2: Too. Half of the audience was women going alone. I'm doing the numbers in my head. Seventy six percent women, twenty four percent were men. So that means all those men were probably with a woman.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine a man wanting to go see Wuthering Heights on his own? Maybe they're they're Margot Robbie fans. I could see, Okay, possibly, but.
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Speaker 2: If you're a Margot Robbie fan, you don't want to go see you making out with a good hotter than you are. So what's the point of that? That is remarkable? Seventy six percent women? But we knew this movie is going to do well? What's the one? Oh god, why do not I even bring up something I know I'm not going to be the book series? We had the three movies, uh, fifty Shades.
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Speaker 1: Fifty Shades.
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Speaker 2: I think they released those on Valentine's as well.
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Speaker 1: Yes, smart, I mean they know what women want and what women will go see. And certainly, if you maybe aren't with someone or you aren't in a relationship, it's fun to go to the movies with your girlfriends. That makes total sense.
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Speaker 2: But number two this weekend was Goat. That's Steph Curry's movie that he produced, animated movie and then crime one on one fifteen million dollars. That's the one with Thor and halle Berry. What's his name? We aren't remembering anybody this morning. The cad do play Thor? Oh my god, one.
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Speaker 1: Of the Hemsworths. Yes, okay, I don't know which one, which one? Chris?
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, y'all we're gonna get it together. The memories aren't working this morning. Apologies to Jacob Frankenstein and to Thor for not getting you all the names right this morning. Are we good on this?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, God of the day, please we need some inspiration after all of that.
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Speaker 2: You know, I'm going to give you some inspiration. Everybody's familiar with the serenity prayer, right, yes, yes, God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, kurage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. That's usually where we stop. I was fascinated years and years ago to learn there was so much more to the prayer. So your quote of the day today is the line that comes after the part of the serenity to prayer that you already know and I thought this was great Ropes quote living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardships as the pathway to peace, taking as he did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.
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Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know. It's almost a better line.
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Speaker 1: I agree the first. That's one of those that basically that all of it is acceptance at the end of the day, and acceptance brings you peace. Accepting who people are, Accepting the weather you don't like, accepting the traffic you weren't anticipating, just accept it. That is beautiful.
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Speaker 2: And I never knew there was so much more to the serenity prayers or take that with you today, certainly the parts you know, God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference, living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardships as the pathway the peace, taking as he did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it. And with that, we always appreciate you running with us again, Jacob Chris our bad We know exactly who you are. We're just having a Monday morning brain fart, so apologies and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 1: Morris and I'm Ayby Revok. We hope y'all have a wonderful Monday. We'll be talking to you soon
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there everybody, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Monday, TJ's favorite day of the week, February sixteenth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ Holmes favorite day. But got put in a bad mood watching men's Was it slalom?
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Speaker 1: Just slalom? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Men slalom? What is happening? They fifty sixty percent of them weren't making it down the hill because of conditions. Why can't they call it? It's like, wait, We'll wait until it's better.
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Speaker 1: I think, just from a timeline standpoint, you're just subject to conditions and it's tough to watch. People who started out at the beginning had much better conditions, and then the snow coming down, it just started deteriorating and that is when people just started not finishing or crashing. It was tough to watch.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome to your Morning Run. I start with the morning beef with the Olympics. It's just I'm not used to watching the sport that much, but it seemed unfair or wrong. If the conditions aren't okay to the point most people aren't making it down, then how is this a fair competition anyway, but speed skating started and I got excited again. So that's the Olympics. We'll be talking more Olympics this morning. But it is President's Day. Most people are need to know. It is a federal holiday. The banks are closed, post office is closed, stock exchange is closed, all your state local government schools closed. But you should be able to get good sales. Don't they do President's Day?
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Speaker 1: Saying they do? Isn't it like mattresses and things like that? I feel like household items.
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Speaker 2: So Happy President's Day, even though today is not actually President's Day, ropes. I don't know if we remember this or we were taught this, but the official holiday is not called President's Day. Instead, today is Washington's birthday. That is the name, the official federal holiday name is Washington's Birthday.
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Speaker 1: Did not know that?
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Speaker 2: Do you remember? Did we know it at some point and then we forgot it?
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Speaker 1: I guess because I always thought it was Lincoln's birthday.
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Speaker 2: Here we go, there it is, and that's where we get it twisted. So back in the eighteen hundreds they proposed a bill to commemorate Washington's birthday. We've been doing it since the eighteen eighties. By the fact, an Arkansas senator actually proposed the bill. Another little nugget for you, but it became Washington's birthdays. In the nineteen sixty eight, Congress wanted to combine Washington and Lincoln's birthdays as a celebration and rename the day, but they rejected that. So it continues to be Washington's birthday officially. But then retailers started using the three day weekend to want to sell items. They started calling it President's Day.
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Speaker 1: Wow, and that stuck because that's all I know today as.
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Speaker 2: Because you wouldn't say, oh, what are you doing this weekend and going to that Washington Birthday sale at Target?
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Speaker 1: No, it doesn't never that before in my life.
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Speaker 2: So isn't that crazy? The reason we call it President's Day is because big time retailers push that name. So here we are.
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Speaker 1: It all comes back to money, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: Wow, We got a centircle Monday, I have it. But yes, happy Washington's Birthday today. But the Olympics going on robes. We did a podcast about it yesterday. But the Americans have been struggling. The big time Americans have been struggling and doing were a little behind in the metal count and particularly the gold metal count right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, not doing so well here, but not shocking. When you think about the Winter Olympics, who's on top. It's Norway, who they know a little something about Nordic weather. Yeah, they've got twelve gold medals twenty six total. Italy the home country, the host country, has eight gold medals with twenty two medals in total. United States coming in third with five gold seventeen overall, Netherlands five gold eleven overall, and Sweden five gold eleven overall.
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Speaker 2: Italy is doing well. We talked about home court advantage, if you will, at the Olympics. I was looking at it. You have one hundred percent right the two Olympics that the Winter Games that the Americans did best in Number one was Vancouver, close enough close, but you know the second Salt Lake City.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that makes so much sense.
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Speaker 2: That's the most medals. So keep an eye out today. Pairs figure skating. We're planning our day around this final today with two American teams are in the top ten and then rod This should be noted, Johannes Clabo from Norway is now the Michael Phelps of the Winter Games. He has more gold medals than anybody in Winter Olympics history, and he did it over the weekend. That's worth noting.
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Speaker 1: That's special, that's very cool and very impressive, no doubt when we've just been watching NonStop Olympics. That will continue today and throughout the rest of the week. But in the meantime, our morning run takes us to Washington, d C, New Jersey, Daytona, Los Angeles, and yes we'll dip back into Milan, but we have to begin our run in Tucson, Arizona, where Savannah Guthrie has issued another public plea to the person holding her mom or to the person or persons who know where she is or where the abductor is. We are now in the third week of this search, and there have been a few developments over the weekend. Those gloves that were reported found along the side of the road about two miles from Nancy Guthrie's home, will they now say they believe those match the gloves that the suspect wore in that surveillance video and they have found DNA evidence in or on those gloves that.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Savana Guthrie put out another video. There's not about a minute fifteen seconds long, saying that they still believe that their mother is out there. But this was an important line quote. I wanted to say to whoever has her or knows where she is, that it's never too late, and you're not lost or alone, and it is never too late to do the right thing. Again, Robescene, it like just we run out of options for making pleas. We said we'll pay and nothing so that she's pleaing or making a direct plea to someone's decency and humanity. We will see if that happens to work. But a reminder, folks, there have been no suspects named, no persons of interest identified, and at this point no body being detained. So this continues all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, your TSA agents are once again going without pay. Yes, that partial shutdown of the government began on Friday night at midnight. This is all over funding the Department of Homeland Security. This is all in the aftermath of what we saw happened in Minneapolis. Democrats are demanding reforms for ICE agents and how they operate, but right now they seem to be at an impasse. Those Democrats and Republicans no signs of a solution, insight, and.
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Speaker 2: A reminder here the Department of Homeland Security. Yes, all this fight is over ICE, but under DHS you also have just mentioned TSA, you have border Patrol, you got the Hoard, you got the Secret Service, you got FEMA. So money has been moved around in some budgets. So it's not clear how many of them will and won't get paid, but TSA, those won't be getting paid, and a number of other people are going to possibly be furloughed and be losing out on checks if this thing goes much much longer. BUTES, we don't know how much longer, and why the hell are they in recess? The government is President's Day.
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Speaker 1: We just told you.
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Speaker 2: Sorry if I just told you it was Washington's birthday, by the way, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we head to New Jersey, where a fifty nine year old Paul Canaro was found guilty on Friday, and pretty quickly. Canaro was convicted for the horrific murders of his own brother, sister in law, his eleven year old nephew, and his eight year old niece. He then set their home on fire and then went back to his own house and set that on fire as well to cover up the crimes and make authorities believe that he and his family were also victims.
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Speaker 2: And the motive here, according to prosecutors, was simply money. Canarow was holding a house of hearts. They described his financial situation during this trial Robes. That was just teetering, it sounded like. But the jury deliberated. What'd you say? They said, it didn't take them long. A few hours. A long and complicated case with all this evidence. They didn't take long.
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Speaker 1: An a month's long trial. That's a very good point. They knew pretty quickly. They had a significant amount of evidence, from surveillance video to cash receipts to testimony from folks. I mean they had the audio calls. The last time we heard his brother Keith canaro and demanding answers for the money that Paul had stolen. So there were a lot of smoking guns.
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Speaker 2: Now May twelfth is his sentencing. I guess that's a formality. We know it's going to happen. Now. There will be opportunities here, which is important for victim impact statements. But as far as how much time he's going to get, he's not stepping out of prison again. The rest of his life.
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Speaker 1: That is correct, all right. Next up on the Run, we are hearing from former President Barack Obama for the first time since Trump. President Trump reposted that ape video that we heard so much about that it's just a short while ago, a few days ago. Well, he was talking on a podcast over the weekend. He didn't directly address that ape video, but he did discuss the impact of Trump's rhetoric, and.
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Speaker 2: He said, the majority of American people find this behavior deeply troubling. It is true that it gets attention. It's true that it's a distraction. He continued on here that I think most of us believe that, right. He said that this country, most people still believe in decency, courtesy, kindness, and that this sort of clown show that's happening in social media and on television. And what is true is that there doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum, and that's something there's no shame about it, like people are proudly insulting each other left and right. If you'll remember, President Trump was criticized by lawmakers on the left and the right when that video went up. The President did take it down, blamed a staffer, I believe, yes, but wouldn't apologize for it condemn it either. He never would just come out and say, yeah, that's a deplorable image, that's awful. I wouldn't have done that hat I've seen. He did never say that.
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Speaker 1: Nope, And everyone was hoping for the best, but certainly that did not occur. And I thought President Obama was very classy in his response to it.
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Speaker 2: All, and it didn't seem to be bothering him. When we saw him at the NBA All Star Game yesterday, he seemed to be at He's just fine.
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Speaker 1: Lois loose and having fun doing what he loves.
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Speaker 2: You know what. It was very cool to see him hanging and enjoying retirement. I know he's still active, he's still busy, but man, to be out of this mess has to feel good, and it retirement looks good on him.
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Speaker 1: It does, it does indeed, all right. Next up on the run, Hollywood mogul and the chairman of the twenty twenty eight LA Olympics Organizing Committee. We're talking about Casey Wasserman. He's announced that he is selling his talent agency after growing scrutiny about his ties to Gallaine Maxwell. In that recent Epstein files drop, there were a number of emails between Wasserman and Galanine Maxwell where Wasserman says he wants to see Maxwell where a tight leather outfit. In another email, he tells her, I think of you all the time. And in these documents, it was also documented that Wasserman flew on Epstein's plane once, but he claims it was for a humanitarian trip to Africa.
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Speaker 2: Okay, And this is what he said to his staff in an email. I'm deeply sorry that my past personal mistakes have caused you so much discomfort. It's not fair to you, and it's not fair to the clients and partners we represent so vigorously and care so deeply about. He has a number of high profile clients, but a couple of them left, Abby Walmback and Chavalarone lost those two clients since these emails came out, the Olympic Committee said they were standing by Washerman, the essentially saying, so much of this stuff has come out now with stuff that was already publicly out there, so nothing has changed. So now he is going to give all of his attention to planning the Olympics.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting though, we've seen so many people around the world actually have to leave positions, step down. We just saw that big one Goldman Sachs I think was at the Norwegian ambassador, just people. The fallout has been significant in this latest drop. So for Wasserman to sell his agency is one thing. But it's interesting that the Olympic Committee's like, yeah, we're cool because.
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Speaker 2: They knew about it. It wouldn't that be weird just because you're finding out about it now we're paying attention to it. We knew this stuff already. And to that argument, I see that point. But Robes Epstein, how much stuff did he touch? He's dead and we are talking about the guy planning the freaking Olympics even is under scrutiny because of a relationship. This, this Epstein thing is I'm amazed at his relationships. It is stunning. It was a large web robes from the White House to the Olympics, just everything. Oh my goodness. Sorry, we'll stay with us here on this Monday. It's Monday.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Monday, your favorite day of the week, This Monday morning.
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Speaker 2: Run when we come back, Michael Jordan just picked up another major championship. Also, who won the weekend box office? Well we saw this when coming stick it.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone to this Monday morning run and next up on the run, Michael Jordan's having quite the celebration. He's used to being a champion, but he won a different kind of championship yesterday. We're talking the Daytona five hundred.
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Speaker 2: This dude's awesome. You could do whatever he's He's gonna win a championship in anything he does. But yes, Michael Jordan is a team owner and his car won the Daytona five hundred. The driver was Tyler Reddick. He's in some of the headlines, but so many people plays are so true. Michael Jordan won a championship. But Tyler Reddick, his driver, led for one lap of the Daytona five hundred. It was the last lap and it was the one that matters. So it was a couple of crashes on that final lap and let him dodge. He got around him cross finish line. To see Michael Jordan in a winter circle like that holding up a trophy. The dude's a six time champion in the NBA and just picked up probably the most regarded championship in NASCAR race.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty remarkable. And the smile on his face, he was so so happy. I mean, he's used to winning, but this one seemed extra special to him.
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Speaker 2: Well, that was very cool.
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Speaker 1: All right. For the final leg of the run, we are talking movies. Look, we've had a conversation about this particular movie in his house quite a bit. This was a this was expected to do well, but not as well as it did Wuthering Heights. But what a perfect weekend to put this movie out on Valentine's Day weekend. This is an acclaimed book that most of us girls read growing up, certainly I did. And it made thirty eight million bucks domestically forty two million internationally. And this did exceed all expectations.
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Speaker 2: Well, this doesn't happen the flip to where the money the movie makes more internationally than it does on the domestic front. That is pretty remarkable to see that number. How many how much the legs it's going to have is the question, Because it did cost quite a bit to make. It's made that money. It hasn't made the marketing money back yet, but it's not being that greatly reviewed.
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Speaker 1: But I still want to see it. Look, and also you've got Margot, Robbie.
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Speaker 2: And Jacob Frankenstein.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Malone, what's his thing so bad that he's the one who everyone knows all the girls are swooning over? Yes in Frankenstein, Lar d lerb el Jacob Ellerby. Yes, we're terrible. Oh my god, ler DC, Lordy, Hey man, apologies, my brother, Sorry man, we just had a moment.
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Speaker 2: It's Monday. We've been doing a lot of traveling.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I shouldn't bring up people until I've looked at yet, Jacob Elerdy.
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Speaker 2: Lordy Elarty tell us being to wake up god.
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Speaker 1: This we are showing our age. Every single person under the age of forty is laughing at us, and some people over the age of forty are laughing at us as well. But look, those two stars and their chemistry apparently is pretty electric. So I would go just to see that.
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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, fine, But seventy six percent of the audience of women.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and that's why on Valentine's Day us women were able to convince some of our significant others to come with us, but.
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Speaker 2: Half of the audience was women going alone.
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Speaker 1: Then Gallentine's Day is a big deal.
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Speaker 2: Too. Half of the audience was women going alone. I'm doing the numbers in my head. Seventy six percent women, twenty four percent were men. So that means all those men were probably with a woman.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine a man wanting to go see Wuthering Heights on his own? Maybe they're they're Margot Robbie fans. I could see, Okay, possibly, but.
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Speaker 2: If you're a Margot Robbie fan, you don't want to go see you making out with a good hotter than you are. So what's the point of that? That is remarkable? Seventy six percent women? But we knew this movie is going to do well? What's the one? Oh god, why do not I even bring up something I know I'm not going to be the book series? We had the three movies, uh, fifty Shades.
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Speaker 1: Fifty Shades.
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Speaker 2: I think they released those on Valentine's as well.
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Speaker 1: Yes, smart, I mean they know what women want and what women will go see. And certainly, if you maybe aren't with someone or you aren't in a relationship, it's fun to go to the movies with your girlfriends. That makes total sense.
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Speaker 2: But number two this weekend was Goat. That's Steph Curry's movie that he produced, animated movie and then crime one on one fifteen million dollars. That's the one with Thor and halle Berry. What's his name? We aren't remembering anybody this morning. The cad do play Thor? Oh my god, one.
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Speaker 1: Of the Hemsworths. Yes, okay, I don't know which one, which one? Chris?
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, y'all we're gonna get it together. The memories aren't working this morning. Apologies to Jacob Frankenstein and to Thor for not getting you all the names right this morning. Are we good on this?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, God of the day, please we need some inspiration after all of that.
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Speaker 2: You know, I'm going to give you some inspiration. Everybody's familiar with the serenity prayer, right, yes, yes, God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, kurage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. That's usually where we stop. I was fascinated years and years ago to learn there was so much more to the prayer. So your quote of the day today is the line that comes after the part of the serenity to prayer that you already know and I thought this was great Ropes quote living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardships as the pathway to peace, taking as he did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.
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Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know. It's almost a better line.
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Speaker 1: I agree the first. That's one of those that basically that all of it is acceptance at the end of the day, and acceptance brings you peace. Accepting who people are, Accepting the weather you don't like, accepting the traffic you weren't anticipating, just accept it. That is beautiful.
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Speaker 2: And I never knew there was so much more to the serenity prayers or take that with you today, certainly the parts you know, God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference, living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardships as the pathway the peace, taking as he did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it. And with that, we always appreciate you running with us again, Jacob Chris our bad We know exactly who you are. We're just having a Monday morning brain fart, so apologies and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 1: Morris and I'm Ayby Revok. We hope y'all have a wonderful Monday. We'll be talking to you soon