April 17, 2026
Morning Run: Nancy Guthrie DNA Sample, Pope’s Brother Bomb Scare, More NFL Reporter Fallout, Commencement Speaker Canceled and Top Gun 3
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Friday, April seventeenth. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 1: Big day for us, really really big day because there's a big horror movie and we are nervous to go to it.
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Speaker 2: Rose.
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Speaker 1: This is everything, folks. The Mummy is coming out, Lee Cronin is The Mummy is out now and it has us nervous. You were looking at reviews right before we started. What was the one that was funny? The meal one you talked about?
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Speaker 2: Yes, someone So, by the way, they have all been very passionate. These critics have either loved it or hated it. But mostly the biggest complaint is that it's just too scary, and maybe it's too long to be that scary, not intensely scared. So I thought that was pretty telling. But this was the funny one from the Wall Street Journal. It is advisable not to see the movie immediately after a meal or really ever. That is the Wall Street Journal's critic.
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Speaker 1: Okay, and for us to hear that means we need to run to the theater. So this is happening today. Noon showing, and we're gonna put it. We're gonna do the episode afterwards.
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Speaker 2: Either we'll put it up tonight or tomorrow, but we'll definitely have a review for you on The Mummy and let you know whether or not we think you should see it.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's how we're going to start on this Friday. Wherever you may be, hope you're getting off to a good start on this Friday. We got a lot of stops to make on this morning's run, all over the country, all over the world. But let's begin. Robes. You have question marks in the script here next to it when you say hopeful news.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I said, we will begin our run with some hopeful news because unfortunately you just can't trust the source. And when I say the SOURUS, you'll understand. President Trump is telling reporters that the war with the Ran should be ending pretty soon. He said Iran has agreed to hand over nuclear dust that was buried by US air strikes last summer.
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Speaker 1: A couple of things here. How long haven't we heard pretty soon? Shouldn't be long? I think it was two to three weeks, So we've heard that a lot. And that's why we have to wonder, can we believe what we're hearing now? Nuclear dust? I heard that said several times. I'm glad you put this in here. But he's been referring to highly enriched uranium as nuclear dust. So if they agreed to hand all that over robe, that is a really big development. So the presidential reporters, there's a lot of agreement going on with Iran. He did this on his way to Marine One on Thursday. He said, quote, I think something's going to happen, very positive, very important.
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Speaker 2: And when he landed in Vegas, he later told a crowd at an event there, the war with Iran is going along swimmingly. It should be ending pretty soon. Trump also announced a ten day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, which seems to be holding. I guess it took effect at five pm Eastern time on Thursday.
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Speaker 1: Did he really say swimmingly?
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Speaker 2: He said swimmingly.
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Speaker 1: That was a direct quote, the war with Iran is going swimmingly. Yes, also a word of a possible second round of talks. It was been talking about this a lot over the past couple of days and thought something could even happen this weekend, but nothing confirmed. Yes, the two sides. That was just last week that they met in Pakistan with no deal coming out of that.
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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the Run, the Director of ICE is stepping down. Todd Lyons had been serving as the acting director since March of last year and oversaw that controversial ICE operation that played out on our TV screens every night in Minneapolis, La. You named the Chicago, you named the city.
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Speaker 1: All right. The announcement that he's stepping down came on the same day he actually testified before Congress about ICE operations. Don't know if those two things were connected at all, but the hearing wasn't. Necessarily it didn't go swimmingly for him. We should say, continue on the run here now. Doctor Erica Schwartz has been nominated as the new director of the CDC. The agency has been without a permanent director for just about all of Trump's second term. I saw one person's calculation one outlet saying that there's only been one month that there's been a permanent CDC director in his entire second terms.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 2: Schwartz served as Deputy Surgeon General during the first Trump administration. She is a retired rear admiral with the Coastguard and she is a actual real doctor.
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Speaker 1: Yes, continuing on the run here Now some promising news we're told now coming out of the Nancy Guthrie case. Yeah, there is an update here. We need to put this fully in context. So been a lot of headlines about it, But the FBI is now just received potentially critical DNA that was recovered from Nancy Guthrie's home nearly three months ago. Officials confirmed a hair sample that came from more than one person is now being analyzed. And Ropes I was asking you a bunch of questions about this. This isn't newly discovered DNA. They've just been able to do something new with it.
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Speaker 2: Now, correct. So, the Pima County Sheriff's Department had already described and had already told reporters about this hair sample, but described it as being so tangled. They said it could take up to six months to separate the strands before they'd be able to test them, which is kind of confusing to me, but apparently now Yes, FBI officials confirmed the sheriff's office originally sent that hair sample to a private lab in Florida. Eleven weeks later. That lab is now transferred an original hair sample to the FBI laboratory for testing. We remain fully committed to this investigation. So the hope is that this hair sample could lead to a suspect. So that is what the hope is. Of course, Nancy Gothrie has been missing since February.
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Speaker 1: First, I want to continue on this Friday run now, and I guess the FBI's ten most Wanted future doves. When you put them on that list, it works. They catch these folks because they put somebody on that list and the very next day that person got caught. We're talking about Kashan Nicola Roper arrested in Florida after being on the run for nearly six years.
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Speaker 2: That's right. A tip was called in from that announcement which offered a reward of up to one million dollars for information leading to Roper's arrest, So that million dollars got someone talking. Roper is accused of killing one woman and injuring another after shooting into a vehicle during a fight. If this happened in August of twenty twenty. Again, she's been on the run for six years. She's now being held without bond in a Florida jail. But that's undeniable. You put out the list. The next day, she's arrested million dollars. Though it's motivating.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't turn you in for a million, but eight figures. I would at least sit down and talk about it. That's understandable, um, isn't she she was one of only two women. There's still one woman on the most wor list. Okay, wow, one woman on there one day?
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Continuing on the run here now, Utah Valley University has dropped its plan and commencement speaker New York Times bestselling author and podcaster Sharon McMahon, robe, you were getting me caught up on this. I'm still trying to get a handle.
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Speaker 2: This is a crazy story. We're going to go into more detail on this. Look for this on the weekend because this is a big story. So there was a growing outcry among some students and Republican officials who are very public about how they felt about McMahon because of some past comments she made about Charlie Kirk. Let's remind you the university was, in fact this site of Kirk's assassination last September, so you can understand why that would be extra sensitive in terms of that subject matter.
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Speaker 1: And would that also mean you be extra careful about who you choose as your commencement speaker, one would think. Okay, So McMahon published some posts. Okay, they've been deleted now, but this is what she wrote shortly after his assassination quote. It's important to remember that the incredible tragedy of a public assassination does not erase the harm Mini experienced from his words and the ensuing actions his followers took.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so she put out some statements that upset folks because they claimed they were taken out of context. And so to have now her come and give the commencementment address at the same university where he was assassinated just didn't sit well with a lot of people. So, UV you said, it's no longer going to have a speaker at all for the April twenty ninth graduation ceremony, and they told students it was because of this due to increased safety concerns related to the speaker, and in consultation with public safety professionals and Sharon McMahon, Utah Valley University has decided to proceed without a featured commencement speaker for this year's ceremony, So it sounds like she was getting threats.
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Speaker 1: But way, what's the official word did they? They said they dropped a plan, but not drop her necessary. That the right way to put it. They're not saying we are dropping her because of her past comments.
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Speaker 2: They're saying they're dropping her because of security concerns. Okay, and that is most likely based on her past comments.
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Speaker 1: What has she said? You said, there's a kind of a back and forth going on.
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Speaker 2: Well, her people put out a very defiant defense basically of the post she put out initially saying, look, she never ever, ever didn't acknowledge the tragedy and how awful it was, and she condemned the killing and shooting of Charlie Kirk. She was never ever on that page, but she still felt like it was important to provide the context in which Charlie Kirk lived his life.
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Speaker 1: Wow, what do you do with that? I guess to some that could be offensive, But what an opportunity to do what exactly Charlie Kirk was trying.
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Speaker 2: That's what they were saying. Yes, that absolutely this was in the spirit of the dialogue. You can have different opinions about messaging, but she never was one of those folks who was celebrating his death or in fact, she was very clear in her posts. Even when she took issue with his beliefs in what he had said, she never took issue with the fact that he should not have suffered any violence.
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Speaker 1: You're right, we should talk about You were saying, this is a good story and we should talk about this.
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Speaker 2: It really is.
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Speaker 1: I do a lot.
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Speaker 2: It's really interesting.
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Speaker 1: It feels like right now a missed opportunity to do something special on that campus. But we will get into that later. Continue on the run here now. Police investigating a bomb threat at the suburban Chicago home of one of Pope Leo's brothers, John Prevost. Police say the threat came in around six thirty Wednesday night.
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Speaker 2: Officers secured a perimeter around Prevosts home. They even evacuated all the neighbors in the area. They took this very seriously, but after a thorough search of the residents and the surrounding property, police determined that the threat was quote unsubstantiated.
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Speaker 1: So no active investigation, no excuse me. There is now an active investigation to who made this threat, and of course making a false report is a serious events could result in criminal charges. Yes, it could be a coincidence. But really, right now, with the back and forth with Trump and the Pope, and that's happened, and this happens, it's.
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Speaker 2: Why I'm sure or they took it even more seriously because the rhetoric was at a fever pitch this week and that could have possibly incited or motivated somebody to do something based on this few that's going on, this public few between Trump and the Pope. All right. Next up on the run, Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax was facing a deadline to move out of his family home when he decided to kill his wife and then himself instead.
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Speaker 1: According to police, a shocking, really a devastating story out of this is a tragedy in a lot of ways. But Fairfax and his wife were still living in the same home. But we're going through a divorce, according to court records. Now, a judge had ordered Fairfax to move out of the family home by April thirtieth. Their bodies were found yesterday early yesterday at their home, and Annandale police say Fairfax shot his wife in the basement and went upstairs shot himself in the bedroom.
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Speaker 2: And sadly their teenage children were at the house at the time of the show shooting. It was their oldest son who was the one to call nine one one, So hearts just go out to those kids. That just is an unspeakable and unthinkable tragedy to have to live through.
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Speaker 1: I will stay with us here on this Friday morning. Ron When we come back, we have an update on the President's ballroom on the White House lawn essentially, well, a judge has stepped in has said stop building that thing, and he even gave the administration a slap on the wrist. We'll explain. Also, another person has lost a job, and that whole NFL coach NFL reporter scandal we'll explain. And top Gun, you do not have to wait another thirty years for a sequel construction of the much talked about Did I say welcome back?
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Speaker 2: You didn't. You just went right right in.
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Speaker 1: Babe, I'm excited. Okay, let's go right, So let me try that again. Let's run it back. So what I'm saying is, I'm really glad you're all here on this Friday. I hope you're doing well, and we're going to continue on this Friday morning, ron with construction of the much talked about and controversial, big beautiful ballroom. Well, construction robes must stop.
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Speaker 2: That's right. A federal judge issued a ruling yesterday ordering the Trump administration to halt construction of the four hundred million dollar ballroom. And this is the second time he's had to tell them to stop building.
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Speaker 1: They broad, this is so good. The previous order in March had ordered that the construction stopped, but the administration found a way around that order by arguing that construction was a matter of national security. They say, if it's not finished, it's exposing some part underneath that could lead to the executive mansion, So we have to complete the construction. Well, the judge didn't appreciate that response and call their effort ropes incredible and disingenuous.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he also called their argument on reas and not a correct reading of his order. He wants Congress, he says, they need to approve the construction. It shouldn't be something that a president should be able to do. It's not his house, I believe he said initially, it's the people's house. He's the guardian, the custodian of the House. But he is not the owner of the house. He doesn't get to make those decisions without Congress's approval.
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Speaker 1: And the house is going to be a mess for a while if they don't get this cleaned up.
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Speaker 2: The problem is it's already been destructed, so you're going to have to construct something.
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Speaker 1: All right, we're doing on the run here now. Somebody else has now lost a job in the fallout from those photos appearing to show a very close relationship between New England Patriots head coach Mike Rabel and NFL reporter Diana Russini. Now Russini, we got word this week, has already resigned her position from The Atlantic, which is the Athletic.
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Speaker 2: You said the Atlantic, but it was close the Athletic Atlantic. It's a magazine. Well, it's a circulation. Yeah, the Atlantic. I've almost said it a couple of times because I've been not why when you did it, I was like, oh, I've almost done that.
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Speaker 1: You can wait, Athletic you were ready, you were on it.
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Speaker 2: Because my mind has gone there several times too.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, yes, Diana Recini worked for The Athletic, which is the sports arm of the New York Times. She's a longtime NFL reporter. But yes, those photos came out. They are what they are, but clearly showing a closeness to the two of them, that if you saw the pictures and had no idea who they are, you would assume they were a couple. He's the best way to quit.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And the New York Times was investigating. The Athletic was investigating to see if it even showed even a suggestion of impropriety, and so she resigned. But then USA Today's Sports has severed its relationship with reporter Chrissy Freud for a social media post where she put out disparaging Racini. This was her tweet. I'm sure you were told to submit this or that you'd get fired instead. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. We know who you really are and what you've been up to for years. It does so much detriment to women in sports who have done things the right way. Ouch.
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Speaker 1: If that's how she felt, that's how she felt. You said it early before we got out, You said, Rhodes, why kick her when she's down.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's lost her reputation, she's lost her job. She I'm sure he is trying to repair some damage done with her family, and like it's unnecessary to kick her while she's down.
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Speaker 1: This is she's gonna say. She has a right to speak, She has a right to speak her mind, she has a right to do whatever. But that tweet shows more about Chrissy than it does about Rassini right now. I mean, somebody is really devastating if it's of her own doing the Rasini thing.
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Speaker 2: That was a tough one, so unnecessary. It was very mean girl.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so USA Today Sports I did put out a statement they let her go, said ended its contractor relationship with Chrissy Ford effective immediately, said her recent statements do not reflect our commitment to professionalism or a whole our principles of ethical conduct. She just put out something she felt was a what does she know? Like she's saying as if it's fact. She's just ah, God, she's.
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Speaker 2: Implying that, yeah, that, yes, exactly what you think. I don't even want to add to it. All right, for the final leg of our run, we had to wait thirty six years. I didn't even realize that for a sequel to the original Top Gun. Well, we're not going to have to wait that long for the next one, because yes, it is official. Top Gun three is happening.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been rumored and talked about with a made it officially official yesterday. Paramount made the announcement at CinemaCon. It's been happening in Vegas this week. So Top Gun, Maverick everybody will remember, made one point five billion dollars at the box office. That's a huge hit. What was the budget? I think just under two hundred million, so it was a huge, huge hit. But rooms I think I forgot how phenomenal it was because this was still coming out of the pandemic. This was a pandemic era movie, and Tom Cruise played a very crucial role in getting the movie industry going again. I forgot how much credit he should be given in that movie and everybody for really getting the ball rolling again at box offices. So it's good to hear top I don't know, I didn't see when they said it was gonna be coming out.
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Speaker 2: Though, Uh wow, we need a date. But yes, we will obviously be going immediately to the theaters as soon as that comes out. And look, we normally we're gonna go to our quote of the day. But it's interesting because this quote I was inspired by a Pete Hegseth story that you can find on our feed just before morning Ron.
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Speaker 1: Wow, okay, this is I can't wait to hear this. You're inspired by Pete Hegseth, the.
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Speaker 2: Pete Heegsas story. We'd love everyone to check it out. It is the episode right before this where we talk about Pete Hegsthess. I can't talk Pete heg Set's prayer that he read aloud during his weekly prayer vigil. But fortunately for him, that really wasn't a prayer from the Bible. That actually was a quote from Paul Fiction.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a great quote from Samuey L. Jackson right before he killed a guy. Yeah, if you know the movie, you will know the scene and the line with falling you with furious anger, and I will strike down those who oppose me, and you will know my name is the law that that whole.
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Speaker 2: Scene right, So we actually this is great. We go through line by line and you can hear it's indisputable. It is verbatim. Pete haig Seth is quoting pulp fiction. So anyway, the Pentagon's response is pretty funny because put on brand, but it's completely on brand. Because they only blame the media. He cannot admit that he didn't know that he was quoting pulp fiction. So quote of the day, everybody that.
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Speaker 1: Was all, okay.
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Speaker 2: My quote of the day. And look, not just Pete hag Seth, all of us are guilty of this. This is interesting, heal. So you can hear what's being said without the filter of your wound.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you do. Everything goes through the pain you had before. Everything gets filtered through how you right in that relationship, through.
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Speaker 2: Your insecurities, through a trigger that you may have. And so even if someone didn't mean to whatever, Like for instance, if Pete Hegxsats said, oh my gosh, that's so funny. I loved what these guys were saying. But I didn't even put two in two just to admit it and have fun with it and enjoy it and lean into it. But he couldn't admit. He can't stand to think that someone might believe he doesn't know the Bible, or that he's been fooled, or that he didn't know exactly what he was saying. And that is your ego. And look, we've all been in that position. I'm not trying to just point the finger at him, But it just brought this up for each of us in our own lives. We can remember and recall, Hey, wait, am I responding to something through my pain of a past grievance? Or am I actually listening to what's being said in its reality? And that's something we all if we can be more we're aware of it, we can help conversations and prepare relationships. Well.
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Speaker 1: I love how you humanized Pete Hexath. It wasn't to his benefit necessarily, and the behavior is to his detriment, but you humanized him, and that we all do that. We're looking at something that seems to be simple. Yes you quote it the movie. What keeps you from just saying? Oops?
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Speaker 2: Yep?
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Speaker 1: Make it an opportunity? We'd love to get Samuel eld to the Pentagon. I love that movie. That line was so well written that it inspired our troops. What else you got, can, Quentin Tarantino? What else you can you send us? There was an opportunity here.
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Speaker 2: To have some fun and lean in, but it's so hard to admit that. We feel foolish or we feel like we didn't know what we were supposed to know. So everybody think about.
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Speaker 1: This that's a good that my heart is softening to Pete Hexath, it's crab. Please don't misinterpret what I'm saying. But he's a human being, and that is a human response to something. Oh man, that one today.
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Speaker 2: Wow? All right, everybody once again so you can hear it in the back heal, so you can hear what's being said without the filter of your wound and without everyone. Thank you for running with us.
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Speaker 1: I made me ROBOTJ hold talk to y'll suit
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Friday, April seventeenth. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 1: Big day for us, really really big day because there's a big horror movie and we are nervous to go to it.
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Speaker 2: Rose.
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Speaker 1: This is everything, folks. The Mummy is coming out, Lee Cronin is The Mummy is out now and it has us nervous. You were looking at reviews right before we started. What was the one that was funny? The meal one you talked about?
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Speaker 2: Yes, someone So, by the way, they have all been very passionate. These critics have either loved it or hated it. But mostly the biggest complaint is that it's just too scary, and maybe it's too long to be that scary, not intensely scared. So I thought that was pretty telling. But this was the funny one from the Wall Street Journal. It is advisable not to see the movie immediately after a meal or really ever. That is the Wall Street Journal's critic.
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Speaker 1: Okay, and for us to hear that means we need to run to the theater. So this is happening today. Noon showing, and we're gonna put it. We're gonna do the episode afterwards.
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Speaker 2: Either we'll put it up tonight or tomorrow, but we'll definitely have a review for you on The Mummy and let you know whether or not we think you should see it.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's how we're going to start on this Friday. Wherever you may be, hope you're getting off to a good start on this Friday. We got a lot of stops to make on this morning's run, all over the country, all over the world. But let's begin. Robes. You have question marks in the script here next to it when you say hopeful news.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I said, we will begin our run with some hopeful news because unfortunately you just can't trust the source. And when I say the SOURUS, you'll understand. President Trump is telling reporters that the war with the Ran should be ending pretty soon. He said Iran has agreed to hand over nuclear dust that was buried by US air strikes last summer.
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Speaker 1: A couple of things here. How long haven't we heard pretty soon? Shouldn't be long? I think it was two to three weeks, So we've heard that a lot. And that's why we have to wonder, can we believe what we're hearing now? Nuclear dust? I heard that said several times. I'm glad you put this in here. But he's been referring to highly enriched uranium as nuclear dust. So if they agreed to hand all that over robe, that is a really big development. So the presidential reporters, there's a lot of agreement going on with Iran. He did this on his way to Marine One on Thursday. He said, quote, I think something's going to happen, very positive, very important.
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Speaker 2: And when he landed in Vegas, he later told a crowd at an event there, the war with Iran is going along swimmingly. It should be ending pretty soon. Trump also announced a ten day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, which seems to be holding. I guess it took effect at five pm Eastern time on Thursday.
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Speaker 1: Did he really say swimmingly?
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Speaker 2: He said swimmingly.
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Speaker 1: That was a direct quote, the war with Iran is going swimmingly. Yes, also a word of a possible second round of talks. It was been talking about this a lot over the past couple of days and thought something could even happen this weekend, but nothing confirmed. Yes, the two sides. That was just last week that they met in Pakistan with no deal coming out of that.
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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the Run, the Director of ICE is stepping down. Todd Lyons had been serving as the acting director since March of last year and oversaw that controversial ICE operation that played out on our TV screens every night in Minneapolis, La. You named the Chicago, you named the city.
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Speaker 1: All right. The announcement that he's stepping down came on the same day he actually testified before Congress about ICE operations. Don't know if those two things were connected at all, but the hearing wasn't. Necessarily it didn't go swimmingly for him. We should say, continue on the run here now. Doctor Erica Schwartz has been nominated as the new director of the CDC. The agency has been without a permanent director for just about all of Trump's second term. I saw one person's calculation one outlet saying that there's only been one month that there's been a permanent CDC director in his entire second terms.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 2: Schwartz served as Deputy Surgeon General during the first Trump administration. She is a retired rear admiral with the Coastguard and she is a actual real doctor.
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Speaker 1: Yes, continuing on the run here Now some promising news we're told now coming out of the Nancy Guthrie case. Yeah, there is an update here. We need to put this fully in context. So been a lot of headlines about it, But the FBI is now just received potentially critical DNA that was recovered from Nancy Guthrie's home nearly three months ago. Officials confirmed a hair sample that came from more than one person is now being analyzed. And Ropes I was asking you a bunch of questions about this. This isn't newly discovered DNA. They've just been able to do something new with it.
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Speaker 2: Now, correct. So, the Pima County Sheriff's Department had already described and had already told reporters about this hair sample, but described it as being so tangled. They said it could take up to six months to separate the strands before they'd be able to test them, which is kind of confusing to me, but apparently now Yes, FBI officials confirmed the sheriff's office originally sent that hair sample to a private lab in Florida. Eleven weeks later. That lab is now transferred an original hair sample to the FBI laboratory for testing. We remain fully committed to this investigation. So the hope is that this hair sample could lead to a suspect. So that is what the hope is. Of course, Nancy Gothrie has been missing since February.
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Speaker 1: First, I want to continue on this Friday run now, and I guess the FBI's ten most Wanted future doves. When you put them on that list, it works. They catch these folks because they put somebody on that list and the very next day that person got caught. We're talking about Kashan Nicola Roper arrested in Florida after being on the run for nearly six years.
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Speaker 2: That's right. A tip was called in from that announcement which offered a reward of up to one million dollars for information leading to Roper's arrest, So that million dollars got someone talking. Roper is accused of killing one woman and injuring another after shooting into a vehicle during a fight. If this happened in August of twenty twenty. Again, she's been on the run for six years. She's now being held without bond in a Florida jail. But that's undeniable. You put out the list. The next day, she's arrested million dollars. Though it's motivating.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't turn you in for a million, but eight figures. I would at least sit down and talk about it. That's understandable, um, isn't she she was one of only two women. There's still one woman on the most wor list. Okay, wow, one woman on there one day?
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Continuing on the run here now, Utah Valley University has dropped its plan and commencement speaker New York Times bestselling author and podcaster Sharon McMahon, robe, you were getting me caught up on this. I'm still trying to get a handle.
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Speaker 2: This is a crazy story. We're going to go into more detail on this. Look for this on the weekend because this is a big story. So there was a growing outcry among some students and Republican officials who are very public about how they felt about McMahon because of some past comments she made about Charlie Kirk. Let's remind you the university was, in fact this site of Kirk's assassination last September, so you can understand why that would be extra sensitive in terms of that subject matter.
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Speaker 1: And would that also mean you be extra careful about who you choose as your commencement speaker, one would think. Okay, So McMahon published some posts. Okay, they've been deleted now, but this is what she wrote shortly after his assassination quote. It's important to remember that the incredible tragedy of a public assassination does not erase the harm Mini experienced from his words and the ensuing actions his followers took.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so she put out some statements that upset folks because they claimed they were taken out of context. And so to have now her come and give the commencementment address at the same university where he was assassinated just didn't sit well with a lot of people. So, UV you said, it's no longer going to have a speaker at all for the April twenty ninth graduation ceremony, and they told students it was because of this due to increased safety concerns related to the speaker, and in consultation with public safety professionals and Sharon McMahon, Utah Valley University has decided to proceed without a featured commencement speaker for this year's ceremony, So it sounds like she was getting threats.
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Speaker 1: But way, what's the official word did they? They said they dropped a plan, but not drop her necessary. That the right way to put it. They're not saying we are dropping her because of her past comments.
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Speaker 2: They're saying they're dropping her because of security concerns. Okay, and that is most likely based on her past comments.
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Speaker 1: What has she said? You said, there's a kind of a back and forth going on.
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Speaker 2: Well, her people put out a very defiant defense basically of the post she put out initially saying, look, she never ever, ever didn't acknowledge the tragedy and how awful it was, and she condemned the killing and shooting of Charlie Kirk. She was never ever on that page, but she still felt like it was important to provide the context in which Charlie Kirk lived his life.
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Speaker 1: Wow, what do you do with that? I guess to some that could be offensive, But what an opportunity to do what exactly Charlie Kirk was trying.
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Speaker 2: That's what they were saying. Yes, that absolutely this was in the spirit of the dialogue. You can have different opinions about messaging, but she never was one of those folks who was celebrating his death or in fact, she was very clear in her posts. Even when she took issue with his beliefs in what he had said, she never took issue with the fact that he should not have suffered any violence.
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Speaker 1: You're right, we should talk about You were saying, this is a good story and we should talk about this.
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Speaker 2: It really is.
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Speaker 1: I do a lot.
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Speaker 2: It's really interesting.
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Speaker 1: It feels like right now a missed opportunity to do something special on that campus. But we will get into that later. Continue on the run here now. Police investigating a bomb threat at the suburban Chicago home of one of Pope Leo's brothers, John Prevost. Police say the threat came in around six thirty Wednesday night.
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Speaker 2: Officers secured a perimeter around Prevosts home. They even evacuated all the neighbors in the area. They took this very seriously, but after a thorough search of the residents and the surrounding property, police determined that the threat was quote unsubstantiated.
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Speaker 1: So no active investigation, no excuse me. There is now an active investigation to who made this threat, and of course making a false report is a serious events could result in criminal charges. Yes, it could be a coincidence. But really, right now, with the back and forth with Trump and the Pope, and that's happened, and this happens, it's.
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Speaker 2: Why I'm sure or they took it even more seriously because the rhetoric was at a fever pitch this week and that could have possibly incited or motivated somebody to do something based on this few that's going on, this public few between Trump and the Pope. All right. Next up on the run, Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax was facing a deadline to move out of his family home when he decided to kill his wife and then himself instead.
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Speaker 1: According to police, a shocking, really a devastating story out of this is a tragedy in a lot of ways. But Fairfax and his wife were still living in the same home. But we're going through a divorce, according to court records. Now, a judge had ordered Fairfax to move out of the family home by April thirtieth. Their bodies were found yesterday early yesterday at their home, and Annandale police say Fairfax shot his wife in the basement and went upstairs shot himself in the bedroom.
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Speaker 2: And sadly their teenage children were at the house at the time of the show shooting. It was their oldest son who was the one to call nine one one, So hearts just go out to those kids. That just is an unspeakable and unthinkable tragedy to have to live through.
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Speaker 1: I will stay with us here on this Friday morning. Ron When we come back, we have an update on the President's ballroom on the White House lawn essentially, well, a judge has stepped in has said stop building that thing, and he even gave the administration a slap on the wrist. We'll explain. Also, another person has lost a job, and that whole NFL coach NFL reporter scandal we'll explain. And top Gun, you do not have to wait another thirty years for a sequel construction of the much talked about Did I say welcome back?
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Speaker 2: You didn't. You just went right right in.
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Speaker 1: Babe, I'm excited. Okay, let's go right, So let me try that again. Let's run it back. So what I'm saying is, I'm really glad you're all here on this Friday. I hope you're doing well, and we're going to continue on this Friday morning, ron with construction of the much talked about and controversial, big beautiful ballroom. Well, construction robes must stop.
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Speaker 2: That's right. A federal judge issued a ruling yesterday ordering the Trump administration to halt construction of the four hundred million dollar ballroom. And this is the second time he's had to tell them to stop building.
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Speaker 1: They broad, this is so good. The previous order in March had ordered that the construction stopped, but the administration found a way around that order by arguing that construction was a matter of national security. They say, if it's not finished, it's exposing some part underneath that could lead to the executive mansion, So we have to complete the construction. Well, the judge didn't appreciate that response and call their effort ropes incredible and disingenuous.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he also called their argument on reas and not a correct reading of his order. He wants Congress, he says, they need to approve the construction. It shouldn't be something that a president should be able to do. It's not his house, I believe he said initially, it's the people's house. He's the guardian, the custodian of the House. But he is not the owner of the house. He doesn't get to make those decisions without Congress's approval.
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Speaker 1: And the house is going to be a mess for a while if they don't get this cleaned up.
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Speaker 2: The problem is it's already been destructed, so you're going to have to construct something.
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Speaker 1: All right, we're doing on the run here now. Somebody else has now lost a job in the fallout from those photos appearing to show a very close relationship between New England Patriots head coach Mike Rabel and NFL reporter Diana Russini. Now Russini, we got word this week, has already resigned her position from The Atlantic, which is the Athletic.
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Speaker 2: You said the Atlantic, but it was close the Athletic Atlantic. It's a magazine. Well, it's a circulation. Yeah, the Atlantic. I've almost said it a couple of times because I've been not why when you did it, I was like, oh, I've almost done that.
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Speaker 1: You can wait, Athletic you were ready, you were on it.
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Speaker 2: Because my mind has gone there several times too.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, yes, Diana Recini worked for The Athletic, which is the sports arm of the New York Times. She's a longtime NFL reporter. But yes, those photos came out. They are what they are, but clearly showing a closeness to the two of them, that if you saw the pictures and had no idea who they are, you would assume they were a couple. He's the best way to quit.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And the New York Times was investigating. The Athletic was investigating to see if it even showed even a suggestion of impropriety, and so she resigned. But then USA Today's Sports has severed its relationship with reporter Chrissy Freud for a social media post where she put out disparaging Racini. This was her tweet. I'm sure you were told to submit this or that you'd get fired instead. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. We know who you really are and what you've been up to for years. It does so much detriment to women in sports who have done things the right way. Ouch.
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Speaker 1: If that's how she felt, that's how she felt. You said it early before we got out, You said, Rhodes, why kick her when she's down.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's lost her reputation, she's lost her job. She I'm sure he is trying to repair some damage done with her family, and like it's unnecessary to kick her while she's down.
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Speaker 1: This is she's gonna say. She has a right to speak, She has a right to speak her mind, she has a right to do whatever. But that tweet shows more about Chrissy than it does about Rassini right now. I mean, somebody is really devastating if it's of her own doing the Rasini thing.
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Speaker 2: That was a tough one, so unnecessary. It was very mean girl.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so USA Today Sports I did put out a statement they let her go, said ended its contractor relationship with Chrissy Ford effective immediately, said her recent statements do not reflect our commitment to professionalism or a whole our principles of ethical conduct. She just put out something she felt was a what does she know? Like she's saying as if it's fact. She's just ah, God, she's.
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Speaker 2: Implying that, yeah, that, yes, exactly what you think. I don't even want to add to it. All right, for the final leg of our run, we had to wait thirty six years. I didn't even realize that for a sequel to the original Top Gun. Well, we're not going to have to wait that long for the next one, because yes, it is official. Top Gun three is happening.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been rumored and talked about with a made it officially official yesterday. Paramount made the announcement at CinemaCon. It's been happening in Vegas this week. So Top Gun, Maverick everybody will remember, made one point five billion dollars at the box office. That's a huge hit. What was the budget? I think just under two hundred million, so it was a huge, huge hit. But rooms I think I forgot how phenomenal it was because this was still coming out of the pandemic. This was a pandemic era movie, and Tom Cruise played a very crucial role in getting the movie industry going again. I forgot how much credit he should be given in that movie and everybody for really getting the ball rolling again at box offices. So it's good to hear top I don't know, I didn't see when they said it was gonna be coming out.
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Speaker 2: Though, Uh wow, we need a date. But yes, we will obviously be going immediately to the theaters as soon as that comes out. And look, we normally we're gonna go to our quote of the day. But it's interesting because this quote I was inspired by a Pete Hegseth story that you can find on our feed just before morning Ron.
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Speaker 1: Wow, okay, this is I can't wait to hear this. You're inspired by Pete Hegseth, the.
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Speaker 2: Pete Heegsas story. We'd love everyone to check it out. It is the episode right before this where we talk about Pete Hegsthess. I can't talk Pete heg Set's prayer that he read aloud during his weekly prayer vigil. But fortunately for him, that really wasn't a prayer from the Bible. That actually was a quote from Paul Fiction.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a great quote from Samuey L. Jackson right before he killed a guy. Yeah, if you know the movie, you will know the scene and the line with falling you with furious anger, and I will strike down those who oppose me, and you will know my name is the law that that whole.
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Speaker 2: Scene right, So we actually this is great. We go through line by line and you can hear it's indisputable. It is verbatim. Pete haig Seth is quoting pulp fiction. So anyway, the Pentagon's response is pretty funny because put on brand, but it's completely on brand. Because they only blame the media. He cannot admit that he didn't know that he was quoting pulp fiction. So quote of the day, everybody that.
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Speaker 1: Was all, okay.
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Speaker 2: My quote of the day. And look, not just Pete hag Seth, all of us are guilty of this. This is interesting, heal. So you can hear what's being said without the filter of your wound.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you do. Everything goes through the pain you had before. Everything gets filtered through how you right in that relationship, through.
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Speaker 2: Your insecurities, through a trigger that you may have. And so even if someone didn't mean to whatever, Like for instance, if Pete Hegxsats said, oh my gosh, that's so funny. I loved what these guys were saying. But I didn't even put two in two just to admit it and have fun with it and enjoy it and lean into it. But he couldn't admit. He can't stand to think that someone might believe he doesn't know the Bible, or that he's been fooled, or that he didn't know exactly what he was saying. And that is your ego. And look, we've all been in that position. I'm not trying to just point the finger at him, But it just brought this up for each of us in our own lives. We can remember and recall, Hey, wait, am I responding to something through my pain of a past grievance? Or am I actually listening to what's being said in its reality? And that's something we all if we can be more we're aware of it, we can help conversations and prepare relationships. Well.
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Speaker 1: I love how you humanized Pete Hexath. It wasn't to his benefit necessarily, and the behavior is to his detriment, but you humanized him, and that we all do that. We're looking at something that seems to be simple. Yes you quote it the movie. What keeps you from just saying? Oops?
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Speaker 2: Yep?
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Speaker 1: Make it an opportunity? We'd love to get Samuel eld to the Pentagon. I love that movie. That line was so well written that it inspired our troops. What else you got, can, Quentin Tarantino? What else you can you send us? There was an opportunity here.
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Speaker 2: To have some fun and lean in, but it's so hard to admit that. We feel foolish or we feel like we didn't know what we were supposed to know. So everybody think about.
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Speaker 1: This that's a good that my heart is softening to Pete Hexath, it's crab. Please don't misinterpret what I'm saying. But he's a human being, and that is a human response to something. Oh man, that one today.
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Speaker 2: Wow? All right, everybody once again so you can hear it in the back heal, so you can hear what's being said without the filter of your wound and without everyone. Thank you for running with us.
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