Morning Run: Nobel Peace Prize, White House Reax, Letitia James Indicted, Guns in Publix, “Matlock” Firing Controversy and RIP Sister Jean

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, we made it to Friday. Welcome to Morning Run. It is Friday, October tenth. I'm Amy Robot.

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Speaker 2: What kind of week did you have? You seem surprised we're you been here.

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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm celebrating Friday. I love a Friday.

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Speaker 2: Well, all right, folks, on this Friday, I'm TJ. Holmes. And there is a lot a lot going on in news, from a Lakers fan suing Lebron, the rap battle between Kendrick and Drake finally being over. We lost dear Sister Jean. There's a grocery store that says, come on, bring you guns. The halftime show Bad Bunny has some competition, and then there's updates on what's happening on the streets of Chicago and also the President's health and the shutdown. All this. But we're gonna start rodes with what is a developing story that we got just a short time before we started recording, which is all eyes attention has been on the Nobel Peace Pride and President Trump just this week, in the past forty eight hours, has ended a war, at least being given credit for it. So the announcement was made about the Nobel Peace Prize winner.

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Speaker 1: That's correct. It happened earlier this morning in Oslo, Norway. All eyes, certainly the presidents, we would imagine eyes were on that press conference as the organization made their announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize winner of twenty twenty five. Her name is Maria Carina Machado. She is Venezuela's opposition leader, and probably some disappointment at the White.

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Speaker 2: House, probably a lot, because Lota will tell you that this was a public and who could imagine how private a campaign it was for him to get the Nobel Peace Prize or several reasons why he did not. But at least Machado here, I mean from all intents and purposes, as a woman who continues to have her life threatened because of the work she does, and has been in hiding for the past year and has continued to be an opposition leader. They were even asked about it today. Are you worried about her safety even more so now now that she's getting this attention, They said that was one of the things that they take into consideration. However, Robes, of course, the first question he was asked first or second. It might have been. The first had to do with Trump.

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Speaker 1: We say might have been because we were watching coverage and they dumped out of it right when the questions started to be asked for, like, wait, they're obviously going to be asking about President Trump first and foremost, which is what happened, And so when they were asked, this was the response. In the long history of the Nobel Peace Prize, I think this committee have seen any and every type of campaign and media attention. We received thousands and thousands of letters every year from people wanting to say what for them leads to peace. The Committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates, and that room is filled with both courage and integrity. We base only our decision on the work and will of Alfred Nobel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the guy from the Nobel Committee never mentioned Trump's name at any point during the press conference. I believe that was the only question he got specifically about it. I was asking you right before we were starting. I said, I see a headline that says the White House has reacted. I was a little surprised, and I was curious what the reaction was. But yes, the White House has reacted to the President not getting the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Speaker 1: That's right. The White House spokesperson posted this on tex Stephen Chung. He said President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars and saving lives. He has the heart of a humanitarian and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will. The Nobel Committee proved they placed politics over peace.

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Speaker 2: They had me up until the last line. What does that mean that it really does say you didn't pick our guy, therefore your being political. I don't think anyone's arguing about this woman's credentials in terms of what she's been fighting for in Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she, as you said, put her life on the line and continues to do so. And even when she realized she couldn't be on the ballot to try and overtake the situation there in Venezuela, she threw all of her support behind a candidate who was so she was selfless even in her determination and continues to be to try and bring peace to Venezuela and have fair and transparent elections, which the world agrees did not happen in Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so of course we've heard the President say he's ended eight now conflicts is how he often puts it. He's ended eight wars and the one he's working on still as to do with Russian and Ukraine. But a lot of folks saying, well, all this work, he's done well. The nominations for this year's Nobel Peace Prize were due at the end of January. He had been in office but three weeks at that point. Maybe if somebody submitted his name by then, I don't know. We don't know, because the committee gets hundreds of nominations, they actually don't make it public. They don't make it public. However, when did who went to the White House and pulled out the nomination. I didn't think it was that early in the year, but I think it might have been met in Yahoo who pulled it out as kind of a scene and here's your Nobel letter for your nomination. But they just everybody assumed he's I guess an exception should be made or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Well, and truly, this peace deal in the Middle East still has to actually come to full fruition. It looks like we're headed that way. Celebrations are underway, but we know it's tenuous and we have to wait and see. So look, if they think he's a contender, there's always next year. So we will keep our eyes on twenty twenty six. Next up on the Run, the Israeli government has accepted. Yes, as we talk about that seas fire, they have accepted the plan. Israeli troops have started to withdraw from Gaza, and all hostages are expected to be released in a matter of days. The ceasefire plan seems to be moving forward, and hope is holding that the end of this two year war is finally here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hope is a whole aren't we used to having hope and then it all gets dashed in a matter of days. This has been several days now we're going the right direction. The acceptance of the deal triggers the ceasefire, though there were reports of some late hour Israeli airstrikes overnight. Right now, forty eight hostages remain, twenty are believed to be alive.

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Speaker 1: So we will keep our eye on that developing situation. But in the meantime, all eyes continue to be on Washington, where it's a ghost town. Next up on the Run, it's day ten of the government shutdown. No relief in sight, as in, literally everybody left Washington and went home. The Senate won't be back until three pm on Tuesday, after remaining deadlight over dueling bills for the seventh time on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Who gets to do that? I'm just head home. You didn't finish your assignment too much, and I'm gonna go home. They've I guaranteed a certain number of days of this shutdown will continue. We got three Democrats who crossed the aisle to try and push the House passed bill through the That's exactly the same number since the shutdown began last week. While that went great, maybe next time on Tuesday. No, not one lawmaker has changed a vote in all the howeany has it been six or seven?

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Speaker 1: Seven?

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Speaker 2: Seven? Not a single vote has changed also unchanged. Both sides have been very active with the media, you know, blaming each other.

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Speaker 1: That's the way they've spent most of their time in front of the cameras pointing the finger at the other side.

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Speaker 2: We lod I actually want to watch the Sunday morning show This is sport now because they have the talking points and they sit in they say the exact same thing.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of sport, how about this? The Trump administration has ratcheted up the pressure on Democrats starting yesterday. On Thursday, they began airing a video at this is amazing at airports across the country, which, as we've been reporting, have experienced significant delays in ground stops because of the air traft for controller situation, they have considered essential employees, but a number of them have been calling out sick, which has brought the airport to a grinding halt. So in this video, while people are waiting and they're angry and they're annoyed that their flight isn't taking off, you can watch a video from Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome who tells weary travelers Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government and because of this, many of our operations are impacted and most of our TSA employees are working without pay. How's that to bring the message home?

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Speaker 2: It might be illegal? Are you allowed to do that? I mean she's working.

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Speaker 1: For I guess you could get in line to sue the Trump administration.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, no, no, no, no, no, that's amazing.

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Speaker 1: My jaw dropped when I read that this morning.

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Speaker 2: You might as well campaign at TSA line, just hand out pamphlets. Democrats did this your weight brought to you by the Democrats.

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Speaker 1: Right, And to the TSA employees who are working without payoff, you can blame your Democratic Wow, yes, lawmaker, whoever that is.

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Speaker 2: We'll continue on the run there now, first it was coming. Now it's Latitia James, who Adam shift better watch out because the Justice Department seems to be going down Trump's publicly stated list of people he wants indicted. And yes, New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted yesterday by a federal grandeur.

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Speaker 1: James is the one, in case you don't remember, who successfully went after Trump in court, winning a huge judgment against him for fraud. That judgment was later thrown out. What she's accused of in the indictment, mortgage related improprieties sounds familiar. It seems to be working for them, at least they tried that with Lisa Cook so far unsuccessfully though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, black women just cannot fill out a mortgage, apparently, according to Trump.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. James has denied the allegations against her and called the charges baseless.

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Speaker 2: Continue on the run now, hope the President is okay healthwise. Now he's heading to Walter Reed Medical Center today. The White House initially described this as his yearly checkup, but his lab yearly check up was six months ago. So these are what now we're calling these semi annuals.

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Speaker 1: That's what Trump ended up having to clarify it and calling it a semi annual exam. But that is very rare. That's not protocol for a president. It's once a year, So this is not This is very unusual. So Trump told this to reporters. I think I'm in great shape, but I'll let you know. When I'm around I like to check always be early. It's a lesson for a lot of people. Nothing wrong with that. Wait, wait, but he's just saying when he's around the area, he likes to check in to a Walter Read.

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Speaker 2: That's what he said. But is he there for an event or something? He's there for something else?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's you know, not so far from the White House.

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Speaker 2: No, he has to be there, that's what he Surely that's what he wants.

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Speaker 1: No, So yes, this unusual second checkup has some eyebrows raised, considering the White House announcement over the summer that Trump had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency. Photos showing swelling in the President's legs did cast speculation about his health, but according to medical experts, look, he's seventy eight years old. This is not uncommon in older adults, and it certainly as manageable as well, they say. The White House, by the way, gave no further details on today's checkup beyond the announcement of the checkup, which again they initially called an annual checkup.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but hey, if you're in the neighborhood, Hey, I'm here, might as well take a look under the hood.

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Speaker 1: Little extra blood work never hurt anybody, all right. Next up on the run. They just got to Chicago and already, and I must say, as predicted, the National Guard might need to pack up and head out. A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from using Guard troops on the streets of Chicago, where they had just arrived a day or so before.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, State of Illinois and the City of Chicago sue to stop the deployment, and yesterday a judge sided with them that there is no organized rebellion or unrest that would justify the president's sending in the National Guard. But the judge went as far as saying this about the deployment of National Guard. She said it could lead to civil unrest and that having them there quote adds fuel to the fire that the Trump administration has started. The administration says it will appeal this decision.

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Speaker 1: Woof Next up on the run. Another political ideological battle is shaping up in Texas, and this one is about crosswalks, in particular those really cute, colorful ones we have them here in New York City. Governor Greg Abbott has ordered that all rainbow crosswalks be removed within thirty days.

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Speaker 2: Of course, you can find rainbow crosswalks and cities across the country which are simple public pride displays. Well, the governor they're in Texas now says they are a misuse robes of taxpayer money. And a statement said this, Texans expect their taxpayer dollars to be used wisely, not advanced political agendas on Texas roadways. Today, I directed the Texas Department of Transportation to ensure Texas counties and cities remove any and all political ideologies from our streets. And here's the part that some people paid attention to. This is a safety shoe ropes to keep Texans moving safely and free from distraction, we must maintain a safe and consistent transportation network across Texas. Got that?

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Speaker 1: No, how about all the distracting billboards that line highways everywhere? Give me a break. And by the way, speaking of taxpayer dollars, can anyone just put out the fact that having to remove it and then reapply it is a further waste of taxpayer dollars if he's going down that road.

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Speaker 2: See here's going to be The next issue is that some of these are privately funded. So is it the money or is the ideology?

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Speaker 1: And I think we both know the answer.

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Speaker 2: He's covering himself on both fronts. Well, stay with us here, folks. On this Friday morning run. When we come back, there is a grocery store actually robes it might be my favorite. It is now telling folks go ahead bring your guns. Also coming up, the controversy that is ensuing over at CBS Studios. Also, finally, Kendrick and Drake put the be to rest, and it took a federal judge to do it. And we have a second halftime show in the works, no idea, who's going to play it, and we have lost maybe one of the most beloved stories in recent March madness history.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to your Friday morning run, and next up, we're heading to Florida, where you can now openly carry a firearm while shopping for groceries at the state's largest supermarket chain, Publics. The company made the announcement following a state appeals court ruling that Florida's ban on people openly carrying firearms was unconstitutional.

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Speaker 2: Ban has been in place since nineteen eighty seven. Publics released a statement Thursday saying Publics follows all federal, state, and local laws treating customers with dignity and respect as a founding belief at Publics, in any instance where a customer creates a threatening, a or dangerous shopping experience, whether they are openly carrying a firearm or not, we will engage local law enforcement to protect our customers and associates.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like Public's has been a dangerous place to shop. With that statement, I was kind of like I was surprised by it.

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Speaker 2: Do you know this was my Atlanta grocery store.

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Speaker 1: I love Public Love Public same when I lived in the South. That's all I went to.

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Speaker 2: I never had any issues there.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't really concerned about my safety, but maybe now I would be all right. Next up on the Run a growing controversy over CBS studios. This story is a doozy, so just get prepared. First. We got word Thursday that CBS fired Mattlocke actor David del Rio and escorted him off the set last week on the very day a fellow actor alleged he sexually assaulted her near his trailer. Normally, news outlets do not report the name of an alleged sexual assault victim, but actor Leah Lewis went on social media and named herself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, posted a photo of her and her mom on Instagram and writing mom is here. We're moving forward in love and strength. I am in good hands. Thank you to everybody for any kind of support and care. Truly, we're moving forward in strength. Keyword strength. Let that be the takeaway. Whilthough Rio has not said anything publicly, his wife, also an actress and chef, Catherine del Rio, who she had something to say.

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Speaker 1: She did so on her Instagram story and again, this is the wife of the actor accused of sexual assault. She briefly posted a zoomed in photo of Lewis's face from her post with her mom and wrote, this is the most disturbing human being I have ever met. She deleted it a short while later, but then put up another post with her own picture of her with her own mom, mocking Lewis's post. That's the alleged sexual assault victim. It read this mom is here. We're moving forward in love and strength after what Leah did to our family. Thank you for all the love and support.

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Speaker 2: She the wife of the guy accused of sexual assault, is mocking the alleged sexual assault victim.

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Speaker 1: Correct publicly correct?

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Speaker 2: All right? I was making sure I was following. Matt Locke continued filming after del Riel was fired, wrapping up the first half of the season season two, and will now go on hiatus through Thanksgiving. The creative team will have to get creative. That's what they're paid to do, right, writing off dale Riel's character in some way given the sudden firing. Season two Matt Locke premieres this Sunday, October twelfth, so he'll be gone at premiers. So it's just getting started season two many episodes. Is that that he's going to have to be in them.

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Speaker 1: He is going to be in all of them. Oh yeah, he is going to be in the first half of the series, and then he is going to disappear because he's been fired. But it's been interesting that CBS said that they investigated the claims, but the same day she made the claims is the same day he was escorted off the set and fired. So it's unclear what evidence they have or what they're saying their investigation showed. But it was a quick decision. Yeah, more to come on that for sure. Next up on the run though, well, we had a lot coming here. And is it over? The Drake Kendrick Lamar rap beef is done and it was a judge who ended it. A federal judge. Throughout Drake's defamation suit against Universal Music Group, which by the way, is his own record label as well.

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Speaker 2: The two guys happened to be represented by the saying same label. Now he accused the label of defamation for its role in promoting Kendrick Lamar's mega hit not Like Us. The judge called the song a thought this was interesting rogues, a non actionable opinion that Kendrick Lamar was giving and it's not considered defamatory. The judge said this statements of fact may assume the character of statements of opinion when made in public debate. He did labor dispute or other circumstances in which an audience may enternticipate the use of epithets, fiery rhetoric, or hyperbole.

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Speaker 1: In other words, it's a rat battle, bro or.

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Speaker 2: Is it politics? If you apply that to what our politicians say to each other and how we end up getting misled or maybe some say flat out lied to, it's almost like, yeah, I made it, but you shouldn't have assumed it was fact. Wow, when this judge made so many things clear to me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so she said everything being said in a rat battle is not supposed to be taken as fact. The judge even called not like us a metaphorial killing blow.

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Speaker 2: What I thought it was? That was pretty good?

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Speaker 1: You liked it?

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Speaker 2: Continuing Now, Bad Bunny has halftime competition robes turning point USA. Yes, the organization started by Charlie Kirk, announced yesterday that it was going to be putting on its own Super Bowl halftime show.

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Speaker 1: They call it the All American Halftime Show. They haven't announced the list of performers yet. But might I suggest or just wonder aloud if Lee Greenwood was going to be a part of it all?

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Speaker 2: He has to yes, you know he is maybe even headlining, just to.

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Speaker 1: Just to guess. We'll just we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 2: I Hey, we're doing this. It's another thing to split the country. Don't we all come together in the super Bowl. That's a fun time.

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Speaker 1: We can all Look if that's the way they're going to deal with something they're upset about, they want to counter program. Okay, I mean, okay, that's at least it's peaceful and at least it gives people a choice.

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Speaker 2: The one thing we come together on we're splitting on. Everybody agrees on the super Bowl. Don't what else do Americans just like, oh yeah, we're all in for.

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Speaker 1: The Olympics, maybe like Team USA. That's about the only other thing I can think of.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I go all right, continuing on the run here now the beloved oh Loyola team captain. She stole our chaplain chaplain?

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Speaker 1: Wait, you said captain.

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Speaker 2: I'm totally in a basketball march. Madness is letting you know you know what she was team captain. I guess I said it right the first time. Okay, how Yes, she's the team chaplain. She's a team mascot and this morning, yes, the team captain. She stole our hearts of course during twenty eighteen's March Madness. She has now passed away at the age of one hundred and six. Sister Jean, of course, you know who we're talking about. One hundred and six is impressive.

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Speaker 1: What waitsu he even more about when she retired, the enthusiastic nun always dressed in Loyola's burgundy and gold, became a national celebrity given Loyola Cinderella's story that year making it to the Final four for the first time in fifty years, and her full name, because we just affectionately call her Sister Jean, is Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Loyola confirmed her death yesterday, saying this is a tremendous loss of someone who touched the lives of so many people. We appreciate everyone's thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. Just after Sister Jean's one hundred and sixth birthday, which was this summer, the university announced that she was retiring. Yes, she was.

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Speaker 1: Working still I was reading the letter she sent to the students and faculty, like expressing her sadness, like she finally had to retire at one hundred and six. She was born in San Francisco. I just I love hearing this. August twenty first, nineteen nineteen. Isn't that amazing? She was a basketball player in her younger days before eventually becoming a nun. Then she became a grade school teacher, where she started girls' sports programs at the school. I love that, before becoming an academic advisor for the Loyola men's basketball team and then yes, later the team chaplain. She released a memoir back in twenty twenty three, just two years ago, entitled wake Up with Purpose What I've learned in my first one hundred years.

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Speaker 2: That makes me think how many people are qualified to even name a book that because most people, how many authors have put something out over who were one hundred when they released it?

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Speaker 1: Not many?

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Speaker 2: So cool? This woman was such an impact and it's hard to. Yes, it's sad, it's hard to she brought so much joy and lived a beautiful life and the impact she had. Yes, it's sad. You lose some moment. Man I got nothing but smiles when you say, Sister Gene, it's so true.

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Speaker 1: So yes, well we'll end this podcast this episode with a quote that made me laugh. Yes from Sister Gene.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, next up on the run here, let's go with Lebron James, a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, is being sued by a Loss Angelus Lakers fan who accuses King James of fraud and deception. The fan apparently is pissed because he fell for Lebron's recent promotional stunt in which he teased a second decision.

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Speaker 1: This actually doesn't seem like a frivolous lawsuit to me. Oh, many folks speculated that Lebron was going to retire, and I think he wanted them to speculate that. Let's just be honest. So they ran out and they bought tickets to the final Laker home games, thinking they were securing a place to see the Great Lebron's fine NBA game. However, the second decision turned out to be an ad for Hennessy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the fans says he was duped into spending money on tickets and is now trying to take Lebron to court. Now you might be waiting. Is he suing him for some emotional distress? Is he's suing him for millions of dollars maybe even one hundred though Nope, he just wants his eight hundred and fifty five dollars and sixty six cents back that he spent on the tickets. That's not on it.

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Speaker 1: That's why I don't think it's a frivolous lawsuit. I think he actually has a point.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious. I didn't know what you were gonna say about it.

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Speaker 2: Come on, it's on you, did you really?

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Speaker 1: I think I get that there is such a thing as personal responsibility boom, but there was deception involved.

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Speaker 2: I mean people I can sue right now who fooled me into something?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like buying a lottery ticket, all right, because you thought you were gonna win. All right, let's get on with the quote of the day. The times are changing, the weather's getting colder. We've all been and maybe complaining about it because we love summer so much. But Sister Jean, this sounds like something one of my parents would say. I just love it. Get outside every day, no matter the weather, The cold is good for you. Just bundle up and you'll be fine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Love your sister, Jean. I love that tough love and support that one.

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Speaker 1: It's so funny, like, oh, I love it. We start to complain, Oh, it's so cold outside. You know what, Get outside every day, no matter the weather. The cold is good for you. Get your blood flowing. That's what my dad would say, get your blood flowing. Just bundle up and you'll be fine. I love that, sister, Jean.

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Speaker 2: I love the idea of Yes, she's one hundred percent right. There are plenty of times you and I sitting here in a funk in the morning, I say, hey, let's take a walk.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, get outside, get.

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Speaker 2: By the water and get some inspiration. So love your sister, Jean. I know there's a huge loss for Loyola, and it's a huge loss, and I don't know what. They're probably gonna do something special, hopefully for her. During March Madness this year, she just right that you could probably name I don't know how many athletes who made an impact on March Madness, but you can name her, right. I can name all. I'm a sports guy, but you can name her. She stands out with grand Hill to me and Scottie Thurman to me and right.

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Speaker 1: It's that childlike enthusiasm she had for something she loved and something she was passionate about a game that she played and that she I mean, I love. There's so many pictures. She was so little at the end. When you get older, you get shorter and the like looming tall basketball players and she's around in a huddle with them. She comes up to their like their wastes, and it's such a cute picture. She's so excited, she's so into it. Anyone who is that kind of passion for life? More of that place.

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Speaker 2: Those the most fun, Probably that image of how excited the players were to be with her. It was an obligation of photo. They just ran to her. They love this woman. So again, thank you, Sister Jean for what you gave us, and folks, we appreciate you as always running with us.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm pet and I'm Amy Robot will run with you really soon