Dec. 10, 2025
Morning Run: Opera Singer Murdered, Trump Wants Scandinavian Immigrants, College Campus Shooting, Federal Reserve Cut, Florida Executes 18th Inmate and Mackenzie Scott 👏👏👏
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's morning run. It is Wednesday, December tenth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 3: That weather is on its way. It's coming making its way east of what the folks in the Pacific Northwest are dealing with crazy rain and flooding. And now we've been talking past a couple days about this cold weather and this system is dumping snow in a lot of places inches ten inches in some places.
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Speaker 4: That's remarkable.
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Speaker 1: We're actually warming up from the frigid cold just in time for the rain, so we get rain instead of snow. That's always annoying, right, if it's going to be super cold, it's the holidays.
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Speaker 4: Give me some snow, man.
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Speaker 2: That cold wet rain is the worst tanus.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thirty six in rain is like, that's what we had last weekend.
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Speaker 4: It was terrible.
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Speaker 3: So this is where we are. There's morning folks about the weather. But hey, if our only complaint is the weather today, then we must be doing pretty well wherever you are. Hope you are getting a good start to your Wednesday morning. As always, top right corner of your Apple Podcast app where you see our show page. That button says follow click that you can get our updates anytime we have them. There have been a lot of updates on some ongoing stories, and we will have some updates on some stuff this morning as well.
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Speaker 1: That's right, but on the run right now, a deadly shooting at an HBCU, an opera singer murdered, his son is accused, and we're gonna get our first look at the video of Luigi Mangione's arrest and the unexplained last words of an inmate executed last night in Florida. Meanwhile, a Tennessee inmate is fighting his execution, which is scheduled.
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Speaker 4: For tomorrow night.
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Speaker 1: And a critical day in the Brian Walsh trial that we've been following for the past two weeks.
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Speaker 3: And also running with us this morning, Supreme Court justices, Australian teenagers, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Mackenzie Scott.
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Speaker 2: They're all gonna lace up their kicks and run with us, all right.
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Speaker 1: But we begin our run with President Trump's speech last night in Pennsylvania. It wasn't afordability speech. He called affordability a hoax by the Democrats. And the whole thing looked and felt like a campaign rack, exactly like one.
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Speaker 3: The music, his energy even, he was very animated, and it was a very pro Trump crowd.
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Speaker 2: We get it.
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Speaker 3: Look, he was supposed to be there talking about affordability, which a lot of people say Democrats are winning at least in recent elections by talking about that and driving that home. So this is what is about. He did tut robes his what he says is an excellent economic report card of his own. A lot of numbers and a lot of people disagree. But the night robes last night took a turn at moments and it was just some It was ugly stuff. No matter where you are on the political spectrum, it was ugly stuff.
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 1: This isn't about his policies. This is about his personality really at the end of the day. And he took several opportunities to go after immigrants and specifically Congresswoman Ilhan. He called Afghanistan, Haiti and Somalia hell holes. These are countries filled with human beings, called them hell holes. He also referred to them as shitthole countries.
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Speaker 3: He said, your words, not mine. Someone in the country in the crowd when he said hell holes, they corrected him, if you will, and said shitholes and responding essentially to a comment he made several years ago about people being from shithole countries. And this is the quote he gave last night. Quote, I said, why is it that we only take people from shithole countries? Why can't we have some people from Norway? Sweden?
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Speaker 2: Just a few? Let us have a few from Denmark, send us some nice people. Do you mind? He said that live in front of a.
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Speaker 4: Crowd last night, like the whitest countries you can think of.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. I don't know es.
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Speaker 3: That's just it hurts. It sucks that. I mean, this is my is our president. No, this is not a policy thing. Just talking about people in such a way and saying we don't want people from the countries that.
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Speaker 2: Are of this color.
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Speaker 3: And he actually naming places with eighty eighty five percent white people and one to three percent black populations. He's putting those out there is nice places, and it's just there's a message there and it just sucks.
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Speaker 2: And it stings.
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Speaker 1: Yetel No, it's true and this, yeah, this has nothing to do with being a Republican or being a Democrat. It's about how you choose your words and how you choose to describe people. And speaking of how he chooses to describe people on ilhan Omar, I feel like we just need to we've been doing this. We're just going to let his words speak for themselves, because they do. Here is what the President said last night about Representative Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from Minnesota. Omar, whatever the hell her name is, with her little her little turbin.
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Speaker 4: I love her.
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Speaker 1: She comes in, does nothing but bitch. She's always complaining. She comes from a country where it's considered about the worst country in the world. They have no military, they have no nothing. They have no parliament. They don't know what the hell the name parliament means. They have no police. They police themselves. They kill each other all the time.
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Speaker 2: And he wasn't done.
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Speaker 1: He continues with we ought to get her the hell out. She married her brother to get in. She married her brother to get in. Therefore she's here illegally. She could get the hell out, Throw her the hell out. She does nothing but complain. And then the crowd started to chant send her back in case.
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Speaker 3: The folks don't know, ilhan Omar. This is a rumor that has been dogging her. Conspiracy theory, if he will, has been dogging her for a decade probably now. But no, there is no record evidence anywhere that's been dug into by debunked by every major news organization that's gone into it. No, she has a complicated relationship history. It's been married.
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Speaker 4: Three she's married to her third husband.
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Speaker 2: Okay, fine, but this is not true.
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Speaker 3: But it keeps getting pushed and perpetuated in for a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: Well it has.
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Speaker 1: It's the same thing he did with Barack Obama not being not having a US citizenship.
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Speaker 4: It's the same thing.
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Speaker 2: It just keep saying it, all right, continuing on the run here.
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Speaker 3: Now, the public got to see for the first time yesterday when police first encountered Luigi Mangioni. Now, this was part of evidence in the ongoing pre trial hearings for the accused United Healthcare killer and Robes. This is the one we've heard about this so much. When he was at a McDonald's and an employee called and all this is going. We got to see it for the first time when this evidence was released played in court.
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Speaker 1: Yes and we saw the police bodycam video of when he was first approached by police, when that McDonald's worker recognized him, which I think is remarkable. When I saw the video, I don't know that I would have recognized him in that sense, so it was pretty remarkable she did.
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Speaker 3: And so they find him sitting in the back mask on. They ask him his name. He's playing it pretty cool, gives a fake name, gives a fake ID. But it didn't take long before they figured out who he was. Now, some of the evidence that continues to be gone through some of the notes he had in his backpack. Again, this is all these pretrial hearings are trying to get all this evidence thrown out because his attorney say he was not read his miranda right, so therefore this was an illegal search and seizure, but rogue some of the he had a plan to be on the run, yes for a while, and was trying to evade authority.
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Speaker 1: He was He even had like a to do list in his book, and this is part of the evidence that his lawyers are trying to get tossed out, where he was telling himself to pluck his eyebrows because he knew that that is such a distinguishing feature on his face, so he had a note to plug his eyebrows. He had a note to keep up the momentum because the FBI is slower overnight. So he was actually mapping out how he planned to continue to evade police, and part of that was changing his appearance and keeping on the run, on the move. And you can actually hear in the police bodycam video the officers debating whether or not they had to get a search warrant before they went into his backpack, and they decided that they did not have to. They did not need one because he had given them a false name and a false ID, so they had a reason to look and see who he was.
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Speaker 3: And that right now is key and all the pre trial hearings they're off today. It will continue though tomorrow we can tell you next up on the run. What will continue today is testimony the Brian Walsh trial. This will be day eight. He of course accused of killing his wife. He said he didn't kill her, but admits to dismembering her and disposing of her body. A key day today. We expecting this morning a very important witness on the stand today, the guy who was there with him and his wife the night she died.
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Speaker 1: Yes, this was Onna Walsh's former boss, but a friend to both Brian and Anna Walsh, and he was with them on New Year's Eve, celebrating the New Year with them, and he says he left the home around on one point thirty in the morning. That is going to be so fascinating to hear his testimony about what the couple was like that evening, how he left them, what he saw, what he witnessed, what he knew of them.
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Speaker 4: But he's going to have a.
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Speaker 1: He's going to be questioned outside of the jury ahead of time, so that's why there's going to be a little bit later of a start.
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Speaker 4: Today.
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Speaker 1: Ten am Eastern Time is when I guess the jury is being brought in. But hopefully we'll be able to see what happens from nine to ten and figure out what it is they're trying to determine before the jury is allowed in. Next up, on the Run though a renowned opera singer. This is just such a sad and tragic story. Stabbed to death at his own home in Santa Monica and then turns out his son has been arrested for the crime. His name jubilant Psychs found dead on Monday at his home. Police got a call about an assault in progress and they responded to the home where they then found his son, thirty one year old Micah Sich.
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Speaker 3: Police are still trying to piece this together. Don't know what led up to this incident, don't have any idea about a motive. But Sykes is seventy one years old, and he was had a decade long career, performed all over the world, dozens of places in some of the biggest name theaters you could name. Grammy nominated as well. But just a sad and tragic and shocking story out in Santa Monica. Continuing on the run here now. One student killed another wounded at a shooting on the campus of Kentucky State University yesterday. This happened around three in the afternoon at a residence hall there on campus.
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 1: The suspect is a forty eight year old man. He is not a student there, and this was what police really wanted the campus and the parents and students to understand. This was not a random attack. So they say this was a targeted attack. And right now we are unclear of the relationship between this forty eight year old man and a student and the other student who. But certainly hopefully some more details will come to light in this developing story. Next up on the Run, the Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates once again today. They're expected to lower those interest rates by a quarter point.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they can continue their cut streak. This year is going to be their third cut that they would have made this year. But they're having to do this without all the information. Yes, there are no jobs numbers and inflation numbers right now. They are delayed because you guessed it, because of the shutdown. Continue on the run here now. Florida continued its record pace of executions last night. Fifty eight year old Mark Allen Jerrold's pronounced dead at six point fifteen pm last night after being given that lethal drug cocktail and a lot of questions right now. Look, they always ask do you have any last words? And sometimes they say nothing, sometimes they say very little. This man has said something that left a lot of people confused.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no one really could tell. He said someone's name. They say it was indiscernible. They couldn't tell whose name he called out. But then he said, I'm sorry that I missed you. I loved you every day. Those were his final words. This was this execution happened. Geralds was executed for the nineteen eighty nine murder of Tresa Pettibone. He had been a contractor for the family. Found out that the husband was going to be gone. He planned to rob the home. She was home, so it was a home invasion that went bad and turned ugly. This is the eighteenth execution in Florida this year. It's a record setting year for Florida and it's going to continue even into next week.
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Speaker 3: They have another one on the books next week. They have only the record before. This was only eighth they had done in a full year. There's also another execution in Tennessee. We're keeping an eye on this one scheduled for tomorrow night for sixty four year old Harold Wayne Nichols. The governor has always said, already said he's not going to step in, going to intervene at all. But the attorneys continue to fight to the very last second. They are saying this would be the only person executed for a crime he actually pleaded guilty too, and they said he should be given some consideration for actually taking responsibility for his crime.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the on the Supreme Court is going to hear arguments today on a case that could impact who can be executed in this country. The state of Alabama brought the case because it wants to execute Joseph Clifton Smith, who pleaded guilty to a nineteen ninety seven murder, but two federal law courts ruled that Smith is technically intellectually disabled.
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Speaker 3: And the issue there is that the Supreme Court already said precedent in a decision in two thousand and two that prohibits the execution intellectually disabled people. So the question is what exactly is intellectually disabled. They have been using I guess a test, if you will, to measure. They're saying the IQ test. That's how they determine whether or not someone is intellectually disabled. The number they put was at seventy, but the Supreme Court also said that there's a margin of error for these tests, so you have to consider other factors. This particular man has scored between seventy two and seventy eight, So Alabama is saying he's above that seventy number on an IQ test.
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Speaker 2: You have to consider other things things. The Supreme court has said in the past.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and the lower courts decided that because if you'd take into consideration what mental health professionals have said about him, and even what his grade school teachers said about him in second and third grade, all of that needed to be taken into account to determine his level of intellectual capability.
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Speaker 3: All right, continuing on our run here now with a disturbing story out of Texas where an army guynacologist has been charged for secretly photographing and recording patients during exams ropes. I can't imagine the violation this would feel like. And we're talking about at least forty four victims in this case.
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Speaker 1: That is staggering, that gives sends chills up and down my body, that is so disturbing. His name is doctor Blaine McGraw. He practiced at Fort Hood. These incidents are all from this year, but McGraw worked for years at another health facility, and now those patients are being contacted. Seems like it would be impossible for him to have forty four victims in one year. To have him been practicing four years, I'm sure this is just the beginning of a very disturbing story.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: The next leg of our run takes us to Miami, another major city like right here in New York. It's seeing a major mayoral shakeup.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and some history being made. Yes, Eileen Higgins. You might not know her name now, but you will soon. She want to run off election yesterday. Will be Miami's first female mayor and the city's first Democrat mayor in nearly thirty years. So Democrats are jumping on board this and saying, hey, another sign that things are changing. We'll stay with us here on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back, things are changing an Australia today, a social media ban in place. Many teens are already laughing. Also, the Nobel Peace Prize being given out today, but the laureate is missing. Also, Mackenzie Scott continues as my hero. I want to continue on our run quickly now because I swear this one over here Robot just she knows how to set me off during her commercial break. Continue on the run here now. Nobel Peace Prize being given this morning and a ceremony in Oslo, and the recipient is not expected to be there. You remember this was annown several months ago. Maria Coriina Machado, opposition leader in Venezuela. A lot of people applauded the fact that she was the recipient, But this woman has been in hiding since January. She has not been seen in public this year, essentially, so there was hope that maybe she was going to show up Ropes. They did have a press conference yesterday, the customary one where the Lauria gets asked questions.
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Speaker 2: It was delayed and delayed and delayed.
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Speaker 3: Thinking she might show up, but she never did, so we'll see how this was supposed to go today.
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Speaker 1: Well, that just speaks to what she is facing and the fact that she was willing and to speak up despite all of that security threat. That's pretty remarkable. But congratulations to her. It's just incredibly sad she can't be there to personally be honored.
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Speaker 4: All right. Next up on the Run, the first in the world social media ban officially in place.
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Speaker 1: Australia has now said no one under the age of sixteen is legally allowed to use social media in that country. So as you might imagine, kids now have been spending the days leading up to this, and certainly this morning you might imagine figuring out how they can get around the security and turns out they're figuring.
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Speaker 2: It out and it seems pretty easy.
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Speaker 3: The fix it can't be this easy because the verification requires a picture essentially on some of them. And so kids are they say some reports they just draw hair on their face on a picture and it's worked, or they put up a picture of an adult somebody else in the home and it's worked. So there'll be some growing pangs here. Yes, I'm sure concern you on the run here now, McKenzie my here, Ol Scott. Mackenzie Scott continued, No, she doesn't continue. We kind of get the annual report of her giving during the year. We have done probably nothing short of five stories this year of just such big donations that they are newsworthy. But we got the total numbers for twenty twenty five. This woman alone has donated seven point one billion dollars to nonprofit organizations and schools.
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Speaker 4: That is remarkable.
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Speaker 1: And look, she's already been a big donator before last year two point six billion in twenty twenty three to two point one billion, so imagine those were already staggering numbers.
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Speaker 4: She's more than doubled. Wait is that tripling pretty much? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Tripling what she gave in years past, in the billions already.
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Speaker 3: But the total you said that twenty nineteen, since twenty nineteen, how much she's given.
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Speaker 1: Them, Oh my goodness, twenty six point three billion dollars since twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 4: That is remarkable.
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Speaker 1: And seven hundred eighty three million this year alone to HBCUs with no string attached.
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Speaker 4: She doesn't say, you have to put it to this US, so you have to use.
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Speaker 1: It here, whatever you want to use it for, it's yours.
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Speaker 3: She's a walking one woman United Negro College Fund. She has look, I am serious what she has contributed these schools have come out and says she is changing the future of education of African American kids in this country with what she's doing at this school. Applause. And this is the part. You know, I should have used her quote as a quote of the day, but you see that in commenting about it, she said what she's given is nothing compared to the every day personal expressions of care in these communities. So even giving that much money, she's still stepping back and says it's just money.
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Speaker 2: Who love that.
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Speaker 4: Woman she is?
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Speaker 1: She is impressive and remarkable, and honestly, we should do an update on her every day because there's so much negativity and horror in this world. To have someone like Mackenzie Scott in the world, it's important to remember there are people like her out there. There are more good people than bad. I do believe that, and thank god this one is someone who has billions of dollars and is willing to spend it on people who need it the most.
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Speaker 4: That's awesome.
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Speaker 3: And finally here on the run, just a reminder everybody, go out get the tickets again. We're up to nine hundred and thirty million dollars with a powerball jackpot. That drawing will be tonight. I think the cash option is getting up around four hundred plus million if you take cash.
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Speaker 2: But it's happening tonight. You know the odds, you know how this goes.
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Speaker 4: But I got to go to the ATM. It's funny.
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Speaker 1: I somehow I just now realize you have to have cash, which I appreciate. I didn't realize you can't pay with your ATM or your debit card.
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Speaker 4: You have to actually have cash.
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Speaker 2: Yes, some of us told me that with money in the past.
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Speaker 1: Know that I only had well, I had to scrape together twelve dollars, so I raped again.
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Speaker 4: I don't have cash.
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Speaker 1: I have to go to the ATM now to go get the lottery ticket. Okay, oh yeah, you did find your money clip all right, good, we have cash?
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Speaker 2: All right, Biby.
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Speaker 3: You know, I was shuffling through it, didn't know which one of these I wanted to use. Is our quote of the day? What fits you today? Here you go. This one is just for you. We've been using the word. The President used the word a whole I guess kind of no, s whole. He was saying about countries. So in that fashion quote, before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
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Speaker 2: Wow, what right? It's funny when I first heard it.
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Speaker 3: When I stop and think about it, we're always and we're watching it on on a reality show now where this woman is taking everything in and blaming herself like I have this problem, I have this issue. Even low esteem, I think, is something been talked about. Before you do that, take inventory of the people around you. What happens when you get them out of the way and them stop. I know we talk about it. You can't make Nobody can make you this and da da, but road sometimes your environment and your people in that environment make an impact on your mental health.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, the energy that's in the room. It's hard not to be impacted and affected by the energy. What the problem is if you internalize it and then somehow, Look, it's always good to have self reflection. It's always good to question whether or not you can do better and be better. And I appreciate and applaud that, but at a certain point, if it's just constant yes, that can lead to self doubt and depression. So it is something to consider your environment and who you surround yourself with that has a huge impact on your personal happiness.
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Speaker 3: And then you know, all that you said and all that that therapy a therapist might talk to you about was summed up in kind of a fun and comedic way here, So I appreciate it. I'm not sure who I got this from, but yes, folks, before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first to make sure that you are not, in fact just surrounded by assholes. That we appreciate you running with us as always. I'm teaching and.
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Speaker 4: I'm Amy Robaga. We hope you will run with us soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's morning run. It is Wednesday, December tenth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 3: That weather is on its way. It's coming making its way east of what the folks in the Pacific Northwest are dealing with crazy rain and flooding. And now we've been talking past a couple days about this cold weather and this system is dumping snow in a lot of places inches ten inches in some places.
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Speaker 4: That's remarkable.
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Speaker 1: We're actually warming up from the frigid cold just in time for the rain, so we get rain instead of snow. That's always annoying, right, if it's going to be super cold, it's the holidays.
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Speaker 4: Give me some snow, man.
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Speaker 2: That cold wet rain is the worst tanus.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thirty six in rain is like, that's what we had last weekend.
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Speaker 4: It was terrible.
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Speaker 3: So this is where we are. There's morning folks about the weather. But hey, if our only complaint is the weather today, then we must be doing pretty well wherever you are. Hope you are getting a good start to your Wednesday morning. As always, top right corner of your Apple Podcast app where you see our show page. That button says follow click that you can get our updates anytime we have them. There have been a lot of updates on some ongoing stories, and we will have some updates on some stuff this morning as well.
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Speaker 1: That's right, but on the run right now, a deadly shooting at an HBCU, an opera singer murdered, his son is accused, and we're gonna get our first look at the video of Luigi Mangione's arrest and the unexplained last words of an inmate executed last night in Florida. Meanwhile, a Tennessee inmate is fighting his execution, which is scheduled.
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Speaker 4: For tomorrow night.
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Speaker 1: And a critical day in the Brian Walsh trial that we've been following for the past two weeks.
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Speaker 3: And also running with us this morning, Supreme Court justices, Australian teenagers, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Mackenzie Scott.
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Speaker 2: They're all gonna lace up their kicks and run with us, all right.
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Speaker 1: But we begin our run with President Trump's speech last night in Pennsylvania. It wasn't afordability speech. He called affordability a hoax by the Democrats. And the whole thing looked and felt like a campaign rack, exactly like one.
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Speaker 3: The music, his energy even, he was very animated, and it was a very pro Trump crowd.
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Speaker 2: We get it.
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Speaker 3: Look, he was supposed to be there talking about affordability, which a lot of people say Democrats are winning at least in recent elections by talking about that and driving that home. So this is what is about. He did tut robes his what he says is an excellent economic report card of his own. A lot of numbers and a lot of people disagree. But the night robes last night took a turn at moments and it was just some It was ugly stuff. No matter where you are on the political spectrum, it was ugly stuff.
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 1: This isn't about his policies. This is about his personality really at the end of the day. And he took several opportunities to go after immigrants and specifically Congresswoman Ilhan. He called Afghanistan, Haiti and Somalia hell holes. These are countries filled with human beings, called them hell holes. He also referred to them as shitthole countries.
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Speaker 3: He said, your words, not mine. Someone in the country in the crowd when he said hell holes, they corrected him, if you will, and said shitholes and responding essentially to a comment he made several years ago about people being from shithole countries. And this is the quote he gave last night. Quote, I said, why is it that we only take people from shithole countries? Why can't we have some people from Norway? Sweden?
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Speaker 2: Just a few? Let us have a few from Denmark, send us some nice people. Do you mind? He said that live in front of a.
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Speaker 4: Crowd last night, like the whitest countries you can think of.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. I don't know es.
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Speaker 3: That's just it hurts. It sucks that. I mean, this is my is our president. No, this is not a policy thing. Just talking about people in such a way and saying we don't want people from the countries that.
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Speaker 2: Are of this color.
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Speaker 3: And he actually naming places with eighty eighty five percent white people and one to three percent black populations. He's putting those out there is nice places, and it's just there's a message there and it just sucks.
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Speaker 2: And it stings.
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Speaker 1: Yetel No, it's true and this, yeah, this has nothing to do with being a Republican or being a Democrat. It's about how you choose your words and how you choose to describe people. And speaking of how he chooses to describe people on ilhan Omar, I feel like we just need to we've been doing this. We're just going to let his words speak for themselves, because they do. Here is what the President said last night about Representative Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from Minnesota. Omar, whatever the hell her name is, with her little her little turbin.
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Speaker 4: I love her.
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Speaker 1: She comes in, does nothing but bitch. She's always complaining. She comes from a country where it's considered about the worst country in the world. They have no military, they have no nothing. They have no parliament. They don't know what the hell the name parliament means. They have no police. They police themselves. They kill each other all the time.
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Speaker 2: And he wasn't done.
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Speaker 1: He continues with we ought to get her the hell out. She married her brother to get in. She married her brother to get in. Therefore she's here illegally. She could get the hell out, Throw her the hell out. She does nothing but complain. And then the crowd started to chant send her back in case.
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Speaker 3: The folks don't know, ilhan Omar. This is a rumor that has been dogging her. Conspiracy theory, if he will, has been dogging her for a decade probably now. But no, there is no record evidence anywhere that's been dug into by debunked by every major news organization that's gone into it. No, she has a complicated relationship history. It's been married.
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Speaker 4: Three she's married to her third husband.
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Speaker 2: Okay, fine, but this is not true.
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Speaker 3: But it keeps getting pushed and perpetuated in for a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: Well it has.
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Speaker 1: It's the same thing he did with Barack Obama not being not having a US citizenship.
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Speaker 4: It's the same thing.
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Speaker 2: It just keep saying it, all right, continuing on the run here.
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Speaker 3: Now, the public got to see for the first time yesterday when police first encountered Luigi Mangioni. Now, this was part of evidence in the ongoing pre trial hearings for the accused United Healthcare killer and Robes. This is the one we've heard about this so much. When he was at a McDonald's and an employee called and all this is going. We got to see it for the first time when this evidence was released played in court.
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Speaker 1: Yes and we saw the police bodycam video of when he was first approached by police, when that McDonald's worker recognized him, which I think is remarkable. When I saw the video, I don't know that I would have recognized him in that sense, so it was pretty remarkable she did.
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Speaker 3: And so they find him sitting in the back mask on. They ask him his name. He's playing it pretty cool, gives a fake name, gives a fake ID. But it didn't take long before they figured out who he was. Now, some of the evidence that continues to be gone through some of the notes he had in his backpack. Again, this is all these pretrial hearings are trying to get all this evidence thrown out because his attorney say he was not read his miranda right, so therefore this was an illegal search and seizure, but rogue some of the he had a plan to be on the run, yes for a while, and was trying to evade authority.
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Speaker 1: He was He even had like a to do list in his book, and this is part of the evidence that his lawyers are trying to get tossed out, where he was telling himself to pluck his eyebrows because he knew that that is such a distinguishing feature on his face, so he had a note to plug his eyebrows. He had a note to keep up the momentum because the FBI is slower overnight. So he was actually mapping out how he planned to continue to evade police, and part of that was changing his appearance and keeping on the run, on the move. And you can actually hear in the police bodycam video the officers debating whether or not they had to get a search warrant before they went into his backpack, and they decided that they did not have to. They did not need one because he had given them a false name and a false ID, so they had a reason to look and see who he was.
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Speaker 3: And that right now is key and all the pre trial hearings they're off today. It will continue though tomorrow we can tell you next up on the run. What will continue today is testimony the Brian Walsh trial. This will be day eight. He of course accused of killing his wife. He said he didn't kill her, but admits to dismembering her and disposing of her body. A key day today. We expecting this morning a very important witness on the stand today, the guy who was there with him and his wife the night she died.
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Speaker 1: Yes, this was Onna Walsh's former boss, but a friend to both Brian and Anna Walsh, and he was with them on New Year's Eve, celebrating the New Year with them, and he says he left the home around on one point thirty in the morning. That is going to be so fascinating to hear his testimony about what the couple was like that evening, how he left them, what he saw, what he witnessed, what he knew of them.
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Speaker 4: But he's going to have a.
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Speaker 1: He's going to be questioned outside of the jury ahead of time, so that's why there's going to be a little bit later of a start.
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Speaker 4: Today.
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Speaker 1: Ten am Eastern Time is when I guess the jury is being brought in. But hopefully we'll be able to see what happens from nine to ten and figure out what it is they're trying to determine before the jury is allowed in. Next up, on the Run though a renowned opera singer. This is just such a sad and tragic story. Stabbed to death at his own home in Santa Monica and then turns out his son has been arrested for the crime. His name jubilant Psychs found dead on Monday at his home. Police got a call about an assault in progress and they responded to the home where they then found his son, thirty one year old Micah Sich.
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Speaker 3: Police are still trying to piece this together. Don't know what led up to this incident, don't have any idea about a motive. But Sykes is seventy one years old, and he was had a decade long career, performed all over the world, dozens of places in some of the biggest name theaters you could name. Grammy nominated as well. But just a sad and tragic and shocking story out in Santa Monica. Continuing on the run here now. One student killed another wounded at a shooting on the campus of Kentucky State University yesterday. This happened around three in the afternoon at a residence hall there on campus.
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 1: The suspect is a forty eight year old man. He is not a student there, and this was what police really wanted the campus and the parents and students to understand. This was not a random attack. So they say this was a targeted attack. And right now we are unclear of the relationship between this forty eight year old man and a student and the other student who. But certainly hopefully some more details will come to light in this developing story. Next up on the Run, the Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates once again today. They're expected to lower those interest rates by a quarter point.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they can continue their cut streak. This year is going to be their third cut that they would have made this year. But they're having to do this without all the information. Yes, there are no jobs numbers and inflation numbers right now. They are delayed because you guessed it, because of the shutdown. Continue on the run here now. Florida continued its record pace of executions last night. Fifty eight year old Mark Allen Jerrold's pronounced dead at six point fifteen pm last night after being given that lethal drug cocktail and a lot of questions right now. Look, they always ask do you have any last words? And sometimes they say nothing, sometimes they say very little. This man has said something that left a lot of people confused.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no one really could tell. He said someone's name. They say it was indiscernible. They couldn't tell whose name he called out. But then he said, I'm sorry that I missed you. I loved you every day. Those were his final words. This was this execution happened. Geralds was executed for the nineteen eighty nine murder of Tresa Pettibone. He had been a contractor for the family. Found out that the husband was going to be gone. He planned to rob the home. She was home, so it was a home invasion that went bad and turned ugly. This is the eighteenth execution in Florida this year. It's a record setting year for Florida and it's going to continue even into next week.
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Speaker 3: They have another one on the books next week. They have only the record before. This was only eighth they had done in a full year. There's also another execution in Tennessee. We're keeping an eye on this one scheduled for tomorrow night for sixty four year old Harold Wayne Nichols. The governor has always said, already said he's not going to step in, going to intervene at all. But the attorneys continue to fight to the very last second. They are saying this would be the only person executed for a crime he actually pleaded guilty too, and they said he should be given some consideration for actually taking responsibility for his crime.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the on the Supreme Court is going to hear arguments today on a case that could impact who can be executed in this country. The state of Alabama brought the case because it wants to execute Joseph Clifton Smith, who pleaded guilty to a nineteen ninety seven murder, but two federal law courts ruled that Smith is technically intellectually disabled.
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Speaker 3: And the issue there is that the Supreme Court already said precedent in a decision in two thousand and two that prohibits the execution intellectually disabled people. So the question is what exactly is intellectually disabled. They have been using I guess a test, if you will, to measure. They're saying the IQ test. That's how they determine whether or not someone is intellectually disabled. The number they put was at seventy, but the Supreme Court also said that there's a margin of error for these tests, so you have to consider other factors. This particular man has scored between seventy two and seventy eight, So Alabama is saying he's above that seventy number on an IQ test.
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Speaker 2: You have to consider other things things. The Supreme court has said in the past.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and the lower courts decided that because if you'd take into consideration what mental health professionals have said about him, and even what his grade school teachers said about him in second and third grade, all of that needed to be taken into account to determine his level of intellectual capability.
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Speaker 3: All right, continuing on our run here now with a disturbing story out of Texas where an army guynacologist has been charged for secretly photographing and recording patients during exams ropes. I can't imagine the violation this would feel like. And we're talking about at least forty four victims in this case.
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Speaker 1: That is staggering, that gives sends chills up and down my body, that is so disturbing. His name is doctor Blaine McGraw. He practiced at Fort Hood. These incidents are all from this year, but McGraw worked for years at another health facility, and now those patients are being contacted. Seems like it would be impossible for him to have forty four victims in one year. To have him been practicing four years, I'm sure this is just the beginning of a very disturbing story.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: The next leg of our run takes us to Miami, another major city like right here in New York. It's seeing a major mayoral shakeup.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and some history being made. Yes, Eileen Higgins. You might not know her name now, but you will soon. She want to run off election yesterday. Will be Miami's first female mayor and the city's first Democrat mayor in nearly thirty years. So Democrats are jumping on board this and saying, hey, another sign that things are changing. We'll stay with us here on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back, things are changing an Australia today, a social media ban in place. Many teens are already laughing. Also, the Nobel Peace Prize being given out today, but the laureate is missing. Also, Mackenzie Scott continues as my hero. I want to continue on our run quickly now because I swear this one over here Robot just she knows how to set me off during her commercial break. Continue on the run here now. Nobel Peace Prize being given this morning and a ceremony in Oslo, and the recipient is not expected to be there. You remember this was annown several months ago. Maria Coriina Machado, opposition leader in Venezuela. A lot of people applauded the fact that she was the recipient, But this woman has been in hiding since January. She has not been seen in public this year, essentially, so there was hope that maybe she was going to show up Ropes. They did have a press conference yesterday, the customary one where the Lauria gets asked questions.
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Speaker 2: It was delayed and delayed and delayed.
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Speaker 3: Thinking she might show up, but she never did, so we'll see how this was supposed to go today.
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Speaker 1: Well, that just speaks to what she is facing and the fact that she was willing and to speak up despite all of that security threat. That's pretty remarkable. But congratulations to her. It's just incredibly sad she can't be there to personally be honored.
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Speaker 4: All right. Next up on the Run, the first in the world social media ban officially in place.
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Speaker 1: Australia has now said no one under the age of sixteen is legally allowed to use social media in that country. So as you might imagine, kids now have been spending the days leading up to this, and certainly this morning you might imagine figuring out how they can get around the security and turns out they're figuring.
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Speaker 2: It out and it seems pretty easy.
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Speaker 3: The fix it can't be this easy because the verification requires a picture essentially on some of them. And so kids are they say some reports they just draw hair on their face on a picture and it's worked, or they put up a picture of an adult somebody else in the home and it's worked. So there'll be some growing pangs here. Yes, I'm sure concern you on the run here now, McKenzie my here, Ol Scott. Mackenzie Scott continued, No, she doesn't continue. We kind of get the annual report of her giving during the year. We have done probably nothing short of five stories this year of just such big donations that they are newsworthy. But we got the total numbers for twenty twenty five. This woman alone has donated seven point one billion dollars to nonprofit organizations and schools.
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Speaker 4: That is remarkable.
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Speaker 1: And look, she's already been a big donator before last year two point six billion in twenty twenty three to two point one billion, so imagine those were already staggering numbers.
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Speaker 4: She's more than doubled. Wait is that tripling pretty much? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Tripling what she gave in years past, in the billions already.
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Speaker 3: But the total you said that twenty nineteen, since twenty nineteen, how much she's given.
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Speaker 1: Them, Oh my goodness, twenty six point three billion dollars since twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 4: That is remarkable.
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Speaker 1: And seven hundred eighty three million this year alone to HBCUs with no string attached.
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Speaker 4: She doesn't say, you have to put it to this US, so you have to use.
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Speaker 1: It here, whatever you want to use it for, it's yours.
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Speaker 3: She's a walking one woman United Negro College Fund. She has look, I am serious what she has contributed these schools have come out and says she is changing the future of education of African American kids in this country with what she's doing at this school. Applause. And this is the part. You know, I should have used her quote as a quote of the day, but you see that in commenting about it, she said what she's given is nothing compared to the every day personal expressions of care in these communities. So even giving that much money, she's still stepping back and says it's just money.
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Speaker 2: Who love that.
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Speaker 4: Woman she is?
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Speaker 1: She is impressive and remarkable, and honestly, we should do an update on her every day because there's so much negativity and horror in this world. To have someone like Mackenzie Scott in the world, it's important to remember there are people like her out there. There are more good people than bad. I do believe that, and thank god this one is someone who has billions of dollars and is willing to spend it on people who need it the most.
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Speaker 4: That's awesome.
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Speaker 3: And finally here on the run, just a reminder everybody, go out get the tickets again. We're up to nine hundred and thirty million dollars with a powerball jackpot. That drawing will be tonight. I think the cash option is getting up around four hundred plus million if you take cash.
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Speaker 2: But it's happening tonight. You know the odds, you know how this goes.
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Speaker 4: But I got to go to the ATM. It's funny.
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Speaker 1: I somehow I just now realize you have to have cash, which I appreciate. I didn't realize you can't pay with your ATM or your debit card.
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Speaker 4: You have to actually have cash.
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Speaker 2: Yes, some of us told me that with money in the past.
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Speaker 1: Know that I only had well, I had to scrape together twelve dollars, so I raped again.
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Speaker 4: I don't have cash.
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Speaker 1: I have to go to the ATM now to go get the lottery ticket. Okay, oh yeah, you did find your money clip all right, good, we have cash?
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Speaker 2: All right, Biby.
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Speaker 3: You know, I was shuffling through it, didn't know which one of these I wanted to use. Is our quote of the day? What fits you today? Here you go. This one is just for you. We've been using the word. The President used the word a whole I guess kind of no, s whole. He was saying about countries. So in that fashion quote, before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
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Speaker 2: Wow, what right? It's funny when I first heard it.
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Speaker 3: When I stop and think about it, we're always and we're watching it on on a reality show now where this woman is taking everything in and blaming herself like I have this problem, I have this issue. Even low esteem, I think, is something been talked about. Before you do that, take inventory of the people around you. What happens when you get them out of the way and them stop. I know we talk about it. You can't make Nobody can make you this and da da, but road sometimes your environment and your people in that environment make an impact on your mental health.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, the energy that's in the room. It's hard not to be impacted and affected by the energy. What the problem is if you internalize it and then somehow, Look, it's always good to have self reflection. It's always good to question whether or not you can do better and be better. And I appreciate and applaud that, but at a certain point, if it's just constant yes, that can lead to self doubt and depression. So it is something to consider your environment and who you surround yourself with that has a huge impact on your personal happiness.
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Speaker 3: And then you know, all that you said and all that that therapy a therapist might talk to you about was summed up in kind of a fun and comedic way here, So I appreciate it. I'm not sure who I got this from, but yes, folks, before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first to make sure that you are not, in fact just surrounded by assholes. That we appreciate you running with us as always. I'm teaching and.
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Speaker 4: I'm Amy Robaga. We hope you will run with us soon.