March 18, 2026
Morning Run: Pam Bondi Subpoenaed, Cuba Threatens Trump, Iran “Intense” Retaliation, Gas Prices Soaring, Joe Kent Resignation, Airports Could Close, Oscar Ratings Slide and Venezuela “Conquers” USA
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ an iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Good morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's morning Run.
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Speaker 3: Buckle up, everybody.
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Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, March eighteenth, and we've already been having some fun this morning.
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Speaker 1: Why did you say buckle up? You gave a warning before the run?
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Speaker 2: Wow, Because I if anyone heard our conversation before the Morning Run, you would understand why I said that.
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Speaker 1: Hey there, I'm TJ. Holmes. We are debating about what we can do with the conversation we had before we actually started recording. It was a four minute conversation about emotions and suppressing those emotions and controlling those emotions. I don't know. Maybe we'll do something with it. But good morning to you all. We do need to confirm, yes, it is March eighteenth. We made it to this day, but it looked like the end of the world. Oh yesterday that was literally a fireball in the sky.
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Speaker 2: It was some folks reported hearing basically what they thought was an explosion. They looked up in the sky and thought something, there's a bomb.
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Speaker 3: A plane has just exploded.
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Speaker 2: Admitted that's how loud this sound was. It was a sonic boom times whatever.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. They're telling us a meteor broke apart. That's what everybody heard. And this thing came down, came in the middle of the day. They could see a fireball from where they're saying the from Wisconsin all the way to the northeast.
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Speaker 3: Ten states, parts in Canada.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of Cleveland, Ohio area. I think they saw a lot. But this is fascinating ropes.
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Speaker 2: What's crazy is scientists weighed in and said yes, people were saying their homes shook, and it was kind of interesting to have scientists say, yeah, that makes sense because they say the energy this thing unleashed. This is called a meteor basically any space chunk that comes down.
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Speaker 3: Apparently it's just called meteor.
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Speaker 2: But they say it was about six feet in diameter, had a mass of seventeen thousand pounds, was traveling forty thousand miles per hour, which is fifty times the speed of sound. Yeah, so you can understand the noise, the flash.
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Speaker 3: But that is frightening, cause no damage.
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Speaker 1: Most of them, they say break they break up. I'm surprised. I didn't know how many actually come down, but they come down more often than we realize.
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Speaker 2: They say they come down all the time, all the time, every damn day. This was just a big one that that's a little unsettling.
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Speaker 1: It's a little unsettling. But yes, a meteor they haven't found pieces yet. Those would be meteorites, yes, and then their meteoroid meteoroids, so.
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Speaker 3: Right, meteoroids.
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Speaker 2: Don't they sell those, don't they don't They auction those off at Christie's for like money.
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Speaker 1: I thought they did so rare, But yes, that happened yesterday. We're okay, and uh, I guess keep our eyes on the skies. These things are. They keep coming, but all on the run. This morning. We'll be making stops today in Miami, in DC and Tel Aviv. Also we'll be making a stop at the nation's airports as well as the gas pumps. But we do need to start once again in Iran. That country appears to be following through robes on a promise of revenge for the killing of their top security officials.
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Speaker 2: There was a new wave of attacks on central Israel this morning and at least two people were reportedly killed, and Iran launched what it's calling an intense barrage of attacks in retaliation, yes for the killing of Ali Learrajhanni, the man widely believed to be running that country since the death of Supreme Leader Hamine.
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Speaker 1: I'm continuing here now President Trump this week, and remember he suggested that the US could soon take Cuba. Now the president of Cuba has responded, bring it all.
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Speaker 2: President ds Canal wrote on X in the worst case scenario, Cuba is accompanied by one certainty, any external aggressor will encounter an impregnable resistance.
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Speaker 3: M impregnable.
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Speaker 1: Hey, it sounds like a vague threat.
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Speaker 2: It sounds invasive, evasive, it sounds invasive.
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Speaker 3: That's what I would say, all right. He also accused the US of trying to take over his country.
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Speaker 2: Duh, that's exactly what the President said, and its resources and its economy, which they see to suffocate in order to force us to surrender.
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Speaker 3: He talking about the US oil blockade.
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Speaker 1: And reminder, President Trump said this week this was the quote. I do believe I'll be having the honor of taking Cuba. It's a big honor. Taking Cuba is in some form, whether I free it or take it, I can do anything I want with it. To tell you the truth, stand by, we shall see what happens.
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Speaker 3: There, all right. Next up on the run.
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Speaker 2: We're not seeing gas prices in the US at the highest level. We are now seeing gas prices in the US at the highest level we've seen in two and a half years.
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Speaker 1: And this is one of those things. Full disclosure here will I will take credit. I actually wrote the scripts and it's in front of robes and there's a very simple little typo. The word is supposed to be now and it says not right. That's on me, my mistake. I apologize. I've had that typo and it threw you. However, talent supposed to always read through the script.
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Speaker 3: That no, I will own that. That's why I didn't.
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Speaker 2: That's why I didn't say, wow, whoever wrote this wrote it wrong. I just I coped to it, like, yeah, I read that wrong and I should have seen that coming.
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Speaker 1: I took credit and then said it was your fault. That was brilliant. Okay, But yes, gas prices are at the highest levels we've seen in quite a while. The average price of a gallon is now at three seventy nine. That's the most expensive it's been since October of twenty twenty three. Before the war with Iran, we were paying an average of two ninety eight a gallon. Again, we're at three seventy nine. Now, we're at two ninety eight before the war.
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Speaker 3: So up eighty cents already and counting.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run, President Trump announced he is going to delay his trip to China for five or six weeks so he can focus on the war with Iran. Trump says he is resetting the meeting and that China was quote fine with it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. The President was supposed to travel to China from March thirty first to April second to focus on trade issues. We'll continue here on the run now and back in DC as well. The director of the National counter Terrorism Center and longtime supporter of President Trump's Joe Kent, resigned his position over the war with Iran on Tuesday. Rode he did not go quiet.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I was going to say, he very publicly resigned.
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Speaker 2: In fact, the former Green Beret posted the resignation letter he sent to President Trump in full, which you are welcome to read, but he added this caption to the letter. After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National counter Terrorism Center effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under Potus and he has Tolsi Gabbard's handle right there and leading the professionals at NCTC.
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Speaker 3: May God bless America.
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Speaker 1: He has a twenty year career in the Army's Special Forces, later worked at the CIA. His wife, Shannon died in a terrorist bombing in Syria in twenty nineteen while she was working as a Navy cryptologist. And again Rome he could have resigned and walked out, he was. There was a message he had here, and quite frankly, even if you had no idea who this guy was, the messenger is one that you'll listen to.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it certainly this isn't somebody who has a political vendetta or even has a reason why he would say what he said.
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Speaker 1: Now, I wonder what the President thought of this. When I first heard about this story yesterday and the letter came out and the resident and he had resigned, I was standing by all day. I was looking at truth social waiting to see how Trump responded.
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Speaker 2: And he did, but not as forcefully as maybe you had anticipated.
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Speaker 3: He said. He told this to reporters.
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Speaker 2: It's a good thing that he's out because he said Iran was not a threat. Every country recognized Iran was a threat. Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt added to Trump Stevens, saying Ken's resignation letter was riddled with false claim I.
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Speaker 1: Continue here on the run now, Pam Bondy, she has been suspended.
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Speaker 3: That would be a headline.
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Speaker 1: That is not the headline. The word is subpoena. Pam Bondi was subpoena on Tuesday to testify before the House Oversight Committee. Lawmakers want her to answer questions about the DOJ's Epstein investigation.
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Speaker 2: Specifically how the agency handled the millions of files related to the investigation. Yes, I'm sure they have a lot of questions. Bondi will be deposed. It will be privately on April fourteenth. And notably, five Republicans on that committee all voted in support of subpoena in Bondi, which is a big deal.
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Speaker 1: She will be deposed a private hearing. So look forward to seeing the pictures.
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Speaker 3: Oh yes, I'm sure someone will snap one and post it online.
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Speaker 1: You know what one of the Democrats on the.
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Speaker 3: They should do it industry, you know, just kidding, all.
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Speaker 1: Right, continuing here on the run. Now, security lines already two three, four hours long at airports, and now we are being warned things could actually get worse. How much worse you ask? Some airports might have to close.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the acting Deputy TSA administrator is sounding the alarm. The current partial government shutdown, Yes, could force the agency to close smaller airports. DSA workers have been working without pay since the start of the shutdown, which was February fourteenth. So the call out rate is normally two percent. Now it's around ten percent nationally.
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Speaker 1: But it's much worse at Hartsville Jackson. You know, on a good day at hearth here it can be really really brutal. Thirty seven percent of the workers there have called out. Wow, nearly forty percent of your TSA workers who are supposed to be getting folks screened are have called out. There's on Monday.
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Speaker 3: You know, we're flying there in a week's.
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Speaker 1: Working those numbers.
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Speaker 2: Woo.
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Speaker 1: You know what, We've been promoted very much advocating for TSA workers.
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Speaker 2: It's just completely self It wasn't it wasn't, but now that you old people were flying, it sounds like it is.
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Speaker 1: JFK had a thirty percent call out rate, LaGuardia had a twenty percent call out rate. And there's no real still an end insight, no necessarily to this. How many days we're in, we're going to be knocking on the door of the forty three days. Wow, that was the record.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 2: That's so unfair to those workers to have this happen with them twice in just a matter of months.
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Speaker 1: All right, folks, stay with us here on this Wednesday Morning run when we come back the Bachelorette season premiere, Big season premiere on Sunday. Will it happened well? Will it happen well? At least one advertiser has now pulled back from that show because of the recent allegations against the Star. Also oscars on Sunday. Always curious to know how the show did ratings wise. We got the new numbers and they are down and Venezuela has conquered the United States state.
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Speaker 2: Continuing now on our Wednesday Morning run, some major fallout over the Taylor Frankie Paul allegations. Now just four days from the new season of The Bachelorette. Cinnabon has ended its partnership with both The Bachelorette and Secret Lives of Mormon Wives after police confirmed that domestic violence investigation involving Paul and her ex boyfriend.
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Speaker 1: How long have they it was the last time they were actually officially together.
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Speaker 2: Well, we know that they were together the night before she left for the Bachelorette, but they.
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Speaker 1: Weren't in a relationship. I mean, when will they land again?
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Speaker 3: Off again? I mean, well, they ended season four broken up yet.
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Speaker 2: Having a final evening, I guess, but it's I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Were they ever completely over?
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Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense. Well, the company we talked about, Cinnabon here that has stepped back from both shows, Bachelorette and Secret Lives. I released a statement saying this recent developments and allegations surrounding the lead cast member led us to lease this or to excuse me, reassess this collaboration as it no longer aligns with our brand values. Plain, simple, to the point we're at.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the question is will other companies follow suit? Will Disney say anything about the controversy or just wait and see what happens?
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Speaker 3: If you have the level of interest that we have in this.
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Speaker 2: Just check out the podcast episode before this, we did a whole whole episode on our.
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Speaker 3: Thoughts and all the latest on Taylor, Frankie Paul. But next up on the run. The official ratings are in.
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Speaker 2: For this year's Oscars seventeen point nine million viewers.
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Speaker 3: That sounds like a lot, but it would.
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Speaker 1: Not a lot compared to last year. It's actually a nine percent decline from the show last year. The bigger issue is that there was a fourteen percent drop in young viewers.
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Speaker 3: You know, we asked to being if she wanted to come watch with us. She was, like Nash, she had zero. She said it was boring, she did.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how they appeal to a younger demographic, and I maybe they'll do it in twenty twenty nine, because the OSCER is not going to be on TV that much longer. That is the year it's going to be moved over to YouTube. We shall see what they can do with today.
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Speaker 2: But don't so many people watch YouTube on their TVs anyway, so it won't even look any different. Just on a streaming service that might attract those younger viewers.
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Speaker 3: I think it kind of makes sense. All right for the final leg of our run. Venezuela has conquered the United States in baseball.
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Speaker 1: This is pretty exciting. Yesterday I was trying to get you to stay awake so you could see this, but I'm so tired. I understand you did have a long day and night. Venezuela be tam USA in the World Baseball Classic last night. What is that, some might ask, the World Cup of Baseball. They do this every four years, but it is the ultimate, the premieer baseball event in the world, and countries compete, and the USA obviously is stacked with all stars like Aaron Judge and the like. Right, this is our game.
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Speaker 3: America's pastime.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Venezuela one. The sack was tied to going into the ninth. This is when we got home. We were actually out.
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Speaker 3: You came back. Well, I had already got into bed. You came in like babe ninth.
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Speaker 2: Then I was like, this sounds amazing, and then like I was asleep in ten seconds, And.
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Speaker 1: In that ten seconds, Venezuela scored a run, won this thing three to two in robes. What felt like an overwhelming pro Venezuela crowd there in Miami and the outpoint these guys just emotion poured out of them. They've been asked questions, of course about what's happening between the two countries. They know what this means to Venezuela. To win this thing, and to win it against the United States. That's just a bizarre coincidence that this went down.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like what are the chances?
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Speaker 1: Right, what are the chances? But those guys were really it was really cool to watching. Today is a national Day of Joy in Venezuela.
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Speaker 3: They don't have to go to work.
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Speaker 1: It's a holiday.
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Speaker 3: That's kind of awesome.
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Speaker 1: The National Day of Joy one a month.
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Speaker 3: I would totally sign up for that.
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Speaker 2: I have a question too, why is it called WBC If it's the World Cup of Baseball, Why wouldn't it be WCV.
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Speaker 1: Because it's called the World Baseball Classic. Is the official name WBC? I only said the World Cup of Baseball to put you in the mindset of the World Cup.
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Speaker 3: That makes so much sense. Thank you for explaining that.
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Speaker 1: All right, Trump did and one word statehood. Oh that's what he.
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Speaker 2: So we could claim the victory because yes, now they're a part of America.
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Speaker 1: That was what he posted.
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Speaker 3: We take winners. We like winners, statehood, we claim them as our own. Wow.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well, on this Wednesday, this is your quote of the day.
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Speaker 3: Did you have one?
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Speaker 1: Oh? No, I'm glad you didn't.
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Speaker 3: Okay, yes, here is the quote of the day. I think you like this one.
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Speaker 2: Strength is not in how loud you react, but in how calm you remain.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, strength, right.
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Speaker 2: Yes, strength is not in how loud you react, but in how calm you remain. People think, you know, when you shout or you're loud, or you're like, you sound powerful, but actually you've completely lost control at that point.
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Speaker 1: But people don't recognize quiet strength. It takes a lot to sit there quietly when things sometimes are happening around you. Oh yeah, I like that quote. It's very simple to the point. And then good reminder, My goodness, Yes, I knew you would like. It's usually yeah, and it's usually the weakest one in the room is the one barking the loudest.
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Speaker 3: So true, so true.
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Speaker 2: You know, this kind of even goes back to what we were talking about beforehand, which we may or may not post at some point, but I didn't even realize it kind of tied into it. The whole conversation we were having. Strength is not in how loud you react, but in how calm you remain, and with that everyone, we hope you have a strong, calm, peaceful day.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for running with us.
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Speaker 2: As always, I'm Made Me Robot and DJ Holk talk so
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ an iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Good morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's morning Run.
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Speaker 3: Buckle up, everybody.
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Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, March eighteenth, and we've already been having some fun this morning.
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Speaker 1: Why did you say buckle up? You gave a warning before the run?
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Speaker 2: Wow, Because I if anyone heard our conversation before the Morning Run, you would understand why I said that.
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Speaker 1: Hey there, I'm TJ. Holmes. We are debating about what we can do with the conversation we had before we actually started recording. It was a four minute conversation about emotions and suppressing those emotions and controlling those emotions. I don't know. Maybe we'll do something with it. But good morning to you all. We do need to confirm, yes, it is March eighteenth. We made it to this day, but it looked like the end of the world. Oh yesterday that was literally a fireball in the sky.
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Speaker 2: It was some folks reported hearing basically what they thought was an explosion. They looked up in the sky and thought something, there's a bomb.
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Speaker 3: A plane has just exploded.
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Speaker 2: Admitted that's how loud this sound was. It was a sonic boom times whatever.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. They're telling us a meteor broke apart. That's what everybody heard. And this thing came down, came in the middle of the day. They could see a fireball from where they're saying the from Wisconsin all the way to the northeast.
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Speaker 3: Ten states, parts in Canada.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of Cleveland, Ohio area. I think they saw a lot. But this is fascinating ropes.
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Speaker 2: What's crazy is scientists weighed in and said yes, people were saying their homes shook, and it was kind of interesting to have scientists say, yeah, that makes sense because they say the energy this thing unleashed. This is called a meteor basically any space chunk that comes down.
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Speaker 3: Apparently it's just called meteor.
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Speaker 2: But they say it was about six feet in diameter, had a mass of seventeen thousand pounds, was traveling forty thousand miles per hour, which is fifty times the speed of sound. Yeah, so you can understand the noise, the flash.
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Speaker 3: But that is frightening, cause no damage.
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Speaker 1: Most of them, they say break they break up. I'm surprised. I didn't know how many actually come down, but they come down more often than we realize.
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Speaker 2: They say they come down all the time, all the time, every damn day. This was just a big one that that's a little unsettling.
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Speaker 1: It's a little unsettling. But yes, a meteor they haven't found pieces yet. Those would be meteorites, yes, and then their meteoroid meteoroids, so.
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Speaker 3: Right, meteoroids.
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Speaker 2: Don't they sell those, don't they don't They auction those off at Christie's for like money.
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Speaker 1: I thought they did so rare, But yes, that happened yesterday. We're okay, and uh, I guess keep our eyes on the skies. These things are. They keep coming, but all on the run. This morning. We'll be making stops today in Miami, in DC and Tel Aviv. Also we'll be making a stop at the nation's airports as well as the gas pumps. But we do need to start once again in Iran. That country appears to be following through robes on a promise of revenge for the killing of their top security officials.
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Speaker 2: There was a new wave of attacks on central Israel this morning and at least two people were reportedly killed, and Iran launched what it's calling an intense barrage of attacks in retaliation, yes for the killing of Ali Learrajhanni, the man widely believed to be running that country since the death of Supreme Leader Hamine.
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Speaker 1: I'm continuing here now President Trump this week, and remember he suggested that the US could soon take Cuba. Now the president of Cuba has responded, bring it all.
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Speaker 2: President ds Canal wrote on X in the worst case scenario, Cuba is accompanied by one certainty, any external aggressor will encounter an impregnable resistance.
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Speaker 3: M impregnable.
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Speaker 1: Hey, it sounds like a vague threat.
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Speaker 2: It sounds invasive, evasive, it sounds invasive.
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Speaker 3: That's what I would say, all right. He also accused the US of trying to take over his country.
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Speaker 2: Duh, that's exactly what the President said, and its resources and its economy, which they see to suffocate in order to force us to surrender.
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Speaker 3: He talking about the US oil blockade.
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Speaker 1: And reminder, President Trump said this week this was the quote. I do believe I'll be having the honor of taking Cuba. It's a big honor. Taking Cuba is in some form, whether I free it or take it, I can do anything I want with it. To tell you the truth, stand by, we shall see what happens.
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Speaker 3: There, all right. Next up on the run.
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Speaker 2: We're not seeing gas prices in the US at the highest level. We are now seeing gas prices in the US at the highest level we've seen in two and a half years.
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Speaker 1: And this is one of those things. Full disclosure here will I will take credit. I actually wrote the scripts and it's in front of robes and there's a very simple little typo. The word is supposed to be now and it says not right. That's on me, my mistake. I apologize. I've had that typo and it threw you. However, talent supposed to always read through the script.
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Speaker 3: That no, I will own that. That's why I didn't.
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Speaker 2: That's why I didn't say, wow, whoever wrote this wrote it wrong. I just I coped to it, like, yeah, I read that wrong and I should have seen that coming.
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Speaker 1: I took credit and then said it was your fault. That was brilliant. Okay, But yes, gas prices are at the highest levels we've seen in quite a while. The average price of a gallon is now at three seventy nine. That's the most expensive it's been since October of twenty twenty three. Before the war with Iran, we were paying an average of two ninety eight a gallon. Again, we're at three seventy nine. Now, we're at two ninety eight before the war.
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Speaker 3: So up eighty cents already and counting.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run, President Trump announced he is going to delay his trip to China for five or six weeks so he can focus on the war with Iran. Trump says he is resetting the meeting and that China was quote fine with it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. The President was supposed to travel to China from March thirty first to April second to focus on trade issues. We'll continue here on the run now and back in DC as well. The director of the National counter Terrorism Center and longtime supporter of President Trump's Joe Kent, resigned his position over the war with Iran on Tuesday. Rode he did not go quiet.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I was going to say, he very publicly resigned.
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Speaker 2: In fact, the former Green Beret posted the resignation letter he sent to President Trump in full, which you are welcome to read, but he added this caption to the letter. After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National counter Terrorism Center effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under Potus and he has Tolsi Gabbard's handle right there and leading the professionals at NCTC.
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Speaker 3: May God bless America.
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Speaker 1: He has a twenty year career in the Army's Special Forces, later worked at the CIA. His wife, Shannon died in a terrorist bombing in Syria in twenty nineteen while she was working as a Navy cryptologist. And again Rome he could have resigned and walked out, he was. There was a message he had here, and quite frankly, even if you had no idea who this guy was, the messenger is one that you'll listen to.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it certainly this isn't somebody who has a political vendetta or even has a reason why he would say what he said.
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Speaker 1: Now, I wonder what the President thought of this. When I first heard about this story yesterday and the letter came out and the resident and he had resigned, I was standing by all day. I was looking at truth social waiting to see how Trump responded.
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Speaker 2: And he did, but not as forcefully as maybe you had anticipated.
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Speaker 3: He said. He told this to reporters.
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Speaker 2: It's a good thing that he's out because he said Iran was not a threat. Every country recognized Iran was a threat. Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt added to Trump Stevens, saying Ken's resignation letter was riddled with false claim I.
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Speaker 1: Continue here on the run now, Pam Bondy, she has been suspended.
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Speaker 3: That would be a headline.
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Speaker 1: That is not the headline. The word is subpoena. Pam Bondi was subpoena on Tuesday to testify before the House Oversight Committee. Lawmakers want her to answer questions about the DOJ's Epstein investigation.
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Speaker 2: Specifically how the agency handled the millions of files related to the investigation. Yes, I'm sure they have a lot of questions. Bondi will be deposed. It will be privately on April fourteenth. And notably, five Republicans on that committee all voted in support of subpoena in Bondi, which is a big deal.
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Speaker 1: She will be deposed a private hearing. So look forward to seeing the pictures.
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Speaker 3: Oh yes, I'm sure someone will snap one and post it online.
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Speaker 1: You know what one of the Democrats on the.
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Speaker 3: They should do it industry, you know, just kidding, all.
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Speaker 1: Right, continuing here on the run. Now, security lines already two three, four hours long at airports, and now we are being warned things could actually get worse. How much worse you ask? Some airports might have to close.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the acting Deputy TSA administrator is sounding the alarm. The current partial government shutdown, Yes, could force the agency to close smaller airports. DSA workers have been working without pay since the start of the shutdown, which was February fourteenth. So the call out rate is normally two percent. Now it's around ten percent nationally.
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Speaker 1: But it's much worse at Hartsville Jackson. You know, on a good day at hearth here it can be really really brutal. Thirty seven percent of the workers there have called out. Wow, nearly forty percent of your TSA workers who are supposed to be getting folks screened are have called out. There's on Monday.
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Speaker 3: You know, we're flying there in a week's.
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Speaker 1: Working those numbers.
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Speaker 2: Woo.
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Speaker 1: You know what, We've been promoted very much advocating for TSA workers.
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Speaker 2: It's just completely self It wasn't it wasn't, but now that you old people were flying, it sounds like it is.
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Speaker 1: JFK had a thirty percent call out rate, LaGuardia had a twenty percent call out rate. And there's no real still an end insight, no necessarily to this. How many days we're in, we're going to be knocking on the door of the forty three days. Wow, that was the record.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 2: That's so unfair to those workers to have this happen with them twice in just a matter of months.
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Speaker 1: All right, folks, stay with us here on this Wednesday Morning run when we come back the Bachelorette season premiere, Big season premiere on Sunday. Will it happened well? Will it happen well? At least one advertiser has now pulled back from that show because of the recent allegations against the Star. Also oscars on Sunday. Always curious to know how the show did ratings wise. We got the new numbers and they are down and Venezuela has conquered the United States state.
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Speaker 2: Continuing now on our Wednesday Morning run, some major fallout over the Taylor Frankie Paul allegations. Now just four days from the new season of The Bachelorette. Cinnabon has ended its partnership with both The Bachelorette and Secret Lives of Mormon Wives after police confirmed that domestic violence investigation involving Paul and her ex boyfriend.
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Speaker 1: How long have they it was the last time they were actually officially together.
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Speaker 2: Well, we know that they were together the night before she left for the Bachelorette, but they.
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Speaker 1: Weren't in a relationship. I mean, when will they land again?
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Speaker 3: Off again? I mean, well, they ended season four broken up yet.
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Speaker 2: Having a final evening, I guess, but it's I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Were they ever completely over?
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Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense. Well, the company we talked about, Cinnabon here that has stepped back from both shows, Bachelorette and Secret Lives. I released a statement saying this recent developments and allegations surrounding the lead cast member led us to lease this or to excuse me, reassess this collaboration as it no longer aligns with our brand values. Plain, simple, to the point we're at.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the question is will other companies follow suit? Will Disney say anything about the controversy or just wait and see what happens?
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Speaker 3: If you have the level of interest that we have in this.
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Speaker 2: Just check out the podcast episode before this, we did a whole whole episode on our.
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Speaker 3: Thoughts and all the latest on Taylor, Frankie Paul. But next up on the run. The official ratings are in.
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Speaker 2: For this year's Oscars seventeen point nine million viewers.
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Speaker 3: That sounds like a lot, but it would.
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Speaker 1: Not a lot compared to last year. It's actually a nine percent decline from the show last year. The bigger issue is that there was a fourteen percent drop in young viewers.
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Speaker 3: You know, we asked to being if she wanted to come watch with us. She was, like Nash, she had zero. She said it was boring, she did.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how they appeal to a younger demographic, and I maybe they'll do it in twenty twenty nine, because the OSCER is not going to be on TV that much longer. That is the year it's going to be moved over to YouTube. We shall see what they can do with today.
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Speaker 2: But don't so many people watch YouTube on their TVs anyway, so it won't even look any different. Just on a streaming service that might attract those younger viewers.
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Speaker 3: I think it kind of makes sense. All right for the final leg of our run. Venezuela has conquered the United States in baseball.
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Speaker 1: This is pretty exciting. Yesterday I was trying to get you to stay awake so you could see this, but I'm so tired. I understand you did have a long day and night. Venezuela be tam USA in the World Baseball Classic last night. What is that, some might ask, the World Cup of Baseball. They do this every four years, but it is the ultimate, the premieer baseball event in the world, and countries compete, and the USA obviously is stacked with all stars like Aaron Judge and the like. Right, this is our game.
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Speaker 3: America's pastime.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Venezuela one. The sack was tied to going into the ninth. This is when we got home. We were actually out.
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Speaker 3: You came back. Well, I had already got into bed. You came in like babe ninth.
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Speaker 2: Then I was like, this sounds amazing, and then like I was asleep in ten seconds, And.
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Speaker 1: In that ten seconds, Venezuela scored a run, won this thing three to two in robes. What felt like an overwhelming pro Venezuela crowd there in Miami and the outpoint these guys just emotion poured out of them. They've been asked questions, of course about what's happening between the two countries. They know what this means to Venezuela. To win this thing, and to win it against the United States. That's just a bizarre coincidence that this went down.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like what are the chances?
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Speaker 1: Right, what are the chances? But those guys were really it was really cool to watching. Today is a national Day of Joy in Venezuela.
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Speaker 3: They don't have to go to work.
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Speaker 1: It's a holiday.
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Speaker 3: That's kind of awesome.
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Speaker 1: The National Day of Joy one a month.
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Speaker 3: I would totally sign up for that.
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Speaker 2: I have a question too, why is it called WBC If it's the World Cup of Baseball, Why wouldn't it be WCV.
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Speaker 1: Because it's called the World Baseball Classic. Is the official name WBC? I only said the World Cup of Baseball to put you in the mindset of the World Cup.
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Speaker 3: That makes so much sense. Thank you for explaining that.
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Speaker 1: All right, Trump did and one word statehood. Oh that's what he.
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Speaker 2: So we could claim the victory because yes, now they're a part of America.
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Speaker 1: That was what he posted.
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Speaker 3: We take winners. We like winners, statehood, we claim them as our own. Wow.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well, on this Wednesday, this is your quote of the day.
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Speaker 3: Did you have one?
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Speaker 1: Oh? No, I'm glad you didn't.
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Speaker 3: Okay, yes, here is the quote of the day. I think you like this one.
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Speaker 2: Strength is not in how loud you react, but in how calm you remain.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, strength, right.
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Speaker 2: Yes, strength is not in how loud you react, but in how calm you remain. People think, you know, when you shout or you're loud, or you're like, you sound powerful, but actually you've completely lost control at that point.
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Speaker 1: But people don't recognize quiet strength. It takes a lot to sit there quietly when things sometimes are happening around you. Oh yeah, I like that quote. It's very simple to the point. And then good reminder, My goodness, Yes, I knew you would like. It's usually yeah, and it's usually the weakest one in the room is the one barking the loudest.
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Speaker 3: So true, so true.
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Speaker 2: You know, this kind of even goes back to what we were talking about beforehand, which we may or may not post at some point, but I didn't even realize it kind of tied into it. The whole conversation we were having. Strength is not in how loud you react, but in how calm you remain, and with that everyone, we hope you have a strong, calm, peaceful day.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for running with us.
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Speaker 2: As always, I'm Made Me Robot and DJ Holk talk so