Morning Run: Peace in Gaza, More Airport Groundstops, Palisades Arson Arrest, Dolly Proof-of-Life and Oceans 14

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, this is your Morning Run for Thursday, October ninth.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes and Dolly Partner's. Okay, it's weird for very much a live person to have to do a welfare check. It was almost a proof of life.

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Speaker 1: But Dolly give us on the rumors of my death have been exaggerated.

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Speaker 2: Right, But Dolly came out and left us all feeling a little better. But still tell you what she said, added some humor in there, and why one particular country music star she says will not be the one at her deathbed. Yes, that was all a part of her proof of life announcement. Also, you've seen the mess at the airports that continues, the FAA ropes. It's crazy. They're giving us the heads up. At least they're starting to put out a list every day of Hey, these are the airports that we're gonna have problems.

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Speaker 1: Jeez. And if you have a flight going out up or into one of those airports, there's kind of nothing you can do except for to pack your patients.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, patients, but also scares the hell out of you. They're giving you a heads up. Yeah, the tower that's in charge of your plane tonight. Yeah, they're gonna be short stabbed.

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Speaker 1: Good point. It's not just about the delay, yes.

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Speaker 2: Of course. Also the shutdown continues. L Rose. I don't know what to do. They're just gonna do the same thing today that they did yesterday. Wei is blame each other and vote on the same two damn bills.

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Speaker 1: That are not going to pass exactly keep.

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Speaker 2: So there's no impasse there. And I am you like a good heist movie? I kind of not really.

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Speaker 1: I think Heat. Oh that's funny though, No, I thought you said the heat. See I love that movie.

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Speaker 2: Boy, two different movies. One has the narrow, one has at least uh Melissa.

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Speaker 1: McCarthy, Yes, never saw the Gennaro.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but Big Heist Trilogy is going to be getting a fourth Who's going to be in this thing? Pitt Clooney, Damon and Julia Roberts and you probably know the ones I'm talking about. But a lot of us were fans of this particular series, excited about the new movie that's on the way. That Clooney is telling us that, oh go ahead.

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Speaker 1: I know. I just think everyone who's listening, can hear your smile?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pretty excited about this. I'm pretty excited about this. We want to let you know before we keep going here, you can always click that button top right of your app on the Apple Podcast app where you see our show page. It says follow. Just click that and you can always get our updates coming directly to you. Also, on the run for you this morning, we'll be talking about, of course, the escapees from New Orleans, that big jail break. Will finally all of them have been recaptured. There's been an arrest, and the deadly Palisades fire in southern California. The former top cop in the US was in court yesterday to say not guilty Johnson and Johnson has a lawsuit against them now a ruling a judgment against them of close to a billion dollars. And then Taylor Swift is in the news every single day for breaking records, but she's now beaten a Dell's record kind of sort of, it's kind of confusing.

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Speaker 1: It's super complicated, but I saw you did a deep dive on it, and we'll be able to share all of that tedious information with you in just a bit but first we begin our run with celebrations, even champagne popping in the streets of Gaza and Tel Aviv. Afterward that there is a major, positive and hopeful development in peace negotiations, President Trump announced Israel and Hamas have both agreed to the first phase of the peace deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, first phase is how they put in this calls for an immediate ceasefire. Then and Israeli troop withdrawal to an agree to point up online. Then they're going to release the remaining Israeli hostages. Now what is the timeline on that. Well, President Trump said he expects all the hostages to be released, certainly in a matter of days. But he told directly the families that they would be coming out on Monday. I don't know if you caught this video. I caught it this morning. I mean, what do you say. This group of families standing around with the phone.

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Speaker 1: And they've been waiting for two years for word of their loved one, and.

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Speaker 2: It's President Trump's voice on the other line giving them the news your family members are coming home Monday. He did mince words. He told them they'll be out on Monday. So that was a heck of a scene. But a lot of people are celebrating. Yes, it has been two years now, forty eight people are believed to still be hostages. Twenty of them, however, are only believed to be alive.

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Speaker 1: Wow. And there are still a couple of major sticking points that remain for this piece deal to actually go through and stick. First of all, who is going to govern Gaza? And number two, one of the big stipulations was that Hamas was going to have to disarm. How will that happen and how will that be verified and continually checked on? Those are some big question marks that haven't been answered yet.

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Speaker 2: Well, the celebrations in the street, it's a very positive sign at least, and maybe one of the most we've seen in quite some time. Continuing on the run here on this Thursday morning, you wondering, I know, how is the government shut down going? Well, listen to the words of some of the key lawmakers in charge of negotiating our way out. We're not gonna budge another I'm aggravated another, no fucking way. That from the Democratic leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer. That should tell you all you need to know about where we are with this government shut down.

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Speaker 1: Hmmm, that's so hopeful the government shutdown is now when it's ninth day after the Senate Yes once again voted on and failed again to pass two competing spending measures that would reopen the government. This was the sixth time they voted on that same dueling measure. Republicans want a short term bill to reopen the government while negotiations continue on that longer term deal, and Democrats say they won't negotiate until they get guarantees on healthcare, and so the round robin continues.

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Speaker 2: Is it nuts to think that we might be closer to a peace deal between Gods and Israel than we are to a deal on reopening the government, because there's no hope right now that anybody's pointing to of a way out of this thing, because now you can't call uncle. Nobody can cave now, especially not the Democrats after they cave last time.

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Speaker 1: WHOA, that's a very grave analogy. And yet, yikes, it sounds like that could be.

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Speaker 2: The bizarre to think that we can't keep the government all right. Meanwhile, the flight delays, control tower shortages continue in the nation's airports. Much of that attributed Yes to the shutdown last night the FAA warmed ahead of time that several airports would be short on air traffic controllers. Yes, those shortages were in La Albuquerque, Denver, and Reagan National. Also, FAA facilities that handle flights for Newark and Orlando also experienced.

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Speaker 1: Shortages, and the Transportation Department says that they've had an increase in sick calls from air traffic controllers since the shutdown. Coincidence, we think, maybe not so much, but you know, there is the threat of no back pay. Yes. Air traffic controllers, however, are considered essential workers. They are required by law to come to work without pay during a shutdown, so this may be their only form of legal pushback is to call in sick, and their.

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Speaker 2: Union is telling them you are risking your job, like go to work. Even the union is not trying to take some kind of work action. They're saying, take you, buddy.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is a matter of safety.

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Speaker 2: Yeh God, Yes, some people should not be allowed to just take a beat four.

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Speaker 1: Yes, this is too.

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Speaker 2: Important, all right. Continuing on the run here on a Thursday morning, former FBI director James Comy he entered a not guilty plea in Virginia yesterday in the court room in a case his lawyers call a vindictive prosecution. Comy is charged with lying to Congress and obstruction of justice related to testimony he gave five years ago about Justice Department leaks.

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Speaker 1: Comy was indicted days after President Trump urged some say directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to do so in a social media Komi's trial date is set for January fifth, but he is hoping it doesn't get to that point. His attorneys say they will be filing motions for a dismissal of those charges.

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Speaker 2: Continue on the run here now next leg takes us out to California. Police have arrested the man. He was actually arrested in Florida, however, but he was arrested for setting that deadly Palisades fire that devastated the La area at the beginning of this year. Twenty nine year old Jonathan render Connect is accused of maliciously lighting a fire that eventually sparked those monstrous flames that destroyed twenty three thousand acres, seven thousand structures, and twelve people died in that Palisades fire.

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Speaker 1: Woo, this is so disturbing. Police say that render Connect was out driving his uber on New Year's Eve and had just dropped off a passenger in that area when he stopped at a nearby trail. He then reportedly lit a combustible material and created an open flame, then called nine one one, but police say he made a screen recording of himself calling nine one one, which also showed that he also asked chat GPT, are you at fault if a fire is left because of your cigarettes?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a bizarre story. They say he was doing all this just as a ruse. He was trying to throw off police and maybe establish that there was an innocent explanation for what he had done. And that's why they think, Yeah, this was premeditated. It was intentional, is what he wanted to do. It's still confusing, Robe, did you see that whatever he lit was put out, then it smoldered under the ground for a little while, and then it brushed back up. It's a confusing story, but it's not like he went out there. It was just some incendiary device and threw something and planted to just burn things down. But Mike, I don't understand exactly what he was doing. More details to come, but they say he returned to the area after and filmed firefighters doing their things.

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Speaker 1: That's a classic arsonist behavior. Absolutely, they returned to the scene. They want to watch the fire, they want to see the chaos, they want to watch the firefighters. But twelve people died, all right. Next up on the run. Speaking of catching someone who has eluded police or authorities, well they finally caught them all. We were obsessed with this story earlier in the year. The last of those ten escapees from that brazen New Orleans jail break back in May was finally caught yesterday, all the way in Atlanta, GA.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Derek Groves is his name. He was located in the crawl space of a home after a three hour standoff with police in which they had to deploy gas several times to try to flush him out. Groves was among that group of ten escapees who got out through a hole in the wall behind a toilet in the jail. Rose. This was of the year. This was one of the stories you were into more.

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Speaker 1: Than I think the escaped Yes, we had like the escaped animals, the escape monkeys in South Carolina. Well, shortly thereafter them all these escaped inmates. But they wrote remember too easy above the whole like just to mock the jail or the prisoner, of the prison guards themselves for getting out. Well, Grove had been convicted. He was the most dangerous of all of the criminals who escaped. He had already been convicted of double murder and was awaiting his sentencing when he escaped. When they got him, he was still apparently the arrogant person that I'm assuming he is. Given what he did. He blew a kiss to the cameras as he was being taken away.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they said this came about because of a tip, but it's always I mean, frankly, is just creepy to see someone convicted of the crimes he's convicted of and to be in that moment to have a smile on his face and pay to the cameras was bizarre. Well, continuing on the run, now we go back out to California, where a jury there has ordered Johnson and Johnson to pay nine hundred and do have is it sixty six or ninety six? Nine hundred and we'll get that for you, close to a billion dollars to the family of a woman who died after using their products. Yes, we're talking about Johnson and Johnson. Now, the woman in this case is eighty eight year old May Moore. She died of mesothi leoma that's a rare cancer, and her family and her lawyers say this was caused her cancer was caused by using specifically Johnson and Johnson products. And they were talking here about Johnson and Johnson baby powder.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's been a thing and it's been going on these lawsuits. But yes, you were right. It was nine hundred and sixty six million dollars. So I mean that is I mean, I can't even get my head around that kind of a lawsuit, but it certainly sends a message to Johnson and Johnson and to other companies to be accountable for what they put in their products.

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Speaker 2: This is a I didn't know this, but this has been a thing for a while. But this was talcum based products they're talking about contain as bestos fibers that can cause as many know as bestos, yes, but they say those fibers that were in there, they attribute that to Moore's rare cancer. Now, Johnson and Johnson stop selling talcum based powder back in twenty twenty. They got it out of their products, but there are tens of thousands of plaintiffs out there playing their products caused their cancer. These cases, these lawsuits have not come together like this is some big class actions, so they're having to do them one by one. Johnson Johnson's one some. They've lost some. This is a big loss for them.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's an understatement.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this Thursday morning run. When we come back, Dolly wants you to know she is okay. But she didn't just say hey, I'm fine. It was about a two minute video and she gave us a little more insight actually into her health. We'll explain what that was about. And Robe said you could hear my smile through the microphone. That's because one of my favorite heist trilogies. It's gonna get a fourth continuing now on this Friday Eve run and Dolly wants you to know she's okay. Now. Our hearts, of course, skipped to beat this week after Dolly Pardon's sister raised alarm bells with a social media post asking people to pray.

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Speaker 1: For Dolly well. Dolly then put out a video yesterday that served as a well a welfare check to for lack of a better term, and was meant to put her fans at ease. So in the video, Dolly is on a set and explains that she is taping commercials and she had a green screen behind her. After mentioning that everybody lately thinks she's sicker than she is, she exclaimed this, do I look sick to you? And I have to say, she looked fabulous.

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Speaker 2: You would have to tell me, and you would never know. If you saw her and nobody told you anything about this health stuff, you would think nothing. She looked the same, sounded the same, She did everything nothing.

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Speaker 1: It didn't look like she was even under a little under the weather. As her sister Will clarified.

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Speaker 2: What was the thing that her sister said?

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Speaker 1: It through all night, up all night, praying God speed Dolly. I mean really, it was comminess. No one was reading between the lines. It was there, clear as day.

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Speaker 2: Good point, all right. So Dolly came out. So she's answering that she went on in this video to say that she can always use anybody's prayers, but wanted to let people know she's okay. She confessed, though I thought this was interesting robes after her husband passed away, this wasn't too long ago and they had been married. Is it fifty years?

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Speaker 1: I oh, at least yes.

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Speaker 2: After he passed away, she said she let a lot of things go and didn't take care of herself and her health. So when she finally went back to see her doctor, he told her, hey, there are some things that need to be.

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Speaker 1: Addressed, and you can Actually that makes sense, yes, but I mean in the context of now I have to postpone my residency that everyone had already bought tickets for and we're excited about for how many, like you know, ten months, So that seems a little bit more than a few touch ups here or there.

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Speaker 2: How does she say a few procedures.

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Speaker 1: Per seizures Previously she did again reiterate that it's nothing serious and then said I'm not ready to die yet. God's not through with me, and I ain't done working. And she ended with keep praying for me. And she also had some humor, as she often does. And so, yes, there was a there had been an AI induced photo floating around that I didn't see it? Did you see it? Reba McIntyre at her deathbed, and so Dolly referenced it. And also maybe you know in the Proof of Life statements. You have to reference something, you know, topical sourr yes, current, So she's showing yep, I've seen it. I've seen it. And then she joked and said we both look like we need to be buried. So that was cute.

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Speaker 2: She said, no, it wouldn't be if she said, look, I was on my death bed, Reba wouldn't be the one there.

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Speaker 1: She would have visited me earlier, yes, but not on that day.

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Speaker 2: Well that was great, all right, last thing? Is this the last leg? No, it's not the last leg of I run. I was so excited. I thought this was going to wrap this.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I should have switched it. I didn't realize your enthusiasm for it was at the level it's at until we started reading.

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Speaker 2: So I don't even know what stories after this, but it's gonna be let down. It is going to be used for me. Yes, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, George Clooney, Julia Roberts. We're told they're all coming back to the big screen to once again be a part of the gang. Yes, George Clooney says Ocean's fourteen is happening.

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Speaker 1: Where's this one said in Florida?

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Speaker 2: You know what I know where do we go from all of them.

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Speaker 1: I'm just joking. They're getting to that age where you know, that's where they all had.

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Speaker 2: He did make a joke about that as well. But no, Matt Day they can pull off a heist.

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Speaker 1: Matt Damon maybe, but the rest of them.

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Speaker 2: But they were slick criminals. They weren't out there fighting anybody, so they could do this well into their retirement years. Point being Robes is kind of poo pooh, my excitement here about Ocean's fourteen. George Clooney has been talking about this, hinting about it for years, but he says now that they have the budget approved and they believe they will likely start shooting Ocean's fourteen. Don't know if there will be the title, but the next in this series will be shot and it is coming. They went to Amsterdam twelve, they were in Vegas for eleven and thirteen. I believe. Yeah, that's right, Okay.

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Speaker 1: If you say it of okay, great, And they're obviously big, massive moneymakers, so it makes sense that they would go for another yes, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, final leg of the run. Taylor Swift, She's got great news too. It's not Ocean's fourteen news. But it's kind of cool. Yes, Taylor Swift, she's broken Adele's record. We got a lot of explaining here to do, so the Life of a Showgirl. Maybe you heard that Taylor Swift has a new album out, but it's been out not quite a full week, and it has now performed better in one week than any album in modern history. Now better in one week. It performed better in one week rope. It's very important to put it that way, than any other album in the modern era. It sold two point seven million copies in the first day. Now that was a record all in itself, just on the first.

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Speaker 1: Day, all right, But now after five days, and we should point out five days is not even a full week yet, it's already at three point five million. However, there are a significant amount of caveats here that TJ went into great detail researching. So the number three point five million represents actual sales and what's called equivalent album units. That's the measurement the music industry began using this past decade to try and calculate how many streams or individual song sales represent one album sale of days past. That makes sense, Yes, they're trying to find the equivalent there it is.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so Swift's total now of three point five million actually breaks down to three point two million in actual sales of the new album. The rest represents equivalent album units, so at this point Adele still has old more albums in one week. However, Taylor Swift now has the record for the best performing album because when you add those equivalent album units from streaming. Get it.

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Speaker 1: My head's exploding because is this even all like relevant, because we're only we're comparing five days to seven days. Give it two more days, and I bet Taylor's gonna take over it all.

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Speaker 2: But maybe she will, but she could have an increase in units but not an increase in sales, so we could have a split decision here.

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Speaker 1: Oh just what we need.

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Speaker 2: See, I told you we should have ended with the oceans for it.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's move on now and end this wonderful Friday, Evron with our quote of the day. There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self.

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Speaker 2: Man, get my head around that one, say the first party.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, now that's in. I wonder how old this quote is. I don't know if you have the idea. It seems from the oh, some centuries ago. Possible.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I can see why you would think that, But no, the.

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Speaker 2: Idea of nobility, the idea we have these people on high and you on look like there's some difference in them. So the first part of that.

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Speaker 1: Makes just thinking you're better than somebody else, just to fancy your way to say it. There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self.

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Speaker 2: I love that. Are we all should? We should all? If you're not better than you were yesterday, some.

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Speaker 1: Went wrong and you should. You should be reflective and you should compare yourself. How much growth have I done? How much have I learned about myself? And how I treat others and how I treat myself? All of that's important. I love that we're so focused on being superior to other people. I just like that way of thinking. And this was from Ernest Hemingway. Oh okay, so yes, I mean not current or modern, but certainly not ancient somewhere in between. There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self. So here is to a better you today. Thank you for running with us everyone. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.

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Speaker 2: Holmes. Did you hear Oceans fourteen? They're making an Ocean's fourteen. All right, we'll run with y'all, sir,